KSR - 2025-10-31- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: October 31, 2025

Matt, Drew, Ryan and Shannon breakdown the UK Basketball loss to Georgetown last night live from Whiskey Thief in Franklin County.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You call T.J. I'll make them pay. It is a packed house, and there's a lot of stuff going on. Kentucky played a poor basketball game last night. They have a worrisome football game tomorrow, and it's also Halloween, and we have folks dressed up, including the people up here. We'll start with the guy next to me, Ryan Lemon. I'm dressed as Ellie Dayla Cruz, but I need help, Shannon. I need a cutrements.

I woke up this morning and realized I need gold chains. You need that? So if anybody has gold chains or eye black, I would like to borrow it. I was not able to get it last night. Maybe a baseball glove, maybe a bat, maybe just a baseball. But I have a hat in a jersey. That's a good start. But I would love the gold chains and the eye black.

I think I could do it. The accessories matter. The accessories matter. And someone was supposed to bring them to me and then they texted me this morning and said, I can't get up and do it. That's okay. All right. Now, you are a referee.

I am. If anybody gets out of hand here, I know a lot of people are probably going to be drinking here at Whiskey Thief. If anybody needs to be thrown out of here, I can do it. I'm the guy. Drew is a draft king. I'm the draft king. Yes, the crown is yours.

But the winner of the contest is look at Mike Ditka here. Everybody give him a round of applause, Ryland. That is a top level costume. You literally have not gone out of character. You've got the mustache. I would argue the slick back hair look is a good one for you. It's Coach Ditka to you, Ellie. Don't forget that.

This is Bill Meck's sweater. Bill Meck, I've seen him go. Oh, you're borrowing Bill Mex's Halloween costume. I have borrowing Bill Meck's, Mike Ditka's sweater. So shout out to chief meteorologist Bill Mac. Well, you look great. Feel great. Feel great, Ellie.

So Ryan was just hanging out during the pre-show back here, and I legitimately did not know that that was actually Ryan. Did he turned around and I saw his ball around? Did anybody here wonder if it was him? Yeah, Shannon was the only one. Well, Billy who didn't know either. He was like, is that Ryan? And then he turned around, we saw the back of his head.

Okay, yeah, that's Ryan. So while I do think Ryan wins the people on the show costume contest, I got to give the winner of everybody here to these two women dressed as nerds gumming. clusters over here. Pandering right there. That is pandering to you, Matt. They know your favorite candy. Maybe it is pandering, but like our current president, I can be bought. And so I'm glad to, I'm glad to do it because those are excellent costumes, Drew. You've got to give those ladies. Leave aside just the nerd connection. That's just a great creative costume. It really is.

They've got the little clusters in their hair. They got the actual logo. That's not a question. They're the winner today. Can I ask you a question? Yes. Is Mario Brony? Mario is brawny. He is dressed as Brody James. That's why he's sitting down on the bench right now. It's because he is. What's you got? That's a great one.

That's a good one. That's a great singer. But I like it. He's dressed as Brody. Tonight, by the way, if you are in Lexington, Mario and I are doing a rare, I'm doing a rare getting out in public tonight. Mario and I are going to be looking for the top 10 costumes in Lexington tonight.

We're going to do Man on the Street interviews and find the top 10 costumes in Lexington tonight. I'm open for suggestions as to where besides like bars? Where are people tonight? Like where are the Halloween things? Because Mario and I are going to be out on the street tonight. Well, I'm sure there's going to be plenty of neighborhoods. You could just wander around. Well, I'm not going to wander around people's neighborhoods.

Well, you could go to retreating, you know, and find some adults. Yeah, maybe that's what we'll do. Maybe we'll look, but it would be weird, though, for us just to roam around people's neighborhoods. But nevertheless, if there's ever a night to do it, I'd say this is the one you can get away with it. Yeah, so Mario and I are going to do that tonight. I would say you would be a contender in your house. outfit. Appreciate that. But tonight for trick-or-tradine, I will take off my Dikka costume

and put on my scary demon costume to scare the living daylights out of the kids when they come to get their candy from me. Why do you want to dress as a demon for children? I get a big kick out of it. I like to see him run off screaming and crying. That's really an odd thing. What age are we talking about?

27. Anywhere from a newborn to about 13. A newborn. Come on. Wow. Good grief. All right. Good luck. Good luck scaring the children tonight. Well, I was scared last night by the Kentucky basketball performance.

