KSR - 2024-10-21- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: October 21, 2024

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a chilly but nice Monday morning after an interesting UK sports weekend. You can give us a shout. Clark's Puppet Shop phone line, 859-280-20. 287. Rick's in studio ready to go. We got Rick all week. You excited about that, Rick? Oh, absolutely. Good. A-Fission auto-glass text machine is 772-745-254. This edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith law office called T.J. He'll make them pay. It is, we've got people here for today from Science Hill, Danville, in the house today. And we want to talk about today. Well, I mean, there are like two main things. I think it's pretty clear. football game and blue-white game.

If you remember last week, we had the same thing. We decided to lead with Rick Petino at Madness. I think for this one, football is the bigger story, and we'll get to the blue-white thing later. But the cats get absolutely annihilated in Florida, 48 to 20, just kind of like the South Carolina game. It got out of hand at the end, but Kentucky was still behind the whole game.

Pretty terrible loss. I mean, the fan base after the game, I thought handled it. I mean, like, I mean, I think fans, there are some fans that are past the breaking point, but there's a lot that are getting closer than I thought could happen this year. And, you know, it's pretty down time for the program, I think would be the best way to say it. A lot of things that were frustrating all year reared themselves, again, inability on a pretty bad defense to score enough points, inability to make big stops, terrible clock management at times,

and just an overall very rind disappointing performance. Yeah, I think the fan base is bordering on getting a little toxic now because this is supposed to be a three-game stretch. I think the online fan base is toxic. I don't get the sense that the fan base as a whole is yet, but I also don't think they're like that far away. Yeah, that's fair. This is supposed to be a three-game stretch where Kentucky football is going to turn it around,

beat Vandy, beat Florida, beat Auburn, and yet not only did you lose to Vandy in Florida, you got punked. I mean, you got slugged, and it was an awful performance.

It just seems like crazy just a couple weeks ago. We're talking about a chance to go to the playoffs, and now we're talking about a turn where this loss could be where the fan base turns against for the first time against our coach.

Well, I mean, I think you're now, Drew, like, odds are, it's more likely than not you don't make a bowl. I mean, you can still make it, And there's a very reasonable path, but I still think if you were a betting man, what's, I mean, would you right now bet it's more likely we beat Auburn and Louisville or lose one of them? Oh, I'd say it's more likely that you lose one of them.

I went into this year kind of expecting they would win their home games, beat Florida or Louisville, and Stu would tip his cap and say it's been a good ride. That's kind of what I thought. Now I'm with everyone else wondering what's next, and I did not foresee being 0-and-3 at home, losing three games as the best. betting favorite. I mean, that old miss was huge, but does anyone really care about that right now? Because it's been so bad in your losses in games you should have won. Yeah, I think that's right. I mean, I think it's been, it's really kind of been an embarrassment.

Especially, you know, at the end of the day, it comes down to this. Mark Stoops built this program on, Mark Stubes built this program on beating South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Missouri, most years, and sometimes Florida. That's how we built the program. We played those four schools, and we pretty consistently beat them. And we have now lost to all of them. Missouri's not on our schedule. We've lost all of them. That's a downslide.

Now, are those programs better? Yeah. But you've got to be better, too. You know, I mean, because you built it. This program was built on that. It really was. And then in the last few years, it was taken to another level by also, beating Louisville as well.

That's what made Kentucky football a different program, and now we've lost all of them, and you can't help, I think, Ryan, but feel that. We all feel it, absolutely, and we were a better program. I felt like last couple years than Florida. We were a better program than Vanderbilt. Well, after they come in and just punk you like that and not only beat you, but beat you pretty bad,

keep you out of the end. I don't know what our problem is with the offense, man. I've been talking to people trying to figure it out, but we just can't punch it in the end zone. Yeah, we can't. And, you know, the offensive line, which is bad, was a little bit better on Saturday, but it doesn't seem to matter.

