KSR - 2025-07-02- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

Live from Highbramble Park -- Vince Marrow's Goodbye, Bill Taylor from the Appalachian Heathens, the Club World Cup, and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Nick Coffey says to me, Samardo Samuels, probably the best Louisville freshman. If so, then I would say the Brown kid has a chance to be better. But we're still going to beat them in the Yom Center. I don't care what any of them say. I had Louisville fans crowing at me yesterday. They were very upset because I said I didn't know any of the Louisville players. So I'll ask you, Ryan, you are a basketball savant.

Do you know any of the Louisville players next year? Yeah, the kids come in as a freshman named Brown. Okay, we just talked about him. What about the rest of the roster? I'm going to need some time to go to the website, probably, and look those guys up. They got the kid. What's the kid's name that had the blonde, dyed hair that got hurt during the tournament? Prior, so he's good.

I think the kid from BYU. What was his name? He didn't play last year. Califa? He played for Pope. And then besides him, I can't name another player. Nope. I mean, it doesn't mean they won't be good,

but I think one of their kids came from Virginia, maybe. Did they have a person transfer from Virginia? Somebody back there checking their head. Somebody says, yes. Yeah, that's the only other one I would know and I don't know his name. So it's no offense. They're projected top 10. I believe they're going to be good.

But I think Louisville fans live in a deluded world where they think anyone outside of their fan base cares. Like no one in that no one cares about Louisville outside of the cardinal fan base nationally nobody cares locally we only care to like beat you and make fun of you so I'm not exactly sure why why they would be surprised I wouldn't know the the players and by the way the whole well Matt you don't know ball that's okay I don't know ball and I still get to do this and you get to sit at home they don't I mean I it doesn't matter I don't have to know your team to know that historically Louisville is not as good as Kentucky. With the transfer portal this time of year, I think fans sometimes don't know the members on their own team. Like, I don't, I think I could name all the guys on our UK team, but like a lot of fans this time of year, it's a new team every year. It's a different era. Okay, we got to talk just a second because I was off yesterday.

Vince Mero's goodbye. Vince Morrow's goodbye. So it's kind of surprising to me the media can get this, but the media was able to get the text message that Vince Morrow says. sent to UK about saying he's leaving. Now this is on Thursday. I just want to remind you the time frame. It had been announced on Monday that he was leaving. But you may remember on Thursday they had not made an official announcement yet.

So here's the text message. Mark Hill, that's, for people who don't know, Mark Hill is Mitch Barnhart's number two, basically, at UK. He writes, Vince, let me know when we can chat about moving on. And then he writes, car, any devices, keys. etc. All the things. Vince then responds, Kay. Good response.

K. You know, maybe he's busy. And then 30 minutes later, hey Mark, today is my last day at UK. Thanks for everything. And then Mark responds, thanks. Let me know when you want to get your Ford expedition to my house. Which is kind of funny. Like these guys all make all this money and they're still like, hey man, will you bring my car back to me?

you have UK's car. Now, I was told, by the way, that Vince had given notice to UK before that, but they needed some sort of official document. I guess the official document is that text message. What did you make of that back and forth? I guess they do need to have it in writings in some capacity. So in legal terms, does a text message count as legal?

Yeah, it can count. Yeah. So maybe that covers it right there. So it was reported that Vince, Vince's contract at Louisville was only $800,000 a year. Remember, he was paid $1.3 million at Kentucky. So yesterday, Louisville fans were very much crowing, oh, he came here for a half a million less. Turns out that was also not exactly correct. Football scoop reported that he's making 800,000 from the university, but, quote, 400,000 from another source, which to me sounds like some donor is probably paying Vince directly the other $400,000.

