October 17, 2025 • 42 mins
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Welcome everyone.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It is Kentucky Sports Radio Friday. It is October seventeenth.
I am Matt Jones here live at forty six Solutions
in Lexington, Green on an absolutely beautiful day with a
great crowd. Here we got folks, made it all the
way from Owensboro to a packed house getting ready for a
massive UK sports weekend, the Blue White Game. You've got
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Kentucky versus Texas. You got Parents Weekend, you got scare Fast.
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Speaker 4 (01:08):
Oh my goodness, three hundred dollars nine hundred and.
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Wow.
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Speaker 3 (01:27):
Ryan Drew and Shannon Ryan, I'm feeling inspired this morning.
Why because last night I watched two men over forty
years old. Even if one of them seems like the
worst person ever, Aaron Rodgers, then nevertheless both of them
bawled out two guys over forty Ryan playing We now
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I'm over forty, why can't I play in the NFL?
That was the excitement I got last night watching Joe
Flacco and Aaron Rodgers play football.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Last night was a great night for all of us
old men who think we can still go out and
do it with Flacco and Aaron Rodgers and then Max
Sure's you're forty one years old pitching last night.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
For the Blue Jays.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It was old man.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
I loved it all.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
These old fogies out there dominating shit.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Yeah, but you two are well over forty. You're not forty,
you're almost fifty.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I just turned forty recently, so I still can do it.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
And like, how young are you forty two?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
See, I not well over forty. I'm barely over more
older than me. So all of this works out, Drew.
It gives me energy for the weekend. When you see
all these old guys bawling, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Every time they showed Flacco without his helmets and he
had that gray and his goatee, I was like, yes,
Joe Flacco, go out there and do it for a gray.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Go low. He's got low tea, but he can still
threat that.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
He also cover zero. You had Bengals, I had the over.
I told you'd be a shootout with these old men.
It played right like we told you what. It ended
up being a fun game all the way around. Didn't
really care who won.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I just had fun watching it.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, I was excited had the Bengals pick. They're now
kind of back in the mix after looking like they
were going to be done. Uh, and Ryan, you know,
one of these days maybe there'll be a player over sixty.
That'll get you excited.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Well, I'll wait for that day. But all those people,
you know, people were complaining, why did they go get
Joe Flacco? Why did you go get Joe Flacco? Well,
you saw the old guy can steal hold, float around
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I love holding throw it around a little That's why
we've got a Bengals fan in the crowd. That were
you heavy last night?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah? Well good? Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I did also see Joe Burrow was there? Did you
see his haircut?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Shannon? Yeah, I mean he.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Looked a little disheveled. Just in general.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
He looked like a junior at LCA. I mean it
was it was like down to his nose in the front.
You don't see that a lot from a twenty some
year old man.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
He's not dealing with his injury very well. Turf toe
has not been good to maybe.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
So we got uh, we got a big weekend. So
I got a question for you, just the folks. I
want you to be honest here in the crowd. I
just want to do a little snapshot. Two events this weekend,
Blue White Game tonight, UK Texas tomorrow, Which are you
more excited? Who's more excited for? The UK Texas game.
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Who's more excited for the Blue White game. That's a
bad sign for the UK football program. Seventy five, twenty
five for the exhibition where you are playing against each other,
and that out draws the football game with a manning
playing in our.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Backyard, twenty preseason.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Number one coming elected for the first time for the first.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Time ever, Matthew Sober, Matthew McConaughey gonna stand on the sidelines.
That's not a good sign, Ryan, for sort of our
our football.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I don't know our football excitement.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So is it more the apathy that is set in
for football or the excitement that's building up for Basketball's.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I think it's the former.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I think, Drew, it's that people are kind of worried
we're gonna get crushed and they just don't want to
sort of get their hopes up because normally you would
obviously pick football if we're competitive.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I voted football.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
I don't think we're gonna and I'm worried we're not
gonna score a touchdown. But I still am excited to
go see it because it is Texas and it is
another chance to go watch a football game in Lexton.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
But I'll note it's not just here.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Like we were doing a YouTube show yesterday and Tyler
was like, you know, it's almost a sellout. I'm like,
it's sad that we can't sell out Manning Keenland October
seventy degree weather, preseason number one team that should have
been sold out in May.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, I mean, but there are already, like Texas people.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You can just see them.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Like they've brought their hats sh and they're walking around.
You know, that color of Texas shirt is not a
color you would wear in public otherwise burnt orange.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
It's also a little too close to that orange for Tennessee.
Not quite, but it's it's still orange.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You know they are, They're out and about, and I
think you're gonna you're gonna see more of I was
at Keenland yesterday and there was a lot of people
walking around with Texas gear.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I think it's gonna be a lot more of that.
I think so too.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
And you know, it's also a bad sign when the
conversation has been more about our coaches buy out than
the upcome game this weekend, and that's been the entire
story this week.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
No, I mean, that has been the entire story, and
it's been you know, so we've been I think collectively
Ryan fairly negative about the state of the situation. I
think Seth Emerson of The Athletic, he's a national writer.
He wrote yesterday that the Kentucky football situation looks quote
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as hope hopeless as any in the power for right now,
which was not which was not good to read. I
think his point though, is, if you stay on the
same path that you're on, do you but now here
you go Texas and Tennessee double T's coming here in
the next eight days. I know it seems ridiculous, but
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if you won one of those, it is a different outlook,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
One hundred percent that's a big, huge win. If you
able to knock off one of those two teams that
when it's either start of both people thought were gonna
make the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, you couldknock Texas definitively out of the playoff.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
They lose to us, it would be they're they're done.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
And you could potentially even knock Tennessee out of the playoff,
depending on what happens against their game against Alabama UH tomorrow.
So you, I mean, you have a chance to knock
two really good teams out of the playoffs. I mean,
you know, when you have a chance to get your
fourth win, then you sit there and you go, wellvany
Auburn loll. I mean it's not crazy, right, I'm trying
it cray a little crazy.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
I think if he beat if you beat Texas tomorrow,
I can't believe I'm saying this preseason or one team,
but he would still need more of the rest of
the year unless you scored like forty points and maybe
there is a flip switch on the offense.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh, he still needs more than one win. Winning. I mean,
thirteen to thirteen isn't gonna do much. Yeah, but I
disagree with that.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
If you beat Texas, Shannon, I'm not gonna beat to
the point where I'm gonna say how you beat the matter?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Right?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
If you beat Texas, I'm gonna give him a ton
of credit, and I'm gonna say you go into the
Van Dy Auburn Louisville games with a chance to save
your job. I mean, I don't I don't think how
you win really, Max Well.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
The problem is, though I haven't seen anything that has
given me any hope over the last few weeks. That
would say that that's even going to happen. We could
talk ourselves into it. We might as well try to
be positive about it. And if it did happen, then yeah,
there would be some fans that maybe would be back
on board a little bit. But you still got to
finish the season and with more wins.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I wanted to ask you, Ryan, I mean arch Manning.
I know he's not played up to the hype, but
you can make a strong case that arch Manning is
one of the biggest stars to play in college football
in a long time, maybe one of the biggest stars
to play in college sports in a long time. I
was gonna ask you if you're just talking about star power,
I'm not talking about talent, but star power. I was
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trying to think, how many times has an athlete come
into Lexington with bigger star power than arch Manning. So
this was just what came to my mind. I think
Tim Tebow had more star power when he was here.
Shaquille O'Neill when he came playing for LSU probably at
that moment had more star power. Maybe Cam Newton that
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year he came because he was on the path and
playing so well, but that still early in his year
before he had really taken off. But I cannot think
of a lot more t Bow definitely. I think Shaq definitely.
Maybe you go back to the eighties when David Robinson
played at Navy and came here, and that was that
was a really big deal. People forget he'd already been
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on the cover of Sports Illustrated at that point.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Can you think of anymore?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
No, I don't remember the folks here. Did Peyton Manning play?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
They did, but I think he played here his junior year,
so when he was the highest I think we went
there that year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Most of the crazy celebrity superstars has been coaches that
have come in, not necessarily these players you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I mean, and there were guys who were really good,
like Lamar, But I don't think Lamar was as big
a star at Louisville as he ended up being later
in Live Right. Can you think of any off the
top of your head?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
No, because then il's changing so much. Arches on like
every commercial. No, Like Dak brought the number one team
in here. I'd say he's bigger as Arch as a player,
but Arch is just so much more exposure now in
the world we're in. I think Lamar and those guys
could have been bigger. They just didn't have the opportunities
he has now because he's doing national commercials for huge brands.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And the big dudes in college basketball over the years,
for whatever reason, I just don't think we ever played
them here. I mean, obviously we played Cooper Flag last year,
but that was on a neutral court, and so that's
not quite the same. We didn't play Zion, you know,
like Jim or for Dad, we didn't play It's hard
for me to think of one.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I guess herschel Walker probably played here.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
A long time ago before my time, but that might
be one.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
And I don't know if bo Jackson had at Auburn
ever play here when he was playing.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I don't know, do you people everybody's shaking their head.
