KSR - 2025-09-8- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

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Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at the KSR Golf Scramble in Somerset, Kentucky at Woodson Bend, the third of our three golf scrambles, the largest group of crowd we've ever had here. 27 teams playing on a chilly morning in, And I feel like I do this every year. Are we in Pulaski County at this moment?

Okay, Pulaski County. Thank you to folks here at Woodson, Ben, golf course, Tim Dudley, the pro, and Woodson, Ben, and we are here. You can give us a shout on the Clark's Pubpit Shop phone line, 859-280-2287, A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine, 772-7-7-4, and this edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, you call T. T.J. He'll make them pay. We've been here when it was really hot.

We've been here when it was pouring, pouring rain. but we've never been here when it was cold, and it's a little cold. It was the ninth night in August with the record cold, or I guess now at September, last night in Lexington. Yeah, when I got up this morning to let my dogs out, it was cold. That's why I put on hoodie and pants. Well, Drew's already over here freezing with no pants on. He was wearing the tablecloth as pants right now.

Yeah, well, I have some pants on. They're just shorts. I didn't show up wearing nothing. So we'll talk more about this later. Drew and Billy and Mario and I had a long night. We were these, these taping these podcasts after the NFL games is something, especially when you think you know the result, and then it changes in the middle of the podcast.

But, you know, but we got up this morning, ready to rock, and now it should be a fun day here at the golf scramble. You and I, Ryan, will be here on 18. Yes. Drew's playing. You and I will be on 18 greeting people. It should be a lot of fun. You know, the early betting odds on Draft Kings has Drew's team and Billy's team

at the two favorites. Like they loaded up. Drew's team's good. I mean, Drew's team. got Aaron Fleener. T. T. T. Fleeter. T. Whitworth. J.T. Poston. Was that because I was singing that before?

8-7-7-Cash now. J.T. Poston's caddy is here, and he's really good. I think they're the early favorites. Yeah, and he's got Judge Gabe. But Billy loaded up. He's got Chase, our boy from Lindsey Wilson, National Championship Golf Team. You're right. Billy did load up. He was already drinking mimoses this morning, so there's

no chance he's going to win. Okay, so Drew's team now becomes the favorite. If Billy's already been drinking this You mentioned Chase. It is Chase birthday. So, shout out to say, happy birthday. Playing in his first scramble with us. KSR's first NIL athlete who never got me the paperwork. So, you know what? That's okay.

It didn't work out, but maybe next year. 859-28027. A lot of stuff to talk to about, but of course we got to start. UK Ole Miss Saturday. I said in the pregame show, you know what? If we play a one-score game and we're competitive throughout, I'm going to come away. encouraged and we played a one score game where we were competitive throughout and then somehow I came away not encouraged and I'm not sure why that was well I know why that was a lot of the same

old sort of issues that have plagued Kentucky football for a while hit us right there we had the issue of poor clock management a disaster at the end of the first half that cost three points and honestly maybe cost a chance to win the game because you would have played the fourth quarter differently if you had had those three points. So let's go the good, the good real quick. Good. Defense played really well. Gave up 30 points, but I still think that it's extremely strong performance by the defense.

You had them in the game. I thought they got the stops when they needed to. At the end of the game, they stopped them twice with a chance to get the ball back. And so I think the defense played well, two interceptions. I would say A to A minus for the defense. Running game. I thought was very soft. Probably a minus for the running game.

Offensive line blocked pretty well on the running game. I was generally very pleased with that. Passing game, anemic. I'm going to go C minus. A couple big plays, but otherwise worse than probably we had hoped going into it. And then, you know, when it comes to coaching and management, I have to say I'm going like D. It was the end of the first half, one of the worst.

I mean, we've had a lot of bad into first halves in terms of the way clocks have managed, but this was the worst one that I can remember. It all leads to a seven-point loss. Ryan, I went over it pretty detail on the post-game show, and I made the comment that basically, if you wanted to sum up the frustrating parts of the Stoops era, that game summed it up about as well. Everything we've ever complained about, they did in that game. What was your take on it?

We haven't heard from you since the game. I really feel like I kind of agree with you. kind of encouraged by the running game. They ran the ball good, the second straight game, and this time against an SEC defense. Our offensive line, I thought, looked pretty good. So that was encouraging. Defense, you're right, the good, not great. They missed a couple of tackles.

