KSR - 2025-10-23- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

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Beautiful day. And one day before basketball. Tomorrow, the U.K. basketball. basketball season opens with an exhibition against the number one team in the country. I was looking kind of through history. Probably you could argue the second best team Kentucky will ever play, has ever played in the exhibitions. I would say when we played the Soviet national team is probably the last time we played a team better than this one. That was like an 88 or something, right?

Yeah. No disrespect to Transylvania, Kentucky wasn't in Georgetown. But are you disrespecting the Soviet national team? No. That was a big deal. That was a huge PR thing for, you know, that's when we're still fighting with the Soviet Union about things. We were fighting? Yeah.

You? Were you heard of it? I personally wasn't fighting them. Yeah, you didn't have anything against me. I had nothing against them. You didn't know. Well, they came here and played, I think it was 88 or 84. One of those two times.

I guess earlier, early 80s. Joe B. Hall was the coach. Yeah, so it'd been maybe 84, but they came and played here. But this is probably the second best, and I'm getting excited. Me too. I mean, I miss the old days when Czechoslovakia would come to town. I think we beat China a couple years in the 80s. But now the number one team, preseason number one, you get a real test of what your team looks like,

even though it doesn't matter. We did play a lot of countries. We played Japan? Yeah, I feel like we had that one. But we played Czechoslovakia when Czechoslovakia was good. We lost the Czechoslovakia. Well, but I mean, think about all the countries that now themselves. have great basketball teams that at one time

were all together in Czechoslovakia. Have you thought about that? Haven't thought about that. You should have. But the basketball exhibition games back then, they'd see if they would play foreign country, and then they'd play Marathon Oil. But Marathon Oil would be good.

It wasn't just guys that worked at Marathon Oil. It was like people who, like they went and got pros to play. It wasn't just like employees. My first UK basketball game, they beat athletes in action, and I don't even know what that was. I think they just pulled people out of the YMCA, It's another one they would have professional players that would come play. Athletes in action, I think, also beat us one year when we were here.

Am I right? Well, I think that was that the year that Keith Bogan had hit a last second shot to beat him. You're exactly. Good memory. So these are all exhibition games to the past. I think this Purdue one will be big. I want to talk about that game some, but I want to start, Ryan, you know, Mr. Scoop over here. Breaking Scoop from years ago.

I'm going to read you, you know, Justin. Justin Roland is, he works for Cats Illustrated, which is now part of On 3. So there was a time, well, for most of my career doing KSR, there was always, used to be Cats Paws. Then it was Cats Illustrated. There was tension between Cats Illustrated and KSR. Well, now we're on the same team. So I feel like when you're on the same team, there's no, that's all gone, right, Drew? I mean, we use the same break room fridge.

I mean, he could eat my spaghetti in any moment today. He does often. He's always eating your spaghetti. Okay. So he did a post last night on Cats Illustrated. And I would say to you, if you subscribe to KSR Plus now, you get Cats Illustrated for free. And there's a lot of scoopy talk. Now, you have to, when you're in coaching season, you have to be careful how you navigate the scoop, right?

There's some people I listen to. There are some people I have listened to. You kind of have to do that, right? Got to run it through a filter. You do have to run it through a filter. And then some people get too excited. Some people don't. when it comes to football, generally speaking, if Justin says something,

I generally think if he's not 100% right, he's in the ballpark. Okay, so I listen. Now, he had a lot to say, and Ryan, I want your take on some of this. And we will give ours as well. Now, this is, I'm going to summarize, he had a lot of things on there. But let's start with this. The talk after the Texas game that it was somehow signaled from someone that Stoops would be willing to talk about what's next after the season

that had not been signaled before. Agree or disagree? The way he handled the post-game press conference that leads me to believe that maybe there's a little truth to that. Sometimes when I read something like that, there's a little truth in there somewhere. I would agree, Drew, except I would say this was signaled before the Texas game.

I think this was something that's been signaled really since the bye week. But what do you think? I would agree with it. Without even hearing any rumors talking to anyone, that press conference, two minutes into it, my brain went. This feels like a goodbye. It did. This feels like he's accepted that it's over in this moment. He didn't said.

Sources say Stoops has been worn out about all of this for quite some time. That's 100% true. Would you agree? I agree. He's one of those guys that, well, we know from past conversations, he listens. He feels that he understands where the heat's coming from. Next one. People around the program have said.

a lot of things have made UK go downhill, one of which is they went from a rock star staff to, quote, hires of convenience. Agree or disagree? I agree with not all hires, but yes, there are some, as we like to call them, they're Jeff Ruby hires, and I think there's been a couple.