I don't think Bo Jackson played here. So my point
is just to say, and if you have one seven
seven two seven seven four five two five four, my
point is just to say, like, this is a pretty
big deal. This game tomorrow. I do think a lot
of people are going through, like I actually think Kentucky
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fans are going to have a big showing there. I
think there'll be a lot of Texas fans too, but
I think Kentucky fancy. But I've gotten since talking to
people they're doing like, this is the last time I'm
going this year unless this is entertaining. No, no, I
mean I've heard that from friends, like I'm going to
this one, but if this one's not entertaining, then I'm
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probably packing it in for the rest of the year.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
I'm hearing a lot of I'm going to tailgate then
going home to watching my couch. Like we have. We
have a group of friends. They probably have been to
a game in three years. We have a big tailgate.
It's like five parking passes together. Everybody's excited, and then
at six forty five, everyone's going home and watching on
their couch.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
They're like, big, you said they've done that though for
three straight.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
No, No, they haven't been to a game in three years.
They're excited to go tailgate. No, they haven't tilgated in
three years. Like, people are excited to be a part
of this, But I think a lot of people might say,
all right, it's seven, let's get the house. Like there's
big companies that are entertaining clients. Clients probably gonna come
have a few free drinks and then get on out
of there. So I think the tailgating scene might oddly
be really good and then we'll see what it looks
like inside.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, well, I still expect there's gonna be a lot
of people in there. I mean, I think, and now
though it's the Shannon, the UK team has to perform.
I mean, you know, we've had a couple of weeks
off here the UK we just can't have if we
get run. I'll go so far as say, if we
get run, Mark's could be run. Yeah, I mean, I
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don't know how he overcomes that.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
And with as much orange as there may be in
the stands this week, if we get blown out tomorrow,
there's gonna be a lot more orange next week. That's
a point we're going to take over.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
If we were to get blown out this week, that
Tennessee game next week could be a majority of Tennessee fans,
like for real, like, because I think a lot of
Kentucky fans would just sell their tickets. Tennessee fans are
the easiest fans to sell to because they're so close. Ryan,
that could be kind of an embarrassing scene.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, and we all know there's been a lot of
people probably preseason planned the Blue White game tonight, game tomorrow,
next week Purdue games game. I think a lot of
families and people probably plan for that. That may all
get changed if they get blown out tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Do we have any chance you need to not have
his breakout moment? Kentucky cannot score points. They just can't,
So you gotta win in the teams.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, I actually think you have a chance. You can
run on them a little.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You have a chance. They are not good, they aren't either,
but they're like they are not a team, Shannon that
you can't score.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
And two other offense we might not be a score
on but you.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
But but this is a team that we can play with.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Yeah, two other offensive livemen are out starting center out
for tomorrow. So if you're trying to find some reason
that Kentucky maybe would have a chance, if they can
maybe score off some turnovers, I think they have a chance.
But if we're just playing a straight up game, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
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Speaker 5 (14:12):
That's gotta be Ai. There's no way that's I remember that.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
That was a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
That was a UK football pregame show.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
We used to do it at the stadium. If that
would have been so like twelve years ago where you
were doing one hand push ups, you want to really reclad.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I would love to see this. Can he still do it?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Can he still through?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I want to see if you could still do this,
because twelve years ago you could do one handed push ups.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Here we go.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
One he's doing it. Wow, he's got old man's string
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Speaker 2 (14:45):
I will say you're not a surprise you were in
that video.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You get it, but you did it. That's very good.
All right, will take a break, be right back. It's
Kentucky Sports Radio. Word back, it is Kentucky Sports Radio.
If I'm nine, two, eight oh, twenty two, eighty seven
here forty six solutions. They got a business av set
up here. That's incredible. You got massive video wall in
person and we are live here. Great seeing some of
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the UK players that have been endorsers over the year,
and it's including Oscar and now you're seeing a video
of all the basketball players this year. So Peyton Manning
did play here his senior year. It was Peyton versus Couch.
We lost fifty nine to thirty one.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Wow, what a shoot out.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
That's a lot of points. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Some other suggestions of guys that may have been big stars.
What about Pete Marrivich.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Oh yeah, you know they played that game in historical
Mortal Cosseum which holds probably what is it hold thirteen thousand,
But you think there were one hundred thousand people everybody
claims to have been there to watch Pete play that game.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, that was the game where like you had what
was it that he and Issel both scored like a
bajillion points.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Right, Yeah, I think Rupp made the decision we're gonna
let Maravich get his and stop everybody else and then
marriage Marriviage had like fifty something.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
That was the idea.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Boy, this really is like a video of Ryan's greatest him.
Is this you with a pig or something down here?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
When you have me in a cage trying to catch
little pigs?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah, that was people say, people say we're mean to you.
Charles Barkley, Tominique Wilkins.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Yeah, good one.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I think probably this is a really good one.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
In recent years, maybe one of the biggest was Livy
Dunn coming here for gymnastics shin in just a.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Couple of years. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I mean she's a huge star, that one, maybe bigger
than arch Manning.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So so anyway, that's happening. Obviously this weekend, let's talk
about a basketball thing real quick. We're gonna we'll talk
more about the Blue White Game, but we Yesterday on
the show, I mentioned the Hair Leader report about how
UK's roster, according the Hair Leader, twenty two million dollars.
Nobody has really pushed back on that. So let's just say,
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for sake of argument that it's true.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I think it.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
You know, I think if the Hair Leader article was
definitively not true, UK would have said it. So let's
just assume it's twenty two million dollars. That has led
a lot of people nationally, including a lot of traditional
Kentucky haters, to come out of the woodwork.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Jeff Goodman said if Mark Pope doesn't make a Final
Four with twenty two million dollars, it's a failure. Seth
Davis basically said something like, Kentucky, you'll never be able
to do this again with this kind of money. If
they don't win this year. This is huge. You know,
essentially the program will fall apart if they don't win
the end the title. Mark Pope actually had an interesting tament.
He didn't acknowledge the twenty two million, but he basically said,
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I'm fine with people knowing we spend the most it's Kentucky,
which I actually think is a smart way to go
because you're essentially saying to players this is where you
make money. But let's just talk about it from a
fan perspective. Shannan, does it make any difference to you
that it's.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Twenty two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Like, if it was so, we are one of the
two or three highest rosters. It's either US, Saint John's
or Michigan. Those are probably the three highest paid rosters
this year. Does that make it to you where you
say we have to do better than if we say
paid twelve and we were the fifteenth tighest paid roster.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Yeah, I mean I think you have to do better.
But is it final four or bust? I mean no,
I mean, if you're looking at our expectation as a
fan base, and Mark Pope acknowledges this, we want to
win the championship every year, that's always the expectation, regardless
of how much money we're spending.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
But I guess what I'm saying is over the course
of the next however many years, Yes, is your expectation
of what we should do going to fluctuate based on
how much we're spending.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Probably?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
So, I mean, I think you're going to always expect more.
You're right, if you lose in the first round or
the second round, you're gonna have people going, well, he's
got this kind of budget for his players, and he
can't get out of the first or second round. That's
gonna be a huge criticism.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
What about you.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I feel like we're gonna spend twenty two million. We
can't be losing to Oakland in the first round. St Peter,
that's the first round.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You know.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
We gotta at least make a statement that we're spending
this money for the right reasons, and that's to win,
make a run of championship, win games.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Nothing chased for me because you shouldn't lose in the
first round anyway. And the final four a bust thing.
I know, we say it. I've seen it all over
the internet in the last twenty four hours. But like,
if he doesn't make it, when you say bust, nothing's
gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
You know, it's not final four a bust.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
If he wins the SEC and loses in the Elite
eight to a two seed, is a one seed and
doesn't make the final four, that's still good. That's not
not a final four. That's why I hate the final
four or a bust because what is a bust? I mean,
we're not firing him, firing him if he doesn't get
to the final four.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, I agree with that completely. I mean, all right,
so my view on the money and i' might.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I mean, look, this may change because this is just
now starting chatting, right, so like this may change.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
But my view in my mind is it's not my money.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
So I don't care.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
That's always my thoughts here.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I don't care. It's not my money.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It would bother me more if we as a program
did not commit to compete with the top guys. Okay, now,
if however, we get to a point that our football
program is hindered because we're putting all of our money
into basketball, well then I need basketball to be good.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
It's right, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
It's kind of like I guess I would put it
like this, like I don't care how much the Reds spend,
but to me, the Reds need to spend enough that
the product is not miserable, right, and whatever that is
is what it is. But then if I find out
that we don't re sign Ellie de la Cruz because
we're not spending the money, then that's gonna start bothering me, right,
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And if I'm gonna change the whole roster so I
keep Ellie and then I lose everybody else, well then
Ellie better be good.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And I think part of that Ryan is That's what
I'm gonna judge, rather than the total overall number.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
So I think football is where you know, these diehard
football fans are having a hard time understanding if you
want us to compete in the SEC against these other schools,
they are spending a lot of money. Why can't we
get some money more money?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
They do get money, they just get ten percent left.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yeah, why do we get more money so we can compete?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
What I would say is what's the better investment for
the cause, Because honestly, we're now, like, take this fan
base sitting in here. Ultimately the job drew of the
athletic director is to please this group of people, right,
to make this fan base happy. So what's the better investment?
