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Speaker 2 (00:59):
Welcome back two teck You Sports Radio A five nine
two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. The text message
text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five
two five four back here at the KS bar and
grill for wingsday. We have a chance. Here we're gonna
make a pretty big announcement for us. Those of you
listen to the show know that this was this was
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on the horizon. But today is the day that the
NFL is announcing that Drew Franklin and I are will
be doing a podcast for the NFL all year. It
has gone live today and the first episode is up.
It is called the NFL Cover Zero. So here's what
I'm gonna ask everybody doing listening at home and those
of you sitting right here, pull out your phones right now,
(01:43):
all right, do Uncle Matt a favor. Pull out your
phones right now if you don't have it, and go
to your podcast and subscribe to NFL Cover zero. We
would beat. The NFL has joined us, joined us in
doing this, and we're very excited. They base we're looking
for two fans who are not experts on the NFL,
(02:04):
and Drew and I were like, that sounds like us.
We're perfect for that, and they are making us a
part of the team. We are extremely excited. I'm not
gonna lie I think I can speak for Drew. We're
nervous and kind of humbled. The NFL is the biggest
sports institution in America, and if you look at the
other people that you're doing podcast with them, they're all
(02:26):
pretty huge names. And we've been working really hard on
this for the last month, me and Drew, but also
Billy and Mario in preparing for it, and this is
a great opportunity. They came to us because they said, look,
you guys have a huge audience in Kentucky. We love
the way you do stuff, and we want you to
join us. We've been in a ton of conversations figuring
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out the show. The first episode is up. I hope
you listen to it. It's exactly what you recognize. It's
just me and Drew being me and Drew. It's the
same thing we've done for seventeen years. We're just talking
about a different subject. But Drew, I can't think of
anybody I'd love to do this more with you. And
I started seventeen years ago, me picking you up from
the bars and hoping you weren't too drunk to do
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a podcast in Hubby's basement, and sometimes I wasn't. And
now seventeen years later getting to do one together for
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Very exciting. Huge NFL fan every Sunday already, I'm watching
every game, so the homework assignment wasn't anything new, but
it's been a big undertaking. I've never We've done a
lot of things. Obviously, this is a gigantic show. But
like technical difficulties we have here, they don't let it
slide on this. There's like lighting and like production. I
didn't know we could do this.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
This is you see some of the videos, like we
have lighting. They actually don't make me look like I'm
a corpse in it most of the time. It's very exciting.
We're gonna be doing two episodes a week, so one
of them is we will get when the last Sunday
Night game is over. We're taping immediately, So we're taping
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like Sunday nights and like eleven or eleven thirty, Billy
and Mario and Drew and I will get down to
the studio and we will do an immediate as soon
as it's over reaction.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Eventually, we hope that'll be live on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It won't be at first, but that'll so when you
get up Monday morning, that'll be there for you, and
then we will do one in the middle of the week.
They're gonna have us guests to have on. I don't
know who those people are gonna be over time, but
we're we're looking forward to it. The problem is, as
soon as we start, I have to go to South Africa.
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So part of this is figuring out I gotta find
a way to do this show in South Africa, potentially
out on Safari. So we've been working trying to figure
that out.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Ma'am. I see the look in your face. That's the
same look I have.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
We'll see if we're able to get We're gonna see
if we're able to get connected between me and you.
I don't even think I can watch the games in
the South Africa. So I don't know how we're gonna
do this, but we're gonna make it work. And you
would be listen, I've been fortunate. I've gotten to do
some stuff for ESPN. I've gotten to do some really
cool stuff. You all listening, you'd be really proud of Drew,
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Billy and Mario. They've taken this responsibility that the NFL's
given him, and it's been cool to watch him work
Mario and Billy trying to make the lighting work, figure
out how to record it because they gave us this
big responsibility but not a ton of resources, to be
honest with you, they just said, make this look great
and here you go. And there's been a lot of
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people at iHeart here in Lexington have help, Nathan and
Guss and some other folks. So, uh, and then Drew.
I mean, I've I've wanted to get Drew a chance
to do something like this for a long time. And
he he's actually the expert on the show because I
know much less about it than he does.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So it should be a lot of fun. It's been
a lot of fun. You mentioned Mario and Billy having
to learn new things, Like when we're taping, Mario's got
this like control board in front of him and he's
changing cameras.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
He's like, let's go to camera too. Came on, had
you even seen that thing before we started this?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Nope, it's called a switcher. Mario's had to learn to
run a switcher. So we spent a lot of time
together in the last two or three weeks to do it.
So do me a favor if you haven't yet subscribe
NFL cover zero. It's called NFL. They made us put
NFL in the front of it so that it can
be professional. They did not use the cartoon drawing of me,
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thank goodness. I might put it out later this afternoon
so people can see.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
What they do.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
They're still they're redoing the caricature, so right now it's
kind of a generic cover. But Ryan, we're both very excited.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I'm super proud of you guys. I mean, I'm like
the proud papa just kind of watching you guys. Yeah, right,
this is a big deal. This is a huge deal
to be on this platform for the NFL. So no
doubt you guys will kill it. And I'm really excited
how this is going to play out for you guys.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I mean, ESPN is a great opportunity.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I remember the very first time that they asked me
to fill in on Marty McGee, and there was a
woman that I worked with who was really mean to me.
But besides that, you may remember that, yep, who the
hell is Matt Jones. But even with ESPN, like it
never it was awesome. It is awesome, but it never
necessarily feels like I'm on ESPN unless I'm there like
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I'm just sitting in my living room and doing it.
So it doesn't always feel like what it is. This
has felt like what it is. When we do these
pre show meetings with the NFL. There's like fifteen people
on these zoom calls and they all have a look
of like seriousness, and Billy's been on him. He knows
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like you just you sit there and go who this
is a big deal.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
So, like I said, you came out today.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I think at some point today the NFL is putting
some things out about it on their Instagram and social media.
So looking forward to it. But anyway, I also want
to thank the audience. We never get this chance without
you all. That's the reason. I know, that's why they
did it. This audience is so large. I want you
to think about how large this audience is. This audience
is so large. The NFL like just says, if you
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can just bring your audience, you'll be good. So that
gives you a sense of what it is. So and
you may on your KSR feed see the show pop
up over the next couple weeks, but do me a
favor at least eventually migrate over to the KSR. I
still pinch cover zero.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I still pinch myself every day with this job, but
at least kind of makes sense. I grew up a
Kentucky fan, I went to UK. I could see how
the stars might aligned, and I got here. But when
that NFL logo is behind your head when we start
the podcast, I'm thinking, how in the world did we
get here? I mean, that's the biggest brand in sports.
We didn't play football. Yeah, we have this opportunity. It's
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even just doing one episode has already been so much fun.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
So thank you all very much for that. And uh,
I hope you enjoy.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's like two hours the first episode, so you got
plenty of listening time. And if you listen to it,
let me know what you think on the text machine.
Uh seven seven two four five two five four switch
gears for a sec London cante. Yeah, okay, So they
had their pre impeachment meeting yet last night. In it
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I saw some clips. One of the only clips I
saw as a guy during the meeting, one of the
people in the city council.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Looked at another one goes, you still owe me twenty bucks?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Billy.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I was like, this is why I like it. He's
yelling at him during the city council meeting about potential impeachment,
yelling that he owes him twenty bucks Friday.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Is the impeachment meeting that happens during this show.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I'm telling you Country Boys is awesome, But there's a
part of me that wants to go and watch the
and watch the London meeting. But it is.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I did get a primer.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Basically, it's a fight between there's like some people on
the city council, a couple of which are brothers. They
were pardoned I think by Bevin, or one of them
was by Bevin for something the mayor is and they
don't like each other. Some people side with the mayor,
some people side with the brothers. And now it's gotten
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into all this other stuff too, and it's all over
the place, and so there's a lot going on, Ryan,
But I know many of you went down the TikTok
rabbit hole last night to watch it.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I had people send me videos all night last night
about the meeting that just happened. Yeah, they're trying to
impeach the mayor. But now there's you know, it's people
implying a mayor doesn't even live in the city limits
he's trying to apply to some of the city council
members trying to impeach him. They don't even live in
the city limits. Does anyone live in London.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I don't know, man, they don't live in Love Like
everybody does something in London. May not even live there,
but they all want to be uh to, all want
to work in the government. There's the mayor, it seems
like has a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
He will like buy people like he'll.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Buy things for people at Shoney's or whatever, which people
which people like. I don't know if it's Shonies, but
like if people talk about how generous he is. But
then there's also allegations of nefariousness. Then you have the
Brothers people in the parking lot screaming at them. I
just I Friday is going to be fireworks. If I
could get in, I would go.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
This feels like an episode of Justified, maybe even a
new season of Justified. Some sheriff gonna come in and
clean up the town.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Except London's supposed to be the classy part of eastern Kentuck.
