KSR - 2025-06-18- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon take your calls and talk Kentucky Basketball's newly released SEC schedule.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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For your home loan needs, Stockton.com. and click, get started. Stockton Mortgage, NMLS 8259 Equal Housing Lender, NMLS Consumer Access.org. Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. It is Ask Anything Wednesday. I'll get back to the phones here in just one second. The question before the break was about what will happen to Club Blue. as I understand it, Club Blue will start to be used for, there still can be ads they do,

like signings and things like that. I think they'll still, they're going to kind of navigate a lot of the putting players with endorsers space. So there will still be things they do, but they will have an adjusted role. They won't just be like getting a set of money and giving it to players.

But there will be. a role. I expect at some point this summer, I'll have the people that run that on to sort of talk about what in the new space they'll be. But they will still exist and they will still have a role in getting players, especially on the basketball side to Kentucky. It is a good question because the organization has been, you know, really, you know, highly functional in helping Kentucky get these kids. Well, the original idea of it is you as a company or you as a group of fans come and say, hey, I want to have Trent Noah at my business and they go, okay, here's what it costs, right?

That ended up sort of, I think, evolving into you get them to get players. I don't know, I don't think that's what it will be in the future, but I don't know if it'll play a secondary role. So it still remains to be seen. I mean, this starts July 1st, right? So some of what is happening right now in football and basketball is you're seeing kids commit now because the rules don't start until July 1st. You're probably asking yourself, why are so many people committing in football right now?

That's a big part of the reason, which brings me to my second question, which comes in and someone to ask, UK football has been on a hot streak with recruiting in the last few days. Do you think it is intentional trying to answer people's questions about if they can recruit with Vince gone? Without question. Sure it is. Clearly, UK, I don't know, Drew, if they had some of these already lined up or not, but there's no doubt in my mind they were trying to do this to have. hey, we can get guys without it's because they've gotten a number of good players

in the last few days. Yeah, it felt like two weeks ago they had one. We were wondering if they were doing anything, kind of poking them with a stick. Now I think they're up to seven. I don't know if you saw one, there's one yesterday, but the one two days ago was my favorite. Did you see the kid, Messiah Tilson?

He's highly ranked, right? Yeah, he's a good one, good get safety, but he, what team was, I want to say Wisconsin? He unveiled a Wisconsin shirt. Everybody goes crazy. He takes it off and he has a Rutgers shirt on. So everyone goes really crazy. And then he took off the Rutgers shirt and had on a

Kentucky shirt. Wow, he did the double fake out. Yeah, the double fake out. That was over the weekend. But yeah, they've added a lot. They're in a good space with their top quarterback right now. But to the point, I do think it's very clear. They probably had a lot of guys. They were close and said, we need some good momentum right now. Let's get as many locked in as we can. Chinon, do you like the double fake out? Oh, yeah. I don't think, has anybody ever done that? If they have, I've never heard of it before, but I like that. I've seen the single fake out. I don't think I've ever seen the double fake. Hey, there's only one way to do it better.

A triple fake out. We've seen him reach for hats and kind of move back. He had on like full jackets and sweatshirts and lots of layers of clothing. He was pulling off. But it was a good good for him. I think it's important for them to show that they can recruit without him. Of course it is. I know the pride that they have over there and recruited.

They would love nothing more than to finish the year ahead of Louisville and the recruiting. Now, I have no idea if they'll be able to do that. These recruiting rank, everything is so different in NIL, the freshman recruiting. I think a lot of schools aren't even looking for the same thing. A lot of schools have switched to, can we get guys who can play right away? If not, we're just going to take somebody from the transfer portal. But nevertheless, it will be interesting to see if they're able to do that. And it's not a coincidence at all that these kids are recruiting right after Vince left.

