KSR - 2024-12-10- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: December 10, 2024

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Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. It is hour number two here on Kentucky Sports Radio. KS. Bar is open and ready to rock here. It's on a rainy day on Tuesday. Unfortunately, the rain is kind of nasty, but that's the way it goes. 859-2-80-2287.

Tax machine is 772-774-5-254. Guys, a lot of stuff going out around the world of sports. The A.J. DeBonsa, apparently, his NIL deal drew between $5 and $6 million a year to go to BYU. I think that's a lot of money, don't you? Yeah, the money has been the story around him for a while now. He's one of those kind of generational talents. We don't see come through the high school ranks very often. His number was reported very early as very high,

and BYU is quick to get in the conversation and say they'll pay it. So, I mean, their coach is from the NBA, coach Kevin Durant a little bit. That's how he ended up in Utah, I guess. Yeah, still. It's a lot of money, Ryan, don't you think? That's a lot of money, absolutely. I guess, you know, Pope probably mad when he was at BYU. Where was this money when I was at BYU?

He leaves and they get all this NIL money. You know what? I'm fine with it. It got us here if he'd had all the NIL money. Maybe so. He may not have come here, right? What's the minimum contract in the NBA at the moment? Because he's got to be earning, what, two or three times some of the players in the NBA?

Oh, I think you wouldn't get five or six million dollars unless you were a top five to six pick. I saw that because the other day when Michigan signed that quarterback, it was supposedly $10 million or something, they had all the graphic of people, like, quarterbacks in the NFL that weren't even making $10 million. It's crazy. I'm just glad he's out there. I mean, he is going to be very good and barring a random run-in. I mean, Alabama, Kansas, and Carolina, three teams will likely play over the course of, well, I guess he's a one and done. But, I mean, at least he stays out west and away from us.

All right, let's talk about UK football for a second. 19 players have entered the transfer portal. That's a lot. It's the third most of any team in the country. It's looking like that'll be, if that's not it, that'll be almost it. Here's the way I'm going to just kind of big picture look at it because I think a lot of people can get overwhelmed this time of year, especially in football as to what's going on and who's what.

I think if you asked the UK coaches and you put them on a lie detector and said, who did you lose that you wanted to keep? I think there's no doubt they wanted to keep Dane Kee. I think they were disappointed that Dane left. I think I can say with some confidence they were a little surprised that he decided to transfer and not go to the draft. So I think that is a disappointment. There are some people who would like to have seen Kishan Silver stay,

but then there's other people who are like, you know what, production wasn't great. We can do the same and cost less money because he's going to go for a lot of money in the portal. And I think they were like, you know what, we can replace that and it'll be a lot cheaper. But those are two guys that I think if you asked them, they'd have said would have been nice to have. I think of what I've seen, the other 16 or 17 that went, I don't think they're going to cry necessarily about any of them. There was a couple guys making a significant amount of money. Chip Trey and him. Anthony Brown Stevens, we talked about it.

I don't think people realize how much of money he was getting in the portal. Barry and Brown, I think some of those guys, I don't think they look at as a big loss. Now, they also have to knock it out of the park in the portal themselves. The problem is a lot of the guys on good teams are not going to be in the portal until after their bowl game or if they're in the playoffs until after the playoffs. So a lot of the guys you're hearing associated with now are on teams that were either not very good

or mid-major teams. I think there's one guy, Kentucky's almost certainly to get the linebacker from Marshall and I think he'll play here next year and be pretty good. But it's going to be a wild circus. I expect Kentucky to take 15 guys, 10 to 15 guys in the portal.

So, Ryan, I mean, this is going to be a long process. and the reality is we're not going to really know if this team is very good, maybe until they play next year. There's also the quarterback position. With Gavin Wimsick going, Kentucky's going to go get somebody in the portal. I mean, they just are. And are they going to get somebody to try to start? I don't know.

What do you think? It stinks when you lose some of these guys in the transfer portal? Absolutely. I was kind of happy they were able to keep Cutter, Wilcox, Patterson, You know, some of the younger players, Willie Rodriguez, you know, you got to re-recruit those guys as well as go to recruit players coming in the game for a portal. They got him back. That was a surprise for me, actually.

