2025-09-4- KSR - Hour 2

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Welcome back our number two Turkey Sports Radio. If I'm
nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven here at
the Mint in Bowling Green where you could come and
watch the games, place wagers. It's all here right off
I sixty five on Scottsville Road near the mall.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
DraftKings sports book is here.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
We got representatives from DraftKings, we got hats, we got
all kinds of happy things here. Join us big Kentucky crowd,
and don't forget you can also the Kentucky down Sports.
The racetrack is not very far away. It's an exciting day.
Mario did his first dad. We got all these folks
here and uh found out that tomorrow Uh at country

(01:38):
Boy when we do our yearly Country Boy. So Steven
Sackham Souls is gonna come to get and say meet
the fans before the first Old Miss game. So you
can come see Sackam tomorrow. Uh he will be Uh,
he'll be joining us during the game. I'll be only the.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Second third player we've had on the show.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
So he had a big first week and gets to
celebrate with us at Country Boy tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
If Alex Afari was the star of the defense, Souls
was like one a. He was awesome coming from the
edge every play. You look over his number thirty five
press and a quarterback. So I'm excited to get to
know him tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
Yeah, he was on the team a year ago, had
one sack, but definitely his stocks shot straight up last
Saturday in a game going in we knew didn't know
a lot about the team. We knew some guys would
step up make a name for themselves, and he took
big advantage with two strip sacks.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
A couple of things.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
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Speaker 4 (03:35):
I'm always that guy, you know.

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Speaker 3 (04:19):
That wasn't the biggest story yesterday though, was not was
not our NFL podcast. Sometimes you know the Harald Leader,
it's not what it once was, but sometimes it.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Breaks stories that matter, folks.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yesterday was one of those days that I'm very thankful
we have the Lex and Hair Leader because it gave
us this headline, Kentucky nurse revives drunk raccoon found in dumpster.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Those are the kind of stories that make me believe
in the mainstream media right gets a lot of heat,
But who else is gonna who else is gonna break
drunk Kentucky nurse revives drunk raccoon found in dumpster.

Speaker 5 (04:53):
Local journalism matters local.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
So in Wincha, Eric, excuse mean, Whitesburg, Kentucky. I guess
they have a distill I didn't even know you could
make moonshine. Well, actually I did, but I didn't know
they had distilleries in Whitesburg, but they do, and I guess.
So the story is a raccoon went into the dumpster
at the distillery where they had dumped a bunch of

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peaches that had been soaked in the moonshine. So I
guess to make peach moonshine. They had soaked all these peaches,
and then I guess they threw them away and the
raccoon ate all the peaches, and the raccoon ate so
many peaches that it drank so much that it like

(05:39):
killed itself. But this, which is what a way to
go if you're in the raccoon community. Poor poor Stanley,
you know, he just ate was reading his regular peaches.
This woman, and what's not in the story is how
this woman like got with the raccoon, you know what

(06:00):
I mean, Like, what how did they meet each other?
But the raccoon woman sees the raccoon says, I want
to save that raccoon. First of all, kudos to that woman.
That's a different set of personality traits than I have.
If I see a raccoon that looks to be dead,
I'm just going let it rest in peace. This woman
sees a raccoon that looks to be dead and says,

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I can do something about this. She goes up to it.
There's video on TikTok. She kind of gives it. I
don't know what do you call it? CPR? Right, yeah,
she gives it CPR. I don't know if that included
mouth to mouth. They didn't show it, but it said
that she gets it going. And then you see the

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raccoon kind of coming to looked a little bit like
Mario did on her trip to Seattle, where it was
like where it was like, oh, what's happening now?

Speaker 4 (06:50):
You know?

Speaker 3 (06:50):
And next thing you know, it's back to normal. Harold
Leader does the story. So people say there's no feel
good journalism anymore.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
I felt better her yesterday.

Speaker 5 (07:02):
Just want to ride for that raccoon though, I mean,
you go back to I don't know where raccoons live.
The raccoon holler, I mean, do it? Do the other
raccoons even believe you did? All this happened? That's true,
This teach collection that made me feel great, and I'll
wake up and this woman's giving me mouth to mouth
behind the dump streue and here I am.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
I guess she wasn't worried about rabies. I mean, I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
I just my grandmother acted like every animal always had
rabies and made me want to stay away from all
of them I think that's why I'm scared of every animal.
But like she apparently didn't care because she's all up
in the raccoon making sure everything's going okay.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
So how many peaches did she eat? I wonder if
she had been.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
In the she just do a tour with tasting okay,
So there she was like, I feel your paining raccoon.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
But what a good samaritan.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
I can't imagine how many people see a raccoon and
just be like I want to help it, Like, what
a good samaritan?

