KSR - 2024-08-20- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: August 20, 2024

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This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome, everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio. Tuesday, August the 20th. I am Matt Jones. I am here in New York City where as soon as this show is over, I will fly back home,

but have been for a few days. Looking out over, let's see, is this 38th Street? 38th Street in New York. And you can give us a shout in the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line. That's 859-2802287. A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-7474-2524.

This edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. You call T.J. He'll make them pay. Ryan and Drew are in Lexington. Shannon is in Louisville. Tomorrow we are at KS Bar, Thursday we are at the State Fair, and then Friday is the Louisville Golf Scramble. So a busy week. But tomorrow we are at KS Bar. It's Wingsday.

You also have that NIL beer, which I want to talk more about a little bit later, about how well it's doing. But, Ryan, yesterday, I do want to tell you something. I ended up having seen, you know how sometimes you just have a chance to, like, gain perspective on things. And yesterday, not that I didn't have respect. before. But yesterday was my New York City, and by extension, all of America, Firefighter Appreciation Day. Would you like to know why?

Tell me, please. He seems really excited, Shannon. He's eager to hear it. He seems really eager to hear it. Okay. If you notice when the show ended yesterday, I talked about the fact that I looked outside and I saw all these cops and fire people. Do you remember that? Well, it turns out it wasn't, it wasn't Trump.

it was a funeral. I guess a fireman had been killed, and there was a funeral right outside my hotel. And by 20 minutes after our show was over, there were thousands of firemen there. And it was quite a sight. It was very powerful, actually, even from above, to see all of them there honoring one of their brethren. And then later in the day, all of a sudden, like two places down, there was a fire, and I got to watch, Ryan, firemen fight a fire. There was a fire in a restaurant, smoke everywhere,

because it's the streets of New York, they couldn't really, it hadn't cleared it yet, and saw guys go into the blaze, come out sweating, coughing, et cetera. And it's just like when you watch that happen in real time, Ryan, you can't help but gain a tremendous amount of respect for all of them. Yeah, to see it live in action with those guys actually have to go through on a daily basis.

It is, man. It takes a special person to want to do that to be a fire, like that to risk their life every day on the job. You know, you talk about, Drew, like, walking into the flames, that's the, you think about it theoretically, but when you see them do it, like when you literally see, they're walking into a building smoke bellowing out of it, you can't help but salute the people that go do that every day and make it their lives. Yeah, I mean, we got to be grateful for them.

I know that's not something I think I'm cut out for. So, kudos to everyone who makes those sacrifices and does that line of work. Do you think any of the four of us, Shannon, who do you think would be the best firefighter, both mentality and physicality and all of that? Who of the four of us do you think has the most firefighter mentality? I don't know why, but I want to say Ryan. I just feel like Ryan would be good at it, you know. I feel like he's got that enthusiasm.

Let's go get that fire, you know. You think that's what he's like, yells? He's ripped his shirt off. Although you probably don't want to rip your shirt off. Yeah, I don't think you want to rip your shirt off. I think you want to, I'm going to guess that jacket. it, you want to keep it on. I agree with you, though.

I do think Ryan would be the best at it. I think he's the most likely, Shannon, to run into a burning building, don't you think? Yes. No, I mean, I see that as a compliment. Like, he's the most, like, giving of a person. So, Ryan, I would award you KSR's honorary firefighter. Well, I'll accept that honor, and I appreciate you guys giving me that badge. But it is, man.

It does. It takes a special person to do something like to be so selfless. You're going to give up your own safety to try to risk. risk your life to help others. It's amazing. You know, Ryan just... Sorry, Drew. You know, Ryan just had a fire. I wonder if Ryan were home during that fire. Would he be able to fight the fire? Like with a fire extinguisher?

Oh, yeah. You think so? You would have? Oh, yeah. Well, this one, it didn't look like the building was going to burn down, but it was a pretty big fire. And it was like two or three buildings down from my hotel. And Shannon, they were like, I stay in the hotel, you're good. And there was a part of me that goes, I think I want to go for a walk just in case, you know.

I felt like the buildings were touching each other, Drew. You feel like, you know, there's a way it might spread. I don't know. Yeah, up there, up there, those can get a little more out of hand than you think around here. I was thinking about our own, say we had our own fire. What are they called? Not a squad. What's the, there's a word.

