2025-12-11- KSR - Hour 2

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

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Speaker 4: Turn it back.

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Speaker 5: I remember two Kentucky Sports Radio eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text Machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four here at the Chaos Bar and Grill, come on out, have lunch.

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Speaker 6: We've got I've got some couple things.

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Speaker 5: First of all, Shannon, people are saying you're wrong, Tiger does go to the runner.

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Speaker 6: They say Google's wrong. Do you believe they're wrong? They're Googles.

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Speaker 3: I think they're wrong. Google's got it right. They don't know what they're talking about.

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Speaker 2: I got heard from a couple of umpires said they're that the myth. Well are saying Google's right, Google's right, that the runner has to beat the throw to be out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean to be to be safe. The runner has to beat the throw to be safe.

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Speaker 5: So I need to start saying tie goes to the fielder. Yeah, after all these years I've said the wrong thing. It's gonna be hard to get.

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Speaker 2: Onire always said if it's a tie, he definitely gonna be out. We're trying to get the game over as fast as possible.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it sounds like referees are on the same page. Imagine that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, lots of facts about cal Poly Okay and Luisa Bispo apparently one of the most beautiful parts of California, on the on.

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Speaker 6: The beach, on the oh nice.

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Speaker 5: It is the school where the people in Big Bang Theory went to school.

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Speaker 6: Okay, do you all don't? Did you know that? I've never seen it, but now I know I was right.

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Speaker 5: They were in the twenty fourteen tournament and were cal Polly.

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Speaker 6: Slow, so you couldn't have made that up.

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Speaker 5: There's who knew that Kristen Smart was murdered at cal Poly In your Own Backyard podcast solved the case.

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Speaker 6: I've listened to that podcast. Actually, did you know that?

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Speaker 7: I never I didn't connect the school, but I'm very aware of that that story.

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Speaker 6: One person writes, I think cal Poly is.

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Speaker 5: What that means is the people that go there also hook up with people from other university.

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Speaker 2: I did have a couple of famous alumniss like, that's probably true, right, Who are.

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Speaker 6: Some famous alumnus?

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Speaker 2: John Madden he went to cal Poly, Ozzie Smith, and here's a big one, weird al Yankovic.

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Speaker 6: Weird. That's a pretty good three.

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Speaker 5: First of all, I would argue John Madden and Ozzy Smith for a college that we don't know is a pretty amazing one to two sports punch.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it is one of the greatest short stops in history of baseball, one of the greatest NFL coaches ever.

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Speaker 5: That's it. And what didn't he? John Madden was also a good player, wasn't he?

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm sure about that. And one of the greatest performances performers of all time. Weird Ow.

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Speaker 6: I can get behind that.

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Speaker 5: I knew a guy I went to college with that. You know how people will follow fish on tour. Yeah, he followed weird Al for a few.

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Speaker 3: Weeks, coming into popular enough to play the KFC center.

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Speaker 6: Just stopping not playing the young Si. No, he's not. There's no way he can fill up the ym sin.

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Speaker 3: I mean maybe they curtain off the top part, but he is playing the young center.

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Speaker 6: Wow, weird Owl.

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Speaker 5: Is playing the young sinner? Who is going to weird Al in twenty twenty five? Me, let's all go, Okay, you all can say you'd go, but where would any of you actually leave your house?

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Speaker 6: Buy tickets and go see weird If I do. If I knew he was doing Amish Paradise, I'm in there, of course.

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Speaker 2: Well, of course he's gonna do it. What else is he gonna do? Eat it like a surgeon, like a surgeon. Did you ever see this, the mockumentary about weird al No?

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Speaker 6: I saw it. So why don't you go? He's playing in Louisville? I should you say?

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Speaker 2: If I got free tickets in their decent seats, I would meet channel. You'd go, sound like we should all go?

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Speaker 5: Well, sounds like they fill it if everyone gets free seats. If they don't get free seats.

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Speaker 6: Uh, maybe not.

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Speaker 5: Let's do a couple of other things real quick. Uh Sharon is it Sharon or Sharon?

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Speaker 6: Charon Moore?

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Speaker 5: The coach at Michigan. That story disintegrated quickly. I mean, I gets going yesterday he gets fired for having a relationship with a staffer, and then it goes from he has a relationship with a staffer and he's fired to uh to he quickly goes over to.

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Speaker 6: In prison, in jail for assault. Not good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I was like the afternoon we saw that there were parting ways for cause. I was like, man, what could the couse be?

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Speaker 7: And a little bit later that comes out the rumor. Then a couple hours later he's been detained by police and was like, what is going on in ann Arbor?

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Speaker 6: It just kept going. It was like a trickle a few minutes got worse.

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Speaker 5: So, I mean, that's that situation is very serious. Don't want to make light of it. But let's go to the second situation, which then is who's going to be the Michigan coach?

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Speaker 2: Kind of you missed your window of bringing in a big name coach er somebody would excite the fan base for sure.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean who do you get?

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Speaker 5: Like everyone, Penn Steak got turned down by everyone, So like there's some talk that the Alabama coach might.

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Speaker 7: Uh the Michigan Just at this stage, it'd be hard to get anywhere I really want. I mean, Penn State was a joke until they finally made the hire last week.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know. What do you do?

