September 30, 2024 • 42 mins
Matt, Ryan, and Shannon talk UK's win over Ole Miss, the atmosphere in Oxford, and Matt Jones' fake injury.
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Speaker 4 (00:33):
Now Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Welcome everyone in Kentucky Sports Radio. Monday, September the thirtieth.
I Matt Jones on a finally partly sunny day here
in Lexington after a weekend of a ton of rain.
We are here at the Chsbargrail Matt Jones, Ryan Lemon
on a celebratory Monday after one of the biggest wins
in UK football modern history, at least by the rankings. Yep,
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Friday we're at Shady Raising, Lexington.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Ryan.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
We're not gonna open the phones yet for a while
because we got to talk about this win. They'll be
I wanna. I'm gonna go into my trip to Oxford.
There's a lot of stuff I want to do, but
first of all, let's just set the scene of Kentucky
wins at Ole Miss, the highest ranked team Kentucky's beaten
on the road since nineteen seventy seven, so I can
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say the highest ranked team we've beaten on the road
in my life was on Saturday, fourth highest ranked team
we've beaten ever, no matter whatever the scenario is, and
a huge win for the program and going into the
bye week gets Kentucky back on track.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
What a day Saturday was.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
It was awesome. I mean it was fantastic. What a
great programming, program changing win it was for the Cats.
And when Old Misk had kind of become the darlings
of college football. You know, they're averaging over fifty points,
their averaging over six hundred yards a game. Kentucky comes
in there and sticks it right in their jockstrap.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
And when he started the stick in, I was like,
you know, it's not that kind of Monday morning sticking
in the eye.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Yes, but go ahead. You were on a roll. Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, I've been so excited just to sit and talk
to you about your trip. I mean to be down there,
to be a part of it. I had foam old,
but I wanted to be there.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Should have been there.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Everybody was asking where you all were, and I said,
they didn't believe.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
I believe.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
He didn't believe.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
They didn't believe, and they didn't show up. No Mario,
no Drew, no Ryan, no Shanning.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You and your boys.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
No.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
So I loved it. And you know, I got nothing
against old miss people. Actually, you know, I love old
Miss Melissa and Matthew. My friends live down there. I've
been down there now for three football games one basketball game.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
I like it.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Let me before because I almost spend some time ripping them.
Let me say some positive things. First of all, not
nicer fans I've ever been, Yeah, I'm dead serious, if
you're just talking people at the game. Nicest fans I've
ever been around, Like, had one person be rude to me,
but it was just because of the comments I'd made
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in the past week. Most people couldn't be nicer. The
tailgate scene LSU might be better.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
But it's right there with them.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It's if you've never been to Old Miss, you got
to try to go because it's just a it's just
a cool thing, right. It's one of the few places
where the stadium is on campus and the tailgates are
on campus, so you really feel like.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
You're part of a college game day. Right.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Everybody's dressed up, Shannon. They treat it like a fashion show,
like everybody's like the women are dressed beautifully, like you know, dresses, boots,
make up. The guys, I mean, they're all kind of
fretty with their little polo shirts, but they all look the.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Kind of the same.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
It's you know, it's it's like a certain version I
guess of southern genteel culture, you know what I mean.
So all that's great, and the food's great, awesome, but
beating them was so good. I mean, like it was
so fun. I've said this many times over the years.
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There's nothing better besides maybe a huge NCAA tournament basketball win.
There's nothing better than being a fan when you beat
a team on their home field. Yep, it's the best.
I Lovekroger Field. I love winning at home, but there's
some about walking into their stadium and winning and as
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all of you walk out, you're the one that's happened. Yes,
it's just a great feeling. You've done that before.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
They did it to Florida a couple years ago.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
It's absolutely awesome. So there weren't a lot of Kentucky
fans there. I mean, I don't know it was. I
remember when we went two years ago. I thought maybe
twenty five thirty percent Kentucky fans, I mean five percent.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Wow, maybe ten it was.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
We didn't have a huge presence, but the ones that
were there, we had a lot of fun. Every Kentucky
fan I saw complete strangers. They just hug you like
you know, I mean, we all acted like we were
all best friends. The I sat on a row where
it was the me and my three buddies, Tall Hubby
and the Turkey Hunter. There was two Kentucky guys and
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in between us was a dude who wasn't a Kentucky fan.
He was a Mississippi State fan who had come just
to root against old miss I.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Love that story, love it.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
So the seven of us form our little unit. There's
a group of guys in front of me on the left,
one of whom shirt.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Was off the entire fourth quarter. He they're Kentucky fans.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
And then a group of guys to my right that
were that way, and we all just kept pointing each other.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
You know what it is? Then when you're at one
of these road.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Things, huh.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
And when he missed that kick, I don't know, man,
I'm not sure when I've lost my stuff that much
in public.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
I was like a little kid.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
I was jumping around, you know, I was doing that
thing you have probably done where you use your friend's
shoulders to like hold you, like leap you up. You
know what I mean, You like to use his leverage
to jump up in the air. I nearly tore my
aco I'm not kidding that. There was a moment I
put my foot because they still have they don't even
have chair backs, right if they still have the bleacher Okay,
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even though we were on the thirteenth row, still bleachers.
I put my foot on the seat and it was wet,
and I.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Almost been I mean chanting if I had walked down
there with a torn acl.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
We we know how you, Matt Jones liked to fake injuries.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
So that was a yeah, we'll get to my namesake.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
There at a minute flopping during the game, but it
was great, and there were multiple times I was like, well,
we're done. Yeah, I mean, let's just start when we
go when they go score, well, first of all, we
get that hit, and I think we have a turnover, yes, right,
I think we have a turnover to start the game.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
And then they go what four plays and score a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And just a matter of a second, and I thought, no, well,
I think at that time it's going.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
To be awful.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, but you know.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
What, from that point on, I'm not sure Mark Stoops, Bush.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Hampden and Brad White could have done a better job.
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Man, I'm not sure they could have coached throw those
first three minutes out a better fifty seven minutes than
after that.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Brad White needs to be commended for what he did
to shut down and stop that old miss offense. The
time of possession was just almost two to one.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Two to one, yeah, two to one, and Bush Hampdon too, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
To make it to where I mean, what do we
have twice as many first downs as they do? Think
so something like that. I mean, you know, we've talked about,
excuse me, converting on third down. We converted on third down.
I don't know what art what it was, but it
had to be an insane number, right, and.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
They were three for three on fourth down, Yeah, three
for three on fourth down.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
But let's talk about the big moments. First of all
that let me say shout out to Dane Key Shanton.
How good was dang Key?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
We finally let Rye pick him is an MVP, and
he goes crazy, has a great first.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Time games over one hundred yards each.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Back to back games over you had to be proud of.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I even got lump in my throat and cheered up
a couple of times because he deserves that moment. Man,
He's worked so hard for it. Dude made some money.
I mean, that's like it was a great gay. Yeah, Amens,
they couldn't cover, They couldn't could not cover. He's a
he was the best receiver on the field.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
I think that's true. And Old Miss got a really
good one too. Yeah, I mean that dude's really good.
The Harris car or whatever, the burying Brown fourth down, like,
first of all stoops never goes for that fourth and eight,
fourth and eight from our own twenty. It was the
right decision, you know. I mean, if we punted it
to him Ryan, we weren't seeing the ball. Even more
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to the point, even if we did, even if we did,
we'd have such little time and we're not an offense
that can do that, you know. So he goes for it,
and then they just throw a ball and I thought,
as the ball's in the air, I go was like,
I can't believe he's doing this.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Then when he caught it. I'm trying to think of
a play.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
That has surprised me more, you know, I was talking
about this on the postgame show. There are big moment plays,
the LSU stop on fourth down, right, the various plays
in the Florida games. But I don't I can't think
of one that was more surprising in the moment, Like,
I mean, who thought that was gonna be complete? And
who thought he was gonna go sixty three yards and
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barry On Brown the ten yard run stopping on a
diamond cutting unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
It is like it's like somebody texted me like it
was like bugs Bunny cartoons where he just stopped. I
don't know how you got yourself stopped.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
I mean, how was he able to sound?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You know, Dane had the big game, but Barrion had
the big play, and that play is gonna be one
that we're gonna talk about forever.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
If that goes into the Stevie got loose kind of
play in terms of everybody will remember that.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
So then I mean, I'm I'm losing it.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
When they put whims It in and I thought whims
It played well, but I was like, he's gonna fumble it.
I said, the only way this game could break our
hearts as if he fumbles it. And there's a split
second where he fumbles it. But I'm on the other
end of the stadium. I can't see it. And I went,
oh no, And then Katus, how about Catus falls on
after no offense to Josh. A horrible game by Josh Cattis,
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but he catches that and he gets redemption.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
On the final plot, how many times does Kentucky fans
do we see a fumble like that and then we
never recover it ever, And yeah, we got a gift,
just falls right and Josh right in his hands. A
guy that when the TV coverage exposed him from missing
some block, they exposed him for dropping some passes. He
was their right place, right time.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
This is right in his lab the stadium at that moment.