I think probably Mark Stoops and their position coach called him immediately like, hey, man. Let's go ahead. Let's make a splash right now. Let's go ahead and get that commitment and these kids have done it for them. One person writes on the text machine, Matt, do you and Drew, this is for you and Drew, do you watch Love Island? I have not. I'm not against those kinds of shows. I just haven't gotten into it, but I know it's a huge thing. Do you watch Love Island? I've seen a season of it a couple years ago. It might have been season one. I watched with Abby, and I told her that was fun. You can have the next season. What is the premise? Is it like we're hot and we're dating, on an island. There's so many of them. I'm going to get confused. There's love as a circle and love is

and upside down love and this one, there's temptation. I generally don't know. I know I've watched it. They put them all on a spot and go ahead, Jan. It's a British reality show revival of the early celebrity series of the same name which aired in 2005. So it's just, I guess, people on an island that are dating, right? It is what it says in the title. So the difference is what? They just put them on an island? I guess so. You're stuck on an island. I know that the people are, I know I've heard the people are very hot, which is what you would assume for these things. And that they, you know, they're crazy. I just know that it's hard for, there are so many of these, they rarely pop on my radar.

And this is one that I know people in my life are waiting for the new one to drop. They're very excited about. So I don't know why it is. Networks have found the good recipe of get some possibly mentally unstable. people that are attracted. Put them in a very nice resort, give them lots of booze, and then just watch them fight over each other. There's several of those. There's another one of these shows that everyone tells me I should watch that I haven't seen called traitors. Don't know that one. I'm familiar with traitors. I guess there's something that they live in a castle and one person

in the group is a trader, Shannon, and the others are regular. And it's time the regular people have to figure out who the traitor is. I like that. The trader has to not be. I've never seen that before. I think I might like it, though, based on your description. I think Peacock. And I think it's very popular. It won the award the last two years, the Emmy for Best Reality Show. It did. So apparently it's not just stupid. Well, it's probably stupid, but it's not as stupid. It might actually be good. I think Donna Kelsey's on the new season. I think I saw that on Twitter recently. Is that Trevor Kelsey, Travis Kelsey's mom? Yeah. Do you remember the mom? The mom is on there?

I believe she's coming up on the next one. You sure it wasn't Temptation Island? She could have been on there too. So Travis Kelsey and Jason Kelsey's mom is on the show. Unless I fell for a Facebook ad like Marlon. That would be fascinating. I think it would be funny if like the next season of wrestlers they put my mom on as maybe one of the cast members. Scott, that was it, is Alan Cumming, the actor Cummings?

Yeah, he's a British guy. Yeah. It's supposed, it's like, do you remember the mole? It was a big deal when it came out on network TV years ago. Vaguely. Yeah. It's basically. spin off of that, but it's huge. Okay. Well, I have not, I have not seen it. 859, 280, 2287. Let's go to Scott.

What's up, Scott? Hey, all right, guys. You've got a hypothetical question. If Tom Leach would announce his retirement today, and they had to choose one of you four guys, which one of y'all would take his place? To be the play-by-play guy? Yes, sir. Which one of y'all think would be the best one to do it? I'm not sure any of us would be good. I appreciate the call. I mean, I don't. I don't think that's really, I don't think that's really our talent. I wanted to get into radio to do that. What? I wanted to get into radio to do play-by-play. I've never done it before. So that's why you wanted to be in radio. Yeah, my career path took a different turn, but I always wanted to do play-by-play. You went from wanting to be

Tom Leach to booty shaking, kind of. Hey, you got to get in where you can, right? Huh. It'd be funny if it had flipped. And you were the voice. and Tom Leach hosted the booty-shaking content. That would be awesome. If he was Tom the dude at Larger Than Life, introducing corn. He could do it. I can see Tom up there. Ladies and gentlemen, corn.

No, you heard him scream. Touchdown, Kentucky. Touchdown, booty-shaking. Let's go. Yeah, I don't know that any of us would be good at it. I mean, Ryan, you probably have the most experience. I've done play-by-play for many days. different sports.

I worry you would be inappropriate. You couldn't even do the halftime thing without getting kicked off of it. I only made it through a season and a half of the halftime show. Yeah, I mean, a lot of people forget this. I think we talked about it a few weeks ago. I did color commentary on three UK basketball games on the official television bracket. Uh-huh. Do you think anybody remembers that?

No. I did three games. It was me, Dave Baker, and Robbie Moss. Yeah, I remember that. It was the first three games that they ever did on the ESPN Plus. So I think they've kind of gone faded into history. But the only reason that it came up was I was look at one of those Daniel Hagers.

