KSR - 2024-07-19- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: July 19, 2024

Alyssa Lang joins Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talking SEC Football Media Days and all the latest news.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I mean, she's been a rock star down at SEC Media Days all day. So, ladies and gentlemen, big round of applause for our super guest host today. Alyssa Lang. Thank you guys for having me. I'm so excited. I was telling all the Kentucky folks yesterday that I was going to be doing this today. And I just was feeling the excitement building, especially fresh off of Mark Stoops closing things out for us in Dallas. So thank you guys for having me.

I can't wait to be here today. Well, I guess this is a little weird. I spent the whole week watching you on Dallas. I mean, my TV was just on SEC network from Monday morning until Stoops yesterday. So it's a little bizarre hearing you on KSR after I spent the week with you and the whole SEC crew. it's it's even more bizarre to me honestly after everyone's travel back from Dallas last night and once I got on Twitter when we landed in Charlotte and then proceeded to sit on the tarmac for two and a half hours waiting for a gate here in

Charlotte I'm scrolling through so many other media members who were in Dallas saying that the same thing happened to them and then now the world has just stopped this Microsoft thing this morning and now I'm like thinking to myself yesterday I thought well maybe I should just stay for another night and fly back on Friday morning. Maybe it'll be easier not dealing with the weather. I've never been so glad that I did not do that because Dallas was a week, as it always is, and it ended with a bang, but we made it. We're here.

Yeah, if you haven't heard, half the world is shut down with this Microsoft update, had a glitch in it and hospitals and airlines. You're lucky you got out when you did because there are flights stranded across the world. Yes, my fiance is in Cincinnati right now, and he's trying to get back to Charlotte, and he said they actually boarded the plane and then they said, well, we're one of the few flights that actually can make it and is still scheduled on time. But now they're not on time because there's scheduled arrival times in Charlotte or something. So they're spacing them all out. So now he's going to be sitting on the plane for the next two hours.

It's crazy. I'm not smart enough to understand how any of this is possible. I didn't think that airlines and banks and sports center, which apparently can't go on the air either this morning because they can't access the video. or graphics or anything because it's all, I don't know, in a cloud, is this technology telling us we're too reliant on them? That's my hot take on this Friday, where the world is stopping because Microsoft has a glitch. I don't know anything.

Well, at KSR, we sent three people to Dallas, but because we're very cheap, we sent them by car. It's like a 17-hour drive. So this morning on their way back, I'm seeing all this airport news, and I'm thinking, look, guys, congratulations. You're not stuck in an airport. You're just somewhere in Arkansas. right now and you'll be home a little later today.

We were just looking out for you actually when we said that you needed to drive to Dallas and not fly to Dallas. That's really what you guys are saying to the KSR folks. Did you see the one big, tall, bald, goofy white guy walk around and he's blue cowboy hat. That's our own Nick Rouse. We're so proud of him down at SEC Media Days. It's so funny. I think every time we get to SEC Media Week and you see everyone that you're interacting

with on social media. or you're seeing on the sidelines of various games, various seasons, it's always just so crazy to me that we're all in one room and we pass each other constantly. And we're all so tired and we've all been talking for so long that sometimes we see each other and we go, I know you, but it's not coming to me right the second of like where I know you from because you just meet new people every single year. And it's funny to watch that progression to the end of the week. And by the time you get to Thursday, we're all walking around like, absolute zombies. Even Coach Stoops, I think at one point during his podium session yesterday,

said, hey, thanks to everyone for sticking around. I know I'm the 16th coach who's been here. Everybody's just drooping a little bit more. But no, it's such a fun week. And I'm glad that it, like I said, it ended with Kentucky. Great timing for my show with you guys today to be able to talk about Kentucky, very fresh off of yesterday. Let's hear a little about yesterday. I was watching just SEC Network, but I couldn't see the ballroom. What was the crowd actually? What was the crowd actually like for stoop? Was it just a handful of people out there? Did most people pack up and leave? Or did everyone or a good crowd hang around until the end for him? Yeah, no, I felt like it was a pretty good crowd. I mean, it was pretty average for what you see across, I think, the course of

the week. Now, the room definitely gets a little bit more full when it's Kalin DeBore, when it's Coach Sark, and when there's a lot of storyline questions to ask that have a lot of national relevance. And that's not to say Kentucky doesn't have national relevance, but I will sit here and say that after media days, once again, nobody's talking about Kentucky outside people who are really paying attention to this roster and fans of the program. I feel like they're always unfairly not talked about a lot. But Coach Dupes always seems cool with that, right? Let us fly under the radar a little bit, certainly after how the last couple of seasons have gone. But no, he had a pretty good crowd. And I always enjoy listening to him. I know, I don't know if we're not

supposed to have favorites if we are allowed to have favorites. But I've said this before. Coach soups is one of my favorites to talk to. He's at the top of the list when it comes to not only coaches that you enjoy interviewing because you know they're going to give you a straight answer. You know they're going to be honest and you know that they're not going to be afraid to have some fun if that's what the moment calls for. But also off camera, I always just enjoy having conversations with him and getting to know him as a human because he's so where his feet are and he's happy to talk to people just human to human, not football related. So I didn't get to talk to him as much as I typically like to during that media week yesterday.

