KSR - 2024-09-26- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: September 26, 2024

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Lexington, Kentucky. We are at the KS. Bar and Grill. I got Ryan Lemon. I got Drew Franklin. Got a guy here from Louisville who's come in for the show. Mario's walking around on his phone doing his thing. You can give us the Chandler Clark's puppet shop phone line 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine, 772-745-254. In this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, you call T. T.J., he'll make them pay. It is the hurricane is like about to hit, what, Tallahassee, is that right? Yeah, the Florida Panhandle is about to get hammered. Maybe getting hammered right now.

We were at this kind of calm before the storm for us, because we're going to get it by, for a lot of afternoon. Yeah, a lot of the high school games have gotten moved up to tonight because they're supposed to be so much bad weather. I was looking at the path to Oxford. You actually kind of miss it a little bit, hopefully. So hopefully we won't hit it. The game, they are predicting rain for the game.

I don't think it's the hurricane. kind of rain, but I wondered what it would be for game time in Oxford. Georgia, Alabama could be drenched. Yeah. So we'll see what happens. Yeah, it sounds like it's going to be very severe. Hope everyone's all right, all right, once it hits. I know Shannon's got his place on the Gulf.

I don't know if it's heading your way, Shannon, but I hope everything's okay. I don't know. It doesn't look good right now, so it's have to keep an eye on it. All my stuff is in my condo from the front port so it doesn't blow away. But we'll see. Good luck. Hurricane Helene, is that right? That's right.

Helene, Helene, Helene, why you've got to be so mean? I hope it ends up. Okay, so we got a lot to get to today. I want to talk a little bit of basketball, but I've waited a long time to ask you my question. You were so excited about this one question you asked last night. We don't know it, so we're... I was very excited about because of how I came up with. Okay.

But you have to understand. When I do my trivia, I sit down and like my philosophy is, You want questions with multiple answers where if you have knowledge, you can get it. But if you don't have knowledge, you can guess. That way everyone can play. Right? I like it because I don't like questions where it's like, give the four layers of the sun. And if you don't know it, what are you going to do?

Like you just would sit there and stare out in space. So I like ones that if you don't know, at least you can have a guess. But that makes them hard to write because that's a specific kind of question, right? So the UK basketball ones, I try to have at least one UK sports one every time. Yes. And usually they've been stat-based, but I was sitting there thinking, okay, Mark Pope is the new code. Yes. What can I do that somehow connects to Mark Pope?

Okay. And then I thought about something. Mark Pope's name, Drew, I don't know if you know this. Four letters in the first name, four letters in the last name. I don't know if people know. Did you know that? I did. Well, I mean, maybe you, maybe you did, but did you think about it?

Were you like, that's interesting? No. Four and four. And then I thought about it. That's kind of rare. Yeah. That first name and a last name are the same amount of letters. So I looked it up.

And since 1990, 12 scholarship players at Kentucky have had a name that with the same number of letters in the first and last name, and it was either four or five letters. Okay. Yeah. So same numbers. of letters in the first name and last name, but either four or five letters. There are 12 in history. And so last night I said you have to name 10 of the 12.

Now, I gave them one. I gave them the hardest one, which was Joey Hart, because I didn't think anybody would get Joey Hart. So now we're at 11. So I would like to see if you all can get how many of the, and let me say, two of them are a little obscure, but most of them are names of people that were fairly prominent. Can you get any of the 11th? I have one right away. I've got one too.

What? John Wall. John Wall. That was the one I said. If you didn't get John Wall, you should be kicked out and made to go home. I got another one. You have to get John Wall. All right, Shannon.

Tony Delke. Yeah, here we go. To me, those were the two that were the most obvious, John Wall and Tony Delke. Now, those are the two easy ones. What about the others? Robbie Moss. Robbie Moss. Well done.

See, you know him. Uh-huh. So that helps. Let me just say, Robbie Moss was one very few people got. Really? Yes, they didn't think of Robin Moss.

Anyone else? Don't want to just do dead air here, but. Yeah, no, we don't want to do dead air, but I've got, I've got a few. I don't also want you to think about it

because then you will just sit there and not listen to the rest of the other section. I got one. Yes. Jody Meeks. Jody Meeks is one. Very good. Come on,

you guys clap. It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. You got a clap for me. So the average team got six. So you all in seconds got four. So I'm impressed with you on that. I'm going to give you just a couple more seconds to think anymore.