I don't know what gateway to the mountain, gateway to
the mountains. They are completely six oh sixteen there. They
are not like they're not partially six oh six.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Can we get a correspond it's a call in from
London while we're at Country Boy.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well, I really if it was any other remote but
Country Boy, I would send Mario down there. But we
need We're gonna need him there. If I'm nine, two
eighth twenty two eighty seven, who's up next? Jason is next? Jason?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Jason, Hey, Matt, congrats on the NFL podcast, by the way,
first of all, but thank you listened to the UH
I listened to the postgame show yesterday, and I apologize
if this has been brought up before, maybe the offseason
or anything, but he was brought up, and I don't
remember the context. But the nil donors in other schools,
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how they may have ten or you know, several big donors.
They could afford to lose one or two and get by.
But what does Kentucky do and what does our program
look like if we only have one or two big
donors because they won't be around forever? And is there
future allotments of money or what happens?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I completely legitimate worry, completely legitimate worry. I I appreciate
the call. We have I've said this before. I mean,
we have a couple of people that do the biggest
heavy lifting when it comes to donors at UK. I
don't you know probably one or two of them. You know,
probably one or two of them you don't. But we
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have a couple of people that do the heavy lifting.
I think it's fair to say that those people, like
I'm not gonna say they decide the future of the program,
but they have a huge major importance going forward. What
happens after them, you gotta go find more or hope that,
you know, future generations of that family want to want
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to donate.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I think Kentucky it's very.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Difficult because we don't have This state does not have
a ton of folks that have massive economic impact who
also care about sports. And you also have to remember
the largest economic entity in the state, the largest economic
engine is Louisville, which has a lot of Louisville fans
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and where the corporations. Tom Jurich did a really good
job during his years of connecting those corporations to the
University of Louisville like ups right, So all of that
makes it to where Kentucky to some extent, Ryan has
a harder trek than other schools, but a couple of
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people have made that trek easier and we just have
in some ways. Hope that continues.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Right when you're winning, it is a little easier if
he goes solicit funds. When you're losing, it's a little
harder to go after that money when you're not putting
up wins.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And hopefully, uh, the next bajillionaire that likes Kentucky is
in the middle of beginning their wealth right now. And
if you're listening, throw something back to the school because
we're gonna need a new generation of money to come through.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, I mean think about Alabama. Okay, in Alabama, the
city of Birmingham has Auburn fans, it has Alabama fans.
Kentucky does too, But the city of Louisville as an
entity is more connected to the University of Louisville than
it is Kentucky for understandable reasons, and a lot of
the corporate things. Yum uh, you know, yum and ups
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are the two big ones, but I'm sure there's other ones.
They're tied more to U of L's program than the
UK's right, yes.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And that's where they jurch was. That's why he was
so successful. You know, he was able to get those
big corporations to donate money to Louisville. I think Dwayne
Peeb was good when he was here getting that happening
here at Kentucky. Did Kentucky have that guy? Now?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I don't really know, but I think we'll find out eventually.
We got DraftKings. You can go to DraftKings. Bet five dollars,
get three hundred dollars in bonus bets leading into the
first NFL game. Let me ask you a question. We're
gonna pick the NFL tomorrow. How about this Yanick Skinner
versus Carlos al Karaz the big, the big tennis rivalry.
(15:26):
But before that, all Karaz will play Djokovic tomorrow night.
Who you got?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I'm going with the youth. I think we're the Alkoraz Center.
We're just gonna see it over and over and over
for years to come. It's already starting.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Djokovic was dancing and talking trash last night. You have
one you.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Prefer, well, I'm gonna say I saw him kind of
looks like you're talking a little smack on the ESPN coverages.
While it goes I'm going to Djokovic.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, I'm gonna go al KaAZ. It's the young It's
Alkoraz Center. They're the Federate, the doll of a new generation.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You will probably don't remember this, but Center was warming
up next to our show. We're here in Lexington, and
Dennis Emery, a former tennis coach, was like, that's gonna
be the next star. You should watch him. And I
kind of like, okay, yeah, that's a guy. Yeah, Bomb's
not him bomb self.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I forgot about that because we guess, Wow, Dennis.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
And I knew he's gonna be big, but I didn't
know I'd be seeing him at number one in the
world just a few years later.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Man, I've never made that connection.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Want he won the.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Challenger, but he was over there just hitting balls and
we were yapping about Benny Snell or something, and he
had a few people around him, and now he's biggest
thing in the sport.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I had completely forgotten about that.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Wow, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
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Speaker 4 (16:50):
Let's go ahead and go to the next for their
the phones. Who's up next?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Keith is up next?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Keith?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Keith.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Hey, Matt, congratulations you and Drew, thank you season ticket
older here for thirteen years. And y'all always talking about
the environment. And I got three to little quick complaints
that I've wanted to complain about. First off, what happened
to all roads leads Kentucky this weekend?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Roads?
Speaker 7 (17:17):
No, all roads lead to Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Okay, yeah, ron Kentucky. Yeah, that's all right.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Number two. Being a veteran and everything from my seats
and I see it. I sit on the home side
closer to Nicholas Hill Road. I can't see the American flag.
And we're talking the military, then the national anthem. You
look at the highest point of the flag and you
put your hand over your heart and you look things
see the flag cause the press boxes, why don't they
put it up higher? I wann't they have a bigger flag?
(17:47):
Years and years fair point and number three. This one
I've never understood. We're trying to keep that team from
getting the first down on third down, so we're all
up in the stands going ah, doing whatever we're trying
to do, and whoever up in the press box. Besides,
it's time for a blue white chant. Well, when you
do blue, there's a pause, then there's white. You're not
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being loud, You're giving them a pause to be it.
Why do you do a blue white chant when you're
trying to hold them to a third down?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
All fair points. I appreciate the call. I think the
all three of those crowd points ryme. Makes sense to me?
Why I have a blue white chant? Blue white chance
I do think are to me? You do the blue
white chant during like a break in the game.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Right, not doing the wave. You're getting the crowd going
back and forth.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
The goal on a third down or fourth down is
be as loud as you can so that they can't
hear themselves. Think not to do a blue white But again,
I just don't think the people that make these decisions
think about the fans or the environment. There is an
art to entertain it, right, there's an art to it.
(18:55):
You either can do it or you can't. You either
know how to do it or you can't. And I
don't know how you can make any determination. But at
least when it comes to football thing with the people
that do it don't know how.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I don't think any of us are anti Blue White cheer,
but the timing of it's got to be better.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I know exactly what this guy is talking about. It
it's a big third down play. They try to break
into Blue White to get it loud. Let us get loud,
Let us do our thing.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
The easiest thing to get a crowd loud is for
there to be an exciting moment and play a little
music and then let them go like that's what you
that's the way.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
That's why the other.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Schools do it.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, and maybe these guys don't want to do it.
But last Saturday you had Josh Allen, Ray Davis, Dion
Walker there. Give him a microphone for a minute now.
They brought him out in the corner and they're like, hey,
here they are and they wave. I mean, that was cool,
they acknowledged them. But third down, stop put a microphone
in Josh Allen's face and just have him yell something.
I mean, just him being involved would have gotten people
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going crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I tell you a guy who used to get the
crowd amped up was a guy named Ryan Lemon who
would come out at halftime of the game and he
would get the crowd amped up. And you know, yes,
he might scream about a ceiling and things, but you
know what, he did get the crowd amped up. I
can remember I've not done a game since then. That
was not pretty much the end of the year, have
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not done a game.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
How about Ryan Lemon wrestles the other team's mascot between
the third and fourth quarter at midfield.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I don't think that would be bad at all. If
I'm nine, two eighth twenty two eighty seven, who's next?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Isaac?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Is next?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Isaac?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Go ahead, Isaac.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Hey, guys, I started listening late, so I apologize that
you've already talked about this. But I was reading about
the Danny Hurley article that came out and said he
was ready to take a year off after this past year,
which number one makes me more confident in our higher
markin cope. But I was just curious, have you guys
ever heard of a coach that's.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Coming off of two back to back championship years, has one,
you know, relatively down year, and now he's ready to
take a year off. Have you all ever heard of
a coach being that like anti competitive? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
So Danny Hurley for people don't know, like you said,
I appreciate the call. He said in an interview that
he almost basically stopped after this year and decided to
take some time off, do TV and then come back
and coach later. I'm not shocked by that, Drew. I
think there uh, I think there could be a few reasons.
(21:18):
One it is the case that now with roster stuff,
the job you can't just stop. The job kind of
goes the whole time. The other thing is when you
burn like Danny Hurley and you burn fast, loud and
yelling all the time, it probably wears you out after
a while. I understand why you would want to do it.
(21:41):
Are were you surprised by that statement?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well, in his comments, I think he said the way
I was going wasn't healthy, it was unhealthy, and I thought, yeah,
all of us watching at home could see that what
you were doing was pretty unhealthy. So I guess all
that just NonStop energy has weighed on him a little bit.
