KSR - 2025-10-31- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: October 31, 2025

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Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Whiskey Thief. Great crowd just outside of Frankfurt on Crab Orchard Road. What an awesome. You guys, every time we come here, give us a great environment. We appreciate it.

Everybody's enjoying the bourbon. They got a food truck out there. They brought us some food. Crazy amount of food. Nacho fries, pomeo cheese sandwiches, chicken. Damn, that's one tasty burger. Chicken tacos. They're like literally everything is here.

There's going to be enough food for us to eat long after this show is over. Drew, look at this. Let's look at all these fries selections right here. There are 12 boxes of food in front of us, the four of us. We have, I guess that's three entree. each. Yes. 859, 280, 2287.

Text machine is 772-745254. Let's talk about some non-depressing U.K. sports news since we took a loss and have football. Let's start. Well, actually, it's not even U.K. Let's start with the craziness that I'm loving at LSU football. All right, so we talked about the governor. He gets involved.

I say, I'll say, I'll say. The governor just keeps Foghorn Lego earning it everywhere. yesterday they fired the athletic director. The athletic director's gone. Kim Mulkey, the women's basketball coach, who is, of course, won a national championship. She refused to do her post-game press conference after the exhibition game in protest of the athletic director being fired.

So by getting rid of the athletic director, they're now upsetting probably their most successful coach, which is their women's basketball. basketball coach, so that's nice. The governor goes on the Pat McAfee show and basically says, I'm only going to give a contract where the college coach is not guaranteed a lot of money. He has to win the games to get the money. Well, that sounds great.

Everybody clap. Now go find a coach who's going to agree to that. Exactly. Everybody can clap. I love when people clap, yes, let's do this. And then guess what happens? Go find somebody to agree to that. You think Lane Kiffin's going to agree to that?

Who is going to agree to a contract that? only pays me if I win if I can have a team over here that gives me a contract no matter what. Nobody's going to do that. Would you do that? Would you go work somewhere that only said you get it if you produce X much and the person next to you says you get it either way? Nobody's going to do that. So he's going to end up either not doing that or B, he's going to get a coach like Lane Kiffin saying I ain't going there. So I just, I find the whole thing hilarious, Drew. I think it's going to be, it's probably going to end up as a disaster. And no matter what, when you have your women's basketball coach walking out of a press

conference, this is why politicians should never be involved in this stuff. I mean, they really shouldn't because they have an incentive to grandstand, and the incentive needs to be drew to win games and get coaches. Yeah, there was a guy with an LSU shirt back there. He just disappeared. I don't know where he went. I don't think you like that conversation. I'm sorry, sir.

If I'm a coach, you're thinking LSU, this is one of the best. jobs in the country, all that talent around there. But also, do I work for the governor or the AD? Do they even, are they working together? Like, what's going on over there? No, I don't want to be a part of that because they can't even seem to figure out their own situation. Well, let's just think about getting an AD.

Ryan, if you're an AD looking to go to a school, do you want to go to a school where the governor can all of a sudden be like, I'm going on a Pat Michael's show and I'm all fire you? Like, who's going to want to go work for that guy? I mean, I don't understand why anybody would do it. Exactly. What AD wants to work on that situation and what coach wants to come and work for, you don't even have your boss is going to be.

You don't have an AD even to work for. I mean, I just want you to think of how ridiculous this sounds. What if Andy Beshear just fired Mitch Barnhart and said he was going to hire the football coach? It's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen in my life. Well, he may actually get applauded if that happened in our situation. Well, okay, but let's say Andy Beshear said he was going to fire Mark Pope and Mitch Barnhart. And he was going to, I mean, it's crazy. Yeah, we'd have pitchforks in his front yard if that happened.

But, yeah, I mean, with all the lucrative deals that coaches get now, you're right. There's not going to be a coach that's going to agree to that. I just, I can't imagine. I mean, I could see a scenario where they go to a guy and go, okay, instead of $10 million guaranteed, I'll give you seven. But if you win the national championship, you get $16 or something. That's just caught a bonus in a contract. But you're still just moving ships on.

on the Titanic. I mean, you're still going to owe a lot of money. No coach is going to agree to you get $2 million and then you get a million per win. Like, no one's going to agree to that. Why would they? I completely agree with you. I think you know that I don't know how they're going to get an AD. Because that should be a good job, but if governor could just step in and fire you at any

moment, I wouldn't sign up for that. No. The last thing you want to do is be responsive to a governor who, by the way, can lose re-election and then you're working. for somebody else. You know, I mean, like, at least with the AD, you have the ability to know who your boss is. How would you like to have governor gets in a sex scandal, and all of a sudden, the lieutenant governor is your boss?

