KSR - 2024-02-12- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 12, 2024

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk Chiefs vs 49ers in the Super Bowl, Kentucky Football's new offensive coordinator, and Kentucky Basketball's loss to Gonzaga.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I've never seen that before. I've walked in, and right there was. Here, you can give us a shout. open up the phones in a little bit. We're not yet. It's Clark's Puppet Shop phone line 859-2-80-20-2-87. A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-7-7-7-4-5-254 in this dish is sponsored by T.J. Smith, law, he's called T.J. He'll make them pay. Ryan Lemon & Drew Franklin here at the bar. Come on out and have lunch at 11 when we open. Shannon is in Louisville. So I guess, Ryan, what I would say is there are three things we

can talk about. UK Gonzaga. Yeah. We have a new offensive coordinator, Bush, Humden, and the Super Bowl. I think it's Monday morning. We should try to be, like, happy to start. So I actually think even though it's a Kentucky show, we start with the Super Bowl. What do you say? I agree with you. We're going to be talking about this crappy Kentucky game for a while.

So why not start with something that'll make us laugh and feel good about it. Let's start with the Super Bowl. Shannon at the end of the third quarter tweeted out Z's because he didn't think because he thought it was boring. It was boring. It was a boring-ass game. It was. The first three quarters were boring. But then in the fourth quarter, excitement. Ooh, there was intrigue.

There was a comeback. It goes to overtime. New overtime rules that it felt like we all had to figure out at once. I was on the phone with hubby, and I was going, jeep, better hurry up. Clock's going to get them. Clock's going to get them. And then with like 20 seconds left, Tony Romo goes, yeah, by the way, the clock doesn't matter.

Yeah, you maybe should have told us that before, Tony. I was sitting there, like, thinking the clock mattered and then it didn't. Oh, I still thought that it mattered, no? No, no. So why even have a clock? I don't disagree with you. Why have a clock? Apparently, had they not had the clock run out in the first quarter,

the Chiefs would have still been able to finish their drive in the second quarter. So I'm with Shannon. Why have a clock? It doesn't make any sense. But regardless, it was an exciting Super Bowl and the Chiefs Drew Franklin went again. Yeah, it was a little more low scoring than I think a lot of fans wanted. But, I mean, I still was a pretty close game other than San Francisco having that 10 point lead. Kyle Shannon had a third straight Super Bowl blowing a double-digit lead.

Feel bad for him. But I thought even though it was more of a defensive game, I still really enjoyed it. Didn't miss a snap. I don't care for either team, but I was into that game from start to finish. Is he coached the 49ers, all three of them? He was the Falcons coordinator. So he's been to three Super Bowls and has been up by 10 or more in all three. That's brutal. I still don't know how the Chiefs won because the 49ers seem to be the best team and seem to be dominating the whole game, but you just can't count out my homes, man. I'm going to bet on my homes the rest of his life until they roll him away. He didn't even, his offensive line stinks, right?

His receivers stink. See, that's the thing. That's why they're going to win every year. They're not even good this year. Their receivers are, besides Kelsey, their receivers are not good. Their offensive line, I mean, I watched Booger McFarland on the ESPN. First of all, they just wheeled out Chris Bourbon from nowhere last night. Did you notice that?

No, did they? He hosted the post game on ESPN. I haven't seen him on TV in a year, and then there he was. But Booker McFarman said that there are two tackles on, and I feel like he'd know this. You know, you have to be a certain kind of person to even know what an offensive line does. And Booker McFarham was like, the two tackles for the chiefs are not even NFL worthy, which I thought was a weird thing to say, like, Shannon, right after they won the game.

You know? They got a Super Bowl ring and it says they're NFL worthy. But I believe him, and yet they still win. So my point is, Ryan, you've got to assume they're going to get better at some of these positions. So I feel like they're going to win every year, right? Get better, and you still have Mahomes back there just working his magic, man. You know, every time the Chiefs needed to make a play, there's KS. Barr on the news right now. Yeah.

Every time you wrote me and said, do you care if we come to KS. Bar and I was like, well, I mean, do you really want to do that? And they did. Okay, but anyway, go ahead. Every time the Chiefs need to make a big play, he made. the play. I mean, there's this guy, he's phenomenal, made it fun to watch. After a boring kind of first three quarters, it was, it was, you know, going into overtime for the second Super Bowl ever. It was kind of exciting. So let's talk about stuff that actually

matters. Half-time show commercials. Yeah. Well, first of all, let me start, Shannon. Tony Romo took some gummies during the day. Yeah, man. He's been saying some weird things. He's saying three times. I mean, he's saying three times, including once Adele. And everyone should know they can't sing Adele. What did, what happened to Tony Roe? I mean, there was a lot of singing and a lot of, it is in Vegas. What? I thought he took an ambient. He reminded you when you did Thundercats because it wasn't like a couple seconds on one of those going to break.

