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Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio here live at the KOs Bar and grill open now for lunch. Got a good crowd over there. Met some people during the break and Ryan talking everybody. Hello to all of you over there.
Nice to see you. Sorry you're so.
Far away, all radio guys, a KBA Association house.
Yeah.
I want to my man right here. I want to tell a story. He just told me that he said I could share. So, your grandfather's name was Ray Ray Loots. So on Saturday, twenty minutes before the start of the Kentucky Old Miss game, this young man from Baxter, Tennessee in Shelbyville, his grandfather, Ray Loots, lifelong Kentucky and KSR fan, passed away. And he said it was right before the game, and he was eighty four. And he told me, Joshkatis recovering that fumble was not to me an accident because Josh Daddis is not for eighty four. And uh, I think that's an awesome story. So I'm gonna stop saying that it was an accident. He recovered it to honor your father, Ray. So I'm sorry to hear the news. Be praying for you, but thank you for sharing that with us. I appreciate it.
Awesome story.
Kind a little divine intervention there to make sure that got guts.
Cord Hey five nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven. A couple things before I go back to the phone. Did you see Will Levis? Yeah, I'm worried we may have I'm worried Will Levis. I don't know, I'm you know, he gets hurt during the game and he comes out and then immediately the Titans start playing well and score however many points they score and win the game. With Mason Rudolph, who's like just good enough to take your job. You know, he's not He's not great, but he's kind of just good enough to make sure you lose your job.
Is this a uh?
I will say the end? But is this a massive Do you think Mason Rudolph is starting next week?
I don't know. I haven't looked. Have they updated the injury report on Levis?
Like, is he let's just assume he's able to play, Okay, do you think he will play?
You know, I've always been a firm believer, man, you shouldn't lose your job over an injury. But they the fact that he came in and played so well. I would still probably start Levis if.
What if you were the third lowest ranked quarterback in the league zero and three, you lose your job and then the other guy goes and wins the game.
Yeah, I'm starting Levis, but I got a quick trigger.
Is just announced he's their quarterback moving forward, even when he comes back. So yeah, that was just on the sports.
So Levis just so, Levis is the quarterback. So there you go. We answered the question. Didn't even have to go into it very much.
It is concerning when the new head coach is screaming like, all we have to do is not turn over the ball and we would win games, and Will Levis continues to.
No, I mean there's a world where the Titans could be three and one. I mean the Titans should have beaten the Bears and probably should have beaten which team was it? They had another game they should have won, so they could be three and one. Now they're not, but but they could.
And they have a buye this week, so they're gonna stew on this for okay, so you get a couple of weeks for him to get healthy. Somebody, and I'm sorry, I don't know who, This is Frank from American Pickers passed away.
Yeah.
I don't know who this is, but some people sitting here obviously knew who you were talking about.
American Pickers. That's a show where they go in like people's garages.
Yeah, and they'll offer money for some of your old antiques and then they'll flip it in their own.
Okay, all right, got you. So it's like they're looking for sort of secret treasures or whatever. And so I guess he passed away. I don't know him, but sorry to hear that news. But apparently relatively young guy, right.
You know the ken Ba m Tumble, Pete Rose, now this guy. But it is Jimmy Carter's one hundred birthday, I.
Say, Jimmy Carter made it to one hundred.
Wow, how about that?
One hundred years old.
He's the oldest, uh the president to live the longest in the history of the country, which probably that will continue because we live longer, but still an amazing milestone. He said he wanted to live to one hundred and then his next goal is to live till election day. But one hundred to me is a more important accomplishment than election day. So I will say congratulations to Jimmy Carter, as we say, not the best president of all time, but the best ex president of all time for the work he did after being president ever.
Yeah, the humanitarian that he was, you know, building the habitat for Humanity houses and all these other foundation things he's done since he left the office.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
One hundred though.
Man, I have Okay, so.
I mentioned the courts thing, and obviously that ended up becoming a thing. I have something else I want you all, as you're sitting at home tonight and you're looking for something interesting the rabbit hole to go down, let me give you another one.
Okay.
There's an island that I didn't know existed until yesterday, and I once again read about it. This time I read about it on the BBC and the BBC article's very good. You ought to look it up because it gives you the history of it. It's called the Diego gar Garcia Island. Okay, do you know what the Diego Garcia Island is?
I do not.
I'm ready to hear it.
