2024-12-13 KSR-Hour 1

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Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Friday, December the thirteenth. I Matt Jones here in New Albany, Indiana, Bear Knows Pizza where we have a massive crowd. It is our annual UK Louisville KSR Show.

We're glad to be here.

You give a Shallow Clarks Puppet Shop foul line A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, A Vision Auto Glass text machine seven seven two four five two five to four In this edition sponsor by the TJ Smith Loves You Call Tj'll make them pay. We got a full house once again. Who's got the best fans? In the Louisville area right here. I mean, come on, we're in southern Indiana.

We're in southern Indiana.

We are, you know, twenty minutes from Louisville, and still more people than they could get We'll get at their next Louisville home basketball game.

Here in a pizza place to come watch the show.

If I'm nine, two eighth twenty two eighty seven, Ryan, it was December twentieth, twenty eleven when we were at a different beer nose. Now fourteen years ago when we did our first ever remote. We had only been on the air, I think for a year at that point we did our first ever remote.

We were over there.

I think we probably had at that point maybe thirty people there, although now like hundreds of people claim to have been there, but I think there were about thirty people there. And we I just saw the picture. Had on a purple dress shirt. You never see me wear a dress shirt unless I'm like going to a funeral anymore. And you had your back turned to the audience because you were so nervous. And now fourteen years later, we've done this show every year the Friday before the Louisville game. Very cool and Uh, next year's our fifteenth year anniversary of the show, and it'll be our fifteenth year of this.

It's crazy, man, because every time we come over here, the place is packed. It was a line outside to get in at eight o'clock this morning. I met some people who were here that first show, Nick, one of the guys. A lot of people were here that first show have been here every year since.

That's amazing.

Yeah, knowing this show and even just parking here, I got here an hour early, just so I wouldn't have any complications because I know this gets so packed and people follow in here so early. This is when there's never a doubt that it's gonna have a big question.

And look how much Ryan has grown. He's now fully facing all the.

People there this morning. He's revolved all the way around.

Oh I do that.

They do want to see my butt though, a lot of old women do what again?

We just started and like it's so unnecessary. You get grosser the older you are, which is really kind of sad. I mean most people, you get grosser. I mean I wish I wish there was a crowd to see the repulsion of from people as you say that, and nothing phases history.

It's almost like he thinks people want it more.

That's not the trade I loving for but a five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven Uh. The text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four Kats and Louisville UH play tomorrow. This is a game that over the years has.

Provided a lot of high drama.

Has not been drama in the last few years, as Louisville has been awful for four or five straight years.

Better this year, still not great.

Every time they've played a good team, at least in the you know, in the United States, they've played very poorly. However, when they went to Bahamas had a couple of big wins, beat Indiana and they stink, but beat a West Virginia team that beat Gonzaga before they lost to Oklahoma. This year, they're zero to three against the SEC and every game has been an absolute route. They were blown out by Tennessee, blown out by Old Miss, ended up getting beat by a little margin against Oklahoma, although that game was closed through a lot. Tomorrow they played their fourth SEC team. Do you have any worry that the result won't be the same.

It's all about Lamon Butler for me, if Lamon Butler's playing, I'm gonna have the Champagne on ice raight to pop it. I think Kentucky will win rather handily. I mean, I think maybe even a double digit win if Kentucky's healthy. Without Butler, might get a little uncomfortable. I still think Kentucky's the better team. Louisville has their own injuries that told them back a little bit. They have two guys out for the year that's really setting them back. But if Butler's there, I just think Kentucky's much better. I think Rupperena is gonna be on fire. I expected a good Kentucky.

Yeah, you got five to fifteen start, which I think if you're talking about the rough crowd, that's about.

The perfect time.

If it's not too late for the old heads, it's not really early for people like Mario to be asleep.

So you get the five point fifteen, you get the five to fifteen.

Start, people get ready, you get a chance to celebrate after it's over. Games on ESPN, it's actually a good week to have the game, Ryan. I think people will actually notice it. Oftentimes that UK LOUISLL game is just completely lost because it's on a playoff Saturday, or it's on Bowl games or even sometimes gone up against the NFL, or we've played it at noon on a Wednesday before.

I think in the last few years now you get a Saturday.

The only other thing on is Army Navy, so you get a chance to really college basketball has got a lot of good games coming up. Yucon plays Gonzaga Saturday. It's clear they're trying to make it a feature Saturday and a chance for Kentucky to get another win in front of a big craft.