It just seems like I... You know, they graded pretty high, believe it or not. I don't think they played that bad Saturday. I don't think our offensive line is good, and I think it requires us to have to do other things. I think Bush, you know, when you listen to Mark Stoops, Mark Stubbs It's weird

Because he almost Like it doesn't seem like he blames Bush Hamden at all Because he'll be like Well he got Delta A I mean They all but say

We just have some dudes that aren't good Right Yeah I mean I think Bush Made some pretty big mistakes in play calling But I mean when you hit Barron Brown in the chest And it pops in the air

And a guy takes it down To the one yard line I mean that's not on the play call But then he got it back. But, I mean, those are the mistakes that, I mean, you can have your Bush complaints, but when you're hitting a guy on the numbers and that happens, that's just on execution. Yeah, I mean, that sequence, by the way, that's the Barry and Brown experience. Yes, it sure is.

It goes through your hand, touchdown almost the other way, next play 99-yard kick to the house. Like if you want to, like, if we're looking back at Barry on Brown's career, those two plays are pretty, unfortunately, pretty symbolic. I had so many texts, KS. Board, you're seeing tweets. I'm doing Baron Brown. It's been fun. Get him out of here. Seconds later. Everyone's deleting. Whoops, there he is. That's what he does. That's what he does.

That's an amazing, amazing runback. I mean, he now has the SEC record for most kick returns in a year, and he's like two away from the NCAA record. I'm to the point now, too, why not let him return punts? I mean, that's his one dangerous weapon. There's probably no less than the workload. What's the workload when you're only catching like two balls again? And no offense.

It's like the other guy can't catch. it because he'll just let i'm with you like the idea we're saving him saving him for what yeah i mean like what are we saving him for he's not a consulate whether it's him whether it's brock whether it's a play calling where it's the offensive line he's not a consistent weapon on offense i know he's great at that i know he's maybe the best person we've had since derrick abney at it let him go let him go put him back there why you worry about the workload when he's all you're running is a jet sweep that work doesn't work that jett the jet sweep is becoming the new joker phillips like it's just never going to work.

Never going to work. And we're still doing it. Very on. He's a, he's a kick return specialist. You just say he's about to set NCAA records. That should be his workload. If you have one of the best to ever do it, shouldn't his workflow be what he's best to have? He's very, there's a good chance he's going to be an All-American. He's already been at once. There's going to be a decent chance he's going to be that again in kick returning.

And so let him punt return. What are we waiting on? What are you waiting on? All right. So what's much more interesting to me, forward. We talked a lot about the game on Saturday on the post game is kind of what the program is right now. You know, if you were to only go online, you would think this fan base is just done. And I have to remember to myself, the people I see, especially on Twitter, that's not the whole fan base. Because that's loud. Like, if you go online, especially on Twitter, people are like, get out.

So I try to remember the post game show then immediately takes me back to reality because on the post game show, a lot of those people are season ticket holders who whatever, you know, are just, and then they're not there. So my question to you is, where do you think we are? Like, does, and do the next few games change anything? Do you think four and eight and six and six are different? I will tell you, in my mind, four and eight and six and six are pretty different. huge difference. But where are they to you? I think they're teetering on, like that was kind of a pivotal game. That lost Florida in the way they played and the way they got beat was a pivotal

game. I think for a lot of fans. And I think a lot of fans now realize the, the Jep, the possibility of not making a bowl game is absolutely real, which is something that was almost been unthinkable the last seven, eight, nine years. I mean, the record is bad enough by itself, but the way they're losing is just so hard to, I mean, they're not fun. They're Iowa. They're not fun. They're Iowa. They're football without actually winning the game. I mean, they're not scoring, they're playing good defense, but in the end, they're losing. Iowa at least has you a good record you can hang on too. True.

When you have an offense that hasn't scored 21 points, you have huge problems. But usually when you have an offense like that, you go, we just have, our quarterback, we still have a quarterback. But what's frustrating is I feel like we do have a decent quarterback. I don't think he's great, but I also don't think he's terrible. Like this isn't like after Will Levis got hurt, where you kind of felt like, you kind of felt like I don't know what we're supposed to do, right? Yeah. This is different.

