KSR - 2025-03-11- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: March 11, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk SEC Tournament, high school basketball controversy, and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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One person writes, all right, you're going into break. When we come back, that's going to be when Ryan Lemon says. That's what I wanted to hear from our coach. They nailed it. And then it's what he said. Yeah. See, the listeners know, Shannon. They know what Ryan Limit.

Ryan likes to put himself on the squad. Like he's got a jersey, a helmet, pads. Yeah, Ryan does like to put himself on the squad. He's definitely part of the team in his mind. Okay, let's talk a little basketball. I'm going to sit down here. The SEC tournament starts tomorrow. We're going to be doing the show in Bowling Green,

but from a private location. That makes it sound a lot more. Like a speakeasy, like Ryan's place. He makes it sound a lot more like dirty than it is. can be somewhere where we're not going to have a crowd. Then Thursday will be at 10 roof. Doors will open at 9 Eastern. Well, actually, what time will the doors open?

I don't know. I'm not sure either because Shannon starts at 9. I don't know. We'll figure it out, but the doors will open at some point. And then Friday, we'll see what happens. But the SEC tournament starts tomorrow. I'm very excited about it, Drew. How are you feeling about Kentucky's chances?

I'm feeling great. As I've mentioned a few times, my brain 90% of every day for the last month has been thinking about Nashville in the SEC tournament. I feel even better about Kentucky after going 2 in 0 last week and a big win at Missouri. I think playing on Sundays probably unlikely, but I'm expecting to win a couple games and to have a great time and get us even more fired up for the big tournament after that. I just think Kentucky's in a good spot even with the injury to Jackson Robinson. What about you, Ryan? I can make a big prediction that there'll be if Kentucky wins on Thursday,

night. There'd be a lot of hungover big blue nation people Friday morning because that late game finally win a game in Nashville first time since 2019. That place will explode Thursday night if they win a game. I think just the crowd Thursday night's going to be awesome. I think that's going to be, I remember when in 2010

Cal's first SEC tournament, what an amazing Kentucky fan base showing we had for that and how just crazy the gym was in all the games. I don't know if it's going to be like that, but Drew, I think it's going to be close. I mean, I feel like, you know, there's just, there's been a sense from fans that the SEC

tournament just hasn't been the same in a number of years, and I think they're ready for it. And part of the reason is, John Calgary did an interview yesterday once again with an Arkansas media group where he said, I don't care about the SEC tournament. I mean, you talk about doubling and tripling down. He said, I do not care about the SEC tournament. The exact, I don't know what the exact quote was, but we'll, you know, he was, I don't know, I I don't care. And then I looked in the comment section, a lot of Arkansas fans were going, yeah, I never thought of it like that.

And I was like, yeah, well, we had. He wasn't saying that. He was like, it's only about seed. And then you have Mark Pope who goes, I do care. I want us to go and we'll try to win it. I love that. Yeah. I do not miss Cal's comments about the SEC tournament.

It was always the worst part about him. Like, okay, maybe you even, maybe you believe that, which I think is weird in itself. Maybe you tell your team that. But to say it to your fans who you want to be there, who are paying a lot of money, that city is outrageously expensive these days. And a lot of people, I'm sure, from Arkansas,

are excited to go for Cala Perry's first run. Like me, they've probably been thinking about it for weeks. And to have the coach just straight up come out and say, looking at a camera, I don't even care about it. I just think that's insane. And he says it like they're going to win the national championship. You know what I mean? Like it's one thing if you say,

in 2012, if you're Kentucky, I don't care about the SEC tournament because the NCAA is what matters. You're going to be an 11C, dude. You should take every win you can get from, I just think that's crazy. But Mark Pope's the opposite. Mark Pope's like, I want to go win, and I think that makes it exciting. He said that from day one, right? The minute he got off the bus, he's talking about the SEC tournament and going down there to Nashville to win the SEC tournament. I'm sure, like you guys, I had a lot of people say, I'm going this year for the first time in five, six years. You know, I think. people are excited again about going to get Nashville what it used to be for the SEC tournament.

