KSR - 2024-08-14- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: August 14, 2024

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Starting point is 00:04:07 you in a minute. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-7-4-5254 in this edition sponsored by T.J. Smith Law Office, you call T.J. I'll make them pay. It is unpopular opinion day. 859-280-2287. Here, now let me explain what this is before you call. First of all, you are allowed to call with your unpopular opinion. Now, what's an unpopular opinion? An opinion that you believe over 50% of this fan base or the country disagrees with you on. Okay? You can't just give me an opinion that everybody else, like, you know one guy that doesn't agree with you on, right?
Starting point is 00:04:43 So, like, I had somebody write me today and go, my unpopular opinion is that NIL isn't good. Well, that's, you know, come on. Like, that's nice, but a lot of people agree with that. It has to be an unpopular opinion. And it's judgment-free. You can say what you want. We may disagree. but we won't say you're awful.
Starting point is 00:05:00 Couple ground rules. No politics. I don't care and no one else does. And if you call with that, then someone else will respond. And secondly, nothing hateful, like nothing about, you know, race, gender, whatever. Like, none of that stuff. This is supposed to be fun. It's really UK sports and then life as a whole, Ryan.
Starting point is 00:05:18 That's what we're going to do. I've gotten to myself in trouble on this day over the last several years with some of my unpopular opinions. I get pushed back to this day for some of them when we said. What was the one you got pushback for? The Taylor Swift is overrated. Boo. Keenland is overrated. Oh, my goodness.
Starting point is 00:05:34 You still get that one. I still get that. These are kind of, Keenland being overrated is the epitome of an unpopular opinion. Like to say that in Lexington, like that's a pretty strong statement. I said L8 ones are awful. You still get that one. Mitt jillips are awful. Yeah, I still get for this day.
Starting point is 00:05:50 Those are the ones that kind of haunt me. We're all of yours, Kentucky related? You're just attacking our home base here? I like that, though, because it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's Apropos our show. So I like that, Ryan, he tends to stay. Do you have one this year? Yeah, I don't.
Starting point is 00:06:05 Hang on. We'll get to it. Don't, don't hurry everybody yet. I have several as well. I'll wait to share them all. You want one right away? I kind of have levels. I have one that's, I think some people agree with.
Starting point is 00:06:15 I have one that's outrageous and one that's in the middle. All right. So I'll go with a couple of mine. Then we'll do Ryan and then we'll do Drew. Shannon, this is good for Shannon to be out today. Because Shannon does, Shannon really walks the line of, boss's call unpopular opinion. I'll start with my football unpopular opinion.
Starting point is 00:06:33 And I've said this before. This isn't a new opinion. But it feels like every year, members of our fan base grow farther from me on this, whereas I think they should grow closer. I feel like maybe when I said this originally 10 years ago, I was in the majority, and now I'm in the minority on it.
Starting point is 00:06:51 But my football opinion is, what we are in football in the last five years of the Stoops era, we is the best we're ever going to be. And we should just be thankful for it. The idea of about once every four years winning nine games, which, by the way, now would put you in contention for the playoff. Yes. And then most years winning seven, six,
Starting point is 00:07:14 we should be praising the football gods for that happening. Because, A, it hasn't happened most of my life. And B, in the new SEC, it's going to happen. It's even harder to do without Missouri on the schedule every year. I know they're good this year, but without Mississippi State on the schedule every year. So to me, the people who go, when are we going to take the next step? Stoops is mediocre, seven wins every year. I just think it's insanity because I think we're actually living through, if not the glory years of UK football,
Starting point is 00:07:50 we should be pretty happy years, Ryan. I agree with you because it was not that long ago. We were just begging to get to a bowl game, just hoping and praying to get six wins. We used to wear the make Kentucky bowl eligible again. And then we went to just nonstop ball games ever since. They're welcome. So yeah, this is an era of Kentucky football.
Starting point is 00:08:10 We need to enjoy it because. But do you agree with me, Drew, that's becoming a minority opinion, especially as we get younger fans who don't remember us being terrible all the time? Yeah, and no one's been more confident going to Atlanta than me. I even booked a room two years ago ahead of time. But that just seems very unrealistic, especially the way the conference has added a couple teams and getting rid of the divisions.
Starting point is 00:08:32 It's just I love where we are. I'd love to stay here. Maybe you break through one special season ever so often, but I tend to agree with you a little bit on that. Two 10-win seasons in five years. I don't know how many times we're going to have that in our lives. I'm going to be honest with you. I mean, two in five years to me,
Starting point is 00:08:49 we'll look back, I think, and go, well, that was pretty good, right? My second odd popular opinion, I'm going to rank UK teams post-Patino on. And I firmly believe this. This is my ranking of the six best UK teams post-Patino in order. Okay. And by the way, I'm just talking about if you held a tournament and they played,
Starting point is 00:09:12 clearly the teams that win titles are ahead. But if you're just asking me, who was the best? And if they played each other in a season, who would come in first? I would go this order. Number one, 96. I'm still going to take them. I agree. But number two is 2015.
Starting point is 00:09:34 Number three is 1993. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Number four is 2010. Number five is 2003. Yes. And then six is 2020.
