March 28, 2024 • 42 mins
Matt, Ryan, Shannon, and Drew talk Calipari/Barnhart interview, Opening Day for MLB, and Kentucky high school basketball controversy.
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
Now here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Welcome everyone in Kentucky Sports Radio. Thursday, March twenty eighth.
It is opening day here in the United States of America.
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Speaker 5 (01:05):
Smith Lovas called TJ. He'll make them pay.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Uh. I am leaving as soon as the show ends
and heading off to the Reds game. I got my
Cutlook at these red shoes. Yes, yes, yeah, I got
these made. This is another true blue Customs thing. Look
right there.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Oh that's nice. So got your Reds hoodie on your
Red's hat.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Yeah, I'm leaving right after the game.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Games at four to ten against those hated Washington Nationals.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
You know they're evil, those Washington Nationals. They're also like
the worst team.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Well that's why you know the Reds are feeling good
about their chances to win. That bet last team to lose.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, there's a bet on on DraftKings, which I don't
know if you can still do. But it was last
team to lose a game, and the Reds were like
the third favorite just because of their schedule.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Uh, what was do you know the Reds win total?
I know that year went over. I didn't know if
they got.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Some eighty four and a half or something. This year,
I feeling good on that I did. And then like
they got some guys hurt that Matt McClean is out
now and he was probably their best player last year.
He's gonna be out for a couple of months, but
we'll talk about the Reds. I have some you know,
I have some serious Reds thoughts, and I'm gonna you know,
this is this is the year.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
This is the one.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So you're actually going though, don't you normally sell the ticket?
Speaker 8 (02:19):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I sold mine. I sold mine. I'm going I'm sitting.
I'm sitting with the with the people, oh like the
four hundreds up and left field. No, I sell mine
for this one. You know what I got for mine?
You all know where my seats are? Yeah, yeah, six
hundred bucks apiece.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, those tickets too.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I mean I'm gonna sell that in a heartbeat. You
think I'm gonna pay you.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
That much candy that will buy you?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, I don't know how much season tickets are, but
I would say that would pay it back at least entirely.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
A little bit. No, but it's a it's a nice chunk.
Here's what I always do.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
This is how I can get I can get a
fourth of my season ticket price back by selling open day.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And then if the Reds or excuse me, if the
Red Sox or the Yankees gum sell those games that
if you just do that, I can get about a
fourth and then if your Cubs or Cardinals are good,
those games can be big, right, same with the Braves.
Now I like to go to some of those games.
I mean I don't sell them. I haven't been to
a Red Sox.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Or Yankees game them.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Well, it's just it's you can't not sell them, especially
the ones I because all those you know, those rich
New Yorkers and.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Bostoners are like, we want to sit in a good seat.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
These are only six hundred yea.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Honestly, I think that's how they look at it. It's
only where's for me? You say, c Bucks a lot
of money, you know, so those so uh so I
haven't set in my seats in opening day in a decade.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Just the most you've ever sold them for? Like did
you bump the price up?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
So selling seats online is a whole thing, right, I
mean I I usually when I sell seats, sell them
day up, because I usually decide a day of if
I'm going. There's a mastery to it. If you wait
too long, you almost have to give them away. But
if you can sell them in two hours before the game.
That's when I've learned you can kind of get the
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premium price. But with Opening Day that's such a huge
amount of money. I'm not I'm not risking it, you
know what I mean? Yeah, plus opening Day because it's
a holiday, people want to do it like way in advance.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Sure, so I sell you.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
But like Saturday, I've decided, if we win today, I'm
going Saturday. If we don't, well, then I'll see what
else because I don't want.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
To be oh and two against the worst team. I'm
already nervous. It's only one hundred and sixty two games
and we've done enough and too this march. I hope
we all get some wins.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's true, all right. So I have some breaking news
to start the show. Okay, running, No, No, it's just
got announced. The fifteen Club, you know, that's the UK
Football in il Thing has announced the five hundred Club.
This will be a group of I assume with five hundred,
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they're hoping five hundred VIP donors that will get exclusive
VIP experiences around UK football, the first of which is
on May tenth. They're bringing John Legend to Lexington for
a private VIP concert for the five hundred club.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
The expectation is the five hundred club will raise get
this amount.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Of money four point five million dollars a year h
UK football in Il.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
If you do that math, I guess that would be
what ten thousand, eight to ten I don't know, ten
to twelve thousand a year, eight to ten thousand.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I'm not sure what the math is of that.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
But John Legend is coming and doing a VIP concert
for five hundred people and their guest in Lexington for
UK football.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Did you ever think you would see the day? No?
Speaker 6 (05:59):
I didn't. I think it's really cool though, to happ.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
A nephew for people don't know is on the team.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
I think that makes it really cool that he's helping
out the program by head doing this for the VIPs
that can join this club.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Do you think you will get it?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
I'm not a chance. In France I got that kind
of money. No, I would love to do.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I've been told by the way Drew that they already.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Have over two hundred people. Wow, So I think, and
so I actually think they'll get that amount.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I do.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I think they'll find that amount of people, because I mean,
if you're going first of all, here's why.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I think this is really creative.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
One of the things that's been a struggle for these
teams in IL thing is what do people get for
their money? Right, Like, that's the thing everybody always thinks,
is what do we get for giving this amount of money?
And that's hard. But the one thing that money can't buy, you, Shannon,
what can but.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
It's hard to is experiences?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Like people can get things, but experiences.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So if they now make it to where what they're
doing is bringing these kind of exclusive experiences, due, I
can kind of see that working.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Actually heck yeah, John Legend, I mean that's a nice
first event. I figured we would get something with him eventually,
maybe just seeing him at the stadium because he is
close to his nephew that's on the team, Anthony Brown Stevens.
But a private concert for Kentucky fans. I think they
need to give out some media criticals for this. I
think I've already tried to weasel my way. I love
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John Legend. I'm sneaking in the back door if I
have to.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
What are you gonna do if I get credentialed for this?
But you guys don't.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
I don't think they're gonna do credentials.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I think this is gonna be one of those like
phones off, you can't know that kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
You know, of the.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Fils, the more people will want to be involved in.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
No, I think that's exactly right. I thought that the
first one would be like flow Rider. But but John Legend,
that's a pretty big git. And it's May tenth. They
already have the date.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
That's awesome. Do you know of any other the other
experiences that they're talking about?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Maybe one at a time, Ryan, I don't how many?
How many do you want?
Speaker 6 (08:02):
I'm just excited about the club and what you're not
in it. No, but I can be. I'm the guy
looking through the window. I want to be in there.
And I understand.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I mean, listen, you got let's say it's let's say
it's ten thousand dollars, that's Ryan Lemon money.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
No, it's not. You can.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
But you could do some endorsements, right, Like how many
endorsements you do?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
You could go to some how about this?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
You go to a local business and you say, I
want to be the face of this business and for
the year, all you got to do is get me
into the John Legend concept.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
What do you think about that, you could do that.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I would, I would jump on that in a second.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
And it and the good thing about is it could
be any business. Any business you don't have a standard,
no erect calor dysfunction. I'm in you already do like
three of those. But well, I do think I think
this is.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
A very creative, kind of forward.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Thinking thing that I could see. I can see this.
I'm not saying it will I don't know, but I
could see it work.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Yeah, I think, you know, with giving rich people something
they couldn't get otherwise, because eventually you can only sit
so close to the games in the UK, you can
only have so many dinners with the coaches.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Most of the donors in Lexton, probably ninety nine point
nine percent of them won't go to a private John
Legend concert because the opportunity is just not there. But
you start doing stuff like this, and I think more
money will start showing up because they'll get the UK
experiences and the extra I.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Don't know, really rich people, Shannon, because I'd rather hang
out with like you.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
That I'd rather hang out letter.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I'm just saying i'd rather hang out with like, you
know people I'd rather go to like Chas Bar with
Shannon the Dude than go to eat caviar under the sky.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Well I would too, Yeah, I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
So, but the thing is for people who do that,
who live that I have learned over.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
The years, Like it's the exceed it's.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
The things they like. Are the things that you can
just go by. Yeah, and like you can't get a
I can stand at you know, Manchester Music Hall and
see John Legend.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
You can't do that everywhere else.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
That's why that Jack Harlowe thing was so big, Yes,
because where a house are you gonna do it?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Right? So, Shandon, I actually can see how that works.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Oh yeah, I think that would be awesome.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It would be, like you said, an experience that only
a certain amount of people are going to get, and
I think that is for a lot of people invaluable.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
So so there you go.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
They hope for five Listen, if it's five hundred people
and it's ten thousand dollars a year, I don't know
what the number is, but let's just say then that
would be five Go ahead and have a seat, folks, Yeah,
come on here.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
That would be five million. Dollars. Maybe the four and
a half.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
You know, there's administrative or maybe you have to pay
an artist or a building or something like that.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
But listen, I'll tell you this. If UK football can.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Draw four point five million dollars a year and an aile,
they'll all be sudden be competing with the best programs
in the.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Country for players.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah, that's a huge It is like, if they're able
to do that, and I, you know, I'll need to
see it.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
But if they're able to do that, that's a huge.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Amount of money drew and that puts you out there
playing with the big boys.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Ou DENI yeah, and I assume this will get some
national attention. We've seen this at other schools where they'll
try something new and everybody's like, oh wow, that's a
great idea. I expected this to be a big story
across the sport because I haven't seen anything quite like
this that even the big universities.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Are doing well. Uh justin Rowland just wrote it. He
follows the Anisle stuff closer than I do. Is if
the five hundred strong club's able to produce four point
five million, as Matt Jones says, is that's probably a
hope but it's a great foundation. It may not get
you to the very top SEC programs, but it puts
you in a ballpark that you can put a really
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interesting team together.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Yeah, it gives you a little more of a recruiting
advantage over a lot of schools for sure. So that's
where it comes in Andy.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
So there you go. So that's the that's a football news.
