KSR - 2025-09-9- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

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of cornbread hemp farms and now that are out here 60 acres of hemp production right here in the state of Kentucky in beautiful, I would still call this central Kentucky, wouldn't you, Ryan, here outside of Lebanon? It's beautiful. I mean, the hemp fields look like little small little Christmas trees when you pull up. It looks beautiful when you pull in. Is that what you think, guys? It's what I call it. We'll put an ornament, maybe a star on top of one of them. That's right. You can hang this. I don't know if I bring one of these and cut it down and put it in my parents' house. I don't know they'll have the same reaction,

but nice to be out here today, Drew. Sure it is. Beautiful out here. Mario and I, we'd like walk down the rows of the plants, made a little video just now. It kind of felt like a real farmer there for a minute. So those of you that have been listening know about cornbread hemp. They've been advertising with this forever. Let me give you a couple facts.

They're the fastest growing business in Kentucky. Did you know that? I did, yeah, because I talked about it on the pre-show. But until then I would not have known that, but it's very impressive of what they've done here. That's exactly right. And they are fighting in D.C. to keep hemp products least. You know, I try to keep my political opinions to myself. Well, that's one thing I can always say about you.

Right, but when it comes to the hemp, it shouldn't be a partisan issue. This is like a huge for the state of Kentucky, no better place to grow it. And your guy, Drew Franklin, Mitch McConnell, has introduced language to the Senate that would make these full-spectrum flower-only CBD plants illegal in all 50 states. On a personal level, that's a big deal to me because I take it and it really, I take it, and it really helped change the way I sleep, the change the way I was able to rest. And if Mitch McConnell ruins that on his way out the door, I'm going to be upset. But luckily, the other representatives, both Republican and Democrat and the state, are for it.

But we have to stop Mitch McConnell from ending the – he was the one that started it, and now the bourbon people are mad, and now he's flipped and hopefully we can get that changed. I have a conversation with him. You're not going to – What about, Ryan? I was waiting on you to respond. You should have a strong take, Mr. mayor yeah Mitch McConnell right here with us too yeah what Mitch why are you doing that

I'll tell you mark it's good to be here on Kansas sports radio I like the I like the salve that they are they make well apparently why are you trying to ban it because I only use it when I kick your ass on your ass what what's going to know have you had any of this one ever Mitch McConnell impersonation on this show oh 859 so make sure your Kentucky representative knows what they need to do. We are out here. It's a beautiful day. Cornbread hemp brings us, and there's a lot going on this morning. The UK athletics, the new UK Athletics, LLC, whatever it is you want to call it, is having a meeting as we speak, and one of the things on the agenda is the creation of a committee to form a plan,

but really what it means is they are going to build a new UK basketball practice facility, something that has been wanted by some people at UK for a decade, fought against at times by other people, but it's going to be, from what I understand, a basketball practice facility that will be a joint effort with UK healthcare, so it will be half like, I don't know, rehab athletic clinic, half basketball facility. Now, there's been like three NBA teams do this. The Atlanta Hawks have done it.

I think the Cleveland Cavs. I think the theory is it's a practice facility. You also have gyms and stuff that people can use during the summer. And while they're at it, their parents can go to the athletic clinic. It'll kind of be an athletic rehab slash orthopedics place, but also the UK practice facility. The goal is to have the nicest college basketball practice facility in America. as I understand it, it will be for the men's program, and then the women's program will take all of the current practice facility and be able to share it with volleyball.

So basically the women will take over what the men had at UK, and the UK volleyball team will take over what the women had, and then the men's facility will be. I've heard on campus probably where the old UK baseball stadium was. That's likely where it would be. people, I think that's the kind of initial thought is over there next to where the old baseball stadium was close to football campus. This, of course, was something John Caldery preached about for a decade, was never able to get, and it's got to, like, drive him crazy that the moment he leaves, they are able to get it done. But we'll talk about that part in a minute. But first of all, I think UK needs it. I think it's going to be good for the basketball program. You know, devil's in the

