2024-11-04- KSR - Hour 1

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Now here's Matt Jones.

Speaker 5 (00:35):
Welcome everyone.

Speaker 6 (00:36):
It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Monday, November the fourth.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
I am Matt Jones.

Speaker 6 (00:42):
It is college basketball opening day here in the state
of Kentucky.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
Yeah, that's exciting. I'm the big day. College basketball starts today.

Speaker 6 (00:52):
The UK women's team plays at five, the men's team
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Speaker 7 (01:27):
Ah.

Speaker 6 (01:27):
There, you know, we got a depressing football game on
Saturday night, not as pressing as.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
I thought it would be, but a little depressing. We
got basketball.

Speaker 6 (01:37):
So I'm sitting here going you know, we've had this
issue for three weeks, basketball football, basketball football. We've led
every day with basketball. I think in order to pump
the show up and get the momentum in the second
hour going into the rest today, I'm gonna do basketball
in the second half so that we get ourselves preview.
I think we'll talk about the football game, we'll kind

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of put it to rest, which is maybe what most
people are doing for the season, and then we'll go
to basketball for the second half.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
So Ryan, we'll start with football.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
When the game was over Friday night or Saturday night,
I sort of posted like.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
Could have been worse. I actually think they.

Speaker 6 (02:17):
Played decent uh and and and some people agree with me,
but a lot of people didn't like that. Oh mister,
moral victory, moral victory. I don't know what everybody else
was expecting. I was expecting us to get absolutely pounded.
And when you consider all the injuries and Brock went out,
I thought a ten point loss wasn't the worst thing

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in the world. But I've already given my opinion on
the post game show, et cetera.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
What did you think?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, it could have been worse, you know, thank me.
Their kicker missed three field goals.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
They was good for us.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
They dropped the touchdown past the end zone, past the
end zone. But our guys came and showed a little
little heart, little fight, little attitude, and I don't you know,
that's been missing the past couple of weeks. So I
was overall pleased to hold him to an ten point game. Really,
you're down three and have the ball when Brock got
sacked and the fumble on the lito, But you had

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a chance right then to maybe even take the lead
lead in the game.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
I called Ian Fitzsimmons last night, who who called the
game for ESPN Radio. He's their field reporter. So I
just asked him what because the first time he had
been seen Kentucky play. They hadn't had a game of
Kentucky's in two years. And I said, what was it
like on the field And he said, Matt, I want
you to just tell your fan base this. That team
fought as hard as a team could fight. He was like,

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they left it all in the field. He goes, they
were all hurt, they were all done. He said, Brock
got as knocked out as I've seen a dude get.
He was like, that was he He goes, I felt
sorry for that guy, and he said he was just like, look,
they they're not a great team. He was like, but

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they did play as hard as they could play. And
that's kind of how I felt after the game, and
he saw it up close. I was worried they were
just checked out for the year. I mean, they were
thin and still managed to show up and play well.
I also thought the offense would had no hope of
finding the end zone, and they.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
Got it once.

Speaker 8 (04:11):
And I also liked they drove down the field. I mean,
it was fourth and two and it gets broken up.
But I even liked that Stoops went for it there
did you like that. I was yelling at my TV
go for it. It didn't work out. I'm not gonna
look back and change anything. I wanted him to go
for it in the moment.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
We weren't gonna win that game with field goals. We
just weren't.

Speaker 8 (04:28):
And it'd be great to land that first punch if
you just had a great drive down the field. Even
the play call wasn't that terrible. It's just Tennessee defended
it really well and broke up the pass. So I
loved it on the first two drives an offense that
I had no faith in, first when they had a
chance to score. In second, when they actually punched in
a touchdown to go up.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yeah, what I was most excited about with the team
was the fight.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (04:53):
I don't know what any of it means for the future.
I mean, we had a lot of dudes out. Barrion
was out. Who knows if we even see barring again,
you know, I mean, a dude that has to go
to the hospital, that's not a little thing. I kind
of wonder even with Brock, I mean, if he really
was kind of knocked out, what does that mean? You
had five starters out on defense, and then you lost

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another one during the game.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
At one point.

Speaker 6 (05:16):
I saw an article this morning that said at the
end of the game, we only had two healthy scholarship
cornerbacks on the roster that were active, that we were
playing a couple guys who didn't even play cornerback there
at the end. I did think there was a dude
that would be chasing Tennessee receivers and I was like,
that guy's too big to be a cornerback. And it

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turns out he wasn't. He was a linebacker that was
having to play cornerback. So again, you know, I get
the frustration of the season. I'm frustrated with the season.
I don't know what you do with this program going forward,
and I think there are serious questions. But just that night,
I actually, I mean me, before the season, we were

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gonna go nine to three, but we lost it to
Tennessee by ten, I would have gone, well, that seems
about right right. I mean, I don't know, did people
think we were gonna win this game?

Speaker 9 (06:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:10):
I think if you'd won a couple of those that
Auburn Florida, Andy, if you'd won a couple of those
Saturday night would be like eh.

Speaker 6 (06:17):
But if we had won all those games and then
we went and lost to Tennessee by ten, would anyone
have been surprised?

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I mean, we wouldn't be up up six.

