December 4, 2025 • 41 mins
Shannon The Dude and Billy Rutledge talk Will Stein's introductory press conference, relationship arguments, and your calls.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everyone. It is the KSR Pre Show. It is Thursday,
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(00:21):
Donning in Lexington. Billy our sports alongside this morning. Actually
got up and drove to work today. He's in the studio.
What's going on, Billy?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm here, Good morning, Shannon. It's great to be with you.
Prayers to the guy in the bathroom just losing it
this morning. You know you can hear everything in those bathroom, Shannon,
there's no fan on.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
So a guy in the bathroom was losing it, losing what, yeah,
losing losing his breakfast or losing.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
What I mean. It just like the content of his
stomach was just coming out when I came out, came
out there in the morning. So best of luck to
him and hopefully he has a great day. This morning.
But great to be with you, dude. What's up? What's
on your mind?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Oh? I don't know, man, just hanging out. Ready to
go tomorrow to Glasgow. We are where tomorrow in Glasgow?
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Believe it's Ashley's furniture.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Ashley's furniture. Yeah, you need some new furniture, go to.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Glass I do. I have the most uncomfortable couch of
all time. It's got feathers that sticks out of the
cushions and they just randomly will stab you if you're
not careful.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Is it because of that cat that's causing just chaos
at your house and slashing your leather's leather couch or
whatever you got there in your house.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
No, not the feathers. It's it's not the cat's fault
that the couch stabs us. But the cat will get
my clothes and it kind of get like a string
off every now and then. I mean, these claws are sharp.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I would not mess around with that very much. So
just taking it one day at a time though, dude.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
All right, so yeah, you can join us out there
tomorrow and Glasgow. We'll be out there of course for
the pre show starting at nine am. Yesterday, Billy will
Stein his introductory press conference. Some highlights for me. I
think you know his his vision that he said he
was just simple, wanting to win and wanting to do
it immediately. He says, they'll play an exciting brand of football.
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They're going to light up the scoreboard. And you know,
we talked about when Mark Pope was hired as the
new basketball coach here at Kentucky how he won the
press conference. I kind of felt like will Stein yesterday
won the press conference, didn't you?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I do? And you know it's easy to say, I
think most coaches do win the press conference. Looking back,
even some of the worst coaches had good press conferences.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
But this is a guy, the UCLA guy didn't win
the press conference, the guy that was hired there. What
did he say, Oh, a bunch of like mad libs,
mumbo jumbo. It was terrible.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, sometimes the spotlight is too bright, but it didn't
seem like that for will Stein yesterday. You could hear
it in his voice, the passion of being home and
reminiscing and telling stories about whether the season tickets that
he had or how happy his parents were. Maybe got
a name drop in there and mentioned that his mom
was on the phone with KSR, so he knew how
big of a moment that was. Loved some of the
(03:00):
UF he said, I mean talking about stealing possessions, doing
fake punts and on side kicks. I mean, I get
that he's appealing to maybe the the video game college
football player more than the standard guy. But after thirteen
years of conservative football, that was refreshing to hear a
little bit, kind of like Mark Pope hitting the high
notes during his press conference. You're gonna have to tell
me how it works, Shannon. But like they had like
(03:22):
pyrotechnics in there at the Nutter field House. Did you
see any of that?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I didn't like, can you do that in? I guess
you can do it indoors, you can do I mean,
just I don't know. I guess the fire department was
on speed dial just in case things went wrong. I'm
not sure what the regulations are on that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
See me too. I'm speaking out of ignorance here, but
it always does seem a little strange. And also the
arenas that set off fireworks before the game starts. Yeah,
and then you go, the smoke is still there, bloom.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Of smoke, just like lingering for the next two hours.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It's always bizarre. So Kentucky went all out, though, and
you know, a little disappointed or guy Mario didn't ask
a question, but you had Alan Guthler stand.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Up, like, yeah, I'm glad that Alan Cutler dressed up
for the occasion. He really he looked like the dude
from The Big Lebowski, Like all he was missing was
a white Russian in his left hand as he was
asking the question.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, it was. It was Who's who? There's no doubt.
Yesterday of Kentucky media, Mitch Barnhardt had a fiery press conference.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah. Well, I mean, let's touch on it right now.
I mean he was asked about nil and if they
had enough funds to continue to be competitive, and he
got a little upset, He got a little feisty. You know.
I kind of felt like I was having flashbacks to
when I asked him on a radio show years ago
about the checkerboards and he sort of went off on
me about it, you know, And like this guy, you know,
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he's sensitive about certain things. But I don't think that's
a crazy question. I don't think that's a bad question.
You know, Barnards, We've been asked that nineteen different where
he's of course, we have enough funds. It's by Mitch Bornehart.
You know, it clearly was a point of contention for him.
He didn't like that question, but I think it was
just a bad answer, just the way that he I mean,
(05:03):
the way that he answered it is demeanor. Yeah, it
wasn't good, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It's yeah, his tone, you know, using the words like ridiculous, yeah,
and nonsense. I mean, this is a changing landscape. It's
fair that fans have questions. But you know that sounds
like a guy that doesn't talk to the media a lot, honestly,
And when you do talk to the media and you
get some criticism or some blowback, I guess the frustration
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had built up to that point, and when you don't
have an outlet to let that out it I guess
it came out in front of the media yesterday. But
a little ridiculous that he did get worked up like that.
But there's a lot of pressure on Mitch right now,
so I mean I can also see that to a degree.
But just like you said, the tone was just like
a frustration. I've heard this over and over again, and who,
(05:49):
no matter who asked me the question I think it
was John Hale of the Herald Leader that got the
brunt of it there. But I don't know, Mitch. Did
you not expect that question?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And is it me? Or I mean, I guess I
don't follow a lot of Mitch Barneheart press conferences, but
I haven't really heard him being asked that many times
that question. Maybe he has in his personal life, but
how many times have you seen Mitch Barneheart answer that
question publicly? I haven't seen it that much.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's what I'm saying is when you don't do a
lot of media, maybe it feels like everybody's been asking
this question, but we have not been able to ask
these questions in a public setting like this, so I
thought it was their responsibility. It's good on John Hale
asking these sort of questions, but maybe a low moment
on what was otherwise what seemed like a really great day.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, Will stein By, you know that quote?
If I'm saying they want to light up the scoreboard
gets me excited because I feel like it's the exact
opposite of what we got during the Stoops era, where
it was so focused on defense, grinded out ground and
pound type offense, and then you have a coach coming
in who is I mean, as we've already highlighted earlier
(06:52):
this week, great offensive coordinator has Oregon in the college
football playoffs and a guy that I think is going
to come in run an innovative offense a lot on
his quarterback. He says he needs the quarterback abillity to
be the toughest blank on the field. I can't say
it but what his words were, but basically the toughest
guy out there on the field. So you know, if
I'm Cutter Bowley and I'm trying to decide where i
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want to go, you know, do I want to stay
at Kentucky or do I want to go somewhere else. Basically,
you have one of the best offensive coordinators in college
football falling in your lap coming to you. You don't
have to go anywhere if you're Cutter. So that makes
me confident that Cutter is going to stay put here
at Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well, you have an innovator at as a play caller
who I think is going to be more of a
head coach than actually calling the plays. I think his
offensive coordinator will be doing some of that, but he's
going to be heavily involved. You know, there's reports of
the I guess a GM coming for Kentucky. This director
of recruiting or whatever he does at Oregon. That seems
like somebody that knows what they're doing. And when we're
(07:51):
talking about adjusting to the college landscape, these are two
of the biggest things that you can check off your
box here as a young coach that is a innovator,
play caller. And then also this GM spot. So those
are two things that I've checked off as really good things.
And you know, it also paid homage to Mark Stoops
And look, I get it, it's the coach is going
(08:12):
to do that. The next coach is going to pay
homage to the former coach nine times out of ten.
But it also felt real when he said that.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. Did you like his answer what he said?
It kind of feels like it's an obvious answer, but
he says, the best way to get better at football play.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Football, play football.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah. So I think there's a lot of excitement for
what's ahead for the football team.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And that was in reference of the spring game, right, Yes,
Like that was like, you know, possibility of doing something
in the spring, which you know, we've kind of gotten
away from a little bit. But how much does the
spring game really matter?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
You know?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I think it matters to fans. I think that it does,
and we actually need any full on scrimmage, not what
we got last year. And they've got to be better
and I think that they will be much better with
handling this thing on the offseason. And I think it's
a much easier obviously, when you have a brand new
coach coming in, You're going to do a lot of
off season promotion, a lot of interviews. I mean, that's
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stuff that we got basically none of last year. You know,
Shia's pe coming on KSR was basically the most football
news that we got the entire off season, and I
think part of that was coming off of a four
and eight year before, you know, and a lot of
negativity surrounding the team going into the season. I think
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it's a lot easier to do that when you have
a new coach coming in. But they've got to do
better than that, and you couldn't do much worse than
what they did last year, Billy.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Right, and that was going to have to change regardless
of who the coach was. There was one more quote
that I circled Heill. I'll read it for you. This
was great. The best trade of a college football coach
now is adaptability. We've got to adapt. If you all
are still saying I wish it was like the old
it ain't the old days. It's not, so just get
that out of your mind. Which is I mean, yeah,
(09:56):
that's it. I've heard enough, Shannon, that is what you
want in this modern one.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
There's a lot of people that don't like the NIL
era that we're in. Guess what, it's not going anywhere.
I mean, whether you like it or not, that doesn't
really matter. There's a lot of things in this world, Billy,
that I don't like, but it's not going back to
the way it was. I don't like AI. AI is
taking over jobs, but guess what, Billy, AI is not
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to just suddenly go away. Neither is NIL in college sports,
whether you like it or not. It's here to stay.