Starting point is 00:09:50 in the national championship. So if you're just having me rank, who were the best Kentucky teams, for those of you that try to remember who those teams were, 96, of course, the dominant Kentucky Patino team, 2015, 38 and 1 Cal team, 93 Mashburn team that lost to Travis Ford in the, or excuse me, lost to the Fab Five.
Starting point is 00:10:10 He didn't lose to Travis Ford. He had Travis Ford. 2010, Wall and Cousins, 2003, Bogan's Fitch and all those guys, and then 2012 the title. What do you think of that? I appreciate you giving that 2002-2003 team some respect because to me that was, I would rank them maybe even a little higher.
Starting point is 00:10:27 I thought you'd have John Wall's team maybe number two. I was kind of surprised you had 93 as high as you did. 93, though, was, I mean, think about that final four in 93. Yeah. You had the Fab 5, you had the North Carolina, like, great team and us. And the Fab 5 was the only team that could have beaten that Kentucky team. And it was a Fab 5. I mean, it produced three NBA superstars.
Starting point is 00:10:48 I'm willing to put Kentucky that high. And we lost in overtime, I think, too. But go ahead. That was kind of the first season I have, like, vivid memories of growing up. You know, I remember the Leitner shot the year before, but, I mean, the 93 team is the first one. I really felt that, you know, I can remember a lot of it. But I didn't expect you to have them that high up.
Starting point is 00:11:05 So those are my two. Those are good. I mean, I'm going to do another one later on. Give me yours. I've got one that's going to make some U.K. football fans mad, and I got another that's going to make you mad. All right, doing both. What's the U.K. football one?
Starting point is 00:11:18 We don't know how to tailgate. Our tailgating at UK football is, I know people think they're doing it right, but then you go to these other games and you see it. I think our football tailgate is a lot to be desired. I don't even think that it's controversial. I mean, to be honest with you, since we open this bar, this is a lot more fun than that is. And as much as I love people coming to this bar,
Starting point is 00:11:45 it shouldn't be more fun than being at the game, but it is more fun because Drew our tailgating is not good at UK and a lot of it changed when they changed the parking lot and all that like to be fair they kind of ruined it UK ruined the tailgate scene it's shrinking even more now the orange lot shrinking I'm gonna disagree with the actual setup over there
Starting point is 00:12:04 but I think fans could be better like noon games sometimes it's empty over there there's plenty of concrete around the stadium I mean it was much better before but there's still plenty area to get it done and fans just don't always show up the way they should but I think you hit it there's plenty of concrete It's hot and there's a lot of concrete Whereas like in other stadiums that doesn't eat
Starting point is 00:12:21 There used to be grass over there Right like there used to be places where it was pleasant And it's just not it The new baseball stadium is awesome But that hill, what was that purple lot? That was a fun area to go over to And now they're taking away that area around Farmer Road. What's the one that makes me mad?
Starting point is 00:12:37 I think that Skittles and Starburst and gummy clusters are disgusting. I think they're awful. It came to fight. Yeah. What, disgusting. Disgusting.
Starting point is 00:12:48 Why do you think that you just don't like fruit? I don't like fruity flavor? I don't like candy like that at all. I have never in my life ever one time went in a bar. Do you not like sugar-based candies? No, not at all. So do you not like sugar? I do like sugar.
Starting point is 00:13:05 I just don't like the candy. I'm not a candy guy, and I think those stuff, it's great. They bring them to you. I don't want them. You can have everyone. What candy do you like? If you were to go, you're at a Clark's Pumping Shop and you need some candy what do you buy a snickers or a little debby cake so you just like chocolate but it sounds like
Starting point is 00:13:21 chocolate based can yeah you don't like sugar not at all not at all so that's that's my popular opinion that made me i don't know how i've i've never met a human being that doesn't like sugar base can't like like like like like you don't like skittles no they're disgusting you don't like starbuss airheads jolly ranchers no i have i i've never even wanted them tried them i don't like them. Well, how do you know you don't like him? I've tried them. I've tried them, but I don't want to like retry them, I guess. It's like, go, hey, I'm going to try this today. I'm going to give me a starburst. Wow. That's amazing. You're the only person I've ever heard to have that opinion. Just no sugar-based. Not at all. All right. That's less unpopular than just terrible opinion,
Starting point is 00:14:05 but I'll, okay, I'll take it. All right. Now, Drew, what are you? I'm going to start in levels. This one I think we've talked about before and people, some people will agree with me. But Apparina ice cream is just ice cream. And if you wait in that line, you're ruining your Kentucky basketball experience by giving that line 30 minutes of your life to get the same ice cream you can get all over town. Yeah, I mean, that's going to be a popular. I know I'm not alone in that one, but I still think the majority, seeing those lines would disagree with you're right. I'm not sure. I've thought this before. There is not a food product that exists on earth that would make me stand in a line for 30 minutes. Now, I'll wait at a restaurant for 30 minutes because there's other stuff. can do, right, while you're waiting or what, like, I can do that. But to literally stand in a line where you have to stand there and then walk a step every 30 seconds, you could be serving gold. And I'm not standing in a line for 30 minutes. And you miss so much of the game. Sure, if there was,
Starting point is 00:15:02 you just walk up and get it. Yeah, it's fine. Part of the experience. But even at the TBT game, when they played the Marshall team, Abby got in line. I left and just sat by myself at the first section around the corner. Probably missed an entire half of getting eye. cream at a TBT game. I agree. I feel the same way about the Reds. You know, you go to the Reds games, and if it's a Saturday, all the food lines are long, the beer lines are long. I'm like, you're going to miss two innings of the game. Why are you doing this? I don't get it either. Yeah, so I'm a good one. I'm with you. All right, what is your other one? I have two more basketball ones. Another one, some people already agree with me on KS board where we're sharing some,
Starting point is 00:15:37 but the Harrison Twins get way too much hate for the Wisconsin game. John Caliperi lost that game and Alex Poetters being outloss that game. The Harrison Twins do not deserve. of all the blame that they get. Yeah, I don't think that is. I don't even don't think that's unpopular. Well, there's a lot of people that still wanted Ulyss and Booker in the game. The Harrisons were fine. They're wrong.
