2024-08-19- KSR - Hour 2

Published Aug 19, 2024, 4:27 PM

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon continue to preview the UK Football lineup.

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Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio Hour number two eight. I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Phone's a little slow today, Shanny. You think it's just like the Monday Kentucky blue light hangover effect.

Yeah, Mondays are always slow, you know, coming off the weekend you get again.

I mean, there's nothing to be fair.

Not a lot happened this week in terms of the world of sports, but we'll still like to hear from you. It's a good chance to get in if you've never been in before. Eight five ' nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. One person writes, Matt, I think you're hard on Ryan's facts. I'm actually writing them down as we go so that I can use them with friends. They're gonna be very surprised to find out. Brock vandergriff is a leader. That's what you should do.

With these That's okay.

You remember that when he's leading the team out there and has commanded the huddle, and you're gonna like that. Everybody's gonna like that. Maybe you heard it first here on KSR.

I am gonna like it, one person writes, Matt, Will Ryan and and Shannon watch any of the Democratic convention this week.

It's a good question. Will you all watch any of it?

You know it was this week?

Yeah, I'm Withdrew. I didn't even know what was going on. Where do I find this? Like on like CNN or like every channel, every channel, even on the ESPN uh SPN.

But I think they show the conventions on all the news channels and then they usually show like an hour on the network.

Yeah, I mean I may catch the highlights. I don't think I'm gonna set.

There highlights to look at the way Joe Biden broke down this speech.

No, I don't know that they'll they'll do that. So you're I'm going to chalk you up as a no.

Yeah, that's all right.

What about you, Drew, Uh, that's gonna be a no.

If we set in my toe, if we set my total at one minute watched, I would take the under there.

I don't have any intentions.

What about you, Ryan?

You have fun?

Yeah?

I think the the only Democratic convention I've ever watched is the one I attended live in person.

And after there in person, Matt, you know, it really kind of diminishes.

Once you get that atmosphere. You see boys to men warm up it's really hard.

Yeah, you see Michelle Obama's booty. I mean, you're no more you want.

To do goodness.

Is what is wrong with him.

But the problem is I'm not there, because if I was there, I would give him a stayer right now and he would know that that was a mistake.

Like they like not there, like the Tubby stare that Tubby used to give his players on him.

Give it to me.

Yeah, yes, all right.

One person writes, Matt, I have a question for you, and by the way, this is the question I get a lot, uh, Drew, So I think it's worth answering. Would you like to hear how is it that Kamala Harris will be the nominee if she never won any of the primes.

I think that's a good question, don't you, Shannon, Like I feel like that's a good question.

Yeah, I don't have the answer.

Let me ask, well, actually, let me get a Ryan guess.

Ryan, how do you think they pick the nominees to run for president? The Republican and Democratic nominees. Do you know the answer to this? Most people don't, By the way, I would bet ninety percent of the people listening to this don't actually know how someone becomes president becomes the candidate for their party.

Do you know right?

Each each state has their delegates and they each state, Uh, basically comes together for one candidate and then they how.

Do they decide who the delegates are? That I don't know, okay, Drew.

Do you know how they decide who the delegates are for the conventions?

Uh? Blind draw. I just know that we bounce around and stand.

They draw people.

They draw people out of a hat and say you're going to be a delegate this year.

I just know that anyone can be a delegate, as we proved, h we didn't get We stood with them at.

Every year with New Hampshire.

Shannon, do you know how you get to be a delegate?

No? I don't have a clue.

I don't even Okay, So this.

Is for both parties. Here's how they do it, okay.

Used to be that the party, the leaders of the party would pick the delegates and then they would go to the convention and they would pick the candidates. And it used to be until like the fifties and sixties, Ryan, I bet you didn't know there were no primaries at all.

Did you know that there were no conies, No the.

Delegates would go to a convention and then they would pick and often they would fight with each other, and sometimes local counties would have elections to pick the delegates. So you'd have Shannon like an election to pick between Ryan and Drew to decide who's going to go pick the president.

You couldn't no, no idea.

But then they decided like in the fifties, some states in the fifties, some states in the sixties, some of the seventies.

You know, that doesn't seem very fair, that's not very democratic. So then they start having primary races.

