2024-09-17- KSR - Hour 2

Published Sep 17, 2024, 4:06 PM

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk UK Football and take your calls.

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Welcome to two of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones welcome.

Back our number two Kentucky Sports Radio here at the Chos Bar and grill. Where are you folks from? They just walked in here? Gosh in Kentucky?

All right?

Where's that is that northern just north of Louisville. That's right, Okay, got you gosh in Kentucky. We got Princeton, Kentucky. Got the guy who made our banners up here. Our final four banners been from Bowling Green, Goshen, Princeton, and Bowling Green. And you could come out to join us here at KOs Bar for lunch. Tomorrow's Wednesday, if you remember, I'm doing my trivia by the way, not tomorrow.

But next Wednesday.

I decided because I'm a little bit exhausted that I I was gonna do it next Wednesday.

So we've changed the schedule so it.

Get your team for next Wednesday, gives us another week to uh, to get ready and to go before we get back. We got to talk about something your former coach, Drew said. But first our former coach, Yeah, First, I gotta say something about this meeting today, Shannon.

Yeah, No, don't say it. I don't want to know about it.

So me, you're supposed to be on it, but I didn't.

Know about it till just a couple of minutes ago.

So I get this.

So we have a mandatory company wide iHeart meeting Zoom that is called how to grow your Audience.

Mandatory. Do you know how little I want to go to this?

We can assume you don't have to physically go to it.

I don't.

It's on Zoom. First of all, I'm gonna have to tell I don't have Zoom. I don't have to I don't have Zao. Why do we have to go to this? First of all, there are many things you could say about this show, but the last thing I need is someone in LA to tell me how to grow my audience?

Like, for real, I can't.

I don't say this to be rude, but let's go see what that person's audience is.

How many followers you got by yeah?

How many? How many social media followers you have?

How many people were at You're remote on Friday after the worst loss in Stoop's history. How many of your like, how many people came up in Green Bay from another state?

Like?

Do you know how little I want to go to this?

We guessed when we saw the email that you were going to be on Well on the low.

End plot twist, Matt Jones is actually hosting it.

He just doesn't know it.

I'm not hosting it. I've never understood the idea. I said this one day to someone in the company that's not with the company anymore.

They were saying to me, we need.

To talk about how to substantially engage with your audience. And I was like, no, we don't. I said, I know I can do it better than you can. You don't even have a show.

That was always my thing with program directors. We used to have to go in and do air checks and analyze everything. And I'm going like, well, if you know how to talk in the radio better than I do, why don't you have a bigger show than me.

Look, I get it. If no one is listening to your show, I get it. Yeah, like help them. I'm fine with that. But you know there's somebody in a suit. Tell When I first started ESPN, they would do it. And finally I said to my boss at ESPN, who I like he was in He was in Green Bay with this. I can't do this anymore. I was like, you don't host a show, so you know I don't mean this to.

Be rude, but no, you don't take golf lessons from someone who doesn't go.

That's exactly right. Okay, I'll tell you what. If Tiger Woods or John Rahm wants to give me a golf lesson, I'll listen. But if you're John Rahm and then I come and try to give you a lesson, come on, so you.

Are yeses or no. I'm gonna have my camera on, I'm gonna have my tie on, I'm gonna be ready to go.

I've said for many years the bane of our existence in his business are consultants. They try to tell us how to do our show from California, and they don't know have any idea how to do a show in Kentucky.

Look at you hate in California.

All right, let me read you what your former coach, Drew John cal Perry said that a feeling, that's the coach you were going forward. John cal Perry was apparently giving. And he does this to this is to his credit. He did this in Kentucky. He does it.

He brings high.

School coaches in the state, yep who want to come kind of learn how to coach. He has like a seminar, and that's really.

Good of him.

It is really good. It is really good him.

He did that in Kentucky for many years and then he's doing it in Arkansas, so so I give him credit for that. He said, quote, Well, this isn't quote. This is Kevin McPherson of our hoop Scoop.

That's the name of the site, r R A R.

Not just like our hoopscoop, like a pirate pirate basketball reporter.