I hate to start with this, but I think we have to. Cats play at home against Georgetown. Continues the streak of we've never beaten Georgetown in a regular game or an exhibition game. Now, O'N3, over the years, lost in 1920, lost in 1980, 4, and now

Lowe's this year. It was a bad game from start to finish, Drew. I mean, Kentucky was down, I think they went down 12-11 and then never caught up again. Georgetown dominated on both ends the floor. I thought Kentucky was completely out-physicaled. They were not able to play offensively.

They were never really able to get into their offense, shot the ball very poorly, turned it over a lot, and then just on the defensive end, especially in the first half. Easy shots for Georgetown, physical, taking it to the, the basket. I said on the post-game show, it reminded me of the Ohio State game last year in Madison Square Garden, where you got a kind of introduction to, oh, okay, this is what's like to play against men, and you're going to have to be ready for it. What did you think of it? Very disappointed like everyone else. You know, you have cold night shooting, but also, they threw in last night. We're not going to guard either. They couldn't shoot or defend the moment

we were a couple minutes into the game, and I was just seeing that Georgetown's two guards, both are all conference. They were doing whatever they wanted. Just never had a good feeling. never really thought we were going to hit another gear because it was just looking too easy for Georgetown and Kentucky was just throwing up brick after brick the whole game. At one point, they were 10 for 20 from the free throw line, Kentucky. Yeah, the free throw line, I mean, we had guys who should be 85% shooters up there missing free throws. I mean, Cam Williams is 0 for two, Noah missed a free throw, Chandler missed a free throw, Oway missed a free throw, Oway miss free throws. Like, you're like, come on, guy.

I mean, it's one thing if our bigs miss free throws, but you guys are the guards, right? And, I mean, look, it's an exhibition game. I'm not going to overreact. It doesn't really change a lot of how I see about the team, especially with Lowe and Aberdeen out. But it was very disappointed. You're right. With Lowe and Aberdeen out, their guards were just better than our guards.

And we saw without a true, solid, strong point guard out there, offense just seemed out of sync. You mentioned the nut couldn't hit the free throws, couldn't hit a three-point in the second half. Oh, for 13. By the way, exactly like 1984. Couldn't hit a shot in the second half. They went three for 33 last in 1984.

They went 0 for 13 from 3 in this one. So even, you know, Travis Ford said something like this during the broadcast. These are the type of teams they're going to see in the SEC. He's exactly right. So is that any alarm bells go off? Well, Mark Pope said after the game, basically what I said. He said, Ohio State did that to us last year. And then we learned how to play against those kind of teams.

And by the end of the year, we were good against them. And so I think Shannon that's what you hope. He said this is hard for us to replicate in practice because we don't have guys like this. He said, but we will be able. And, you know, maybe there's an argument it's good to get this out of the way here than take a regular season loss in a similar game. Absolutely. I know the shooting was bad last night, but I think that this is a really good team,

a really good shooting team. So I think that those things will work themselves out as we go throughout the season. Well, I hope it is. But if I were to rank. I mean, are we certain it's a good shooting team? From everything we've heard. Yeah, but I haven't seen it yet. I mean, you know, when I looked at the roster they built, my worry, Drew, was shooting.

That was my worry. And then I've seen them in practice make a lot of threes, but we've now seen them three times in game competition, and they really haven't shot the ball in any of them. And there is a part of me that worries that this Mark Pope's offense requires you to make open threes, and can we? I'm a little worried, and I think we need to have a difficult conversation. I'll be the one to say it. Go ahead. I know what you're going to say.

That's you. It's your fault. I think we need to calm down on the Trent Noah can't miss conversations. I've participated in it. I thought you were going to do a Colin Chandler. I did too. Well, I'll get to that one too. But last summer, remember Travis Perry hit 100 in a row.

And it wasn't just media. The players were saying it. Pope was saying it. This kid can't miss. And then he didn't really shoot well in the regular season. I'm worried we're doing that to Trent Noah. Because all summer, player interviews, us, Pope, Trent Noah, Trent Noah, Trent Noah, and I'm worried we're doing what we did to Pennanoa.

Perry last year. I don't know if it's putting too much pressure on them or they're hyping him up too much, but he hasn't been knocking it down. When you watch him, though, I mean, when you watch him in practice action, he does not miss. But there's a difference between making it impress. Josh Carrier would tell you, there's a difference between making it in practice and making it in games. Ryan, you cannot beat good teams. If we're going to play these guys a lot of minutes, if Trent Noah, I want you to just think about this step. Trent Noah, Colin Chandler, and Cam Williams, in theory, those. should be your three best three-point shooters. And they went two of 15 last night. And most of them were open.