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Speaker 2: Do you just have an interim coach next season and give you a year to search for a new hed, But.

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Speaker 6: Your Michigan, I mean, you're Michigan. You gotta go.

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Speaker 5: I mean, can you imagine if we at Kentucky were just like we're gonna get an interim coach.

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Speaker 6: This would be the equivalent of us.

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Speaker 5: In like June our basketball coach getting you know, having this happen after signing day, after the portal's over, and well, I guess the portal hasn't opened yet, so they still got the chance to come. That's part of why you gotta move quick. Is the portal's gonna open here in a in a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 6: I mean, do you just call the people that turn down Penn State and hope that they like Michigan better? Just get that by you got another race? The Cripple Cookies guy get involved again.

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Speaker 2: Well, even some of the guys at Penn State went after have re signed new deals at their current school.

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Speaker 6: I don't know. I mean they're I don't know what they're gonna do. Mark Stoops wow on the list.

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Speaker 5: What if Mark Stoops sends up the defensive coordinator at Texas A and M.

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Speaker 6: He wouldn't want to go to Texas A and M. I can't. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So anyway, that's a that's a tough, tough story. Now something else makes me upset. I got my hopes up. I shouldn't have let it happen. I get my hopes up. The Threads were gonna sign Kyle Schwarber and then they didn't.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 5: It turns out they offered close to the same amount of money. He decided to stay in Philadelphia. So I now can't stand that guy because he came up and he was like, I'd love to play in my home city. I'm from here. This would be awesome, it would be a dream come true. And now the story comes out yesterday they offered him the same amount of money as.

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Speaker 6: The Phillies and he's just stayed there.

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Speaker 3: Go to Philadelphia, Ty went to Philadelphia.

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Speaker 6: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 7: What a liar he was, so boo Kyle Schwarber, I didn't realize how excited Reds fans where and thought this would happen. My friends that are Red slash Bengals fans were absolutely crushed from Cincinnati.

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Speaker 6: And he's like one of the best.

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Speaker 5: He would hit five hundred home runs a year in that ballpark because it's so small, and he would kill it.

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Speaker 6: He's exactly what we need.

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Speaker 5: Like if we had him, I think we'd have a chance to be next to the Dodgers, the best team in the National League.

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Speaker 6: But now we don't have him, we're gonna stink again. And he he lied. Kyle Lyar can even can he come home after this. No, it's not allowed to be that's right.

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Speaker 2: He can't come come home for Christmas next week.

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Speaker 6: Now I don't.

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Speaker 3: I just do have season tickets to watch the Reds.

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Speaker 9: I do.

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Speaker 5: And by the way, they didn't sign him. Guess when my season ticket deposit was due yesterday Monday.

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Speaker 6: And I paid it, they got me again. Sales guy loves you Monday, He's like, well, you put your deposit.

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Speaker 2: In good to team him up with the La those two guys in the lineup would have created a lot of excitement.

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Speaker 5: You say, where's your deposit on Schwarber. Apparently we can't blame them. They offered the same amount of money. This is on Snotter there in.

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Speaker 6: The phillies of all teams. I don't care. I just I want it. Why can't they be good? I just want them to be good. I'd like to go to games where they're good.

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Speaker 5: I mean I know they were and then like when they got good was when I was in South.

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Speaker 6: Africa last year. I haven't They're never good when I'm here. I feel like, why can't they be good? As all of my sports teams the last two years? That's every t you're a Braves fan, you all been good in the.

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Speaker 7: Kentucky football, Kentucky basketball, Tennessee Titans, Atlanta Braves.

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Speaker 6: That's true. Eight eighty seven.

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Speaker 5: One person writes, mad I heard you talk on cover zero about your new car. You better do maintenance on it or you'll be in trouble. That's you saw my new car out there?

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Speaker 6: What's nice? I was afraid to park near it. Yeah, I don't want anybody here.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna park it over at the Sonic to keep people from getting near it because I because it's gonna it's gonna get messed up.

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Speaker 6: But I just want it to last as long as it can.

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Speaker 2: You talking about bells and whistles. I mean, you've got an LCD screen there as your monitor, and it's like I got all everything on it.

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Speaker 6: It's really cool.

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Speaker 5: But they were very much like you have to do the mate, Like this is a car that if you don't do the maintenance, it will punch you in the face.

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Speaker 6: Like you've got to do it.

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Speaker 5: And I even bought the little package that comes with it so that I could just drop the car off and run away and come back and get it.

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Speaker 6: You gotta remember to actually do that, though, well, apparently.

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Speaker 5: Like I've got an app and it'll just start yelling at you when it's it's time.

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Speaker 6: He's got an app? Now is that good? That's it. You're welcome to the modern world. Do you have an app?

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Speaker 2: No, okay, I don't forget. They've had my oil change and maintenance my car.

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Speaker 6: Now every time I turn it on, it tells you what it needs. It's like, give me soda. It's a perfect car for you, though, No, it is.

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Speaker 5: It is.

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Speaker 6: But then actually have to go and do it.

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Speaker 7: That's the big part. When it's beeping at you, will you then take that next stuff? You need to take it out.