Oopscoop, he says.

Uh.

John Caliperry said has said the analytics era that embraces threes and layups while poop pooing mid range is faulty logic. When asked how why, he pointed to I have thirty former players with max NBA contracts as proof that having the middle game matters, thoughts.

That's why if he had stayed here, we get a lot of the same. It have been a lot of the same. And yeah, those guys are making max contracts. But the game has changed. It changes, it involves all the time. You have to stay up with keep up with it. And up to this point, I thought he was really good at.

Doing that, and that that two sentence period is exactly why it wasn't gonna work. Because if we're gonna talk faulty logic, that is the faultiest life. The faultiest logic you can make in life is I've had success, so as time changes, it's still gonna continue. The faultiest logic is I have VCR tapes. They work. I don't need streaming.

That's why you gotta go to a meeting about expanding your brand.

All right, touchee ok, company boy.

But I don't think this person's gonna be gonna be saying that. But I'm serious about that. Also, he makes a logical leap that isn't true. He says, I have thirty guys with max NBA contracts. True? And do I think he deserves credit for those I do? Yes, yes, I do. People who don't give him credit and say, well, they were good when they got here, that's not fair. But I will say this, I think one of the things we've learned is having thirty NBA contracts does not mean you're gonna win in college basketball.

Right that correlation?

He thinks because a guy gets to the NBA, he's gonna win a college basketball title, And we have learned that that is not the same.

And I'll also note who are his best players in the NBA right now?

Okay, Anthony Davis, who's a superstar, but it's not because of mid range jumpers, right, Devin Booker, who's a superstar, but he shoots a lot of threes, Tyres, Maxi superstar threes, Carl Towns superstar, won the NBA Three Point Contest and did not shoot any.

Threes here, Tyler Hero.

All these dudes found their their mojo in the NBA. Almost every guy just mentioned is better in the NBA than he was when he was here.

I mean, how many cow players.

Let's be honest, we're at the top of college basketball when they were here a right, John Wall was, Yeah, DeMarcus was, Anthony Davis is the has been good, really really good at both Booker's a better NBA player than he was a college player. Shay is a better NBA player than he was a college player. Maxi is a better NBA player than he was a college player. Even Carl is a better NBA player than he was a college player.

Hero.

So he's right that those guys all can make mid range shots, but that's not why they're good. They're good because they can get to the rim and shoot threes, which guess what is modern basketball? Right, And that sentence where he basically says analytics is faulty because I have guys in the NBA is a good recipe to lose to Oakland and Saint Peter's Drew again.

Yeah, and the whole bring up your NBA player those don't even correlate, like they're not taking midrid. I mean, you've got a couple guys that can make him, but PJ. Washington once he taking like five or six threes a game. Yeah, So I mean clearly disagree with this point, like that most people do spacing and basketball is the way to go. But just bringing up your NBA contracts kind of has nothing to do with that and didn't really prove the point for me at all.

I Mean, if the question is can John Caliperry produce NBA players, there's a strong argument there's never been a coach in the history of college basketball who's been better at it than that. Maybe John Wooden and Mike Krzyzewski. But John Wooden and Mike Krzyzewski have something he didn't, which is how much they want in college right, and and don't get me wrong, Cal won a lot, but he thinks that correlation is one to one and it's not. And because he's not gonna change that, it's gonna be more of the same. Yep, I mean it's gonna be more of the same. Now, that doesn't mean he's gonna lose to Oakland or Saint Peter's, but he will never take last year's team. Last year's team was the most efficient team he's ever put and he had three of the most efficient players to ever play at the school, Rot Reed Shepherd, Antonio Reeves, and Rob Dillingham. In fifty years, there's gonna be a version of me doing this show. That's gonna look back historically and goes man. That twenty twenty four team had three of the six best three point shooters in history on the team.

Is this right? Is this right?

Grandpa?

They lost? They lost to Oakland. How did that happen?

That the team all get sick that day?

And they're gonna answer, Wait a minute, they were the thirty fourth lineup.

He played the most What that's what's gonna happen?

