KSR - 2024-11-11- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: November 11, 2024

Matt, Ryan, and Shannon talk UK's upcoming game vs. Duke, Calipari and Arkansas losing to Baylor, and everything from the weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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your home loan needs stockton dot com and click get started stockton mortgage nmLS 8259 equal housing lender nmLS consumer access dot org welcome to hour two of kentucky sports radio presented by stockton mortgage now here's matt jones welcome back hour number two it is kentucky sports radio 859-2-80-2-287. The text machine is 772-745254. Tomorrow night, Kentucky and Duke, tip-off scheduled for nine, probably be 9-15-ish, maybe 9-30. We're going to watch it at KS Bar. Shannon, before his new gig was going to come.

But, Ryan, you'll be there. Oh, yeah. Drew will be there. I'll be there. Mario will be there. I think it's going to be a fun atmosphere. I hope everybody makes their plans to go. People are asking me what time they should get there.

I don't really know. I'd say what time you think we're on to be safe? Eight maybe, eight 15, eight 30. Our pregame show is 630 to 7.30. I don't know if you want to come early for that, I hope you will. I don't know if you'd have to be there at 630. I don't have to be there, but I just might what I saw Saturday. It may fill up by the time we do our pregame show.

No. It might. People come, have dinner. Let me just say, if you come from 630 on, Shannon, you better, like, buy some stuff. You can't just sit there and take the table for five hours. Yeah, exactly.

You can't do that. Listen, I love everybody. But I may have to enforce a little bit like at trivia. There's some groups that just play trivia, Shannon, and they don't buy anything. Yeah. That's really kind of not nice. It's like when you go to a comedy club,

you see a comedian, there's like a two drink minimum or something, You know, and maybe, uh, I mean, like I'm not, order some cheese sticks or something. Like, you know,

we, we got to order something. You can't just sit there. You know, anyway. But, uh, tomorrow night should be a lot of fun.

And even if you don't get a table, I mean, well, they'll be, we're going to, they'll be probably standing room. Hopefully, uh,

I want to see the last time we had a road atmosphere in November and December that was great was again, the Zion game. And I feel like, uh, I feel like this is, this is kind of like that. So Shannon yesterday,

I went to the Bears. Yeah, I wasn't. Let's talk about the positives. First of all, awesome to be there. Awesome to be there. Like, for me, as a Bears fan, just very cool to get to be in the first time in Soldier Field. You know, got the columns and all that, Ryan, the historic columns out front. You walk in.

I got, I was invited to sit in the ESPN radio suite up in the thing, which was very, very nice. it was great. The RC Cola. I spent about a quarter in the merchandise store. Didn't come away with as much stuff. It's like everything's weird now, Shannon, merchandise-wise. You know what I mean? You can't just find a bear shirt. Yeah, it's got to be like different alternate logos and weird colors. Yeah, and it's like weird colors and fits and like, you know, shirts with the with the shoulders out. And you're like, what is this? Right.

You know. Yeah. But I did get some stuff. Then the Bears played just maybe the worst game that I've ever seen. I mean, they lost 19 to 3. There was a guy in the sweep. There's a show in Chicago, Shannon, called Waddle and Sylvie or Sylvie and Waddle. Yeah.

It's like a legendary Chicago sports radio show. Please don't tell anybody, Shannon, but I'm not sure if I was talking to Waddle or Sylvie. Okay. I don't know. I was talking. Well, you know how somebody introduced themselves? And if you don't catch it, you don't feel like you can ask them again. Yep.

So I don't know if I was talking to Waddle or Sylvie. But either way, they've both been doing it for 20 years. And he said, this is the worst bear's performance of my lifetime. Wow. Wow. And I was like, well, glad you could be there for it. I'm glad this is the one I picked to be able to go to. It was awful.

They were terrible, just terrible. And people booed as we were walking out. People were chanting fire, Iber flus. But it was still very cool for me to get to go. A couple things I noted. Number one, Ryan, you can talk about wind and cold, but Chicago wind and cold is a different thing. It's a different level.