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Speaker 3: You need the car to drive itself to get the oil change.

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Speaker 6: Totally. You should have got a self driving car to go get its own. Yeah, you could do it while I'm asleep, go home, get the oil change.

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Speaker 7: And then I saw someone right even say you should get a battery powered car, because then you could just plug it in. I wonder if I no, he will not plug it in, and then the next day he'll come out to a dead battery and come out its own is to Mario.

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Speaker 6: Come get me. I would never plug it in ever.

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Speaker 2: Did you get everything out of your old car.

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Speaker 5: No, I just you know, it was totaled, and I just was like, I've not wanted to clean this car out.

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Speaker 6: They can have it.

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Speaker 5: He got the important stuff out like the expir didn't get the important stuff out.

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Speaker 6: I got my I got what do you want?

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Speaker 5: He say, the expired skin stuff out, like the exparted skinspired skins I left in.

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of mementos in there.

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Speaker 7: Someone's gonna buy that car in auction and have like the key to Somerset and a chair for the laural rumbles from Picklesburg.

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Speaker 6: Would you like to know the three things I did take out of my car? Yeah, that's it. I had gone to the dry cleaner.

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Speaker 5: I took my golf clubs, and I made sure to take the Conway Twitty cookbook.

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Speaker 6: Tells you your three items out of the car. That was and I left two hundred other things in the car, but I made sure to take those.

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Speaker 7: Thres Where was the was it in the glove box with like the information of the car? Where did you even have a Conway Twitty cookbook in there?

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Speaker 6: It was in the backseat. So when I got in the wreck, the stuff went everywhere in the car. I think it was already everywhere.

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Speaker 3: It shuffled it around and brought like switch switch to other spot.

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Speaker 5: The Conway Twitty Cookbook was right there in a prominent spot, saying like, don't leave me.

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Speaker 6: It's like a message. It was, and I did not I listened to it. Who's up next? Ben? Ben? Go ahead? Ben?

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Speaker 9: Hey, I guess h two quick things, Matt. I'm not really sure how confident I would be with taking Billy as my stat guy for your game, because days ago, even after all this time of working with him for you guys, he told Shanna on the pre show he thought you and my Ram were doing the TV broadcast.

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Speaker 6: He did say that he didn't We're not doing the TV broadcast.

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Speaker 3: I tried to say it was radio. He's like, no, I'm pretty sure it's TV.

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Speaker 5: No, wait a minute, Bill, he thinks we're doing the TV broadcast. Yeah, Well he can't be my stats guy if he doesn't even know what the medium is. Well, you're not gonna put us on the TV broadcast. I've never even done a radio broadcast. You think they're gonna put me on the TV. No, I'm on the radio broadcast. You're hopefully we'll sync it up to your television, but I'm on the radio.

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Speaker 7: You should tell your stats guy. I heard this on the pre show. Shan was trying to correct him, but stat boy was certain. Shandon, thank you for trying to correct. We're already correcting my stats guy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's already wrong.

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Speaker 6: He's already wrong.

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Speaker 2: You should want to do the TV broadcast because it's easier. You can see the action on radio, you gotta describe it in detail.

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Speaker 5: I've decided we're just gonna go off guard. I'm taking calls, Billy, go to screen calls and be your stat guy.

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Speaker 6: Just think about that for a minute, though.

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Speaker 5: Don't you think it'd be kind of fun in a game to take calls, like to hear from Western and Southern misfans their reactions during the game.

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Speaker 3: No, we want to hear the game you're trying to do. I mean, you're trying to do the manning broadcast on the radio, is what you're trying to do. It sounds like that, doesn't worry.

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Speaker 6: Do you really want to hear the game? It's Western and Southern myss?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're listening on the radio, you want to, right, fine.

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Speaker 6: I thought Shannon would like my idea of taking calls. I think it's a good.

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Speaker 5: Idea, idea if you were like, because I mean, if Western and Southern miss fans really care, they're going to listen to.

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Speaker 6: Their local broadcast, right, So take calls.

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Speaker 7: I expect first quarter you're talking about what happened to the McDonald's drive through and what the Reds did overnight.

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Speaker 6: This you're just gonna turn it into Kannon would like that.

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Speaker 3: Actually sounds like you're trying to get out of doing play by play to me.

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Speaker 5: Well, because I don't know how good I'm gonna be at it, So we'll see who's next. Mike, Mike, go ahead and Mike, uh yeah, I'm looking.

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Speaker 6: Know.

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Speaker 9: If y'all have heard anything on football recruiting.

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Speaker 5: Well, since will Stein, no, I appreciate the call. They kept, drew most of their class together for football. They lost I think one or two guys. Then they got this kid, the four star wide receiver. What about post then, I mean, there's not a lot of guys to get because most of them signed on signing days.

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Speaker 7: So yeah, we're kind of wait for the portal window now. I mean Kenny Darby, the receiver that had offers from all most of the big names. That was the big get that kind of surprised everyone. But now you wait and get Will back from Oregon and get these coordinators and everyone to work and fill it out with the portal classes.

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Speaker 5: And I think for recruiting next year, you're not gonna see him get really involved until he's done at Oregon.

