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

Episode Date: December 12, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk Kentucky vs. Indiana, Kentucky Football's 2026 schedule, and snow.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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A-Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-7-7-4. This edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, called T.J. O'Makeem-Pay. It is a snow day here at KS. Bar & Grill. Fayeat counties out of school, right? Most counties, I think, are out of school. Rhodes were a little dicey last night, but they weren't too bad this morning. Yeah, so we got folks here from Lexington. Let's see.

Was it, wait a minute, do you tell me. Nicholsville. Moorhead. Moorhead. and you were Nicholas County, right? See? Look at that. Pretty good memory.

But nice to have folks who drove in and you can come on out. Rare Friday here at the bar. Yeah, my man here, Moorho over this morning, said it was kind of rough over there but didn't look bad on the interstate or anything. Yeah, I think they got a lot of snow in Louisville, right? Was it Louisville? About four inches of snow here. Yeah, it's a lot more.

I think that's more than we got here. So stay safe, Shannon. But, you know, Shannon comes to work no matter what. Did you stay downtown? No. Sometimes they let you all stay downtown. town for a snow day. No, I made the trip in from Bullitt County this morning. Roads were pretty clear for the most part, so it wasn't too bad. Craig Greenberg keeping those roads rolling. Well, Drew and I noticed

that when our local weather guys didn't have the coats off and the sleeves rolled up. It couldn't be too serious of the situation. Yeah, people are, people be, you know, the weathermen war over snow totals is great. Because you got Mark Weinberg there in Louisville. You know, he's the sassiest of all of them. Yes, he's very sassy. Bill Meck and Chris Bailey, they don't like. like each other, but they try to keep it civil. But you know they don't like each other, right? Oh, they may like each other. They don't like each other.

You know, Shannon. Excuse me. Drew, you can tell. He kind of have to be rivals a little bit. You do. It's part of the game. I mean, they throw little shots at each other. I mean, because Chris Bailey will be like,

hey, mech face. Yeah. You don't remember that, man? I don't remember seeing meck face. Yeah, there was a couple of blizzards ago. And then there's like, oh, Bailey, Shemaley. But in Louisville, Mark Weinberg seems to hate the rest of them. And Mark Weinberg's notorious for, you don't scare people,

you tell them all this snow's coming and it's not. He doesn't like that. So he is very, he's conservative on the snow totals, right? He's a mag on snow totals. It's not going to be too many snow totals. And then when you get, if he under does the snow, people are like, see, told you. So I picture in Louisville the weather people as the snow's,

fall and cheering it or booing it because they seem to have vested interests in how much the more snow the worse for Weinberg the less snow the better for Weinberg so that he enter predict this today and get some pushback today I think he under I think he maybe said one to two inches and I guess it's like four and everybody's like see Weinberg I was going to go get bread and now I can't get bread because of you it's the way he says it though like he is he's very sassy marmy like you know like this is what it's going to be. Don't listen to anybody else. He's like, don't listen to the European totals. I got American totals. And he doesn't know. He doesn't like it. Think how nerve-wracking it must be, though. I mean, most days, you say it's 74 and sunny. It's 71 and there's a cloud. No one cares.

So your credibility is really determined on these few snow days a year. For Mark Weinberg and Chris Bailey and McFace, like when the snow comes, it's like it during a basketball game. They get in the shower. Oh, okay. nervous. They're pacing back and forth. And they're going, come on, God, make it snow more. That's what they do. We've had quite a bit of snow already. I can't believe you all didn't know this.

I didn't know that part. I knew the mech face part. Didn't know about the showers. I didn't know the, you know, the inner ends and out to a local weatherman's hygiene process. I don't know if the rest of the country's weather people have beef like this, but our weather people have beef. It's, uh, all right, so tomorrow's Kentucky, Indiana. I mean, we have to win. Right. Like if we don't win, I don't know if you know this. If we don't win, you have to join the Army, little girl.

I don't know why. Like what? Those are the rules. I'm sorry. That's just the rule. But we have to win, right? Certainly now. I didn't know that aspect. I'll admit, I don't really get nervous about games. I'm pretty nervous about this one and have been for a few days. Why is that? I think we'll win, but I also said this about North Carolina week ago. We'll be a favorite. We're at home. Crowd will be good, especially. with the rivalry coming back, but it's just

in the back of my mind, the, but if we don't, how ugly that will be. And I said this right before the UNC game, and it didn't pan out that well. So, Mark's story wrote in the Herald Leader, and I thought this was, I'm going to actually criticize a Herald Leader writer a little bit later,

so let's praise a Herald Leader writer. I thought Mark's story had a really good article about is U.K. turning into Indiana. That was kind of the premise. Are we becoming, like we all acknowledge, that Indiana basketball has been irrelevant for 20 years. And we don't want to consider ourselves to be that.

