Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk all the latest news, Pitbull Stadium, and most disappointing players at Kentucky.
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I remember two Kentucky sports Radio here live at the KS Bar and Grill. It is wings day, folks, coming in for dollar wings today. The Olympics are on the United States just evened up the men's volleyball semi final. Actually they did not. They are trying to even up the men's volleyball semifinal against Poland. I think Poland apparently has the best volleyball team. Ryan, did you know that? I did not know that.
Thanks. That's kind of report.
Yeah, that's what I'm here to tell you is about Polish Polish volleyball A seven seven two seven seven four five two five four as the text machine one person rights, Matt. I've been to European McDonald's and it is all Europeans. I had a friend tell me you should go eat where the locals do, and all the locals to me look like they were in McDonald's.
It's truth.
Yeah. First of all, they don't fast food. I only saw three American fast food restaurants in Europe, only three, and there were fifty of them, fifty of them total. There's a McDonald's in every nice part town, tons of KFC. But then the one that shocked me. Is burger King really? They love Burger King. They love Burger King more than we do. So like, never saw Wendy's. Never saw like a like a subway kind of place. But McDonald's KFC and Burger King huge.
Did you go into McDonald's. I'm wondering if it's different Donalds different.
It's they're not allowed to use some of the stuff we use on beef, like some of the what's the word I'm looking for preservatives and something like that. In Europe a lot of those are banned. So I ate a hamburger. It it tastes different, it's it's not. I don't know if I thought it was better or worse. It tastes different. But they're because of that, they got a lot more selections of everything else. Now they're diet coke doesn't have our mojo. No it doesn't. It doesn't.
No, it doesn't.
The McDonald's. I went in thinking, all right, I'm gonna be saved by McDonald's dot coke. Not the same, No, our McDonald's dot coke. Maybe again, it might be what they're like. Maybe the sweetener isn't allowed. But you're right, Ryan, it doesn't taste say, we.
Were just craving a dit coke when we were there, went across the street to McDonald's and it's like it almost tasted like it was like extra sweet.
Well, they don't have diet coke. They drink coke zero and it doesn't taste the same either. No, it's a it's a different. It's it's good, but it's a it's not. We're better at soft drinks here case you America. Yeah, America's number one drew us. All right, let's go over a couple of news things here before we go back to the phones. The SEC is likely to adopt this week an official policy that will require football and basketball teams to before the game tell you who's hurt and who's not. They will have to reach and release an official list of who's out and who's playing, similar to the way pro sports are. The rationalization for this is basically gambling because and the perfect example is when Will Levis didn't play. I mean, the Will Levis situation is a perfect example of why this is the rule. South Carolina. A few years ago, it leaks out to a couple people that Will Levis is likely to not play. UK doesn't announce it for like twelve hours, and the line moved exponentially in Vegas, as it should have. We went from like seven point favorites to maybe one point favorite. We ended up losing the game, obviously, but they're basically going to say you have to tell us Thursday or Friday and you and it is what it is. At that point, I think it's a good rule. Cow will hate that rule. Stoops will probably hate that. They will talk about injuries, but now it looks like Drew they're gonna have to. Yeah.
I like it one from a work perspective. It makes our job easier as we're trying to get things ready before a game. We'll know who's officially in and out. But I just think it's good overall, not just for gambling it.
Remember there. It might even be that Levs situation.
He gets to where teams will put him out there and tweet a photo and I almost really try to trick people into thinking they're gonna play.
So I'm good.
I'm glad it's finally going the pro route. Well, we'll know exactly who will be on that field in the games kick.
And there will be apparently fines if they believe that you said somebody could play who couldn't write. So like if you if they if you're like, let's use a Levs situation, Like if you didn't say Levis and the other team believe Levis was gonna start, and then you start the second guy, there'll be a fine with that. So like they're gonna that's exactly the way it is in pro sports, and they enforce them in pro sports. So Ryan, we'll see if they do it here.
When rich Brooks was here, he did it every time. But he has that NFL background, you know, that's just what they do in the NFL. He did it religiously. And then Mark Stoops came here, and I think he's one of the guys that likes to play a little gamemanship.
