KSR - 2025-09-5- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

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All right, there we go. That's what we love to hear as we get started. That was exciting. I don't know what that was, but let me tell you what. That reception, while wonderful, is kind of like the UK football offseason has been. Let's try this again. Welcome to Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Georgetown. There we go.

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So we're bringing it back today. And we're getting excited as the cats play. What I would argue could be one of their two biggest home games of the year tomorrow against Old Miss, which also if you look at the schedule, it's one of the three or four best college football games that will be on television. yesterday. We got Ryan, Drew, Shannon is back from vacation. And guys, you know, we're back in Georgetown, a city you used to literally spit on. And now you have to live in because you went and met a woman here. Are you excited to be here for the show? Yeah, when Josiah played for Frederick

Douglas, Scott County was kind of the rival, so I was kind of anti-Scott County. But now my old lady lives in Georgetown, so I'm here every day. Your old lady. Lady. Wow. Man. There were a lot of reactions out here as soon as he said old lady. I'm going to say, my beautiful old lady, that's what I meant to say. Man, let me tell you something.

I'm not trying to turn him into a feminist. I promise, okay? But I try to get him not to say things like Old Lady. It's impossible. He is stuck in Mayberry. And you know he doesn't mean anything by it. Well, you could fix him. Well, I don't know if your husband would like that.

But nevertheless, it is good to be here. Drew, tomorrow is kind of a show-me time for Kentucky football. I got a text message from a friend this morning. I woke up to this text message, so I'm going to read you this text miss. It said, could you try to be positive today on the show? I need you to make me feel better about this team. Listen, reality's going to kick in one way soon or the other soon enough. Can you give us today?

It's the beginning of September, for God's sake. Still love you. That's what it's said. So do you agree with that? Can we have one day to think we're going to win? Oh, yeah. I think it's going to be a close game. I'm not writing it off at all.

Now, I think Ole Miss is most likely to win, but I think it'll be Kentucky will be in it in the fourth quarter. Kentucky should dominate the trenches on both sides of the ball. It's kind of going to be a battle of which style takes over. If Ole Miss is getting in their tempo, you're in a little bit of trouble. But if Kentucky's playing at Mark's, Iowa football, I think they'll be in it in the end. And I think they have a good chance of playing that.

Probably the way to win is exactly what they did last year. They basically, they controlled tempo for a lot of the game. They kind of kept Ole Miss from having big plays. We hit a big play. We got a turnover. I mean, basically, if you look at last year, that is the exact recipe for trying to win. Shannon, you have been on the beach, probably thinking about this nonstop. Non-stop.

Do you think they can do it? I think they can. I think the way they win is with their defense. I don't think you're going to outscore, you know. Well, no, they're not going to outscore. What I mean is if it gets into a shootout, I don't think Kentucky wins. No chance. But if you can keep the game, you know, 24, 21, something like that,

I think there's a path to where Kentucky wins. Remember, a lot of people had Kentucky 0-1-1 already going into this game. So let's be positive. They're 1-0-0-0. Come on. They can do this. Yeah, I don't know if there were a lot of people that had them. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Who picked Kentucky to lose? Maybe not on the show. I'm just talking about in the fan base in general. All I heard all summer was Toledo, Toledo, Toledo. And they beat Toledo. They're one and O, so let's be positive going into the game. I am, I mean, I'm positive. I guess I would say, what was it, Obama said to Hillary, you're likable enough.

I'm positive enough, right? Right, right? I'm positive enough. I'm going to do my best. I'm going to go into the game. I think they have a chance. I don't think Lane Kiffin is at his best in games where there's a lot of pressure on him. I think when he knows his team is going to win, they'll rack it up, they'll score 50.