We were both kind of going in different directions and then peeling out to the airport for me before he was kind of done making his rounds. But I always enjoy hearing from him. And I thought he dropped a lot of great knowledge yesterday on this 2024 team that I'm excited to get into with y'all. Well, you kind of said one thing. We've all said for years. He's at his best when he's got a chip on his shoulder. When you disrespect him or you doubt him, That's when he's at his best.

This year, though, I think he's got maybe one of his best teams he's had, but then the schedule is tougher. So what did he say about all that? You know, it's interesting because you look at the schedule standpoint and having SEC games so early on in Kentucky schedule, they're obviously not the only one because they're playing South Carolina early. They're playing Georgia early. And I know you guys are going to give me grief today for being in Game Cockalaw.

I'm very much aware. hey, but it's got to count for something that I'm doing a show with Randall Cobb now. True. Oh, yeah. This has to count for something, right? Very familiar much. Yes. Blue's getting in.

But no, he obviously addressed that as far as just the general toughness of the SEC year in and year out. But it sounds like he really likes this group that he has this year. He talked a little bit about Brock Vandergriff, which obviously is kind of the biggest question. But when it came to his recruiting and some of the flashes, that you've seen from him in the minimal amount of time that he's played in college, he has a lot of potential. And Coach Stoops has done a really good job of hitting on potential out of the portal or even hitting on proven players out of the portal and having success with them at Kentucky.

So I think Kentucky's in a perfect place right now. We know they have a lot of talent. We know they have a lot of guys who are returning and just portal additions that could be game breakers for them this year. Yet they're coming off of two seasons that maybe we're, bit of an underperformance compared to what we thought they would be. Maybe they're in a perfect position to shocks some people, certainly early in the season. If you're a program like Kentucky that's not getting the respect that you feel like you deserve,

why not take on a Georgia within the first three weeks of the season when you could still be able to maybe shock somebody because everybody knows you're still putting things together within the first couple of weeks. There's room for error. We talked about it ad nauseum last year with Jalen Milrow and Alabama in that Texas game. getting benched and I'm trying to figure everything out. They're still moving pieces early in the season. Maybe it'll be a perfect opportunity for Kentucky to sneak up on the dogs.

One piece of news from Stoops yesterday that we knew he would have to address. He got the Texas A&M question. So I'll just go ahead and read that quote to our listeners since it was brief. I was pursued pretty aggressively by them and we'll just leave it at that out of respect for everybody involved. There's a lot of people over the years and a lot of interactions between people. but it was very brief. I was pursued. I had a job to do.

So I thought, it seemed like the online reaction that was a little mixed, but you knew it was coming. He hadn't said anything yet about it, even though it was back in November. I thought he kind of did a good job of addressing it and getting out of the way. Alyssa, you were there. Maybe you want to comment on Stoops, but just in general, what's it like when you have to ask that question about a coach who might have been looking elsewhere and then ends up having to stay home?

Yeah, you know, it's funny because I went from being in local media, for about eight years to this job. And in this job, we're not at as many press conferences. We're not at as many of those yearly gatherings with coaches regionally when stories like this happened. So I went from being in locker rooms and kind of being tasked with asking those questions with those kinds of timing when stories like this came out to being at ESPN and SEC Network and kind of watching it from afar and like hoping someone else will ask, but also knowing

that sometimes that doesn't go really. well for that reporter, right? We just saw it at the College World Series with Coach Schlaas after losing to Tennessee and what that looked like with the Texas job and how that went and then how it ended up, like just an uncomfortable situation if it's not handled the right way. To your point about what Coach Stoop said, I don't think you can answer that question any better. I'll kind of add on to that though. And I know Kentucky fans are going to sit here and go, well, hold on a second. I'm thrilled he's at Kentucky still. I'm thrilled he's staying at staying at Kentucky. And he talked about it yesterday.

There's only 19 other head coaches in the history of the SEC who have been at their respective schools as long as coach Stoops has. So that is an achievement in and of itself. But what I didn't understand at the time was just the social media reaction to Coach Stoops potentially being the next head coach at Texas A&M before it all got shut down and squashed. I was like, what am I missing? Because I feel like a lot of programs would be really lucky to have Mark Stoops. obsessed their head coach given the success that he's had certainly as of late at Kentucky. And again, I know Kentucky fans are sitting here going, whoa, whoa, whoa, we didn't want our guy to get snatched.

I am right there with you. I would have been a little bit sad to see him leave Kentucky. I just didn't really understand this pushback on this is going to be a terrible hire. I'm sitting here scratching my head going. Where are we getting this from? Now, that's not to say that I'm not excited about Coach Elko. And I do end up thinking that both parties made a great decision. with Coach Stubstaying where he's at and Coach Elko coming in.

