KSR - 2024-08-15- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: August 15, 2024

Matt, Drew and Billy discuss Louisville fans, basketball/football recruiting and old technology.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My alma mater. Who's moving in? Which one of you? All right. Enjoy yourself. Go trancy. Go pioneers. Trancy starting school early, it looks like.

I think UK is the Monday after next. How about that? Go Transylvania. Remember the day? Do you remember the day you moved into college? I do. My mom cried. My mom cried too.

My mom chanted the GPA as she walked out. We had football players helping us move all our stuff. What are you laughing at? Nothing at all. What did you chant? GPA? I had to have a certain GPA to keep my scholarship. And she and Tall's mom, as they walked out the door to leave us,

chanted the GPA that we had to have to keep our scholarships. Wow. I think it was like a high G. It was like a 3.5. And they were like chanting 3.5, 3.5, which is no pressure. 3.5 or you should probably think about not being a lawyer. Well, I was like 3.5 or give it up. Did she remind you that you could do anything you say you mind?

If you don't get a 3.5, you can't do this. So yes, your football players moved you in? Yeah, yeah, that was the thing at Western. They would come help and move all the stuff. So, yeah. That's interesting. Do you remember your first day? I moved in right here at Royal Lexington Apartments.

Fine, fine facility. Fine facility. Room 113, if anyone's ever been in there. Did you live there too, Mario at Royal Lexington? No. It's great place. First night, there was like a courtyard fight and everyone's around the railing, like it was at the Thunderdome or something.

If you've ever, if you've ever been to Royal Lexington, Royal Lexington was like a Spanish bullfight. I love it. In Spain, you know what I'm talking about. In Spain, there are all these towns that have a town square that used to be where they would have bullfights. And it was just like Royal Lexington. The apartments were on the second floor and people could stand out. Royal Lexington was the Thunderdome.

And that was even when I was in college. We couldn't even get a spot on the rail to watch the fight. There were so many people in there. The UK football team would just come in. This is like Circa, Hal Mummy, and just start beating people up, like challenge them to the Thunder. dome and we'd go out there and like, I'd move back tomorrow if they got space. That was the place I lived where

when we moved out, my friends took about 50 pounds of beef and threw it in the ceiling. Remember that story? Not a good eye. Don't do that. And we had to pay a lot of money when we were moving here. No, we were still there. They were throwing away couches. They're like, these have been here for so long. They smell bad.

They're outside by the dumpster. A bunch of idiots in my room. We thought, well, they're still fine. We'll go get them out and bring them into our room. So we had like eight couches that Royal Exile thought were too bad to be there. Royal Exington was not in the best of shape even when I was in school. So like I don't know what it was like. I fully endorse it.

It was when you're. All right. Can we talk for a second about the University of Louisville football fans? We, I think I've, the University of Louisville football fan base is absolutely absurd to me. I mean, let me ask you a question. If you were a Louisville fan, wouldn't you practice? just even a modicum of humility when it comes to, like, I mean, the last five or six years to be a Louisville fan

has not exactly been great. Well, go back far than that, 10-15. Well, they were at least winning then. I mean, they have fallen apart. They, you know, the Kenny Payne era, Scott's tots, all of that. And then last year, you know, Jeff Brom, they feast on a bad schedule.

They're nine and two, and they're hosting Kentucky. And, of course, think, well, here we go. I remember, I mean, they were dancing all week long about what they were going to do to us. In their stadium, am I correct? Wasn't the game in their stadium? The game was in their stadium.

And I think they got up early, right? Like 17 to 7 or something. Yeah, we let them have a little fun. It was nice. It was kind of like tease them a little bit. And then Barry and Brown, I think he ran one back. J.J. Weaver with big turnovers. J.J. Weaver turnovers.

And next thing you know, we beat their nine and two team on their home field. They then proceed to go lose to, like, a group of guys just hanging out at Florida State. Right? You're not joking. I mean, like, literally, Florida State was in the ACC championship game, and they were just, like, on the street, going, would you like to play? And then those guys beat Louisville.

And then they went and lost the holiday bowl. So if all of that happens, there's a certain level of humility I would have expected Louisville to have. Like right now, I'm not talking trash about basketball. We lost to Oakland. Two years ago, we lost to St. Peter's. Like, I can't go up to a Yukon fan and be like, want some? You want some? Got to look in the mirror a little.

