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Episode Date: January 14, 2025

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Stockton.com, and click, get started. Stockton Mortgage, NMLS 8259 Equal Housing Lender, NMLS, Consumer Access.org. Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. KSbar just opened up. We are here getting ready. The game, so our pregame show today is at 4.30.

You can come in before, get ready for the game. The game watch is at 7 o'clock tonight. Kentucky and Texas A&M. Kentucky is a six-point favorite going up against the number one offensive rebounding team in the country. That's a pretty big deal. Speaking of a big deal, you know, it's a sports bar. We have the view on the big screen, which is not what I normally would have on the sports bar.

I don't know how it ended up there. But you know what, that's the way it goes. I guess the Monday Night Football game was on last night. So that's how we end up with. the view. The view without sound. That's an interesting. View without sound. That's what people really want to see. All right, a couple of things here before we get back to phones,

859-280-2287. I want to give a big thoughts and sympathy to the folks in Louisville who worked for Brown Foreman, Brown Foreman that makes the they made their barrels

there in Louisville and they have closed the company. So I guess they've, over the year, had barrel making places in a bunch of states. Kentucky was the last one. They were closing it down. It's over 200 jobs in Louisville and not just jobs, really good jobs. It's very frustrating to me for a few reasons.

You know, the bourbon companies lobbied to get a tax benefit from the state last year for the making of barrels here in Kentucky. And then the state, it was a very controversial thing. The state capitulated, passed a bill. then six months later they shut down the company after doing it, shut down the barrel making and move it to another state. You know, to me, that's poor form on the side of Brown Forman. But you beg the state to give you a tax break.

The state does it to protect the bourbon industry, and then you move it out of the state anyway. So, but be that as it may, for the 200-plus families that have those jobs, that's going to be a tough loss. Tough loss for the city. That's been there for a long time. and I just want to give my prayers to the families that deal with that because that'll be, you know, it's just a very unfortunate thing.

And, you know, the bourbon industry all across the country, there's a lot. Bourbon industry's in a lot of, you know, demand has gone down for bourbon in the last few years. I'm not sitting here arguing in politics, but if Trump enacts tariffs, then a lot of countries are going to enact tariffs back on us on our bourbon. and our bourbon will be one of the things that is really affected by. So, you know, I hope that industry is so important to this state that we hope this isn't the start of other things to come. You know, well said, I mean, it is sad. We all know somebody that works there for them.

So it just seems like they would want to keep that in Kentucky. That should be something that should stay here in Kentucky. They're apparently like one of, they're basically outsourcing it to other companies to do the barrels. They're not going to do them in-house anymore. I mean, I'm sure it probably does save money. I don't see their bottom line, but I just, you know, right after they gave, literally, to hurt these counties, they gave this tax break on all the bourbon bearer, then to close it, literally before the next legislative session is just, that's frustrating to me. Yeah, that's a big name in Louisville and in the state.

And it just, it stinks with, so it's all it 210 exactly, and it looks like they didn't even get much notice. So you think about all those people. I assume a lot of people have been there a long time with how they've operated there. Yeah, got it today. All right, two more fun stories than that. Mark Pope suggests last night that yesterday the team got to look at alternative uniforms. Alternative uniforms is what he said. Now, I'm going to note a couple hints.

First of all, if you go look at the game the other night, you see he was wearing a pullover, had some shades of denim on it. Not going to say it was denim, but had some shades of denim. also in 1994, or excuse, was it 94, 96? 96. 96, the debut of the denim uniforms was against Arkansas. I'm not saying, I'm just saying. So I think there's a decent little argument.

You know, Arkansas February 1st, they're showing them the uniforms. Do you think there is a chance that this could be a hint that the denim, we might be in them, when Cali Perry and those guys come here February 1st, they're showing them. February 1st. Yes, and I hope, hope, you're exactly right. They wear those denim uniforms on February 1st when Cal and Arkansas comes in here.

It's going to be a madhouse anyway. That's just going to add to the drama of the game. I love it. I hope they do it. I've been expecting this since before the season began and it's falling right into place. They're dropping hints at the right time. I think we're headed straight for it.