And the coaches that succeed are the ones who aren't
the ones who are pushing it away or trying to
ignore it. They're the ones who embrace it. And I
think that's part of the reason why it was important
to get a younger coach, not one of the older
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coaches that's sort of on his way out the door.
Even though I said John Gruden, I did say that
I would have liked him, I'll own that right. But
like I said, you know, if you don't get a
guy like that, like John Gruden, then you got to
move on and get somebody that's young, that understands the
world that we live in now with the nil era.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yeah, but this is a guy that has been a
head coach, so I mean there are some question marks,
just like Mark Pope, who hadn't won an NCAA tournament game.
You know, Mitch Barnhardt shared a story that to get
to where he wanted to be, Will went to the
high school ranks. He went from college to high school
to hone his craft to become that play caller, and
then went back to college. That takes you know, you
got to be humble to go back to a level
(11:20):
like that after you spent time as an offensive coordinator
or working in the college world. Do you feel weird
at all that you're older than the head coach at
the University.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Of Yes, I do. I feel like he's a a baby.
It does steel weird, man, it does feel weird. But
I guess if you think back on it, like the
coaches over the years, Like how old was Rick Patino
when he took over at Kentucky. I don't know the
answer to that, but I'm going to guess he was
probably he's probably in his thirties when he took over. Right,
(11:51):
how old is Rick Patino?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Now, he was born in nineteen fifty two, Okay, seventy
three years.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Ago, so he was I guess what like eight or
something like that when he took.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Over under his forties? Yeah, he was in his thirties.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah. And then you know, you think about some other
coaches throughout history, they've probably been in their thirty Yeah,
but I think it's when you get into your forties, Billy,
and these guys are younger than you. You're like, wait
a minute, I'm trying to like imagine myself six years
ago being a head coach at Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
It would be a little weird. Oh, how old do
you think Mark Stoops is?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Mark Stoops? Do you have the answer?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I do, Yeah, it's in front of me, Mark Stoops.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I'm going to say, is fifty four, fifty eight, fifty eight?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh, ring the bell for you?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I as a young man fifty eight years.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Old, So I mean, yeah, so what twenty two years
younger than the previous coach. You're gonna have some new ideas,
You're gonna have new ways of doing it. And not
that Stoops didn't relate to his players, but this is
a guy that is going to be playing for Oregon
as the offensive quartered in the College Football Playoff. That's
something that I think a lot of you people will
see as something that they will want more of. But
(13:03):
did feel for him a little bit talking about the
I don't know not the lack of sleep that he's
gotten over the last few days. Imagine juggling two jobs.
It's kind of like John Sommerl who just has to
go and take all his gear off every time he
goes from job to job.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
That's right, Yeah, you gotta switch hats.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
He got to stripped down of all the two lane
gear when you get to Gainesville to recruit for a
little while. So it's got to be an odd feeling.
And I guess Will's doing a little bit of that
right now as he'll go back to Oregon and coach with.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Will Stein said he had his cowboy boots on yesterday.
He said, I guess because he's in Kentucky. We're not
in Texas. I don't know. Do you even own cowboy boots, Billy?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I do not, But you're asking the wrong guy.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I don't own a pair of cowboy boots.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I wouldn't have bought the cowboy hat on the KSR
road trip either, I know our boys did. But those
things looked expensive.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Oh they were expensive. You should have seen the prices
on some of these.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Are we talking like three four hundred dollars?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I think I think some of them were like five
six hundred. And i'n't go out for a hat. I
think you can't, even like, you know, you have to.
They had to send it back because they didn't want
to smash it in the car.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Right, it's all creased and like you can't shove that
thing in your luggage.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And the only thing about a cowboy hat, like, unless
you just want to be a cowboy walking down the
streets of Lexington or Loiso or wherever you live in Kentucky,
you're not gonna wear that every day. It's like only
a special occasion thing. It's like the fedora for me,
Like I don't just walk around in life with a
fedora on. I might rocket if I'm you know, playing
a show with Alice blue gown. But the cowboy hats
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the same way, Like you might wear it when you
go to a country concert or a rodeo. But other
than that, you're not gonna wear brody. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Well yeah, I think it's the Pbrarina.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, you could wear a cowboy hat just in case,
you know, one of the guys goes down, a cowboy
goes down, you can just jump right in there and
fill in next man up.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Well, that was a fascinating show back in the day
when we had the bull Rider on. Oh yeah, they
were doing the event at rapp Ana. But nevertheless, yeah,
you also got to know that if you're wearing a
cowboy hat in twenty twenty five, you know you are
the star of the show in that room you are.
Oh yeah, people are looking at you talking about the
cowboy hat, unless you're in Deep Texas, like you know,
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now cowboy boots. Though I'm not wearing boots. I don't.
I don't. I don't have that that that that type
of style Shannon.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
But yeah, I'm trying to think of like what I
would even when I would ever wear cowboy boots. I
don't even thin they would look good on me. I guess.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I mean when you go to pick your pumpkins, maybe
you could put your cowboy boots on.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I mean usually I just have you know, regular.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Should easily do that in barefoot, though, like our boy
Matt that chose in the garden barefoot, I mean he
scoffs at cowboy boots.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
That's right, A nine two twenty two eighty seven. We'll
take your phone's phone calls coming up in just a minute.
The computer just logged out on me, Billy, I can't
even go to a break right now. Are you serious
that that happens sometimes? All right, here we go, I
got it fixed. Now fix it on the fly if
it happens when you've got to produce your own show
or who's host. We'll take your car, take your calls.
Coming up next. It is the KSR pre Show. We'll
(16:01):
be right back, all right, welcome back. It is the
KSR pre Show. Shitt of the Dude Billy Rutledge eight
five nine two EIGHTHO twenty two eighty seven. One person
writes in it says, don't you guys wish you'd bought
stock and Sissy's Cakes before will Stein was hired, and
before will Stein's mom was the star of the show
just a couple of days ago when she came on
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here and did the interview with us. Yeah, I don't
know if you can buy stock in Sissy's Cakes, but
that would have been a good bye if if you
were able to.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, I'm still trying to make all my money back
from Weed to Bicks. I mean I put all my
stock in that, and then they didn't tweet for a month.
I mean that was the biggest fail when it comes
to social media marketing.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We were lobbing Weed to Bicks a softball Weeda Bicks,
which I had never even heard of before until Amari
Williams and we talked about it so much on the show.
We handed them to the batona. They just fell down.
They didn't even run at all.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
The land crappy ass cereal that nobody will to eat
after the run was over.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I mean, I ate pocket Weeda Bicks from Drew Franklin
in Indianapolis. He pulled out Weeda Bix out of I mean,
he's just walking around with Weeda Bix in his pocket.
And I actually tried it that is not good. Maybe
let the pocket lent.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Maybe he really threw it off pocket. Yeah. Well, that's
the best part of this fan base is the weed
to bicks, the Sissy's Cakes, the you know, to be
able to take over and kind of do it like
this the Mexican restaurant with Scott Drew. I mean, these
are just some fun moments when it comes to coaching
searches at Sissy Cakes. Our guy Corey Price went there
a couple days ago and got some snacks. He just
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gave me some stats about the age of UK football
head coaches the day that they were hired.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Okay, Shannon, let's go.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
What do we get?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
So there were two that were younger than will Stein.
Paul bear Bryant was thirty two years old when he
took over at the University of Kentucky, and Frank Cursey
was thirty four. Will Stein comes in at thirty six.
A little bit farther down on the list, Coach Dukes
comes in at forty five, and then at the end
at sixty one years old. Coach rich Brooks takes the
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cake at sixty one years, one hundred and thirty two days.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Wow. You know, here's the thing, though, people back in
the day just looked older. I think, you know, life
expectancy was a little bit different too. But guys at
thirty six now don't look the way that a thirty
six year old looked, you know, thirty forty years ago,
you know what I'm saying, Like, oh, I know it.
I felt like when like when my dad was thirty six,
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he didn't, in my mind at least, didn't look as
young as Will Stein does at thirty sex. I just
feel like people look younger now than they did back
in the day. You know, back back in the eighties,
somebody thirty six looked like they were you know, sixty, Yeah,
in their fifties, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
And that goes back to the flooride and the hose
water Shannon. We've talked about it. Well, I mean, if
everybody was tougher back then, but they sure looked like it.
The better best case for this is to go look
at high school photos. Go look at people in high
school back in the nineties compared to people in high
school today.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
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let's just go to some calls right now. We will
start with Drew and Corbet and Hey Drew, good morning,
he Drew.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Hey, guys, had a great talk to you this morning. Okay,
Guysdre and Will. So I just had a quick question
before I make my comment. Have you guys heard anything
about what the controversy was in high school football last weekend?
Does that make any sense to you at all?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah? I don't think it was discussed on this show.
But was it involving Corbyn drum?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oh, yeah, absolutely so. So I heard because somebody told
me I'm having a listen on podcasts because of my
new job. But I didn't catch the post game the
other night when I think Ryan mentioned it. But I
just have to say to say this, but the right
call was made because of an inadvertent whistle and so
(20:27):
there was a bad fumble uh from from Boyle County
and Corbyn picks up the ball in about the twenty
yard line and uh, the the umpire blew the whistle.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And I've talked to two khsb A officials and the
right call was made. But it's it was horrible to
be there and to see it. And I've got a
good kass our friend that was there with me and
we couldn't figure it out. But it's it's the talk
of the state. And I just didn't know if you
got I mean as far as you know, if you
if you don't talk about UK football all in basketball
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and there's things going on there in high school ranks.
