KSR - 2024-09-25- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: September 25, 2024

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk UK Football, Mark Pope, and behind the scene moments you'd like to see a documentary on.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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ESPN's Pete Thamele reporting that UNLV quarterback was verbally promised $100,000 from a UNLV assistant coach for transferring there and was given none of it. See, I'm signing with him. Don't promise him 100,000 if you don't have it. Yeah. We shouldn't give them a pass. He did his end of the deal. Again, that's assuming Thammels right, which we don't, you know, ultimately we don't know. Let's go over a couple things before I go back to the phones.

The White Sox had a chance to break the record. For most losses in history, they got their third biggest crowd of the year last night. Everybody wanted to be there to see him break the record, and then they went one. They won. They won the game. So you got to, if you're the team, if you're the fans, you can. to see them lose. So if you're a White Sox fan, do you wish you lost?

It is interesting because it might have been split. Are you there rooting to not be the worst? Are you there like, let's just be the worst? We're going to do it. Let's go all the way. I want to know how it played out because they were down two to nothing going to the bottom of the eighth, and they scored three runs in the bottom of the eighth. I wonder if their own fans were like, didn't want them to score.

It's like a witness history. So now they play again tonight. So I'm sure people, it's actually good for the White Sox. They're probably getting a couple big crowds as people try to be there for the worst, for the worst game. I give the White Sox social media credit. They're being funny. They're being like when they lose instead of putting the score up now,

they'll be like, uh, check social media. Like they're trying to make jokes about it, which is the best. But they, they disappointed all their fans last night by winning. Yes, by winning. As they tried to break the record. Do you think the players are thrown off by the crowds they've been playing? for no one for months.

You know, messing with them a little bit. Yeah, maybe so. I also wanted to talk. We talked not that long ago about, you know, there was the Trump, the assassination attempt. Right. So they put together a government group to try to figure out why did it happen? Like, why was this, why did this happen so easily? And their initial report came out.

And I wanted to bring it up because it showcases something I've said over and over about things. Basically, there were a lot of reasons, but the main reason was no one was in charge. There was a state police group. There was the Secret Service. There were local police, but no one was in charge and everybody was kind of doing their own thing and stuff slipped through the cracks, specifically this guy. So two different police officers actually IDed the guy, but they didn't feel like they were in charge of that area. And so they didn't, and they didn't So like the local police don't report to the Secret Service, the Secret Service don't report to the local police.

There was no sharing of information, and you ended up with the situation. Which, by the way, if you remember when they did the 9-11 report, was the exact same thing. There was nobody sort of in charge, and there was all this information that didn't get shared. Goes to my thing, which is ultimately, people, especially on my side of the eye,

liberals like to say everybody should get to talk. Not everybody should get to talk. There has to be somebody in. charge because when someone is not in charge you end up with stuff like this and that report basically said the problem was they said at presidential events where the president or a candidate is going there needs to be one person in charge of the event and it's not like that now for presidential candidates it is like that for the sitting president and that needs to be changed which seems perfectly reasonable perfectly reasonable that that can't happen like you said especially in an

an event like that where you have an important political figure, you've got to take precautions. You just have to. Things like that cannot happen. So Congress, this week actually passed, which I can't believe this hadn't happened yet. They're giving both Trump and Harris the presidential level of security for the rest of the campaign, which to me, I don't know why that wasn't happening before. I mean, I would argue Trump and Harris are in much more danger now than Biden is.

right because he's not running again so it seems to me that like as soon as someone is the nominee of their party Drew shouldn't they at that point be treated as if they're the president almost during that period of time I agree and especially in this case when the nominee is a someone who's already been the president I was surprised because Trump should in theory be getting former president service I thought they did it and Harris is the vice president so in theory she should be getting it I don't understand why the two of them weren't already getting that level of protection. I thought Trump would have already had it being president. And I would have thought she would have.

She's the vice president. So I don't understand why Ryan that wasn't already had. No, I was kind of the impression former president still get the presidential security. But apparently it's not the same level as the actual president, which makes sense to me unless they're running again. You know, and then I think they're back in the, because then they're right back in the, in the middle of them. Yeah, if they're just at the beach or golfing, you know, the rest of their lives, maybe not. But that's the problem. They actually said they're in the most danger.

