KSR - 2024-12-19- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: December 19, 2024

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Starting point is 00:03:32 I am Matt Jones six days before Christmas here at the KS Bar and Grill where it's much better weather than it was yesterday. I got Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin. Shannon is back in Louisville, and we are here. A lot of folks out this morning. Probably, you know, the Christmas time is coming. And nice to see everybody. You can give us shout out of the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-745254. and this edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith, all of us called T.J. will make them pay.
Starting point is 00:04:05 Let's talk just a second, Ryan, about the schedule over the next couple of weeks because, you know, it's a weird schedule. You got, we're here today. We're going to be here tomorrow. Normally there are remotes on Fridays, but this one, we're off. So we will be here at KS Bar. The next week, we'll do the show Monday and Tuesday, or excuse me, Monday from here. Tuesday and Wednesday or Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Starting point is 00:04:28 We'll take that off. Then we'll do Thursday and Friday. Friday. Friday we're in Glasgow. Are we in Glasgow next Friday? Yeah. You didn't tell me that. Yeah, that's the Don Franklin show in Glasgow.
Starting point is 00:04:38 So we're going to Glasgow next Friday. I didn't realize that. All right. Then you got Saturday, Sunday. Then we're there Monday. And then Tuesday, our KSR show, the 31st, will also be the pregame show because Kentucky plays Brown at 2 o'clock that afternoon. It's going to be exciting morning before Brown and all the things leading up to it.
Starting point is 00:04:57 I'm also just learning about Glasgow. I didn't know we were going to Glasgow. So post-Christmas Glasgow. Yeah. Rescheduled it. It was open. Are you in charge of this? How do you know that?
Starting point is 00:05:07 No. And we don't. Scoop Lemon over here. I just saw the memo that was sent to all of us. Yeah. Speaking of Scoop Limit, you broke Andrew Carr's sister's commitment to UK volleyball.
Starting point is 00:05:18 I guess she had to put it out because you screwed that up. Is there anybody else's dream you'd like to end today? She probably had a ceremony plan, had to cancel that. Yeah. And then everybody was like, oh, well, Ryan Lemon put it out. I guess we need to say it. I did mention that her Purdue teammate may be following her here. Here we go.
Starting point is 00:05:35 Does that person have a name? I think Coach Skinner said it was Evelyn. I'm not for sure about that, but it seems. Evelyn. First, that doesn't sound like a, that sounds like a grandmother. Yeah. Evelyn? I have to research that. All right.
Starting point is 00:05:49 So I do want to make a memo to the coaches at UK. Don't say anything to Ryan that you don't want him to say. Like, don't. I mean, we learned that Will Wolford yesterday had been constantly. contacted by UNC. Eric Wolford. Well, Will Wolford did too. I mean, they went their will to get to Eric. Yeah, they had to get to Eric. But Eric Wolfford, and now we've, we found out the volleyball commitments. And I'm not sure, Drew, they wanted any of those things said. Well, I don't think they'll mind Evelyn getting out because I have produced roster in front of me and there's not an Evelyn.
Starting point is 00:06:17 Oh, Evelyn is safe. But it does sound like there's more in that brain. Okay. Actually, pull up Purdue's roster. Do you think you would recognize the first name if it said since you thought it was Evelyn. I thought the name that popped in my head was Evelyn Hudson, but I don't know if that was anywhere close. I got to give him credit. There is one very close to that. What is it?
Starting point is 00:06:38 There is an Eva Hudson. I think that's it. I think that's it. So you're scooping Eva Hudson to UK. And she is like a superstar volleyball player. You think? Yep. I'm going with it.
Starting point is 00:06:52 Shannon, do we think Eva Hudson is coming to UK? Is Shannon here? Are we on the air? What's up? I'm trying to answer calls. Okay. All right. What's wrong there?
Starting point is 00:07:04 I was asking what? I was asking if you think Ryan's right that Eva Hudson is coming. He's one for one in his volleyball scoop, so why would I have any reason to doubt him? Okay. Fair enough. All right. So let's talk about a couple things. First of all, Kentucky got a wide receiver commitment.
Starting point is 00:07:20 J.J. Hester. Hester started Missouri. Was that Oklahoma? He's 6'4. he's clearly brought in to be the Dane Key replacement. As part of that, Ryan Lemon will become his godfather when he gets on campus. I don't know much. Well, I mean, I'm going to say this about all these guys.
Starting point is 00:07:41 I don't know much about him. Should we be excited? That's not a yes. Well, respectfully to him and the entire operation, adding a wide receiver to Kentucky's offense, I mean, you know, it's not exactly we're going to throw. We'll figure that out on the road. But him specifically, he's Oklahoma's second leading receiver. He's a big guy, kind of a throw it up to him guy in the end zone.
Starting point is 00:08:04 He mentioned kind of plays a little like Dane, but he's his, he averaged like 22 yards of catch. So he's a deep threat. I think he had a 90 yard. He has the longest touchdown pass in Oklahoma, like in their home field history. Really? Yeah. Didn't have a ton of receptions, but 300-something yards second-in-old team. He and Macklin were on the same roster at Missouri, and Bush Hamden was also on the staff there.
