KSR - 2025-12-16- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: December 16, 2025

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One person writes, Matt, Mark Pope is right about his voice. You can lose your voice forever if it's strained and you keep pressing it. Did you know that was true? I don't think that's true. You could lose your voice forever. No, I've lost my voice before. It came back in a couple of days. But you didn't keep yelling.

No, I mean, they're saying if your voice is strained and then you keep yelling, you could lose it forever. Do you think that's true? No. I don't think that person even knows what they're talking about. Is that a doctor on the other side of that text line? I mean, who is that? You don't know.

Yeah. All right. Let's talk for just a. second about, let's talk, well, not a second, let's talk about some football. We've got Adam Luckett here of KSR joining us. Adam, how are you? Good. I can confirm that whoever said that's full of it because they didn't grow up in the Luckett House and there was always screaming there. And we all have our voices fine. I have a lot of siblings, right? I have five brothers and sisters. Yeah. There was all screaming. Grandparents were with us. It was just, if you wanted

to be heard, you had to scream. I think I've met three of them. I just will like be walking down the street and people come up to me and be like, I'm Adam Luckett's brother. I'm Adam Luckett's sister. Like you, they're everywhere. All right, so we're going to go to the phones here in a second. I want to get you to give us a quick update about the since Will Stein has been hired UK stuff. We talked a lot about potential coaches in the 48 hours when we didn't have a coach. Was Will Stein to you a good hire, just generally? Yeah, I think he was in that top tier of available candidates. I think once Summerall was off the table. So he would have been your top choice.

He would have been my top choice. Once he was off the table, which when Kentucky entered the market, he was off the table. I think you were looking at him and Brian Hartline, and those were the clear top two guys, and they got one of those. So explain to people what a Will Stein offense will look like if he does what they do at Oregon. Yeah, I think you're going to see kind of a balanced offense that will mix in tempo. Every once in a while they'll go full like tempo, tempo.

But most of the time it's more of like they're not going to be like this crazy tempo offense. They're going to mix and match. So the idea that it's like high speed all the time. That's really not what he does. It is not, but they will one to two series a game. And you'll see this if you watch the playoff game against James Madison on Saturday. They will go as fast as any offense moves in college football for a series. And then they'll get out of it. Trick plays. He's big on trick plays. You're going to see a couple of them probably when they play James Madison. But he wants to run the football first. and then the passing game, they are not necessarily super complicated, but they're trying to get vertical,

but they're also willing to throw it short. So to me, like in some ways, it looks a little bit like Kentucky ran last year when they went to this short passing game and driven off that, but his office has been a lot better. His office has been a lot better. All right, he has brought in a staff of very young people. Yeah. This is probably the youngest staff I've ever seen in college football.

Do you like that? Yeah, I think for a place like Kentucky, you've got to be, we've talked about this. You've got to be able or you've got to be willing to swing the bat and take chances and bet on ascending coaches. They've got two guys under 35. The offensive line coach, the outside linebacker coach, both under 35 years old. And there a guy that's like 26? The offensive line coach cutter left, which graduated high school, high school, 2017. Shend we have a 26 year old offensive line coach.

That's crazy. Crazy. 26. Yes. Normally I would say. He graduated, man. Say that again. High school in 2017. He graduated high school in the year of our lord, 2017. Wow. He will be a multi-year SEC offensive line coach when he goes to his 10-year high school reunion. That is, I can't get over that. So he is eight years, I'm trying to think where I was eight years out of high school. I was like, I just graduated law school. The idea that you would be an SEC.

That's unbelievable. Some of us just been a couple years out of college at that point. Yeah. So what do you, I mean, like without, we don't have to go into detail on them, but do these people have good resumes? Do you like what you've seen from them? Cutter Lefwich is the offensive line coach's name. Okay. He was a graduate. Is he related to Byron Lefich?

He is not. Okay. Now, he's from a coaching family. His dad was a longtime offensive line coach. His brother is the offensive coordinator at Texas Tech. Okay. Like his brother and him could play each other in the playoff because of Oregon wins are playing Texas Tech. Okay.

So he's from a coaching family. He was at UCLA was a graduate assistant. went to Oregon and kind of a support staff role. He left to be the North Texas offensive line coach, who coach just got hired at Oklahoma State for 2024. Then Oregon wanted to bring him back. He was so coveted for them. They felt like they wanted him back.