Golki graduated. We ain't scared now. Like, I can't say anything. We lost. But Louisville fans, who have lost against us for five straight years, six of seven. Six of seven. Are somehow trying to act like that they are the 85 bears.

You know, a lot of Louisville fans wrote me and said, you know, you're in a relevant football program. What do you think you are? Like, I'm not saying Kentucky football is relevant in the big picture. But does anyone on earth think about Louisville football? Seriously, besides the parents and the Brom family, like, does anyone, if you ever heard a national conversation about Louisville football, They've had one relevant game in my lifetime,

and that's when they missed that cake against Rutgers 15 years ago. They won a Sugar Bowl, beat Florida. So did Wake Forest. Lamar had him on the map while he was there, but that was Lamar. They play in an easier conference. Good for you. Like they'll go, we go nine and two in our conference. You go, br, blah, right.

Okay, you know what? Raceland High School went undefeated. Do you think that they can beat the 49ers because they went undefeated? No offense to Raceland. They're actually good. But like, shout out, race. you know, there's different levels. If Louisville played our schedule this year, how many games, do you think they're winning at Texas?

No. You think they're winning at Old Miss? No. You think they're beating Georgia? No. You think they're winning at Tennessee? No. So what are you talking about?

We can beat Boston College. We can beat Syracuse. So now you're going to come into our stadium. We beat you at your stadium. We're going to win. And if we don't win, it'll be a football. fluke because we've won five straight years. So this one dude wrote me, and I know

you're like, Matt, well, you shouldn't just focus on one guy. But like the Louisville fans, you know, they get in your messages. And he wrote me and he goes, we're better than we are last year. We have two first round picks, Matt. How many do you have? And I thought, I don't remember hearing of any first round picks for Louisville. I mean, we have one for sure in Dion Walker.

Yeah. And then Maxwell Harrison's probably on the. border, but he'll be considered, but I'm like, hmm, I don't think I've read about a Louisville first round pick. So I went on a website that compiles all the mock drafts and ranks them after putting them all together. I start scrolling down for Louisville players. I'm like, I'm sure I'm going to hit one here. First round, right? Yeah, first round. I go down 15, 20, 25, 30. Keeps scrolling. Keep scrolling.

Get one at 79. That's not the first round. Okay. All right, fair enough. But he had written me that so-and-so Riley is unanimous first-round pick. He ain't the guy at 79. Keeps scrolling. Scrolling.

125, there he is. And it says the highest projection in any mock draft is 70th. So, you know, I'm sitting there waiting for this meeting. him back and I go, hey man, before you start saying numbers, check this website. And he responds, that's a stupid website. And he said mock drafts don't mean anything. And his name was like, Brom in your eye 37. And I'm like, so I'm not supposed to listen to ESPN's mock draft, but I listen to Brom in your

eye 37's mock draft. That to me is the epitome of what a Louisville fan is. Facts, be damned. results be damned. These teams have played each other. Feelings are what matter. And so, Drew, I can't wait until Thanksgiving weekend. When they come in probably eight and three or nine and two, we beat them again, and then they go, wait till next year, wait till Brom gets his players in here.

I can't wait. I actually admire their confidence. It's pretty crazy. Even in basketball the last couple years, I know they're going to be better with Kelsey, but they already have themselves in the final four. upcoming season. Kenny won those games. You remember that shirt? Kenny won those games.

I saw one of their anonymous Twitter accounts. We're comparing Kentucky's schedule and Louisville's schedule about how they won, bigger margin of victory. It's like, but they played each other. At the end of the year, you're leaving that out. They actually met on the field and played. They'll be like, okay, we beat Miami when you lost to South Carolina. We played each other.

It wasn't just a one-off. We play every year. At your stadium. I would ask him why they kicked to Barry on Brown. Y'all figure that out first. And then they'll go, well, we don't won if Jake Plummer didn't fumble it. Yeah, you know what? You would have won if you had no bad plays and you had all good plays.

You're right. You would have won. Yeah, I like the they change the rules of the game. Well, let's not think about turnovers. If you take out turnovers, we would want. If you take out football, turnovers are a big part of it. If you take out the times you all scored inside the 20, we would have won. Like, Billy, they're ridiculous.

