October 15, 2025 • 42 mins
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Now here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, October the fifteenth.
I am Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill.
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We got Ryan Lemon's former news directors in the house.
How are you doing?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
First ever news director John Stern from Channel seven Eyewitness
News in Evansville. It was eyewitness Oh, eyewitnessed.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
What news did you witness when you were.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
There's all kind of news going on.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
It was the biggest news story while you worked in Evansville.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Well, there was a horrific plane crash.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Well, way to bring the mood down on the show. Okay,
but I did ask.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Yeah, Yeah, that was that. That was tough. That shook
the whole community for a long.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
What about the biggest sports story?
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Well, Don Mattingly had just, you know, became famous and
was like tearing up the American Lady with the Yankees
when I was working there.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
So why was that a big story in Evansville?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Oh, he's from Evansville. I'm sorry, Okay, he's an Evansville guy.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I just thought you just anything Don Mattingly did, well,
big deal. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
I used to be an eyewitness to Ryan on Eyewitness News.
Watched him every night.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Wow, got of the Scott Rowland highlights.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Scott Rowling, you gay, Scott rolled his first ever TV interview.
I gave Walter McCarty his first ever TV interview.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
So you're you're saying Walter McCarty, Scott Rowland and Don
Mattingly all owe something to you.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Absolutely, yes, God's started them on their way.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Well good, well if I'm nine two eight h h
twenty two eighty seven, it is a beautiful day outside.
We are two days away from a huge weekend in Lexington.
You've got the Blue White game. Uh, You've got the
UK Texas. It's gonna be its parents weekend. Adam Sandler
is in town Thursday night, U Drew. I think this
is one of Keenland. This is one of the big
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weekends you had in Lexi October in the city.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun for everyone participating,
but to anyone just trying to get around town and.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Live their regular life, terrible.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
I'm expecting absolute chaos. But it is good for election.
This will be one of the biggest weekends of the year.
This will be a great weekend here at the bar too.
That's what I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
The pregame was seven o'clock game against Texas. You know
you're we'll have people in here the night before because
the blue white and parents we get coming to town
and then all day Saturday. The reason, uh, you know,
because when we reopened this we we had some talks about,
you know, do we wanna do we want to keep
doing this, and we keep doing it for days like Saturday,
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where this place is is a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
It becomes a special place to be on game day.
You do your pregame, you're tailgating here, and then go
to the game and it sounds like there's gonna be
a really good crowd. I mean, tickets are kind of
hard to get, and the ones that are get are
expensive because people are gobbling them up.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Can I tell a quick story? I wasn't gonna tell
this story, but I feel like I'm gonna want to.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
It's a storytelling uncle Matt.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
All right, So this is a true story. Happened to
me on uh on last week? All right. So I
got a phone call from my agent on Thursday and
he said, hey, Matt, Uh, there's somebody that wants to
talk to you. It's it's it's fairly important, and you
need to keep your phone on you all day, like
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as soon as they call you need to be able
to answer. This was a media person like, so I
can't really say what it is. You just have to
just just assume, big deal, big media person. I say, okay.
They're like, and look if he calls her in the show,
you got to find a way to jump off the
show and take the call.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
You told me the other day to be ready.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I mean, I was like, I may have to jump
and take a call. All right, So get through the morning,
no call, show, no call, get to the afternoon. I
have to go, uh to the to the doctor, trying
to figure out, you know, trying to uh make sure
these floaters I have are okay, and they're OKAYO right,
but I'm going But I say the doctor, I'm like, listen, doc,
(04:33):
I hate to do this, but if I get a
phone call, I have to take it, okay, Yeah, And
he was like all right, fine whatever. Of course, during
the show, phone rings, and I know from earlier that
the person called me he's gonna have a two O
two number, right, Okay, phone rings two O two number.
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I look at the doctor, I'm like, I'm sorry, I
have to take this call. I feel bad, but I
have to. Hello, sperson goes hey, Matt, what's up, but
like in a familiar way.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
So I'm you know, remember me, I'm thinking this is
media person. Then the guy goes, so, what do you
know about sperm racing?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Sperm racing?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Sperm racing? You would like to bring it to ks
Bar the day of the Texas game.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Sperm racing?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yes? And I said, who is this? It was not
my boss, It was not the media person. This was
just some random person and they were wanting to set
up in the parking lot something to talk about male
infertility and have an eight hundred person tailgate here about
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sperm racing. I said, sir, can I call you back?
I'm in the doctor. I get off the phone. Call
back now. I want you to think. Here's the thing.
You know, You're in a little tiny office with the doctor.
He heard all that, and I said, and I looked,
and I could tell by his face he's wanting to
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I could tell he'd heard it and he's wanted to
talk about it. And he goes, so was that implance?
So was that important? And I said that was not
the media person. I don't know what it was. So
I had to decline. Drew that event here in the
parking lot for UK Texas. I said, we're already going
to be very crowded. We can't have that. But somewhere
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in Lexington is an eight hundred person event happening on Saturday.
In terms of the things that are going to be
happening in this city.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
I'm glad you explained it, as you know, trying to
help people with health issues. I didn't know where we
were going. This is a restaurant that would hurt our
health score.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
That was hard.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
That makes a little more sense. I would call it
something differently, you know what.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I think they do it to get your attention, but
I think it's gonna I think that backfires, in my opinion.
But they wanted to take up the whole parking lot
to do it, and I was like you, not only it's.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Good for a health score, We're a restaurant, you know.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
So anyway, never ended up. I turned that down, right.
I hope you're okay.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
You know, we're usually open to any kind of propop
to that. I'm open to that.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
We were not open to that, all right. I wanna
For the last few weeks, or the last couple weeks,
we've been talking a lot about the Stoop situation. I
thought to myself yesterday I do not want to open
with that again. But then I don't think we have
a choice because and again I want to give credit
to Harold Leader. Here, they got Mitch Barnhart for an interview,
and Mitch Barnhart made a couple of quotes that I
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think we just have to discuss. He's asked about basically
about the Stoop situation and the contract, and I'm gonna
read you both both things. Now. This is all in
the Hair Leader. You can read. John Hale has an interview.
John Hale does two stories, one of which is he
traces Mark Stoop's contract from the first one to now
so you can see see how it's advanced. It's kind
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of fascinating. But let's start with the most important question,
which is he was asked if about his confidence in
Mark Stoops. Here's Mitch Barnhart's quote, and I want to
get your two euros take on it. Quote, Mark is
working hard. Can I promise everything that everybody wants me
to promise? No, there's no promise. We can play our
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hearts out and go have one tough moment that goes
against you in a game and all of a sudden,
you find yourself with a loss that you didn't want.
And that doesn't mean you didn't give effort, you didn't
your work your way through it. But Mark and his
guys are working hard. Now. I have a reaction to that, Drew,
what's yours? Well?
Speaker 6 (08:40):
First, I rolled my eyes because kind of back to
work and we're working is getting They're big on getting
back to work on Monday. I've been like that for
a long time. It kind of just feels like Barnhart's
throwing out a little bit of support for Stoops and
just gonna let the result tell the end of the
tell the story at the end of the season, And
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is how I took it.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
It wasn't a lot of support. He was like, I mean,
it's kind of just kicking it down to I mean,
he says we can play our hearts out and then
not win. I mean that's it's almost like he's like
acknowledging he may not win very many games the rest
of the year.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
At least he's saying, I'm gonna we got his back.
But uh, it wasn't vote of confidence, but it just
seems like he's he's will know at the end of
the year, So he's gonna let him play it out
and the wins will tell the story.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Yeah, there was. That was no vote of confidence at
all for your coach. I read it. I took it
as like, like, I'm gonna use you as an example.
You were just talking about you in high school basketball. You know,
the guy that sits at the end of.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
The good sign for Mark Stoops if you're using my
high school basketball career as an example.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
The guy that sits at the end of the bench.
Good guy. Man, he works hard. He really a hard worker. No,
you're never gonna get on the floor, not gonna be
able to play, but boy, you sure are a hard worker.
That's how I heard that terogram.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
You know, well, that's not a good sign for his
future because they did ask me to be a manager
halfway through my career, so I don't know that that
will help him now. The next so part two of
the article came out today, and I think it's the
more important part. He traces Mark Stoops Mark Stoop's time here.
By the way, do you know what Mark soops first
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deal with Kentucky was No, five years, eleven million dollars.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Wow, he makes that pretty much almost makes any.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Five years eleven million dollars. Now he's making over nine
million dollars every season. But this is the key people
may not remember. At the end of the twenty twenty
one season, he signed an extension. Okay, so he signed
an extension that was very similar to his other extensions.
It had a buy out of around twenty twenty five
million dollars, and it was very similar to the other season.
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He was making like seven million a year, et cetera.
We win the first four games of the twenty twenty
two season. Do you remember who we beat? Miami of Ohio.
Youngstown was the other one. Mike Florida was the big one, Florida,
and then one more so three bad teams in Florida.
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All right, at four and oh, we give him another extension.
Now here's this extension raises the buyout from twenty five
million right now to thirty eight million. So raises is
it by thirteen years, makes the buyout do within sixty
days of leaving, and extends him for three more years.