And yet, nothing. And so I, you know, I just, I don't, it's, this year is baffling to me how bad they've been. And so now, I don't know how you go forward. You, even if you wanted to fire Mark Stoops, which let me be clear, I don't want to do, and I'm not saying is the right decision. But even if you wanted to, you can't. You know, I heard that the solid verbal podcast said its buyout is $4 million. That's not true.

His buyout's $4 million the other way. Does that make sense? Which means if he wanted to leave to go somewhere else, he would have to pay $4 million. I see. We have to pay him $44 million. And again, people don't understand contracts. It's not that there's a clause that says you have to pay him $44 million. to pay him $44 million.

It is that he is owed $44 million to the rest of his contract. And the reason people say, well, why do you have that? That's what a contract is. I mean, the contract is we agree to pay you this amount of money. And you can't just get out of it because they're not good. Is that right? Yes. I mean, otherwise, if that were the case, they would just be an at-will employee.

The reason coaches sign contracts is it guarantees them that amount of money. Mitch Barnhart didn't do anything abnormal signing Mark Stoops to a contract. It's not like they put in a clause that said you owe him $44 million if he gets fired. He's owed $44 million because that's what's left on his contract. The issue is he makes a lot of money and we sign him for a lot of years. Brian, it is what it is. To fire him, you would have to either get him to agree to like $25 million today, which we don't have, or to agree to like forego money he's guaranteed.

He's not going to do that. No. So that's why I don't think those conversations are reasonable. Mark Stoops has done things here at the UK football program. We've all said that I didn't think it would ever be done. I want him to be my coach. I want him to be the coach here. But something is just not right right now with the program.

What do you think it is? I mean, you probably like, you probably hear more or closer to the that than anyone in the media. I mean, what do you think it is? I talked to a guy driving in this morning and we were trying to both answer that question because usually Stoops teams are tough and they fight and they punch back. Well, for whatever reason, we got guys, you know, not kind of take them plays off. some of our star players taking some plays off and you just can't do that, especially when you're playing in the SEC.

What do you mean about taking the plays off? Well, you know, it's been kind of put out there that you'll see maybe a guy quit on his route or not run his route and maybe a defensive lineman maybe take a couple plays off, you know, and not do things. I mean, you can say Dion's name. There were a few times Dion didn't really do anything when he was in the game. Just kind of stood up.

Yeah. And, you know, our quarterback play hasn't been great. And I know people are going to try to pick on the offensive line, but they graded pretty well against Florida, surprisingly. They were better. Yes. They were better Saturday. But it doesn't seem to matter. It just doesn't seem to matter.

And I don't know. They are bafflingly bad. You know what we've had now what? Is this the fifth SEC game? Yeah. We've had six touchdowns, only six. And one of those was a kick return, and one was a fumble we fell on in the end zone. No, we've had eight counting those.

Six offensive touchdowns. Okay, that's what it is. Six offensive touchdowns in five games. Got to the goal line again. Okay, we've got to talk about that. Once again. How can two weeks in a row we've got it inside the five on first down and come away with zero points?

Because we, here's what I'd like people to do. You want to know the answer to that question? Yes. One is we don't have a guaranteed offensive line that gets you one or two yards. That hurts us. But the second is creative play calling. Go watch Kansas City in the Red Zone sometime. And watch what Andy Reid does.

Now, of course, they have my homes. That's different. He can do all kinds of stuff. But they got guys running. Yesterday they had a play where they had like both quarterbacks in at the same time, and you didn't know which one was going to get snapped the ball. They do such creative things. We don't do anything creative ever inside the goal line, ever.

And this isn't like Benny Snell and the big blue wall. where you could just run it straight ahead. We can't do that. And the other teams know it. They know it's not going to be creative, and we're just stuck. We are, I almost would rather see us beyond the 15 than inside the five. We got a better chance of score. You're right.

We didn't even bully them very well because Tripp Trayem's got 25 pounds on Demi, and we put Demi in. I mean, that's- Why are you running his quarterback sneaks with Brock Van degriff? Gavin Wimson is clearly the one to do that with. And we're running out a defensive lineman that weighed 450 pounds. He did not wait for it. That dude's a long. Are you Yoko Zuna? No, Ryan's right.