details. I don't know all the details, but just in theory, Ryan, I think it's obviously good for the basketball program. If you came in as basketball is supposed to be the gold standard, I mean, well, this is a step in the right direction, right? Put in a facility like this, it'll be the one of its, first of its kind in college basketball for men. Absolutely. I think we all could get supported that. The practice facility, Drew, was very good, very nice, but it was not the best in the country. It was still good, but it wasn't the best in the country. I think their goal here is to have the best in the country. Now, you know, Kansas is one that has had a better one. Even Louisville's, to some extent, is better. Now you're able to get to get this. Yeah, they've recently put money into the

craft center, but it's still at its limitations. That in this UK healthcare component will make the new place even bigger. I assume there will be a dorm thing. That's what Kentucky... I don't know. I don't think that's right. Well, it's just moving it across campus. I don't know if you can keep the lot, because the lodge is already dated as it is. That's one of the bigger complaints. So hopefully they do something with that, too. I have not heard they're doing that. I, I don't know. I I think it's right now this is a practice facility. I think they're still, at least now, going to have the players where they are. Logistically, I hope they move them over there.

But regardless, it's a good improvement. You want Kentucky to have the best of the best. We just went through a portal season where everybody's talking about how Kentucky's doing so well in NIL. Let's have the facilities to match. And just try to stay. I don't want to say gold standard because that was the old era, but let's stay on top of college basketball. Shannon, John Cal Perry. I mean, you couldn't help.

But when I heard about this last night, you couldn't help but think about Cal. Because this was his thing forever. They wouldn't do it. He came in at one point and was like, me and my players will pay for it. That was, by the way, a complete lie. It's amazing to me how many people actually bought that that was going to be. You think these players are going to pay $75 million for a practice facility? I think they would have contributed, but the money ultimately was going to have to come from donors and the university.

as I understand it, this will be UK healthcare, a primary driver of it, plus the university and donors. And so now the reality is they have the money now, whereas they didn't have the money before, Shaan. I feel like if they really wanted to, they could have probably found the money to put it in a John Gallifference there. I think people need to understand. There's this assumption out there that there's this money pit and that like any time you want money, it's there. I can tell you in the realities of UK sports, that is not true. And

John Caliperi had so frustrated, so many of the big donors, and so frustrated the university, the board as a whole, that money was not there. Now, I do think it's telling that it is there a year later because of Mark Pope, but it was not there. It was not there. Regardless, you know it's going to be driving him crazy. That's the one thing that he was wanting, and they couldn't put it together. They couldn't figure it out. He couldn't get the blessing for Mitch Barnard. That's his fault. It was his fault. It was totally his fault. And it's about when you ask for it too. You don't ask for that after you lose to St. Peters or Oakland. It's all about when you ask for it. I think it has a lot to do with it. You remember his initial real push for it was

after we lost to St. Peter's. He sort of almost act like when we lost to St. Peter's. That was because we didn't have that practice facility. There and there were people like, well, what was St. Peter's practice facility. Boy, there's must be really nice. Mark Pope, though, I think deserves a lot of credit in this. And I think part of the reason this works now is the NIL piece because UK healthcare, my guess is UK health care is going to end up with NIL sponsorships with these athletes as part of this. But this will be good for the basketball program. And, you know, we'll continue the goal of it is clear this university has said, we are going to be good at basketball no matter what it takes. part of that. Yeah, make no mistake about it. This is happening because Mark's Pope is now your head coach.

This would not have happened if John Caliperi was still here as our head coach. The money was just not going to be there. But these donors are now back on board believing what Pope's are trying to build here. That's why the money's now available to do something like this. How much do you think it would eat? Like when he saw the tweets last night and heard the news, do you think Cal's head exploded? We'll probably get a little remark from him. Just a little subtle. At some point he'll make something like it's nice to have. Another, well, headwind, I think. I would think it would be nice to Kentucky when Arkansas comes to

up to at least let them have a tour of the new practice facility. You know, let's show them what he could have had here. I would ask all the NBA players to donate and kind of take his idea, like have an Anthony Davis room in there that he contributes to. That would be nice if they were able to do it. It is interesting to me, you know, this practice facility getting done. confirms to me and should confirm to the general public to what extent at the end of that time he had no juice left you know Shannon to your point you were like well the money could have been

there I mean it just didn't have the support I think you're I think you're I sort of said you were wrong you're right in one respect which was it was theoretically there he just couldn't get it yeah yeah if you don't have the people who have that money supporting you then you don't have it Yeah, I mean, that's exactly right. It was theoretically there. He just couldn't get it, and he didn't really have the juice in order to be able to get it anymore. And Mark Pope, it's so funny because he has such a different style. You know, Mark Pope is not a, like, slick sales guy.