Also, he's saying it doesn't matter. Yeah, it doesn't matter on Sunday. Dude, you're playing on Wednesday. It should matter to you. You should try to at least get to play in the first game of the tournament. I understand. They're playing it self-career. I mean, I love how he acts like you're in the first game of the tournament, right? You're playing the worst team in the SEC who, oh, by the way, beat you by 20 earlier this year. You might want to care a little bit. This isn't like that Sunday years ago where they were good and then Texas A&M got a better seed because they both played in the championship. Okay, that doesn't matter because the bracket's made. You are playing at noon.

We don't even have time to get to your game. Yeah, I won't be at your game. So you should care about it. I'm going to be in Bowling Green and I can't even get to. You might be out before I get there, right? And I get there early. So, yeah, I thought that was crazy. Now, Kentucky, the Otega O'Way named second team all SEC.

Nobody else made the top three SEC teams. I kind of understand it. I'd like to have seen Amari get on there somewhere. Although when you look at the guys, like you can kind of understand how he didn't. And then all defensive team, Lamont Butler, did not make it. I think he would have if he had not been hurt so much. But Otega O'A being second team all SEC was probably not something we saw at the beginning of the year.

Nobody even had him in the team starting lineup the last summer when we were talking about the roster. Yeah, that guy has, he's been our LeBron James. He's been our go-to guy. He went what, there were two games where he scored, what, the last 18? That's kind of the LeBron James effort. You know, listen, I love you, Mr. Our team. And Otega's been really good.

LeBron James. He's been our LeBron James. he scored 20 in the second half? What do you think our LeBron James means? Our go-to guy, our guy we need to get us a bucket and win us a game. He's been that guy. I don't think that's necessarily the definition of LeBron James. But okay, LeBron away.

Great honor for that kid. Yeah, it's happy for Oway. As you all said, very unexpected just last fall. We were trying to think how this could play out in our heads. I was pretty bum from Mari, though. There's only like one big guy on the three. teams. I just feel like that guy deserved a spot for some form of recognition. Put him on the last team. Put him somewhere. But I thought Amari deserved to be among all the recognition.

I also got a sense of how great the league. I mean, you look at that league and like that first team guys, he couldn't really argue with any of it. Ziegler, maybe he was a little high, but, you know, he plays well against everybody that's not us. True. All dudes on that first team, too, four and five-year players. You also, exactly. You see why having these older guys, Matt. matters. So, you know, it was a good reminder. It was a good example of what's new about college basketball.

Now, you look at the SEC tournament. There's always going to be one team that gets to the semifinals that you wouldn't think is going to do it. Will it be us? I am not afraid of Alabama. I mean, one game in time, we got to beat Oklahoma or Georgia. You won Alabama? They play the same style. They won by five in Rupp Arena.

and they hit two more threes. I just think with Butler being available, you know, with Perry in there at Tuscalo, that's a different story, but with Butler being healthy to try to guard Sears, I think it'll just come down to who shoots better. When they won in Lexston,

Grant Nelson was the story, but Andrew Carr could barely walk. Andrew Carr played much better when he got another chance. I think with Kentucky at mostly full strength, can't do anything about Robinson. I think it'll just come down to who shoots better. At that point, I like that better

than going against a Florida or an Auburn. Probably pick Tennessee above Alabama, I'm not afraid of Alabama among the top seats. Are you afraid of Alabama? No, because like Drew said, Kentucky, even though they lost the game at Rupp, they played really, really well that day against Alabama. And we played well for a half at Alabama. And we had like nobody in that game.

I mean, we were playing like me and you in that game. Grant Nelson was the All-American forum in that game. In Rup. Yeah. I don't think that's going to happen again. So, you know, you contain him. You do a better job in the perimeter. Yeah, they don't scare me.

If I had my choice of those top four seats that play, I probably would have picked Alabama. Yeah. Yeah, I actually can see, I mean, I could see Missouri beating Florida in that other game right above us and you could end up playing. I have no idea what's going to happen. I think I do agree with you though, Ryan. We need to win the first one. I think just for our fan base, we need to get a win in Nashville. You know, I'd like, I think I, who would you rather play between Oklahoma and Georgia? Do you care? Oklahoma's much better scoring team as we saw, but Georgia, the way they play. I mean, they just

fight and I worry about, you know, aggravating something with all our guys that are dinged up. I don't want any part of Georgia. I mean, they don't play dirty, but they're about as close to as physical and dirty as a team is in the league. And Oklahoma probably would like to win that game against Georgia to lock up their term.