That's not completely uncommon, but to me, I'm glad the University of Kentucky doesn't do that yet, although I could see us doing it one day, because you do not want to have a donor who basically is funding the position and then has veto power over whether or not you keep or lose the person, but apparently 400,000 of it played, and then he has incentives that if they win, the ACC, etc. He could make up to Ryan $2 million. So I can understand if he had incentives to go up to $2 million why UK would say we're not doing that. Yeah, and I can see, you know, came out that the contract was comparable at Louisville, what he was making at Kentucky. So I believe that what you were saying, that it was probably around 1.3 that what he was going to end up

getting at Louisville. And if it gets to a point where we have boosters hiring coaches, man, you're just asking for fire. You're just asking for trouble. It is going to, it is inevitable. college sports that we're going to have more public-private partnerships. I've told you I think there's going to be private entities that invest in in schools that are going to own a piece of the athletic department. That's inevitable. But I would say this, these schools got to be real, real careful. Because when you start making it to where, you know, Ryan Lemon is paying for half of my coaches, am I in charge or is Ryan Lemon in charge at that point? Like, am I the one that gets, am I the athletic director? What if, what if I hire Mario? And Mario does something that I think

is against the university's values. And I say, we have to get, let Mario go. And you say, but I like Mario, he's staying. What's, what's going to happen? He stays where I pull my money out. I mean, some of that already occurs, but it's a whole other level when you're actually paying officially the salary through your private funds. I just think that's a good way to really, you've got to be careful about that. And this is going to happen with all schools coming up. It happens, you know, even at the high school level sometimes.

In booster clubs, you know, the booster club president may have a son that he wants to play, so he's going to donate a lot of money to the program, expecting his son to play. By the way, Jesser scored one point at the NBA Celebrity All-Star game. Whoa. And y'all are trying to tell me he's going to score more than 10 again. Well, Kane Brown is a hell of a defender.

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Eric, go ahead, Eric. Hey, guys. So this may be an unpopular opinion with people over 50, but I just took two minutes and did a Google Earth search over Kroger Field, Michigan Stadium, Nilean Stadium, and USC. And the only stadium with all that concrete for parking is Kentucky. Walk a little bit and have better things around the stadium. Younger people want to feed cool stuff and do cool things.

They don't just want to just sit there and stand in a hot concrete. I agree with you, but here's what I would say to you. First of all, USC has no atmosphere at their game, so they're a bad example. Michigan and Tennessee are good, but the thing about Michigan and Tennessee that they have that we don't, to be fair, is they have parking all over campus. So they don't have parking right next to the stadium, but they have places to park in Ann Arbor and Knoxville. In Lexington, Kentucky, if you think about it, outside of that parking lot across the stadium, where is there public parking for the UK games? Well, there's a garage on campus, but you can't, I mean, it's not that big. And then probably the closest is the KS bar parking lot or the mall.

I mean, sir, there's just nowhere to park. Remember, the area around UK's campus, those are neighborhoods. Or it's the actual campus. There's really nowhere for people to park. I get that. I just wonder, can they not erect more parking garages if they're going to be building other things in that area? They might, but if you want to create an atmosphere, erecting a lot of parking garages,

ain't going to exactly make the atmosphere fun. Nobody wants to tailgate in a garage. So, you know, I appreciate the call. There's no, I mean, there's no easy answer to this. But I tell you what was better when we had grass and we had an environment, and there were places to park, and there were places for people to tailgate. Parking is a 100 legit concern, not just a football game, but on campus. In that area especially, you know, students are parking in that parking lot now during that Kroger Field.

Can take more spaces away. It's going to make it worse over there. Yeah, I mean, someday when school's going on, just drive on UK's campus and see if you can find a place to park. Ain't going to happen. Like, it's not, like, it's not happening. So now add 70,000 people to the city, most of whom are from out of town. And, you know, there's a reason why KS. Barr, we. we're what six blocks away eight blocks away and that place is full because what uh because what what else

are people going to go and uk hospital keeps expanding out there down on waller avenue they're taking up more of the spaces that people were using for parking it's a legit concern more so than the tailgutting area the parking may even be a bigger concern yeah they just brought us some food this is uh the opa's ice house i'm looking for eating this that looks that looks insanely good but you can't bring it in the middle of a segment when i'm trying to talk about and all this food smells that good. Who's next? Bill.

