KSR - 2024-11-04- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: November 4, 2024

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859-280-2287. A-Vision auto-glass text machine 7-7-2-7-47-4-5-254. This edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith-lawful called T.J. I'll make them pay. You know, we got a depressing football game on Saturday night. Not as depressing as I thought it would be, but a little depressing. We got basketball. So I'm sitting here going, you know, we've had this issue for three weeks,

basketball football basketball we've led every day with basketball I think in order to to pump the show up and get the momentum in the second hour going into the rest of the day I'm going to do basketball in the second so that we get ourselves preview I think we'll talk about the football game we'll kind of put it to rest which is maybe what most people are doing for the season and then we'll go to basketball for the second half so so Ryan we'll start with football when the game was over Friday night or Saturday night, I sort of posted like, eh, could have been worse.

I actually think they played decent. And some people agree with me, but a lot of people didn't like that. Oh, Mr. Moral victory, moral victory. I don't know what everybody else was expecting. I was expecting us to get absolutely pounded. And when you consider all the injuries and Brock went out, I thought a 10-point loss wasn't the worst thing in the world.

But I've already given my opinion on the post game show, et cetera. What did you think? Yeah, it could have been worse, you know. Thank me, their kick or miss three field goals. That was good for us. They dropped the touchdown pass in the end zone. Drop two touchdown pass in the end zone. But our guys came and showed a little heart, a little fight, little attitude.

And I don't, you know, that's been missing the past couple weeks. So I was overall pleased to hold them to a 10-point game. Really, you're down three and have the ball when Brock got sacked and the fumble and it led to it. But you had a chance right then to maybe even take the lead late in the game. I called Ian Fitzsimmons last night who called the game for ESPN Radio. He's their field reporter. So I just asked him what it, because this first time he had seen Kentucky play, they hadn't had a game of Kentucky's in two years.

And I said, what was it like on the field? And he said, Matt, I want you to just tell your fan base this. That team fought as hard as a team could fight. He was like, they left it all in the field. He goes, they were all hurt. They were all done. He said Brock got as knocked out as I've seen a dude get. He was like, that was, he goes, I felt sorry for that guy.

And he said, he was just like, look, they're not a great team. He was like, but they did play as hard as they could play. And that's kind of how I felt after the game. And he saw it up close. I agree. I was worried they were just checked out for the year. I mean, they were thin and still managed to show up and play well. I also thought the offense would have no hope of finding the end zone.

They got it once. And I also like they drove down the field. I mean, it was fourth and two and it gets broken up. But I even liked that Stoops went for it there. Did you like that? I did. I was yelling at my TV, go for it. It didn't work out.

I'm not going to look back and change anything. I wanted him to go for it in the moment. We weren't going to win that game with field goals. We just weren't. And it would be great to land that first punch after you just had a great drive down the field. Even the play call wasn't that terrible. It's just Tennessee defender. it really well and broke up the pass.

So I loved that on the first two drives, an offense that I had no faith in. First one, they had a chance to score. And second one, they actually punched in a touchdown to go up. Yeah, what I was most excited about with the team was the fight. Yep. I don't know what any of it means for the future. I mean, we had a lot of dudes out. Beryn was out.

Who knows if we even see Beryn again? You know, I mean, a dude that has to go to the hospital. That's not a little thing. I kind of wonder even with Brock. I mean, if he really was kind of knocked out, what does that mean? You had five starters out on defense, and then you lost another one during the game. At one point, I saw an article this morning that said at the end of the game, we only had two healthy scholarship cornerbacks on the roster that were active,

that we were playing a couple guys who didn't even play cornerback there at the end. I did think there was a dude that would be chasing Tennessee, receivers and I was like, that guy's too big to be a cornerback. And it turns out he wasn't. He was a linebacker that was having to play cornerback. So again, you know, I get the frustration of the season. I'm frustrated with the season. I don't know what you do with this program going forward. And I think there are serious questions. But just that night, I actually, I mean, you had told me before the season we were going to go nine and three, but we lost it to Tennessee by 10. gone, well, that seems about right.

