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She has a pen that says it. So I'm not gonna argue with it. We're doing the behind the scenes or ask anything. One person writes, Matt, you guys noted that both Andrew Carr and Colin Chandler got engaged. Matt, you said that you thought that was a little young to get engaged. I don't know if I said that, but but I do think that what is the perfect age to each of you to get married?
Well, I mean that's a good question.
I mean for me, I would say fifty seven is probably the It's probably the eight. Now, I mean that's a good question. What is the what's the part if you were to say, okay, this is the perfect age that you should get married, not too young, not too old, what would you what would you pick?
Well, I got married at twenty five, I got married at thirty five.
You're gonna get married at fifty five.
I've already passed fifty five, so let's go with sixty five.
But which what if you? You? You you have a lot of experience.
You've tried and failed any time, your favorite so ran So so what what what do you think if you were giving young people advice?
What is the right age to to to get married?
I think you want to get your first job and get established before you get married. The kids will get married young and they don't have any money, they don't have a good career.
Get it.
You graduate, get a good job, get a good career, and then maybe settle down and get married.
So what age thirty? All right, very definitive. Okay, what about you?
I'm gonna get my hearing back.
Uh.
I tried to get married. What was that thirty five? And COVID had a little role in that. So I was thirty eight when I finally got married. That's a little late. Took me a while to find my perfect angel out there.
I would say angel, Wow, that's sweet.
You know, it was just very picky. You know, I would say a little younger than that, but not too young. All Ryan's right on I'll go twenty nine just to be different than right.
Okay, Yeah, I mean, first of all, I would not be the person to ask is the person who is still single? I would say, Okay, it depends on do you want to have a ton of kids or not? Right, Like, if you just want to have one or two kids, I think that's different than if you want to have like a whole, I don't know, pack of children. So I would say thirty thirty two. I think people in Kentucky get just my opinion, I think they get married too early. I think, you know, I'm at the stage where I have people I know who are starting to get divorced, like people who loved each other, like they didn't have bad man, it's just like they just kind of, you know, that's enough of you after a while.
It's a big world out there.
Yeah, and so I and and the common denominator on a lot of those is they got married like really young. So I would say, I would say, but I don't think you really know who you are until you're in your late twenties or early thirties, and so that that would be mine. But of course, why would anyone listen to me? Because what do.
I know.
I think you hit on something because it depends on do you want to have children?
If you want to have a lot of children, though, you gotta get going, you know, because there's a I don't know the science of it, but like you take some time and.
Their eggs and overreas and their things.
So if you wait, if you wait till forty forty five and you have a kid, you'll be like me and kids are asking jo say it, Josiah, is that your grandpa? No, that's my dad.
Yeah.
Yeah, if I had a kid, I don't know what would happen, Like I'd be the oldest person at everything.
But the you know, there might be some here. I don't mean anyone in particular, but the marry and your high school sweetheart thing seems to fall apart a lot fall in love too early?
You know you would.
I mean, I'm sure there's something that work. Don't get me wrong, but man, yeah, I think there maybe you need to kiss a few frogs out there before you there is one.
There is a ks our wedding coming up, Little Billy.
When is that? You don't know yet? Like you've been in Gains though for a while. What are you waiting on the right place.
Chos Barn Girl is a great place to get married.
We have Harper Hall. There's all kinds of places.
Hopefully you can uh I can vouch for Harper Hall's tables. Your guests can knock them over, spill things everywhere.
One person writes, Matt does Ryan I think he will miss having Dane or would be easier to talk about the UK football team not.
Having Dane on the team. That's a that's a good question.
I will absolutely miss him. I loved going to the games when he's played the last three years. Loved it, loved it, loved Joe Sign. I went to all the home games, went to several road games. But day I think it will be easier to talk about the UK program with him not on the team.
