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Welcome Back two Techy Sports Radio AF I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text Machine seven seven two seven to seven four five two five four We got We are here in Carnia, Nebraska, A good group of folks for folks made the trip. We'll be in uh tonight in Fort Collins, Colorado to watch the game. Mario Year is going to come on here before the show is over and announce where it's gonna be tonight. I hope he knows he has an hour left to pick the spot and not disappoint everyone in Fort Collins who wants to come watch the Cats tonight.
Pressure's on Mario. He's he's been scoping or out. I believe in him. He's good spot.
No pressure.
But there is a place that's run by an Australian cold waltz in kangaroo.
That don't you're making the decision.
We have to stop getting into other people's decisions. Here's the individual decision, Mario. You can pick it. You don't have to waltz with a kangaroo if you don't want to. Don't let don't let the Aussie get in the way of of everything.
What person rights, Matt? What are the discussions in the car on the trip?
It's good question.
There are not a lot of discussions, right, there were a couple of discussion.
Those are long focus. But amongst the people of the group.
Uh no, you know, I set up front by you. We discussed you know, Biden's son every once in a while, and yeah.
Well we all decided whether or not we would pardon our son. Yeah, you were pretty adamant that. Well pretty much it was six oh. Everyone said they would pardon their son except you. You said you you would partner your son depending on what he did's right?
If he did well, as you guys know, I have a son that's in jail, he did something pretty bad. I wouldn't pardon him. He deserves to be punished. So if they did something bad.
So we spent like thirty minutes going what would you pardon for?
What wouldn't you?
Yeah, and basically, uh, Ryan would pardon for anything that doesn't hurt anybody. Is that kind of how you are?
True?
Yes, yeah, so Hunter's federal tax evasion, I probably would.
If it was my son, I probably would pardon him.
Yeah, but I think a lot of people, like when I heard it, I was like, ah, Joe, you shouldn't have done that. And I still kind of lean that way. But at the same time, if it was your kid.
Yeah, and they were sitting there looking at prison.
You know, but you, but you. I think you made a good distinction between like what kind of crime.
Yeah, the violent crime or something you absolutely deserve to be punished.
Yeah, they find out twenty two eighty seven. So let's talk about the game now. You feel good about us winning Clemson?
I do, especially now because as I said, it's it's all atmosphere. For me, I think Kentucky's the better team, and just seeing that there's tickets available for what there are, it makes me question how good it'll be. You know, Kentucky hasn't been in a true road environment, but they played Duke in a pretty rowdy Atlanta. I know a lot of that crowd was for them, so they've played away from before. I think we'll be okay, But I do expect them to drop one of the two this week. So it's not like I'm just guaranteeing anything. But I feel pretty good about this.
It'd be awesome to win this week, Shannon, and then if we lose, then we could go into the Kanzak.
It's almost a no lose situation, that's right, right.
Like you're playing and if you win you want to win, but if you don't, it doesn't hurt you too much.
Yeah, I'm not gonna hurt it all when it comes time for March. If anything, it gets you ready for March. So I mean, if you said, though, you got to drop one of the two games, I'd rather drop to Night and win in Seattle. I don't want to drive all the way out to Seattle to watch a loss and drive back or fly back.
So yeah, I mean, that's actually another good point if you tell me we're going one in one.
Yeah.
The NCAA has shown over the years they give you more credit in the tournament for good wins than bad losses, or than harm for bad losses. So you would want to beat Gonzaga and lose to Clemson.
I think that would be my pick. You beat Gonzaga, one of the top five teams in the country. It's going to help you at the end of the season. Now when seedings come out.
You were telling me that since you got to Kentucky, Max, you really haven't had a basketball team since you've been here. That kind of got everybody into it because you came. You were not here for twenty seventeen team. You were here in eighteen, So basically you saw the eighteen nineteen team. You've basically lived through the worst of it. Do you are you? Are you excited about this group?
Absolutely fall out of the basement window. So the only ways up we're gonna I'm really looking forward to this Mic coach team. I've actually enjoyed it. Watched the Duke game. I didn't get to watch last Fridays because I was coaching. But looking forward to these two games to see where we're at. I think obviously Ronnie really played the one difficult game so far and we managed to come out on top of though I'd say we maybe didn't look better than them, We just kind of had a few things go away. So I'm looking forward to these two games to see exactly where we're at.
