KSR - 2024-02-08- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 8, 2024

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Ryan, nice night at college basketball last night with Kentucky not playing. You could sit back and watch and getting ready for the Zags to come to town on Saturday. The now, not even on the bubble zags, out of the tournament zags. I watched LSU and Tennessee last night, and that went led into the Auburn, Alabama game, both Auburn and Tennessee, both, they both seems to be, you know, clicking on all cylinders. I think this is a huge moment for Kentucky. You know, are you a contender or are you a pretender? Are you the team that lost those two games before Tennessee or the team that looked good against Vandy?

I think we're going to find out a lot about how they play on Saturday. I actually thought the Auburn, Alabama game would end up being a really great. game. I don't think I, you know, I say this and then they go beat somebody. I don't think Alabama's very good, even though they have two really, really good players. I mean, Barclay was on there and he said, I knew we'd beat Alabama. They don't have any big dudes. And I kind of think that's true, but I do think Auburn is actually really good. And so it was interesting. I mean, they just, demolished Alabama last night. Yeah, that's Sears for Alabama, though. Man, he had a three right out of the gate last night. He's the SEC's league scorer.

They kind of go as he goes. But Auburn, I am worried when we get to that game, not just because it's there, but Broom and Williams were unstoppable last night. There were two forwards. Auburn took 50 free throws last night, by the way. That's insanity. That's a record. 85 for the game.

But when they weren't shooting free throws, those two did whatever they wanted. And I was just watching that thinking, I don't know how Kentucky would handle that inside. It's going to be tough to win down there. But it's tough to win down there either way. I mean, like, to me, the more. more interesting for Kentucky, the more interesting decision, or, you know, I guess, game that will decide how I think they're doing, it's like at LSU and at Mississippi State, because those are games where, you know, after what's happened with South Carolina and A&M and Florida,

you need to win those games, right? Losing at Auburn, I mean, you can have a great team and lose at Auburn. You could have a great team and lose at Tennessee. I want to, and Alabama at home, that's another big, like, you know, need to win that game, right? Like, these are the games. To me, those are the games I'll judge. If we go lose at Auburn, you know, we could have a 38-1 team and the one team be at

Auburn. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, tough place to play, and like we've all said, and they're good. And they're best part of that broom kid started at Moorhead State, you know, and look what he's doing now. He's first team all SEC. But you're right. LSU's not that good.

You've got to win that game at LSU. Mississippi State, yeah. You have to go down and you have to win both of those games. and I kind of feel like Saturday. Gonzaga's not that good. No, you've got to beat Gonzaga Saturday. I mean, they're not good this year. This is, it's easy to, you know, I put that stat on Twitter.

Gonzaga has won more NCAA tournament games since 2018 than any team in the country. Which, you know, it's easy for people to dismiss Gonzaga. Oh, they're in a bad conference, and I agree with that. But then in the tournament, they've still won 15 games second as Kansas with 13. But they're not the same team this year. They're not good. No. They're going to lose their regular season for like the first time in 15 years.

For the conference? Yeah. I mean, St. Mary's is going to win that. They've lost the tournament a few times, but they've won the regular season, like, all the time. Speaking of the tournament, we said something yesterday. You remember how we said that we have only played on the second, we've only played on Thursday in the SEC tournament a couple times. Yeah.

In 2013, when we didn't make the tournament, We were the two-seed in the SEC tournament. Oh, my goodness. Really? Yeah, that's how bad the SEC was. We were the two-seed and didn't make the tournament. So if we play on Thursday this year, it will only be the second time since, like, 2007, and the other time being the COVID year.

That's embarrassing. I mean, it really is. Kentucky, we own that tournament. That is our baby. That's our tournament. We don't play on Thursday night. But the COVID year is the only, and remember, we didn't really have a crowd there. So this would really be the first time with a crowd that Kentucky has ever really played on a Thursday.

I've just accepted. It's happening. I think it's bad. There are two games back from just the double by. And looking at all the schedules, Kentucky has one of the harder remaining schedules. So even if they went on a great run and played amazing, they still need other things to happen to have a shot. So I would love to be surprised that it'll be a nice Christmas gift, but I've just accepted that they're going to have an extra game. Yeah, the hardest schedule team anyone has left is Auburn.

schedule is really hard, but we play them. And so maybe if we won that game, that would be our way to not have to play on Thursday would be to steal that game from Auburn. But you look at the schedule, Tennessee, it's hard to find their losses. It's hard to find South Carolina's loss. I mean, South Carolina has had a really good record and has played most of their tough games. Oh, really? Because they got the record of a team, a schedule of a team people thought was going to be bad.