Yeah, I think that was a big surprise. I think they got Macklin because Berion and Dane left, and I think Macklin now thinks probably Drew he'll be the number one guy next year. He's the top guy now. I mean, everybody knows they needed a culture change. They needed to overhaul the roster. You had to see 20-something guys go just to make room to go to the portal. They didn't have that many open spots within the season ended

because the scholarships didn't go up like they thought it might have. They have the signing class that they just added last Wednesday. They needed 19 people to go and maybe even a few more so they can go shopping for immediate needs. As far as coaching, I think you will, unless somebody comes and steals a guy, I don't think you're going to see another change. I think personally there should have been a couple changes. Doesn't look like that's going to happen.

I mean, there's run, I mean, here's the deal. Mark Stoops is putting his entire legacy at Kentucky on the line next year. He can't have another bad year. If he has another bad year, if you're Mitch Barnhart, there comes a point. If he has another bad year, you can't do it again. As I've talked about many times, the future of college football starts the next year. And you can't go into it with a coach that's coming off back-to-back three-four-win season. He's putting his whole legacy on the line for next year.

He's all in, and it'll be up to him to see if he can make a better team with a tougher schedule, in my opinion. Yeah, I'm not completely against just having some consistency at the coordinated positions and the coaching positions. I think after a while, you can't just keep turning guys over and starting to fresh. It's good to have some consistency. Maybe we see some improvement. Obviously we needed to get rid of a bunch of players because we went four and eight. The other thing that I would say for people that are following and tracking it, don't be disappointed if we go and get a player from Western Kentucky or Murray State,

or, well, maybe Murray State might be disappointed, just somewhere else. Because it doesn't really work when we've seen when you go get Florida's backup, Tennessee's backup, because they're getting rid of them for a reason. If they have any value, they would keep them. I think we kind of do need to go to those lower levels and get the stars in those places. It's an interesting point you made. I think we've kind of all taken the view of, yeah, let's go get Ohio State's back. I mean, I was like this.

Ohio State's backup, Georgia's backup. It hasn't really worked, to be honest. Where we've done well was we took an Old Miss starter. Remember the linebacker? We took a Mississippi State starter. We took a Mandy with Ray Davis starter. Yeah, a Vandy starter. I kind of wonder if that's the way to go.

now is actually go get guys that have performed, maybe not at this level, and just say, okay, let's do that here, rather than say, well, he didn't play at Ohio State, so maybe it'll work out here. I think there's some validity into that argument, to be honest. You know, Zion Childress guy that they brought in, and Macklin was a starter at North Texas, and I think he still could be a really, really good player here, just didn't get the targets all this all season. I mean, there's no better example than our head basketball coach right now.

I know he's not a player, but we, when in the first. first started unpopular, maybe people like, how can this guy do it? We should have gone and got a big name. That's worked out pretty well. And most of his players, I mean, we look at our roster right now. I mean, with the exception of Jackson Robinson, who was kind of well known at a kind of good school in BYU, we took a bunch of dudes that none of y'all had seen play, right?

And it's kind of worked out. Yeah, and it's different case by case, but just generally speaking, Maybe these guys coming from North Texas that are taking a step up, they have a hunger where some of these guys we've taken from Tennessee, Florida, they're kind of double dipping on the portal a little bit. They already got a big bag once. They go to the portal trying to get that again. And I just wonder if the motivation is the same for each guy where you've got a kid still climbing and making the most out of his career where another one's just bouncing around and getting money. I will say some things that I had a long conversation on Friday where I got a sense of kind of where things are behind. the scenes. I think they feel like they have the money to compete in the portal this year.

I'm not sure what changed, to be honest with you about that. I'm not sure how all of a sudden that has become something that's not a worry, but I was told definitively, we've got the resources to go get guys. That's good. I think the staff has finally sort of come to the realization that they let the culture slip. And they're, I think, determined to fix it. Whether it'll work or not, I don't know. But I finally got a, I finally felt like I got a realization from them. Yeah, we let this thing slip.