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Speaker 6: I just I don't you know, I don't know how that would happen. Yeah, it'll get real newsy around New Year's when when the portal certainly will.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why, you know, he's kind of crucial for him to get some guys and his staff a GM and off and accordingly start doing some stuff behind the scenes while he's still out working in Oregon.

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Speaker 6: I mean, we're gonna be very active in the portal.

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Speaker 5: We're probably gonna end up getting a lot of guys because he's gonna want to bring in his players. You know, I think Kentucky will be I think we'll have a very active and hopefully successful portal year.

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Speaker 2: Do you think he'll bring some guys from Oregon with.

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Speaker 5: Yes, of course, and probably that quarterback, right, isn't that what we think he's I would suspect he bring a quarterback to compete.

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Speaker 7: I don't know that, even though he's spoken hoighly of boldly when he gets the chance. But you know, he talks about recruiting Kentucky and he'll be in with some freshman but he needs to rent win right away, and that'll require going out and get some guys that are.

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Speaker 3: How can you be controversial in a cookbook?

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Speaker 5: The way he describes some of the ethnic foods from other countries. I don't think he meant anything by it, but you know how like your grandparents might have said things and you're like, we don't say that anymore, granny.

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Speaker 6: That's kind of how Conway talked. So there's more to it than just like half a cup of sugar.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he'd be like, well, I mean, I don't need to say it, but he'd he'd make color commentary.

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Speaker 6: Okay, there's some editorial stuff. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: He wouldn't just do the he would give Conway's thoughts on the dishes, okay, And sometimes you would go, Conway, you know you you can't do that.

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Speaker 7: Just tell me how much broth and I don't need to know your thoughts on some of these other things.

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Speaker 6: So did you put it in the back of the new car? Is that where it's gonna rest? Now? No? No, no, I'm going to keep this car clean. You're learning how to cook Conway's Wow, that didn't work as well as this as this is.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 5: If I'm nine two twenty two eighty seven, one person rides Matt, you should take calls during the broadcast.

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Speaker 6: I think it's great. Don't listen to Shannon. He wears a speedo.

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Speaker 3: I just want to know how that works, Like, how are you gonna take phone calls when you're trying to call it?

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Speaker 5: Well, you actually, yeah, you'd come back from break and you'd go, you know, it's uh. Southern Miss takes over at their own thirty three yard line. It's gonna be first and ten before we do this play. Let's go out to Johnny in Bowling Green, Johnny, how do you feel about how the Hilltoppers doing?

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Speaker 6: And then we go right back to the game.

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Speaker 3: The whole point is, though, knowing what happens in the game, we won't know what happened when you're talking to Johnny.

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Speaker 5: And I'll go while Johnny was talking, they ran for four yards now, second and six from thirty seven.

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Speaker 6: You'll butt into whatever Johnny's saying to let people know exactly. I'll be like, this is what happened.

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Speaker 5: But let's let Johnny tell us about what he had for lunch.

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Speaker 2: Aboutleven in a while, there could be a place to take a couple of calls during the game. There's a little dead time when they're reviewing a call.

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Speaker 5: It goes to make a revolutionary broadcast. Most people say, the start to big things is the New Orleans Boat. Oh wow, twenty fifth year inniversary.

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Speaker 6: This is a big deal. It is a big deal. How early, Like you have to get there, Like there's like meetings with coaches and stuff.

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Speaker 5: So yoga game is on the twenty the game. I'm gonna miss the yoga. The yoga is on the twenty first. I don't get to go to the yoga, but the twenty third is the game. We have to be there to meet with the staves, the staffs. On the twenty second. I don't know what to say to those people.

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Speaker 6: How are you all doing? You want to call into our show, give you the hot line live from the sidelines. Yeah, so we do it.

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Speaker 5: We meet with this half on the twenty second. There's a dinner that night, New Orleans Bowl dinner. I bet that's good, to be honest with you, Yeah, And then the game's on it. I have to fly home on Christmas Eve. Anybody ever been in airport on Christmas Eve? I feel like that'll be will be great. Probably won't be the best experience in the world.

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Speaker 6: But you know, just what you do in the certain life. This is the life of the New Orleans Bowl commentator. Who's next?

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Speaker 3: DG?

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Speaker 6: DG, What's up? DG?

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Speaker 10: What's up?

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Speaker 3: Guys?

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Speaker 10: I just first off shout out to Jack and Jacob, the people of Kentucky. We needed that, uh and for the ones who are giving pushback on that, we needed to hear. We was all wondering, like, what's going on?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess my thought.

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Speaker 10: My question for you all is, you know you talked about there being a fix, the fix with JMI and Pope. With that fix, how soon is that fix gonna be? Do you think I do know something we could fix so we get Collins and Stokes because ye happen is moving on to you know, let's say we don't get these top recruits, Well, then we have another year where we don't have that guy, that dude that y'all keep referring to, and then we're looking at year three with Pope, and you know, I just I guess that's my question.

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Speaker 6: Is totally fair question.