But what people don't know is when you go to vote in the primary for like Donald Trump or Joe Biden or whatever, you're actually Ryan, I don't I bet you don't know this. You're really not votevoting for them. You're voting for them to get to pick who the delegates are. Does that make sense, Yeah, So you're.

Actually not voting for Donald Trump to be the nominee. You're voting for Donald Trump's campaign to get to pick the delegates. So we had fifty primary campaigns. Biden I think won all of them.

So Biden got to pick all the delegates. But when he drops out whoever he picked Ryan. They now are free in theory.

To go pick whoever they want, and they basically the majority. I don't know how many have all decided to pick Harris, but they didn't have to. As a matter of fact, I suspect there will be people in that building who will pick someone else. They are free to do it. But she will have the most and she will win. But that's how she was picked. So when people say, well, she didn't want a primary, that's true, but that's not how we do it.

We picked the person Ryan, who picks the delicate. But you didn't know that, did you.

No, So I guess so like they would say the Grace Day of Kentucky has one delegate for Matt Jones and thirteen for Kamala Harrick.

Well you may remember we did that, like when we went to the Trump convict convention, Like there were a lot of delegates there who were pledged to like Ted Cruz or or somebody like that, Bernie. But when we went to the Democrat yes, Bernie, remember that woman screaming that day at the convention. They were committed to Bernie because he had won enough of the state.

That he got to pick him.

So this time Biden I think, got to pick them all because nobody ran against him. But when they get there, Ryan, in theory they could pick whoever they wanted.

Well, when you explain like that, it doesn't seem very democratic at all.

We don't.

Really the public's really not picking it who they.

Went on for.

That's why when people get on when people go crazy about the primary, and they go, it's not this is an unprecedented whatever democracy.

No, it's not. That process hasn't really never been democratic. I think it's the opid process. By the way, why do we go way, Shana, Why do we pick people to go pick for us?

Why don't we just pick ourselves? It would make more sense, But that's not what we do when they go to the Yes, that was the woman who yelled when we went.

To the Democratic convention. Yes.

But but the answer probably is, like Shannon, a situation like this, what if everybody picked somebody and then they drop out or something happens to him.

Then who's the candidate? Right? Yeah, So they create like this so that other people can pick them.

So there's your little civics lesson for the day. All right, give us our next interesting fact right.

All right, Well, we're going right tackle, and this is another position where most people probably had no idea who the starter was. Right guard and right tackle a complete mystery going into fall camp. But we're gonna give it to Gerald Minci, the transfer from Tennessee. He's also the largest of all the starting offensive lineman at three hundred and thirty five pounds.

He's a big dude. But even though he's big, he likes to write poetry.

And he says three hundred and thirty five pounds, he's the biggest offensive lineman. Comes from the University of Tennessee and likes to write poetry.

Yes, Gerald Mincy, all.

Right, Shannon, interesting fact.

Ryan, congratulations, you finally got right.

He writes poetry. I love it.

It took his sixth one, but I think he's starting to understand the aside.

That's right, he's getting it.

Yeah, comes from Tennessee. I believe Drew.

Wasn't this guy like a crazy high recruit coming out of high school?

Or is that somebody else?

I mean, I don't know about crazy hobby that has a big recruit. He also played a year at Florida. He started at Florida, then two years at Tennessee.

Alright, so he went through the SEC. Yeah, yeah, all the schools before he goes That's fine with me. All right, Drew, what's your fact?

I'm going to stay in the uh middle linebacker with Derek Jackson would call him d jack. He's gone through a lot of invert He tore his achilles in April twenty twenty one. They said he'd missed the whole season. He was back practicing by October. It's a little superhuman there. And then he was the lowest rank recruit in Kentucky's twenty twenty class. I believe an interesting fact about that he came to a camp to earn his scholarship. He and his dad slept in the car during their visit and lexingtondn't end up working out for him. Now, he's some teams have him or some of the publications hav ingim this preseason all SEC this year. He's been amazing for UK and this season he's dedicating to his grandmother, who passed away last spring shortly after he had a career day against Louisville and the Governor's Cup.

So all the.

Sorry, what a great story. So I'm gonna go back to that he came to a camp and I guess because he wasn't on an official visit, they couldn't put him up and he and his dad slept in their car to be able to come to the camp.