Starting point is 00:15:53 I mean, Ulyson Booker, like, maybe you can make an argument for Booker. But I will say, how are you going to take out the guys that were like, you know, the year before they take us to the championship game, we were beating everyone that year. At that moment when we're playing Wisconsin, the Harrison twins are sophomores with nine the NCAA tournament wins. Like, I think you're a lot more, what if you take them out and then you lose? You know? It's not on the back court.
Starting point is 00:16:22 Carl Towns was eating that game. He was seven for 11. He took his last shot with six and a half minutes left to go up four and he never took another shot again because they went to stall ball and they quit feeding Carl. That's why they lost. Yes. They went to stall ball. So respect the Harrison twins.
Starting point is 00:16:36 And I'm a defender of stall ball sometimes. But when you're in the final four, remember that 2015 season, Wisconsin, Duke and Kentucky are three of the seven best offenses of the last 15 years, and they were in the same season of college basketball. When you're playing a team as explosive as that Wisconsin team was, Brian, you can't just hang on to the ball. No, when they pulled it out and played stallball, it just completely killed all of our momentum that they had built up that whole game.
Starting point is 00:17:05 Like you said, Carl, they couldn't stop Carl. Why didn't they just keep feeding Carl? The Harrison's combined for 25 points. Last night, a blown call changed the 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.
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Starting point is 00:21:55 But Cal would do that sometimes at the end of games. All right. So those are ours. We'll do more later. I still have one more. I still have one more. 859-280-2287. We will take your calls.
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Starting point is 00:22:17 Kentucky Sports Radio here at the KS Bar and Grill. Got folks on the phone. We're going to get to it. A lot of people, Ryan, shockingly agree to you agree with you about your sugar-based candies or basing word person writes matt i love you but i don't understand how you eat sugar-based candies it's empty calories at least with chocolate i feel filled up feel filled up i feel feel filled up yeah i got some support uh on social media there that they uh they don't like the sugar-based candies either well another person writes
Starting point is 00:22:46 my unpopular opinion's very clear i hate weddings they're overrated people shouldn't invite people to weddings and people who invite people to destination weddings should be banished from the earth. Wow. It seems harsh. Yeah. Like, but weddings are a lot. And when you ask people to travel to a wedding, you're basically asking them to spend money on your vacation. So that, I mean, I get it.
Starting point is 00:23:14 I don't mind it like this person does, but I understand the thought. Did you see the gallery went viral yesterday for having $450 tickets to go to his wedding? And he's complaining that they got a bunch of people that said no. Their wedding costs $200,000, but he was charging every guest. He was charging the guests. You had to buy a ticket to his wedding even though you're invited. And he was shocked that the majority of his invitees declined. Who would want to do?
Starting point is 00:23:36 How many people would you buy a $450 ticket to their wedding? His logic was you pay for Beyonce tickets and to meet so-and-so in these concerts. Why can't you spend it on your own friends and family for their wedding? Because you're not talented. Yeah. And it's a wedding. Yeah. Take your air fryer and be happy.
Starting point is 00:23:53 If you go see Beyonce, you're seeing a talent. You're just standing up there and writing each other really bad poems. It's $900 a couple just to go to a wedding. That's another thing. I will say, I cringe at 90% of when people write their own vows. Like, I'm not saying they're all bad. Sometimes people, but like it's a little difficult when people write their own vows, you know. I wrote my own, but it was pretty funny.
Starting point is 00:24:18 Our is almost like a stand-up. Corey, my officiant, pretty much. which roasted me instead of doing a ceremony. But you weren't doing the like when I stare into your eyes. I see the beauty of a thousand oceans. Like it's not that. Like that's the stuff that makes me kind of makes me cringe. All right. Who's up first, Rick? Zach is up first. Zach. Hey, Matt. I'm sick of Dan Isle love from older fans in the fan base. I think Dan Isle could not play in the modern era. And it frustrates me so deeply when people ask somebody to make an all-time starting five,
Starting point is 00:24:54 and they leave Dan Isle out, and you could see, like, 60 people over the age of 75. You left Dan Isle out. Listen, I've been watching tape. I've been reading box scores. Yeah. The man was a certified chucker and free throw merchant. He took 30.