Squad, there you go. We would want Matt driving our fire truck, though. I mean, Ryan's going into the building. That's a good point. But Matt is getting us there faster than I'll get you there. That could be your future. job. That's a great job for you. I feel like I would be good at that. That's a good point. So then the second thing, Shannon and I were having this conversation before the show started.

Shannon, I'll go with you on this. I'm trying to decide at this moment whether or not this shirt I'm wearing stinks, and I can't tell. Okay, so I went for a walk yesterday. A shirt got wet, and that was what I was going to wear today. And so now I'm left with this shirt that I've worn once before, and I don't have any more clothes up here. And I can't tell if it stinks or not. It must. It must, might, but I can't tell. And I was saying to you, is it the fact that maybe, like I can always tell when somebody else stinks, but is it possible that when you, like your own stench for lack of a better term, Shannon, you can't smell it as well as other people do?

I think that's very possible because you've been living with your own stench, you know, for the last 24 hours if that shirt stinks. Well, I haven't worn it all 24 hours. It was the only one left. But I would say if you think you stink, you'd probably. probably do. I kind of agree with you, but I don't have any other options. I can't wear a bathrobe on the plane.

I don't think. So I'm getting up with a high-heart New York T-shirt. You're laughing. Drew, I think that's what I'm going to have to go do. I think I'm going to go and buy something because I'm next to an I-heart New York. Not I heart like the company, but I love New York T-shirt. There you go. I'm thinking I might have to get one and wear that home because I don't want to be on the plane,

Drew Smelling. While you're in there, get you an NYFD hat to salute to firemen. Just look like a full tourist as you head to LaGuardia. That's right. I could get an NYFD hat. Oh, that's a very good idea. Ryan, do you think you could, you have come to the show a couple times stinking before, and I could tell in the, well, I mean, it's true.

Do you remember that one day, Shannon? I wasn't sniffing them, but it was pretty bad. In that moment, could you tell that you stunk? Of course not. I can't smell anyway, though. I can't smell anything. You, on the other hand, have like one of those ultra-sensitive noses. Like a dog. I am like a dog. You are. You've got that nose. You can sniff stuff out. But I've always wondered why, like, we can't tell when we have bad breath.

But yet, it's on us. I can. I can tell. I can tell. I can tell. I feel it when I have bad breath. I can tell. I can tell. Ryan, I think it's just you. That's why you just walk around not being able to tell anything. I can't smell it all. Never have. There's no senses. On Sunday, I worked in my garage all day. It was like 95.

I was pretty sweaty. And then I treated myself to a beer nearby. And I sat down at the bar and immediately thought, I don't need to be here. I can smell myself. So I actually experienced this recently. Yeah. Well, I can't decide whether I... But you're probably right.

If you can't decide, then you probably think. All right. So I have a game here. I want to play to start this show. I was thinking about this yesterday. Somebody on the text machine, which is 772, 774, 5254. somebody wrote me and said, what is more likely and they gave me two options. And so I decided, you know what, let's play with basketball and football a game for the four of us.

What is more likely? So I'm going to give you a scenario, and I want you to tell me, Ryan, which of these is more likely to occur? Are you ready? Yes. Number one, is it more likely that we beat both South Carolina and Auburn in football this year, or beat Duke in the Champions Classic in basketball, which is more likely? Man, that's a great question.

That's why I asked it. I already have an answer. All right, Shannon, what's you? You go first. I think it's more likely that we beat South Carolina and Auburn in football. Okay, why? I just feel like that South Carolina game is a game that, even though they've lost the last few seasons to South Carolina,

that's a game that they should win. And then Auburn's just not that great. They're not the same old Auburn is. as they were several years ago when they were really good. So I think that that's a game that you got them at home too, right? So I feel like that's a game that you can win. You know, expecting Mark Pope to throw it together a team as quickly as he did to be able to beat Duke, which I don't know what the preseason ranking is for them, probably going to be top ten.

I think that's a little unrealistic. All right. So you say the football, South Carolina and Auburn. Ryan. I'm also going to go football because Shannon kind of hit what I was thinking about. The Duke game is so early in the season for a new team, new staff, and Duke's going to be really, really good this year. That's going to be a tough win for the basketball team.

