KSR - 2025-08-22- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

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I'm doing wonderful. Great to be with you and the team, Matt. Craig, guys. So I met you a number of years ago, and then, like, five years ago, you kind of changed my existence by calling me up and saying, hey, what do you think about buying a wrestling company? And then the next thing you know, I found myself in that world. So I guess so thank you for that. It has been a great adventure. I know that you, I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have.

Well, it was neither one of our primary focuses in life. It certainly was one of our fun focuses. Sometimes it felt like it, though. That is true. Sometimes it felt like. What did you think, by the way, with OVW, there's a lot of people that say wrestling is kind of like politics in life, especially now, you're Trump being president.

He was in both for a while. You're in politics. You've been in wrestling. Do you think wrestling and politics have a lot in common? I definitely think they have a lot in common. I mean, definitely sort of the public persona and the aspect. That's certainly critically important. And people gravitate towards those who they like.

and who they don't like very easily. You know, preparation is everything. We saw how much preparation all these wrestlers do it, yeah. And that helps also in politics. So there is a lot more in common between professional wrestling and politics than I think any of us would like, but that's the world. Did you find it weird when the cameras were following us around and to have your life?

I mean, I know you're in a public eye, but that was a little bit different. Did you find that odd at all? It was, oh, it was definitely weird. And so not, but it's, you know, that was also three, four years ago that that happened. And so now I'm a little bit more normal, used to cameras in my life than I was back then. I was just getting into it at that point in time. So, Ryan, four years ago, Craig looks at me and says, or four and a half years ago, I think I'm going to run for mayor of Louisville.

What do you think? And I gave one of my great, terrible predictions of all time. I said, why in the world would you want to do that? And you have no chance of winning. What a great friend. I was very wrong about the no chance of winning. Now that you've done it, I mean, was it what you thought you'd be? I have loved every day of it, Matt.

Certainly it's the most challenging thing I've ever done in my life, but it's also been the most rewarding. And nearly three years in, the momentum that we have in Louisville is wonderful. There's so much positive stuff going on, including this project right here that VOA and the city have partnered on with other private partners. I'm really proud of where Louisville is. So one of things we've talked about a lot on this show

because I think it's become kind of a big issue in Lexington. and to be honest, it was an issue in Louisville for a long time. And I actually think you've made some good strides on it is what does a city do about the homelessness situation? I mean, Lexington is actively dealing with this. They have new parks being built. They're trying to figure out how to handle it. I think anybody who lives in Lexington knows that.

It feels like to me the situation has gotten better in Louisville. I know this is part of it. Talk to me about, like, what does the city do? How do you think, like how do you handle it? Because it seems like such a tough issue to figure it out. It is challenging. I mean, people who are homeless are struggling. They're dealing with addiction and mental health issues.

So we have found that by providing more services and shelter, that's the ultimate solution. That's what people need. They need help and they need support. So we start, just like this project right here, that's providing services and shelter to families. It's providing medical respite for people who get in the hospital that are homeless so that they don't go back out on the streets and all the other great services that VOA does. You know, we're working with the private sector is also putting in money to this. They're going to have some great announcements about some other funders for this. Long term, the solution, it's more housing units, it's more mental health providers,

it's more people who help with drug addictions. You also have to enforce the laws, and that's something that we did here in Louisville. I mean, we really no longer have an encampment problem in Louisville. We used to, when I became mayor, that's no longer the challenge. Now we're helping people who are. How do you balance that, though? I mean, enforcing the laws also requires people. Like, how do you balance that?

Every day, there are a lot of people. I mean, the police are social service providers, our housing developers, everybody is contributing, and you make judgment calls on a daily basis. You, Rishi Farmer was here a minute ago. You said you went to Ballard in 19, what is that, 88? When that? Well, come on now, Matt. I'm not that old.

It was 1991, maybe. Come on. No, it wasn't. Was it? Am I getting my math? I mean, Richie graduated in the UK in 90s. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. I heard you doing a math problem earlier. My math is worse than yours. That's right. I graduated in 91. But that that was because

Alan Houston was a couple years ahead of me. And so I was there at Ballard during those great rival days. And I recently traveled down to Clay County with my good friend, Senator Stivers, and all the folks from one Clay County, many of whom are here today. And I saw in the Clay County Historical Museum, there is a great retrovis. of the Ballard versus Clay County. Those are the great high school basketball rivalries of all time. So you made a decision for the University of Louisville that you decided to bring the banner back, right, at U.S.L. Now, we're a Kentucky show, but, like, they're our rivals.

