KSR - 2024-09-30- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: September 30, 2024

Matt, Ryan, and Shannon talk UK's win over Ole Miss, the atmosphere in Oxford, and Matt Jones' fake injury.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome, everyone. Kentucky Sports Radio Monday, September the 30th. I'm Matt Jones on a finally, partly sunny day here in Lexington after a weekend of a ton of rain. We are here at the KS. Bar and Grill. Matt Jones,

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in a hemp field somewhere with cornbread hemp. And then Friday, we're at Shady Ray's in Lexington. Ryan, we're not going to open the phones yet for a while because we've got to talk about this win. I want to go into my trip to Oxford. There's a lot of stuff I want to do. But first of all, let's just set the scene of Kentucky wins at Ole Miss. The highest ranked team Kentucky's beaten on the road since 1977. So I can say the highest ranked team we've beaten on the road in my life was on Saturday.

Fourth highest ranked team we've beaten ever, no matter, whatever the scenario is. And a huge win for the program and going into the by week gets Kentucky back on track. What a day Saturday was. It was awesome. I mean, it was fantastic. What a great programming,

program changing win it was for the cats. And when Ole Miss had kind of become the darlings of college football, you know, they're averaging over 50 points. They're averaging over 600 yards a game. Kentucky comes in there and sticks it right in their jockstrap and walk away with the wind. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow that. I mean, when he started the stick in, I was like, you know, it's not that kind of Monday morning. Yeah. Sticking in their eye. Yes, but go ahead. You were on a roll. Go ahead. Well, I've been so excited just to sit and talk to you about your trip. I mean, to be down there to be a part of it.

I had FOMO, but I wanted to be there. You should have been there. Everybody was asking where you all were. And I said, they didn't believe. I believed. You didn't believe. They didn't believe. And they didn't show up. No Mario, no Drew, no Ryan, no Shannon, you and your boys. No Billy.

So I loved it. And, you know, I got nothing against Ole Miss people. I actually, you know, I love Ole Miss. Melissa and Matthew, my friends live down there. I've been down there now for three football games, one basketball game. I like it. let me before because I'm going to spend some time ripping them so let me say so let me say some positive things first of all not nicer fans I've ever been yeah I'm dead serious if you're just talking

people at the game nicest fans I've ever been around like had one person be rude to me but it was just because of the comments I'd made in the past week most people couldn't be nicer the tailgate scene LSU might be better, but it's right there with it. If you've never been to Ole Miss, you've got to try to go, because it's just a cool thing, right? It's one of the few places where the stadium is on campus and the tailgates are on campus, so you really feel like you're part of a college game day, right?

Yeah. Everybody's dressed up. Shannon, they treat it like a fashion show. Like everybody's, like the women are dressed beautifully, like, you know, dresses, boots, makeup, the guys. I mean, they're all kind of fratty with their. They're little polo shirts, but they all look the kind of the same. It's, you know, it's like a certain version, I guess, of southern genteel culture.

You know what I mean? Right. So all that's great. And the food's great, awesome. But beating them was so good. I mean, like, it was so fun. I've said this many times over the years. There's nothing better besides maybe a huge NCAA tournament basketball win.

There's nothing better. than being a fan when you beat a team on their home field. Yep. It's the best. I love Krogerfield. I love winning at home. But there's something about walking into their stadium and winning, and as all of you walk out, you're the one that's happened.

Yes. It's just a great feeling. You've done that before. Did it in Florida a couple years ago. It's absolutely awesome. So there weren't a lot of Kentucky fans there. I mean, I don't know. Well, it was, I remember when we went two years ago, I thought maybe 25, 30% Kentucky fans,

I mean, 5%, maybe 10. It was, we didn't have a huge presence, but the ones that were there, we had a lot of fun. Every Kentucky fan I saw, complete strangers, they just hug you. Like, you know, I mean, we all acted like we were all best friends. I sat on a row where it was the, me and my three buddies, tall hubbyes, be in the turkey hunter. There was two Kentucky guys, and in between us was a dude who wasn't a Kentucky fan. He was a Mississippi State fan who had come just to root against Old Miss.

I love that story. Love it. So the seven of us form our little unit. There's a group of guys in front of me on the left, one of whom's shirt was off the entire fourth quarter. They're Kentucky fans, and then a group of guys to my right that were that way. And we all just kept pointing each other. You know how it is. Like when you're at one of these road things.

