KSR - 2025-12-02- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk new UK Head Football Coach Will Stein and take your calls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I am Matt Jones here on a day full of snow all around the state. the, well, probably all around the state. Certainly here in Lexington. I heard they had more in Louisville, and it is all over the place. Some places out of school, Fayette County Public Schools is one of them. So we are here, but it's also one of the more massive days in recent KSR history. You can give Sean Clark's Pump and Shop phone line, 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine 772-7452524.

And this edition sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, if you call T.J. he'll make them pay. It is on the same day. We have a massive basketball game as Kentucky plays North Carolina tonight. The two winningness programs of all time, or two of the three, I guess Kansas is up there now. Kentucky has a new football coach. Yesterday, it was officially announced at 11.15 at night. They're doing a tough job about announcing this stuff in the middle of the night, but it leaked earlier in the evening. Will Stein is the new University of Kentucky football coach. If you were keeping score at home, just 25 hours after they announced that Stoops was leaving, they have announced, actually, they didn't officially announce Stoops was leaving

until Monday morning. So 14 hours, I think, after they announced, they already had a new coach as Will Stein is the coach. Let's just start with this. I'll give you my reaction and then let's do yours. I think this is a great hire. I think if you had gone back four or three months ago and said who would you want if Mark Stoops is not the coach at the end of the year, you would have said either John Summerall or Will Stein, so you get one of them. I'm sure some people might have wanted another, some people, whatever, but you got one of the two candidates. I think most people would have thought would have been the best for this job. Grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. Dad played for Kentucky. Season ticket holders apparently in Section 128.

128 at Kroger Field. So whoever's in 128, you've been sitting. next to the, for years you were sitting next to the new head football coach. He was a kid that apparently went to every game, played at Louisville, has been the offensive coordinator at UTSA and then Oregon. He has coached three quarterbacks at Oregon. All three are going to end up top three round draft picks in the NFL, Bo Nix, Dylan Gabriel, and his quarterback more now will as well whenever he leaves. So loves the school. I had my friend Jeff Schwartz, who I did my ESPN show with after I did it with Orlovsky, Myron and I did it with a guy named Jeff Schwartz for a year. He played at Oregon, lives in Eugene, huge Oregon fan, does radio for

the PAC 12, or now it's, I guess, the big, well, I don't know if he's with the Big Ten Network or not, but he did do it with the Pac-12. He wrote me yesterday and said, you guys have a brilliant coach. We hate to lose him. He's going to be awesome there. So I am very, very happy. I grade the higher in A. It was 14 hours, which is crazy. But I am just really, really happy with what we ended up with. What about you, Drew?

Me too. It's been in my brain, Sumerall and Stein for a long time. Somerall clearly wasn't an option with the way it played out. And I love how quickly they moved to get Stein. You know, this day and hate, you got to go fast. Players are already looking out and looking for other places. And you don't want to miss out on that window. I know it's not officially open, but come on, let's be honest.

They're all talking behind the scenes. So I'm glad they got it done early. And even though it shouldn't matter that much, something about him having those season tickets goes along with. I agree. We now have a football and a basketball coach that is specifically one of us. Ryan, you remember when Will Stein, I don't know if you remember when his dad played, but you remember a long time.

What do you think about it? Yeah, his dad actually scored a touchdown. Punk found a touchdown of his dad falling on. a fumble in the end zone or something. Okay. So that video will surface today. Big Man TD. But you're right, man.

You know, it had to be a hire that re-energized the fan base, got the fan base back on board. It had to be a hire that got the boosters, NIL people, back on board. It had to be a higher to get that locker room back on board. And this guy checks all those boxes, you know? When we walked out of this room yesterday, he was maybe Choice 1, Heartline's 1A. And then who would have thought we'd come back in here today? And it's a done deal. I mean, it happened.

But it had to happen fast, I think. Well, I mean, I think that that's one of the things you have to go back and look at. Clearly, they didn't have their first conversation with him yesterday. Right. I mean, they had to have talked to him at some point. Had to him. I mean, there's no way that you could have, I mean, there's no way that it could have gone from zero to nothing in a day. So do you think they talked Sunday?

I mean, probably, but I bet there were conversations, maybe not between Mitch. but I bet there were conversations of if this job would come open maybe two weeks ago, right? Maybe when it looked like, who knows? We'll never know the answer because they'll never say. But you're not going to convince me that in 14 hours they went from, hello, my name's Mitch Barnhart. Hello, my name's Will Stein. And I mean, that's just...

