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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Monday, August the eighteenth.
I am Matt Jones here at the Louisville Golf Scramble
at the Glen Oaks Country Club where today thirty one
teams will fight it out on what was going to
be a hot golf course. Look, they look at each other,
like why you look at surprise. You know we're gonna
have a lot of people. But you know what, You
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don't play the KISR Golf Scramble for speed. You play
it for fun. And we will be out here.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
It's going to be hot outside, but should be a
lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
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you'll make them pay. We have a bunch of folks
in here watching. That's like school Drew. They won't, they won't.
They sit in the back so that they won't be
called on. But uh, good to have him out this morning,
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and it should.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Be a lot of fun. This is the OG Scramble.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
This was the first KSR golf screen but we did
was in Louisville and now they've branched out all over
the place.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, this is fun.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Got a good early crowd here to hear the show. Uh.
Some first timers asked if it's okay to listen, so
absolutely get in here.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, this is part of the event.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
This is usually one that there's like fifteen or twenty
groups that play every year. But already see some new
faces everybody, but join me right now. It's happy birthday
for Ryan Lemon, who is today is his birthday.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Happy birthday, buddy.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Happy birthday to Ryan. How old are you again? Fifty five?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Fifty nine, fifty nine years old. This one's hitting me.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
I'm telling you, this one hit.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
We gotta do something for your sixtieth birthday? Yeah, what's
a good old person thing?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Nursing home? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (02:10):
All the great athletes are born on August eighteen, Kenny Walker,
Willie Coley Stein, and myself August eighteen.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Hey, you all have a lot in common.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Where was Shannon?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Where would be a good place? Like, what's a good
old person vacation? Like when you're vacation? Yeah, for like
that we could go for his sixtieth birthday? Where do
old people.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Go in mass a casino on the Mississippi River.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
That would be.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Ranson, Missouri, Renfro Valley. We can go to Valley. That
we could go Ranson, Missouri is a good call. That
feels like go see Rodney millsap. That feels like something
we could do.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Where else is a good old person? I would say
Alaskan cruise, but we've already done that.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So yeah, to see the Washington Monument. We've already done that.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, where you are you excited to be moving towards sixty?
Speaker 6 (02:59):
I'm telling you, man, this one, this birthday's probably hit
me harder. Than any birthday I ever had, because I
think next up is sixty. I mean, you're right, How
in the hell did I turn fifty nine? How am
I almost sixty years old? I don't feel sixty. I
sure don't look sixty. I look like I'm twenty four
years acted either, I don't act.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Well you certain let me put it. I don't know
how you feel. Only you know that you certainly do
not act sixty. I think that's totally fair. You act
younger than almost everyone on this show. Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I mean I don't think you look sixty either. I
mean so yeah, I did it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I mean the most sixty year olds don't do donut
contest and things like that.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
The new hair helps a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
No, you definitely look the new hair. It certainly helps you.
I just I am.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think sixty is different, though I will say it
is when I I mean when I was a kid.
The idea of being sixty. I mean, you're already playing
in the funeral. And for Ryan it doesn't feel I agree, Drew,
it doesn't feel like he's that old.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
You get a look at day pass like fifty five.
What you're doing, you're doing well.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
About the fiftieth birthday. You guys, you come out to
my party. It was like more of a celebration this sixtieth.
When next year this is gonna it's gonna hurt.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, we need to do something.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
We need to do something fun for you. You can think
about what you'd like to do and then I'll alter
it into a version that's acceptable.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Uh, And we'll do something for your sixtieth birthday. How's that?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
You know I started with you when I was forty four,
forty four about to turn forty five.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Why I started with you?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You know what We had my friend Hubby, his birthday
was this weekend, and I was saying, you know it
is August the eighteenth, all right, so we fast forward.
I will be in South Africa when this happens, so
we're gonna celebrate it before. But I'm gonna celebrate September tenth.
What was what would actually happen in the middle of September.
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The twentieth anniversary of KSR is a month away. I
mean I started I started the website KSR twenty years
ago in September. Wow, I started this radio show fifteen
years ago. Go in October. And it's kind of crazy
to think that we've gone this far. It is, really,
it's kind of I've had because it was the twentieth
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in it, because it was Hubby's birthday, who helped me
start it.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I kind of have been reflecting on that.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's crazy, Drew to think twenty years you've been with
me for seventeen years.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I mean, it's crazy to think it's been like that.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, and I'm sure when you were had Hubby draft
up that beautiful blog twenty years ago, you do exactly.
It's all the radio show and everything that comes with it.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, anyway, so thanks to everybody for coming out here.
I want to talk about this is gonna be a
little bit of UK football today.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
But I have to.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Say one thing, and I want your honest opinion of
was this a bad decision or not?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
From me this weekend? Okay, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You know where I live in the Highlands, right, Yes,
So I made a decision during the day Saturday, I
went for a walk.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I walked from my house Shennon to the Waterson and
back to pretty long walk could walk.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It was like eighteen thousand steps, so pretty long walk.
Did it before it got crazy hot, but it was
still hot, So I'm tired the rest of the day.
Fast forward, It's Saturday night. Now you got to understand
the circumstance Saturday night, about ten thirty at night. You
know that area of Louisville you all live here, you know,
that's kind of like people are, well, is it getting
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too much crime? Is it too much traffic on Saturday nights?
Cause kids have been getting fights in front of the
taco bell and all that. There's a place that's gotten
extremely popular, which is like what do you call those things?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Drew the boba teas? Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You drink them, and they've got little things in there
that burstoppers pop.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, so that place has gotten really popular. It's down
the street all right.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So I at like ten thirty, was thinking I want
something to drink, but I don't want drink soda because
I don't want to stay up all night, right, So
I walked down to the to just get like elimonade. Okay,
a lot of people, but it's mostly kids, you know,
people out to to party, right, Okay, but yet there's
this family. There's like five families sitting in the back,
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you know, probably middle aged, right, they have kids and
these kids range from three to seven or eight.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Now, Shanon, I would start by saying, it's.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Ten thirty at night, but your kids' bed.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Right, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I mean, you could have your kids out, but just
for the record, it's ten thirty at night and it's
in a place where you know.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There are bars, and everybody's like partying.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
They're sitting in the back, enjoying themselves, doing what middle
aged parents do when they're.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Out of the house. I guess, just being happy.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
But they have just decided that because this is a
public place, they're just gonna let their kids run wide.
So there are six to seven, three to nine year
olds running around the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Okay, I see immediately this is not a situation.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I like, right, I understand, but you know what, I
want one.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Of these little Boba tee and so I get it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I sit down and I think, every man in here,
you know the scream I'm about to talk about when
like a three or four year year old does that
blood curdling scream. I see you all shaking your own. Yeah,
I can't do it, but you know what I'm talking about,
That not crying, like the happy, blood curdling scream. Okay,
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this kid, she's running around and her friends are chasing
you her, and she's doing that screen douse.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Everybody know what I'm talking.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Oh yeah, it's like a shriek.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yea, I would argue next to a Dennis drill. It's
the worst sound on earth, is a little kid's shriek.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
That's fair, do you it is? Yeah, it's fair.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
She's doing it and like nobody's stopping her. Right.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I think they just think, hey, the collective is here,
will let our kids run around and they'll do blood
curdling trills. And when she does it, then her friends
start doing so. Now there's multiple kids with blood curdling trill.
I get my drink. I sit at the table. Now
I'm by myself, but there are people all around me.
There's like a couple making out in the corner. There's
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all these.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
People everywhere is the island.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah, exactly, I expect that. I'm used to that, right.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
These two kids get to my table and it's almost
like they've looked at me and said this is the
person we're gonna bother. They start chasing each other in
a circle around my table, screaming, and.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Like every time they yell. The other one just yells
more yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
And I'm looking around Shannon going where's mom?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
And everyone around me is agreed, like, are.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Y'all gonna stop this?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It's ten thirty a night, You're in the Highlands.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Your kids are screaming like they're being abducted, and they're
chasing each other around and you can't even see them
where you're sitting over there. So I wait about a
couple of minutes, Drew, and I'm like, all right, should
I say something?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Here comes Uncle Matt. Is the I've been rooting for
Uncle mad Getting ready?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Should I can't do it anymore?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
When I say fifteen triols, it's fifteen triols, fifteen Triel. Finally,
I just walk over there to the group of parents
I don't know who's whose kid, and I just go,
I don't want.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
To be rude, but.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
I'm about to be rude.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Can someone keep these kids from at least running around
and screaming over here? Can you at least bring them
to you and do it? Nothing wrong with that? No,
nothing wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
With that, That's what I'm asking you.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
They looked at me, they gave me that snotty look,
and they're like, yeah, and then they get them and
you know what, then they leave and everything's fine.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
So there's my question, am I, Because when I came
back there was kind of like a mini applause in
my sex.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
But I could tell that the ten parents thought and
they there might even be a listener to this show.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Heck, maybe one of them's in here right now. Did
I do the wrong thing?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
You're the You represented the whole group. They all a
little scared to step up, and do you did what
they wanted to do? You need somebody like you in
your group that are not afraid to step up.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Is that rude to look at people and go get
your kids out of our faces?