And when he missed that kick, I don't know, man. I'm not sure when I've lost my stuff that much in public. I was like a little kid. I was jumping around. You know, I was doing that thing you all've probably done where you use your friend's shoulders to like hold you, like leap you up. You know what I mean? Like to use his leverage to jump up in the air. I nearly tore my ACL.

I'm not kidding. There was a moment I put my foot because they still have, they don't even have chair back. Right? They still have the bleachers. Okay. Even though we were on the 13th row, still bleachers. I put my foot on the seat and it was wet and I almost bit. I mean, Shane, if I'd walked out of there with a torn ACL. We know how you Matt Jones liked to fake injuries. That was a, yeah, we'll get to my namesake there at a minute flopping during the game.

But it was great. And there were multiple times, I was like, well, we're done. Yeah. I mean, let's just start. When we go, when they go score, well, first of all, we get that hit, and I think we have a turnover. Yes. Right? I think we have a turnover to start the game, and then they go, what, four plays and score a touchdown?

And just a matter of seconds. And I thought, no, well, this is going to be awful. I think all Big Moon Nation did that time. This is going to be awful. Yeah. But you know what? From that point on, I'm not sure Mark Stoops, Bush Hamden, and Brad White could have done a better job. Do you agree with that?

I'm not sure they could have coached, throw those first three minutes out, a better 57 minutes than after that. Brad White needs to be commended for what he did to shut down and stop that Ole Miss offense. The time of possession was just almost two to one. Two to one. Yeah. Two to one. And Bush Hamden and two. Yeah.

To make it to where, I mean, what do we have twice as many first downs as they did? I think so. Something like that. I mean, you know, we've talked about, excuse me, converting on third down. We converted on third down. I don't know what it was, but it had to be an insane number, right? And they were three for three on fourth down. Yeah, three for three on fourth down.

But let's talk about the big moments. First of all, that, let me say, shout out to Dane Key. Awesome. Shannon, how good was Dane Key? We finally let Ryan pick him as an MVP and he goes crazy. That's a great first time. Back-to-back games over 100 yards each. Back-to-back games over, you had to be proud of.

I even got lump in my throat and teared up a couple of times because he deserves that moment, man. he's worked so hard for it. Dude made some money. I mean, that was a great game. Amen. They couldn't cover him. They couldn't cover it.

He was the best receiver on the field. I think that's true. And Old Miss got a really good one too. I mean, that dude's really good. The Harris guy or whatever. The Barry and Brown fourth down. First of all, Stup's never goes for that. Fourth and eight?

Fourth and eight from our own 20. It was the right decision. You know, I mean, if we punted it to him, Ryan, we weren't seeing the ball. But even more to the point, even if, we did, even if we did, we'd have such little time, and we're not an offense that can do that, you know? So he goes for it. And then they just throw a ball.

And I thought, as the ball's in the air, I got, I was like, I can't believe he's doing this. Then when he caught it, I'm trying to think of a play that has surprised me more. You know, I was talking about this on the post game show. There are big moment plays. The LSU stop on fourth down, right? The various plays in the Florida. games. But I don't, I can't think of one that was more surprising in the moment. Like, I mean, who thought that was going to be complete? And who thought he was going to go 63 yards? And

Barryon Brown, the 10-yard run stopping on a dime and cutting, unbelievable. It's like, it's like somebody texted me. It was like Bugs Bunny cartoons where he just stopped. I don't know how he got himself stopped. How did he stop the other way? I mean, how was he able to stop so quickly? You know, Dane had the big game, but Berion had the big play. And that play is going to be one that we're going to talk about forever. That goes into the Steve. he got loose kind of play in terms of everybody will remember that so then i mean i'm i'm losing it the when they put whims it in and i thought whims it played well but i was like he's going to fumble it i said the only way this game could break our hearts as if he fumbles it and there's a split

second where he fumbles it but i'm on the other in the stadium i can't see it and i went oh no and then cadis how about cadis falls on it after no offense to josh oh ho ho ho hoare you horrible game by Josh Katas, but he catches that and he gets redemption on the final play. How many times does Kentucky fans do we see a fumble like that, and we never recover it, ever? And yet we got a gift just falls right in Josh's lap. Right in his hands. A guy that the TV coverage exposed him for missing some blocks. They exposed him for dropping some passes, but he was there right place, right time.