Starting point is 00:08:26 So there's a least-Bush-Hamden, clear. There's some familiarity there. So here's my question for you. This is why I bring this up, because I'm seeing something that dismayes me a little bit, Ryan. And I want to know if you agree with the dismay. All right. So let's just assume for sake of argument, well, I'm not going to say. I mean, this is true.
Starting point is 00:08:47 Mark Stoops is going to be the coach here next year. Does anybody disagree with that statement? Do not. No. Anybody disagree? No. No. All right.
Starting point is 00:08:56 and that's happening whether any of our fans like it or not, correct? Correct. All right, so because of that, there is, it is my view, that there comes a point where, I think I said this about Cal when it first looked like he was going to come back. I was like, well, if he's going to come back now, we might as well hope it works, right? I don't like that I see when these transfers commit because I actually think you can make a strong argument that they've done really well so far in the portal of their commitments.
Starting point is 00:09:32 You know, you've got the linebacker from Marshall, you've gotten a couple of really good offensive linemen. I think another one, did one commit yesterday as well? Yeah, they added one yesterday. They added one yesterday. So they have a guy from Bowling Green, I think a guy from Arkansas. the kid from New Mexico is like 900 pounds, this big guy. I think they're getting a kid from Western Kentucky soon, too.
Starting point is 00:09:55 He's the center. Look at this guy. I mean, how do you know that? What else do you know? Like, why don't you just, like? Did I just make that up, or I think there's a center from Western Kentucky? I mean, maybe, but are you, like, you're just saying things. Is that true?
Starting point is 00:10:13 You can't just say a position in a school and say they're coming. I'm going to say it's true. A sinner from Western Kentucky is. And what's his name? I don't know. Okay. Evelyn. I believe everything he says.
Starting point is 00:10:27 So Evelyn from Western Kentucky is coming. Okay. So let's just say, since you've been right on these, let's say we have a center from West. I know they're getting four new offensive lines. By the way, Dylan Ray, who played some last year, is entering the portal. But my point is when all of these people commit, I see the same responses. in the comments to the announcement, which is, who cares we, we suck anyway, basically.
Starting point is 00:10:54 And I wish we would stop that. I mean, I know I'm not going to be able to make that stop. People are going to say what they say. But at some point, I don't really think that's a good welcome to these kids to the university. I mean, the reality is, how many of you have any clue what the audience is, offensive lineman we got from New Mexico yesterday, whether or not he's good. No idea. Nobody does.
Starting point is 00:11:22 None of us have any idea. No. Do we have any idea if the offensive lineman from Bowling Green is good? No. No idea. The wide receiver from Oklahoma. How many of you could have picked him out of a lineup before? Nobody. The defensive lineman from USC.
Starting point is 00:11:40 Nope. The linebacker from Marshall. Maybe if you live in Ashland, you ran into him sometime. But I really don't feel it's fair to these kids that they come. They're presumably getting money. And our first reaction is, hey, we suck anyway. I wish we, look, Mark's coming. So we need to have the best team we can. Am I wrong in sort of being too Pollyanna in saying, can we not just at least feign excitement for these guys? Or do people just want to be, do they just want to spend every day for the next eight months complaining?
Starting point is 00:12:19 I mean, I think we all knew this was coming when the season ended. We even said there's nothing he can do between now and next year. But isn't there a time to stop at least as it pertains to other players? I mean, if you want to criticize Stoops, he makes $9 million go for it. But is it fair to Wallace Umanda when he commits that his entire comment section is we stink. I agree with you on that. In person by person, we should be welcoming. You certainly shouldn't be replying to their commitment.
Starting point is 00:12:46 graphics or news stories about them where they're seeing it. They're just kids getting here for the first time. They had nothing to do with the culture and the problems. So if you're on there complaining where they can see it directly to them, that's outrageous. But I get if you're not excited because we added a wide receiver, we don't use wide receivers. I'm not saying anybody needs to be excited, but there's a difference between being excited and just being negative and just being like, we are awful. I mean, it is what it is at this point.
Starting point is 00:13:14 You can sit there and say, we should have gotten rid of stoop's, and you have a right to that opinion, but like that's not happening now. So what good does it do to be just furious all year? I love this argument because you're right. We should be celebrating these players that are coming in. But isn't we like, you know, we're butt hurt because of this last couple of years? Well, I couldn't think of a better word. Yeah, they're there's the there's thesarses, but go ahead.
Starting point is 00:13:41 where butt hurt from the last two years, and we know the season is going to be even tougher next to the schedule, even though we've got these great players coming in. It's a good discussion to have because we should. Well, what's your opinion? I think we're going to have a really good team. I really do. I don't know if it's going to translate into wins because of the schedule,
Starting point is 00:13:58 but I think they're going to have a really good team. You do? Yeah. Really? I do. Why? Because whether we get this kid who's incarnate word, I'm all in on cutter-bole.
