KSR - 2025-06-12- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: June 12, 2025

Matt, Ryan, and Shannon talk ACC/SEC Challenge, times for Kentucky's Football schedule, and Murray State Baseball Coach Dan Skirka joins the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Stockton Mortgage, NMLS 8259 Equal Housing Lender, NMLS Consumer Access.org. Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Hour number two here, Kentucky Sports Radio. Live, what's the name of the Heritage Place? Heritage Place. Heritage Place. Well, that's the closest we'll get. Okay. Although UK JMI like Tech, Jim Barnhart, who's been. doing it for years.

He wrote me to make sure to say this is not, he, not a retirement community. He wanted to say it because he lives here. He was very important. He wanted to make sure we knew that that's not what this was. So I don't know what it is, but Jim Martin wouldn't make clear. He lives here, so don't be saying that. Well, I said retirement community early in the show, and they got a blood to the people giving me the stink guy.

No, no, we are not a retirement. Not a retirement community, just a community of wonderful folks. Now, tomorrow we're going to be doing a show to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Army. Unlike Trump, we're not bringing tanks. We are just going to go. And what is the address where we're going to be is where I was earlier. Because I thought it was on Sir Barton Way. You'll get the address.

But the Army folks are welcoming people to come. They said they might even have, well, I said they weren't going to bring tank. Maybe they will because they actually said they're going to have some stuff for people to look at at the show. Like when we did the show at the fire department, they had the truck. So when Ryan gives the address, we will. But that is tomorrow. It's in Hamburg. What's the address?

2304, Sir Bartonway, Suite 130. 2304, Sir Bartonway, Suite 130. I think you're going to have a hard time getting military vehicles in a suite. How they go drive the tanking in that area? But that's what they said. So, listen, I believe Darcyton. armed forces. So to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Army, we will be there tomorrow. Yeah, that's going to be awesome. So very cool.

At least you know how to get there. You've already been there. I don't have to worry about finding it because that's where I was when I called you earlier today. I was like this does not feel like it's someone's house. We need to give a shout out, though. Okay. Today is Drew Franklin's 40th birthday. Today is Drew Franklin's 40th birthday. So that's why he is on vacation to celebrate. That is crazy to me.

I hear Drew. I heard Drew Franklin when he was 20th. 23 years old. And now he is 40 and has more gray in his beard than I do. He does. Who would have ever imagined? But our longest employee with KSR goes back, literally, hired him out of college when he was working at Tony Romas. First time I met him, he came.

He had barbecue sauce all over his shirt. And since then, been, you know, just awesome. My kind of partnering crime on all this for all these years. He's kind of the guy that kind of keeps us all normal. You know, I think we all got our own. But that's how you would characterize him? Yeah, I think we've all got our own little. I don't know if that's how I.

I've been with him on too many road trips to say he keeps us all normal. Well, yeah, the road trip Drew is different than normal, Drew. Yeah. One of these days when this is all done, the Drew Franklin uncensored podcast of the stories from our early days, it would be great. because Drew back then we would travel. We would go to 14 games in 14 days with Fox Sports or CBS. And Drew and I would do the radio show too.

And we would get up at like 9 a.m., 8.30 a.m. Back then we didn't have this. We couldn't just set up. We had to go to a physical radio studio. And we would wherever we were, find a physical radio studio. We'd go to it. As soon as the show was over, get in the car and drive to the next. City, go to a game,

stay up that night, write a story about the game for CBS or Fox, go back to hotel. At that point, it would be midnight, 1 a.m. I would go to bed. Drew would go out. Drew would go out, and he was like, when are we ever going to be in Cedar Falls

