KSR - 2024-12-23- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: December 23, 2024

Matt, Ryan and Mario talk Christmas gifts, UK basketball, UK football and they take your phone calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-2-80-2287. Text Machine 772-7-7-4-5-254. Matt Jones, Ryan Lemon, and Mario, who doesn't know any announcers. A couple of people want to see if you know these. Do you know who Jim Nance is? No, give me another one. I mean, you just skipped over. Jim Nance might be the most famous one. What about Al Michaels? Who are these guys? Unbelievable. Unbelievable ride. Are they older?

Yeah, but they're on TV every week. But you know what? During the first break, he got, he knows. I know some people. Like Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharp, the talking heads. Yeah, you know what they're talking about play by play guys. Mark Albert? Mark Albert.

Mark Albert's been dead for a decade. Oh, is he? I must have gotten confused. Marr, Albert. Must be a different guy, I'm thinking of. Okay. Well, no, his kid. is still on.

Yeah. What's his kid's name? Kevin Albert or something? Oh, is that his kid? Yeah, that's his kid. Yeah, so, all right. Do you know Tom Leach? Of course I know Tom Leach.

Paul Hogan passed away. Crocodile Dundee, which might explain why Max is not here today. To be a sad day. He might be sad, but rest in peace to Paul. Paul Hogan apparently died this morning. Did you see any of the Crocodile Dundee movies? I think I saw a couple of them. I don't remember one minute of any of it,

but I'm pretty sure I think I saw one. Let's talk about the football playoff for a second. Kind of a dud. All the games kind of stunk. Some people are saying it means they shouldn't have it. I disagree with that. I still enjoy watching it. But the games were kind of all blowouts pretty much.

They were. I do enjoy these first-round games on the home fields. I mean, I know there's disadvantage to the other team, but man, for that home team, that's kind of a cool environment. What did you think about the Ohio State Tennessee? Turns out Tennessee ended up with about 20 to. 25% of the crowd. The early pictures made it look like it was all Tennessee fans, but then Ohio State fans came in and ended up being about 20 to 25%.

But then Tennessee got absolutely destroyed. Run off the field. Was it 21-0 first quarter? I mean, it was quick. Shame on Ohio State fans for letting that happen. You know, you're hosting a home playoff game and you let those tickets get away and put in the hands of a Tennessee fan. Shame on you.

Mario, they came into their trap, but they were not able to, They didn't take over the trap. They didn't take over the trap. They came in there but then got destroyed. I was going to say I've seen clips online. I didn't get to watch the actual game, but I saw a lot of Tennessee fans. There were a lot of Tennessee fans.

I listened to the Tony Basilio show while falling asleep Saturday night and to listen to Tennessee fan sadness and anger. They still like their coach, but they're very upset that they say he never wins a big game. Was it comical where some people losing their minds at all? Well, it was actually Basilio was being the most.

calm. He was like, look, we had a good year, but the fans weren't having it. They were very, very upset. Nothing they can do, man. That was a blowout. That was, they just ran them off the field Saturday night. Yeah. So, you know, I still think the playoff, though, is worth continuing. Do you think Indiana and SMU, do you think they proved they shouldn't be in or not? Yeah, definitely. So they're going to keep the format, but you think they'll tweak it, who gets in? next year? What do you think will happen? I think they might end up tweaking it to where they don't give buys to like Boise State and Arizona State. I think that's probably the thing that will change it. But here's, I had said Indiana didn't deserve to be in, SMU didn't deserve to

be in. But the problem for people like me is if you make that argument, then how do you explain Tennessee? Because I think everybody thought Tennessee should be in and then they got beat just as bad, maybe even, they got beat worse than Indiana. So if you don't think Indiana and SMU should be in, what do you say about Tennessee? It's a great argument to have. So I think they'll definitely tweak it to a little bit. I think you're right. They'll not give Arizona State and BYU.

I mean, Boise State this first round buys at all, but that will make for some better first round matchups if they, you know. Yeah, I think what it'll mean is the first round matchups may be better, but you're still going to end up with the same second round discrepancies that I think you have here. Let's talk about the portal for Kentucky. Kentucky is now, as according to 24-7 sports, has the eighth round. great portal class in America. That number will go down as Alabama's of the world once they'll get more players.