They gave up some big plays a couple times. That wasn't the one thing they were not great at, open field tackling. They got beat a couple times on that. But how many times do we hear Freddie Maggard talk about the middle eight? The end of the four minutes, the end the first half, and the four minutes to start the second half. And this is just a recurring problem that comes back and back again. And you're right. Everything that people have complained about Mark Stu,

and his coaching reared its ugly head at the end of the first half. They have no philosophy on whether to kick or not kick, and they have no urgency at the end of the first half. It's clear to me that at the end of the first half, when they're in a quick drill, that they are figuring it out as it goes, and they don't know what they're going to do, Drew, at any moment. It's complete anarchy.

You have a seventh-year quarterback who, for all his weaknesses, probably at least can understand the play, and yet he can't, it seems like he doesn't. him get it in in time. The receivers are all lined up in the wrong places. Just a disaster all the way around. They were openly being mocked on ABC by the announcers. You're right. Shaw McDonough, you know, Kentucky was supposed to receive. He said they should defer in the second half just because he didn't want to see the offense. That's my guy. I mean, Sean McDonough, that was brutal. He crushed us, and it was like it was you announcing the game. Well, I think that's probably

fair to say that. But look, I know there was a lot of frustrations, but I, I love. I look at it like this. Nobody gave Kentucky a chance going into this game. You had all these hiccups throughout the game. Quarterback didn't play well, and you still gave the number 20 team in the country all they want it. So Mr. Negativity. Whoa. Whoa. What happened there? Mario, what are you doing? Whatever that is, give rid of it. All right. I felt like I was very positive in the offseason, not negative, and I actually felt encouraged after that game, even though they lost. Where did Billy go? Of all times for Billy to disappear. Of all times for Billy to disappear.

So I wasn't negative about it. No, I'm saying you are normally negative, and now you're actually positive about this. Again, everybody going in and gave them no chance. I'll be negative for him. Everybody else is negative. It looked like the offense had never met each other in the first half. Not only did not know the playbook,

they couldn't make substitutions. They were lining up on the wrong side of the play. For week two, first SEC, game, you're on national TV. To their credit, they cleaned up a little second half, a little bit in the second half. But the end of that first half was embarrassing. It really was. It wasn't and it wasn't just

what they should kick comment. It was little things like, oh, goodness. And McElroydon's breath, like, wow. And then at one point he straight up said, this is what gets you fired when you're on the hot seat. And that's what wrapped up the half. No, here's why it was so embarrassing. It was being made fun of. Kentucky, by getting

up 10 to nothing in the first half. I mean, I sometimes will watch Twitter to see what people are saying. the college football world turned our game on. Okay, the college football world for a little while was saying, well, it looks like Stoops may have Lane Kiffin again, right? There were memes about Lane Kiffin sort of waking up like a Scooby-Doo thing and seeing Stoop's face.

So the college football world turned our game on, right? And then they see Ole Miss come back and they see us have the ball. And I genuinely, like, you can feel this when you're on social media. I think all of college football was watching at the end of the first half. Now they switched after it to Florida and South Florida, etc. But in that moment, I think all of college football was watching our game. And then we get embarrassed. That's when we're embarrassed.

And a lot of people, that will be the only thing they know about UK football this year is going to be the end of that first half. Because we had the attention of the college football world for like an hour. And that was what we did. Yeah, the two interception by Ty Bryant led to 10 points. you're up 10 to nothing against Ole Miss, the team that you upset last year. I think everybody does tune in to that game. But then you saw Kentucky football at its worst that second quarter, especially the end of the second quarter.

Poor clock management, poor decision-making, poor offensive execution. Everything couldn't get the guy, like Drew said, couldn't even get the guys to line up right on their play. Everything about it was embarrassing. They were in field goal range and ended up on the other side of the 50. That's not a joke. How does that happen? How does that happen? They shouldn't have ever run a play.

Even the announcers are like, what are you doing here? Sometimes we're getting to the point at the end of the first half where we should, we should, should just take a knee and then kick it. There were a couple of times, though, where I actually liked going forward on fourth down. I think that was a lot of criticism, but I like that. You got to be aggressive in that situation. I think the criticism of him at the end for going for fourth down, I think misunderstands math. When you're down seven and you go for it, what does a field goal do? You're still down four, and you haven't stopped them. Right. Now, we ended up stopping them, but up until that point, we hadn't stopped them in two and a half quarters. You got to go for it. And

then when you don't get it the first time, you got to go for it the second time, because now it's the same situation just with less clock. After the game, Stoop says in hindsight he wished he had kicked. No, like have your philosophy. Go with it. Your philosophy is not always going to work, but you have to have a philosophy. And part of my frustration is they have no philosophy. I mean, just to go to the end of the first half for a second, let's be real.