Like when Trump golfs, they said that's when he's in the most danger, which makes sense. Think about how big a golf course is. Yeah. And there are trees everywhere like that would actually, I could see why that would be really. I read that book about him golfing and it mentions how, like, Secret Service is hiding in trees on golf courses and everywhere you can't see them when he's playing a course. Yeah. And finally. And I feel like.

So there's this guy on Barstall I like a lot named Jack. Jack Mack, I think is what he goes about. He's really good on TikTok. I've been using him. I've been trying to sort of teach Mario what I want to do on TikTok via Jack Mack, because I think he's really good at it. You call him a floating head. He's a floating head.

And he did something yesterday on the story, and he was like, why is this not a bigger story? And I kind of agree with it. All right, so the WMBA playoffs are going on. Caitlin Clark plays for the Indiana fever. Is that right? Yes. And they're playing the Connecticut Sun.

All right. So obviously it gets a lot of attention. But Jack Mack said, and I don't know if Jack Mack is right, but like I feel like he probably is, one of the players on the Indiana fever is dating one of the players on the Connecticut son. And they're playing against each other. And one of the coaches on the Indiana fever is dating.

the Indiana fever is dating one of the coaches on the Connecticut son. And he's like, how are they not talking about this? And I agree with him. Can you imagine, I mean, they're in a lesbian relationship, but they are playing against each other in the playoffs. To me, that's like a pretty amazing story, isn't it, Drew? Wouldn't you wonder what their house has to be, they live together? They live together and they're playing against each other in the play.

playoffs like I want that reality show don't you it's like is she at home watching film and you're kind of sticking your head around the door watching her watch film or are you going getting bad are you talking about the game and is she going like we got to take it to my girlfriend she's weak on the left side like she can't guard that side of the of the court I how's that not a bigger story I don't know and I don't know how they're living together during their playoffs they're playing with each other one of them's got to check out stay in a hotel no or a week or something Apparently, the Connecticut player plays in Connecticut. The game is in Connecticut.

And people were like, well, we wonder if the Indiana player is staying in the Connecticut house. Wouldn't you wonder that? I would. And I don't think I could. I think I'm going to try to beat you tomorrow night. Well, if I'm the coach of Indiana, I think I'm saying to my player, I'm sorry, you can't stay there tonight. So anyway, I'm with Jack Mack. I think that's a really fascinating story.

I didn't know anything about it except for his floating head there on the two coaches that date each other. You know, they're talking strategy. What are you going to talk about now? I don't think you can't. You can't. They always make a big deal when the Harbaugh brothers coach against each other. Yeah.

This is even closer than that. So there's reports that the players even engaged. Like, that's how close they are. Like living together in one home. That's got to be so weird. Do you know they have to guard each other during the game and play the same position? Yes, there's a video of them after the game coming up and like hugging each other and also talking a little trash and saying, I see you at home or something?

Do they trade jerseys and then frame them at home like players in the NFL do? All right, who's next? Po. Po, how are you, Po? I am okay, guys. How are y'all? Good. Good.

That would never, that would be a huge story in the NBA. Well, but it should be. I feel like it should be a story anywhere because I think it's crazy. I mean, it's not crazy bad. It's just quite a situation, but go ahead. Yeah. I had something to say. say this, I knew this NIL and this transfer portal is going to kind of rock college sports,

at least until they get it together. But he still would have got, you got to think what's worth what a UNLV scholarship is worth, too. Yeah, but again, if that's, sir, I don't know what you do, but let's say you work and you agreed to a salary of $200,000 a year, at your job. And they paid you $50,000. I don't think you would say, well, at least I'm getting $50,000. You would say you promised me $200,000.

So just because he's getting room and board, I don't think alleviates them from the promise that they made, if assuming what he's saying is correct. And education. But yeah, but I was going to ask you about, to. Okay. And the lifetime contract a long time ago that he was supposed to get to see,

still get that million dollars a year. No. So what's amazing about Cal leaving, and I appreciate the call, is he forfeited, he forfeited all of that. I mean, Cal leaving was a fairly astounding economic decision because he gave up however much was left on the contract. And I think that was what? How much money was $60 million?

It was, it was a. a lot of money. And had he finished his career here, he was going to get a million dollars a year for life. And he gave all of it up. That's gone. The lifetime part, the ambassador role, all gone. I think the reason why the reports came out on Sunday he was taking the job.

And by Monday, he was still walking up and down the street with his dog. I don't think. I know he was reconsidered. He went to UK and said, Kent, are you cool with me stay? And UK said, no, we're not. Which is an amazing thing to do. There should be a 30 for 30 about those 48 hours.