Starting point is 00:14:08 I think he could be a star. You weren't at all. concerned about the Louisville game and that it didn't seem well he got hurt you know he didn't get to get to play the whole game i i think he's going to be a star okay i hope that well i'm not ready to say we're going to be good i i have no idea to be honest with you somebody put the projected starting lineup on offense last night on ks board and i looked at it and i was like who are these people I mean, just think about the projected starting lineup. If the season started tomorrow, there would be three names, maybe, no, two names that you all know in the projected starting lineup.
Starting point is 00:14:51 Jamerian Wilcox and Macklin. That's it. You wouldn't know any of the offensive, and Willie Rodriguez. Excuse me, Willie Rodriguez. You wouldn't know any of the offensive linemen. You're not going to know the quarterback. You're probably not going to know the backup running back. you're not going to know any of the receivers, maybe hardly Gilmore if he stays.
Starting point is 00:15:11 But there is a, it's going to be completely new. But I just, I don't know. I felt bad. I looked at one of those kids. I think it was Wallace, the kid from New Mexico. And I'm like, this can't be a welcome to Kentucky. The other thing is, I don't know if you saw the video of the Kansas State basketball player. Have you seen that?
Starting point is 00:15:31 Kansas State has probably been the biggest disappointment in college basketball. They spent a ton of money on NIL. They brought these kids in, and they stink right now. They've lost like six games already or five games. And one of the kids they brought in that was the biggest is a kid from Illinois, Coleman Hawkins. I think we looked at him at one point. He ends up going to Kansas State.
Starting point is 00:15:52 He did a post-game interview after their loss the other night and was like, this stinks. He goes, I came here, and he was like, all anybody ever writes me is, break your leg, you're terrible. Why did you come here? and he goes, I thought these were supposed to be our fans. And I thought, I kind of feel bad about that for that guy. I saw Jerome Tang sit up for him and said there's been unfair criticism this year because
Starting point is 00:16:18 our NIL is so big. I didn't see the Coleman video, but I guess that's what he was. But part of that is when you start paying people, people are going to complain like that. And Kansas State paid a lot. They may have paid as much as anybody and they've been bad. But I just, I don't know. Maybe I'm just a softie.
Starting point is 00:16:35 I just feel bad when these new kids commit here. And so you're never going to be able to change the negative people. But I hope we have fans now that the next time you see a guy commit, say something positive. I mean, you know what I mean? Like, okay, Wallace, Umanda, none of us know you, but go get them. Well, you know, I mean, what else is it going to be? You're right. You know, these new kids, you mentioned the young guys with Cutter and Wilcox and Patterson and Willie Rodriguez.
Starting point is 00:17:04 You got Mr. Football, Montaven, Quisembert coming in from Boyle County, who Vince has already said is like a miniature Wondell Robinson. You know, he thinks he could be that kind of guy. So there are some reasons, I think, to get excited if we can just get over what has happened in the past. Well, the reality is these dudes transferring in on the portal, that's who's playing next year. I mean, they're not bringing them in here to sit the bitch. They're bringing them in here because they think they can play. So we might as well at least not slam the door on their face as they're coming in.
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Starting point is 00:23:14 You want to hear it? Here we go. This is from a girl, a woman on the text machine who says, Matt, I was running around with my friends at Santa Con in Cincinnati, and we found some friends in Covington. And there were a group of college girls in Santa outfits who were telling me that they have a friend who's a center at Westinian. who's coming to play at Santa Con. Santa Con, huh? Santa Con. That's the scoop of reporting now, where Santa Con College student report.
Starting point is 00:23:43 Were you there? Is that why you got your thing? Well, we do know you always want to trust the girl, the girlfriend. She is usually right about these sort of things. And so this may be the center's girlfriend. That's what they say, Shannon, at Santa Con. So I don't know. I've been to New York when Santa Con happens. absolute cluster. It's the worst. It's the worst.
Starting point is 00:24:04 It was during the Kentucky Seaton Hall game, I think. Yes. It's almost every time. Everywhere. And then now they do it. Maybe they've always done it, but they do it in Cincinnati, and it's just, it's absolutely, absolutely wild. I watched a lot of college basketball last night, and it was really good. Did you see any of it?
Starting point is 00:24:23 Well, I saw the highlights. Oklahoma must be really good. Oklahoma's still undefeated. One of only a handful of teams still undefeated in the country. Talk about them in the SEC. I know. They got a kid named Jeremiah Fears, who's a freshman, and he will strike fear in our heart. He hit some big shots.
Starting point is 00:24:37 They came back and beat Michigan. Then Yukon, Danny Hurley, I mean, maybe he says it's good for college basketball that he's the jerk. Maybe it is. But he was out of control last night. Xavier should have beaten Yukon at home. But here's a crazy story. Since 2010, you're never going to believe this staff. You know how many conference?
Starting point is 00:25:01 Openers, UConn is won since 2010. First game of their conference season. I'll save four. They've only won five, which is the exact same amount of national championships they've won. Well, that's crazy. Is that not crazy? It is crazy. And they won last night.
