2025-11-13- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3 (00:59):
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Speaker 4 (01:07):
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Speaker 5 (01:19):
One person writes in and says, uh, tell Brie, where's Bri.

Speaker 6 (01:24):
There's two of them?

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Where's where's Bri? Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:28):
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the monitoring. Yes, you're you're doing the monitor. You are
the monitor, all right?

Speaker 5 (01:46):
If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Let's talk for just a second about going back to
the Simmons thing. I heard an interesting comment yesterday that
I actually kind of agree with.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
But what is your take off? Here was the premise?

Speaker 4 (02:02):
The premise was this that in going forward in college football,
it's a two part thing. Part one is Drew Alabama's Georgies,
et cetera. Can't keep as many great players because they
want to go play somewhere else and make money.

Speaker 5 (02:17):
We've talked about that a lot, right.

Speaker 7 (02:18):
Can't just stock pile him up on your third string
on the bench.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
What Chuck Klosterman then said I thought was interesting though.
He said, so in a world where Alabama, Georgia, etc.
Doesn't care and tee you.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
A stockpile of talent, then as you're judging what is
the best job, you might sit there and say, well,
how reasonable are the fans?

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Because I'm going to be able to get players at
any school now because I can go get the second
string Georgia and Alabama guys. He was talking about it
with Lane Kiffin, but basically he was saying that he
wonders if going forward Old Miss is not a better
job than Florida in LSU, because he says, you can
go win eight or nine games at Old Miss, occasionally
contend for the playoff, and they will say you're the

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greatest thing ever. You can go do the exact same
thing at LSU in Florida and you will get fired.
And nowadays it may not be as easy to do
it at Old Miss as it is at Florida LSU,
but it might be close because you can still pay
the players. You can still go get guys, And he
was like, I wonder if in the future the idea

(03:30):
of having the old miss or having the LSU or
the Florida job might not be what it was in
the future, And I was, of course thinking about that
in the context of Kentucky or Indiana.

Speaker 7 (03:41):
Is that plausible could be? I've thought that with Kiffin.
If I were him, I really consider staying because they're
going to match the money. You're in the playoff conversation
every year. Their expectations aren't nearly what they would be
at other places.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
So I get it.

Speaker 7 (03:54):
I do worry on the on the basketball en you
know we're going with Pope now, But well, that just
the way it applies to Alabama football with expectations in basketball.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
I think the difference in basketball is a lot of
these schools.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Are not gonna pay what we will. In football, I
think everyone's gonna pay.

Speaker 7 (04:11):
And you can't hoard talent in basketball.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
But in basketball, I think there's only gonna be a
few schools that like go pedal to the medal, So
I don't think it applies much his you know, his
second thing was like.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
There was a talent to being a coach for a
long time, and part of that talent was charisma. Specifically,
could did you have the charisma of walking into a
guy's a kid's house and convincing them to come that
That was a talent that say Nick Saban had or
John Caliperry had. And he was like, nowadays that talent

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may not even matter anymore. That used to be a
huge part of what it was to be a coach,
and now it's like irrelevant. Now you just talk to
the accountants, so.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Like somebody, and we really like Vince Merrow, but that
was one of his talents. You wonder does that talent
become less important? Ryan in this age where it's like,
well you seem like a great guy, but how much
am I going to make?

Speaker 6 (05:12):
That's what's come to. Don't you think that it's not
a recruiting pitch from your coaches. It's like Drew said,
you're accounting your check book. How much money you're gonna
give me? That's what it's all about anymore.

Speaker 7 (05:20):
Remember Nick Saban said exactly that. He said, now when
I go into houses, they say, what are you paying me?
That's the conversation. That's big reason why he stepped away.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
So he was like, now, almost being a good coach
requires you to be a good general manager, to look
at a guy and go, can I develop this guy?

Speaker 5 (05:37):
How good is he? Blah blah blah, rather.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Than being a salesperson, and that these coaches that were
great salespeople that just.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
May be a talent that just isn't helpful anymore. I
completely agree with that.

Speaker 7 (05:50):
Back before the money was just out in front and
on the table, you had to go in there and
be a salesman. You had to make the pitch of
why your school was better than other places. But now
when there's a dollar amount that's usually gonna went out
over is at your lodge or your system or I hadn't.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
Thought about it that explicitly, but it does make you wonder.
And then the last thing, he told a story that
I found fascinating. He said, Shannon, you'll like this.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
That Barry Switzer, when he was the coach of Oklahoma,
when he would go recruit a kid, before he would
go in their house, he would go in the back
and go through the garbage of the family. He would
see this is a true story, really, he.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Would send it might not be him, but he would
send one of his staff to go in the back
and go through their garbage to see what kind of
beer the father drank. Oh wow, So that when he
would come inside, if the father said, hey, would you
like a beer, he'd be like, only if you got
an old Milwaukee.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
Because he would know exactly what the beer was, and
that that made him have a connection. That's kind of brilliant,
isn't it.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
It's also really strange that your coaches is digging into
your guard Yeah, but you know.

Speaker 6 (07:01):
What, right, it is absolutely brilliant. And that's why Vince
Merrill was so great.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
You think he was digging through people's.