Yeah, makes me even feel a little sad for Big Z, a guy that probably could excel in a different you know, set up different offense. If he's gonna get stuck trying to shoot mid range jumpers.

Well, think about this, let's use Oscar. Oscar developed an amazing mid rate. I mean, if you go back and look, Oscar shot a pretty amazing percentage on free throw line jumpers.

How many NCAA tournament games did he win one?

How many SEC titles did he win this zero? How's he doing in the NBA?

That game?

Oscar's twenty years too late if Oscar played twenty years.

Before, different situation.

But Oscar is a perfect example of Oscar is about as good as you can be playing a style that you cannot win with anymore. Right, yep, he is the best at that style. But that style does not drew when you college basketball games anymore. Or I would argue NBA basketball games.

Not many back to the basket centers doing a lot these days. And I think about you just mentioned on bed for Big Z. If he really makes him step inside the three point line and take long twos, I would feel so bad for the guy.

The NBA scouting report says three point shooter, but you know man who can pass and shoot.

But you know he will.

Part of me is a little said, you know, I wanted Cal gone. That was very clear, But like part of me has said that this is how Cal's career is ending.

You know.

I was a huge fan of Cal at Kentucky, like everyone listening was. And it's kind of he was in front of things. People were yelling, don't do the one and done. He won with it. He was kind of came up with some concepts that were new to college basketball. He was the first doing things like pro Day's always this idea guy. And now it's kind of like.

And and this is what's gonna happen In seven years, Reed Shepherd and Rob Dillingham are gonna be really good NBA players, and people are gonna go they didn't start.

In college, they're already doing that.

That's what's gonna happen.

Yeah, and Antonio Reeves is gonna be a seventh man on an NBA Finals team and people are gonna go.

He lost to Oakland. I mean, I mean, like that's gonna happen.

Aren't there some Arkansas people like saying, hey man, Cal said this the last couple years, kept saying that his teams were built for March, and then they fail in March. Why do we think this is gonna work here?

Well, I mean, have you seen the There was headlines this weekend Rockets Mini Camp, Reed Shepherd's teammates giving Steph Curry comparisons.

It's listen, I'm gonna be pulling for Reid like he's my family. But it is going to drive me crazy when he ends up being a great NBA player.

Raving about him, He's.

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This is Kentucky Sports Radio eight nine, two eighth, twenty two eighty seven. Some breaking news here on three Sports reporting, Tennessee is going to add a ten percent fee to their ticket prices for football and basketball, a ten percent quote talent fee to raise money to give to their players. Talent fee. Wow, talent The thing is there. I mean, that's it's gonna weird, but it's actually I.

Keep thinking, that's another good idea Tennessee is.

Tennessee is at the forefront of having good ideas.

They are stuff.

They just are. I mean, you gotta give them a lot of credit. And this is the part where I look at somebody like Mitch Barnhart and say, man, you gotta like you gotta decide do you want to embrace this stuff or not. Now I'm not saying I want them to raise ticket prices about ten percent to Kentucky. I actually think a lot of fans would would not be happy with that. But it is a creative of YEP, thing to do that will probably Drew pay dividends.

Honestly.

See reply to the story It says, so do we get a discount on UK football season tickets?

Yeah? No, I mean I think that.

But here's the thing about doing that, though you lose people are like, what am I paying for true.

I don't like to admit how good Tennessee's been in NIL. They were first, even though it looked like cheating, they just did a collective and said deal with it, and then they landed all these great players. They worked the World Series. They had the n I L where you would pay ten dollars for a jello shot. You didn't have to be there, but five would go straight to a player, and five would buy a jello shot for a fan that was in Omaha, and people bought into that.

They have.

They keep coming up putting in that park that are connecting the two stadiums that a lot of that's in il Base.

They've been, really they've been. I don't like it. It's not a compliment. I don't like it. Who's up next.

Let's go to Jerry.

Jerry, how are you?

Jerry hey Man.

I'm going to say, first off, a little bit, I think I think, uh, maybe we're looking at having a lot better season as long as I did against Georgia. But there's what sushi at the end of the game. That's one of those deals where he doesn't criticized it the way I mean if.