Let's talk about a couple of college basketball developments. Is Danny Hurley the biggest whiner you've ever seen?
He's definitely pull vaulted way up that list, and just think, man, he what if he'd have been here?
We've been stuck with that guy.
Yeah, but we would have definded him. I mean, that's the thing. What it thinks you, what it thinks you find is the older I get the more I think this is true in life, everything's realm Like, if he was here, we'd find a way to say it's okay.
We'd be like, I shouldn't do it.
But we look at the passion our coach has.
But being an objective neutral because he's not here, he looks like a mad man.
Looks like a mad man. You're in Maui, dude.
Yeah, we know we have Bahamas Matt. Where's Maui Dan out there? And we also it's good we have college basketball has a good villain again, the world united around them. That's true in Miami or Maui, and we were celebrating it in addition to the clips of his losing losing his mind on the ref.
I just we have a bad guy in college basket. I mean he was.
Always like that, Shannon and I just you know, it's weird with the teams in the Big East. Their games are not on ESPN, so you don't see them a lot, like like it's it's easy to kind of forget them, and then you get in the tournament and the last two tournaments. I'm gonna be honest with you, I've paid less attention to the last two NCAA tournaments than any because of just the white Kentucky was. So maybe I've just kind of missed and he was a jerk all the time, But it does feel like that was obscene levels of jerkdom.
Back to back games too. You just won national titles back to back. You were in Maui. Well, how could life be so bad that you would be that angry about anything.
The video, in some way's the video of his coach holding back was worse than the ones even before because it just showed how out of control he was.
He looked like an insane man, like it was. I mean, he's always been that kind of confident, loud guy, but it's just going to a whole another level. Now he's got two national championships.
And they lost to what Colorado, Memphis and Dayton.
It's not like they lost to great teams.
Maybe that's why they were winning all the games last couple years. We didn't get to see him Losey's stuff.
Yes did now.
He also said after it was over, he went on to three in the Maui tournament and he said, I'll never come back to one of these tournaments. Yes, woa, he kind of that's you know. That was Col's position. He said, I'll never come back. Then Matt Norlander did a story that basically said these tournaments are in troup including Maui, that teams are just like why should we travel somewhere and pay all this money to go when we can host games at home or play on neutral sites. They basic Matt ne Orlander's point was that the the tournaments like Duke played in with Kansas and that those kind of things are going to be the future where they play like two games in a place and it's not even really a tournament.
Kind of like our Big Blue Invitational.
Yeah, but even that's like just at home. He thinks the future is you go to you know, wherever you go to Vegas or whatever, you play two games, one of which is against a really good team, one of which is against a mid major, and that's your tournament.
Yeah.
There's already been a lot of those this year. I think there'll be more. Yesterday talking to our guy Iowa, I always did one of those. We saw I guess this wasn't a two game, but like Arkansas played Illinois and wherever that was, Kansas City or whatever it was. I think we'll see a lot more of those around the hall.
It's a shame because I think the Mala invitation is really good for college basketball.
I mean, like because of Dan Hurley and all that.
Everyone was talking about it, right, I mean like it was it kind of put college basketball on the map a little bit at a time where it's very hard with all that's going on for people to pay attention to it.
For what forty years, the mal invitation has been something new basketball fans can look forward to and watch.
It's a perfect time.
It's that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday before Thanksgiving, well people are only kind of working.
It's like the perfect time for it, to be honest.
It's the perfect time of day because you get those late games or normally you don't have a good basketball game on. You can be in bed, you know, watching Auburn play North Carolina past midnight.
Yeah.
So I would hate to see that, hate to see that happen, But that may be the future.
You know.