It's weird that he'd say step around when everyone kind
of considers he's up the top, even though last year
was down a little bit. But not many people coach
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as hard as he coaches end game at least.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, I mean, maybe he needs to burn the fuel
just a little less uh strong, But then again, it
could be the case Ryan that guys like him, if
they don't act like that, they can't be six.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
You know, some people it is hard when you are
to didn't go take a step back, but also not
have your performance dip.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yeah, And I think you know, when when you coach
that hard for that long, you do kind of maybe
the light dims a little bit. I think coach Doups
went through that. The last couple. I think coach Cali
Perry actually wins.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Doubt Cal went through it.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, they're very There's only a handful of coaches I
can think of that coach like Hurley and haven't wanted
time off. Rick Patino, that's the one. Like Rick Patino's
been doing this for forty years, exactly the same. I mean,
he went to Great for goodness sake because he didn't
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want to take a year off. But there's just not
a lot of people built like that, and maybe Danny
Hurley is not, you know, And I'm trying to think
of young guys like that. They we're cunning. Those guys
are getting few and far between.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
As time goes on and money into it, you go, well,
maybe I'd like to take a year and spend some
of this.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Money, right, But I enjoy your kids while they're young.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah. If he took a year or two off, though,
he get a job whenever he wanted soon soon thereafter,
we'll take a break.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Be right back.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
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in an extra grill for Saturday for the Old Miss
game so that we can try to speed up the
times a little bit and still cook the burgers. So
hopefully that works out well too.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I think Saturday's gonna be an awesome environment here and
at the stadium.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I think Saturday is gonna If you're a UK football fan, yep,
you want to be in Lexington Saturday, in part because
who knows we could get to win, but in part
because things don't go out least you have say, right
because after that, who knows. But I think both here
at the bar at the stadium from eleven o'clock until
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that game starts, it's kind of the best of Lexington,
what it's gonna be like, etc.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
We'll be doing our pregame show here starting at eleven thirty.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
And this is one people already booked, got their tickets.
No one is canceling this trip because you only beat
you didn't cover against Toledo. I mean, no one's jumping ship.
I think the excitement in this game is still what
it was, even though you might have a few more
questions than you wanted to after that first game.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I mean, talk about what Alabama did, because I have
a feeling every school's doing this.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Eventually.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
It's greedy and it's kind of terrible, but I also
think there's more and more schools are gonna do it.
So Alabama and by the way, I talked about the
Reds doing trying to do this to me a little
bit Alabama went back and looked and said, all right,
which of our season ticket holders are selling their season
are selling their tickets the most they figured out who
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they were, they went to them and in some cases
they took it from them, but in some cases they
just said we're not gonna give you as good a tickets, etc.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
But this is the big part.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
The tickets that they took that they didn't sell to
anybody else. Alabama is now going on stub Hub and
selling them themselves. So they're basically taking the tickets away
from the season ticket holder and now selling them on
secondary mark or hill it sells. And so now when you,
according to this report from the Alabama newspaper, when you
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go to stub hub. See normally if Kentucky, if there's
tickets available, Kentucky is selling them, they sell them on
ticket Master like regular tickets. Alabama is actually selling their
tickets now on secondary sites with the theory that it
will drive the ticket price up and they can get the.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Profits.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Now this was discovered by an Alabama newspaper. I think
their fans are going to be up in arms about
it because what it'll do is ultimately raise the price
of the tickets because you're now not only buying them
from people like us on the secondary market, you're buying
them from the university. But I was shocked by it,
But I also could see how this will end up
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happening more often.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I can't argue against the business model of it. They're
trying to make money for their athletic program and trying
to get generate the highest tickets still possible. But I
can see why the fans are really ticked off. It
would be ticked off for you if theyfty did it Cincinnati, right,
I'd be.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Mad as a sea as a buyer if I'm going
on stub hub and the university, rather than selling me
the tickets that face value on their website, is selling
it to me for more on a secondary ticket site
and not telling me about it.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
That would make me mad, not just as.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
The season ticket holder, but as the purchase person purchasing
the tickets.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yeah, when the school says in the spring that game
costs eighty five dollars for that section, that should be
what it costs if you're buying from the school. They
shouldn't be able to have a second channel where they're
charging you three hundred for the same ticket. Just because
there is another party involved in it.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I mean, it's what stops them from coming out and
saying this game is sold out. You assume it sold out,
and then they take tickets that they hadn't sold and
sell them on step up for twice as much like,
can't they do that under this system? They can?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I just think that's completely bogused by the university.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, I mean, they'll absolutely controlling the market.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
And when the newspaper asked again, one of the things
that's happening with this on IL is people are trying
to get a right way from public record disclosures by
putting stuff in private companies. I gotta tell you, I
don't like that. A newspaper goes and says, how much
money are you making from doing this? And they go, well,
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that money goes into a private foundation, so we're not
gonna tell you. So like there's no way to even
know what they're doing, which I just think like that
should not be what a public university does.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
That's sketchy as it can be.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
But everything's supposed to be out in the open for
a public university.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Aren't more university is probably gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I worry they're gonna use these private LLCs as a
way not to disclose any uh huh, So that your
your your state university that you are your tax dollars
are going to. You won't even know what they're doing
with the money. I can't believe that's legal. Maybe it
won't be when it gets tested in court, but it's
clear that's gonna be one of the ways they're gonna
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try to do it.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
So who's up next? Bill?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Is next?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Bill? Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Bill? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Man, has more and more money flows into college football,
it's gonna get the underbelly is gonna get pretty ugly,
I think. But hey, I've got a question and maybe
more of a comment and a grit. But you know
u K football, When we get one of those big
questionable plays like the one we had on the sideline
this weekend that would have gotten us down to the
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twenty five, we it's like, we take our time to
get up to the line of scrimmage and we give
the referees an opportunity to review that play.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
That's true.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
We not have some type of hurry up play. I mean,
I know Stukes wants to control the ball, but for
crying out loud, that's the one play where you.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Have to hurry, I totally agree on the next one.
I thought that, by the way, and I appreciate the call.
I thought that when I saw that hester play, the
moments you know it's close, they should the coaches should
be on there going go, go go, so they don't
have time.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
To review it.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
And we just mosied up there, and I think they
called for the review with like six seconds on the
play clock.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Had we gotten up there quickly, we probably get it off.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Lot of people brought that up. It doesn't matter what
you run, snap it and throw it in the stands.
Go get your thirty yard game before they can review it.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, this is not a new problem either. It's been
happening for years and years and years. We just don't
play any sort of temple offense at all, even when
you need to.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
That would be a mulituational. You gotta know, though, like
you gotta know that that coach is reaching for the
challenge flag, waiting for a booth review. You race up
there and snap that ball. You have a hand it
off just to get the snap off.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Sometimes the difference in sports but also in life is
like minuscule common sense decisions, right, So in that moment.
Think about that moment with that catch. We need to
have someone on the sidelines that goes, okay, that might
be close. Go go go, go, go go, And they
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should have a play called go that. The moment they
do it, everybody on the team knows we're just gonna
go and we're handing it off for a two yard run, right,
it would like go go go. I've always thought Stoops's
biggest weakness was in game. We've talked about clock management
and all that, but part of it is just the
kind of common sense look at the moment and go move, move,
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and I don't we didn't do that that time.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Yeah, and those situations are right, not just that that's
a race. The other team is waiting for somebody in
their ear that has seen the replay to say throw
the flag, challenge, this is our way, and you're trying
to race and snap the ball before they can make
that decision.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Yeah, who's up next? Glenna's up next, Glenna, Go ahead.
Speaker 10 (31:30):
Glenna, Good morning. A couple of times I noticed at
the game Saturday and the words to my Oakentucky Home
they were not on the ribbon, and the fat song
words were not on the ribbon as well.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Are they normally on there?
Speaker 10 (31:52):
Yes, yeah, the words you run? Yeah, when they do,
they usually have the words running or they have. Every
game I've been to they didn't have either one of
those Saturdays. What's more or less? Atmosphere it was awful.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah, well, I appreciate the call. Well, I will say this,
if they don't make the atmosphere and the performance better
on Saturday, good seats will be available for the next Saturday.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
For the Eastern Michigan game.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
I think you will be able to sit wherever you would.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Like for that one.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
They got a chance to really make it special Saturday
man with old Miss coming in and make it exciting
for the fans and make it a great environment. So
hopefully they'll take advantage of it.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I just want and then, I mean, I don't mean
to beat a dead horse with this stuff, but I
just want the people at the university to really think
about the fact that like it is not in twenty
twenty five, it is not a given that you get
everybody's entertainment dollar. There are so many options that people have. Yeah,
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and they have great I mean, just think about what.