It was 55 degrees. It was not really cold outside. But when that wind kicked up, it was crazy. My hat flew off my head three times down the street. Like that's something you see in a cartoon, right? The hat flies off your head. Three times it flew down the street. I couldn't keep it on.

It was the strongest win I've been in outside of like, you know, a major storm. I don't know how the people in Chicago do it. It was 55 degrees and it was freezing. When it's like 20 degrees, Ryan, I don't know how they do it. This is like when they call it the windy city, Ryan, I think they knew what they were saying. There's no doubt about it. That's what it's known for. And that wind is coming off those.

Lakes is bitter a lot of times. It's crazy. How's the stadium itself? I mean, being a stadium that's been around for a hundred years. Yeah, it's very cool, but it's clearly older. You know what I mean? But they've modernized it. The part I was in was very modern.

It's clearly older. Aren't they trying to put a dome on that or something like that? Well, they've talked about building a new stadium next door that has a dome. But I like it. I mean, I thought it was very nice. But you know you're in an older stadium. but it is the part I was in was still very modern. Now, the pregame was awesome.

Like I said, probably 25 or 30 Kentucky fans come by. There were regular fans, just people who listened to our show that came by. It's just cool being outside of an NFL stadium. A lot of Bears fans, I think it's cool to be there because a lot of people kind of see you for the first time and know who you are. I get a lot of energy just being out on the road in general, Ryan. a great experience. I wish that it wasn't, according to Sylvie or Waddle, the worst game they had seen in 20 years the Bears play, but nevertheless, I still enjoyed it. I heard you and Myron on yesterday morning, and I got to admit, it made me really, really proud of you and happy for you,

because I know this was a big deal to get to do an NFL kind of a pregame show on site, outside of Soldier Field for your team, the Bears, and then you got to go in. So I was really hopeful you were going to have an awesome day because you deserved it. Let me tell you what Myron did. Shannon, though. This I think was poor form by Myron. Okay. So Saturday night, we go to a bar with our boss, right? Our boss was in town. So it's just me, Myron, and the boss, right? It's like a chance to kind of schmooze, you know what I mean? Like, just the kind of chance to hang out. So we're sitting there, we're watching LSU, Alabama. We go to, like, Chicago, the part of town we were in, which is full. You couldn't find a place anywhere.

So we go in this, like, kind of cheap bar that has, like, cheap wings. And we see. sit down and the guy comes over and he goes, what do you want? And our boss goes, let's get like 30 wings for us to split. So very much like a casual commuter order, right? Sure. Yeah. So then the boss goes, I'll take a beer. Matt, what do you want?

And I was like, Diet Coke. And then Myron goes, what kind of vodka do you have? And the guy was like, I don't know, man, vodka. And he goes, all right, I'd like a vodka and sprits. but make it like three, four sprits, and then put a splash of cream. He was using force, Shannon. He was using force in a, like, this would be like using force, again, like at 10 root. Like, you know what I mean?

Force. Yeah. Who breaks things into force for drinks? Apparently, my boss was like, you could see my boss was like, okay, so this dude's a diva, right? Like if he's down to fourths in a drink, I kept saying to Meyer and I was like, that was a really poor decision. And he was like, well, that's just how I like it.

I feel like when you're in a certain kind of place, you just have to say, give me a vodka and tonic, and that's it. 100%. Yeah. I mean, if you're breaking it down like that, if I'm the server, I'm going to go, okay, you go behind the bar. You make it yourself at that point. Exactly.

Especially when the other guy had just said beer. Yeah. And I just said Diet Coke. I feel like there were too many fourths. And it made us look like we were like, you know, Stephen A. You're going to keep that in mind, though, when you start cooking, though, because sometimes they come in thirds and fourths. I don't have those cups.

I'll have to get them. The other thing from the weekend, during my postgame show, Ryan, I watched Arkansas. Yes. Yep. All right. I'm trying to hear I had to say this nicely. Just say it.