So you brought the banner back to U.S. You know, I don't know what we think about that. What was the reason to do that? So I think the two most popular things I have done as mayor were, number one, bringing the banner back and now there are calls for me to get involved in formally restoring the 2013 championship. Do you think that'll happen, by the way? I would like to see it happen.

I don't know what's going on with the NCAA these days, but if I can help leave the charge, I'm going to, so we're looking into that. And then the other most popular thing I did was when we had an honorary street naming in honor of Tom Jurich just a few weeks ago. Okay, hang on just saying. All right. I just interviewed Andy Barr a couple days ago, gave him a hard time.

I got to give you a hard time. How are you going to name a street after Tom Jurich? He did a lot for this city and this athletic program here. Come on, now. He built up the entire campus. He certainly did. He made the foundation that U of L Athletics is building on top of today, and Josh Hurd and his team are doing an amazing job.

Do you think that the change in the NCAA now, like the fact that players can be paid, etc., does that make you think people look back at that time a little bit differently? Oh, absolutely. I think it definitely changes the perspective of everything. I don't know if it's good or bad for college sports. I'll leave that to you guys as the experts. But it certainly is changing things.

I was thrilled yesterday, though, I know you're talking about U of L, but U.K. I saw your coach. Coach Pope was at the hand breakfast yesterday morning at the state fair. So have you met Mark Pope? Yeah, I met Mark Pope and his wife, Leanne. They're wonderful people. They had me to a UK basketball game with my family last year. Now, let me ask you a question.

You were at a U.K. basketball game. And I wore blue. I believe you were like in like the second row or something. Did U.S. fans give you a hard time about that? Absolutely, they did. I was going. It was great, though. You know, I'm not one of those haters, though.

I'm, I like to support. I am definitely. I like to support UK athletically and academically. It's great for our state. I say I'm a hater. I am. But I also have said over the years, and I believe this, this city as an economic unit, and I think most of you here live in Louisville.

This city needs U.S. basketball, especially, but football as well, but especially basketball, to be competitive for the downtown. Just as a mayor, how much of what this downtown does where we are requires Louisville to be good? It's incredibly helpful. I mean, think about it. It's 20 plus games a year at the Yom Center. If you have 20,000 people coming versus 8,000 people, that is a big difference for all the restaurants and bars that are downtown. When our women's team is doing well also, that helps tremendously also.

So you have like 40 days a year. We have three volleyball games that sell out each year also because we've got a great volleyball program. it's critical to the success of downtown Louisville. And it just makes people feel better. When Louisville's doing well, when the football program's doing well, people are in a good mood in Louisville. For years, there was a problem that Judge did not want U.K. to be able to use the Yom Center for a game.

Would you be willing if Kentucky wanted to allow U.K. to use the Yom Center for a game? Absolutely. That'd be great for our city. It'd be great for our state. I'm all for it. Yeah, well, that's good. Remember when we had Greg Fisher on that time

and I asked him that question? I remember it very poorly. You want to talk about it? awkward interview. Yeah, he wasn't very receptive. He was not very receptive. You've been big on trying to bring sporting events to Louisville. Like, do you have any hints of things that might be to come for people?

There is one very big international event we are working on right now that if we get it, we're in the final two would be wonderful. Oh, wow. It would be in a couple of years from now. Final two. It would be wonderful. Come on, man. It is an Olympic sport.

an international it is in okay I can't get too much right but we have another great in next month we're going to celebrate another great event that we're having in 2028 if it happens it would be in 2028 that's a hint okay but the

Solheim Cup which is basically the women's version of the Ryder Cup that's coming to Vahala in 2028 that's going to be a really wonderful event let me ask you about the golf thing because now the PGA does not own Valhalla Do you think we'll be, and then obviously there was the Scotty Sheffler incident last year.

