KSR - 2025-10-17- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: October 17, 2025

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all in a packed house getting ready for a massive UK sports weekend. The blue-white game. You've got Kentucky versus Texas. You got Parents Weekend. You got Scarefest. There's all kinds of things going on in the city. A holiday-in room I saw just, there was one hotel room online, holiday and guess how much it was, right? Oh, my goodness.

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even if one of them seems like the worst person ever, Aaron Rogers. The nevertheless, both of them bawled out. Two guys over 40, Ryan playing. We, we're just a lot. We, Now I'm over 40. Why can't I play in the NFL? That was the excitement I got last night watching Joe Flacco and Aaron Rogers play football. Last night was a great night for all of us old men who think we can still go out and do it with Flacco and Aaron Rogers.

And then Max Scherer, 41 years old pitching last night for the Blue Jays. It was old man night. I didn't think about that. I loved it. All these old fogies out there dominating chair. Yeah, but you two are well over 40. You're not 41 or 42.

I'm right at 4. You're almost 50. I just turned 40 recently. So I still can do it. And like, how young are you? 42. Yeah, see? I'm not well over 40.

I'm barely over 40. See, you're older than me. So all of this works out, Drew, that gives me energy for the weekend when you see all these old guys bowling. It was a lot of fun. Every time they showed Flacco without his helmet and he had that gray in his goatee, I was like, yes, Joe Flacco. Go out there and do it for our gray go-gees. He's got low-tee, but he can still thread the needle. Also cover zero.

You had bingles. I had the over. I told you'd be a shootout with these old men. It played right like we told you. Yeah. It ended up being a fun game all the way around. I didn't really care who won. I just had fun watching it.

Yeah, I was excited. Had the Bengals pick. They're now kind of back in the mix after looking like they were going to be done. And, Ryan, you know, one of these days, maybe there'll be a player over 60 that'll get you excited. Well, I'm waiting for that day. But all those people, you know, people were complaining, why'd they go get Joe Flacco? Why'd they go get Joe Flacco? Well, you saw the old guy can still float around a little bit.

I loved it. Hold and full it. Hold it. and throw it around a little bit. That's right. We've got a Bengals fan in the crowd. Were you happy last night? Yeah, well, good.

I did also see Joe Burrow was there. Did you see his haircut, Shannon? Yeah. He looked a little disheveled, just in general. He looked like a junior at LCA. I mean, it was like down to his nose in the front. You don't see that a lot from a 20-some-year-old man. He's not dealing with this injury very well.

Turftoe has not been good to Joe Burrow. Maybe so. We got a big weekend. So I got a question for you. Just the folks, I want you to be honest here in the crowd. I just want to do a little snapshot. Two events this weekend, blue-white game tonight, UK Texas tomorrow night. Which are you more excited?

Who's more excited for the UK Texas game? Who's more excited for the blue-white game? That's a bad sign for the UK football program. Yeah, when you're playing yourself at my game. When it's 75-25 for the exhibition, where you are playing against each other. And that out draws the football game with a manning playing in our backyard. Top 20 team.

Preseason number one. Coming election for the first time ever. For the first time ever. Matthew McConaughey going to stand on the sidelines. That's not a good sign, Ryan, for sort of our football, I don't know, our football excitement. So is it more the apathy that is set in for football or the excitement that's building up for basketball? I think it's the former. I think Drew, it's that people are kind of worried we're going to get crushed

and they just don't want to sort of get their hopes up. Because normally you would obviously pick football if we were competitive. I voted football. I don't think we're going to win, and I'm worried we're not going to score a touchdown. But I still am excited to go see it because it is Texas and it is another chance to go watch a football game in Lexington. But I'll note, it's not just here. Like, we were doing a YouTube show yesterday, and Tyler was like, you know, it's almost a sellout. I'm like, it's sad that we can't sell out Manning, Keenland, October, 70-degree weather, preseason number one team.

That should have been sold out in May. Yeah, I mean, but there are already, like, Texas people. You can just see them. Like, they've brought their hats, Shannon, and they're walking around. You know, that color of Texas shirt is not a color you would wear in public otherwise, burnt orange. It's also a little too close to that orange for Tennessee. Not quite, but it's still orange, you know. They're out and about, and I think you're going to see more.