I will say it has always really made me mad the way people would get mad at you about Dan Key, like I mean, especially on social media. If he would drop a pass, people would yell at you, and they would also expect you to do something they would never I mean, just think about take your your best friend's kid. Would you go on the public airwaves and blast your best friend's kid like none of you all would do that, Like nobody's gonna do that. But people expected you to do that, and I always thought that was unfair to you. I often probably tried to play the bad guy with Dane just so you didn't have to sometimes, but I always thought that was unfair. I do think it'll be easier for you, cause you know, you were just in a tough position in that world. I mean, like it's one thing to say somebody's your like I always say Vince and he is my friend, but like that's a whole different connection, like that would be like for me, like my friend Tall or Hubby's kid like you, they it was different, and people just expected you to do things they would never expect themselves to.
And I really appreciate when you would kind of deflect and be be that guy, especially during this transfer portal thing, you know, and it was it was tough on him to leave u K. And you were kind of the guy that kind of took over that and I didn't have to talk about it. So thanks uncle Matt.
Well, what are we gonna do about the poll parties? Whos stepping up? We gotta keep these going?
Yeah, you got You're still gonna have the football players.
At your house.
Three years in a row. We've had the pool party at my house. Ty Bryant still here, so maybe tire ten guys over.
Yeah, all right, One person writes, Matt, when you replaced Big Easy with Ryan, did you know it was gonna work or did you consider other people?
Yeah?
Well I considered other people. Ryan was the best because he was a goofball. But uh, yeah, I could say. I mean we we had. We had a number of people on. If you were to go back in the archives and you go listen to April of twenty twenty, twenty eleven to like August of twenty eleven, I try out a lot of people.
I mean we had. I had Mike Pratt a lot.
I had Mark Krabs, I had Paron Johnson, I had random Kent Taylor, Jody Dimley, like random people in Louisville. But there was something about this goofball that made him that made him stick out.
Well it worked. I think we can both agree. That day we sat down did that first show, I remember I won.
That was not your first show. You tell that story all the time. That was not your first show.
Ye, if Corey Price found it, that's that's not the first show.
That's not the first show. You've been saying for years your first show was Derby Wee and bought that was not your first show. And I didn't want to challenge you, but I knew that wasn't the first show.
Yeah, he found it and when I listened to it, like, that's not the first show.
Yeah, and you, by the way, were really bad in that in the first show.
Well, somehow it worked and you asked me to come back the next week.
So yay.
Yeah, I still am first.
And Rusian set a little bar run if I'm eighty.
Seven, Who's next?
Pat?
Is up next? Pat? Go ahead? Pat? Oh? Yes?
A uh, Actually, I was just calling you going something I heard the other day. I'm a podcast listener. They actually have time actually call in.
Ay.
You talk about all the time how today is the best life to live. Yes, we're in the best time we can ever be. Yes, and I agree the medicine.
I believe when it comes to everything, this is the best game. This is the best time.
It's the best time in human history. And we live in the best country in human history. And while there's many things to.
Change with the best country.
Yeah, Well, of course you agree with that because that's what everybody agrees with. But it is also the best time. You know, the average life.
Span woul.
On social media and all that.
Yeah, social media stinks, but social well, then you should cut it off.
But you're missing my point of what I've did been. I appreciate it.
Call I'm glad you cut it off. Okay, this is very simple. When my grandmother was a child, the average lifespan was like fifty and now it's just like a generation two generations later and it's like eighty.
Right.
You used to think about just the percentage of people that died during childbirth for most of human history, just during childbirth, leave aside everything else. Like the amount of people that died during childbirth was insanely high. We can now live or cure diseases that would have killed you not that long ago. Then you thought, Lee, I mean, when my grandmother grew up, she never left Hancock County, Tennessee, until she was like seventeen years old, never left the county. And now you can hit a button and see anywhere in the world if you want to.
Now there's a ton of stuff to complain about.
And then I'm saying this is I'm not trying to get all political, but I'm saying this is a white dude, think.
About every minority lot worse in the past.
So to me, it is not controversial at all that this is the best time in the history of life to live, that this is the best country to live in. We are among the point one of human existence of luckiness.
That's why we should wake up every day and be happy. You know, life's too short not to be happy. Enjoy the moment, man, enjoy your family, and enjoy KSR every day.