It fell right in his lap. The stadium at that moment, I mean, you would have thought all of those. people had like vineyard vines had gone out of business like that's what you would have thought in that stadium they were so sad and they were so down all right defense we come out three straight bam our defense is absolutely dominated yeah and then the fourth down that's the play that usually kills us that's the play that i thought that play will haunt me for him yeah i was on the whatever 35 yard i was literally he was straight in front of me why didn't our guy do that we're jump, by the way. I don't know if he would mistime his jump or he lost the ball. He didn't

miss time his jump. He didn't jump at all. He must have lost the ball. He had to have lost the ball. When they caught that, I mean, Shannon, at that point you think the game's over. You make that stop and it is over. Yeah, but now that they catch it, I'm like we're losing. Did you think there was any chance we win at that moment? I already had it in my head. They're going to kick the field, go tight, and we're going to lose it over time. We've seen this ending. I've seen it a million times. I thought we might even losing regulation. But then they get the play, then they fumble it.

And you go, yes. Yeah. No. Dion's off sides. Like, again, second chance to win. You just think this is another thing we're going to look back on. But when he kicked that kick, and anybody listening who's ever kicked in college will realize it's, you know, in college, the hash marks are farther apart.

Yes. And you look at that kick, that's a tough angle for a right-footed kicker to kick from the right side, you know, that's, you got to like, put some English on it. You got to cross field. And the moment he kicked it, it was clear it wasn't going in. I, you know, I mean, Aaron Harrison, he gave me that a couple times. Brandon Knight in the elite eight that game, but there's not many times I've lost it like I did right there.

What an awesome moment. You know, I don't remember the Kentucky win at Penn State in the 70s. So even though I'm older than you, this is still the biggest road win of our lifetime. Yes. There's no doubt about it, as highly ranked as they were, people had them already penciled in the playoff bracket. Well, you heard on game day, Desmond Howard goes, why are we even picking this game? Oh, I didn't know.

He said that. Why are we even picking this game? This is obvious. And only McAfee, he was the only one that was like, well, you know, I'm picking Ole Miss, but, you know, Tuckie's all right. Well, they were more than all right. and I it was so much fun and if you could have seen this I don't know how much on TV they showed the sidelines I know they showed stoop celebrating but I wish you could have seen the players losing see we didn't get to see that losing you remember in 98 when we beat duke they show the sidelines when when Padgett

or Mills one of those guys hits the three and they show the sidelines Jamal McGlor goes running down the thing and people are going that's how it was the players I don't know know if I've ever seen people happier. They were going insane. And then on the way off the field, the way people were just losing it, it was what it should be about, right? All the nonsense people talk about, NIO, it's ruined college athletes. No, it's not. When the game start, it's still awesome. Put everything else aside. If you don't enjoy all that, don't follow it. When the game start, first of all, those kids care. Oh, amen. You don't think those kids care during that. You don't think the Alabama, Georgia kids cared that night.

Like, Keith's kids care. And then when you get that moment, that's what, that's why you're, that's why you're UK fan is for those moments. And I loved it. And then when it's over, you know, they have, and I'm going to get to their stadium in a minute. But one of the things that's actually, I think, kind of dangerous. It's hard to get in and out of that stadium.

The intro, like, I don't think it would pass code today. Like, it's hard to get in and out of the entrances. There's only a couple of ramps. in and out. There's only like three or four exits on one side, and so it takes forever to get out of that building. So there was a lot of just standing there waiting for people to go to soak in the moment. And I'm glad that happened because that was great. I'm glad you were there, man. Like I said, I'm jealous of that I couldn't be there. But you mentioned the moment. I'm glad Coach Stoops got that moment. You know, we were kind of down on him after the South Carolina game.

There were a lot of people questioned his play calls and things he did in the Georgia game. But Stephen Peek followed him off the field. That was a great video. That was a great video. Great video. I'm so glad Stoops got that moment. He's doing some body surfing in the locker room. A locker room looked awesome. Didn't that look amazing? All those videos that came out of the locker room just was just, I got goose,

chili bumps right now and just thinking about it. It was great. You know, the whole thing, after it was over, after a few minutes, I called the big dog and I could hear the celebration in the background. That was absolutely awesome. Yeah. You know, it was just that, it was such a fun. And then for me, I had such a fun weekend.

and probably three of my best friends in the world there. We got to do all that together, staying at other friends of mine's houses, just being in that environment. And then when it's over, and I'll talk more about this after the break, try to do the post-game show. And, Shannon, we can't do anything without drama, right? We have to have drama. I heard, yeah.