I was at Keelan yesterday, and there was a lot of people walking around with Texas gear. I think it's going to be a lot more of that. I think so, too. And, you know, it's also a bad sign when the conversation has been more about our coaches' buyout than the upcoming game this weekend. And that's been the entire story this week. No, I mean, that has been the entire story. And it's been, you know, so we've been, I think, collectively, Ryan, fairly negative about the state of the state. situation. I think Seth Emerson of the Athletic, he's a national writer. He wrote yesterday that the

Kentucky football situation looks, quote, as hopeless as any in the power for right now, which was not good to read. I think his point, though, is if you stay on the same path that you're on. Do you, but now here you go, Texas and Tennessee, double T's coming here in the next eight days. I know it seems ridiculous, but if you won one of those, it is a different outlook, isn't it? 100%. That's a big, huge win for you able to knock off one of those two teams that when the season started, both people thought we're going to make the playoffs. Well, you could knock Texas definitively out of the playoff. They lose to us. They're done.

And you could potentially even knock Tennessee out of the playoff, depending on what happens against their game against Alabama tomorrow. So you have a chance to knock two. really good teams out of the playoffs. I mean, you know, you have a chance to get your fourth win, then you sit there and you go, well, Andy, Auburn, I mean, it's not crazy, right? I'm trying. It's pretty crazy. It's a little crazy. I think if he beat, if you beat Texas tomorrow, I can't believe I'm saying this preseason number one team, but he would still need more the rest of the year, unless you scored like 40 points and maybe there was a flip switch on the office.

Oh, he still needs more than one win. Winning like 17 to 13 isn't going to do much. But I disagree with it. If you beat Texas, Shannon, I'm not going to be to the point where I'm going to say how you beat them matters. Right. If you beat Texas, I'm going to give them a ton of credit, and I'm going to say you go into the Vandy Auburn, Louisville games with a chance to save your job. I mean, I don't think how you win really matters. Well, the problem is, though, I haven't seen anything that has given me any hope over the last

few weeks that would say that that's even going to happen. But we can talk ourselves into it. We might as well try to be positive about it. And if it did happen, then, yeah, there would be some fans that maybe would be back on board a little bit, but you still got to finish the season with more wins. I wanted to ask you, Ryan, I mean, Arch Manning, I know he's not played up to the hype, but you can make a strong case that Arch Manning's one of the biggest stars to play in college football in a long time, maybe one of the biggest stars to play in college sports in a long time.

I was going to ask you, if you're just talking about star power, I'm not talking about talent, but star power. I was trying to think how many times as an athlete come into Lexington with bigger star power than Archmanning. So this was just what came to my mind. I think Tim Tebow had more star power when he was here. Shaquille O'Neal when he came playing for LSU, probably at that moment had more star power.

Maybe Cam Newton that year he came because he was on the path and playing so well, but that was still early in his year before he had really taken off. but I cannot think of a lot more. Tebow definitely, I think Shaq definitely. Maybe you go back to the 80s when David Robinson played at Navy and came here. That was a really big deal. People forget he'd already been on the cover of Sports Illustrated at that point. Can you think of any more?

No, because I don't remember the folks from here. Did Peyton Manning play? Did they play here? He did, but I think he played here his junior year. So when he was the highs, I think we went there that year. Yeah. Yeah, most of the crazy celebrity superstars has been coaches that have come in, not necessarily these players you're talking about.

I mean, there were guys who were really good, like Lamar, but I don't think Lamar was as big a star at Louisville as he ended up being later in life. Right. Can you think of any off the top of your hand? No, because NILs changes so much. Arch is on like every commercial now. Like, Dak brought the number one team in here. I'd say he's bigger as arch as a player,

but Arch is just so much more exposure now in the world we're in. I think Lamar and those guys could have been bigger. They just didn't have the opportunities he has now. Because he's doing national commercials for huge brands. And the big dudes in college basketball over the years, for whatever reason, I just don't think we ever played them here. I mean, obviously we played Cooper Flagg last year, but that was on a neutral court. And so that's not quite the same.

We didn't play Zion. You know, like Jimmer Fredet, we didn't play. It's hard for me to think of one. I guess Herschel Walker probably played here. I was a long time ago. Before my time, but that might be one. And I don't know if Bo Jackson. Did Auburn ever play here when he was playing?