The poorest every exactly the poorest people in the United States. The poorest people are wealthier than most of the rest of the world and are infinitely have infinitely better lives than many of the rich people hundreds of years ago in terms of not living in like squalor and like. Again, that doesn't mean there are a million things I would change if I could change, But I do also wish that people would recognize how lucky we are just to be here today.
We just lived it. What do we do We drove to Oregon, think about back in the day, the trail to get to Orgon. How many people yeah along.
The way, Yeah, dysentery, I can paint affords the river.
I mean, look how much times have changed. We had a jeep wagoneer.
Yeah, so anyway, that doesn't mean there's not a million problems. But I do. I do believe this, and people always get mad at me. Conservatives get mad, and liberals they're all like, ah, it's the mere how about this. Think about how much of human history we couldn't even complain about the people in charge. You would be murdered if you claimed about if you could, if you complained about the people in charge.
Now we can do it on the radio, and it's fine.
And that's what's why. You just got to be happy. We're happy. We're Americans.
Sound very happy.
And I'm living in Glasgow, and I'm very.
Happy you're living in Glasgow.
I in Glasgow.
Yeah. Yeah, he's gonna move here. Who's next? Bob is up next?
Bob? Go ahead, Bob. It's not Bob and Jamestown. He's back there, Go ahead, Bob.
Bad seats today, Bob.
Hey, Hey, that's just exactly what I was going to ask you. Why do you treat Bob disrespectful like you will?
There we go.
It's good for Bob's brother to call the show, Bob, is this guy?
Is this guy related to you? Bob?
No, listen, I don't know him, but he seems like he's a super fan. And I heard a couple of weeks ago you and Channon was like, well should we pick up on him? And I knew that you know he's he's your Mary Ann from Brooklyn. And if you know what.
You're I think you just answered your own question, right Like Howard Stern loved Mary Ann from Brooklyn. I have an affinity for Bob from Afar And uh so, yes, no, I mean you ain't. I think you if you know that dynamic, you just answered your own question.
Okay, I wonder all right.
I appreciate the call.
The Nebraska coach Ryan matt Rule insinuated that his the running back Doubt Daldell Daldell is it Dante Dante Daldell, the running back from Nebraska who transferred to Kentucky. He insinuated in a press conference yesterday that Kentucky basically offered him before he even got in the portal. He said, Dante had to leave. I understand, I love Dante, but he didn't enter the portal and find out he knew where to go. I thought that was a direct shot Drew at Kentucky.
Did you.
I also thought that I would say to him, you should have offered him a little earlier than we did, and might he might have stayed. Uh, that's just college football. I mean all this transfer and so if some guys have made their mind up in week three of the season, they're in. There are no rules anywhere we have in Iola was supposed to be about putting your face on a T shirt. Now it's here's five million dollars to come to campus. It's the wild West, and that's he's whining about it. But that's a very small example of something that might have been in a gray area.
First of all, I bet we did contact him before he got in the portal, if we're being honest, I bet we did. And you know what, we should have people they don't own these kids, like the kids should be able to find out if I go in the portal, is somebody gonna want me?
Right? I think that's okay. It's again it's bat rules.
Mentality is like this kid, I own him, and you shouldn't be able to talk to him.
I just RYAN think that's ridiculous.
You don't think other teams tried to contact Day or Barryon or Dean Walker during the season.
Of course they did.
Of course they did. You don't think we contacted Ray Davis and Brock Mandigrift before they entered the portal. Of course, of course they did.
And you know what, that's why I go back to, you know, look at our basketball team of Mark Pope. All of those guys signed in aile deals. We went and got all of them. But I don't know about you, Drew. I feel like they played pretty hard. I feel like the jersey still matters to him. I feel like they go out there and give everything they can for Kentucky just because the guys getting money. I mean, I don't know, if you watch them. Christmas night, Lebron and Steph were playing basketball against each other. Lebron is worth a billion dollars, Steph is probably worth a half a billion dollars, and those two dudes, who are old now were going at it and they wanted to want When you're a competitor, you're still gonna compete even if you have money, So it doesn't bother me.