That guy is $450. Yes. It might be $4.25. He's right at it. That guy is enormous. I don't know how he even gets up and down. So he's plugging a hole just sitting there. Just, what, sitting down?

Yeah. And we go right, Annie. He did. Well, 859-280, 2287. We'll take your calls. What do you think? I want to talk about the blue-white game. And also, I'm going to let them make fun of me my lock of the week.

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No, I was out and about. My wife kept me hopping with the honey-to-do list all weekend. Oh, okay. We had a honey-to-do list. I understand. A couple things. One person writes, Matt, we have $25 million a year in SEC revenue sharing, how could we not be able to pay a contract? Because, you know what, they use that money for other things. How do you think we pay for every other sport? I mean, the reality is, everybody should know this. Football pays for every sport. Everything.

Every sport. At UK, we're lucky that basketball makes us money. At most conferences, basketball loses you money. But at UK, we have actually two sources of revenue. But it pays for every other sport. It pays for the entire athletics department. It pays for the coaching salaries. It pays for everything.

So it's not like it just sits there and everybody takes it. UK is one of the only schools in America that doesn't take any of your tax dollars for sports. I think that's a huge testament to UK athletics and to Mitch Barnhart because almost every other school takes money from the general fund into their sports. UK does not. But because of the state. that, you end up with a situation where the money is budgeted. You just don't have, Ryan, unlimited funds. Yeah, and you know, in Kentucky, we're kind of blessed.

We play in the SEC, so there's a lot of income that comes in from these SEC home games. But there are SEC schools that take from their general funds. I mean, we don't. That's, you know. Do you think the money thing, some of it came out, people are upset because of this week. The list came out, and Stoops was, about, ninth on the top of 10. I think there's no doubt that if you look at the list, is the ninth highest paid coach in America, Drew, and the other eight are really good.

Like, that's, and I think, honestly, Stoops kind of, if you look at his past and the fact that it's Kentucky, it makes sense, but it doesn't make sense right now with the way they're playing. Yeah, when you see that social media graphic that went out last week and you look at the records of those other teams, it looks crazy. But when you think about, and also, it's like all SEC coaches right pay. I mean, Drinkwitz is right below Stoops. It's SEC, you got to pay more. Kentucky, you got to pay more. When a guy's been there 12 years, he's eventually getting rewarded and going to have a high-hires. The other thing is for years, I said this on the postgame show.

For years, longtime UK football fans said, we don't invest in football. That's why we don't win. Okay, well, now they're investing in football. And then you go, well, we're investing too much. I mean, it's kind of a no-win situation. You've got to win the games, but it's been here 15 or 12 years. Like, he's going to get paid that amount of money. I'm not defending him on that look, though.

He should be doing much better than what it is this season. Yeah. Even if we had that money laying around, though, I just, I thought this before the year. There isn't a lot left in that Stoop's tank. I think it'd be a waste to pay him out anyway. I don't think he's staying here much longer on his own regardless of results. And I think part of the frustration is this is not a we don't have the talent. These are not we don't have the talent losses.

These are, we went and got the talent, and we're losing the teams that don't have as much. And that's why I think it's so headscratching. Nobody has a real answer like, what? What is going on with this football team this year to not have the fight and getting... Do you think there's a locker room issue? I honestly haven't heard that there is. I haven't heard that there is either. And normally you would hear that.

So I'm not saying there isn't, but I've not heard that. And I will tell you this, in football, first of all, basketball locker room issues come out, and there's only a handful of people in there. In football, that's a huge room. And if there's a locker room issue, somebody's going to leak it out. And Drew, I have not heard it. Ryan's not heard it. I don't think you've heard it.

Well, I think there's an issue overall, and it's an ongoing just culture thing, but I don't think there's like a certain guy or anyone, any, you know, specific problems. I am starting to wonder if this model of getting these high-end transfers and put them together for one year, if it does hurt the culture in the locker room, when you have so many guys just thrown together, you don't have a lot of continuity, but I don't know of anything specific. But the other teams do that. I'm just wondering if, you know, retaining guys does matter, and I wonder if you have so many.