I mean, I don't know. Did people think we were going to win this game? Yeah, I think if you'd won a couple of those at Auburn, Florida, Vandy, if you'd want a couple of those, Saturday night would be like, eh, but if we could say we had won all those games. And then we went and lost to Tennessee by 10. Would anyone have been surprised? We wouldn't be mad and upset. I don't think.

I mean, they're the seventh-rate team in the country playing at night. I mean, I thought we could lose by 40. I really did going into the game. We'll never have the answer, but this has been the weirdest team. To have three playoff contenders on the ropes in the fourth quarter, you win one of them. How about we? But you just get killed in your other game. This is the stat that will define this team for me.

We played three top ten teams, and we led at halftime in every game. And then we lost by double digits to three teams that stink. Like you led, there is a, I don't think Old Miss makes the playoff. But Georgia and Tennessee, one of them certainly will make the playoff. They might both make the playoff. They do play each other, so that may eliminate one of them. But those three teams are all playoff worthy, and we led all three of them, two of them on the road. And I don't think it's any coincidence in those three games.

It's because our defense played really, really well in all three of those. And it's no coincidence the reason our defense played well because the guys up front played well in those games. They brought it, man. That means that they play with some attitude. I mean, it's not crazy. The play, the game changed on the Brock play. It did. I mean, they get the first ball, they drive down the field, they miss a field goal.

And I thought to myself, it's 10-7 and we have the ball. If we score here, the butts are going to get tight, right? Like, they're going to start, because especially if we scored a touchdown, but even if we had gotten a field goal, I think there's a sense of, uh-oh, and you would have made it where their next drive was their most important drive of the season. And it's third and one or third and three. And not only does Brock get, he gets knocked out. It's not just that we lose the ball.

He gets kind of knocked out. And then, you know, then it was inevitable. They got a short field and they scored. They got a short field and they scored. I mean, I think at that point it was inevitable. And that play, to some extent, symbolizes the season. He didn't have a chance. Now, he did, the guy was coming right at him, so I guess there's an argument.

But I think he was getting hit no matter what. Maybe he could have kept it from fumbling. But he was getting rocked either way. The offensive lineman just got completely beat. I'll say this about the offensive line. First half is as good as they've played all year, to their credit. Now, in the second half, they got blown up. I mean, they got blown up.

I think they got worn down, man, because defensive, Tennessee's defensive front is pretty good. Oh, there's like the second best front in the country. Yeah. But I do have to give them credit. They were better in the first half. I wish they'd given ball to Wilcox more. Yeah. Do you agree?

Yeah. It was frustrating after the game when Bush Hamden was like, we've probably waited too long to focus on Wilcox. Yeah, you think he's been, his average is insane. Every time he touches it, he seems to break a good play if he can keep his shoes on. All right. So the play that hurt Brock, that's a top 15 pick, one of the best defenders in college football. And the left side of the line just said, here you go, man.

Against the red shirt freshman. I mean, like, he was a redshirt freshman who has really struggled, although, to his credit, I thought was better this week than he was last week when he got that grade that was embarrassing. But on that one play, the whole line just left it open for him to tee off on Brock. And you're right, top 15 pick. He just didn't have, I mean, he didn't have a chance. Gavin Wimson came in.

This is my only regret about the game. I felt like they said on the broadcast, the first 15 plays were scripted. Yes. Boy, we look good in those 15 plays. some rhythm. Had some rhythm. Those 15 plays looked pretty good. And then apparently the first Gavin, the first 10 Gavin plays were scripted.

Okay, I didn't know that. And they looked pretty good. Yeah. Can we script the whole game? Because I will say the two times that our offense looked good were the times that they said those plays were all scripted. I love the fact that Gavin, you know, the chance to get his confidence and connect a couple passes.

through that beautiful pass to Macklin in the end zone and even the two-point conversion to Macklin was a dot. But it is. Have we wasted Macklin? Those are two great catches. Yeah, we've got it, no doubt. That has not been targeted all year. Those were some pro catches he made.