Starting point is 00:25:11 He definitely shot a lot. He was a game. Like, yeah, anybody can score 30 when you take 50 shots a game. Like, he's, that. vastly overrated and Julia Frank. That's a very controversial take. I appreciate the call. So his take is,
Starting point is 00:25:27 we don't unlock that door there. His take is that Dan Issel's overrated. Okay, so it all depends on what you mean, right? If the question is, could Dan Issel play today?
Starting point is 00:25:46 I actually think he could, but he wouldn't be the dominant force. He was, but that's not how you can judge older people because I'm of the belief that the vast majority of people who played basketball in the 80s couldn't play today or the 90s couldn't play today like it's just different so I can't I don't think you can just hold him to that standard. First of all the man just came back from the dead so let's put some respect on Dennis's name also he's number one all time in points and rebounding in only three
Starting point is 00:26:15 seasons but the caller is correct that the thing that older folks don't remember is Dan was a ball hulk Like he shot it a lot. He shot it a lot. And a lot of his rebounds were rebounding his own misses at Kentucky. Now, I think he's underrated for what he did in the ABA. He was a great, great player in the ABA. And I think people sometimes forget that. But he did shoot a lot.
Starting point is 00:26:44 Like he was kind of the Archie Goodwin of his day of shooting. It was just a different time, right? Yeah, I think he's in the Denver Nuggets Hall of Fame. He should be. his play when they were in the ABA. So like when I said Sidney McLaughlin was the greatest U.K. athlete of all time, a number of folks got really mad and said, how do you leave out Dan Isle? He shouldn't be.
Starting point is 00:27:07 He's not. Dan Isle was a great basketball player, but Sydney may be one of the best track stars ever. Yeah. Right. Yeah, I agree with you on that. But as far as him being in our basketball Mount Rushmore, I think he's up there over him. Do you put Anthony Davis over him? I put him both side by side.
Starting point is 00:27:25 No, sorry, you can't do that. Does winning matter? Again, love Dan Issel. He didn't win anything. Anything. He didn't even make the elite eight. Oh, did they not? Wow.
Starting point is 00:27:38 I mean, again, I love him, and you could argue if Mike Casey did not get hurt, that team probably would have. But like, we always talk about winning. When we rank Cal players, winning matters to people. They're like, well, we don't put Jamal Murray on the top three because he didn't win. Well, why doesn't that apply to Issell? I think like Drew said, just the fact that he's still the school career scoring leader and rebounding leader. Like you got to think about where would you put Oscar Sheebway in the top Cal players?
Starting point is 00:28:06 If you don't want to put Oscar Sheebway in the top three, then you can't say Isle's the best player of all time. Because Sheebway doesn't have Isle numbers, but Sheebway has better numbers than anyone that Cal had, if you're talking points and rebounds. But you probably don't put him in the top three. Why? Because he didn't win. Well, neither did Isle. And Sheboy's two seasons, rebounding at least, he passed Issel, any of his best seasons. Yeah. So it's just interesting, whatever you think about Oscar, you probably should have similar views about Issel when you're talking about the best player of all time.
Starting point is 00:28:39 Because their careers are kind of similar, even though I think Isle was a better player. Who's up next? David is up next. David, go ahead, David. Welcome back, Matt. Hey, David. What's your unpopular opinion? My unpopular opinion is this.
Starting point is 00:28:56 I think, I, I don't think if Pateo stayed, we would not have won in 1999, national championship. I agree. I think, I think Tubby was the right coach for that team. Yep. And I get, and I'm sick of saying he won with this, Rick Petito's players. Well, let me tell you this. Rick Petiton, Ron Merster, and a bunch of talent in 1990.
Starting point is 00:29:20 And he lost to Arizona. He did, but Derek Anderson got hurt. That's, that is important. But I agree with you, David. and it's nice to hear from you. I'm glad thank you for calling in. Do you agree with that? Do you think Tubby, if Pettino comes back in 98,
Starting point is 00:29:32 he doesn't win the title that Tubby wins? I am deeply, deeply believe that Tubby is the only person that could have won the title with that group of guys. That was not a national championship team, but he found him away for these guys to play together, play above their abilities. Tubby was the right guy. Tubby won that title.
Starting point is 00:29:50 Tubby won. Tubby's best teams were always the teams that were just a little bit less. talented than the other ones because he seemed to be able to get something else out of them, you know? Yeah, I can get behind that one. I've never really considered that, uh, comparing the two of what they would have done with the team, but I, I can, I can get behind that one. Yeah, I think there's, there's certain guys that like, you give them nine. Last night, a blown call changed a game.
Starting point is 00:30:13 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.
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Starting point is 00:32:04 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. quarterback on office blue 42.
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Starting point is 00:33:08 My only concern is what happens in the back. The biggest decisions. If you're going to look at stats and numbers, he has no shot at making this World Cup team. And the truth about the U.S. national team. It wouldn't be a huge surprise if our team ends up in the quarterfinals or potentially a great run into the semifinals.
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Starting point is 00:33:52 Absolutely. Now a redacted amount of years later, we're still joined at the hip. Just a little bit bigger hips, wider. This is a podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey. with all the snacks and drinks. Sidebar. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer?
Starting point is 00:34:09 They had a bogo. Well, then you got it. Do you want a white color or something here? Just a second. Oh, what are y'all doing? Microphones? Are you making a rap album? Oh, I would.
