KSR - 2024-12-19- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: December 19, 2024

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two they filmed us for The South Carolina loss and the loss at Tennessee. No, no, it's Louisville. Louisville. South Carolina, Louisville, even worse. Oh, it's South Carolina Louisville. I would prefer Tennessee, actually. Oh, no.

Yeah. Shannon, what are you laughing at? It's just of all. Yeah, those are not going to be good weeks. Those are not the next year. So right before the season, are you excited about watching that? No, it's going to make Kentucky look bad to lose those. both those home games, one against your big in-state rival.

Yeah. It's not good. There's no way they can spin that positively, I don't think. And somebody that's been through that process, I got a sense of what they're looking for, and it ain't going to be good for us. It's not going to be good. It's not like, you know, we get behind the scenes with things where UK has got a little control, and it's like, yeah, we'll edit that part out.

No, the parts that UK would cut out is what Netflix is looking for. Yeah, it's not going to be true behind the scenes. It's not going to be, not going to be good. for us at all. But it's the way it goes. Shout out to the people from Sayer back there, state champs, eating lunch here. Nice. Yeah, Sparton's. Yeah, Sair Spartans. And like they're only their 10th year of existence. Chad Pennington, their head coach, did a great job. We had a Raceland Ram fan in here yesterday, Mike Fanon, who was complaining about losing for the third straight year in the finals. Raceland's been to the finals three years in

row, lost to Pikeville, Pikeville, and then this year lost to Sayer. Let's talk about the college football playoff here for a second. College football. playoff first time they've ever done it like this four games at home fields some interesting draws because of because of who got to host all three of the four games are in very cold locations they're going to be in south bend where the weather is supposed to be 17 degrees at kickout a kickoff for north notre dame indiana a late one too it's late at night now the good thing about that one is two teams in state that's going to be a wild game. They never play each other. That one will be fine. Then you have Texas

Clemson. That game's in Texas. That'll be fine. Tennessee, Ohio State's going to be interesting because Ohio State fans are mad at their coach, so they're expecting maybe 30 to 40 percent of the crowd to be Tennessee fans. Tennessee fans are like taking it on as a challenge. How many people can we get in that stadium? Knoxville's not far from Columbus, so it's an easy trip those teams never play drew that'll be a really interesting environment i think i'm i mean i'm a tennessee hater obviously but i'm looking forward to that one more than anything because i think there's a chance that orange i mean they're not going to take over they'll have a lot but they're going to make a big dent i even saw yesterday they changed the horseshoe on google maps to nalen north so if you went to the ohio state

stadium for a while on google it said nelan north is the title so i mean tennessee is doing everything they can to get in there. So, and by the way, Saturday, we're going to, we obviously, the Kentucky game will be here. We're going to do it. I'm going to do the post game show here. And then during the post game show, that game will be on for Tennessee, Ohio State if you want to come. But then I think the biggest story is actually what on paper to me is the worst game, which is SMU and Penn State. I don't really care about that game at all.

But there are insiders this morning at Penn State saying they're worried it's not. even going to be full. They're worried that their stadium is going to have like 10,000 unsold or at least unused tickets. The university is encouraging their fans trying to say come. Now, they're in a unique spot at Penn State because their students are gone. It's kind of an isolated place. It's not, it's not easy. If you've ever been to college or state college, it's not easy to get to. We've been there. It's like an hour off the main roads. a lot of flights in, it's going to be frigid cold. I mean, they're thinking it's going to be like 15 degrees at kickoff. What will it be like, Ryan, for a program that alleges itself to be one of

the powers of college football, Penn State, to have a playoff game on their home field and they can't sell it out? That's a little slap in the face. I mean, that's a fan base that takes a lot of pride in their football program. You know, they had those whiteouts all the time, and it looks like It's an awesome environment to go to a college football game. And here you're hosting a playoff game. And if you can't sell that out, I think that's a little slap in the face. Now then the other part of Penn State that's interesting is their backup quarterback. So their starting quarterback is good.