We go on all time, right? No, since 1990. So it's Patino on. I'm sure there were many before that. But Patino on? Try anybody. So like if we had the normal setup, we could get through them. You probably could.

But we can't have dead air. So just so you know what the rest of them were. The one almost no one got, excuse me, but I think they should have. Rajon Rondo, five and five. Yeah. Chuck Hayes, okay? James Young, five and five. Bobby Perry.

You're friends with him. I'm wearing one of these songs that there's his band saying. Yes. Tyler Hero. Yeah. Now, the two that were very hard, Quade Green. Oh, I would have been. And Devin Askew.

Two obscure guys will forget about to even play to Kentucky at some point. So there were the answer. They could be on a different list. Now, can you see why I was so proud of myself at coming up with that question? Corey Price, who knows everything? He only got nine of the 11. He was not able to get, he did not get Devin Askew or quad eager. That tells me alone how hard of a question it was if Corey Price didn't get all of them,

and it was a UK basketball question. I'm proud of us. Yeah. On the fly. On the fly. All right. Let me just give you a couple more. All right.

What are the four private colleges in Kentucky and the four in Tennessee with the highest enrollment? Four private colleges in Kentucky and four in Tennessee with the highest enrollment? Treveka Nazarene in Tennessee. What are those words? In Tennessee. I know Treveca. Yeah, we played them in baseball at a time. You just thought one of the answers, you think I would use Treveca Nazarene as one of the answers?

I was thinking of private school in Tennessee? No. Yes. Banderbill. Banderbill. There you go. Shannon, how you're not going to get Banderbill? I was about to jump in there, but Ryan got it first. That's okay.

Banderbill. Let's do the Tennessee ones first. Because the Tennessee ones, you've heard of all these. These are not Treveca Nazarenes. These are regular schools. I'm trying to think of what's, I don't know what's private and what's not. I mean, Belmont. Belmont.

It is, okay. I said Belmont there. Lipscomb. Yeah. David Lipscomb is Ryan. David Lipscomb. And then Lincoln Memorial. Really, that's one of the top ones in Tennessee?

Lincoln Memorial now has an enrollment of 4,500 kids. Wow. In Little Harrogate, Tennessee. Isn't that crazy? That is crazy. You said it was close to closing, I think, when you were in school. Correct. I thought it would close.

And now it's just grown exponential. All right. What about the Kentucky woods? What's the biggest private school? This is easy. Bellerman? Well, Bellarmine's fourth, so you're on the list. Anybody know?

We should know. Uh, well, Georgetown. No. Number one. Cumberland. Cumberland. That's the biggest? Yes.

It's big. It's become big. Yeah. Did not know that. Then Campbellsville. I can't say Campbell'sville. And then how does Shannon not get Lindsay Wilson? That was one of the top four?

That's one of the four high school. See, people don't realize trancy and center are not that big. Yeah. The transient center only have like a thousand people. Center has a little bit more, I think, but not very much. So both of my schools, Lindsay Wilson and Bellerman on the list. Both of your schools got it and you didn't get either one. I was going to guess Bellerman, but you keep letting Ryan guess first.

All right. Last Kentucky question. Okay. I want you to think about the most common names for a town in America. All right. So the names that you hear the most in states. There are 15, top 15. Eight of them have a town in Kentucky with that name with more than 4,000 people that live there.

So do you understand the question? Yeah. You take the, the common, I lost. How about that? Ryan kept up and I lost it. I'm just trying to make sure. The 15 towns that are the most common names for towns in America.

Eight of them are in Kentucky and have at least 4,000 people that live in it. What are the names? This one's hard. Nobody got more than four. Yeah. I don't know. I don't think they're big enough though. I had a guess. I was going to say Springfield. Springfield has over 4,000 people.

Yeah, so one of them. Springfield in every state. There's Springfield almost everywhere. It's not the most common name, by the way. Is it not? But it's one of the eight. There's 4,000 people that live in Springfield, Kentucky. Does Washington count? Washington is a county.

It would have been on the list if it was a town. Ours is a county and Mount Washington. Does it count? It's not the same. So that one didn't make it. Jeffersonville? No, Jeffersonville. Richmond.