Iowa anymore? Let's go. And he would go out, and he'd roll back in about four or five in the morning, and he would do it again the next day. And I don't know how he did it. I honestly have no. He was like a machine. In New York, he would do it. We were in New York for the U.S. Open for two weeks. He did it every night, every night. And I have no idea how he did it. Drew's greatest trait is he always answers

the bell. Always answers the bell. Doesn't need any sleep, zero sleep. He's only missed one, the start of one show for having to stay out too much, and it was in the Bahamas. The only time he's ever done it. So happy 40th birthday. I'm sure you're listening, Drew. Love you, man, and we will see you on Monday. talk about this yesterday. Let's talk about the new college basketball rules that got created. These are, I think, for the most part, all good rules. First of all, they're trying to do something about the fact that there's too many challenge. There are too many monitor reviews at the end of games. It makes them take forever. So they have changed the rule now. When it comes to out of bounds,

goaltending, and a couple of other minor ones, each coach gets one challenge. At one point during the game, you can say that ball is off them, not them, go challenge it. If you win the challenge, you get one more, and that's it, no matter what. If you lose the challenge, you get no more and you lose a timeout. So you get one challenge. In the last two minutes of the game, the ref can look at goaltending on his own, but he can never look at out of bounds on his own. So you better be careful.

If you're going to use your challenge, you better, hey, hope you're going to win, and you better think, like, is this the right time for me to use it? In the last two minutes, the ref can on their own look at goal tending, but they cannot look it out of bounds. Also, the restricted circle, you can challenge it once. If you lose, you lose it. If you win, you get it one more time. And in the last two minutes, the ref can look at that.

But the ref can't look at fouls. They can't look at out of bounds. So the theory is this will speed up the game, and there'll be a little bit of sort of gamesmanship as to when do you use your challenge. I think most coaches will wait till the end because it won't make sense to do it early in the game. Yeah, you're going to save it. We may need it in a late game situation. My favorite one.

You like that rule. Love it. I love the fact about the out-of-bounce thing because it seems like 95% of the time the rest got it right anyway. I think it was becoming like a crutch for the rest. It was. They were just looking at every single out-of-bounce call at the end, and it was just making the game drag and drag and drag. Now, there's going to be some game where the coaches use their challenge, and then the ref's going to get it wrong at the end,

and it's going to drive everybody crazy. Yeah. But I still think it's better than the system before. I think this is definitely a better system we have. I like the fact they can't review those things until the final two minutes of the game either. Don't waste the game in the early in the first half. Well, they can on the coaches challenge. The ref can't initiate one until the final two minutes.

See, I like that too. No sense reviewing something in the first five minutes of the game. Now, the other one is they're changing the rule now on when you go up for a shot and get foul. You know, in the NBA, they have continuation. Basically, if you're making a move to the basket, you get fouled. You can finish your move. In college, it's always supposed to have been. You have to literally be shooting when you got foul.

If you did anything after it didn't count. They're now changing the rule to be how they were kind of starting to call it, which is when you get fouled, you can make like one move and shoot. and then it'll still count. But you can't do in the NBA where you, like, take two steps, and it's like supposed to be, now, who knows how they'll call it. But it's basically giving people a chance to get the and one easier. I like that rule because I think it doesn't give people the incentive.

Well, here's what I would say if I'm a coach. If you're going to foul somebody, foul them. Yeah. Like, foul them. Don't let them get a shot off. If you let them get, and it'll help the strong players. guys like Oscar back in the day who could take a hit and then keep his move going will actually be benefited, I think, by this. So the continuation goes a little bit longer.

Like you see, I think in the college again, they'd kind of been incorporating that even though it wasn't an official. Last year, it felt like they really did. But that wasn't what the rules. It was inconsistent. This will be more, supposedly, we'll see more consistent. So maybe guys like Otega or Aberdeen. This would help Otega. This is one.

I think this really will help dudes who go to the bass. basket like with authority and then finish. I think Oteg is a great example of somebody who will benefit from this. And I agree. And I think that's going to be a lot of. He's got to finish, though. Remember, he missed a ton of layups last year. Except for Oklahoma game.

He did make that one. Oklahoma game. But you're right. He's a guy. I think we've got some guys that are probably going to affect greatly. That's how they play the game, Aberdeen, him. Well, and a dude like Muhammad Diabate, that's a big dude. That should be somebody that it helps.

So those are two big rules. So far, I like all of them. So far, I like all of them. And it says they're going to decide in a couple weeks they may move to quarters. Yeah, yeah. That's a big deal, too. I mean, I don't think that's a big deal because it's the same amount of time. But four 10-minute quarters instead of two 20-minute halves leads to less free throws.