Speaker 6 (07:09):
Garbage, but he could connect with the family, the people
that he was, you know, recruiting their kid. He can
make that kind of Cali Perry was good at it.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
No, cal Perry was great at it.

Speaker 7 (07:18):
I like that move Buschwitzer. I bet so many dads
feel for that. I would be talking about would absolutely, yeah,
let's have a six pack, you and me, coach, And
so if.

Speaker 5 (07:28):
He had, if he liked your brand, that would have
been what you like?

Speaker 6 (07:31):
That's where he's going now.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
Speaking of brand, put your shoe up here on the table.
What is this that is the.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
Most comfortable shoe I've ever worn in my life? Is what?
I don't know. I'm sure what it is.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
But that's the ugliest shoe I've ever seen in my life.
What is the brain? First of all, it looks like
it's made of vel crow.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
I think it is vel crow.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
Look at this, it is vel crow on. You have
the vel crow shoes like a child.

Speaker 6 (07:55):
Yeah, I don't care. They're really comfortable. And my age,
I don't care what looks good I have?

Speaker 5 (08:00):
Do you have Nike? I didn't even know Nike.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
Made vel pro shoes. I didn't either.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
And did you tell me those are hand me downs
from your son?

Speaker 6 (08:07):
Yeah? These are Gavins. He left him at the house
years ago and I found him. So I'm starting to
wear them.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Free food, free shoes, clove like a homeless person.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
You really do?

Speaker 4 (08:17):
You do, in some ways live like a man that
just whatever gets donated you put on.

Speaker 6 (08:22):
I think you get to that age where like you
really don't care, you just like I want to be coming.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Do you ever think about caring for your your woman
like she's she's like still a relatively new relationship. Do
you still feel the need to like whine her and
dinner and maybe impress her.

Speaker 6 (08:36):
Oh well, but she's getting my age too. We're both like, that's.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
A really nice thing to say about her.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
You look at all the money he's saving by not
buying clothes.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
May I take that money out?

Speaker 5 (08:44):
And yeah, but he's not saving it, he's giving it
to streamers for.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
True yells at a time.

Speaker 7 (08:51):
Did you see that guy wrote on Discord that he
got shut down by the way, your guy that you
named sports Live reactions? Yeah, he wrote it was the
day after.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
Oh you, oh, he got shut down.

Speaker 7 (09:01):
There's a Discord thread screen shot where he said, is.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
He mad at Ryan?

Speaker 7 (09:04):
You didn't call Ryan by name, but he said he
was shut down. It was the day after we talked
about him.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
So you just got that. First of all, it was
not mad I had. I didn't know any of it. It
was YouTube.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
So the guy you gave ten dollars to you got
him shut down?

Speaker 6 (09:18):
Well, I'm gonna get him ten bucks. He's got something
you're gonna do.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
You're gonna need him tomorrow because tomorrow we'll just do
the Arab Extreme. It's another computer game. So now you're
gonna we're back to Islam TV.

Speaker 6 (09:30):
Wait is the.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
Friday and Saturday. Saturday. That's right, Saturday is also a
computer game.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
By the way, they do say the uto BSPN thing
may be almost over, said it could end by tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (09:41):
Did you see you get a twenty dollars credit from
YouTube TV?

Speaker 5 (09:44):
But then you have to fill the thing out? Did
you do that?

Speaker 6 (09:46):
Easy? Just a couple of clicks. It's easy.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
I did it? Did you do it? Did so? You could?
But make sure check your spam if you don't have it.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
If you have, you TTD you got an email that
says you get twenty dollars, but you have to opt
into it to get it.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
Who's up next? Beasy, go ahead, besy.

Speaker 8 (10:04):
Hey guys, Well, I think it's nice to say I'm
looking forward to your bowl game even more than a
national championship.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
And it's gonna be listen, it's gonna be brutal. I'm
just gonna go ahead and take you like. I'm gonna
try to make it fun. But so when I thought
I was gonna have to do this last year, I
practiced on the game and it was not good.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
Objectively, I knew it wasn't good, and but.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
I didn't practice again because because then they called me
and said we're not gonna have you do it. Now,
They're like, you're doing we have to, like, we have
to go meet with the coaches.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
There's a pregame yoga. We have to do.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
What what I'm not kidding? Pre game yoga.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
So they have as part of the New Orleans Bowl festivities,
they have yoga on the on the.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Super Dome field. You required, and they want me Ad
Myra to do it to create content. Get me Admiron
doing pregame yoga.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
Okay, please take Mario with you.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Apparently apparently it's like us, the players and the coaches,
we all do yoga.

Speaker 7 (11:03):
I'm actually looking at their website called Yoga in the Dome.

Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yoga in the Dome, that's what it's called. It'll be fun.

Speaker 9 (11:11):
I've got, I've got.

Speaker 8 (11:12):
You're gonna be penciled down for sure.

Speaker 10 (11:13):
Well, one more quick.

Speaker 8 (11:14):
Thing, Matt files out the basketball game the other night
and the amount of times we're gonna have to hear
twenty two million, Yeah, we all leave a loss this. Yeah,
it's gonna be ridiculous.

Speaker 9 (11:25):
It is so one quick thing.

Speaker 8 (11:27):
Ali Khalifa, I sure wish he was on our team, honestly,
because man, that guy can pass the ball and tell
me it doesn't remind you of a Maori Williams a
little bit.

