KSR - 2026-01-16- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: January 16, 2026

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859-280-2287 here at Wild Eggs. Wild Eggs, they just brought us out some food so good. Their little potato casserole things, you got the bacon, they got the omelets, sausage. The food here at Wild Eggs is great. We are at the one off of Tate's Creek, crowd everywhere. I love looking at a crowd who doesn't know why we're here. That's my favorite part. I love it when we do this and we just have people who are here and they have a look like,

why are these people up here talking? Ryan, it always makes me happy. Yeah, they're looking around the corner like, what is he doing up here? Yeah, what is going on? These two women are just like, why is this guy so loud? And I'm sitting here and now they're hiding themselves behind the menu. Don't worry. I'll shout you out every segment just so that you feel very welcome.

859-280-22. Jeff Goodman is reporting that Jaden Quaintiffs will not play tomorrow. So no quaintance, no low, and we'll just see what happens. We've gone to Tennessee, Drew with less than we've won, so we might as well try to do it here. Yep, I agree. Been good going down there shorthand in the last two trips. I am worried at how good we are at fixing knee swelling.

It has been a little bit of a while. I was hopeful he would give it a go. But let's get the medical team rolling so that knee can be better. Because the swelling has lingered a little longer than I thought swelling lingers here. Can we get a knee doctor? We had an ankle doctor. We needed a knee doctor. Is negative Ryan, who last Saturday, started to show his head out, is he starting to feel more and more emboldened to be negative on the acquaintance thing?

I think we just needed to be discussed. You know, he sits out, right? When he didn't play well and dad was very adamant on social media. How do you feel now, though? It's a week later still hasn't played. I think it deserves to be discussed. I'm going to say, if we get to, well, Arkansas is when? 31st.

The 31st. All right, so you got Tennessee, then we play Texas at home, Ole Miss on the Road, at Vandy. I'm going to look at that at Vandy game. If he doesn't play by then, then I'm going to start to wonder if he's not going to play. I still think he's going to play. I still don't think there's any I have not gotten a hint from anyone except negative Ryan

that he's not going to play but if we go two and a half two weeks two and a half weeks then I do think Shannon you have to start and go wait a minute what's going on I'm not a doctor but I feel like two and a half weeks is long enough for a need to stop swelling so I feel like at that point he should be ready to go yeah well we'll find out

I have the perfect Drew event for Ryan Lemon's attention span oh okay I watched this last Last night, when I got home from trivia, I went and watched it on YouTube, and I actually thought that was awesome. So, you know, tennis has lost a lot of its sort of national, at least in America. It's not as popular as it was like when I was a kid. Or when we were working there. It's gone downhill since we were.

It has. It has. I mean, Federer and all those guys gone. I think that makes a part of it. But they, the Australian Open starts next week, and they had an event to get it kicked off, Shannon. It was called the one-point slam. I like it. Okay. So they put the top 25 men's players.

They put the top like 15 women's players. And then they had a contest in Australia that anyone could enter where you could try to get to play in it. And the premise is it was a tournament, but you only had to play one point. Wow. Okay, one point, win or lose. So the theory is, of course, you're not going to beat a good tournament. player in a whole match, but in one point, anything could happen. Anything could happen.

They could double fault. Sure. Right? Anything could happen. So, like, eight or ten people from across Australia made the finals. They had all these men, professionals, women professionals. They had the tournament. It ended up crazy things happened.

Okay? The number one player in the world lost to a woman on the women's tour. An amateur, just an amateur dude, beat Carlos Alcoran. out. The final match ended up being a guy from Australia who was a good player but not a professional versus the number two

woman in the world. Wow. One point and he beat her and he won a million dollars. Just a guy in Australia ended up winning a million dollars. See I would watch something like this. This is kind of like tennis's version of the NCAA tournament. In one game anything can happen. One point.

St. Peters can beat Kentucky in one game scenario. They would do paper rock scissors to see who got to serve. Okay? Yeah. And like in one of the matches, one of the pros was playing an amateur, and the pro double faulted.

His theory was he can't hit my serve. But by the way, you didn't double fault. One serve. Oh, wow. If you put the first serve in the net, you're out. A lot of pressure. Yeah. I loved it.

I watched it. I even know who won, who had won because I'd seen the story, but still watch it, and the players were into it, and they were loving it. And it was quick. You'd come in, you'd do the serve, go out, next team. Yeah, 10 minutes later, the whole thing is done. 64 player tournament, there was a bracket.