But it's probably still going to end up a top 20 to 25 portal class. Gotten a lot of good dudes. They got the center from Western as their offensive linemen. So they're basically, have rebuilt, entirely rebuilt their offensive line. There are more guys, Ryan, that are. So they've clearly gone in a different direction. They've gone away from getting the backup at Ohio State, the backup at Georgia, the backup at LSU, Alabama. They've gotten away from that.

Now they're going and getting guys who have started on either not so great Power 5 teams like Minnesota or started and been really good at the MAC level or at the Conference USA level. Completely different strategy than what they've done these other years. do you think it works? Can you win in the SEC with these guys like that? I don't have a good answer for that because obviously didn't work bringing in the backups. So they brought in the dude from Northern Illinois as a tackle two years ago. So that, you know, they kind of tried that route, tiptoe in.

But he was good until he got hurt. I will say with Marquez Cox, I got to give the kid a little bit of leeway. He basically had no knees this year. I mean, he was good before that. So, you know, like you said, the Rodney got Minnesota, they got the edge rusher from USC. Now, that's a little different, though. I mean, that's a superstar. Yeah.

He's probably the best guy they got. I think so, too. I mean, I think he will be, he is a, he's got a chance to be really, really good. But your offensive line guys are, you're right. I mean, you've got the farmer kid back and everybody else may be all new position guys on that offensive line. So are you, do you have confidence in this group? I mean, or are you scared? I mean, look, the reality is we haven't seen any of these guys play, so it's hard to know.

Exactly. You haven't seen them play. But you're optimistic about it. They're making moves. So, I mean, I can't complain. I'm not going to sit here and be, say that I'm over-the-top excited about it. But I'm optimistic, I would say. What do you think?

Right after Christmas, probably Thursday or Friday, I'm going to have on Nick Kazada, who has a chance to be, or Calzada, as a chance to be our next quarterback from Incarnate Word. I'm sure a lot of people have read about him since. I mean, they are bringing him in to likely be the starter. Is that going to work? I mean, obviously the guy has talent. He was at A&M. He beat number one Alabama.

The guy has talent. Has put up some good numbers at Incarnate Word. So you just got to hope it translates. The last three quarterbacks Kentucky's had had to play hurt most of the year. Will Levis, Devin, Larry, and then Brock Vandergrath. Which is why it's so important you keep Cutter Bowley, too, by the way. Because, I mean, we've had to play. We have played a, I don't think people realize this.

We have started a backup in every game in our last eight years. Yeah. Wow. You have to go back to Stephen Johnson to find a quarterback that went through the whole season where we never had to start a backup in a game. So we never really talk about the backups, but they really do matter, Ryan, because we've had to start one for eight straight seasons. Your quarterback's going to get hit in the SEC, man.

So, yeah, they're going to take a hit and miss some action. I didn't realize it went all the way back to Stephen Johnson, who's a guy they had to band-aid together. But you're right. Especially these last three years, our starters have tried to play hurt a lot of the time, and it just hasn't been effective. Dane Key, Justin Rowland of Cats Illustrated, hinted that Dane Key might consider a return to Kentucky that that was being talked about. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Clapping too soon. Before everybody claps, we have a Dane Key authority.

sitting here. We do, Matt. So before we, before we, before we get too excited, I do think I have to ask, do you think there is any truth or possibility to the Dane Key might return? That's a bad report. I mean, that's not on the table. And I think it's an unfair. So not on the table. Not even being considered. No, they've not even talked. So that's not a possibility. Which is why I told you not to clap Mario. And I hate it for Dane. I mean, Dane, like we said, you know, he gave his heart and soul for three years to this university. And now it comes out again, he may return. And I feel like fans are kind of turning on him. And like, well, that's just a bad report. That's not even been a possibility of him returning. So you don't think there was even a conversation of returning? I know there's not even

been a conversation. Yeah. Well, that's, that is unfortunate for Dane because you, you know, you don't want to get people's hopes up. Yes. And then him not do it. Where do you, if I made you put the money line down, Ryan Lemon's hard-earned spin-thrift dollars on where Dane would go, I heard a report. You tell me if this is correct.