Speaker 2 (08:00):
You know, I'm picturing the raccoon passed out drunk in
her front yard kind a picture.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
You can see the video. There is live video of
it happening. They don't I don't think they show the
mouth to mouth, at least in the video that I saw.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
But there is video of.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
This raccoon struggling and then she's helping it and then
she cheers like it exists.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
You can watch it.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Now. They can have this loving relationship the rest of
the raccoon's life. He can come by for dinner every
now and then and hang out with with the lady
that said he's life.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Well good, good for this, that's awesome. I'm with you.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
If I see a dead raccoon. I just saw a
dead raccoon. Not much I can do about it. I
wouldn't even know the first thing to do.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
And then the heck of way to go get going
out eating drunk with getting drunk on peaches.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
I could see that happening to you.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
I could see giving you you g and going Let's
not just think about how it ended. Let's think about
actually it ended fittingly doing what he loves.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
A couple of the lines eight, five, nine, two, eighth,
twenty two eighty seven.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
Who's up next?

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Chie Wu?

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Is up next? Chie Wu? How are you?

Speaker 6 (09:01):
Hey, Matt? Thanks for taking my call. Man, appreciate that.
Jimmy Arterton, she was a bond girl, met the Lovely Uh,
Strawberry Fields and Quantumum Solace.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
It sounds like you were a fan. Just by the
tone of voice. I guess you you you.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
Liked her, Yes, sir, she's uh, she's been a few
other movies, but yeah, Strawberry Miss Miss Strawberry Fields, top notch. Uh,
Jimmy Jimmy Whalen was in uh uh what is it? Thrones? Ah, Yeah,
she was in the Thrones. Mini series on HBO.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Appreciate Amma, I am dB page from you.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
My my my concern with the football team. I like
the defensive line. I think the defensive line is pretty stout,
especially against the run. I'm worried about the secondary. I
don't have much confidence.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, let's talk about that for a minute. Yeah, I
appreciate the Coachy Wode secondary. We kind of went into
the year going, well, that should be a strength. We
got a lot of guys back, and then to the
extent the defense had a weakness, it seemed to be
the secondary is do you think these guys again, a
lot of them local, a lot of them returners, do
you think they can step up against what is a

(10:20):
very good old miss receiving corps.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
I have all the confidence again in our secondary. I know,
maybe they didn't looked like superstars against Leedo, but they
didn't have to against Toledo. I think those guys, those
four guys they start out there, are talented enough that
they can win a lot of games for this team.
A couple of plaguely end up in the NFL.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
They're by far the most experienced group. I mean, we
know all the name has been watching them for a
few years, but they've all just been good. Somebody needs
a couple of somebodies need to make a jump this
year from what they've been and become special. Like Jaq Hardaway.
I know he had the big interception last week that's
kind of helped out by the pass rush, but he
especially being the lead corner now and needs to take
another step forward from what he's been. He's that tall

(10:58):
cornerback that Mark Stoop's likes.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
He's a guy that's gonna be critical. Had a big play,
a big play, not tak anything.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
Todd Bryant, guy that's played since he was a true freshman.
He's been fine. He's another one who taking another joke
forward this season if they're gonna really be something if.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Memphis is bringing Cali Perry back to uh FedEx fednix
whatever for him. Memphis will play Arkansas in an exhibition game.
I find this fascinating because you know the relationship between
Kentucky and Arkansas, Kentucky and col clearly not good right now.

(11:35):
But I think everybody foresees a time then it will
be civil. But I mean you with Memphis it looked
like it might never be civil. Remember he put them
on probation, he left the It wasn't like this. He
left them right after going to the National Championship game,
or a year after going to the National Championship game.

(11:56):
And then they were gonna retires Jersey and the city
winning so much up and uproar that they decided not to.
Now is it a destone Drew? Is it Memphis? And
is Cow like mending all fences?

Speaker 5 (12:10):
I guess I was actually watching a clip before I
came in here if he was on with Gary Parrish
doing an interview about his Memphis days and what was
like leaving there.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
By the way, I watched that clip.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
For those of you that haven't seen it, it's so
cap it is.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
It is so.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Same same, like changing families, lives.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
We all eat.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
I mean it would literally it's been like six months
since I thought of Cow, and he has not changed
one bit.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
They mentioned how Arkansas he didn't have the headwinds that
he had at his old job. Nothing that's holding him
back now at Fayetteville.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
So good for him.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
I'm glad we were such I'm glad we were such
an obstacle that was in his way hold.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
What does he mean by a headwind? The fact that,
like what is I often wonder what he's even talking about.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
Well, I say that about a lot of things, but
that was that's what he said.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
I mean, we live literally, are spending more money when there.
We may be spending more money on Nisle than any
school in the country. If we're not, we're right there
with everybody else. What's he talking about?

