KSR - 2026-03-31- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

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after watching a little bit of the NCAA tournament last weekend. He's off to who knows where as he takes a little time off. But I have Ryan Lemon with me here in the studio. Ryan, good to see you. Good to see you. Good morning. I texted with Matt Little last night and he said those two games he saw the best supporting events he's ever been to.

He was very excited about those. Yeah, very excited. Did you text them on the A Vision Glass text machine? I forgot it again today. That's okay. We can use my cell phone. Do you just shout out A Vision Glass that you have for the cell phone? I have their text machine, but it's in a drawer of my house.

Yeah, okay. One day we'll get that out. You can call us on the Clark's Pump, phone line though. 859-2-80-2-8-8-7. 2-8-7 spells cats in case you forgot. 859-2-80-cats. This show is sponsored by T.J. Smith.

What will T.J. make them do? He'll make them pay, by golly. We love some T.J. Smith. We also love some Nick Roush, who is here in studio with us today. Nick Roush is going to bring a little football knowledge to us. We've been locked in on March Madness, but spring football's been going on. He's been dialed in. He's growling.

He's ready to go. Nick, thank you for making the trip from Louisville, Tim Allen. I'm fired up. There's football happening. It's been happening. We're in week three of spring practice, and there's a lot of grunt and there's a lot of grunt and we saw a video last night of the offensive line coach. He dropped two lines that just, I was like, this guy.

He's my guy. He said, the standard is the standard, which everybody knows the standard is the standard. But if we have a program where the standard is the standard, then the standard has never been more of the standard. Heck yeah. Big fan of a new coach. I dropped by his house every morning. and got an ice UK flag out there, I won't say anymore,

but I'm excited to have him in Lexington and all the new guests. He's a young guy, but an old soul. He comes from a coaching family, and he had guys doing up downs. And at one point in the video, he said, we're going to do up downs until somebody steps up and says, this is not how it's supposed to be done. I was like, that, yes, football, we're back. So it's fun.

It's new. There's a lot of newness going on over there in Willstein's program, but some things are still the same. There's still pads getting popped. There's still lots of grunts. and there's a lot of physicality over there. So I'm fired up to hang out. Talk a little football with y'all today.

Heck, yeah. See, this is my first time I get to see Shannon as I just make my round shouting out everyone on the show here. This is fun. I don't usually get to look at you. We're by Zoom or whatever this is, but this is a nice addition. We're on Microsoft Teams. Is that George Strait on your shirt you got there today? Look at that nice George Strait.

I got dressed up today. Office is full of people that look important, and I'm dressed like a teenager. But we're going to have a fun show. There are a lot of people out there. Yeah, what's going on? What is that? I thought I've never seen so many people in this building before. I mean, either.

Are you in trouble? Like every chair was full. What's going on in this? Right. What did you do? I couldn't look more ridiculous in this outfit when I walked in. I mean, I look like I got dressed in the dark. Should have brought your cowboy hat today.

It's in the car. We got a lot of news to get to some basketball, as we said, a lot of football. But first, this wasn't part of the plan, but a little public service announcement from Ryan Lemon, we were just talking as he came in. These dang text messages, going around about your parking tickets and your tolls. They're out of control, Ryan, and I'm worried. You know someone who might have been duped a little bit recently.

I have friends who are wondering what's going on. We just want to remind everyone these texts that are going out, they're spam. You're not really in trouble. They won't text you. They'll call you. But you had another incident pop up. I'll go ahead and say, I mean, it was Josiah. And he got a text message saying that he failed to pay his speeding ticket

had to be in court this morning. Well, he did get a speeding ticket in like November. and he went to driver's school. So I just thought, well, they didn't credit his account for going to driving school. He'll have to go and get that all straightened out. He shows up this morning and they said, are you here to pay a speeding ticket? And he goes, yeah, he goes, it's a scam. We've had people come in all morning.

So some little robot was spitting out these text messages to everybody, all supposed to show up today. And he, there was like there were several people show up today to pay a speeding ticket. It was just all just a scam. I got one just last week saying my deadline. for my payment for outstanding traffic infractions was March 22nd. You know what I'm not paying that? Because it's a stupid text. But since you brought that up, I just want to remind everyone, these are going around.

I know lots of people getting these. You don't actually... Shannon just said he got one. I got one. Yeah, it says notice of traffic violation. So I texted it back. This is a notice of a scam violation. You will be prosecuted.

