August 14, 2024 • 42 mins
Matt, Ryan and Drew host unpopular opinion day and take your phone calls.
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Speaker 3 (01:12):
It is unpopular opinion day A five nine two eight
oh twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Here, now, let me explain what this is before you call.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
First of all, you are allowed to call with your
unpopular opinion.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Now, what's an unpopular opinion? An opinion that you.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Believe over fifty percent of this fan base or the
country disagrees with you on Okay, you can't just give
me an opinion that everybody else like you know one
guy that doesn't agree with you on right? So like
I had somebody write me today and go, my unpopular
opinion is that nil isn't good. Well that's you know,
come on, like that's nice. But a lot of people
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agree with that has to be an unpopular opinion, and
it's judgment free. You can say what you want. We
may disagree, but we won't say you're you're you're awful.
Couple ground rules, no politics. I don't care, and no
one else does. And if you call with that then
someone else will respond. And secondly, nothing hateful, like nothing
about you know, raised gender, Wift, like none of that stuff.
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This is supposed to be fun. It's really UK sports
and then life as a whole.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Ryan, that's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I've gotten myself in trouble on this day over the
last several years with some of my unpopular opinions I
get pushed back to this day for some of them.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
What was the one you got pushed back for that?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Taylor Swift is overrated? Boo, Keenland is overrated. I still
get that.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
These are kind of Keenland being overrated, the epitome of
an unpopular opinion, like to say that in Lexington Like
that's a pretty strong statement.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I said, l eight ones are awful. You still get
that one awful? I still get for this day. Those
were the ones that kind of haunt me. Where all
of yours Kentucky related. You just attacking our our home.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Though, because it's it's it's our propos, our our propro
our audience and our show.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So I like that, Ryan, he tends to stay. Do
you have one this year? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, hang on, we'll get we'll get to it. Don't don't.
Don't hurt everybody yet.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I have several as well. I'll wait to share them all.
You want one right away or I have levels. I
have one that's I think some people agree with that,
one that's outrageous, and one that's in the middle of.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So I'll go with UH with a couple of mine.
Then we'll do Ryan, and then we'll dose Shannon. It's
good for Shannon to be out today, because Shannon does
Shannon really walks the line of UH Boss's call unpopular opinions.
I'll start with my football unpopular opinion. And I've said
this before. This isn't a new opinion, but it feels
like every year members of our fan base grow farther
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from me on this, whereas I think they should grow closer.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I feel like maybe.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
When I said this originally ten years ago, I was
in the majority, and now I'm in the minority on it.
But my football opinion is what we are in football
in the last five years of the Stoops era.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
We is the best we're ever going to be, and
we should just be thankful for it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
The idea of about once every four years winning nine games,
which by the way now would put you in contention
for the playoff. Yes, and then most years winning seven six.
We should be praising the football gods for that happening,
because A it hasn't happened most of my life, and
B in the new SEC, it's gonna happen. It's even
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harder to do without Missouri on the schedule every year.
I know they're good this year, but without Mississippi State
on the schedule every year. So to me, the people
who go, when are we gonna take the next step?
Stoops of mediocre seven wins every year? I just think
it's insanity because I think we're actually living through, if
not the glory years of UK football.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We should be pretty happy years run.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I agree with you because it was not that long ago.
We were just begging to get to a bowl game,
just hoping and praying to get six.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Used to wear the make Kentucky Bowl eligib boy again.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Yeah, and then we went to just non stop ball
games ever since they're welcome.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
So yeah, this is an era of taking football. We
need to enjoy it because do you.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Agree with me?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Drew?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
That's becoming a minority opinion, especially as we get younger.
Fans who don't remember us being terrible all the time.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Yeah, and no one's been more confident in going to
Atlanta than me. I even booked a room two years
ago ahead of time. But that's just seems very unrealistic,
especially the way the conference has added a couple teams
and getting rid of the divisions. It's just I love
where we are. I'd love to stay here. Maybe you
break through one special season ever so often, but I
tend to agree with you a little bit on that.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Two ten win seasons in five years. I don't know
how many times we're gonna have that in our lives.
I'm gonna be honest with you. I mean two in
five years. To me, we'll look back, I think and go, wow,
that was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Right. My second, i'd pop your opinion.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I'm gonna rank UK team's post Patino on and I
firmly believe this. This is my ranking of the sixth
best UK teams post Patino in order. Okay, And by
the way, I'm just talking about if you held a
tournament and they played, Clearly the teams that win titles
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are ahead.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
But if you're just asking me who.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Was the best, and if they played each other in
a season, who would come in first? I would go
this order, Number one, ninety six. I'm still gonna take.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Them, I agree.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
But number two is twenty fifteen. Number three is nineteen
ninety three, Okay, okay, yeah, Number four is twenty ten,
Number five is two thousand and three, yes, and then
six is twenty twelve in the National Championship. So if
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you're just having me rank, who were the best Kentucky teams?
For those of you that try to remember who those
teams were. Ninety six of course, the dominant Kentucky Patino
team twenty fifteen thirty eight and one cal.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Team ninety three mash Burned.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Team that lost to Travis Ford in the excuse me
lost the Fab five, he didn't lose to Travis Ford
and Travis Ford twenty ten, Wall and Cousins two thousand
and three, Bogans, Fitch and all those guys, and then
twenty twelve the title.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I appreciate you giving that twenty two thousand and three
teams some respect, because to me, that was I would
rake them, maybe even a little higher. I thought you'd
have John Wall's team maybe number two. That's kind of
probably you had ninety three as high as you.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Did ninety three though, was I mean, think about that
final four ninety three you had the Fab five, you
had the North Carolina like great team and US and
the Fab five was the only team that could have
beaten that Kentucky team. And it was a Fab five.
I mean, it produced three NBA superstars. I'm willing to
put Kentucky that high. And we lost in overtime, I
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think too, But go ahead. That was kind of the
first season. I have like vivid memories of growing up.
You know, I remember the Latner shot the year before,
but I mean the ninety three teams the first one
I really felt that, you know, I can remember a
lot of but I didn't expect you to have them
that high up.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So those are my two.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Look good.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'm gonna do another one later on, give me years.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I've got one that's gonna make some UK football fans mad,
and I got to know them.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
It's gonna make you mad.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
All right, doing both. What's the UK football one?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Uh, we don't know how to tailgate. Our tailgating at
UK football is. I know, people think they're doing it right,
but then you go to these other games and you
see it. I think our football tailgate is a lot
to be desired.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I mean, I don't even think that it's controversial. I mean,
to be honest with you. Since we open this bar,
this is a lot more fun than that is. And
in as much as I love people coming to this bar,
it shouldn't be more fun than being at the game.
But it is more fun because drew our tailgating is
not good at UK, and a lot of it changed
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when they changed the parking lot and all that. Like,
to be fair, they kind of ruined it. UK ruined
the tailgate scene. It's shrinking even more now, the orange
lot shrinking. I'm gonna disagree with the actual setup over there,
but I think fans could be better. Like noon games,
sometimes it's empty over there. There's plenty of concrete around
the stadium. I mean, it was much better before, but
there's still plenty of area to get it done, and
fans just don't always show up the way they should.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
But I think you hit it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
There's plenty of concrete, it's hot and there's a lot
of concrete, whereas like in other stadiums that doesn't eat.
There used to be grass over there. Right, like there
used to be places where it was pleasant.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And it's just not it.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
The new baseball stadium is awesome, but that hill what
was purple? And now they're taking away that area around farm.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And what's the one that makes me mad?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I think that Skittles and Starburst and gummy clusters are disgusting.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I think they're awful. Yeah, disgusting, disgusting.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Why why do you think that you just don't like fruit?
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I don't like fruity flavor. I don't like candy like
that at all. I have never in my life, ever
one time went in a.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Do you not like sugar based candies?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
No, not at all?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
So do you not like sugar?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I do like sugar, I just don't like the candy.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I'm not a candy guy, and I think those stuff
it's great, they bring him to you.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I don't want them.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
You can have everyone. What candy do you like? It's
sure to go. You're at a you're at a Clark's
pumping shop and you need some candy.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
You buy a Snickers or a little Debbie cake.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
So you just like choc But it sounds like you
like chocolate based canes.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
You don't like sugar not at all, none at all.
So that's that's my opinion that I.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Don't know how I've I've never met a human being
that doesn't like sugar based canty, Like like you don't
like Skittles, No, you don't like air Starbus airheads No, uhh,
I have I've never even wanted them, tried them.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
I don't like them.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Well, how do you know you don't like them?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I mean I've tried them, I've tried them, but I
don't want to like retry them. I guess it's like, hey,
I'm gonna try this today. I'm gonna give me a Starburst.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, that's amazing that you're the only person I've ever
heard have that opinion.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Just no sugar based not at all.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
All. Right, that's less unpopular than just terrible opinion. But
I'll okay, I'll take it all right now, Drew?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
What are you?
Speaker 6 (11:04):
What are your I'm gonna starting levels this one. I
think we've talked about before and people, some people will
agree with me, but ruppering ice cream is just ice cream.