It is an island. Anybody know? You know quickly because no one can hear you exactly. And they got rid of it, that's right, so I might have to tell the story. I'm sorry, no one can hear you.
But it's an island and it's kind of close to India and Pakistan there. The British and the Americans in like nineteen sixty well, I.
Think the Americans and British.
I don't know how they did it together, but they basically came together and it was a small island with just a few hundred natives but were not part of any country. They took the island, made the natives leave and created a military basically a military base there. And it is a secret military base, You're not, like, no journalist had ever been on it. Nobody really knew what happened there. The Americans and the and NATO used the base to take off for various operations, especially during our war in Afghanistan, etc. It is now there's a lawsuit that was filed by the descendants of the original people that were moved off the island, and it is now in the British courts and it's a major lawsuit about what are they going to do with this island. The British and the Americans are for the first time admitting that they were there. They had denied that they even had an installation there for a long time. The history of it is unbelievable. It is the only place in America that is administered by America and Britain.
We do it together.
There's no other place in the world where we run the country together. No one lives there except American and British military personnel. But these people are suing saying we want to come back and live there. It's our island. You kicked up off illegally, and it is being decided in court. So the court let the BBC reporter go there, and she was the first non military person to ever be at the island except the natives, and she wrote about what was there and how it's like beautiful, like blued waters and white sands, and then they have all these really nice things for the military people that are there, and it's called the Diego Garcia Island.
You, oh, yeah, that's right.
The way the reporters found out about that Malaysia flight plane that like disappeared, it went off the radar above that island, and there was some worry that maybe somebody had shot it over the island. So anyway, if you get bored, Sannon. It feels like this is the kind of thing you'd be interested in. The Diego Garcia Island.
I will go down that rabbit hole and find out about it, and it's place i'd like to go vacation. Sounds like a good time.
Well, I don't think you're allowed to go, as this woman was the first person to get to go.
But isn't that kind of interesting.
It's a great story. I've totally captivated now all these questions like where did they take the people? Where did they dump.
Them off at?
They put them on another island in the Maldives or Maronidis or whatever that island is there. They took them to a different island and left them. But they basically the American and British just took the island from them. These people that when they went in nineteen sixty two had never had contact with the outside world until that moment.
Yeah, that sounds like a story from seventeen seventy six, not in nineteen sixty two.
That is bizarre.
In two thousand and twenty four, yeah, I mean that's like you didn't think there were places that I think until two thousand nobody even knew it existed, like the governments didn't even admit that it existed.
Well, without that plane crash, maybe they would never even still know not know that.
So maybe they got some silicon courts there that we can mine.
I read about it sometime if you're interested in something unique, and maybe it'll be in the news in a few months, Like the Court's mind was that I'm in a few months ago.
Who's next?
Blue grass?
Bluegrass? How are you?
First time?
Long time? Who are.
I think let's talk a little bit about analytics, and I know we've been touched on a little bit today, but I think where people it's not as black and white. I don't think it's as people think because they are number driven. Then everybody says, yeah, it's got to be this way or got to be that way. But don't you think there's a gray area? I mean, I do think I agree with Stoops and you do have to take the kid.
But what let me ask you a question. And again I'm not I'm not trying to like harp on it, but when you say, don't you think there's a gray air? And I agree with Stoops? Why is Stoop's gut something you trust more than raw numbers, like what makes his gut so trustworthy?
It's not the gut. I do think he's taking the temperature of the game. And I do think if he's not making catches over the middle, then the safety's not cheating down and that doesn't lead bread on one on one. I think all that does have good You have to go into play.
Yeah, but when they make the play call, when they make the play call, they don't necessarily know what defense the other side is in.
Well, but Chipping pretty much said that he's using analytics to get sues and he had coverage and pressure seventy and Stukes calling the gold route is probably the hugest lung shot in that whole scenario.
Yeah, and it's important to remember with analytics, that doesn't mean you're going to be right. You know, you can make the decision and it isn't successful, but it is still Like again, let's say you draw a number. Let's say I put twenty numbers in a half Ryan, what's the percentage chance I draw number fourteen. There's numbers one through twenty and a half. What's the percentage chance I draw number fourteen? Five percent? So if I give you what would you rather bet I draw fourteen or I draw one of the other night team numbers.
What are you going to bet one of the other nineteen numbers?
The analytical play is going to be draw one of the other nineteen numbers. But that doesn't mean that I won't draw fourteen.