Jerry, I think if he had gone for it.

I think if he had gone for it, you would have heard very very few fans say criticizing.

I don't I.

Don't know if they. If they, if they hadn't gotten the first down and the defense stopped Georgia with those timeouts, instead of being at the thirty or whatever, they're at the five or the ten, and they run out the clock at the fifty because because they.

They ran off the clock at the fifty.

Anyway, I'm just saying mad, you'd have been criticizing.

I get First of all, go look at my Twitter account the moment they punted I criticized it. You cannot say that I would have. I said, go look at my Twitter account the moment he did it, I said, you gotta go for this, and then twenty seconds later I wrote, I hate hate, hate punting in this situation. So you can you made you are I'm sure right. There might have been some fans criticizing. You are not right, Jerry, that I would have criticized him. I wrote at the moment that you gotta go.

Well, Matt, I would disagree. Disagree a second, Jerry.

You can't agree to disagree with what I would have felt. I wrote it in the moment.

All right, But Matt, I'm just saying that with four timeouts, they had four time outs, w'd be different. They gets the number one defense in the country. I can see why he did it, but.

It's fine.

But but I would make a bet, and again we'll never know this, that if you did a fan poll at that moment, I would bet you the majority of fans would have said, go do guess And I.

Think that, and I think that those same fans if he has done, if he's done the he's gonna get criticized either way. But as far as your reception goes officiated football too, And I grew with that other official said. And the thing that bugs about SEC officiating has been this way for years. When you're playing a top ten Georgia Alabama Florida football team and the SEC, you're up against the officials.

Okay, but do you let me.

I hate when people say that, because Jerry, I've heard you over the years. You think our basketball team gets screwed by officials if they if the SEC wants to, if the SEC is trying to benefit Georgia Alabama and football, do you think they do the same thing for us in basketball?

Well, I don't know, but a point I'm driving at Matt.

No, but you're skipping over.

I'm asking you a question.

Don't if you think right, if you think they try to benefit the top programs in football, do you think they do basketball? You're gonna say no, You're gonna.

Say I'm saying, hang on, I'm not saying there's some kind of insider conspiracy too. And this what I'm saying is is the way they select and run their officiating programs is it's always been a good they do.

They do it for basketball.

I don't know that. I've never creased that. I'm not one that calls in all about basketball. Mat you got to confuse to somebody else. But I'm trying to.

I hate the mentality of everyone's always out to get us because we take the view a lot of our fans that the SEC favors the best teams in football, and maybe they do, I don't know, But then when it comes to us in basketball, we say the hate they hate Kentucky and basketball.

That's not that's inconsistent.

If they favor the best teams, we should get all the basketball calls.

Well, here's what, Well, here's what I'm driving at is it. I wish the NCAA since because we're making all these changes, we get away from conference space officiating and go with a national group of professionally paid officials football.

Right, Well, problem, I appreciate the call.

The problem for professionally paid officials is they work fifteen days a year, and I think it would be hard to justify, you know, paying someone full time for fifteen days a year.

I think there's a lot of people that think in basketball that Kentucky gets the shafts sometimes, but in football, with the underdog, we could get maybe favorable call. I think it's what some people are trying to know.

I mean, there's people who sort of believe that we get screwed no matter what, and I just don't believe that. I mean the interception call that caller earlier, he gave a good argument. I still disagree with him, but it's reasonable. But it's a reasonable disagreement. It is not the case that the referee set there and go how can we make it was the second quarter?

How can we make sure Georgia wins? Right?

Yeah, that's part of being a fan. Your team is always the one on the wrong end, no matter what. You're loyal and not always seeing through the right colors or seeing through blue, and in most cases we're gonna think we're getting screwed.

Yeah, who's up next? T? T.

By the way, I'm I guarantee you I was mad at the moment. I was more mad we punted in the moment than I was after the game, because.

You know a lot like you in that moment.

T go ahead, Hey man, I had to address the John Caliparty thing first.

I have another comment.

But if you read a John C. Maxwell leadership book, John.

Calipari did everything opposite.