Well, you know, I just watched Kentucky play, right? So I just seen the free flowing. And when I watched Arkansas, I felt like I was going back in time. Baylor went into a zone. and Arkansas looked like they had seen a walking dinosaur down the streets of Chicago. They had no idea what to do. No idea.

They would just stand around, pass the ball, and then throw up a three. At one point, they were 0 for 10 from 3 to start the game. Baylor got up 10. At one point, Arkansas tied it, but then Baylor got it. got up eight and Baylor ended up winning. Arkansas made a little late comeback, but Baylor still ended up winning. After the game, John Caliperi said, don't blame the players. We haven't worked on Zone yet.

Where have we heard that before? Every season. Every season. He said, these are just kids. They're not machines. And I felt like I was watching the last six or seven years of my. basketball life flashed right before me. For all the people, like myself, who said maybe he'll use going to Arkansas as a chance to change,

forget it. Cow is still cow. They've got some good players. Boogie Flan is good. Wagner's good. By the way, I found out we've said Thierro's name wrong all these years. Did you know that? I heard it on the broadcast.

They pronounced it different. Apparently he's now theater. Zero. Zero. He's the hero. By the way, Cal coached his dad for four years and him for two years and has been pronouncing his name wrong the entire time. Apparently it's Thero.

That's what they said. It's not Thierro. We've been saying that wrong for years. But he played great. I think he had 24 points. 24. But besides him, they were awful. They were awful.

Jonas A-Doo, who came from Tennessee, who was great at Tennessee. He played eight minutes. Hardly played. Eight minutes. They don't even put him in. I just sat there and thought, respectfully to Cal, thank goodness that change ended up being made. The crazy thing is we just watched Kentucky efficient offense, execution, running plays, and then the next game you watch is Arkansas, and it's the same stuff.

It's like for the Groundhog Day. No execution, no offensive set plays, struggling on the offensive end, struggling to score points. It was. It was a deja vu all over again. I'm not just saying this. They looked absolutely flummoxed when it came to the zone. Just looked like they'd never seen one before. I counted five possessions and five plays and six possessions

where the ball did not go inside the three point line once. It was literally deja vu watching them play. Who's up next? Mark. Mark, go ahead, Mark. Hey, how are y'all doing? I'm doing great. So just excited about the game tomorrow night, but I do have a good story to tell you.

My dog went missing last December 1st, and we were reunited on Wednesday. Wait a minute. So he's been missing for almost 10 months, and how did you get reunited? Okay, so I saw a post on Facebook. friends of lost dogs at Davis County and they had pictures of her and she was a hot mess. She was matted. She's a Shih Tzu. So, you know, their hair grows fast.

She had not been groomed for almost a year. And she had, she was covered in, you know what she was covered in. And a friend of mine that I work with, he saw this lost dog. in the middle of the road, called her over to him, and got her to get out of the road, went to get things to pick her up with, and, you know, take her somewhere. And when he got back from his car, she was gone. In the meantime, a lady found her that used to volunteer at the Davis County Animal Shelter, and she called her friend.

Okay, so you ended up back with it. So that's, so that has to be like, I'm sure. you had thought like it was gone forever, right? Yeah, I still followed, you know, those sites and things, and we had gone out a couple times to the animal shelter to look at dogs. They had found, had friends that shared stuff with me. But, yeah, we thought Callie was gone, you know, forever. I never felt like she was dead.

I just thought somebody had taken her in was taking care of her. Well, well, congratulations. That's got to be very happy. I hope you should buy both those people that saw your dog a meal of thank you. And congratulations. I know it's got to make you happy. Okay. Thank you so much.

That's a cool. I love those stories when the dogs. I didn't know there. Think about there's a Facebook page called Lost Dogs of Davis County. Davis County, yeah. I've got a specific Facebook page. Is there one of those in every county? I don't know about every county, but they're out there.