They let him sing for like eight or nine seconds. He was singing a lot. And I feel like when it's a Super Bowl, Shannon, if I'm an announcer, I'm like, ah, maybe not sing. Yeah, you didn't. Maybe a little more focus, a little more serious. Maybe he took, like you said, maybe he took some of Ryan's Vegas gummies. I just felt like there was a lot of like, you know, him. I thought he was weird.

A little too much. He also tried to call a lot of plays and was wrong. He was wrong on almost all of us. He was doing the Romo thing too much and he kept being wrong and I think and just stop. You don't have to be like, Jim, right here, look at this. And then it wouldn't happen. And he goes, see, Jim? And you weren't even right.

Then the halftime show, I loved it. I'm not going to lie to you. I got up and the next thing I knew I was all upon him. Yeah, like, I mean, I was, that was perfect for people my age, don't you think? For high school, Matt. That is your half-time show. Well, it was a little older than that. College match?

College law school, Matt. Yeah, but that was my kind of... First of all, he's my age. He's 45 and he looks like. And still bring it, too, man. Brings it... Yeah. Actually saying, Shannon, you had to appreciate that.

Did he? Oh, yes. He was out of breath the whole time. So, like, if you go listen, when he's saying, yeah, which we'll play... Sorry, podcast, people, you won't hear it. But we'll play next segment. He's out of... Like, he skips.

lines and he's kind of out of breath, Shannon, because we're dancing for 12 minutes. I do respect that from a performer standpoint, so that's cool. I didn't think they were allowed to. I thought that they almost forced every band or performer to like pre-record. No, I think he's out of breath. There was a little bit of background, but I mean, like Matt said, there was a point where he just wouldn't say a line because he was catching his breath. It was very obvious that he was doing a lot. Roller skated. Roller skated. That was impressive. That was impressive. It's impressive to dance on roller skates, isn't it? Oh, I got it so excited. about that because I don't know if you've seen Usher roller skating on TikTok.

It's fascinating to watch. I hope that shows up on your algorithm. Okay. So when he came out on the skates, I got very excited. If Usher on roller skates shows up on my TikTok, phone, I'm going to know you're listening to me right now because I would like to hear that. About Luda came out too. So like, that's the thing.

Yeah. I realized I was a 45-year-old man just uncontrollably screaming, Luda! Like, come on. That was cool, though. It was. Yeah. He was out.

He was in the club so conspicuous. Lil John, who then Drew told me is playing in Glasgow next in two weeks. What? Yeah, is there two Fridays from now? Where? I don't have the name. Papa John's? Their venue there.

I'm sorry, I don't have the name off the top of my head here. But yeah, he's in Glasgow, too. How is Lil John going to Glasgow, Kentucky? Do you think there's ever been anyone to play for that many people? and then less than two weeks later, no offense to Barron County, but I think there's not going to be 100 million people watching. You're going from the Super Bowl to Barron County.

Wow. It's going to be great there, but I just don't think the numbers are going to line up with what he just did last night. And he's going to get paid more in Barron County. Yeah, he gets nothing for the Super Bowl. All right, so you did that. Then you had the commercials.

I think I was with you. So first of all, I felt like the commercials kind of made for me a little bit, right? Nerd Gummy Clusters. Yeah. I thought of you when I saw that. So did a lot of people. I got nerd gummy clusters.

30 rock. There was a 30 rock group. I'm a huge 30 rock. I'm on a 30 rock rewatch right now. Aubrey Plaza, who I've always kind of had a crush on. She was in one. The Neil Diamond song I like, I am. I said, did I ever think of that?

That wouldn't come back? No. So I was a big fan of commercials. And then I thought the funniest one was the guy, people coming up to Christopher Walk and doing his voice. That was my favorite one all night. I thought that was funny. I actually laughed. that one. I did like there was that one was it was it Uber

each where they had like a bunch of cameos in it with Ross and Rachel yes yes yeah yeah I like that one too a little bit what is this Timo and how much money do they have I felt like they were every other commercial they packed a big punch last night what do they do it's I don't even know to be honest I feel like they were I think it's kind of like a budget shopping thing like wish you had a question with that I think there was a question of like what are the 10 apps that says the most in America and Timu was on it and I didn't even know what it was.

Still don't really know what it does. Yes. So they didn't get enough money bang for their buck if we still don't know because they were everywhere. Yeah, they were on there. That was on there and that was good. I liked Lil Wayne moving on up with George and Weezy on the top floors. George Washington and Wayne for Homes.com. How about Arnold Schwarzenegger is a new state farm guy?