You know, I have invited Mark Stubbs to come on the show. He says he will. I think he has to have like some sort of medical issue, like, not a serious one, but a medical procedure done this week. And so I think it'll be after that. But I sort of said, I think Mark should come on, and I'm going to be, I'm going to ask the hard questions, and he said he would do that.

I think that's good. And now, I mean, like, it's up to him. He's going to have to win the fan base back. I think the fan base, he's lost a lot of them. We'll see what happens now. Honestly, it's good. As a fan sitting here here, you say that, that they understand that maybe they did have some slippage in the culture and the way

they ran the program, you know, some self-reflection, sometimes the best. And so if they're able to identify that. We may look at the mincy going and getting food at the concession stand as a big moment. I mean, we may look at that as a, I mean, you can't argue that, right? Like, there's no arguing around, well, you know, when you hear a story behind the scenes, Drew, somebody can just go, ah, that's not exactly true. have a video of a player in a uniform going and getting food during a game. Ain't much you can argue about that.

Not at all. That went very, very, very viral. Unfortunately for Stoops, though, I mean, a good interview would help, but overall, I don't know what he can do to win it back until they play football again. I agree. Because we all thought they had a great portal class last year. Now, with Chip, that was injury, Brock got banged up, but it just didn't turn out to be what anyone thought it was on paper.

So even if they go out and get some big names, is anyone going to be that enthusiastic until they actually see what it looks like? Probably not. Two things. First, I've loved that they've gone, hey, we need to go out and actually assess these guys' character before we bring them in, rather than just going most talented. Second thing, I hadn't heard about that, Matt. So, Mark, best of luck with the hair transplant surgery going on in Turkey.

It'll be a long flight to Turkey, but I hope it goes well. That was Max. Yeah, that was Max Duffy, and I don't think that's the procedure. People will think that's... Can I'm going to ask you one more question. People will think you're being serious about that. But go ahead. Were you surprised that they are not going to make coaching changes?

I mean, I don't know about surprise. I think it's a mistake. I mean, I think, you know, I think this is a hard sell. I don't know how you look at these fans and say, we're running it back. Everybody ready? You know, I think that's hard. But, like, it's their sell to make, not mine. You know, there is a sense.

I remember I said this about Cal, there's a sense where if you're going to go down, you should go down with the dudes you believe. But then if you go down, it's on you, right? Like if they don't perform, guess what? You will pay the price. And so we'll find out next year. I will say this. I'm fine with Stoops coming back.

I think it was the only choice you K have. I get a sense that there's some renewed energy from him. That's good. That's good to hear. But if we have another year like next year, if we have another year next year like we had last year, we're going to have to make a change because the 20, 25, 2026 off season.

So after next year, college sports as we know it will change. And if we're not in a position to amp that up, we got to go in a different direction. Or else we'll get behind and we might never come back. And so I'm okay with another year, but, you know, save this clip if you want, can't have another year like that. If we do, then we're going to have to do something else, which is the way I look at it. I also look at Pelican technology. Oh, yeah.

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Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back, Tughey Sports Radio. One person writes on Text Machine, Matt, we're thinking about giving up our tickets next year. Do you think we should? Well, I mean, that's up to you. I don't know what the money means to you and your family, but assuming you can afford it financially, I would do it. You'll wish you did. I mean, we got Texas coming in.

We got Tennessee coming in. We got Florida coming in. Got Ole Miss coming in. That's a good schedule. I would say keep them. But then again, I don't know what these tickets mean to your family financially, so that might be different. during the Louisville game, I went out at halftime when everybody was leaving, I was interviewing them,

and a lot of season ticket holders were livid with how things have gone, but then they added the caveat, I've had these tickets for 30 years. I can't just split up with them. My dad had them, my grandfather, you know, things like that. So there's a lot of tradition involved for Kentucky football fans. Could I potentially throw out one bit of advice for the Kentucky football staff? Is that fine?

No, if you would like to, yeah. There's a witchcraft place that has an amazing track record. It does. Go there. One and up. Buy the candle, buy the soap. It touched Ryan's head. Can I tell you another great Ryan moment on the trip?