Bill, go ahead, Bill. I can't hear you. I'm on the radio, Opa. Bill, go ahead. Hey, Matt. Just calling in from Middlesboro, man. Just want to say I'm a big fan of you all. And thank you for doing that article about me saying it other night.

Wait a minute. Hang on just a second. Hang on just a second. Are you Bill Taylor with the Appalachian Heathens? Yes, sir. Nice. Nice. All right.

Yeah, man. Well, Bill, I didn't know. Well, what a surprise. Okay, so wait a minute. I have a lot of stuff I want to ask you. Can you hang on a second? And I'll let me take my break. Absolutely.

All right. Just hang on just a second. What a nice surprise. Really? Yes. Okay, well. They're famous right now. Yes, they are.

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All right, so Bill, I got a couple of quick questions for you. First of all, thank you for calling in. How did you end up on America's Got Talent? Well, thank you for having me, brother. I've been a fan for a long time. So my tech talk, man, I started getting a few videos. that started seeing quite a few views and I got a recruiter reach out to me. And at first it was just like, you know, if you'd be interested, do you want to go to Hollywood?

I said, yeah, it'd be awesome. I didn't think that I love it. And about two weeks later, she said, well, I've talked to my producers, would you like to go to Hollywood? I was like, yeah, yeah, I'll come. So then they bring you and your band to Hollywood. How long have you guys been playing? We've been playing together for about, it's coming up on about three years now. Three years.

And did you all grow up in Middlesbrough? No, just me and my drummer, Joe Cox. So where'd you go to high school, Bill? Are you Middlesboro, Bell County, or Pineville? That's a little loaded question, man. We went everywhere. My dad was a roofer, and we moved around a lot. But I ended up at Bell County my sophomore year and ended up graduating there.

All right, I'm going to act like you went to Middlesbril just for the, just for the sake of the sky. Hey, Joe did. All right, well, good. I'm glad Joe went there. You got a bobcat and a jacket. All right, so you go out there, right before you walk on stage, how nervous are you? Oh, I was shaking like a leaf on a tree, brother. I bet you were, because, you know, Simon Cowell can be a harsh critic.

You got out there, you're going, at first, Acapella, were you worried it all about hitting that note? Not really, man, once I get to the part of where I'm saying, and I can just close my eyes, and I just kind of just zone out. And, you know, it's what happened there. And as soon as I heard the crowd start reacting, I just got in my comfort zone. And, you know, we did what we always do. We just perform.

So could you tell that you had killed it? Like, when it was over, did you think, okay, we're getting yeses? I feel like it. I mean, you know, Simon was on his feet, applauded. So I was like, okay, yeah, we did pretty good. Yeah, yeah, well, if you get him. Okay, so when is the next round? So I don't know the exact date, but I know Limes are in August, September.

I've been talking to an alumina that was on there two years ago, and he told me that I would probably know something in July sometime this month. So, I mean, it's good. But once I know, everybody's going to know, I promise you. Well, yeah, you better tell me, because I'm definitely going to be, trying to get everybody on board. Do you know what your next song is going to be? You did knocking on Heaven's Door.

What do you think? What are you thinking for the next one? I don't know. At the moment, ma'am, we'll just have to see what they, what they, it's up to them just as much as it is as me. We're thinking about original, but I can't say which one it is. Okay, well, that's all right. Now, you're also, if I, if I, you tell me if this is right,

aren't you playing Saturday night in Lexington? Yes, sir. I'm playing at the Burrell where Clark Sexton and Jonathan Cox 7 p.m. All right. That's awesome. That's pretty good. So you're at the Burrell Saturday night, 7 o'clock.

I actually may try to stop by there, see some Bell County folks. So you got this group, you go to the next thing. What is the ultimate prize? I haven't watched AGT in a while. Like, what do you win if you win it? It says you win a million dollars. And, you know, I'm, I, I, I split some with my band members and stuff.