Speaker 6 (06:25):
I mean they're the seventh or eight team in the
country playing at night. I mean I I thought we
could lose by forty. I really did going into the games.
We'll never have the answer, but it is. This has
the been the weirdest team to have three playoff contenders
on the ropes in the fourth quarter, you win one
of them. How about we three Top hill three. This

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is the stat that will define this team for me.
We played three top ten teams and we led at
halftime in every game, and then we lost by double
digits to three teams that stink like you led. There
is a I don't think oh Miss makes the playoff,

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but Georgia and Tennessee, one of them certainly would make
the playoff. They might both make the playoff. They do
play each other, so that may eliminate one of them.
But those three teams are all playoff worthy, and we
led all three of them too, of them.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
On the road.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
And I don't think it's any coincidence in those three
games it's because our defense played really, really well in
all three of those And it's no coincidence. The reason
our defense played well because the guys upfront played well
in those games. They brought it man. That mean that
that they play with some attitude.

Speaker 6 (07:35):
I mean, it's not crazy the play. The game changed
on the Brock play. I mean, they get the first ball,
they drive down the field, they miss a field goal,
and I thought to myself, it's ten to seven and
we have the ball.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
If we score here, the butts.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
Are gonna get tight, right like they're gonna start, because
especially if we scored a touchdown.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
But even if we had gotten a field goal, I think.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
There's a sense of uh oh, and you would have
made it where their next drive was their most important
drive of the season, and it's third and one or
third and three, and not only do we does Brock
get he gets knocked out. It's not just that we
lose the ball. He gets kind of knocked out. And
then you know, then it was in.

Speaker 7 (08:20):
That they got a short field and they scored.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
They got a short field and they scored.

Speaker 6 (08:23):
I mean, I think at that point it was inevitable
and that play to some extent symbolizes the season. He
didn't have a chance, now he did. The guy was
coming right at him. So I guess there's an argument,
but I think he was getting hit no matter what.
Maybe he could have kept it from fumbling, but he
was getting rocked either way. The offensive lineman just got

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completely beat. I'll say this about the offensive line. First
half is as good as they've played all year, to
their credit. Now in the second half, they got blown up.
I mean they got blown up.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
They think got worn down. Man. Because defensive the Tennessee's
defensive front pretty good.

Speaker 6 (08:57):
Oh, there's like the second best front in the country.
But I do have to give him credit. They were
better in the first half. I wish they'd given bald
to Willcox more. Yeah, do you agree?

Speaker 5 (09:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (09:08):
And it was frustrating after the game when Bush Hampden
was like, we've probably waited too long to focus on Willcox.

Speaker 7 (09:14):
You think his average is insane.

Speaker 8 (09:17):
Every time he touches it, he seems to break a
good play if he can keep his shoes on. All right,
So we played that hurt Brock that's a top fifteen pick,
one of the best defenders in college football, and the
left side of the line just said, here you.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
Go, man against the red shirt freshman. I mean, like
a red shirt freshman who has really struggled. Although to
his credit I thought was better this week than he
was last week when he got that grade.

Speaker 8 (09:38):
That on that one play, the whole line just left
it open for him to tee off on Brock.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
And you're right, top fifteen pick. He just didn't have
I mean, he didn't have a chance Gavin Wims that
came in. This is my only regret about the game.
I felt like they said on the broadcast, the first
fifteen plays were scripted.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Yes, boy, we look good in those fifteen.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Had some rhythm, had some rhythm. Yes, fifteen plays looked
pretty good.

Speaker 6 (10:04):
And then apparently the first Gavin the gav the first
ten Gavin.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
Plays were scripted.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Okay, I didn't know that, and they looked pretty good.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
Yeah, can we script the whole game?

Speaker 6 (10:16):
Because I will say the two times that our offense
looked good were the times that they said those plays
were all scripted.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
I love the fact they gave it Gavin, you know,
at a chance to get his confidence and can connect
a couple of passes through the beautiful pass to Macklin
and the end zone and even their two point conversion
to Macklin was was a dot, but.

Speaker 8 (10:34):
It is have we wasted Macklin? Those are two great
catches been targeted all year, Those were some pro catches.

Speaker 6 (10:42):
So you do wonder, Drew if the if the scripted plays,
that's the best the offense has looked since the old
miskeit where those were the were the beginning of the
game with Brock because not I mean not only did
we the first two drives we got inside the ten
and then we scored a touchdown.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
Those are two great drives.

Speaker 6 (11:01):
Yeah, and then the first drive by whims It it
was three and out, but then the next drive we
score a touchdown.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
You do kind of wonder, well, maybe we just need
to take all.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
The decisions out and just go by the script because
at least that worked.

Speaker 7 (11:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (11:17):
Did anyone have fifty yard run on the first play
from scrimmage? I mean, yeah, nice little I guess it's
a little bit of a drawing right up the middle,
absolutely untouched, setting them up and you know they didn't score,
but that was a positive start for a team that's
really struggled.

Speaker 6 (11:31):
So all right, so where are we We're not gonna
we probably after today. It's very unlikely anybody will bring
up football for the next two weeks. I just know
how this show goes. I think when you consider we
have a basketball game start tonight, we got one next Saturday.
Duke is Tuesday. Chances are football is going away for
two weeks. So before it goes away, where are we

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in terms of what do you think the future is?
What's the rest of the season, what's the future? Lose
a lot of starters at the end of the year.
Mark was kind of surprisingly honest when he said, basically,
I got to use this group break to see.