Yeah. I'm watching that a lot more than I'm watching a five-hour tennis match. It goes five sets and tiebreaker after tiebreaker. I'm watching that. I feel like it was a great idea. And it was something that could make men and women playing it. Because, again, for one point, anyone could win. I thought it was excellent.

I'd like to just sit there and rapid-fire bet all day long as they just come up one after another. Also with our short attention spans, well, other sports do this. Well, we have a basketball game where it's first to two. and just bring out the next five. Well, let me ask you this. Would you want to watch this? You took the top 30 NBA players, top 15 women's players, and then like 15 randos, right? And it's just a shooting contest.

Yeah, or one-on-one. Or one-on-one to one. Yeah. First one wins. I think the lower seat should get the ball in that. Lower seat, yes. Shannon. Paper rock scissors for it.

Wait a minute. Shannon the dude versus LeBron. Let's go, LeBron. He gets first ball. But Shannon gets first ball. He doesn't have a chance. Ryan versus Yonis. I would cross him over.

Knock a three right in his face. But wouldn't you like to watch that? If you did watch it. A random person would hit a 30-footer over Yonis. Yep. And people would lose their minds. So I thought the one point, the one-point slam, I thought was one of the cooler things I've seen some of them doing sports.

Tennis shouldn't go back. I love tennis, it is too long. Let's just keep the one point going. Now, how many of you know that Kentucky, the state of Kentucky has a professional football team? Yeah. Yeah. In Louisville? We do.

In Louisville. Call the Kentucky Kings. Are they calling by the Louisville King? Louisville Kings. That was a mistake. Should have been the Kentucky Kings. But they're the Louisville Kings, and they had their draft yesterday, and two of their draft picks, Ryan, were Benny Snell and Lynn Bowden. Do you think that was a good idea to help people be interested?

in the first year of the Louisville Kings. It caught my attention. Now, whether they end up on the field or not, I guess that's another debate, if they're in shape and one of the play. Benny Snell's already said he's doing it. I haven't heard about Lynn Bowden. I'm watching. Chris Redmond's the coach, right?

Didn't he the coach? You got Benny Snell back there. It attracts all of our attention immediately, I think. This is what they needed to do, get local guys that people love who can still do it, but just can't make the league. And what better group can you get on the Kentucky side to Benny Snell and Lynn Bowden? And then, you know, Lamar's pretty watched. Maybe they get Lamar next year.

They really have something. This is how you create a fan base, though, right? You've got to get them hooked right from the get-go, bring in some players that are familiar. And now, you know, maybe they're going to be a perfect people. I mean, those are two guys that Kentucky fans are. I'm sure they'll do the same. I didn't see, but I'm sure they'll do the same with Louisville people.

But you get, if you get, I can't think of two people that would be better than Biddy Snail and Lynn Boat because they both still play football. They both still want to play football in the lead. And our fans still want to see them. And our fans still like them and they remember them and they were beloved. so I think it's a smart idea. Even if you're a Louisville fan and you've paid Kentucky,

you have to be like, all right, this is a good deal for the Kings. Like going and getting those two games. You have to embrace that a little bit. That's the perfect draft. I thought it was a really smart thing for them to do. 859-280-2287. Who's up next? Randy is up next.

Randy, go ahead, Randy. Good morning, gentlemen. First off, Drew Franklin. Congratulations. There will never be anything more satisfying to you to when you get to watch Kentucky win a big game with your child and you get to hug him after that. That's one of the greatest satisfactions that I've had as a Kentucky fan. As far as Mo, you know, it's awesome.

The lineup, man, I just wish we'd find a lineup that he loves, leaves it alone, and we go shorten that rotation to seven, eight players, just find out what's working and quit sub and leave it alone. But I'm a basketball, Benny. I'll hang up unless you guys talk. Have a great week. that's what's going to happen now. I mean, first of all, part of the reason they have to do that is guys are out, so there's not as many options. But I think, you know, Ryan, I think the lineup is

pretty simple. They're going to play, uh, they're going to play Oway in Aberdeen until their legs fall off. They're going to play Chandler and or Cam at the three. They're going to play Cam and or Yelovich or Diabati at the four. And they're going to play Moreno or Garrison at the five. And that's the lineup. Jasper Johnson. I hope he plays his way into that group, but he only played seven minutes the other night. But that's the team at this point, and it is what it is. Like we talked about, you know, Pope found, I think the five guys he thought were playing the best in that second half. He's done that a couple times this year, and he'll just run with him.