So he's already a guy that's been on the rise. Am I seeing that most these guys seem to have a good recruiting background? Like recruiting is kind of a big part of it. The two coordinators they hired, I would say the best thing they do, both of them, is they're recruiters. They've been players. There's been some controversy about these coordinators.

There's people who go, look, none of these guys have won anywhere. Do you worry about that? More so on defense, less so on offense, because that signs offense. So talk about the defensive coordinator. Jay Bateman is the defensive coordinator. He was an FCS coach, came up through the ranks, then became the Army defensive coordinator when their coach, who is there now first got there and kind of got them going, then went to North Carolina with Mack Brown, did not go well, went to Florida

for two years, got some players, was a really good recruiter for Florida, then went to A&M, and then it's kind of lost in translation what happened there. Was he the defense coordinator? Was he not? It sounds like Elko took over that, so he was defensive coordinator and title only did not call place. You sound, and I see your face a little skeptical about the defensive coordinator. I think it's a risk, but he has experience. And so what did he learn something from Elko that he maybe learned from North Carolina? Was it North Carolina situation just weird because they had Mack Brown and it wasn't going well. They were offense first. But I think it's a risky hire. Yeah, it's not necessarily a guy who's had more recently proven results. But if you just,

if you hired him straight from Army, that's kind of the defense coordinator you would hire, usually at Kentucky. It's kind of a G5 guy that's prove it and now going up to the next level. Will Cutter Bolley be back next year? Yes, it's trending that way. Trending that way? Yes. Okay. Will we bring in a guy to compete with him? We will, but Cutter Boller will be the starter. It's not going to be, I would say, a real competition. Okay, so that's kind of new to me. So you think Cutter Bowley is the starter next year. So when Will Stein kind of did, I hope he wants to compete, that's more motivating than it is a sign that somebody great's coming in?

And also them trying to establish the culture that you're not going to get anything. But yeah, it's, cutter bolly is a guy for them. I think that's a newsy proposition. They got this wide receiver from Louisiana at the end of sign. Do you think this team is, I mean, they're going to have to be active in the portal just to fill a roster? Do you think they're going to be able to get a good portal class? I do, yes.

SEC school, they've got money. They're going to have cap space. I think they're going to be able to make a splash. So for football, do you think they have enough money for football? We've talked a lot about the basketball issues in terms of going forward. Do you think the football financial situation is in a good place? I do, but we're going to learn a lot in this portal period. We're going to learn just how much money they have.

I think that is going to be the real barometer for all of this. Just how much money do they have? We're going to find out in the point. portal because it seems like... What do you hear? They say that they're in a good spot, but you have to worry, you know, the revs here Kentucky, just be honest. The basketball team is getting a chunk of that. But nobody knows what it is. But we don't know. So I'm just talking here. You've got to be like, let's use some street smarts. Yeah. Basketball is getting a chunk of the $10. We have a lot, we have less

than all the rest of the SEC schools. We're going to have to, you know, JMI is going to have to, in the collective. We're going to have to make up for it in the gaps. So we'll see they have a lot of money coming off the books. If you have a lot of money coming off the books. I mean, they did spend a lot of money on guys who are graduating. Do you expect any player, I know Stephen Solz entered the portal, do you expect any player that matters to leave?

Not right now, but that can change. Willie Rodriguez? They're working hard to get Willie back. Okay. What about those young receivers that they had some success with the Miller guys and I think they're in a good spot right now, but what happened? Do they covet? Here's what's going to happen in all this, Matt.

You go out and get a receiver. Then a receiver on your team might be like, see you. I'm out of here because you're taking my spot. So there's going to be a lot of moving parts in here. The thing with Kentucky's roster, this is going to sound bad, but they don't. There's not all SEC players coming back. And there's not a lot of guys that you were. So that shouldn't cost you that much money in the short term, but also you've got to go out and get players.

If it was you, Oregon's going to play James Madison in that first game. They're going to win. Then they're going to play Texas Tech around New Year's Eve, New Year's Day. Do you want him to win that game? I do not. I want him to lose. You'd like him to be here.