Starting point is 00:25:19 But then the game that intrigued me the most is I turn on the TV in Alabama, or excuse me, Arkansas, no, Alabama. Alabama is playing at, at North Dakota. in the North Dakota home gym. And I'm sitting there going, why? Why? And then I read that when Grant Nelson committed to Alabama, he asked Nate Oates, I'll commit here and play in the transfer portal,
Starting point is 00:25:47 if you promise me, we'll play one game in my home state. Nate Oates says yes. So they schedule a road game at North Dakota. North Dakota's four and eight. They play in a little cracker box. gym. Game was last night. First half, Alabama goes down 10. Really? North Dakota's four and eight. Alabama goes down 10. With just a few minutes to go, it's a two-point game. And I was sitting there thinking, if they lose this game, Grant Nelson will have to walk back to Alabama. If they flew all the way to
Starting point is 00:26:23 North Dakota played in this tiny gym surely cost their program money and then they lose. They ended up hanging on to win. Nelson had like 23 points. I think it's very cool. They did that. I kind of would like it if we did that once every couple of years just played in a tiny gym somewhere. It's a cool atmosphere, but you've got to win that game if you make your team go all the way to North Dakota. Cal had a few of those games. Remember we played at Portland for Terrence Jones? Yep. But we played in like the NBA gym. I don't think when is the last time not in like the, we played in the NIT, we played at Creighton. But when's the last time at Kentucky we've played in a little gym in a regular season game on the road?
Starting point is 00:27:07 That's a great question. When is that? Because, like, I'm just thinking over the years. North Carolina has played at College of Charleston a couple times. They went to Evansville, played the University of Evansville. North Carolina did? Uh-huh. Because Tyler Zeller or Cody Zeller, one of the Zellers.
Starting point is 00:27:21 So when is the last time Kentucky has ever played a game like that? I have to tell you, I can't remember Kentucky. ever playing a game like that. You know, obviously we played at Robert Moore, or excuse me, we played, yeah, at Robert Morris, but that was an NIT game, and that we didn't choose that. Even in games that were kind of homecoming games,
Starting point is 00:27:44 like the PIN game last year, they played in the big arena. I can't think of going to just a local small school. Corey Price, this is for you. Wins the last time we played a game like that, because I don't remember us, ever doing it. I'm sure we did at some point long, long time ago, but what I found interesting about Alabama is they went back to North Dakota for Grant Nelson, but he played at North Dakota State, so they didn't even play his own school. I guess they still got him home. That would be true.
Starting point is 00:28:13 But they went to the school that he didn't go to. And they went to their rival. Yeah. That's kind of, maybe he just wanted to beat him one more time. He's like, you know what? I want to beat him. That's kind of weird. All right, so let's talk about another Kentucky history thing, Madison Square Garden, play Madison Square Garden, play Saturday against Ohio State. I'm starting to get FOMO. I'm staying here because my friends are all doing their Christmas thing. I'm going to watch the game here at the bar. I've only done that a handful of times for basketball, but I'm going to do it Saturday. But I do like those games in Madison Square Garden, which got me to think it. All right, what are our best memories in Madison Square Garden? The ones that come to my head, the biggest one,
Starting point is 00:28:47 John Wall against Yukon, right? That was the, that was the Dick Vitale going, oh, oh, he's special baby. He's a diaper. He's like he just beating people off the dribble. I got punched of that game. You got punched at that game. I remember that was when I were fighting everyone. That was when I was like, why did I hire this guy? He's getting in fights at games. Tyrese Maxie. That was the game where we did the game.
Starting point is 00:29:10 Maxie goes off. That night I get pulled off the radio cousin Mitch McConnell, and at 2.30 a.m. give my goodbye speech. But it was still a great game. Is that against Michigan State? That's one of the most memorable nights in my life. Maxi goes off. Bashir beats Bevan for governor,
Starting point is 00:29:27 and I was watching the returns from the Madison Square Garden Press Row celebrate because I didn't like Bevin, get home, find out I'd lost my gig. Wow. That's a heck of a night. That's a heck of a night. Other ones. We beat Kansas the Anthony Davis year by like a thousand in Madison Square Garden that year. Davis versus Robinson.
Starting point is 00:29:47 One verse two there. That was in Madison Square Garden. You have others. We, Seton Hall, we hit a half-court shot. Kelvin Johnson. Kelton Johnson to send it to overtime, then lost in overtime to Seton Hall. That was in the garden. I think I've been at every garden game in the last 15 years.
Starting point is 00:30:05 And unfortunately, I think we've lost three out of four. What are the other ones you remember? Oh, I remember they beat. Was it Monmouth? Yeah, they killed Monmouth. We went to Monmouth because they switched the hockey game during the post game show when they were flipping the arena from basketball to a hockey game that night. Early in the Calera, he was one of them all.
Starting point is 00:30:23 I've killed Kansas there. the Monmouth game, beat Michigan State another time, but then we got beat by UCLA in the CVS Sports Club. That's right, we did. Because I stayed the next day and went to the Bronx to see a recruit, and Cal was at the game, and he just stared at the floor, didn't he watch the recruit. Is there any, like, from back in the day,
Starting point is 00:30:38 did they used to play their pre-Cal very much? Yeah, they played, we played in the 90s, because there was a point where they were undefeated in the garden, like 11 and 0, 12-0, and then they got beat by somebody in the late 90s, because Cullard was there. I can't remember what it was, but it was a big deal because it was their first, loss. Was it Arizona?