You know, we bought two things. We bought a candle and we bought incense. We were going to save the incense for a future thing we needed to cast away. Ryan kept it in his coat pocket, which was nice because we didn't know when we were going to use it. But we were about to go out to eat or something like that. Walk into for lunch. We're going to walk to lunch. and Ryan had it in his pocket,

and he said, I don't want to take this, as if he would be arrested for having incense on him. And I said, well, hey, just set it right there on the step, and we'll get it when we come back. And for reasons that only Ryan Lemon knows,

he took the incense and just put it in a pool of water. To where it will... Consistent. Not being consistent. To where it will never work, ever. and so I'll just know it was a stupid thing to buy, but it was $15. You just took $15 amount and just threw it away. So thank you.

Yeah, it was a flower bed and the water was still. I didn't realize it was water until I touched it and then it was too late when I put it in there. He saw the water, Shannon. But as with everything, he doesn't believe what it is until he touches it. And at that point he had already thrown the incense into the wall. So that means he knew what he was doing, first of all. So that means only half the curse has been broken. Yeah.

Well, I think we got the basketball curse. She said you got to do both of them. So, yeah, I think Mark Stoops, you know, maybe go to the witchcraft place there in Denver and see what you could do. Who's up next? Let's go to Don. Don. How are you, Don? Hey, I'm fine, guys.

Appreciate you taking the call. Happy holidays. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays to you. Yeah, I was just curious about the, you getting back to the basketball. schedule again. Did Coach Pope have any input on this year's schedule or was that a yeah, none he might have helped. Yeah, I don't think the schedule would have been done. He might have helped with one or two of the stinky team games, but the major games were already situated.

And honestly, most of the major games for next year are already situated too. I think you'll start, excuse me, to see Pope's imprint on the schedule the year after that. Copy that. Appreciate it, guys. I think you'll see, like, for instance, excuse me, I think you'll see Pope games. We still got to finish the Gonzaga series. We start Indiana.

You'll see Pope games after that. Yeah, and then, you know, he's already talked about maybe trying to look at getting out of the CBS Classic. I think that would be one thing to do where maybe he could schedule a home and home. It just ends after next year and they can just not renew it. Yeah, maybe I'd look for him to pick up a home and home series with a power team. Yeah, I mean, next year I believe Drew will play. UCLA, we were talking about this.

I think our schedule next year is Champions Classic versus, is it Kansas or Michigan State? Next year in the Champions Classic would be Michigan State. I don't remember who we played last year. We played Duke. Last year we played, no, we played Kansas the year before because we played Hunter Dickinson, right? Right. So that's right. So we would play Michigan State and the Champions Classic.

We play UCLA in Vegas. So I think we play Vegas next year. And then we will play Gonzaga in Nashville. And I think we play Indiana in Rupp. I think that's the four. Those are the four games. And then Louisville at Louisville. So that's five power games.

If you throw in the ACC, SEC, SEC challenge, I think that's six. We get a home game in that next year. So if you're looking at the schedule next year, you're looking at Vegas against UCLA, Gonzaga and Nashville, champions, classic, I believe, is in Madison Square Garden, and then you've got ACC Challenge here, Louisville on the road, and then Indiana at home. Answer the caller's question. While that's a heck of a schedule.

That's a great. We play five power games this year. That's six next year. Pope had a lot of things that were already in place, but one of the first things he did was scheduled that Western Kentucky game, so that's one I think. Okay, that's one. I think we all know that would have been scheduled before anyway because Cal didn't like those games. But that is one thing Pope added to the schedule that he was able to do.

I also have heard that we will at some point play BYU. I was going to side to. I don't know. It may not be. It probably won't be next year. But I would venture to say when the Gonzaga series ends, you might see a BYU game where we go to Salt Lake one year and they come here. When does the St. John's game happen? It sounded like Petino thinks that won't happen. And again, I think the reason is I think we can't play St. John's,

because of the Indiana series. You know, everybody wants a marquee home game. This is why I didn't want to add Indiana. It sort of locks you in to playing Indiana. Like, that can be your only game because they really only have time on the schedule for one true home and home. And I think we've chosen it for it to be Indiana,

even though that's not who I would have chosen, but I think that's what we're going to get. Now that it's here, Indiana better get better at basketball. This can be a good rivalry if they will just stop sucking. Well, they haven't been good in 25 years, which is why. That's why I didn't want to do them. I mean, like, I'd rather do one of these other teams. You know, the good thing is the ACC Challenge will help us play Duke and Carolina some.