It's a vicious cycle when the. the off season is the highlight of the year, and it feels like that's what it is for Louisville fans, but can you blame them when they win, what, 12 games and two years for the basketball program? They got to latch on to something. Kenny won those games. Like, Kenny won, they literally produced shirts that said Kenny won those games. I really don't know how they get up in the morning and keep doing this, because it's been years of this false confidence.

I enjoy it. I love it. I like beating them at the end of the regular season. I mean, I remember. It's impressive that they keep doing this. I remember, somebody sent me this when I, I was in Europe. Captain Suntan, who I didn't know still existed. I mean, I'm glad he exists because I want the best for everyone. But I didn't know Captain Suntan was like still a thing.

He put out before the TBT game, this is more important than any regular college basketball game between these teams because it represents the whole of the program. First of all, what? What are you talking about? And secondly, we won that one too. Before that game, I saw someone tweet, finally we can settle the Kentucky 2012 versus 2013 Louisville debate. It's like, no. No.

One of our guys is in the Olympics. We got 29 people in the NBA who can't participate in the TBT. Here's what Louisville fans should recognize. How many dudes we got in the NBA, 45? Like half the entire league, it feels like. I actually made this list. So here's what it is. You take away our best

25 players and then we still beat you. You play your best guys. We let our 25 best guys like take showers in their money and then the next group will still beat you

on your floor when you have 75% of the crowd. And then you will spit on us on the way out and randomly punch. Drew for no reason. Before tip off, that was their biggest game. This is so important. Ten minutes after the game ended, why didn't matter. I was an exhibition. Who cares?

So again, what matters? It's like I used to say about Cal when Cal would go, you know, all that matters is March. And then when we lose in March, he'd go, we'll think about what a great season we had. And I'm like, what matters? If March doesn't matter, and then in March, you can't judge the season on that. What matters? That's what I would ask to Louisville fans. What matters? Because clearly it's not the games. No, I'm sure it's eating him up inside. That's why they have this anger in the offseason.

Brom's my guy, man. I loved him at Western, and I hate to see him at Louisville and the success that he's having, but it hasn't been recent against Kentucky. When people say Brom, because I know Nick Rouse is related to him and all that. Like, what? I'm sure he's a wonderful guy. I don't take any sports personally. I'm sure all of these Louisville people are fine human beings,

with the exception of my Bobby Petrito. I had a few. But, like, why is he so good? great. Brum? Yeah, I mean, like, I know his brother, Greg, and I really like Greg. I worked with him, but, like, I don't know Jeff. What makes him so great?

Genuine, straightforward. Okay. Doesn't hold himself above anybody else as a young student reporter back at the college Heights. He was nice to you. Yeah, yeah, that's what it is. So basically it was nice to you when you were. Trick play offense, back-to-back conference championships with Western.

I mean, it was the glory days. Are you enjoying, by the way, hard knocks with your Western quarterback on there? They give him a lot of attention. Absolutely. Got a level of a little lost. Reed, even though he sat out the bowl game. I like watching his parents. They get into it.

Yeah. That was cool. Did you know Billy's band from Western Kentucky Football Media Day? I learned that at our Media Day. Wait a minute, you're banned from Western Kentucky? Back in the day. Hang on, save it for just a second. I need to explore this.

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Welcome back, Tegi Sports Radio here at KS Bar and Grill. Come on out, have lunch, see us, dance with Billy. I want to go to the phones. But first, you got banned from Western Media Day? I did. I had a show. I was maybe like the Matt Jones of Western Kentucky back then as a student, Red Tow Radio.

We were the official partners. Let's slow down, Billy. With the athletic department. The Matt Jones of Western Kentucky. You're going to call yourself that? Yeah. All right, whatever. Go ahead.

That's the part of you that's like it's the Matt and Billy show on the post game. But go ahead. And I made some comments about the possible, incoming head coach Mike Sanford. I didn't think it would be a good hire. He went four and eight at Notre Dame with Deshaun Kaiser. We had a great candidate in-house and Tony Levine. Let's keep the train rolling.

Verbatim, that was the tweet I sent. I was supposed to be the first interview of Mike Sanford when he got hired when he walked off the podium. And I wasn't allowed into the building. They had banned me. They had talked to my bosses for six months. Wow. Well, I mean, I've been there. I know what that's like.