And I'm with Drew.

I think Rupperena is gonna be rocking tomorrow. I mean, you know past couple of years when Kenny was at Louisville and it just wasn't even much of a game at all, you know, the Louislle was so so bad. At least this year, two new coaches, two completely different rosters, meaning for the first time at rub and there may be a record for most three pointers shot by the end of the day from you.

By the way, only one player that will play tomorrow. Think about this for both teams. Only one player's ever played in this game before, which is a crazy thing to think about.

You add the two teams up and there's only one guy.

That's ever played in the game before, so it's a completely different thing. Shannon, I kind of wish I hated their coach, and I think they kind of wish they hated our coach, and neither fan base does.

They kind of like.

Mark Pope, I kind of like Pat Kelsey. It's weird to have a rivalry now, where like both teams just can't find it in their hearts to hate the other people in charge.

On the other side, both teams were starting fresh. But don't worry, we will grow to hate Pat Kelsey. I guarantee you we will say. Well, he does, I guess, but you know he's living the life. I mean, life can't.

Be Life's not great.

You know you watch him play and again this could sometimes in these games it ends up close. We've beaten them a couple times where I think they were better. We've they've beaten us once or twice when I thought we were better. But on paper, their team has not been great. If you don't if you took away that Indiana game where they blew him out, it actually would be a little disappointed. They've nearly lost him, nearly lost to Utip. They get blown out when they play anybody that plays defense on him.

But our defense been a little shaky here recently. Does that concern you at all?

No.

I watched their West Virginia game in the Bahamas. They won, but they actually trailed a lot. I wasn't that impressed at all. Then they turned it on at the end, but a lot of that was the prior guy that's out. I mean, he was a huge part of what I've seen. My biggest concern is their point guard, CHUCKI hebburn. That dude is the real deal. He leads them in scoring, he leads them in assists. I think he's like second in the country and steals. He's a little menace out there in the back court. Kind of got a little Patino guard to him. He's a big problem.

Outside of him, he's like got poor man's Russ Smith. Yeah.

Outside of him, you have Edwards on the wing, who had a big night in the in the win against you Tip a few nights ago. But their roster just on paper, nothing really jumps off and scares me. Whereas I see guys for Kentucky, if they're shooting the ball, well, I have high expectations.

If you haven't watched them.

The CHUCKI Hepburg guy's the guy that in the team photo that was such a ragged look of a photo earlier this year.

He was the guy that looked asleep. He's the dude. He's played awake and he's actually been pretty good this year. And that's another thing.

If you have Lamont Butler, you stick Butler on him, then they're.

Going to struggle to score.

But if we don't have him, I think we saw against against Colgate, we can struggle shitt.

Yeah, I mean Lois Bull turns the ball over quite a bit. That's where I think Kentucky has the advantage. Kentucky is much better protecting the ball. But let's go back to that photo. You cannot, under any circumstance lose to a team that looks like Louisville, and that team, I.

Mean, ask you question.

There are people, there are Louisville fans who have very much criticized us, and by us, I mean me, by consistently calling me every name in the world saying that we did them wrong with that photo and it was not the official team photo, and we made people feel like it was official team photo.

I will say that's revisionist history. Yeah, all right.

Their main beat reporter tweeted out, here's your Louisville team twenty four to twenty five, and then between then and the official photo, we made fun of it, and all of a sudden, an hour or two later, they had on a different set of clothes.

Yeah, he deleted that tweet, dude, he deleted the tweet.

Blame me.

Not sure how you gonna blame me, dude when you put the tweet up. But then Louisville came back ironed the uniforms, changed the uniforms like, you're not gonna tell me.

Oh, he just caught it.

A couple more minutes before the official one, they changed everything, telling.

Me they take a practice photo with one guy wearing the wrong jersey. I don't buy it. I don't buy it. They didn't notice it till I don't want to.

Actually argue Shannon, the University of Louisville should send me a thank you.

No, that would have been their official photo.

They would have blown it up.

They would have.

Got it all over the young centner, and we made fun of it and actually got it to where in fifty years their grandkids don't come by and go granddad.

Why couldn't you have broned your stupid uniform?

Why didn't you get a jersey like everybody else?

That's exactly right? Why are you asleep, granddad? Like all of those things, I think, Drew, they owe us. I thank you for helping them out. They should.

But to our point about how they're not the Louisville teams of old, like that's kind of all we have. They're kind of boring. Otherwise, you know, we used to have all kinds of scandals. Does Pat Kelsey have one FBI investigation?