None of this substituting in and out. I'm going to go with my guys that are playing the best that night. There might be games, Drew, where O-A plays like 37 minutes. I mean, I think I really don't know if they can afford to ever take him out. No, and he's been doing it on both ends, too. When he had like five steals two games ago finishing on fast breaks. With Jasper, they're still going to need him. As awesome as Aberdeen was in that second half, we've seen his inconsistencies all year.

He's going to have a bad game at some point, and Jasper's going to have to fill those shoes. Hopefully not many bad games now that's his role. But as well as he played at LSU, I don't know that we can expect that to be a regular occurrence. I don't hope it is. I'm really surprised that Jasper didn't play more at LSU. I think we had the over under 14 and he was seven, didn't play it all in the second half. Well, I think that's a credit more to Aberdeen. Aberdeen was playing so well.

That is true. He was playing very well. He hit a couple shots to start the second half. You couldn't afford to take Aberdeen off the court. So I think it's more of reflection on what Aberdeen was doing, not what Jasper wasn't doing. Do you think we will shoot the ball, Shannon, like we did in that second half against LSU, 8 of 11 from 3? No, not consistently. But, I mean, I still want to see them take 33s.

I think that's the way that you beat this Tennessee team. You've got to at least make a lot of attempts at 3. The, have you said, do anybody watch the angle? of the Chandler pass from behind the goal. Like an inch difference between. All right, first of all, when I see the angle from the Chandler pass, I think Moreno kind of threw calling under the bus. That was to Moreno.

He wasn't trying to throw that to O.A. That was to Moreno. That pass from that angle, when you see what he saw, I cannot believe it worked. Nope. I mean, the dude was jumping up and down. He went over that guy. it's like just a, you know, millimeter over the LSU guys thing.

And then to Moreno's credit, to catch it, turn, have the composure, make the shot. I mean, you could do that a hundred times, Ryan, and I think it would work once. I really do. Yeah, they said he overthrew Aberdeen and O.A. No, he didn't. That throw was straight to him. Murino may have been the third option, but he was throwing it to him. If you see that video from behind, watch Colin Chandler's face.

He wants to throw it to O. He sees he's covered, and then he adjust, and you can see his eye go, all right, I'm going to Moreno. And then I forgot that earlier in the year was it against North Carolina? Chandler did the same thing, and it didn't work. Through a bad pass. He threw a bad pass. I mentioned this yesterday. When Chandler went to inbound the ball Wednesday night, I was like, oh, God, we're not even going to touch it.

Because I had that North Carolina throw in mind. He threw it to a pile of UNC players. But not this time, not at all. And to Marino's credit, I mean, he caught that at the perfect top of his jump. a Moss the LSU defender on both ends. I don't think you could have had better execution from the past or the catch. It was, I mean, like I said, it's in my opinion, Shannon. I mean, it might be one of the two or three best ending shots in Kentucky history.

I mean, we've had bigger shots in bigger games. Right. But they were like off a play or a half court set. I mean, in terms of something, we've never had something like that. I don't think we've ever had a one pass up good. full court. I don't think it's ever happened. A lot of people compared that shot to the Leitner's shot, but keep in mind, Leitner had like 2.1 seconds. So he had a little bit of even more extra time than what Moreno had. He had time for a dribble. Right. He had time for a dribble. And Marino had to do that

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHart Women's Sports. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287 here at Wild Eggs off Tate's Creek. Brandon, our sales guy, made an AI image of Ryan Lemon that was supposed to be Ryan Lemon at Wild Eggs. I want you to look at that. I'm going to even say Brandon did Ryan wrong.

Ryan, you are much more handsome than whatever this is. Thank you. That ended up on this sheet of paper. A. You got to stop with the AI. That doesn't look like Ryan at all. Got my KSR gear on, though. It's Ryan plus 150 pounds.