I don't know. Does you, people, everybody's shaking their head. I don't think Bo Jackson played here. So my point is just to say, and if you have one, 7-7-2-7-4-5-254, my point is just to say, like, this is a pretty big deal this game tomorrow. I do think a lot of people are going through. Like, I actually think Kentucky fans are going to have a big showing there. I think there'll be a lot of Texas fans too.

but I think Kentucky fans, but I've gotten since talking to people, they're doing like a, this is the last time I'm going this year, unless this is entertaining. No, no, I mean, I've heard that from friends. Like, I'm going to this one, but if this one's not entertaining, then I'm probably packing it in for the rest of the year. I'm hearing a lot of I'm going to tailgate than going home to watch on my couch. Like we have a group of friends.

They probably haven't been to a game in three years. We have a big tailgate. It's like five parking passes together. Everybody's excited. and then at 645, everyone's going home and watching on their couch. They're like big companies. Well, you said they've done that, though, for three straight years. No, no, they haven't been to a game in three years.

They're excited to go tellgate. No, they haven't tellgated in three years. Like, people are excited to be a part of this, but I think a lot of people might say, all right, seven, let's get to the house. Like, there's big companies that are entertaining clients. Clients probably going to come have a few free drinks and then get on out of there. So I think the tailgating scene might oddly be really good, and then we'll see what it looks like inside.

Yeah. Well, I still expect there's going to be a lot of people in there. I mean, I think, and now, though, it's, Shannon, the UK team has to perform. I mean, you know, we've had a couple weeks off here. The UK, we just can't have, if we get run, I'll go so far as if we get run, Mark's going to be run. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how he overcomes that.

And with as much orange as there may be in the stands this week, if we get blown out tomorrow, there's going to be a lot more orange next week. That's a really good point. We're going to take over. If we were to get blown out this week, that Tennessee game next week could be a majority of Tennessee fans. Like, for real. Because I think a lot of Kentucky fans would just sell their tickets. Tennessee fans are the easiest fans to sell to because they're so close.

Ryan, that could be kind of an embarrassing scene. Yeah, and we all know there's been a lot of people probably preseason planned the blue-white game tonight, game tomorrow, next week, Purdue game. And then the Tennessee game. I think a lot of families and people probably plan for that that may all get changed if they get blown out. tomorrow. Do we have any chance? You need Arch to not have his breakout moment. Kentucky cannot score points. They just can't.

So you got to win in the teens. Yeah. I actually think you have a chance. You can run on them a little bit. You have a chance. They are not good. We are neither. But they are not a team, Shannon, that you can't score. And two of their offense of 11. We might not be able to score on. They just held Oklahoma to six.

But you, but this is a team that we can play with. Yeah, two of their officers. offensive linemen are out, starting center out for tomorrow. So if you're trying to find some reason that Kentucky maybe would have a chance, if they can maybe score off some turnovers, I think they have a chance. But if we're just playing a straight-up game, I don't know. Well, we will find out. 859-280, 2287.

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It was Peyton versus Couch. We lost 59 to 31. Wow. What a shootout. That's a lot of points. Some other suggestions of guys that may have been big stars. What about Pete Marevich? Oh, yeah. You know, they played that game in historic Memorial Coliseum, which holds probably what does it hold? 13,000. But you'd think there were 100,000 people there. Everybody claims to have been there to watch Pete play that game.

Yeah, that was the game where, like, you had, what was it, that he and Issel both scored like a bejillion points, right? Yeah, I think Rupp made the decision. We're going to let Marevich get his and stop everybody else, and then Marevich had like 50-something, I think. That was the idea. Boy, this really is like a video of Ryan's greatest. Is this you with a pig or something right here?

When you had me in a cage trying to catch little pigs. Yeah, that was. People say we're mean to you. Charles Barkley, Dominique Wilkins. Good ones. I think probably this is a really good one in recent years. Maybe one of the biggest was Livy Dunn coming here for gymnastics, Shannon, just a couple years back. 100%.

Yeah, I mean, she's a huge star. That one may be bigger than Arch Manning. Yeah. So anyway, that's happening, obviously, this weekend. Let's talk about a basketball thing real quick. We'll talk more about the blue-white game. But yesterday on the show, I mentioned the Herald-Leader report about how U.K.'s roster, according to the Herald-Leader, $22 million.