But that was a head scratcher for me, just scrolling through social media and observing timelines at the time with people outside of Lexington's reaction to that one. Shannon, the dude, our producer, will be chiming in here with us. He's very close to the Texas A&MAD, so I wanted to get his thoughts on that too before we moved on. Did you catch that? What do you want me to say about him?

What was he naming in, Shannon? Well, look, we don't need to discuss the Texas A&MAD. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. want to hear about that. Alyssa, she doesn't, she doesn't understand that the inside joke.

We caught Shannon cheating in a trivia game using Google. Yeah. Tom Hart had a trivia contest. And Shannon was cheating like on every question got them all right.

So one of them was about the Texas A&MAD. Shannon, of course, pulled that name out of nowhere one day. Yeah, Treve Alvarts. I'm not Joe. No,

absolutely not. No. No. We'll believe anything at this point. Ryan can see me. My hands are in the air. I am not Googling anything. Ryan?

I saw you on the keyboard there. Drew and asked you the question. Oh, stop it. There we go. You're a liar. That's the best part about radio, though, is you can kind of cheat. Now, not a trivia when people are asking you questions and you're actually playing a game. But my favorite part about radio versus TV is I have my computer right here.

And when I'm going, what was that guy's name or what was their record? A couple of years? I could just punch it in. Absolutely. I'm cheating on my own show every single day when I do that, I guess. We are just getting started with Alyssa Lang here on Kentucky Sports Radio. Very thankful she's here. She's been down at SEC Media Day all weeks.

We've got a lot to get into with her. Ryan, Drew and Shannon are also here. We'll take your calls. 859-280-287. That's the Clark's Puppet Shop phone number, 859-280-287. We'll be right back with Lisa Lang here on Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the Internet lost its mind.

Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise. Breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athlete themselves.

Their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real. From viral moments to historic games, from buzzer beaters to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context, and ask the questions everybody wants.

answer. Sports Slice brings you closer to the action with stories told by the people who live them. Listen to Sports Slice on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Sliced Life 12 and the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. What's up guys? This is Clivert Taylor the 4th. And on my podcast, The Cliverts show, I'm bringing you conversations about all kinds of stuff. Like being an internet famous referee. We're in the middle of a game. This linebacker, this linebacker walks up to me, he goes, Hey, ref, my mom wants you to wave at her. What?

Come on. Quarterback on office blue 42. Hey, rec, my mama want you to wave at her. What? Hey, Miss Parker. Listen to the Clifford show on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. There are times when the mind becomes a difficult place to live. This is David Eagleman with the Inner Cosmos podcast.

and for Mental Health Awareness Month, we're dedicating a series to understanding the mind when it struggles. I'm joined by doctors, researchers, and those with lived experience. We'll talk with singer-songwriter Jewel about anxiety. I started living in my car, and then my car got stolen. I was shoplifting. I was having panic attacks. I was agoraphobic.

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Listen to Inner Cosmos on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. Ryan Drew and Shannon honored to have Alyssa laying on with us today. She's been down at the SEC Football Media Days all week. But Alyssa, did you know, not only is Shannon a big cheater? He's also a bona fide rock star. Did you know you're on the air right now with a bona fide rock star?

Yes. I knew. I was on the air with folks with great ties. through the wrestling world as I finally finished the Netflix series. It was fantastic, but I need backstory on the rock star career. Well, Ryan, I mean, you're the one giving me all this praise. I mean, do you want to just, you know, tell her that I'm in a rock band and that we're playing KS Bar and Grill coming up a week from tonight at 8 o'clock and everybody should be there? Is that what you're about to say, Ryan?

That's exactly what I'm about to say. Listen, if you're not doing anything week from today, bring your fiancee, come to Lexington, because Shannon the dude, his band, Alice Bluegown, going to rock it out at K. bar and grill next Friday night. And if your fiance is still in Cincinnati, we'll just go get him and bring him down. That's true. That's true. Have you just drive down.

So for a stretch of time, he lived in Cincinnati. He works for pro football focus and they're based up there. He's now back down in Charlotte with me. He started working for the company. He was working up there. And two years ago, I think it was, we finally did something that I've been wanting to do ever since I got to the SEC. I flew into Cincinnati and we drove down into Kentucky.

We did part of the bourbon trail together. Oh, yeah. We only did, I think, four or five distilleries. So any excuse to come back up there, go to the KSR bar and grill, and continue the whiskey, the bourbon trail, I'm 100% in. I need to know what kind of songs the band sings, though. Oh, what's genre? We're classic rock. I mean, we'll do everything from like Aerole Smith to Green Day.