But if you go back and you look at big games where there's a lot of pressure on Lane Kiffin to win, their record is actually not pretty, not very good. Now, normally, that wouldn't be us. But I think because they lost us last year and because they basically were kept out of the playoff by us last year, there is a lot of pressure on Lane Kiffin. I mean, there were some old Miss fans in the bar last night for Thursday night football. And I was talking to him. them. And they, one of them said to me, he'd been drinking a little bit. He said, I've given $150,000 to Kentucky, to Old Miss football in the last two and a half years for NIL. If they lose tomorrow, I'm here, because if they lose Saturday, that's the last dollar they get. Wow. And I was

like, oh, can I take your picture? And he was like, no. But, but I thought that was an interesting comment because, by the way, that's going to start happening across the country. People who right, big checks for schools, and then they don't win, they're going to go, I ain't giving any more money if we're going to lose. But I do think that's a thing, Drew. I mean, Lane Kiffin, he loses tomorrow, and then they don't make the playoff. He's not going to lose his job. There's going to be a lot of people say, like, all this money we've infused to Ole Miss,

why are we doing it? Yeah, I know. We're pretty proud of Kentucky getting out of the gutter of the SEC lately, but we're still kind of known as the team you've got to beat every year. When people get their schedule in Kentucky's on it, they still get pretty excited that that's one of their SEC opponents, and that's just how Ole Miss is going to look at us this year times two after losing it last year and completely being removed from the playoff conversation in September or whatever it was.

They were undefeated a year ago, ranked high and right in the mix, and then you lose to Kentucky and their season went downhill from there. I will get the negative ride out of the way first. We had it set up for Stephen Sackham Souls to come, and after I announced it, I think maybe our good friends at JMI may have squashed that. So I'm very sorry about that There's nothing I can do about it He expressed his regret

But I you know I think this is the We live in a JMI world now And if you don't pay them You everything will disappear from you But that's a conversation for a different day I still love Kentucky Even without the corporate overlords

But he is a big part of tomorrow You cannot One of the things we did really well last year That was Dion Walker's best game last year If you go back and watch We were in the backfield with Old Miss most of the game. Their quarterback who was an NFL pick,

probably going to be starting within the next few weeks if you learn on the NFL Cover Zero podcast, Jackson Dart. We were in his face last year. We got to do that again with what is now a less experience quarterback. Yeah, Ole Miss just put up, what, 63 points? I really feel confident our defense is not going to let them anywhere near close to that number.

We forget last year. I would hope so. Shut it down if they get 63 points. No kidding. We forget last year, Ole Miss was ranked. They were. They was on their home field. And Mark Stoopson Company outcoached him.

They didn't turn the ball over. They converted a lot of third downs, converted some big fourth downs. Kept that Ole Miss offense off the field. Defense has got to do their job and do the same thing that tomorrow. Their quarterback is, yes. There you go. All these pops he's getting in here. You all are being way too nice, too.

He's going to make more, he's going to start saying old lady again if you're not careful. Austin Simmons, their quarterback, freshman, looked really good. But, you know, he's the type of guy that. it's inexperienced and if you get to him put some pressure on him you can force a couple of interceptions he had two against georgia he had two against george they i mean they look they scored 63 points and one they actually started slow against them so i mean you can uh you know you you can have a little bit of an impact with them as far as kentucky you look at the schedule drew play this game then you play eastern michigan then you have a buy then you are at south carolina and at georgia

Even in your best sort of optimism at Georgia is a game you don't feel like you can win. Out South Carolina, look, if you won, that's awesome. We have won some big games there over the years, but that's a tough one. This is your chance. I mean, this fan base, these people here, this is your chance, Drew, to really buy some time for the next month. Because if you win this game and you beat Eastern Michigan, you have a buy, and you can lose that game to South Carolina and Georgia. and still feel like once Texas, Tennessee, Florida are coming here, you go to Bandy and Auburn, you have a shot in those games.

I think this is just such a huge potential momentum for the program if you were to win. And there's a lot of stake if you lose, too. That's why it's such a high stakes game. Last year in this same spot, except you're a favorite. It's week two, South Carolina's in, ABC 330. You get your butt kicked. And we saw what the fan base did after that game, and then heck the season spiraled down too.

same spot this week, a different opponent, and you're an underdog, but you're going to go straight downhill if you don't win this, but at the same time you have an opportunity to turn things around. So it's crazy how a week two game can have such an impact on the season,

but the way the schedule lines up. And just so folks know, because we play Louisville every year, and we finish the year with this game, with the Louisville game, we're going to be playing like a big-time SEC game in week two or week three every year.

You know, a lot of these other teams are still playing bad teams. We will get this every year because of our decision to play those games at the end of the year. But go ahead. Yeah, if you get this win tomorrow, you take a lot of pressure off of stoops off the team in general. This is a game that also I think would get the fan base all in again for a fan that's, fan base that's been very pessimistic in the off season. And you get this one.