Spending the exact same amount of money on football and
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basketball as the other schools. We're probably spending the exact
same of money will make us at best middle of
the pack, or spending twenty percent more on basketball and
we have a chance to win a national championship. Isn't
the better investment to put that more money in basketball?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You gotta protect your best asset first. Exactly.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
I wish both could be the best, but you have
one that already is the best, and you don't want
that to slip. Also, think with the money, I think
there's a little bit overreacting two ways. One, I think
this twenty two million, this is gonna change every year.
It might be your football gets more. But this was
also before a rev share, and we don't know how
it's dispersed. Malcolm Reino could be on a three year deal,
we don't know, this could be extended beyond. And they
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locked him up early with money that they had before
all this got into place. So twenty two million seems
like a lot. I doubt it's that every year, and
it's a couple guys are locked up long term that
we don't know about.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I would venture to say next year, I could bore
you with why it's so much money this year. But
next year, Shannon, there's a good chance it'll be half this, yeah,
and half this for all the teams in the country.
Like this year you were you were blessed by God
if you were a college basketball player this year, yep,
because two different sources of money came together. Next year,
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I think it's gonna be about half for everybody. So
I think next year you'll hear our rosters like ten
or eleven million, and it still might be the most
expensive roster in the country.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
And like a Hawthorn could be getting his money now
on a two year exactly right next year he's zero.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You know that, I bet is happening where they paid
a lot more in the first year because these rules
were weird.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Sh everybody's freaking out over it when we don't even
know what the agreement is with each player.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I totally agree. We're gonna take a break. Take your calls.
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Ryan's got one as well. Seven seven two seven seven
four five two five to four is the text machine
one person mentioning in terms of stars to come here
when Houston came with a chem olaje one and Clyde Drexler.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Completely forgot about that. Some of those games back in
the day where Ropperena was just had all these massive
stars coming in.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, people might remember they used to in January or
February on a Sunday, leading into the NFL coverage of
the day, Kentucky would play a home game at RUP. Right,
they played Navy that one year, they played Houston. I
feel like they played Syracuse with Ronnie Pykely once if
I remember correctly. But they would play a non conference game.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You remember that.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I would be okay if we went back to that.
It was just kind of a special thing that the
fans looked forward to every year.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
By the way, we might have a Sunday game this year.
I don't know if people noticed. The last day of
the regular season, we play Florida, and I believe Drew
they are leaving open the possibility to play that game
on Sunday afternoon. I don't think we've played a Sunday
like noon one o'clock after church game in a long time,
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but we might do it.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I think I saw the last day of the regular season.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
We did him a few seasons ago, towards the end
of the cal Era. He put three or four in there.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
No, he did like non conference, But I'm talking about
I don't think we've had because you know what they
usually try to do on that final Sunday, Shannon is
have like three games to get you ready.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
For March Madness. I just we haven't played one of
those in a long time. We might have one.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
I seem to remember during the Tubby Smith era. I
think it was Senior Night against Florida. They played on
a Sunday. But that's the last one that I can remember.
We may have played some along the way, but that
one sticks out.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
All right, I want to ask you this before we
go the phones. The Annabelle doll. Yeah, I saw this, okay,
so I don't We talked about it once. I don't
remember the details explained to me. The Annabelle doll. It's
a doll that like has bad luck.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
It's cursed. Yes, I believe the owner the previous uh
Matt Rife. What what is it? It's it's a doll
that was cursed and it was also the curse Spirits.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, so they just picked the doll out and said
I hate you.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
I guess the spirits just overtook this doll. Have you
seen the movie The Conjuring?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
No?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Okay, well that's in the conjured. Yes, it's Yes, it's
the basis of that movie.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
So there, but it's a real life thing. If anyone
they get, nears it moves it, they die like a
week later.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
So Matt Rife somehow hasn't died yet though he has
the doll. Now he's the owner of the doll.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So everybody knows it's nonsense, right.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
No, true, without no. I mean people have literally died.
This doll has moved.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I mean people have died all that.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
This doll has been seen walking around in an apartment.
The doll walks, Yes, the doll walk he see. I'm
just saying it's basically chucky in real life.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
So well, here's we have a chance.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
So Annabel doll is Inlexington, huh, and is at the
convention Center for Scarefest, which by the way, is adjacent
to they it was that it got. They took it
across the street from the parking lot to the convention
center and there's a priest with it. I don't know
what he's.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Doing, saying it's covered.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It was covered so people I couldn't see.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
It, and then it will be at Scare Fast. Now
I would argue if it's so dangerous, Ryan, why does
it get to be at Scarefest? Because like, and would
that make people not want to go to scare Fest?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
If it's so.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Cursed, you're just asking me, I'm not going to make
eye contact with it. I want nothing to do with it.
If it's so scary, you got to cover it up.
That won't make eye contact with it, negative possessed.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
If you had tickets to the game and it was
gonna be there, would you not go?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I would go to the game, but I wouldn't go
look at it. I didn't want anywhere around it. Let
it look at somebody else, not look. Don't look at me.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
If anybody turns an angle or anything in the Blue
White Game tonight, I'm blame an Annabel.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Why is anab And memorial?
Speaker 5 (27:19):
It's too close to answer your question.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Would I hold it?
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Of course, let's do it, because because it's it's nothing, okay,
it's just that you're just it's just messing with demonic spirits,
entering a pain.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
You don't know what you're doing. A lot of.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
That riphones it. He's fine.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I mean he's unfunny, but that he was funny before.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
His careers got on the dumpster ever since as the
Annabel's fault. But yeah, they take her on tour, and
you know it's a big money thing for them. They
at the pay their I guess fe I.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Think it's cursed. Why do they go see it?
Speaker 6 (27:53):
I think you can look at it. It's more if
you hold it or if you handle it.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah, if you interact with it. Their rules to the spirit.
I think that's why the priest was there in this
wooden box. A little later. That's not a real priest.
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
I have to check his credentials. He could be.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
We will say it looks like a Halloween Express priest costume.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah, I don't think it's a real priest. Well, I'm
just saying. I mean, if it's at the convention there,
it's not that far from my house. So I didn't
know how far the vibes go around.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
The saying if you start hearing some noises around your
apartment tonight.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Adam Sandler. Adam Sandler was at Reparina last night. He
wore the UK, so first of all, let's go back.
He went to UK. He met the men's basketball team,
the women's basketball team, and the swimming team. So he
went around and saw all the teams. Seemed like a
really nice guy, just even from the videos, but also
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players were posting about it.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
People who know Adam Sandler says like the nicest celebrity
of the world. So he goes. Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
The men's basketball team seemed particularly excited to see him,
like they like huge fans. He invited them all to
the show. The men's basketball team went, there's a picture.
Almost all of them went. I think I saw nearly
every player. UK gave him a jersey that said Sandler
on it and then he wore it Ryan on stage.
He wore the UK jersey during his entire show. The
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Sandler jers loved it.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
That just a little shows a little appreciation for the
people that love him. He's giving it back, so I.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Love let him a jersey on Big Basketball Fan. There
was a movie where he had a Kentucky shirt on too.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, funny people.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
He's sitting in the doctor's office and he's wearing a
Kentucky shirt.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Well, he loves basketball. I'm hoping we get a video
of him getting a little pick up because he's known
to do that.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Anywhere he is.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
He played the game.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
He can oddly play there's stories of him being in
big cities and just showing up to courts, no security,
him by himself, like can I get in a game?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Now here's what I was gonna say about sort of
bad mojo. He made a joke. Now I didn't hear
the joke. Maybe somebody went and can tell me what
the joke was. But he made a joke that had
something that was like, you know, he was like trying
to be self deprecating, and he was like, I hope
me being there didn't give them bad luck and lead
to somebody tearing their achilles, and fans were like, why'd
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you say that? Don't wish it into existence. Annabel is
right over there, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
So are you worried about that at all? Right?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
And the combination of Annabelle and the offhanded Adam Sandler coment.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Yes, of course I am you with it. Maybe not
so much, but the fact that Annabell probably listening over there, like,
oh I heard that.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Adam Sandler though, we just need to just get through this, Drew,
so that we because I don't want everybody, don't want
people blaming Adam Sandler.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I don't wor Annabelle, Poor Annabell both both.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
I'm worried about the Annabelle thing. We shouldn't have approved
bringing her in for our launch of basketball season.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I don't know how that got pasted. Clarence. Well, we'll
find out who's up first?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Got Judy of first?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Judy, Judy, what's up?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Well?
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Good morning? Well, first of all, I think Annabelle was
an a Vincent Price movie. Fit Price, Okay, But anyway,
speaking of the twenty two million, I was listening to
Lockdown Kentucky and he said Land said that one Division
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A Division LA basketball coach said Pope didn't win a
national championship within the next few years, he was a
complete bozo.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah. I don't care what any of those people say.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I mean right now, here's the way national college basketball
media works, and it's always worked like this, but it's
even more so true now. National college basketball media needs
Kentucky to survive. Like most people don't pay attention to.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
College basketball till February. So if you're trying to get clicks,
if you're.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
A national college basketball person, there's only like three schools
you can talk about that'll care Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, etc.