Yeah, I know. After he's eating olive wild eggs. That's true. If you ate this whole restaurant, that's what you would look like. I also don't know why it's you on Valentine's Day looking like you're making love to a pancake. Why is that? I don't think that's the image they want to portray. here while then. Yeah, let's not let Brandon be in charge of the, of it anymore. We have,

there's two new podcasts that Drew and I and Billy did yesterday. We have our cover zero podcast, which was, which we did. And then immediately we did a news podcast where we broke down, Ryan, we broke down Venezuela, Minnesota, Greenland, whole milk, all the big issues of the day. Me and Drew and Billy, we fixed all of them yesterday. Well, I understand why you're talking about Greenland and Venezuela. Why whole milk? What did that get in the conversation? Big story. I'm glad you asked.

Since you asked. All right. The RFK and his brilliance, he decided that we're going to bring whole milk back to schools. Actually, I don't mind this. I think he's a kook. But on this, it's actually not that big a deal. But I guess when I was a kid, we drank whole milk at school. And then it became 2% milk.

and then I guess now they're going to bring it back to whole milk. But here's something I didn't know yesterday. When you hear whole milk, I would always hear 2%. And then I would hear whole milk. And I was like, was that 100%? Yeah. Big jump. Because it seems like that would be a huge jump.

Give me all the fat. It's only 3.25%. So it's really not whole of anything. Yeah. It's 3.25%. So we're arguing over 1.25%. Correct. I agree.

So now they're bringing it back. and they're saying that every person in America should at least, unless you're lactose and you should drink at least two glasses of milk a day. I would rather die. I had my glass of milk last night to celebrate. We've been on this conversation a lot. I find milk the most disgusting thing in America. I cannot think of anything I would like to drink less than whole milk.

I really can't. What if I gave you a big cookie, a big chocolate chip cookie? You got to have milk when you eat milk with that, right? How do you eat at Oreo? Yeah. Okay, if you're telling me, I... First of all, slow down. Milk defenders.

Cereal is different. Having cereal and milk I'm fine with. I'm talking about drinking a glass of whole milk. Now, I could drink a little bit of like 2% or skin, but I don't love it. But a glass of whole milk makes me... First of all, just think about where milk comes from. Ugh. Well, think about where anything comes from.

I know, but I, but for some reason, this is, for some reason with milk, I can see it. Like, when I see the steak, it looks different than the cow. Okay. But when I see the milk, I think of tooting that thing right there. Tooting the thing. Toot, here it comes. I think of the udders and the toots, and I'm just like, ugh.

Are you, are my, my problem is you're buying cows that are tooting while you're bit the milk. It might be spoiled. I am 100% team milk. I cannot have dessert. Chocolate cake, pie, chocolate chip cookies, none of it without a big, and you got to have milk and a glass glass. No plastic glass. I'll tell you what we'll do. We're here at wild eggs. I'm going to guess

they have milk, right? Sure. You have milk? All right. Brandon, if you'll get me a glass of cold, cold. Don't get their hot milk. Yeah. More milk's bad.

If you get me a glass of cold, hold milk, I will have what is probably my first taste of whole milk since eighth grade. Wow. This is a moment. He should only have 2%. You only have 2%. That's also gross, but I will, I will try that. All right.

Just imagine 1% more. I'm genuinely, I do not think I have had a glass of milk since. She's pouring it for you right now. Since high school. Really? Have you broken every bone you have? Yeah. Well, no, I get dairy.

I just don't drink. Figured you have osteoporosis. Oh, here we go. That looks good. Ice cold, 2% milk. Here it is. Look at that. That looks at first of all.

Just all the, all the challenges we've done. Yeah. Just, hey, toot, toot. Drink up. Let's go. Toot toot. Oh, God. Chug, chug, chug.

Chug, chug. Imagine where that milk came from as you're drinking it. Oh, I took one little sip. You got drink the whole thing. Come on, man. That's so terrible. It's not. Sarah Darable, it's good.

Look at that. I want you to think about where that's been. I'll chuck it. It's past your eyes. It's not safe. Chug it. Chug it. Oh, come on.

Take it. Wow. Ryan, Drew, show him how it's done. There you go. There we go. Put it down. Yes, sir. That good milk.

Seriously. Straight from the utter. I mean, you know, Wildex has the best milk if you're going to have milk. That's right. Oh, my goodness. I got to get my mustache off. They got the cows in the back. I will say this.

I don't know how the people drink skim milk. It's just like this white water. Did you really? I looked away. Did you drink all that? He killed it. Oh, my goodness. I can chug.

And he doesn't even have a milk mustache after that either. I think I had a pretty big one. Yeah, okay. That's the way. That's ruined my day. Who's next? Ryan is up next. I've done that.