Let's say it's this Saturday, Weather's supposed to be great,
right right, Think about all the options someone has of
what they could do.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
And then let's say you just want to watch the game.
You could watch it at your house.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
You could come to a place like ks Bar and
be with fans and we're gonna have a loud environment
and we're gonna be able to watch replays.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
You could go, uh to anywhere.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
You can watch it on your boat. Now you can
watch it.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
You can watch it on your phone while you're at
the park with your kids. You have to give people
a reason to fight that traffic right to block out
their entire day to get there.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
You've got to make them do it, and you can't
just assume they're gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
We saw during the last couple of years of col
that people stop doing it for basketball, yep. So do
you not think they'll stop doing it for football? And
I just sometimes wonder do our people think like that,
because they need to, you.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Know, and a football Saturday, especially even if you're just
at home, think of last Saturday where you got Texas
and Ohio State on the other channel. With YouTube, TV,
multiview and all the ways you can track games, you
can sit at home and keep up with the entire
college football landscape with your game. But if you go
to the UK game, you can barely get on Twitter
to see who's winning the Texas Ohios date.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
You can't. Yeah, all right, let me give you an update.
Some people have asked me, what's gonna happen to Club
Blue now that goes to the school, Your Club Blue
membership now shifts to the official UK JMI thing, So
the Club Blue membership. If you're a member of Club Blue,
you're now a member of the new JMI all access thing.
(34:42):
But Commonwealth Causes is still doing their bourbon auctions very successful. Yes,
and you can go to Commonwealth's Causes. This will be
your last chance to get Club Blue bourbon. You remember
Club Blue bourbon.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
This is it.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
This is your one chance. You can also get the
other wonderful bourbons they have. They're still doing the raffles
and all that. But at Liquor Barn, Kroger Justin's House,
Suburban cheer on the Cats and style with Club Blue bourbon.
This may be your last chance to get it. And
Commonwealth Causes is still going to do the ticket giveaways.
I'm going to give away Friday at our show at
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country Boy ticket tickets fifty yard line second row to
the Kentucky Olympics game courtesy of Come a Little Nice
Good Suits. Those are I've set in those seats. Those
are really nice seats. So we will give those away
to someone at the at the remote on Friday. We
will take a break and be right back. This is
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Speaker 4 (36:00):
Just some scheduling.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Tomorrow we are in Bowling Green at the Mint for
opening day of the NFL, So if you're in the
Bowling Green area, come see us. Then Friday at country Boy.
Tomorrow night is our NFL kickoff. Here at the bar,
really crazy drink specials well, and I'm gonna be giving
away a couple of prizes. It should be exciting. And
then on on Friday as well. We will excuse me
(36:24):
Saturday pregame show at eleven thirty. So a lot going
on over the next few days. Ryan with his fancy shorts.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I love the Country Boys show. That's my favorite show
of the year. And that's it's a huge crowd. Did
you find out find out what?
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah, and well I'll tell you after you get off
the air. So no, they don't do any media availability
on a Friday. It has to be through an nil appearance.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
All right, won't you work on that.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
We can get a couple that way.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
All right, we'll talk about it, okay. See he did
his work. Yeah, I'm looking forward to his other assignment
on Friday. Also, it's been a while since I've seen
I'm looking forward to you having a speech. I mean
the country Boy speech is your most famous one where
you crowdsurfed mocking the Mark Stoops picture. I haven't framed.
That's right up here. I can see it from here.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Drew great big story reported by Pablo Tori Kawhi. Leonard
got a twenty eight million dollar endorsement for a no
work landscaping job that was a way for the owner
of the Clippers to pay him and go around the
salary cap. The owner of the Clippers created a fake
(37:33):
landscaping company to pay Kawhi Leonard twenty eight million in
endorsements for something like where he didn't have to do anything.
What do you make of that?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
I've always wondered if this has ever happened before, how
it's never happened. I remember years ago the Nets had
like some Russian bajillionaire owner and they were having salary
cap issues, and I thought, why didn't you just pay
him on the side figure it out? Sounds like they
actually tried it using a landscape company.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Like I thought that he tried to do a twenty
eight million dollar landscaping.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
I love the idea that he's like out there, you know,
mowing the grass.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Or something, and they didn't pay him. I just thought
that was But like, they'll get in trouble for that.
I mean, that'll be if if if what he said
is true, though, they will get in a lot of
trouble for that.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah, just some creative accounting that may come back to
haunt you quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I think you're not. May I think you will.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
But so what if Kawhi just goes in most of
the guy's yard a couple of times he worked. He
worked for his twenty eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
So you're saying if he just goes and mows the
grass one time, he is just twenty eight million dollars
lest he doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
What would it cost for Kawhi Leonard to come mow
your yard?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (38:39):
There's got to be a number. Are you saying twenty
eight millions too high?
Speaker 2 (38:43):
That's interesting? What if he says he mowed my grass
one time?
Speaker 3 (38:46):
It's Kawhi Leonard, he doesn't mow grass, and I got
him to.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Break some leaves, like how much? Yeah, how much you
think it would cost have Lebron mow your grass. That's
probably gonna be.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
About twenty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
So maybe maybe that's a creative argument. I actually like it.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Who's next?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Made?
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Steve?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Is next?
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Steve?
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Go ahead, Steve.
Speaker 11 (39:06):
Yeah, I just want to call it. You know, I
went to the kaff Bars is reopened and the cheese
logs are great.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 11 (39:15):
Oh yeah, they're awesome. I thought maybe a good name
could be the cheese hogs because they're so big. So
I just want to offer that recommendation in case you
were open to it.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I appreciate it. We were just talking about I'm in
the process now of naming the items with Kentucky players. Uh,
this woman right here got a club sandwich. We're gonna
be calling that the Klubby Smith. So you you got
a clubby Smith. With these puns, you're gonna be rolling
your eyes. Just wait till you see some of them.
They I do. Like, what was what was our one
with for Shay Gildes Alexander, Oh, grilled jesus.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
No wait wait, some of the grilled cheese. Grilled Jay,
grilled cheesus. Now it's something with Shay.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Something with grilled cheese and Shay Gildess Alexander.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
My favorite is the Jamel Martini. Now you gotta be
a fan of nineties Kentucky basketball, But Jamel Martini and
biscuits and Greevy you're my two favorite.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Biscuits and Greevy are Shay grilled cheese, Alexander.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
That's what's it? Shay grilled cheese, Alexander. Who's who's next?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Mark is next? Mark? Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Mark, biscuits and Grievy is good?
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Oh that's the best.
Speaker 12 (40:26):
You You really hit it there at Minning Hill about
we got other things we could be spending our money
in our time on for the take games and tailgateing.
I mean, we were out about seven am on Saturday,
and I was trying to add it all up about
you know, I mean there's a group of us and
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we probably got about seven thousand in our tailgating.
Speaker 7 (40:49):
Wow.
Speaker 12 (40:50):
And that's probably lower than that's probably lower than say
the people out there that you know that had the
big trailers and the big setups and all that. And
then you go and you spend you know, you got
your tickets, you got your parking doesn't count when you
high alcohol for your kids are coming over from you know,
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their their students there and they bring all their buddies
and you know, your four cases of beer in for
the you know turnity that showed up and and all that.
And it's just there's other options, I mean, and a
lot of other options, and and that that was put
out there on Saturday was just very med yokre and
very underwhelming. Now game one, Yeah, got to let it
(41:33):
up and get some stuff straight But like you said,
if it doesn't straighten up, and doesn't, we are not
in this game and we're not competitive Saturday.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
You're exactly right, joker, You're exactly right about that. I
appreciate the call, and I hope that, I mean, they
will recognize it because it'll happen.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
But you know, I mean, I just think about myself.
Let's say I had nothing to do with any of this.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I think, objectively speaking, if the product on the fields
not better and the environment around the field is not better,
you will have a better time watching the game at
your house or at this bart. It's a lot the
tailgate atmosphere is a lot better here before the game
than it is there, and that's a shame. It shouldn't
be like that in the game atmosphere. They got to
(42:19):
make sure it's better. Now. If we beat Old Miss,
a lot of this stuff won't matter because it'll be fun, Drew.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
If we beat Old Miss, no matter what, I'll be singing,
lim Biscuit. You promise I will personally put the letters.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
If we beat Miss. You're coming on the postgame show
and you're singing. You're singing you.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Wear my Yankees hat on backwards, my red fitted Yankees hat.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
Okay, I may go t i'ay that you sing nookie.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
If we win on the post games, Thank you all.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Very much for listening. We'll see you later. This has
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Welcome back two teck You Sports Radio A five nine
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grill for wingsday. We have a chance. Here we're gonna
make a pretty big announcement for us. Those of you
listen to the show know that this was this was
(01:21):
on the horizon. But today is the day that the
NFL is announcing that Drew Franklin and I are will
be doing a podcast for the NFL all year. It
has gone live today and the first episode is up.