And we'll throw in like, we throw in a Darius Rucker song for Ryan. Oh, yeah. Because whenever Ryan, we have a tradition that when Ryan's at one. of our shows. We wait till a little bit later in the night after he's gotten some liquid liquid courage. And usually he gets up on stage. He sings wagon wheel with the band. His shirt comes off. It's a whole thing. So I expect nothing less than that next Friday from you, Ryan, at KSW. You know, I only say this because I know there's some playful banter. But you know, Darius Rucker is, you know, Darius Rucker is a gamecock, right?

Oh, I know. Well, there's a couple days a year. We can't be friends. I mean, we're really tight. We're like besties. We're BFFs. But when they play each other, we can't be friends on those days. So, you know, you probably don't, I got a story. I tell you to tell you. I might as well tell it right now. Yeah, we need your help, Alyssa. Please tell it.

Okay. I go down to watch Kentucky play at South Carolina. The first time I've been there in the arena and the atmosphere was awesome. It was great. I took my son. I wanted him to see it. Even though Kentucky got beat, the atmosphere was A plus. After the game, we meet the team after they come out because I'm good friends with Dane Key.

And we're walking to our car. and I got involved in a little altercation and got sucker punched that fractured my jaw from a South Carolina college student. Yes, this is true. I'm not kidding you. You know, when you go to the statue outside the stadium. Yeah. And then you go left. We were walking to our car.

It was at the next stoplight right in front of the stadium. Got decked. They never saw it coming. Man, what did you do? Well, I picked my, all of a sudden, I realize I'm on the ground. I didn't like, why am I laying on the ground? It took me a minute. What happened leading up to it?

He just punched you just because this is horrible. As you can probably imagine, some drunk South Carolina college guys started yelling at all of us, wearing all of our blue, and we started yelling back, and it kind of just got heated. Next thing I know, bam, I'm on the concrete. He had to drink soup for a month around Christmas time. Couldn't even eat real food. Yeah. You dirty South Carolina gamecocks.

Yeah. I hate that that happened because I feel like, and maybe I'm way off on this, Maybe I need a 10,000 foot view to really get the truth on this. But I felt like we were one of the nice fan bases. Like when you come, you have a good experience. I actually recently was in Knoxville. And I was visiting with a friend of a friend of someone on our crew. And he was helping us really long story short.

It was the next game, I guess maybe not so recently now, but it was the next game after the Alabama wins. So this was not recently. It was two years ago now. And we were doing a fancy open for, our show that weekend about pretending to fish the goalpost out of the Tennessee River. So I put on a wetsuit and some goggles and jumped in the Tennessee River, but we needed a boat. So again, a friend of a friend of a friend was able to help us use his boat and took us out there.

And he is a diehard Tennessee fan came from a long line of Tennessee volunteers. And he was telling me about how wonderful his experiences are in Columbia and how he feels like that is, despite the hatred between the fan bases. one of the nicest fan bases in the SEC and it made me so happy inside because I love the rivalry on the field on the court, whatever it is. But I wanted to be a good experience

and I hate that that happened to you. I'm sorry. On behalf of that. Bad apples in every fan base. Yeah, that's true. No matter where you go. Ryan, were you yelling back at them though? I thought you said originally you weren't doing anything.

I remember I went in and new details coming in here. I went in and actually was trying to break it up. I remember I had my hand kind of break it up, have my head turned and somebody just clocked me from the blind side. I never saw it coming. We still haven't heard what he said though. Like what did you say before the clocking? Not that there's a justification for anyone punching anyone in the face,

but I always think it's interesting to know what was said. Well, I remember what the guys were saying from South Carolina. They were making fun of some female UK fans making fun of what they were wearing. And that kind of got everybody upset. And so I'm in there trying to hold my hands out. I don't remember what if I was saying anything. and just bam, next thing I know I'm on the concrete. There's bad apples in every bunch.

And like you said, it's not the majority of any fan base. I believe that to my core, that the bad experiences that I've had with various fans is not nearly close to being representative of the rest of the fan bases. I can confirm it was not. Yeah, I can confirm it was not Alyssa Lange and it was not Darius Rucker.

You would have been perfectly fine if it were Darius Rucker. Let's be honest about it. You would have said, thank you. Can I have another? That's what you would say to Dary. You have a man crush on Darius that runs deep. And it'll probably win. You probably play a Darius song today.

Shannon probably be the Whiskey Thief song of the day. So we just prepare for that. So, well, you've got a lot of great stories we want to get to. It's not the course of the show here. But we're about to run out of time here before we've got to take a break. So just a real quick hit on the Paul Feinbaum Lane Kiffin thing that happened yesterday. Oh, my gosh. So that was actually on Monday, I think.

