KSR - 2024-09-25- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: September 25, 2024

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk UK vs. Ole Miss and UNLV not paying what they promised a player.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill. on a rainy Wednesday morning. It's kind of a nasty day outside. But that's okay. Is it supposed to be like this all day? I think. Next couple days. Yeah.

There's like a hurricane or something coming through, isn't it? Down there on the Gulf. It's coming up our way. Well, that's fine. That's why I'm leaving. The Clark's Pubb and Shop phone line 859-280-2287. A-Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-7-7-4 in this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith-Lawvis.

If you call T.J., he'll make them. It is Wings Day, Dollar Wings, all day and night, including tonight during trivia. You can come on in. We've got a guy here already from Floyd County, Kentucky, guy here from Indianapolis, Indiana, which is an exciting, those two very different places here this morning. And trivia is tonight, and Ryan, let me tell you how excited I am. I wrote, and I'm not just saying this, and tomorrow on the show, I will let everybody know what it was. Okay.

I wrote what I think is the best question I have ever written for a trivia question. When I came up with it, I almost called Mario out of excitement. I was so excited about because I was like, this is the best question I've ever written. It's about UK sports. Okay. So that's a little hint for people coming. There's one UK sports question. But when I wrote it, I thought, objectively, this is the best question I've ever written,

maybe the best question in the history of trivia. Okay, Trump. What? I said, okay, Donald Trump. It is. It's the best question. A lot of people are saying. What makes me want to call Corey Price to get him on my team tonight.

I don't know that he'll help you on this. That's the thing. I think it's good because it's not just numbers-based. You actually have to, like, think. So, Drew, I'm very excited about it. Are you saying you're prepared for this trivia already? A lot of times, you know, it's coming down to the buzzer when you're putting questions. 16 questions.

I've got 12 of them done. So I feel pretty good. I feel pretty good about it. That's a good pace. That's a good pace. from one to three that I teach today, and then I got like four hours before the trivia tonight. I'll be able to finish it.

But, and, you know, it's the only, for the people who worry, it's the only sports ones. So don't worry about it. You know, it's just one of many. But I'm so, I mean, I want to ask it right now, but I'm not going to do that. Well, no. Because that would spoil the game if I did that.

Well, it would reward the people who listen to the show that are coming tonight. Maybe we need a little tip. I hope they'll come. I won't have to come. But, like, you don't get everything in life. I gave them one question, right? Like, I tell them the topic. That's more than the other people will know.

That's true. Yeah, there's your hand. One of 16. One of 16. So that's tonight, you know, come on out. 859-280-2287. The other thing, yesterday, this is starting to happen a lot, Drew. The thing about having Mario.

Mario adds a lot of joy to our life. He shows up and he's got his camera. We're finally teaching him to film us not from the ground so that we look like we each just rolled out of bed. He likes to capture as many chins as possible. He's big on chins. He gets as many as he can. I said, let's bring the camera up a little bit. You know, bring it towards our eyes, maybe even above us a little bit.

But one of the things about having him is that we put these clips out, and that means people from other fan bases start to hear what we say. Yes. I don't know what I think about that. Because about every week, some fan base decides that I'm enemy number one. And now that's happened with Old Minns. Now, you may remember yesterday, I made a very simple statement. I don't even think it was a controversial statement.

I just said, Ole Miss is not the hardest place to play. That is not a controversial statement. Dear Old Miss fans, I'm going to look in the camera. Do you have a camera on, Mario? Is it a bye? Dear old Miss fans. Kentucky's not the hardest place to play in the SEC.

Do you eat, would you even put Kentucky in the top eight in the SEC of hardest places to play? Probably not. I would. As a matter of fact, I would argue Kentucky's environment is very similar to old miss's environment. But nobody comes to a Kentucky game and goes, now that's a hard place to play. And here's a secret, Ole Miss fans. Nobody goes to your place and say that's a hard place to play. Now, old miss fans said, well, we're 24 and two in our last 26 home games.

Good for you. You know why? Because you're good. You're a good football. Lane Kiffin is an amazing coach. Brilliant. But that environment is not a hard place to play. You get a noon kickoff?

You can't ask if you're in the SEC where you could go to LSU at night, Bama, Georgia, Tennessee, like now, those places, Auburn, those places can be brutal to play. You're telling me I get Ole Miss in a noon game, their team is awesome, but that's as good a spot as you're going to get. And they're all mad.