Popus said he would play in it, But the next time we can play in it is twenty twenty eight. The field is the field is set for twenty six and twenty seven, so we could play it in twenty twenty eight. I've been told when it comes to UK basketball schedule to this is kind of the future. All right, you're gonna play Louisville obviously, every year, you're gonna play in the ACC SEC Challenge, which will be every year, you're gonna play in the Champions Classic. So those are the three you can kind of lay in. I think the CBS Classic goes away. I think there's two more years. I think we play this year and then maybe next year we play UCLA in it or whatever, and then I think it goes away. I don't think they renew that again. And then there are two years left in the Gonzaga series after this. Well, Kentucky plays in Nashville next year, that game will happen, but then I think the two games after that will get canceled. So I think we will play Gonzaga this year, and then we'll play Nashville. I think they're gonna recreate UK Indiana, and then I think they're gonna have Kentucky play one other somebody, either in a neutral site game or a home and home, and so that basically every year you get Champions Classic, Louisville, ACC Game, Indiana, and someone else and that's that's your schedule. Do you like that as a schedule of non conference I think so. I'm really glad the CBS Classic is going away. Last year in Atlanta, UK, North Carolina, that was like a tournament game, but everyone before that, the crowd sucked, The game sucked.
I feel like we lost games. We shouldn't have get it out here. Indiana that's starts next year. That's on the schedule. We got four years of Kentucky Indiana coming back. So I know, me and Ryan kind of grew up a part of that. We're both looking forward to that one coming back.
I'm glad that Pope wants to keep that too.
You know, he was here when they're still ever playing Indiana and they got some big, big rivalry.
Stink.
Now, yeah, they got to get better.
I mean they do, Like I don't.
That's not a game like you know, We've had this conversation many times over the years, but to me, it's like they're not.
They stink.
And we were right saying cal would never go back to Assembly Hall.
We called that years ago.
No, I mean, he wasn't going to go back to Assembly Hall and and and but now I think.
You can go with with where we are now well when he scheduled it, because Cal is the one that I think, Yeah, this was booked with Cal four years as simply Hall is the fourth stop.
We just assumed he was going to get out of it before the fourth one.
It's roughed and like Lucas Oil, then another Neutral and then Assembly Hall is the very last one.
But I like that schedule.
I think maybe mixing a few more in state teams, which I think Pope would probably do, you know, for the smaller schools that we played.
Well.
I like the ACC Challenge because it sends you to Arenas that you wouldn't normally go to, and you're gonna get teams in RUP that you wouldn't normally go to.
Yeah.
The good thing is if we can get the CBS Classic over, then I think we'll play North Carolina a lot in that ACC Challenge. The problem is, I don't know if we're ever gonna get to play Duke in it because of the Champions Classic, because.
Of the way that the schedule works. So that'll at least.
Give you North Carolina, so we're not always playing Clempson in Miami, who we've played the last couple of years.
Yeah, hopefully we'll get a Cameron Indoor trip one of the years. You're playing Kansas or Michigan State. Maybe you just played Duke the year before, and then you can rotate them for two years and play in the Champions Classic. Gets something going there, because Cameron Indoor for Kentucky game is very high on my college basketball buckets.
Yeahbe number one.
I'd love to see a Kentucky game there. I've seen many games there, but obviously not the Cats.
Max.
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One person writes and says, my question is for Ryan, I worry about him. Does he know he's getting older and that some of the things he takes for granted for his health may not always be there? Can he make sure to stay healthy for those of us that love him?
Very sweet for my mom to write in and say that, you know I had a salad at.
Pizza Ranch and you also had pizza.
I had one piece of pizza.
Throws it out.
That's good salmon skewer pizza wrench.
But did you try the fried chicken?
One piece chicken?
Okay, so you can't just say you can't say I had a salad like that cancels out everything else you eat.
I mean, what did what kind of dressing did you put on?
Salad?
A thousand islands?
Okay, that's worse healthy than the pizza, A lot of it.
So your lunch not dinner, lunch, lunch was a salad drenched in thousand island dresses, A slice of pizza one pizza, pizza front, thing of fried chicken, one chicken leg and did you get.
It out of bread stick? Nope?
You ate good?
Okay, that's not bad.
Way more than a salmon skewer and rice last night.
So are you trying to be healthy this trail?
I was trying to eat it kind of smart.
What about that big margarita?
I did have a.
Help family and tradition.
Yeah, so, I mean I don't know that that was a white lost day.
Yeah.
Today at Pennies, I'm a little worried about I'm gonna have to get something fried and greasy.
We don't have to get a salad.
If they have, you're not.
Getting a salad.
I gotta get a greasy cheeseburger.
Thank you.
So now we're right back to where we were, to where we were a minute ago.
Who's up next?
Mark Anthony?
Is Mark Anthony?
How are you? Eight five eighty seven?
A good morning, Mario, Good morning Max.
