KSR - 2024-09-10- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: September 10, 2024

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I'm Matt Jones here live at the KS Bar and Grill on an absolutely beautiful day here in Lexington, Kentucky. Perfect weather. We got the garage door open. Drew's dad is here. It's a big day. Big day. Clark's Pubbets Shop phone line 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-7-7-4-5-25-4 in this edition sponsor by the T.J. Smith Law Office.

Call T.J. will make them pay? Sometimes people will say to me, Matt, if I stop by, will I be able to meet you guys? Today's a perfect day because right now it's just us. So, like, this is a perfect time for you to get, you could come. by. Not only me, where we might put you on the air

depending on what happens, right, depending on how the calls go today. It's an awesome time of year. The weather is great.

It's football season. You can kind of smell it. But I don't know if football season's getting people quite as amped up

as maybe it would have in other years. Drew, I thought you'd like this. A couple nights ago, I taught Max about something that I think he,

Max, Duffy is now enamored with, which is the television show cheaters. Oh. Some good American culture. Do you remember, you remember cheaters? I used to watch it every Saturday night.

Cheaters. No wonder you had such a fun life. Every Saturday. Is that still on the air? I don't know if it's still on the air, but the Roku channel. I like going on the Roku channel because anything awful that's ever been on television you can find on the Roku channel. And they have a channel just devoted to cheater. Wow.

And it's just constant cheaters. And now, Shannon, you can pull up every episode of cheaters. all time. So did you know there's 37 seasons of cheaters? Oh, my. What? No way. It's not a good 37 seasons.

No. There's 30. Cheaters out there. I'm telling you, there's 37 seasons. And, you know, I think they did like multiple seasons in a year. But I'm, you know, for some of you younger people, you go look it up. Joey Greco. Joey Greco.

Joey Greco, Shannon. He would come on there and he would come on so serious. And he'd walk on the screen and he'd go, Stephen is a baker. He's been married to Denise. for four years. But now he's using his baking not just for bread, but for romance. Cheaters investigators. And I love it. Like, because it's, you know, he's so melodramatic and he's so serious and he's got that little soul patch. And Drew, I absolutely love it. I'm just thinking about these cheaters. You know, they get these episodes air years ago. You're telling me now they're on demand.

So they're just known as cheaters forever. I should go back and watch people get caught till the end of time. And it's all the same thing. The man or the woman is shocked. And by the way, no episode ever resolves in them having not cheated. You know what I mean? It's called cheaters. It's not called not cheaters. I mean, they never come in and he, you know, he pulls out this little video camera from like the early 90s and he goes, our investigators have some results. Would you like to see them? And then they go, yes. And at that point, you know you're cooked. Like once he shows you the results, it's a great show. And I highly recommend if you've never watched it. It's trash TV, but Shannon, it's the best. So who is sitting around and watching 37 seasons of cheaters? Is it like just divorcees?

Being Max Duffy for one. I thought just people had been divorced or something. I know two people that start. The best part is when they do the big reveal, they show him on the little video camera, then they say, he's right across the street right now. No, he always gets a call. He gets a call. One season, he just kept getting a call from Gomez, and he would go, Gomez. Oh, you're one block away, and then he'll look and go, they're right over there. Would you like? to get in the van. And they're like, yeah. And then there they go, and I love it. And almost a bright light on the camera.

I found out that later they were almost all in Dallas, which means by that point you would have thought after 37 seasons, Shannon, Joey Greco would have cleaned Dallas up. You would have thought that would have been, but apparently not. You're cheating. You're not going to Dallas. You should know that by now. Yeah, by exact.

And by the end, the people know what's happening. And when they walk in, they just start screaming, cheaters, cheaters. Because imagine if you did this show in Lexington, as soon as you see Joey Greco pull up, you better get out of there. You know, uh-oh, there's some cheating going on here. About to go down. So he didn't host all 37 season. No, they went to other people.

But it quit being good. Like, I don't, I only, I'm more of a season's one through 18 guy. I haven't seen, don't get me wrong. I haven't seen every episode. But when it's not Joey Greco, I don't watch it. The Joey Greco. He made the show. He made the show.