Yeah. I know more than is public about it, but I'm sure I don't know everything. But they went from Sunday. Cal saying yes to Arkansas to, in my opinion, him having second thoughts, trying to get the Kentucky job back. Mitch Barnhart, say whatever you want about him being conservative and kind of like not embracing change. I have some of those criticisms. But it's pretty, excuse my language, I'm a jean, pretty ballsy to sit and look at them and say, no, you're not coming back.

and then Cal gave up all of that money for the rest of his life. Now, he's going to do fine at Arkansas. I'm not crying for him, Drew, but that's a pretty amazing decision. Some might say that's called fumbling the bag a little bit. He had quite a bit of money, and I'm of the belief. A lot of regret there. I don't think he ever thought it would get this far. I think he thought, I would bet a lot of money that he thought when he came back on Monday,

UK was going to be grateful for him coming back and was going to allow him to do what he wanted to do, which was hire Brad, which was get a practice facility, all this stuff. And when UK said, no, I think he was shocked,

which is when I think he went on his walk with his dog, kind of thinking maybe the fans would go, oh, he's still here. And it didn't really happen. The ground swell of support didn't happen. And Ryan, I think he was taken aback by it.

I'm with you. And I don't know this, but I think he thought the crowd, the fans were going to get behind him. I don't think he really realized how much the fan base had kind of turned on him. He did not realize it. He thought he had no idea. He, I genuinely think he thought it was me that was driving. I know that's what he thought.

And he, I think, thought that that Monday, the fans would go, let's save it. And then they didn't. Didn't. And I think that, to me honest, probably hurt him. And it would hurt me, too, if I was him, if I'm being honest. But that 48 hours should be a documentary. Unintested. I agree.

It isn't unanticipated. That 48 hours, I wish I could get, like, everyone on the record saying what really happened. Because I think it'd be. And what went down to that meeting when they went to his house. They went to his house. They went to his house, Mark Hill and someone else. I don't know who the other was. Mitch didn't go.

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Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. What was that? Do that again? You didn't get that, did you, Shannon? Oh, you know I did. That'll be on the podcast. I don't think you got that. I don't think you got it.

What person writes on the text machine? Here you go. 772-77-45-254. Besides the Calipari 48-hour story, give me some more behind-the-scenes documentaries of Kentucky sports stories you'd like to see. I'm sure you'd like to see the Randolph-Morris facts story. That's my first answer every time this comes up. You always bring that up.

You like that one. Yes. I want the fight that allegedly happened on the airplane. I definitely want the airplane fight. The airplane fight is one that I would love. That's the Corey Sears and Gerald Fitch. Gerald Fitch fight on the airplane. Had their land in Knoxville on the way back?

Emergency landing due to a fight on the team plane. That's one that I would really like. I'd like to see if there were video of all the discussions about Shaden Sharks. That's exactly what I was going to say. That's a good one. I'd like to see all the conversations that were had between the agents, the family, the player, Cal about Shaden Sharp. I'd like that one. I'd like to see a behind-the-scenes documentary of what really happened on that Oscar severe team, the one that lost to Kansas State.

I think that that team should have been really good, and it all fell apart, and I'd be kind of interested why that was also the Shaden Sharp year. That's all the same year. Wow. I'd be interested to see. that would have been a good one for a hard Knox to be following that team. Is there any others you can take up? What about football? Claude Bassett.

I have a good one for football. I actually wrote about this recently. When Stoop's team won in Knoxville and it was Slarman's last game. That would be great. Just the whole trip. You know, they stopped in Cumberland for the practice, the pregame speech, kicking the ball's ass in Knoxville with all the pick six interceptions. I think that would be a fun one to say that would be a really good one.

I'm trying to think what else is. Billy Gillespie, of course. I mean, that whole thing. Yeah, if you could just have had a Billy Gillespie helmet cam during his entire life. Or especially that last day when he was supposedly driving around town. No, the Billy Gilles. Yes, that's a great one. I'd like to have Billy Gillespie.

I'd like to start at the NIT game versus Notre Dame. When Jody Meeks refused to come out for the second half and they had to literally go, like the assistant coaches had to beg him to come out. He was so mad at Billy. Yeah. And they got him to come back out. if you go back and look when the team first comes out, he's not there. And then they get him to come back. Then he gets fired, but they can't find him.

