KSR - 2025-09-19- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

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Consumer Access.org Welcome back. This is hour number two. We are live at Wild Eggs in Tatech Creek, the new Wild Eggs location here, kind of their grand opening. You've got to come out and check it out. I mean, it's really nice. I've got a huge bar here. It's their biggest bar of any of their wild eggs. Lots of open seating. We've got a big garage door. We've got it

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Comments? Yeah, any comments, right? You were confident before. I was very confident. I blame it on the spatula. No, no, no, no. Inadequate spatula. It worked fine for the cook back there.

He had a perfect flip. Well, it's a left-handed spatula. He was left-handed. I needed a right-handed spatula. Yeah. I'm going to say, let's all vote. Jeff, you were there as well. Well, we're going to vote that mine was the best.

If I'm going to vote. I'm going to vote. I'm going to vote. He flipped and made one and a half pancake. That's right, yeah. Shannon flipped it. Shannon flipped his and then made a little bitty cake. And a silver dollar pancake.

It was a kid order. You know, I took one pancake and made two. I'd say Shannon was in third. Oh, stop. I was in second. This was bad. And Mario was the winner. And Mario was the winner.

I was the first. You were nervous, though. You were shaking when you were like, what was that? I couldn't get the spatula under the pancake. I think I had a faulty up of my spatula. I am way out of place in the kitchen. I do not cook, and I don't know what I'm doing back there, and it showed, I think, in the pancake flipping contest.

Mine was not good. Well, we will, Mario, have that on social media this afternoon. I'm about to post it. But I think you were probably the winner. Of course I was. I mean, I cook more than anybody out this group, right? Jeff, how much do you cook? Almost every night.

All right, never mind. Except when I'm working. I do like to cook. For those who don't know, Jeff, he's. He's a sports director of WTVQ here in Lexington, but he's also been a big member of the JMI broadcast with Tom Leach. Tom Leach's a color guy for how many years? 24 years.

Oh, my goodness. Has it really? Yeah, 25 years, 2000. Wow. So what is this? 25, yeah. Unbelievable. So we got a question from the A-Vision Glass Text Machine.

Ask Jeff, as a former receiver, what's going on with the current U.K. receivers? Great question. Great question. I just think that, you know, that's a hard question to answer. Are they not getting open? Do you blame the receivers? Do you blame Calzada for not finding the right guy at the right time? I think that when you see what they're trying to do, when you know within the framework of the play, what they're trying to do,

when Zach was a quarterback, he wants the play to be perfect. And when you're playing in the SEC and when you're playing against the teams that Kentucky plays against, that perfect window is like that, you know, and it's very small. And you have to throw a ball. For instance, I'd tell you, a perfect pass in the game the other day, Cutter through to Hardley Gilmore. Hardly hadn't made his cut yet, but he saw that the defender was on his outside hip,

and he threw it to the inside, and when Hardley turned to make his cut, boom, the ball was right there. Was that the old miss game? It was a per-well, no, that was the game last week. Two weeks ago, that was the same type of one. He was coming over the middle. We call that just a deep in-rout, and he just put it right where the only he could catch it.

Zach has a very strong arm, so a lot of times, a lot like Will Levis, he waits until the guy gets open to throw instead of throwing him open. And quarterbacks that don't have as strong an arm, they will throw to a point. And I know that on this pass play, the Z, which is the flanker, is going to run 14 yards, and he's going to cut to the sideline. So when I get the ball, I catch it, turn, and throw to that point where he's supposed. supposed to be on the sideline. Yeah. So that's why sometimes you see a ball thrown and the receiver is somewhere else, and the ball just kind of goes out there and you're going, where is he throwing it?

On every single pass play, it's a different pass if it's man, if it's zone, and if that zone's two deep or three deep. So there's three different pass routes that receiver has to run, and he and the quarterback have to see the same thing. So if it's man, you're running an out pattern. if it's an out-called. If it's cover four, which is a safety or cover two where there's two safeties in the corner, you're running what's called a gear down, where instead of going out,

you kind of slow down on the sidelines and you hear Tom or me say, he's got to get the ball there before the safety comes off. So it's just different plays, and they're just not on sync yet. I think that you're seeing Kendrick's. Is that the receiver's fault or is that the quarterback's fault? I think it's more on the quarterback than it is on the receiver. receivers. Yeah.

Because the receivers are getting a lot of heat. I think that's why they're a good question for you. Had they not had penalties, Kendrick Law had that big play, called back, right? Because of a hold. It's just a lot of things that are happening there that it's just not a smooth operation yet. And that's what you get when you have new quarterbacks coming in. But you know, the number one receiver this year is supposed to be Macklin. He's kind of been a non-factor so far.

