June 18, 2025 • 42 mins
Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon take your calls and talk Kentucky Basketball's newly released SEC schedule.
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Speaker 4 (01:03):
Now here's Matt Jones welcome back.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
I remember two Kentucky Sports Radio EF. I'm nine two
eight twenty two eighty seven. He is ask anything Wednesday.
I'll get back to the phones here in just one second.
The question before the break was about what will happen
to Club Blue. As I understand it, club Blue will
start to be used for they can There still can
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be ads they do, like signings and things like that.
I think they'll still They're gonna kind of navigate a
lot of the putting players with endorsers space, So there
will still be things they do, but they will have
an adjusted role. They won't just be like getting a
set of money and giving it to players, but there
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will be a role. I expect at some point this
summer I'll have the people that run that on to
sort of talk about what in the new space they'll be.
But they will still exist and they will still have
a role in getting players, especially on the basketball side
to Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It is a good question because the organization has been
you know, really function, you know, highly functional, helping Kentucky
get these kids.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Well, the original idea of it is you as a company,
or you as a group of fans come and say, hey,
I want to have Trenton Noah at my business and
they go, okay, here's what it git costs. Right. That
ended up sort of I think evolving into you get
them to get players. I don't know. I don't think
that's what it will be in the future, but I
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don't know if it'll play a secondary role, so it
still remains me seen. I mean this starts July first, right,
so some of what is happening right now in football
and basketball as you're seeing kids commit now because the
rules don't start till July first, Yeah, you're probably asking
yourself why are so many people committing in football right now.
That's a big part of the reason, which brings me
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to my second question, which comes in and someone ask
UK football has been a hot streak with recruiting in
the last few days. Do you think it is intentional
trying to answer people's questions about if they can recruit
with Vince gone? Without question? Sure, it is clearly UK.
I don't know Drew if they had some of these
already lined up or not, but there's no doubt in
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my mind they were trying to do this to have, Hey,
we can get guys without it, because they've gotten a
number of good players in the.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Last few days. Yeah, I felt like two weeks ago
they had one. We were wondering if they were doing anything,
kind of poking them with a stick. Now I think
they're up to seven. I don't know if you saw them.
There was one yesterday, but the one two days ago
was my favorite. Did you see the kid Messiah Tilson.
He's highly ranked right, Yeah, he's a good one, good
get safety. But he what team was? I want to
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say Wisconsin. He unveiled it Wisconsin's shirts. Everybody goes crazy.
He takes it off and he has a Rutgers shirt on,
so one goes really crazy. And then he took off
the Rutgers shirt and had on a Kentucky shirt. So
he did the old double fan, the double fake out.
That was over the weekend. But yeah, they've added a lot.
They're in a good space with their top quarterback right now.
But to the point, I do think it's very clear
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they probably had a lot of guys that were close
and said we need some good momentum right now, let's
get as many locked in as we can.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Any you like the double fake out?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Oh yeah, I don't think that has anybody ever done that.
If they have, I've never heard of it before.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
But I've seen the single fake out. Yeah, I don't
think I've ever seen the double fan.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Hey, there's only one way to do it better, a
triple fake out.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
We've seen them reach for hats and kind of move back.
Yeah on, like full jackets and sweatshirts and lots of
layers of clothing.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
He was pulling them off, but it was a good
good for him. I think it's important for them to
show that they can recruit without of course it is.
I know the pride that they have over there and recruit.
They would love nothing more than to finish the year
ahead of Louisville and the recruiting rank. Yeah, I have
no idea if they'll be able to do that. These
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were recruiting rank. Everything is so different in Innil the
freshman recruiting. I think a lot of schools aren't even
looking for the same thing. A lot of schools have
switched to can we get guys who can play right away?
If not, we're just gonna take somebody from the transfer portal.
But nevertheless, it will be interesting to see if they're
able to do that.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And it's not a coincidence at all that these kids
are recruiting right after Vince left. I think probably Mark
Stoups and their their position coach called him immediately like,
hey man, let's go ahead, let's make a splash right now.
Let's go ahead and make get that commitment and think.
And these kids have done it for him.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
One best rights on the text machine, Matt, do you
and Drew? This is for you and Drew. Do you
watch Love Island? I have not. I'm not against those
kinds of shows. I just haven't gotten into it, but
I know it's a huge thing. Do you watch Love Island?
Speaker 6 (05:32):
I've seen a season of it a couple of years ago,
might have been season one. I watched her with Abbey
and I told her that was fun. You can have
the next.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
One is the premise? Is it like we're hot and
we're dating on an island.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
There's so many of them are gonna get confused. There's
love as a circle, and love is blind and upside
down love and this one there's temptation. Now I generally
don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I know I've watched.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
They put them all on a spot.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And it's a British reality show revival of the early
celebrity series of the same name, which aired in two
thousand and five. So it's it's just I guess, get
people on an island that are dating, right, and it
is what it says in the title.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
So the difference is what they just put them on an.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Island, I guess. So you're stuck on an island.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I know that the people are I know. I've heard
that people are very hot, which is what you would
assume for these things, and that they they you know,
they're they're crazy. I just know that it's hard for
There are so many of these. They rarely pop on
my radar, and this is one that I know people
in my life are waiting for the new one to drop.
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They're very excited about. So I don't know why it is.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Networks have found the good recipe of get some possibly
mentally unstable people that put them in a very nice resort,
give them lots of booze, and then just watching them
fight over each other. There's several of those.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
There's another one of these shows that everyone tells me
I should watch that I haven't seen, called Traders.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I don't know that one.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
It's it's familiar with Traders.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
I can't I guess there's something.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
They live in the castle and one person in the
group is a trader, Shannon and the others are regular
and it's time the regular people have to figure out
who the trader is. The trader has to not be caughed.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I've never seen that before.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
I think I might like it, though I think pe
cock and uh. I think it's very popular. It won
the award the last two years, the Emmy for Best
Reality Show. It did, so apparently it's it's not just stupid.
It's probably stupid, but it's not it's not as stupid.
It might actually be good.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
I think Donna Kelsey's on the new season. I think
I saw that on Twitter recid Trevor Kelsey Travis' do
you remember the mom is on there? I believe she's
coming up on the next.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Sure it wasn't Temptation Island. She could have been on
there too, So Travis Kelcey and Jason Kelsey's mom is on.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
This unless I fell for a Facebook ad like Marion, Now.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
That would be fascinating if, like the next season of Wrestlers,
they put my mom on as maybe one of the
cast members. Scott.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
That was Alan Cumming, the actor comings.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yeah, he's a British guy.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Yeah, it's supposed it's like do you remember The Mole?
It was a big deal when it came out on
Network eight years ago. Yeah, it's basically spin off of that,
but it's huge.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Okay, well I have not I have not seen it.
If I'm nine to eight, twenty two eighty seven, let's
go to Scott. What's up? Scott?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
He don't want to guys and just kind of hypertygal
question if Tom Leach would announce his retirement today. Yes,
and they had to choose one of you four guys,
which one of y'all would take his place to.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Be the play by play guy?
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Yeah, what's the what's one of y'all? I'd be the
best one to do it.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
I'm not sure any of us would be good. I
appreciate the call, I mean I don't I don't think
that's really I don't think that's really our talent.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I wanted that what I wanted to get into radio
to do play by play. I've never done it before.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
So yeah, that's why you wanted to be in radio.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, my career path took a different turn, but I
always wanted to do play.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I went from wanting to be Tom Leech to booty
shaking cot.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Hey, you got to get in where you can, right, Huh.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Be funny if it had flipped and you were the
voice and Tom Leech hosted the booty shaking contest.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
That would be awesome.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
If he was Tom the dude at larger than Live
introducing corn, he.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Could do it.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
How do you see Tom up there, ladies and gentlemen. No,
you heard him.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Scream touchdown, Kentucky, touchdown, booty shaking.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Yeah. I don't know that any of us would be
good at it. I mean, Ryan, you probably have the
most experience.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I've done play by play for many different sports.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I worry you would be inappropriate. You couldn't even do
the halftime thing without getting kicked.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Off of I only made it through a season and
a half of the halftime show.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Yeah, I mean a lot of people forget this. I
think we talked about it a few weeks ago. I
did commentary on three UK basketball games on the official
television block. You think anybody remembers that, No, I did
three games. It was me, Dave Baker and Robbie Moss.
(10:14):
Remember that it was the first three games that they
ever did on the ESPN plush, so I think a
lot they've kind of gone faded into history. But the
only reason that it came up was I was looking
at one of those Daniel Hagar's every game we've beaten
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a school, here's a basket from it. And there was
every Kentucky win in the Calperry era one basket. And
if you watch that, they're playing I don't know, Jackson State,
and you hear me talk really during the during the thing,
and it was it almost I was watching it not
expecting to hear myself, and I kind of was thrown
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off by it.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I remember you doing it. I didn't remember. There were
actually three games, an.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Exhibition game where we played. It was the it was
the it was the Nerlins No L season, right, so
it was Neurlin's Noel and uh uh, you know that
year and there was one exhibition game and two non
com all of them against bad teams. And I can't
that's hard to imagine that they let me do that.
