KSR - 2025-10-30- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

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It is Kentucky Sports Radio Thursday, October the 30th day of the second UK exhibition game on a rainy morning in Lexington, Kentucky. We are at KS Bar Grill. We'd love to have you come see us. You can give a shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line, 8-59-280-28027. A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-745-254, and this edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. If you call T.J. L. Make-May, U.K. and Georgetown, tip off tonight, 7 o'clock. Our pregame show will start at 4.30. From here at the bar, Cats and Hoyas ready to go. Second exhibition game. I'm getting pretty excited about it. How about you?

You ready for a little rematch of 84? I know we're going to get to it, but after what we did yesterday, I am so excited about this upcoming season coming up, especially tonight. Me too, and I'm just ready to get to Rupperin again. I know it's not the number one team, but if the crowd is anything like it was last Friday, it's going to be a real game in there. Well, I hope it's a good crowd. I think it's kind of nasty outside, and it's going to be nasty. You know, we broke the record for most rain in October.

Here's an interesting stat. All right. It's Matt's weather stats. Okay. We broke the record for most rain in October in history, but it's a rain six days. Wow. So isn't that interesting?

So the quantity of rain in those six days, though, was something else. Yeah, that one day we got like six feet of rain. I don't think of six feet, but it was a good amount of rain. A good amount of rain ended up in my basement, so I knew we had a lot of rain. Did you call serve pro? They called me. Remember, they actually reached out to me. How nice is that?

How good customer relation is that? That's good. Well, so we are excited after a... Yesterday was out, I think I can speak for the group, effectively, a very cool, cool day for everybody. And we're going to talk about, probably spend a decent part of the first part of the show here talking about what happened, both the experience and then getting to actually watch the basketball team in a practice form. Because I think for all of us, that's the first time we got to do it in sort of a real practice,

you know, not kind of the fake pro day practice. First time for a pope practice for me, for sure. Yeah. So for people who don't know, they basically opened it. up for UK media members and their families. I'm going to do a Mia Culpah. I may have screwed up it just a little bit. I didn't know that it was that I wasn't supposed to say until after the event.

So I said it on Tuesday, and I think I'm, well, I don't think I did mess that up. So I think maybe some people then contact it. So there might have been more people there than were originally intended. And that's my fault. And I need to apologize. I need to Drew read the emails a little more. I did see a lot of new faces that aren't normally covering the team. It was a thank you for covering the team event and saw a lot of new people.

I apologize about that. And I was made very clear. That was not intentional. I was just excited, you know, and I didn't read the email. So that's something you would do, Ryan, that I did, I guess, on Tuesday. Now it makes sense why there wasn't enough chairs for the press conference. It was my fault. But more people got to have a good experience.

Very true. A lot of people did. So they opened it up and it was just like, I don't know what's the best way to say. It was just wholesome, Ryan, in such a sweet way. So people could bring their kids or they could bring one family member. And a lot of people brought their kids. The kids were so cute. Very cute.

Kids just everywhere. So Pope does the press conference and he says, media members, you cannot ask a question. only the family members can ask a question, which means you got like little kid questions, but you also got wives questions. I think a couple cases maybe got dad's questions. I encouraged my mom to ask a question, but she wouldn't do it.

I thought that would be good. I joked with Larry before we got in there. I was like, Larry, you should, I said, Larry, when we get there, you should just go, who is this? Like the person taught Mark Pope, and he laughed. What I didn't realize is that he would actually do that. And, you know, he's got, his volume sometimes can be,

because he's hearing, he's 88 years old. So Mark Pope's talking, and all of a sudden right in the middle of it, he just reaches over and goes, who is that? And it was loud. Did you hear it? I didn't hear it. It was loud. So my mom and I start laughing, and he's laughing because he's made every, like he's made

us laugh. But we do all that. And then I just, I really just want to thank UK and Pope for making that happen. Sitting over there with my parents, they'd never been to anything like that, right? I'm not sure they'd ever been on the floor of Rupp. I kind of don't think they would have. They were just so happy throughout the whole thing. I mean, you know, they're sitting there.

