KSR - 2025-07-18- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

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It is the Friday edition of Kentucky Sports Radio Friday, July 18th. Brian Lemon, Shannon the dude. Drew Franklin, Matt is his last day of his vacation. Of course, there's some more vacation coming up, I think, in September from young Matthew Harper-Jones. off this week. Big one in September. Big one in September.

The King of vacation. You know, if only he would count up the vacation days he takes versus the vacation days that Shannon takes. Oh, I could count them up right now. Who took eight weeks of vacation? No, 10 weeks of vacation. Ten. Ten.

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A-Vision Glass Text Machine has been my cell phone this week, and it blew up yesterday. We'll get into that in a little bit. And then, of course, we'll have our Whiskey Thief call today. So, guys, it's Friday. We're usually on remote location. We have a rare studio show in the summer on a Friday, and we walk in, and Wild Eggs has loaded up with breakfast stuff. There's all kinds of food out there from Wild Eggs. Once again, Shannon's not here.

Of course. Matt's not here. Mario's not here. not here. So it leaves it all for Drew and Billy and I to eat to eat the rest of it today. When I was walking through the parking garage, my stomach did a little rumble. I didn't eat breakfast and I thought, oh man, I might not make it to noon. I'm hurting. Had no idea I would go up that elevator to, what is there like 10 different meals over there? The whole table's covered. It's their summer menu and they brought like every new item on their summer menu for us to try.

I'm working my way. I'm about a third of the way through all of them. Maybe by the end of the show. I'll have all of it down. Should we see how many things from wild eggs, Ryan can eat in 10 minutes? No. No. No. No. Hush your mouth.

Hush your mouth. But we do have a wild eggs contest we're going to talk about here in just a minute. I'm really excited about it. So just hang on for that. But really, there's guys, there's two topics that open to show. And you can pick which one you want to talk about. Mark Stoops, UK football at SEC Media Days, or Archie Goodwin. Those are the two stories.

Not the couple at the Coldplay concert? We're going to get to that. That's the story for me. I thought that was number one. We're definitely going to get to that. Drew on that one. But yeah, go ahead. No, no, we'll save it.

I was just kidding. I go save you. Which of those three stories you want to start with, Drew? We'll save the astronomer, you know, build up anticipation. Okay. The story sweeping, sweeping America. At 100% it is. You know, TBT and Archie, that's good, but that's later tonight.

So let's start with what's already happened with stoops yesterday at Meaty Days. Let's just go ahead and get Mark out of the way. He spoke. local media before he went to the podium. Yep. I didn't listen to anything he said on the podium, but I listened to what he said to local media because I thought that's when we were going to get the good stuff.

Oh, I listen to the podium and not to local media. So if we put our brains together, it's like we were there. So it looked like it was like Nick Rosh, Adam Luckett, John Hale, Dick Gabriel, probably some other local TV guys. All the big stars. Stephen Peek. Don't forget Stephen Peek, behind the camera. He's the one of was videotaping, I think, that we watched the video of. Hardest working crew in Atlanta this week.

But I think, to me, as a fan, Stoops had a little chip on his shoulder yesterday, and that's what I want to see. I want to seem kind of mad, kind of angry, kind of ticked off about this whole motivated meme that's going around and everything. I heard some things from him yesterday

that as a fan, I needed to hear my coach ticked off, and I think ticked off Marks was here yesterday. You like ticked off? Yeah. I lean a little of the other direction. He, for the first time, commented on the motivated talk.

It's been a meme since the spring. I was hoping he would laugh it off and be a good sport no he does not seem to like that whatsoever does not care for the motivated talk in fact Nick Roush salute to Nick Roush very first question in the ballroom

live on SEC network Omni Atlanta completely full of people in media and I'm watching and I hear first question get a little mic little tap Nick Rosh Kentucky Sports Radio Mark how motivated would you say you are Jesus Nick

I mean, you couldn't even wait three questions, but Stoops made it clear. He's not a huge fan of that. In fact, I think he said the media is having fun with it. Here's his quote. Oh, you got it dialed up? Yep. I'll play along and let the media have their fun and take their shots, and that's cool with me. Listen.

That's motivation right there. That sounds like a motivated Mark Stoops. I think he's ticked off, but, you know, when you're motivated, you can get ticked off easily. I think that shows his level of motivation, Drew. I don't like how he's blaming the media. I've participated in it. I did a motivated meme yesterday. But this started with the fan base on Twitter.

Yes, he did. It went for months before we leaned into it at all just here recently. So yes, have I made a motivated joke? I've made several. But it's not a media thing. This is your whole fan base. You've got to pay attention to your audience. This is being said by everyone, or at least a big online presence.