I mean, you would have thought you would have thought
all of those people had, like Vineyard Vines had gone
out of business, Like that's what you would have thought
in that stadium. They were so sad and they were
so down. All right, defense, we come out three straight bam.
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Our defense is absolutely dominate, and then the fourth.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Down that's the play that usually kills us.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
That's the play that I thought, that play will haunt
me for him. Yeah, I was on the whatever thirty
five yard I was literally he was straight.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
In front of me. Why didn't our guy jump.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
By the way, I don't know if he missed timed
he's jump or he lost the ball.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Didn't miss time has jump, he didn't jump at all.
He must have lost the ball. He had to have
lost the ball when they caught that, I mean, Shannon,
at that point, you think the game's over all, right, yeah,
But now that they catch it, I'm like, we're losing.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Did you think there was any chance we win at
that moment?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I already had it in my head They're gonna kick
the field goal tiet and we're gonna lose it.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I've seen it a million times. I thought we might
even lose in regulation. But then they get the play.
Then they fumble it and you go, yes, yeah, no
off sides, like again second say that not like you
just think this is another thing we're gonna look back on.
But when he kicked that kick, and and any pretty
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listening who's ever kicked in college will realize that.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
You know, in college, the hash marks are farther apart. Yes,
And you look at that kick.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
That's a tough angle for a right footed kicker to
kick from the right side.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
You know, that's you gotta like.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
And then the moment he kicked it, it was clear
it wasn't going in, you know, I mean Aaron Harrison
that he gave me that a couple of times Brandon
Knight in the Elite eight that game, But there's not
many times.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
I've lost it like I did right there. What an
awesome moment.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
You know, I don't remember the Kentucky win at Penn
State in the seventies. So even though I'm older than you,
this is still the biggest road win of our lifetime. Yes,
there's no doubt about it too. As highly ranked as
they were, people had them already penciled in the playoff practice.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Well you heard on game day Desmond Howard goes, why
are we even picking this game?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Oh? I didn't now he said that, why are we even.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Picking this game? This is obvious? And only McAfee he
was the only one that was like, well you know.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
I'm picking old miss when you know Tucky's all right? Well,
they were more than a R and I. It was
so much fun.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
And if you could have seen this, I don't know
how much on TV they showed the sidelines. I know
they showed Stoop celebrating, but I wish you could have
seen the.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Players losing it.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Say we didn't see losing You remember in ninety eight
when we beat Duke they show the sidelines. Yes, when
when paget or meals, one of those guys hits there
and they show the sidelines, Jamal mcglorre goes running down
the thing and people are going, that's how it was.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
The players, I don't know if I've ever seen people happier.
They were going insane.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
And then on the way off the field, the way
people were just losing it.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
It was, it was, It was what.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
It should be about, right, all the nonsense people talk
about NIO it's ruined college athletic, No, it's not. When
the game start, it's still awesome. Put everything else aside.
If you don't enjoy all that, don't follow it when
the game start.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
First of all, those kids care. You don't think those
kids cared during that.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
You don't think the Alabama Georgia kids cared that night
like the Keys kids care. And then when you get
that moment, that's what that's why you're that's why you're
a UK fan.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
It's for those moments. And I loved it.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
And then when it's over, you know they have and
I'm gonna get to their stadium in a minute. But
one of the things that's actually I think kind of dangerous.
It's hard to get in and out of that stadium.
The entro like, I don't think it would pass code today. Like,
it's hard to get in and out of the entrances.
There's only a couple of ramps in and out. There's
only like three or four exits on one side, and
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so it takes forever to get out of that building.
So there was a lot of just standing there waiting
for people to go to soak in the moment.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
And I'm glad that happened because that was great.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Glad you were there, man, Like I said, I'm jealousied
that I couldn't be there, But you mentioned the moment.
I'm glad Coach Stoop's got that moment. You know, we
were kind of down on him after the South Carolina game.
There were a lot of people questioned his play calls
and things he did in the Georgia game. But Stephen
Peak followed him off the field. That was a great video,
great video. So glad Stoop's got that moment.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
He's doing.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Some Body surfing in the in the locker room.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Locker room looked awesome. Yeah, didn't that look amazing?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
All those videos that came in the locker room just
was just because chili bumps right now and just a
little thinking about it.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
It was great, you know, the whole the whole thing. Uh.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
After it was over, after a few minutes, I called
the Big Dog and I could hear the celebration in
the background.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
That was absolutely awes them.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
You know, it was just that it was such a
fun And then for me, I had such a fun weekend.
You know, probably three of my best friends in the
world there we got to do all that together, staying
at other friends of mine's houses, just being in that environment.
And then then when it's over, and I'll talk more
about this after the break, try to do the postgame
show and Shannon, we can't do anything without drama, right,
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we can't.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
We have to have drama.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I heard.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
But that was also fun.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I can't wait to talk, which we will talk about
when we return Cats with a massive win.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Yeah, how about that.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
We'll take a break very back, It's kiss up, Welcome
back TEKEI Sports Radio. So Chris Christofferson died, yes, and
we're gonna play his music throughout the show. Chris Christofferson,
I wish it wasn't this day so we could actually
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talk about him some more. I've said this before. I'm
not sure there's a human being who had has had
a more interesting life than Chris Christofferson. Vietnam, I'm veteran,
served in the military for a number of years. A
Rhodes scholar, Okay, they ain't needs to be a Rhodes scholar.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Was good friends with Bill Clinton. I think when they
were at Oxford.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Together their roommates.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Even I had heard that. I think that was wrong,
but they were at Oxford at the same time. He
was a country music writer. First wrote songs for other people,
were gonna play a couple of them. Then he became
a singer, was successful as a singer, became an actor,
one a Golden Globe as an actor, was in many
big movies as an actor, then was in The Highwayman.
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Maybe the best assemblage of country musicians of all time.
Through that whole time, everything he did he was great.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I'm not sure there is someone who you talk about
what you want to do in life, live a rich
fulfilling life, who did it.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Better than Chris Christofferson. And I was at his last
public performance.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
His last public performance was Willie Nelson's ninetieth first time. Okay,
they brought him out there. He sang with Roseanne Cash.
He really was struggling. He had dementia, I think, and
she kind of walked him through it. It's it has
helped me make it through the night. You can hear
it on Apple and spotify their performance. It's amazingly sweet
Johnny Cash, his daughter kind of helping him through it.
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And you when you watched it, you could kind of
tell this might be the last time. And he ended
up being the last time he ever publicly performed, passed
away at eighty eight years old.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
You know, you just you laid out his career and
you every time you say that that he was a
Rhodes scholar and friend with Bill Clinton, you know, and
then he became a singer, then he became an actor. Like,
my goodness, the dude could do anything.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
He could do anything. He was a songwriter, then an actor,
a songwriter, then a singer, then an actor.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
It's amazing, right, and a good good at all.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
I was good at all of them. Like he's not
just some guy playing in a movie. He won out,
he won awards for his acting. Right. He was in
the original, well not the original, but he was in
the Modern Star is born Bradley Cooper and he did
that with I think Barbara streisand or something. So anyway,
like he's one of the last I mean Willie's now
who would have thought Willy would be the last one left?
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But all of those guys, he's kind of the last
one of the last ones.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
If you're giving odds in the eighties, who's the guy
that's gonna make.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
I mean, Willie Shannon and Keith Richards still going? Who
you ever imagined they would.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Be the two?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
So all right, so let's talk about the post game
for a minute. So I assumed we were gonna lose,
but you also have to plan as if we went right.
I didn't want to do a public postgame show if
we lost. I didn't want old men's fans just yelling
at me. So I decided, if we won, we would
set up in the grove. So we set up plans.
My friend works at one of the buildings there is,
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you know, as part of the Southern Food Alliance. We
set it up, We have it set up, we get permission,
we have the internet line, et cetera. We win the game,
run back to the place I tweeted out. People are
already gathering. There were ten people that beat me there. Okay,
probably by the thirty minutes before the show, there's fifty
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or sixty people there. We're setting up. All of a sudden,
here comes the Oxford of the Old Miss Police. As
soon as they walk up, Shannon, I know this is
I know what's happening.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Right.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Where's your permit? Do you all have permission to be here?
My friend had dealt with all of it, She had
the answers to all the questions. They were unnecessarily hostile
at first. One guy at least, he's like, show me
your ID, you know, like all this stuff. But we
did exactly what he said, blah blah blah, we have permission,
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blah blah blah. They go away and I think, okay,
well we get to do it. About three minutes later
they come back. Shannon, you are violating the code that
says you cannot run a chord outside of a building
on game day?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Oh what? Cold? What cod?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
There is no code that says you cannot run a
chord out side of a building on game day.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Come on, come on up understore carless there's genera Well
you couldn't because you can't get selser okay, so like
we had to have internet to get it. There are
chords running everywhere, okay, I mean there are generators everywhere,
there's TVs everywhere.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
He says, you can have chords running out of the wall,
but not out of the door. Stop, come on stop? Yeah,
what code is it?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
He says, yes, you can have them coming out of
the building, but they can't go through the window or
through the door.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
So I just ask him, I'm like, look, man, just
be real with me. Why can't we do this? He goes,
these are the rules.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
So I write a tweet and I say, sir, is
this correct? And he looks at it and he goes, well,
it's not the Oxford it's not us. It's Old Miss Athletics.
