KSR - 2025-05-16- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

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Matt Jones. It is a rainy day in Lexington, but you can still come out and see us and have lunch. I hope you will. I have a surprise for people who come to the KS. Bar and Grill this weekend. But I'll say that in a minute. Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. By the way, the interrupting thing is

is off now. Now, I can interrupt you today. I mean, I'm not saying I will, but I can. 859-2-80-2287. A-Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-7474-5-254, and this edition sponsored by the T.J. Smith-Lavis us. You call T.J. on Make-May. We got folks here from Boston, Southern Indiana, got a guy in a red shirt, all kinds of stuff. Drew is only going to be here for one hour because he's getting on a plane and gallivanting around America over this weekend and otherwise exciting times. I want to compliment you for a second. The last couple days you said you were not going to interrupt anybody,

and I thought there's no chance in France. He's ever going to go through with that, and somehow you did it, and it worked. So I was kind of proud of you the last couple of days, not interrupting people. Yeah, I mean, you know, don't get used to it, but it was good. It's nice to converse with people, and we'll do it again later this summer.

We got some things we have to do this summer. You know, we have the unpopular opinion day. I always try to do this summer. I'm sure I'll come up with a bracket that we will not finish at some point. And, yeah, we'll go from there. But I have enjoyed it. Nice to hear people. First day it calls, little shaky, but then it got a little better as we went on.

The first day was just older guys tell me about the young women they date, but then it got a little better after that. You know, me, I prefer the chaos. So yesterday when stuff's not working and you're taking Bob, in Jamestown calls in the first segment. That surprised even me. Yeah, that's my kind of show, so I'm looking forward to summer content. All right, so I have something.

We're going to talk UK sports, obviously, and getting a big sports weekend coming up. My canes made the Eastern Conference final. Even the Reds won, man. I'm not with the Red. We even won a game, finally. But that's not what I want to talk about. All right. So yesterday, my car was out here in the parking lot, and a guy came in and he said,

Matt, I hate to tell you this, but you have a flat. Yes. And I thought he was lying. and then I went outside and I did have a flag. You did have a flat. Big nail in my tire. Now, there are only two car dealerships that I mess with in Kentucky. One is, of course, Don Franklin.

Been a great advertiser. Love them. 27 locations. You know, they treat you like family, right? The other is I have had at various points in my life for a long time, Alexis and the Lexington dealerships always been nice. And the thing that's the best about them is that if I have something, and they'll come and fix it.

Because this may surprise you, Shannon, I can't, I can't fix a tire. Really? Wow. Okay, I didn't know that. Yeah, well, I mean, I know you would have thought I could, but I can't. So while we were doing the second hour, they came, got the car, brought me, you know, a loaner for the day. Well, I had to go, I had to go to Louisville, I had to do a bunch of stuff. And so I still have it. I'm going to give it back today.

But last night I got back in town. It was a beautiful night, right? And sometimes I like to just drive around. See Lexington. Sure. Listen to podcast. I was out there in Paris, Pike, out on all the, like, horse farm roads. Oh, yeah.

Beautiful, Gary. Beautiful roads. They've given me, this is either a 24 or 25. Now, I have a question. Do any of you have a 24 or 25 car? Do any of you have it? Nobody. I was planning on getting a car this summer or in the fall.

Drew, these cars are starting to get sassy. All right And I don't think I like it These cars are starting to be Like a girlfriend Tell me how to drive Okay You get in this car

And now This may be something you're used to I'm not The car will tell you To pay attention Oh yeah If you start weight going back Not

No I'm fine with that If you The car will look at you And say Please face your eyes forward. Have you, have you, if you all have a car like this?

This Lexus out here will go. Driver in attention, beat, beep, beep. And it'll just say, please look forward. If you just look to the side just to say, I don't know, just there are things over there you might want to see. To look at a horse. It yells at you and it beeps at you. Wow.

And I don't think you can turn it off. And as you may know, sometimes I look away. Maybe once in a while. Occasionally you've ridden with me. Every quarter mile. And the car just yells at you constantly and you can't turn it off. And is this what it's going to be? Is the cars like get an attitude with us as the years gone?

I didn't realize they were doing that now. I didn't know it'd gotten that fancy. My car is about to turn 10, so I'm just lucky to get my phone to play music through it. But I have seen some. I've been driving them where like a coffee cup will pop up and be like, do you need to pull over? Are you tired? I'm like, what do you know about me? You don't know me.