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Speaker 5: I think they're in a tough spot here, Ryan, because they need to get at least one or two of these top high school guys, or or they need to kill the portal, but they're gonna have a problem because they've kind of overpaid in the portal maybe this year, and so guys made demand more money that like it's gonna be. It's a tough situation. But the thing is, I do think it's fixable. I don't think this season this year is over beat Indiana Saturday. That gets some folks back, get some you know, the conference, like we've talked about, is not as good as it's been in years past. There's there's some movement you can make. But so I don't think it's old. He thinks it's over These are fixable.

00:21:57
Speaker 2: Problems, like you've kind of alluded to. They're kind of easy fit really unless you go out and get the Collins kid. Maybe you know this week, I think a lot of people fill up more favorably about what we're doing in the basketball program than we do right now.

00:22:10
Speaker 5: Oh, if you get him, then I think it's a you get one of these guys. I think it's a different Drew, it's different. Part of what's hard for people. I think part of what made last week so bad is you played in North Carolina. Who has this Caleb Wilson kid that should be here now he didn't play great against US, but he's clearly a top talent. That's the kind of kid that should be here. He goes to North Carolina, you lose them at home. Then you play Gonzaga and you're not even competitive. So you play a North Carolina team that got an elite recruit and you didn't, and they beat you. And then you play a Gonzaga team built with homegrown guys and portal guys and they destroy you. And then there's like a well what are we doing?

00:22:50
Speaker 7: And I don't love the one of the big portal misses is coming to town on Saturday, and that adds to the well we want to talk about that, But there is something to like getting Collins. One thing Cal was good at is when they were losing or bad news would come out, he wasn't gonna He'd go out and get a commitment and show, you know, we're still doing all right, We're okay. Pope needs to land one quickly to put this to bee.

00:23:09
Speaker 5: And in twenty thirteen, when we had such a bad year, he brought in arguably his most talented class of all time for the twenty fourteen season, right, so you know we need we need a dose of good news. I want to talk about the IU part Mark's story. Had an interesting column today. We'll deal with it. Right after this Kentucky Sports Radio.

00:23:28
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00:23:32
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00:23:37
Speaker 6: Wearing back Tekee Sports Radio. Is this I assume weird now? Yes? Sounds great.

00:23:42
Speaker 3: What's it called my bologna?

00:23:47
Speaker 6: That's great? We gotta go, you can go. I'm going to go there.

00:23:52
Speaker 5: I like weird al fine, but I can't devote an evening to weird ow.

00:23:56
Speaker 4: He's got to be seventies. He's still performing doing these songs.

00:24:00
Speaker 6: Yes, that's the point. I'm not going. I'm not going. I mean, I appreciate that you want to. I'd like to go.

00:24:07
Speaker 5: Stavros is coming here. I'd like to see that. Can somebody get me tickets to that?

00:24:11
Speaker 6: To what he's like? A comedian? Stavros? Yeah, he's coming to the Opera House. Never heard of him? Good venue, I never heard of it. You just go to weird now.

00:24:23
Speaker 2: I'm weird.

00:24:25
Speaker 7: And plowing so long that even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone and what a great song.

00:24:31
Speaker 5: A couple of things in terms of for you to listen to them. In the next two days, our cover zero is out. I had to miss a couple episodes, but I'm back from uh we had. We had a lot of fun yesterday. If you're not listening to NFL Cover zero, it doesn't matter if you're an NFL fan or not. As a matter of fact, you'll probably like it better if you're not, because we're not talking about that. But the new s episode is really fun, and Drew and I tell stories including we talked Drew dad stuff and uh so check it out. And then today my interrupted podcast comes out. I had Terry Miners on and it actually is. We talk a lot about Kentucky stuff, but also Terry gets kind of emotional, and I was surprised how much I talked to him about you know, he has thirteen brothers and sisters. He's one of fourteen kids. I was just like, how does that work? Fourteen kids? He told me not to do the spoiler for the podcast. Fourteen kids there are something like eighty like grandkids or something like that.

00:25:34
Speaker 3: Wow, you got that's our football team there.

00:25:37
Speaker 5: That's crazy. I said, do you all ever get together? And he was like, well, during Christmas we'll do something. And he was like, we rent out a gym. You'd have to Yeah, where else would you put eighty grandkids?

00:25:49
Speaker 6: They rent out a gym to see each other? Isn't that wild? It's awesome, you know.

00:25:53
Speaker 2: And he's been on the air now in WHS for forty years.

00:25:56
Speaker 5: He'll be on he started in Lexington in nineteen seventy seven. Next year will be his fiftieth year on the radio.

00:26:04
Speaker 6: That's crazy, isn't that insane?

00:26:07
Speaker 5: And a super nice guy, super nice, So like I think you'll I think folks will really enjoy it. We had a really good conversation yesterday. He cried at one point, did he yeah, because we got he got emotionally. He start we were talking about my dad, which led him to start talking about his family and it's it's just a really sweet So I recommend that's the Interrupted podcast.

00:26:25
Speaker 6: Will absolutely check it out. And he's as genuine as you hear on the radio.

00:26:29
Speaker 5: Is he's as nice as it come. Philip Rivers is coming back to play in the NFL. He has not played a football game since twenty twenty one, Speaking to somebody who's got like fifteen kids.

00:26:39
Speaker 6: How many kids does he have?

