KSR - 2024-12-27- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: December 27, 2024

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I am Matt Jones here live in Glasgow, Kentucky at the Don Franklin Cadillac. an absolutely huge crowd here in Glasgow, probably one of our, if not the biggest crowd we've ever had here. Certainly one of them, one of the better crowds we've had on a road trip in a long time. So thank you all very much. The weather is absolutely horrendous outside, and yet everybody came out. So give yourselves a big round of applause here on this Christmas break. You can give us a shout to Clark's Puppet Shop phone line.

That's 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine 7772-745254 in this edition sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. If you call T.J., I'll make them pay. You can probably hear I'm a little under the weather. Last night, about 7 or 8 o'clock, I thought, man, I don't know if I'm going to be able to get down there and do that tomorrow. But feel a little better today. Ready to go, Ryan, Drew, and definitely glad I made the trip through this downpour to see how many people came today. How about this guy? He's sick, and he wanted to come down here to be here at Glasgow today. We've got to come to Glasgow.

Think about what all has happened over here in Glasgow over the years. First of all, one of my good friends, Judge Gabe lives here in Glasgow. Aaron Fleener, one of our friends, whose grandmother is sitting right here in the front row in a chair. He's from here. Kent Bull, another one of our friends is from here. Drew, I've played in the Glasgow Golf Screamball, although I haven't been invited the last couple of years. games moved on, but I've played in it probably 10 years. Over the years, been in a couple of near fights at this golf course over the years,

so this has been a lot of fun here in Glasgow. Oh, yeah, we love Barron County, have many good friends from this area, and I've got to call myself out. I'm an idiot this morning. I'm not going to say I doubted there'd be a good turnout. I worried with the weather. We're kind of in a quiet period of UK athletics. I'm an idiot.

This is a great turnout. This is double what I expected in here. see everyone had to one-time drive representative Jamie Comer home here once at one of these events actually I don't know if he'd wanted me to say that but nevertheless that's that's happened here in Glasgow before but Kelly Kraft big up barry and county is right Kelly craft is from here Brandon Stockton is still alive he's still alive we're good we've seen him today he's still alive that's good so great crowd here thank you all very much for coming so I want to do something today in part because, you know, a little under the weather,

so I want people to, like, help contribute. But it also, you know, Drew, sometimes people listen to our fade this podcast, and they'll say, you know, you guys tell stories on there that you wouldn't say on the radio. And that's probably true, but it's also just kind of the format of what we do. So I want to do something, Drew, what I would call a behind-the-scenes Friday, which means if you have a question that is about behind-the-scenes, the scenes of either KSR, UK basketball, UK football. I'm in a mood to share. Maybe it's because of the end of the year. I already said a chair to Jamie Comer's story I didn't mean to. So I'm in

a mood to share. You can go the text machine 772-745254 or 859-28027. Give a little, if you've always wondered, okay, what really happened here today's the day to do? I like the spicy The Glasgow mat might be a little unfiltered. I hope our collars will take advantage in the situation. I'm a bunch of medicine. My head is a little. Have you had any ambion? No, no, ambient.

All right. I didn't wear my tennis shoes. I wasn't sure if we were racing in here today. Listen, I could beat all of you to race every single one of you. But yes, today we will do that. There are little stories we've hinted at over the years and never really told the actual details. Today's the day you can find out.

So we are, this is kind of a dead period. a little bit in UK sports. We're kind of transitioning from the non-conference to the conference play. Let me ask you all, just because it's nice to ask a crowd, what is the general, how positive are you about Mark Pope so far in his time at Kentucky? I think that's a good indicator in general of where people are. I was looking at some of the numbers, because Drew mentioned yesterday, you know, the Ken Palm and stuff aren't great for Kentucky, and they're really not.

But I still think as we make this transition, we ought to remember, we beat Duke. That's a pretty big deal. Hadn't beaten them since 2015. We beat Gonzaga on the road, even though it was in the middle of night, one of the better comebacks we've ever seen with Kentucky basketball, and we beat Louisville. So going into conference play, still very happy about everything. I just, I'm kind of with Pope, though. I wish we didn't have this two weeks in between our loss and the next time to play a good team.