And it's also, it could get you to six and six. You just need one. No, no. This is the, this is not the only game that can get you to six and six. But we've talked about the path to six and six is three sticky teams, Vandy Auburn, and then steal one. This is the one you can steal, right? This is the one that in theory you can steal.

I will tell you, I often judge, so we've been doing this so long, Ryan. I often judge the state of the football program in some ways by this country boy show. And I know that sounds weird, but I was telling somebody this a couple days ago. This country boy show is always at the same time every year. It is always right before the biggest home game of the year. So the first big home game of the year. So some years, if you remember, if you've been coming to this a long time, it's before the Florida game often because we used to play the Florida game early in the year.

Last year it was before the South Carolina game. This year, it's before the Ole Miss game. The common denominator in all these games or all these shows has been the crowd. The crowd is great again today. Crowd's always great. You know, sometimes it's bigger than others, but it's always great. but I honestly judge where the fan base is by the enthusiasm when you walk in here today. Not like during the show, you guys are always into it.

It's fun. But like when you walk in, how many people are going, here we go, right? Like we're winning. Last year before this game, this place, and if you may remember, the weather was terrible last year. But this place was still not only full like it is now, but there was a, this is going to be a heck of a year. Randy Griff's really the guy, right? Like he's going to be what? Devin Leary wasn't.

This is going to be the guy. Hey, JMI, y'all sent four players last year. That helped. Maybe you should think about that. But nevertheless, that was it. This one, everybody's here, but we're people a lot more reserved. I think there's a hope instead of expectation. Ryan, I think that's very apropos for where the fan base is.

I think you nailed it. And we knew when the schedule came out, We saw this game. We all said, this is the game of the year. Our fan base right now, we win this game. Boom, we're all in again. Our fan base needs this game as much as that locker room needs this win tomorrow. Well, I do think if you win, you're back.

But I would also say, Drew, a great performance can still do something for you in a lot. You just can't get blown out. If you get blown out and then we play Eastern Michigan next week, and then there's a bye, and then you play those teams. By the way, Mark Pope and his group are sitting right there. I had somebody who went to the one. workout yesterday called me and say, Matt, this is going to be fun this year, Matt. And like, this is not somebody that's eager to get excited. So, you know, those two things, as you know,

work against each other sometimes. Yeah. Overall, too, this could be, I hate to keep leaning in the negative way, but this could be an eighth straight home SEC loss. Eventually, people are going to stop walking into that building if you can't win a home game. It is not easy to go to a UK football game. Especially if you, especially if you, I mean, if you're tailgating, maybe you live in Paducah. I mean, it is your whole day to go to UK football game. I am shocked how many tickets are available tomorrow. I don't even think they've released the top corners yet.

Just like on the open market. That is shocking to me. But again, I understand. I can't get upset at people. I understand, but I am a little surprised. 859-2-80277. The text machine is 772-7-7-4-8-8-89. We, what did I get the right one?

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kind of moves in i think this evening and they say it should stop though by kick off tomorrow it should be fine yes uh with the by the way bar opens tomorrow at 11 our pregame show starts at 11 30 I have a lot of you ask me, what time do I need to get there? I don't really know. Just get there. And I think it will hope we have been in prep for Old Miss mode all week. And I feel like it's going to be good. And I love to see everybody.

Because remember, I'm also, I leave next Thursday for South Africa. So this will be the last time I'll be here until October 1st. So please come say hi. I may not get to see people for a game until, what, October 15th or something. starting tomorrow. We'd still be undefeated when you get back. Nope. It'd be fun.

Well, that'd be awesome. Wouldn't that be awesome? Since I'm gone for the South Carolina game, I'll be back for Georgia. But since I'm gone for the South Carolina game, if we come back, we're undefeated. Shannon, I think it'll be a different kind of thing. Yeah, you might need to stay gone. I can see that happening. I'm just saying.