And Mario's not on the radio, but Max is here, go ahead morning.
Yeah. You know anyway, man, I listened to you and Vince yesterday and it was low energy. But I say you could put that off to the fact that the past twenty four hours had probably been spending some pretty intense discussion, and what I heard him say was, we've made a grossman's calculation in recruiting talent with that as as much regard to character as we need to get.
Well, he certainly said that. I mean, I thought that was a pretty big admission to say. I mean, when you go we recruit people and we need to do better with the character, that shows that. I mean by implication Mark Anthony, that that's not what they were doing before.
Well, and I think that he they intend or Mark Stoops intends to turn that around and go for a character and once that's been evaluated, then we'll look at the test. So what that means is we're going to end up with three star gas. We're not gonna.
Get That's not necessarily. I don't think that's true.
Why do you think that everybody that's I mean, there are teams full of guys that win, that don't get in trouble all over college football.
Why can't get those.
Guys They used to be at Alabama and Georgia and they're not there so much anymore.
Because yeah, but there are those guys, I mean, there are those guys.
Why do you assume, why.
Do you assume that there's not a guy like let me.
I mean, just think about all the guys over the years that we've had that were our best players, Randall Kopp, Chris Rodriguez, Benny Snell, like, those dudes were good guys.
Think of all the guys on defense.
We've had a couple guys with some character issus, but most of them were good guys.
Matt's when you played, most of that team was good dudes.
Right, absolutely, yeah. I mean probably ninety nine point nine percent.
Of the guys on the offensive line that were the big blue wall. I think pretty much every one of those dudes. Mark Anthony was a high character guy, So why can't you go.
Get those character man? High character?
But they also were talented. They played in the NFL six.
But what I'm saying is we're got three star gas. But that's stoop specialty. Anyhow, it always was, development was always.
Well, there were there's some true to that. That's some truth to.
That, yeah, and so you know, it's it's just not going to look like I think that Scootsie had seen himself as having reached the threshold of the Alabamas and the Georgia's where you just get top fast star talent and go to town, and even Alabama and Georgia ain't doing that. Now, No, you're right.
I mean, there was no doubt that the arrogance. I appreciate the call arrogance had creeped into that facility. I think certainly amongst the players, even some coaches, I think they got they became you know well, I think they be complained, became complacent. So now let's talk about what happens over the next few days with you with UK football. Let's just go around the room hard questions.
Do you expect you're gonna call his chicken? If we don't answer it chicken, we know he's not gonna presses. Do you.
Expect Brad White to be here next year? You know the job We all thought he might get gone, so.
It followed it closely enough to know what options are still out there. But I did I was somewhat expecting him to be in that Florida State spot that's already been filled. So I'm gonna lean yes only because I don't know his options right now, because I was kind of watching that one thinking that was it.
So yes, Oleane, Yes, because I thought if he would have a place, he'd probably be already out the door by now.
Although the only issue.
We gotta go quicker. We're not gonna get through.
Yes, all right, yes, yeah, I just kind of think the jobs are.
There right now.
I'm gonna say no, Do you think Vince Merrill will be here next year?
I'll say yes, but yesterday hurt my confidence level on that.
Yes, I'll answer it like him.
I'll just pause for a long time.
I wonder what he was doing.
I was wondering what you were doing as well.
Shit, I say, he will be here, Stoops. We'll do everything he can to keep him here.
So yes, right, yeah, he's here.
All right, I'm gonna say yes. Uh percentage chance? Oh yeah, Mark Stoops still ends up not here?
Wait, not here ends up not here, leaves another word?
Percentage chance he leaves at this point ten, It's just okay, it's looking like it's it's.
Running it back zero.
I mean, well maybe one in case he dies, but.
Story depressing into dark.
You never know.
You don't want to make assumption Max that it was all all.
To quote marks duds themselves. Zero percent. I'm gonna go zero five.
I'm gonna go ten.
Uh, I think anything can happen, you know, Cal and Mitch didn't interview, and two days later he was.
You're right, nothing zero, I mean nothing really is zero?
Ever, nothing is one in the world. How many coaching changes at the assistant coach positions, player play like, you know, positions?
Trying to run through some of my head.
The thing is that I have some I think should be done, but just the way he talks, I don't know if it's gonna happen.
I'll say three. That's a lot though.