Whereas football, yes, you should win both those games. They're both at home. You're a better program than South Carolina. You're a better team than Auburn is this year. You should get those. So I'm going to lean football also. Yeah, Mario, by the way, make sure you put these videos out. So the South Carolina and Auburn fans yell at them as much as they've yelled at me

and use their faces in the Mario. Because I don't just use mine. Use their faces. I want people to yell at them after those comments. Drew. I feel really good about it. South Carolina and Auburn. I think we're going to win both. But I can't just surrender this Duke game. It's one game versus two in this scenario. I'm taking Kentucky over Duke. I think Ryan's right.

It's early in the season, but they got a lot of freshmen. So I think maybe that might help our chances. I know Kentucky's brand new across the board, but it's full of super seniors and guys that have played a lot of basketball. So even though Cooper Flag might be a robot, the guys around him, they still have a lot to prove. So I'm not just going to surrender this Duke game. We're taking him down on November 12th. I'm with you. I'm taking Duke because it's the one game versus two, basically for me. I actually think Duke, I mean, I don't know if we'll win the game or not, but like Drew said, early in the season, they're going to be very young. It's almost the opposite of the old cow teams, which were very young at the beginning of the season. But it's

one versus two. And in basketball, randomness happens more than in football. I think we're better than South Carolina and Auburn, but you always can be upset. I think we beat South Carolina. The Auburn one, I think we win, but that one might be a little trick here. but I'm going to say Duke. So we split 2-2, which means it's a good question. So I ask you all in the fan base, which do you think is more likely, 772-7-7-4 or the phone number 859-2-807. Let me go to the second way, which is more likely.

We win one of our three big road games, Tennessee, Old Miss, Texas. Win one of those three or sweep Alabama home and away in basketball. Alabama preseason top five. So when one of the three of Old Miss, Texas, or Tennessee and football, or sweep home and away Alabama in basketball, Drew, you go first. This is a good one here. No, this is really good. Alabama's loaded.

However, as good as they've been, Kentucky's won three of four. They've had Alabama's number. I'm going to go with the road game, though. We're going to steal one of those road games. Texas, their backfields depleted. They're still very good. Maybe they don't respect Kentucky being new to the SEC and you sneak in and get that one. Ole Miss, Kentucky's always played them very close.

Heck, we've almost won at the last few times. Tennessee, I'll leave out. But I'm going to go with the winning the away football game. All right. Ryan. I'm going to go winning the away football game too. And I think it's the Ole Miss game. That's the one because Alabama, I think, is not just the best team in the conference.

They may be the best team in the country this year. To sweep them, to win two games in basketball, I think that's a pretty tall order. So I'm going to go winning at Ole Miss. So yes, winning on the road in football. Shannon. I have to agree. I'm going to football. I think that Ole Miss game is a winnable game.

I actually picked the football team to beat Tennessee this year. So I think that one of those games is going to be a Kentucky win. Beating Alabama on the basketball side, not just beating them, sweeping them, that's a tall task. So I'm going to go with the football. I'm going sweep at Alabama. I think that's the more likely scenario. I think winning at Texas or Tennessee, is, if not impossible, extremely difficult.

Ole Miss is the one I do think we can get. But if you ask me, we play with Alabama. I actually think we're going to match up. Fine. We play the same style they do. Ultimately, our crowd is going to be awesome in that game. So I'll give us the home game. And then the road game will be very, very tough.

But it's a game, you know, Alabama plays like we do. They shoot threes. If they have a cold night, we have a hot night. I think that's more likely than going and winning one of those road games. I will take, I'll be the one guy taking basketball on this. I'll take Alabama over winning one of those three road games. All right, you all chime in on those two. I've got three more, all right?

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I'm 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. Listen to soccer moms on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Look at you. not only i said to shan during the break i need a james taylor song not only did you get a james taylor song you actually got one that was on topic yeah that's why you're the best that's why you're the best that's why you're the best that james taylor didn't have a song about stinking so i had to go with the

fire and rain so i like james taylor a lot not going to lie to you like i know it's kind of old person music but i like it and i got a question for you shannon last night at the democratic convention they were running long i don't know if you saw this like they were i think joe Biden went on at like six in the morning or something. Like they just were running long. Andy Bashir spoke. I didn't watch it, but they ran long. And I guess they were running so long, James Taylor was supposed to play.