So they play all the bad teams twice. You know what I mean? So like they've got, South Carolina has a good chance to win the conference. I mean, they have a legitimate chance if you look at their schedule of actually winning the thing. Yeah, I forget, well, one of the commentators of the game the other night said that, hey, it's time to start recognizing that when we're talking about the powers of the SEC, Auburn and Tennessee and Alabama, you've got to include South Carolina in that conversation.

Now you have to because they put themselves a position where they could actually win this thing. Yeah. They still go to Auburn. and I think they played Tennessee. Really Alabama could have done us some favors with Auburn. Catching first place isn't going to happen. So last night I was actually hoping Alabama would just give Auburn another loss to give Kentucky a shot at sneaking into the top four.

Actually, I said all that. Now that I look at it, they're not going to win the comments. They have four difficult road games. They play Vandy this week. But I thought they played Missouri again. They don't. Yeah, they're not winning the country. They got tough road games.

I think they're predicted to finish with six losses, Kentucky with eight. Well, we can still pass. So you can sneak up. You got to remember, they hold the tiebreaker on us. So if we end up in a tiebreaker, they will do it. You went to the Trancy game last time. I did. Transy Bluffton. And Trancy.

Where is Bluffton? Northern Ohio, I think, up in the Cleveland, Toledo. You know, it makes me sad. When I was at Trancy, all of our rivals, we don't, you know, they were in AI. So we played Georgetown and schools like that. We don't play any of those. So, like, when I hear the schools they play, they play like Bluffton, Defiance, Butterberg, and like.

over. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know when you know some of the schools. Yeah. Hey, we've talked about this. That Transea Georgetown game in the late 90s, early 2000s was as hard a ticket to get as anything around here.

Yeah, I mean, nobody, you know, now everybody goes, sure. But when Trancy and Georgetown played in the late 90s, yep, it was out the door. Yep. Hard tickets like scalpers. They had scalpers on Transe's campus. That's crazy. For that game. And it was, because both teams were wild.

I mean, it's not an, that, I'm getting off on a side tangent here, but that late 90s transit team, would you say that team could have won the OVC? If they couldn't have won it, they would have given a good chance because they were really, really good. Really good. They just didn't have a big, powerful big guy. They had the rush it. Yeah, Andre Svechnico. No, that's, he's on the.

Cades. Colacoff? Colicaw? I think that was it. Yeah. But they had Cameron Millsbrother, Collier, who, no offense to Cameron, twice the player Cameron was. Right. Almost made the nuggets. If he hadn't broken his leg. He broke his leg. He would have played on the nuggets. Yep. Eric Lidke. Yes. Right. Kyle Green

for Danville. Danville. Who else? Who was the little point guard? Oh. Anyway. I know that, like, we're sitting here talking about trancy players. Nobody knows what we're talking about. But then before, was Vince Bingham, who turned down a scholarship to Villanova to play at Trancy. Became the all-time leading score.

And became the all-time leading score. I was in college with all those guys. They were good, man. Tubby would bring his UK team to Trancy during the off-season to play, and Trancy would get them sometimes. Yes, that's true story. I mean, the UK team was better, but am I wrong? Trancy would get them.

I was at some of those, like 98-99, so not the team that won the title, but the team the year after that, they would come over and play. Trancy would get them. Yeah, that's a true story. And when Georgetown, they would get a lot of Division I transfers back home. Yeah. And those games were wars.

I mean, they were absolute wars. That wasn't a war last night. Trancy was up by 26 at halftime. But I wanted to go see the Trancy women. I missed them. Why does the game start at four in the afternoon? Bluffton was trying to get home before three and money. That's a Bluffton.

I mean, I don't, nobody once cares what Bluffton won. Once? When we go to Bluffton, do we let them, do we schedule the game at 10.30 in the morning so we can get home? I think the coach probably knew they're going to get beat by 40, which I think they ended up getting like, hey, you know, let's just cut our losses and get out of here by 8 o'clock. I don't feel like, I mean, can you imagine that happening in the, can you imagine calling up Cal and going, you know, Chris Beard, look, we got a long trip home. We play at 3.30 in the afternoon. We got dinner at home waiting for us. We'd like to move it up a little bit. I just don't fit. But was it if, was it fun? I love it.