I'm sure they were chomping at the bit after losing to Ohio State trying to get back out there. They got this long drought, that 10-day break between games. But you know what's amazing about this crowd? They cheered about where they are at the UK basketball program. That is coming off of pretty much a 20-point ass-kicking you just got from Ohio State. Everybody's still all in on the basketball team. Do you – the 20-point, to use Ryan's phrase, ass-kicking against Ohio State, you said yesterday it does affect how good you think the team's going to be a little bit

a little a slight dip i'm not changing my prediction from i guess i think i said 12 and 6 in the conference i'll stick with that but um some slight concerns i had are growing a little bit with each new game i mean we keep saying they're a good three-point shooting team and oh don't worry the next one they'll be fine but we've had a lot of it'll it'll turn on this game so that it hasn't happened it's been several weeks of that you can only keep saying they're good three-point shooting team and oh don't worry the next one shooters so long until they're just not. They're 115th in the country right now. Yeah, I mean, they are 115th, and that makes my worry.

But at the same time, we're going to have a big game on the fourth against Florida, and I'm going to give away, Ryan, here today in Glasgow, tickets to the UK Florida game. An 11 a.m. game, you all will have to get up early. We're going to have a little bit later a little, we'll draw names and then have a little bit of a trivia contest on air here in order to try to win the tickets. That could be a good ticket to get because Florida is sneaky, really, really good. Yeah, they're really good. Season opener for the SEC schedule for the cats, that's a big game.

Is Oklahoma still undefeated? Can't think of when they would have lost. I think they are. I think we have Tennessee's undefeated, Florida and Oklahoma. Auburn has one loss at Duke. I mean, it is, you know, pretty good group. And that opening game, you know, those little numbers on the score at the bottom, Both top 10 teams, the old UK Florida games back when both teams were really good.

And you saw his end the year with that. Yeah, that'd be the biggest game on whatever Saturday it was. I mean, it's not quite to that level of the old school days when Noah was there, but it is a very exciting top 10 matchup. So the big story in college basketball is Jim Laranaga, the coach of Miami, 75 years old. He's one of the – I think he's the fifth highest winning coach in basketball that's still coaching today. He retires mid-year, and I had some things to say about it, but let me do the positive first.

Great coach, right? Went to Final Four with two different teams. You know, there are very, very few coaches who've been to the Final Four with two programs. The amount that have done it is a lot less than you would think. He did it. He went on, I would say, Ryan, the run George Mason made to the Final Four. Is that maybe the most shocking final four run ever? It could be.

It's definitely one of the most shocking runs in the last 20 years that he was able to get George Mason that run. What's more? I think they're the biggest Cinderella. You know, VCU and Butler made it that year, but then Butler made it again the next year. So, I mean, like, it could. I think of George Mason and Loyola, just when I think of Cinderella.

Those two come to mine. George Mason, if you remember that year, a Connecticut team that was like undefeated on their way to the Final Four as well that year. So he's obviously a great coach, but he retires mid-year, and he complains and basically says, you know, NIL's exhausting. I can't do it anymore. I don't have the passion for it, so he quits mid-year. Now, this is now the second, along with Tony Bennett, legendary coach to quit mid-year on his team. To quit. when the team is not good mid-year.

And I have to tell you, Ryan, I just have a problem listening to all these old coaches who, if their player quit on the team mid-year, they would absolutely, like, go crazy. How could you quit on your brothers? How could you do this? And then they do it. And then I listen to all the media who goes and has dinner with them at Hooters in South Carolina at the Peach Jam, talk about how sorry they feel for these guys that made $8 to $10 million. a year. Assuming he has no health problems and he said he didn't, so I'm going to assume that's true.

Once again, this is the second legendary coach we've had become a quitter at the end of the year again. In the middle of the year, excuse me. Because the NIL issue was there like back in June, in July. They could have stepped away then. Why did they wait until the season starts before they finally decided to step away? But even more than that, he complains about NIL. And I think it's so hypocritical for two reasons. They made the Final Four two years ago.