Jack Givens comes and sits with them. That's like my mom's favorite player of all time. You know, my parents are so pro Trent Noah because he's from Harlem. Yeah. That it's out of control. Like, Trent Noah is the only player that Larry knows. So the drills would go on. He would commentate to me, but only what Trent Noah was doing.

so he'd be like he hasn't missed a three yet look at that pass he hasn't missed a shot yet like that was constant and then my mom she would cheer for trent noah like it was a game but she didn't cheer for the other players so he would make a shot and she would go yeah and i was like mom this is a practice we cannot we cannot scream and then we can't scream only for trent noah you would have thought it was me out there playing the way they were with trit noah But it went on through the whole thing and then when it was over, this is what people need to understand about Mark Pope. When the practice was over, the players and the coaches not only came over, they came over and stayed, Ryan, for a long time. Oh, yes, they did.

Like the players interacted with all the children. Trent Noah and Malachi Moreno, I asked them to take pictures with my family. They could not have been nicer. Those two kids, you talk about two kids that get Kentucky. I'm sure Jasper's the same way. I just didn't get to talk to him. And I watched those players. I've seen, look, in other eras we've had players go up in the crowd.

And sometimes there'd be individual players that were nice. And then sometimes players wanted to go. Every single one of them. Not just went in the crowd, stayed in it, interacted with people, thank them. They did. I mean, they thank them for covering the team. That's not many people that will do that in this business. And then just on a personal level, like it meant a lot to me.

You know, as we were walking through the back, my mom, there's this thing that's outside the UK locker room. And it looks like a movie, you know, when they have a movie and it'll say, play next, blah, blah, blah, and it'll be the next game. And then they have a picture of a famous UK player doing the Y. And they change it every game. They actually changed it. It was John Wall when we got there, and it was Tony Delk when we left. But my mom is seeing the quotes and seeing the pictures and seeing the locker room, and, like, she starts crying.

And she said, I so wish my dad, that meant her father, so my grandfather could be here. And she's right. Like, he's the one that got me into the game, into UK basketball. I mean, the thought that I watched these games as a kid, And now I get to do this. And I get to be back there from Middlesboro, Kentucky. It's crazy. And it made my mom emotional to be back there.

And then to go and do it, to watch a real practice, to have the coach come up after, ask my mom about her, the stuff she's doing with the doctoral, with being the doctor of religion and Wheaton College and all this. And him be interested. He was legit. He was interested. You know, Larry looks at him and says, you know, my brother was the chaplain under Joe B. Hall, and then, like, he just goes with that and talks to him.

It was just a great night, and it's something I'll always remember, and I really, really thank them. It was a special event that Kentucky has never done anything like that ever before and letting us invite our families. And it was so cool for me, I took a moment and kind of watch you. There you are. You're sitting there with your mom and dad. Alan Cutler sitting there with his grandson. I looked to my right. Jack Pilgrims there with his three-month-old.

It was just a three-month-old Delary who was 88, and everybody was like, you could tell. It was like Christmas Day almost. Everybody was so excited to be there. I loved watching your parents fanboy over Trent Noah. That was really kind of cool. My parents, I've never, you know, my parents are not really sports people. Like, I grew up a sports person, but it was really all from my grandfather. Like, my parents were not really sports people.

But they were sports people yesterday. They were. You know? And they were into it. it and then you with your son. That's what I'm going to say. Like you got to sit there with your son and your son was into it. He was around your son a lot when he's not into things.

He was into it. That was very cool. You know, I don't get to see much anymore since he's going off to college. But then he never leaned over. He goes, man, it's kind of weird. I've played against Jasper, Malachi, Trent, and Reese Potter. And there they are. They're out there.

And you talked about that with Pope. Talked about that. Yeah. And he did that. That conversation, you all may have seen. Mario posted a video of my and my mom's. interaction with Pope. But here's what you should know, because people have said really, really nice stuff about

that. Everybody had that interaction. Pope did that with everybody. He did that with lots of different people, and they all got to have that moment. And the one thing I wish is I wish there, I wish there's a way that over time other groups of Kentucky fans get to do something like that. Like other groups of Kentucky fans get to have that experience because, you know, it's what it's what makes this place like really great.