Did you like any of those? I think I missed that one. Oh, Michael Sarah for Sarah V. Lotion. I don't know if that's how you pronounce it. I saw that, and I didn't know what that meant. I mean, I saw it, but there was like a Twitter thing with that. Jesus had a commercial. That's how you know the Super Bowl's big shit.

I know, right? But Jesus is good. He had like the, Jesus had like the second commercial. It was like right out of the game. I mean, if you got to be your Jesus, you've got to hit. Yeah. Nerdgummy clusters come with Jesus in the same break. The first commercial, I thought was odd, was a movie promo for an upcoming Disney movie.

Deadpool. Wizard of Oz. Oh, no, Wicked. Wicked. Wicked, yeah. Wicked. Yeah, that's that used to, it was a play or a musical. Yeah.

So then you had all that. Then there was Taylor Swift. Yeah. She was with, now, who is Ice Spice? Like a TikTok store. She's just a rapper. She is a rapper. Yes.

Because I, when people kept saying she was with Ice Spice, I was thinking it was one of the Spice. That's exactly what I thought it was. No, I mean, what I did. Sporty. There was Posh. Well, I didn't think there was an ice. And I wondered had they taken one of the spices out and put. They froze her.

Because I will say she looks like she could be a spice girl. No doubt. Yeah. And then the other one was Blake lively. Okay. Now, didn't she, is she married to Rye Reynolds? Yes. Are they married?

Yes. Okay. He was probably at Rexlam or whatever he's doing now. Okay. So these celebrity sightings, not just in that suite, everywhere. It was insane. Yeah, they were all there. Everyone was there.

And they all seemed to know each other. And she was like going crazy. Watching her, Taylor's faces was like watching a mountain high school. football mother. Like everyone was like, like they were all like, oh, like it was all too,

it was very excited. You know, I haven't been the biggest Taylor Swift supporter, but watching her, she's into the game. I felt like that was sincere. She's,

she's in it. She's a fan. She's not Taylor Swift's mega superstar. She's a fan supporting her man. Did you watch any of the Nickelodeon? No, I didn't watch any of that. I got to see some of the highlights.

I did like when Usher came out, SpongeBob. says this is what was playing when your dad and mom met. Oh, I didn't see that. Which I thought Shannon was a pretty funny thing for Nickelodeon to say, right? It's a little, I thought it was a little spicy for SpongeBob. Spongebob getting a little spicy, don't you think? It sounds like it.

Yeah, I didn't see that. I got to go back and maybe catch the Nickelodeon highlights. The highlights are on there. They also made a joke about Leonardo DiCaprio only dating like 25-year-olds. I was like, they wouldn't even make that on the main broadcast, much less on SpongeBob broadcast. Sounds like I was watching the wrong channel. No kidding. So anyway, you consider it a positive Super Bowl?

I do, just because the way it finished, the history of men now with the Chiefs. We're not Travis Kelsey, almost knocking old man Reed now. You know, anybody else does that to their coach, they're out. Not in the Super Bowl. Man, I couldn't believe it. I mean, he went out of him aggressively. I did see the interview afterwards. Andy Reeve was like, I don't have very good balance.

He was laughing about it. He's like, got to be careful. I don't have balance anymore. I feel like they scream at each other a lot. The cheese? The cheese. Yeah. I feel like they yell at each other quite a bit.

They do. But in that interview, Andy made a point that said, I understand Travis more than any other player. Like, that's my guy. I mean, if they have no issue, even though it looked pretty extreme to us at home, I mean, he laughed it off pretty quickly. He's so weird. Like, I listened to him on his podcast.

He sounds articulate and smart. And then in the post game interview, Shane, he's going, you got a fight. for your rack to party. And you're like, what? And then in the podcast, he's like, you know, Jason, I was sitting and thinking about the latest philosophical trends. And I'm like, how is this the same guy?

He's amped up. Yeah, got his football hat on at that moment, his helmet on. Smell and salts. Yeah. So I did enjoy it. I did too. I thought the, you know, the first three quarters were really, really, boy. But then it did ramp up there at the end.

Oh, one more. Reba. I made an error. I don't know what happened. My TV was 30 minutes behind for like two hours. So I'm watching these hype videos, and I'm excited, and Abby goes, Twitter says Reba already went. And I pick up the remote and it fast forward, and we were 30 minutes behind.

So I missed the 30 minutes of pregame because then I just jumped forward to get off. I do like there's still a fight about whether she went over or under. Yeah, what do you think about it? Some sports books say it was under. Some say it was over. It all depends on what you consider the national anthem. Is the national anthem when the music starts, when her voice starts, when she says brave once or when she says brave twice.