Speaker 6 (11:36):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Guys, Well, he's not nearly as athletic as Amari, but
he can pass it. He's a really good passer. We're
gonna hear the twenty two million Ryan non stop, non stop.
It's gonna it's going all year. We spent twenty two
million dollars. Why aren't we better? Even our fans are
doing it. It's not just the fans of the other teams.

Speaker 6 (11:56):
The game had just hit zero and it's the first
tweet I got was that about it? Twenty two million,
it's gonna be all season.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
Do you think that, like, should that be a thing?

Speaker 2 (12:06):
No?

Speaker 7 (12:06):
I get why people are doing it, but just leave
aside that it's cash. Kentucky has always had more advantages
than other teams. We should have always had the better roster,
yet we still occasionally lose games. Now it's just they
have money in their pocket.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
Do you think it puts more pressure on them that
they that they spent that money.

Speaker 7 (12:23):
I think it only matters if you're like not good.
I mean, if you're still a good team and just
don't win the title. It's college basketball.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
That happens.

Speaker 6 (12:29):
Now.

Speaker 7 (12:29):
If you go like five hundred and finished seventh in
the SEC, that absolutely should be talked about. Yeah, but
if you're in the conversation at the end of the year,
I think that's enough.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
And I don't know that we spent twenty two million dollars.
I mean, people just say it like it's fact. I'm
not saying it's not true. I think we did probably
spend more than that. A couple teams I think spent
more than us. I think Saint John's spent more than us.
I think maybe Michigan spent more than us. But we're
right there at the top. I don't know if it's
twenty two million or not. But the thing is, we

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don't know what everybody else spent. Like there's no way
to really compare. So I don't know.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
I mean, I it matters to me. But again, to
use your old quote, it's not my money, So what
do I care.

Speaker 7 (13:11):
I hadn't even thought about it unless I'm asked. But like,
even if you yelled it against Louisville, I mean, O way,
it was expensive, he played bad.

Speaker 5 (13:18):
Did you want Pope to know?

Speaker 4 (13:20):
We don't know, but we don't know what Louisville spent.
I mean, Louisville had to have spent a lot of money.
I mean you think Michael Brown came here for his health, right,
I mean the kid from Virginia, he left a really
good school to come here. The kid from Xavier, he
had offers from every school in the country and he
went to Louisville. I mean, they had to have paid

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for those guys. There's no way they didn't.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
No way. And you know, like we talked about before,
our twenty two million may include a three year plan
payout plan for somebody or a two year plan for somebody.
That's true, you know.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
I mean they may have said, all right, con Chandler,
we're paying you, you know, four million dollars over three years.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
We have no unless you tell me whatever body else paid.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
Like twenty two million sounds like a lot, But what
if Louisville paid eighteen then is it really that big
a difference.

Speaker 7 (14:07):
Yeah, we've got a couple of million coming back from
acl injury right now. And like I think about ol ways,
the most expensive on the team. Everybody in the spring
wanted Pope to bring all the way back. You gotta
pay all the way what he wants, got to bring
him back, already paid him, he brought him back, played
that crap? What do you want Pope to do? I
mean you want to know? Do you think he was expensive?

Speaker 5 (14:25):
What if he's not? Oh way, what happens? Then?

Speaker 7 (14:28):
I think he'll figure it out, you do, as long
as he doesn't just keep trying to be a three
point shooter.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
He needs to drive, Yeah, he needs to He needs
to drive.

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Speaker 7 (15:13):
Yeah, definitely. My favorite thing right now is telling people
how close it is. It blows their minds. You think
people like that's gonna take forever.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
Seven and a half hours. Seven and a half hours
feels like it's farther, but it's seven and a half
hours closer than the beach.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
Your question last night about big league cities up, we
missed because we were you know, you had perimeters of
what's close what's not closed. Yeah, he blew my mind
about some of them.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Seven and a half hours to Buffalo. We' in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Who up Saturday night?

Speaker 5 (15:39):
You ready, Mario? We're ready. Good. You gotta get us
a car. By the way. We'll take a break and
be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
Warner back of This is Kentucky Sports Radio A five
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four one person rights Matt. On your show with Drew
and Billy yesterday, you said Ryan Lemon would have an
opinion on something I'd like you to ask him now
on the show.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
It's a good question. Remember we talked about what would
Ryan Leman want to do?

Speaker 7 (16:08):
I remember you saying it, but I can't remember what the topic.

Speaker 5 (16:10):
So just so are our terrible president. I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding. No, he has an idea, and we
wanted to know when Ryan women.

Speaker 6 (16:22):
Like it a fifty year mortgage.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
He wants to offer people instead of a thirty year mortgage,
they now could get a fifty year mortgage. Would Ryan
Lemon support fifty year mortgages? Do you think that would
be a good decision.

Speaker 6 (16:39):
I'm kind of im just gonna think this out loud.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
No, No, that's the best I want to I think
you thinking it out loud is the best way.

Speaker 6 (16:46):
Had you had you heard this before, I've not heard this.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
Okay, Yeah, stock to mortgage.