But we don't have any more than everybody else does. I'm saying when Cash Daniel tweeted, we go, was not a leader. I'm just saying we have so many new guys. Someone's probably not stepping up. I mean, I understand Cash tweeted that, but at the same time, Cash played it a different time. Like, again, you can't win at Kentucky without taking transfers. So, just like I was saying about Tony Bennett,

if the transfer thing's not working, you got to make it. work. You know what I mean? You don't have a ability to go, oh, well, this transfer thing's killing. No, you got to make it work. If you don't make it work, we're not going to win in 2024. Let me ask you this thing, because I heard Max say this morning on the pre-show with Billy. He said, Kentucky Stoop built the program on kind of good recruiting and developing their own recruits. Do you think they've gotten away a little bit from that? Yes, because they have to. What would this team be without Dumas Johnson? Yeah. Okay. What would this team be without Max? Max Harris. What would this team be without our quarterback?

Our quarterback. Like, Demi Sumo Carmbei. Yeah. Right? Like, we have to do that. We can't sit there and act. I mean, now, is our development not as good? I think that's a completely fair question.

I do. Ask, why have we not developed better offensive linemen? And why have we not? Fair question. And that. But the idea that, like, well, I mean, it's hurting the chemistry. Well, maybe, but you better get used to it because every single team in the country is doing it.

And if we don't do it, we're going to just get killed. Because the thing about the transfer portal, it takes the mistakes you made in recruiting and fixes them. Yeah, you can correct it by getting one transfer to come in. If you missed out on a cornerback, go out and get a cornerback. But I think we're seeing Drew with the offensive line that maybe there were some either big mistakes or bad development. Well, with the line specifically, three of their biggest recruits, I mean, they just whiffed on. You get a Grant Bingham who's not even on the team. I mean, well, Cante Goodwin's not.

Both those guys aren't playing football anymore. And when you got them, those were going to be some centerpieces of your line moving forward. So they had two or three years. They're just not recruiting the line well. And now you're seeing how that panned out. Yeah. I mean, it is weird that sometimes our biggest flameouts in recruiting are in state guys. Are the top, if you think about, I mean, I'm not going to list their names,

but think about our biggest star-rated recruits that flamed out. A lot of them are from this state. Now, we've had some great ones from the state. That has been an issue. We'll take a break. Take your calls. Be right back. Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Yeah, don't film this, Mario. I mean, this is not a social media one considering some of my secondary gigs. What was happening? I mean, the cameras couldn't keep track of the play. At one point, there was a sequence I don't know if everyone was drunk. It looked to me like we were two yards short of the first down, and the announcer goes, Vandergriff easily gets the first down. And then I thought it was fourth and two, and it was somehow first in ten,

but the yard marker seemed to suggest it was first and four. And Ryan, I don't know what happened. I mean, they had every down on the screen. It was just, it was a disaster. And it looked like the camera people were all drunk. It looks like stuff I see when I go to a freshman football game. And you got dads running the camera and dads you in the yard markers. But everything was off.

If there was a play down field, you were not going to see it because they couldn't keep up with the ball. I mean, it looked like someone was doing it that's never watched football. Like they were like, somebody told them just stay with the ball. And they would just stay. And then the receive, the ball be up in the air and they'd be like, okay, where did it go? Did they throw it backwards? Did they throw it in the stands? It was bizarre.

No downfield vision from our cameraman. If the ball was thrown farther than 10 to 15 yards, forget it. If you're watching at home, you'll just have to find out whenever it gets down there because he could not follow anything down past. And if it was a punt, like, it might still be up in the air as far as we know. Like, they just, it was awful. You were right, too, about the first down yard marker.

Something was all. What happened? I still don't know what happened on those plays. It was first and 10. Then it was like third and seven. Brock runs it for what looked to me to be five yards. So I thought it was fourth and two, and I said to myself, well, this is the game right here.

And then they just gave him a first down. And then all of a sudden, on the screen, it was second down and third down and nothing had happened. The yardage thing, I don't know who messed up because the yardage thing still had him needing two yards, and they said it was first down. Then he runs for five yards, and they go, well, he gets the first down, but I thought we already had the first down.