How thin it's a coach who's been in front of a federal judge for extortion?

Not one?

You can eat off those ceilings over there. Now everything's just so different. So we have the team photo and a few other things, but I missed the It was so easy to hate them when they were true villains. I mean, there was some real scumbags over there, And now I mean we have the team photo and Kelsey doing selfies, but it's just not the same.

That's interesting you mentioned that because every time I come to Beer Knows, it leads me to think about the rivalry, and it leads me just to think. I do feel like Louisville has left this era where they were the like, you know, rogues of society. I mean, if you just if you just take a step back and think about the since we did our first show, here what Louisville's done.

Right.

We're talking uh strippers in the dorms, right, We're talking uh sex and Italian restaurants. We're talking squirt to the ceiling. We're talking we're talking FBI investigations. We're talking paying players in shoe boxes. We are talking uh extortion leading to federal jail time. That's only since we started doing these Coach wore a wire while talking to his mentor who was on staff. Coach a wire, by the way, that was just the stuff that made the headlines. The other things were even sometimes even crazier. We had a federal trial, we had all of that, And now you've got a guy who's like, I get to wear sweatsuits.

I'm happy. It's just a different it's just a different vibe with these games. Now.

Louisville made it too easy for us for a long time.

You know, they just gave us, gave it Christmas presents every year with these stories I think, you know, even like didn't like one of the dads of recruit have a certain female in his hotel room.

You know, there's so many things came along.

With I don't know what what are you talking about.

That just reported.

I don't know what you're talking about saying a dad had a female in the hotel room, a dad of a recruit, I think, yeah, they know?

Do they know they're not taking the same circles?

I don't.

I don't know what you're talking Listen.

I'm a reporter that it is hard all that's core.

I'm a diehard reporter. I don't don't these stories out.

It's not even just I agree that I don't know what you were sniff.

But it's not even just they were doing all the dirty things. Patino and Cal hated each other. They made a great feud, and now you got Kelsey. When he first got the job, he even said at one of those events, he said, I apologize to Lobell fans, but it's impossible to hate Mark Pope. He's the nicest guy ever. And that's just so different than the two Italian guys we had.

Cal and Rick hated each other with a passion that it is hard to h it is hard to get to go to kind of explain.

I remember, uh, I mean I feel like I could tell this story. Man.

Yeah.

I think when we beat them.

I think when we beat them the Jeorts year, right, we beat them in Louisville, and that was a big upset. I think we thought we were gonna lose. That was like Georts coming out part. If I remember correctly, he played. He played really well.

I was.

I remember John cal Perry called me on my drive home before the postgame show and just got on the phone and goes.

How do you like that? How do you like that? And he was like screaming, eat it, Rick, eat it Rick. And I remember.

Thinking, all right, I do love this right, Like this dude, this dude wants to win it so much. And I think Rick would want to win it so much. His teams would play very tight. I actually think he wanted to win this game too much. I think Chris Mack was the same way. Cal would say he didn't want to win it, but he wanted to win it. It's weird though that this time it's weird. But I will say Louisville's players gave us yesterday drew a quote that I think is very telling in the This was what Terrence Edwards is that the guy's name Terrence Edwards. He said, and there was a bigger context where he was talking about, you know, we're looking for this game where blah blah blah. But the last sentence he said was some of us came here just to play Kentucky. I mean that's that that that says a lot right about Like I mean, I don't think any Kentucky players is gonna say some of us came here to play louell I mean, you won eight games in the last two years. Nobody's gonna say that. But Shannon, I do think that shows the way these two teams.

Look at there. We came here just so we could play you. We really don't care about all the other games. You're right, I mean, nobody comes to Kentucky going we're just here to play Louisville.

Nobody cares, they don't care.

I love that. It's the same thing.

I don't know if you saw North Carolina is recruiting, like was recruiting the number one player in America that signed at BYU and they asked the kid, what did North Carolina say to you, and North Carolina said to him, if you come here, we'll do for you what Duke did for Zion, And the Carolina fans were like, we produced, Michael George, Why are you comparing what Duke did to Zion?

I like that.

Louisville's recruiting pitches. Hey, if you come here, you can play against Kentucky. I think we'll be them for any recruit we wont over the next few years, we will take a break A five nine, two eight, two eighty seven. It's the Cats and Cards right here on Kentucky Sports Radio.