On theirs it says, reply why to reload this notice. Then tap the link above to complete your payment. So that I'll reply back to them. Reply Why? To reload your notice. This is your notice. Then tap the link to provide your payment. And then I clicked the link and sent a link with Mr. Rogers, given the double barrel. There you go. There you go. Well, we just want to let people know. Now, if you're actually on the run from the law, it's not our advice to run from the law. But if you're getting these text messages that are going around, don't sweat it.

Like Nick pointed out, I guess they're going to public records and see who got a speeding ticket three months ago that's due in court. Boom. No, they're just getting random numbers. I haven't gotten a speeding ticket and like, well, knock on everything in like 15 years. I'm a perfect citizen and I'm getting it. So I'm sure they've just Facebook price all to my phone numbers. There's hitting us all of us up. But that's for another time. There we go. Let's get to the news.

We're going to lead off of a little basketball. There was a big moment yesterday, big hire on the Mark Pope's stuff. Scoop from the person who was on this show yesterday. That's right. Jack Pilgrim broke the news. Why didn't you break it during our show yesterday? He wanted to wait until it was later in the afternoon? Well, you know, you got to, you know, Ryan, you're a reporter at heart.

You got to confirm with your source. You can get another source. Then he had to write up. the story. Then we got to make the graphic. Nick's got to send out the newsletter. Tyler's got to put it on Twitter. Jacob's got to put it on Facebook. And Zach's got to put it on Instagram. So, I mean, there's a lot happening. But it happened yesterday. First reported by Jack in the KSR team, Mo Williams, Cavs legend, NBA champ, NBA All-Star, former coach of Jackson State will fill one of

Mark Pope's coaching vacancies where Jason Hart and Coach Brooks left earlier this week. of obviously his son Mason is the first commitment and the only player that we know of on next year's team after he committed last week. And I said on Friday, I didn't have the scoop like Jack. It was just drew wishful thinking into the universe. I was like, I hope they're considering old dad because that would be a good package deal.

And then here we are. Find out yesterday, Mo Williams is the new assistant coach. There was a lot of debate on the internet yesterday. Some people didn't like it. I felt like I was working PR for Mo Williams. I'm actually going to send him an invoice for all the tweeting and writing and K.S. Borden I was doing.

I'll get into why I like the higher first because I wrote a lot about it. Second, because I wrote a lot about it. But Ryan, just your initial thoughts with Mo Williams joining the staff. The guy obviously has the pedigree, played in the NBA, won a championship with LeBron. I mean, he knows basketball. But I did see a lot of that. Like, why are we taking Jackson State people and coaches? You know, trying to.

I don't understand that because if you follow the carousel on either level, you will know that there are one of two ways to climb the coaching line. ladder. You can be a main assistant from one of these power conference coaches like Jordan Ganey at Tennessee who got the job at NC State, or you can go to a smaller school and then join a staff as an assistant there, right? You can climb the slow ladder. Like John Summerall, he could have stayed at Kentucky for a while and then been like a defense coordinator somewhere and then hoped he get hired. He was like, no, no, no, I'm going to go to Troy. I'm going to work my way up. Mo Williams, he tried doing the, he went to an HBCU. He went to the SWAC. He was there for a couple of

of years. He's not leveling up. This is a way to get back in the mix for some bigger jobs and also to be around with the sun. So this is a guy. I mean, he did. He knows ball. He knows a little bit of ball. He knows people in this world, too. That name comes with a little bit of cachet. And I like what Billy said on the pre-show. He's also kind of cool. And I don't think if you looked at the Kentucky coaching staff, no offense to Mark Fox. Right. Like, when you look at that guy, you're like, oh, man, that guy's cool. Well, calm him down with the swag there, bud. Yeah, yeah.

Easy. Like, Mo Williams, you kind of got to say, whoa, instead of giddy up, right? He might have too much swag. I wrote that. I didn't feel bad because I think it's fact. He is cooler than everyone on staff can bond. And that's nothing against them. We knew when Pope took over for Cal, we traded some of the cool for some brains.

We like the brains. We'll get those analytics working eventually. But now we have a little bit of cool back. Oh, yeah. he can walk into Peach Jam and properly execute a Dap. Like I feel like we're back on that level. Is there nothing more worrisome than when you go to Dap up somebody who is clearly cooler than you? And you're just like, don't.

Please don't mess this up. Yeah. Because if you don't hit it right, like sometimes if you hit it right and you get that like that real pop, you walk away and you're like, all right, I got, I did good there. But then if you mess it up or you go like half handshake, half dab, It can really wreck a day. I think I said this on cover zero back when we were doing those at Super Bowl. But of all the fun we had at the Super Bowl, nothing made me happier than there's a video of me in Stevie Johnson. And we dapp.