It's the top of state. And I didn't know if
you guys I did.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I didn't know it at first, but I do remember
seeing that on on Twitter. There was a fumble recovery
and then they blew, like you said, blew the whistle there,
and there was a debate as to whether or not
that was the right call or not. So all right, Drew,
thank you, Drew, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Yeah, that's tough, and you know, you'll probably see more
of this because people don't want to be refs and
so the refs that you get maybe sometimes can make
more mistakes because it's a tough job to do. And
I'm sure those refs probably got booed out of the
stadium after something.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Let's get one more call on quickly before the break,
Go ahead, Jim.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Uh yeah, I want to put in a volt from
my boots. I wear boots every day. Uh are you.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Work boots or cowboy boots?
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Work cowboy boots? I learned for work. I mean no,
you know, no draw strings, regular cowboy boots. Okay today
her years.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
What do you do for a living, Jim, I'm gon
chilly lineman, utility lineman. All right, yeah, yeah, we're radio guys.
We sit on our button, we talk. We don't really
need cowboy boots to do radio. But for what you
do I could see that.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Yeah, yeah, I even. I even I used to have
Lineman's boots.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I don't even wear them.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
I wear the cowboy boots to climb in ile.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
All right, Jim, thanks for calling in. We're up against
the break. We're going to take it here. We'll be
right back with more of your phone calls. It is
the KSR pre Show. It is the KSR Pre Show,
eight five, twenty two eighty seven. We're playing some Taylor
Swift right here for the for the podcast listeners who
can't hear Taylor Swift. And I'm playing this billy because
it's been in my mind since I saw this story
this morning, and I want to I got to get
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your take on it, and I want everybody else's take
on this, because I feel like this is a topic
that everybody will have an opinion on. Travis Kelsey is
saying that he and Taylor Swift have never had an argument,
not once in their nearly three year relationship. So my
question to you, please, number one, do you believe that?
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And number two is that normal? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I don't believe that, absolutely not. I mean maybe if
it's the most boring, you know, no personality relationship of
all time. You're gonna have fights, You're gonna mix passions,
you're gonna be emotional. Some days, you're gonna have bad days.
I mean maybe if you're remote and you don't ever
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see each other besides in the few times in person,
and it's nothing but bliss. But that's even far fetched
to me, Shannon. I mean, anybody that's been together for
over six months has been in a fight.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Right, Well, not everybody, according to Travis Kelsey and George.
George Clooney also says that he has been in a
relationship for ten years and has never had a single argument. Now,
I would say if you live together and you see
each other every day, you're probably gonna have some arguments. Now,
obviously there's relationships where you have more arguments than others.
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But yeah, he's saying they haven't had a single argument,
And I just want to know, is that normal? You
don't mind that? Clearly it's not. Now, Okay, I.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Mean, maybe we argue too much in our relationship if
I have this strong of a reaction to it, but
I mean that just shows me that this isn't the
right person for you. I think you have to have
arguments to be engaged in a relationship. I mean, I
think that's a red flag that they have no fights.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I think part of it too, though you may have
hit on it there. Do these two even live together?
I don't know their living situation. But Taylor Swift, she's
a little busy. Travis Kelcey maybe not as busy, but
he's pretty busy too, So I think that maybe not
living together has something to do with that.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
But like, even people in a long distance relationship have arguments, right, Like, no,
I saw you into the bar, you know, midnight, Friday night,
what was going on?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I mean, maybe they're very confident in their relationship and
their love for each other. But I would call ten
times out of ten bs on that.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
All right. I would want to know from everybody else
at SHANEA the dude at Billy R Sports on Twitter.
If you can't call in, you can also send us
a text five two two six five six six five six.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, just get a cat and then see if you
don't have any more arguments.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Is that is the cat calls some arguments already?
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Sure, I mean it's really the second cat that the argument. Well,
the second cat we're holding the line, Shannon, like a
where does it stop? Old Civil War?
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Gin?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You're not getting past this line. So you draw the
line at two cats, Well one, we've got one. No, no, no,
wait a minute, now you got one. I thought you
already said it's trying to hold the line. You're trying
to hold the line, all right, Yeah, you know she's
trying to get a second. My money is on you're
going to have a second cat by the end. I
mean that's probably minus odds at this point.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
But you know what my.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Prediction is, Billy, our sports is going to break down
and there's gonna be a cat popping out of a box,
wrapped in a bow under the tree for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Well, I told her if she could find my keys,
I'd buy her a second cat. But you know what,
I don't know if we're ever going to find my keys.
But keep you updated on that, dude, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
In the argument, let's go to uh, back to the
phone lines. Let's go to Richard, Hey, Richard.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Martin fell oh uh uh, thinking about that ball game
the other night, or we stuck some bad you know,
we got our main problem, Fellas, we don't have an
extra point guard. I wish a thousand times. But the
sports media ahead and run off heard Perry. They might
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have come in pretty handy right now.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
You feel like we ran off Travis Perry, Did me,
Billy and I run off Travis Perry?
Speaker 7 (26:55):
No, but but a lot of a lot of the
other media dead it was all why he's out YouTube
and all saying that him and Curl wasn't that part
of the this and that and the other. Well, watch
what you wish what they should have watched, what they
wish for, because they sure we sure got a miss.
Now look listen, yeah, go ahead, and uh it is
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what it is. I don't let that Pope's gonna have
to do to straighten it out. But the whole thing
he's got to do next year to listen to news media,
recruit the style of players that shoots his style of ball.
All right, Richard, I have a wonderful today, guys, and
and take care of God bliss yep.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So, I mean, I hear some people saying that they
wish that Travis Perry were still on the roster, But
let's look at what Travis Perry has done at Old Miss.
He's not exactly going to let the world on fire.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
How many. Yeah, tell me the last game he.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Played sixteen minutes, he had three points. Now, he did
have eleven against Miami, But I mean there's most of
his games that he's played in he hasn't exactly been
lighting the world on fire. So I'm not so sure
that he was. I don't think Travis Perry would have
been able to clean up this mess that we have
right now with the basketball team.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
And I don't know if anybody really ran Travis Perry off.
I mean, I get that fans want Kentucky players to
be from Kentucky, and there's a little bit more of
a special relationship when guys like Trent Noah and Travis
Perry are here. But that was the decision by Travis
to move on after Mark Pope went and got some
other guys in the transfer portal. That's just college sports now.
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And if somebody's going to maybe pay more, if there's
a place with more playing time, these guys are ultra competitive, Yeah,
they want to go play. So I don't know if
in this situation anybody ran Travis Perry off and in
the door still open if he ever wants to return,
is it not.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I mean, I would say so. I don't know that
he will.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Well, they could have used the third string point guard
this year, There's no doubt about it. Maybe that's why
Mark Pope was so upset that Travis was leaving.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Game before that, Travis Perry had eleven minutes, zero points,
game before that, sixteen minutes, three points.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Okay, so he's definitely a role player.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
He's Yeah, that's what I'm saying, like loves Perry. He's
Kentucky in right, but he's I don't think he was
the fix to this problem. I think, you know, if
he's there, then he may give you some minutes, but
I don't think he's gonna He's not gonna fix the
issues that we have.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, do you think Mark Pope and Travis Perry?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Ever argued, I don't know if Mark Pope's a hard
guy to figure out, Like he seems like the nicest
guy in the world, but then you hear stories about
him breaking you know, whiteboards in the in the locker
room and blooding up his fists. So yeah, I'm not
sure he's a hard guy to get a read on.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
That's why you're ready was so odd when he flipped
the switch ninety minutes too early before the awful game.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
It was like coach, who is yeah, hey, Randa, what's.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Maybe about the boots saying I was gonna say, on
the snow day, it was a good day to wear
your boots, put your jeans, your boots on, you know,
because you're out walking on the sidewalks whatever, and in
and out the building. It's a good day to wear
your boots. And because that's why I'm in right now
my cowboy boots jeans.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
He and uh.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
And the thing about you guys are saying about the
argument Taylor Swift and everything. I mean, if you're a
woman is the richest woman in the world and hotter
than the fox in the forest fire, you might not
really buck up on.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Her a little bit, you know what I mean, you
just let her get her away. Well, you know that's
what somebody else just wrote in it says, this is
Ray that writes on Twitter and says, if you were Travis,
would you argue with Taylor Swift now right right?
Speaker 6 (30:26):
I mean, and then maybe she, you know, really wants
it to work too, because you know, she's getting older,
she probably wants a family things like that, So I mean,
maybe it's a mutual thing and they're both you know.
I mean, if you ain't got to argue about money,
then what really are you arguing about?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
There's other things. There's jealousy. I think that a lot
of couples argue with yeah yeah, true, but yeah yeah's cats.
Yeah exactly if you're billy situation. All right, Randon, I appreciate.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
The Collie Randa. I think they must not know each
other then, I mean they must not be together long
enough to actually have conversations.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Do you think Travis Kelsey is just completely whipped in
that relationship? Like just lets Taylor just do I mean,
that's kind of what we're what these uh people that
are writing in or are driving towards.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Yeah, but Shannon, people say, mo, money more problems. So
like you can't just say because they're rich that every
day he's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Now, they mow money more problems until you got like
an absurd amount of money that's like unattainable for the
rest of us.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I think that probably when you get past the handout
face yeah, and all your family keeps calling for a handout,
yeah yeah, then you just have generational wealth and the
billions of dollars that they have. Maybe maybe they have
so much money, they have nothing to talk about.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I guess, so I would like to hear some of
those conversations, because apparently everything's just peachy. Everything's good. Bob
and James Town, what.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Do you say, guys? Is it time to get worried?
