KSR - 2024-10-16- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

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Mario. Nothing? You didn't get anything? It's walking through this door in about five minutes. You're going to get a present. Okay. You're just giving me a new set of headphones. That's not a huge present.

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Do you think anyone celebrates that? You think there's anyone here listening that bought their boss something for Boss's Day? Only somebody that may be in the doghouse and needs to suck up a little bit today. I can't imagine. First of all, the only reason I know is it's in this notebook, which has all these holidays. If you're celebrating Boss's Day, and I'm sure you're not, send me a text, 772-744. I don't think it's real. If you're a boss that's like putting pressure on your office to celebrate, I think it's a bad sign.

That seems like so. So before you send that email, think about it. Michael Scott would do in the office. You know, tomorrow is National Bosses Day. I'm not saying we don't need to do anything big. It is a good excuse to maybe to have a party at lunch and then maybe let out early to go to a happy hour on the way home. Yeah. I mean, but the boss would end up paying for that.

Yeah, right. All right, we are here at KS. Bar and Grill. You can come on out and have lunch. It's cold, but it's warm and here. We got the heat on, and so it's ready to go. Sorry, I missed yesterday. This stupid hand, wrist, it just won't stop being annoying. And so I had to go to the hand and wrist doctor.

The doctor was very good. I do have a question, though, how do you think a doctor is like, you know what? I'm only doing hands and wrist. This is going to be, Shannon, this is going to be what I do, hands and wrist. You know, you can have the elbow. you all can have the shoulder. You give me hand and wrist, but it's a whole specific thing.

And they are, they experts, they just see hand and wrist drew all day every day. We had an expert on the show yesterday, Ryan, called it the affoid bone. Okay, so we have to talk about that. Why did you do that? First of all,

you don't know anything about what is wrong with, like whatever you said is not even a word that I have ever heard before. Yes. So why did you say that was what was wrong with me? Well, what was it used with Chip Trainum, who also has a hand wrist injury. Did you say I have the same injury? No.

No. No. Okay. So you didn't suggest that you were diagnosing my... No, no, we were talking about Chip Trainum. Okay, gotcha. And that scaphoid bone is what Josiah broke and had surgery. Well, that's not what I have.

Three weeks. This is the other thing. What is this thing comes out of your wrist? I'm not sure what that bone is right there. Well, it's a terrible place to get. cut because it so you know Sunday it just like swole up on me yeah it got really big and then I went to the clinic which you know I don't know what to do I went to the clinic and it went to the clinic and it and they were like this might be infected and they gave me antibiotic and then they said why

why did it do this after a week and I was like well I was around a lot of people and they were like don't be around people I mean that's hard on a game day here And I guess everybody was like shaking my hand and grabbing it and somebody, I guess, threw their germs in me or something. And so anyway, it's fine now. You know, I'm on some antibiotics and I have to go back. But like we're, I think we're okay. But I guess being around everyone on game day probably didn't help me.

No more shaking hands until you're fully back. I mean, I tried that, you know, it's tough because I feel like Shannon Bob Dole because people reached out their hand to shake and I stick out stick out my other hand and try to hide my right hand. And it's like, Bob Dole's pencil, you know, and you can't shake with the left hand. You can't shake with the left hand. You can't shake because they've got their right hand

and it's more like you're grabbing them like you're in church in a pew or something. And so it's just, it's awkward. And so finally I just gave up and I was like, fine, I'll shake everybody's hand, but then I guess somebody had juice on them or something. And it got in me and I guess that wasn't. Yeah, I got irritated,

so it kind of opened up and that, you know, Yeah, so when we were outside, then it opened. Uh-huh. So it was just a disaster. There was a lot going on, and it was just a disaster. You're trying to do the radio show. We're having signal difficulties, and you had a gauze on your wrist. Like, I'm, you know, showing blood.

But anyway, we're okay now, and we're back, and there's a lot to talk about. I mean, there's actually a lot to talk about. I mean, you know, yesterday I didn't get to talk about the fact we have a player who doesn't tie his shoes. I was really interested in that. That's a good topic. What an odd thing for Mark Stoops to say. How come Wilcox doesn't play? Well, first he could start by tying his shoes.