And people reply, Drew, that was the cleanest dapp I've ever seen. And I've never felt cooler because normally I'm pretty awkward. Pretty awkward. But we got some swag back on the coaching. Definitely. Also, I think it's very important to not gloss over his connections. I know he's coached the Jackson State. and I understand you all have seen the Jackson State record.

Thank you for sending it over millions of times. I just want to let you all know. We didn't hire him to be the head coach. And if you want to play the game of let's look at an assistant coach's coaching record, don't look up some of your favorites. Not trying to throw strays here, Orlando Antigua, not the best coaching record. John Robic, not the best coaching record. Masiello, that's been pretty bad.

Mark Fox is on the staff. We're not hiring Mo Williams to be a head coach. So ignore the Jackson State record. And they played one home game in November and, December. At that school, that's just a different animal. They barely have NIL money. They're always punching up. So I don't care about his record. I care about his connections. He had the Mo Williams Basketball Academy for several years. A couple of lums. Julius Randall, ever heard of him? Pretty good player. PJ Washington. Ever heard of him? Another pretty good player. And turned out

all right. He has all these Mississippi connections. Josh Hubbard, whatever you think of him. He shared that yesterday. I don't know what that means. It could mean something. It could mean nothing. It could. But you can fill my excitement. As I said, I'm working PR for them, but I love the hire. I don't know that it's going to save Kentucky basketball. It's not a fix-all by any means, but you had to hire somebody, and I like the guy he picked. I think the issue, generally speaking, with assistant coach hires, if you know something about them, it's probably bad, right? Because people, these coaches move all over the place. Like, take for example, Kentucky Special Teams coach, Parker Fleming. You have never heard Parker Fleming's

before in your life until he got hired by Kentucky. But then if you looked up an Ohio State message board from three years ago, you would see Ohio State fans were mad about their special teams. Same thing with Wolford. You didn't know Eric Wolford when he first got hired at Kentucky. But when he came back, you were pretty ticked off that they hired Eric Wilford, right? That's the nature of assistant coaches. We don't know a ton about these guys.

But if you do, then you can poke holes. Sure, you can poke holes at Moe Williams head coaching. He's not coaching in the swag anymore. He's here to help get players to help out with point guards, to help out with guards. And I'm not exactly an NBA expert. I know Zach Gagan over here, Drew, but when I watch Mo Williams play basketball in the National Basketball Association, he was pretty good. Yeah, he was.

So he might know a thing or two about ball that some of these other coaches on Mark Pope's staff don't know. I think we all agree. Point guard play is very important next year. I mean, we know how pivotal is the year it's coming up for Mark Pope. We know important the point guard position is kind of like a guy who has. this 13 years NBA experience, kind of playing bigger than he was, a creative

playmaker. If nothing else, just the development of that position and some in-game coaching, just getting these guys ready. See, that's why I think it was a good hire by Pope. Just that alone, just to be kind of helped the point guard mentor. You know, maybe guys want to come and learn from him. Guys want to me, you know, maybe make that next step

to make them eligible for the NBA. Play for a guy like that for a year. I think that'll help attract maybe some higher-level point guard prospects. A lot of folks online were saying, why don't you go get Rayjon Rondo? Listen, I'll love me some Rajon Rondo. Louisville guy,

went to UK, won a championship, played a lot of years in the league. Have you seen his other stuff lately? Not exactly a guy you can hire. Now, if you want to have him show up to the games and stuff, cool. You want to recruit his son? Cool.

But I don't think you can hire that guy right now to join the program. Mo Williams, he doesn't have those other things going on. He's just been in the same. swag for a while. And the swag is a hard place to coach to succeed. Can you name a coach in the swag that has succeeded? I can think of one. Prong. Dionne Sanders. He's like the only one. Everybody else there, Sean Woods got stuck there forever at Mississippi Valley State. Like, it is a very hard place to win. It's very underfunded. And, you know, now he's got big brand. He's got the Nike connections. The Nike connections probably don't matter as much as they used to,

but they still matter. And, you know, maybe go get some Nike guys. when you're building a roster. It's a clean slate. All we know is Mason Williams is out there. You were connected some dots, Drew. There's another Jackson State guy that's out there. There is. There's their point guard hit the portal.