So if you go two of 15 with open threes with those guys, that's going to be tough. So, you know, we overreacted after the win over at Purdue. Do we overreact overreact over the way we shot the ball and lost to Georgetown? I think as a fan base we probably do because I think it's a legit concern about the shooting. The shoot. Okay. So some of the stuff that went wrong yesterday, Shannon, I'm not worried about. Yeah.

Okay. Colin Chandler is not at this point in his career a point guard. We saw that last year. I think Drew and I had hoped it changed. I don't think that's changed. I think he's got to play the two or the three. I think when you get Lowe and Aberdeen, some of that stuff's going to take care of itself.

So I don't think we're going to have as many turnovers when Lowe and Aberdeen are playing. I don't think we're going to have, we could not guard the ball. Like we could not guard the ball. Part of that was Colin Chandler, you know, Trent Noah, Even Jasper, they could not guard the ball. Aberdeen's going to be able to guard the ball. O.A, I was shocked how bad O'A played. I thought that was maybe the worst game I've seen O'A play in Kentucky.

He'll be better, right? Still led the team in scoring, though. He did. What I was driving at, though, you know, saying I wasn't that worried about the offense is I'm more concerned what I saw last night about the defense and the lack of physicality. Because in the SEC, if you're not physical with these teams, you're just going to get beaten up night in and night out. So they've got to have some toughness.

They do. It looked to me, Ryan, I can't believe I'm saying this, because I hate when fans say this after games. If you've listened to me over the years, I usually go, I don't think that's a fair criticism. But I'll admit even I was thinking, it just didn't look like they wanted to be out there last night. Like, they just didn't, they didn't have the energy.

They just, it felt like Georgetown was much more into that game than we were, which I don't think is an excuse, you can't do that. They did seem just out of sync, out of sorts. Maybe that was because the change of point guard, but especially on the offensive, man, they just didn't seem to have any fine-tuned execution at all that we thought we'd see. It was one of the most listless performances that I can remember. And even though we won, I kind of feel like Matt Painter after the game. It could have been worse.

Georgetown shot badly in the second half. Now, they played well in the first half, but they shot pretty badly. It could have been worse. Could have gotten a lot worse. Kentucky had a little mini run that got the crowd kind of into it. I think they cut it to 10, which is embarrassing. to say in Rup Arena. Also, not the crowd's best effort. I didn't expect it would be Purdue, because Purdue was insane. If you were there, that was crazy to be an exhibition game.

But I thought it would be better than last night was. That upper end zone was just completely empty. Lots of empty rows throughout the stadium. So, just across the board, it wasn't everyone's best effort. So, do we think it matters long term? I mean, we play Tuesday night against Nichols, and then we got Valpo Friday. They're both bad. So, you know, but then you got Louisville a week from Tuesday, do you think this is just a blip on the radar, or is this something that worries you? It doesn't worry me at all.

I love that we're playing these games, though, in the preseason. Me too. Because we're still zero and zero, but we find out a lot more about the team playing these type of teams than an athlete's in action. Morehouse. Remember when we played those? I didn't get to beat about 70.

Yeah. Was that? No, no, actually, you're right. That was an exhibition. Yeah, so I like that they're playing. You have to learn about your team early in the season as you wouldn't, you know, with the other schedule. Pope said it, you know, on these post-game press conference.

I love this result. Now we have some tape to show our guys. I didn't love it. I mean, I will say this. I didn't love the result. I didn't either. No, and it was very disappointing. I mean, they look bad.

There's no way to sugarcoat it. But you also have to remind yourself that's not the team we're going to watch all year. I mean, the moment Lowe's back and Aberdeen are back. We're not going to just have to watch Colin Chandler get taken off the dribble all night because that's not his job. Everybody was taking on a role that's not going to be their role when it really matters. We did get some good news. Low and Aberdeen will both be able to, Pope says they're both close,

and then he hopes to play them next week. I've kind of gotten the sense. We might see one of them. I don't know that they'll both be playing Tuesday. I think the goal is to have them both play Friday so that you can have one full game before Louisville, right? And I think that's the goal. We'll see if they're able to do it.

And that's why I'm not going to rush to judgment until we get those guys back. Because it's obviously last night. I hate to slam Colin Chandler, but he just played bad last. He had a bad game. We can't win with him. He was awful. And it looked to be in his head.

I mean, you could see it on his face, for those of you who watched it at home. I mean, you could see it on his face. Five turnovers. For some bad shots. Five turnovers, one of six from three. Could not guard. Like, that was a bad Colin Chandler game. Your stock went way down.