According to a story on on three Sports, which I trust, yes, he was just not that highly ready to recruit, like I said, the lowest in the class. And then of course he's twenty something games for UK, has been a real star and on the NFL's radar.

Well, Ryan, that's gotta make like, how can that not be your favorite player? Like a guy who goes through that Derek Jackson. Ryan, that's gonna I'm I knew him as a player, but I didn't know that part of his story.

Ryan, that's gonna be my favorite player of the year.

And he's you know, he's a He's a hitter too, man. I think people love him because he goes out there and he just he'll he'll knock your jock off if he hit him a chance.

He's a big time hitter.

That's true.

That big player though big player.

You know, Shannon, I don't know what to do about it. He's the oldest, right, so it's not gonna you know. The thing is, it's not gonna get any better thing with him, Like, it's not gonna like all of a sudden, He's gonna be more like normal.

More mature, older, you get the lesson care.

You know. That's unfortunately.

That was interesting.

Good job, that's the best one so far.

Yes, all right, Ryan, what's your next offensive.

We're going to stand on the line. We're going tight end.

Josh Katis came in as the same year with Dane, so I've got to know him really well. He's been at my house a couple of times, and I told this story when all the players were there at the house and they were eating and talking, My son was sitting just Josiah was sitting over by himself on the couch, and Joshkatis was the only one that walked over there and sat beside me and carried on a legit conversation with Josie.

And I said all that to me, that showed a lot of what kind of person he is.

He's a great guy, always somebody that goes to the children's hospital for visits and stuff. But on the football field, he's a badass. I mean, he's caught a couple of touchdown passes. We've seen him make these just mammoth blocks on the football field. His dad was a tight end at Michigan. His dad played for the Cincinnati Bengals. But the one interesting fact that Matt will probably scratch it all. He loves to play pickleball. He's a big.

Well there's my least favorite player of the year. So all right.

Brothers also on the team, just to add that, right.

All right, So Shannon, he likes pickleball and talked to Joe side interesting pat fact.

When he visits kids hospital. I feel I gotta give him a yeah, you.

Don't fall for the sympathy. Well that you are getting soft in your old age.

All right? Drew one last one before the break? What is it?

Another guy we all love to root for. JJ Weaver. We know so much about him. I'm not gonna take the easy way out and say he has six fingers.

That's a common fact.

He was our.

Governor's Cup MVP last year having a big game, and he recently won the Kentucky Pro Football Hall of Fame's Ron Butler Character and Adversity Award. A lot of people know what he's been through. He lost his father, lost his high school coach had a season ending injury and going through all that. Last year a media days he opened up about his struggles and then he started a campus support group called the Perfect Fit Support Group for people just need some help over at UK, and this year it will be available to all students.

I love this kid for no other reason than just that one. I mean, this is a guy who is create helped create an organization the UK that will long outlive him JJ Weaver. I mean he's made it to where basically any athlete at UK, on any sport who's dealing with any mental like chat like, you know, mental health issue can get the treatment that they need from the university.

That wasn't odd always the case.

JJ helped set that up and Ryan, if there was nothing else, that dude is gonna leave a long legacy at UK. I watched a whole presentation about it that the health people did for other people in mental health, you know, working in it. What an awesome story and I hope that kid has a massive year.

I think people love him not just a football player, but the type of person he is and he's proven it now for six years. He will go down like some of these great players we've had over the years. Maybe not had great success on the field, but just the type of person here and the and legacy they leave.

That's what he's gonna be all about.

We could do a whole show on what he does off the field. Has a icicle drive, always doing stuff in the community.

He's a deserves it.

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It's KSR, welcome back.

Take you Sports Radio A five, nine, two, eight oh, twenty two eighty seven. A couple of things real quick before we go to the phones. Uh, the KSR preseason high school football rakings came out the real game start this week. Boyle County number one in the state. Nine of ten votes for first place went to Boyle County. Trinity was second and had one vote, and Frederick Douglas was third.

Riding you like those rankings.

Yeah, Boyle County's really good.

They've got the Quisenberry kid, who maybe the best player in the state right now. So and Douglas has to play down at Boyle County this year, and they played Trinity at home.

They got both those teams.

So they played the number one, so their number three they play one and two, right, Yeah, yeah, so you get a chance to decide. Uh see what see if you guys are any good, one person writes Matt. Let's say Trump were to drop out tomorrow. What would happen then, Shannon, do you know what would happen?