Okay, the way he's talking, Wolf's back. So I'm gonna say yeah, two or three. I think there'll be a few more on defense than we normally say.
I'm gonna go too. But the one that needs to be changed isn't gonna change. That's the offensive line. So I'll say two.
I'm just gonna say one.
I'm gonna say two, And I do think Wolford comes back, which is unfortunate. I think in terms for the fan base, which gets me to the debate that was held online. There's a lot of people online that like to claim to speak for the entire fan base. Percentage of the fan base that you think would like to see a change next year.
Sure, think about Twitter. I'm going high though, I'm seventy okay, as in stoops out what the fans would like. Yeah, I think it's probably seventy seventy five.
Yeah, I mean if you read Twitter, but Twitter is not real life. I think overall, probably it's closer to fifty five.
I'd gonna say sixty.
Yeah.
I put it up on the bond that bridge page and I asked people to look. I asked people to comment. I looked last night. It was about sixty would like a change, which I think is probably more representative than Twitter. But also, but who knows if it's completely represented. But that was that That about sixty. Younger fans, it's very high. Older fans tend, I think, to be more patient. They remember how we were, so I think it just depends on which age of people you're talking. Are you here to watch the show?
Number five? All right, we'll take a break right back.
It's KSR Quarterback.
It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Carniing, Nebraska. The local sports director here for the radio station in Carney just had somebody tell us we were coming through and came by to say hello. I'm I'm not gonna hold against him that he's wearing a Wisconsin sweatshirt. Do you not remember the twenty fifteen game? Like what you know, watch your step. But besides that, that's very nice. He said he wanted to come say hello. Not even a Kentucky fan, right.
Very cool that you know he's the he's the voice of the local high school team. I think he said here, So yeah, I want to come and check out Wall.
Cunningham's a good pick for us last night.
Very good. Well, we enjoyed it. And I also like Marguerite's. He got family and tradition. Family and tradition, that's a good combination. We have some breaking news, Rick, Yeah, if you would know how to do it. Wow, Rick, coming through there you go? Uh de Kal Schwartz, the wide receivers coach at Kentucky is leaving to go to Nebraska.
Right, we're here, Come on, it's coming to.
Walk in.
You know you would know more about him than anyone. So big loss. Not a big loss?
Well you think, well, we just did the predictions. He's the one coach I thought would probably definitely be gone.
Well you were right.
Is that all you got I need some more from that.
I don't.
I mean, he's gone now, so he's not gonna get mad.
What dan't say about him?
Don't know.
I just know I don't.
I don't think there was a good connection between him and the receivers.
Maybe that's the best way to put it.
Oh, well, that's a problem. You want to connection.
A connection with with the players. I think there was some guys really unhappy. I think Maclin was really unhappy this year. I think Barryon was unhappy this year. You know, Dane was probably unhappy this year.
So they weren't happy.
They weren't happy.
Well, then maybe it's good.
Although we we changed wide receiver coaches, you know, like we changed socks.
It feels like.
That's my takeaway.
We talk about the OC changes all the time, but the wide receiver office that flips about every year too.
I think I just saw a look at tweet.
It was seven and thirteen years he was the seventh wide receivers coach.
Wow, we had we had the We had the dude with the big personality.
What was his name, Oh, Thomas, mart Thomas. We had the guy on the toilet.
Just got rid of, just got rid of Scottwood left about you know, you know what I'm laughing about.
They all know what you're laughing about.
We had uh boo night or bon night, bon night, we had Scott when we're now we have this guy?
Who are the other two? Can you name the other two soups wide receiver coaches?
What was Maynard? Tommy Maynard?
That's right, Tommy Maynard was that he was the first one with with with uh with Neil Brown?
And what's the other one? I think that's all all right? Well that was six which he's hiring a seventh. Okay, Well, I don't know what.
I don't know what you were laughing about, but I do.
Know what you're going about.
I think, why are you laughing at?
How do I turn this?
I'm trying to make it to where they won't Somehow it got turned where people can't reply to my post? How do I do that?
How do I fix that?
On Twitter?
Yeah?
I mean I know how to do it.
Now?
Like they turn him right here says everyone can reply?
No, but how but it's like the default is now people can't reply, right.
I'm like, all right, so you need you need to click it and then you go to anybody can apply.