So you do wonder, Drew, if the scripted plays, that's the best the offenses looked since the old Miss game. Were those were the beginning of the game with Brock? Because not, I mean, not only did we, with the first two drives, we got inside the 10. And then we scored a touchdown. Those are two great drives. Yeah.

And then the first drive by whims at, it was three and out. But then the next drive, we score a touchdown. You do kind of wonder, well, maybe we just need to take all the decisions out and just go by the script because at least that worked. Yeah. Did anyone have 50-yard run on the first play from scrimmage? I mean, nice little, I guess, a little bit of a draw right up the middle. Absolutely untouched setting them up.

But, you know, they didn't score, but that was a positive. start for a team that's really struggled. So, all right, so where are we? We're not going to, we probably after today, it's very unlikely anybody will bring up football for the next two weeks. I just know how this show goes. I think when you consider we have a basketball game start tonight, we got one next Saturday, Duke is Tuesday, chances are football is going away for two weeks.

So before it goes away, where are we in terms of what do you think the future is? what's the rest of the season? What's the future? Lose a lot of starters at the end of the year. Mark was kind of surprisingly honest when he said, basically, I got to use this break to see who's going to be here next year. And I don't think he said it, but I think part of that is whether he's going to be here next year.

These two weeks, we won't know what happens unless it leaks, but they're probably going to decide the future of this program in the next two weeks. So what's it going to look like? They'll keep it quiet. We definitely won't know anything what's going on. I want Stoops to want to be here. I want him to be my coach. I want him to be.

So you do want him to return? Yes. Do you think he will? That I don't know. Because it's his call. It's not Mitch Barnhart's call. It's going to be his call. I hope he gets mad and fired up and doesn't want to leave the program the way on this four-win season if they win for win, four games.

Drew, I hate to put you on the spot, but I just did Ryan. Do you want him to be here? I hope he can win the Louisville game and shake our hands and say, I've taken as far as I can. That would be my favorable outcome at this point. So you are most leaning towards you think there needs to be a separation? Well, our question is energy before this year started. Before they had lost a single game, before he had made a single complaint about night games or NIL, I just, it's 12 years in an SEC football job.

I just wonder how much he has left. But as the year it goes on, I've just added to that, wondering even more if he's still all the way in. Do you think he will be back? I would have said yes for one more ride before losing four straight, but I think he's really got a question where his team is right now in the work it's going to take to save it. Whatever happens, we're in for a long November because if he leaves, obviously, you have a coaching search. But there's going to be a lot of roster moving. I think it'll be guys leaving and he'll be searching for answers for next season if not.

So we're heading for some chaos. The last thing you said is how I make my decision. I do believe Stoops has been a good steward of the program, and I do believe he wants it to be left back. I need to know what is going to happen at the end of the year. Well, I'm just going to be up front. If Dane Key, Barry on Brown, and a lot of these young guys are like, hey, we got to go somewhere else, then I think it's time for the transition.

I mean, I think you need. Now, if you find out that these dudes are going to come back, that you have some money to go get an offensive line, then I can be talked into it. But if I, if what I think is going to happen, which is we're going to lose most of the people that are good and we're going to be starting new, then we might as well just start new. That's kind of how I look at it. But let's, but I think a lot of it does depend on what, like, like Cutter Bowley,

is he going to stay? I don't know that we can assume that completely, to be honest with you. You know, I had a conversation this weekend. I'm not saying it will or not. But I think they're going to consider what I think everybody's going to consider what they're going to do. So I would want to know the answers to those questions and then make the decision of what's going forward. And the other thing is, I would say to Mark, if you think you want to be here three or four more years, okay. If you want to be here one more year, then does that really make sense?

Because are we going to be good next year? Like really good? That schedule's hard. That schedule's hard and we're losing a ton of starters. So if you think you're almost done now, that's the way I would look at. 859-2-80-2287. Text machine is 772-774-5-254. We'll take your calls about the game.

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It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at KS. Bar. A lot of folks here. We got people from Owensboro, Paducah, Wayne County, Centerville, Ohio, and from Wright State, from Dayton. So people from all over. Talking some Wright State background knowledge with you guys today. Yeah, I've been to Wright State, who we play tonight. have been there twice.