He has said he's coming back for another year. But their backup quarterback was also pretty good. He's not going to get to play. And since the starter said he's going to come back, the backup has decided to enter the transit. portal. But not only is he entering the transfer portal, he's transferring now before the game. So they're in the playoff. He's skipping the playoff. If the starter gets hurt, they're going to have to go to a true freshman third string because the backup left the team before the playoff. I get it if you're that kid, but I'm really, really surprised Drew that he would leave the team

before the playoff. If the starter gets hurt and he was supposed to go in and he's not there, I don't know, man. That's, what do you think of that? Like, would you do it if you were him? I know, I understand entering the portal, but what can't you enter it and then say, I'm still going to finish the season? You know, he's going to go take his visits and move on with the process.

I couldn't do that. I know he might be a little more money at stake. He could lose out on another opportunity. But you just went through a whole season with these guys, and you're in the playoff. It's right in front of you. How can you not see it through, even if you are the backup? Yeah, Western had... Western played yesterday.

They said during the game, Western had six guys who were in the portal who decided to stay and play their last game, even though they were in the portal, including maybe the center that comes to Kentucky, according to Santa Con's girlfriend and Ryan. He played the game yesterday. You know, if you were this quarterback, don't you stay through... the end of the playoff? I don't know this. It just gives the impression to me that maybe there's something else going on.

Maybe he was just so unhappy all year long, and maybe he felt like he deserved a chance and didn't get it, and he's just going to stick it to him now. But what if they go win a national championship, and you were gone? They shouldn't give him a ring. He doesn't get a ring then. No ring.

No ring. You're out. You're done. He's from Pennsylvania, too. I don't know if he grew up a Penn State fan, but that's just another element to me of why you'd want to stick around and potentially win the whole thing. I just feel like you got to stay, especially in the playoff.

Then you have Marshall. Okay, Marshall has 25 guys in the portal, so many guys that they backed out of their bowl game. They were supposed to play in the Independence Bowl, and they said we don't have enough players to play. Now, I think that's a little lame of Marshall because they still have 60 guys on the team. It feels like to me they could still play. But the NCAA, to me, Ryan, has got to find a way. to wait and open the portal after the Bowls. Now, they have a problem, which is school starts at a lot of these schools right at the start of January.

So if you wait until after the Bowls, you're only going to have like a week or two for teams to do it. But, I mean, don't you think it would be better or move the bowls up so that they're played? Because, like, I don't think it's good for anybody that, like, a team would have to withdraw from the bowl game. Yeah, if you want to get in the portal, but your team makes the national championship game, you're going to be playing after schools probably already started. It may be a school you're considering. Yeah, well, I mean, it's a really, okay, so let's say Georgia plays Oregon in the championship game. Without question, they're going to be players at Georgia and Oregon that enter the portal.

But that national championship game is not until January 20th. So school's already starting. School's going to have been in session for like two weeks at these other schools. I think what's going to end up happening for Georgia and Oregon players is if they enter the portal, they're just going to have to spend another semester at the school they're leaving because they won't have a choice. It's very hard to navigate on both ends of all the portal players in the playoffs because if you're a school wanting to get one of them, you're just keeping your fingers crossed that they're going to follow through and they finally get out of the playoff. And if they back out, you've now missed out on everyone.

It's in the same case with the players going into the portal. Maybe they think they have a spot. Things change. Then you're left just kind of not many options out there. So the rule almost needs to change a little bit on how they can move around as the season gets longer and longer into January. Let's talk about two more things that happened yesterday that I think are interesting. So quarterback of Vandy, Diego Pavia, who completely crushed us. He filed a case in court arguing that his two years at Juko should not count against his eligibility in college,

basically saying the NCAA, his legal argument is complicated, but it's basically this. The NCAA has the ability, according to Diego, to say kids can only play for four years. But they can't say that the two years at Juko count, because those two years at Jukkah are in a different organization. His point was, you let Mormon missionaries go do something for two other years. You now let people play professional basketball and then come over. why does Jucco count against me? The court gave him an initial restraining order allowing him to keep playing while they make the decision.