I know what, but like now every time a tweet, I might have to do that. I don't want anyway. That's sound like an old man.
How to wag get to tweet? Like before we fixed my phone? Just just wait wait, Hannity.
Figure out how to put your TV on your calling your kid?
Hey Fox News this morning?
Now arguing that.
Alone made it better.
I'm kidding. Come on, you are one. You don't have to get mad at me. Who's next?
Andrew?
Andrew? Go ahead, Andrew. Yeah.
I just wanted to ask ut if he thinks that we can keep the punter that we have this season?
Who asked who that McAfee.
One?
He called you pad? We can block numbers right right right? We can.
We can send police to his house with an anonymous tip. That would be much appreciation.
You know, Max is not in his normal jovial mood.
I think he was out last night. His hair, he looks like, looks like he not showered.
You did that.
This wasn't the day to come out, Max, I don't think.
Yeah, let me alone in place.
Yes, we will keep Aiden Lorosska. The Australian will be moving on due to eligibility. We will be you're talking about who l Ross will stay. Obviously he's got one more years. No, that's important news, very important. He actually is it worth it? Can we say that? Like it's up to you.
Can we say what?
You can say? Whatever he wants.
You're show I know, but this is your thing you were you were talking?
Is that news? Are you presenting news?
Because I don't think he's announced he's gonna come back.
Oh, I mean I talked to him yesterday. Where else again to go? Okay, that's what I was wanting to say. You talked to him in the car yesterday. I just didn't know if you wanted to go back to sants of people want me to go back to Australia.
Max is walking around the Casey's gas station. Who you're talking to them? Yeah?
I mean if you watch, okay, from now that we've said it, if you go and watch the video that Mario filmed of my gas station review at QTS. I wanted to have Max in it, and he was taking a call from the UK Punter talking about coming back to Kentucky, and so he gave us a look like stop filming me because I'm having a conversation.
That's all I'm saying, yeah.
I mean, he wasn't talking about leaving.
He was just kind of running me through a few scenarios of what he wanted to do and how he could get better and all those kinds of things.
So he loves it.
He was always coming back.
Max is kind of the coach, the unofficial coach.
I thought it was very sweet the dude called Max for some fatherly advice. Yes true.
I mean South Africa and Australia basically the same poss So.
You could you point him out on a map?
No, you could in Australia.
I feel like South Africa should be self explanatory.
Go to Africa, go to the bottom, you'll be there.
Who's that joke about Matt or Max and on all these punters? But he really is the punner everywhere.
We go, Maxic I know the punter here, I know the punter here. You know so many punters.
In Colorado State, so we could say, hell, could not you know?
Boise? Who's next? Binky? Is next?
Binky? How are you, Binky?
I'm good?
How are you guys doing today?
Doing amazing?
Yeah?
I wanted to touch back on something you were or somebody called in about who would you know who would be the worst one to have dinner with? Yes, my choice would be you. I'm back terrible calls, Chris, Come on, I'm just I'm just the guy. The guy on ESPN is Stephen Sharp, the guy with.
The Stephen Sharp. I went to school with Stephen Sharp. I think you're saying Steven A. Smith your combining Yeah, yeah.
I'm sorry.
Yeah that's the guy.
Yeah, that's the guy I'm talking about having the worst dinner with. I can't stand that guy held of hot air. Well, thank you for.
Sorry, but you can't. It's two. Back to work now, you need to call him. Blast these three guys. I'm going to get it.
I'll go next.
What he released earlier this year, If you went to dinner with shutting Shop, you could be in some trouble.
Off to dinner.
Very true.
That was quite a video as well.
Who's next?
Hey man? Got two comments. One is for the first time in sixty eight years, I couldn't watch this UK Global game and it's just too painful.
So you turned off.
You turned off a UK game for the first time in sixty eight years, Saturday.
I guess yes, I did.
I mean it's been worse.
Yeah, it was kind of pathetic. Yeah, you're I understand. I kind of get it to be sir.
Yeah. And then the other comment is that these cat Daddies are so good. I'm confident of a double digit win as another team gets ready to bike to us, and we should play a little queen every time I say that. When I get on the one here, let's get this rolling.
Go cats.
Appreciate it. He's calling the basketball team the cat daddy.
Cat Daddy's is that their official name, the cat Daddies.