I've got somebody's cat I've been feeding for the last two or three months. So somebody out there is having the same situation that this guy does because this cat has a car. You just have somebody's cat? The cat just showed up at our front door and it hasn't left in a couple of months now. You got to post it on lost cats of Bullitt County. No, we have. We have posted, but nobody responds. So, yeah, we keep.

You posted online. I bet you post it on Twitter or somebody will know. Yeah, we posted it on like the Bullitt County lost pets. Nobody's responded. Put it on Twitter. Yeah. If somebody in Bullitt County's lost a cat, Shannon's stolen. Somebody in my house keeps feeding this cat.

That's why it keeps coming back. It hasn't left. Wow. Well, Shannon has someone's cat and posted online. Maybe somebody, maybe you'll, maybe you do a good deed. This has been sponsored by Pelican Technologies. Pelican helps solve the problems you have by showing any kind of loss in productivity or to remove efficiency due to problems with document loss.

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One person writes, Matt, don't forget Cal also said in the press conference against Baylor, you don't have to make all of them, you just can't miss all of them. Yes, he did, right. He did say that. Another Calism. You can't, you don't have to make all of them. You just can't miss all of them. I found myself when I was watching the game.

I mean, I was really pulling for a do and DJ and Big Z didn't play a whole lot. But I mean, I don't know. I may be like a lot of other people. We're going to pull for those guys, but I didn't want him to win. So you do pull for those guys. I did. I was wanting them to both to play really. And even I found myself pulling for Boogie Flan because he's a good player.

I don't know. How are you rooting for them to lose? How's he rooting for him to lose, Shan? If he's rooting for every player to play good. It's a good question. I don't know how that works. How are they supposed to lose if everybody plays well? You know, the other guys on the team have to play really bad.

So you're rooting for the other guys to play terrible. Yes. You just really hate Carter Knox? Carter Knox. What, Billy Richmond? I mean, there's so many of these names. Carter Knox is Kevin Knox's brother. Yes.

Doesn't that make you want him to do well? I do. I want the guy that have a Kentucky connection. So now he wants everyone to do well, Shannon. Now he's up to, so he's up to, he's on. He already wants a dude Z Wagner. Now he wants Flan to do well and Carter Knox. So, Shannon, who's left?

Yeah, I mean, just admit that you're wearing an Arkansas hoodie right now, Ryan. You're pulling for the Razorbacks. I mean, I don't understand how you think they're going to play badly, how they're going to lose if all of those guys play well. Well, because the other guys have to play really, really bad. Like who? So the guys that don't play. The guys that don't get in?

Who are you talking about? A-Doo, and his nine minutes has got to be really, really bad. So you want him to be really bad in those. nine minutes. There's a couple of dudes that they played yesterday. I didn't even know who they were. A dude comes in and he just boos the crap out of him, Shannon. He's like, oh. So when we play Arkansas,

you can't be pulling for these other guys. You can't. Listen, I thought it was neat when Thiro, I got to get used to calling him Thero. When Thero scored, but like I still wanted them to lose and I wasn't going, okay, I hope all of you play well.

I don't know how you're going to be able to pull that off. I did think that Scott Drew proved why Mitch Barnhart was desperately trying to get him to start with because the guy can coach. He out coach Cal that whole game. They got their butt kick, though, against Gonzaga, right? Yeah. By 40.

Yeah. By 40. Yeah. They lost by 40. So, I mean, it'll be interesting to see. I don't know. I don't know. Arkansas has a chance to be bad.

Just throwing that out there. Because they, Boogie Flan is the only dude they have who's like an elite, elite player. And, you know, they're not going to be adjusting at all, as we saw against Baylor. Who's up next? Lee. Lee, what's up, Lee? Good. Good.

Hey, man, how you doing? Doing good. Hey, listen, Cal's still working on his in-bounds play, too, and I won't argue so to lose every game they play. All right, I've got a couple quick comments, and then I've got an over and under. I'd like to ask you all to comment on. First thing is, I was rocking in. I was rocking in rich. Richmond in 1974 through 78 on Thursday night, and it was wild, believe.