Yes. Because the way it is now, seven fouls and you go to the free throw line. If it goes to quarters, it takes five fouls in a quarter. to go to the line. So you will go to the free throw line less. There will be less end of the game free throws. And the game will go faster. I mean, this will make the college game go faster.

I love it. You know, every quarter, yeah, the fouls reset. And I think I'm just watching the women's game. You know, they do it already. I love the way the flow of the game is now. The women's game is so much quicker in time than the men's game. The women's game, most women's games finish in two hours or less. the men's games you know can drag on and on and on.

If they make that change, I think it will make them much shorter. Is this something that they would make a change? It would go into effect this coming season? They're talking about if they do it. They have to do it next week for it to be this season. But if they get it done next week, it will be in effect this season. There may be some purists that don't want to go away from the halves. We're the only form of basketball in the world that plays halves.

NBA plays quarters. Every professional league around the world plays quarters. international plays quarters, women play quarters. Men's college, high school plays quarters, men's college basketball is the only sport that plays halves, and it just doesn't make sense. And I don't even know why. I don't even know why we played this has.

It's just been that way of our whole life. That's how it's been. So hopefully that changes. Who's next, Shannon? Jerry. Jerry, go ahead, Jerry. Hey, Matt. First, I didn't say Vince left because of the house thing.

I said he was out, he was out the door. but the fact that the AD is going around saying that they're going to short football for basketball money after settlement. You keep getting upset about this thing about the money. So here's a serious question for you. Mitch Barnhart in the ADs all across the country are going to have to decide how they distribute their money. Would you rather make it to where UK basketball is playing with one hand behind their back so that football gets the equal amount of money or do you want to say look

we're at a disadvantage in football anyway let's make sure we can win a national title in basketball I mean to put it a different way if all at SEC schools hang on let me finish Jerry Jerry it's not the Jerry show it's KSR if it's $14 million to football

$3 million to basketball you would rather go 14-3 or would you rather do 12-5 so that basketball has a chance to win with the theory of we can spend 14 in football and we're still going to be worse than the other teams. Okay, speaking as a football fan, I'd rather see the football get what they need. But let me say this, football fans in Kentucky have been getting their swift kick of the nuts over football for 70 years. In the last 40 years, we've had to sit back and watch those bird brain courts up the road

better manage their football program than we have mostly, except for the last 10 years. The last 10 years, they've worked their tail-ins off to get football on even-loved basketball and to where we're playing the SEC with the SEC roster. That's about to end with that idea. Now, do I understand it? Yes. But until that changes either through a national body, however you want to create it, that sets limits on this, it sets reasonable limits on this money,

money. They have set limits. Kentucky doesn't do that. You can forget about Kentucky football. I appreciate it's called. They have set limits. It's just the case, Ryan, that UK basketball is saying, we want to make the decision in-house at UK what we focus on

rather than have the SEC tell us what we have to focus on. The example you threw out the other day, Villanova, Connecticut, Kansas, these schools, we compete against recruiting and on the floor. They're going to spend a lot more money on basketball than we are. So we've got to try to compensate somewhere, don't we? Look, I can under it's like, I think the economic term, I'm not an economics, like, you know, I'm not, I don't know it completely. But I think the term is marginal value. And I think the idea is, you know, what is the difference between a Kentucky football team that spends 12 versus 14?

There is going to be a difference. But how big a difference is it? But the difference between a Kentucky basketball team that spins three and five might be huge. And I think the theory is do we just take the little hit on football to ensure we can compete for a title in basketball? Because honestly, we ain't going to compete for a title in football no matter what we do. That's the theory. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but I think that they're coming from. And I agree.

But I guess there's guys like Jerry that are diehard football fans that that kind of doesn't sit well with them, that they're going to, you know, What would you do? I think at Kentucky, Kentucky is a special situation. You're in the SEC, you've got to compete against the top of the top in football, but yet your basketball is the one that kind of drives the car. So I think you've got to give more money to basketball. If there wasn't a Big East where Villanova, St. John's Connecticut, can spend whatever they want.