Speaker 6 (16:51):
I would think that it might help some more people
get into a house and make it more affordable. But
the long term, you're gonna be spending three times more
than you would than the house is worth. So on
the outset, it maybe looks like a good idea, but
we get in the weeds. I think it's a horrible idea. Show,
thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
I was like we were saying yesterday we thought you
were the kind of person that might on paper think
that was a good idea.

Speaker 6 (17:18):
Well, no, yeah, it looks that way, like, oh yeah,
my payment's going to go down to this, Well I
can afford that. Or then you look what you're paying
an interest over fifty years. It's three times more than
the house is worth.

Speaker 5 (17:27):
You're made a point. You're basically just renting for life
that way.

Speaker 7 (17:30):
Yeah, because you're not probably not buying a house before
the age of twenty. If you are, congratulations. So at
that point, say you're twenty five, the term on that
goes to your seventy five. You just basically signed up
to rent from that bank.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
And it would also do the one like the problem
we have with housing in America is we don't have
enough houses.

Speaker 5 (17:47):
So if you make it even easier now for people
to buy houses, it's only gonna make that problem even
worse in some ways, Like it's because until you increase supply,
as long as the demand is the same, you're you're
still having the same issue of them being like unaffordable.

Speaker 7 (18:04):
I just worry so many people are gonna get tricked
by hearing it's two hundred dollars a month cheaper and well, I.

Speaker 5 (18:08):
Don't think they're gonna do it. Apparently apparently apparently other
people in the administration kind of maybe talked him out
of it.

Speaker 7 (18:14):
Hey, let's not rob the American Yeah, so.

Speaker 6 (18:17):
Car dealerships try to do that. They you know, they say, well,
if you get you a three year, four year, but
we can stretch it out to a six year and
your payment goes all the way down to this when
they're like, oh, yeah, I can afford this brand new
shiny toy, now this new car. I'm gonna do it.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
And I'm impressed.

Speaker 7 (18:32):
You're like, well, they also brought up a fifteen year
car Loan, which.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Is that's crazy. That's at a fifteen year Carlan would
be crazy. I'm impressed with your financial acumen. By the way, there,
I slept in a holiday and express. I wish you
could get a different joke, though shaded for that, you know,
I wish it just it's been how many years have
you made that joke?

Speaker 6 (18:51):
Ever since they started doing those commercials.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
Okay, I just wish I have a question for you, Yes, yes, sir.

Speaker 6 (18:59):
I read something like, what do you think is the
average age of first time home buyers? Now?

Speaker 5 (19:04):
Well, it's gone up. Unfortunately.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
I want to say, did I read it was like
mid to late thirties, now like forty one, See that's forties.
I kind of, in all seriousness, I feel bad for
like this generation, this generation right here, and the people
a little bit older than you. Guys, you all have
been like screwed by the boomers. I mean you really have,
like you're I mean, it's not your grandparents specifically, so

(19:29):
I mean, don't don't yell at them, but like the
people a generation older than me are just making out
like bandits. And it's this young generation that's really gonna
gonna feel it because I mean, the unemployment is high
for people that age, the you know, the job market

(19:49):
with AI is gonna be worse. Housing is become impossible
to own a home for some people that age. And
again this is meant to depress you all. I'm just saying,
look it is for this generation coming up, it's it
is gonna be I mean, it's gonna be much harder
than it was for like our generation.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
That's why all these brand new apartment buildings are springing
up all over town because these people can't afford a house.
They got to live somewhere. So is that the age
forty one it's like early forties now forty one and
a half.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
I mean, I guess, you know, yeah, But I mean
I don't know, you know, I don't know that there's
a simple solution. But the the and the boomers just
keep getting just keep getting more money and keep owning
more things. And we change our tax system to make
them pay less and less in taxes, which of course

(20:43):
puts more and more of a burden on the people
that are young and working. And they're living longer and longer,
which we want. And the retirement age is not raising,
and so there's just a lot of factors that can
they're the ones in office because they won't quit.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
They won't, any of them.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
I saw Maxim Waters is eighty seven years old, and
they said today she said, I'm running again.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
Wow, do something, ma'am, do something else.

Speaker 6 (21:15):
Enjoy retirement. I mean, like you've been.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
She spent office for forty three years.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
Forty three years.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
So she has the biggest list of accomplishments ever. Right,
do something else? How many years? Forty three years? Russ, Russ,
go ahead, Russ.

Speaker 10 (21:40):
Hey guys, good greetings from Vanderburgh County. Matt, She's got
a hypothetical for you. Kentuxie is playing for the National
Championship game in April and the Sunday before the ESPN
executives say, Matt would like for you to come up
and do Sports Center that night with Michael Eaves.

Speaker 5 (21:56):
Would you consider it Sports Center?

Speaker 4 (22:00):
I mean, are you asking me when I missed the
National Championship to do Sports Center? I mean, if you're
asking me a wacky well, I mean, I love Michael Eaves,
but that's like you know that if now, if they
were saying, Matt, we want two Kentucky fans to do
Sports Center, to make a Kentucky theme thing because Kentucky's

(22:21):
playing in the National Championship, then yes, I would do that.
If it was just miss it to do the two
am Sports Center because we want you to try it,
I might say, can we do a.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
Different day if it's the day of the National Championship,
if it's.