Yeah, well, these days I'm going to tell that Richmond story, Ryan. I don't know what it's going to be, but one day, but go ahead. All right. And then I've got two trash talkers. They're six foot and under. Jay Shadler was one. And one of y'all that y'all know about is Travis Ford was the other in high school. He was a real trash talker.

Yeah, Travis is a good one. Travis was a trash talker. He was quieter at Kentucky than he was at Missouri and then he was as a coach. But he certainly was a trash talk. He was in high school too. I think Kentucky beat Duke by five. And then my last,

my over and under question, over and under, 11 wins by Louisville. They'll go over that. They'll go over that. They'll, they'll be, yeah, yeah, They'll be a bubble team for the tournament. I don't think they're awful.

I mean, Tennessee is good. I think it gave them a humbling, and I appreciate the call. I think they got a humbling, but the ACC, first of all, the ACC is not great. You know, I was talking about this the other day on ESPN, but the ACC is not the ACC that we think of. I mean, get past Ryan Duke in North Carolina and give me a good. good team in the ACC this year. Yeah, recently it's been in Miami, but they're not very good anymore. And if you look at Louisville's schedule, I want you to go look at Louisville's schedule.

They play six top 25 teams in the next six weeks. But then, Shannon, they don't play another one all year. Yeah. So they don't, so they have a really hard start to the schedule. They play us, play Indiana, play Ole Miss, somebody out of Michigan or somebody. And then they play Duke and Carolina are like two of their first three ACC games. But then they don't play them again. And then everybody else they play is not very good.

So I think they're going to start the season like they might be like four and eight. But then or five and eight or whatever. But then they actually could finish the season pretty good because of the way. Yeah, I think they'll rally. I mean, you're right with the ACC being what it is. they'll probably be right there at the end of the year on a, you know, maybe last four team out or something like that. Yeah, I think that's where they're going to be. They're going to be.

I think Pat Kelsey is a good coach. I just don't think they have, to be honest with any players. I don't think they have guys that are very good. But the ACC stinks. The best two conferences in basketball by far now are the Big 12 in SEC. The new Big 12 is a grand. basketball conference with Houston, Baylor, Arizona, Kansas. That's a really good, BYU, Cincinnati.

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Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio. 859-280-22. somebody just sent me this stat just came out. Shannon from the website, lawn love, lawn love, L-A-W-N. I don't know what that is. I don't know. With no knowledge of long love, I guess it could be a place that you learn how to like take care of your lawn. Okay.

It could also be a place to like learn how to have love on your lawn. I wouldn't want it in my search history regardless. But Long Love ranked the best states in America. to have a hobby farm. Do you know what a hobby farm is? Like a garden in your backyard? Yeah, it's like a guard, like not a professional farm,

but like a farm for like a backyard chicken coop or a vegetable garden. And Kentucky is ranked number one. Nice. As the best state because of large backyards, farm veterinarians, and very few restrictions by law for hobby farming. Also, Kentucky has,

fewer bird flu cases than any state in America. Did you know that? No. Didn't know that. Learn something every day. So as we were talking about hobbies, I said I wasn't going to do a garden, but it turns out, Ryan, I live in the best state for a garden in America, which I did not know that I did. So they're saying not just raising plants as in a garden, but also animals?

I think so. It says a chicken coop. So that's an animal. So I would think so. Yeah. So there we go. So Hobby Farms, according to Lawn Love, this is the best place to do it. Another positive Kentucky thing, Shannon, John Oliver on HBO, used Lexington last night as an example in his show of a city that is the best for all types of people to live in.

It basically has one of the most diverse types of populations that gets along in the United States. How about that? Yeah, Lexington is a great place. I mean, I don't live there like you guys do, but it's definitely diversified as he stopped. But like saying, like you could be, his point was you could be liberal, you could be conservative, you could be anything in Lexington and still have a good life, which he said we're getting away from in other parts.