I need to know more about that. Have they asked him to tie his shoes? And he's just like, no. Does he just forget, you know? Does he think, apparently there was a player back in the NFL who didn't tie his shoes. They called him shoe lace. Because he would run with his shoe laces off untied. Did he break a 15-yard run and then his shoe came off and he had to go out of the game?

or was he able to keep it on? But Mark Stoops was like, tie your shoes, man. I think that led to a lot of frustration that play the other day. Drew's talking about he busted a big run and he immediately has to come out because his shoe came off. He doesn't tie his shoe. Doesn't feel like a big ask. Like, dude, just tie your shoe. Like, put your uniform on.

I'm on Stoops' side of this. I feel like there comes a point, you know, I shouldn't have to tell you if I'm your coach, use the restroom. I feel like I shouldn't have to tell you to tie your shoe. It seems like if a guy walks out there and he doesn't have his helmet, I think it's on him. And if his shoes aren't tied, I really don't blame that on Mark Stoops. I did see people say, well, that shows the discipline problems. I don't really think Mark Stoops. I don't care how much he's make.

I think he should just assume shoe tied. I mentioned this yesterday. With Wilcox specifically, I think there's a lot of not doing what you're supposed to do off the field. Not like he's getting in trouble or out, you know, causing problems. It's just we need you to do the bare minimum in meetings and at practice. and it boiled over to... And now I guess we've lost signal. Okay, no, okay, you guys are back now.

You dropped out for like five seconds. Yeah, here we go again. Thanks a lot. We've dropped out. All right, well, hopefully it will be here the whole time. But anyway, so there was that. Then the second thing I found very entertaining is that the Louisville team basketball picture.

That's the first thing you mentioned when you came in today. The Louisville team basketball picture, to me, is one of the greatest things I've ever seen. All right. So you would think, you would think when you have a team basketball picture, there's some easy things to do. All right. Number one, how about we all wear the same uniform? Right? Doesn't that feel like a pretty basic thing?

We're all going to put on the same uniform. It's just the one thing we're going to ask if everybody is put on the same uniform. uniform. Louisville team picture. One guy's got on a different uniform. Now, did he, like, not get the memo? Did they not want him to be in the same uniform? I don't know.

It reminds me of when I was in youth basketball, we played for the Lakers, but we couldn't get officially licensed Lakers shirt. So we all just wore a yellow shirt. And some of the richer kids on the team, Shannon, they had Lakers printed on the front. But other people just had a yellow T-shirt. One guy just had a yellow like, I don't know, what do you call it, tank top, and we looked ridiculous. That's what Louisville looked like. One guy, different uniform.

Then two guys, same number. It's not like football. That's right. There's 100 numbers between zero and 99. There's only 15 guys on the basketball team. You would think they could find a way to not have two guys with the same number. Nope. Two guys, both are number one.

All right, so we got two guys not in the same uniform. We got two guys not with the same number. Then, why don't you all, you don't have to smile, but why don't you look like you're not in a hostage video? Every single guy in that picture looks like someone had just told them that their dog had been kidnapped. I mean, look at it. No one is smiling.

The only person looks happy to be there is Pat Kelsey. Is Pat Kelsey, which gets to my point. Okay, if you are going to all go blue steel, Then somebody tell Pat Kelsey not to look like a little child smiling. Here's what it looks like. He looks like a little child who has dragged his team to a science museum instead of Disney World. And they all are sad to be there. And he's sitting there smiling and they're all going,

the other thing, I'm not like far be it for me to tell the manager what to do, but can we iron the uniforms? Can we at least have finished the laundry before we put it on? It is the worst team picture I've ever seen. Then you throw in that, I mean, I'm not one to judge. You put me in a uniform. I'm not going to look great. But they just, the team looks like,

did any of those dudes look like they can play basketball, any of them? No, it's not a very intimidating photo for basketball. You got parted haircuts. One guy looks like he hit the random player generator on 2K, and he just has a hat and different color hair and a sleeve. And their name would be like Stephen Johnson. And like the whole team, if I'm a Louisville fan and I see that, I go, oh no. What is this?

Now, I know they could do a better job. If I'm the AD of Louisville, right now I'm saying, all right, we're doing that again. Yeah. Okay. We're going to get uniforms that match. We're going to get uniforms that are ironed. Hey, let's get different numbers. How about that?