And with his complaint, it's kind of example of what you're saying at the beginning of the show. Different rules for coaches when they leave for a new job. They don't jump blind leave a job into a coaching portal and hope someone wants them. They already talk to people behind the scenes while they're coaching a team and have something set up before they leave. Yes, layers should feel lowed to have an idea of who's gonna want them before they jump blind into the portal.
John Caliperi was under contract at Kentucky while he was talking.
To UCLA, right while he was talking to Arkansas.
Yeah, right, he did it so much they put a clause in his contract he couldn't do it, and it's what ended up screwing the excuse me, my language and making him have to go to Arkansas. So I'm fine with it. We'll take a break. Be right back here. Don Franklin is Kentucky Sports Radio?
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It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Glasgow A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven uh text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four one person rights, Matt, what are the three gay you guys are looking forward to the most in the rest of the basketball season. Well, number one is Arkansas by far. Number two would be Alabama in RUP because or no do we play both, so we play them both, So I would say in RUP, and then number three would be Auburn.
Actually I would go Auburn number.
Two because I think they're the best team in the country, and then Alabama three. The all three games in RUP, I think you throw the Tennessee game in there with that, and you're gonna have four of the best atmospheres we've had since COVID in rupp Arena.
All four, even the Florida game.
I wish it wasn't eleven in the morning, But the other four, those are gonna be awesome atmospheres.
What about you, Yeah, I mean those four are tough to be. Just to change up the order, Arkansas's number one. I think Arkansas is everybody's number one. I'll put Tennessee too, and I hope they're still just thinking they're the best thing that's ever played basketball and we can bring them down a notch. I'd honestly be worried a little about the outcome because they are very good. But I'd love to beat that game, and what would be a crazy atmosphere beat Tennessee in that game in a crazy atmosphere.
You know, Cal couldn't beat Rick barn to Tennessee. So yeah, let's see if Mark Pope can be Rick Barnes coming into Upparina. So I'm gonna put that game.
We've lost, We've lost a lot to them over the years, although I think we've won the last couple of years at at home.
The Arkansas game is gonna.
Be That's an ald timer.
I mean, that's gonna be an all timer.
Like when you sit there and you think about, like it's sometimes hard to forget, hard to remember what the games are like pregame, but if you're talking about all time hype, pre game, Kentucky games.
Just top of my head.
Carolina in twenty twelve, yes, right when it was one versus two, the Anthony Davis game. Obviously, Patinos first time here. Maybe the first uk U of L game for real back in the eighties.
When Florida came in number one. Yes, we camped out for twenty four hours.
Two thousand three, that Florida game when they came in, even the one a few years later with Joe Kim Noah which we lost, but they were number one in game day, those were big.
What about you?
I think you know you said the Patino's first game and he played Tubby Patino's first game. He gets cal let it then environmentally and after that game, also.
This one's gonna be right up there though, I mean, this one's gonna be I think it's at night. It's there's just so much at stake, like, and then you know there's gonna be the question of will he.
Get booed, will he get cheered? What's it gonna be?
Like? A Due is over there, so is z, so is Wagner, like just the whole thing. It's just gonna be. It's gonna be wild.
I've changed my opinion on the booing since last Saturday. I wasn't there. Maybe some of you were. But a friend text to me that UK fans were booing Aaron Bradshaw every time he touched the ball, and I thought, man, if we're booing Aaron Bradshaw in the Ohio State game calling, those guys are out, dude.
If you're booing Aaron Ratshaw, you're booing cat.
Yeah. I actually thought he wouldn't get it too bad, And then when I heard we're booing Bradshaw even before he started.
I don't think well, I.
Don't think a do gets booed. I don't think Z gets booed. I hope Wagner does it, but I could see it. But now I definitely think Cole's.
Getting the moment cal gets introduced at Ropperina. Yeah, it's coming, be ready, it's coming.
It's coming. I agree with you. I didn't think that necessarily either, but I think it's coming. Who's next?
Dan is up next? Dan? Go ahead? Dan?
Dan?