So he followed that up. He says, maybe y'all just looking for some ammo. And he said it wasn't his intention to lay low this. off-season. Yeah, he did say he's, with motivation, it's what it's been every year. Nothing's changed. He's trying to silence our memes. He said, grateful a lot, so maybe we start the Grateful Stoops means.

He did say he'd rather be grateful Mark Stoops than motivated Mark Stoops. So I think yesterday was the turning of the page from motivated Mark Stoops to grateful Mark Stoops. And then, yeah, even though we all think he's laying low this off season, he said, no, this has been operations as usual. Nothing's changed. We're just trying to get better. I know there's a narrative out there that I'm kind of hiding.

from making headlines and doing interviews, but he denied it. Like I said, Shannon, I heard some things I needed to hear because it was almost like a sense of urgency with Stoops yesterday. Like he knows that last year was unacceptable and he knows he mentioned several times about the strength of the schedule so hard this year, but yet he kind of came across as like a guy that is kind of ticked off at the world and I'm going to prove you wrong kind of guy. I think he said fourth and one mentality.

So, you know, I think that's good self-awareness. You know, he realizes there's a lot of urgency going into this season. Going back to the grateful Mark Stoops, though, like, how do we do that meme? Do we do like praying hands? Like AI Mark Stoops with the praying hands, he's grateful? Grateful. Yeah, how do we show that? Prate hands, throwing your hands in the air, hugging, just being thankful.

Yeah, okay, I like that. But yeah, I don't know, though, Ryan, that I heard anything that's going to change my mind on how I think the season's going to go. I mean, you did, though? You think you did? Well, as far as the wins and losses, maybe not. but I heard some things from him that makes me think that he ain't happy and he's going to work his butt off to try to keep it from being that bad.

I like that. I like that mentality. I do too. I wish I had those same glasses. I saw it as similar to kind of cow with all the media. The radio shows are saying this, but it's really this. You know, let them have their jokes. They're not really fans. I'm starting to get more of the defensive of just the headlines around.

And that's more of the vibe I got. Yeah, one of I think the biggest criticism. of Coach Stoops has been like things haven't been great but he's like yeah but we won 10 games and yeah but you know we beat Tennessee you're right you got to go out there and you just got to win the games that's the only thing that's

going to flip this fan base he also says he don't want headlines but he cussed and if you cuss on the podium at SEC Media Days he said the S word not scrimmage from yesterday the actual S word and that's not a big deal we're all adults but when you say it at the podium at SEC Media Days on live TV

that's a headline and that went everywhere not just with Kentucky people, all media down there. So he wants to lay low, but he said this blanks hard or something like that. And when you throw that quote out there, that's a headline. That's not KSR spiraling something. If you say this blank is hard on the stage at SEC Media Days, you've now made a headline. Willie Colley Stein said that word here yesterday on our own show. It gets dumped here.

Of course it's hard, though. I mean, that's what you signed up for. That's why you're making millions upon millions of dollars. You're not making that salary to play in an easy conference. We all know it's hard. It's the SEC, but that's what you signed up for. So already in two months, since spring practice to now, I already feel better about the team.

And I know by the time it kickoff the season starts, I'm going to be back on board. Yeah, man, six wins, seven wins, let's go. I know I'm going to talk myself into it because I'm already halfway there. I feel like you're with Matt and the Reds. You're Matt in the Reds with Kentucky football. That's fair. We'll do predictions one week in your bowl game

and predictions another week, maybe two wins. Now you're back. You're back on? Back on after what I heard yesterday. Grateful stoops has you back on. And the backpacks that had their digital numbers on the back of the backpack. Don't get me started on these backpacks. What are we doing?

What are we doing? I've never seen anything like that. It felt very unsurious to me. It almost seemed like something you would have for your elementary school kid. Yeah. Like I expect middle kids walking in showing off their backpacks with screens. Look at my backpack. It's got my phone.

number of my address on the digital screen in the back. Here's my emergency contact information in case I get lost. You know, that type of thing. I didn't have seen these before, though. At West Broadway Elementary School, I had a backpack. It was a Jeep.

Shannon, you would have loved it. You like jeeps. Yeah, I'm a Jeep. It was the back, though. And then I had like a clear thing for my windshield and you could see in my backpack. I could also hit a button and turn on my brake lights. Don't.

I feel like that's what Kentucky football was doing yesterday. But I was in first grade, and they're at SEC Media Days. Yeah, I think so. I think in the right. They would be a hit with elementary school students, not with maybe college athletes. Yeah, I have been a little critical of SEC media days. I will say Josh Katas, really all of them, but Katas especially did a good job of explaining how he feels there's truly been a transition from all the problems last year to accountability and having a better locker room.

And if anyone hadn't seen it yet, I can't remember exactly what video was out. There's a ton of interviews yesterday. It might have been with SEC Network. It's online. Like the Darinoka wasn't it? Yeah, okay. Then it was SEC Network. We have it on the website.