That train's gone off the rails? Watching the Caliperi and
Alulva last night, I think we've gotta be worried.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Worried about what? What are we worried about.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Our basketball team? I mean, we got some the schedule
coming up with the Colpers games. Look at Bruce Pearl
down there, licking his lips.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Bruce Pearl doesn't even coach anymore. So we don't have
to worry about Bruce. Me, Steve, Steven, Stephen Pearl. Yeah, yeah, look,
I think we'll find that. I appreciate the call, Bob.
Thank you, Bob. I mean, yeah, are we concerned a
little bit? Yeah? I think so. Is it time to
absolutely hit the panic button? Not yet, But if you
don't get a win in these next three or four
games coming up, and I'm talking Gonzaga Saint John's, Indiana, yep,
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then then maybe it is.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Well, you don't have to turn on Louisville, Arkansas to
be concerned about Kentucky either. No, you could be concerned
based off the one for thirteen They went from the
from the three point line. I mean, this is that's
just not Mark pol basketball. And that's what's probably the
most surprising thing about that North Carolina game. Not only
that but the rotation. I mean, played four guys over
thirty minutes, and then after the game said that they
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need to go more into the bench and have talked
about depth as a strength. Well, you didn't show your
death there, so it's just I don't know, it's it's
a little odd. You got to you gotta do all
the things that you say in the in the press conferences.
But we'll see that how they rebound on Friday. Are
you going to go down to Nashville, Shannon, I know
we're in Glasgow.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
No, No, No, I'm not going.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I know our buddy Drew is going down there.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Now, I'm sure it'll be a great atmosphere. You know,
Kentucky fans travel well, especially Nashville sort of like our
home away from home. But no, I won't be there.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yeah, that's kind of my neck of the woods and there.
I guess kind of bowling Green is not too far away.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
So Teresa writes in it says arguments are not necessary.
Talk things out together. The key is listening to the
other person. It's about respect.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
There you go, Bill, Yeah, I think at the flip
side of that, I think that's naive. I mean, I
think you can't just be happy every single day. It's
not going to always work.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Out like that.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Hey, five, nine, two, eight, twenty two eighty seven. We'll
take more of your phone calls. Come it up next.
In our final segment of the ksrpre show, all right,
welcome back. Final segment of the ksrppre Show. A lot
of you are writing in the overall consensus, Billy, it
seems to be that people are saying it is not
normal to go through a long relationship and never have
an argument. Most people were saying that that's just part
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of being in a relationship.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Oh, I'm glad I'm not taking crazy pills. But I
did like this comment from the text Ligne when which
one person said, arguing with Taylor is a sure way
to get a nasty song written about that.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
That is true. Yeah, I feel like every song that
she writes is about an X Hey, it has to
be Yeah, yeah, shout out to Kentucky women's basketball team.
They got a win last night over Miami. They're now
nine and one on the year, so Kenny Brooks has
got the women's team rolling, at least on the basketball
side of things. And then did you know, Billy, it
is where blue today? Where blue day today in Kentucky
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for the volleyball team who will have their first matchup
tonight in the NCAA Tournament Memorial Coliseum.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah, let's pack Memorial Coliseum against Wafford for the NCAA Tournament.
This should be the beginning of a very special run
for Craig Skinner in this program that hopefully can bring
home their second national title. And speaking on the women's
team quickly, Kenny Brooks, did you hear that audio of
him talking about Mark Stoops?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I don't know if I did. What did he say?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Okay, maybe something you should check out later on social
It was a I guess a clip shared from maybe
his pre or postgame interview with Darren which he talked
about how good of a person Mark Stoops was. When
Kenny's wife was going through cancer. They were in a
situation where Kenny couldn't make a flight and Mark Stoops
like personally picked him up and got him to where
he needed to go. And it was really Kenny talking
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for like three minutes about how good of a person
Mark is. And maybe that gets lost a lot of
times is these guys are humans and they have actual relationships,
and you know, they make mistakes sometimes. And it sounds
like Mark Stoops really came into the for the clutch
for Kenny Brooks the other day.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Yeah, it's nice to hear. I don't know that anybody
ever accused Mark Stoops of being a bad guy. I
just think it's you know, it's nothing personal necessarily, It's
just I think the fan base got tired of losing
and got tired of a lot of the same mistakes
that we saw over and over in football games. But
as far as Mark Stoops being a nice guy, I
mean anytime he was on KSR, I always thought he
was at his absolute best when he was on KSR,
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because for whatever reason, it just felt like in those
interviews he was so relaxed, his guard was down, he
was open forthcoming about a lot of you know, information
that I felt like he wouldn't talk about otherwise and
press conferences or in other media opportunities. So yeah, it's
good to hear that Mark Stewart and I wish it well.
I mean, you know, things fell apart at the end,
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but overall the big picture, I think that he's going
to be looked upon in a positive way when we
look back on Mark Stoop's time here at Kentucky and he.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Has the same feeling he loves being at Kentucky in
he says he might live here forever. It's it's become
a part of him. It could have easily went the
other way though. I mean, we've seen stories about Brian
Kelly come out recently, and you know he wasn't just
Hu Freees playing a lot of golf. I guess Brian
was doing a bunch of the same. So you know,
good to hear some stories like that from Kenny Brooks
and hopefully more come out.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Let's go to Jake. Hey, Jake, Hey, Jake, Jake hung
up on us all right, John Short, Hey John.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Hey, John, You're a great American.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
You're a great American. What's up?
Speaker 4 (37:19):
When we had bree whom we had last thing Women's
Fast for forty eight to sixty four, or in Miami, Florida.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
That's right, that's right, they got one for the SEC.
It's the sec ACC challenge on the women's side. So
uh at Kentucky holding the waving the flag for the SEC.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Yes, so we'll be well for dnight volleyball. Five games
and nothing. We all know that all those women teams,
Georgia Tech, U CLA, all those win that game.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
You see who is it? UCLA and Georgia Tech.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Yeah, it's the first game yet.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Oh okay, I don't know. Your guess is as good
as mine on that one. I don't follow a whole
lot of Georgia Tech volleyball.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
I know we'll win no matter who we play tonight
in Themore and we'll win, and then we'll we'll win
the whole thing and then found four will be all
of eatams in the Valiforia.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
It sounds like a job prediction down to the t,
perfect John, Thank you for the call. We appreciate it. Billy.
Did you see this story out of Mercurry County, Kentucky.
I love this story. There was a man who was
deer hunting and just sitting there in the deer stand
waiting for you know, a deer to show up, which
is what I guess hunters do. He was playing it.
He was playing a jackpot game, like one of these
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games that you can just play on your phone. Guy
ends up winning one point one million dollars while deer hunting. Now,
imagine that you go out in the woods trying to
find a deer. Instead, you get one point one million
dollars just lands in your lap, something called wolf Ridge Jackpot,
which I am not even familiar with whatsoever. I don't
play these games. I didn't know you could actually win
real money by playing like online video games. But the
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guy won over a million dollars. I think I would
just call it a day, like I would. Who even
needs a deer? You get a million dollars?
Speaker 3 (38:58):
No, you still want to find a buck out there, Shannon.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
But well you found one point one million bucks.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
I just didn't know that's what hunters were doing. Completely
there in the deer blind. I just what did you say?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Completely went over your head.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I didn't even hear it.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
You said he needed a buck. I said he got
one point one million bucks. Oh there was?
Speaker 3 (39:14):
I mean, did it deserve me to stop?
Speaker 8 (39:15):
What?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
I think? I think it? Did?
Speaker 7 (39:17):
It?
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Really did I okay, Yeah, that's what I was saying.
I didn't think that's what hunters were doing, Shannon. I
thought they were locked in. I didn't know they were
just spinning a wheel trying to win.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Honey.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Have you ever been hunting in your life?
Speaker 3 (39:30):
No?
Speaker 5 (39:32):
No, you have?
Speaker 1 (39:34):
You You wouldn't know if you've been hunting. Well, you
got sudden memory loss. You don't know if you've been hunting.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
I mean I've taken a gun out into the woods
for an hunting ground. I mean I did not kill anything.
Did you shoot it? I, in fact go hunting? Yes,
I did shoot it.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Would you shoot it at if you weren't just like
a tree like far away? You killed the tree?
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Well, you were like, I mean, we're out here, we
might as well shoot some then. But I mean, no,
I have I've never gotten a buck or a squirrel
or something like that. You don't seem like somebody that
has either.
Speaker 8 (40:07):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No fishing, yes, although it's been a long time since
I fished.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Could you bait a hook?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Oh of course I could.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Could you tie a knot?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:15):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
I think me and you are in the minority though,
in the KSR group for being able to do.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
You don't think that the guys on KSR could bait
a hook?
Speaker 3 (40:23):
I know Matt can't.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Oh please, he could put a worm on a hook.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I'm talking about a fisherman's not too like. Yeah, do
you think he can? He can do the knot?
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, I'm sure he could. I mean he did go,
but he did go. But was it bow fishing?
Speaker 5 (40:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yeah, he did do bowfishing. But I think that was
probably loaded for him and handed it.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Do you think it was?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
I don't think he was blind. Luck you don't doing
much loading. I mean when you door dash batteries to
your house.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
True.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Yeah, so but you said, well you're talking about baiting
a hook though you're talking about putting the worm on
the hook.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Yeah, putting the worm, but I also mean putting the
hook on the line, like you also got to do
the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Well, I don't know. It may take me a few tries.
I think I could do it, though, the not is
what I'm talking about. I could definitely bet a hook.
I mean usually my fishing ride comes with a hook
already on it.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Yeah, what's your bait? Squidquid crickets?
Speaker 7 (41:20):
Is that what you go?
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Squid? Sound?
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Like somebody that's never fished before.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
It's just a worm, a nightcrawl. Okay, all right, work too, Yeah, exactly,
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Donning in Lexington. Billy our sports alongside this morning. Actually
got up and drove to work today. He's in the studio.