More importantly, Mo and Jamal Crawford are close. That's Tyrone Stokes' assistant coach. Interesting. What if we got Tyron Stokes and in the inner, I say something like, I love the Mo Williams connection. What if something like that? I'm not saying it could happen or whatever, but it's certainly not going to hurt.

bringing him on the staff right now. Nick said too, though. He's a Nike guy. Tyrone one, Stokes one thing. Nike guy. You reconnected some dogs. Also an SEC guy. I wrote this in my post. Some people might have forgotten. People do forget that. As a freshman, under-recruited, starts every game at Alabama. You know what he does? He wins SEC freshman of the year, and he beat number eight Kentucky in Rupp Arena. Now, I know we're not hiring Mo Williams to play basketball, but he knows what it takes to win in the SEC as a guard and has that history, too. So to put a bow on that, I'm not saying, it might not even change the win-loss record. Kentucky still has plenty of problems. I still have many concerns going in the next year. But you had to hire somebody with two open seats right now.

And I like that it's Mo Williams and we'll see how it pans out. Might look over across the way at Rupp Arena. There's LeBron James coming back to Rup when you're watching a game with him and Mo. Get on back in here. We'll take him back. Mario would love. I wish Mario were here to freak out over Brony. That was Mario's first reaction. It was. Ronnie's going to come back. He took a big leap there. Ronnie's coming to Rup. That's our thoughts on Mo Williams and text messages about scams on your speeding tickets.

Be aware of the tech message scam about your money for a speeding ticket. That should be the official PSA. We should have recorded that to play every break. We'll take a break here. Drew Franklin, Ryan Lemon, Nick Rouse, Shannon the dude in the studio. I get to see today. He's rubbing his little goatee there. Kind of looking smooth. We'll be right back after this break.

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We've got Ryan Lemon here in studio with me. You seem very giddy today, Ryan, by the way. Someone else wrote that on the KSport. You're in a good mood today? It's all that Shannon knows because of my iced coffee. I have to go to McDonald's and get my large ice coffee every morning. Got stuck in the drive-thew today. I thought you were going to be late.

I sucked it down trying to get here on time, and that's what it is. It's all fabricated caffeine. Get your priorities in check. Got to get that iced coffee before you get to the radio show. Fabricated caffeine. You do that every day. Yeah. I got to have my fabricated caffeine.

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Unrelated to me, though, the Franklins. Maybe way down the tree somewhere. I might have Uncle Don somewhere, but different Franklin's than me. Well, you should at least fake it and act like it. I know. My father traveled the state during his time working. and last name Roush worked with a Hendricks, and they would often check into hotels and rural parts of Kentucky,

and they would say, wait, Hendricks, Rausch? Sorry, not kin to the auto people, although I would like a Roush Mustang if anybody has one available at Don Franklin. Yeah, we'll take any cars. Did any of you keep up with the Sprite McDonald's, All-American Game, Sprite, Jamfest, three-point contest and dunk contest? I'm a Powerade Jamfest guy. They went to Sprite.

I was done. Sorry. Well, I tuned in a little bit. You know, we don't have Kentucky boys in the mix. We have Kentucky girls in the mix, though. We're keeping a close eye on Tyron Stokes. He didn't do well last night in three-point contest. Is he just announced tonight? No.

No, he delayed it. But everyone's watching his every move. Every single move. Every single move. I'm watching him right now on my phone. But on the girl's side, plenty of cats. Kenny Brooks with three players that will be in tonight's McDonald's All-American game, his entire recruiting class. Madden Greenway, she's number nine overall and the number two point guard in the country.

Savvy swords, number 10 overall and the number three combo guard in the country. That's two top ten players. Number one overall name, too. Yes, Savvy Swords. Just great branding potential at Historic Memorial Coliseum. Have Savvy Swords tonight? You get a free sword, a foam sword when you come in? She's a dual threat.

Oh. Emily McDonald, who won the three-point shootout last night. Nice. They did where the girls play the boys in the end. One that one, too. Nice. So Emily McDonald won big. It was fun watching them.

They'll be playing tonight. And the big game on ESPN, I do not have the time. I know it's on ESPN. We'll call it seven. But look that up if you plan to watch it. But it's weird with Cal, you know, we just got used to tuning in and see his whole recruiting class. That's changed a little bit.

But where one side has nothing, Kenny Brooks stepped in and said, I'll put my whole recruiting class in there. I can't act like I know anything about the female game, but I heard Kenny Brooks talk about this Greenway, the point guard. Like he said she is a superstar. Her dad was an NBA player, if I'm not mistaken. No, NFL. NFL player, Chad Greenway.

For the Packers? Vikings. Same right division, wrong team. He might have done a lap around another team. Mostly a Viking, though, if I'm not mistaken. But yeah, we'll be seeing a famous dad in the crowd a lot, but that's exciting stuff. Watch them tonight.