Richmond is not on the list, surprisingly. I would have thought Richmond would have been on the list. Anybody else want to have a guess? We're all the... Newport is one. Newport. Hey! Nice, Jess.

We're back. Newport is one. You still haven't named the most common name for a town in America. 45 of the 50 states have this name as a town. 45 of the 50. Greenville? Greenville is one. Yeah.

Yeah. Good guess. That's three. You got three of eight. That's pretty good. Does anybody... Anyone want another guesses? Anyone?

Anderson. That's a county, too. I keep saying county. Possent truck. Number one, the most common name for a town in America is Franklin. Franklin. Frankl. Drew, you should have got that.

It was right there. It was right there. It was right there. That's your name, Drew. Number two, Georgetown. Really? There are Georgetown's in like 41 states. I'll be dang.

Then after that, Lebanon, where we're going tomorrow. Oh, really? I didn't know there's that many Lebanon. I had no idea there were so many. You wonder why there are so many Lebanon. It's like 30. three Lebanon's. Ours is so good.

We weren't worried about all the others. Springfield, Greenville was said. You said Newport. And then the last two, Dayton. Dayton, Kentucky, which is up in northern Kentucky. And then you were close with Richmond. Winchester is the other one. Winchester.

I was trying to think of you of last names that would, from the Revolutionary War Days. Other states would all have the same name. So those were some of the questions we saw. I think we did well. Yeah. Now, let's tell the other part of it, Shannon, which was Ryan.

assembled a team to play in truth. Okay, he called around, he got a team. And then guess what? He didn't show up. Oh, Ryan. He created a team, and then he didn't come. And part of that team was

apparently Drew, who also didn't come. I never was on the team. Well, Ryan told the people here you were supposed to come. No, I didn't. No, I didn't. I was a no. So the people that came here, Shannon, to play on Ryan's team, Ryan then wasn't there. What kind of teammate are you?

Are you Sluca from UNLV? You quit on your team. How are you the general manager of the team? And name yourself a starter and then not come. I didn't really have a team. I had a table. Everybody I called, I didn't have a team other than Crystal. And I think Crystal was bringing a friend.

Well, Crystal and her friend were your whole team. That was the whole team. Ryan preached for 10 minutes yesterday. Don't quit on your team. And he literally quit his team. Good call. Good call. And Ryan didn't even get an.

NIL deals. Yeah, exactly. Ryan didn't even get paid. And why did you, why were you not here? Do you want me to tell the story? I mean, I don't know why you would. Yeah, I want to hear the story. I was giving plasma yesterday.

We did our show at CSL plasma like five or six years ago, and just every now and I just go and give plasma. So I went at four o'clock. I didn't leave till eight o'clock. I don't believe you were giving plasma. I was. At eight o'clock at night? They closed at seven.

You a vampire? I didn't walk out of there until eight. You were giving plasma. I was. I was. I was. I'm supposed to believe, Shannon, this man was giving plasma at 8 o'clock at night. Yep.

Yeah, just. I got stuck. Normal behavior. Really, literally got stuck. Not only did he quit on his team, he quit on his team for money. For money. That's right. More money somewhere else.

Unbelievable. Get quit. Plasma. Yeah. Well, our buddy Chris will probably text here in a minute and verify I was there. You were there for four hours? Yes. Giving.

How much plasma do you need? They couldn't get it out of my arm. and they were poking all over this arm, then they poked on the other arm. It was coming out like super slow. Might be a good sign to go home. Yeah. You don't have any blood to give them.

But you're stuck and you're all hooked up. You can't get out and leave, so I just stayed there. That's the lamest excuse. I was giving plaza. I know. 859-280-2287. Mr. Plasma over here.

Quit on his team just like Sluca at UNLV. I've got one more for your game. Shannon Grigsby. Same amount of numbers and letters. But it's four or five letters. It's not. Still, it's impressive. He's got seven and seven.

Okay. Well, I mean, it was just for four. Shane and the dude. I'm still trying to think it more. Me too. Well, I think I got all of them. 859, 280, 2287. We will take a break.

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One person writes, Matt, uh, Ryan Lemon is like Bobby Petrino, abandoning his team right before the game. Ryan Lee. Oh, somebody Photoshop right on the UNLV player. I love it.

