2024-09-09- KSR - Hour 1

Published Sep 9, 2024, 4:03 PM

KSR is Live at KSBar & Grille talking UK's loss to South Carolina and taking your calls.

This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

Welcome everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio here live at the Chaos Bar and Grill.

I'm Matt Jones.

I kind of thought on the Monday after a show might just be us here, but right at the last second I walks in here.

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Smith Office called t J. I'll make them pay. Ryan is here. Seems like you feel better? Did I hear you drove a car?

I drove to work for the first time in two weeks today. That's positive on this Monday, Positive Monday, y Ry.

Ryan is on the roads. Positive for Ry. I'm not sure if it's positive everybody else right true for Ryan? Positive? Drew is here, Drew how are you.

I've been a lot better still feeling the effects for the weekend.

By the way that maybe this will feel you. Bit that make you feel better.

There's a stat that this college football website comes up with that shows outcome versus expected outcome. Basically, if you played the game one hundred times with exactly how it went, would you expect teams to do better or worse? Besides Notre Dame Northern Illinois our game, the expected value was off in Kentucky's direction, So we shouldn't have lost. Point me, we shouldn't have lost by as much as we did. That should make you feel better, right.

I'm shocked and you said you walked through.

There's no way expected to win that game.

I'm not going to give an exc Thirty four to six at Homes A a disaster, just a disaster, and and and we can relive it, you know. I don't want to sit here in wall and misery. I think two plays were the most important.

One was.

It actually to me, was not the one where we went for it on fourth down, although that was symbolic, but we only ended up giving three points off that. Yeah, I think the play was the fourth and one for them. With the score ten to six when we went off sides, when like clearly everybody in the in the stadium knew they weren't gonna snap it, and we went off sides. I don't know if Oxyden jumped to the other guy pushed him push, I think would be even worse if we're pushing guys off sides. Uh, that was Drew. I mean, they played the game, then change they go score. You know, it's it's it's over you if you if you stop them there, you get the ball. You're only down ten to six. But uh, and then it just went off track after that. I mean, y'all heard me last week. I'm still completely shocked. It was bad as it was.

I mean, sure, South Carolina, I knew there was a chance they could come here and win it. It's an SEC team, but thirty one to six, my goodness, six six points six six completions, three from Vander Griffin, three from whims It.

By the way, we're last amongst Power five in passing in the country now, I mean, to be fair, we we missed a quarter and a half. But still yeah, I mean, you know, you know his next to last South Carolina, But go ahead.

Even I mean, Vandergriff was sacked more than he hit a receiver. He had more sacks than completions.

I'm just I.

Cannot believe they were as bad as they were. I mean, is that the worst offensive line you can remember?

It's not.

You know, we were very confident on this one. We didn't get it wrong. Even Las Vegas had Kentucky's a ten point favorite. You never see that in the sec So to go from the expectations of you're the more talented team, you're at home, I need to win situation, How do you score six points?

LSU is gonna beat South LS. She's only a one point favorite. Saturday, South Carolina just go ahead. This restaurant is going on LSU. Because South Carolina's not good. That's the thing that bothers me. Their quarterback's not good. They got a great defensive line, But besides that, they're not good, and we we stunk work.

I mean, that is the worst.

It's hard for me to judge brought Vandergriff because I don't know, because I know how that offensive line was just awful.

Awful.

The whole game was was awful. I mean, it was a complete system failure.

But but I have to say, though, I think seventy five percent, well, if you we'll talk about coaching, but seventy five percent.

Is on the offensive line.

To me, I mean, it's hard that you can't leave your defense on the field as long as we did, especially in the second half. We gave away ten points with the pick six. But again, I don't even know. I don't really know if I blame Brock Vandergriff, do.

You I mean he missed a couple of missed a couple. I mean he he struggled a little bit, but you're right, a lot of the problems were the offensive line didn't give him any time at all.

I'm not saying he's he was good, but like it's hard, I don't know if I can judge him.

Yeah, some of the best passes that he made were called back for holding the defensive line.

Yeah that's true.

Yeah, he was pretty bad, but he was running for his life, especially towards the end. And then it got that stretch. I forgot the number, but we ran it so many times eleven times. South Carolina just knew a run. They completely abandoned the past, which I kind of understand with that line. But I'll say he was bad, but it's hard to judge what he is based on that I think has no help.

Marcus Cox, by the way, graded on a scale of one to one hundred.