I don't remember that. Do you think we'll be able to get some PGA event? I know the Solheim Cup is PGA, but we'll- That's L-PGA. Yeah, well, you think we'll be able to get something back here? Absolutely. We had a great relationship with the PGA of America, and I know everything that happened on that Friday between the tragic accident and the arrest of Scotty Schaeffer. In some ways, that brought us closer together.

Jimmy Kurtzorfer and his team, the owners of all. Hall of State in close touch with the PGA. So I'm really hoping that we get another 20-30-something PGA championship. And I think we have a really good shot to do it. When you got that-success. Yeah, no, when you got that phone call that morning, because I know, like, as a mayor, you're just sitting there thinking, Shannon, please don't have something happen.

Please don't have something bad. When you got that phone call, were you just like, oh, no. Well, here's actually, so here's what happened. So I woke up as I do many mornings, right at like 6 o'clock to hop on the treadmill, usually for my day get started. That day I was planning to go. I had a nice day out at Valhalla. And I wake up to more text than I've ever seen on my phone at 6 a.m.

And I'm like, what the heck is going on? So I start scrolling at first. And it just was so. Surreal. Right, because it had both the tragic death plus the arrest. And the first things I was getting did not mention Scotty Schaeffer by name. It was just that we had arrested a golfer and then more information. So literally what I did, which I've never done before or since then,

I just, like on a group FaceTime with our chief of police and some of my deputy mayors at like 6.10 a.m. And I literally sat on the top of my stairs. I didn't even go downstairs for like 45 minutes just trying to get information because that was one of the challenges in any real time. We were out there on the course that day doing our show. And you remember, I mean, were you there? You were there, right? I was not there that time. Like we were trying to figure out what was going on and you're at the course.

And that was a surreal day. coming in quickly and it's hard to stay on top of it it was you know so we all did go out it we went out everyone went out to the course we met there we were able to be oafid and again I'm glad everything worked out the way that it did but that was quite a day it's also your birthday happy everybody good a big happy birthday to thank you mayor to mayor Craig we actually have present and cake for you oh thank you Jennifer this is the amazing Jennifer Hancock who leads the team at VOA that's doing a great job here at the community care campus so so yeah well

Mine's was last week, mine's next week. So happy birthday. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And thank you very much for coming. Real quick, for people listening. Give the 30 second plug for this place. Well, VOA has this amazing project here that I think is a national model,

the community care campus. It's providing more services and shelter for individuals who are homeless at risk of being homeless, starting with helping families, providing medical respite, and all sorts of services to help people who are in need. That's one of the best. things we can do as a community is to help others that are in need. We're addressing the homelessness crisis, but also as importantly, helping these people get a new lease on life, a new path in life. Thanks to Jennifer and our team at VOA, combined with our private sector donors,

the state, the city have all contributed funds, and we're going to keep making it going. Perfect. Mayor, and more importantly, a co-minority owner of Ovalian Wrestling with me, Craig Gringberg. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. We will 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 Sports Slice comes in.

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Listen to the 1021 podcast on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio 859-2-80-2287. Text Machine 772-7-7-4-4 here at the Volunteers of America in Louisville. Let's talk a little bit about the, since we're in Louisville, obviously Vince Mero has switched sides and has gone from the Kentucky side to the Louisville side. He did an interview a couple days ago where it was with a different newspaper, but once again, Ryan brought up KSR said that he was frustrated not by us, the radio, but by the website. If you remember, Nick Rouse wrote a kind of behind-the-scenes article where he said, basically, that working with Mark Stoops was almost like Game of Thrones and that Vince had been kind of pushed to the side for, Eddie Grant, et cetera. He took exception to that, said that's not what happened. And, yeah, it was just

he, he once again, he was obviously very frustrated by that. What did you make of his comments? You know, we all love Vincent. We'll all consider him a friend. He may or may not be at that party tomorrow night, by the way, just before you say it. I hope he does. I mean, I really like this. I mean, he was invited and I have a, I have an RSVP. I have an RSVP, maybe. A maybe. Ooh. He enjoyed it. He enjoyed it. He and Josiah are the two mavis that are. I like that. Yeah, those are the two. They're the two mavis.

But wouldn't it be fun to see him and, you know, just catch up on life, not just necessarily football. But what are you going to say to him about that comment? I think there's a lot of truth to that that they gave some of the power, the transfer portal power to Eddie Grand, and they gave some of the recruitment of freshman, gave some of that power to the position coaches. And I think that hurt Vince's feelings. I think he thought, look, I'm the guy.