I mean, they're kind of like, they're probably in, but they probably, you know, they can't take a deep breath. But I think if they beat Georgia, they'd be in pretty good check. I do wonder, last time we saw Oklahoma, Brandon Garrison wanted all the smoke and had to be separated. So I wonder how much of that is lingering from that game a couple weeks ago in Oklahoma.

But I still lean the Sooners, but Kentucky better beat either one of them. We can't go over again in Nashville. I have to tell you, I got into, here, get your camera over there. What are you doing? Mario chooses, like, why are you doing close-up pictures of Ryan Limit? Like, what is that? He did shower today. Is that for the ladies?

Why is it? Why are you taking Zoom shots of Ryan? Ryan Lemon right now. Okay. All right. So I did get 100% in to March Madness last night. Like last night was my, okay, March Madness is here. You got it. So I flew home, I flew home, got home, saw the second half of Wofford and firm. Now, first of all, great, we've been to that tournament final in Asheville before Drew, the Southern Conference tournament final. Crowd wild. But the reason I loved it is it's so March madness. Wofford had a dude, Shannon, who looked 43 years. I know who you're talking about. He did. I mean, he had like a bald spot, thinning hair, a little bit chunky, and he shot underhanded free throws. Okay. Underhanded free throws, granny shots. And he shoots 32% from the line. And by the way, I think he's their best player. Like he was pretty good, but yet he shot 32% from the line. And what I love about that is that dude, Shannon goes, you know what? I can't shoot free throws and I'm

going to shoot them poorly and look ridiculous in it. Like you would think if you're going to shoot granny shots, you should at least get 70%. And I loved it. And then they won the game, which means he's going to be in March Madness. That dude's going to get attention next week. Any time. you have like a 43-year-old Granny shooter on the team. I fell for March Madden and Shannon last night watching Wofford. It's like the YMCA Old Man's League

going on there with him. And how about Dwight Perry? He's the head coach. Okay, so let's talk about that. Dwight Perry, former Kentucky player. For those of you a little young, he's known for, he was Bobby Perry's cousin, and they tried to start Bobby Perry at an NCAA tournament game

and Drew and accidentally put Dwight's name So he had to play. They did the jump ball and then what, he just fouled somebody so that they could take him out. He's the coach of Wofford and they make it. And their best player is from Paducah, right? Really? Yes. I think he went to McCracken County.

His name's like softless or something. But what an awesome story for Wofford, Dwight Perry. Yeah, that's a fun Kentucky basketball memory. I can remember looking at the TV like, why is Dwight Perry in our starting five in the first around the NCAA tournament. And the big guy you mentioned, I got to call him out on that headband. That headband's not there to catch sweat. That's covering up a receding hairline.

He is there, LeBron. He's got the bald hair going back with the headband that fits right on it. He's also Canadian. I like it. I like it. I mean, there's so much to like that guy. I love him. He looks like Mr. Belding.

I love it. And he shoots granny shots. Ryan, how can you not be into March Madness after you watch that? He's what? He's our cream Abdul-Jabbar this year? Yes. And he's good. And he can't chew free throws, but he's otherwise pretty good.

You talk about that Dwight Perry incident. I was there. The dude gets announced, doesn't even have his name on the back of his jersey. And Kentucky's playing number one seed Kansas, I believe, up in Chicago. It was kind of embarrassing that that was going on. It was kind of awesome. I forgot he didn't have, I forgot he didn't have his jersey. He didn't even have a name on his jersey.

Number 30? 35. 35, yeah. But how about Dwight? Congrats to Dwight, Pete. Yes. Like former Kentucky. You know, we always talk about former cats.

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or are you excited about the trip to Nashville? We need to talk for a minute, though, about high school basketball drama. Yes, I love it. Bring it on. Well, high school sports drama, I guess. So the Girl Suite 16 starts tomorrow. We got, if you're in town, come on out to the bar and see everybody. And before, after the games at Rupp Arena, should be a lot of fun.