Of what a good leader would do, create an echo chamber of yes man. He would not take any criticism. It's just not changing with the times. I mean, it's it's kind of sad to hear him still take this position, even though he's gotten a new lease, you know, at the end of his career.

It is to me too, because you know, we always use the example of Saban, But Saban hated to his core switching to the Lane Kiffin style offense.

But he went and did he did because he knew he needed to do it.

You know, think about think about how ridiculous we think Dabo sounds when Dabo comes out there and goes, I'm not taking any transfers to me. Some of the analytics stuff Cal says sounds like Dabbo just about style of play exactly.

Okay.

And then I'm gonna say one thing, and it's not gonna be bad about Drew, because I need Drew in my corner on this one. You said something interesting a couple of weeks ago that's been stuck in my crawl, and uh, it's it's Burban and Beyond week. And you said that Zach Bryan was too much a bro country and I just have to counter that.

Man.

Yeah, I appreciate that. I didn't say he was too much a bro country. I said he was a little more bro country than like Tyler.

But I don't dislike him. I think he's fine.

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Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

Welcome back Tukey Sports Radio. Before we get back to phones, the Emmys were Sunday night. Ye see the shows that won big. Let's say which ones of these have you watched? Okay, there were four shows that won big. First of all, the Bear. Have you seen the Bear? That's all he went about the cooking.

Yes, love the Bear, yes'm I love it.

Not a comedy though.

Now season three I was kind of disappointed.

I thought you and I thought season three stump.

Yeah I did.

And I really loved one and two, but too season three was a huge day. Way too slow, way too slow. You know, the Bear, I don't even he's guy on the point where.

I don't even like him.

You don't want the Bear, No, I mean he just in season chef, he's so he's just such a downer.

I I we've not talked about this. I bet you really don't like the Fats brothers.

I can't stand those dudes.

I knew it, those knew it. They were on way too much. And you know, I like John Cena. But the episode with John Cena, I was in Europe and I was like about to just go out in the street and start throwing stuff. They that episode was awful. They use I guess they put those guys in to try to make it be justified as a comedy, but they're not funny at all.

I cannot stay.

In and they we didn't way too much too.

Much, and they're not they're not funny. Yeah, but again it's still a good show.

I just didn't love all right.

Second, Baby Reindeer saw that That's the Crazy Stalker Lady.

Did you like that?

I liked it? Yeah, it won a lot. Very uncomfortable watching his show show Gun.

It's on my list. I've heard very good things. Obviously, if you're winning an Emmy, you're good.

But it won. It won Best Drama, and it's supposed to be really good.

I didn't. I haven't seen it. And then finally, I was so happy to see my show. The show I think is amazing, Hacks win, Hacks won Best Comedy.

Love that show.

Yeah, you were talking about it yesterday.

I've been a huge fan of that show. So those were the four that I won the most. But I'm with you on season three of The Bear hugely discip I hope The White Lotus season three doesn't do that to me.

Would you say it's coming out?

I think it's like January and it's got Baby Billy in it.

Yeah, baby Billy, he's good in everything is Yeah.

So if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, who's up next?

Chris oh, before we do Chris Roe real quick.

One person writes, Matt when Caliberry was here, you said he was a great coach. Now that he's last, everything he did with stupid, No, everything he did did wasn't stupid. He was a great coach. He's the best. He's the best recruiter in the history of college basketball. He's one of the great motivators in the history of college basketball. To get all these great players to come together and to play together. That's a really, really special talent. And I think he's a better He was a better coach than people gave him credit for. But as he got older, I started to realize. I think the lot of that was because he surrounded himself with a really good staff that was able to fill in the things that maybe weren't his strength, and then he became so stubborn. In the end, he lost all those guys, and he lost his and he became around a group of yes men. And you know, that's just a fact. He lost John Robick. But I also think it's very important to understand Orlando and Tigua didn't go. You know, Orlando and Tinka didn't go. That says something to me. John Welch didn't go.

John left before he went Darkansas, he left before Cal left.

I mean there's a you know, he became he lost part of what made him great.

And the most talented people in the world have weaknesses. That's part of life.