You see what I'm saying? True?
And so that's I think, sir, how you have to look at the analytic decision? Got you so appreciate the call?
A question for you?
Then?
Theoretically, would you like a computer to run your football team if it's gonna give you the best?
So? Can I tell you?
This is a theory I have, and I've said it before when it comes to I don't know if you'd like quote unquote.
A computer to run your football team.
But when it comes to the NFL draft, I think a team would be better off just taking a composite of all the mock drafts, turning it into one, and just drafting whoever comes up first. Really, yes, I think you would be just as likely to have success because just think about how many busts we see. Yeah, think about how many successes we'd see. I think if a team just said, you know what, I'm going to take all this knowledge that's out there, combine it into one ranking that is all the expert's opinion centralized. And if they just use that ranking, they do over time, probably as well as anybody else would without spending all that money on scouting and without doing because people think, well, I know more than everybody else, and maybe you do. But on average, collective intelligence is pretty usually pretty smart.
And that's why everything you've said today, what Stoop said on that podcast to me is the most encouraging that he's got somebody in his ear talunting this stuff.
Alex Rayner was named Kicker of the Week by the SEC and Octavius Oxendine was named one of the Defensive Linemen of the Week.
How about that. That's kind of a surprise. Good for Ox.
Yeah, we talked about, you know, are the big guy kind of getting double team tripled team. They needed somebody like Ox to step up and maybe make those tackles that he did. Man, he was awesome again in that game. And Matt we talked about it on the post game. I mean, Rainer is money and I feel confident he's gonna make every kick that he lines up for.
Right, let me tell you, Rainer being money is something that like, we can't underestimate.
How huge that is for us.
Oh, yes, we cannot underestimate how much the fact that when he gets up to kick Ryan, it's gonna go in.
I mean, think about it.
If we had had that forty eight yarder at the end of the game, would you have felt comfortable we'd make it.
I would.
I don't know if I would have before the season started, but I absolutely feel confident in doing it right now.
Yeah, I'm with you, And he's now made what thirteen in a row or something right fourteen fourteen. When you have a disaster, if your water heater fails, maybe there's gallons of water coming in your basement, you have an electrical electrical shortage in your office, serf pros who you call. Unfortunately, we have situations like last weekend where you might end up needing somebody to help fix your house. Well, serve pro is there s e r vpro dot com. Whether it's firewater, mold, anything, They'll come in and they'll make it like it never even happened. It's one eight hundred serve prol that's one hundred scr VP ro o. Go check them out. I hope you don't need them, but if you do, they'll come in. Franchise are independently owned and operated from SERF Pro. We'll take a break. Be right back here at Ksbuck. Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. Nice lunch crowd here this morning. I'll tell you what I've learned over the years. Channing, this is this sounds crazy, but this is how people are. Even the games on Saturday, when Kentucky loses, we feel the ramifications at the restaurant.
The next week.
Right, Yeah, It's like when people win, even though it's Tuesday or Monday, the games aren't on, people are more likely to associate one to come to a bar after you win. Then after you lose. The Mondays and Tuesdays after a big football loss, this place as dead as it can be. And that's when. That's why back when cal is here and people would say, oh, you want cow to lose, I'm like, you are insane if you think I want I want people to lose, because it's just something like almost psychological that you like you almost feel like you can't be associated for a few days with a.
Loss after a win, like we're seeing it the last two days. Place has been crowded for lunch, people wearing their UK stuff. They're blue, we're proud, we're pumping our chest right now. Can we just comeing off that a huge win.
It's always been like that, always it's it's always been.
And even the call o, the callers to this show or that way, I've.
Never thought about that, like do you do the same.
Thing like I do? Die I would do the same thing.
For a couple of days.
No, it's not going out to eat.
I just think we're so associated with Kentucky that it makes it to where you think about Kentucky. So I could see if I as a Bears fan, I'm more likely to go to a Bear's themed bar, Shannon, if the Bears are winning, huh yeah, than if they're if they're not, Jeff says. I was on Diego Garcia Island in the eighties with the Navy. There are chickens there who are considered the Queen's chickens. It is a crime to shoot or kick one of the Queen's chickens on Diego Garcia Island.
Really the Queen's Chickens. I didn't didn't know that.
Yes, so the technically Britain owns the land and leases is it to us? So I could see why it's the Queen's Chickens because technically it's British land.
I believe. Is that correct? I think that's right.