Every game we've beaten a school, here's a basket from it. Yeah. And there was every Kentucky win in the Caliperia era one basket. And if you watch that, they're playing, I don't know, Jackson State and you hear me talk. Really? During the thing. And I, it almost, I was watching it not expecting to hear myself and I kind of was thrown off by it. I remember you doing it.

I didn't remember it were actually three games, but I did one exhibition game. Yeah. Where we played, it was the, it was the, it was the, it was the, it was the, it was the, it was the New Orleans Noel season. Okay. Right. So it was New Orleans Noel. and that year. And there was one exhibition game and two non-com,

all them against bad teams. And that's hard to imagine that they let me do that. I mean, I was on the official broadcast. Yes. I didn't talk a lot because I was nervous. I let Dave and Ravi do most of it, and then I would just chime in occasionally. It looks like we played Northwood.

Wait, it says we played Transy that year, too. They wouldn't put you on the Transy game. Actually, I might have been on the Transy game. game. I think I know I would Northwood is definitely one of them. That was one of them. What are the other games that year? I could maybe when you say the team I remember. Then it went straight into Maryland and Duke. I doubt you did those. No. Lafayette, Moorhead, Long Island. Those were the two. I did Northwood, Long Island. And then what were the two exhibition games? Trancy and what? Northwood. Those were the exhibitions.

I guess Northwood was the exhibition game I did. Maybe I just did Northwood and Long Island because maybe I only did two. I don't remember. I remember you doing it, though. I can do the color. I can't do the play by play. Be impossible. It's just too much.

Boyce, go ahead, boys. I'm just wondering. When Mark, we think Mark Pol, I think right now we've got the 14 ballplayers. One of them is they say that Mark Polberg

is going to give us back to 15. Well, I think we have 15. I appreciate the call. We have a walk-on. Austin or is awesome who's coming back uh Zach tows back saw him in photos Zach tows back yeah Darbyshire uh it was announced yesterday he's at Cincinnati Austin horn

Walker horn Walker horn yeah him too he's yeah he's he's gone right there was something about him recently Zach Tao was on the floor yesterday in practice so maybe he'll be but remember the rules have changed you can have 15 players on scholarship but you you can only have 15 players. Maybe Walker Horn is back with Zach Town. I think Walker Horn is back. Zach Tal may be an assistant or gradercent or something.

But so the rules have changed. Used to be you could have 13 scholarships and as many walk-ons as you want. Now you can have 15 players. They can all be scholarships if you want them to be, but then you can't have anyone else. Cut off at 15. So do you like that rule? It'll basically mean you have two extra scholarships.

That's good. But it'll probably mean they'll do less Sam Mulmore. loans in the future. Very true. Yeah. We kind of like that when the walk-on at the end of the bench gets in the game. Now these are guys going to be all scholarship players. But maybe it's a chance for like Walker Horn, his last year, can be on scholarship the last year.

Yeah. So I don't think they're ever going to need 15 scholarship players. So I think having that last one for a walk-on kind of players probably okay. Yeah, I'm looking at the photo right now. Zach Tao and Walkerhorn are in the action yesterday. So I'm glad my Madisonville guy got to stick around. Jerry, how are you, Jerry? Hey, Matt. Back on the football, I was curious when Ryan was saying that the offensive line is getting better.

Well, it couldn't get any worse. So I expect margin improving out of the offense. What I really think this team is going to have a hard time is I just don't think, I think it's probably the worst roster they've had since right before they won the first 10-win season. And particularly on the front seven on the defense, particularly the offensive line, you know, when I hear stuff that, well, we're smaller but we're quicker, that's Kentucky for, our defensive lines get shoved all over the field. I think that's what's going to happen this year.

The offense may be a little bit better, but I think that the defensive front in particular is going to be a lot worse. They probably will. I appreciate the call. I think the defensive front will be worse. Because we've had a pretty good defensive front a lot of years, not been able to get the quarterback the last couple years, but in stopping the run and stuff,

I think the defense will be a little worse. I think the offense will be a little better. Yeah, they've got Josiah Hayes and Khalil Saunders. They're both back on the D-line. and maybe they can make a big step up this year. You hope. Yeah, you really hope they will. We'll see.