And he's just driving around Lexington, I guess, thinking if they can't find me, they can't fire me. And then Alan Cutler chasing him. And then the reports that Billy Donovan was in town or on his way in town, like that would be another one, Ryan. I'd love to see what was actually going on. There are so many like this that we could just have the behind-the-scenes stuff going on. Like I said, I like this with

Claude Bassett, Mickey DeMoss. I mean, there's a bunch of these stories out there. The Mickey DeMoss one. That's a great one. Like, I have no idea what's true on that one. For the Gillespie one, can I put in a request for like Officer Donne Sky Cam with Billy just driving around New Circle? Like we're kind of chasing him like an LA police chase. Well, I have heard, and I don't know if this is true. Let me be clear. I don't know if this is true.

But I've heard that there was a point where you, where someone from UK. Headlight was driving to his house, saw him pull out, kind of followed him, and he lost him. Like they were trying to follow him and he lost him, which is also amazing. We needed the aerial view. I mean, that's an OJ situation. That's an amazing story. What did you really think he was going to do just drive around New Circle Road and they would just forget about trying to fire him? I think that's, I think that would be fascinating to know.

So those are all good. I'm trying to think, is there any other Cal era? I'd actually love to see in real time the 24 hours before Mark Pope got hired. Yeah. Because there was a lot like, well, first of all, let's take those four days. Scott Drew is, I don't know if he was going to come, not come, but his wife and kids come to Lexington. A scouting trip.

He does not. That's kind of interesting. Like, how did that? Why did that happen? Then, you know, they show him, her around. etc. Then they decide to go try with Danny Hurley. Don't forget the Mexican restaurant. Yeah, there's the Mexican restaurant. Then they go try to decide to get Danny Hurley. He says no. And then there's like a 24-hour period where I think a lot of names got floated. Some names were specifically told by the president and the Board of Trustees no.

And then like that decision-making process would be fascinating to see how they ended up with Mark Pope in that scenario. I remember you texted us that night. He said, it's going to be Mark Pope. I remember I was just, I was stunned because of what we had just gone through that whole week. I was, at that moment, we're going to be honest, I was stunned. I would not want to have had a camera in my bedroom when I got the phone call that it was Mark Pope because I'd be embarrassed at what, because I had been told a few hours earlier it was likely to be someone else. and I think I had kind of gotten my hopes up that it would be the other one.

And then when I got the phone call, assuming I was being told it was going to be the other one, I was very disappointed and kind of had a negative reaction. And I regret that. And I said to Mark Pope when I saw him, I was like, you may have seen a couple of the tweets that I sent right after it happened. He said, I did.

He said, and he said, I'd probably have. had to say for him. That's what's good about him, man. It is. He really has an attitude that is, the attitude is perfect for here. I hope we win, because if we win, it's going to be a lot of fun with him, Drew. Yeah. I mean, I compared him to going to steak,ows, an order, and chicken tenders that night on Twitter. Yeah. And I wish I had those tweets back because that wasn't, that wasn't fair to him. We should have given, I mean, once the decision was made, and to be fair, we all got it out of our system, not just us, but the fans. There were a lot of fans that felt the same way. Everybody got it out of their system and then three days later we had that event in Rupp Arena,

which was one of the coolest things. I mean, that's one of the coolest things I've seen as a Kentucky fan. Me too. So that was a good question. We'll take a few more calls and then I'm going to give away these tickets in a minute. This is KSR. 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. Welcome back to Tegi Sports Radio 859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, I'd want to see Bill Parcells.

I'd want to see the documentary about that. They swear Bill Parcells was on a plane coming here. You believe it? I believe parts of that story, and I think Mitch Barnhart was at the UK U of L basketball game in Freedom Hall on the phone when he got the call from Bill Parcells that he wasn't coming that day.

That would be an interesting one. That would be a good one. the guy here with Imaging notes, I'd like to go back and relive the morning of the Pope hire that remote because I walked in. That was over there at the distillery district or barrel house. Talk about barrel house getting lucky. We were already scheduled to be there that day. And there were a ton of people there.

Pope gets hired the night before. And when I get there, Shannon and Billy are kind of ranting about the hire. understandably, the mood in the crowd is not positive. It's not positive. There are a ton of people there. And over the course of the two hours, the mood about the pope hire completely flipped. It did.