Nobody has really pushed back on that. So let's just say, for sake of argument, that it's true. I think if the Herald-Leader article was definitively not true, UK would have said it. So let's just assume it's $22 million. That has led a lot of people nationally, including a lot of people. of the traditional Kentucky haters to come out of the woodwork. Jeff Goodman said, if Mark Pope doesn't make a final four with $22 million, it's a failure.

Seth Davis basically said something like Kentucky will never be able to do this again with this kind of money if they don't win this year. This is huge, essentially the program will fall apart if they don't win the in the title. Mark Pope actually had an interesting statement. He didn't acknowledge $22 million, but he basically said, I'm fine with people knowing we spend the most. It's Kentucky, which actually. think is a smart way to go because you're essentially saying to players, this is where you make

money. But let's just talk about it from a fan perspective. Shannon, does it make any difference to you that it's $22 million? So we are one of the two or three highest rosters. It's either us, St. Johns, or Michigan. Those are probably the three highest paid rosters this year. Does that make it to you where you say we have to do better than if we say paid 12 and we were the 15th highest paid roster? Yeah, I mean, I think you have to do better, but is it Final Four or bust? I mean, no. I mean, if you're looking at our expectation as a fan base, and Mark Pope acknowledges this, we want to win the championship every year. That's always the expectation regardless of how much money we're spending. But I guess what I'm saying is over the course of the next however many years, is your

expectation of what we should do going to fluctuate based on how much we're spending? Probably so. I mean, I think you're going to always expect more. You're right. If you lose in the first round or the second round, you're going to have people going, well, he's got this kind of

budget for his players and he can't get out of the first or second round. That's going to be a huge criticism. What about you? I feel like if we're going to spend $22 million, we can't be losing to Oakland in the first round. That's it. That's it right there. You know, we've got at least make a statement that we're spending this money for the right reasons,

and that's to win, make a run of championship, win games. Nothing's changed for me because you shouldn't lose in the first round anyway. The Final Four or bust thing, I know we say it. I've seen it all over the Internet in the last 24 hours, but like if he doesn't make it, when you say bust, nothing's going to happen. You know, it's not Final Four bust. If he wins the SEC and loses in the Elite Eight to a two-seat as a one-seed, it doesn't make the Final Four, that's still good.

That's not a Final Four. That's why I hate the Final Four or a Buzz. Because what is bust? I mean, we're not firing him if he doesn't get to the final four. Yeah, I agree with that completely. I mean, all right, so my view on the money, and I mean, this may change because this is just now starting, Shannon. Right? So, like, this may change.

I don't know. But my view in my mind is it's not my money, so I don't care. That's always my thought here. Like, I don't care. It's not my money, I don't care. It would bother me more if we as a program did not commit to compete with the top guys. Okay? Now, if however we get to a point that our football program is hindered because we're putting all of our money into basketball,

well, then I need basketball to be good. That's right. You know, it's kind of like, I guess I would put it like this. Like, I don't care how much the Reds spend. But to me, the Reds need to spend enough that the product is not miserable. Right. Right. And whatever that is is what it is.

but then if I find out that we don't re-sign Ellie De La Cruz because we're not spending the money, then that's going to start bothering me, right? And if I'm going to change the whole roster so I keep Ellie, and then I lose everybody else, well, then Ellie better be good. And I think part of that, Ryan, is that's what I'm going to judge, rather than the total overall number. So I think football is where, you know, these diehard football fans are having a hard time understanding if you want us to compete in the SEC against these other schools that are spending a lot of money,

why can't we get some money more money? Well, they do get money. They just get 10% less. Yeah, why we get more money so we can compete? Well, what I would say is what's the better investment? Because honestly, we're now, like, take this fan base sitting in here. Ultimately, the job drew of the athletic director is to please this group of people, right, to make this fan base happy. So what's the better investment?

spending the exact same amount of money on football and basketball as the other schools. We're probably spending the exact same of money will make us at best middle of the pack or spending 20% more on basketball and we have a chance to win a national championship. Isn't the better investment to put that more money in basketball? You've got to protect your best asset first. I wish both could be the best, but you have one that already is the best and you don't want that to slip. I also think with the money, I think there's a little bit overreacting two ways. One, I think this $22 million.