And apparently each sports book, Shannon, had a different set of rules. So depending on where you got, she either went over or under. I thought it had to be under because it felt like to me she ripped right through it, didn't it to you? Yeah, and she had the music that kind of forced her pace to go to pick up a little bit when you have music versus Acapella. But yeah, I mean, it goes back to when she said Brave and she kind of came back to it, that would have pushed it over 130. Yes, but then does it start with it? the music started or when she sings her first note some people had different starts singing that's what i think yeah but but i have no idea i thought she she did well i didn't particularly think post malone

did the best job on that song but really i thought it was great did you i don't know it just wasn't my thing but then again whatever i mean that's an impossible job you know he's he's so skinny now what was it who he who was the guy in the commercial tried to rub his tattoos off that was him trying to rub his was i thought was it was it him Yeah. No, no, it was Jelly Roll. Oh, excuse me, no, it was Jelly Roll. You're right.

It was Jelly Roll. Yeah, Jelly Roll was trying to take his tattoos off. Okay. I don't remember that one either. It was where they all forgot. That was actually one of the better ones. Like, everyone forgot things, and he couldn't remember getting the tattoos. He's like, does this come off?

Yeah, I do wonder if those guys, now that they're really famous, do they wish they didn't have face tattoos? Yeah. Because you probably could get rid of them, can't you? I think there's technology now you can. Very painful, yeah. I bet it does, yeah. 859-280-2287. Well, we still won't up with the first.

up and up with the phones. We'll talk a little about Bush Hamden and then, of course, UK Gonzaga. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Song, Shannon. Shannon, you didn't play the Usher song. You said 1030. Oh, okay. It's not 1030 yet, sir.

I did. The Usher song, I want to get that outfit, Usher wore. I don't know that I would, that it's really my kind of thing. But the blue and the black, it felt like a good Kentucky, you can wear it to a Kentucky game, right? Yeah, that blue and black outfit he had when he was doing the real. Really the dance right there? Yeah, at the end of the Jordan Fours he was wearing. They were all chromed out.

Those looked good. It was good stuff. You know, they didn't show this on TV, but I saw online that the celebratory coin toss was done by Carrot Top, which I am amazed Carrot Top was able to pull that off. Like all these big stars there, Shannon, and Carrot Top still finds his way to the field. He's a Vegas stable, right? He is.

It's like him and Wayne Newton have been there the longest. It was a big week for Carrot Top, and a lot of those people you kind of forget exist. I saw them on social media at all those events, but I guess if Vegas is hosting something, you got to roll out all those longtime performers. You said it was the worst traffic in the history of Vegas. There were people still trying to get out of the stadium if you had gone by car, which they had told people not to do. But if you didn't listen, you went by car.

There were people still trying to get out of the parking lot, Shannon, four and a half hours after the game. That remind you of anything? I would have gotten out. WrestleMania? It was WrestleMania. but I would have gotten out. I would have found a way. But they said all week, don't drive, and then people didn't listen,

four and a half hours to get out of the parking lot. I guess Billy's dad and Billy's brother went to the game, didn't sell their tickets. I can't believe they didn't sell their tickets. They were offered. By game time, the cheapest ticket on the thing was $9,500. So if they had, oh, my goodness. I mean, they could have made $18,000 to $20,000. And they went to the game, Shannon.

and they don't even care about the two teams. Yeah, I would have gone to Vegas, sold those tickets, and went out and had one hell of a night. I will say this about Billy's dad. He talked to me at the Whiskey Thief Distillery after there. He goes, look, it's making memories with my son. He goes, one of the greatest things I've done is I took Billy to the Super Bowl. I want to do that now with my younger son, too.

He could have memories on the slots. Yeah. Maybe they have those two. On the strip. It saved a lot more money, wouldn't you? Let's go look at the fountains at Caesars. But it ended up being a, it ended up being a, ended up being an exciting

exciting game. Although, like I said, I don't know about Tony Romo. You know, when he first started, everybody said he's the best. I think it might be time for, I think he's been hanging out with Aaron Rogers and like ayahuaskin or something, because it's just, he's just,

he's odd now in these things. By the way, when is Tom Brady supposed to start? I mean, he's not, he is not going to be good. Do you think he'll be good? He's pretty funny. Probably won't be singing.

Well, he's starting next year. and Fox has a Super Bowl next year. So, like, he's immediately going to get thrown in in his very first year. So he's with Fox. He is with Fox. He will take over for Greg Olson. Greg Olson will move down to number two. Actually, I thought Greg Olson is good.

I do too. One person writes, Matt, I timed the national anthem from the first note to her last note, and it was 135. But then I went back, and I went from first word to last brave, and it was 129. Right. The over-under was $130. If you had one or the other, you have to be angry. That is true. I feel like it wasn't clear enough going into it.