Speaker 7 (11:16):
See a responsible parent? Yes, Noah, you did the right thing,
absolutely okay.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But if you're a parent, if someone had done that
with you when you had a little kid, I feel
like you would have gotten mad.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Actually, I was trying to put myself in a position.
If I was the parent, I'd be embarrassed that I
let even my kid was running around like that, Like
maybe I'm so engulfed with my friends and talking, I'm
embarrassed to know that my friends my son's over here
causing a ruck.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I had to have heard it. It was literally you
could have heard it in Saint Matthew's. They were screaming
so loud they had to have.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Heard it well.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
As the story was building, I thought you were gonna
tell me that you the kids. I was really I
was really rooting for that, and I don't think you
talk to other people, So yeah, I was rooting for
that chaos, but I'd say this is a step down
below from that, so the right thing.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So you think, you don't think because that part of
me felt bad, I was upset.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Let me also be clear. I was upset because the
rensid just blown that.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Game, So that was added to the frustration.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The Rams had just blown that games exactly right. Elly
threw the ball in the dirt. He should have held it.
They moved on, cannot walk the first two guys in
the ninth inning, Like, you can't be doing that stuff,
says Andy.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
But I was already upset about that, understand.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
And then this kid blood curdling.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
I see a version of what you just described all
the time. It's like where parents just go out in public,
they dump their kids off and just let them have
free reign of the of the guitar area.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
They act like the restaurant is a kid's zoo, right, Like, oh, I.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Can just drop them off at daycare here and do
any Plus it's ten thirty at night.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I mean, yeah, why are they out at ten thirty
on a Saturday night?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
All Right? So I'm glad to hear you back me
up on it.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
We got you.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Saturday was a UK football scrimmage. It was the second
UK football scrimmage. We're gonna talk in the next segment
about Cutter Bowler, who played well. I have intentionally got
no hopes up this year about being good or whatever,
but we when I was out, I was I was
all over Louisville this weekend. I've been here for like
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three or four straight days.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I was all over Louisville.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Everywhere I went that I saw someone who knew me.
They asked me how we gonna be at basketball this year?
Not one person has asked me in Louisville in the
last three or four days about football. We are thirteen days,
twelve days away from kickoff. Do you think our fan
base has any excitement ryan for.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Football any I really don't, because when they do ask
you about it's like, are we gonna get three wins?
Are we gonna get four wins? Like there's no optimism
at all.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
But excitement. I know there's no optimism, Drew. Do you
even think people are excited that in twelve days.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
We are kicking off not nearly as much as it
usually is at this point. I mean, you have your
people that have already gone out and put their tents down,
which that even isn't even.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Huge numbers the social thing more than it is.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
But your core audience is excited just because it's here.
But overall, I think just the unknown people are just
kind of waiting to see what it is before they
get too fired up about whatever is going to roll
out there.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
It feels like fans have just already accepted that it's
going to be a bad season. But if they were
to come out and let's say blow out Toledo and
let's say pull off and went over Ole Miss somehow,
some way, I think the fan base would jump right
back on as quickly as they jumped off.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
What is weird to me is even when we've been
bad over the years, and we've been doing this show
long enough that we've been bad going into many years,
people always were into at least the season starting I
just have not felt that this year. I've walked. I
walked up here past about two people. First two questions.
I think we're gonna go to the file four. I
think we're going to the national Championship. I think a
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combination of how excited people are about mar Pope, how
people are excited about the basketball team, and how bad
the football team feels like it's gonna be, has made
it to where there's the least excitement around football.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I can think of.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Maybe since Joker's second year, but I don't even know
if it was like that quiet then, I really some of.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Those bad teams, it's guys you'd followed for several years.
There's a connection. I mean, with fifty new players, I
bet most fans would fail a test about the roster
right now. It's just that this is such a unique year.
There's so many unknowns where guys have come from.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
How many of you, how many of you here, if
you're being honest, because we've got probably twenty people sitting
in here right now, how many of you you think
you could name six of the starters on offense and defense?
Not one person raising one hand, And these are clearly
UK fans they're not one person.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
For those of you play now, nobody knows what to think.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I mean that I think says says a lot right there,
and that to me is a failure from the UK
marketing folks and even getting people.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
We all know Calzada, we know Shihajh Pete yep.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
But then the rest of the team, I don't know.
We'll take a break right back. We're here at KSR
Golf Scramble. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Walking back.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
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Speaker 3 (16:30):
You ever tried that?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I had it at our Lexdon Scramble for the first time.
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Speaker 3 (16:35):
I was spro oh, yeah, those are the ones my
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Speaker 6 (16:41):
There's a lot of alcohol sponsors on our court.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
There are a lot of alcohol sponsors and I would
also say, uh, there's a hole of OVW wrestlers that
uh uh. We we have Crixis Luscious Lawrence and Fred
the Slayer who are willing to put all of you
in a head headlock if you if you were to
get it.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
So they're all gonna be out there as we.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Don't mess with Cricks. So I can tell you that.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
He's got new hair. Did you see that? Yeah, he
did a rhyme. He went and got to.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
I can never understand what he's saying, so I just go,
uh huh, yep.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
I disagree with everything he does.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Seems like most people agree with me.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
On the kids, one person says Matt, I'm a one person,
says mad I'm a pairent of four. I see both sides.
Sometimes my kids need to unwind and get out some energy.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Yeah, that's for your backyards. That's not for Bobo T's
all right, Bobo.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
T is not the place to let your kids get energy. Here.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
If we want to get to the reason what I
said about the football, we open up the phones A
five nine twenty two eighty seven topics football.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Rick tells me no cault cricket.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
That's another thing. Like I am I just I've never
seen it like this.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Let me ask you a question that would have been
insane to ask even just two years ago.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Will the stadium be full for the first game. I'm
curious to see what that whole looks like. I mean
a noon game. Usually you gotta want it to get
out there and set your toelgate up and really have
them make a morning out of it. I'm interested to
see just getting out there, what the excitement is day
off around the stadium at like eleven am, an hour
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before they kick off.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I'm we're opening for breakfast that morning. It'll be the
first week with ks Bar. I feel like things will
go well because of that. But usually we get a
pretty good hint of what it's gonna look like that
the stadium with how it looks like at the bar
before I I Historically that first game has either been
sold out or close.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Do you think that's gonna it's gonna be hot? Do
you think that's gonna happen?
Speaker 6 (18:42):
See, I'm on the boat that they'll be a good crowd,
but it won't be full because, like Drew said, the
noon start, the apathy that has built up over the
last couple of years, people just aren't excited, So they'll
be a good crowd. But I don't think it's gonna
be packed.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Isn't that also Labor Day weekend?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Three day weekend, so maybe a lot of people going
out of town for Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I think it's probably gonna too not quite not quite full.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Okay, So what can Kentucky do in that game to
win everybody up?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Like, is this one of those things that if they
go win by twenty one points considering it's now down
to an eight and a half line, is that the.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Way drew for everybody to go? Okay? I'm I'm I'm
back on board.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I think they get a lot of people excited. I
think winning at all, this is a game, just get
out of there. I hope there's not a negativity if
they do win by a touchdown because this is not
an easy Week one opponent where you used to being
have a bigger point spread there in a game you
don't have to sweat out. So if they were to
win it by three touchdowns, I think it'd be very exciting.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
And then you got to ole Miss the next game.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
If you're like Channon said.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Earlier, we're gonna oh miss is gonna be full.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Yeah, that thinks a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Unless we lose, Old Miss will be full because it's
Old Miss. They're gonna bring a lot of people here.
I mean, that's that's gonna be their first game of
the year that really matters, So they're gonna bring a
lot of people here.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
They haven't been here.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I think they played here what they played during COVID,
but nobody could come, so I think it's probably been
has it been since they had DK Metcalf since they
were here. I think they were here that year, but
I think that's the last time they were here.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
The SEC nation will be at that game too. I
don't know how much that adds to the X.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
It adds a lot. A lot of people want to
see sexy Paul Fum and it might get people out a.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Little dry salt with nothing on it.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Yeah, it feels weird to say that the first game
of the season is a statement game, but I kind
of feel like for our fan base, it is like,
you got to show us, so let's see what you
can do against a decent Well, let me give you.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
A piece of good news.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Cutter Bowley apparently looked magnificent again in the scrimmage, so
much so that Mark Stoops kind of led his offensive
talk with the second string quarterback.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
This is now two scrimmages and a row. He's played well.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
If you talk to people in practice, if you talk
to people around the program, they will all tell you
Cutter has outplayed kaal Zaida this fall or this summer.
Now cales that is going to start in part because
you paid a lot of money to get him here. Right,
But Mark Story said he thinks the Kentucky quarterback room
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is in a better position now than they've been in
years too deep. You know, the starter isn't necessarily as
good as it's but that this is the best backup
Kentucky's had, Is there any chance to back up? At
some point becomes the starter. I mean, everything you hear
is that he has taken leaps and bound progression.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Yeah, you know, I'll go back to what the guy
told me that knows a lot more football than I do,
and he said Cutter will be the starter by the
end of the year. And he said even at the
first game end, if Zach starts, Cutter will be on
the field like they plan on playing him.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I think, but we hear that every year and they
never play that guy.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Like we always hear they're gonna put the backup on
the field, and then that never happens.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I think if they do it, is it gonna be
a switch? Like you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Like that the idea of rotating both. I feel like
they say that and that never happens. You think this
will be different. I think they're gonna give Cutter a shot.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
I mean, I really do you know? They did have
Gavin WIMPs that come in in certain situations last year
to be in the number two guy.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I think they want to see what Cutter can do
the win. When do you do that?