I mentioned I've seen, I saw these already before the year began. I didn't know when they're coming out, but I knew they existed. You saw them where? It was on a phone. I didn't get to hold them. But yeah, I told you all. So they look like. they look like those old ones?

If that's what they finally went with, it was a prototype. But, yeah, I mean, it wasn't exact. It was like a modernized version, but I know they exist and have been working on them since that was probably October. And I, and seeing them in, I thought, got to be Arkansas. And here we are. They're dropping the hints at the right time. I don't know anything now, but I'm guessing that's the game and around the corner. That would be pretty exciting if they bring them out.

Although, I don't know. Do you think people will like them as much as we do from nostalgia point of view? I think just, you know, a one-time thing or something like that. I hope they make to sell on the shops and the number 41 denim jerseys. The Mark Pope 41. I think that people would love to have that. Yes, I think it would be very good for it to happen.

I've seen the shoe also. The shoes coming back. The Converse shoe? Yeah. Because Nike owns Converse. Oh, that would be actually. Jack Pilgrim pointed out. I didn't know this angle to it.

But Shea is now Converse. It's a big athlete. He signed right at the same time Mark Pope got hired. I didn't realize that. Shea, Canadian, denim. Converse has an incentive to bring Shea and the MBA or Shea and Pope kind of together and make this a big deal. I like that. All right.

So then the second story is a little, we have to discuss because it's in the SEC. Do you know Ryan who Sidney Thomas is? I do not. Sidney Thomas is this young woman. She was the girl or the woman in the Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight. Okay. You may remember she got a lot of attention. she was the ring card girl for the fight.

Okay. She did a podcast, so she's like, she did a podcast where she said that after that, an SEC coach slid into her DMs, okay? And that has led the Internet to try to guess which SEC coach slid in the DMs, right? Everybody's initial guess, now she didn't say head coach, but she did say it was the biggest person who had done it. So you've got to think that means it's a head coach. Probably. She didn't say football or basketball, but I think most people assumed football. So now you're down to 16th. Everybody's initial guest was, of course, Lane Kiffon.

Everyone guessed Lane Kiffin, because apparently they slid in and said, roll-tod roll, because that's where she went to school. Kiffin, of course, coached at Alabama. So everybody just assumes it's Kiffin. And that's been like this internet guess for 2440 out. Who was it? But then, last night, I guess she took a picture somewhere with Nick Sabin, just like, you know, because she's in Alabama fam, just a picture like somebody would take with Mark Pope. Lane Kiffin retweets the picture and says,

now we know who slid in the DMs, implying that it was Sabin. First of all, what an amazing tweet by Lane Kiffin. like acknowledging that everyone thinks it's him, and then saying that it was Nick Sabin, who it almost certainly was not. What did you make of Lane Kiffin? Is he like the master troll of all coaching? I hated Lane Kiffin. Hated Lane Kiffin until he got to Ole Miss.

Now I love Lane Kiffin and add this to the list. Barstall this morning tweeted the picture and just said your average SEC couple, and Kiffin's retweeted and interacting with that. Like he's piling on trying to put it on. He's just, like, everyone was just like, it had to be Kiffin. It had to be Kiffin. And Kiffin now is like, no, Sabin. And just completely throws it.

It is amazing to me that he did that. I mean, that's pretty ballsy to take on the king of all college coaches, Sabin, and put that out there and kind of have some fun with it. My money's still on Kiffin, though. Do you still think it was Kiffin? Oh, maybe he's using it to deflect. To deflect. To deflect.

I mean, most people think it was either Kiffin or the other one people guess is Hugh Fries. They think it was either Kiffin or Hugh Fries, the guy that was in the hospital bed at Liberty. It was, of course it was Kiffin. Right? It had to have a big Kiff. I thought for sure you were going to say it was Todd Golden, Florida's basketball coach, what he was kind of accused of. You're taking this story is a little serious. We're trying to keep it lighthearted.

I'm just saying who I thought it was. I don't. I can see Kiffin. I think it was Kiffin. I like it's hilarious that he's doing that. But the fact that he would then deflect it to saving, you know, I'm with you. Like, I don't want to like Kiffin, but he almost like makes it to where it's hard not to like him in some extent. He did one.