Like, nobody wants that. Can a governor even do that? Like, is he within the power to be able to pick an AD? Technically, it's a state university. Yeah. And technically, the governor appoints the board of trustees. So technically, probably yes. But it's a difference.

I mean, one of the great things that's happened in the last few years is I think Americans are starting to realize something that I don't think a lot of people knew, which is when you elect a president or a governor, they have a lot of power, probably more power than you realize, because in theory, they can do a lot of stuff. Now, most of the time they don't. They appoint people to do it for them. So, like, they appoint someone to be an expert in this. But if they want to, they want to, they'll be. They can do a lot. And I think that's a poor choice. Not everybody can do everything, but in Louisiana, they think they can hire a football coach. So don't you think they need to hire an AD first to help them hire the coach? I mean, I would. I would, but we'll see what happens.

But the AD found out he was fired on the Pat McAfee show yesterday. Why would you want that job? If I can get fired on ESPN, which people can't even watch right now, how would I sign up for that? And, you know, I don't know politics very well, but didn't your boy Matt Bevin do something with the Louisville board like this? Could he have hired the Louisville coach? Let me just use the example of I will give Matt Bevin. I'll explain. Matt Bevin actually did what I think a governor can do, but is okay.

Matt Bevan appointed the U of L board, right? And he encouraged the board to make changes. But ultimately it was the board that did it, and there were Bashir appointees on that board and Bevan appointees. Landry just went above everybody and fired everyone, and I just, I think that's a bad decision. Completely different topic. You ever been to Harvard, Ryan Lemon? You may be shocked, but I am not a Harvard grad.

I'm not shocked about that. I just wondered if you'd ever been there, period. I've not been there. Okay. Not even seen it. So Harvard, a lot of people consider Shannon, like, to be the best or second best school in the country, right? Right.

That's who you think of Harvard. Yep. In 1996, the amount of A's that they gave at Harvard was 15% of the classes. So 15% classes, every student would get an A. Then that went up in like 2001 to 25%. Would you like to know how many in a class, what amount of students now are making A's at Harvard? Let's hear it.

How many? 62% of all grades. it given at Harvard in 2020, we're A's. Wow. So a study was done, and of course that has a few implications. One of which is people who graduate with all A's, that doesn't seem quite as impressive, right? No, no, no, no. But secondly, where I think it's going to really have an impact is if you don't have A's.

Now you're the dumb kid. Because it's basically acknowledging that you were in the bottom 40%. But Harvard has now said, we are going to completely revamp our grading system. we cannot have 60% of the students getting the exact same grade. Do you think there should be a rule where teachers at any level have to spread out the A's, or are you okay with grade inflation? I'm okay with grade inflation because really, what does it really matter? I mean, the fact that if you got an A in a class in college,

does it matter what you do today? If you know the 50s, you have a bad test, maybe you might get a B. Sounds like somebody who didn't get A's. Are you suggesting everybody just gets A's? Like a participation trophy? You tried so you get an A? Yeah, that is very per-sacient trophy. You tried.

Here's your A. But you don't like participation trophies. You pass or you fail. That's really, I mean, why we got to get an A? That's like you play the game or you don't. You win or you lose. You score more points or you don't? I think the issue here is AI probably being used a lot.

Chad GPT's done all that home or I think either that or you think that kids are getting smarter or the classes are getting easier. No, I actually think none of those things are the main explanation. What do you think is? I think that, and as someone who's taught at a college for a few years, I think there's a huge impact now put on your reviews. Okay, so college in a lot of, like colleges are now very much competitive to get students. They want to make sure, and teachers want to be approved by students, and so you get reviews at the end of the year.

and I think there's a huge pressure to make the students happy and give them good grades so they don't whine and complain. Wow. We're worried about them whining. Listen, I genuinely think that's true. Look, when I teach at Georgetown, I'm not acting like I'm a great professor, but I don't give a ton of eights. And I get a lot of pushback from students like, come on, I did the work,

I should get an A. And I want to be like, well, you did the work, but. But it wasn't excellent. That's what an A is. an A is supposed to be excellent. But I do think, like, what Ryan said, there's a lot of parents who are like, why aren't you giving my kid an A? Because he's not smart enough. He did the work.