He has a different energy about him, right? Completely different energy. And Ryan, at least for this time, I think that worked. And then he gets the perfect timing with the NIO to get it done. Yeah, you've talked about how, you know, the number one booster in Cal had a falling out. That money was not there anymore. That number one booster is now back on board because of Mark Pope. It's because of him and what he's trying to do here now.

I'm excited to see how advanced this thing is because Pope came in. Remember on this show, he was like, this building has a whiteboard with a broken leg. I'm trying to bring in technology and iPads. With the way they nerd out, this new facility, and, you know, they were going to have to invest for someone to, you know, build it and do all the studies. But it is going to be technologically advanced in there. It will be very nice. But it also remains on campus, which is another good thing, I think. I think for everybody.

So with basketball being on the horizon, we talked about starting the workouts. We didn't mention this yesterday. They re-measured all the players. I thought of you, Shannon, when they remeasured all the players. Yeah, yeah. Because now they say Jaden Quaintens is two inches taller than last year. I think Trit Noah was a half an inch taller.

Are you going to, are you believing the new heights? No, I'm going to take my own tape measure over to the campus and start measuring these guys because I don't buy into it. I think this is like the wrestling thing where they inflate heights. I think they had five different players that had grown at least a half inch since last year. What are they feeding those guys over there to make you grow that much? You've got a good stretch doctor. They're stretching them out.

What is the age where you don't grow anymore? Me, it was like 12. That just stopped. That checks out. I'd say, I don't know. I'm not a doctor. I'm going to guess like 19, 20, maybe somewhere around there. So if that's the case, Drew, it's.

possible. Quentin's especially, I can believe, because he's still pretty young. He's like 12 years old, like Ryan. He's still about to stop growing. But I do think there might be a little bit of cooking the books here. If the whole team has grown in just a few months. It's like the, well, this may be a dated reference, but you will get this. The Barney Fife where they're trying to stretch them. They had them hanging, you know, trying to stretch them. That is a dated reference, but you all, I can see some people out there that know it. I'll play to our older crowd here. That's right. The older folks in the audience, audience know that. 859-280, 2287. Well, I think the takeaway from the practice facility probably won't be around for three years.

But the takeaway to me is, A, how different the things are between donors, university, and coach. And then B, how much money. This university has clearly decided. Sports, specifically the big sports, are the key to these athletic departments surviving. And I'm not saying UK's giving up on football. I don't think that's happened. But I think they've said our basketball program has to be good. It has to.

And we will do whatever it takes to be good. And I think this is the latest thing. 859-280-2287. It is a beautiful day here in Lebanon. And this is a beautiful scene actually out here on the farm. We'll take a break and be right back to see this Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind.

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859-2-80-2287. Text machine. One person writes, Matt. Do you think it would be classy to name the facility the John and Ellen Caliperi practice facility? Just a little dig there? Is that what you're trying to say? I mean, I think it would be classy. Do I think it's ever going to happen?

No. And would I support it? No. No. You'd have to give them money to use their name on it, so no. I mean, just that's a big no. Actually, that's my worst idea of the week award, Drew, giving that. I would not do that, no.

You throw his image on the wall with Tubby and the other guys. Yeah, I mean, he will exist there, but I don't know if his name needs to be on the building. You should celebrate him as a coach. Yes, just like we do the other coaches. But no, I would not do that. One person writes, Matt, I generally think Cala Perry broke you all in KSR. You're still obsessed with him. You need to get over it.

He did a ton here. Again, you're writing about him. I'm just telling you why the thing got didn't get built before. and why it's getting built now because it's a legitimate question of it. Two years ago, they said we're not going to do this in the foreseeable future and now they're doing it. I'll say the caller's right. John Calipari did break me.

St. Peters in Oakland was awful. Absolutely awful. I'm still in recovery. Let's talk to football just a second. Mark Stoops comes out yesterday. Does not say that Kausat is not the starter, but then also says Cutter will play. I didn't totally understand. You know, there there's some whispers out there that people think that.

the Calzada injury could be serious, but they don't know. I didn't really know how to interpret his comments, either on the show at night or the show or the press conference during the day. What about you? Yeah, if you listen to a coach last night, he didn't come out and really say that Cutter was going to start, but then if you really listen to it, he kind of did say that Cutter was going to start. So he's trying to, I think they're trying to do some gaming ship.