Speaker 5 (12:10):
Who's gonna be here next year. And I don't think he.

Speaker 6 (12:14):
Said it, but I think part of that is whether
he's gonna be here next year. These two weeks, we
won't know what happens unless it leaks, but they're probably
gonna decide the future of this program in the next
two weeks.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
So what's it gonna look like?

Speaker 2 (12:30):
That's they'll keep it quiet. We definitely won't know anything
what's going on. I want Stoops to want to be here.
I want him to be my coach. I want him
to be So you do.

Speaker 5 (12:40):
Want him to return? Yes? Do you think he will that.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
I don't know because because it's his call, it's not
even Mitch Barnhardt's call. It's gonna be his call. I
hope he gets mad and fired up and doesn't want
leave the program the way on this four win season.
If they win for win, forgetting you're.

Speaker 6 (12:54):
I hate to put you on the spot, but I
just did, Ryan, do you want him to be here?

Speaker 8 (12:59):
I hope he can win the Louisville game and shake
our hands and say I've taken as far as I can.
That would be my favorable outcome at this point.

Speaker 6 (13:08):
I've just so you are quesing towards you think there
needs to be a separate So I question his energy
before this year started, before they had lost a single game,
before he had made a single complaint about night games
or in IL.

Speaker 8 (13:19):
I just it's twelve years in an SEC football job.
I just wonder how much he has left. But as
the year goes on, I've just added to that wondering
even more if he's still all the way in.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
Do you think he will be back?

Speaker 8 (13:30):
Sure I would have said yes for one more ride
before losing four straight, but I think he's really got
a question where his team is right now.

Speaker 7 (13:41):
In the work it's gonna take to save it.

Speaker 8 (13:42):
Whatever happens, we're in for a long November because if
he leaves, obviously you have a coaching search, but it's
gonna there's gonna be a lot of roster moving. I
think I think it'll be guys leaving and he'll be
searching for answers for next season. If not, so, we're
we're heading for some chaos.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
The last thing you said is how I make my decision.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
I do believe Stoops been a good steward of the program,
and I do believe he wants it to be left back.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
I need to know what.

Speaker 6 (14:06):
Is gonna happen at the end of the year. I'm
just gonna be up front. If Dame Key, barry On
Brown and a lot of these young guys are like, hey,
we gotta go somewhere else, then I think it's time
for the transition. I mean, I think you need now.
If you find out that these dudes are gonna come back,
that you have some money to go get an offensive line,

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then I can be talked into it. But if I
if what I think is gonna happen, which is we're
gonna lose most of the people that are good and
we're gonna be starting new, then we might as well
just start new.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
That's kind of how I look at it.

Speaker 6 (14:43):
But let's but I think a lot of it does
depend on what like like Cutter Bowley, is he gonna stack?
I don't know that we can assume that completely. To
be honest with you, I have you know, I had
a conversation this weekend. I'm not saying it will or not,
but I think they're gonna consider. Well, I think everybody's
gonna consider what they're gonna do, So I would want

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to know the answers to that those questions and then
make the decision of what's going forward. And the other
thing is I would say tomorrow, if you think you
want to be here three or four more years, okay,
if you want to be here one more year, then
does that really make sense?

Speaker 7 (15:20):
Because are we.

Speaker 5 (15:20):
Gonna be good next year?

Speaker 7 (15:22):
Like really good? Hard?

Speaker 6 (15:23):
That schedule's hard and we're losing a ton of starters.
So if you think you're almost done now, that's that's
the way I would look at a FIB nine two
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kind of hearing that I think is important to chat
about because there's a lot they're no UK athletics and
just college athletics as a whole has about two or
three months of massive change coming that hopefully sets up
the next twenty years.

Speaker 5 (15:59):
But it's gonna be a huff two or three months
and we'll take a break and Mary back. It's KOSR.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Walk.

Speaker 5 (16:06):
I'm back.

Speaker 6 (16:06):
It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at ks bar. A
lot of folks here. We got people from Owensboro, Paducah,
Wayne County, Centerville, Ohio, and uh from Right State from Dayton,
So people from all over talking from right state background
knowledge with you guys. Now. I've been to Right State
who we played tonight, have been there twice. I saw

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Butler play at Right State. That guy reminded me I
thought it was Dayton, but it was Butler. That was
when I worked at CBS and then Shannon. I saw
Rusted Root play at Right State when I was in college.
Do you remember Rusted Root Simme i'm away, Simme i'm away.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
I don't know if I know that.

Speaker 5 (16:47):
All right, Well, you're.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
Gonna look it up and play it in the next segment.
You'll know the song when you when you hear it.
I guarantee Shannon.

Speaker 5 (16:54):
At least with you.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Guys drove up from Trancy to Right State to go
to this concert.

Speaker 6 (16:58):
Me and Chris Tomlin I think went to Chris liked
that kind of music and I like that song.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
It was very hippie like.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
This was.

Speaker 6 (17:04):
This was late nineties before every concert smelled like weed.
Now they all smell like weed, but back then that
wasn't the case, and that one did.

Speaker 5 (17:12):
And I was like, oh, so it's gonna be that
kind of thing.