I saw Butler play at Wright State. That guy reminded me. I thought it was Dayton, but it was Butler. That was when I worked at CBS. And then Shannon, I saw Rusted Root play at Wright State when I was in college. Rusted Root. Do you remember Rusted Root? Send me on my way.

Doot, doot. See me on my way. I don't know if I know that. All right, well, you're going to look it up and play it in the next segment. Rusted Root. Rust and root. You'll know the song when you hear it. I guarantee Shannon at least will.

So you guys drove up from transit. to Wright State to go to this concert? Me and Chris Tomlin, I think, went to Chris liked that kind of music, and I liked that song. It was very hippie. Like, this was late 90s before every concert smelled like weed. Now they all smell like weed. But back then, that wasn't the case. And that one did.

And I was like, oh, so it's going to be that kind of thing. Sounds like a good time. On campus. That's on campus, isn't it? Yeah, that arena. It's bigger than you would think. It's like, it's a decent-sized little arena. I remember when Kentucky played Wright State in.

Cincinnati maybe during the tubby era. Okay. It's only my own my length. We played them in baseball. One of the reasons I always know Wright State is the Horizon League, which is the league they play. And that's the first conference tournament to start. So, you know, I really like brackets. And that's always the first bracket release.

And I'm like, okay, Milwaukee versus, and then they, like, I think Valpo was in that league for a while and Detroit and Ui Pooey and Wright State. and like I know all those schools because I would look at those early Horizon League brackets. I can't wait to get your take on the Sunbelt bracket when we get to that topic. Yeah, you know, I had that to talk about it today. I love the Sunbelt bracket, by the way. I think it's great. One person writes, Matt, when did rugby scrums become legal in football?

I don't remember games allowing that. I had that same thought. Like that touchdown Tennessee scored at the end. I don't remember. I thought they used to blow the whistle. on that stuff, Drew, and now they just kind of let them go for a while. They should have blown a whistle there. That sounds like a sore loser in defeat, but that should have been stopped dead.

You go back to Florida, same situation with Kentucky a few weeks ago, and they blow it dead immediately where Kentucky doesn't even have the chance to do that. Has there been a change in the rules? I don't remember because they used to always worry about people getting hurt, and now they just let them turn into rugby scrums. I thought the rule was maybe somebody could tell me different. as soon as forward progression is stopped, you blow the whistle. That's, I think, and his looks stopped.

But that looks stopped. I mean, it looked like a scrum, and it looked like they were kind of stuck. It did look like it did stop there for a moment. Well, isn't that when the whistle should blow the play dead? You know, in the NFL, sometimes they'll have like a quarterback sneak, and they'll have a lineman run behind the quarterback and almost push him in as they do it. The push push. No, no, well, the tush push is just the guy goes forward, and then the running back comes behind.

but I saw one the other day where the dude almost like knocked his quarterback over to pick him in. It's almost like, why don't they just pick him up and carry him in? Well, just last week in Lexington and Brock with the running start helped get that touchdown in. It was either Demi or Wilcox. He just leveled from behind. That was a little different. The play was still going on. But I thought the one at Tennessee, that should have been blown dead.

How did they not call that penalty on the guy on the sidelines? Obvious. Hands to the face. It was obvious. And like when they showed it on replay, he clearly did it on purpose. Like if you want to protect him, you just catch it. But he went, like, come on.

How was it? And the ref was looking right at it. Like, what did he see? Well, then the Tennessee guy held his hands up, like, you know, I'm trying to stop him. I'm trying to stop me. No, you weren't. No, you weren't. You lacked him in the face.

I couldn't believe they didn't call that. Yeah, that was full extension into his head. The same person that left the game of the head injury later. Couldn't believe they did it. In the screenshot, the ref is like right next. to the guy doing it. And then, first of all, it's not the biggest thing in the world, but they gave Tennessee four timeouts in the first half.