Yes, yes. And again, one of the problems they have, and you hear this all the time, they can't get off the line of scrimmage. So teams are playing Kentucky, and they know this, so they're going to get real physical at the line, meaning they're lining up right across roaming, and as soon as the ball snap, they try to get hands on the receiver to knock him off of his scores. Or everything in football's time, especially in the passing game, right? I've got four seconds to throw the ball from where I'm standing to where that receiver is supposed to be, and anything a defensive back can do to get you off of that schedule is a win for them.

So they have to be able to get off the line of scrimmage. Dane was very good at that because he was a little. bigger, a little stronger, and he had great hands at the line of scrooge where he could get away from the defensive back a lot easier than a smaller guy. Like me or Mario, if we're out there, and the guys can get their hands on us, so we have to do different things that take you time to get around the guy. If that makes sense to you out there, try to do this as basic as I can. Ryan's base is glazed.

Yeah, I know. I'm just trying to. I'm looking at right. I'm trying to say it as basic as I can. So they're getting physical with the receivers of the line of scrimmage is the basic line. is the basic line. They have to figure out a way to get off the line of script. So is that why the tight ends have had success?

They're able to do that? Exactly. Because the tight ends are usually uncovered because they're in what we call a tailor or a slot. So they're off the ball. So the defensive back is like for that lady. They're in a tailor or a slot, these are more technical terms than we've ever spoken on KSR 15 years. Dude, you can't. I asked Liam when he was here and I asked Bush, I said, call a play for me.

Because when I played, it was past 86 Z corner. That's the play. Okay. Okay? That's all you say. You run in. Bill Ranselick City goes, all right. 86 Z corner on one.

Ready go. And we run to the line screen. You run the play. Now it's right over, wham, zipper, crimson tide, you know, slam. Yeah. And you're like, what? And each one of those words is for a different person on the team. So it's crazy now.

And I think that may be why you saw Zach Kalsata go, what the hell are we doing right now? And some of these frustrations that we're seeing where it's like in-game management and the guys aren't even lined up to go and the play clock's down to two. Because, you know, they call the play now to the quarterback. Right. Okay. So when that play calls in his ear and at 15 seconds, the microphone gets shut off. So when there's 15 seconds left on the clock, there's a guy that flips the switch and the comms goes dead.

That's why you got the guys on the sidelines still doing the signals, right? Yeah, well, they're signaling the offensive line as to what they want to do and things like it. Every guy. So you see the different guys and different because there'll be a guy in a green shirt, there'll be a guy in a red shirt, they'll be a guy in a black shirt, and all the coaches are wearing blue, right? Or they're all wearing white. And each of the positions have a different guy to look at when they're doing the things.

And some of them are dummies where it's not a real thing. They're just doing it to make the other team. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like that happened to Michigan. Yeah, so when Bush calls that play with 12 words on it, then he has to relay that to the team. If he gets one word wrong, it screws up the whole play. What you articulate it right there just shows you how many moving parts there are to this.

Because as an average fan, and I'll include myself as an average fan, we just watch the game and see it for what it is. But then when you break it down like that, it just sounds like absolute chaos going on. don't know how they do it. I couldn't do it. It's crazy. It's probably been, obviously, the biggest complaint so far has been the passing game. Yeah. Obviously, they're running the ball well. Offensive line has been great. But the passing game is the one area where there seems to be some deficiencies,

unless you talk about just passing to the tight ends. That seems to have been off the charts so far. You know, forever we've been talking about get the tight end in the ball, right? They've been great tight ends for the last 10 years that have come in here to play. One of them is in the NFL, Brennan Bates. That's it. Name another one. Right?

I think these guys have at least two, and I really think Boyer will make the NFL just because of his sheer size at 6 foot 7, 260 pounds. He took a touchdown away from him. Yeah, but he can move. Willie's really good. The hands that we've seen from Caddus is ridiculous this year. I mean, just, yeah, he reminds me a lot of the Michael Mayer kid

that played a cup Gap in Notre Dame and now with his Raiders. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he reminds me a lot of him. Great size. Matt Lucas. played with me Lucas and wheels I'm a little sidetrack right now

because I'm looking up on the screen Stephen A. Smith has listed as top five wrestlers of all time and he's got Goldberg at number one. You've got to be kidding me. Over flare I mean, come on, he's got and the road warriors. Oh, road warriors. Yeah. Well, that's a tag team

and Steve Austin's not even up there. Goldberg is probably going to come on the show with them or something right or he's got some deal with Goldberg and put him number one. Let me tell you one. The coolest thing ever. Remember a couple of years about five, six years ago, Kentucky had a tight end, and his dad was Sting. That's right, yeah. We go to a game at Georgia, and we get off the bus, we walk into the hotel, and Rick Flair

is sitting there drinking buds, Budwisers, in the bar of the hotel. We're checking out. I'm like, that's Rick Flair. What is Rick Flair doing here? And I'm all excited, right? Then in-walk Sting, and they hug each other, and they're sitting there and having beers. And we get off the bus. And the kid, I cannot remember his name to save my life.