Who calls them that? Well, just maybe me and my boys. You and your boys? Yeah, me and my boys. You and Gavin? I'll include him, even though he has no idea who the head football coach is.

Mark Stewart could walk in here right now, and my son would not know who he was. But he calls him higher. Hires of convenience. Hires of, no, Jeff Ruby hires. Okay, Jeff Ruby hires. Sorry, Drew. Yeah, I could believe that.

I mean, people have been here a long time. I mean, brother, I'm not calling out anyone individually, but you could see the case that he hires as his crew. There is a divide on the staff between the Youngstown crew and the non-Youngstown crew. The non-youngstown crew believing that Stoops' close Youngstown guys make the decisions. I have no opinion on that. But like I said, a lot of times. Strong no opinion, okay.

But a lot of times when I hear something like that, I feel like there's always just a little truth in, when guys like Justin Rowland reported, there's got to be a little truth to it. Yeah, I can't speak on this, but it would not shock me at all. I mean, you would have to think he probably listens to his brother and his childhood friends over people he doesn't know as well. So I don't think that would be strange. Not at all. And I've heard of little just assistant coach beckering over the years. That can happen and probably has been bowling over when they can't win. He wrote, people criticize Vince Merrill a lot for putting his name.

out there. But Vince being on the staff allowed Stoops more freedom to do things he didn't usually have to do, including raising money and recruiting. Now Stoops is having to do parts of the job that Vince used to take care of. Agree with that or disagree? I don't agree with that.

Yeah, I think Vince did a lot of that work. I think, I mean, Vince's job was recruiting, so that's not surprising. I think he did fundraising, too. And I think that was, you know, there were a lot of guys in Lexington who loved being a around Vince and who like, you know, they wanted to give a half million dollars so they'd go sit with.

Vince liked being out with them and doing the thing, and now that's had to fall to some other people when you sort of don't have your social, you know, the social chair. That one is 500% true. I mean, we joke a little bit about seeing Vince out, but when I would see Vince out, he would be at a table with some important people. Exactly. And I can only imagine that he's there to entertain them and try to get them to give to the program. That's an underrated part of.

of Vince's appeal was the, he just, he could make you feel, everyone, he could make you feel like you were the most important person on the world, hit you on the back and go, hey, I want to be this guy when I grow up. That's why he said you. And I'm telling you, like that works. Even rich people like to be coddled. They probably like to be coddled even more than everyone else. I've watched him personally offer a rich kid's son that's in high school, but it's more of, like,

even the kid knows. It's more of like a meeting, no, but like the kids, like a D3, but it's more of just like giving them the attention and talking to them. When you get to college, I want you to come here. And then the dad's sitting there just eating it up. Boosters are not thrilled. I've heard from another number of people that they feel like they gave money to guys who aren't even playing or who were overpaid. 100% agree on that. We've got a couple guys that have not paid one snap that are getting a lot of money this year. There's one guy on the team who's not played one snap who's making $750,000. And that was a problem. Last year, probably the year before. Yeah, we've had that. Managing the funds is a big issue. of who needs to get it?

Multiple people have voiced the belief that if Stoops were to return for whatever reason, he would probably have to get rid of most of the staff, and, quote, I just don't think he'd be up for that. Remember, that's how Tubby ended up believing, basically, is he wouldn't switch his staff. Yeah, some coached like that. Guy Morris went to bat for his staff and went left for Baylor. I mean, there are coaches that believe in, he's shown his loyalty to a lot of these guys

the staff already, so I think that's partly true what you're saying right there. Yeah, but for a PR move, the fan base, if they were to stay, I think he would have to. He'd have to. Now, remember, we did our one, two, three list of who the coaches would be. I assume this is Justin Rowland's list. He lists them as Will Stein would be one. He says some raw would be interested, but thinks he'll be at Auburn. That's exactly what I said as well.

And then he also added the name P.J. Fleck, that's that guy who, What did he do? He rose the boat. He also last week said when he goes home, he just watches coaches press conferences before he goes to bed. He doesn't watch TV shows. He just watches other coaches press conferences. You like that, Shannon, a guy who watches press conferences? Seems like he's into what he's doing.

He rose the boat. He's not going home to watch a little house on the prairie. And then he has his third one, Bob Chesney. I don't know who that is. Is that Kenny's brother? I don't know Bob Chessney. Who's Bob Chessney? I don't know.

