KSR - 2024-07-19- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: July 19, 2024

Alyssa Lang joins Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talking TBT, sideline interviews, and SEC Football Media Days.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Now, here's Matt Jones. All right, welcome back. Hour number two. Ryan, Drew and Shannon, joined by our special guest, Alyssa Lang here today. And I'm already going to give away the Kentucky branded tweet of the day. Okay. I'm only going to give it away because it says, can we go ahead and book Alyssa Lang to host every year. She's killing it. So there you go. That's from Kev Miller.

So we got you're on, you're on the clock. Well, I appreciate that. Y'all are doing the heavy lifting. I am just happy to be along for the ride. So I, I'm so happy to be here genuinely. I do, I do and did feel a little bit bad when Matt Jones put out his tweet and said, okay, who wants to guest host this summer? And I have been kind of been asking Matt for a couple years now. When are you going to have me on KSR? We ran into each other at a derby in, at the Belmont Stakes a couple years ago when I was giving him grief then. When are you going to have me on KSR? And so I publicly kind of called him out in response to that tweet when I said, Matt, please stop making me beg. And so I feel like I sort of backed him into a corner. But you know

what? Squeaky wheel gets the oil and I'm here with you fine folks. So I'm happy that I did it. Now Matt just posted a picture and he's at sea. He's on a a boat. Is he driving the boat? I mean, well, first of all, Alyssa, just to get him on a boat, I think, is pretty big. Not a big water guy. Not a water guy. No. No. And to let somebody else drive the boat, that's pretty big too. But somewhere Matt is on the sea. Wow, are we talking a yacht or a cruise ship? I haven't seen this. It's on his Instagram. He's been posting photos of his entire trip on Instagram. It's really been kind of cool to see these beautiful places he's been and some of the events he's been to. He doesn't even have his floaties on.

Look at him. No white net. Look at the big boy at sea. No floaties. Wow. He's on in a boat somewhere, but he doesn't say where. He says, I'm at sea. It does look nice.

He does look nice. I'm very jealous. Alyssa, have you ever known anybody to get two months off, 10 weeks, get 10 weeks off at a time? Have you ever known anybody that happened? It's so funny because when he tweeted, you know, his kind of goodbye for the summer, hey, I'm out. I'm on my trip. I thought to myself, man, I want to be Matt Jones when I grew up. Amen. I'm at media days this week and everybody, rightfully so, it's the unofficial start to college football season. Rightfully so everyone's going, so you're ready. You're ready for the season to start? And I'm always ready for the season to start. Don't get me wrong.

But it's been a really busy summer for me. A women's college world series to the men's college world series. I've got some other opportunities just within ESPN and just been traveling a lot. And then boom, media days are here. here. I have yet to take a vacation this summer, truly. I did go with my future in-laws up to Ocean City, New Jersey, which I have a lot of things to say, a lot of poor things to say about New Jersey beaches ever since going for the first time. If you want an ad from me, you will not get it. So I can't even count that as a vacation. So I'm sitting here, long story long, going, yeah, I'm ready for football season, but I need to take a trip. And two-month trip? I mean, how do you pack everything in in two months?

You know, it's really going to be tough for him to get the relaxation that he needs within two months of time off. Well, you haven't been vacationing, but you mentioned you've been busy. And I had this as one of the first things I wanted to ask you today because two weeks ago, I turned on ESPN and there was one of the goats, Linda Cohn. They're right there at the sports center desk where she's been since I was a child. But Alyssa Lang was right there next to her. and I thought that was such a cool moment for you.

You even did some hot dog coverage. But what was that like sitting next to Linda Cohn, who really paved the way for women in broadcasting on SportsCenter? She really did. It was surreal. I am kind of glad that it was not my very first sports center, also alongside Linda, because going back to the very first one I did back in May,

I am not kidding. I really didn't even think I could get to this place. But I was so physically nervous before that game started. I felt sick. I felt like I was going to be sick before that first sports center. It's just, it's so surreal, right? Like you said, we all grow up watching it. It feels even being pretty close to the opportunity.

It always felt like out of reach. It's Sports Center. I'm, I'm me. I'm not going to be on Sports Center. And then when it finally happens, I'm sitting here going, oh, my God, this is the pinnacle. This is the dream. And this is why we get into this business to be able to have a shot at doing something like this. So I'm glad I got the first one under my belt before then the hurdle of meeting the goat, Linda Cohn, who was so much lovelier than I could have even imagined in person.