And by the time I left, it felt like everybody was in. And all that had happened in those hours were the crafts pledging $5 million to NIL, Mitch's interview, which in my opinion is as good an interview as he's done, since he's been the coach at contend. and then Petino's video comes out of him, you know, saying he'll give money and all this. And by the time I walked out, it felt like the crowd was into it. And two days, and that's when Barnhart announces the press conference. I think he announced it on this show that they were going to do the press conference in Rupp Arena.

And it was like the psychology of the room just flipped during those two hours. Yeah. And I also want to add, I think we had some callers that day. that we're going through it like we were and really helped, I think, everybody else like, hey, man, this is our guy. I'm going to get behind him. I'm going to get on board with this. Yeah. And now I think it seems like the right hire, which is an amazing, amazing switch.

Who's next, Shane? Mike. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Yeah, what's up, man? How you all done? Good. Quick little thing about the kid with the football. You know, if his family has more than the kids.

like, man, somebody lies to you, you know, and I don't blame him for walking away. Really, he's not going to lose much because they're not going to give him no money. That's a good point, yeah. Well, I mean, and you look at it this way, I heard one guy say about the scholarship. Well, guess what? Maybe they've seen how good a quarterback he is. So if another bigger school picks him up, you know, wants him come play for them, he's going to get money. but then again it also shows to the next kid maybe coming to you nLV

hey y'all better watch out because these people are lied to you in a heartbeat i totally agree me that's why i said i think the angles are all really good points sir i appreciate the call it's not just the money let me just in general ryan if somebody lies to you you want to keep you want to keep working or spending time with somebody that lies to your face that's tough right it's very tough and i can see why like i said There's a frustration on his fart and his family's part. On his part. I'm not saying there was a frustration on his fart?

Well, maybe that plays into it, too. He's got that stress gas. I didn't want to tell you something. Did you know there was a KSR club at South Laurel High School? I think we've heard that before. It's a high school club at South Laurel where they listen to KSR. Yeah, they haven't had a chance to do it yet this year because they had school canceled for like a week and a half of the shooting down there.

but they go in as a club, listen to segments of our show, and then break down those segments and talk about, yes, they do. Do they really? Yes, they do. I love it. Yeah, I was down there yesterday, I have a sports marketing class, and a KSR club, and they do. They take segments of our show.

Ms. Seismore down there is like a big fan, and they listen to parts of the show, and then they break it down as a class, as a club. Well, first of all, Ms. Seismore, that's awesome. A KSR club at South Florida High School. Yeah. That is very cool. Well, if you ever want, if the school will let us, we'll come and do a show at the KSR Club at South Lohar High School.

I've never seen it. So reach out to Billy, Ms. Sysmore. Billy is the scheduler, and we'll come and we'll do a show down there if they want us to. That would be nice. Ms. 4 had me come down and speak to her sports marketing class, and she brought the KSR club with her when the cafeteria today. Shout out to the South Laurel KSR Club. Who's next? Andrew.

Andrew. Go ahead, Andrew. First time, long time. Who are? So my girlfriend and I, we're big KSR fans, Kentucky fans, and metalheads. But unfortunately, we're both students at U of L right now. So I had a question for you guys. I'm getting close to graduating,

and I was wondering if it would be acceptable for me to throw Ls down as I walked across the stage. People have done it before. I've seen that once or twice where a Kentucky fan has thrown L's down at the U of L graduation. It's a bold move. Make sure you get their diploma first. Yeah, I would. Right. It's a bold move.

I'm not going to lie. But I think you're perfectly in line with your rights to do it. There is a difference between going to a school and cheering for their teams. I've lived your life with Duke. I went and sat and booed them every game. So I think you just have to ask yourself, do you want the memory of you being booed at graduation or not, Drew. If you're good with that, then go for it. If you want it to not be as controversial, maybe don't do it. I'm all for it. Couldn't love it anymore. 100% confidence behind you,

and I expect to see a photo after you walk the stage. I mean, look, if we'll move on, people will forget. You'll have your diploma. You graduated. That's all that matters. What's one little L's down? Maybe double barrel is down if you're up for it. Two little L's down Wow, double barrel. It's a little piece of sand in your life on the life of beach. I agree. Double L's down. It's a little grain of sand on the beach of life.