But Josh Katas did a really good job. speaking on behalf of the locker room. So I'm getting my backpack jokes off. But there were good parts of yesterday, and I thought that was the highlight. And if there's two guys, I think you can trust off this football team, it's Josh Caddus, and Ty Bryant, who was on the show with you in April. They both kind of said the same thing, man. Things are different.

They've changed some things. And we're not going to have maybe some issues we've had the last couple of years. And Jordan Lovett and Alex Safari, who were also there yesterday, they also were speaking about it too. I just thought Cadiz especially did a great job of explaining how he sees a different. him being a senior and he saw the dip the last two years and he seems to really believe things have changed behind the scenes we don't know how that'll translate on wins and losses but it it seems like they really did clean that up from a year ago so we've got a couple more football

you know we've been so basketball heavy this week with the tbt tournament all the tbt guys we brought in a lot of basketball we're going to kind of football heavy today so we've got uh landin young's going to join us at 1030 just found out he was in town let's have him on so he's going to come on. And then at 11 o'clock, Aidan Leros, the punter with the zero toughness rating, is going to come on, Drew, to defend himself. So it's kind of a football-heavy show today. Yeah, I'm looking forward to hearing from Aden Luros. I've played the game a little bit since they came out. I feel like he's much tougher than they gave him credit for. I mean, didn't you see the video you can put out? He's taking balls off his chest. I think we should prove that he is a tough

guy. As a matter of fact, Drew, you tell me if this is a good idea or not. It would be better if Mario were here. But I think that maybe you should arm wrestle, Aiden, and let's see if he can beat you in an arm wrestling contest, you know, because we can show how much tougher he actually is than what the video game is getting him credit for. I would happily do that, but it's by phone, right? Yeah, he can't come in. He's got to call in.

Oh, I thought he's going to be in the studio. We can set that up, though, yeah. Media Day coming up. He looks like kind of a big, tough guy. You know, he's not a little skinny little kicker, punter. He's kind of a, he's Australian, or is he New Zealand? South Africa. South Africa.

Good, good Lord. Other part of the planet. We could bring up, since it's just verbal, we could bring up situations where you would need to be tough and ask him what he would do in this situation. Listen, there was no toughness test. No tougher punter in the world than Glenn Pakalak. He would punt at 80 yards and then go down and knock your jock off

if you tried to return to one of these puns. Tim Mastay would like a word. Tim Mastay. And so would Max Duffy. I still take Glenn Pachalak. Over all of them. So, yeah, Landon Young at 10.30. Aiden Leros at 11.

And then, like I said, we got to gets some really kind of some funny stuff about the kiss cam kiss cam we got a game tonight got a game tonight got to talk about archie goodwin but we'll go back to wild eggs before we go to the commercial break my son josiah works for wild eggs he's got a $100 gift card in his pocket right now and he's working at wild eggs right now oh okay the first person that can find josiah at wild eggs he's going to give you that $100 gift card I like this game I love this game he's in on it. He knows it. He's got the gift card in his pocket right now. So if you want a $100 gift card from Wild Eggs, go find my son Josiah. No hints.

I'm not going to tell you where he is. I'm going to tell you what he's doing. You got to go find him. You get a $100 gift card. And if he is in the act of carrying a tray full of French toast or something, please at least let him do his job. Yeah, don't stick your hand down his pants. Don't tackle him. Yeah. What did he's pocket? Don't take your hand down his pocket. Well, he's got food. Why he's carrying food? I hope he don't do it. Let's not talk about Tin Roof, Nashville, okay?

That's true. So go find Josiah. It's find Josiah for a $100 wild AIDS gift card. All right, we'll take our first break. Come back, 859-280-287. It's 859-280-80 cats. It's grateful Mark Stoops, not motivated Mark Stoos. People are already sending it.

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so I think Drew that's gonna I think our fan base will have a little fun with that today this weekend. If his goal was to get the motivated Mark Stoops to end it worked. It worked. Just going to Grateful Mark Stoops. You said you got an update on the backpacks. I do. every one that went to SEC Media Days got a backpack for showing up,

the three players from every team. So it turns out they just threw Kentucky under the bus by featuring them to show off the backpacks because other fan bases, including Tennessee's message board, other fan bases were making fun of Kentucky's backpacks, but it turns out everyone there got one. Kentucky was just the example they used.

So let me get this right. Kentucky is the very last team on the very last day of SEC Football Media Day. We were third to last. Third to last. There are two after students. Okay. Last day. Last day.

And they wait to the last day to show pictures of student athletes in these backpacks. And it just happens to be the Kentucky guys. I think the SEC's mocking us. I think so. I think they always have an apology. My apologies to the three young men wearing them, Catas, Safari, and I love it. I apologize. I thought it was a Kentucky only thing.

