KSR - 2025-10-22- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk 20 years of the KSR website, the possibilities of a new Kentucky Football Coach, and your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It is Wings Day, Dollar Wings all day and night, starting at 11 o'clock. I got burgers. We've got a lot of excitement. You can give Shown on Clark's Puppet Shop foam line, 859-2-80-2287. A Vision auto glass text machine is 772-7-4 in this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. If you call T.J. He'll make them pay. I looked up at the TV screen. Boogie Cousins is doing commentary on Fandall TV.

I had no idea, Drew, that Boogie Cousins is now a commentator. I've seen a little bit of them doing a good job. We got him. We got Wall. We got Mashburn. You got Kentucky guys all over TV. After not having any, you got Walls doing Amazon NBA games and Mashbred's doing college basketball for TNT. So good to see Kentucky guys.

Got a couple folks in here, one from Oldham County, one from Bell County. He's from Strait Creek. I told you. Now, he's not from the right fork of Straight Creek. He's just from Straight Creek. Now, how can they call it Straight Creek if there's a right fork in the middle of Strait Creek? Just one right fork. It's a straight creek, but it has a for it.

Or if you're going the other direction, then... Well, you're going to RJ, so you just need to be ready. But it's nice to have straight creek in the house. Straight Creek. It's a very Kentucky name for a place. Straight Creek? Well, why is that Kentucky name? It's a creek.

It doesn't have any bends, so it's straight. That's what we do. It's what it is. Straight Creek. It's better than the other part of Middlesbrose Creek. You don't want to be in Greasy Creek. I don't know. Why did they call it greasy?

I don't remember it being particularly greasy, but they do have a greasy creek. So there you go. Well, fear or not of a greasy creek or straight creek floods. They got the floodgate. They can keep pinedable from flooding. You really, you always make fun of the floodgate. Oh, it's ridiculous. By the way, WIMT, the TV station, is doing their 40th anniversary.

They're doing the biggest news stories of the 40 years. Yeah. And I'm going on their website. This is the biggest countdown for me in a long time. The biggest news stories in Easter Kentucky in 40 years. You know what number seven was overall? I give up. The opening of the Cumberland Gap Tunnel.

Oh, that was a big deal, though. It's a big deal. So I had gone to college, so I wasn't there. You know, my mom sang at that. That's right. You said that before. And then they had the governor of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, because it's all three states. Here's what I didn't know until I watched the special on at WYMT last night.

Lee Greenwood came inside. Should have been higher on the list. You can get Lee Greenwood for anything, man. And he was wearing that same American flag shirt, and when he went from the Lex, Minnesota, and then he got beaming to the hills of Tennessee, and everybody got clapped. They were excited because, you know, they were in Cumberland Gap. Well, they got snubbed at number seven in the biggest moments of the last 40. You're telling me, Lee Greenwood and driving through the Cumberland Gap is seventh.

Well, I mean, that's what they said. I guess we'll have to see what the top six are. It was a monster story, though, when that happened. I was working at Channel 18 when that happened. It was a big deal. Was it? Yes. They said that one of the people, I think Paul Patton, the governor spoke, and he said,

what Daniel Boone started over 200 years ago, we're finishing today. And I was like, whoa. Wow, I didn't realize it was that. I just thought you're trying to make us not crash on the mountain anymore. So, anyway, with that level of history, well, now I've got to curious. see where the top six are. You're going to have to tune in to wymt.com. It's October 22nd.

And so I don't know for certain this is the date, but I coalesced on this date because it's the first time I have notes of this happening. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and say, because it's either today or a day or two before or after, today is the 20th anniversary of the start of Kentucky. sports radio.com the website. Thank you very much. Twenty years.

20 years ago today, from what I think, was the first post I put up on Kentucky Sports Radio.com, and it says something like, welcome to Kentucky SportsRadio.com. It was a very in-depth post. And I thought 20 years later, it is the largest college sports team. website in America. And I thought if you would give me just a minute, Ryan. You can have all the time you want. I'd like to just reminisce for a second.