So maybe you were more like me than I realized. Well, I'm glad things have worked out for you now. Oh, it has. By the way, did you feel like the summer went well with me gone? You were kind of in charge of managing everything. How do you think you did? I did. I thought it went great.

I wish Tom would have told us his vacation schedule maybe a little bit sooner than he did. But we did had a couple of guests canceled, but we just, you know, found somebody else next man out. Who canceled? I don't know that I ever heard. Peter Burns canceled pretty early on maybe a day or two before the show, and we had Jeff Bucoro on. And it was good timing because UK baseball was doing it. So Peter Burns canceled. Yes.

I didn't know that. I'm not to give me my hard time. We got thrown off with our Fourth of July schedule that week, and I'll give Billy credit. He was quick to book guests right away to fill those days. Well, you did a good job. I thank you, Billy. Who's up next, Rick? Terry is up next.

Terry, go ahead, Terry. Yeah. On the KS board, there's a lot of angst amongst the fans of Pope getting Jasper Johnson and a couple of these other local guys. I think people have to be conditioned to, and I'm no officiantado on Mark Pope's recruiting. But I think he's going to recruit different than Cal and the fact that he's going to get basketball players that are coachable instead of just going to get the best athlete. I think we have to condition ourselves to realize that's probably the way it's going to happen. He wants retention more than the one and done.

And I believe we just need to brace ourselves. Terry, I think you're right about that. I do think you're right about that big picture. Like we can't just look at the recruiting rankings and say, oh, where is this guy ranked? Generally, I think you're totally right. When it comes to Malachi Moreno and Jasper Johnson, though, he clearly wants both those guys, right? Like, he wants them. They've gone after them.

They're in state. Like, they want those guys. So I think if you don't get them, the questions are fair because, like, that's a guy. I agree with you in general. but with those two guys in particular, I think that it's fair. Now, Malachi Moreno, for people who don't know, is announcing during our show tomorrow at Great Crossing High School.

I wish it was not tomorrow because we're going to be at Shady Ray's, and I would have gone. We would have done the show at the school, but we can't now, but it will happen during our show. So you will find out, we will give you the info as soon as it happens. And then Jasper Johnson just go on KS Board, and, you know, there's some news there. But Terry, you know what I mean?

I agree with you in general, but on these two kids, I don't think that totally applies. Okay, but obviously if he's announcing tomorrow, then we're halfway home on those two guys. But in my other thing, he could pick Indiana. I think he's going to pick Kentucky. But like, just because he's picking tomorrow, it doesn't mean it's Kentucky, although I do think that's where he goes. But go ahead. Okay.

Football, I don't want anybody to be hurt. But I am excited these first two games, because I think finally we'll play that dink and dunk a little bit where we'll be throwing the ball more instead of trying to take 30 seconds off the play clock and get I think you're going to see a lot of exciting and we'll probably score about 45-50 points against Southern Miss and I'll hang up and listen I agree I think that it will be exciting Drew because they're going to have to throw the ball a lot and we'll get to see it in the Southern Miss game you know normally I think they try to hide stuff in the first game

until they play a good one. I don't think they're going to be able to do that because I think they're going to have to, like, prepare. If Chip is not in the South Carolina game, they're going to have to prepare to how they're going to play against them. So I think you're going to see whatever we are, I think you're going to see it in that first game.

Yeah, and I think with Chip out, I already thought we're going to see more of this anyway, but I think we're going to see Barryon Brown getting the ball a lot more and little short passes, reverses. They've got Macklin who is looking like a star. We keep talking about Dane and Barryon Brown. Macklin is right up there with them. I don't know if he saw a highlight earlier this week.

But, you know, last year they were throwing a deep to bury on a lot. Sometimes it ended up out of bounds. He wouldn't catch it. I think they're going to be getting it in his hands right away on screens and working him into a little more versatile in the receiver. Traditionally, Kentucky has struggled in the first game. I mean, you know, we have, you know, a bunch of times. We've, like, gone to third quarter and it was, you know, fourth quarter and it was close. I hope that doesn't happen.