Then jd Vance would be.

The Well maybe, but what they would do is until September.

Eighth, the candidates are not set set. So if he dropped out, they would have Channon like a virtual convention.

They literally have a.

Conference call and all the delegates that Trump picked in each state, they would decide who their candidate is. You see what I'm saying. So they would like literally get on a conference call and they'd be like, I vote for and then they would just and whoever got the most Shannon would be the candidate.

Okay, So well, I mean I think.

That would be yeah, that would be that. That would be quite a zoom call that I'd like to listen to.

Who's up first, Well, let's go to Pops.

Pops, how are you doing good?

Thank you Ryan, So glad that you got on the board. We was getting worried about you.

Yeah, me too.

And uh I think UK ready for this football and the basketball to get started. Ye, I'm very anxious for it. And I want to get a shout out to the twelve U Camelsville, gall Rick and Lea. They won the US Championship and they got beat by instead of the world, they got beat in the world in the championship game War Games, they got by the Demicant Republic Dominican.

So Campbellsville, a group of kids from Campbellsville played against the Dominican Republic kids.

It was for the World Series and the cal Rickons.

That is very cool. Well I didn't know that. When did this happen, sir?

Over the weekend?

Wow?

Well, congrats to the kids in Campbellsville and Taylor County. So well, yeah, congrats, that is awesome. A big shout out. Tell those uh, tell the kids. Ks R said, congrats.

Oh they're gonna have a big prey for him this week. But everybody's proud of them.

I am, they should be. They should be. Thank you appreciate the call. How about that, Ryan?

Uh?

You know some people think, right, cal Ripkins even better than Little League, isn't it?

Yeah?

I think it was ten U and they played Southeastern of Lexington in the National Championship. Two Kentucky teams were in the United States Championship. Campbellsville won to go to the World Series. They got beat. So I just kind of tell you how good youth baseball is in this state.

No kidding, that's awesome. Well, good for them, Good for both those schools. I didn't know about either one of those. And you know Taylor County and the Dominican public. I'd like to have heard the pregame handshakes for that one, Drew, wouldn't you?

Oh yeah, Now, I think we got to get Ryan too the cal Ripken Stadium and check that off his bucket list too.

Let's do it.

I'm on the World the League World Series going on now.

We are still Remember we have a three year band, so Ryan stay home during the entire thing.

What's next, Trevor, Trevor, go ahead, Trevor.

How you guys doing today?

Good?

I got an interesting fact. It's not about the University of Kentucky football, but it's about the University of Alabama and me being a football fan in general. Me being a football fan in general, I found this ad like fascinating. Okay, one of their players can run twenty miles an hour better than really twenty, But I.

Don't know what that means, Like when you say run twenty miles an hour, Like, how many Kentucky guys can run twenty miles an hour?

Like, I don't have any mess to comparison.

That's well, that's the thing you can look up. I haven't done this yet, but you can look up the stats because they have these things that clip onto the shoulder pads of all these college players that will monitor their speed, their heart rate, and their recovery throughout practice. And I haven't looked up Kentucky's yet, but I'd say it's pretty good because we got some click Yeah.

See, I just don't know, Like like like Drew, I don't know what that means. I appreciate the call like it's twenty I mean twenty miles an hour sounds fast to me, but like do a ton of athletes do that? Like, I don't know what I don't really know what that means.

I can put a little perspective on it for what it means. Alabama, they almost doubled the amount from last year under Saban. I think they had twenty three players that could do it last year. Oh, they have forty one. So it's showing how Alabama's changing. He prioritized no, bigger, stronger, and Kaylen de bor is looking to play with quicker, faster. So it's more about Alabama doubling the amount of people and kind of changing how they'll play moving forward.

That's interesting. Like Shannon, what would be the top speed of US? Oh? Seven?

Maybe eight?

More than seven. I bet we could get to.

Okay, get on a treadmill, set it at eight and see if you can do it.

Yeah, but that's eight at a consistent pace. I'm saying, you just run as hard as you can. What do you think our top speed would be at our.

Mech like what you can peek at?

Yeah? What we know?

I mean I couldn't run. I couldn't run three consistently. The question is could you run like we just spread and we hit our top speed?

What are we hitting?

I don't think we're going over ten.