I don't know why I don't go more off. As a matter of fact, I think I'm going to go to the Georgetown college game tonight. I went to Trancey last night. Let me ask you a question. Are you, let's be honest. Are you bored with like right now? Like if you're going, I mean, I understand the trancy game.

It's down the road from your house. But you're going all the way to Georgetown. I mean, are you going to a Berea game soon? Like what? Maybe. Well, I was looking for something to do with Josiah last night. One of my former players plays for Trancy. So I want to go watch him play tonight, you know?

What do you mean one of your former players? Well, my former little league baseball players. Oh, the ones that you hit in the head with the baseballs and stuff. Yeah, Hunter Penn. Shout out to Hunter Penn. He starts at center for trancy. But, you know, I tend to be in Georgetown a lot these days, and so I may go to the game tonight with a certain person, yoga girl.

So, like, you're, like, making public appearances now. Like, are you all officially an item? I'd say so, yeah. So will America, will you ever use her actual first name? And I'm not asking you to give her whole name, because that's a little much. But do you think you're ever going to get to the point that you describe this woman who is a grown woman as anything besides yoga girl? I think I would want to get her permission first before we do that. But it's been over a year.

Yeah. Right? Yeah. So we know what a hot date tonight. Go to Georgetown College. Well, I mean, I can see you're wooing her. Are you going to stop at Keynes on the way for just a real big evening out in Georgetown? Well, there's a place called Galvins.

I like Galvin's, a little restaurant, kind of a little sports bar. So did the one place stop giving you free food? Is that why you don't go there anymore? Well, you don't go to Rodney's on a, you know, game night. Rodney's is like for formal, like that's Valentine's Day nights, things like that. What is Galvin's? It's like a little restaurant downtown and Georgetown's really cool. I'll take you there.

They have great fried pickles. You like fried pickles. Is that the little sports barry place? Yeah. I've been there. Yeah, it's good. It is good. Yeah.

Yeah. That's like the only place to eat in downtown Georgetown. I thought you were going to meet us at Trancy. Well, I was going to, but then the game was at 2.15 in the afternoon. I assume we were making an evening of it. I didn't know we were like, you know, during the workday going to the game. You would have liked it. No, I would love to go to a game.

I try to go to like, is John Roebuck still at every game? I haven't seen him. But I tell you what? No, no, I mean, he used to go to every game. I haven't seen him. I didn't see him there. Okay, Cal, I know you haven't seen him, but like, he wasn't there last night. No.

But you remember when you went, the students, you guys would, packed that one section of the arena. I was working scoreboard. Oh, I thought you were one of the students that were there. You did scoreboard. Well, my first couple of years I did, but I was on stats because me and Kim Soper.com, I would see the action. Yeah.

And then I would be like, basket by litkey, and then she'd run it down. So I'd go assist. Yeah, you're the spotter. Yes. You know, I was, okay, that's what it was. You know, I was getting in my sports career. But remember how all the students would go. It was fun.

It was fun to go to a trancey game. was that was a the trancy student section then was in some ways the same or better than the Kentucky student section now oh yeah I was going to a lot of transit games in like 2006

after they had gone what is a D3 and the student section was crazy then it must just be during that era that where those were like the two best teams in the country and they were 15 minutes from each other that was a lot of fun 859 280-28027 A-Vision

An auto glass text machine is 772-744. We are here at KS. Bar. Come on out and have lunch. Maybe by the end, we will reveal a lady for Ryan Lemon. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. There's people noting you've said her name once before. Yeah, I think it slipped out a couple times. Hallie.

I shouldn't say Hallie's name a lot like that. See, but that doesn't. Shannon, why does he want to do that? Like, he always continues to talk about his crush. He has a woman, right, Shannon? not married, he can still have a crush. Oh, yeah. I think that's perfectly fine.

I don't know. I don't know if the women I've dated like, would like if I publicly said I had a thing for another. Well, apparently when I heard on the pre-show, you're in an open relationship with a married couple. Billy was not. I didn't know about this. First of all, that's not true. Let's just be clear. There's a context to this on the fade-this podcast.

Did Billy bring that up, Shannon? That was a fade-this-only store. No, I think to be fair, a caller brought that up. A collar brought it. And Billy had to explain to me what he was talking about. We did the fade this podcast, and I was just telling a story which I'm not going to go into on here. First of all, I'm not in, that's not the case. So stop right there.