Speaker 5 (13:11):
I guess he likes his chicken money better. We don't
have chicken.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
I mean, I think what he's talking about is that
he and Mitch Barnhardt didn't get along, and then maybe
he's talking about the fact that maybe he's talking about us, but.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
Like it, it's such an excuse. You just sucked the
last few years. You just did.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
You were awesome before that, you sucked the last few years,
Like why not own it?

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Why can't he take ownership of that?

Speaker 2 (13:35):
He never will, and I think that's I think that
he's trying to blame it on a lot of roadblocks,
the fans, the administration, the media, whatever kind of held
him back a little bit. Maybe that's what he's talking about.
But even though this is an exhibition game, it'll be
the biggest Memphis games that he was coach at Memphis.
I mean, that place will be packed because he's coming
back into town.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
It's looking like every time, I mean, Duke is now
playing an exhibition game against Tennessee. Obviously we're playing Purdue
in Georgetown, it's looking like the days of playing Trancy
and and you know Center and all that looks like
the days of that are gone. Does that make you
sad at all? That's probably looks like that's probably never
happening again.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
It does a little bit because I enjoyed those games
with against Georgetown, Trancy, Kentucky, Wesleyan. So maybe if they
played this one against those schools and then one against
a perdu or at Georgetown, maybe split it up that way.
I think I would. I would probably appreciate that more.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Mark Pope said we should play four and twur against
really good teams and two not.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
They should let us play four.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Now do you like that better?

Speaker 5 (14:35):
I mean, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that
I would be just excited about Kentucky State or Georgetown.
It was cool if those schools get to go to RUP.
But I thought about those games two days before they
tipped off I've been thinking about this Perdue game since
it's been announced. I think this is the way to go.
The NCAA obviously doesn't care anymore. You used to have
to have a little charity aspect or there was some rule.
Now they're like whatever, just go play each other.

Speaker 4 (14:56):
Would you retire?

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Let me ask you a question on retiring cows Jersey.
I think most people believe, well, we will do it
one day. Yeah, most people believe we should do it
when he's still you know, there to be there.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Except would you do it while he was at Arkansas?

Speaker 2 (15:11):
No, you don't do it while he's at Arkansas. Like Tubby,
you don't do it till you went.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
What if he left Arkansas and went to a team
like Saint John's, would you do it then?

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Nope, Nope. I think you gotta wait until either he's
retired or he's coaching a place like Tubby was. At
high point.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
I think you would do it at a high point.

Speaker 5 (15:28):
I think it goes back to Clarion.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, bring Clarion there you go.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
It's just like, no way in competition you would do it.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Absolutely.

Speaker 7 (15:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
You can't bring in a team you're competing against on
the floor and with recruits, not against cows. Wait, just
it'll like you said, it'll happen, give it some time,
time heels all wound. It'll happen one day and we'll
all celebrate him when he does it. But it's years
away from now.

Speaker 8 (15:49):
Ye.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
I agree.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
You definitely can't do it if he has any kind
of team that's competing against you whatsoever, on the court,
in recruiting in the conference, you don't give him that
moment he was there.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
I was asked by some on another show, is there
is there pressure on Mark to win down there this year?
Like it would be? Would it be bad if he's
going two against cal It's got a great look.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
But okay, let's say if and when's the sec and
you know you you won the Champions Classic and you
beat Louisville, I mean, it would stink. But is at
the end of the world if you had told me that.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
We would lose at home to Arkansas pretty substantially.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
I mean, we were down the whole game.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
With DJ Wagner shooting out of his mind.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
And yet our fan and yet our fans never seemed
to really like he doesn't get any criticism for it.
We had already beaten Duke Louisville, and we didn't know
what I.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
Mean, that's why we didn't.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
But like if you said at the beginning the year
that it happened, I don't think people would have believed you.
But because we beat Duke Louisville, Florida, et cetera, it
ended up not Gonzaga, it ended up not making the
uh you know, the same, the same stuff. Clayton Crum
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and more.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
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Speaker 3 (17:06):
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It is very cool to me that both Cornbread Hemp