Because the portal opens right after those games. It's better for, I think, the program, if he's foot, boots on the ground in Lexington when the portal's open and you're having players on campus. Because that's interesting, because we were talking about doing a watch party for that game. And I don't know if people will be cheering for him to win or lose. Would you cheer him for him to win or lose, Shannon, in that game? You know, part of me says I really don't care if he wins or not, but then wouldn't it be cool to have a national championship coach as your head coach on the team?

What about that, though? I mean, what about the Oregon playing? Because Oregon's bracket kind of opens up, right? Sure. I think, I mean, they need to be Texas Tech in Indiana, a doable proposition for them. Do you think Oregon playing in the national championship with every time they show Will Stein, they say he's going to be a coach at Kentucky next year? Do you think that pays dividends for the program or doesn't matter?

I don't think it really matters that much. What about future recruiting, though, when you can say to your head coach, I won't be watching that game, right? Yeah, again, maybe you get it for a year and then after that people move on. Well, that's true. I remember Vince Mero said that to me when he got here with Stoops. He said, we'll get all the benefit of Florida State for one year, and then it won't matter. It matters until we, and then we get to the contract and how much money to. Yeah, that's true.

That's true. It's just a different world. And I think we look at, for us, man, I think we look at it. Oh, wow, national champion. But I think 16-year-old, I think that matters for a certain time period. And then something else matters once you move from that. And just it's such an important period for Kentucky when they're hosting these portal players, when they're in a market where they have to get more than at least a handful of starters,

maybe more. I think it's important to have the head coach down. So you want them to lose. Adam Luckett, there you go. Adam Luckett once Will Stein to lose. That's the headline. luck it. Same next guy wanting it's Trinity got to lose.

It's not the first time. Will Stein needs to lose. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Hey, guys. This is Mike from Knoxville. I'm calling two days in a row. But. So why are you letting all these repeat calls?

I don't know Mike and what was the other guy's name? Will. Go for it, Mike. Basic names. Come on, guys. Come on. You guys show some love. But anyway, so I'm getting, you know, I got some stuff yesterday talking about

DJ Lagway. from Florida hit the portal and some of his tweets that he's sending out kind of tie into Will Stein and some of the coaches at the University of Kentucky. And I guess my question is, what do you guys think would Kentucky even be a player in getting a recruit as Lagway with his status? All right, Mike, I appreciate the question. Could we get Lagway? No, that's not happening.

They are locked in on Cutter Bowley. And I get this. I mean, that's the most definitive I've heard it. Do you, this is Cutter Bowley's team next year? Yes. Okay. Unless something goes wrong. I had not heard that.

You're breaking some news on this show. I kind of, I mean, I didn't know that they weren't, but I just, I didn't realize it was that definitive. Ben, go ahead, Ben. Hey, man, I just said, sorry. I just had a quick question for you and Shannon. A quick, you got a second. Go for it.

Yeah, hey, so with your law degree, you could probably answer this. But I want to see if Shannon can get. it right. You can tell him if he's right. A friend of mine just finished law school at UK, and he was telling me some of the questions that were on his final exam. The last question of his final law school exam was this. Shannon, if a man from Mount Washington divorces his wife, is she still his sister? Oh, that's brutal. That's brutal, Shannon. I appreciate the call. That is mocking Bullitt County as being some backwards place. And I don't think that's very nice. It's a Shepherdsville joke.

Ben would never do that to my face, though. That's the thing. You call in like you're a tough guy. You would never say that to my face. You don't think he would? No. What if he saw you in your little skivis from OVW? You don't think he'd be nervous.

Get in the ring, big boy. Come on. These guys are always tough when they're texting and tweeting and calling in. It is interesting that Bullitt County get so many jokes because it's basically just a suburb of law. Let me tell you. Bullet County is way nicer than Jefferson County. It's not even close. It's not even close.

Yeah, it's not. Not even close. Oh, you think it's nicer than Jefferson County? I know it's nicer than Jefferson County. I've lived in Jefferson County. Parts of Jefferson County are an absolute dump. But parts of Bullitt County are a done. Yeah, it's called Shepherdsville.

That's why I was with class, Shannon. We live in Mount Washington. That's right. Are you living in Mount Washington, too? Yes. Oh, there are a couple years now. I didn't know that. Oh, look at you.