Hey, Dad, he goes up, and Rick Flair was his godfather. No, wow. So then the next day at the game, they're playing Georgia. Goldberg played there, so it's the three of them were on the sidelines together. And I said, Dick Gabriel, you have to go do an interview with those guys. I mean, you have to three of the greatest wrestlers ever. That is awesome. It was really cool.

I saw a video just this morning of Rick Flair at a bar because that's where he seems to list. And I guess somebody challenged him to get down and do the, plank challenge and here he is this guy that I mean nearly died just 75 years old nearly died just a couple of years ago doing a four minute plank right there in the middle of the bar shoes off and everything and he did this guy got it he's unbelievable all right well take our break come back go back to the phone lines 859 2802 287 it's the car's pump mshaw phone number a lot of good techs coming in on the aviation glass tech machine as well we're right back this is kentucky sports radio last night a blown call changed the game this morning the internet lost its mind highlights are trending opinions are flying and nobody's telling

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slash terms limited time offer. We have to take a break now, don't we? No kidding. We'll be right back. Thank you. We got a couple calls. We want to get you real quick. I got some great questions on the text machine for you, Jeff.

So who's up next, Rick? Mustang is up next. Mustang. Go ahead, Mustang. saying. Hey, guys, I'm loving this show. We've got to get Jeff on more often. With the stories and the X-N-O's, it's been amazing.

I've got a couple things. I'm the first-time caller, so I'm driving through Knoxville today. I need some big blue comfort in this dirty ball territory. A couple things while Mattie's out of town that he does, it drive me crazy, and I want your off opinion on this. He says 90. Dude, there's a T in there. You've got to say 90.

I don't know where he got that from. The other thing he does, he always says shaking your head, even when people mean yes. That's not right. Notting your head up and down is yes. shaking your head means snow. Love y'all. Bye.

So those are the two things that bother you about Matt. Of all the things. 90. 90. Catch by 90. Well, we always make fun of Matt because he says Halloween. And TV. And TV. Like, it'll be the emphasis.

I think that's got to be like a Bell County thing. Definitely, I think it's southeast of Kentucky King, for sure. Let's get another call, Rick. Who we got? Got Jerry up next. Go ahead, Jerry. Hey, guys. Hey, guys.

Quick question on the rivals. the only place I've heard them talk about tears is you guys every place else where I've heard Greg Sankey or people talk about this they're just saying they're maintaining traditional rivalries and that's it and the thing you remember about Georgia is they've got three room board and traditional rivals

obviously Auburn, Florida with a cocktail party but they've got a rivalry of South Carolina going back to 1890 and free days the SDC and if they bust up any of these traditional rivalries this cheer thing people are going to go nuts All right. I appreciate phone call. Are they doing the tier thing?

I just think it's, like he said, they're trying to keep the rivalries together. Look, I think we're kind of making a little too much out of this because it's probably going to change every four years. And the thing is you're going to play every team in a two-year span. So what difference does it make? Yeah. Yeah, that to me. The tier thing, I think, is just to try to keep it as fair as possible. Right, right, right.

I mean, there's only so much you can do. And there's going to be, after you look at everybody's rivals, a few teams that are left over that you have to just, kind of placed together because that's what's left over. And I think you're going to get some of that, including maybe one or two teams that Kentucky ends up with. But he's right. You can't break up like Florida, Georgia. I mean, that's the world's largest cocktail party. It's just awesome.

Well, you talked about like Auburn, Alabama, Mississippi State. All right. That's always going to be there. Stephen Borden was Sting's son, the time of end. Stephen Borden. All right, this is from the aviage and glass text machine. We've got a couple good ones here. What are the cats focusing on the off week this week?

What Mark said is he has talked to a lot of. lot of his colleagues, coaches around the country, because if you look at their record coming out of Bice, it's horrible since he's been head coach. You had to get. Six and ten overall under Stoops, five and nine, going into the SEC games. Yeah, so he called a bunch of different coaches. What do you do? And they said, well, we gave an extra day off, but we practiced really hard.