Does anybody remember why? Because they bought eight players from NIL. Laranaga was probably the first guy to really embrace NIL. He went and bought eight players, brought them in, they made the tournament, and made the Final Four. And then he said yesterday, what I couldn't believe is we made the Final Four, and when it was over, my players came to me and they wanted to get in the portal. Because you bought them to begin with. I mean, that you did exactly. Like, he is mad about the one thing he did that actually gave him the success at Miami.

Yeah, when NIL started, Miami, they were maybe number one. What was that? They were the first one. They were the first. What Cal was to the one and done, Laranega was to the NIL. And my thing with his timing, they're four and eight, four and nine, something like that. If they were nine and four, he ain't stepping down. Of course not.

It's completely because it's not happening on the court, and he just doesn't want to see the year through. And then this is the thing that really gets me about these coaches. All right. By the way, everything I'm about to say, Laranaga should have done. But he went and coached at George Mason. Small school outside of D.C. That's where I studied for the bar exam. Nice place, but it's a tiny little school.

Makes the final four. He, a few years later, decides, you know what? I'm going to go for a payday. I'm going to go to Miami. He goes, he takes advantage of his success, goes to a bigger place. Then when he's at Miami, they go to a Final Four. You know what they did after he went to a Final Four? He went to the school and said, give me more money,

and he doubled his salary after he went to the Final Four. I'm fine with all that. But now, Ryan, he complains when the players do the exact same thing he did at multiple stops around the way. And these coaches, I tweeted this, all these old guys who can't handle it, they just need to all get out and let a new younger generation people like Pope who are embracing it. They need to just let them do it and stop wanting. I remember you kind of said that when Bennett did it. Like you thought maybe there may be some more older coaches follow suit. Now's the time to get out and do it now.

My big problem. I mean, he's a highly respected coach, a highly respected guy in the coaching world. I just have a hard time doing it in the middle of the season. But exactly. If his players had quit mid-year, do you not think he would, maybe not publicly, but he would blast them probably. That's why a lot of it is for me the results.

This is the way I'm reading it. They just took a horrible loss, and he stepped away right after that. He lost the Mount St. May. If they had been winning these games, he might still be complaining internally, but he's still coaching. I think it's just because the season's gone so poorly,

and he's tapping out. Here's the thing, and then, you know, I don't think people, there's a lot of you probably even here listening in the crowd that think, oh, I don't like NIL, it's changed college sports. And I get that. There's a way in which it is worse. I understand that. But I also think people have to realize what we did in college sports for 75 years was illegal. Okay? It was illegal.

college sports violated the law and everybody just turned their head they took labor for free made money and gave them nothing except education and then it was okay and the supreme court went finally challenged on it you know i'm a law dork you know politics give me something everybody agrees on in politics there ain't much supreme court ruled no you never opinion. All of them said, you can't do this. This is illegal. So they've basically turned college sports into what every other business in America is, which is you have a right to go make money based on your worth. And these people who for years just acted like the system should be, hey, this person should work for me for free. Now they're mad. And I want, Ryan, all of those

people to exit stage left and allow the next group to do it. Like I said, when you mentioned that about Bennett, do you think this is more coming, more of these older coaches are coming? I hope they all go if they can't do it. I mean, to like, you know, Patino, Cal, Izzo, if they're going to complain about it, leave, right? Somebody else will do it. Somebody else will do it.

And then they'll be fine and they can move on. It reminds me of when I said this online. you know, when a lot of you guys were, when I was young, it was a certain kind of business. And then here came the tech revolution. And you could sit there and say, well, I'm not into computers. But if you weren't into computers, you'd go away. People have to be into the NIL or they're going to go away. That's right.

You've got to adapt and adjust because the college game has changed. It ain't going backwards. It's not going backwards. No. So I just thought it was good to, I thought it was lame of him to quit mid-year. But it's also a good example that probably in the next. couple of years, all those dudes like him are going to be gone. 859-28027.