Starting point is 00:34:17 Come on. Could you imagine? I would buy it. Cuts through the defense like a hot knife through sponge cake. That sounds delicious. Oh, you're lucky. I'm not a drug addict. You're lucky I'm not an alcoholic.
Starting point is 00:34:31 You are. You are. I'm not a killer. I love this team, and I'm really. trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh. Listen to soccer moms on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 20% talent player and a bunch of them, that's their thing.
Starting point is 00:34:51 Yeah. And I actually think that's what he's really, really good at. Yeah, Patino would broke those guys down. Tubby came in and immediately lifted him up. You know, Shepard, Edwards, Cameron Mills. I've always said that Zion Coach K team, if you switch up, and give that Duke team to us and our team to Duke, both teams would have been better. Probably so.
Starting point is 00:35:08 Both teams would have been better had they had different coaches for those games. We'll take a break. Be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. I had some good off-air conversations. Yes, we did. We off-air were ranking the biggest jerks in UK history.
Starting point is 00:35:28 We can't do that on there. No, we can't. We had a pretty good top three, though. We had a pretty good list. Did you see the guy in eastern Kentucky who they accidentally left his microphone on during the commercial. I don't know. Have you seen that?
Starting point is 00:35:41 Uh-uh. Yeah, not good. Guy left his microphone on during the high school football preview and said some not kind things about a couple of the teams, but it went out over the end. Oh, no, I haven't seen that yet. Yeah. You've got to be careful. Yes, you do.
Starting point is 00:35:53 Every time we talk during the break, even if it's not something controversial, I'm thinking, I hope this. I know Rick's got us, though. Rick, you're not going to let it go out over there, are you? No problem. I'm on top of it. There you go. 859-9-2-22027.
Starting point is 00:36:05 One person writes, Matt, you all are crazy about it. Yissel could play today. He's Yokic, but just in the old days. Yokich, that's a big comparison. Yolk is pretty good, three-time MVP. But, yeah, I do think it, look, I think Yassel could play now. But I think most old guys could not play it. But it's nothing against them.
Starting point is 00:36:26 It's like if you took Mark Spitz. Mark Spitz won, what, seven gold medals in 1972? He wouldn't even qualify for the Olympics now. That doesn't mean Mark Spitz was not a great swimmer. it just means things have changed. Like it just means things have, like it's a different era now. I mean, Mark Spitz, they didn't even shave their chest back then. We're not taking anything away from what Dan Issel did as a player,
Starting point is 00:36:51 but if you put him in today's world, guys are just. And I know it makes older people mad. And when I'm like 65, I'll probably be sitting there going, Shaquille O'Neill could dominate today's game. Like, I'll do the same thing. But I just, we just saw the Olympics. in every single sport, the world records are in the last few years. Why do we think baseball, basketball, and football are immune from that?
Starting point is 00:37:16 Right. In the 70s, like, Nolan Ryan was like the only guy who consistently threw over 100 miles an hour. Now there's like 25 guys in the major leagues that throw over 100 miles an hour. Like, it's just different, Ryan. Yeah. It was a big deal when Nolan Ryan threw 104, 105 miles an hour. Now it happens daily. And they think that the one, I mean, Hunter Green, Hunter Green throws like 115 times during the game.
Starting point is 00:37:43 You know, it's like, so anyway, who's up next, Rick? Tony is up next. Tony, what's your unpopular opinion? This one I don't like myself, but I think it's true. I've got something else for you all after this, but Kentucky will not play for an SEC championship in football in the, foreseeable future. Why is that? I mean, that may be unpopular, but to me, that's like not even slightly controversial that Kentucky's not going to play for an SEC football championship. I mean, we never have. No, I mean, here's the thing. When you go to the football games
Starting point is 00:38:22 and you're sitting around these people and they're like, oh, we're going to do this. And they're like, no. Yeah, we're not. I mean, we're not. Like, I hope we do, but we're not. And what do People expect. I mean, these other schools, these other schools, their NIL is four times what R is. Oh, RZ. Well, that's a giant difference between basketball and football, too, and basketball. You could recruit two or three great guys. Correct.
Starting point is 00:38:47 You have a great thing. Correct. You know, you're looking at 22 great guys. Totally agree. What's your second? Anyway, I wanted to share with you all. I'm calling this a trick, Texas trifecta. This is your next road trip.
Starting point is 00:38:59 And we got this sun popular opinion day. We got to, guys, keep on topic. But I appreciate it. He's talking about the trip to Texas. But we got to keep on topic. I'm loving these opinions. Yeah, we appreciate the call. Who's next?
Starting point is 00:39:13 Will is up next. Will, what's your opinion? All right, my opinion is that Kentucky should put football towards the forefront and let basketball take a back seat. We've had a good run. Wow. Okay, now that's an unpopular. opinion, I appreciate the call. His argument, for those of you here that can't hear the calls,
Starting point is 00:39:34 is that, remember I said the other day, schools are probably going to have to choose, do we go to basketball, do we go at football? He says we should kind of let basketball wither and try to become a football school. I love Kentucky football. I mean, I go to every home game. I go to a lot of road games now since Dane's playing. But even, I'm not going to say it needs to supersede basketball at this school. Kentucky was made on, built on basketball. Drew? I love football and I hope we continue to, you know,
Starting point is 00:40:07 pump as much in as we can, but you can't just let basketball wash away. It's traditionally what's been successful here, and I just can't get behind that. Yeah, I mean, I have two major reasons for that. One is the history. This is basketball. Like, we love it.