So the military base, is it just a US military base or is it Britain?
I think they both have I don't know. I think just us, just us.
Okay, Yeah, they announced the game time for UK Vandy seven forty five under the lights SEC network. So we get Tommy Hart and Cole Cubuck and Jordan Rodgers.
You went, uh because it's.
A light for me and you ridiculous.
But in terms of winning the game, a lot more likely to beat Vandy at seven forty five at night than beat them at noon.
Yeah.
The last time they're here two years ago, it was cold, it was middle of the day, it was rainy, it was windy.
Was awful.
They snuck in here and got us. Come on, man, under the lights. We can't let Vandy come in here and do anything.
This is a perfect example of what the new television schedule does. Kentucky Vandy under the old television schedule, this would have been a noon game, probably so, but the way it works now they are they made the schedule to where you get a prime slot noon game, a prime slot three thirty game, a prime slot seven forty five game. Whereas it used to be no game could go up against the three to thirty game, Now one can, and they want two games at seven or three games at seven forty five. So really many weeks there'll only be one noon game. Point of all. That's to say, Billy, there will be under the new contract fewer and fewer noon games, and a game like UK Vandy, which would have been noon probably nine of the ten years of Kentucky's lifetime, now becomes a night game.
Maybe it helps Kentucky not look ahead as a team that came and beat Kentucky two years ago.
Beat him at night. By the way, that was a night game too.
But yes, maybe not, Maybe that reasoning's not valid. But we've already had a game kick off at what almost close to midnight this year, so why not keep it.
Up seven forty five though on the SCC network.
You know, I wish we were playing right now. We're on this high after the old miss game. I kind of the bye didn't come in a good time. I think for us, we want to get back on the field as soon as possible.
And it gives people a chance to do the triple Big Blue Madness Friday night, Keenland Saturday, Kentucky football Saturday night, and Kentucky will play a top ten Texas volleyball team on Sunday afternoon here. So if somebody wants to be a real Kentucky fan and do the quadruple Ryan, that would be very.
There will be people that will absolutely do that. And that's a big weekend with Big Blue Madness. You know, we played Kentucky Wesley in like a little over three weeks. I mean it's it's almost basketball season.
It's crazy. I mean Big Blue Madness is what ten days? Yeah, it's ten days away.
Who's next, Joseph, Joseph, go ahead, Joseph.
Hey, Matt, I appreciate you taking my call. I had a football point, but real fast about Chris Christopherson. You know on the highwayman we were talking about him yesterday. You know that song, I know you've mentioned before that song that were confusing. You know, it's actually about reincarnation.
I knew that. Yeah.
I mean you could see it in the video too, because they show they show the reincarnation in the video.
Yeah, a lot of people realize that a lot of those guys, Willie and Chris, they kind of dabbled in Buddhism and other various spiritualities and stuff.
It's pretty good. I could see it. Yeah.
But you know, with regards to the football, Mark Stoops, you know, we've we've moaned about him a lot because you know, and a lot of it's rightful, rightfully, so you know, he's bad decision maker at the end of and his conservative play calling. It frustrates us, it really does, and we get on here and we moan it. But at the end of the day, he's a damn good football coach.
Yes he is. I agree with that.
And he just went down there and he just showed it.
I mean he did.
If you ask anyone, Lane Tiffin is an awesome.
Awesome football coach, Yes he is.
And Mark Stoops out coaching.
Mark Stoops did out coach Lane Kiffin, and I think and I appreciate the call that will be that's the legacy of that game.
To me.
Mark Stoops out coached a really good coach on his home field. You know, part of what is interesting is Old Missus talent base is very similar to Kentucky's. They have a very similar level of talent, and so you would think in that scenario, home field and good coaching might make the difference. Well, you know what, Mark Stoops out coached him and the home field ended up not doing a lot and you ended up with that victory.
And you know, coach Doops. One of the complaints people have had it being clock management. That gaming was perfect, you know, right at the end of.
The half, Good at the end of the first half, Billy Good at the end of the second half. He did clock management, in my opinion, perfectly in both halves.
And this season has been such a roller coaster. If you look at the South Carolina game, you play Georgia to one point and then you beat Ole miss a defining victory of stoops Era. I mean, it's just been such a roller coaster.