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out, is there a station in Johannesburg, South Africa, that shows Kentucky Eastern Michigan football? Do you think there is one that will be showing that? live I'll send you off with one of my boxes okay I may need one you may remember on the post game show a guy called and said at the game that there were two little old ladies sitting behind him who wanted them to play Grove Street or wanted him to play the it's a party song yeah but they didn't play it and they were disappointed they during the break came up it's these two little old ladies right here yeah yeah give me a little young beautiful women I'm just telling you what he said

So you all, you have a whole lot of money. You're ready for a party, am I right? Well, you're going to get it back tomorrow as Grove Street is supposedly going to be back for the game tomorrow. They had to bring it back. Like we said many times, there's the one thing we do as a fan base. We kind of have adopted it.

It kind of happened naturally from that South Carolina game years ago. And fans missed it. You know, we all were bombarded with messages. They missed not hearing it at the game last week. I read the excuse as to why they didn't play, and I felt like it was kind of lame. It was a terrible. They sell the situational.

Yeah, which is a lie. That's what's known as lying. The answer was that they had made a decision to, quote, go more Kentucky-based, which is, listen, nobody, like I said, nobody loves kids. I mean, this is country boy. We saw Tyler Childers here just about a year ago. Like, I love Kentucky-based music, but a football game should be a party, Drew, and you have to, you can't just do that playing, you know, fiddlemen. music. It wasn't just Kentucky. I mean, we were one step above elevator music there for a while. I felt like I was on hold in the third quarter waiting for something to happen.

You're calling. This is good. 859-28027. All right, so last night, the Eagles and Cowboys, they go back and forth, you end up with a spit. The first play of the game, you end up with a spit. guy spits on Dak Prescott's chest and ends up getting kicked out of the game. First of all, do you kick him out of the game? Yes, there's no room for that. You can't spit on people. You can't spit on anybody in any situation. What is it that makes us hate spitting on people so much?

Because it's bodily fluids going on somebody else. Is that what it is? Because if he hit him in the head, he gets a penalty, but he probably doesn't get kicked out. That's another level of nasty. But there's something that people have about spitting. It doesn't hurt. No. He just hit him in the chest.

I agree. He should have been kicked out. But why do we dislike that so much, Drew? I just said it. You're putting your bodily fluids on me. But we already are sharing sweat. Like we're touching each other. Like, look how I'm doing Ryan right now.

He's getting all my, he's getting all my bodily. He's getting all. But that's what's happening in a football game. Why are we so down on? We just can't live in a world where people are going around and spit on each other. You got to set the tone early like our headlines been did last night. No nonsense. We're not going to have a society where we're just hawk and loogies in people's faces.

Can't just go on me and like pee on somebody's leg. Well, I think peeing is a little different. It's the same thing. Ryan? It's gross. It's disgusting. It's vulgar. It's just something we've learned as a little kid.

You just don't do that. It's just there's just no part of it in our world of sports. You can sweat on each other. You can scratch each other, but you can't spit on each other. You can tickle each other. Tickle each other. Okay, now at halftime, they show that Dak Prescott had spit in the direction of of them before. That he didn't hit him, but that he had right before the play spit on the

ground in front of him like, you're nothing to me, poo. I don't know if he said poo when he did it, but he did it right for him. Pooh. Pooh. Did he, does that make it worse? Does it like that justify, or does it matter? Should Dack have gotten in trouble? I don't think Dax innocent in the matter. He didn't spit on him. He aimed to the left. But, you know, You can get a little stray saliva with that.

I think Dak did a good job in baiting Jalen Carter into the second action, which always gets people caught. But on the replay. So you wouldn't penalize him. You can spit at people but not on them. Maybe not out of the game. I would be like, hey, I saw that. Because he smiled.

He knew what he was doing. Okay. Dak played it off like, oh, I spit all the time. No, he knew what he was doing. What about you? You know, players spit on the football field all game long. Should he had done it? Probably not.

But he didn't hit the guy. I mean, he didn't spit on the guy. So the on is the key part. That's the whole key part of it, man. You know, like you said, he could have hit the guy and probably still would have got a penalty, but he still would have played. You spit on the guy. You got to get him out of there.

Okay, so here's my question. I'm looking at the three of you. Have any of you in the course of anything ever spit on a person? Now, my answer is first is no. I would not do that. I can't, yeah, I don't even know if I've come close. But this is, we have not talked about this. I am thinking that there's a decent chance, Shannon,

that the allegedly nicest one of us, Ryan, is the one who is most likely to have spit-ons. I have no basis for that. I'm just guessing that if I were to rank likelihood of spitting, I think I would rank Ryan one, Shannon, two, me, three, Drew, four. Thank you. Appreciate that. But I haven't.