Speaker 7 (17:15):
Sounds like good time on campus.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
That's on campus, isn't it. Or it's yeah, that arena.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
It's it's it's bigger than you would think.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
It's like, it's a decent sized little imember.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
When Kentucky played Right State in Cincinnati maybe during the
Tubby era, Okay, it's one of mile my links. We
played him in baseball.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
One of the reasons I always know Right State is
the Horizon League, which is the league they play and
that's the first conference tournament to start. So you know,
I really like brackets, and that's always the first bracket release,
and I'm like, okay, Milwaukee versus. And then they like
I think Valpo was in that league for a while,
and Detroit and Ooey Pooey and Right State and like,

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I know all those schools because I would look at
those early Horizon League brads.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
I can't wait to get your take on the Sun
Belt bracket when we get to that topic.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
Yeah, you know, I had that to talk about to day.
I love the Belt bracket, by the way. I think
it's great one person rights. Matt.

Speaker 6 (18:09):
When did rugby scrums become legal in football? I don't
remember games have allowing that. I had that same thought,
Like that touchdown Tennessee scored at the end, I don't remember.
I thought they used to blow the whistle on that
stuff drew and now they just kind of let them
go for a while.

Speaker 8 (18:28):
They should have blown a whistle there. That's sound like
a sore loser in defeat, but that that should have
been stop dead. You go back to Florida, same situation
with Kentucky a few weeks ago, and they blow it
dead immediately where Kentucky didn't even have the chance to
do that.

Speaker 6 (18:41):
But I don't remember they because they used to always
worry about people getting heard, and now they just let
them turn into rugby scrums.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
I thought the rule was maybe you got something, can
tell me different. As soon as forward progression is stopped,
you blow the whistle.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
So stopped.

Speaker 5 (18:59):
But that looks stopped.

Speaker 6 (19:00):
I mean it looked like a scrum, and it looked
like they were kind of stuffed.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Did look like it did stop there for a moment. Well,
that isn't that when the whistles should blow the play dead?

Speaker 6 (19:08):
You know in the NFL sometimes they'll have like a
quarterback sneak and they'll have a lineman run behind the
quarterback and almost push him in as they do it
push push, no, no, Well, the touch push is just
the guy goes forward and then the running back comes behind.
But I saw one the other day where the dude
almost like knocked his quarterback over to pick me in.
Almost It's almost like, why don't they just pick him

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up and carry him in?

Speaker 8 (19:30):
Well, just last week and Lexing and Brock with the
running start and helped get that touchdown in It was
either demmy or Wilcox.

Speaker 7 (19:36):
He just yes, that was a little different.

Speaker 8 (19:39):
The play was still going on, but I thought the
one had Uh Tennessee, that should have been blown dead.

Speaker 6 (19:43):
How did they not call that penalty on the guy
on the sideline?

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Obvious pands to the face.

Speaker 6 (19:49):
It was obvious, and like when they showed it on replay,
he clearly did it on purpose, Like it was like,
if you want to protect him, you just catch it.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
But he went yeah, like come on, how was that?

Speaker 2 (20:01):
And the ref was right, they like what did he see? Well,
then the Tennessee guy like held his hands up like
you know, I'm trying to stop him.

Speaker 7 (20:08):
I trying to stop you.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
No, you weren't.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
You watch him. I couldn't believe they didn't call that.

Speaker 8 (20:14):
That was full extension into his head. That's the same
person that left the game of the head injury later.
Couldn't believe they did. The end the screenshot, the ref
is like right next to the guy doing.

Speaker 6 (20:23):
And then what First of all, it's not the biggest
thing in the world, but they gave Tennessee four timeouts
in the first half. They did go back and watch,
go look at the game log. They gave them four
timeouts when they called their final timeout, which set it
up which they would have had a field goal if
they didn't screw everything up. When they called that final
time out, they were out of timeouts and they just

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gave him the time out. And if you watch the
ESPN broadcast, it showed them as having no timeouts and
then after they called it they put a time out
up and took it off. Go watch, but forget about
all that the TV could be wrong. Look at the
game log. The Seed took four timeouts in the first
half they did.

Speaker 7 (21:03):
There was the clock issue where the reff was so lost.
I was like, are we balling?

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (21:07):
Is this game interrupted something?

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (21:08):
And he was like, my mistake, things happened.

Speaker 6 (21:10):
Nothing to see here, forty six seconds not thirty six ex.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Between the white hat and the clock operator. There was
a lot of miscommunication going on during that game. They yeah,
they were, they were completely lost. It felt like a
lot of it. I do have to say Tennessee fans
are are the worst.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
I mean, just on a scale of one to one hundred,
they are nine hundred and twenty three, Like they are
the absolute they're the worst. And the chance at the
players on the ground, you know, I mean It's one
thing to kind of go, oh, you're faking injuries. Boom
when you chant what they chanted. Don't act like that's anything,

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but you know that's a cherk move.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
And our dudes were hurt. I get it.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
The whole faking injuries people have done against against Tennessee
a lot. Tennessee is probably the team that has received
it the most, so.

Speaker 5 (21:59):
I get it.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
But those guys weren't the ones. I don't think any
of those Kentucky dudes that went down were faking it,
do you well?