You know what he graded for the goal? Five point one? No, I don't know if.

On the field you get that radio.

I mean that's like a cone.

That's a seventh year guy out there.

And heck, he's been good for a lot of time. He's been good.

And you know who ours was Our highest graded starter was actually Mensi, who felt like messed up the whole game, but he.

Was our high I mean, it was a disaster.

I don't look, I don't want to spend to day going we stuck because we did stick.

But the question is where do you go from here? And I don't know the answer.

Mark story was in the Herald today says maybe it's time to evaluate the.

Stoops trajectory of the program.

That was certainly where people were online and even on the postgame show Saturday night. It's crazy to think one game would do that, but you know, South Carolina's kind of been I made the point Ryan that it's kind of been the signature game of the Stoops career. He got his first home, big home winning against him, he got his first big road win against him, he beat him seven of eight.

Now he's lost three in a row. Like, what do you.

Think you're You're right at that point you made because this program fought and fought and fought to get some respect and they did that by beating teams like South Carolina. You became a better program than South Carolina. But now the last three years they've they've beat it, beat you twice in your home field, and they embarrassed you Saturday to come in here, like, are guys. I think the thing that disappointed me the most. Our guys didn't fight. They that they didn't compete the times they didn't and that's what for a stupid team was disappointing.

South Carolina has the exact same amount of home SEC wins in this stadium in the last three years as Kentucky two.

And this doesn't make Beemer a good coat. Beamer is still a clown. A week ago, their fans were calling fine bomb asking if Beemer is gonna see the end of the year, and you've lost three in.

A row to that gu that's why you that's why you load up on l s U else she's gonna kill him. They're not good, That's what's so. What is so worrisome to me is they're not good and and they didn't just win. They destroyed us, and they get game. They stole our game day, game day, like that was gonna be our game day.

Now it's their game day.

That is the biggest slap in the face to come in beat.

You on your home field and then still gave it and then take game day.

I mean, like, it doesn't get any worse than that, doesn't it.

Yeah, it's it's a disaster.

On a show yesterday, I forgot what it was, but he was basically like ESPN didn't even know where to go because they were just expecting Lexington. So they're just on the fly, like, well, I guess we'll go to They said it pretty much. He was on a podcast or another ESPN show and said there was confusion because the anticipation was it was gonna be Lexington.

I mean, unbelievable, and so I don't really know where you go.

I mean, you know, I feel like at some ways we're back in the situation where we were last year with cal although the decline in opinion is quicker. You know, Cal's was kind of gradual over a period of time. This feels quicker. But I do think you're in a sense where, Okay, there are people who believe there needs.

To be a change.

I'm going to continue to say when people say that, even if you want it, you don't have the money to make a change, right. So so there's that part of it, But I don't think he deserves a change.

I also think it is hard to I.

Feel like I said this all of last season, it's hard to see how this gets better this year because this schedule is hard. This was the game you were supposed to be and luckily Auburn seems terrible too. But now it's not clear how you get the six wins. For certain, you got Georgia coming in here next week. Then you got an Ohio game where I worry, nobody's gonna be there, Right, they'll be there for Saturday. People will go because it's Georgia, but I worry there's not in Ohio though, nobody.

And then we go to Old Miss and then we have a bye, and then Vandy comes.

So it's not even clear how he proves Ryan that we're good really until we go to Florida at the in the middle of October, like, it's hard to know what can happen to even turn the momentum around.

Your argument's fair because the last two seasons have been not up to what fans expected. And thankfully they beat Louisville the last game of the year last year, or we had we had an entire offseason bitching. I think about the football program. They beat Louisville, kind of say, it went seven and five. Now this is the gaming point, Like you said all summer, you've got to win this.

What if we hadn't beaten Louisville, that's it.

If we hadn't beaten Louisville, this would be a whole nother level. I mean, like the Louisville game kind of turned the momentum around for how we looked at that season last year. You know you don't win that one through. It's hard to I mean you we may not go to a bowl. Matter of fact, if you made me bet right now, I bet we won't.

I'll say it out loud. I'm not certain Vandy's will win. No, when the schedule came out, you just count Vandy. Oh yeah, you're gonna win that Fandy scored in ninety points in two weeks of this season.

Yeah, no, I think there's no there's no.

Game on the schedule outside of the Ohio and Murray where I'm oh, yeah, are gonna win that. I would have said that a week ago. But after as bad as they looked against the South Carolina team, it's not good. I'm not counting anything.