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Welcome back. It is Kentucky. Sports Radio here live in Glasgow. It's Don Franklin Cadillac Chevrolet. How about this? First of all, I didn't know they had a Cadillac dealership in Glasgow. Right here it is. We're saying it.

You can get up to $11,000 off select 24 Chevy Silverado models. But who knew Glasgow was so fancy, Drew, to go riding around Cadillac style, as Sammy Kershaw would say. You can't hide money, Barron County. I see all these Cadillacs out here at this dealership looking ready to be purchased. That's exactly right. Well, all right. So, again, this is behind the scenes Friday.

A couple open lines. I'd love to hear your questions. 859-280-2287. Let's go for some from the text machine. Are you ready? Ready. Let's go. One person writes,

what is the story behind Severe Wheeler not playing his last year at times for Kentucky? Well, Drew, I mean, I think what I would say the story, the best way to put it, would be that there was an internal divide in the team. Let's see, you tell me if you agree with this. There was an internal divide within the team, kind of Oscar on one side, everyone else kind of on the other. I think Oscar, even though fans, we as fans loved Oscar, his teammates, I don't think they disliked him, but they found him a little odd, and so they kind of were on the other

side and Severe kind of thought, this is how I read it. He was kind of the leader of the team. And when the team kind of turned on Caliperi, which I do think happened at one point, Severe kind of got the punishment for being the most vocal of that group, and it kind of led to him deciding not to play. That would be my read on it. Would you agree with that? That's pretty much how I understood the rift. My big thing with Wheeler was It was early February, maybe even January. Someone told us, hey, he's not playing. This is all a charade of he practiced a little bit.

He's coming around. And then a week later, they said, trust me, he's not playing. We get to the tournament. And remember, they brought him out for interviews about how he's going to give it a go. Same person, he's not playing. And, of course, street closed. So there was just so much around him. I don't know specifically where it all started in the locker room.

but everything we were getting from UK was, I think, kind of smoking mirrors because they knew he wasn't going to play. If you go back and you look at the first 10 years of the Cal era, Ryan, a consistent theme was that the players loved Cal. Now, they'd get mad at him. They'd think he was insane sometimes, but they came out of there really loving him and feeling a real connection to him.

When he would say players first, I think the players felt that way. Post-COVID, on every single team, there was a serious problem between players and Cal. That first year, the COVID team, just a disaster. Then Oscar, there was a big Oscar Cal problem at various points. There was a big severe and that group problem. I think last year, I wouldn't say it was big,

but I don't know that he and Rob Dillingham will be sharing a lot of Christmas cards going forward. I mean, I think a guy that always had such a great relationship with his players in those last few years, as his relationships with the media, the boosters, the school was falling apart. I also think it was falling apart with the players. I think there was a definite problem in the locker room these past several years. And I think, like you just mentioned, Severe and Oscar, those were the leaders, supposed to be your leaders, your point guard, your best player. And for whatever reason, Cal lost the locker room those last couple years, and we saw the result on the court.

You had a situation in that year where we lost to Kansas State where you really had Cal over here, the team over here, and Oscar over here. Like there were three different groups, and none of them really liked each other. Wouldn't you agree? Yeah, and I think there's a lot of Oscar jealousy, because we all know we loved Oscar.

He's signing autographs two hours after the game into the crowd, so I think everyone else involved is seeing that, and Oscar is getting all the loving attention. which I still think Oscar deserved, but that just added even more conflict behind the scenes. One person writes, is Max okay? Did you find him? I wondered that myself, actually. Yes, I did find him.