I still don't know what happened. I don't either. That's why going on. I don't either. Wasn't the SEC Network's fault, but I also didn't like that Florida was allowed to just call their own touchdown. Is that a new thing? So what was that? They just shot the fireworks, so the refs were like, well, fireworks are going off.

Lights are off. I guess it's a touchdown. Well, I'm putting that on the SEC Network, too, because I did see a, first of all, he should have blown it dead. Yes. So he should have not been in because it was blown dead. Especially after the one earlier in the game. But he didn't blow it dead. So I did see an angle where a newspaper reporter has it to where the ball is out and he's not on the ground yet,

which I guess is what that referee saw. But how did the SEC network not have any camera angle that showed that they were shooting it through an iPhone 2 on the opposite side? We didn't see one angle showed the ball across the ball. There wasn't one angle that showed the runner. I'm serious. There wasn't one angle where you could even see who had the ball. Even the announcers, I think, were really confused. They said everything they were seen.

I think the announcers thought it was the second quarter. They were probably mad at the cameraman, too. No, they have to be. I'm not blaming. I didn't know who those two guys were. I'm not blaming them. I'm just saying, like, it was a disaster. I got to ask you one more thing about the game.

We should have known something was up when the first time Jamarion and Wilcox carries the ball. His shoe came on. How did his shoe come on? Unbelievable. Like I'd stepped away, and when somebody I heard them talking about the shoe, I was like, did he really lose his shoe after all of this? First carry. Apparently, they taped them on after that. Well, is he not allowed to tie them? Why wouldn't you take? If I went through what Wilcox went through last week where I am just made fun of all week long after my coach calls me out publicly, I go to the trainer before the game and say three rolls of tape on each foot, tape this thing to my leg where I cannot get it off.

And then he loses his shoe. We should have known then. As Mike Myers says, who loses it? issue. Nobody. Who's up first? Rick? Brandon is up first. Brandon, go ahead. Hey, guys. Yeah. You know, maybe Stoops retires and then we can go after John Summerall.

But I don't even think that would be the case because I believe that the first person that Barnhart would offer the job to is probably Brad White. So I kind of hope that Stoops stays. If we finished, if we had had a good year, then I think you're, Right. I think Stoops would retire. I think Drew and I are in agreement with on this.

If this year had gone well, I think Stubes would retire and Brad White would get the job. I think everybody, again, online that just assumes it's going to be John Summerall. I wouldn't assume that. I would assume that there's a very good chance it'll be Brad White. But now if we go four and eight, Brandon, I'm not sure he can hire Brad White on the staff where we go four and eight. Well, if we've learned anything, Mitch Barnhart doesn't give a hoot with the fans think. I don't. Let me ask you. Why do you say that?

I mean, I'm not trying. I've been very critical of Barnhart over the years. But when you say he doesn't give a hoot, I mean, why do you say that? Well, as much as we are a fan of the Mark Prophire right now, we weren't big fans of it when it happened. But, I mean, who else would you have had Mitch Barnardt hire? I told you he wasn't allowed to hire a number of guys. He tried to hire Danny Hurley and Scott Drew. Who else would you have had him hire?

I wouldn't say this now, but at the time, I would have rather had the Florida coach. But I'm a big fan of Mark Pope. I hope that he does great. I just don't think that Mitch Barnhart should be in charge is making any more hires. I think it's time for him to retire. Appreciate the call. I think he probably will retire soon. I'm not sure Mike White, who didn't win at Georgia and hasn't really yet won at Florida.

Todd Golden. I'm sorry. What am I talking about? It's the other way around Florida and Georgia. Todd Golden, but how did Florida do last year? They never did. Well, I made a top ten. I actually had Todd Golden ahead of Mark Pope, so I can't argue with the caller.

You all, and you're Todd Golden. Just being honest, being consistent. Is there another person on the current staff that would be considered a year? You don't want to know. Are you talking about Vince? Yes. I mean, I think he'd be considered. this is not within a lot of it depends on how this year finishes

I think it's going to be hard for them just to appoint a dude from a staff that went four and eight fair especially when elite defense I mean they still have games to play they've had some great games but if they keep showing some holes or give up 48 points again I mean I will say whoever the coach is they can hire Drew as the coach UK will try to keep certainly Vince Morrow and almost certainly Brad White, no matter what happens. But I don't know how that affects. I have long assumed that the leader in the clubhouse for Mitch Warren Barnhart would be Brad White.