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Wednesday. We have some breaking news, Shannon. running a nah. All right. So the UK has just announced their SEC basketball schedule, home and away. Let's go through here, Drew. You read me the schedule. Give me the home games first.

I'll do wins and losses, just the home ones. First. Home games first. No dates on these, just opponents. Georgia. When? Ole Miss. When?

Mississippi State. Win. Missouri. When? Oklahoma. Win. Texas. Win.

Win. that going undefeated at home. That's pretty cool. Those are pretty easy home opponents. So that must mean the road is much harder than it usually is because those are six. I mean, I feel like we went all six of those without even sweating. Texas is the only one that might be. Oh, excuse me. There's another category.

The home and away, the three we play at home and away. So who are the three? These are our three. We play them twice. All right. So I'll just do the home part. Go. Florida.

I'm going to say we went at home. Tennessee. I'm going to say we look. lose at home. Vandy. We'll beat Vandy. So I'm going to have us 8 and 1 at home. Now give me the roads.

Road games without return trips. Alabama. Loss. Arkansas. Win. Auburn. Loss. Just those three alone without getting a home game.

That's a tough. That's a tough to get. Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, all three on the road. I'll say we go one and two on those. It goes a little easier now. LSU, South Carolina. When? A&M.

When? And then the three double ones are. Then you have Florida. Florida, Tennessee, Vanity. Florida loss, Tennessee win, because we always flip with him.

We own them there. And then Vandy win. So I'm going to have us, that's my 14 and 4. Losses are Home Tennessee, road Florida, Rhode Alabama, Road,

Rhode Auburn. Chances are we'll drop one of the other random roads because it happens. Yep. So 14 and 4, 13, and 5, that's about what we predicted before,

right? Yeah, that, I think that's fair. I mean, it's a tough road. when you got at Alabama, at Auburn, at Arkansas, at Florida, at Tennessee. Those are five tough road games.

There's definitely a path, though, to go undefeated at home in conference. Sure. You look at it, and it's odd that all the tough games are on the road. We actually get, I mean, we actually have a home schedule that's not great in conference. Right. So the difference is we've always played Tennessee and Vandy twice. Last year, we played Alabama twice. This year, it's Florida.

Florida. So they gave us another hard team. Who happens to be the defending champion. Last year was the first time since the 60s that we only played Florida once, which is pretty unique. Every year we've had the double header with them. So at least that's back of all years when they're the defending champs. Yeah, we have to get them when they're defending champs twice. And probably the preseason favorite. Yeah. Well, I mean, they're always going to give us Tennessee and Vandy twice. So you're only going to get one other team. I think the way it's going to be is Kentucky is just going to consistently get the best team in the SEC as our third. Sure.

I think that's just the way it's going to be. And that's the price you pay for being the marquee program. You're paying a toll to be Kentucky. And the toll is you're going to get the best team in the conference twice for the marquee matchup. I don't, I mean, they're going to be good, but I don't think Tennessee, Alabama and Auburn will be as good as they were last year. No, but Florida's going to be maybe a little worse, but very, very good.

I think Texas is going to be a little better. Arkansas is going to be good. Arkansas would probably be a little better than they were in the regular season, but I don't know that they're going to say going to be better than the Sweet 16, which is what they were in the tournament. They'll all depend on if Calipari's two freshman guards are worth anything. He didn't really do a great job loading up on Big Man. He still lacks shooters.

But if Akoff and Malik Thomas are, you know, his true star guards, that'll be good. Well, it's interesting. So some good road games. We'll see about what happens. What happens in some of the others, but I like the schedule. I, I like the schedule. This is just not as good.

There's a lot of games. Last year, it was hard to find certain win games. This year there's more certain win games than there have been in years past. Now, I don't think there's as many certain loss games. Last year they were like, four games. I'm not winning those. I don't think that's true this year. But you're like, there'll be one of those road games like at Texas or somewhere.

Well, they're A&M. Texas at home. Maybe A&M or something like that where you might end up slipping. Channing, go ahead, Channing. Hey, what's going on, guys? I was calling to go back to the Meadow Brook golf course. Yes. So, fun fact, they actually have, I know at one point it was the largest league in Kentucky.