Like you know this, Ryan, My weakness is I don't like to deal with details when it comes to money. So Hubby is that guy. If Hubby ever left, I would be worse at everything I did because he picks up my weaknesses. John Robic picked up Cow's weaknesses. Cows not a game plan X and O. You know, it's not his focus. Robic did that. You know, Cow wasn't the best at interacting with guys off the court. Sometimes he could be a little hard on him. Kenny was really good at that, like he had, these Cows not good at dealing with bosses. Dwayne Peebe was good with that, And so when he lost those guys, Ryan, he just never was able to fill those voids.

And for whatever reason, the longer he stayed here, it seemed like the worse he got at those in those areas.

Yes, So all right, go ahead, Chris, that's still you Chris.

Go ahead, Sorry, hey, no, thanks for the Vine, Hey, I'm curious and maybe you can help talk a little bit more about this.

But I heard on the show earlier today that that Stoops had commented about his offense that it wasn't really built for you know, I guess a more prolific or high obtained opportunity in the Georgia game. And what I'm curious about is when I've heard we have a five star QB, we have professionals or prospects in the wide receiver room, when would it not be.

They I think they wanted it to be, to be honest with you, and I think they just the offensive line has not allowed them to be what they hoped in the p pass protection. I think they brought in broadcast and you had those wide receivers because he hoped to have a more high octane offense, but it became very clear in that South Carolina game they don't have the offensive line.

To do that.

Okay, all right, at least that's it.

That's my okay.

Well, And because I was I was just curious and kind of taken aback when I hear a comment like that that does he have the recognition of the talent or does he have faith in the offensive scheme to be able to, you know, put his faith in something like that versus no.

I think it's a fair question.

I'm gonna guess, and this is just a guess, and I appreciate the call. I'm going to guess there's probably three million dollars of nil that has been put in the quarterback, wide receiver, maybe include the tight end position. You don't do that unless you want to get the ball down the field. But I just don't think Ryan, they don't have the offensive line. And I think you have an offensive line built for Stoop's kind of old school football, and you have talent position players built for a style of football that the offensive line can't do.

I think, going in like you said, they thought they had that with the offensive line. Mean, there's a lot of experience out there. I mean, Marcus Cox is a seven year guy, Eli Cox is a six year guy. Jaggers his third year. Farmer started it what Florida and Tennessee. So, I mean they've got the guys there on the line with a lot of experience. For whatever reason, they'd just been able to succeed on the field.

Yet, Yeah, we saw in the last two games. I mean they might have ideas of having an explosive passing attack, and I think they have the targets to go to. But through those two games, Vandergriff does just not have time. That play we talked about yesterday where it was there, I mean, I like that they I mean I don't like to wish they'd run it, but we just cox missing that block just showed they did not have enough time to run even a simple route that would have been open.

Somebody pointed out to me, you know, we talked about the second downplay. Somebody pointed out to me, go, look at the third down play. Guy was opening that one too, and in that one brock Brock waited a second. He had the time, but he kind of hitched it and then when he threw it didn't work.

Man. Either one of those four and short.

No, No second was a touchdown manecond one might have been a touchdown. The third one is probably makes it fourth and one, at which point you're definitely going forward. There would have been no but second down. Drew's right, that would have been a touchdown if he had been able to complete that.

They just haven't had the time in the last two games for Vandergrift to do anything downfield.

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

Hey, Matt, you know, I really like Mark Stoops. I think he's probably the best coach Kintuch He's ever had. But there's a part of me that just I love how Mummy and I just wish Mark Stoops had some how Mummy in him. He coached that Georgia game like we had just beaten South Carolina and he was going for a playoff first and after the South Carolina loss, like there's just gunsling it man.

Like, Okay, I would disagree with you on I'm okay with how Mark Stoops coached that game.

The vast majority of the game.

I think if he had come out and tried to gun sling it, we might have lost by forty I.

Think, well, I guess, like go back to the punt decisions specifically, like just go for it. Like Kentucky fans will forgive a football team for being aggressive. I personally think that in the playoff era, like if you win nine regular season games and have a chance to win ten in a bowl game, like you're competing for a playoffer. But for me, personally, whether you win six, seven, or eight. It's all the same. You're going to a mediocre bowl game or whatever, so like, let's be exciting if we're going to lose some games.