Have you ever eaten how many is any of you who go to Nashville or from Nashville? Have you ever eaten at Hugh Babies? No, does anybody know Hugh Baby Hugh Babies. So Melissa, my friend, that lives in Oxford. She's a big food food person, right, Like, she works for the Southern Food Alliance and she does all this food stuff. And she said that on her way home. We were like, where can we go get something quick? And she said, there's a restaurant in Nashville called Hugh Babies that's like burgers. Yeah, and we were like, all right, we'll listen to her. I'm a huge fan of Hubanbys. Really, you recommend it off the interstate. It's not in a neighborhood that looks that nice, but you go there and they cook it and it's like that kind of burger that's.
Thin but like the grills. Oh yeah.
So I'm just saying if you're in and it's right off the interstate, if you're ever driving through Nashville, that's my recommendation.
Baby Hugh Babies. I love Smashburger, or it's oh, it's better, it's Hugh Babies. If it was Smashburger, I would have called it smash Burger.
It is Hugh Babies, h U g h Babies, not huge Babies.
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Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio.
So apparently they were I thought was thinking of Smashburger as the place. Were you talking about a type of burger?
Okay?
Then I apologize burg. Yes, that's what they are. Okay, So you're I thought you meant because there's a place called Smashburg Correct, you were talking about the Yes, that's how hube And they also have hot dogs they.
Have apparently I didn't eat one, but apparently they have a very good hot.
Dog SEC tournament in March.
We need to go.
It's kind of out of the way off from there. It's like in the downtown, like close to the Parthenon. Yeah, forty sixth Street something like that in Nashville. So, uh, the SEC and Big Ten have reached a schedule or are are talking this week about reaching a scheduling agreement. What it would require is every year an SEC team would play a Big Ten team, uh, and they would schedule the games in two year blocks based on your record. So basically they would look at a two year period and the two best teams will play each other, and then the second best teams would play each other, and then the third best teams all the way down through the sixteen. I think it's I mean, obviously that's cool because we get to play new teams, and we get to host new teams and go to new teams. What I wonder, though, Ryan, is if the SEC and the Big Ten reached that agreement, is the UK Louisville Series over? I mean, that to me is the is the question? Because you know, you basically would end a guaranteed home game.
Yep, So is the UK Louisville series over? If we reached that SEC Big Ten agreement.
That's the first thing I thought of. Also, because you're not gonna give up those other three home games like this year, you know, so the Mississippi, Ohio and Murray State. You're not gonna give those up, So one of them's got to go. It would be the Louisville game, unfortunate.
And then there's a there's a talk that ends as part of the agreement, the Big Ten is going to make the SEC go to non conference games. Well, if you do that and then it's non conference games and the Big Ten game, then I think the A the Louisville game's over. Yeah, they're not gonna play that. I don't think the SEC is going to agree to eleven Kentucky is not going to agree to eleven difficult games and only one stinky game.
So are we changing out the Louisville game for the Indiana game? Is that what this is?
Well, it would change every year, so you would get a So for instance, let's just use let's just use.
The last two years.
So our last two seasons, we won five conference games one year and we won three the other year, so we won eight. So our record over those two years was eight and eight. That probably puts US eighth ninth in the conference. So whoever the Big ten team is that was eighth or ninth in the conference over those two years.
We would play a home and home with it.
See, I don't like it, So I don't either.
Man, we're gonna do a home and home of Minnesota or something like that. I want Louisville. I had hate for that Louisville game today.
But you also might you know, you might get Penn State, you might get USC, you might get you know, I mean, Minnesota stinks, but you might get Indiana.
You might get Purdue, might get a organ.
But to give up your in state rival for the chance to get Minnesota, it's just And what's the incentive? They want people to watch the game?
Yes, I mean what they want is they don't want what Old Miss did this year where they didn't play anybody. They want to make it to where and they want more playoff first, And their theory is if we play each other, are straight of schedules are going to go up. Why should we benefit the ACC Like the argument would be, why should the SEC give Louisville the benefit of having Kentucky on their schedule? Or why should why should we give Clempson the benefit of having South Carolina.
I think that Ryan is the thought process.
So all those rivalries said Clempson, South Carolina, Florida, Stated.
Florida State, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Clemson, South Carolina, Kentucky, louis.
And they would all disappear to play.
But they don't have to disappear. I mean, the SEC would probably say, you can still play Louisville, you just got to play a Big ten team.
Two.
Like we said, Kentucky won't want to give up another home game. Potentially, you know, have two home games you give up every year, so you don't like I.
Don't like it.