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Do you have to be down significantly at halftime to
make the switch? What if it's Toledo and you're down by.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
The problem to put to back up in early in
the season Drew Is, it's hard to go back to
the start unless he just comes in and is terrible.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
If you're already in game one, give it like give
it up on your starter, it's hard to go back
to him.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
I think they're gonna be fine with Calzada. I think
if Kentucky's got problems, it won't be a quarterback. Even
if he's just a game manager. They're gonna run the
ball a lot. He doesn't throw many interceptions if it's
not going well. I don't think he'll be the issue.
I think he'll be the line wasn't helping him or
the defense, and.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
We need to be able to run all over Toledo.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
But also remember historically in the first game, Stoops teams
have taken a while to get going. We've had slow
first halfs in a lot of Mark Stoop's first games
over the year. We'll take a break. Per it backs KSR.
Welcome back TENNI Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight
oh twenty two eighty seven, uh text machine seven seven
two seven seven four five two five four one person rights, Matt,
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I'm very excited about football. Shannon, of all people, has
me optimistic. He's always pessimistic, and this year he thinks
we go to a bowl. Look at you, mister optimism.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
But I haven't heard too many people say six wins.
But you know what, I think they can do it.
I think there's definitely a path to make that happen.
Some things have to go their way, yes, but they
can happen.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I mean it's not crazy, but it's also not although
I said that last year and it still gets thrown
in my face every time one person rights Matt, I'm excited.
I'm driving in from Iowa for both the first Week
one and Week two games. That's a long drive. So
if you do that for both of them, Drew, I
think you are excited.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Just doing it twice, it's gonna go and turn around
do it again maybe next week. I understand. Yeah, that's
that's a long drive. Good commitment for the Cats.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, week three against I will say if they don't
do well in Week one or two, tickets will be
available for Week three against Eastern Michigan. I think that
one's I think that's fair. I got before you go
the phone some news this morning that I think is
going to make you two, Shannon and Ryan mad Did
you hear what the Major League Baseball commissioner said last night?
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He basically said that he did. I mean, he didn't
specify this, but it's certainly what it sounded like. He
basically said, we're gonna expand add two more teams, and
the American and National League are going away. No, he's
basically suggesting they would do eight divisions of four teams
and base it by geography. And I look this morning
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online and they were showing what the tentative plan would be,
and it would be not Beatle twenty twenty nine, but
it would It actually makes some sense if you look
at the geography. It would put the teams in divisions
of four right next to each other. So you would
end up with New York the two New York teams,
Boston and Toronto in the same division. And you go
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through and like the Reds would be with Pittsburgh, Cleveland,
and Detroit. The Cubs would be with the White Sox
Milwaukee and maybe Minneapolis, and they basically put them in
little and and everything, and then the two expansion teams
might be Nashville and Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
What do you think about And basically, instead of American League,
National League, it would just be eastern part of the
country versus Western part of the country.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Well, with open league play being what it is, you
really don't need the National and American League anymore. You know,
used to have those two separated, So I mean, it
does make sense. I am a traditionalist when it comes
to baseball. I don't like changes, but I can see
that making.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Your Cardinals would be in the West. The basically the
you'd have a division of the New York teams, Boston, Toronto.
Then there'd be a division that's like Philly, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte,
and then it's.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Like Atlanta and Nashville and the Florida teams.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
It's like Saint Louis, Kansas City and the Texas teams
and then so I mean, it's if you just look
at the Giaga, it makes sense.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
The Braves used to be in the n ol West
and I'm going like, how does that Raves?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
When I saw it, it looks like the Braves have
the easiest thing because the Braves would have Nashville and
then the two teams from Florida, So.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
We don't we don't have to worry about Philadelphia, Like
you got the easies?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
What do you think though, you're mister traditionalists.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
See, I was kind of on board with it until
you just told me who the Cardinals are gonna be.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
With It would be Saint Louis, Kansas City, Texas and Houston.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
I can't hate that enough. And that is that just
boils my blood. Can't you take away the rivalry with
the Cubs and the Reds. But you're gonna have a
new rivalry with Dallas and here's all, come on, he
still gives a crap about Dallas and Houston people who
live there.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Come on, I can't believe they're going to.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Take that away. I mean, this is still like, first
of all, it's not just about the cars.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
It is.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
They're not taking the Cubs off the schedule.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
They're still still.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Playing, but it's just a rival. You know, you're you're
battling omials.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Games are means so important?
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Well, now you have Kansas City to be important to me.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
The people that should be the maddest would be like
Toronto because they end up with the Yankees, the Mets
in the Red Sox like brutal.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
That's brutal.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I mean, that's like absolutely brute.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You know, for the Reds, if they ended up with Pittsburgh,
Cleveland and Detroit, it doesn't really change much. Like they
they probably have a better chance in that division than
the one they're in because they missed the Cubs.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
So I don't know, I can't stand it.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
I cannot.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
I feel like you'd have a big rivalry with Houston,
Kansas City. Come on, yeh, Kansas City at all the border.
That's exactly what you share.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
The state that they play that interqua inner squad, interleague
game wherever they call it.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Give me the cub better care because that's your big rival. Now, Boom,
Who's up first? I knew you would hate it.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
That's why I was excited to tell you, go ahead,
Doug is up first? Doug, go ahead? Doug.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Okay, man, I'm one of these that I just cannot
get excited about this upcoming football season. And I'm just
asking myself, am I being programmed after the last couple
of years of Cali Perry and the last couple of
years of tooops where I've had my hawks up so
much with the program and just be let down, and
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now I just refuse to get up for it.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Well, I get it.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I appreciate the call. But what I would say to you,
Drew is the games are coming either way. Would you
rather watch? Would you rather look at week one and go, oh,
it's gonna be terrible? Would you rather get excited? I
have been shocked. My point when I started this was
to be say I'm shocked to how little attention it's gotten.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I'm shocked to how little people seem to care.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
With all that said, when we get to that Saturday
morning of Kentucky Toledo, I'm gonna be pacing the floor
hoping we win as much as anybody.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
That's not gonna change for me, not at all.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I'm very excited, even though I have a low bar
for the season. But for the first twenty five years
of my life, I got excited for Kentucky football and
they sucked. I just like watching the team, I like
going to the games. I like the tailgating everything that
comes with it, and I can't wait to get out there,
even though I have no idea with the actual product
on the field of the clay.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
This Cole Kublick and Kole Kubrick saying to me when
I was on his show Friday, said, I think Kentucky
makes a bowl.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Greg McElroy said that Kentucky in the SEC has the high.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Swing potent between pencil potential upside and potential low side
of any team in the league.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Does any of that excite you a little bit? Those
two guys I think know what they're talking about.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Does And even though it's not the most exciting brand
of football, I do think the ways toops is gonna
go back to how he had success when he first
got here. Even though it might be a little bit
of a bore in some of those games, I think
that gives Kentucky their best chance to win, especially with
the current makeup of the rosters. So I'm hoping getting
back to old school. I mean, oah, the games might
be a dragon, it might be seventeen to twenty, but
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hopefully you're in just about every game and then you
make these rock fights again.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Well, I think Kole Kubrick said to me, and you
can hear that interview it's online, but I mean they
were interviewing me, but they ended up me kind of
interviewing them. At the end, Kole Kubrick did say, Ryan,
you know Bush Hampden he thinks is very creative, very
interesting in the way he plays, but that last year
sixty percent of the things that he likes to do
he just couldn't do because the offensive line was too bad.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Do you think that's plausible.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
I think it's highly plausible, and I think that's why
they've maybe we've switched their offensive philosophy. They're gonna try
to pound it and run it a lot this year.
I think they feel like they got two running maybe
four running backs back there. They can really move the
football for him. So I think Hampton's gonna he likes
a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
I think that runs.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
I think he think Kazata can be that guy too.
Kazata just can't make a lot of mistakes. He's got
to play smart.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Well, Hampden likes that offensive line. He said, this is
gonna be one of the great offensive lines. It's gonna
remind you of the big blue walls.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
So he got no excuse this year.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Then that's you gotta be careful saying that.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
One person, rights, Matt, why would you say our roster
is any worse than it's been the last few years. Well,
I think it's probably better than it was last year.
But here, here's the easiest way to measure it. Let's
go back seven years. Kentucky's had more draft picks in
the last six years than they had had in life
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the thirty years prior together. I mean, just think about
how many people we have in the NFL. Okay, how
many draft picks do we have projected this year? Anybody
know last year we had two guys get drafted, Maxwell
Harrison and Dion Walker.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
This year we have one guy projected Alex Afari. That's it. Wow,
So I'm not I mean, that doesn't mean you can't.