So because of that, they are incentivized to say outrageous things.
It's the same thing that happens in politics. It just
happens in college basketball too, So we have to remember,
like to say he's not a boat, he'd be a
bozo for not going to the final four. That's just a
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ridiculous comment. My thing is, if youre gonna say something
like that, put your name on it.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
That's okay.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
If you're a coach, put your name on it and
say he's a bozo. You know, you get one game.
I used twenty seventeen as example. We didn't make the
Final four, but we're the second best team in the country.
We just drew North Carolina. What do you want me
to do? You know, what do you want us to do?
They were the only team that could beat us, and
that's who we drew. So I just I'm Withdrew on
the final four. Bus stuff is. I just don't accept it.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Right.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
Well, I have one more comment, you know, Golden being
kind of adamant about Aberdeen leaving. My thinking is that
they had to pay so much money to Boogie Plague
that they that they couldn't give enough money every.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Day, or it might just be and I appreciate the
call that we give more money, Drew, Like, that's just.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
What it is.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
And at some point, what are you gonna apologize? You know,
the Dodgers might not lose a game in the playoffs,
but what are they supposed to do try to lose,
you know. I mean you can change the system, and
that's fine, but once the system exists, it's Kentucky's responsibility
to maximize it and do the best they can in it.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
This is the system.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
If we pay more for Denzel Aberdeen. You know what,
sorry Todd, that you're at a school that doesn't care
as much.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
And the Dodgers and Yankees they don't win the championship
every year. They don't know, but you have a better
chance to do what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Like they're fans, I mean they're disappointed, but they get
excited about the next season because it's hard to win championships.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
What do we have like one.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
In twenty seven years? I mean, they're not easy. That's
probably when someone says you're a boso for not winning one.
I mean they're not just right in front of you,
go grab They're pretty hard to get. And on the
on the money thing, just sure it's money. We all
like money. But Kentucky has.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Had more advantages forever. The advantage is just now financial.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Just things we've had, We've talked about We've got the
best fans, the best dorms.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
That was an advantage before, it just wasn't a dollar.
And also, remember, I think this is important.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Everything that people predicted would happen when Inile started, the
exact opposite happened. Literally everybody said, well, this is gonna
make it to where there's the halves and the have nots.
And I was like, well, it feels like there were
halves and have nots before. But what ended up happening
is a new set of teams got good, right, Indiana
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got good. That didn't happen, v Andy got good.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Like these teams who had never been good won. So
we kept hearing there'll be no parody. INIL actually brought
us more parody. And I would look at the college
basketball rankings right now. Look at teams in the top
ten in the last twenty five years until INIL, when
was Houston consistently in the top ten? Purdue text is
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tech by you? I would argue Ryan Nil made college
basketball a lot more equitable by where's like North Carolina
has taken a dive.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Kansas hasn't been as good the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
By use a perfect poster child for this, they would
have never been around and in the top ten. And
not for nil, they go out and now get players,
make the program better, and now they're a top ten program.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Say you look like what was Oakland's in IL when
they played Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Think in basketball you could still get beat exactly, you
can still get beat.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Football is harder, but in basketball you can.
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Speaker 2 (35:54):
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Speaker 3 (36:02):
All right, So I don't wanna I don't want to
say this without verification. So if you were at that concert,
the Adam Sandler concert last night, write me on the
text machine and tell me what he said. Because a
couple of people are saying something, I want to make
sure it's what he said. So seven seven two seven
seven four five two five four I thought it was
a joke, but now people are telling me it was
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something different.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
So send me a text and i'll I just want.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
To make sure before I read what he said that
it is actually what he said, right, because I had
no reason to do it otherwise.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Mario was there last night at the concert.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
What did he say?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
So?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
He said he was playing pick up basketball at UK
and somebody tore their achilles.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
But you don't know if he was serious.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
I'm gonna guess it was a joke. I think we
would have heard about it.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
But he said, thoughts up to him, hope they're doing Okay,
that doesn't sound like a joke.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
But is that what he's he did say it? Okay?
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Well, did he sound like he was serious? Sounded like
he was serious now, But we don't know if he
was playing with the UK players or just students. But
that was two days ago. That girl tore her a
c l a couple of days ago, so I don't
think that would have been her. He was playing with
the media team. So there's somebody in the media that
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tore their Who do we think that would be.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
I don't know this, but if it were a UK player,
there's a big when they're practicing run if something happens,
like everyone in the room, we're not talking about this
kind of thing. If if a if like a main
player for the team, I am the hot thing with
Sandler would have said that to the crowd, if he
would have known the circumstance.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
So wait, so you're saying he was playing with media people,
so this could have been like Dave Baker.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
We didn't get invited. If it's media versus.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Alan Cutler, the cutman cut his achilles is unfiltered.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
Well, I think Allen was at the concert last night too,
so scratch him off.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Wasn't him? Okay?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
But he did say somebody tore their achilles? All right,
I'm just gonna first of all, I hope no one
tore their achilles, but it sounds like someone may have
torn their achilles. Mario, by the way, if you knew this,
why didn't you tell us this before you thought he was?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
How's that a joke?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Sorry to the guy who tore his achilles? Yeah, but
Adam Sandler can say something here, Come here just a second,
get up here, Shannon, give him your thing real quick.
Come on up here, just because we did. We're doing
live reporting here.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
All right.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
So you were at the concert. I was, And what
did he say?
Speaker 9 (38:40):
He said, Uh, I hope that person's doing well. He's
kind of talking, talking in circles. And he was like, uh,
somebody like tore their achilles.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
And you thought that you just were cracking up in
the crowd. I wasn't cracking up. I wasn't sure if
I was here, right.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
He tore his achilles. That's the show, Sandler.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
You crazy. I was not like that.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
So but but he he didn't say it was a
basketball player. He just said somebody.
Speaker 9 (39:11):
Yeah, he said. I wouldn't listening. I heard tory achilles,
like somebody.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Just started laughing.
Speaker 8 (39:17):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
I wasn't laughing.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
I was just I didn't think he was serious. You know,
I'm saying, Larius, Yeah, okay, you can't hear it. Like
in the crowd.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Everybody just got quiet, like because they thought it was
so funny. No, I okay, all right, all right, Well,
thank you for the update. I agree with you, Drew.
I would lean to say no way, it's a player,
because that you're right. I've been there when somebody got
hurt and everybody sits there and goes, we're not saying this.
Everyone agrees and they kind of all agree not to
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speak about it. So and then there's a picture of
almost all the team. They have big smiles on their face.
If somebody got hurt. I think I don't think they
would have been out partying that night.
Speaker 6 (39:56):
And you know, I think Sandler would be able to
read the room if you just lost a star player
the day before your scrimmage. He probably knows it's not
his place to just announce it to his audience at
he could.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Have been like one of the managers, could have been
the media, although I don't know what media that would
have been.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
Just the other drama last night though, and Mario could
speak on this is I heard if you even looked
at the clock on your phone, they were coming to
throw you out in there.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
It's no phones now, Mario ar picture though Mario risked
it all.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
For it's hard to keep people from having their phones.
But apparently they were walking around and like you'd get
in an ankle wk.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
Yeah, taking that picture as he was laughing about players
in concussion protocol.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
All right, well Mario he Adam Taylor gets up.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
I just want to say he everybody pray for my
daddy's in the hospital.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Mask bossing over that Mario went and none of us did.
And he's the one that's the youngest and didn't really
know much about Sandler. Yeah, and now he's like, oh,
just typical Sandler.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Now it's just how Adam? What song.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Got?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Jerry up? Next? Jerry, go ahead, Jerry hey.
Speaker 10 (41:09):
Man on the biggest players come into Conwell Stadium. Herschel
Walker when he came into nineteen eighty that was huge
because he was a phenomenon and they were on the
way on the way.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
To that Again, Rick Rick got my eir, what who
was it?
Speaker 10 (41:24):
I said, When herschel came in here in nineteen.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Eighty that was huge.
Speaker 10 (41:28):
It was bigger than that because they were on their
way to the title. And that was in the Hay
George football And when he came in eighty two, that
was when he won the Heisman.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
It was big.
Speaker 10 (41:37):
And then the next year, well we said the next
year asked about you were asked about bo He came
in the next year and that was big because the
attack he was four and oh and they crushed us.
But anyway, as far as this game goes, I'm hoping that,
you know, we get a slug fast seventeen fourteen. But
I'm just afray that defense is legit and they're gonna
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hold us like three points. And the problem Texas has?
Speaker 2 (42:04):
What about the what about the weather?
Speaker 4 (42:06):
It's just supposed to be perfect like today. I think
it spposed to be a great day. Tomorrow when it's supposed
to rain.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
There's supposed to be a massive storm rain during the
check that out.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
I think it's gonna be awful tomorrow. I thin it's
gonna rain.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Did you think it was gonna be perfect, sunny during
the day, raining at night. I have no clue.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
He just made it up.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
You just made the weather.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
Ye depends on what you look at.