Starting point is 00:30:56 Yeah. Well, so anyway, we have a lot of guard memory. We got to win Saturday, though. Ohio State's not good. We need to go beat them. Hopefully we will. We'll take a break. Take a call. We're right back. KS.R. 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. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Cats in New York this weekend. 859-2-80-2287. Text 172, 77525-254. So the best we can find is that in 1985, Kentucky played at Shamanad and at Hawaii, not in the Maui Invitational, but in an actual game, they played a road game at Shamanade.
Starting point is 00:31:44 This is, that's the arena at Ohio University. So you're telling me it says 1997 we played at Ohio in Athens, Ohio. Yeah, and in their convocation center. But that says it holds 13,000. We were in that arena. That arena didn't hold 13,000 people. It was a pretty big place. So you got to assume it was a sellout with Kentucky,
Starting point is 00:32:05 so maybe it's capped it right at 13. All right. That's pretty big building. So you're saying at Ohio. At Ohio. I don't remember that game at all. Tubby was a coach in 97, and I don't remember. It was 97-98 season.
Starting point is 00:32:16 Yeah. Nozzi had 15. I got the box score. Nazi had 15. Cameron Mills with 10. People are saying other ones, but they're all games where we played a team. but we were in the bigger court in the game. Like we played Wright State in Dayton,
Starting point is 00:32:30 but we played them in the big arena. We didn't play them in their little home. Oh, yeah, that's right. So, yeah. So did we get a commitment from a running back? Did that happen? We lost a running back. I don't know if we've added a running back.
Starting point is 00:32:42 See if we got a commitment from a running back from Nebraska. We took a big loss to Missouri yesterday. See if we got a commitment from a running back from Nebraska. Don't be negative and just tell me about the loss. There we go. He's visiting as he's visiting. committed? Oh, he's vis. What's his name? Dowdle. Dowdle? Yeah. All right. We'll look it up. Dante Dowdell.
Starting point is 00:33:00 Can I, do you think people are down on Cutter or optimistic about Cutter? I think people are down on Stoops and they're putting it on every single player on the team, which I don't think is fair. I think people, people are very down on Stoops. I think Stoops has done himself no favors from a PR perspective. Stoops should have already been on this show. Now, I know he had to have like ankle surgery or something and that's probably been part of it. But I mean, I'm going to be honest with you, I told him that. We were on the phone. I had a long conversation with him on my way to Seattle. So I guess that was what now? Two weeks ago? Yeah. When did we go to Seattle? It feels like matter of fact, it was two weeks ago today. And I said, look, man, you got it, you need to come on. You need to let me
Starting point is 00:33:41 ask you hard questions and you need to, and he hasn't done it yet. And he said he will. I believe him. But like they, they haven't handled PR well. This, the UK football, and I'm, I'm not. I'm not. saying anything today I didn't say directly to them so I don't feel like I'm speaking out of turn I said this to Mark Stoops I've said this to the UK PR people I've said this to Vince they have handled PR poorly since the season they need to be out giving people confidence and they're not saying a word and that's a mistake it's a mistake I used to say this during Cal if you say nothing silence will be by other voices, right?
Starting point is 00:34:26 You're never going to get people to not talk. So the question is, do you want to fill it with your voice, or do you want to fill it with somebody else's? Let me tell you who's really good at this. Donald Trump. Donald Trump knows that, like, everyone's going to want to talk about the president. So he just does all the talking.
Starting point is 00:34:47 And even if it's rambling, he still gets to be the one to control the message. Joe Biden did the opposite. the opposite. He didn't say anything, and then the void is filled with other people's voices who are defining you. As you sit silently, the other voices tell everybody what to think. The UK football staff has been silent since the Louisville game, except when Vince was on here, and I love Vince, but I told him yesterday, that wasn't his finest work in the world during those 10 minutes. They need to be out winning people over. They're not doing that. They're not doing And so the cutters of the world are paying the price for it because people are mad at the coaches and thus they're taking it out on the players.
Starting point is 00:35:32 And I don't think that's fair, but it's a natural reaction. Not only that they're not trying to get out in front of anything, I mean, didn't he skip the last radio show? He skipped the last radio show. He hasn't come on here. He hasn't done a year-in press conference. He hasn't done that they were like on the recruiting, you know, the signing day thing. did it for like five minutes. Like, but again, who does that remind you up?
Starting point is 00:35:59 What happened at the end of the Cal era? He skipped all his press conferences. He stopped going on shows. And then he wondered why people got upset. You have to be out front making your message. If you don't define yourself, somebody else, Ryan, is going to do it. Yeah, because you've got a little positive momentum right now with these guys you're bringing in the portal. You get your quarterback this week.