Mitch can't call Will Stein midyear, but they both have friends, agents. That happens every team, everywhere. There's constant communication. Somebody talked. And, you know, what's funny is this, the word of it yesterday, well, first of all, Shannon, what do you think of it? We didn't. Well, first of all, I was told, if you believe any of my sources, that the decision was made on Sunday. Okay, so see, this is what I, this was exactly, I'm glad you said that. This is why we're going to. Will Stein's family, like everyone in Louisville knows these people. Literally, like everyone.

Like, I can, I mean, there are like three or four names in Kentucky media that grew up with him. Okay. I mean, Stephen Peake, who works for us. Played on the same baseball team. He was wearing the jersey last night on our rapid reaction. T.J. Walker, former KS.R. guy, I think, knew him as a kid. Katie George. There are multiple pictures of Katie George and he, as little kids together, the reporter. Every person like Shannon, and I'm not saying Shannon, whoever told you that's not correct. But everyone wrote me yesterday. Hundreds of people. wrote the text machine and said, I have a source, deal's done. And they may all have been right.

They may have none been right. I don't think it was done. I was talking to somebody who was part of it. I don't think it was done until about 930 or 10 last night. I think they were ready for official people to report it when the Thamele and all those people did. but I think there was probably an agreement who knows when, maybe even Sunday. It will be interesting to have somebody, though. This is going to be the age of, so I was talking. There's going to be more sources.

I was thinking about this. We haven't had a coach connected to this state like since I've been doing it. Like Mark played here, but he didn't know anybody here. They're still very closed off. He's from Washington State. This is going to be the air.

of my baker told the hunter like this is going to be the air of just wait yep all the Trinity connections all the I mean first of all what is that I was wondering what's going on so the loud noise was in the fire alarm okay so what do we do with this okay stop I mean this yes trinity is everywhere there are what 9000 kids at trinity every year yeah I mean the age of trinity both the UK both the UK and that's true Trinity guys that's true both of This is the age of Trinity. Who would have thought we'd have a former Louisville quarterback as our head coach? But it seems like, do you think he's more us than them?

You may just have to deal with this the whole time. Can we not do a show like this? I mean, I can't have this going over the air. There goes, it stops. What kind of fire alarm starts and stops like that? All right. If it does it again, Shannon, what do we do? I'll just tell you my take real quick.

Yeah, if it does it again, then you can. can just talk until we get here. 859-2-80-20-287. Hopefully it won't do it again. But anyway, point being, you mentioned the U of L coach, or U-FL playing. I consider him more of a Kentucky guy, though,

right? If he grew up a fan. Wanted to play here. Wanted to play here. He didn't give him a scholarship offer. I don't know how that didn't have. He wanted a walk-on spot and couldn't get it. His dad played with Joker.

It's like, hey, you got a spot for my boy? So I don't even blame him for being a little boy. Oh, wow. So he wanted it bad. and just didn't have the opportunity. So let's talk about what we have. I mean, Oregon's offense, I mean, they're up-tempo, they're fast-paced, they put up a lot of points.

I think the development of quarterbacks, Ryan, is huge for me. I didn't get a stop. All right, we'll have to do this now. I don't know what we'll do. I'll try to get connected somewhere else, Shannon. Okay. You get going and we'll see what we can do. I mean, what a day.

What a day for this. to happen. I know, but it's just going to keep doing it the whole time. I mean, can you handle six beeps over the air? The worst fire alarm ever. I mean, we're going to go see the building. Why don't you go see what's happening, Drew? It's beeping twice and then quitting. So, yeah, it's done that three times. Only at eye heart. On the day that you hire Will Stein, does the building decide to beep? The building is beep. I'll also note that there's like a pretty big meeting going on right now

in this building. Oh, yeah. With some of this. Like, I'm not kidding. Not on this floor, but somewhere else. Not in the eye heart offices. Because we ran into them in the elevator, Shannon. Yeah, well, I don't know what you're referring to, but it's on brand, though.

I will say that. A few things yesterday happened that were great Kentucky. One is the whole airplane situation. Hold on. The building's okay, by the way. We're safe. Is this going to stop? I don't know about that, but we don't have to evacuate.

our top floor of the city center. Can you ask them not, are they doing testing? Hit it what they have? They cannot be doing testing. No one in the office has budged. Everyone's just zoom in and typing away out there. Okay. So no one knows.