And we were trying to distract with our backpacks. But no, this was the SEC, and they've thrown Kentucky under the bus. So do we blame Tom Hart, Dary Noca and Peter Burns? Is that who we're going to blame here? Yep. Cole Kublich. Chris Doring. Chris Dorring.

We're braving them all. Liss Lang. Paul. Paul Feimbaum. So there you go. Randall Cobb. I watched Randall Cobb on the coverage yesterday. He's really good at that.

And talking to him at Derby, I don't know how far he wants to pursue it. He enjoys doing it. But he's really good at being an SEC network analyst. I like hearing from him. I do want to mention before the guys went to SEC Football Media Days, coach Stubes and several the players went to meet some special Olympic kids, spent the whole afternoon with them, had lunch with them, played games with them.

And just if you saw that, I mean, it just warms your heart when you see something like that. So, I mean, we forget that these players are really 18, 19, 20-year-old kids. And to see them in Iraq with some special Olympians, and like I said, Stoops was there almost all day,

ate lunch with them. It just made my heart warm to see that and read about that what they did with those kids. Definitely. They do so much of that that doesn't get to social media that we never know about. You know, every once while, we'll see pictures of something.

or video, but that goes on constantly with most, if not all players on the team. I know Caddice, I keep bringing him up. He's very active, been that way his whole career. He even talked about that yesterday about why he does it, but they do a good job of giving back to the community, whether it's Children Hospital, Special Olympics, Ronald McDonald, whatever it is. They're very involved. One more give-back kind of thing that happened for UK football.

If you remember the name Scott Mitchell, he was a receiver in like 2004, 2005 here at Kentucky. Rich Brooks first recruiting class. Rich Brooks first recruiting class. You're right. Jucco transfer. He made news, national news, when he chased down an arsonist out in California. I think him and his lady friend, I don't know if they're married or dating, but their lady friend, they were on a walk or maybe a little jog or something. And they saw a little hike.

And they saw somebody actually Shannon start a fire after California just had these devastating fires. This dude's up in the canyon in the mountain. and he started trying to start a fire, took off, and Scott Mitchell chased him down and kind of held him at bay until the police came and arrested the guy. A hero, man, he was a hero. Yeah, that is a crazy story. I mean, he could have potentially saved a lot of people's lives and a lot of homes. I mean, yeah, you're right.

I mean, you just had this huge wildfire, and this guy is just trying to start a fire out out in the middle of the woods? Yeah. And just let a dry tree out there in California. And then tried to take off and just let the fire. and just let the fire, you know, engulfed the countryside again, and Scott Mitchell chased him down and held him until the police came to arrest the guy. I like Mitchell said the guy was about 150 yards away and he still caught him.

And his direct quote to NBC was, I didn't know I still had it. I'm not going to lie. Well, he was, and on the story I saw, it was advertised as a former University of Kentucky football player. The headline ex-Kentucky football player chases down arsonist. I know Coach Brooks tweeted about it, kind of congratulating him. and you could say you could feel he felt like a proud papa that one of his own did this on the behalf of other people. Yeah, and Mitchell was only here two years. I know some people had mentioned online they didn't remember him, but he played, if he didn't start every game in those two years,

he played a lot. He played a lot. He had a touchdown in the Governor's Cup from Andre Woodson, three career touchdowns, and moves back home to California, and is chasing down arsonists. 859-280287. That's our Clark's Pubman Shop phone number. Before we get to the calls and the Landon Young at the bottom of the hour, we do need to kind of hit on what our Goodwin said on here yesterday.

The text machine blew up, my cell phone blew up, social media blew up, and I think the general consensus guys, I want both of you comment on it, you just had, he gave us a different perspective of what happened that season from his point of view as an 18-year-old kid. And you could see it, you could do what you could see. He's sitting there, a 30-year-old man just being raw and open and sincere about feelings he's been dealing with for 12 years. and Drew, you and I saw him. You can see his body language.

As he opened up, you could tell it still hurts him today. And he came across, I think most people left the interview saying, I am now an Archie Goodwin fan for life. There's people online apologizing for being too critical back in, was it, 2012, 13? Yeah. I said the moment it was over, that's the best interview we've had with a player. And I don't even think it's close after going back and listening to it. And during the break, he let out an Excel, even told us, like,