I think they're gonna take that away from it, take that away, so I don't think. I don't think he's gonna be able to uh, he's gonna be able to do that anymore.
I didn't cover Brooks, but wouldn't he just get up there and just read it right away?
And he was honest with all of them? Yep, just like they do in the NFL. He'd come out this guy, this guy, this guy out out out boom. Then he's going to the news card every time.
Uh.
Next thing, Paris High School.
Yeah, to Paris High School a many many times.
Who's the most famous Paris High School athlete?
Alvin Simms played Louisville right to Louisville. Yeah. Uh chez mark chas Marksman on the Morehead State team that played rick with Ricky Minard and they went to the nca tournament and beat Louisville.
Uh that's two. That's better than most people. Well, maybe they will have lots of new players because they have just uh built a new football field and it is orange yese bright. It's not kind of orange, it's really orange. It is bright bright orange. Now I saw it, and I you know it's first of all, those are their school colors. Yeah, orange and black. It's a little much, don't you think, Like it's a little and plus this is Kentucky and I know it's their school colors, but like pretty orange, Drew, I don't know.
Yeah, I mean Boise has the famous one that's blue, but that's a lot lighter on the eyes. And this one this is almost like got some radiation in it. Just looking at a photo, you gotta squint a little bit just to even look at the field.
It does feel like you'd have to see a dermatologist if you spend too much. It's aggressive. I don't know if they like it. Maybe they do.
That's their school colors, but it is an aggressive change from a green football.
It is an aggressive orange.
Do you think that might be a trend where, like, you know, Middlesborough might do theirs in yellow or the other school?
Well, I mean, I'm sure, Okay. The reasoning is, like, the reason they're doing is exactly what's happening right here, which is there we're talking about, right so, like we wouldn't be talking about Paris High School's football field otherwise. So I get it. It gives you a unique like thing to hang your hat on. I get that too. But it's just hideous, isn't it.
It's bright, It's very bright that it's that like.
Puk inside of a pumpkin. Ors. It's not then orange you can it's not an orange you can sit with, And I think that makes it harder.
They've got a lot of football traditional they won a couple state titles in the early eighties, and I think there's been a concerned effort to try to get some excitement back into the Paris football program. And I guess this is one way they're going to try to do it.
If they get used to it, they'll have an advantage because I think other teams will be like, what the heck am I playing on right now?
They're gonna be like, why am I playing on the surface of the sun? I bet it gets hot in the summer too.
It kind of reminds me of those Louisville whatever color they went with for the Final four.
Oh yeah, red in red. Yeah yeah. Well, good luck to Paris and maybe we'll make a trip there at some point. And then finally before we go back to phones, Florida International. All right, again, I don't know if it's a good idea, but it's making us talk about it. What do you know about Florida International.
It's down in the Miami are Fort Lauderdale, Miami area.
Okay, good job you will you know what conference they're in? No idea, I don't need it. I think Conference USA maybe. Anyway, Uh, they, like a lot of teams, decided to rename their football stadium and they went to sell it to a corporate sponsor, and they sold it to Pitbull mister worldwide. So it will be pit Bull Stadium. No, it won't. I'm not lying to you. It is pit Bull Stadium and he is agreed. As part of it, he will also once a year play a postgame concert at a Florida International game. But they are Florida International is now playing at pit Bull Stadium. Shannon love it, hate it?
I would lean love it.
I think it's kind of cool.
Uh.
He paid what was it, one point two million?
He paid one point two million for.
And he gets to sell his vodka as the official vodka of official.
Vodkas at Florida they do.
Now, hey, you put one point two million down, you can sell whatever you want.
This Barnard I'll ever get to the point is an official vodka of UK that?
But for a team I did look it up. They were four and eight I think the last two seasons. So for a team that's struggling like that, I mean, it's got to be cool for recruits, I would think, so it couldn't hurt.
I gotta think Drew Shannon hit a couple of things. First of all, they're giving you one point two million dollars. You you get a concert out of it, every year. Yeah, so you got a good chance of maybe selling that home game out for that game we're talking about it recruits. Like even though it's easy for to make fun of it because I kind of think pit Bull sucks, I do like it's kind of smart.