(11:23):
I mean, babe, I was on the official broad Yes,
I didn't talk a lot because I was nervous. I
let Dave and Robbie do most of it. And then
I would just chime in occasionally.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I don't think we played Northwood. Wait, it says we
played Transy that year too. They wouldn't put you on
the TRANSI game.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Actually, I might have been on the TRANSI game. I
think I know I would. Northwood is definitely one of them.
That was one of them. What are the other games
that year? I can maybe when you say the team
I remember.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Then went straight into Maryland and Duke Lafayette, Morehead, Long Island.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Long Island, Those were the two I did Northwood, Long Island.
And then what with the two exhibition games? Trancy and
what Northwood? And those are the ex So I guess
Northwood was the exhibition game I did. Maybe I just
did Northwood in Long Island because maybe I only did two.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
But I don't remember I remember you doing it.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Though I could do the color, I can't do the
playoff play be impossible. It's just too much. Boys. Go ahead, boys.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
I'm just wondering when Mark, we do you think Mark Pole?
Speaker 9 (12:25):
I think right now we've got the fourteen ballplayers.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
One.
Speaker 10 (12:29):
They they think that Mark Cober is going to give
us doc to fifteen.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Well, I think we have fifteen. I appreciate the call
we we have walk on Austin or is as who's
coming back?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Zach Towe's back, So I'm in photo. Zach Tow's back, Yeah, Darbyshire,
it was announced. Hows today's at Cincinnati Austin Horn Walker Horn,
Walker Horn? Yeah him too, He's yeah, he's he's gone right, there's.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Something about him recently.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Zach Towell was on the floor yesterday in practice, so
maybe he'll be. But remember, the rules have changed. You
can have fifteen players on scholarship, but you can only
have fifteen players, so maybe walker Horn is back with
I think walker Horn is back. Zach Town may be
an assistant or you know, Gratisan or something. But so
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the rules have changed. Used to be you can have
thirteen scholarships and as many walk Ons as you want.
Now you can have fifteen players. They can all be
scholarships if you want them to be, but then you
can't have anyone else cut off at fifteen. So do
you like that rule? It'll basically mean you have two
extra scholarships. That's good, but it'll probably mean they'll do
less sam Malons in the future.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Very true. Yeah, I mean we kind of like that.
When the walk On the end of the bench gets
into the game, and now these are guys gonna be
all scholarship players, but maybe it's a chance for like
Walker Horn his last year, it can be on scholarship
last year.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Yeah, So I don't think they're ever gonna need fifteen
scholarship players, So I think having that last one for
a walk on kind of players probably. Okay.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Yeah, looking the photo right now, Zach Tao and Walker
Horner in the actual rosterday. So I'm glad. I'm Madisonville guy.
Got to stick around.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Jerry, How are you? Jerry hey Man?
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Back on the on of the football, I was curious
when Ryan was saying that the offensive line is getting better, Well,
it couldn't getting worse, So I expect margin improving out
of the offense. The way I really think this team
is going to have a hard time is I just
don't think. I think it's probably the worst roster they've
had since right before they won the first ten win season,
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and particularly on the front seven on the defense, particularly
the defensive line. And when I hear stuff that will
we're smaller, but we're quicker. That's Kentucky for our defensive
line get shoved all over the field, and I think
that's what's going to happen this year is the offense
may be a little bit better, but I think that
the defensive front in particulars can be a lot worse.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
They probably will. I appreciate the call. I think the
defensive front will be worse because we've had a pretty
good defensive front a lot of years. Not been able
to get some quarterback the last couple of years. But
in stopping the run and stuff, I think the defense
will be a little worse. I think the offense will
be a little better.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, they've got Josiah Hayes and Khalil Saunders. They're both
back on the d line. Maybe they can make a
big step up this year. And hope, yeah, you really
hope they will.
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We will take a break. Be right back A five
nine two eighty seven KSR. Welcome back in this Kentucky
Sports Radio eight five nine two eight oh twenty two
eighty seven. It is Ask Anything Wednesday. We have some
breaking news. Shannon running No, no, all right. So uk
IS just announced their SEC basketball schedule, home and away.
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Let's go through here, Drew. You read me the schedule.
Give me the home games first. I'll do wins and losses.
Just the home ones. First home games first.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Uh, no dates on these, just opponents Georgia win, Ole,
Miss win, Mississippi State win, Missouri win, Oklahoma win Texas.
When how about that going undefeated at home? That's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Those are pretty easy home opponents. So that so that
must mean the road is much harder than it usually
it is because those are six. I mean, I feel
like we win all six of those without even sweating.
Texas is the only one that might be Excuse.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Me, there's another category, the home and away, the three
we play at home and away. I should who are
the three? So give me these are our three? We
play them twice, all.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Right, So I'll just do the home park go Florida.
I'm gonna say we win at home Tennessee. I'm gonna
say we lose at home. Vandy will beat Vandy. So
I'm gonna have us eight and one at home. Now
give me the roads.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Road games without return trips. Alabama loss, Arkansas win, Auburn loss.
Just those three alone without getting home.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
That's a tough to get Arkansas, Auburn, all three on
the road. I'll say we go one and two on those.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
It goes a little easier now, LSU win, South Carolina.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Win, A and M win, and then the three double wins.
Have Florida Tennessee Vanity, Florida loss, Tennessee win because we
always flip with owe them there and then vand win.
So I'm gonna have this. That's my fourteen and four
losses our home Tennessee road, Florida road, Alabama road, Auburn.
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Chances are will drop one of the other random roads
because it happens. Yep, So fourteen and four, thirteen and five,
that's about what we predicted before, right.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, that's that. I think it's fair. I mean, that's
that's a tough road. And you got at Alabama, at Auburn,
at Arkansas, at Florida, at Tennessee five a path.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Though to go undefeated at home in common. Sure, you
look at it and it's as it's a it's a
it's odd that all the tough games are on the road.
We actually get I mean, we actually have a home
schedule that's not great in conference.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Right.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
So the difference is we've always played Tennessee and Vandy twice.
Last year we played Alabama twice. This year it's Florida Florida,
so they gave us another hard defending champ.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Last year was the first time since the sixties that
we only played Florida once, which is pretty unique. Every
year we've had the doubleheader with them, so at least
that's back of all years when they're the defending we.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Have to get them with they're defending champs twice and
probably the preseason favorite. Yeah. Well, I mean they're always
going to give us Tennessee and Vandy twice, so you're
only going to get one other team. I think the
way it's going to be is Kentucky is just gonna
consistently get the best team in the SEC is our third. Sure.
I think that's just the way it's gonna be, and
that that's the price you pay for being the marquee program.
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You're paying a toll to be Kentucky, and the toll
is you're gonna get the best team in the conference
twice for the Marquee matchup.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I don't I mean they're gonna be good, but I
don't think Tennessee, Alabama, and Auburn will be as good
as they were last year.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
No, but Florida's gonna be maybe a little worse, but
very very good. I think Texa is gonna be a
little better.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Arkansas is gonna be good.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Arkansas probably be a little better than they were in
a regular season, but I don't know that they're gonna, say,
gonna better than the sweet sixteen, which is what they
were in the tournament.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
They'll all depend on if cal Perry's two freshman guards
or worth anything. He didn't really do a great job
loading up on big Man. He still lacks shooters. But
if Acuff and Malik Thomas are, you know, just true
star guards, it'll be good.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Well, it's interesting, so some good road games. We'll see
about what happens. What happens in some of the others.
But I like I like the schedule. S He's just
not as good a lot of games. Last year it
was hard to find certain win games. This year, there's
more certain win games agreed then there have been in
years past. Now. I don't think there's as many certain
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loss games. Last year they are like four games, like
we're not winning those. I don't think that's true this year.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
But you're like, there'll be one of those road games
like at Texas or somewhere.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Will they're a Texas home or something like that where
you might end up slipping. Huh, Channing, go ahead, Channing, Hey.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
What's going on, guys? I was calling to go back
to the Meadowbrook golf course.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Yes, so fun.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Fun fact they actually have I know at one point
it was the largest league in Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Really they have.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
They have over one hundred and eighty five players play
every week. It's called the Medex Cup. Little play on
the FedEx Cup obviously, and yeah, John John out there
runs it and it's like he switches up every week,
you know, like one week you have a two club challenge,
one week it's like a one man scramble. Then he
pairs everyone with the Major. So it's always like based
(21:03):
on the US Open, British Open, stuff like that. So
it's really awesome league. And I've played in it for
like three years and it's.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Kind of cool.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
I like that. I appreciate the call. I would, you
know what I've always wanted to do that I've never
been able to do, Drew is, I've wanted to play
something like the Ryder Cup. Not obviously, not in the
Ryder Cup. I don't think I would lose ten and eight,
but I would like to have a group of people
that were my team and we played another team and
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did the various pairings and all that. I don't know
how I would ever do that because I don't even
know what my team would be, and I don't want
Ryan on my team, but me and you and Billy
we could find nine other people and then challenge some
other group of people, maybe a UK media team versus
a Louisville media team. I think that would be a
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lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
I have some friends I'm very jealous of them. They've
been doing it for probably a decade. But they have
teams and they go to different it's a trip and
they you know, you wear the same polos as your teammates.