But then now go back.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Years ago, we were getting five guys drafted every year Drew,
which means on some rosters there were like fifteen dudes
playing that had NFL futures. That's a big difference from
having two guys last year, one of whom in Dion Walker,
was kind of given half effort to and remember all
those guys Dean Walker, Maxwell Harrison, Alex Farri.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
On defense, where are the offensive guys? Like, where are
the offensive guys that are We went from having multiple
dudes go to the NFL on the offensive line to
we don't even have anybody being considered to go on
the offensive.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Line is an issue, but defensively you could at least say,
and they've had all these draft picks, but none of
them were really we were talking about his draft picks
going into the years, like did did anybody have Drew
Phillips starting for the Giants? Carrington Valentine, Those guys were
projected to be paid Right now, Bryan Childress is Undrafted's
probably gonna start for the Cowboys. So yes, your Hope
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is Hardaway or a Waller, even a Ty Bryan or
I love it. Guys that have been there can make
the jump that several guys have because many of the
draft picks. You can go back to jam and Davis
going into the year, we weren't talking about them as
draft picks.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
You're right about Zion Childress, but Carrington Valentine was projected
as a pick. I mean, and again, somebody may play
their way into it. But going into last year, people
thought Maxwell Harrison and.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Dan Walker were getting picked. This year, there aren't as
many of those guys. Who's next? Rick, Jenny is next? Jenny?
Go ahead, Jenny.
Speaker 9 (32:53):
Hi, guys, listen, longtime listener, first time caller. I have
a couple of quick hitters for you here. First of all, Ryan,
age is just a number. I'm exactly ten years older
than you are and I'm still out having a great time.
The guy sitting up a girl, you will feel completely
differently about it when they are your age. So just
you let them talk and then you remind them of
(33:14):
that years from now. That's good thing. I've had a
two mile walk this morning, not seventeen. However, you all
have gotten my blood boiling to start today. Negativity is
popular opinions. We all have them, but negativity is popular
for clicks and possibly for listeners. This football first fan
(33:36):
thinks that it's completely weak to be bailing out on
a team you haven't even seen yet. I'm going to
use matt sphrase of correlation versus causation a number of things.
Number One, football, you ask for people to name starters.
Susan hasn't started. Football players will we're helmets. We haven't
eighty five played for roster fifty new players this year
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in basketball, which is matt uh first choice in sports.
Quite obviously, you have tar game. You see them completely shot.
So I think that that is an unfair comparison. I
did take notes about things I wanted to say, because
you all, okay.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I can't go into all the notes. First of all,
brought up his points hang on a second. First of all,
I brought them up on Friday.
Speaker 10 (34:30):
I like that you.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
I like everything you said. You you you take me
to task, and there's nothing wrong with that you did say.
It started the call. You're a football first fan, which
is totally fine, But then you can't criticize me for
being a basketball first fan. If you're the same way.
Although I I'm only basketball first because we've been better
at that. I want them both to win. But I
(34:52):
will say I liked your call. Thank you for coming
in with the fire, and I appreciate you listening.
Speaker 9 (35:00):
It was not a criticism, it was a comparison, saying
your two sides to every point I was getting the
other side. Thanks for letting me speak, and for you
all listening.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
All right, Jenny from the block right there.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I got. I feel like I just got scolded.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Yes, school, but no, I'm glad she said all that,
and I'm glad to hear that there are people like that.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
To be honest with you, that's why we need to
know that those people exist. And uh and yeah, she
doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Honest she did not mention the starters, though she said
they wear helmets, which is true. But that's why my opinion,
football has to do an even better job of marketing
because they do wear helmets, and because we do not
know them. And y'all are just scared. You don't want
to say anything. I see the look on your face. Hey,
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(35:50):
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Speaker 3 (36:05):
Shannon. Yeah, taking a break, so's so we'll be right
back to Kentucky Sports Radio. Water Maggot is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
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Hemp decided to get out on the Glen Oaks golf course.
They've hosted us for a number of years. Ah, he's
a good time. Should be great today. Ready to get
out and play? I was I played so terribly at
the Lexington when gonna try to do a little bit
better at this one? One person writes, Matt, well done
(36:34):
getting scolded by an old lady in cold week.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
I just I said to these guys at this table, if.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
It is a sixty five year old woman or older,
I'm not gonna argue with her.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
I just can't.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I think it's I think that my mom made that
sixty five year old women eighty five year old males.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
You can probably just say whatever you want to me
and I'll I'll just ask you.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
She had a lot more to say. I mean, if
you didn't cut off, she would probably still be talking.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
No, I know, I think she could have done the show.
She had notes. She said you were trying to get notes.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
I just said we had to go to break. One
person writes Matt. You should feel scolded. Your negativity is
too much. You criticize them in tone. How does Tom
Leech know the starters if you don't, Well, Tom Leach
gets First of all, I love Tom Leach. He gets
to go to practice, all right, we don't, so that's
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a big thing. He gets to go watch everybody, so
he sees them play. We don't, so that's one way
he knows it. Secondly, he's paid by the university. I
love Tom, but the university pays him. They don't pay us.
So it's a different kind of thing. If I I
you know, I love Tom, it's just a different role.
He's in an official role. We're in an unofficial role.
As far as the negativity, I'm convinced there are people
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who would blame me no matter what happens. Last year,
I was blamed for being too positive and they weren't good.
Now I'm blamed for being too negative, and we don't
know what they'll be. It is what it is, that
just comes with it. But I think our job is
just to say what we think it is. It has
been hard for me to be positive, although I will
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note I think we're gonna win five games, and I
think most of our fans even pick numbers drew lower
than that.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Yeah, I've actually talked myself into a little more of
Shannon's territory here here in six.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Now, well, I have a theory.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
I've eliminated the possibility of five, and it makes inse
in my head.
Speaker 8 (38:28):
I think.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
I think it's four to six.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Five is impossible because if they get to the Louisville
game and they have five, that's and Mark Stoops wins
that because they can go to a ball back against
the wall. But if they get to the Louisvill game
they only have four, I don't think they have as
much to play for, and that's a game Mark Stoops
doesn't have them up for and they lose. So oddly,
I think that five is not possible because I think
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if they're at five going into the Governor's Cup, they'll
have enough.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
So what's your prediction. I'm at five. I've moved to
six for that, Like, all right, what are you?
Speaker 5 (39:01):
I'm at six, let's go all right, come.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
On, I'm the one holdout.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Usually you're the one staying on the boat.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
I actually think Kentucky can be significantly better than they
were last year and still win five games.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Because of the schedule. I think you can be.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
I think we will be competitive and nine out of
our twelve games, we'll get killed in one of these
road games, because we always do. Somebody will just and
then we'll probably get We'll probably get killed at Georgia.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
We'll end up like Texas. Let's just say we're oncompetitive there.
That's ten. We might be competitive in all the other games.
I think we can be. I think we can be
a lot better.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
It's just the schedules hard.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
I feel like to get six, you got to steal
one of those home games. Which of those four home
games you think they could get.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Florida to me is the most likely to steal just
because of where it is on the schedule for them,
I think there, and then you know, Tennessee objectively is
probably the worst of those teams. Teams, but it's Tennessee
and you know, I have a mental block when it
comes to them. The best six. The best way to
get to six, in my opinion is Vandy Auburn, Florida.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
That's doable. That's the good way to get to six.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
That's not insane to say that.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
I think Old Miss has to be in that too.
I know it's early, but just on the simple fact
that you beat them last year with a much worse
team whatever, Kentucky looks like they're gonna be better than that.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
That makes it worse to me.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
That makes it harder because because it nick you know,
Lane Kiffin's got the entire offseason, and for all of
his at times jerkishness, he's a brilliant offensive mind and
he's got the entire offense to get the offseason.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
And he can't lose twice. His fan base will crush
him if he loses to Kentucky again. Who's next? Adam
is next? Adam?
Speaker 11 (40:47):
Go ahead at him, Like guys, I think six and
six they I'm optimistic about it, but you've got to go.
I think you have to start three in one, whether
it's Old Mess or at South Carolina because that stretch
out at South Carolina at Georgia Texas Tennessee, that is
brutal and not to mention in the weyeks. Within the
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first six weeks of the schedules, we have seven straight
games to end the season. Imagine injuries will pile up.
You know, depth's gonna be tested, so it's gonna be
a struggle. But if you can start out three and
one and get either Old Mister or South Carolina, you know,
let's do it. Let's get to a bowl.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
That's the that's the path. I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
I appreciate the call because that that stretch is hard,
and you're right, tough team after tough team with no
bot Who's next?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Sean is next? Shawn? I got thirty seconds? Go ahead?
Speaker 10 (41:39):
Yeah, you guys are looking out in the future. I'm
just an average Kentucky fan here in Texas, But to me,
everything is still about The first game is Toledo. I
don't know who they are. So if Kentucky fumbles a
couple of balls but still wins the game seven to ten,
I mean I just think that what does Kentucky have
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to do to win? The Hearts and minds against Toledo.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Yeah, I don't think you're gonna be able to win
the hearts and minds against Toledo.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Although I'm with Drew, just win. I don't even care
about you win by just win.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
The Old Miss game will decide how people look at
the team, whether you win or lose. I think they'll
judge it based on that. We're gonna talk some basketball
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you'll make them pay. We have a bunch of folks
in here watching. That's like school Drew. They won't, they won't.
