KSR - 2025-02-11- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk UK vs. Tennessee, take your calls, and give away tickets for tonight's game.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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, 50257-11080. text machine 772 77524 you're not going to believe this the text on the text machine some people didn't like that last second whoa I know it's going to surprise you one person writes Matt do you care at all that 75% of Kentucky disagrees with you on your opinions no because whether or not something is your opinion shouldn't depend on what everyone thinks anyone can jump off a cliff you should believe what you believe regardless if you believe one thing and you You live in California and everybody's Democrat, and you still believe it, you should still believe your Republican things.

You shouldn't change your mind just because the majority disagrees with you. Be proud of who yourself, to quote Ryan Limit at one point. All right, they're showing Luca up here on the screen. He made his debut last night. A couple of things, thoughts about this. First of all, yellow is not a slimming color. So if you're Luca, you've got to say, like, it's going to be awesome play with the Lakers. wish I'd gotten traded to a team with a darker fit.

He'll look better than the purple. He'll look much better in the road purple than in the, like you can see right there. I remember, you know, I've had periods of my life where I was a little bit bigger, and I remember I had an ex-girlfriend what say to me, don't wear yellow. And I was like, why? And she goes, it just doesn't work for you. And I noticed that with Luca last night. He should have demanded a trade to the Spurs to win the Black.

Spurs would be great. black is much better always wear black if you don't if you don't know secondly I just keep thinking about poor Mark Williams okay

so Mark Williams is playing for Charlotte gets traded to the Lakers he's probably happy I go from like the worst team to one of the most high profile teams then he gets there I guess he fails the physical right and the Lakers go trades off

all right now that's awkward for everybody involved it is because now he's got to go back to Charlotte. Dalton Connect and whoever went to Charlotte now has to come back to Lakers and everybody has to act like they still love each other. Yes. Right? So Charlotte releases a statement yesterday that says

or two days ago that says things didn't work out with the trade but we're so happy to have you back Mark. Welcome back into the fold. Let's let bygones be bygones. Then yesterday Charlotte files

a complaint with the league against the Lakers saying they should have taken him, make them take him. Right after welcoming back, they demand the Lakers taking. I don't even know Mark Williams, but poor guy, Drew, right? Yeah, they put out a statement like, Mark, buddy, good to see you. We cleaned out your locker for you. You can move back in. We just want to dust it off a bit, but then they're in the background, be like, get him out of here.

How do you release the statement saying we welcoming back and in the same instance go, league, please get him out of here? Like that to me, I don't know how you, how do they come? How does he end up back there? How do you do that? And how does he look his coach and the general manager in the eye when they're in the locker room? I don't know. He knows that they're trying to get rid of him.

Not trying. They did. Yeah, they did get rid of him. They did. If I'm Mark Williams, my next game with the Hornets, as soon as, I get the ball, I'm turning around and punting it in the crowd and walking out. I don't know what the penalty is for that, but they don't want him, obviously. They've doubled and tripled down on not wanting him, and he's still going to be stuck there.

I feel, you know, I don't know the guy. He's a duky, so I tend to say boo, but like, I do feel kind of bad for him. And then Dirk Novitsky goes to the Lakers game last night, says I'm a Mav for life, but I'm here for Luca. So the Mavericks fans last night, they're chanting Fire Nico. That's the GM. I don't know if you saw Dallas puts on the Jumbotron, the fan cam. You know, you're used to in the fan cam people going, yeah, go Dallas, go Dallas.

And every person they went to just went, fire, Nico. So they had to turn the camera off. They throw them out, too. Anyone that mouthed it. They went out of them. So this is like just not going well for Dallas. Well, no, because AD plays, what, half a game? Poor AD.

I feel bad for AD. People act like he's a chump. And then he gets hurt in the first game. Poor guy. I mean, like that stinks. Well, Mavs fans are mad because they were calling him fragile. So the one thing Davis really needed to do was finished here. He didn't make it one game.

I hate it for him, but really the Mavs fans, they are probably, they are furious down there. So it stinks. Now, completely different gear. Are you getting emails from UK fans about the cost of football tickets? Not yet. Why? Yeah. And let me just say, you're shaking your head.