And if you wait in that line, you're ruining your
Kentucky basketball experience by giving that line thirty minutes of
your life to get the same ice cream you can
get all over town. Yeah, I mean that's gonna I
know I'm not alone in that one, but I still
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think the majority seeing those lines would would disagree with you.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I'm not sure I've thought this before.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
There is not a food product that exists on Earth
that would make me stand in a line for thirty minutes. Now,
I wait at a restaurant for thirty minutes because there's
other stuff you can.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Do right while you're waiting or what like.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I can do that, But to literally stand in a
line where you have to stand there and then walk
a step every thirty seconds, you could be serving gold
And I'm not standing in a line for thirty minutes.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
And you missed so much of the game. Sure, if
there was you just walk up and get it. Yeah,
it's fine part of the experience. But even at the
TBT game when they played the Marshall team, Abby got
in line, I left and just set by myself at
the first section around the corner. Probably missed an entire
half of getting ice cream at.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
A TVT game. I agree.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I feel the same way about the Reds. You know,
you go to the Reds games, and if it's a Saturday,
all the food lines are long, the beer lines are long.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I'm like, you're gonna miss two innings.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Of the game.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Why are you doing that?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I'll get it either.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, so's a good one. I'm with you, all right.
What is your other? I have two more basketball ones?
Another one.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Some people already grew with me on chaos board where
we're sharing some But the Harrison Twins get way too
much hate for the Wisconsin game. John Caliperi lost that
game at Alex Poyter's being out lost that game. The
Harrison Twins do not deserve all the blame that they get.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, I don't think that is I don't even think
that's unpopular.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Well, there's a lot of people that still wanted you
Lissen Booker in the game. The Harrison's were fine, They're wrong,
I mean us and Booker.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Like, maybe you could make an argument for Booker, but
I will say, how you gonna take out the guys
that were, like, you know, the year before they take
us to the championship game. We were beating everyone that
year at that moment when we're playing Wisconsin. The Harrison
Twins are sophomores, with nine NCAA tournament wins.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Like I think you're a lot more. What if you
take them out and then you lose? You know, it's
not on.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
The back court. Carl Towns was eating that game. He
was seven for eleven. He took his last shot with
six and a half minutes left to go at four,
and he never took another shot again because they went
to stallball and they quit feeding Carl.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That's why they lost. Yes, they went to stallball. So
respect the Harrison.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Twins, and I'm a defender of stallball sometimes, But when
you're in the final four, remember that twenty fifteen season.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Wisconsin, Duke and.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Kentucky are three of the seven best offenses of the
last fifteen years, and they were in the same season
of college basketball. When you're playing a team as explosive
as that Wisconsin team was, Brian, you can't just hang
on to the ball.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
No, When they pulled it out and play stall ball,
it just completely killed all of our momentum they had
built up that whole game. Like I said, Carl, they
couldn't stop Carl. Why didn't they just keep feeding Carl?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
The Harrison's confined combined for twenty five points. In one
turnover before the shot clock violations when Cal told them
to wait till there's five or six seconds left.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, and that's when you're the better team. You don't
want to hold on to it. But Cal would do
that sometimes at the end of games.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
All right, so those are ours. We'll do more and
more extreme win.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I just staying.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
We all have more eight five nine, two eighth twenty
two eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
We will take your calls. Uh, get yours if you have.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
One, you can go to the text machine seven seven two
four five two five four. Drew has some suck some
from Chaos Board. We'll take a break right back. It's KOSR.
Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio. And here it's Chaos Bar
and Grill gots folks on the phone. We're gonna get
to it. A lot of people, Ryan shockingly agree. Do
you agree with you about your sugar based candies? We're
basing where person rights.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Matt.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I love you, but I don't understand how you eat
sugar based candies. It's empty calories. At least with chocolate.
I feel filled up Field, I feel feel filled.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I got some support on social media there that they
don't like the sugar based candies either.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Well, another person writes, my own popular opinion is very clear.
I hate weddings. They're overrated. People shouldn't invite people to weddings,
and people who invite people to destination weddings should be
banished from the earth.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Wow, it seems harsh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Like, but weddings are a lot, and when you ask
people to travel to a wedding, you're basically asking them
to spend money on your vacation. So that, I mean,
I get it. I don't mind it like this person does,
but I understand the thought.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Did you see the gall went viral yesterday for having
four hundred and fifty dollars tickets to go to his wedding,
and he's he's complaining that they got a bunch of
people that said, no, their wedding costs two hundred grand,
but he was charging every guest for he was charging
the guests you had to buy a ticket to his
wedding even though you're invited. And he was shocked that
the majority of his invite he's declined.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Who would want to How many people would you buy
four hundred and fifty dollars two it to their wedding?
Speaker 6 (16:01):
His logic was you pay for Beyonce tickets and to
meet so and so in these concerts. Why can't you
spend it on your own friends and family for their
wedding because you're not talented? Yeah, and it's a wedding.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, I mean, take your airfar and behay. If you
go see Beyonce, you're seeing a talent. You're just standing
up there and writing each other really bad points.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It's nine hundred dollars a couple just to go to
a wedding.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
That's another thing I will say, I cringe at ninety
percent of when people write their own vowels. Like I'm
not saying they're all bad sometimes people, but like it's
it's a little it's a little difficult when people write
their own vows You know.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
I wrote my own, but it was pretty funny. Are
you're almost like a stand up Corey? My efficient pretty
much roasted me instead.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Of doing itthing, But you weren't doing the Like when
I stare into your eyes, I see the beauty of
a thousand oceans, Like it's not bad.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Like that's the stuff that makes me kind of makes
me cringe. All right, who's up first? Rick Zach is up? First, Zach.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
And I I'm sick of dan Isel love from older
fans in the sand Base. I think Daniel could not
play in the modern era, and it frustrates me so
deeply when people ask somebody to make an all time
starting five and they leave Daniseel out and you could
see like sixty people over the age of seventy five.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Like dan Issel out.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Listen, I've been watching take, I've been reading box scores. Yeah,
the man was certified chucker and free throw merchant.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
He took definitely, he definitely shot a lot.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Like, yeah, anybody can score thirty when you take fifty
shots a game, like he's vastly overrated and Julius R.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, that's a very controversial take. I appreciate the call.
So his take is, uh, we unlock that door there.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
His take is that the Daniel's overrated.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Okay, So it all depends on what you me. Right.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
If the question is could dan Issel play today? I
actually think he could, but he wouldn't be the dominant
force he was. But that's not how you can judge
older people. Because I'm of the belief that the vast
majority of people who played basketball in the eighties couldn't
play today or the nineties, couldn't play today.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Like, it's just different. So I can't. I don't think
you can just hold him to that standard.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
First of all, the man just came back from the dead,
so let's put some respects on da name. Also, he's
number one all time in points and rebounding in only
three seasons.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
But the caller is correct that the thing that older
folks don't remember is Dan was a ball hawk.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Like he shot it a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
He shot it a lot, and a lot of his
rebounds were rebounding his own missus at Kentucky. Now, I
think he's underrated for what he did in the ABA.
He was a great, great player in the ABA, and
I think people sometimes forget that. But he did shoot
a lot like he was kind of the Archie Goodwin
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of his day of shooting.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
It was just a different time. Run.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah, I think he's in the Denver Nuggets Hall of Fame.
He should be for his play when they were in
the ABA.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
So like when I said Sidney McLaughlin was the greatest
UK athlete of all time, a number of folks got
really mad and said, how do you leave out Dan Issel?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
He shouldn't be. He's not.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Danisl was a great basketball player, but Sidney maybe one
of the best track stars ever.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Yeah right, yeah, I agree with you on that. But
as far as him being in the our basketball Mount Rushmore,
I think he's he's up there.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Over h Do you put Anthony Davis over him?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
I put him both side by the hid Sorry, he.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Can't do that. Does win he matter? Again?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Love dan Issel. He didn't win anything anything. He didn't
even make the Elite eight?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Oh did they not?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Wow? I mean again, I love him.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
And you could argue if Mike Casey did not get hurt,
that team probably probably would have. But like we always
talk about winning when we rank cow players, winning.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Matters to people.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
They're like, well, we don't put Jamal Murray on the
top three because he didn't win, Well, why doesn't that
apply to Isel?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
I think, like Drew said, just the fact that he's
still the school career scoring leader and rebounding leader.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Like, you got to think about where would you put
Oscar Sheebway in the top cow players. If you don't
want to put Oscar Sheepway in the top three, then
you can't.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Say Isle's the best player of all time, because.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Sheeplay doesn't have Isle numbers, but Shee Bway has better
numbers than anyone that Cal had. If you're talking points
and rebounds, but you probably don't put him in the
top three.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Why because he didn't win well, neither did Issel.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
And she boys two seasons rebounding at least he passed
Thistles any of his best seasons.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, so it's justsantially, whatever you think about Oscar, you
probably should have similar views about Issel when you're talking
about the best player of all time, because their careers
are kind of similar, even though I think Isol was
a better player.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Who's up next, David is up next, David, Go ahead, David,
welcome back. Then, Hey, David, what's your unpopular opinion?