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You could. If you wanted that. You could. But they're not doing that. They got little cups. And are they got little cups. and are there any more cups to give away or are they already all gone?

They're gone. All right. Well, thanks to the folks who got here earlier. They got their shot glasses. Will we'll take a break and be right back. It's KSR here at Whiskey Thief, Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind.

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Everybody gets a little worked up. At the farm here at Whiskey Thief, they have live music on weekends. They have food trucks. They got jazz nights. And it is Halloween. I got a message, a text here that says, don't let Ryan act all tough. He does not scare all children.

He's very nice to toddlers and medically fragile children. That's very nice. That would be mean if you are not. So he does have some limits, although he will scare other children. Yeah, Yoga Girl kind of gets. gets behind me and she'll hear a whisperer goes there's somebody coming up with an oxygen tank well yeah it says two years ago he almost scared a kid on oxygen riding in a wagon and now i have to make sure did you really do that i did i you know because i'm there in my demon costume i can't see

who's coming up you can't see a kid in a wagon uh-uh and then like down to the right in front of me and then i really let him have it god it's like a tortured place to go to for kids why would anyone want to go to your house that sounds awesome My neighbor brought his little boy over and I had him in tears. I felt so bad it's my neighbor. But, I mean, you're saying all this with glee. I love it, actually. There's signs of a psychopath.

Yeah. Their therapist probably loves him when they have to see him for the next year. I want those kids to go out and remember. Hey, remember that bald old man that used to scare us at Halloween. Why do you want them to remember that? That sounds like an awful memory. That's a great memory. All right.

Shouldn't they want to remember the candy and the fun they had with their friends and family? Getting so scared you pee your pants. All right. Well. See, everybody always acts like he's the nice guy of the group. Could you hear any of the rest of us ever saying that? That's something that only Ryan Lemon would say. 859-280 2287.

Text machine 772-774-5-25-4. So, bottom line, fan base was overreacting online last night. Not too bad of an overreaction on the post-game show, relatively calm, but online it went crazy. Does your overall outlook on the season change at all? Shannon already said no. What about you? No, I have some like individual concerns.

Like I don't know that Cam Williams light bulb is going to go off when we need it to. He's hesitating a lot. He turned down good threes to take bad threes yesterday. So there's like little individual things that I wish looked better. But the big picture, as I said, that's not the team we're going to be watching this year. Hopefully. And if you have injured guards all year, that's another issue. but once Lowen-Back, that should help with the not being able to stop the ball that they had issues with last night.

I'm legitimately worried about Cam Williams. I mean, I think that guy, I haven't seen anything yet from him. I mean, we practiced. We saw the family practice. He looked a little better, but I'm starting to put him, you know, there's got to be two guys that don't play when everybody gets healthy. I'm starting to put him in that group because, you know, he's a three-and-d guy that's not making threes or playing defense. So that's, he'd be the person that I would say is the most troublesome to me.

And it's probably the biggest head to scratcher. We heard this summer, the TBT guys said he's the best shooter. When we saw family practice, he was the best shooter. And then the game situation we've got right now, he's just kind of a non-factor out there. He looks like the, I don't almost say the moment's too big for him, but of all the people that hasn't adjusted yet. I mean, he still looked kind of wide-eyed when he got the ball last night. Like, oh, my, I'm in Roperina right now.

I see a little bit of that. That's why, one, he had an open shot, pump faked into a contested shot. There were just a lot of things where if he were comfortable, he would have taken that right away. I think there's also, you got to remember, I mean, I don't know how to exactly put it, but the whole city kind of felt depressing yesterday. Like, I don't know what it was. Even starting you were there in the morning. Like, it was just, it was rainy, it was cold.

Pre-game show, we had a lot of people in the bar, but it just didn't feel like people were energetic, and it was rainy, and it was cold. And then you get to the game, and it just felt, and I just felt like the whole city team included just was not awake yesterday. I'm the, I'm just going to, we got to just hold off judgment until we got our full roster back. Now, if we get those guys back, and we're still struggling, hitting the three, and we're still struggling on offense, then maybe even raise some concerns. But right now I'm still just, we've got to hold off judgment a little bit.

All right, let's talk about something much more positive. We play a football game tomorrow. Shannon, I was about to say if you're depressed yesterday, wait until tomorrow. So we play Auburn in the, probably the losing. Leaves Town football game. Yep. Mark Stoops and Hugh Freeze, the loser of this game is not going to be the coach next year. The winner may not be either, but the loser is definitely not going to be.