I think ambient Matt could probably hit ten. I think he thought he could that day.

I could beat it. Sorry, what's your next fact? Shannon or not shaded? Sorry?

Ryan, Okay, I'm gonna go to a running back.

Uh.

Even though Demi Sumo Kongbay may be the starter of the first two games and I got I do have a good story about him.

Hold on, First of all, say the name again.

Demi Sumo Kongbay.

He did it.

Yeah, it too parties, but he got it.

He's been at our house last two years. Uh.

You know you have Dante girls, burgers and hot dogs. He's got all kinds of food and the cold makes all this food. Demmy always has a massive plate of food, finishes it and then doubles that and triples that to take home like he makes. He takes a take home box of food that's bigger than any of the offensive lineman when he's that.

That's what I'm gonna talk about.

I'm gonna talk about because he's the starter and you're supposed to do it on the starters. Well, I was going to be interesting fact about dem A is that he eats a lot of food.

Interesting fact sh leftover left.

Yeah. Now you're a poor college kid and somebody's giving me food.

You load up all right, quickly? What's your brother one?

Okay? Chip Training is going to be the mains guy. You know he's he's hurt. He's gonna miss a couple of games.

His real first name is Diamante. By the way, we called him Chip train him. And here's his interesting fact. He started at Arizona, transferred to Ohio State, actually played linebacker at Ohio State before moving back over to running back. He's played and he played running back and linebacker at Ohio State.

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Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio. I want to make one, uh one quick little what do.

You call it?

Correction to one of the things I said earlier in Kentucky drew with the with the primaries. We actually do it slightly different than I said, which is each in Kentucky picks their own delegates and then the parties have agreed that whoever wins the primary, that's who those people.

Will vote for.

Does that make sense, which means actually, in the primary, you're not picking anybody, You're just picking like something. I just I think what people don't realize is it hasn't happened in a long time. But Ryan, when you were a kid, those conventions could have a lot of controversy because you didn't even know who the nominee would be.

Yet.

I would prefer to go back to those days, to be honest, like this, just in the formality of rubber stamping who is that we all know the candidate's gonna be go.

That's kind of what I hope the Democrats would do. By the way, when Biden dropped out, I hope they would just let it be an open convention, because Shannon, you would watch if like you didn't know who it was gonna be, and everybody was arguing.

Yeah, and if we could find out, like well they show they're on live TV.

Who, it would be like a reality show.

Yeah.

Remember when we did the thing where like we stood in the groups and they would go the great state of I know, oh, home of Potatoes, and then they say the things right. That would be like they would be announcing for the first time the votes, and it would be like Survivor. Wouldn't it be kind of exciting?

I think people would actually tune in to watch that.

Of course they would.

I don't think there's any doubt that people would quickly Basketball recruiting Drew update people. You know Friday, I said, I thought it was Kentucky Obama with Jasper Johnson. I've kind of been tuned out of it this weekend, so I don't know the latest. It feels like it ebbed and flowed. Where is it right now? From what you're hearing, it is a roller coaster, is what it is.

I can't remember a recruitment with this much drama winding down. He's still aiming for the end of this month, thinking about eight nine days away. But you know, we hear a lot that it was narrowed down to UK and Alabama. Then Travis Brandam, I believe from twenty four to seven mentioned North Carolina's back in the mix. It's almost like, depending what day and who you're asking, it's changing. But I'd say just an overall, Kentucky's still right there.

In the hunt.

Whether you believe Alabama or North Carolina in the lead. I think most believes still Alabama, but it's it's a wild ride, and I think everyone's ready for him to just make a decision.

Yeah, if you were on KSR chas board, I put this earlier in the weekend, and there's been a lot of updates on there if you want to join the community. But this is I made a comment that I think people didn't understand what I meant. Let me sort of clarify it. I said that I said Kentucky was. I thought it was down to Kentucky and Alabama, and I liked where Kentucky was. That's still the case. I still feel today better about where Kentucky is than any of the other schools. I still you know, we're ten days away. But if the decision was today, I feel like Kentucky would be the decision. One of the things I said was nil won't be what he picks, It'll be where he wants to go. What I mean by that is, I think the nil offers now, at least from Kentucky and Alabama. North Carolina may have uh pulled to the same but they're basically ryan the same at this point. Okay, So then it will come down to where does he want to go. I think there was a moment where Alabama's was a lot higher than Kentucky's, and basically Kentucky is now in the same place, and it'll just be where he wants to go to school. Now, there's always the opportunity or the option that, like all of a sudden, Alabama or North Carolina goes even higher, at which point maybe it changes. But I think if you were talking today, I think at least with Kentucky and Alabama, he's looking at the same thing, and it's just where do you want to go to school?