Well, I think there's a lot of people I appreciate the call who think that.

I think Mark.

I think Mark Stoops believes the program is better than having to just be exciting to get people in it.

And that's to be fair to him, that's been true a lot of these years, the last few years.

How Mummy would have let Georgia score when they got the ball.

That's an inesame question. Do you let him score? I actually think you should have let him score. Now, you gotta be pretty you gotta be pretty ballsy to let him score.

Yeah, but there's an argument you let him score up one, Mummy did it. He did.

Lem Me had a game I think it was the Bowl game, the Music City Bowl against Syracuse. We were down one with like a minute and a half left, and he let him score and we got the ball and had a chance chance to go down there and tie the game. So I do think there's an argument, but you would Mark's not aggressive enough to go for it on FOURD.

He ain't letting him.

Score, But but how mummy would have left. I think that's probably true. Yeah, I mean, mathematically that might have been something to do. It seems crazy.

I don't think most coaches would do it, but I mean, if you're just looking at truly the analytics and numbers, getting the ball back with more time on the clock, trying to get a touchdown.

I think after they recovered that fumble, I'd have let him score.

I mean I would have. I'd have probably said, you know.

What, we should guarantee you get the ball back.

You get the ball back, and you got it. You got a chance. Right, And uh so he.

Likes defense way too much to give anyone free points.

Yeah, I think you're exactly right.

And let me let me give one compliment to Mark Stoops what I said a minute ago about cal Stoops is actually really good at understanding and identifying his weaknesses and filling in the gaps.

Okay, he is good about that.

Now we can talk about does he really let his offensive coordinator do their thing? I think that's a fair question, especially after Liam Cohen had another great game this week. But Mark is not a detailed guy. He is surrounded by details. Okay, he's knows you know he and Vins are great friends. They also fight, okay, like great friends. But he Vince will be here's Longsie once because he knows he needs Vince to do that. Mark is really good about understanding this is not my strength. I'm giving it to them and Mark's strength is. And Max will tell you this. He's a great the players loving, he's a great motivator. He's great at big picture stuff. Max said before the Georgia game. I say he said it on the air, right he goes, I wish I was in that locker room to.

What he says, because this is Mark Stoops at his best in like this.

He said one game of year, he'll break the whiteboard before the game before he goes out. He's like, this might be the one game.

And so.

The the sort of criticism I have of cal about not knowing his weaknesses, I actually think Drew Mark's really good at that.

Yeah, and I don't know if it works out. But another example that you know, Eric Wofford really did him wrong, and for him to put that aside because he believes he's a good coach. Yeah, through three weeks and we'll see, but just being able to rehire that guy if he truly thought he was the best man for the job. To put that aside shows he's looking out for the team for That's.

A very good point.

Very few people would get burned by somebody and then go, you know what, we're gonna try it again. He did that, and I think that's I do think that's admirable. Uh, you can if you need a touchdown or a tuddy.

Since we started calling him tuddies, we've not scored one. I don't think that's a good point.

My new thing is one touchdown player in every game. Ridiculous parlay. No, they're not hitting, but it's it's fun to keep it still fun to do it.

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Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio Here at ksbar and grill. We'll be open all day. Yes, we will Reds and Braves tonight. I expect there's probably some KSR listeners going to that game, a lot of Braves fans that listen, a lot of Reds fans.

It's the only time the Braves are here all year.

Right, we got a little we just looked it up. Grant Holmes versus Brandon Williamson. Brandon Williamson's was really good last year and then he was hurt some of this year. Who is Grant Homes.

He's one of the band aids we were putting on our rush exactly.

It seems like.

Every time the Brave signed someone to replace someone's injured that person. Get the person.

All right, Well I will.

If you want, I will text you to updates after every inning. Give us Brandon Holmes updates. Grant Holmes and Brandon Williamson. Uh, but we'll but I look forward to uh to being there. Like I said, this might be the last last game I get to go to got my Rids.