00:26:41
Speaker 5: I think he has ten. He's got ten kids, and he's leaving them. That's why he's coming back, is he got to get out of the house ten kids. He has not played a game since twenty twenty one, and he's coming back and may start this week for the Indianapolis Colts.

00:27:00
Speaker 6: There's no way that works.

00:27:01
Speaker 7: Right, unlikely, but I'm rooting for it. I mean, he's basically admitted I'm fat now, I'm not gonna be running. I might play not in the best shape. He like you said, he had to have just been tired. I bet he's been throwing the football two hundred times in the backyard. He's like, if I'm gonna be throwing this much, I should at least go back to the league.

00:27:17
Speaker 5: But he's got to be like, you can't just all of a sudden be on NFL speed if you've for five years been sitting around.

00:27:27
Speaker 6: I actually think it would be a bad sign for the NFL.

00:27:30
Speaker 5: If he's good, the guys can just come off their couch and then five years later be good.

00:27:35
Speaker 7: These backups like the one he's now competing with Riley Leonard who's a rookie. There has to be like it has to be so deflating that they're like, you know, we'll just call this guy that's been.

00:27:43
Speaker 6: This old man that's down at the street.

00:27:46
Speaker 5: Like, I'm gonna watch it because I'm fascinated as to what's gonna happen, aren't you.

00:27:52
Speaker 2: I have one hundred percent gonna watch it, and I'm pulling for the guy. I mean, we just saw Joe Flacco in his forties.

00:27:57
Speaker 6: Have some Flacco had been like on rosters. This guy's not done anything for five years in his forties.

00:28:05
Speaker 2: I'm pulling for him. The Colts were desperate. All three other quarterbacks on the roster are hurt.

00:28:10
Speaker 6: They had nowhere to go. They had somewhere to go.

00:28:13
Speaker 5: I mean they didn't have to. I mean, they're not gonna was why a tittle not available?

00:28:19
Speaker 6: You know, they're not out of it. What if he strings together a few wins?

00:28:22
Speaker 4: Yeah?

00:28:23
Speaker 6: Have playoff Philip Rivers at age forty four.

00:28:25
Speaker 5: That's another thing, Like it's not like he's just filling in the time.

00:28:28
Speaker 6: They are. They are in the playoffs right very much.

00:28:32
Speaker 5: It's a pretty amazing story. I can't think of anything like that. Can you think of somebody having that much time off? I mean, like Michael Jordan was off for two years, but he played baseball. I mean he didn't just completely completely stop being an athlete. I can't remember anything.

00:28:48
Speaker 6: Like this before.

00:28:49
Speaker 2: I think he's been coaching high school football, right, so he's been on the football field throwing around.

00:28:53
Speaker 5: Okay, but I mean, do you want Mark Stoops to play for the Colts tomorrow?

00:28:56
Speaker 6: I mean, like a little different than a defensive end coming at you. I think that's the same thing, is it.

00:29:02
Speaker 2: I'm pulling for him. I hope they win. I don't know who they play, but I'm pulling for so.

00:29:05
Speaker 7: I think they're at Seattle. It's a big game. Put him on the road. It'st the hard defense. I'm all, I'm gonna.

00:29:14
Speaker 6: Bet as Oversne.

00:29:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, you to care of the old man back then?

00:29:20
Speaker 6: Can you exactly?

00:29:21
Speaker 5: Can you imagine like your offensive line for a nursing home, and you're like, can you all please not hurt him?

00:29:28
Speaker 3: Maybe they're more motivated, you know, Yeah, all right, Well we'll see who's next, Sean, Sean, go ahead, Sean.

00:29:36
Speaker 8: I say, you start talking about Philip Rivers and I have to change well, I was gonna say, whenever he goes in the very first play, they need to take the film clip of the longest yard when Burt Reynolds goes in. You got Rob Schneider up there. That's right, should ass across the and then Ryan, you're right. When I watched Godfather, probably first time and maybe the eighties, I too said, hey there's fish.

00:30:03
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll let you go. Oh.

00:30:06
Speaker 8: One thing about him, and I love Mark Pope, but the one thing about Mark Pope when this recruiting part is if he had stayed in medical school, he would still be the same Kentucky fan as a doctor as he is as our coach.

00:30:19
Speaker 6: That's true.

00:30:20
Speaker 8: I don't think you're ever going to get that emotion out of it. And I absolutely think we need to follow like the NIL of college football. We go get us a general manner, sanager, and we quit thinking this is amateur sports and is the big blue corporation and it's got to be ran like one.

00:30:36
Speaker 6: No, it does.

00:30:37
Speaker 5: You're exactly right, and I appreciate the call, and I think you're about I mean, this is my opinion, and I could be wrong.

00:30:43
Speaker 6: We're about to see a sea shift if you go back to October. Let's just pick a day October first of this year.