That's awesome. I told you that was all, that was the lead of every show yesterday. Yes, it was. The UNLV kid. Yes, it was. It did seem to me, though, most people tend to be siding with him and saying they kind of, the NCAA even made a statement that made it almost seem like they were blaming UNLV a little bit.

Like the NCAA statement was almost like we've got to make it to where there are signed contracts that are transparent, which I thought was kind of interesting. See, their running back did the same thing. And now someone at USC maybe, there's not been three players to do it. There were three players. The running back was like fourth string. But still, clearly, I think if there's two from a school, UNLV was not giving at least what one coach said. The guy ran the collective said we did not promise. but he said it was one of the assistant coaches.

And honestly, $100,000 does kind of sound like the number where they were just like, I'll give you $100,000. Like he just made a number up, Shannon, you know, and he's like, I thought it would $100,000. How's that? Yeah, it's two round of a number. Two round of a number. To just be promised to somebody.

To me, if you're going to lie about a number, it needs to be very specific. Like, it needs to be like 96,500. If you just say $100,000, I'm assuming that that number was like the assistant coach was just trying to say something to him. You know what I mean? Monopoly money. You're just, I mean, if you're not going to pay him, you might as well say a million dollars. Now one thing you've taught us in this show over the years, if you go in negotiations, you've got to have some leverage.

Yeah. Now that backup quarterback at you and LV's got all kinds of leverage, doesn't you? Oh, you think he should walk away too. Oh, he threatened. Look, you got to pay me all up front right now or I'm walking to. They are 3 and 0 in the contender in the group of five to be a player. Oh, no, they're definitely a contender. So if the QB2 goes up and is like, hey, I need 50,000 or I'm out.

And you know, the other thing was UNLV was deciding yesterday whether or not to go to the PAC 12. And they ended up deciding to stay in the Mountain West. What a terrible look, Shannon, it would have been if the player didn't get the money and then they went to the PAC 12 on the same day. That would be a bad look. If you're the backup quarterback going back to that conversation, do you try to negotiate or do you just say, hey, I'll play for free. I'm getting a great opportunity.

Now I'm the starting quarterback for UNLV. Well, I mean, again, it all depends on what the deals are. I think if I, I think actually the biggest loser in this ends up being UNLV. Because now players in the future are not going to think they'll get their money. That's true. Right? I mean, I would think now if you're going to play at UNLV, Drew, you almost have to get the money. up front, right? Because, like, you know there are now at least two guys who feel like they

did not get what they were promised. If I'm on their recruiting board right now being recruited for next year, I'm looking at this and saying, okay, everything you promised me, why should I believe any of it? If you've had now, two players leave midseason for you not following through. So it made me sort of think about how UK's NIL situation has gone with football. and I think UK's situation has gone shockingly well. I think both collectives, Ryan, have the basketball and football. They have issues, but they have different issues. Okay.

So the football collective, I think, has been funded surprisingly well to me. But the funding has tended to be from only a few sources, which is both good and bad. It's good because it only has a few people you kind of have to please. But it's bad in the sense that like if they ever change their mind, what are you going to do? I've been told, and again, I don't know this for sure, but this is kind of what I've heard, that like 50% to 60% of the money from the collective has come from like four people, all right, which is fine as long as you keep those four people.

I think basketball maybe has a little bit of the opposite thing, which is I think they have a lot of numbers, but are still kind of maybe searching for some big fish. I think Mark Pope has helped that. I think a lot of the big fish of UK athletics had kind of runoff Cal, not runoff as mean they ran them off. I'm saying like they didn't have a relationship with Cal. And so now I think the key, you know, so they almost each have a strength that is the opposite of the other one.

And I think Drew, they got to find a way to both be good at both. I think the football one has to get more numbers of general fans. And the basketball one probably needs a couple more big fish to completely buy it. Yeah, it's great to have big donors. We're lucky to have the ones we have. There's even been times I've heard where they've had to call them. I'm like, hey, need you to help out this month. They step in and do it.

That has definitely happened. Yeah. But I mean, the moment, you know, they're not going to live forever. They might not decide to do that forever. If they were to step away, you've got to be prepared because that's just going to disappear immediately. And I think the people that when we lose, and this could happen Saturday, who start riding, you know, time to get rid of Mark Stoops. I think it is very important to recognize that the football donors are Mark Stoops loyal. Very fair.