So this week, they practiced hard. Tuesday and Wednesday were really hard practicing where you do one versus one. Yeah. You call it thud. You don't take the guy to the ground. You run up and you throw a shoulder into them. So they did that really heavy practices. And they've given them the whole weekend off.

Then they've already started their South Carolina prep. And then Monday, it's game week. You go back to what you're doing. So they said you have to do something to get that. They're really hitting the weights and stuff because this is a week where you maintain during the season. You try to because you'll see a lot of guys like Kenny Petroviac, who was our center. When we started the season, he was only about 235 pounds when the season ended. He was like 210.

You know, because you just lose weight because you can't get in the weight room as much. But now they have two off weeks. So in those off weeks, you really hit the weights hard so you don't have that big drop-off in your muscle atrophy and things like that as the season goes on. 859-2-287. Who's next, Rick? Noah is next. Go ahead, Noah. Hey, guys.

Can you hear me? Yes, sir. Go ahead, Noah. Hey, I just want to reach out. I used to work with Jeff McCorio back at a certain news station over in Lexington, so I want to reach out to be able to say hi. What's up, Noah? How are you, man?

Hey, I'm doing good, sir. Good to be able to hear from you. Well, good to hear from you. That's a great call. Appreciate it, Noah. He's going to call and say hi. So if the phone line's open of any other Jeff's friends growing up, want to call and say hi, you're a creaker, you're a Tate's Creek guy.

I will say this for you. One of your best friends is Kenny McPeek, the horse trainer. You got to ride him to a derby title and a prequish title. A triple crown ran there he made out a little bit. That was pretty fun. I went to Baltimore and hung out with him up there as well, so we got the first two legs. And, yeah, his business has just exploded since that.

And good for him, but, I mean, he's got a couple hundred horses now that he's trained. It's just crazy what he's doing. Got another text from the aviation glass tech machine. Ask Jeff where we have trouble getting plays in and have to call timeout so much. You know, that is the $64,000 question because, look, you know, as soon as that ball spotted, you only have 15 seconds to get to play in. So you've got to be thinking ahead and you've got to get in because here's the problem, and here's what people don't understand. So when you watch a game and you see a guy running on late to the field on the offense, the defense has a chance. And every defensive coach will go, Ryan, take your time.

And you see the defensive, remember the offensive guy, the defensive guy comes in, he's taking his time because that clock's going 10, 9, 8. So if you don't have your personnel in by 15 seconds and you have to sub, then what happens is you're going to be able to, the referee is going to step away, and there's two seconds. So you have to run that play. So see what I'm saying, you can't audible out of it. Every play you run, every play that's run, the quarterback has a run and a pass play

that he can audible to because of whatever the defense is. So you know if I call this pass play, when I get to the line, I see, uh-oh, this ain't going to work. I'm going to have to go check, check, check. You see the quarterback when he goes up to the line? He's going like this. That means he's saying check, check, check, check. So now all the line would go, what is it?

And then he says, one of those stupid names again or, you know, Linus and Snoopy, you know, what they have. And then everybody says, oh, okay. And then you run that play. So that's why you just, and that's one thing that Mark told Bush, he goes, look, whoever the three receivers are out there, that's who we're going with. We're not going to have this group goes in on first down. These guys go on if it's second and long. If it's second and short, these guys go.

That's where you get into all the problems. Look, just play football. You get 11 guys. Just go. Just do it. That's when the boo-birds come out. You've been there. Yes.

They're rotating people. The clock's winding down and they've got to burn a timeout. People hate that. Yep, the little things, man, lining up. You know, the booze come out, came out. But Vince versus Ole Miss, heard a little bit of booze. Got to be prepared. It just gives that sense of they're not prepared.

Right, exactly. No offensive game plan. You know, just kind of who's called. What Calzata? They caught him on the tight shot. Said, what are we doing, you know? So the plays, I guess, I hear a lot of times about offensive coordinators who have a script. Yeah.

It sounds like that maybe Kentucky doesn't necessarily go off a script. because they don't seem to know what the next play is going to be until it's, you know. Well, a script is usually to start a game or start the second half. Right. Because you know you're going to be ahead or behind at the second half. So you have a script meaning six or eight plays in a row. I'm going to run boom, boom. And a lot of times, coach will tell us.

Tom actually came up and I can't remember the game. It was Rich Brooks. I think it was Rich Brooks. And he said, on the third play, they're going to run a double reverse pass. I'm like, what? How do you know that? Yeah. And I go, what?