And if there wasn't a Duke, who Duke's going to spend more money on basketball, Kansas is going to spend more money on basketball. If you want to compete with those teams, I feel like you've got to do it. I feel like you got to, because I don't say this to be rude. We can spend 14. We can spend all 20 on football. I still don't think we're going to beat Alabama and Georgia. You know?

You're not wrong. I mean, that's just, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe if we did. It'd be it once in a while, but not on a continual basis. But for all the reasons I've always said, we don't produce players here, etc. Now, one of my excuses for football has always been we don't produce recruits in Kentucky. I do think that excuse goes away a little bit in the money here. Yeah.

Kids will be a lot more willing to travel if you've got more money. Very true. And the argument, and I'm not saying I believe this, because I think Vince has a lot of ability. But part of the argument people will tell you as to why losing Vince doesn't matter as much as it did a few years ago is. At this point, people are going where the money is anyway. The personal relationships may not be as important as what they once were. We'll see. I don't know.

It may be a guy like Wondell Robinson leave and then Vince was able to convince him to come back. then certainly was able to do things like that. We'll see, but would Wondell still come here if he could have made $500,000 more somewhere else? True. I don't know. At UK Federal Credit Union, we understand that home is where the heart is, but it's also where the equity is. With our market lending home equity line of credit, you can improve your home and take advantage of rates as low as 6.5% APR. No annual fees, no closing cost, and you can draw your funds only when you need them.

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A couple breaking news things here, Shannon. Running on, nah. First of all, the NCAA has ruled against Zichai Ziegler. Will not give him another, or excuse me, courts have. Federal courts. He will not get another year of eligibility. That's the first court that, by the way, yes. Get a job, Zikai.

That's the first court, though, that's ruled you can't do more than four years. That's what he was arguing. It should not be able to play college basketball as long as I want. The first federal court has said no. Now, some bad news. They're having a House hearing right now on a bill to codify NCAA, like the rules about NIL. Yeah. And apparently it's not going well because it's becoming like partisan arguing.

The House, this is just my opinion, the House of Representatives, which is already seems like a disaster, just needs to get out of it. Okay. They need to get out of it. This is a bill that cannot pass unless it's bipartisan. Has to have 60 votes in the Senate, which means Democrats have to agree. The House needs to get out of it because the House, all they do is fight. I know I never thought I'd say this, but let Ted Cruz and Cory Booker do their thing. Whoa.

Stay out of it. No, I'm serious. If it becomes a political issue, this is dead. If it becomes Republicans think this, Democrats think this, we're done. It will not pass in today's climate, especially with elections coming. but if the politics will stay out of it and they just try to fix college sports which I can't believe I'm saying this

but I believe it I do think Cory Booker and Ted Cruz want to do that stay out of it House of Representatives let them do it and then because when you get it in there with the AOCs and Marjorie Taylor Green screaming at each other it's not going to happen so I hope they stay out of it or otherwise

because if it becomes partisan it will not pass it just won't and then we're going to be stuck in this, who knows what happens. So based on what you just said, do you think this will get fixed? Well, I don't like to hear that. I was hoping, I didn't know there was going to be a house hearing. I was hoping they'd stay out of it because they can only make it worse. It's one of these weird things where the best system is to do it behind closed doors,

come out with both sides of green, and then that's really the only way it's going to work. And it seemed like the other thing was progressing in the right direction on this. It was. UK football announced Texas and Tennessee games will be at 9th. night. Yes. The home game, and they're both here. Yes. October nights, also Keenland double weekend. So you could go to Keenland during the game. The football game is at night. I mean, both those games are going to be big uphill battles to win. But I guess if we're going to win, having them at night is better, right?

I think if you've got a chance to beat either one of those teams, your best chance would be at night when things just kind of crazy can happen in a college football game. So that means Kentucky will only have, by my count, two day games. home. So the first games at noon, the very first one, and then the game at the end of the year where we play at Tennessee Martin is. But Ole Miss is at 3.30,

the eastern whatever's at night, Tennessee's at night, Texas is at night, and then Florida. Is that who the other one? That's the other home game. I think it's at night as well. So we're going to have night games for all of our stuff. You've got to think that gives you a better chance, doesn't it? There's just

what? The one to watch is Florida and November at night. We've not played that. They've not had to come up here when it was cold. Like, since when? Since the 80s? Yeah. Back in those days, they'd even put Florida in the other side of the field in the shade where it was even colder than the other side. Well, now they, like, you know, we've played them in September forever. And so they've never had to come here when it was cold. If you look at Florida schedule, they've never had to play anybody when it's cold. It's almost like the SEC would make it to where they didn't have to go to Missouri.