Don't even talk to me. Go ahead. That's on video. Thank you, Matt. Take my call. I got a couple things. One thing I like to drop them with a trunch back because I'm an old guy. And Pat Riley is my favorite player at all time.

But I think the slow part, my opinion, all may disagree. That's fine. But I like it because you take calls. Coach Pope won't take calls and Buzz Baker won't take them. And I wish he would have him on the radio, Coach Pope, and ask him why he won't take calls. because it's unparred to the plans. They've been taking calls for years.

But to stand it around. Listen, I agree with you. I think they should take calls. Now, to be fair to them, they did have a period where I don't think they were getting calls, and so that's partially it. But now I think people would call and they're not taking them. So I'm on your side. I mean, the whole point is it's a call-in show.

Respectfully, no one wants to hear him talk to Jeff Shepard or Travis Ford or, like, nobody wants to hear that. No one on earth wants to hear that. So I'm kind of, I'm kind of with you. It's a boring show, man. And I think to stand in the round, it's like when we press, when we pick up full court, they're standing around when they first start. They don't move.

They don't set screens. They don't rebound. They stand around. Now, I've never been a coach. My son played high school ball. But I've never been a coach. But if you don't want to play, what I would tell them, guys, before the game, you're going to come out and I'm going to play.

put somebody in there. Well, I might have to cut you off because I got to go break. I'm sorry, but I appreciate the call. I agree with you. I think if you look, Drew, at when we've struggled, if you go back and watch the first half, watch how many possessions we run down to court and everybody just stands there and watches a guy dribble.

And when you have elite superstar players, you can do that because the one guy can beat his man off the dribble, draw the defense, and then people, But we don't have that. So when we just stand around, it's a disaster. And I think when we play bad, that's the common denominator. And that's not Pope's offense. It's supposed to be constant movement, reading, reacting.

You're trying to find a mismatch and get the defense on the hills. But when you're just standing around the perimeter not moving, defense isn't having to work too hard. Can we get Matt some more milk over here, please? I'll do another. The after taste, too. So good. Nutricious and delicious. How many people in here like milk?

Everybody, but you. Everybody. Get out of here. Everybody. Look at all you all. Got milk. Gross people. We'll take a break and be right back.

This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Here back, it is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-2-80-2287. The text machine is 772-7-744. One person writes, Matt, your aversion to milk is not normal. Another person writes, Matt, that's why you are your age and single. Because you don't like milk? Strong take.

I do not think my milk. view has any effect on my people always say like like your your agent single as if that's a negative I I'm very happy as long as you're happy it's all the matters yes it's not I mean people say that

like it would have been impossible for me like you could never have met a woman yeah it's not a few it's not the milk it's not it's not the milk that has kept it from working it's usually other it's usually other things that have

have been issues the milk I have yet to have a relationship End in milk You know No woman's ever said You don't like milk I can't date you Yeah so I don't think that has a lot to do

But you know when we were younger They scared us to death We didn't drink milk We weren't going to grow And get strong bones If you listen to the new The interrupted podcast we did Drew and I talked about

Over the years You know medical advice you get Comes and goes Like we were talking about Billy apparently takes a shot of turmeric every day Because he says it cleans out his gut which was making me think about like,

I never heard the term gut as something anybody cared about. Like, it used to be if you said gut, that just meant your fat. And now it's like, oh, you got to take care of your gut. Probiotics. It's probiotics.

And then they want you to have all this bacteria in your gut. I used to think bacteria was bad. So, like, you don't, I... Just, you know... Just live life. Just live life. Just go to wild eggs.

Your time is going to hit you at some point anyway. All right, so let's talk a little bit about the games that are not Kentucky. We're not going to be on the air Monday. So before, or you hear from us on Monday, we will have had the NFL playoffs and the national championship. So let's go through them. NFL playoffs.

I'm going to give you the game. You tell me who's going to win. We'll start with Bill's Broncos. What do you got? I think the Broncos win, and you guys are going to be going with Ryan on the road to the Super Bowl. Yeah, I got to ask yesterday, if Ryan goes to Super Bowl, you can buy his ticket. No. The answer is without question, no.