He goes, yeah, I was just down on the field and talk to, you know, and I can't remember which coach it was. But sure enough, first down, they got like six yards, second down. It was like, they got two or three more. And on third down, boop, there it was. Double reverse pass is wide open. So that's what scripting means. But you can't script during a game because it's a different situation. So it's scripted at the start of the game, scripted to start the second half.

This on the text machine from Matt in South Africa. Oh, really? Yeah, Matt from South Africa, to text it in. What's the percentage chance? Kentucky makes a bowl game. Is that really for Matt? Did Matt actually text you? Of course.

I don't believe it. How old are you? I am 59. Okay, there you go. 59%. How old are you? 42. Okay, it's better.

42%. Shane is the one guy who's kind of been hanging on to the six-win season this year. He's been optimistic. I will tell you this. I don't know a number. I'm not Nostradamus, but I'll tell you this. We saw the old Miss game.

I think there's going to be five games that are going to be just like Ole Miss. We're in the fourth quarter. It's going to be a one-score game, one way or the other. And if you win most of those, you know. This is definitely a swing game come out of against South Carolina, though. All right, we'll take our break. Come back.

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We've had a great crowd today. A lot of people came in, had breakfast, had brunch. Now you can have lunch. and they have a bar breakfast brunch and lunch with the bar wild eggs we gave away our first wild eggs gift basket we got a lot of goodies to give away here before the show is over so hang on and they just brought out shannon yes a little birthday cinnamon roll with candles for our boy mario for his birthday that's awesome happy birthday thank you guys thank you wild eggs thank you to the fans the big blue nation kis heart fans for doing this is definitely made my day my days i have such a long day but my day's already made hey we all love mario but can i take just a minute just to make fun of mario About something that happened earlier this week. When I had Richie Farmer on the pre-show, I got to point out that Mario thought that Richie Farmer played 20 years ago.

So basically, in Mario's mind, he's so young, he thought that Richie Farmer played for Tubby Smith. Listen, man, I'm 26 now. Yeah. You know, I'm, I'm, those days are so far past me. I understand. You're young, we're old. You know what's crazy?

I'm a young kid. Drew was like 26 when he started at KSR. That's what's crazy. I think I might have been 26 when we started KSR. Oh, wow. Look at that. How old were you when you started? I was with my first video show in 2011, so I was 45.

Okay, 35. Old enough to be your daddy. 859-2-287. It's a Clark's Publishout phone number. We got another one from A-Vision Glass Tech Machine. Got great questions for Jeff about football. Jeff, for two-minute drill situations, shouldn't there be a set of plays the team knows are going to run? Pretty much yes.

They practice two minutes every day in practice. So why they seem so disorganized those last two minutes of the first half, not just one game, several games. Again, it's trying to get, and I think Mark talked to Bush about this, I don't care about the perfect personnel. We have to get down the field like that. Yeah. The 11 guys you have out there, you should know if there's a guy outside of me,

if I'm a receiver, I have to be off the line, right? If there's nobody outside of me, I have to be on the line. See? And that's where they got a penalty against Macklin. Yes, it was against Macklin. Remember, he supposedly was on the line, and there was a guy outside of him, and that makes him ineligible. So it's just call the play. It doesn't have to be perfect.

We just need to get it in there and go. Something Freddie has said for years, though, he called it the middle eight. The last four of the first half, first fourth half. The Kentucky's been awful. Yes. Why? You know, they talk. about teams that make adjustments you say oh let's see the adjustments they make it

half time right um half time consists of this you go into the locker room take your helmet off they have orange slice that when I played it was an orange slice and a Snickers bar that's what we got snickers bar a snickers bar and an orange slices now they have the Gatorade gels and chews and they have pickles and healthy snacks. Yes, healthy snacks and nuts and things like that. So that's the first five minutes. The next five minutes is the coaches yelling at each other and stuff about what they did wrong and right.

And then they finally said, okay, here's what we're going to do. The offensive line goes with the offensive line coach, and they're showing. What are they doing? Why can't we block this guy? Well, he's doing this. Okay, receivers, what are they doing? Well, they're running this. It's nothing.

We thought we were going to come out and cover this and they're doing this. and they go, okay, then the coaches come back together, say here's what we're going to do to themselves, and you go back out on the field. And in the NFL, it's basically you go in, you go to the bathroom, you turn around and go back out. It's only 12 minutes. So it's crazy. Yeah, they don't say squat to you. But I don't know, and I agree with you, Ryan.