And then the voiceover guy. It's like an old man in the way he talks. So anyway, get a chance to check it out. That doesn't have anything to do with football, but you know what? After that week last week, well, why do you want to talk about football? Mark Stoop spoke last night. He didn't say anything particularly profound or not profound. He said his one thing was he said when he went back and watched it on tape,

he actually thought that Kentucky played much harder than he thought they did in real time. He just thought they basically played dumb, that they made a lot of mistakes. And he, both in the post game, a little bit last night, people would say the halftime radio interview was like this. He kind of seemed to take very subtle shots at the OC's play call. Did you notice that saying like he didn't understand what we were calling? After the game Saturday, pretty much came out and said, I didn't like some of our play calls. He just pretty straightforward about it. He had his longest opening statement yesterday, maybe ever, at the press conference.

You know, usually it says a few things and goes to questions. How long was it? For eight minutes. Eight minutes. Oh, wow. Although he just, he didn't have a lot to explain. He almost seems kind of still in disbelief that they were that bad. It's hard to talk for eight minutes without like interrupting to have somebody else speak.

Eight minutes, a long time. Yeah. It's a big opening statement. You also knew, you know, they did, they interviewed Tim Couch for a lot of the show last night, which is nice. Tim Couch with the college football hall of fame. But that's also one of those. I don't really want to open the phones to Tyler from Spartanburg moments.

Brian. Yeah, I think that was perfect timing. They probably had that set up and it just worked out perfect where they had Tim come on. He's getting inducted in college football offense. They're going to honor him, I think, next Saturday at Kentucky. So good timing to bring in one of the best after all what we saw on Saturday. Stoop said he still has confidence in Eric Wilford. I heard him say that. Yeah. I mean, but you have to say. What are you going to say? You can get up there and go, I have no confidence in Eric Wolfer. You can't have got 10 games. That was a bad hire if you do. That's on you as the head coach. Yeah. I mean, I don't know that he can. You know, he can do that. To be fair, there was probably nothing he could say that would have made me feel

significantly better or worse. It was interesting to hear him say he didn't feel like they didn't play hard, that they just didn't play well. You know, Georgia, I don't know. I mean, it stinks that we're playing. I saw somebody yesterday. They were at the Chipotle. And they said to me, I've got a counter take on playing Georgia.

And they were like, maybe this is good because let's say we played great. We weren't beating Georgia anyway. So why not use it as a chance to get better before, you know, it's like it's almost like a no-lose situation. Then you beat Ohio. And then Ole Miss is when you have a chance to get your season back. What do you think about that? It sounds like a good glass half full person. I like the attitude.

I guess they're saying they want to go ahead and stack the losses. Like if it's going to be bad, let's just be bad at once and get out of the way. We've started 6 and 0 a lot of years. Let's just start 1 and 2 and then finish positive. What do you think? I like the spin, you know. You know, maybe this is the bottom. You've got nowhere to go but up after you, maybe you play a little better.

If it's lower than the end Ohio, and then you go to the rest of the season. So, yeah, I like that spin. I mean, we were, I'm not going to say, thanks to Notre Dame, I'm not going to say we were the target of all national ridicule, but there were jokes made the series that is pretty good. I don't know who does those like SEC shorts videos. Yeah, that was good. They have high production value.

Very high production. They've really blown up in the last few years. They're like, who are those people? They're good. I just know them for making those. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, there's a woman that lives here in Lexington who sends them to me, who is friends with the people.

But I think they tape them in Birmingham. For those you haven't seen. The turnaround is amazing. They do it on Sundays. You should go to like look up on social media, SEC shorts. these videos. Some of them, they're not always good, but this week I thought they were good, and they basically portrayed Kentucky football as using 19. The whole theme was like medical, and that we were like a 1920s patient with a leather helmet trying to play football from a

different generation. Yeah, they went to an emergency room and all the teams that got beat up were there. They even made us, we were like in black and white and had an autopsy accent. Yeah, and like the video was scratchy. But I mean, they're right. You know, it's a conversation we have had at various times of the Stoops tenure. Can you win with this pro-style offense when we don't have quite the talent everybody else does? I don't know that today's the day to have that conversation because we just got beat so badly. But it is an interesting question. South Carolina just took us out of everything we tried to do offensively.

They could not do anything. Duffy said Fandergriff attempted 10 passes. Usually you get that in your first opening drive sometimes. That was his game stats. They just couldn't do anything. Yeah, it was not positive. Now, the second thing that came out, Shannon, and, you know, I guess this broke early June,

but I don't remember hearing it. To be fair, I was probably just left for Europe. So I don't think I've heard anything about this. But the SEC is apparently doing one of those like F1, PGA tours, I'll go ahead and say, wrestlers OVW type shows where you follow. And, Janet, they're going to follow the SEC all year. Right. Okay, they're going to follow SEC football all year.