The airplane situation was great. So I get a message that says there's an airplane on the tarmac in Lexington that is going from Lexington to Columbus and then Columbus to Eugene. Okay, come on. Can't be coincidence on the day. on. Like, like, what was it, Billy? A test. What we test him. There's a show going on. A test. Why can't they test this at midnight? Why are they going to test it during the day?

Snowing outside. It's not going to have fire. A test. Wow. Good grief. A test. And Billy says it can go over the air. A test. Well, it did. Too late. Um, so when you see that, you go. And by the way, It's owned by probably the second biggest football donor. Right? The jet? Yeah, I mean, we can say he was all over the internet. Brett Sensor.

Yeah. Who literally is probably the second biggest football. And he used his jet a lot. And they use his jet all the time. So you, I mean, the natural inclination is, okay, they're going to go interview Brian Hartline and then they're going to go to Oregon. Uh-huh. But then an hour before that, a jet is going from Jeffersonville, Indiana. directly to Eugene Orton.

That's a rental jet, like a net jets kind of thing. So they're both going on. The one to Columbus and Eugene never took off. There are some people speculating they just put that out there. Smoke screen. Smokescreen. Because you know, you got to let the airport know. They got to get it in the system.

I don't feel like our people are clever enough to do that. Like, they don't do that kind of stuff. Well, I know in the basketball search they had a few tricks up their sleeve. They were leaving from other airports. No, leaving from other airports I get. Like, they've actually flown from that Jeffersonville airport before. So that doesn't shock me. But do you think they put out a fake flight plan? I think the most likely scenario.

You don't think so, Shannon? No, not for a college football coach. You're not the president. Why would there have been a flight plan that didn't take off that would go to love this and then Eugene. I lean a little misdirection, but I don't believe UK athletics has that in them. You think Brett Setser did it? My best guess is maybe they weren't all done with Stein yet and they thought we might have to go talk to the higher line who could get us there and it's like getting it in the

system as a just in case. Stein says yes. I'm like, all right, we don't need that. But I mean, it was kind of just having it lined up in case we have to go to Columbus. But that's not the smokescreen. That's like it was a backup plan. And that's just me completely trying to think of what they could be doing. Yeah, I think it was total.

They had to get ready just in case. So they had to notify the pilot who had to notify the air traffic controllers to get on the flight pattern. So they had to take off. I mean, they're kind of boozy if they can't drive to Columbus. I agree. I felt like it's not that far, Shannon. Like you can drive to Clutz three and a half hours. If you were AD, you would have gone to Eugene.

I would have driven to Eugene. He would have. Yeah. Will will be there in eight days to interview. If it was a smoke. It's literally the Oregon. If it was a smokescreen, they probably would have had a trip to Las Vegas

trying to really throw us off. Oh, for Dan Bullitt? Uh-huh. All right, well, let's take a break. 859-280-2287. Text machine is 7-7-2. What a KSR. First segment, I'm playing this whole wheel style.

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So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is going to drive me in crazy today. I'm going to have to, I'm at to, figure out like a, how do we get the zen of this fire alarm? I mean, just so people know, we're in the city, this is the city center building in Lexington, right? Yes.

What is wrong with these people who own? Like, how are they doing this? Forget about us. How are you testing a firearm during the workday? Why can't you test it at night? There's several floors full of businesses. I mean, look, right now, like, just listen to this. Also, they tested it.

What's with the over and over? It's working. We're good. Can someone at the city sitter understand, Shannon? It's working now. They're just doing it to make you mad. Like now it's doing it more than it was. Oh.

May I have your attention? You have it. There has been a report of an emergency. Now see, but is that real or are they testing it? They say an emergency. Yeah. Well, but they said they sent an email saying they were doing this. By the way, thank you to Aheart for letting me know about that email.

We could have gone to the restaurant. To the restaurant today. This place runs like a dream. I got to admit I'm smiling over here. people are saying it's funny listening to me be frustrated it's just because like this is the kind of show you do shannon and we can use on a best of like we just played on thanksgiving the day after mark pope was hired right this isn't some random summer show this is kind of a big show so if will stine ends up being successful this is when we could have played for years and now we can't because I might argue this is definitely a best of now 859 280 27 one person right It's Matt. I wrote you this at 1137. I said he had already accepted job. You didn't read it on the show. You could have had it. I got, sir, with respect, I got like 200 of those. But I mean, you know, how do you know if that's true? Plus, I was talking to someone that was involved in the process. And they were saying it's not not done. We think it's going to be done. But it's not done. So, I mean, you know. I'm like you. I'm not from Louisville. I have friends from Louisville. This was my first taste of how Louisville operates. Everyone I know with a Louisville number texting me.