I mean, that's the worst the Stoops team is. Look right, it looked the Bandy game two years ago. We looked bad. But I mean this one's right, it's this one or the Vandy game two years ago. You know, I don't know. And and here's the problem. And I articulated this case on the postgame show. But I think this is a particular problem Ryn for for for the Nile era back in the day, when you had a bad situation, you didn't want the fans to get upset at you, but it really didn't have much of an effect on your team, right, you just take ain't be murer at South Carolina fans are not thrilled.

But it weren't thrilled. But it doesn't really necessarily matter.

But in the nil world, the fan opinion of you and specifically, the booster opinion of you is ultimately makes or breaks your program, so you can get in what I would call a death spiral. And I don't know if anyone's talked about this nationally, but I bet you will hear it's schools because the problem is if the fans lose faith, they will stop giving money. And if you stop getting money, you won't be able to get players to make your team better, and it'll just spiral and then your team will be worse.

And like, it's like, I don't know how you get out of that spiral.

And I wonder if this team continues in this path, how do you go look at people and say give money for this.

You're right, if they're in that spiral. The only way to get out of it is you gotta beat You gotta beat somebody.

But it's harder to beat somebody because you can't get any players because you won't be able to Like I think that I'm worried about that for this because if this team goes foreign, you know, are people going to use the phrase pony up?

I've already seen a lot of that since Saturday. I think I thought Kentucky fans have done a great job of buying in and the program with Tenil is in a pretty good place.

The atmosphere Saturday was amazing.

Go back to last week where they set through a two hour rain delay just to see what we've all thought is the most talented team. Fired up for South Carolina might have been a little bit of looking ahead from the fans to Georgia and college game Day, but there was so much energy behind your football team. And now I get on Facebook, I see people selling the remainder of their tickets already. I mean, there's several listings of take my, buy my season tickets for Kentucky right now based on that one game. One game took all that energy, and now it's several people asking should you keep Stoops? What's next? Can even make a bowl? And all that happened in a couple hours on Saturday.

And now you play Georgia.

Yeah, I mean, how you gonna reignite the momentum against Georgia?

I don't know.

I think it's the low point in the Stoops are and I don't know what he does, because you're right, the team look like they quit, which is not something that has happened during the Stoops era, and they got a ton of talent and it looked awful, and you know, maybe it's that everything else is okay, and the offensive line.

Is the worst that's ever played. It's but but I don't know.

It's just it's just a disaster right now. And it's two games in and so I don't know what Mark does. I don't know what he I don't know what he can get up and say. I don't It's just it's a disaster. And Saturday was was like, there's just a sense of what are we gonna do? And that's that's where we are and we'll figure it out. A five nine twenty two eighty seven. There's another thing you want to talk about, the situation in London. You know, there's fifteen schools out in eastern Kentucky, which is a kind of a crazy thing to think about. We'll talk about all that and more.

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Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio. All right, So that's uh, let's talk about faith. Give me Max always likes when I do percentage chances. Give me percentage chances that by the end of the year, whatever has happened has happened. To get Kentucky fans still solidly.

Behind Stoops in the moments after.

That number is very low, But what give me the percentage chance he gets something. I'm not gonna say the season turned around because I only think there's so well you can do, but that people will go into the offseason going I still have faith in Stoop since the program.

I'm still leaning that way because they every year they seem to lay an egg in a game, and I'm hoping this was the egg that it And now they'll go out and they'll compete. And like you said earlier, Auburn doesn't look very good, Florida doesn't look very good. You got Ohio, you got Murray State. There's four wins. It may come down to that Louisville game again. Yeah, and Bandy, it may come out of the Louisvill game again. On how we view this percent chance sixty five, it's okay, that's a high. You're not going that high.

I will say, you know, there's it's the way football sets up. You can make up for a bad loss, you can save it.

Now.

I don't have a lot of hope with that line. But was it twenty sixteen they lost to Southern miss I think they started zero to two and went on to win eight games, So it's happened. I'm not confident it will happen. I will say about thirty percent, thirty percent chance a lot of it. Like Ryan said, you beat Louisville at the end of the year, as we saw last year, that that can erase a lot of things that have gone wrong. But I'll say thirty percent chance at the end.

Of the year. Where yoh, okay, all right, what about you share it.

You gotta beat Louisville first of all, that always makes us feel better about the situation. But I think you've also got to get to at least seven wins. I think you got to get to that.