Here's why I think this is huge. If that decision stays and then ends up becoming the rules, high school kids are going to all of a sudden have a completely new incentive. If you're a high school kid and you know you could go to Juko for two years and play and it not count against your eligibility, I think a lot of kids would do that, wouldn't you? It would make it to where you would enter college more mature. If you don't get the offers out of high school you want,

you could go to Juko. You're not hurting yourself by going to Juko. Juko becomes almost like a prep school. And if you're a college, I think you would really want to go recruit Jukos because you will have already seen kids playing at the college, You would have seen if they've matured. I think this, if Diego Pavia's ruling stays in place,

I think it's massive for Jucco football and actually has the potential to really Ryan change college football and make it a lot older. It would also apply to basketball too. As a Diego Pavia fan, I'm glad to have him back. But as a UK fan, I'm not happy he'd be back at Vanderbilt the way he tore itself. But believe Pobby out of it, the bigger potential. I was getting to that.

Can I go ahead? Go ahead. But it is, and the argument is going to make, it is like a prep school. Some of these kids, maybe they graduate high school at 17 years old. You know, they're not ready to go to a four-year school. Well, now you can go develop at a, and there's good football at these junior colleges. I mean, Kansas and we saw in Mississippi, I mean, there's good football at the junior college level that you can kind of develop your skills a little more before you go, maybe even get a bigger scholarship. Think about last chance of you, that school down there.

Yeah. If those kids can go play and then lose no eligibility, and you have a 20, I mean, that'll lead to 24, 25-year-olds being in college football at a regular basis. I just, I, if it stays, I think it's a big deal. And then the other thing, Drew, they just gave players their passwords. So if you played college football from 2016 to 2020, so like Max was in school during. during that part. Think about who our teams were. Those people yesterday got a password that lets them log into the NCAA settlement. You've heard a lot about the NCAA settlement, the house settlement. And it basically tells them, here's how much money you're going to get.

I was shocked when I heard the numbers. I heard of about six UK players that logged in yesterday. We're talking about, I mean, Max was one of them, but also offensive lines. lineman. I'm not talking Josh Allen, Benny Snell. I'm talking about guys in the big blue wall, kickers, punters. The amount of money the settlement said they were going to get is anywhere between $75,000 and $200,000. No way. Holy cow. Now that's at UK, so if you went to Western or some of those, it might not be as much. I'll tell you, a kid wrote in, he was a walk-on long snapper at Western who didn't even play. And even he got $2,000.

My goodness. That's a lot of money. Yes, it is. I mean, that's a lot of money. For some of these kids that didn't make it to the NFL, that could be life-changing money. If you were able to get $200,000, I'm shocked the payments that much, true. I was, too. And I immediately thought of Max and other guys I know in that era.

And I'm so happy for them, whatever they're getting. You know, that age range, most of those guys not far out of college, just getting things figured out. That can go a long way on that first mortgage. And I don't know what Max got, but I'm excited for him and everyone else that gets it because, I mean, people were making money on their backs for a long time. I'm glad they're getting a big slice of the pie. And if you finished your college at 2015, sorry. You hate the world right now. You do, Shannon, don't you?

Like, if you graduated in 2015, you just have to be cussing up a storm. Yeah, but for the other kids, I mean, hey, that's an early Christmas gift, $75,000 for some of those kids. And the dudes that won the most are people like Max. If you graduated college in 2020, because you only get credit for the years between 2016 and 2020. So if you played all of those years, you get more money. You get the most money. So the people that graduated the COVID year, that kind of stunk as a year to graduate, but it actually gets you the most. money. So those people will end up being the ones that make the most.

I think about anyone who in that cutoff year left early and took a gamble and ended up with nothing. Like I'm going to throw a name out there. I don't even know what this lines up, but it popped by like a boom Williams. I think that timeline might be close. Someone that thought, I'm going to just go take my chance to the NFL, but if they had done one more year and been a star, they never would have known this check would have existed. And they picked the money based on there's a formula, how much you played and how good you were. So somebody like Boom Williams would have probably made a lot of money. of juniors that left and it didn't pan out and they're wondering what they would have been paid.