They did. Go back and watch. Go look at the game log. They gave them four timeouts. When they called their final timeout, which set it up, which they would have had a field goal if they didn't screw everything up, when they called that final timeout, they were out of timeouts, and they just gave them the timeout.

And if you watch the ESPN broadcast, it showed them as having no timeouts. And then after they called it, they put it. the timeout up and took it off. Go watch. But forget about all that. The TV could be wrong. Look at the game long. Tennessee took four timeouts in the first half. They did. There was the clock issue where the ref was so lost.

They was like, are we bothering you? Is this game interrupted something? And he was like, my mistake, things happened, nothing to see here. 46 seconds, not 36 seconds. Between the white hat and the clock operator, there was a lot of miscommunication going on during that game. Yeah, they were completely lost. it felt like a lot of it. I do have to say, Tennessee fans are the worst.

I mean, just on a scale of one to 100, they are 923. Like, they are the absolute, they're the worst. And the chance at the players on the ground, you know, it's one thing to kind of go, oh, you're faking injuries, boo. When you chant what they chanted, don't act like, that's anything, but, you know, that's a jerk move. And our dudes were hurt. I get it.

The whole faking injuries, people have done against Tennessee a lot. Tennessee is probably the team that has received it the most. So I get it. But those guys weren't the ones. I don't think any of those Kentucky dudes that went down were faking it, do you? Well, Ripka got rolled up. That's the one where they were chanting that. His of all of them looked the most like an injury because he was piled up and his knee kind of went back.

And when Zion – I don't think he returned, did he? He did eventually, but he missed several plays. When Zion Childress is laying there, you can tell he's obviously in pain and was hurt, they're clapping and yelling and making fun of him. I mean, do you think that the SEC released that thing about faking injuries Friday? Yeah, they did Friday. Do you think Kentucky would then decide the next day, let's start faking injuries,

the day after the SEC says we're going to start, you know, coming at you about it? Even if you think they are to chant that when a guy's on the ground holding his knee, you got to be sure. You shouldn't do it anyway. You better be sure. You better be real sure. Like you got to be Matt Jones the running back at Ole Miss, where you just see him flop down. Even then you're still a jerk.

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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. All right, so you know this show. I do. I know it, though, from a commercial, an enterprise commercial.

An enterprise commercial. That's how I know this song. You don't remember this song? It was like during the whole, I don't know, 98, 99, 2000 kind of hippie-day Matthew Z music renaissance. No, I just know it from the commercial. Somehow I missed it when it came out. Do you know this song? I do not. I'm sorry. Yeah, turn it up. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. You don't remember this? It sounds like it was in the Lion King. Well, no, it was kind of like, it's not in the Lion King.

It's a good, it's a good song. I don't know how you don't remember that. What's the name of the group again? Rusted root. Rusted root. Isn't that the name of it? It is. Yeah, rusted root.

It's in the AAA category. That's what type of music it is, AAA. Triple A music. Yeah. I don't know what that means. Adult alternative. I went and saw them at Wright State. And they're one of those bands that like, you just stand there and listen to them to them, play a bunch of junk and then go,

just play send me on my way so you can send me on my way home like i just came here to hear this and then let's go and that's what you had because they do a lot like like that little flute and stuff and it was you know it's not my scene i'm just saying all right before we go the phones kelsey everybody i think everybody has an opinion on this all right so so jason kelsey is walking he's got like a six pack of beer 12 pack of beer he's just walking he decides to go to the pin state game Penn State, Ohio State. He's like tailgating with the boys. Like he's just tailgating out in the crowd,

which, by the way, is the thing I think I like the best about Jason Kelsey. He, like, doesn't think he's better than anybody else. He's just out, he's just out tailgating. He's walking, and then a dude just decides to be a jerk on him. So can all of us agree that dude was being a jerk? 100%. Can we start with that? Yes.