It's days like yesterday, and Pope said that in the back. He basically said what makes Kentucky basketball, I thought this was really articulate by him. What makes Kentucky basketball different from everything else, all right, even from your Dukes, your Kansas, what makes it different is there is a connection to the people of the state that is stronger here. And somebody asked, you know, how do you get your players to realize that?

And he goes, it's the most important thing. He's like, you come here, you can get this experience at these other schools, except that part. That's the part you can't get at other schools. And so I have to make sure they appreciate what they're getting. And Drew, I just thought that was really, that's really smart by him and true. Absolutely. And I thought yesterday going into it was going to be awesome. I thought it was a great idea from the moment the email popped up.

but I didn't realize just how much it was going to affect people. I was excited as anyone to see a practice. I can't even remember the last time I got to go just watch a practice. But I had just as much fun watching other people's family. I didn't even know a lot of them. Like I sat by Cutler and his family, had some other kids around me. There was a moment where Lee K. Howard's daughter hit a shot where the team didn't have to run. She could barely pick up the ball and she hit a shot from the SEC.

At the end of practice every day, apparently what they do is they pick a player and they have to hit a free throw. And if they don't hit it, the team runs. And so it's to put them in the moment of difficult shot with a lot on the line. Because the team is like, you better make it. In this case, they brought a little girl out there to do it. And then she made it. She did it. And she made it.

And the place went absolutely nuts. And that was awesome. But the star, by the way, of the entire event was Laird. Yeah, no doubt. I mean, everybody was coming up to him. It almost made me cry. He showed up in his little KSR. He did.

So I called him Larry the intern all day. I made him clean up after. Like he's low man on the totem pole, right? He hasn't worked there very long. But he... I loved his hat. The first thing I noticed when I walked into the Larry's hat. It was so cute to see them fanboy over Trent Noah.

I can't believe. They love Trent Noah more than me. I can just say, like Trent Noah, and they're not the only ones. Like, everybody from the mountains has that Trent Noah thing. I wasn't really here when Richie Farmer was here. I was a Richie Farmer stand as a kid. But I don't know.

I didn't even go to a game. I saw him in the SEC tournament. That's the only time I ever saw him. So I don't know what it was like with Richie Farmer. And I'm sure in some ways it was like this was Rex Chapman. But I've never seen anything like it is with Trent Noah. As great as much as people loved Reed Shepherd, it's different with Trent Noah. It is a little different.

Especially for the people from the mountains, they all act like Trent Noah is their son. My mom included. How did that happen? There's a Trent Noah jersey in the family. There was a Noah jersey in the media. There were people wearing Trent Noah. The mountains connection to Trent Noah is something, Ryan, I've not seen in my lifetime. Is it just because he's from horrible.

I think it's because I think that's part of it. He's from, like, the most mountain place is Harlem. Yeah. And then I think because he looks like a baby a little bit, like he's got the red cheeks and all that. He got overlooked and then gets the state championship and earns the scholarship from Pope. Takes Harlan County to the state championship.

Yeah, I think that's part of it. Yeah, I do think that's part of it. I want to go back to the press conferences for a minute. We did get a couple really good questions. the one little girl asked him about his hair, you know. The little girl said, you're not bald. Why do you shave your head? I like that question.

Then I think it was a mom or a girlfriend asked about what he's going to wear for Halloween tomorrow night. He said he didn't know his house. That was Jack's wife. By the way, I don't like when coaches do that. You know it's Halloween. And you can come up with an answer. You've seen the decorations up. I mean, I know you're focused, but you know it's Halloween.

Just lie and say you're going to be a ghost. Or say you're not going to dress up, but like, you know it's Halloween. But anyway, it was a great day. It was fun having you all there, Mario documenting all of it. It was very cool. And it was good to kind of, you know, people got to see you in a different light. You were there as a son. You weren't there as Matt Jones, KSR.