Don't you think it seems silly that I was reading the details details. I think pit Bull actually got a bargain here. He's selling his own alcohol. He might make that money back. He gets a forty person suite and twenty VIP parking passes every game. He gets to use the stadium for whatever he wants ten days a year. Oh really, I mean just the marketing on that. I feel like pit Bull is gonna get.
To use the stadium ten days so he could do concerts.
Yes, I think pit Bull is gonna make that one point too bad rather easily. Maybe on the he got a lot of stuff with it. But I'm the same man like you are saying. I think the school kind of gets a little bit of exposure out as well.
So was it. It seems silly but makes sense.
I'm kind of with Shannon. I lean it's a little cool. I mean, I think it'd be if you're going to Florida International. I mean pit Bull. Maybe these these players don't know who he is, but their their.
Parents know who.
Yeah, Rick Betino loves him some pit Bull, right, and that when we found out.
One strike against it, I will say during the opening ceremony, Shannon, I don't know if you saw. Did you see the French rapper that looked like pit Bull rapped during the opening ceremony, So he came out, he's French, he looks like pit Bull. They somebody on Twitter was calling him pitt boulet uh and but I gotta say he looked ridiculous. But Shannon, I think the song kind of was awesome. And as I was listening to it, people were laughing, Like as I was listening to it, I was like, this is terrible. And then all of a sudden, I was like, wait a minute.
You find yourself kind of bobbing into the song.
And I was almost embarrassed to like it. And then I saw they showed Snoop and Snoop was loving it, and I was like, well, Snoop loves it, Shanon, I guess I can't like it.
It's instantly cool.
At that point, I don't know what his name is. I think his name is like Rim something. Uh. I think his name is like rim k or something. I'm not making I didn't just pick Rim out. His name is Rim. It's krim k, It's Rim j We'll play it coming back. I want you to play it and tell me if you don't actually think it might be good. Who's next? Let's go to JD. What's up? JD? Hey Man?
So I'm hearing a lot with those twenty two million dollars salary cap that's coming through a lot talks based around financial valuation, and well, I think is missing from a lot of people's analysis is cultural evaluation.
Yeah.
And given the true finite resources that we have as university, do you see any potential concern of a night Danty crisis from the horizon between football, Basketball, and then just the rest of the sports that we now have.
And I think that's gonna happen at every school. Like I talked about yesterday, I think every school is gonna have a fight for resources. You know, there's a bigger conversation to have down the road about the fact I think we've learned in the last couple of years that Kentucky doesn't have the donor money of a lot of our rivals in the SEC. You know, if you're going to rank the sixteen schools in the SEC based upon potential donor donations, we're probably at the towards the bottom. We're probably like thirteen. And that's an issue. I mean, it's just it's just an issue. And right now our donations are top heavy. They're coming from a handful of people. Now on the basketball side, Club Blue is filling that gap. Football side, the fifteen club's doing better, but we're still Auburn's got twenty guys, twenty families that are willing to give a million dollars each. Let's just use that number. We might have like three, and that's just a big difference. We just don't have the high end donors that other schools do. We have a couple of them, but we're relying on them heavily, and they're not They're not gonna be able to keep asking these people year after year after year to give this kind of money. So I do think there's if you were to say to me, Matt, look at the next ten years of Kentucky athletics, what are you excited about, what are you nervous about? I'm excited about the fan base. I'm excited about our your coaches, the new coaches and men's women's basketball. Minji owned. Stoop's been here longer what but I'm excited about that. I'm nervous about our donor base because that's gonna become such an important thing. And Ryan, I know you agree with this. We just don't have what these other schools.
Do, no way, not even close to them what most schools have. I am impressed with the fact that coach Stoops has been able to get some of these people to invest in football. You know, for years, years and years that just didn't happen.
People who are and I know it's cool, especially for younger people to blast Stoops. I'll say this, the reason we have players is Vince recruits them and Stoops is fine in the anile. I mean, that's just the truth. He I know I didn't love him complaining about it, but the reality is he is the head fundraiser and does a good job. And if it wasn't for him, no doubt, if it wasn't for him, this roster would not Vince and he will I'll go further, will never have two better recruiting payer than that in football. We'll never have a better basketball recruiter than Cal but will never I think, have football recruiters like those two ever again.