My friend that lives in Oxford says she was literally getting breakfast today and there was a 65-year-old man on his phone listening to my comments, getting angry in Oxford. I'm sorry, I love Oxford. I'm coming. I'll be there. I was there two years ago. It's fun. But Drew, you've been multiple times.

I don't know if they haven't left and gone to other stadiums, but it is not the hardest place to play. Difficulty, no. It is my number one on places to visit. Yes. part of your point is it's not even noon it's 11 a.m. I don't care where we're talking about. If you're getting a team at 11 a.m., the fans, unless they just have that dog in them as a tailgator, they're not going to be at their best energy and enthusiasm for an 11 a.m. game.

I don't know why that makes people mad. If Kentucky, so, so Ole Miss is really good. But if you were talking about Kentucky basketball and you said to me, okay, is Rupp harder than the other environments at noon against the basketball equivalent of what we are in football, I would say, no, not really. Now, if it's 7 o'clock and Kansas is coming into town, well, that's a different situation. So I have no idea. And it was just, again, all, and then of course the old Miss media, you know, the old Miss media,

I guess they're trying, you know, I don't know how much traffic they get. They get, they're all putting me up, Matt Jones said, show him he's wrong. Saturday at 11 a.m. Come get them. It's like, come on. I picked up my phone pretty late last night, just to catch up on the news for a pass out, and I had noticed, like, most of my Twitter at that point was Old Miss people in your video. Come get them. Show him. So I hope I get there, and it's crazy. I was there two years ago. At times, was it loud? Sure. But go to a, I can't believe I'm taking up for Tennessee, but go to a Tennessee game. You can't hear yourself. And it's not like that.

Two years ago, Kentucky fans actually had a great turnout. They did their first stripe out, and Kentucky fans wore a lot of white, and we made a big impact. The Kentucky fans were all over. There are stadiums that are hard to play in South Carolina, Tennessee, LSU. Ole Miss is not one of those stadiums. You said it right. It's a tough game because they're good. They're good.

Not because their stadium makes it a tough place to play. You are 24 and 2 because you're good. Okay? First of all, four of those games every year are against the worst teams in the world. All right. Then, you all were playing in the West. So you get Arkansas at home. You get Mississippi State home.

Auburn's been bad. Granted, they've pulled upsets against the LSUs. I think probably they've beaten Alabama at some point during that time. They're good. But it's not because of Volta Hemingway Stadium. I mean, Larry Vaught, Ernest Hemingway, State. is fine, but it's not something crazy special. And I hope they do show up.

I hope they show up and come out and it's loud. And you know what? After 15 minutes, that won't matter because the game starts at 11-8. But like you said, if you're Kentucky, you can't hand-pick up. If you had to play at Ole Miss, you couldn't hand-pick it any better. It's 11 o'clock their time. They haven't played an SEC game yet at all. First time they've faced an SEC defense.

This is almost perfect for Kentucky to go down there and be competitive. Now, they're probably going to beat us because they're good. They're good. They're really good. Lane Kiffin, and make sure this is in the video, Mario. Lane Kiffin is brilliant. Like he is for football. He is a brilliant football coach.

And they will likely win because of that. But I guarantee you when I go in that stadium, I guarantee you, I'm not going to get chills and think I'm at Yankee Stadium game seven of the World Series. I'm going to be like, I'm at Vaught Hemingway Stadium. This is nice. that tailgate had a chandelier. Can you believe it? Look how pretty it was.

But I don't think it's going to be like, who. Nice place. Remember, I've told the story. We took mums to our tailgate. That's how focused. You took mums. How focus it is down there. Yes, anytime the word, when the word mom comes out,

that means it's not intimidating. You've been anywhere that's intimidating with mums? LSU, they're carrying cases of beer at 6 a.m. I also remember they're out of beer very early. I don't know what that does for the atmosphere. but I didn't feel that intimidated. Yeah, two years ago. It was a very fun place.

Very fun place. Very fun. Two years ago when we played there, they got the false start on Dane. Remember? Barryon Brown and took away Dane's touchdown. Oh, it was Beryon that did. Yeah. Listen, Dan Cochitian, did you see that?

He was like, it was Barry on. We had shirts off in the crowd thinking it was over. We thought it was over. And so then people wrote me and goes, that false start late killed you. That wasn't because of the noise. That was because Beryon wasn't set. Yeah. He didn't get set yet.