Maybe we need to look up, Shannon, look up Bob Chesney guy. Bob Chesney. Yeah. It feels like you're trying to say Kenny Chesney, but you accidentally mess it up. He goes, oh, Bob Chesney. All right, you look him up and tell me who he is. He also says Brian Hartline is another. So those are the names he has.

He's the head football coach at James Madison. James Madison. So he's the guy that replaced Cignetti at James Mats. You know, a lot of people, they ask you, always say the Willstine has connections to Kentucky. Look, can you go over those? I think people don't know what his connections are with Kentucky. Who?

Will Stein. Will Stein. Well, he's from Lexington, grew up a Kentucky fan. Dad played here. So even though he was quarterback at Louisville, remember he got taken out of the game to put Lamar in. He was the quarterback at Louisville and got replaced for, was it Lamar or Teddy? One of the two. It might have been Teddy.

So many backups. Justin Burke was one of them and got taken out, right? Will Stein was the other one. But he said maybe it was Teddy, but he was quarterback a little, but he grew up a Kentucky fan and his dad played at Kentucky. He went to what? Catholic? He's a Trinity kid, I think. Yeah, I don't think he grew up in Lexington. He grew up in Louisville.

Grew up in Louisville. But I'm right about his dad playing it. Dad definitely played here. He's got family that still live here in Lexington. Okay, so that's where I get the Lexington. And he and Rich Brooks just seemedie boys. I mentioned this yesterday, but there's several pictures of them because, you know, Rich is big at Oregon.

He's going to games. He's got his arm around Will Stein. That's a conversation, I would assume they've had a couple times. This is, I think, an important one. This is kind of the... This is the new one. There's an honest belief that the UK Athletics Department overall administration will look very different in a relatively short period of time. President A.D. football coach could all turn over in a short period of time.

I can't speak on the president, although you would just think by age, Eli Capiludo is not going to do this forever. I would be surprised if Mitch Barnhart is the AD after next year. like just like I think he would do this year and if I were guessing but that's not like anybody pushing him out I just think he's done it for so long and I think in his mind he wants to transition us into this new era

so I think that's true but it also might play an effect on what you do right? Do you think Mitch wants to hire the coach to leave to his new guy? Do you want to let the new guy leave? He says that he Justin seems to think that the new AD would be Eric Monday

Don't know that name Wasn't he here? I don't know that name. Do you don't know who it is? Wasn't he? Who's Eric Monday? I think he works in UK. Oh, now?

Yeah, let me get a position for you. I mean, I don't know Eric Monday. He may be as good as Eric Tuesday. But I just, I think you've, when you get a. Vice President for Finance and Administrative and Co-Excutive, vice president for Health Affairs. Okay, so that would maybe be the new president, then. That wouldn't be the new, the new.

Yeah, he's not athletic. I know that. All right. But I do think when you get a new AD, I feel the same way I do about a coach. You need to go get a person who understands this new modern landscape, who's a business-oriented person. I think the days of getting like a former athlete or whatever, like those days are all over. You got to go get a business person. I mean, now running athletics department, you're running almost a billion-dollar corporation now, right? Like you need a business person. the sports part is almost secondary,

and then you get somebody on your assistant who understands coaches, but, like, it's a business now. You know, Barnhart's the longest tenured AD in the South Eastern Conference. Mark Stoves is the longest tenured coach in the South Eastern Conference. So that's the end of next year is Mitch Barnhart, the AD? Yeah. You think he goes more than a year and a half? And here's why I think that.

I don't think Mitch is a type of guy that would hire a coach and then step out. I think he let the new guy. That would mean he might leave now. Maybe. I would lean quicker, sooner than later. So you think he might leave like this year? I was surprised. I'm surprised he's still here, actually.

That sounds like a yes, Shannon, to me. I don't know. What scoop or what he's dispeculating? No. I just felt like a couple years ago, he was kind of done, but then, like you said, he wanted to usher in this new era with the NIL world and he's at this entertainment district now. But if he's going to leave in a year, then you could make an argument.

He should let the new guy pick the out. AD. I'll pick the coach. I mean, there is an argument about that if you had to replace a coach. Yeah, and I wondered even when Mitch was hiring Pope. I've always thought Mitch has a foot out the door just simply because he's been here. What did he get here? Like 2000?