Please do. If that's okay. This could be fine. Can I do that? Yeah. All right. So in 2005, I was working for Judge Karen Caldwell in Frankfurt, Kentucky as a law clerk. It was my third clerkship.

And I remember one day she said to me, you don't really seem to like being a lawyer. And I was like, good observation. And she said, you know, you need to pursue what you love. And if it's law, go for it. But if it's not, that's, you know, that's okay. So I decided, I've told the story before, I heard Adam Curry, former MTV Vijay, talk about podcast on NPR. And he said, there's this new thing called podcast. And I was like, oh, man, I could do that.

I could sit and talk about Kentucky sports on a podcast. Sure. But I didn't know, you know this about me, Drew. I don't know anything about technology, right? Didn't know how to get a podcast on the web. Wasn't certain what the web was at the time. So I decided I would go to every radio station in Lexington and Louisville sports that had any sports and said, hey, you know, put me on the radio.

And I went, I literally met with 10, including like a, gospel station out on Versailles Road. I met with I heart. They quickly said no. What back then was cumulus. ESPN radio where Chris Cross famously said, you don't have a voice that they would ever let on the airwaves. That was his exact quote to me. And then in Louisville, I did the same thing, all knows. So like I, you know, nobody would put me on. So I said, well, you know what, I'm going to, I'm going to do it myself. So I went. to the website kentucky sports report dot com which was a website back it was

and i said hey if you will let me put this thing on your website that would be be nice and they said okay so then i recorded one with hubby and a guy named rob giddell yeah who now lives in florida and coincidentally as an attorney um he was at the time in college and the three of us recorded one

and when it was finished, Kentucky Sports Report said, we won't host this. This is not worthy of our website. So at this point, I had the door slammed on me on everything. So I went to my friend Hubby, who at the time I knew, but didn't know really well.

He was my friend, the turkey hunter's roommate. And I said, you know how to make these things they call websites. Right? And he said, yes. And I said, all right, I'll give you a third of the website, which was easy to do, because at the time it was worth nothing. Zero. You get a third of zero. You can get a third. I thought it was a bargain, Drew. He's going to do all the work, and I'm not going to do anything if you'll build the website. So he builds what you then saw as Kentucky SportsRadio.com, and I called it Kentucky Sports Radio. because ultimately I wanted a radio show. Of course, we didn't get a radio show for five more years, so people would say, why is it called Kentucky Sports Radio? And I didn't really have an answer for that, because it was a website.

And it goes to show sometimes life's biggest plans turn out differently. The podcast ended up becoming secondary. The website became much bigger because blogs as a thing just kind of took off. You guys are old enough to remember. There was a time where the new cool media, was blogs. It wasn't social media, it was blogs. And during that rise, here we were. And my vision of it was, you know what, like all these people take sports so seriously. I'm just going to write about it as a fan. I'm going to acknowledge I want Kentucky to win. I'm going to acknowledge that sports are supposed

to be fun. I'm not going to sit there and like complain. Jerry Tipton and some of those guys were always complaining. I was like, I'm going to acknowledge I want Kentucky to win. and I just got a bunch of my friends to write with me. There was Rob Gadell. It was his buddy John Wilkinson, who we named the intern, who was at our 20th anniversary party and said, please stop calling me the intern. He's now in his 40s.

The turkey hunter, my friend, Chris Mosley, Chris Tom on these people, and we would put it out there. And over the course of time, it found an audience. And it became like a real thing. A lot of people would listen to us. I didn't really know why. We kept doing the podcast, but the website was really the thing. Then in 2007, a big thing happened, which was we started covering recruiting, and Patrick Patterson and Jay Lucas.

If you want to look at the rise of Kentucky Sports Radio, two big moments. Number one, Patrick Patterson and Jay Lucas. They were trying to decide whether or not they were going to come to Kentucky. You guys know this. maybe the biggest recruitment of all time. I know that sounds strange. But at the time, it sure was. But at the time, maybe it was because people thought,

if Tubby can get these guys, we're back, we're back. And they didn't like how much people were calling them. I would argue, Ryan, recruiting was bigger than in this fan base, almost than it is now. Do you agree in terms of the way people followed it so intently? I think there's no doubt. Absolutely. So they just got tired of answering everybody's phone calls.