Kansas is in the Champions Classic, so you get them. But I'd love to play a UCon, right, to go play a team like that or Villano. I mean, the fact we're going to get locked into Indiana. But I know for a lot of people it matters. It doesn't matter for me, Ryan, but like for you, does so that's fine that was the old head old head that was the game of the year for a long time i like this kanzagas series that we've got going on right now you know we're playing a high profile team yeah i think that'll end after next year but we are going to play in nashville

in a regular season game in rachelville it's been probably a long time that's going to be awesome sounds like a cowboy hat trip oh the cowboy hat will definitely be on for that one trying to figure out the first time to bring it out when did i get here i'm waiting i was a little disappointed It wasn't. I was expected Abby to hand them to me when I got home, but it hadn't delivered yet. Yeah, I mean, I was ready to maybe wear it for the Colgate game tomorrow. I was going to wear it to the show today. But not, we don't have it yet.

We'll take a break. We come right back. It's KSR. 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.

There we go. Cowboy, baby. 859-280-2287. If it comes in, Colgate's the kind of team you do it, like, it's a break. out, toothpaste, good academic school, Donald Foyle. A lot of reasons to break it out for that one. Could be a cowboy hat game.

I could use some Colgate after that road trip. I still haven't really gotten back to where I need to be. Did anybody watch the Simpsons broadcast last night? Watch a little bit of it. Gave it a chance. I watched a little bit. You didn't like it? Well, you know, I live in a Cowboys household.

I had a big parlay going. I just needed the real broadcast. I gave it a minute or two. Me, the country was funny. And after score, I would go to it and watch how they did. I love that. I mean, it was a cowboy's a couple of. couple minutes behind the real broadcast.

So it was clear that, like, they would know a big place coming and then they would check the Simpsons characters in. So if you watched when Millhouse or when Bart or Homer came in, you knew something big was about to happen. I mean, I may be a child, but when Homer threw the touchdown, I loved it, Bart with a little outrout to Ralph. Ralph had a great guy. Who knew he could tap his toes in bounds like that?

I enjoyed that. Ralph was the big surprise for me. I don't think anyone saw that one coming. You could see Homer as a Ben Rothensberger type, and Bart obviously has some elusiveness about him. But Ralph, who would have thought? My favorite part was how they captured that stupid block punt and the fumble. With all that chaos in the play, they still managed to make it,

you know, you could follow the ball and look like it with the Simpsons there. I enjoyed it. I thought it was a good little side thing, and I like the Simpsons. It's amazing to me that that show was still on the air, 37 years after it debuted, Ryan. I after the Jamar Chase touchdown at the end I flipped over to see how they were going to do it and it was Lisa Lisa was the one that ended up being Jamar Chase and scoring getting the touchdown And by the way Lisa if a lot of you wrote noted the same problem I have with the sticks Did you hear Lisa say it's 2024 and we have all this technology? Why do we still have two dudes with a stick and a chain? I was like

Thank you Lisa I've been saying that for years why do we still do it this way I got to get Lisa on the pregame postgame show for football for now on. That would be great. I don't know the Simpsons characters very well. Who was the Philgo kicker? I enjoyed watching that one, too. When Aubrey kicked one for Dallas. Was it Barney Gumble?

I'm not sure. I didn't watch enough. I didn't know. I didn't know the characters very much. I'd have to look it up. I don't know. Who's up next? David.

David. David, how are you, David? It was Custy to clown, first of all. It was Krusty to clown. There you go. David knew. David knew. So shut up, Max.

Go ahead, David. Yeah, well, first of all, I was going to ask you this about the game on Center. When did you first realize that there's this feeling that they might come back? Did you feel that during the first half? I felt it when Andy Katz was talking my ear off about politics. That was the moment. I was like, oh, we're only down seven. We're only down five.