It gets really sassy. it says, one of them says, please look straight ahead. First of all, it's a little scary that it knows what I'm looking at. Like it's, because they were right at that moment. I was looking a little bit to the side. But is this going to be what things are? Cars will be like sit up straight, you're slouching, that's bad posture? I don't, I couldn't believe it. And I guess this is normal for cars. And I'm sure it's safe. But I felt like, you know how people get a DUI and they'll make them blow into it? to whatever, these cars will say to you, if you don't look straight, they're going to make you pull over. I didn't know, I'm like Drew, I've got an old car.

I didn't know this is the technology they're using now. It feels like you've got your high school principal in your front seat with you. Yes, it was like... It's like your mom's riding shotgun the whole time. It was like my old gym teacher who I took driver's ed with, who was sitting there yelling at me. So I didn't enjoy that. Second thing, though, one of the places, and I'm sorry I'm going to have to say where this is. but I feel like it's part of the story.

Okay. New Circle Road out there like next to Russell Cave. Okay. You know what I'm talking about out there? There's, you know, that's where some of the more, I don't know what you would say, risque businesses in town are. Is that fair to say? Where people dance, but I wouldn't necessarily say it's a bar, right?

They have a bunch of those out there. And I was driving down Nicholsville, or on New Circle Road, coming, like, towards, let's say, you know, what am I, I'm forgetting roads. The road to the interstate that's right next to. That's Paris Pike. Yeah. The next one. Newtown Pike or Newtown Pike? Okay.

In between Paris Pike and Newtown Pike. And there's one of those dance establishments on the ride. Yes. And as I'm driving by, I look outside and there's a man and his wife, and you all may have seen this. They have seven jugs of juice. Have you seen this? I think I know what you're talking about. Like, you know how when kids will have lemonade stands and they'll have a jug of juice?

This was a grown man with seven different colors of juice. And honestly, a strip club parking lot. Okay? Seven different, and he had, there were children there, and there was him, and there was a food truck. And it said in Spanish, basically, juice, fruit juice. And I was thinking, those are seven different, out in the open, jugs of juice in a strip club parking lot on a Thursday night at 6.30 in the evening.

That's just pimp juice. Here's the other. Here's the thing. And there were a line of people getting the juice. Yeah. And they look like people who had. driven up to get the juice and get back in their car. Well, of course, I look at it and I'm like, this must be good.

I like juice. But I couldn't make myself go into the parking lot and get the strip club juice that was there. But it had, this guy had multiple flavors in a line of people that clearly this is a thing that people get. Drew, you're the foodie of Lexington. And I love a good parking lot vendor that might not be on the books. I love a shady truck selling something out of the back. So I went to the Dairy Queen and I asked the person in the drive-thru

because it's right across the street. Right, yeah. What's the deal with the Jews? And they said they're out there every night and it's very popular. And I had no idea. And so I'm wondering if anyone listening has ever had it. And would you trust it, Drew? Would you see, if you heard on, like, Lexington Foodies that there is juice in a parking lot of the strip club, would you, would you try it?

Not only would I try it when I'm back on Monday. Your wife is sitting right over there. Well, I don't have to go into that establishment. That place gives me deja vu anyway. But on Monday, I'm going to take Mario, and Mario, let's sample all the juices for a video. Would you like that? Would you do that? We don't have to go into the pink building, but just the juice truck.

I want to, I'll do a tasting for. I think you should. I freely admit. I was fascinated. How do people know about it? This was not like just old guys standing in line. There were like, you know, professional-looking people eating or drinking juice out of the parking lot that was just in jugs, seven different colors. And Ryan, I wanted to stop.

But then I was worried, like, you know, someone would take a picture. And I was like, I'm not going to. Two and eight kids in a strip club parking lot. You're not going to stop there. But I did wonder about it. And the car was yelling at me. Look straight ahead. Stop looking at the Jews.

My eyes are up here. My eyes up here. And I ended up not stopping. I didn't know this was the thing, but I'm going to go. I may go tonight. I'm definitely on board with trying it. Is that your excuse? Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Where you said it was? I don't know. Well, okay. If you go tonight. Yeah. Because apparently they're out there.

the woman that Derry Queen said Wednesday through Saturday. Okay. So tonight is between those days. And obviously it's good if there's been a line there. People waiting to get it is obviously something tasty. All right. So will you text me and let me know how it went? Yep, I definitely will.