And then they were going to bring on Joe Biden. But it was going so long they bumped James Taylor. Oh, no. And so my question is, would you have the guts to bump James Taylor? Legend. He's come out there so that he could sing for you at your convention. I think he was going to sing you've got a friend. would you have the guts to say this is taking too long James Taylor you're out no I mean he's what just doing one song

he's just going to do one song it's gonna be like 10 minutes though because he was going to say something and then he was going to play and they they bumped it oh come on you don't have 10 minutes extra that you can give james taylor or the guys are legend I think you owe it to him to not you got to give him the 10 minutes right yes yeah Joe's stay joe has stayed up that long like he's way past his bedtime yeah I mean if Joe's gone that long he can wait 10 more minutes yeah I know he's a sitting it, but Ryan, you got to let James Taylor play, don't you? It's 10 minutes. You don't think they can, they're already long anyway. What's an extra 10 minutes?

Absolutely, it should let him play. So, I was a little disappointed. I like James Taylor. It's disrespectful. And I, I think it is a little disrespectful to James Taylor. Now, they may, they said they may try to fit him in tonight or whatever, but still. He's a shoe on him in. He's not somebody on off the street with the guitar.

I know. It's James Taylor. Come on. He's come all the way out there. Well, James Taylor. Cut Joe Biden 10 minutes short then if they had to. They should have combined the two. Just let James play and Joe Singh.

Just have them up there together. Now, that would have been great, right? James. They do a duet, end of the night. Why didn't they do that? I don't know the answer. Somebody writes me on the text machine. I saw Drew tried to get Keenland tickets today.

I'm still in line. When did Keenland become the hardest thing to get into in America? I don't know. but I love Keenland. I especially love Keenland in the fall, but now it's becoming like Lollapalooza. You can't get in, and then once you get there, it's like, why?

Why is it so hard now? It didn't used to be like that. I was up and on there about 8.30. They started at 9. I was already 1,000 something behind, tried to sit through it, had to get to the show, close my computer, but I had friends that were on there

and the ones that finally got in, they weren't any available. I think at this point, your best option is becoming a jockey. I'm actually going to pursue entering a race just so I can get to the fall of meet at Keenland. It was like Taylor Swift tickets this morning, just trying to go to a meet.

It's kind of disappointing. I mean, it is, I think for people who just want to go, it has become almost, so much is like taken by the people that are, you know, members of the clubhouse and all that stuff, that like if you just want to go, it's almost impossible now to get, like, nice tickets. You can just go in general admission,

but I don't know, I find it disappointing. All right, let's go to one of my other ones. Here we go. What's more likely, Ryan, I'll let you go first. This season, this season in football, get nine wins and be on the brink of a playoff, whether you make it or not, but nine wins or win the SEC regular season title in basketball. I'm going to go nine wins in football. I keep going football on every one of these, but yeah, I think seven is the bottom.

That's what they have to get, and there's other wins out there. And we just talked about that maybe stealing one in Ole Miss, that would be the one that could potentially get them to nine. And to win the SEC, what Kentucky, in my opinion, may be the fourth best team in the SEC going in. So I think that might be a little taller order to do. So taking football again, you've done it on all three. All right, Shannon.

I think on this one, I mean, we're going more likely. So I think I'm actually going to go basketball on this one. And the SEC, I mean, you could have those teams just beat up on each other and then come out ahead and end up winning the regular season title. So I'm going to go basketball. You know, we've won nine wins two of the last five years in football, so it's not crazy. And we haven't won an SEC basketball regular season title in a while now, right?

When's the last one we won, Drew? Box and Monk? Was that the last one? 2019, didn't they win? I don't think they might not want in 2019. But it's been a while in basketball. I'm still going to take basketball, though, Drew, because even though I think Alabama is the best team,

there's probably one or two other teams better than us. I don't think the gap is crazy. If I already think we might sweep Alabama in basketball, or at least it's the most likely, then I guess I've got to continue on this role, so I'll say SEC title. What about you? To answer your question, the COVID year,

they had won the title before there wasn't a turn. Oh, got you. Yeah. Man, these are good. I'm really having to think they're all been very even so far. I'm going to go football. I mean, I just said they're going to win a road football game over sweeping Alabama,

So I got to stick with my attitude here. I'll say football surprises and gets nine wins by taking one on the road and then winning all the other ones they're supposed to win. Chen, are you noticing who is the pro basketball guy on this show? The two. Like all of us, like everybody saying that I wanted to ruin the program. I've picked basketball on all three of these. All three of them.

Yep. And I, so who is, nobody has been more pro basketball so far on this. All right. Next one. What's more likely? What will happen first? Kentucky football has a top five NFL pick. Kentucky basketball has a top five NBA pick under Pope.