But let's talk about whatever happened in Pulaski County. Did you see this? I saw it. I got a note about it. Did you watch the video? No, I haven't said. Shannon, have you watched the video? You guys need to check my Twitter accounts the night before the show.

Just a little bit of advice for everyone on the show so that you're able to talk about what happens so that we don't keep doing this every episode. Pulaski County was playing, I think, Southwestern. All right? And they're playing in the game. And I guess one of the teams is beating the other one by 30 points. And then somebody on the team's grandma gets really angry. In the video, we don't see what makes her angry, but I think it's the referees.

In the video, you can see online, she starts going crazy. and in the video, it looks like she threatens to flash the audience a couple of times. I love the grandma. Yeah, she looks like she's trying to threaten the, like flash the audience a couple times. She starts pointing at the ref.

She starts jumping up and down. Then some people in the audience seem to boo her. She starts yelling at the people in the audience. Then it looked like her pants were about to fall down. I'm not sure exactly what was going on. I posted the video and then I had somebody right on Twitter This was their explanation of what happened as to why this grandma was out yelling. Let me read it here.

Sorry. She says, this is a grandmother of one of Southwestern's players. She went on a ran on Facebook about how Trump and Elon needed to come to Pulaski County to investigate the officials because they were DEI hires. Which I love the idea that the officials in Pulaski County are DEI hires. and Trump and Elon should come and fix it. I love the video. I love everything about it. I love that I got messages all night of people saying,

you really do need to investigate the officials for girls basketball in Pulaski County. I'm going to go ahead and tell you I'm not going to do that. What did you think of it? I mean, it's funny, but I feel like we've already had way too many videos of adults acting like clowns at high school games this postseason, and we haven't even started the Sweet 16. I mean, there's been several incidents in the district and regional tournaments. I've seen some in other states.

Why can't adults behave at games that are for their kids in high school? Also, you're down 30. You know, Shannon, when you're down 30, I don't think it's the ref's fault. I'm just going to go ahead and say it. I think when you're down 30, you're down 30. I don't think going and screaming at the officials and calling them DEI hired, Shannon, is going to change much of the game. No, but I like Grandma's energy.

I wish all of our fans can have. energy. She was ready to party. You like her acting like she's going to flash the crowd? The top almost came off. The bottom almost came off. She could have been nude by the time she get out of that arena. That might have led to more legal problems. I don't know if you're supposed to be getting nude at high school basketball games. The video is fantastic. Because, you know, she starts behind the scores table and then the security guys come and get

escrow. They escort her out. Escort her out along the baseline while the game is still going on. And she takes that moment to like perform and do her dance and drop down to her knees. And then it looks like other people get into it too, Drew. It looks like there's like a lot of people that are upset. It's not people really, to be down 30. What is happening in Pulaski County? Like Somerset, chill, right? These D.EI hires, man. We got to do something about it. Never mind these shortage of officials where they're just trying to get anyone. Yeah. I mean, how much, how much the high school official make to do a game? To do a girls game? Not nearly enough. if you got to do that. How much do you think? Is it

$40? I'm going to say $50. I'm not, I'm just guessing. So does, I mean, does this woman genuinely think that like people are lining up down the street to come be flashed by her for a girl's basketball game? Like,

does she really think that? Maybe she was just filling March Madness and wanted some lingerie on the deck there at Pulaski. Show a little skin. She had a different notion of what March Madness was. But seriously, though, that's someone's grandmother and they're on that court, maybe finish in their high school career. And now a radio show is talking about her

grandmother trying to pull her girls out at a high school. I mean, the idea, me tried to think about my grandmother. Like the idea, my grandmother, who would tell me I was showing too much skin when I was just wearing shorts, period. The idea that she would go to a game and like threaten to flash people, like, how do you end up in that situation? That's crazy. Then there was the high school track event. where the girl took the baton and just hit the girl in front of her in the head. That's one way to get ahead. Well, you can't catch him. Just knock them in the head. Just knock them in the head.

And then she did an interview with a local TV station. Again, she's in high schools. I'm like, I mean, I'm trying to be, you know, fair. But she said, I didn't do it on purpose. She's like, I know the video made it look like I did, but I didn't do it on purpose. Does anyone believe that she didn't hit that girl on purpose? I mean, that looks pretty intentional. She even kind of looked at her and sized it up.