Starting point is 00:36:20 You had two quarterbacks on campus this week. if you get one of those two guys, I think it is time to get out in front of it and kind of, you know, push that positive momentum forward. So look, is he going to be able to win all people over? No, he probably won't be able to win most people over. But there's a lot of people here that may be like tired of stoops, but would at least like to feel good going into the season. He's going to have to be the one that does that.
Starting point is 00:36:45 Who's up first, Shannon? Let's go to Doug. Doug. Go ahead, Doug. Yeah, man. I'm going to purpose this by saying that I am a huge Mark Stoop fan. Yes. But that right now, my feeling toward football is just like it was for the last couple of years with Cal.
Starting point is 00:37:06 It's hard for me to get excited about who's coming in because I know next year is probably going to be worse than it was this year because the SEC is so tough. And our schedule is terrible. And it's just hard for me to. to get excited about what's going on in football. I totally get that. Appreciate the call. I totally get why people would have a hard time being excited. I have a hard time being excited.
Starting point is 00:37:32 Do I look at that schedule and think Kentucky's going to go eight and four? No. Do I want to make another video like the one I did that went viral where I said they might go to the playoff? No, and I ain't going to do it again. But, you know, what's the other choice? Just sit here and go gloom, despair, and agony on me. Deep dark depression is all I can see.
Starting point is 00:37:54 I mean, at some point you just, you got to at least go, well, I mean, this kid could be good. Yeah. This is the situation Stoops is in. Until he wins a game, a home game, people are just not going to be fired up. Such a letdown last year, you won the transport portal last year. All the stories written about you going to the season where how Kentucky navigated the portal, not many losses, added big pieces, and then you don't win at home. I just don't think there's anything he can.
Starting point is 00:38:22 do until he wins a football. I disagree with you on there. There's nothing he can do. He, is he going to win everybody over? No. But there are things he can do. He can go out. He has to make his case for him. I mean, if you don't believe there's anything he could do, then he should
Starting point is 00:38:38 say nothing. But I disagree with that. I think you he can make it better than it is. You can make a little better, but getting people fired up. But he's got to try. He's got to try. He has to try. If he doesn't try, then he should have just left.
Starting point is 00:38:54 He has to try. Because if you don't, I mean, just look at what all these other programs are doing. Mike Gundy stunk it up in Oklahoma State. He's doing stuff to try. The worst is if you do nothing. Because I can tell you this, if he does nothing, Ryan, we know what the reaction will be going into the season. Yeah, and like I said, there are a lot of fans who are really down on the program right now for what's happened the last two years. If they didn't beat Louisville two seasons ago at the end of the year, we'd have two bad seasons in a row.
Starting point is 00:39:23 If they didn't be Louisville two seasons ago, he wouldn't be the coach. I think there may be some truth to that. Because I think if he had gone back to back years without making a bowl, that would have been a different situation. Who's up next? Go to Otis. Otis. Go ahead, Otis. Morning, gentlemen. Happy holiday to you all. Lord of Williams.
Starting point is 00:39:45 Great to help. I want to say this. All of the stooped bashing yet last year ain't go perfect for us. know, we had higher expectation. Yeah, they killed the transfer reporter, and they came up short. But I'm a stoop lawyer. I'm ride with stoop. He's going to get this thing right.
Starting point is 00:39:58 Yeah, last year didn't go according to plan, but you know what? Sometimes, Lord gave you some things that you need to see, and he opened his eyes and showed him that he maybe got too high on the horse and lost his way and got away from what made Kentucky Greaten. That was that big new law. And, you know, they went out and got a skilled players, but they don't translate if you're not winning in the trenches. So that front line, that defense line, the front line are paramount.
Starting point is 00:40:17 So I believe these guys going to get it together. I believe last year was a gift of a gift. lifting the curse of stoop. It's going to work out well for him. He's refocused. He's re-energat. You guys ride with him. Stay loyal.
Starting point is 00:40:27 Stay down for the cause. Don't drop your head. Keep your head up. Stay optimistic. All right. Thank you. Thank you. There you go.
Starting point is 00:40:33 That dude talks faster than anyone on the planet. He definitely gets a lot in in a short amount of time. He does sort of understand, though, Shannon, that I will stop you at some point. And he doesn't take a breath for me to stop him. The only caller in KSR history that you've never cut off. You can't. You can't. You can't cut him all.
Starting point is 00:40:50 How are you going to cut him off? What are you going to do? I mean, I feel like if I hit the button and turn him on. He just keep talking. It's like trying to jump on a moving treadmill. He's going. There's not going to be anything you can do. Shannon, I have a question for you.
Starting point is 00:41:03 Okay. Have you been following this thing about Travis Hunter and his fiancé? Have you been following this at all? No, I haven't been in his relationship. All right. So Travis Hunter is, we won the Heism. He won the Heism. And his fiance has made a lot of news.
Starting point is 00:41:19 let's go back after a game a few weeks ago his fiancee was on the field and it looked like that he she got mad at him for talking to female fans after the game is that right she said something to him like don't you be talking to other girls and he was just in his uniform like giving people a high-fives then at the Heisman trophy ceremony when he won deion stands up Travis Hunter's, somebody else stands up and she stays seated and Dion looks at her and go stand up. And so people didn't like that. And then she did an eight and a half minute video where she addressed her critics that included at some point saying something like, we have a great relationship.