Speaker 9 (21:14):
My unpopular opinion is this? I think I don't think
if Tino stayed, we would not have won a nineteen
ninety eight national championship.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I agree.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
I think I think Tubby was the right coach for
that team.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yep, and I.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
Get and I'm sick of seg he will he will
would this Richetio's players, Well, let me tell you this.
Ritpetito on Rod Mersterer and a bunch of talent in
ninety nine seventy he lost to Arizona.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
He did, but Derek Anderson got hurt. That's that is important.
But I agree with you, David, and it's nice to
hear from you. I'm glad thank you for calling in.
Do you agree with that? Do you think Tubby? If
Patino comes back in ninety eight, he doesn't win the
title that Tubby wins.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I am deeply, deeply believe that Tubby is the only
person could have won the title with that group of
guys that was not a national championship team, but he
put he found them away, for these guys to play together,
play above their abilities.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Tubby was the right guy. Tubby won that title. Tubby won.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Tubby's best teams were always the teams that were just
a little bit less talented than the other ones, because
he could seem to be able to get something else
out of them.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You know, yeah, I can get behind that one.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
I've never really considered that comparing the two of what
they were done with the team, But I can get
behind that one.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I think there's there's certain guys that like you give
them ninety percent talent player and a bunch of them
that's their faith.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, and I actually think that's what he's really really.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Ye, Patina would would broke those guys down. Tubby came
in immediately lifted them up, you know, Shepard Edwards, Cameron Mills.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I've always said that Zion coach K team. If you
switch us and give that Duke team to us and
our team to Duke, both teams would have been better.
Probably both teams would have been better had they had
different coaches for those games. We'll take a break if
you're right back this Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Welcome back. Tucky Sports Radio had some good off air conversations.
We did. We all air were ranking the biggest jerks
in the UK history. We can't do that on air,
we can't. We had a pretty good top three though.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
We had a pretty good list.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Did you see the guy in Eastern Kentucky who they
accidentally left his microphone on during the commercial?
Speaker 10 (23:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
No, have seen that? Yeah? Not good.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Guy left his microphone on during the high school football
preview and said some not kind things about a couple
of the teams.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
But it went out over the air.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Oh no, I haven't seen that yet.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Yeah, gotta be careful every time we talked during the break.
Even if it's not some controversial I'm thinking I hope this.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I know Ricks Gottess though, Rick, you're not gonna let
it go out over there?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Are you?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
No problem? I'm on top of it.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
There you go, he said.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
One person rights, Matt, you are crazy about isl Isle
could play today he's Jokic, but just in the old days, Yokich,
that's a big comparison. Yo, he's pretty good, three time MVP.
But uh yeah, I do think it. Look, I didn't
get Sol could play now, but I think most old
guys could not play now. But it's nothing against them.
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It's like if you took Mark Spitz. Mark Spitz won
what seven gold medals in nineteen seventy two, he wouldn't
even qualify for the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Now. That doesn't mean Mark Spitz was not a great swimmer.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
It just means things have changed, like it just means
things have like it's a different era now. I mean
Mark spitzy didn't even shave their chest back then.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
We're not taking anything away from what dan Issel did
as a player, but did you put him in today's world?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Gotsch, You just and I know it makes older people mad.
And when I'm like sixty five, I'll probably be sitting
there going Shaquill O'Neill could dominate today's game, Like I'll
do the same thing, but I just can't. We just
saw the Olympics. In every single sport, the world records
are in the last few years. Why do we think baseball, basketball,
and football are immune from that?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Right?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
What in the seventies, like Nolan Ryan was like the
only guy who consistently threw over one hundred miles an hour.
Now there's like twenty five guys in the major leagues
that throw over one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Like it's just different Ryan.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, when it was a big deal and Nolan Ryan
threw one hundred and four one hundred and five miles
an hour.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Now it happens daily, and they think that football I
mean Hunter Green Hunter Green throws like one hundred and
fifteen times during the game.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
You know. It's like, so, anyway, who's up next? Rick?
Tony is up next? Tony? What's your unpopular opinion?
Speaker 10 (25:35):
Uh? This one I don't like myself, but I think
it's true. I've got something else for y'all after this.
But Kentucky will not play for an SEC championship in
football in the foreseeable future.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I mean that may be unpopular, but to me, that's
like not even slightly controversial that Kentucky's not going to
play for an SEC football championship. Like what I mean,
we never have.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
No. I mean you say, when you go to the
football games and you're sitting around these people and they're like, oh,
we're going to do this, and they're like, no.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
We're not. I mean, we're not. Like I hope we do,
but we're not. What do people expect? I mean these
other schools, these other schools, they're n I l is
four times.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
What are that's?
Speaker 10 (26:25):
That's you got idea between basketball and football? Two and basketball,
you could recruit two or three great guys. You have
a great dam correct you know you're looking at twenty
two great guys.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
What you said.
Speaker 10 (26:37):
Anyway, I wanted to share with you all. I'm calling
this a trick techus trospected. This is your next road trip.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
We got your popular opinion day. We got keep on topic.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
But I appreciate he's talking about the trip to Texas,
but we gotta we gotta keep on topic.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I'm loving these opinions. Yeah, we appreciate the call. Who's next?
Will is up next? Will? What's your opinion? All right?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
My opinion is that Kentucky should put football towards the forefront.
Speaker 10 (27:08):
Oh and let basketball take a back seat. We've had
a good run.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Okay, now that's an unpopular opinion. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
His argument, for those of you here that can't hear
the calls is that, remember I said the other day,
schools are probably gonna have to choose do we go
to basketball do we go at football? He says we
should kind of let basketball with her and try to
become a football school.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I love Kentucky football. I mean I go to every
home game, I go to a lot of road games
now Dan's playing. But even I'm not going to say
a need to supersed basketball at this school that Kentucky
was made on built on basketball.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
True.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
I love football, and I hope we continue to, you know,
pump as much in as we can. But you can't
just let basketball wash away. It's it's traditionally what's been
successful here and I I just can't get behind that.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah, I mean I have two major reasons for that.
One is the history this is basketball like we we
love it, and you can't just let the greatest basketball
program in the history of the sport just wither on
the vine. But the second is a practical one for
just what I said, we're not gonna be I don't
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if we go all in on football, we're still not
gonna be as good as most of these places because
we don't produce a talent.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
That's the one thing people just they always skip over.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
This state does not produce the talent of the rest
of the SEC.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
The South. Tech just go through the states.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Texas produces more players than US, Mississippi does, Louisiana does,
Alabama does, Georgia does by a lot, Florida does by
a lot, Tennessee does, South Carolina does.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
The Missouri does. This probably produce I know we produce.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
No state in the SEC produces less great football players
than Kentucky. Mostly that's because of demographics. I mean, if
we're being honest, we just don't have as many urban
areas and we don't have as many African Americans.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
So because of that, we are never going to be
able to recruit.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
And that's why I think they should have put a
statue up for Vince Merrow because he is able. He
has used Ohio and Tennessee as if they're Kentucky. But
we produce less talent than any state in the SEC,
except maybe Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
But I kind of think they have a lot too.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
It's just hard you hear that argument.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
It is amazing that the team was able to win
seven games when every other state has a pool of
players that can easily pick from every year.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
It's just so.
Speaker 11 (29:45):
So.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
I don't think you don't do basketball because if you don't,
we might not be good in anything if we do that,
and we don't want that.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Dur Yeah, I think that was a little bit of
a wild one there, but I like it out there.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I think, do you think what he makes more fun
to be good at football or basketball?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
Football? The all day experience, the games mean more. You know,
you lose a basketball game, you have another one a
few days later. You can get right back on track. Football,
you only got twelve of them. And if you win
a big win like an LSU game, you're talking about
that for decades now.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
You're right about that.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
A football win sticks with you more than anything but
a Final four basketball win.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Would you agree you lose to Duke on November twelfth.
This year, you have a whole season to fix that.
I mean, it stinks in the moment, but it doesn't
have a huge impact on the overall. But if you
lose a game you shouldn't in football, or if you
win a huge win, that really carries a lot of weight.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Yeah, you beat Georgia in Week three at home. This
place is the nuts for a month.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
By the way, Georgia's schedule this year, I don't know
if you've seen it. They play on the road Texas,
Old Miss, Alabama, and Kentucky, so like we're considered their
easy run game. I mean, their schedule on the road
is a pretty crazy.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
They're going to come in and overlook us, hopefully hopefully.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Who's up next?
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Patrick is up there?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Patrick, go ahead? Patrick, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 11 (31:07):
Yeah. My unpopular opinion is I would have been fine
if Mitch should let Kyle walk. In twenty nineteen, we
had just come off a choke job against Auburn without
their best player, and then the year before we laid
an egg against that Kansas State team. We had an
easy run to the final four, and both games we
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couldn't hit three.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
We looked tight, so.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Did you feel that way? Did you feel that way
in twenty nineteen in the moment.
Speaker 11 (31:36):
I did, and I think the only reason. And then
people were okay with this because as eye on, Duke
lost on the same day.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I agree with you.