I teas just it's good news.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
And Shane, you'll have to play some job legend today
because I'm not sure if I can name a song.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Oh I've got to at least ordinary people.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Go ahead, how's it go? Drawing me in and you
kicking me out? You got my head spin that one?
You like that one? I can't recognize it? Just know that. Okay,
all right, what's yours? What's going?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Sorry, I'll play it for you coming up next.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
You don't want to sing it? No, I mean you're
the singer.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I don't know the words. I mean I know the song.
I don't know the worst There's.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
One that I know I will know when you play it. Yeah,
but I can't think of it. Mentioned Cal did a
TV interview yesterday.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I'm going to admit to you that I did not
watch it, but I did see highlights online.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
So did you did you watch it? And did you
have a takeaway?
Speaker 6 (12:46):
I watched it at eleven thirty last night before I
went to sleep, and I have a couple takeaways.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Okay, now be positive. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
The one the way they started I thought was very awkward,
where like they're like the fact we don't have really
she was garbage. It's just garbage. We don't have a relationship.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
But notice he didn't say a good relationship. He just
said a relationship. I mean technically everyone has a relationship, right.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
But then after that I felt like they were they
calmed down, They calmed down, and we're like having a
little bromance. You know. John likes to do this, well,
Mitch likes to say this. Well John does that, well
Mitch does this. There was a lot of that going
on the rest of the interview about John. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Yeah, there was a lot of why don't you tell
about it?
Speaker 8 (13:28):
John?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
There was a lot of like, hey, John, say this.
There was a lot of that.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
But I gotta be honest when I love that was awesome.
Why have we not seen that before?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Exactly?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
That's the coolest thing that First of all, that's Mitch's office.
That's the coolest thing in Mitch's office. Here's how I
knew they were ready to go. Mitch had the top button.
Unbudton he had the top button none, but he was like,
all right, part of time, A little bit.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I want you to see I want you to see
Mitch with the lights down a little.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Bit, you know, Oh yeah. The belt was my main takeaway.
Ryan's right, though the beginning was a little awkward. They
gotten their groove as it went on. But it's like
they turned on the lights and we're like, we like
each other. It's like, wait a minute, can we just
say hi? Can we introduce ourselves first? But there was
a part to give them credit. They seem showed a
lot of humility and wanted to leave the job better
than they That's.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Been something Mitch has said for years, and I give
him credit, Like Mitch has definitely said, you want to
leave it better.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Than you got it.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
And Cal kind of defended himself. He's like, I hope
I've shown that I've done well for the state. I
don't think there's anyone saying Cal hasn't done good for
this state. I felt he was defending himself there I
want to make one No one's arguing cal hasn't been
a good person.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
The difference between there'd be a better way for you
to interact with fans and media now than to not
act like, No, he's been a great ambassador for the
state as a whole charity work. I mean like nobody
I think would question that, certainly not me. I mean,
he has been but that's a different issue than the
issues we've been talking about.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
But that was their best part is around the middle
of the interview, both of them were talking about how
they don't want to leave Kentucky. Yeah, without it being
better than it was when they both showed up. It
kind of sound like it might be a little walking
in step when that day comes to.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
There was there was a sense where they were almost
acting like, let's walk out the door together. But who knows, Well,
we'll talk more about it. I'd like to hear what
you all thought. Listen, We've had to talk a lot.
I had somebody write me and say, Matt, ask your
fans that aren't regular callers to just give their opinion
of where this of what they think this is now
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after a week, do they like the decision that they
know I think that's a good question.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
So if you call regularly, I love you. Come back tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I just like to hear the general fan base because
I always hear, well, Matt, you don't represent burber Bread. Okay,
that's fine, general fan base. What do you think about
where we are? Are you glad they keptaing? Do you
wish they hadn't? Are you confident?
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Whatever?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Eight five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven? And
we will play some John Legend and then I'm ready
for the Reds. We'll take a break right back. We're
here at ks Bar with old Smokey. I like that
Hattekey sports ready welcome back?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Now? What's this song? Shannon?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Ordinary people? John Legend?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
But I okay, we should take it slow, all of me?
Do you have that one? I know that song?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
I can find it all right, that's what Drew was singing.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I could I was singing all couldn't you tell by
Drew's voice that that was all of me?
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Well, I didn't have my piano. I can actually play
it on the piano too, I do it right now.
You can have it on my phone now.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Somebody told me Abby's birthday is that night is May tenth. Also, John,
you're gonna have to find a way to get hurt.
I'm gonna find fifteen thousand dollars whatever it takes. Now,
somebody told me that Ryan has already snuck his way in.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Can you believe that? Ready? How would you already sneak
your way in?
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I have already been invited. I may be going to
see John legends.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
So you got invited. The three of us did not
get invited.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
What about us?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Yeah, well, if you want no truth, they invited all
of us. Oh so I just wanted you to think
I've only wanted in Ryan plus three.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
I can't be there.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
You'll be mad, you can be me. I can't be there.
My mom graduates from seminary that day. Oh well, that's all.
I'm going to Dallas to uh in Dallas to there.
They'll say Karen Green Blonddale, and I'll stand up and go.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Yeah, that's my mommy, Mom's my mommy. You know what?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
But seriously, how cool is that?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Seventy years old and she's graduating from seminary on May ten?
Speaker 6 (17:24):
So proud of her, that's incredible, Very proud of her.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Judgen will do hundreds of concerts. There will be one
time mom walks across.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I would miss my mom's seminary graduation for anything, Yeah,
because you know how I mean, seriously think about that.
She retired from practicing law and at the age of
sixty seven, decided, I'm going to pursue the one thing
I've wanted to do my whole life. Like that should
be the most inspiration for anyone, whatever it is you
want to do, Like life's not over, you just go
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And like she spent three years doing it. She calls
me Shannon every time she gets in. It feels like
I'm the parent and she's the student. She can and
by the way, she gets an A on everything, like
she's never gotten anything less than an ay. So she'll
call and go, guess what I got in the Book
of Acts? And I'm like, let me guess an A
and she'll go aheah, And like I say, all right,
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when would you like me to sign your report card?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Do you put it up on the refrigerator?
Speaker 5 (18:20):
I do.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I put up her papers on the refrigerator. I give
her treats when she does.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Well, you know, I'm an honorall son.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
You do.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I would like, you know, what if I had and
I'm an honorall Son.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I would put it right next to my mitch please
bumper sticker, and I would have So I'm I'm.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Very happy for her.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
So if I'm nine eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
who's up first?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Shit Maddox, Maddox, go ahead, Maddix.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
Hey, Matt, first time caller?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Who are.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
So?
Speaker 10 (18:52):
You asked how I thought about CALIFERI being back after
we lost to Oakland. I was like, let's fire and
let's get him out of there. But then I slept
on it, and I was like, you know, we got
rid of him, I think it would make things so
much worse. We'd lose all of our recruits and have
to have a new relationship with a new coach, and
Caliperari would probably go to who knows where and win
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a championship somewhere and we'd just be sitting around.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Well, well, first of all, that could happen. I mean,
that is the worry if you had ever let go
of him. But I would say this on the new
unless he coaches until he's one hundred and fifty years old.
What you just said about will lose all our recruits.
You realize that'll be true any year he leaves.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Right, Yeah, yeah, I mean, but you're right. I appreciate
the call.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I actually think what Maddick said was probably a major
factor in the final decision, which is what I talked about.
Is Cali Perry two point zero. I think Caliperry two
point oh really worried the UK administration, which is CALIPERI
goes and pulls, as Drew said a Ryan Leman, I
don't know if you heard this. Drew called this you
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which is goes gets in shape. Heard this, he gets
hair plugs and like all of a sudden, is rejuvenated
with a new wife and then crushes it. I think
that is a worry because if that happened, our fans
would lose their mind.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
And knowing John Keler Perry, he would have done that.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
He would have done it. Yeah, no, well he would
have tried to do it. Whether he would have succeeded,
who knows.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
But he if we had let him go, he ain't
retiring like that. He's not going out like that. And
I get that. I share that trait with him.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
If I heard fired me, I'm not going home and
like milk and cows. Because first somebody would have to
teach me how to do it, but then I'm going
to another radio station and I'm gonna try to beat
them down.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Right, he would have been the same way.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I felt like, you know, in Kentucky two with coaching
great good drunk, great good drunk, the next coach wouldn't
be great, he'd be good.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
I mean, you know, that's just that's just a pattern.
It doesn't have to be like that. Like we're not
required to go hire a drunk. It's not like we
can go get someone that's one hundred percent sober and yeah,
I mean we could just skip and hire Bobby Huggins.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Well, there are people who've argued.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Matt is cal doing the great good and now we
just do a drunk and just that we could have
just been let's just do Bob Huggins and then move on.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
No, he's not a drinker, but those results he's not.