They weren't trying to score. They just got lucky and he broke one. But like it, they were handing the ball off. They were not trying to score, right? Right. So he breaks one. They decide to go for it. At that moment, I think no one had planned that we might be in field goal range, and that's why they were lost.

They had gone from assuming we're not going to make it to, oh, no, what now? And everybody's running around. Let's take the end of the second half. The game is basically over. But we're down 10. It is fundamental football in 2025 that in that in that scenario, once you get in field goal range, you kick. That's just what you do.

No reason to waste time and then potentially have to kick anyway. Just kick. You're going to need an onside kick. When we get into that range, it is clear. If Lane Kiffin doesn't call time out, we weren't going to kick. And by the way, Ole Miss would have covered. Lane Kiffin bailed us out called time out. And then Stoops goes, oh, yeah, let's kick.

But they were not going to kick. And that's also, that means they had no philosophy in that moment of what to do. I agree with you about the, especially the first fourth down call. If he had not gone for it, I think he would have got booed out of the stadium. You know, people have kind of been frustrated. I think he had to go for it. But it was also the right decision. It was the right decision.

They didn't get it. But, you know, what if we kick a field going down four and they go score a touchdown? Drew, at that point, the game's over anyway. Like, we had to go for it. Yeah, I was actually team kick on the first one, though. Because at that point, I mean, you can still give up three. If you can't stop Ole Miss, you're still in it. I think it was like 12th.

If it was fourth and five and not fourth and nine, I probably would have gone for it. It was a little bit too long. Regardless, and not to make excuses because it looks terrible. Before that, though, that was a pass interference. And I think Stoops's decision making there was running a little hot because he was chewing out that ref to making that fourth. It was definitely passing. But I will say, even though they didn't get it, going for it still work because we got the ball on a three and out.

We got it right back. So it actually, I think there's plenty of criticism to go around for Stoops. I actually don't mind the kick. I was already seeing Red before that moment in the game from the first half. It looks like Cutter Bowley's going to win. Or it's going to end up starting. I mean, at the end of the game, Tom Leach goes, you know, Mark, you usually say when people get hurt, they don't lose their spot. He was like, yeah, but I'm going to see Cutter.

He goes, I want to see Cutter. He goes. Matter of factly, I want to see Cutter. Is that the right decision? I think it is the right decision right now. I'm especially guys. I just think, you know, I've been pro-cutter. I think there's just more upside with him. I think he's a guy that can maybe do what you can be done this year and build for the next couple of years.

I really think you might as well go for it. We got a small sample size of him last year at Texas when they threw him in there. Did fairly well. Now, he didn't do all that great against Louisville when he's first start, but he did look good against Texas. So. Listen, I think you do it, Shannon, because I think we've seen through two games. I don't think we lost that game because of Calzada, but there's a ceiling with him. so we might as well try it with the other guy.

Because Calzada is not, I don't, I'm not saying he's terrible, but he's not going to take you to the promised land, so we might as well try it with it. This injury may have settled your quarterback battle that we were just talking about a couple of weeks ago. You can't put Calzada out there if he's injured regardless, so why not put Cutter out there? It's against the team that you feel like. They lost at home to Long Island. Right. Which I didn't know how to football team. And this is a good way to introduce Cutter into this season against the team like Eastern Michigan.

I agree. Yeah. Cutter oddly looked more comfortable than the seven-year player. McElroy said that, yeah. I think to Rodriguez, he overthrew him a little bit, but he stepped into it. Calzada seems to backpedal and drop back even when he doesn't really need to. He throws off his back foot. He doesn't look comfortable out there, and it's weird because he's played seven years.

He beat Alabama, but two of the worst games of his career are at Kentucky. So part of me wondering, like, what have we done to him? I know he wasn't going to come in and be some world-beater, but he does look worse than he's ever looked. Calzada scrambles like Lamar Jackson without Lamar Jackson's Scambling ability. Like he's running around like Lamar, but he's not quite able to. I do feel like the best pass play of the whole game is when Cutter stepped up into the pocket and threw a dot to Harley Gilmore.

That show me right there, this is our guy we need to go with. 859-2802287. What did you think of the game? Text Machine is 772-745-254. There's a lot to talk about about the game on Saturday, including the decision-making. Where do they go from here? Where's the fan base? There's a lot happening.