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It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Let's go over a few things here. We're at bear Nos. I keep saying beer Nos. That's just my accent. Bear Nos thirteen locations Louisville style pizza to Louisville in southern Indiana for over forty five years. Pizza, pasta, salads, and sandwiches. I'll tell you a story. Where's the person from bear Knows? I have an investor in town who's who's could potentially hope we go to invest with our wrestling Company's British. He'd only been to America once. He got here Wednesday night I couldn't be with him. He said, I was in downtown Louisville. I'm not gonna do his accent, but I was looking for a place to eat. He said, I wandered into a bear nose and I said, yeah, yeah, downtown in Louisville. He said, they give way too much pizza. It was really good, But you Americans give way too much pizza.

But at least better to have too much than too little.

That's exactly right. So thank you very much for hosting us all these years. A couple things I think are interesting. Number One, some of you who are wrestling fans may have seen the shown show Dark Side of the Ring on Vice. It's basically documentaries about wrestling. Well, the producers are doing a documentary that will come out next year about Patino and cali Peri. Really wow, and I might have already been contacted for an interview, But Patino and cali Peri, they're going to sort of trace their rivalry going back to Providence and UMass to Kentucky and Louisville, to Louisville and Memphis, and then all their various careers. But if you've ever seen Dark Side of the Ring, Shannon they do an amazing job, and they do tend.

To focus on the dark side of the ring. So I'll be interested to see what they end up doing with Patino in.

Calorida is going to be must watch TV. You know, they always have like somebody to play the characters they do. Yeah, who would play Patino and Caliperi?

That's a great question. It depends on the their age over the years. Yeah, I mean, now, you'd probably get De Niro and Pacino in.

Their old age.

I don't know who you would get in their prime. That would be that would be interesting. But when I heard that Drew, I thought, I can't wait to watch that, and I look forward to uh to the to interview. I can't I think I'll know what they're gonna do when they come and talk to me.

So the part I'm.

Looking forward to is it said it's gonna follow Cal's first season at Arkansas, and that could be very entertaining depending how things go. I'm looking forward seeing how Chin and Bruiser are breaking it down behind the scenes down there in Favor.

Surprised he gave apparently Patino and Cal gave backstage access to him this year.

I don't know why they do that. I've watched Dark Side of the Room.

Yeah, they don't do like these are not rosy documentaries.

Usually I'm surprised they're doing that.

Usually they don't really do the person they're documenting any favorite.

It's very rare.

Yeah, i'd be surprised to Lexington. We'll see win or losing that game. They'll be there with it.

They'll be there, Vice Vice TV will be there right second thing, Ryan, you're mister high school sports. Have you heard about what? And again, I don't know this officially. These are just the rumors in the wind. Have you heard about what happened with st X?

Oh?

No, what's the story.

So I guess this is just what's out there that st X football. You know, when when they when they're trying to figure out who to invite to come play football for them in high school. Yeah, they scout like middle school kids. And I'm sure the coaches say, this middle school kid does this, this middle school kid does that. I guess the email that sat X sends out to kids in mass this is what I've heard to eighth graders. They accidentally attached the scouting report they have for all middle schoolers in the law.

Is that correct?

You were shaking your head. I don't somebody needs to confirm this for me. I just heard this this morning, but that maybe every eighth grade family got in email.

With what the Saint X coaches think about their children.

Well, you know, somebody's got some splanner to do there wrong about this.

Someone can confirm it to me, But it's this is kind of what's floating around that would be an interesting development.

Don't you think to.

Open up that email and I see my kid's name? Unders you know, no chance, no chance, slow, not very strong.

Let go to public school.

So yeah, at least you know what you need to work on. Do you try to find a silver lining doll of this? You know, I'm honest truth, I never heard anyone.

I think the kind of parents that send their kids to Saint X may not like to read that stuff about their about their kids. So uh, I want to. I want to see the email. I want to read some of these scouting and see what they say. All right, who's up first?

Rick? Got John first? John? Go ahead? John?

Yeah, I was calling to see I saw Malka Nelson are in the Porto one bush hamd and recruited him at usc us me as he pursuing him.

If you know I have not heard that, I would say, this is the way I'm looking at all the portal stuff, and I appreciate the call Adam Luckett for KSR plus is kind of focusing on the portal for us. Every person that enters that Kentucky is contacting, he does a little right up on. So that's all on KSR plus if you want to follow.

That day to day.