I think Cutter's the guy. Read between the line. By the way, I hate the gamesmanship. Like if you have to gamesmanship, Eastern Kentucky, you got bigger, or Eastern Michigan, you got bigger problems. Just say, you want to have a crowd there Saturday? Say Cutter's going to start, right? Like, I mean, I don't want, do you want people to come or not? I don't think it's gamesmanship.

I think it's delicate with Calzada because you don't want him to check out because you might need him again. Depending on his injury situation, you don't want to just say, oh, you hurt your shoulder. You're in the end of the bench now. It's his show. I think you, even though Stoop sounds like he wants it and his comments from Saturday, stick out more to me than Monday. I think he's just being careful to not just flip the switch to bully and then lose Calzada for the year.

Well, Calzato will, but I think just with his comments, he's being careful just to not throw him aside. One way or the other. Yeah, I already got all the confirmation. I need it yesterday from Scoop Lemon when he says it I take it to the bank. So Cutter started. Calzada didn't practice yesterday. Like Matt said, kind of the scuttle butt is he's hurt.

So I think you've got to prepare and think that Cutter's going to be your guy when you hit the field on Saturday. All right. What did you think of, uh, Marlotton? Mark Stoop saying that when you look at the film, we were just one or two little mistakes away from having won the game. He was like, these are one or two little things. We're much better. We're there.

I don't know if it's one or two. I might say it's like four or five, but I would actually say most of those mistakes were self-inflicted. And some of them were on the coaching staff, I would think. Do you agree with that? I would say most of them are. It wasn't a talent issue. It was a coaching and operational issue. I mean, you're in the game.

but if we just counted all the pre-snap frustrations, the burnt timeouts, the penalties, that's where you got beat, not because Old Miss is just so much better of a talented football team. The mistakes that were on the field, yeah, I think a lot of those maybe are correctable. But the mistakes that were made on the sideline, something we've been talking about for four or five years, it seems like. Yeah, I don't, it's hard for me to, I mean, he once again did the inexcusable, we got to get better. But, I mean, how many years do you have to wait for that, you know? I was telling Billy, you know, we could go back to a random podcast from 10 years ago on a September Monday and be talking about the same thing that we're talking about today, the organizational issues, the clock management issues,

the things that just drive us crazy as fans. He's not going to yours. Yeah, yeah. Does it not sound like to you when he talks about the offense, specifically Bush Hamden, he's just amazingly frustrating. Like that, like it is hard to think of us. I'd love to see what odds you could get in Vegas for. Mark Stoops and Bush Hamden will be on the staff next year together. I mean, I just, that's hard for me to see as something that is likely.

Just the way he talks about him, Drew, I don't think I've ever heard him talk about a coach the way he talks about. He doesn't say anything about him specifically, but just the overall thing. Do you agree with that? Yes, and when the end of the first half was so bad on Saturday, into their credit, they cleaned it up a little in the second half. But Stoops has now said two or three times, I had a conversation with my offense. of coaches at halftime that we fixed it. That conversation was probably very loud and one that if you were a fly on that wall, I think it was more than a conversation.

It was probably a figure-this, the bleep out or you're all out of here. Bush is looking at it. I mean, he's going to fix it. He's looking at it. Let him look a little longer. Yeah, that's the thing. You've got to give him time to look at it. If you don't give him time to look at it, how's he supposed to fix it until he looks at it?

That's a great point. Who's up first? Lee is up first. Lee, go ahead, Lee. Hey, Lee, hey, man, how you're doing? Doing good. What's up, Lee? Hey, listen, I want to call real quick.

This quick thing on the catch football you've been talking about it. I'm not trying to be negative. I think four and eight's going to be the best. I think Stoops is done. I think it's time to start looking at basketball and volleyball. But the reason I told you. Wait a minute, if you're not trying to be negative. Well, I'd hate to hear you being negative.