At least it seven requires a Louisville win.

Yeah, I mean maybe maybe it went over uh you know, if you slip up the game.

Maybe it went over a ranked team.

The problem is we we we play four of what I think are probably the nine best teams in the country. Like it's not like we can just go beat Like Takem's Uri is an example. Missouri is a team that if they were on our schedule, looks like a big win. But I could go into that game and think we had a shot we play four of like the best.

Teams in the country.

I mean, you were if you were to ask who's looked better than anybody else, you could make an argument that the first four teams mentioned are on our schedule.

Yes they are really Georgia, Texas, Old Miss Tennessee.

I think people would say those might be the four best looking teams so far, and we play all four of them, three of them on the road, and one of them next week.

So like that's hard for me to see.

You're right, the Louisville game would make people look different, But I think it would only make people look different if it got.

Us to at least six wins.

If it gets us to four wins or five wins, I don't necessarily think it does you much good.

So all that being said, I'm gonna put it at like twenty five percent.

Okay, I'm gonna go thirty five, But I'm I'm you're very confident. I'm just worried that, like all year we talked about this was the swing game, this one, this one right here, and then that happens. So I want to hear what fans say A five, nine, two eight, twenty two eighty seven.

Let's talk about the London situation.

I will say this has been one of the more confusing big news stories that I've seen. I think part of it is where London is located, where it's kind of in the Lexington TV market, and it's kind of in the Knoxville TV market, and I just I just feel like, to me, there's been not enough local coverage. Like I could not believe that Saturday night no one was covering it on television. I know there's football on, but like, how was no local TV station live?

Yeah, they're they're skeleton staff on weekends. There had so many people on the UK game beat that when that happened, I know, enough people to do something.

I understand, but you got so First of all, for people who don't know, there's there was a shooting in between London and Livingston on the interstate, he's still at large. There are like fifteen schools in eastern Kentucky closed today because of it.

You know, all Right, So I'm.

Driving I kind of gave up on the game at the end of the third quarter, so I was like, I'm gonna go eat dinner before the postgame show, and I'm driving home from dinner and I see that it's happened. I call Michael with the radio station and say, I feel like we need to address this. And I said, I feel like even JMI needs to address it because people are gonna be driving home right Like, that's the thing, is that everybody's gonna be driving that way. If you live in southeastern Kentucky, you have to go that way. And to their credit, they both agreed, so we started talking about what we would do on the postgame show. I just couldn't believe the news stations. I mean, they break in for like it might be a bad thunderstorm. You got a gunman on the loose.

In I'll telling you. I texted you last that night and said you did a good job because you were the only live news element on the air give it this live update. The TV stations did not break away. They all had games on. Even their Twitter accounts were not updating you.

I didn't understand. I just didn't understand that. But on the show we had it. Yep, and you did a good job. Seriously, I'm gonna compliment you. You did a good job. You gave the information as you knew it.

You didn't speculate a lot of speculation out there, A lot of you didn't get into that.

Well, and the speculation online some of it ended up being way fault. Some of it actually ended up being a little true, but you never know what's what you know. The London mayor, I appreciate him coming on with this, but then I think what he said ended up not being correct, right, which makes you say, well, maybe you know, don't say it unless you know. Because he said it was a wreck and an altercation that led that looks like that wasn't true unless something unless something's changed.

That looked like that wasn't true. It was a guy standing there.

Picking off cars, which is really scary, right, Yeah, especially as you said, with so many people leaving lexingon go in that direction, you needed to get the word out to as many as possible. And now he's you know, now he's on the loose. It looks like he's in the hills. It's look like but you know, when you try to explain to people what eastern Kentucky's like, how about the at that for forty eight hours they can't find this guy because because the woods are too dense.

And if he grew up in that area, he knows, he knows where the caves are, the hallers where he can hide out.

Yeah yeah, okay, so I.

Love that there. You probably saw the story where these couple of semis snip side by side of the bus full of hazard band or maybe with Harlan their banned and kind of escorted them through that area, just kind of protect them a little bit. Yeah. I love that story that came out.

But you know, it's kind of a wild story.

And you would think in twenty twenty four, Shan and they like, you couldn't hide, you know, in the woods, but I guess you can, and who knows for how long?

You know.

I don't know a whole lot about being on a police force, but I mean it was kind of surprising to me that they called off the search at night.

I would think they would have, like, you know, but.