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John Hall asked Mitch Barnard, why did you do that?
Four games into the season. This was after we blocked
that kick, you remember, and ran it back for the
against Florida. Here was his answer. We were four and
oh going and and by the way, we signed the contract.
Do you remember three days later we lost to Vandy
at home. That was the kind of the start of
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the slide. We're six and twenty in the sec since
that contract. He said, we were four and oh going
into that and there was a lot of talk around
our program and a lot of talk about Mark being
in the running for other jobs. This is the key quote.
Our fans wanted us to make sure we didn't lose
a guy that had been so beneficial to our program,
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And so we walked through that. We were thankful to
be able to sceer him as our football coach and
keep him around and make sure he's a Wildcat. And
I'm still proud of that today.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Ooh could have gone without that last sentence.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
There's an unnecessary sentence there. That last sentence is a
sentence that's getting some traction online. Two things that I
want to ask you about that. What about the first
comment our fans wanted us to make sure we didn't
lose a guy. Do you think that was true? Four
games into the twenty twenty two season.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
I'm trying to remember. I mean, we'd just come off
the Citrus Bold win with Will Levis. The year before,
we had ten wins. Now we're four and all the
next year we're talking about building a statue for the guy.
I think he's the greatest coach in the history of
college football.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
But do you think you need to do it right then?
Because because you do it on a Tuesday, we lose
at home to Vandy the next week. I think there's
a really good chance you don't give him that. Yes,
if you lost to Vane, waited one more week, if
you had waited one more week, well.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
If they truly did it after four and oh, I
have the schedule, now you're three of your four wins
were Miami, Youngstown and Northern Illinois. Yeah left out Northern Illinois,
but they were eighth in the country. I guess with
that Florida win. But if it was truly after four wins,
then they went lost loss, win, lost, lost.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Loss, Like, yeah, well we lost to Vandy and then
we lost.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
As this was next open, then South Carolina next, because
it didn't come out till before the Vandy game. But
Barheart said after four games, they did it behind closed doors.
After four games didn't come We all found out before
the Vandi John Hill makes the point they didn't do
an announcement. It was only found out because somebody requested
something else and it was added on to it. So
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this extension that supposedly our fans wanted us to do,
they didn't even make a public.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Announcement about it. I think that's important if you're gonna say,
because look, I like, but this is kind of I
want to say. I think this is kind of a
BS thing to say. If you're gonna say our fans
wanted us to make sure we didn't lose the guy,
then why didn't you announce it. It only came out
because they requested some other public contract and it was
an added to it, and we found out. You're right
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before the Vandy game, which was later in the year.
But clearly you didn't do this because there was a
clamoring for him to stay. You didn't even make a
public announcement.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
About it, right writing history, If all the fans wanted it,
you would have made graphics and paraded that around.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
This was because hey, fans, we want you to know
we've got him. We wouldn't have found out because Bob
asked for the file about and then they accidentally I
don't remember they accidentally or intentionally, but they mark Stoop's
contract was part of that ran.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
I think Mitch Barnott was so afraid of losing Stoops
and losing cal Perry. He made these ridiculous off these
contract because he didn't He don't want me to the
guy that let Caliperry go to the U.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Wouldn't it just be more honest to go that? Yeah
the end to say I'm still proud of it, that
worries me. Yeah, if you still think that was a
good deal, Like I can accept people might make mistakes,
but Drew, if you still think that was a good decision.
Where we're sitting right now, I don't know what to
say at that point.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Now we all know the results, and now that I'm
looking at the schedule on him saying it was done
after four games in that same month, they lost to
Tennessee forty four to six. With two other wins that month,
it seems the moment pen went to paper, it just
completely flipped the switch. Winning went to losing instantly.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Got hurt, got hurt.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Yeah, So you know, so if you read those articles,
it doesn't seem like to me he's going Mark Stoops
will be here until the end of time. But he's
also and I feel like it's just deja vus. John
cal Perry, Mark Stoops, and Mitch Barnhardt all have extremely
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different personalities. They're not in any way the same person,
but they all have that stubborn streak where they can't
just say we made a mistake. And I know he
can't come out and say I made a mistake. I mean,
I I don't expect him to do that when he's here,
but the I'm still proud of that. It continues this
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view of people who are just like, well, I don't
I don't mess up everything else goes wrong. I am perfect,
and I that that just that just annoys me. We'll
take a break. Eight five nine two eight oh twenty
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is this weekend too. You said that's where ever Buddy's
in there. Halloween cost It's.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Like comic Con for Halloween. Just a lot of boos
and vendor son Halloween stuff, but people come dressed in
their costume.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
There's actors and stuff from like movies that will be
there too.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
And that's this weekend, this weekend too, not Adam Sandler
Thursday night Scarefest. I think Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Yeah, Drew, you made a very good point that I
want to say. Mitch Barnhardt in that article, he has
one more thing that's important. He says, he's sort of
explaining the dip in how Kentucky has performed, and I
want you to I want to read you this quote.
If everybody will reflect on the program that Mark inherited,
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where he took us eight straight years. By the way,
he doesn't have a clause after that, that's not a sentence,
but nevertheless it's what he says. If everyone will reflect
on the program that Stoops inherited and where he took
us for eight straight years, then the changes in the
world of college athletics occurred, and it was a struggle
for us for a couple of years just to try
and find our way. So in the middle part we
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all were fine and everything was good, and now we're
having to adjust. I think it isn't it worth noting
that the struggles which is what he's talking about within IL,
everyone myself included in us, we're warning Mitch that we
were behind, Like everybody was saying, Mitch, you are behind,
and he was insisting he wasn't. And now he's using
the excuse of being behind as an excuse when at
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the time he was saying he wasn't behind honestly.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Of everything in this interview, the stoop stuff, all of it,
the nil part stood out to me the most because
I was thinking, in real time, felt like every morning
we're being like, is Michigan to say anything about in IL,
like other ads are making videos telling fans can participate, Yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
How can you be doing and then use the fact
that you chose to be behind as an excuse? You
did that? Remember we saw we were here. Now I
give him a lot of credit, he's reverse course, but
the reason there was that two year dip was you.
I mean That's actually something I don't blame Mark for.
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We were two years behind on NIL because Mitch and
Cal would not embrace it at first. Now, Mark tried
to embrace it at first, the university foughting. He did
it privately, and he kind of kept the program afloat
for in like twenty two or like twenty two and
twenty three on his own, and then it kind of
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I think hit us last year. But that's on Mitch
in some ways, right.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Yeah, he was openly critical of in IL. Remember he
talked about there thought there'd be problems in the locker
room and things that happened if they went that rout.
So he tried to stay away from it as long
as he possibly could, I think.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
And there's so many other schools just being open about it. Tennessee,
especially their ad was like making videos and playing in
the stadium like fans, we need your money, and it
was just silent over here because they were afraid to
get involved.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yeah, So I actually don't. I mean, I'm glad they
did the interview. I think John Hall did a good
job with it, and I guess I'm glad he did it,
but I actually don't think he helped himself at all.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
You just that one line there at the end, then
that one sentence, and I'm still proud of this contract.
That line right there alone is what's going to be.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
So if you were trying to read the tea leaves
and say, does this sound like a coach who would
make a change at the end of or at ad
that would make a change at the end of the year,
what would you say.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
From what you just read? No?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Did you read the whole story?
Speaker 7 (20:08):
No?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I didn't even he know this second story came out
this morning, the one yesterday.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You read the story, would you what would you take
about it?
Speaker 6 (20:16):
I would I've always wondered, what like a five win
or if it's close, like if four wins. It seems
like if it's close, Mitch would lean keeping him. I
still think if it's if you don't win an SEC game,
he's made it to where you have to make a move.
But it does sound like if it's kind of one,
if it's on the fence, I think Mitch would lean
towards keeping him a little bit.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
That's exactly how I read it. I kind of read
it as if it's three or four, he doesn't have
a choice. If it's six, he's keeping him. And then
the question was what would happen if it's five. If
you read that, I think five sounds like he would
lean to.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Keep it like they're they're working there. We improved from
last year. Big On will ignore the fact that we
fell so far, but with three or four.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I don't there's nothing that you can There's nothing they.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
That'll take care of itself. The pressure will be so
bad if they don't win more games.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
And you made a good point when we made that
extension to go from twenty five million dollars by out
to thirty eight. I think I put in my tweet ten.
What what Mitch meant was ten or it was lat like,
so that was that was I misread that. So it
was twenty five to thirty eight. But that addition, the
week before we had only beaten Northern Illinois by seven points.
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So Mitch is also I think, playing with history to
say the fans were asking for it. I don't think
the fans were against it. But he was not there.
We were not standing outside the gates going to extend.
Mark stoops right now.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
And when he says four and oh, you think, oh,
we're four and oh, I think noting that three of
those were the cupcake teams that season. We're in the
first four games is an important details. Beat Florida, Yeah,
and that's that was huge, not taking that away from him,
But the other three, you know, there are different versions
of four and oh in football.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I totally agree with that.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Well, we talked about the Lordell when I remember we
struggled to beat Youngstown State that day ruha at Crogerfield.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Did we Yeah? Came close.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
It was close for a while. I was sitting right
behind all the Stoops family and people, and they were
like laughing and goofing off.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Because that was the one that he had won. That
was the big homecoming where they had the party and
all that. Yep, that's when Mark Stoop's friend knocked Max
across the room. Really have we never told that before?