Speaker 6 (22:33):
A broadcast, But if it was Kentucky, oh for sure.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
But if it was Kentucky themed and they were like, look,
Kentucky's playing in the National Championship, we want to have
a Kentucky flavor. You and Michael are from Kentucky, then yes,
of course I would do that, right.

Speaker 6 (22:46):
You and Michael Rex Chapman, and they even talked about
doing it one time. I think it was Rex trying
to do it.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Well, no, I mean there was a remember the year
they did the hometown announcing for the Final four. I think,
what did Dave or Rob Bromley end up doing that?
But I talked to them about doing I remember that
it was it was it was Rex Chapman, but uh
I had conversations with them about that.

Speaker 5 (23:09):
So yeah, that would be awesome.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
But if it was just like skip the national Championship
so you can go do like a random show, I
would just say, hey, can we do it another time?

Speaker 5 (23:18):
You know?

Speaker 11 (23:19):
And what's more embarrassing?

Speaker 10 (23:22):
Ahead, what's more embarrassing doing yoga in the super Dome
or going to a gas station and buying the stove
code Steve Austin Belt.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
The Steve Austin Belt was pretty embarrassing. We'll be right back, SKZR.

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person rights, Matt, do you believe in term limits?

Speaker 5 (24:20):
Of course?

Speaker 4 (24:22):
Like that should be a no brainer. Hol Rogers shouldn't
run again, Mitch McConnell's finally stopped. You know, we got
Nancy Pelosi finally stopped. But like these people run, we
don't need them. They act like they're the only people
that can do the job. Are these eighty year olds.
I'm not saying eighty year olds shouldn't. If they want
to run, that's fine, but they if they've been in

(24:43):
office since they were forty, why do they still need
to be in office when they're in their eighties.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
It's crazy.

Speaker 7 (24:49):
I think you should have to like log into Facebook
and post something to prove that you're at least someone
at the time.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
You got to make it hard. You gotta make it
harder than Facebook. They have to log into Instagram. They
have to be able to, like, you know, operate a phone.

Speaker 7 (25:07):
I think about it's been five or six years, but
when Zuckerberg was there the Congress and the questions they
were asking him were so dumb. I was like, do
you all even live in the same world?

Speaker 5 (25:15):
Now imagine them trying to understand AI. That's what I mean.
I mean like they have to regulate this stuff that
they don't know anything about. And the other thing is
like it's just the like anybody who wants power for
that long, something is wrong with you, right, like something
is wrong with you get a little just It drives

(25:38):
me crazy. To me, that should be something that's nonpartisan.
We do not like we need I don't understand how
one person leads up. Mitch McConnell was the head of
the Republicans in the Senate for like twenty years. Nobody
needs that, right, even if they're good, You just need
new voices twenty years of a person being in charge.
Tenancy Pelosi was like that for the Democrats, like get new.

Speaker 6 (26:00):
People, breadth of fresh air, to get some new ideas,
a new voice, new uh, you know Sorny coming in
And the same thing happened in sports at times, you know,
coaches kind of we saw the cow just time.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
What's the longest time a coach should be in a program?
Do you think there is that?

Speaker 5 (26:14):
Because there are people would argue like, no coach should
be in a program for more than X amount of years.

Speaker 6 (26:20):
Well, Buzz Williams, he's come out properly and said it.
It's to him at six and he always leaves before
to that sixth year, after that.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
Sixth year, six seems a little shot. That's pretty quick.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
Yeah, I'm more like I'm about ten. Ten seems to
be about the right amount that they kind of need
to make a change.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
I kind of think if you look at Cow and
if you look at Stoops, even if you look at Tubby,
you could kind of make an argument ten is the number.
I mean, you could kind of make an argument that
things started to go downhill for those guys at ten.
Tubby left after ten, right, Am I correct? About that Yeah,

(26:56):
it was ten or eleven, and it seemed like the
right time. I think if he had kept going and
it was gonna.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
Get worse, Joe b I think was exact same. I
think he was right at ten or eleven.

Speaker 5 (27:04):
So I kind of think Drew ten might be the number.

Speaker 7 (27:08):
Yeah, and even if you like him, sometimes just that
new excitement changing things up, just hitting reset brings everybody in.
You know, people were kind of double cow. But moments
like that Pope coming in and just new phrases, new systems,
new players.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
I think programs need that every where.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
And then when there are exceptions like take Nick Saban,
if I'm correct, he basically restarted his career at ten.
That was when he kind of hit the reset button,
did the Lane Kiffin thing, and it was like, all right,
we're gonna start over now at ten.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
Maybe that's what you have to do.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
Are we giving the Mark Stoops detractors a little more
ammunition for their argument?

Speaker 4 (27:43):
I don't think their argument has been wrong. The question
for me, I said this before the season started, is
is Mark Stoops ready to hit the reset button or
is he going to continue doing the same thing? And
so far the answer has been no. Let's see how
the season ends. But yes, Mark Stoops started declining ten years.

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I mean, all these guys, it feels like the number
is ten years.

Speaker 7 (28:07):
And it's not that they're just going through the motions,
but it can get stale if it's just the same
thing every season and it's not something spectacular like a
Nick Saban or coach k the guys that have had
the big lag.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
I mean, there's a reason why the the we had
a constitutional amendment about not having presidents more than two
terms is FDR was like most people believe a really
great president, but then in the last term there was
some thought that there like started to be some corruption,
there started to be to be some slippage, and then

(28:39):
it was like, okay.