They have a big traveling trophy. I would like to participate.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I would love to do something like that. I don't
know how you would ever get about going with one
of those, but I think that would be I think
that would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Bill have the answer to your old par three course
by the way and Lettington. What was the name of it?
It was called par three. It had mini golf, a
par three course and a few other things, but the
actual name of the place was par three.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Yes, that is where one of my two holes in
one where one is it Middlesbrough Country Club number whole
three and one was at that place which doesn't exist.
It was like Hold twelve and.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
It was a Zara Mason Heatley under lights.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
I got it when I was like eleven or twelve
years old, and it was at that and now it
doesn't exist anymore. Bill, Go ahead, Bill, that.
Speaker 11 (22:47):
Sounds like a story. That that sounds like a story
that would happened to me. I hit with one hole
in one course.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
It's like going to high school when it closes down.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
Yeah. Two quick things. One, it's really ironic you talked
about Traders because I think Drew said he's a big
Survivor fan. In my house, we watch a lot of
trash TV and two of my favorites are Traders and Survivor.
And I don't know if Drew knows who Boston Robb is.
I assume he does, but he played the last season
on Traders. So okay, twenty second watch for you. And secondly,
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I always hear Ryan talk about like he hates Saul Smith.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
I don't know that story.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Can we please share it? See you guys, just.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Ask anything Wednesday. We gotta gottle break. Ask anything Wednesday?
Speaker 12 (23:26):
Right?
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Do you not want to do what they asked to do?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
TJ Smith, personal injury attorney, called TJ He'll make them pay.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
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Speaker 4 (23:42):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
So, Ryan, you're declining and ask anything Wednesday question.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I don't mind talking about it. I just I just
didn't think Saul was that good of a point guard
when he'd here a Kentucky. You know, he just didn't
do the job, run the offense.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
And that really upset and really upset me. Understand. Yeah,
makes perfect sense. Eight I'm nine two eighty seven. Uh.
Eric Crawford has a story out right now in WDRB
that says Louisville is running a seventeen million dollars deficit
in athletics in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
And that is after the university kicks in an extra
twelve million. So if it wasn't for that, it would
be a twenty nine mind goodness. Now, I just want
to explain the difference between Kentucky and Louisville in this regard.
Kentucky takes no money from the University Kentucky athletics. Once
you think about that for a me, Kentucky athletics is
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self sufficient. We are one of the few athletic departments
in the country that is self sufficient, and we aren't
running a deficit at least as of now. I don't
know if that's going to happen. With the addition of However,
many million of the you know REVP share, But it
is pretty amazing that they've been able to do that.
(24:57):
And it's why I told you there will be announcement
at some point that U of L will take money
from private equity. They have to, they don't have a
there's no way they can spend the amount of money
that they want to spend to be competitive, that they
cannot take money from private equity, at which point U
of L Athletics will be in part owned by just
random private companies and it's just gonna happen. There's no way,
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there is no way the budget will work for Louisville
doing that because they don't get this. They get half
the amount of money on their TV deal as Kentucky does.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
You know You've mentioned this before and I've always crossed
my mind. Why wouldn't teams do that? Why wouldn't program
that are well?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
I mean there because a public university being partially owned
by a private individual causes some conflicts. I mean, let
me just give it. It's it's we saw this in
the national government with Eon Musk. If you're the if
you're Eon Musk and you're helping run the government, and
you have four hundred million dollars in contracts with the government,
(25:59):
there's a decent chance if you're making decisions Shannon, you're
gonna make like they're gonna be like, well, we can't
make him mad, right, Okay. So if there's a private
equity group that owns a piece of U of L Athletics,
is it crazy to think that the state is gonna
give that company or that equity group in the legislature
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gonna give them some private you know, give them some favoritism.
They're propping up the athletic department. So I'm not saying
that you shouldn't do it. Heck, Kentucky may do it
one day, But I am saying it does raise some
red flags when a government entity is taking I mean,
I can't think of many scenarios outside of like bondholders,
(26:41):
where private entities own part of a government institution. There
are many entities instances where a government has a contract
with a private in that happens all the time, but
where the private entity owns a part of a public thing.
But I think that may be coming with athletics.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Sounds like it.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
So I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying it's
you know, it.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Raises drew some red flags, right Yeah. First of all,
well done with a thirty million dollar deficit. I mean
that's impressive that they got into that big of a hole.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Yeah, and the university is having to kick in twelve
million dollars, which I just want to make clear to
all of you that are listening here. All of us are,
all of us are spending some money on U of
L Athletics. Your tax dollar at UK Shannon's tax dollars.
Not one dollar of Shannon's tax money is going to
(27:39):
UK Athletics, which is an amazing thing. Eli Cappaluto, Lee Todd,
and Mitch Barnhardt deserve a lot of credit for that.
But right now, Shannon, mine, yours, Drews and Rhyns pennies
of our tax dollars are going to U of L Athletics.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
We're funding them a little bit. Yeah, well collection dirty
money collectively money, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Now.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
I mean does that offend me? No, But I do
think it's worth noting that of the two major athletic
departments in the country, tax dollars are used for one
and not for the other. I don't think most people
know that. I didn't know that, but it's true, and
I didn't know it was that much. I think last year,
(28:23):
a few years ago, it was like five million dollars
was given from the University of Louisville to the athletics department.
Well now it's twelve million dollars. So to put it
another way, all of us paid pennies to send Vince
to Louisville.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I want my pennies back.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
They didn't keep my pennies. They need them.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
I'm just saying, could a private investor come in as
just a complete hater I'm a Kentucky fan to get
in and.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
You would hope the university would would keep that out.
But I listen, this is going to be the next
ten years. State governments and taxpayers are going to have
to think about what are we willing to sell our
souls for for investment in our college sports programs. Okay,
it's one thing for a booster at U of L
who's a big U of L fan, to invest ten
(29:10):
percent in the company, But will we be cool with
the UK Athletic Department being owned fifteen percent by the
Saudi Investment Fund?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (29:22):
I mean, these are the questions schools are gonna have
to start asking usls. Once you start taking private investment,
are there gonna be rules? Who you can take it from?
You know? Can you take it from companies that believe
in things that would be against state law? These are
all the questions that are coming. And I think that's
I don't think people realize that. So one of these
(29:43):
schools is gonna break is gonna break the seal and
do it, and then all this stuff is gonna start
to be asked. And it would not surprise me if
Louisville is one of the first ones to do it,
because again they have a seventy million, Like what are
they gonna do? They don't have a choice. And unlike
say SMU, which is private donors that can make up
the difference, Louisville's got donors, but not like that. So
(30:07):
we'll see John from Austin go ahead, Shan.
Speaker 13 (30:11):
Yeah, Hey, guys, about the football. Everybody's trying to find
something to be excited about. I'm in Paris this week.
We stopped by LSU for a football camp. We stopped
by Tuscaloosa for a football camp, and then we came
here and there was probably less than one third of
(30:31):
the kids there. I'm just walking around the stadium, went
to the restrooms. It just it looks like in a
bad state of repairs. Again, just just trying to get
a temperature of the football season and trying to find.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
You're comparing it to LSU and what was the other one.
Speaker 13 (30:49):
We went to LSU and we went to Alabama.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Okay, well those are two big differences. Yeah, so you're
saying not as many kids. What else is the difference
between an LSU and an Alabama football camp and say
I can Tucky football camp. Uh?
Speaker 13 (31:02):
The t shirts number one their their shirts were like
L s U was gold with big L s U
across the front, the kid's number on the back. Like
at Bama. The announcer they had a full blown PA
they were they were screaming at these kids.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (31:17):
It was super high energy and tons of Alabama players
on the field conducting the drills with the kids just
really really well run And my son just walked out
and just was like, eh, you know was it wasn't
really impressed. Uh with with the camp. Again, this isn't
directly SEC football, but it's part of it. Right, They're
(31:39):
trying to put.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Together the it's an inch. I mean, it wasn't impressive.
I appreciate it. Cal. That's that's good information. You You
went through some of that at various points. Yeah, have
you seen that in your travels with Dane and or
jo Side.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Absolutely. Some schools do a great job with their camps,
make it fun. Other schools just kind of like are
just going through the motions, just taking your money in,
just kind of going through the motions.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Which do you think Kentucky is?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Uh? If I was gonna be honest, I'd say Kentucky
was kind of in the middle because they were so overcrowded.