Drew, I'm going to sue you is four. I have not. That's coward behavior. What about you? I'm trying to think. The only scenario. was wrestling? Would be OVW, and I don't think I've ever done it there, so I'm going to say no.

No. All right, so that gets us to the most likely one. Plus 400 on draft. Yeah, I don't know. I'm saying plus 150 on draft kings. I think it's potentially likely. Have you, in the course of your life, be honest, ever spit on some point? My mom would be absolutely disowned me if I said yes.

The answer is 100% unequivocally no. That's disgusting. Okay, but that was not, hang on. Hang on a second. That was not a. I have it. That was my mom would be mad. I said I 100% unequivocally absolutely would not do that.

Okay. All right, good. I'm glad to hear that. So all four of us, no spit. No spit. You just can't do that, man. No spit. All right, good.

That's Louisville behavior. Yeah. Yeah, they just spit on our guy in TBT last summer. Which one did that? On a Hawk, uh, on a hawku. On a walkoo spit on one of our guys? On Nate Sistina, the big fight. Right after I got assaulted.

So they assigned, and then they spit on CISTA? Yeah. Oh, like 30 seconds. It's on video. It's on video, yeah. All right, 859, 28027. We will take your calls. We will take your calls.

We're right back here in Georgetown at Country Boys. Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 8592802287. Text machine, 772-7-7-4-5-2-5-4. One person writes, Matt, can you give us a little more on what your friend said after watching the team work out? Well, they said a couple of things that I can't really share until you get about a month in.

But, like, I have things. favorites, right? You know, they're just guys for whatever reason that I'm really rooting for. I think for this year, I always say I have like one adopted favorite, just a person that for whatever reason I've decided, I just really am pulling for you. Antonio Rees was that way for two years. Jackson Robinson was like that for me last year. I just always really wanted to seem well do well. For me this year, that's Jaylon Lowe for whatever reason. I think I've never even met the kid. I just have in my mind that like I really want him to do well. Part of it because we need him to do well. But part of it just I think people were like, eh, is he really good enough?

And I tend to want to take up for that kid. So anyway, Jalen Lowe, my guy was like, just wait, you're going to love Jail him. It says, you know, it was saying, I said kind of what's he reminds you of? And he said, well, he's not really a cow kind of point guard said, imagine if like Cliff Hawkins could really shoot. That was kind of the, the, what I got. I loved Cliff Hawkins. during his days, and he was perfect for those tubby teams that were so good. So really excited about him. You know, we've said all along, what they signed him, you know, they gave him the keys of the limo.

He's the guy who's going to be driving the offense. The point guard is so important to what Pope tries to do offensively. If he can stay healthy, stay on the court, he could be, have a special season. I did ask him, give me the one guy that's like, all right, watch out. And the answer for me, Drew, was Colin Chandler. Just that you've been saying this for a while. Watch out. You're going to see a huge leap for year two.

Now, it's based on one workout, you can't get too crazy about it. But nevertheless, I like hearing. It's good to know everybody's been copying off my homework. Yeah, I'm expecting a huge jump from him. The thing I'm most excited about, and this is just very recent because he's only been here a little bit. But with Yellovich, I wasn't sure if he was going to be ready to go right away or this guy needs a year. And even though it's been a couple hours of working out, he's at least fitting in so far. And it's looking like more towards this guy's going to get some minutes, not so much on the end of the bench, not ready for college.

sounded like I wouldn't expect him to come in and start, a la this dude right here who said that yesterday, but I do expect him to get minutes. One more thing from the Eagles game last night. You know, there was a long delay because of lightning. Reports were this morning, Shannon, that in the lightning delay, the Cowboys were given, excuse me, the Eagles were given energy drinks and protein bars. The Cowboys were giving cold cuts and uncrustables.

That's on the Cowboys. That's on the Cowboys. I mean, don't they have trainers that are supposed to do that? They do, but they requested cold cuts and uncrustables. Do you think that is good mid-game energy? Uncrustibles are the one thing that I ate on my 50-mile walk. So, you know, it's easy. What is it?