I'm excited in the world of women's sports at the University of Kentucky. Did you hear where the Kentucky volleyball team is playing this year? We kind of did a Wani Nah-Nah-Nob breaking news yesterday, but we didn't really get into it. So let's just go ahead and tap into that now. The Wrigley Field game. It is the Sunday after Kentucky football's home opener. Against Young Sunset, that's correct. So Labor Day weekend, the lights are on at Wrigley Field.

And I, we're a volleyball house at the Rouse House. My wife, she was an all-conference player at the school down I-64. She was a Cardinal bird. But, you know, we just, we turn on the volleyball quite a bit at our house, especially like Friday night, get a little Big Ten volleyball, maybe a little cats are in action. We were locked in on that run in the national championship last year. And what's awesome is that Kentucky plays in all these big events. Yes. Like the AVCA first serve is becoming the new, like, Chick-fil-A kickoff classic or the new Champions classic. They played Nebraska last year, and they were up to nothing before falling the reverse sweep at Bridgestown Arena. But now they're getting an even bigger stage. And, To play it at Wrigley. I mean, it was one thing when Nebraska, they did the outdoor game a few years ago, and there's 90,000 people that showed up. But it's like Nebraska fans are crazy.

We saw them travel to the Sweet 16 and Elite A. Like, they go all out. This is opening the door for the other fan bases to get an experience like this. And it's going to be awesome. They're playing Penn State who won the championship two years ago. Kentucky beat them on Banner Night last year. Yes. So there might be a little bit of revenge at play.

And the good news is Kentucky's bringing most of their core back. They obviously lost Eva Hudson. But Brooklyn Delay, she had offseason knee surgery. She played most of the year with like a blown out knee and was still all SEC first team.

All SEC. Molly Tuzzo's back. So should have a good squad and you're going to get a huge stage that, I mean, just the just the crowd shots of all that. It's going to be so cool. It's huge for the program.

Very fired up for it. Are you KSR's football beat rider or volleyball beat rider? It's showing how much ball you know over there. I dabble. I also do the thing, too, where I will say something while watching it, and I sound very confident in it. And then my wife will just say, you're an idiot. You're so wrong. But you know what? I think that's called marriage, Nick. That happens to me, whatever I'm talking about, I get corrected, because I'm usually trying to say something I don't know what I'm talking about. Since you do know ball, though, this Wrigley-filled aspect, outdoor volleyball, like, just, I'm going to sound really dumb.

Does wind come into play? I mean, any weather factors? Is this going to be, uh, does the atmosphere affect it at all? Maybe on some sets, but I doubt it because they changed the rule in recent years, and I think it's crap. Um, there's no more doubles. So like, you see when you set, the ball had to be a knuckle ball. They got rid of that rule. So any idiot like me can set now. And I'm like, well, that takes away some of the, You're making it easier. Like, it used to be hard to be a setter. To be able to hit that knuckleball. Now they don't have the doubles anymore.

So I think they'll be fine. And I think they'll rip it. They'll get it done and be a great night for UK volleyball. That's Nick Rouse with volleyball talk. Look at that. We'll get to football after this break and your phone calls on the Clark's Pumpet Shop phone line. This is KSR. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney.

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Drew Franklin here filling in for Matt Jones with Shannon in Louisville studio, who I get to look at through technology today. And then Ryan Lemon and Nick Roush here with me. We want to get to your calls on the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line, 859-280-2287. We'll talk about anything, but with Nick in, we want to get your football questions. Football, I won't say it's been ignored,

but obviously March Madness has been the big story lately, even with Kentucky not making as far as we wanted to go. But a lot's been happening over the football facility. So call in, give a question. Nick. I've got questions for Nick. All right. First up, we'll go to Ryan. Ryan. You're on with KSR. My friend, Jeff Piccoral, that went to spring practice, said the first thing he noticed, they're playing rock and roll music the whole practice. You like that or not?

So Stoops played music too. Maybe their music doesn't get breaks. I think the overall sentiment you will get from people who go to practice is just like, holy crap there is a ton of energy in here yeah it's it added a lot of energy and excitement it starts with the young coaching staff that helps right like for a lot of these coaches it's not their first crack at a big job but for many of them it is i mean left which was at oregon but he wasn't the main offensive line coach he was like a secondary one right Tony washington junior the defensive uh the edge coaches the past retro coach similar story with him but like these are young guys, they're fired up. They

have a lot of juice. What did Coach Stein say? Juiceful is useful. Yes, yes. Another saying that makes total sense. Don't even think about it. Juiceful is useful. But the biggest thing is the pace of practice. Ann Moore Stewart, he's the only holdover

from the last coaching stuff. The only Mark Stubes guy and he was, he said, it's just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Guess how many breaks that Mark Stoops' teams would take during a practice run. I'll say six. They would take three. Guess how many Will Stein takes?