You do, everybody agrees he's being a jerk. All right. So the guy's being a jerk. He's holding up the phone, etc. then he says like something awful to him right he says you uh your brother is a is a blank uh for dating taylor swift now one thing to say something bad about him another thing to bring in the brother yep and then another thing to bring in the slur like you've done the triple crown of jerkness right there you've been you've been rude to him in person you've talked about his family and you've

use the slur. Now, everybody will say, Jason Kelsey, you got to be the bigger man. And I'm going to say exactly what I said on ESPN. Spoken like someone who's never had people do that to them. I have. Nothing like that. Well, actually, yeah. Something like that. Oh, yeah, you have. I have. And you can say all you want that you should be the bigger man. But when somebody is yelling at you and somebody is following you, and they will not stop. I'm just telling you, it's hard to keep walking. It's hard to keep walking. And I ain't a 300-pound dude who's used to beating up NFL linemen.

I don't want to get in a fight with anybody. But it's hard to sit there and take that. And everybody can say all they want to be the bigger man, but you ain't never had anybody do that to you like that. So Jason Kelsey turns around. if I'm that dude when he turns around, my life flashes before my eyes. Yep, I'm running the other way. Okay, because that's a big man, and he was clearly very angry.

He takes the phone, throws it on the ground, and quickly. Yeah, it was a good spike. If you look at the video from the side, you can see that guy's face, and he's like, uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. He throws the phone down. Then there's a later video where the kid comes chasing after him,

and I can't tell, did he push him down the kid, Kelsey? I've not seen the second video. There's another video where I don't know if they pushes him down, but it's a weird angle. And then he starts yelling, give me my phone back, Kelsey, and I think Kelsey then drops it on the ground or something. My view is the kid had it coming. Should you walk away?

Yeah, I guess, but I don't blame him. dude you have to sit there and listen to that about your brother and it's from like some little punk kid he's lucky he only got his phone broken and i actually am totally fine with what jason kelsey did you know jason kelsey he's he's from ohio ohio state's playing at penn state where he played for the philadelphia eagles this is a a fun event for him he's going just to enjoy football and he like goes and hangs out with the general public like why do you punish people who are actually trying to be normal yeah so i'm glad this kid's been exposed for being a jerk.

And like if they were just saying that about Jason, he probably would have walked away. But when you say something about your brother or your boys, then you almost got a man up, stand up for him. Yeah, I agree that Jason needed to be the bigger man here, but sometimes the bigger man needs to shatter a phone. And he did exactly what he needed to do. If he just keeps walking, maybe that kid keeps talking or that kid gets to go live his life bragging, probably getting a bunch of likes about it. Probably does it to the next celebrity. but in that case Kelsey had to let him know

not acceptable, go to the Apple store. I'm sure Jace will probably owe him a little money at some point if he pursues anything, but he did exactly what he needed to do. Shannon, you're from Mount Washington, and Bullitt County has one thing in common with Bell County, which is people will fight. Yeah, we don't mess around. I learned when I was in high school, because I'm not a fighter.

I was a dork, but I also have a smart map. And so I learned exactly how far you could push people without getting punched in the middle, right? Like, I learned that you can't, like, just go around saying anything. People, hey, I agree with Brandon Walker, who said there's a lot of people in this world who you can tell have never had, to, excuse my language, had their ass beat. And you could tell this kid's never really been confronted. And, Shannon, I would assume you're like me.

You were on Jason Kelsey. I was, yeah. I mean, if I were to watch that video first with no audio, I would go, come on Jason Kelsey you got to be better than that. But when you hear what the guy said and he just kept on and he wouldn't shut up, I probably would have done the same thing in that situation. Yeah, it's not like he just said it once. That's true.

He was following him and saying it over it. If he just says it once, okay, Jason, just keep walking. But if you just follow and follow and follow, you've been with me, Ryan, when I've been in like a restaurant or a bar and somebody just won't stop. They just will not stop. And for me, it's been Louisville fans. Tennessee fans, Republicans, like Cal fans, I've had all different groups that just will not stop. And there just comes a point, you know, when I was thinking about running for office,

my mom was like, one of the things I worry about if you do it is you don't suffer fools well. And she said, I'm worried that somebody's going to try to goad you and you'll fall for it. And she was right to be worried because you just, like, you can say you can handle that, but it's different if it happens to you. And he didn't seem to have any security around him either. He was the just thing about him. He's walking with a cheap 12-packed beer just through people. He's trying to go tailgate before the game.