It's like just peanut butter and jelly sandwich, basically. Yeah, okay. But they're really good. But it sounds like the energy drinks. It's round, okay. Yeah, but it sounds like the energy drinks help the Eagles. Yeah. They won the game.

Well, neither team really. scored much after it, but they did win the game. Given the option, I'm going to the Cowboys locker room 100 times out of 100. I don't need your monster energy. Where are the uncrustables? You want it uncrustable. All right, fair enough. Who's up first, Rick?

Adam is up first. Adam. Go ahead, Adam. Hey, what's up, guys? Two things. One, interesting betting lawn this week. It started at 9.5 Kentucky's an underdog. Went up to 10 and the half.

Now I think it's back down to 8.5. So, you know, a little money has moved to Kentucky pretty heavily in like the last 24 hours. And it's rare to see, it's rare to see after week one, money moves really all over the place. But it's rare to see after week one that you see a two-point move this late in the week. I don't know. I mean, probably nobody knows nothing. They're just guessing. But it is, it is Drew different.

Yeah, it came out. I mean, I was still in the press box last Saturday when it came out at 9. and a half and I even said to people around me, oh, this is a little low. I think it's going to jump. I think it even got up to 11 and a half on Monday or Tuesday. I didn't expect it to fall to where it has. So I don't know if it's a lot of people thinking maybe the Kentucky and the Toledo game, not trying to overreact or they're considering last year's Kentucky Ole Miss game, but there's been a lot of late Kentucky action. Well, I've told you I'm really big on when people put too much stock in week one. Used to be that in college football, week two was a really good week.

games like Texas, Ohio State, those used to be played in week two. And now they're being played in week once. There's actually not a lot of great games. But for instance, you're going to hear when we do our KSR Parlay Picks. I have a game I really like because I think people overreact to week one. I don't know. Maybe people think that the betters initially overreacted to Kentucky not playing well, Ryan, against Toledo, or at least on paper not.

Well, I mean, if you look at Kentucky's defense, I mean, that would be one thing I think would make you a little more optimistic that they can keep Kentucky in the game tomorrow. So maybe that's what's opening up some eyes. Yeah, 859-280-2287. Who's next? Chester is up next. Oh, here we go. Now, this may be what UK football needs is a motivational speech here from Chester.

So let's hear it. Hey, Matt. Appreciate you taking my call. Listen, I don't know by way of motivational speech, but I did just with sitting here. and I wanted to just to say something to the fans out there that have been pessimistic just a bit. Listen, I want to encourage everybody to come out there tomorrow. And we do not know really what we got just yet. And I still believe that we have the potential to have a great year.

And it all comes down to tomorrow. A lot of it does. I mean, if we win tomorrow, then everybody's going to start changing the story around here about this program. Totally agree. There's still a lot of unknowns. And I want to say this, whether there's any kind of music or whatever they got, emoji cams on the screens or whatever, that, listen, that should not affect as Kentucky football fans. If they, for all I care, we should just tell them, hey, turn the music off, turn the screens off,

and we should come in there loaded for bear ready to bring the energy, ready to be the ones that fire this team up. I've been in there, and we've all been in there. When we're yelling on first down and second down, like we do on third down and fourth down, that place has a different feel. And whatever you think about football, Kentucky, just look

down there tomorrow and see Lane Kippen down there. That should be all that you need to know that we need to come in there with everything we got, support these boys, support stoops, and man, what else do we got? What else do we got to do? I mean, we still have a chance to be relevant right now. Alabama's lost. We haven't lost.

we've got a chance to make a special season, but we need to get everybody out there fired up tomorrow. I love it, Chester. Thank you very much. I appreciate the call. Yeah, I agree with everything he said. Look, I mean, at this point, whatever's going to happen tomorrow is going to happen.

So why not do, Shannon, whatever our part can be, why don't we do it tomorrow? Yeah, I agree with him and saying we really don't know what we got yet. The running backs look great. O-line look good. D-line look good. We really don't know what we got just yet. but we're going to find out tomorrow.