And if in Auburn's case, if they lose, he won't be the coach on Monday. I don't think that's true of Stoops, but that's just the case. If we go into Auburn and win, Hugh Freeze might as well go ahead and hire the moving company because it is not. He ain't making it home. But let's talk about us. If we lose, I'm of the opinion that if we lose Saturday, the decision is basically made at that point. They won't announce it's made.

It won't be, but like there will be meetings that start Sunday or Monday that will begin the process of how do we let this thing end. And that's a very complicated question. They're going to need a few weeks probably to figure that out, to be honest with you, which is why it's a good thing to start. but I think that probably starts happening if we lose on Saturday. Do any of you think we're going to win tomorrow? I actually kind of do because Mark Stubbs historically at Kentucky has always found a way when his backs against the wall to pull out a win.

He's done that a few times. They get one of these a year for sure. Like the Louisville win at the last game of the year, just enough to get us hanging on for the next season. So I feel like he is going to win tomorrow. And then we're going to have to kind of change what we what do you think? You think we get this one? I'm glad Shannon said it first.

I also. We have two people think we're winning. My prediction will not be a win, but I'm betting the 10 and a half, and I think they're going to be in it until the very end. All of Auburn's games have been low scoring. They just got their first win last week, barely beat a winless Arkansas team. Other than that, it's been low. You know, bowling the offense have turned a corner, even though they're not winning.

And Auburn's defense hasn't done well against the past. so I actually think this is going to be a... Well, let's do a crowd vote. How many of you think we're winning tomorrow? Raise your hand. All right. 15%, something like that. That's better than the amount of people

when I did the thing that said, how many people do you want Stoops to stay? So that's good. Do you think we're winning? You know, before Auburn made this quarterback change, they kind of played the way Stoops likes to play, and that's why I thought, man, they got a fighter-puncher chance at this game.

Now Auburn's made the quarterback change, I wonder if though he's just like, I may get fired, let's just go at it, at which point that's bad for us. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Here live at Whiskey Thief. It is a cold day, but a nice day here. and well, we're outside of late. Frankfurt, Kentucky, 859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, is there any good news coming from the game? Drew, you said you had some good news.

I do have some good news. I'm a big silver lining, guys, so let's look at the silver lining. Kentucky has lost three exhibition games in 40 years. That's true. The fourth. The most recent was in the Bahamas, and they won the next 31 games and went 31-0. Remember that team lost their last game down there because they were worn out?

The one before that, 2002. They went undefeated in the SEC in 2003. Plus to athletes in action, I think. One the SEC tournament. Got upset in the big tournament, but they were one seed. And then the third exhibition loss was 1995 with Mark Pope, and then they went on to win the national championship. Really?

So they've had three exhibition losses before last night in 30 years, and all three went on to do something special. I mean, that's the 96 to 2003 and the 2015 team. I think we would take it if we were that good. So, yeah, let's do it. This is all part of the plan. We've been talking about number nine. How do we get there?

We've got to make history repeat itself and lose a preseason game. Also, I like the staff of the game. It was Kentucky's largest exhibition loss since we lost to the Soviet Union in 1991. The Soviets got us. Yeah, so people were shocked online that we had played the Soviet Union. We've talked about that on the show. I guess that's why Pope said, you know, he went the exact way he hoped for. So now can get him in the tape room and kind of show him what they did wrong.

We played the communists from D. versus the communist communist from Russia. 859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, what is wrong with Aberdeen? I don't really know. They said it was a leg injury,

but we really, I don't think he said anything about it. The one, my first quibble with Pope is the way he talks about injuries. I think we're now back to the cow thing where we're going to have no idea if guys are playing or not.

And I know, there's going to come a point, Drew, where the SEC and the NCAA is going to make these coaches just say what's happening with injuries. Because it's not, with the gambling part of it, you just cannot play around with this. Cal did it in a worse way, but Pope's doing it too where it's like, well, he's okay. We hope, I mean, like, you're going to have to say. Like, in the pro sports, you have to say. He is out for two weeks.

He is going to play. I mean, in the NFL, they have distinct categories for each type of thing. We're going to end up having to do that in college sports. Yeah, Pope didn't doing the, I haven't seen him, but he's doing the, oh, it's beautiful what he's doing for our team-wise out, and it's going to be special. I mean, he can't do that. And we've seen how, you know, we've had two, or one and a half seasons of the SEC injury report in football, and that's gone well. I mean, it's nice, just laying it out there. This is our roster, and I think they would go to that in basketball.