Kentucky or Tennessee when it was cold. They'll be coming here on a November night when in theory it could be cold. Freddie used to grab about that all the time. Why is Florida coming up here in September? Make them come up here in November when it's cold. They play all those... The northern teams like that.

That's crazy. So they're finally going to do it. Does that make you give you any more confidence that the Tennessee and Texas games are at night? It gives me a little more confident that something crazy could happen, that they could possibly pull one out of those. Oh? Maybe.

Shannon? Do you think that's possible? No. Okay. I don't think it matters when you play it, to be honest with you. You can play in the morning, afternoon. I'm trying to give some positivity after the days of this morning. Krogerfield, it's going to be all orange on those two games.

I'm worried about the Texas one. You know, they've never been here. When it gets around their fan base that they can go to Keenlin and then come up here and they've never played here. They have a huge fan base with a ton of money. I could see them flooding this. Me too. I mean, I could see them absolutely flooding this city.

for that game. Yeah, even the Tennessee game. I think we've seen Tennessee kind of start to take over our stadium once in a while. So that does worry me a little bit. We'll take a break. Be right back, Dan Skirka, the coach of Murray State. Going to the College World Series is next. 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 here live in Lexington. Heritage Place. It's place out here in, what'd you call it? Is this Palomar, Beaumont? Close to Beaumont. Close to Beaumont? West side of town. Yes. Dan Skirke, you said is where, Shannon? Currently on another radio show. So I asked if maybe we could have them at 1145, our next segment.

And we got bumped? We got bumped for another show. Yeah, he's currently on another show. Now, you're the one to book this. How did you let that happen? So he was going on at the other show at 1115, was scheduled to be off and get on with us at 1130. So it doesn't seem like that's happening. Yeah. I would try him again. I think we're good now. You think we're good now? I just talked to the guy 10 seconds ago.

Well, Shannon said he's trying to try him again. Okay. Try him again. All right. Before you do that, put on a call while you're doing it. Who's next? All right. Let's go to Johnny.

Johnny, go ahead, Johnny. Hey, Matt. I got two questions for you. Yes. So in my opinion, BBN should be rooting for Cal in the Arkansas and Louisville game. for the SEC challenge, but I know that you had more of a peculiar relationship with Cal. Who are you personally rooting for in that game? That's a great question.

So I appreciate to call. Arkansas draws Louisville in the SEC ACC Challenge, or I misspelled that on Twitter. Really? What did you put? I might have put SEC-A-C-Challenge. That's a different kind of challenge. Different kind of challenge. Shannon, that's ringing on the phone.

just realized that. Okay. I would have liked for you to have done that live on the air. It's a good question. You're pulling for Louisville or Arkansas? So you got Pat Kelsey's going down to Fayetteville. Who are you cheering for in that game? I cannot, cannot cheer for Louisville.

Even though it's Cal, I'm cheering for him. It's the challenge. I'm cheering for Cal in Arkansas. Man. I can't cheer for Louisville. I don't know. That's tough. Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, in general, I would definitely cheer for Arkansas. Yeah. What's your argument to cheer for Louisville? I mean, I should cheer for Arkansas, but I don't know. I can't, I mean, yeah. I don't know. I guess I'll cheer for Arkansas, but it's kind of begrudgingly because I, it is very important to me that Mark do better than Cal. Yes.

You know, and we're going to have to play Louisville a couple weeks after they do, and we have to go there. And I really don't like the idea that he might win down there, and we might lose at Louisville, which is plausible this year because we're playing on their home court this year. It's plausible. So, yeah, I mean, I guess I'll cheer for Arkansas, but I'll kind of be hoping that the game ends in a tie, which is very rare in college basketball, but maybe it will. Because, you know, Arkansas, we had a couple of ties. We kind of like Big Z, but he's gone. Adieu, but he's going. DJ Wagner will still be there.