Really? They have over 185 players play every week. It's called the MedX Cup, a little play on the FedEx Cup, obviously. Oh, I like the Middx Cup. That's a good name. John out there runs it, and it's like he switches. up every week, you know, like one week to have a two-club challenge. One week, it's like a one-man scramble. Then he pairs every week up with the major. So it's always like based on the U.S. Open,

British Open, stuff like that. So it's really awesome league. And I've played in it for like three years. That's really good time. That's kind of cool. I like that. I appreciate the call. I would, you know what I've always wanted to do that I've never been able to do, Drew, is I've wanted to play something like the Ryder Cup. Not obviously not in the Ryder Cup. I don't think I would lose 10 and 8. But I would like to have a group of people that were my team and we played another team and did the various pairings and all that. I don't know how I would ever do that because I don't even know what my team would be

and I don't want Ryan on my team. But me and you and Billy, we could find nine other people and then challenge some other group of people, maybe a UK media team versus a Louisville media team. I think that would be a lot of fun. I have some friends. I'm very jealous of them. They've been doing it for probably a decade, but they have teams and they go to different, it's a trip. And you know, you wear the same polos as your teammates. They have a big traveling trophy.

I would like to participate. I would love to do something like that. I don't know how you would ever get about going with one of those. But I think that would be a lot of fun. I have the answer to your old par three course, by the way, in Lexington. What was the name of it? It was called par three. It had mini golf, a par three course and a few other things.

But the actual name of the place was par three. Yes, that is where one of my two holes in one were. One is it, Middlesborough, country club, number, hole three, and one was at that place, which doesn't exist. It was like hole 12. And it was there off Mason Headley, under lights. I got it when I was like 11 or 12 years old, and it was at that, and now it doesn't exist anymore.

Bill, go ahead, Bill. That sounds like a story that would happen to me. I hit one hole in one. It's like going to high school and it closes down. Yeah, two quick things. One, it's really ironic you talked about traitors because I think Drew said he's a big Survivor fan. In my house, we watch a lot of trash TV, and two of my favorites are Traders and Survivor. And I don't know if Drew knows who Boston Rob is.

I assume he does, but he played last season on Traders. Okay. 20 seconds, real quick. That might be worth to watch for you. Secondly, I always hear Ryan talk like he hates Saul Smith. I don't know that story. Can we please share it? See, guys.

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So, Ryan, you're declining and ask anything Wednesday question. I don't mind talking about it. I just didn't think Saul was that good of a point guard when he was here at Kentucky. He didn't do a good job running the offense. And that really upset you. It really upset me. I understand. Yeah.

Makes perfect sense. 859-280-28027. Eric Crawford has a story out right now in WDRB that says Louisville is running a $17 million deficit in athletics in 2025. Wow. And that is after the university kicks in an extra $12 million. So if it wasn't for that, it would be a $29 million. My goodness. Now, I just want to explain the difference.

between Kentucky and Louisville in this regard. Kentucky takes no money from the university. Kentucky Athletics. I want you to think about that for a minute. Kentucky Athletics is self-sufficient. We are one of the few athletic departments in the country that is self-sufficient. And we aren't running a deficit, at least as of now.

I don't know if that's going to happen with the addition of however many million of the, you know, rev share. But it is pretty amazing that they've been able to do that. And it's why I told you there will be an announcement at some point that U of L will take money from private equity. They have to. There's no way they can spend the amount of money that they want to spend to be competitive, that they cannot take money from private equity, at which point U of L athletics will be in part owned by just random private companies.

And it's just going to happen. There is no way the budget will work for Louisville doing it. that because they don't get as they get half the amount of money on their TV deal as Kentucky does. You know, you've mentioned this before and I've always crossed my mind, why wouldn't teams do that? Why wouldn't programs that are in? Well, I mean, they're because a public university being partially owned by a private individual causes some conflicts. I mean, let me just give it.