So anyway. Well, tell us it since you guys were there last two years ago, was it loud? Did it get loud? It gets loud in the sense that every stadium gets loud if there's a good moment in the game. Okay. But it is not, again, let's go back to a South Carolina night game. You know how that stupid crow. And it'll just be loud throughout.

Sandstorm won't crane. It's very similar to our stadium. Kroberfield can get really loud. But would you say it's loud? Start to Finish during games? No. No. Tennessee is loud start to finish.

It just is. It's just different. It's just different. It's like I love Rupp Arena. When Rupp Arena is at its best, at its peak moment, it's as good as anywhere in the country. The difference is at Kansas and at Duke and Michigan State when they were good, it's like that the whole game. And we don't really do that, Drew. It's just the nature of our fan base.

No, we get fired up. up, but it's only in the big moment. It's usually a night game, which is, I think, the big thing with these Ole Miss discussion is just how early it's going to be. And we've never seen Ole Miss when they're playing BAM at 7. But I've been twice now to when they're playing Kentucky at 11 a.m. And it's fun. But, like I said, it's not intimidating or anything that's, I'm overly worried about the atmosphere.

Now, I am excited I'm going because I enjoy it. I hate that I'm going and none of you all are going. Like, nobody. Max has a high school football game. You have, what are you doing? You got a college visit. Uh, no. Okay.

You just decided not to go. All right. I picked Austin. You're going to Austin. Once it was 11 a.m. That pushed me to Austin. Shannon has never left his house. I got louder than life.

Yeah, you got louder than life. By the way, I have three tickets to larger than life. How should I give them away, Shannon? I have three week, a weekend passes. Wow. Oh. What? That's an expensive.

Yeah. Are they? Yeah. Well, I've got three for all, or three for all four days to give away. I guess I should give them away today. today or tomorrow, right? It starts tomorrow. So I would do it today if you can.

I guess I should do it today. And we'll figure out how I do that. But anyway, 859-280-2287. The big story today in college football is this kid at UNLV. Yeah. What's his name? Shuka. Sluka.

Matt Sluka? So if you look at the projections right now about the college football playoff, UNLV at this moment is projected to be the team that will go from the group of five. They're the highest ranked group of five because they've beaten Kansas and Houston. So two upsets early in the year. Their quarterback is Matthew Sluka. And he this morning announced he was transferring now with the season starting 3 and 0. And he said in his transfer promises were made that were not kept. And so even though this team has produced two big upset is potentially projected for the playoffs, he's leaving.

It has become now everyone's sort of, what do you think about it? What does this say about N.I.L. Someone would leave three games in the year, not because he's not playing. He starts at quarterback. He leaves. So I want to hear what you all think. Is this the start of something bigger, or is Matthew Sluka just ruining his career? We'll deal with it.

And look how high he's got it now. My goodness. That's taller than me. Mario's like, I'm going to shoot this from the ceiling now if you're not kidding. Is it a drone? Get out there, Mario. How'd you get up there? We'll take a break.

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It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at KS. Bar and Grill. 859-280-2287. One person writes, this is actually, they actually put their name on here. This is Clay. Clay says, Matt, I love you, but. It's always good. Yes. You're making this worse every second.

I know it's great for your engagement, and that's why you're doing it. But the message boards are now focused on this, and it'll definitely be louder. Well, first of all, good. It'll be fine. After five minutes, they're going to forget about my post. True. I mean, once the game starts, you think they're going to be thinking about me? It'd be weird.

That would be really weird. Like, they're not going to do that. Okay, maybe it will be louder at the beginning. My point is still true. If we're not going to say what we think about these teams before because, oh, no, will motivate them. If Ole Miss, who is 4-0 and has a chance to play in the playoffs and go for the national championship is motivated by a dude in Kentucky on the radio, then they got bigger problems. I mean, let's be real. They got bigger problems than that.

The other thing is, we're doing the same thing right now with those Massey ratings on KSR. These high schools are using the predictions to pump themselves up. Good, good, I'm glad. It's not about engagement. It's about I could sit here before every game and go, Ole Miss got the best day than the country. One of one. You played noon at Ole Miss.

You might as well be walking into the Roman gladiator pit. I'm just telling you what I think, and if it makes them more motivated good. If somebody else said, Matt, would you be upset if people said this about Kentucky in a radio show at Ole Miss? I wouldn't even know it happened. True. How would I even know it happened? How would I know?