And for whatever reason, they liked me and Rob Godell. And so they would only answer our phone call. And so we had all of these exclusive interviews with Patrick Patterson and Jay Lucas. And it built our website. The only way you could get information on Patrick Patterson and Jay Lucas was us. Now Jay Lucas is the coach at Miami. Patrick Patterson is a movie critic in Toronto. But we would do that, and it really built up.

the second thing is around 2009. I met this, I saw this weird kid that went to the university. Whoa, weird. Hang on now. You carry a toenel in your pocket. This wild kid who's out partying at the University of Kentucky named Drew Franklin. He had a website that was called Horace Grant's halftime report. Yep. Shout out. There was another guy named T.J. Bysner, what was his website called? Oh, his was UK related. I can't remember the exact name. It was called something. I looked around and I said the two best websites besides mine are these two. So rather than fight with them, let me see if they'll join me.

And they both did. And all of a sudden it went from, I think, decent to really, really good. Those two guys who were hilarious and smart and funny, the three of us and then all the secondary people, we kind of combined, and then at that moment, here comes John Cald Perry to Kentucky. And the combination of all that exploded. Interest exploded. His daughters at the time really liked the website. They thought it was funny.

As people were trying to decide if Cal was going to come, you've said they put our sights on the television. We did. We quoted Kentucky SportsRadio.com several times on the local news in our sportscast. And it took off. And then John Wall and DeMarcus cousins when they came, we kind of connected with them. Pre-social media, they would give us scoop and pictures that now they'd probably put on Twitter and Instagram themselves, but they didn't have a way to get them out. So they'd send them to me and Drew.

And the next thing you know, the thing really takes off. And over the course of the next 20 years, becomes the largest college sports team site in America. In 2020, we sold it to On 3, and it is still going now. Tyler Thompson, another huge part when she joined as part of a blogger contest. And I think I said in my tweet this morning, Rob, Drew, T.J. and Tyler, I think are the four people who had the biggest part besides me in doing it. And, you know, no matter what I do for the rest of my career, that will always be the thing on the most. proud of from walking into hubby's house going into his basements i think he was in his box of shorts when i went in there and asking him to build a website to now it has employed dozens of

people over the years maybe a hundred people over the years and has become a radio show has become a television show has become a bar has become this massive force and is the largest force in the University of Kentucky athletic media space. I'm really proud of it, and I want to thank everybody that has worked for it over the years. It's a lot of people now who do a lot of things, many of which have jobs in media all over the place, and all of you all who've listened, who've read, who've been a part of it. Without you guys, it's nothing. and I wake up today kind of very proud of what the last 20 years have been like and with Drew sitting here I think you Drew I think you Ryan even though you never wrote on it you were one of our biggest advocates when I started the media hated me the only person they hated me was more that was Drew but you were always wonderful and in a room full of people that were not nice to us I could always count on Ryan Lemon being one of the

few friendly faces and voices from the media, and I thank you both, and I'm excited to celebrate today. You do nothing but a round of applause. That's awesome. It's fantastic. And every time I hear you tell this story, I'm always just amazed at the foresight you had for two things. Just brilliant moves. One, you called it Kentucky Sports Radio without a radio show. Yeah, because I thought somebody would give me a radio show, and no one did. That was why. Struck out everywhere you trying to do a radio show. You called it, Kentucky Sports Radio. And the second thing you had the great foresight was you hired Drew.

You brought him on, man. No, that was huge. Perfect union. Well, one of the things that I think separates the difference between good leaders and bad ones is creating other stars. If you're selfish and you make it, I sound like John Caliperi. You make it all about you. You make it all about you, you'll lose. And I could tell I knew the first time I met Drew.

Now, he was probably drunk, wearing something stupid, and acting a fool, but I knew, like, that dude's got something. And I was right. And so, yes, I agree with you. I think that's the most important. I mean, of all the things I talked about, the most important moment was when I brought on Drew. And now we're here. Well, thank you for that. How many years has been for me?