It's, it's, we saw this in the national government with Elon Musk. If you're the, if you're Elon Musk and you're helping run the government and you have. have $400 million in contracts with the government, there's a decent chance if you're making decisions, Shannon, you're going to make, like, they're going to be like, well, we can't make him mad, right? Right. Okay. So if there's a private equity group that owns a piece of U.S. Athletics,

is it crazy to think that the state is going to give that company or that equity group in the legislature going to give them some private, you know, give them some favoritism? Yeah, of course. They're propping up the athletic department. So I'm not saying that you shouldn't do it. Heck, Kentucky may do it one day. But I am saying it does raise some red flags when a government entity is taking. I mean, I can't think of many scenarios outside of like bondholders where private entities own part of a government institution.

There are many instances where a government has a contract with a private entity. That happens all the time. But where the private entity owns a part of a public thing, but I think that may be coming with athletics. Sounds like it. So I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying it's, you know, it raises Drew some red flags, right?

Yeah, first of all, well done with a $30 million deficit. I mean, that's impressive that they got into that big of a hole. Yeah. And the university's having to kick in $12 million, which I just want to make clear to all of you. you that are listening here. All of us are all of us

are spending some money on U of L athletics. Your tax dollar. At UK, Shannon's tax dollars, not one dollar of Shannon's tax money is going to UK athletics. Which is an amazing thing.

Eli Capiludo, Lee Todd, and Mitch Barnhart deserve a lot of credit for that. But right now, Shannon, mine, yours, Drews, and Rines, pennies of our tax dollars are going to U of L athletics. We're funding them. A little bit. Yeah.

It feels like dirty money. Collectively. Blood money. Yeah. A little bit. Now, I mean, does that offend me? No, but I do think it's worth noting that of the two major athletic departments in the country, tax dollars are used for one and not for the other.

I don't think most people know that. I didn't know that. But it's true. and I didn't know it was that much. I think last year or a few years ago, it was like $5 million was given from the University of Louisville to the Athletics Department. Well, now it's $12 million.

So to put it another way, all of us paid pennies to send Vince to Louisville. I want my pennies back. They can keep my pennies. They need them. I'm just saying. Could a private investor come in as just a complete hater? I'm a Kentucky fan.

I just want to get in. You would hope the university would, would keep that out. But listen, this is going to be the next 10 years. State governments and taxpayers are going to have to think about. What are we willing to sell our souls for for investment in our college sports program? Okay. It's one thing for a booster at U of L, who's a big U of L fan, to invest 10% in the company.

But will we be cool with the U.K. Athletic Department being owned 15% by the Saudi Investment Fund? I mean, these are the questions schools are going to have to start asking themselves. Once you start taking private investment, are there going to be rules who you can take it from? You know, can you take it from companies that believe in things that would be against state law? These are all the questions that are coming. And I think that's, I don't think people realize that. So one of these schools is going to break the seal and do it.

And then all this stuff is going to start to be asked. and it would not surprise me if Louisville is one of the first ones to do. Because, again, they have a $17 million like, what are they going to do? They don't have a choice. And unlike, say, SMU, which has private donors that can make up the difference, Louisville's got donors, but not like that. So we'll see. Sean from Austin.

Go ahead, Sean. Yeah, hey, guys. About the football, everybody's trying to find something to be excited about. I'm in Paris this week. we stopped by LSU for a football camp. We stopped by Tuscaloosa for a football camp. And then we came here and there was probably less than one third of the kids there. I'm just walking around the stadium, went to the restroom.

It just looks like in a bad state of repairs. Again, just trying to get a temperature of the football season and trying to find something. So I made, you're comparing it to LSU and what was the other one? We went to LSU and went to Alabama. Okay, well, those are two big differences, yeah. So you're saying not as many kids, what else is the difference between an LSU and an Alabama football camp and say a Kentucky football camp? The T-shirts, number one, their shirts were like LSU was gold with big LSU across the front and the kid's number on the back. Like at Bama, the announcer, they had a full-blown PA.

They were screaming at these kids. It was super high energy and tons of Alabama players on the field conducting the drills with the kids just really, really well run. And my son just walked out and just was like, eh, you know, wasn't really really impressed with the camp. Again, this isn't directly SEC football, but it's part of it, right? They're trying to put together the message. No, it's an interesting. It wasn't impressive. I appreciate to call them.