I don't think Southern Miss is good, are they? We're like a 26-point favorite. I think they were pretty bad, I think, the last couple of years. Does Brock Vandergris? have come out with a cell phone clip on his belt. That is going to be what I'll be looking for. I hope so. You know, we've never had a quarterback in my life that I know less about than Brian DeGryf.

He fishes. He has a cell phone clip and he doesn't cuss. He dresses like Cash Daniel. That's all I know. He says Fudge when he gets mad. Yeah. I mean, I want to have him on the show because I just don't know anything about him. I hope we can do it before the season.

What's next? Dan is next. Dan, go ahead, Dan. Dan. I ain't know Dan. You got anybody else, Rick? I've got the pole up next. Oh, go ahead, Po.

Hey, guys. How you doing today? Good. What's up? You talked about earlier, Matt, about Kentucky not being in the top five in football and a lot of categories. But at least they are relevant now. I agree. I agree.

Not bottom of the pack. Totally agree. Totally agree. Yeah. Yeah. And got an elite defense which can carry you, you know. and I was barring injuries, but that's that. But I want to talk about Kentucky basketball players in the last 10, 12 years.

I wonder how many would have done a lot better if they'd stayed more than one year. Well, I mean, probably a lot, but you know what? That's not how you judge it. I appreciate the call. I mean, ultimately, probably every single player at Kentucky would have been better the next year than he was the year he was here. But the question is, is it worth the risk of injury, et cetera, with your draft status?

That's what it is now. But everybody would have been better. I mean, I can't think of any. How many players in Kentucky history have gotten worse, staying longer? Not many. There are a few, but not many, Drew. There's been a few unfortunate circumstances where guys come back and gotten heard or not taking that next step.

But, yeah, there hasn't been many. Well, if they stay, then you may not get those other guys that would come in. That's another important thing to remember. If these guys came back, some of the dudes that came wouldn't have come because they wouldn't have been able to play. Right? So if you knew, you know, if Tyler Ullis, you know, comes back, does De Aaron Fox come? Right?

I mean, like, you have to think about stuff like that. If De Aaron Fox comes back, does Shea Gilgesa Alexander come? You can do that with a lot of guys. If Wall comes back, night's not coming. So, like, you know, part of the reason we had so many is because, guys actually left and left them a spot open to play. 859-280-2-807. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's KSI.

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here at KS Bar and Grill, where folks coming in, eating lunch, partying, doing their thing. I mean, I don't know. There's a lot of partying, but Drew and Billy. Drew and Billy here. Billy, you think I need a new phone? Is that right? Maybe not the phone, but about time for a new screen protector there.

It's peeling off. It's cracked. It's got dirt in it. What happened? A lot of walking in Europe. So this is an iPhone 14. Yes. What iPhone are we on right now?

15. I got 15 Pro right here. But I mean, what's the newest is 16? It will be coming out later this year. So why can't I just keep an eye off this one? I have a 12th, so you're way more of it than me. You can keep it, but, I mean, I've heard that they slow down old phones. What do you mean you've heard?

Like, is it not common knowledge that? Heard from who? Apple slows down old phones. Is that true? I mean, I think it is. What do you base that on? Just years of hearing the same thing over and over again. From who?

I don't know. I don't know. The news, I guess. It's a fact. It's a fact. As an owner of the company, I have. So you're saying Apple, like, there was a big, they had to pay out a lot of money. It was like half a billion dollars.

When you say they slow them down, what do they do? To intentionally sell more. But how do they do it? How do they do it? They just go, they probably, I'm talking out of, I wasn't on the last shareholders' meetings, so they could have addressed this. Okay. But I think when you would update it, they'd load it with stuff.

They knew it couldn't handle. Okay, so when you would need to buy the next model. All right, I got that. But they had to pay it. I'll pay out a lot of money for that. But don't you think, like, you just said, Billy, you heard. Yeah. I mean, can I tell you one of the things that frustrates me?

Yeah, sure. Is how people just now believe anything. And I'm not saying you're wrong about this. You may be right. I don't know why this bothered me so much, but, you know, I love the Australian break dance, right? I loved her, like, flinging on the floor and all that stuff. And then yesterday, I just kept seeing everyone people writing, there's a big controversy about the Australian breakdown.

answer, you know, there's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I tried to trace it to its origin. And it turned out there was one tweet from like a random account that said all of this stuff. And people just took it as fact. They just took it as fact and then just ran with it. And then the Australian whatever came out this morning with a statement that said none of that was true.