It is called the NFL Cover Zero. So here's what
I'm gonna ask everybody doing listening at home and those
of you sitting right here, pull out your phones right now,
(01:43):
all right, do Uncle Matt a favor. Pull out your
phones right now if you don't have it, and go
to your podcast and subscribe to NFL Cover zero. We
would beat. The NFL has joined us, joined us in
doing this, and we're very excited. They base we're looking
for two fans who are not experts on the NFL,
(02:04):
and Drew and I were like, that sounds like us.
We're perfect for that, and they are making us a
part of the team. We are extremely excited. I'm not
gonna lie I think I can speak for Drew. We're
nervous and kind of humbled. The NFL is the biggest
sports institution in America, and if you look at the
other people that you're doing podcast with them, they're all
(02:26):
pretty huge names. And we've been working really hard on
this for the last month, me and Drew, but also
Billy and Mario in preparing for it, and this is
a great opportunity. They came to us because they said, look,
you guys have a huge audience in Kentucky. We love
the way you do stuff, and we want you to
join us. We've been in a ton of conversations figuring
(02:48):
out the show. The first episode is up. I hope
you listen to it. It's exactly what you recognize. It's
just me and Drew being me and Drew. It's the
same thing we've done for seventeen years. We're just talking
about a different subject. But Drew, I can't think of
anybody I'd love to do this more with you. And
I started seventeen years ago, me picking you up from
the bars and hoping you weren't too drunk to do
(03:10):
a podcast in Hubby's basement, and sometimes I wasn't. And
now seventeen years later getting to do one together for
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Very exciting. Huge NFL fan every Sunday already, I'm watching
every game, so the homework assignment wasn't anything new, but
it's been a big undertaking. I've never We've done a
lot of things. Obviously, this is a gigantic show. But
like technical difficulties we have here, they don't let it
slide on this. There's like lighting and like production. I
didn't know we could do this.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
This is you see some of the videos, like we
have lighting. They actually don't make me look like I'm
a corpse in it most of the time. It's very exciting.
We're gonna be doing two episodes a week, so one
of them is we will get when the last Sunday
Night game is over. We're taping immediately, So we're taping
(03:58):
like Sunday nights and like eleven or eleven thirty, Billy
and Mario and Drew and I will get down to
the studio and we will do an immediate as soon
as it's over reaction.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Eventually, we hope that'll be live on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It won't be at first, but that'll so when you
get up Monday morning, that'll be there for you, and
then we will do one in the middle of the week.
They're gonna have us guests to have on. I don't
know who those people are gonna be over time, but
we're we're looking forward to it. The problem is, as
soon as we start, I have to go to South Africa.
(04:31):
So part of this is figuring out I gotta find
a way to do this show in South Africa, potentially
out on Safari. So we've been working trying to figure
that out.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Ma'am. I see the look in your face. That's the
same look I have.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
We'll see if we're able to get We're gonna see
if we're able to get connected between me and you.
I don't even think I can watch the games in
the South Africa. So I don't know how we're gonna
do this, but we're gonna make it work. And you
would be listen, I've been fortunate. I've gotten to do
some stuff for ESPN. I've gotten to do some really
cool stuff. You all listening, you'd be really proud of Drew,
(05:06):
Billy and Mario. They've taken this responsibility that the NFL's
given him, and it's been cool to watch him work
Mario and Billy trying to make the lighting work, figure
out how to record it because they gave us this
big responsibility but not a ton of resources, to be
honest with you, they just said, make this look great
and here you go. And there's been a lot of
(05:28):
people at iHeart here in Lexington have help, Nathan and
Guss and some other folks. So, uh, and then Drew.
I mean, I've I've wanted to get Drew a chance
to do something like this for a long time. And
he he's actually the expert on the show because I
know much less about it than he does.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So it should be a lot of fun. It's been
a lot of fun. You mentioned Mario and Billy having
to learn new things, Like when we're taping, Mario's got
this like control board in front of him and he's
changing cameras.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
He's like, let's go to camera too. Came on, had
you even seen that thing before we started this?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Nope, it's called a switcher. Mario's had to learn to
run a switcher. So we spent a lot of time
together in the last two or three weeks to do it.
So do me a favor if you haven't yet subscribe
NFL cover zero. It's called NFL. They made us put
NFL in the front of it so that it can
be professional. They did not use the cartoon drawing of me,
(06:21):
thank goodness. I might put it out later this afternoon
so people can see.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
What they do.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
They're still they're redoing the caricature, so right now it's
kind of a generic cover. But Ryan, we're both very excited.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I'm super proud of you guys. I mean, I'm like
the proud papa just kind of watching you guys. Yeah, right,
this is a big deal. This is a huge deal
to be on this platform for the NFL. So no
doubt you guys will kill it. And I'm really excited
how this is going to play out for you guys.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I mean, ESPN is a great opportunity.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I remember the very first time that they asked me
to fill in on Marty McGee, and there was a
woman that I worked with who was really mean to me.
But besides that, you may remember that, yep, who the
hell is Matt Jones. But even with ESPN, like it
never it was awesome. It is awesome, but it never
necessarily feels like I'm on ESPN unless I'm there like
(07:11):
I'm just sitting in my living room and doing it.
So it doesn't always feel like what it is. This
has felt like what it is. When we do these
pre show meetings with the NFL. There's like fifteen people
on these zoom calls and they all have a look
of like seriousness, and Billy's been on him. He knows
(07:32):
like you just you sit there and go who this
is a big deal.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
So, like I said, you came out today.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I think at some point today the NFL is putting
some things out about it on their Instagram and social media.
So looking forward to it. But anyway, I also want
to thank the audience. We never get this chance without
you all. That's the reason. I know, that's why they
did it. This audience is so large. I want you
to think about how large this audience is. This audience
is so large. The NFL like just says, if you
(08:03):
can just bring your audience, you'll be good. So that
gives you a sense of what it is. So and
you may on your KSR feed see the show pop
up over the next couple weeks, but do me a
favor at least eventually migrate over to the KSR. I
still pinch cover zero.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I still pinch myself every day with this job, but
at least kind of makes sense. I grew up a
Kentucky fan, I went to UK. I could see how
the stars might aligned, and I got here. But when
that NFL logo is behind your head when we start
the podcast, I'm thinking, how in the world did we
get here? I mean, that's the biggest brand in sports.
We didn't play football. Yeah, we have this opportunity. It's
(08:42):
even just doing one episode has already been so much fun.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
So thank you all very much for that. And uh,
I hope you enjoy.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's like two hours the first episode, so you got
plenty of listening time. And if you listen to it,
let me know what you think on the text machine.
Uh seven seven two four five two five four switch
gears for a sec London cante. Yeah, okay, So they
had their pre impeachment meeting yet last night. In it
(09:08):
I saw some clips. One of the only clips I
saw as a guy during the meeting, one of the
people in the city council.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Looked at another one goes, you still owe me twenty bucks?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Billy.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I was like, this is why I like it. He's
yelling at him during the city council meeting about potential impeachment,
yelling that he owes him twenty bucks Friday.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Is the impeachment meeting that happens during this show.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I'm telling you Country Boys is awesome, But there's a
part of me that wants to go and watch the
and watch the London meeting. But it is.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I did get a primer.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Basically, it's a fight between there's like some people on
the city council, a couple of which are brothers. They
were pardoned I think by Bevin, or one of them
was by Bevin for something the mayor is and they
don't like each other. Some people side with the mayor,
some people side with the brothers. And now it's gotten
(10:01):
into all this other stuff too, and it's all over
the place, and so there's a lot going on, Ryan,
But I know many of you went down the TikTok
rabbit hole last night to watch it.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I had people send me videos all night last night
about the meeting that just happened. Yeah, they're trying to
impeach the mayor. But now there's you know, it's people
implying a mayor doesn't even live in the city limits
he's trying to apply to some of the city council
members trying to impeach him. They don't even live in
the city limits. Does anyone live in London.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I don't know, man, they don't live in Love Like
everybody does something in London. May not even live there,
but they all want to be uh to, all want
to work in the government. There's the mayor, it seems
like has a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
He will like buy people like he'll.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Buy things for people at Shoney's or whatever, which people
which people like. I don't know if it's Shonies, but
like if people talk about how generous he is. But
then there's also allegations of nefariousness. Then you have the
Brothers people in the parking lot screaming at them. I
just I Friday is going to be fireworks. If I
could get in, I would go.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
This feels like an episode of Justified, maybe even a
new season of Justified. Some sheriff gonna come in and
clean up the town.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Except London's supposed to be the classy part of eastern Kentuck.