Speaker 11 (31:45):
I feel like if Duke Hald won the Natty there
would have been a lot more criticism.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I think you're I think that is completely and totally correct.
I might have to go to break, but I appreciate
the call. I think that is completely and totally correct.
People somehow the twenty nineteen lost to Auburn, it hurt,
but when Duke lost that next game to Michigan State,
it almost didn't hurt quite as much. We were in
that bart walked over to the Hotel Lois and you
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almost kind of feel people are like, well, at least
they lost.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
We were still hurt, but Kentucky fans gathered around that
lobby bar to watch Duke go out to made the
drive home a little easier.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Made it sting a little less when they lost just
a couple hours after Kentucky lost that game.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
If you're I don't think Mitch if kl had left
in twenty nineteen to go to UCA, I don't think
fans would have been happy with Mitch. Like, if you're
using the approval rating, Cal's approval rating in twenty nineteen
was still probably seventy five to eighty percent. Would you
agree with that? I think the people that didn't like
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him were pretty vocal about it, but I still think
it was a pretty big minority, whereas this year it
was more like, I think his approval rating after we
lost Oakland was probably like thirty five.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Maybe would you agree with that? That's just a game.
I mean, it's just a gas. But I think I.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Think you might be low on what it was in
twenty nineteen. I think he was still pretty much adored
at that point, and then I think it might have
been lower after Oakland last year.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
So you kind of have it. It's more extreme in both.
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All right, lots lots of hot takes coming in on
the Tag Show. An unpopular opinion seven seven two seven
seven four five two five four One person rights Matt.
Here's my unpopular opinion. No player in today's NBA could
play in the eighties. It's too physical. They wouldn't be
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able to handle it. Have you seen Lebron's body? Stop
Lebron stop. Go look at the bodies of the players
who played in the eighties. I wouldn't say they were toned, Okay,
I mean I want you to go look at some
of those big white seven footers that played back then,
like you're Jack Sigma's and go tell me if you
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don't think Lebron, who's like chiseled out of stone, could
have handled that.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
There might be a few little guards you could send
that conversation, but the league as a whole I think
would be fine.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Going back to I mean, Steph Curry would have to
learn to be more physical. Yeah, but if you could
shoot like that, I think you're gonna be alright, right.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
I think you'll be all right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
There's a lot of still strong physical dudes in the
game today that could have played in the eighties, for sure.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
One person writes, Matt, here's my unpopular opinion. Tom leach
is one hundred times the announcer Kwood.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Was whoa, Okay, whoa.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I think it depicts Tom's great. But Tom announces games
the way you do now. But k would announces him
the way you did back then. Like you go listen
to radio and TV broadcasts from the seventies and eighties,
people don't talk as much. They let silence, huh exist.
So if you were to go watch, like go pull
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up a game from like the seventies and listen to
the TV broadcast, there are long extended periods of silence.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
So k would announce like.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
That, right like he was like he'd talk and he'd
let it play out a second and like like that,
that's not what people do now.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Tom is like a modern announcer who talks through it.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
It's just different and his Tom's strength is when the
moment happens.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
He's the best at it. Man.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
He emphasizes that moment and brings it home like nobody
else can.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Tom's like a pro announcer. Kwood Drew was like a conversationalist.
He just was like a dude. You sounded like you
were just talking about the game with.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah, he was just sitting there smoking and telling you
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
That's why they had the long breaks.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Here's an unpopular opinion, Matt, not trying to be mean,
but my unpopular opinion is KSR is overrated. You all
have too much sway over the fan base. There needs
to be other shows to balance you out.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Well, there are other shows. People just don't listen to them.
I can't go make other shows my fault. It's not
my fault people don't listen to those shows.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
I mean, I mean, I'm a big fan of competition,
but you know, the cream rises to the top crew.
I can't help it. It's not my fault to try
that that the other shows don't do as well.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
And some of the best of the other shows are
still our KSR podcast under the umbrella.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
And let's also remember that we've created other shows too,
And one of the things I'm proud about is how
many people we've given a chance to. You talked about
the KSR website. Podcast, brought on Billy, Billy and Shannon
to a show, brought on Mario.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
We My goal, My goal is to leave this one
day with a lot giving a lot of people a chance. Maggie,
who started with us is now on the l e
X eighteen shows and just got married.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
So yeah, who's up next?
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Tristan is up next?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Tristan. What's your unpopular opinion?
Speaker 11 (37:29):
Good?
Speaker 12 (37:29):
More and gentlemen. So I'm not making the Danis argument,
so not going that far, but anyway, so my unpopular
opinion is that Tim Couch was good. He is at
least the second best quarterback of our history. But he
was the Will Rogers of our time, of his time,
and we don't give how mummy his flowers.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Okay, what about that? You think Tim Couch was, if
not overrated, a system.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Quarterback, right, Tim Couch was phenomenal. He was the right
guy at the right time for that system, There's no
doubt about it. But he was still as talented as
any other quarterback in the country that year he was.
I mean, he can the short throw, the longth of
whatever you needed, man, he could do it. So I
love Tristan, but I got to disagree on that.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
I disagree with Tristan too, because you gotta remember Tim
Couch was six ' four with an arm where he
could throw at eighty yards like Will Rogers didn't have
that arm. I mean Tim Couch. There's reason he was
a number one pick. Yeah, you know, Tim Couch had
an arm and a physique that he still has a
physique that's insane. So I Drew, I love Tristan, and
I agree with you. How Mummy deserves I mean how
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Mummy and Mike Leech changed college football, literally changed it,
and Tim Couch was a big part of that. But
I still think if Mike Leach and how Mummy don't
do what they do, if Tim Couch isn't there, right,
you know he was the one to be there.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
I'll meet him with two out of the three. How
Mummy deserves his Flowers and the system helped Tim Couch.
But when he said Tim Couch is the Will Rogers
that made my blood boil, they shouldn't even be in
the same sentence.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Yeah, people, you should have seen Tim Couch play high
school basketball to talk about what I mean, Like, Tim
Kouch was a great high school basketball player.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
He could have played.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
I don't know if he would have been a star
at Kentucky, but he could have played at Kentucky, don't.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
You think, Oh, there was a definite sway to try
to get him to play and tell how mummy stepped
in and said, no, yeah, that ain't happening.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
I played against him in high school basketball.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
You held him to what forty five points?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Forty five? Yeah, didn't get one point more than that.
Who's next? Luke? Is up next? Luke? What's your unpopular opinion?
Speaker 8 (39:30):
Oh? I don't really know how unpopular this is. It
might be unpopular, but Andre Woodson is the best quarterback
in Kentucky football history. Tim Couch is great, But if
you look at numbers and the era, it wasn't like
it is now. When Andre was playing. You could still
jam the receivers, you could still tee off on guys.
Andre Woodson had the record for most completely it's not
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been broken, but most touchdown passes in a season in
the SEC, and had the most passes with out in
interception in the SEC history. There's a both since been
broken because the rule changes. But Andre Woodson was the
best quarterback.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
That's I don't know if it's unpopular or not, but
it's a hot take. Let me ask you, Ryan, is
Andre Woodson the greatest quarterback in UK history?
Speaker 5 (40:16):
I don't think he's the greatest.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
I mean, we have three quarterbacks jerseys hanging in this
in this bar, Andre Woodson, Jared Lorensen and Tim couch
those are the top three where Andre falls.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
In throw even though it's a different time.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
You gotta throw George Playing in there because he's a
Hall of Famer and I know it's a long long
time ago, but I do think you have to throw
that in.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
But go ahead.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
But Andrey Woodson that two thousand and seven season, he
was as good as anybody.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
But overall I would probably have I would probably put
him third behind couching on Jared and then Andre.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
You put Jared ahead?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Yeah, I think I would, But what about the stat
of he didn't throw an interception for like, you know,
almost three hundred games. He had the record for three
hundred some passes without an interception.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
I appreciate the call, Sirt.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Well, we did our quarterback Mount Rushmore right before you
came back, and I was the only one to put
Woodson Ryan, So you get your numbers right.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (41:03):
He's also the all time touchdown leader for career end,
single season here, so I'd put Couch ahead of him,
But Woodson's a very close to on my list.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
Woodson to me is like the Keith Bogans of UK football.
He's always kind of a little bit underrated. Like everybody acknowledges,
everybody acknowledges he's good. But I don't think Bogans is
ever on like a top ten player list, and he
should be sometimes, and I don't think Woodson is. Always
people kind of go Couch, Lorenzen and skip over him,
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and he is certainly if whether you think he's second,
first or thirty's certainly on that list.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Yeah, that's that's a great comparison, kind of little under respected,
under valued of what they did when they were here.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Yes, I want to give a shout to these ladies
right here, all graduates of Paris High School from nineteen
fifty three to nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
They get up and they have lunch together once a month,
and they came here today.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
How sweet? Is that? Like awesome?
Speaker 3 (42:00):
You know, get yourself friends like that that you're meeting
sixty years later and having lunch. We will take a
break and come right back. It's Wednesday. If it's good
enough for them, it's good.