And let's all decide on the same facial expression. It is one of, I don't know, maybe they'll be good. But it is one of the worst things I've ever seen in terms of, it's funny. Don't get me wrong. It's funny. And Pat Kelsey, I mean, he can't help. I don't know if he can help or not. But he looks like the kid from the Christmas story.

And he's like one foot three. It's just it's the whole thing is hilarious to me. I'm sorry. With this face compared to the teams, it looks like there's some fan experience where they're on their 150th photo and they're just rotating that one chair. And they rotate it. Like the little kid runs up and he's so excited. And the players like, oh, we've been doing this for three hours. They all look so unhappy to be a part of that.

That's not the official team photo. That's the official team photo. When somebody goes to a game and they open up the program, that's going to be the picture. That's what's going to be on it. No. And that's what they release to the. the media. They're like, this is the best foot forward we can put up. This is the best we can do. This is, you know, it's like the story I told about the guy running for mayor. Man just

looks like a man looks. They're like, this is just what we look like. There's a couple dudes in that photo that look like they're about to cry. I think they are. And look on their face. They looked around and we got, we picked this. Yeah, what are we doing here? It's like the old Hickory High School and the Hoosiers mismatch, sloppy jerseys and these two guys on the end, especially the guy in the back right corner, I think it was. Looks like he's going to cry. I'm with you just as concerned that no one in the room thought, hey, before we put this on the end, let's talk about how it looks like we pulled the uniforms out of a suit-case.

Sometimes Mario will just, you know, Mario takes pictures every show. Sometimes on like a Tuesday afternoon, he'll say, you care if I put this post up? And I see a picture, and I'm like, you gave me and Ryan and Drew 15 chins each. Can we at least use a different picture? Like, I have that level of detail. These people go, we're putting this outside on a poster. Hey, number seven, wear the right uniform.

So when we were little, I remember Life Touch would come to school, and you have the big crayon, and occasionally a kid would goof off maybe put the crayon in his nose. Parents would get mad, and there'd be a retake day. Yeah. And all the bad photos, Life Touch, they'd bring their colorful background back in their crayon. You could redo it. Does Louisville get a retake day, or is this?

this official forever. I think it's official. When I was at Trancy, we had to take our fraternity photos. Yeah. And that was stupid, right? And I don't remember even what it was, but there were like four or five of us that were mad when we were freshmen at something the fraternity had made us do. So we decided in the moment that our act of rebellion would be we would put a paper clip on

our ear. Wow, you guys are rebels, man. You wonder how I didn't end up. in prison with this with this level and so we did and at the time it seemed like the funniest thing but now I'm out of trancy and that's the only official picture of me that I can find from my transylvania days is me with a paperclip on my ear so I can't ever use that picture for like this is what I look like in college I have a paper clip yes that photo is going to hang in the Louisville facility forever and people are going to be like

The only other thing I can analogize it to, at Duke Law School, Richard Nixon went to Duke Law School. And in the basement of the law school is every law school class. And inevitably, everyone goes to see Richard Nixon's class in law school, right? You've shown us this. Yes. So you walk around and you go, this is Richard Nixon. And Richard Nixon at 23 looked exactly like he did at 75. And it's kind of an interesting thing to see.

But in the picture, the guy next to Richard Nixon is almost picking his nose in the picture. And I've thought over the years, this poor guy, people will go in this basement for the rest of time to see the picture of Richard Nixon. And now there's this other guy like picking his nose. That is the U of L basketball team. They are all the guy picking their nose next to Richard Nixon. Are you saying Louisville's got a Richard Nixon coming soon? Well, next year's team? I don't think they're getting a title.

You know it's bad when it's not just Kentucky fans making fun of them. Louisville fans are making fun of it. Like the comments are like, did we ground them before the photo? Like what is going on? All right. We'll take a break. I want to talk about SEC Basketball Media Day, UK, Florida, and more. We are here at KS.M.R.

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The one right back, Coach Kelsey. Like his eyes are completely closed, Shannon. Number 15. Yeah, there's another guy that almost has his eyes closed. Or 24. 24, his eyes are closed. You got M&M in the back row there. number seven, Joe Burrow. It's my random created player. Ninety-three had too much cornbread hemp.