I mean it might also be like that woods.

I mean, the mountains may be so dense that like shining lights on it wouldn't work.

So they're only working during the daylight, which kind of limits them on this.

Well, the London mayor said they knew where he was the area. That doesn't look like that was true either. I mean, I get it. I guess he's trying to like make people not panicked, but I mean it wasn't true what he said, so I mean, that's kind of odd to me.

Drew. So the whole thing is odd.

But hopefully, so far no one has passed away, so that's a good sign and hopefully that will will continue. Apparently they found his car and it was deserted, so he's probably on foot.

But when this came out Saturday evening, if you told me on Monday, we'd still be talking about how he's on the loose. That's pretty hard to believe. And showja how's scary and serious of a situation it is?

Well, I think if what's really scary to people is the idea that he was just standing there with cars on the.

Interstate completely randomly.

Yeah, you know, scary man, I'm telling you man, the gun stuff, I mean, I can't. I'm not going to preach, but like you're not gonna be able to protect against that, you know what I mean. I mean, you're not unless unless we do something bigger in society, Like you know, there are times that are like we'll have more security. Hat what are you gonna do on the airstate. Yeah, you know, it's like completely random. We just are so obsessed with guns.

We are.

And I'm not saying everybody can have opinions about it, but like we're just so this country so obsessed with guns, and it's scary to me that spend that one Saturday seemed kind of particularly scary because of the randomness of the circumstances. All right, we will take your calls talk about Uh let me know what you think about stoops and uh where we are right after this TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay No.

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Welcome back, Teke you Sports Radio. Let me read some of these comments here. Uh one person, rate's Matt. I think the same argument about nerds applies to football. Is basketball analytic guys are winning games stoops part of an old, tough, hard nosed coach kind of way, and it doesn't work anymore. Go look at Josh Heipel, Lincoln Riley, Lane Kiffin. We need a nerd. The let's grind, grind it out and win just doesn't work in twenty twenty four.

I mean there may be a little truth to that.

There's not a little truth to it. There's a lot of truth. Yeah, there's a lot of truth. Now Saturday, oddly, we probably should have run the ball more at least early in the game. But that also can be an analytic decision. You got to approach this stuff analytically. And I will say this because a lot of people are talking about Bush Hampden. I don't know if Busch Hampden's a good ad or offensive coordinator or not, but we're about to get to the point that we can't keep pointing at the offensive coordinator because we've gone through like six of them in the last six years. So there's gonna come a point that you just at some point you got to look in the mirror and go.

Am I the problem? It's me?

Yeah, for Mark Stoops, I think that was Taylor Swift. I mean, Liam Cohen just put up thirty seven.

In the NFL yesterday with Baker Mayfield.

I'm just saying, like the idea that Liam Cohen had lost his touch, he put up thirty seven with the Tampa baylet So I don't know if Bush Hampden's great or not, but I'm not giving mark a pass for the offensive problems.

Yeah, it's we all know Stoops brand of football and to play the way he wants to play. You can have the debate if that's the right way or not, but just to do what he wants to do, you have to have a great offensive line, and that doesn't seem to be the case this.

Year at all. Yeah, that's true.

You know, he likes to get a little bit of a lead, run the ball, play defense. But if you've got a bad offensive line, I mean, if this Kentucky team gets behind a touchdown or two in any game, do we have any faith that you know, at least what we've seen through two games.

What made me sad, Ryan was when it was seventeen to six, they scored to go up seventeen six. I thought, well, there's no way we can score enough to beat him now. I mean, that's not a good place to be in.

No.

As pathetic as our offense looked, I mean it was so bad they couldn't do anything then. Like I said, they seemed unprepared, like they were not aware that South Carolina had this great defensive line. We gon'll put all this pressure on him.

Yeah, who's up first? Shannon football, Freddie football, Freddy, how are you? Hey? How are you So?

I've been a season ticket holder for going on ten years now, so a majority of Stups's tenure, and what I saw on Saturday just.

Makes me.

Hesitant to even keep that anymore. It's it's quite embarrassing the product that I'm going out and to see every Saturday.

It's let me ask you a question, Freddy. And this isn't to focus because because somebody on the postgame show said the same thing.

I mean, do you really mean that? Like you don't you don't want to go?

I mean, I'm sure if you've been a season ticket holder for a long time, you get joy out of going, And if you've been a season ticket holder for longer than ten years, you probably got joy out of seeing really bad teams.