According to that day.
It sounded a little dirty when he said a grown man cat daddy. You know what he says about he turned the game off. I'll be honest with you, it might be the first game of the Mark Stoops era where I didn't really pay attention too much. After about the second quarter, it was over immediately. I think I focused in when it was twenty to seven and we got the ball and it looked like we might be able to do something, and then we immediately turned it over. But there was I'm not sure there's been a UK football game ran in a long time. I paid less attention to than I did that Louisville game.
I guess this is our UK confessional.
I was at the game and left at Halftimeody else, Yeah, I could not stick around all.
It is one of the it is even in the Bad Joker years or whatever. Like, I had no expectations, so it was just kind of part of the experience.
I was drank.
I was tuned tuned out of that game against Louisville almost immediately.
I was there, so I had to be tuned in. But to Ryan's point, at halftime, I went into the parking lot to talk to people that were leaving, and it was just a flood walking out of that front gate.
Towards Nicholasville, one after another over people yelling about stoops and yelling we stink. It was an ugly scene at halftime.
If you wanted to keep the fan base positive, it couldn't have been a worse result about in a lot of ways.
Let me tell you something, Max.
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Tonight in Fort Collins, we're gonna have a game watch party for all the people of Fort Collins.
What are you shaking your head for you? It's your turn.
You have to pick where it is a perfect place. This is the perfect place in Fort Collins.
Yeah.
It's called Gray Rock Sports Grill, Gray Rock Sports Grill.
Okay, so those of you in Fort Collins, we're gonna be watching the game tonight at the gray Rocks Sports Grill.
Come on out. Have you told the Gray Rock Sports Grill we're coming?
I have not?
Okay, that should help.
We don't want to get there and not have a do we.
Know they have televisions forty two?
Whoa?
All right, we can get one on the Kentucky.
It feels like it can get at least one.
Yeah, all right, Gray Rock Sports Grill tonight in Fort Collins, Colorado. If you want to watch the game, Mario, I'm the Gray Rock Sports Girl.
Better be good. It's gonna be good.
I'm confident.
All right, I'll hold out a hope for the chicken wings.
Wait minute, this is the chicken wing at the Gray Rocks Sports Girl.
That is not it. I don't know where it's. That's what.
That's what Charles Potter said.
It was.
Look different pictures. Okay, that does not look like a great chicken wing.
Right there. I'm gonna I'm gonna back up, Mario here, I guess no co. Would that be Northern Colorado? Yes?
Do you know what has won best sports bar the last three years twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three.
What the Great Rock Sports? All right?
There we go, all right tonight, don't get the chicken wings?
All right?
Uh, put get back on here for a second. Max, I needs you pick games with us. Mario, we'll see you tonight. Well, actually i'll see you in the car.
It's just good ring and I'll pick in the Australian place.
All right, let's do We picked Kentucky, Clemson, some other sec ACC challenge starts tonight. Game really good games tomorrow night. But some of the teams we follow tonight. Let's get going. Tennessee hosts. Syracuse Tennessee is an eighteen and a half point favorite at home hosting Syracuse Tennessee.
And what a waste of a spot in this tournament with having the number three team play Syracuse be a better game.
Yeah, we just peaking a winner. That's the Orange Tennessee obviously.
Yeah, Tennessee's going he's number three in the country.
Uh.
The Arkansas Razorbacks.
Heard of them?
Are going to Miami to play the Hurricanes. Miami has not been good this year. Miami is a five and a half marks me. Arkansas is a five and a half point favorite on the road. Does cow get a road win? After starting with a couple.
Losses, Miami has lost three straight games, including losing to Charleston Southern. If Arkansas doesn't win this, I'm putting his name in search and watching the replies coming out of Arkansas.
But I'll pick them. They gotta win it. Yeah, Miami's three and four with bad losses.
Miami plays own. I don't think Alcassas has had a chance to work on that yet. I'll take Miami.
No, you're taking Miami.
Yeah, I think I gotta take Arkansas as much as I would like to take Miami.
Arkansas wins cows teams they do. They struggle at home, and they go on the road and they beat somebody. So they're gonna win this all.
Right, Arkansas.