I don't know if all this story yeah, never mind
wow A five nine twenty two eighty seven. Uh the
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two five four. We'll take your calls on this. Plus.
Yesterday UK basketball got in front of the media at
SEC Media Day and there was one universal thing. Every
single person said the same thing, and it was the
number nine. They all said it. It's clearly being ingrained
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in them Title nine, not Title nine, the law, but
the win Title nine. That was the message. We'll talk
about it next here, Okayazar TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney,
called TJ. He'll make them.
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you hear about what happened in London with the rapper
that closed down the interstate to do a music video
and got arrested.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I saw this story, but I don't know who the
rapper was.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
The rapper was Armani White.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I don't know this person.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Armani White was driving down the interstate apparently stopped right
there next to like Exit forty one or whatever, just
got out of his car, blocked the interstate and started
filming a music.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Video, got up on the concrete wall or shot on the.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Concrete wall, was filming the music video. Traffic stopped and
the city police in London arrested him, and now he
has being He's going to be charged with something. I'm
not exactly sure, but basically you can't just stop on
the interstate and film a music video. London has had
the craziest both you know, had the tragedy of the tornado.
(24:15):
You've been they've been trying to impeep to the mayor.
They impeached him. Now he's back. You have the videos
of the city council people getting in fights with people
in the parking lot, and now rappers stopping on the
interstate to do videos.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
I really need to see the video of this come out.
I'm not encouraging you should do it, but I'm wondering
if he's trying to do like a play on London.
We have a Paris, Like jay Z has a lyric
in London. I pulled the bins up. Is this guy
just trying to shortcut all of our you know, London, Paris,
all these things and make make it around the world.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Dad, Do we have one of those?
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Yeah, we do, Yeah, But the audacity to just pull
over on the interstate and just think this is my
set to make a video.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
So that's like a bunch shot like he got taken
to the Laurel County Correctional Facility. He's uh is Armani White?
Is he a big rapper? President? Because he is a
little bit?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Because the story called him a quote famous rapper.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yeah, well, but I didn't know if that was just
like somebody got asked to write it. Who doesn't know
who a famous rapper is?
Speaker 6 (25:18):
But I saw he's opening for te Pain currently, so
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
As one single, it says that peaked at number fifty
eight on the Billboard.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
So you got up to fifty eight on the bill
so famous. But the thing is, you can't just be
stopping on the interstate in London and think you can
just film a music video. You have to have a
permit for that in the city of London.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
But now that he's done it, I think we should
let him finish the production. He can't go do it again.
But let's let's get the final problem.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I'm getting arrested should be part of the video.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
It should be they should have kept the camera rolling.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Yes, they should have.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I would think who's up first? Shit, Trevor, Trevvor, go ahead, Trevor.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
Hey man, this is Trevor out of London. First off,
what is it always do.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
And so you're in London? What a coincidence? I bet
the words spread. I bet the words spread quickly.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Yeah, yeah, it did, and it was It's all over
the Facebook and stuff. But my question for yeah, my
question is so towards the end there with Cal, the
relationship between Stoops and cow seemed to be a little
bit weird, a little bit off. Yeah, between the two.
So with Pope being so positive and it seems like
(26:29):
everybody loves him and we're in the transition from football
to basketball and Stoops with the with the fans, is
the kind of on the outs. What's the relationship like
between Stoops and.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I've heard the relationship between Stoops and Pope is great.
I've not heard one. I appreciate the call. Pope I
think gets along with everybody, you know, and to be
fair to Cal, I think that was like that with
him for a long time. I think the moment the
relationship col when we've talked about Cal's relationship with the Booster,
(27:00):
with eight with everybody, that's when it started getting worse
with the other coaches as well. I mean, there was
a time coaches could bring their recruits to go see Cal.
I think that stopped after COVID, but Stoops and Cow's
relationship became very, very toxic at the end. You saw
it get public after the basketball school comment, But the
(27:23):
reason that comment came about is it had been very
toxic the year before that anyway, for a variety of reasons.
I think the Stoops Cal toxicity really started within IL.
I mean Cal had the belief that few k football
should get nothing. I mean that was his kind of belief.
His belief was, look, well he said it right, we're
(27:43):
a basketball school. Yeah, so the idea that we're giving
money to football, what are you doing? I don't think
that's been Mark Pope's view at all. And so Pope
and Stoops have gone. But you have done well. But
Stoops and Cow was a very very toxic relationship. And
then of course it got public ryan when those comments
were made, but it was toxic before that.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Early in Cal's tenure, he was great. He would not
just entertain football recruits, he would entertain volleyball recruits, tennis recruits.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
The coaches would.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Bring people in and he would try to sell the university.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Cal was very gracious when we were losing he liked it. No,
I mean he could like he was. He was very
gracious to Joker, He was gracious to stupents in those
early years. I think that season, I think what happened
is when we had with those that Will Levis year.
Remember our basketball team was stinking.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Just come off that bad what nine and sixteen.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Size, So this you gotta remember where we were were
then the basketball team had just had that awful year.
Then here comes this Will Levish year where we're great
and this kind of felt a little bit like a
football school for a year or two, right, and then
Cal's struggling and he's getting fan pushback for the first time,
(28:58):
and I think that's when the tension really really mounted.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
Yeah, I've heard of riffs also behind the scenes. We've
talked a lot about how Cal and Barnhardt weren't exactly close,
and Cal would go rogue and wanted to run basketball
as his own thing, and that would lead to times
where there's like a UK athletics coaching event and everybody's
there and it's like we're where's Cal, But Stoops is
there and everyone else is there, and it kind of
just them getting annoyed of like Cal kind of being
off on himself over there with the basketball offices where
(29:23):
everybody else was still doing a lot of things together.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
And it's like, and I'm there, you could also, I
don't think you could underestimate the role that the high
school cafeteria, that is Jeff Ruby's played in that. I mean,
I'm not kidding, like you know what I mean. I mean,
Jeff Rubies, every Friday Saturday night would be the football
and basketball staff. And while the staffs kind of got along,
(29:48):
there was some football people on this side of the room,
basketball people on this side of the room. Basketball people
would sit in a private room in the back. Football
people would sit with the people, right, And I think,
I know that sounds dumb, but at the end of
the day, these are just human beings, right, And there
was a mean girl's cafeteria sense a little bit with
(30:08):
the staffs, Is that fair to say?
Speaker 5 (30:10):
And you know you're you're closer to Vince than anybody,
and Vince is the king down there. Jeff Rubies I
never thought though he had a problem with anybody with basketball.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
He towards the end didn't like cow. He loved the
rest of the staff. Uh, But towards the end I
mean when he lost, Vince was the kind of last
cow holdout and he even lost him kind at the end.
But I'm not trying to Cow lost everybody at the end.
I mean, name me someone involved with UK Athletics that
(30:38):
by the end was a cow defender. Actually, I have one,
and his name's Mitch Barnhardt. Until even one he did
but that but on a personal level, he didn't like him.
That's true.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
That goes way back because they just didn't have much
of a working relationship.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
I don't think there was one really at the end.
I mean, maybe somebody could could make me think of one,
but I I can't think of one at the end.
Who's up next? Dan, Dan? Go ahead?
Speaker 7 (31:03):
Dan, Hey, I'd have a comment in a question. I'm
not sure what would be excitable, what would motivate Virginia
Tech like their fan base, why why would they be
excited about Stukes? And my question is I think Stukes,
you know, he should go to a major program, but
become the defensive coordinator. In a dream world, I'd love
(31:24):
to see him become the DC at Louisville and that
way we could just kind of.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
If Mark Steukes became the defensive coordinator at Louisville, that
would be that would certainly add a ramp up the right.
I think he is kind of born to some extent,
he'll I mean, if he wanted to, and I appreciate
the Calle drew, if he wanted to when he left here,
he could be the defensive coordinator and a big time program.
He could do it anywhere.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
But when you've been the boss for so long, you've
got millions on top of your millions on top of
your millions, would you want to go work for someone
else at a lesser position in the same field.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, I mean I want to do that. He's making
nine million dollars a year. If he becomes the defensive
coordinator at Bayama, what's he making million and a half two?
I mean, that's a huge that's a huge go down, right.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Unless he is going to do it for a year
or two with hopes of getting another head coaching job
somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
He'll get one one day if he wants. I mean,
first of all, we're acting like he's done. He's he
may be the coach here for a long time.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
I mean, I don't know if it got to that
point you really wanted to just get on a staff.
So we found another job. I could see Kirby. He
and Kirby are close. I could see him puttinghim there.
But if it were me and I were him in
this world to end soon, I would take my money
and enjoy the beach.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
By the way, Kirby is still insisting he did not
call a timeout. It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
They're just video evidence showing you calling this time out.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
In his press conference, they were like, we saw you
make a tea and he was like, no, you didn't.