I'm the guy that brings in all these players. Why are you giving away some of my power to these other? guys do you think Shannon Ryan will say that to his face tomorrow night if he if he runs into him or will Ryan find a reason to go hide under the bar if you were to repeat what Ryan just said for Ryan to Vince Ryan would be underneath the table look you got I don't I don't think the Vince ever came across as a guy with a big ego but you have to have an ego to work in that in that field right to be a football coach I feel like you have to have that and to hear those words said by Rouse or whoever it was the road it probably did it was interesting in reading the

article about how he's being paid because he's actually being paid less of a salary than he makes it Kentucky. But it says he's like getting the difference. It says from a private source, which I thought was kind of interesting. And like there's a, so there's some, I don't know if it's a person or if there's some, someone it looked like, but some of his money, Ryan, is coming from a private source, which you don't hear about a lot. But I do wonder if that happens. in the future if like there's there there are ways where you almost have people sponsoring coaches or something and some of the money does come from private stuff you know Vince was what the highest tight-in coach in the history of college football not highest highest highest paid highest paid

tight-in coach you don't want to say it was the highest tight-in coach that was I don't think that's a good I don't think that's nice a lot of corn bread him he would not have gone to Louisville if the money was not at least comparable he just wouldn't have to he's earned the right to be the highest paid coach He's not going to give that up, I don't think. Kentucky High School football starts tomorrow. I asked you a few days ago if you had a preview. You had three days to get one. Do you have some previewing?

Yeah, I got a little bit. You know, the rich get richer. It's going to be the same schools we're looking at, Boyle County, Trinity, St. X. But Paducah Tillman's got a really good team. They've got one of the best players in the state, a big offensive lineman. It's like one of the top players in the state. But I think the best player in the state is a junior. Seneca driver at Boyle County.

He's the next NFL superstar. That's a good name. Seneca driver. Yeah. They play about Bullies charges tomorrow. Is he a potential UK football recruit? Well, I know he was being recruited. Vince was recruiting him for UK when Vince was here as a sophomore.

Now he's junior, but the guy, I think he's the next, like I said, NFL caliber player to come through. He's just a junior. I hate to tell you, though, they're going to lose tomorrow. They don't play tonight. They play tomorrow. They play Bullitt East. And Bullitt East is going to take him down. Did you know Ryan said that he was the announcer tonight?

for Woodford County versus, quote, a team from Illinois. I was told by somebody on the text machine that you might need to know that game is not until next weekend. Yeah. It's got this Friday. It's a week from Friday. So your plans is opened up. Now you have another lonely night at home.

Free night tonight. So here's my question, Shannon. If I hadn't told him that. He would have showed up. Do you think he would have just showed up to the game? Yeah. Where's everybody at? Where is everyone?

Yeah. Are she supposed to be playing football today? There's no doubt. out he would have done that you need somebody to like schedule your your it's like you got enough time now to do it yoga girl said the same thing because she goes i guess you're busy now your high school football i'm like oh may have missed that up i do want to mention one more high school football note okay fort thomas highlands they're tied in we all need to keep an eye on his last name is lorenzen and he's gonna be a superstar so it's a kid yes how what year is he i believe he'd be a junior is he's like really good

yeah he's already got offers from like Miami of ohio and some schools like that so But we all got to pull for Fort Thomas Highlands and Taden Lorenzen. Of course, yes. I cannot see again. You talk about that kid is now a junior in high school. Isn't it crazy? Little Taden, I think, was maybe 10 years old. That is absolutely wild to be Jared's kid.

It's a junior in high school. Unbelievable. Who's up next? Hagan is up next. Hagan. Go ahead. Hagan. Hey, guys.

First time calling. Who are? What's up? I just want to let you know. I got a dental school interview at Kentucky on next Wednesday, and right after I'm going to stop by the bar and check it out. That'll be awesome. Like, we open on Tuesday at KS. Bar. We'll be doing the shows there, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Come on out. We're going to be having all kinds of specials. And then, of course, Saturday the game, and we'll open for breakfast. It should be a really fun week. I'm looking forward to it. It's been awesome being back in there with all the energy and the vibe in the last couple nights.