Either Georgia, Illinois, or Nebraska. Does that sound correct? I think you nailed it. He made four visits. Ole Miss was the fourth one. But I think it's going to come down to those three. and I think we may even hear something by today. Today.

Hey, wow. Wow. Yeah. So again, where would you put your dollars or you don't want to say? Kentucky Wesleyan College. All right, so you don't want to say. All right, so let me just ask you as a fan. I would hear that, okay, his wide receiver coach is at Nebraska.

But I kind of thought maybe that wasn't the best relationship in the world. Georgia, I get, his girlfriend's there. Why Illinois? The receivers coach at Illinois was the receivers coach at South Carolina that recruited him to South Carolina. And I learned a lot watching that process. It's not necessarily the school. It's not necessarily the head coach. It's that coach recruiting you that you develop that relationship with that you're close with.

So he really likes this guy that was at South Carolina that is now at Illinois. He's got to go to Georgia, though, right? Don't you, Mario, I mean, I won't make him talk. You got to see him at Georgia. Your girls at Georgia, they got a chance to win the national championship. Their weakness the last couple years, they haven't really had an explosive receiver. It seems like he would fit in exactly with what they need. Mario, don't you have to go to Georgia?

Who wants to live in Nebraska anyway? Illinois, they stink. Why would you want to do that? Yeah, I would go to Georgia. His ladies there as well, and then that's a story program. Like, why not? You get a chance to play for a championship. As a fan, and as a fan and as somebody who's known Dane Key since he was in grade school,

I want him to go to Georgia because I don't understand Illinois or Nebraska. Illinois, Nebraska, they're going to go seven and five next year, right? Like, why would you want to go do that? Ryan did say that winning a championship is one of the more important things. Yeah, they win a championship in Illinois or Nebraska? I guess the attraction for Nebraska, also they've got a hot young quarterback. The facilities are top-noticed. But you mean the Mahomes look-alike?

Yeah. Yeah. But has he been in Nebraska? Does he know how much corn is out there? Does he know how it's just sad and makes you want to cry? Very depressing. Very depressing. Does he know that?

Well, he was just out there. He just got back Saturday night from Nebraska. Mario, a lot of white people out there. That's all I'm going to say in Nebraska. Am I wrong? Yeah. We were there. We were there.

You're the one that said it, not me. Don't act like I said it. Who's up next? Slick is up next. Slick, go ahead. What's going on, guys? Merry Christmas to you all. Merry Christmas to you guys.

Yes, sir. One thing that just worries me about this Ohio State game is that I don't know what they compared to the SEC field. So going into conference play, I feel like we might struggle a little bit. And I hope that we don't become that team that can drop three, four in a row because the SEC, like you mentioned, is a gauntlet. So I'm not sure where Ohio State compares to the field of SEC. I'd probably say I'd put them in the hand of your LSU field around there.

But, you know, I hope they played. Well, I mean, so they played, Ohio State's played two SEC teams in basketball. They lost by 40 to Auburn, but they beat Texas to start the year. So when you say where would they compete in the SEC, probably they'd look at you and go, well, so far we're two and one. So, I mean, they probably would think they'd be towards the middle to upper part of the SEC. I agree. I agree. Well, the good thing about basketball is that you get another game, you know, three, four days later to turn it around.

So hopefully they do. Do you think it's tough? I appreciate the call. Do you think it's tough for them the fact that they have to wait so long to play again? I mean, they don't play again until New Year's Eve. I think the way it played out Saturday, that is tough. You've got to go 10 days without a game. They're probably chomping at the bit. Wish they were playing today, you know, having a game today. So I think it's going to be a tough week for that team after coming off that butt-woping the guy. Yeah, I mean, we lost Saturday the 21st, and now you're looking at a week from tomorrow before they play again. The team they play, which is Brown, they played Kansas yesterday, lost by 30 to Kansas.

But are predicted to, I mean, they might win the Ivy League. So they're not a terrible team. They probably are going to favorites in the Ivy League this year. That's a good team to have after you get your butt kicked, to bring them in here to rup and have a good win going into conference play. You need that. That first conference game against Florida at 11 o'clock. That ain't going to be easy. Tell me about Stockton Mortgage.