They sit in the back so that they won't be
called on. But uh, good to have him out this morning,
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and it should.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Be a lot of fun. This is the OG Scramble.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
This was the first KSR golf screen but we did
was in Louisville and now they've branched out all over
the place.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, this is fun.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Got a good early crowd here to hear the show. Uh.
Some first timers asked if it's okay to listen, so
absolutely get in here.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, this is part of the event.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
This is usually one that there's like fifteen or twenty
groups that play every year. But already see some new
faces everybody, but join me right now. It's happy birthday
for Ryan Lemon, who is today is his birthday.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Happy birthday, buddy.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Happy birthday to Ryan. How old are you again? Fifty five?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Fifty nine, fifty nine years old. This one's hitting me.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
I'm telling you, this one hit.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
We gotta do something for your sixtieth birthday? Yeah, what's
a good old person thing?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Nursing home? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (02:10):
All the great athletes are born on August eighteen, Kenny Walker,
Willie Coley Stein, and myself August eighteen.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Hey, you all have a lot in common.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Where was Shannon?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Where would be a good place? Like, what's a good
old person vacation? Like when you're vacation? Yeah, for like
that we could go for his sixtieth birthday? Where do
old people.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Go in mass a casino on the Mississippi River.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
That would be.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Ranson, Missouri, Renfro Valley. We can go to Valley. That
we could go Ranson, Missouri is a good call. That
feels like go see Rodney millsap. That feels like something
we could do.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Where else is a good old person? I would say
Alaskan cruise, but we've already done that.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So yeah, to see the Washington Monument. We've already done that.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, where you are you excited to be moving towards sixty?
Speaker 6 (02:59):
I'm telling you, man, this one, this birthday's probably hit
me harder. Than any birthday I ever had, because I
think next up is sixty. I mean, you're right, How
in the hell did I turn fifty nine? How am
I almost sixty years old? I don't feel sixty. I
sure don't look sixty. I look like I'm twenty four
years acted either, I don't act.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Well you certain let me put it. I don't know
how you feel. Only you know that you certainly do
not act sixty. I think that's totally fair. You act
younger than almost everyone on this show. Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I mean I don't think you look sixty either. I
mean so yeah, I did it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I mean the most sixty year olds don't do donut
contest and things like that.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
The new hair helps a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
No, you definitely look the new hair. It certainly helps you.
I just I am.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think sixty is different, though I will say it
is when I I mean when I was a kid.
The idea of being sixty. I mean, you're already playing
in the funeral. And for Ryan it doesn't feel I agree, Drew,
it doesn't feel like he's that old.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
You get a look at day pass like fifty five.
What you're doing, you're doing well.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
About the fiftieth birthday. You guys, you come out to
my party. It was like more of a celebration this sixtieth.
When next year this is gonna it's gonna hurt.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, we need to do something.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
We need to do something fun for you. You can think
about what you'd like to do and then I'll alter
it into a version that's acceptable.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Uh, And we'll do something for your sixtieth birthday. How's that?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
You know I started with you when I was forty four,
forty four about to turn forty five.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Why I started with you?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You know what We had my friend Hubby, his birthday
was this weekend, and I was saying, you know it
is August the eighteenth, all right, so we fast forward.
I will be in South Africa when this happens, so
we're gonna celebrate it before. But I'm gonna celebrate September tenth.
What was what would actually happen in the middle of September.
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The twentieth anniversary of KSR is a month away. I
mean I started I started the website KSR twenty years
ago in September. Wow, I started this radio show fifteen
years ago. Go in October. And it's kind of crazy
to think that we've gone this far. It is, really,
it's kind of I've had because it was the twentieth
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in it, because it was Hubby's birthday, who helped me
start it.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I kind of have been reflecting on that.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's crazy, Drew to think twenty years you've been with
me for seventeen years.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I mean, it's crazy to think it's been like that.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, and I'm sure when you were had Hubby draft
up that beautiful blog twenty years ago, you do exactly.
It's all the radio show and everything that comes with it.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, anyway, so thanks to everybody for coming out here.
I want to talk about this is gonna be a
little bit of UK football today.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
But I have to.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Say one thing, and I want your honest opinion of
was this a bad decision or not?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
From me this weekend? Okay, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You know where I live in the Highlands, right, Yes,
So I made a decision during the day Saturday, I
went for a walk.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I walked from my house Shennon to the Waterson and
back to pretty long walk could walk.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It was like eighteen thousand steps, so pretty long walk.
Did it before it got crazy hot, but it was
still hot, So I'm tired the rest of the day.
Fast forward, It's Saturday night. Now you got to understand
the circumstance Saturday night, about ten thirty at night. You
know that area of Louisville you all live here, you know,
that's kind of like people are, well, is it getting
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too much crime? Is it too much traffic on Saturday nights?
Cause kids have been getting fights in front of the
taco bell and all that. There's a place that's gotten
extremely popular, which is like what do you call those things?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Drew the boba teas? Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You drink them, and they've got little things in there
that burstoppers pop.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, so that place has gotten really popular. It's down
the street all right.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So I at like ten thirty, was thinking I want
something to drink, but I don't want drink soda because
I don't want to stay up all night, right, So
I walked down to the to just get like elimonade. Okay,
a lot of people, but it's mostly kids, you know,
people out to to party, right, Okay, but yet there's
this family. There's like five families sitting in the back,
(07:07):
you know, probably middle aged, right, they have kids and
these kids range from three to seven or eight.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Now, Shanon, I would start by saying, it's.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Ten thirty at night, but your kids' bed.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Right, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I mean, you could have your kids out, but just
for the record, it's ten thirty at night and it's
in a place where you know.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There are bars, and everybody's like partying.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
They're sitting in the back, enjoying themselves, doing what middle
aged parents do when they're.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Out of the house. I guess, just being happy.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
But they have just decided that because this is a
public place, they're just gonna let their kids run wide.
So there are six to seven, three to nine year
olds running around the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Okay, I see immediately this is not a situation.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I like, right, I understand, but you know what, I
want one.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Of these little Boba tee and so I get it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I sit down and I think, every man in here,
you know the scream I'm about to talk about when
like a three or four year year old does that
blood curdling scream. I see you all shaking your own. Yeah,
I can't do it, but you know what I'm talking about,
That not crying, like the happy, blood curdling scream. Okay,
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this kid, she's running around and her friends are chasing
you her, and she's doing that screen douse.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Everybody know what I'm talking.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Oh yeah, it's like a shriek.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yea, I would argue next to a Dennis drill. It's
the worst sound on earth, is a little kid's shriek.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
That's fair, do you it is? Yeah, it's fair.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
She's doing it and like nobody's stopping her. Right.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I think they just think, hey, the collective is here,
will let our kids run around and they'll do blood
curdling trills. And when she does it, then her friends
start doing so. Now there's multiple kids with blood curdling trill.
I get my drink. I sit at the table. Now
I'm by myself, but there are people all around me.
There's like a couple making out in the corner. There's
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all these.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
People everywhere is the island.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah, exactly, I expect that. I'm used to that, right.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
These two kids get to my table and it's almost
like they've looked at me and said this is the
person we're gonna bother. They start chasing each other in
a circle around my table, screaming, and.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Like every time they yell. The other one just yells
more yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
And I'm looking around Shannon going where's mom?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
And everyone around me is agreed, like, are.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Y'all gonna stop this?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It's ten thirty a night, You're in the Highlands.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Your kids are screaming like they're being abducted, and they're
chasing each other around and you can't even see them
where you're sitting over there. So I wait about a
couple of minutes, Drew, and I'm like, all right, should
I say something?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Here comes Uncle Matt. Is the I've been rooting for
Uncle mad Getting ready?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Should I can't do it anymore?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
When I say fifteen triols, it's fifteen triols, fifteen Triel. Finally,
I just walk over there to the group of parents
I don't know who's whose kid, and I just go,
I don't want.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
To be rude, but.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
I'm about to be rude.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Can someone keep these kids from at least running around
and screaming over here? Can you at least bring them
to you and do it? Nothing wrong with that? No,
nothing wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
With that, That's what I'm asking you.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
They looked at me, they gave me that snotty look,
and they're like, yeah, and then they get them and
you know what, then they leave and everything's fine.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
So there's my question, am I, Because when I came
back there was kind of like a mini applause in
my sex.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
But I could tell that the ten parents thought and
they there might even be a listener to this show.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Heck, maybe one of them's in here right now. Did
I do the wrong thing?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
You're the You represented the whole group. They all a
little scared to step up, and do you did what
they wanted to do? You need somebody like you in
your group that are not afraid to step up.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Is that rude to look at people and go get
your kids out of our faces?
Speaker 7 (11:16):
See a responsible parent? Yes, Noah, you did the right thing,
absolutely okay.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But if you're a parent, if someone had done that
with you when you had a little kid, I feel
like you would have gotten mad.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Actually, I was trying to put myself in a position.