And all 16 teams had the ability to opt in or opt out. Okay. Apparently, I think six or seven teams opted in, of which we are one of them. Which surprises me a little. I would have thought, I don't know, I'm actually am kind of glad they did it. even though it's not working, probably going to work out, because that seems pretty forward-thinking. Those shows have been massively popular,

and they'll be on all over the world. Now, here's the problem. They're doing it by going to these, like, seven schools two weeks all year. So, like, each school gets two weeks. Well, Shannon, our week one was South Carolina. Does week two mean this week? I don't know. No, no, week two is going to be some time towards the back half of the year.

So they spent the week with the team for the South Carolina game. I'd heard I wasn't going to put Ryan on the spot. I'd heard cameras followed Dane Key all week. Is that true? I'm hearing all this for the first time. Somebody said Dane like went to a barbershop to get his haircut and Netflix came with him. I think they followed Dionne Walker, Brock Van de Griff. They were in the locker room before and after the game.

Wow. They were on the sidelines. It's going to air in like April of 2025. But the world is going to get to see that performance, Drew, including I'm sure there was drama. I mean, just after a loss like that, there was almost certainly some sort of locker, even if it's just people being sad. Like, we may be the ones having gone through wrestlers. Think about the low points on that show where like it looks like people are down and out.

that's probably going to be us yeah uh spin zone you want to be a feel good story so when they come back maybe it's at a high and we're we're the main focus of that entire documentary of the turnaround story of how low it was in week two to whenever they come back i don't think people realize though like like when i was in portugal i had people come up and talk to me about wrestling like the world is going to see us at arguably right what was our lowest moment of the Stoops era. Well, that's one reason why those shows work.

You pull for those people. You know, when they're down. They're going to pull for. I think we were sandbagging to make our story better. Well, I hope you're right. A little storytelling. Of all weeks, they picked. I mean, of all the weeks.

Like, they have two weeks all year. Of all weeks, Shaded, we get this one. When you opt in, you do it thinking, okay, this is going to be great for exposure. It's going to be great for recruiting. And then you turn in that performance. You've got to win the next game. You have to. otherwise it's going to make the program look worse.

Well, I was hearing people all week telling me there are Netflix cameras all over town for football. And I didn't know what it was. And then only yesterday found out what was happening. And I haven't heard anything else about it. I Googled it. And there were reports back in May that they might do it. But I had not seen any reports that they are doing it. Apparently, they were at the A&M Notre Dame game and then we're at this one.

We have bad luck with documentaries. Didn't, wasn't there in All Access for the BJ Boston year? They just threw it away. They did it. They did in all access for the year we didn't make the tournament. And then they had the St. Peter's year. They were going to follow Oscars' mom around. They like flew out there to start the tournament run,

and then there wasn't a tournament run. Yeah. So we'll see. Yeah. So anyway, get ready on your Netflix style. We'll be interesting. We'll see what happens. We won't know until April, but.

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Haki! I was going to sing there. I'm glad I did. Keep going. See, it was going through the Big D, and it is in Dallas. Yeah, people are showing me some of the other hosts that came after Joey Grieco. They're not, that Clark Gables' grandson did it? Clark Gable's grandson.

From Gone with the Wind? Really? He was one of the hosts. There was a guy whose name was like Tommy Grand. How do I know this stuff? See, sometimes I can't even remember, Shannon, like my code to get into like various accounts. Yeah, but you know all the host of cheaters. I know all the hosts of cheaters.

I never saw it outside of Joey Greco. He set the bar so high. I didn't want to see anybody else. He was great. The technology is great. I'm telling you, if you get bored and you're like, well, there's nothing. Like, for instance, tonight's a debate. I'm skipping it.

I'm going to watch cheaters. Don't need the debate. Like, well, first of all, all the debate's going to do is make me anxious because I don't, you know, the last debate our candidate ended up dropping out after it. This one, I just, I don't want to watch the debate. Plus, like, it drives me crazy to watch people debate because I'm like, why don't you just say this? And then they don't. It's liars. That's what they should call it instead of cheaters.