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Speaker 2 (01:10):
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Speaker 3 (01:12):
It is unpopular opinion day A five nine two eight
oh twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Here, now, let me explain what this is before you call.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
First of all, you are allowed to call with your
unpopular opinion.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Now, what's an unpopular opinion? An opinion that you.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Believe over fifty percent of this fan base or the
country disagrees with you on Okay, you can't just give
me an opinion that everybody else like you know one
guy that doesn't agree with you on right? So like
I had somebody write me today and go, my unpopular
opinion is that nil isn't good. Well that's you know,
come on, like that's nice. But a lot of people
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agree with that has to be an unpopular opinion, and
it's judgment free. You can say what you want. We
may disagree, but we won't say you're you're you're awful.
Couple ground rules, no politics. I don't care, and no
one else does. And if you call with that then
someone else will respond. And secondly, nothing hateful, like nothing
about you know, raised gender, Wift, like none of that stuff.
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This is supposed to be fun. It's really UK sports
and then life as a whole.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Ryan, that's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I've gotten myself in trouble on this day over the
last several years with some of my unpopular opinions I
get pushed back to this day for some of them.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
What was the one you got pushed back for that?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Taylor Swift is overrated? Boo, Keenland is overrated. I still
get that.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
These are kind of Keenland being overrated, the epitome of
an unpopular opinion, like to say that in Lexington Like
that's a pretty strong statement.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I said, l eight ones are awful. You still get
that one awful? I still get for this day. Those
were the ones that kind of haunt me. Where all
of yours Kentucky related. You just attacking our our home.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Though, because it's it's it's our propos, our our propro
our audience and our show.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So I like that, Ryan, he tends to stay. Do
you have one this year? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, hang on, we'll get we'll get to it. Don't don't.
Don't hurt everybody yet.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I have several as well. I'll wait to share them all.
You want one right away or I have levels. I
have one that's I think some people agree with that,
one that's outrageous, and one that's in the middle of.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So I'll go with UH with a couple of mine.
Then we'll do Ryan, and then we'll dose Shannon. It's
good for Shannon to be out today, because Shannon does
Shannon really walks the line of UH Boss's call unpopular opinions.
I'll start with my football unpopular opinion. And I've said
this before. This isn't a new opinion, but it feels
like every year members of our fan base grow farther
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from me on this, whereas I think they should grow closer.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I feel like maybe.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
When I said this originally ten years ago, I was
in the majority, and now I'm in the minority on it.
But my football opinion is what we are in football
in the last five years of the Stoops era.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
We is the best we're ever going to be, and
we should just be thankful for it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
The idea of about once every four years winning nine games,
which by the way now would put you in contention
for the playoff. Yes, and then most years winning seven six.
We should be praising the football gods for that happening,
because A it hasn't happened most of my life, and
B in the new SEC, it's gonna happen. It's even
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harder to do without Missouri on the schedule every year.
I know they're good this year, but without Mississippi State
on the schedule every year. So to me, the people
who go, when are we gonna take the next step?
Stoops of mediocre seven wins every year? I just think
it's insanity because I think we're actually living through, if
not the glory years of UK football.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We should be pretty happy years run.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I agree with you because it was not that long ago.
We were just begging to get to a bowl game,
just hoping and praying to get six.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Used to wear the make Kentucky Bowl eligib boy again.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Yeah, and then we went to just non stop ball
games ever since they're welcome.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
So yeah, this is an era of taking football. We
need to enjoy it because do you.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Agree with me?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Drew?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
That's becoming a minority opinion, especially as we get younger.
Fans who don't remember us being terrible all the time.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Yeah, and no one's been more confident in going to
Atlanta than me. I even booked a room two years
ago ahead of time. But that's just seems very unrealistic,
especially the way the conference has added a couple teams
and getting rid of the divisions. It's just I love
where we are. I'd love to stay here. Maybe you
break through one special season ever so often, but I
tend to agree with you a little bit on that.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Two ten win seasons in five years. I don't know
how many times we're gonna have that in our lives.
I'm gonna be honest with you. I mean two in
five years. To me, we'll look back, I think and go, wow,
that was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Right. My second, i'd pop your opinion.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I'm gonna rank UK team's post Patino on and I
firmly believe this. This is my ranking of the sixth
best UK teams post Patino in order. Okay, And by
the way, I'm just talking about if you held a
tournament and they played, Clearly the teams that win titles
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are ahead.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
But if you're just asking me who.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Was the best, and if they played each other in
a season, who would come in first? I would go
this order, Number one, ninety six. I'm still gonna take.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Them, I agree.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
But number two is twenty fifteen. Number three is nineteen
ninety three, Okay, okay, yeah, Number four is twenty ten,
Number five is two thousand and three, yes, and then
six is twenty twelve in the National Championship. So if
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you're just having me rank, who were the best Kentucky teams?
For those of you that try to remember who those
teams were. Ninety six of course, the dominant Kentucky Patino
team twenty fifteen thirty eight and one cal.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Team ninety three mash Burned.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Team that lost to Travis Ford in the excuse me
lost the Fab five, he didn't lose to Travis Ford
and Travis Ford twenty ten, Wall and Cousins two thousand
and three, Bogans, Fitch and all those guys, and then
twenty twelve the title.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I appreciate you giving that twenty two thousand and three
teams some respect, because to me, that was I would
rake them, maybe even a little higher. I thought you'd
have John Wall's team maybe number two. That's kind of
probably you had ninety three as high as you.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Did ninety three though, was I mean, think about that
final four ninety three you had the Fab five, you
had the North Carolina like great team and US and
the Fab five was the only team that could have
beaten that Kentucky team. And it was a Fab five.
I mean, it produced three NBA superstars. I'm willing to
put Kentucky that high. And we lost in overtime, I
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think too, But go ahead. That was kind of the
first season. I have like vivid memories of growing up.
You know, I remember the Latner shot the year before,
but I mean the ninety three teams the first one
I really felt that, you know, I can remember a
lot of but I didn't expect you to have them
that high up.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So those are my two.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Look good.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'm gonna do another one later on, give me years.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I've got one that's gonna make some UK football fans mad,
and I got to know them.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
It's gonna make you mad.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
All right, doing both. What's the UK football one?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Uh, we don't know how to tailgate. Our tailgating at
UK football is. I know, people think they're doing it right,
but then you go to these other games and you
see it. I think our football tailgate is a lot
to be desired.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I mean, I don't even think that it's controversial. I mean,
to be honest with you. Since we open this bar,
this is a lot more fun than that is. And
in as much as I love people coming to this bar,
it shouldn't be more fun than being at the game.
But it is more fun because drew our tailgating is
not good at UK, and a lot of it changed
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when they changed the parking lot and all that. Like,
to be fair, they kind of ruined it. UK ruined
the tailgate scene. It's shrinking even more now, the orange
lot shrinking. I'm gonna disagree with the actual setup over there,
but I think fans could be better. Like noon games,
sometimes it's empty over there. There's plenty of concrete around
the stadium. I mean, it was much better before, but
there's still plenty of area to get it done, and
fans just don't always show up the way they should.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
But I think you hit it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
There's plenty of concrete, it's hot and there's a lot
of concrete, whereas like in other stadiums that doesn't eat.
There used to be grass over there. Right, like there
used to be places where it was pleasant.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And it's just not it.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
The new baseball stadium is awesome, but that hill what
was purple? And now they're taking away that area around farm.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And what's the one that makes me mad?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I think that Skittles and Starburst and gummy clusters are disgusting.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I think they're awful. Yeah, disgusting, disgusting.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Why why do you think that you just don't like fruit?
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I don't like fruity flavor. I don't like candy like
that at all. I have never in my life, ever
one time went in a.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Do you not like sugar based candies?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
No, not at all?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
So do you not like sugar?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I do like sugar, I just don't like the candy.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I'm not a candy guy, and I think those stuff
it's great, they bring him to you.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I don't want them.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
You can have everyone. What candy do you like? It's
sure to go. You're at a you're at a Clark's
pumping shop and you need some candy.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
You buy a Snickers or a little Debbie cake.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
So you just like choc But it sounds like you
like chocolate based canes.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
You don't like sugar not at all, none at all.
So that's that's my opinion that I.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Don't know how I've I've never met a human being
that doesn't like sugar based canty, Like like you don't
like Skittles, No, you don't like air Starbus airheads No, uhh,
I have I've never even wanted them, tried them.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
I don't like them.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Well, how do you know you don't like them?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I mean I've tried them, I've tried them, but I
don't want to like retry them. I guess it's like, hey,
I'm gonna try this today. I'm gonna give me a Starburst.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, that's amazing that you're the only person I've ever
heard have that opinion.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Just no sugar based not at all.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
All. Right, that's less unpopular than just terrible opinion. But
I'll okay, I'll take it all right now, Drew?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
What are you?
Speaker 6 (11:04):
What are your I'm gonna starting levels this one. I
think we've talked about before and people, some people will
agree with me, but ruppering ice cream is just ice cream.