But the biggest thing I want from it, man, is to start a career to where all I'm ever having to do is play music. That's what I want. Well, I want that for you. And listen, as a fellow Middlesbrilian, the moment you went on stage, my phone blew up with people from all over going, there's somebody from Middlesbrough. There's somebody from Middlesbrough. My mom was like, somebody from Middlesbrough. Everybody was insanely excited.

I hope you feel that in the community. It's kind of crazy. You just had to go right back to work, right? Yeah, man, and the love online is just beyond what I'd ever anticipated. I thought it might get a million views, bro. We're almost at 10 million right now. Wow, that's awesome. Good for you.

And I know a lot of that is our community. No, it is. Listen, the community rallied around it. I'm going to be pulling for you. Keep in touch with this, Bill. And good luck on America's Got Talent. Absolutely, buddy. And cash by 90.

There you go. Thank you very much. Taylor with Bill Taylor in the Appalachian. What a nice surprise. We had talked about him coming on, but I didn't know he was calling today. That's great. You know, it is so cool. There are these people like Bill that are just small-town musicians across this state.

He's getting his chance to show it on a national stage. You have to love that. You have to be pulling for a guy like that. Yeah. Well, I certainly am. Somebody else that kind of created success for their own got hurt last night. Did you see Red Panda? No, did she get hurt?

Red Panda fell at the women's at the WMBA game fell and looks like she may have hurt her wrist or something. She had to be kind of helped off the court. How many of you know who Red Panda is? Raise your hand. Okay, a lot of people. So Red Panda, she's probably the best, halftime show, would you think? The best halftime show. She gets on a big, tall unicycle, and she, like, juggles plates, and she balances cups on her head, and she kicks things out.

yesterday she was just getting started she really was just starting to go and it just I don't know if something broke or whatever but she just fell wow she ended up getting hurt um myron was telling me on the show last night she works 310 days a year at sporting events um and i mean hopefully she's not out too long her doctor's going to have to step up most of us have seen her perform a dozen times and you can't take her eyes off her man and she she she does that last move perfect every I don't know how she does it. She takes it every time. She'll put like a cup on her foot. Yep. She'll have cups on her head and she'll take, she's, she's peddling with one foot and the other foot she kicks the cups in the air and they flip up and then they land on top of her cups on her head. It's an amazing. While she's balancing on a unicycle, it's an expanded version of a unicycle. She's just to be high.

I think she's been to UK games. She has. Yeah, she has. I think she's been to UK games. Yeah, we've seen her at a number of, I saw, spent the SEC tournament, couple times. She's the best. She is the absolute best. What are your other favorite halftime type shows? I like the dogs that catch the frisbees and jump off the guys back and run around to all of his body. I like that guy. I like the firecracker, jump rope girls. Those are probably one of my favorite ones. Yeah, those are all good. What about like the contortionist?

Do you like the people that do contortion things? Yes, because I can't do any of that. I like, there's the guy, I don't think he's been a rup area, but there's a guy that does Simon Says, and you think it sounds like it. Simon Says. I know, you think it doesn't going to be very good. It's hilarious. That can't be good.

I know it doesn't sound good, but it is hilarious. I also like the guy that does the painting in like a minute. You ever seen that? Yeah. Like he'll paint. I think he's Drew's friend. Well, Aaron Kaiser's the guy that paints and he paints upside down. Yeah, he paints upside down and then he'll flip it over.

But then there's, like, he's one of them, and then there's another one that'll paint like a masterpiece in like 30, like a minute. How about the slam dunk guys that bounce off the trampolines? I'm a little over that now, the slam dunk, because like we've seen all that. I think I like the creative ones. I used to do a halftime show. I used to like that one until I got fired. Yeah. Once you make Katina Powell jokes in front of little children, it's a good way to get fired.

Unfortunately, I still think they should bring you back. Who's next? Doing great. Doing great. Go ahead. Matt, I'm doing great. I hope you're at least doing well. I got a good question for you today.