I mean, she lifts her arms, not even natural movement while you're running. I think she clobber intentionally. No. And she knew what she was doing. Did she think that nobody would catch that on camera? Well, see, that's why I think it's plausible. Maybe she didn't do it on purpose. She had to know she was going to get caught, right?

It's not like. It was heated the moment. It was heat of the moment. You think you can heat in the moment. She was frustrated and goes, conk, and just hits it right in the head. That'll slow her down. Come here. What'd you think, right?

It's assault, man. She rares back. She rares back and conks that girl in the back of the head, I think, because the girl was passing her. She's mad because she's getting beat and she hit that girl in the back of the head. It did look like that she was about to drop the baton. The one that did the hitting? Yeah. She dropped it right on her head.

No. She was just getting a better grip. I'm trying to give the girl the benefit of the doubt. Is it, is it, is it, is it, is it? Is it plausible that she was losing control? No, no, no. No. I've run 100 relays and never went if you run a hundred relays.

In track in high school, middle school and high school. You did a lot of relays. I never knew this. Oh, yeah, yeah. And there's not one time that I ever see anybody carried the baton, lose their handle under the grip, and it ends. up above their head. That's ridiculous. If you lose your grip, it falls. So you're saying it doesn't fall upwards. Right. Into the back of someone's head. Also, another girl immediately falls down.

She has a concussion and I saw she might have fractured something. If you're accidentally hitting someone, they don't have a concussion and immediately go down. Well, so what's more embarrassing? The girl hitting the girl or the grandma flashing, they're trying to act like she's going to flashed. Grandma's an adult. Grandma knows better. And that's not your show, Grandma. sit down and watch the kids. Grandma? Grandma. Yeah.

Shannon, Grandma. Yeah, Grandma is probably the most embarrassing. Yeah, Grandma's a little embarrassing. All right, 859-280-2287. We'll take your calls. Beard bags, KSR. Welcome back. TechSports Radio, 859-280-2287.

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See, that's part of these. I don't like start shows with interviews because then it leads to people not like calling because they're listening. But we did that today, so I'd like to hear from you. One person writes, Matt, my daughters played basketball for male for three years. We've been all over the state and the region. Pulaski Southwestern has the worst fans we've ever played. Is that true? Southwestern Pulaski?

Having just watched that video, I can't argue. That's one person. I know, but it's a pretty wild scene. Yeah. I mean, that's a pretty, like, I'm laughing about the woman doing that, but it's a pretty awful thing. Because the thing is, like, whatever people's view is on DEI, most people don't even know what it is. But if you're, whether you're forward against it, it is now in some people's mind just being an excuse to yell at black people or women in a job and go, well, you're a DEI, which is a tech, which like, that's just blatantly racist or sexist to do. So like, now they're just like, you see a black person in a job and people just think you can just say that. I don't know if that riff.

I didn't see if that riff was black or a woman, but that's like what happens. So if that was what she said, and I don't know, to be honest, that's just what the person in the crowd said. But if that was what she said, that's awful. But it's also funny that she tried to, like,

act like she was going to flash people. Somebody has said the three officials were all three women. See, that's what I'm saying. So, like, if that's the case, people use that as a way just to say it. Now, it's weird for a woman to say that to a woman. That's even weirder. But yeah, I mean, the other thing, like I said, with high school officials, like it's not like there's a, it's not like you're getting into Harvard.

Like, it's not, there's not a line down the street getting to do it. You're lucky anybody wants to do it. Also, maybe you shouldn't be acting like you're flashing at a high school ever as an adult. Maybe leave your clothes on at a high school. You think that's just a good rule of thumb. I just think maybe we should all live by that. Just a good rule of thumb. Don't act like you're, we don't need nudity at high schools as an adult. I kind of agree with you.

Last thing before you go to the phone is, did you see? the interview with Danny Hurley and his wife on 60. Oh, yes. Danny Hurley. I knew, I didn't see it until last night, but I knew it was interesting when my mom said, I'm so glad that guy's not our coached. Your mom said that?