Ryan, I thought that was neat for Lexington, right? I don't think Lexington gets enough credit for that. So yeah, glad to see him kind of recognize that we are a very diverse city that it's very proud of what we are in Lexington. So we can be proud of who ourselves is, according to that. 772-7745-254. One person writes, Matt, you all always say that Mark Pope hasn't done anything incorrect. If you had to pick one thing that you wish Mark Pope had done differently,

going into this Duke game and his tenure, what would it be? Wow, I mean, you really would be nitpicking here. what is something that you think Mark Pope could have done differently? I know what some of our fans are going to say. What's that? Play the Kentucky guys more. Okay. Yeah, there are fans who would say that.

Yeah. That's probably right. Okay, so that's an answer. You know, man, I don't know. Like, I don't know. I'm somebody who tries to be like, look at both sides. I can't think of what the anti-Pop. hope argument would even be.

Ryan, can you think of something? Well, personally, I wish he would have used me as his realtor. That would have been a nice paycheck. That's just selfish for you. But in terms of the fan base, in terms of the fan base, in terms of the fan base. The only thing I can think of, I know there was just a little pushback that some of the guys he hired on his staff, maybe should have hired some other guys on his staff that were Kentucky connected.

What's that about, though? I mean, like, those, yeah, I mean, I don't buy that at all. I think the whole hiring because he went to UK is a good way for people who don't get jobs elsewhere to want a job. I'm just being real. Yeah. I mean, name me a great assistant out there that we don't have that's from Kentucky that we think Mark Pope should hire. Most people want him to hire. I mean, Tyler U.S. he tried to hire.

Yeah. He tried. Tyler went to Arkansas. But a lot of times. people want him to just hire somebody that's not even in coaching to come do it. And why would you do that? You want to have the best staff in the country? You go get the best staff in the country.

You don't just get guys who are like looking to break into the business. That's what Eastern's full. You know, I don't know. Maybe you would say like bring back camp out. But I don't know, man. I think he's done again, I'm saying all this. because if we lose by 25 to Duke, Shannon, none of this will matter anyway, right? You have a different game to say.

But I think going into that Duke game, I'm not sure what else at this point he could have done. Who's next? Call 518 from Bob and Jamestown. Bob and Jamestown, we have a question for you, Bob. The last time you were on the show was call 513. Shannon says that this is called 518, which means you've called five times Bob. when we're not on the air. So when are you calling?

I don't know, Matt. Well, we certainly don't know. I mean, the computer, but the computer says that you have called five times just like when we're not on the air. So like, do you call it night? No, no. You call when you're on the show.

You call coaches shows, maybe. Oh, so coaches' shows. That might be what it is. Do you call the coaches show? Bob or the pregame show? Yeah. There you go. Okay.

That's what it is. We solved it. That solves the problem. All right, what do you got, Bob? The Reds rolled out the literal red carpet honoring Pete Rose yesterday. I didn't see it. But anyway, this is a very well. This is what you get.

I feel like 517 would have been connected. Yeah. Are you out on the lake, Bob? Where are you? I'm looking out at the lake. It's a beautiful day down here today. It's a good day to be on the lake. Anyway, what's going to happen with Duke?

You're breaking up. All right, I appreciate it, Bob. I don't know how you got from, we missed the connection from the Reds to Duke. So what do we think is going to happen? I mean, we're going to pick the game tomorrow. Ryan, I think I'm starting to convince myself we're going to win. I was ready to pick like a five to seven point loss. I think I'm now going to pick us to win the game, Ryan.

I'm starting to feel confident. How can you not be excited about what you've seen from this Kentucky team? I mean, they're just, they're fun to watch. They score a lot of points. Many, many guys can score. You know, I don't have to rely on just a couple guys. The big thing, they've got a big point guard, and they've got a big Cooper flag. So can we contain those two guys?

That'll be probably the key to the game. Yeah, who's going to guard Cooper flag is an issue. And I think that'll be, there aren't a lot of dudes like him in college basketball. So I don't, but, you know, that's going to be a problem for us. Who guards, who guards Cooper Flagg. But beyond that, I don't know. Shannon, I feel like, I don't feel like there's any way we don't score in this game. Yeah.