If I was the parent, I'd be embarrassed that I
let even my kid was running around like that, Like
maybe I'm so engulfed with my friends and talking, I'm
embarrassed to know that my friends my son's over here
causing a ruck.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I had to have heard it. It was literally you
could have heard it in Saint Matthew's. They were screaming
so loud they had to have.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Heard it well.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
As the story was building, I thought you were gonna
tell me that you the kids. I was really I
was really rooting for that, and I don't think you
talk to other people, So yeah, I was rooting for
that chaos, but I'd say this is a step down
below from that, so the right thing.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So you think, you don't think because that part of
me felt bad, I was upset.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Let me also be clear. I was upset because the
rensid just blown that.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Game, So that was added to the frustration.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The Rams had just blown that games exactly right. Elly
threw the ball in the dirt. He should have held it.
They moved on, cannot walk the first two guys in
the ninth inning, Like, you can't be doing that stuff,
says Andy.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
But I was already upset about that, understand.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
And then this kid blood curdling.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
I see a version of what you just described all
the time. It's like where parents just go out in public,
they dump their kids off and just let them have
free reign of the of the guitar area.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
They act like the restaurant is a kid's zoo, right, Like, oh, I.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Can just drop them off at daycare here and do
any Plus it's ten thirty at night.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I mean, yeah, why are they out at ten thirty
on a Saturday night?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
All Right? So I'm glad to hear you back me
up on it.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
We got you.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Saturday was a UK football scrimmage. It was the second
UK football scrimmage. We're gonna talk in the next segment
about Cutter Bowler, who played well. I have intentionally got
no hopes up this year about being good or whatever,
but we when I was out, I was I was
all over Louisville this weekend. I've been here for like
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three or four straight days.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I was all over Louisville.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Everywhere I went that I saw someone who knew me.
They asked me how we gonna be at basketball this year?
Not one person has asked me in Louisville in the
last three or four days about football. We are thirteen days,
twelve days away from kickoff. Do you think our fan
base has any excitement ryan for.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Football any I really don't, because when they do ask
you about it's like, are we gonna get three wins?
Are we gonna get four wins? Like there's no optimism
at all.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
But excitement. I know there's no optimism, Drew. Do you
even think people are excited that in twelve days.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
We are kicking off not nearly as much as it
usually is at this point. I mean, you have your
people that have already gone out and put their tents down,
which that even isn't even.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Huge numbers the social thing more than it is.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
But your core audience is excited just because it's here.
But overall, I think just the unknown people are just
kind of waiting to see what it is before they
get too fired up about whatever is going to roll
out there.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
It feels like fans have just already accepted that it's
going to be a bad season. But if they were
to come out and let's say blow out Toledo and
let's say pull off and went over Ole Miss somehow,
some way, I think the fan base would jump right
back on as quickly as they jumped off.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
What is weird to me is even when we've been
bad over the years, and we've been doing this show
long enough that we've been bad going into many years,
people always were into at least the season starting I
just have not felt that this year. I've walked. I
walked up here past about two people. First two questions.
I think we're gonna go to the file four. I
think we're going to the national Championship. I think a
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combination of how excited people are about mar Pope, how
people are excited about the basketball team, and how bad
the football team feels like it's gonna be, has made
it to where there's the least excitement around football.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I can think of.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Maybe since Joker's second year, but I don't even know
if it was like that quiet then, I really some of.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Those bad teams, it's guys you'd followed for several years.
There's a connection. I mean, with fifty new players, I
bet most fans would fail a test about the roster
right now. It's just that this is such a unique year.
There's so many unknowns where guys have come from.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
How many of you, how many of you here, if
you're being honest, because we've got probably twenty people sitting
in here right now, how many of you you think
you could name six of the starters on offense and defense?
Not one person raising one hand, And these are clearly
UK fans they're not one person.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
For those of you play now, nobody knows what to think.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I mean that I think says says a lot right there,
and that to me is a failure from the UK
marketing folks and even getting people.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
We all know Calzada, we know Shihajh Pete yep.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
But then the rest of the team, I don't know.
We'll take a break right back. We're here at KSR
Golf Scramble. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Walking back.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at the KSR
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Speaker 3 (16:30):
You ever tried that?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I had it at our Lexdon Scramble for the first time.
Very good caught me off guard.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I was spro oh, yeah, those are the ones my
buddies were trying. That that said very good liquor.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
There's a lot of alcohol sponsors on our court.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
There are a lot of alcohol sponsors and I would
also say, uh, there's a hole of OVW wrestlers that
uh uh. We we have Crixis Luscious Lawrence and Fred
the Slayer who are willing to put all of you
in a head headlock if you if you were to
get it.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
So they're all gonna be out there as we.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Don't mess with Cricks. So I can tell you that.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
He's got new hair. Did you see that? Yeah, he
did a rhyme. He went and got to.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
I can never understand what he's saying, so I just go,
uh huh, yep.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
I disagree with everything he does.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Seems like most people agree with me.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
On the kids, one person says Matt, I'm a one person,
says mad I'm a pairent of four. I see both sides.
Sometimes my kids need to unwind and get out some energy.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Yeah, that's for your backyards. That's not for Bobo T's
all right, Bobo.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
T is not the place to let your kids get energy. Here.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
If we want to get to the reason what I
said about the football, we open up the phones A
five nine twenty two eighty seven topics football.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Rick tells me no cault cricket.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
That's another thing. Like I am I just I've never
seen it like this.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Let me ask you a question that would have been
insane to ask even just two years ago.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Will the stadium be full for the first game. I'm
curious to see what that whole looks like. I mean
a noon game. Usually you gotta want it to get
out there and set your toelgate up and really have
them make a morning out of it. I'm interested to
see just getting out there, what the excitement is day
off around the stadium at like eleven am, an hour
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before they kick off.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I'm we're opening for breakfast that morning. It'll be the
first week with ks Bar. I feel like things will
go well because of that. But usually we get a
pretty good hint of what it's gonna look like that
the stadium with how it looks like at the bar
before I I Historically that first game has either been
sold out or close.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Do you think that's gonna it's gonna be hot? Do
you think that's gonna happen?
Speaker 6 (18:42):
See, I'm on the boat that they'll be a good crowd,
but it won't be full because, like Drew said, the
noon start, the apathy that has built up over the
last couple of years, people just aren't excited, So they'll
be a good crowd. But I don't think it's gonna
be packed.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Isn't that also Labor Day weekend?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Three day weekend, so maybe a lot of people going
out of town for Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I think it's probably gonna too not quite not quite full.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Okay, So what can Kentucky do in that game to
win everybody up?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Like, is this one of those things that if they
go win by twenty one points considering it's now down
to an eight and a half line, is that the.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Way drew for everybody to go? Okay? I'm I'm I'm
back on board.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I think they get a lot of people excited. I
think winning at all, this is a game, just get
out of there. I hope there's not a negativity if
they do win by a touchdown because this is not
an easy Week one opponent where you used to being
have a bigger point spread there in a game you
don't have to sweat out. So if they were to
win it by three touchdowns, I think it'd be very exciting.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
And then you got to ole Miss the next game.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
If you're like Channon said.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Earlier, we're gonna oh miss is gonna be full.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Yeah, that thinks a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Unless we lose, Old Miss will be full because it's
Old Miss. They're gonna bring a lot of people here.
I mean, that's that's gonna be their first game of
the year that really matters, So they're gonna bring a
lot of people here.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
They haven't been here.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I think they played here what they played during COVID,
but nobody could come, so I think it's probably been
has it been since they had DK Metcalf since they
were here. I think they were here that year, but
I think that's the last time they were here.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
The SEC nation will be at that game too. I
don't know how much that adds to the X.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
It adds a lot. A lot of people want to
see sexy Paul Fum and it might get people out a.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Little dry salt with nothing on it.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Yeah, it feels weird to say that the first game
of the season is a statement game, but I kind
of feel like for our fan base, it is like,
you got to show us, so let's see what you
can do against a decent Well, let me give you.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
A piece of good news.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Cutter Bowley apparently looked magnificent again in the scrimmage, so
much so that Mark Stoops kind of led his offensive
talk with the second string quarterback.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
This is now two scrimmages and a row. He's played well.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
If you talk to people in practice, if you talk
to people around the program, they will all tell you
Cutter has outplayed kaal Zaida this fall or this summer.
Now cales that is going to start in part because
you paid a lot of money to get him here. Right,
But Mark Story said he thinks the Kentucky quarterback room
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is in a better position now than they've been in
years too deep. You know, the starter isn't necessarily as
good as it's but that this is the best backup
Kentucky's had, Is there any chance to back up? At
some point becomes the starter. I mean, everything you hear
is that he has taken leaps and bound progression.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Yeah, you know, I'll go back to what the guy
told me that knows a lot more football than I do,
and he said Cutter will be the starter by the
end of the year. And he said even at the
first game end, if Zach starts, Cutter will be on
the field like they plan on playing him.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I think, but we hear that every year and they
never play that guy.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Like we always hear they're gonna put the backup on
the field, and then that never happens.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I think if they do it, is it gonna be
a switch? Like you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Like that the idea of rotating both. I feel like
they say that and that never happens. You think this
will be different. I think they're gonna give Cutter a shot.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
I mean, I really do you know? They did have
Gavin WIMPs that come in in certain situations last year
to be in the number two guy.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I think they want to see what Cutter can do
the win. When do you do that?