So we should be thankful for that. I am, and I hope other name to that. Fundraising. People don't know what Eddie Grhan's doing right, Yes, he is killing it. I mean it's a lot of it's behind the scenes. There's not an official coaching role, but he's been a big part of the fundraising and that's a great point.
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I can't ry this is the one that's got like one point one million views.
Then I guess it probably is, but it was like I didn't I didn't want to lie. I mean, I don't know what he's saying. But there was just a point where I was like, all right, I like this guy.
You and Snoop Dogg jamming out to it.
That's right.
And what he did at the Olympics is called King? Was this called King?
This is called traphouse.
See that's the wrong one. We need King. See if you can find King for then we'll take as much rim case. Yeah you know that, listen, I mean we need as much rim as possible. We were out, So we were out on uh at Hotel Lex out there on Athens Boons where we saw the new football stadium, the Lexington or Soccer Stadium, the Lexington FC Stadium. The first game is September eighth, first home game at the new stadium. That ain't gonna be up is It got.
A long way to go yet in a month time, a month from today month.
I mean when they told me, I asked somebody, I was like, when's that opening? And I thought they were gonna say next September, And then they were like September eighth. I go, wow, well, good luck. I will say it looks awesome that I hadn't been. I had not been out there during since they it looks awesome out there. It's not gonna be ready September eighth. I'm gonna go ahead and go on record, chin and I'll take anyone's money on that being ready on September eighth. Yeah. And as far as it being an awesome stadium to have in Lexington, it really is amazing.
I wonder if like they'll just have the field ready because the bleachers in the stadium is not gonna be ready. Them up and maybe they can still have the field ready.
It's gonna stadium.
Does that mean nobody can go? Like you could just play but nobody's there.
Uh, you know, they got all those youth fields out there and they're gonna just play on a youth field until they get the stadium ready.
But I I hadn't unless you've been out there, like it looks like like a completely different thing. Like I hadn't been there in probably a couple of years, and that's just a couple of exits from where I live. I think I might be a regular out there I'm really looking forward to that get going. And then the other thing is down here next to where I live, this Amphitheater behind Repperinum. It's coming coming, coming along, I mean it's coming. Like that's gonna.
Be really cool, isn't it.
It's gonna be probably like like, what's the capacity gonna be? Like three to five thousand people? See, Shannon, that's a cool place to see a music thing, right, like something with that that amount of people.
Yeah, Like we don't only have that in level anymore. It used to be Lovell Gardens was kind of that size of it.
Isn't Iroquois like that though? Or I don't think it.
I think it holds three to five thousand. I don't think it holds that many.
Well, I don't know if that's theirs. But what I was sitting there thinking is, you know, my porch is about to become a prime slot. It is like to just sit there and watch music.
On the Internet tells me it to hold five thousand.
Five thousand is a perfect Like that's a venue that's hard to get, you know that, Like, and that looks like it's gonna be amazing.
I think it's gonna be an awesome setting to be sitting back there behind Reparena. You're right where you st on your back deck. Charge people to park in your parking lot and enjoy the music.
I'm not really in it for the money. I'm just saying, like I could just sit on the deck though, and watch cool. That'll be neat. Who's up next? Mark? Mark? Go ahead? Mark?
Hey Man, Hey, hey, I was just gonna comment on your topic of conversation about the coach. Yes, yeah, it rids of me an Old Sinfield episode where the Maestro wanted to be called maestro.
Exactly. I know that episode and that's exactly it's called. And they're like, I'm not You're not my maestro like that, You're exactly exactly. It's very similar, exactly, show about nothing. I appreciate the co glad to hear you back. Thank you, thank you very much.
It makes me wonder if, like, if you grew up in the music world, we'd be more inclined to call him maestro for like us.
We wouldn't do it, but you, but you do. You you call high school coaches coach coach every so do you call like like there's that TV show The Bear they call everybody chef, And I think that's so stupid when I watch it that they call each other chef. But when I think about it, you do that with high school coach I do.
It doesn't matter what sport. If your coach whatever, I'm calling you, and if I see you in the street, I'm still probably calling you coach.