All right? No, Dan, Who's next? Bill is up next? Bill? Go ahead? Bill?
I at go catch y'all. We're talking about marriage earlier.
Yes, we know a lot about.
I met my wife when she was in the eighth grade, got married at twenty, and you were in.
The eighth grade too.
What hope you? I hope you were in the eighth grade as well, sir, or at least nine?
No, No, I was nice, Uh, okay, okay, but we just we just celebrated our fiftieth wedding againniversary.
Well, congratulations, so you uh you've been lifelong sweethearts?
Yepkay? Well what you are?
What's the best trade about her? Something positive?
Here?
Well?
She was she was very good looking, and she is a good Hang on a second, I mean, you've been married fifty years, so I'm not trying to give you advice. But let me weren't we change that verb from was to is? How about that?
Well? She, well, she is, but that's what caught my attention originally.
Okay, gotcha the reason we.
Got married at twenty as her aunts came up and told her that we'd been gied or so long we were gonna get married. So she said she wanted us to get married on her grandparents' fiftieth waiting anniversary.
We're good, Well, get congratulations on fifty years. You're very lucky man. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio Quarterback. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Glasgow at Don Franklin. Kentucky and Florida play a week from tomorrow to start SEC play games at eleven a m. And by the way, this segment is sponsored by Shady Rays Shady rays dot com.
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What a game. So I'm giving away tickets.
We did a little contest during the break here and we got three finalists. All you guys are here, introduce yourself. Let's start with you, sir. What's your name?
I'm Mark from Berksville.
Mark from Berksville. All right, Berksville. Little, wait a minute, Clinton County, Cumberland, Cumberland County, Okay.
Mark from Berksville.
Kevin from nob Lick.
Nob Lick one County's non b Lick metcalf, metcalf? All right, so we got met what metcalf in Cumberland County? Hard to find that in a contest.
Kevin from Bowling Green.
Kevin from Bowling Green, all right, Oh we got some Bowling Green people. Okay, all right, here's the deal. I like to give tickets to people who love Kentucky basketball. So here's a very simple contest. I'm sitting here looking at the fit at the top fifty single season scoring years in UK history.
So this is a play.
It's not for their career, it's in an individual year, the most points they've scored. That way, there could be one and donees or et cetera. Now, some of the guys on this list are on here multiple times, so you only say them once, will go in order. You say one once, you've said it. If they're on the list, it can't be said again. If you say one that's not on the list, you're out. All right Now, who said twenty eight hundred?
You two? So we're gonna go this way. You'll get to go first. All right. I'm just gonna do it by the town. So Bowling Green go.
Anthony Davis.
Anthony Davis is yes on the list. Read Shepherd. Read Shepherd is not on the list.
Wow, you know you've been watching basketball all the time here?
Yeah, I have a noblick.
Come on, I mean, you couldn't you had you couldn't go back tollab before last year, I was just.
As many threes as he did.
I thought he had to scored more than that.
He did not make the top fifty. He was like fifty seven. So all right, well we got to keep moving. What do you got, Kenny Walker? Kenny Walker? Yes, Jamal Mashburn, Jamal Mashburn, Yes, Dan Dan Issel Yes.
Goodness. So you talk about, you know, get on the radio and your freeze up. See that's the thing. People, it's a lot harder than then. You think.
We're gonna go, uh.
Going once, going twice?
Your kids are looking at you with such hope, with such hope. Can that come up with one more?
Let's go?
Travis Ford?
Travis Ford is a no. So all right, sir, you're from Birksville. All of Cumberland County is listening. All you gotta do is give me one player that scored in the top fifty of the season or top fifty in a season, and you get tickets to UK Florida.
What's your guests?
Mike Pratt?
Mike Pratt is.
Not on the list.
So you're back in it, Oh my gosh, you're back in it.
No, Mike Pratt. So it's the two of you again.
You get another chance, Bowling Green, You've been given a second life.
How about Michael kid Gilchrist.
Michael Kidd Gilchris not on the list, now Birks for a second time with a chance to win.
Come on, you can do this. Mac.