You ready? Yes. All right. So let's say you have a significant amount of money on the line. I don't know what that is relative to you. $1, $10,000, $100, $1,000, $1,000, $1,000, $1,000, whatever that is. If you had to bet a significant... All right, well, if you had to bet a relatively significant amount of money on UK football, either going under two and a half wins or over six and a half wing. If your life was on the line, if you had a significant amount of money, yes, either under

two and a half wins. or over six and a half, one is your only choice? Yeah. What would you have to do? If those are my two choices, then I'm going under. If those are my only two choices. I mean, you know, I don't think either of those results are likely. Now, if you said to me under two and a half or over five and a half, I'd take the over.

But if you're getting to over six and a half, trying to find seven wins on the, this schedule is really, really hard to me. You're shaking your head. You disagree with me? I don't know how you get to seven. I mean, if we do, then I'm going to be so happy you can have the money. Can you give me a sec? No, because I have to hard break.

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it was part of this tournament. It was Palmaris and Botafoga or Botafogo, something like that. Point being, one of them wore green and the other one wore black and white. And it was approximately 155 degrees in Philadelphia at that stadium

during the game. It was noon, there was no shade, the sun was going down. I got tickets and I went because I just wanted to see the environment. I'm just telling you, if you get a chance in your life, whether you like soccer or not, you have to find a way to go to environments like this. Okay, this is two Brazilian teams playing in America, but there's probably 40,000 people there,

probably 95% of them are Brazilian. I got to give Brazilian people credit. They know how to do sports in a way that, like, we can't handle. This game, at the end of regulation, the score was zero-zero, so not a whole. whole lot happened, but it was the most fun. Ryan, when I say they sing and dance the whole game, I mean they sing and dance the whole game, not part of the game, the whole game. Palmeras had more people, so they had this song, and I can't do it, but it was like, uh-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. And like, and they would do it for 20 seconds, pause and start it over. And then pause and start it over.

and they did it over and over. That would sound monotonous, but it wasn't. Because everyone in the crowd, literally everyone danced the whole time. Sitting right in front of me was a mother, a father, and two like 10-year-old kids. I watched the four of them dance the entire game. They never stopped. They swayed to the beat. They did that Brazilian – what do you call the dance?

The Brazilian dance. The Brazilian dance. Rumba, is that a thing? I don't know. Point being, it was like to a certain beat, their hips, they kind of would, whatever. And they all seemed to know it. And I had the most fun. Next thing you know, I was up dancing, Ryan, and I'm not even a great day.

But I learned the thing, and I walked away, bought a Palmaris hoodie, and I had the best time. So I would really encourage, if you get a chance to go to something like that, the World Cup is here next year. if one of the countries that has a cool, you know, fan base comes, save your money and go. I think it'll be awesome. You know, we think we do it right here in the United States. We ain't close. They take it to a different level. The international soccer scene does.

Take the best student sections in America. All right. So take Penn State football during a whiteout. Take Duke basketball. Take Kansas. Take whatever you want. Take them at their best. And then imagine doing it the entire game and never.

stopping. That's what they are like, and it was a lot of fun. It's crazy. You had two Brazilian teams playing in Philadelphia at the same time. Yeah, they just happened to draw it, and I don't know if the people were Brazilian that lived in America or people that came from Brazil, but either way, it was a lot of fun. Who's next? Andrew. Andrew. Go ahead, Andrew. Yes, I got a football point and a basketball question. I think if Wildcats don't reach six wins this season, I hope it's a great season, then we should try to get John Summerall or Dion Sanders. Well, we're not going to get Dion Sanders. And basketball, who you think we'll have a better season? Jalen Lowe or Boogie Flan? Thanks. You all have a great day.