I went to a nice restaurant in Louisville with a bunch of my friends and our old roommate is the chef there, and everyone there kept yelling yes chef to him, and we're telling the servers stop doing that. We'll get up and leave if you keep calling him chef.
It's so I do find that so weird about that show that they that they do that all the time. A I'm nine two eighty seven, One person writes, Matt, you all all have taken the view that Jackson Robinson is going to be uh is going to be the leading score. Everybody take their bet on who's the second leading score.
If you're gonna let me go first, I'll take Kobe Brea. I just think he's such an elite shooter. And then the offense they run, he's gonna get a lot of open looks. I think he ma med up even being the leading score not the best player.
But you think he could do like an Antonio Reeves thing and be the leading scorer. Yes, okay, what about you?
First of all, fist puff on getting that name.
I called him Robbie a bray you.
We've been working on it, proud of you.
He's coming off got a little bit of an injury.
I don't think he'll be a big deal, but I'm gonna not pick him for that reason, and I'm going Andrew Carr. I think Andrew Carr might struggle a little defensively in the SEC, but I think he'll be able to score points.
I'm gonna take Andrew Carr as well. I think when you're playing the position he is, he'll get some you know, he'll get some bunny points as well.
Someone else is gonna be rotating so much, and I think he's kind of locked in.
I think that with with what we've heard, maybe one of those guys being not quite as advanced as as as Andrew is, and so I think that's a good one. I do think Jackson Robinson. For me, the difference between us being good and fun and us potentially being great is how good is that kid? Like?
Is he?
Is he Antonio Reeves like? Or is he? You know something else that's gonna be a big deal for us. We'll take a break very back. It's KSR. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay.
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All right, this is the one listen, Okay, all right, That's why he said at the end he goes, think I'm snooped donk.
That's why Snoop Dogg was into it. The three little reference in the song.
So you never knew you would know a French rapper. And they had a heavy metal group in there, Shannon for you. Did you see that? Yeah, but I can't remember the name of the band. I can't either. The first time they've ever had heavy medal in an Olympic ceremony rocking. Yeah, they were going at it. What person writes on the text machine, Matt, I have a question. What we me and my friends were debating. What UK athlete have is your opinion, have the greatest unseen, unused potential? So who's the player that came to Kentucky that had the most ability that it just didn't work out the most football or basketball? Do you have an answer that that comes to you?
How about Drew Barker was injury, had some off the field, but I thought that guy was gonna time.
That's good because I did too. I thought Drew Barker was gonna be was gonna be great. That's that's a really really good answer, really good in high school. Then he just got beat up a little bit, head and bad. I like Drew Barker. There are guys who were over. So there's guys like Scow who didn't match their rating. But I'd never thought scal was that good to begin with, so I don't know that I necessarily would put him. What about you?
I got one for football, all one for basketball. Okay, for football, go with Lonel DeWalt.
Okay, I loved him.
He was a freak athlete, just a freak.
He'd block every field goal, yep.
And for basketball, I go with Antoine Barber. You know, he could have gone pro, they thought after his Juco years, and he came to Kentucky and ended up being kind of the sixth man.
I think, yeah, I mean, I think we thought he'd be better than he was, right, that's it. I like you know that. I think that's a good answer too. I'm trying to Matt elm some of that, the Matt Pilgrim. Yeah, well, I mean, if you just talk about what people thought he was gonna be, you know, that was one. But that's just the recruiting rankings get it so wrong.
It's guys who came in super athletic that it didn't happen for him here. I like our list so far.
I mean, if you're going old school, the answer would be Sean Kemp. But he didn't. He just didn't get to play here. I think if he had played here, he would have been absolutely unbelievable. He just didn't get to play.
I was ready to put Khalil Whitney in the after is a big blue madness, and then he wasn't on the team much long after that.
But also that part of that can just be the recruiting.
We'll have to see what he does at Arkansas. But I mean a Vsich, nobody's had a better debut no, and then had nothing happen after than big Z.
I hope he gets the shoot threes.
Do we need to go get him do we need to go save him If he's not allowed to shoot threes, that's a crime.