He had stayed out until 4.30 in the morning, and his phone had died. I think somebody predicted that. And I started to get worried about him. I did. By like three in the afternoon, I hadn't heard from him. So I went and knocked on his door, and he was like, oh, man, was I supposed to do that? the show? I was like, yeah, it's three in the afternoon, and I woke him up. So I appreciate Max. You asked him to fill in for me. He did half of it right, but you have to then get up in the next morning

to the show. Yeah, it's one thing to say yes. It's another thing to actually show up and go and do it, right. Did I miss the show? It was five hours ago, Max. Yeah, I think you missed it, buddy. So we're just glad he's okay. One person writes, Matt, how did the culture slip this year with the football team? Ryan, how would you answer that? We talked about a little bit on the pre-show, and this is my, totally my opinion. I just think the coaching staff let some of the star players just slide by, get by, not come to meetings, not come to workouts, not even come to practice, maybe goof off in practice, not take it serious.

And I think that spread throughout the locker room. When the other players in the locker room saw how the stars were being able to do whatever they wanted to do, I think it created a problem in the locker room, whereas all your players, no matter if they make more money in the other, they all need to be treated the same on that playing field, and they just weren't. I think there was a lot of Barry and Brown problems, right? You think that's fair? Oh, yeah.

I don't know if he was always given 100% in practice. And then I think Dionne Walker, I don't think he necessarily didn't try, but he was disconnected from the team. And so the two guys probably making the most money, they felt like we're getting a completely different set of standards. Yep. Now, it's not the first time that's happened. I think we've talked about it.

Lynn Bowden was like that. But the difference was, Drew, that the players felt like, okay, Lynn Bowden may act like this, but when we play, that dude puts everything he's got on the line, so we'll look past it, didn't necessarily feel that way about Berion and Die. Yeah, that season when Lynn Bowden might have not been his best self at every practice, might have been late a time or two. On Saturday, he's putting the entire team on his back, and we all saw it on the field, so you just live with it.

You just kind of live with it because you go, we know when we get out there, we'll get the best of him. I don't think they felt that way about those other two guys. We will take a break and be right back. We are here in Glasgow. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio.

859-280-2287 here in Glasgow. The rain is finally dissipated here a little bit, and it is, as soon as we got inside. The rain stopped, a great crowd here. You can go to Don Franklin Auto.com and find all of your auto needs. One person writes, Matt, one of the reasons I've always distrusted KSR, well, that's not very nice. You all know bad things about the UK basketball team and then you don't tell the fans, I think that's bad. Well, but again, first of all, you find some of this stuff out after the end of the season, but I will hint at things. I want to just use last year as an example.

There was a, it was, again, if you were around the team, you knew that Rob Dillingham and Cal did not see I die. We all knew Rob Dillingham and Reed Shepard should play more. We would basically insinuate that all the time. And our thank you was online every single day. I got beat up by people saying I was disloyal to Kentucky and disloyal to Cal. And behind the scenes, Cal was trying to get me fired. So that was my, that was the sort of reward for telling us.

the truth. I mean, Drew, people can say they want to know the truth, but when things are going good or even moderately positive and you try to suggest anything's negative, people go absolutely crazy in sports. Look at politics. Try to be a Republican and say something about Trump. Or try to be a Democrat during the election and say something about Harris. People go crazy. Same thing when you're a UK fan and you criticize the team. Yeah, I mean, we all want Kentucky to do well. And if you hear something behind the scenes you don't love. If you go and say it on the radio, you're going to get a lot of your creating controversy.

Why are you doing this? Things are going so well. We love this team. Why are you being negative? Why are you bringing that up? It's like, well, it happened. But I mean, it's true. I remember we said something about DJ Wagner. I can't remember what it was last year. But people went nuts. And then as soon as it was over, one of the assistant coaches called me and said,

yeah, by the way, you were right about that. But you can't, I can't go on the air and say, hey, the assistant coach just told me it was right. they're just going to get so like it's a no-win situation so a lot of the times what I try to do is I hint something without saying it and then people who listen to the show can decide whether they want to believe it or not a lot of times it's what it is or how you heard if someone kind of tells me in private they're telling me they don't want me to go blab it into the radios if you want them to continue to tell things you have to keep something to yourself or you can be like Ryan and go to the club blue Christmas party and just tell everything you hear but there is a little bit of uh you got to run it through a filter right You're going to let it leak. Like, you'll let it go sometimes, not intentionally, or maybe I think your brain just farts a lot. Double volleyball scoop on that day, though. You did have two volleyball scoes.