She did the work. It's not good enough. But I think what Ryan just expressed is the reason why A's go up so much. You think that's it. So, I mean, yeah, I mean. Well, I mean, Ryan just said it. Ryan was like, I think everybody should get an A. I wish it was like that when I was in school.

Everybody just got an A for showing up. believe that, right? I do because really, I mean, what, in the grand scheme of thing, does it matter when you get in the job world? It doesn't matter what your grades. But don't you? But if you were... Yes, it matters.

I'd like for my doctor to know what he's doing. Yeah, exactly. What if you were an employer, don't you want to know who the best students are? Don't you want the best students to get into med school, to business school, the law school? Why do you want everyone to just, I mean, you socialists? Why do you want everyone to grade equally in, like, don't you want to know who's the best? Well, do you get your degree at Harvard or did you get it at Poop State? I'm taking, I'll get the guy at Harvard.

I don't care what grades you're right. But to be fair, if you do it like that, rich kids who grew up in rich families with elite educations get into Harvard, kids that maybe are from a poor place in Kentucky, maybe they have to go to Kentucky under your system. They're always going to be behind the guy who made kids who went to Harvard because they didn't get the head start of getting in the same college. Whereas if you have grades, the kid that. gets all A's at Kentucky has a chance to still make it.

I think maybe I see it because I had a couple sons who really struggled in the classroom. I mean, it was a struggle for them just to get a C or a D. But did they work hard? They worked their butt off. We would celebrate them getting a C or a D. I don't care if they got an A. So to Drew's point, though, if you went to the doctor and you knew that this doctor graduated from Harvard, but he had a D.

Wouldn't you rather go to the guy who had an A? But at Harvard? He got his degree. He graduated from med school. That's good enough for me. He knows what he's doing. You go to that, doctor. I'll go to the other one.

65% passed. He got through it. You got through it. You're good with it. Ryan Lemon is glad as long as you graduated, operate on me. Fair enough. I had a teacher who was like, I've given, it was accounting. He's like, I've given two A's and 10 years.

And he made it so hard, like a C was a good grade. But then in the end, he kind of curved it a little bit. But I actually like that. It brought everyone down to me. Well, there are schools that do this, by the way, like Yale, a lot of people don't realize. Yale law school, which. is literally is considered the best law school in the country, they don't even give grades.

Everything is past fail. They take the view of every single thing is past fail. And they do that, but their theory is we only let in 150 students. So you had to be pretty awesome to get in here to begin with. So that's their theory. I don't know if other schools should do that. What's up next? Donnie. Go ahead, Donnie. Hey, Matt. I'm down here in Alabama. I'm a transplant. I was born and raised in Hart County. My daughter's in the band at Auburn, and we're going to the game tomorrow, and I just want y'all's opinion. She doesn't want me to wear anything, Kentucky.

And do I get a pass to not wear it, or should I just go ahead and wear it and let her be upset? All right. Are you in seats that are in an Auburn section that your daughter got you, or did you just get regular tickets? No, we got season tickets when she made the band. All right, so here's what I would say. You should cheer for her when the kids. the Auburn Band goes out there.

Go, let's go Auburn Band. You're the best band. You're the best daughter. But when they're playing football, your daughter is out there tooting a horn. She's not throwing a pass. You should be rooting for Kentucky. But she didn't want me to wear a shirt, a hat, or anything.

She didn't want you to wear a Diyy shirt? No, she don't want me to wear a Kentucky shirt. She wants me to wear a shirt that says Auburn Band Dad. Okay, that's fine. So here's your compromise. Auburn Bandad, Kentucky hat. Auburn Bandad, Kentucky hat, I think you're showing allegiance to your daughter,

you're showing allegiance to the cats. I think that's a good combination. What about that, sir? Well, I've got a KSR hat. Would that work? I'll take it, yes. As a matter of fact, that's better. KSR hat, Auburn Bandad shirt,

but you're cheering for the cats. Does that work? That works, buddy. Thank you. I appreciate the call. I think that's a good. thing to do, don't you? Yeah, I'm the wrong guy to ask.

When I was at U.K., I took my dad to a game, and he wore Tennessee gear, and I was like, everyone heckle him. Like, let's just lay into him. So I'm a little different when it comes to that. You know, Aubrey is weird. There's a lot of Kentucky residents that go to school at Auburn for that vet program. A lot of Kentucky people are there. Cornbread hemp.