You know. Well, I mean, I feel good at least knowing that we're going to go in and have a game plan. It's not going to be, let's just throw some things out there and see what sticks. You know that Mark Pope has looked. at every, you know, side of analytics that you could look at going into this game. So I feel like regardless of the outcome, we're going to be prepared. So I'm not too concerned about the game. And I also know he is going to take this game seriously.

Oh, yes. This is a game he wants to win. This is not just a test to see where we are and to like get the young guys experience. Mark Pope wants to win this game. He cares about winning this game like, We do. Yes. That, to me, is very exciting.

It's very exciting to think that there's a guy who wants in his soul to beat Duke as much as I want us to beat Duke. And that is going to be refreshing, that it's going to be a November game where we play like it's a March game. Yeah, like Shannon said, they're going to be ready if Duke throws a zone at him. Okay, this Kentucky team will be ready for anything that Duke throws at him. who's next let's go to Shane Shane how are you Shane

I'm doing great so I started listing you right when Cal that whole cow situation got fired and everything well yeah I went to Hart's off so this would make this great I started a new job bartending downtown Dallas

and I knew Baylor was in town so I didn't wear my TCU hoodie and I just grabbed his blue hoodie from my old school I was coaching that well, it was a UK. Right when I walk in the door, the first two people I see is Kenny Payne and John Cow.

And it was a UK. And Cal looked at me. Kenny looked and just pushed Cal along. And I was like, this is too funny to be true. Wait a minute, when you say you walked into where? Where did it to the game or to somewhere else? Hotel, excuse me, hotel. So you were in the Arkansas Hotel and you had a UK hoodie on?

UK hoodie on Wow sweet I got I gotta say I mean I know it's petty I guess but I do kind of like it I'm not going to like and you weren't doing it intentionally it just kind of happened just kind of happened

and the only thing I wanted to say was go big blue but I'm not going to give it to him you like yeah that's probably yeah you shouldn't like be in his face go big blue I think that's fair I think you handled it right you're going to be my whiskey theme call the day. I appreciate to call. Yeah, I don't think you should be like in his face.

I think that's a little much. He doesn't deserve that. But, you know, having the U.K. shirt is not the worst thing in the world. I ended up, Shannon, I had tickets offered to me for Tennessee, Louisville. Yeah. And I almost went. But then I was like, I don't know what I do. I can't cheer for either one of them. It'd be fun just to be there. But you had other things going on too, though, right? It was over. I needed to get to Chicago. go in time to do the post game show. So I didn't think it was going to work out. I mean, if you need a Louisville ticket,

I don't think they'll be that hard to get this year. I mean, you have to go out and begging people. That's true. If you share food with family and friends during the holidays, it helps you make great memories and great gifts. So get locally grown dry-age beef for your family, friends, and coworkers. It's Noce Linda Farms. If you're in Dallas like that guy,

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So if Miami loses tonight, the state of Florida will be 0 and 12. And as far as they can tell, that's the worst weekend of football any state has ever had in the history of pro and college football. Wow. I mean, think about that. Of all the teams and all the years, the worst ever. worst ever none of them will have won and only one team Florida International didn't play so you have a chance to bait they didn't play but otherwise it would be Ryan

a clean sweep of awful for the state that produces the most football players outside of Texas in the entire country yeah because Florida got destroyed by Texas Florida State is really bad Jacksonville's not really that good

that's crazy they could be 0 and 12 if the dolphins lose tonight. I was going to see if he could name all of them, Shannon, you know, when he started out there. I was going to see. Let's see how many can get. Okay. How many of the 12 can you get?

I will go with the three I just said. Florida, Florida State, Jacksonville, Florida International. Florida, well, I just said they didn't play. All right. So who else? Florida Atlantic. Central Florida. South Florida.