Like if you look historically at the programs, historically the six best programs in some order have been Carolina, Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, and Indiana. I think you now can probably put Yukon in that list, so now you're at seven. Louisville's probably next. But really, I sort of do the top six, and UCLA is not UCLA.

So now you're down to five. And I think generally speaking, Indiana is not Indiana and hasn't been in 20 years. So really you're down to four. North Carolina is kind of wavering, but they're still Carolina and they make the tournament most years. I don't think we're even Carolina. So I still think we're in that Duke, Kentucky, Kansas. But we are starting to, okay, are we getting to this Carolina phase or are we getting close to the Indiana phase? To lose to Indiana, I think, Ryan, would make those questions that Mark asked,

feel a little stronger. Absolutely. Indiana, for us old-timers, is still Indiana. You see that name on the jersey. Only for you all. But you can't let North Carolina come in and punk you, and then Indiana come in and punk you. But do you think we're becoming Indiana? If they lose this game, I think Mark Storiam makes a very strong argument

that we could be in that category. That's why you have to win this game. This is a huge must-win game. Because nobody thinks of Indiana is the top program anymore. I mean, I would say, if you were to ask someone 25 and under, are the top programs. I don't think any of them are going to say Indiana. Like, no, more people would say Purdue than Indiana at this point, which has got to drive Indiana fans crazy. But it would probably be true. And there is something symbolic if they come in here and beat us on

Saturday with maybe their best player being a guy that Ryan reported was playing here. And it didn't happen. Yeah, I think we're still a little bit of ways of becoming Indiana, but we're on a path heading straight for it. I mean, we're two years away from people saying Kentucky has one title in 30 years. It's already been a decade since we've been to the final four. I mean, I think Kentucky can turn it around, but if we keep doing this, can't get to Saturday of the SEC tournament and can't get past the second or third game of the NCAA tournament, then the drought gets long enough that I think you can say that,

and we're not too far from it. And, you know, it's been, for me, it's like since COVID. I mean, COVID, I sort of wonder if in the history of America there's going to be, like, there are these little, like, breaking, like changing points of society. It's like World War II, I don't know, Vietnam. And then maybe the, I don't know. Actually, I don't know that there's another one, the 9-11. And then I think COVID is going to be the next one. I think that's kind of like sort of the four break, like things in society.

changed at this point. And I think COVID is won for a variety of reasons. But when it just comes to Kentucky basketball, it does feel like COVID was a changing point. That everything's been worse since then. And I don't know. I feel like Saturday's going to, I feel like

Saturday matters more than it should. I do too, man. And we all thought maybe this was supposed to be the year. We'd get back to relevance. We started out, what, top three in the country, beat Purdue in the exhibition game. We're pounding our chest, thinking we're back, making a run to a title. And it's just kind of falling apart since then. So I think this is huge

for the perception of Kentucky basketball. They have to win this game tomorrow. And there's been a lot of negativity since the Gonzaga game. I mean, the KSR story obviously has probably been the centerpiece of it, but the athletic has a story this morning about it's a little different. It's kind of focused on how bad this

team is and sort of how did we get here to where this team is bad. You know, Field of 68 did a grades halfway or, you know, a quarter way into the season and the only F, went to Kentucky, which I think is probably fair. You know, this, I don't think beating Indiana cures it, but maybe it puts, as Barney would say, Shannon,

a miracle salve on it a little bit to help the bleeding, at least until next week. Yeah, we need something. We just need this win just to be able to feel good about what's ahead for this team because the SEC schedule is coming up. And that's going to be, I mean, I know the SEC isn't what it has been, but it's still going to be tough. Well, we may feel it.

We actually may take a deep breath when the SECD. CC comes at least go, all right? Well, the hardest game is at Alabama, and that's the first one. But then after that, it actually starts to become a little more doable. I'm worried with Saturday, even people that are optimistic thinking this will get turned around. At some point, your resume will be too bad, even if they click and figure it out. I mean, if you go 0 and 5 in these games, two of them being Rupp Arena where you're a favorite. Like, I really start worrying about making the tournament, even if they do come together in February, just because at some point you have to have some quality wins. Listen, I'm not saying we're in the tournament. We're going to have, we've got a decent chance of having six non-conference losses. I mean, you're going to get to the point that if you keep losing these games, I know the conference is down, but we've had years where the conference was down. We still go 14 and 4. Well, 14 and 4, if we have six losses, gives us 10 losses still going into the tournament.