This is going to change every year. There might be your football gets more, but this was also before a rev share, and we don't know how it's dispersed. Malacomarino could be on a three-year deal. We don't know. This could be extended beyond, and they locked them up early with money that they had before all this got into place. So $22 million seems like a lot. I doubt it's that every year. It's not.

A couple guys are locked up long term that we don't know about. I would venture to say next year, I could bore you with one. so much money this year. But next year, Shannon, there's a good chance it'll be half this. Yeah. And half this for all the teams in the country. Like this year, you were blessed by God if you were a college basketball player this year. Yep.

Because two different sources of money came together. Next year, I think it's going to be about half for everybody. So I think next year you'll hear our rosters like 10 or 11 million, and it still might be the most expensive roster in the country. And like a Hawthorne could be getting his money. now on a two-year plan. Next year he's zero. That, I bet, is happening where they paid a lot more in the first year

because these rules were weird. So I think everybody's freaking out over it. When we don't even know what the agreement is with each player. I totally agree. We're going to take a break. Take your calls. 859-280-2287. This is KSR.

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And home entertainment, Ryan's got one as well. 772-774-5254 is the text machine. One person mentioning in terms of stars to come here when Houston came with Akima Lajuan and Clyde Drexler. Completely forgot about that. Some of those games back in the day where Rupp Arena was just had all these massive stars coming in. Yeah, people might remember they used to in January or February on a Sunday leading into the NFL coverage of the day, Kentucky would play a home game at Rupp. Right?

They played Navy that one year. They played Houston. I feel like they played Syracuse with Ronnie Cycly once, if I remember correctly. But they would play a non-conference game. Remember that? I would be okay if we went back to that. It was just kind of a special thing that the fans looked forward to every year. By the way, we might have a Sunday game this year.

I don't know if people noticed the last day of the race. regular season, we play Florida, and I believe Drew, they are leaving open the possibility to play that game on Sunday afternoon. I don't think we've played a Sunday, like noon, one o'clock after church game in a long time, but we might do it. I think I saw the last day of the regular season. Is that a flex? We did them a few seasons ago towards the end of the Cal area. He put three or four in there. Well, he did like non-conference, but I'm talking about, I don't think we've had, because you know what they usually try to do on that final Sunday, Shannon is have like three games to get you ready for March Madness.

We haven't played one of those in a long time. We might have one. I seem to remember during the Tubby Smith era, I think it was senior night against Florida. They played on a Sunday. But that's the last one that I can remember. We may have played some along the way, but that one sticks out. All right, I want to ask you this before we go to the phones.

The Annabelle doll. Yeah, I saw this. Okay, so I don't, we talked about it once. I don't remember the detail. Explain to me the Annabelle doll. It's a doll that, like, has bad luck, right? It's cursed, yes. I believe the owner, the previous, Matt Rife, the comedian has it now.

What is it? It's a doll that was cursed, and it's also the... Cursed by whom? Spirits. Yeah. So they just picked a doll out and said, I hate you. I guess the spirits just overtook this doll. Have you seen the movie The Conjuring?

No. Okay, well. So it's in the conjuring. Yes, it's the basis of that movie. But it's a real life thing. It is. Anyone that nears it, moves it, they die like a week later. Yeah.

So Matt Ripe somehow hasn't died yet, though. He has the doll now. He's the owner of the doll. So everybody knows it's nonsense, right? No. No, no, no. I mean, people have literally died. This doll has moved.

I mean, people have died all the time. This doll has been seen walking around in an apartment. The doll walks? Yes, the doll walks. Oh, has seen the doll. It was on a report. I'm just saying it has moved. It's basically Chuckie in real life.

Yeah, what do you say that? So you would hold Annabelle. No. Well, here's, we have a chance. So Annabelle Dahl is in Lexington And is at the convention center for Scarefest Which by the way is adjacent to Rupp Arena It was it got

They took it across the street from the parking lot to the convention center And there's a priest with it I don't know what he's doing Blessing it Keeping everyone's safe It's covered It was covered so people couldn't see it And then it will be at Scarefest

Now I would argue if it's so dangerous Ryan Why does it get to be at Scarefast? Fest because like and would that make people not want to go to scarefest if it's so cursed you just asking me I'm not going to make eye contact with it I want nothing to do with it if it's so scary you got to cover it up and never make eye contact with it negative I might get possessed no way Jose if you had tickets to the game and it was going to be there would you not go I would go to the game but I wouldn't go look at it I didn't I don't want anywhere around it let look at somebody else.