From what I've counted, I look last night, Drew, I've counted at least and I'm sure there's some we don't know. At least seventeen players that Kentucky has made contact with so far. It looks to me like in general they are taking the view. There's one or two exceptions to this, but they are taking the view of going and getting guys who have played, rather than going and getting guys like I think they've done some the backup and a good team. They did that with a Alabama and Georgia, and we praised it. I thought that was a good idea. It looks like to me they're going to max schools or even lower level Power five schools and going show me a guy who's produced at that level.

And then I want to bring them. Do you like that strategy? I like that they're changing up. It's hard enough for us to follow. I'm looking at it and I see alignment from Rice and a lineman from Nevada, and I'm like, I don't know the hell the difference between these guys, and it might be the case the UK don't know either. That's why I said yesterday, part of all this building the portal, no matter what, there's gonna be a little hoping and praying that they look good on the field, because you won't truly know until next September how some of these guys are actually gonna pan out at the next level.

I thought the idea of getting Alabama Georgia Tennessee's backup made sense. But I think what we learned is for must those guys they didn't play for a reason. And so you know, we've learned with the basketball team this year, we've gotten a lot of dudes that none of y'all knew who they were last year and it's working out and they had played at a smaller level.

Maybe that's what we need to do with football too.

But think they're hungry doing that yeah, and they've at least seen that they can play the position.

We'll take a break and be right back. We're here at Bear Knows and it's New Omne's KSR quarterback. It is Tucky.

Sports Radio here live at bear Nos Pizza in New Albany's and Charlestown Crossing. Come on out and join us Cats and Cards tomorrow at five fifteen. I just found out from Drew that he's working. He had that our cowboy hats are in. So we decide we're gonna wear him tomorrow for the game. That'll get that, I'll show him, that'll get him ready.

I was just wearing mine around the house last night. I have a dinner with Abby tonight, going a little date. I might even wearing it on my dates.

Oh wow, how are the fans gonna be able to see past you? They're not gonna stand up to see over that cowboy hat? Well, you know, sit down, take off the hat.

The the guy.

The picture has become a big thing because if you watch the if you if you look at the picture, the guy.

It's given the side eye to.

So the famous picture of the guy standing in New Cheered the guy giving side eye is one of my best friends. And now the Internet has turned up my friend, like people are making memes saying you're a villain, you're this, and he was just the game and he texted me lackly was like, well, what great the internet has turned on me?

Who knew?

Well?

To be fair, he is the only guy that entire sections stink eyeing the guy who is.

The thing is people don't know who he is. Like, it's that's part of what makes it hilarious to me.

I feel bad for him, but you know, it can't be side on people.

He's not even like behind them where they'd be in his view. He's just glancing over there. But the Internet has picked.

Him as the Internet has decided my buddy is villain number one.

He always likes the joke on people. Now the joke's on him.

The joke is definitely is definitely on him. Eighty seven.

We've talked a little bit about how good the SEC is this year. We now actually have stats to back it up. Ken Palm has kept stats since nineteen ninety eight of strength of conference schedule strength for the non conference and since nineteen ninety eight, the SEC this year, going into this week, has the second best percentage of wins against power competition in the history of college basketball. The only conference that's ever had a better history was the ACC.

And you all remember this year.

It was when I was in law school, when Duke with Jay Williams and all those guys, and Maryland had Dixon and Blake and Maryland won the title. The next year in North Carolina had Brendan Haywood and they were number one in the country. And that was when Virginia started being good. That's the only year in history where a conference has had a better non conference winning percentage. And I'll note at that point the ACC only had ten teams. We have sixteen, so we have a nearly similar win percentage. And as a matter of fact, since the conference has expanded to fourteen, we are way better than every other conference. It is The record of US against power competition is crazy. And Kim in the article I read, basically said there's a good chance that this will be the greatest college basketball conference in a year since the ACC the year that like Virginia with Ralph Sampson and all that, that it will be the best since then. Ryan, It's unbelievable how good the SEC is.

This year.

Yeah, you're hearing a lot of these college basketball guys talk about how this may be the best conference ever. And the stat you brought yesterday where the bottom tier, the last four or five teams are like what forty two and.

Forty two the five teams that were projected to be twelve through sixteenth or forty two and four.

I just tell you how strong the conference is. When your bottom tier, your bottom teams are some of them are undefeated or have one loss.

It's amazing.

You're not gonna have too many upsets just because how well balanced the conference is. You know, I could see where maybe the team that wins the conference has four Yeah, possibly even five losses in the company could.