Yeah. I mean, he's not going to do it forever. Yeah, I mean, he's not going to do it forever. So I've just always thought Mitch is close. And I wondered when he hired Pope if there was other influence. Like, if he's considering who he's handing it off. And let's talk about Mitch Barnhart. The man has not aged a day since he was hired in early 2000.

He still looks like super young. What's he drinking? Some kind of fountain of youth mojo drink he's got there. Oh, he's drinking milk. Is that what you want to make sure we talk about? You want to talk more about his appearance? The guy is not aged. Must be that Annabelle doll working with him or something.

I don't know what's going on there. What does that even mean? See, this is the problem. You let him go too long. Things just, he runs out of things to say. So he just puts other stuff out there. I'd say the last couple of years would probably put a little age on him. 859-280-22-87.

So that's what Roland said yesterday. I think all of those are, for the most part, correct points and worth considering as we talk about what's going to happen over these next few weeks. We're going to talk a little Kentucky, Purdue, little Kentucky, Texas, and some stories from yesterday. We'll be right back. This is KSR.

November 24, 1987, we beat USSR 75-72. You know how much tickets were for that game in 1987? Tickets for UK versus USSR? What was it? Six dollars. Six dollars?

Wow. That was a big deal. $6 you could have got. That's pretty good. It is really good. Our tickets for tomorrow night, lower arena is like $700. Same thing. $6, $700.

Yeah, tickets online. These tickets for tomorrow are some of the highest I've seen for a game in a long time. I don't know if somebody would pay for them, but I saw some listed for $2,000. Like for a non-Cow returns game. Yeah. There were some for $2,000. I bet they'll go down. Yeah, just the fact that it was listed.

for that. People really want to go. One person writes, this is somebody that this isn't text machine. This is friend of the program. Okay. Writes and says, Matt, get to know the name Eric Monday. That will be the next president of UK sooner rather than later. So there you go.

You may have heard that name either first in what Justin wrote or here. If you've never heard the name, come Monday, it'll be all right, Shannon. Come Monday, he'll be holding UK tight. I love it. I don't even know who this guy is, but he's got a great name for us to play off puns. Yeah, it's right. We can do that. I just hope fake Eli Capilito comes back on Twitter.

One person writes, Matt, here's what Eric Monday, how important he is. The next football coach will be what Eric Monday wants it to be. Who is this person? He runs the world. Eric Monday. Who knew? Wow. Monday.

I could see the new president wanting their own AD. Like I could see a trickle effect. Well, they're not going to hire a football coach without the president clearing it. So if they know he's going to be the president, I could see it. I mean, that's not a crazy idea. So when we're wondering how long Mitch is staying, Eli, if Eli goes first, you know, the new president might want his own guy, which is feed up Mitch. I'm going to miss the fake Eli Capoludo, which hasn't existed in a long time,

but maybe we can have a fake Eric Monday. Can we say that Mitch is staying until Monday? Fake Eli Capoludo would always tweet in all caps too. I'm going to go ahead and say, the Scuttle Buddy is Eric Monday president of the UK. Okay. Boy, if you're at Monday, you're like, man, I was having a normal Thursday. And then they put this out here, and now everyone knows who. I'm like, I'd like to see the Google searches for Eric Monday today.

There's probably people running to a radio over there at UK to listen. There's somebody in his office. Eric. You might want to turn on KSR right now. Eric, I need you to know. Things have changed a little bit for our day today. Right. It's just a roll.

Not me. 899-28027. Text machine 772-7-7-45254. Let's talk UK Purdue. Are we going to win, Drew? Absolutely. I think the crowd, I mean, you don't just come in here and beat Kentucky in Rupp Arena. Does that ever happen? I can't remember a time that's happened. We have lost in Rupp Arena before.

Yeah, that was the old coach. Times have changed. We're lost last year. That was last year. To the old coach. Still, my point remains, we have not lost this year. I would prefer Lowe to be healthy. I'd really feel good, but I'm believing in the cats early. Purdue's got a lot of new players, too. That's the thing if Lowe was healthy because Purdue's best play.

are point guard, that Smith guy. He's a, you know, he's an all-in-one, first team all-hick and scint. He's going to be super fun to watch. He's probably national player of the year favorite. Yeah. And there was a time Purdue thought we were going to steal him in the off-season, so there's a little bit of bad blood there. If he wins national player of the year, who would have ever thought Purdue

would have three of the last four national players the year? Let's go even further. If he wins national player of the year, there'll be more national players of the year from Purdue than Kentucky in history. And name your favorite Purdue NCAA tournament memory. Them losing in the first round. They made the championship game. They did a couple years ago.