And it's funny. There's so much content at Media Days flying around. that sometimes things get lost in the sauce and clips that get tweeted don't necessarily get, you know, noticed on Twitter until a couple days later. But those guys are hilarious between Kiffin and Feinbaum on the set, Sabin being in our production room all week as a member of the media. I went from being so nervous before interviews with him at halftime, postgame, to sitting next to him at a table drinking coffee looking over the show, just kind of like making sure that I'm

doing everything right so that coach won't, you know, be uncomfortable or be, I don't know, so he won't yell at me like a player. I don't know why I'm so nervous around it, but there were so many different vibes to your point from the set to the production room with our coaches this week. Lots of viral moments too. Elaine Kiffman, I enjoyed Cole Kublich meditating yesterday. I feel like he needed to meditate during that debate. But there was lots of stuff that was fun to keep up with on the internet. That was interesting. And you guys cut me off when we need to hit a break. But I was not really expecting the Kublich-Ocho segment to go that way when I teed it up. I was the host on the desk. And I will say that what I said happened in the break is 100% accurate.

That Acho said, I don't know what's so special about the Iron Bowl anyway. And he was not really joking when he said it. I think he was really 90% being serious. So he said, well, this will make for good TV. Cole already did this with Dusty Dvorchek earlier in the week when it came to the Oklahoma side. Now we've got the Texas guy here. We've been talking a lot of football. Sometimes you've got to make some fun in, right? We're not trying to be, you know,

explosive all the time, but sometimes it's nice to take a little bit of a break from diagnosing position groups across the league. We'll do some smack talk. And I was eventually expecting the conversation for both of them to look at each other and go, both of them are awesome football games. Let's be real.

You know, Texas forever. Auburn or Alabama forever, whatever. But your game's pretty cool, too. But Acha was like, no, I have no interest in the Iron Bowl. She is Alyssa Lang, and she's got a great story coming up about Will Levis and Coach Stoops we're going to get to. Ryan Drew and Shannon here on Kentucky Sports Radio. We'll be right back.

Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending. Opinions are flying. And nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise.

breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athlete themselves, their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real. From viral moments to historic games, from buzzer beaters to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context and ask the questions everybody wants answered. Sports slice brings you closer to the action with stories told by the people who live them. Listen to Sports Slice on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

And for more, follow Timbo Sliced Life 12 in the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. What's up, guys? This is Clivert Taylor the 4th. And on my podcast, The Cliverts Show, I'm bringing you conversations about all kinds of stuff. Like being an internet famous referee. We're in the middle of a game. This linebacker, this linebacker walks up to me. He goes, hey, ref, my mom wants you to wave at her. What?

Time out. Look. quarterback on office blue with 42. Hey, Rhett, Mom, I want you to weigh better. What? Where's she at? Hey, Miss Parker. Listen to the Clifford show on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

There are times when the mind becomes a difficult place to live. This is David Eagleman with the Inner Cosmos podcast, and for Mental Health Awareness Month, we're dedicating a series to understanding the mind when it's a time. struggles. I'm joined by doctors, researchers, and those with lived experience. We'll talk with singer-songwriter Jewel about anxiety. I started living in my car, and then my car got stolen. I was shoplifting. I was having panic attacks. I was agoraphobic. And making it through hardship. To be present is a learned skill, and it's hard to be present. We'll talk with John Nelson about clinical depression and the brain implant that saved his life. What I learned is,

is the procedure made me happy because I'm disease-free. And we'll talk with leading experts like Judd Brewer about anxiety and John Hirschfield about obsessive-compulsive disorder and the science of how the brain can change. This is a month of deeply personal and honest conversations about what happens when the brain goes off course and what we can do about it. Listen to Inner Cosmos on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Alyssa Lang, this is the Whiskey Thief Song of the Day. One of the greatest songs ever written by one of the greatest musicians of all time. This is it right here.

I cannot believe that you guys pick this song because this song has deep roots within the Lang family. So, huge hooty and the blowfish fan ever since I can remember. riding around the car with my dad. He says, now I don't remember this, I remember listening to this song a lot, but I don't remember this. He said that when I was three, four years old, that I was in the car.

This song came on, and I thought the lyrics were, hold my ham, as in the lunchmeet, jelly meat, ham, and that I would belt the lyrics, hold my ham out in the car, which guy checks out,

because I'm a big foodie. If you see me at any point during the day, I'm probably eating something. And then it kind of was poetic when we went on our tour of colleges. We found out that Hooty and the Blowfish kind of originated at South Carolina. And we had no connections to the university prior to me going there. My dad said, I think this is actually poetic that this was sort of our song. And that will probably be the song that my dad and I danced to at my wedding.

So it's just kind of cool. I love that that's our song of the day. Phone lines are open. The Clark's Publish out phone line is 859-8-0-2-287. if you want to call and have a question for Alyssa Lang, who was down at SEC Football Media Days all week. We got Robert up first. So go ahead, Robert.

You're on with Alyssa Lang. Hey, I was wondering if you guys might be able to hook Alyssa up with Kentucky branded so that she can get her some Kentucky blue to replace the Tennessee orange that she wore for the SEC tournament. You know, I know she lives in South Carolina, but I know Tennessee must be a close second. Oh, man. There you go, Alyssa.