Stockton Mortgage, you know, let's say you get up Christmas morning and you think you open up your presents, and there's a set of keys there. And they're one to get a new house. What? I'm trying. I'm just making this up on the fly here. Who gets a house for Christmas? Well, maybe you? So you think somebody's just going to buy a house?

and give it as a Christmas present and there's just going to be keys. No one has ever gotten a house under their tree for Christmas. It's possible that maybe you? Who's buying me a house? Your mom. Okay, thank you. Larry, I got those pajamas. Oh, you think the illicit.

Drop that, Rick. Rick, drop that. Did you get it? I got it. What is wrong with you? I forgot that was on the DL. I forgot that was on the DL. You forgot the Christmas gift was on the DL?

Yeah, yeah. I'd rather have Max. At least he didn't. Max not showing up is more consistent than that. Just finish the ad. Stock to Mortgage, stock.com, Miminal Lass 8259, Equal housing lender. Good job, Ryan. We're right back.

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Thank you. Darius Rucker Christmas. Candy Cain Christmas. Oh, that's awesome. It's all. It turned in your playlist. Apparently it got dropped. So the thing you said that you weren't supposed to say got dropped.

Good. So thankfully, just for the record, for those of you wonder what got dropped, I would have reacted like that. He just completely said the Christmas present that I was getting. But thankfully, that didn't go over the air. So I don't think so inconsistent. 859-28-2287. I need to apologize.

First of all, Marv Albert is not dead. Apparently, he's still alive. And Paul Hogan is still alive, too. So I killed them both off accidentally. It was the crocodile, Bert the crocodile that died, not Paul Hogan. So apologies to both of them. The thing that blows my mind that that crocodile was 90 years old. I didn't know crocodiles lived that long.

Wow. That's a long time. Was the crocodile 90? 90 years old. I didn't know they lived that long either. I had no idea. Do they live that long? Yeah.

Are you sure they was the crocodile? That was 90? I thought a couple people were sending in. That's pretty. Well, I mean, I am. I guess. I have... Burt the crocodile.

I just read this story today, something for people to think about while you're enjoying your Christmas. There's a story I read on Bloomberg that said there's a major concern that starting in February, February, March, April, May, that we might not have eggs.

That eggs, like we may just not have eggs for a few months, or if we do, they may be wildly expensive. And this time you can't blame it on Joe Biden. It's the, it's bird flu. You know, they have this bird flu out in California. And all these, and it's making it to where the eggs, you can't eat them. And they're saying that that will affect the economy starting in about February

and that we might have three or four months where eggs double or could even triple in cost. And that it may just mean that for a few months they're not, you can't even find them. So we might be short of eggs. They think chicken will still be okay because they don't think it will affect the chicken, but it may very well affect the eggs. Most people won't hear this story. We'll have any idea and just show up in February and see their eggs are tripled in price or something like that. And wonder what's the heck that going on?

Do you worry about that with eggs? Do you eat a lot of eggs? I don't eat a lot, but I eat once a week at Waffle House. I'll have scrambled eggs with cheese. There we go. Okay. So I have eggs at least once a week. So just maybe enjoy your eggs a little more.

I don't know who has eggs for Christmas, but whenever you eat them, because they may be about to rock it up in price thanks to bird flu. Yeah, eggs, I'm not crazy over, but chicken, I definitely need the chicken. I hope chicken's okay. Well, I'll tell you, when there have been chicken issues, it affects this place a lot. I mean, wings are a huge part, you know, during COVID, remember there was that shortage of wings for a while. And the prices of wings went up. There was a period of time we were selling wings here, and every wing we sold, we lost money for a period of time. Now, that's changed, but we didn't, you know, they just, you're a chicken wing place.

You have to keep selling them, but they were costing so much. So how can it affect the egg and not affect the chicken? I don't know, which comes first, the chicken or the egg. But I'm not sure why they just said they didn't expect it to affect the cost of chicken, but it would affect the eggs. So I don't know. That's a good question. You're the scientist. Who's up next?

Dan is up next. Dan, go ahead, Dan. Hi, guys. Went to the game Saturday. A little bit disappointed about it, but that's life that happens. I'm still enjoying my time. I'm learning my older age to go enjoy the experience.