I think that too.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I think that two point zero thing is was a
real issue that Maddix talks about who's next Bram and
by the way, Maddick saying I wanted to fire him
the night of and then I kind of changed my mind.
I think that is something that a lot of fans
did think over the time, but go ahead, sha't.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, it's still Bram Bram.
Speaker 12 (21:51):
Hello, a longtime listener, first time caller from What's Up?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
What's Up? Sheby, We got some people in the restaurant
from Shelbyville.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
There you go.
Speaker 12 (22:02):
So, I think the whole show with Mitch and Cal
has proved that that they have felt the pressure from
the fan base. Yes, and for me personally last season.
After last season, I was ready to move on, and
I understand that a lot of people weren't. But I
think this whole show that they have put on has
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proved that this season is going to be the tell
all season. And at the end of the day, I'll
be okay with that. I'll live or die with whatever happens.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Yea heartbreak's coming. I'm sorry, but I agree with everything
you just said. This will be the Baker break. Let
me say this, Mitch going, we have a relationship. Of course,
that was garbage say otherwise. People who have a great
relationship don't have to tell you they have a great relationship.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I mean, let's be rid. We'll be right back. Steky
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
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Speaker 2 (23:01):
No more of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
This was This is kind of how Drew saunds.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
I think it sounded just like the piano somebody.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Somebody wrote me and goes, Matt, I didn't realize we
have a Kentucky Joe and a Kentucky Drew.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I'll do a little duet with Kentucky Joe. Maybe some some.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Shallow maybe you know what, Maybe the two of you
could be at the five hundred Club as an opening
that Kentucky Drew and Kentucky Joe come together and uh
and do it.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
We'll do it with him anytime.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
One person writes, Matt, uh, I've watched online after the
last four or five days. I don't know how you
deal with all these people with their comments. Do you
think these people even listen to the show?
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Now?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Ninety five percent of the criticism of KSR and Me
are people who don't listen. They are told something, and
then it's the telephone game. They're told he said, then
he said, and then it comes a point where like
whatever bad happens, will just say it was Matt. I
mean that one little tweet the little thread with all
the rumors. Yesterday, I specifically said I didn't know anything
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about any of that. By the end of the night,
I was the one that had written that, and people
who know, no, I don't write anything, So.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
You know, it's I don't know what to say to
those folks.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Most of the people though that hate KSR, well, if
you ask them, say, I don't listen, so like, how
do you even know what we say?
Speaker 5 (24:29):
KSR? So negative? You're spoiling the fan base. You don't
even listen. You don't even know what we say.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
So like it's it's they're just talking about a person
Ryan that doesn't even exist.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Because I will say, if I'd said.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
All the things I get attributed to me, i'd worry
about me too, But like, I don't say those things.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Most people hear what they want to hear, hear what
they want to hear. Yeah, and they don't hear what
they don't need to hear. But I will.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I will.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
If you have a clip, I'm fine with playing a
clip and going and if it's in context going. Matt
shouldn't have said this because sometimes I look back and go, Man,
I wish I hadn't said that. But when you just
say Matt said this and then I didn't, or it's
out of context, Like how am I even supposed to
defend myself? One thing I agree with cal Is cal
said last night, I can't defend myself against everything everybody says.
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He's right about that. You can't because you don't even
like what are you gonna say?
Speaker 6 (25:26):
I will say this. H a friend of mine and
when you guys, friend of you guys too, works deals
with crisis crisis management, and he said that that's exactly
what Mitch and John should have done last night. Sit
side by side, you know, show some solidarity. We're on
the same page. We're gonna get this right. They felt
like that was the right thing to do. Do you
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agree with that?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I think they should have done a real press conference
in taking real questions. But but if you're not gonna
do that, I think what they did was the best
thing they could. I mean, this is noa front fence
to Keith Farmer, who I like. I feel the same
way I did about Tom Leech's show on Monday. Those
guys are putting an impossible position. They can't ask a
hard question. They're basically working for UK so they can't.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
But like.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
If they, I still think the two of them should
take real questions. You know, in a couple of weeks,
Jerry Tipton has a book coming out. We're gonna have
Jerry Tipton on the show. I used to think having
Jerry Tipton in the media was the worst thing in
the world. When he comes in here, I'm gonna apologize
to him because I think you need a Jerry Tipton.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Yep, you do.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
You need one, Now you don't. The problem for a
while is Jerry Tipton was like the only person in
the media that and that's not what you want. But
nowadays you need a Jerry Tipton. You need one person
to ask the hard question. And but if you don't
take a press conference, nobody can ask any questions. So
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I wish they had done that. Absent that, though, I
agree with your friend like sitting there together as.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Yeah, showing solidarity where on the world on the same page.
We're gonna get this right.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
One person writes, Matt, do you all think that if
things don't work out next year they both leave?
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Yeah? I do think they've kind of set it up.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
I think Mitch is close to leaving anyway, Just in
terms of I think I think Mitch is headed towards
the last. I think it was very important for Mitch,
and people close to him have said that to get
the women's basketball program on the right path, okay, to
get that Memorial Coliseum thing done, to get the baseball
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program turned around, Like those things matter to him. I
could see him going, Okay, if it's time to go
in a different direction that in basketball, that should be
someone else's thing to do.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Does that make sense.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
That's why it's so hard for us to kind of
say what he should and shouldn't do. If he knows
he's leaving next year, I completely understand why he wouldn't
want to make the higher for the next person.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
But really I agree with that completely. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
If I mean, we don't know any thing what Mitch
is bringing, but if he knew he's got a foot
out the door, it would make complete sense to want
to ride it out with Cal and step out. That's why, well,
we're all we're all on the outside. We don't know
what hands they have or what cars they have in
their hand. I don't know what players are coming back,
so it's uh, we just know what we know on
our end, and uh, if Mitch were to think you
were leaving soon, they would, I think would be the
right decision.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
If we basketball.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
If you look at the overall UK athletics, this is
a big like transition year Memorial Coliseum reopening. Yes, so
all the things that that that play there are about
to go into a new, renovated, updated home. And that
includes volleyball, gymnastics, women's basketball. Now they're all going there, right.
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They just opened a new baseball field a few years ago.
They just did this huge renovation in football, like this
is a time that you could see him saying, because
I do think he really cares about who he gives
it to. Next, it is time to pass it on
to someone next.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Who's next? Shit?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Rob?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Rob? What's up? Rob?
Speaker 9 (29:03):
Hey? First time in a long long time?
Speaker 5 (29:06):
All right, well I can't who are but welcome?
Speaker 9 (29:09):
All right? Well, uh, I like Cal and I like Mitch,
but I want to talk about real too quick comments
He talked about the transfer portal. Well, you'll be successful
one year, then flop. We've been a flop for five years, guys,
one year. Save I don't.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Believe though, I don't believe we're a flop. In the
transfer portal.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
We had we had the National player of the year
in Oscar sheb Way, we had an All American and
Antonio Reeves.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
I think Kellen Grady, Davey on Mitch were good.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
I mean, we have been a flop on the floor,
but I don't think the guys we've gotten in the
transfer portal have been flops.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
No.
Speaker 9 (29:44):
I was quoting Cal. He said, if you go aggressively
after the transfer portal, a lot of these guys go
one year and then they flop.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Well, So that's also true of his one and dones.
Speaker 9 (29:53):
Though, that's that's right, And I'll say this as an
allows comment. You know, they talked about finishing well. But
watching them with that WWE and belt in the background,
watching coach Cal coach is kind of like watching Rick
Flair Russell these days. It's just it's he's got the
same old moves, but time has moved on.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Appreciate the call.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
I hadn't thought of that, but that belt was cool, though, Shannon,
I know it did look like like if they put
those for sale, how many people you think would buy
like one of those WWE.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Oh, they're online, they're sold out. It's five hundred dollars
to buy that, and they're sold out a lot. I
saw a little birdie on Twitter said that Mitch wanted
to make sure the belt was in the in the frame,
so he's very proud of that belt.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Did they get it?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Why did he get it?
Speaker 8 (30:45):
Like?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Did he just buy?
Speaker 5 (30:46):
People love belts? Shannon?
Speaker 4 (30:48):
You know this when we get that Country Boy Kentucky title,
which they retired as soon as I stopped running day
to day operations.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
I love that belt. I helped design that belt.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Uh, they throw it in.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
The river like Matt.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Matt's not running day to day. Give the belt of
somebody else.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
People just like touching it and putting it on their
shoulder and taking a picture.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Like people like belts.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
It's just everywhere I go, everybody wants to touch the radio.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Where I go, I can't even get out my door
trying to touch it.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
When are you ever going to defend that? When's last time?
Speaker 6 (31:24):
You mean?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Have you seen the title? It's ragged, it's torn apart.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
But have you defended it since COVID?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Oh yeah, like one hundred times? Do you even watched
the product?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
When's the last time you've defended it? One on one.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Oh my god, Like it's been so often, I can't
keep up with it. I mean a lot of times.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
A lot of time, longest raining, Yeah, longest history.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Yeah. Well there you go. I'm Chris, Chris, go ahead, Chris,
shut up.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
Ay, first time, long time guys.