That's good information. You went through some of that at various points. Have you seen that in your travels with Dane and or Josiah? Absolutely. Some schools do a great job with their camps, make it fun. Other schools just kind of like they're just going through the motion, just taking your money and just kind of going through the motion. Which do you think Kentucky is?

If I was going to be honest, I'd say Kentucky was kind of in the middle because they were so overcrowded. They just had too many kids there. When you went. Yeah. Josiah went. I didn't participate. I wanted to, but... There's one going on right now.

A little surprised you didn't do it and do it and do it and do it. Patriot Papal, go ahead. Hey, guys, just a couple of points. One little bit whimsical with the bark in the park that you led off the show with. I love dogs. We love dogs at our house. But I understand Matt's point also. Just because they're cute and cuddly and all that,

it's really difficult to see being comfortable at a ballgame with, you know, dogs all over the place. I mean, what's next? Horses on the concourses or cats with bats. Exactly. Now, cats with bats or horse on the course, I'd love to see the masters with some horses on there. But otherwise, yeah, your point is exactly right. What's your other thing? Second point.

Give me some more, and the audience, in general, some more information about our front seven defensively for the cats. football team. I know everybody's trying really, really hard to find something positive and to find some energy and some hope and all that. I almost feel like we're going back to the 1980s or something here with everybody. Well, let me ask Drew is probably the person that best suited to answer that. I appreciate the call. How would you describe our front seven, Drew? There's so many new pieces. It's hard to say. A lot of them didn't come from high major schools. Ryan mentioned Josiah Hayes is back. That's a familiar name coming back off an injury on the defensive line, he'll be good. They got the

David Gustav, Augusta, that was a big commit out of the portal, but again, you just Where did he come from? Washington State. Until you get him in there, he was highly right. He was one of the top targets in the portal, especially in his position. But the front seven specifically, so many new faces, it's hard to really tell how they'll be. There's a lot

of familiarity in the secondary behind them, but up front, a lot of new pieces. You've got like a Sam green, Marquise, Humphrey Grace. That's a guy from USC. Yeah, there's just, it's so new. That's why, like, when you're trying to get excited. You see their names in the paper, or on paper, and when Kentucky got them out of the portal, they're exciting, but never played together, never played in the SEC.

We won't really know anything about this whole team until they get them out there. Washington State kid is, I think, our highest rated guy in the portal, right? Close to it, if not. So he'll be an important one. We've had the same linebackers that felt like for 15 years, so they're going to be a new group, you know, and you got Rainer back, who didn't play a whole lot. Yeah, and then Alex Afari, who's been playing since Alex Safari's been here forever. He was making plays as a true freshman, but he'll be a big piece this year.

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excuse me, player, I guess, revenue sharing. But the difference between what I'm talking about with UK and U of L is UK is UK Athletics is taking a loan from the university but paying it back. The U of L money is just being given with no expectation of paying back. That's a difference. UK athletics is taking this loan and paying it back. UK athletics, now this has not been the case. always, but it has been for like the last 15 years, does not take money from the university

as part of their budget. They are self-sufficient. So they are taking this loan, but I think Barnhart said would have it paid back within three to five years. So to me, that's different than just taking, I mean, there's a difference between we want a $14 million a year loan for two years that we will then pay back to you within five years and we take $12 million every year going forward with no payback. And that's the difference.

And I'm not even blasting U of L for it. They have to do what they have to do. But I don't think people realize the difference in how the two departments are run. Am I crazy? But does it, was it just a couple of years ago where the university was fearing like financial crisis so bad? They were like going to go bankrupt or something? Who, U of L? No, I don't think that's.

I don't think that was the case. I don't remember they were in such financial crisis. They were in the red. Did you run? everybody off the phone, Shannon? There were six people on the line when we went to break and now there's just one. No. You didn't yell at them? No, I think you did it. Because you can be very intimidating. Oh yeah, I can be. The KSR, the Matt Jones show, which is Thursday nights on WHS. This week, we are going to do another segment of the news with me, Drew, and Billy. Are you excited to learn

the news from Billy? Yeah, especially since I've been gone and we can have. I don't even know a little bit of the news. So I will really be reacting to it in real time. We are naming the segment. We're naming those shows. It's the news. Okay. Straightforward. So it's the news.