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2016. If I was a 2015 kid, though, Shannon, I would be frustrated. Like if you were a one-year cutoff. They got to cut it off somewhere. Otherwise, if you don't, you're going all the way back to the beginning of the NCAA. Yeah, it's $2.6 billion being distributed. So it's quite a bit of money being... I had no idea.

Was that a big amount that you told you? Rick Petino this morning announced, Drew, that St. Johns will no longer take part of post-game handshakes because he thinks it gets too tense for the players. That it's going to be like the NBA. they all just go back to the locker rooms or if somebody wants to say hi they can but the lineups they're not going to do anymore because he thinks it's leading to too many fights what do you think of that i saw that and i'm wondering have i been missing all these fights i mean occasionally there's one or a little blowbob but has it is it that big of a problem i didn't i hadn't noticed it

have you seen a lot of fights no you see like what maybe one a year or something where something happens in the handshake line but for the most part there's never an incident whatsoever A lot of these kids, they know each other. They've played against each other growing up and they've seen a U circuit for years and years and years anyway. I feel like I like it. I feels like Rick has a solution looking for a problem because I just, I agree with you, Drew.

It doesn't seem like there's been a lot going on. Yeah, I thought maybe I missed something crazy that happened. I was doing some Googling. Every once in a while, you get a little, you know, bump shoulders or jawing, but I can't think of anything that's been so extreme. I'd stop doing it. I like you and COVID when we just waved at each other.

Like, hey, how are you doing it on there? Just like, did that. Yeah, well, it looks like that. Yeah, it is what we're going back to. Who's up next? Kelly. Kelly, go ahead, Kelly. Hey, what's going on, guys?

What's up? That running back that's coming in from Nebraska that's visiting, and I really hope he comes here, but his last name is pronounced Dowdell, like Caldell except with two Ds. All right. Yeah, I know because that's my last name. Oh, okay. And if he comes here, if he comes here,

and he's pretty good, and they make a jersey of him. I'm buying one for everybody in my family. You should. I mean, that's a unique name. If you get that and the kid plays at Kentucky, you've got to get the jersey. And to be quite honest with, you know, whenever Drew said it, I mean, people have had problems pronouncing our name. He came about the closest out of anybody that's ever tried to say it.

But, yeah. I really hope that kid ends up coming. Well, I hope he does for you as well. I appreciate the call. By the way, ESPN's Kirk Herb Street just said, I have major doubt Tennessee Vol fans can get into the game in Columbus for Ohio State. That's only going to make them want to do it more. Someone was on the fence and just looked at their friend and said,

yep, we're getting in the car. Yeah. Yeah. Spoken like a true Columbus native Ohio State Buckeye. Yeah. Well, you know, he's had a tough. Herb Street had to move out of Columbus. He moved to Nashville because of how harsh the fans were to him

because any time he picked against them, you know, that they would get mad. But I can see that because they're like, you played for us. Why are you doing this? But I don't know. I think that's going to make Tennessee fans want to do it even more. As much as I don't like him, you got to give them credit. They're fan base. They're not us, but they can hold their own and get a little crazy too.

I think they're going to show up there. Did you see the Doug? Gottlieb stuff yesterday. Yes, I did. Oh, dude, Doug Gottlieb. What a disaster. So Doug Gottlieb right now is coaching for, if you remember, used to be on TV a lot. We've had a lot of interactions with him over the years.

But right now he's coaching at Green Bay. They are two and 11. Okay, he's a first year coach. He made the bizarre decision to be the coach at Green Bay, but still host his afternoon radio show on Fox Sports Radio. So he coaches Green Bay and hosts a national radio show. He also talks a lot. He responds on Twitter.