Starting point is 00:40:25 And you can't just let the greatest basketball program in the history of the sports. just wither on the vine. But the second is a practical one for just what I said. We're not going to be, I don't, if we go all in on football, we're still not going to be as good as most of these places. Because we don't produce a talent. That's the one thing people, just they always skip over.
Starting point is 00:40:48 This state does not produce the talent of the rest of the SEC. The South, just go through the states. Texas produces more players than the state. us, Mississippi does, Louisiana does, Alabama does, Georgia does by a lot, Florida does by a lot, Tennessee does, South Carolina does the Missouri does. We probably produce, I know we produce, no state in the SEC produces less great football players than Kentucky. Mostly that's because of demographics. I mean, if we're being honest, we just don't have as many urban areas and we don't have as many African Americans.
Starting point is 00:41:28 So because of that, we are never going to be able to recruit, and that's why I think they should put a statue up for Vince Mero. Because he has used Ohio and Tennessee as if they're Kentucky. But we produce less talent than any state in the SEC except maybe Oklahoma, but I kind of think they have a lot, too. It's just hard. When you hear that argument, it is amazing that the team was able to win seven games when every other state has a pool of players that can easily pick from, every year. It's just so, so I don't think you don't do basketball because if you don't, we might not be good in anything if we do that and we don't want that during. Yeah, I think that was a little, a little bit of a wild one there. But I like it. I like he's the point. He's throwing it out there.
Starting point is 00:42:12 I think, do you think what do you think is more fun to be good at, football or basketball? Football. The all day experience, the games mean more, you know, you lose a basketball game. You have another one a few days later. You can get right back on track. Football, you only got 12 of them. And if you win a big one like an LSU game, you're talking about that for decades. No, you're right about that. A football win sticks with you more than anything but a final four basketball win. Would you agree? You lose to Duke on November 12th this year.
Starting point is 00:42:41 You have a whole season to fix that. I mean, it stinks in the moment, but it doesn't have a huge impact on the overall. But if you lose a game, you shouldn't in football or if you win a huge win, that really carries a lot of weight. Yeah, you beat Georgia in week three at home. This place is nuts for a month. Yeah. By the way, Georgia's schedule this year, I don't know if you've seen it. They play on the road, Texas, Ole Miss, Alabama, and Kentucky. So, like, we're considered their easy road game. I mean, their schedule on the road is a pretty crazy...
Starting point is 00:43:13 So they're going to come in and overlook us. Hopefully. Hopefully. Who's up next? Patrick is up next. Patrick. Go ahead, Patrick. Hey, good morning. Yeah, my unpopular opinion is I would have been fine. Mitch had let Cal walk in 2019. We had just come off a choke job against Auburn without their best player. And then the year before, we laid an egg against that Kansas State team. We had an easy run to the final four.
Starting point is 00:43:42 And both games, we couldn't end a three. We looked tight. Did you feel that way in 2019 in the moment? I did. And I think the only reason it didn't people were okay with this, because Zion Duke lost all the same day. I agree with that. I feel like if Duke had won the Natty,
Starting point is 00:44:03 there would have been a lot more criticism. I think you're a lot. I think that is completely and totally correct. I might have to go to break, but I appreciate the call. I think that is completely and totally correct. People somehow, the 2019 loss to Auburn, it hurt,
Starting point is 00:44:19 but when Duke lost that next game to Michigan State, it almost didn't hurt quite as much. We were in that bar. We walked over to the hotel lobby. And you almost could kind of feel people are like, well, at least they lost. We were still hurt, but Kentucky fans gathered around that lobby bar to watch Duke go out too, made the drive home a little easier. Made it sting a little less when they lost just a couple hours after Kentucky had lost that game.
Starting point is 00:44:42 If you're, I don't think Mitch, if Cal had left in 2019 to go to UCLA, I don't think fans would have been happy with Mitch. Like, if you're using the approval rating, Cal's approval rating in 2019 was still probably 75 to 80%. Would you agree with that? I think the people that didn't like him were pretty vocal about it, but I still think it was a pretty big minority. Whereas this year, it was more like,
Starting point is 00:45:13 I think his approval rating after we lost to Oakland was probably like 35, maybe. Would you agree with that? That's just a guess. I mean, it's just a guess, but I think. I think you might be low on what it was in 2019. I think he was still pretty much adored at that point. And then I think it might even been lower after Oakland last year. So you kind of have it as more extreme in both of them.
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Starting point is 00:45:49 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.
Starting point is 00:46:11 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 Slic Life 12 and the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. Welcome to my new podcast, Learn the Hardway with me, your host, and your favorite therapist, Kier Games.
Starting point is 00:46:44 And in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, I'm bringing over a decade of my own experience in the mental health field and conversations. with so many incredible guests. I'm talking. Tripp Fontaine, Ryan Clark. Sometimes when we're in the pursuit of the thing, we get so wrapped up in the chase that we don't realize that we are in possession of the thing
Starting point is 00:47:03 and we're still chasing it and we don't know when we've done enough because people scoreboard watch. Life becomes about wins and losses. Steve Burns, Dustin Ross, because you find it important to be a good person while you hear on earth? Are you a good person because you're afraid?