Are you a football season ticket holder? Okay. So I don't know the details. So let me just say, I'm not taking a position because I have not researched. But for some fans, they have raised the price of UK tickets of the K-fund donation. Gotcha. So if you're a fan who has a K-fund donation with your ticket, And I think it's for the lower level.

I think your tickets have taken a big jump. As a matter of fact, I'm told they're more expensive this year with one fewer game. Because remember, we had eight home games last year. We only have seven this year. And I'm told the tickets are more expensive with one fewer game. I'm also told that the parking lot passes have really jumped. and the RV lot has gone from like $500 to like $1,500. And I know why this is happening, which is that $22 million that's coming to give to the athletes.

But on a year that we're coming off that season we just had, it's pretty terrible timing, Ryan. So what do you make of it? Yeah, you kind of got to read the room coming off the most disappointing season of the, the Mark Stoop's era and looks like it's not going to get any better next year record-wise. It's maybe the wrong time to want people to spend a lot more money to come watch your team play. I'd be interested to hear from those of you that are season ticket holders and that have gotten that email. Like, is yours going up? Are you going to do it?

Like, there's a lot of people online going, I'm not going to renew, but I feel like that happens every year. I'm wondering, Drew, to what extent is it like a real problem? because I heard a trickle of it, and then it was like a flood yesterday, which makes me think everybody got their letters yesterday, because all of a sudden the text machine was just like blowing up with what's happening with the football ticket. So I don't really know the answer. Yeah, they just, I'm looking on their websites. A story just went up that says UK announces new ticket information.

As someone that didn't buy, I don't know how to compare it right here on the fly. But I've also heard a few complaints about it going up. And also people that have tailgated in the same spots for decade. They're now doing the corporate ones where you have to rent the tailgate spot. I understand that college sports is all about how much you have in the bank account now, but at some point your fans can't just be asked for money at every turn or you're going to lose them. These are your customers, and you just keep asking for more and more. I mean, they're helping out with NIL, but if parking and tickets and tailgate,

everything else is going up to at some point, people are going to have a breaking point. UK has to understand that the football fan base here for most of our lives has been a labor of love. True. Like, for real, it's not, like, basketball, you give, but you get, right? For football, for most of our lives, UK fans have given and not gotten much. Now, that's changed in the last decade. We've gotten some great moments. But you got to remember, the football fan is a different Kentucky fan. The football fan is more blue-collar, right? The football fan comes from all over the state. The football fan, I see these kids here, brings their families to the game.

We see, I love the basketball crowd in here before games, but the reality is the football crowd is a different crowd. It is. The football crowd is much more of a blue-collar crowd, and I think UK just has to be so careful. You cannot run those people off. That's like the heart of Kentucky. If you're talking to me about the average Kentucky fan, it is the UK football fan. and if you get rid of them or price them out,

I don't know that you can get them back. Like you can't lose those people. I know you've got to make money, but you cannot Ryan lose those people. There's still a lot of people that haven't forgiven the UK when they, you know, all their seats, they were sitting together at Commonwealth Stadium, they split those up and they took away their tailgate area for Blacktop.

And they do this again a second time. Those people may not come back. You know, you hit them once as bad. You're going to hit them again. That's tough, man. let's add they don't win at home they ever won at home what is it like one SEC one in a couple of years

we talked about it as it was happening last fall I couldn't believe the crowds that kept showing up just to be kicked between the legs in these games I mean the whole record has been absolutely garbage lately so I mean they were going to take a hit on season tickets just because they quit winning but now you're asking for more there are very few basketball season ticket holders that are kind of average Joe and James

because it's expensive to buy all of those games. It just is. But there are football people like that. And I am worried we're going to run them off. I really am. And I think that would do such a disservice to the people around this state. It really would. And I get the financial part for Kentucky,

but you can't lose sight of what the heart of all this is. We've done, we have done so much. to push away the average UK fan from Big Blue Madness camp out to, you know, just the parking situation at UK football, to the K-fund donations. You know, you're asking people to do Club Blue and all this, and I get it. But, man, you've got to give them something. You have to because they are the heartbeat of what this is.