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You are a cheerleader. We've got to pick things up here. It's kind of a depressing weekend after Kentucky loss. We've got to pick it up a little bit. Thanks the city of Somerset, Lake Cumberland Tourism, Somerset Tourism in the Virginia for having us for sponsoring this KSR Golf Scream. I'm excited. This is the biggest Somerset one we've had.

Going to be a lot of fun people out on the course. And this will be my, I guess I'll be in Lebanon tomorrow for the cornbread hemp remote. But this will be my last time seeing the public before I'm in South Africa. I'll be on the show all week. But I have to go to New York and then be in South Africa. October 1st. So you leave for your trip for South Africa tomorrow? I leave for New York tomorrow. I leave for South Africa Friday. So I guess you've got everything packed and ready to go.

Don't have one thing packed. Still trying to figure out what shoes to wear. Did you get your safari pants? They threw me off when they said you need boots because I hadn't thought about that as an option. The boots I have not the kind that'll work. I think out on the bush. What do you have Jordan 2's? So I don't know. I don't know what we're going to do. I'm going to figure all that out tonight during,

Monday night football. One thing, before we get back to the game, everybody do not fall for the Tom Hart computer scam on Twitter. I already bought a MacBook Pro. So Tom Hart got hacked. What? Tom Hart got hacked on his Twitter account, and he keeps trying to sell MacBook Pros, and I think some of our fans are getting scammed from it, which I feel bad for him.

Don't. Listen, anytime anybody's trying to sell you a MacBook Pro from their Twitter. account they've probably been hacked drew i've seen some dms of people who've dm tom tom art but it's not tom heart and there it's not good and i and tom's trying to fix it but he can't get you know twitter's not exactly working like a you know like like like a machine right now so he's not able to get in there i kind of feel bad for people yeah yeah you also it takes a lot of a little bit of being gullible to buy a 600-dollar mac book from tom heart but i hate that it's for a good cause though Yeah, it's for St. Jude's.

St. Jude even replied thanks to them with their Twitter account. Oh, no, they did not reply thanks. Did they? See, that makes it even more legitimate. Just for the record, no one that you know is going to try to sell you a MacBook Pro on their Twitter account. So, like, if that ever happens with one of us, we got hacked. Like, it just, it's not happening. Nor it used to be you could fix that quickly, but apparently not.

No, it happened to me a couple of years ago, and it was not easy trying to get it back. It was not an easy way. No, it was not. Well, unfollow time right now. Clicking on those things, Shannon. Are you trying to tell me these beautiful women that reach out to me just want to talk are not real? That's true. You've been, you've had a lot of people say they saw you at the grocery store and all that.

That's not, no, that's not real. 8-59-2287. So, yeah, the announcers were kind of mocking us after the game. So post-game show calls generally very negative. One guy got very angry, which we're going to, We'll maybe play that clip a little later. But one guy got very angry, said, who made you the spokesman for UK's football? And he accused Tom Leach and, as he called him, Jeff Packery, of being too negative.

And I thought, man, if you think Tom Leach is too negative, Shannon, that's a high ball. Probably don't want to listen to the Matt Jones Postgame show if you think that Tom Leach is too critical because he is very fair. So where do we go from here? Play Eastern Michigan this week. First of all, will people come to this game? I mean, really, we had a really good crowd against Ole Miss. I don't think it'll be that big, even though it's going to be a win, and it's a home win in September with the weather probably be good.

I mean, they're bad. Like, this is a chance to work. This is not even like Toledo, oh, you should beat them. Toledo, by the way, beat Western by like 40 yesterday. Eastern Michigan's bad. They lost to a division, essentially a Division 2, Long Island at home. So we should crush them during it. Absolutely.

I don't know that you can do much in this. game to change any opinions, though, that they're so bad. One thing you might want to do is line up and get your plays in and not burn three timeouts to avoid delay of games. If they do that against Eastern Michigan, people are going to be upset. But even if they were to win by 50, I think they're still going to be a lot of, all right, cool. Now, on to South Carolina, because Eastern Michigan is just so bad. I don't know if you can form any real narratives out of what they do.

We thought, you know, if you just keep it close, fans. It's the way you can't. The way it all unraveled. It's because. I think this is what gets me about why it frustrated me. It's not that we lost, and it was close. It's that this was a game that you could have won by doing the basics. Okay, it's not a game where they just outplayed us.