Speaker 8 (22:06):
Ripka got rolled up, that's the one where they were
chatting that his of all of them, looked the most
like an injury because he was piled up and his
knee kind of went back.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
And when Zion, I don't think he returned.

Speaker 5 (22:15):
Did he?

Speaker 7 (22:16):
He did eventually, but he missed several several players.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
With Zion Childress is laying there, you can tell you
obviously in pain. It was hurt. They're clapping and yelling
and making fun of him.

Speaker 6 (22:26):
I mean, do you think that the you know, the
SEC released that thing about faking injuries Friday? Yeah, they
did Friday. Kentucky would didn't decide the next day. Let's
start faking injuries. The day after the SEC says we're
gonna start, you know, coming at you about.

Speaker 8 (22:40):
It, even if you think they are to chant that
when a guy's on the ground holding his knee, you
gotta be sure he.

Speaker 7 (22:45):
Shouldn't do it any better, better be real sure.

Speaker 6 (22:48):
Like you gotta be Matt Jones the running back at
Old Miss where you just see him flop down.

Speaker 7 (22:53):
Even then you're still a jerk.

Speaker 6 (22:54):
Yeah, if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
we will take your calls after this.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
We got talk about Kelsey. Yes, I think that's the
most interesting story of the day. Kelsey in the phone.
We'll be right back. Skaz TJ.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
He'll make them pay.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Now more Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
Here's Matt Jones.

Speaker 5 (23:16):
All right, so you know this show? I do?

Speaker 3 (23:18):
I know it though from a commercial, an enterprise commercial
and enterprise.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yeah, that's how I know this song.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
You don't remember this song.

Speaker 6 (23:25):
It's like during the whole I don't know, ninety eight,
ninety nine, two thousand, kind of hippie Same Masters music Renaissance.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
Now I just know it from the commercial. Somehow I
missed it when it came out.

Speaker 5 (23:37):
Do you know this song? I do not. I'm sorry, yeah,
turn it up. Oh boy, oh boy?

Speaker 2 (23:47):
You don't remember this? Whun a Caran King?

Speaker 6 (23:50):
No, it was kind of like it's not in the
Lion King. It's a it's a it's a good song.
I don't know how you don't remember that.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
What's the name of the group again, Rusted Root? Rusted Root.
Isn't that the name of it? Yeah, Rusted Root.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
It's in the triple A category.

Speaker 5 (24:06):
That's what I know.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
What type of music it is.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
A triple A music. Yeah, I don't know what that means.

Speaker 6 (24:11):
But I went and saw them at Right State and
they're one of those bands that, like you just stand
there and listen them to him play a bunch of
junk and then go just play send me on my
way so you can send me on my way home,
Like I just came here to hear this and.

Speaker 5 (24:25):
Then let's go.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
And that's what you had because they do a lot
of likely like that little flute and stuff, and it
was you know, it's not my scene. I'm just saying,
all right, before we go the phone, it's Kelsey. I
think everybody has an opinion on this, all right. So,
so Jason Kelcey is walking, He's got like a six
pack of beer, twelve pack of beer.

Speaker 5 (24:45):
He's just walking.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
He decides to go the Penn State game, Penn State,
Ohio State. He's like tailgating with the boys. Like he's
just tailgating out in the crowd, which, by the way,
is the thing I think I like the best about
Jason kelce He like doesn't think he's better than anybody else.
He's just out. Uh, he's just out tail gaty. He's walking,
and then a dude just decides to be a jerk
on him. So can all of us agree that dude

(25:08):
was being a jerk?

Speaker 2 (25:09):
We start with that, Yes, you do.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
Everybody. Everybody agrees he's being a jerk.

Speaker 6 (25:13):
All right. So guy's being a jerk. He's holding up
the he's holding up the phone, et cetera. Then he
starts he says, like something awful to him, right, he
says you your brother is a is a blank? Uh
for for dating Taylor Swift. Now one thing to say
something bad about him, another thing to bring in the
brother yep, and then another thing to bring in the

(25:35):
slur like You've done the triple Crown of jerkness right there.
You've been you've been rude to him in person, you've
talked about his family, and you've used the slur. Now
everybody will say, Jason Kelsey, you gotta be the bigger man,
and I will say exactly what I said on ESPN,
spoken like someone who's never had people do that to them.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
I have nothing like that. Well, actually, yeah, something like that.
Oh yeah you have.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
I have.

Speaker 6 (26:03):
And you can say all you want that you should
be the bigger man. But when somebody is yelling at you,
and somebody is following you and they will not stop,
I'm just telling.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
You it's hard to keep walking. It's hard to keep walking.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
And I ain't a three hundred pound dude who's used
to beating up NFL lineman. I don't want to get
in a fight with anybody, but it's hard to sit
there and take that. And you everybody can say all
they want to be the bigger man, but you ain't
never had anybody do that to you like that. So
Jason Kelsey turns around, if I'm that dude, when he
turns around, my life.

Speaker 5 (26:41):
Flashes before me.

Speaker 6 (26:44):
Okay, because that's a big man, and he was clearly
very angry. He takes the phone, throws it on the
ground and quickly yeah right, it was good. It was
a good spike. If you look at the video from
the side, you can see that guy's face and he's like,
oh uh oh.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
He throws the phone down.