What do you got? I'm going to trust Josh Allen here. I bet against him in Jacksonville. I'm going to ride with him in Denver. Devin Key and the Broncos, let's go. Broncos, Broncos, Broncos. I'm going with Josh Allen,

and I'm taking the bills along with Drew. Seahawks 49ers, Saturday night. 49ers, big win on the road against Philadelphia. To get to this point, I'm going to take the 49ers again to roll. Shannon, not splitting again. I like this one the most. I think Seahawks are going to put it on them pretty good. Isn't the spread like seven or something?

Yeah, 49ers like everybody's hurt, the whole team. I'm going to go Seahawks at home. I'm taking the Seahawks. I mean, they don't have anybody left. I think the Seahawks have to win Patriots versus Texans. Patriots. Patriots. A lot of a reaction here.

I'm going Patriots also. I'm going Patriots also. Houston Texans. I'm taking the Texans. They got a great defense. Will Anderson might be the best defensive player in the league. Give me the Texans to go on the road and take the upset. And then my bears against the Rams.

I hate to say it, but Chicago is going to be cold. L.A. is used to that warm weather. I'm going to go with the bears. I think they win. I wish this was the NFC championship. These are my two favorite teams in the NFC. I'm going to go Rams, but I'm rooting for your bears. It's been fun watching them turn things around.

I don't know how the Bears won the game, to be honest. I don't know how they beat the Packers twice, but they're at home. It's going to be like one degree outside. Bears will win. If they make the Super Bowl, I've committed to getting my nails painted like Caleb Williams. I did that on cover zero. And you got to do the shuffle.

Oh, I'll do that now. I can sing you all the words to shuffle. right now. But if Caleb Williams make, if we make the Super Bowl, I'm going to get my nails painted. Well, get your manny petty for the Super Bowl. However, I don't think that's going to happen. I pick the Rams and the bills when the season started. I got to stay with it. You're picking your bears to lose? I picked them to lose last week. I know, I mean, they've been surprising me all year. So I'm going to take the Rams to win. National Championship game, Indiana and Miami, cost $747.47

to park. They are saying that after the game, the prices to get into clubs in Miami, if the hurricanes win, they think might be the highest price for a Miami of nightlife ever.

Wow. Even more than like F1, Art Basel, all of that, it would be if they were to win Monday night. Indiana fans, they are expecting 50, thousand Indiana fans to go and Miami is there. So this has got to be one of the harder tickets probably for a national championship game ever. Who do you think wins? You know, I've been

pulling for Indiana all season long. I think they do it. They go perfect season, win the championship and are like the greatest story. I think in sports history. They're up there. In my lifetime at least. I think they're up there. Yeah. I'm sodden with the home game and it is a home game for Mendoza who Miami did not offer, he is going to light up the hurricanes. Yep, Indiana. Take Indiana off that jersey. They are the best team in college football. They've been the best team.

They ran Ohio State. They ran Alabama. They are in a role. Indiana wins. I mean, well, they didn't run Ohio State. That game came down to the end. But Alabama, they ran. Yep.

Oregon, they ran. And I think they win again. I mean, I think Indiana is going to, for the next 20, years get coaches fired. No, I'm being dead serious. Because the excuse everybody's always have, which is, well, it's mentioned the program. You can't do

that now. Nope. Because Indiana is not just won a national chair, not going to just win. They're going to have dominated to win. And so, Kurt Signetti is going to make more coaches get fired maybe than any coach in history because he's so amazing. And if I were him,

I'd win the title and I'd get out. Yep. Make a lot of. money no go to the NFL yeah right like go to the NFL you have you have done what he will have done is the most unbelievable coaching like he can never follow this up so he might as well like now go do it in the NFL and you might go down as the greatest coach in the history of football i completely agree but the question is when they win it will signetti be part of the nightlife is he going out are we going to get pictures of signetti club i didn't know nightlife was even a

thing anymore does people still go out because yeah you haven't been to miami okay i have not I was there last week. They were still going out. I think it's a pretty big thing. Who's up next? Steve is up next. Steve, go ahead, Steve. Matt, can you hear me?

Yes. Okay, Matt. I just want to say that I hate Tennessee. I hate LSU. Tennessee's going down. Kentucky does not take it for granted or have a hangover from the LSU game. I think we've got a real shot. And also 49ers, baby, all the way.

Well, I mean, I don't know if there'll be a hangover. You've got to hope, Brian, that the LSU game actually inserts some life and energy into this team and that they say, you know what? Why not us, right? Yeah, you want to build off that win, not have a hangar from the win. You played to your best basketball of the season in that second half coming back from 18 down. That's what you want to continue that. Let's talk about our next few games just for what Kentucky needs to do to make the turn.