You know, when we look when we're talking in the future about best UK at atmospheres, we always do this best UK home atmospheres and we'll talk about, like, you know, the John Wall game with Carolina, the Anthony Davis game with Carolina, three Florida, you put those best atmospheres. That five minute stretch with a VSYCH against Georgia was kind of awesome in Rup Maerena. I was there with my mom and it was it was electric. Drew wasn't it in there for those few minutes.
And it's not just that it was his debut here. There's so many things you can't recreate. I mean, we had to have a billboard to even get him eligible, and that's how he comes out of the gate his first performance. I think that's gonna be tough to top. I mean, that was wild in there. I wonder if he'll disbelieve.
I wonder if he'll get forgotten, because he will kind of be forgotten probably unfortunately. But I will say in that moment, Ryan, it felt like it felt like in that moment, this is a team that can go win the national championship. I think that's what people thought in that moment because they had just added this guy to this team, a great shooter.
That's exactly right at that moment. This is the missing piece. This is the guy's gonna take us to a championship. He's doing everything, hitting three, he's stolen behind his back. Oh, going crazy.
The behind the back to Reeves. I forgot about that. He catches it behind the back to Reeves, who hits a three. The didn't he hit a dude cutting towards the room and he was behind the back to three. I will that's a great point. I will always remember. He throws it back to Reeves. When Reeves takes that shot. As the ball is in the air, the arena is dead silent, and then it explodes as loud of as an explosion that you're exactly that. It was an awesome play. Miss him.
I miss him already.
Well, you know when you were gone, Cow said he wasn' gonna let him shoot threes at Arkansas.
So I'm saying, I mean, let that that's what he does. If he If John cal Perry was the coach here and I read him say we're gonna have him shoot free throw line long twos instead of threes. That might have been the day I went, you know what, I can't do this because he did say that, didn't Yes, that.
Is exactly big Z scouting report. Unbelievable big man that loves to shoot for the perimeter.
But we're gonna move him in two steps so that he can get one last point and miss more often. That's a good idea. Who's next, Mark Anthony, Mark Anthony, Who's what's up?
Good morning? Uh, Doctors of Radio Broadcast Science. Matthew. I am so glad you're home. It's good to hear your voice. A couple of things. One, thank you, Perry. Orange football field has at least black stripes and numbers on it for contrast, because if they're white hand anyway. And I understand from the television news, which is not always reliable, that Pitbull's paying one point two mill a year for the life of this contract. But did you say he gets ten dates?
That's what said, Drew said, he gets ten dates. And my guess is if he were to rent that stadium out, it would cost him that to do it one point two or five years or.
Yeah, one point two, yeah, okay, okay, one point two over five.
Years, Yeah, five year deal, one point two per.
Okay, okay, yeah, I think he can make his money back on it.
Heck yeah, yeah, No, I didn't realize he got the dates. That's amazing, go ahead, yeah, yeah.
Anyway, And you say that Major League Baseball is going to try to get one hundred and thirty thousand people to watch a baseball game? Is that?
Yes?
Wow, that's ambitious. And Ryan maybe the only one that degrees with me, But I wonder why didn't they get too good teams out all right?
That your Braves are collapsing right now.
They're playing with their minor league team. They've got their entire starting line.
I've injured.
I've been looking at the standings to see like how far are we from the wild card? And the team we're chasing always changes, and I look last night where it's it's now the Braves have the last wildcard spot right now.
There was a stretch where anytime you looked up something on the Braves, another player was injured. We're the most injured team to ever be interested.
And am I wrong? Run? I think didn't the Reds sweep them in Atlanta?
I don't remember that they just swept minor league.
I believe, by the way, that's what's infurying about the Reds. They have swept the Phillies in Philadelphia, the Yankees in New York, the Braves in Atlanta, and the Dodgers in Cincinnati, and they still stink. And they they only beat they sweep the best teams, and then they they're like oh and six against the Brewers, like it's just annoying.
Well, and Hunter Green is quietly putting together a great, great season if he could pitch more often.
Man, you I don't know. I don't know what war. I mean, I know it's wins against replacements. I have no idea how they figure it out. But in war, Hunter Green is the best pitcher in the National League, is he really? And Elie de la Cruz is the second best hitter in the National League, and yet we stink. That's very frustrating. It's just your organization. It's just one of those that I don't think will ever win. Shut up, who's next, Tony, Tony?