Speaker 5 (28:40):
Maybe maybe we don't need four of people. I think
the same thing can be true with coaches.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
And if you you know, he used to have that,
but it was an age base thing.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
It was not it was not a year. Yea, the
who's next?

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Tyler?

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Tyler, go ahead, Tyler's.

Speaker 12 (29:00):
Crazy that some of these politicians could have paid off
their fifty year mortgages.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
While they've been in office.

Speaker 12 (29:05):
Yeah, speaking back on the podcast too last night, really
quick Drew's comment or subtle about Trump Colin Warren Bobert
and ask him she want to go to play.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
With That was I went back and listen for people
haven't heard that's a top ten Drew line just because
it came out of nowhere and I'm not going to
step on it, but the way he set it up,
you're right. When I was listening last night, it made
me laugh more than it should have. That was thinking
about of you in many years of doing shows with Drew.
That was a top ten Drew line.

Speaker 12 (29:34):
But go ahead, Yeah, so hey, go into and ask
anything question changing gears a little bit. I was curious
what some of your all's biggest what if and UK
sports would be, And I'm not talking about like the
ones that are everyone's, like what if ox SPORTSS didn't
get hurt in twenty twenty five or sex twenty fifteen,
but like what personal ones like like mine for example,

(29:56):
is what if Mark Pope had been able to coach
the last Cow team, because I think I would have
cooked and that was the perfect team for post system
and it was a little bit unfortunate that we just
maybe didn't have the right coach for that.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Grip I mean, just for entertainment purposes. I appreciate the call.
What if Bill Parcells had taken the job? What would
have happened? Would we have had a Bill Belichick situation
at North Carolina? Would he have started dating a twenty
four year old girl and we would have done with that?
But what if Bill Parsales had taken that job? Because
it was very close to happen. Rich Brooks did a
really good job, but like, would it have been crazy?

(30:33):
Would it have been a circus? That to me was
an interesting what if of UK sports?

Speaker 7 (30:39):
Definitely, I don't know if he would have taken us
to New Heights, but it probably would have been good.
I don't know that it would have been the Belichick
experience with what Parcels was in that moment, what we
were in that moment. I think it would have worked
out and been fun.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
What if Jody Meeks had stayed? I mean, what if
Jody Meek stays? Is that twenty ten team the best
team of all time?

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Be?

Speaker 4 (31:00):
I mean, I think you could make an argument that
if Jody Meek stays, not only do he win a
national championship, I think we beat the ever living blank
out of every team we play. I mean we could
have seen, we could have seen the best team of
all time, right, and.

Speaker 6 (31:17):
You may get a year two out of Eric Bledsoe.
That may have forced him. He would have got as
many minutes to me have come back for a second year.

Speaker 7 (31:22):
Do you have any I would have played a lot
like Darnell Dotson's minutes. He would have been on the team.
He was the shooter allegedly on that team.

Speaker 5 (31:30):
I mean, I can't.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
How do you guard a team with Wall, Bledsoe, Meeks,
Patterson and Cousins.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
You don't, You don't, good night, I mean, forget it.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
That's a team of just that's a team of five
guys who were really good NBA players on the court together.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
Has that ever even happened?

Speaker 4 (31:48):
Has there ever been a college team that had five
dudes on the court at the same time that.

Speaker 5 (31:53):
Were all good NBA players?

Speaker 6 (31:55):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (31:57):
Ever, I don't know if there's ever in a team.

Speaker 6 (32:00):
Because even the Fab five couple of guys didn't.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
Yeah, he didn't make it, make it.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
The UNLV team had a couple of guys didn't make it,
So that would be mine.

Speaker 7 (32:07):
And then the fit of the twenty ten team Wall
driving with them leaving meeks open on the perimeter.

Speaker 5 (32:13):
That would have just been that would have been unfair good.
What do you think?

Speaker 6 (32:18):
You know, I I'm a huge Tubby fan. I love
Tubby Smith. What if Patino at State?

Speaker 5 (32:24):
What Patino at State? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (32:26):
Winter, we were the hottest thing going and we were
rolling during that era.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
What do you think he would have kept the fire
if he was in the same I mean, part of
what I think makes him is he takes these new
challenges and because you know, he stayed in a long
time at Louisville and it kind of fizzled out a
little bit towards the end at Louisville.

Speaker 5 (32:43):
Do you think that would have happened?

Speaker 6 (32:45):
I don't know. Man, things were on a high when
he walked when he walked away, and it was no
slowing down inside of it appeared.

Speaker 5 (32:51):
What do you think any what's he gotta? What if?
I'll have a what if? And it's not a wonder.

Speaker 7 (32:56):
I know what would have happened if we don't take
the air out of the ball and let Carl Towns
continue to score at will against Wisconsin? We have the
first forty oh season in another banner. But he completely
choked that game.

Speaker 5 (33:07):
Away.

Speaker 6 (33:07):
Yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
What if the envelope hadn't fallen out apart. That's a
huge one because that was going to be a great team.

Speaker 6 (33:15):
Yeah, put us on probation.