It's the most important part of the game. Freddy's completely right. And we seem to stink at it. Yes. For whatever reason, they stink coming out of biweeks, whoever they play. again. Shanna, I forgot to, we got a sponsor this segment? Cornbread hemp, yeah, it's harvest season. Our friends at Cornbread Hemp can get you some products that will soothe you, relax you,

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So thank you, Anita. Are you ready for this, Ryan? I went to school with her son. You did? At Tate's Creek. Right? Well, Meredith's daughter. Her daughter's here.

Yeah, she's younger than me. So we talked about. the volleyball team. We failed to mention them beating Louisville last night. It's the first time they'd beat Louisville since 2019. I didn't know if it had been that long. Six years. But to do it on Louisville's home court at the Yump Center, what, 4,000 or 5,000 people there

when they're ranked third in the country, I just tells you about where this volleyball program's at right now. Wait, is there a more successful coach at UK than Skinner? No, not right now. He doesn't get talked about a lot of years. Dude, he's not making $9 million a year either. Yeah, that's true. I don't know, man.

Where would they be ranked now? because I know Louisville did it at number three. They'll be in top five, obviously, because they beat number one and number three. There you go. I don't know what the rest of their schedule looks like, but they've already played just about every team in the top ten so far. So I think that's going to serve them well when we get to the... That guy right there is Ron Turner.

That is. I've heard about him. Yeah. He's got the best Christmas decorations in the history of Christmas decorations every year. Yeah, we take the kids, load up the car, go by Ron Turner's house, look at the Christmas decorations. They even have police out there directing traffic. They do, yeah.

We could just go in his house. Yeah, that's in my parents' neighborhood. And it's like, nope. I can tell you. Ron survived a plane crash even one time. Oh, wow. Yeah, he did. Can't hear him.

You can't hear him. He said the plane went straight down, and he walked out. And he walked out. And he walked out with it, yeah. What a guy. So we mentioned the volleyball team. The UK hockey team is actually going to be on TV tonight on ESPN Plus. They're undefeated.

They play NC State. So if you're sitting around with nothing to do tonight, check them out on ESPN plus the UK hockey team. Now, do they still do the posters with? the hot, remember they had Ashley Judd? Oh, my goodness. Laura Bell Bundy. Is that politically correct in the year 2025?

I miss those posters personally, but you know what? Maria Montgomery just did one in the last year or so. So I guess they're still doing them. Does she still go by Maria Montgomery? Montgomery is your last name? Montgomery Lanter. I don't know what she goes by now, right? Yeah, toddler.

Toddler. She calls him toddler. And one other kind of UK note I want to bring up? She does. She calls him toddler. Did you see Kalil Whitney's tweet? I did see that. He said he's thinking about moving back to election.

Don't you think that has to do with the TB the love he got from TBT? Has to, man. I know Willie Kali Stein. I don't know if he's already moved, but he's definitely thinking about moving to Lexington. There's a lot of guys that, you know, played for UK and they really want to come back. I know Dominique Hawkins, he lives in Richmond, so there's a lot of guys that like to come back, feel the love from Big Loom Nation and then, you know, get it going. Well, Kalim was him and Archie Goodwin were the guys that like missed out on that because they're season here for both of them was kind of didn't go the way they won. wanted it to be and both of them talked about how man they wanted to come back to kind of feel get that feeling that they missed out on when they were a player here and it's just happy to see those guys especially calil

whitney i know when he was here he was kind of battling like a lot of mental health stuff yep so it's good just for him to come back you know play for la familiar you know rep the kentucky brand again and hopefully we'll see him back next next year for la familiar again i'm sure we will i'm sure we will 8592287 that's our phone number if you want to call and get on board uh you know with kentucky have the off week. We mentioned they're not very good coming off the off week. You know what I've noticed here, Ryan? What? You guys have a sweet tooth. Well, I know. People just bring us free food. Cakes, cookies. We have Halloween cookies. Yeah, we've got all kinds of good stuff here. So, you know, after the by week is South Carolina. Yep. Is Lenora Sellers going to play against Missouri this weekend? They say that he is probable for the game Saturday. Oh, okay. He went from questionable to probable. Because that really, you know, when he went out, they didn't look good at all against that.

Well, that affects your, the bets that you guys put together for Draft Kings. Oh, absolutely, it does. If he plays, it's one thing. If he does it, they're a totally different team. Yeah, yeah. And as I said yesterday, I felt like if Kentucky's going to play their backup quarterback, the nice thing to do is to play your backup quarterback South Carolina. We shouldn't have to play against your starter with our backup.