Be But the great thing about this is I think it gives Mark Pope some leeway. I mean, we are all gonna and please remind me of this when I do it, We're all gonna have to take a deep breath when we take losses in conference, cause we could be. Like I said this earlier, we could be really good and go eleven and seven in conference like we could be, And that doesn't seem great.

But I think this year you actually could be.

Yeah, even though there will be more losses on Kentucky's record, which obviously we don't like. I'm excited just for the watching these games, even games Kentucky's not a part of. Doesn't look like there's gonna be a night where you've got an old miss at home where you go in, well, we're gonna win this one by twenty or a Vandy. Every single game, you're gonna have to bring your best stuff or you're gonna get knocked off.

The SEC is projected to get twelve bids in the tournament right now, which would tie for the most of all time the ACC, because I think a lot of our strength has then been the ACC going down. The ACC is only projected to get four, which will be the fewest of them since the nineteen eighties. So I mean, I think a lot ryan of what happened is a lot of that ACC basketball strength has ended up coming to the Deep South.

It's amazing when you look at the talent in the SEC this year. We even this summer we talked about we knew some teams are going to be good. There's more teams stronger right now than I thought they were going to going into the season.

Yeah, and with North Carolina struggling Virginia. Virginia last night had fourteen points at halftime against Bethune Cookman. So I don't think they're exactly going to be a powerhouse. The SEC has a chance to take it base.

North Carolina's football school. Now, I watched the PRES Conference yesterday. Can I pay them a compliment?

There?

Go ahead?

Chapel Bill is a great nickname. I saw them calling it. I hate North Carolina. I don't love that higher for them. Bill's agreed, he said.

And then so Mike Lombardy, who's gonna play, is basically be his GM. He said, We're going to do in the in college football what Cali Perry did at Kentucky and college basketball, which is say you want to go to the pros, come play for the best professional coach, and Lombardy was a great professional GM. We will basically be the pros in college. Do you think Drew that works in football the way it did work during the best years for Calen basketball.

It'll work enough that North Carolina gets a bump compared to what they are traditionally. I don't think he's gonna take them into the big national picture that they're gonna be this turn into something they haven't been like.

Ran if you had a let's say Josiah was on the level that he could pick the college he wants, would Belichick being at North Carolina make that like more intriguing to.

You, Maybe not for the kids, but for the parents. For me, absolutely, in that scenario, I'm thinking to myself, I got my kids got a chance to play for Bill Belichick. Absolutely, I wanted to pursue that. Josiah may not have any idea his history, but the parents do.

He probably remembers it wasn't that long ago.

But he is also.

I mean, they said they wanted to get rid of Mac Brown because they wanted to go younger. Brown was seventy three in Belichick's seventy two, not like he Wait, it's not like shit and he went that much younger.

No, I mean we're talking about a guy, though, who is just ten wins away from being the all time winning his coach in NFL history.

That's got to do well for me.

Here's there's a question, why wouldn't another NFL team hire him?

But yet North Carolina did.

I'm surprised he took that job.

Really, Like you're you're Bill Belichick, you could go pretty much anywhere you tell.

Okay, So he took the job because he's like Rick Patino.

Some people are addicted to work like some people just will never be able to stop working. I think he's one of those guys. And then I don't think an NFL team wanted him, And that's a good question why they didn't. But if you want to coach, I mean, he can only sit with the maning so long on ESPN two. At some point he may have felt like you needed to do something else.

Who's next? Whitey? Is up next? Whitey? How are you Whitey anymore? And I'm doing good?

Hey, I was just listening to your All podcast from yesterday day and I'll just touch on it briefly that you were discussing rich Rod coming back to w VU.

Yes.

So I've just got a quick trivia question for you. Rich rocks last game of w v U, if they got beat by a terrible pit team. That loss cast them a trip to the DCS Championship games against the wis of States. A lot of WVU fans think he threw that game so he could head to Michigan. The trivia question is, who is the field goal kicker that missed two short field goals.

I mean, would wait a minute. Hang on, first of all, before you answer.

It's amazing to me that he asked that trivia question because who would know. Equally amazing is that it seems like you do know.

You know him too. It was Pat McAfee.

No, Pat McAfee's a punter. Was it was?

Who was it?

Sir?

He can go It was McAfee.

Did the kicker get hurt?

I don't know, but it was him he missed it. I think he was a punter and a kicker.