Old Miss Athletics had called the police to tell him
not to let me do the show. We later found
out even more so, a big donor to Old Miss
Athletics tent was next to it, and they told Old
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Miss Athletics, who then told the who then told the
Old Miss police.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
So this one donor was upset.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Now I still think we could have done it, but
now we're ten minutes from the show. You know, there
comes one. I have to go on the air, so
we just give it. I hate to tell everybody. Now
at this point, one hundred people have gone. I'm like,
we can't do it. Everybody booze, you know, the not me,
but they kind of bow the police. I was like,
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it's not their fault. They're being told what to do.
I mean, the guy kind of calmed down and he
sort of it was like, look, man, my hands are tied.
So I walk inside and do it. As we're doing
the show, Shannon, people are pounding on the door trying
to get in. I love that people are like knocking
on the door, pounding on the door, and so we like,
my friends have to go and go. You can't come in,
you can't come in. So I hated we weren't able
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to do it. But how petty by old miss Athletics
to not.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Because that's what it was.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
That donor did we ran a card the window on
a Saturday. I like, stop it, We'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
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Speaker 6 (23:06):
He'll make them pay.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
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Speaker 4 (23:11):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Well, I wanted Shannon to play the uh the the
helped me make it through the night here, Shanon, but
we played Me and Bobby McGhee.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
I wanted to play the Joplin version of that. But
he wrote this song. Chris.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Chris Johnson wrote this song too.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Chris Chris Stofferson wrote Me and Bobby McGhee. Really, yes,
he he wrote this before he was a singer. Janis
Joplin recorded it. Yeah, it was her only number one hit.
So we all know Janis Joplin, but her one number
one hit was a Chris Christofferson song.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Wow, I got another fun fact. Yes, I didn't know
this that he also used to be a professor at
West Point.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I did not know that. What I believe I'll see
that add that to his all star professor.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
That's amazing.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yeah, made life one person, writes Matt the Matt Jone
I know would have not taken no for an answer. True,
But my friend works there, and so I was like,
she's got she's gonna have to stay here, so you know,
I don't want to. I would have been polite either way,
but I might have like just gone and done it
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and made them pull the cord. But with them that
with you know, she works there and she had done
me a favor and so there's a level I didn't
really feel like Ryan I could push it, you know.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
What I mean, you still owe her some respects, so
she's got to stay there and beat it. That's right,
you know.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
So I the my favorite parts of the whole story
of the UK fans beating on the door during the
show trying to get in, to get to be a
part of it. And now we find out the backstory
that was a booster that complained to the Old Mess
athletics who went to the Old Miss.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Their tent is always in that spot, and you remember, well,
you weren't there two years ago. We did this show
in that same spot, and so she remembered it. So
she remembered two years ago us doing it, and it
was not gonna let it happen again.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And that now you mentioned the Old Miss fans were
really nice. Yeah? Were they even nice after the loss? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Yeah they were. I mean, I will tell them this.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
You know, my postgame show ended, I guess the game
ended like so, I'm thinking local time. The game ended
local time there at like two thirty. My show ended
at like five local time, and they were still partying
in and grow. I mean a lot of them had left.
But but Shannon, the whole thing is crazy. Okay. The
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grove has tents everywhere, Like I mean, you cannot imagine
like a traditional campus you would see on a television show. Yeah,
with all the grass everywhere and all that. Now imagine
it's all taken up with tents. Okay, and they're set up.
But here's the crazy thing. These people don't set up
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their own tents. Yeah, there are companies that they pay
to come set up and break down the tents, and
they do the chairs, and some of them do the food, and.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
So there's tents everywhere.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
But when people leave, they just leave the tents and chairs,
and at night someone comes and takes them all down.
So these people like, they don't do it themselves, they
pay for other people to do it. Apparently, on Friday
night at seven pm, they open up the grove and
all of these people who work for companies who are
representing tailgaters. At seven they open the campus and they
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all run and get their spots shinning. But it's not
the people tailgating, it's the people they've hired.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
To do the tailgating for them.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
So the spots are not reserved.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Well maybe like for the biggest people, but in general no.
But people want their normal spots, so they hire people
to go run and get their specific spot that they want.
I'm not kidding, this is not a joke.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I knew they had people.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
These people do not set up their own tents. They
hire com and there are companies that exist in Oxford
solely two eight times a year run and set people's tailgates.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So you want to get a hire a company. It's
got some fast dudes that can get to the spots.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
The dudes hire old miss students and they're like, you
are in charge of getting Shannon spot. You are in charge,
and like I think the students get like one hundred
bucks to come for five minutes, run, get the spot
and go home.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
What a gig? I mean if I'm an old miss student,
I'm doing that every Saturday.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Every Friday night, right, every Friday night, Friday.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah. Now, did you guys make it to the library.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Oh no, it's one hundred dollars to get in. Are
you kidding with?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
But they won? I thought maybe you'd cell a brighton.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Let's go I was I didn't talk trash to people
after the game. The only person who really talked trash
to me. I told this story on the postgame show. Again,
you'd have to see it. But the exit to this
place is a disaster.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I'm not like, one of these days, I'm worried we'll
hear a story that somebody got hurt. Cause it's like
it narrows you through two buildings and you're stuck and
all these people are funneling through it, and it's a
good way to somebody get hurt. Probably took us fifteen
minutes to walk I don't know, two hundred.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Yards, that's how crowded it.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Wow, And you're kind of stuck, and I don't like
that feeling, yeah, claustrophobic feelings.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
I didn't like it. But we're all pushed together and.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
There's this guy standing close to us who clearly wants
to say something to me. And I didn't hear this,
but one of my friends said he kept going, I'm
saying something, and his girlfriend was like, don't saying and
he was like, I'm saying something. His girlfriend was like,
don't say anything. And finally he looks at me and
goes Matt Jones, why don't you just go.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Vote for Kamala.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
That's what he came That's what he came up with.
He's had all that time of think and apparently she.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Looked at him and said, that's what you decided to say. Wow,
And I just looked back. I heard him, and I
was like, okay, okay, thanks.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
I mean it was really got you with that one.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
I was burned. I was on fire at that moment.
Couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So how did how'd your boys do? Your three boys?
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Did?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
They think?
Speaker 6 (29:06):
They had a lot?
Speaker 5 (29:07):
They had a lot of fun. You know, they know
it's their kind of vacation and all that. So I
think they had a lot of fun and it was great.
Now let's go back to the game for a second.
Talk about who was amazing. We talked about day Dion
Walker is getting close to the Josh Allen as good
a defensive player as I've seen here. His stats don't
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end up like it because he's getting two or two
and a half blockers every play, Yes, but the dude
dominates every possession. And there was that one possession where
they were old Miss was able to run in the
middle of the field one time, and it was because
if you watch, Dion was kind of tired, but when
he is at full strength, they're not getting through there.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
He missed one tackle and I don't know if you
remember this. He grabs a guy and the guy kind
of shakes from him, and I thought, that's the first
time I've ever seen him miss a tackle.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
He is dominant and he like we should appreciate. I
don't know that we'll ever see a defensive tackle that
good again.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Here.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Not only is he good, he's strong, he's fast, he's smart. Yeah,
he's got all the intangibles. The gate dude is gonna
make a lot of money for many years playing in
the NFL.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Twitter was full of people going, I don't think people
are talking enough about Dion Walker. Maybe that's true. We are,
but he is a he's dominant. JJ Weaver played very
will the entire game. Octavius Oxen died. He played really well.
Got a lot of pressure on the quarterback. How about
our corners with Maxwell Harriston out, how many times in
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the second half was the receiver one on one and
one guy had to make a play and they'd make
it every single time.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah, the hardaway kid Hardaway made two or three like that,
very much so, and then they brought in the true freshman, Nichols,
Ryan Nichols. I think, see how you pronounced his first name.
He made a great play, got hurt on the play,
but he made a great play. So they're they're pin
punching these guys in holes and Ole Miss. Okay, we're
gonna go with these new corners, and our corners stood
up to the challenge.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
I thought the off fitsive line, for the most part,
especially in the second half, did really well. First half
struggle a little bit. Second half did well against a
very good defensive line.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
Yeah, I mean Old.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Miss is probably the we've played the first and second.
I mean, we play the four best defensive We still
got Tennessee coming up, but Old Miss is good.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
I thought did a pretty good job.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
They did the other Their two d tackles are considered
two of the best D tackle tandem in the conference.
And really they didn't hurt us that much. I mean,
Brock got hit a couple times, but and a couple
of may men his fault hold on the ball just
a little too long. Outside of that, though, I think
our old line did a good job.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
But because of how good their defensive tackles are. We
had to throw because we were not able to run
between the tackles like we've done in so many games.
Which gets it to the second half where I think
you have to say, if we wondered if brock vandn
Griff is the guy, he's the guy.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Yeah. I thought he was awesome in the second half.