Yeah, I just, I have no, I have no, I'm going to watch. something else other than debate. I'm already trying to figure out I may move on election night, like just walk. Because it's, you know, I've said this before. For me, it's the same with UK sporting events. It's not the results. It's the waiting that is the hardest part. Yeah. It's not the, it's the UK with the UK South Carolina game. Once they lost, it wasn't a big deal, but the anxiety of waiting for the loss, Ryan, is kind of where I get, where it happens for me. So the buildup of seeing and watching these two people debate is more. No, watching them debate and then going, well, is this going well?

Is this going bad? And plus, I don't want to hear these people. There's nothing anyone's going to say that's going to change anybody's mind, right? Like, so, well, I mean, maybe some people's mind. It's not going to change my mind. It's probably not going to change most of the people's listening's mind. So, like, really kind of like, what's the point, you know? Am I a bad American that this is the first I've heard that there's a debate tonight?

You didn't even know there was a debate tonight? It's the only one they're going to have. I knew one was coming up. It's probably the only one that I know it was today. Yeah, I don't know where it is. I'll be watching shooters. Thank you very much. You can be free to come over if you want and watch it.

Like there's, yeah, I mean, we need to have them. And there may be people out there for whom it will change their mind. But it's like Donald Trump's been in our lives for a decade. You either like him or you don't at this point. You're not going to see something, Shannon and go, you know, I hadn't thought about it one way. Like you either like him or you don't. And so it's kind of to me like a waste of time.

Yeah, nobody's not a big thought-provoking. Yeah. It's just going to be who can get people out to vote. And it's just going to come down to Pennsylvania. Like all this is just, all the, everything that's going to happen for the next two months is completely irrelevant. All you got to do is go see what Pennsylvania does. And whatever they do is what's going to happen.

I don't know how Pennsylvania ended up in charge of this country, Ryan, but that's where we are. Whatever they do is what we all have to deal with. I'm like you. I never thought these debates meant one thing one way or the other, but then the last one did end up meaning something. It was, but that was because Joe was so bad. Yeah. Like, I guess that could happen. This one of them could just fall over and fall asleep, and then that would be over.

But we've been to Pennsylvania. Do they deserve all this power? Yes, they got the world's largest buffet. That's true. Yes, and they've got the Hershey Park. I mean, part of it is somebody could say, and I actually think this is true, In some ways, the demographics of Pennsylvania are sort of like America. You have a real country part in the western part.

You have industry. You have a big city. You have suburbs. A lot of suburbs. So like you could- Picklesburg. You have two big cities, actually. So, you know, I mean, I guess that's what they would say.

I just feel like we give that state too much power. Agreed. Anti-P Pennsylvania. Anti-Pentilvania. I'm not anti-Pentilvania. It's just, like this whole election, everything is just going to be what that state does, and then it's over. Who's next? Richie.

Richie, Shannon. Richie, go ahead, Richie. Hey, Matt. Thank you. Oh, my goodness. Richie, Richie, Richie, put us out, put us off of speaker and like, yeah, just talk to me normal. Okay. Go ahead.

Who are? Okay. Long time, first time. That's not without off speaker. But go ahead, Richie. That's my honor. I just want to say it. I think you flushed the toilet.

Did you just flush the toilet, Richie? No, I did not. I opened the door and I walked outside so it wouldn't such much echo. Okay, got you. What do you got for me? No, I'm a long time, first time. Who are? I just want to say I'm a huge Mark students fan.

And I'm tired of hearing the Kentucky fans being so pessimistic just because of one game. It needs to be positive. next game's going to be bad yeah i get it okay give me give me the case for being positive so like if you were to say to the audience that you want them to be positive about the rest of the season give me the case for how you can be positive i'll say one thing why not you k that's not an answer that's like just that's just a slogan i want you to give me an argument for why fans should be positive uh because he brought us from the bottom to somewhat the middle, I guess.

But, no, I mean, he's brought us from from the bottom to somewhat respectable. Why not still believe in it? Okay. All right. I appreciate the call. That's not the fiery pep talk, Shannon, I really wanted. Yeah. But, yeah.

He brought the bottom to the somewhat middle. Bottom is not the very bottom. Yeah, I don't think we're going to put that one out of a T-shirt. He took us from the bottom. the bottom to the somewhat respectable, I guess. That's not going to be one I think that we'll get a lot. You want me to make the case for, do you want me to make the positive case? Yes.