Speaker 9 (31:57):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (31:58):
So I get a quick comment and then a quick
questions for you guys. So my comment is that I
kind of agree with Maddox and like first I wanted
Cal fire too, and I've kind of come around on
it just because, like I believe that for next season,
Cal gives us the highest ceiling. Like I don't think
there's any coach that we could bring in that could
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I think that's true.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
I think that's true if you're if you're looking just
at next year, Cal gives you the highest ceiling next
year because you're gonna have to rebuild your roster completely
when he leaves. But I would also know that will
be true every year in perpetuity.
Speaker 11 (32:38):
Right right, which which brings me to my quick question.
So Ryan has said that he doesn't think that Mitch
wants to be the person that has to fire the
Hall of Fame coach and Cal, so if he leaves
and Dwayne Peevee takes over. You think he's gonna do it?
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Yeah, that's a good question, great question, that's a great question.
I don't know, no, but I think, yeah, I don't know.
That's a good question. But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I appreciate, I don't know what's gonna happen next year. Appreciate,
appreciate the call.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I do think if Mitch leaves dayne PV will be
the A D. Although I will say, like you know,
Dwayne hired a basketball coach, it didn't work. Now he
has another one that one needs to work.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Yeah, for Dwayne to.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Be the A D here, Chris Holtman needs to work
at DePaul And I do think you should kind of
watch and see how does Chris Holtman do it de Paul.
I mean it's gonna take him a while there, a
couple of years, but like it will be important. He
can't have two basketball hires not work and then get
this job. But I think if one, if it works,
if you want to know who the next AD is,
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watch DePaul Basketball next year.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
If Chris Holtman turns to Paul around, Dwayne Peeve's the
next D D.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Here if it doesn't, then I then I could see
them looking in another direction because.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
He's got other sports at de Paul, I follow it.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
I'm actually a DePaul donorgive.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
They are very aggressive to Paul.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Paul's sports have all gotten good, but basketball has it
and that's gonna be what matters when if he's to
get the job here.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Well, we were having the same conversation about Mitch after
he'd hired Billy Gillespian Joker. Phillips were like, Okay, your
next two hires they've got to work, and they did.
They hired Mark Stoops, John Caliperi. It worked.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Clark's Puppet Shop has a new location on Lucille Drive.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
Get out of town.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Stop in for all your favorite drinks and snacks.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Sausage, egg and cheese, bacon, egg and cheese, sausage, biscuits.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
They got pizza Cajun. They really have Cajun in a
gas station.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
You've into Those breakfast sandwiches are awesome.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Well, you know, you walked. I walked there.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
They served the freshest coffee, and there's one near you.
And even if you don't think there's one near you,
there is. Ryan will tell you go to Clark's puppet Shop,
and you earn five cents per gallon on every gas
fill up. It's Clark's pumping Shop. There's a big controversy
in State high school basketball. Yeah, we'll address it when
we returned, OKSR.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
How about that tease welcome back? This is Skinnered, right?
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Skinnered tonight in Lexington here Skinnered and zz Top Yeah,
zz Top. I didn't even know zz Top was still going.
I know Skinner's on like their eighth iteration? Though, is
there anyone in Skinnard who was in Skinnered originally?
Speaker 3 (35:16):
No, not a single member. That's probears.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
From now, when we're all dead and gone, Leonard Skinnert
will still be going.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Are they allowed to still do that? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
I mean, is in sync? Can they just put four
new I mean that's what they do in like menudo?
Is they just like shuttling kids in and out of it?
Speaker 7 (35:35):
I think, what's the first the last original members gone?
You gotta have a new name.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Well they're doing it Skinnered and zz Is it the
same bearded zz top people?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Well, Dusty Hill died a few years ago, so they
get another guy with a beard up there.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
They just go to country Boy and get one of them.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah, pretty much. Next Bearded Guy up.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Bearded Guy up, that's right.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
And Blackstone Cherry from Kentucky's opening the show Blackstone Chair.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
So they're playing the night at Roup. We're having like
a pre party here where it'll be like a rocking
good time. So if you're coming up to the concert,
come on here before also the Reds if during that,
the Reds opening day game will be on here as well.
So a lot going on here at the bars. So
come on out tonight if you would like and go
see Skinner and zz Top and Blackstone Chair.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Reds game starts at what time?
Speaker 5 (36:23):
For to ten? Okay four ten?
Speaker 4 (36:25):
I'm leaving like literally right after this. Tell me about this.
So in Monticello, Wayne County High School, Rodney Woods head
coach for thirty eight straight years, over a thousand victories,
I'm told in his career, still won like the district
title this year, so he's still getting it done. He
was fired yesterday in a move that is like the
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town is up is in an uproar.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Ryan. I know. If there's one thing you know, it's
small town gossip.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Ryan has a person in every town that hangs out
at the beauty shop.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Or at the Druthers and knows what's happening. So tell
me what's going on.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
You're right, Rodney Woods is a legend. I mean, he
is a legend in this state. And I heard this
story yesterday.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
Do you think so? Or do you know? Well?
Speaker 6 (37:11):
When I first heard it, I didn't think we would
be talking about it. But then Larry Vaught wrote the
exact same thing this morning, and I trust Larry Vott.
So I have two sources now. At one is an
article by Larry Vaught that the new principal, first year principal,
Donnie Neil. Donnie Neil, what if I told you he's
been holding a grudge for ten years? He tried to
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become the superintendent at Wayne County ten years ago. Rodney
Wood's wife was on the search committee that did not
recommend Donnie Neil to be superintendent.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
Donny Neil's wife didn't write in his.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Own Rodney Rodney rodney Wood's wife. Rodney Wood's wife was
on the search committee. So is he the superintendent?
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Now?
Speaker 6 (37:55):
He just became first year superintendent. He's been a principal
in the Wayne County School See.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
You're saying that the coach's wife did not hire the
guy to be the superintendent ten years ago, and then
he became the superintendent. Yes, and you're saying he fired
because of the grudg the grudge.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
I want to know why she didn't recommend him, like
where from?
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Talk to Larry about that?
Speaker 6 (38:18):
No, I have not talked Larry about I trust Larry Vaught,
all right, But yeah, he was He's been a principal
in the Wayne County school system and didn't get it
last time. He got it Boom first movie. No, he
was hired in August. It wasn't his first move. He's
been there for a whole year, pretty much one school year.
He's been scheming. I believe that story though.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
All right, So so that that's your that's what's happened.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
That's what's happened, all right.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
I'm gonna ask the text machine. Is Ryan right? I
know we have a lot of Wayne County Listen there
you go seven seven two seven seven four five two
five four. I want to know if he's right, because
if he's not, I want to make sure. I met
the Rodney Woods guy when I went and spoke at
Monticel just about a month ago. He was very very
nice to me, and uh so, I I hate for
him that this happened.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
And good guy.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
I mean, he's a legend in this day, even though
he played basketball at Tennessee University of Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Yeah, all you think it could be why they didn't
hire him as the superintendent.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
I think it's because he didn't know how to play
against his own.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
All right, I don't know what do you believe Ryan
the story? I have no reason not to.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
I mean, I haven't done much digging on this story,
uh any to be honest, But you know I got
some I got some friends in Monticelo.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
I can tell you the people are upset. And I'm
not kidding like, I got a lot of messages Matt
dig into this. And you know, if we didn't have
all the stuff going on with with the UK basketball,
I would have. But but there's the story according to
Frank Lynd. And we'll see if the people of Monticelo agreed. Okay,
who's up next?
Speaker 5 (39:53):
Ben? Ben? Go ahead? Ben?
Speaker 6 (39:57):
Yeah, Hey, it's been from Colesburg.
Speaker 13 (39:58):
First time caller.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Who wah.
Speaker 13 (40:02):
So my perspective is the same as a lot of
these previous guys. At the end of the day, I
think it's got to come down to what other coach
game one next year is going to put a better
rofsterrung for I just I mean, but.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
You know, by that standard, as I said, by that standard,
cow will win that standard forever.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
You know that, sure, So.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Like by that standard, he should be coach for a
lot because he'll always be able to put on a
better roster than some coach we hire off the street.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (40:34):
True. But also I think a lot of a lot
of fans need to put in some historical context. I mean,
my math might be wrong, but what are we at
four final fours and thirteen years? It's like a thirty
percent clip I mean, okay.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
I mean again, but historical perspective with Cal, and I
said this on the SEC Network today, it all depends
on how you look at it, all right, If you
want to look at all thirteen or fourteen years historically,
Cal has been as good, if not better than Kentucky
basketball historic.
Speaker 5 (41:03):
Sure, if you.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Want to look at the last four years, it's been
as bad a run as we've ever had in the
history of our school. So which one matters to you more?
That's what you have to decide. And you could if
you put me in court and you asked me to
defend cal I could defend it. If you put me
in court and you asked me to say it was
time for change, I could do that too. But it
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all just depends on what you want. Do you think
the thirteen year run matters most or do you think
the last five years matter most?
Speaker 13 (41:35):
Well, I think you go look at it as a whole,
and I mean just as an example. Might be a
poor example, but tom Izzo hasn't stepped off a bus
since the year two thousand and don't.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
I don't put tom Izzo in the last five years
has been a lot better than we've been.
Speaker 13 (41:52):
I mean that's I guess that's arguable as an AGEC.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
This year they did win a game.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
But yeah, but I mean go back and look. I mean,
I think if I'm correct, and if I'm wrong, I'll
say it. I think he's done a lot. I think
he's Mento final at least Eliade eight, maybe even the
final four. Well, yeah, he went to the final four design.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
Yere he won the last headhead too. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
So you know, again, it's all about what you think
is the right time frame to look at. We'll take
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Speaker 4 (00:35):
Welcome everyone in Kentucky Sports Radio. Thursday, March twenty eighth.