Oh, yeah, because I guess they watched it. People were making a big deal online about the fact that his wife said she didn't like basketball and she didn't know what a screen was. And I thought, what's wrong with that? Who cares? Yeah. Like, I tend to usually date women that don't know anything about sports. Like, when you do sports all the time, if you're basketball coach,

it might be good, Shannon, to have somebody you come home to who doesn't care about basketball, right? Leave your job at your place of work. You don't have to bring it home. Why does it matter if she knows? She's not playing for you. I mean, I don't know how much, like, Ellen Calapary, I don't think was, like, huge basketball person. It was famously noted that Joanne Patino was never a big basketball.

basketball person. Or in Lexington. And it also may be the case that if you're going to be married to somebody with an ego of Danny Hurley, you're just going to have to, by nature, kind of be, like, not into it. Yeah. You know what I mean? Or else it's not going to work. I mean, Danny Hurley can't marry a female Danny Hurley.

They'll kill each other, right? Because you imagine if she was, like, critical of him, like, you know, you really should have made that substitution there 10 seconds ago. He would explode. There were parts of the interview, though, where she definitely. runs that household, though. You know, he may be this successful basketball coach, but she runs the household. But again, isn't that kind of how it was with Joanne Petino and Ellen Califery as well?

Exactly. They both kind of had this powerful coach husband who in public, like the boss everybody around and act like he was like, Mr. Ra, rah, rah, right, right. And then they got home and he was like, okay, honey, whatever you say. I mean, I feel like maybe that's just a thing with people like that. Especially college coaches. I mean, how many of them are really going home and mowing the yard, paying the bills, cooking dinner?

I think that's pretty normal for a college coach's wife to pick up the slack and all that stuff and maybe not be paying much attention to basketball. They would not have worked here, though. No. Blessing in disguise. I mean, Danny Hurley would not. But don't you think Mitch had to make an effort to try to go getting him? No, if they had hired him, like we would have all gotten behind it.

Yeah. But I think the, well, I don't know if I should I say this? It's just us, just the four of us sitting here talking. Yeah, I better not. I'll get in trouble. I just thinking, I think Mitch felt like he had to do it. I think he had to.

But also was like not really crying that it didn't work out. I mean, think about if you had to deal with Cal for 15 years and then that was next. You wouldn't want that. You wouldn't want that. Derek, go ahead, Derek. Yeah, guys, good to hear from Coach Stofe today. But, you know, in this day of pay and play, the coaches aren't going to really point out any individual player too much. You would love to hear them say this player didn't do this or didn't do that.

But when you've got to worry about the next guy coming in and throwing people under the bus are actually pointing people out, they're not going to do that. I'd love to hear it. We all would, but make them be a little more responsible. But they're not going to do that. The second thing, you're talking about the 12th region. The girls were being hosted in Pulaski County, but it was actually Mercer County High School and Danville Christian Academy. And the big problem was...

So it was not... Hang on. That was not a Pulaski Southwestern fan. That was a Mercer County fan. I do believe. I just know... Okay, well, wait a minute, don't be saying you believe. I don't want to besmirch the good people of Mercer County unless it was Mercer County.

Yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't a Pulaski. But what happened was in this area, we don't have many Christian schools or private schools, you know, coming in to the tournaments. And now the last few years we have. So they have a really good team. Daniel Christian does. And they have a really good girl. She's going to go play for Louisville. but the situation was they were up by 30.

Yeah, but it doesn't matter. I don't really care what the situation was. You can't act like that. You know what I mean? Like it doesn't matter. I'm not condoning that. You're correct. I'm not condoning that.

I'm just giving you some backstory on what was going on at the game. I don't condone that behavior in any way. So fans are stupid. Fans are frustrated. I see. That's a good good. Yeah. Well, I might have to let you go, but I appreciate the call, Derek.

I'm sorry. I've got to go to the next thing. But you can't act like that. And people keep telling me, he says Mercer County. Everyone on the text machine is saying it's Southwestern. The people of Mercer County will be mad at Derek if he says it's them and it's not them. I pulled the video up again and tried to zoom in on her shirt and I realized I got way too close to that shirt and had to back up a little bit. But just if you, if it takes two police officers to get you out of high school basketball,

game, then you were in the wrong. I don't care what you did. Look in the mirror and learn how to behave at a high school game. And it's a high school. It is a high school. That's why I think Trump and Elon will definitely look into this and they'll get it situated. Hopefully they do it as well as they're doing with everything else with that. Mike, go ahead, Mike.