Well there you go, and there were a lot of death threats.

Well there's all right, I got well, I appreciate the call.

That's not what I thought the question was gonna be about h on Uku of l Day, who was the kicker for rich Rod when he lost to Pittsburgh in two thousand and seven. But you know what, Shinnon, you never know what you're gonna get to when you get to the phone.

That's right, Max Duffy's bff, those two guys. Two really doesn't like.

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This is Kentucky Sports Radio walking back.

It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Go here at Bear knows great crowd. I say this every time we do a show in Louisville, but it's true. I think the best crowds we get are in Louisville or the Louisville area. I think this is the best part of the fan base in terms of being energetic and angry. And it's gonna be nice for Louisville to get back to the point in basketball where we start really wanting to kick their tail again. Somebody sent me a message that there's someone here who's a Kentucky fan that has an Indiana fan wife.

Who is that? Who's two of you, three of you? Four of you, the same wife for four who's got their wife?

But who's got their wife here? Who's the person with the Indiana fan wife that's here?

That's you?

Is your name, Jeff? Okay, So Jeff says, your Indiana fan wife is here. Specifically, the tex said, don't call her out, So I did, and but I did it because I want to thank you that you would come to the show with your Kentucky fan husband. I'm just going to say to you. I understand they're good in football. I get it now, but let's be honest. You want to cheer for us in basketball, don't you?

Like you got stink and you're never gonna be good again.

Like Indiana basketball is basically done forever. So you got the football, you can cheer for that, But I would hope you would come to this side for basketball, Ryan, because as we know, Indiana basketball is done imperpetuit.

You know, when they hired Mike Woodson, they started pounding their chest again and we're gonna be good again.

But yeah, they're still not there. They still got a long way to go.

Look at you trash talking the guy's wife. She's catching stray. She's just trying to show up and do.

Something nice for a husband.

No, I'm trying to like make her happier though by yeah saying that she should do it. Did you see the San Francisco forty nine Ers had a player who quit during the middle of the game last.

I would have too with that game, my god, nobody could score a touch.

But now, but apparently I read the backstory. His name was DeVante Campbell. He had started all year because drew that the main guy was was hurt. They brought the main guy back, so he went to the bench and during the game, the guy had been hurt was getting tired because he was playing too much. So they said to the guy who'd been benched, will you start and will you go in? And he just said no, And he walked to the sidelines and said if I'm not starting, I'm not playing.

He won't be on the team. This afternoon I watched the interviews. His teammates were livid. They were calling him out. Shanahan when asked if he's gonna cut him, he was kind of like, it seems that dude made a mistake that he will regret, because you cannot just walk out on your team. It's I mean, the time, time doesn't matter. But it's Thursday night football. The country's watching. You're paid a lot of money to go out there, and you're just like, no, I'm not feeling it tonight. Whatever happens to him, he asked for it.

Why would he think that's a good idea.

If you're a bench player and you have they to go in and you don't want to go in, why are you even there?

Yeah, it's a good question. Why didn't he just tell him for the game, I'm done? I gets it. And then it's it.

Does matter it's on national TV, because, like I probably wouldn't be talking about it another Ryan, there's only one game on, and so everybody ends up focusing on.

He's a professional man, I mean, you gotta act like a professional.

And now he's gonna have a trouble with other teams.

Would you pick that guy out? Oh? Not you. You would not pick him in any situation.

I thought it might be the case. He was just quick, little MENSI, You're gonna go grab a hot dog, be right back. But then he just never came back. I thought maybe we were starting to do trend in football.

Are we gonna start calling going to get a hot dog during the game in his uniform.

Thought he might need it, a twizzler, a little soda, I don't know, but then he never came back.

Uh basketball game tomorrow, Ryan, give me a player that needs to step up tomorrow for us to win in this rivalry game.

Well, I'm gonna say Lamont Butler eve though I don't know if he's even gonna play.

Or not, so we can't say him in case he does.

So falls on Jackson Robinson.

I think we've seen an emergence of him starting with the Clemson game and then the Gonzaga game. Maybe he just plays better with the ball in his hands more, but he's become the guy for sure.

I'm gonna say Kobe Brayan because I think he's gonna need to put even if Lamont Butler plays, he's gonna need to play a lot. And his weakness for me, Uh Drew has been he's not the toughest dude. He seems like he backs away from physical contact. And the one thing about this Louisville team is they'll get up in you, they'll hit you, and and we can't just get a nothing from him like we did, for instance, for a lot of the game at Gonzaga.