I'm not going to have any effect on what happens in the actual game itself. So I graduated from the UK in 1990, and I live in eastern Pennsylvania. How many UK fans like? me have probably seen us lose more basketball games and win more basketball games between regular season games and tournament. We've not really had much luck in the East Coast in a long time. You mean when we play, okay, I didn't know what you're saying.

You mean when we've played on the East Coast, do you think we've lost more than we've won in recent years? That's a good question. I mean, we won in Philly last year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but we won a lot before that. I mean, we won a, first of all, we won a national championship on the East Coast, right? We won in the, in 96, we won the title on the East Coast.

In recent years, we've won a couple, we've won a few times in Madison Square Garden, lost a couple times. We won in Philly last year. We obviously lost in Pittsburgh last year in the tournament. Appreciate the call. Lost to Robert Morris in the, up on the East Coast. Where else have we had games that you can remember up there? But we did win the title.

Went to the Final Four in Newark in 2011. Went to Final Four. We won that tournament at that little casino in Connecticut. Remember the Brandon Night Year? I think we won a tournament at that little in Uncassville, Connecticut. The year that they played in Long Island, I think they won both of those games in the NCAA tournament. Yes, I think we've won more than we've lost. But we've lost maybe a few more here in recent years.

You talked about the game in Brooklyn that Jamal Murray had 30-something in the second half. They lost that one. Yeah, but didn't we? We won a game in Brooklyn, though, too, didn't we? At the Barclays Center, we played somebody. Is that Monk's here? Malik Monk? No, I don't think so.

Yeah, but in general, I do think we've won more games on the East Coast than we've lost over the last 30 years. 859-2-2-2287. Text Machine, 772-745-254. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's KSR. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. Turn this up a little bit, Rick.

Do you know this song? Don't know this song. It's called Fairy Tale of New York. It's by the Pogues. Do you know who the Pogs are? Do not. It's like this group from like the 80s. And it's a Christmas song.

It's kind of a sad song if you listen to the words, but it's actually, I think, really pretty. and a guy, Hozier, he performed at the, on Saturday Night Live, performed a version of it this weekend, and it was,

I loved it, and it reminded me how much I liked that song. I'd forgotten about it. It was big when I was in college. It's like a man and woman, and they're in New York City during Christmas, and they're singing to each other, but they're also kind of mad at each other,

and it's actually a really neat song. You ought to listen to it when you go home. So it's a Christmas song, but basically around. But it's not like about Christmas, like it's a romantic. song there you got it it's about being in new york city on christmas day it's called fairy tale uh in new york okay will you try i will absolutely the the it's the the pog version or this version the poe ver no the p o g u yes okay the guy the male singer of the poggs is and i say this with

all due respect because he's passed away so rest in peace not an attractive man he's a perfect example of if you can sing, you can get by with a lot of stuff. He, again, rest in peace, great song, great legacy, but not an attractive man. And it should give everyone, Ryan, confidence that you can make it in the world. Well, it sounds pretty. Just hearing it, I haven't listened to the world. Yeah, they have good harmony and all that. One person writes, Matt, I want to be clear because I think it's important for you to have

expectations. The way that the, what Ryan said got dropped made it seem like you were buying your mom a house. If you're not buying your mom a house, you probably should say that. I'm not buying my mom a house. I don't like that, I actually think I got a really nice gift, but I don't want her to think I got a house because then she'll be disappointed. Thank you very much for that, Ryan. I appreciate it. Well, that's good. The secret gift remains a secret. Yes, that would be. Here you go and you get something really nice, Mario, and then this dude makes him think it's a house. It's Ryan Lemon for you. What is on your head?

It's a hat. It's a beanie. But it looks like a cow. It looks like, oh, it's just like the design of it, Matt. It's a little, you know, a little stylish and beanie kind of thing. Is it stylish? Just a little bit. Who makes it?

Who's the? I don't know. I just bought it in the mall. Okay. Well, do you think I could pull that off? Yeah, maybe. Not this type of beanie. but I can see you in another beanie.

I've seen you in beanies before. Yeah. You were a beanie in Vale. Yeah. We beat Providence in Brooklyn. Okay. And we beat Maryland in Brooklyn. That people may remember that Maryland game.