Are you really you really.

Are not gonna get joy? You really want to give up your season football tickets? Because right now it's down.

So no, I probably won't get rid of the tickets. I'll keep the tickets and sell them, but I will not be there next week.

There's not a chance.

So you won't.

It's the number one team in the country, and you know, normally when you play the number one.

That's you know, that doesn't happen very often.

You're just not interested, not interested, and you know it's the thing is And if you get the pulse of the fan base right now, I guarantee you if you did a poll on Twitter, it would be very you get the same result.

Yeah, I think you're probably. I think you're right. I appreciate the call.

I don't totally understand the there's a part of me that kind of goes, well, what are you gonna do?

That's more fun than that?

I know what you got going on.

But I do think people, to be fair, have more options now.

They have a lot more things they can do, and the sense of this is our one time to go to town probably isn't true as much anymore. But Drew, I think he's right. There are a lot of people that.

Feel that way, especially, you know, the people that make a whole experience out of setting up the telgame. Maybe you're not from Lexington, It's it's more than just a game, it's an entire Saturday. So you know, there are people that aren't willing to do that again this Saturday like they did or whatever experience they normally do if they dial it back because their expectations against Georgia, I wouldn't blame him. That's how frustrating and disappointed the last Saturday was.

Do you think we'll look back at Ryan and see, you know, the whole pony up as a as A as a turning point.

I'm afraid we are because that seems to me be the way it's headed right now. And I think it if it was any other of our other home games Saturday other than Georgia, if it was Auburn, Ohio, Vandy or Louisville, you know what are these other home games? I think that that guy may have a different attitude about going to see this weekend. They just don't want to go see our team get kicked in the butt two weeks in a row like that.

And on national TV first time we were on av That's true, ABC.

That doesn't make it any better. Who's next. Let's go to Jerry.

Jerry, go ahead, Jerry, hey man, if you remember I called you back in the spring when Wolf, when students brought Wolf were back, and this what we saw Saturday is what I feared.

I mean, the guy isn't that great offensive line coach. He's a great recruiter, but he's not great at coaching guys up. And I we're starting the down the barrel three and nine right now. I haven't seen offensive line play that bad since one and eleven under Curry and O ten and one or Clayron. We got what was dominated and destroyed.

It was.

I mean, South going to go good defensive line, don't get me wrong, but they're not that good.

That one play where they had the freshman, three guys tried to block him through and not one of them got him.

Yeah, I mean they a triple team got beat.

How does that happen? I don't know. I don't care.

If you're blocking Aaron Aaron Donald. Your triple team is supposed to work.

And I'm just not that optimistic because I think the only solution for the is getting new coach on the offensive line, which can't happen to the end of the year. And I mean, and I mean Vandial kicker, but yeah, I.

Mean, yeah, exactly if that that's a key thing, You're exactly right. If they go out and play like they did Saturday will be three and nine. I do think you have to. I mean, I appreciate the call one of the things that I had a huge Saturday. I'm gonna be interested to see what our fade this records were, because I did very, very well gambling Saturday. Oh, I'm the premise of don't totally overreact to one game. I mean, think about how many times people overreacted from week one. First of all, us being a ten point favorite in South Carolina barely beating Old Dominion. That was an overreaction, notre dame overreaction. Right, the Georgia Tech goes and loses to Syracuse. Right, there's a lot of overreactions that happen. What worries me Ryan is I'm not sure this is an overreaction about Kentucky because it wasn't just we lost.

We looked awful, looked awful.

Is you know it looked like we had lack of talent, lack of heart, lack of preparation. I think all that combined is why we're so mad and frustrated this week after what we saw on Saturday.

If you go out and lose because you turn it over a bunch, you miss some field goals, some mistakes here and there, you can pick yourself up and say we can clean that up. But when your offensive line is just getting abused, and it's for the most part, a lot of veterans, a lot of experience. The whole left side's been here several years together. That's where it's like, well, how do you fix that? That's that doesn't sound like a one off situation line to be as.

Bad a part.

When your seventh year senior who's probably your best offensive lineman on the team has a five point grade.

Five out of one hundred and five, I mean, boy, that's not a fluke. I think we could put anyone at KSR outside of Billy and we could do a five. Billy would get a three, but I feel like the rest of us would get a five.

And we talked about how there was not a whole lot of depth at the old line, and then you see Jagger and Minci both go out.