Hat on your hoodie? Yeah, Rids HITD to toe today. That's exactly right. It's all all Reds.

I want to give a quick shout out and and prayers to people in Russell Russell County. Russell County UH Deputy Sheriff Josh Phipps was killed last night by in a confrontation with with a suspect. I got a lot of messages last night from people that lived there who talked to me out you know what he meant to the community. And I'm sure more will come out today. But our prayers to the to the people there, and to his family. You know, we often talk about about issues where there are problems with something that happens with an officer or whatever, but then we also always should remember things like this, which is that they put their lives on the line, and unfortunately, a very tragic situation in Russell Springs, Kentucky, where we've been many times very sad.

When you hear something like that, you're right, because these guys they walk out the door, kiss their wife, they don't know if they're coming home sometimes and.

Five thirty in the afternoon it's five thirty in the afternoon, so prayers out to everyone there in Russell springs into his family and friends.

Who's up next, bus driver? Bus driver? How are you?

I'm good, Good morning, guys.

Morning.

I got a question to talk about the nobody's mentioned that last couple of days Kentucky had the ball out of the game. There very very in Why didn't they throw to the end zone a couple of times? I know they didn't have No.

If he has the arm strength actually to throw at seventy yards, I'm not sure. I have to assume he didn't, or they would have done it at least once. I just wonder, you know, seventy yards a long time to throw, a long way to throw it. He may just not have had the arm strength.

Yes, sir, I was just wondered about that.

Okay, Yeah, we also don't have go ahead?

What's up?

Go ahead?

Yes, sir. I want to say one thing about bus drivers in safety. Don't pass the buses when the stop signs out. It happens to me every other day. It's safety of the kids.

All right, appreciate you that good advice. I was gonna say, we don't have a ton of tall guys. But Dane's tall. I mean, I guess if you were going to do it, Dane would be the one you would throw it too.

See.

I wish they would do that, like we talked about yesterday, even just potentially get a PI you know, now that you're still your drives alive, you got a first down.

But I think he's talking about on like the last place.

Yeah, I really don't have time to protect Vandergart anyone to get that far, that's it.

I don't know if he's got enough time to drop back and heave it that far.

Like Georgia, they tried the hook and ladder, hook and ladder role, whichever you prefer. But the I think it was a tight end maybe dingle. The moment he caught it just got pulled down. But that looked like what they were going for.

I think they were at well Barryon was coming around. Georgia shifted out pretty easily. They get a hook and then a ladder. Yeah, but like people think it's ladder like a thing you you climb, isn't it a he runs a hook and a ladder roll later, but they call it a hook and ladder.

Uh huh. He described it very well.

I believe original coaches came out was like, there's not a lateral or there's not a ladders. We'll call it lateral, but I hear both.

Yeah, I think it's it's people say ladder, but it seems like it probably should be.

Uh uh, we only had the hook.

Whatever you want to go.

Yeah, whatever it was, it didn't work.

Let me ask you, do you expect a good performance Saturday against the Ohio Bobcats.

I think this not only the fan base re energize. I hope that locker room is re energized because they came out with a lot of fight against Georgia, a lot of fight, and something was missing against South Carolina. So I hope they continue to bring that against Ohio. I don't care just Ohio University. That's still a good football team. MAC football is pretty good. If one luck a couple of bowl games lately recent years, you still got to bring it.

Yeah, And I mean I think the defense is gonna show up. You played Georgia like that. I think they're gonna be great against Ohio. But I need that offense to really make a statement. I need like high thirties forties need to really put up points to show they can. Yeah, you get a little bit of a built in excuse playing number one Georgia, and I guess we'll talk about how good South Carolina's defensive line was, but you don't get that excuse against Ohio.

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Pole?

How do we get Billy to not be in the last place in every pole?

You know he does the arrogance on the radio, but that's part of a bit. Is he this arrogant when he's I'm gonna take up for Billy? I think he's I think Billy's actually shot with people. I think when when when I don't think he I think he's more shot.

Just reck unfriendliest at the top than Billy would be number one.

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