And you know, Nato, it's and Alabama they've been recruiting him a lot longer, and they've had they've had more time to develop that relationship. Mark Pope's been playing catchup since he got there with Jasper Johnson, you know what I mean. I think cal Perry Staff they were kind of just passively recruiting him. Well, Pope's put the all court, full court press on, but they got a lot of ground to make up because Alabama had already been there for years and years on Jasper and.

He did grow up at Carolina FA.

Let me just say this, when it comes to basketball recruitings, especially online, I'm not saying that any of these people that claim to know something do or don't because I don't know any of them. There's like in the col Era, there's like all these new names that pop up, and I just don't know any of those people.

So they may know they not.

I'm not saying, but I do know that for me personally, I'm looking to hear with the people on the show, or Travis graft Or or Brandam trace It both, Travis right, Brandham or Jack Pilgrim like what they say, because there's a lot of stuff I see floating around that just isn't true and then it becomes the narrative, and I actually think that hurts us in some ways.

The program.

So just but I would say right now, the money as of this moment will not be what makes Jasper Johnson's decision. All right, what's your next fact?

I'm up?

Heah, We'll move on to cornerback. We'll start with the starting cornerback. Everyone knows Maxwell Harriston had a big year. He was ranked fifth nationally in interceptions last season and led the SEC in interceptions, interception returns, interception return yards, and touchdowns. He was the only Kentucky player in history to have two interceptions returned for touchdown.

In a single game. We all remember that, well I did.

I already say his nickname is mad Max. And then his fun fact that's a little off the football grid. You know a lot of these people play multiple sports. Some people run track, basketball. In high school, he was a member of the choir.

Nice.

I like that, very versatile.

I don't think people realize Ryan that we had the nation's leader in interceptions last year and he's returning.

Do you think people actually processed that and realize it.

No.

No, Like the same way that you don't know Ray Davis broke the touchdown record left to those both kind of slipped in on everybody, But it's a fact Mike pel Harrison ended up leading the nation in interceptions last year. A guy that well that for sure was even gonna be the starter when the season started.

Yeah, it is amazing interesting facts.

Yeah, football player on the choir. Absolutely, all right, there you go.

Drew's head got a perfect school does Yeah. Ryan's on the roll. He's had two straight good ones. What's your next fact.

We're gonna go up to the receivers and we're gonna start with the new one. Jamar Macklin j mack You know, he takes the place of Tavan Robinson at the slot. He's also gonna wear Tavian Robinson's number, and they're like identical guys. They're like, you know, these speedy little scapback guys. But uh, Jay mack I think the interesting fact about him he's got fourteen brothers and sisters fourteen symbol.

Wow, big house, big house, fourteen brothers, fourteen.

How many did Tubby have because that was a big thing when he was here.

It was double digits, You're right, it was maybe eleven or twelve fteen.

Have you ever hear how many of these terry miners have? Shannon, He's got.

Like a, Oh, he's got a big family. I'm not sure that it's fourteen or anywhere close to that.

It's like eight or nine.

Yeah, yeah, maybe, yeah, I think so. But fourteen you.

Have you ever known anybody with fourteen brothers and sisters?

No?

No, No, just that crazy TV show? What's there?

They?

Whatever the show was they had, like eighteen nineteen? What's it called the Duggers.

Show?

Didn't they have a weird ending to their Yeah?

They did.

There's a lot of dugging going on.

Yeah, it's a lot.

Nineteen as the show he's starting about.

Yeah, I think so.

Right there you go, Yeah, Terran's getting better.

You should have start started with the line.

He started with the best one. He was like, starting with the best ones. Eli Cox is good. All right, Well that's that's a good start, right, all right?

What's that? What's yours?

Drew moving to the other corner. You know, this could be either Jansen Dunn.