Starting point is 00:47:19 Because that's two different intentions, bro. Absolutely. And that's two different levels of trust. I want you to just really be a good person. Join me, Kear Gaines, is we have real conversations about healing, growth, fatherhood, pressure, and purpose on my new podcast, Learn the Hardway. Open your free iHeartRadio app. Search Learn the Hardway and listen now. What's up, guys? This is Clivert Taylor the Fourth. 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 walks up to me, he goes, hey, ref, my mom wants you to wave at her.
Starting point is 00:47:57 What? Time out. Quarterback on office blue of 42. Hey, rep, my mama want you to wave at her. What? Hey, Ms. Parker. Listen to the Clippers show on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. American soccer is about to explode.
Starting point is 00:48:23 The World Cup is coming. Ramel is sending on to Ernie. I'm Tab Ramos. I'm Tom Boe. On our podcast, Inside American Soccer, you'll get the real storylines. I'm not worried about Policic. I'm not worried about Balagan. I'm not worried about McKinney.
Starting point is 00:48:44 My only concern is what happens in the back. The biggest decisions. If you're going to look at stats and numbers, he has no shot at making this World Cup team. And the truth about the U.S. national team. It wouldn't be a huge surprise if our team ends up in the quarter-fif. Finals are potentially a great run into the semifinals. The World Cup is almost here.
Starting point is 00:49:06 Experience it all with us. Listen, Inside American Soccer with Tom Bogart and Tab Ramos on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcast. Will Ferrell's Big Money Players and IHeart Podcasts presents Soccer Moms. So I'm Leanne. Yeah. This is my best friend, Janet. Hey.
Starting point is 00:49:26 And we have been joined at the hips since high school. Absolutely. Now a redacted amount of years later, we're still joined at the hip, just a little bit bigger hips, wider. a podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey with all the snacks and drink. Sidebar.
Starting point is 00:49:43 Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer? Well, they had a bogo. Well, then you got it. Do you want a white claw or something here? Just take it. What are y'all doing? Microphones? Are you making a rap album? I would buy it. Cutts through the defense like a hot knife through sponge cake.
Starting point is 00:50:01 That sounds delicious. Oh, you're lucky. I'm not a drug addict. You're lucky I'm not an alcoholic. You are. You're lucky. I'm not a killer. I love this team, and I'm really trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh.
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Starting point is 00:50:43 If you're in Louisville, plan on coming out Friday to Oxmoor Mall. We'll take a break. It's Wingsday here at KS. Barr's Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. All right, lots of hot takes coming in on the test machine on unpopular opinion. 772-745-254. One person writes, Matt, here's my unpopular opinion. No player in today's NBA.
Starting point is 00:51:06 in the 80s. It's too physical. They wouldn't be able to handle it. Have you seen LeBron's body? Stop. LeBron, stop. Go look at the bodies of the players who played in the 80s. I wouldn't say they were toned. Okay? I mean, I want you to go look at some of those big white seven-footers that played back then, like your Jack Sigma's. And go tell me if you don't think LeBron, who's like chiseled out of stone, could have handled that. There might be a few little guards you could see. having that conversation, but the league as a whole, I think, would be fine going back in time. I mean, Steph Curry would have to learn to be more physical.
Starting point is 00:51:42 Yeah. But if you could shoot like that, I think you're going to be all right, Ryan. I think you'll be all right. Yeah, there's a lot of still strong physical dudes in the game today that could have played in the 80s for sure. One person writes, Matt, here's my unpopular opinion. Tom Leach is 100 times the announcer Kay Wood was. Whoa. Okay.
Starting point is 00:52:02 Whoa. I think it depends. Tom's great. but Tom announces games the way you do now. But Kaywood announces them the way you did back then. Like you go listen to radio and TV broadcasts from the 70s and 80s. People don't talk as much. They let silence exist.
Starting point is 00:52:21 So if you were to go watch, like go pull up a game from like the 70s and listen to the TV broadcast. There are long extended periods of silence. So Kaywood announced like that, right? Like he was like he'd talk. talk, and he'd let it play out a second. Take a draw from a cigarette. Like that. That's not what people do now.
Starting point is 00:52:41 Tom is like a modern announcer who talks through everything. It's just different. And Tom's strength is when the moment happens, he's the best at it, man. He emphasizes that moment and brings it home like nobody else can't. Tom's like a pro announcer. Kaywood Drew was like a conversationalist. He just was like a dude. It sounded like you were just talking about the game with.
Starting point is 00:53:02 Yeah, you're just sitting there smoking and telling you a little bit about what's That's why they had the long breaks and taking a drag on a Marl. Here's an unpopular opinion. Matt, not trying to be mean, but my unpopular opinion is KSR is overrated. You all have too much sway over the fan base. There needs to be other shows to balance you out. Well, there are other shows. People just don't listen to them.
Starting point is 00:53:26 Can't go make other shows. It's not my fault. It's not my fault people don't listen to those shows. I mean, I'm a big fan of competition, but, you know, the cream rises to the top, true. I can't help it. It's not my fault that the other shows don't do as well. Yeah, and some of the best of the other shows are still our KSR podcast under the umbrella.