Speaker 6 (27:07):
Then there's a later video where the kid like comes
chasing after him and I can't tell did he push
him down the kid Kelsey.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
I'm not seeing the second video.

Speaker 6 (27:18):
There's another video where I don't know if they pushes
him down, but it's a weird angle. And then he starts,
ye and give me my phone back, Kelsey, and I
think Kelsey then drops it on the ground or something.
My view is the kid had it coming. Should you
walk away? Yeah, I guess, But I don't blame him. Dude,
you have to sit there and listen to that about

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your brother, and it's from like some little punk kid.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
He's lucky he only got his phone broken.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
And I actually am totally fine with what Jason Kelsey.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Did you know Jason Kelsey, He's he's from Ohio, Ohio
State's playing at Penn State, where he played for the
Philadelphia Eagles. This is a fun event for him. He's
trying to just to enjoy something like.

Speaker 6 (27:58):
Goes and hangs out with the gin public. Like, why
do you punish people who are actually trying to be normal?

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, so i''m glad this kid's been exposed for being
a jerk. And like, if they were just saying that
about Jason, he probably would have walked away. But when
you say something about your brother or your boys, then
you almost got a man up stand up for him.

Speaker 8 (28:17):
Yeah, I agree that, uh Jason needed to be the
bigger man here, but sometimes the bigger man needs to
shatter a phone.

Speaker 7 (28:22):
And he did exactly what he needed to do.

Speaker 8 (28:24):
If he just keeps walking, maybe that kid keeps talking,
or that kid gets to go live his life bragging,
probably getting a bunch of likes about it, probably does
it to the next celebrity. But in that case, Kelsey
had to let him know not acceptable go to the
Apple store. I'm sure, uh Jason'll probably own a little
money at some point if he pursues anything.

Speaker 7 (28:41):
But he did exactly what he needed to do.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
Shannon, You're from Mount Washington and and you Bullock County
has one thing in common with Bell County, which is
people will fight. Right when I was in high school,
because I'm not a fighter, I was a dork. But
I also have a smart mouth, and so I learned.
I learned learned exactly how far you could push people
without getting pushed in them out right, Like I learned

(29:06):
that you you can't just go around saying anything people
will hate. I agree with Brandon Walker who said there's
a lot of people in this world who you can
tell have never had to excuse my language, had their
ass beat and you could tell this kid's never really
been confronted.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
And Shannon, I would assume you're like me. You were
on Jason Kelsey.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
I was, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
I mean, if I were to watch that video first
with no audio, I would go, come on, Jason Kelsey,
you gotta be better than that. But when you hear
what the guy said and he just kept on and
he wouldn't shut up, I probably would have done the
same thing in that situation.

Speaker 6 (29:39):
Yeah, it's not like he just said it once. It's
true he was following him and saying it over. And
if he just says it once, okay, Jason, just keep walking.
But if you just follow and follow and follow, you've
been with me. Ryan when I've been in like a
restaurant or a bar and somebody just won't stop. They
just will not stop. And for me, it's been Louisville fan,

(30:00):
Tennessee fans, Republicans, like cow fans. I've had all different
groups that just will not stop, and there just comes
a point. And when I was thinking about running for office,
my mom was like, one of things I worry about
if you do it, is you don't suffer fools well.
And she said, I'm worried that somebody's going to try
to go to you and you'll fall for it.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
And she was right to be worried, because.

Speaker 6 (30:25):
You just like you can say you can handle that,
but it's different if it happens to you.

Speaker 5 (30:31):
And he didn't seem to have any security around it there.

Speaker 7 (30:33):
So that's a just thing about him. He's walking with
a cheap twelve facted beer just through people.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Just trying to go tailgate before the game. Is one
enjoy himself.

Speaker 5 (30:41):
So who's up first?

Speaker 6 (30:41):
Shit, Tommy, Tommy, Go ahead, tom.

Speaker 9 (30:46):
Hey, what's up?

Speaker 5 (30:47):
Matt?

Speaker 9 (30:48):
I didn't want to go to something that was on
before you run here. But when I was at UK,
I was a student here in seventy two, and one
of my favorite friends that I met when I was
That's Holmes Hall, was Reggie Warford. He was one of
the coolest guys I knew and the first black African
American that I had graduated from the University of Kentucky.

(31:11):
And I was just wondering if you all had thought
about him as another of the really good left handed
point guards we've had.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
Well, I wasn't part of that conversation, so I don't know,
but he was he left handed?

Speaker 5 (31:22):
Yeah, yeah, I appreciate the call.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
It came up about because of Kayt and Lewis is
left handed. Jasper Johnson's left handed. Shannon ask, Yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
Don't think we've ever had an all left handed backcourt.

Speaker 6 (31:31):
We've been thinking of one. I'm sure we haven't. I
bet we've I bet we've never had one. That'll be
very unique if those two guys, if they end up
playing together, we'll talk about it. Kayt and Lewis in
a minute in the second hour, who's next?

Speaker 4 (31:41):
Mark?

Speaker 5 (31:42):
Mark? Go ahead? And Mark.