Yeah, I mean, 33 was in my Delta Cig picture in 1997. It's just an unbelievable group of play. We can't lose to these guys, by the way. Just for the record, we cannot lose. I don't care what we have to do. We cannot lose to this hodgepodge of people. I wrote earlier that I don't know anyone on the team. Serious questions.

Do you know? I mean, I know the one guy. because he played at BYU, the dude that stands behind Pat Kelsey, who unfortunately, well, I know that guy, because he almost came here. But do you know the other people on the team? I can name two. They have a guy named Chucky Hepburn. They have a guy named Chucky. Chucky.

Lully Ghalifa that you just named. I'm glad they have a guy named Chucky. I didn't know the guy named Chucky. Is there a Terrence Edwards? Is that a person? That sounds right. Sounds like a human. Okay.

Well, good luck to them. I hope it goes well. Actually, I don't. I hope they lose every game. 859-28027. Let's talk about, it was SEC Media Day yesterday. My early thoughts are some interesting things. First of all, Jackson Robinson clearly hates Eric Musselman.

They asked him what he thought about his time at Arkansas or whatever, and he was like, I don't want to talk about Coach Mussel. I don't have anything to say. I don't have anything to say. So that relationship clearly went well. True. Then I thought Mark Pope did good. I liked his jacket.

Mark Pope's wearing good Kentucky gear. I want to find some of this. I brought that up to Billy. He's like, oh, I didn't think it was that big of a deal. No, it's cool. That's a great jacket. That's a great jacket. And the white jacket he wore it madness with the Kobe logo.

That was cool. A reporter even used their question at Media Day to ask about his jacket. The jacket was cool. He said it was on a rack for recruits to wearing a photo shoot at UK just to be there all the time for them to just wear. And he just took it to know. Little better than the rack we used to have the head construction outfits the last time. The reflective vest was gone. We didn't have the shovel and the reflective vest and all that.

So I thought that was good. Cal Perry to me looks sad. I'll be honest with you. I just, he just looked like he, I feel like he's going to cry. I don't know if they've posted it yet, but Jack and Zach interviewed Adieu and Adieu talking about Kentucky's kind of hard to watch. He is certainly sad. Oh, that makes me sad. But you're right.

I wish a do at state. I like a do. I mean, I wish they all at state. But I get it. I understand why they went. But then at some point you wake up and you're like, I'm in Fayetteville. And the reality is hit that I have found myself in Fayetteville next to the Chapulte. And Brad lives above the tin roof.

And that's the only place I have to stay. And like, I get it. My heart does go out for a do because, you know, didn't he leave even before Calipari left? He was going to leave the program. But I do would have been actually really good in this. group. He would have been. He could use a guy like him when you look at the other talent that we have this year. But otherwise, you know, I mean, I think inevitably everybody wanted to ask Pope about

Cal and then wanted to ask Cal about Kentucky and they, of course, both handled it well. They're both professionals. They know how to do. Pope did say, I will be rooting for Cal every game but February 1st. And he said, I think we all will. I just need to say to Mark, love you. No, we won't. No. I'm not, I mean, I don't want them to, like, fail miserably, but I ain't rooting for them.

Am I in the minority on that? No, no. That game, when they lose on a Tuesday night to Ole Miss, we're all going to be big Ole Miss fans. We want them to feel, because they're going to be good. We're competing against them. Is there any sense in which you want Arkansas to win? No, there will be occasionally a one-off game if they're playing Duke or something, but I didn't want Arkansas to win before he got me. Me either. I want to be above them in the SEC. at the end of the year. What about you, Shannon? Do you want them to win? No, I've never liked Arkansas going back to the 90s teams. To both of these coaches, I love you, Pope, and like, I used to love you, Cal, and I'm sure I'll love you again one day. But stop telling us to like the other one.

You know, Arkansas fans aren't going to cheer for us. No, they're not. And they shouldn't, and we're not going to cheer for them. And I remember when Cal used to be here and he'd be like, you know, let's not boo Bruce Pearl. Yes. Like I want to say to Pope now, don't tell us before February 1st. Like, I'm not going to boo Cal, but they're going to be people who do it. And, like, that's just fandom. You know what I mean? That's fandom.

So, no, I'm not cheering for Arkansas. I understand Mark said he will because Cal's been good to him. That's awesome. But, like, do you think anyone in our fan – Let me ask you this. You think anyone in our fan base is rooting for Cal to do well at Arkansas? I've heard some. Shannon didn't even have one this morning.