But there was a funny story about a book that was on my counter and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So, Brian, why are you trying to get stuff stirred up on the radio? You know, just I'm deflecting all of it off me. On to you. Is there a top 12 matchup at Georgetown? today? Is that what it is like two, 12, like both teams ranked in like the top 12 in the country? I don't even know

who Georgetown plays. But you said you were going. Yeah, I'm going. I just know they have a home game tonight. I'm not sure who they play. You really are bored. You don't even know if it's a good game. You don't even know. You don't even know. All right. So I saw the NCAA tournament projection on the latest Bracketology.

Okay. I want to go through and say, how would we do it? Okay. All right. First of Remember, Shannon, we're going no matter what, right? We're going to the first and second round no matter what. Is that you saying that or is that everybody saying that? That's me saying that.

It's a show decision. We're going. I've already gotten the approval from the higher-ups. The higher-ups have said, and I've told them the possibilities of where we could go. They understand. We're going the first and second round regardless. Third and fourth round, it'll kind depend on where it is. First and second round, we would play.

We're a five-seat. We would start off against Samford, which is the 12. I feel like that's a pretty good draw if you're the five to get Sanford. I think so, too. In Spokane, Washington. Oh, boy. Right now we are projected to Spokane. I just want people to understand if we end up a four or five seat,

because there are not good teams from Out West, if we are a four or five, folks, get your tickets ready for Spokane. Because normally what would happen is a pack 20th, 12 team or Gonzaga would end up in a place like that. No one is the only team on the West Coast that's going to be highly rated is Arizona and Salt Lake is closer to them. So Spokane, Washington is going to be the last place. And that's where the four or five and five seeds are headed.

So if we are a four or five, which Drew, I think is the most likely scenario for Kentucky, Spokane, who up? I'm ready. Shannon, get ready to get on a place. plane we'll have to there's no directs right yeah so spokane washing let's play samford would you feel good about that one i feel good about the matchup for sure and if i have to go to spokane to play that kind of matchup then i think i had two teams from kentucky and alabama go all the way to spokane washington to play each other what do you think

i like the match up and i'm not i'm not afraid of going out west i don't want to go out west given the option but if we do whatever we got to do to win this tournament tell me where we got to go. And then in the second round, we would play the winner of Dayton and Akron. I don't think you can have a better draw. Really, you couldn't. Dayton of four seats. So we now have Dayton and Akron, which are all less than four hours away. Can we negotiate a game in Cincinnati?

And we all have to go to Washington to play that game. Well, I think you'd take that if you're a UK fan, even though you have to go to Spock, I think you'd take that draw. If you're Calgary, you see that draw, and you go. Can I just go ahead and sign up for that now? Amen. Wouldn't you? I mean, you would, wouldn't you take that draw right now if you're counting?

Yeah, those matchups, absolutely. Now, getting fans there would stink, but, you know, you might not need them in those games. Sweet 16. Okay. Boston, Massachusetts, home of draft kings. Yes. They're the sponsor of that arena. We'd probably get to sit on mid-court.

The cheers bar, Ryan. Kentucky versus Yukon. I hate that. They're the best team going right now. What if we end up in the suites in Boston? I mean, that's probably got more Connecticut fans there. They're the worst. I mean, you basically have an arena full of Yukon fans.

Well, as much as I like the first round and second round, I don't like that as a third round matchup. That would be a brutal Sweet 16 for them. And that would be a Sweet 16 that unfortunately you'd have to play because of what you did in the regular season. That would be a draw. that you could point to and said, your regular season did this to you, and that's why you're here. I want no part of that game.

Just the – UConn's probably the team I want to avoid the most. And then just being around UConn fans in the Northeast – In Boston – sounds awful. If you put Tennessee fans, Louisville fans, South Carolina fans, just all the worst fans in a lab and spit out one fan, they would go to UCon. Yeah. And then if we won that in the elite eight, our draw would be Kansas. So you'd have to beat Yukon and then Kansas to go to the final four.

So you get, again, this is not going to, almost certainly not going to happen. This is Lenardi's fake draw. But you would get the easiest first and second round and then Yukon and Kansas. So here's my question for you. Let's say that's the bracket. If I gave that to you and said you can have it today, or we're spinning the wheel and see what happens for the rest of the year. And what happens for the rest of the year could be a better draw.