It only seems fair that way. Exactly. Well, he kind of had his coming out party against us last year at Prografield. You know, on his way where his name was even flooring around in particular. Heisman candidate at some point. But if he's out, I felt like Kentucky's chances go up. But you're coming off a by week. You've lost the last, what, two to South Carolina?

I don't know, man. It's kind of a big game for this Kentucky program to go down there and try to get a W. Huge for them. To me, this sets the tone for the rest of the season. Because if you lose, now you're 0 in conference play and two games, especially the Ole Miss game that you could have had. Should have won that game. And I feel like our fan base is kind of someone.

We're in the middle. Like, we don't know if we truly believe in this team yet. You go on the road and beat South Carolina. I think you can flip the fan morale or whatever you want to call it, just the overall vibes of this fan base. All right, we've got our final break, and we're going to come back to our final segment. We're going to get away a lot of stuff here during this commercial break. So get your tickets out.

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We're getting ready to do our Draft Kings Parlay. Jeff, I don't know if you're this or not, but our Draft Kings Parlay, maybe we struggle just a little bit. So we're expecting you to come in with an expert pick. Shannon's those picks are always wrong. Outside of that, I did have a bad pick last week. I took Virginia Tech. I don't know why I did, but I did.

And that turned out to be a horrible pick. But your pick wasn't much better because you had South Carolina. I picked South Carolina to be Van derby. And that score was 317 Vandy. You're going to write these down? You got to turn them in? No, that's fine. You got it?

All right, Shan, you lead off. Give us our first one. No, you guys go ahead because you said I'm a... Let Jeff go first. Let's go first. Okay, one game. So to me, this is... Who's for real in this game?

And it's an SEC game. Auburn at Oklahoma in this game. I think that I really love the way Mateer has come in there and changed Oklahoma for the better. You guys are fantastic. They're playing at Oklahoma. It's a seven-point line, and I think Oklahoma shows the country that they're ready to be a top-10 team. And I think Oklahoma wins this game, and I'm taking the seven.

Oklahoma plus seven. minus seven. Okay, minus seven. Yep. All right. Against Auburn. Go ahead, Ryan. Well, I'm going to Nebraska-Michigan games.

I'm going to bet on that game. Nebraska is a one-and-a-half-point favorite in that game. So I'm taking Nebraska to cover. I'm right in Nebraska one-and-a-half. Mario, who you got? I'm going Tulane over Ole Miss. Oh, that's what I was going to pick. That's what I was going to.

Now I got to scramble. Well, did you hear what Kiffin said? No. He said next year, I think I'm going to be in SEC coaches' meetings with John Summerall. He believes that Summerall is going to get, and everybody knows this, the Florida job. Yeah. Because they don't turn things around real quick. There's no way they bring Billy Napier back.

That's going to drop people crazy. If he goes to coaches somewhere else in the SEC, it does well. Who else went to Florida from Kentucky that everybody? thought was going to be Kentucky's coach anyone basketball what was his name Billy Donovan there you go there you go now I'm kind of torn as to what I should pick because Mario took my well you had the chance you told me to go first

no yeah you're right you're right because I was still trying to figure out exactly what I wanted to do all right so Davo Sweeney he was whining he was you know saying well if you don't look me here then you should just fire me I'll go somewhere else so you know what Syracuse is a 16 and a half point dog give me Syracuse and 16 and a half. Wow. Syracuse and 16.

I like what we got. Is that Clemson? It's at Clemson? It's at Clemson. So that is our KSR parley this week. Mario will have it posted and they'll draft king will post it up for you. You want to help participate. Everything we try to help all of our listeners, you know, winning a little cash.

And the best way to do it in the best place to do it is at Drive King. So make sure to turn them out. The one thing that I think is the scariest part about this UK football program, what has happened the last couple years. And I hate it. But it seems like some. apathy has set in. You know, we've built up, we had these great 10-win seasons.

We're going to a bowl game every year. The last couple of years, they can't win an SEC home game. They lose, get some awful losses, and it just seems like apathy is starting to settle in. That's why I thought it was so crucial that Cutter Bowley was named the quarterback. I think that did bring a little excitement into life into the program, at least as far as the fans are concerned. I just think this.

I don't think you're going to see the Joe Paternoes and Bear Bryant, It's a coach that stays at an institution for 20 years anymore. There's way too much money. There's way too much pressure. You know, Mark is set for life. But he knows right now if he wants to continue coaching, he has to turn this around. I mean, Texas A&M or Florida State is not going to hire him if Kentucky continues four or five, six wins. When they're winning eight, nine, or ten games a year, now he's a hot ticket.