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and Clayton and Crum have become national companies that literally
their first advertisements were on this show. That's that's really
neat to me. We will take a break and be
right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio in shape.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
Waterback.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
It is Kentucky Sports Radio eight. I'm nine two eight,
twenty two eighty seven here at the at the Mint
in Bowling Green, Draft Kings sports book.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
Top golf swing suites. That's a hard thing to say.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Top golf swing suites right over there looks very cool.
They got That's my favorite game. I say every bar
should get this, and then I realized Chaos Barr doesn't
have it, so it's hard for me to say. But
the little sliding board, sliding shuffleboard, that's I I have
more fun.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
At that than anything. We should get that at Chaos Bar.
I don't know where we'd keep it, but owe you
one like an old Yeah.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
Just go get Matt's freewood and we'll put it in there.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
It's been fifteen, ten, ten years maybe. But the place
that makes those in Louisville, what's it called Stapletons is.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
I think I think they owe me one. I mean,
I'm not holding it against you all, but.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
Just show up with and I owe you.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
I think that was my endorsement when he went to
One Person Rights.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Matt is the guy in the corner with a cowboy hat,
Lane Kiffin in disguise.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Uh got the old miss sweater on.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
You know what that kind.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Of looks like Lane Kiffing in disguise, fake mustache, cowboy,
cowboy hat, old bit. Are you here trying to scout
the game?

Speaker 4 (18:56):
Sir? I think you are. You look like Lane Kiffin.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
It's my god. We talked during the break chat with him.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
Was it Lane Kiffin?

Speaker 5 (19:06):
No, well, he did give some Lane kiff the box,
but huge Jared Lorenzen fan.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Oh good.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
He bought a Jared Lorenzen practice jersey and it had
Jared's name and number written on it like it's his
actual one. He got it for two dollars in like
a flea market.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
So oh, he's two dollars very excited. Well, but thank
you all, Well, thank you very much for coming. They
can't hear you over the radio. I have to talk
to you after the show's over.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
I got to tell you about we're talking about Jared Lorenzen.
Mario for the first time in his life, watched the
Jared Lorenzon highlights driving down here this morning. We got
his name came up and he's never seen the video.
He was like Screaming's like.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Oh my god, look at him.

Speaker 6 (19:43):
Oh he's huge.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Oh look what he did, and he's like gonna watch
it for the first time.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
He has, in my opinion, the best. I mean, John
Wall and him have the best highlight videos. Yeah, it's
in part because hey, you can't believe anybody's moving like that.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
And then b that.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Pass where he throws it behind his hand, which is
the most ridiculous thing in the world.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
And they also drew he completed it against Georgia.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Pass over his head, just bulldozing over a lineman fighting,
throwing it a mile he no one should have played
that way, but I did. That highlight will live on forever.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
That's an amazing There won't be another one.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
One person writes, Matt, why should I listen to the
new NFL show? You've bragged about doing no research for
your NFL ESPN show.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Very good point, but I'll give you two counters.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
One, I read a book for this one o the
Warren Sharp book, which we quote on the show. And second,
it's entertaining even if you don't if you don't think
we know anything, because we have fun doing it. But yes,
it's a fair point. But I did read a book
for this one a big book. It was a big
It was thick and I read it. A lot of

(20:56):
numbers color coded. There's a lot of stats of football
way beyond.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Our football for nerds. Is that what you're in?

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Basically it's called Warren Sharp Football something like that might
have a different title. One person writes, Matt, you often
said cowhad didn't have support from the boosters at the end.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
Is it right?

Speaker 3 (21:18):
Isn't it right that he was operating with head wins
maybe a little, but they were created by himself, right?

Speaker 4 (21:25):
I mean you can't you know, you can't.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Scream at your wife every night and call her names
and then go, well, she doesn't love me. Well, maybe
because you're acting like a jerk. I mean, the the
he he did have bad Listen, all of his bad relationships.
I'm not gonna say they were all all parts of
it his fault. But there comes a point where when
you have a bad relationship with your boss, and you

(21:50):
have a bad relationship with the boosters, and you have
a bad relationship with the media, and you even have
a bad relationship with the fan site that literally did
whatever you want it for eight or ten years, maybe
at some point you have to look in the mirror
and see what part you had in creating all At

(22:10):
some point, it's not everyone else's fault, Drew, it might
be yours at some point.

Speaker 5 (22:14):
And it's not even just all the main characters, just
people going and doing their daily job around that building.
We're pretty exhausted at how things were there at the end.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
Everyone at the end was exhausted. Who's up next? Rick? John?

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Is next?

Speaker 4 (22:28):
John? Go ahead? John?

Speaker 9 (22:33):
Hey, I got excuse me, sorry, I have two questions
for you. I saw a clip on Andy and Alri
today that said a troop Soups has fired his buyo.
It would be thirty two million dollars in due within
six weeks. Is that true?