It's mouthing time out.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
It was an optical illusion.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
It was an optical illusion. I mean, yeah, it was ai.
He still says no. I was just saying they were clapping,
and is this the sound for clapping? This is the
tea with your hand.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
While yelling time out, yelling time in his ear while.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Running towards the rest.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
What a lie?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Like?
Speaker 5 (33:14):
What?
Speaker 4 (33:15):
What an absolute lie? I've always liked Kirby smart, but
that's like the linest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
A simple You caught me heat of the moment being competitive.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I'm wrong, you got me? No, just say just something
like that. And I was trying to pull like I
was trying to pull one on you. Did you see
what Lane Kiffin said about it? Did you see that?
Somebody asked Sharon, I couldn't believe Lake Kivin said this.
Somebody asked Lane Kiffin they played Georgia this weekend. Who
burns more calories during the game? You are Kirby Smith
(33:45):
or Kirby Smart. And his answer was, I just saw
Kirby Smart's press conference this morning. Doesn't look like to
me he's burned too many few, too many?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Wow, Wow, he burns a lot from all that clapping
he does.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
I mean, whoa. Everybody says they're friends and he's kidding,
but still that was kind.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Of I've gotten where I really enjoy Lankift. I hated
him at Tennessee and he's just so open and the
stuff like this and picking on fine Bomb.
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Sports Radio. Welcome back at this Kentucky Sports Radio. If
I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, it
is uh weingsday. We'll open up here in fifteen minutes.
Come on and join us. And also remember trivia tonight.
I have about two thirds of the questions done, so
after we finished cover zero, I'll do the last ones.
It's the first first night of season six of of
(35:00):
Matt Jones Trivia. We have we've had five different champions
over the court or we've had five groups. One group
won twice, but we've had many different champions.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Yeah, the right Levan Dream Team needs to bounce back.
We did not do well in the finals you had
this last week.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
There were what thirty one teams? You came in like twenty.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Eight I think so yeah, maybe even twenty ninth.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Are you gonna be here tonight?
Speaker 5 (35:23):
I can't make it tonight, but the Dream Team is
still active. We're gonna come back and qualify one of
these Wednesday nights.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
All right, Well, come on out. You can call in
this afternoon later and make your reservation or come out.
That should be should be able to seat you regardless,
and should be a good crowd to seven.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Getting a lot of the Wings Day deals too.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yep, Adam Sandler's here to mind? Would you want to
see Adam Sandler?
Speaker 5 (35:45):
I actually would like to go on. I have son
Gavin's work in the concert, you know, setting up the
stage and stuff. But that's something I think I would
want to go.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I mean, what do you have to do? I mean,
you clearly you have no one at home. I mean
you've you've been very clear that you just sit and
stare into space. Why don't you just go?
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Well, my parents are coming in tonight, so they would
like it, probably big.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Lunch Lady Land fans.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Probably, they would like it, probably more than I would.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Yeah, so why don't you take them? That would be
a nice sun thing to do. I mean, I'm sure
we can if you're where I can see you in
your head. How much is a good cost? Like? I couldnot?
I mean we could, we could find a way to
get you tickets.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
I'll check with them when they come in the night
and see if they want to go tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Somebody with free tickets?
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Yeah, if only you knew somebody that gives one way
on the pre show like every day, it feels like
you could.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
They did give away a lot of those tickets. I
don't think they offered us any at all, did they?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Because you haven't asked, gonna give you one? I mean,
they don't just like come to your house and go, Ryan?
Would you like these tickets? Like you do? Have to?
You do have to take some initiative.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Okay, I'm gonna check. I want to work on this.
I would like to. I would personally like to go.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
He acts like this is an unfixable solution shaped yeah.
I like, like if one could figure out how you
get them saying Lork ten years, how would that possibly work.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
I don't think he wants to go that bad.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
I don't think so. And he's gonna blame his parents,
even though your parents probably would like to go.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
Are you gonna try to go?
Speaker 4 (37:03):
I can't, but I would like I genuinely, I mean
would go if I have to go to Louisville Thursday
evening or I would definitely do it.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Did you ever watch The Happy Gilmour two?
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Uh? No, not yet.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
I watched it. It's it was good for about halfway
and then it kind of got a little little off
the rails a little bit.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
I don't know if you saw the Lexington is going
to do a massive renovation of New Circle Roads over
there where all the traffic lights are. They're going to
try to make it to where if you've ever been
over there during rush hour, don't there's traffic lights, and
then it's danger and it's just just like people running
out in the street. I mean it's it's it's literally
(37:42):
from like Richmond Road to what Brian to Bryan's station,
basically that whole and all that. So anyway, they're gonna
do a massive renovation, so they're having uh uh. They've
put out what they're gonna do, and they're inviting public
comment on whether it's a good idea. And I had
(38:03):
somebody write me last night and say, for a man
that wants to be mayor and who has had strong
opinions about traffic, Ryan, do you think you should publicly
comment on the New Circle renovation. It would be a
good chance for you to show your city leadership skills.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Well, I appreciate you asking me my advice on because
I really put a lot of thought in processing. I
got a team working on it right now. I've always
thought since I moved to electing, why is this supposed
to be this this bypass around the city of Lexxington,
and yet half of it is loaded with all these
stoplights over there.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Well that's what they're gonna try to fix.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Get rid of them.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Okay, how would you do it? Like it's you can't
just take them away? Are their businesses over there? You
have to crosswalks. They're crosswalks. I mean there are people
that that's the only way. That's the only way you
can get from one side of town to the other.
So what what would you do.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
I'm going to like build one of these well, like
we have on the other side, just build the intersections
that are up you got to exit off down to
get to the lower level. I'm gonna build a lot
of the intersections on all those stoplights. We're having a
lot of intersections where you egged off though right now
there where they have a stoplight, We're gonna have the
intersection there's no stoplight.
Speaker 7 (39:05):
You know.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Then what are you gonna do about the businesses?
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Well, they're gonna still survive because you're gonna be able
to exit off the new Circle Road. And get down
there to them. We're gonna we're gonna raise it. We're
gonna raise new Circle Road.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
You're gonna build like a mountains of multi level Yeah wow,
it may be way up in the sky, but we're
gonna get you over that.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
All that traffic and all of.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Sudden this is sound.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
So the road is up in the air, the road
is up in the air. What about a what about
a pedestrian bridge on the current road where they could
go over?
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Yeah, it ofss the street.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
It's like that.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Seems like it'd be a little cheaper than taking the.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Whole road up on that side of the new Circle road.
It is like Frogger with guys trying to cross across
the road at crazy places. So we're gonna have our
own little walkway areas when down on the you know,
not only up upside air stuff.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
If I May is one of your advisors, they have
a system that they've used people with actual archit textual
skills to come out on my tea my team. Wouldn't
it be easier to go look at theirs and comment
than for you to out of the blue create a
new system.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
Well see where we're testing it right now in Least
Town Road. We're gonna build that double diamond over there
with the overpass, so we're gonna do a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
That's the problem. But again you're missing the point. On
Lee'stown Road. There are no businesses on New Circle Road.
The problem here is the businesses are on New Circle Road.
They're not off of New Circle Road, they're on them.
What are you gonna do for them that they're gonna
give about Popeyes and Little Caesars.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
They're gonna be okay. Now, the sidewalk in front of them,
that may be gone. We may be doing a way
out sidewalk.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
Do you hate sidewalks? Sidewalks not less.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
The people don't walk on sidewalks. They just want to
walk right across the street.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
On sidewalks.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
They don't go down to the legal area. They just
cross wherever.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
They are walking on sidewalks everywhere right now, Yeah, not
in Lexington.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
We're not big sidewalk people. We just like to walk
across the road.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
He's hurting his pat I'm worried.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Yeah, who's NeXT's Justin?
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Justin? Go ahead, Justin.
Speaker 8 (41:08):
Hey, I've been listening for a few years and I
was wondering, where did you come up with a hua.
Whenever someone says first time long time, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Don't remember they uh uh. There was a there was
like an ESPN show that people would say first time,
long time, and then they'd hit a button and a
sound came, and so maybe maybe I just at one
point did it. It's just kind of it just kind
of happened, you know, you don't all of a sudden
you're just doing it all the time.
Speaker 8 (41:38):
Oh okay, well that's all I appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 5 (41:40):
With the Fabulous Sports, Babe, you'd call her show first
time long time a bam, she'd hit one of those
soud machines.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
First of all, I've never won. I've never one time
listened to The Fabulous Sports. I know it didn't come
from The Fabulous Sports.
Speaker 5 (41:56):
Yeah, that's what she used to hit the first time
long time. She'd hit a button and all these sound
effects would go off.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
I believe you, But that's not where I got it,
because I've never listened to that.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Yeah, I think by the time we started, she was
long gone. She was super popular for a long time,
like in the late eighties, early nineties, like super popular.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
I mean, I know who she is. She was the
first national sports show. Yeah, syndicated, Yeah, first name. A
lot of people don't realize that first national syndicated sports
daily show was a woman. A lot of people don't
know that we do those noises again though, sounds like
nonet of sound effect that I don't make any of
those sounds. We'll take a break of me right back
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We got Ryan Lemon's former news directors in the house.