Starting point is 00:42:08 I go to party with my girls sometimes and I'll go inside and party and he'll wait out on the steps until I'm gone and then wait for me to walk me. home, which made him not look the best. No. Like he just sits outside while she goes and parties. You've seen it, Drew. What do you think about? Do you think there's too much Travis Hunter's fiancee? Do you worry about him at all?
Starting point is 00:42:33 I don't worry about him. And I did see this video is everywhere. Her explanation. Her explanation is eight and a half minutes long. I know. I just as a man who's about to turn 40, I could not bring myself to give eight minutes of my life. I didn't watch it either.
Starting point is 00:42:47 But I saw the high. I've seen a lot of the news. Things like he doesn't take photos with female fans. She says he's not allowed to take photos with female fans unless she's there. You got to understand. Travis Hunter is going to be asked for photos anywhere he goes for a long time. That is a guy who is only getting more and more popular. If you can't handle him, just leaning in for a selfie as he's walking through a hotel,
Starting point is 00:43:09 it's going to be a long life. He's going to be a top five pick in the NFL draft, Shannon. He's going to be an NFL player. if you were him, would you be cool with the you can't take pictures with women unless I'm there, rule? No, I would have already broken up with her. He can have probably just about any woman he wants, especially when he gets to the NFL. Why is he hanging around with her?
Starting point is 00:43:30 Why is he sitting on the front porch like a bomb out there? Why isn't he in there with a party? I know. He doesn't even get to go in the party, right? He has to sit outside on the steps while she goes in parties. He just has to sit there. He's not even allowed to go in. I'm feeling very old at this point because I did.
Starting point is 00:43:47 know anything about this story. I will not watch that video. That guy better grow up. It ain't going to get any better. I'll just say that. It will not get better. It will only get worse. He should step away now. Hmm. Hmm. Sounds like your experience. This Christmas give the gift of sizzle and delight. That's the most passionate you've been about anything in a long time. Looking for the perfect present for your family, friends, and coworkers. noce linda farms.com. Noche Linda Farms has a huge variety of cuts.
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Starting point is 00:44:49 We'll take a break. Be right back to Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines.
Starting point is 00:45:09 We go straight to the source, the athletes themselves. Their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real. From viral moments to historic games, from buzzer beaders to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context, and ask the questions everybody wants answered. SportsLice brings you closer to the action with stories told by the people who live them. Listen to SportsSlice on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Sliced Life 12 in the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. Welcome to my new podcast. Learn the hard way.
Starting point is 00:45:45 with me, your host, and your favorite therapist, Kear Games. And in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, I'm bringing over a decade of my own experience in the mental health field and conversations with so many incredible guests. I'm talking. Tripp Fontaine, Ryan Clark. Sometimes when we're in the pursuit of the thing,
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Starting point is 00:46:18 because you find it important to be a good person while you hear on earth, or are you a good person because you're afraid? Because that's two different intentions, bro. Absolutely. And that's two different levels of trust. I want you to just really be a good person. Join me, Kear Gaines,
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Starting point is 00:46:50 Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reid.
Starting point is 00:47:16 He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nass would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying.
Starting point is 00:47:31 He running up the court, licking his fingers why he got the ball. After you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:47:48 Hey everyone, it's Ryder Strong and Will Ferdell from PodMeets World. And now the PodMeets Twirled podcast. We're two men who were completely clueless to reality TV, who now have covered dancing with the stars, traitors, and we're gearing up for the season finale of Survivor. So yeah, now we're experts. I know we annoyed a lot of our listeners by our severe lack of survivor knowledge. That is the point of the show. I'm just going to remind you.
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Starting point is 00:48:44 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. There are times when the mind becomes a difficult place to live. This is David Eagleman with the Inner Cosmos podcast, and for Mental Health Awareness Month, we're dedicating a series to understanding the mind when it struggles. I'm joined by doctors, researchers, and those with lived experience. We'll talk with singer-songwriter Jewel about anxiety. I started living in my car, and then my car got stolen.
Starting point is 00:49:13 I was shoplifting. I was having panic attacks. I was agoraphobic. And making it through heart. To be present is a learned skill, and it's hard to be present. We'll talk with John Nelson about clinical depression and the brain implant that saved his life. What I learned is that procedure made me happy because I'm disease-free. And we'll talk with leading experts like Judd Brewer about anxiety, and John Hirschfield about obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the science of how the brain can change. This is a month of deeply personal and honest conversations about what happens when the brain goes off course and what we can do about it.
Starting point is 00:49:55 Listen to Inner Cosmos on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. KS. Bar and Grill about to open up. Come join us for lunch today. And you can also, while you're here, you'll make the predictions about the bowl game. And remember the people that are the closest get to come back during the semifinals and finals and have a chance at up to $8,000. You think about that. You could win $8,000. What would you do with $8,000?