Hey, Matt. What's going on? I just got a comment or two about the Mark Stoach. Okay. I think he's been there. How long has you been there? Five years. Oh, they're longer than five.

It's 13. 13. 12, gone 13. And how many winning records? Like 8 or 9, I think. Maybe 7. 8, probably. He didn't have a winning record.

His first two years had a winning record pretty much every year since, except the last COVID in this year. Yeah. So I think, so I'd say he's had 8 of 12 winning records. Yeah, I think he's overrated. Well, you thought that, let's be honest, you thought that number was going to be a lot less. You thought I was going to say like three, but then I said eight and it left you a little. You didn't think that was what the number was, did you?

No, I didn't. I don't know the numbers. Yeah. I mean, I just think it's time for him to go. I think, I think, I think, well, I mean, he's not going to go. Here's the thing. He's not going to go right now. He's going to be the coach next year.

So, I mean, in my view, you. you like we might as well support him this year because like he's the coach whether you think he should be or not right yeah so i appreciate the call that what do you laugh at all the day right there oh boy what are you laughing at all right i don't even know that he thinks he's been for five years did you just wake up five years ago you missed the 10 and three season man that's a good one two of them that caught one of them missed one before that um it was not mercer county was definitely Southwestern. And a lot of people are angry at the guy for saying it was Mercer County.

Even I have a Mercer Canter. What person writes? You tell Derek to shut his mouth. We at Mercer County, classy, we only flash each other for fun. Somebody says, this is allegedly,

grandma was the Southwestern Assistant Coach's mother-in-law. Oh, goodness. Southwether coach's mother-in-law? Well, wait a minute, the one assistant coach, he seems to get kicked out at the end. So do you think he got kicked out, taken up for his mother-in-law?

Good for him if he did. What do you mean good for him? All right, hang on just saying, you don't believe that. I refuse to believe that if you had a mother-in-law that acted like that, that you would go get kicked out too. I probably would go up and try to defend her a little bit. Well, defend her for what? She gets up and acts like she's flashing the crowd.

What are you defending her from? You would do that for your mother. No. My mother would not do that. If her mother was that situation? You want to tell Karen Blondale that you think she would do that? No, but if she ever got into a situation, you would do everything to defend her. Here's what my mom would do at games.

First of all, I didn't get in until there was like a minute left. And we'd already be down 30. And she would stand up and go, there's still time, boys. That was it. Yeah, technically there's still time. Yes. On the clock. I have dated women.

I'm not getting kicked out for their mom. mothers? If their mother's acting a fool, you think I'm getting kicked out for that? If my mother's doing that, I'm getting under the bleachers and hiding. I want no part of it. Exactly right. Look at Ryan. He's like, you just take the view no matter what they're doing, you got to go take up for. I think you've got to take up for your mother. Yes. I tell mom to keep her shirt on and behave. Wait until in the two-minute delay, my mom hears that you think she'd be out there. I never said that, Karen. Never said that. That's exactly right. You're getting a text.

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I don't know what he was saying to the official. I just think you got to something. I don't know if that's true. This is just, you know, this is text machine scuttle butt. One person writes, Matt, I've written this question to you for three straight weeks and you all haven't answered it, which he has, by the way. I just need to know who are your and Drew's favorite comedians. I think you two are very funny and like comedy.

I'm just getting into it. Who are your favorite ones? All right. So if you're talking all time for me, and I think Drew's going to agree with at least a couple of these. I think we both love Norm. Of course. R. RP Norm.

Early Chris Rock. Early Dave Chappelle. Louis C.K. up until the stuff happened. I was going to say Louis C.K. pre things we learned about his private life. Like before all that.

Bill Burr. Bernie Mac. Him downstairs. Nate Bargazzi and Shane Gillis, who I've really gotten into in the last year or so. So that's my group.

Who would you add to? I mean, you pretty much named all my favorites. Burgotsi has become my number one. And I've seen him so many times. in so many different cities, I think he might actually have a restraining order against me. It got a little weird. Sometimes we're just pure coincidence that we were in the same place.