And then I think the game of the night, besides Kentucky Clempson, Old Miss twenty three in the country, it's going on the road to play the Louisville Cardinals. Louisville hosting a ranked team. Louisville did well down in the Bahamas. Now they lost that guy, the dude. I said, look, Davidson Prior, he's out for the year. Louisville's a three and a half point favorite at home against Old Miss.
I've watched Louisville play one time, and Prior look good. I even compliment him on the radio. I never say anything nice about Louisville. I think that'll be a big loss for them, So I'll take Old Miss. He was very good in the game.
I watched Louisville look a lot more organized than the team photo earlier this year, so I'll take Louisville.
I mean, Louisville looked great against Indiana, beat them. We're up I think almost forty at one point. But I think losing Prior is gonna hurt them ole Miss wins this game on the road.
I'm gonna take Louisville. I think they're better than we thought they were. I think they're pretty good team.
This is tough because I ain't gonna miss better. But Louisville's at home.
You think they get a Do you think they fill this game up? Like they have not filled anything up yet? At a They are a ranked team at home coming off a good tournament, Like, are they not.
Gonna fill it up?
I know they just beat Kentucky and football, so it sounds dumb to say now, but I genuinely think they're permanently broken.
As far as what it was before the big you know, crazy.
That's my biggest thing. Whoever wins, If you can't fill that game up for a ranked team at home on a week.
Night, then you're not Louisville basketball anymore. You're just not.
You gotta fill that up. Be Louisville shouldn't be like Clemson, where we're coming in. There's tickets for twenty dollars. You gotta fill that up. Who's next?
Little John? Is next?
Little John? Who will We're playing in Little John Coliseum?
The night it was next?
Right?
Well, I just want to let you know that arena's not named after me. I have no affiliation with all with Clemson at all. I leave Blue all the way through. The only thing good ever come out of Clemson basketball's Tree Rollins and Larry Nam Kentucky by double digg it tonight.
I appreciate the call. You know, we were when we were at we went to Iowa. We didn't talk about this. We went to Iowa University yesterday saw the spot where Caitlyn Clark hit the shot that broke the NCAA record.
We all shot from it.
Nobody made it except the fifth Trot.
There's no video evidence, there's.
No video EFTs.
But I was surprised how many famous people had gone to Iowa, ac Earl, Luke, Jipsen, bj Armstrong.
We got to see all the big names, Brad Lohause, Brad Lohas. Yeah, so we.
Went into the locker room and saw their little loungery and it was.
Kind of it was nice.
I was impressed to be in a different arena.
Yeah, I really enjoyed that.
I've never had any connection to Iowa, never thought much about it, but just seeing how another school does it obviously wasn't as big as Kentucky's basketball stuff.
But I mean it was a nice place seeing behind the sock stubbering hog.
Yesterday, Ryan's tongue was like the slobbering hog got.
Down that cartitln Clark attempt.
Yes, yeah, you were you. I mean my wrist is still not healed that I shot you.
You were awful.
I hit the rim.
Yeah.
I think I realized that the basketball career is over for me.
Like it just.
Well, it's just that I you know that since the wrist, it's right there and I can't.
I hope I'm able to play golf.
That's my word now, because like when I shot a basketball, it wasn't the same I could tell you know, normally it's it's string music and league pick the injury.
What was the basketball career doing? Pretty good? Pretty good? I mean it was going well.
An All American clapper Middlesborough.
Yeah, but I mean I was like, you know, I didn't tell y'all went to played. It was kind of on the side sneak it off in erect.
League sometimes, you know, going off on the side and play. I mean, I'm not going to tell you where I go.
All right, So tonight our pregame show is at seven o'clock Eastern. We will do it from our house in Windsor, and then we will drive to Fort Collins to watch the game. So our house in Windsor seven o'clock eastern, five o'clock our time. But we will be here on w LAP seven o'clock for the Cats tonight.
Like I said, Clemson is a tough environment for play in, but I don't think they're the Clemson team we've had of years.
AGA And it will be a rare postgame show with all of us from the won't just be me, it will be We're And there is a hot tub and if we win, you may do the postgame show in the hot tub.
I'd be in it naked, okay, right on?
This show is after midnight.
We don't need that there is a child sitting over there, will you please don't? Yeah, I can for humanity. Thank you all very much for making the trip here. We really appreciate it, and thank you to Candlewood Sweetes for hosting us. We'll see you tonight from Windsor and Fort Collins. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.