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podcast is for you to hear more. Listen to deeply well with Debbie Brown from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio 859-280-2287. Text machine. is 772-7-7-4-5-254. Great discussion. We got some people, Shannon, on Ryan's side. Okay, all right. One person says, I've never been to my doctor and asked them what their grades were.

Yeah, but the reason the doctor, the reason they're a doctor at all was because of their grades. If they didn't have good grades, they wouldn't have gotten into med school. That's true. I'm going to start asking my doctor. Hey, let me see a report card. And then, like, if you go to a really good hospital, the reason the people that work at the hospital or who they are is because they did well in school. Right? But it is true, though.

You go into a doctor's office. You see the Harvard, you know, whatever it is, diploma up there. Do you think, okay, graduate from Harvard? I would also note this. This was my point at Georgetown when I was asked about grades. If you give everybody the same grade and then they want to go to law school, how do you think the law school differentiates between the students? They're LSAT, which is one test, which means if somebody's a bad test taker, they're going to have their entire life based on one test. Is that better?

No, it would be a lot. Like, when you're a teacher, you know who the best students are. You're able to show that through grades. If you give them all the same grade, then it's all going to come down to one test, and maybe they had a bad day, Drew. And so, like, I think that's why I think you do it. Like, when I have my students, if I have 20 students,

I know who the best couple are. So you should be able to find a way to point out who they are. Exactly. My professor one time didn't even know who I was. I was like, hey, I'm actually in this class. Sorry, I haven't been here in a while. So they probably in the back of their mind thought that's not one of my leaders. It does go to show you, though, how much trust we put in other people.

Well, you have to, though. You have to. You have to. You have to. How are you going to know? UK volleyball plays on Sunday against Texas. Top five matchup, probably for the SEC title. The game is in Austin, Texas. Game starts at 1 o'clock.

We're going to have a watch party at the bar. A lot of UK volleyball, I think some family members of the players are coming. So show up in blue and get them. air. This is a massive game. Craig Skinner has a chance to win his ninth straight SEC title. You know, Texas moved into the conference. They've always been really good at volleyball. They're going to beat kind of their rival. This is a massive game. Only time they play this year. And it's at Austin, sold out. The guy on the delete reports this morning we did Gabriel said, tickets are going for like up to around $800 to get into watch a volleyball.

Is that right? That's what he said. Like a lower level. $800? I promise you, that's what the guy said this morning with Big Gabriel. Yes, he did. Low, I guess probably. maybe the lower, lower arena seats. For volleyball. For volleyball. And it's sold out. Like, it is completely sold out that arena. That's kind of amazing.

I didn't even know that. I'm going to watch it. I mean, I have NFL Sunday, but I plan on dual screening it and going a little volleyball red zone. I'm looking for it. I hope Skinner's group get it. They deserve it. They do.

I think they play tonight. I'm trying to pull up the schedule at home, too, if you wanted to get one before they go. Van der Vendale. That's when I was trying to look up. But, yeah, I'm looking forward. Obviously, not going to make the trip to Austin, but I'm going to try to catch some of the party at KS. Bar, because we have few of those during the championship run years ago, and the crowd really got into it at the bar for their away games.

Well, I think it'll be fun. We'll also have NFL games on, but this is a massive chance. You know, I remember I talked to Craig when Texas joined the conference, he was like, this is going to be the rivalry for the next decade, us in Texas for the SEC. Last year, I think maybe Texas was a little down, so we were able. But this year, they've got a full squad, and it should be a great battle. So you say nine straight. I mean, you think about that.

That is as an impressive run for any coach at Kentucky, any sport. Before Craig, Kentucky had won one volleyball title ever, and now they've won nine straight and a national championship. That's amazing. That's pretty amazing. That is an amazing run for one coach to do. There's a round of applause. Best coach on campus.

Yeah, I think that's completely fair. Who's up next? Mike. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Hey, Matt. Matt. Yes, go ahead. Hello, Matt.

Hey, good morning and trick-or-treat to all of you. Man, I was looking at my office here this morning that on X, I understand that YouTube TV, they have a lot out with Disney, and evident when the UK football game tomorrow night is going to be blocked out, and won't be able to get it. On KSR restaurant, are you all on YouTube? Are you all going to be able to get the game? We will have the game.

We have YouTube and DirecTV, so we're able to get it no matter what. So yes, we will have the game. Okay, so Greg TV, you will be able to have it. Okay, thank you. No problem. Thank you. Who's up next?