Awesome. I'm excited also for Ryan. Next year I'm going to be living alone for the first time as well. So I'm just praying for you. I know it's going to be hard. Yeah, appreciate the call. You have had, I've had more people come up to me and talk about you being alone. I've had like therapists reach out to me and want to help you. Like, I'm sure it's been even more overwhelming for you. We were talking last night at KS. Bar and you said, has anybody come up and talk to you about it? I said every table, every single table. I'd stop by. that they've gone through it. They're getting ready to go through it.

They dread the fact they've got to go through it. I'm telling you, for the people that are empty-nest syndrome, it's a real thing, and it's awful. I hate every second of it, and I'm just going to have to start having more kids. There you go. Go to the adoption clinic this week. Come home with two more kids. I would guarantee you that's not the prescribed thing that you should do. I think I need to go adopt.

Like Shannon said, four or five more kids. Get me a starting lineup for basketball. All about 6, 5, 6, 7, 6, 6, 8 kids, and let's go. One person writes on the text machine, Matt, rank everyone rank their top five scores for UK basketball this year in order. All right, while you all think I'll go first. Top five scores in order. I'm going to go Jalen Lowe 1, Otega O.A. 2. Oh, this is where it gets hard.

I mean, you could go a lot of different ways for the other three. All right, so I got to pick a big, because I'm going to say Mohamed Diabate 3. I'm going to say Jasper Johnson 4, Colin Chandler 5. But 3, 4, and 5 could be 8 different people. What about you? Okay, I'm going to go Otega 1 and low 2. I'm a flip-flop your top 2, flip-lop around. Taga 1, low 2, Aberdeen 3.

You don't even have average. I'm going to go Yellovich 4. Wow. And I'm going to go Brandon Garrison, 5. Why, you just picked three completely different people. Well, you said, because three, four, five. All right, Shannon, what are you doing? All right, so I've got Lowe, one, Otega, two, Aberdeen, three.

I'm going to go Jasper Johnson, four. 10 by 5. Brandon Garrison. Yeah. It's crazy. It's hard. Starting at number three, there are eight guys who could do it. Absolutely.

There really are. Like, that is, I think the top. Two are going to be the top two? I think so. But after that, what? Yellovich number four? I think he's going to be the surprise. Wow, that's exciting.

All right, we'll take a break. Be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. It's Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Volunteers of America. Community Care Campus right here. The campus helps transitional housing for young adults. Permanent supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness. Has a medical clinic and a lot more.

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So there's a natural bridge. The rock has shaped into like a bridge on top. A bridge from what to what? Well, you just hike up the side of the mountain. They got like a path about a mile. You get to go up to the bridge. It's beautiful views of the valley and everything. But when I think of a bridge, like I'm thinking of a bridge over air.

It's like a rock bridge over space. Okay, so it's a bridge. Yeah. All right, but it's natural. It's natural, yeah. Okay. Is it nice? I like it.

There's a chairlift you can go up. You don't want to take the hike. Well, this is like clearly a team building outing. So Mark Pope seems Shannon to be big at those. He seems to be big on the sort of let's do things as a group and let's all. When you're bringing in an all new team, every year you've got to do something to build the team chemistry. So that's kind of cool. I've never been to it before.

For the folks here in Louisville, this won't matter to you quite as much. But in Lexington, 10 a.m. tomorrow, they're opening that part. They are expecting thousands of people there. I'm really looking forward to having all those people outside my house tomorrow. Will you be there to catch the babies falling off the playground? I'm just going to tell you right now, if you block my driveway, I'm going to have you towed. That's my one. Do not block my drive.

Otherwise, do whatever you want. But there's going to be a lot of people there tomorrow. And hopefully there will not be kids falling in despair off of the playground. What's the parking situation like over there? Do they have enough space? Do you think, or is it going to be run over? It's just like any U.K. game. I mean, you just probably park wherever you do for you.