And I think even if somebody said that, we would probably like, well, you know, I'd go, they're probably right. They're probably right. And I might say, let's go out and be whatever. but I couldn't with a straight face go Krogerfield noon on a Saturday I couldn't say that right

doesn't scare anybody playing it on a ranked team so this UNLV kid I'll start with you Ryan you're the most purity of college athletics person on this show when you heard the kid let's assume for sake of argument that the kid didn't get what he was

what he was told. Now, UNLV has through some of their media said he got what he's told, he just wants more. Oh, I didn't hear that part of it. Yeah, there's a media member that's out there. But I mean, I'm sure a coach or AD at UNLV told him to say that. Right. But let's just say for argument's sake he didn't get what he was.

What do you think about him quitting the team three games in the year? I don't know how he can look any teammate in the eye if he's going to abandon them three games in the season. Even his new teammates, his new locker room, man. I mean, that's always going to be the back of my mind. Oh, yeah, this is the guy that quit on his team three games in. I can understand why he's upset. I can, but, man, that can be handled after the season's over.

When professional athletes, they have contract disputes, they handle it when the season's over. But see, professional athletes have a contract. That's one of the things about these college kids is a lot of them don't have a contract. They get a promise, but that doesn't necessarily mean they get the money. Yeah, I, like I said, I can see why he's mad. I think it's awful that he's going to leave three games into the season after he's got them ranked in the top 25, maybe a playoff team. And if I'm a coach looking for a quarterback next year, I'm thinking about that. Man, he quit on these guys last year.

What do we think he quit on our team this year? I go the other way. Oh, you do? Okay. She said you're going to pay the man, pay the man. I wouldn't do it, but if he truly has payments he's owed, he has a very small window. This kid's not going to the NFL.

He has a very small window to make money in football. He's a senior. If he's going to play a whole year not getting any money, I can understand why he's redshirt, because that's what he's doing. He's preserving where he can go out next year. So he's doing this. He's exactly right because he wants to be able to keep his red shirt.

If he plays two more games, then he will not be able to play. Now, the rumors and other stuff, that would completely change my opinion. But just look at it as UNLV says, we're going to give you this and they haven't followed through on any of it, then I kind of don't blame him. He's only got one year to make money playing football.

Shouldn't volunteer to do it if they told them they'd pay him. Shannon? I think it's a bad look on both the university and the player, but I think quitting on your teammates mid-season when your 3-0 is an even worse look. So if I were him, I don't think I would quit. Maybe I would bring it up publicly and let it be known, hey, they're not delivering on their promise, but I think quitting is the worst scenario.

Yeah, I think I'm kind of. with Shannon in the sense that I think it's a lose-lose scenario. It's going to make the school look bad for future recruits. Recruits are going to be like, I don't know if I can go there because they say they're going to do this and then they don't. But I actually don't think it helps the kid either because I agree with Ryan in the sense of if I'm going to be the new coach, do I want the dude that quit three games in, right? Do I want the dude that I'm not sure I can try?

I mean, the other thing is because he's the first one to do it, the whole debate about this, which if you remember, I've been. saying this was going to happen. I've been saying, because let me give you a little secret. Kids all over the country, it is a known fact that most kids don't get exactly what they're told, most of them, not all, but most of them. And that people have written about it. I knew this was going to happen someday.

I didn't think it was going to be a high-profile quarterback of the team that could make the playoff. But now he's going to be the face of this. Sure. And I don't know if he and his family are ready for that. He and his family probably thought this is something we're going to do. But I don't know if they were ready for the fact that like tonight on maybe on today's first, like this will be a debate on PTI this afternoon, right?

Like he, this will be the centerpiece of fine bomb this afternoon. And all of a sudden this kid is going to be in the middle of everything. And when he tries to transfer to a school, that school's fan base is going to be like, do we want this? That's right. And he has now made himself the face of this issue. And Ryan, I wonder if they thought that through because I do think that's going to be like a burden on him

that he might not realize right now. Yes, I think that we'll follow him wherever he goes. So that's why I mean, you've just got to just tough it out and sit it out through the season and then do it when the season's over, man. You do it right now. That dark cloud's going to follow you. Like you said, if I'm a coach, I don't know if I want that guy in my locker room after what he just did to that other locker room.