But I think if they finish 4 and 8, that's going to enter into the discussion. I just do. And I think John Summerall is someone that he really likes. But everybody just assumes that's the next step. I think that you're projecting your wishes more than how that AD over their things, which ultimately is who makes the decision. Right. Who's next?

Jay and Lyndon is next. Jay and Lyndon, go ahead. Matt, all these years ago, you and I, the one thing we agreed on was Stoves was the right guy for the hire. And if you look back at his legacy, eight bowl games in a row, two, ten and three seasons, absolutely owning U of L, in the midst of some tough things. seasons when Drew Barker and Terry Wilson went down, the coaching was good enough to get his good results. True.

And I think the last thing, even when we've had a bad season like 2020 where we were five and six, the blowout win at Tennessee stands out. Hell, I still could watch some of that game on YouTube. But the troubling and alarming thing, the last three years, and I don't even think you can argue this, is we've lost seven to eight games against teams with less talent than we have. I think that's a great point. I think that's a great point. I mean, if you were making the case, and I appreciate the call, Jay, good to hear from you, for why Stoops was so good in the early years. We were competitive against teams that oftentimes we didn't have business being competitive against,

but we were, whether we won or not. We rarely got blown out. We'd usually get blown out once a year, but otherwise the games were, we were in them, they were exciting, and then we won some games that we shouldn't, or we beat teams we were better than it. That's not really what's happened the last few years. We've been blown out a bunch. We've got a bunch of games where we've gotten blown out on the field, and we've been beaten. I think Jay says by seven, I'll take his word with it, by a number of teams, Drew, that we have more talent then.

Yeah, the identity is just so different from when Stoops was building this. You know, you're normally an underdog, and they're saying, why not? We're going to punch you in the mouth. You're going to know you played Kentucky, whether we win or not. You know, a lot of get your lunch pal and go to work attitude. Now we're seeing taunting down 14, guys popping guys in the back of the head. It's just not the identity I remember when this was all coming together years ago.

You were, to back up Jay's point, you were a better program than South Carolina. You were a better program than Vanee, and you were a better program than Florida. And this year – And you're a better program than Missouri back then. And this year, they beat – not only beat you all three games, they whipped you in all three of those games. They weren't even close in those three games. I would also say one more thing about the whole portal and all that. The portal is helping programs that have no business being where the game day is.

at Indiana next week, right? The portal is helping. Like, the portal should be great for us. Like, it is helping teams like us all over the country. And we need to be one of those teams, right? We just, we do. And to go back for a second about Mitch hires, I don't think most people could have predicted any of Mitch's hires.

Like, the idea that everybody knows, I mean, maybe Joker, but like Billy Gilles. speak kind of came from nowhere. Cal was not who people thought he was going to hire, right? Mark Stubbs kind of came from nowhere. Most people didn't even know who that was when it was hired. You can even throw Rich Brooks in that mix when Mitch hired Rich Brooks. I mean, we almost hired Bill Parcells, who had that on their radar, right? Mark Pope, I don't think a lot of people thought that was going to be where it was. So he's not easy to predict, in part because he doesn't leak. He does not leak.

I mean, he is, the public only finds out for Mitch what Mitch wants them to find out. That's not true about everybody else in UK sports, but that is true about him. And the one you named as predictable was announced ahead of time, Joker. I mean, there was never really a search for that one. That one was kind of already made. We'll take a break. 859-28027. This is KSR.

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And you got Sohoia Tani and Aaron Judge. Show-Hoehah. The two best players in the game going at it. So that's why I'm excited about it. Yeah. Shohei Otani, Aaron Judge, Juan Soto, former Red Luke Weaver, is the Yankees' best pitcher. How'd that happen? He stunk when he was with Cincinnati. But Lexington's own Walker Beeler back. Yeah, it's right. Walker Beeler's back.