What's going on, Billy?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm here, Good morning, Shannon. It's great to be with you.
Prayers to the guy in the bathroom just losing it
this morning. You know you can hear everything in those bathroom, Shannon,
there's no fan on.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
So a guy in the bathroom was losing it, losing what, yeah,
losing losing his breakfast or losing.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
What I mean. It just like the content of his
stomach was just coming out when I came out, came
out there in the morning. So best of luck to
him and hopefully he has a great day. This morning.
But great to be with you, dude. What's up? What's
on your mind?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Oh? I don't know, man, just hanging out. Ready to
go tomorrow to Glasgow. We are where tomorrow in Glasgow?
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Believe it's Ashley's furniture.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Ashley's furniture. Yeah, you need some new furniture, go to.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Glass I do. I have the most uncomfortable couch of
all time. It's got feathers that sticks out of the
cushions and they just randomly will stab you if you're
not careful.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Is it because of that cat that's causing just chaos
at your house and slashing your leather's leather couch or
whatever you got there in your house.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
No, not the feathers. It's it's not the cat's fault
that the couch stabs us. But the cat will get
my clothes and it kind of get like a string
off every now and then. I mean, these claws are sharp.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I would not mess around with that very much. So
just taking it one day at a time though, dude.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
All right, so yeah, you can join us out there
tomorrow and Glasgow. We'll be out there of course for
the pre show starting at nine am. Yesterday, Billy will
Stein his introductory press conference. Some highlights for me. I
think you know his his vision that he said he
was just simple, wanting to win and wanting to do
it immediately. He says, they'll play an exciting brand of football.
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They're going to light up the scoreboard. And you know,
we talked about when Mark Pope was hired as the
new basketball coach here at Kentucky how he won the
press conference. I kind of felt like will Stein yesterday
won the press conference, didn't you?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I do? And you know it's easy to say, I
think most coaches do win the press conference. Looking back,
even some of the worst coaches had good press conferences.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
But this is a guy, the UCLA guy didn't win
the press conference, the guy that was hired there. What
did he say, Oh, a bunch of like mad libs,
mumbo jumbo. It was terrible.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, sometimes the spotlight is too bright, but it didn't
seem like that for will Stein yesterday. You could hear
it in his voice, the passion of being home and
reminiscing and telling stories about whether the season tickets that
he had or how happy his parents were. Maybe got
a name drop in there and mentioned that his mom
was on the phone with KSR, so he knew how
big of a moment that was. Loved some of the
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UF he said, I mean talking about stealing possessions, doing
fake punts and on side kicks. I mean, I get
that he's appealing to maybe the the video game college
football player more than the standard guy. But after thirteen
years of conservative football, that was refreshing to hear a
little bit, kind of like Mark Pope hitting the high
notes during his press conference. You're gonna have to tell
me how it works, Shannon. But like they had like
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pyrotechnics in there at the Nutter field House. Did you
see any of that?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I didn't like, can you do that in? I guess
you can do it indoors, you can do I mean,
just I don't know. I guess the fire department was
on speed dial just in case things went wrong. I'm
not sure what the regulations are on that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
See me too. I'm speaking out of ignorance here, but
it always does seem a little strange. And also the
arenas that set off fireworks before the game starts. Yeah,
and then you go, the smoke is still there, bloom.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Of smoke, just like lingering for the next two hours.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It's always bizarre. So Kentucky went all out, though, and
you know, a little disappointed or guy Mario didn't ask
a question, but you had Alan Guthler stand.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Up, like, yeah, I'm glad that Alan Cutler dressed up
for the occasion. He really he looked like the dude
from The Big Lebowski, Like all he was missing was
a white Russian in his left hand as he was
asking the question.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, it was. It was Who's who? There's no doubt.
Yesterday of Kentucky media, Mitch Barnhardt had a fiery press conference.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah. Well, I mean, let's touch on it right now.
I mean he was asked about nil and if they
had enough funds to continue to be competitive, and he
got a little upset, He got a little feisty. You know.
I kind of felt like I was having flashbacks to
when I asked him on a radio show years ago
about the checkerboards and he sort of went off on
me about it, you know, And like this guy, you know,
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he's sensitive about certain things. But I don't think that's
a crazy question. I don't think that's a bad question.
You know, Barnards, We've been asked that nineteen different where
he's of course, we have enough funds. It's by Mitch Bornehart.
You know, it clearly was a point of contention for him.
He didn't like that question, but I think it was
just a bad answer, just the way that he I mean,
(05:03):
the way that he answered it is demeanor. Yeah, it
wasn't good, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It's yeah, his tone, you know, using the words like ridiculous, yeah,
and nonsense. I mean, this is a changing landscape. It's
fair that fans have questions. But you know that sounds
like a guy that doesn't talk to the media a lot, honestly,
And when you do talk to the media and you
get some criticism or some blowback, I guess the frustration
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had built up to that point, and when you don't
have an outlet to let that out it I guess
it came out in front of the media yesterday. But
a little ridiculous that he did get worked up like that.
But there's a lot of pressure on Mitch right now,
so I mean I can also see that to a degree.
But just like you said, the tone was just like
a frustration. I've heard this over and over again, and who,
(05:49):
no matter who asked me the question I think it
was John Hale of the Herald Leader that got the
brunt of it there. But I don't know, Mitch. Did
you not expect that question?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And is it me? Or I mean, I guess I
don't follow a lot of Mitch Barneheart press conferences, but
I haven't really heard him being asked that many times
that question. Maybe he has in his personal life, but
how many times have you seen Mitch Barneheart answer that
question publicly? I haven't seen it that much.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's what I'm saying is when you don't do a
lot of media, maybe it feels like everybody's been asking
this question, but we have not been able to ask
these questions in a public setting like this, so I
thought it was their responsibility. It's good on John Hale
asking these sort of questions, but maybe a low moment
on what was otherwise what seemed like a really great day.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, Will stein By, you know that quote?
If I'm saying they want to light up the scoreboard
gets me excited because I feel like it's the exact
opposite of what we got during the Stoops era, where
it was so focused on defense, grinded out ground and
pound type offense, and then you have a coach coming
in who is I mean, as we've already highlighted earlier
(06:52):
this week, great offensive coordinator has Oregon in the college
football playoffs and a guy that I think is going
to come in run an innovative offense a lot on
his quarterback. He says he needs the quarterback abillity to
be the toughest blank on the field. I can't say
it but what his words were, but basically the toughest
guy out there on the field. So you know, if
I'm Cutter Bowley and I'm trying to decide where i
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want to go, you know, do I want to stay
at Kentucky or do I want to go somewhere else. Basically,
you have one of the best offensive coordinators in college
football falling in your lap coming to you. You don't
have to go anywhere if you're Cutter. So that makes
me confident that Cutter is going to stay put here
at Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well, you have an innovator at as a play caller
who I think is going to be more of a
head coach than actually calling the plays. I think his
offensive coordinator will be doing some of that, but he's
going to be heavily involved. You know, there's reports of
the I guess a GM coming for Kentucky. This director
of recruiting or whatever he does at Oregon. That seems
like somebody that knows what they're doing. And when we're
(07:51):
talking about adjusting to the college landscape, these are two
of the biggest things that you can check off your
box here as a young coach that is a innovator,
play caller. And then also this GM spot. So those
are two things that I've checked off as really good things.
And you know, it also paid homage to Mark Stoops
And look, I get it, it's the coach is going
(08:12):
to do that. The next coach is going to pay
homage to the former coach nine times out of ten.
But it also felt real when he said that.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. Did you like his answer what he said?
It kind of feels like it's an obvious answer, but
he says, the best way to get better at football play.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Football, play football.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah. So I think there's a lot of excitement for
what's ahead for the football team.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And that was in reference of the spring game, right, Yes,
Like that was like, you know, possibility of doing something
in the spring, which you know, we've kind of gotten
away from a little bit. But how much does the
spring game really matter?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
You know?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I think it matters to fans. I think that it does,
and we actually need any full on scrimmage, not what
we got last year. And they've got to be better
and I think that they will be much better with
handling this thing on the offseason. And I think it's
a much easier obviously, when you have a brand new
coach coming in, You're going to do a lot of
off season promotion, a lot of interviews. I mean, that's
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stuff that we got basically none of last year. You know,
Shia's pe coming on KSR was basically the most football
news that we got the entire off season, and I
think part of that was coming off of a four
and eight year before, you know, and a lot of
negativity surrounding the team going into the season. I think
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it's a lot easier to do that when you have
a new coach coming in. But they've got to do
better than that, and you couldn't do much worse than
what they did last year, Billy.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Right, and that was going to have to change regardless
of who the coach was. There was one more quote
that I circled Heill. I'll read it for you. This
was great. The best trade of a college football coach
now is adaptability. We've got to adapt. If you all
are still saying I wish it was like the old
it ain't the old days. It's not, so just get
that out of your mind. Which is I mean, yeah,
(09:56):
that's it. I've heard enough, Shannon, that is what you
want in this modern one.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
There's a lot of people that don't like the NIL
era that we're in. Guess what, it's not going anywhere.
I mean, whether you like it or not, that doesn't
really matter. There's a lot of things in this world, Billy,
that I don't like, but it's not going back to
the way it was. I don't like AI. AI is
taking over jobs, but guess what, Billy, AI is not
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to just suddenly go away. Neither is NIL in college sports,
whether you like it or not. It's here to stay.
And the coaches that succeed are the ones who aren't
the ones who are pushing it away or trying to
ignore it. They're the ones who embrace it. And I
think that's part of the reason why it was important
to get a younger coach, not one of the older
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coaches that's sort of on his way out the door.