I've waited since I played here to let that out and tell my side because at the time you can't just when you're doing the interviews post game you can't be like I'm not playing the right position you're kind of controlled but now 12 years later he's like I finally got to explain why it didn't work out the way I wanted it to why I did this what I thought should have worked out and just his explanation he's a very intelligent guy not just talking about that team he went by went through some cow point guards like everybody was downhill until you lose but he was

crafty you get in the lane but after that cow kind of got to from that, very knowledgeable of all things UK. And then even during the break, we were talking about DeMarcus and some incidents DeMarcus had recently. And Archie's getting into why he thinks DeMarcus's brain ticks the way it does. And I'm just like, you were not the 18-year-old that we were trying to get anything out of when you're here for a year. But I loved every minute of hearing from him, especially the part, the big takeaway

everyone had about why his one season didn't go the way he wanted to. Shannon, what was your takeaway sitting there listening to it? Yeah, I mean, I agree with Drew. I mean, I think he was probably the best place. interview we've ever had on KSR. Very well spoken. He went into a long explanation, you know, explaining his side of things. And, you know,

it's probably something you can't say when Calipari's the coach here, but now that Calipari has moved on, I think we're going to get a lot more stories from behind the scenes and what went on with players during that time. But I thought he was great on the show. And he was trying to be, he kept saying, I might throwing Cal under the bus.

That's up for the listener to decide. But he really wasn't trying to trash Cal. Even though some of what he's saying, it kind of has a negative twist to how Cal was running the team. I couldn't help but feel for the guy. You could hear the pain of his voice. You could see his body language. It really hurts him to this day that he couldn't do for Big Blue Nation what he wanted

to do while he was here. And I think it was good therapy for him to get that off his chest. Definitely. I think they could lose by 50 tonight, which isn't going to happen. But they could be out tonight, and this was a successful week for Archie Goodwin, just interacting with the fans and telling his story. I thought Khalil Whitney was good the day before that, talking about his troubles. Archie yesterday, that one soundbite went six minutes long, and you and I would just let him go.

Just let him go and works through some things. He was doing his own podcast. We were listening. He was. And you could see he would go, you know, walking through it. It was really an amazing kind of watch. I hated when he said Cal told him, well, Ryan has to be the point guard. I didn't want to hear that.

It doesn't have to do anything. All right. We'll take a break. Come back. Big old Landon Young going to join us. Talk of the L.K. football on his career. We come back on Kentucky Sports Radio. 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. All right. Welcome back. Matt Jones is still off. This is the last day of his week vacation before football starts. Ryan, Drew and Shannon here in studio today. And Drew, I need to say kind of how this happened. You and I were working at KS. Bar and Grill last week, kind of going through some of the photos. We go up in the attic and there's this monster poster of of Landon Young. Like it's what, three feet by four feet. I mean, it's a big one.

Yeah, big poster. So I called it. If it's Lannon Young, got to be big. That's true. The man is big. So I called his dad, Randall,

and I said, hey, man, we've got this great picture of Landon. We've just been sitting up here since we're doing some remodeling. Would you like it? And he said,

sure. And during the course of conversation, he goes, yeah, Landon's here right now. I'm like, what? He said, yeah, he's been farming all summer. He's here.

Farman. Yeah. Of course. So I called him, got him to come on. Landon, it's, man, it's good to catch up with you. I can't believe you're getting ready to start your fifth year in the NFL with the New Orleans Saints. But congratulations on a great career. You're a dad now.

You got a second kid on the way. It just blows my mind. Landon Young's a grown man now pushing, what, 27 years old or whatever? Yeah, I'll be 28 this year, here in August. Dude, that's crazy. But you've been with the Saints ever since you left UK. Sign with them again. So I guess you like what's happening down there.

Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, obviously we had a rough patch last year, but we got a new young coach in from Philly. And they obviously just got off a stellar season. So we're excited to kind of see what he brings to the program and the culture down there and try to turn things around a little bit. Hey, Landon, Drew Franklin here. We want to hear a little bit about your time with the Saints. But first, just you being a good Kentucky boy, what's it like being in Louisiana for so long now? Is that starting to feel like home?

You get to do any farming down there or anything to feel like you're back in the bluegrass? I get to get a little fishing in. That's about it to make me feel like I'm back in Kentucky. But, you know, we were scared to death going down there when I first got drafted there. Just, you know, coming from a small town, living in Lexington, you know, a lot of my life, too. And, you know, going to a big, big city like New Orleans, it just, it was very, it was a lot to handle. And, you know, then coming after the fourth year, not knowing if we were going to sign back or not, You know, we were sitting there crying, thinking about telling our neighbors by and, you know, all the people we met and the friends we've made down there.