I don't even think coaches should do this, but he took a recruit from another school and then tweeted, like basically I just stole him, like eat it. Like you don't see that from Division I college football coaches. Well, I mean, you're allowed to do it. So I get, do other coaches like him or hate him? I've heard he and Stoops are very close. I've heard he and Stoops like each other. I actually heard that Lane Kiffin sent Stoops a message after going forward on fourth and throwing to Barron Brown. I'm like, what the hell is that, Mark?

Like, that's not you. Yeah, well, either way, got to give him credit for that. Yeah. Who's up first? Kentucky Joe. Kentucky Joe. How are you? Hello, Matt.

I think you all had a nice guest today and a nice one yesterday, too. So what did you think about us playing your song for Willie Colley Stein? He got to hear Willie Colley Stein Man live. I had tears in my eyes. You had tears in your eyes. I especially like Ryan's remark. Well, Ryan said it was awful. Yeah, it was awful.

It's your song. How are you going to say it's awful? I'm being honest. Okay, well, if you, let me tell you some, Joe. You know, I learned a long time ago. If you don't believe in yourself, how do you expect anyone else to believe in yourself? Joe, you have to believe in yourself. No, no, I'm going to tell you I made a mistake because of the snow hill sand creams.

That's the reason why it happened like that. Well, it was a beautiful song in my mind. no no a a mad a man thank you for what you said well you're welcome and you know i'm pulling for you and here's what i think this team's good joe this team needs a song you need to pick a player on the team i don't care which one it is and i need to hear from you maybe later in the week or next week and hear a song i'm a call i like to call them uh pope pope i like to call this team they they are

they are a Pops Bommadeers Pope's Mommadeers yes that doesn't make any sense you know why because I like to bomb the three oh a bomb

I thought what Bommaneers Bombad B O B O B A D-A-A-D-E-R-S B-O-B B-O-B yeah you heard about that one

War II, the B-24 is the bombadeers. Bombadeers, okay. I thought they were the Thundercats, Joe. Joe gave them the Thundercats. Yeah, all right, well, if you were to write about the bombadiers, I don't know that that's a word, but if you do, that's fine, and Joe, it's nice to talk to you. Who's up next?

All right, let's go to Ed. Ed, go ahead, Ed. Hey, Matt, if you can pick six players in any part of Kentucky's history, who would you pick my picks would be Tony Delk and Cal Macy Dan Isle and Anthony Davis Kenny Skywalker and Jamal Mashir. I mean that's a great group. You're asking me what would you pick for what?

Like to put together the best team? Yeah, I mean just if you had your choice through the years and you can snatch them right out of history and put them on the team now. Yeah. Okay, so if we're talking about modern college basketball, my answer is going to be a little bit different. I appreciate the call.

Because if we're going to play in today's college basketball, I need dudes who can shoot, right? So if I have dudes, so if I'm going to have dudes who can really shoot from the outside, Anthony Davis is going to be my center, Anthony Davis is going to be my center. I'm probably going to get, Tony Delks going to be in the lineup because he's such a good shooter.

You like Mashburn at the 4? I love Mashburn. So I like Mashburn, Davis, and Delk. Then at Point Guard, it's tough because I love John Wall, but I think I need a guy who can shoot in today's thing. So I don't know. Who are you getting at Point Guard? Macy's not a bad choice either.

The guy that said Macy, he can shoot. Maybe Macy. I like Rex. Maybe at the three is a guy who could shoot. Jack is another one. Or Kenny. So I love Issel, but I don't know if I think Isle's kind of made for the way the game was then, which is a little different than the game is now.

So, yeah, Macy's actually not a bad one. But I like that guy's picks. He got most of them, right? Yeah, he's got six. Hard to argue against the six that he picked, for sure. You know, we're talking about modern day basketball. Yeah. I'll take a different approach.

I still have a broken heart that needs to be healed. So I'm starting Rob Dillingham, Antonio Reef, and Reed Shepard. And then with them... You got to fill that void in my heart. With them, I got to put Anthony Davis, boogie, and I need a little bit of a... Yeah, Mashburn will be a good picture.