And I was like, if Andy will stop asking me about this, I think we might actually come back and win. But I have to tell you, in the first half, I was, I mean, I'll be honest. I thought we were going to be embarrassed. I mean, it felt like I was watching two teams of different levels. But then in the second half, I think there was a, when they called time out, we had cut it to like five or six and they called time out. That was the first time I let myself believe, hey, wait a minute. Maybe we'll come back.

Yeah, I had this. I don't know why, but I still had this feeling that we might, if I said it this, If we cut it to at least 12 in the second half, we might have a chance. And I have a question for all three of you guys. It's at time of the year again, so I've got to ask you, what is your favorite Christmas movie? Favorite Christmas movie? I appreciate the call. We usually get this.

Yours is like elf. It starts and ends with elf. Yeah. Yours is usually elf. That's your kind of thing. I'm partial to Christmas vacation. I just enjoy the whole vibe of it, and it makes me laugh every year, so that's probably mine. I like Bad Santa, too, although that's more, not Bad Santa, too, just Bad Santa as well.

I think that one's really funny. Both the Bad Santa's are really good. Where I go down in South Georgia, we, it's not really a Christmas movie for sure, but we watch Lord the Rains extended versions just for a whole day, so that's not my Christmas. That's just a movie. Yeah, that's just a movie. There's no movie, including Forrest Gump, and I have seen more than Christmas vacation.

There have been years we're starting December 1. I'll watch it 25 times. I'll turn it on every single day. I can almost quote it from start to finish. It is by far my favorite. I'm a big Christmas vacation guy. One more, I want to know, because with David's question,

I appreciate the call, David, about believing at halftime. Maybe this is why Mario was like being so optimistic to me after the post-game show. I didn't realize until Sunday that I'd become an object of debate on Facebook about my negativity about basketball. I had no idea why. And part of it was Jack Pilgrim had written a post on KSR the website, which, again, he's allowed to write. By the way, I don't run that website anymore.

I feel like after four years, people would know that, but they still, whatever anyone post, people yell at me about. But then my tweets at halftime, they were like, you're being too negative. And all I was saying is that we were stinking in the first half, which we were. We did. And I was like, what do you people want? And then that led to a long series of posts I saw where people were saying they were going to boycott KSR because we're too negative, while it also at the same time saying they hadn't listened in eight years.

And I was like, well, first of all, you're already boycotting, it sounds like. And secondly, how would you know if you didn't listen? But we as a fan base, this is going to be my helpful hint as a fan base. We got to stop policing how other people are fans. Like this, stop this notion of you're too negative, you're too positive, you're this, you're this, you're that. We all want the team to win, right? And if we want the team to win, some of us do it. Like I said next to Mario in that game.

Mario is universally positive. When we're down 18, he was like, we just need a three here. It'll be fun. Right? Six straight three. Six straight threes, and we got it. We're in this. We got it.

He hit me in the stomach like 10 times going, here we go. There we go. We got this. Well, I don't know if any of you are relentlessly negative, but I have a couple friends that are relentlessly negative. Like, we got no chance. I'm like, we're up 20. We got no chance.

They're going to come back. I kind of lean towards positivity, but like, you don't have to say the whole game, we're awesome. This 18-point lead, it's just a fluke, it's fine. You know, even though we've never come back from this deficit in the history of our program, of course we're going to do it this time. Like, it's okay for people to have different opinions. This idea of this group think, we had it last year with Cal, this notion that you could not be critical of cow or you didn't love Kentucky.

Now you won't find one person to take up for Cal. Now we're doing the same thing. I will remind people of what Mark Pope said to me in his office. He looked at me right in the eye, and he said, if we lose, I want you to rip me. He goes, because the day you stop ripping me, this is not Kentucky basketball. That was his words. I'm sure he would say he said that. If Mark Pope feels like that, then you guys can chill out if people are being a little negative.

And Ryan, I don't even think I'm negative. I love this team. We all have eyes. We saw what was going on in the first half. It looked bad. It looked like there was no coming back. But I love that quote from Pope, you know, because that's what makes Kentucky basketball special because we do care about. You want to see what happens if you stop caring.

Go look at the Louisville fan base. Louisville used to have. the third or fourth best college basketball fan base in the country. And Pat Kelsey can't even get him to care. And he's trying to his credit. He's trying. And they just won't care. They've hit apathy.