They drop to a non-seed on the bracketology. I can't believe we're in any seed. We haven't beaten anyone. What's our best quality win? Three hundred in the country? I mean, we haven't beaten anybody, but yeah. That's why the tomorrow's game kind of scares me a little bit, because there's so much on the line, I think, as far as Kentucky basketball goes,

that Lamar Wilkison comes in and shoots hits ten threes again. So what do we do about that? Like, what if Lamar Wilkerson? I kind of dread this game for you. Yeah. Have you been looking at this? People are going to be mad at me? Well, especially after he hit ten threes the other night and scored 44 points.

Oh, boy. So remind people why you were, because I was gone. Remind people why you were so convinced he was coming. He was down to the final minutes of his commitment, and I got a note from a source that has been right every single time, every time. Except one. Well, after that point, he was right every time. Okay, gotcha.

He said, hey, Wilkinson has committed to Kentucky. It will be announced tomorrow. So we come on the show the next morning, make the announcement. By the time the show is over, he's committed to any. So what happened? What did the source say happened? Indiana came after him with a better deal. They sweetened the pot.

Got a better deal for him. So, you know, in the KSR story, that's what they said happened with Caleb Wilson, too. Last-minute pot sweetener. Why aren't we sweetening? Exactly. I mean, we're Kentucky. I mean, there comes a point, Drew, when you're looking at this, where, okay, it's sort of like I kind of looked at Stoops' bio a little.

bit differently. When somebody said to me, okay, Matt, yes, we owe 37 million, but let's say we bring him back how much do we owe him after next year? And the answer was 27 million. He's like, so really the difference is not 37 or zero. It's $10 million. It's 37 or 27, which is just a different way of looking the math. If Lamar Wilkinson, I don't know what we offered him. Let's say we offered him two. And Indiana came and said two and a half, I mean, your question is not, does he do they're two and a half or zero. It's you were already going to give him two. So are you willing to do $500,000 more dollars?

And if you believe that we spent $22 million, then I'd hate to have thought $500,000. I mean, what's the difference from 22 and 22.5? I mean, at some point, like, we stink. Or do you think they just didn't think they needed it? On him specifically, they like hired his high school coach or somebody close to him. They sweetened the pot with that. Kentucky couldn't do it.

But that's still true in several other reasons. recruits like Caleb Wilson, like if you're already that far and he's already interested in you. I mean, I'm pretty convinced we've had several verbal commits and just couldn't get over the hump. Donovan Dent told him he was coming. I mean, they had last year, Caleb Wilson, Donovan Dent, and Lamar Wilkerson told them they were coming. Wow. And then they didn't come. And, you know, why, I guess is, you know, is in the eyes of whoever did it.

So that's in that story. Yeah, but three top guys. I mean, top guys. Now, Tyler didn't has not ended up being great at UCLA, but all three told them they were going to come. And in the current class, I mean, there's stories out just from yesterday from national people about how Kentucky had Stokes in October and just, you know, fumbled him and maybe might be the same with Collins.

What happens if you don't get Stokes or Collins? Because both were at the finish line pretty much ready or the reports from not just local, like that's national people saying Kentucky had complete control of both those guys. Are we going to win tomorrow? Yes. Yes. We'll be about a four-point favorite. We'll cover.

We'll all be smiling. Shannon, are we going to win tomorrow? You know, actually, I think they will. Because you've got to get one of these. You can't go 0.1. You still got St. John's coming up next weekend, too. I know. I'll just note, I've been a hot streak of when you three pick something else and I go,

like I had the Falcons last night. I was on Falcons. Oh, you were? Okay. But we're experts. That's true. We are experts. That's a good point.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. I was just telling this story. I don't know if I'm supposed to tell this story. Well, I was into the story because I never heard it before. Yeah. It's a great story you're starting. We'll just keep this shade between us, all right?

So first take is on right here. They filmed this in Seaport, which is down next to, like in Manhattan. It's down the bottom end of the island. Think about where the World Trade Center is. It's like on the other side of the island. So the east side of Manhattan, but not, I mean, it's only a few blocks in World Trade Center. But that's where they filmed this. And one time, you may remember I had to do this show there.

Remember I had to borrow the studio there because I left the equipment. So I went down there. They let me in. And as I was getting off the subway, I was walking from the subway, a limo pulled up, or like an SUV with multiple SUVs behind it. And I was thinking, because I knew first take was there. I was thinking maybe they're having like a huge guest on. Like there was like four limo. So I was like, is the president?