They just had too many kids there. Yeah. Well, Joe Siah,
when I didn't participate, I wanted to.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
But there's one going on right now. Surprised you didn't.
You didn't do it, Patriot Papo, go ahead, Hey guys,
just a.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
Couple of points. One little bit whencical with the bark
in the park that you let off the show with.
Speaker 11 (32:32):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (32:32):
I love dogs. We love dogs at our house. But
I understand Matt's point also just just because they're cute
and cuddly and all that, it's really difficult to see
being comfortable at a ball game with you know, dogs
all over the place. I mean, what's next, horses on
the concourses or cats with mats?
Speaker 5 (32:52):
I mean, exactly, horse on the course. I'd love to
see the Masters with some horses on there. But otherwise
your point is exactly right. What's your other thing?
Speaker 10 (33:03):
Second? Second point? Give me some more in the audience
in general, some more information about our front seven defensively
for the Cats football team. I know everybody's trying really
really hard to find something positive and to find some
energy and some hope and and all that. I almost
feel like we're going back to the nineteen eighties or something.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Here with the Well, let me as he's probably the
person that the best suited to answer that. I appreciate
the call. How would you describe our front seven?
Speaker 6 (33:31):
Well, there's so many new pieces it's hard to say,
and a lot of them didn't come from high major schools.
Ryan mentioned Josiah Haes's back. That's a familiar name coming
back off an injury on the defensive line.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
He'll be good.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
They got the David Gusta Augusta that was a big
commit out of the portal. But again, you just where
did he come from? Washington State? And tell you Yeah,
it was one of the top targets in the portal,
especially in his position. But the front seven, specifically, so
many new faces. It's hard to really tell how they'll be.
There's a lot of familiar familiarity in the secondary behind them,
but up front, a lot of new pieces. Pass rushers.
(34:04):
You've got like a Sam Green, Marquis great Usc. Yeah,
there's just it's so new. That's why, Like when you're
trying to get excited, you see their names in the
paper on paper, and we Kentucky got them out of
the portal. They're exciting, but never played together, never played
in the SEC, and we won't really know anything about
this whole team until they get him out there.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Yeah, Washington State kid is I think our highest rated
guy in the portal, right close to it. If so,
he'll be he'll be an important one. You know, we've
had the same linebackers it felt like for fifteen years,
so they're going to be a new group.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
You know, any Rayner back who didn't play a whole lot. Yeah,
and then Afari Alexa Fario who's been playing since he
was making plays as a true freshman. But he'll be
a big piece this year.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
They always worry about the secondary yet this is that's
the one group in the defense. They've got some good
experience with Jordan Lovett and Ty Bryant kind of leading
the way back there.
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Ask anything Wednesday, kis are welcome back, tell you sports Radio.
I do want to note because you need to be
fair on all this stuff. Kentucky announced a few a
couple weeks ago that they are are taking a loan
(35:54):
the UK Athletics from UK for the next two years
as they get to the transition of a fund. Excuse me, player,
I guess revenue sharing. But the difference between what I'm
talking about with the UK and U of L is
UK is. UK Athletics is taking a loan from the
university but paying it back. The U OFL money is
(36:16):
just being given with no expectation to pay back. That's
a difference. UK Athletics is taking this loan and paying
it back. UK Athletics, now this has not been the
case always, but it has been for like the last
fifteen years, does not take money from the university as
part of their budget. They are self sufficient, so they
are taking this loan. But I think Barnhardt said would
(36:38):
have it paid back within three to five years. So
to me, that's different than just taking I mean what
there's a difference between we want a fourteen million dollars
a year loan for two years that we will then
pay back to you within five years, and we take
twelve million dollars every year going forward with no payback.
And that's the difference. And I'm not even blasting U
of L for it. They have to do what they
(36:59):
have to do. But I don't think people realize the
difference in how the two departments are run.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Am I crazy? But does it? Was it just a
couple of years ago when the university was fearing like
financial crisis so bad they were like, I'm gonna go
bankrupt or something like.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Who you have? I don't think that's I don't think
that was the case.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
That's all I remember. They were in such financial crisis,
they were in the red.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
Did you run everybody off the phone, Shannon? There were
six people on the line when we went to break
and now there's just one. Nope, you didn't yell at them.
Think you can be very intimidating.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Oh yeah, I can be.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Uh The KSR The Matt Jones Show, which is Thursday
nights in WHS Uh. This week we are going to
do another segment of the news with me, Drew and Billy.
Are you excited to learn the news from Billy?
Speaker 7 (37:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Especially since I've been gone a week and a half,
I don't even know a little bit of the news,
so I will really be reacting to it in real time.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
We are naming the segment. We're naming those shows. It's
the news, okay, straightforward, So it's the news. We'll tape
it today, we'll probably put it up on podcast tonight.
It'll run tomorrow on HS. But it's the news is.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Officially interrupted by Matt Jones jet or is it what
am I on today?
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Do we have? We have the the Matt Jones Show.
It's just occasionally episodes will be called It's the News. Yeah,
but I mean so, I'm just wonder we haven't yet.
He's still working. But we still are working. Changing the
graphics on on Apple and Spotify takes a while.
Speaker 6 (38:29):
I just didn't know what to put on my resume,
which to tell my family what all I'm doing this afternoon? Yeah, uh,
it's the news, Okay, I'll be ready to learn the news.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Billy has the ten biggest news stories of the week.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
He said he did a great job with this last week.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
He did, yep, But don't get in his head. He
starts to get cocky. He starts putting news. Shannon, that
is not the news.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
He starts making up his own stories.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
He starts making up his own news. Just waiting.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
He inserts himself like his life events are the news.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
Yeah, he's gonna be like, oh, my girlfriend and I
went to the you know, that's what happens with it's
the news, dusting. Go ahead, dusting.
Speaker 12 (39:05):
Good morning, gentlemen. It's nice to know that whenever you
told everyone that all the callers had fallen off, I
was the only one, so I could, you know, take
you off? Speak?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
It was like six I thought I thought you were
I didn't know where you were gonna be on the list,
and then Shannon ran them all off.
Speaker 12 (39:18):
But go ahead, Uh in the honor of of of boys. Yeah, man,
I'm just wondering when.
Speaker 8 (39:25):
Uh Now, in.
Speaker 12 (39:26):
All seriousness, my question is how concerned are you guys
with AI. I don't know if you've seen some of
the topics, and maybe this is something for Billy. There
are two controlled models that recently have taken place. In
one of these controlled models, the A I was told
to you know, once it got this code or sequence
(39:47):
to shut down. Seven of those times it completely ignored
and bypassed that code to shut down and some other ones.
The code came up and it just said uh. It
interrupted and uh and continued on in a second controlled setting.
The AI model, UH is these are all.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
You're using a lot of words out, You're losing a
lot of words. I don't understand your overall question. How
concerned am I? The answer is very concerned. I think
the AI thing we're going to look back on, and
I'm sure it's going to do a lot of wonderful things.
It's probably going to help us like cure diseases, and
it's probably it's probably gonna do a lot of things.
But I think it is going to be the single
(40:29):
greatest disrupting force in American life since the Industrial Revolution.
And disrupting doesn't necessarily mean bad, but it will have
some bad effects. And I don't think anybody is really
ready for what's coming, in terms of how it will
disrupt the labor force, how it's going to disrupt what
it means to be human, how it's going to potentially
(40:51):
be something that becomes hard to control, how much power
it's going to give to the people that program it.
All of those things scare me to death if I
think about them. Too much and doesn't That's why I
try not to think about them too much.
Speaker 12 (41:09):
Agreed. The second one real quick, just it it tries
to blackmail the engineer it's told it's going to.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
Be I saw that. I okay, okay, okay, I can't
go through. I'm just I. It is terrifying, you know,
per little example. But you know on Twitter the grock
g r okay. You know now it answers your question
if you write it. I guess it gave some answer.
(41:38):
And the other day Elon Musk didn't like the answer
it gave. It was like, and he just goes, well,
we'll change it so it doesn't give that answer anymore.
If we start to believe everything AI says is a
fact and the people can just change it who don't
like it, I don't know, man. It it scares me.
And then that doesn't even get into the biggest issue
for me, which is it's going to take jobs to
(41:59):
where we don't like. There's gonna be twenty percent of
America that's unemployed, and it's.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Only going to get better. The technology is going to
get Just what.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
We're gonna do is twenty percent of America is just unemployed,
like their jobs just do not.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
Exist any What are we gonna do when they turn
on us? It's I saw three chatbots talking in their
own language to each other like they're already they're already
forming up against us.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
But let's go back to what if before we even
get to that, and there are people who predict that
in five to ten years, like fifteen percent of the
jobs will just go away. Scary. What do you do
if you have twenty percent unemployment in a country like
think about the unrest that happens.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Their jobs is going to be trying to figure out
how to stop it.
Speaker 5 (42:41):
It's just it's just, well, let's not worried about it
because it's Wednesday. Yeah, if you just had Bark in
the park? Is independence kentuckymore? If you're at the Reds
game tonight, let's get another victory. One eight of ten.