How are you doing?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
First ever news director John Stern from Channel seven Eyewitness
News in Evansville. It was eyewitness Oh, eyewitnessed.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
What news did you witness when you were.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
There's all kind of news going on.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
It was the biggest news story while you worked in Evansville.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Well, there was a horrific plane crash.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Well, way to bring the mood down on the show. Okay,
but I did ask.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Yeah, Yeah, that was that. That was tough. That shook
the whole community for a long.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
What about the biggest sports story?
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Well, Don Mattingly had just, you know, became famous and
was like tearing up the American Lady with the Yankees
when I was working there.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
So why was that a big story in Evansville?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Oh, he's from Evansville. I'm sorry, Okay, he's an Evansville guy.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I just thought you just anything Don Mattingly did, well,
big deal. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
I used to be an eyewitness to Ryan on Eyewitness News.
Watched him every night.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Wow, got of the Scott Rowland highlights.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Scott Rowling, you gay, Scott rolled his first ever TV interview.
I gave Walter McCarty his first ever TV interview.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
So you're you're saying Walter McCarty, Scott Rowland and Don
Mattingly all owe something to you.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Absolutely, yes, God's started them on their way.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Well good, well if I'm nine two eight h h
twenty two eighty seven, it is a beautiful day outside.
We are two days away from a huge weekend in Lexington.
You've got the Blue White game. Uh, You've got the
UK Texas. It's gonna be its parents weekend. Adam Sandler
is in town Thursday night, U Drew. I think this
is one of Keenland. This is one of the big
(02:33):
weekends you had in Lexi October in the city.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun for everyone participating,
but to anyone just trying to get around town and.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Live their regular life, terrible.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
I'm expecting absolute chaos. But it is good for election.
This will be one of the biggest weekends of the year.
This will be a great weekend here at the bar too.
That's what I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
The pregame was seven o'clock game against Texas. You know
you're we'll have people in here the night before because
the blue white and parents we get coming to town
and then all day Saturday. The reason, uh, you know,
because when we reopened this we we had some talks about,
you know, do we wanna do we want to keep
doing this, and we keep doing it for days like Saturday,
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where this place is is a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
It becomes a special place to be on game day.
You do your pregame, you're tailgating here, and then go
to the game and it sounds like there's gonna be
a really good crowd. I mean, tickets are kind of
hard to get, and the ones that are get are
expensive because people are gobbling them up.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Can I tell a quick story? I wasn't gonna tell
this story, but I feel like I'm gonna want to.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
It's a storytelling uncle Matt.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
All right, So this is a true story. Happened to
me on uh on last week? All right. So I
got a phone call from my agent on Thursday and
he said, hey, Matt, Uh, there's somebody that wants to
talk to you. It's it's it's fairly important, and you
need to keep your phone on you all day, like
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as soon as they call you need to be able
to answer. This was a media person like, so I
can't really say what it is. You just have to
just just assume, big deal, big media person. I say, okay.
They're like, and look if he calls her in the show,
you got to find a way to jump off the
show and take the call.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
You told me the other day to be ready.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I mean, I was like, I may have to jump
and take a call. All right, So get through the morning,
no call, show, no call, get to the afternoon. I
have to go, uh to the to the doctor, trying
to figure out, you know, trying to uh make sure
these floaters I have are okay, and they're OKAYO right,
but I'm going But I say the doctor, I'm like, listen, doc,
(04:33):
I hate to do this, but if I get a
phone call, I have to take it, okay, Yeah, And
he was like all right, fine whatever. Of course, during
the show, phone rings, and I know from earlier that
the person called me he's gonna have a two O
two number, right, Okay, phone rings two O two number.
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I look at the doctor, I'm like, I'm sorry, I
have to take this call. I feel bad, but I
have to. Hello, sperson goes hey, Matt, what's up, but
like in a familiar way.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
So I'm you know, remember me, I'm thinking this is
media person. Then the guy goes, so, what do you
know about sperm racing?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Sperm racing?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Sperm racing? You would like to bring it to ks
Bar the day of the Texas game.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Sperm racing?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yes? And I said, who is this? It was not
my boss, It was not the media person. This was
just some random person and they were wanting to set
up in the parking lot something to talk about male
infertility and have an eight hundred person tailgate here about
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sperm racing. I said, sir, can I call you back?
I'm in the doctor. I get off the phone. Call
back now. I want you to think. Here's the thing.
You know, You're in a little tiny office with the doctor.
He heard all that, and I said, and I looked,
and I could tell by his face he's wanting to
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I could tell he'd heard it and he's wanted to
talk about it. And he goes, so was that implance?
So was that important? And I said that was not
the media person. I don't know what it was. So
I had to decline. Drew that event here in the
parking lot for UK Texas. I said, we're already going
to be very crowded. We can't have that. But somewhere
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in Lexington is an eight hundred person event happening on Saturday.
In terms of the things that are going to be
happening in this city.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
I'm glad you explained it, as you know, trying to
help people with health issues. I didn't know where we
were going. This is a restaurant that would hurt our
health score.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
That was hard.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
That makes a little more sense. I would call it
something differently, you know what.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I think they do it to get your attention, but
I think it's gonna I think that backfires, in my opinion.
But they wanted to take up the whole parking lot
to do it, and I was like you, not only it's.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Good for a health score, We're a restaurant, you know.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
So anyway, never ended up. I turned that down, right.
I hope you're okay.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
You know, we're usually open to any kind of propop
to that. I'm open to that.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
We were not open to that, all right. I wanna
For the last few weeks, or the last couple weeks,
we've been talking a lot about the Stoop situation. I
thought to myself yesterday I do not want to open
with that again. But then I don't think we have
a choice because and again I want to give credit
to Harold Leader. Here, they got Mitch Barnhart for an interview,
and Mitch Barnhart made a couple of quotes that I
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think we just have to discuss. He's asked about basically
about the Stoop situation and the contract, and I'm gonna
read you both both things. Now. This is all in
the Hair Leader. You can read. John Hale has an interview.
John Hale does two stories, one of which is he
traces Mark Stoop's contract from the first one to now
so you can see see how it's advanced. It's kind
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of fascinating. But let's start with the most important question,
which is he was asked if about his confidence in
Mark Stoops. Here's Mitch Barnhart's quote, and I want to
get your two euros take on it. Quote, Mark is
working hard. Can I promise everything that everybody wants me
to promise? No, there's no promise. We can play our
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hearts out and go have one tough moment that goes
against you in a game and all of a sudden,
you find yourself with a loss that you didn't want.
And that doesn't mean you didn't give effort, you didn't
your work your way through it. But Mark and his
guys are working hard. Now. I have a reaction to that, Drew,
what's yours? Well?
Speaker 6 (08:40):
First, I rolled my eyes because kind of back to
work and we're working is getting They're big on getting
back to work on Monday. I've been like that for
a long time. It kind of just feels like Barnhart's
throwing out a little bit of support for Stoops and
just gonna let the result tell the end of the
tell the story at the end of the season, And
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is how I took it.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
It wasn't a lot of support. He was like, I mean,
it's kind of just kicking it down to I mean,
he says we can play our hearts out and then
not win. I mean that's it's almost like he's like
acknowledging he may not win very many games the rest
of the year.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
At least he's saying, I'm gonna we got his back.
But uh, it wasn't vote of confidence, but it just
seems like he's he's will know at the end of
the year, So he's gonna let him play it out
and the wins will tell the story.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Yeah, there was. That was no vote of confidence at
all for your coach. I read it. I took it
as like, like, I'm gonna use you as an example.
You were just talking about you in high school basketball. You know,
the guy that sits at the end of.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
The good sign for Mark Stoops if you're using my
high school basketball career as an example.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
The guy that sits at the end of the bench.
Good guy. Man, he works hard. He really a hard worker. No,
you're never gonna get on the floor, not gonna be
able to play, but boy, you sure are a hard worker.
That's how I heard that terogram.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
You know, well, that's not a good sign for his
future because they did ask me to be a manager
halfway through my career, so I don't know that that
will help him now. The next so part two of
the article came out today, and I think it's the
more important part. He traces Mark Stoops Mark Stoop's time here.
By the way, do you know what Mark soops first
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deal with Kentucky was No, five years, eleven million dollars.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Wow, he makes that pretty much almost makes any.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Five years eleven million dollars. Now he's making over nine
million dollars every season. But this is the key people
may not remember. At the end of the twenty twenty
one season, he signed an extension. Okay, so he signed
an extension that was very similar to his other extensions.
It had a buy out of around twenty twenty five
million dollars, and it was very similar to the other season.
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He was making like seven million a year, et cetera.
We win the first four games of the twenty twenty
two season. Do you remember who we beat? Miami of Ohio.
Youngstown was the other one. Mike Florida was the big one, Florida,
and then one more so three bad teams in Florida.
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All right, at four and oh, we give him another extension.
Now here's this extension raises the buyout from twenty five
million right now to thirty eight million. So raises is
it by thirteen years, makes the buyout do within sixty
days of leaving, and extends him for three more years.
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John Hall asked Mitch Barnard, why did you do that?