00:30:55
Speaker 5: By the time we get to October first of next year, I think you're gonna have seen as dramatic a shift in UK Athletics as you have seen since integration. And what I mean by that is we will have a new football coach. I think we will have a completely new structure of the entire football operation, and I mean how it's run, who oversees it, how they get players. I think you're gonna have a new athletic director. I think you're gonna have a new president. I think you're gonna have you already have this new Champion's Blue structure. I think you're gonna have a JMI arrangement that will still exist, but I think will be in a different form than was announced six months ago because they don't have a choice. And I think you're going to see a completely different UK Athletics. Now. The question is do you set that comple that's happening no matter what. So the question is are you gonna set that up for the modern era and in a way that can really succeed, or you're going to try to hold on to the past and come out crippled and it'll be up to the decision makers to decide that. But you know change is coming. You know, what is the Bob Dylan song? The times they are are changing? And so the question is what I think in the Bob Dylan song does he says Shannon, you can get with the new or be out like the old.

00:32:28
Speaker 6: But the times like that's happening.

00:32:31
Speaker 5: And so the question I think, Drew is just how UK handles what I think is about to be a seismic shift.

00:32:38
Speaker 6: In the university. Yep.

00:32:39
Speaker 7: And there's already been a seismic shift around him with everything, and we're behind on that. And I hope the new blood wants to be more of, you know, at the forefront, cutting edge than we've kind of had someone that just reacts everything and kind of dips a toe in. Well, let's wait and see how this goes. Then I'll commit. I want someone that's a little more innovative and exciting.

00:32:56
Speaker 6: And I hope they do it.

00:32:59
Speaker 5: I mean I hope they already did the football part. I mean, getting rid of Stoops was it like a gutsy thing to do in some ways because you had to pay the buy out and you had to do all this stuff that was step one. Mitch I think is going to retire. I think he needs to, but I also think he will. I think you're gonna get a new president. I think you're just getting it's it's gonna be a complete change. And then the question is that next generation what do they decide to do.

00:33:27
Speaker 2: So if this next generation coming in, it would be more advantageous for you. Cat likes to hire somebody from outside, not promotes within.

00:33:36
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I've given my opinion on that.

00:33:39
Speaker 5: If you're when you're picking an athletic director, I think there's a couple people that should be in the mix because of what they've done here. But I also think you need to talk to people outside the mix, and then you need to have people who decide which one of you few are the ones to best do it. You know, I've heard people say about the basketball GM thing. They say, why don't we get Nazi Muhammad or why don't we get Rajon Rondo. I'm not saying Nazi Muhammad couldn't do it. I'm not saying rageon Ron. But here's what I would say to you. That's old thinking. Okay, that's thinking of I want somebody I've heard of to do this. Chances are the best person to be the basketball GM is somebody no one here has ever heard of, right, Right, it's some business person who understands negotiating contracts. Right Like, the most powerful person in sports media is a person that not one of you have ever heard of.

00:34:36
Speaker 6: His name is Michael Klein.

00:34:37
Speaker 5: He was actually my agent, and he left because he made so much money with pardon my take and Pat McAfee and all these people, he didn't need to be an agent anymore. He now runs like multiple times, he basically has his hand on everything that happens to media, and not one of you would ever know who he is. Right, that's we need a GM. Probably drew that nobody knows who they are. That's just really good at that job.

00:35:00
Speaker 7: It's because all of this is so new, you don't really want anyone that was good at the old stuff or you're familiar with because.

00:35:05
Speaker 6: Times have changed.

00:35:06
Speaker 7: That's part of the reason we want change just throughout UK athletics, because so many people are in the same seat they were twenty years ago, but the job is nothing like it was twenty years ago.

00:35:15
Speaker 6: That It's exactly right, You're exactly right.

00:35:17
Speaker 5: It's the guy who was the best at managing, you know, an assembly line, and now he's in charge of AI.

00:35:25
Speaker 6: Well, it's not the same job, you know.

00:35:28
Speaker 5: And so if they get Nazi Muhammad al supporting, but like, we need to think bigger than that. We need to get someone who this is perfectly situated for this and I don't know who that is, but hopefully the people that pick them, you know, will.

00:35:42
Speaker 7: And I don't think it's a bad thing to say Popen good or that good at this, good at that. I've thought this since Nil popped up. Great head coaches probably shouldn't be good at the other side.

00:35:51
Speaker 6: That's a lot to know.

00:35:52
Speaker 7: There's not a perfect coach that's great at contracts, great at x's, and o's great at relationships. It needs to be divvied up because there's so much more to it than I'm just drawing plays and trying to win games. And no one, even Nick Saban, isn't good at every little thing you have to do. Now, that's why he left. He knew he wasn't good on the Nile and it didn't like it.

00:36:08
Speaker 5: Everybody will tell you the best college football agent in the country's a guy named Jimmy Sexton.

00:36:13
Speaker 6: Anybody ever he may know what he looks like. No, I don't. He may ever see him on TV. He may see he doesn't want to. What is it again? I feel like I coached quote Cal a lot real Gee's move silo. We're not going to give that to Cal. It's a little win. I heard real GE's moving and g's moving silence like Lasagna. I don't know what that means because because the G is silent.

00:36:40
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00:37:09
Speaker 6: What do you think immediately when you hear this song? Yes, yes, I mean that's why I think. I don't know if anybody else does.

00:37:18
Speaker 4: I do immediately think Antonio Hall, he don't know, dude, like, that.