Okay, I'm not saying I totally believe this. But we need a little uplift message. Here's going to be my positive case. All right. Every year, Kentucky has a stinker. Yes, they do. Usually they have it in the middle to end of the year. This year, they had it at the beginning.

There are a couple plays that if you go back and look at, It's insane they didn't go our way. Remember the fumble that we had four guys around it and then South Carolina got it, right? The fourth and won. Okay, there's a couple plays that I think if they go a different way, you're in the game. I'm not saying you to win, but you're in.

It's a bad loss. There are still seven wins out there on the schedule, and you don't even have to beat a great team necessarily to get to those seven, all right? if they do that, 7 and 5 historically is a very good year for Kentucky, and there's very unlikely that next year's schedule will be as hard as this one. That's the case. It's not a particularly compelling case to me, but it's the case.

Florida, Auburn, Vandy, and Louisville, that's a beatable run. Yes, it is. Okay, and the two hardest of those games, which might be Auburn and Louisville, Drew are in our stadium. That to me is the compelling case. Yeah, and Auburn and Florida, those are big logos, but they're not very good this year. No, they're not. They could both be in shambles by the time each of those games roll around.

So as bad as Kentucky looked, that's one you can still, you know, look to as hoping to get a win. And at least Mark Stoops didn't say what Hugh Freeze said, which was, of all the plays in the game, only one of them was the coach's fault. The rest was all the players. He said that. He goes, we did the right thing. They just screwed up. That's a strategy. Well, there you go.

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We didn't get all the way in the middle. From the bottom to the middle, in parentheses, somewhat. print the shirts Kentucky branded I'm fired up I'm more fired up than I was right well I wasn't fired up at all so I mean that's worth that's worth something still in a little bit of shock what happened on Saturday I am too usually doesn't linger this much I'm a good bounceback fan I usually just need a good sleep then I'm back this one's lingered I'm in shock that it happened just the way it happened to to me was very sorry how can they not get in the end zone you know and there's a great chance they may not

get in the end zone this Saturday. That would be awful for two straight games. Yeah, we're only, I mean, we're last in the power five in passing, which is not what you want. No, I still can't get over. My guy Cox's getting great. It is a five. Five.

I'm telling you, traffic cones get a three. And we got a five. Did you hear two, Stoop said something last night about the reason they blew out a couple blown coverages because the technology messed up in their helmets? What do you mean the technology messed up? What does that mean? It eventually turns off for a certain time. And I guess the guys wearing the helmets didn't see that they switched to a hand signal.

They were just relying on what they had heard and didn't know that some hand signals had gone around. Yeah, that sounds like an excuse to me. It's an organization problem. That's all right. Look, I mean, we were just talking about this here in the restaurant a second ago. There's always going to be a good organization, hello. She did not seem like she knew who I was. I was like, hello, and she just sort of looked at it.

That's one of our servers. What are those guys doing over there? A good organization, any major event, and I'll conclude a football game is like this, you can have the best laid plans, but you have to be able to pivot, right? Because there's always going to be a hiccup. Yes, of course. And good organizations and good leaders can hiccup. It can actually pivot. I actually think that might be the best symbol of what a leader is.

Can you pivot in the moment to adjust whatever is happening, you know, just using this restaurant? Sometimes a piece of technology will go down. Or like on Saturday, the Kentucky blue light beer tap broke. And a good leader sits there and says, okay, maybe what makes sense is for us to put it on a different tap and use the beer we don't sell and replace it for the day. Right? But you have to make that decision in the moment. Sure. So if the technology is not working, okay.

But a good leader figures out it's not working and says, ignore that. blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You don't go afterwards and go, well, they couldn't hear. And so I was actually trying to communicate with Kentucky's defense here when the technology went out recently. Yeah, I just, that doesn't, to me, that's not an excuse. One person writes, Matt, did you end up getting in your car and driving around on Saturday? Yes, I just left after the third quarter. Did you?

I'll be honest, I didn't even watch the fourth quarter. I actually was at the game and left in the third quarter to go to the parking lot. I went to the, I went to the Indian restaurant. I was like I'm going to have some chicken vindaloo. That sounds good. I'm going to eat some garlic gnawn and then to get ready for the postgame show. And I'm not going to say which restaurant, but I go to one regularly. It's normally very good.