Early 2009. You started in 2009. I looked at last night. You always tell people they hired cow, wall committed, cousins committed, and then I joined KSR. I always say we were a four-pack for Big Blue Nation there around the same time. But I wasn't there in 2005 to see the beginnings, but it wasn't too different in 2009. And I'm still blown away just being along for the ride at what it is now. If you had told me however many full-time we have now with benefits and insurance

and people have families and it's their true job, if that little bog we were on 15, 20 years ago, I'd known it would turn into that, I honestly wouldn't have believed you. It started as just fun and following the cats and look at it now. There's a picture I posted on Twitter that you ought to look at. It's me, hubby, Rob Goddell, and the intern John Wilkinson, and we are sitting

in the lobby of a Holiday Inn out in Hamburg interviewing Wukosh and I think Jeremy Jarman. And that's what it used to be, look like. We would beg places to just let us set up there and talk. I think I'm standing on a chair in that

I haven't even seen it a long time. It really is sort of the epitome of kind of the rogue way we used to do stuff. We got kicked out of so many things when we started, and we're still getting kicked out of things 20 years later. That makes me happy.

So, I appreciate you letting me kind of go down memory. I do want to know who picked the beautiful colors of yellow and gray. Hubby, because they were the... You want to know where the colors came from? The original site color. Corey Price has a post of what the site used to look like.

Would you like to know why they're yellow and gray? I would like to know. They were the only things that the website company would let us have for free. You had to pay for other colors. And we didn't have any money, so we left it at yellow and gray. So even though it was a Kentucky site, it was yellow and gray for a long time because you had to pay for the color. I feel like you owe Boone's butcher shop a shout out to you. The original banner.

The only endorsement we had for 10, for 10, Ten years, Boone's Butcher Shop. Is that still open? I hope so. I hope it is. Go to Boone's Butcher Stop and buy a big slab of meat today. All right, we'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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That Boone's Butcher Shop, that's their old jingle. They're still open, apparently. I'm glad to hear that. In Bardstown, I think, right? It's all the money they saved on advertising for 15 years. They'd write me a check once a year. We gave them a prime spot. And then after we were actually able to sell.

advertising. I let them keep that prime spot. You've got to be loyal to the people that were loyal to you Ryan earlier. First wants to step up, donate somebody to the cause, and they absolutely earned that right to have that spot. One person writes, Matt, who is the longest rider that writes on the site that's still there? Well, Drew is now, but the answer to that question until a couple months ago would have been Brian the intern who was writing from early, early on, like from not the beginning, but very close to the beginning. You mentioned my other blog, BTI used to link to it and I thought it was the coolest thing when BTI would link to my blog on KSA because I was a student in the UK. I read KSR just a head on my own thing. One person writes, Matt, when was the first time

that you realize people were actually reading your website? I can tell you the exact moment. When we beat Georgia, Rich Brooks' first big win was against Georgia in 06, you think? Sounds right. I want to say 06 in 05 or 06. Well, he won all those games in 07. In my mind, we beat them at home in 06. It might have been 05. But either way, when the game was over, hubby lived in Coach Light Woods. Do you know where that is? I've heard of that. Coach Light Woods right across the street from Commonwealth Stadium. And we would tailgate there. And when the game was over, me and him, Turkey Hunter, our friend Aaron Sutton and so, we made a sign that said, honk if you read KSR. And the

traffic was so bad getting out of Commonwealth Stadium that people were stuck and people were honking. Now, I don't know if they were just honking to get us out of the street or just because they read it, but we were like hanging on people's cars holding that sign up. And that was the first time I was like, oh, somebody may be reading this. And that was when we beat Georgia. I think that was in 06. I could be wrong. I know exactly when I started following the blog.

Gabe Pendleton is the one who told me. He said, hey, you need to go check out this website. You know, this is where it's at. And then we started checking it out. And right when the Jay Lucas and Patrick Patterson thing hit, we quoted you guys on the sports cast because you were the only people who had any information, kind of just took off there for me. Yes.

Well, so there you go. 859-2-80. If you have questions to ask anything Wednesday, I'm glad to answer them. I have a question for you, though, that came in last night that I want to ask. Somebody writes. Matt, in order, I'd like to hear all four of you say, one, two, three. most likely period names who's the UK football coach next year.