Kyle Macy is.
Not here.
We go, Here, we go.
Kyle Macy is not on the list. That one surprises me. I would have thought he'd be on it. Not on the single season list. Milik Monk, Malik Monk is on the list, all right, so you now have to match him after the Milite Monk. When what do you got? Malik Monk, by the way, fourth all time in a season. You have mentioned three four of the top five. Isle is first, Mashburn third, Monk, fourth, Isle fifth, Go ahead, Bowling Green wins it. If you don't get this, Berks full third times of charm. Kevin Greedy is on the list, all right, he stays on. He is by the way, sixth for most points in a single season. Back to you, Bowling Green. This is quite a match up here right now.
All right, go ahead, you know, let's go. Uh Darren Fox.
Darren Fox is not on the list. No, he is on the list. Side Fox is on the list. Sorry, twenty eighth dearon Fox.
All right, Sir Tayshawn Prince. Tayshawn Prince is on the list. Now we're starting to get in a rhythm.
Oh well, we're about to break there.
Okay, bowling green.
Okay, going once, going twice? All right, Berksville, this is the third match point you've had. You gotta get it or else I may just have to give these tickets to charity. Here we go, Wooden player, top fifty going once.
Jack gibbings. Jack Gibbons is on the list, and there you go.
Well done. Congratulations, sir. Let me give you something that you could have gotten that. I think we're probably pretty easy job wall oscar she bwey you guys, you said, reed Shephard. But what about Antonio Reeves last year, who's like eighth all time in the thing? And then nobody mentioned does anybody know Danissel's first who had the second most points in the season. Jody Meeks is the other one. Jody Meeks would have been a second. Well, cir, congratulations, thank you very much. Cumberland County gets a tickets. Give him a big round of applause. It's a lot harder than it looks to uh, to get to do this. It looks on looks at home like, oh well, anyone can get these Ryan, These are three very knowledgeable fans.
It can be very difficult.
There is something that is very true. It is called microphone fright. You see that microphone in front of your face and you freeze up.
You freeze up quickly. Who's up next? Alex is up there? Alex? Go ahead, Alex?
Hey, Matt, first time, long time?
Who are what's up?
Two things real quick? Now hang up and listen. First of all, to my good friends Amber and Campbell or at the remote today of their first remote. So I wanted to shout them out real quick.
Where's where are they? Hang on a second, where's Amber? And hello there? Nice to see you back there, right go ahead.
The other thing while we're talking behind the scenes is I want to know what happened with the Shade and Sharp saga. Was there ever a plan for him to play with Cal involved in.
It it all?
What actually happened there?
And I'll hang out, great question, Drew, I'll let you take that one.
I genuinely don't know Cal's involvement in that God there was a handler that Shadan I can't think of his name right now, but he just seemed to be bad news and we all saw what that situation was. He took advantage of that bottle of the bench and got drafted. But the question about Cal, how much he knew or was. I don't know anything about what Cal.
Yeah, I think what I would say is, I think when he came here, all intentions were to play.
Then the injury happened.
Then I think at some point the decision was made by Shadon Sharp's people.
Not to play.
I think was left in the dark on that decision until about mid February, and at that point he knew but decided to protect the kid and kind of keep it where it was. So but I think I think both parties intended for him to play, and then I think the decision was made not to play. But but Cow was still led to believe he would play up until the last few weeks of the year.
House pr On That is where he messed up. He dangling him to the fan base, even when he had a pretty good idea if hecame clear. We all remember to get there early you can see Shaden that was the way he said. It was kind of condescending. I think he handled it poorly with the fan base.
I think you're dead on. I think the intent for him when he came here was to play, but I think that injury kind of spooked his people, his handlers, and didn't want to risk further injury, which would hurt his NBA stock potential.
Let's do our Draft Kings segment.
You go to DraftKings, you can use promo cod KSR bet five win one hundred and fifty dollars.
There five bowl games. We're gonna go through them quickly.
Today the Armed Forces Bowl Oklahoma.
Who you got?
Oklahoma?
Good game. I think it's no spread. I'm taking Navy.