Speaker 5 (33:16):
I mean that they had.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
If you go back and look thank Chris Mills and
Eric Manuel and Sean Kemp.

Speaker 7 (33:22):
What just the Sean Kemp thing? What if he didn't
mean what it?

Speaker 5 (33:25):
What if all of that had come together for one year.

Speaker 7 (33:28):
I've heard Richie in this bar, not on there, but
just talking to his telling stories of Sean camp pick
up games with those guys when he was on campus.
They were just talking like he was an other worldly
basketball player they're so excited to have in the uniform.

Speaker 5 (33:40):
Just never happened. Yeah, that's another. That's a good question.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
By the way, if if people have seven seven to
two seven seven four five two five four, any other
what ifs?

Speaker 5 (33:47):
Where is our show tomorrow?

Speaker 6 (33:48):
We're at the Infinity Skybar at the Marriott Downtown Residence
in residence.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
In so if you go to the Residents in Downtown,
there's a skybar Infinity.

Speaker 5 (33:58):
We're gonna be out there. Yep. It's very nice.

Speaker 7 (34:01):
Hop popping there on New Year's Eve, occasionally, do you yeah,
good spot, So we will be there tomorrow occasionally on
one of our.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
Very rare downtown shows. I can't remember us ever doing
a downtown show.

Speaker 6 (34:14):
No, we've We've set up on the sidewalk a couple
of times, but never like at a place where the
public can come downtown.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
So can you think have we ever done a show
at a remote downtown's.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
That's open to the public.

Speaker 7 (34:27):
I don't know where it would have been.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
I don't know where it would have been, but come
on out. It'll be fun. Parking's not bad. Everybody acts
like parking's bad.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
Fucking garage there, Yeah, it's not too bad.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
We'll take a break, be right back. Final segment KSR ten.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
Walking back at this Kentucky Sports Radio if I'm nine,
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time for our DraftKings pick of the Night. The big
game tonight Purdue and Alabama. This is uh kind of
Kentucky and Purdue again. This game is what at Alabama.

(35:23):
Alabama's a three and a half point favorite. We'll find
out if Purdue was what they looked like against us
or if we were just really good in that game.

Speaker 5 (35:30):
You got purduer Alabama.

Speaker 7 (35:32):
Definitely like Alabama to win. I was hoping it'd be
like one or two points. Three and a half is
a little higher, but I'm still gonna bet it. Uh,
just that pace of play and what we saw against Purdue.
Purdue was losing to Oakland last Thursday or Friday, for
you know, right at halftime if not at the house.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
Who loses to Oakland? Could you imagine?

Speaker 4 (35:49):
You imagine losing a game to Oakland? What kind of
team would do that?

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (35:54):
Fun?

Speaker 7 (35:54):
Oakland fact they played number one Purdue last week and
then played number one Houston this week, so they played
number one back to back.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
Yeah, Houston beat him by a lot more than Purdue him.
So you got you got Alabama. I don't believe in Purdue. Shannon.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah, with Kentucky much like Alabama, we've already seen what happens.
So I'm gonna go Alabama, especially with them being at home.

Speaker 5 (36:11):
I'm gonna go Alabama. You know they'll have too.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
If they win this game, that's two huge wins to
beat Saint John's in Purdue to start the season. That
would be great. I mean, Alabama might be really really
good again. Filon is a great player.

Speaker 6 (36:23):
He may be the best player in the conference.

Speaker 5 (36:25):
What do you have?

Speaker 6 (36:26):
Like we said, all you guys have said it, Purdue
struggling with the tempo they placed a Kentucky. Kentucky plays
a lot like Alabama. So I think Alabama runs them.
You think they run him, run them?

Speaker 5 (36:35):
There you go. What's the Thursday night game tonight?

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Jets and Patriots?

Speaker 5 (36:40):
I think maybe good thing. It's not Jets and Patriots Patriots.
It's a good thing. We're doing karaoke here tonight. I
think if we were trying to get people out for
the football, come see Jets in.

Speaker 7 (36:53):
Patriots, maybe the Jets will knock off the Patriots. They
need to be humbled a little bit right now. They're
acting like Drake May is the greatest thing of all time.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Yeah, I don't like that. Some what ifs. What if
let's see what if Dirt Novinsky had come here.

Speaker 6 (37:06):
Rumor was he had committed. He and they we went
to watch him play in an All Star game. We
were so convinced he was gonna come here went pro instead.
May think he made the right decision.

Speaker 7 (37:15):
It would have been fun watching him.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
Yeah, we also Tracy McGrady is another one that thought
about doing that.

Speaker 6 (37:20):
Dick Bytell went on the air and said, McGrady has
committed to Kentucky.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
How about what if Neuralins hadn't gotten hurt. Yeah, yep,
Well we wouldn't have made the n I T. I
don't know if we would do.

Speaker 5 (37:29):
I don't know how far.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
I mean, we might have been a Sweet sixteen team
or something like that. If Neurlins doesn't get hurt.

Speaker 7 (37:35):
Larry Bird could have been the small forward next to
Kyle Macy and Jack Gibbings even said that recent on
a podcast to Kentucky.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
Larry Bird, yeah, he said Joey Hall. He didn't think
Joey Hall wanted it.

Speaker 6 (37:46):
He said Kentucky stopped recruiting him.