He just wanted to enjoy himself. Who's up first, Shannon? Tommy. Tommy. Tommy. Go ahead, Tom. Hey, what's up, Matt? I didn't want to go to something that was on before you were on here. But when I was at UK, I was a student there in 72.

and one of my favorite friends that I met when I looked at Holmes Hall was Reggie Warford. He was one of the coolest guys I knew and the first black African-American that had graduated from the University of Kentucky. And I was just wondering if you all had thought about him as another of the really good left-handed point cards we've had. Well, I wasn't part of that conversation. So I don't know. But was he left-handed? Yeah, I appreciate the call. It came up about it because of Caden Lewis.

is left-handed, Jasper Johnson's left-handed Shannon asked. Yeah, I don't think we've ever had an all left-handed back court. We couldn't think of one. I'm sure we haven't. I bet we've never had one. That'll be very unique if those two guys, if they end up playing together. We'll talk about a Caden Lewis in a minute in the second hour.

Who's next? Mark. Mark. Mark, go ahead, Mark. Hi. I've been thinking about whether Mark Stubes could win the fans and the supporters back if he really wants to. He's got 40 million plus coming if he decides to say.

And I'm thinking if I'm him, and I really believe in this, I tell him in a speech, I believe in these coaches, I believe in these players, I believe that we can do this. Now, I told you a couple of years ago to pony up. I need to practice what I preach, and I'm committing a million for NIL. They're not allowed to do that, coaches. Oh, really? Yeah, coaches are not allowed to contribute to the NIL funds. Because if they – Well, let me explain the reason.

Let me explain, and I'll explain you the reason why. I appreciate the call. If a coach were to be able to contribute to his own money, schools would find a way to get around it. They'd say, okay, I'm paying Mark Stoop $16 million, wink, wink, and then he goes and donate $7 million to NIO. And basically it would be the school paying the NIL, which is not allowed under the rules.

But let me, when I talk about the next three months being changed, I want you to just think about what's going to happen this offseason. And this is why I would ask Mark Stoops, you're either all in or you're not. Because just this offseason, the NCAA is about to change the way they do everything. And you're going to get to now have 100 scholarships. There are now going to be 15 more players on football scholarships, 15 more. So just take everything else. You're going to go get 30 players this off season.

Starting next year, $22 million a year in revenue is going to be shared with athletes. I am told that Kentucky, my quote-unquote sources say, say 70% of that money will be towards football. I think in other SEC schools it may even be 80%, but at Kentucky it's going to be 70% with like 15 to 20 basketball and then 15 to 20 to 20 to other sports. 70% to football. So not only you're going to have 20, you're going to have 15 new scholarships, plus you're going to have like what, I don't know what that math is, but $16, $15, $16 million to give away in money. You are going to be setting the standard for the next decade of how we're going to do football at this school.

This off season, this off season, I would tell dudes thinking about going to the draft, maybe wait a year. Because this next year, the whole financial thing, changes. We got to have a coach that's all in because this thing's changing a lot and chances are very high it's changing this offseason. So Mark Stoops thinks I got five more years in me, let's go. Okay. But if you really think I have one last ride, this ain't really the time to have the last ride because you're setting up your next decade this off season. I can see where the football coach would be upset if you see the other schools of the SEC getting 80% of that money.

Well, he can get over that because we have a basketball program that has to be good. And we have a women's basketball program that they're going to invest in. And we have a baseball team that goes to college where he doesn't want to be here over $2.2 million more than Alabama that has than us, then you just can't coach it can do. Because we're not going to be the only coach that picks 70%. Duke will, Kansas will, North Carolina will. There'll be other schools that do it, maybe even other schools in the SEC. Yeah, and that's only one thing that'll be on his plate.

I mean, if he wants to come back and ask for give me this, get behind me one more time or however long, I think the roster is still very flawed that won't get fixed in one offseason because the offensive line, that's going to need a lot of work, whether the young guys get developed or you find more, which hasn't been working, plugging with transfers, and then the schedule is so hard next year. So even if you handled that well and thought, give me one more chance, it's still a big climb just to get Kentucky football backwards, winning games again. So I do think everybody, this is, this December. Buckle up in December.