And that, you guys know this from being in media and being around a lot of folks. sometimes veterans who are the status of Linda Cohn aren't always super nice. And especially when a newbie comes in and, oh, they don't know what they're doing. They've only done a couple of shows. Sometimes they're even less nice to somebody in a position like I was coming in into L.A. She was so gracious. She was so helpful, just such a personable individual that it is genuine what you see on TV. Certainly when she's communicating her love.

of hockey and doing these interviews. Sometimes people can turn that on and off, but not Linda. And I just was so, so happy. It was one of those do meet your hero moments. And I was so glad that I got to do that. I was actually texting with her yesterday because I'm hoping that we have an opportunity to do some more coming up together in the future. But I did have that moment.

You mentioned the hot dogs where I'm cheering a hot dog with her before we get into the hot dog eating contest highlight. I'm going, I just am cheers. I just cheers a hot dog. with a Linda freaking cone on sports. I can die now. I can retire now. I'm good to go after this.

So it was really, really cool. You know, a pinch me moment for you. Drew and I are going to have a pinch me moment on Monday because they own the big star Myron Metcalf is actually going to be here in Lexington and host a show with us at KS Bar and Grill.

You got any good Myron stories we can get him on? Another ESPN colleague. I don't have any good Myron stories. I've only kind of talked to him in passing doing various radio, but I will say the Kentucky connections just continue to run deep. Because as I'm sitting here thinking about my sports center experience, there were two Kentucky moments that I sort of had. So going back to the first one in Bristol, I hosted with Michael Eves, huge Kentucky guy,

huge Kentucky fan. Same hometown as Drew, yeah. Same hometown. So we were sitting on the desk. And Michael also, I can't say enough good things about him, too, for it being my first one and me being that nervous. He was so incredibly kind and helpful. And I was kind of saying,

hey, we got a little Wildcat Gamecock connection here on SportsC Center. I think we need to make this happen more often. So I had some sort of close to home in the SEC experiences there with Eves. And then when we were getting ready for that July 4th show in L.A. with Linda, the producer came to me the day before the producer of the Sports Center show and said, how would you feel about eating on television? And I'm kind of thinking, like, does he know sort of my background of some of the things that I have done on television? Maybe he doesn't.

And I said, well, you know, expand because eating on television, I'm like, I'd do that by mistake when we're coming back from a break and I'm getting caught by camera. Like, I might still be jumping on something. He said, well, how do you feel about eating a hot dog on TV? And I said, boy, do I have news for you. I have eaten a banana with appeal on it on TV. I have drank coffee with mayonnaise in it on television. And it was funny because then one of the folks who worked on the show turned around and went, oh my God, that was you.

And it was like all these moments that I feel like I've had with the Kentucky fan base and Kentucky football, all culminated in getting ready for SportsCenter, being like, yeah, I think eating a hot dog on TV is probably going to be pretty easy for me at this point. While we're talking about your career, I've always been interested in, what it's like when you go into a town, you know, you're there for most of the week before a college football game. You're having meetings. Use Lexington's example. Say this Saturday, we're playing Tennessee. What would that look like for you if you're coming in to be the sideline reporter and how to build up to that goes? Yeah. So for my crew, Taylor Zarzer, Matt Stinchcombe and myself, the football is first. The food is second. So we spend all week getting ready for the football part

of it. And that doesn't stop leading up to kickoff. But we are very, very diet. in on what reservations are going to be made across town. And funny story about that side note and keep me honest and cycle back to getting ready for a game in Lexington. I mentioned doing the Bourbon Trail a couple years ago. So we ended up picking up some other friends who kind of live in the area. One of my fiance is college friends and his wife, also big Kentucky fans. They recently moved from Charlotte back up to the area.

So they said, you know, we'll meet you at one of the distilleries. We'll get dinner in Lexington. We ended up staying Saturday before driving back to Cincinnati, where he lived and flying back out of there. And I had been telling our little group, guys, we got to go to Tony's. We have to go to Tony's. We go to Tony's every time we go to Lexington. So I make a reservation a month in advance.

We have the table at Tonys, which as you all know, not always easy to do, especially as you do for the last second. So I've been hyping up Tonys for years to our friends in Charlotte who are going with us, some of the best stake in the SEC. see, I get so much grief from my friends and family for the steak pictures that we post on Friday night around various restaurants. So much grief. So now I'm finally feeling good. I can take my friends to one of these places that I rave to them about every time I come home.