I don't know which service it went through, but a friend of mine who I was hanging out with at the party, his son bet over and lost because they said it was under because they didn't count that last break. MGM said under. That was where I got someone, because the draft kings didn't have it. Right. Right.

So I had to go get somebody to bet it there. And so I won, but I could easily, but there were other places apparently that called it in over, so it was very controversial. I think she knew what she was doing, what she said, because she made a video making fun of the length of the anthem and her husband's laughing, is it going to be over, under? So they know what's going on? Yeah. So you think they did it to be controversial? I guess everybody talking about it. Yep.

I think she added the second brave on purpose. Yeah, I mean, when you have the music, you already have the beats per minute programmed. No, you already know what it's going to be, right? So like, okay, so I want to go back to the overtime for a second. I feel like CBS did a pretty poor job of telling us, first of all, it's new rules. New rules. I think these rules are a lot better. There's a debate about should the 49ers have taken the ball first?

Because now that both teams are guaranteed the ball, there's an argument you'd go second so you know what you need. But here's the problem with doing that. If for whatever reason you end up tied at the end of the first, like both teams scored, then you're giving the team that got the ball first a free chance to go win the game. Because it's sudden death after that, right? Because it's sudden death after that. So everybody's killing Shanahan for not taking the ball second, but I can see why you would take it first.

There's a mathematical answer to this, but the problem is, Drew, there's no sense to know which one is right, you know? Yeah, and I thought he did it because the Chief's defense looked gassed, and they were giving it to McCaffrey. He's getting four or five yards just about every time he wanted. So I thought he was not even thinking to analytics. He was just thinking, that defense doesn't need to sit down right now.

We'll go to the length of the field and score. It didn't help him that in the post-game interviews, the Chiefs all said, we went over this scenario all year. We knew what the rules were. And then they interviewed the 49ers, and the 49ers players said, we didn't know about the rules.

I wonder if they didn't even know about the clock. Well, so the clock. How does CBS not tell us that the clock? doesn't matter. I'm sitting there. I'm on the phone with Hubby, and I'm sitting there going, they got to go. They got to go. Why aren't they calling time out? And then right at the end, Romo says, well, the clock doesn't matter. It feels like they should have said that way early. Way early. Like with the four minutes left, give us a little heads up that if its clock runs out, they can still go another quarter. I just kept complaining. Like, Shannon, I was like,

they're not going fast enough. They're not going. Same thing. Yeah, like they're going to run out of time. They're going to run out of time. And then it turns out the time didn't matter. I wish they had, I don't understand why they took so long. to say that. Well, I even said out loud when overtime started, I was like, well, this game can't end to tie. Why don't we even need a clock at all? I don't understand why you need a car. Because it's not the regular season. It's not going to tie.

It's going to come down to a sudden death score. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's the first time they've ever done it. I do think it's a better rule than what they did before. Agreed. The way they did it. We'll take a break. Very back. KS.R. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio

presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. So this was Usher last night. Now, right now, he's wearing that blue thing, which I got to find it. Again, I think he looked good in it. I don't know that I could pull it off. Do you know your shoulder pad size? You're going to need that.

Now, you can hear, Shannon. Listen, you can hear how much he's out of his voice right here. See, that has to be live because he's like, can I told it? He's like, you can tell it. I actually think it makes it better, Shannon, the fact that it's clear he's lost his breath. I would rather, you know, miss a couple of lines, be out of breath, than just go up there and lip sync like they've done in the past. So if they're doing it live now, that's great.

I got way too excited right here when he said when Luda came out. I know. It was just, it was, it was great. I tweeted that it made everyone 35 to 50 feel like they still mattered. And I think because it was surprised. Maybe it had gotten out, but I hadn't seen that Luda Christmas was going to be part of the halftime shows when he came out. Like, whoa! It is a little depressing, though, to know he's the same age as me, Drew.

and then he takes his shirt off and I'm like, well, I don't really look like that. I don't know, though. With him, he's defying, you know, all laws of aging. And that dude's on something. He thinks they have, like, access to things that we don't, Shannon, like anti-aging things. Well, yeah, that, private chef, private trainer, all that. We got to find one of those. I liked how, you know.

I got the trainer, but the chef is a big part. I need that. Diet's a big part of it. Most of my usher jams are slow songs. I like that he still work them in, but. You know, it wasn't a sad, you'd do a few lines and move on to something more upbeat. We got the full catalog. Everyone listening, your wives and your girlfriends would all leave you for us.

Yes. They do. They have a, he has a thing. Yeah, that includes you, Abby. Yes. All right, so that is our, that's our Super Bowl. Now, I'm saving UK Gonzaga for last because it's the most depressing. So let's talk about Bush Ham.