The city of Lexington continues to surprise me. But I don't think I've been more surprised than I was last night looking at the juice. I'm excited. It's got to be good if there are people waiting out there. You think it's got to be good? They probably don't even care what that business. business is behind them because it's not even really open during the day. They just see an empty parking lot they can use.

I don't think they're collaborating on this business. We'll see. Part of the reason I went driving around is I got frustrated at your guy Kirby Smart. Kirby Smart, did you see his quote yesterday? I heard he was on Funball. Yes, I didn't listen to it, but this is the quote, and he said this yesterday. And I, it was symbolic, and I tweeted about it, and then I guess Georgia fans all saw. and next thing you know I was getting flooded by Georgia fans angry. Here was this quote

about NIL. I just want to be able to have a freshman come in and not make more than a senior and like I'd like for other sports to be able to survive. You know, we're on the brink of probably one to two years away from a lot of schools cutting sports. We need to change how this is happening. So I read that and on the surface, people would look at that and go, well, that seems reasonable, Right. Freshmen should make more than seniors. We don't want to cut sports. I get that.

But his premise kind of was, we're going to have to cut sports because we're giving these kids too much money. Now, the last time I checked, Drew, was anybody forcing these schools to give kids money? No. Does Kirby Smart have to give freshmen more than he does seniors? Is that a rule that you have to give freshmen more than seniors? Not a rule. So if Kirby Smart is giving freshmen more than he's given seniors, would you agree with me that that

was his choice? Seems like a Kirby problem. It seems like a Kirby problem. Nobody's making him do it. Nope. He could pay the seniors more. He's choosing to do it. But the second part of that is he says, we're going to have to cut sports.

We need to do something to stop it. Did I hear at any point, Drew, during that conversation that he volunteered to cut some of that $10 million a year salary? Did he say that at any point? I didn't catch it. Did he say I'll take $9 million so the track team can survive? He said I'll take 9.5 so the tennis team will survive. How does he want to make those teams survive? He wants to cut his players money.

Wouldn't you agree there's a good chance his players make less than him? Oh, yeah. It infuriates me. First of all, I agree with him I want the lesser sports to survive. I agree with him there needs to be some kind of legislation. But I am so tired, Ryan Lemon, of listen to these coaches who make $10 million a year to coach a game

when they were making a million dollars or $2 million, even 15 or 20 years ago, their salaries have skyrocketed vis-a-vis everything else to say that the way to fix the system is to stop the players from making money, and nobody ever says, hey, you know what? Maybe we need to control the player salaries,

but you know who else's salary we could control? Yours. The coaches. Yeah. Maybe these schools in order to keep tennis, golf, whatever, should say, we're going to agree we're not going to pay coaches more than, I don't know, $6 million a year. Why don't they ever say that?

They don't. They want to come across as a sympathetic creature. But no, no, no, no. They don't. They want to protect their money and keep the kids from making their money. Absolutely. That's what they want to do. I'm fine with a system where we say, why don't we control all these salaries a little bit?

Because I think that's fair. But in capitalism, you can't just do that without having the employees have a say in that. And these schools want these players to shut up, make their, shut up, take the money they're giving them, and oh, by the way, Kirby, I need an extension, give me $12 million a year. It's infuriating to me. I am totally with the idea the system needs to be regulated, but I am so tired of these coaches,

especially the ones that make obscene salaries, Drew, complaining about the players making money and then complaining about the money that they choose to give to the players. They don't have to do it. And it is ironic coming from Kirby. Is he the highest paid coach in the country? If Kirby wants to save sports,

maybe he could fly southwest. He makes $8 million more a year than anyone else at his university, not in sports. Now, does he deserve it? The market says he does. But guess what? The market says these players deserve it too because people are giving it to him, right? Yeah, and I don't know how he plans to, or how he says a freshman shouldn't get more than a senior.

I get you want to keep guys around, but if you lead guys are worth what they're worth, and, you know, it doesn't really matter what age they're going to be. You don't have to pay them, Kirby. Yeah. Nobody's making you do it. Pay the seniors. So I heard that quote, and of course all the people online are like, good job, Kirby, Kirby, Kirby. He's right.

And then Kirby's going to ask for $2 million more a year next year. How did Georgia fans defend it? How do they were doing it? Because they don't think about it. They just say, I agree. And a lot of the Kentucky fans defend it too. And I just think it's ridiculous. And I keep hearing coaches to do it.

And I think it's insane. We'll take a break. 859-2-80-2287 here at KS Bar and Grill. Getting a little dark outside, don't you think? I can't wait to go get on a flight. We'll be right back as Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind.