Is like Obama coming on here? Like what's going on? And all of a sudden he gets out, Stephen A. And he is surrounded immediately these other people get out. And, like, they escort him in. It's like, you know, probably six security guards. And I look around, and there ain't one other person anywhere. Nobody chasing.

Not only is there nobody. Like, like, it's cold outside. There's no one anywhere. And so as they were walking in, I kind of joined the group to act like they were escorted me. You know, let me in with, but it was funny. Like, he had an entourage of security. That doesn't surprise me really with his ego. And just think every morning he does that probably to the same empty sidewalk.

Yeah. I mean, there's like a mall area down there. So I'm sure if the weather's good, there probably are a lot of people. But this was weather like this. There was no one outside. We should start doing that for us, even though we don't need it. I don't have any. My mom is always like, you all should have security.

And I'm like, I would feel silly. We got Billy. What do we need? Mario. He breaks things. Yeah. So that will work. Text machine is 772-7-7-4-5-254.

I'll get to text in a second. But football schedule came out yesterday. Yes, it did. SEC football schedule. I tweeted it out, and I said we were going to be 11-1. I think people didn't rise. I was being a little facetious in saying that. Took you serious?

Did the national people take you serious? I don't know, fans of other schools. So let's go through it. We opened with Youngstown State. Big win. Will Stein era open to the big win. Then, week two, the Alabama crimson tide come to Lexington. They're not easing will into this.

Bama comes to town. When I saw this, here's what I thought, Drew. That's going to be an awesome environment. If you look at the SEC schedule that week, there are no other good games between two SEC teams, which means this is going to be ABC, under the lights, prime time. It's going to be right here, and it's going to be awesome. We probably will get crushed, but the environment for that week to September 12th,

I'd buy the tickets now, because that'll be a full stadium, and it will be under the lights, it'll be national. We might have Herb Street and Fowler for that game. If we don't, we'll have somebody good, it'll be great. Yeah, when they first pop it up on the reveal, Alabama Week 2, it's kind of like, whoa, but then you think about it,

you've got to play them at some time. We already knew they're on the schedule. Let's just get it out of the way. As we saw this year, Alabama took a bad loss early in the season. It takes them a little while to get going. Actually, it might be 3.30 because Texas plays Ohio State that game. That'll probably be the night game. So let's just say it'll be 330.

But go ahead. Yeah, we've been in that spot the last couple seasons with SEC nation and all that. Hadn't gone well for us. But, yeah, I mean, sure, Will Stein probably didn't expect Alabama would be his first SEC game. But let's just go ahead and get over the way. Let's go. The expectations will be a little lower for his debut. You know, if he's playing a Vandy or a Missouri or something, there'd be you'd want him to win right away.

It'll be fun. It'll be fun. And I also like playing week two and week three. let's just play the games we'd probably lose anyway so we can kind of get our feet under us so then we can play the games that we have a chance to win, right? Because like when you play Ole Miss or South Carolina week and then you lose, like we knew the season was over with Alabama we're expecting to lose anyway.

Welcome to the SEC, Willstein, and the schedule is kind of top-heavy. Like you said, they've got those games open the season. Week three, at A&M. Yeah. Back to back. I mean, come on. The Alabama game, though, is house money.

But if you were to win that game, you're an absolute legend. Can you imagine if we're an absolute legend. imagine if we won that game. Can you imagine what this city would be like if Will Stein were to beat Alabama in his second game? After putting 70 on Youngstown? Yeah, I mean, stop it. That would be, it's not going to happen. We've only beat Alabama twice in the history of this school, which is an amazing staff.

But you're saying there's a chance. But you know, there's a chance. Then we hit. Well, hold on. Hear me out on A&M. Maybe they don't change their playbook. We have their defensive coordinator. It's earlier in the year.

They're still running this year's plays. Like Shannon Dawson and Reverh. We go in and we steal that one, too. We're now 3-0, Matt. I don't know how we got here in the conversation, but let's keep you going on. So South Alabama's week four, then you get that, let's say you lose those first two games. Now you get your legs back. And then you hit a stretch where I think these are the important games.

At South Carolina, that's always a swing game. Always. Although didn't we go there last year? We have to go there two years in a row? Yeah, that's where they reset the schedule. LSU at home, winnable. Yep. Next year, you're going to be winnable.