I mean awesome.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
He hit how many third downs did he hit a six, seven, eight,
nine yard completion?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
We had to you know, we we we said after
the South Carolina game, we can't really judge him yet
because he was getting no time. He's two steps back
and he's got to release it. Now we've seen when
he got able to get a little time. He's settled
in a little bit. Him and Dane have got a
good connection now, good chemistry going. When he knows when
if he needs that third and six, he can go
in and thought and Danis'll make the cat.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
How tough is he when he runs the ball? I
mean how many times did he make seems to make
good decisions on when to run. A couple of times
just took a guy head on and knocked him down.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I don't like it when he does that, but it
is kind of cool when he does.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Well. We needed it.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Yeah, so, and then the game plan was so good,
I mean it was. It was so good like they were.
They made the right decisions at the right times. Bush
Hampden man, I thought was excellent.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Yeah, I really did.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
I thought his game plan was excellent. And the control
of the ball like they did. And then Alex Rayner,
It's like when Alex Rainer kicks, I know it's going in.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I think the one drive was like a fifteen play
drive had another drive was like eleven plays, just this
time consuming, eat up the clock, pounding, ground it and
just finally get it down we can score some points.
A beautiful game plan. That's why the time of possession
was so important to keep old missus offense off the field.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Now, I didn't know the l after the game that
they were dunking basketball's on a goal with our with
our lower You didn't see it down there.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
I couldn't. I didn't see it. What's not hiss?
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Right?
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Like I love whoever made the picture of Anthony Davis
blocking it. That was brilliant. Whoever did that? That makes
me glad.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
We beat them even more and we got to talk
about their fake injuries.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I'm ready to talk about that.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Well, let's just we'll lead the next sec. Okay, how
dare he disgrace my name like that?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Keep your name out of his filthy mask.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
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Speaker 6 (33:52):
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Speaker 2 (33:52):
Yes, am I not.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Known for my toughness?
Speaker 4 (33:55):
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Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio.
This has helped me make it through the night. This
is what he sang the last time he sang there
at the Willie Nilson Show.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Did you write this one, dude?
Speaker 6 (34:36):
I think he did?
Speaker 5 (34:36):
Yes, Wow, I think he wrote pretty much everything he did,
and then he wrote stuff for other people too. One
person rights Matt on the text Machine. You make it
sound like Chris Christofferson was the most interesting man in
the world.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
I think he was.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
I can't think of a I can't think of a
singer who's the singer with a more interesting life. I mean,
Elvis had a pretty interesting life when you consider that
he was in the military and he did all stuff,
and he was kind of the first like mega rock
star superstar Dolly Parton I think has an interesting life
when you look at her history. But I can't think
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of anybody that did more different things and was successful
at it than him.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
If you think of one, let me know.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
People keep sitting us fact he was a rugby star.
It was unsports Illustrated.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
He was in Sports Illustrate as a rugby star, is
what they said. Yeah, I'm learning stuff, even myself. He
was featured in.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Sports illustrat for playing rugby, football and track at Pomona College.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
Yeah, he's the only person to ever be a Rhodes
Scholar from wherever Pomona College.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
I don't even know where that is.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
But he is the most amazing man.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
He's the most interesting man in the world. One person
rights mad I was at the game Saturday. You are
exactly right, I thought to myself as I was walking out,
this may be the most dangerous entrance and exit I've
ever seen at a stadium.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
It really is. I mean, you.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Can't The walkways are narrow, the exits are narrow, and
if something were happened, you couldn't get out.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Like it would be.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
It would be dangerous, I think because obviously everybody stayed
at the end of the game, because everybody laughed at
the very end, which it was homecoming, so they had
a huge crowd crowd.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
I think it was their biggest crowd ever.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
They're not making a big deal about it because they lost,
but I think it was their biggest I think it
was their biggest crowd.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
Ever.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
How did the nice young lady from Kentucky do in
the homecoming?
Speaker 6 (36:24):
I don't know which one she was, so I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I saw a lot of people from Kentucky, like dads
whose daughters went to Old Miss Huh, So there was
a lot of that. I will tell you this, Shannon.
There was a guy who came up to me and
he wanted a picture, and I think either his daughter
was in homecoming or his daughter was in a sorority.
So he had his daughter's picture like on a sticker
on his chest. Yeah, and he was like, can you
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believe we did this? Brother like screaming and he and
he was going to take a picture, and his wife was.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
Like, cover up our daughter, cover up our daughter.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
And so he used his drink, he used his cup
of urban to cover up the picture of his daughter
so that there could be the picture of him with me.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah, she would have been she would have been shamed
in her sorority if that picture got leaked out. Look
look at your dad. Would he celebrate with the Kentucky guy?
Speaker 6 (37:13):
Yeah? All right? The stadium.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
Everything I said about the noise, I say this with
love and respect, old miss fans. I was right about
all of it. It was I don't know how it
sounded on television.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
It was not loud.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Now they do, I think because their fans are so quiet.
Turn the volume up on the music.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
So loud. That's so loud. But the fans themselves are
not that loud.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
So if you were to go back and listen, go
back and watch the game on replay, you're gonna hear noise.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
But ask yourself. Is that the crowd or is that
the music because the music was loud. But I will
say of the SEC stadiums I've been to, the least loud,
Kroger Field is louder, and I don't think we're one
of the loudest, but it's louder than that. Wow.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Like we said, a homecoming crowd a great game, middle
of the day and it can't bring it. The crowd
can't bring it.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Kind of play like every song that tries to get
people excited that you can and the students would be
into it, but pretty much everybody else it's.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
A very genteel crowd. You know.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
It's a very like hatty Toddy hot hatty Toddy bo pilate.
It's like, that's that's what it is the whole time.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Because we've kind of criticized our crowd over the years.
But if you're telling me our crowd is now better,
is better than oll miss that? Yeah, we've improved.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
I am more confident in my opinion today than I
was before.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
I went.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Okay, you were there fake injuries.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Chanting. They are the fakiness injury team of all time.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
That was the first acting I've ever seen and I've
seen a lot of bad movies.
Speaker 5 (38:53):
I mean the Matt Jones play is that the most
egregious fake injury?
Speaker 6 (38:58):
I mean, we had that one dude.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
Do you remember the dude we had who tried to
act like he had to get resuscitated. That was our guy,
that was our intern. What's his name, Tayshawn Manning? Yes,
you remember that Manning?
Speaker 6 (39:14):
But even the Matt Jones was worse, wasn't it right?
Speaker 2 (39:18):
It's it's bad and if they've got to do something
about it, because I mean, and we're Kentucky's guilty of
doing it. Also, you know, we can't act like we
don't do it. Also, but the old miss seemed like.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
It's becoming so common that now the announcers are finally
calling bs.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
I heard Sean McDonough just destroyed him.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Yeah, luckily he was able to make it off the
field and was on strings.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
I'm so happy he was able to walk off the
field or his own strength. That devastating injury.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
Well, the thing that did the thing, I mean, Lane
Kiffin is doing it.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
Some teams do it to slow down a fast offense,
but I actually think the way which is bad, But
Lane Kiffin, I actually think does it worse.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
He's doing it to not have to called time out? Yeah, right, Like.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
He's literally doing it to make it be a time
out that he doesn't have to use.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
So what can you do?
Speaker 5 (40:09):
So here was my Here's gonna be my guess because
first of all, you can't penalize it because what if
they're actually hurt?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Correct?
Speaker 5 (40:17):
So my thing is, if you go down and it
leads to a stoppage of play, you have to sit
out like five plays or seven plays.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
About the rest of the game. You're hurt, you shouldn't
be playing hurt.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Okay, I don't think the rest of the game is fake.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Oh you're hurt though you're injured, you shouldn't be a crime,
can't We can't make players play injured.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Well, let's say five plays or seven plays.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
I think players are gonna be a lot less likely
to do it because that's gonna keep them from.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Being in the game. Yeah, they will play.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I like that idea because right now you just come
off with that one play, you know, they pull the
that we should call it the duke flop because they're
just flopping down. But maybe if you pull them off
for five plays.
Speaker 6 (41:01):
Because one play the next like formation, they just might
not be in. Yeah, so it's fine.
Speaker 4 (41:06):
At least I think at least the entire drive. I
don't care how many plays, the.
Speaker 5 (41:11):
Entire the entire drive. I'd be all right with that.
But I think that would slow it down for a little bit.
Or you just throw a flag if you think it is.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
The problem is what if they're actually and so, then
what are you doing there? It's it's a tough thing.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
The official can't go in the tent with them to
kind of evaluate the injury.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
There's no questioning that. When I come on, there's no question.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Matt Jones when that was the worst one, it reminded
me of that Chris Jones Louisville one where he acted
like he got hitting the nose that one time and
he went flying back.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
The quarterback is two feet to the right of them
going go down. You can see em motioning go down,
go down, and he just falls.
Speaker 5 (41:47):
I mean, I also feel like, if it's that bad
and you see it after the game, the SEC should
like make him sit out a quarter or something in
the next gime.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Well, there are some things like that you can do
to kind of get away from them because it's getting
it's getting awful.
Speaker 5 (42:00):
Way Kiffen clearly uses it as a stretch, as a strategy,
like he's not like Lane Kiffin is using it as
a I don't want to burn a time out here, do.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
It because he can. He can right now, he can
use it.