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Welcome back, TeguSports Radio. Are you really going to go try that tonight? This weekend. If it's not tonight, it'll be this weekend for sure. I want to see what it is. And I feel like he's going to try more than one. If he's got six or seven of them, you've got to try a couple. No, I mean, if you're going to go all the way over there, you might as well try.

Absolutely. You said you got a message about it? I have a text from a friend who knows about it. they actually say it is amazing, and the drink is, believe it or not, called Horchata. Horchata. Yeah. I looked it up. No, that's a real drink.

And it said no, several people that goes and gets drinks there. Horchata. Yep. What's it for? Like what's in it? What's it for? It's for you to drink. The specific horchata looks like it's for various beverages, so I don't know specifically what that means.

But that's what it's called. And it's got five-star reviews from someone I trust. All right, so there you go. Maybe I should have stopped last night. Right, Ryan, I'm waiting on your review. And then Drew and Mario can do a video. You said Monday. I don't think they're open Monday.

There's no mistake, by the way, that it's called that, and they're at the parking lot of that establishment. You may be right about that. You may be right about that, but we're not going to worry about it. What person writes, Matt, you say you're upset that the coaches all complain about it. Don't Kentucky coaches complain? I actually have not heard Mark Pope complain. Have you? Does anybody remember Mark Pope complain about it?

Stoops definitely has, but I don't think I've heard Mark Pope. As a matter of fact, didn't Mark Pope just say a few days ago, we're going to pay the most money or whatever? We're going to be the best. I mean, I... Yeah, someone asked what the budget is, and he did like Dr. Evil. He was like $200 million, being sarcastic, but then said, no, of course we want to have the most. They need to...

So, you know, we've talked about this a lot. I'm not going to go into extensive detail. There is a system that needs to be fixed, and the way to fix it is to go through Congress. And I've said this a couple times. Ted Cruz and Corey Booker are working on it, and what I've heard from what they're doing, I actually give them a lot of credit. The bill's going to have to be bipartisan because it's going to take 60 votes in the Senate. They're working on it.

Hopefully it works. If it doesn't, it doesn't. But I'll tell you what won't work, just complaining about it, which is what Kirby Smart and those guys do. Like I said, Kirby probably thought he was coming across, you know, as a sympathetic guy on the Fine Bomb show. But yet when you're breaking down what he said, like you did, you understand. Well, he's not the only one. He's not the only coach that thinks.

They all think like that. But you know what none of them do? Offer to give back any of their money. None of them. And I'm not saying they should. But then don't comply plain when the other folks get theirs. Thank you to the ladies of KSR. They made Shannon.

They're called pop dolls. Funko pops. Funko pops. Very popular. They made funco pops of me, you, Drew, and Ryan. And they, and Mario, you made a Mario one too. What about Billy? And Billy.

Oh, Billy has one. Look at this. Wow, that's a surprise. Nice mustache on Billy. Mine has me with a cell phone and a whisk. Yours has you very bald. Very bald. I didn't get a good look at that.

It is very bald. surprisingly bald actually what is in your hands i got a headphones in one hand and a foam finger in the other okay and then drew's guy i have my computer because it's always with me and then cash because i gamble a lot but also the beard is very gray making me feel even older well i mean it does that's no it's that's how accurate it is i have a great year you have an ovw belt and a beer so uh i'm a drunk wrestler yeah you're a drunk wrestler that's exactly you got a good head of hair on you shannon it's a good looking what we call Funkopop. Thank you all very much to that. I'm going to put this on my desk and have it right there next to my Ellie Dela Cruz Bumblehead doll. 859 who's up to 264.

I turned the radio on right yesterday when he crushed one, hit one out yesterday. Who's up first yet? Chicago Dan. Chicago Dan. How are you? I'm doing well. First time long time. Somebody right here says Huachata is the nectar of the gods. There you go. There we go. And the best place to get in Lexington is over there. I'm a very religious fella. Nectar of the gods. I don't know if God would put his nectar in the pony parking lot,

but maybe so. You know, the Lord works in mysterious ways. I remember that from the Bible. So go ahead. Okay, so I claim to elaborate on the strip club juice jugs. Okay. So they're called Agua Fresca. They are, it's juice.

like fruit juice that's blended and then mixed with water. And it's basically like a dairy-free smoothie, except for the aforementioned Orchata, which is the rice water. And it's got cinnamon in it and vanilla. Think of it kind of like the, after you eat your cinnamon toast crunch, the what's left. Okay. Sounds pretty good.