I want you out there like counting the number of injuries so we can go like, you know, X amount of days since an injury. I don't want to be seen as the like guy that's against the playground. I'm just telling you I'm a little nervous about the playground and I just want to have my reservations noted. Well, I'm planning on, I'm not going to go tomorrow, but I'm planning on going and parking in your driveway and walking over there. You can park in my driveway. Other people cannot block my driveway. College football playoff. We talked about this on my ESPN show. I don't think we talked about it here. The Big Ten says they want to have 28 teams. The SEC yesterday said they want to have 16 teams. So I think because the SEC and the Big Ten both want to have more teams, they're definitely going to be more teams. Would you rather have 16 or would you rather have 28? Now, when I said 28, I saw you, sir, shake your head, no. Let me make the case for 28.

We might make it. That's my thought. If you want the chance of Kentucky making a football player. My case for 28 is we have a shot of making it. Now, I think we have a shot at 16, but I think we'd have a real shot, not this year, But we'd have a real shot some years at 28. So I'm actually not against it. I think 28 probably doesn't happen.

I think it ends up being 16, but what would you prefer if you had a chance? Yeah, if you're a Kentucky football fan like we are, you want to go 28. There's been a couple years we would have been in the playoffs at 28, maybe even in 16, so I'm off for 28 to give us a chance. So here's so just so people know, a 16 game playoff, the argument for it is if you're one of the top four seeds, you still get a home game. Right? You could still have a game on your campus with the revenue that's associated with that because the way the system is now, the best four teams don't get a home game. Right. Right. So this is the reason you would do that is so everybody gets a home game.

Now, one of the games would probably stink. You'd have a one seed probably against like Tulane or something like that. But in general, everybody gets a home game. What would happen with the 28 is the top four seeds would get a buy, but then the first and second round, so basically the round of 32 and in the round of 16 would both be home games. So some schools would get two home games on their campus. Which would you prefer? You know, I think 28 feels like a lot, but when you start to think about it and play it out in your mind, having a home game in a college playoff like that, the atmospheres would be crazy, right?

And I was going to say, like you said, Kentucky would have a chance. And then lastly, you know, we put such an emphasis on the top 25. It feels like the top 25 should have the chance to play for a playoff. I'll do one more thing. See if this convinces you, sir. No, I mean, like, I get it. My initial reaction is 28 seems too many. But what if I told you that there are 340 teams Division 1 in basketball

and 68 make it, which is a little less than 20%, right? Then what if I told you there's 138 Division 1 teams in football, 28 would be about 20%? right? It would be the, it would be kind of the exact same thing as in basketball. About 20% of the teams would make the playoffs. And then I'll go even further. Look at the pro sports leagues, NBA, NFL, NHL, and Major League Baseball, in all of those sports, more than 20% of the teams make the playoff. It's more like 35 to 40% of the teams make the playoff.

So the argument is, of all the sports, the sports, the sports, that has the smallest percentage of the teams that play it. And this includes all college sports, baseball, volleyball, all of them. College football is the sport that has the smallest percentage of teams in it make the playoffs. And if you wanted to put it in line with the other sports, Ryan, you would have 28 make it. So again, I'm not advocating for that, but that isn't, I hadn't thought of it like that, but that's an interesting way to look. It's coming.

We've got to just accept the fact that the playoffs are going to expand. It's coming. And I love what you talk about the home field advantage. I mean, that's one thing that makes college football great, is that home game environment, that atmosphere of these college stadiums. Can you imagine if it's a playoff game? It's going to be awesome. Well, let's just say we went on the road to, I don't know, Penn State to play a playoff game.

It would be kind of awesome. I mean, it would be. And if we ever got to a year that we were able to host, oh, my. It would be like the best night in Lexington of all times. So, I mean, it is, I don't think those. go to 28, but I don't think it's a crazy idea as maybe I did when I first heard. Who's up next? Adam is up next. Adam, go ahead, Adam.

So I'm not totally against 28. If you're not, you know, one of the best 16, which, you know, Kentucky usually isn't, then you don't deserve to make it. Do you feel the same way about the NCAA tournament? Do you feel the same way about the NCAA tournament? Because if you were going to do percentages, only 32 teams would make the NCAA tournament. And most years, Kentucky is one of the best 32, correct? But I mean, you would, if you would advocate for cutting the NCAA tournament from 64 to 32? Yeah, yeah. I don't, why do I need to see a team that went 7 and 11 in the ACC as, you know,

because I love the country. I would argue the first two days of the NCAA tournament and the best days of basketball of the year. That's just me. But go ahead. Yeah. So I saw your, or heard you talking to Mayor Greenberg about having a game in Louisville. As long as it's a marquee game, when we got into, when it was UK and IU in Freedom Hall every year, that was awesome. Yeah.