It definitely has become a part of our routine. We love it down there and we love the people. We love the culture. And we love New Orleans now. So when you were at what elementary school did you go to here in town? Pick a dome. So at Pick a dome elementary school, third grade, they say, Landon, what do you want to be when you grow up? I would bet 100 to one odds, you know, one to one odds that you said, I want to be a farmer.

and an NFL football player, and probably the farmer was more important than the NFL football player. It's funny because I don't remember what age is switched off, but for the longest time, I wanted to ride bulls in the rodeo. And then I got big,

and they said, well, we're going to need some bigger bulls. I'd like to see you give that a try. I always wanted to farm. Yeah, exactly. And I always wanted to farm. You know, dad, we're always on the farm on the weekends all the way up through college ball until I got drafted.

and, you know, I'd always, you know, done a little bit with dad here and there and heard his stories, heard my granddad's stories, and I kind of wanted to fall in their footsteps always and kind of take that over. So, you know, that's, we're starting to do that a little bit. We've, we've bought our first herd of cattle, and we're getting back into it slowly and surely. Now, your farms in Grayson County? Yeah, yeah, we, about two hours west of Lexington, and we raised cattle there. My dad used to raise a bunch of pigs and cattle. My great granddad used to have an orchard down there and raised a lot of apple, pear, peach, everything.

And, but now we're, we're just doing freezer beef until I'm done playing. So anybody who wants a half hole of beef, we raise it. We'll sell it to you. Good quality, Kentucky made, Kentucky butcher product. I like the shout out. I also love just NFL players just farming in the off season. Farms happy year? Play football half a year.

You're a veteran in New Orleans now, but when you first got there after your nice career here at Kentucky, you're on that offensive line. What was your kind of wake-up moment? Was there a defensive lineman you faced that was just a freak of nature? Or was there a moment in camp or anything where you really said, oh, yeah, this is the league? I will say because obviously I wasn't a day one starter,

but I was always on special teams starting off the season. And so my kind of welcome to the NFL moment was one of, I think it was my first or second game. We played Tampa Bay. And I was on field goal playing right guard right next to the snapper. And I had Vita Vay and Adama Kassu lined up against me. And I was like, wow, that is a large mass of human right across from me. And I was sitting there and I was like, you know, maybe this isn't for me. We'll see after this play.

And I did all right. But yeah, those two guys, they called a V technique on their side of the ball against me on that field goal. I was like, man, this is different. And just from that, I didn't even have to play an actual snap ball offense. I just those guys lined against me. And I was like, yeah, here it is. Welcome. Now, when you were here, you and Drake and these guys kind of set the foundation for the big blue wall.

And Kentucky kind of came known for the big blue wall. came O-Line U. The last couple years, that's kind of been maybe Achilles' heel of the football program. You watching from afar doing what you did when you were here to help establish that tradition of the big blue wall, what's been the problem and how can they fix it? You know, I think a lot of it's just, it's unity. It's coming back to it. And you remember all those guys when we were here between Drake, Logan, D.K., even Nick Haynes,

Cole Mosier, all those guys, we were all super close. And, you know, some of these guys may be close, but it wasn't a whole unit closeness like we had back then. And that's the number one thing that's going to make your O-Line work well together is having unity outside of the field. And I've been able to spend a little bit of time with these guys. And, you know, it's a whole different thing in college football now. You know, now that NILs come out, now that all these coaches changes and everything like that. but Slarman did a really, really good job of, you know, instilling that unity between all of us and saying no matter what happens, whether you fail, whether you lose a block, everyone's going to lose a block.

Go out there with the mindset that you're better than the person across from you. And that's what made us really good. So we didn't care about losing. We didn't care about this, that, or the other. We were going out there and we knew that whether we lost one rep, two reps, five reps, we were still better than that person across from us. and we lived with that pride and that pride for the university, for the state, for our families.

And, you know, some of it's ebbs and flows of players in recruiting. But I definitely, I've been able to spend a little bit of time with these guys this last offseason. And hopefully we're starting to turn it around and get that unity back between the offensive line. Offensive linemen, that's not a position where you see they're the star of the team very often. So your group was very unique and that Kentucky was branded around.

you guys and being the big blue wall and other teams knew if you were playing Kentucky you were having to deal with that offensive line you mentioned being proud was there just an extra sense of pride knowing that like the offensive lines kind of were the stars of those teams and that the success or even the failures it all kind of fell on you all a little more than hasn't in most programs and most cultures a hundred percent that's what we signed up for you know we wanted to make being an old lineman look fun and it is fun you know when you sit in those meeting rooms with us like we have a blast we joke around and i always say that every single level you go to it's different people it's uh same people

different faces and those are the good offensive line rooms when you can still joke around you can have fun and make being an old lineman fun that's what we sign up for at the end of the day is to be the be the get no congratulations on whatever and take all the blame at the end of the day and we got to be okay with that. But, you know, when we started being, you know, embracing that role at UK, and we were just out there having fun, you know, having competitions between each other and everything like that, you obviously saw the what happened in turn. You know, we went out there and we won games and we rushed for a lot of yards

and we got to be known as, you know, a really good offensive line that a lot of teams didn't really want to go against. And so it was just, it was a blast playing. And like I said, it's that pride that kind of carried us through those years at UK. Well, man, I appreciate you taking some time off your tractor to come and talk to us a little bit. You're going to get some beef. I ask him, say, what you've been doing this summer? Farming.