Sometimes when you're the first person part of a controversial issue, you almost suffer and then immediately everybody moves on. So I always use the example of everybody our age remembers that Bill Clinton, there was a big debate about I didn't inhale, right? And the question of could you be president if you want smoked weed? Well, now presidential candidates all admit most of them that they did. I mean, I think Obama said I did cocaine, like all this stuff, and it doesn't matter. But they had to have that debate about Clinton.

And he was like a big thing. And then it became nothing. I think this kid, Drew, is going to end up the centerpiece of a debate that maybe he didn't realize he was going to end up at the centerpiece of. But if I'm him and I wasn't getting paid, then, oh, well, debate me. I mean, I have nothing to lose. I'm just assuming he's not getting any money. I have one year. What if he's getting, excuse me, what if he's getting 100,000, but he was promised 300,000?

It's a little different. I mean, that's still a good chunk of money. I doubt that's the case. But I'm just assuming he's not getting what UNLV said. At that point, fine, talk about me. No one is really, had you heard of him before today? No, I'd know. Maybe it turns into something.

What if they now go? Honestly, I think these situations need to happen. We talk about how it eventually come down. You almost need the schools to get called out to get a little messy so people will stop promising money they don't have. So you actually don't think it's that big a deal? I mean, it sucks for the locker room. And I said, I wouldn't do it.

But if they truly told the guy, we're going to give you this and they didn't give it to him, would you work for free? Siddon, would you do this? if you were the kid. I feel like you're the kind of person that would walk away. No, no, I wouldn't walk away. Like I said, I would make it public. I would put it out there.

Hey, just want to let everybody know I'm not getting paid what I was told I was going to get paid. I would still continue to be on the team. And that might cause a riff by coming public with it. But I think that I would still stay on the team. Interesting. What would you do? 859-280-2287. This is, I think this is going to happen at more schools because I think guys get

promised stuff in the heat of the moment, but it's not like a pro player that signs a contract. These kids just have to trust they'll get it paid. We'll be right back. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. So, you know, when we asked yesterday, like, people had advice of ways to make the show better.

One of the things I heard a bunch was, you know, we wish we could get the music back in the podcast. This would have been a good day for it. Yes. because that was a funny intro there from Shannon. Yeah, I mean, I wish I could help with that. Like, that's, I think there's some kind of, like, lawsuit and something and nothing we can do about it. Hopefully that'll change at some point. I bet it will, but it might not be recent.

I appreciate how many of you just wrote and said you like it the way it is. I mean, normally you would say, like, what is the, what's something to change? The most common opinion was keep it the way it is. Don't go, don't go to three hours. There's no reason to add this, that. there's no reason to change this, that, you know, there were a couple good suggestions that I wrote down, but it seems like people in general are pretty happy, so that's good. I would like to add more segments like yesterday when Ryan said Servant.

Well, I laughed at that several times throughout today. I did too. I'm not trying to pile on Ryan, but the reaction to it, like I think the listeners really enjoyed that segment. Well, and it was very natural. He thought it was Servant. Yeah, I missed that just a little bit, just by a letter or two. But I think it made for a great radio segment. You missed it by two letters.

Actually, three, because you said S-E-R. So you missed three, but it was out of six. It was 50% of letters. Well, you know, I'll take that if I'm a baseball player. He's bad in 500. That's true. You don't do that. I don't want to do it a lot on words.

859-2-80-2287. Text machine 772-7524. One person writes, Matt, would you all keep working at I-heart if you weren't getting paid? No, but we have, the thing for us is actually maybe because we have contracts and we could like enforce them. I think for this kid, this is the leverage. I mean, some of you are in unions. Unions will sometimes go on strike or walk out. That, you know, it's a little, what makes it different is in sports.

So in a normal business relationship, let's say you're taking Joe's plumbing supplies. And let's say they make like, you know, pipes for toilets. if the union goes out and strikes, it really only affects, for the most part, the people that work there, the management and the owner. In sports, there's this group of people called fans, right, who aren't directly part of the employment relationship, but it really matters to them. And that's what makes, I think, sports unique, Ryan, in the sense of there's this group that are not really financially tied. I mean, they could donate money if they want to, but they're almost tied more spiritually. and I think that makes it a little different than your average business relationship.