You're right. Be very careful. You run those people off. Those are your core people that have come for years and years and years. and once they turn, you feel like they turn your back on them, they won't come back. I had a conversation, and then we'll go to the phones. With someone at UK, it wasn't Mitch Barnhart, but it was someone high up, and we were sitting there talking, and they got frustrated at me about one of my opinions about Cal,

this was a while back, and they said to me, what makes you think that you know the average fan better than Cal Perry does? And I said, because I interact with him. That's easy. And he doesn't. They yell at me on the text machine. right like I deal with people and I said respectfully forget about Cal I said you all in the athletic department you deal with one subset of fans you deal with the donors and the rich people we deal with everybody

else and I'm not saying that everything we say is right but we deal with every kind of fan and I don't think a lot of people at UK do and I don't think they always think about what their decision is going to mean for the 90% of the big blue nation. And that's the football fan. The football fans, that guy you're talking about. That's why you need to do something to take care of those people that have been coming for years and years and years. Yeah. Who's up first, Shannon?

Let's go to Freddie. Freddie. How are you, Freddie? I'm just fine. How's everybody doing there? Really enjoy the show. I'm going to go a little bit back in time. And I don't expect you to remember this, but October of 23 at a remote and bywater farm,

at the 11 o'clock commercial break, I came up and asked you a question, and the question was, who do you think will leave you Kate first, John Calipari or Reed Shepard? You said you would try to work in the question after the break, but you had a lot going on and weren't. but I'm curious, how do you think you would have answered that question back in October of 23? Well, I would have said probably Cal because we hadn't seen Reed be good yet. By the way, it was Cal. Reed did stay here a couple weeks after Cal left, and then he left. That is correct.

Yeah, so I would have said, Cal, I appreciate the call. I mean, I think Drew and I had the belief that last year was going to be Cal's last year, but we thought that was going to be the case because we thought we were going to have a great year and he was going to kind of ride off into the sunset we didn't particularly think it would be what happened but i always kind of thought last year could be cows last year and nobody thought reed shepherd's going to be a one and done remember when he got here he thought he thought he's eighth ninth guy off the bench so that was definitely not anybody's thought process i remember exactly where i was sitting last summer when i said i think this could be cows last year because i was

hesitant to even put it out there because the negativity would come with it but i had in my brain with DJ Wagner on this team. It's the perfect bookend for Calipari's career with having his dad. If he can just have one good run, he can walk off into the sunset and wave, and that's genuinely what I thought would happen. Now, he did go off in the sunset. It just wasn't with the good run. But all of last season was kind of taking it all in like it was the last ride.

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Who knows what we'll give away? I'll probably give away at least a couple of the tickets to people who happen to be here eating. I like to reward folks for their thing. So I now have 16 tickets to give away. Shannon, let's not take any more calls right now, and we'll give them away at the end, okay? Sounds good. Sounds good. All right.

I'm excited about this, because like of these people obviously want to go and some people that are giving up their tickets that can't, so it'll just add for a better environment. A lot of people write me about the football tickets. Sounds like to me the way they did it, Drew, is a lot of the 10. ticket prices are like the same or just a little bit more, but you get one less game, which if you think about it makes it a lot more expensive. I mean, if you're getting seven games for the cost of eight, or, you know, then your ticket price has been raised, even if you don't realize they've been raised in some ways.

Yeah, they don't face value on there. And just during that short break, all three of us heard from someone different who gave an example of how much there's went up, and at least one that I heard from, so they're not renewing because of that. Can we talk about Doug Gottlieb for a second? Let's do it. I haven't talked about him in a while. So Doug Gottlieb coach's Green Bay College. Wisconsin Green Bay?

Wisconsin Green Bay. Now, I'm far be it from me to judge. But he coaches Wisconsin Green Bay, and it looks like, you remember, when he got the job, he said, I'm going to coach and do my afternoon radio show. Afternoon radio show every day. So every afternoon he's going to do a radio show. but he was still going to coach. And he said, you all will see when it happens that it was stupid of you to worry about it.

So I checked in with Doug Gottlieb on Saturday because I was just thinking about it. I haven't heard a lot about him. Wonder how his team's doing. Do you know what his team's record is? I don't know, but I'm guessing it's got to be a losing record. Just take a guess. Doug Gottlieb at Wisconsin Green Bay, coaches the team during the morning and night, does a national afternoon radio show during the afternoon.