Six. Six. But we'll be another one. Stetson? Did they have a football team? I don't know if Stetson's one of them. I mean, I guess Shannon, it could be. Could be, yeah.

I'll have to see if they play. I actually don't have the list. I don't have any more. So you had Jacksonville. What about the other team in the NFL? Well, the Dolphins, they said they played a night. I know, but there's another one. Oh, there's another one.

Miami Dolphine. Your parents lived in that city. Oh, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That's right. Well done. You got seven. That was pretty good, I guess. So that was basketball and football, right?

No, it was just football. Just football. There's seven. I don't know what the other ones are in football. Is Florida basketball? Maybe I'm wrong. Yeah, I know. It's just football.

They lost. I do not know off the top of my head what the other ones. were. Do you, are you like me, Shannon, that you will believe Kansas City is going to win for eternity? Yeah. I mean, they basically 35-yard field goal to beat them and then they go and block it. Yeah. I feel like there's just, maybe it's the Taylor Swift effect. I don't know what it is. I mean, obviously they've got great players. How do they win these games? It's unbelievable. Dan Orlovsky, though, showed you should look up this video, my former radio co-host, Dan Arlofsky. So as they were, so they kick field goals during the game. Go,

Watch the, there were four field goals by Denver. On the first field goal, this dude that's like the left guard, Shannon, they hit him on the field goal and he goes flying back. And Orlovsky said all of a sudden the chiefs are like, oh, maybe there's something here. The next time they line two guys against that guy and they knock him back again, and he goes flying back. And Orlovsky was like, then they see this guy may be a weak link. The next play, they line three guys on him.

All right. And they get through. They don't block it, but they get through and they come close. And then the next time they line three guys again, and this time they get through and block the kick. They were like the special teams coach of the chiefs, whoever it is, on the first kick, noticed that whoever was playing left guard for Denver on those special teams for whatever reason was weak. And they exploited it. And then Ryan, it ended up leading to the block kick at the end. That's coaching right there, right? I don't know who noticed it. but they found it and that's what ended up leading to the block. Max Duffy is so proud of you right now. I'm talking about special teams coaches and how special teams to change the game.

But, I mean, I watched Dan's video and he showed and it was the same guy in every video. He just keeps getting blown up every time. And then when they block the kick, it's because they came through him yet again the next time. They were just chipping away all throughout the game and then got to the end and it paid off finally. And it paid off and they end up blocking the final kick. Who's next? Davis. Davis.

Go ahead, Davis. How's the going, Matt? Doing good. Looking forward to this Duke game. It kind of makes me think of the Tennessee game at Tennessee last year when Dalton Connect went off for 40 points and made 100 threes. Yeah. I'm not really that scared of Cooper Flagg because, I mean, he's just going to do his thing

anyways. So I just feel like we need to focus on their other players. But Dalton Connect was 22 years old, right? He was one of the national players. of the year. He was at home. He was in that environment. I feel like this is different. This, you know, we talk about for us, this is Cooper Flagg's first big stage as well. Yeah. But like people are saying like he's the biggest high school recruits in Zion. And I just, they're not, they're not giving enough flowers to the other Duke players.

And that's like, I don't want us to overlook their other players and only focus on Cooper. Like we should just, I'm not. sure who's going to defend him right now. I guess Amari Williams could play the first couple minutes against him and see how that works. But I'm also excited to see how Kerr plays against Duke because he showed so much passion against Bucknell. But I mean, we'll see. Well, let me say, I agree with you. I appreciate the call. They've got a lot of good players. They're good. And we're going to have to play really well. But I like the fact that Kentucky's going to be the one that's the underdog.

The whole coverage for ESPN's going to be about Cooper Flag. So just so you know, don't get worked up. ESPN's going to be promoting Duke and Flag the whole time. They got their whole season riding on promoting him. But if we can go in and win, we get to be in the role of the underdog, something we've almost never gotten to do, we get to do this time. Go to Dom Franklin Auto, if you need a vehicle and a great selection, great service, great prices.

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