Now presumably that could also be Mark Stoops. So one, two, three. Just simple question, who is the UK football coach next year? Ryan, I'm going to let you go first. We only have one minute before we have to take another break because I went long. So you do yours and we'll do ours after the break. One, two, three. do Mark Stoops 1.

Okay. Will Stein 2. Okay. John Summerall 3. All right. So you're going Stoops, Stein, Summerall. Yeah. And does your Stoops thing require him to win a bunch of games?

Requires him to win more than one. Okay. So you're going Stoop, sign, Summerall. I think so. All right. Will we will do ours after the break. I would say open up, you know, you could also end up a lot of scenarios. You could end up with a Brad White scenario.

Yeah. There could be another. name that flies off the radar. Very true. So we will, Shannon and Drew and I will give ours right for the break. And we'll take your calls. 859-280-2287. SKSR.

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you're going to, there'll be a different version of that, because they end up being the same year. Yeah, they're five years apart, right? Because this started just five years exactly from that. I mean, it is an unbelievable success story, really, where you guys started and where it is today. It's amazing business perspective, amazing story. But let me just say, don't act like this was like some grand plan. It was always just like a hobby. I never, if you had told me to be a crowd of laughed at you.

Like, I still thought I was going to be a lawyer. up until, I mean, I didn't stop practicing law until 2011. So, I mean, I never thought that this would be like a career. You came on right when blogs were taken off? Yeah. You came on right when social media was taken off. I mean, you hit it. The Rick Petino trial, the Rick Petino, Karen Sefer trial, is why my social media took off.

Because I covered that trial live and live tweeted the trial. So I live tweeted, I did down my leg in less than 15 seconds. went viral and that's kind of how that started so i that i actually have to thank karen cipher rick patino for uh for that part of it didn't you say one time that like you were like the only media person in the courtroom i've said that a lot there's one wdrp person always gets mad and said he was there too so i'm gonna say one of two people that was there but a lot of the louisively a lot of the louisville media didn't go because they didn't want to embarrass rick patina which is crazy because it was one of the biggest stories in the country

Rick, Steve Vassiello said to me one time that now they can chuckle about it, but they blamed me for the, I did down my leg in less than 15 seconds, because it wouldn't have come out. You're the one to put it out. If I hadn't tweeted that out. All right, so you gave the coaches. Let's go with you, Shannon. What's your one, two, three?

Well, I think it's going to be Mark Stoops, number one, because I think he's going to do just enough to be able to hold onto his job and come back for another year. All right. Number two, I think John Summerall. It's been a hot name that's been mentioned for years. A lot of fans want them here. Will Stein is my number three.

So it's Stoop Summerall Stein. Stoop Summall Stein is your list. What's yours? I hate to just keep doing the same three, but those are the three, I believe. Mine's going to be much different than you are. I'm going to change the order. I will say, actually, I'm going to do Stoops one, just because the others, the percentage chance is smaller. I don't believe Stoops will be here, but I don't know of a sure thing.

I'll go Stoop Stein Summral. Mine's going to be very different. Yeah. But good, get something to talk about. I'm going to go, if I had to go to Vegas and make a bet on who our coach is next year, I'm going to say Will Stein. I'm going to say Dan Mullen 2nd and Mark Stoop's 3rd. I don't think John Somerall will be the coach here.

Not because he doesn't want. Not because I just think he's going to get offered a better job. I think he's going to get offered. From what I've heard talking to people, I think he's going to get off for the Auburn job. Their fans are all about it on Twitter, too. When that comes open, and I think he'll have to take the Auburn job. Now, if he doesn't get off for the Auburn job, that may flip,

and I might put Summerall one. But I feel sources tell Matt Jones, I feel he'll be the coach at Auburn next year, unless you freeze like wins out or something and ends up keeping that job. And Stoops is three, because I think the scenario for Stoops to stay, requires more wins than we're going to get. Stein's won because I think he's like a perfect match of, he's a really good candidate,

but probably not quite good of enough of a candidate to get a job that's significantly better than ours. So he probably won't get Florida State, Florida, Penn State, or Auburn. He probably will get offered jobs on our level, so like say Arkansas, UCLA, etc. But I think the Kentucky connection will end up would be what would bring him here. And then I think if for whatever reason he were to take a job that isn't ours, I think Dan Mullen is a Mitch Barnhart kind of hire in the sense that he's had success.