Go ahead, Tony, Hey, guys, Matt, glad to have you back. Mark Anthony kind of stole my cunder. I was going to talk about with the Reds and the Braves. Hey, you're gonna just remember do the math for there's four more championships in Cincinnati than there is in Atlanta.
Oh, it makes a good point.
It makes a Cars is most recent.
But I just think it. I think it's gonna be a great experience because you know, I've got a lot of friends. I got to a lot of games. I had fifteen people within an hour yesterday texting me, Hey, we got to get a group of us to go. It's it's a good I'm a NASCAR fan toos. I think it's great for NASCAR. It's a good publicity for Bristol getting people involved. Another look at it at getting people go back to Bristol, and you've got the two fan bases that are just right into there. If you go all around that area, that's the two channels they got. It makes the perfect sense. I just thought it's gonna be a great experience, and I think that should be a KOSR road trip.
No, we're definitely gonna go. I appreciate case. I think it's a great idea. You're right, perfect two teams for it. It's it's it's perfect that Don Franklin's opening five new state of the art facilities in August, Lexington, Somerset. How many places are they gonna have at Somerset?
Every stoplight you'll have a Don for Is it just gonna be like.
This is like the eighth one in Somerset, right well or Glasgow and Lexi. Shannonan Duhe is gonna be at the grand opening on August eighth from.
One to three this tomorrow.
Yeah, so you're gonna be at Don Franklin. Is that just to meet people.
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It just it just ended ended badly.
Matt Elam, I said, oh, you mentioned him.
I'm sorry, I didn't hear you say that. Ryan Masakowski, it's another one.
That's another one. People thought he was gonna be maybe the unsung quarterback of the future.
A lot of older folks are saying, Richard Madison.
The master blaster, built like a tank, he could throw a baseball like over ninety miles an hour, and he played basketball. He was just a freak.
Go ahead, I'm gonna say, how can we not say Justin Edwards. I mean the guy came in as hard but I mean first ever time three recruit to not be drafted.
Yeah, I mean Justin Edwards. I thought that that was a real disappointment because I thought he's gonna be really good. And yeah, I mean Shandon's right. In the history of the of the rankings in the last thirty years, he's the only top three player in the history of the rankings ever to not be drafted ever.
This time last year, doing some summer interviews, talking to him about being the projected number one overall pick.
Yeah, and I don't know, I don't know why didn't it work. You think you just think you think you think he wasn't good, good enough, or do you think that he wasn't used correctly? And there were moments, I mean the Alabama Alabama, and I mean there were moments where you saw that talent.
He somehow looked to gain weight as he did college freshman in a college basketball pro.
He put the freshman fifteen on. Yeah, he did.
Don't know if that's on him or the staff, but that added to why it didn't work out like the way it should have.
I think he lost a little confidence too, having struggled little bit. And then we you know, talked to some sports psychologists and I think that helped him. And I think maybe you know, his best basketball is yet to come because he didn't get it.
It wasn't.
Oh yeah, that's that's a great one.
Actually, you at one point, I remember, said that you thought he could be as good as anybody you'd ever seen. When you were when he was in high school.
Oh I didn't say that.
Oh you didn't thought you don't know.
I had people telling me that he's way overrated.
Okay, yeah, well then maybe I dreamed that you said that and hoped and hoped a lot of people, a lot of people were saying Shade and Sharp. Do you consider that a disappointment because he ended up good in the NBA?
Yeah, that's not on him. That's on his agency telling Kentucky what they were gonna do. Yeah, that's the moment Clutch became dad.
You kind of believe that at the end of the Cow era, Clutch was coaching the team.
Rich Paul probably had more control over Kentucky than we needed to. I wanted Chris Livingson at the four. Sounded like that might have Clutch didn't want him playing inside. There's plenty of Clutch. No, I mean, let's go over it.
Clutch made Shade and Sharp not play They literally Clutch is why Chris Livingston was at the three and not the four like we all thought. I mean, it wasn't Clutch. Is why that clutches? Why Justin Edwards started over over. I mean, like Cow was beholden to them. And I sort of don't understand why, like.