Starting point is 00:50:35 Dance, fly to Britain. I don't know why I picked to Britain. Just fly to Britain. I don't know. Hang out with Travis Hunter, try to get a picture and fight with his fiance. You could do all of that. Spend it all here at KS Bar and Grill. I don't think it'd be hard to eat $8,000 worth of food,
Starting point is 00:50:52 but you could buy the whole restaurant a meal if you wanted to do that during this. By the way, there's a great article on KSR, kutkutkysportsradio.com. Tyler Thompson did a profile of Jackson Robinson, talked to his mother, talked to Mark Pope, and in the profile, Ryan, he says, Mark Pope says that Jackson Robinson came to be YU,
Starting point is 00:51:16 kind of a broken kid, because he hadn't had success at his first stop. Was that something happened at Arkansas. He won't even talk about it. But that was not a good year for Jackson. Seems like Musselman might have been a tough dude to get along with. He's not the only kid, but that somehow Musselman and he didn't work out that when he came to BYU had lost all his confidence.
Starting point is 00:51:35 And he was like, now this kid you see today is a completely different kid than you saw and how proud of him he was. It's a really good profile of one of Kentucky's couple best players. You can see the confidence growing already this season. You know, 10, 11 games into the season. he's a better player. And I think when they put him at the point guard, the light ball went on or something.
Starting point is 00:51:54 He had to kind of fill in out there at Gonzaga, but he seemed to just be more confident with everything he's been doing. There's also a great clip, which I encourage you to watch. Mark Pope was on the Jim Rome show. I always like when that happens so that I can remember that Jim Rome is on the air, because I always forget, because I really liked Jim Rome when I was a kid and I never see him anymore, but he was on the Jim Rome show.
Starting point is 00:52:15 And in it, he said, and this was really cool, He said, this is what I like about Mark. Drew, he embraces our weirdness about our fans. So in the clip, you know, on social media, I'll set this up for you, Mario. Here is Mark Pope's clip. All right, there you go. Now, that's what we do for social media. In the clip, though, he says that the players at Kentucky kind of get an introduction to BBN
Starting point is 00:52:40 through the recruiting process. As soon as their name gets mentioned, they get flooded with Kentucky fans online. that gives them one hint. And then he said for the players last year, when they would fly in here for their visit, they would get off the plane and people would say, hey, Jackson Robinson's on the plane. And the player would say that on the plane, the fans would talk to him and say, you're coming to Kentucky, right? And then you would get Big Blue Madness. And he said they slowly understand Kentucky basketball through the course of the recruiting process, and they feel what it's like. I thought that was a really cool thing for Mark to say.
Starting point is 00:53:20 Yeah, he mentioned it's just an onslaught. The moment they're announced as visiting or even on the radar, they're feeling it before they even get to the airport to get on the plane. And then, of course, UK fans are everywhere rocking their gear and can spot any of these guys in a crowd. So we all know it, but it's good to hear a coach embracing it and telling us that the players enjoy it. We're not weirding them out a little bit.
Starting point is 00:53:39 Yeah, it's got to be wild. Like, say you're Ansley-Almanor, and you went to Fairley-Dickinson, where even in the town where you go and at the campus where you are, no one knows who you are, right? And then all of a sudden, overnight, you get this offer from Kentucky and this entire state of people know you and your mentions are flooded and your social media following doubles. That's got to be a crazy thing for these kids. It's one thing for the kids that are stars out of high school and that slowly get used to it. But for a kid from Fairley Dickinson or Dayton, where just overnight, it changes.
Starting point is 00:54:18 That's got to be insane. And Pope was talking about Angeloie Almanor one time about that exact same thing. And like he understood he was coming here as a backup. But he wanted just to be a part of that phenomenon, a big blue nation. He wanted to feel that and be a part of it, even though knowing coming in, he was going to be a backup. I think about when Pope was building the roster when he first got here and, you know, I'm guilty of it too. I was writing some of the stories. but we were just stalking.
Starting point is 00:54:42 I mean, they're seeing him alone, and people are tweeting about it, but the one that stood out was Colin Chandler coming down that escalator at Lexington Airport. At like midnight, and there's 20 people down there to greet him. That is insane. I mean, there were people, yeah,
Starting point is 00:54:55 we were greeting them at the airport at midnight on a Tuesday. He had two years off from basketball to go on his mission, and the next thing, you know, he's coming down the escalator and looking into posters. My man was on his mission.
Starting point is 00:55:08 He was out there knocking, knocking on doors going, hello, my name is Elder Chandler. Can I please give you, teach you about the Church of Latter-day Saints? And then all of a sudden there's people at the airport saying come to Kentucky. That's got, because he had just gotten off his mission, right? I think he had gone maybe home for a little while, but it still had to be very new and overwhelming to him and all of them, really. I mean, we are crazy. It's good to hear that they like it. No, I mean, we are insane, but it's in a good, it's in a good way. All right, so when we come back, I got a couple things.
Starting point is 00:55:39 One, about the playoff. There's one school that's not even going to sell out their game. That's crazy. And that's going to be an embarrassment, I think, for their program. And somebody just logged a prediction for Dane Key. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier.
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