That's really the only one. And the assistant coaches and Cal. You're cheering for Bruiser. You've got a soft spot in your heart for Bruiser and Chin. I do not, but I don't have any soft spot whatsoever for Louisville. Nowhere. Yeah, I guess I'll cheer for Arkansas, but I don't know that I want to. All right.

Shannon, how did Ryan said the second phone call would work? Did that work? No, he's still not ready, Ryan. Still not ready. No. No. Must be a long-winded radio interview. He said the producer for the other show took him longer,

didn't tell him how long it was going to be, maybe a lot about how long they were going to keep them. Now they're hanging on to him. He should hang up on him. All right. So you remember how we were talking about with Vince and Vince and Mark? Remember how we were talking about that hurt feelings can play a role in things, right? People are almost human.

I thought about this yesterday. You know, Rand Paul is a senator from Kentucky. Yes. He's probably been one of Donald Trump's biggest supporters over the years. They've, like, hung together through thick and thin. But did you know that there's a White House picnic that happens every year? Did you know there was a White House picnic? They have a picnic for the people, for the Congress people, can come and bring their families,

and it's a picnic on the White House lawn. They've been doing it for, like, 100 years. I guess that's nice, right? Very nice. It's bipartisan. In theory, everybody can come. Rand Paul, you may have seen made a criticism of Trump earlier this week about having the parade and all this. Trump disinvited Rand Paul to the picnic.

Specifically, disinvited Rand Paul and his family. He was planning on bringing his grandkids to play on the lawn. So Rand Paul yesterday did this interview, and he goes, this is the pettiest thing I've ever heard, making it to where my grandkids cannot come to the White House. And I was thinking about myself, over these years, remember we talked about how he called Rand Paul Ugly, said his hair was awful, you know, did all this stuff. The thing that got him was his grandkids don't get to go to the picnic.

And I thought about it, and I was like, you know what, Ryan? That seems ridiculous, but it also shows how at the end of the day, it's still just people. It's still because, like, I was thinking about you, you'd get madder about somebody not letting your grandkids come to a picnic than you would anything else.

Make fun of my hair, call me shorts, don't do that. My beautiful flowing hair I've got, don't mess with my grandkids. That's hands off. You're not going to hurt my grandkids. I'm grandpa, man. Don't want to hurt my grandkids.

But you don't have any great kids. Not yet. Okay. But if you did, if I did, you'd be very offended if they didn't get to go to the... I understand Rand Paul's frustration and hurt.

Okay. All right. So we did have a couple people who had questions. So since we're waiting on. Come on up here. You can get on that microphone right there. All right. Here we go.

Just putting it right there. Put that headset on. And just give me, first of all, when you put it on, there you go. Put it over your head. Give me your name. Put the microphone down there. There you go. Janet.

Say it again. Your name was what? Janet. Janet. Where are you from, Janet? I live here. You live right here. well down the road oh i didn't mean in their house that would be kind of strange okay but but you live

in the community all right so what is your question jane so there is i'm excited that otega oway is coming back yes and there is an oa chant there is i don't know exactly what it is would you like to practice no i would not but i would like to tell you what i think it should be okay Gloria Estefan, the rhythm's going to get you. Uh-huh. That O-A-O-A chant, that should be the chant. Well, what is that one? It's, well, I'm not going to sing it.

Well, no, you can't suggest a chant, Janet. Don't you agree, Ryan? She can't suggest a chant and not do it. How can we, you know, sample it if we don't understand what it is? Yeah, you got to teach me the chant. I don't know it. All right, okay. Here we go.

You got to promise to not make fun of me, though. Have I ever made fun of anyone? Yes, all right. Facebook, yesterday? day. Okay. I don't remember who it was, but they probably deserved it. All right, go ahead. Okay, so it's the Gloria Estefan song. Uh-huh. The rhythm's going to get you, and they say, away, away, away, oh, way, away. That should be. Wait a minute, hang on. You guys don't get shy now. Come on, Heritage Place. Here we go. Do it again.