Yep, it's a pick them, yeah, pick them. I'm taking Oklahoma too much. Town the Birmingham Bowl. Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt. Last night they had a pep rally and they had a rap contest between Georgia Tech and Vandy, and if you go look at the video, Vandy should not be rapping. Georgia Tech ended up taking that one pretty well. I think they do the same in the game. I'll pick Georgia.
Tech nerds versus Nerds in this one, I'm going the Nerds from Vandy.
We nerds versus Nerds.
Yeah, all right, Oh, Vandy's too excited. They're getting their quarterback for his thirteenth year in college football. Next year he's playing. They don't need to wrap their winning and coverage.
These two teams have not played each other in fifteen years and used to be rivals in the Liberty Bowl. Arkansas and Texas Tech, they used to have kind of a heated rivalry, haven't played.
They play in the Liberty Bowl. Who you got man?
I know nothing about Texas Tech, so I'll take Arkansas.
I have no idea Arkansas's entire offensive line just got up in the left so all of them, I don't know who's gonna be blocking for that. I'll take Texas Tech.
I'm gonna take Texas Tech two.
Arkansas lost more players than any team in Division one football to the portal and they're not playing.
So I'll take Texas Tech.
Syracuse and Washington State in the Holiday Bowl.
Who you got, ah, let's go.
Let's call the QS.
Sorry QS, Washington State. I'm rooted for Washington State and Oregon State forever. After the pas.
I'm gonna take Syracuse.
Syracuse, by the way, is an eighteen point favorite in this game, just for the record.
And finally in the.
S RS distribution Las Vegas Bowl.
I have no idea what that means. USC and Texas A and M.
You know, early in the season there were some projections we could have been in this game that didn't pan out. I will still side with the SEC, though.
I think Texas A and M had higher s aspirations. They thought they were gonna get in the playoffs, and so sometimes you get you don't make you get butt hurt. So I'm going with USC.
That's a really good This is the kind of game where A and M's better, but you do have to ask yourself do you want to be there or not? But USC's had a lot of dudes leave, sort of like like Arkansas. We took one of them actually from them. So I'll take A and EM. We're gonna take a break and come back right after this. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Final segment here Kentucky Sports Radio Live in Glasgow, Kentucky. Text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four h One person writes, I would like to know from Drew because I feel like Drew goes out and gets the real stories. What is the best story he hasn't told behind the scenes of UK players or coaches spot.
I haven't really thought about that one yet.
I think your best story, and we've mentioned it before, but I think your best story was your ability to break the Matt Roark being quarterback of the Tennessee game. I mean that was that was some hot that was basically Drew at his going to bars best.
I had to really go into some places to get the information.
That's one way to put it.
Yeah, that's one way to that one's by far my best. My best scoop, especially since no one uh, no one believed me, was what made that. I was very uncomfortable, even though I knew I was right, when everyone else is telling you you're wrong, there's still a very uneasy feeling there. And that whole day until he came out a quarterback was was pretty nerve wracking. But that was my one. No one that Matt Roark was gonna be cool.
You used to get pretty good scoop from the UH in your bar days from the Todd Lantern Sam Malone crowd because that because you would be at the same bar as they would, right, So you used to get some that walk on scoop was pretty good for you.
Then, yeah, with this last basketball coaching staff, as I'd mentioned it that I would get Scoop at ten roof ten years ago and moved to Jeff Rubies with the last basketball assistant.
Coach, Well let's let's go to that.
One person writes, I think it's hilarious how much Drew hates Chin Coleman. I would like to know why he hates Chin Coleman so much. I know he just wants to burst out and tell a Chin Coleman.
Story, not a hatred. I got nothing against the guy. But when you're paid, I think we can all agree, Kentucky basketball, we want the best of the best on our coaching staff. Is that crazy to one?
I think that's very fair.
I just I don't even think he was in the conversation of the average of the coaches, and I don't think he was given a good effort, And as a fan who knew a few things of him not giving his best effort, I didn't enjoy that him personally. Whatever, good luck, have a great life, but I did not think he was doing his best for Kentucky basketball life.