I've been doing farming. You know, get ready. Of course, your athletic career didn't start at Piccadome. I started with the South Lexington Legends, eight-year-old All-Star team. He was my first baseman. Look me right in the eye. He was eight years old. He's looked me right in the eye.

And Malian, we're so proud of you. The city of Lexington's proud of you. Lafayette High School's proud of you. Jesse Clark Middle School is proud of you. UK's proud of you. You guys set the tradition that we still live today. Everybody still talks about the big blue wall. And I'm really happy to hear you're doing well.

And you're a dad now, your kids. And just really proud of the man you've become. I appreciate it. And I appreciate you all having me on the show. All right, Landon Young, ladies and gentlemen, one of the pride of Lexington. You know, Lexington didn't wait for years and years and years and didn't produce an NFL player.

And now in the last couple years, they got Landon Young, Jed Willis, Devin Key, Lucky Jackson, all about the same age all at once and Landon was kind of the leader of all those guys had a Damian Harris in there might have a Dane Key next year I think so

nice little Kentucky pipeline I like that he lined up against Indomicon Sue and considered selling beef full time while his hand was in the dirt he's looking at Sue but his brain is going maybe I should farm maybe farm is not a bad option after all all right we'll take our break come back

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHart Women's Sports. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. Ryan Drew and Shannon here. We're in studio today. And I love that whole group, Landon Young, Cash Daniel, Drake Jackson, those three Kentucky kids, they just brought a work ethic and a blue-collar attitude to the team. It's kind of been missing the last couple years, I feel like.

Yeah, and it's just, we all know. just a little different when they're one of us out there. That recruiting class was special. Kentucky had a lot of good contributors from the state in that era. 859-2802-287. Casey's been holding for a while. So, hey, fellas. How are you, Casey?

Hey, good morning, fellas. So I was wondering if you guys had watched the SBs because Shane Gillis, I thought, killed it. There was a lot of mixed reaction on Twitter. But I wanted to see he picked it a couple of our Kentucky guys. He kind of poked at Carl and poked at SGA a little bit. I thought he was funny. So I just wanted to see what you guys thought

And I hope you guys have a great weekend, go ahead Thanks, Casey. Have a good weekend also. Yeah, Drew brought this up during one of the commercial breaks. Told us one of the jokes. You can say that joke. Did you hear what you? Well, to answer a question, I really enjoyed it.

It was very awkward. Without being there, you can't tell how, like, bad they're bombing or if they're getting applause. It was hard to really tell if it was as awkward as it felt on TV. But he had some jokes that after he said, and you're kind of like, who, surprise. He said that one on Disney Network here. What do you say about Carl?

Oh, no, don't make me pick on Carl. He said, Carl Towns is here. Hey, girl. Sorry, Carl. That became a Carl trend there through the playoffs a little bit. Yes, it was. Yes, it was. He gave a shout out to Shea and said everyone's sitting around him's in foul trouble.

He did do the Norm MacDonald OJ joke that was very controversial at the SPs in the mid-90s. He brought it back. At the end, as he was well, he was watching. walking off. He said, I have one more joke and he did it, which I loved as a norm guy. That one, all the norm fans appreciated that one because it was a nod to him. I was a nod to Norm McDonald. So he brought that one back. That's a famous espy moment. The one I told Ryan during the break that I'll repeat here on the show, it's so stupid.

It's the most childish of the jokes he made. But he was talking about Shohey Atani and how he has a bookie. And then he said, a bookie, that's what Bill Belichick reads to his girlfriend before bedtime. I enjoyed that one. But it's very... Were they there? Was Bill and his... They didn't show them that.

Most people he talked about, they showed. They were there? Yeah. And a lot of uncomfortable faces. Yeah, it was one of those... I like uncomfortable comedy, so I enjoyed it. It was even being at home watching it, like, oh, my goodness. He has to feel so awkward up there because it didn't feel like he was getting laughs

and he was pushing the envelope a little bit, even would apologize for one after he said it. But overall, I enjoyed it. Is it up there when Norm MacDonald did it? No. No, but it is, like Casey said, you either loved it or you hated it. A lot of people absolutely hated it and some people kind of enjoy that kind of humor and kind of the tension in the room. While we're talking about TV shows, the late show with Stephen Colbert is getting canceled starting next May, May of 2026. I got to admit, I've probably seen that show two times, maybe three.

I just didn't care for it. Do either one of you guys watch it? Is that something that's going to bother you? I had to watch it and I was like, this is terrible. Who is watching this? And so I won't miss them at all personally. I used to not even regularly, but I would semi-frequently watch the, I guess it's called the Colbert Report on Comedy Central back in like college.