Speaker 10 (31:45):
Hi. I've been thinking about whether Mark Tups could win
the fans and the supporters back if he really wants to.
He's got forty million plus coming if he decides to say,
and I'm thinking, if I'm him and I really believe
in this, I told him in a speech, I believe
in these coaches, I believe in these players. I believe
that we can do this. Now, I told you a

(32:06):
couple of years ago to pony up, I'm I need
to practice what I preach and I'm committed.

Speaker 5 (32:16):
They're not allowed to do that. Coaches.

Speaker 6 (32:17):
Coaches, Yeah, coaches are not allowed to contribute to the
Nile funds cause.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
If they let me explain the reason.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
Let me explain, and I'll explain you the reason why
I appreciate the call. If a coach were to be
able to contribute his own money, schools would find a
way to get around it. They'd say, Okay, I'm paying
Mark Stoops sixteen million dollars, wink wink, and then he
goes and donate seven million denial And basically it would
be the school paying the anile, which is not under

(32:45):
which is not allowed under the rules. But let me
when I talk about the next three months being changed,
I want you to just think about what's going to
happen this offseason. And this is why I would ask
Mark Stoops you're either all in or you're not. Because
just this offseason, the NCAA is about to change the
way they do everything, and you're gonna get to now

(33:08):
have one hundred scholarships. There are now going to be
fifteen more players on football scholarships, fifteen more. So just
take everything else. You're gonna go get thirty players this offseason.
Starting next year, twenty two million dollars a year in

(33:28):
revenue is going to be shared with athletes. I am
told at Kentucky, my quote unquote sources say say seventy
percent of that money will be towards football. I think
at other SEC schools it may even be eighty percent,
But at Kentucky it's gonna be seventy percent, with like
fifteen to twenty basketball and then fifteen to twenty the
other sports, seventy percent to football. So not only are

(33:52):
gonna have twenty, you're gonna have fifteen new scholarships. Plus
you're gonna have like what I don't know what that
math is, but sixteen, fifteen, sixteen million dollars to give
away in money. You are going to be setting the
standard for the next decade of how we're gonna do
football at this school.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
This off season.

Speaker 6 (34:12):
This off season, I would tell dudes think about going
to the draft, maybe wait a year, because this next
year the whole financial thing changes.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
We gotta have a coach that's all in because this.

Speaker 6 (34:27):
Thing's changing a lot, and chances are very high it's
changing this offseason. So Mark Stoops thinks I got five
more years in me, let's go okay. But if you
really think I have one last ride, this ain't really
the time to have the last ride, because you're setting
up your next decade this offseason.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
I can see where the football coach would be upset
if you sees the other schools of the SEC getting
eighty pos.

Speaker 6 (34:53):
You can get over that because we have a basketball
program that has to be good, and we have a
women's basketball program that they're going to invest in, and
we have a baseball team that goes to College Worlds.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
If if he doesn't want.

Speaker 6 (35:02):
To be here over two point two million dollars more
than Alabama that has.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
The nuts, then you just can't coach it.

Speaker 6 (35:07):
Contect because we're not gonna be the only coach that
picks seventy percent Duke Will, Kansas will, North Carolina Will.

Speaker 8 (35:12):
There'll be other schools that do it, maybe even other
schools in the SEC. Yeah, and that's only one thing
that'll be on his plate. I mean, if he wants
to come back and ask for give me this, get
behind me one more time, or however long. I think
the roster is still very flawed. That won't get fixed
to one offseason because the offensive line that's gonna need
a lot of work, whether the young guys get developed

(35:32):
or you find more which hasn't been working, pluging with transfers.

Speaker 7 (35:36):
And then the schedule so hard next year.

Speaker 8 (35:37):
So even if you handled that well and think give
me one more chance, it's still a big climb just
to get Kentucky football back where he's winning games again.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
So I do think everybody, this is this December.

Speaker 6 (35:48):
Buckle up in December, first college football playoff, you got
signing Day, and you also have all this happening like
there's gonna be this December is to be the wildest
December in college football probably ever. Coming up here in
the next couple months, we'll take a break.

Speaker 5 (36:06):
Be right back. This is KSR. Welcome back Tay Sports Radio.

Speaker 6 (36:10):
We are here at KS Bar and Grill already got
folks here and we haven't even opened yet and they're
being nice and already taking their orders. How nice is that?
That's what we do here at it's a friendly establishment.
Let me just tell you today, if you're in town
for the women's game, stop by before.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
Here's what you could do.

Speaker 6 (36:29):
You could stop by before the women's game, or after
the women's game and watch the men's game. Or if
you're going to the men's game, you could come before
and watch the women's game.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
Look at that.

Speaker 6 (36:39):
You get to be You get to be for all
genders right there by watching both of them. Or you
can even come after the men's game and watch whatever
is on the television. College basketball the way starts at noon.
That's the field of sixty eight thing. Jeff Goodman has
has three games at twelve, two thirty and five and

(36:59):
they're on YouTube for free for people, and they're all
three pretty good mid major games. Some of the best
mid major teams in the country playing late tonight Baylor
and Gonzaga. As you're after the postgame show at like
eleven thirty tonight, you get two top ten teams, Baylor
and Gonzaga playing each other.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Curious cy have Gonzaga is really as good as they're
projected to be this year, since they've come up on
the schedule, since we're.

Speaker 7 (37:20):
Playing them, I'm about nineteen of the top twenty five.
Play to night. You got more head at Louisville.