I don't know what gateway to the mountain, gateway to
the mountains. They are completely six oh sixteen there. They
are not like they're not partially six oh six.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Can we get a correspond it's a call in from
London while we're at Country Boy.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well, I really if it was any other remote but
Country Boy, I would send Mario down there. But we
need We're gonna need him there. If I'm nine, two
eighth twenty two eighty seven, who's up next? Jason is next? Jason?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Jason, Hey, Matt, congrats on the NFL podcast, by the way,
first of all, but thank you listened to the UH
I listened to the postgame show yesterday, and I apologize
if this has been brought up before, maybe the offseason
or anything, but he was brought up, and I don't
remember the context. But the nil donors in other schools,
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how they may have ten or you know, several big donors.
They could afford to lose one or two and get by.
But what does Kentucky do and what does our program
look like if we only have one or two big
donors because they won't be around forever? And is there
future allotments of money or what happens?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I completely legitimate worry, completely legitimate worry. I I appreciate
the call. We have I've said this before. I mean,
we have a couple of people that do the biggest
heavy lifting when it comes to donors at UK. I
don't you know probably one or two of them. You know,
probably one or two of them you don't. But we
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have a couple of people that do the heavy lifting.
I think it's fair to say that those people, like
I'm not gonna say they decide the future of the program,
but they have a huge major importance going forward. What
happens after them, you gotta go find more or hope that,
you know, future generations of that family want to want
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to donate.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I think Kentucky it's very.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Difficult because we don't have This state does not have
a ton of folks that have massive economic impact who
also care about sports. And you also have to remember
the largest economic entity in the state, the largest economic
engine is Louisville, which has a lot of Louisville fans
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and where the corporations. Tom Jurich did a really good
job during his years of connecting those corporations to the
University of Louisville like ups right, So all of that
makes it to where Kentucky to some extent, Ryan has
a harder trek than other schools, but a couple of
(13:53):
people have made that trek easier and we just have
in some ways. Hope that continues.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Right when you're winning, it is a little easier if
he goes solicit funds. When you're losing, it's a little
harder to go after that money when you're not putting
up wins.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And hopefully, uh, the next bajillionaire that likes Kentucky is
in the middle of beginning their wealth right now. And
if you're listening, throw something back to the school because
we're gonna need a new generation of money to come through.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, I mean think about Alabama. Okay, in Alabama, the
city of Birmingham has Auburn fans, it has Alabama fans.
Kentucky does too, But the city of Louisville as an
entity is more connected to the University of Louisville than
it is Kentucky for understandable reasons, and a lot of
the corporate things. Yum uh, you know, yum and ups
(14:42):
are the two big ones, but I'm sure there's other ones.
They're tied more to U of L's program than the
UK's right, yes.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And that's where they jurch was. That's why he was
so successful. You know, he was able to get those
big corporations to donate money to Louisville. I think Dwayne
Peeb was good when he was here getting that happening
here at Kentucky. Did Kentucky have that guy? Now?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I don't really know, but I think we'll find out eventually.
We got DraftKings. You can go to DraftKings. Bet five dollars,
get three hundred dollars in bonus bets leading into the
first NFL game. Let me ask you a question. We're
gonna pick the NFL tomorrow. How about this Yanick Skinner
versus Carlos al Karaz the big, the big tennis rivalry.
(15:26):
But before that, all Karaz will play Djokovic tomorrow night.
Who you got?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I'm going with the youth. I think we're the Alkoraz Center.
We're just gonna see it over and over and over
for years to come. It's already starting.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Djokovic was dancing and talking trash last night. You have
one you.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Prefer, well, I'm gonna say I saw him kind of
looks like you're talking a little smack on the ESPN coverages.
While it goes I'm going to Djokovic.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, I'm gonna go al KaAZ. It's the young It's
Alkoraz Center. They're the Federate, the doll of a new generation.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You will probably don't remember this, but Center was warming
up next to our show. We're here in Lexington, and
Dennis Emery, a former tennis coach, was like, that's gonna
be the next star. You should watch him. And I
kind of like, okay, yeah, that's a guy. Yeah, Bomb's
not him bomb self.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I forgot about that because we guess, Wow, Dennis.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
And I knew he's gonna be big, but I didn't
know I'd be seeing him at number one in the
world just a few years later.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Man, I've never made that connection.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Want he won the.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Challenger, but he was over there just hitting balls and
we were yapping about Benny Snell or something, and he
had a few people around him, and now he's biggest
thing in the sport.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I had completely forgotten about that.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Wow, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Hey, if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
ask any things Wednesday, we will take your calls. We're hit, Case,
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Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio AF. I've nine two eight
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Speaker 4 (16:50):
Let's go ahead and go to the next for their
the phones. Who's up next?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Keith is up next?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Keith?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Keith.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Hey, Matt, congratulations you and Drew, thank you season ticket
older here for thirteen years. And y'all always talking about
the environment. And I got three to little quick complaints
that I've wanted to complain about. First off, what happened
to all roads leads Kentucky this weekend?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Roads?
Speaker 7 (17:17):
No, all roads lead to Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Okay, yeah, ron Kentucky. Yeah, that's all right.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Number two. Being a veteran and everything from my seats
and I see it. I sit on the home side
closer to Nicholas Hill Road. I can't see the American flag.
And we're talking the military, then the national anthem. You
look at the highest point of the flag and you
put your hand over your heart and you look things
see the flag cause the press boxes, why don't they
put it up higher? I wann't they have a bigger flag?
(17:47):
Years and years fair point and number three. This one
I've never understood. We're trying to keep that team from
getting the first down on third down, so we're all
up in the stands going ah, doing whatever we're trying
to do, and whoever up in the press box. Besides,
it's time for a blue white chant. Well, when you
do blue, there's a pause, then there's white. You're not
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being loud, You're giving them a pause to be it.
Why do you do a blue white chant when you're
trying to hold them to a third down?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
All fair points. I appreciate the call. I think the
all three of those crowd points ryme. Makes sense to me?
Why I have a blue white chant? Blue white chance
I do think are to me? You do the blue
white chant during like a break in the game.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Right, not doing the wave. You're getting the crowd going
back and forth.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
The goal on a third down or fourth down is
be as loud as you can so that they can't
hear themselves. Think not to do a blue white But again,
I just don't think the people that make these decisions
think about the fans or the environment. There is an
art to entertain it, right, there's an art to it.
(18:55):
You either can do it or you can't. You either
know how to do it or you can't. And I
don't know how you can make any determination. But at
least when it comes to football thing with the people
that do it don't know how.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I don't think any of us are anti Blue White cheer,
but the timing of it's got to be better.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I know exactly what this guy is talking about. It
it's a big third down play. They try to break
into Blue White to get it loud. Let us get loud,
Let us do our thing.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
The easiest thing to get a crowd loud is for
there to be an exciting moment and play a little
music and then let them go like that's what you
that's the way.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
That's why the other.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Schools do it.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, and maybe these guys don't want to do it.
But last Saturday you had Josh Allen, Ray Davis, Dion
Walker there. Give him a microphone for a minute now.
They brought him out in the corner and they're like, hey,
here they are and they wave. I mean, that was cool,
they acknowledged them. But third down, stop put a microphone
in Josh Allen's face and just have him yell something.
I mean, just him being involved would have gotten people
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going crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I tell you a guy who used to get the
crowd amped up was a guy named Ryan Lemon who
would come out at halftime of the game and he
would get the crowd amped up. And you know, yes,
he might scream about a ceiling and things, but you
know what, he did get the crowd amped up. I
can remember I've not done a game since then. That
was not pretty much the end of the year, have
(20:14):
not done a game.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
How about Ryan Lemon wrestles the other team's mascot between
the third and fourth quarter at midfield.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I don't think that would be bad at all. If
I'm nine, two eighth twenty two eighty seven, who's next?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Isaac?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Is next?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Isaac?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Go ahead, Isaac.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Hey, guys, I started listening late, so I apologize that
you've already talked about this. But I was reading about
the Danny Hurley article that came out and said he
was ready to take a year off after this past year,
which number one makes me more confident in our higher
markin cope. But I was just curious, have you guys
ever heard of a coach that's.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Coming off of two back to back championship years, has one,
you know, relatively down year, and now he's ready to
take a year off. Have you all ever heard of
a coach being that like anti competitive? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
So Danny Hurley for people don't know, like you said,
I appreciate the call. He said in an interview that
he almost basically stopped after this year and decided to
take some time off, do TV and then come back
and coach later. I'm not shocked by that, Drew. I
think there uh, I think there could be a few reasons.
(21:18):
One it is the case that now with roster stuff,
the job you can't just stop. The job kind of
goes the whole time. The other thing is when you
burn like Danny Hurley and you burn fast, loud and
yelling all the time, it probably wears you out after
a while. I understand why you would want to do it.
(21:41):
Are were you surprised by that statement?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well, in his comments, I think he said the way
I was going wasn't healthy, it was unhealthy, and I thought, yeah,
all of us watching at home could see that what
you were doing was pretty unhealthy. So I guess all
that just NonStop energy has weighed on him a little bit.