What do you think, Mr. Gottlie, who's always been known as a very humble guy? What do you think his record? I'll guess five and 17. Okay. What if I told you that you're giving him way too much credit? Wow. Doug Gottlieb's Green Bay team is 2 and 22. Oh, my goodness.

They are on an 18-game losing streak. 2 and 23 now. 2 and 23? They just lost the game. Okay. So 2 and 23. 19 game losing streak. So they played on Saturday.

20 game losing streak. 20. I'm seeing it right now on the standings. 20 game losing streak. 20 game losing streak, 2 and 23. Now here's the best part. They play on Saturday. And you're thinking, you know, coming off your 20th straight loss,

maybe we need to get in the film room a little bit. What does Doug Gottlieb do? Takes a plane and goes to the Super Bowl. How much is he getting paid to coach? Is what I want to know. He's still in money. I saw that a week ago after they lost, I guess this would have made him two and 21.

He got up and yelled at the press and said something like, you guys are being critical. When this all turns around, I expect to see you apologize. A bold statement from someone two and 23 that have lost 20 games in a row. If you were the president at that, school. Are you going to keep letting him do this show? I'm not saying it's the show's fault,

but like how can you keep doing a show when you're 2 and 23rd? I couldn't believe they let them do it to begin with. And now the results are what they are. I mean, not only is there, are they losing, they're mostly by double digits. And then they lost that one game to like Michigan Tech when he called him No Name You before the game. It's not just that they're losing. They're not even close to being a good basketball team. Here's a salary. Here's a salary. $215,000. So they're paying $100,000. $7,500 per win. Wow! They paid $107,000 a win.

My goodness. And Godley, part of the reason he said he stayed on the radio is he was like, I got to be able to make that salary because he makes more from the radio apparently than he does as the coach. I don't understand how he can go on the radio and talk about other coaches and sports. Like, dude, look in your own locker room. Totally agree with you. How can you criticize anyone?

So let's look at some of these dudes that are. very confident about their analysis when they've had to coach. Trent Dilfer. Remember how Trent Dilfer would always be like, rah, rah, rah. He coaches UAB, and they've been like a disaster. He's got videos like fighting assistance on the sidelines. Yes, you got got got. And by the way, Dilfer's still doing media.

Remember when Jeff Saturday left ESPN and went to the Colts and then lost like every game 50 to nothing? You know, it does sort of show you that all the people that do this job, they sure talk a lot for people who don't win very much, you know? Especially Gottlieb, his show is in the middle of the day. That's when you're on the road or show prep or shoot-arounds or getting ready for your game. I just don't see how he can do that during the season.

I can see him doing it out of season, but I just don't understand how they're letting him do that during the season. Two and 23. I've wondered to say, okay. And all this team is going to transfer, too. It's not like they're not going to stay there and go two and 23 again. Let's say you're a player. You're two and 23.

You're obviously not having the year you want. I want to go talk to my coach. I'm down. Oh, he's on there for the next three hours. I'm going to wait. No, I'll be out. Out right there. Like, what are you doing?

I need you in here. It's unbelievable. Unbelievable. So good luck to you, Gottlie. That's some performance. Who's next? Let's go to Peggy. Peggy.

How are you, Peggy? I'm great. How are you guys? Good. I have a strange question. Okay. I've been watching a lot of basketball from different conferences. Of course, I watch all the UK games.

But when it comes down to the NCAA tournament, how do we adjust to having different referees from different conferences? Yeah, I mean, you have to do that. I mean, remember, though, that, like, when we talk about an SEC referee, almost every referee in the SEC also referees other conferences. So take like Doug Shows. Doug Shows is an SEC referee,

but he also referees the Big East, he also referees the ACC, and I think he may also referee like the Mac or something. So even though we see them in SEC games, they do other conferences. So I agree with you that the SEC tends to be reft a certain way, but most of these dudes that are refs, they also do other conferences too.