There you go. That's a little more poetic, yeah. And as far as the louder-than-life tickets go, my girlfriend and are actually both celebrating our birthdays this week. Yeah, I know. But you understand. I can't do it for sympathy. Like we have to have a contest that follows the rules, and so we're going to have to

do that. And otherwise, I'd love to give it to you. I'm sure it's your birthday, and you have puppies and all of that. And I'd like to do that. But like we have to follow, we have to follow the parameters of the rules. Right. Well, can I enter the contest? I mean, when we close the phones here in a minute and reopen them, feel free to try to get in.

Okay. Thank you. All right. Appreciate the call. There you go. I'm going to let Shannon help me pick because, you know, Shannon's a metal guy. This is larger than life. One of his favorite, one of his favorite events of the year.

Slayer is there, right? Yeah. Metal face. Who else is in it? Slip knot. Slip knot, Motley crew, corn, and about 130 other bands. That's a lot of them. It's a freak on a leash. Yeah. All right. Well, we will do it in the next segment. Let's do one more call. Who's next? David. David, go ahead, David. How are you, Matt? I'm wonderful. I've got a question and a comment, if I may. The comment is for Ryan is some of these NIL in college is also taking a of their family, taking care of their family back home. Not only Ryan takes care of his, but some of these young men and young women are helping their families back home. True.

Yeah. That's his point about, you know, you said you had to support a family. Yeah. Maybe some of these kids are doing that too. That may be true. I don't know. But I know in my case, I got to support my family and pay my insurance and pay my mortgage and everything.

But so do you, I mean, let's go to the Joe's, let's use Joe's an example. Okay. Let's say Josiah goes to a school. He's in his last year of eligibility. This is important because this kid's in his last year of eligibility. I didn't know that part of the story either. He's in his last – that's why he wants to stop now because he can keep his red shirt and play one more year.

If he finishes out the year, his career is over. Okay? That's an important piece of this. Josiah is in his last year of eligibility. This kid last year played at Holy Cross at a D3 school. All right. So this is his first year getting any D1 experience at all. And he gets no money.

You got Josiah. He's at UNLV. He started at Mount St. Joseph. And he's climbed all the way to UNLV. And then they don't pay him the money. And somebody goes, hey, man, if you'll wait over here at, let's say, Iowa State, we'll get you next year. What are you telling him to do?

That is a great scenario you just laid out. That is the scenario this kid's dealing with. This is his exact scenario. I don't know if it's Iowa State, but there is some college that has told him he can come play there next year. But he'd have to redshirt right now. He has to walk away right now so he didn't play another game. Yes.

Man. But he has his team. You were talking about his team. I know. See, that's hard to. So what are you doing? Come on over to my side. I think you're going to.

I think you're going to. It is easy to talk about this stuff in the abstract. But if it was your kid in that scenario, a coach had looked him in the eye and said $100,000 and he's gotten $3,000 and his career ends if he plays one more game. That's the thing. If he plays one more game, his career is now over as a college quarterback. He moved all the way across the country. He's from New York.

He was told he was getting $100,000. Holy Cross to UNLV. and presumably he's got a chance to do something else if this doesn't work out and he goes to him and says you offer me $100,000. Where is it? And they go, sorry, we're not giving it. What are you doing? That is such a tough call because I don't want, if that's his last year,

that makes a big difference in my eyes. It is. This is his last year. And you'd think that maybe if he goes to Iowa State, maybe he's got a chance to sign a free agent deal with an NFL team. You know, maybe he can further his career. I'm waiting for an answer. Yeah, this was the same debate we had at the beginning of the show.

We had a change. Practice starts at 1145. I'm going to need to know if you're going to be on the field, son. I don't think I'm going to be on the field. Thank you. There you go. Got to flip. So that.

And then a quick question, if I may, Matt. Yes. If Stoops had switched punters and we had those extra yards, do we beat Georgia then? That's a great question. I don't know. I appreciate the call. Probably not, but it's funny. Stoop said in his calling show, the punting job is still up for grabs.

We're not sure if we're going to use him. The kid had one punt Saturday, and he kicked it 58 yards. I feel like we should use him from now on, don't you think? I don't understand. I mean, credit to Wilson Berry, it is 37 or 38 yards every single time. Max texts me before and after every punt, it's a running joke now. It's incredibly does it. But when you have a guy that can kick it nearly 60

and you're a coach that plays the field position game, it should be an easy decision. It feels like it should be. Do you take the risk knowing that maybe he may shank one every once in a while? I think you take that risk, man. You want that extra. I flip the field a little more. Well, what's the average?