He was just letting everything fly. At its core, I am a die-hard reporter. Yes. I'm going to report the reports. Vince Mero Stain. Yeah. I think this is the fourth time he's been staying this year. But this time it comes from the source that said he was likely to go to North Carolina football

scoop. I think I can say I spoke to Vince last night. He says, in certain. So now they have him, which was good, because I don't think that was certain for a long time. I never thought I was going to go to Louisville. But I thought the North Carolina thing could have happened, but it looks like it won't. You know, you know Vince more than any of us, anybody in this room. And I could tell you were a little uncertain whether he would go to North Carolina or not. That's the first time After Vince's name has been hooked a lot of these jobs, you thought yourself, this may happen. Yeah, I mean, Vince and Stoops have a weird relationship. Like, they're best friends, but they're best friends who fight.

Right. And, you know, over the years, they've had these arguments, and they always end up coming back together. And so I think there was some of that, and I thought they would come back together. but then there was a little period where I don't know. And, you know, it's interesting because we get, I've learned this. This has changed over the years. So it used to be when Stoops first got here, all the players pretty much came from Vince at first.

And then it was like Vince and Schlarman. And then it was Vince Schlarman and Klingk who went to Michigan. and then it kind of became Vince and like Eddie Grant because Eddie Graham would pick a lot of the portal people and now it's kind of Vince, Will Wolford, and Eddie Green. And I think it's natural that there's some competition between those guys about the players and who they get, and when somebody gets one and they don't necessarily think it was the right one,

I just think some of that plays into it sometimes. Could be a little bit of that. And as we said at the time, it's one thing with Louisville's calling you or Toledo and name it that Vince's head out there. When it's Belichick on the line, that's one you've got to take very seriously. Shared the same agent. When Mark Stoops steps away, he doesn't have to coach football again if he wants to. But Vince still, if he wants to, I mean, he has more coaching to do. Might want to get in the NFL.

If you want to dip your toe in the NFL, I don't know that you can have much better on your resume than coached under Bill Belichick. Michael Mardi, former Super Bowl-winning GM, calls you up and says, Vince, I'm basically the GM for North Carolina football. I'm in charge of bringing in players, and I want you to come and tell me who to bring in. I mean, you got a Hall of Fame coach, a Hall of Fame GM giving you that call.

You got to at least think about it, Ryan. You have to. I think you take that call, and you listen to that call. You have to. Calls like that. Yeah. Who's up first? Brandon is up first.

Brandon, go ahead, Brandon. Number one or two? I like this game. I'll pick number two. Okay. The station you had on the phone towards Seattle? Which one? There were like four of them.

You're talking about my conversation with Stoops? Yes, sir. Yeah. Well, maybe I should have picked question one. Yeah, what was question one? Yeah, what was question one? Since it was kind of recent, the players receiving payments, you know, for not doing work, I was just wondering if you all had heard any skittled butts of maybe.

Oh, I mean, that's been happening, Ryan, for 50 years. I mean, that's part of the reason. I can't get mad at Chris Rodriguez and these guys. Every school in the country, every school in the country had guys, going back to the Rupp days, had guys who had jobs that weren't really jobs that they got paid for, that were kind of jobs, but not really jobs. That's been happening since the 60s. So, like, it just so happened Chris Rodriguez and those guys got caught.

You mean our best basketball players back in the day weren't also great bake tellers and horse farm employees? Yeah, I appreciate the call. But you know what I mean? Construction jobs. Yeah, those construction jobs considered a lot of times sitting in your dorm room and watching the sun go up and down. That was your construction job.

You were constructing an image of life throughout the – I mean, that's happened all the time. The difference was U.K. healthcare, I think they got audited by a new CEO, and then it came out. But like what was happening had been happening forever, Drew, not just here at every school in the country, if we're being honest. Yeah, I think everyone finds a way to get shortcuts and cut corners to help their guys out. In the case of UK, maybe show up for a couple of the shifts, though, to get them off the trail. And they had a guy, one of the employees at UK Healthcare was literally clocking the players in and out. That's a bigger issue. And that was, I think that was the bigger issue.