Okay. We get a new offensive coordinator. I don't think people know a lot about him. I'll give you some facts. First of all, he was the offensive coordinator at Boise State. When he got there, they were one of the worst offenses in the country. He moved him up to where they improved quite a bit. At one point, he was the quarterback's coach, I think, for the Falcons.

I think he was the OC for like a year in Washington. He is a Kuwaiti-born citizen. He was actually, it's quite an interesting story. We didn't know this on the pregame. He was born in Kuwait. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1991, he and his family happened to be on vacation in San Diego. Really? They just happened to be on vacation, and they just stayed.

And didn't go back. Because when it happened, they were granted asylum. So he ended up living in America and never went back home. Wow. And I want you to think about that, Shannon, what it would be like to go on vacation. and then all of a sudden, like, just have to move. Think about that. I don't think I could.

That's a pretty amazing story, right? Like, he's on vacation. First of all, the coincidence of having been on vacation. Yeah. And then it happens. And then you end up going. And then what an American dream story. What rises up to become an offensive coordinator in college football

and he's coached in the NFL. That's just for nothing else, that's just a cool, interesting story, isn't it? Yeah, I haven't seen it yet. I think it's an awesome story. Helps me get to feel like, okay, this is a good dude. Maybe he went through that. I like him already. One more to his wild story.

Once they lived here, he lived by the Pentagon during 9-11, lived down the road from the Pentagon. Really? Yeah, I mean, obviously. He finds his way and all this stuff. He's been a journeyman around college football, but since, you know, Kentucky guys, Luckett, everyone KSR has been digging into what he's been doing.

There's been times he's taken over mid-year and won a couple games, has done really well on the recruiting trail in situations where maybe that school wasn't supposed to win to recruit. So even though he hadn't been somewhere and it's a name, everyone knows nationally, he's got a pretty good track record of all these places he's made stops. All right. So his style apparently, you know, what do I know, but does like to throw the ball. Shannahan guy.

He's a shanahan kind of guy. but has also found when he has good running backs has had a great rushing attack. They did that this year at Boise State. So I actually, after the pregame show, we found out during the pregame show, I called some people around the program. Apparently he was considered Ryan for the job when they hired Liam the first time. He was one of the names, like I think that Stoops looked at. Stoops has always liked him.

and he was one. I'm told one of only two names, that basically Stoop zeroed in on two people this time. He was one of them. I couldn't get anybody to tell me who the other one was. But apparently there were two, and I think Stoops may be met with two, and this is the one he decided to go with.

How about, by the way, doing the whole search and nobody finding out any of it? They did a great job keeping it quiet. I mean, nobody. Two people. We may never know who the second one was, and this one becomes the guy without whatever. I like the fact that Stoops had already kind of had a little relationship with him

and kind of basically kind of interviewed him the first time. So he kind of maybe knew going in, hey, I'm going after Bush this time. I like him. I went with Liam last time, but he's my guy. I like that, knowing that he already had that confidence in him. So, Shannon, the moment it comes out, there were already people saying it was terrible, who I guarantee didn't know who he was. I didn't even know that name.

I mean, nobody. Look, there are people that know. I mean, Adam Luckets and Nick Rouse is the world probably new because they're football dorks, right? Like, they're the, and that's, I mean, I say that with love. But no, I mean, come on. None of you all knew who he was really. So I think, sure, this is just like, we'll find out, you know? The question for me is, do the players end up liking him?

And you, Ryan, what are you hearing in that regard? I'm telling you, I can say this. I was with Dane Saturday morning, and we talked about it, and he said he really didn't know. Saturday afternoon during our basketball pregame show it comes out. So that's how quiet they kept it. I don't think the players are even doing. Do you know, do the players have they said anything about him yet? No.

Don and I were watching the game last night. You know, like you said, they were a running attack at Boise. You know, for me, I want him to throw every possession. So I wish they would just throw it around all the time. I guess he, I think he does both. I think he just, like you said, adjust to what his personnel is going to be. Yeah. Not really knowing him could be a good thing.

We've had a different coordinator every year. I mean, if this guy leaves after a year, then we had a crazy season. Otherwise, it's a dude that's probably going to... I almost said plant some roots. I caught myself there. I'm not going to say that. But, I mean, a guy off the radar, the phone probably not going to ring unless he does something special right away. So at least set up some longevity unless he just goes off and we lose him after one year with the history of that job.

Oh, I see what... Sorry, I wasn't falling. You kind of think like, look, it's not like... I mean, if you go out and get a big name, he's probably going to leave next. year. I'm saying there can be some good in an up-and-comer going to be here a little longer. Okay, I got it. Unless he just does something really special, then I guess we're happy he's moving on. I trust Stoops, you know? I think, like I said, he already knew this as the guy. Maybe he zeroed in on him. I trust what he's doing and the way he's trying to build the offense. And so I believe, I like the guy who texted you say, that's a swing and a miss.