Have we told the just remind me because I can't remember what I say and what I don't as I get older.
Have we told the story about the shooting equipment? You have? You mentioned it?
I don't know if you did on KSR or a pregame show, but you mentioned it one time.
It's not the shoot, it's the synergy.
It's like a ce you saw the thing. You may have seen it when Arkansas played. They showed it.
They have this thing in the practice facility where they can shoot threes and and like they take a mirror, they take a map of every shot taken in the practice facility and it'll show are you shooting it on the correct arc? Like it'll and it'll basically show how good a shooter you are. And like for the scientifically minded players, they can go in there and shoot and they can find.
Are we putting the right arc on it? All that stuff.
It's very it's very analytically based. It was brought in during the col Era. Mark Pope, as I understand, uses it like he goes over the numbers with the players when.
They bought that.
The university bought it and there came a time that it needed an update, and when the people came to come and fix it, they found out that two of our four coaches on staff had never once even logged into the machine at any point. And that was really the moment where I said, these dudes are mailing it in because if the whole point of this is to tell you how to make your players better, and two of the four I mean had never logged in, like still had the original password that they had never like, had never logged in.
Ryan, That's when I kind of knew this ain't going to work.
Yeah, you just mentioned coach Pope probably lugs in every single day. These guys were there for years and didn't log in one time at a peaceful queen that can help you you as a coach, do your job.
And I thought it was fascinating. If you watched when Arkansas played earlier this year, they did a little promo I don't know if anybody saw it about the system, and they talked about what they did and how important it was, and I was just sitting there cracking up, Drew because I was like, they're sitting here.
Acting like Arkansas does this the whole time.
They don't even I see the coaches on the staff, they don't even log into the thing.
I said this at the time. You know, I was as ready for cal to go as anyone. But part of it to me is sad that he trusted some assistance that, at least from my perspective of what I believe it heard, we're not doing half of what they needed to do need to do it. I think Cala's legacy has come down a little bit because of some people he trusted and shouldn't trusted.
I mean, you'll go back and you'll say the change. The two major factors in the change. One was COVID and one was the loss of the combination of Robic, Kenny Payne, and Peevy.
The combination of.
The loss of those three and then COVID, I think ultimately what turned that for the negative.
Somebody asked me to ask you a question.
Behind the scenes.
Do you mean somebody asked you here.
In our audience?
All right?
Can you elaborate what really happened between Callan Robick.
Yeah, I mean we've talked a lot about that.
I think Robic uh had some had some personal things that happened with him, and it led to a fallout. But I also think you know, you remember we were talking about stoops and vents earlier and I said they were really good friends though and at times they can butt heads. I think that was of it too. But if you asked me, the one person that Cal missed the.
Most, it was John Robick.
Like if you were to sit and look at John Caliperry as a coach and a person, he does like eighty percent of the job, great drew, and then there was twenty percent that, like every person, he needed help And Robiic was the perfect complimentary piece because Robic's twenty percent was exactly what Cal didn't do well. And when he lost that, that then became like an obvious problem that he really never got fixed.
Yep.
And they replaced that spot with a guy who thought putting a blue shovel and construction vest in a kid's hand and saying we're going to work is how you recruit the number one player.
That didn't end up working out very well. Hey, Glasgow, thank you all very much. This is an absolutely great crowd. You know, I when this show started. When this show started, I was pretty sick, and I actually think the energy of it Ryan, I'm now I have a lot.
Maybe he toughed it out for the whole show today.
Almost like you guys were like flu medicine or something for me.
All Right, So this is the last weekend Kentucky has off until until through March madness. Hopefully it's our last weekend off until April. Everybody enjoyed. I'm going to the Bengals game Tomorroway who they play the Broncos. I haven't been to a Bengals game in fifteen years to the actual game, so I will be there tomorrow, even though I think it's gonna rain. Thank you guys very much. We appreciate it. Everybody enjoy your weekend. Come to ks bar, play the Bowl Challenge thing, and we'll see you later. This has been in Kentucky Sports Radio.