Or DJ Waller, who transferred from Michigan won a national championship, but I'll focus on done. He seems to be slotted there right now. He transferred in after playing two seasons at Ohio State. He originally committed to Oklahoma briefly, but he's from Bowling Green, went to South Warren. He was the number two player in Kentucky. Jagger Burton was first, then Jansen Dunn, then Gavin Wimsit, then to kel Crowdis. Kentucky ended up with eight of ten in that recruiting class.

Yeah.

He scored a touchdown for South Warren against couve Caath in the state championship game in twenty eighteen. And my interesting fact is he has a cousin on the team named Dan Key.

About that, all right, that's.

It interesting that Janson Dunn his cousins with Dang Keith.

Yeah, I'll say it's interesting.

I thought that one was gonna be cool. So you don't think Drew DJ Waller from Michigan's gonna start.

Well, yeah, I just don't think they were giving it to him right away, even missed a little, he missed the first scrimmage. I think all those guys are gonna get plenty of opportunities. The cream will rise there. They finally have a lot of depth at that spot. But I went with him for this exercise being a Kentucky guy, and uh, you know one that they lost the first time around. Then let him go be a Buckeye for two years and then he came on home.

All right, sounds good.

Who's next, shame, Let's go to Mark Anthony.

Mark Anthony, how are you?

Matthew, Ryan, Drew Shannon A man. I must thank you first of all for the show. It's really good. I'm really interested in it's It's good to have the names of the starters and a couple of little facts or opinions. Anyway, Uh, Doomas Johnson.

Uh.

I don't know when he broke his arm, but I plan to remember seeing him play football on a random Saturday afternoon against somebody I don't remember, but the bleep playing color guy could not get his name out of their mouths. He was in on every defensive stop. So I was I'm excited when I heard he was coming. I was excited about that. I'm keen to see what he can get done now last the ball fellas. I'm just glad Shannon don't judge me. Thank you. See.

Yeah, Shannon's a harsh judge. There's no doubt about that.

You you have to you have to bring it if you want, if you want Shannon to do to do well. My mom just told me Uh, Shennon and my grandfather had eleven siblings.

Oh really, I didn't realize that. I knew he had a bunch, but I didn't know.

That's not the Morgan Wallen side, that's the other side. But uh, eleven siblings, that's a lot. Brian, tell me about Stockton Mortgage.

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I'm told is it Jamoury Macklin not.

Jamar Macklin, jmak Jamari?

Hey, okay, so did you say you so Jamari not jamor Jim Jamari Macklin the North Texas transfer. We'll take a break, be right back. Final segments. KSR Welcome back, Tank you Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven seven two seven to seven four five two five. For got a couple things they gotta do here, DraftKings Go, DraftKings promo code KSR bet five get one hundred and fifty dollars.

Getting ready for the NFL season.

We got to pick a game today, not a lot of choices, So Drew, I'm gonna go to the Little League World Series?

How about that.

Lake Mary Florida against Bourne, Texas. Both teams are undefeated in pool play. These some people think are the two best teams. Do you like Lake Mary Florida or Bourne Texas.

I'm going Lake Mary Florida, and I have no reasoning behind that pick, but I'm feeling good about the fighting Lake Mary Florida's.

You know, Shannon, you can bet the Little League World Series online. I feel like if you had information on these teams, Shannon, you might be able to get some get a bonus.

I think I'm gonna do it anyway. I don't know anything about them.

I know that, you know.

I feel like people in Tech are tougher than people in Florida, So I think that the Texas kids are tough. They're gonna win this game.

Oh he is, then I did. I was gonna take them anyway. Lake Mary, Florida.

If you grow up in Lee Corso's backyard, Ryan, you have to take them.

I'm taking Florida.

I'm gonna take Born, Texas. I feel like it sounds like a town. There's nothing to do in that town but play baseball. The Rangers have been really good lately. The Houston Astroals have been really good lately. So the state of Texas has become a baseball state.

I'm going Born because it sounds like bored.

Is that why you're picking it?

Because it's I like that he's.

Gonna do it because the Rangers have been good, which might even be on the other side of the state.

We're not sure, but that's all right. I like it.

One serious thing that is happening right now, and I don't I want to at least note it. In Elizabethtown outside the courthouse this morning, there was a shooting.

Uh. Three people shot.