Brent. Brent, go ahead, Brent. Hey, man. Oh, I got a couple of small things. First off, my dad's a long time fan, but he's only been to two games recently, and that was last night and the tournament game against Tennessee. So I think we got abandoned from games going forward.

Also, second thing, people wanting to root against Kentucky in football. I wouldn't say I'm like on every single play being like, oh, yeah, Auburn just got something. But I just feel like even if we win with like a cupcake schedule and go to a bowl, like Florida and Auburn going through coaches, I just feel like that's a band-aid on the problem. Like, cool, go to a bowl this year.

What's it going to do next year? You know, it's like you're not going to get like a team. I understand what you're saying. There's no. But I will say this and I appreciate the call. I am not expecting us to beat Florida, Auburn, and Louisville, or Florida, Auburn, and Vanney. I'm not expecting that to happen. But if it did, that's not a cupcake schedule, okay?

I know Florida and Auburn aren't great this year, but it's still Florida at Auburn. And Vanderbilt's really good. And Louisville's got a chance to be 10 and 2. So if you were to win those three games, whether you think there should be a change or not, it wouldn't be fair to go. I mean, since when are we Kentucky so good that we can say, Florida and Auburn or Cupcake games. I mean, come on. At Auburn.

At Auburn. Like, seriously, if we win those games, we've criticized Mark, and he's deserved it. But if he were to finish and beat Florida, Auburn, and Louisville, or Florida, Auburn and Vandy, he would deserve credit. We can't sit here and make it to where there's nothing he can do that's worth praise. Yeah, and all summer, I said, just get back to a bowl. We'll be happy. That's a big rebuild.

I can't. If he made a bowl, I can't then be like, well, I didn't like the six you I mean, 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. 859-280, 2287. The text machine is 772-724. Back to this volleyball game for a second. Get in price. Just to get in. $225. Wow. Wow. That's got to be like the highest it's ever been. Upper level. Most expensive ticket is up to $12 or $1,300.

Oh, for a collegiate volleyball game. Wow, that's pretty much. I don't know if there's $1,200 I would pay anything to go to. Concert, Super Bowl. I can pay $1,200 to go to the Super Bowl. That is absolutely unbelievable. Also, this weekend, by the way, Breeders' Cup starts today. The classic lost sovereignty.

So it was supposed to be maybe the best race of all time. They end up losing the favorite. Kind of a shame. The horse that won the derby and won the Belmont, but then it skipped the preteness, and now it won't be in the Breeders' Cup Classic. It had a chance to Drew potentially go out, and it's one of the great horses of all time, but by not, as they say, the best ability is availability, and it's not going to be available. So it's still a great weekend of races, but what was going to potentially be like the most

classic Breeders Cup classic of all time took a hit with the favorite out. Yeah, the hype had been building for that. Heck, we talked about it a few weeks on the show. What was ahead? One of the biggest races ever, and it stinks seeing such a big name like that. But hopefully it's still good, even though it's missing sovereignty. Journalism, I guess, now the favorite? No, they've got Sierra Leone from last year, Forever Young.

Fierceness, I think one of those horses won the Oaks this year. It's in it. One of the Phillies running against them. It still will be a great race, but it loses. It loses its favor. A little star power, you know. Most people felt like if he would have run him in the Preakness, but he would have maybe have been another Triple Crown champion.

He was that good. Yeah. A big thank you to our audience. A very cool thing yesterday. This website called Awful Announcing that does sports media. They listed the most important people in the world of sports podcasting, and they put us on there, which is absolutely unbelievable, and that's because of you guys.

literally the list the list is like Bill Simmons, Dave Portnoy, the Kelsey's Colin Cowherd I mean literally the list is like the biggest stars and then it's people in like agents

and people who create shows and then at the very bottom it says Kentucky Sports Radio and it the script is very funny you got read your line I don't know off top of my head I do need to let me let me read you what they said about us. This was kind of a funny, but you know what? They should put this

on my tombstone. Here is at the sports podcast charts on Apple or Spotify on any given week, and you just might see Kentucky Sports Radio, which may lay claim is the biggest local sports podcast in America. As recently as last year, Jones said it was the biggest local sport on IHeart's roster. We got confirmation of that again yesterday. This year, Jones rose to New Heights with a larger Dealing iHeart landed him a news interview show and a weekly NFL podcast and then this is the line Jones is simply one of the most successful yet widely unknown host in this space I'll take it that's how you want to be right yeah successful yet widely unknown I mean if he'd be successful be on the radio be unknown widely that's impressive I think the only thing was widely

for some reason why people have to know about you to listen to you so it's interesting that you're successful, but widely unknown. It did seem like an unnecessary adjunct. Could it just spend unknown? Moderly unknown. Are you moderate to severe unknown? It's widely unknown better than just unknown?