00:37:28
Speaker 6: Is a deep cut. Though AJ Stewart was here yesterday. That was a deep cut too. I walked past him three different times in here and did not know that was a I couldn't believe that was a J. Stewart Martin though, but I didn't. I didn't know it was him when he first walked in. Let me.

00:37:43
Speaker 5: I mean, we talk about Patrick Patterson and J. Lucas being old school KSR, and that's true, but AJ Stewart is the oldest school KSR. Like, when I think of the first recruits that we followed at KSR, there are two names that come to mind. One we got and we did AJ Stewart, and again this is before y'all were involved.

00:38:05
Speaker 6: But the second one is.

00:38:06
Speaker 5: The name of a kid that only old school internet following recruits people remember Marshall Moses.

00:38:15
Speaker 6: Wow, do you remember Marshall Moses. I remember that name.

00:38:19
Speaker 4: Don't remember anything about the story, but I remember that name.

00:38:21
Speaker 6: I don't remember where he went to school either.

00:38:23
Speaker 5: I don't know what happened to him, but he was like the first He and AJ Stewart were like the first recruits that we at KSR really connected to. So when I saw AJ yesterday. At first I didn't recognize him. Of course he knew Mario and I was like, wow, AJ, and he was like really nice, said he's followed us all these years, and like, you know, I went to the Marshall County Hoops Fest in two thousand and six, drove across the state to watch AJ Stewart play a game in two thousand and six.

00:38:55
Speaker 6: So it was neat seeing him there.

00:38:57
Speaker 2: I'm on the big wall back here. A Mario introduced me to him. I had no idea who he was. I saw your tweet your selfie with him.

00:39:04
Speaker 6: Like that was AJ Stewart. What great memory? Though, I love A.

00:39:09
Speaker 5: AJ Stewart was one of the nicest he did. He and Billy didn't get along, so he's one.

00:39:13
Speaker 7: Of the players that didn't get the end of Tubby or the beginning of col He was just here for Billy's two years.

00:39:18
Speaker 6: Wow, that's it. But I really like four star recruit. If I'm not mistaken, it was a beginning. It was a beginn at this in Florida.

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00:39:48
Speaker 6: Who's next, Shannon, Let's go to Adam, Adam, go ahead, Adam, what's up about?

00:39:55
Speaker 8: How about Tyrone Nash for.

00:40:00
Speaker 6: Good one?

00:40:00
Speaker 5: That's a good name from the past. I'm trying to think what was Darius Rice is another one from that era that's sort of names in that time of recruiting.

00:40:09
Speaker 8: We go ahead, Hey, how would you like to be a young sound safe that you know you signed on to this football contract. It's play UK with your buddies Mark Stoops and Vince Marrow and now the new young Will Sin's gonna come in and hang seventy on you.

00:40:29
Speaker 6: Hope he does. Hope he does.

00:40:31
Speaker 5: Those are one of appreciate the call. Only two games. I think we're sure to win next year, so I'm I'm for it. Let's kill that's crush Youngs down State.

00:40:39
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that game's completely different now, and just the getting excited about scoring seventy I know that's extreme, but just scoring points. Like I love where Stoops took us. He took us to new heights. But like the stat of being zero to forty nine if you're down by two touchdowns, I'm excited for that to change, where we.

00:40:56
Speaker 6: Can light up the scoreboard. Can I make your prediction of something that's going to happen in the football world in recruiting, Yes, go ahead.

00:41:02
Speaker 5: Will Stein and Vince Merrill gonna be chirping at each other for like the next three years, don't you think? Because Will stett because Vince was subtweeting Will's press conference and Will's gonna fire back.

00:41:14
Speaker 6: Will Stein versus Vince Marrow is actually gonna be.

00:41:17
Speaker 2: Fun, especially the first time they go head to head for recruit some kid out of Louisville or something, and Will and him are both going after that kid, and.

00:41:24
Speaker 7: They're kind of on each other's turfs. You know, Vince still, you know Lexington still play honing him in his brain, but Will is very tired into the Louisville scene.

00:41:31
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00:41:47
Speaker 6: I don't know how that works.

00:41:49
Speaker 5: There's no rules anymore. I guess you can just do whatever you want. All right, let's do our pick for DraftKings, and that was not our pick. Who's going to win the Minnesota Governor's race?

00:41:58
Speaker 6: I think that's on the app.

00:41:59
Speaker 5: Falcon Bucks tonight, Bucks are what a three and a half and a half point favorite?

00:42:05
Speaker 6: Who you got? I'm going Baker Mayfield in the Bucks. Let's go. I'm going Falcons. Yeah, the Bucks.

00:42:12
Speaker 5: Billy has convinced me they stink, although he did think my game was on television. So I don't know if I should if I should listen to him, but I'm gonna take the Falcons to cover.

00:42:19
Speaker 6: I'll say the Falcons cover just because the Bucks have gone the wrong way.

00:42:22
Speaker 3: Shanton give me Tampa Bay.

00:42:24
Speaker 5: All right, Hey, tomorrow we will be at ks Bar a rare Friday show here. Watch out for the snow tonight.

00:42:31
Speaker 2: Everybody be uh be.

00:42:33
Speaker 5: Careful Kats and cal Polly. Ozzie Madden goes against US at three point thirty. Turn it on, We'll see you later. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio.