KSR - 2024-12-13 KSR-Hour 1

Episode Date: December 13, 2024

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Call 859-271 joke or visit Comedyoff-Broadway.com. Comedy off-Broadway! Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio on Friday, December the 13th. I'm Matt Jones here in New Albany, Indiana, Beer-Nose Pizza, where we have a massive crowd. our annual UK Louisville KSR show. We're glad to be here. You give us a shout to Clark's Puppet Shop.

Phone line 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine 772-744-5254 in this edition. Sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. You call T.J. will make them pay. We got a full house once again. Who's got the best fans in the Louisville area right here? I mean, come on. We're in Southern Indiana.

We're in Southern Indiana. and we are, you know, 20 minutes from Louisville, and still more people than they could get, we'll get at their next Louisville home basketball game here in a pizza place to come watch the show. 859-280-2287. Ryan, it was December 20th, 2011, when we were at a different beer nose now 14 years ago,

when we did our first ever remote. We had only been on the air. I think for a year at that point, we did our first ever remote. We were over there. I think we probably had at that point maybe 30 people there, although now like hundreds of people claim to have been there, but I think there were about 30 people there. And I just saw the picture.

I had on a purple dress shirt. You never see me wear a dress shirt unless I'm like going to a funeral anymore. And you had your back turned to the audience because you were so nervous. And now 14 years later, We've done this show every year the Friday before the Louisville game. Very cool. And next year is our 15th year anniversary of the show, and it'll be our 15th year of this. It's crazy, man, because every time we come over here, the place is packed.

There was a line outside to get in at 8 o'clock this morning. I met some people who were here that first show. Nick's one of the guys, a lot of people were here that first show have been here every year since. That's amazing. Yeah, knowing this show and even just parking here, I got here an hour early just so I wouldn't have any complications. because I know this gets so packed and people fall in here so early. This is when there's never a doubt that it's going to have a big question. And look how much Ryan has grown.

He's now fully facing all the people here this morning. He's revolved all the way around. Although I know that they do want to see my butt, though, a lot of women do. What? Again, you just started and like it's so unnecessary. You get grosser the older you are, which is really kind of sad. I mean, most people, you get grosser. I wish there was a crowd to see the repulsion from people.

As you say that, and nothing phases him through. It's almost like he thinks people want it more. It's why we love him, though. That's not the trait I love him for. But 859-280-2287, the text machine is 772-7754. Cats and Louisville play tomorrow. This is a game that over the years has provided a lot of high drama. has not been drama the last few years as Louisville has been awful for four or five straight years.

Better this year, still not great. Every time they've played a good team, at least in the United States, they've played very poorly. However, when they went to the Bahamas, had a couple big wins, beat Indiana. They stink, but beat a West Virginia team that beat Gonzaga before they lost to Oklahoma. This year, they're 0 and 3 against the SEC, and every game has been. been an absolute route. They were blown out by Tennessee, blown out by Ole Miss, ended up getting beat by a little margin against Oklahoma, although that game was closed through a lot. Tomorrow they play their fourth SEC team. Do you have any worry that the result won't be the same?

It's all about Lamont Butler for me. If Lamont Buller's playing, I'm going to have the champagne on ice ready to pop it. I think Kentucky will win rather handily. I mean, I think maybe even a double-digit win if Kentucky's healthy. Without Butler might get a little uncomfortable. I still think Kentucky's the better team. Louisville has their own injuries that's holding them back a little bit. They have two guys out for the year that's really setting them back. But if Butler's there, I just think Kentucky's much better. I think Rupp Arena is going to be on fire. I expect a good Kentucky way. Yeah, you got 515 start, which I think if you're talking about the Rup crowd, that's about the perfect time. If it's not too late for the old heads, it's not really early for people like

Mario to be asleep. So you get the 515, you get the 515 start, people get ready, get a chance to celebrate after it's over. Games on ESPN. It's actually a good week to have the game, Ryan. I think people will actually notice it. Oftentimes that UK Louisville game is just completely lost because it's on a playoff Saturday or it's on bowl games or even sometimes gone up against the NFL. We've played it at noon on a Wednesday before, I think, in the last few years. Now you get a Saturday. The only other thing on is Army Navy. So you get a chance to really, college basketball has got a lot of good games coming up. Yukon plays Gonzaga Saturday.

It's clear they're trying to make it a feature Saturday and a chance for Kentucky to get another win in front of a big crowd. And I'm with Drew. I think Rupp Arena is going to be rocking tomorrow. I mean, you know, past couple of years when Kenny was at Louisville, it just wasn't even much of a game at all. You know, Louisville was so, so bad. At least this year, two new coaches,

two completely different rosters, meeting for the first time at Rupp. There may be a record for most three-pointers shot by the end of the day. By the way, only one player that will play tomorrow. about this for both teams only one players ever played in this game before which is a crazy thing to think about that you add the two teams up and there's only one guy that's ever played in the game before so it is a completely different thing Shannon I kind of wish I hated their coach yeah and I think they kind of wish they hated our coach

and neither fan base does they kind of like Mark Pope I kind of like Pat Kelsey it's weird to have a rivalry now where like both teams just can't find it in their hearts to hate the other people in charge on the other side both teams were starting fresh but don't worry we will grow to hate pat kelsey i guarantee you we will he said he had a hot wife well he does i guess but uh you know he's living the life i mean life can't be well life's not great i you know you watch him play and again this could sometimes in these games it ends up close we've beaten them a couple times where I think they were better. They've beaten us once or twice when I thought we were better.

But on paper, their team has not been great. If you took away that Indiana game where they blew them out, it actually would be a little disappointed. They've nearly lost to UTEP. They get blown out when they play anybody that plays defense on them. But our defense's been a little shaky here recently. Does that concern you at all? No, I watched their West Virginia game in the Bahamas.

They won, but they actually trailed a lot. I wasn't that impressed at all, then they turned it on at the end, but a lot of that was the prior guy that's out. I mean, he was a big piece of that game from what I've seen. My biggest concern is their point guard, Chuckie Hepburn, that dude is the real deal. He leads them in scoring. He leads him in assists.

I think he's like second in the country in steals. He's a little menace out there in the back court. Kind of got a little patino guard to him. He's a big problem. He's like a poor man's Russ Smith. Yeah, outside of him, you have Edwards on the wing who had a big night in the win against Utep a few nights ago. but their roster just on paper, nothing really jumps off and scares me, whereas I see guys for Kentucky,

if they're shooting the ball well, I have high expectations. If you haven't watched them, the Chuck Eiffberg guy is the guy that in the team photo that was such a ragged look of a photo earlier this year. He was the guy that looked asleep. He's the dude. He's played awake, and he's actually been pretty good this year. And that's another thing. If you have Lamont Butler, you stick Butler on him, then they're going to struggle to score. But if we don't have him, I think.

we saw against Colgate, we can struggle, Shamed. Yeah, I mean, Louisville turns the ball over quite a bit. That's where I think Kentucky has the advantage. Kentucky is much better protecting the ball. But let's go back to that photo. You cannot, under any circumstance, lose to a team that looks like Louisville in that team photo. No, I mean, I'm asking a question. There are people, there are Louisville fans who have very much criticized us, and by us, I mean

me, by consistently calling me every name in the world, saying that we did them wrong with that photo, that it was not the official team photo, and we made people feel like it was official team photo. I will say that's revisionist history. Yeah. All right. Their main beat reporter tweeted out, here's your Louisville team 2425. And then, between then and the official photo, we made fun of it, and all of a sudden,

an hour or two later, they had on a different set of clothes. Yeah. He deleted the tweet, too. He deleted the tweet. Blame me. Not sure how you're going to blame me, dude, when you put the tweet up. But then Louisville came back, ironed the uniforms, changed the uniforms. Like, you're not going to tell me, oh, he just caught it a couple more minutes before the official.

They changed everything. You're telling me they take a practice photo with one guy wearing the wrong jersey? I don't buy it. I don't buy it either. They didn't notice it to last one up. I would actually argue, Shannon, the University of Louisville. should send me a thank you note. Absolutely.

Because that would have been their official photo. They would have blown it up. They would have blown it up. They would have put it all over the YUM center. And we made fun of it and actually got it to wear in 50 years their grandkids don't come by and go, Granddad, why couldn't you have ironed your stupid uniform? Why didn't you get a jersey like everybody else, Granddad? That's exactly right.

Why are you asleep, Granddad? Like all of those things I think, Drew, they owe us a thank you for helping them out. They should, but to our point about how they're not the Louisville teams of old, like, that's kind of all we have. They're kind of boring otherwise. You know, we used to have all kinds of scandals. Does Pat Kelsey have one FBI investigation? I don't think he does. He doesn't.

He doesn't have one assistant coach who's been in front of a federal judge for extortion, not one. You can eat off those ceilings over there now. Everything's just so different. So we have the team photo and a few other things, but I missed the, it was so easy to hate them when they were true villains. I mean, there was some real scumbags over there. And now, I mean, we have the team photo and Kelsey doing something. selfies, but it's just not the same. It's interesting.

You mentioned that because every time I come to Beardos, it leads me to think about the rivalry. And it leads me just to think, I do feel like Louisville has left this era where they were the, like, you know, rogues of society. I mean, if you just take a step back and think about the,

since we did our first show here, what Louisville's done, Ryan, we're talking strippers in the dorms. Right? We're talking sex in Italian restaurants. We're talking squirt to the ceiling. We're talking, we're talking FBI investigations. We're talking paying players in shoeboxes. We are talking extortion leading to federal jail time. That's only since we started doing these remotes. A coach wore a wire while talking to his mentor who was on staff. Yes, a coach for a wire. And by the way, that was just the stuff that made the headlines. The other things were sometimes even crazier. We had a federal trial.

We had all of that. And now you've got a guy who's like, I get to wear sweatsuits. I'm happy. It's just a different, it's just a different vibe with these games now. Louisville made it too easy for us for a long time. You know, they just gave us Christmas presents every year with these stories. I think, you know, even like didn't like one of the dads of her. recruit have a certain female in his hotel room you know there's so many things came along

i don't know what you're talking about is that just is it reported this another one of your parties are going to i don't know what you're saying a dad had a female in the hotel room a dad of a recruit i think yeah they know do they know yeah they do they're they're they're making the same circles as you i don't i don't know what you're talking listen i'm a reporter at his heart Or that's core. I'm a diehard reporter. I don't remember that. Sniff these stories out.

It's not even just sniffing. I agree that. I don't know what you were sniffing. It's not even just they were doing all the dirty things. Petino and Cal hated each other. They did. They did. It made a great feud.

Yeah. And now you got Kelsey when he first got the job. He even said at one of those events, he said, I apologize to Louisville fans, but it's impossible to hate Mark Pope. He's the nicest guy ever. And that's just so different than the two Italian guys we had that hated each other. Cal and Rick hated each other. with a passion that it is hard to

it is hard to go to kind of explain. I remember, I mean, I feel like I could tell this story. Sure, well, friends. It's been a decade. I think when we beat them, I think when we beat them the Jorts year.

Right, we beat them in Louisville. That was a big upset. I think we thought we were going to lose. That was like Jorts coming out part. If I remember correctly, he played really well. I remember John Caliperi called me on my drive home before the post game show and just got on the phone and goes, how do you like that?

How do you like that? And he was like screaming, eat it, Rick, eat it Rick. And I remember thinking, all right, I do love this, right? Like this dude, this dude wants to win it so much. And I think Rick would want to win it so much. His teams would play very tight. actually think he wanted to win this game too much. I think Chris Mack was the same way. Cal would say he didn't want to win it, but he wanted to win it. It's weird, no, this time. It's

weird, but I will say Louisville's players gave us yesterday, Drew, a quote that I think is very telling. This was what, Terrence Edwards, is that the guy's name? Terrence Edwards. He said, and there was a bigger context where he was talking about, you know, we're looking for this game, we're blah, blah, ball. But the last sentence he said was some of us came here just to play Kentucky. I mean, that's that, that says a lot, right?

About, like, I mean, I don't think any Kentucky players are going to say some of us came here to play Louisville. Yeah, we can't say it. I mean, you won eight games in the last two years. Nobody's going to say that. But Shannon, I do think that shows the way these two teams look at that. That's a little brother mentality right there. We came here

just so we can play you. We really don't care about all the other games. You're right. I mean, comes to Kentucky going, we're just here to play Louisville. Nobody cares. They don't care. I love that. It's the same thing. I don't know if you saw North Carolina is recruiting, like, was recruiting the number one player in America that signed at BYU, and they asked the kid, what did North Carolina say to you? And North Carolina said to him, if you come here, we'll do for you what Duke did for Zion. And the Carolina fans were like, we produced Michael Jordan.

Why are you comparing what Duke did to Zion? I like that Louisville's recruits. Pitch is, hey, if you come here, you can play against Kentucky. I think we'll beat them for any recruit we want over the next few years. We will take a break. 859-28027. It's the cats and cards right here on Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the Internet lost its mind.

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So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports. Let's go over a few things here. We're at Bear Nose. I keep saying Beer Nose, that's just my accent. Bear Nose, 13 locations, Louisville-style pizza,

to Louisville and Southern Indiana for over 45 years. Pizza, pasta, salads, and sandwiches. I'll tell you a story. Where's the person from Bear Nose? I have an investor in town who's potentially helping going to invest with our wrestling companies. He's British. He's only been to America once.

He got here Wednesday night. I couldn't be with him. He said, I was in downtown Louisville. I'm not going to do his accent, but I was looking for a place to eat. He said, I wandered into a bear nose. And I said, yeah, yeah, downtown in Louisville. He said, they give way too much pizza. It was really good, but you Americans give way too much pizza.

But at least better to have too much than too little. That's exactly right. So thank you very much for hosting us all these years. A couple things I think are interesting. Number one, some of you who are wrestling fans may have seen the show, show Dark Side of the Ring on Vice. It's basically documentaries about wrestling. Well, the producers are doing a documentary that will come out next year about Patino and Caliperi.

Oh, really? Wow. I didn't see that. And I might have already been contacted for an interview. But Patino and Caliperi, they're going to sort of trace their rivalry going back to Providence in UMass, to Kentucky and Louisville to Louisville and Memphis, and then all their various careers. But if you've ever seen dark side of the ring, Shannon, they do an amazing job. Yes. Yes. And they do tend to focus on the dark side of the ring. So I'll be interested to see what

they end up doing with Patino and Caliperi. That is going to be must watch TV. You know, they always have like somebody to play the characters. They do, yeah. Who would you have play Patino and Calipari? Oh, that's a great question. It depends on their age over the years. Yeah. I mean, now you'd probably get De Niro and Pacino in their old age. I don't know who you would get in their prime. That would be interesting. But when I heard that, Drew, I thought, I can't wait to watch that. And I look forward to their interview.

I think I'll know what they're going to do when they come and talk to me. The part I'm looking forward to is it said it's going to follow Cal's first season at Arkansas. And that could be very entertaining, depending how things go. I'm looking forward to see how Chin and Bruiser are breaking it down behind the scenes down there in Fayville. I'm surprised, T. Apparently, Patino and Cal gave backstage access to him this year. I don't know why they do that. I've watched Dark Side of the Real.

They don't do, like, these are not rosy documentaries, usually. So I'm surprised they're doing that. Usually they don't really do the person they're documenting any favors. It's very rare. Yeah. I'd be surprised. They'll follow them to Lexington. We'll see winner-lose in that game.

They'll be there with cameras. They'll be there. Vice TV will be there. Second thing, Ryan, you're Mr. High School Sports. Have you heard about what, and again, I don't know this officially. These are just the rumors in the wind. Have you heard about what happened with Say Next? Oh, no.

What's the story? So I guess, this is just what's out there, that SanX football, you know, when they're trying to figure out who to invite to come play football for them in high school, they scout like middle school kids. And I'm sure the coaches say, this middle school kid does this, this middle school kid does that. I guess the email that Sanex sends out to kids in mass, this one. what I've heard to eighth graders. They accidentally attach the scouting report they have for all middle schoolers in law. Is that correct? You were shaking your head. Somebody needs to confirm this for me. I just heard this this morning, but that maybe every eighth grade family got an email with what the same-ex coaches think about their children.

Well, you know, somebody's got some splanner to do. There. Now, if I'm wrong about this, someone can confirm it to me, but this is kind of what's floating around. That would be an interesting development, don't you think? Yeah, I open up that email and I see my kids name under it. You know, no chance. No chance.

Slow, not very strong. Let him go to public school. Yeah. At least you know what you need to work on. You try to find a silver lining to all of this. Is that a silver line? Maybe they didn't hear it. You know.

Savon is truth. Never heard anyone. I think the kind of parents that send their kids to say next may not like. like to read that stuff about their kids. So I want to see the email. I want to read some of these scouting reports and see what they say. All right, who's up first, Rick? Got John at first.

John, go ahead, John. Yeah, I was calling to see. I saw Malachi Nelson enter in the portal on Bush Hamden and recruited him at USC. Is he pursuing him, if you know? I have not heard that. I would say this is the way I'm looking at all the portal stuff, and I appreciate the call. Adam Luckett for KSR Plus is kind of focusing on the portal for us.

Every person that enters that Kentucky is contacting, he does a little write-up on. So that's all on KSR Plus if you want to follow that day to day. From what I've counted, I looked last night, Drew, I've counted at least, and I'm sure there's some we don't know, at least 17 players that Kentucky has made contact with so far. It looks to me like in general, they are taking the view. one or two exceptions to this, but they are taking the view of going and getting guys who have

played. Rather than going and getting guys like I think they've done some, the backup at a good team. They did that with Alabama and Georgia, and we praised it. I thought that was a good idea. It looks like to me they're going to max schools or even lower level power five schools and go and show me a guy who's produced at that level and then I want to bring them. Do you like that strategy? I like that they're changing up. It's hard for us to follow. I'm looking at it. and I see a lineman from Rice and a lineman from Nevada, and I'm like, I don't know the hell the difference between these guys. And it might be the case, the UK doesn't know either.

That's why I said yesterday, part of all this building the portal, no matter what, there's going to be a little hoping and praying that they look good on the field because you won't truly know until next September how some of these guys are actually going to pan out at the next level. I thought the idea of getting Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee's backup made sense. But I think what we learned is for most of those guys, they didn't play for a reason. And so, you know, we've learned with the back. basketball team this year. We've gotten a lot of dudes that none of y'all knew who they were last year, and it's working out, and they had played at a smaller level. Maybe that's what we need to do with football, too.

I think they're hungry or doing that. Yeah, and they've at least seen that they can play the position. We'll take a break. Be right back. We're here at Bear Nose, and it's New Albany. It's New York. We're back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Bear Nose Pizza in New Albany. It's in Charlestown Crossing. Come on out and join us. Cats and Cards tomorrow at 515. I just found out from Drew that our cowboy hats are in. So we decide we're going to wear them tomorrow for the game. That'll show them.

That'll get them ready. I was just wearing mine around the house last night. I have a dinner with Abby tonight, going on a little date. I might even wear it on my date. Oh, wow. So how are the fans going to be able to see past you? They're not going to stand up to see over that cowboy hat. Well, you know.

Sit down, take off the house. hat. The guy, the picture has become a big thing because if you watch the, if you look at the picture, the guy's given the side eye to, so the famous picture of the guy standing who cheered, the guy given side eye is one of my best friends. And now the internet is turned on my friend. Like, people are making memes saying, you're a villain, you're this, and he was just at the game. And he, he texts me like, and was like, well, great, the internet has turned on me. Who knew? Well, to be fair, he is the only guy in that entire section who is sot-stink-eyeing, the guy who's standing up. The thing is, the thing is, people don't know who he is.

Like, that's part of what makes it hilarious to me. I feel bad for him, but, you know, it can't be side-eyed people, right? He's not even, like, behind them where they'd be in his view. He's just glancing over there, but the Internet has picked him as the one. The Internet has decided my buddy is villain number one. He always likes to joke on people. Now the joke's on him for a change. The joke is definitely on him.

859-28027. We've talked a little bit about how good the SEC is this year. We now actually have stats to back it up. Ken Palm has kept stats since 1998 of conference schedule strength for the non-conference. And since 1998, the SEC this year, going into this week, has the second best percentage of wins against power competition in the history of college basketball. The only conference that's ever had a better history was the ACC, and you all will remember this year, it was when I was in law school. When Duke with Jay Williams and all those guys, and Maryland had Dixon and Blake, and Maryland won the title the next year,

and North Carolina had Brendan Haywood, and they were number one in the country, and that was when Virginia started being good. That's the only year in history where a conference has had a better non-conference winning percentage. and I'll note, at that point the ACC only had 10 teams. We have 16. So we have a nearly similar win percentage. And as a matter of fact, since conferences expanded to 14, we are way better than every other conference. It is the record of us against power competition is crazy.

And Kim Pomm, in the article I read, basically said, there's a good chance that this will be the greatest college basketball conference in a year since the ACC, the year that, like, Virginia with Ralph Sampson and all that, that it will be the best since then. Ryan, it's unbelievable how good the SEC is this year. Yeah, you're hearing a lot of these college basketball guys talk about how this may be the best conference ever. And the stat you brought yesterday were the bottom tier, the last four or five teams are like, what, 42 and 4? The five teams that were projected to be 12th through 16th are 42 and 4. That just tells you how strong the conference is when your bottom tier, your bottom teams or some of are undefeated or have one loss. It's amazing.

You're not going to have too many upsets just because of how well-balanced the conference is. You know, I could see where maybe the team that wins the conference has four, possibly even five losses in the conference. Could be. But the great thing about this is I think it gives Mark Pope some leeway. I mean, we are all going to, and please remind me of this when I do it, we're all going to have to take a deep breath when we take losses in conference. Because we could be like, I said this earlier, we could be really good and go 11 and 7 in conference.

Like we could be, and that doesn't seem great, but I think this year you actually could be. Yeah, even though there will be more losses on Kentucky's record, which obviously we don't like, I'm excited just for watching these games, even games Kentucky's not a part of. It doesn't look like there's going to be a night where you've got an old miss at home where you go in, well, we're going to win this one by 20 or a Vandy. Every single game, you're going to have to bring your best stuff or you're going to get knocked off. The SEC is projected to get 12 bids in the tournament right now, which would tie for the most of all time. The ACC, because I think a lot of our strength has then been the ACC going down.

The ACC is only projected to get four, which will be the fewest of them since the 1980s. So, I mean, I think a lot, Ryan, of what happened is a lot of that ACC basketball strength has ended up coming to the deep south. It's amazing when you look at the talent in the SEC this year. Even this summer we talked about, we knew some teams were going to be good. There's more teams stronger right now than I thought they were going to going into the season. Yeah, and with North Carolina struggling, Virginia. Virginia last night had 14 points at halftime against Bethune Cookman, so I don't think they're exactly going to be a powerhouse.

the SEC has a chance to take advantage. North Carolina is a football school now. I watched the press conference yesterday. Can I pay them a compliment? Yeah, go ahead. Chapel Bill is a great nickname. I saw them calling it Chapel Bill now. I hate North Carolina.

I don't love that hire for them. Chapel Bill is a great thing. He said, and then, so Mike Lombardi, who's going to play, basically be his GM, he said, we're going to do in college football what Cala Perry did at Kentucky in college basketball, which is say you want to go to the pros, come play for the best professional coach, and Lombardi was a great professional GM. We will basically be the pros in college.

Do you think, Drew, that works in football the way it did work during the best years for Cal and basketball? It'll work enough that North Carolina gets a bump compared to what they are traditionally. I don't think he's going to take them into the big national picture that they're going to be this turn into something they haven't been before. Like, Ryan, if you had a kid, let's say Josiah was on the level that he could pick the college he wants. Would Belichick being at North Carolina make that, like, more intriguing to you? Maybe not for the kids, but for the parents, for me, absolutely in that scenario, I'm thinking to myself, my kids got a chance to play for Bill Belichick, absolutely I want to pursue that.

Josiah may not have any idea of his history, but the parents do. He probably remembers him coaching for the Patriots. I mean, it wasn't that long. But he is also, I mean, they said they wanted to get rid of Mac Brown because they wanted to go younger. And Matt Brown was 73 and Belichick's 72. So it's not like he went, it's not like Shannon. He went that much younger. No, I mean, we're talking about a guy, though, who is just 10 wins away from being the all-time winningest coach in NFL history.

That's got to do well for three. Here's a question. Why wouldn't another NFL team hire him, but yet North Carolina did hire him? I'm surprised he took that job, really. Like, you're Bill Belichick. You could go pretty much anywhere. You take North Carolina. So he took the job because he's like Rick Petino.

Some people are addicted to work. Some people just will never be able to stop working. I think he's one of those guys. And then I don't think an NFL team wanted him. And that's a good question why they didn't. But if you want a coach, I mean, he can only sit with the manning so long on ESPN2. At some point, he may have felt like he needed to do something else. Who's next?

Whitey is up next. Whitey. How are you, Whitey? Hey, good morning, guys. How are you? I'm doing good. Hey, I was just listening to your all's podcast from yesterday, and I'll just touch on it briefly,

but you were discussing Rich Rod coming back to WVU? Yes. So I've just got a quick trivia question for you. Rich Rock's last game of WVU, they got beat by terrible pit team. That loss cost them a trip to the BCS championship game against the Ohio State. A lot of WVU fans think he threw that game, so you get ahead to Michigan.

The trivia question is, who is the field goal kicker that missed two short field goals? I mean, how would I know that? I know who it was. Wait a minute. Hang on. First of all, before you answer, it's amazing to me that he asked that trivia question, because who would know? Equally amazing is that it seems like you do know right.

You know him, too. Who? It was Pat McAfee. No, Pat McAfee's a punter. Who was it, sir? Bingo. It was McAfee. Did the kicker get hurt?

I don't know, but it was him. He missed it. I think he was a punter and a kicker. Oh. Well, there you go. There were a lot of death threats. Well, I appreciate the call. That's not what I thought the question was going to be about.

On UK U of L Day, who was the kicker for Rich Rod when he lost to Pittsburgh in 2007. But you know what, Shannon, you never know what you're going to get to when you get to the phone. That's right. Max Duffy's BFF. Those two guys. Max really doesn't like him. Max really doesn't like him. That's right.

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really wanting to kick their tail again. Somebody sent me a message that there's someone here who's a Kentucky fan that has an Indiana fan wife. Who is that? There's two of you. Three of you, four of you. Same wife or four? Who's got their wife?

But who's got their wife here? Who's the person with the Indiana fan wife that's here? That's you? Is your name Jeff? Okay, so Jeff says your Indiana fan wife is here. Specifically, the text said, don't call. haul her out, so I did. But I did it because I want to thank you that you would come to the show with your Kentucky

fan husband. I'm just going to say to you, I understand they're good in football. I get it now, but let's be honest. You want to cheer for us in basketball, don't you? Like, you guys stink, and you're never going to be good again. Like, Indiana basketball is basically done forever. So you got the football. You can cheer for that, but I would hope you would come to this side for basketball, Ryan,

because as we know, Indiana basketball is done in perpetuate. You know, when they hired Mike Woodson, they started pounding their chest again. And they were wrong. We're going to be good again, but yeah, they're still not there. They still got a long way to go. Look at you, trash talking the guy's wife. She's catching stray. She's just trying to show up and do something nice for her husband.

I know. I'm trying to, like, make her happier, though, by saying that she should do it. Did you see the San Francisco 49ers had a player? who quit during the middle of the game last night. I would have, too, with that game. My God. Nobody could score a touchdown. But apparently, I read the backstory.

His name was Devante Campbell. He had started all year because Drew, the main guy was hurt. They brought the main guy back so he went to the bench. And during the game, the guy had been hurt, was getting tired because he was playing too much. So they said to the guy who had been benched, will you start and will you go in?

and he just said no, and he walked to the sidelines and said, if I'm not starting, I'm not playing. He won't be on the team this afternoon. I watched the interviews. His teammates were livid. They were calling him. Shanahan, when I asked if he's going to cut him, he was kind of like, it seems that dude made a mistake that he will regret because you cannot just walk out on your team.

I mean, the prime time doesn't matter, but it's Thursday night football. The country's watching. You're paid a lot of money to go out there, and you're just like, no, I'm not feeling it tonight. whatever happens to him, he asked for it. Why would he think that's a good idea? If you're a bench player and you have the opportunity to go in and you don't want to go in, why are you even there? That's a good question.

Why didn't he just tell him for the game? I'm done. And then it does matter that it's on national TV because I probably wouldn't be talking about it. There's only one game on, and so everybody ends up focusing on. He's a professional, man. I mean, you've got to act like a professional. And now he's going to have trouble with other teams. Would you pick that guy out?

No, you would not. You would not pick him in any situation. I thought it might be the case. He was just a quick little mincy, going to go grab a hot dog, be right back, but then he just never came back. I thought maybe we were starting to do trend in football. Are we going to start calling to get a hot dog during the game?

He walked off in his uniform. Thought he might need it a Twizzler, a little soda. I don't know. But then he never came back. Basketball game tomorrow, Ryan. Give me a player that needs to step up tomorrow for us to win in this rivalry game. Well, I'm going to say Lamont Butler, even though I don't know if he's even going to play or not.

We can't say him in case he doesn't play. So he has. So it falls on Jackson Robinson. I think we've seen an emergence of him, starting with the Clemson game, and then the Gonzaga game. Maybe he just plays better with the ball on his hands more, but he's become the guy, for sure. I'm going to say Kobe Brea because I think he's going to need to put, even if Lamont Butler plays, he's going to need to play a lot. And his weakness for me, Drew, has been, he's not the toughest dude. It seems like he backs away from physical contact.

And the one thing about this Louisville team is they'll get up in you, they'll hit you, and we can't just get a nothing from him like we did, for instance, for a lot of the game at Gonzaga. Yeah, we saw Duke and Gonzaga two games kind of this magnitude. Just the team overall came out a little weak, not much energy. Obviously, they came back in both circumstances, but I'd like for Kentucky to come out and throw the first punch. The question was who should step up. Pat Kelsey, when he goes to shake Mark Pope's hand, I would encourage him to step up as tall as possible. for Kentucky. I'm really looking forward to them meeting at half court.

That's a cheap shot. It's Louisville. It's Louisville. I mean, it's easy for you and I, tall people to make fun a little short people like Ryan, but we shouldn't do it. Like, that's not good. You know, it's not really a step up, but Williams and Garrison, I love their energy. I love a lot of what they do, but don't try to do too much in this game and have a lot of turnover. And I said this on the post game show, Garrison, when you get the ball down low and you take it. dribble as much as possible. No.

Oh. Shoot, take your hook and go into the basket. Draw a foul. Stop shooting the fadeaways. You're not Kareem. Like, go into the basket and draw fouls. He fades away and leaves him short.

That's probably happened six times in the last two games. I wish those two guys would just dunk it. You got the ball down low. Just make a power move and just dunk it. Yeah. I think it goes for the whole team, car included. Sometimes they just need to go up strong and they're over pump faking or trying to wrap around a guy. Just go straight up.

Just go strong. Yeah. And let's make a strong. some free throws. We're shooting like 68% or something on the air. Who's up next? Shane is up next. Shane, go ahead, Shane. Hey, fellas, how's it going? What's that good? Doing good. Nice to talk to you, fella. It's been a while. Yeah, yeah, it's been a while. Hey, yeah, I'm just letting everybody know that they got an opportunity tomorrow to grab an Antoine Walker autograph, along with the game tomorrow, I do believe I'm here. But you got to, hang on, you got to, like, expand on that. You can't just say you've got an

opportunity to get an Antoine Walker autograph. You didn't tell them how to get it. That's what I'm getting to. Tomorrow, at the same time the game's going on at the Civic Center there, there's going to be a sports card and Pokemon show going on. At the exact same time. I think it's Pokemon. Do you mean you mean Pokemon or Pokemon?

Okay, yeah. Pokemon. Okay, okay. Pokemon. I guess it's a different kind of cards. That's the knockoff. That's the knockoff. Well, I mean, I don't think.

I don't think very many people are going to skip the game to go get an autograph from Antoine Walker. Do they have it before or after the game? No, it's in the same building right there in the convention center, and he'll be there from 11 to 1 tomorrow. Okay, that's not during the game. Okay. Jump in. All right, are you getting paid for this, Feller?

Like, why are you telling us that? Well, I figured that you all was talking about what kind of madhouse is going to be there tomorrow and that's just something that's going to add on to the chaos down there is you're going to have a couple thousand extra people rowing around going to the card show. That is good to know for the card show. I appreciate it, Shane. Nice to hear from you. By the way, everybody listening today, keep this on your radar.

If Kentucky wins, I'm not going to say who, but if Kentucky wins, we will have one of the prominent basketball players at the bar for a signing Sunday afternoon. We're only going to do it if we win. It's going to be kind of a few games this year where if a big game, if Kentucky wins, a player will come meet the fans on Sunday. So be watching my social media, and I'll also bring it up on the postgame show. But just for your scheduling purposes, it would be in the afternoon. And the hope is pretty much the entire top six over the course of the year,

assuming we win the games, you would be able to get all of their autographs. So keep that for Sunday afternoon. noon in mine, Shannon. I'll bring my Pokemon card so they can autograph them for me. Pokey Man. I think it's Pokey. I don't collect them, but I think it's Pokemon. Not according to Shane.

Not in Grayson. In Grayson, it's Poceman. What do you think of an autographed Pokemon card from Antoine Walker would be worth? I mean, that's got to be rare. I don't think he's not like the autographs too many of those. I think it'd be unique. You wrote in the back of a limo with Antoine Walker. Did you get him to sign a Pocyman card?

I did not, but I have a big Antoine Walker. fan. I would go get one if I had time. Yeah, well, that is tomorrow morning. There will be a lot of people downtown. I think there's also like a cheer competition going on downtown. So there's going to be just if you're going to that game tomorrow, just expect to get there early. And I would say if it's not too cold, park at the bar walk. That to me is, it's because it will be a, it'll be a cluster downtown tomorrow. 859-28027. We are here at Beer Nose. We're going to talk about a couple, more about the game and some football news. That's next right here on Kentucky Sports Radio. Another podcast from some SNL, late-night comedy guy, not quite.

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