You were there as a Matt Jones. Oh, yeah. Like, I don't do that. I'm Matt Jones. I'm KSR. You were there as Matt Jones, the sun yesterday. Kind of get to see you in a different light for people. We get to see that sometimes.

A lot of people don't get to see you in that light. You were so happy to introduce your parents to Mark Pope. You were so happy to introduce him to Trent Noah. You could just see it. I was. You're right about that. But I'm normally very chill. I'm Matt Jones.

That's your impersonation to me. Thank you very much. 859-280-2287. Now, I want to talk about the basketball. Actually, because I thought it was very interesting to watch the practice. And some of the things they were doing and saying. I was kind of surprised they did some of that in front of us. or we're allowed to talk about it, so we will when we return.

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available on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. I just retweeted the picture of the little girl making the free thought. That was kind of cool. And then they also broke down the huddle at the end of practice and let the little girl do the thing. Yeah, they do. I wish we could have heard what they were saying. Like Pope went to every player in the huddle to say something, but then Cutler's grandson and Lee K's daughter, let them say something also to the group. Yeah.

I love that. All right, so let me say, as I talk about some of what we're going to talk about with the practice, I want to say, none of this is to say a criticism of the past regime. I just want to compare to you because the difference in the kind of practice I went to yesterday and the kind of practice we would go. go to with Cal. I'm not saying one or the other is better. I just want to sort of explain the difference because I've now been to both, and so I think it's important to see the first. Here's the number one thing that I took away more than any, well, really two things I took away from the practice. Number one, they are studying and constant teaching, Ryan, every single thing that's done. Literally, every single thing. They are recreating situations.

in games. They are stopping after every play. Each coach will go up to a different person and kind of tell them what they did and didn't do right. It is constant coaching and it is very situational and play oational. Meaning like, if you went to a cow practice, there was a lot of just going up and down the court, putting players in situations where they're like, all right, you're going to make these decisions just keep making them and eventually you'll get it right they're making a decision and then coming out and analyzing it and in the moment coaching did you notice what i'm talking about a lot of coaching a lot of teaching defense they were working and coaching on defense they'd work on the press they'd work against the press they work on out-of-bounds plays i mean they were just constant

teaching and they would do things like when we make a basket and they imbound it he would say to the point guard i heard him say you're going to give one jab step to the point guard to the point guard, and if you don't get the ball, get back. His point was, you got to either steal the inbound or get back. Do not steal, then try again, or you'll get beat down the court. Little thing, probably something everybody that play big time basketball knows, something I'd actually never hurt. You could might watch this in the game.

He said, I want whoever's guard in the point guard to the moment it comes in, make a quick movement. If you don't get it, run back down the fore. We'll see. I'll probably will see that a lot. Little things like that, he happened throughout. Then you mentioned the defense. They spent a lot of time on defense.

I'm sure they've spent a lot of time on offense, but they probably spent 50% of the practice drew on defense. And he had a group that was Colin Chandler, Oway, Noah, which surprised me a little bit for this, Diabate and Garrison. Yeah, right. And they played, I won't say most of the practice, but they were the majority of the court. Wouldn't you agree?

They were the blue team. Lowe and Aberdeen were out. Right. So they didn't practice. So I think Aberdeen's probably in that group if he's not hurt. Well, I don't be sorry. He just didn't practice much. He would stop that group and go, you all can be the best group of five defenders in the country.

He was like, this group of five, you all can be the best five. And later, one of the staff told me it's because that's the one group they can put on the floor where everyone could switch and guard every man. They could switch on everything with that group, which is, again, Oway, Noah, Chandler, Garrison, and Diabate. He said, you all should be the top five group of defenders in the country. I just thought that was interesting. Who would have thought Trent Noah would be in that group, you know?

Looking at Trent Noah last year, I would have thought Pope's just being Pope, kind of doing the Patino Hyperbole a little bit. But this new Trent Noah, you can see how, Pope could consider that. I still don't know that he's going to be a lockdown guy, but as we've said from Pro Day and everybody's seen him at Madness and Blue White, he looks completely different. And he does not stop moving. I don't even think it's locked down. They literally switch every screen when you do that. They don't ever get picked because they're just switching everything.