Who's up next? Jackson is up next. Jackson, go ahead, Jackson. Hey, guys. I recently for Chris and Scott, SDC tournament tickets. And so I was wondering what your crazy SEC tournament. story. Wow.

First of all, that's an awesome present. SEC tournament. Jackson, I hope you realize. SEC tournament is maybe the best year the tournament will ever have. Yeah, I'm super excited to go. Oh, dude, I'm jealous. We don't even have SEC tournament tickets yet. Best moment of the SEC tournament.

Well, I sort of do it in two eras. I have the era where I used to go with my grandfather, and then that best tournament was 1999 I think that's right the year in Birmingham when that was probably the best tournament they've ever had

where we had Mashburn and those guys and then you had Alabama with Robert Orie James Hollywood Robinson Latrilles Spreewell Arkansas had Todd Day Lee Mayberry

Mayberry Scotty third Todd Day Lee Mary Barry and Oliver Miller LSU had Shaq and that whole crew that was probably the best one. And then I think the best environment for an SEC tournament game was the year we played Tennessee.

Remember that? Was that John Wall's year? Or when they beat them by a million? Well, yes, when they beat them by a million. Was that John Wall's year? That was the best environment in that arena. Tennessee had Scotty Hobson, and we had John Wall, and we beat them by like 1,000. And then the next day had that game against Mississippi State

with the putback and all that. That's probably the best modern one for me. My two main memories don't even involve basketball. The tornado game, the tornado went through Atlanta during the SEC tournament, and then when COVID hit, we were at the SEC tournament in Nashville. Yeah, that's true, the COVID one. The other game I tend to remember was, I'm trying to think what year it was, Drew, but what's the year we played Texas A&M?

Not last year. No, I think it was maybe 2016, the Jamal Murray-Tyler-Ulis team. We played Texas A&M in the finals, and Derek Willis and Dominique Hawkins. Dominic. Yeah, had this crazy game, and it was like, that's my other sort of SEC tournament game that really sticks out in my head. Yeah, Jackson, the Collar, didn't sound old enough for my favorite SEC tournament memories, but a good story that I have is I turned down great seats for the Wall Cousins tip-in game.

I was just watching it on TV. I think I could even see my seats empty. Clearly would have gone had I known it was going to be a good game. I thought we were going to kill them because they just killed Tennessee so I didn't go. And then, of course, ends up being one of the best games. How long has it been since we won it? 2019. I mean, I think we've only won once in like eight years.

Did they win in 2019 with Hero? We'll have to look at that. Billy, look that up during the break. I think we've, I want to say we've won like. like one of the last eight or something, that tournament that we used to own. Win it every single year when Tubby was here, man. They'd win that thing every year. Well, I mean, even in the early days of cow, we won it almost every year.

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Do people know that they're about to ban vaping in Kentucky completely? Does everybody know that? I don't know if everybody was. I've seen it, talked about a little bit. Yeah, I'll tell you more about it. I don't think everybody knows what's happening here in like four days in Kentucky. I think it's going to take a lot of people by surprise. We'll take a break and be right back.

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I actually think it's probably really bad. It'll be one of these things that, like, in 10 or 15 years, we'll find out is really, really, really, really bad for you. So I'm not against this law, but there's two things. I don't think people in Kentucky know that, like, virtually all vaping is going to be illegal to buy in Kentucky in four days. You know, like, if you go buy, like, fruity, like, it's flavor, like, all the fruit stuff gone. There'll only be like 20 products that are allowed, and they're all like tobacco flavored. And so I don't think a lot of people vape the tobacco flavor. They vape one of those, all those will be gone.