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Yes, it is true.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Mitch Bartnheer has many strengths, but a weakness is contract negotiation,
because most other schools have it to where if you
pay for five years the buy else to do. Like
Alabama's coach they've talked about. It's not seventy million right
at once, it's over a course of years. Mark Stoops's contract.
I was told I didn't realize this for a long time.

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We're required to pay it all within six months. Terrible negotiation.

Speaker 7 (23:17):
Six weeks The other one six weeks, so it six weeks.

Speaker 9 (23:21):
Well good, yeah, it would be like it would be immediately.
So you pretty much need the money beforehand, and you.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Can't offset it if it gets another job like that.
That's the other thing want of the contracts. You can
offset if they go get another job. Can't do it
if you pay them within six weeks when we lost
on the second. That's an important point, by the way,
Mitch does them any things well, but we gave some

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ridiculous contracts to Stoops and CaAl EF. I've nine two
eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We will take a
break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
EF.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Texta
machine seven and at seven two seven four five two
five four. Remember tonight you come watch the game here
in Bowling Green, at this wonderful at the mint right
over here off Brownsville Road. And then if you are
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then we've got two hundred and fifty dollars liquor bar
and gift card.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
Mario did the ad. I don't know how you can
miss it.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Plus it's Eagles Cowboys, so let's go ahead and make
the pick Eagles or Cowboys tonight in the opening game
of the NFL season.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Eagles don't. I'm I discussed.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
I discussed.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
I am disgusted over Dallas. I never will pick Dallas
to win anything. Why are you disgusted? I grew up
a Washington Redskins fan, so I go anti Cowboy from
the moment I was born.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
I never ever though, you always claim to be a
Washington fan, and I never hear you talk about them.
You don't like it's I've never seen you wear one
piece of merchandise.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
When I was a kid, and then the Colts moved Indianapolis,
so I became a Colts fan. They hate the Cowboys,
still hate the Cowboys.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
So you gave up your team, Yeah, but you kept your.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Hare hatred for the Cowboys because I hate Perdue, just
a certain team. Think you hate when you when you're.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
A cheer for Indiana, we still hate Perdue? Is that not?
That seems odd to to to lose the love but
keep the hate.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
No, It's permanent, permanent in my brain.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
All right, fair enough, who you got?

Speaker 5 (25:27):
I will be rooting for the Star, but uh, not
a lot of hope. I will say they cover the
eight and a half. It's a big spread, but Eagles
are winning the game.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
Yeah, I'm gonna take the Eagles to win. Uh.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
I think they go back to the super Bowl and
then they lose in the Super Bowl to the Buffalo Bills.
I think this is the year the Buffalo Bills and
Josh Allen win a title.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Who's your Super Bowl pick? Chiefs?

Speaker 2 (25:50):
I mean, I don't know how you can pick against them.
Probably Chiefs and Eagles. Those are that's the smart picks
you got.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
The Chiefs win it.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah, so you think it's repeat super Bowl? It happened
a long time. Last repete super Bowl was what Cowboys
Bills in the early nineties.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
I think thought because that young love of Taylor and
Kelsey the end of the dight, those two young kids
are gonna will that team to another super Bowl title.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
It is his last year and she might be playing
the Super Bowl as the halftime show.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
So what about you?

Speaker 5 (26:14):
I have Bills getting over the hump. I don't want
to be laying and picked the Eagles their big favorite.
I'll say the Lions out of the NFC Bill's lines,
good pick, but Josh Allen finally gets his ring.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
I would also say, my my out of nowhere's pick.
Nowhere's out of nowhere pick if he's healthy, Matthew Stafford
Bill's rams, that would be my out of left field
pick that they uh they go to the Super Bowl.
If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven
text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two
five four one person rights, Matt that.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
Buyout can't be true. Tell me how it.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Is that we would owe the money at the moment,
because remember Mark Stoops had a lot. Mark Stoops had
a lot of leverage and he worked it very well.
And he also, I've said this a lot, he has
the best agent, Jimmy Sexton, who is the agent to
Nick Saban and like he's the best agent football. He

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is also he was Bob Stoop's agent, and he is
Mark's agent.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
Mark might be his lowest client he has in terms
of coaches.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
And I don't mean it has a put down because
the guy has like the biggest coaches in the game,
but he has a lot of leverage, and I think
Drew that was part of how that happened.