That was the Jared Poulson game. Jared Poulson came off the bench and he scored like 18 points. Probably the best game he had as a Kentucky player was in Brooklyn against Maryland. And the Providence game was the one where Larry sat next to World Wide West, the entire game, didn't know who he was, talked to him for two hours, talked about how interesting he was and had no clue who he was talking to. Maybe my favorite Larry's story ever. He said by World Wide West the whole game and talked to him and had no idea.

No idea. And then I loved at the end, I said, what did that? Because, you know, nobody really knows what World Wide West does? I said, what did World West say he does? And Larry goes, it wasn't really clear. And I was like, you know what? It's never been really clear exactly what Orwellide West does. I think we all say the same thing.

It's not really clear what he does. Yes. One person writes, Matt, in the next 10 years, the playoff will likely expand to 16 in college football. Go on the record. Do you three guys think in a 16-team playoff, Kentucky will ever make it? 16 teams, let's just assume, next year it has to be 12, but then they're talking about expanding the next year. If it went to 16 and we had a decade, do you think we would ever make it?

I'm going to say yes. I mean, we saw Indiana make it for crying out loud. Kentucky's football program is similar to Indiana. South Carolina was knocking on the door this year. I think Kentucky has up until recently had a better program in South Carolina. So I'm going on record and say yes. If it went to 16, then I think they would probably most years take five from the SEC, probably. Let's just say it went to 16 this year. Who would they have taken? They would have

added Alabama, Miami, probably Ole Miss and South Carolina, right? That's probably who the other ones would be. So that would have actually been six SEC teams. Mario, do you ever think we come in the top five or six in the SEC to make it? I see six, five it would be tough because you've got to remember we do have Texas and Oklahoma and the SEC now. So I definitely, you know, a bigger pool to pull from. But I could see six. I could see six. I think if it got to 16, it would require us to be nine and three. I think if you got to 16, you're in if you're nine and three. You're in. I think we will go nine and three once in the next decade. So I think that's, I don't know if we'll make it at 12, but I think at 16. 12 is tough. We would make it. Yeah,

with that schedule next year, they wouldn't make it. But they're going to that schedule is going to change a little bit. You know, you catch on a year where maybe it plays in your favor a little bit and you have a really good team? Absolutely. Well, that schedule is really difficult, but let me just give you a hypothetical example. Let's go back five years, okay? Let's just go back five years and let's say you played that same schedule you're playing next year five years ago. All right.

Okay. So five years ago, Georgia would still be really good. But Texas is not nearly as good five years ago. Oh, Miss is not nearly as good. five years ago. Tennessee is not nearly as good five years ago. South Carolina is not nearly as good. Auburn's probably slightly better than they are now. But that would be a completely different schedule. Florida was bad five years ago. If you had that exact same schedule you had this year five years ago, that would have been a schedule, Ryan. If you were good, you could take advantage.

You maybe could win nine games and maybe be sniffing at a playoff bid with that schedule. So yeah. So, yeah, so the schedule some year, Mario, will break for us in a way that's good. It didn't break for us this year, and we weren't good. But we'll get a year where I think that can happen like it did for Indiana this year. To your point, teams go through phases where they get better and sometimes they're worse. Like you said, five years ago, some of these teams were not the same. Tennessee was not the same five years ago than they are now. And the teams that aren't good that were disappointing this year, we avoided them.

Like we didn't get to play kind of a disappointing Oklahoma team. We didn't get to play kind of a disappointing Missouri team. We didn't get to play a terrible Mississippi State team. We didn't get to play a disappointing Arkansas team. So we got kind of unlucky in the sense that a lot of the SEC teams that weren't as good as they thought they'd be. We didn't get any of them this year. And we were one of those teams, honestly, as well. Who's next?

Jackson is up next. Jackson. Go ahead, Jackson. Hey, guys. I just want to know what your guys' thoughts of the CBS coverage of the basketball game was. It sounded me like that little sour taste in their mouth. They just love that contract with the SEC. Well, to be fair, I couldn't hear it because I was here, so I couldn't hear the announcers. It was loud enough in here you couldn't hear them. Did you hear the announcers have any sort of anti-SCC bias? I didn't hear it. Of course, I listened to the first half in the car. I listened to Tom and Jack, the whole first half,

driving Indiana. Was it Rafferty? Is that who did the game? Was it Bill Raftery? I know who that is. Do you know who called the game on Saturday? Did anyone? CBS?