It's not going to lie to you. Yeah, it's a smoothie without dairy. and then rice water, that sounds pretty good. Are they on DoorDash? Yeah, they're good for... I saw their set up. I'm just going to tell you, respectfully to them,

I don't think they're on DoorDash. That's just my look at it, but I could be wrong. I'm not sure. Well, thank you for the information. Speaking of that, if you, I just came into some Kentucky Purdue exhibition game,

good tickets. Oh. And I, I'm going to, I'm going to give them away to somebody and you have a chance to win them this weekend. And I will explain how when we come back for the break. Plus, UK basketball. I had somebody write me an interesting question about next year.

I want to poll the fan base, see what they say right after this. KSR. 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. It is pouring outside in Lexington.

Apparently severe storms in Boyle County and Garrett County, so hope everybody is okay all across the central Kentucky area. 859-280-2287. Ryan, my new interview show debuted last night on WHS. The podcast will come out this afternoon. It's not up on Apple or Spotify yet, so I'll just send out the link via social, and hopefully the Apple. It takes like 72 hours for Apple and Spotify to approve the feeds. but interviewed Beaumani, and I was really happy with it. We did it.

Billy bought this new service where we could see each other and talk, and so we'll have some video clips of it. Nice. It was really good. It talked about a ton of stuff. Bomani and I've now known each other for 20 years, and it was neat to have him. He was my first guest on the old podcast,

so we made him the first guest on the new one as well. Yeah, I didn't get it here live on WHA. So I was looking for the podcast last night. I'm glad you said where it's going to be. Yeah, if you heard it on WHAS, We only got to play like 36 minutes of it. The whole thing was about 55, so we're going to put all 55 on podcast. Basically, I'm going to do it pretty much twice a week.

One of the ones will end up on HES, and the other one will be podcast only, and I already have my two guests for next week, too. I like to start with Beaumonti. I remember him in the early KSR website days, being on live blogs, even wrote a few posts. You've had that connection for a long time. He took some shots at people, too. Did he?

Yeah, he, uh, Well, I don't want to spoil it, but there's a couple things I was kind of surprised he said. So I think people will like it if you hear it. There's a couple people that are prominent in the sports media world that you'll be surprised. You'll be surprised what he says. How did you guys hook up and become buddies? How'd that start? So when Beaumani worked at ESPN, Tubby Smith last year at Kentucky, we played at North Carolina.

Do you remember that? Oh, yeah, yeah. And we lost by a lot in that game. and BOMani went for ESPN to cover the game, kind of taking the UK fans are unreasonable for wanting Tubby to be gone, and then he went and he saw how bad we were, and he basically wrote,

well, maybe I understand why Kentucky fans, what Tubby, some of them want him to be gone, and he wrote that article, and when I read it, I had him on my show. He was at that time just a writer, and then he, of course, ended up blowing up, and we've stayed friends since then. I remember one of our road trips,

went to breakfast with them somewhere. We went to breakfast in Durham, North Carolina. 859-280-2287. So feel free to check that out. Also, if you this weekend, if you, tonight, I'll even include you all if you do this since you're here. Tonight, today, tomorrow, and Sunday, if you eat at KS Bar, take a picture, take a picture of you being in here, right? And you send it to me on the text. machine, I'm going to draw one of those out and give UK Purdue tickets for that opening

exhibition game. So take a picture of yourself this weekend, and let's see, let's put something new in here so I know you were here this weekend. Oh, well, the menus are new. So like have your menu in it, and if you take a picture of you here, send it to the text machine, wait till noon so that I can keep them all straight. 772-745-254. And if you send a picture of you in here, one of those people, I'll give UK Purdue tickets. I think even though it was an exhibition game, that UK Purdue exhibition game will be massive. I think it's going to be a big deal for the

fans. I think it'll be packed. I think it'll be a great environment even for an exhibition game. Yeah, and since there's not a ton going on, this is a good way to you can come visit and see some of the things Ryan did over, has done over here. You're such a good decorator. Well, you know, I majored in that in Kentucky

Weston college. Home decor. Yeah. Yeah. It's good. Who's up next, Shannon? Ethan. Ethan. Go ahead, Ethan. Hey, Matt. So some of these sports teams, say, for example, like Penn State's tennis team, when they have to travel places all the way across country like UCLA, I have to imagine that that cuts into their money spending quite a bit.