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Do you have to be down significantly at halftime to
make the switch? What if it's Toledo and you're down by.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
The problem to put to back up in early in
the season Drew Is, it's hard to go back to
the start unless he just comes in and is terrible.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
If you're already in game one, give it like give
it up on your starter, it's hard to go back
to him.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
I think they're gonna be fine with Calzada. I think
if Kentucky's got problems, it won't be a quarterback. Even
if he's just a game manager. They're gonna run the
ball a lot. He doesn't throw many interceptions if it's
not going well. I don't think he'll be the issue.
I think he'll be the line wasn't helping him or
the defense, and.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
We need to be able to run all over Toledo.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
But also remember historically in the first game, Stoops teams
have taken a while to get going. We've had slow
first halfs in a lot of Mark Stoop's first games
over the year. We'll take a break. Per it backs KSR.
Welcome back TENNI Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight
oh twenty two eighty seven, uh text machine seven seven
two seven seven four five two five four one person rights, Matt,
(23:09):
I'm very excited about football. Shannon, of all people, has
me optimistic. He's always pessimistic, and this year he thinks
we go to a bowl. Look at you, mister optimism.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
But I haven't heard too many people say six wins.
But you know what, I think they can do it.
I think there's definitely a path to make that happen.
Some things have to go their way, yes, but they
can happen.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I mean it's not crazy, but it's also not although
I said that last year and it still gets thrown
in my face every time one person rights Matt, I'm excited.
I'm driving in from Iowa for both the first Week
one and Week two games. That's a long drive. So
if you do that for both of them, Drew, I
think you are excited.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Just doing it twice, it's gonna go and turn around
do it again maybe next week. I understand. Yeah, that's
that's a long drive. Good commitment for the Cats.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, week three against I will say if they don't
do well in Week one or two, tickets will be
available for Week three against Eastern Michigan. I think that
one's I think that's fair. I got before you go
the phone some news this morning that I think is
going to make you two, Shannon and Ryan mad Did
you hear what the Major League Baseball commissioner said last night?
(24:10):
He basically said that he did. I mean, he didn't
specify this, but it's certainly what it sounded like. He
basically said, we're gonna expand add two more teams, and
the American and National League are going away. No, he's
basically suggesting they would do eight divisions of four teams
and base it by geography. And I look this morning
(24:33):
online and they were showing what the tentative plan would be,
and it would be not Beatle twenty twenty nine, but
it would It actually makes some sense if you look
at the geography. It would put the teams in divisions
of four right next to each other. So you would
end up with New York the two New York teams,
Boston and Toronto in the same division. And you go
(24:54):
through and like the Reds would be with Pittsburgh, Cleveland,
and Detroit. The Cubs would be with the White Sox
Milwaukee and maybe Minneapolis, and they basically put them in
little and and everything, and then the two expansion teams
might be Nashville and Charlotte.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
What do you think about And basically, instead of American League,
National League, it would just be eastern part of the
country versus Western part of the country.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Well, with open league play being what it is, you
really don't need the National and American League anymore. You know,
used to have those two separated, So I mean, it
does make sense. I am a traditionalist when it comes
to baseball. I don't like changes, but I can see
that making.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Your Cardinals would be in the West. The basically the
you'd have a division of the New York teams, Boston, Toronto.
Then there'd be a division that's like Philly, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte,
and then it's.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Like Atlanta and Nashville and the Florida teams.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
It's like Saint Louis, Kansas City and the Texas teams
and then so I mean, it's if you just look
at the Giaga, it makes sense.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
The Braves used to be in the n ol West
and I'm going like, how does that Raves?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
When I saw it, it looks like the Braves have
the easiest thing because the Braves would have Nashville and
then the two teams from Florida, So.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
We don't we don't have to worry about Philadelphia, Like
you got the easies?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
What do you think though, you're mister traditionalists.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
See, I was kind of on board with it until
you just told me who the Cardinals are gonna be.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
With It would be Saint Louis, Kansas City, Texas and Houston.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
I can't hate that enough. And that is that just
boils my blood. Can't you take away the rivalry with
the Cubs and the Reds. But you're gonna have a
new rivalry with Dallas and here's all, come on, he
still gives a crap about Dallas and Houston people who
live there.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Come on, I can't believe they're going to.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Take that away. I mean, this is still like, first
of all, it's not just about the cars.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
It is.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
They're not taking the Cubs off the schedule.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
They're still still.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Playing, but it's just a rival. You know, you're you're
battling omials.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Games are means so important?
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Well, now you have Kansas City to be important to me.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
The people that should be the maddest would be like
Toronto because they end up with the Yankees, the Mets
in the Red Sox like brutal.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
That's brutal.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I mean, that's like absolutely brute.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You know, for the Reds, if they ended up with Pittsburgh,
Cleveland and Detroit, it doesn't really change much. Like they
they probably have a better chance in that division than
the one they're in because they missed the Cubs.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
So I don't know, I can't stand it.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
I cannot.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
I feel like you'd have a big rivalry with Houston,
Kansas City. Come on, yeh, Kansas City at all the border.
That's exactly what you share.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
The state that they play that interqua inner squad, interleague
game wherever they call it.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Give me the cub better care because that's your big rival. Now, Boom,
Who's up first? I knew you would hate it.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
That's why I was excited to tell you, go ahead,
Doug is up first? Doug, go ahead? Doug.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Okay, man, I'm one of these that I just cannot
get excited about this upcoming football season. And I'm just
asking myself, am I being programmed after the last couple
of years of Cali Perry and the last couple of
years of tooops where I've had my hawks up so
much with the program and just be let down, and
(28:10):
now I just refuse to get up for it.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Well, I get it.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I appreciate the call. But what I would say to you,
Drew is the games are coming either way. Would you
rather watch? Would you rather look at week one and go, oh,
it's gonna be terrible? Would you rather get excited? I
have been shocked. My point when I started this was
to be say I'm shocked to how little attention it's gotten.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I'm shocked to how little people seem to care.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
With all that said, when we get to that Saturday
morning of Kentucky Toledo, I'm gonna be pacing the floor
hoping we win as much as anybody.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
That's not gonna change for me, not at all.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I'm very excited, even though I have a low bar
for the season. But for the first twenty five years
of my life, I got excited for Kentucky football and
they sucked. I just like watching the team, I like
going to the games. I like the tailgating everything that
comes with it, and I can't wait to get out there,
even though I have no idea with the actual product
on the field of the clay.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
This Cole Kublick and Kole Kubrick saying to me when
I was on his show Friday, said, I think Kentucky
makes a bowl.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Greg McElroy said that Kentucky in the SEC has the high.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Swing potent between pencil potential upside and potential low side
of any team in the league.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Does any of that excite you a little bit? Those
two guys I think know what they're talking about.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Does And even though it's not the most exciting brand
of football, I do think the ways toops is gonna
go back to how he had success when he first
got here. Even though it might be a little bit
of a bore in some of those games, I think
that gives Kentucky their best chance to win, especially with
the current makeup of the rosters. So I'm hoping getting
back to old school. I mean, oah, the games might
be a dragon, it might be seventeen to twenty, but
(29:44):
hopefully you're in just about every game and then you
make these rock fights again.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Well, I think Kole Kubrick said to me, and you
can hear that interview it's online, but I mean they
were interviewing me, but they ended up me kind of
interviewing them. At the end, Kole Kubrick did say, Ryan,
you know Bush Hampden he thinks is very creative, very
interesting in the way he plays, but that last year
sixty percent of the things that he likes to do
he just couldn't do because the offensive line was too bad.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Do you think that's plausible.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
I think it's highly plausible, and I think that's why
they've maybe we've switched their offensive philosophy. They're gonna try
to pound it and run it a lot this year.
I think they feel like they got two running maybe
four running backs back there. They can really move the
football for him. So I think Hampton's gonna he likes
a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
I think that runs.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
I think he think Kazata can be that guy too.
Kazata just can't make a lot of mistakes. He's got
to play smart.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Well, Hampden likes that offensive line. He said, this is
gonna be one of the great offensive lines. It's gonna
remind you of the big blue walls.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
So he got no excuse this year.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Then that's you gotta be careful saying that.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
One person, rights, Matt, why would you say our roster
is any worse than it's been the last few years. Well,
I think it's probably better than it was last year.
But here, here's the easiest way to measure it. Let's
go back seven years. Kentucky's had more draft picks in
the last six years than they had had in life
(31:00):
the thirty years prior together. I mean, just think about
how many people we have in the NFL. Okay, how
many draft picks do we have projected this year? Anybody
know last year we had two guys get drafted, Maxwell
Harrison and Dion Walker.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
This year we have one guy projected Alex Afari. That's it. Wow,
So I'm not I mean, that doesn't mean you can't.