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It is Kentucky Sports Radio Friday. It is October seventeenth.
I am Matt Jones here live at forty six Solutions
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great crowd. Here we got folks, made it all the
way from Owensboro to a packed house getting ready for a
massive UK sports weekend, the Blue White Game. You've got
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Oh my goodness, three hundred dollars nine hundred and.
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Wow.
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Speaker 3 (01:27):
Ryan Drew and Shannon Ryan, I'm feeling inspired this morning.
Why because last night I watched two men over forty
years old. Even if one of them seems like the
worst person ever, Aaron Rodgers, then nevertheless both of them
bawled out two guys over forty Ryan playing We now
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I'm over forty, why can't I play in the NFL?
That was the excitement I got last night watching Joe
Flacco and Aaron Rodgers play football.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Last night was a great night for all of us
old men who think we can still go out and
do it with Flacco and Aaron Rodgers and then Max
Sure's you're forty one years old pitching last night.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
For the Blue Jays.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It was old man.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
I loved it all.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
These old fogies out there dominating shit.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Yeah, but you two are well over forty. You're not forty,
you're almost fifty.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I just turned forty recently, so I still can do it.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
And like, how young are you forty two?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
See, I not well over forty. I'm barely over more
older than me. So all of this works out, Drew.
It gives me energy for the weekend. When you see
all these old guys bawling, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Every time they showed Flacco without his helmets and he
had that gray and his goatee, I was like, yes,
Joe Flacco, go out there and do it for a gray.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Go low. He's got low tea, but he can still
threat that.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
He also cover zero. You had Bengals, I had the over.
I told you'd be a shootout with these old men.
It played right like we told you what. It ended
up being a fun game all the way around. Didn't
really care who won.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I just had fun watching it.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, I was excited had the Bengals pick. They're now
kind of back in the mix after looking like they
were going to be done. Uh, and Ryan, you know,
one of these days maybe there'll be a player over sixty.
That'll get you excited.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Well, I'll wait for that day. But all those people,
you know, people were complaining, why did they go get
Joe Flacco? Why did you go get Joe Flacco? Well,
you saw the old guy can steal hold, float around
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I love holding throw it around a little That's why
we've got a Bengals fan in the crowd. That were
you heavy last night?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah? Well good? Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I did also see Joe Burrow was there? Did you
see his haircut?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Shannon? Yeah, I mean he.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Looked a little disheveled. Just in general.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
He looked like a junior at LCA. I mean it
was it was like down to his nose in the front.
You don't see that a lot from a twenty some
year old man.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
He's not dealing with his injury very well. Turf toe
has not been good to maybe.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
So we got uh, we got a big weekend. So
I got a question for you, just the folks. I
want you to be honest here in the crowd. I
just want to do a little snapshot. Two events this weekend,
Blue White Game tonight, UK Texas tomorrow, Which are you
more excited? Who's more excited for? The UK Texas game.
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Who's more excited for the Blue White game. That's a
bad sign for the UK football program. Seventy five, twenty
five for the exhibition where you are playing against each other,
and that out draws the football game with a manning
playing in our.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Backyard, twenty preseason.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Number one coming elected for the first time for the first.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Time ever, Matthew Sober, Matthew McConaughey gonna stand on the sidelines.
That's not a good sign, Ryan, for sort of our
our football.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I don't know our football excitement.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
So is it more the apathy that is set in
for football or the excitement that's building up for Basketball's.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I think it's the former.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I think, Drew, it's that people are kind of worried
we're gonna get crushed and they just don't want to
sort of get their hopes up because normally you would
obviously pick football if we're competitive.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I voted football.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
I don't think we're gonna and I'm worried we're not
gonna score a touchdown. But I still am excited to
go see it because it is Texas and it is
another chance to go watch a football game in Lexton.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
But I'll note it's not just here.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Like we were doing a YouTube show yesterday and Tyler
was like, you know, it's almost a sellout. I'm like,
it's sad that we can't sell out Manning Keenland October
seventy degree weather, preseason number one team that should have
been sold out in May.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, I mean, but there are already, like Texas people.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You can just see them.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Like they've brought their hats sh and they're walking around.
You know, that color of Texas shirt is not a
color you would wear in public otherwise burnt orange.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
It's also a little too close to that orange for Tennessee.
Not quite, but it's it's still orange.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You know they are, They're out and about, and I
think you're gonna you're gonna see more of I was
at Keenland yesterday and there was a lot of people
walking around with Texas gear.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I think it's gonna be a lot more of that.
I think so too.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
And you know, it's also a bad sign when the
conversation has been more about our coaches buy out than
the upcome game this weekend, and that's been the entire
story this week.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
No, I mean, that has been the entire story, and
it's been you know, so we've been I think collectively
Ryan fairly negative about the state of the situation. I
think Seth Emerson of The Athletic, he's a national writer.
He wrote yesterday that the Kentucky football situation looks quote
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as hope hopeless as any in the power for right now,
which was not which was not good to read. I
think his point though, is, if you stay on the
same path that you're on, do you but now here
you go Texas and Tennessee double T's coming here in
the next eight days. I know it seems ridiculous, but
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if you won one of those, it is a different outlook,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
One hundred percent that's a big, huge win. If you
able to knock off one of those two teams that
when it's either start of both people thought were gonna
make the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, you couldknock Texas definitively out of the playoff.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
They lose to us, it would be they're they're done.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
And you could potentially even knock Tennessee out of the playoff,
depending on what happens against their game against Alabama UH tomorrow.
So you, I mean, you have a chance to knock
two really good teams out of the playoffs. I mean,
you know, when you have a chance to get your
fourth win, then you sit there and you go, wellvany
Auburn loll. I mean it's not crazy, right, I'm trying
it cray a little crazy.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
I think if he beat if you beat Texas tomorrow,
I can't believe I'm saying this preseason or one team,
but he would still need more of the rest of
the year unless you scored like forty points and maybe
there is a flip switch on the offense.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh, he still needs more than one win. Winning. I mean,
thirteen to thirteen isn't gonna do much. Yeah, but I
disagree with that.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
If you beat Texas, Shannon, I'm not gonna beat to
the point where I'm gonna say how you beat the matter?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Right?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
If you beat Texas, I'm gonna give him a ton
of credit, and I'm gonna say you go into the
Van Dy Auburn Louisville games with a chance to save
your job. I mean, I don't I don't think how
you win really, Max Well.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
The problem is, though I haven't seen anything that has
given me any hope over the last few weeks. That
would say that that's even going to happen. We could
talk ourselves into it. We might as well try to
be positive about it. And if it did happen, then yeah,
there would be some fans that maybe would be back
on board a little bit. But you still got to
finish the season and with more wins.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I wanted to ask you, Ryan, I mean arch Manning.
I know he's not played up to the hype, but
you can make a strong case that arch Manning is
one of the biggest stars to play in college football
in a long time, maybe one of the biggest stars
to play in college sports in a long time. I
was gonna ask you if you're just talking about star power,
I'm not talking about talent, but star power. I was
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trying to think, how many times has an athlete come
into Lexington with bigger star power than arch Manning. So
this was just what came to my mind. I think
Tim Tebow had more star power when he was here.
Shaquille O'Neill when he came playing for LSU probably at
that moment had more star power. Maybe Cam Newton that
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year he came because he was on the path and
playing so well, but that still early in his year
before he had really taken off. But I cannot think
of a lot more t Bow definitely. I think Shaq definitely.
Maybe you go back to the eighties when David Robinson
played at Navy and came here, and that was that
was a really big deal. People forget he'd already been
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on the cover of Sports Illustrated at that point.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Can you think of anymore?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
No, I don't remember the folks here. Did Peyton Manning play?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
They did, but I think he played here his junior year,
so when he was the highest I think we went
there that year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Most of the crazy celebrity superstars has been coaches that
have come in, not necessarily these players you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I mean, and there were guys who were really good,
like Lamar, But I don't think Lamar was as big
a star at Louisville as he ended up being later
in Live Right. Can you think of any off the
top of your head?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
No, because then il's changing so much. Arches on like
every commercial. No, Like Dak brought the number one team
in here. I'd say he's bigger as Arch as a player,
but Arch is just so much more exposure now in
the world we're in. I think Lamar and those guys
could have been bigger. They just didn't have the opportunities
he has now because he's doing national commercials for huge brands.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And the big dudes in college basketball over the years,
for whatever reason, I just don't think we ever played
them here. I mean, obviously we played Cooper Flag last year,
but that was on a neutral court, and so that's
not quite the same. We didn't play Zion, you know,
like Jim or for Dad, we didn't play It's hard
for me to think of one.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I guess herschel Walker probably played here.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
A long time ago before my time, but that might
be one.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
And I don't know if bo Jackson had at Auburn
ever play here when he was playing.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I don't know, do you people everybody's shaking their head.