It is opening day here in the United States of America.
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Speaker 5 (01:05):
Smith Lovas called TJ. He'll make them pay.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Uh. I am leaving as soon as the show ends
and heading off to the Reds game. I got my
Cutlook at these red shoes. Yes, yes, yeah, I got
these made. This is another true blue Customs thing. Look
right there.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Oh that's nice. So got your Reds hoodie on your
Red's hat.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Yeah, I'm leaving right after the game.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Games at four to ten against those hated Washington Nationals.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
You know they're evil, those Washington Nationals. They're also like
the worst team.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Well that's why you know the Reds are feeling good
about their chances to win. That bet last team to lose.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, there's a bet on on DraftKings, which I don't
know if you can still do. But it was last
team to lose a game, and the Reds were like
the third favorite just because of their schedule.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Uh, what was do you know the Reds win total?
I know that year went over. I didn't know if
they got.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Some eighty four and a half or something. This year,
I feeling good on that I did. And then like
they got some guys hurt that Matt McClean is out
now and he was probably their best player last year.
He's gonna be out for a couple of months, but
we'll talk about the Reds. I have some you know,
I have some serious Reds thoughts, and I'm gonna you know,
this is this is the year.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
This is the one.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So you're actually going though, don't you normally sell the ticket?
Speaker 8 (02:19):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I sold mine. I sold mine. I'm going I'm sitting.
I'm sitting with the with the people, oh like the
four hundreds up and left field. No, I sell mine
for this one. You know what I got for mine?
You all know where my seats are? Yeah, yeah, six
hundred bucks apiece.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, those tickets too.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I mean I'm gonna sell that in a heartbeat. You
think I'm gonna pay you.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
That much candy that will buy you?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, I don't know how much season tickets are, but
I would say that would pay it back at least entirely.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
A little bit. No, but it's a it's a nice chunk.
Here's what I always do.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
This is how I can get I can get a
fourth of my season ticket price back by selling open day.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And then if the Reds or excuse me, if the
Red Sox or the Yankees gum sell those games that
if you just do that, I can get about a
fourth and then if your Cubs or Cardinals are good,
those games can be big, right, same with the Braves.
Now I like to go to some of those games.
I mean I don't sell them. I haven't been to
a Red Sox.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Or Yankees game them.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Well, it's just it's you can't not sell them, especially
the ones I because all those you know, those rich
New Yorkers and.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Bostoners are like, we want to sit in a good seat.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
These are only six hundred yea.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Honestly, I think that's how they look at it. It's
only where's for me? You say, c Bucks a lot
of money, you know, so those so uh so I
haven't set in my seats in opening day in a decade.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Just the most you've ever sold them for? Like did
you bump the price up?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
So selling seats online is a whole thing, right, I
mean I I usually when I sell seats, sell them
day up, because I usually decide a day of if
I'm going. There's a mastery to it. If you wait
too long, you almost have to give them away. But
if you can sell them in two hours before the game.
That's when I've learned you can kind of get the
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premium price. But with Opening Day that's such a huge
amount of money. I'm not I'm not risking it, you
know what I mean? Yeah, plus opening Day because it's
a holiday, people want to do it like way in advance.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Sure, so I sell you.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
But like Saturday, I've decided, if we win today, I'm
going Saturday. If we don't, well, then I'll see what
else because I don't want.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
To be oh and two against the worst team. I'm
already nervous. It's only one hundred and sixty two games
and we've done enough and too this march. I hope
we all get some wins.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's true, all right. So I have some breaking news
to start the show. Okay, running, No, No, it's just
got announced. The fifteen Club, you know, that's the UK
Football in il Thing has announced the five hundred Club.
This will be a group of I assume with five hundred,
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they're hoping five hundred VIP donors that will get exclusive
VIP experiences around UK football, the first of which is
on May tenth. They're bringing John Legend to Lexington for
a private VIP concert for the five hundred club.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
The expectation is the five hundred club will raise get
this amount.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Of money four point five million dollars a year h
UK football in Il.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
If you do that math, I guess that would be
what ten thousand, eight to ten I don't know, ten
to twelve thousand a year, eight to ten thousand.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I'm not sure what the math is of that.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
But John Legend is coming and doing a VIP concert
for five hundred people and their guest in Lexington for
UK football.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Did you ever think you would see the day? No?
Speaker 6 (05:59):
I didn't. I think it's really cool though, to happ.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
A nephew for people don't know is on the team.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
I think that makes it really cool that he's helping
out the program by head doing this for the VIPs
that can join this club.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Do you think you will get it?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
I'm not a chance. In France I got that kind
of money. No, I would love to do.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I've been told by the way Drew that they already.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Have over two hundred people. Wow, So I think, and
so I actually think they'll get that amount.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I do.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I think they'll find that amount of people, because I mean,
if you're going first of all, here's why.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I think this is really creative.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
One of the things that's been a struggle for these
teams in IL thing is what do people get for
their money? Right, Like, that's the thing everybody always thinks,
is what do we get for giving this amount of money?
And that's hard. But the one thing that money can't buy, you, Shannon,
what can but.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
It's hard to is experiences?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Like people can get things, but experiences.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So if they now make it to where what they're
doing is bringing these kind of exclusive experiences, due, I
can kind of see that working.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Actually heck yeah, John Legend, I mean that's a nice
first event. I figured we would get something with him eventually,
maybe just seeing him at the stadium because he is
close to his nephew that's on the team, Anthony Brown Stevens.
But a private concert for Kentucky fans. I think they
need to give out some media criticals for this. I
think I've already tried to weasel my way. I love
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John Legend. I'm sneaking in the back door if I
have to.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
What are you gonna do if I get credentialed for this?
But you guys don't.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
I don't think they're gonna do credentials.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I think this is gonna be one of those like
phones off, you can't know that kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
You know, of the.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Fils, the more people will want to be involved in.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
No, I think that's exactly right. I thought that the
first one would be like flow Rider. But but John Legend,
that's a pretty big git. And it's May tenth. They
already have the date.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
That's awesome. Do you know of any other the other
experiences that they're talking about?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Maybe one at a time, Ryan, I don't how many?
How many do you want?
Speaker 6 (08:02):
I'm just excited about the club and what you're not
in it. No, but I can be. I'm the guy
looking through the window. I want to be in there.
And I understand.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I mean, listen, you got let's say it's let's say
it's ten thousand dollars, that's Ryan Lemon money.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
No, it's not. You can.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
But you could do some endorsements, right, Like how many
endorsements you do?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
You could go to some how about this?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
You go to a local business and you say, I
want to be the face of this business and for
the year, all you got to do is get me
into the John Legend concept.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
What do you think about that, you could do that.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I would, I would jump on that in a second.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
And it and the good thing about is it could
be any business. Any business you don't have a standard,
no erect calor dysfunction. I'm in you already do like
three of those. But well, I do think I think
this is.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
A very creative, kind of forward.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Thinking thing that I could see. I can see this.
I'm not saying it will I don't know, but I
could see it work.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Yeah, I think, you know, with giving rich people something
they couldn't get otherwise, because eventually you can only sit
so close to the games in the UK, you can
only have so many dinners with the coaches.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Most of the donors in Lexton, probably ninety nine point
nine percent of them won't go to a private John
Legend concert because the opportunity is just not there. But
you start doing stuff like this, and I think more
money will start showing up because they'll get the UK
experiences and the extra I.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Don't know, really rich people, Shannon, because I'd rather hang
out with like you.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
That I'd rather hang out letter.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I'm just saying i'd rather hang out with like, you
know people I'd rather go to like Chas Bar with
Shannon the Dude than go to eat caviar under the sky.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Well I would too, Yeah, I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
So, but the thing is for people who do that,
who live that I have learned over.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
The years, Like it's the exceed it's.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
The things they like. Are the things that you can
just go by. Yeah, and like you can't get a
I can stand at you know, Manchester Music Hall and
see John Legend.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
You can't do that everywhere else.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
That's why that Jack Harlowe thing was so big, Yes,
because where a house are you gonna do it?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Right? So, Shandon, I actually can see how that works.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Oh yeah, I think that would be awesome.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It would be, like you said, an experience that only
a certain amount of people are going to get, and
I think that is for a lot of people invaluable.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
So so there you go.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
They hope for five Listen, if it's five hundred people
and it's ten thousand dollars a year, I don't know
what the number is, but let's just say then that
would be five Go ahead and have a seat, folks, Yeah,
come on here.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
That would be five million. Dollars. Maybe the four and
a half.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
You know, there's administrative or maybe you have to pay
an artist or a building or something like that.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
But listen, I'll tell you this. If UK football can.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Draw four point five million dollars a year and an aile,
they'll all be sudden be competing with the best programs
in the.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Country for players.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah, that's a huge It is like, if they're able
to do that, and I, you know, I'll need to
see it.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
But if they're able to do that, that's a huge.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Amount of money drew and that puts you out there
playing with the big boys.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Ou DENI yeah, and I assume this will get some
national attention. We've seen this at other schools where they'll
try something new and everybody's like, oh wow, that's a
great idea. I expected this to be a big story
across the sport because I haven't seen anything quite like
this that even the big universities.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Are doing well. Uh justin Rowland just wrote it. He
follows the Anisle stuff closer than I do. Is if
the five hundred strong club's able to produce four point
five million, as Matt Jones says, is that's probably a
hope but it's a great foundation. It may not get
you to the very top SEC programs, but it puts
you in a ballpark that you can put a really
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interesting team together.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Yeah, it gives you a little more of a recruiting
advantage over a lot of schools for sure. So that's
where it comes in Andy.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
So there you go. So that's the that's a football news.