It's really emphasizing how unknown. What I mean you're locally known? Yeah. I would have said only locally unknown. Well, is that better or not? I just think the whole sentence takes a little bit of the luster off, but still, if you look at the company, it's kind of amazing, Ryan, were included in it.

Yeah, you see all the big hitters and then get to KSRs right there. You know, those folks in Tennessee football fans, they know who you are. Yeah. Illinois, I mean, Indiana basketball fans, they know who you are. Yeah, let me say this too. We got a list yesterday. This is the first time I've ever seen this. I Heart now shows where all the listeners come from on the podcast.

We used to be able to see at any given time where people were listening, but we get to see the markets where people are listening. and the way they do it is every town in America is associated with a big city. So, right? So Middlesboro, Kentucky is actually associated with Knoxville. You know, Frankfurt is probably associated with Lexington, et cetera. So if you look at our listeners, the most listeners we have is actually in the Louisville demographic, which is because Louisville's bigger.

I mean, that would be what it is. But then next is Lexington. But then we were surprised, Ryan, next one. was Indianapolis. Yeah. And next was Nashville. And then it would, but what was amazing is there's no local show in the country that has over a thousand listeners a day in more markets than ours.

We have something like 27 markets around the country where we have at least a thousand listeners a day. And that includes places like Orlando, Philadelphia, excuse me. That is a really cool thing. And for a lot of you that are podcast and streaming people, the fact that there are people literally listening in, over 1,000 people listening in 27 different markets around the country, that is crazy. I mean, that really is crazy for a local show. The second biggest show, which I won't say what it is, but the second biggest show is in another state, they only have that in five markets. And we have it in 27, which is crazy.

It is crazy. Just recently, there have been people come into KS Bar, they listen to the podcast in Vermont. They live in Delaware. But I was kind of surprised that Indianapolis was bigger than Nashville or Knoxville. Indianapolis was a lot. It was. So I don't know.

Maybe there's more of Kentucky considered it. But what part of Kentucky would be considered Indianapolis? Because you would think it would be considered Louisville. Yeah, Jeffersonville, New Albany. All that's going to be part of the Louisville market. So I don't know what it was, but I guess we have people in Indianapolis. So salute to all of you in Indianapolis. Who's up next?

Casey. Casey, go ahead, Casey. Hey, good morning, fellas. Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween, go ahead. So that picture of you, your mom and Larry, and Larry and his KSR hat is the best thing I've ever seen. It brought a tear to my eye.

But the reason I called, I'm really impressed so far, which last night is hard to talk about. But Yellovich, I think he's going to end up starting sooner rather than later. I think he's just going to be tough this year. And that's all I have. I hope you guys have a great weekend.

Go Kat. You as well. What do you think about Yeovic? Look, I thought, really good in the first game. Struggle a little bit last night, but I still think a lot of promise, probably tougher than I would have thought. Yeah, I said on the pregame show before the game that I'm a believer.

I think there's a lot that he just hasn't untapped. He's still getting used to being over here. And last night, nothing was really working. So I want to be careful complimenting things. But I thought for a little bit in the first half, he and Malachi Marino were working well together. I don't think Marino got rewarded with an assist because they didn't finish, but he had two or three really nice passes that kind of looked like Amari,

hitting some cutting guys, and it was in there. One of them was to Yelovich. Those two had a little two-man game working as best they could as nothing else was. I think the thing I like about Yelovich is unlike, say, Big Z, he seems like he can get physical and he is a better defender than Z was when Z was here. I really like Diabate and Yelovic rotating that force. I mean, they can get, if he needs a tough defender, get DeBate.

Need somebody to go and knock down a couple shots, throw Yelovich out there. I'm glad Drew mentioned Malachi. My only just fell off. Oh, there goes his mustache. It just popped off. Don't pick it up, put it back on now. Don't do that. Not a ground mustache.

Yeah, no, put that down. All right, go ahead. I'll wear it. Malachi, like Drew said, made a couple really nice passes. Didn't finish a couple times, but I just loved him going strong to the basket. That'll happen. He'll start finishing those. It shows me how aggressive that kids become.