I don't like it. They don't value tradition very much, if that's the case.
But as a fan, if I'm going to watch Georgia play Michigan or Alabama play Ohio State.
I'm yeah.
So I've been a big I am a big believer, and you gotta play Little, gotta play Louis.
We gotta play Little. I've said that for a long time.
But at the same time, if you're telling me I can get I'd rather play Minnesota than play Ohio.
Yeah. So, but then the next year we'd have to go to potentially to Minnesota.
So it's an interesting Uh, it's an interesting question. Who's up next? Jake?
Go ahead, Jake, Hey, how are you doing, gentlemen?
Doing good? All right?
I'm glad that I'm glad the Georgia game came when it did because it kind of kind of woke us up. And last year when when we were five and no, we kind of destroyed the whole season.
I want to it didn't destroy the season we had, well, it didn't.
How long did it take us to get I.
Think the fact, Jake of who we played later in the year.
I mean, now we you know, most of our years, our schedule has been hard at the beginning, easy, easy at the beginning, hard at the end. This year we've tended to be kind of harder at the beginning, so I don't know, Well, it's made us better, But we also lost a game to South Carolina that I think if we played in three weeks we might win.
Point made.
He agreed. Jake, thank you very much, appreciate the call.
I mean, looking back, would you rather we have played Murray State Week two instead of South Carolina?
No, and I think we saw. All you do is look at Ole Miss. They did not play an SEC defense until they played against us, and they had trouble with our SEC defense.
So you think we only beat Old Miss because we played South Carolina Earth I feel that way.
That may be right.
STEP's talked about this in the preseason and he said he liked it just because it of them a break instead of eight straight conference games at the end of the year. You can crack it up a little bit. Let's go get some other guys help.
Yeah, I mean they played South Carolina and Georgia and then they got Ohio, right, then you play Old Miss and you get a bye.
Yeah, So I mean, yeah, that makes sense to me. I mean it's.
Probably the case we'd have a better shot of beating South Carolina in two or three weeks.
Yes, but then we also might not have beaten No Miss or played Georgia so close or.
Play Georgia so close.
That's probably true, So depends on how you look at it. Who's next, Shannon, Shannon, Go ahead, Shannon.
I got a question about the tight end being used in the when they run that RPO stuff. With the way that they're running the ball so well, and that the way that our receiver, especially dank Key and Brown are able to catch the ball down the field so well, it seems like that's a free.
Yeah, Shannon.
What I would say to you is there were three plays where they went to the tight end and Josh Cattis dropped it twice and the third one was tipped at the line to Jordan Dingle. I think you're right that that play is open, but I do think they tried it.
It just didn't work.
Because a couple of times drop and once kind of a fluky little tip.
Yeah, I did, I must have missed that part. And uh, you know, I'm just like I would consider myself just an everyday fan to where I love the games and you know, of course love the Cats, but I don't follow. I don't know what the kids, you know, receiving yards were in high school or there was what school that came from. So I just didn't know if there was a reason why they didn't use them as much as uh it seemed like they should to me anyway.
Yeah, no, I understand. I appreciate the call.
Uh, I think that passed the dingle. He was wide open. I mean that was a great play call just to pass got tipped and.
The cattus ones were right in his hands. Uh, they just got tipped. I'm just gonna look and see last year's record.
In the Big Ten. Okay, so we would have had that.
We've had the eighth best conference record combined the last two years.
Yep.
Okay, no wait, sorry, the ninth best conference record. So I'm just gonna look and see who was ninth over those two years. We would have been.
Playing home and home with Illinois, but Illinois ranked Illos good this year good.
Yeah, so I don't see them giving up an Ohio or an Akron game to play that, so you're gonna have to give up naturally the Louisville one.
Yeah, well, let me ask you this. Let's say they do it.
Would you rather play Akron and then only have one stinky team or play play Akron in Louisville or Akron in Ohio.
Akron in Louisville. But that's just that's that's.
So you want to play Louisville no matter what.
Yeah, my job isn't dependent on if they win six games, though.
I'm with you, I want to play Louisville no matter what. But people have to understand will make some years of Bowl.
Game less, right you guys. I'm with you, man. You don't want to see that little game disappear. But at the same time, getting that six Bowl wins and getting to a bowl game and getting that extra month of practice is awful, good for recruiting.
It may also be the case, though that bowls for us, it may not matter as much in the playoff world. I'll be interested to see how much teams care about the Bowls this year. With twelve teams making it, I think it's gonna be.