You know what? I mean, if you put those three guards on the floor with Mashburn and Anthony Davis, they'd be pretty good. It's my team. I mean, they'd be a pretty good team right there. The joy I wanted a year ago, I could still go obtain it with this exercise. That's exactly right. You can go to cornbreadthimp.com if you want joy and relaxation.

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people say Joe was trying to say Bommadir, which is a word. He spelled it a little differently than that, but Baumadier, B-O-M-B-A-D-I-E-R, which was World War II, they call him Bomadeers, according to a lot of folks. I couldn't really tell with his voice what he was trying to say. I thought he said Pope's

volunteers at first. I don't like the nickname for the team, but I definitely want to hear him use it in a song. Yeah, I like it as well. One person writes, Matt, have you been hearing Billy and Shannon make fun of you for your diarrhea kiss story

on the postgame show. Have you been doing that, Shannon? Well, you know, I turn on the radio on the way home from the show the other night, and the first thing I hear is you talking about your first kiss and how you got diarrhea after that, then you thought kissing girls gives you diarrhea. That was the first thing that I heard on the postgame show. I heard that too.

I'm going, oh, okay, that's what you talk about on these late night postgame shows, huh? It is what I talked about. Well, it was the girl, well, she's now, you know, a woman that's, that she thinks she's older than me. It was her birthday. And so my mom said to give her a birthday shout. So I did. And then I just had to give the context of that that was my first kiss when I was like six or seven or eight.

And that then I had diarrhea. And I thought that's what you got from kissing. And so I tried to stay away from it until my mid-20. Not that long. But people thought that was funny. And I don't know why that was funny. If you're a kid, causation correlation, it seemed like that happened right after. So it would be called.

You would think there would be a causation. Sounds like a traumatic experience. It wasn't traumatic. I was very sick. Did you call her by name on the post game show? I did. I did. I did.

But, like, have you heard from her since then? Not since the post game show, but, like, you know, I mean, her mother is here. She's the one that's Georgiana's daughter. Oh, okay. She's the one that gave you, Dario? Well, she didn't, I thought she gave it. I don't think she did give it to me. I think it was like, just in my mind, I made that correlation for it.

I can see now why you didn't kiss another girl until you turn 40. Well, first of all, I just made that joke about mid-20s. But they, you know, you can understand how that would happen. I mean, you should worry about several Rias when you're participating in those activities. But diarrhea, I don't think it's correlated to this. There are a lot of Rias that you have to worry about. There's something else, Shannon and Billy have been saying, they said on the pre-game show, pre-show about you.

What was it? What did we say? That you farted during the post-game show. No, no, no, that was a caller that said that. Yeah, that didn't happen. I went back and listen. That wasn't, I don't know what that sound was, but that wasn't me. I would say it, but that was not that caller is wrong about that.

Who's up next? Tyler. Tyler. Tyler, go ahead, Tyler. Hey, guys. I just wanted to call in and tell you my guess, to who the coach was, the DM, the girl. I think Bruce Pearl would have been a very good candidate.

He's a little old for it to be him. I mean, he's in his... They're all probably too old. He's in his 60s. So I would kind of... I would think it was unlikely that it was him. And also, do you think Kentucky covers the spread? Well, that's a good question.

I mean, do you think Kentucky... Okay, so with the spread being six, if I was like, let's say I didn't care about Kentucky. I would probably bet on A&M because if I'm getting six, and I think this game could be close anyway, I'm probably betting on A&M. I'm going to pick Kentucky to win. I think Kentucky will win.

But if I were getting six, Drew, I would. Like, you know, we're not doing a KSR parlay tonight, but if we were, I think I wouldn't have the overall spread on the list because I think six is a lot against a good team. No, I'm not touching. Six and a half now, too, by the way. Is it really? Wow.

I mean, I wouldn't bet against you, K, ever. But, like, just asking me what I think could happen, I would lean A&M there. This will be a – Are you surprised? Six and – I mean, it's a lot of points for a team that they're ranked – What's A&M ranked? Eleven. They're ranked 11th in the country, and that's a lot.