No, go ahead. That would be positive right there, 4 and 8, I think, for what we got going this year. Okay, 4 and 8's positive, all right. I want to call you about your trip to South Africa, man. We spend about the month of July down in South Africa and went to Johannesburg, and then we was on a mission trip and went to Balimbo, Swahidi. It used to be called Swahili-Land-Swattini, my wife just said. And we've been down there about seven times, and are you going to,

on to a safari at Kruger Park? Yes, yes. Oh, it's awesome. It's awesome. We stay the place there right there called Hippo Hollow. We had hippos. You sure that's not in Brethick County, Hippo holler? No, no, no.

It was definitely, it was definitely Kruger Park. And listen, man, it's unbelievable. Try to do a night safari. you can try to do a nice safari well i'll do whatever they take me i'm not going to do it on my own i don't feel like i have that level of skill but whatever they take me to that's what i'm going to go have a guide we was there just like i said the whole month of july we saw lines take down the rhino and said we were 15 feet from them when they was munching on his rino i'd want to be a little bit far Yeah, 15 feet old.

Yeah. I'm going to act like it's COVID during that. The most intimidating thing is on hyena, though. Yeah. And the most beautiful thing is the white-tailed dog. So just have fun down there. Well, sir, thank you. Thank you for, I got to take a break, but thank you for the kind words.

We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Lebanon. They just brought us out. I don't know how often people get to Lebanon just like in their travels, but if you do, they just brought us, is this Cedarwood? Is that the name of the place?

Cedarwood Country Ham Biscuits. And, you know, the ham days is coming, right? Isn't it over there? A couple weeks. I think it's while I'm in South Africa, but this was really good. I forget when it comes to country ham, this is the county. Absolutely. I'm just telling you.

I'm a country. You don't get that everywhere. I'm a country ham connoisseur. No offense to Cracker Barrel, but I'll take seats. Peterwood when it comes to that. Of course. This is like the country ham capital of the world. You want good country ham.

You've got to come to Lebanon. That's right. Cornbread Ham here. They've given over $500,000 back to the community. And now have this issue going. Think about how many jobs need to be saved. Don't let Mitch McConnell right before he retires screw it up. Now, this is somebody that writes me that usually Ryan has pretty good information.

Okay. And so I wouldn't read this if I didn't think it was likely to be the case. This is about the new basketball facility. It's going to be off Cooper Drive, across from Commonwealth Stadium. It will connect to Nutter training. It will take away one practice field at Nutter where the band practices. Poor band. What is the band going to do now?

Go to the parking lot. I guess it's what they're going to do. There will not be a new dorm. Players will actually end up probably having a place to live off campus. That's partially because the lodge isn't as nice. That's between me and you. That's kind of already happening. right now, but it's been like that a little while. It's been like that for a while. They kind of,

you know, if we're all being friends here, it's kind of already happening. The reason UK health care is part of it is because you have so much money coming in from the UK health hospital system as a nonprofit. They literally have to find ways to spend the money because it can't be given to shareholders. So this is one of their capital projects they're going to do. All that makes sense, right? Yeah. To me, I'm, I can't swear that's true, but that makes sense to me. If it's a half practice facility, half rehab facility, you got everything under one roof. You know, and the guys obviously have rehab rehab needs all the time. And it allows them to pay for it.

You get them to pay for it, and then they use half the building for health care, and then you get a practice facility out of the way. Everybody wins except for the band. The band geeks are the losers. Nobody thinks about the band. If you don't have the band, it's going to be really quiet. You're going to have my old Kentucky home. That is true.

Poor band. I mean, let's think about them a little bit. Think about the band. Yeah, they've got to practice in the rain now. You know how hard it is to play an electric guitar in the rain. electric guitar yeah they have those in the band don't they

marching band are you this is the marching band or the band that sets up there because there is somebody that plays the bass there is like a bass guitar maybe a bass guitar I think they mean the marching band I don't think they mean just like the punk rock bands that are on campus I don't think they get their own I think there is a bass player I swear

there's a you may be right there's a bass player but I think the band itself is more of a yeah well let's talk for a second since you're bringing up the band about atmosphere I it is always fascinating to me what resonates with people. We've talked about this. Like, we'll talk about something random, and people will bring it up to me, you know, for years.

And we play this game on Saturday. We lose. And, you know, there's still a lot of people talking about it. But the atmosphere thing, if you were to look at the text machine, 75% of all texts I'm getting are about atmospheric Crogerfield. Like, that's, it is clearly like a nerve that people had that has been poked, maybe because of how bad it was for game one, and now it's literally all people right. One person wrote me and said they actually wrote down the songs that were played during the game.