It could be a worst draw. It could be losing a bunch of games and flirting with making the tournament. If you were a cow and you had a chance to guarantee that draw, I just told you, or spin the wheel, make a deal, and play out your luck, what would you do? You go first. Spend the wheel. If you're as good as you want to be, the first two games, it matters, but it shouldn't really matter. So I would spend the wheel to get something different than going all the way to

Washington and then having to play Yukon in Kansas. What about you? See, I still have that inside of me that thinks this team is still going to turn it around. They've not been at full strength yet. I really still believe that there's a big run left in this team. They're too

talented not to. So I'm spinning the wheel too. All right, what about you, Shad? I'm taking that bracket all day long. I mean, that's a cakewalk to the sweet 16. We don't even know that Kansas and Yukon make it that far, assuming they do. I'll still take it. It's not. You look at the other 5-12s.

I mean, I'll take that all day. So here's, I'm very conflicted. Yeah. Because I think if they make the second weekend and lose, there will be people upset, maybe rightfully so. But this place will be tolerable over the summer. They can't lose in the first and second. Correct.

I'm probably taking this bracket. Just for that reason? Because I don't think they could lose in the first and second. I mean, they could. But I don't think they could. would lose in the first and second round. And this puts me for sure in the Sweet 16, which I think is not necessarily enough for the whole fan base,

but would be enough for a majority of the fan base. Yeah, that's the argument for this bracket. It gets you to the second weekend, which is something that has to happen. Now, the opposite argument is, Yukon's probably the hardest team to play in the tournament. And I'd like them not to be in our region. And if I'm Drew and I spin, maybe the next draw I get, I don't have Yukon is my number one.

That's right. I have a number one that I feel better about, like Purdue or whatever. Yep. I think you're all overlooking Dayton already. They're ranked ahead of us in Ken Palm right now. We're beating Dayton. Flyer. Come on.

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scared of connecticut bring them on is that how you feel no that's not how i feel at all i think connecticut it is true though that it feels like when we love our draw we don't end up good so like think about the year the like last year we saw that draw and go hey And you remember the Florida Atlantic went to the final four from our region. Yeah, right. And then the one year we hated our draw, because we thought we'd have to play Arizona in the second round. Then Arizona lost, and we got an opening. And then it was like, oh, no, we only have to beat Kansas State and Loyola to go the final four and we go lose to Kansas State.

So sometimes, I guess, worrying about your draw, Drew doesn't really matter. Yeah, there's been years. I'd say sometimes Kentucky plays even better. What was the Harrison year? It was a gauntlet. Yes, that was a gauntlet. And then you couldn't have asked for a worse draw than that year, and we actually ran through it. I mean, the St. Peter's year, we're kind of the reason that bracket opened up.

But, I mean, the years, Kentucky's bracket collapses, they're not the team that comes out of it. Then the opposite to that is, like, 2017, where the only team you don't want to seize North Carolina, and you get them, and there's who knocks you out, right? So, you know, it just depends on the thing. All right, before we go, the phones, can I tell you? And I know everyone's going to make fun of me for this, and that's totally fine, Shannon, but I'm proud of myself. Okay. What happened? I, you know, I can't fix anything, right?

We've heard that. I can't fix anything. I have no ability to do any project, any anything. Yeah. Right? Last night, 1145, laying in bed, getting into my get ready to go to sleep process. Sitting there. Oh, no.

30 seconds later. Smoke detector. Yeah. Are you kidding me? Yeah. Smoke detector. Now, I've had this happen before, and I just called the cops. Called hubby.

I just dismantled the smoke detector. Yeah. Because I didn't know what else to do. I couldn't get it to stop. So last night I said, you know what? I was going to call hubby. Texted him. I said, are you awake?

No, I'm not going to wake him up. I'm like, you know what? I am a grown man, Shannon. Yes. I should be able to handle it. Right. I have to, you know, stand on a stool to reach up there. I get up there.

I take the battery out. Yeah. I'm like, there we go. We're good. Step one. Get back in bed. Yeah. Beep.

I'm like, you don't have a battery. Yeah. How can you still beep? So I get on YouTube and they're like, a battery will not stop because it's hardwired. They're like, some have a way to take to dismantle the wire. That's right. Uh-oh. but be very careful, and it said how to do it.

I get up there, I try to do it. Mine doesn't work like that for whatever reason. So now, you know, it's beeping right in your ear, Shannon. Yeah, yeah. So I'm like, you know what? I'm going to change the battery. Now, I don't have, of course I don't have any batteries. Yeah.