The guy who lives more local to Lexington, part of their friend group goes, yeah, well, there's this other place that's really, I think, a little bit better. And it's kind of down the street from Tony's. It's on the same drag, and I'm digging my heels in at this point. No, no, no, no, we need to go to Tony's. But the group, well, they've known him longer. I'm kind of the newcomer as a significant other of one of the guys in the college group. They end up listening to him. We go to this restaurant, and I actually don't even remember the name of it.

It was good, but it was not Tony's. We get to the end of the meal. The guy who ended up making us pivot from Tony's leans back in his chair and he goes, Yeah, maybe we should have gone to Tony's. And the whole group just jumped on him. And ever since then, no one has questioned my food decisions when we've gone on group trips together. And they're still mad that they haven't gone to Tony's.

One of my favorite places in the SEC. But back to your original question. Usually we fly in Thursday night, but we've spent much of the week, especially since the COVID season, a lot of our meetings are done on Zoom now. So sometimes the away team will want to actually meet on. Zoom on a Tuesday or Wednesday night, which is interesting for us because I've got studio shows throughout the week. So I can't tell you how many times I'm getting to the SEC Network office at 11 a.m. getting ready for our show at 6 or 7. We're putting segments together. I'm writing

scripts. I'm helping make sure what the video that we have is there. And then I'm taking a step into a conference room and doing an hour meeting with the away team of our game that week and kind of juggling a couple of different assignments at one time. Then we'll get in on, like I said, Thursday night, Friday. Usually we go to the home team's facility. So we would go straight to the football facility, meet with Coach Stoops, meet with the coordinators, meet with a couple of players. And that usually takes a couple hours. Sometimes if there's something new to see, they'll walk us around or we'll get to see some things that maybe we hadn't seen since the last time. If there's a facility edition. We'll do our fine bomb hits. We'll tape some things for the Friday night show. If

SEC Nation needs an interview, I'll walk out to the field and do that with Coach Stoops or whoever it is. We'll have our production meeting all day, Friday. It's constantly changing. And I can't tell you how many times we've gotten to 20 minutes before kickoff and we have learned a piece of information that maybe a coach has withheld from us until 20 minutes before kickoff. Maybe something has changed since our Friday meeting that changes the entire course of the show. So truly, it is being like Plato molded all the way up until the red light comes on and we're on the air. And even then sometimes it's changing in a live environment. So a lot goes into those games from the lead-up standpoint. And then obviously once the game

starts, you have no idea what's going to happen from there. So it's a lot of preparation and it never ends. As soon as the game's over, though, for me, that's when it really gets probably to be the most challenging part of my week. especially early in non-conference play. So if I'm in Lexington and they're playing a non-conference opponent, I'm at my game all day, Saturday. I'm dialed into what's happening with this game. Maybe you're seeing some other things from across the country and across the conference,

but not super in depth. I will get on my plane and start going, all right, I got to watch everybody else. I got to watch the other 13, now 15 teams with us having 16 so that I can go back to the studio and talk about all 16 of them if I need to the very next week. So my Sunday is spent watching condensed YouTube versions of games, the games that I devoured and putting it on 2X speed.

So it's a football-packed weekend. But, I mean, it's working for a living. So I'll take it. She is Alyssa Lang, and she's here on Kentucky Sports Radio today. We've got Gary's on the line. We'll get him. We come back after the break. Got a couple of phone lines open.

859-2-80-287. That's a Clark Pubbets Shop phone number, 859-2-80-287. Ryan Drew and Shane with Alyssa Lane. We'll be right back 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.

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like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nass would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He running up the court, licking his fingers while he got the ball. After you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court,

and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. All right, welcome back. Kentucky Sports Radio. Ryan, Drew and Shannon, joined by our special guest, Alyssa Lang from ESPN, the SEC Network. And Alyssa, we're going to, I'm going to give out another Kentucky branded tweet of the day. This one says, Alyssa may be right about the stakes at Tonys, but she ain't had a cheese log until she goes to KS Bar and Grill. Ooh, I have not been to KS Bar and Grill, but I have, I will say one of my other favorites in

Lexington is dad's favorites. Oh, yes. I go there for lunch. So maybe that earns me some browning points as well. Now, we mentioned the big TBT tournament starts tonight. Alyssa and the Kentucky team's got a lot of former Kentucky players on it. We had them all on the show on Wednesday. Drew, who do you think is going to end up being the, well, Nate Sustina scored 38 in the charity game.

That's my answer. Who's the leading score tonight? Looking ahead to tonight's game when we play the 305 ballers, which I can't name anyone. Nate Sistine in these highlights has been looking like prom, Kobe. I'm not exaggerating. I don't know if he's taking it more serious than everyone else.