We will find, and he is right about one thing. We've talked a lot about, well, what happens if things don't go well? Let's talk about what happens if things do go well, okay? Let's just say you were to win tomorrow, and let's look at it a little bit different. First of all, it would be a win that would be one of. If we beat Ole Miss for the second year in a row, we'll be the second biggest story in college football tomorrow besides whoever wins Oklahoma, Michigan. Whoever wins Oklahoma Michigan is probably number one.

this would probably be number two. So start with that. You get a great bit of positive talk about the UK football program. Next, you play Eastern Michigan. You win. You'll be 3 and O and you'll get a by week. And you'll have a chance now to go into a South Carolina game where chances are they will be undefeated.

You'll have a game that'll probably be, if not prime time, in the afternoon on ABC at South Carolina in a game that let's just say you want. I'm not saying you will, but listen, we can dream, right? Then you'll go play Georgia in a game that could get college game day if both teams are undefeated. And all of a sudden, whether you win that game or not, you're sitting there and looking going, wait a minute.

We've got Florida and Tennessee and Lexington, right? We got Vandy. We can have as many fans as they do, and you have a completely different outlook about UK football. That can all happen, Drew. tomorrow. I'm not saying it's going to happen, but it can, and it's right there. If Mark Stubes and those guys want to change the narrative, tomorrow is the day to do it. I like that. A lot of optimism in there. I'll have a little round of applause. That's a good little rant.

No, that is six and six, Matt, right there. No, no. Now, wait a minute. Let me say that you win tomorrow. I mean, there's a seven and five, eight and four. Seven and five, man. No, I mean, look, Tennessee and Florida, that we're going to also be playing at home are no better than Ole Miss. If you win those games, there's no reason you can't be competitive in those games. I mean, I think Kentucky only has two games on their schedule. Like, I don't care what they do. They're probably not winning, right?

Georgia and Texas. But everything else, those teams are not crazy, Ryan. They're not. Beat Ole Miss last year on their home field. Beat South Carolina recently, what, five years in a row. of course they can do it just for the record do not post that on social media oh you're I'm not getting a second year of this post it Mario 8-4 you're not post that I know that that one's a radio only I'm not letting that go viral across college football for the second year

in a row yeah we're not we're not doing that now how many of you ever listen to the games on the radio or listen to the pre-post game show on jMI okay all right so if you have you've heard me do this way too much. They play it. Every commercial break. Every commercial break. You know the one where I'm like, for all y'all. Like that's not even how I talk. And so UK Federal Credit Union, I'm going to change it up a little bit because even I'm tired of hearing my voice. I think you need to leave the y'all y'all in there.

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You don't be reading anything tomorrow, okay? But tonight, you might be bored. So let me give you two stories that I guarantee you every one of you. every single person would enjoy, I don't care your background or what your philosophies of life are. Let's start with the one I read yesterday during dinner that's about somebody from Kentucky. You've probably heard us talk about the story about the dude, the guy who lived in Smithland, Kentucky, who he and another guy tortured a dude in New York to try to get his crypto passwords. Have you heard about this guy?

It's a wild story. Basically, this dude in Smithland who lived in like this mansion, like 10,000 square feet. acre or whatever, I don't know, mansion in Smithland, Kentucky. He got into crypto. He was like, that's Livingston County, I believe. He got into crypto, and he met a guy from Florida. Long story short, they get a condo.

So they had a place in Smithland. A lot of this story takes place in Smithland. They would bring people to Livingston County who had, like, crypto, a lot of money in crypto, and like, the allegation is they might try to like kidnap them in livingston county and try to get them to give them their passwords and all this stuff and and one time they almost got caught so they decided to move to new york and do it in new york city instead they end up getting caught in new york because this italian guy runs out of the house like almost naked he says they're torturing me it the story is wild it is wild it is in new york

magazine and it's a lot of it is in kentucky and in livingston county he was having dude was having like crazy parties and flying in models from all over the country and flying in crypto guys and then like holding them hostage in Livingston. This is all in Livingston County, Ryan. It's wild. This is the only time I think we've ever even mentioned Livingston County on the show. I have a hard time for your name where it is. And literally the two main places, so it's in New York magazine. It's called like torturing a crypto guy or whatever. But one of them is from Kentucky and the two main places are New York City and Livingston County. Second story just broke this morning. I was reading it while eating my breakfast.

Did you see the story about the Navy Seals and the North Korea thing? This just came out this morning. And like, Shannon, this is the kind of thing that happens in movies that I didn't think happened in real life. So I guess in 2019, I guess who was president? The Trump administration at the time, they wanted to plant, like, I guess, I don't know what do you call it, surveillance things in North Korea. So they send the Navy SEALs to North Korea. to like, I don't know, run onto the shores, plant something and leave. They come in vessels.