Speaker 6 (42:12):
So it is what it is. But we won and
that's what matters. All right.
Speaker 5 (42:16):
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Speaker 6 (01:31):
Ryan.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
We're not gonna open the phones yet for a while
because we got to talk about this win. They'll be
I wanna. I'm gonna go into my trip to Oxford.
There's a lot of stuff I want to do, but
first of all, let's just set the scene of Kentucky
wins at Ole Miss, the highest ranked team Kentucky's beaten
on the road since nineteen seventy seven, so I can
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say the highest ranked team we've beaten on the road
in my life was on Saturday, fourth highest ranked team
we've beaten ever, no matter whatever the scenario is, and
a huge win for the program and going into the
bye week gets Kentucky back on track.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
What a day Saturday was.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
It was awesome. I mean it was fantastic. What a
great programming, program changing win it was for the Cats.
And when Old Misk had kind of become the darlings
of college football. You know, they're averaging over fifty points,
their averaging over six hundred yards a game. Kentucky comes
in there and sticks it right in their jockstrap.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
And when he started the stick in, I was like,
you know, it's not that kind of Monday morning sticking
in the eye.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Yes, but go ahead. You were on a roll. Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, I've been so excited just to sit and talk
to you about your trip. I mean to be down there,
to be a part of it. I had foam old,
but I wanted to be there.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Should have been there.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Everybody was asking where you all were, and I said,
they didn't believe.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
I believe.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
He didn't believe.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
They didn't believe, and they didn't show up. No Mario,
no Drew, no Ryan, no Shanning.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You and your boys.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
No.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
So I loved it. And you know, I got nothing
against old miss people. Actually, you know, I love old
Miss Melissa and Matthew. My friends live down there. I've
been down there now for three football games one basketball game.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
I like it.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Let me before because I almost spend some time ripping them.
Let me say some positive things. First of all, not
nicer fans I've ever been, Yeah, I'm dead serious, if
you're just talking people at the game. Nicest fans I've
ever been around, Like, had one person be rude to me,
but it was just because of the comments I'd made
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in the past week. Most people couldn't be nicer. The
tailgate scene LSU might be better.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
But it's right there with them.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It's if you've never been to Old Miss, you got
to try to go because it's just a it's just
a cool thing, right. It's one of the few places
where the stadium is on campus and the tailgates are
on campus, so you really feel like.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
You're part of a college game day. Right.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Everybody's dressed up, Shannon. They treat it like a fashion show,
like everybody's like the women are dressed beautifully, like you know, dresses, boots,
make up. The guys, I mean, they're all kind of
fretty with their little polo shirts, but they all look the.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Kind of the same.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
It's you know, it's it's like a certain version I
guess of southern genteel culture, you know what I mean.
So all that's great, and the food's great, awesome, but
beating them was so good. I mean, like it was
so fun. I've said this many times over the years.
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There's nothing better besides maybe a huge NCAA tournament basketball win.
There's nothing better than being a fan when you beat
a team on their home field. Yep, it's the best.
I Lovekroger Field. I love winning at home, but there's
some about walking into their stadium and winning and as
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all of you walk out, you're the one that's happened. Yes,
it's just a great feeling. You've done that before.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
They did it to Florida a couple years ago.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
It's absolutely awesome. So there weren't a lot of Kentucky
fans there. I mean, I don't know it was. I
remember when we went two years ago. I thought maybe
twenty five thirty percent Kentucky fans, I mean five percent.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Wow, maybe ten it was.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
We didn't have a huge presence, but the ones that
were there, we had a lot of fun. Every Kentucky
fan I saw complete strangers. They just hug you like
you know, I mean, we all acted like we were
all best friends. The I sat on a row where
it was the me and my three buddies, Tall Hubby
and the Turkey Hunter. There was two Kentucky guys and
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in between us was a dude who wasn't a Kentucky fan.
He was a Mississippi State fan who had come just
to root against old miss I.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Love that story, love it.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
So the seven of us form our little unit. There's
a group of guys in front of me on the left,
one of whom shirt.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Was off the entire fourth quarter. He they're Kentucky fans.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
And then a group of guys to my right that
were that way, and we all just kept pointing each other.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
You know what it is? Then when you're at one
of these road.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Things, huh.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
And when he missed that kick, I don't know, man,
I'm not sure when I've lost my stuff that much
in public.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
I was like a little kid.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
I was jumping around, you know, I was doing that
thing you have probably done where you use your friend's
shoulders to like hold you, like leap you up. You
know what I mean, You like to use his leverage
to jump up in the air. I nearly tore my
aco I'm not kidding that. There was a moment I
put my foot because they still have they don't even
have chair backs, right if they still have the bleacher Okay,
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even though we were on the thirteenth row, still bleachers.
I put my foot on the seat and it was wet,
and I.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Almost been I mean chanting if I had walked down
there with a torn acl.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
We we know how you, Matt Jones liked to fake injuries.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
So that was a yeah, we'll get to my namesake.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
There at a minute flopping during the game, but it
was great, and there were multiple times I was like, well,
we're done. Yeah, I mean, let's just start when we
go when they go score, well, first of all, we
get that hit, and I think we have a turnover, yes, right,
I think we have a turnover to start the game.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
And then they go what four plays and score a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And just a matter of a second, and I thought, no, well,
I think at that time it's going.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
To be awful.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, but you know.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
What, from that point on, I'm not sure Mark Stoops, Bush.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Hampden and Brad White could have done a better job.
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Man, I'm not sure they could have coached throw those
first three minutes out a better fifty seven minutes than
after that.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Brad White needs to be commended for what he did
to shut down and stop that old miss offense. The
time of possession was just almost two to one.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Two to one, yeah, two to one, and Bush Hampdon too, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
To make it to where I mean, what do we
have twice as many first downs as they do? Think
so something like that. I mean, you know, we've talked about,
excuse me, converting on third down. We converted on third down.
I don't know what art what it was, but it
had to be an insane number, right, and.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
They were three for three on fourth down, Yeah, three
for three on fourth down.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
But let's talk about the big moments. First of all
that let me say shout out to Dane Key Shanton.
How good was dang Key?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
We finally let Rye pick him is an MVP, and
he goes crazy, has a great first.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Time games over one hundred yards each.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Back to back games over you had to be proud of.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I even got lump in my throat and cheered up
a couple of times because he deserves that moment. Man,
He's worked so hard for it. Dude made some money.
I mean, that's like it was a great gay. Yeah, Amens,
they couldn't cover, They couldn't could not cover. He's a
he was the best receiver on the field.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
I think that's true. And Old Miss got a really
good one too. Yeah, I mean that dude's really good.
The Harris car or whatever, the burying Brown fourth down, like,
first of all stoops never goes for that fourth and eight,
fourth and eight from our own twenty. It was the
right decision, you know. I mean, if we punted it
to him Ryan, we weren't seeing the ball. Even more
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to the point, even if we did, even if we did,
we'd have such little time and we're not an offense
that can do that, you know. So he goes for it,
and then they just throw a ball and I thought,
as the ball's in the air, I go was like,
I can't believe he's doing this.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Then when he caught it. I'm trying to think of
a play.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
That has surprised me more, you know, I was talking
about this on the postgame show. There are big moment plays,
the LSU stop on fourth down, right, the various plays
in the Florida games. But I don't I can't think
of one that was more surprising in the moment, Like,
I mean, who thought that was gonna be complete? And
who thought he was gonna go sixty three yards and
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barry On Brown the ten yard run stopping on a
diamond cutting unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
It is like it's like somebody texted me like it
was like bugs Bunny cartoons where he just stopped. I
don't know how you got yourself stopped.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
I mean, how was he able to sound?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You know, Dane had the big game, but Barrion had
the big play, and that play is gonna be one
that we're gonna talk about forever.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
If that goes into the Stevie got loose kind of
play in terms of everybody will remember that.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
So then I mean, I'm I'm losing it.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
When they put whims It in and I thought whims
It played well, but I was like, he's gonna fumble it.
I said, the only way this game could break our
hearts as if he fumbles it. And there's a split
second where he fumbles it. But I'm on the other
end of the stadium. I can't see it. And I went,
oh no, And then Katus, how about Catus falls on
after no offense to Josh. A horrible game by Josh Cattis,
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but he catches that and he gets redemption.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
On the final plot, how many times does Kentucky fans
do we see a fumble like that and then we
never recover it ever, And yeah, we got a gift,
just falls right and Josh right in his hands. A
guy that when the TV coverage exposed him from missing
some block, they exposed him for dropping some passes. He
was their right place, right time.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
This is right in his lab the stadium at that moment.
I mean, you would have thought you would have thought
all of those people had, like Vineyard Vines had gone
out of business, Like that's what you would have thought
in that stadium. They were so sad and they were
so down. All right, defense, we come out three straight bam.
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Our defense is absolutely dominate, and then the fourth.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Down that's the play that usually kills us.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
That's the play that I thought, that play will haunt
me for him. Yeah, I was on the whatever thirty
five yard I was literally he was straight.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
In front of me. Why didn't our guy jump.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
By the way, I don't know if he missed timed
he's jump or he lost the ball.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Didn't miss time has jump, he didn't jump at all.