I know they'll have lane, but it's winnable because they're not built yet. We know their place, too. Yeah, at Oklahoma. And then we finish with Vanderbilt at Tennessee, Florida, at Missouri, home Louisville. You can win some of those games. So, like, they have the first half of the season to get their feet under them, and then you can win some games in the second half and maybe make a bowl. Got a bye week before Tennessee.

Buy week on Halloween weekend. That's rare. I have that weekend off. It's good. We all get trick and treat. A little break before Knoxville. That'll help. Yeah, it's good.

We like to trick and treat. Just one by week in the new schedule format. What? Just one by week in the new schedule format. That's tough with a nine-game SEC. Yeah, it is. But it's in a good spot. We'll take it.

I actually don't mind this. I'd rather it be top-heavy next year, especially with Will Stein find in his feet. And if you could win, and again, I don't think he probably will, but if you could win Alabama at A&M or that at Oklahoma, if you could find a way to win one of those, you would kind of launch your whole thing. And I like it at the end of the year

You have Missouri and Louisville at home Or not Missouri Who's the Vandy? You have two home games Florida and Louisville home Instead of this You know we played Tennessee Tech last year On senior day

Nobody's there It's been that way for a few years You're actually closing your home schedule With a good team soon You have Florida and Louisville at home With at Missouri in the middle I mean you can look at that and go Why can't we win all three of those

To finish the season? Why can't we? Why can't we win all three of those? It's you know It's a great home schedule With Alabama and Louisville John Summ Raw in Florida, Lane Kiffin and LSU.

It's a great homes. For people like, I'm canceling my season tickets, I'd wait a year. Amen. I mean, Alabama, LSU, Florida, Louisville, that's a pretty good group right there. We've got to give Sumrah a little welcome home too in that spot. Yeah, and I think the other one is what, Vandy.

Yeah, so you got the homes tickets are Youngstown State, Alabama, South Alabama, LSU, Vandy, Florida, Louisville. It's a pretty good group. Right. See you all in Atlanta. 11 to 1. Dude, if we beat Louisville, I mean, we're going to. Right?

Yeah. I mean, we'll probably be favored. We might lose one or two games. Yeah, we're going to win. We'll take a break. Take your calls. Right for this, 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. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at KS Bar and Grill. I've got folks who've come in. from all over on a snow day.

You can bring your kids out here and feed them food. Build a snowman out on the sidewalk. Yeah, I don't know if we can. We don't want them building snowmen. There's snow is gone. We put salt out there so people don't fall. There we go. I guess.

Yeah. 859-280-2287. It is baffling to me how many people Louisville, Tennessee and Arkansas fans, think I was serious about the 11-1. Do they really think that I think we're going 11-1 with that schedule? I mean, we are, but do they really think that I'm serious about that? But part of you was joking. Yeah, I mean a small part.

It's the internet. If we went 11 and 1, which one are we most likely to lose? A&M? Oklahoma. Probably at A&M. Yeah, I'm going to give them that one. The rest of them, though, we're winning. I think Bama's in for a rude awakening.

When's the last time we played Oklahoma? Didn't we play them in like the Orange Bowl in 1950? That might be the answer. Is that the answer? Yeah. I mean, I don't know if we played them since then, but I remember people always saying we played that game in 1950. I know in 790, some of you said that it's just like the show went off, Shannon,

and it was just a ringing dial tone. I don't even know how that works. I have a serious question. Is there any other show in America that has as many technical difficulties as are? No, I don't think so. Sometimes I feel bad because I always like write and complain or verbally complain. But I've been listening to Rayo my whole life, and I've never turned it on and just heard a dial tone. I tell you what else

I never. I've never one time on any station if I turned it on and it was just mariachi music all of the stuff. And it feels like I get told this every couple weeks and it can't be that this is what it's like everywhere. We all listen to the radio in our car at home. Have you ever heard

a fire alarm go off during the show? No, I've never heard anything except music and people talking. But this show, you never know what you'll hear. It might be a horse just named for 10 minutes. I can't even think of a show that just drops off the air while I'm listening to it either. No.

I mean, you know, it is what it is. There's no reason to get frustrated about it. Yeah. I have your Oklahoma answer, by the way. When's the last time we played Oklahoma? We did get them in 1951. Went up 1-0 in the series, but then they played twice in the 80s, and we lost both. Okay.

We lost 29 to 8 and 29 to 7. Yeah. Kind of random there, so don't let them get to 29. We'll get them. 859-2-80-2287. Who's up first? Cal. Cal.