Oh, okay. Because I was just wondering if there was going to be a big difference when it comes to repting at the... I do think what happens in the tournament. If you look historically, and I appreciate the call. They call less fouls in the tournament. Like, they let them be more physical. So that, I think, I don't know if that's going to...

It probably won't be good for us, but that tends to be what they do in the tournament. Yeah, you just got to adjust, and you get in a feel pretty quick how the rest are going to call it. We have, you... Like, they're still going to be the reference. You just have to adjust to whatever it is they do. We'll take a break. Be right back. This is KSR.

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7 o'clock on ESPN. We got Jay Billis. You still feel good? I think, like I, I said, we can't go into the game thinking Tennessee is going to miss 34, three-pointers. They're going to probably hit a lot more than that. But the way Tennessee plays defense, I know you guys were talking about the score. We'll predict it later, but I think it's going to be like in the 60s.

Like it's going to be a low-scoring game, which kind of concerns me a little bit. It could be in the 60s. But the good thing is, if it's in the 60s, one thing about playing Tennessee is like, they're not great offensively. So even a game in the 60s, like I always worry about us scoring 60, but then the other team scores 80. If we're in the 60s, you know, and they're in the 60s, then it's a one possession game. Who knows, right?

Yeah, I think they're going to have to get out on Chas Lanier pretty good. He's the one I worry about. Maybe put O-Way on him and just try to take him out of the game. But, again, I'm worried about getting too confident. But as long as he doesn't go nuclear, I really just like the matchup. Tennessee doesn't play well with this style. Yeah. Shannon, they put out the Bourbon and Beyond lineup.

Yes. And it's got a lot of people in it. Let's go over real quick. Sturgle Simpson, I like. Fish. man you like fish was like well I mean it's all you know you like fish I mean it's just all like everybody's like on acid right I mean pretty much yeah some sort of psychedelics yeah I mean that's just shock my guy's got a beard 11 he likes fish you know but fish I everybody I've ever met that likes fish like they're

always nice like every person I've ever met that likes fish is nice but then they'll tell me like well you know that Starbucks takes your DNA and makes coffee with it. And I'm like, what does that mean? Like, they always have some crazy theory if you like fish. I've always heard a fish concert, though, is a sight to behold. It's going for the people watching. Hopefully we'll see it.

Noah Kahn, that's that one guy that's seen. Luminaires, I like the Luminaires. Jack White, he's fine. Benson Boone. That's the dude. That's the dude that was wearing the one piece at the thing. Alabama Shakes, Cage the Elephant. But then when you go down to some of the others, I see like the go-goos dolls are coming.

Spin, spin doctors are part of it. Third-Eye blind. Booze traveler. The gin blossoms. A lot of bands from the 90s. Blind Melons on there. Ringo Starr needs a better agent. Ringo Starr.

Okay, I wanted to say this. There are some people who got way too far down the list. Let's start with Ringo Starr. How is Ringo Starr below Vance Joy, Lake Street, dive. I don't know who those people. Ringo Star is a beetle. He can't even, he's on the fourth row. Who's Riloh? Who's Riloh, Kylie? I've never even heard of that person before. Ringo Star's got to be like, give some respect. I'm ahead of Riloh Kiley. Who the heck is Rilow Kylie? I agree with you. He's putting his name on the poster would make people want to go. You know,

Ringo Starr's performing. You can do Yellow Submarine. Let me give you some more. Collective soul, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Blues Traveler are all below Waxahatchee, Flatland Calvary, and Joe Bonamassa. Who are these people, and how do they get to be ahead of the Mary Chapin Carpenter? Why is trombone Shorty on the eighth row? We just talking about him yesterday. 10,000 maniacs. First of all, didn't know they were still going, but how are they behind some guy named Sam? Just a guy named Sammy.

This is my, aside from the font being all out of order and some people being too far down the list, this is the best I've seen of a festival around here. Sammy. It's not even Kirshall or Hagar or anybody, you know. Okay, some other surprises. Blind Melons in it. I thought that guy had been dead for 30 years. How is Blind Melon still playing? You've seen bands replace singers before.

Yeah, but their singer was the icon, right? All I can say. Is that my mind? Like, how are you going to have blindmail and not have that guy? That's why they're so far on the list. That's why they're all the way down. Squirrel nut zippers.