And you, Hennon, do you think this is maybe the first of a lot of instances like this happening where guys all the sudden in the middle of the season have a good year? Hey, I want more money. Give me more money or I'm going to sit. I think it's going to bring to the forefront the issue that I've thought about

from moment one of NIL. How do you enforce agreements when there are no contracts? I'm literally teaching contracts today at Georgetown. And all of the things that society has developed for 400, 500, 600, 700, 700 years in order to enforce agreements between people. We have developed this case law over centuries to ensure that people do agreements. And none of it applies in college sports.

College sports now we expect people to transaction millions of dollars and not have written agreements in many cases. I just think you're asking for trouble in that scenario. That's what I was saying. And I think even though it's a debate and it's kind of ugly for the sport, I think we need a few of these to get to that point. When we said when this started and it was crazy, it's like, well, eventually it'll all even now get cleaned up. Well, I think you need a couple sluvas, their slucus to blow it up a little bit.

Teams will stop promising money they don't have, or maybe it'll force us into having contracts. Yeah. Who's up first, Shannon? Dale. Del. Go ahead, Dale. Hey, good morning, guys. This is Dale with the manhole, formerly Trump War Room. Quick couple of questions and a comment.

Big Blue Madness, why is it not a Rupp Arena? It is. It is. It is. Yes. The blue white game is in, I almost made a bad joke. The Blue White game is at Memorial. Big Blue Madness is at Rupp.

Okay. And then you have to go through Ticketmaster? It's always been like that. Oh, dude. You're really, you got your facts today, Dale. Both of your comments have been incorrect. Yeah. Well, you know, I don't listen to the show regular right now.

I've been in the middle of a bunch of stuff. All right. Well, good luck with this stuff. But yes, it goes through Ticketmaster. They're free, except, are they charged, do they charge a Ticketmaster? Still does their fee. Service fee. That stinks.

But it's been like that, at least for the last few years, and maybe even going before that. Okay. Well, and I've got a poncho on rubber boots. So, y'all got my number there. You're going to be giving away those passes. I only live like 12 minutes from the venue for the louder than life. I think I'll be able to find somebody to do them, but we'll do a contest, but I appreciate it.

And we've got to figure out how I want to do a contest. How do we make sure the people, I want them to be real, I don't want them to sell it. So I want them to be real, what is it, metal heads, Shannon. Yeah. Maybe we have them sing. Maybe I, that we have, you think about Shannon a question. Okay. To prove that they're real metal heads or not when we get to.

Okay. Is that fair? Yep. Who's up next? Let's go to Josh. Josh, go ahead, Josh. Josh. All right.

Lance. Lance, go ahead, Lance. Hey, Matt. Kind of on Brock Vandergriff and looking forward to Ole Miss games. I think this year's team would have really benefited from having two of the kind of the Cupcake games to start the season. I agree with you. Because only having that half game in Southern Miss.

And then you hit South Carolina. such a big step up from southern miss south carolina and then georgia is what they are but if you re-watch yeah i totally agree with you on that i'll explain to you why that doesn't happen but go ahead um and real quick on brock vandergris and i'm not trying to be a sunshine pumper or anything um do you re-watch the games after they're played typically or do you just watch them in the rarely no very rarely okay well and i found if i rewatch the games after they happen in the emotion of the game, you're able to kind of focus more on the smaller details. And if you watch Brock Lesner, Brock Vandergriff, if you watch him and some of his

passes, especially against, look at Southern Miss and Ohio, because Georgia's Georgia, and they weren't ready for, or. Okay, but what am I looking for? Some of the passes that he makes in games, he is anticipating windows to open and dropping passes into triple coverages, and I know it's going to sound crazy because it's early, but we haven't had a quarterback with that type of placement on passes since maybe Andre Woodson and then going back to the rim. I can think of a couple of passes, and I appreciate the call where I agree with you, where he put

it into a window that I don't think a lot of guys could. I think he's got a great arm, Ryan. I think he seems to have pretty good accuracy. The decision making, I think, is the thing the coaches bring up. but I still feel like we're four games in the season. I still don't totally feel like I can judge him. I think we're going to know a lot more on Saturday because we're going to play on a road, an Ole Miss team that offensively is brilliant,

defensively is okay, and he should be able to put up some points down there. Yeah, I like what the guy said. We should have had a couple maybe Cupcake games early because Brock hadn't started a game since high school. But do you know why we're not? I don't think that's the days of us playing two or three games to start, I think are over. because of the SEC expanded schedule? Because we insist on playing Louisville at the end of the year. So I think if you'll think about the last few years,