He said. A call on the pre-show this morning. What did he say? He said that he would be pulling for Calipari when he's not playing Kentucky. Yeah, I can't do that. I can't. I mean, he may be like, I don't even understand how you do that. Because like Shannon said, Arkansas was our rival even before this.

Yeah. You know, I don't like them for a long time. Like, if you were ranking teams in the SEC, I didn't like, Tennessee was number one, maybe Florida. And then, but it's always been, like, Arkansas's always been one I wanted to lose. During the Petino era in the 90s, the number one rival for Kentucky was Arkansas, Nolan Richardson. You know, they were really good. Those games they used to have on Sundays before the Super Bowl were some of the highest-rated games of the season.

And just from a basketball standpoint, there's a good chance at the end of the year. It could be Kentucky, Arkansas, wanting to buy in the SEC tournament, or you're on the same seed line in the NCAA tournament. I don't want them winning a lot of games. I did not see. Was there an official media prediction of the standings? We were eighth. Okay, so that's amazing to me.

I mean, eighth in the SEC, we're going to finish better than that. Yeah. I feel like, and I can't believe I'm saying this, I feel like Kentucky's being underrated, I put Alabama ahead of us. I'd put Tennessee ahead of us probably. But you're not going to convince me any of these other teams are significant. I mean, how do you put Old Miss ahead of us? I agree with that one.

Auburns. Auburn. Okay, fine. I would put us forth. All right, so I would put us forth. But how do you put Ole Miss ahead? What has Texas A&M done? Beat us in the SEC tournament.

But that was the other coach, and that was a different time. I agree that it should be eighth. I have about fifth. Eighth just doesn't seem. But I'm glad. I'd rather them underrate us. Agreed. Then overrate us with this new coach, et cetera.

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So, this song, for those of you on podcast, you can't hear it. It's Nickelback, photograph. And as soon as the chorus hits, Ryan goes, I love this song. Kind of a sentimental song makes me think back of the glory days. I love it, actually. The glory days. Yeah. I mean, I'm making fun of you.

I'd like to make fun of you more, but I actually kind of like it too. I'm not going to lie to you. You can't make fun of Ryan for liking it. I mean, I don't sit and listen to it, but when it comes on, there are times I might go, look at his photograph. Right. Every time you do it makes you laugh. Okay, so Shannon told me I have to record something.

So we're just going to do it here on the air for a second because apparently I made a mistake. You know, I do ads for the local taco. Yes. It's going to be some free advertising here for the local taco. I like local taco. One on campus is always full. it's great. Then there's one out in Hamburg.

They're great. I eat it local taco once a week. But I do an ad where I'm supposed to say, Lexington's best taco is the local taco. Apparently, I just said Lexington's Taco. I forgot the word best. I just said Lexington's Taco. So they want me to re-record it and put him best.

Yes. So, Shannon, can I just say the word best or do I need to do the whole phrase? I can do some producing trickery? This is what you'll do. You'll do the trickering. So I'm just going to say best. I think you should give them different versions of best. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So normally I'll go Lexington's best taco. So I'm just going to go. Best.

All right, you can, can you work with that? It's okay. I need another take, though. Do a couple more. Do a couple more. Best. How about like you go up? Like, best. Yeah, I'm really excited. Best. That's the winner.

There we have a winner. All right. Between those. You can make one into the taco commercial. Can you edit it and then we hear your finished product during the show? Well, we got to be on the show. Would you stop this as a radio? Should you stop this as a radio? Before we go, the phone.

Two little pieces of news I think are important that people should think about. Number one, Gonzaga has released the game time for the Kentucky Gonzaga game. 10 p.m. Eastern. 7 p.m. for them. So prime time for them, but we are playing at 10 p.m. Eastern, which means my post-game show will begin the next morning. 10 p.m. Eastern at Gonzaga. It's going to be a late night. I already know in here, we're going to be in Seattle because

we're going to be at the game, but in here is going to be a drunk fest of people being, I mean, 10 o'clock start. So, I mean, the reason why they're doing that, I'm sure, is that is the day of championship games, right? And so I think their thought is people will turn the SEC and a championship game will end at like 11, and the hope is people will turn over and maybe watch the second half of Kentucky Gonzaga after the championship games. But that is a late game. Yeah, they don't want to compete against a major game like that. They want to least get some ratings for half a game, so that's why they had to slide.