But we have a lot of football players out for this game tomorrow. Like 10, 10 scholarship players. 10 scholarship players out, including everyone whose last name is Smith. We have like, I noticed that. We have like four guys whose last name is Smith, and they are all out for this game. game. But a lot of guys out, I think we only had four for the game against Tennessee, and now it's 10, including Macklin. Will Cox, he was already out, but a bunch of guys. I guess you get McGowan back, though. He's supposed to play.

That's the big one. We don't know yet, for sure. It's probable on the level last night. So that's good. So that's what I missed him probably the most in the running game. I would have loved have had him, you know, back there in the Texas game for sure. But if they can't win without McGowan. Well, that gets another question. People are asking, can we beat Louisville without Lowen-Averd. They are point guard you, so that will be tough. I think so.

I'm not nearly as confident, obviously. You mentioned us on postgame. That's your only road atmosphere, and it's now 11 days away. So we need a- No, I said without. No, but I'm saying that game just by itself is the only road, true road test. It's right in front of us, so they need them back.

If they don't have them, I worry a little bit. Yeah, I think if we didn't have either one of them, Ryan, I don't think we win. If we have one or two, then yes, I feel good about it. But if we don't have either, then, yeah, we probably lose in that environment before last night i probably would still felt pretty good about our chances if those guys were out but after last night seeing how they struggle without low and aberdeen both out there it'd be tough it would be tough who's up first jay and linden jay and linden go ahead hey i'm not bummed out about last night but i'm definitely down from the high of the peru game

let me try to be the optimist here i think from a fan's perspective this is the downside of playing a power five exhibition game if we were playing the georgetown tigers last night we were playing the georgetown night instead of the Georgetown Hoyas. We might have been down after four minutes and went by 30, and we don't even think about this. This will ensure that we followed Georgetown's first couple games this year, though? No, that's exactly right. And you're exactly right about that. I mean, I think for a lot of people, this is the downside of playing these good games.

I mean, it just is. It's the downside of playing good teams that you might lose. But I'm glad we did it. I was shocked how many people did not know we were playing Georgetown the university. There were a lot of people yesterday in Lexington, Ride, who thought we were playing Georgetown College. I think part of it was people gave tickets because they thought they were playing Georgetown College. I got, I had people sending me tickets to give away, and I had one person put in the box, not interested in watching us play a team we're going to beat by 50 from Kentucky.

And I was like, you realize that's not who we're playing today. I think some people didn't even know. You joke, we were at the restaurant last night. There was a people there at the restaurant going ready to go to the game who thought we were playing Georgetown College Tigers. So would you rather have played a team like Georgetown in Kentucky and beat them by 50 or find out what you got with a challenge against the real George Town? If we don't play that game yesterday, then I would say...

You get that in the regular season. We would have gotten that maybe against Drew Michigan State in the Champions Classic or something. We would have gotten one of these teams that, that was athletic that would have done that to us in the regular season, just like Ohio State did. Maybe it's North Carolina. I don't know.

I don't know how teams play this year, but there would have been a team who would have done that exact same thing to us during the year. Yeah, it stinks walking out in Rupp Arena, being disappointed in what you just saw. I mean, Pope was rocked in his post-game press conference. He's like, it is unacceptable to lose in this building. I love how serious he takes it, though, being an exhibition game. He lost his voice and he sounded like he was going to cry. But now that it's behind us, we'll move on, we'll watch.

football tomorrow. When Pope gets them in practice and he has that film and now that we know Pope can yell in practice, we heard that the other day, it'll be good for them in the long run, taking that loss that doesn't actually hurt them, learning a few things and having some teaching moments. How many of you all here have YouTube TV? Raise your hand. Oh, wow. Do you know that you lost ESPN this morning? Yeah. So ESPN and ABC are off YouTube TV, at least temporarily. The contract expired last night at midnight. Now, of course, there's a lot of games tomorrow on ESPN, including, by the way, the Kentucky game is on the SEC network.