It's got to be all a reaction to a way to – I didn't see what it opened. I know it's moved quite a bit. I think it opened even lower, much lower, actually. So it's all in reaction to him. I'm probably going to money line UK because I do think they win and then throw in like a player. I do think this is a very important game, though, for Kentucky. You know, the Alabama game, you could drop the Alabama.

I want to win it. You could drop it, though, but, you know, you might have made it up by winning at Mississippi State. But you can't, if you want to win the SEC, you've got to win both these games. But if you still, I'm still sort of in the more like I want to, make sure we're of top four seed. If you want to be a top four seed, you could lose the Alabama game. You cannot lose this game to A&M. That's why I think this one's really important tonight. Yeah, you've got to take advantage of the fact you've got

them at home. They're without their best player. The last time you were at Rupertina, he scored 106 points. So yeah, I think you've got to take advantage of having this game on your home floor. The home floor is just you just have to hold serve at home in the SEC. And even though completely different rosters, at least from the fans, there's a revenge aspect of this. They've won the last two Can't let A&M keep getting having Kentucky's number, even if the bodies

are different in UK uniforms. Couple open lines, 859-280-2287. Who's next? Bob and Jamestown. Bob and Jamestown. How are you, Bob? I'm good. You know, we're talking about women's sports

Title IX, you know, the rising tide raises all votes. Would you believe that Western Kentucky's women's basketball team makes $650,000 a year salary? And Hurley, Connecticut's coach, two-time national champion, only getting $450. That's not true. Danny Hurley does not make $4.

Who told you Danny Hurley makes $450,000? I just got I was pulling it up on the Internet today. That's not true. It's going to what everybody makes. Danny Hurley makes like $6 or $7 million. That's what I figured. But he said it. Well, if it was on the Internet, Bob, that was certain.

Did you look up a month? I appreciate the call. I mean, there's not, you really think Danny Hurley makes $450,000. Well, he signed an extension right around the UK coaching search, and the internet tells me it's for $50 million. See, again, Shannon, people go, why you tell me in the Bob in Jamestown? Because he calls in and says that Danny Hurley makes $450,000. It's got to be true.

It's on Facebook. We'll be right back. 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. 859-2-8-0-2287. I guess Bob looked, and you have to remember, this is why context matters in this world.

The Hurley's makes whatever you said he makes, Drew. But the way it works, it's the same at UK. The quote-unquote base salary is a small amount, and then it's all the media stuff that gets you to a lot of money. Mark Pope's the exact same way. I don't know what his base salary is, but it's a lot smaller than you think, but then you add in the JMI and then the endorsement and all that, and then that is the total number that you're talking about. But so that like on the state registry, it doesn't look as much. It'll just be the amount that's the base salary. I don't know what Popes is, but there was a time that Cal's was like $500,000, even though he was making $8, $9, $10 million

because that's just how they do it. Yeah, their money comes from the other thing. Like you said, their shoe contract, their coaches show, their Nike contract, everything else involved with the coaching world. 859-280-2287. Couple open lines. Where are you all on the phones? I can't just, I know Shannon needs a call when he goes to Bob and Jamestown before the final segment.

So there's some talk that Dion Sanders may go coach the Cowboys. Would it work? Yes or no? No. but I've made up a scenario in my head where they hire him and the Titans trade them the number one pick so he can draft his son so I'm kind of rooting for it.

Okay, that's a guy. I mean, it's not crazy, I guess, yeah? When's your next ESPN show? Because this is all you're going to be talking about for the next month. I do Thursday night with a guy named, first of all, you need to look up this guy I'm doing the show with Thursday night. Okay.

His name is Mark Zeno, Z-I-N-O, and he is the biggest dude I've ever seen in my life. Like, look, like, look how, how. Oh, he's a big dude. Yes. Like, look how ripped that guy. Yeah, he's, he's, he's like showing it off. And you want to know who he is?

You remember when we were driving in Utah, and I turned out of ESPN radio, and they were two dudes, and they were just going, right, right, right, right, right, remember? I was like, who are these guys? It was one of those dudes. Uh-huh. It's one of those dudes.