No, nobody? Wow. If it was Bill Raftery, nobody paid attention to it. I think I heard Tim Brando doing it. No one here seems to know who called the game. Maybe it wasn't Bill Raftery. I don't know. I watched the second half and don't remember him being on the broad.

Yeah, I will say, I much prefer CBS game coverage to ESPNs. I just do for basketball. It's louder. Yes. It's, it's, they, they get the environment much better on CBS than they do at least on RUPS on ESPN. Yes, that's just, you know, their audio production is just better.

I don't know if it's the mic placement or whoever runs the audio board. It's just better. Something's different. Yeah, it is, it is always better. Who's next? Got Kevin up next. Kevin, how are you, Kevin? Hey, I'm doing well, thanks to take my call, guys.

In regards to Kentucky's football recruiting ranking right now, I'm going to a little bit, well, not a little bit, I'm very skeptical about Stoops being able to turn it around. I think it's more of a culture or a lack of culture issue. Go back to look when he started, it took him three or four or five years to kind of build the culture. He did. If you look at the offensive line play, it has gotten worse over the last four years.

Yes, you can. I believe you can, you know, build or design recruit a good offensive line, but look at what he had this last year. I'm just skeptical. And I have zero faith in Wolford. I think how what happened with him, Stoop's bringing him back was a mistake. But if you look at Wolford's calling card, his M.O. He might have some good offensive lines, but they're always bad in the past, in the past rush.

Well, I think you're going to, I think those are very reasonable views. I mean, and I appreciate the call. I think those are very reasonable views. Mark Stoops, by the way the season ended, and I think in part because of his decision to be silent since the end of the year, which I think has been a mistake. There's a lot of fans that are going to be skeptical. I mean, Kentucky literally just got a transfer commitment a few minutes ago. Cameron Olds, a linebacker from Kent State, a guy they really wanted.

But there's no way I can sell to people to be excited about it. You know, I mean, they're just not going to be excited about it. And I think that skepticism is going to remain, Ryan, until they kick it off next year. They made a living early. in the transfer portal by finding these guys that end up being stars once they transferred here. Okay, you got to duplicate that. You got to do it again this year, for sure. But, I mean, they did, like, they've gotten probably two-thirds of the guys.

I mean, I know who they were targeting. They've missed that on about a third of them. They've gotten about two-thirds. That's awesome. That's good. But do you think people are excited about any of it? Is there one player they've gotten in the portal that people are excited about? I think the negativity about Stoops has made it to where the players, people are just not,

I don't think they're, they think they're not good, but Mario, they're not excited about any of them. They're not excited. Like you said, they're just going to have to wait until kickoff next season. Or maybe it might get better over the summer as time goes on, maybe fans. But as far as what it looks like right now, yeah, till kickoff. I mean, I'll be honest with you. I don't think this fan base is going to really believe anything. until Kentucky plays Ole Miss in week two of the season.

You're right. Do you blame him? I don't blame him. No. I mean, Stoops made his own bed on that. He made his own bed. They're four and eight. He, I don't think, handled the PR aspect of it well,

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Yeah. Well done, Rick. This is a not. nice way to finish here the segment the peanut song did you see saturday night live did a live action of the peanut song oh did they anybody you got to look that up it's really good they all dance like they do in the thing they have the one person like with his with the shoulders just going like this they have the guy playing the piano and uh keenan thompson was snoopy and it was uh it was it's really good you have to look it up i will look that up that'd be cute um i'm sick over one thing ryan

Nobody likes to hear. Little secret for people out there. There are a couple things nobody wants to hear about, and one of the things nobody wants to hear about is how close you came to winning a bet or not. Like, no one likes that. But I'm still going to do it. Because I made myself sick yesterday.