And if you wait in that line, you're ruining your
Kentucky basketball experience by giving that line thirty minutes of
your life to get the same ice cream you can
get all over town. Yeah, I mean that's gonna I
know I'm not alone in that one, but I still
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think the majority seeing those lines would would disagree with you.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I'm not sure I've thought this before.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
There is not a food product that exists on Earth
that would make me stand in a line for thirty minutes. Now,
I wait at a restaurant for thirty minutes because there's
other stuff you can.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Do right while you're waiting or what like.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I can do that, But to literally stand in a
line where you have to stand there and then walk
a step every thirty seconds, you could be serving gold
And I'm not standing in a line for thirty minutes.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
And you missed so much of the game. Sure, if
there was you just walk up and get it. Yeah,
it's fine part of the experience. But even at the
TBT game when they played the Marshall team, Abby got
in line, I left and just set by myself at
the first section around the corner. Probably missed an entire
half of getting ice cream at.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
A TVT game. I agree.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I feel the same way about the Reds. You know,
you go to the Reds games, and if it's a Saturday,
all the food lines are long, the beer lines are long.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I'm like, you're gonna miss two innings.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Of the game.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Why are you doing that?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I'll get it either.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, so's a good one. I'm with you, all right.
What is your other? I have two more basketball ones?
Another one.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Some people already grew with me on chaos board where
we're sharing some But the Harrison Twins get way too
much hate for the Wisconsin game. John Caliperi lost that
game at Alex Poyter's being out lost that game. The
Harrison Twins do not deserve all the blame that they get.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, I don't think that is I don't even think
that's unpopular.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Well, there's a lot of people that still wanted you
Lissen Booker in the game. The Harrison's were fine, They're wrong,
I mean us and Booker.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Like, maybe you could make an argument for Booker, but
I will say, how you gonna take out the guys
that were, like, you know, the year before they take
us to the championship game. We were beating everyone that
year at that moment when we're playing Wisconsin. The Harrison
Twins are sophomores, with nine NCAA tournament wins.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Like I think you're a lot more. What if you
take them out and then you lose? You know, it's
not on.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
The back court. Carl Towns was eating that game. He
was seven for eleven. He took his last shot with
six and a half minutes left to go at four,
and he never took another shot again because they went
to stallball and they quit feeding Carl.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That's why they lost. Yes, they went to stallball. So
respect the Harrison.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Twins, and I'm a defender of stallball sometimes, But when
you're in the final four, remember that twenty fifteen season.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Wisconsin, Duke and.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Kentucky are three of the seven best offenses of the
last fifteen years, and they were in the same season
of college basketball. When you're playing a team as explosive
as that Wisconsin team was, Brian, you can't just hang
on to the ball.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
No, When they pulled it out and play stall ball,
it just completely killed all of our momentum they had
built up that whole game. Like I said, Carl, they
couldn't stop Carl. Why didn't they just keep feeding Carl?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
The Harrison's confined combined for twenty five points. In one
turnover before the shot clock violations when Cal told them
to wait till there's five or six seconds left.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, and that's when you're the better team. You don't
want to hold on to it. But Cal would do
that sometimes at the end of games.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
All right, so those are ours. We'll do more and
more extreme win.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I just staying.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
We all have more eight five nine, two eighth twenty
two eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
We will take your calls. Uh, get yours if you have.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
One, you can go to the text machine seven seven two
four five two five four. Drew has some suck some
from Chaos Board. We'll take a break right back. It's KOSR.
Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio. And here it's Chaos Bar
and Grill gots folks on the phone. We're gonna get
to it. A lot of people, Ryan shockingly agree. Do
you agree with you about your sugar based candies? We're
basing where person rights.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Matt.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I love you, but I don't understand how you eat
sugar based candies. It's empty calories. At least with chocolate.
I feel filled up Field, I feel feel filled.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I got some support on social media there that they
don't like the sugar based candies either.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Well, another person writes, my own popular opinion is very clear.
I hate weddings. They're overrated. People shouldn't invite people to weddings,
and people who invite people to destination weddings should be
banished from the earth.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Wow, it seems harsh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Like, but weddings are a lot, and when you ask
people to travel to a wedding, you're basically asking them
to spend money on your vacation. So that, I mean,
I get it. I don't mind it like this person does,
but I understand the thought.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Did you see the gall went viral yesterday for having
four hundred and fifty dollars tickets to go to his wedding,
and he's he's complaining that they got a bunch of
people that said, no, their wedding costs two hundred grand,
but he was charging every guest for he was charging
the guests you had to buy a ticket to his
wedding even though you're invited. And he was shocked that
the majority of his invite he's declined.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Who would want to How many people would you buy
four hundred and fifty dollars two it to their wedding?
Speaker 6 (16:01):
His logic was you pay for Beyonce tickets and to
meet so and so in these concerts. Why can't you
spend it on your own friends and family for their
wedding because you're not talented? Yeah, and it's a wedding.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, I mean, take your airfar and behay. If you
go see Beyonce, you're seeing a talent. You're just standing
up there and writing each other really bad points.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It's nine hundred dollars a couple just to go to
a wedding.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
That's another thing I will say, I cringe at ninety
percent of when people write their own vowels. Like I'm
not saying they're all bad sometimes people, but like it's
it's a little it's a little difficult when people write
their own vows You know.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
I wrote my own, but it was pretty funny. Are
you're almost like a stand up Corey? My efficient pretty
much roasted me instead.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Of doing itthing, But you weren't doing the Like when
I stare into your eyes, I see the beauty of
a thousand oceans, Like it's not bad.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Like that's the stuff that makes me kind of makes
me cringe. All right, who's up first? Rick Zach is up? First, Zach.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
And I I'm sick of dan Isel love from older
fans in the sand Base. I think Daniel could not
play in the modern era, and it frustrates me so
deeply when people ask somebody to make an all time
starting five and they leave Daniseel out and you could
see like sixty people over the age of seventy five.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Like dan Issel out.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Listen, I've been watching take, I've been reading box scores. Yeah,
the man was certified chucker and free throw merchant.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
He took definitely, he definitely shot a lot.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Like, yeah, anybody can score thirty when you take fifty
shots a game, like he's vastly overrated and Julius R.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, that's a very controversial take. I appreciate the call.
So his take is, uh, we unlock that door there.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
His take is that the Daniel's overrated.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Okay, So it all depends on what you me. Right.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
If the question is could dan Issel play today? I
actually think he could, but he wouldn't be the dominant
force he was. But that's not how you can judge
older people. Because I'm of the belief that the vast
majority of people who played basketball in the eighties couldn't
play today or the nineties, couldn't play today.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Like, it's just different. So I can't. I don't think
you can just hold him to that standard.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
First of all, the man just came back from the dead,
so let's put some respects on da name. Also, he's
number one all time in points and rebounding in only
three seasons.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
But the caller is correct that the thing that older
folks don't remember is Dan was a ball hawk.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Like he shot it a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
He shot it a lot, and a lot of his
rebounds were rebounding his own missus at Kentucky. Now, I
think he's underrated for what he did in the ABA.
He was a great, great player in the ABA, and
I think people sometimes forget that. But he did shoot
a lot like he was kind of the Archie Goodwin
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of his day of shooting.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
It was just a different time. Run.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah, I think he's in the Denver Nuggets Hall of Fame.
He should be for his play when they were in
the ABA.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
So like when I said Sidney McLaughlin was the greatest
UK athlete of all time, a number of folks got
really mad and said, how do you leave out Dan Issel?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
He shouldn't be. He's not.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Danisl was a great basketball player, but Sidney maybe one
of the best track stars ever.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Yeah right, yeah, I agree with you on that. But
as far as him being in the our basketball Mount Rushmore,
I think he's he's up there.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Over h Do you put Anthony Davis over him?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
I put him both side by the hid Sorry, he.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Can't do that. Does win he matter? Again?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Love dan Issel. He didn't win anything anything. He didn't
even make the Elite eight?
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Oh did they not?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Wow? I mean again, I love him.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
And you could argue if Mike Casey did not get hurt,
that team probably probably would have. But like we always
talk about winning when we rank cow players, winning.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Matters to people.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
They're like, well, we don't put Jamal Murray on the
top three because he didn't win, Well, why doesn't that
apply to Isel?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
I think, like Drew said, just the fact that he's
still the school career scoring leader and rebounding leader.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Like, you got to think about where would you put
Oscar Sheebway in the top cow players. If you don't
want to put Oscar Sheepway in the top three, then
you can't.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Say Isle's the best player of all time, because.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Sheeplay doesn't have Isle numbers, but Shee Bway has better
numbers than anyone that Cal had. If you're talking points
and rebounds, but you probably don't put him in the
top three.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Why because he didn't win well, neither did Issel.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
And she boys two seasons rebounding at least he passed
Thistles any of his best seasons.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, so it's justsantially, whatever you think about Oscar, you
probably should have similar views about Issel when you're talking
about the best player of all time, because their careers
are kind of similar, even though I think Isol was
a better player.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Who's up next, David is up next, David, Go ahead, David,
welcome back. Then, Hey, David, what's your unpopular opinion?