Even though I said John Gruden, I did say that
I would have liked him, I'll own that right. But
like I said, you know, if you don't get a
guy like that, like John Gruden, then you got to
move on and get somebody that's young, that understands the
world that we live in now with the nil era.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yeah, but this is a guy that has been a
head coach, so I mean there are some question marks,
just like Mark Pope, who hadn't won an NCAA tournament game.
You know, Mitch Barnhardt shared a story that to get
to where he wanted to be, Will went to the
high school ranks. He went from college to high school
to hone his craft to become that play caller, and
then went back to college. That takes you know, you
got to be humble to go back to a level
(11:20):
like that after you spent time as an offensive coordinator
or working in the college world. Do you feel weird
at all that you're older than the head coach at
the University.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Of Yes, I do. I feel like he's a a baby.
It does steel weird, man, it does feel weird. But
I guess if you think back on it, like the
coaches over the years, Like how old was Rick Patino
when he took over at Kentucky. I don't know the
answer to that, but I'm going to guess he was
probably he's probably in his thirties when he took over. Right,
(11:51):
how old is Rick Patino?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Now, he was born in nineteen fifty two, Okay, seventy
three years.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Ago, so he was I guess what like eight or
something like that when he took.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Over under his forties? Yeah, he was in his thirties.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah. And then you know, you think about some other
coaches throughout history, they've probably been in their thirty Yeah,
but I think it's when you get into your forties, Billy,
and these guys are younger than you. You're like, wait
a minute, I'm trying to like imagine myself six years
ago being a head coach at Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
It would be a little weird. Oh, how old do
you think Mark Stoops is?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Mark Stoops? Do you have the answer?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I do, Yeah, it's in front of me, Mark Stoops.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I'm going to say, is fifty four, fifty eight, fifty eight?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh, ring the bell for you?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I as a young man fifty eight years.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Old, So I mean, yeah, so what twenty two years
younger than the previous coach. You're gonna have some new ideas,
You're gonna have new ways of doing it. And not
that Stoops didn't relate to his players, but this is
a guy that is going to be playing for Oregon
as the offensive quartered in the College Football Playoff. That's
something that I think a lot of you people will
see as something that they will want more of. But
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did feel for him a little bit talking about the
I don't know not the lack of sleep that he's
gotten over the last few days. Imagine juggling two jobs.
It's kind of like John Sommerl who just has to
go and take all his gear off every time he
goes from job to job.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
That's right, Yeah, you gotta switch hats.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
He got to stripped down of all the two lane
gear when you get to Gainesville to recruit for a
little while. So it's got to be an odd feeling.
And I guess Will's doing a little bit of that
right now as he'll go back to Oregon and coach with.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Will Stein said he had his cowboy boots on yesterday.
He said, I guess because he's in Kentucky. We're not
in Texas. I don't know. Do you even own cowboy boots, Billy?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I do not, But you're asking the wrong guy.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I don't own a pair of cowboy boots.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I wouldn't have bought the cowboy hat on the KSR
road trip either, I know our boys did. But those
things looked expensive.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Oh they were expensive. You should have seen the prices
on some of these.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Are we talking like three four hundred dollars?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I think I think some of them were like five
six hundred. And i'n't go out for a hat. I
think you can't, even like, you know, you have to.
They had to send it back because they didn't want
to smash it in the car.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Right, it's all creased and like you can't shove that
thing in your luggage.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And the only thing about a cowboy hat, like, unless
you just want to be a cowboy walking down the
streets of Lexington or Loiso or wherever you live in Kentucky,
you're not gonna wear that every day. It's like only
a special occasion thing. It's like the fedora for me,
Like I don't just walk around in life with a
fedora on. I might rocket if I'm you know, playing
a show with Alice blue gown. But the cowboy hats
(14:32):
the same way, Like you might wear it when you
go to a country concert or a rodeo. But other
than that, you're not gonna wear brody. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Well yeah, I think it's the Pbrarina.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, you could wear a cowboy hat just in case,
you know, one of the guys goes down, a cowboy
goes down, you can just jump right in there and
fill in next man up.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Well, that was a fascinating show back in the day
when we had the bull Rider on. Oh yeah, they
were doing the event at rapp Ana. But nevertheless, yeah,
you also got to know that if you're wearing a
cowboy hat in twenty twenty five, you know you are
the star of the show in that room you are.
Oh yeah, people are looking at you talking about the
cowboy hat, unless you're in Deep Texas, like you know,
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now cowboy boots. Though I'm not wearing boots. I don't.
I don't. I don't have that that that that type
of style Shannon.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
But yeah, I'm trying to think of like what I
would even when I would ever wear cowboy boots. I
don't even thin they would look good on me. I guess.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I mean when you go to pick your pumpkins, maybe
you could put your cowboy boots on.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I mean usually I just have you know, regular.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Should easily do that in barefoot, though, like our boy
Matt that chose in the garden barefoot, I mean he
scoffs at cowboy boots.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
That's right, A nine two twenty two eighty seven. We'll
take your phone's phone calls coming up in just a minute.
The computer just logged out on me, Billy, I can't
even go to a break right now. Are you serious
that that happens sometimes? All right, here we go, I
got it fixed. Now fix it on the fly if
it happens when you've got to produce your own show
or who's host. We'll take your car, take your calls.
Coming up next. It is the KSR pre Show. We'll
(16:01):
be right back, all right, welcome back. It is the
KSR pre Show. Shitt of the Dude Billy Rutledge eight
five nine two EIGHTHO twenty two eighty seven. One person
writes in it says, don't you guys wish you'd bought
stock and Sissy's Cakes before will Stein was hired, and
before will Stein's mom was the star of the show
just a couple of days ago when she came on
(16:21):
here and did the interview with us. Yeah, I don't
know if you can buy stock in Sissy's Cakes, but
that would have been a good bye if if you
were able to.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, I'm still trying to make all my money back
from Weed to Bicks. I mean I put all my
stock in that, and then they didn't tweet for a month.
I mean that was the biggest fail when it comes
to social media marketing.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We were lobbing Weed to Bicks a softball Weeda Bicks,
which I had never even heard of before until Amari
Williams and we talked about it so much on the show.
We handed them to the batona. They just fell down.
They didn't even run at all.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
The land crappy ass cereal that nobody will to eat
after the run was over.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I mean, I ate pocket Weeda Bicks from Drew Franklin
in Indianapolis. He pulled out Weeda Bix out of I mean,
he's just walking around with Weeda Bix in his pocket.
And I actually tried it that is not good. Maybe
let the pocket lent.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Maybe he really threw it off pocket. Yeah. Well, that's
the best part of this fan base is the weed
to bicks, the Sissy's Cakes, the you know, to be
able to take over and kind of do it like
this the Mexican restaurant with Scott Drew. I mean, these
are just some fun moments when it comes to coaching
searches at Sissy Cakes. Our guy Corey Price went there
a couple days ago and got some snacks. He just
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gave me some stats about the age of UK football
head coaches the day that they were hired.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Okay, Shannon, let's go.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
What do we get?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
So there were two that were younger than will Stein.
Paul bear Bryant was thirty two years old when he
took over at the University of Kentucky, and Frank Cursey
was thirty four. Will Stein comes in at thirty six.
A little bit farther down on the list, Coach Dukes
comes in at forty five, and then at the end
at sixty one years old. Coach rich Brooks takes the
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cake at sixty one years, one hundred and thirty two days.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Wow. You know, here's the thing, though, people back in
the day just looked older. I think, you know, life
expectancy was a little bit different too. But guys at
thirty six now don't look the way that a thirty
six year old looked, you know, thirty forty years ago,
you know what I'm saying, Like, oh, I know it.
I felt like when like when my dad was thirty six,
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he didn't, in my mind at least, didn't look as
young as Will Stein does at thirty sex. I just
feel like people look younger now than they did back
in the day. You know, back back in the eighties,
somebody thirty six looked like they were you know, sixty, Yeah,
in their fifties, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
And that goes back to the flooride and the hose
water Shannon. We've talked about it. Well, I mean, if
everybody was tougher back then, but they sure looked like it.
The better best case for this is to go look
at high school photos. Go look at people in high
school back in the nineties compared to people in high
school today.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
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let's just go to some calls right now. We will
start with Drew and Corbet and Hey Drew, good morning,
he Drew.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Hey, guys, had a great talk to you this morning. Okay,
Guysdre and Will. So I just had a quick question
before I make my comment. Have you guys heard anything
about what the controversy was in high school football last weekend?
Does that make any sense to you at all?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah? I don't think it was discussed on this show.
But was it involving Corbyn drum?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oh, yeah, absolutely so. So I heard because somebody told
me I'm having a listen on podcasts because of my
new job. But I didn't catch the post game the
other night when I think Ryan mentioned it. But I
just have to say to say this, but the right
call was made because of an inadvertent whistle and so
(20:27):
there was a bad fumble uh from from Boyle County
and Corbyn picks up the ball in about the twenty
yard line and uh, the the umpire blew the whistle.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And I've talked to two khsb A officials and the
right call was made. But it's it was horrible to
be there and to see it. And I've got a
good kass our friend that was there with me and
we couldn't figure it out. But it's it's the talk
of the state. And I just didn't know if you
got I mean as far as you know, if you
if you don't talk about UK football all in basketball
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and there's things going on there in high school ranks.