Let me tell you a little story about everyone. This is Louisville. I've lived there. Louisville, especially the Catholic schools in Louisville. And specifically, Shannon, Trinity.

Oh, yeah. Trinity is like a network. It's like an underground society that's above ground. Am I wrong about this? No, you got it. You're right.

Trinity, there's nothing like it in Lexington. Like Trinity runs Louisville. Does St. X have their own underground also? I'm sure they do. But I don't think it's as, I think the Trinity, I, maybe I just know, but think about all the people we know that went to Trinity, Dean or, you know, Vanetti, like they're all Trinity people. Jody Dimling, they're all Trinity people.

And they're everywhere. And this is how it's going to be. Like the amount of my cousin told me, like, That's just how it's going to be. On the moment, there's something, whatever, during the season we're trying to figure out. It's going to be great for us. Like, it's going to be great for news agencies because we've had a number of coaches here back to back that were relatively tight-lipped. Cow was tight-lipped.

Absolutely. For the most part. Pope's the most tight-lipped I've seen. Stoops was, I mean, some people talked, but it wasn't crazy. This will, whether they do or the Trinity will be on fire. the Trinity hotline. Oh, yeah. Will Stein's Bomb owns a cake store.

Yes. In Louis. It's got to be good for business. What's the name of the cake store? Oh, I need to listen. Sissy cakes? That sounds right. I think that sounds right.

I think that's the one. I think it's called. I'll confirm, but I'm, okay, has anyone ever had sissy cakes? No, but I'm anxious to try them. Okay, so here's what I want to do. Sissy cakes. Now, I know it's snowy.

But I would like someone. Oh my goodness. Two cycles. There's the second one. I would like someone. Can I take the batteries out of that? How does that work? To go to Sissy Cakes during the show.

Okay. I like it. Who Shannon could we get to go to Sissy Cakes and buy cake and eat it? In Louisville. In Louisville. Sissy Cakes is on Fairfax Avenue. This is an end show thing I would like to do. I would like to have someone.

It looks like it is next. to it's in St. Matthews. It's next to the Black Rabbit, which I've been watching Netflix. Got to be careful there. Yeah. Yeah. Good show.

I don't know. Where's Rick when you need them, you know? Who could we get to go? All right, I'll tell you what, if there's someone that will volunteer, if you have nothing to do, to go to Sissy Cakes and be our Will Stein's mom's bakery

correspondent. Jane Linden, we're calling you out. text the text machine. 772-745254. But go ahead and like actually say, like, don't do it unless you can. Then I'll have Shannon call you and we will send you to sissy cakes. And I'll pay for your cake. All right?

Because I want to taste a sissy cake. She has orange juice cakes, so they're unique. Oh, all the cakes are made of orange juice? I mean, she might have others, but that's like, that's one of the things. That's what her thing is. You know what a bun cake is? Yeah. It's kind of like that.

She has orange juice. Maybe a little orange zest. Okay. All right. Let me know if you can do it. 772-745254. Do you think he wins the fan base vote? Yes.

And the story's coming out about how he's a Kentucky fan. I read yesterday on KSR. His parents had a life-sized DeMarcus cousins poster in their home. When I read that, I didn't need to know anything. Is he older than that? Or younger than that? Well, old people can't have pictures of... Oh, you're saying his parents,

did, not him. Okay, gotcha, got you. His parents had a life size. When I heard that, I don't, I don't care. I don't care about anything else. I know that's dumb. That should not matter, but it's not like, yeah, kind of like Kentucky, kind of went to games. If you have a life size to Marcus Cousins poster in your home, I'm all in. I don't care. They could have made his mom the coach, and I would have been all in. So I think the fan connection, it goes a long way here. We know that. And him, no one is his exact seat number from when he had the season tickets. I think that's going to carry a lot of weight. Then, of course, he has one of the best offenses in the last several years.

Yeah, you mentioned that before the alarm started going off. That's how I know him is just what he did with Bo Nex. When Bo Nix was there a couple years ago, they were so fun to watch. He was much to watch TV, man. And Dylan Gabriel, he became a third pick in the draft. And he's going to make this, I think his name's Dante Moore, a pick. You know, that's exciting. Do you have an opinion about him coaching through the playoffs?