If you do the basics, you can win that game. If you kick a field go at the end of the first half, then in the fourth quarter, when it was that kick or go, you go and you're down one. You get the three and out. Now you take the lead on that field goal, and it's a different game. Lane's feeling pressure. The crowd gets into it, et cetera. It's the basics, Ryan.

That's what's frustrating to me. It is. And it's something like we said, we keep seeing year after year after year. I mean, it's another SEC home loss. I mean, when are we going to finally win an SEC home game? This one was there for the taking, especially if you see Florida got beat, Willow didn't look that good Friday night. I mean, maybe there's a couple more winnable games out there and you let one slip through your fingers.

The numbers are terrible. Two and 11 in your last 13 SEC home games. Two and 11. But maybe what's even worse, 0 and 8 in your last home opener is true. We've lost eight straight SEC home openers. That's hard. How do you sustain a crowd when it's like that? Worse than that, we've lost eight straight SEC games at home.

People eventually are going to say, I can't keep driving from Paducah and committing a whole day if we can't win a home game. It was a great beating Ole Miss last year on the road, but at some point you've got to winning your stadium. You're never going to have a good season if you're losing home games. When Kentucky was playing well, it's because they were beating the South Carolina as the Missouri's and they're winning at home. And that's what it takes to win. When you're losing week two, Ole Miss, even though they're 20th, one of the more winnable games you're going to have in the conference, and it's the eighth straight time people have seen a loss in there. You have to do, you have to do Missouri beat Kansas at home. Mississippi State,

beat Arizona State at home. You have to win those games at home. I would say, say Arizona State's probably better than Mississippi State. Kansas might be equal to or better than Missouri, but they win those games at home. And so we have to find a way to win those games at home. And the reality is we're not. It wasn't good. Listen, the fans did their part. They did. They did their part. Yep. I saw some people online criticizing that when we got the ball with four and a half minutes to go, a lot of the stadium was empty. And I get it. But you know what? The fans do their part. They showed up, you know, our bar was packed. I heard the tailgate was packed.

You know, the university and the program has to give back by performance and by creating. I mean, go look. Have you seen the video of Auburn's pregame entrance? Oh, man. It's a different sport. Go look at the Auburn pregame entrance from their game, and I don't even know where they were playing like somebody's terrible, and then look at the difference in what we get.

I think that's part of the issue. We're going to take your call. 859-2-80-22-87 here at Woodson Bin and Somersets, KSR. Welcome back, Tuggy Sports Radio, here live in Somerset, at the KSR Golf Scramble. It is a beautiful day, a little chilly, but it'll be good when we start. Text machine, one person writes, Matt, who's most at fault? Stoops, Bush-Hamden, or Kalsata? Well, a little bit of all of them.

I have to say, I mean, ultimately everything's on Stoops because he's the head coach. but I would put, if you were to ask me which one is most frustrating to me, it's going to be Bush Hamden. I mean, I think Calzada, I don't know if he's good, but I don't think he's awful, awful. But like, you're not putting him in a position. Our receivers aren't good. They clearly, I think it's fair to say, Drew,

they clearly missed in the portal in terms of getting a difference maker. Now, these dudes may be okay, but they don't have a difference maker. Is that fair? Yeah, law was never going to be a good route runner. I'm glad they got to what? He did get him the ball. That's kind of what they're going to do with him. He's never going to be Wondell out there just always getting open.

But the others, somebody has to get some space. Macklin, that's a guy we thought would have better numbers through two weeks. Macklin might be a number two or three receiver that you're having to play as your number one. And that's hurting him. But Bush Hamden, I mean, I'm not out, but I'm close to out. I just, I don't see it. You know, when they show that camera in the booth, he always looks frantic to me, like throughout the thing. He always looks like he's kind of scrambling trying to, and I don't know.

We'll see. I mean, I hope to be proven wrong. Let me just give you something to watch for. Tulane plays Old Miss. Is it this week or next week? It's one of these next two weeks. If they win that game, a team we've lost to, and they, you know, just, you're going to hear a lot. You think our fans are restless now.

Go let Tulane go win at Old Miss. We'll see, though. Now, maybe they'll get crushed. The John Summerall narrative goes to another level if that happens. Yeah, who's up first? Trevor is up first. Is that Scotty Sheffler over there in the back?

Is that Scott? Over there. I don't know. He's not wearing orange. I can help recognize him. Go ahead. He's not in cuffs. Oh, yeah, he's not in cuffs.