But what he had, 38 in a scrimmage. When they put out these videos, I feel like I'm just watching Nate Sistine to score all the time. So I'm watching him tonight. That's my MVP pick. As we mentioned,

when we had him on the show earlier this year, he was on the team that got his season cut short by COVID. So he's excited to be back and Rupp, and I think he's a man on a mission. So if Draft Kings has a parlay, You got Nate Sustina as the MVP. I don't think our friends at Draft Kings,

TBT betting, that'd be pretty tough to set some lines. You don't know what kind of shape these guys are in. But if you wanted to bet, go to Draft Kings. Use promo code KSR. I'll set the line tonight at, we'll go Law Familia is a, I'm a little worried, you know, but LaFamilia is a eight and a half point favorite. I mean, listen, they've got, you know, Willie Collie Stein, James Young, Eric Bledso, the Harrison Twins.

I mean, a lot of familiar names are on this team. They're going to play tonight. I was going to say I'm looking up the Ross right now because I don't know how y'all are but when I am in the thick of media days it's like nothing else is going on I have no I don't know I don't know where I am I don't know what time it is I don't know like if there's if there's something happening in my family I don't know about it so I actually since y'all have been talking about it have been reading up on this game tonight and these rosters look awesome I mean if if I were in the area I would be there for this game because

this is incredible is it televised it is on tonight's game is on fs two that's right it might change as they continued other games. But on Wednesday, Ryan and I did a two-hour radio show with the entire team. We had 13 of them in pairs, just each segment. So we got to talk to all of those legends. It was so much fun. Now we're just excited to see what they still have left in those legs in Rupp Arena. I think conditioning will decide how far they go. Conditioning is the key. It's the best interview. It had been so long since we had talked to a lot of them, like a Willie Colley Stein. It's been 10 years. The Harrison Twins. Really, all of the interviews, we hated that the commercial break was cutting us off because the next two were due up. But I'd say Willie was my favorite. Regardless,

UK fans are just excited to see these guys back in Lexington. And I hope they have a long run through the tournament. It's going to be a fun night over there. Now, you had a chance to interview maybe the next Kentucky football superstar. We haven't really got into it yet. But Dion Walker, everybody projects to be maybe one of the best defensive players in the SEC. What was your takeaway from being around him this week? Yeah, you know, I got to chat with him really briefly off camera. It was actually while coach Stoops was up at the podium and he walked over. We have so many great SIDs within the SEC, but Susan Lacks is among the She's the best. The best. Another goat.

So I was, Randall Cobb and I were actually sitting next to each other on the set, both texting slacks. Make sure you come over to the set because she was not with Stoops yesterday. Tony was. And sometimes with the timing, it doesn't always work out that we will actually see each other if I'm strapped to the desk and she's running around with players. So she brought Dion over. He looks good. Man, he looks good. The size that he brings to the table with the speed that he brings to the table, the athleticism. Last year, he was a problem just to think that he could take a step forward under Brad White this year and be even better when it comes to an NFL prospect is just horrifying to think about. And you look at that Kentucky defense. And some of the other names,

Pop Johnson coming over in the transfer portal from Georgia. This is a side of the football that I really wonder is going to cause some problems this year. Brad White is one of the most under talked about defensive coordinators in the country with what he does consistently on that side for Kentucky. The player development with sending guys to the NFL and them being successful at the next level, Dionne Walker is going to be a guy that draft boards, if they're not already, salivating over, will be just because of the measurable standpoint, but I can't wait to see what he puts on tape in 2024.

And another player we were kind of talking about sort of in that same light, but just hoping that this could be the breakout year is J.J. Weaver. We were expecting to really take that step forward in 2023. Can he do it in 2024? And you look at all three phases of that defense. If it is what we expect it to be and if the development is there, that is going to be a really fun group to watch in 2020. this season. But Dionne Walker is going to make himself a lot of money. I don't know if you guys

saw the chain that he was wearing yesterday. It was out of this world, the bear head, because he's a bear. And then Slack said that the bear had a crown on it because his mom calls him king. So that tells me all I need to know about a defensive lineman. Just the language on the chain, he's going to have a big 2024. I cannot wait to see it. Yeah, we're pretty excited about him. Not many people like that exist in the world and Kentucky hasn't had many defensive players like that over time. And also, he just has a great personality. At the end of seasons, you know, guys are flirting with the portal or sending out tweets about playing time. There's just a little drama here and there. Dionne Walker the minute last season ended tweeted like, all right, running it back. I'm Kentucky.