When it got to the Iona and UAB and UNC Asheville, like, we can do without that. But it's actually crazy to think in today's world, like, can you imagine that we used to play SEC games in Freedom Hall and in Cincinnati? Like, that just blows my mind now that, you know, something like that. I didn't realize. We played SEC games in Cincinnati. Yeah, Kentucky and Vandy one year played up in Cincinnati. I think this is when Derek Anderson got hurt. See, you know, I didn't even know that.

I didn't even realize we played a game in Cincinnati. Well, thank you. Appreciate the call. By the way, that was a little piece of news from Mayor Greenberg that he said he would let Kentucky use the YUM center. Would you want Kentucky to use the Yom Center for a game if they had the ability? Because for a long time, they were kind of banned from doing it. I would love it.

I really think the Yom Center is one of the best. college basketball venues I've ever been in. I think it's an awesome venue, and we would pack it. It would be blue. Richie, would you want them to play a game here? I actually would, and I'll tell you when I'd really like it, is when they host the first and second round of the NCAA tournament. Yep.

Because when we're good, if we're ever really good, and they're hosting the first and second round, we'll be there, right? Louisville last year was put in Rupp as an eight seed, so that may tell you that they would even put us in there, Shannon, and even if we weren't one of the top seats, I think it would be a good idea to play a game in the Yom Center if we know the NCAA tournament that year is in the Yom Center. Yeah, and as long as we're getting enough marquee games in Lexington

at Rufferin, because there's some schedules where you just don't get enough, you know, big-name teams in there. So I wouldn't want to substitute it out for that, though. But part of why I like the games at the Yom Center or at Freedom Hall was not just because it's in Louisville. I mean, it's an hour away. That's not a huge difference. It's that you got a different crowd than you get in Ruppery.

Those tickets were up for sale, and usually, even against the bad teams, the atmosphere was better in Freedom Hall because you had people who just didn't get to go all the time. You know, these big five-year deals were playing with Gonzaga and Indiana. Why wouldn't you want to play one at the Yom Center instead of going to Nashville? Those games against Indiana at the Yom Center were awesome.

Or she were at Freedom Hall. Those were awesome. The environments were awesome. They were half and half, half blue, half red. If you're a Kentucky fan living in Louisville and you had them play here, I think you're just probably by default a bigger fan, you know, more excited to be there. Stop overpaying for sunglasses.

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and I'm sure it will continue. 859-2-80-2287. One person writes, Matt, what about Jay-O-A-M-A-M-Ber. and Quaintance. How are you not picking him as one of your top scores? Well, I mean, I'm not picking him as one of my top scores because I don't know if he'll play enough. And I also think there'll be a few, even if we're doing points per game, I think there'll be a few games where it takes him a while to get, to sort of get accustomed. So that's my reason.

Exactly. He may be the highest NBA draft pick when it's all said and done, but he's going to limp into the season a little bit. You know, they'll take it a little easy on him before he finally gets going and then he can pick it up a little bit. I don't think he would play. I mean, I don't know this, but I would guess that he probably won't play a whole lot in the first couple of months of the season just because of that injury. Yeah, I mean, that's my thought. It's really more just like a playing time kind of thing.

But in terms of talent, by the end of the year, he's going to be, if he advances like you want, he's going to be one of the most talented folks going. All right, let's college football begins tomorrow with some actual games, including a top 25 matchup. So I'm going to go through here as part of our draft kings. You go to draft kings use promo code KSR. We're going to make our picks. Are you ready to go?

Let's go. This is just going to be a quick. Who wins? Let's get started. Idaho State, UNLV. Give me Idaho State. Oh, yeah. Idaho State's back to have a big year.

They're 26.5 point underdog. So I'm going to go ahead and take UNLV. I think going with Idaho State is probably not the best early pick. Zero, anything could happen. Shannon and I meant they cover. They cover the 26. Oh, did you? Yeah, okay.

I didn't think that's what you said. Fresno State plays Kansas. Kansas with its new $300 million donation. Will they hold serve and win at home against Fresno State? I'd say they had better. Otherwise, there's going to be a lot of questions asked. Why can't you win against Fresno? Give me Kansas.