I don't think Bo Jackson played here. So my point
is just to say, and if you have one seven
seven two seven seven four five two five four, my
point is just to say, like, this is a pretty
big deal. This game tomorrow. I do think a lot
of people are going through, like I actually think Kentucky
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fans are going to have a big showing there. I
think there'll be a lot of Texas fans too, but
I think Kentucky fancy. But I've gotten since talking to
people they're doing like, this is the last time I'm
going this year unless this is entertaining. No, no, I
mean I've heard that from friends, like I'm going to
this one, but if this one's not entertaining, then I'm
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probably packing it in for the rest of the year.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
I'm hearing a lot of I'm going to tailgate then
going home to watching my couch. Like we have. We
have a group of friends. They probably have been to
a game in three years. We have a big tailgate.
It's like five parking passes together. Everybody's excited, and then
at six forty five, everyone's going home and watching on
their couch.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
They're like, big, you said they've done that though for
three straight.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
No, No, they haven't been to a game in three years.
They're excited to go tailgate. No, they haven't tilgated in
three years. Like, people are excited to be a part
of this, But I think a lot of people might say,
all right, it's seven, let's get the house. Like there's
big companies that are entertaining clients. Clients probably gonna come
have a few free drinks and then get on out
of there. So I think the tailgating scene might oddly
be really good and then we'll see what it looks
like inside.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, well, I still expect there's gonna be a lot
of people in there. I mean, I think, and now
though it's the Shannon, the UK team has to perform.
I mean, you know, we've had a couple of weeks
off here the UK we just can't have if we
get run. I'll go so far as say, if we
get run, Mark's could be run. Yeah, I mean, I
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don't know how he overcomes that.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
And with as much orange as there may be in
the stands this week, if we get blown out tomorrow,
there's gonna be a lot more orange next week. That's
a point we're going to take over.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
If we were to get blown out this week, that
Tennessee game next week could be a majority of Tennessee fans,
like for real, like, because I think a lot of
Kentucky fans would just sell their tickets. Tennessee fans are
the easiest fans to sell to because they're so close. Ryan,
that could be kind of an embarrassing scene.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, and we all know there's been a lot of
people probably preseason planned the Blue White game tonight, game tomorrow,
next week Purdue games game. I think a lot of
families and people probably plan for that. That may all
get changed if they get blown out tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Do we have any chance you need to not have
his breakout moment? Kentucky cannot score points. They just can't,
So you gotta win in the teams.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, I actually think you have a chance. You can
run on them a little.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You have a chance. They are not good, they aren't either,
but they're like they are not a team, Shannon that
you can't score.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
And two other offense we might not be a score
on but you.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
But but this is a team that we can play with.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Yeah, two other offensive livemen are out starting center out
for tomorrow. So if you're trying to find some reason
that Kentucky maybe would have a chance, if they can
maybe score off some turnovers, I think they have a chance.
But if we're just playing a straight up game, I
don't know.
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Speaker 5 (14:12):
That's gotta be Ai. There's no way that's I remember that.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
That was a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
That was a UK football pregame show.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
We used to do it at the stadium. If that
would have been so like twelve years ago where you
were doing one hand push ups, you want to really reclad.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I would love to see this. Can he still do it?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Can he still through?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I want to see if you could still do this,
because twelve years ago you could do one handed push ups.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Here we go.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
One he's doing it. Wow, he's got old man's string
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Speaker 2 (14:45):
I will say you're not a surprise you were in
that video.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You get it, but you did it. That's very good.
All right, will take a break, be right back. It's
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Speaker 5 (15:23):
Wow, what a shoot out.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
That's a lot of points. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Some other suggestions of guys that may have been big stars.
What about Pete Marrivich.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Oh yeah, you know they played that game in historical
Mortal Cosseum which holds probably what is it hold thirteen thousand,
But you think there were one hundred thousand people everybody
claims to have been there to watch Pete play that game.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, that was the game where like you had what
was it that he and Issel both scored like a
bajillion points.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Right, Yeah, I think Rupp made the decision we're gonna
let Maravich get his and stop everybody else and then
marriage Marriviage had like fifty something.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
That was the idea.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Boy, this really is like a video of Ryan's greatest him.
Is this you with a pig or something down here?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
When you have me in a cage trying to catch
little pigs?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah, that was people say, people say we're mean to you.
Charles Barkley, Tominique Wilkins.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Yeah, good one.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I think probably this is a really good one.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
In recent years, maybe one of the biggest was Livy
Dunn coming here for gymnastics shin in just a.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Couple of years. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I mean she's a huge star, that one, maybe bigger
than arch Manning.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So so anyway, that's happening. Obviously this weekend, let's talk
about a basketball thing real quick. We're gonna we'll talk
more about the Blue White Game, but we Yesterday on
the show, I mentioned the Hair Leader report about how
UK's roster, according the Hair Leader, twenty two million dollars.
Nobody has really pushed back on that. So let's just say,
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for sake of argument that it's true.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I think it.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
You know, I think if the Hair Leader article was
definitively not true, UK would have said it. So let's
just assume it's twenty two million dollars. That has led
a lot of people nationally, including a lot of traditional
Kentucky haters, to come out of the woodwork.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Jeff Goodman said if Mark Pope doesn't make a Final
Four with twenty two million dollars, it's a failure. Seth
Davis basically said something like, Kentucky, you'll never be able
to do this again with this kind of money. If
they don't win this year. This is huge. You know,
essentially the program will fall apart if they don't win
the end the title. Mark Pope actually had an interesting tament.
He didn't acknowledge the twenty two million, but he basically said,
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I'm fine with people knowing we spend the most it's Kentucky,
which I actually think is a smart way to go
because you're essentially saying to players this is where you
make money. But let's just talk about it from a
fan perspective. Shannan, does it make any difference to you
that it's.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Twenty two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Like, if it was so, we are one of the
two or three highest rosters. It's either US, Saint John's
or Michigan. Those are probably the three highest paid rosters
this year. Does that make it to you where you
say we have to do better than if we say
paid twelve and we were the fifteenth tighest paid roster.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Yeah, I mean I think you have to do better.
But is it final four or bust? I mean no,
I mean, if you're looking at our expectation as a
fan base, and Mark Pope acknowledges this, we want to
win the championship every year, that's always the expectation, regardless
of how much money we're spending.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
But I guess what I'm saying is over the course
of the next however many years, Yes, is your expectation
of what we should do going to fluctuate based on
how much we're spending.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Probably?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
So, I mean, I think you're going to always expect more.
You're right, if you lose in the first round or
the second round, you're gonna have people going, well, he's
got this kind of budget for his players, and he
can't get out of the first or second round. That's
gonna be a huge criticism.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
What about you.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I feel like we're gonna spend twenty two million. We
can't be losing to Oakland in the first round. St Peter,
that's the first round.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You know.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
We gotta at least make a statement that we're spending
this money for the right reasons, and that's to win,
make a run of championship, win games.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Nothing chased for me because you shouldn't lose in the
first round anyway. And the final four a bust thing.
I know, we say it. I've seen it all over
the internet in the last twenty four hours. But like,
if he doesn't make it, when you say bust, nothing's
gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
You know, it's not final four a bust.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
If he wins the SEC and loses in the Elite
eight to a two seed, is a one seed and
doesn't make the final four, that's still good. That's not
not a final four. That's why I hate the final
four or a bust because what is a bust? I mean,
we're not firing him, firing him if he doesn't get
to the final four.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, I agree with that completely. I mean, all right,
so my view on the money and i' might.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I mean, look, this may change because this is just
now starting chatting, right, so like this may change.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
But my view in my mind is it's not my money.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
So I don't care.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
That's always my thoughts here.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I don't care. It's not my money.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It would bother me more if we as a program
did not commit to compete with the top guys. Okay, now,
if however, we get to a point that our football
program is hindered because we're putting all of our money
into basketball, well then I need basketball to be good.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
It's right, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
It's kind of like I guess I would put it
like this, like I don't care how much the Reds spend,
but to me, the Reds need to spend enough that
the product is not miserable, right, and whatever that is
is what it is. But then if I find out
that we don't re sign Ellie de la Cruz because
we're not spending the money, then that's gonna start bothering me, right,
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And if I'm gonna change the whole roster so I
keep Ellie and then I lose everybody else, well then
Ellie better be good.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And I think part of that Ryan is That's what
I'm gonna judge, rather than the total overall number.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
So I think football is where you know, these diehard
football fans are having a hard time understanding if you
want us to compete in the SEC against these other schools,
they are spending a lot of money. Why can't we
get some money more money?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
They do get money, they just get ten percent left.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yeah, why do we get more money so we can compete?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
What I would say is what's the better investment for
the cause, Because honestly, we're now, like, take this fan
base sitting in here. Ultimately the job drew of the
athletic director is to please this group of people, right,
to make this fan base happy. So what's the better investment?
Spending the exact same amount of money on football and
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basketball as the other schools. We're probably spending the exact
same of money will make us at best middle of
the pack, or spending twenty percent more on basketball and
we have a chance to win a national championship. Isn't
the better investment to put that more money in basketball?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You gotta protect your best asset first. Exactly.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
I wish both could be the best, but you have
one that already is the best, and you don't want
that to slip. Also, think with the money, I think
there's a little bit overreacting two ways. One, I think
this twenty two million, this is gonna change every year.