Now notice, Deion Walker is in contention for that this year. Might not be top five, but at least has a shot. Our basketball team probably does not have a shot at a top five guy this year. So I think when you're breaking it down, you would look at it and say, okay, football has won immediately this year. If not, what does the future look like for that? Basketball does not have one this year, but then what does the future look like for that? Ryan, are you taking football or basketball?

I think this is maybe the easiest one you've given us. I'm taking football just because what you said, Dionne Walker, I think, is going to be a top five pick this year. So he's the answer. But let's say he doesn't. Then what? Then you might not have one ever. We've only had two in our history. Yeah.

I think there's some potential high draft picks coming up in football. and basketball right now. They don't have them on the roster yet, but I think we've got some on the roster in football. All right, what about you, Drew? I'm going to go football. I'm going to trust Big Deion. I'm just thinking about basketball.

And with the way Pope's system, you know, plays so many guys and it's a little more team-oriented. I don't see any top-five picks there on the horizon. So I'm going to ride with Deion making it all the way the top five next May. Shannon? Yeah, I think in two or three years, Kentucky basketball is going to have a top-five pick.

But I think I would go all in on Dion for this. this draft. I continue to be the contrary. I'm going to take basketball. Really? Here's what. I think Dion will be picked high. I think he'll be picked six through 12, something like that.

If you look at the projected draft, he's kind of, he'll have to be like number four or five to go in the top five because the top three has kind of been set for a while. I think he goes six through ten. And then after that, I don't know who the projected guy will be down in the future to get it. So then I think at that point, if you're just playing the numbers, Ryan, if you don't think Dion ends up in the top five, then the numbers would suggest you would go basketball, right? Yeah, like I said, maybe not on this basketball roster, but you know.

No, there's not one on this one. There's not one on this one. Like, it won't happen on this one. All right, finally, what's going to happen first? Shannon, you go first. Kentucky makes the college football playoff. Kentucky wins a men's national title. Oh, gosh.

I want you to think about that during the first. Bray. Yeah. What's going to happen first? No, we'll go to the, we're going to break here. College football playoff, men's national title. We will take your calls right for this. It's KSR.

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I mean, we do need to try to appeal to people not in their 60s and 70s only. I mean, we want 60s and 70s people to be part of the show. But like if we let Ryan pick the music, although it's hard to think, Shannon, that people in their 60s, like, that's Billy Idol's demo now. That's hard to see, you know? Because like Billy Idol doesn't feel like that sort of era. We're going to have like old people with like tattoos, driving around listening to like Tupac and Billi and. No, I've thought about that for a long time. Like the people that listen to rap in the 90s, when they get to be 70, are they listening?

Like, when we're 70, are we listening to Biggie and Pock, Shannon? Like, are we just going to. Yeah, that's what you grew up on. But then that's going to be looked at, like we looked at our grandparents, like you're listening to James Taylor. But my grandparents would know, no, older than that, like Frankie Valley and stuff like that. Right. So is it going to be the case that thinking. about like, really I think about like rap from the 90s.

Think about the words of those songs. When we're 60 and 70, are we listening to those songs? I think we are. I mean, Snoop dogs on the Olympics, Drew, so I guess it's going to happen, right? Well, I've thought about this a lot. That's all I listened to. So I'm going to be 75 playing Lil Wayne, the Carter 2 driving around town, still rapping.

It would be so weird, though, to see like a 75-year-old Drew listening to like, back that ass up or something from the windows to the wall yeah i mean i i guess that's what's going to happen but uh it's going to be strange all right who's up first i still have one more but i'll save it go ahead who's up first that's good to Trevor Trevor go ahead Trevor how you guys doing today doing good i'd love to see football pick up one of those road wins and the reason why i'm saying that is i was down in florida for that game and what was that, 2020, I think, was when we went down there and beat them. 18 was when we beat them the first, I think, first time.

Yeah, so, yeah, that was for my birthday, and I was lucky enough my family sent me down there for that game. And there's just nothing better than a road victory when you're the underdog going in there. The amount of smack talk you can talk walking out of that stadium, and that's a hostile environment down there. Yes. No, it is. I've said for a long time.

I believe the best environment in Kentucky athletics is when you win a road football game, like a real one. I'm with you. I think it's if you're there, that's as good as it gets. I agree with you. So to pick up an old miss or, old miss would be the one, I think. I don't think we have a chance against Texas, unfortunately.