So there are, the Kentucky game tomorrow is on ESPN and ABC SEC Network. Right now, all of those games are off YouTube TV. 50% of this crowd has YouTube TV if they don't fix it. Now, I expect they'll fix it today. I expect knowing that those games are tomorrow, the contract will get fixed today. But if it does not, a lot of people are going to get up tomorrow, Shannon, and not realize that none of these games are on. And they might freak out, including our Kentucky fans,

we'll have the game at the bar, and we don't have YouTube TV, so you can come watch it. But I do think fans need to realize if something doesn't change, you're not going to have the UK game tomorrow. It feels like it happens at least once a year, and it's greed on both sides trying to figure out the contract thing, but the people who lose are the subscribers. What worries me a little bit about this one, though,

just from like a business perspective? ESPN has now launched their app. They're direct-to-consumer app. And I think they have some incentive to play hardball with these YouTube TV people and cable companies saying, we want people to subscribe directly with us. Why give you a portion of it through the middleman? So I could see a world where this one goes longer

because in the past people didn't have other options. Now they have other options. And, Ryan, I could see ESPN saying, we just want them to subscribe directly with us. Yeah, YouTube TV, subscribe. You probably all got an email last night. And I started reading it. It's like, you know, the Disney family of stations.

And I'm like, well, that's okay. I don't watch Disney. Then it also includes ABC. Well, that's all right. But then down to the bottom, it's like, and the ESPN family of stations. I'm like, oh, snap. You know, I didn't realize this was even coming. A lot of people are going to try to watch college game day tomorrow

or they're going to try to watch one of those early games and go, wait a minute. I didn't know this was happening. Right. Well, you're going to find out it actually happened at midnight. I was watching a hockey game and it just went off. Like literally in the middle of the game because it was on ESPN, it just went off. And so I had to log in to basically I have, because I work at ESPN, I have an ESPN Plus account. But it was middle of the game with blank right in the middle of it.

Midnight, they weren't messing around. They were not messing around. Who's up next? Trevor. Trevor. How you guys doing today, Matt? Doing great. And by the way, you don't have to ask me how I'm doing.

We have to turn the volume down. So, like, just go for it. I'm doing, just assume I'm doing great. Me and two buddies are currently driving down 75 to the universe, or Auburn going to the game. We are going disguised as Kentucky fans, but secretly we are War Eagle this weekend. Is that because you're wanting a coaching change?

Well, I think it's just going to be a terrible game all the way around that. That's not what I asked you. That's not what I asked you. I didn't ask you what you thought the game was. Hang on, I didn't ask you what you thought the game was going to be. You're saying you're a Kentucky fan and you're rooting for Auburn. You're not rooting for Auburn because you think the game's going to be bad. Let's be honest.

You're rooting for him because you want a coaching change. Am I correct? Yes, that is correct. All right, so it's very important to be honest about your opinions, not be passive aggressive like a politician. So how do you justify as a Kentucky fan, rooting against your own team? I just want to go to another bowl game.

So obviously we can't do that. But what if I said to you, you could still go to a bowl game this year? You could win this game, you could win the next game, and then pull off a game against Louisville. What's wrong with that? Just don't think that's going to happen because we run the three same plays on the goal-wise. All right, well, I appreciate the call. Appreciate the call.

I mean, do you think there is any – By the way, I wanted that guy to explain the position, because Drew, I don't think he's the person that has it. Do you think there is any justification for even if you want a coaching change, which, by the way, if we lose tonight, tomorrow, you're going to hear me probably say on the post-game show, I think it's time to make a coaching change. Tomorrow night is my night, if that happens, because I think we're essentially out of contention for the bowls if we do it. But do you think there is any reason that you could root for that to happen? me personally no but I'll admit I know others that are like that I have friends that are like that right now and want to lose I just can't do that I mean I can't look at cutter boley in the face and say good luck this year or interview Josh caddison see him in town and be like man rooting for you and then get on here and say I hope they lose to

Auburn I mean I think about the guys wearing the jersey at the school I went to and I just I'm not capable of rooting against them it's it's not the Titans we don't get the number one pick if you if you stink you actually are probably going to have it harder getting players in recruiting so there's reward for stinking. So I get that people want to change, but I can't root against the team. You feel like the kind of person, though, I could see justified. No, I cannot. Not against your own team. I mean, if he's on his way out, it's going to work itself out eventually anyway. That's the way I see that. So I don't think there's any scenario you ever pull against your own team. I'm with you on there, too. 859-280-2287. Text machine, 772-7-7-4. We're going to take a break. We'll be right back. We got some nerd gummy clusters, and we got a show. It's Kentucky Sports Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are

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I think there's going to be a lot of people dressed as Mark Stoops I expect to see the Shannon the cigar Cigarette Yeah not even a cigar You got a win for the cigar. You know, the famous cigarette picture, I think you're going to see a lot of people with the cigarette picture recreating it.