it's normally been Florida, but we've played a conference game in week two or three for the last five years. No one's told me this, but I was thinking exactly what that caller said, Drew. It would have been nice to not play South Carolina game two, Georgia game three. But here's the problem. Because we end the year with Louisville,

and because the teams, the SEC wants the teams to play their stinky game right before the end of the year. For us, it's Murray State. That means our SEC games are always going to be earlier. And if you look at the teams that play the early SEC games, what are they? Florida, who plays Florida State at the end of the year. Georgia, who plays Georgia Tech at the end of the year. South Carolina, who plays Clemson at the end of the year. And I think the likely scenario is going forward.

We will be playing South Carolina, Georgia, or Florida in game two or three every year. Because the way the SEC does it, because we insist on ending with Louisville, and the SEC insists we play one of our bad games at the end of the year. All the teams have to do that. We're going to end up playing an early SEC game against one of those teams that also plays an end-of-the-year rivalry game. I think Drew we're going to end up doing that like forever. Yeah, it's been happening a lot lately. That makes sense.

This year, I think it really hurt the line more than anything because we learned South Carolina's lines better than anyone really expected. One of the best in the conference. That freshman is the real deal. And you didn't even get a full game to put in your second string the week before against Southern Miss. So you had some guys subbing in, had a few injuries in the game against South Carolina. And then that, you know, it's a trickle down.

You can't win in the trenches. It helps impact everywhere else. and that's where Brock, we didn't get to see as much out of as we wanted. But I think it hurt the line more than anything making that jump. I think it stinks. Actually, I think this would have been a year. It would have been nice to have Ohio in the second game of the year. But I think the way this schedule works, we're probably going to see South Carolina, Georgia, or Florida.

Does any other SECT play at the end? Who else plays a game at the end against a rival? Anybody? I don't think anybody else does. So I think we're going to see one of those three teams in week two or three. probably every year going full. So we just have to be. And the thing is, if it's South Carolina or Florida,

that's a huge game for us every year. You've got to get that. Determine the season. And you're going to have to get it in week two or three every year. Yeah. A big, Big Blue keeps delivering with football season going on. But remember, the blue white basketball scrimmage is Friday, October 18th at the newly renovated Memorial Coliseum.

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The Oxford Police Department just tweeted it. Yeah, what's that about? Who realized the Oxford? Did we have something with them two years ago? I like Oxford. One of my best friends lives in Oxford. We're staying at her house. She cooks.

Oh, yeah. She cooks its great food. Last time I took Max and Miles, they're not invited back. But the rest of my friends are, you know, it happens. It seems like we had a little something with the Oxford Police Department a couple years ago. Well, you stole the donkey one time, the pony.

I had some personal interactions with them years ago. maybe the listeners will help. Did they call in two years ago? Yeah, they clearly did something. I can't remember why. I kind of have just a piece of a memory of them being on the air. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe so.

Somebody help us with that. 859-28027. Yeah, it's Clemson, Florida, or excuse me, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia. So we're going to end up playing one of them in the first two or three weeks every year. I almost wish it to Georgia because it doesn't matter as much. The Florida and South Carolina ones are big. One person writes, where to go. Oh, Matt, the reports are that he got $3,000 after being promised $100,000.

Does that change your mind? I mean, it would definitely make me mad and upset, but I'm not going to quit on my team, man. And that's just what I have a hard time getting over that. What if you only have one year in your life to make $100,000? Like he's not, he's going to go be in a cubicle next year. So let me ask you this. We're a team here at KSR, right? If I heart just tomorrow said you're working the rest of the year for free,

I mean, Ryan, it would hurt us if you just left, but would you be like, I'm not, you promise me X amount of money, would you work the rest of the year for free? That's tough. Careful. I do have a kid to raise. Yeah. Well, we don't know.

Maybe he has a guy. I don't know. But like they have a season. They only have 12 games. Okay, we only have one. This is, you know, this is still whatever. Let's just say, I heart said, look, from now until the end of March, a season, Mark Pope's first season, we've now paid you for month one,

so we've given you your $3,000 out of $100,000. We're going to need you to go ahead and finish the year, though. And let's just say that I was like, hey, man, that stinks, but I really love to have you. You're a big part of the team. Big part of the team. We rely on you. What are you doing? I would probably try to find another job to do after the radio show.