There's some stability there. And, you know, Dan Mullen's never really. really failed exactly as a coach. He won at Mississippi State. He won not at the level they wanted, but he won at Florida more than the other coaches have, and then he's won at UNLV. So now, the answer may be somebody off the table,

but if that's where I were betting, I would go stop. And then summer off from me would probably be fourth. I just think he's going to get offered a better job than us. I think that's the most. Remember, the other thing about Auburn, he coached at Troy, right, in Alabama. so there's a lot of connections there as well. If Kiffin were to leave for Florida, I would think Old Miss might call him too. See, I think we'd get him over Old Miss.

I just think there's like four jobs that are going to be open that you have to take over us. You have to take Florida. You have to take Florida State. You have to take Penn State, and you have to take Auburn. I think when you get to that next tier, even if it's Old Miss, you can rationalize going to Kentucky over Old Miss. I don't think you can rationalize going over those other four schools. Dan Mullen's the big puzzle for me because, like you said, he's had success everywhere he went,

but it seems like we always beat him. Like he was never, somebody I was ever scared of as an opposing coach. But I think if you hired him, it's like he'd be solid. Yeah. Now, does that mean, like, is he going to take you to the promised land? Maybe not. I will tell you, I will, if Stoops is gone, I'll be advocate. for Will Stein.

I just think, you know, he takes my number one criteria, which is he's smart. He's smart, he's got Kentucky connections, and he's got an innovative offense. And those are all things that I would really like to see here, Drew. I got to add to Will Stein, the word fun. I watched the highlight real some plays he called last week.

I don't even know what I was watching, but it looked like a lot of fun. And I know at Kentucky and the SEC, maybe you can't do some of that stuff on offense, but after being the defensive running team for 13 years now, I'm ready to, you know, if we are going to lose 45 to 42, back like in the old air raid days. I don't think it would be like that,

but Stein wrote some crazy stuff that I think would be a lot of fun to watch. And there's also, you got to remember, you don't always know what Mark, you don't always know what Mitch Barnhart's thinking, but I will say this. I think Mitch Barnhart kind of gets pegged into this corner of he'll only take coaches like his personality, but I think we saw in the basketball search that that was not true.

He went after Danny Hurley. I think he and Danny Hurley would have hated each other. But he went after him anyway. And he was willing to go after Bruce Pearl and Nate Oates, but he basically got told by the administration that he could not. So if he was willing to look at those guys, then I think he's going to be willing to look at guys that maybe we don't think his personality fits with him

because he's done it in the past. I think my list, I can speak for myself, would be different if we did this last week before the Texas game. After the Texas game, I'm one of these people that kind of get sucked in a little bit. Yeah, we can maybe win that game at Aubrey. We can win that game in Florida.

We've still got a couple wins on the table. So you genuinely think there's still a way to win enough games to save Stoopsie? I do. Well, they could be playing an interim coach at Auburn. You already are playing an interim coach against Florida. So you could have two. I mean, those locker rooms could completely quit.

One of them already has maybe. We do get the advantage of playing a Florida and Auburn team that both may not have a cup. So you're right. Who's up first? Let's go to bluegrass. Bluegrass. What's up? What's going on, fellas?

Just give me a quick congrats to you, fellas. At 96 through 98, I was in Augusta, Georgia, and I was long distance, and I couldn't get no info, and that's when you all popped up for me right around that area at that time. Then I started hearing you on the airwaves in the early. 2000. I just want to thank you guys so much before I get to my question. I'm thinking of somebody else, but that's all right. But all right, fellas, let me tell you something now.