Speaker 5 (27:24):
Yeah, there's not many agents that a lot of people
know encounter their own celebrity, but he's he's one of them.
And I'm sure when he saw Mitch bart Hurt across
from that table, he was looking at his lips because
he's done that many times before and know what to do.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
I mean, most of these contracts, Like remember that when
Jimbo Fisher got that deal for one hundred million dollars,
that was that guy. I think Debor at Alabama who
got the seventy.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
Million dollar deal, I think that was him.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Like get he does most of the a lot of
the big college football deals.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
I've not heard of a buyout though it has to
be paid within six weeks. That one kind of caught
me off guard a little bit. Have you heard that before?

Speaker 3 (27:58):
I didn't know that until like a month. The only
reason I'm even saying it, I didn't know it until
a couple months ago, and then Ari Wasserman and Andy
Staples mentioned it yesterday. They're the first people I've heard
really talk about it publicly like that, because I think
it might be buried in some because I've not even

(28:19):
seen it, but they mentioned it yesterday, and I'd heard
that a couple months ago, because I'd always assume, well,
you can pay it over time. If anybody else hires him,
you can get No, it's six I'm told, and I
think that's what Ari and Andy what they reported yesterday.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
It's six weeks.

Speaker 5 (28:36):
And these guys that cover other coaches contracts, I don't.
I'm not looking at other coaches contracts, but they talk
about how wild this is to have it written that way,
and what a bad spot Kentucky's in if he gets
to that point.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, I want to know one thing that might get
kind of lost in the news stuff. But I do
think it's interesting if you're like me and you're trying
to follow in IL, the commission that is regulating in
IL and is like supposed to make sure that if
you get it an IL deal, it's actually for a
real ad and they're not just paying you to play.
You know, a lot of us, myself included, have been

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skeptical of whether that's gonna be weird.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
They just released their first report.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
And out of I want to say, it was something
like three hundred and eighty five deals that have been
sent to the commission. Now, I remember most players that
are playing right now, they got paid before this commission
went into place. You've heard us talk about how that's
why all these people got.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
So much money this year. Next year it'll be different.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
But out of the three hundred and eighty five deals drew,
one hundred and forty were declined as being not real deals,
which is like thirty eight percent of the deals got
declined for not being real deals and said no, you
can't give it to them.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
That's interesting to me.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
I mean that that says like there's some teeth to this.
If they're turning down thirty eight percent of the deals,
that's a lot. And the average deal, well, let's just
take a guess the average deal for a power for player.
Remember this is not the money they're getting as part

(30:15):
of rev share. This is the Nile deal they're getting.
Do you know what the average deal is? And presumably now,
these are not the deals that like ks Bar is
doing with plays. This is a deal that like collectives
or big sponsors are doing with players.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
Take a guess at what the average is.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Four that's I was gonna say twenty thousand, Say twenty thousand,
you're much closer.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
The average deal is only twenty eight thousand dollars. So
what I think is interesting and about that is it
says a there are going to be limits on this
money thing. I was kind of skeptical that can happen. Now,
it's still got to get upheld in court. There's still
a lot of places, but at least this commission is

(31:01):
putting limits on it. In second, not as much money
as I think people think. I mean, some of the
top guys are gonna make crazy amounts of money. But
if the average power for player is making twenty eight
thousand dollars, you.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
Know, maybe Kentucky can compete.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
You know, maybe it's not quite as crazy as everyone
just kind of thinks.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Like you who said four hundred thousand.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Bucks, I thought for sure the number would be a
lot lower. You said they've got denied. I'm surprised they
denied that many. I thought they would probably just rubber
stamp a lot of these deals, but obviously they're really
looking into it and trying to keep it from it.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
I thought nothing would get denied. The fact that thirty
seven percent's got.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Denied, yeah that's a lot.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
You know, that's a lot I'm surprised, but that needs
to happen, because I was worried about guys signing deals
with a T shirt company for five million, knowing they're
not going to sell a tiny percentage of that in
actual T shirts. It's just getting them to play. So
I'm glad they're at least looking at, you know, if
it's compared to actual market you and trying to see
if it's a real deal.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
Who's up next? Jake is up next? Jake? Go ahead, Jake,
bring the excitement.

Speaker 10 (32:08):
Hey more than Matt, first time caller, a long time listener.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
Who are Okay, it's different, Jake, but go ahead, Hey, Matt.