That's right. Go ahead. Hey, Matt, at this very moment, I don't know which one I trust the least between Kentucky football, game management, London City, small town politics or Billy's scorecard this evening after a morning pool of a mimosis. Yeah, that's true.

Billy might cheat. And my question today, the term apathy you use kind of explains 100% accurately how the fan base is feeling. Now, in hindsight, do you think the quietness and the silence during the off season not getting people pumped up, not getting their expectations up? It was a terrible idea. idea. Yes, of course it did, but that was imminently predictable. If the fan base grows apathetic, the number one reason will be losing, but the number two reason will be because they didn't do anything to connect the fan base to this team.

That was completely predictable. You know, I used to say, and I appreciate the call, if you're winning at a big level, Ryan, it doesn't matter what your coach does. they can walk around naked with their pants on their head. It does not matter. They can be, go look at Bobby Knight. He was a jerk for 30 years, and it didn't matter because he was winning. But the moment you start losing, the way you market the team and the way you act matters.

Would you agree with that? 100%. Tubby Smith probably got two more years at Kentucky because he was such a good guy. Would you agree with that? Yes, I do agree with that. And there are Billy Gillespie probably got one last. last year because he was such a disaster off the court. Do you agree with that? I do agree with that. So marketing is a huge thing. They didn't do anything. We don't know this team. There are still

players that I hear their names and I go, didn't know that person was on the team. So yeah, I mean, part of the reason Shiage Pete connected with people so much is that people were just desperate to know anyone on the team, Shannon. So then when the team struggles and you don't feel that connection with them, it just makes it all the more easy to be apathetic. It's like playing a video game with generic team names that the video game creates. Why are you going to care? You don't know who they are? We only knew just a few people on the team until the media day when we had Shiaz-P

come on and all of a sudden he was our favorite. But yeah, I don't really understand that strategy of not reaching out to your fan base and trying to connect with them in the offseason. I can't remember who it was, Drew, but one of the tight ends made a good play. And McElroy was like, oh, the coaches were. telling us about this guy and I had never heard his name before and I was thinking the coaches are telling you all about this guy and I've never heard of this person like we should know who they are might have been boyer he got to boyer that was who was yeah we all we spent six months talking about like

you know poking the UK football Twitter account with a stick like are you even on is anyone there I go back to that joke of a spring game we've got four people there for KSR covering it we do a post game video. UK didn't send out a tweet. I mean, like their social media was just nothing for their spring game. And the spring game is there and fan day is there to sell tickets to keep interest in that time of the year to get to let people know the team as early as possible. And it's almost like they didn't want anyone to know. And it would be nice for us. It would be nice for our fan base to like really be pulling for Calzada. Let's go. But we don't know anything about him either. The only thing we know about him is he's old. That's it. We don't know. I mean, people don't know anything about

him really so yes apathy which is the worst thing that can come to a program and which if we're not careful we'll start in october some of that is going to be their own fault if that ends up happening who's next joe is up next joe go ahead joe hey matt there's a lot of frustrating things with stoop's organizational stuff you've talked about it a hundred times you could have talked about it a thousand times. So I don't want to talk about not realizing that you should kick the field goal so that you have enough time to hit the extra point or to try the onside. And that he didn't know that, like you said, but then also he second guesses his own right decision afterwards. I don't want to talk about all those things. But when you're at the 40 and you have a kicker that can

kick 60 and you have no more timeouts, the thing that drives me nuts, and I just rewatched it to make sure it was real, is you need to run a dummy play. Just snap it to the quarterback, he kills four seconds, throws it out of bounds. Players aren't lined up for a play you don't want to run. It's not like this is an important play

and players don't know where to go. This is a play that isn't even a play. It's just a, hey, don't hold anyone for 10 yards. Yes. You're right to the quarterback. Run a 7 out. He launches it over a guy's hands so we don't have to kick

off and then our 60-yard kicker can try a 58-yarder, and guys don't know where to go for a play that means nothing. He's right. You're exactly right. Appreciate the call. You're completely, you are totally right about that. It is, you know, they said at the end, well, the headset went out. Okay, fine.

But you have to, this is details. You have to practice, Shannon. What happens when the headset goes? out. Like, that's part, part of being prepared is you think about every situation. And I've seen enough games where players are holding their helmet where the headset goes out. Right.