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That's K-O-R-T.com. Dollar wings, rest the day. All right, I'm giving away three passes. larger than life. It's Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Shannon will be out there all the time. Here's the game. You have to put yourself in the mind of Ryan Lemon. So I'm giving you a trivia question, but the answer is not who's right. The answer is, what do you think Ryan will say? So I've already asked Ryan this question, and I asked Ryan how many miles from Lexington to Seattle? So from KS Bar to Seattle, which is where we're driving in December,

whoever gets it closest, it's not how many miles it is. You're guessing how many miles Ryan thinks it is. Okay, that's very important. It's different than how many miles it is. It's what does Ryan think it is. Uh-oh. Now, we have six people on. Shannon, let's have the first person.

Okay, let's go to Ronnie. Ronnie. Where are you from, Ronnie? Louisville. Louisville. Now, Ronnie, what do you think Ryan thinks it is from Lexington to Seattle? I don't know. I want to think that he would say something low,

but I'm actually going to go in the middle and say he's like 2100. 2100. Okay, 2100 is what you think, what you think. Thank you, Ronnie. Hang on. Who's next? Tom. Tom.

Where are you from? Louisville. Louisville. What do you think he thinks? I'm going to go. I'm going to go with 3,000. 3,000. Tom thinks you will say 3,000.

All right, hang on. Who's next? Slick. Slick. I like that name. Where are you from, Slick? I'm from Murray, Kentucky. Actually, a transit grad as well.

Murray, Kentucky, Transy grad. So this will be a long drive for you if you have to make. Well, that's where I'm from. That's not where I live now, but that's. Oh, you're from. Okay. I got you. All right.

So what's your guess. So my guess is 5,000 miles. I think that's what Ryan said. And I also had a basketball question. Okay. We don't have time of the basketball question. I'm sorry. We got to do this.

So you're guessing 5,000. All right, Slick, what's next? Bill. Bill. Where you live? Sadieville. Sadieville. All right, what do you think Ryan says?

1524. 1524. All right. Who's next? All right. Freebird. Freebird. I know for you, Freebird.

You're a big metal fan. This would be big. What do you think he says? I'm going to say, Ryan's going to say, $2,600. 2,600. And one more guess is Leighton. Layton. What do you think, Ryan says? Let's go with 1600.

1600. Okay. Now, the actual miles from Lexington to Seattle drew is 2,418. 2,418. So that's important to recognize. That's a lot of miles, right? I had my guess too. A lot of miles. I don't know Ryan's number. Ryan's guess, which he wrote down during the break. 970.

What? I just missed it. 970. Thank you, Imajian. I had him going way over. I did too. I wrote down 4,500. I thought he would almost double it.

I thought he would say some crazy amount. 970 is not that many miles. You literally, it was almost the third. What was the final 24-100? 24-18. Now, the person who got it the closest of the actual miles is Freebird, but that's not what we were looking for. That's true.

We were looking for who gets the closest to what Ryan will say. And because Bill knows that Ryan would be nowhere close, but he'd be low. Bill, are you there? Yes, sir. Congratulations. Yeah. Three tickets. Not two, three.

Three tickets. To larger than life. Who are you going to take, Bill? That's a good question. I have no idea right now. But you're going to go, right? Absolutely. Okay.

I'm a huge metal head. So you will have to pick them up at KS Bar. So hang on. We'll get your information. They'll be at KS Bar starting tomorrow morning. Okay. Got you. All right.

So there you go. Bill. is our winner. Hang on and give your information to Shannon. Inside the mind of Ryan Lemon, who said 970 miles to Seattle. I thought Seattle was in Iowa. Undershot it just a little bit. Just a little bit.

Just a little bit. Okay. I think that's what he wants Seattle to be for this road trip. I do want it to be only 13 hours. Slick gas of 5,000 would have been where I would have been. I would have thought he would think it was like the moon away. Instead, he thinks it's just down the road. What a wonderful treat he's going to have when we get in that car and drive to Seattle.

Well, you scared me. Was it yesterday you said, you guys realize how big Montana is? Like we'll spend a whole two days and just getting through Montana. And you still only went with 970. I don't know if we'll be to South Dakota. We'll get 970. All right. Well, thank, congrats to Bill.

Trivia tonight. Get your team. I am so excited about my one question. The one question. It's going to be the best question ever. Thank you all. Happy 90th. I'm a gym.

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