Don't look at me. If anybody turns an ankle or anything in the blue-white game tonight, I'm blaming Annabelle. Why is Annabelle in Rufferita tonight? Well, the blue-white game, though, is that Memorial? It's close, though. It's too close. So to answer your question, would I hold it? Yeah.

Of course. Set it up. Let's do it. Because it's nothing. Okay. It's just, you're messing with demonic spirits. You're entering a world of pain. You don't know what you're doing.

I mean, you said, Matt, right? You said Matt Rife owns it. He's fine. I mean, he's unfunny, but he was unfunny before. His career's gone to the dumpster ever since. It's Annabelle's fault. But yeah, they take her on tour, and, you know, it's a big money thing for them. They have to pay their, I guess, fee to go take a picture with her.

So if people think it's cursed, why do they go see it? I think you can look at it. It's more if you hold it or if you handle it. Yeah, like if you interact with it. There are rules to the spirit. I think so. That's why the priest was there in this wooden box. A little later.

That's not a real priest. I don't know. I haven't checked his credentials. He could be. I will say it looks like a Halloween Express priest costume. Yeah, I don't think it's a real priest. Well, I'm just saying, I mean, if it's at the convention there, it's not that far from my house.

So I didn't know how far the vibes go around. The sand, if you start hearing some noises around your apartment tonight. Now, Adam Sandler, Adam Sandler was at Rupp Arena last night. He wore the UK. So first of all, let's go back. He went to UK. He met the men's basketball team, the women's basketball team, and the swimming team.

So he went around and saw the teams. Seemed like a really nice guy, just even from the videos, but also players were posting about it. People who know Adam Sandler says, like the nicest celebrity in the world. So he goes, the men's basketball team seemed particularly excited to seem,

like huge fans. He invited them all to the show. The men's basketball team went. There's a picture. Almost all of them went. I think I saw nearly every player. UK gave him a jersey that said Sandler on it. And then he wore it, Ryan, on stage.

He wore the UK jersey during his entire show, the Sandlergers. Loved it. That just shows a little appreciation for the people that love him. He's giving him back. So I love watching him walk out of the jersey on. Big basketball fan. There was a movie where he had a Kentucky shirt on, too. Funny people.

He's sitting in the doctor's office and he's wearing a Kentucky shirt. Yeah. Well, he loves basketball. I'm hoping we get a video of him getting a little pickup because he's known to do that. He can play. He can oddly play. He can oddly play. game. He can oddly play.

There's stories of him being in big cities and just showing up to courts, no security, him by himself, like, can I get in a game? Now, here's what I was going to say about sort of bad mojo. He made a joke. Now, I didn't hear the joke. Maybe somebody went and can tell me what the joke was. But he made a joke that had something that was like, you know, he was like, he was like, I hope me being there didn't give him bad luck and lead to somebody tearing their Achilles.

And fans were like, why'd you say that? Don't wish it into existence. Annabelle is right over there. Yeah. So are you worried about that at all right? The combination of Annabelle and the off-handed Adam Sandler comment. Yes, of course I am. Maybe not so much, but the fact that Annabelle is probably listening over there.

Like, oh, I heard that Adam Sandler. So we just need to just get through this, Drew, because I don't want people. blaming Adam Sandler, I don't, or Annabelle. Poor Annabelle. Both, both I'm worried about. The Annabelle thing, we shouldn't have approved bringing her in for our launch of basketball season at the Mapp Arena. I don't know how that got past clearance. Well, we'll find out. Who's up first?

Got Judy up first. Judy, Judy, what's up? Well, good morning. Well, first of all, I think Annabelle was in a Vincent Price movie. Oh, Vincent Price. Okay. But anyway, speaking of the 22 million, I was listening to Locked on Kentucky, and he said Lance said that one Division A, Division NCAA basketball coach said if Pope didn't win a national championship within the next few years, he was a complete bozo. Yeah, I don't care what any of those people say.