Without question. Why don't schools have, like, each sport within the school, like, they all have to be in the same conference. Do you know what I mean? In Kentucky's case, Drew, we are in the SEC, but there are a couple sports that we're not. I don't know. A lot of people don't realize for men's soccer, we're actually in conference USA, I think. We're not in the – because the SEC doesn't have enough men's soccer teams.

There might be another sport where we're in another conference. I'm not sure what it is. I do wonder if one day, like in the Big Ten, they say, look, let's divide it up so our tennis team doesn't have to fly to Washington, Oregon, UCLA USC because that's got to be a ton of cost. But when you added those teams to the conference, part of what you were doing was forcing your teams. I mean, I saw that the University of Washington last year, their basketball team flew something like 35,000 miles during the course of the year. That was the school chose to put that on their players and you can't now complain about the cost. Yeah, when they did the realignment, I think that was most people's first reaction. Like, are they really going to fly all

the way across the country to play tennis and then come right back. Even the basketball teams, was it Mick Cronin who kind of put out their travel schedule? Yeah. I don't have a lot of sympathy for Mick Croner. They said that's why they got out of the CBS Classic. He was like, I can't add another trip to the East Coast when I'm doing like seven or seven or eight of them during the year. You know, and the swimming and the tennis and all those teams are also flying commercial. You know, those teams are flying commercial cross-country seven times a year, Ryan.

Well, that's why the budget is so important. They joined the conference because they want this football money from the conference, yet they have to spread it out so your other teams can survive and compete. Weren't you bum, Drew, about the UK baseball team list? I was watching the whole thing. I mean, five-run lead twice. Even when it was getting a little tight and uncomfortable, Dan, I'm like, well, they're going to pull this off.

And then with two outs, two strikes. They got up five-nothing, then they were up seven-two. they go into the ninth, 7-5, 2 outs, 2 strikes. They're down to the final strike, and then Vandy hits a 3-run, home run to beat them 8-7. A lot of the national people thought, Kentucky, because Vandy's top 10, Kentucky just needs to win one of the three games to be in the tournament.

Just win one of the three. This could have been the one. I mean, it was right there for the win, and then they end up, that's a brutal law. They're at 5-0 in like the first inning, so it felt good all night. Even they had a bad, I think it was the seventh. They left bases loaded out, getting a run. But he still thought, okay, we've got a two-run cushion,

and then to be one strike away. And that home run, I mean, you didn't have to watch it. The moment the ball hit the bat, it was like, that's it. There was no doubt on that one. He popped it out to left field. If they don't make the tournament, Ryan, and they probably still will, but it's not assured unless they win one of these games, that one is going to probably stick with them.

Yeah, they just swept Oklahoma at home. People thought that, okay, that may get them in. But if they would have won that game last night against number nine ranked Vanderbilt, one strike away from ensuring you're in the NCAA tournament. They still have two more chances, though. But, I mean, when you get up 5-0 in the first inning, you think that's the one that you're going to get right there. Yeah, to be a strike away.

Pitching change is a little questionable there. I feel bad for the kid giving up a three-run bomb to lose the game. Like I said, there was no doubt when the ball hit the bat. It was over. You didn't have to see it through. All right, so here's my question about UK basketball for a second. So I think pretty much every fan would say that Mark Pope's first year was a success. Would you agree with that?

Yes. You think he has any outliers that don't believe year one was a success? Overall, absolutely a success. I would say if you were to do like they do with presidents, the approval rating, wouldn't you say that Mark Pope is now 100% 99%? Yeah. High 90s. high 90s. So let's talk about year two. Probably top two or three in money spent in the transfer

portal, if not number one, right there at the top two or three. Good recruiting class. Top eight team probably coming into the preseason in the rankings. What do you think Mark Pope needs to do slash what is the expectation this year? If you were to say, if I were to get a call from a national radio show that says, Matt, to make Mark Pope the fans still happy, what does he need to do in year two? What would you answer that question? That's a good question,

because obviously they're going to be a better team this year, so I think you've still got to win these, you know, the higher profile games, the Louisville's, the Gonzagas, the Indiana, you've got to win them. But for March, I think it all comes down to getting to March. I think he's got to get probably to the weekend, the final weekend, maybe even on the Sunday this year

with the team he's got. What are you saying? He needs to make the, is that the elite A? the SEC tournament. Yeah, the SEC tournament. I think he's got at least get to Sunday. So he's got to get the championship? Yeah, I think so, because the SEC is going to be down a little this year,