Thank you, Robert. Appreciate it. It's extremely fair. I will say I have a shirt after the Levis Mayo Coffee saga that we went through. I have a shirt from, gosh, forgive me for not knowing the name of the store, because I think it's a pretty popular store there in Lexington, and it's escaping me right now. It says the best part of waking up is mayo in your cup, and it is Kentucky Blue,

the T-shirt. I wear it quite often. So, yeah, the SEC baseball tournament, not great packing on my part. I will admit that. I had been on the road for like 14 days, I think at that point. Between the SEC softball tournament, then I went straight up to Bristol to do some studio wraps for softball shows.

Then I literally flew home for 60 minutes to just switch suitcases out and then fly to Hoover. And I always look at the bracket when I'm packing. I don't own a lot of color anyway. I'm usually always wearing black for this exact reason. But sometimes you like to switch it up, especially in the spring and summer months. Black's kind of a hot color to wear when you're, you know, in the middle of a baseball softball field and the sun is beating down on you.

So I'm looking at my side of the bracket. I'm going, all right, I've got the morning and the day session. I don't even have Tennessee on my side of the bracket. I have this shirt that I just got a shipment in from Express. And it's one of the few clean things that I have. It's orange, but I don't even have. to deal with Tennessee, so I'm just going to throw it in. Forgetting that unlike softball, the losers switch sides of the bracket in Hoover.

And I just forgot that small detail when I was backing. Lo and behold, Tennessee loses switches to my side and I'm wearing Tennessee orange on the set. So that's my reasoning for that. Now, you mentioned Will Levis, and you told us you have a good Levis Mark Stoop's story. So since you mentioning, what is that story? Yeah. So we tweeted out that I was going to. do the show today and someone tweeted that they wanted the secrets they wanted the behind the

the scene stuff and i actually told this story to someone at media days this week as well one of my favorite memories from the will levis mark stoop's era was that very first game and i actually pulled up the box score to make sure i could remember what the numbers were it was u lm kentucky and i was on the sidelines for that game in 2021 4510 was the final of that game and of course there was a lot of discussion surrounding the beginning of that game and the beginning of that season as far as, oh, well, Coach Stubes finally has a passing quarterback. You know, it's been a running offense for so long. We're finally going to rip the football, throw the football. So I'm talking to Coach Stoop's on Friday, and this is fresh

off of the banana TikTok that Will Levis has gone viral for over the summer. I brought a banana with me thinking that sometimes those week one games get into a little bit of garbage time. You're looking for things to talk about in the second half and obviously 45. 10. That's the situation we were in. So on Friday, I asked Coach Stubbs, how many yards does Levis have to throw for tomorrow for you to eat banana? Because I actually have an extra one. If you know, you want to do it in the post game interview. And he said, I think 400 yards. I think 400 yards is a magic number. So we get towards the end of the game. We're watching at this point, I have eaten the banana on the sidelines because I think I said, oh, if he hits 300, I'll do it. I'm not just going to do it,

just to do it, right? There has to be something on the line to eat a banana with a peel on it. So I do mine. Will sees it on the sideline. He's laughing. Stoops pulls him at 367 passing yards, just shy of 400. And Will comes off the field. I'm standing just a couple yards back behind the bed. He looks at me and he goes, you know he did that on purpose. So he wouldn't have to eat the banana. He pulled me before I hit 400. And then Bo Allen came in and threw for another 52 yards. So he would have hit it. And it was just one of those things where I have given him, I gave him grief for that for the rest of the season. And Will said again to me when he was running off the field, he, he pulled me so he wouldn't have to eat that banana. He was scared to eat that banana. It remains one of my favorite

dumb college football moments that I've been able to be witnessed to on the sidelines. So that's, that's my Will Levis Mark Soup story from his first year going way back to Banana Gate, if that's what we're calling it. I think we remember following that closely. And we agree. That was all on Mark Stoops, avoiding wanting to eat that banana, which makes me wondering. You know, I thought, I thought that he'd be a guy who would really, you know, embrace it and want to do it. I hope you can hear my sarcasm here, but he was scared. He was scared to eat the banana. He was. That makes me think about I saw in Dallas this week. They had all those, I guess it's just a staged area for photos for every team, got the big light up logo of each team. But then there was a mechanical bull and I see like Shane Beamer on it, riding it around,

all these coaches, but I wondered if Mark Stoops would ever get on it. Did you happen to see Stoops hop on that bull? It's not really in his character to do it. So we're betting against him, but I thought maybe he pulled off the upset and took it for a ride for a photo. You know, I haven't seen the photo yet. And usually the SEC social media squad is really good about posting those as soon as they get them. So that tells me he probably did not get on it.

You know, yesterday we had an interesting assortment of guys that we wondered if they would get on the mechanical bull. Now, I can tell you, I did get on the mechanical bowl. And my head was very close to grazing the top of the ceiling. So I couldn't imagine what that would be like for guys who were a lot taller than me, which is every single football player and coach who were in attendance at media days. But yeah, the picture of Shane didn't look super comfortable on top of the bull.