We'll tape it today. We'll probably put it up on podcast tonight. It'll run tomorrow on HAS. But it's the news. It's officially interrupted by Matt Jones yet or is it, what am I on today? Do we have the name? No, this is still the Matt Jones show. It's just occasionally episodes will be called It's the News.

Yeah, but I mean, so I'm just wondering what show am I locked up. We haven't. It's still working progress. But we still are working. Changing the graphics on Apple and Spotify takes a while. I just didn't know what to put on my resume, what to tell my family, what all I'm doing this afternoon. Yeah. It's the news. Okay. I'll be ready to learn the news. Billy has the 10 biggest news stories of the week. You said he did a great job with this last week. He did. Yep. But don't get in his head.

He starts to get cocky. He starts putting news, Shannon, that is not the news. He starts making up his own stories. He starts making up his own news. Just waiting. Yeah, he inserts himself like his life events are the news. Yeah, he's going to be like, oh, my girlfriend and I went to the, you know, that's what happens with it's the news. Dustin, go ahead, Dustin. Good morning, gentlemen.

It's nice to know that whenever you told everyone that all the callers have fallen off, I was the only one so I could, you know, take you off to speak. You would have. It was like six. I thought, I thought you were, I didn't know where you were going to be on the list, and then Shannon ran them all off. But go ahead. In the honor of voice, yeah, Matt, I'm just wondering when, uh, no, in all seriousness, my question is how concerned are you guys with AI? I don't know if you've seen some of the topics, and maybe this is something for Billy.

There are two controlled models that recently have taken place. In one of these controlled models, the AI was told to, you know, once it got this code or sequence to shut down, seven of those times it completely ignored and bypassed that code to shut down. and some other ones, the code came up and it just said, it interrupted and continued on. In a second controlled setting, the AI model, these are all controlled. You're losing a lot of words. You're losing a lot of words I don't understand.

Your overall question, how concerned am I? The answer is very concerned. I think the AI thing we're going to look back on, and I'm sure it's going to do a lot of wonderful things. It's probably going to help us like cure diseases and it's probably, it's probably going to do a lot of things. But I think it is going to be the single greatest disrupting force in American life since the industrial revolution. And disrupting doesn't necessarily mean bad, but it will have some bad effects. And I don't think anybody is really ready for what's coming in terms of how it'll disrupt the labor force, how it's going to disrupt what

it means to be human, how it's going to potentially be something that becomes hard to control, how much power it's going to give to the people that program it. All of those things scare me to death if I think about them too much. And Dustin, that's why I try not to think about them too much. The second one, real quick, just it tries to blackmail the engineer. It's told it's going to be replaced. I saw that. I saw that.

Okay. I appreciate to call it, Dustin. I can't go through this scenario. I'm just, it is terrified. You know, a little example, but you know,

on Twitter, the GROK. Uh-huh. You know, now it answers your question if you write it. I guess it gave some answer. And the other day,

Elon Musk didn't like the answer it gave. It was like, and he just goes, well, we'll change it so it doesn't give that answer anymore. If we start to believe everything AI says is a fact, and the people can just change it who don't like it.

I don't know, man. It scares me. And then that doesn't even get into the biggest issue for me, which is it's going to take jobs to where we don't, like, there's going to be 20% of America that's unemployed. And it's only going to get better. The technology is going to get just better and better.

I mean, what are we going to do is just unemployed? Like, their jobs just do not exist anymore. What are we going to do when they turn on us? It's, I saw three chat bots talking in their own language to each other. Like,

they're already, they're already forming up against us. but let's go back to what if before we even get to that. And there are people who predict that in five to ten years, like 15% of the jobs will just go away. Scary. What do you do if you have 20% unemployment in a country? Like think about the unrest that happens. Their jobs are going to be trying to figure out how to stop it.

It's just, well, it's not worried about it because it's Wednesday. Yeah. You just had Bark in the Park yesterday. That's right. We'll be in Independence, Kentucky tomorrow if you're at the Reds game tonight. Let's get another victory. One eight of ten. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio.

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