So you're both Bullitt County. Come over and have a beer with me. How did I not bring the Mountain Dew in here, knowing that you two both were going to be Bullitt County. 859-280-2-807 we'll take a break very back's KSO last night a blown call changed a game this morning the internet lost its mind highlights are trending opinions are flying and nobody's telling you exactly what happened that's where sports slice comes in I'm timbo every episode we're cutting through the noise

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Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. The text machine is 772-745254. What person writes, Matt, did you ever think you would hear the term cap space with college sports? No, but that's the way it is. And that's how it's going to be. I don't, it was interesting you use that term. I don't exactly think of it as cap space.

space, but I guess to some extent it is. I mean, because you're figuring out you've got a limited amount of rev share, who's going to get what? Specifically, refs share. Yeah, I mean, you're going to have to. So, I mean, there's something to it. One person writes, Matt, when you started talking about Trump's tweet about, about Reiner, I was like, uh-oh, here we go.

But I played it for a lot of my MAGA relatives. And everybody generally agreed with you. Is that a good sign? I think it's a good sign. I think Shannon almost everybody thought that was inappropriate. Like on Twitter, some people wrote back, but here's the common denominator of everybody that wrote back, Shannon, defending it. Yeah.

Anonymous accounts. Right. People who had their name on it wrote, yeah, I voted for him, but like he shouldn't say it. And the people defending are going, yeah, but what about? Yeah. What about what this random girl with a ringing her nose said 10 years ago? And the difference is he's the president.

He's the president. You're held to a higher standard. The president is held to a higher standard. If you are going to justify bad behavior by pointing to someone else with bad behavior, we will end up in a cycle of the worst behavior on earth because you can always find somebody else who did something bad. The question is, like, I am held to a higher standard than wildcat bob in your face. right? Adam Luckett is higher, like Adam Luckett says

Cutter Bowley's coming back and is going to be the starter. For better or worse, Adam, you have to be right. You know what I mean? Cats in their eye can say that and be wrong and nobody cares, but Adam Luckett's name is on it. You're held to a higher standard. You know that. So who should be held to a higher standard than the president?

If I'm wrong, blame Nick Roush. There you go. So you're throwing Nick Rouse? under the bus? I'll hold. I stand on what I said, man. Okay. I think I heard him blame a Nick Roush. I think I heard him blame him Nick Roush.

So the good thing about, the one thing is, I feel like virtually everyone recognized that was bad behavior. And that's a good start. That's a good start to cleaning up what has been infecting our country for 10 years, which is just nastiness. And he's not the only cause of the nastiest, but he's part of it. And we got to get rid of that because he's going to be gone one day. And everybody that hates him, everybody loves him. Like, we got to get, we got to have a, we can't

have a world where we, if we keep hating each other like this, the country will fall. It's okay to say, you know, you voted for somebody. It's okay to say, it's even okay to say you like the person, but it's a bad thing that they did. It's not a cult. Like, just say, I like him, but he messed up. You can do that. Yeah, sure. We do it to our parents, our kids. Each other. I love you, Johnny. But you can't do that. That's okay. Randall, go ahead, Randall.

Yeah, to go with Myron's question earlier, do we really need freshmen on the basketball team? I don't believe we do. You know, I mean, pick up one freshman that's really good and then bring in an upperclassmen because look at the last three teams that hang championship banners. They have majority seniors. Last year we had seven seniors.

on the team and look at the success we have. It's a great point. And also, but here's what I wonder, Randall, is that a product of COVID? Meaning the seniors were like a lot older and a lot more experience. I wonder, and we'll see. I don't know the answer to this. In three years, will that be the same? Or was that the unique circumstances of COVID, keeping guys in school, etc.?

Right. And then the NIL. And the NIL obviously has changed. 21. Yeah, the age 21 plus, but the more successful teams that are winning championships are the teams that are majority senior and junior. I appreciate the call. It's a really good point. Let me ask you on the football side. Does it make sense to pay money to freshmen in football when they can leave after a year? No, but sometimes to get a player, you have to take calculated risk, right?

Get him in your facility and then see if you can keep. onto him and then let him grow in your building. So it used to be guys would sign 25 players. The scholarships have gone up from 85 to 105. So they could still do that if they want. If you were a coach, would you get a lot of freshmen? How would you do it? Well, Bill Belichick just signed, I think, 50.

Freshman? 40 to, I think maybe 40. I would not do that. I think that is the wrong thing to do. I think you have to have a balance. Well, he thinks he has job security to sign 40 freshmen, doesn't he? I think they pivoted thinking Portal wasn't the answer and now they're going to get a lot of freshmen. We'll see how that works out.