Fluke. It's a fluke, total fluke. I don't think, I don't know whether or not we're going to win because I don't know how we're playing the game. Like, are we playing it seriously or not? I mean, you see these scores coming from exhibition games all around the country. Teams are playing them weird. I mean, Houston lost to Ole Miss, but then they didn't play like their top three guys. They just did others.

So the thing is you don't really. know, I don't know how us or them, I don't know how we're going to handle it. So I hope Pope plays it as a real game, but my guess is he's also going to want to play everybody and see. So I actually think, I don't want to say it doesn't matter because it does matter to see how do we look against them, but I actually don't know if the final result matters. You know? With Lobeying out, he'll shuffle a lot more people at point guard just to see who's capable

for the season because this is a new predicament he didn't expect to be in. They'll play to win, but you're right. He'll play a lot of different combinations. You know, Aberdeen may start a point guard, but he'll let Colin Chandler run the point for quite a bit. Just trying to, Jasper will probably run the point for a little bit of the game. And Purdue may do the same thing. Yeah, exactly.

We're assuming Purdue's going to play. I mean, Purdue may be doing the same thing of playing guys. I don't know. Now, the difference is this game is on the SEC network regular, right? Right. So most exhibition games aren't even televised. This game is going to be available. So I do wonder to what extent, Drew, the coaches,

play into that knowing the national the country of basketball fans is watching this game. It's not true of these other games. And even though the winner loss won't matter, some opinions will be formed by the fans one way or another is how it looks and that will matter. And with five minutes left in the game, they're going to try to

win. I just think the first 35 minutes probably shuffling new rotations, lineups just to see what they have. Here's what I know about Mark Pope. Unlike Cal, he knows the fans and he thinks their opinion matters. And we've talked about all the time.

Most important two days at work, your first day and your last day. This is your first day with this team, right? It's going to matter to people how they look. And I think Mark knows that, so he's going to want it to look good. Yeah, and at our fan base, we win the game, we're going to be hang the banner the next day. If we win the game, I'm talking trash all season. Amen. And if we lose the game, then it didn't matter.

If we win, we're citing it on their resume. If we lose, it didn't count. It didn't matter. No, because we would have won. because of something else. If they win, it should play into seating. But if we won, we're the ones. I agree.

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But come Monday is my favorite Jimmy Bubb. I actually think it's kind of beautiful, honestly. There's a video I have saved on TikTok of Jimmy Buffett singing it on David Letterman, just like acoustic, and it's absolutely gorgeous. It's in my top three. It's a great song. What are your top three? A Pirate Looks at 40 is number one by far, and having just turned 40, I play it a little bit more than I usually do.

I hate saying cheeseburger in paradise, but it gets the party going. If you like it, though, you like it. Yeah. He went to Paris. Well, I can have some more information. You know, his Eric Monday's son named Jack Monday is on the football team right now. So if he wants inside information about what's going on, presumably he knows. Jack Monday was a great player at Lexington Catholic.

I didn't realize that was Eric Monday's son. One person writes on the text machine, Matt, you've gotten wrong information. The next president of UK will be Bob Tuesday. I don't know. I think that's so funny. I giggled. That's a good job. I giggled that way.

We don't do the text of the day, but that would be my text of the day. We'll make it the text of the day. All right, that's going to be my text of the day. There's some news. I won't say it's breaking news because it came out a couple hours ago. But Terry Rozier has been arrested by the FBI for illegal gambling related to basketball. And then Chauncey Billups, the coach of the Portland Trails Blazers, arrested by the FBI for gambling related to illegal poker games.

So apparently poker games that are backed by the mafia in New York. So for me, those are two different things. I think the Terry Rozier, if you're betting on basketball and you play basketball, very bad, that's the kind of thing because you have the ability to influence that, and that's very bad. Yes. They got Cavs coach Damon Jones, too, for. on the more of the sports gambling end. Yeah.

So those guys are in trouble. Yes. I mean, they're in trouble. Now, I don't know the details, so there may be more details. I'm not as outraged by the poker. I mean, I was saying to Ryan earlier, I mean, I'm not going to call anybody out, but if illegal poker games are going to get the FBI after you, I know some folks in Lexington that need to be calling their lawyers.