I mean, right now, here's the way National College Basketball Media works. And it's always worked like this, but it's even more so true now. National College Basketball Media needs Kentucky to survive. Like, most people don't pay attention to college basketball until February. So if you're trying to get clicks, if you're a National College Basketball person, there's only like three schools you can talk about that'll care. Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, etc. So because of that, they are incentivized to say outrageous things.

It's the same thing that happens in politics. It just happens in college basketball, too. So we have to remember, like, to say he's not a bo-he'd be a bozo for not going the final four, that's just a ridiculous comment. My thing is if you're going to say something like that, put your name on it. That's okay. If you're a coach, put your name on it and say he's a bozo. Right.

You know, you get one game. I use 2017 as an example. We didn't make the final four. We were the second best team in the country. We just drew North Carolina. What do you want me to do? What do you want us to do? They were the only team that could beat us, and that's who we drew.

So I'm with Drew on the final four of Buzz stuff. I just don't accept it. Right. Well, I have one more comment. You know, Golden being kind of adamant about Aberdeen leaving, my thinking is that they had to pay some money. much money to boogie flag that they couldn't give enough money to Aberdey. Or it might just be, and I appreciate to call, that we give more money, Drew.

Like, that's just what it is. And at some point, what are you going to apologize? You know, the Dodgers might not lose a game in the playoffs. But what are they supposed to do? Try to lose? You know, I mean, you can change the system, and that's fine. But once the system exists, it's. Kentucky's responsibility to maximize it and do the best they can in it. This is the system.

If we pay more for Denzel Aberdeen, you know what? Sorry, Todd. You're at a school that doesn't care as much. And the Dodgers and Yankees, they don't win the championship every year. They don't. But you have a better chance. You do. But I'm saying, like, their fans, I mean, they're disappointed, but they get excited about the next season because it's hard to win championships. What do we have, like, one in 27 years? I mean, they're not easy. That's fine when someone says you're a bozo for not winning one. I mean, they're not just right in front of you go grab. They're pretty hard to get. And on the money

thing, just sure it's money, we all like money, but Kentucky has had more advantages forever. The advantage is just now financial. Just things we've had, we've talked about, we've got the best fans, the best dorms. That was an advantage before. It just wasn't a dollar. And also remember, I think this is important.

Everything that people predicted would happen when NIL started, the exact opposite happened. Literally. everybody said, well, this is going to make it to where there's the halves and the have-nots. And I was like, well, it feels like there were halves and have-nots before. But what ended up happening is a new set of teams got good, right? Indiana got good.

That didn't have. Vandy got good. Yep. Like these teams who had never been good won. So we kept hearing there will be no parity. NIL actually brought us more parity. And I would look at the college basketball rankings right now. Look at teams in the top ten.

In the last 25 years, until NIL, when was Houston consistently in the top 10? Purdue, Texas Tech, BYU. I would argue, Ryan, NIL made college basketball a lot more equitable. BYU is like North Carolina has taken a dive. Kansas hasn't been as good the last couple years. BYU is a perfect poster child for this. They would have never been around in the top 10 but not for NIL. They can go out and now get players, make their program better,

and now they're a top 10 program. We look like... They're ranked a head. You look like, what was Oakland's NIL when they played Kentucky and beat them at the tournament? In basketball, you can still get beat.

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So I don't want to say this without verification. So if you were at that concert, the Adam Sandler concert last night, write me on the text machine and tell me what he said. Because a couple people are saying something. I want to make sure it's what he said. So 772-745-254. I thought it was a joke. But now people are telling me it was something.

different. So send me a text, and I'll, I just want to make sure before I read what he said that it is actually what he said, right, because I had no reason to do it otherwise. Mario was there last night at the concert. What did he say? So he said he was playing pickup basketball at UK and somebody tore their Achilles. But you don't know if he was serious. I'm going to guess that was a joke. I think we would have heard about it. But he said thoughts up to them hope they're doing okay that doesn't sound like a joke but is that what he said he did say it okay well did he sound like he was serious sound like he was serious now but we don't know if he was playing with the uk players or just students but that was two days ago that girl tore her

a c l a couple days ago so i don't think that would have been her he was playing with a media team. Oh. So there's somebody in the media that tore their Achilles. Who do we think that would be? I don't know this, but if it were a UK player, there's a big when they're practicing run. If something happens, like everyone in the room, we're not talking about this kind of thing.