But I will say the substitutes were ranked our three worst rated linemen were the starters?

Were they really?

Yeah?

The Dylan Ray was our second highest rated. God wow, So I don't know who's next. Read how are you read?

Well?

Indiana? In morning? I got this down to a minute map.

So please, there's not a minute. I'll give you thirty seconds.

Okay, Uh, the issue is direction. In the early days, we could see the improvement. We traded as signed Enser for Wolford, who developed Alabama's worst line in twenty years. We got a quarterback Portal who hadn't played at least Leary had. We thought Stoops was a defensive back genius. How do you explain that the real issues the future man fire Stoops mid season? Make Brad White you had.

Do you have the money? Do you have the money to pay the buy out? Well? Where's the forty? Where where's the forty? So you got to stop.

I'm not doing this again after we did it with with col It's forty.

Seven million dollars. Do you have that?

Because UK doesn't? UK doesn't. And when you say we better who who's paying?

Well, i'm a i'm a I'm a how.

Much are your chipping it? Okay? So we got a long way to go.

We got forty six million, nine ninety nine and fifty.

I appreciate that we're not.

I don't even think that's something that we that we need to think about. Hey, because it's we're two games in season. But b I don't care if you think it's a great out of you. We don't have the money, like you know, we don't live in a fantasy world like just with col You don't live in a fantasy world where forty seven million dollars drops from the sky. I mean, like the reality is what makes it much harder is that the situations like that don't exist.

True, it does feel like there's a lot of parallels with what we just do of basketball right now.

Yes, it does, yeah a lot. Yeah.

No, I think that I feel like we're having a lot of the same conversations.

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Yeah, idea to build on?

Yeah that was You don't hear him like that lot there was. It felt like some dejection.

He usually it's let's go back to work. Actually every time it's let's go back to work. But this time he couldn't find anything to build on.

He speaks twice today, right speaks to come up at noon and then tonight the coaches show.

Yeah, the Coaches Show. All that's gonna be very interesting one person, right, Matt. The only thing worse than the game where the ticket lines trying to get in the game. How in twenty twenty four has it gotten worse? There were people out in the parking lot until fifteen minutes away.

I saw some of those lines.

I don't think it was I don't know if it was like that for every entrance, but there were some lines that were just outrageously long. I don't really know how that keeps happening.

I took a bunch of pictures. I was up at the front of the top level and I was kind of taking it looking down. I couldn't believe how long the lines were either shortly be four kick.

I mean, you know, some of the lightning stuff obviously was beyond UK's can. But you know, part of what I think may have some of the frustration is the actual going to the game experiences have not been wonderful these first two weeks. Just you know, forget about the product on the field, just going now. I will say it seemed like the atmosphere was great.

I don't.

I mean it was on television. It was absolutely beautiful with the blue sky, yes, and the blue in the stands. I just thought visually it was a really beautiful scene.

But I don't know that everybody thought it was the best experience. I did two hours of tailgating. It was so great out there. There's so much autimism. Even the few South Carolina fans we saw are like, oh, you know, we're not looking forward to this one. You know, normally there's a little back and forth. South Carolina fans were kind of surrendering going into the game. Heck, my seats were actually in the South Carolina section, so I watched the first quarter with them. They did not think it was gonna go that way, but it quickly did you know it was a.

Perfect day for football? It was awesome. Yeah.

He didn't go out and get it done on the field.

Not at all. Who's next, Let's go to Trump. Trevor. How are you, Trevor? Is it bad?

So?

Is it bad?

They just showed the preview for the promo for the Video Music Awards. Yeah, best video, yes sir, just a second and they said best Video of the year. And I'd never heard of any of the five videos center up for best Video of the year.

We're old. I didn't see it. I suspect it. It's not good. All right, go ahead.

I'd be interested to see what was talked about in that locker room at halftime, because they came out in the third quarter and they just looked like the life and stuck out of it.

What's weird? Iss?

Okay, we played terrible in the first half, but we're only down ten to six, right, we're only down ten to six.

We stopped them.

On their first drive, so we have the ball down ten to six, and I thought to myself, go down here and score, and you probably win this game, right, Like, go down here and score. You got a really really good shot of winning the game. And then all of a sudden, it's like the whole thing just collapsed.

Sir.

Yeah, And I'm I still believe in but I think he needs to right a lot of fire under these guys. But and I think that's what we're missing because we were coached to lose that game, in my opinion, because I know we have the talent. Well, I know we have the talent to beat it. And the offensive line was not the greatest. You know, I understand that, you.