My guess it doesn't work out very well. But I think you have to have a balance, Matt. You have to supplement. You have to have a balance. You can't go all in one way or the other. How do you get seniors into your team? I'd rather have seniors that have been in my program for a few years. What good does it do you to get a one and done, just load up on one and done seniors every year to build like your organization, how you want it and to have balance in the best,

way, I think, to have year to year success is to have, you know, you're bringing in guys, but you have a backbone in your organization of guys going up through the program. Yeah, and a lot of the guys that were surprisingly successful last year were guys that had come up through the program. Well, part of the

season wasn't a success, but when they started playing well and have success, it was guys they recruited. Yes, the in Cudders class. JC, what's up, JC? A little quick with Adam, as the Stephen Stoll's ships felled, for sure yeah yes yeah i do not expect stephen soles on the team next year okay uh also uh when

you ask myron that we had elite i was really disappointed he said define elite i don't really i mean that you know in some ways jason that almost that almost answers the question you know what i mean like if you say define elite then that means we don't have it because you know right and you can't And you can't say he has to be. No, he doesn't have to be. Maybe he cannot be. I agree with you. I think we have one elite.

We have one elite player. He hadn't played yet. I totally agree with you. I appreciate the call. I agree. We may have one elite player. I think we have a chance to have two really good college players, which is low in O-A, in a really,

good role player college in Diabate remains to be seen what Chandler, Moreno, and Jasper's careers will be. And then we have role players. And the wild card with Quentin's, whenever he gets back. Well, Quaintance is the guy who can be elite. But, like, I don't know, because we haven't seen him yet. So I don't.

But no, he's right. When Myron says define elite, by the very definition, we don't have it. Because one thing about Cal is, he brought in so many elite players, we know what that looks like. We know what elite looks like. Again, you can't fool it. We've seen it a lot over the years. 859-280-2287.

We'll take a break. Be right back here with Shannon Adams. 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. And you do have to play this on our last show.

I know, right? Yeah, which will be the 23rd. Well, I won't be here. I won't be here, so I'm playing it for you now. Okay. Yeah. Well, so then play it Friday. Okay.

I just, it's like our moment every year. This one and then the little drummer boy. Bob Seeger's version of it. Yeah, that's weird. That's how I know it's Christmas. I don't get in the spirit until you play that. I just feel like this little premature spirit. Yeah.

I got, I got, I got gifts. I haven't done that yet. What are you doing? Like, you're just going to, like, go Amazon for everything? Or are you going to get gift cards? I mean, I mean, I'm going to do online. I'm not going to a store. You understand, though, if you're going to do online, like, Christmas is in nine days.

I mean, that's what people say. But, like, you can, but there are. If you haven't done it online yet. It is going to be a little weird, though, because I'm going to be gone starting Friday. So I've got to, like, figure out where to send them, you know? It's going to be. I may have to send them to the New Orleans bowl so that I can take them. I'm going to have to figure out how I make that happen.

One thing before we go back to football. the A court upheld Lexington's ban on puppy and kitten sales You know In the city of Lexington You cannot sell Dogs and Cats

Unless you're a licensed breeder Which I remember us talking about Shannon when this passed Right And I was shocked this was a rule I didn't know it was a rule Is that Do you know what the rule is in Louisville

Can you do it in Louisville? I'm not sure But I do know like that's a, you know, is there anywhere else in Kentucky you can't do it? I'm not. Because like, so apparently the court, so the court said that you can do that. So you can't buy them in stores. You can't buy them just like on street. So you can buy them for a licensed breeder and that's it. And the reasoning is they're like, we have too many dogs and cats anyway,

adopt them. Stores, however, can have dogs and cats in them for the purpose of, encouraging adoption. But they can't sell. Like a pet smart. Well, like pet smart though, they're the ones that sued because they wanted to be able to sell pets. But they have lost,

they lost. So Lexington's ordinance was upheld. What's the law in Louisville? Did you look it up, Shannon? It says, can you sell dogs in Louisville? The answer is yes, but with significant restrictions.

Louisville banned the retail sell of dogs. So that's exactly what? what Lexington. Stores, yeah. So Lexington and Louisville. I don't know about small towns around the state. I'm not sure what the law is there. Is this like a common law?