And, you know, I remember Bobby Knight many, many years ago, I heard Bobby Knight say the perfect defense would be one where you could switch every pick. He was like, if you could have a team where you could do that, you could beat everybody. And I think that's his, it's his theory with that group. They're all versal enough to guard all five positions. And the only time Pope got mad, the whole practice is when Diabate didn't switch. That's the only time I've ever, I was thinking this is the only time I've ever heard him raise his voice. I thought he made him.

He yelled. I've never heard him yell. Diabate got the first yell I've ever heard from Mark Pope. I mean, he was vicious. He laid into him on that. I remember I wrote down what he said. He said, you're joking around. I've told you four times.

but it was extremely loud and aggressive in his face. Now, just so you know, go back to Cal, there was one of those moments 15 times of practice. But it probably works more in some ways with Pope because since you never hear it, when you do hear it, you got to be like, oh. Everyone around me kind of had a jump. We all startled a moment. We looked at each other like, did Mark Pope just snap? It was also we saw for me the first, okay, this is what Cam Williams can be practice.

Because Cam Williams was deadly in that first half of the practice. He was maybe my biggest takeaway out of all the players. Josiah talked about on the way home. Who was your one big takeaway? We both said Cam Williams. That's the first time I've seen him like, okay, that's what they're talking about. That's why NBA guys like him. That's why the NBA guys want him.

Okay, now I see. That was the first time. I mean, you saw him. He was talking trash, the whole practice. I was so glad to see that because I've been really skeptical a little bit of him. That was the practice where I saw, okay, now I get it. I kept up with the play-by-play. I wrote a full game recap on the site, and he's a big part.

part of it. He had the steel and slam, then immediately almost another steel and slam, but they blew a whistle as he was on the fast break. And then late in the game, hit a deep three that really mattered as they were getting intense. Yeah, yeah, really cool stuff. So if you have questions, 859-280-20-287, I have a couple more things we'll talk about that. And then we also got to talk about what's going on in LSU. You think things are bad here? Just be glad we're not at LSU right now. That's, well, maybe it'd be fun, but be glad you're not. We'll be right back. Yeah, I don't like that commercial. Sky Rizzi? What is Sky Rizzi?

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They were getting after it. That was my big takeaway. That and Cam Williams. By the way, shout out to the scout team. Yeah. The blue and white team trade off. Scout team goes the whole practice. That group of five dudes, there's like, it's Walker Horn,

three guys who look like they may have played the last couple years and then the 45-year-old band. Like, they go. He's a bucket. He almost dunked on Brandon Garrison again. Yeah. He barely, he almost got him again. I'll put our grad assistance against anybody in the country.

Dude, our grad assistants can play. One of those guys played at Trancy, right? Jalen Green. There's a new one that was a Liberty last year that looked like Steph Curry for a few minutes yesterday. He was good. Larry at one point was like five on the green team is really good. I'm like, well, he's not on the team. He played at Trancy last year.

But those dudes are good. And they go the whole practice. Like the blue and white team come in and out. They go the whole time. That's sticking with your changes from how it used to be. It used to be a table in the middle, cow with a whistle, maybe Robic, maybe Kenny, and they were leading practice, which was fine. Now Pope's got 50 dudes that are doing something.

All of them are doing something. And they're everywhere. Everyone has an assignment. At one point, Cody Feger is leading, and everybody else shuts up. Another point, another assistant's leading. Mark Fox did it for a little bit. Guys that I've never even seen in my life, haven't. iPad out there giving instruction.

And let me say, some of you all that really didn't like the way who'd go, well, Cal didn't draw up offense, you would be in heaven. Because they call time out, and he pulls up the little clipboard, and he's drawing plays for practice. The scrimmage went to overtime. The scrimmage went to overtime, so he was drawing plays for practice. And Collins, they were right in front of us, and Colin Chan was like, well, no, what if we backcut?

Like, they were. I was just thinking, this is so the opposite. of the last time. And I'll note, the blue team, which are your starters, needed a bucket with 20 seconds left. They called time out and drew up a perfect play where Noah pumped faked and hit Garrison for an open dunk. I mean, that looked like just a perfect smooth.