But that was also fun. I can't wait to talk about this. Which we will talk about when we return. Cats with a massive win. Yeah. How about that? We'll take a break, very back. This is KSA.

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Okay. Chris Christopherson, I wish it wasn't this day so we could actually talk about him some more. I've said this before. I'm not sure there's a human being who has had a more interesting life than Chris Christopherson. Vietnam veteran served in the military for a number of years. A road scholar, okay? They need to be a road scholar. Was good friends with Bill Clinton, I think, when they were at Oxford together.

Were their roommates even? I'd heard that. I think that was wrong, but they were at Oxford at the same time. Okay. He was a country music writer first, wrote songs for other people, were going to play a couple of them. Then he became a singer, was successful as a singer. became an actor.

Yeah. Won a Golden Globe as an actor. Was in many big movies as an actor. Then was in the highwayman. Maybe the best assemblage of country musicians of all time. Through that whole time, everything he did. He was great. Yep.

I'm not sure there is someone who, you talk about what you want to do in life, live a rich, fulfilling life. Who did it better than Chris Christopherson? And I was at his last public performance. Oh, were you? His last public performance was Willie Nell. Nelson's 90th birthday. Okay.

They brought him out there. He sang with Roseanne Cash. He really was struggling. He had dementia, I think. And she kind of walked him through it. It was helped me make it through the night. You can hear it on Apple and Spotify, their performance. It's amazingly sweet.

Johnny Cash's daughter kind of helping him through it. And when you watched it, you could kind of tell this might be the last time. And it ended up being the last time he ever publicly performed, passed away at 88 years old. You know, you just laid out his career, and every time you say that, that he was a road scholar and was a friend with Bill Clinton, you know, then he became a singer. Then he became an actor. Like, my goodness, the dude could do anything. He could do anything. He was a songwriter, then an actor.

It's amazing. It's amazing. Right. And a good, good at all of it. And he was good at all of it. Like he's not just some guy playing in a movie. He won awards for his acting, right? He was in the original, well, not the original, but he was in the modern star is born.

What Bradley Cooper did. He did that with, I think, Barb, he was. or stricane or something. So anyway, like, he's one of the last. I mean, Willie's now, who would have thought Willie would be the last one left? But all of those guys, he's kind of the last one of the last ones. If you're giving odds in the 80s, who's the guy that's going to make it the lowest? I mean, Willie, Shannon, and Keith Richards still going. Who would have ever imagined they would be the two? It's all that herb. I guess so. All right, so let's talk about the post-game for a minute. So I assumed we were going to lose. But you also,

left the plan as if we win. Right. I didn't want to do a public post-game show if we lost. I didn't want Old Miss fans just yelling at me. So I decided if we won, we would set up in the Grove. So we set up plans. My friend works at one of the buildings there is part of the Southern Food Alliance. We set it up.

We have it set up. We get permission. We have the internet line, et cetera. We win the game. Run back to the place. I tweeted out. People are already gathering. There were 10 people that beat me there, okay?

Probably by the 30 minutes before the show, there's 50 or 60 people there. We're setting up. All of a sudden, here comes the Oxford, the Ole Miss Police. As soon as they walk up, Shannon, I know this is what I know what's happening, right? Where's your permit? Permit. Do you all have permission to be here? My friend had dealt with all of it.

She had the answers to all the questions. they were unnecessarily hostile at first, one guy at least. He's like, show me your ID, you know, like all this stuff. But we did exactly what he said, blah, blah, blah, blah. We have permission, blah, blah, blah. They go away. And I think, okay, well, we get to do it. About three minutes later they come back.

Shannon, you are violating the code that says you cannot run a cord outside of a building on game day. Oh, it's the cord. What code? What code? There is no code that says you cannot run a cord outside of a building on game day. Come on. Come on. First of all, you have to understand.

Go wireless. There's general. Well, you couldn't because you can't get cell service. Okay. So like we had to have internet to get it. There are cords running everywhere. Sure. Okay.

I mean, there are generators everywhere. There's TVs everywhere. He says you can have cords running out of the wall, but not out of the door. Stop. Come on. Stop. What code is that? What code is it?