I'll say six. Zero. Zero breaks at all. If you want some water, wait while in your own line. And as Stan said, like there's, yeah,

if it's hot outside during fall camp, they're probably going to take some more. It's spring ball, right? Like you get in, you get your work done. They will have some times of practice where they slow things down and they teach

so you can kind of catch your breath a little. But the pace of play, it's cranked up and as they say you want it to be kind of chaotic you want it to be hard now so that way when you're at neeland stadium and there's 100,000 idiots and orange screaming at you you're used to a hostile environment so that that is the biggest change there's a lot of changes just the tempo the energy of practice that has been a significant upgrade from this last year to this year i've talked to a few people who are also kind of hold over from the stoop staff not coaches not Annmore, but, you know, secondary people.

Right. Guys were in the polis. Yeah, and they're like, you know, we're here to help them because obviously we've been here a while, we can help with the changeover, but we're kind of just trying to keep up with them right now with all the energy. They're like, they're on fire in this building, and they're not coming out and saying it got a little stale or lazy or anything like that at the end, but they're like, we see an obvious difference in the end of last season in what is happening right now. And obviously Stein having his first job and being in their 30s, that's part of it. you should expect that, but just the vibes over there are crazy right now, which also I heard on the pre-show, Shannon, you got to call someone talking about the power ks. Did I catch that on my way?

Yeah, yeah. There's a picture, I think, from Saturday of Will Stein with a power k pullover or a hoodie. So I like it. If he wants to bring that back, I like that logo. I'd rather have that than the two birds making love logo. Well, it's just me and you talking right here, right? Yeah. Let's get ready for some Power K. I'm just going to warn you all. It's coming. His dad wore the power K. You know, the last staff, they got the black and the chrome helmets 10 years ago and they thought, well, we did an

alternate. We'll just run those back every year. Will Stein's coming from Oregon. Will Stein got here and was like, wearing my throwbacks. It's true. And I think we need to get ready for a lot of that coming our way. The other part about a first time head coach, who's young, who's from the area,

is that he he's not doing everything, but he's got his fingerprints on everything, right? Like he's not editing the videos that you see out there, but it's what he wants you to see. The message you're hearing from the coaching staff, it might not always come from him, but that's what he wants you to hear about these players.

You don't hear a lot of individual shoutouts, but he'll give a few here and there, right? Like, it's very, everything is very intentional. And you see the trickle down in recruiting. They got to recruit. yesterday from George. Brian, it's ludicrous way to spell Brian. B-R-Y-I-A-N. It's like his mom, dad. Brian. They didn't know which Brian to choose. It was like, we like both Brian, so we're just going to combine it to one. They got a Jared Burke from

Georgia. They've gotten two players in the last three days. A ton of talented quarterbacks that come in. Andre Adams is the one that I'm monitoring. He's announcing his decision. I want to say April 11th. That's around the corner. He's probably the Clubhouse Lever to be their quarterback commitment. And then you don't have to know much about recruiting to know that, all right, you get the quarterback in and then Ordonos start to follow. But they've had a lot of big name players

from all over the country, North Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, four-star kid from Baton Rouge was in on Saturday. That energy, that buzz, that they're bringing with the new staff, it's attracting recruits to campus. Now the job is to close the deal. They weren't able to close on Jehide Brown, who led the state in receiving last year,

Cal, that is, that's, that, that, that, that, that's going to be a saga to continue to follow because, uh, your friend of the little pup, uh, brew, he, this, this is a very, uh, personal recruitment for him. Oh, I, I was there when he was recruiting Keante Goodwin and he offered Jehad Brown as a seventh grader. Oh, wow, that early. So think about how long ago we were following the Keontay Goodwin saga. That's how long. that he's been recruiting to high brown. So, like, obviously,

Vince and Louisville got a little bit of a leg up. But Kentucky's, you know, cooking the tires. One of his old coaches at Cal is on Stein's staff. They all know each other very well. Like Doug Beaumont played with Stein at U of L. And so,

Kentucky, they're going to go show what they can do on the field. They'll probably have him to a game. And it's probably going to be some more twist and turn than this UK U of L saga. So just something to put a pin in for down the road. Won't be the last you heard of Jahad, bro. Before we take your calls here, we should shout out the spring game coming up.

Get some butts in those seats. Saturday, April 18th. What is that? How many Saturday is that from now? It is two weeks from this Saturday. 11 a.m. kickoff. Now, you have to get your tickets before you go. That's the one thing they're asking because they're doing construction to the stadium.