It's the top of state. And I didn't know if
you guys I did.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I didn't know it at first, but I do remember
seeing that on on Twitter. There was a fumble recovery
and then they blew, like you said, blew the whistle there,
and there was a debate as to whether or not
that was the right call or not. So all right, Drew,
thank you, Drew, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Yeah, that's tough, and you know, you'll probably see more
of this because people don't want to be refs and
so the refs that you get maybe sometimes can make
more mistakes because it's a tough job to do. And
I'm sure those refs probably got booed out of the
stadium after something.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Let's get one more call on quickly before the break,
Go ahead, Jim.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Uh yeah, I want to put in a volt from
my boots. I wear boots every day. Uh are you.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Work boots or cowboy boots?
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Work cowboy boots? I learned for work. I mean no,
you know, no draw strings, regular cowboy boots. Okay today
her years.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
What do you do for a living, Jim, I'm gon
chilly lineman, utility lineman. All right, yeah, yeah, we're radio guys.
We sit on our button, we talk. We don't really
need cowboy boots to do radio. But for what you
do I could see that.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Yeah, yeah, I even. I even I used to have
Lineman's boots.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I don't even wear them.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
I wear the cowboy boots to climb in ile.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
All right, Jim, thanks for calling in. We're up against
the break. We're going to take it here. We'll be
right back with more of your phone calls. It is
the KSR pre Show. It is the KSR Pre Show,
eight five, twenty two eighty seven. We're playing some Taylor
Swift right here for the for the podcast listeners who
can't hear Taylor Swift. And I'm playing this billy because
it's been in my mind since I saw this story
this morning, and I want to I got to get
(22:48):
your take on it, and I want everybody else's take
on this, because I feel like this is a topic
that everybody will have an opinion on. Travis Kelsey is
saying that he and Taylor Swift have never had an argument,
not once in their nearly three year relationship. So my
question to you, please, number one, do you believe that?
(23:11):
And number two is that normal? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I don't believe that, absolutely not. I mean maybe if
it's the most boring, you know, no personality relationship of
all time. You're gonna have fights, You're gonna mix passions,
you're gonna be emotional. Some days, you're gonna have bad days.
I mean maybe if you're remote and you don't ever
(23:37):
see each other besides in the few times in person,
and it's nothing but bliss. But that's even far fetched
to me, Shannon. I mean, anybody that's been together for
over six months has been in a fight.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Right, Well, not everybody, according to Travis Kelsey and George.
George Clooney also says that he has been in a
relationship for ten years and has never had a single argument. Now,
I would say if you live together and you see
each other every day, you're probably gonna have some arguments. Now,
obviously there's relationships where you have more arguments than others.
(24:11):
But yeah, he's saying they haven't had a single argument,
And I just want to know, is that normal? You
don't mind that? Clearly it's not. Now, Okay, I.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Mean, maybe we argue too much in our relationship if
I have this strong of a reaction to it, but
I mean that just shows me that this isn't the
right person for you. I think you have to have
arguments to be engaged in a relationship. I mean, I
think that's a red flag that they have no fights.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I think part of it too, though you may have
hit on it there. Do these two even live together?
I don't know their living situation. But Taylor Swift, she's
a little busy. Travis Kelcey maybe not as busy, but
he's pretty busy too, So I think that maybe not
living together has something to do with that.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
But like, even people in a long distance relationship have arguments, right, Like, no,
I saw you into the bar, you know, midnight, Friday night,
what was going on?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I mean, maybe they're very confident in their relationship and
their love for each other. But I would call ten
times out of ten bs on that.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
All right. I would want to know from everybody else
at SHANEA the dude at Billy R Sports on Twitter.
If you can't call in, you can also send us
a text five two two six five six six five six.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, just get a cat and then see if you
don't have any more arguments.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Is that is the cat calls some arguments already?
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Sure, I mean it's really the second cat that the argument. Well,
the second cat we're holding the line, Shannon, like a
where does it stop? Old Civil War?
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Gin?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You're not getting past this line. So you draw the
line at two cats, Well one, we've got one. No, no, no,
wait a minute, now you got one. I thought you
already said it's trying to hold the line. You're trying
to hold the line, all right, Yeah, you know she's
trying to get a second. My money is on you're
going to have a second cat by the end. I
mean that's probably minus odds at this point.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
But you know what my.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Prediction is, Billy, our sports is going to break down
and there's gonna be a cat popping out of a box,
wrapped in a bow under the tree for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Well, I told her if she could find my keys,
I'd buy her a second cat. But you know what,
I don't know if we're ever going to find my keys.
But keep you updated on that, dude, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
In the argument, let's go to uh, back to the
phone lines. Let's go to Richard, Hey, Richard.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Martin fell oh uh uh, thinking about that ball game
the other night, or we stuck some bad you know,
we got our main problem, Fellas, we don't have an
extra point guard. I wish a thousand times. But the
sports media ahead and run off heard Perry. They might
(26:47):
have come in pretty handy right now.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
You feel like we ran off Travis Perry, Did me,
Billy and I run off Travis Perry?
Speaker 7 (26:55):
No, but but a lot of a lot of the
other media dead it was all why he's out YouTube
and all saying that him and Curl wasn't that part
of the this and that and the other. Well, watch
what you wish what they should have watched, what they
wish for, because they sure we sure got a miss.
Now look listen, yeah, go ahead, and uh it is
(27:17):
what it is. I don't let that Pope's gonna have
to do to straighten it out. But the whole thing
he's got to do next year to listen to news media,
recruit the style of players that shoots his style of ball.
All right, Richard, I have a wonderful today, guys, and
and take care of God bliss yep.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So, I mean, I hear some people saying that they
wish that Travis Perry were still on the roster, But
let's look at what Travis Perry has done at Old Miss.
He's not exactly going to let the world on fire.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
How many. Yeah, tell me the last game he.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Played sixteen minutes, he had three points. Now, he did
have eleven against Miami, But I mean there's most of
his games that he's played in he hasn't exactly been
lighting the world on fire. So I'm not so sure
that he was. I don't think Travis Perry would have
been able to clean up this mess that we have
right now with the basketball team.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
And I don't know if anybody really ran Travis Perry off.
I mean, I get that fans want Kentucky players to
be from Kentucky, and there's a little bit more of
a special relationship when guys like Trent Noah and Travis
Perry are here. But that was the decision by Travis
to move on after Mark Pope went and got some
other guys in the transfer portal. That's just college sports now.
(28:25):
And if somebody's going to maybe pay more, if there's
a place with more playing time, these guys are ultra competitive, Yeah,
they want to go play. So I don't know if
in this situation anybody ran Travis Perry off and in
the door still open if he ever wants to return,
is it not.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I mean, I would say so. I don't know that
he will.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Well, they could have used the third string point guard
this year, There's no doubt about it. Maybe that's why
Mark Pope was so upset that Travis was leaving.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Game before that, Travis Perry had eleven minutes, zero points,
game before that, sixteen minutes, three points.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Okay, so he's definitely a role player.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
He's Yeah, that's what I'm saying, like loves Perry. He's
Kentucky in right, but he's I don't think he was
the fix to this problem. I think, you know, if
he's there, then he may give you some minutes, but
I don't think he's gonna He's not gonna fix the
issues that we have.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, do you think Mark Pope and Travis Perry?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Ever argued, I don't know if Mark Pope's a hard
guy to figure out, Like he seems like the nicest
guy in the world, but then you hear stories about
him breaking you know, whiteboards in the in the locker
room and blooding up his fists. So yeah, I'm not
sure he's a hard guy to get a read on.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
That's why you're ready was so odd when he flipped
the switch ninety minutes too early before the awful game.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
It was like coach, who is yeah, hey, Randa, what's.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Maybe about the boots saying I was gonna say, on
the snow day, it was a good day to wear
your boots, put your jeans, your boots on, you know,
because you're out walking on the sidewalks whatever, and in
and out the building. It's a good day to wear
your boots. And because that's why I'm in right now
my cowboy boots jeans.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
He and uh.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
And the thing about you guys are saying about the
argument Taylor Swift and everything. I mean, if you're a
woman is the richest woman in the world and hotter
than the fox in the forest fire, you might not
really buck up on.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Her a little bit, you know what I mean, you
just let her get her away. Well, you know that's
what somebody else just wrote in it says, this is
Ray that writes on Twitter and says, if you were Travis,
would you argue with Taylor Swift now right right?
Speaker 6 (30:26):
I mean, and then maybe she, you know, really wants
it to work too, because you know, she's getting older,
she probably wants a family things like that, So I mean,
maybe it's a mutual thing and they're both you know.
I mean, if you ain't got to argue about money,
then what really are you arguing about?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
There's other things. There's jealousy. I think that a lot
of couples argue with yeah yeah, true, but yeah yeah's cats.
Yeah exactly if you're billy situation. All right, Randon, I appreciate.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
The Collie Randa. I think they must not know each
other then, I mean they must not be together long
enough to actually have conversations.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Do you think Travis Kelsey is just completely whipped in
that relationship? Like just lets Taylor just do I mean,
that's kind of what we're what these uh people that
are writing in or are driving towards.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Yeah, but Shannon, people say, mo, money more problems. So
like you can't just say because they're rich that every
day he's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Now, they mow money more problems until you got like
an absurd amount of money that's like unattainable for the
rest of us.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I think that probably when you get past the handout
face yeah, and all your family keeps calling for a handout,
yeah yeah, then you just have generational wealth and the
billions of dollars that they have. Maybe maybe they have
so much money, they have nothing to talk about.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I guess, so I would like to hear some of
those conversations, because apparently everything's just peachy. Everything's good. Bob
and James Town, what.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Do you say, guys? Is it time to get worried?
That train's gone off the rails? Watching the Caliperi and
Alulva last night, I think we've gotta be worried.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Worried about what? What are we worried about.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Our basketball team? I mean, we got some the schedule
coming up with the Colpers games. Look at Bruce Pearl
down there, licking his lips.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Bruce Pearl doesn't even coach anymore. So we don't have
to worry about Bruce. Me, Steve, Steven, Stephen Pearl. Yeah, yeah, look,
I think we'll find that. I appreciate the call, Bob.