Well, I appreciate. I don't know. But, yeah, I appreciate the call. I think that and all you guys, Drew, well, at least Drew and Ryan, You've been in that scenario. I don't think absent, you know, winning a final four. I don't think there's a better feeling that being in the Kentucky section and winning at another team's hostile environment, Ryan, I think it's the coolest thing that you can have happen as a Kentucky fan. Maybe my greatest UK football fan memory was two years ago winning down in Gainesville at Florida.

Dane caught a touchdown pass. They beat Florida. It was just, it was awesome. It was just a great environment to kind of win. You said, everybody's filing out. and your little pocket of Kentucky fans were down there in the corner just cheering their brains out. I've done it at Louisville. I've done it at South Carolina. That may be it. I haven't gotten to do it a bunch, but I've done it those two times and Drew, it's great.

For about a minute and a half, we had won at Ole Miss, and my crew was in the front row of UK section. Some shirts came off. We were running up and down the aisles, then we all saw that yellow flag. So even though the outcome wasn't a win, just that minute. of thinking we had won't call it a favorite moment because it was taken away, but that was about as excited as we've been around UK football in a long time. Yeah. Who's up next? Christopher.

Christopher, go ahead, Christopher. Morning, gentlemen. How are you all doing today? Good. I got one comment and one question. My comment is, I think Shannon would be the best firefighter because he's a championship wrestler in OBW and did the 50-mile walk in 20 hours. He did do the 50-mile walk, which is very impressive.

That is true. And my question is, who do you all think has more pressure to win right away? Mark Pope with Kentucky basketball or Kalin-Dibor with Alabama football? Kaelin-Divore. I mean, like, you Alabama football, when you consider what he's being left, Drew, with the fact that Nick Sabin went to the playoff, that he won at Washington. I mean, he's got to come in. I don't think he has to win the title this year, but they got to make the playoff this year.

He's got to, like, he can't screw up because Alabama has. has that view of it's not the same situation as basketball because the basketball program is not left with anything whereas football is. So I think a lot more pressure. And he's not one of them, like Mark Pope is one of us, Drew. Yeah, and just following Nick Saving alone, that I can fill the pressure for him from up here in Kentucky. They're playing it cool with him and they're excited, but let him lose a couple of games. And we know how that fan base will react and how that next day a fine bomb will be. So I think

DeBoar's got a lot ahead of him. And he has a quarterback, Ryan, that played in the playoff last year. So, like, people expect that quarterback to be good. I think there's a lot of,

I think he'll succeed there, but I think there is a ton, ton of pressure on him. Yeah, that roster is still loaded with five-star recruits. You know, he inherited a great roster.

Pope inherited a roster that included Travis Perry, and that was it. He had to go get everybody else after that. Exactly. All right, so let me do my final, which one?

Shannon, college football, playoff for Kentucky football, NCAA, which one happens first? All right, this is the best one I think yet. I'm going to lean national championship for basketball, and here's why. Without knowing the future schedules for the football team, I think it's difficult to pick if you can get to nine, because I think that's what you'd have to get to in order to make the playoffs. I don't think they get to nine this year.

I think they get to maybe, I think they can get to eight. In basketball, you don't have to have a great regular season to win the title. You just got to make the tournament. and we've talked about the randomness of the tournament. If you can get hot for six games, you win the national title. I think that's more likely than winning nine and getting to the playoffs and football. So I'm going basketball. Drew.

I'm going football. Just a numbers game. I think you can get into a 12 team, maybe even a 16 team eventually playoff before winning the national championship. I mean, those aren't easy to win. And as we've talked about many times, it can be random. You need a little bit of luck to get through those six games. So even though I feel good that Pope will have them in the in the, the mix for that in due time.

I still think the football would have a better shot of just making the playoff. Right. I'm going to lean basketball, just because history tells me, you know, they've won national titles, and in football, we've only sniffed at the playoff a couple seasons. And with basketball, I just feel like, like Drew said, it's random, and you can get hot at the right time and make a big run, whereas football,

the schedule is never going to get easier. Now in the SEC and adding Texas and Oklahoma, it's going to be this hard every year. So I'm going to go basketball. You know, I'm going to actually for the first of these pick football for this one and make it two, too, for, I think both of you had a good reason. Like if you want to make the case for basketball, you say, look, we've had five coaches, Shannon win a national title here, right? Like more coaches win titles here than don't win them, so you would say basketball. But I'm going to say football because I think the playoff in two years is going to go to 16. And then when it goes to 16, if you win nine games, you're definitely in, and we can win nine games.