As soon as you announced it on the pregame show, he tweeted you swing and a miss. How do you know? How do you know? You don't know. You don't know. And I'm a big believer. I say this about Cal when he hired the Chuck Martin guy and Welsh, and I say this about Stoops. Unless it's a name that you're really familiar with, I think you give coaches the benefit of the doubt on their assistance. Ultimately, you're going to live or die with his assistance, right? So if he doesn't do well, it's going to be on Stoops.

And I think you just say, look, you know, he deserves. benefit of the doubt, and then we'll judge it next year. I mean, I don't know how else you can do it, Drew. I mean, the biggest question for me now is how many of our guys does he keep? Right? Like, do we, we've got on paper this really good offense next year. Will we be able to keep him here after spring practice? That's what I think we'll have to figure out.

And with this guy's recruiting background, I know he has to. He's a great recruiter. That's been one of his things. He has the number one player in there he had until he came to Kentucky, number one player in 23 was going to go play for him this year. He has apparently done his sort of specialty has been the portal.

He's apparently done very, very well in the portal. And good developing Missouri, which is why Stoops interviewed him the first time in 2011. It's just a matter of getting here and setting these relationships and making sure everyone sticks around. So there you go. Bush Hamden.

Bush Hamden. Is this our first ever foreign-born football coach? I can't think of another one. We've had some I've wondered if they're of this earth. Well, that's still Earth. Other countries are still Earth. I just mean I don't even know where they came from. I can't think of one.

Can you? It seems like maybe there was an offensive line coach that was like Hawaiian. Hawaii is America. It's one of our 50 states. He was maybe had Samoan. Also America. Yeah. I think we had one from Nebraska.

Yeah. No, I can't think of any. To answer your question, seriously, I cannot. This is likely the first. With all eyes on the NBA in college basketball, now's the time to get into Draft Kings. They are official sports betting partner of the NBA. There's a no sweat bet up to $1,000 back in bonus bets

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Brandit tweet of the day by tweeting Matt at KY Sports Radio. Well, I'm going to try not to sing, but this is one of my karaoke songs. I won't sing this in karaoke if I'm going to be somewhere that people might know me. But like, I'll do it. I'll do it like at the, when I am on the fellowship. Yeah. This is like a karaoke song. Yeah.

I am I said. And then they put it in that commercial. It was perfect. It was for, was it Volkswagen, I think. Volkswagen. But it's way too dramatic. It's ba, ba, ba. You know, it's very, I like Neil Diamond.

Shannon, everything Neil Diamond did over the top. Yeah. I like that. It's good stuff. I think it worked well for the Super Bowl commercial. It did. over the top, but I liked it. But I like it, but that's good over the top.

Yeah. It may just remember that commercial. You may remember one time an ex-girlfriend of mine filmed me singing this in the car and put it up on social media. It was embarrassing video. It was this song. It was. It was.

Because I get very dramatic when it comes on because it's a very dramatic song, right? It's Bush Hamden, not Hamden. So like green eggs and Hamden. Okay. Hamden. So I have to get that in my mind. It's H-A-M-D-A-N. Bush Hamdiv.

One person says, Matt, how can you say it'll be stable when he's been at 11 schools in 14 years? That's true. But, you know, a lot of those jobs are like he's moving up the ladder. He's now kind of at a part. Look, I mean, I'm not going to assume anyone, any assistant's going to stay here for a long time. But I think when you're moving up the ladder going from GA to another GA to a wide receiver coach. Like, I just, I think that's a little different, Drew. Yeah, he's moving around because he went.

from Davidson to Washington to the Atlanta Falcons, you know, he's just, like, says, he's climbing the coaching character. We had a listener who wrote me who played for him at Davidson. That's right. Played for him when he was the offensive coordinator at Davidson. Say he's one of the smartest people he's ever met. Yeah, that was a glowing endorsement. A guy played for him.

This was a listener and a listener who's written us a number of times, so I don't think he's like some crackpot, right? So I think, so we'll see. All right, let's talk about the basketball game. You guys want to go first? Go ahead, Matt. This is your job. You go ahead. I mean, it's an awful loss.

It's an awful loss. It's a historic loss in the sense of three times in a row at home for only second time in school history. I read a stat on the postgame show. We've only lost Shannon to three unranked teams at home in a year seven times. And three of them have been in the last four years. You know, I think the most disappointed. next to postseason, the most disappointing thing about the last few years is our inability to protect home court. You know, teams are going to lose on the road to Auburn loss by almost 30 at Florida.