Go ahead, Cal. Hey, good morning, guys, KSR. How are y'all doing today? Doing good. First-time caller. Who are? So, I actually got a quick question and also a recommendation. My quick question is, was y'all excited as I was when Pope got into Garrison's face and told them to go sit down?

Yeah, I was because I think it was needed. I mean, Garrison, I don't think it's been, I don't think it's like saying, going out of school to say he's been, he's been an issue all year. And maybe that chewing him out and not playing him in the second half, maybe that turns him around. Maybe it helps. We'll see. I mean, the team turned around when he did that. They sure did. They went on a 16-0 run right after he did it, so maybe it had some positive effect.

Sure. And my recommendation is that I've heard that y'all went to a bunch of pizza places as well. So I got a recommendation for y'all. So out in Western Kentucky, over in Princeton, Kentucky, there is a pizza place called Pollyaz Pizza. And if you ever, if y'all have never been there, I advise y'all to go because their deep dish is to die for. I appreciate the call. The Princeton Polly Eyes Pizza. I will put that on the list. I still would like to at some point put on a restaurant guide for Kentucky book. The problem is I don't know whenever I would ever do it. And, you know, I've thought about even like hiring somebody to go and like test it.

Because I think it would be good if you had a here's the best place to eat in every town. Every county, yeah. I think that would be a really cool thing to have. I just don't know that I would ever do it. But I'd love to do. I think if we published that and sold it, I bet we. We could sell a lot of copies of best place to eat in all these towns in Kentucky. Wouldn't that be good?

It would be awesome. We've gone to some really cool places over the years. I like when it was it called Five Broke Sisters. We stopped. Five broke girls. Five broke girls. That was really good. Coming back from Nashville.

But I feel like we haphazardly know where to eat. If we were able to like. Fonislea Pool Hall. Yeah. All the hits. But I don't know that we'll, we will do that. What is Prince? Is that Calwell County?

What county is? It is. Callwell County. Okay. It is. It is. 859-280-2287. Who's up next year?

Jerry. Jerry, go ahead, Jerry. Hey, Matt. First off, I want to say, you know, after I've been to my dad the last six months, you and your family and my prayers, and I wish you nothing but the best as you work your way through this. Thank you. And, but you know me, I was a big summer all guy,

and I have to say, I've been really pleased everything most times done. He reminds me of a lot of Frank Curse, because we're both in the mid-30s and they got hired. Young, aggressive, offensive guys. Hopefully he's found a good defensive coordinator. I think he has to be excited about what's to come, and it's going to be interesting to watch. But I don't know how much you followed all this stuff with Summraw and out Florida,

but that's going to be interesting to watch too because he's walking to a hornet nest down there. Yeah. I'm actually not going to do that to myself, to be honest with you, Jerry, like the Summerall stuff. I hope he has success at Florida. I think it does Will Stein a discise. service to compare what Will Stein does at Kentucky with what John Summerall does at Florida? I just think that's a mistake.

That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that where Stein's going to have a bit of a honeymoon here to get his stuff in place, Summerall's not going to have that. If he hadn't win nine games next, they think they have a playoff team down there. If he'll win nine games down there next year, he's going to be on the hot seat and so strickland. They think they didn't get kissing because. because Strickham was too much of a straight-laced Barney clone. Well, he is.

And we're not calling him. I'm just saying that's what you're going to watch. I appreciate to call Jerry. Here we go. I mean, you can feel Jerry get worked up. Like, Jerry, he'll start. He'll be measured. And then it's almost like a lawnmower.

You can feel him like, and then he's going. I don't really care what happens in Florida. I want Will Stein to succeed. And Summerall has some options. Like, he's got some things down there. He's got a better roster than we do next year. Jerry's right. Florida's supposed to be good next year.

So he might go and win nine or ten games. That doesn't mean he would have done it here. And that doesn't mean Will Stein wouldn't have done it there, right? Drew, it's their different situations. A pretty different situations. But Jerry is right that they're going to be so mad when he loses at Kentucky on November 14th. That's another scheduled blip where Florida's home two years in a row here. Yeah, with the reset.

When do we play them this year? How late in the year is? November 14th. So it could be cold. Yeah. We said that, I think, this year. year and then it wasn't cold. It was not cold at all. It's good, but we won anyway. Yeah, but maybe

this year it's cold. Can you get another Florida coach fired? We've done pretty good at that over the years. 859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, I would like to know this answer from all of you. Okay. Ready. All right. See him walk in. Yeah. Where would you all like to go in the world

that you haven't been on a vacation? All right. Ryan's answer is going to be the worst. So he's going to say something like Myrtle Beach. What would you say, Drew? I don't want to give the lame answer, but Italy is high on my bucket list. Because you've never been Italy, right? Yeah, I haven't done much traveling out that way. Maybe to be a little different because that's like one of the most popular answers.