It says, yes, you can have a door. coming out of the building, but they can't go through the window or through the door. So I just ask him. I'm like, look, man, just be real with me. Why can't we do this? He goes, these are the rules. So I write a tweet, and I say, sir, is this correct? And he looks at it, and he goes, well, it's not the Oxford.

It's not us. It's Old Miss Athletics. Old Miss Athletics had called the police to tell them not to let me do the show. We later found out even more so a big, donor to old miss athletics tent was next to it. Nice. Okay. They told Old Miss Athletics, who then told the old miss police.

So this one donor was upset. Now, I still think we could have done it. But now we're 10 minutes from the show. You know, there comes a point I have to go on the air. Yeah. So we just give it. I hate to tell everybody, now at this point, 100 people have gone. I'm like, we can't do it.

everybody boos, you know, the, not me, but they kind of boo the police. I was like, it's not their fault. They're being told what to do. I mean, the guy kind of calmed down, and he sort of was like, look, man, my hands are tied. So I walk inside and do it. As we're doing the show, Shannon, people are pounding on the door trying to get in. I love that part of the story. I mean, people are, like, knocking on the door, pounding on the door.

And so my friends have to go and go, you can't come in, you can't come in. So I hated we weren't able to do it. But how petty by Ole Miss Athletics. to not want a big donor. That's what it was. That donor didn't what you did. You can't run a cord through a window on a Saturday. I'm like, stop it.

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. Well, I wanted Shannon to play the the help me make it through the night here, but we played me and Bobby McGee. I wanted you to play the Joplin version of that.

But he wrote this song. Chris Christrofson wrote this song, too? Chris Christopherson wrote me and Bobby McGee. Really? Yes. He wrote this before he was a singer. Janice Joplin recorded it was her only number one hit. So we all know Janice Joplin, but her one number one hit was a Chris Christopherson song.

Wow. I got another fun fact. Yes. I didn't know this, that he also used to be a professor at West Point. I did not know that. I believe him. I'll see that. Add that to his law story.

professor that's amazing yeah amazing uh one person writes matt the matt jones i know would have not taken no for an answer true but my friend works there and so i was like she's got she's gonna have to stay here so i you know i don't want to i i would have been polite either way but i might have like just gone and done it made them pull the cord but with them that with you know she works there and she had done me a favor. So there's a level I didn't really feel like Ryan I could push it. You know what I mean? You still owe her some respect.

Yeah, because she's got to stay there and be there, right? Yeah. So my favorite parts of the whole story, the UK fans beating on the door during the show, trying to get in to get to be a part of it. And now we find out the back story. There was a booster that complained to the Ole Miss Athletics who went to the Ole Police Department. Their tent is always in that spot.

And you remember, well, you weren't there. Two years ago, we did this show in that same spot. And so she remembered it. Ah. So she remembered two years ago us doing it and was not going to let it happen again. And that's what. Now you mentioned the Ole Miss fans were really nice. Yeah.

Were they even nice after the loss? Yeah. Yeah, they weren't. I mean, I was tell them this. You know, my post game showed ended like, so I'm thinking local time. The game ended local time there at like 2.30. My show ended at like five local time. and they were still partying in the grove.

I mean, a lot of them had left, but Shannon, the whole thing is crazy. Okay. The grove has tents everywhere. Like, I mean, you cannot imagine like a traditional campus you would see on a television show. Right, yeah. With all the grass everywhere and all that. Now imagine it's all taken up with tents, okay, and they're set up. But here's the crazy thing.

These people don't set up their own tents. There are companies that they pay to come set up and break down the tents. And they do the chairs and some of them do the food. And so there's tents everywhere. But when people leave, they just leave the tents and chairs. And at night, someone comes and takes them all down. So these people, like, they don't do it themselves. They pay for other people to do it.

Apparently on Friday night at 7 p.m., they open up the grove. And all of these people who work for companies who are representing tailgators. At seven, they open the campus and they all run and get their spot, Shannon. But it's not the people tailgating. It's the people they've hired to do the tailgating for them. So the spots are not reserved? Well, maybe like for the biggest people, but in general, no. But people want their normal spots.

So they hire people to go run and get their specific spots. that they want. I'm not kidding. This is not a joke. I knew they had people. They don't set up. These people do not set up their own tents. Yeah.