He must have lost the ball. He had to have
lost the ball when they caught that, I mean, Shannon,
at that point, you think the game's over all, right, yeah,
But now that they catch it, I'm like, we're losing.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Did you think there was any chance we win at
that moment?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I already had it in my head They're gonna kick
the field goal tiet and we're gonna lose it.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I've seen it a million times. I thought we might
even lose in regulation. But then they get the play.
Then they fumble it and you go, yes, yeah, no
off sides, like again second say that not like you
just think this is another thing we're gonna look back on.
But when he kicked that kick, and and any pretty
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listening who's ever kicked in college will realize that.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
You know, in college, the hash marks are farther apart. Yes,
And you look at that kick.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
That's a tough angle for a right footed kicker to
kick from the right side.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
You know, that's you gotta like.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
And then the moment he kicked it, it was clear
it wasn't going in, you know, I mean Aaron Harrison
that he gave me that a couple of times Brandon
Knight in the Elite eight that game, But there's not
many times.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
I've lost it like I did right there. What an
awesome moment.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
You know, I don't remember the Kentucky win at Penn
State in the seventies. So even though I'm older than you,
this is still the biggest road win of our lifetime. Yes,
there's no doubt about it too. As highly ranked as
they were, people had them already penciled in the playoff practice.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Well you heard on game day Desmond Howard goes, why
are we even picking this game?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Oh? I didn't now he said that, why are we even.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Picking this game? This is obvious? And only McAfee he
was the only one that was like, well you know.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
I'm picking old miss when you know Tucky's all right? Well,
they were more than a R and I. It was
so much fun.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
And if you could have seen this, I don't know
how much on TV they showed the sidelines. I know
they showed Stoop celebrating, but I wish you could have
seen the.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Players losing it.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Say we didn't see losing You remember in ninety eight
when we beat Duke they show the sidelines. Yes, when
when paget or meals, one of those guys hits there
and they show the sidelines, Jamal mcglorre goes running down
the thing and people are going, that's how it was.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
The players, I don't know if I've ever seen people happier.
They were going insane.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
And then on the way off the field, the way
people were just losing it.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
It was, it was, It was what.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
It should be about, right, all the nonsense people talk
about NIO it's ruined college athletic, No, it's not. When
the game start, it's still awesome. Put everything else aside.
If you don't enjoy all that, don't follow it when
the game start.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
First of all, those kids care. You don't think those
kids cared during that.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
You don't think the Alabama Georgia kids cared that night
like the Keys kids care. And then when you get
that moment, that's what that's why you're that's why you're
a UK fan.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
It's for those moments. And I loved it.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
And then when it's over, you know they have and
I'm gonna get to their stadium in a minute. But
one of the things that's actually I think kind of dangerous.
It's hard to get in and out of that stadium.
The entro like, I don't think it would pass code today. Like,
it's hard to get in and out of the entrances.
There's only a couple of ramps in and out. There's
only like three or four exits on one side, and
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so it takes forever to get out of that building.
So there was a lot of just standing there waiting
for people to go to soak in the moment.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
And I'm glad that happened because that was great.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Glad you were there, man, Like I said, I'm jealousied
that I couldn't be there, But you mentioned the moment.
I'm glad Coach Stoop's got that moment. You know, we
were kind of down on him after the South Carolina game.
There were a lot of people questioned his play calls
and things he did in the Georgia game. But Stephen
Peak followed him off the field. That was a great video,
great video. So glad Stoop's got that moment.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
He's doing.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Some Body surfing in the in the locker room.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Locker room looked awesome. Yeah, didn't that look amazing?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
All those videos that came in the locker room just
was just because chili bumps right now and just a
little thinking about it.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
It was great, you know, the whole the whole thing. Uh.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
After it was over, after a few minutes, I called
the Big Dog and I could hear the celebration in
the background.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
That was absolutely awes them.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
You know, it was just that it was such a
fun And then for me, I had such a fun weekend.
You know, probably three of my best friends in the
world there we got to do all that together, staying
at other friends of mine's houses, just being in that environment.
And then then when it's over, and I'll talk more
about this after the break, try to do the postgame
show and Shannon, we can't do anything without drama, right,
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we can't.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
We have to have drama.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I heard.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
But that was also fun.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I can't wait to talk, which we will talk about
when we return Cats with a massive win.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Yeah, how about that.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
We'll take a break very back, It's kiss up, Welcome
back TEKEI Sports Radio. So Chris Christofferson died, yes, and
we're gonna play his music throughout the show. Chris Christofferson,
I wish it wasn't this day so we could actually
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talk about him some more. I've said this before. I'm
not sure there's a human being who had has had
a more interesting life than Chris Christofferson. Vietnam, I'm veteran,
served in the military for a number of years. A
Rhodes scholar, Okay, they ain't needs to be a Rhodes scholar.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Was good friends with Bill Clinton. I think when they
were at Oxford.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Together their roommates.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Even I had heard that. I think that was wrong,
but they were at Oxford at the same time. He
was a country music writer. First wrote songs for other people,
were gonna play a couple of them. Then he became
a singer, was successful as a singer, became an actor,
one a Golden Globe as an actor, was in many
big movies as an actor, then was in The Highwayman.
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Maybe the best assemblage of country musicians of all time.
Through that whole time, everything he did he was great.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I'm not sure there is someone who you talk about
what you want to do in life, live a rich
fulfilling life, who did it.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Better than Chris Christofferson. And I was at his last
public performance.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
His last public performance was Willie Nelson's ninetieth first time. Okay,
they brought him out there. He sang with Roseanne Cash.
He really was struggling. He had dementia, I think, and
she kind of walked him through it. It's it has
helped me make it through the night. You can hear
it on Apple and spotify their performance. It's amazingly sweet
Johnny Cash, his daughter kind of helping him through it.
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And you when you watched it, you could kind of
tell this might be the last time. And he ended
up being the last time he ever publicly performed, passed
away at eighty eight years old.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
You know, you just you laid out his career and
you every time you say that that he was a
Rhodes scholar and friend with Bill Clinton, you know, and
then he became a singer, then he became an actor. Like,
my goodness, the dude could do anything.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
He could do anything. He was a songwriter, then an actor,
a songwriter, then a singer, then an actor.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
It's amazing, right, and a good good at all.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
I was good at all of them. Like he's not
just some guy playing in a movie. He won out,
he won awards for his acting. Right. He was in
the original, well not the original, but he was in
the Modern Star is born Bradley Cooper and he did
that with I think Barbara streisand or something. So anyway,
like he's one of the last I mean Willie's now
who would have thought Willy would be the last one left?
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But all of those guys, he's kind of the last
one of the last ones.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
If you're giving odds in the eighties, who's the guy
that's gonna make.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
I mean, Willie Shannon and Keith Richards still going? Who
you ever imagined they would.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Be the two?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I guess.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
So all right, so let's talk about the post game
for a minute. So I assumed we were gonna lose,
but you also have to plan as if we went right.
I didn't want to do a public postgame show if
we lost. I didn't want old men's fans just yelling
at me. So I decided, if we won, we would
set up in the grove. So we set up plans.
My friend works at one of the buildings there is,
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you know, as part of the Southern Food Alliance. We
set it up, We have it set up, we get permission,
we have the internet line, et cetera. We win the game,
run back to the place I tweeted out. People are
already gathering. There were ten people that beat me there. Okay,
probably by the thirty minutes before the show, there's fifty
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or sixty people there. We're setting up. All of a sudden,
here comes the Oxford of the Old Miss Police. As
soon as they walk up, Shannon, I know this is
I know what's happening.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Right.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Where's your permit? Do you all have permission to be here?
My friend had dealt with all of it, She had
the answers to all the questions. They were unnecessarily hostile
at first. One guy at least, he's like, show me
your ID, you know, like all this stuff. But we
did exactly what he said, blah blah blah, we have permission,
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blah blah blah. They go away and I think, okay,
well we get to do it. About three minutes later
they come back. Shannon, you are violating the code that
says you cannot run a chord outside of a building
on game day?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Oh what? Cold? What cod?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
There is no code that says you cannot run a
chord out side of a building on game day.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Come on, come on up understore carless there's genera Well
you couldn't because you can't get selser okay, so like
we had to have internet to get it. There are
chords running everywhere, okay, I mean there are generators everywhere,
there's TVs everywhere.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
He says, you can have chords running out of the wall,
but not out of the door. Stop, come on stop? Yeah,
what code is it?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
He says, yes, you can have them coming out of
the building, but they can't go through the window or
through the door.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
So I just ask him, I'm like, look, man, just
be real with me. Why can't we do this? He goes,
these are the rules.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
So I write a tweet and I say, sir, is
this correct? And he looks at it and he goes, well,
it's not the Oxford it's not us. It's Old Miss Athletics.