Tell him to go on.
You know, I don't know. They don't have that many players. They only have two or three guys.
A year, so like, who cares, it's Califred. He wouldn't get those guys if he didn't. Let's be real, what clutch player did we get.
That was great in the last three years? I think was I think Rob's clutch he but he was clutch after on the timeline there, I don't think. I mean, we got Aaron Bradshaw, Justin Edwards, Shadon Sharp, Chris Livingston, anybody else.
There's something I'm not thinking of.
I don't think clutch did Justin Edwards any favors when he left either, because it was all Bronnie Brownie, Brownie Brownie, and I didn't hear much of them pushing to get just Justson Edwards drafted.
Yeah, and apparently Justin Edwards didn't work out for some teams, Like you don't even know if you're gonna get drafted, you're not even gonna work out for like, I don't know.
That's a mistake they.
Did while you were gone. Rich Paul did a podcast and threw col into the bus. They actually defeated Cal a little bit like so think about that for a second.
After all that cow did for those dudes, including sacrificing some wins to get hit those dudes. Minutes, Rich Paul goes on to podcast and blast the dude for not using Justin Edwards. Correct.
I was pretty done with Cal at that point, but I completely sided with it what Rich Paul was saying.
I sided with him too. But that's why you can't be loyal, like loyal to disloyal people. He did all that stuff for him and then they stabbed him in the back anyway.
Through a rider of the bus.
So who's next, Moby Moby, how are you? Moby?
Good?
Thank you for having me on Welcome Back. Two quick things. Over the summer, the guys talked about the tipping culture, and I wanted to tell them that a lot of those times where tipping comes in, it's not on the restaurant, it's actually the service they used. Because the service, like the credit card service, gets Steve off the tipping, so they default on that even though the restaurant does it look at tipping. Okay, and then the second thing I want to say about Big Z, I took my daughter to a first UK game, which was the UK Georgia game. Atmosphere was unreal. She was standing up the whole time. Then I took her to the Oakland first round game because I look two hours away, and she was bored out of her mind. She was like, why aren't they making shots? Why aren't people playing? So that George Atmosphere will by far be one of the best games I went too. Thanks, thank you.
No, it was, it was great and unfortunately didn't lead. This is gonna be hard for me not to be depressed about that season last year, and that one of the things I'm glad about Mark Pope. That whole like that whole culture of we owe you so you have to do that's gone now. I mean the best players will play well, whoever they are. Yeah, I think with Pope the best. I mean, you got so many guys this year. If you don't play, somebody else going plus true, and I don't think any of those dudes are beholden to start or anything like.
I know.
There was one kid who Kentucky was in contact with last year who as part of their Kentucky offered the same nil deal that another school did, but the kids people said he has to start, and UK would said that would not do that, and the kid end up going to another school.
That was scratch your head because he started DJ and justin all season long.
But I'm talking about for Pope. This is post is coming this season, so he would not Pope would the Pope people they would. They guaranteed the same NIL money, but did not guarantee a starting spot. So the kid ended up going somewhere else. But I'm glad he did that, like, because you don't want to have a situation like you did last year. That's just insanely frustrating.
And that's one is in a nil world, there's gonna be some recruits that you want them to go after they might know more of what those kids are demanding and pass on them. Even if it's a great player, you don't want to, you know, make all these promises and overpace for someone.
If you do, it's so good he'll start, yes, that's right. You know, if you have to guarantee it, then it's not and it's kind of a fraud anyway, right like if if he's good enough, I mean, you know, if ee Shephard returns for a freshman year. I understand a point being like, well, I may not start, but if you're good enough, you're gonna play. And if you have to guarantee it, then maybe you don't. You don't want to do it. Thank you all very much for coming out here, all those for the rest of the night. Remember dollar wings throughout the day. Best deal in Lexington for wings. You can come on out all day or get them on what is it, door Dash, grub Hub, all that stuff. Thank you all here. We will be back here tomorrow and then Friday in Hopkinsville. Will take it. We will see you in twenty two hours. This has been Kentucky Sports Raiders.