Are you got at Tennessee, I still would argue. This is probably our third hardest game of the year in conference. Alabama was the hardest. I would say at Arkansas is the second hardest, and this is probably the third. Then, though, Texas at home, Old Miss at home, you got to win both those. Would you agree? Yes. Travis Perry Homecoming.

Because then you go to Vandy. So, in my opinion, to make the tournament, if you take the next four games at Tennessee, Texas at home, Ole Miss at home at Vandy, you need to. go two and two if you want to make the tournament. And I think it'll be a lot easier to win those two home games, Drew, than the two road games, but that's what you need to do. And Ron just mentioned the importance of stacking some wins here. If you're really going to turn this around, what better thing to build off than that

finish we'll be talking about a decade from now? You go beat Tennessee, and you can kind of block out the year up until you've had a three-game winning streak and really focus on finishing strong. So carry this momentum and keep it going forward. Texas doesn't have a great record, but they look great against Fandy the other night. I know that was a home game, but I think they're, you know, an approved game. Listen, there is no game on our schedule that I think is like a certain win. No.

None. I mean, home to Ole Miss, probably on paper the easiest game of the year, but they won at Georgia. Georgia's ranked, and they won at Georgia the other night. Georgia leads the country in scoring. It's crazy to say that out loud. Is that right? They're number one. I did not know that.

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHart Women's Sports. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. The text machine is 772-745254. one of the people who were, excuse me, the UK football account just

tweeted out, feed the studs, find the studs, turns in to feed the studs, which means they probably got a commitment here in just a little bit. But will I get, might even come out in the next five or six minutes, we'll see. Maybe it's the one you reported earlier. You know, you broke the kid that put it in his

bio. Car? Huh? The car kid that put in his bio, you're like, I'm just going to go ahead and claim it. Well, I mean, I'm claiming him. I don't know if that means that... Is he a stud? I mean, he is to me. Sure. I know it's more important to get players and win games, but I'm really enjoying just their fan engagement online.

The last staff, I don't think, knew they had a Twitter account. In fact, Mark Stoops was even Shadow Band on Twitter, where if he did tweet, you can't really see it. But this group is like, they're posted Jared Lorenzen highlights and Will did that video. You know, that's small stuff. He was Shadow Band? Yeah, like, I mean, he'd fire off one tweet and it had 30 views.

Vince was the only one with a Twitter account of that staff. It's not about Twitter. We want to win games. But I like that this staff has been very active. Even the assistants are, like, tweeting out pictures of former players and stuff. Who's going to be our best player tomorrow for Kentucky versus Tennessee? Great question. I mean, it's got to be all the way he's playing.

He's got about 20 points in four straight SEC games. He's our stud. You feed the stud. He is our stud. And he's got to continue to play that way. Yeah, he was sick last game. Still got 21 points. So I'm going to hope that he's feeling better tomorrow.

That hasn't gotten discussed a lot was the fact that he was sick during that game. I mean, 21 points while he's sick, he scored at least 20 points in all four SEC games. First guy at Kentucky to do that since Jody Meeks. He's on pace to be all-SCC. Just so you know, when I was looking at the all-time point list, I don't think people realize if Otega finishes the season on the same pace he does. He has. He's going to be pretty high on the UK all-time point list because he's going to have played two years.

If you're talking like post-Cal Perry era, he's going to know. up being one of our highest scores after because he's played two years if i'm not mistaken last year even including cal finished with one of the highest points per game averages for a season and now if he can keep it going the way has the the first four games to start c cc yeah i expect him to finish strong and be right in that conversation yeah i want to look because i i think people will be shocked at some of the names he is up against if he continues at this pace i think i think people will be very surprised who's up next sue is up next sue go ahead sue Hello, Matt.

I need to know. Hello, Sue. How are you? I need to know why Trent Noah is never mentioned. Well, because he doesn't play primarily. That's the biggest reason. But also just, I mean, to be honest with you, Sue, he just hasn't done a lot, right? Well, how can you do anything if you don't play?

Well, I also think about when he's played, kind of what he's been. I think that's really where the big issue is. He had as many good games as some of the others have. He is the only one who is not getting to play. And there's nobody mentioned the reason. Yeah. Well, I understand, Sue. I get it.