They hire, and there are companies that exist in Oxford. Solely two, eight times a year, run and set people's tailgates up. So you want to get a hire a company? It's got some fast dudes that can get to the spot. The dudes hire Ole Miss students,

and they're like, you are in charge of getting Shannon's spot. Uh-huh. You are in charge of getting Shannon's spot. And, like, I think the students get, like, $100 to come for five minutes, run, get the spot, and go home. What a gig. I mean, if I'm an Ole Miss student, I'm doing that every Saturday. Every Friday night, right?

Every Friday night you would do it. Yeah. Now, did you guys make it to the library? Oh, no. It's $100 to give it. Are you kidding me? But they won. I thought maybe you'd celebrate and let's go.

I didn't talk trash to people after the game. The only person who really talked trash to me, I told this story on the postgame show. again, you'd have to see it, but the exit to this place is a disaster. I'm not, like one of these days, I'm worried we'll hear a story that somebody got hurt. Because it's like it narrows you through two buildings and you're stuck. And all these people are funneling through it. And it's a good way to somebody get hurt. It probably took us 15 minutes to walk, I don't know, 200 yards.

That's how crowded it is. And you're kind of stuck, and I don't like that feeling. That claustrophobic feelings. I didn't like it. But we're all pushed together, and there's this guy standing close to us who clearly wants to say something to me. And I didn't hear this, but one of my friends said, he kept going, I'm saying something. And his girlfriend was like, don't say anything. And he was like, I'm saying something.

And his girlfriend was like, don't say anything. And finally, he looks at me and goes, Matt Jones, why don't you just go vote for Kamala? That's what he came with. That's what he came up with. He's had all that time to think of something. And apparently she looked at him and said, that's what you decided to say. Wow. And I just looked back.

I heard him and I was like, okay. Okay, thanks. I mean, it was. Really got you with that one. Yeah, I was burned. I was on fire at that moment. Couldn't do it. So how did your boys do your three boys?

I think they had a lot, they had a lot of fun. You know, they don't, it's their kind of vacation and all that. So I think they had a lot of fun. And it was great. Now, let's go back to the game for a second. Let's talk about who was amazing. We talked about Dianne Walker is getting close to the Josh Allen as good of defensive players I've seen here. His stats don't end up like it because he's getting two or two and a half blockers every player.

Yes. But the dude dominates every possession. And there was that one possession where they were, Ole Miss was able to run in the middle of the field one time. And it was because if you watch Dion was kind of tired. But when he is at full strength, they're not. getting through there. He missed one tackle, and I don't know if you remember this. He grabs a guy, and the guy kind of shakes from him, and I thought that's the first time I've ever seen he miss a tackle. He is dominant. And he, like, we should appreciate, I don't know that we'll

ever see a defensive tackle that good again here. Not only is he good, he's strong, he's fast, he's smart, he's got all the intangibles. The goat dude is going to make a lot of money for many years playing in the NFL. Twitter was full of people going, I don't think people are talking enough about Dionne Walker. Maybe that's true. We are, but he's a, he's dominant. J.J. Weaver played very, very well the entire game. Octavius Oxendine played really well. Got a lot of pressure on the quarterback.

How about our corners with Maxwell Harrison out? How many times in the second half was a receiver one-on-one, and one guy had to make a play, and they'd make it every single time? Yeah, the Hardaway kid. Hardaway made two or three like that. Very much so. Then they brought in the true freshman Nichols, a ron. I think he's how you pronounce his first name.

He made a great play. Got hurt on the play, but he made a great play. So they're punching these guys in holes. And Ole Miss, okay, we're going to go out these new corners, and our corners stood up to the challenge. I thought the offensive line, for the most part, especially in the second half, did really well. First half struggled a little bit.

Second half did well against a very good defensive line. Yeah. I mean, Old Miss is probably the, we've played the first and second. I mean, we play the four best defensive. We still got Tennessee coming up, But Ole Miss is good, I thought, did a pretty good job. They did. Yeah, their two D-Tackles are considered two of the best de-tackled tandem in the conference.

And really, they didn't hurt us that much. I mean, Brock got hit a couple times, and a couple may have been his fault, hold on the ball just a little too long. Outside of that, I think our O-line did a good job. But because of how good their defensive tackles are, we had to throw. Because we were not able to run between the tackles like we've done in so many games, which gets it to the second half, where I think you have to say,

if we wondered if Brock Vaningriff is the guy, he's the guy. I thought he was awesome in the second half. I mean, awesome. He hit, how many third downs did he hit a six, seven, eight, nine-yard completion we had to have? You know, we said after the South Carolina game, we can't really judge him yet because he was getting no time. He's two steps back and he's got to release it. Now we've seen when he get able to get a little time, he's settled in a little bit. Him and Dane have got a good connection now, good chemistry going.