I always make a bet on all of the early games just for fun. And yesterday, I was, I hit them all against the spread, and I had a parlay that was like plus 4,500, and I cashed out because I thought the commanders were going to lose. So I cashed out at like 4 to 1, which is still great. Oh, yeah. But it was going to be like 44 to 1. And I cashed out, and then they came back and won.

And I was sick. Like, literally, I was sick. It was a lot. It could have bought you a present. And so you didn't get one because of it. But that one was tough. So Jaden Daniels, he killed me on the Hail Mary earlier this year. So I just, I think I'm going to have a grudge against him for the rest of the year.

Dude just submitted Rookie of the Year award, though, this year. Probably so. Yeah, for sure. Probably so. One person writes, Matt, what are you guys going to each do on Christmas Eve? So my mom will cook, I will eat, and then we will watch the Nate Bargotsie Christmas special because it's like the one thing we can all agree on to watch. and then we have like a midnight church service.

Do you go to a midnight church service? Our church this year at Center Point is doing it early at 3 o'clock and 430. So people can come and then go spend Christmas Eve with their family. But doesn't that miss the point? The whole point is to be there as the thing happens, perumpa pumpum, pump, like it's at midnight. Well, now we can go with our church family. So it's more convenient to you rather than celebrate the birth of Jesus?

Just to make sure you get to be embarrassed. by midnight. I'm going to still celebrate. Woo-hoo. Birth of Jesus, 3 o'clock. You feel about Larry's 87 years old. He will walk out of that house when it's six degrees and go to First Christian Church and you will be in bed.

Oh, no. That may be up with my family, Christmas Eve night. Church family at three. Drinking. Oh, yeah, we played games. Uno. Exactly the way Jesus and God wanted you to spend Christmas Eve. Who's up next?

Got Ron up next. Ron. Go ahead, Ron. Yes, I was just calling about the PJs. Oh, okay, Ron. We can't talk about that, okay? Oh, okay. Dillards?

Thank you, Ron. Appreciate the call. See what you started? I started. You are the one that said it, not me. You started it, Ryan. Thank you, Ron. No, I know you were trying to be helpful.

I appreciate it. It's just they're probably listening, and I don't want them to know what I'm getting. Who's up next? Thomas is up next. Thomas, go ahead, Thomas. Yeah, with all the inconsistency, the most consistent guy this fall, I believe, has been Dane Key himself. You know, he was a really go-to guy.

He was relied heavily on, and I don't get the people slamming him. Good for that kid going and making his situation better. I truly believe he's, you know, NFL talent. I hope so. I hope he goes to Georgia. I hope he kills it. and improves his draft stock. I just don't get people counting for that.

I totally agree with you on that, and I appreciate the call. Let's go back to last year. Dane Key, Beryon Brown, and Dionne Walker, all three had chances to go to top programs. They chose to come back. Now, you can talk about what happened with Dion and Beryon and whether they reached their potential, and it's a fair argument. But all three had a chance to go play for teams that could win a national championship. They came back.

You know what? Things didn't work out. Dion's now probably going the draft. Berion gets a chance at LSU. Dane will see what he does, but he has a chance at Georgia. If we're going to be consistent and if we're going to be honest as fans, if we're going to celebrate that Jackson Robinson and Lamont Butler and, you know, Otega Owey and these guys got to go from places to a place to compete for a title

and fulfill their dreams in basketball, and we're going to celebrate that, then we have to do the same thing that Dane Key and Barryon. Brown may go do that at a school that has a chance to win a national title. I don't care how optimistic you are about next year. We ain't winning a national title in football next year. So I don't even know Barry on Brown. I know Dane through you. If we're going to celebrate our basketball guys doing it, Ryan,

we have to salute our football guys who gave us three years and then decide to do it. Thank you for saying that. You said it exactly the way I feel. You know, Dane feels very blessed to have played here for three years. and he's hometown school. Now he's got some great opportunities. He's excited about him. Now, if he goes to Illinois, that's a whole different thing.

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Mario, it's been a blessing to have you join us this year. Thank you very much. Merry Christmas. And Ryan, absolutely love it. you as always, you're the best. Merry Christmas to you. And Merry Christmas to all of you that are listening. We appreciate it. We will be back on here the 26th. Enjoy time with all your family and friends. We'll see you later. It's been Kentucky Sports Radio.