I remember that. That was a 90s band. You remember when Skaw was Brut-Doo-D-D-D-D-D-D. Shannon, when did Squirrel Nuck Zippers come back along? I only remember that one song from 1997 or eight. Marcy Playground. Mark Cone.

Yeah. Walking in Memphis. This guy is still performing. Now, he's on like the 11th row. but I challenge you to tell me how many people on this list have had bigger songs than walking in Memphis. Still gets played all the time. Shannon, Marcy Playground is on the list. They just played the state fair last year.

I got to meet those guys. Mercy Playground is still going? Yeah, they're great. I smell sex and candy. That's still, that those people still perform? And they're at the bottom. They're like three rows from the last row on there. So quite a list.

I agree with you, Drew. an amazing list, but I don't know, I don't understand the way it was ordered, really. Yeah, I mean, Ringo is the one that jumped out to me. I almost quit looking at it, and then I got down to him, like, why is he all the way down here? Did you notice one of the bands that we were talking about last week when we were talking about the Grammys, Craying Ben is on there? I did not, yes. So they're a line two band. Don't you like trampled by turtles?

I've seen Trampled by Turtles. I like them. I just feel like some of these people didn't get the respect. St. Lucia. You know, they're the ones that do the, my hearts in Budapest my hidden treasure chestin. Of all the ones on there, what's your big, I mean, we were surprised by Lingo. What's the biggest?

Ringo. Like, your biggest surprise that they're. I can't believe Blind Mellon still performs. I thought when Shannon Houn died, they just broke up. I mean, the whole point of Blind Mellon was his voice. How could they keep going? That's the Bumblebee, right? Yeah.

Maybe they'll bring the Bumblebee out. I just can't believe 30 years later Blind Mellon is still a thing. I couldn't believe Mary Chessie. Haven Carpenter is a festival person. That's the one that surprised me. Oh, dude, she's great. I tried to see her at the opera house. Couldn't even get in.

I would love. I'll go just to see her. Do you see her? Yeah. Who's next? Bill. Bill. Bill, go ahead, Bill.

Hey, Matt. How you doing? Doing good. How you doing, Matt? Yeah, I'm here. Still good. Yeah. Yeah, okay.

I'm heading down from Columbus, Ohio, for this game. I already have my tickets, so I don't need those. But I would like to know, from a standpoint of the interstate, once I get, say, past Lawrence, Kentucky to Lexington. I know there's, other than Williamstown, I don't think there's a whole lot of

busy areas, so to speak. What's the interstate like that? Do they do a decent job of cleaning those? Yeah, you'll be fine. The interstate's fine. The city of Lexington's fine. Honestly, it's fine. Like, especially in the daylight,

but even it, now, you're fine. The snow is fluffy. I don't even, yeah, you're good. All right, sounds good. I can't wait to get there. I'm going to try to make the pregame show at KS Bar. Appreciate the call. Yeah, I think everybody's fine.

I really do. I mean, I don't know what it's like on the secondary roads out in these rural counties, but in Lexington, you're going to be fun. Even in the neighborhood streets this morning were okay. Like I said, they're just slushy. I mean, you know my hill I backed down. Yeah. No sliding at all.

So I think it's fine. Yes, be careful. Buckle up. Put your phone down. Don't speed. You'll be right. Yeah. Who's next?

Jonathan. Jonathan. Jonathan. go ahead Jonathan Hey thanks for taking my call Matt I had a question for asking anything Tuesday It seems like the injury bug

Yeah yeah it seems like the injury bug Has really gotten us These last couple of weeks And kind of in the past we would kind of hear You know hadn't seen him I don't know When talking about the injured players And like I feel like with Pope His initial comments

Kind of seem a little bit more like doom and gloom about the players and then we tend to see them within a game or two. Do you get the sense that there's any kind of gamesmanship going on, or am I kind of reading into it too much? No, and this is just a guess because I don't really know him well, but I kind of think Mark Pope takes the, let's just assume the worst possible option and hope for the best, right? I think he kind of takes the view of let's assume the guys out

as long as he is out, and then let's hope it ends up not. like that. Do you agree with that? I do it. I really believe last game, it was a game time decision for Butler and for Jackson. I think they really didn't know until they went out and went through the warm-ups and stuff that those two guys were going to be able to play last week. He seemed much more positive about Butler last night. Yeah, he did. Like maybe they feel like Butler went through it and now they feel pretty good about him for the rest of the year. I agree. I'm still new to Pope speak. I'm learning it. I'm thinking back to a few weeks ago. I thought Andrew Carr was on his deathbed the way Pope was talking. Then he played the next game.