I'll say Australia. Go check on Max and see what they've got going on over there. Okay, I like that answer. You can say Italy. I would argue if you've not, gone outside of like Canada, U.S. Mexico, Italy is as good a place as you're going to find for a combination of beach, historic, wine, beautiful.

Carbs. What? Carbs. Yes, food. Like, Italy is probably the best combination of all of that stuff you could. So if you haven't been, I totally get that. Shannon, what would you say? I have three, but I'm trying to like narrow down to one.

This guy's only letting you go to one place. I guess if I had to pick one, London, England. Okay, but that's very, now London, you love New York, right? Right. London's a lot like New York.

I think that's why I would like it. I think that I think you would like it a lot. Yeah. I think for me next would probably be Japan. You know, I haven't ever been. I think that would be a lot of stuff to see there. And, you know,

it's just a completely different world. So I would say Japan is next for me. Now, Ryan, let's play a game. Yeah. What is Ryan going to guess? Gatlinberg. He's getting said.

You think he's just say Gatlin. Have you been to Branson, Missouri? I have not. Okay. All right. I'm going to, I have, I don't know the place he's going to say, but I have a guess that I'll say after of the kind of thing he's going to say. Where would you like to go? There's been one place since I was a little kid dreamed of going to.

It won't change. And I'm going to go there for I die. Hawaii. Okay. That's good. That's good. At some point in my life, I'm going. By the way, I was correct.

In my head, I said he's going to say. say somewhere in the U.S. or Mexico. And Hawaii is in the U.S. or Mexico. I've been to Paris. I've been to Rome. I've been to London. It's well traveled. And I don't think you liked it, right?

No, I loved it. But I mean, is there not a part of you that would see outside of this and go I'd like to go to and you can pick the continent? Hawaii. Hawaii's on this continent. As a matter of fact, in this country. One of those beautiful places in the world, I'm going. But there are other beautiful places. Yeah, I've seen them.

So I'm going to a life. You've seen everywhere else that's beautiful? Yeah. All of them? You know, Kentucky gets in the Maui Classic. I mean, we can make that happen. Yeah, I mean, that's very doable. I hope it is.

So if Pope, get us in the Maui Invitational so we can all go take care. But, I mean, it doesn't have to be the Maui invitation. That's why I'm going at some point in my life. I'm going to go to Hawaii. Okay. All right, well, what's second? Is there anything outside of the U.S. or Mexico? Australia would probably be my second choice.

Okay. All right. Now, that's far away. Yeah, you two can go together. You can go together. You can hold hands and stay with Max. Why is we have to hold hands? Stop over paying for sunglasses.

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Lexington Catholic plays there next one. week they're leaving Sunday you should try to get a radio game Lexington Catholic plays there friend just texted us wow they're heading Honolulu is there a is there a Kentucky um is there a Kentucky Indiana line yet for tomorrow I haven't seen it we looked this morning but I couldn't find yeah I don't see one either so probably this what do you get I would say Kentucky by three or four five something like that that's just my guess is probably what it would be called three and a half yeah that would be that's just a guess I have no idea but we're covering that they just have to win.

I mean, that is just a must win for Pope and his program. After the article came out this week, I mean, they need a win. And I want to play something right here. And I think it's important when you hear any of these things to just think about where they come from, et cetera. So, and like what may be behind them. So the radio station in Louisville, ESPN Louisville, they had on Cameron Drummond. He is the college basketball reporter. He's one of the two for the Herald Leader.

and he was asked about the JMI situation and the story that KSR did. And just in the guys of fairness, I want to play his comment and then respond to it. So he was asked basically, what do you think of all that's come out this week? And here's what he had to say. Why is Tyron Stokes not signed to be a wildcat today? Why is Christian Collins not signed to be a wildcat today? I would certainly caution people with a lot of the reporting that's been out there from taking all of that 100% at face value, especially when there's anonymous sources involved

and especially when you don't necessarily know whose interests are being served with whatever kind of reporting article quotes are out there. You know, again, a lot of times when you're quoting agents and collective type people, I think it's important to understand which side of the coin are these people on? Would they stand to benefit? Would they stand to not benefit from something like the JMI deal? I will say that I think there's a whole lot of misinformation and some of the common narratives that are certainly easy to push at a time when Kentucky doesn't have a 2026 basketball recruit

signed and the current team with a $22 million pay roll is severely underperforming to begin this season. So I wanted to play that because it's gotten a little bit of traction online and it's basically people saying, look, here's the Harold reporter saying, you know, what's the narrative of KSRs trying to push. I want to say this respectfully because I'm sure this kid is a nice kid. I do not know him, but I was very frustrated by that comment. First of all, you know, this doesn't mean what he said isn't valid.