I mean, that's a guy who likes being here. And we just love everything about him. Yeah. And you know, I saw, I think he did an interview with Andy Staples. And I saw that they kind of talked about just his loyalty to Mark Stoops. And, and, you know, like we talked about earlier with kind of the flirtation with Texas A&M and what would end up happening there. I said this on the on the studio show yesterday. We talk a lot about Lane Kippen and what he can do in the portal. But we don't talk, again, we don't talk about Kentucky enough in general. But we don't talk enough about what Mark Stoops does in the portal.

We don't talk enough about the player retaining nine starters, I think, on the defense from last year to this year. I mean, in the age of the portal, that's really difficult to do, to have that kind of carry. over from last season into this season, as well as being able to address some of the needs within the transfer portal as well. So I feel strongly about the fact that we don't give nationally. I'm not, I'm going to say we, not me, because I talk about Coach Stoops in this light all the time. So I'm not putting myself in that category, but I just feel like he doesn't get enough credit for building these teams in the way that he does compared to some other coaches who do it. And yes, I understand that maybe a seven in five season isn't the sexiest two years in a row.

And there's a reason why there's not a lot of offseason chatter there. But I feel like they're just so close with this Stoops formula to putting it together. And I really hope that this year is that step towards some of the momentum that we saw a couple of years ago. That's kind of falling off in the last two seasons. She is Alyssa Lang. She's here to answer your football questions. We got a couple lines open. I want to get some calls on.

And if you want to ask Alyssa about the upcoming season and what she saw on SEC Football Media Days, 859-2802-287, that's a Clark's Puppetchopin-Shoppa. Phone number. You can also hit it up on the avian-glass tech machine, 502-735-36-80. Ryan Drew and Shannon with Alyssa Lang here, taking your calls, Kentucky Sports Radio.

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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 athletes 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 reel. 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 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... They know these kids. This linebacker walks up to me.

He goes, hey, ref, my mom wants you to wave at her. What? Time out. Quarterback on office blue with 42. Hey, ref, my mama want you to wave at her. What? Where's she at? Hey, Ms. Parker.

Listen to the Cliverts show on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. What's up, fam? This Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Tolodom. and our podcast Point Game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what.

He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reid.

has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nass would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He running the court, licking his fingers why he got the ball. Like, after you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball.

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We've got another 30 minutes to go and Gary's been holding for a while. So let's get Gary on to talk. Gary, you're on with Alyssa Lang. Go ahead. Alissa, if Paul Feinbob wanted someone on his show, but the producer didn't, who would win? Oh, Paul Feinbaum every time. I mean, he's the king, right? He says he says he wants Matt on the show, but the producer won't allow it. Oh, see, now you trapped me there with the way you asked that question.

He can be tricking our guest. You know, I don't know. I genuinely, I'm being honest. year. I don't know what the drama is. I know there's some kind of drama between the two parties because I've seen people tweet about it, but I have no idea. Well, originally it was, he said something about the Missouri coach. He was no longer there. Paul did or Matt? And that was the problem. Matt, Matt, Matt did. Matt said something about, yeah, Kwanso Martin. I think it was back in the Kwanso Martin days. Matt and I would host Fombaum in the summer during the college baseball when I think a lot of

lot of ESPN people were off. And there was, I guess maybe it didn't love everything we said. But yeah, we're all friends. Everything's fine. You know, I'll try to get to the bottom of it next time I see Paul. We don't want to put you on the spot with your employers. You don't have to speak on behalf of the show. It's our own problem.

Well, we talk about just a little bit. That Lane Kiffin Paul Feinbaum thing that happened this week, I mean, they're throwing Miley Cyrus under the bus. I mean, do you think that was a lot of show? Or is that a little personal, I think, right there? I will say, oh, I think those two, it's hard to tell. I think those two understand that they make really good TV together, so they kind of, you know, juice it up a little bit.

But it is funny. You know, we talk about all the things that you do in a calendar year. And someone tweeted this at me, we were talking about SportsCenter a few minutes ago. Someone tweeted at me after the first show. They said, well, you host the Paul Feinbaum show. So everything else has to be easier after that, right? Just with the crazy calls that you get and so the crazy stories. So that show is an absolute ride.

And I remember being really intimidated the first time that I guest hosted that show. You were just talking about it during the summer when Paul takes some much needed vacation. I remember thinking nobody's going to call. Nobody's going to want to participate in a show. I'm so nervous. I'm going to feel four hours by myself. I have a blast when I go on that show because it is just as real and raw as it gets, which I always appreciate.