Northside's getting a makeover. Yes. Came to have people just wandering around the construction zone. New seats. They took the seats out. They're doing a lot of stuff over there. So you just, it's free, but you just got to call dead. before you go, but you got 11 a.m. spring game. You got 2 p.m. baseball game. Could be a big one

against Vanderbilt. Love the double header there. Also, they warned like, don't wait till day of because the tickets that are free might be gone because of the capacity. So like, if you think you're going, hop on there and claim them now. Just go ahead and do it. And here's the other part, too. They're going to play real football. Will Stein is big on. You get better, you get better at football, but playing football. It's a wild concept, Ron. I know it's hard. It's hard to believe. tackling, you can't get good at playing tackle football without tackling. So they're going to do that. And they're going to throw it around the yard.

And have you seen some of these clips, Ron, Keny McGee? Well, that's my next question. That's everybody wants to know about him. We're going back to Ryan on the phone months, Ron. Thank you for taking my call. For a long time listener, first time caller. Tell me about this quarterback. I didn't know anything about him until he committed to Kentucky.

So I think it all starts and ends with our quarterback. When I answer the question, I'm obligated to answer the question how every other person answers it, whether you're talking to somebody from Notre Dame, whether you're talking to Will Stein, whether you're talking to one of the receivers or any of them. The first thing they say is, he's a great guy, greatly. Like, they talk about the intangibles first, which I know for many of you out there listening, you're like, yeah, but can he throw the football? Like, I know he, but I just think that's not nothing. He's a good locker room guy. If you have the whole walker room behind your one leader, when this offense is going to go through him, that's a good side. The other good

sign is he's very accurate. Accuracy is important. He puts the ball to where it needs to be. DJ Miller described it in many more words. He doesn't throw hospital passes. If you're going across the middle, he's going to protect you. And the quote that Stein said the other day, he said he was talking to Joe Sloan.

He was like, it looks like he's been in our offense for a long time. He's a cerebral player. He knows he's got it between the years. He can move around well. the pocket if need be. I've heard some really good stuff about the offensive line. So hopefully he's not running for his life. But so far, Kenny Minchie has been as good, if not better than advertise. Now, what does that look like in the fall? I'm not willing to make a bunch of bold predictions that they're

going to average 35 points a game and they're going to win nine games or eight games or even seven or six. I would like to watch the wide receivers that he's throwing two catch passes. I would like to see the running backs. How do they run behind this big blue wall that's been rebuilt? But so far, Kenny Minchie has been everything that you want him to be. Now, here's the other thing. There's some people out there, Drew, I know they're thinking themselves. Rosh, we've heard you talk about how good these quarterbacks are every single year.

You told me Zach Calzado was going to win the Heisman. You told me that. He got his money right. He did not get the Hizman. Why should it be different with Kenny Mitchie? I was actually talking to somebody who played against in high school. He coached at Houston, West Virginia, a few other places. And the way he put it, he's like, you can't be something you're not.

You can't, like, what you tried to do with Cutter Bowley last year, that's not what Mark Stubes does. It wasn't in his DNA. If you're going to throw the ball around the yard, if you're going to rely on your quarterback, put the game on his shoulders to win games, that has to be who you are, 100% of the time. That has to be in your DNA. This is Will Stein's DNA. It's putting,

handing the keys, giving control to your quarterback to make big throws, to trust him to be a playmaker in difficult situations. That's in Kentucky's DNA now. That's being implemented as we speak over the Joe Kraft football training facility. And it's exciting. Now, like I said, I don't know what that's going to, exactly it's going to look like in the fall against his top 10 schedule. I'm not going to go to church. I'm not scared. But I will say there is a, this should feel different when you're watching this offense operate.

Love that. Let's get a couple calls real quick before we take this break, Shannon. All right. Let's go to Joe first. Hey, Joe. Hello, Joe. Hey, gentlemen, thank you. Nick, there's no secret about it.

We have got to keep this young man healthy and strong when we play those Cardinals on Labor Day weekend. He's got to be able to, he's got to be happy. having no concussions, no broken bones, down the big blue line. That's everything. But, Nick, you're smart enough to know. Do we have running backs I can block somebody in pass protection? Do we have tight ends that could block and pass protection?

Can we have a wide receiver maybe pick up a corner of bliss if he has to? I know most of time they don't do that. But my point is, Nick, everybody blames those five offensive linemen if our quarterback gets down on the ground and can't get up. You play a lot of football. I play a lot of football. Nick, there's four than five law offensive linemen.