I can say I was not super comfortable either. But between Stoops, Pitman, and Elko yesterday, I wondered who would be most likely to actually get on top of that thing. And I don't think I've seen, maybe Elko got on it. Maybe I actually saw a picture of him on it. But I'm not sure that Pittman or stoops, that that's their speed. I hope it is because I'd love to see the picture. But I'm not sure that I would bet that they got on that thing.

Well, they always won. Maybe they could do the Peter Burns, Chris Doring, both get on it at the same time, like I saw it from the SEC this morning crew. Those guys are ridiculous. I actually went into that room right when they were done. because I made the mistake a few years ago of going into that room with them. And it's just, it's, it's, it's almost, you, you feel like you shouldn't be watching it, right? Like, you feel like they should be in a room by themselves, you know, with, with,

with just their little, their, their little bromance photo shoot. It's, it's almost like, I, I feel like I'm watching something. I shouldn't be watching with them both sitting on top with the mechanical bull like that together. But they're, they're a special pair. That's for sure. Now, there's a guy that listens to our show and he sits up in the booth with Tom Leach during the broadcast named Corey Price. He kind of, he's the stat guy. He's our swab. He knows everything. And he tweets out, he finds these pictures and tweets out pictures of our guests we have on. He's tweeted out a picture of you doing a one-man band with a football team. Is that a youth football team or a high school football team or something there and you're shooting the camera

doing the interview with something? Have you seen that yet? Yeah, I, I don't know where he found that picture. Honestly, that picture has got to be, let me do some about how old am I? That picture's got to be like 11 or 12 years old at this point. I worked in local news in Columbia before I headed down to Jacksonville for another local news stint and then the SEC network. I want to say that was a high school football pre-state championship event potentially. They were playing the state championship at the time at that stadium. They may still play the South Carolina high school football championship still at that stadium. But no matter what level, all the private schools, 3A, 4A, 5A, they were all there.

And so I think that was a media event beforehand. And it looks like I committed the ultimate cardinal sin that you are not supposed to commit as a sideline reporter, which is giving up the microphone. And in the picture, you can see that I clearly have given up the microphone and I'm just manning the camera and letting the guys interview each other. But looking at the picture, it looks like they're having a good time. So I think I must have gotten some good content out of it. So maybe it was worth it.

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Ryan Drew Shannon, joined by our special guest, Alyssa Lang, today. on this Friday edition of Kentucky Sports Radio. Of course, tonight is the TBT game down at Rupp Arena. 8 o'clock? 8 o'clock. You going? I'm going to try to go, yeah. I'm going to be there.

I'm looking forward to it. I've got a pregame at KS. Barr if you might want to come have a little fun beforehand. Why not? I get fired up to go beat those 305 ballers. Now, I do have 30 high school football players coming to my house for a pool party, Alyssa, as soon as this show is over. I got the senior pool parties at my house. 30 football players.

So I'm hoping they get the hell out. I can go to TBT game tonight, but yeah, I'm sure. What is your, what's your food plan for 30 high school football players? Like, what are you, are you getting food? How do you plan that? The team moms are handling all that. They're going to have like a taco bar, I think, down in the basement. So the team moms doing everything.

I just needed to get the pool ready and get it ready to go. So, yeah, just a little warning to my neighbors. This afternoon, maybe a little rough around my house from my neighbors. Ryan, you don't, you don't trust 30 high school football players. players at your house with you not being there. I mean, you're a little cul-de-sac. Yeah, you could just go to the game. I think it's nothing.

What could happen? Sure. What's the worst that could happen? You guys, take it easy. Have you have a good time. Shannon, who's this segment sponsored by? Shady Ray's. Listen, Alyssa, I don't want you to overpay for sunglasses, okay? So you need to check out Shady Ray's. They're an independent American-owned company that started right here in Kentucky.

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Alyssa, we got like a bunch of questions. I don't even want to talk to you about SEC Football Media Day, but I want to get into maybe more of your career, your profession. You said you started local in Columbia. Now you're the big time with ESPN, the SEC network. You do a lot of the sideline stuff. have you ever had a bad interaction with the coach when you grab them for those like two questions at halftime? Have you had anything where it didn't go well or if something funny happened maybe? Oh, man.