Yeah. When I get on Facebook, it is everybody I went to high school with just posting things that are completely false. and being outraged by it. And it'll just be like a picture that somebody put up. And I go, I mean, don't you want to have some verification before you believe things, Drew? Or just no? It doesn't matter.

Now everything's true. Ask the Algerian boxer who's suing everybody for cyberbullying. I mean, believe me. I don't care what you think about the Algerian boxer. Please don't write me about it. I don't care what you think. But nevertheless, that's a perfect example of everyone just believed something and then just went with. I think we're so doomed.

We have, I was looking at this the other day. I was talking about this because I saw a YouTube video. It looks like a person talking, but it's actually AI. You can't tell a difference. We're done. In three years, we're not going to know. Well, a lot of people already don't know. They fall for memes that are obvious.

But we are so close to not knowing what on the internet is real and what's not. Yeah, that's a whole other can of worms, the AI thing. And Twitter has gotten really bad at this. Well, Twitter's the worst. I'm going to make a prediction. This is going to be the last presidential election Twitter exists. That's my prediction. I want you to write this down.

It's my hot take. Don't film it. I don't need people. I don't need trolls yelling at me on Twitter. I don't want. By the 2028 election, it doesn't exist because he shuts it down because it's losing too much money. That's my prediction. I'm going on record.

I'm serious. Because it is unusable now in some ways. Like, when I have a post go viral, take a second and look at the replies. Obviously, there's people getting angry. But there's like porn. that just shows up in my replies. And it's like, you don't have any way of stopping this? Yeah, that, I mean, it has become the Wild West.

I see someone die on Twitter about every day. I don't want to. It's like, watch this car wreck, and it happens before I can even scroll past it. I mean, just, and then, you know, like, I'm going to make you bet. By the 28 presidential election, it will not exist. What about truth social? Do you think that survives still 208? I didn't know it existed now.

No, I mean, this is my prediction about the true social. It'll combine with Twitter probably before the election. That's my, write this down. True social will combine with Twitter so that Trump can be back on Twitter without losing his face. You remember I said that. Okay. That's my prediction. I can't even get on Facebook because I'll see someone share something and it's so obvious it's fake.

And they're like, look at this. And they're look at you. Tell that's not real. And they're so angry about something that is not even. real, but nevertheless. Who's next? Sean is up next. Sean, go ahead, Sean.

Hey, you said you got foreign in your replies on your post? Yeah, well, it's like auto generated. It's like just random thing. I mean, I don't put it. He's running straight to your post. Which one? It's only when a tweet gets like really

viral, but when it does, you get crypto bots and you get all this stuff that just randomly shows up in your replies. Yep. I got two quick ones. First, Cal, if everything goes to, you know what, this year for Cal, does his legacy somehow get tarnished? And like, does he kind of like crawl out of the, you know, crawl away and go somewhere else?

No, no, I mean, let me answer the first part of that question. If Cal does not succeed in Arkansas, it will not change the fact that he was a great coach. He's still a Hall of Famer. Like there's a lot of coaches that try to have one final stop and it just doesn't really work out. Like that tubby was at high point, you know, like, I mean, there are coaches that have one final. So in my opinion, Drew, even if he fails, people will still think of him as a great coach and is one who produced a ton of NBA players. Now, if he succeeds and wins a title, then you're kind of looking like the Tom Brady thing

where you were able to go to Tampa Bay and win. I don't think that's going to happen. but I don't think it ruins his legacy if he doesn't win. If he fails, he's still a Hall of Fame coach, but I do think it'll be a sad ending because I think it'll kind of show not being able to adjust. And as I said when he was here, the people around him, trusting the wrong people, I think that'd be a sad ending for what was a good career. Had he never won before Kentucky, then I think it would have hurt his legacy

because you would say, well, he just won because he was at Kentucky. But he won at Memphis. He won at UMass. Took UMass from nothing. Yeah, I think his legacy if he doesn't win at Arkansas was, he was too stubborn and he didn't adjust with the times, but it will not change the fact that he was a great coach in his prime. Go ahead.