If he needs that third and six, he can go and throw it, and Danes don't make the catch. And how tough is he when he runs the ball? I mean, how many times did he make, seems to make good decisions on when to run? A couple times just took a guy head on and knocked him down. I don't like it when he does that, but it is kind of cool when he does. Well, we needed it, though, on a couple plays. Yeah, yeah. And then the game plan was so good.

I mean, it was. It was so good. Like, they were. they made the right decisions at the right times. Bush Hamden, man, I thought was excellent. I really did. I thought his game plan was excellent. And they control the ball like they did.

And then Alex Raynor, when Alex Rainer kicks, I know what's going in. I think the one drive was like a 15-play drive, had another drive. It was like 11 plays. Just this time-consuming, eat up the clock, pound and ground it, and just finally get it down where you can score some points. A beautiful game plan. That's why the time of possession was so important. to keep Ole Miss's offense off the field.

Now, I didn't know to after the game that they were dunking basketballs on a goal with our logo. Oh, you didn't see it down there. I couldn't, I didn't see it. What's not hits, right? Like, I love whoever made the picture of Anthony Davis blocking it. That was brilliant. Whoever did that. That makes me glad we beat them even more.

And we got to talk about their fake injuries. I'm ready to talk about that. well let's just we'll just lead the next thing okay how dare he disgrace my name like that keep your name out his filthy mouth yes if you're going to be named my name i'm known for my toughness yeah oh shannon am i not known for my toughness so you're such a tough guy that's right it's right how dare you kick off the savings at don franklin's family of dealerships the largest inventory of new used certified pre-owned vehicles over 5,000 vehicles in stock it's don't Franklin Auto.com, Chevy Buick, GMC, Cadillac, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Kia. It's all there. Go to

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This is what he sang the last time he sang there at the Willie Nelson show. Did you write this one too? I think he did, yes. Wow. I think he wrote pretty much everything he did, and then he wrote stuff for other people, too. One person writes, Matt, on the text machine,

you make it sound like Chris Christopherson was the most interesting man in the world. I think he was. I can't think of a singer. Who's the singer with a more interesting life? I mean, Elvis had a pretty interesting life when you consider that he was in the military and he did all this stuff,

and he was kind of the first, like, mega rock star, superstar. Dolly Parton, I think, has an interesting life when you look at her history. But I can't think of anybody that did more different things and was successful at it than him. If you think of one, let me know. People keep sending his facts. He was a rugby star. He was in Sports Illustrated as a Rugby Star.

He was what they said. Yeah, I'm learning stuff even myself here. He was featured in Sports Illustrated for playing rugby football and track at Pomona College. Yeah, he's the only person to ever be a road scholar from wherever Pomona College. I don't even know where that is. But he is the most amazing man. He's the most interesting man in the world. One person writes, Matt, I was at the game Saturday.

You are exactly right. I thought to myself as I was walking out, this may be the most dangerous entrance and exit I've ever seen at a stadium. It really is. I mean, you can't, the walkways are narrow, the exits are narrow, and if something were to happen in there, you couldn't get out.

Like it would be, it would be dangerous, I think. Because obviously everybody stayed to the end of the game. Everybody left at the very end, which is homecoming, so they had a huge crowd. Huge crowd. I think it was their biggest crowd ever. They're not making a big deal about it because they lost, but I think it was their biggest, I think it was their biggest crowd ever. How did the nice young lady from Kentucky do in the homecoming?

I don't know which one she was, so I'm not sure. I saw a lot of people from Kentucky like dads whose daughters went to Ole Miss. So there was a lot of that. I will tell you this, Shannon. There was a guy who came up to me and he wanted a picture. And I think either his daughter was in homecoming or his daughter was in a sorority. So he had his daughter's picture like on a sticker on his chest. Yeah.

And he was like, can you believe we did this? Like screaming. And he was going to take a picture. And his wife was like, cover up our daughter. Cover up our daughter. And so he used his drink. He used his cup of bourbon to cover up the picture of his daughter. so there could be the picture of him with me.