Like, is this the law everywhere? I always thought you could just get dogs or cats from anybody. But I guess I was doing it illegally. Well, I used to hate. I remember as a kid, we would go, I think there was a pet store in that, what is it, across the street from Lexington Green, whatever that shopping center is. And I think we would go in and I hated it because the dogs would just. and I guess that thing doesn't exist anymore.

Or maybe I don't know. Do they still have pet smarts? Because I guess they have to sell pet. Yeah. There's pet smarts. And what's the other? There's another big brand store you see around. But I don't know, Shannon, like in the rest of the country, is it banned?

I'm not really sure. Not sure. But I mean, what I am sure is that people are still selling animals regardless. And they may not be doing it legally. But people are still like, you know, if you have a dog and it, It has pups or kittens. People are going to be selling those from their house. So is that illegal?

From person to person? I don't know. Is that illegal just to sell it at your house? Puppy $5? Or maybe if you're just giving them away, it's not considering it. Well, giving them, I think, is fine. I think that's said in the thing. You can still give them away.

Okay, but you can't sell them. Well, in a retail store, but I don't know if you can sell them just in your life. Yeah. I mean, I guess for a for profit business, they want you going through the registration process. Well, they don't want you selling them, period. I read the person who sponsored the bill or the city ordinance, and she said, we have too many dogs and cats already that are not having a home. We don't need policies that encourage more because we don't have, like, they get abandoned and all these, like, you know.

You have to put them down and they take up the, yeah. And they put up, yeah. So I just didn't know. remember when this first came out. I didn't realize this was the thing it was. It makes sense to me, but I don't know anything about dogs and cats. So, like, I'm not a good judge. I remember us talking about this when this first happened. And we were like voting what we think should happen. Well, I don't remember what my opinion was then. What is it now? But my opinion now is I think it's good to have this rule. Yeah. Because I just do.

Well, anything that's going to stop them from being like put down or. Well, If you're going to abandon. If you're a family looking to purchase a dog, you might get it for cheap somewhere else, but it might come with problems that you don't know about, where if you go through a breeder, it can be a safer process. But we want to encourage people to adopt. I think the main point of this is you want to encourage people to adopt the dogs and cats we already have. Yeah.

I think. Right. But then are you encouraging them to go to puppy mills, which aren't good things? We don't want them to go to. I think puppy mills are banned them. You have to be a licensed breeder and they have all these rules. Right. And then like those are like $2,000 to $5,000 is what the article said.

So like not everybody can. For a dog? Well, you get a, what's the mark? What's a dog supposed to call? You get a full breed like that, Shane. And they are, no, are they? No. You're going over a thousand for a full breed.

If you want a full breed golden retriever, you're not getting it for $500. I'd rather have a mutt. How much is a full whatever you just said? You're good. Like if you get a full-breed doodle or golden retriever, you're thousands. You're into the thousands, some two to three, especially some of these doodles that they're cross-breed, you know, golden retriever poodles. So what's like the most expensive dog? Let's say like a reasonable. Like, what's a dog that people have that is the most expensive dog?

Is it a golden retrieverman? I don't know what names of dogs. I would assume it's those. Full-breed, then specifically the doodles that are all the rage and. What's a doodle? It's like a golden retriever and a poodle have a kid. That's a golden doodle. That feels like that should be a little.

Yeah. Like, what are you doing? To create Googles and stuff like that. It's big money. And this stuff is big money business. That's kind of gross to me when you start cross. He's right, though, $5,000 some of these dogs go for. You say the most expensive, well, that's the most expensive ever sold.

5.7. Imagine you spent $5 million on a dog. And then what if you hated it? Or it gets run over. You run it off the lease and immediately gets run over. Glenn, go ahead, Glenn. Go ahead. Just wondering, yeah, I'm here.

Looking for a little ranking here and how things would flow. Which is better or worse? Showing up at a football bowl game with a can of baked beans to cover your admission. Are we high school Friday night football? Do they have a four-legged card table beside a sidewalk and a couple parents collecting the cans of baked beans? Or is it showing up at your company holiday potluck with a can of green bean? I think the potluck

Shannon's showing up with a can of green beans to the potluck to me is and I appreciate the call is very poor behavior and I love Shannon I didn't have to bring anything I've at least put forward an effort you know I brought a can of beans Is that an effort?