Luis C.K. would have been number two, if not for some disclosures about his private life. It's tough. It's hard to support a guy. You have to be like, yeah, yeah, you know,

but he is funny. I still like Chappelle, even though it's not what it wants to us. It's very political now. Everything's like, he's like, man, those first couple specials,

though. I mean, the best special of all time is the first Chris Rockwood, right? Like the OJ sent, like that's the best stand-up special of all time, the one about OJ and all that. Like that's, to me, I mean, I know people would say Eddie Murphy, but that's a little before my time. Oh, I also like Mitch Headberg a lot, even though he's, I didn't discover him until he died. But like his stuff is good.

There's a local guy who I'm still waiting to get bigger than there is, and he's big, but he's in Cincinnati. I've seen him a couple times here in Lexington, and his name's Josh Sneed. I think he's really funny. You should look him up on YouTube, but he's not quite to the level of the names were mentioning. but he's also one of my favorites. Yeah, I like that one. Nikki Glazer recently. I really like Shane Gillis now.

I like that he, Shane Gillis is like, you know, now comedians, it feels like it's just like a way for people to give their, used to be liberal opinions. Now it's conservative opinions,

but Gillis like skewers everybody. And I like that about him. I think he's really funny. I think his sketches are so much better than his stand-up. He's got a whole YouTube series. I think he's really funny on his podcast, too. I just think he's a really funny dude.

I like something about his awkward manner. When he talks about Alabama football and the Civil War and stuff, I just think he's funny. Really, my favorite thing to do is go to, like, a comedy seller where I don't know any of that. I like learning about comedians that are on the way off. And then when they make it, and I saw Gary Goldman before he made it. And then when he did, you're like, oh, I saw that guy. That's kind of cool. Sean, what's up, Sean?

You were saying yesterday about comedians, it's not Catherine, Madigan. It's Kathleen. You'd probably find her funny. I caught in about the You're talking about the Michigan Michigan State dust up Remember this is the same school That also did the same thing with OSU

So I did that's right Not that I like the Buckeyes But Michigan's just jerks Shannon The only acceptable crystals Are the burgers at lunch And the moms at the booty shaking contest And my serious thing is for Matt

Have you ever considered Having like a handy and Combs political talk show in addition or aside from KSR. Yeah, you know, we did that. Thank you. Well, you're not, that's not going to, you know, you're going to have to. I appreciate the call. Yeah, I mean, I did that with Hey, Kentucky for a while. You know, I gave Scott Jennings his first real start on TV. I don't know if that turned out the way I thought it would. But yeah, I enjoyed it.

But no, I mean, there's a lot of, like, I like debating politics. I don't like when people yell at each other. And that's a lot of what it is now. Same with sports. I don't like listening to Stephen A and people yell at each other. But PTI, where they're talking to each other, I do enjoy that. I do get a lot of people to ask me if you're going to have a Hey, Kentucky 2.0. The thing about it's just, it's too

much. It's like every day, you know, a TV show is just different. You need a lot of people on it. It's just, and it wedge you here. I like to travel. You can't really travel when you get TV. You've got to be here. Lou. And the makeup. In the makeup. I think, you know,

Made me look better. Luke, go ahead, Luke. Hey, guys, just two comments, and I don't know if you've said anything about this. I've been listening on and off today. But I came up over my phone last night. Coach Cal was on a talk show or whatever. Yeah, we talked about that.

Yeah, we talked about that early. Yeah, but the other comment, man, I live here in East Tennessee. I've grown up in East Tennessee my whole life. I'm a huge cat fan. I'm not a Volcat by any means. I cheer for the University of Kentucky and everything. But with Mark Stoops, yes, last year's season was disappointing. But where I live, when we get seven, eight wins, man, I'm happy.

I love watching my cats win, seven, eight wins. But like the 10-win season, man, you thought I'd won a national championship walking around. Well, I do think that's a totally fair point, Luke. I appreciate the call about expectations. I think some of our fans' expectations for football are too high. With that said, we got to be better than we were last year. You know, because we were undisciplined and we didn't play well last year. And hopefully that makes it better.

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