It's midnight. I am not getting my car. So I do something that's very inefficient, but I call, I do the door dash, have them door dash me a nine-volt battery. Oh, my God. What? How much did you pay for that battery? No, it was exactly what it would have cost plus $4 or whatever the tip was for the thing.

They mark them up a little bit on Dorda. You know what, whatever. The point is I was not going to get, I was already in bed. $40. $9. Why don't you shut up? Hey, I'll defend you kept the economy going. Someone was at work and then you gave them something to do.

You know what I mean? We're keeping the thing charged, right? Comes in and then I watch a video. and it says turn counterclockwise have it come off insert the battery do it click yeah blah blah blah blah blah blah chanin i followed the direction i'm surprised you didn't ask the delivery put it in for you special instructions i was not going to ask the door dash guy to come and do the could you please come in the house here so i put it in i put it in i put the thing in, you know, click the thing in, take it up, then put it up on the ceiling, turn

clockwise, and then I just stand there and look at it. Yeah. Like, please don't be it. Yes, you're just begging it. Well, I don't know why, but 20 seconds later, it beeps once, and I'm about to punch things. I'm literally thinking, Shannon, I might move, right? Because I'm so frustrated, but then didn't beep again. Yeah.

And I, the sense of accomplishment. I know, listen, changing a battery, everybody should be able to do it. I'd never done it before. The only time this has ever happened, I dismantled the entire thing. So I just wanted you to be proud of me. At 12.30 at night, I was able to go back to bed and fall asleep. I am probably more proud of you right now than I've been in a long, long time. The fact that you changed a battery and your smoke detector.

You go, Matt. Good job. Did they give awards? I was more proud about that, Shannon, than coming number one on the radio list yesterday. I think that's like your biggest accomplishment when it comes to like handyman things. Could be up there. Oh, it's up there. Like you've changed a light bulb, I'm sure.

Of course. I know how to do that. Yeah. But. That's a big step for you. Yes. I think the driver would be disappointed to know that it was for the fire alarm. You know, if you're delivering a battery at midnight, my mind's wondering what's going on in this house.

Yours just a little routine task. Are you sure you need this nine-volt battery, sir? I've heard those take triple A's. Okay. Who's up first? Xerxes. Zerxes. How are you?

I'm good. How are you guys doing, family? Do it good. Good. Okay, I'm encouraged by the cats based off of the last game against Fandy. And the reason I say that is, despite the opponent, I really appreciate the way we play defense in a way we called out when to switch. We didn't do as much overhelping as we've done in the past, which drives me crazy.

We also didn't fall for a lot of pump face, which also drives me. crazy. And I think the guys, we have a great offensive, great offensive players. And I think the key is going to be for those offensive players to embrace playing defense for the first time in their lives. Well, we got 11 games left. So I'm not, I kind of agree, and Zerxes nice to hear from you. I appreciate the call. I kind of agree with Cal last night, who said, we just need them to play 8% better on defense. And I actually thought that's kind of true. The idea that all of a sudden this team's going to embrace defense and be all that's just not going to have there's only 11 games left but i don't think it's too much to ask them as cow said to play eight percent better on

defense get four more stops a game most of these games outside of tennessee if you had gotten four more stops a game you'd win right so i don't think that uh drew is a crazy thing to ask no and he said that i thought that was spot on i was doing a little math in my head driving around thinking well yeah if you have a game where the offense is rolling if they can just add four, five, six, that will make a huge difference. Huge difference. Yeah, I thought that was really, I mean, the days of people calling me and going, oh, if we, we're going to do that, like, it's just not going to happen.

But there's no reason they couldn't get four more stops a game. And general, think about it. Four more stops a game. We win every game on our schedule probably except Tennessee. Even in that game, they clawed back several times and just couldn't get a stop. So maybe they get in the fight. What did they get within two a couple times, four? but Tennessee just kept responding.

What did he say last night? He said something like for the next three weeks, we're going to primarily focus on defense. He's good. Two different times now. He said 70% defense from now on. Good. We need it.

We definitely need it. Who's next? Let's go to Michael. Michael, go ahead, Michael. Hey, Matt, how's everything going? Look, don't let them give you a hard time. I'm proud of you, too, for changing that battery and that. Thank you very much.