But Cameron Drummond was a, he worked for an Indiana fan site, right? He's an Indiana fan, which is totally fine. But I do think is, you know, that's part of it. You can say I went to Duke law. You're an Indiana guy. was on inside the hall, the big Indiana podcast. So I think that's worth note. Secondly, I think it's very hypocritical for any journalist to criticize using anonymous

sources and to say, look where the reporting's coming from. The Herald literally broke the story that put Kentucky on probation through anonymous sources, right? The idea that one journalist would look at another and say, you've got to be careful about anonymous sources. Come on, dude. Give me a break. But secondly, what I would say to someone that writes at the Herald that says, you got to be careful, this is one side of a narrative.

Where has your reporting bit on this? This has been going on for six months. Y'all are the actual journalist. Right? Like, we're a fan site. The Herald leader's job is supposed to be to find out questions like this. Where have you been? When you say there's misinformation, here's my question for you, Herald Leader.

What is the true information? Because y'all haven't published it. Have you seen anything that says what the deal is with JMI? I've not, but I also can't afford the Herald Leader these days. Yeah. So, well, I have it, and y'all haven't written it. So I think it is blatant hypocrisy for a kid to get on there, and I don't mean a kid to disparage him.

He may be in his late 20s, I'm not sure, but for a reporter to get on there and say, there's a lot of misinformation out there, then where is your article explaining what the actual deal is? You are the newspaper. You are literally in charge of this stuff. You can't go on the radio, not say what we're wrong about, cast aspersions, and you have given nothing. So that really frustrated me by that guy.

I went on there, I was going to, like, just send him a DM and go, hey, man, where did that come from? And I realized he wasn't even following me on Twitter, which, by the way, he doesn't have to follow me. But I did find that odd. I was following him. Like, you cover Kentucky sports and you don't follow the people who wrote this story? that's odd, but you are an Indiana fan, and then I went back and remembered when he was in Indiana fan, he used to write disparaging stuff about us. Okay, now I think I have more of an understanding where this is coming from.

Indiana fan who didn't like KSR writes this article or goes on and says this, that frustrates me a little bit. But the bigger picture is I too would like to know the specifics of the JMI UK deal, but it's up to the Harold leader. That's your job to find it. fact that information isn't out there. I blame UK for not disclosing it. But I also, Ryan, blame the Herald leader for not getting it out.

That's what you're supposed to do. I was hearing that for the first time. The frustrating part of me was he was, you know, saying the misinformation, but then he didn't. He didn't have any information. He didn't have any information to back it up. He was saying. The only information we have is what Jack and Jacob did. So, you know, if they're wrong, which I don't think they are.

Well, let me put it like this. I know this is what one side of the, of, who the agents, this is what the agents and players are saying. If UK wants to refute that, let them refute it. But we still, we are 48 hours after that article's come out,

and has UK said anything? No. Crickets. Jack and Jacob haven't heard anything. No, I haven't heard anything. So that says to me, they probably don't have anything to say. Because if they did,

they would have already said. People questioning the intent and the timing of Jack and Jacob, this started months ago of, okay, let's see what's going wrong. And then it turned into, what it is now, but they didn't set out with, let me just have this negative article. They generally were at these events wondering why Kentucky doesn't have a recruit.

And in these conversations, it led them to that finished product that came out. They didn't just come up with a big plan. Oh, they're 0 and 4. Let's come out with some big story. This has been brewing since the summer. Yeah. So, you know, it is the critic can stand on the sideline. And what bothered me is this is a journalist doing it.

It used to be that sites like KSR, we would say to the Herald, oh, you can't believe anonymous sources. It's funny to watch how it's flipped. Like, now we're doing the journalism, and you're being the one going, you didn't pay the wrong sources and anonymous sources. Like, do something. Do something besides, tell me there's a new restaurant opening up in But Montana, which is what's on their front page.

There used to be a time where Jerry Tipped and John. Butte. Jerry Tipped and John Clay would have been all over this story, weeks ago. You know, like, they do do that. They'll be like,

local institution closes, and you open it up and it's like in Boise. An Arby's in Sioux Falls. Yeah, come on. All right, we'll take a break. Come back.

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