Would you agree? Oh, yes. Mark Stubes, amongst the things he deserves the most credit for, the way he has cultivated, football donors. And they are personal to him, meaning almost all of these people did not donate to football before him. They absolutely did not. So when you think about Mark Stub's future, you also have to think about what have you lost all those people? And you're starting over from scratch. Right.

I think that's something people have to recognize. because he, Mark Stoops is the best person at this school in my lifetime at cultivating big time donors at any sport. Would you agree with that? Yeah. You probably have to go back to Joe B. Hall to someone who had bet. I'm serious. Oh, yes. You know?

Well, especially when it comes to football. That's what, like you said, what Stoops has done is maybe the most impressive thing he's done since he's been here is to get big money boosters to donate to football. Specifically to football. To football. They're like, we are giving this money to football. Yep. And in the past, as we all know, all the big money donors were to basketball, none to football. And it flipped.

And it flipped. Under Cal had a couple friends of his that were don't. But they were like friend cow donors, not UK don'ts. And I think the people that historically had given to UK basketball, basically for a lot of them, one or two exceptions, kind of abandoned it. because they were kind of tired of Cal to be honest with you, because Cal did his own thing. And so it was fine until NIL came and then it became an issue. You don't want your boosters to have a bunch of control, but when Stoops is done and they have to make a hire, they'll want to consider the opinions of those because you don't want to bring in someone

they've never met and never even really heard of because you're not going to be getting the same fundraising you have a Stoops who goes out, hangs out of these people, golfs with them, knows them personally. The 80s and 90s, this process. program, especially the 80s, were kind of run by boosters. And then they kind of got run off. And now they're going to be back. Yeah, they need them back.

And now they need them back. And that's kind of how it is. 859-280-2287. We'll take your call. 772-7-7-4-5-254 on the text machine. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T. He'll make them pay.

Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. Where did my guy from Louisville go? Like he was in here and he was left. How'd he speed up like he was going to enjoy the whole show? And like he just gone. And then bolted.

You can come out for lunch today. By the way, for the UK Ole Miss game on Saturday, it's going to be first come first served to come in. So we're not going to take reservations. I would suggest we open at 11 games at noon. I would suggest try to get here a little bit early to get your table. But because it's noon, we're not going to do the reservation. It's just going to be the first come first serve.

It'll be, I say this. all the time. I think the best atmosphere in here is a road football. It is. Just because people are all into it and if we win, that's where people end up on the bar like dancing and all that stuff. 59-28027. We're going to do this

like an Ask Anything Thursday. So you can, any topic you want, come on in. I got contacted yesterday, Ryan, from a national media organization contemplating doing a feature on us that is kind of like

Is this the most popular local sports radio show in America? And you say yes? No, I said I would definitely. They're still deciding whether they're going to do it, but they asked me if they wanted to, could they like talk to me next week? And so they're, but that would be kind of neat, wouldn't it?

It's very neat when somebody recognizes. I haven't written it yet. But I mean, they're at least, but like it's kind of cool that they were considering. Yeah, absolutely. Make sure you give us a heads up that come in for a show. showers. I need to shower. I come in for pictures. Yeah, I don't think they're going to come in and take a shower.

Take a shower. But I think if you're saying that we need to shower, if they come in. Yeah, you're good. But isn't that kind of cool? It is. They write a story about our showers. No, it's very cool. Can we get a hint? Is it? No, because if they don't do it, I don't want to put them. Well, I'm always interested in shining a light on us. Put them on the spot. I mean, it's not, don't get me wrong. It's not like, you know, it's not like the New York Times. But it's, it's a, you know, they do. these kinds of things and they

the person the person that wrote me said I have a question for you how in the world are you all so high on the Apple and Spotify podcast trucks? I was like I don't really know how to answer that so I just wrote back because we're awesome

in the radio world it is unbelievable how our local sports talk show can beat like country radio or how about the fact that it beats like a lot of days like Dan Patrick yes I mean that's a little a local show like this. That's crazy

on the podcast rank. Yeah. So, you know, anyway, before I go to the phones, 859-280-22-87, have you seen the story, Drew, about how people are blaming Taylor Swift for Travis Kelsey not playing well?