Oh, did they really? They took a quarter and just wrote all the songs down. You know, I was looking at them, and I actually left it at home. It was on an email. But it was a bunch. But one of the ones they said has been played both weeks, and this was really bothering people. Shannon, you're our music expert. Okay.

There's a group, is it called the Outfield? Oh, yeah, yeah. Mid-80s. They have a song called Your Love, which I play on Double Q in the afternoons. It's not a stadium song, though. But they've played it in the first and second half both games. So they've played it four times. Yeah.

Now, I'm not a, how's that song go? We'll get Rick to play it. Rick, will you play it in the next segment? Sure thing. Your love, all in the world. I can sing it for you. Sing it. I used to like the outfield.

I don't want to lose your love tonight. I don't want to lose your love tonight. There you go. So is that a stadium song? No. No. No. Absolutely not.

Not even a little bit. So apparently played twice a game. And this person was ranting about your love saying if we in 2025 think to play at a football game, not once but twice every game, the outfield your love, That shows me how disconnected they are. Do you agree with that, she? Yeah, I don't think that's a good stadium song. I mean, it's a fine song, but I don't think that it gets me pumped up for a football game.

If I'm going to go classic rock, it's got to be like some ACDC or Metallica. If we're going to do old stuff, nobody wants to hear 80s music at a football game. Counterpoint, we ask them to be situational. They're literally asking for us to not give up on them and they don't want to lose our love. Maybe that's it. Maybe they're looking at the crowd, leaving, being disappointed, and they're going off script and trying to play to the crowd. So there was someone at UK who I was talking to yesterday, and this is somebody that's always been very, like, is asking me my opinion not in an argumentative way.

It's like, literally, what do you think? And this was, I just want to be honest what I told the person at UK. I was like, here's what UK needs to do. And I say this with all due respect, because I think everybody involved is a good person. I said, I said, when was, my argument was, when is the last time Mitch Barnhart has set down with average fans and listen to their opinions. When? And the person didn't have an answer for me.

And I said, I'm going to guess very rarely. Because why would he? How much does he go? Like, just take the people here. When do you think is the last time Mitch Barthart has talked to a group of people like this? Outside of email, probably never. Well, I'm not going to say never, but it's probably been a long time. The nature of that job is you deal with administrators,

you deal with big time boosters. I bet outside of a church setting, but again, like church in Lexington is not the same as Lebanon. It's just not. I bet there's no dealing with them. So how would you even know, right? How would they even know? And so they said, well, what would you suggest?

And I was like, well, there's so much stuff that it's hard for me to even figure out. And so I said, I'll throw it out there to people and say, what are some suggestions beyond this sucks that you would do? Like literally, what's something you would do? We all agree change the DJ. The number one thing I would do is higher shaving the dude. I honestly think it would help. That would be number one. Number two, you got to do something about the sound system because it's awful.

Now, I was told the sound system actually can be louder and better, but people have told them to turn it down. Now, this is a serious question. If that sound system can be better and you're turning it down, then that means the only people you're listening to are the old people who give a lot of money who don't want it to be as loud. And I'm not saying their opinion shouldn't matter, but like there's a counter opinion, right? And I don't think the other stadiums go, you know, Johnny thinks it's too loud. They just blast the music.

So, but I thought it was a fair point to ask me what specifically would you do? So I'm going to go to the three of you. If I said to you what specific change would you make, what would you do, right? Well, so much right now, so much of their focus on keeping the big booster people happy, which unfortunately a lot of our older people. You've got to get away from that line of thinking. You've got to think about the stadium atmosphere in itself. So piggybacking, exactly what you're saying, loud music, stadium music.

It may not make the booster people happy, but. Okay, but we did that one. What else? Because what are, you're, you're in? charge, what would you do? We're no longer playing my own Kentucky home. At all. At all. Cut night Joe.