not as strong as it was last year. You're still going to be good, but you may have the best team in the league. And then when it comes to the NCAA tournament, I mean, maybe you think he's got to sniff it at the Final Four. If they get beat on a buzzer-beater than the league in, I'm not going to be mad, but I think they've got to be sniffing at the Final Four. What do you think? You can't ask him to do much better than he did in the non-conference last year,

beating Duke, Gonzag, and Louisville. But did lose to all. A bad Ohio State team. That's true. I didn't factor that one in. But the, what were they? 10 and 8 in the SEC, I think you've got to be in the mix for the regular season championship, especially with the SEC being down.

I think you've got to go to Nashville as the top two seed. Florida's defending champ, and they reloaded. I'm not going to demand that Kentucky wins. I hope they win. But you've got to be in the conversation to get some SEC rings again. And definitely second weekend of the tournament, and you should be knocking on the door for the final four. Yeah. for me, we need to contend for the SEC regular season title.

Whether we win it or not, it's been a few years since we've been playing for that title. I mean, well, did we? We were a two-seed in Cal's last year in the SEC tournament. But we lost in the first round. Yeah. Yeah. And I believe the team that won won by a decent amount, right? Three games.

I want to see us, I agree with you in that he's going to have, if not the best roster, the second best roster. I think we need to be more consistent in the regular season. But the tournament, I mean, do you think it is Final Four or is it just get to that where games go either way?

I'm kind of there. I mean, I think they got a team good enough to make the Final Four, but like I said, if they play a Powerhouse team in the Elite 8 and get beat in a buzzerbrily in the final seconds, I think I'm going to be all happy with it. I'm not saying they have to get to the Final Four to make me happy.

Just play at that level, play at that Final Four level. It's hard to say you've got to make the file four because it's so random and hard to do that even when you're in top seat. But I think you should be a top two seat in the tournament to give yourself the best chance. I agree. Certainly be in the lead eight. And then whatever happens there, as long as you don't get blown out, you can live with it. But I mean, this, hopefully we never have to what we do last year where it's like, could we play on Wednesday in Nashville or Thursday? You get a little pass on losing at Georgia and Ole Miss and being in the middle of the pack in the conference.

You've got to get back to competing for SEC championships. Well, the good things about Mark Pope is if he was sitting here. He would agree with all this. Yeah. He is the one that says bring the expectations on. He doesn't say you people are crazy. You need to lower your expectations. He says our expectations need to be high, and I appreciate that.

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859-280-2287. We were just talking about the PGA Championship is going on at Quail Hollow and the players. Andrew seemed to hate the course. It was really wet because of rain, and they didn't let them do the lift clean in place. Every time somebody hit the ball, come up a big thing of mud, and they're all complaining about it.

I was just saying, you know, they always talk about Vahala, how it never works, and we do arrest the players when they come, which is not necessarily good. We need to stop doing that. But outside of that, you know, they've had Tiger win,

they had Rory win, they had a great leaderboard last year, and then Zander won, I think, over what, DeChambo? and then the first year we had a Kentuckian with Kenny Perry. So he lost, but he was right there to the end. You know, it ends up being pretty good when it's at O'Halla outside of arresting the player. Yeah, if you can just put that one thing aside, had a good Rider Cup there too.

It's clear they're very, when you have Scotty Schaeffler taking a microphone and just complaining because he's usually a quiet, whatever guy, you know, he's the best of a bunch. He doesn't have to complain about it. He was fired up about the condition yesterday. Yeah. It's made for other than our. our boys in the top 10. It's not a great leaderboard. Terrible leaderboard. Like, I don't even know if I'll watch it this weekend.

Because I don't know anyone on the leaderboard except the guys we know personally. Yager and Posting there. Yeah, I mean, besides Yeager and Posting, like, you have no interest in. Somebody suggested a name for the new show, Ryan. I kind of like. All right. What is it? Matt spaining. Like man-splaining. But Matt-splining, because they say I would like, you know, I. People accuse me of Matt Splining.

What do you think about Matt Splain? I don't hate it. I mean, it's one of my favorites so far. I think I've heard. I actually think it's pretty good. I'm not going to lie, Drew. And it would be unique. It might work.