So, like, I'm doing the show with him now. Well, there's no doubt what you're talking about. Every show for the next month and a half, Dallas Cowboys coaching search. I think Dion is exactly where he needs to be. Like the whole college motivating, get them, be cool, all that. I think that all works really well in college. I do not think it will work in the NFL.

So I think he is where he needs to be right now. I agree. Just with all the stories you hear out of that locker room, you know, there was a story written early in the year comparing it to like it was Grand Theft Auto, the video game in that locker room with everything going on. I don't know how he could pick that up and take it to a professional locker room with grown adults and, you know, having, this is their career. I just don't know how that would fit.

Yeah. It would be a circus, though. I mean, it'd get a lot of attention to high balls with Dion on that sideline. But you don't, you're the Cowboys. You don't need a circus. Like, you're the Dallas Cowboys. You're the biggest franchise. You don't need more of a circus.

You already have a circus. Jerry Jones is your circus. Yeah. So, no, I don't, I don't think that'll work. 859-280-2287. Who's up next? Todd, go ahead, Todd. Hey, Matt.

After the Georgia loss, I listened to the postgame show, and you said we don't have one athletic person on the team, and I think you're wrong about that. I think that Otega is one of the most athletic people we've had on our team. I said I don't think we have elite athletes. But here's the reason I say that. I think Otega is athletic, but how many times we watched him get blocked at the rim, right?

Quite a bit. Now, that's all I'm saying. He's a good athlete. He is, you know, again, this sounds like I'm being critical. I'm just explaining what I think they are. These are dudes. Amari is a perfect example about this. Amari at the level he was on at Drexel is probably the best athlete that was on the court

or one of the best athletes that's on the court. But then you get to the SEC. and everyone is as athletic as that. And so that athleticism you have is not the dominant thing. We've had guys at this school. We've had guys at this school who are such elite athletes that in a conference full of athletes, they still are crazy athletic. We don't have one of those guys on this team.

Are they athletic as far as the average person? Yeah, for sure. If they were playing in Conference USA, would they be one of the most athletic guys? For sure. But in the SEC, we don't have a dude like Deering Fox or John Wall or one of these guys who's just a super athlete, more athletic than all the other guys on the court. One other thing I want to say is, like, as good as we have been this year, I mean, these are guys that, like, you're talking about playing against these teams that they're playing against. SEC, which is the best conference in the nation. I mean, they're just blowing.

We're going to get some losses, but... Of course we are. I mean, they just click. I mean, this is the team is so fun to watch. They are. It's not a put-down to say, I appreciate the call, that these are not elite athletes. I mean, the amount of elite athletes, just by definition, there's only a handful around the country.

What I'm saying is this is a group of dudes. I mean, if you were just Drew to stack the rosters of the 16 SEC teams and just look solely at athleticism, not skill, not intelligence, we're not even probably going to be in the top half. No. But that's not the strength of this team, which makes it very different than what we've been used to. If you're starting the SEC, you are very athletic, obviously. But you're making the point relatively.

to everyone else in the SEC. I mean, just go back that Mississippi State game. Those dudes were more athletic than our dudes. Yes, they were. Don't you think? Yes, they were. I mean, take Arkansas. All right.

Arkansas's not good, but they're more athletic than we are, but they're not good. But I'm just talking about sheer athleticism. And there's some good athletes like, oh, way, but Andrew Carr is beating you with old man moves inside, pump face, getting around you. Kobe Brea is. is shooting a three from four feet outside the three-point line. He can be you off the drivel, but that's not exactly what he's going to do to set himself apart. I think that great point.

Even Jackson Robinson is not like dunking in your face athlete. I mean, O-A is probably the best athlete we have, and he gets blocked a lot. That one Sompto got him was hard to watch. So Sompto's a different level of athletes. So Sompto blocked him pretty strong on that. I think I agree with you guys. Otega may be the best athlete, and you know, know what?

Brandon Garrison may be the second base. I actually think Brandon Garrison is a good athlete. He's awkward a little bit, but he is athletic. He's got long arms. He can jump. He is he is athletic. His issue is no one thinks Brandon Garrison is more athletic than Brandon Garrison thinks he's athletic.