Like that happens and I don't love it, but I get it. Like that happens to almost every team nowadays. But the way we're not able to protect home court is really disappointing. And then on Saturday, I mean, we led by six at one point. But the reality is we were down most of the game, except for that little, that stretch. And, you know, I went through all the detail on the post game show, but I was, I'm really disappointed. I think, I think this season is not, it's not over, can always turn around. I'm not giving up.

But there's no reason for this team to be 16 and 7, Drew, at this point. No, and I completely agree with the Rupp Arena thing. In the last 80 minutes of basketball in Rupp Arena, Kentucky has led for five minutes and 14 seconds. and at no point in either of those games did any part of me think they were going to win. And I don't care who the opponent is. That just doesn't happen with Kentucky basketball Rupp Arena. But they have now played two games where right as the ball was tipped, I'd not one time thought they could win it.

I think, you know, you can put a lot of these games on mistakes the players made. This game, to me, is on coaching. It just is. When they run the same thing for 10 straight minutes and you don't make an adjustment, I don't know how you can't put that on coaching. I don't. I don't know how you can't put that on. I don't understand.

I'll never in my life, Shannon, see a worse final play than what we did. Yeah. All the talent you have. All the shooters you have and you go for a lob. All that talent and you end up lobbing it to a do. And you don't even have dealing him in. You got three. You have three of the best shooters will ever have at this school.

And you're throwing a lob and we're like the worst. This may be the worst lob throwing team we've ever had. Ryan, I'll never understand what that was. Yeah, that last play was ridiculous. Like you said, you have three elite scorers. That's who you want to put the ball on their hands. No offense to a do, but an alley-hoop to a do-do is not on my list of things I want to draw up. Why is it?

Why is it? I don't even know why Hugo was in there. You got to have your – you need a bucket. You have your offensive guys in there. But you talk about Rupp Arena. You know what? Toby Smith never lost three games at home. Billy Gillespie never lost three games at home,

and we were ready to run both those guys out of town. This is unacceptable to lose at home. Mark Few, this is like the third coach that has said something after the game. Mark Fue's like, yeah, you know, we knew when we saw Ogo, we knew we were going to do pick and row, and we saw Big Z pick and row, and we saw Bradshaw, we're going to pound it inside, and no, we didn't make any adjustments at all to what they were doing. I mean, maybe it would have just been impossible to stop them,

but you've got to change it up. Got to do something. to do something. This is the most amazing stat to me. With 11 minutes to go, we took 50. Say that again because you cut out. 11 minutes to go, we took a 5751 lead. Are we there now? Yeah, yeah. Okay. From that point on, Gonzaga scored on every possession but two in which they took a shot. Yeah, it seemed like they scored like 10 straight times. I mean, we could not make a stop.

And they went down, pounded inside when Bradshaw was in there, and they were getting layups. I mean, they were getting layups. If I told you that Reed Shepard and Antonio Reeves would combine for 36 points in the second half, and you would lose. No way. It's not possible. That 12-0 run was so fun.

But like I just said, I'm sitting there going on this is Fool's Gold because when Gonzaga would score, it looked so easy. When Kentucky would score, you know, Reed was spectacular in that stretch, making plays, but you can't do that for an entire game. Gonzaga is just getting wide open. That E.K. was scoring as much as he wanted for Gonzaga. And that's why I'm just watching that game, even when Kentucky went up six, I'm thinking, well, Gonzaga is just going to keep on scoring. And I don't know if Kentucky can sustain what they're doing right now. We play too many guys.

Yes. You know, Cal said we lost the game in the first half. Well, part of the reason we lost the game in the first half is you played 70. seven people in the first half. Second half, they played like six, right? And with Dillingham on the bench, most of the second half. By the way, this is one thing. It doesn't, I wasn't that upset.

Dillingham was on the bench, to be honest with you, because we were rolling on offense. The problem was we couldn't stop anybody. Yeah. Now, at the end, though, I think you got to have him in on that final play, right? Because I'll never understood why we wrote. And you can say all you want about the read is then if he doesn't have the lobby, he throws it to Reeves. Option one should not be a lob to a dude. No.

A do played very well. That's not your number one option when you need a bucket. I couldn't believe Rob went in the game. I'm fine with him not playing a lot of the second half. But with 13 seconds left, you don't need a rebound. You don't need defense. You need two to win, three to tie. You have the most, or excuse me, flipped it.

Yeah, sorry, I'm still mad. You have the most dynamic score in college basketball. All you need is points. You don't need him to guard anybody, and he was sitting watching with the rest of us in Rupp Arena. The worst part is there was a character. that said coaches, a coach texted Rob Doster and said, when you see them come out in that set, you know what they're running. Every coach in America does because they've done the same thing for 13 years.

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