Yes Let me ask you did you buy the can of beans or were they just in your in your cap They were just in there That's what I thought Let me be clear I want to make sure I get this right. It was pet land who sued.

Pet smart only uses animals from humane society. I've got an answer on the most expensive breed. It's a Tibetan Mastiff generally considered the most expensive breed of dog, and it averages somewhere between it says two all the way up to $10,000 for a dog. A Tibetan what? Mastiff. Mastiff. What is that?

I think it's like a mountain dog, isn't it, Shannon? Oh, okay. So it's like a, it's like takes you to Mount Everest. I saw a video, this is off topic, shockingly, of the top of Mount Everest. And I thought the top of Mount Everest was like deserted in my mind. Like the people who made it there, they get there and there's like this peaceful silence. Uh-uh. There was a long line of people waiting in line to get to the top so they could take their picture and then go down the other side.

Like it was like a five-hour wait. It was like they were going to Denny's. And I thought, so here I thought Mount Everest was like this peak of human achievement. And everybody's standing there like they're with their baked beans trying to get in the Buccoa. Is it that easy to get to the top? Well, I don't think it's easy. I just think that like, I guess so many people think they're whatever's. Yeah, mountain glimmers.

Yeah. I just saw the video. I mean, it might have been fake, but I saw. Dennis and Richmond. Go ahead, Dennis. I'm a person that thinks that as long as Kentucky is not giving equal money to the football program, the rest of the SEC, then it doesn't matter who the coach is. They're not going to compete.

Do you agree with that, Adam? Not necessarily because even if they had, if it was even across the board, Kentucky still offer, they're still competing at a disadvantage because they don't have the resources or tradition as these other schools. Kentucky has to win in the margins and that's still going to be true even if you got a little less money. But does like Indiana and Vandy, did they win in the margins this year or did they just spend more money?

Like I don't even know. What's the answer to that question? They up their NIL, but they still won in the margins. They won with evaluation, implementation. and star quarterbacks. So you still think they can do that? Yes. 100%. No, whatever fiber am I being? Yes. With every fiber in your being.

Yeah. All right, there you go. I mean, Dennis, it's every fiber in his bean. Let me ask you this. I see what we're in a cycle right now. We're going to have to go out and find a bunch of offensive alignment again. And it seems like we're getting in that cycle of one and done senior linemen. Do you agree with that? What are you seeing out there?

That's the first. That's the first thing that Will Stein and this new offensive line coach have to fix. It's been a problem that has been kicked down the road and they have to fix it and they have to fix it through high school recruiting. That's going to take a couple years to fix. They're going to probably have to do another couple years of seniors of portal linemen, but they've got to eventually rebuild them. Like this first 2027 class when they get here, they have to get three to four guys like legit prospects that can come in and potentially be starters for you. Where in the last couple of years, they've only gotten one to two offensive. why I'm in a year, Matt. And that's been a mistake.

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but go to KSbar, get your team, Matt Jones trivia. Remember there's a final prize at the end of the year and I would love to have you out. UK announces the official hiring of general manager Pat Beondo and Pete Nocta as the assistant to the general manager for UK football. You like those guys, right? You think they're good hires? Yeah, I think just in general, just moving to like this more kind of modern front

office structure, I think is a good move by Willstein. These dogs cost a lot more than I realized. People are riding me. It's big business. They paid $5,000 for a doodle. It's more than I paid for my first car. Yeah. French bulldogs are $5,000.

Paradoodles. English bulldogs. I'd like the English bulldog to go up against the French Bulldog in the Bulldog World Cup. $2,000 for a cavapoo. What is the cavapoo? Not true. C-A-V-A-P-Poo. Well, it's a poodle mix.

Purebred golden retrievers go for $2,000 to $4,000 on the low end. Wow. It's a spaniel and a poodle mix. These mix, I just, I feel like this, nature is not happy with that. I mean, people don't are like, I've got an elephant and a frog. Wait, but there's still dogs, though. You're missing the point here. There's still dogs.

It's the same thing. Not the same as an elephant or frog. Okay. Well, I don't know anything about it. But one of them will be big and one, I don't know. I love your analysis. I'm not a dog person. I think people can tell.