If like a main player for the team, I don't think Sandler would have said that to the crowd. I think you would have known the circumstances. So wait a minute. So you're saying he was playing with media people? So this could have been like Dave Baker? How come we didn't get invited if it's media? KSR versus Adam Seller.

Alan Cutler, the cut man, cut his Achilles yesterday. The Achilles is unfiltered. I think Alan was at the concert last night, too, so scratch him off. It wasn't him. Okay, but he did say somebody tore their Achilles. First of all, I hope no one tore their Achilles, but it sounds like someone may have torn their Achilles. Mario, by the way, if you knew this, why didn't you tell us this before?

You thought he was... Wait, how's that a joke? Sorry to the guy who tore his Achilles? Yeah, but Adam Sandler can say something serious. Come here just a second. Get up here. Shannon, give him your thing real quick. Come on up here.

Just because we're doing live reporting here. All right. So you were at the concert. I was. And what did he say? He said, I hope that person's doing well. He's kind of talking in circles, and then he was like, somebody, like, tore their Achilles.

And you thought that... and you just were cracking up in the crowd? I wasn't cracking up. I wasn't sure if I was here right. Ha, ha, he tore his Achilles. That's the show. Hey, woohoo! Sandler, you're crazy.

I was not like that. So, but he didn't say it was a basketball player. He just said somebody. Yeah, he said, I wouldn't listen to it. I heard tore Achilles. It just started laughing. I wasn't laughing. I didn't think he was serious.

You know how Adam Sandler is. Yeah, okay. You can hear it like in the crowd, everybody just got quiet. Because they thought it was so funny. No, I just. Okay. All right, all right. Well, thank you for the update.

No problem. I agree with you, Drew. I would lean to say, no way it's a player. Because you're right. I've been there when somebody got hurt. And everybody sits there and goes, we're not saying this. Everyone agrees.

And they kind of all agree not to speak about it. And then there's a picture of almost all the team. They have big smiles on their face. If somebody had gotten hurt, I don't think they would have been out partying that night. And, you know, I think Sandler would be able to read the room. If you just lost a star player the day before your scrimmage, he probably knows it's not his place to just announce it to his audience at Rupert. And it could have been, like, one of the managers.

Could have been the media, although I don't know what media that would have been. The other drama last night, though, and Mario could speak on this, is I heard if you even looked at the clock on your phone, when they were coming to throw you out of there. It's no phones. So about Mario got the picture, though. Mario risked it all for KSR. It is.

It's hard to keep people having their phones in Rupp Arena, but apparently they were walking around and like, you'd get in an ankle walk. Yeah, if you took their phone. Taking that picture as he was laughing about players in concussion protocol. All right. Well,

Mario. He's got a concussion. Adam Sandler gets up and just want to say, hey, everybody pray for my dad. He's in the hospital. I was like, ha, ha, ha. I think we're glossing over that Mario went and none of us did,

and he's the one that's the youngest and didn't really know much about Sandler. Yeah. And now he's like, oh, just typical Sandler. Oh, it's just how Adam is. What's next? What's next? Sing me Achilles' song. Who's next?

Got Jerry up next. Jerry. Go ahead, Jerry. Hey, man. On the biggest players come into Commonwealth Stadium, Harshal Walker, when he came in in 1980, that was huge because he was a phenomenon. and they were on the way of the title. So you got to say that again, Rick, Rick got my ear.

Who was it? I said when Herschel came in here in 1980, that was huge. It was bigger than them because they were on their way to the title, and that was in the Hage and Georgia football. And then when he came in 82, that was when he won the Heisman. It was a big. And then the next year, what else did you ask about, you were asked about Bo?

He came in the next year, and that was big because Kentucky was 4-0, and they crushed us. But anyway, as far as this game goes, I'm hoping that, you know, we get a slug fest 1714, but I'm just afraid that defense is legit, and they're going to hold us like three points. And the problem Texas has is their offensive line. It's not so much art. What about the weather? It's supposed to be perfect like today.

I think it's supposed to be a great day tomorrow. It's supposed to rain. There's supposed to be a massive storm. Rain during the game. Check that. I think it's going to be awful tomorrow. I think it's going to rain tomorrow. Where did you get it was going to be perfect?

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