As they're about to do it, a boat sees them, and they feel like their cover is blown. This is in the New York Times as morning. You've got to read this story. They end up, I mean, this is kind of awful. Rand Paul's already complaining about this. They end up seizing the ship. It's just like people fishing. Kill the people on the ship because their cover's been blown.

and then I'm not going to say what it is to gross people out, but then bury them out at sea so they'll never be... I don't know, so they'll never be caught. And I guess one of the seals maybe has told the story. You got to read. Those two stories are two of the wildest things, and sometimes you sit and think, yeah, these movies, this couldn't happen in real life.

And Shannon, both of these stories read like movies scripts. Well, I will read both of those. I'm trying to figure out which one is more fascinating. The guy getting tortured over crypto. The crypto one is long and much. better but but in terms of whoa you mean that happens the new york times one maybe even more crazy i feel bad for those people there's there's yeah they were just wrong place wrong time in life they were just fishing and then all of a sudden and then like you know i guess i don't know how they

it's come out but it just came out this morning who's up next tray is next tray go ahead trey got a couple points to make uh i just don't get all the fans that are cheering for Stoops to fail. I don't, you know, he's made eight, witty-bake eight straight bowl games and won two, ten, win seasons in three or four years. Do you think, do you think fans are rooting, I don't think fans are rooting for him to fail.

Do you think fans are rooting? I mean, I think, like, we would all, who do you think is out there going, I hope we lose tomorrow? Well, it's, it might not be that, but I don't know. It seems like to me, of like all the Twitter comments and all that,

I see, I don't know. I see it. Twitter is all negative. But that is Twitter, but that's also, but even for the negative people on Twitter, that's just people commenting on what they think happens. I don't think Kentucky fans want Stoops to lose. You're saying they're rooting for him to fail.

I don't think that's true. Well, it's more so I guess just not appreciating what he's done in the past or whatever and not thinking bowl games are a good thing to celebrate. anything? Well, I appreciate the call. Ryan, to me or Drew, there's to me, both of you, there are two different issues here. There's appreciating what Stoops did in the past. We all appreciate, does anybody not appreciate what Stoops did in the past? I think what you can give him a round of applause. What he's done here has been amazing. Then there's a different question of are we set up to do well in the future, right? I think those are two completely

different circumstances. And I think that's why this is such a big season. I mean, last Last year was such a, we were excited about the season. It was kind of such a lead down. They've got to start winning an SEC home game. They've got to bring that attitude back where he's got a chip on his shoulder and get that mean mug back. That's the Mark Stoops I want to see on the sideline the rest of the season. I won't say there's fans that want him to lose, but Stoops has one thing working against him with some of the fan base, and his name's John Somerall.

And there's a group that's very worried about missing that opportunity for what could be a guy that could take you through another door and be here a long time. I don't know that they want, they're going to be for Ole Miss tomorrow, but there is a group that wants this over in a hurry to not miss him. If he wasn't there, I don't think those people are as negative as they are. There's a lot of people that don't want to miss him if he becomes available. And every time a southern team struggles, people are like, what if some were to come to coach in Alabama? Like they start, they start worrying about that stuff.

His name just keeps getting hotter and hotter. You do hear that a lot. Who's up next? Jake is next. Jake, go ahead, Jake. Hey, Matthew, how are you doing this? this morning, sir. I'm doing good.

I'm doing good. I'm feeling a little bit more positive. That's right. Well, I got 30 seconds, so you make it as positive as you can. All right. I got a 7 and 5, and I got the Ole Miss is the one that we get 7 with. All right, well, so you got us winning tomorrow. Yes, sir.

All right. Well, that's more positive. He's usually pretty negative. I like positive, Jake. who's the key player tomorrow. Calzada's got to play better. I mean, I think the quarterback's decision starts and ends with him. I think he's got to play better tomorrow.

Yeah, he's the answer. He and the receivers, Bush Hamden, and you just got to have more than 82 yards passing or just don't even play the game. We've got to have receivers who get open, too. I mean, the more and more people that watch the full tape say that the receivers did not get open, they're going to have to do that.

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