Got it. Are you guys coming to Austin for the football game? Depends. I appreciate the call. For me, it's probably going to depend on how good we are. If we're competitive at the end of the year, then I'm going to go to Austin for the football game. If we're not, then I don't know because we've got a lot of stuff going on.

We're going to do our road trip two weeks after that. Thanksgiving, the Louisville game. There's basketball. So, like, I'm going to go if it's going to be. be competitive, Drew. If I don't think it is, then I probably won't. I'm in there. I'm already booked looking forward to it, and there's even a basketball game the night before. We're going to have a little get-together in Austin to watch it. So you have Kentucky. You have Kentucky bat. The Rockets and Reed Shepard play on Thursday in Houston.

Kentucky plays a basketball game on Friday. The Kentucky plays Texas in football on Saturday, and then Will Levis plays at the Texans on Sunday. Wow. So, I mean, that's a heck of a weekend of UK-affiliated Billy events all in the Houston area. I mean, the UK basketball game on Friday is not in Houston, but they still play Friday. It's Jackson State. Not a huge game, but something to watch. Well, yeah, I mean, a lot of people plan their vacations long going to Nashville for the SEC tournament.

Why not do this? And Houston and Austin, for people who don't know, they're not that far apart. Probably an hour and a half, something like that. I mean, it's not a terrible drive. We need to coordinate a bus effort. I know lots of different people renting cars. I think the Titans people all need to get on one page. That can be a heck of a weekend, especially after we beat Texas.

Yeah. But back to the Cal thing for a minute. Let's say he's at Arkansas, doesn't succeed, and let's say he's there two years. I think it will be remembered like Patrick Ewing playing for the magic. I forgot that happened. No, I mean, you do because you don't think of Patrick Ewing playing for the magic. You think of him with the Knicks. Nobody goes, well, his career was ruined because he played.

I mean, people forget Shaq playing. played for the Celtics. And the sons and the Cavs. Does anybody remember him with the Celtics? Like some of those guys have that last moment. If he, I don't think, by the way, I think Cal's going to do better than that. But if he were to completely bomb, then I think that's how it would be looked at, Billy. Older people talk about Willie Mays playing center field for the Mets, that kind of thing.

I don't remember Brett Farve as a jet or a Viking, despite his cell phone antics. He went to the NFC championship as a Viking. Yeah, but I still don't remember him as that. And Cal did so much with the one and done. I mean, that was such a huge era in college basketball. That can't be forgotten either. By the way, I knew the NFC. That's ESPN, you know.

Years of trying to figure out something to talk about for three hours. Can I tell you they're having me host the Thursday night football preview now? Oh, yeah. I'm getting more NFL-E by the day. They're like, hey, well, you host with Ian Fitzsimmons our Thursday night football preview. So I'm going to do it from the bar on Thursday nights. You got your Washington football? football team hoodie on today.

Already showing that. I mean, there's literally nothing on earth I knew less about than the NFL six years ago. And then they're going, hey, I'm going to four games. Really? Do you know which ones yet? Yeah, they're sending me to week two, Indianapolis at Green Bay. Oh, back to Lambo. Then, like, week five or six, it's somebody at Dallas, week like eight or something.

It's somebody at the Bears. And then I do Steelers at Bengals on December 1st. They're sending us to four games to do the show from the tailgate area at the games. That's very cool. The sweet two is going to be tough because Kentucky plays Georgia at 730. I'm going to have to do the pregame show from here. Leave at 5.30 and get in the car and drive to Green Bay. It's a hall to be up early.

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He didn't say that. But he was very much like angry. What's he talking about it? I don't know. I read that. He had fired off like non-consecutive tweets about it. He's like volunteering to be the face of the NIL to help out. And he's alleging that someone at the top is holding them back from doing better.

I'm not real sure who he was calling out, but he's passionate about it. Wow. It was really odd, though. Like he was really angry about it. something and I don't know what it was. He said that Arkansas, someone suggested on one of the websites that someone at the top of Arkansas's NIL was selling like secrets to other teams. And you're like, what are you? What? I only got a mole. He was calling out some casino. I don't know anything about Arkansas can see casinos, but he was fired up about it. The Red swept the Cardinals

first time since 2017. And of course, Ryan decides to skip that day. Play Kansas City this weekend. You know, if we could win, if we could sweep Kansas City or at least win two out of three, or fight. You know, we're hanging in there, so I'm not ready to give up yet. But if they don't win the Kansas City series, then Billy, I'm giving up. Well, nevertheless, you'll still have those nice seats behind home plate. I appreciate you letting me use those once or twice this year. I got your bobblehead, too. Where is it? When are you going to give me my bobblehead? Is that my house? By the way, nice job. Had you not gotten the L.A. Bobblehead, you would have been fired. So nice job keeping.