We just had the speakers go out. So what did we do? We adjusted. We stood up. My voice is getting louder. That's what you do when the speakers go out. It's like when it was the moment the headsets went out, it was like everybody, it was at the scene in dumb and dumber.

Our pets' heads are falling all. Like, nobody knows what to do. You have to have a fallback plan for any. scenario or situation that could happen in a game, something to default back to, and clearly they didn't know what to do. Everybody was scrambling around. It was chaos out there, and then you have to burn two timeouts in the first quarter because your guys aren't ready.

Okay, that's another one. They call a timeout on fourth down and then come back out and punt. What is that? What is that? Why are you calling time? If you're going to punt, just take the penalty. Right. What are you doing?

And I think everybody knew at that time when they called the time. timeout, but we all knew they were going to come out and punt. They weren't going to go for it. Actually, it was the opposite. I was like, well, the only reason you would call time out here is to go for it. Because you would just take the penalty. Yep. But no, they punted anyway.

Yeah. Didn't want the defense to get set. We're just going to punt. Unbelievable. Who's next? Trey is up next. Trey. Go ahead, Trey.

Hey, Matt. I agreed with your every single post-game comment you had except for one thing, and that was the O-Miss was the better team. I was there, and it felt like we were better at, every position except for quarterback. And that wasn't even that big of a discrepancy for that game, in my opinion. Well, I would say, let you finish. But I agree with you for the first, I don't know, 20 minutes.

I did think in the second half, we were kind of holding on for dear life a little bit. Remember, I mean, we did get the ball inside their 30 on two turnovers. That's a pretty good break for us. So that's why I said that. Okay, I agree. I just maybe based on a talent for talent level, this isn't the normal Ole Miss team that stood out talently to me. That's true.

That's true. But to me, the clear distinction was coaching. And for Lane Kiffin and Mark Stoop's both to be making $9 million a year, to have that big of a distinction in game planning, players being ready, at what point does this just become unacceptable to where we're paying a guy $9 million a year, a top 10 paid coach in college football, and we continue to see these mistakes. It's a fair question. At what point at fans, do we just, you know, just give up on that?

Well, we're going to see how it goes this year. But it's a fair question. I appreciate the call. When it comes, I think when you're talking about everything, Ryan, that leads up to game day, recruiting, preparation, motivation, I think Stoops and Kiffin are in the same ballpark. But when it comes to game day management, they're not. not in the same league. They're just not. I mean, I'm, I'm comfortable saying they're just not. Kiffin's a lot better when it comes to figuring out what to do during the course of 60 minutes.

You know, we listen, I got to do my show prep on the way down here. I was to listen to the Tom Leeds show and Van Hiles was on. And he talked about how Hamden seems to want to just make the perfect play. He said of just making the play and get called, trying to always look for that perfect play and it's throwing him off. I bet we just make a play. Just make a play. That's what I was going to say. Just make a play. for the perfect play. Don't run that cutter-bole, fake pitch, draw, whatever the hell that was.

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It was a huge, huge tourism event for Somerset that ended up being a huge huge. Before I go to the phones, two things quickly. First of all, we went to the Reds, we went to Red's batting practice Friday. People find something in life that will make you as happy as watching Red's batting practice did Ryan Lemon. He stood there like a little child for an hour. He did not move. Mario, did he move? He did not move for an hour. He just sat there watching. It looked like he was eight years old. It looked like he was eight years old just watching batting practice, and you could see Ryan thinking I could do it I could do it Shannon I could hit the opposite way I could do it

when is the last time you've enjoyed been happier than that I loved every second of that I was like a little kid just watching it oh that's T.J. Friedel watch what he does oh here's Matt McLean watch what he does he believes he's T.J. Friedel well you couldn't have done any worse than Ellie sitting there looking at three strikes he didn't come out he did come out he was the only player that didn't come out maybe you should have why he didn't swing the bat

why didn't swing the bat but you you were like that's the happiest I've seen you in a long time. Those guys still make me star struck, major league baseball players, and I love being that close to it, to the action, every one of them, every pit. He loved it, seriously.

Drew, you should have seen him. I don't know that I've ever seen him that kind of starstruck around, you know, they're just hitting opposite way, and they'd hit a home run, and he'd go, oh, watch that. Like, he just, he loved it so much. You got things you're looking for,

you're looking at technique? Every time they come up, like they, in one rotation, they're all hit the other way. Next rotation, they're all trying to hit a home run. I watched the infield, whether they field ground balls and turn double plays and watch the outfield drills and stuff. I was taking it all in. I will say what thing I thought was cool, Shannon.