A part of this is also, I just think Pope's very extreme in each direction. Everything's beautiful, everything's incredible, or if someone's out, I hope we see him again, kind of thing. Still kind of learning how to read into what he says. But I like, he said something along the lines, like as much as I expect Butler tomorrow night, I don't expect Jackson as much. It sounded like he was confident in Butler. Yeah. UK Federal Credit Union wants to help you take control of your finances in 25. Transfer your high interest balance to a new UK Federal Credit Union card and get 0% APR. for 12 months.

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I'll pick two winners. Oh, we'll let Shannon pick two winners. Okay. Shannon can pick two of the six to get tickets. Shannon, are you ready? I'm ready to go. All right. 859-2-8027.

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So is Ringo, I assume? The Beatles in general, yes. Yeah. Well, I know it's it because, like, they all wrote various songs, right? Right. Did Ringo write any? I know Harrison, Lennon and McCartney. Yeah, they let Ringo sing some of the songs like Yellow Submarine and a few others.

Oh, Ringo sings Yellow Submarine? Yeah. I didn't realize that. Okay. So is Ringo considered? to be like the worst of the group yeah probably so like out of the four he's the first singer yeah yeah yeah because you get george harrison and then you had paul and john but but he but he's the one well i guess mccartney's still alive yeah right yeah he was at the super bowl yeah he was

paul mccartney wouldn't have been on the fourth line of the flyer i can tell you that he'd been like i'm upset for wringo yeah the fetal should never be lower than the second line he's got a fires publicist. I mean, Bidson Boone, whatever, man. Come on. That's my guy now. Sorry. I'm trying to get that outfit for Halloween. All right. So, Shannon, are you ready to pick two out of six? Let's go. They each have, I want you to get your buzzer out. They each have 30 seconds to make their case, okay? All right, let me find my buzzer. But like, let me ask them who they are and then start when they're explaining one. Okay. All right, here we go. All right. Who's up first? Robert. Robert, where you live?

Hey, this is Robert from Louisville. Louisville, give me 30 seconds since the Washington. Did you pick you? Okay, well, because there was a lot of regret last time when I didn't get picked when they picked the lady who was having her 80th birthday and her mom was having her 80th birthday and they took her instead of me and there was regret about it because I'm the guy that drove out to Lexington to meet the unforgettable's at the fence and I'll stand up and cheer

and I will be an excellent choice. All right. All right. So Robert from Louisville has already been passed over once. How's he get through? That's what I can't believe. He's gotten through now twice. This is like the hardest thing to get through

and my man's already gotten through twice. I think that was the last time you gave away tickets this way. I'm the one that cut him. I remember. That's unbelievable to me. Robert, congrats on that. All right, who's next? Wayne.

Wayne, where do you live, Wayne? I live in Vars, Kentucky. I'm the biggest Wildcat fan that's ever been there. I can remember when I was a kid sitting in my grandfather's kitchen, listening to the UK basketball on a little white radio as we set there. Okay, and he should pick you why? Just because of that? Because of that and because I'm the biggest fan.

And I just got a question about Jackson real quick. Can I do that? No. No, because this is a contest. All right. So let's just leave there. You are the biggest fan. You are listening in your grandfather's kitchen.

All right, who's next? Spencer. Spencer. Spencer. Hi, guys. I'm from Stanford. I was a caller back during the football season when I had promise. All right.

And what's the reason we should pick you? I called back then I was the one who had a girlfriend who made me go to a wedding informed me that morning. And let me tell you, you all saying skip that wedding has sparked the biggest Kentucky fan out of her of all time. She will call me on the way home, yelling. If I'm not home in time for a game, I'd love to take her to a game tonight.