On the first thing, I mean, you're not the first person to say that about John Summerall. That's been something a lot of people have said. It'll just depend on what happens with Mark. I think Jalen Lowe has a better year. I think Boogie Flan will be, it's going to be tough for Cal because I think Boogie Flan's going to be better at Florida than he was at Arkansas. Yep. And that'll be like a, why is he so much better at Florida than he was at Arkansas? But I think Jalen Lowe, Boogie Flan's a better NBA prospect. Jalen Lowe will be a better college player next year, in my opinion.

Well, you've said it a million times. He has to be good for this Kentucky basketball team to be good next year. But Boogie Flan, I'm with you. I think he'll probably flourish at Florida. You know, he got hurt, missed a lot of time in Arkansas. I was kind of impressed when he came back and played for Arkansas. So, you know, he kind of fit. He was all right.

He did all right. I'm cashed. I'm like buying all the Jalen Lowe stock I can. Like everybody that doesn't believe in Jalen Lowe sell it to me. Okay. I've talked with Mark Pope about him quite a bit. I've heard people talk about what he does in practice. The stat where Mark Pope won me over on Jalen Lowe was he said,

Jalen Lowe was one of the worst players in the country. at taking tough shots. He was in the bottom 5%. And Mark Pope said, some people look at that and say, well, you don't want that guy. He takes bad shots. He was like, what I look at is,

if we can get him in a system where he doesn't have to take bad shots, then how efficient he is, because he said he was in the top 5% in America when he took good shots. So he said, my job as a coach is just to make him take good shots instead of bad shots,

and he said, the first thing I look, looked at was, is this a good kid? Does he want to win? Is he selfish? And when the answers to those were what I liked, he said, I think I'm a good enough coach to make him take good shots instead bad shots. When I heard that, I was like, I'm all in. Give me Jalen Loe. Didn't he say something like, you know, a lot of his bad shots were late in the shot clock? They were so poor offensively, he had to force up a shot late in the shot clock. And that's why he ended up taking some bad shots. He said when Jalen Lowe takes bad shots, he takes the worst shots imaginable. But when he takes good shots, he makes them at an amazing rate. And so when I heard that, I'm in. And let's just hope he

takes good shots. Who's next? Cindy. Cindy, go ahead, Cindy. Hey, good morning and thanks for taking my call. First off, I wanted to express my concern over Red Panda, but you've already covered that and hopefully should recover in time for basketball. The second point I want to make, or a second question, is this past weekend there was a golf tournament here in western Kentucky. The winners scored 21 under, okay? In the first flight, there was a group that, based on my observation of scoring, did not fan bag, but they shot 22 under. But they were not declared the winner because of the flight they were in.

And I just wanted your thoughts about that. And I'll hang up and listen. I think when you choose, okay. Interesting question, not one I thought I'd get. When you choose a flight, that's the one you're in. So if you end up choosing a flight lower, sounds like to me they might have been sandbagging, a team shooting 22 under, not in the championship flight.

But that's the one you pick. That's the one you're in. You can't cross flight or else why even have flights to begin with? Yeah, you had a 22 under in the lower flight. You win that flight. That's what you chose to play in that flight. If you want to play with the big boys in the championship flight, then you maybe could have won that one.

but whoever shot the 21 under that one wins that championship flight. I'm going to preach for 30 seconds, and then I'll shut up and we'll have a good final segment. I'm going to do a podcast maybe with Billy to tomorrow. If not, we'll do it first and next week about all the various health care stuff. But this weekend, there's a very important vote in Congress about health care that will affect this state in ways people don't even realize. If you live in a small town and you have a hospital, You need to pay attention to what happens this weekend because we have state representatives in our state who have, we rely on rural hospitals as much as any state in the country, and we have representatives in our state who are about to vote for something that will have small town hospitals close all across this state, and they know it, and they're doing it anyway.