We can't ever get to that point, Max. No, we can't. I mean, and here's the thing for the fans. Something about Matt. He's an emotional guy. He's an emotional guy. And sometimes it's positive, sometimes it's negative, but it's emotions. What makes the show great.

He's trying to take it to the next level. You bring these emotions to the show. Bring it to the show. Yeah. I didn't go back and read your tweets during the first half, but I assume most people weren't feeling great in the first half. Really? Really?

Live tweeting that this isn't going well. I mean, they were down by 16. You could just choose. Yeah, you could just choose not to tweet anything, which maybe that's the best thing to do. I'll actually, why don't I go back? And I'm just going to read you. These are the tweets from the first play.

Okay. Pace of play is exactly what Kentucky was. It's going to be hard for UK to stop the. Zag offense got to finish the easy layups. Oh, negative. You're so negative. Missed a ton of lips. The center,

the center initiated dribbling from the top of the key will be the death of me this season. Emotional twait. Kentucky is getting absolutely torched defensively and manhandled at the rim. But they were. They were. They called a technical for that. Emotional. Very emotional.

When Gonzaga gets Kerr and Amari Williams in a pick and roll, it's death for UK. A lot of talk about death. That's emotions. But it was. It sounds like you're single-handedly trying to tear down the program. I said, Ike, EK, killed Kentucky's Biggs last year and Rupp, and he's doing it again this year. He had 18 points in the first half.

And then the last one was, just like Clemson, Gizaga is extending their defense beyond the three-point line and dares U.K. to beat them off the dribble. We just don't have guys who can go by their man and make them pay. By the way, I'll note in the post-game press conference, Mark Pope said that exact same thing. And he said, we countered that by doing backdoor cuts, which is exactly what they did. So those are your negative tweets? Those were the ones that apparently made people say that I'm not a fan of UK basketball. Wow.

And then you go to Ryan's and it says UK is the greatest team ever. UK is the worst name ever. UK is the greatest team ever. It's just inconsistent tweed after a consistent tweet. Yeah. Couldn't get anything going on. I got to work on that. Are you looking to remodel your kitchen, bath, basement, or even your whole home?

But like me, you don't even own a screwdriver. Why did they add that? Because it's true. It's true. Shannon, did they just slip that in? Yeah, well, if it's true, it applies to you, the endorser. That was mean. Call the pros at a state renovation, a family-owned interior renovation company.

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First of all, how do you know I don't have a screwdriver? We've been around you for 20 years, yeah. I have a screw. What kind of screwdriver do you have? Well, there are two different kinds. There's a flat screwdriver and a Phillips screwdriver. Oh, look at you. You're learning.

I think the other version says something about your pictures leaning up against your wall. Okay, that part's true, but I have. Where is your screwdriver? I don't tell you all. I don't want people coming in my house looking for my screwdriver. I'm not going to tell you exactly where it is. Sorry about that. We'll take a break.

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Listen to the Clifford Show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back. This is the song that was singing. They were singing at the Pendleton Oregon. Soul penetrator. There was a guy up there who got up and sang who called himself the Soul Penetrator. He was awful. Real quick, the Pendleton Organ Cadillac Jacks Bar.

Max, how would you, if you were to describe to people, Cadillac Jackson Pendleton, Oregon, what would you say? If you were planning a bachelor or a bachelor's party in the next six to 12 months, yeah, you could go to Nashville, you could go to New York, you could go to Bourbon Street. Pendleton's the place to be. I'll put it the nicest way I can possibly put it. A lot of inner beauty. A lot of beautiful people that were really, yeah, just a lot of inner beauty.

No, I will tell you what you said. You said it was the ugliest collective group of people you've ever seen in one place. could literally count the combined number of teeth on the people in there on one hand. There was a lot going on. Wow. There was a hyena that looked like a dog. Somebody brought in a hyena. There was a lady chugging drinks, but then was on an oxygen mask.