There was this old man. He's probably, what did you say, 60s? He's hitting the ground balls. Fungo. Fungo bat. He's sitting there and just hitting ground balls. And I watched him for 20 to 30 minutes. He just, every five seconds, throw it up, ground ball.

Throw it up, hit ground ball. Never, not only never missed one, never didn't hit it where he, meant to. This is an old man. Just every single time hitting ground balls, he'd put different spin on it. I was mesmerized by this guy. He could, like, he had to have hit 300 and all of them right on the spot. I know it doesn't, but he's old. And he was, it was, it was very impressive. So, like maybe that's your spot, Ryan. You could get out of the reds. That could be your job. You just hit ground ball. I would do it. The dude was amazing. He could like if he hit a one hopper, They hit everything to their back hand.

He can even get it right on the edge of the grass and the dirt. He could figure a way to get it bounce right off that. He'd go one hop, boom, two hops, ooh, spin, ooh, left to right, bam. And every single time it was, it was mesmerizing to me to see that. And you should do that. Can you put in a call for me? Can you kind of help me out with that? You got audition first.

You were kind of creeping out a couple of players, so I think you're going to have to work on your thing. But I was glad you had a good time. Well, thank you for bringing us and sitting that up because I really enjoyed that with Mario and Tall and you. One of the highlights of the summer for me. So thank you. Thank you to the Reds for letting us come. Who's next?

Luke is up next. Luke, go ahead, Luke. Hey, Matt. I just want to say, Bush Hand didn't look like a college kid who didn't ever prepare for an exam or an essay he had to write in his post-game interviews saying,

I'll take a look at that on film five or six times. Okay, well, let me pause right a second. I'm going to let you finish. But we have that on audio. You all here won't be able to hear it because our speaker messed up. But let me play this for the listeners at home. In the course of one post-game interview, here's how many times Bush Hamden said he would have to look at it.

This is from Stephen Peake at KSR. Go ahead. I don't have that ready yet. Oh. Didn't he just tell you to do it? Sent it to you. You take a look at it? Oh, it just came over.

Give me a minute, Steve. Okay. Rick, you take your time. Go ahead, sir. What's your name? Go finish, make your second point. Rick will do it when Rick's ready. Rick's not on a roll.

I just want to say, I mean, at least come up with something different. I mean, if I don't know something on exam, I mean, you think I'm going to keep putting the same answer? I mean, I don't know. It just seemed ridiculous to me. And, too, how do you think about the bears tonight? How do you think they're going to do? I hope the bears play well. I mean, I appreciate the call.

I would love for it to go well. I'm going to be watching them. I don't give my hopes up about the Bears, but big game tonight against the Vikings. Hopefully it turns out strong. All right, here's Bush Hamden. Rick says he's got it. Now, here's the interview. And obviously, it's someone to take a look at it.

You know, we'll have to take a look at it. We've got to take a look at it. We've got to take a look at it. We've got to take a look at it. We've got to take a look at it. You know, we've got to take a look at it as you guys know. Obviously, it's something to take a look at it. Okay, now look at that.

That's eight times in the course of it. of one post-game interview, Drew, we got to take a look at it. Well, you know, I agree. They really need to look at that. But if I'm him, and this is with all coaches, you know questions you're going to get asked for you go in. I would maybe take a minute or two. Maybe take a look at it. Maybe put the notes app, jot down a few stock answers to have ready because a lot of people

are going to have questions after that performance and didn't get many answers. I have a new t-shirt out of it. I just put we'll take a look at it on your shirt and wear it to the game. Could have put it little Shannon Dawson said, well, if it would have worked, you guys would have liked it. I think that may be his version of the shit. I think it was his version. Stoops is always back to work.

We're getting back to work on Monday. Now we have it take a look at it. Look, first of all, Stoop's sounded more frustrated at Bush Hamden than you don't hear him do that a lot. And he was kind of hinting a little frustration at Bush Hamden. But, you know, while I understand that, we've had six, seven different offensive coordinators. There's been one common denominator. and outside of one or two years, the offense has been frustrating the whole time. So on some level, you know, it's just the latest of these things.

Be a weird coincidence if all seven that we've had are truly that bad. Maybe it's an NFL coach who just went one and oh, so he can't be that bad. Some of the others are doing pretty well. Shane and Dawson is doing very well down at Miami right now. 8-9-28027. We'll take a break. We will come back. Hour number two.

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