Old Miss Athletics had called the police to tell him
not to let me do the show. We later found
out even more so, a big donor to Old Miss
Athletics tent was next to it, and they told Old
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Miss Athletics, who then told the who then told the
Old Miss police.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
So this one donor was upset.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Now I still think we could have done it, but
now we're ten minutes from the show. You know, there
comes one. I have to go on the air, so
we just give it. I hate to tell everybody. Now
at this point, one hundred people have gone. I'm like,
we can't do it. Everybody booze, you know, the not me,
but they kind of bow the police. I was like,
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it's not their fault. They're being told what to do.
I mean, the guy kind of calmed down and he
sort of it was like, look, man, my hands are tied.
So I walk inside and do it. As we're doing
the show, Shannon, people are pounding on the door trying
to get in. I love that people are like knocking
on the door, pounding on the door, and so we like,
my friends have to go and go. You can't come in,
you can't come in. So I hated we weren't able
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to do it. But how petty by old miss Athletics
to not.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Because that's what it was.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
That donor did we ran a card the window on
a Saturday. I like, stop it, We'll be right back.
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Speaker 6 (23:06):
He'll make them pay.
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Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Well, I wanted Shannon to play the uh the the
helped me make it through the night here, Shanon, but
we played Me and Bobby McGhee.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
I wanted to play the Joplin version of that. But
he wrote this song. Chris.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Chris Johnson wrote this song too.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Chris Chris Stofferson wrote Me and Bobby McGhee. Really, yes,
he he wrote this before he was a singer. Janis
Joplin recorded it. Yeah, it was her only number one hit.
So we all know Janis Joplin, but her one number
one hit was a Chris Christofferson song.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Wow, I got another fun fact. Yes, I didn't know
this that he also used to be a professor at
West Point.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I did not know that. What I believe I'll see
that add that to his all star professor.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
That's amazing.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yeah, made life one person, writes Matt the Matt Jone
I know would have not taken no for an answer. True,
But my friend works there, and so I was like,
she's got she's gonna have to stay here, so you know,
I don't want to. I would have been polite either way,
but I might have like just gone and done it
(24:16):
and made them pull the cord. But with them that
with you know, she works there and she had done
me a favor and so there's a level I didn't
really feel like Ryan I could push it, you know.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
What I mean, you still owe her some respects, so
she's got to stay there and beat it. That's right,
you know.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
So I the my favorite parts of the whole story
of the UK fans beating on the door during the
show trying to get in, to get to be a
part of it. And now we find out the backstory
that was a booster that complained to the Old Mess
athletics who went to the Old Miss.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Their tent is always in that spot, and you remember, well,
you weren't there two years ago. We did this show
in that same spot, and so she remembered it. So
she remembered two years ago us doing it, and it
was not gonna let it happen again.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And that now you mentioned the Old Miss fans were
really nice. Yeah? Were they even nice after the loss? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Yeah they were. I mean, I will tell them this.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
You know, my postgame show ended, I guess the game
ended like so, I'm thinking local time. The game ended
local time there at like two thirty. My show ended
at like five local time, and they were still partying
in and grow. I mean a lot of them had left.
But but Shannon, the whole thing is crazy. Okay. The
(25:29):
grove has tents everywhere, Like I mean, you cannot imagine
like a traditional campus you would see on a television show. Yeah,
with all the grass everywhere and all that. Now imagine
it's all taken up with tents. Okay, and they're set up.
But here's the crazy thing. These people don't set up
(25:50):
their own tents. Yeah, there are companies that they pay
to come set up and break down the tents, and
they do the chairs, and some of them do the food, and.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
So there's tents everywhere.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
But when people leave, they just leave the tents and chairs,
and at night someone comes and takes them all down.
So these people like, they don't do it themselves, they
pay for other people to do it. Apparently, on Friday
night at seven pm, they open up the grove and
all of these people who work for companies who are
representing tailgaters. At seven they open the campus and they
(26:27):
all run and get their spots shinning. But it's not
the people tailgating, it's the people they've hired.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
To do the tailgating for them.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
So the spots are not reserved.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Well maybe like for the biggest people, but in general no.
But people want their normal spots, so they hire people
to go run and get their specific spot that they want.
I'm not kidding, this is not a joke.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I knew they had people.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
These people do not set up their own tents. They
hire com and there are companies that exist in Oxford
solely two eight times a year run and set people's tailgates.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So you want to get a hire a company. It's
got some fast dudes that can get to the spots.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
The dudes hire old miss students and they're like, you
are in charge of getting Shannon spot. You are in charge,
and like I think the students get like one hundred
bucks to come for five minutes, run, get the spot
and go home.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
What a gig? I mean if I'm an old miss student,
I'm doing that every Saturday.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Every Friday night, right, every Friday night, Friday.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah. Now, did you guys make it to the library.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Oh no, it's one hundred dollars to get in. Are
you kidding with?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
But they won? I thought maybe you'd cell a brighton.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Let's go I was I didn't talk trash to people
after the game. The only person who really talked trash
to me. I told this story on the postgame show. Again,
you'd have to see it. But the exit to this
place is a disaster.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I'm not like, one of these days, I'm worried we'll
hear a story that somebody got hurt. Cause it's like
it narrows you through two buildings and you're stuck and
all these people are funneling through it, and it's a
good way to somebody get hurt. Probably took us fifteen
minutes to walk I don't know, two hundred.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Yards, that's how crowded it.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Wow, And you're kind of stuck, and I don't like
that feeling, yeah, claustrophobic feelings.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
I didn't like it. But we're all pushed together and.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
There's this guy standing close to us who clearly wants
to say something to me. And I didn't hear this,
but one of my friends said he kept going, I'm
saying something, and his girlfriend was like, don't saying and
he was like, I'm saying something. His girlfriend was like,
don't say anything. And finally he looks at me and
goes Matt Jones, why don't you just go.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Vote for Kamala.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
That's what he came That's what he came up with.
He's had all that time of think and apparently she.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Looked at him and said, that's what you decided to say. Wow,
And I just looked back. I heard him, and I
was like, okay, okay, thanks.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
I mean it was really got you with that one.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
I was burned. I was on fire at that moment.
Couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So how did how'd your boys do? Your three boys?
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Did?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
They think?
Speaker 6 (29:06):
They had a lot?
Speaker 5 (29:07):
They had a lot of fun. You know, they know
it's their kind of vacation and all that. So I
think they had a lot of fun and it was great.
Now let's go back to the game for a second.
Talk about who was amazing. We talked about day Dion
Walker is getting close to the Josh Allen as good
a defensive player as I've seen here. His stats don't
(29:28):
end up like it because he's getting two or two
and a half blockers every play, Yes, but the dude
dominates every possession. And there was that one possession where
they were old Miss was able to run in the
middle of the field one time, and it was because
if you watch, Dion was kind of tired, but when
he is at full strength, they're not getting through there.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
He missed one tackle and I don't know if you
remember this. He grabs a guy and the guy kind
of shakes from him, and I thought, that's the first
time I've ever seen him miss a tackle.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
He is dominant and he like we should appreciate. I
don't know that we'll ever see a defensive tackle that
good again.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Here.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Not only is he good, he's strong, he's fast, he's smart. Yeah,
he's got all the intangibles. The gate dude is gonna
make a lot of money for many years playing in
the NFL.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Twitter was full of people going, I don't think people
are talking enough about Dion Walker. Maybe that's true. We are,
but he is a he's dominant. JJ Weaver played very
will the entire game. Octavius Oxen died. He played really well.
Got a lot of pressure on the quarterback. How about
our corners with Maxwell Harriston out, how many times in
(30:34):
the second half was the receiver one on one and
one guy had to make a play and they'd make
it every single time.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah, the hardaway kid Hardaway made two or three like that,
very much so, and then they brought in the true freshman, Nichols,
Ryan Nichols. I think, see how you pronounced his first name.
He made a great play, got hurt on the play,
but he made a great play. So they're they're pin
punching these guys in holes and Ole Miss. Okay, we're
gonna go with these new corners, and our corners stood
up to the challenge.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
I thought the off fitsive line, for the most part,
especially in the second half, did really well. First half
struggle a little bit. Second half did well against a
very good defensive line.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
Yeah, I mean Old.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Miss is probably the we've played the first and second.
I mean, we play the four best defensive We still
got Tennessee coming up, but Old Miss is good.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
I thought did a pretty good job.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
They did the other Their two d tackles are considered
two of the best D tackle tandem in the conference.
And really they didn't hurt us that much. I mean,
Brock got hit a couple times, but and a couple
of may men his fault hold on the ball just
a little too long. Outside of that, though, I think
our old line did a good job.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
But because of how good their defensive tackles are. We
had to throw because we were not able to run
between the tackles like we've done in so many games.
Which gets it to the second half where I think
you have to say, if we wondered if brock vandn
Griff is the guy, he's the guy.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Yeah. I thought he was awesome in the second half.
I mean awesome.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
He hit how many third downs did he hit a six, seven, eight,
nine yard completion?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
We had to you know, we we we said after
the South Carolina game, we can't really judge him yet
because he was getting no time. He's two steps back
and he's got to release it. Now we've seen when
he got able to get a little time. He's settled
in a little bit. Him and Dane have got a
good connection now, good chemistry going. When he knows when
if he needs that third and six, he can go
in and thought and Danis'll make the cat.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
How tough is he when he runs the ball? I
mean how many times did he make seems to make
good decisions on when to run. A couple of times
just took a guy head on and knocked him down.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I don't like it when he does that, but it
is kind of cool when he does.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Well. We needed it.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Yeah, so, and then the game plan was so good,
I mean it was. It was so good like they were.