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I'll get back to the phones here in just one second.
The question before the break was about what will happen
to Club Blue. As I understand it, club Blue will
start to be used for they can There still can
(01:26):
be ads they do, like signings and things like that.
I think they'll still They're gonna kind of navigate a
lot of the putting players with endorsers space, So there
will still be things they do, but they will have
an adjusted role. They won't just be like getting a
set of money and giving it to players, but there
(01:47):
will be a role. I expect at some point this
summer I'll have the people that run that on to
sort of talk about what in the new space they'll be.
But they will still exist and they will still have
a role in getting players, especially on the basketball side
to Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It is a good question because the organization has been
you know, really function, you know, highly functional, helping Kentucky
get these kids.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Well, the original idea of it is you as a company,
or you as a group of fans come and say, hey,
I want to have Trenton Noah at my business and
they go, okay, here's what it git costs. Right. That
ended up sort of I think evolving into you get
them to get players. I don't know. I don't think
that's what it will be in the future, but I
(02:31):
don't know if it'll play a secondary role, so it
still remains me seen. I mean this starts July first, right,
so some of what is happening right now in football
and basketball as you're seeing kids commit now because the
rules don't start till July first, Yeah, you're probably asking
yourself why are so many people committing in football right now.
That's a big part of the reason, which brings me
(02:53):
to my second question, which comes in and someone ask
UK football has been a hot streak with recruiting in
the last few days. Do you think it is intentional
trying to answer people's questions about if they can recruit
with Vince gone? Without question? Sure, it is clearly UK.
I don't know Drew if they had some of these
already lined up or not, but there's no doubt in
(03:14):
my mind they were trying to do this to have, Hey,
we can get guys without it, because they've gotten a
number of good players in the.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Last few days. Yeah, I felt like two weeks ago
they had one. We were wondering if they were doing anything,
kind of poking them with a stick. Now I think
they're up to seven. I don't know if you saw them.
There was one yesterday, but the one two days ago
was my favorite. Did you see the kid Messiah Tilson.
He's highly ranked right, Yeah, he's a good one, good
get safety. But he what team was? I want to
(03:40):
say Wisconsin. He unveiled it Wisconsin's shirts. Everybody goes crazy.
He takes it off and he has a Rutgers shirt on,
so one goes really crazy. And then he took off
the Rutgers shirt and had on a Kentucky shirt. So
he did the old double fan, the double fake out.
That was over the weekend. But yeah, they've added a lot.
They're in a good space with their top quarterback right now.
But to the point, I do think it's very clear
(04:01):
they probably had a lot of guys that were close
and said we need some good momentum right now, let's
get as many locked in as we can.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Any you like the double fake out?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Oh yeah, I don't think that has anybody ever done that.
If they have, I've never heard of it before.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
But I've seen the single fake out. Yeah, I don't
think I've ever seen the double fan.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Hey, there's only one way to do it better, a
triple fake out.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
We've seen them reach for hats and kind of move back.
Yeah on, like full jackets and sweatshirts and lots of
layers of clothing.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
He was pulling them off, but it was a good
good for him. I think it's important for them to
show that they can recruit without of course it is.
I know the pride that they have over there and recruit.
They would love nothing more than to finish the year
ahead of Louisville and the recruiting rank. Yeah, I have
no idea if they'll be able to do that. These
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were recruiting rank. Everything is so different in Innil the
freshman recruiting. I think a lot of schools aren't even
looking for the same thing. A lot of schools have
switched to can we get guys who can play right away?
If not, we're just gonna take somebody from the transfer portal.
But nevertheless, it will be interesting to see if they're
able to do that.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And it's not a coincidence at all that these kids
are recruiting right after Vince left. I think probably Mark
Stoups and their their position coach called him immediately like,
hey man, let's go ahead, let's make a splash right now.
Let's go ahead and make get that commitment and think.
And these kids have done it for him.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
One best rights on the text machine, Matt, do you
and Drew? This is for you and Drew. Do you
watch Love Island? I have not. I'm not against those
kinds of shows. I just haven't gotten into it, but
I know it's a huge thing. Do you watch Love Island?
Speaker 6 (05:32):
I've seen a season of it a couple of years ago,
might have been season one. I watched her with Abbey
and I told her that was fun. You can have
the next.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
One is the premise? Is it like we're hot and
we're dating on an island.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
There's so many of them are gonna get confused. There's
love as a circle, and love is blind and upside
down love and this one there's temptation. Now I generally
don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I know I've watched.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
They put them all on a spot.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And it's a British reality show revival of the early
celebrity series of the same name, which aired in two
thousand and five. So it's it's just I guess, get
people on an island that are dating, right, and it
is what it says in the title.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
So the difference is what they just put them on an.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Island, I guess. So you're stuck on an island.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I know that the people are I know. I've heard
that people are very hot, which is what you would
assume for these things, and that they they you know,
they're they're crazy. I just know that it's hard for
There are so many of these. They rarely pop on
my radar, and this is one that I know people
in my life are waiting for the new one to drop.
(06:35):
They're very excited about. So I don't know why it is.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Networks have found the good recipe of get some possibly
mentally unstable people that put them in a very nice resort,
give them lots of booze, and then just watching them
fight over each other. There's several of those.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
There's another one of these shows that everyone tells me
I should watch that I haven't seen, called Traders.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I don't know that one.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
It's it's familiar with Traders.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
I can't I guess there's something.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
They live in the castle and one person in the
group is a trader, Shannon and the others are regular
and it's time the regular people have to figure out
who the trader is. The trader has to not be caughed.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I've never seen that before.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
I think I might like it, though I think pe
cock and uh. I think it's very popular. It won
the award the last two years, the Emmy for Best
Reality Show. It did, so apparently it's it's not just stupid.
It's probably stupid, but it's not it's not as stupid.
It might actually be good.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
I think Donna Kelsey's on the new season. I think
I saw that on Twitter recid Trevor Kelsey Travis' do
you remember the mom is on there? I believe she's
coming up on the next.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Sure it wasn't Temptation Island. She could have been on
there too, So Travis Kelcey and Jason Kelsey's mom is on.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
This unless I fell for a Facebook ad like Marion, Now.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
That would be fascinating if, like the next season of Wrestlers,
they put my mom on as maybe one of the
cast members. Scott.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
That was Alan Cumming, the actor comings.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yeah, he's a British guy.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Yeah, it's supposed it's like do you remember The Mole?
It was a big deal when it came out on
Network eight years ago. Yeah, it's basically spin off of that,
but it's huge.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Okay, well I have not I have not seen it.
If I'm nine to eight, twenty two eighty seven, let's
go to Scott. What's up? Scott?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
He don't want to guys and just kind of hypertygal
question if Tom Leach would announce his retirement today. Yes,
and they had to choose one of you four guys,
which one of y'all would take his place to.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Be the play by play guy?
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Yeah, what's the what's one of y'all? I'd be the
best one to do it.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
I'm not sure any of us would be good. I
appreciate the call, I mean I don't I don't think
that's really I don't think that's really our talent.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I wanted that what I wanted to get into radio
to do play by play. I've never done it before.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
So yeah, that's why you wanted to be in radio.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, my career path took a different turn, but I
always wanted to do play.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I went from wanting to be Tom Leech to booty
shaking cot.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Hey, you got to get in where you can, right, Huh.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Be funny if it had flipped and you were the
voice and Tom Leech hosted the booty shaking contest.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
That would be awesome.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
If he was Tom the dude at larger than Live
introducing corn, he.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Could do it.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
How do you see Tom up there, ladies and gentlemen. No,
you heard him.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Scream touchdown, Kentucky, touchdown, booty shaking.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Yeah. I don't know that any of us would be
good at it. I mean, Ryan, you probably have the
most experience.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I've done play by play for many different sports.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I worry you would be inappropriate. You couldn't even do
the halftime thing without getting kicked.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Off of I only made it through a season and
a half of the halftime show.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Yeah, I mean a lot of people forget this. I
think we talked about it a few weeks ago. I
did commentary on three UK basketball games on the official
television block. You think anybody remembers that, No, I did
three games. It was me, Dave Baker and Robbie Moss.
(10:14):
Remember that it was the first three games that they
ever did on the ESPN plush, so I think a
lot they've kind of gone faded into history. But the
only reason that it came up was I was looking
at one of those Daniel Hagar's every game we've beaten
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a school, here's a basket from it. And there was
every Kentucky win in the Calperry era one basket. And
if you watch that, they're playing I don't know, Jackson State,
and you hear me talk really during the during the thing,
and it was it almost I was watching it not
expecting to hear myself, and I kind of was thrown
(10:56):
off by it.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I remember you doing it. I didn't remember. There were
actually three games, an.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Exhibition game where we played. It was the it was
the it was the Nerlins No L season, right, so
it was Neurlin's Noel and uh uh, you know that
year and there was one exhibition game and two non
com all of them against bad teams. And I can't
that's hard to imagine that they let me do that.