I mean, where's he going to go if he leaves Kentucky? Toledo? Right, I mean, yeah, it's a big step down, and you're not going to make $9 million at a max school. And Ryan, you mentioned apathy and the fan base, but we all know every fan base is fickle. And I don't think there's more of a fickle fan base than our very own fan base. So you win this game on the road against South Carolina, maybe pull a shocker somewhere along the way. I think you can flip this fan base just that quick. I think just a couple of games could be the difference.

From maybe he's a glass text machine from a guy you and I both know, will he will remain anonymous. why change personnel each play? It's dumb. If the guys in the game can't run the next play, why are they playing? Well, that's a guy that played college football and I think NFL too, didn't he? He had a little drink of water in the NFL. No, that's just, I agree 100% with him. You're playing, you know, it's almost like positionless basketball is what we used to play.

You go in, you play. Yeah. And now it's everything is a specialty. First downs, especially group. Second downs, especially. Third and short. Elephant, that means you bring all the big guys in. Third and long.

Now you go with all the little guys. It's just, why can't you just throw 11 out there and let's go? Well, I agree. And it just seems like when they do that, that's when the confusion seems to start. They're looking over the sideline like, what are we doing? What are we doing? What play are we running? That just doesn't seem to have gotten any better over the last several years.

I think it's what's been frustrating. Again, leads to some of that apathy. I think that people have of the program. Well, I think that the one thing that, Mark once and he finally got it this year. His continuity in the coaching staff where you're not changing that offensive coordinator every year. It's the second year under Bush. I think it's going to get better as we go.

The kids are getting a lot more comfortable in it. 859-2-2-8-7. You want to call and squeezing it? We haven't even been on hold right now, Rick? We have three callers. Oh, my good. I'm sorry. I thought didn't we had anybody.

Go ahead. Let's get somebody up here real quick. Greg is up next. Greg. Greg. Greg. Greg. Yeah, guys.

on Mario's birthday here, I think, did I hear right, did he play against Lynn Bowden in high school? No, so I would play, we went to college together. I went to the U.K., and the football players, they would go to the rec center all the time,

so we played against Lynn Bowden like every day. That's where you played against him at the rec center. At the rec center in college. Did you have to guard him? Yes, and no one else wanted to guard him, and I was up for the challenge. He said he was a good player. He was really good.

All right, I appreciate the phone call. I'll try to get one more on real quick, Rick. Who we got? Gork is up next. Gork. Go ahead, Gork. Hey, yeah, I just wanted to talk about something Jeff brought up last hour. The NCAA on Wofford, I mean, they've been doing that forever.

And like, because didn't UK get in trouble with the Claude Bassett thing, a lot of the people we got in trouble for were guys that ended up signing at, like, Alabama, the Albert Means kid. A couple other kids signed different SEC schools, but we got in trouble for the way we recruited them. So, I mean, the NCAA has been terrible forever. All right. Yeah.

Susan Lacks did text me and said that Wofford did not get any sanctions from the NCAA. Okay. A little slap on the wrist probably. I don't know. Yeah, I guess. Go ahead, Shannon. Yeah, this segment is sponsored by our friends at Don Franklin Auto. It's the fourth quarter.

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Monday we're gonna be doing the show at Fort Thomas Highlands High School oh it's not open to the public you can't come in the school, but Taden Lorenzen, a name we all know, Jared's son is having a big year at Fort Thomas Highlands, so we're going to go up there and talk to him and kind of catch up a little bit. So I'm personally looking really forward to that. Yeah, I am too. That'll be cool to do that for Taden. And then next week, we've got a little more special guests coming up as well.

We've got remotes at the end of next week. Have we heard from Matt at all since he's been in Africa other than you said a few days ago we heard from him? Have we heard from him like yesterday or? He's posting a lot of stuff on social media. You can kind of keep up with the things he's been posting. He's in the middle of his fellowship right now, so he's not on the safari yet. Safari is next week.

Next week is a safari. See you, Bo. Drew talked to him after Mani passed away. They kind of got to talk a little bit, so he's doing fine. We just to hear the stories when he comes back and finally tells us how he's doing in the bush and the safari. Thank you everybody again for coming out. Thank you, God. You got a who's who here, man.

I know it. Awesome. Both you see big-time people out of here. Andrew Nathie's right here, Carl Nathie's son. Wow. First down. Kentucky. All right. Thank you, everybody. We'll be back Monday morning live from Fort Thomas High School. Fort Thomas Highlands High School. We'll see you there. Another podcast from some

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