Speaker 9 (21:14):
My unpopular opinion is this? I think I don't think
if Tino stayed, we would not have won a nineteen
ninety eight national championship.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I agree.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
I think I think Tubby was the right coach for
that team.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yep, and I.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
Get and I'm sick of seg he will he will
would this Richetio's players, Well, let me tell you this.
Ritpetito on Rod Mersterer and a bunch of talent in
ninety nine seventy he lost to Arizona.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
He did, but Derek Anderson got hurt. That's that is important.
But I agree with you, David, and it's nice to
hear from you. I'm glad thank you for calling in.
Do you agree with that? Do you think Tubby? If
Patino comes back in ninety eight, he doesn't win the
title that Tubby wins.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I am deeply, deeply believe that Tubby is the only
person could have won the title with that group of
guys that was not a national championship team, but he
put he found them away, for these guys to play together,
play above their abilities.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Tubby was the right guy. Tubby won that title. Tubby won.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Tubby's best teams were always the teams that were just
a little bit less talented than the other ones, because
he could seem to be able to get something else
out of them.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You know, yeah, I can get behind that one.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
I've never really considered that comparing the two of what
they were done with the team, But I can get
behind that one.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I think there's there's certain guys that like you give
them ninety percent talent player and a bunch of them
that's their faith.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, and I actually think that's what he's really really.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Ye, Patina would would broke those guys down. Tubby came
in immediately lifted them up, you know, Shepard Edwards, Cameron Mills.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I've always said that Zion coach K team. If you
switch us and give that Duke team to us and
our team to Duke, both teams would have been better.
Probably both teams would have been better had they had
different coaches for those games. We'll take a break if
you're right back this Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Welcome back. Tucky Sports Radio had some good off air conversations.
We did. We all air were ranking the biggest jerks
in the UK history. We can't do that on air,
we can't. We had a pretty good top three though.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
We had a pretty good list.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Did you see the guy in Eastern Kentucky who they
accidentally left his microphone on during the commercial?
Speaker 10 (23:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
No, have seen that? Yeah? Not good.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Guy left his microphone on during the high school football
preview and said some not kind things about a couple
of the teams.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
But it went out over the air.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Oh no, I haven't seen that yet.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Yeah, gotta be careful every time we talked during the break.
Even if it's not some controversial I'm thinking I hope this.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I know Ricks Gottess though, Rick, you're not gonna let
it go out over there?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Are you?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
No problem? I'm on top of it.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
There you go, he said.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
One person rights, Matt, you are crazy about isl Isle
could play today he's Jokic, but just in the old days, Yokich,
that's a big comparison. Yo, he's pretty good, three time MVP.
But uh yeah, I do think it. Look, I didn't
get Sol could play now, but I think most old
guys could not play now. But it's nothing against them.
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It's like if you took Mark Spitz. Mark Spitz won
what seven gold medals in nineteen seventy two, he wouldn't
even qualify for the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Now. That doesn't mean Mark Spitz was not a great swimmer.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
It just means things have changed, like it just means
things have like it's a different era now. I mean
Mark spitzy didn't even shave their chest back then.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
We're not taking anything away from what dan Issel did
as a player, but did you put him in today's world?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Gotsch, You just and I know it makes older people mad.
And when I'm like sixty five, I'll probably be sitting
there going Shaquill O'Neill could dominate today's game, Like I'll
do the same thing, but I just can't. We just
saw the Olympics. In every single sport, the world records
are in the last few years. Why do we think baseball, basketball,
and football are immune from that?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Right?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
What in the seventies, like Nolan Ryan was like the
only guy who consistently threw over one hundred miles an hour.
Now there's like twenty five guys in the major leagues
that throw over one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Like it's just different Ryan.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, when it was a big deal and Nolan Ryan
threw one hundred and four one hundred and five miles
an hour.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Now it happens daily, and they think that football I
mean Hunter Green Hunter Green throws like one hundred and
fifteen times during the game.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
You know. It's like, so, anyway, who's up next? Rick?
Tony is up next? Tony? What's your unpopular opinion?
Speaker 10 (25:35):
Uh? This one I don't like myself, but I think
it's true. I've got something else for y'all after this.
But Kentucky will not play for an SEC championship in
football in the foreseeable future.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I mean that may be unpopular, but to me, that's
like not even slightly controversial that Kentucky's not going to
play for an SEC football championship. Like what I mean,
we never have.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
No. I mean you say, when you go to the
football games and you're sitting around these people and they're like, oh,
we're going to do this, and they're like, no.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
We're not. I mean, we're not. Like I hope we do,
but we're not. What do people expect? I mean these
other schools, these other schools, they're n I l is
four times.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
What are that's?
Speaker 10 (26:25):
That's you got idea between basketball and football? Two and basketball,
you could recruit two or three great guys. You have
a great dam correct you know you're looking at twenty
two great guys.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
What you said.
Speaker 10 (26:37):
Anyway, I wanted to share with you all. I'm calling
this a trick techus trospected. This is your next road trip.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
We got your popular opinion day. We got keep on topic.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
But I appreciate he's talking about the trip to Texas,
but we gotta we gotta keep on topic.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I'm loving these opinions. Yeah, we appreciate the call. Who's next?
Will is up next? Will? What's your opinion? All right?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
My opinion is that Kentucky should put football towards the forefront.
Speaker 10 (27:08):
Oh and let basketball take a back seat. We've had
a good run.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Okay, now that's an unpopular opinion. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
His argument, for those of you here that can't hear
the calls is that, remember I said the other day,
schools are probably gonna have to choose do we go
to basketball do we go at football? He says we
should kind of let basketball with her and try to
become a football school.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I love Kentucky football. I mean I go to every
home game, I go to a lot of road games
now Dan's playing. But even I'm not going to say
a need to supersed basketball at this school that Kentucky
was made on built on basketball.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
True.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
I love football, and I hope we continue to, you know,
pump as much in as we can. But you can't
just let basketball wash away. It's it's traditionally what's been
successful here and I I just can't get behind that.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah, I mean I have two major reasons for that.
One is the history this is basketball like we we
love it, and you can't just let the greatest basketball
program in the history of the sport just wither on
the vine. But the second is a practical one for
just what I said, we're not gonna be I don't
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if we go all in on football, we're still not
gonna be as good as most of these places because
we don't produce a talent.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
That's the one thing people just they always skip over.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
This state does not produce the talent of the rest
of the SEC.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
The South. Tech just go through the states.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Texas produces more players than US, Mississippi does, Louisiana does,
Alabama does, Georgia does by a lot, Florida does by
a lot, Tennessee does, South Carolina does.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
The Missouri does. This probably produce I know we produce.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
No state in the SEC produces less great football players
than Kentucky. Mostly that's because of demographics. I mean, if
we're being honest, we just don't have as many urban
areas and we don't have as many African Americans.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
So because of that, we are never going to be
able to recruit.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
And that's why I think they should have put a
statue up for Vince Merrow because he is able. He
has used Ohio and Tennessee as if they're Kentucky. But
we produce less talent than any state in the SEC,
except maybe Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
But I kind of think they have a lot too.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
It's just hard you hear that argument.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
It is amazing that the team was able to win
seven games when every other state has a pool of
players that can easily pick from every year.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
It's just so.
Speaker 11 (29:45):
So.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
I don't think you don't do basketball because if you don't,
we might not be good in anything if we do that,
and we don't want that.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Dur Yeah, I think that was a little bit of
a wild one there, but I like it out there.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I think, do you think what he makes more fun
to be good at football or basketball?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
Football? The all day experience, the games mean more. You know,
you lose a basketball game, you have another one a
few days later. You can get right back on track. Football,
you only got twelve of them. And if you win
a big win like an LSU game, you're talking about
that for decades now.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
You're right about that.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
A football win sticks with you more than anything but
a Final four basketball win.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Would you agree you lose to Duke on November twelfth.
This year, you have a whole season to fix that.
I mean, it stinks in the moment, but it doesn't
have a huge impact on the overall. But if you
lose a game you shouldn't in football, or if you
win a huge win, that really carries a lot of weight.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Yeah, you beat Georgia in Week three at home. This
place is the nuts for a month.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
By the way, Georgia's schedule this year, I don't know
if you've seen it. They play on the road Texas,
Old Miss, Alabama, and Kentucky, so like we're considered their
easy run game. I mean, their schedule on the road
is a pretty crazy.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
They're going to come in and overlook us, hopefully hopefully.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Who's up next?
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Patrick is up there?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Patrick, go ahead? Patrick, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 11 (31:07):
Yeah. My unpopular opinion is I would have been fine
if Mitch should let Kyle walk. In twenty nineteen, we
had just come off a choke job against Auburn without
their best player, and then the year before we laid
an egg against that Kansas State team. We had an
easy run to the final four, and both games we
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couldn't hit three.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
We looked tight, so.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Did you feel that way? Did you feel that way
in twenty nineteen in the moment.
Speaker 11 (31:36):
I did, and I think the only reason. And then
people were okay with this because as eye on, Duke
lost on the same day.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I agree with you.
Speaker 11 (31:45):
I feel like if Duke Hald won the Natty there
would have been a lot more criticism.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I think you're I think that is completely and totally correct.