But I'll try to get to the bottom of the Matt Jones situation if I can. And if I can't, then that's tough for me. And to just carry on as it is. We have a question from our KS board from Ms. Taller Thompson. She wants to know if there was like an exact moment or when you knew you wanted to get into sports broadcasting. Oh, that's such a great question. And she does such a great job, too.

I love reading the stories that she puts out for KSR. When I was a kid, college football was kind of my happy place. My parents were always big college football fans. I actually grew up in an ACC household, believe it or not, as crazy as I am for the SEC now. I grew up in a mid to late 90s Virginia Tech Michael Vick household. And that was what helped me fall in love with college football. I looked forward to Saturdays every single week when it was the off season. I watched every off-season show that was on the web.

I collected newspaper clippings. I was just obsessed with college football. I loved everything about it, the pageantry, the excitement, the tailgating. I was a little bit spoiled with the very first team I ever pulled for being Michael Vic led Virginia Tech Huggies who were constantly winning and in the ACC championships and in national championships at the time. And I just remember one day my dad saying, you know, you could do this for a living. If you wanted to, you could talk about this and get paid for it.

And it was just such a novel concept to me at the time because I remember the faces growing up, watching that I looked up to didn't necessarily always look like me. And I think Aaron Andrews was really the only female aside from Susie Colber at the time that I remember watching consistently. But it just never really dawned on me that I could do this until my dad just mentioned that one day. And it kind of just snowballed from there. I started writing for the school paper and I did the morning announcements on TV for the school and got various internships. When I was in high school, I was able to get an internship with the Speed Channel here in Charlotte when I was 16. It was more observational.

But I got to do some writing and practice things. And I just fell in love with it. You get bit by the bug of live sporting events and broadcasting when the light turns on, really trying to make a kind of look at it as art in a way. Your show is a piece of art. and you're trying to make the best show possible alongside your friends and analysts. And it's just adrenaline pumping with the best sport on earth when it comes to college football. So it was sort of a slow burn for me, but I have been a college football fan and a sports fan, really, ever since I can remember any stream of consciousness in my life.

So it's been a long time coming, I think. Let's go back to the Clark's Publishaw phone number. We got BJ up next. Go ahead, BJ. Yeah, what's up, guys? Hey, Alyssa, how are you? Good. How are you? I'm good. I'm a Kentucky basketball fan from New Orleans. I call it a few times. And I also like LSU football, so I was wondering, what is it like working with Roman Harper?

Oh my gosh. Roman is one of my favorite people ever. I did Roman Harper's audition, I think it was, and you just knew immediately that he was going to be a star. Every media days, we always try to compete with each other with who's going to have the coolest suit. He always wins, but we always take a picture anyway, despite him having the coolest suits in the game. But he's the best. Roman is truly one of those people, and I was just telling someone this the other day. Roman is somebody who, if you just met him on the street and you didn't know anything about him, you didn't know anything about his career or his life, you would just think he's just a regular dude who wants to be your friend and wants to have a great time. You'd have no idea that he would have this deep, rich NFL career that he's won

Super Bowls, that he's been as successful as he has been because he's just such a down-to-earth, funny, humble dude. And I love doing shows whenever I can with Roman Harper. He's truly one of my favorites to work with. Got one more from the A Vision Glass text machine for you. It says, how are Kentucky fans when she's on the sidelines at Kroger Field? You get a lot of interaction with them good or bad? Kentucky fans are. are so nice to me. Genuantly, I love this fan base so much. And I don't know if it's because I feel like I became part of the family after the banana eating incident a couple of years ago. I think so. You did. I think he did. I don't think it hurt. I don't think it hurt my relationship with

Kentucky fans. You know, I remember the first Kentucky basketball game I got, the first Kentucky football game I got. I had never really been around Kentucky sports in the way that I am now, obviously always watched as a fan. But like I said, I was in local news in South Carolina and then again in Florida. So I just never really covered them up close. But I'd heard about, I knew about the fan base and I knew about Big Blue Nation. I knew how just insane of an environment basketball season is and the high standards that they hold everybody to. So I was a little bit nervous. But seriously, some of the nicest, most hospitable fans. But that also extends to everyone you work with on the staff, as well, like I said earlier, Coach Stoops truly is one of my favorites because of everything I just said about Roman Harper also applies to coach Stoops.