It's a little drastic. We didn't want you to get fired. Did you see the pictures from that? I did. It was wild. It was insane. It looked like a, like lollapalooza out there. It was like everybody goes to the store to get bread and milk before a big storm.

It was that times ten. That's going to be, I mean, I told you. Ellie is my favorite athlete, my favorite non-Kentucky athlete, maybe of all time, which is crazy because he's half my age and it feels weird. Like, it feels weird to root for someone 22 years old. Like, I'm, you know, I'm way. I don't, but I just love watching him play. I'm not even a huge baseball fan, and I get it after going to two games last year.

I was there the day after he hit for the cycle, and they already had Elie Dela cycle t-shirts. And just when he would be on deck, you could just feel the energy. Yeah, I mean, I completely understand. I mean, in my lifetime, Charles Barkley, I love Charles Barkley. I really loved Magic. I love Tiger. Greg Norman. But I think Dale Murphy back when I cheered for the Braves.

But I think Ellie is, I just, I like him. Who's next? Retired ref is next. Hello there. How are you, ref? Doing good. If y'all talked about this, my apologies, but I've been in and out of my truck working. Yesterday on the SEC network was the 10-year anniversary.

Yes. And they had stooped on there. Did you all see that? I did not see it. No. Okay. Here's the question. in the time that Stoops has been here with the SEC network,

how many coaching changes has there been? Oh, I don't know. I mean, he's the longest tenured coach now. I know he's the only, Stoops is the only coach that was here 10 years ago when the SEC network started. He's the only one left. How many changes were? 48. 48 changes.

Wow. Wouldn't have gone that, huh? I want you to think about it. sir, I appreciate the call. I want you to think about when Mark Stoops was hired. If I had told you that he will be the longest tenured coach in the SEC, would you have ever believed that? No, because the SEC's had some absolute legends.

And to think, what is it, 12 years now? I would not have guessed. I accidentally called him an old man when we interviewed a meeting today. I had to apologize. I do remember that. I met the longest tenured. I didn't mean to call me. I mean, back to how we started the show when I was talking about people being upset about my comment.

Mark Stubbs deserves to one day have some sort of honor at UK. I don't know if it's statute or if it's like a, but he will deserve it honor. What he has done here is amazing to me. It's amazing to me. When you consider, he has taken a football program that was dead. It was dead when he got here. We were two and ten, had a Vandy home game where 40 people showed up. and he has turned that around, has made it to where we consistently make bowls,

we debate whether or not we should win more than eight games, and we recruit at a top 25 level in a state that doesn't produce much high school football talent. Billy, I think it's amazing what he's done, and we get lost in this. Well, did they underachieve here? systematically he's the best coach here since Bear Bryant and it's not even close to me and look what he's done for the state I mean he's got his own bourbon he's got a great relationship that's got his own bourbon he's got great relationship with the boosters that I don't think people would ever thought that would have happened I mean and like you said

we're arguing about seven eight wins every year now the booster things was just as important I mean the record's awesome but he's gotten people to buy in and put money in I was telling Billy when we were at the Nutter facility. Remember that old, looked like a church potluck recruiting area that they'd have over there? He has gotten so many people to invest, and that's why it's become what it is. Can you imagine what Kentucky football would have been in the NIL era if we didn't have stoops? Like, if stoops had not, I mean, all of these donors for football are because of stoops. So, and by the way, when they put the stoops thing up, Vince needs to be like, hanging out with it.

Lock arms. Because Vince is, I mean, Vince is the best recruiter, along with Cal, Vince is the best recruiter in the history of Kentucky sports. Yeah. And their approach to go into Ohio, it changed things, too. If you were to put the Mount Rushmore of recruiting at Kentucky, it would just be Cal and Vince. Yeah. It would just be the two of them standing there. Because that's just, I mean, they have been that.

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