Speaker 10 (32:16):
I actually wanted to continue the scene a little bit
of this week regarding the kind of complaints about the
Krogerfield atmosphere, but I want to take in a little
bit of different directions. So I was watching the Florida
State Alabama football game this weekend, and Florida State has
this really cool tradition where Chief Osciola comes out onto
the field on a horse with a flaming spear and

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throws the spear into the ground while the crowd is
shouting renegade into their their Tomahawk Chat. So it got
me thinking, you know, the state of Kentucky has such
a cool tradition of forced culture where you know, we
breed horses. We obviously race the horses as well, and
it's like Kentucky Derby Keen when it's such you know,
has the university thought about, you know, having a jockey

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on a horse lead the team out of the tunnel
for like a pregame tradition or you know, any other
kind of horse homage to bring not only the state
culture together but also rile up the crowd before a game.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
The question Ryan, you've you've been going those games longer
than anybody, or at least longer anybody on the show.
Have they ever done anything with a horse.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
I've never seen anything that Kentucky's down.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
I know we did our uniforms as a horse one time.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
But I can't remember a horse being I could.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
See and I appreciate the call, Drew.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
I could see having a couple of horses lead the
team out with jockeys on them with the flags.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
You don't like it, Marsha, Well, I learned yesterday.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
I mean I actually think that seems cool. I mean,
maybe they can't do it for logistical reasons. But like
in theory, I could see that being cool.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
I learned yesterday there's a question and easement. They're allowed
to just ride them that's in downtown.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
If they get this, uniforse still can't stop them, you
could just take your horse.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
It does seem like something obvious. We're the supposed to
be the horse capital of the world and we don't
utilize the I mean.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
Just just okay, just picture for a second.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah, but just picture for a second. The idea of
the team is standing there. We've seen it their their backstage.
Normally what happens is two cheerleaders or whatever lead with
the flags. What if as the players ran out the
it's a little thing, but it was jockeys holding the

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UK flags and they lead them running out.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
Why is that full sprint?

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Why is that crazy?

Speaker 5 (34:39):
It's not.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
I understand, but like, but I do think the callers
point about the horse.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
I mean, we're doing something.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
We've tried to do that stupid rare rare with the
cat thing that didn't work.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
Why not can horses.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
When it gets in I mean there.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
Are horses, they have been in public.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
I mean, even better, let's get a starting gate and
put our players in it now, then gate and then
they just all run out.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
I don't know if I like that vision.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
Back to the horse, then back to the horse, just thinking.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
I mean, listen, I'm not saying we have to do it.
This is the first I've ever heard of. It was
this guy talking. But Ryan, am I crazy that that
could be cool?

Speaker 2 (35:20):
I think it could be cool. You'd have to get
like maybe in an old, easy going horse, and they're
not gonna run out there far away.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
I mean, like you said, Florida State does it. Clearly
there are horses that that can handle it.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
They can handle the noise and the excitement, and there
are more people at the derby than they're at the game.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
I feel like they're gonna be able to handle right.

Speaker 5 (35:40):
I'm in if Mark Stoops rides of the horse.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Mitch Barnhart comes out of the tunnel on the horse.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
To the caller, Jake, I liked your idea. Let me
just out of curiosity, how many of you liked the idea?

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Raise your hat kind of like it?

Speaker 4 (35:54):
Yeah, it's well only half What do you all have
that's a better idea? Over here? You pass a real
walk We're trying to do something out the drum.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
They want to bring the drum back.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
I hate the drum. Hey f I've nine two eight
oh twenty two eighty seven.

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(36:40):
right back, come back. Final segment here in Bowling Green.
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Speaker 4 (36:55):
I was just saying to him, we're trying.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
You know, Saturday, we're gonna have a lot of people
at the bar and everybody is ordering the burgers because
they're good, but like they take a while, so we're
bringing in an extra, bringing an extra like grills and stuff.
And what I what we didn't think of those is
everybody's already rented a lot of them for the tailgates,
so we're we're like buying them, and so then we
have to go and cook on it all day Friday

(37:18):
to get a grease in there, you know, and get
it to where it'll where it'll be good. So it's
you just don't think about these things. Like the restaurant
businesses I've learned is the one thing where every day.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
Is just a problem.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
There's no day that it's not a problem. Uh in
that business. The people I run this, I'm sure know that,
am I right? Every day is a problem of some sort.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
You gotta think about where you gonna put the grilled
into once you find it.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Like we we got we finally got when we ran
out of tator kegs. I advertise them, then we ran out,
so we finally we got some more there there today.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
But like it's all everything's a problem.

Speaker 5 (37:53):
I like, there's a lot of what are we out
of today? Who didn't show up for work. Yeah, why
isn't this working? Being out of stuff is good? Like
things are going well since we open, but it's still
like it's just it's always something.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
Who's up next?

Speaker 4 (38:10):
Donnie is up next? Donnie go ahead, Donnie, Good morning.

Speaker 8 (38:14):
Matt Jones blowing green so piggybacking on a guy from yesterday.
Around the third down they do the blue White.