I teas just it's good news.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
And Shane, you'll have to play some job legend today
because I'm not sure if I can name a song.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Oh I've got to at least ordinary people.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Go ahead, how's it go? Drawing me in and you
kicking me out? You got my head spin that one?
You like that one? I can't recognize it? Just know that. Okay,
all right, what's yours? What's going?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Sorry, I'll play it for you coming up next.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
You don't want to sing it? No, I mean you're
the singer.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I don't know the words. I mean I know the song.
I don't know the worst There's.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
One that I know I will know when you play it. Yeah,
but I can't think of it. Mentioned Cal did a
TV interview yesterday.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I'm going to admit to you that I did not
watch it, but I did see highlights online.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
So did you did you watch it? And did you
have a takeaway?
Speaker 6 (12:46):
I watched it at eleven thirty last night before I
went to sleep, and I have a couple takeaways.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Okay, now be positive. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
The one the way they started I thought was very awkward,
where like they're like the fact we don't have really
she was garbage. It's just garbage. We don't have a relationship.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
But notice he didn't say a good relationship. He just
said a relationship. I mean technically everyone has a relationship, right.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
But then after that I felt like they were they
calmed down, They calmed down, and we're like having a
little bromance. You know. John likes to do this, well,
Mitch likes to say this. Well John does that, well
Mitch does this. There was a lot of that going
on the rest of the interview about John. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Yeah, there was a lot of why don't you tell
about it?
Speaker 8 (13:28):
John?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
There was a lot of like, hey, John, say this.
There was a lot of that.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
But I gotta be honest when I love that was awesome.
Why have we not seen that before?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Exactly?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
That's the coolest thing that First of all, that's Mitch's office.
That's the coolest thing in Mitch's office. Here's how I
knew they were ready to go. Mitch had the top button.
Unbudton he had the top button none, but he was like,
all right, part of time, A little bit.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I want you to see I want you to see
Mitch with the lights down a little.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Bit, you know, Oh yeah. The belt was my main takeaway.
Ryan's right, though the beginning was a little awkward. They
gotten their groove as it went on. But it's like
they turned on the lights and we're like, we like
each other. It's like, wait a minute, can we just
say hi? Can we introduce ourselves first? But there was
a part to give them credit. They seem showed a
lot of humility and wanted to leave the job better
than they That's.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Been something Mitch has said for years, and I give
him credit, Like Mitch has definitely said, you want to
leave it better.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Than you got it.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
And Cal kind of defended himself. He's like, I hope
I've shown that I've done well for the state. I
don't think there's anyone saying Cal hasn't done good for
this state. I felt he was defending himself there I
want to make one No one's arguing cal hasn't been
a good person.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
The difference between there'd be a better way for you
to interact with fans and media now than to not
act like, No, he's been a great ambassador for the
state as a whole charity work. I mean like nobody
I think would question that, certainly not me. I mean,
he has been but that's a different issue than the
issues we've been talking about.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
But that was their best part is around the middle
of the interview, both of them were talking about how
they don't want to leave Kentucky. Yeah, without it being
better than it was when they both showed up. It
kind of sound like it might be a little walking
in step when that day comes to.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
There was there was a sense where they were almost
acting like, let's walk out the door together. But who knows, Well,
we'll talk more about it. I'd like to hear what
you all thought. Listen, We've had to talk a lot.
I had somebody write me and say, Matt, ask your
fans that aren't regular callers to just give their opinion
of where this of what they think this is now
(15:30):
after a week, do they like the decision that they
know I think that's a good question.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
So if you call regularly, I love you. Come back tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I just like to hear the general fan base because
I always hear, well, Matt, you don't represent burber Bread. Okay,
that's fine, general fan base. What do you think about
where we are? Are you glad they keptaing? Do you
wish they hadn't? Are you confident?
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Whatever?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Eight five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven? And
we will play some John Legend and then I'm ready
for the Reds. We'll take a break right back. We're
here at ks Bar with old Smokey. I like that
Hattekey sports ready welcome back?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Now? What's this song? Shannon?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Ordinary people? John Legend?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
But I okay, we should take it slow, all of me?
Do you have that one? I know that song?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
I can find it all right, that's what Drew was singing.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I could I was singing all couldn't you tell by
Drew's voice that that was all of me?
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Well, I didn't have my piano. I can actually play
it on the piano too, I do it right now.
You can have it on my phone now.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Somebody told me Abby's birthday is that night is May tenth. Also, John,
you're gonna have to find a way to get hurt.
I'm gonna find fifteen thousand dollars whatever it takes. Now,
somebody told me that Ryan has already snuck his way in.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Can you believe that? Ready? How would you already sneak
your way in?
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I have already been invited. I may be going to
see John legends.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
So you got invited. The three of us did not
get invited.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
What about us?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Yeah, well, if you want no truth, they invited all
of us. Oh so I just wanted you to think
I've only wanted in Ryan plus three.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
I can't be there.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
You'll be mad, you can be me. I can't be there.
My mom graduates from seminary that day. Oh well, that's all.
I'm going to Dallas to uh in Dallas to there.
They'll say Karen Green Blonddale, and I'll stand up and go.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Yeah, that's my mommy, Mom's my mommy. You know what?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
But seriously, how cool is that?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Seventy years old and she's graduating from seminary on May ten?
Speaker 6 (17:24):
So proud of her, that's incredible, Very proud of her.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Judgen will do hundreds of concerts. There will be one
time mom walks across.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I would miss my mom's seminary graduation for anything, Yeah,
because you know how I mean, seriously think about that.
She retired from practicing law and at the age of
sixty seven, decided, I'm going to pursue the one thing
I've wanted to do my whole life. Like that should
be the most inspiration for anyone, whatever it is you
want to do, Like life's not over, you just go
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And like she spent three years doing it. She calls
me Shannon every time she gets in. It feels like
I'm the parent and she's the student. She can and
by the way, she gets an A on everything, like
she's never gotten anything less than an ay. So she'll
call and go, guess what I got in the Book
of Acts? And I'm like, let me guess an A
and she'll go aheah, And like I say, all right,
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when would you like me to sign your report card?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Do you put it up on the refrigerator?
Speaker 5 (18:20):
I do.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I put up her papers on the refrigerator. I give
her treats when she does.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Well, you know, I'm an honorall son.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
You do.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I would like, you know, what if I had and
I'm an honorall Son.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I would put it right next to my mitch please
bumper sticker, and I would have So I'm I'm.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Very happy for her.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
So if I'm nine eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
who's up first?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Shit Maddox, Maddox, go ahead, Maddix.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
Hey, Matt, first time caller?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Who are.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
So?
Speaker 10 (18:52):
You asked how I thought about CALIFERI being back after
we lost to Oakland. I was like, let's fire and
let's get him out of there. But then I slept
on it, and I was like, you know, we got
rid of him, I think it would make things so
much worse. We'd lose all of our recruits and have
to have a new relationship with a new coach, and
Caliperari would probably go to who knows where and win
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a championship somewhere and we'd just be sitting around.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Well, well, first of all, that could happen. I mean,
that is the worry if you had ever let go
of him. But I would say this on the new
unless he coaches until he's one hundred and fifty years old.
What you just said about will lose all our recruits.
You realize that'll be true any year he leaves.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Right, Yeah, yeah, I mean, but you're right. I appreciate
the call.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I actually think what Maddick said was probably a major
factor in the final decision, which is what I talked about.
Is Cali Perry two point zero. I think Caliperry two
point oh really worried the UK administration, which is CALIPERI
goes and pulls, as Drew said a Ryan Leman, I
don't know if you heard this. Drew called this you
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which is goes gets in shape. Heard this, he gets
hair plugs and like all of a sudden, is rejuvenated
with a new wife and then crushes it. I think
that is a worry because if that happened, our fans
would lose their mind.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
And knowing John Keler Perry, he would have done that.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
He would have done it. Yeah, no, well he would
have tried to do it. Whether he would have succeeded,
who knows.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
But he if we had let him go, he ain't
retiring like that. He's not going out like that. And
I get that. I share that trait with him.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
If I heard fired me, I'm not going home and
like milk and cows. Because first somebody would have to
teach me how to do it, but then I'm going
to another radio station and I'm gonna try to beat
them down.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Right, he would have been the same way.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I felt like, you know, in Kentucky two with coaching
great good drunk, great good drunk, the next coach wouldn't
be great, he'd be good.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
I mean, you know, that's just that's just a pattern.
It doesn't have to be like that. Like we're not
required to go hire a drunk. It's not like we
can go get someone that's one hundred percent sober and yeah,
I mean we could just skip and hire Bobby Huggins.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Well, there are people who've argued.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Matt is cal doing the great good and now we
just do a drunk and just that we could have
just been let's just do Bob Huggins and then move on.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
No, he's not a drinker, but those results he's not.
I think that too.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I think that two point zero thing is was a
real issue that Maddix talks about who's next Bram and
by the way, Maddick saying I wanted to fire him
the night of and then I kind of changed my mind.