I don't know if that's fair to mark, but I think that's coming in a lot of places today. Bags under the eyes, looking a little disheveled, wrinkled shirt, maybe. I think that's coming tonight, Ryan. I do. I saw what picture of one. I don't know the lady, but she's going as like a nurse, and she's carrying a dead raccoon that she's going to give mouth-to-mouth-to-mouth-to-mouth to during the course of the night.

That's a good Kentucky one from that story. Oh, she's giving mouth-to-mouth to a dead raccoon. A toy or stuffed raccoon. Yeah, if you don't know that story, that would seem really strange. But actually, I really like that. That's a good Kentucky-themed costume, for sure. Andy Bashir was dressed as Mr. Rogers, and I have to tell you, I didn't know it was a costume.

I thought that was. That's perfect, yeah. I literally thought that's just what he wore. He dressed up to do his press conference as Mr. Rogers. I was like, well, that's odd. It's a red sweater. It didn't even occur to me. He was being Mr. Rogers.

Same here. And I didn't know he's still doing those videos. I guess is that just still been going since 2020? He's not doing daily videos. I don't know, but that was my big takeaway yesterday. Did Andy like change his shoes during the press conference like Mr. Rogers? He did the shoe thing. I always wonder why he changed his shoes.

Like what's up with that? Well, no, I think he put on your house shoes. Yeah, Mr. Rogers wore outside shoes. He didn't want to bring dirt into his house. Oh. So that's why I did it. I mean, I think people used to do that in the old end days. That's the whole, yeah, it's right.

I do that currently. I do that currently. You do? I'm Mr. Rogers every day. Hey, I sit on my little bench, I have my house shoes, I take off my boots, and I'm Mr. Rogers into the house. I will tell you, I don't like, and I understand, like, people have a right to do it, but it kind of annoys me, Shannon, when I go to people's houses and they're like, you have to take your shoes off. That's why I don't have carpet. I'll have all hardwood, so I'm fine with that.

I mean, I, you do it. You don't do it. I just, I think it's kind of, it's a little presumptuous. Now, granted, if somebody walked in with a big flab of mud all over there, I get it. Yeah. But like I just, I hate people just think, well, I have to be in socks to be in your house. When I was a kid, that was my dad. You came into the house.

You had to take the shoes off. Even stranger. Yep, if not, then he was giving you the stink guy. Yeah. I'm not like that at all. But I know a lot of people are. I'll use this opportunity to tell the story I've told 10 times. I'll tell it again.

When Ryan was showing me houses and they asked us to take off our shoes and he just had four exposed toes, my realtor walking around with his broken socks. Always a good chance to get a good deal when your realtor has four exposed bow's toes. Who's up next? Nathan. Nathan, go ahead, Nathan. Hey, what's up, guys? So the first thing I want to say is,

if you're still taking applications, I definitely want to join the Colin Chandler fan club. I think that he was forced into a role he's not meant for. He's still a good player. But more importantly, I do want to say that I am not a super big fan of Brandon Garrison. I just think that he's got a lot of lazy effort on both offense and defense. he's not a great shooter, and they're kind of forcing him to be in Amari Williams, but he's not meant to be.

I think as the year goes on, you're going to see that Amari Williams role be more and more Diabate, and I appreciate the call because I think it fits him more. Brandon Garrison, we'll see. I mean, it depends on if the other guys step up and if the other guys do their roles. You know, Pope said something interesting. I appreciate the call. He said something after the game that I think is really good. He said, we are not a great.

collection of individual talent. He said, but we are a great team. And some people got really upset at that quote, Ryan, and they were like, we spent 20. By the way, every time we lose, get ready for the we spent $22 million. And it's not just from other people. Our fans are doing it too. People are acting like they spent their own money.

Like there's a lot of we spent 22 millions out there. But I think what he's saying is, and this is what we said the other day, We don't have any first round picks on this team, at least that are playing right now. But when they work together, they can be elite. But if it just becomes beating your man off the dribble one-on-one, they're not going to be very good. And I think that's how and why he constructed the roster this way. He saw the weaknesses we had last year. He went and doubled down and got too deep at each spot.

So we don't have those weaknesses bite us in the butt this year like they did last year. But when we lose, I saw it all night last night. 22 million is going to be ingrained in every person's head because that. That is being, like, there are a lot of people that every loss, Drew, that's what's going to come up. You can just see it. Oh, I saw a lot of it online last night. Someone even yelled it during our rapid reaction. I would just say back, that was only like $17 million last night.

There were a lot of millions sitting out, maybe even like a $16 million team. So at least get it right. That wasn't the full $22 million there. That's a really good point. I would say that was only about $15 million. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier.

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