Well, I've had plenty where something's funny happened. I've had plenty where, you know, sometimes the halftime interviews we do, they're not always on camera. So obviously the ones that are, you see those. But typically the coach or team that is down at halftime, and this goes for folks, basketball, really any sport with a halftime break and a halftime report, you're talking with the other coach coming back onto the field and just kind of asking him a couple of questions or her a couple of questions and then you do your hit coming out of half time, just kind of summarizing what they said, if there's any key notes to be aware of coming

into the second half. There was a coach. He is no longer in the SEC as of just a couple of years ago, who coming back on at half tried to run past me because he didn't want to talk to me, I guess. Things were not really going well with his program at the time. He had taken his team on this night to South Carolina, and it was kind of a shocking beatdown on the side of the Gamecocks on this team. And he was just very short with me, wasn't really willing to answer any questions. But at the time, you know, you kind of still relay the information, but kind of clean it up without maybe some of the rudeness that you got in that interaction

when giving that halftime report. But I will say probably the strangest halftime interaction that I had was witnessed by some Kentucky fans. I think this was two years ago. I did a Kentucky at Vanderbilt basketball game. And Kentucky was up at the half. I think it was coming off of a weekend where, and I'd have to go back to the scheduled to check what game this would have been. But I think it was coming off of a disappointing

loss for Kentucky the weekend before. So there was definitely a lot of tension around the program. There was a lot of chatter around what was happening at that point for Coach Cal and the Cats. And I was sitting there waiting for Coach Cal to come over to me. And he looked at me and he walked right past me. And I tried to reach out and kind of grab his shoulder because he knew he had to do an interview. And again, he was up. And typically when a coach is up at half time, they're not, you know, not, they're not unwilling to stop and do the halftime interview. And Coach Cal just was, did not have any intention of stopping and, and giving me that halftime interviewed. It was funny because you kind of make eye contact with the guys who are calling the game.

And so I'm looking across and they're looking at me and they can see when coach comes over to me and they start to go, all right, well, for more on what's going on. And then they see Coach Cal kind of blow by me. and they're kind of like, well, never, never mind. And so I'm kind of standing in it. This has never happened to me before. I have never had a coach just go, nope, and keep walking. And so I'm kind of standing there like deer in the headlights unsure of what to do because I've been sitting here.

I'm waiting for this moment. I've got my questions ready, ready to go. And then you're just kind of standing there like you got stood up on a first date. And I just kind of put my tail between my legs and walk back to my seat. And thankfully, it hasn't happened since with Coach Cal, TBD, if it happens at Arkansas, but it was, that was probably one of the most awkward halftime interactions I have ever had in my career, if we're being honest. Well, he stopped talking to us five years ago.

So welcome to the club. Yeah, welcome to our world. Yeah, and I got a couple texts that night from various Kentucky media or even friends. And they were like, yeah, it's not just you. Don't worry about it. It is not a personal thing. And it's funny because I was going to work this in if it's organic, but I guess I'll make it organic here.

My best friend since childhood buried a Kentucky grad, long line of Kentucky grads a couple years ago. They just gave birth to their first child two days ago. And so she is already coming home from the hospital today in Kentucky Blue. He watches everything. He listens to KSR, maybe not for the past couple days because they've been, you know, a little bit busy and preoccupied with that. But he would text me and he would, he would be like, I'm so sorry.

Just like on behalf of Cal for blowing by me or if Cal maybe was a little bit short in an interview, he'd be like, I'm sorry. I hate that he does it to you. And it was just so funny because it became personal. He's sitting here going, I love Cal and I love Kentucky and I would die for the cats. But now he has like a friend who's getting blown by by Coach Cal. It was sort of a tough transition for him. But I'm excited for Coach Pope,

and I don't think that Coach Pope from what I've heard will ever do that to me. So I can't wait to go back to Rupp for the Pope era. Yeah, I'm sure he won't do it, but you may need a step stool to stand on. That's true. He's a big man. Yeah, so we're very excited about that. All right, we got a lot more to go with the list of laying coming up. We did mention that Shannon the dude's band.

We want to plug it because we need a big crowd out there next Friday night, a week from tonight, KS Bar and Grill. first time Alice Blueground will be playing at KS Bar and Grill, and I can't wait. Yeah, I'm really excited about it. So, yeah, we kind of got a late start on promoting this. We didn't want to talk about it too much yesterday while we were in Lebanon promoting other concerts. But, yeah, one week from tonight, 8 o'clock, free show, you know, there's no cover charge or anything like that. That's right.

I think we're going to set up right there on the patio, kind of facing KS. I hope that our neighbors are okay with that. Have we maybe, you know, giving them the heads up that there's going to be a live rock band there next Friday? night for two or three hours playing? Do they know that? I can talk to Tilted Kilt. Those are my boys. Now, jalapinos and sumo,

maybe we'll send Ryan over. I'll handle to our left. That's my crew. To the right, Ryan, you go knock on those doors. Monique and I talked a little bit about it yesterday. We may just let him surprise him with all of a sudden loud music on Friday. That's a good play, man.

I don't know if that's a good idea. I don't want to have the cops called on us and shut the whole thing down. Yeah, Ryan's got 30 high school kids. to his cul-de-sac without warning anyone. Let's just go ahead and have a concert in our shopping mall, too. All right, phone lines are open. If you got a call for Lisa Lang, ask her about the SEC Football Media Days, ask her about Coach Stoops, ask her about Mark Pope.

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