It's weird that he'd say step around when everyone kind
of considers he's up the top, even though last year
was down a little bit. But not many people coach
(22:04):
as hard as he coaches end game at least.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, I mean, maybe he needs to burn the fuel
just a little less uh strong, But then again, it
could be the case Ryan that guys like him, if
they don't act like that, they can't be six.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
You know, some people it is hard when you are
to didn't go take a step back, but also not
have your performance dip.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yeah, And I think you know, when when you coach
that hard for that long, you do kind of maybe
the light dims a little bit. I think coach Doups
went through that. The last couple. I think coach Cali
Perry actually wins.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Doubt Cal went through it.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, they're very There's only a handful of coaches I
can think of that coach like Hurley and haven't wanted
time off. Rick Patino, that's the one. Like Rick Patino's
been doing this for forty years, exactly the same. I mean,
he went to Great for goodness sake because he didn't
(23:01):
want to take a year off. But there's just not
a lot of people built like that, and maybe Danny
Hurley is not, you know, And I'm trying to think
of young guys like that. They we're cunning. Those guys
are getting few and far between.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
As time goes on and money into it, you go, well,
maybe I'd like to take a year and spend some
of this.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Money, right, But I enjoy your kids while they're young.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah. If he took a year or two off, though,
he get a job whenever he wanted soon soon thereafter,
we'll take a break.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Be right back.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
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Folks eating here telling me that you said you like
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been pretty much universally positive. U. You know, we're bringing
(23:52):
in an extra grill for Saturday for the Old Miss
game so that we can try to speed up the
times a little bit and still cook the burgers. So
hopefully that works out well too.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I think Saturday's gonna be an awesome environment here and
at the stadium.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I think Saturday is gonna If you're a UK football fan, yep,
you want to be in Lexington Saturday, in part because
who knows we could get to win, but in part
because things don't go out least you have say, right
because after that, who knows. But I think both here
at the bar at the stadium from eleven o'clock until
(24:25):
that game starts, it's kind of the best of Lexington,
what it's gonna be like, etc.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
We'll be doing our pregame show here starting at eleven thirty.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
And this is one people already booked, got their tickets.
No one is canceling this trip because you only beat
you didn't cover against Toledo. I mean, no one's jumping ship.
I think the excitement in this game is still what
it was, even though you might have a few more
questions than you wanted to after that first game.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I mean, talk about what Alabama did, because I have
a feeling every school's doing this.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Eventually.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
It's greedy and it's kind of terrible, but I also
think there's more and more schools are gonna do it.
So Alabama and by the way, I talked about the
Reds doing trying to do this to me a little
bit Alabama went back and looked and said, all right,
which of our season ticket holders are selling their season
are selling their tickets the most they figured out who
(25:16):
they were, they went to them and in some cases
they took it from them, but in some cases they
just said we're not gonna give you as good a tickets, etc.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
But this is the big part.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
The tickets that they took that they didn't sell to
anybody else. Alabama is now going on stub Hub and
selling them themselves. So they're basically taking the tickets away
from the season ticket holder and now selling them on
secondary mark or hill it sells. And so now when you,
according to this report from the Alabama newspaper, when you
(25:51):
go to stub hub. See normally if Kentucky, if there's
tickets available, Kentucky is selling them, they sell them on
ticket Master like regular tickets. Alabama is actually selling their
tickets now on secondary sites with the theory that it
will drive the ticket price up and they can get the.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Profits.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Now this was discovered by an Alabama newspaper. I think
their fans are going to be up in arms about
it because what it'll do is ultimately raise the price
of the tickets because you're now not only buying them
from people like us on the secondary market, you're buying
them from the university. But I was shocked by it,
But I also could see how this will end up
(26:34):
happening more often.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I can't argue against the business model of it. They're
trying to make money for their athletic program and trying
to get generate the highest tickets still possible. But I
can see why the fans are really ticked off. It
would be ticked off for you if theyfty did it Cincinnati, right,
I'd be.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Mad as a sea as a buyer if I'm going
on stub hub and the university, rather than selling me
the tickets that face value on their website, is selling
it to me for more on a secondary ticket site
and not telling me about it.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
That would make me mad, not just as.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
The season ticket holder, but as the purchase person purchasing
the tickets.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yeah, when the school says in the spring that game
costs eighty five dollars for that section, that should be
what it costs if you're buying from the school. They
shouldn't be able to have a second channel where they're
charging you three hundred for the same ticket. Just because
there is another party involved in it.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I mean, it's what stops them from coming out and
saying this game is sold out. You assume it sold out,
and then they take tickets that they hadn't sold and
sell them on step up for twice as much like,
can't they do that under this system? They can?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I just think that's completely bogused by the university.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, I mean, they'll absolutely controlling the market.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
And when the newspaper asked again, one of the things
that's happening with this on IL is people are trying
to get a right way from public record disclosures by
putting stuff in private companies. I gotta tell you, I
don't like that. A newspaper goes and says, how much
money are you making from doing this? And they go, well,
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that money goes into a private foundation, so we're not
gonna tell you. So like there's no way to even
know what they're doing, which I just think like that
should not be what a public university does.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
That's sketchy as it can be.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
But everything's supposed to be out in the open for
a public university.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Aren't more university is probably gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I worry they're gonna use these private LLCs as a
way not to disclose any uh huh, So that your
your your state university that you are your tax dollars
are going to. You won't even know what they're doing
with the money. I can't believe that's legal. Maybe it
won't be when it gets tested in court, but it's
clear that's gonna be one of the ways they're gonna
(28:44):
try to do it.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
So who's up next? Bill?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Is next?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Bill? Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Bill? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Man, has more and more money flows into college football,
it's gonna get the underbelly is gonna get pretty ugly,
I think. But hey, I've got a question and maybe
more of a comment and a grit. But you know
u K football, When we get one of those big
questionable plays like the one we had on the sideline
this weekend that would have gotten us down to the
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twenty five, we it's like, we take our time to
get up to the line of scrimmage and we give
the referees an opportunity to review that play.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
That's true.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
We not have some type of hurry up play. I mean,
I know Stukes wants to control the ball, but for
crying out loud, that's the one play where you.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Have to hurry, I totally agree on the next one.
I thought that, by the way, and I appreciate the call.
I thought that when I saw that hester play, the
moments you know it's close, they should the coaches should
be on there going go, go go, so they don't
have time.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
To review it.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
And we just mosied up there, and I think they
called for the review with like six seconds on the
play clock.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Had we gotten up there quickly, we probably get it off.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Lot of people brought that up. It doesn't matter what
you run, snap it and throw it in the stands.
Go get your thirty yard game before they can review it.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, this is not a new problem either. It's been
happening for years and years and years. We just don't
play any sort of temple offense at all, even when
you need to.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
That would be a mulituational. You gotta know, though, like
you gotta know that that coach is reaching for the
challenge flag, waiting for a booth review. You race up
there and snap that ball. You have a hand it
off just to get the snap off.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Sometimes the difference in sports but also in life is
like minuscule common sense decisions, right, So in that moment.
Think about that moment with that catch. We need to
have someone on the sidelines that goes, okay, that might
be close. Go go go, go, go go, And they
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should have a play called go that. The moment they
do it, everybody on the team knows we're just gonna
go and we're handing it off for a two yard run, right,
it would like go go go. I've always thought Stoops's
biggest weakness was in game. We've talked about clock management
and all that, but part of it is just the
kind of common sense look at the moment and go move, move,
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and I don't we didn't do that that time.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Yeah, and those situations are right, not just that that's
a race. The other team is waiting for somebody in
their ear that has seen the replay to say throw
the flag, challenge, this is our way, and you're trying
to race and snap the ball before they can make
that decision.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Yeah, who's up next? Glenna's up next, Glenna, Go ahead.
Speaker 10 (31:30):
Glenna, Good morning. A couple of times I noticed at
the game Saturday and the words to my Oakentucky Home
they were not on the ribbon, and the fat song
words were not on the ribbon as well.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Are they normally on there?
Speaker 10 (31:52):
Yes, yeah, the words you run? Yeah, when they do,
they usually have the words running or they have. Every
game I've been to they didn't have either one of
those Saturdays. What's more or less? Atmosphere it was awful.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah, well, I appreciate the call. Well, I will say this,
if they don't make the atmosphere and the performance better
on Saturday, good seats will be available for the next Saturday.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
For the Eastern Michigan game.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
I think you will be able to sit wherever you would.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Like for that one.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
They got a chance to really make it special Saturday
man with old Miss coming in and make it exciting
for the fans and make it a great environment. So
hopefully they'll take advantage of it.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I just want and then, I mean, I don't mean
to beat a dead horse with this stuff, but I
just want the people at the university to really think
about the fact that like it is not in twenty
twenty five, it is not a given that you get
everybody's entertainment dollar. There are so many options that people have. Yeah,
(32:53):
and they have great I mean, just think about what.