Away, oh, way, away, oh, way, oh, way. Look at that. Well done. Wow. Wow. Thank you. very much for that. What do you think? Is that better than mine? Away, away, away, away, away. Or is it just going to be like an age thing where the younger ones are doing that and the older folks are doing Gloria Stephon? We tried. No, wait a minute. That is not a criticism. That is not a criticism. The student section was doing the other. That is not a criticism. You got up and saying, I'm on your side, but I'm just saying, which one would you prefer? We tried all year to get yours going and it finally caught on with like two games finally at the very end it caught on so i i'd like to keep i'll tell you what i'll leave it up to mario which one should you do which one do you want to go

we'll put you on the spot here you like the new way okay look at him look at him playing to the crowd shannon he's like he's yeah he's like a wrestler he can't he can't he can't do it he has to he loses this thing right who was our other one we said we have one more no he's not going to do it all right well, they get nervous. It's all right. You know what? It happens sometimes. Let's do cornbread hemp.

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Or you can get it on podcast tonight. Last night, I sort of talked about some of the events going on in America right now. And I had Billy on Shannon to listen to Billy's opinions about today. It was very interesting. Billy did a good job. I'm going to give him credit. Billy's solving the world's problems. I got to hear that. Yeah. No, so we'll talk. Some stuff that I don't feel comfortable talking about on this show because it makes people mad. But we do that. It's at 6 o'clock, 840 WHS or on the Matt

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A good thing to do this weekend. And then the camps, lexporting. com slash camps. Dan Skirka, Coach of Murray State joins us. Dan last, yeah, first give him a big round of applause, everybody. Nice. Going to the College World Series. Dan, we had you on last week.

We just called you up and got you. Now you got interviews so much. You were going to be last segment. Now you're this one. This has got to been a crazy run. ride for you, right? Unbelievable. I mean, you can't describe it.

It doesn't feel real. We're enjoying it. We're soaking it all in. But we are excited. So, yeah, I mean, that's got to be. Well, first of all, I've got to go back to Monday, because I enjoyed that so much watching you guys. I've watched more Murray State baseball than I've watched any baseball team, except the Reds

in about five years. It's five to four. get the interference call. There's a dog pile in the center of the thing. And then they say to you, hey, everybody, get up, tuck your shirt in. You got to do it again. Tell me what that's like for you as a manager. Oh, man.

Well, you know, the play, I'm an infield coach. I love it. I instructed, I, you know, go around the country, you know, presenting. And I'm watching the play. My second baseman did it right. I mean, he cleared the sliding zone, you know, had a good seed from the shortstop, made the play, I saw the interference. I did not think in real time, I'm like, he ain't calling that.

You know, I just thought in that moment, you know, it's like pass interference at the end of the game, right? You just, you know, sometimes they call it. Usually they don't call it or, you know, that foul they kind of play on, right? They tuck the whistle at the end of the game. I did not think it was going to get called. And then sure enough, he did call it. I was like, that's the right call.

And then, you know, we went crazy. There's people everywhere. We're, you know, hugging, celebrating. There's hats and gloves and sunglasses flying. around and then yeah the umpire finally got our attention and said they were challenging and yeah i had to tell my guys get off the field and the looks on their faces were just like you got to be kidding me just to have to do that um it's amazing you know it makes the story that much better but it was wild i mean our hearts you know during that review was just it was crazy and and then

you know for our guys to go out and do that after that you know to go back out and get that last out It's amazing. I'm so proud of it. Well, it was very exciting, and this is one of the great underdog stories of all time. But I'm sure you tell your team you're not an underdog, right? Yes, you're going to Omaha, but you deserve to be there as much as anybody else. And they also kind of put you in the hard bracket as well down there. But I'm sure that's what you're telling your guys, right?