Speaker 8 (37:25):
Florida's got a big game if you want to scout
some of Kentucky's opponents, A lot them play tonight.

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dot co, slash b ball Shannon. You want to know
why I'm glad, Well, there are many reasons I'm glad.
But one of the reasons I'm glad the election is
tomorrow and it'll soon be over. This is the kind
of tweet you get when people spend way too much
time on the internet.

Speaker 5 (38:11):
Matt.

Speaker 6 (38:12):
The Kelsey event was staged. It was not spontaneous. They
wanted the clicks and it was on display in an
election year in a swing state, and you fell for it.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Really, what would the Kelsey thing have anything?

Speaker 4 (38:23):
Make anything political? Anything?

Speaker 5 (38:26):
Like? What would any I don't even know how it could.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
What does him in the parking lot have to do
with being a political? Issues being that?

Speaker 5 (38:34):
Do you like my hoodie?

Speaker 2 (38:36):
We need to talk about your hoodie. Matt walks in
with a Taylor Swift hoodie, the kind with auber picture
on the back.

Speaker 7 (38:42):
Yeah, the official eras tour hoodie?

Speaker 5 (38:44):
Aras tour.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Are you a swiftye?

Speaker 5 (38:46):
No?

Speaker 6 (38:46):
But somebody went and they bought me a hoodie, and
so I was like, why not you wear a Taylor
Swift hoodie?

Speaker 5 (38:54):
Sometimes? Don't your T shirt? Don't you have one?

Speaker 7 (38:56):
I have a T shirt? Yeah, actual T shirt.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
Yeah, probably was either.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
What it probably wasn't cheap and it's very comfortable.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
You maybe get together college, tell you wear your own
Taylor Swifty shirts and go out.

Speaker 6 (39:09):
Two hundred and twenty thousand people went over the course
of three days in Indianapolis.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Time's at by what those tickets cost. That's a lot
of money brought into that stat.

Speaker 5 (39:17):
That's a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (39:19):
I mean they said they they opened up the merchandise
stand on Thursday, probably to a long line of I mean,
that's probably a lot of people that aren't even going
to the concert. Shout out to my man here in
the bar in his Pope costume. Look, it's opening game
and he addresses in the Mark Pope costume, tweet out
his picture.

Speaker 5 (39:39):
There will youa Mario you get it out? Look at that.

Speaker 6 (39:41):
This is not the guy that was at the game.
We're gonna talk about that guy in a minute. But uh,
shout out opening game tonight wearing the Pope costume.

Speaker 5 (39:49):
Big good stuff. Who's up next? Shit? Ray? Ray? Go ahead, Ray?

Speaker 11 (39:54):
Hey, what's up guy?

Speaker 7 (39:56):
What's up?

Speaker 10 (39:56):
He? I mean, here's my opinion on something.

Speaker 11 (39:59):
Man to the postgame show the other night, and I
have a strange opinion on Bush and not knowing about
the personnel, and that would be this that as an
offit the coordinator. You have to adjust to fit your
personnel sometimes correct and you know, so that is one

(40:23):
thing and another thing. I think this goes back to
last year. If you'll recall with me going into the
Louisvill game last year, we were short of if he
on Stoops last year, and he won the Louisvill game
last year, which changed a lot of opinions. That being said,
you know, we all a lot of people get on

(40:45):
Cohen for leaving again after one year. Why are we
getting on Cohen after him coming back for one year
and Stoop's calling his staff together last year and saying, hey,
I want to go to Texas A and L.

Speaker 6 (41:00):
Because I don't mind who's getting on Cohen for leaving.
Cohen should have left. If you can offer the Tampa
Bay job, you should leave. I mean, but he did
promise Stoops he would stay. Now he backed out on
that promise. Whether you think that's understandable or not as
your personal decision, but both those things are true. He
promised Stoops he'd stay two years. He didn't do that.

(41:20):
But you could also say Stoops nearly went to A
and M. He was gonna take Cohen if he went,
if Cohen wanted to go, So like, I don't you know,
but I can understand why people would would be frustrated
about Stoops doing that.

Speaker 5 (41:35):
But I don't think these coaches. I appreciate the call. Ryan.
These coaches are always gonna do what's best for them.

Speaker 6 (41:41):
They just are, and so we might as well accept
that that's always going to be the case.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
And I think like head coaches like Mark Dude, they
understand it. They get it because they've been through that,
that climbing the ladder to get where they are.

Speaker 6 (41:52):
So Yeah, when Stoops called his coaches for going to
I know this for a fact. When Stoops called his
coaches and said, are you guys going to A and
M with me?

Speaker 5 (42:01):
If I go?

Speaker 6 (42:02):
He was shocked that there were answers of Noah. He
had some people saying no, and I think that was
something that surprised him.

Speaker 5 (42:11):
Now, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (42:11):
If that was because they didn't want to work at
A and M or whatever Drew, but that did happen.

Speaker 8 (42:18):
Yeah, mccohen that dude just hated college. I mean, we
got to just accept that for what it is. He
was leaving the moment he could get another.

Speaker 5 (42:23):
You don't think he'll ever be back there. I think
it'll be unlikely that he comes back to college.

Speaker 6 (42:28):
We'll take a break basketball time when we returns KSR