I think he should do it. I think it's good for us. I really do. It's going to be, let's, I mean, let's say they win a couple, let's say they win a game or two. We're not only, we're not only as fans going to get to learn our offense, people are going to say during the game, offensive coordinator Will Stein going to Kentucky. Oh, people are going to be like, what a great hire.

I mean, all the national media loves the guy. Like, we got universal praise yesterday. So I'm good with it. I know some people would say you need to focus on the job, but I'm having to do a show with a fire alarm. So I feel like he can also do, I feel like he can also do it. We'll be all right. We'll figure it out here. I mean, he can work the phones from there.

I'm with you. There will be a tight shot of him on the sideline. It'll have a UK logo like first. Anyway, they're trying to get him here tonight for the game. To be introduced to the game. But there are flight issues because of the weather's. Then we only have a private jet up there? Maybe they shouldn't go through the corner.

Just go straight. I would assume. Yeah, I would assume that was the one that went from Indiana. But there's a chance he could be introduced at the game, which would be. The place would go nuts. We'll not be a press conference today, today, though. Maybe tomorrow. I don't know. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. KSR. 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.

All right. So Jay and Linda's going to get the cake. He's going to get the cake. Yep. And this thing beeped during the entire break. It's just going to keep beeping. Look, I don't understand how these things work, Shannon. You're a tech guy. No, I'm not. No, I'm not at all. How many times do they, like, once it beeps. Yeah. You know what I mean?

It works. It works. So what else do we need to do? I tested my smoke detectors like two nights ago. I hit the button, it beeped, and I went on living my life. And then you go on. Yeah. I don't know how many times you have to do it.

It's been over 30 minutes now of testing. What, is there a reason? Maybe somebody can tell me. I don't know what the reason would be. I mean, is it possible? Maybe there's not even anybody in there really doing that. They just hit it one time and walked away. And now every so often it just goes off on its own.

And what if an actual emergency started happening? You're screwed. Right now. We would think it's a test. We're up high in the air. And we would think it's a test. You'd see the smoke. There's too much testing.

A lot of testing. With a screwdriver, I think I could just take this off the ceiling. That might be illegal, but I see it. I could do it. Yeah. 859-2802287. All right. So Jay and Lyndon's going to go to Sissy Cake.

Apparently it's right next to Trinity. There are now people in the text machine arguing about Trinity versus Sanex. Which, by the way, is all living in Louisville is. Well, Adam Luckett, who covers football for us, played at St. X, and he's already thinks he has a rivalry with St. He's already mad. It's like they don't turn that off. Like, that lives with them forever. I also, this gives you an example of how much Will is connected to the Kentucky community.

I sat there and thought of like seven people who had some connection to him. And I texted all of them and said, do any of you have Will's, I said, text them separate. Do you have Will Stein's number? All seven. I'll have it. Everyone, Shannon. Everyone's got it. Everyone's got it.

Too bad we don't have the number to whoever's running these fire alarm tests. 8-59-2-8-0-22-87. All right, let's go to Madison. I'm going to break this thing before it's over. Madison. How are we doing, Matt? Great, Madison, if you can't tell. I hate it for you, the fire alarm's going off, but.

I got two things. This would be what I wish you had a live camera for. If you could see my face as these things go off. All right, Madison, go ahead. One, do you think some of the organ commits that they have set up for the National Signing Day? You think they'll commit to Kentucky? And two, who needs to step up first North Carolina for us?

to beat a ranked team. I don't even know what you said. Shannon, I mean, what do we do? I'm being honest. This is like we just have to talk about it here on the air. What do we do? Do we have? I mean, is it better to just let you go and take people's calls?

Or should we keep this going on? Just keep it going. It's fine. I mean, it's part of the KSR charm to have a fire alarm going on the background. I mean, Drew and Ryan are just laughing. My friends are texting me more, more alarms. No, more alarm. Now it's like going over and over and over.

It won't stop. Now they're just messing with you. Now they're, you know what? I'm going to flip off city center if we're not careful. We can't go to another studio because doing the same thing in every studio up here. And one of our bosses just wrote me and goes, well, we never know if you're here so we didn't know to tell you. I was like, do you want me to every single day write you and go, is there going to be a fire alarm the entire show today? Would have been helpful.

Just a little heads up. Would have been helpful to know. I could have happily gone to the bar. All right. Matt Madison wanted to know who's going to step up tonight in the North Carolina Kentucky game. I don't know. Michael, go ahead, Michael.