So I'm sure that's what it is. I'm sure it's the idea of after the SEC championship game, because the SC championship game this year's at night, after the SEC championship game, the second half people might before they to bed watch Kentucky Gonzaga. I'm guessing that's their thought process. Reminds me of when they played Utah and Vegas. And I think that one might have even been 11 p.m. start back in Kentucky just a few years ago.

I think it was the CBS classic, whatever it was, maybe been a one-off. I don't remember. But that was just a weird experience watching UK or UK basketball after midnight. And then all the work that came with their postgame show, riding everything after. Yeah, it's a big game and it's going to be late at night. Second thing, and I think this is a major thing that, to me, could endanger the UK of L series. The SEC and Big Ten, they have not finalized it, but they are in the process of creating

an agreement where the SEC and Big Ten will play, you're guaranteed one football game against each other every year. So the agreement would have the SEC go to nine games, okay, nine conference games, you would get five home and four away. And then if you're the one that gets four away, and then if you're the one that gets four or way, you would have a home game against a big 10 team. If you got five home, you'd play an away game against a big 10 team. So every team in the conference would be required to play 10 games, nine in conference,

and one against a big 10 team, and then they could do whatever they want with the other two. To me, I think that puts the UKU of L game in serious jeopardy. Not just because it becomes harder, but because if you think about it, if you play UK U of L home away. That means we would go from almost every year having eight home games to having seven and one year only six. And I just can't see Kentucky agreeing to do that. I think Kentucky will, I don't want this, but I think they would drop the Louisville

game if that scenario plays out. I think they would have to because like you said, financially, you don't want to give up that home game every other year. Because right now we get eight home games. some years, like this year, seven the next year. This change would make it seven home games and six. And I just don't see UK giving that revenue up for Drew. I just don't.

I've already been of the belief the Louisville games in Jeopardy, just with the SEC changes alone. This almost makes a certainty in my mind. I think you would add like an Indiana would become a regular opponent in this. Well, what they would do is every two years, they would match you up based on total record from the two years before. Does that make sense? So for Kentucky, they would add up the record of the two years before

and match you up with the Big Ten team. So if we were in the ninth best record in a two-year period, we would play the Big Ten's ninth best team during a two-year period. So the way they, the two years they used, which might have been the last two, we would have played Michigan State. So we would play Michigan State home, and then you'd play them like you'd do a two-game series, so then the next year you'd play them away.

And every two years you could end up with any of the opponents based on how it changes. So for Kentucky, we would go to East Lansing one year and they would come here one. That's the best part, I think, is all the new road trips we would get that we've never had before, going to Wisconsin or in Iowa.

I'm probably not going to go to Ohio State or Michigan, but there's a lot of fun atmospheres we've seen on TV, as we've seen on TV for many years heard about, but Kentucky fans would actually get a chance to make those trips. I can't tell how much I would hate that. If we would lose the Louisville game to have to play home and home with Michigan State or Minnesota, Wisconsin, I would hate that. See, I wouldn't.

It's interesting. I would not hate that. I would hate not playing Louisville. I'm of the belief that you figure out a way to work the money out and you still play Louisville. Because this has been my opinion about UK football for a long time. Like if we're not going to contend for a national title, then let's make the games entertaining. And I'd rather play Louisville than play Accra.

But with that said, I'm like Drew, I like the idea of playing new teams. If we don't do that, we're going to play the same teams every year, basically. And I like the idea. I mean, when are we ever, we've never played Michigan State. What about at USC? Yeah, you could, no, we could get, I don't know that we'll get USC necessarily, but we could get UCLA's not great. They could end up being our opponent.

Wouldn't it be cool to play UCLA back and forth? Like that would be neat. With the Big Ten now, they're all over the country, so you could end up playing anybody. We could finally go to Nebraska, all the trash talk you're doing? I mean, you could end up, think about it. You could end up in L.A. Against USC or UCLA.