Speaker 7 (38:21):
How about do the.

Speaker 8 (38:22):
Packers fight song? Instead of going go pack Go, we
go go big blue, you know with my facing royal
the Packers song.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
I think the Packers fight song is kind of cheesy.
I'm not gonna lie now. It works for them because
they've had it for so long, but I don't think today.
I think if you introduced that song today, a lot
of people would look at each other and go, why
are we doing this?

Speaker 7 (38:45):
You know?

Speaker 8 (38:45):
Okay playing ba How about getting a SoundBite of col
going go and just flop it, you know, while you know,
not bad.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
That's kind of funny.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
Walk a Waka Flaka who does who Does?

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Grocery Party is actually coincidentally playing in Lexington the day
of the Tennessee Tech Game.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
Just for that can't be a coincidence.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
I would think they're probably going to bring him to
that game, or at least maybe they were until they
got rid of the song.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
But they're bringing it back.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
So if they don't have him just come across the street.
That's a day game and he's at Manchester Music Hall
that night. It's right there in front of you. I
hope they've already booked fit.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
Yeah. He seemed to have a good time when he
was here the last time.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
So they've got to bring it back. I mean, they
just have to. I don't think there's any doubt in
my mind that that's one thing that least with like
he said, the thing we did that nobody else does
bring it back.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
What do you think that you? I mean, are we
sold out Saturday?

Speaker 2 (39:42):
No, I haven't heard. It's not.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
It's a pretty cheap.

Speaker 4 (39:47):
I mean I get it, but that's odd to me.
I mean this is like, this.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
Is a huge game, but it also should showcase to
UK where people are on this program.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
Yeah, I mean, if you're not sold out.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
For the first big game of the year against Old
miss on national television, like that should.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
Tell you where If you don't know where your fan.

Speaker 5 (40:05):
Base is like Drew, that should tell you in three
point thirty, that's the Street thirty perfect time you can
get a long tailgate in and still have dinner and
your night afterwards. I mean, for years we didn't get
three thirty games because it was the one CBS marquee game.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
We're never in it.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
Now we're lucky to get in that ABC rotation. You
gotta enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
You got the number two announcing team doing it. You
got Sean mcdonnald and Greg McElroy. I mean, that's there,
that's the number two announcing team behind Herb Street and Fowler.
And you know, if you can't sell that game out there,
you do need to look in the mirror and go
what is going on? Because that's I mean, that's not good.
Who's next?

Speaker 4 (40:43):
Waw? Is up next? Waw? What's up?

Speaker 7 (40:47):
Good morning, gentlemen. Hey. Circling back to the horses at
the football game, Murray State does it, Texas Tech does it,
but take it a step further. Have two horses, one
jockey in UK blue, the other jockey in the visiting
team's colors, and of course they rush across the field
and the UK jockey always wins.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
Okay, So like like the old Louisville and Cincinnati boat
race where the Louisville one always wins.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 8 (41:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (41:17):
I got that. I'm okay with that. I appreciate, appreciate
the call.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
I'd like to I thought when he said two horses,
one jockey, I was like, now that'll be something to
see if we could do that give people's attention.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Yeah, why not just try something something like that, something
different to add to the excitement environment at Kroger Field.
Anything I think would be an addition.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
I really like that guy's that guy's idea.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
Okay, So tomorrow we are a country boy in Georgetown.
We're gonna have Steve Sackem Souls joining us to talk,
and I'm gonna be giving away tickets to the game.
I'm gonna be giving away fifty yard line second road
tickets from Commonwealth Causes to someone there tomorrow. Remember we
got folks, we got the bar tonight with an NFL

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football game.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
I'm still not.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
To the point where I'm picking Kentucky to win against
Ole Miss, but I think Ryan it's gonna be a
good game.

Speaker 4 (42:11):
That's where I am right now.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
I think it'll be a good game. That's why I
think our crowd can help. You know, despite if it's
gonna be rain raining, a little rain in the afternoon,
I think crowd can get you gonna help this team.
Defense is gonna do their job. Offense needs to try
to answer the ball.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Any chance you're gonna get to the point where you
think they were. Kentucky can win.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
Yeah, I don't know that I'm gonna be expecting to win,
but I don't think they'll get blown out, blown out.
I think maybe it won't come down the last play
like the last four, but I think in the fourth
quarter of Kentucky will be in the game.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Thanks to the mint here in Bowling Green, thank you
all very much for coming your great crowd with the
with the Draft Kings folks here from all over, we
really appreciate you showing up. We will see you later.
This is been Kentucky Sports Radio tomorrow in Georgetown.