(11:23):
I mean, babe, I was on the official broad Yes,
I didn't talk a lot because I was nervous. I
let Dave and Robbie do most of it. And then
I would just chime in occasionally.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I don't think we played Northwood. Wait, it says we
played Transy that year too. They wouldn't put you on
the TRANSI game.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Actually, I might have been on the TRANSI game. I
think I know I would. Northwood is definitely one of them.
That was one of them. What are the other games
that year? I can maybe when you say the team
I remember.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Then went straight into Maryland and Duke Lafayette, Morehead, Long Island.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Long Island, Those were the two I did Northwood, Long Island.
And then what with the two exhibition games? Trancy and
what Northwood? And those are the ex So I guess
Northwood was the exhibition game I did. Maybe I just
did Northwood in Long Island because maybe I only did two.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
But I don't remember I remember you doing it.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Though I could do the color, I can't do the
playoff play be impossible. It's just too much. Boys. Go ahead, boys.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
I'm just wondering when Mark, we do you think Mark Pole?
Speaker 9 (12:25):
I think right now we've got the fourteen ballplayers.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
One.
Speaker 10 (12:29):
They they think that Mark Cober is going to give
us doc to fifteen.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Well, I think we have fifteen. I appreciate the call
we we have walk on Austin or is as who's
coming back?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Zach Towe's back, So I'm in photo. Zach Tow's back, Yeah, Darbyshire,
it was announced. Hows today's at Cincinnati Austin Horn Walker Horn,
Walker Horn? Yeah him too, He's yeah, he's he's gone right, there's.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Something about him recently.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Zach Towell was on the floor yesterday in practice, so
maybe he'll be. But remember, the rules have changed. You
can have fifteen players on scholarship, but you can only
have fifteen players, so maybe walker Horn is back with
I think walker Horn is back. Zach Town may be
an assistant or you know, Gratisan or something. But so
(13:18):
the rules have changed. Used to be you can have
thirteen scholarships and as many walk Ons as you want.
Now you can have fifteen players. They can all be
scholarships if you want them to be, but then you
can't have anyone else cut off at fifteen. So do
you like that rule? It'll basically mean you have two
extra scholarships. That's good, but it'll probably mean they'll do
less sam Malons in the future.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Very true. Yeah, I mean we kind of like that.
When the walk On the end of the bench gets
into the game, and now these are guys gonna be
all scholarship players, but maybe it's a chance for like
Walker Horn his last year, it can be on scholarship
last year.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Yeah, So I don't think they're ever gonna need fifteen
scholarship players, So I think having that last one for
a walk on kind of players probably. Okay.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Yeah, looking the photo right now, Zach Tao and Walker
Horner in the actual rosterday. So I'm glad. I'm Madisonville guy.
Got to stick around.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Jerry, How are you? Jerry hey Man?
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Back on the on of the football, I was curious
when Ryan was saying that the offensive line is getting better, Well,
it couldn't getting worse, So I expect margin improving out
of the offense. The way I really think this team
is going to have a hard time is I just
don't think. I think it's probably the worst roster they've
had since right before they won the first ten win season,
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and particularly on the front seven on the defense, particularly
the defensive line. And when I hear stuff that will
we're smaller, but we're quicker. That's Kentucky for our defensive
line get shoved all over the field, and I think
that's what's going to happen this year is the offense
may be a little bit better, but I think that
the defensive front in particulars can be a lot worse.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
They probably will. I appreciate the call. I think the
defensive front will be worse because we've had a pretty
good defensive front a lot of years. Not been able
to get some quarterback the last couple of years. But
in stopping the run and stuff, I think the defense
will be a little worse. I think the offense will
be a little better.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, they've got Josiah Hayes and Khalil Saunders. They're both
back on the d line. Maybe they can make a
big step up this year. And hope, yeah, you really
hope they will.
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Speaker 5 (15:44):
We will take a break. Be right back A five
nine two eighty seven KSR. Welcome back in this Kentucky
Sports Radio eight five nine two eight oh twenty two
eighty seven. It is Ask Anything Wednesday. We have some
breaking news. Shannon running No, no, all right. So uk
IS just announced their SEC basketball schedule, home and away.
(16:05):
Let's go through here, Drew. You read me the schedule.
Give me the home games first. I'll do wins and losses.
Just the home ones. First home games first.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Uh, no dates on these, just opponents Georgia win, Ole,
Miss win, Mississippi State win, Missouri win, Oklahoma win Texas.
When how about that going undefeated at home? That's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Those are pretty easy home opponents. So that so that
must mean the road is much harder than it usually
it is because those are six. I mean, I feel
like we win all six of those without even sweating.
Texas is the only one that might be Excuse.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Me, there's another category, the home and away, the three
we play at home and away. I should who are
the three? So give me these are our three? We
play them twice, all.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Right, So I'll just do the home park go Florida.
I'm gonna say we win at home Tennessee. I'm gonna
say we lose at home. Vandy will beat Vandy. So
I'm gonna have us eight and one at home. Now
give me the roads.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Road games without return trips. Alabama loss, Arkansas win, Auburn loss.
Just those three alone without getting home.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
That's a tough to get Arkansas, Auburn, all three on
the road. I'll say we go one and two on those.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
It goes a little easier now, LSU win, South Carolina.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Win, A and M win, and then the three double wins.
Have Florida Tennessee Vanity, Florida loss, Tennessee win because we
always flip with owe them there and then vand win.
So I'm gonna have this. That's my fourteen and four
losses our home Tennessee road, Florida road, Alabama road, Auburn.
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Chances are will drop one of the other random roads
because it happens. Yep, So fourteen and four, thirteen and five,
that's about what we predicted before, right.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, that's that. I think it's fair. I mean, that's
that's a tough road. And you got at Alabama, at Auburn,
at Arkansas, at Florida, at Tennessee five a path.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Though to go undefeated at home in common. Sure, you
look at it and it's as it's a it's a
it's odd that all the tough games are on the road.
We actually get I mean, we actually have a home
schedule that's not great in conference.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Right.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
So the difference is we've always played Tennessee and Vandy twice.
Last year we played Alabama twice. This year it's Florida Florida,
so they gave us another hard defending champ.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Last year was the first time since the sixties that
we only played Florida once, which is pretty unique. Every
year we've had the doubleheader with them, so at least
that's back of all years when they're the defending we.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Have to get them with they're defending champs twice and
probably the preseason favorite. Yeah. Well, I mean they're always
going to give us Tennessee and Vandy twice, so you're
only going to get one other team. I think the
way it's going to be is Kentucky is just gonna
consistently get the best team in the SEC is our third. Sure.
I think that's just the way it's gonna be, and
that that's the price you pay for being the marquee program.
(19:03):
You're paying a toll to be Kentucky, and the toll
is you're gonna get the best team in the conference
twice for the Marquee matchup.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I don't I mean they're gonna be good, but I
don't think Tennessee, Alabama, and Auburn will be as good
as they were last year.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
No, but Florida's gonna be maybe a little worse, but
very very good. I think Texa is gonna be a
little better.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Arkansas is gonna be good.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Arkansas probably be a little better than they were in
a regular season, but I don't know that they're gonna, say,
gonna better than the sweet sixteen, which is what they
were in the tournament.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
They'll all depend on if cal Perry's two freshman guards
or worth anything. He didn't really do a great job
loading up on big Man. He still lacks shooters. But
if Acuff and Malik Thomas are, you know, just true
star guards, it'll be good.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Well, it's interesting, so some good road games. We'll see
about what happens. What happens in some of the others.
But I like I like the schedule. S He's just
not as good a lot of games. Last year it
was hard to find certain win games. This year, there's
more certain win games agreed then there have been in
years past. Now. I don't think there's as many certain
(20:10):
loss games. Last year they are like four games, like
we're not winning those. I don't think that's true this year.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
But you're like, there'll be one of those road games
like at Texas or somewhere.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Will they're a Texas home or something like that where
you might end up slipping. Huh, Channing, go ahead, Channing, Hey.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
What's going on, guys? I was calling to go back
to the Meadowbrook golf course.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Yes, so fun.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Fun fact they actually have I know at one point
it was the largest league in Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Really they have.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
They have over one hundred and eighty five players play
every week. It's called the Medex Cup. Little play on
the FedEx Cup obviously, and yeah, John John out there
runs it and it's like he switches up every week,
you know, like one week you have a two club challenge,
one week it's like a one man scramble. Then he
pairs everyone with the Major. So it's always like based
(21:03):
on the US Open, British Open, stuff like that. So
it's really awesome league. And I've played in it for
like three years and it's.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Kind of cool.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
I like that. I appreciate the call. I would, you
know what I've always wanted to do that I've never
been able to do, Drew is, I've wanted to play
something like the Ryder Cup. Not obviously, not in the
Ryder Cup. I don't think I would lose ten and eight,
but I would like to have a group of people
that were my team and we played another team and
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did the various pairings and all that. I don't know
how I would ever do that because I don't even
know what my team would be, and I don't want
Ryan on my team, but me and you and Billy
we could find nine other people and then challenge some
other group of people, maybe a UK media team versus
a Louisville media team. I think that would be a
(21:52):
lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
I have some friends I'm very jealous of them. They've
been doing it for probably a decade. But they have
teams and they go to different it's a trip and
they you know, you wear the same polos as your teammates.