It might be your football gets more. But this was
also before a rev share, and we don't know how
it's dispersed. Malcolm Reino could be on a three year deal,
we don't know, this could be extended beyond. And they
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locked him up early with money that they had before
all this got into place. So twenty two million seems
like a lot. I doubt it's that every year, and
it's a couple guys are locked up long term that
we don't know about.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I would venture to say next year, I could bore
you with why it's so much money this year. But
next year, Shannon, there's a good chance it'll be half this, yeah,
and half this for all the teams in the country.
Like this year you were you were blessed by God
if you were a college basketball player this year, yep,
because two different sources of money came together. Next year,
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I think it's gonna be about half for everybody. So
I think next year you'll hear our rosters like ten
or eleven million, and it still might be the most
expensive roster in the country.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
And like a Hawthorn could be getting his money now
on a two year exactly right next year he's zero.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You know that, I bet is happening where they paid
a lot more in the first year because these rules
were weird.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Sh everybody's freaking out over it when we don't even
know what the agreement is with each player.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I totally agree. We're gonna take a break. Take your calls.
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Ryan's got one as well. Seven seven two seven seven
four five two five to four is the text machine
one person mentioning in terms of stars to come here
when Houston came with a chem olaje one and Clyde Drexler.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Completely forgot about that. Some of those games back in
the day where Ropperena was just had all these massive
stars coming in.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, people might remember they used to in January or
February on a Sunday, leading into the NFL coverage of
the day, Kentucky would play a home game at RUP. Right,
they played Navy that one year, they played Houston. I
feel like they played Syracuse with Ronnie Pykely once if
I remember correctly. But they would play a non conference game.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You remember that.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I would be okay if we went back to that.
It was just kind of a special thing that the
fans looked forward to every year.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
By the way, we might have a Sunday game this year.
I don't know if people noticed. The last day of
the regular season, we play Florida, and I believe Drew
they are leaving open the possibility to play that game
on Sunday afternoon. I don't think we've played a Sunday
like noon one o'clock after church game in a long time,
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but we might do it.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I think I saw the last day of the regular season.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
We did him a few seasons ago, towards the end
of the cal Era. He put three or four in there.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
No, he did like non conference, But I'm talking about
I don't think we've had because you know what they
usually try to do on that final Sunday, Shannon is
have like three games to get you ready.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
For March Madness. I just we haven't played one of
those in a long time. We might have one.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
I seem to remember during the Tubby Smith era. I
think it was Senior Night against Florida. They played on
a Sunday. But that's the last one that I can remember.
We may have played some along the way, but that
one sticks out.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
All right, I want to ask you this before we
go the phones. The Annabelle doll. Yeah, I saw this, okay,
so I don't We talked about it once. I don't
remember the details explained to me. The Annabelle doll. It's
a doll that like has bad luck.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
It's cursed. Yes, I believe the owner the previous uh
Matt Rife. What what is it? It's it's a doll
that was cursed and it was also the curse Spirits.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, so they just picked the doll out and said
I hate you.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
I guess the spirits just overtook this doll. Have you
seen the movie The Conjuring?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
No?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Okay, well that's in the conjured. Yes, it's Yes, it's
the basis of that movie.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
So there, but it's a real life thing. If anyone
they get, nears it moves it, they die like a
week later.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
So Matt Rife somehow hasn't died yet though he has
the doll. Now he's the owner of the doll.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So everybody knows it's nonsense, right.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
No, true, without no. I mean people have literally died.
This doll has moved.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I mean people have died all that.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
This doll has been seen walking around in an apartment.
The doll walks, Yes, the doll walk he see. I'm
just saying it's basically chucky in real life.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
So well, here's we have a chance.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
So Annabel doll is Inlexington, huh, and is at the
convention Center for Scarefest, which by the way, is adjacent
to they it was that it got. They took it
across the street from the parking lot to the convention
center and there's a priest with it. I don't know
what he's.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Doing, saying it's covered.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It was covered so people I couldn't see.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
It, and then it will be at Scare Fast. Now
I would argue if it's so dangerous, Ryan, why does
it get to be at Scarefest? Because like, and would
that make people not want to go to scare Fest?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
If it's so.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Cursed, you're just asking me, I'm not going to make
eye contact with it. I want nothing to do with it.
If it's so scary, you got to cover it up.
That won't make eye contact with it, negative possessed.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
If you had tickets to the game and it was
gonna be there, would you not go?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I would go to the game, but I wouldn't go
look at it. I didn't want anywhere around it. Let
it look at somebody else, not look. Don't look at me.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
If anybody turns an angle or anything in the Blue
White Game tonight, I'm blame an Annabel.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Why is anab And memorial?
Speaker 5 (27:19):
It's too close to answer your question.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Would I hold it?
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Of course, let's do it, because because it's it's nothing, okay,
it's just that you're just it's just messing with demonic spirits,
entering a pain.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
You don't know what you're doing. A lot of.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
That riphones it. He's fine.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I mean he's unfunny, but that he was funny before.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
His careers got on the dumpster ever since as the
Annabel's fault. But yeah, they take her on tour, and
you know it's a big money thing for them. They
at the pay their I guess fe I.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Think it's cursed. Why do they go see it?
Speaker 6 (27:53):
I think you can look at it. It's more if
you hold it or if you handle it.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah, if you interact with it. Their rules to the spirit.
I think that's why the priest was there in this
wooden box. A little later. That's not a real priest.
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
I have to check his credentials. He could be.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
We will say it looks like a Halloween Express priest costume.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah, I don't think it's a real priest. Well, I'm
just saying. I mean, if it's at the convention there,
it's not that far from my house. So I didn't
know how far the vibes go around.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
The saying if you start hearing some noises around your
apartment tonight.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Adam Sandler. Adam Sandler was at Reparina last night. He
wore the UK, so first of all, let's go back.
He went to UK. He met the men's basketball team,
the women's basketball team, and the swimming team. So he
went around and saw all the teams. Seemed like a
really nice guy, just even from the videos, but also
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players were posting about it.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
People who know Adam Sandler says like the nicest celebrity
of the world. So he goes. Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
The men's basketball team seemed particularly excited to see him,
like they like huge fans. He invited them all to
the show. The men's basketball team went, there's a picture.
Almost all of them went. I think I saw nearly
every player. UK gave him a jersey that said Sandler
on it and then he wore it Ryan on stage.
He wore the UK jersey during his entire show. The
(29:14):
Sandler jers loved it.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
That just a little shows a little appreciation for the
people that love him. He's giving it back, so I.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Love let him a jersey on Big Basketball Fan. There
was a movie where he had a Kentucky shirt on too.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, funny people.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
He's sitting in the doctor's office and he's wearing a
Kentucky shirt.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Well, he loves basketball. I'm hoping we get a video
of him getting a little pick up because he's known
to do that.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Anywhere he is.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
He played the game.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
He can oddly play there's stories of him being in
big cities and just showing up to courts, no security,
him by himself, like can I get in a game?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Now here's what I was gonna say about sort of
bad mojo. He made a joke. Now I didn't hear
the joke. Maybe somebody went and can tell me what
the joke was. But he made a joke that had
something that was like, you know, he was like trying
to be self deprecating, and he was like, I hope
me being there didn't give them bad luck and lead
to somebody tearing their achilles, and fans were like, why'd
(30:06):
you say that? Don't wish it into existence. Annabel is
right over there, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
So are you worried about that at all? Right?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
And the combination of Annabelle and the offhanded Adam Sandler coment.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Yes, of course I am you with it. Maybe not
so much, but the fact that Annabell probably listening over there, like,
oh I heard that.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Adam Sandler though, we just need to just get through this, Drew,
so that we because I don't want everybody, don't want
people blaming Adam Sandler.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I don't wor Annabelle, Poor Annabell both both.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
I'm worried about the Annabelle thing. We shouldn't have approved
bringing her in for our launch of basketball season.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I don't know how that got pasted. Clarence. Well, we'll
find out who's up first?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Got Judy of first?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Judy, Judy, what's up?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Well?
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Good morning? Well, first of all, I think Annabelle was
an a Vincent Price movie. Fit Price, Okay, But anyway,
speaking of the twenty two million, I was listening to
Lockdown Kentucky and he said Land said that one Division
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A Division LA basketball coach said Pope didn't win a
national championship within the next few years, he was a
complete bozo.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah. I don't care what any of those people say.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I mean right now, here's the way national college basketball
media works, and it's always worked like this, but it's
even more so true now. National college basketball media needs
Kentucky to survive. Like most people don't pay attention to.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
College basketball till February. So if you're trying to get clicks,
if you're.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
A national college basketball person, there's only like three schools
you can talk about that'll care Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, etc.
So because of that, they are incentivized to say outrageous things.
It's the same thing that happens in politics. It just
happens in college basketball too, So we have to remember,
like to say he's not a boat, he'd be a
bozo for not going to the final four. That's just a
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ridiculous comment. My thing is, if youre gonna say something
like that, put your name on it.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
That's okay.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
If you're a coach, put your name on it and
say he's a bozo. You know, you get one game.