I think that is something that a lot of fans
did think over the time, but go ahead, sha't.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, it's still Bram Bram.
Speaker 12 (21:51):
Hello, a longtime listener, first time caller from What's Up?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
What's Up? Sheby, We got some people in the restaurant
from Shelbyville.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
There you go.
Speaker 12 (22:02):
So, I think the whole show with Mitch and Cal
has proved that that they have felt the pressure from
the fan base. Yes, and for me personally last season.
After last season, I was ready to move on, and
I understand that a lot of people weren't. But I
think this whole show that they have put on has
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proved that this season is going to be the tell
all season. And at the end of the day, I'll
be okay with that. I'll live or die with whatever happens.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Yea heartbreak's coming. I'm sorry, but I agree with everything
you just said. This will be the Baker break. Let
me say this, Mitch going, we have a relationship. Of course,
that was garbage say otherwise. People who have a great
relationship don't have to tell you they have a great relationship.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I mean, let's be rid. We'll be right back. Steky
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
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Speaker 2 (23:01):
No more of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
This was This is kind of how Drew saunds.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
I think it sounded just like the piano somebody.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Somebody wrote me and goes, Matt, I didn't realize we
have a Kentucky Joe and a Kentucky Drew.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I'll do a little duet with Kentucky Joe. Maybe some some.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Shallow maybe you know what, Maybe the two of you
could be at the five hundred Club as an opening
that Kentucky Drew and Kentucky Joe come together and uh
and do it.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
We'll do it with him anytime.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
One person writes, Matt, uh, I've watched online after the
last four or five days. I don't know how you
deal with all these people with their comments. Do you
think these people even listen to the show?
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Now?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Ninety five percent of the criticism of KSR and Me
are people who don't listen. They are told something, and
then it's the telephone game. They're told he said, then
he said, and then it comes a point where like
whatever bad happens, will just say it was Matt. I
mean that one little tweet the little thread with all
the rumors. Yesterday, I specifically said I didn't know anything
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about any of that. By the end of the night,
I was the one that had written that, and people
who know, no, I don't write anything, So.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
You know, it's I don't know what to say to
those folks.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Most of the people though that hate KSR, well, if
you ask them, say, I don't listen, so like, how
do you even know what we say?
Speaker 5 (24:29):
KSR? So negative? You're spoiling the fan base. You don't
even listen. You don't even know what we say.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
So like it's it's they're just talking about a person
Ryan that doesn't even exist.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Because I will say, if I'd said.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
All the things I get attributed to me, i'd worry
about me too, But like, I don't say those things.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Most people hear what they want to hear, hear what
they want to hear. Yeah, and they don't hear what
they don't need to hear. But I will.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I will.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
If you have a clip, I'm fine with playing a
clip and going and if it's in context going. Matt
shouldn't have said this because sometimes I look back and go, Man,
I wish I hadn't said that. But when you just
say Matt said this and then I didn't, or it's
out of context, Like how am I even supposed to
defend myself? One thing I agree with cal Is cal
said last night, I can't defend myself against everything everybody says.
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He's right about that. You can't because you don't even
like what are you gonna say?
Speaker 6 (25:26):
I will say this. H a friend of mine and
when you guys, friend of you guys too, works deals
with crisis crisis management, and he said that that's exactly
what Mitch and John should have done last night. Sit
side by side, you know, show some solidarity. We're on
the same page. We're gonna get this right. They felt
like that was the right thing to do. Do you
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agree with that?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I think they should have done a real press conference
in taking real questions. But but if you're not gonna
do that, I think what they did was the best
thing they could. I mean, this is noa front fence
to Keith Farmer, who I like. I feel the same
way I did about Tom Leech's show on Monday. Those
guys are putting an impossible position. They can't ask a
hard question. They're basically working for UK so they can't.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
But like.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
If they, I still think the two of them should
take real questions. You know, in a couple of weeks,
Jerry Tipton has a book coming out. We're gonna have
Jerry Tipton on the show. I used to think having
Jerry Tipton in the media was the worst thing in
the world. When he comes in here, I'm gonna apologize
to him because I think you need a Jerry Tipton.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Yep, you do.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
You need one, Now you don't. The problem for a
while is Jerry Tipton was like the only person in
the media that and that's not what you want. But
nowadays you need a Jerry Tipton. You need one person
to ask the hard question. And but if you don't
take a press conference, nobody can ask any questions. So
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I wish they had done that. Absent that, though, I
agree with your friend like sitting there together as.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Yeah, showing solidarity where on the world on the same page.
We're gonna get this right.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
One person writes, Matt, do you all think that if
things don't work out next year they both leave?
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Yeah? I do think they've kind of set it up.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
I think Mitch is close to leaving anyway, Just in
terms of I think I think Mitch is headed towards
the last. I think it was very important for Mitch,
and people close to him have said that to get
the women's basketball program on the right path, okay, to
get that Memorial Coliseum thing done, to get the baseball
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program turned around, Like those things matter to him. I
could see him going, Okay, if it's time to go
in a different direction that in basketball, that should be
someone else's thing to do.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Does that make sense.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
That's why it's so hard for us to kind of
say what he should and shouldn't do. If he knows
he's leaving next year, I completely understand why he wouldn't
want to make the higher for the next person.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
But really I agree with that completely. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
If I mean, we don't know any thing what Mitch
is bringing, but if he knew he's got a foot
out the door, it would make complete sense to want
to ride it out with Cal and step out. That's why, well,
we're all we're all on the outside. We don't know
what hands they have or what cars they have in
their hand. I don't know what players are coming back,
so it's uh, we just know what we know on
our end, and uh, if Mitch were to think you
were leaving soon, they would, I think would be the
right decision.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
If we basketball.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
If you look at the overall UK athletics, this is
a big like transition year Memorial Coliseum reopening. Yes, so
all the things that that that play there are about
to go into a new, renovated, updated home. And that
includes volleyball, gymnastics, women's basketball. Now they're all going there, right.
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They just opened a new baseball field a few years ago.
They just did this huge renovation in football, like this
is a time that you could see him saying, because
I do think he really cares about who he gives
it to. Next, it is time to pass it on
to someone next.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Who's next? Shit?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Rob?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Rob? What's up? Rob?
Speaker 9 (29:03):
Hey? First time in a long long time?
Speaker 5 (29:06):
All right, well I can't who are but welcome?
Speaker 9 (29:09):
All right? Well, uh, I like Cal and I like Mitch,
but I want to talk about real too quick comments
He talked about the transfer portal. Well, you'll be successful
one year, then flop. We've been a flop for five years, guys,
one year. Save I don't.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Believe though, I don't believe we're a flop. In the
transfer portal.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
We had we had the National player of the year
in Oscar sheb Way, we had an All American and
Antonio Reeves.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
I think Kellen Grady, Davey on Mitch were good.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
I mean, we have been a flop on the floor,
but I don't think the guys we've gotten in the
transfer portal have been flops.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
No.
Speaker 9 (29:44):
I was quoting Cal. He said, if you go aggressively
after the transfer portal, a lot of these guys go
one year and then they flop.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Well, So that's also true of his one and dones.
Speaker 9 (29:53):
Though, that's that's right, And I'll say this as an
allows comment. You know, they talked about finishing well. But
watching them with that WWE and belt in the background,
watching coach Cal coach is kind of like watching Rick
Flair Russell these days. It's just it's he's got the
same old moves, but time has moved on.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Appreciate the call.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
I hadn't thought of that, but that belt was cool, though, Shannon,
I know it did look like like if they put
those for sale, how many people you think would buy
like one of those WWE.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Oh, they're online, they're sold out. It's five hundred dollars
to buy that, and they're sold out a lot. I
saw a little birdie on Twitter said that Mitch wanted
to make sure the belt was in the in the frame,
so he's very proud of that belt.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Did they get it?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Why did he get it?
Speaker 8 (30:45):
Like?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Did he just buy?
Speaker 5 (30:46):
People love belts? Shannon?
Speaker 4 (30:48):
You know this when we get that Country Boy Kentucky title,
which they retired as soon as I stopped running day
to day operations.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
I love that belt. I helped design that belt.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Uh, they throw it in.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
The river like Matt.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Matt's not running day to day. Give the belt of
somebody else.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
People just like touching it and putting it on their
shoulder and taking a picture.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Like people like belts.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
It's just everywhere I go, everybody wants to touch the radio.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Where I go, I can't even get out my door
trying to touch it.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
When are you ever going to defend that? When's last time?
Speaker 6 (31:24):
You mean?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Have you seen the title? It's ragged, it's torn apart.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
But have you defended it since COVID?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Oh yeah, like one hundred times? Do you even watched
the product?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
When's the last time you've defended it? One on one.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Oh my god, Like it's been so often, I can't
keep up with it. I mean a lot of times.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
A lot of time, longest raining, Yeah, longest history.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Yeah. Well there you go. I'm Chris, Chris, go ahead, Chris,
shut up.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
Ay, first time, long time guys.
Speaker 9 (31:57):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (31:58):
So I get a quick comment and then a quick
questions for you guys. So my comment is that I
kind of agree with Maddox and like first I wanted
Cal fire too, and I've kind of come around on
it just because, like I believe that for next season,
Cal gives us the highest ceiling. Like I don't think
there's any coach that we could bring in that could
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I think that's true.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
I think that's true if you're if you're looking just
at next year, Cal gives you the highest ceiling next
year because you're gonna have to rebuild your roster completely
when he leaves. But I would also know that will
be true every year in perpetuity.