They're saying, you know, he hasn't caught as much during the first three weeks. I bet him to do two tuddies. He had zero todies. He said zero todies. But they're saying, well, is that because he's partying with Taylor Swift. Now, I have a pretty strong opinion about this, but I wondered what

was your take. You're kind of our pop culture. I am. You follow the scenes and what's happening on the streets. I mean, there's no stopping it because it's out there, but I just cannot grasp why anyone would care what Taylor Swift is doing relative to the Chiefs. And how

that kind of... But do you think it's her fault? He's not playing well? Do you know what these athletes do on their night off? A lot of them? Probably a lot worse than Travis sitting at home with Taylor Swift. Yeah. They said, Todd McShay, I heard him. He was on Ryan Roussel's podcast, and he was like, let's just admit it. Travis Kelsey is out of shape, and he's not in shape because he's out partying all the time with Taylor Swift and doing TV and movies.

He was like an old man ranting on there. You think that's fair, Ryan? Travis Kelsey is one of the best tight ends of our generation. I mean, he's awesome. And the fact he's only got what, like eight catches, I think maybe through three games or something like that? Give it time. Slow down. There's a lot of football left.

He's going to end up being one of the superstars as we know he can be. I would say that's probably more because, what is he, like 35 years old? He's got to have a decline eventually. Some point. Well, first of all, he's 3 and 0. True. I mean, they've won every game. True.

Right? That's pretty good. Yep. I think he's getting blamed for the fact, like, if his girlfriend was named Sarah Jenkins, and he was doing all the same things, it's just no one would know, right? So if he went, if he was doing, let's just say he was doing all the exact same things. You just didn't know who his girlfriend was. Would they be saying this is because of Sarah Jenkins?

Why are you throwing Sarah Jenkins under the bus? Because Sarah Jenkins is wild. But would they throw? No. It's only because we know who he's dating that people say that. And, you know, he is like he's going to be in a TV series. I'm sure he did other things. But like, I don't, I think it's so.

rude to like if you want to say well he's not in shape but to blame her like i mean do they blame him if her voice is not in key on a concert there are lots of athletes who are very busy in their spare time do lots of things have girlfriends maybe multiple girlfriends philip rivers had 10 kids he wouldn't say man he's not focused on football he's taking care of 10 kids no well ryan rousillo did say to todd mcshay you think he's the only dude with a girlfriend in the nflb that's what i mean it's just because everyone knows who she is. Yeah. All right.

Who's up first? Let's go to Jake. Jake. Jake, how are you, Jake? Hey, what's going on today, fellas? What's up? So I was thinking about the punter situation, and I completely agree that I would rather take the gamble and have the 60-yard punts.

But I play golf, and I know a couple of you guys play golf, too, and I was just wondering, would you rather have a 200-yard drive straight every single time, or would you rather take the gamble and maybe one out of every five drives it goes like 250 you know what I mean like you just explain my golf game is I don't I only swing hard it's either going to go to 75 to 85 to 90 straight or it's going to be in a different area code and and to me that's a lot better because it's a lot more fun if I go 200 yards I'm going to have like a four iron into the green I'd much rather have the eight or nine and occasionally have to chip out of the woods

or depend on how you look at it, pick it up and kick it and move it back. When you do spray one of the woods, it manages to go in the fairways. Well, I get really good bounces sometimes. Off trees. You know, you have to know the angles. The angles of the pine.

I understand. But I want our punner. First of all, we don't know that he shanks them 17 yards. My understanding is it's not even that he shanks them. It's he holds it a little long and they're worried about it getting blocked. It's not even a shanker. shank situation. It just takes them a split second longer to get it off.

Okay, but let's say, let's say he, it won't be one out of five, but let's say one out of 35 were to get blocked. But in the other ones, he kicks it 20 yards farther. Is that worth it? It is to me. I'm taking that every single time, especially a game like Saturday, where I think flipping the field could be really important keeping Ole Miss's offense, you know, off the field as long as much as possible. I'm going with that, that guy. And I'm with you. I feel like we think he just shanks it all the time. He was an All-American last year. You don't shake him, become an All-American.

They act like he's like me out there, top of him. Everybody duck. He's about to punt. Yeah. Cover your heads. Who knows this is going to land? No, he's a punter of the year in FCS last year. He was a first-team all-American.