Even harder for those other Bowls. You know what I mean.
Yeah, it just gives you another month of practice for a lot of these teams, more so than going to playing a bowl game.
Yeah.
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Final segment here at KSR. Welcome back Turkey Sports Radio. Final segment here at KOs Bar and Grill. Thanks to all the folks who came out today, all the Kentucky broadcasters. This man right here, the Louisville fan, was the Kentucky broadcaster Rookie of.
The Year, Rookie of the Year, Rookie of the Year. Bride McClain County right there.
The club Rookie of the Year. That's great. A lot of people call him the.
Uh the Paul Skeins of radio there and uh, congratulations, Draft Kings. I'm gonna get Let's make our Draft Kings pick. You go to Draft Kings, use promo co KSR. You can bet on anything on the way home. The other day, my friend Tall bet a w NBA single game parlay and it came down to a miss three at the buzzer, all pulling for him. All right, So here is what. There are four playoff series. Just who's gonna win these Baseball Wildcard series? We'll start Tigers Astros? Who you got, Billy?
Uh, Tiger has been a big upset, but I think the magic I'm going to Astros.
Tigers haven't been in the playoffs in ten years. Can't tell you one player on their team and year. It feels like I have no idea. Do you know any of the players on the team. Nobody can anybody you're a fan, you don't get to say, can anybody name a Tiger? Tony Yeah, Woods, that's I don't know what, But you know what, I'm still taking the Tigers.
You have been in ten years. The Detroit's could be pumped up. I'll take the Tigers. Who you got Astros going Houston?
Channon pulling for the Tigers, but Astros win the series.
Royals play the Orioles. Royals haven't been in a few years.
Bobby Witt Junior is along with Ellie Krue Ellie de la Cruz, the two kind of best young players in baseball he's had. Bobby Wits had an amazing year, and the Ools have like a ton of people. I couldn't give you any of their names except Brady Anderson.
So who you got?
Oriols have been one of the best teams in baseball years. I'm going with the Orioles.
Yep took the best division. I'll go with the Orioles.
I'm gonna go with the Orioles. Shannon, who you got?
I think I've got the Royals on this one, all right, So.
You'd rather be Royal. It's I can't remember the west of the words of the song Mets and Brewers. The Mets had were something like one in fourteen in games they needed to win in Atlanta in like the last fifteen years, and then they won yesterday. That means to me they're a team of destiny. I got the Mets. Who you got? Shitted?
The Mets have been the hottest team in baseball. I think the last six weeks. I'm gonna go with the Mets.
Billy.
I want to kissr curse him. So let's go Mets.
Here. You don't like the Mets, No, okay, what about.
You, man, I'm going Brewers.
Yeah.
The Mets just played doubleheader yesterday.
They got a.
Flopping out there.
Doesn't play for them anymore?
Yeah, Paul, But here's the thing they just took. I don't know if you saw it. In the second game. They just told this one guy. They were like, you're pitching till your arm falls off, because they knew it didn't matter, and they just pitched the guy I think you were like seven or eight innings, was lobbing it underhanded at the end, but they were gonna take him. Finally, the Braves and the Padres. This is the probably the marquee series. Both teams have struggled this year, Tis, but both teams have a ton of talent.
Who you got, Billy, Yeah, it's gonna be a lot like the Haybell contest. I think the Braves come up a little short, So I'm gonna go with you.
Wow, are you gonna take up for your Braves?
The Braves will end up winning despite having half their team injured. So we're gonna beat the Padres with our triple A team.
I'm gonna take the Padres. Padres.
By the way, of all the series, the Padres are the biggest favorite.
How about that? Isn't that surprising?
Well? Yeah, the Braves after they played that doubleheader, had to get on a plane fly to San Diego last night to try to play the Padres today, Jet lag Padres win.
All Right, who's next? Shit, let's go to Dan Dan. Go ahead, Dan, Hey, Matt Dan from Monkey Now.
Hey Dan, Dan's gonna be my whiskey thief tweet of the day, Go ahead Dan.
Okay.
Look, I'm listening to the talking heads on Sunday from Old Miss and they were such They whined about the whole time. They said that, you know, the referees or gifts were for Kentucky. They said it was the worst they've had in ten years. And you know what was crazy is that they were really adamant that Kentucky was the worst team on the field.