Down to earth, humble, happy to talk to you, wants to have a human interaction. He's not just trying to wash his hands of you and, you know, move on to the next interview. Everybody that I have come into contact with in the state of Kentucky, whether it's at Rupp, in Nashville at the basketball tournament, at Kroger Field, they're just so genuinely nice, happy to be there. happy to pull for the cats and they're some of the most passionate people that you can meet. So I truly, I'm not trying to suck up when I say this. I love going to Lexington. And I love doing Kentucky sporting events because they just, they are what college sports are supposed to be. Nice. Yep.

A lot of those Kentucky fans, including myself, are packing up the weekend before Thanksgiving and going to Austin, Texas for the debut game there. We'll have to wait to go to Oklahoma. But do you know if you have any of those scheduled yet? Are you looking forward to a couple new cities? You'll be adding to your travels moving forward? Yeah, I'm really excited. You know, I've talked to a lot of fans from various fan bases as well who have said, you know, I have hit every single stadium in the SEC.

And now I get to add two more to my list, you know, whenever my team ends up playing them. So not only am I excited for the new trips, but I also think there will be some new rivalries developed as well, right? With the schedules changing and no divisions, I get a little sad. because as you guys know, we all at the network have our own affiliations and we like to smack talk each other a little bit. And Chris Doring, who also I know is a Kentucky fan-based favorite sometimes. Yeah. He's a Florida guy. He's a very nice guy. Actually, actually, funny story about CD. I just remembered this. So I was talking about my friend who just had a baby this week, a loyal KSR listener, Evan,

he and his wife, my best friend Taylor, they're huge Panther fans here in Charlotte. And they have a tailgating spot. They've got a group that they tailgate with every single Sunday, and it's a blowout. I'm usually traveling back from a game on Sunday, so I rarely get to make the tailgates. But last season, I got to get back on Saturday night,

get a full night sleep, and I said, I'll meet you at the tailgate. Chris Doring was in town from doing the Saturday shows in Charlotte, and he stays on Sunday. for his SEC this morning on Monday, which is on TV here in Charlotte as well. And I said, well, why don't you come to the tailgate with us? When I show up and Evan and his family, like I said, all Kentucky fans realize that I brought Chris Doring, who broke a lot of their hearts decades ago to the tailgate.

It was so funny to watch because he's also been loving on Kentucky so much as a piece. It was sort of a bittersweet interaction as my friend Evan's dad, who like I said, lifelong Kentucky fan bleeds blue. I think they ended up taking a picture together and now I think they're friends. But that's why I say I think he's sort of, you know, become part of maybe a little bit of a friendly rivalry there. But anyway, I was talking about the schedules. Like South Carolina and Florida don't play each other this year.

So that's one of the things that's kind of bittersweet about some of the changes is some of the rivalries that we've become accustomed to within divisions we don't have anymore. but to your point, Kentucky, Texas, hopefully Kentucky OU in the years to come, I'm just so excited about some of the newness that decades from now, we could be talking about, oh, remember when that Kentucky Oklahoma rivalry formed? And, you know, maybe in 2050, it's this big knockdown, dragout Saturday that we all look forward to. I think the prospect of that is really cool. I have a similar Chris Doring story real quick before we go to break. Years ago, Kentucky basketball played at Atlantis and the Bahamas, and we're at

the Cove, the adults only pool. There are Kentucky fans everywhere. We have every cabana, every recliner, everything you can have. We're doing catch chance. And then at some point goes, that's Chris Doring in the pool. He was there on vacation.

And once we realized who that was, we're all interacting with him. And he couldn't have been nicer. It was such a funny siding there, but we had fun playing along with that as a random siding there in the Bahamas. So funny you say that because I was just in the cove a week and a half ago. We went there for two or three days.

We were scouting some potential destination wedding venues, and that is potentially on the list. And I'm sending pictures to Doering, and he's like, oh, I own that place. That's funny. That's funny. And everyone's coming to my cabana, so I can imagine it was a great time. I can vouch for him on that. That was a fun day at the pool.

All right, we got to take one more break. We got one more segment. We'll come back, wrap it up. Phone lines will be open, though. If you want to get on real quick with the list of laying, 8-59-2-80-2-8-7. Ryan, Drew, Shannon, and Alyssa Lange. We'll wrap it up here on Kentucky Sports Radio.

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That's part of the song. Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, Shannon, Shand they do with the list of laying. Phone lines are open. If you want to call, you got it real quick, you need to call right now, 859-280-287. We've talked a lot of football, but Lisa, I have to ask you about basketball because our guys, Reed and Rob actually played against each other last night. Didn't start to 11. I'm old. I couldn't stay up and watch much of it.