Speaker 4 (37:47):
Yeah, that might that might have been a good evaluation
by Joe by Hall if he did not want Larry Bird.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
Think you missed that one.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
One person writes, what if Eli Cappoluto had not removed
candidates for this job, then probably Bruce Pearl's the coach
here and he probably is only the coach for like
four years, never.

Speaker 7 (38:12):
Tries to hand it off to Steven. Oh could you
imagine that we would have had to get in front
of that. We couldn't let that happen, you know what.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
Actually that's an interesting point, uh huh, because I mean
if he had come here and then he tried to
set it up for Steven, that wouldn't have gone well.

Speaker 6 (38:28):
And that's exactly what would happened.

Speaker 5 (38:31):
I also don't know if it would have gone well.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
You know, he right after he was in attention with
this job, he started like speaking out about politics and stuff.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
I don't know if that would have worked here. You know,
he's very vocal, very vocal.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
People kind of don't pay attention because it was at Auburn,
But if it was that Kentucky magnifies it, it would.

Speaker 5 (38:47):
Have magnified it. Who's up next, Joe, Joe?

Speaker 11 (38:49):
Go ahead, Joe, yeah, man, uh, yeah, I wanted to
talk about the Louis of fans follows that. I wanted
first that Vandy pulled back yeh, probably going over to
the UBL for pole dance, and I imagine.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
Well he was actually in Miami. People are telling me
so now I definitely know where those dollars were going.

Speaker 11 (39:11):
But yes, yeah, but the U OFL fans. I've been
to quite a few basketball games. I went to the
one with Josh Hurdleson and Brandon Knighting. Hm, yes, and
we said way up. Anyway, a guy I act like,
he stumbled and poured beer all over my wife, and
my wife grabbed me to keep me from trying and
take his in off. But anyway, and then this Tuesday

(39:35):
night when we was there, a guy would set in
the time and he said, oh my god, he said,
if we come back and when this game, we're gonna
have to have X got.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
Out of here.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
Yeah, it would have been interesting if we had won.
I mean, and we didn't. Obviously I appreciate the call,
but if we had won that game, I think that
could have been a because you you know, I wasn't
even there for the second half, but you could almost
over the TV.

Speaker 5 (39:56):
Feel the Louisville fans twitching, tensing up.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
That's why I wish Low had made those free throws
because I think if it had been a one possession game,
that place would have gotten really, really tense.

Speaker 7 (40:09):
I did see at least one Kentucky person one in
the center. Did you see the picture of the little
fan of guy's nose broken? There was blood everywhere in
the concourse. A Kentucky fan hit a little bit. I'm
assuming you don't see who did it. I'm gonna assume
it's Kentucky. But there's a little fan whose nose was
almost removed from his face. There's police, there's just blood
all over the concrete.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
Wow, that's interesting. I didn't see that.

Speaker 7 (40:29):
Yeah, it was pretty pretty ugly scene.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
Yeah, by the way, it is cool that they did
the thing honoring the UBS people.

Speaker 6 (40:36):
Absolutely, Yes, that affects our whole state.

Speaker 5 (40:39):
I talked to. This may have been in the news.
I talked to Craig, the mayor, who said, I want
you to think about just a second. So the three people.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
Died that were on the plane, but the other eleven
people that died were all in that auto parts place,
including customers and like half the store. They're just in
an auto parts place, like working and buying auto parts,
and half the customers just die and the other half

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of the store walks out.

Speaker 5 (41:14):
Think about that ring, I.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
Mean, that's just think about your life, like you go
to do something that, you go to do something today
and you go into a store and like all of
a sudden, half the people die, like oh, and half
the people don't like that. You want to talk about
something to make you go WHOA life is fragile.

Speaker 6 (41:35):
Very fragile, very delicate, you know at your time.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Just awful. Who's next? The truth? Truth? I got about
a minute, Go ahead, Matt.

Speaker 11 (41:44):
I'm sorry for calling you in it.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
Okay, it's okay. But you ruined your chance to go
to the Kentucky Indiana game.

Speaker 9 (41:53):
Well guess what, man, it didn't work out, but I
beg the go to the dec mistake. I get to
go see Louisville and to the big team in football
campsill Ohio, State of Indiana. So everything worked out from.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
You're going to the Louisville and you're going to both
games on the same day.

Speaker 9 (42:13):
Yes, a gap from and you reached out to me
and my wife, you know, he's staying for everything.

Speaker 5 (42:20):
I will go. I hope you I hope you enjoyed that.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (42:25):
And another thing you tell Nick Coffee, I'm going to
fight him when I see him.

Speaker 5 (42:31):
Okay, I'll make sure to tell him you're going to
fight him. I appreciate the call. Tomorrow, we are where.

Speaker 6 (42:37):
Skybar residents in downtown to City City.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
Skybar at Infinity. By the way, free parking in the
city center. Yes, so if you go, I guess you'll
get your ticket validated or something. But if you want
to park in the city center, it'll be free parking.
In the first twenty people get bourbon glasses. Talk to
the residents in go to the residence of the residence
and thank you all very much. Thanks to South Laurel
for making the trip up up here today. Hope they

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enjoyed it. We'll see you tomorrow. It's been Kentucky Sports
Radio