We've done it two of the last five years. The schedule will get harder with Texas and Oklahoma. But like, let's say you had Oklahoma this year. That would be a winnable game, Ryan. We just happen to get Texas this year, right? So I am okay with, I think you, and while the tournament is random, I actually think that goes the other way. Pope is going to have us where we're one of the best three or four teams, but the tournament is random. Whereas in football, if we win nine, we win nine.

So I'm going to say it's more likely we have football first than we have basketball. So I like those. We split on a lot of them throughout the entire time. Who's next? Joseph. Joseph. Go ahead, Joseph. Hey, Matt, been a while since I've called, but two questions.

Outside of Duke and Gonzaga, why is our non-confidence schedule so soft? It's not soft. It's not soft. You're always fairly negative. It's not soft when you're talking about. You say outside of Duke and what did you say, Gonzaga? Well, we play Louisville, which we're always going to play Louisville, and Louisville is going to be better this year.

We play in the CBS Classic. We got assigned to Ohio State, which is fine. We play at Clemson. I don't care how good Clemson is playing a true road game at Clemson. You're playing five power teams out of however many games, 11 or whatever it is. that's going to be more than most of our other schools that are top schools play. So I do not think it is, I mean, I do not think it is weak. The home schedule is a little weak, which stinks for our fans, but I don't think overall it's weak.

Okay. My second question is, why are our football team getting so many injuries already? Let me ask you a question, Joseph. Are you ever, like, do you ever have, like, positive thoughts? I feel like most of your calls are kind of down in the dumps. I have positive calls. Okay, well, no, no, give me a positive thought. Give me a positive thought on your mind right now.

You know, I think we could have, I think we can win as many as 10 games, but I can also think we could probably lose. You followed it a positive with a negative call. But that's not a positive call. I mean, that's it. If you had just said, I think we can win 10 games, that's positive. But then if you follow it up with buzz. we could only win for.

Joseph, you understand that's not positive. That's like almost negative. It's not almost negative. It's positive, but it's being cautiously optimistic. Okay. Let me,

before I let's just give me one like totally positive comment. We can win a national championship. And what? And what? Basketball. Oh, there you go. Okay. All right.

That's positive, right. Yes, that's positive. I'll take that. All right. Joseph, thank you very much. I appreciate the call. I thought you're going to say we could win a national championship, we could also lose 25 games.

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Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. Machine 772-745254. One person writes, Matt, I was out of a bar in northern Kentucky, and I saw all the college student-age people get up and leave the dance floor as soon as Lil Wayne Lollipop. played. The vibe did a 180 you would have thought they put on James Taylor. Does that make you sad, Drew, that like that doesn't have the same effect anymore? It does a little bit. It's a

shame that America's youth don't appreciate good music anymore. But I understand if you didn't grow up with it or come out with it as new, it probably does sound a little different to you. What are the biggest songs right now, Shannon? You got the, what is it, Kendrick Lamar, the not like us, right? I know that song. Probably whatever's on TikTok. Wop, Wop, Wop, Wop, Wop, that song? Yeah. Okay.

Isn't that one? Why's everybody? What are you looking at me like that? Drew, that's how it goes, isn't it? Exactly. Yeah. If anyone listen to Fade this, we really broke down the current hip-hop scene. Yeah.

One that I hear everywhere is that Shibuzi-Tipsy song. That's everywhere. He redid that's a tipsy song. What's the woman that's named like Charlie and then a bunch of Roman numerals? Isn't that a person? Yeah. Charlie the 5th, Stetson, Charlie the 5th or something. No, that's a big.

Charlie, he's a quarterback. Charlie. No, there's a woman. Yeah, there's a woman in her names like Charlie XCV or something, Shannon. Do you know who I'm talking about? No, I don't. I do. I just butchering the Roman numerals there.

I'm working with these people that don't keep up with all the, with all the scene. 899-2-8027. Ryan, the Kentucky Blue Light has been hugely popular. I actually think this is going to be a big money generator for UK NIL. We've had it at the bar. Yes. We have it now. We still do.