There's a woman that walked in with an oxygen machine had just walked in the door and said, give me a double whistle. Soul penetrator was singing his lungs out. Mario challenged a 75-year-old woman in a sweatsuit to a game of pool, and she turned him down. She basically didn't think he was good enough. She was there playing pool. She was 75 years old, had on a sweatsuit and had her own pool glove.

You know, that you like put. She had her own pool glove on a Friday night at 9 o'clock in Oregon. The sheriff turned up. A sheriff turned up. He brought seven college age kids and him. Not sure what was happening there. But he was there. The worst karaoke singer I've ever heard him.

my life who's saying some of you may know the song paint me a birmingham by tracy lawrence he's saying that he was a good shannon two seconds behind the beat right he was but sole penetrator came in and made good on the whole situation and then that guy's saying this unbelievable i have some news here shannon i guess we have to get ryan to comment on it breaking news or just news no this is like just a scuttle book okay rivals dot com is reporting this is this is their national recruiting rider. Okay. He writes, Dane Key led Kentucky with 47 receptions for 715 yards. Louisville, Nebraska, Georgia, and South Carolina are the most involved in his recruitment.

Key is planning to visit Louisville early next week as there continue to be rumors that Vince Morrow could join the staff to Louisville as well. That's from the national rivals recruiting rider. I'm skeptical about the Vince Morrow part of that. Not saying it's impossible, but skeptical, but what about the Dane key part of that? He wouldn't go to Louisville, would he? I honestly have no idea, because they were going to set up some visits. I think yesterday we were flying back, so I've not talked to anybody connected. Dante, Nicole, Dane, nobody.

So I have no clue. Are you lying to us? No, I'm telling you the truth. Because you lied to us that one day. You looked us right in our eyes and lied to us. I don't remember, but you didn't answer it truthfully. You're pretty inconsistent with your answer. I would say, I'm not saying he won't go to Louisville, but from my, I won't speak for Ryan.

I would think Georgia is where I would see. I mean, like, you look at that list. Nebraska, his wide receivers coach is there, but I'm not sure that relationship is as close as people just assume. South Carolina is where he almost went last time, but the guy that recruited him is not there anymore, right, Ryan? That's correct. So he's not there. So I think people are throwing that in. and may not know Georgia.

I mean, Dane has basically said he wants to play for a team that can win a title. Louisville's not going to win a title. So Georgia Drew seems to me that it would make the most sense. Yeah, Georgia's receiver room hadn't been good recently by their standards. I don't know what they have going into next year, but I assume he has a great opportunity if that's where he would pick. We've mentioned it's got the girlfriend angled there. That would seem to be a heavy favorite, just guessing with what he has in front of him.

I will say, though. If you were to draw up on a sheet of paper and say, what is the worst that could happen for Mark Stoops in the next week, Dane Key and Vince Mero going to Louisville would be pretty high on that list. That would be a backbreaker for a guy for a way you're trying to turn this around. He was our best player this year. If he goes to Louisville of all teams, I mean, I might shed a tear. That would be terrible for a program.

And also, on a personal level, that would suck for this guy, and I hope that doesn't happen. Who's up next? Chuck. Chuck, go ahead, Chuck. Matt, hey, thanks for having me. Chuck from Nebraska, I was going to drive two hours one way to see you guys in Carney, but I had workday and it just didn't work out.

I'm sorry. Well, we'd love to have had you, but thank you for thinking about it. Oh, man, you're talking. My license plate say K-N-T-U-C-K-Y. So you've got a big fan here. So number one, UK is the best team ever. I've been making some notes here. I just have like 30 seconds.

Go ahead. With Luigi on the, with Luigi logo on the tobogging, you've got to explain that because most of UK fans, everywhere outside of Kentucky doesn't sit. A toboggan is an eight-foot wood sled with a curve at the top. Number three, apathetic about anything. Come on, 30 years of Nebraska football. We got the apathy thing. And then on Gonzaga real quick, they shot well, but they just missed.

They could not rebound because they were overpowered by us on the boards. They couldn't hit a free throw. And all of that being said, UK didn't shoot the three as well either. If we had hit the three like we usually do here in the first few games we've had, we'd have blown them out. I agree with all that. Appreciate the call. And we did overpowered them on the glass, which is amazing because they overpowered us at the beginning.

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