Yeah, that's ridiculous. First of all the refs. I mean, I don't know what they're talking about. The refs there were.
What is the call they're complaining about about the refs? Like I felt like the refs ended up.
I mean, you know, there are always things you can call that you don't call. But what's the call that we supposedly got away with?
Yeah, they said that, you know the one pass that was uh where we were pouring fourth and seven and said it was a push off and didn't.
And that's they're never gonna call that on that Berryer Brown one there.
Yeah, they're never gonna call that.
And another thing too. I guess this weekend when Old Miss plays South Carolina, I've.
Got a route that Old missould win by thirty.
No, we need them.
I think we want I think we want Old Miss to win an option this week. I appreciate the call Dan by the way, thanks to Whiskey Thief coming on as our new our new Tweet of the Day sponsor.
What could Old Miss complain about? Call wise?
I mean I saw a lot of them complaining about the one in the first half where they called pass interference on the Dane Key one.
But that dude grabbed daye Key's arm like, of course that was pass interference.
It seems it seemed to me like if I remember, every close call went to ole Miss.
Well, the reviews went to us for the most part, but that's because it was the right call.
I thought it was the opposite. I felt like ole Miss was getting away with face masks and holding calls in the first half.
That one Brock's face mask got turned around and they didn't call.
Call it no flag on that play.
That had been the discussion if Kentucky would have lost this game.
I think that was towards the end of the game. Right, was the face mask?
Yeah, it was a sack, I believe.
Yeah, So I don't know.
I you know, as far as I always think it's weird when you say a team stinks after you lost to them on your home field. Yeah, you know, I'm I mean, all you're saying is that you're worse in some way.
So who's next. Let's go to Tony, Tony, go ahead, Tony, Hey, Matt the first time? Long time? Who are enjoy the show?
Comment?
And then there's a question comment. I thought the game, well, the football game, it can be brutally unforgiving, but it could also be redemptive, and I thought Saturday's game was redemptive for the whole team, especially Coach Stoops and for Catus. I loved it when it got that fumble that was I just loved it. But my question is a concern with this being a bye week and then Vanderbilt coming in. As good as Vanderbilt is this year, I'm just concerned we're going to come out and I've seen them play in the in the past, you know we'll be flat after a big game. What does Coach Stoops and the staff need to do to get the players motivated and ready for Vanderbilt?
As a great question, I mean, yeah, I think that's a great question. I think the good thing that keeps them motivated for Vandy and keeps them focus Ryan is that we lost two years ago. Like a lot of these guys that play were on that team two years ago, so they remember losing it. The other thing is when after the week off, hopefully they'll be hungry to play.
But you do have to be careful.
This Fandy team is not as bad as most Vandy teams are. This is a Vandy team that can beat you if you don't come.
Out and play absolutely, they're better. I thinking most everybody thought they were gonna be this year. And it's kind of like a trap game for Kentucky. They've got some other Florida and Auburn coming up after that. You can't let Vandy sneak in here and beat you at home for the second time in three years.
Florida and Auburn are bigger names, but Vandy is probably almost equally as good. They beat Virginia Tech. They lost in overtime or close to overtime, I don't remember if it was. It was in overtime to Missouri. Now they also lost to Georgia State.
Which is kind of strange. But they're better than they normally are.
They are and this is always a strange conversation because how do you not get up for an SEC game?
Right? You know what I mean?
Like, I know it's Vanderbilt, but like you guys said, they lost to them at Kroger Field a couple of years yars ago. These are the games that matter, so you should always be up for something.
Billy, before we go, you have like ten seconds of something you bad you want to say to Shannon for you coming in first and Shannon coming in sie you.
Always directed at me. But Matt's the one give you in the most crap. And well we do a radio show together every morning. You get a talk trash.
Yeah, I will say, I'm glad you guys are getting some youth on KSR. Me and Mario are here representing and the youth had to show out at the Haybell contest. Yeah, wait a minute, you're like thirty year. I'm still young man, I'm still young. But you know what, Shannon was the most disappointing before me.
You know, of the day.
I mean, you're younger than us, but that doesn't I mean i'd say that you don't call me old. I don't think if you go to kids and go, hey, Billy's thirty, he's.
Young, twenty nine, you're thirty.
You'll be You're like my Facebook age, you'll stay twenty nine a long time. Thank you all very much for listening, Thanks for coming out. We'll see tomorrow on Wednesday here at KASBA