He's spin movement. He's trying everything that the point guards are doing. If there's anybody out there listening that has low self-confidence in life, look in the mirror in the morning and look at your, yourself and think you are as good as Amari Williams and Brandon Garrison think they are dribbling. Like, just take their self-confidence and take it to your own life. Because those dudes get the ball and they're like, let's go. Here we go.

Brandon Garrison, that one play where he tried to dribble the length of the court. Yes. Well, twice in the Georgia loss, he looked at Lamont Butler calling for the ball and shrugged him off and said, I'm taking it and turned it over two dribbles later twice. Just have that confidence. in life, and you will be good. His three-point confidence I'm starting to get behind, though. Pope even said last night, you all need to put some respect on his shooting.

He's three for four and four games, and Pope's like, we see this kind of regularly in practice, even though it doesn't feel like. Jack Givens out on the radio broadcast that in the pregame shoot-around, he was the second best on the team behind Jackson and shooting threes. Garrison. Maybe we're the wrong ones. Maybe we are wrong. Hey, Central Kentucky, if you want new furniture, appliances are bad,

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They're doing all these contracts are structured. Yeah. Well, that way, the reason they do it like that is that way when you pull up the state salaries, you won't see the $4.6 million. Like it doesn't look like he's making. making what he's making. I think most public schools probably do it that way.

And honestly, most publics, there are some schools, I don't think Kentucky's like this, but there are some states that have laws as to how much a state official can make, and it might be the way around those laws in some states, you know. So it makes it weird when they skip media obligations. Because they're getting paid. By the media.

Which, by the way, he's still doing, even in Arkansas. I wouldn't talk about anyone in particular. I was just saying if the media is covered a contract, you should fulfill them. I still cannot believe JMI let that slide when he was here. But I don't know. What are you going to do? If he says no, what are you going to do? Don't pay him.

Okay, that's... I think that would have been a little bit of a controversy if he had done that. But, I mean, I agree with you. But that's what happened. I do want to give a shout out real quick to our football team. It is amazing to me how online it feels like no one wants any positive football news. Like, you give it to them and they just go, well, they stink.

We'll see if we win in September. Like, yeah, this year stunk, but we need to, I would think people would want to know about the team. Okay. Kentucky got a dude that was ranked as one of the top ten players in the portal two days ago. All right. McQueen, Grace, that's that how I say it? I believe so.

He played at South Dakota, which is FCS. But he was a defensive line. lineman that Georgia, Michigan, and Mississippi State were all targeting. Kirby Smart had him on campus and individually walked him around. To me, that says to me he's pretty good. If Kirby Smart's going to take his time to individually walk this kid around, he commits to Kentucky from Ohio, so another Vince Mero thing. You know, when it comes to the line of scrimmage on the offensive and defensive line,

They have upgraded massively from last year. Now, we'll see if they end up good, but they are going to have an all-new defensive line and all-new offensive line, and pretty much everybody they've gotten has been a player that other top programs have wanted, Drew. So, like, you know, again, we'll have to see if it works out, but you've got to be excited. And this dude was ranked in the on-3 thing. He was ranked as the number nine overall player in the portal. he's an all-American first team at the

FCS level hopefully that translates he was the player of the year in his conference which is the best conference in that level his freshman year just right away had insane numbers played two seasons there so I agree this is a big get especially with the interest list and you put him they got the guy from Wyoming Gusto from Washington State was ranked Tally and all these things we'll see how it looks in the SEC

but given what they had in front of them to go shopping for they did pretty well there and I want to add they got you know I don't know a lot about these mid-major guys, but the true Edwards receiver they got yesterday from Louisiana Tech. I watched his film a few weeks ago before he visited, and I wanted him bad, and they locked him down. That receiver room has flipped quite a bit, too. And the quarterbacks and receivers, all of them, Calzada coming in, all the receivers,

are like 24 years old. It's by far the oldest quarterback receiver room in college football. He's a seventh-year senior coming in. It's going to be fascinating because it's clear to me, Ryan, they took a view of, you know what? we tried this whole thing of getting the backup at Georgia, the backup at Alabama, the backup. Now we're going to this next level, and we're taking the dudes that crushed it.