They made the right decisions at the right times. Bush
Hampden man, I thought was excellent.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Yeah, I really did.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
I thought his game plan was excellent. And the control
of the ball like they did. And then Alex Rayner,
It's like when Alex Rainer kicks, I know it's going in.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I think the one drive was like a fifteen play
drive had another drive was like eleven plays, just this
time consuming, eat up the clock, pounding, ground it and
just finally get it down we can score some points.
A beautiful game plan. That's why the time of possession
was so important to keep old missus offense off the field.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Now, I didn't know the l after the game that
they were dunking basketball's on a goal with our with
our lower You didn't see it down there.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
I couldn't. I didn't see it. What's not hiss?
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Right?
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Like I love whoever made the picture of Anthony Davis
blocking it. That was brilliant. Whoever did that? That makes
me glad.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
We beat them even more and we got to talk
about their fake injuries.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I'm ready to talk about that.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Well, let's just we'll lead the next sec. Okay, how
dare he disgrace my name like that?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Keep your name out of his filthy mask.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Yes, if you're gonna be named my name. I'm known
for my toughness.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
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Speaker 2 (33:52):
Yes, am I not.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Known for my toughness?
Speaker 4 (33:55):
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Speaker 6 (33:56):
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Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio.
This has helped me make it through the night. This
is what he sang the last time he sang there
at the Willie Nilson Show.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Did you write this one, dude?
Speaker 6 (34:36):
I think he did?
Speaker 5 (34:36):
Yes, Wow, I think he wrote pretty much everything he did,
and then he wrote stuff for other people too. One
person rights Matt on the text Machine. You make it
sound like Chris Christofferson was the most interesting man in
the world.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
I think he was.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
I can't think of a I can't think of a
singer who's the singer with a more interesting life. I mean,
Elvis had a pretty interesting life when you consider that
he was in the military and he did all stuff,
and he was kind of the first like mega rock
star superstar Dolly Parton I think has an interesting life
when you look at her history. But I can't think
(35:09):
of anybody that did more different things and was successful
at it than him.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
If you think of one, let me know.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
People keep sitting us fact he was a rugby star.
It was unsports Illustrated.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
He was in Sports Illustrate as a rugby star, is
what they said. Yeah, I'm learning stuff, even myself. He
was featured in.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Sports illustrat for playing rugby, football and track at Pomona College.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
Yeah, he's the only person to ever be a Rhodes
Scholar from wherever Pomona College.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
I don't even know where that is.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
But he is the most amazing man.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
He's the most interesting man in the world. One person
rights mad I was at the game Saturday. You are
exactly right, I thought to myself as I was walking out,
this may be the most dangerous entrance and exit I've
ever seen at a stadium.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
It really is. I mean, you.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Can't The walkways are narrow, the exits are narrow, and
if something were happened, you couldn't get out.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Like it would be.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
It would be dangerous, I think because obviously everybody stayed
at the end of the game, because everybody laughed at
the very end, which it was homecoming, so they had
a huge crowd crowd.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
I think it was their biggest crowd ever.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
They're not making a big deal about it because they lost,
but I think it was their biggest I think it
was their biggest crowd.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
Ever.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
How did the nice young lady from Kentucky do in
the homecoming?
Speaker 6 (36:24):
I don't know which one she was, so I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I saw a lot of people from Kentucky, like dads
whose daughters went to Old Miss Huh, So there was
a lot of that. I will tell you this, Shannon.
There was a guy who came up to me and
he wanted a picture, and I think either his daughter
was in homecoming or his daughter was in a sorority.
So he had his daughter's picture like on a sticker
on his chest. Yeah, and he was like, can you
(36:48):
believe we did this? Brother like screaming and he and
he was going to take a picture, and his wife was.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
Like, cover up our daughter, cover up our daughter.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
And so he used his drink, he used his cup
of urban to cover up the picture of his daughter
so that there could be the picture of him with me.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah, she would have been she would have been shamed
in her sorority if that picture got leaked out. Look
look at your dad. Would he celebrate with the Kentucky guy?
Speaker 6 (37:13):
Yeah? All right? The stadium.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
Everything I said about the noise, I say this with
love and respect, old miss fans. I was right about
all of it. It was I don't know how it
sounded on television.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
It was not loud.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Now they do, I think because their fans are so quiet.
Turn the volume up on the music.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
So loud. That's so loud. But the fans themselves are
not that loud.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
So if you were to go back and listen, go
back and watch the game on replay, you're gonna hear noise.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
But ask yourself. Is that the crowd or is that
the music because the music was loud. But I will
say of the SEC stadiums I've been to, the least loud,
Kroger Field is louder, and I don't think we're one
of the loudest, but it's louder than that. Wow.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Like we said, a homecoming crowd a great game, middle
of the day and it can't bring it. The crowd
can't bring it.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Kind of play like every song that tries to get
people excited that you can and the students would be
into it, but pretty much everybody else it's.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
A very genteel crowd. You know.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
It's a very like hatty Toddy hot hatty Toddy bo pilate.
It's like, that's that's what it is the whole time.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Because we've kind of criticized our crowd over the years.
But if you're telling me our crowd is now better,
is better than oll miss that? Yeah, we've improved.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
I am more confident in my opinion today than I
was before.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
I went.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Okay, you were there fake injuries.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Chanting. They are the fakiness injury team of all time.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
That was the first acting I've ever seen and I've
seen a lot of bad movies.
Speaker 5 (38:53):
I mean the Matt Jones play is that the most
egregious fake injury?
Speaker 6 (38:58):
I mean, we had that one dude.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
Do you remember the dude we had who tried to
act like he had to get resuscitated. That was our guy,
that was our intern. What's his name, Tayshawn Manning? Yes,
you remember that Manning?
Speaker 6 (39:14):
But even the Matt Jones was worse, wasn't it right?
Speaker 2 (39:18):
It's it's bad and if they've got to do something
about it, because I mean, and we're Kentucky's guilty of
doing it. Also, you know, we can't act like we
don't do it. Also, but the old miss seemed like.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
It's becoming so common that now the announcers are finally
calling bs.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
I heard Sean McDonough just destroyed him.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Yeah, luckily he was able to make it off the
field and was on strings.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
I'm so happy he was able to walk off the
field or his own strength. That devastating injury.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
Well, the thing that did the thing, I mean, Lane
Kiffin is doing it.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
Some teams do it to slow down a fast offense,
but I actually think the way which is bad, But
Lane Kiffin, I actually think does it worse.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
He's doing it to not have to called time out? Yeah, right, Like.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
He's literally doing it to make it be a time
out that he doesn't have to use.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
So what can you do?
Speaker 5 (40:09):
So here was my Here's gonna be my guess because
first of all, you can't penalize it because what if
they're actually hurt?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Correct?
Speaker 5 (40:17):
So my thing is, if you go down and it
leads to a stoppage of play, you have to sit
out like five plays or seven plays.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
About the rest of the game. You're hurt, you shouldn't
be playing hurt.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Okay, I don't think the rest of the game is fake.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Oh you're hurt though you're injured, you shouldn't be a crime,
can't We can't make players play injured.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Well, let's say five plays or seven plays.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
I think players are gonna be a lot less likely
to do it because that's gonna keep them from.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Being in the game. Yeah, they will play.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I like that idea because right now you just come
off with that one play, you know, they pull the
that we should call it the duke flop because they're
just flopping down. But maybe if you pull them off
for five plays.
Speaker 6 (41:01):
Because one play the next like formation, they just might
not be in. Yeah, so it's fine.
Speaker 4 (41:06):
At least I think at least the entire drive. I
don't care how many plays, the.
Speaker 5 (41:11):
Entire the entire drive. I'd be all right with that.
But I think that would slow it down for a little bit.
Or you just throw a flag if you think it is.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
The problem is what if they're actually and so, then
what are you doing there? It's it's a tough thing.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
The official can't go in the tent with them to
kind of evaluate the injury.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
There's no questioning that. When I come on, there's no question.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Matt Jones when that was the worst one, it reminded
me of that Chris Jones Louisville one where he acted
like he got hitting the nose that one time and
he went flying back.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
The quarterback is two feet to the right of them
going go down. You can see em motioning go down,
go down, and he just falls.
Speaker 5 (41:47):
I mean, I also feel like, if it's that bad
and you see it after the game, the SEC should
like make him sit out a quarter or something in
the next gime.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Well, there are some things like that you can do
to kind of get away from them because it's getting
it's getting awful.
Speaker 5 (42:00):
Way Kiffen clearly uses it as a stretch, as a strategy,
like he's not like Lane Kiffin is using it as
a I don't want to burn a time out here, do.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
It because he can. He can right now, he can
use it.
Speaker 6 (42:12):
So it is what it is. But we won and
that's what matters. All right.
Speaker 5 (42:16):
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