Or you could end up in New York against Rutgers. You can end up in Miami. West Lafayette. Less exciting. But you could, like, I just, I kind of like that. But I would say to you, I would hate to lose the Louisville series because I am an advocate of playing that game. And if they go nine SEC games and it's already in jeopardy, then they add this Big Ten thing.

I think then it's probably gone. With Louisville likely coming to an end, whatever the future holds, I think it's important to continue to win these games with this streak we're on and not let them get one more. That's true. I want to be able to say we won like the last eight or whatever will end up being. Whoever the last time you play is will be important. Who's next year? Ryan.

Ryan, go ahead, Ryan. Hey guys, so just a quick point before I get to my question. I watch Mark Pope and John Cowperry's Q&A. John Cowperry in the middle of his Q&A talks about how he has yet to introduce any set and nothing on defense, nothing on offense, working on players. I'm like, thank God. Thank God he decided to leave. Like, I'm so thankful to have Mark Pope.

But anyway, I had a football question. I'm normally a podcast listener. By the way, he also said that he had hoped he had COVID so he wouldn't have to come to the media. day. That was pretty unbelievable. He's already trying to skip it. He's already, first media appearance, he's already trying to skip it. But go ahead. Yeah.

So football question. I'm in no way a proponent of switching away from March Stoops. I'm 36 years old. The majority of my UK football fandom has been misery. Yes. My early football memory is Tim Couch, and it hooked me. And then after that, other than a couple years of Rich Brooks, it's been nothing but bottom dwelling.

So I'm thrilled with. with where he's brought the program over the years. He deserves criticism. I'm on board with that, but I haven't made a switch. But I wonder how much of the change, the people wanting change, has been amplified by the fan base warning John Summerall. I think it's part of it. I think here's the thing you have to remember, though.

And I tell myself all this all the time, and it's very important to remember when you're trying to judge, quote, unquote, what the fan base thinks. Twitter is not representative of the fan base. It can feel like it is if you're on it, but it's not. I became very convinced last year that Twitter was more pro-Cal than the fan base was. I now think Twitter is more negative about Stoops than the fan base. And the reason I say that is, after the game, you would have thought 90% of our fans wanted Stoops 5. But then on the post game show, not one person made that argument.

Not one person. So I do think you have to say, like, I don't think the vast majority of the fan base is close to wanting John Sumrah instead of stoop. There are some of those people, but I don't think we're there yet. Now, if we go three and nine or four and eight, then that might be a different conversation. Yeah, and I agree, because I'm with the guys that they were talking yesterday. I think it's more likely that we finish with seven wins than we finish with three. But, you know, I just, I just want to because a lot of people that I just talked to

because he's just, he's an infectious personality. He's high energy. He's a defensive-minded coach that has like the seventh highest ranked offense in the country this year. So like I was just curious, like if that was affecting the mindset. Like I said, I'm not certain. Let me be clear. If Stubbs were to leave and I appreciate the call, I'm not certain John Somerall would be the higher. I think there's a decent chance they'd hire Brad White.

So, you know, Mitch operates on his own path, right? There also would be a conversation. I'm sure they'd go, hey, Vince, who would you most like to work with? What'll keep you here? I'm telling you, like, there's a lot of dynamics. And the other thing is, it's very easy to play games with other people's money. You know, it's very easy to go, fire mark stoops. All right, man.

Where's your, where's the, you got that 44 million for the rest of the, for the rest of buyout? No. No. You don't have that. So I'm just saying like, you do have to sort of think of circumstances. I think this Florida game for many reasons is huge for the program, the future mark, et cetera.

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I would take the Big Ten team because, like Drew, I could go to different places. I'm a big Louisville hater, and I don't want it to go away, but if we traded it for that scenario, I would go, I can live with this. You get it. Personally, I want Louisville to continue to get worse and worse. It's disappeared to where I never think of them again. Well, it's clear what the Big Ten and SEC want to do is their, trying to shut the ACC and Big 12 out.

At the end of the day, what's clear is they're basically taking the view of, hey, we, the SEC, and you the Big Ten are by far the two best conferences. Rather than us fighting each other for supremacy, let's just clear the deck of everybody else, and then it'll just be you and us. It's an interesting idea. It's like Shannon, when the macho man and the Hulk Hogan said, let's make the mega power. Yeah. And then no one will be able to stop the megapowers.