Yeah, she would have been, she would have been shamed in her sorority if that picture got leaked out. Look at your dad when he's celebrating with the Kentucky guy. Yeah, all right, the stadium. Everything I said about the noise, I say this with love and respect, old Miss fans,

I was right about all of it. It was, I don't know how it sounded on television. It was not loud. Now, they do, I think, because their fans are so, quiet, turn the volume up on the music so loud. So that's what we all heard. So loud.

But the fans themselves are not that loud. So if you were to go back and listen, go back and watch the game on replay, you're going to hear noise. But ask yourself, is that the crowd or is that the music? Because the music was loud. But I will say, of the SEC stadiums I've been to, the least loud, Kroger Field is louder. And I don't think we're one of the loudest, but it's louder than that.

Wow. Like we said, a homecoming crowd, a great game, middle of the day, and they can't bring it. The crowd can't bring it. It's kind of embarrassing. They played like every song that tries to get people excited that you can. Yeah. And the students would be into it, but pretty much everybody else, it's a very genteel crowd. You know, it's a very like.

Hotty-Totty. Hotty-Totty, Bo Pilate. It's like that's what it is the whole time. Because we've kind of criticized our crowd over the years, but if you're telling me our crowd is now better than Ole Miss, that's still we've improved. I am more confident in my opinion today than I was before I went. Okay, you were there.

Fake injuries. Shannon, they are the fakiness injury team of all time. That was the worst acting I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of bad movies. I mean, the Matt Jones play, is that the most egregious fake injury? I mean, we had that one dude. Do you remember the dude we had who tried to act like he had to get resuscitated?

No, that was our guy. That was our intern. What's his name? Tayshan Manning. Yes. Do you remember that? Yeah, Tashon Manning. But even the Matt Jones one was worse, wasn't it, Ryan?

It's bad, and they've got to do something about it. And we're, Kentucky's guilty of doing it also. We can't act like we don't do it also, but the Ole Miss seemed like. It's becoming so common that now the announcement. are finally calling BS. I heard Sean McDonough just destroyed them for that. He did. He did. Yeah, luckily he was able to make it off the field on his own strings.

I'm so happy he's able to walk off the field or his own strings. That devastating injury. Well, the thing that did the thing, I mean, Lane Kiffin is doing it. Some teams do it to slow down a fast offense. But I actually think the way, which is bad. But Lane Kiffin, I actually think does it worse. He's doing it to not have to. call timeout. Yeah. Right. Like he's literally doing it to make it be a time out that he doesn't have to

use. So what can you do? So here was my, here was going to be my guess. Because first of all, you can't penalize it because what if they're actually hurt? Correct. So my thing is, if you go down and it leads to a stoppage of play, you have to sit out like five plays or seven play. How about the rest of the game? You're hurt. You shouldn't be playing hurt. I don't think the rest of the game is fair. Oh, you're hurt, though. You're injured. You shouldn't be playing.

Yeah, but it might be a cram. We can't make players play injured. But let's say five plays or seven plays. I think players are going to be a lot less likely to do it because that's going to keep them from being in the game. Yeah, they want to play. What do you think about that? I like that idea because right now you just come off of that one play. You know, they pull the – we should call it the Duke flop because they're just flopping down.

But maybe if you pull them off for five, plays. Because one play, the next like formation, they just might not be in. Yeah. So it's fine. At least the, I think at least the entire drive. I don't care how many plays, the entire possession. I'm okay with that. The entire drive, I'd be all right with that. But I think that would slow it down or a little bit. Or you just throw a flag if you think it is. The problem is, what if they're actually hurt? That's it. And so then what do you do in there? It's a tough thing. The official can't go in the tent with him to kind of evaluate the injury. There's no questioning that one.

I mean, come on. There's no questioning. Well, the Matt Jones one that was the worst one. It reminded me of that Chris Jones, Louisville one, where he acted like he got hit in the nose that one time, and he went flying back. The quarterback is two feet to the right of him going, go down. You can see him motioning. Go down.

And he just falls. I also feel like if it's that bad and you see it after the game, the SEC should, like, make him sit out a quarter or something in the next game. Well, there are some things like that you can do to kind of get away from it, because it's getting awful. It's out of control. Well, Lane Kiffin clearly uses it as a strategy. It's a strategy.

Like, he's not, like, Lane Kiffin is using it as a, I don't want to burn a time out here, do it. Because he can. He can right now. He can use it. Yeah.

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