First college football playoff. You got signing day, and you also have all this happening. Like, this December is going to be the wildest December in college football, probably ever, coming up here in the next couple months. We'll take a break. Be right back. This is KSR. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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Matt, the Kelsey event was staged. It was not spontaneous. They wanted the clicks and it was on display in an election year and a swing state and you fell for it. Oh, my gosh. Really? What would the Kelsey thing have anything to do with the election? Some people can make anything political. Anything.

Like, what would it be? I don't even know how it could. What does him carrying fear in a parking lot have to do with being a political issue? Speaking of that, do you like my house? hoodie. We need to talk about your hoodie. Matt walks in with a Taylor Swift hoodie, the kind with all her picture on the back. Yeah, the official Erez tour hoodie. Are you a Swift ? No, but somebody went and they bought me a hoodie. And so I was like, why not? You wear a Taylor Swift hoodie sometimes. Don't you're a T-shirt? Don't you have one? Oh, I have a T-shirt, yeah. Actually,

I have several. Yeah. It probably wasn't cheap either. It's very comfortable. It's, it's very comfortable. You guys maybe get together, call each other. You can wear your own Taylor Swiftie shirts and go out. 220,000 people went over the course of three days in Indianapolis. Times that, by what those tickets cost. That's a lot of money brought into that city. That's a lot of money.

Wow. I mean, they said they opened up the merchandise stand on Thursday. Probably to a long line. I mean, that's crazy. And probably a lot of people that aren't even going to the concert. Shout out to my man here in the bar in his Pope costume. Look, it's opening game. And he dresses in the Mark Pope costume.

Tweet out his picture there, will you, Mario? You get it out. Look at that. This is not the guy that was at the game. We're going to talk about that guy in a minute. But shout out, opening game tonight wearing the Pope costume. Big good stuff. Who's up next, Shannon?

Ray. Ray, go ahead, Ray. Hey, what's up, Guy? What's up? Here's my opinion on something, Matt. I listened to the post game show the other night. And I have a strange opinion on Bush and not knowing about the personnel.

And that would be this, that as an officer coordinator, you have to adjust to fit your personnel sometimes. Correct. And, you know, so that is one thing and another thing. I think this goes back to last year, if you'll recall with me, going into the Louisville game last year, we were sort of iffy on spoof last year, and he won the Louisville game last year, which changed a lot of opinion.

That being said, you know, we all, a lot of people get on Cohen for leaving again after one year. Why are we getting on Cohen after him coming back for one year? And Stoops calling his staff together last year and saying, hey, I want to go to Texas A&L. Well, no, I mean, listen, because I don't, I don't, I don't, who's getting on Cohen for leaving? Cohen should have left. If you get offered the Tampa Bay job, you should leave. I mean, but he did promise Stoops he would stay. Now, he backed out on that promise.

Whether you think that's understandable or not is your personal decision, but both those things are true. He promised Stoops he'd stay two years. He didn't do that. But you could also say Stoops nearly went to A&M. He was going to take Cohen if he went, if Cohen wanted to go. So, like, I don't, you know, but I can understand why people would be frustrated

about Stoops doing that but I don't think either these coaches and I appreciate the call Ryan these coaches are always going to do what's best for them they just are and so we might as well accept that that's always going to be the case and I think like head coaches like Marks do they understand it they get it because they've been through that that climb in the ladder to get what they are so yeah when Stubbs called his coaches for going to I know this for a fact when Stubbs called his coaches and said are you guys going to A&M with me if I go he was shocked there were answers of no. Yeah.

He had some people saying no. And I think that was something that surprised him. Now, I don't know if that was because they didn't want to work at A&M or whatever, Drew, but that did happen. Yeah, McCohen, that dude just hated college. I mean, we've got to just accept that for what it is. He was leaving the moment he could get another. You don't think he'll ever be back in college.

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