Like he tries to act like he's still a sports announcer, so he'll respond on Twitter, Ryan, to anything that happens. Adam Schaefter went at him. He, like, questioned one of Adam Schaefter's reports. So Adam Schaefter responded, Hey, Doug, you're 2 and 11 maybe focus on your season, which was a little harsh. And then yesterday, they played Michigan Tech,

which is a D-2 school. And there was a clip of him before the game saying, And look, I like playing hard teams. I don't really particularly like it. When nobody's come in here and play, it doesn't help us. Well, Michigan Tech was the next game, and that nobody beat them yesterday on their home floor, 7270. Doug Gottlie had been announced,

I'm going to stay off Twitter for a while because y'all aren't being a little mean. It's like, well, dude, now you know what it was like when you were talking trash all those years. What do you think about Gottlie struggles? Yeah, call this team Nobody You. all they needed to get ready. But how can you do your team any justice if you're not

three hours a day you're doing this radio show? As a head coach at a Division I school, I don't know how he has the time to do this radio show. I think his argument was, Drew, that by doing the national radio show, he would be getting his team publicity. Oh, he is. He's getting them all the publicity. I know more

about Green Bay basketball than I've ever known. But it's not positive, right? Shout out Michigan Tech assistant coach Zach Fleener from Kentucky. I played at Murray and now calls Lexington hometown. So a little Kentucky connection. Is that right? Yeah, beat Doug last night. But what a week.

Shefter doesn't even reply to people on Twitter and dunked on him. And he turns around and loses that game. They're up 10 at halftime and he choked it away. I mean, the other thing is Gottlieb will still do, you know, that field of 68 where they talk about the games at night. He'll still do that. And criticize other teams. Can you imagine Mark Pope? Doing a daily radio show and coaching Kentucky basketball?

Like, that's crazy. 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. 859-280-2287. The Nebraska running back is visiting today.

By the way, he was one of the three best running backs in the country, drew in short-yarded situations. He hit every third and one he attempted this year. Yeah, that's what we need. It looks like if Will Cox is hanging around, you got a little speed there. They need to get back to someone of that mold Kentucky said so much success with. They're just bang them right in the head. A little bit of a bully.

Shannon, some breaking news that you'll like. You need a want in a nah? No, I don't think it needs that. The Federal Aviation Association has said for, has banned commercial drones over an area of New Jersey. for the next month to quote calm hysteria. Okay. Well, that's good. So do you think that'll help?

Well, until the aliens come over and then they don't care if you got a regulation or not. The aliens won't follow the regulation, right? They don't agree by that. So they do what they want. So, yeah, when that happens, then everybody's going to start freaking out. Hopefully, I think that'll, I think that's good, get everybody to calm down, stop acting like goobers, think it's saying there's aliens everywhere and just get everybody to chill. Although, apparently some of these commercial drones are Amazon delivering packages,

What if they can't deliver packages right before Christmas, Ryan? That's not good. No, that's a bad time for that to happen. So does this mean, did they find that radiation piece that was missing? There was not a radiation piece. That's what the mayor came out since some missing radiation piece of something. From the harbor. Did they find it?

I don't know. Yeah, it's just it was down the street. But now if they've banned personal drones, when we still see them, we'll know it's a problem. Well, then they'll know it's a problem. Well, then they'll know it's either a government one or it's aliens. That's right. As someone who believes in aliens, I can actually shut down aliens on this particular issue. If you see the drones, they have like red and green lights and headlights.

I don't know that aliens up there are in code with our regulations and fit our light schemes. So I don't think it's aliens on this one. They're out there, but not this particular case. Yeah. Well, they're not out there. And as I said, I thought this was ridiculous. Jordan Dingell, who played at Kentucky, was a tight-in from Kentucky, ends up going to South Carolina.

Interesting because he basically didn't get the ball here, and it was kind of like just assumed, you know, didn't play a lot, all of that. Do you find it weird that he ends up at South Carolina? I wouldn't have guessed that destination, but he almost left last year for Tennessee, so it's not shocking that he was shopping himself around the SEC again. I mean, that's a guy you feel like had potential and just, I mean, not many stats at all last year, so I kind of understand why he would go along. But South Carolina has been a good program.