Oh, yeah, I got Kansas all day every day. All right. Sam Houston State playing against Billy and Western Kentucky. the Hill Toppers debuting their season? I got to go with Western Kentucky on this one. Toppers, Toppers, Toppers. Yeah, they got a big season coming. I'm going to go Western as well.

Stanford gets on the road and crosses the Pacific and heads to Hawaii. Who you got? Give me. By the way, Hawaii's a two and a half point favorite. The rainbows, Hawaii. Yeah, they'll have jet lag and their legs will be tired, so give me Hawaii.

I'm going to take Stanford on the road. smart kids are going to do it. And then finally the big game. In Dublin, the Air Lingus College Football Classic, Kansas State, Iowa State. Did you see, by the way, all the bars, the city of Dublin, this is kind of funny, the city of Dublin decided to adorn like bars all over the city in the flags of the two teams, right? So they ordered Iowa State flags. They got the right one.

but when they ordered a Kansas state flag, they accidentally ordered the state flag of Kansas. Oh, no. They did not order the Kansas state. So all across the city, it's like the Iowa State Hawkeyes and then the state flag of Kansas, which is kind of like Kentucky's two. I think it's like people shaking each other's hand or something. So they didn't quite get the memo. No, that's bad mojo for Kansas State.

Give me Iowa State. Oh, yeah, that made my mind. I was kind of on the Peter Taudder. I'm going Iowa State. Yeah, well, Kansas State's a three and a half point favorite. Oh, Iowa State. Load up, win, and covers. My feeling is if you can't get their flag right,

their team is not going to be pumped up. There's no way they're going to be excited. I will take the cyclones. Iowa State, by the way, a team that's supposed to be like a sleeper for the... Oh, Shannon and I knew that. That's why Shannon and I picked that. Yeah. Might be in the college football playoffs this year.

Yeah, well, good. Who's next? Cynthia's next. Cynthia. How are you, Cynthia? I'm good. How are you guys doing? Doing good.

My husband and I flew out to Arizona. We're going to catch a Red game against the Diamondbacks. Oh, that's cool. That's a nice stadium. They got really good food. A lot of like tacos and stuff. A really good food in the Diamondback Stadium. Oh, okay.

We're looking forward to it. We never been. But we've had two ride-chair experiences, and we wanted to get your opinion on them. The first one is we ordered one of those driver-lift cars and put the ride in it. Have you all ever done that, or would you order it? No, but they're all over the place out there in Phoenix. I don't like that, that, you know, I haven't really seen them a lot in other places, but when we were in Phoenix for that barstool party, there's a lot of,

the driverless cars are everywhere out there. Yeah, I've seen a bunch of them. I think the only other place I've seen them was when we were in Austin. And then our second one was later in the day we ordered an Uber. And when our Uber driver pulled up, his two dogs were in the front seat of the car. One star. What we do have done. One, sorry, you can't be, Uber drivers can't bring their dogs or their babies.

Like, if it's a grown child, I'll accept it because they got a working parent, I get it. But like, no, I'm canceling the ride. No offense to them, but I'm not getting in a car with the dog. It's the last room for passengers, too, if you're putting your dog in there. I appreciate the call. When you see, let me do, have you ever been in a place with the driverless cars? Have you ever seen them? I haven't.

I'm not ready for that yet. I don't think I can do it. You know, when you see them, Like, it's, it's all, it's like weird. And like they drive, I mean, I'm not saying they drive bad, but it's just like a consider, like, it's just, I don't know. I would feel like I'm breaking somebody's car. If it's just a car that's empty and I'm just getting in there. And you just get in and then.

How do you know you're in the right? What if there's multiple ones and you get in their own car? Well, it has a license plate. But like, it's got a big sensor on top and it just, it threw it threw me off. I'm not going to love it. So you've been in one and you've. Well, I know. I haven't been in it.

But you see them. They're all over the streets there. There was one story of the guy that was just driving around in circles because his car wouldn't stop and he was late for a flight. The car just took him to a parking lot and started driving in circles. And the guy is like, somebody stopped this. I'm going to be late for my flight. Thank you guys very much for coming.

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