Starting point is 00:53:48 And let's also remember that we've created other shows, too. And one of the things I'm proud about is how many people we've given a chance to. You talked about the KSR website podcast, brought on Billy, Billy and Shannon do a show, brought on Mario. You know, we, my goal, my goal is to leave this one day with a lot, giving a lot of people a chance. Maggie, who started with us, is now on the L-EX-18 shows and just got married. So, yeah, who's up next? Tristan is up next. Tristan, what's your unpopular opinion?
Starting point is 00:54:21 Good morning, gentlemen. So I'm not making the Danes argument, so I'm not going that far. But anyway, so my unpopular opinion is that Tim Couch was good. He was at least the second best quarterback of our history, but he was the Will Rogers of our time, of his time, and we don't give Hal Mummy his flowers. Okay, what about that? You think Tim Couch was, if not, overrated, a system quarterback, right?
Starting point is 00:54:45 Tim Couch was phenomenal. He was the right guy at the right time for that system. There's no doubt about it, but he was still as talented as any other quarterback in the country that year. I mean, the short throw, the longthole, whatever you needed, man, he could do it. So I love Tristan, but I got to disagree on that. I disagree with Tristan, too, because you got to remember, Tim Couch was 6'4 with an arm where he could throw it 80 yards.
Starting point is 00:55:07 Like Will Rogers didn't have that arm. I mean, Tim Couch, there's a reason he was the number one pick. Yeah. You know, Tim Couch had an arm and a physique that he still has a physique that's insane. So, Drew, I love Tristan. And I agree with you how Mummy deserves, I mean, how Mummy and Mike Leach changed college football, literally changed it. And Tim Couch was a big part of that.
Starting point is 00:55:28 but I still think if Mike Leach and Hal Mummy don't do what they do if Tim Couch isn't there, right? You know, he was the one to be there. I'll meet him with two out of the three. How Mommy deserves his flowers and the system helped Tim Couch. But when he said Tim Couch is the Will Rogers, that made my blood boil. They shouldn't even be in the same sentence. Yeah. People, you should have seen Tim Couch play high school basketball to talk about what it is.
Starting point is 00:55:52 I mean that. Like, Tim Couch was a great high school basketball player. He could have played. I don't know if he would have been a star at Kentucky, but he could have played at Kentucky, don't you think? Oh, there was a definite sway to try to get him to play and tell how he stepped in and said, no, that ain't happening. I played against him in high school basketball.
Starting point is 00:56:11 You held him to, what, 45 points at one game? 45. Yeah. Didn't get one point more than that. Who's next? Luke, what's your unpopular opinion? Oh, I don't really know how unpopular this is. It might be unpopular, but Andre Woodrow. is the best quarterback in Kentucky football history.
Starting point is 00:56:30 Tim Couch is great, but if you look at numbers and the era, it wasn't like it is now when Andre was playing. You could still jam the receivers. You could still tee off on guys. Andre Woodson had the record for most complete, it's now been broken, but most touchdown passes in the season in the SEC and had the most passes without an interception in the SEC history. Those have both since been broken because of rule changes.
Starting point is 00:56:56 but Andre Woodson was the best quarterback. Okay, I like that. I don't know if it's unpopular or not, but it's a hot take. Let me ask you, Ryan, is Andre Woodson the greatest quarterback in UK history? I don't think he's the greatest. I mean, we have three quarterbacks jerseys hanging in this bar. Andre Woodson, Jared Lorenzen, and Tim Couchts. Those are the top three.
Starting point is 00:57:15 Where Andre falls in that list. You got to throw, even though it's a different time. You got to throw George Bland in there because he's a Hall of Famer. I know it's a long, long time ago, but I do think you have to throw that in. But go ahead. But Andre Woodson, that in that 2007, season he was as good as anybody there's no doubt about it but overall i would probably have i would probably put him third behind couch and jared and then andre oh you'd put jared ahead yeah i think i would but what
Starting point is 00:57:37 about the stat of he didn't throw an interception for like you know he had almost 300 games he had the record 300 some passes without an interception i appreciate the call sir true well we did our quarterback mount rushmore right before you came back and i i was the only one to put wits and ryan so get you get your numbers right uh he's also the all-time touchdown leader for career and single season here. So I'd put couch ahead of him, but Woodson's a very close to on my list. Woodson to me is like the Keith Bogans of UK football. He's always kind of a little bit underrated.
Starting point is 00:58:08 Like everybody acknowledges, everybody acknowledges he's good, but I don't think Bogans is ever on like a top 10 player list, and he should be sometimes. And I don't think Woodson is always, people kind of go couch Lorenzen and skip over him. And he is certainly, whether you think he's second, first, or 30, certainly on that list, right? Yeah, that's a great comparison. Kind of a little under-respected, under-valued what they did when they were here. Yes, I want to give a shout to these ladies right here.
Starting point is 00:58:37 All graduates of Paris high school from 1953 to 1957, they get up and they have lunch together once a month and they came here today. How sweet is that? That's awesome. You know, get yourself friends like that that you're meeting 60 years. later and having and having lunch. We will take a break and come right back. It's Wings Day. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for you.
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