This is my question. Out of the second year players, you hear the big second year jump. We always hear that. Who do you guys think is going to make the biggest second year jump? And who do you think is most beneficial for the team? Well, I mean, so biggest second year jump, I appreciate the call. we really only have what two choices Noah and Chandler

yeah I mean you could say like Brandon Garrison even though there's not a sophomore but like a second year with If you're talking about sophomore then it's Noah Chandler so who's got the biggest second year? Chandler by far another against Noah I've said it over and over and since we've had

Pro Day in blue white and madness I believe it anymore Chandler is going to really open some eyes this year and that's nothing to put Noah down I just think Chandler is going to be a huge surprise. Not to compare white players to white players, but that's what ends up happening. Can he be Tyler Hero before he leaves Kentucky? He has NBA athleticism that you don't see a lot like that. Like when he went up and- But if you have that dog any, like Tyler had a dog. Tyler wasn't scared

anybody. He was, you know, he had that cow player mentality. Do you think Call and Chandler has that? I'm picturing present-day Tyler Hero covered in tattoos and then Mormon, Colin, Huge different personality, I'll say. But on the court, maybe. We'll see. I mean, I still think Chandler still has a breakout moment coming that we'll have to see what that looks like. But just as far as how they play, he has some unique athleticism. They are in different personalities.

Chandler's a happily married man now. Goes home to his wife at night. That's true. But he does have the athleticism that he could match what Tyler Hero had when he was here. He might be more athletic. Now, Tyler was a better player at this stage, obviously. They both did the dunk contest. But Chandler is, Chandler is athletic.

I agree with you. I think Chandler takes a huge leap. In part because Chandler was really bad for half the year last year. And then he got much better as the year went on. So I think you'll see it. This may be the last time you ever hear me do this. Uh-oh. For all y'all, there's some myths floating around UK Credit Union.

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from if Penn State higher some I think Penn State's got to feel like they've got to go get a coach, yeah, to go make it, to justify firing Franklin, right? Yeah, I mean, Franklin just had Oregon down and overtime a few weeks ago and he gets fired. I think they're

looking for something a little more proven, but he is a very, very hot name right now. And also, I can't help but notice on the Kentucky thing where I mentioned he has family here. There's like five pictures of him with Rich Brooks with his arm around him in Oregon, so he has the Rich Brooks connection also. Rich seems to really like him and he could be putting in a word.

Did you watch any of the NBA last night? It was opening night. I thought it was great. You had the do-d-d-d-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Yeah, and then it was on NBC, and it just felt bigger than these other games have in recent years, didn't it?

I started watching the ring ceremony and didn't turn it off until after the second overtime. I didn't plan on watching the whole game, but I couldn't quit watching it because you're It felt like a big-time playoff game. I was into the rings. I don't know if I've ever watched the ring ceremony, but for some reason I watched it. I didn't.

When they would get their rings, they look so happy. I don't know. I kind of really liked it. I don't know. I did. I was locked in. I was sitting down 20 minutes before the pregame show started so that I didn't miss round ball rock. Nostalgia shouldn't hook you this much, but even the little peacock shooting the lasers.

It was nice. I was like, oh my good, we are back in 1996. It was really cool to watch. part of it is objectively, and I know you guys will agree with me, but I also think it's objective. The 90s were the best time to live. Everybody just, like, the 90s were the best. We had some technology, but not enough to disrupt our lives, right? Like, we had a computer, but we didn't have to carry these stupid phones around, right?

Like, the economy was really good. Our biggest worry was that Bill Clinton was, you know, doing Bill Clinton. That was our biggest worry. Everything was like, you know, the music, Shannon was better in the 90s, the sports. Kentucky won two titles. Kentucky was great at basketball, Michael Jordan. You know, Tiger was just getting started. That was exciting.

Americans were still good at tennis. The Braves? The Braves. Yeah, I love the Braves back then. Forrest Gump. Yeah, but movies. Movies in the 90s were great. I mean, the 90s were objectively best,

and there's something about that whole NBC intro that put me in the 90s. Every kid who grew up watching the NBA in the 90s, when that came on last night, you immediately were sucked in. The graphics, the music, everything about it was awesome. And then, I mean, honestly, the best time in America was from when the Soviet... Yeah, he's got the music. From when the Soviet Union fell until 9-11. Like that 10 years, we just, we had nothing to worry about.