Great answer. I don't know. Go ahead, Mike. Hey, guys. I'm not going to lie when I heard that fire alarm at first. I thought something's going on at my house, so I understand how annoying that could be. See, that's a problem. That's true.

That might be a problem that everybody feels. Go ahead. So my question to you is that how do you think, the reaction is going to be for Will Stein. Like, do you think that the energy around the program this year is going to be similar to how it's been like years where we expected stoops to go 9 and 3, 10 and 2, 8 and 4? He gets a year of grace. No, but I don't think, well, it's a good question.

I appreciate the call. Do you think, I mean, what do you think the expectations will be year one? I think people are going to give them a year to get, I mean, you got to build a team. And his, you know, with one of the hardest schedules we've ever had. Of course. And he does the feed the story. studs offense. He's big about, I got a playmaker, get him the ball. You know who came up with that phrase. Doesn't matter. No care. I don't look backwards.

I look forward. It was Bobby Petrino. Who cares. I've already forgotten who you said. We've moved on. Feed the studs here in Lexington. Okay, we're feeding the studs. But to that point. And one concern I actually have is we have to have studs for him to feed. I mean, that's a great concept when you're at Oregon, because Oregon is loaded with talent. And I think he can get it. But I don't know that he'll be able to just in year one, just have an offense full of guys that you can just get the ball to, a bunch of playmakers. Maybe you will. But I think he will. But I think he's, needs a little bit of time. Anytime there's a new coach, Ryan, you get an injection of energy.

Absolutely. So I think that's going to be good. And then I think that once you have that, fans, as long as people see positivity, fans, I think will give him certainly a year to get going. I don't think there's any doubt about it. And I think he'll take him a minute to get his people in place that he wants to get here. But if you're a recruit, you want to play in a system like that. You know, he can go out now and sell his system and he had at Oregon, get some guys to come here and make it fun and exciting offense. And he's the youngest coach in the SEC. What, 36? 36. Wow. I mean, that's nuts.

I've never been older than a coach before. Yeah, I mean, that's the first time. 36. I did, like, on the recruiting, Matt Ponatowski put out a picture of him and Will Stein last night because people were wondering, we'll Kentucky keep him. I mean, Oregon was seconded his recruitment, and he tweeted something like I could get used to this or this might work or something like that. Have you gone back in the archives? I mean, there's a chance.

I mean, he played in the KSR era. There's a chance you specifically have written something bad about it. Well, Matt, I don't look backwards. I look critics. I mean, like, there's a chance that there are old KSR posts that we could take down. It's fine. I don't know. I mean, honestly, don't remember.

But that was Will Stein played in the, I think he was. You could be mean back then. Yeah, but again, I don't look backwards. He's the head coach of Kentucky. I know, I'm just saying this is the first Kentucky coach. That's fine. I mean, you remember that one little comment that I wrote once in the comment section about CalPair? Oh, that stayed forever.

That brought people brought up for years. Yeah, but I don't care. I'm not trying to be his best friend. I need him to come here and win games. If he doesn't like something I wrote back then, that's fine. Ryan, do you remember him like playing high school? I play him high school, but not really at Louisville. He didn't play a lot, but I think he played a lot.

But I think he played against us one year. I think he started against us and then got hurt or something. And either, I think he got hurt and Teddy Bridgewater came in. I think that's exactly right. Or maybe, and I think maybe the year before he came in for somebody else. I think he played against us twice. He went three, well, let me make sure this is right. Looks like he went three for five against Kentucky in the game.

I think he played against us twice once coming in and once he got hurt and got replaced. I could be wrong about that, but I think that's correct. He came in for Teddy in his senior year. That's, that's, okay. Did we replace here? The year before, he also took a few snaps behind Teddy. Yeah. Through four passes in one year, five in another.

Okay, so he played with Teddy. Jamie, go ahead, Jamie. Yeah, I just wanted to ask about the quarterbacks. I know it'll come up, but why would Cutter want to leave when we had a poor type performance on the field for a court? for a quarterback coach, it's really going to do great things. What do y'all think about the crew? Has anybody said he was? Yeah, I haven't heard he's going to leave, Ryan.

I would think he stays, don't you? You would think now more than ever he wants to stay to be in a system like this with a guy that developed Bow Nix, Dylan Gabriel? Yeah, he wanted to be a part of that. Yeah, Cutter sure has to consider all options. But when you're looking around, what more fun offense would there be than Oregon's, and now he's coming to you. Yeah, if you're a quarterback, I mean, let's say Cutter was going to leave.

and he got to decide where to go to college. Let's say he decided at the end of the season. I appreciate the call. I'm leaving UK, Shannon. I'm going to go somewhere else. And let's say he had an offer from every school in the country. I would think Oregon with the last three dudes getting drafted in the NFL and the first three rounds would have been one of his top choices, don't you?