He's not just some, I just don't, I guess what I don't understand is, if you decided to play him against, oh, I don't know, well, Ohio was a different kind of game. But if you decide to play him and he punts once and he kicks it 58 yards, what could have changed your mind about it? Like, what would then go, well, we still don't know yet? I mean, you throw him out there, right? I think you do, and we all trust Max a lot more than we all trust each other

when it comes to punting and kicking and things. I trust Max more than you all in punting. Amen. So, you know, if he's the guy, I don't, maybe they were trying to just give the first, guy just first crack at it but now I don't know this is not I mean it's not home room and you want to treat everybody equally you got to put the best guy out there and I don't know this and this sounds crazy to be but Max kind of suggested one time that he punts it so far it messes up their coverage I don't believe I don't that sounds wild to me that you can put it's a phrase but

that has been mentioned before I get it but still I'm just throwing out what could be the case that seems outrageous to who's up next yeah let's go to John John go ahead John go ahead John. Yeah, this is John for Green. I hope y'all have a good day. Hey, we mentioned your town earlier. Yeah, I heard that a little bit earlier. On my way off from work, but I didn't want to go back to the NIL holdout.

Do you think it's going to come to a point where these recruits, once they get to money bigger they like, they're going to ask you something in writing? Oh, I think, well, first of all, I think a lot of them do it now. I mean, I think a lot of these are in writing now. But I think the NCAA, that's a rule that I think the NCAA can make that will stand up in court, which is to require all the deals in writing. So yes, I think this kid will probably lead to a pretty fundamental change, and I think that'll be good, actually. I believe you're right there, too.

That's what I was thinking it was going to have to go to to start with when they first started talking about the NIAO. The way it's set up, I mean, it's just you can promise anything and deliver nothing. Yeah, it's exactly right. I appreciate the call. I actually think while this kid took some bad publicity for a while, I think he will end up leading to a change. I think the NCAA can make a rule that all NIL deals have to be in writing, and I think a court would uphold that,

and I think that would be a rule that would be better for everybody. What would be the negative against it? There might be schools that are doing things that they don't want people to know, and they don't want to put it in writing. Right. So one of the things about putting in writing is there's a copy out there for players to show other players what they're making and like it sets the market. And I think it's probably, I think right now there's probably teams where one kid's making a lot more than the other, but they don't all know about it. I think this, if everything's in writing, like there's a record of it and some schools might not want that.

But I think that the NCAA could reasonably say for the protection of the schools and the kids, we're making you do this and right. Yeah, I mentioned this yesterday, but we need, we need the slukas to clean it up a little bit. You need UNLV to get caught overpromising and not paying guys. There's now two people on that team. I feel like it's got to get a little bit ugly for someone to step in and, you know, get this on the tracks. We've been calling it the Wild West for a couple of years now. Now we're finally seeing it.

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Tomorrow we are at Ham Days in Marion County. It'll probably be raining, at which point they'll move us in the gym. It's a show I highly recommend if you've never been, if you live in the area because they have these country ham biscuits. They bring, and they are so good. I mean, the ham, you ever had country ham, Mario? Like, have you, though, like country ham, like the salt and all that? Yeah, not city ham.

Yeah, not city ham. Country ham. That's different. So you've not had country ham. You've only had city ham. Oh, it's the best. Country ham is so good. It's like salty and kind of, I mean, you can't eat a lot of it or your heart will just lock up.

But like a little bit of it is really, really good. You'll like it tomorrow, I bet. It's really, really good. And so that's tomorrow in Marion County for ham days. my friends are going to be there because we're coming down and then leaving for Oxford. So I'm going to have, and when we do the hay throwing contest, we're going to have a hay throwing contest. Let's predict the order of the finish of who is able to throw a bale of hay the farthest. Let's say it's the four of us, Billy and Mario.

Ryan, why don't you rank what do you think the top six will be? I think you tall guys may have a little advantage with your long arms because of my little short arms, I can barely get that thing off the ground to start with. So what are you thinking? I'll go, I'll go Drew 1, Matt 2, Mario 3, Billy, 4, Me 5. Shannon 6. Oh, I thought Shannon was in, okay. What are you talking about?

What are you doing, Ryan? Wow. Hold on. Hold on. You got Billy. Rank him. Rank them. Okay.