I haven't gotten the final word on their on their status, but I think it's not great. And the shooter is still at large. So for everyone in Elizabethtown. It was outside the courthouse as people were waiting to go into the courthouse. So prayers to everybody. That's that's an awful situation, and prayers to everybody, the victims, but also the people in the community. As apparently the shooter is still at large in Hardin County.

So sad. Yeah, that is said, No, really way to transition that. So I'll just go to the next call.

Who's up, All right, let's go to Stuart.

Stuart, go ahead, Stuart.

Good morning, Matthew.

Couple of things.

You and I both graduated from the same Institute of Higher Learning there on Broadway in Lexington also known as TRANSYLVANIANSVANI, and we shared a professor in common who just retired. Now I broke him in among his first years there, and you had him I think kind of the middle or the end of his years. But doctor Doogie just retired after thirty years.

I did not know doctor Dougie retired. Wow, I I knew.

I thought he would be there, like until they just shut the place down.

I mean he would.

That was my That was my political science professor, probably the professor one of two that I was the closest to.

He was the guy who told me Drew before I went to Duke.

He said, if you sound like you do with your voice, they're all gonna think you're an idiot. And I was like, well, I can't really change it, and he goes, I said, well, I can't really change my voice, and he goes, no, don't change it. He was like, make them think you're an idiot, and then you'll get them when you're actually smart. Andrew, I actually always liked that advice.

Honestly.

I think i've heard you tell that story on these airwaves before too.

That's exactly right. That was Don Dougie that told me that I.

Had heard you mentioned him a number of times. And I saw in the bulletin that Trancy sends out that he had just retired and he influenced me.

And I know I've.

Heard you sink that he influenced you. He was great. Yeah, now I'm glad you. Thanks for sharing that with me. I appreciate the call.

He probably was one of the most, if not the most influential professors I had. He really encouraged me to apply to the best law schools I could, and he really got me to think about things in a different way. And so yeah, he's definitely worth a salute. I haven't seen him in a long time. I used to see him shatting at off track, betting at before you could do that on your phone.

But a big shout out to Don Dougie. Who's next, Matt, Matt?

Go ahead, Matt, Hey, Matt, first time, long time?

Who are hey?

I'm at Texas attorney, Kentucky alum and most importantly a Cats fan. I got a question for you. So you y'all been talking about how we can't be good. You don't think under the house settlement of both football and basketball. But I mean, you look at Auburn, you look at Bamma, you look at Tennessee. They austenably become two sports schools too, So how do we continue competing?

We are a two sports school?

Okay, I mean what yeah, we are what I mean going forward under house, yes, but but the House will make Okay, so that's a fair question. Under the new settlement with the money that is distributed, the issue for Kentucky is going to be the same issue, and that is that we don't have enough donors. If we had donors that could give twenty million in NIL, then actually, I think.

You could be great at both.

But all House settlement's going to do is sort of raise the minimum wage. But what it does allow is a school could make a decision of, Okay, we can't raise all this money from donors, but we can make up with these other schools raised from donors by using this pot of money we're given away.

Does that make sense?

So if you have a zillion, if you have a zillion donors, and then you can be good at everything. But if you don't, a school could say, Okay, I don't have the donors to be good at both, but this pot of money from House, I'll all put it to one sport and we can be good at that and then the other one just suffers.

Does that make sense? Yeah?

Does?

That's the part that it's been hard for me, and I'm guessing some other listeners too, is thinking about kind of the interplay between House and NIL, because NIL will still be there.

And I will still be there. Yeah, and I will still be there. But I'm gonna make your prediction. I don't think the numbers will be as high because when the House Settlement becomes law, what's gonna end up happening is I think Congress will put a cap on the inile money, and I think the courts will allow it because of the House Settlement. That's very complicated, the legal reasons.

Why you're a lawyer, you understand.

I'm not going to go into it on here, but I think it is more likely eventually you'll see an nil cap because of.

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Shannon, I'm looking outside my window and there are probably five hundred cops right outside my window and a ton of what looked like cars. I wonder, I mean that, I think that's Trump's tower. I wonder if he's in there. It's gotta be what it is.

I would so yeah, people out there, Yeah.

Yeah, I can't think of what else would be pretty amazing sight. Actually, thank you folks very much. We'll finish the players tomorrow on the show. See you later. Go get that Kentucky and Ilber at the bar. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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