Amen, it would have. I mean, I'm not saying that's where he would have picked, but it would have been one of them. Yes, it would have. So then if that offensive coordinator ends up in your lap, where are you going to go? I think he had an offer from Oregon. I know he wasn't like top five. He was looking more Tennessee and things like that behind Kentucky.

But there was connection there, and I assume it would be with Stein in the recruitment. And as you said yesterday, the one commitment we have, that four-star Matt Ponatowski, his other school, was Oregon. He's got a picture of him and Stein and Oregon. So you've got to think he's coming. Right? So we'll have all these pictures next year of Cutter at the game as a little guy. Now I have Will Stein at the game as a little guy on the broadcast. And the style that he likes to play.

He says fast and free, you know, for the quarterback. I would think that would be something to be. And when we've seen Cutter play well this year, it's been like that. Up tempo. It's been in those uptempo moments. I'd watch for Stein. He might even bring someone with him to compete with Cutter of Cutter stays. I don't know any of his connections out there.

But when you're the offensive corner. The Dante Moore, I think, has to go back. There's a quarterback at Cal that had been there. But when you're the OC at Oregon, you have a pretty big contact list of QBs. If you're a bourbon lover and a UK fan, grab a bottle of club blue bourbon. Their white label and blue label won gold medals at the Ascot Awards. They're supporting great athletes through JMI's NIL. Ryan and Drew selected the recipe along with others.

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I have an update on our past, by the way, quickly. What? Stephen texts me that Will might remember KSR calling him Louisville's little leprechaun quarterback back in the day. Oh, no, no, no. No, we didn't. I didn't say anyone in particular. That would have been you. I would not have called someone a lepricon quarterback. That was you. You were really mean back then sometimes. Like you need to, now you got to say it to this case. I've told the story before, but when I was thinking about running for Senate,

and I got the background check, most of the background check were Drew and Turkey Hunter Post that they thought I might have to answer for. Sorry, we don't look back, Matt. He's going to bring an exciting offense to Kentucky. All right. So maybe we don't bring that up at the press conference. No. Okay.

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on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcast. All right. At least it wasn't me and Drew. We've been cleared. We've been cleared. Or Ryan, actually. Yeah, it was T.J. TJ is the guilty party. TJ's the guilty party with the post on KSR.

That would have been a good guess. He was mean back then too. Now, they were funny. Don't get me wrong. T.J. Drew back then, Turkey Hunter. Like, they were funny. But there were things like, I look back and go, I can't believe we wrote that.

Somebody was talking to me about this the other day. And I'm like, yeah, there are things I just came to believe we wrote. And the aforementioned line that was a T.J. line. I knew it wasn't me. It didn't sound like something I would do, but I was going to own it if I did. I could have seen you to it. No, I would have been much meaner. It didn't go off one time during the commercial break. They came in during the commercial break and they said we've turned that off.

And they haven't. And it didn't go off once during the commercial break. You've have it. Thank you very much. One person writes, Matt, this is the best KSR show in a decade. I love hearing you mad. That's not nice. Another person writes. It's the most KSR thing ever. Fire alarm going off nonstop is hilarious,

especially right after we hired a new football coach. And we played North Carolina and basketball. Just for the record. What if we were had him on? That's true. Perfect. I mean, then I might have exploded. There's traveling going on right now,

which is why I invited Mitch Barnhart to come on to talk about the hire, but there's traveling going on. I'm going to assume that if they don't do the press conference tomorrow, I could get Mitch on tomorrow. I don't think they know when they're going to. going to do because he still has to prep for stuff. So I think he's coming here, but he's not staying long because I think he has to go back. So I think like our long form interview with him, who knows when that'll happen? I mean, it may be a bit because of the playoff. Well, if we can do it

tomorrow, my friend Corey said he's going to snowblow his driveway if we want to come sit there next to a snowblower interview. We'll stop to keep this theme of loud noise is going. We'll be at the bar. We'll be at the bar Wednesday and Thursday. We're also at the bar today, by the way, 7 o'clock for Carolina pregame. Yeah, that's gotten lost in the shuffle ball. It's a big basketball game. A huge basketball game. Where we're going to be without Jalen Lowe, Jaden Quains, and Mo Diabata.