Are you surprised they would want to bring in him? I mean, he was like fourth on our depth chart last year. Yeah, that tight end room was so deep with Caddus and Camari and Dingle and now Willie Rodriguez. You know, Dane really liked South Carolina when they recruited him. I mean, there's that fan base. Even though they punched me in the face last time I was down there, that's a pretty cool place to go. What I just don't want to see.

But I'm surprised, did we read him wrong or did South Carolina read him wrong? Because, like, we didn't use him. And now he gets a scholarship from South Carolina? Well, that's my big fear is if he goes, it has some monster season and a bunch of touchdowns. It just didn't throw to the tight ends this year. I'm looking at his stats. He had 20 catches his sophomore year, 12 his junior year, and 9 his senior year. It just kept going the wrong direction.

And he probably thinks they're going to maybe lean more towards Rodriguez next year. maybe he gets bumped down even a little further. Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't want to see him go off against us, though. Who's up next? Eric. Eric, go ahead, Eric. Hey, man.

So, I called in a little while ago about the volleyball team and my daughter, and of course they've lost. But today I was calling in because we're going to be in Toronto this weekend, and we're going to go watch the Houston Rockets and watch, and hopefully Reed gets to play. But that brings me to my point of when you were talking earlier about coach Pope saying that, you know, the fans, and all that stuff.

Earlier in the season, I sent you misinformation of Chasla and you're being on my flight. It was actually Ansela Almanor. I just didn't with their hair. I thought it was the same guy, but we do. We overreact when we see a coach coming down

the escalator at the airport. We go, who was on that flight? For sure. Yeah, and then we should, though. But I think Pope was saying that's a positive. He wasn't saying that was a negative. He was saying it was good to have fans. do that. Oh, no, it was awesome. It was just that flight was so turbulent. I can't wait to meet

Ansela again and say, hey, do you remember that flight because we were both holding on? Because it was very, very turbulent getting into Lexington. Well, I appreciate the call. Anzley, you know, he's not playing as much anymore, but I still feel like when he has an open corner three, I mean, he's, he's Mario's got. Mario has him as the next Durant. But when he has an open corner three, I still feel pretty good that it'll go in if he's wide open. He's got one of the quickest triggers on the team. He does not think about it. He gets it off quick.

It goes in. I just think defensively he can be a little bit of a liability. So recently they've had some matches. Mario's girl sent me. He's got two Almanor posters on in his house. Mario does. Which is a weird thing to have because like, why would you have? But he does posters.

I wasn't going to say this, but I had to pick Mario up one day. And I was kind of waiting for him has his shirt off, which is. weird. I was sitting on Mario's couch waiting for him to get ready and he had gone through and taken out all the frames pictures of his girlfriends and traded out. No, he did not have his great. He had he all menor and a dog? Wow, that is kind of strange Mario. Shannon Sharp, uh, Shannon, the dude, I will tell you about Shannon Sharp. Yeah. He said earlier today that he has a cell phone that he uses, but he has no apps at all. His cell phone is completely blank. He's got Instagram live. So my question, he does have Instagram live. So he's lying, isn't he? Because he did film himself having something fun happened.

What would you use your cell phone for, I guess, just calls? Calls and text. What does Larry do? Larry has the same. Larry and Shannon Sharp. I guess that's true. Larry does not have any apps. He has no apps.

That's true. Larry has a cell phone with no app. and only two numbers in it, moms and mine. Those are the only two people he calls. That's all he needs to know. That's when a phone is a phone. Nothing else to it. I guess Shannon Sharp and like,

there are other things Shannon Sharp does that Larry does not do, but I guess they have the same theory about phones. Shannon Harps saying he has two phones, one for the apps and one for the calls. No, he says, I don't have apps. They distract you from life. Yeah, that's a lie. It's definitely a lie.

We know. Why are you lying about that? We've heard your grunts. We know. We have literally heard your grunts. Yes. Alabama's AD came out yesterday and said, hey, Bama Nation, the rest of the country is stealing all of our players with NIL. We've got to step up on NIL or we're going to lose our whole roster.