See, listen, my mom wrote me and said she was proud. Like, they are all making jokes. But this is the first step towards building my own log cabin. You'll be changing your oil by next one. Oh, no, no, no. I'm never going to do that. That's dirty. But go ahead, Michael.

All right, here's the thing. I got a football thing and a basketball thing. What do you think the likelihood that they could play the basketball team, a one-three-one kind of a defense that's her quick enough? Well, I mean, okay, in theory, you can't, it's hard to play one-three-one nowadays because of the shooting. But in theory, could you play a two-three-one? zone. I mean, in theory, this team could do it. Are they going to do it? No. Gotcha. So here's my football thing. And I haven't been listening all week. I've been listening

off and on. So if you've talked about this, I'm sorry. But did you guys watch Liam Cohen's speech? I did. Yes. I did. And he said at about the seven minute mark where he said, I was watching film on recruiting. No, I didn't see that. What did he say? Well, he kind of said recruiting. I was watching film flying, recruiting, and then he kind of stuttered a little bit. And then he just went on and said, I just watched a lot of film. So it was around the 655 mark, seven minute mark. Yeah, I did not see it, so I'm not sure.

But I appreciate the call. We talked about this on the basketball pregame show. I can't drew hold against Liam what he says in an introductory press conference at another place because his goal at that point is to win the fans over there. So I think he said it was his dreams of no-brainer situation. You know, people got upset about that. That doesn't really make me upset. I'm frustrated he left because I think he kind of was a little duplicitous in the way that he's...

Whoa. What? What? I don't know that word. What? I don't know that word. Duplikis sense. You guess you just did.

No, I mean, it was like duplicitous. He sort of, I don't want to call it. call him two-faced, that's too harsh. But it was like he sort of said one thing and did another thing when it came to coming here. And so that frustrates me. But what he said when he was there, you have to win those people over. So, Drew, that doesn't bother me quite as much. I didn't watch the whole thing, so I didn't know what the caller mentioned.

But I watched the clip where someone asked him about being a one and done in Kentucky. That's when he kind of gave that answer. I wish he had an opportunity there to at least say something nice about Kentucky. I didn't catch any of that. He could have been like, I wish it didn't go down like that. It was mostly just focused on Tampa. But, I mean, that's what he has to say. One thing you did say, I didn't know his dad lives like an hour from Tampa.

So, I mean, when you consider that, I mean, you can't blame the guy if you want to live by your dad. One person writes, don't let him make fun of you, Matt. You are now my official Bob Vila. I will call you for home help. I mean, I'm not going to come help you. But I did. Those of us that know you understand, that's a big deal for you to get up and undo the fired smoke detector and then able to put it back together.

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Sing it, James Taylor. I am your handyman. This is a good James Taylor song. I am a big fan of James Taylor. Did not know Taylor Swift was named after James Taylor until the trivia the other night. Did you know that? No, heck no. I did not know that either.

Out of all your questions yesterday night, I knew like one. But Shannon, did you know that Taylor Swift was named after James Taylor? No. That's the truth. It's true. No one did I ever put any thought into what she was named after. I mean, I didn't either. I just thought, but James, because I like James Taylor.

I think James Taylor, you know, it's going to riding in Larry's 66 Dodge to school car, easy 97 hits. That era of music. was kind of that just feel-good type of music and made you just kind of chill. Yeah, we don't have to tell Larry. I'm sure they were all smoking the entire time during that air. He doesn't need to know that. I don't think he needs to know that.

859-280-2287. Text machine 772-77-4525-4. One person writes, Matt, you are proof that God exists. Well, thank you. That's very nice. Next sentence says, no one else could have gotten, without a God, no one else could have gotten through life

with as little knowledge as you have. Talk about a backhanded sentence. I would spin it and say God made you very resourceful. So when you have an issue, you can reach out to hubby or me or Drew or Shannon. I can reach out to someone else. That's resourceful?

Okay. Fair enough. I wish I'd been more resourceful. I'd put out a 17 parlay. They wrote me at Draft King said, you want to do one tonight. Put out a 17 parlay. He was killing it.

American University. Why do you put those schools in your parlay? Well, they were playing a team that had four wins, and they were playing them at their place. Slam dunk, right? It's always the slam dunks to get you. And the slam dunks get you. Loyola, Maryland, gets their fifth win at American.

So I, of course, ended up watching the last minute of the game. American, I guess, has a lot of fratty guys, and they were all wearing suits to the game. And I think I just, Shannon, needed them with a passion. All those dudes, like, in their suits, like, you know, being rowdy. I ended up by the end, rooting for the other team. Just rooting against the parlor.