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Well, so you're really into it. It sounds like you're really fired up for a final series. that you don't even know, didn't even know it was over. I hate both of those teams. All right, well, good. Go whoever. Let me give a shout out. Brian Kirkland Lundy.

Yes. From Metcalf County, Kentucky, set the state record for most rushing touchdowns in a game. He had 10. 10 rushing touchdowns in a game. He ran for 490 yards. That's pretty good. That's unbelievable. When I saw that stat last Friday night, I'm like, oh, my goodness.

That just never had. happens. But you know who holds the state single season scoring record for a game? Who? Don Gullet. Okay. Thank you for that. The way he said that. I mean, you said that like you were going to be telling me Barack Obama. Like what?

Yeah, I think Don Gullet also had 10, I mean, nine touchdowns, but then he had like Why did you say it? It was more so the president. Yeah, why did you be like, do you know who it is and then say a name that no one knows? Well, I thought most people would know since former Cincinnati Red pitcher. pictures coach. Well, I didn't. Won a World Series with the Reds?

That reminds me of that scene in Caddysheck, where he goes, you know, he's telling him that long story, and he goes, and Chevy Chase's character goes, do you know who that man was? And he was like, who? And he was like, Bob Smith, good guy. And that's kind of what you were doing right there. Anyway, congrats to Brian Kirkland,

Lundy from Metcalf County. Who's next? Kentucky Gasman is next. Kentucky Gasman. How are you? been great man how are you today good good all right so i've got two things um my first one is uh the man stoop's and uh i don't i don't claim to know a lot about how the pay and everything works yeah but most people Mitch barnhart you know i understand he cannot say the future

but it's been said a long time ago that Mark Stooges is probably going to retire early so why did we not offer him a two-year contract? Because he would have said no. I mean, like, why don't we offer him to coach for $50,000 because he'll say no? I mean, the reason he got that contract is... What I'm saying is...

What I'm saying is the same money. But other teams were interested in it. So like it's all a leverage thing. I mean, I'm sure if you ask Mitch Barnhart, would you want to sign him for all those years? I don't know. But his agent says if you want him to stay here, this is what he needs. And then that's where Mitch Barnhart is left. Right.

I get that. Okay. The other thing is as college sports as a whole. And I'm not against players being paid at all. I understand that. I get it. They should get a piece of what the kids. college will get. I get it. But I just feel like we're at the point that these players are

really feeling entitled. I have two small kids myself. But you say that, sir. I understand the argument. I get the argument about players, money, and title. But why are these other schools succeeding? And we're not? Because I can tell you, it's almost like saying, was the world better before the internet? Well, maybe, but the internet's not going away. So you just have to deal with it. Is college sports better or worse after the Supreme Court decision? I don't know. But you know what?

It exists. So it's like complaining about the Internet. Like you have to figure out how to regulate it, not just act like it's going away. So what I'm talking about is a level playing field. And I know you've mentioned it. You can't have a level playing field in America. In America, we have a. free market and level playing fields are socialism.

Now, the pro sports are socialist because of collective bargaining, but we don't consider athletes' employees, so we don't allow them to collectively bargain. So if you believe... What about a cap? But you can't have a cap unless you collectively bargain. In America, you have to remember the principles that govern capitalism, which have some strengths and which have some weaknesses. They are what governs sports unless the players agree to a different system, and for that,

they have to be able to collectively bargain. Fair enough. That means you have to treat the athletes as employees, which the NCAA doesn't want to do. So the NCAA wants to be able to not follow the rules of capitalism and not collectively bargain. And the Supreme Court said, you can't do that. 9-0. So now that's where we are, where we are.

All right. Thanks, mate. Have good day. Appreciate it. I just, like, it is what it is. The NCAA for 75 to 100 years just violated the laws of economics in America, and everybody turned their head and said, well, that's all right, because you're getting an education.

Well, the Supreme Court said that ain't going to happen anymore. And the NCAA, Ryan, wasn't ready. They weren't ready. And now they have to find a way to get ready. And I think they will. But we're in this period of chaos right now where it's the NCAA's fault. It's these college presidents' faults. They got greedy.

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