Four games into the season. This was after we blocked
that kick, you remember, and ran it back for the
against Florida. Here was his answer. We were four and
oh going and and by the way, we signed the contract.
Do you remember three days later we lost to Vandy
at home. That was the kind of the start of
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the slide. We're six and twenty in the sec since
that contract. He said, we were four and oh going
into that and there was a lot of talk around
our program and a lot of talk about Mark being
in the running for other jobs. This is the key quote.
Our fans wanted us to make sure we didn't lose
a guy that had been so beneficial to our program,
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And so we walked through that. We were thankful to
be able to sceer him as our football coach and
keep him around and make sure he's a Wildcat. And
I'm still proud of that today.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Ooh could have gone without that last sentence.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
There's an unnecessary sentence there. That last sentence is a
sentence that's getting some traction online. Two things that I
want to ask you about that. What about the first
comment our fans wanted us to make sure we didn't
lose a guy. Do you think that was true? Four
games into the twenty twenty two season.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
I'm trying to remember. I mean, we'd just come off
the Citrus Bold win with Will Levis. The year before,
we had ten wins. Now we're four and all the
next year we're talking about building a statue for the guy.
I think he's the greatest coach in the history of
college football.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
But do you think you need to do it right then?
Because because you do it on a Tuesday, we lose
at home to Vandy the next week. I think there's
a really good chance you don't give him that. Yes,
if you lost to Vane, waited one more week, if
you had waited one more week, well.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
If they truly did it after four and oh, I
have the schedule, now you're three of your four wins
were Miami, Youngstown and Northern Illinois. Yeah left out Northern Illinois,
but they were eighth in the country. I guess with
that Florida win. But if it was truly after four wins,
then they went lost loss, win, lost, lost.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Loss, Like, yeah, well we lost to Vandy and then
we lost.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
As this was next open, then South Carolina next, because
it didn't come out till before the Vandy game. But
Barheart said after four games, they did it behind closed doors.
After four games didn't come We all found out before
the Vandi John Hill makes the point they didn't do
an announcement. It was only found out because somebody requested
something else and it was added on to it. So
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this extension that supposedly our fans wanted us to do,
they didn't even make a public.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Announcement about it. I think that's important if you're gonna say,
because look, I like, but this is kind of I
want to say. I think this is kind of a
BS thing to say. If you're gonna say our fans
wanted us to make sure we didn't lose the guy,
then why didn't you announce it. It only came out
because they requested some other public contract and it was
an added to it, and we found out. You're right
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before the Vandy game, which was later in the year.
But clearly you didn't do this because there was a
clamoring for him to stay. You didn't even make a
public announcement.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
About it, right writing history, If all the fans wanted it,
you would have made graphics and paraded that around.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
This was because hey, fans, we want you to know
we've got him. We wouldn't have found out because Bob
asked for the file about and then they accidentally I
don't remember they accidentally or intentionally, but they mark Stoop's
contract was part of that ran.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
I think Mitch Barnott was so afraid of losing Stoops
and losing cal Perry. He made these ridiculous off these
contract because he didn't He don't want me to the
guy that let Caliperry go to the U.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Wouldn't it just be more honest to go that? Yeah
the end to say I'm still proud of it, that
worries me. Yeah, if you still think that was a
good deal, Like I can accept people might make mistakes,
but Drew, if you still think that was a good decision.
Where we're sitting right now, I don't know what to
say at that point.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Now we all know the results, and now that I'm
looking at the schedule on him saying it was done
after four games in that same month, they lost to
Tennessee forty four to six. With two other wins that month,
it seems the moment pen went to paper, it just
completely flipped the switch. Winning went to losing instantly.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Got hurt, got hurt.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Yeah, So you know, so if you read those articles,
it doesn't seem like to me he's going Mark Stoops
will be here until the end of time. But he's
also and I feel like it's just deja vus. John
cal Perry, Mark Stoops, and Mitch Barnhardt all have extremely
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different personalities. They're not in any way the same person,
but they all have that stubborn streak where they can't
just say we made a mistake. And I know he
can't come out and say I made a mistake. I mean,
I I don't expect him to do that when he's here,
but the I'm still proud of that. It continues this
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view of people who are just like, well, I don't
I don't mess up everything else goes wrong. I am perfect,
and I that that just that just annoys me. We'll
take a break. Eight five nine two eight oh twenty
two eighty seven. Text Machine is seven seven two seven
seven four five two five four us KSR. Good song choice,
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shit and not gonna lie. Perfect for what we were
talking about. This is uh, what's his name? Now? Tell
me this sack? You got it? Mag Davis? That's right. Yeah,
he looks so good in his genes. I think he
says at some point, doesn't he Shannon. Yeah, eight five,
nine two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Scare Fest
is this weekend too. You said that's where ever Buddy's
in there. Halloween cost It's.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Like comic Con for Halloween. Just a lot of boos
and vendor son Halloween stuff, but people come dressed in
their costume.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
There's actors and stuff from like movies that will be
there too.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
And that's this weekend, this weekend too, not Adam Sandler
Thursday night Scarefest. I think Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Yeah, Drew, you made a very good point that I
want to say. Mitch Barnhardt in that article, he has
one more thing that's important. He says, he's sort of
explaining the dip in how Kentucky has performed, and I
want you to I want to read you this quote.
If everybody will reflect on the program that Mark inherited,
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where he took us eight straight years. By the way,
he doesn't have a clause after that, that's not a sentence,
but nevertheless it's what he says. If everyone will reflect
on the program that Stoops inherited and where he took
us for eight straight years, then the changes in the
world of college athletics occurred, and it was a struggle
for us for a couple of years just to try
and find our way. So in the middle part we
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all were fine and everything was good, and now we're
having to adjust. I think it isn't it worth noting
that the struggles which is what he's talking about within IL,
everyone myself included in us, we're warning Mitch that we
were behind, Like everybody was saying, Mitch, you are behind,
and he was insisting he wasn't. And now he's using
the excuse of being behind as an excuse when at
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the time he was saying he wasn't behind honestly.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Of everything in this interview, the stoop stuff, all of it,
the nil part stood out to me the most because
I was thinking, in real time, felt like every morning
we're being like, is Michigan to say anything about in IL,
like other ads are making videos telling fans can participate, Yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
How can you be doing and then use the fact
that you chose to be behind as an excuse? You
did that? Remember we saw we were here. Now I
give him a lot of credit, he's reverse course, but
the reason there was that two year dip was you.
I mean That's actually something I don't blame Mark for.
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We were two years behind on NIL because Mitch and
Cal would not embrace it at first. Now, Mark tried
to embrace it at first, the university foughting. He did
it privately, and he kind of kept the program afloat
for in like twenty two or like twenty two and
twenty three on his own, and then it kind of
(19:13):
I think hit us last year. But that's on Mitch
in some ways, right.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Yeah, he was openly critical of in IL. Remember he
talked about there thought there'd be problems in the locker
room and things that happened if they went that rout.
So he tried to stay away from it as long
as he possibly could, I think.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
And there's so many other schools just being open about it. Tennessee,
especially their ad was like making videos and playing in
the stadium like fans, we need your money, and it
was just silent over here because they were afraid to
get involved.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yeah, So I actually don't. I mean, I'm glad they
did the interview. I think John Hall did a good
job with it, and I guess I'm glad he did it,
but I actually don't think he helped himself at all.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
You just that one line there at the end, then
that one sentence, and I'm still proud of this contract.
That line right there alone is what's going to be.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
So if you were trying to read the tea leaves
and say, does this sound like a coach who would
make a change at the end of or at ad
that would make a change at the end of the year,
what would you say.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
From what you just read? No?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Did you read the whole story?
Speaker 7 (20:08):
No?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I didn't even he know this second story came out
this morning, the one yesterday.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You read the story, would you what would you take
about it?
Speaker 6 (20:16):
I would I've always wondered, what like a five win
or if it's close, like if four wins. It seems
like if it's close, Mitch would lean keeping him. I
still think if it's if you don't win an SEC game,
he's made it to where you have to make a move.
But it does sound like if it's kind of one,
if it's on the fence, I think Mitch would lean
towards keeping him a little bit.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
That's exactly how I read it. I kind of read
it as if it's three or four, he doesn't have
a choice. If it's six, he's keeping him. And then
the question was what would happen if it's five. If
you read that, I think five sounds like he would
lean to.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Keep it like they're they're working there. We improved from
last year. Big On will ignore the fact that we
fell so far, but with three or four.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I don't there's nothing that you can There's nothing they.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
That'll take care of itself. The pressure will be so
bad if they don't win more games.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
And you made a good point when we made that
extension to go from twenty five million dollars by out
to thirty eight. I think I put in my tweet ten.
What what Mitch meant was ten or it was lat like,
so that was that was I misread that. So it
was twenty five to thirty eight. But that addition, the
week before we had only beaten Northern Illinois by seven points.
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So Mitch is also I think, playing with history to
say the fans were asking for it. I don't think
the fans were against it. But he was not there.
We were not standing outside the gates going to extend.