Shannon won. Ha. Good stop. Matt, 2, Drew 3, Mario 4, Billy 5, me 6. I mean, we got flipped all because he forgot Shannon. I'm going to go. I'm going to go Drew one Me two but Shannon very

Shannon could pass me I'll put Shannon three Let's say Ryan four Mario 5 Billy 6 I think Mario beats Billy in the battle for fifth place But it could go either way He wants to put Billy last I love it All right Shannon what about you You know what Ryan I'm going to give you more credit

than what you're giving yourself I think Ryan's got that old man strength He does have old man strength Country strength I'm going to go Ryan number one Oh, my. I'm going to go me number two. Oh, wow. You have me and Drew both.

I'm going to go Drew three, Matt, four, Mario, then Billy. Billy. You got Billy last as well. Okay. Drew, what about you? You all are confident, more confident in me than I was myself. I'm going to go Ryan one. I think Ryan could win.

Yeah, I think he has sneaky. He's got sneaky. I'm thinking that little short arms, though. And he's got leverage, but go ahead. I'll go Matt to Shannon 3, me 4, Mario, then Billy. For Billy. Everyone has Billy and last. You get so mad.

You get so mad. But I don't, I mean, I think the battle between Mario and Billy, I think I'm going to take Mario, aren't you? Oh, easily. That was the easiest pick was the gap between five and six. Because you know right now somewhere Billy is fuming. No, Billy is on a farm practicing. Billy, no, Billy's going to go out and look for hay tonight. He already said he's going to watch YouTube.

He's already been studying up, like the angle and like the... Oh, he has. He knows the launch point. I also think, though, here I'm going to stand up here. I think me and Drew play golf, and I would assume it's the same swing, right? Yeah. Because you hold the ropes and you take it back, and I would assume, like, Drew and I probably a little more flexible at that, having done it.

Is that plausible? Yes. He really plays golf, though, too. Yeah, it's true. That's why I'm sticking your long arms would help you in that swing back and swing it forward then. Well, we'll see. I love that we're all predictive. Why don't you go win or something?

You know, I made him the most upset when we picked him six out of six in the handsome contest. Well, that wasn't. That was the ladies of KSR that did that. I did not pick him. That was the committee. Who's up next? Will. Will, go ahead, Will.

Guys, I have a fair foul for you. If you're in the disco bathroom up in Northern Kentucky and you walk in and push the red button and someone sitting on the toilet cusses at you, is it fair or foul to push the button again before you walk out? Fair. 100% fair. Absolutely fair.

Yeah, you can totally put, you should keep pushing it. People don't know. There's a gas station in Northern Kentucky that has a disco ball and like all this stuff going on. Where is it? Which exit? I don't remember. I can't remember. I think it's at 171, but I'm not sure.

Okay, Walton Verona exit. That's right. Yeah, and it's really strange. It's very unique. Is he suggesting he walked in on someone? Probably. Yeah. And if somebody's sitting there and they cuss you, absolutely you could have the right to push that button again.

Yeah, I appreciate the call. I will tell you it's probably a little more graphic than need be. But I cannot go to the restroom in a public place if there's another person doing the same thing. Stage fright. I've never used that phrase before. But I can't do it, especially if they're doing the same thing. It's like it feels like too intimate of an encounter with a stranger. Yeah.

And I can't do it. Who's up next? You talk to them? Talk to it. No. No. I don't want to talk to somebody. I don't look someone in the eye in a public bathroom.

Eyes up. I won't even ignore. Like, if I see someone I know and they try to talk to me in a bathroom, forget it. Yeah. Forget it. When I was, okay, I'm getting off topic here, but when I was at the fellowship, we were at this resort that had, like, unisex bathrooms. Now, what it was, though, was that, like, the men went on this side,

the women went on this side, but we shared a sink area. Gotcha. Okay. So, so, like, it sort of is a mixture. And in the sink area, you'd be there, and then a woman, and I couldn't even look at it. Like, I couldn't, like, I felt like, I couldn't look at them. So even though I knew these people, one woman, like, tried to talk to me, and I was like, we have to do this outside.

Like, we can't, I cannot have this conversation with you standing at this sink. I'll meet you outside when we're done, and then we can talk about. I am absolutely 100% on board with you. I don't want to talk to anybody. I don't want to you talking to me. I want to do my duty and get out. Your duty? Yeah.

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