Like you said, to be October in an early practice, they're out there running sets. And also just simply practicing in Rupp Arena. They were pumping in crowd noise. Well, let's mention that. UK did not practice in Rupp Arena under Cal, which is kind of crazy if you think about it. They've now set up where they're going to practice two days before most games this year.

Not all of them because they don't always have the arena, but most days, and they pumped in crowd. It got loud when they pumped in that crowd noise. They had to go to the free throw line and they turned up the volume, Diabate and Jasper Johnson both made one-and-ones to get their team in it with the noise pumping. One person writes, Matt, I love the video of you with your mom because you look like a proud dad talking about his kids. when you were talking about your mom. My wife said, I hope our son looks at me the way Matt looks at his mom. Now, that's very sweet. And that's what I was trying to say,

that we got to see you as a proud son. And you were introducing your mom and dad to a new world, your world that you live in, that they don't get to be a part of most of the time. So it was kind of cool. It was. All right, one more thing before we go to the phones. What about what's happening at LSU?

That's a train wreck. Honestly, it looks like, oh, brother, where art that? Like, I thought we kind of were past, I thought we were past this time in American history. So, Brian Kelly gets fired. I think most people's presumption is, okay, the AD's going to hire. Next thing you know, the governor gets up there. Not sure who asked him, but he gets up there. First of all, how come nobody told me the Virginia, or the Louisiana governor sounded like that?

Did you hear him? Yeah. He sounds like Foghorn, leghorn. He does. I mean, I'll say, I'm like, like. But isn't that kind of what you want from your Louisiana? Yes, if you're going to have a governor, it sounds like that. He needs to be from Louisiana.

I just didn't know that. I got to be honest with you. I didn't know there were still people like that. Like, I thought that was all relics of movies about the 1930s. You know, I've been around people with Bayou accents, but they usually don't end up the governor. So I don't know how somebody didn't tell me he sounded like that. He gets up there and he's just going off about college sports.

He sounds like some of our callers sometimes. He does. Right? He's like, college sports are out of a girl. and then they say, are you going to let the, like, when is the AD going to make the hire? He just goes, Brian Woodwood has, he's going to have no role in this. We're keeping him away from it. And I'm like, whoa, he is the athletic director.

Why do you have an athletic director if he doesn't get to be part of the hire, Drew? So governor's in charge there. Something with the board. Can you imagine Andy Beshear standing up and going Mitch Barnhart will, not be making this higher. Can you, I mean, can you even picture that? No, not at all. I can't be doing that.

What would he even say? Yeah, Mitch can't be doing that. I mean, he's up there. Well, I say, I'll say, we're not going to have the wood one out there. And then, so then they say, well, who's going to do it? And he says, the board of supervisors, which is basically like our board of trustees, they're going to do it. Okay, well, that's weird because, like, how many of you even know who the chairman of the board of trustees is at Kentucky?

Does anyone know? No. Does anyone in here know? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know who the chairman. I do not know who it is. Okay, so imagine that was the person picking our next football coach.

That's basically what they said. So they went to that guy. Yeah. They're like, hey, so we're here, you're picking the new football coach. And he goes, oh, I didn't know that. The look on his face. He didn't even know. Didn't know.

That was not an act. He found out for the first time in front of the media that he was going to be the dude picking the coach. Yeah, they said you're heading up the committee, you know. What did you look for? Like, uh, first I've heard of this. I guess we're going to go get a good coach. I was about to go on to Jamaica. I mean, what a show down there, right?

Obviously, people debate which is the biggest job in the country. For me, it's not a question. This is the biggest job in the country that's open right now. and they do not seem to be on the same page whatsoever since moving on from Kelly. I mean, if you were Elaine Kiffin and you got like a pretty good situation at Ole Miss and you're out there seeing the governor go, I say, I say a pap a old annual flower hour. Like, I mean, would there be a part of you that say maybe I just stay at Ole Miss, right? Oh, you don't want to go work for the guy who didn't know he was in charge of hiring?