Since he moved to CBS, is it even CBS? CBS, I don't know that I've seen it twice. And he did that, what, a decade or more? Yeah, he's been on forever. And I was a pretty frequent Letterman watcher. I just, I don't know if it's that style of TV or him. I don't know what, but I did not follow him. Every time I saw it was like a big political rant.

I'm like, this guy, he's just obnoxious. So I could, I had to turn it off every time I try to watch any of it. Do those shows even work anymore? I just getting ready to say that. No, I know. Jimmy Fallon, right? Does Seth Meyer still do his show? I have no idea.

I mean, Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah, Kimmel definitely does. Yeah. It seems since they're not replacing it, maybe CBS recognizes that that model sucks. Boy, it used to work. That was the hit. Oh, I used to be in the Letterman-Lenow battles. After the local news, when Evansville, we came on at 10 o'clock. So it started at 1030. You got Johnny Carson or Jay Leno, and then David Letterman right after that. Everybody watched that every night. Some of these guys, they put on at like 1.30 in the morning. I'm going, who was watching this?

Remember Carson Daily? He used to have a show. It started at like 2 o'clock in the morning. And it was like 30 minutes. Really, they're going to have a show on and it's only on for 30 minutes. I always wonder like he was watching that. I think Carson Daily is one of the most overrated people I've ever seen in my life. You're a T.R. Oga? Dry. No, no personality, not charismatic. Wow.

My little Carson Daily. That's the way I felt about Drew Carey hosting the prices right. Do we need to add Carson Daily to Ryan's list? I think we do. That felt personal. Well, I just always felt like, man, how's this guy doing all this? What do you watch him on? I don't even know where I would consume Carson Daily content.

He's on the Today Show, I think. He's on the day show now. He used to do the voice. see all the MTV stuff he used to do. Yeah, I just used to watch him after school, counting down for my favorite music videos, haven't kept up with them much since. These late night shows, though,

they only get like one good segment anyway, and then it's on social media in the morning. I think that's what's really killing them. 859-2-287, who's next, Shannon? Marsha. Marcia. Go ahead, Marcia. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, Marsha.

I have two things. Two things. First, I want to wish. Happy anniversary to Robert and Misty English, 44 years. Nice, Misty English. And we'll see them, yes, we'll see them tonight at the TVT game. And I have something to say about the TBT. Go ahead, Marcy.

My favorite thing in the world is seeing former players. Okay, I love seeing our former players. However, in most of the games you see them, like at the, that Tate's Creek game the other day. They're just out there having a good time. If you want to see defense and rebounds, you're going to be frustrated. See, I get frustrated. Kendall was fussing at me at that game the other night.

Mama, calm down. Because I want to see defense. When you go to them TBT games, it's for real. They play in. And you're seeing, I'm getting two things in once. I'm seeing former players, and they're playing. And I'm so excited. I can't wait for.

for tonight. And even though beating Louisville was the cream, I just soon Louisville lose and don't have to even look at the spitting ugly faces. Well, Marcia, if there's anybody who's excited about it, you were a girl I knew was going to be there tonight, supporting the team you were there every game last year, so enjoy it again tonight.

I sure will. Love you, Marcia, appreciate it. That's one thing that Willie was talking about they're going to be locked down defensively. you know he's talking about that on the show yesterday well even Andrew Harrison said that something about you know the defense are going to play so maybe uh maybe Sean Woods is trying to change

the focus of the team a little bit even though it's a TBT tournament my biggest takeaway from that was Willie saying that he doesn't even pick up a basketball until he goes out there like you think that these guys are probably practicing somewhere and they're just like I guess they had that scrimm it or I can't say scrimmage they had that get together um but you know he's like he doesn't even touch a basketball he said he didn't even own a basketball yeah just like riding a bike that's what he's

said. Okay, people think he was on the golf course yesterday when he called us. And you know that noise? I did hear a mower. We thought it was a golf cart. Golf cart. Oh, yeah. I'm playing it back in my head. That was definitely a golf. Yeah, I agree. He was playing golf. It was supposedly meeting with somebody. Well, you can't play by yourself. That's no fun. So he met someone at the golf course. But I was led to believe it was meeting like a recruit or a current player or maybe he's playing golf with somebody yesterday. I think you're realizing in this moment that you got played. I did get played.

He had to get his 18 holes in. Or 36, actually, I think yesterday he confessed to multiple rounds a day. Well, that's what he was doing. That's what that sound was. That sound was him on the golf cart. Clubs were rattling around in the bag. Yep. And at one moment I heard a mower, but then the motor sounded different.

So he was by a lawnmower on the course, then fired up his golf cart. We got it. We're on it. Look at this. He told you a lot, Ryan. Investigative reporters. All right, we'll take our break. We come back.

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