Did we? Really? Talking about the 90s over Roundball Rock has kind of giving me a vibe here too. It is. And I think there was something about that last night that was, and then they brought Michael Jordan on, and I don't know why he was on. He told some story about shooting a free throw. He's the new halftime guy.

He didn't even talk about the game. It's fine. He was just like, yeah, I went to a dinner, and I shot a free throw. And I was like... That was one of my favorite parts of the night. He said it was the most nervous he's been in 30 years shooting that free throw. But it also just goes to show he can just say anything. Exactly.

You know, he's... I texted it to like 20 people. Do you believe him he said he hadn't touched a basketball in eight years? A little bit. I could see why you would want a break for basketball. He seems to always have a cigar and a golf club in his hands, so I could believe it. Did you see their pregame show, though? I did.

You think we have technical difficulties. I genuinely felt bad for them. They played round ball rock, the peacock shot the lasers, and then it was utter chaos. The mics weren't working. It was popping sound like when our headphones were doing that. Producers just walked on stage in the live shot and are giving Magradi a mic. Then Maria Taylor's mic went out, and they almost just went to break. They couldn't even form a conversation.

Did anyone ask about Carmelo? Like, everyone was dressed up, and then Carmelo was wearing a sweatsuit. I mean, I'm fine with people wearing sweatsuites, but it feels like you either need to go, we all are in sweatsuits or all in suits. Having Tracy McGrady and the other guy to suit, Vince Carter, and then Carmelo in a sweatsuit was kind of weird, wasn't it? I'm afraid that sweatsuit probably cost $20,000, though. It was just a different look than the rest of them. Okay, the game real quick, SGA and Case and Wallace were great, but everybody wants to talk about Reed Shepard.

he struggled. Now, this was, to be fair, this is almost like a rookie year for him, because he barely played last year. But he did struggle on a very big stage. If you put his name into Twitter last night, it was not. It was mean. Please, no one do it that knows him well, because it was bad if you looked up Reed Shepherd last night.

He got memed about as hard as you can get memed last night. I think it's still going. Offensively, though, did some things that looked good. Hit his threes. I agree, but someone needs to tell Reed, like, you don't need to wave off Kevin Durant. Just go ahead and get him the ball. Yeah. Defensively, though, our Kentucky boys were just putting him in a blender all night.

Case and Wallace and Shea were just taking turns. You want to take him? Do you want to take him? You want to take him? It felt like cat-on-cat crime. That wasn't very nice of Shea and Casey. He definitely did nothing to help his case to be a backup point guard on the team. He made – well, no, he wants to be the start.

He's a long way away, man. He made a really bad turn over there at the end of the game, too. Yeah, tough night for him. It was. It was a tough night. Well, the guy starting over him, we worry about shooting. He went 0 for 7 from 3, so the rockets have a problem. They do, because, yeah, Reed can't guard and Amy and Thompson can't shoot, so it's tough. Who's next?

Joseph. Joseph. Go ahead, Joseph. Hey, about it. I appreciate you taking my call. If we hire Dan Mullen, I will mutiny. You'll mutiny, Dan Mullen? That guy, I will mutiny, because that guy,

was at Mississippi State for nine seasons. I think Mississippi State and Kentucky are pretty comparable programs. However, Mississippi State has a much better recruiting base. I'm sure we all agree there. But he did take him to number one in the country. And then they promptly lost three straight.

So here's the thing, his record there was like a bunch of seven and sixes, eight and five, five and sevens with a couple of nine and fours. But I mean, to be fair, though, how many times? How many times?

Okay, but we all like Mark Stoops before the last three or four years. If you're telling me I get Mark Stoops from his first 10 years, we're probably taking it, right? This isn't Mark Stoops from his first 10 years. But if you're saying Dan Mullen, if you're saying Dan Mullen is like Mark Stoops in his first 10 years, then that's not bad, is it? I'm saying Dan Mullen at Mississippi State was Mark Stoops in his first 10 years. That is not the same thing. You're firing Mark Stoops for another Mark Stoops. That's a bad fire.

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