Know, true.

Yeah, and we got we got some big some big, some men, some grown ass men we gotta stop next week, and that offense line probably ain't gonna do it.

Yeah, I appreciate, You're gonna appreciate the call. You're gonna have to scheme up some stuff on offense because you're not gonna be You're not gonna be able to block Georgia. I will say our defensive line play played pretty well, our linebackers played pretty well.

Our secondary that's a problem. Kick. I mean, we.

Fumbled, you know, we fumbled the ball three times in the first and then they got that look back in the second half. Because they would fumble, it would bunce right back to them.

They even got positive cards on a strip sack I think where the running back picked it up and ran it forward a little bit. I mean, Dion was wrecking people. He was a shame that you know, it didn't amount to anything because he was he had a good game. Trying to think demmy Sumo Kargbay had a pretty good game. I mean there are a few people that played well, but it just did no good overall.

I mean, we got a lot of pressure on their quarterback a lot, and he didn't play well. We had two complete coverage I mean most of their offense was two coverage breakdowns where guys ended up wide.

That was the old school stoops area where you look up like, how's that receiver got thirty yards in each direction around it?

I mean, just huge coverage mistakes. That was. That was honestly a big part of what happened.

Yeah, secondary had some issues, and that was those were glaring mistakes because they led to one was a wide open touchdown.

The guy had had a backup quarterback come in and complete a long pass. You know, we love the backup quarterbacks. That felt good too.

Who's next, Matt, Matt, go ahead.

Matt, Hey, you guys, I was watching the game on Saturday, and I lost a lot of zone blocking, a lot of double teams on the two your lineman on the defensive side. And I think that's why we had a lot of guys get through and really destroy our quarterback. I don't know what you guys think about that.

Yeah, I'm not gonna act like I'm smart enough to know when they were zone blocking or not. I will say, you know, let's talk about the offensive line coach for a second. I appreciate you know, he was here one good year, second year terrible. Freddy especially was not a fan when he was here. He leaves, He goes to Alabama, leaves like in the middle of the night, doesn't even tell him he's going, Like literally is announced as Alabama coach before the Kentucky people.

Even knew he was talking to him.

Wouldn't he out recruits to Kentucky when he took the job, didn't come home coaches Alabama for a year. They give up more sacks last year than any other team in the SEC at Alabama, which seems crazy, and then comes back this year.

Was bringing him back Ryan a mistake?

You know?

There there were whispers that when they hired him that This was just a Jeff Ruby higher. This is the guys their friend, you know, not only necessarily bringing back as a coach, brought him back as a friend.

And I think we don't blame I mean, it's not Jeff Jeff had I don't think you should put it on Jeff Ruby as a person dragon like he did it. I think you're talking about that it was a social high. Yes, okay, that's probably better what Jeff rubies. Still I would just say social, I think would be the way to go.

So it's you know, you're right that that second year, but he left here that the door was kind of open. I mean, he things weren't going well. He was criticized for not developing a lot of depth, you know, and we saw the results of that. Now they're bringing back.

This hires on Frank and all the all the restaurants down. You know. The problem is Domino's.

They're always hiring our wide receiver coaches and it's causing problems.

It was a weird hire and we all just kind of had to trust Stoops because Stops is like it's fine. It's like, well, I mean he's the one that has to work with him. So if it's fine with him. I guess it's okay, but it's true.

Curious when he furious, Addie Man, I mean, I guess the history and friendship helps you get through. But they were furious, and he would do a good job when he was here, No, and then to just like get over. I mean, you know, they just turned it off and said it was like a light switch and didn't worry about it.

It Stoops didn't even say this at the time, but he said it months later in an interview that he in over like room together at one of their first jobs, making nothing.

You know, those old stories where you're sleeping off floors in the camp. That's what got him there.

So yeah, they have a long connection. But I'm not saying what his coaching is the reason.

Having back, Shannon, I asked you to try to keep Ryan in line, Like that's.

Supposed to be your job. It is my job.

It's not Ryan's not supposed to go around going it's brand's fault.

Like, I mean, you know, Ryan thought it was public knowledge.

That's the thing about him, you know.

Yeah, you never know what Ryan.

Now we're gonna take a break, talk about some other stuff and take a calls if I'm nine two eight, twenty two eighty seven, The bars opening where at Kis Bar Grill

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