Speaker 11 (32:38):
Right right, which which brings me to my quick question.
So Ryan has said that he doesn't think that Mitch
wants to be the person that has to fire the
Hall of Fame coach and Cal, so if he leaves
and Dwayne Peevee takes over. You think he's gonna do it?
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Yeah, that's a good question, great question, that's a great question.
I don't know, no, but I think, yeah, I don't know.
That's a good question. But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I appreciate, I don't know what's gonna happen next year. Appreciate,
appreciate the call.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I do think if Mitch leaves dayne PV will be
the A D. Although I will say, like you know,
Dwayne hired a basketball coach, it didn't work. Now he
has another one that one needs to work.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Yeah, for Dwayne to.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Be the A D here, Chris Holtman needs to work
at DePaul And I do think you should kind of
watch and see how does Chris Holtman do it de Paul.
I mean it's gonna take him a while there, a
couple of years, but like it will be important. He
can't have two basketball hires not work and then get
this job. But I think if one, if it works,
if you want to know who the next AD is,
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watch DePaul Basketball next year.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
If Chris Holtman turns to Paul around, Dwayne Peeve's the
next D D.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Here if it doesn't, then I then I could see
them looking in another direction because.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
He's got other sports at de Paul, I follow it.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
I'm actually a DePaul donorgive.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
They are very aggressive to Paul.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Paul's sports have all gotten good, but basketball has it
and that's gonna be what matters when if he's to
get the job here.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Well, we were having the same conversation about Mitch after
he'd hired Billy Gillespian Joker. Phillips were like, Okay, your
next two hires they've got to work, and they did.
They hired Mark Stoops, John Caliperi. It worked.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Clark's Puppet Shop has a new location on Lucille Drive.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
Get out of town.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Stop in for all your favorite drinks and snacks.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Sausage, egg and cheese, bacon, egg and cheese, sausage, biscuits.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
They got pizza Cajun. They really have Cajun in a
gas station.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
You've into Those breakfast sandwiches are awesome.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Well, you know, you walked. I walked there.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
They served the freshest coffee, and there's one near you.
And even if you don't think there's one near you,
there is. Ryan will tell you go to Clark's puppet Shop,
and you earn five cents per gallon on every gas
fill up. It's Clark's pumping Shop. There's a big controversy
in State high school basketball. Yeah, we'll address it when
we returned, OKSR.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
How about that tease welcome back? This is Skinnered, right?
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Skinnered tonight in Lexington here Skinnered and zz Top Yeah,
zz Top. I didn't even know zz Top was still going.
I know Skinner's on like their eighth iteration? Though, is
there anyone in Skinnard who was in Skinnered originally?
Speaker 3 (35:16):
No, not a single member. That's probears.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
From now, when we're all dead and gone, Leonard Skinnert
will still be going.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Are they allowed to still do that? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
I mean, is in sync? Can they just put four
new I mean that's what they do in like menudo?
Is they just like shuttling kids in and out of it?
Speaker 7 (35:35):
I think, what's the first the last original members gone?
You gotta have a new name.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Well they're doing it Skinnered and zz Is it the
same bearded zz top people?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Well, Dusty Hill died a few years ago, so they
get another guy with a beard up there.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
They just go to country Boy and get one of them.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah, pretty much. Next Bearded Guy up.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Bearded Guy up, that's right.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
And Blackstone Cherry from Kentucky's opening the show Blackstone Chair.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
So they're playing the night at Roup. We're having like
a pre party here where it'll be like a rocking
good time. So if you're coming up to the concert,
come on here before also the Reds if during that,
the Reds opening day game will be on here as well.
So a lot going on here at the bars. So
come on out tonight if you would like and go
see Skinner and zz Top and Blackstone Chair.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Reds game starts at what time?
Speaker 5 (36:23):
For to ten? Okay four ten?
Speaker 4 (36:25):
I'm leaving like literally right after this. Tell me about this.
So in Monticello, Wayne County High School, Rodney Woods head
coach for thirty eight straight years, over a thousand victories,
I'm told in his career, still won like the district
title this year, so he's still getting it done. He
was fired yesterday in a move that is like the
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town is up is in an uproar.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Ryan. I know. If there's one thing you know, it's
small town gossip.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Ryan has a person in every town that hangs out
at the beauty shop.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Or at the Druthers and knows what's happening. So tell
me what's going on.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
You're right, Rodney Woods is a legend. I mean, he
is a legend in this state. And I heard this
story yesterday.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
Do you think so? Or do you know? Well?
Speaker 6 (37:11):
When I first heard it, I didn't think we would
be talking about it. But then Larry Vaught wrote the
exact same thing this morning, and I trust Larry Vott.
So I have two sources now. At one is an
article by Larry Vaught that the new principal, first year principal,
Donnie Neil. Donnie Neil, what if I told you he's
been holding a grudge for ten years? He tried to
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become the superintendent at Wayne County ten years ago. Rodney
Wood's wife was on the search committee that did not
recommend Donnie Neil to be superintendent.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
Donny Neil's wife didn't write in his.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Own Rodney Rodney rodney Wood's wife. Rodney Wood's wife was
on the search committee. So is he the superintendent?
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Now?
Speaker 6 (37:55):
He just became first year superintendent. He's been a principal
in the Wayne County School See.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
You're saying that the coach's wife did not hire the
guy to be the superintendent ten years ago, and then
he became the superintendent. Yes, and you're saying he fired
because of the grudg the grudge.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
I want to know why she didn't recommend him, like
where from?
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Talk to Larry about that?
Speaker 6 (38:18):
No, I have not talked Larry about I trust Larry Vaught,
all right, But yeah, he was He's been a principal
in the Wayne County school system and didn't get it
last time. He got it Boom first movie. No, he
was hired in August. It wasn't his first move. He's
been there for a whole year, pretty much one school year.
He's been scheming. I believe that story though.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
All right, So so that that's your that's what's happened.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
That's what's happened, all right.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
I'm gonna ask the text machine. Is Ryan right? I
know we have a lot of Wayne County Listen there
you go seven seven two seven seven four five two
five four. I want to know if he's right, because
if he's not, I want to make sure. I met
the Rodney Woods guy when I went and spoke at
Monticel just about a month ago. He was very very
nice to me, and uh so, I I hate for
him that this happened.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
And good guy.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
I mean, he's a legend in this day, even though
he played basketball at Tennessee University of Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Yeah, all you think it could be why they didn't
hire him as the superintendent.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
I think it's because he didn't know how to play
against his own.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
All right, I don't know what do you believe Ryan
the story? I have no reason not to.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
I mean, I haven't done much digging on this story,
uh any to be honest, But you know I got
some I got some friends in Monticelo.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
I can tell you the people are upset. And I'm
not kidding like, I got a lot of messages Matt
dig into this. And you know, if we didn't have
all the stuff going on with with the UK basketball,
I would have. But but there's the story according to
Frank Lynd. And we'll see if the people of Monticelo agreed. Okay,
who's up next?
Speaker 5 (39:53):
Ben? Ben? Go ahead? Ben?
Speaker 6 (39:57):
Yeah, Hey, it's been from Colesburg.
Speaker 13 (39:58):
First time caller.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Who wah.
Speaker 13 (40:02):
So my perspective is the same as a lot of
these previous guys. At the end of the day, I
think it's got to come down to what other coach
game one next year is going to put a better
rofsterrung for I just I mean, but.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
You know, by that standard, as I said, by that standard,
cow will win that standard forever.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
You know that, sure, So.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Like by that standard, he should be coach for a
lot because he'll always be able to put on a
better roster than some coach we hire off the street.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (40:34):
True. But also I think a lot of a lot
of fans need to put in some historical context. I mean,
my math might be wrong, but what are we at
four final fours and thirteen years? It's like a thirty
percent clip I mean, okay.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
I mean again, but historical perspective with Cal, and I
said this on the SEC Network today, it all depends
on how you look at it, all right, If you
want to look at all thirteen or fourteen years historically,
Cal has been as good, if not better than Kentucky
basketball historic.
Speaker 5 (41:03):
Sure, if you.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Want to look at the last four years, it's been
as bad a run as we've ever had in the
history of our school. So which one matters to you more?
That's what you have to decide. And you could if
you put me in court and you asked me to
defend cal I could defend it. If you put me
in court and you asked me to say it was
time for change, I could do that too. But it
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all just depends on what you want. Do you think
the thirteen year run matters most or do you think
the last five years matter most?
Speaker 13 (41:35):
Well, I think you go look at it as a whole,
and I mean just as an example. Might be a
poor example, but tom Izzo hasn't stepped off a bus
since the year two thousand and don't.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
I don't put tom Izzo in the last five years
has been a lot better than we've been.
Speaker 13 (41:52):
I mean that's I guess that's arguable as an AGEC.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
This year they did win a game.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
But yeah, but I mean go back and look. I mean,
I think if I'm correct, and if I'm wrong, I'll
say it. I think he's done a lot. I think
he's Mento final at least Eliade eight, maybe even the
final four. Well, yeah, he went to the final four design.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
Yere he won the last headhead too. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
So you know, again, it's all about what you think
is the right time frame to look at. We'll take
a break, be right back. I have number two
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