Is you or is you not my constituency? I would think you might move away. You definitely have found your next voice for the UK Federal Credit Committee commercial. I couldn't believe that guy. I couldn't. Let the governor do the governor things. Let the AD do the AD things. I mean, I listen, I like Andy Bashir.

But do I think Andy Bashir should hire the next, like football coach? No. Not at all. That's not why you elect him. He's got other things going on. And the board, I mean, we don't know who the board is. Like, I mean, Mitch Barnhart, for better or worse, there's the accountability of having a job and people know who it is. And if it doesn't work, people know who's at fault.

I just, I could not believe watching that scene yesterday. And you know, by the way, other governors are going to do this. Oh, yeah. Like, when's Ron DeSantis going to have his? Because, I mean, Florida jobs open. Florida State job might be open too. He might get two of them. Got a chance to get my name out.

there gets people to support me if I picked the right coach it was crazy would it make you less likely to want to go there if i was lane kiffin or another coach yeah if you're not not like a coach that that job would be the highlight of their career but if you were lane kiffin would you be like yeah i don't know i don't know if i want to tiptoe into that train wreck that's going on down there where governor's trying to do the ad your your boss's job i mean it might be good news for us because if you're john sumroll who right now is the betting favorite for that job there's a world in which he would say, well, it's a better job than Kentucky,

but Andy Bashir's not going to be calling me up like that, you know? And you could have a head start on getting some while LSU doesn't even know who's supposed to call him. While they're tripping over their own feet, you have a little bit of an advantage if you want to give him a call. I love that video. The supervisor guy, when they ask him, because you can tell the look at his face, he's like, what are you talking about?

This is my prediction. I think that dude, I think that governor just got worked up. You know what I mean when he was talking? And I don't know if he thought the whole thing through. Like, I can't imagine that he went on stage saying, I'm going to say the AD has no role in this. Because then why don't you just fire the athletic director? Like, why is he the athletic director if you're not going to let him hire the coach?

That's good point. Why not just hire the dude who doesn't know what's going on as the athletic director? If he's going to be the one hiring the coach, The governor's trust in his board. And the board hasn't yet learned that that's part of the responsibilities. Here we go. This is how wild it is. First take, next segment, Louisiana governor to hire the FLSU football coach.

That's how you know it's crazy the fact that they're going into it. 859-280-2287. We're going to take a break. Be right back. KSR. Last night, a blown call changed the game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending.

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There's one Former Mayor of Lexington Janie Greer Lance Lucas Elizabeth McCoy Hannah Minor Myers Oh shout out Madisonville You know her?

Yeah Wow look at you We're too Paula Leach Pope See Frank Shoup Does he have a car deal ship? He does have a car. Isn't there a Frank Shoup cars?

Uh-huh. All right. And then that's a staff member, faculty member, and Bob Vance. I think he went to trancy. All right, so those are your, those are your UK Board of Trustees. Those would be the people that would be hiring your football coach in the world like LSU. Let's go win the SEC. You think that'd be ready for it?

I think that's a good committee. Before we go, the phones, big game this weekend, Ryan. Middlesboro versus Sayer. Sayer High School is coming from the big city of Lexington. They're little private, you know, uniforms and all that. They're going all the way to Middlesboro deep into the mountains. It's going to be quite a culture shock for our folks at Sayer. The sort of, you know, down here in a rich part of town, got to come all the way to Middlesbrough.

Sayers 8 and 1, Middlesbrills 8-0, final game of the regular season. What airport do you even have that can handle their jet? Where are they even going to park? Their private jet. I don't know where they're going to land. This could be the Class A state championship. These are two Class A powerhouse teams meeting down on the fields of Middlesbril. If you said Middlesbrills 8-0, it must have been a hell of a recruiting year through the tunnel to get those recruits for Tennessee.

Why do you always think we recruit? Well, because you do. We do not recruit. Harrogate, Tennessee has been good to Middlesbril. Harrogate has like 3,000 people. Why do you act like there's so many people in Haring? They produce, I guess, a lot of good football talent. Okay, so I was thinking about this when I saw they were playing.