I used twenty seventeen as example. We didn't make the
Final four, but we're the second best team in the country.
We just drew North Carolina. What do you want me
to do? You know, what do you want us to do?
They were the only team that could beat us, and
that's who we drew. So I just I'm Withdrew on
the final four. Bus stuff is. I just don't accept it.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Right.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
Well, I have one more comment, you know, Golden being
kind of adamant about Aberdeen leaving. My thinking is that
they had to pay so much money to Boogie Plague
that they that they couldn't give enough money every.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Day, or it might just be and I appreciate the
call that we give more money, Drew, Like, that's just.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
What it is.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
And at some point, what are you gonna apologize? You know,
the Dodgers might not lose a game in the playoffs,
but what are they supposed to do try to lose,
you know. I mean you can change the system, and
that's fine, but once the system exists, it's Kentucky's responsibility
to maximize it and do the best they can in it.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
This is the system.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
If we pay more for Denzel Aberdeen. You know what,
sorry Todd, that you're at a school that doesn't care
as much.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
And the Dodgers and Yankees they don't win the championship
every year. They don't know, but you have a better
chance to do what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Like they're fans, I mean they're disappointed, but they get
excited about the next season because it's hard to win championships.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
What do we have like one.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
In twenty seven years? I mean, they're not easy. That's
probably when someone says you're a boso for not winning one.
I mean they're not just right in front of you,
go grab They're pretty hard to get. And on the
on the money thing, just sure it's money. We all
like money. But Kentucky has.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Had more advantages forever. The advantage is just now financial.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Just things we've had, We've talked about We've got the
best fans, the best dorms.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
That was an advantage before, it just wasn't a dollar.
And also, remember, I think this is important.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Everything that people predicted would happen when Inile started, the
exact opposite happened. Literally everybody said, well, this is gonna
make it to where there's the halves and the have nots.
And I was like, well, it feels like there were
halves and have nots before. But what ended up happening
is a new set of teams got good, right, Indiana
(34:35):
got good. That didn't happen, v Andy got good.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Like these teams who had never been good won. So
we kept hearing there'll be no parody. INIL actually brought
us more parody. And I would look at the college
basketball rankings right now. Look at teams in the top
ten in the last twenty five years until INIL, when
was Houston consistently in the top ten? Purdue text is
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tech by you? I would argue Ryan Nil made college
basketball a lot more equitable by where's like North Carolina
has taken a dive.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Kansas hasn't been as good the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
By use a perfect poster child for this, they would
have never been around and in the top ten. And
not for nil, they go out and now get players,
make the program better, and now they're a top ten program.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Say you look like what was Oakland's in IL when
they played Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Think in basketball you could still get beat exactly, you
can still get beat.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Football is harder, but in basketball you can.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
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forty six solutions.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
This is KSR water back of this Kentucky's Arts Radio.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
All right, So I don't wanna I don't want to
say this without verification. So if you were at that concert,
the Adam Sandler concert last night, write me on the
text machine and tell me what he said. Because a
couple of people are saying something, I want to make
sure it's what he said. So seven seven two seven
seven four five two five four I thought it was
a joke, but now people are telling me it was
(36:24):
something different.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
So send me a text and i'll I just want.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
To make sure before I read what he said that
it is actually what he said, right, because I had
no reason to do it otherwise.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Mario was there last night at the concert.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
What did he say?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
So?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
He said he was playing pick up basketball at UK
and somebody tore their achilles.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
But you don't know if he was serious.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
I'm gonna guess it was a joke. I think we
would have heard about it.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
But he said, thoughts up to him, hope they're doing Okay,
that doesn't sound like a joke.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
But is that what he's he did say it? Okay?
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Well, did he sound like he was serious? Sounded like
he was serious now, But we don't know if he
was playing with the UK players or just students. But
that was two days ago. That girl tore her a
c l a couple of days ago, so I don't
think that would have been her. He was playing with
the media team. So there's somebody in the media that
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tore their Who do we think that would be.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
I don't know this, but if it were a UK player,
there's a big when they're practicing run if something happens,
like everyone in the room, we're not talking about this
kind of thing. If if a if like a main
player for the team, I am the hot thing with
Sandler would have said that to the crowd, if he
would have known the circumstance.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
So wait, so you're saying he was playing with media people,
so this could have been like Dave Baker.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
We didn't get invited. If it's media versus.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Alan Cutler, the cutman cut his achilles is unfiltered.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
Well, I think Allen was at the concert last night too,
so scratch him off.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Wasn't him? Okay?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
But he did say somebody tore their achilles? All right,
I'm just gonna first of all, I hope no one
tore their achilles, but it sounds like someone may have
torn their achilles. Mario, by the way, if you knew this,
why didn't you tell us this before you thought he was?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
How's that a joke?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Sorry to the guy who tore his achilles? Yeah, but
Adam Sandler can say something here, Come here just a second,
get up here, Shannon, give him your thing real quick.
Come on up here, just because we did. We're doing
live reporting here.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
All right.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
So you were at the concert. I was, And what
did he say?
Speaker 9 (38:40):
He said, Uh, I hope that person's doing well. He's
kind of talking, talking in circles. And he was like, uh,
somebody like tore their achilles.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
And you thought that you just were cracking up in
the crowd. I wasn't cracking up. I wasn't sure if
I was here, right.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
He tore his achilles. That's the show, Sandler.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
You crazy. I was not like that.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
So but but he he didn't say it was a
basketball player. He just said somebody.
Speaker 9 (39:11):
Yeah, he said. I wouldn't listening. I heard tory achilles,
like somebody.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Just started laughing.
Speaker 8 (39:17):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
I wasn't laughing.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
I was just I didn't think he was serious. You know,
I'm saying, Larius, Yeah, okay, you can't hear it. Like
in the crowd.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Everybody just got quiet, like because they thought it was
so funny. No, I okay, all right, all right, Well,
thank you for the update. I agree with you, Drew.
I would lean to say no way, it's a player,
because that you're right. I've been there when somebody got
hurt and everybody sits there and goes, we're not saying this.
Everyone agrees and they kind of all agree not to
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speak about it. So and then there's a picture of
almost all the team. They have big smiles on their face.
If somebody got hurt. I think I don't think they
would have been out partying that night.
Speaker 6 (39:56):
And you know, I think Sandler would be able to
read the room if you just lost a star player
the day before your scrimmage. He probably knows it's not
his place to just announce it to his audience at
he could.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Have been like one of the managers, could have been
the media, although I don't know what media that would
have been.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
Just the other drama last night though, and Mario could
speak on this is I heard if you even looked
at the clock on your phone, they were coming to
throw you out in there.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
It's no phones now, Mario ar picture though Mario risked
it all.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
For it's hard to keep people from having their phones.
But apparently they were walking around and like you'd get
in an ankle wk.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
Yeah, taking that picture as he was laughing about players
in concussion protocol.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
All right, well Mario he Adam Taylor gets up.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
I just want to say he everybody pray for my
daddy's in the hospital.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Mask bossing over that Mario went and none of us did.
And he's the one that's the youngest and didn't really
know much about Sandler. Yeah, and now he's like, oh,
just typical Sandler.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Now it's just how Adam? What song.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Got?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Jerry up? Next? Jerry, go ahead, Jerry hey.
Speaker 10 (41:09):
Man on the biggest players come into Conwell Stadium. Herschel
Walker when he came into nineteen eighty that was huge
because he was a phenomenon and they were on the
way on the way.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
To that Again, Rick Rick got my eir, what who
was it?
Speaker 10 (41:24):
I said, When herschel came in here in nineteen.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Eighty that was huge.
Speaker 10 (41:28):
It was bigger than that because they were on their
way to the title. And that was in the Hay
George football And when he came in eighty two, that
was when he won the Heisman.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
It was big.
Speaker 10 (41:37):
And then the next year, well we said the next
year asked about you were asked about bo He came
in the next year and that was big because the
attack he was four and oh and they crushed us.
But anyway, as far as this game goes, I'm hoping that,
you know, we get a slug fast seventeen fourteen. But
I'm just afray that defense is legit and they're gonna
(41:57):
hold us like three points. And the problem Texas has?
Speaker 2 (42:04):
What about the what about the weather?
Speaker 4 (42:06):
It's just supposed to be perfect like today. I think
it spposed to be a great day. Tomorrow when it's supposed
to rain.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
There's supposed to be a massive storm rain during the
check that out.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
I think it's gonna be awful tomorrow. I thin it's
gonna rain.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Did you think it was gonna be perfect, sunny during
the day, raining at night. I have no clue.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
He just made it up.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
You just made the weather.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
Ye depends on what you look at.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Just make the weather up. We'll be right back
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It’s 1996 in rural North Carolina, and an oddball crew makes history when they pull off America’s third largest cash heist. But it’s all downhill from there. Join host Johnny Knoxville as he unspools a wild and woolly tale about a group of regular ‘ol folks who risked it all for a chance at a better life. CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist answers the question: what would you do with 17.3 million dollars? The answer includes diamond rings, mansions, velvet Elvis paintings, plus a run for the border, murder-for-hire-plots, and FBI busts.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
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