Did you ever think you'd see a day where Alabama football was crying poverty? The Empire's crumbling. He asked the fan base to fight back against all these other teams. We got their coach wearing t-shirts to games now. They're not in the playoff. They did wear a t-shirt to games. They're on their way straight down. It's happening right before our eyes.

Greg Byrne, a Mitch Barnhart disciple. He was here at UK. I know Greg Byrne. I'm shocked, though, that the Alabama football, the almighty kingdom of all college football, has to put a letter out to their fan base, urging them to help support the program. But see, this is why people when they were predicting

in I. They predicted the exact opposite thing that happened. Everybody believed Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State were only going to get better. And the opposite has happened. It has opened up the doors for other teams to participate. I mean, Indiana is in the playoff. SMU is in the playoff. It's different now.

Like Arizona State is in the playoff. Boise State. I mean, they had to have somebody from that. But it has been, and in basketball, I mean, in basketball, look at the top teams in the country. Tennessee, Auburn, Iowa State, Marquette. Like, it's not the, North Carolina stinks. In theory, they should have the biggest NIL of almost team A. They're six and five.

Kansas is not as good as you would have thought. Like, I think it is almost drew democratized sports. It has. Alabama, they're learning that when it went to NIL, your advantage of having all those NIC-saving car dealerships all across the state that doesn't work anymore. Got to find a new formula. And on the basketball end, where there's not as many players, I think with like a Kansas or even in North Carolina, you're seeing some schools give way too much to one person, like

a Hunter Dickinson. BYU. Kansas State. I mean, so before you just think, especially in basketball, you spend money the wrong way, you're done. Kansas State spent all that money on guys, and they're awful. And their players are like, why did I come here? This is terrible.

Like, I actually think it has made it to where more schools have a chance. Now, you do have to have a base amount of money, but if you do, I think it'll be different. So do you think by this letter that Greg Burns sent out, the Alabama fan base will respond because they are so proud of their football program, they want it to succeed? I don't know. I think they're going to learn. I mean, they still have a lot, but they're not going to be what they were. I agree with you.

They don't have Texas money. They just don't. I mean, Alabama doesn't have Texas money. And, I mean, Kentucky's got the same problem, but we've got like two people with Texas money. And we've got Mark Pope. But, you know, it is interesting to me, I said this last year and it's becoming true. This is a seismic ship. in college sports is happening right now,

and there are going to be people that take advantage of it, and they're going to be people that get left behind by it. The last seismic shift left Nebraska behind. It left Tennessee behind, although Tennessee is now catching up with this one. It left Notre Dame behind. This shift is going to leave teams behind, and it's crazy to think Alabama could be one of them, but if they're not careful, Drew, they could be one of them.

I mean, right now, they all right now, they all. obviously had a great year. Two losses they didn't have. They're not in the playoff. But you do that a couple more times. We saw how crazy that fan base went over one loss. They could just start imploding and eating themselves on Fondbaum every Monday morning. If they told people of your generation, Ryan, that Nebraska football would stop being good. They'd have never believed it. I mean, they would have never believed it. They were good every single year. Yep. And then all of a sudden, when the national television, where every team was on TV happened, Nebraska got left behind. Maybe that's what happens to one of these schools like Alabama.

Do you think it could happen to Alabama? Happened to Nebraska. Happened to Notre Dame. Happened to Tennessee. Why couldn't it happen to Nebraska? I mean, those schools, or Alabama, those schools in your generation were the way we look at Georgia and Alabama and Ohio State now, right? That's very fair. So it could.

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Georgia Southern Drew plays Sam. Houston in the R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl who you got it's a big one for me I went one and one yesterday so there's just determines if I'm green or red in bowl season so I'm gonna say Sam Houston covers the number I don't think you said three and a half three now oh they're definitely covering that are they the favorite they're the underdog definitely oh easy money yeah you're getting three and a half I'm taking Sam Houston as well he was one of the great renegades of the Wild West and so he can certainly take down Southern Georgia.