Won't be able to buy them in Kentucky. You can't buy them in other states. Can't buy them in Kentucky. Now, when I saw that, I was like, wow, who would have ever thought Kentucky would be like so pro-health? Uh-uh. I mean, what it is. It's the tobacco industry is basically made it to where they've been. banned everything except what the tobacco industry sells, which is the vape flavor that is

tobacco. So it's like, it's classic Kentucky. It looks like on the surface, it's positive. But then the only thing legal, it's basically creating a monopoly for the tobacco company. So it's nonsense. But there's a lot of people. Like you go into a gas station. I don't know if it's like this here in Glasgow, but it's just flavored vapes everywhere.

all that's going away in four days. All I hear is there's about to be a lot of cheap real estate because I feel like there's a vape shop every 50 yards in Kentucky. Yeah. That and what will college kids have in their hand now? Because I feel like anyone under the age of 20 constantly has a vape in their mouths. Do you think people know that in Kentucky? Like, do you think the average person knows that that's about to happen?

I consider myself a below average person, and I had no idea. It's the first time I'm hearing of it, actually. You consider yourself a below-average person. I didn't know that. And I have my oldest son, Vapes. He probably doesn't have any idea. He probably doesn't know it. I consider myself a below-average person.

I like that. One person writes, Matt, you skipped over two things there in your last segment. You got to go over. You do need to answer his question about stoops, and then the Cal got you fired, or tried to get you fired. I wonder if you were going to bounce back. Well, on the Cal tried to get you fired, I have four days less. left on my contract, and I'm trying to get a new one. Let's see if we get a new one, and then we'll talk about that.

All right. We need to add stress to that conversation. Between now and January 1st, I have a lot of stuff I have to do. Let's see if we get that done. And then if I'm not on the air January 2nd, then we'll do it that way. Or even if I am, we'll do it that way. The Stoops' conversation, you know, to his, I intentionally never talked to him during the year. Like, what are you going to say?

You know? I mean, am I supposed to be like, you guys aren't doing good? Like, what am I going to say to the guy? So he called me on that trip and just said, like, you know, what's the fans sort of take on the year? And I was honest with him about where I thought the fans were. I was pretty up front about the things I thought most fans thought. I think it was a hard conversation for him to listen to. he pushed back on some of it

but he also I think understood some of it I think I said on this show he needs people to tell him that it shouldn't have to be me he needs people to tell him like the fans are here and so it was a long I mean we talked for like an hour and a half

you all heard half of it how would you characterize it well I told you when you hung up the phone I said the best thing you did in that phone conversation was tell him some things that he didn't know how the fans were feeling You know, he needed to know the fans were disappointed.

He needed to know the fans thought the culture was getting bad. And to his credit, it sounded like he listened, at least when you were trying to tell something. I think he did. I think here's something I give him a lot of credit for. I look at you folks in the crowd. He wants, he genuinely wants to please you all. Like he has, Mark Pope is the same way. He has a desire to make people happy.

Sometimes I think coaches get so big that they don't, they almost get angry at the face. I don't really get the sense Mark Stoops is like that. Mark Stoops, like, wants to be loved by the fans, and he sometimes, I think, doesn't understand why people are frustrated. But I told him in that call, I said, you heard me say this, Drew, I said, you screwed up with the pony up stuff. You screwed up. That was a mistake.

I was like the way you did it, when you did it, and I think he'd be fine with me saying, he said to me, you know what, you're right. And I said, you need to come on my show, and say all that, and he said to me he would after he sort of completed the rehab for the surgery he had to have, which I think, so probably we'll do that sometime next week. I believe we ranked it number two on our contingent. It was definitely number two.

So there were some moments, but only hearing one half, I think it went well for both parties. It sounded like, I mean, you have a pretty good feel of the fan base here between the show, social media, everything. More than he does, honestly, he's a little busy, so I think you were just able to tell him a little bit about how the fan base is really feeling, right now. He, I will say this. I don't know if it's going to work next year.

I don't, who knows? But I do think he does want to please the fans. He does. Now, whether or not they're going to be able to do it, Ryan, I don't know, but I think he wants to. If he didn't care, he wouldn't have called you. Yeah. He cares. You're exactly right. He wouldn't have called me. We'll take a break. Come back. Hour number two, KSR. 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. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel

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