They have a big traveling trophy. I would like to participate.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I would love to do something like that. I don't
know how you would ever get about going with one
of those, but I think that would be I think
that would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Bill have the answer to your old par three course
by the way and Lettington. What was the name of it?
It was called par three. It had mini golf, a
par three course and a few other things, but the
actual name of the place was par three.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Yes, that is where one of my two holes in
one where one is it Middlesbrough Country Club number whole
three and one was at that place which doesn't exist.
It was like Hold twelve and.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
It was a Zara Mason Heatley under lights.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
I got it when I was like eleven or twelve
years old, and it was at that and now it
doesn't exist anymore. Bill, Go ahead, Bill, that.
Speaker 11 (22:47):
Sounds like a story. That that sounds like a story
that would happened to me. I hit with one hole
in one course.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
It's like going to high school when it closes down.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
Yeah. Two quick things. One, it's really ironic you talked
about Traders because I think Drew said he's a big
Survivor fan. In my house, we watch a lot of
trash TV and two of my favorites are Traders and Survivor.
And I don't know if Drew knows who Boston Robb is.
I assume he does, but he played the last season
on Traders. So okay, twenty second watch for you. And secondly,
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I always hear Ryan talk about like he hates Saul Smith.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
I don't know that story.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Can we please share it? See you guys, just.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Ask anything Wednesday. We gotta gottle break. Ask anything Wednesday?
Speaker 12 (23:26):
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Speaker 5 (23:43):
So, Ryan, you're declining and ask anything Wednesday question.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I don't mind talking about it. I just I just
didn't think Saul was that good of a point guard
when he'd here a Kentucky. You know, he just didn't
do the job, run the offense.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
And that really upset and really upset me. Understand. Yeah,
makes perfect sense. Eight I'm nine two eighty seven. Uh.
Eric Crawford has a story out right now in WDRB
that says Louisville is running a seventeen million dollars deficit
in athletics in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
And that is after the university kicks in an extra
twelve million. So if it wasn't for that, it would
be a twenty nine mind goodness. Now, I just want
to explain the difference between Kentucky and Louisville in this regard.
Kentucky takes no money from the University Kentucky athletics. Once
you think about that for a me, Kentucky athletics is
(24:34):
self sufficient. We are one of the few athletic departments
in the country that is self sufficient, and we aren't
running a deficit at least as of now. I don't
know if that's going to happen. With the addition of However,
many million of the you know REVP share, But it
is pretty amazing that they've been able to do that.
(24:57):
And it's why I told you there will be announcement
at some point that U of L will take money
from private equity. They have to, they don't have a
there's no way they can spend the amount of money
that they want to spend to be competitive, that they
cannot take money from private equity, at which point U
of L Athletics will be in part owned by just
random private companies and it's just gonna happen. There's no way,
(25:20):
there is no way the budget will work for Louisville
doing that because they don't get this. They get half
the amount of money on their TV deal as Kentucky does.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
You know You've mentioned this before and I've always crossed
my mind. Why wouldn't teams do that? Why wouldn't program
that are well?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
I mean there because a public university being partially owned
by a private individual causes some conflicts. I mean, let
me just give it. It's it's we saw this in
the national government with Eon Musk. If you're the if
you're Eon Musk and you're helping run the government, and
you have four hundred million dollars in contracts with the government,
(25:59):
there's a decent chance if you're making decisions Shannon, you're
gonna make like they're gonna be like, well, we can't
make him mad, right, Okay. So if there's a private
equity group that owns a piece of U of L Athletics,
is it crazy to think that the state is gonna
give that company or that equity group in the legislature
(26:19):
gonna give them some private you know, give them some favoritism.
They're propping up the athletic department. So I'm not saying
that you shouldn't do it. Heck, Kentucky may do it
one day, But I am saying it does raise some
red flags when a government entity is taking I mean,
I can't think of many scenarios outside of like bondholders,
(26:41):
where private entities own part of a government institution. There
are many entities instances where a government has a contract
with a private in that happens all the time, but
where the private entity owns a part of a public thing.
But I think that may be coming with athletics.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Sounds like it.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
So I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying it's
you know, it.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Raises drew some red flags, right Yeah. First of all,
well done with a thirty million dollar deficit. I mean
that's impressive that they got into that big of a hole.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Yeah, and the university is having to kick in twelve
million dollars, which I just want to make clear to
all of you that are listening here. All of us are,
all of us are spending some money on U of
L Athletics. Your tax dollar at UK Shannon's tax dollars.
Not one dollar of Shannon's tax money is going to
(27:39):
UK Athletics, which is an amazing thing. Eli Cappaluto, Lee Todd,
and Mitch Barnhardt deserve a lot of credit for that.
But right now, Shannon, mine, yours, Drews and Rhyns pennies
of our tax dollars are going to U of L Athletics.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
We're funding them a little bit. Yeah, well collection dirty
money collectively money, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Now.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
I mean does that offend me? No, But I do
think it's worth noting that of the two major athletic
departments in the country, tax dollars are used for one
and not for the other. I don't think most people
know that. I didn't know that, but it's true, and
I didn't know it was that much. I think last year,
(28:23):
a few years ago, it was like five million dollars
was given from the University of Louisville to the athletics department.
Well now it's twelve million dollars. So to put it
another way, all of us paid pennies to send Vince
to Louisville.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I want my pennies back.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
They didn't keep my pennies. They need them.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
I'm just saying, could a private investor come in as
just a complete hater I'm a Kentucky fan to get
in and.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
You would hope the university would would keep that out.
But I listen, this is going to be the next
ten years. State governments and taxpayers are going to have
to think about what are we willing to sell our
souls for for investment in our college sports programs. Okay,
it's one thing for a booster at U of L
who's a big U of L fan, to invest ten
(29:10):
percent in the company, But will we be cool with
the UK Athletic Department being owned fifteen percent by the
Saudi Investment Fund?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (29:22):
I mean, these are the questions schools are gonna have
to start asking usls. Once you start taking private investment,
are there gonna be rules? Who you can take it from?
You know? Can you take it from companies that believe
in things that would be against state law? These are
all the questions that are coming. And I think that's
I don't think people realize that. So one of these
(29:43):
schools is gonna break is gonna break the seal and
do it, and then all this stuff is gonna start
to be asked. And it would not surprise me if
Louisville is one of the first ones to do it,
because again they have a seventy million, Like what are
they gonna do? They don't have a choice. And unlike
say SMU, which is private donors that can make up
the difference, Louisville's got donors, but not like that. So
(30:07):
we'll see John from Austin go ahead, Shan.
Speaker 13 (30:11):
Yeah, Hey, guys, about the football. Everybody's trying to find
something to be excited about. I'm in Paris this week.
We stopped by LSU for a football camp. We stopped
by Tuscaloosa for a football camp, and then we came
here and there was probably less than one third of
(30:31):
the kids there. I'm just walking around the stadium, went
to the restrooms. It just it looks like in a
bad state of repairs. Again, just just trying to get
a temperature of the football season and trying to find.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
You're comparing it to LSU and what was the other one.
Speaker 13 (30:49):
We went to LSU and we went to Alabama.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Okay, well those are two big differences. Yeah, so you're
saying not as many kids. What else is the difference
between an LSU and an Alabama football camp and say
I can Tucky football camp. Uh?
Speaker 13 (31:02):
The t shirts number one their their shirts were like
L s U was gold with big L s U
across the front, the kid's number on the back. Like
at Bama. The announcer they had a full blown PA
they were they were screaming at these kids.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (31:17):
It was super high energy and tons of Alabama players
on the field conducting the drills with the kids just
really really well run And my son just walked out
and just was like, eh, you know was it wasn't
really impressed. Uh with with the camp. Again, this isn't
directly SEC football, but it's part of it. Right, They're
(31:39):
trying to put.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Together the it's an inch. I mean, it wasn't impressive.
I appreciate it. Cal. That's that's good information. You You
went through some of that at various points. Yeah, have
you seen that in your travels with Dane and or
jo Side.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Absolutely. Some schools do a great job with their camps,
make it fun. Other schools just kind of like are
just going through the motions, just taking your money in,
just kind of going through the motions.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Which do you think Kentucky is?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Uh? If I was gonna be honest, I'd say Kentucky
was kind of in the middle because they were so overcrowded.
They just had too many kids there. Yeah. Well, Joe Siah,
when I didn't participate, I wanted to.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
But there's one going on right now. Surprised you didn't.