We're taking the dudes that crushed it in FCS. We're taking the dudes that crushed it at Washington State, at Louisiana Tech, at Northern Illinois. We're taking these guys. Western are centers from? We'll see if it works. But it is clear they had a different strategy this year, Ryan, rather than taking these other teams' leftovers going and getting the stars one level down.

No doubt. The approach changed, and they're going to get guys that have done it on the field. You can actually see how they perform and what they've done on the field, not a guy who is a backup just because he was at a bigger school. We'll see. We'll see. That's the thing about it. I mean, it's exciting, but it's also like we won't know how any of these guys

that are coming from FCS and putting the SEC, how it really translates to their hands in the dirt on Saturday and September. But I would just say to you, if there's a lot of it. a defensive lineman that Kirby Smart wanted, then I want him to. Right. Like if Kirby Smart thought he could play there next year, I'll take it. I look at what they did in the portal, and here's my one reaction. The offensive line will be better. The defensive line will be better.

The receiver room, I don't know if it'll be better, but it might be more consistent. It's much older. But the one thing is, do we have a quarterback? That's my, that's my, do we have a quarterback? Between Cutter and my incarnation. word guy, are we going to be able to get a guy on the field who's good? And I don't know the answer, but that's my question. I'm with you, and I look at it, and I don't have, we're not going to turn this into me getting optimistic about next season. I'm still very down on everything. But I think

Calzada, it would be hard to do much worse at quarterback. And I don't mean to talk negatively about Vandergrath. I think a lot of that was injury and his protection. But they did not get good numbers from QB last year. So I think it's got to go up. How much we'll see. But last year was horribly bad. I also think we're going to be running the ball a lot next year. So are you? Yeah, they've got the running back that came in. Then they've got, of course, Wilcox and Patterson. I think those guys are.

Offensive line, at least in theory. So we'll see. Who's up next? Tracy. Tracy. Go ahead, Tracy. Hey, guys. Good morning. Bringing us back to today.

Just a couple of thoughts. One is, you know, A&M didn't really get terribly blown out the other night by Bama and they missed 20 free throws, which I did. 20 free throws. They were 28 of 48 from the free. They had 48 free throws in that game against Bama. Yeah, and missed 20 of them. And Buzz didn't actually seem too concerned about that

because he pulled up some stats about their top, you know, playing top major 11 teams and all that. The other thing I had to, I thought about, and Drew real quick to you. about the lines and everything. I'll tell you one of the things that really bothers me is when I bet Kentucky to cover and they don't, but they win.

I don't want to be conflicted on being happy and being sad, so I just don't get that any more than the money line. I mean, I don't want to have those two competing feelings. I want to be happy every time we win 100%. Totally understand. thing is, yeah, have you looked at the slate for tonight on SEC? You got A&M coming to us, Mississippi State going to Auburn, I believe Ole Miss is at Bama.

Those are all 7 o'clock games, and then at 9 you get Arkansas at LSU. Well, yeah, let's talk about those real quick. I appreciate the call. You got three teams that went on the road last week and won big games on the road now at home, right and so now they got a hold serve at home that's albairn that's alabama and that's us then you got arkansas in my opinion there's seasons on the line tonight at lSU like you if they lose at lsu it's night night if you lose i mean lsu's the worst team in the conference now you are playing a road game so you could lose but it is night night if they lose this game so i think at nine

o'clock. I know I'm going to be watching it when the Kentucky game's over. To me, Drew, they're playing for their season tonight in Baton Rouge. Absolutely. That's not Drew and Matt being haters. You can read Arkansas stories. They're writing that right now. That game goes to 0 and 4 in the SEC, and this isn't even Arkansas's

difficult stretch. They still have a hard schedule going forward. So if you lose to LSU, I don't care that it's on the road, you're running out of games to win this early in the year. They don't have enough opportunities later. No, you've got a win at LSU considering they're the worst team in the conference. They don't win this one. You're right. They're in a lot of trouble. I think they're in a lot of it. So that's that's

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