But what ended up happening in WrestleMania 5 is the mega powers exploded. That's right. And you have to be very careful when the mega powers explode. What happens next? The wrestling analogies this week. You've been off the hook your wrestling analysis. But I do think that's what they want to do. Is they're kind of like, why should we?

Because here's the thing about the SEC Big Ten games. Their theory is, okay, when we host, it'll be on ESPN. when you host it will be on your television contract, why should we give it to these other conferences? Why should we be giving our teams to these other conferences? That's their view. I get it, but I would still, I would be on board. I would hate it.

I would hate to lose that Louisville game. It kind of saved our season last year. May save our season this year. We've had Louisville that last game of the year. Now that scenario is real, by the way. Beat Florida or Auburn, lose to the other one, beat Murray State, and the Louisville game saves your season.

Yep. The scenario is right there, Drew, depending on what happened. It's the most likely scenario. I think we're heading straight for it. And as we saw last year, disappointing year, lost something at home you shouldn't have. But then how happy were we when Barryon Brown's doing L's down to the Louisville band and they're beating Louisville in Louisville? We kind of forgot about what we were complaining about a few months before that.

By the way, on the football side, watch this afternoon for a flippy flip. Oh, another flippy flip. Yeah, we flipped a guy from Missouri the other day. I think you're going to see later today another flip. A flippy flip. Yeah. So just watch for that. I like that.

All right. Don't say it like that. Don't, don't. Yeah. No, no, please don't. Don't do that. This is a high school senior. We're talking about it.

That's right. You just, no. All right, who's next? Mike. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Hi, Matt. Let's go up the bar this past weekend. Great environment.

And I had a bowl of Chili Gillespie. It was very good. He created it in my own kitchen. This Louisville picture, man, I cannot, this is something to behold. It's awesome. He looks like he won a contest to be in the picture. But Pat Kelsey does not look like a basketball coach. Now, I don't hate Pat Kelsey yet.

Do you? No, not yet. I don't see anything to hate him about. He just, he looks like a ball boy's little brother. Number 24, you mentioned his eyes are closed, but he doesn't even have his hands on his knees like everybody else. Why does number three have his white tight on? And this is such as the most Louisville Gen Z picture ever.

I guess I'm just old-fashioned. You mentioned a couple weeks ago about something you'd like to be brought back. I cannot stand the, I cannot stand the mismatch shoes. See, why does that? That really bothers, that really bothers older fans. I've noticed that over the years. You all don't like the fact that they wear shoes. I'm not even that old.

I'm only 49 years old. Okay. Listen, if you want to wear dunks or Jordan, whatever, at least be the same color. Like, the pink and the green and the chartreuse or whatever. Shartreuse. Wow. It just looked ridiculous.

Yeah. Well, that's never going to happen just so you know. I mean, I appreciate the call. They all kind of have their shoe deals now, and I'm fine with it, but I do hear a lot of people not like the fact, Drew, that they wear different color shoes that don't necessarily match the uniform. Yeah, that's an age thing. I mean, you used to.

Mario's laughing because he can't hear the calls, but you think that's ridiculous, Mario? People would get mad. Yeah, you used to get your team issued shoes. They all looked exactly the same. You'd write your little number on the back. Everybody had the same pair. But, you know, shoes and fashion have become such a big part of basketball.

culture. It's the way they can show their personality. Yeah, I mean, I think that you just hit it. Like, everything else is required to them. They see the shoes as the manifestation, Ryan, of what their individual personality is. But I think most people, probably my age,

that grew up, like Drew said, everybody got the same identical shoe, don't like it. To me, I don't mind it. I think because my kids, I grew up with them doing that, you know, for many, many years. So I don't mind it at all. Yeah. I hear that complaint quite a bit. Who's next, Shannon?

Let's go to Derek. Derek, go ahead, Derek. Hey, what's up, guys? What's up? I wanted to comment on Coach Cal. Okay. You know, the first 11 years were wonderful and great. The last four years were terrible, and he didn't, he had his chance to change,

and he left us high and dry for what he thought was something better. but, you know, I love the time he was here, but I hope he loses every game. I want him to tell the fans that they're basketball bennies. I want him to say that we're the youngest team. I want him to get, you know, I want him to lose to somebody he shouldn't lose to. And I just wish him that. All right, I appreciate the call. I get that, though.

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