Pete, go ahead, Pete. Hey, guys. As long as we're talking about how awesome Bullock County is, I need to throw this name out there. Student Assistant Cole Britt. Vince left the tight-in room. Cole Britt came in the tight-in room, and all of a sudden, for one year, we became tied-in-U.

So I think Coach Stein need to make sure Cole Britt is retained. He was Cole Britt? I do not, but he sounds like he's doing a great job over there. Yeah. He was on, only two teams have won the 6A state title other than St. X, Trinity, and Mail, and one of those is Bull of East three years ago when he was on that staff. Yeah.

All right. And on the side, on the sideline, he's the guy that was wearing the green this year. You know, the three guys who order different colors. All right. Well, I appreciate the call. Shout out to Cole. The only guy they're keeping is Amwar Stewart, right? Yes.

Now, they haven't come out and said that. So we'll have to see what goes on. But as of right now, Amwar and there are some support staff guys. I think they're going to stay. Some guys in the recruiting department are going to say for the most. Mike Hartline's staying, right? Mike Hartline that we've heard that he's going to be the same role as last year on the staff. but mostly it's been a clean sweep out of there.

They're going to have a lot of new faces. Todd, go ahead, Todd. Hey, guys. A little off subject today, but just to clarify about Billy Clyde American. I did not work American at the time. I worked for the sister store Murray's across town. And it 100% is a fact that what you're talking about. Oh, so you're saying the Billy Clyde American story is correct.

Absolutely. Oh, Shannon, I like it. Oh, well. Doesn't surprise me. And we can't go into details, but it involves like a pool, the swimming pool, right? Yes, they have sensed closed. Clean the pool out. Let's hope so.

It's a caddysheck scene. Yeah, yeah, we're going to need some scrubbing there. All right, well, thank you. Thanks for the information. Steve, go ahead, Steve. Guys, I was curious, have you all ever heard Mark Pope talk about a pump steak at a three-point line? If you watch, I always thought it was kind of basketball 101, but if you do a pump fake and the defender leaves his feet, instead of moving away from him, you can move into him and you get three free throws.

It seems like our kids don't do that, and I don't know why. That's a fair point. I've wondered that over the years. I appreciate the call. Reggie Miller was the king of doing that, and other guys have two. you go a pump fake when they jump, especially if they don't jump straight up and they jump at you, go into them.

Lamont Butler would do that. I think he did that a few times last year. Yeah, I think Kobe Brea got, I want to say he did the James Hardin move where you know, switch your arms into. James Hardin move to me is dirty. Like, I mean, people, they'll call it, but I don't think they should. Blake, go ahead, Blake. Just wanted to say that I think taking calls on the radio

during the bowl game is a fantastic idea. Me too. And then also for Adam, I just wanted to ask, said cutter bowl he's going to be the starter next year, which I think is a great idea because I think he's shown he can play well. But is it there reports that Will Stein might bring that freshman or sophomore of quarterback from Oregon that he recruited? Yeah, do you think he brings him in with him? Appreciate the call. I do not as of right now. All right, there you go. This is very definitive in his answers. You put your name on it. I got to say to you. That's what I like.

You put your name on it. You didn't get a cat fan in your ear. You put your name on. They are invested in making sure cutter bowl is here next year. And they're, they want to him to be the starting quarterback. All right. Let's go to Draft King's pick of the day. Go to draft Kings bet $5. You can win up $100, or $200, $200 in bonus bets. If you get it correct, we're going to do the IS4S salute to Veterans Bowl. I wonder what IS 4S. A lot of letters. The four, it looks like ISIS if you're not careful. I don't think that's the ISIS bowl. You've got to make sure to enunciate. We're taking everybody out of here. S 4S salute to Veterans Bowl, Troy and Jacksonville State.

Who you got looking? I'm rolling with a former Kentucky Wildcat, Jared Parker, Troy, on the money line. Troy, money line. What do you got? Not worth them. Let's go with Troy. Let's go with Troy. I'm going to be sitting in my room going, I got a lot.

Because I don't really know the Troy and Jacksonville State players. Get the roster. Well, I just give names of like other people. Former Kentucky quarterback, Gavin Wimset, plays for Jacksonville State. Does he get to play? Yeah, he's like a wildcat quarterback for them. All right, so that's where I'll go. Wimson under center.

That's a formation, you know. Wimson under center. Johnson in motion. Takes a snap. Looks back. Peanut butter sticks to jelly. There you go. All right.

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