Is there a bigger culture difference between two teams that could play each other than Sayre and Middlesbril. Well, when was it Martin County went to Louisville to play? Yeah, but the thing about Martin, it wasn't Martin, it was Jackson County. Jackson County, and Iroquois, is at least there is a cultural difference between, between West End of Louisville and Eastern Kentucky. But they both are kind of economically similarly situated. I mean, Sayre is like, you know, champagne and caviar. What's Middlesboro?

Middlesbrough is... Chicken livers and beer? We do not... Our kids do not eat chicken livers and beer in Middlesbrough. I was going to say loaded potato casserole. But... That all sounds good. So from that perspective, I mean, I would say Sayer is one of, if not the richest schools in the state.

Oh, there is no doubt. And Middlesbrough is probably one of the poorest schools in the state. And they're both super football programs right now. So that's, it's kind of, that's a real-blood football coach down there in Middlesbrough. And then you got Chad Pennington. Yeah, that's another thing. Chad Pennington is the coach former Marshall and New York Jets quarterback. That's the Sayer coach.

So anyway, I think, Middlesboro at Bradner Stadium. There'll be a big, it'll be a big event this Friday. Who's next? Adam is up. Adam, go ahead, Adam. Hey, what's up, Matt? I really appreciate you sharing your story about your parents getting to go to the basketball

event, meet Mark Pope. I kind of grew up in something similar that I was going to Kentucky football games, very young, like four or five. and just went with my grandparents and it just grew in me that I love Kentucky football so much because of that experience that I had with them. So I appreciate you sharing that story. Yeah, well, I thank you. And, you know, I appreciate the call.

For me, you know, when I, growing up at the mountains, the reason I love the state is through the basketball program, which was through my grandfather. And just the, you know, I mean, I had, I didn't go to Rupp Arena. I don't know that I ever went until college. I got to go see them a couple times in Thompson Bowling Arena. We would go watch Kentucky, and I think we lost every single time we went. And then my grandfather and his friends would go to the SEC tournament, which became a tradition that I then continued with my friends 35 years later.

But, yeah, there's something about being in Rupp Arena, Drew, that's kind of like that. And, you know, you were like, you were there with your life and a similar. That and I have the same connection with my grandparents. Their living room had a frame picture of Scott Padgett in 98. The Jack Given Sports Illustrated cover. It wasn't like family photos. My grandparents' living room was like a man cave growing up. So I also think about them often when I'm doing stuff like, why am I here in the locker room right now?

Yeah. Yeah, I completely agree. Who's next? David is up next. David. Go ahead, David. Hey, Matt. What's going on, David?

Good. I'm excited for the game tonight, and I just realized something last week. What's that? This is the first time. I think this is the first time Georgetown's been to Rupp since they lost to Villanova in 1985. Yeah, well, we talked about that yesterday, David. Not only is Georgetown not played Kentucky since 84, of course, this was their moment where they lost to Villanova here in Rupp Arena, too, in 85. I guess that's the last time they've been to the national championship as well.

So a lot of memories for both schools. Yeah, I guess that's what. Them losing the rep was Carla for beating us in 84 is how I see it. Well, it was, did you go to the Georgetown Villanova game, did you? No, I remember watching it on TV, though. Who was it at St. John's three teams in the Big East. Who was the fourth team? I know the answer.

Do you want to guess? Do you want to know who the fourth team in the Lexington, Final four was. Georgetown, Villanova, St. John's, and? Anybody here, no? I know. I don't say it, David. I know.

I'll let you, guy. If nobody hears, no, wait a minute, did you look it up, David? No, I just remember. I just remember it. Okay, what is it? Memphis. I was going to say that. Memphis, that's right.

Except back then it was Memphis State. Yeah. Keith Lee. Yeah, good call. Well, done. Well, David, I hope you enjoy the game tonight. No big boo. All right.

859-280-2-807. This game's big for both fan bases. They haven't been back to Rupp since one of their worst moments, and we haven't seen Georgetown since 84 when they knocked us out. So both teams have some revenge to get. You feel good about us winning tonight? I do. I'm not sure about Aberdeen because he didn't practice,

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