Because there are some high-profile poker games that happen here in this city. I don't know if they're backed by the mafia. Probably not. But that one surprises me a little bit because there's illegal poker games in New York everywhere. There's underground poker in every town. In every town. I used to go to a guy's garage in Madisonville. Now, it wasn't a lot of money, but you can find a game of poker in any town anywhere.

That doesn't really bother me. Does it bother you? I think when this and the FBI is involved, it's probably more of a mafia. laundering money kind of thing or actually running a business. Even rich people... I'm fine with them going after the mafia. Like, okay. But if it's people laundering money through there.

Let's just say Chantzis just playing. I don't think that's a big deal. That's why I think this is probably a bigger operator. Like if some rich guys, somebody goes and loses $100,000, somebody's basements. They don't care. Chonzie's in the mafia? Is that what you're saying? I mean, if he's part of this, I don't know if he's in it. But once the mafia gets a grip on you, you ain't, they're not letting know.

That's true. I mean, now that's a worry, which is you lose money, and then the mafia says, okay, you need to throw this game. So, like, that that could be a big word. I'm just saying that the difference in a bunch of rich dudes in a country club basement in this is probably the scheme is actually doing something bigger than just playing poker. Well, I have to see the indictment, but that would be. I used to go to a guy's house named Blaze.

It's a good time. Just completely threw him under the butt. Wow. Blaze just. I lost all the $10. Mario had a face like, I hope Blaze doesn't know where you are. You should have seen the $10 chips. We were stacking up.

Yeah, so we'll have to wait and see. I will say this. I'm sure Adam Silver took a big gulp of when it came out. Because if it was a coach and it was throwing games. Well, they can control it. That would be a huge thing for the league. Yeah, because they can control who comes in and out of the games. Like, they could really, they could really have an impact, even more than a player.

Oh, you've got the under on LeBron. Well, I'm going to sit him the second half and just not play him. That's easy. Yeah. But Rozier is allegedly tied to point shaving, right? Yes. And you said, like, they've been hit. There's some clips.

There's been some clips over the years of Rozier where he just takes a shot and he goes into the sixth row. And then he, like, very dramatically, he's like, oh, and throws his hands in the air and stomps back like he's so mad. I didn't mean to do that. Throws in the crowd. Obviously, making all these announcements today, the FBI have obviously made a big concerted effort to maybe crack down on sports gambling in the NBA. Well, they need to. I mean, like, that is an issue.

One person writes, Matt, the tickets for the UK Purdue game are expensive because of inflation. Thank Joe Biden. Yeah, it's definitely his fault. Definitely his fault that these tickets for this exhibition game are very expensive. Might as well just blame him for everything for the next decade. I was going to blame Saul Smith for the high ticket prices.

You and Saul Smith. If I got Saul Smith to come on the show, would you be nice to him? I would be a professional. So you would, Shannon, he would just duck everything he said all through these years. Oh, yeah. On the show, I'd be professional. Did you talk about him when he left?

Yeah, why not? He'd be passive-aggressive. Oh, you think he would? I think he would say a word. He would be a complete whip. Who's next? Let's go to Corn Dog Travis. Cornedog Travis.

How are you? I like how I said that like that was a normal way. Go ahead. Good morning, fellas. Good morning. Good morning, fellas. All right, boys. football season ain't over.

I just want to encourage everybody. I think that we're going to do something against Tennessee. Okay, what makes you think so? Why do you think we're going to beat Tennessee, or at least do something? Well, I believe that Stoops is a fighter and he's a loyal man, and he's going to do what he can for Kentucky. He always has, and he always will. I believe that, too.

I'm just not sure if he could do anything that makes us competitive with Tennessee. Oh, look, guys, in relationships, like, I see some. Stoops, this is kind of a marriage. And I see Stoops is, you know, hey, I admit my fault. I've messed up a few times, and I think he's going to try to do better. And so, you know what, forgiveness, so you all know is the best antidote to any kind of negativity. That's true.

But 45% of all marriages in America end up in divorce. That's because they kick them to the curve, just like we're trying to do, boys. I love you all. All right, appreciate the call. Appreciate the call. So do you agree about that? We got a shot Saturday against Tennessee? I'll say they have a shot.

On the, Soupes is a fighter thing. I agree, but sometimes your fighter is late in the fight, and he's just been taking body blows, and he can't open his left eye, and you've got to recognize that it just... Yeah, it might be the end. Yeah, I've been reading this book. I just finished it last night called The Fight by Norman Mailer.