Saturday was the worst meal I've ever had there. And I think there was just something in the water in this city that nothing, nothing was going to be. I'm going to give him another chance. But like it was the Kentucky, South Carolina performance of Indian food. Maybe football just ruined your taste books. You couldn't taste anything. Maybe so.

Who's up next? Earl. Earl. How are you, Earl? Speaking of Earl, James Earl Jones died, by the way. He did, yes. James Earl Jones died, 93 years old. Wow.

Everybody knows him for Star Wars, also in your favorite movie, right? Field of Dreams, which is your favorite movie. Love him in Field of Dreams. Yeah, he was, I heard of CNN. This is CNN. Yes, he was. He was the CNN voice. I didn't know that.

You didn't know that? No, I didn't know that. Yes. What a great voice and a great actor. But go ahead, Earl. Earl. Earl. All right.

Earl, Earl. Rest in peace, James Earl Jones. There's a tribute, actually. Rest in peace to Earl's call. Who's next? Jay and Lyndon. Jay and Linden, go ahead. Hey, man, when I get stressed and all this about the football, I dig into the numbers a little.

And I think to be positive, I think, let's remember the two most dire situations we've had with Stoops here, where he came back from injuries, the Stephen Johnson here, and the Lynn Bout. year, right? I mean, we back, it's a fan base, we thought we were done. I looked at this. The last five years, we've been favored in 18 SEC games. I think that fact's amazing from where we came from. We've been underdog. How many of those do you know? How many of those did we win? Just out of curiosity. We've won 12 of 18. We've been underdog 24 times, and we won six of those. And if you look at the numbers, he always throws in a stinker when we, when we have an ups and and beat somebody.

And he tends on the years that we beat who we're supposed to not beat the underdogs. But when we've beaten, when we've pulled a little bit of an upset, though, it's rarely been the level of team that we're playing this year, right? So like the upsets for, and you correct me if I'm wrong, I think the upsets that we've had have often been games where it was like LSU that year or Florida. on paper they look like they be good, but then they ended up not being good, but we still beat them.

I mean, what is our best Stoops win? Like when you looked at the end of the year, you went, that team was pretty good. Well, that's the problem. Is it Lamar's Louisville team?

Is that the best? It's got to be. And maybe even last year's Louisville game. I mean, Louisville's, yeah, I don't know that they ended up being, yeah,

but they ended up not being good. I mean, they lost a, a bad Florida State team and USC. Here's the deal. You like flipping the mojo. Here's what I'm going to do. And you and Drew know this.

I do not bet on or against UK. I'm betting on Georgia this week, and I think it's going to help us. You think it's going to flip? Okay. All right. Appreciate you, Jay. It's the flip.

I'm trying to think if you were to say, looking back, what is Mark Stoop's best win? I think it has to be beating Louisville at Louisville with Lamar. Yeah, because we were like, what, a 25 point underdog or something that game? No, it wasn't that much. It was that much. I remember you couldn't even money line it.

It was so big because I was trying to bet the money line. But we were decent that year. We were like seven and four. It wasn't 25. I want to say it was 24. That would shock me. I mean, I believe you. I remember trying to bet it.

You couldn't. At Florida, when they snapped the streak, I think, is up there. 24? Yeah, it was awful. Yeah, but that, but that's what I, that's what I, That's what I mean. At Florida was a huge win for us, but that Florida team ended up not being good. That Florida team, I think, ended up, didn't they finish like five and seven?

Yeah, the perception at the time, it was a huge program win. Same with BNLSU with Orgeron. At the time, that was a big win. But then they ended up not being good. So I guess my question is, what is Kentucky's when the season was over? You look back at it and say that was the best win. probably the Penn State Citrus Bowl. That's going to be my next one.

And Louisville on the road. I think that's it. Those are the two. And while those are good wins, none of those teams are as good as the four teams we're playing this year. Is that fair to say? That's very fair to say. Four of the top seven teams in the country we have on our schedule.

This is some of the hardest we've ever had to play. I mean, what Ryan just said is crazy. Four of the top seven in the country, and you're going to three of them. Yeah, so that's insane. But, I mean, we got to the middle somewhat. We're climbing. Somewhat.

Who's next, Shannon? Roy. Roy, 859-280, 27. Go ahead. First time calling, long-time listener, guys. Good morning. Who are? What's up, sir?