When we come to trivia, she gives you a stare down out of love. Okay, all right, so this is, you skipped a wedding, which made your wife a Kentucky fan. I vaguely remember that call. Okay, all right, gotcha. So we put that on there, and then his wife stares me down out of love. I'm going to assume she's checking me out, Ryan. Of course.

Yeah. Those tight jeans you wear. wear tight jeans to trivia I might sometimes in life but who's up next? Three more, Melman Mike. Mike? Where do you live?

Mike? All right, well that decides one. He's down. I'm just going to hang up on him. Easy move. All right. So who's next?

Nice job, Mike. David, where do you live? Ashland. Ashland, why they pick you? Because my wife and I would love to go because we hate Tennessee. Okay. All right.

Mike, it's a long drive and it's snowy. Are you worried about that at all? Not at all. All right, real quick. Tell me how much you hate Tennessee. Oh, my. I remember sitting in Memorial Coliseum before it was historical Memorial Coliseum, and at that time, it was a tradition to throw oranges on the court when Bowlingle played.

Okay. Who's Bullwinkle? I don't know. I've not heard that name. Rocky and Bullwinkle? You mean, hang on, go back to him for a second. Who's Bullwinkle? He was, I'm pretty sure his name was Bullwinkle.

If not, that's what he was called. He was the center for Tennessee back about 19s. Okay, that's enough. All right, I want you to look at it. Tom Borwinkle. Tom Borwinkle. Borwinkle. He called him Bullwinkle, I guess.

Oh, okay. I didn't even know about that. All right, who's left? All right. Finally. Alex, where do you live? Nicholasville. Nicholsville, give me the reason.

So I've already talked to all these guys before. They're all Team Billy. Robert was complaining. It was a great last time. I was laughing the whole time. Look, when Shannon makes a decision that... Did you understand any of us? See, that problem is he says he's Team Shannon over Team Billy,

but his phone didn't work very well. So, all right, Shannon, we got Robert, who played. before and came in second. You got Wayne who listened to the game in his grandfather's kitchen. You have Spencer who got his wife to skip a wedding and it made her a UK fan. You have David who threw oranges on the court at some guy named Bullwinkle. And then

you have Alex who says he's Team Shannon over Billy. You get to pick two of those who you pick him. All right, first one I'm going with is Spencer whose girlfriend made him skip the wedding or who he skipped the wedding for, right? I'm going with Spencer. That's pretty good. He skipped a wedding to go to a game so that shows loyalty. And she doubled down and now

become a big Kentucky fan. She was mad about it and it became a fan. So the wrist paid off. Yes, he did. I like that selection. Shannon and who's the other? There's a few other choices. This guy's, man. That phone, I can't deal with that. See, like, like sucking up always helps, but his phone connection, I'm a little bit concerned about it. I don't even know if I can get his information. I think you got to get rid of a guy with a bad phone. Yeah, like I wanted to go with him, but, you know, so I guess I'm going to have to go to Wayne who says he's the biggest Kentucky fan. I feel confident that Wayne, that Wayne going to be really loud tonight.

We need Rupp loud. I'm surprised. I thought that wouldn't be Shannon. Shannon usually doesn't like when people say they're big fans. All right. So Wayne in Versailles and Spencer in Stanford. Hang on the phone. Shannon get their email and I will send them tickets.

Okay. There we go. Be watching on social media on KY Sports Radio on Twitter and Instagram and then Matt Jones, KSR on the TikTok, because I'll give some away from on social media. I knew the guy that was sucking up to Shannon. That was going to get his vote. We just couldn't hear him.

You know where I'm going right now, by the way? Where? You talk about something I never would have thought happened five years ago. I'm going to meet Jeff Goodman for lunch. Whoa. Wow. My goodness. You talk about something I never would have imagined.

How times have changed. It would have occurred even like a couple months ago. A little makeup lunch. Yeah, I mean, it's just lunch. It's just lunch. What's the last good conversation you had with him? A decade ago. if not more.

That's what I thought. Remember when you sent them around the drinks and they sent it back at the Peach Jam? That's right. That's like a, that's a bad. So, yeah, right. I'm going to meet him actually right now. Pre-game show, 430 here at KS Bar. Thank you all very much who came here today.

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