When they say eight or nine guys that are quarterback, somebody else has got to block those other four guys that are coming. So, well, you just tell these fans out there in Catland, and sometimes when the quarterback is psych, it's not maybe those five interior lines that gets all the blame. It might be a running back. I mean, I just get so upset when everybody blames the five law offense alignment. Now, sometimes it is their fault.

There's a lot of times. to say running back or somebody else. And you tell Mr. Drew there in the red light, I misspoke the other day, Drew, we're not going to baptize and we're going to perform an extra citizen on you. And I've got just the people on that red lot, that can do it. I mean, if we'll get that, we'll get that jigs out of you. No problem. Thanks a lot.

Thanks, Joe. Thanks for calling it. I'm excited to be exercised. I don't even exercise. So that sounds like a lot of fun coming up in the red lot. You got a few up downs with the office phone? Whatever Joe wants to do. I'm in.

Keg stands, exercise. The standard is the standard. That's right. Jucible is useful. The good news is that one of those offensive linemen that's going to be blocking for Kenny Minchie, he was all-SCC last year at Tennessee. It's a little bit different when you're getting all-conference USA guys versus all SEC guys to be your left tackle. So that helps a lot. Colton Price, the center, he's played a ton of football.

He is a grown man. I mean, like that guy, he's got the goatee. I mean, he looks like a grown-ass man. But as far as other ones, I mean, he's right. Sometimes it's on the quarterback, too. you got to be hot. You got to get the ball out of your hands. The good news, at least from the running backs and past protection standpoint, I don't know this be true, but they've all played a lot of football.

So it shouldn't be deer in the headlights when they're asked to pick up a blitz in a situation like that. All right, we'll get more to your calls after this break. I want to talk a little TV too. I've wrote down a few TV things to get to. I know people want to hear football, but I got to talk about something happened last night. Something last night. A new show I'm into, a new old show I'm into. So some TV talk coming up to.

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It looks beautiful in downtown Lexington. And I just look to my right and there's a screen that has callers names that blew my mind that that existed. And I see there's an Andy on there. Is that our guy, Andy? Is that the Andy? That is our Andy. Oh, we got let's just jump right in with Andy. Can't have him waiting any longer. Andy, how are you doing, my friend? man i'm i'm doing pretty good i it's been a whirlwind of the last seven days around here but you know we're just kind of taking one thing at a time and trying to move forward

well i hope you have the right attitude i know uh life through your curveball here recently but we've been thinking about you and praying for you hope things going well um are you are you able to have you been keeping up with anything beyond that or has that kind of been consuming your life lately you know we got our braves have started they're looking good and there's a lot of exciting things going on, but I know your life has taken a big turn lately. Yeah, I've still been, I've called all the Braves games and stuff, even when, you know, because that's more a nighttime thing for the most part. But yeah, I was, it's been a lot to take in.

I just wanted to call in, though, when I don't have a doctor's office calling me today and just let everybody know that I do appreciate everyone's thoughts and prayers and messages. is that they sent, and it means a lot, and I'm just grateful for that, and have everybody supporting me. And I most certainly feel the love. And I found out surgery is April 27th, and they're going to go in there and try to get everything out, and then if they don't, you know, then you play the what-if game,

which try not to do. But it showed that it's not spread, so that's a good. thing. Dude, you know, we love you, man, and I'm glad you got to feel that love from BBN. You know, I was hoping somebody either read those text messages to you or the tweets or you could hear it on your Siri because people, dude, you're one of our favorites. You're not just one of our favorites. You're one of our favorites.

You're one of our favorites. So you've got a lot of love, a lot of strength, a lot of people behind you, man. So you just keep fighting the good fight. I will. And I'm just, you know, just going to go on. It's just weird thinking you got. cancer because you really don't feel like it. You know what I mean?

Well, we didn't know how much you wanted to share, but we appreciate you giving us updates there and hope you'll continue to do it, what you feel comfortable talking about. We love hearing from you, buddy, and I know you've been overwhelmed with messages, and there's a lot of people that care about you and thinking about you and wishing for the best. Oh, yeah, guys. You know, I'm an open book. I went on Jerry's Spring or 27 years ago. But, hey, man, I just wanted to call.

I'll let you all get back to the. football talk and today I just wanted to call in real quick once I knew certain stuff and everything just wanted to let everyone know that I certainly do appreciate everyone's

love and kindness and it means a lot keep in the good fight Andy yeah hang in there Andy love that you got the right attitude you'll be on the other side of this we can't wait to hear from you again oh yeah we'll be we'll be doing fireball shots in no time

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