We're taking that out. Those are still songs. Is there anybody? You said specifically, so that's my biggest complaint that I've noticed, and in the press box, we're in close, so I don't get the true atmosphere, but I get a decent feel of it. And during a timeout, a commercial, in between quarters, it is absolutely dead in there. I even

joked last week, they're showing fans, and they probably went to six straight fans who were head down looking at their phone. I I wrote on our board like, oh, I like the new, everyone's looking at their phone cam that we debuted. Fans kind of need some instruction or an activity in those moments. Or they're going to look at those phones. I don't know. Excuse me, Shogun, if you bring a cheerleader out with that microphone to try to lead something,

I don't know if you're firing T-shirts, but you need something during the breaks, keep the energy going because it completely does. It doesn't even matter what song you're playing. People aren't doing anything. They're sitting on their hands. I go to Reds games. Shannon, there's never a moment at a Reds game where it's silent. That's right.

For better or worse, there's not. At every moment, they either play music, they either have a tape thing where they're showing a Reds baseball player, you know, picking who's trivia. There's a game with fans in the crowd. There's a kiss cam. There's a let's honor a veteran. Like there is never a moment where they're not giving you stuff. And that might annoy some people, but it makes it to where even at a baseball game, which is not exactly the most exciting thing in the world, there's always something coming at you.

Drew's right. There are long periods of just silence at the games. And as somebody pointed out to me about the blue white chant, they were like, I want you to think about the blue white chant, whether you like it or not. The premise of the blue white chant is you have a stadium full of people that might have 65,000 people that could cheer, and you are instructing half of them to shut up.

That's a good point. I mean, think about that. You're saying in a big defensive, moment when all 65,000 people could create an atmosphere of noise, hey, half of you all shut up. That's actually a really good point. It's a great point. Drew, like, why would you do that? You should be encouraging, even if it's just, hey, let's all scream as loud as we possibly

can. They bring that decibel thing reader that no one truly believes. Last week, they had it fired up. It's at whatever numbers hide. It's shaking. But you look around and people are like, it's like, you have to. bring people are going to bring their own energy for the entire game especially when the game's not going well something has to be keeping them going at all times during commercials and timeouts

it's almost like crografill goes all right 10 minutes we're all going to take a break and come back go get smoke bathroom you know make a phone call we'll be back in 10 minutes for the game no it needs to keep going in basketball games they have like an end game host you know why not have something like that okay so all right let me get to that if you want to have an ingram host i always bring back ryan but you as someone who host you host as someone who hosts you the radio show. The key of hosting is you got to have energy even when other people don't. Like even if other people are looking at you, like I'm not happy about this, you've got to go. And you can't just put somebody that works for JMI and seems like a nice person.

You got to have somebody who has person. Now, it's tough in football because they can't see you all the way down there. So it is, I'm not going to acknowledge it's much tougher in football. But I agree with you. I think they have to do that. So if you have suggestions, I said I would pass along. suggest like that blue-white thing where the person just said to me, half the crowd's not talking, I thought, man, that is obvious, and it had never occurred to me neither. So I know there are people out there that could have those. 772-77-4525-4.

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Welcome back. All right. So this is the song. Turn it up. Turn it up, Rick. So you think this is a good football song? No. Absolutely. I love this song, but it is not a stadium song. Yeah, there are songs that are great songs, but they're not right in the specific situation that you're playing them in. And I think for football, this isn't it. Wait, think about David Goosey putting his hand in the dirt right now. He's just ready to knock someone's head off. I'm not interested in losing his love tonight.

It's like they're afraid to play those old songs from the 70s that all, every stadium in the world play. and for whatever reason, UK won't play. I mean, let's be honest. We can't are in the 70s. Yeah, let's be honest just a second. If you go to other games, folks, 80 to 90% is rap. Like, I think the handful of non-rap songs you should play is like ACDC. Yep.

I think even the 70s, like credence and clear white, that's all nice, but like, just I want you to think about, the people who are 25 in the 70s, they're in their 70s. Yeah. Okay. I mean, we don't want to think about it like this, but it's true. I saw my 85 bears, and last night they showed them. And I was like, man, not many guys showed up. And then I realized a lot of them are probably dead.

Yeah. You know, because like 85 bears doesn't seem that long to me, but they are 85. They're in their 70s, most of the 85 bears. They're truly 85 old days. So, you know, I mean, I guess it's not surprising a lot of them didn't show up. They couldn't show up. That and the comment about keeping the music low in Krogerfield, when we see these other places, like when Sandstorm comes on at South Carolina, do you think anyone's like,

you know what, we should probably turn this down just a little bit, or jump around at Wisconsin or all these iconic moments in games with music, people are saying turn it up as loud as possible in screaming through it. No, you're exactly right. 859-2-8027. Who's up next? Mark Anthony is next. Mark Anthony.