Mark stoops right now.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
And when he says four and oh, you think, oh,
we're four and oh, I think noting that three of
those were the cupcake teams that season. We're in the
first four games is an important details. Beat Florida, Yeah,
and that's that was huge, not taking that away from him,
But the other three, you know, there are different versions
of four and oh in football.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I totally agree with that.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Well, we talked about the Lordell when I remember we
struggled to beat Youngstown State that day ruha at Crogerfield.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Did we Yeah? Came close.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
It was close for a while. I was sitting right
behind all the Stoops family and people, and they were
like laughing and goofing off.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Because that was the one that he had won. That
was the big homecoming where they had the party and
all that. Yep, that's when Mark Stoop's friend knocked Max
across the room. Really have we never told that before?
I don't know if all this story yeah, never mind
wow A five nine twenty two eighty seven. Uh the
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two five four quickly wanted to ask you, Ryan, did
you hear about what happened in London with the rapper
that closed down the interstate to do a music video
and got arrested.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I saw this story, but I don't know who the
rapper was.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
The rapper was Armani White.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I don't know this person.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Armani White was driving down the interstate apparently stopped right
there next to like Exit forty one or whatever, just
got out of his car, blocked the interstate and started
filming a music.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Video, got up on the concrete wall or shot on the.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Concrete wall, was filming the music video. Traffic stopped and
the city police in London arrested him, and now he
has being He's going to be charged with something. I'm
not exactly sure, but basically you can't just stop on
the interstate and film a music video. London has had
the craziest both you know, had the tragedy of the tornado.
(24:15):
You've been they've been trying to impeep to the mayor.
They impeached him. Now he's back. You have the videos
of the city council people getting in fights with people
in the parking lot, and now rappers stopping on the
interstate to do videos.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
I really need to see the video of this come out.
I'm not encouraging you should do it, but I'm wondering
if he's trying to do like a play on London.
We have a Paris, Like jay Z has a lyric
in London. I pulled the bins up. Is this guy
just trying to shortcut all of our you know, London, Paris,
all these things and make make it around the world.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Dad, Do we have one of those?
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Yeah, we do, Yeah, But the audacity to just pull
over on the interstate and just think this is my
set to make a video.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
So that's like a bunch shot like he got taken
to the Laurel County Correctional Facility. He's uh is Armani White?
Is he a big rapper? President? Because he is a
little bit?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Because the story called him a quote famous rapper.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yeah, well, but I didn't know if that was just
like somebody got asked to write it. Who doesn't know
who a famous rapper is?
Speaker 6 (25:18):
But I saw he's opening for te Pain currently, so
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
As one single, it says that peaked at number fifty
eight on the Billboard.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
So you got up to fifty eight on the bill
so famous. But the thing is, you can't just be
stopping on the interstate in London and think you can
just film a music video. You have to have a
permit for that in the city of London.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
But now that he's done it, I think we should
let him finish the production. He can't go do it again.
But let's let's get the final problem.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I'm getting arrested should be part of the video.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
It should be they should have kept the camera rolling.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Yes, they should have.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I would think who's up first? Shit, Trevor, Trevvor, go ahead, Trevor.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
Hey man, this is Trevor out of London. First off,
what is it always do.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
And so you're in London? What a coincidence? I bet
the words spread. I bet the words spread quickly.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Yeah, yeah, it did, and it was It's all over
the Facebook and stuff. But my question for yeah, my
question is so towards the end there with Cal, the
relationship between Stoops and cow seemed to be a little
bit weird, a little bit off. Yeah, between the two.
So with Pope being so positive and it seems like
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everybody loves him and we're in the transition from football
to basketball and Stoops with the with the fans, is
the kind of on the outs. What's the relationship like
between Stoops and.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I've heard the relationship between Stoops and Pope is great.
I've not heard one. I appreciate the call. Pope I
think gets along with everybody, you know, and to be
fair to Cal, I think that was like that with
him for a long time. I think the moment the
relationship col when we've talked about Cal's relationship with the Booster,
(27:00):
with eight with everybody, that's when it started getting worse
with the other coaches as well. I mean, there was
a time coaches could bring their recruits to go see Cal.
I think that stopped after COVID, but Stoops and Cow's
relationship became very, very toxic at the end. You saw
it get public after the basketball school comment, But the
(27:23):
reason that comment came about is it had been very
toxic the year before that anyway, for a variety of reasons.
I think the Stoops Cal toxicity really started within IL.
I mean Cal had the belief that few k football
should get nothing. I mean that was his kind of belief.
His belief was, look, well he said it right, we're
(27:43):
a basketball school. Yeah, so the idea that we're giving
money to football, what are you doing? I don't think
that's been Mark Pope's view at all. And so Pope
and Stoops have gone. But you have done well. But
Stoops and Cow was a very very toxic relationship. And
then of course it got public ryan when those comments
were made, but it was toxic before that.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Early in Cal's tenure, he was great. He would not
just entertain football recruits, he would entertain volleyball recruits, tennis recruits.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
The coaches would.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Bring people in and he would try to sell the university.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Cal was very gracious when we were losing he liked it. No,
I mean he could like he was. He was very
gracious to Joker, He was gracious to stupents in those
early years. I think that season, I think what happened
is when we had with those that Will Levis year.
Remember our basketball team was stinking.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Just come off that bad what nine and sixteen.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Size, So this you gotta remember where we were were
then the basketball team had just had that awful year.
Then here comes this Will Levish year where we're great
and this kind of felt a little bit like a
football school for a year or two, right, and then
Cal's struggling and he's getting fan pushback for the first time,
(28:58):
and I think that's when the tension really really mounted.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
Yeah, I've heard of riffs also behind the scenes. We've
talked a lot about how Cal and Barnhardt weren't exactly close,
and Cal would go rogue and wanted to run basketball
as his own thing, and that would lead to times
where there's like a UK athletics coaching event and everybody's
there and it's like we're where's Cal, But Stoops is
there and everyone else is there, and it kind of
just them getting annoyed of like Cal kind of being
off on himself over there with the basketball offices where
(29:23):
everybody else was still doing a lot of things together.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
And it's like, and I'm there, you could also, I
don't think you could underestimate the role that the high
school cafeteria, that is Jeff Ruby's played in that. I mean,
I'm not kidding, like you know what I mean. I mean,
Jeff Rubies, every Friday Saturday night would be the football
and basketball staff. And while the staffs kind of got along,
(29:48):
there was some football people on this side of the room,
basketball people on this side of the room. Basketball people
would sit in a private room in the back. Football
people would sit with the people, right, And I think,
I know that sounds dumb, but at the end of
the day, these are just human beings, right, And there
was a mean girl's cafeteria sense a little bit with
(30:08):
the staffs, Is that fair to say?
Speaker 5 (30:10):
And you know you're you're closer to Vince than anybody,
and Vince is the king down there. Jeff Rubies I
never thought though he had a problem with anybody with basketball.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
He towards the end didn't like cow. He loved the
rest of the staff. Uh, But towards the end I
mean when he lost, Vince was the kind of last
cow holdout and he even lost him kind at the end.
But I'm not trying to Cow lost everybody at the end.
I mean, name me someone involved with UK Athletics that
(30:38):
by the end was a cow defender. Actually, I have one,
and his name's Mitch Barnhardt. Until even one he did
but that but on a personal level, he didn't like him.
That's true.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
That goes way back because they just didn't have much
of a working relationship.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
I don't think there was one really at the end.
I mean, maybe somebody could could make me think of one,
but I I can't think of one at the end.
Who's up next? Dan, Dan? Go ahead?
Speaker 7 (31:03):
Dan, Hey, I'd have a comment in a question. I'm
not sure what would be excitable, what would motivate Virginia
Tech like their fan base, why why would they be
excited about Stukes? And my question is I think Stukes,
you know, he should go to a major program, but
become the defensive coordinator. In a dream world, I'd love
(31:24):
to see him become the DC at Louisville and that
way we could just kind of.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
If Mark Steukes became the defensive coordinator at Louisville, that
would be that would certainly add a ramp up the right.
I think he is kind of born to some extent,
he'll I mean, if he wanted to, and I appreciate
the Calle drew, if he wanted to when he left here,
he could be the defensive coordinator and a big time program.
He could do it anywhere.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
But when you've been the boss for so long, you've
got millions on top of your millions on top of
your millions, would you want to go work for someone
else at a lesser position in the same field.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, I mean I want to do that. He's making
nine million dollars a year. If he becomes the defensive
coordinator at Bayama, what's he making million and a half two?
I mean, that's a huge that's a huge go down, right.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Unless he is going to do it for a year
or two with hopes of getting another head coaching job
somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
He'll get one one day if he wants. I mean,
first of all, we're acting like he's done. He's he
may be the coach here for a long time.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
I mean, I don't know if it got to that
point you really wanted to just get on a staff.
So we found another job. I could see Kirby. He
and Kirby are close. I could see him puttinghim there.
But if it were me and I were him in
this world to end soon, I would take my money
and enjoy the beach.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
By the way, Kirby is still insisting he did not
call a timeout. It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
They're just video evidence showing you calling this time out.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
In his press conference, they were like, we saw you
make a tea and he was like, no, you didn't.