Yes. Which kind of scares me a little bit. I think we'll win. But I am nervous for what happens if we don't win. O-N-3 in significant games is not. How are we an eight-and-a-half point favorite? It dropped in me. That was silly.

It's down to five and a half. I know Kentucky fans who bet it, like, I'll just lose my money. If we win by nine or more, I'll happily lose that money. That's a lot. I was surprised that much. Did you, down down, down two or four points? Dick Vitale's doing the game. He is doing the game. Tonight and next week. And next week he's doing it with Charles Barkley. That's, so think about that. Tonight we have Dick Vital and Jay Williams against Indiana. We have Dick Vital and Charles Barkley. I love it. I love it. Can you imagine how little the game will be talked about when Dick Vital and Charles Barkley are on the call together?

So I don't miss a home game I think I'm going to stay home. I would rather listen to that than be in the arena. Well, it's not going to be about the game. I know. That's why I'm excited. They end up Shannon talking about something way different than the game. Well, I mean, any game that Bill Walt never called was never about the game either. Yeah, he didn't do a lot of ours

though. Yeah. But he's signed me up for it every time. Like I want. Listen, they're doing two games. They're doing this one and then they're doing like, Indiana. No, no, they're not doing the one tonight. They're doing Indie, Kentucky, and then they're doing the game a first four game in Dayton together. So they're only working together twice.

This is the only regular season game they're working together. When Charles would do March Madness in the past, he would just openly admit he didn't know the teams. Hopefully he does a little more research. If not it could be chaos. He's not going to do any research. They're not going to have any idea what is happening. Tonight, Vital, this is his first game of the year.

Yeah, right. It's tonight. again with Jay Williams I can't believe they gave Dick Vitell a 930 game Yeah I mean you think he'd be in bed Maybe you wanted it By the way this gotta be one of the latest starts in Rupp Because it really won't

When has Rupp had a later start? Because it used to be nine But like 930? I honestly cannot remember a game starting at 930 or later At Rupp I don't either Let's go to Will go ahead Will I'm laughing because I live in Louisville And Louisville is like the

You know smallest large town ever when everybody asked you where you went to high school, starting out by a conversation. But I went to Trinity, know some of Will's family. See? This has been going on for a while. They actually asked him

two years ago to be the OC, and he turned them down. So I suspect conversations have been going on for a while. So, well, let me ask you, and I'm not in any way. Go ahead. I'm not in any way saying whatever you say is not correct. When did you get confirmed this happened? I didn't get confirmed about the head coach.

I had reached out. I know his uncle pretty well. And, you know, a few months ago when things were going south, I said, hey, how, you know, can we bring him back as an OC? We need one. He said, well, actually, they asked him two years ago, and he turned them down. And, you know, I just heard it yesterday like everybody else. Okay. So you actually didn't have a source of some of these folks. Actually, shout out of Sissy Cakes, because you can find them at Paul's Fruit Market, and they are awesome.

Appreciate the call. I don't know where Paul's Fruit Market is. we're just not enough into this Louisville culture. I'm telling you. This Trinity culture is going to be taken over over. The university, it'll be wait and see. It is a part of Louisville that is kind of, you're right, except it from the whole rest of the city. Oh, it is.

The Trinity, and okay, fine, I'll throw in say next so they don't get mad. And then the whole assumption and like all, sacred heart. Like that is a whole thing. Uh-huh. Their own little city. And it's like, it's its own thing that I was, you know, I don't know, I was never part of it. that, but it is, it, it is all over. And every, I mean, the amount of people that were like,

Will Stein has, I know his uncle, I know his cousin, I know his sister. Like, it's like, that's just, that's what it is. Bobby, go ahead, Bobby. Hey, guys, uh, so the most excited thing that I'm about Will Stein, and I hope cutter Bowley stays because I hope he's listening is whenever he has a quarterback in their first year with him, that take a huge leap in a fish. So, Nix. He was already efficient. He was 71% before Willstein.

After Will Stein, 78%. Same thing with Dylan Gabriel, Oklahoma. He was at 68%. He went to Will Stein, 73%. It's insane. I'm just so excited to see this QB Guru go. And I just want to thank you all for all you all do. Thank you.

Love the numbers. I like that. That makes me excited. I didn't know all that. So, yeah, very exciting. We will talk more about Will Stein. Jay and Linden is live right now at Sissy. We will see what the scene is at Sissy Cakes.

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