It was about the George Foreman-Mahom-A-Lah Lee Rumble in the Jungle Fight. Yeah. It's a great book. I mean, Norman Maylor is a little full of you. himself but it's a great book and in it he talks about how george foreman style back then was i'm just going to keep coming at you and just you know pummel you i'm just keel and i'm going to keep coming and i'm going to keep coming but then mollie was just better in that fight and so he kept coming he

kept coming and then the eighth round he just got knocked out i mean stoop's is a fighter he might be like george foreman just keep coming and coming but then the rest of the SEC may just be like and then you're I mean, that could be what it is. We said, you know, before the Texas game, there's one game every year where Stoops kind of shows that toughness in that fight. Well, that was the game. They had that game. They kind of let that game get away from them.

That's what worries me about this Saturday, you know, the letdown after losing that game last weekend. I think last Saturday was why I have a lot of respect for Mark Stoops. There was everything. That could have been a disaster. You could have gotten blown out. You could have had the team quit. And they came out and played great.

They also lost in the end, right? It also had, I think that game in some ways was symbolic of the whole thing. We put up a fight, we played well, but in the end, our own mistakes cost ourselves the game, and we ended up frustrated. I mean, I think that's just how it is. Yeah, it wasn't like the end of last year. We could look down there and see it was over. Team had checked out.

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if you're looking like over Main Street, across the street, like a week ago, well, a month ago, they spelled out all yorn with, like, towels. It said all yorn. Who? They're like two people. Just two guys. So they took down the all-yorn, and then they put up a inflatable pool. And these two people are, like, they're out there doing, like, judo or kung fu.

Wrestling holes. Wrestling holes. At one point, they were massaging each other, one was laying down. Yeah. So they do judo. Yes. And it's, you know, it's a little chilly, but they're in the pool. They got this inflatable pool.

Why are you watching them? You can't stop. Well, I mean, you could. I'm not. Roo-top Judo. He had Drew found a way to stop. They are. It's probably a two or three-story building, and they're surrounded by taller buildings.

So, I mean, if you look out the window and look down, you're seeing them. So they're just doing judo and then spelling things with town. Yeah, that started it. But now they got this pool. out there. So you saw it, too, Shamed. There's a picture of it. I've seen the video. I didn't see it live, but I've seen videos. Who's taking videos? Oh, they are doing judo. People in our eye heart building, they're fascinated by it. They're doing judo on the roof. Yeah. And then, like, they give massages and... I don't know what that is, but we'll skip that. It's like a secret rooftop society. Well, that's interesting. Well, good for them. It's definitely become a big attraction downtown. I think we should send Ryan and Mario to go participate. I'm fine with it. All right, so UK is just a now. We have some breaking news.

Okay. They've announced a new program called Blue and White Memories. All right. This is for football, basketball, and men's basketball. Blue and White Memories. You will now be able to purchase. Prices are not listed. So, but you could guess, probably.

I'm going to read you some of the things available to purchase. You all give me a yes or no whether you would want to purchase. purchase these. First, be a part of the pregame catwalk for basketball. That's like, I guess, backstage. Now, you may not know this, but for, like, rich donors, they walk by people in a glass. You may have seen that, like, with the Cowboys or something. They do that now with Kentucky basketball. You could be part of the intros and see the team as they walk into the arena. Yes or no? No. Drew.

I mean, I've had a little kid, but no, not me. Shannon. I get this right. I get to see the team walk into the arena that I'm about to see when I'm in the arena. Exactly. Through glass. No. No.

That's a no for Shannon. A video board message. You can put your message in a spotlight, celebrate a birthday anniversary or graduation with a custom message limited to 50 characters that they will show on the screen during the game. Oh, yeah. I'm all in on that. And also, how closely do they check my message? Check it pretty close. I don't think you can be too, but you're in.

I would buy a message on the reprimand. Right. I'm in. Shannon. No, I would just send a tweet instead. More people would see it. That is true. If you send a tweet, more people would see it because you have more follows.

Deliver the game ball to the officials before the game. One person will hand the game ball to the officials before the game. What an honor. Here you go, Doug Schaus. Are you in or out? No. I'm out. That's it out.

I'm out. No, only if it were free. Only if it were free. I don't think it's... All right, how about this? Starting lineup high fives. You will stand at the end with the reserves, and you will get high fives from the players.

Does that mean I'm going to have to look at regular people be part of our lineup thing? Yes. They're going to be chest bumping at the end. No. I always liked when we did the thing where we were like, and they do the little stuff at the end. Now we're going to have just regular people getting their COVID on them. is going to get injured or something from this, and this will shut the whole thing down.