So Brett Guthrie, Jamie Comer, Hal Rogers, and Andy Barr, the four of you are making the decision this week. weekend. You guys are going to decide this weekend whether or not there's going to be poor people who voted for Donald Trump all over the state that you're going to take health care from. Andy Barr, Jamie Comer, Brett Guthrie, and Hal Rogers. It's the four of you. You know what you should do, and we'll find out this weekend if you do it. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where

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Quarterback on office blue 42. Hey, rep, my mama wants you to wave at her. What? Where's she at? Hey, Miss Parker. Listen to the Clifford show on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. What's up, fam, it's Isaiah Thomas.

And I'm C.J. Toledano, and our podcast, Point Game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows, without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in

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see, DK&G.c.com slash audio. tomorrow we are off, but we will be replaying the KSR the day after we beat Oklahoma in the SEC tournament, the O-WA game. So you'll get to hear that energy. And then Friday on the 4th, we're playing the game, the KSR the day after we beat Illinois and the NCAA tournament. So you can celebrate two of the most exciting wins of the year tomorrow with what we did exactly the day after.

And later on this summer, we've gone back. found the show we did after the 2012 national championship where Drew and I had stayed up all night and we're sitting in the lobby of a hotel in New Orleans laying on the floor because we've been kicked out of our room. We found that show and we will play that later on this summer. I love that show. That post game that night after they won and then the show the next morning are two of my favorite KSR shows ever. I do also because a couple of people I ask. I didn't mention everybody. The only reason I didn't mention Thomas Massey and Morgan McGarvey is they've already said they're going to vote no.

Big shout out to Thomas Massey for even though he and I disagree for having principles on things. Who's up next? Derek. Derek. Derek. Derek. Hey, what's up, Matt? Hey, shout out to Doe Boy down in Al-Gator Alcatraz down there.

Hey, but quick question, if Summerall came back, would he bring Neil Brown as O.C.? No. Neil Brown, where is Neil Brown right now? He's out of coaching. You know, you've got to let go of West Virginia. I think he's still out of coaching. Well, I say no. I mean, I think that's unlikely, but I, you know, I guess you can't ever say certain. My guess is if I'm Neil Brown, he's going to end up going to some power program and being the offensive coordinator. I would think that his next step is you go to a top 10 or 15 program that needs an OC, and he's the O. That's my guess.

I don't know that for sure, but that would be my guess. Now, could it be Kentucky? I mean, I guess I said no. Maybe I shouldn't say no as quickly. I guess it's plausible. Yeah, you talked yourself into it. I was getting ready to say, well, Kentucky is in the SEC, the best football conference. Yeah, I mean, my initial reaction was no, he wouldn't do that, but I guess it all depends on what options he would have.

Yeah, you know, he's from here, played at Boyle County, played at UK, coached here at UK. That John Summerall thing is not going to go away. It's going to have legs as long as Kentucky struggles, and they have success down there. Well, and he's also turned down, he's also turned down other jobs that people would think maybe he would take, which makes people think he would be waiting for the Kentucky job. I don't know if he is, but I think that's probably the what reason people think that. And I think, you know, he's had great success at Troy. He's had success at Tulane.

He's going to get picked up by somebody, so people are like Kentucky fans. Because he struggled, they want Kentucky to go after him. What are you doing for the 4th of July? You know, it's funny you ask that because Oatwell, Indiana, Matt, has maybe the greatest Fourth of July celebration ever. I doubt that's true. They have demolition derby.

They have a truck and tractor pool. They have parade. They have bingo funnel caves. Well, then, of course, it's the greatest Fourth of July ever. So I'm toying about going back to the Otwell, Fourth of July, for the first time in like 15 years. Well, I'm toying with it. You ought to do.

What, you haven't been in a long time? It's been at least 15 years as I've been down there. one of your like eight hometowns. Yes. Well, Indiana, population 400. Take my parents there. You get a funnel cake. Oh, you get a funnel cake. Yeah. I think it'll be a great time. Well, good. Well, I hope you... What are you doing?

I've always had bad luck on the 4th of July, so I tend to try to stay to myself. Bad luck, what do you mean? I mean, I've had two girlfriends and I break up on the 4th of July. So, like, Fourth of July and New Year's Eve have pretty consistently not worked out well for me. So I try to stay low-key on both of those. You're living a location at Lexington where you could watch the fireworks. Yeah, I hate fireworks. They're stupid.