You've got the whole southern part of Georgia playing one guy, Sam Houston. I'm taking Georgia Southern. Okay. Well, his whole state, Sam Houston State. Yeah, but the same Houston is not a state. So Georgia Southern should win. Texas? It's in Texas, but it's not even of itself state.

There's also an NFL game tonight. You've got the Chargers and the Broncos. I don't know if you saw this story. Broncos fans are very sad. They move this game from Sunday till Thursday. And because it's at the Christmas holiday, a lot of Denver fans from around the country had made plans to come Sunday as part of the Christmas holiday and watch the game. But then they moved it to Thursday, and now they can't get to the game. They only moved it two weeks ago.

And there's Denver fans threatening to file a lawsuit against the NFL saying you can't two weeks before the game change this. I had hotel reservations. I had tickets, and you just changed it. Denver says if you look on your ticket it says events may change times sorry but it's become a big deal in Denver 10 this impact your friends yes yeah the keys obviously devon plays for the Broncos it this affected them absolutely yeah what happened well they're you know they're scheduling visits for dane and they try to you know spread out thinking this game would be on a weekend where they can go out there to see their grandsons and see devons so it definitely paid and also the broncos game up in Cincinnati got changed from

Sunday to Saturday. So it's infected Broncos fans twice. That's true. Next week's game, it was supposed to be Sunday and it got moved to Saturday. But Bronco fans are really mad. They're like, this is the Christmas holiday season. I wanted to go take my family and now we can't get to the game at all. That would suck. I, you know, probably pre-paying for hotels that you can't cancel or change flights. That's a, that's a rough situation for Broncos fans. I feel bad for him. I kind of feel bad for him too, right? I would encourage them to use that free time to go check out.

the airport a lot of weird things going on there but overall that does stink stop with the airport who's up next oh 859 28027 we don't apparently don't have a caller I guess so that's okay the people I guess to go check out the the witch house we went to because it obviously it was a store and it obviously has worked so far and it did work all right so with kentucky and ohio state Saturday are you confident the spread is not out yet are you confident about the game uh yes I'm very confident with Ohio State playing football that night. Will they have any fans that related to a player? That will actually be. I don't know that there's going to be that many people at the game. North Carolina is six and five. They played a major game in Charlotte Wednesday night

that presumably a lot of their fans went to UCLA. I don't know if you saw their home crowd for their game last night. It was friends and family only at the UCLA game. They are certainly not flying across the country to the game. Ohio State has a playoff game that night in Columbus. We're going to be the only fans there. And to be quite frank with you, well, you said you think a lot of Kentucky fans are going. A lot, but I mean, to make a big impact in Madison Square,

I don't think we're going to be filling the place or anything. I think there are good seats available. If you were wanting, if you've ever thought, I'd like to go see Kentucky play in Madison Square Garden, this might be a good time because I'm not sure North Carolina, UCLA and Ohio State fans probably have ever cared less right about this event than they're going to care this year. I know Jack Dempsey's has put out a promo. They're inviting fans to come by.

They think they're going to have a good turnout. Is Aaron Bradshaw playing or not? Aaron Bradshaw is eligible to play for the game. I would assume that he would play. What do you think that's going to be like? Bradshaw, just playing against a guy who was here last year. I care just as much about this coffee cup as that matchup. I don't even know if they play.

Wow. I mean, you're harsh on Aaron Bradshaw. No, I mean, I hope he does well, but I have not thought once about him looking forward to this game. I don't even off of play. They lost Michi Johnson, who's a good player for them. Yeah, one of their best players. He's actually killed Kentucky at South Carolina in the last couple of years.

So their team is just kind of bambles. Fans aren't focused. We'll probably be, don't you think, eight to ten point favorite probably? I think it'll be single digits, yeah, probably around there. Auburn just beat them by 40, though, right? Yeah, I would say eight, nine, ten. that's probably what we're going to be a favorite. There is one matchup I like.

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