Yeah, somebody's going to get hurt trying to be cool. I'm in, though. I'm in. You want to do starting line of pop-offs? Why not? Imagine me and Brandon Garrison just chest bumping each other before the Louisville game. All right, fair enough. You're in.

Right. See, this is what I think I'm in, too. I want to be the guy at the end of the line that's got my secret handshakes and my secret chest bumps. This is going to be painful. I'm for it, Shannon, not for me, but for the awkwardness that's going to ensue when people try to be part of the team. Like, you know, the team's going to dance and all that. These people are going to want to be part of it. It's going to be really funny.

Just, Kentucky, just be warned. If you look stupid, I am tweeting it out, and it's going to look funny. But go ahead. Shit. Cool opportunity for the fans. I would have to see the price tag on this. Like, how much is it going to cost to give somebody a high-five? Proposals.

You can now pay to propose to your significant other at the game. They used to ban this for years. You were not allowed to do it. Now you can do it, but you have to pay. Are you in or out? No. Wait a minute. How are they going to stop me from taking a knee of the ring and Roperino?

Exactly. Well, no, I mean, they're going to put it on the main screen, but you're going to have to pay for it. It'll get on the main screen anyway. Well, in KSR and TV broadcast. I am not paying a dollar to propose. That's expensive enough as it is. No, absolutely not. I'm not paying for that.

Like Drew said, they're going to catch you. The cameras will catch you anyway if you do it even up in the nosebleeds. All right, how about this one? Post-game free throws. You and again. to come on the floor after the game and shoot free throws. What if I want to shoot a three? They got to kick me out.

Only three throws. You cannot shoot a three, no bank shots. You have to shoot free throws. Can I do my rapid reaction while shooting the free throw? I just want to be on the court again. That's funny. Were you doing the free throws? Anything to give me back in the building.

All right? No. No. I could see doing this if I was a fan if it was cheap. My guess is it's not going to be cheap. That's going to be the price. If it was cheap. And then finally, VIP postgame radio show, you get to sit next to Tom Leach and Mark Pope on the court during the radio show.

Also, really awkward. I hope you're sitting right in between them. Just Tom Leach, Mark Pope, and you right in the middle of it. I think they should share a mic and you have to hold it in the middle. They just lean into your microphone. Can you imagine what that'll look like? Here you go, Bob. Right in the middle of the two of them.

I would not do it, but I want this one to happen. I want that awkward moment to happen. You like it? I mean, you can just sit there anyway, like behind the rope, two feet away as it is now. No, now you get to be on the court. That's too close. It's too close.

I don't need to be that close. I feel like I win this experience every morning at 9 o'clock, or 8 o'clock when I get the produced. When you get to be on the time lead show, you don't need to pay for this. Exactly. So now I'm not paying. I will say this is, but when you said, I'm going to introduce the BBN memories.

I pictured like the infomercials where you're buying coins for like $9.99. Your precious BBN memories. So this is at least better than what I thought you were going to say. You're buying a coin with Mark Fox's picture on it. I do like the idea they're trying to do something for the fans. I think they need to do this at Kroger Field for the Rupp Arena. I'm for all this in theory. Here's what I don't like.

And you're going to hear me say this probably for the next decade. I get it. I'm not trying to like. and I'm giving them a break because they did this thing a week and a half ago. But the commodification of everything that means to be a UK fan annoys me. If everything that means to be a UK fan now costs money, that becomes very frustrating to me. I get it. I understand why they're doing it.

I'm not saying it's not cool for those people. But the idea that everything you would want to do, you now have to be rich to do, that frustrates me. Now, I give them credit because they did. something last week that kind of offset that. Hopefully that will continue. But I don't want it to be like, hey, we'll let you. Like, I kind of am annoyed about the intros. Like, I don't really know that we need fans out there doing the high five line.

And I certainly don't know if we need rich fans out there doing the high five. Kids, but like, if you're going to let two rich people send their kids, then let's take two kids from a random drawing of poor. kids just to make it like that would make me feel better what if it's not kids what if it's like blue glasses guy out there that sits behind the phone yeah i mean i just don't want to own isaac daping up and i love people that go to this school but i don't want to just only see the kids from the lexington school out there you know give me some kids from other schools too and i'm okay i have a question i like the kids from the lexington school i have my five but i'm another podcast from some s nl late

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