I might have to go to break, but I appreciate
the call. I think that is completely and totally correct.
People somehow the twenty nineteen lost to Auburn, it hurt,
but when Duke lost that next game to Michigan State,
it almost didn't hurt quite as much. We were in
that bart walked over to the Hotel Lois and you
(32:13):
almost kind of feel people are like, well, at least
they lost.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
We were still hurt, but Kentucky fans gathered around that
lobby bar to watch Duke go out to made the
drive home a little easier.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Made it sting a little less when they lost just
a couple hours after Kentucky lost that game.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
If you're I don't think Mitch if kl had left
in twenty nineteen to go to UCA, I don't think
fans would have been happy with Mitch. Like, if you're
using the approval rating, Cal's approval rating in twenty nineteen
was still probably seventy five to eighty percent. Would you
agree with that? I think the people that didn't like
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him were pretty vocal about it, but I still think
it was a pretty big minority, whereas this year it
was more like, I think his approval rating after we
lost Oakland was probably like thirty five.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Maybe would you agree with that? That's just a game.
I mean, it's just a gas. But I think I.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Think you might be low on what it was in
twenty nineteen. I think he was still pretty much adored
at that point, and then I think it might have
been lower after Oakland last year.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
So you kind of have it. It's more extreme in both.
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at KOs Bars, Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back Tecki Sports Radio.
All right, lots lots of hot takes coming in on
the Tag Show. An unpopular opinion seven seven two seven
seven four five two five four One person rights Matt.
Here's my unpopular opinion. No player in today's NBA could
play in the eighties. It's too physical. They wouldn't be
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able to handle it. Have you seen Lebron's body? Stop
Lebron stop. Go look at the bodies of the players
who played in the eighties. I wouldn't say they were toned, Okay,
I mean I want you to go look at some
of those big white seven footers that played back then,
like you're Jack Sigma's and go tell me if you
(34:37):
don't think Lebron, who's like chiseled out of stone, could
have handled that.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
There might be a few little guards you could send
that conversation, but the league as a whole I think
would be fine.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Going back to I mean, Steph Curry would have to
learn to be more physical. Yeah, but if you could
shoot like that, I think you're gonna be alright, right.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
I think you'll be all right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
There's a lot of still strong physical dudes in the
game today that could have played in the eighties, for sure.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
One person writes, Matt, here's my unpopular opinion. Tom leach
is one hundred times the announcer Kwood.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Was whoa, Okay, whoa.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I think it depicts Tom's great. But Tom announces games
the way you do now. But k would announces him
the way you did back then. Like you go listen
to radio and TV broadcasts from the seventies and eighties,
people don't talk as much. They let silence, huh exist.
So if you were to go watch, like go pull
(35:32):
up a game from like the seventies and listen to
the TV broadcast, there are long extended periods of silence.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
So k would announce like.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
That, right like he was like he'd talk and he'd
let it play out a second and like like that,
that's not what people do now.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Tom is like a modern announcer who talks through it.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
It's just different and his Tom's strength is when the
moment happens.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
He's the best at it. Man.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
He emphasizes that moment and brings it home like nobody
else can.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Tom's like a pro announcer. Kwood Drew was like a conversationalist.
He just was like a dude. You sounded like you
were just talking about the game with.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah, he was just sitting there smoking and telling you
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
That's why they had the long breaks.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Here's an unpopular opinion, Matt, not trying to be mean,
but my unpopular opinion is KSR is overrated. You all
have too much sway over the fan base. There needs
to be other shows to balance you out.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Well, there are other shows. People just don't listen to them.
I can't go make other shows my fault. It's not
my fault people don't listen to those shows.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
I mean, I mean, I'm a big fan of competition,
but you know, the cream rises to the top crew.
I can't help it. It's not my fault to try
that that the other shows don't do as well.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
And some of the best of the other shows are
still our KSR podcast under the umbrella.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
And let's also remember that we've created other shows too,
And one of the things I'm proud about is how
many people we've given a chance to. You talked about
the KSR website. Podcast, brought on Billy, Billy and Shannon
to a show, brought on Mario.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
We My goal, My goal is to leave this one
day with a lot giving a lot of people a chance. Maggie,
who started with us is now on the l e
X eighteen shows and just got married.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
So yeah, who's up next?
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Tristan is up next?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Tristan. What's your unpopular opinion?
Speaker 11 (37:29):
Good?
Speaker 12 (37:29):
More and gentlemen. So I'm not making the Danis argument,
so not going that far, but anyway, so my unpopular
opinion is that Tim Couch was good. He is at
least the second best quarterback of our history. But he
was the Will Rogers of our time, of his time,
and we don't give how mummy his flowers.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Okay, what about that? You think Tim Couch was, if
not overrated, a system.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Quarterback, right, Tim Couch was phenomenal. He was the right
guy at the right time for that system, There's no
doubt about it. But he was still as talented as
any other quarterback in the country that year he was.
I mean, he can the short throw, the longth of
whatever you needed, man, he could do it. So I
love Tristan, but I got to disagree on that.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
I disagree with Tristan too, because you gotta remember Tim
Couch was six ' four with an arm where he
could throw at eighty yards like Will Rogers didn't have
that arm. I mean Tim Couch. There's reason he was
a number one pick. Yeah, you know, Tim Couch had
an arm and a physique that he still has a
physique that's insane. So I Drew, I love Tristan, and
I agree with you. How Mummy deserves I mean how
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Mummy and Mike Leech changed college football, literally changed it,
and Tim Couch was a big part of that. But
I still think if Mike Leach and how Mummy don't
do what they do, if Tim Couch isn't there, right,
you know he was the one to be there.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
I'll meet him with two out of the three. How
Mummy deserves his Flowers and the system helped Tim Couch.
But when he said Tim Couch is the Will Rogers
that made my blood boil, they shouldn't even be in
the same sentence.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Yeah, people, you should have seen Tim Couch play high
school basketball to talk about what I mean, Like, Tim
Kouch was a great high school basketball player.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
He could have played.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
I don't know if he would have been a star
at Kentucky, but he could have played at Kentucky, don't.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
You think, Oh, there was a definite sway to try
to get him to play and tell how mummy stepped
in and said, no, yeah, that ain't happening.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
I played against him in high school basketball.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
You held him to what forty five points?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Forty five? Yeah, didn't get one point more than that.
Who's next? Luke? Is up next? Luke? What's your unpopular opinion?
Speaker 8 (39:30):
Oh? I don't really know how unpopular this is. It
might be unpopular, but Andre Woodson is the best quarterback
in Kentucky football history. Tim Couch is great, But if
you look at numbers and the era, it wasn't like
it is now. When Andre was playing. You could still
jam the receivers, you could still tee off on guys.
Andre Woodson had the record for most completely it's not
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been broken, but most touchdown passes in a season in
the SEC, and had the most passes with out in
interception in the SEC history. There's a both since been
broken because the rule changes. But Andre Woodson was the
best quarterback.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
That's I don't know if it's unpopular or not, but
it's a hot take. Let me ask you, Ryan, is
Andre Woodson the greatest quarterback in UK history?
Speaker 5 (40:16):
I don't think he's the greatest.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
I mean, we have three quarterbacks jerseys hanging in this
in this bar, Andre Woodson, Jared Lorensen and Tim couch
those are the top three where Andre falls.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
In throw even though it's a different time.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
You gotta throw George Playing in there because he's a
Hall of Famer and I know it's a long long
time ago, but I do think you have to throw
that in.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
But go ahead.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
But Andrey Woodson that two thousand and seven season, he
was as good as anybody.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
But overall I would probably have I would probably put
him third behind couching on Jared and then Andre.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
You put Jared ahead?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Yeah, I think I would, But what about the stat
of he didn't throw an interception for like, you know,
almost three hundred games. He had the record for three
hundred some passes without an interception.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
I appreciate the call, Sirt.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Well, we did our quarterback Mount Rushmore right before you
came back, and I was the only one to put
Woodson Ryan, So you get your numbers right.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (41:03):
He's also the all time touchdown leader for career end,
single season here, so I'd put Couch ahead of him,
But Woodson's a very close to on my list.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
Woodson to me is like the Keith Bogans of UK football.
He's always kind of a little bit underrated. Like everybody acknowledges,
everybody acknowledges he's good. But I don't think Bogans is
ever on like a top ten player list, and he
should be sometimes, and I don't think Woodson is. Always
people kind of go Couch, Lorenzen and skip over him,
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and he is certainly if whether you think he's second,
first or thirty's certainly on that list.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Yeah, that's that's a great comparison, kind of little under respected,
under valued of what they did when they were here.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Yes, I want to give a shout to these ladies
right here, all graduates of Paris High School from nineteen
fifty three to nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
They get up and they have lunch together once a month,
and they came here today.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
How sweet? Is that? Like awesome?
Speaker 3 (42:00):
You know, get yourself friends like that that you're meeting
sixty years later and having lunch. We will take a
break and come right back. It's Wednesday. If it's good
enough for them, it's good.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Enough for you. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
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