It made some great passes. It did feel like for Malachi it was a welcome to physical play moment because a couple of those big dudes were body in him, and he's going to have to get used to that because I think he's very much an athletic finesse player and that he got some bodies last night. But that's why these games are good. If he's guarding the 6-4 center at a local Kentucky college,

he's probably having his way with him and not actually learning anything or having a little breakthrough there. So it was good for him to get pushed around a little bit against a good team. What about Jasper Johnson? You know, he was the leading score in the last game, kind of out of control a little bit last night. He shot a three on three out of four plays, and Mark Pope gave him the business coming to the bench, including twice.

He just ran down the court and shot three immediately. Good learning experience, hopefully for him too. That's what I say, you know, he'll get smarter in the situation like that. Him and Chandler both, I think, kind of forced a couple threes. Maybe they shouldn't have done that. But one of those guys needs to step up and kind of be a leader, you know, be more of a floor general, because they were out of sorts offensively last night. We compare him to Rob Dillingham, but Shannon, we had those moments with Rod Dillingham, too,

where we'd go, hey, Rob, take a deep breath. It's going to be okay. I think there was a little bit of that. I think last night's performance kind of just balanced out what happened against Purdue, you know, played great against them. And I think that we probably should just have that opinion for both the games, just in general. They're both exhibition games, take them at face value for what they are.

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Yeah, they were at Burrell. They were at the Burrell last night. It was wild. I mean, I wasn't there. But I saw the scene, and it was raining and cold and wild. They're going to be there again tonight. I may have to find a way to sneak in. It looked like the most fun. I don't even know who they are. It looked like the most fun thing I've ever seen at the Burl. That's the wildest atmosphere around that place I've ever seen.

You know, I'm not far from it. The Burl, is that outdoors? It's indoors and outdoors, but they were doing it outdoors for this because they can have more people, I think. Well, it's supposed to be a decent night tonight. Last night was horrible if they were outside last night. but then I'm supposed to be really good for trick-or-or-treating and everything. One person writes, Matt, what about the rumor Nick Roush said about Dabo Sweeney and UK? Yeah, I don't know what Nick Rouse is talking about, but you want to make my head explode, make Dabo Sweeney the coach here.

I don't even know. You know, I can't clean up the archives quick enough to get rid of the Dabo Sweeney. Like there'd be no way for me to handle it. Dabo Sweeney hire. Dabo and Mitch? I mean, I mean, they're exactly like. I think they would really get along?

Debo's a little more, like, outgoing. Could you imagine? I couldn't deal with it. He was our coach. Seriously. I couldn't figure it. If you wanted to make the biggest middle finger to Matt Jones higher, it would be bringing in Davo Sweeney.

That would be a great. I can't imagine he would leave Clemson, though. But let's talk just a second about names. Because if we lose Saturday night, we won't have a show until Monday, and everybody's going to be throwing. with names around beginning immediately after the game because I think it'll be clear things aren't happening for Mark. John Summerall got beat by 25 points last night. Yeah, he did. It's good for business. That's good for business. I completely agree. That's good

for Kentucky. We want Tulane to kind of bottom out here because then that might run Auburn and LSU away. Yeah, I know Stein is a hot name in the fan base. Somerall still won for me and that changed nothing. If anything, it helps Kentucky circumstances. I do think it helps Kentucky circumstances. Because, you know, you have to watch the top names. So, like, Signetti re-signed. Matt Rule at Nebraska, re-signed. So now, I mean, Penn State and LSU and those teams,

they've got to get somebody, and we're kind of lower on the depth chart. So John, Summerall, dropping in excitement is probably good for us. It probably is good for us. That's why it's interesting. If Lane Kiffin leaves, okay, I mean, the Ole Miss is now going to be at our level. Do you think the old miss is definitely a job better than us, though?

Like LSU is, Florida is, is Ole Miss? Yes. Right now, I thought it would argue. Why? Kiffin sort of made it that way, I think. But would you want to follow him? Like, I mean, I'm consistently in the conversation in the last few years. I don't know.

To me, if you follow him at Old Miss, you better be good. Because they're going to want you, like, that's the highest standard they've ever been, and they're going to expect you to be that right off the back. Just get a really good buyout. If it doesn't work. We're going to have to stick with you anyway. Governor Louisiana says he ain't giving you a buyout. If I'm Kiffin, I might not leave because they're going to match any price.