But Reed finished with 20. Rob finished with 15. And I did see the highlight he hit a three right in Reed's face. We're so excited about these two guys. What about you for the outsider looking in on Reed and Rob? Yeah, I had such a great time covering them in their short careers. I know that we wish it could have been a little bit longer selfishly, but glibly. glad to see what they're achieving at the next level. I remember getting to a game at some point

this season right after the song had come out. And Tom Hart was the first one who told me about the Reed and Rob song. And I can't say that I'd ever stood on a basketball court at, you know, Tuesday morning listening to a YouTube link of Reed and Rob and Reed and, like, I was like, I was like, dang, this is really catchy. And then the next week, I remember asking him, you know, have you heard the song and they just had the biggest smile on their faces like yeah people played it for us a few times but they were just such a pleasure to not only watch from a basketball perspective but to talk to one of my favorite stories actually i got to tell at the cc tournament i i was talking to reed just about obviously his dad and and that story that had been so well documented throughout reid's entire career and

what his dad meant to kentucky when he was in lexington too and i said well you You must have gone to a lot of SEC tournaments. So over the course of your childhood, not only with dad, but with the family. And he told me a story about a tournament. I think he said it was in Atlanta at the time. And him and his dad had a box and they were watching games all day long. And I guess the box had a couch in it. And he said, we sat down, you know, the last game of the day.

It's a four game day. And it's, as you guys know, a very long day at the SEC tournament. He said they fell asleep. And by the time they woke up, it was two or three in the first. morning and all the lights in the arena were out and nobody was there. So they had to try to find an exit and work their way out of the arena at the time. And I said, how does that happen? How does nobody come in and, you know, sweep up the suite and see that you guys are just asleep there? He said, I have no idea. But, you know, we made our way out of the arena at two, three in the

morning and came back the very next day. So I was one of my favorite fun stories that we got to tell this past year about Reed. Well, they were obviously great crowd favorites, both of those guys, and everybody's very anxious to see how they do, you know, in the NBA. But Reed has been like the darling of the summer league. I mean, he's the, he's the, one of the best players I've ever seen in that summer league. It's so funny, too, because, you know, you talk about the, the measurables and you talk about, you know, build a basketball player. And of all the talented athletes who have come through Kentucky basketball, like, I remember standing next to Oscar Sheboy years ago and being like, man, this kid is just, he's got size, he's got athletic, He was just talking about Roman Harper, and if you walked up to him on the street, you didn't know.

I don't know what you would think if you didn't know what Reed Shepard's basketball career had looked like to this point. If you just met him for the first time, he is just, he checks all the boxes, obviously from a basketball standpoint and what he brings to the floor from a shooting standpoint, just the unbelievable vision and accuracy that he has. but also just from a teammate standpoint, from somebody that the media enjoys talking to, there's no question that he would be a darling of the Summer League and that the NBA and his fan base is going to fall in love with him. But that's honestly one of the best parts about being in the SEC is seeing those guys who you know their pro teams and the pro teams fan bases are going to be buying their jerseys. They're going to be chanting their names on nights that they're in the arena.

And Reed Shepherd is just one of those guys that you know. know is going to have absolutely no problem at the next level from a game standpoint to the rest of the fanfare that comes with being a pro player. And I'm so excited to watch the rest of his career develop. So next year, Alyssa, media days head in Atlanta. That's much closer to Charlotte. Should we just go ahead and pencil you in for the Friday after that all ends? I'm sure you'll just have an easy drive home. No more complications. I love it. Yeah. It's being back in Atlanta from a travel standpoint will definitely be nice because to your point, you can drive from Charlotte. I think it's only three and a half hours or so.

So the last few years that it's been in Atlanta, I've definitely made that drive. And any time I can come on with y'all, I will be here. You let me know. I know there's some rankings and Tom Hart is at the top. I understand that, but I'm trying to dethrone Tom Hart when it comes to BB. There's a misunderstanding there. Tom just won't leave.

Everyone thinks we keep inviting me. He just keeps showing up. It's more on Tom's in than us. But we love everyone over at SEC Network. It makes a lot of sense that Tom just. keeps reappearing rather than, you know, being in. Tom and I have gotten ourselves into some trouble out and about in the SEC and then we show up to the game that we're calling the next day and we look at each other

and we go, yeah, we're not feeling so good, but let's go call a game. I have plenty of Tom Hart stories for the next time. Let's give it up for Alyssa Lane. Good job. We appreciate it. Thank you very much. It been a great week. Myron's in Lexington on Monday.

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