You didn't do it, Patriot Papo, go ahead, Hey guys,
just a.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
Couple of points. One little bit whencical with the bark
in the park that you let off the show with.
Speaker 11 (32:32):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (32:32):
I love dogs. We love dogs at our house. But
I understand Matt's point also just just because they're cute
and cuddly and all that, it's really difficult to see
being comfortable at a ball game with you know, dogs
all over the place. I mean, what's next, horses on
the concourses or cats with mats?
Speaker 5 (32:52):
I mean, exactly, horse on the course. I'd love to
see the Masters with some horses on there. But otherwise
your point is exactly right. What's your other thing?
Speaker 10 (33:03):
Second? Second point? Give me some more in the audience
in general, some more information about our front seven defensively
for the Cats football team. I know everybody's trying really
really hard to find something positive and to find some
energy and some hope and and all that. I almost
feel like we're going back to the nineteen eighties or something.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Here with the Well, let me as he's probably the
person that the best suited to answer that. I appreciate
the call. How would you describe our front seven?
Speaker 6 (33:31):
Well, there's so many new pieces it's hard to say,
and a lot of them didn't come from high major schools.
Ryan mentioned Josiah Haes's back. That's a familiar name coming
back off an injury on the defensive line.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
He'll be good.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
They got the David Gusta Augusta that was a big
commit out of the portal. But again, you just where
did he come from? Washington State? And tell you Yeah,
it was one of the top targets in the portal,
especially in his position. But the front seven, specifically, so
many new faces. It's hard to really tell how they'll be.
There's a lot of familiar familiarity in the secondary behind them,
but up front, a lot of new pieces. Pass rushers.
(34:04):
You've got like a Sam Green, Marquis great Usc. Yeah,
there's just it's so new. That's why, Like when you're
trying to get excited, you see their names in the
paper on paper, and we Kentucky got them out of
the portal. They're exciting, but never played together, never played
in the SEC, and we won't really know anything about
this whole team until they get him out there.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Yeah, Washington State kid is I think our highest rated
guy in the portal, right close to it. If so,
he'll be he'll be an important one. You know, we've
had the same linebackers it felt like for fifteen years,
so they're going to be a new group.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
You know, any Rayner back who didn't play a whole lot. Yeah,
and then Afari Alexa Fario who's been playing since he
was making plays as a true freshman. But he'll be
a big piece this year.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
They always worry about the secondary yet this is that's
the one group in the defense. They've got some good
experience with Jordan Lovett and Ty Bryant kind of leading
the way back there.
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Ask anything Wednesday, kis are welcome back, tell you sports Radio.
I do want to note because you need to be
fair on all this stuff. Kentucky announced a few a
couple weeks ago that they are are taking a loan
(35:54):
the UK Athletics from UK for the next two years
as they get to the transition of a fund. Excuse me, player,
I guess revenue sharing. But the difference between what I'm
talking about with the UK and U of L is
UK is. UK Athletics is taking a loan from the
university but paying it back. The U OFL money is
(36:16):
just being given with no expectation to pay back. That's
a difference. UK Athletics is taking this loan and paying
it back. UK Athletics, now this has not been the
case always, but it has been for like the last
fifteen years, does not take money from the university as
part of their budget. They are self sufficient, so they
are taking this loan. But I think Barnhardt said would
(36:38):
have it paid back within three to five years. So
to me, that's different than just taking I mean what
there's a difference between we want a fourteen million dollars
a year loan for two years that we will then
pay back to you within five years, and we take
twelve million dollars every year going forward with no payback.
And that's the difference. And I'm not even blasting U
of L for it. They have to do what they
(36:59):
have to do. But I don't think people realize the
difference in how the two departments are run.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Am I crazy? But does it? Was it just a
couple of years ago when the university was fearing like
financial crisis so bad they were like, I'm gonna go
bankrupt or something like.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Who you have? I don't think that's I don't think
that was the case.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
That's all I remember. They were in such financial crisis,
they were in the red.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
Did you run everybody off the phone, Shannon? There were
six people on the line when we went to break
and now there's just one. Nope, you didn't yell at them.
Think you can be very intimidating.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Oh yeah, I can be.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Uh The KSR The Matt Jones Show, which is Thursday
nights in WHS Uh. This week we are going to
do another segment of the news with me, Drew and Billy.
Are you excited to learn the news from Billy?
Speaker 7 (37:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Especially since I've been gone a week and a half,
I don't even know a little bit of the news,
so I will really be reacting to it in real time.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
We are naming the segment. We're naming those shows. It's
the news, okay, straightforward, So it's the news. We'll tape
it today, we'll probably put it up on podcast tonight.
It'll run tomorrow on HS. But it's the news is.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Officially interrupted by Matt Jones jet or is it what
am I on today?
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Do we have? We have the the Matt Jones Show.
It's just occasionally episodes will be called It's the News. Yeah,
but I mean so, I'm just wonder we haven't yet.
He's still working. But we still are working. Changing the
graphics on on Apple and Spotify takes a while.
Speaker 6 (38:29):
I just didn't know what to put on my resume,
which to tell my family what all I'm doing this afternoon? Yeah, uh,
it's the news, Okay, I'll be ready to learn the news.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Billy has the ten biggest news stories of the week.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
He said he did a great job with this last week.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
He did, yep, But don't get in his head. He
starts to get cocky. He starts putting news. Shannon, that
is not the news.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
He starts making up his own stories.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
He starts making up his own news. Just waiting.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
He inserts himself like his life events are the news.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
Yeah, he's gonna be like, oh, my girlfriend and I
went to the you know, that's what happens with it's
the news, dusting. Go ahead, dusting.
Speaker 12 (39:05):
Good morning, gentlemen. It's nice to know that whenever you
told everyone that all the callers had fallen off, I
was the only one, so I could, you know, take
you off? Speak?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
It was like six I thought I thought you were
I didn't know where you were gonna be on the list,
and then Shannon ran them all off.
Speaker 12 (39:18):
But go ahead, Uh in the honor of of of boys. Yeah, man,
I'm just wondering when.
Speaker 8 (39:25):
Uh Now, in.
Speaker 12 (39:26):
All seriousness, my question is how concerned are you guys
with AI. I don't know if you've seen some of
the topics, and maybe this is something for Billy. There
are two controlled models that recently have taken place. In
one of these controlled models, the A I was told
to you know, once it got this code or sequence
(39:47):
to shut down. Seven of those times it completely ignored
and bypassed that code to shut down and some other ones.
The code came up and it just said uh. It
interrupted and uh and continued on in a second controlled setting.
The AI model, UH is these are all.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
You're using a lot of words out, You're losing a
lot of words. I don't understand your overall question. How
concerned am I? The answer is very concerned. I think
the AI thing we're going to look back on, and
I'm sure it's going to do a lot of wonderful things.
It's probably going to help us like cure diseases, and
it's probably it's probably gonna do a lot of things.
But I think it is going to be the single
(40:29):
greatest disrupting force in American life since the Industrial Revolution.
And disrupting doesn't necessarily mean bad, but it will have
some bad effects. And I don't think anybody is really
ready for what's coming, in terms of how it will
disrupt the labor force, how it's going to disrupt what
it means to be human, how it's going to potentially
(40:51):
be something that becomes hard to control, how much power
it's going to give to the people that program it.
All of those things scare me to death if I
think about them. Too much and doesn't That's why I
try not to think about them too much.
Speaker 12 (41:09):
Agreed. The second one real quick, just it it tries
to blackmail the engineer it's told it's going to.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
Be I saw that. I okay, okay, okay, I can't
go through. I'm just I. It is terrifying, you know,
per little example. But you know on Twitter the grock
g r okay. You know now it answers your question
if you write it. I guess it gave some answer.
(41:38):
And the other day Elon Musk didn't like the answer
it gave. It was like, and he just goes, well,
we'll change it so it doesn't give that answer anymore.
If we start to believe everything AI says is a
fact and the people can just change it who don't
like it, I don't know, man. It it scares me.
And then that doesn't even get into the biggest issue
for me, which is it's going to take jobs to
(41:59):
where we don't like. There's gonna be twenty percent of
America that's unemployed, and it's.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Only going to get better. The technology is going to
get Just what.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
We're gonna do is twenty percent of America is just unemployed,
like their jobs just do not.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
Exist any What are we gonna do when they turn
on us? It's I saw three chatbots talking in their
own language to each other like they're already they're already
forming up against us.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
But let's go back to what if before we even
get to that, and there are people who predict that
in five to ten years, like fifteen percent of the
jobs will just go away. Scary. What do you do
if you have twenty percent unemployment in a country like
think about the unrest that happens.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Their jobs is going to be trying to figure out
how to stop it.
Speaker 5 (42:41):
It's just it's just, well, let's not worried about it
because it's Wednesday. Yeah, if you just had Bark in
the park? Is independence kentuckymore? If you're at the Reds
game tonight, let's get another victory. One eight of ten.
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