It's nice to hear from you, and I appreciate the call. So I'm going to give you just some names that if, let's just say Otega Owe, let's say he averages, you want to say 20 points a game for the rest of the year? Is that a fair number? It's the heater he's on right now. Yeah, so let's just say that he averages 20 points a game. So that would put him about, he would finish about 70th all time in scoring. He would be right next to Travis Ford.

here's who, if O.A. did that, here's who he would have scored more points than their career. Are you ready? Ready. Walter McCarty, Marquise Estel, Larry Conley, P.J. Washington, Anthony Epps, Willie Colley, Stine, Cliff Hawkins, Tyler Ulyss, Nassie Mohamed, Antoine Walker, Aaron, Andrew Harrison, Sean Woods. If he were to average 20 points a game, he would pass all of those names I said in career scoring. I don't think people would realize that he would be that high up on the scoring list. I wouldn't have thought that, you know, because some of those guys you mentioned played here four years.

It'll take you just two years in the same category that I guess Antoine played two years and the Harrison Twins. Yeah. But I mean, more than Tyler Ulysses. I mean, would you have thought Walker, Markarty played here three years? Like that's a really surprising. The three-year players, you name, surprised me. The two-year, if he keeps the –

Last year was really – well, I think Murray might be the only one that has averaged more points than him in a season in a long time. And he had that run of 20 points a game for. however many was, that was a record. So I'm not surprised at all these in the two-year conversation. But McCarty and the guys, Ford, those surprise me a little bit. Let me read you real quick. The only two-year players at Kentucky that would have more points than O'Way

if he finishes at this pace. Bill Spivey, Bill Spivey has the most points ever in two years. You know who's second? Just take a guess. Can anybody think of who the second highest-scoring two-year player in UK history is? Antonio Reeves. Wow. We are going to all be underestimated.

And Antonio Reeves, by the way, remember, really didn't play the first half of his first year. True. They had to make CalPlan. Antonio Reeves, then Oscar Shibway, Rex Chapman, Terrence Jones, Duran Lamb, Ron Mercer. Those would be the only players in UK history with more points in O.A. And I will note, Deron Lamb, and a couple of those guys played a lot more games because we would have advanced more in the tournament, Drew, than we probably will in these two years. And, you know, 20 a game moving forward seems high, but him turning the corner when we got the SEC play.

I expect him to be close to it. He has completely flipped the switch from when we were a little down on him earlier in the season. Antonio Reeves, Shannon. Yeah. That high. It's a lot of – I think about some of those big games. Yeah, a lot of great players you just mentioned there. puts it into perspective.

Antonio Reeves is 45th all-time in UK scoring. You know, you don't think that. And no – and I just don't think people would ever put him in that category. All right, give me a score tomorrow. Shannon. Well, first, cornbreadhimp.com brings your predictions. You can get your gummies, your seltzers. They're in a store near you. It's now also legal in Ohio. You can get it at wild time and other places. Cornbread hemp. This is the good life with our good friends at Cornbread hemp. Get your rest and relaxation with cornbread hemp. Kentucky, Tennessee, Knoxville, noon. Come watch the game at KS. Bar. Try the burgers and everything. But until then, tell me who's going to win. I want Kentucky to win, obviously, but I don't think they're going to. So I'm going to pick Tennessee to win. 74. Oh, take it away.

I kind of want to switch to Kentucky, but there's a website graphic that already has my Tennessee pick. But I am feeling good with going into this one. I'll stick with Tennessee. I'll say they win 74 or 73, but I don't think this is a game where we're going to be blown out or first half as anything like last week. I'm confident they're going to play a good game. Come down to the end.

I think we're going to be competitive, but I don't think we're going to win. I'm going to say Tennessee 77, 71, but I think it'll be a game that's close throughout, you know, within six, four to ten points, but I do not think we will be able to get the victory. Ryan, Limit, are you going to finish positive so we don't all pick Tennessee? One of us has to pick Kentucky, right? So, yeah, I'll talk about we've won five of the last six down there.

So why can't they make another run, get another win down there? So I'll be the one guy to pick Kentucky. 73, 72 cats. You better pick against Kentucky because you've been bad luck. Mario is leaving tomorrow. Mario is going with Bob and Jamestown to the Alien Fest. Thank Paul here who's going with him so Mario doesn't have to go by himself. Paul's a saint.

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