Because I was like, these dudes, come on. So if you had known ahead of time, they would have been in the park? That would not. Not the loss, just the suit. If I'd known that those dudes would be wearing suits in the stands, I would have gone for Loyola, Maryland. What was the game when they showed the clip where the dudes were all wearing speedos and they shaved a kid's head? That was Oakland. That was funny.

That was pretty wild. That was funny. Did you know there are three Division I colleges that are Loyola's? No. What's the third? Loyola, Maryland. Yeah. Loyola, Illinois.

And then there's like a Loyola, New Orleans. Loyola, I didn't even mean. Yeah. There's four. There's four Loyola Merimount. So there are four D1 Loyola. Wow. So there you go.

That's a little fact for you. Fun fact for today. Who's next, Shannon? Let's go to Nancy. Nancy. Nancy. How are you, Nancy? I'm good.

Yeah, those smoke alarms will drive you crazy. So I'm a Butler follower because my son works there and I watch it and play Yukon. Hey, they're beatable. Now, you know, it's going to be difficult if we play them up in Boston, but they're definitely beatable. And also, thank you for the tip about Taylor Swift. My granddaughter's are crazy about her. Didn't know she was named. Maybe that's how you get your granddaughters to listen to James Taylor, right?

Right. And to watch football. See, they don't. Oh, okay. Oh, I see what you're there. I didn't know the connection to James City. Yeah. No, no, I think maybe that's how you get it to happen. Well, they'll watch the game Saturday, I would assume. Oh, I'm sure they will. So I know people think, you know, I'm crazy because I listen to you all like every day. And Shannon and Billy. But, oh, my friends, you know, they aren't sports people. Well, tell them to, I bet if they listen. They're the ones that are crazy.

I bet if they listen, I bet if they listen, they would enjoy it. The idea is, oh, they're just these sports dudes, I challenge you to listen for two hours and not find something that you relate to. I like the smoke detector. Well, and it's not just sports. Right. And it's not just sports. Yes. It's other facts.

I completely agree. Yeah. Okay. Well, thanks. And go catch. Thank you. I appreciate it. I just got a kick out of yesterday when we were going over the ratings.

We were number one in the other school, other stations dialing us up to say, here, let's hear what they're talking about. And we're talking about wallabies escaping on L&M. See, I always enjoyed that segment where we would listen to the show above us to learn. And now I feel like if you go down one, you're being a meme to people. I'll tell you something that will make you crazy. You remember when we were driving to Pittsburgh for the Steelers Patriots game? Yeah. You remember that?

And you remember we listened to that afternoon radio show? Oh, yes, I do. I bet against them because I hated them. That's right. Shannon, remember Drew hated the radio show so much that he got online and bet on the Patriots because he hated those two people. I bet the opposite of every prediction they made. I ended up leaving it on because of how much it was making Drew mad.

Yes. Guess what? They were named number one afternoon show in the country yesterday. Were they really? That show. It was like, I don't know, it was like Bob and Frankie or something, but it was the show we were listening to that made you so mad. So now, Drew, I don't know if that makes you feel worse about our win,

that that show with those two guys you hate. They were for the same category as us, mid-market shows. They were number one in the afternoons. Well, I appreciate them being completely wrong that day because literally every time they said something about that game we were going to, I pulled out my phone about the exact opposite. Out of spite. Yeah, remember they were talking about how has there ever been a scoreless game in NFL history?

There's been a three-to-nothing game. They were so convinced it was going to be that kind of game. It was still low-scoring, but the team overhit. They said Pittsburgh wouldn't score in the game. I think they had 20 years. I was a fan that day. You were not. Who's next?

Steve. Steve, go ahead, Steve. Pony and Mueller. That was the name of it. Pony and Mueller. Go ahead, Steve. Hey, Matt, a couple things. Well, in the unlikely event that we do play Samford,

that would be the highest scoring team and the fourth-high-scoring team in the country playing each other. That would be fun. That's perfect for us, though. I think we'd like that. Yeah, that's how we'd like it. Yeah, we're back in the, we're back in first place, and they're number four. I went and watched the other morning.

I watched the Connecticut game from 2014 National Championship. Oh. And, well. Go ahead, real quick. Well, I played zone to get us back in the game. Oh, that's right. He did in that game. You're right.

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