It's mouthing time out.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
It was an optical illusion.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
It was an optical illusion. I mean, yeah, it was ai.
He still says no. I was just saying they were clapping,
and is this the sound for clapping? This is the
tea with your hand.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
While yelling time out, yelling time in his ear while.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Running towards the rest.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
What a lie?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Like?
Speaker 5 (33:14):
What?
Speaker 4 (33:15):
What an absolute lie? I've always liked Kirby smart, but
that's like the linest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
A simple You caught me heat of the moment being competitive.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I'm wrong, you got me? No, just say just something
like that. And I was trying to pull like I
was trying to pull one on you. Did you see
what Lane Kiffin said about it? Did you see that?
Somebody asked Sharon, I couldn't believe Lake Kivin said this.
Somebody asked Lane Kiffin they played Georgia this weekend. Who
burns more calories during the game? You are Kirby Smith
(33:45):
or Kirby Smart. And his answer was, I just saw
Kirby Smart's press conference this morning. Doesn't look like to
me he's burned too many few, too many?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Wow, Wow, he burns a lot from all that clapping
he does.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
I mean, whoa. Everybody says they're friends and he's kidding,
but still that was kind.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Of I've gotten where I really enjoy Lankift. I hated
him at Tennessee and he's just so open and the
stuff like this and picking on fine Bomb.
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We'll take a break and be right back to Kentucky
Sports Radio. Welcome back at this Kentucky Sports Radio. If
I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, it
is uh weingsday. We'll open up here in fifteen minutes.
Come on and join us. And also remember trivia tonight.
I have about two thirds of the questions done, so
after we finished cover zero, I'll do the last ones.
It's the first first night of season six of of
(35:00):
Matt Jones Trivia. We have we've had five different champions
over the court or we've had five groups. One group
won twice, but we've had many different champions.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Yeah, the right Levan Dream Team needs to bounce back.
We did not do well in the finals you had
this last week.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
There were what thirty one teams? You came in like twenty.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Eight I think so yeah, maybe even twenty ninth.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Are you gonna be here tonight?
Speaker 5 (35:23):
I can't make it tonight, but the Dream Team is
still active. We're gonna come back and qualify one of
these Wednesday nights.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
All right, Well, come on out. You can call in
this afternoon later and make your reservation or come out.
That should be should be able to seat you regardless,
and should be a good crowd to seven.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Getting a lot of the Wings Day deals too.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yep, Adam Sandler's here to mind? Would you want to
see Adam Sandler?
Speaker 5 (35:45):
I actually would like to go on. I have son
Gavin's work in the concert, you know, setting up the
stage and stuff. But that's something I think I would
want to go.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I mean, what do you have to do? I mean,
you clearly you have no one at home. I mean
you've you've been very clear that you just sit and
stare into space. Why don't you just go?
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Well, my parents are coming in tonight, so they would
like it, probably big.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Lunch Lady Land fans.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Probably, they would like it, probably more than I would.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Yeah, so why don't you take them? That would be
a nice sun thing to do. I mean, I'm sure
we can if you're where I can see you in
your head. How much is a good cost? Like? I couldnot?
I mean we could, we could find a way to
get you tickets.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
I'll check with them when they come in the night
and see if they want to go tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Somebody with free tickets?
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Yeah, if only you knew somebody that gives one way
on the pre show like every day, it feels like
you could.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
They did give away a lot of those tickets. I
don't think they offered us any at all, did they?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Because you haven't asked, gonna give you one? I mean,
they don't just like come to your house and go, Ryan?
Would you like these tickets? Like you do? Have to?
You do have to take some initiative.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Okay, I'm gonna check. I want to work on this.
I would like to. I would personally like to go.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
He acts like this is an unfixable solution shaped yeah.
I like, like if one could figure out how you
get them saying Lork ten years, how would that possibly work.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
I don't think he wants to go that bad.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
I don't think so. And he's gonna blame his parents,
even though your parents probably would like to go.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
Are you gonna try to go?
Speaker 4 (37:03):
I can't, but I would like I genuinely, I mean
would go if I have to go to Louisville Thursday
evening or I would definitely do it.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Did you ever watch The Happy Gilmour two?
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Uh? No, not yet.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
I watched it. It's it was good for about halfway
and then it kind of got a little little off
the rails a little bit.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
I don't know if you saw the Lexington is going
to do a massive renovation of New Circle Roads over
there where all the traffic lights are. They're going to
try to make it to where if you've ever been
over there during rush hour, don't there's traffic lights, and
then it's danger and it's just just like people running
out in the street. I mean it's it's it's literally
(37:42):
from like Richmond Road to what Brian to Bryan's station,
basically that whole and all that. So anyway, they're gonna
do a massive renovation, so they're having uh uh. They've
put out what they're gonna do, and they're inviting public
comment on whether it's a good idea. And I had
(38:03):
somebody write me last night and say, for a man
that wants to be mayor and who has had strong
opinions about traffic, Ryan, do you think you should publicly
comment on the New Circle renovation. It would be a
good chance for you to show your city leadership skills.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Well, I appreciate you asking me my advice on because
I really put a lot of thought in processing. I
got a team working on it right now. I've always
thought since I moved to electing, why is this supposed
to be this this bypass around the city of Lexxington,
and yet half of it is loaded with all these
stoplights over there.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Well that's what they're gonna try to fix.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Get rid of them.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Okay, how would you do it? Like it's you can't
just take them away? Are their businesses over there? You
have to crosswalks. They're crosswalks. I mean there are people
that that's the only way. That's the only way you
can get from one side of town to the other.
So what what would you do.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
I'm going to like build one of these well, like
we have on the other side, just build the intersections
that are up you got to exit off down to
get to the lower level. I'm gonna build a lot
of the intersections on all those stoplights. We're having a
lot of intersections where you egged off though right now
there where they have a stoplight, We're gonna have the
intersection there's no stoplight.
Speaker 7 (39:05):
You know.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Then what are you gonna do about the businesses?
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Well, they're gonna still survive because you're gonna be able
to exit off the new Circle Road. And get down
there to them. We're gonna we're gonna raise it. We're
gonna raise new Circle Road.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
You're gonna build like a mountains of multi level Yeah wow,
it may be way up in the sky, but we're
gonna get you over that.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
All that traffic and all of.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Sudden this is sound.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
So the road is up in the air, the road
is up in the air. What about a what about
a pedestrian bridge on the current road where they could
go over?
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Yeah, it ofss the street.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
It's like that.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Seems like it'd be a little cheaper than taking the.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Whole road up on that side of the new Circle road.
It is like Frogger with guys trying to cross across
the road at crazy places. So we're gonna have our
own little walkway areas when down on the you know,
not only up upside air stuff.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
If I May is one of your advisors, they have
a system that they've used people with actual archit textual
skills to come out on my tea my team. Wouldn't
it be easier to go look at theirs and comment
than for you to out of the blue create a
new system.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
Well see where we're testing it right now in Least
Town Road. We're gonna build that double diamond over there
with the overpass, so we're gonna do a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
That's the problem. But again you're missing the point. On
Lee'stown Road. There are no businesses on New Circle Road.
The problem here is the businesses are on New Circle Road.
They're not off of New Circle Road, they're on them.
What are you gonna do for them that they're gonna
give about Popeyes and Little Caesars.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
They're gonna be okay. Now, the sidewalk in front of them,
that may be gone. We may be doing a way
out sidewalk.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
Do you hate sidewalks? Sidewalks not less.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
The people don't walk on sidewalks. They just want to
walk right across the street.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
On sidewalks.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
They don't go down to the legal area. They just
cross wherever.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
They are walking on sidewalks everywhere right now, Yeah, not
in Lexington.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
We're not big sidewalk people. We just like to walk
across the road.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
He's hurting his pat I'm worried.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Yeah, who's NeXT's Justin?
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Justin? Go ahead, Justin.
Speaker 8 (41:08):
Hey, I've been listening for a few years and I
was wondering, where did you come up with a hua.
Whenever someone says first time long time, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Don't remember they uh uh. There was a there was
like an ESPN show that people would say first time,
long time, and then they'd hit a button and a
sound came, and so maybe maybe I just at one
point did it. It's just kind of it just kind
of happened, you know, you don't all of a sudden
you're just doing it all the time.
Speaker 8 (41:38):
Oh okay, well that's all I appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 5 (41:40):
With the Fabulous Sports, Babe, you'd call her show first
time long time a bam, she'd hit one of those
soud machines.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
First of all, I've never won. I've never one time
listened to The Fabulous Sports. I know it didn't come
from The Fabulous Sports.
Speaker 5 (41:56):
Yeah, that's what she used to hit the first time
long time. She'd hit a button and all these sound
effects would go off.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
I believe you, But that's not where I got it,
because I've never listened to that.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Yeah, I think by the time we started, she was
long gone. She was super popular for a long time,
like in the late eighties, early nineties, like super popular.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
I mean, I know who she is. She was the
first national sports show. Yeah, syndicated, Yeah, first name. A
lot of people don't realize that first national syndicated sports
daily show was a woman. A lot of people don't
know that we do those noises again though, sounds like
nonet of sound effect that I don't make any of
those sounds. We'll take a break of me right back
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