You can come through the end of the week. It's special prices and you can sign up. I forgot to say this yesterday. When you walk in, there's a little iPad there. Make sure you sign up because someone is going to win beer for a year. That's beer for a year. You get a year's worth of beer, Shannon. If somebody who goes into the bar and orders,

or we just go in the bar and do it. Somebody will win beer for a year. And Ryan, we've had hugely successful. We're going to run out of it. We may have to get some more before the end of the week. People seem to, it seems like a good idea by UK athletics. A brilliant idea by UK athletics. And, you know, we've got single tonight.

You can come play single, try out the new beer, sign up to win beer for a year. It's a win-win for everybody. Beer for a year, Shannon, that's a lot of beer. You know, free beer guy here. It's free. On the house. It's free. I have it for a year.

You see that? That's a year's worth right here. The Beer King. It's, I am the beer king. Who's next? Larry. Larry, how are you, Larry? I'm good.

Good morning, guys. Hey, I've all the time been in Kentucky fan. All time been a Kentucky fan. And you all time pull for the players once they leave. But there's one player I will never pull for. And that was after the summer leave when the 76ers were interviewing Justin Edwards. And they was talking about he wasn't drafted and all that. And he said,

he was the best player in the draft. He didn't say that. He didn't get drafted. The reason he didn't drafted, he said to Kentucky, he needed a ball in his hand. The offense needed to move through him. And Kentucky elected to feature other players. And he said, you see how that turned out. And I just think that if anybody has team.

Well, that's not exactly. I mean, I don't think he said, like, he said sort of what you said. He did say he thought he was the best player. and he did say that he thought the ball should have gone through him more. He did not say, like, you see how it turned out for the team when they focused on other people. He wasn't that dismissive of his teammates. He was very confident, you might argue, overly confident about himself, but I don't think it's fair to say he wasn't going like,

well, you see what happened when they gave it to read and Rob. Like he wasn't doing that, I don't believe. Okay, if you look at Lester's team, The seven guys that got the most playing time. Which one of them guys could you leave off, wasn't on the team last year, and we could have done just the same or better without that one play? I don't disagree with you. I don't disagree with you.

I appreciate the call. I think a big part of the problem last year, even though Justin had a couple good games, was that Cal was overly loyal to him. I read those comments during the Summer League, Drew, and I kind of thought this. I found myself oddly defending Cal. because I felt like Cal was too loyal to him, in my opinion. To the detriment of the team, he was too loyal to Justin Edwards. And then the thanks he gets is that Justin Edwards trashes him in the draft.

I kind of felt like that was sort of a bad move by Justin. What about you? Yeah, I guess he kind of had to defend himself for his draft case. Remember Rich Paul had that podcast Trashing Cow. I was on Cal's side on that one too. And this is coming from, there was no bigger Justin Edwards fan than me. I picked him as MVP on half the pregame shows. But that kid had plenty of opportunities, more opportunities than he probably deserved with everything around him.

So I don't think he can do much complaining about how he was handled. He had every chance to be the star everyone thought he was going to be. Yeah, I just feel like I do, and listen, I know he's a kid and I'm not trying to crush him. Like things happen. I get it. But like, in my opinion, Cal was way too lenient in terms of letting Justin Edwards play. And then, like, he, I'm not saying he should be thankful to Cal because his stock did drop, but, like, how could have set him on the bench and not played him at all?

And I think been justified, Ryan. And I thought it was weird that he kind of would say those things during the draft process. He was too loyal to a fault with both DJ and Justin last year. We all know it. We all saw it. Do you think that Justin's comments were what was being the people around him? That's what they were. Of course.

But at some point, you have to take responsibility, right? Like at some point you have to say the reality is, it's kind of like Jason Tatum, Shannon, on the Olympic team, right? For whatever reason, that team was better with him not playing. And that seemed to annoy Jason Tatum. But the reality was the team was better when he didn't play. The team last year was better when Justin Edwards wasn't in. That's just a fact.

And does that mean that kid's not good? Not necessarily. But Shannon, it was a fact. They were better when he was out. They just weren't. And Calipari was his biggest believer. When everybody else stopped believing that he could be a good player for Kentucky, Cal still believed in him.

And then he turns around and trashes. I just, I thought it was a bad look. Cal took up for that kid way more than I would have, way more than the fans would have. And I actually think the end of his career here was tainted by his loyalty to, really Edwards more than anybody. Yeah.

And then to get that payback, I just thought it was kind of unfair, to be honest, and I thought it was not a great look. But I don't think he was being dismissive of his teammates, as much as the caller seems to suggest. We'll take a break. Come back. Hour number two, it's KSR. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends.

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