Let's say that's the only job you can do. That'd be tough. I mean, I got to live. So why doesn't he get to do it? Well, he's a college quarterback. So what's the day? It's a job. He doesn't have to, you know, he's got his room and board all covered, carrying, taking care of, pay bills.

They agree to pay, they agree to pay your food. I heart's going to pay my food. I heart's going to go ahead and pay your food. They'll pay your mortgage, too, then. Yeah. Let's turn it into a good contract, right? I'm just saying to you, Ryan, I think, here's what I think we do. I think we treat these college athletes like they're not like any other profession on earth.

I'm not saying you, but let me give an example of a tweet that I just got sent. All right, and this is from Eric. If a kid's getting a college scholarship, it's a huge blessing. Depending on the school, the value could be up to 25 to 50,000. I'm tired of hearing about unpaid labor. Going to school for free is no small thing. I understand that. But then what if the university is going to go make $2 million on your back

and they go, hey kid, here's the best lunchable that you'll ever see. We're giving you your lunch. And then the rest of the people all show up in suits. Your AD's making a million dollars. I can see why that would be frustrating to somebody, Ryan. I absolutely understand why he's frustrated. But why not go out the rest of the season, play great, and maybe get a better N-I deal somewhere else next year.

Why don't you finish? That's why he's redshirt. Well, let's just say, why don't you finish this year through March? And then one of these other stations, well, you'll do a good job and they'll offer you a better radio deal next year. Why don't you do that, Ryan? Well, how am I going to survive between now and March? Now you're making his point.

But he, I don't know why everybody wants to just let the school off for promising $100,000 and not paying it. Assuming they did. Now, again, we don't know. I'm just going based on that. I'm just going assuming. Now, with that report you said that it did come out that they did pay him and he wants more or something? Is that what you said?

That's just what a reporter says. But, like, I mean, we don't know what's true. Yeah. I'm just saying if we assume what the kid is saying is true just for sake of argument, I don't think his point is ridiculous. And I think we ask these kids to do something we would never ask ourselves to do. Not one person listening to this show would stay in their job for months. and not get paid.

And then we look at a kid and say, but you should. Because you know why? You entertain me. I mean, ultimately that's what it is. The only reason any of us care about this is because we're entertained by the sport. We're asking them to work for free for our entertainment. Who's next shit? Joe.

Joe, go ahead, Joe. Yeah, I just wanted to say that it seems like these athletes have a claim for promissory a stop. You can't make a promise and then have some. somebody relied to their detriment and not expect to be sued. So why would these kids do they have to be able to prove it? And I would venture to say, since it is technically still illegal under the NCAA rules for the school to promise money, it has to be from quote-unquote a collective. My guess is the collectives, most of them are smart enough to not have it in writing,

so they're probably going to have a hard time proving. That makes sense. Yeah. So I appreciate the call. Yes, if there was proof of, if you come here, I'll give you this. Like contracts don't have to be written and signed in legalese form, although they do have to be written after a certain amount of money. So actually they do.

But it could be text messages, honestly. It can be on a napkin, honestly. But you do have to have proof, and there's probably a great likelihood that he doesn't have the proof because he's a kid talking to a college, right? So if you're a parent of a kid, do you insist that you want something in? You want a contract?

If I was a parent and I had a kid that was highly valued, I would say I need in writing this agreement. And some of these collectives, by the way, do that. I think there are kids here at Kentucky who probably signed a deal with a collective. But I would want that because that's the only thing that's going to be. There's something called the statute of frauds. I think the amount is $5,000. But if it's more than a certain.

amount of money. It has to be written now. So if I was a parent, Ryan, I would want my kid to sign a piece of paper that promised me a certain amount of money. Yeah. They just tell you, want to give you $3,000. Yeah, because then you wouldn't have proof. Who's next, Shannon, real quick. All right, let's go to Bill. Bill, 30 seconds. Go ahead. Okay, yeah, real quick, I heard Shannon and Billy addresses this morning something that you've also mentioned on your show that coaches can lead. Well, I can't players leave, but something that you never address is the fact that when coaches leave, the school has to be compensated. Not necessarily.

Only if the contract says it. John Cal Perry didn't have a buyout. Almost always. Cal Perry didn't have one. Mark Stoops doesn't have one. Cal doesn't have one? Stoops doesn't have one. That's two, but almost always.

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