Let's say it's this Saturday, Weather's supposed to be great,
right right, Think about all the options someone has of
what they could do.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
And then let's say you just want to watch the game.
You could watch it at your house.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
You could come to a place like ks Bar and
be with fans and we're gonna have a loud environment
and we're gonna be able to watch replays.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
You could go, uh to anywhere.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
You can watch it on your boat. Now you can
watch it.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
You can watch it on your phone while you're at
the park with your kids. You have to give people
a reason to fight that traffic right to block out
their entire day to get there.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
You've got to make them do it, and you can't
just assume they're gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
We saw during the last couple of years of col
that people stop doing it for basketball, yep. So do
you not think they'll stop doing it for football? And
I just sometimes wonder do our people think like that,
because they need to, you.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Know, and a football Saturday, especially even if you're just
at home, think of last Saturday where you got Texas
and Ohio State on the other channel. With YouTube, TV,
multiview and all the ways you can track games, you
can sit at home and keep up with the entire
college football landscape with your game. But if you go
to the UK game, you can barely get on Twitter
to see who's winning the Texas Ohios date.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
You can't. Yeah, all right, let me give you an update.
Some people have asked me, what's gonna happen to Club
Blue now that goes to the school, Your Club Blue
membership now shifts to the official UK JMI thing, So
the Club Blue membership. If you're a member of Club Blue,
you're now a member of the new JMI all access thing.
(34:42):
But Commonwealth Causes is still doing their bourbon auctions very successful. Yes,
and you can go to Commonwealth's Causes. This will be
your last chance to get Club Blue bourbon. You remember
Club Blue bourbon.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
This is it.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
This is your one chance. You can also get the
other wonderful bourbons they have. They're still doing the raffles
and all that. But at Liquor Barn, Kroger Justin's House,
Suburban cheer on the Cats and style with Club Blue bourbon.
This may be your last chance to get it. And
Commonwealth Causes is still going to do the ticket giveaways.
I'm going to give away Friday at our show at
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country Boy ticket tickets fifty yard line second row to
the Kentucky Olympics game courtesy of Come a Little Nice
Good Suits. Those are I've set in those seats. Those
are really nice seats. So we will give those away
to someone at the at the remote on Friday. We
will take a break and be right back. This is
(35:36):
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Speaker 4 (36:00):
Just some scheduling.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Tomorrow we are in Bowling Green at the Mint for
opening day of the NFL, So if you're in the
Bowling Green area, come see us. Then Friday at country Boy.
Tomorrow night is our NFL kickoff. Here at the bar,
really crazy drink specials well, and I'm gonna be giving
away a couple of prizes. It should be exciting. And
then on on Friday as well. We will excuse me
(36:24):
Saturday pregame show at eleven thirty. So a lot going
on over the next few days. Ryan with his fancy shorts.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I love the Country Boys show. That's my favorite show
of the year. And that's it's a huge crowd. Did
you find out find out what?
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah, and well I'll tell you after you get off
the air. So no, they don't do any media availability
on a Friday. It has to be through an nil appearance.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
All right, won't you work on that.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
We can get a couple that way.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
All right, we'll talk about it, okay. See he did
his work. Yeah, I'm looking forward to his other assignment
on Friday. Also, it's been a while since I've seen
I'm looking forward to you having a speech. I mean
the country Boy speech is your most famous one where
you crowdsurfed mocking the Mark Stoops picture. I haven't framed.
That's right up here. I can see it from here.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Drew great big story reported by Pablo Tori Kawhi. Leonard
got a twenty eight million dollar endorsement for a no
work landscaping job that was a way for the owner
of the Clippers to pay him and go around the
salary cap. The owner of the Clippers created a fake
(37:33):
landscaping company to pay Kawhi Leonard twenty eight million in
endorsements for something like where he didn't have to do anything.
What do you make of that?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
I've always wondered if this has ever happened before, how
it's never happened. I remember years ago the Nets had
like some Russian bajillionaire owner and they were having salary
cap issues, and I thought, why didn't you just pay
him on the side figure it out? Sounds like they
actually tried it using a landscape company.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Like I thought that he tried to do a twenty
eight million dollar landscaping.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
I love the idea that he's like out there, you know,
mowing the grass.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Or something, and they didn't pay him. I just thought
that was But like, they'll get in trouble for that.
I mean, that'll be if if if what he said
is true, though, they will get in a lot of
trouble for that.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah, just some creative accounting that may come back to
haunt you quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I think you're not. May I think you will.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
But so what if Kawhi just goes in most of
the guy's yard a couple of times he worked. He
worked for his twenty eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
So you're saying if he just goes and mows the
grass one time, he is just twenty eight million dollars
lest he doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
What would it cost for Kawhi Leonard to come mow
your yard?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (38:39):
There's got to be a number. Are you saying twenty
eight millions too high?
Speaker 2 (38:43):
That's interesting? What if he says he mowed my grass
one time?
Speaker 3 (38:46):
It's Kawhi Leonard, he doesn't mow grass, and I got
him to.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Break some leaves, like how much? Yeah, how much you
think it would cost have Lebron mow your grass. That's
probably gonna be.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
About twenty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
So maybe maybe that's a creative argument. I actually like it.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Who's next?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Made?
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Steve?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Is next?
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Steve?
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Go ahead, Steve.
Speaker 11 (39:06):
Yeah, I just want to call it. You know, I
went to the kaff Bars is reopened and the cheese
logs are great.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 11 (39:15):
Oh yeah, they're awesome. I thought maybe a good name
could be the cheese hogs because they're so big. So
I just want to offer that recommendation in case you
were open to it.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I appreciate it. We were just talking about I'm in
the process now of naming the items with Kentucky players. Uh,
this woman right here got a club sandwich. We're gonna
be calling that the Klubby Smith. So you you got
a clubby Smith. With these puns, you're gonna be rolling
your eyes. Just wait till you see some of them.
They I do. Like, what was what was our one
with for Shay Gildes Alexander, Oh, grilled jesus.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
No wait wait, some of the grilled cheese. Grilled Jay,
grilled cheesus. Now it's something with Shay.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Something with grilled cheese and Shay Gildess Alexander.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
My favorite is the Jamel Martini. Now you gotta be
a fan of nineties Kentucky basketball, But Jamel Martini and
biscuits and Greevy you're my two favorite.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Biscuits and Greevy are Shay grilled cheese, Alexander.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
That's what's it? Shay grilled cheese, Alexander. Who's who's next?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Mark is next? Mark? Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Mark, biscuits and Grievy is good?
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Oh that's the best.
Speaker 12 (40:26):
You You really hit it there at Minning Hill about
we got other things we could be spending our money
in our time on for the take games and tailgateing.
I mean, we were out about seven am on Saturday,
and I was trying to add it all up about
you know, I mean there's a group of us and
(40:46):
we probably got about seven thousand in our tailgating.
Speaker 7 (40:49):
Wow.
Speaker 12 (40:50):
And that's probably lower than that's probably lower than say
the people out there that you know that had the
big trailers and the big setups and all that. And
then you go and you spend you know, you got
your tickets, you got your parking doesn't count when you
high alcohol for your kids are coming over from you know,
(41:11):
their their students there and they bring all their buddies
and you know, your four cases of beer in for
the you know turnity that showed up and and all that.
And it's just there's other options, I mean, and a
lot of other options, and and that that was put
out there on Saturday was just very med yokre and
very underwhelming. Now game one, Yeah, got to let it
(41:33):
up and get some stuff straight But like you said,
if it doesn't straighten up, and doesn't, we are not
in this game and we're not competitive Saturday.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
You're exactly right, joker, You're exactly right about that. I
appreciate the call, and I hope that, I mean, they
will recognize it because it'll happen.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
But you know, I mean, I just think about myself.
Let's say I had nothing to do with any of this.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I think, objectively speaking, if the product on the fields
not better and the environment around the field is not better,
you will have a better time watching the game at
your house or at this bart. It's a lot the
tailgate atmosphere is a lot better here before the game
than it is there, and that's a shame. It shouldn't
be like that in the game atmosphere. They got to
(42:19):
make sure it's better. Now. If we beat Old Miss,
a lot of this stuff won't matter because it'll be fun, Drew.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
If we beat Old Miss, no matter what, I'll be singing,
lim Biscuit. You promise I will personally put the letters.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
If we beat Miss. You're coming on the postgame show
and you're singing. You're singing you.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Wear my Yankees hat on backwards, my red fitted Yankees hat.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
Okay, I may go t i'ay that you sing nookie.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
If we win on the post games, Thank you all.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Very much for listening. We'll see you later. This has
been Kentucky Sports Radio. Tomorrow in Bowling Green,
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