Well, I just found an analogy. We're sitting there trying to find things to be optimistic. I'm very disappointed, but, you know, our offensive line was horrible, and we've gone from the big blue wall to the red carpet wall. That's an optimistic. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, that's what I, we're going to have to find. I don't know how he's going to be able to fix that line because, you know, our quarterback, as bad as our passing game with guys, he didn't even have the opportunity to get his first read. He didn't have his progression.

He never had the opportunity. And, you know, we can't have ball carriers being hit soon as they get the ball. I mean, that's the biggest concern I have on winning even two or three more games. Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you. I mean, I appreciate the call. I cannot judge Brock Vandergriff, I don't feel like, because I don't know how he was supposed to do that. I mean, you know, maybe if he was somebody like, you know, a Heisman winner, he would have been able to do it.

But, Drew, I don't even know how you can really judge Brock Vandergriff yet. No, I mean, it was definitely a bad game, but it's hard to put the, majority of that on him. I mean, he still hadn't even played a full game as a starter to that point from the week before, and then you throw him into that. I could understand why he'd be completely terrified dropping back in the second half the way it looked. Do you judge Brock at all?

No, I mean, he threw a couple bad passes against South Carolina, but for the most part, he'd had zero time, zero opportunity to even settle in and try to find some people. So we have yet to see him, I think, play his best ability yet. Yeah. Kentucky Louisville opened at 26. points. That is amazing to me. Like we were a bowl team. We should have bet Kentucky. I think you did. I hammered the spread. Hey, a new report from the Kentucky Chamber highlights the massive economic impact of housing in Kentucky. Kentucky needs housing. It generates over $1.5 billion in federal,

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So that to me then is the, so if I'm ranking Stoops wins, I'm going to rank that number one. I'm going to rank that Louisville game number two, because you remember they, they had only lost one game, I think. They'd only lost to Houston, maybe Clemson and Houston, and then we beat them. And then I'll put the Penn State third only because it's a bowl game, although they were trying. I mean, that was a game where both teams were at complete full strength, but I'll rank them like that. Yeah, I don't remember how many points. Kentucky was an underdog in that one. Penn State had a good year. Yeah. Well, we- That was a big statement game.

That was a recruiting too. So, I mean, it's not true that they have not won any big games. But it's like Max said on the pregame. That South Carolina game, that's an example of the kind of game that you have to get, and we know we didn't get it. We got demolished. I really enjoyed last night, Ryan, the Manning cast. They had, apparently they're going to have Bill Belichick on, like, every other week or whatever.

They did a whole half with him, and I felt like I was in. football school. Sometimes I didn't understand what they were saying. But you know how you watch people who like really know something and love it? It's kind of fun to watch how excited they are. That's kind of how I felt. I missed the halftime show with Billiuchick on that. It wasn't a halftime.

They did the whole first half together. All first half. The Mannings and Belichick did the whole first half together. And they're breaking down every play? Most of them, like talking about like, oh, they're going to do this. And then Belichick and Peyton, especially getting mad at the coaches for the things they call. Like, why don't they call this? And Drew, I really enjoyed it.

Oh, Manning got real mad about the contract holdout for the 49ers. Yeah, he was kind of like, he was the – Brandon Ayup. Brandon Ayuk dropped the pass, and he just went off about holding out for contracts. You can get your reps in camp. And then I liked Bill Belichick and Eli going back and forth because of their Super Bowl history. Yeah, that was really, really good. For a peace treaty.

And then Adam Sandler was on it. I really like Adam Sandler. Shannon, he just seems like a nice guy, Adam Sandler. Yeah, a guy that would have you wouldn't want to be. to be buddies with. I didn't get to see it last night either, though. Let's go back and check it out. He seems like a guy that's just like a good dude.

He's a fan of one of the teams? He's a fan of the Jets. And he's got like a new something coming out, but he's a fan of the Jets. I mean, overall wasn't good, but Aaron Rogers led him on the early on to a touchdown. Is he back? No.

Back back? That's your boy. Damn, yeah. You and Shannon are like the whole fan club. Yeah, he's the worst. Like, I took no joy in him throwing the interception that ended the game at all. He also, did you notice, like, did you see the coach try to talk to him,

and he just was looking away? Oh, with the tablet? Yeah, the coach's got the tablet, and he's, like, trying to explain it. Aaron's just looking the other way. Like, kind of intentionally. He was kind of intentionally. Sending a message.