Yeah, I mean, 100%. We've put in the work. These guys, I mean, from day one, you know, just assembling the roster with 28 news, newcomers this year. And in the fall, you know, we weren't very good in the fall, but they put in the work, you know, weight room, classroom, and then obviously on the field. These guys love the game and they've prepared for these moments and that's what we told them, you know, to try to ignore the distractions because there's a lot of distractions right now,

but to play ball, to have fun and compete the way they always have. And there are plenty, plenty good enough. And I think to go to Ole Miss, you know, two weeks ago that gave them the confidence. and then obviously Duke was a really good team, a prestigious team, a bunch of really good players, good coaches. But they were confident that they could not just play with them, but that we could win that thing and get here to Omaha. Well, you did it for those of us who still hate Lightner.

So thank you very much for doing that. So now you get to Omaha. I assume you've been to Omaha for the College World Series, I'm sure. Have you been there just to the environment and all that? So to be honest with you, I want to be honest with you. I wanted to earn my first trip. I have never been out here. Yeah, I just, you know, some buddies have come out here

and now that, you know, my son's nine. You got to take your kid out there. It's once in a lot. And I just said, man, I just want to earn that first one. And when we pulled up yesterday to see the stadium and to see our banner hanging on the stadium, I mean, I mean, just unbelievable. So I've been there. I went a few years ago when I didn't.

didn't care who the teams were. And I kind of just didn't because people are like, oh, you ought to go. And I thought, well, whatever. And I went and I had the most fun. I mean, it was just people everywhere. The city embraces it. I mean, I know you're going there to win.

But you do have to take a minute, right, and go, this is amazing that I'm a part of this. Yeah, we got here yesterday, and it hasn't filled in yet with all the fans and media and everything yet. But I think the biggest thing, you know, with the stars kind of aligned on Monday for our game to be the 7 o'clock primetime game. You know, a couple series had to finish, and they did. You know, we played at noon basically at 1 o'clock Saturday and Sunday, and we were sitting around Sunday night waiting to find out what time we were going to play. And then when we got the 7 o'clock game, you know, like yourself, a lot of people all over the country got a chance to watch that game and see our story.

and, you know, I was just walking around the block last night with my wife just wearing a Murray State shirt like I always do, but everybody was kind of, you know, congratulating and pointing and took a couple pictures, and it's like, holy cow, this is real. We're going to have a lot of fun. Oh, you're going to be the local favorite. I mean, you are, they always, when Stony Brook went a few years ago, that was the year I went, was when Stony Brook. Okay. And there was no doubt the city was for Stony Brook. You're going to have. have that. I mean, you've been playing these road games. I think sometimes, especially when you play

UCLA, I think you're going to feel like the home team in there, coach. Well, that will be, that will be different because the LSU and Arkansas might be different. Yeah, the LSU in Arkansas might be different. All right, so I just got a minute or two. I got to ask you a couple questions. Do you mow the grass at the stadium? I saw that going around. Do you mow the grass? I do not. I do not. I don't know where that started. I told you, Shannon. I knew he didn't. I knew he didn't. I knew he didn't mow the grass. I'd like to some days to get away from everything else. I would love to.

But no, they don't let me do that. So tell me last thing here. Your kids, all right, who I'm sure everybody believes, but I'm sure deep in their hearts, I don't know if they thought this would happen, certainly when the season started, maybe even when the playoffs started. What's it like for them right now before this big time?

Man, you can't wipe the stuff off their faces. You know, Nike and Evo Shield came. and spoiled them this morning with their with their Omaha gear and just to to earn all that stuff you know it wasn't just handed to us you know in August when they showed up on campus like they've earned they've earned all this gear and all these videos and all the attention and interviews and podcasts getting on these graphics with some of these other programs you know they've earned and I think that just I just I think they

realize that it's a great group of guys they really are if you're looking for somebody to root for it they really really are a great group So it just means the world to them. I mean, it really does. It's awesome. Well, you should tell, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Paul Skeens, Will Clark, and now the Murray State racers there in Omaha. Good luck this weekend, Coach.

We'll be pulling for you. Thank you very much. Appreciate y'all having me off. There you go. How about that? How awesome is that? Thank you to Coach Skirka. And, hey, thank you all very much for having us here.

First time we've done this and everybody else going to have a hard standard to meet for home hosting. Thank you all. We very much appreciate it. Tomorrow we will be at the U.S. Army 250th anniversary. Sir Barton Way, what's the number? Yes. All right, yes. We'll have it online.

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