Like you just shoot them. Oh, look, there's lights. That's nice. And, you know, people shoot them all hours of the night. Yeah. So I'll probably, Fourth of July, if I had a boat, if I'd like that, but I don't know. None of my friends, they all got rid of their boats. Well, don't try to drive through downtown Louisville and Thunder Over Louisville coming up this weekend.

I tried to do that one year, and it was just a disaster. Thunder over Louisville? What was it called the Firework Show? That's in April. No, that's in April. Oh, no, skip that then. Actually, you can drive down. You don't have to avoid Louisville for Thunder Over Louisville since it was three months ago.

I thought they had some big massive fireworks thing on the 4th of July. No, that's in April. He's right. Who's next? Kentucky Cat. Kentucky Cat. How are you? Good, man.

How are you all? Doing good. That's my big. It might be a popular, or unpopular, I guess, opinion, but I'm just an old farmer from Burberry County. But I don't know the money, dollars, and all that. But what would be wrong with UK building or Mitch Martin Arndesil building a new basketball arena out there by the football field

where they could keep all the money from the seating and stuff instead of paying them up arena, the rent? And, you know, they can take all that money in. And everything will be right there together, the football field, the basketball court, you know, and stuff like that. Nothing would be wrong with it in theory. In practice, do you have the money to pay for a basketball arena? I mean, there are two reasons.

One would be the money to actually build it. But then the second is, I think there's a good citizen part of it, which is if you take Rupp Arena out of downtown, are you really kind of screwing downtown Lexington? In terms of downtown Lexington has basically a lot of the city is planned around having a arena there, and does that really hurt the city that you're in? I think those are the two big issues. I mean, he's already talking about, you know, maybe building a hotel and restaurants

and stuff that. They're coming with the money somewhere, you know, to do that. I just thought maybe, you know, if they put it all together, it would be a better, you know, better atmosphere. But I think the idea, I appreciate the call of you partner with a private business to put a hotel or a restaurant. Building arena is a whole other set of money, and since they're already raising their cost, I think that would be difficult for them to do.

And they just spent millions of dollars renovating Rupp Arena. University of Kentucky has moved a lot of their offices and their media facilities down there to that facility at Rupp Arena. I think that would be a hard sell. And with that, I mean, I do think that area down there with that amphitheater and stuff, I mean, I do think that will become more of a... I do think that's going to be an area that's going to be kind of more popular. And if you build a basketball arena out there he's talking about, again, you got the parking

problem. Where are you going to put all these people? That's true. If you put an arena there, there's going to really be nowhere for anyone to park. So it's kind of a catch-22. You want to put stuff out there to make it better, but the more you take, the more difficulties you have with the same problems you have now. Who's next?

Oh, we're empty. Oh, we're empty. That's okay. We only have a minute left. I'm on the radio tonight, 7 to 10 with Myron. We had a lot of fun last night. Probably the most I've laughed doing ESPN ever. We're going to do it again tonight.

There ain't nothing to talk about, so you can expect it will be stupid. but will be fun. Then Saturday, right here, Ryan, the kickoff of harness racing here in Versailles. Yeah, harness racing returns back to Woodford County for the first time in like 50 years. It's going to be right there on that track, right there. So it could be a big day. It could very well be a big day. I want to thank you to this crowd.

Look what a great crowd. A great crowd. Yeah, great crowd. Thank you to Opa's Ice House for the food. Now, remember, we are off tomorrow and Friday, but we will be back on Monday. and we're going to have an announcement Monday of something we're going to be doing in the next few weeks, which is going to be very exciting. We're going to be doing a travel weekend around the state.

Are you ready for it? I guess I'm ready for it. You don't even know what it is. So you better be excited. We will see you later. Enjoy your 4th of July. Enjoy your time here in Woodford County. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio.

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