There's no way, like, at this point in his career, I don't think you'd want to be team leads with him. You know, they, you would think that he still had a little magic left in him. Why would you think that? He hasn't been good since 2020. Well, that's still pretty good. Says who. You know, he didn't play last year.

And then the year before he wasn't very good. But before that, he was good. I know, well, okay. So was Joe Montana. He didn't forget out throwing football, though. I mean, you want to get, okay, but still, I mean, everyone gets bad at some point, like, or else Johnny Unitas would still be playing. Like, at some point you.

Tom Brady probably still should play. Maybe. Not a good announcer. But he's better. Oh, he can't be worse than he is. He seems to never know when to end a sentence. Have you noticed? Or when to start talking.

It's like, you know. He's like A.J. Hawk. You do radio enough or television. You innately feel. One of the things Ryan's the best at that he doesn't get credit for is he innately knows when to talk and when not to talk. We almost have like a six cents, don't you think? That like from the first day we did this show. And Drew is and we all kind of do that.

Tom has the like third sense. He does not know when to talk, and he does not know when to stop talking. Jennifer asked me this. Do you think they'll actually maybe do some training with him this week? He was so bad, like they maybe do some practice games. They did a lot of training for that. But, like, yeah, he did apparently like eight practice games, which means this was after he practiced, Shannon.

Can you imagine what those were like? I want to see the footage. I will say he wasn't the worst announcer I heard. Colt McCoy, who did the Nebraska-Colada game. go look at his clips. Really? He sounded like a child that had been handed a microphone

for the first time. No offense to him, Colt. But he would just go, imagine like the most scared person you've ever heard do television. That's what it was. He's got TV background a little bit, right? You remember how bad Shane Battier was at it?

Oh, yes. Yeah. I think with Brady is when he did talk, which wasn't often. He didn't have much to say, to be one of the greats. He'd be like, they don't pick up this third down it's going straight to fourth down it's like yeah Tom we know we get the rules of football

who's the worst person you can ever remember the guy on monday night football was really nervous he was a sideline reporter yeah he was a sideline reporter that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was a sideline reporter he wasn't in a starring role yeah he was he was he was i he was really bad he had a famous line where he was like i can't remember something about the broncos coach. His name was Diego, I think. Who's the worst one you can remember? There's been some disappointments on Monday night football.

Rush Limbaugh, Dennis Miller. Why did they ever think that was a good idea? I don't know. Can you imagine if tomorrow they announced that Sean Hannity were calling the football Rachel Maddow? It was a huge failure. Dennis Miller, I don't think, worked. I like Dennis Miller.

He did it for like two or three years. Yeah. Who's next? Sergio Dip. Sergio Dip. That's right. Go ahead. Shane, I got to play that.

That's great. Shane. No, Shane Badde. Yes, that was Shane Baddie. He was interviewing that Russian guy at the draft, right? Yeah, yeah. And he was like, my mom say, my dad say, and then Shane just goes, well, that's great. That's great. All right.

Madison. Madison, go ahead. I know y'all haven't heard from me for a while, but now you have. That's a great point. That's a Tom Brady thing. Like I haven't spoken, but now I am. All right, go ahead, Madison. I got two things for you.

One, what's the percentage chance that Stoops comes back next year, considering we have like a top 25 recruiting class coming in. And two, do you think if we don't go to a bowl, do you all see our recruiting players decommit or what y'all? Some might, but I do think with the NIL, I appreciate the call. you're actually chances of decommitting going, go down because you're going in part because of the money. So as long as the money is still there, I think that that would be less likely. We yesterday did the percentage chance.

They turned this season around. Let's do the percentage chance Mark Stoops is the coach next year. For any reason. Okay. For any reason, whether it's his choice or not, I'll make you go first, Ryan. You set the mark. The mark. I think we're definitely on the back end of the Mark Stoops era.

I think we're within a couple years. So for next year, I'm still going to go 50%. That's a low number. That's a low number, true? I'm going 65%. I was going to go 60. Shannon, what would you say? I'm going to go higher than all of you guys.

I think he's definitely back next year, at least for one more season. I'm going to go 80. Yeah. Well, I mean, 50, 60, and 65 are not high numbers when you consider about. And again, chipping chances of him being fired are zero. Zero. So that tells you what my thought is as to what would happen. We'll take a break.

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