But then now go back.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Years ago, we were getting five guys drafted every year Drew,
which means on some rosters there were like fifteen dudes
playing that had NFL futures. That's a big difference from
having two guys last year, one of whom in Dion Walker,
was kind of given half effort to and remember all
those guys Dean Walker, Maxwell Harrison, Alex Farri.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
On defense, where are the offensive guys? Like, where are
the offensive guys that are We went from having multiple
dudes go to the NFL on the offensive line to
we don't even have anybody being considered to go on
the offensive.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Line is an issue, but defensively you could at least say,
and they've had all these draft picks, but none of
them were really we were talking about his draft picks
going into the years, like did did anybody have Drew
Phillips starting for the Giants? Carrington Valentine, Those guys were
projected to be paid Right now, Bryan Childress is Undrafted's
probably gonna start for the Cowboys. So yes, your Hope
(32:19):
is Hardaway or a Waller, even a Ty Bryan or
I love it. Guys that have been there can make
the jump that several guys have because many of the
draft picks. You can go back to jam and Davis
going into the year, we weren't talking about them as
draft picks.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
You're right about Zion Childress, but Carrington Valentine was projected
as a pick. I mean, and again, somebody may play
their way into it. But going into last year, people
thought Maxwell Harrison and.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Dan Walker were getting picked. This year, there aren't as
many of those guys. Who's next? Rick, Jenny is next? Jenny?
Go ahead, Jenny.
Speaker 9 (32:53):
Hi, guys, listen, longtime listener, first time caller. I have
a couple of quick hitters for you here. First of all, Ryan,
age is just a number. I'm exactly ten years older
than you are and I'm still out having a great time.
The guy sitting up a girl, you will feel completely
differently about it when they are your age. So just
you let them talk and then you remind them of
(33:14):
that years from now. That's good thing. I've had a
two mile walk this morning, not seventeen. However, you all
have gotten my blood boiling to start today. Negativity is
popular opinions. We all have them, but negativity is popular
for clicks and possibly for listeners. This football first fan
(33:36):
thinks that it's completely weak to be bailing out on
a team you haven't even seen yet. I'm going to
use matt sphrase of correlation versus causation a number of things.
Number One, football, you ask for people to name starters.
Susan hasn't started. Football players will we're helmets. We haven't
eighty five played for roster fifty new players this year
(34:01):
in basketball, which is matt uh first choice in sports.
Quite obviously, you have tar game. You see them completely shot.
So I think that that is an unfair comparison. I
did take notes about things I wanted to say, because
you all, okay.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I can't go into all the notes. First of all,
brought up his points hang on a second. First of all,
I brought them up on Friday.
Speaker 10 (34:30):
I like that you.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
I like everything you said. You you you take me
to task, and there's nothing wrong with that you did say.
It started the call. You're a football first fan, which
is totally fine, But then you can't criticize me for
being a basketball first fan. If you're the same way.
Although I I'm only basketball first because we've been better
at that. I want them both to win. But I
(34:52):
will say I liked your call. Thank you for coming
in with the fire, and I appreciate you listening.
Speaker 9 (35:00):
It was not a criticism, it was a comparison, saying
your two sides to every point I was getting the
other side. Thanks for letting me speak, and for you
all listening.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
All right, Jenny from the block right there.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I got. I feel like I just got scolded.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Yes, school, but no, I'm glad she said all that,
and I'm glad to hear that there are people like that.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
To be honest with you, that's why we need to
know that those people exist. And uh and yeah, she
doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Honest she did not mention the starters, though she said
they wear helmets, which is true. But that's why my opinion,
football has to do an even better job of marketing
because they do wear helmets, and because we do not
know them. And y'all are just scared. You don't want
to say anything. I see the look on your face. Hey,
big Blue Nation, Summer's almost here. If you're ready to
enjoy your favorite outdoor activities like she what was her name?
(35:50):
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Speaker 3 (36:05):
Shannon. Yeah, taking a break, so's so we'll be right
back to Kentucky Sports Radio. Water Maggot is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Here it's KSR Golf Scramble sponsored by Stockton Mortgage and Cornbread.
Hemp decided to get out on the Glen Oaks golf course.
They've hosted us for a number of years. Ah, he's
a good time. Should be great today. Ready to get
out and play? I was I played so terribly at
the Lexington when gonna try to do a little bit
better at this one? One person writes, Matt, well done
(36:34):
getting scolded by an old lady in cold week.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
I just I said to these guys at this table, if.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
It is a sixty five year old woman or older,
I'm not gonna argue with her.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
I just can't.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I think it's I think that my mom made that
sixty five year old women eighty five year old males.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
You can probably just say whatever you want to me
and I'll I'll just ask you.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
She had a lot more to say. I mean, if
you didn't cut off, she would probably still be talking.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
No, I know, I think she could have done the show.
She had notes. She said you were trying to get notes.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
I just said we had to go to break. One
person writes Matt. You should feel scolded. Your negativity is
too much. You criticize them in tone. How does Tom
Leech know the starters if you don't, Well, Tom Leach
gets First of all, I love Tom Leach. He gets
to go to practice, all right, we don't, so that's
(37:26):
a big thing. He gets to go watch everybody, so
he sees them play. We don't, so that's one way
he knows it. Secondly, he's paid by the university. I
love Tom, but the university pays him. They don't pay us.
So it's a different kind of thing. If I I
you know, I love Tom, it's just a different role.
He's in an official role. We're in an unofficial role.
As far as the negativity, I'm convinced there are people
(37:50):
who would blame me no matter what happens. Last year,
I was blamed for being too positive and they weren't good.
Now I'm blamed for being too negative, and we don't
know what they'll be. It is what it is, that
just comes with it. But I think our job is
just to say what we think it is. It has
been hard for me to be positive, although I will
(38:10):
note I think we're gonna win five games, and I
think most of our fans even pick numbers drew lower
than that.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Yeah, I've actually talked myself into a little more of
Shannon's territory here here in six.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Now, well, I have a theory.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
I've eliminated the possibility of five, and it makes inse
in my head.
Speaker 8 (38:28):
I think.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
I think it's four to six.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Five is impossible because if they get to the Louisville
game and they have five, that's and Mark Stoops wins
that because they can go to a ball back against
the wall. But if they get to the Louisvill game
they only have four, I don't think they have as
much to play for, and that's a game Mark Stoops
doesn't have them up for and they lose. So oddly,
I think that five is not possible because I think
(38:52):
if they're at five going into the Governor's Cup, they'll
have enough.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
So what's your prediction. I'm at five. I've moved to
six for that, Like, all right, what are you?
Speaker 5 (39:01):
I'm at six, let's go all right, come.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
On, I'm the one holdout.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Usually you're the one staying on the boat.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
I actually think Kentucky can be significantly better than they
were last year and still win five games.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Because of the schedule. I think you can be.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
I think we will be competitive and nine out of
our twelve games, we'll get killed in one of these
road games, because we always do. Somebody will just and
then we'll probably get We'll probably get killed at Georgia.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
We'll end up like Texas. Let's just say we're oncompetitive there.
That's ten. We might be competitive in all the other games.
I think we can be. I think we can be
a lot better.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
It's just the schedules hard.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
I feel like to get six, you got to steal
one of those home games. Which of those four home
games you think they could get.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Florida to me is the most likely to steal just
because of where it is on the schedule for them,
I think there, and then you know, Tennessee objectively is
probably the worst of those teams. Teams, but it's Tennessee
and you know, I have a mental block when it
comes to them. The best six. The best way to
get to six, in my opinion is Vandy Auburn, Florida.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
That's doable. That's the good way to get to six.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
That's not insane to say that.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
I think Old Miss has to be in that too.
I know it's early, but just on the simple fact
that you beat them last year with a much worse
team whatever, Kentucky looks like they're gonna be better than that.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
That makes it worse to me.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
That makes it harder because because it nick you know,
Lane Kiffin's got the entire offseason, and for all of
his at times jerkishness, he's a brilliant offensive mind and
he's got the entire offense to get the offseason.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
And he can't lose twice. His fan base will crush
him if he loses to Kentucky again. Who's next? Adam
is next? Adam?
Speaker 11 (40:47):
Go ahead at him, Like guys, I think six and
six they I'm optimistic about it, but you've got to go.
I think you have to start three in one, whether
it's Old Mess or at South Carolina because that stretch
out at South Carolina at Georgia Texas Tennessee, that is
brutal and not to mention in the weyeks. Within the
(41:09):
first six weeks of the schedules, we have seven straight
games to end the season. Imagine injuries will pile up.
You know, depth's gonna be tested, so it's gonna be
a struggle. But if you can start out three and
one and get either Old Mister or South Carolina, you know,
let's do it. Let's get to a bowl.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
That's the that's the path. I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
I appreciate the call because that that stretch is hard,
and you're right, tough team after tough team with no
bot Who's next?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Sean is next? Shawn? I got thirty seconds? Go ahead?
Speaker 10 (41:39):
Yeah, you guys are looking out in the future. I'm
just an average Kentucky fan here in Texas, But to me,
everything is still about The first game is Toledo. I
don't know who they are. So if Kentucky fumbles a
couple of balls but still wins the game seven to ten,
I mean I just think that what does Kentucky have
(42:03):
to do to win? The Hearts and minds against Toledo.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Yeah, I don't think you're gonna be able to win
the hearts and minds against Toledo.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Although I'm with Drew, just win. I don't even care
about you win by just win.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
The Old Miss game will decide how people look at
the team, whether you win or lose. I think they'll
judge it based on that. We're gonna talk some basketball
when we come back. It is. We are here at
glen Oaks Country Club. It's a KSR golf screen, but
we'll be ready to
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