Yeah, we saw Duke Gonzaga two games kind of this magnitude. Just the team overall came out a little weak, not much energy. Obviously they came back in both circumstances. But I'd like for Kentucky to come out and throw the first punch. The question was who should step up Pat Kelsey when he goes to shake Mark Pope's hand, I would encourage him to step up as tall as possible. Uh, for Kentuck, I'm really I'm really looking forward to the meeting at half court. It's louis it's Louisville.

I mean, it's easy for you and I tall people to make fun of little short people like Ryan, but we shouldn't do it like that's not.

You know I want to that's not really a step up. But Williams and Garrison, I love their energy. I love with a lot of what they do, but don't try to do too much in this game. And they have a lot of turnover.

And again I said this on the on the postgame show, Garrison, when you get the ball down low as possible, no, oh, shoot, take your hook and go into the basket.

Draw fowls. Stop shooting the fadeaways.

You're not Kareem like, go into the basket and draw fouls. He fades away and leaves him short. That's probably happened six times in the last two games.

I wish those two guys would just dunk it. You got the ball down load, just make a power move and just dunk it.

Yeah.

I think it goes for the whole team, car included. Sometimes they just need to go up strong and they're over pump faking or trying to wrap around a guy. Just go straight up to what happens.

And let's make some free throws. We're shooting like sixty eight percent or something on the year. Who's up next? Shane is up next, Shane, Go ahead, Shane. What's that good? Doing good? Nice to talk to you, Feller. It's been a while.

Yeah, yeah, it's been a while. Hey, Yeah, I'm just letting everybody know that they got the opportunity to mind to grab an Antwine Walker autograph along with the game tomorrow. I do believe I'm.

Well, but you gotta you gotta hang on. You gotta like expand on that.

You can't just say you've got an opportunity to get an Antoine Walker autograph. You didn't tell him how to get it.

That's That's what I'm getting to tomorrow, at the same time the game is going on at the Center there, there's gonna be a sports card and Pokey Man show going on at okay, the same time.

I mean Pokey Man or Pokey man Man. Yeah, I guess it's different kind of cards. That's the knockoff. Well, I mean, I don't people. I don't think very people are gonna skip the game to go get an autograph for man to one Walker.

Do they have it before or after the game?

No, it's in the same building right there in the Convention Center, and he'll be there from eleven to one Tomorrowkay.

Okay, in all right, are you getting paid for this? Feller? Like, why are you telling us that?

Well? I figured that you are talking about what kind of madhouse is going to be there tomorrow, and that's just something that's going to add on to the chaos down area is you're gonna have a couple of thousand extra people rowing around going.

Oh that is good to know for the card show. I appreciate it, Shane. Nice to hear from you. By the way, everybody listening today keep this on your radar. If Kentucky wins, I'm not gonna say who, but if Kentucky wins, we will have one of the prominent basketball players at the bar for a signing Sunday afternoon.

We're only gonna do it if we win.

It's gonna be kind of a few games this year where if a big game, if Kentucky wins, a player will come meet the fans on Sunday. So be watching my social media and I'll also bring it up on the postgame show. But just for your scheduling purposes, it would be in the afternoon and the hope is pretty much the entire top six over the course of the year, assuming we win the games, you would be able to get all of their autographs if you so keep those that for Sunday afternoon.

Uh in mind, shit, I'll bring my Pokemon card so they can autograph them. Pokey Man, it's I think it's Pokey I don't collect them, but I think it's Pokemon.

Not according to.

Shane not what not in Graysons and Grayson it's Pokey Man.

What do you think of an autographed Pokeman card from Antoine Walker would be worth it?

I mean that's I think that'd be rare.

I don't think too many of those.

I think it'd be unique. You rode in the back of a limo with Antoine Walker. Did you get him to sign a poke Man card? I did not, but I have a big Answina Walker fan. I would go get one if ahead time.

Yeah, well that is tomorrow morning. It is good. There will be a lot of people downtown.

I think there's also like a cheer competition going on downtown, so there's gonna be just if you're going to that game tomorrow, just expect.

To get there early.

And I would say, if it's not too cold, park at the bar walk. That to me is it's because it will be a it'll be a cluster downtown tomorrow. If I'm nine, two eight twenty two eighty seven, we are here at Beer Knows, We're gonna talk about a couple more about the game and some football news.

That's next right here on Kentucky Sports Radio.

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