How are you? Hey, Matthew, Ryan, Drew, Shannon, and hey, Rick. Hey, Matthew, you've got three things. First of all, I agree with Drew that this roster is strictly in deference to Zach Calzada. That's bad. That's all. And the blue-white thing, I wish the cheerleader would leave those cards in the locker room they come out because listening to it on the TV, it sounds as though the entire stadium is giving birth at the same time.

Wow. It just sounds terrible. I like your version of it though, Mark, Anthony. I think that's a good version. Sounds a little bit like I appreciate to call my Dan Campbell impression from cover zero. I've gotten some comments that people were being the drive-through, or see, not Dan Campbell, Chris Collinsworth. Yeah, Dan was last week.

Two good impersonations. I was talking about how during the games Chris Collinsworth grunts a lot. And I'm not going to do it here with everyone watching me, but I did an impersonation during the thing. And some people said, like, they were at a drive-thru or something, and they had the volume up, and they heard me. I mean, I was making sounds that not a lot of people hear me make, and it was just on the radio. It got a good laugh out of me. I couldn't even talk. We needed a moment to gather myself there.

But that's what he does. That's what he does when Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson play. Yeah, kind of. I'll find it, make a drop out of it. Don't worry. Oh, it's a great idea. You could put it to good use. To be honest with you, it is a pretty good drop.

Cover three. NFL cover zero, episode three is out. Check it out. I think of the three of them we've done, I think it's the best one we did. That's good because we were up to one in the morning. Billy was there until two in the morning. Billy was a trip.

And then up for the pre-show. And then up for the pre-show, driving all the way to Somerset. By the way, we've been, last four days, Bowling Green, Georgetown, Somerset, Lebanon. This is like the old days of driving all over the state. Who's next?

Kyle is up next. Kyle, go ahead, Kyle. Hey, Matt. I'm trying to remain positive about the season, but after the first two weeks it's getting more difficult. The one common denominator with the office, it seems, every year is who the head coach is. We've had different offensive coordinators.

When they leave, they go on to do much better things than they've done here. I know he says he doesn't have anything to do with the offense. I find that hard to believe. I don't think anything is going to change until he moves on. So let me throw, and I know the season's still going on, but just humor me for a second. I know everybody wants John Summerall. I would love John Summerall.

John Summerall is a defensive coach. What if we go a different direction and have an offensive-minded coach? And I'm going to throw a name out there that I haven't heard anybody say, Sonny Dykes at PCU. Yeah, well, they considered him the last time. I mean, you remember when they hired Stoops,

it was a five, there were like four guys that were a finalist, one of which was Sunny Dykes. So, I mean, Sunny Dykes was definitely someone, I think Mitch Barnhart was comfortable with. He, you know, when Stubbs was hired, there was a group, and honestly, appreciate the call. The other guys all had some success, but Sonny Dykes was one of them. I think one of the things people have to understand is, obviously, we have 10 games left. Mark Stubes is going to be here until the end of the year, and I think he'll probably be here longer than that,

but that's a different conversation. We'll see what happens. But if they were to have a job opening, I can tell you who the next coach at Kentucky will be. It will be one of two people. You can write this down. I'm going to put an 80 plus percent chance that if Mark Stoves were gone at the end of the year, the head coach will either be John Summerall or Brad White. That's just what it'll be.

So, like, it's fun to talk about other names, but it'll be one of those two people. If Mitch Barnhart's making the decision, which I have no reason to think he would not be. So, you know, that's just what it is. Like, that's who Mitch is. That's what that's not. If we finish three and nine, our defense collapses, maybe that changes. But if you were to just say to me today, Ryan, that's what I would say is the most likely. I think you're right.

He's one, one-A, but there's three defensive coaches we're talking about. Stoops, White, and Summerall. All three are kind of defensive coaches goes against what the caller was asking. And why don't we go, why don't they go a different direction? But Sunny Dikes was somebody that was considered last time, and I think was maybe the second or third choice. So it's not a crazy scenario. We will take a break. Come back.

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