Thank you, Bob. I mean, yeah, are we concerned a
little bit? Yeah? I think so. Is it time to
absolutely hit the panic button? Not yet, But if you
don't get a win in these next three or four
games coming up, and I'm talking Gonzaga Saint John's, Indiana, yep,
(32:41):
then then maybe it is.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Well, you don't have to turn on Louisville, Arkansas to
be concerned about Kentucky either. No, you could be concerned
based off the one for thirteen They went from the
from the three point line. I mean, this is that's
just not Mark pol basketball. And that's what's probably the
most surprising thing about that North Carolina game. Not only
that but the rotation. I mean, played four guys over
thirty minutes, and then after the game said that they
(33:04):
need to go more into the bench and have talked
about depth as a strength. Well, you didn't show your
death there, so it's just I don't know, it's it's
a little odd. You got to you gotta do all
the things that you say in the in the press conferences.
But we'll see that how they rebound on Friday. Are
you going to go down to Nashville, Shannon, I know
we're in Glasgow.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
No, No, No, I'm not going.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I know our buddy Drew is going down there.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Now, I'm sure it'll be a great atmosphere. You know,
Kentucky fans travel well, especially Nashville sort of like our
home away from home. But no, I won't be there.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yeah, that's kind of my neck of the woods and there.
I guess kind of bowling Green is not too far away.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
So Teresa writes in it says arguments are not necessary.
Talk things out together. The key is listening to the
other person. It's about respect.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
There you go, Bill, Yeah, I think at the flip
side of that, I think that's naive. I mean, I
think you can't just be happy every single day. It's
not going to always work.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Out like that.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Hey, five, nine, two, eight, twenty two eighty seven. We'll
take more of your phone calls. Come it up next.
In our final segment of the ksrpre show, all right,
welcome back. Final segment of the ksrppre Show. A lot
of you are writing in the overall consensus, Billy, it
seems to be that people are saying it is not
normal to go through a long relationship and never have
an argument. Most people were saying that that's just part
(34:16):
of being in a relationship.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Oh, I'm glad I'm not taking crazy pills. But I
did like this comment from the text Ligne when which
one person said, arguing with Taylor is a sure way
to get a nasty song written about that.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
That is true. Yeah, I feel like every song that
she writes is about an X Hey, it has to
be Yeah, yeah, shout out to Kentucky women's basketball team.
They got a win last night over Miami. They're now
nine and one on the year, so Kenny Brooks has
got the women's team rolling, at least on the basketball
side of things. And then did you know, Billy, it
is where blue today? Where blue day today in Kentucky
(34:51):
for the volleyball team who will have their first matchup
tonight in the NCAA Tournament Memorial Coliseum.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah, let's pack Memorial Coliseum against Wafford for the NCAA Tournament.
This should be the beginning of a very special run
for Craig Skinner in this program that hopefully can bring
home their second national title. And speaking on the women's
team quickly, Kenny Brooks, did you hear that audio of
him talking about Mark Stoops?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I don't know if I did. What did he say?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Okay, maybe something you should check out later on social
It was a I guess a clip shared from maybe
his pre or postgame interview with Darren which he talked
about how good of a person Mark Stoops was. When
Kenny's wife was going through cancer. They were in a
situation where Kenny couldn't make a flight and Mark Stoops
like personally picked him up and got him to where
he needed to go. And it was really Kenny talking
(35:40):
for like three minutes about how good of a person
Mark is. And maybe that gets lost a lot of
times is these guys are humans and they have actual relationships,
and you know, they make mistakes sometimes. And it sounds
like Mark Stoops really came into the for the clutch
for Kenny Brooks the other day.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Yeah, it's nice to hear. I don't know that anybody
ever accused Mark Stoops of being a bad guy. I
just think it's you know, it's nothing personal necessarily, It's
just I think the fan base got tired of losing
and got tired of a lot of the same mistakes
that we saw over and over in football games. But
as far as Mark Stoops being a nice guy, I
mean anytime he was on KSR, I always thought he
was at his absolute best when he was on KSR,
(36:17):
because for whatever reason, it just felt like in those
interviews he was so relaxed, his guard was down, he
was open forthcoming about a lot of you know, information
that I felt like he wouldn't talk about otherwise and
press conferences or in other media opportunities. So yeah, it's
good to hear that Mark Stewart and I wish it well.
I mean, you know, things fell apart at the end,
(36:37):
but overall the big picture, I think that he's going
to be looked upon in a positive way when we
look back on Mark Stoop's time here at Kentucky and he.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Has the same feeling he loves being at Kentucky in
he says he might live here forever. It's it's become
a part of him. It could have easily went the
other way though. I mean, we've seen stories about Brian
Kelly come out recently, and you know he wasn't just
Hu Freees playing a lot of golf. I guess Brian
was doing a bunch of the same. So you know,
good to hear some stories like that from Kenny Brooks
and hopefully more come out.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Let's go to Jake. Hey, Jake, Hey, Jake, Jake hung
up on us all right, John Short, Hey John.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Hey, John, You're a great American.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
You're a great American. What's up?
Speaker 4 (37:19):
When we had bree whom we had last thing Women's
Fast for forty eight to sixty four, or in Miami, Florida.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
That's right, that's right, they got one for the SEC.
It's the sec ACC challenge on the women's side. So
uh at Kentucky holding the waving the flag for the SEC.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Yes, so we'll be well for dnight volleyball. Five games
and nothing. We all know that all those women teams,
Georgia Tech, U CLA, all those win that game.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
You see who is it? UCLA and Georgia Tech.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Yeah, it's the first game yet.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Oh okay, I don't know. Your guess is as good
as mine on that one. I don't follow a whole
lot of Georgia Tech volleyball.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
I know we'll win no matter who we play tonight
in Themore and we'll win, and then we'll we'll win
the whole thing and then found four will be all
of eatams in the Valiforia.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
It sounds like a job prediction down to the t,
perfect John, Thank you for the call. We appreciate it. Billy.
Did you see this story out of Mercurry County, Kentucky.
I love this story. There was a man who was
deer hunting and just sitting there in the deer stand
waiting for you know, a deer to show up, which
is what I guess hunters do. He was playing it.
He was playing a jackpot game, like one of these
(38:28):
games that you can just play on your phone. Guy
ends up winning one point one million dollars while deer hunting. Now,
imagine that you go out in the woods trying to
find a deer. Instead, you get one point one million
dollars just lands in your lap, something called wolf Ridge Jackpot,
which I am not even familiar with whatsoever. I don't
play these games. I didn't know you could actually win
real money by playing like online video games. But the
(38:51):
guy won over a million dollars. I think I would
just call it a day, like I would. Who even
needs a deer? You get a million dollars?
Speaker 3 (38:58):
No, you still want to find a buck out there, Shannon.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
But well you found one point one million bucks.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
I just didn't know that's what hunters were doing. Completely
there in the deer blind. I just what did you say?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Completely went over your head.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I didn't even hear it.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
You said he needed a buck. I said he got
one point one million bucks. Oh there was?
Speaker 3 (39:14):
I mean, did it deserve me to stop?
Speaker 8 (39:15):
What?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
I think? I think it? Did?
Speaker 7 (39:17):
It?
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Really did I okay, Yeah, that's what I was saying.
I didn't think that's what hunters were doing, Shannon. I
thought they were locked in. I didn't know they were
just spinning a wheel trying to win.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Honey.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Have you ever been hunting in your life?
Speaker 3 (39:30):
No?
Speaker 5 (39:32):
No, you have?
Speaker 1 (39:34):
You You wouldn't know if you've been hunting. Well, you
got sudden memory loss. You don't know if you've been hunting.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
I mean I've taken a gun out into the woods
for an hunting ground. I mean I did not kill anything.
Did you shoot it? I, in fact go hunting? Yes,
I did shoot it.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Would you shoot it at if you weren't just like
a tree like far away? You killed the tree?
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Well, you were like, I mean, we're out here, we
might as well shoot some then. But I mean, no,
I have I've never gotten a buck or a squirrel
or something like that. You don't seem like somebody that
has either.
Speaker 8 (40:07):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No fishing, yes, although it's been a long time since
I fished.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Could you bait a hook?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Oh of course I could.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Could you tie a knot?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:15):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
I think me and you are in the minority though,
in the KSR group for being able to do.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
You don't think that the guys on KSR could bait
a hook?
Speaker 3 (40:23):
I know Matt can't.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Oh please, he could put a worm on a hook.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I'm talking about a fisherman's not too like. Yeah, do
you think he can? He can do the knot?
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, I'm sure he could. I mean he did go,
but he did go. But was it bow fishing?
Speaker 5 (40:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yeah, he did do bowfishing. But I think that was
probably loaded for him and handed it.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Do you think it was?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
I don't think he was blind. Luck you don't doing
much loading. I mean when you door dash batteries to
your house.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
True.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Yeah, so but you said, well you're talking about baiting
a hook though you're talking about putting the worm on
the hook.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Yeah, putting the worm, but I also mean putting the
hook on the line, like you also got to do
the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Well, I don't know. It may take me a few tries.
I think I could do it, though, the not is
what I'm talking about. I could definitely bet a hook.
I mean usually my fishing ride comes with a hook
already on it.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Yeah, what's your bait? Squidquid crickets?
Speaker 7 (41:20):
Is that what you go?
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Squid? Sound?
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Like somebody that's never fished before.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
It's just a worm, a nightcrawl. Okay, all right, work too, Yeah, exactly,
I've caught some big fish. At least find hey. Promo
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