That would be the leader for me. Are you sticking with lawyers, guns, and money as the song, or is there a song? I think Billy forgot to put a song with it yesterday. I think it just came in with my voice. I was a little worried yesterday when you said, how's the podcast set up going? Because it doesn't it take, like, 24 hours to approve that? It takes 72 hours. When he said, I'll get to that today, I thought, oh, oh.

But he was a little stressed yesterday, I think. A little. Yeah, the show fell apart. That wasn't Billy's fault. You should have seen him running around the Lexington studio trying to figure out. He was working hard. I think he was a little stressed. The Ohio State Legislature is debating a bill today to ban noon kickoffs in the state of Ohio.

They passed a bill that says no Ohio State football game can start until 3,000. 30. They're upset because of their eight home games last year. Five of them were at noon. And if you remember, they always play the Ohio State Michigan game at noon every year. The Ohio State Legislature says it doesn't give our fans time to get ready, aka get drunk. It hurts our atmospheres. The Big Ten is saying, hey, if you do that, we're going to stop giving you the big national slots because our big national slot is noon. What do you think about the Ohio State Legislature saying no noon? kickoffs. Would you be for that in Kentucky?

I'm one of the rare people I think that maybe I kind of like the noon kickoffs here because we got a little pregame here at the restaurant, go to the game, then you got tailgate, but then you still got the evening to do whatever else you want. It kind of makes it a fun Saturday. But I think they're right that it does hurt the environment.

Noon games environments are in football not as good. Now in basketball this year we actually had some good ones. We beat Florida at that one where the game started at 11 a.m. But in football, the environment is not as good. noon. I understand why they want it to not have all noons.

But when the legislators start getting involved with stuff like this, I just think, surely there's something else you could be doing with your time than trying to figure out kickoffs for the college football teams in your state. And then we're being like sandwiched by weird state laws. Tennessee, the state legislature yesterday passed a law. And I think this one needs to get a lot more attention because this one could blow up the whole college sports settlement. Tennessee passed a state law that says schools in Tennessee don't have to follow any of the

NCAA rules. Whoa. Yeah. It's very Tennessee of them. Yeah. It is very Tennessee. But it says they don't have to follow the settlement on NIL and they don't have to follow the NCAA rules.

I mean, first of all, that is very Tennessee. You're right. And it's also, that could blow the whole thing up. up, right? If all these states say you don't have to, let's say they pass legislation. And let's say everybody agrees to a set of rules. If tobacco chew in Tennessee decides we're not going to do it and just pays double, it blows the whole system up, Drew. Could then the SEC or ever come up the top and then just enforce out of punishment, like we're not inviting you to Atlanta. I think the SEC would have to say, hey, if Tennessee

invade, if you're not going to do it, you can't be in the SEC. Yeah. Yeah. We're not going to let you play in our championship. But the problem is some conference would then take them and you're right back to the same issue, Ryan. So I don't know who pushed that. I don't know if the Tennessee football, basketball people pushed it. But that's a law.

Like they're spending all this time trying to create a system for everybody to follow. If Tennessee just decides we ain't doing it, then I don't know what happens at that point. They could literally, they could ruin the whole thing. Let them go then. Yeah, kick them out of the SEC. But if you kick them out of the SEC, the ACC is going to take them, and you still have the same problem, right? You think they would not?

They would just pass, all the big conferences would pass on Tennessee and Vanderbilt? There's conferences that need money right now. Tennessee's got so much money, and they got 100,000 people in the stadium. Someone's going to take them. The ACC's dying. The ACC probably would take them in a heartbeat. So, it's a very selfish thing by the Tennessee legislature to do. I mean, everyone is kind of agreeing.

We've got to come up with something. You got one of the most partisan Republican senators and Ted Cruz and one of the most partisan Democrat ones in Cory Booker, and they're agreeing. Let's do this together and let's make it work. And then Tennessee's just going to come around and say, well, we're not going to follow any of the rules. If you told me to guess the state that would do it, Tennessee is a heavy favorite.

That's actually probably true. Who's next, Shannon? Dwayne. Dwayne, I got about 30 seconds. Go ahead. I just want to ask a question. You're talking about Ted Cruz and Cory Booker. if they come to you and said, Matt, what's the top two or three things you would like to see

come out of this legislation? What would be the top tour of three you would like? I would say if you want to create legislation that can last, make the players sign two-year contracts, the schools have to guarantee, they guarantee the scholarship for the two years, one transfer, and then the money is $22 million. You distribute it in the law, but you give the players the ability. to go get their own endorsements, but they have to be real endorsements. That's what I would do.

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