You have that town wrapped around your finger. It's small. You got family ties there. You're in the playoff mix. If I'm him, I would see what Ole Miss will pay me to stay, and I'd take that. All right, we're going to do the Draft Kings KSR Parlay. I'm going to give you all a chance again to do it. Me too?

Yes. I mean, I don't want to. You are. I'm a former NFL coach. We didn't win last week. Yes, that's true. Do we think having dressed as... Put the mustache back on, then you get the pair. Okay.

There you go. Put it back on me. Dump bears. All right, with the mustache back on, we will go. I'll tell you what, Drew, I'll let you go first. What do you like? I have two I like, and I'm afraid I'm going to pick the wrong one. I'm going to flip a coin in my head.

All right, Mississippi State, getting four and a half against Arkansas. Mississippi State has lost some heartbreakers lately. They've blown some big leads. Should have had Florida beat. Arkansas just played Auburn and Losson. They're a little better with Petrino, but I think Mississippi State can at least cover the four and a half. Interesting, all right.

I am going to have to say, once I had a girl, half bear the other half cat, I'm going to have to take Tennessee at home as a two and a half point favorite over Oklahoma. I feel like Tennessee is going to roll Oklahoma. I can't believe they're only a two and a half point favorite at home. I would have thought that would have been seven. So I'm going to have to say corn don't grow it all on Rocky Top. I'm going to have to pick the Vols.

I don't know what the over is. That's going to be a shootout. So you've got. Mississippi State covered four and a half. I got Tennessee. Remember, I haven't lost yet on this. So if you want to win some money, bet on the Volves, what do you got? What do you think about Nebraska four and a half over USC at all?

You don't get to pick Nebraska because of Dane Key. But that's a good bet. They're at home. They're four and a half point. They just re-sign their coach. We won't let him do Nebraska. He lost his mustache. No, you don't get the pick.

I felt good about it until the mustache fell off. I mean, I have three rules in gambling, and one of them is don't ever bet on Nebraska. But if we want to break it. The second is don't ever bet on your family members. I'll ride with it if he believes. You believe? You guys count me out. I'm just going to put on my big $2 bed on Nebraska.

All right. We'll throw Nebraska in Mississippi State, Tennessee, Nebraska. Shannon, what do you add? All right, I'm going to go back to the SEC, Arkansas, and Mississippi State. We already picked that. We picked Mississippi State. Okay, crap. Do you want my other one?

It involves your team. Yeah, you got Vanderbilt? At Texas. Yeah, I don't know if I thought. Arch might be out. That's a good thing. All right. Let's take Vandy and the three.

So you're going against his pick. He wants Texas. Forget what I said. You make your pick. I don't want to sway anything. You took my pick, but it's okay. First of all, part of the reason you lose is you all pick with your heart. You pick Dane Key.

and Vanderbilt. We don't discuss these things before we go, and I agree with... I love you, Shannon, but you know every week we're going to do this. Right, so I had a pick, and you took my pick. So now I've got a pick on the fly, which is why these things don't get. You think about it. You think about it while we also make our game picks. Cats in Auburn. We are at Auburn. We are a 10.5. 10.5. Underdog. Game is at 7.30. If you have YouTube TV, you might not even be able to see it. I got mine. What do you got? I think it'll be a game.

I'm going to pick Auburn just because we'll find a way to lose it at the end. I'll even say Kentucky leads in the fourth quarter and somehow blows it. 3028. 3028. Who's your MVP? Seth McGowan, if he plays. I'll say he plays and plays well. Let's go.

Actually, I'll go with you, Ryan. Auburn's defense is really, really good, so I'm going to have trouble scoring. I'm going to give us 13. I can say we lose 24-13. Our MVP, since he took McGowan, I'll take Cutter. Okay. I think we're going to be in this game for some of it, and then I think it'll kind of fall apart at the end.

I'm going to say 27-17, and I will take Kendrick Law as my MVP. First of all, what's your parley pick? I got Georgia on the road, minus 7, Florida. I like that. I think that's a good. There we go. All right, so Georgia, Nebraska, Mississippi State, Tennessee. Now tell me the Kentucky game, score an MVP.

21-18, Cats pull it out. Sheaz Pete is going to be my MVP. Oh, wow. Pete. Wow. You're picking Kentucky to win and Shiaj P as the MVP. How are you going to know what he does that makes him the MVP? Because he's going to get a fumble.

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