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Hey, what's up guys? It's Levar Arrington here from up on Game. Wanted to talk to you about a serious issue. Hate. You know, something personal that I have experienced and witnessed and watched is how the hate in our country is getting so out of control. It's at an all time high and people are facing way too much hate. A lot of people don't think it's a problem, but I do. I can recall growing up being in high school. One of my high school teammates, good dude too, just happened to wear a shirt that was a derogatory shirt towards my racial group. It depicted Malcolm X moments after he was assassinated and it just made me feel really, really sad. It made me feel upset and so many other emotions. And it's really because we're supposed to be a team but it's going to take all of us to stop that sort of hate. As I mentioned, we are a team in this country. So let's take a break from hate so our team can regroup and regain our momentum. We need to take a timeout against hate. 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You can give shout the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254 in this dish and sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. Call TJL. Make them pay. Let's talk just a second Ryan about the schedule over the next couple weeks because you know, it's a weird schedule schedule you got. We're here today, we're gonna be here tomorrow. Normally there are remotes on Fridays but this one we're off. So we will be here at KS Bar. Then next week we'll do the show Monday and Tuesday or excuse me, Monday from here, Tuesday and Wednesday or Christmas Eve and Christmas Day we'll take that off. Then we'll do Thursday and Friday, then the Friday in Glasgow. Are we in Glasgow next Friday? Yeah, you didn't tell me that. Yeah, that's the Don Franklin show in Glasgow. So we're going to Glasgow next Friday. I didn't realize that. All right, you got Saturday, Sunday, then we're there Monday and then Tuesday our KSR show, the 31st will also be the pregame show because Kentucky plays Brown at 2:00 that afternoon. It's gonna be exciting. Morning before Brown and all the things leading up to it. I'm also just learning about Glasgow. Yeah. I didn't know we were going to Glasgow. So post Christmas, Glasgow. Yeah. Rescheduled it as a. It was. Are you in charge of this? How do you know that and we don't? I just saw the memo that was sent to all of us. Yeah. Speaking of, Scoop, Lemon, you. You broke Andrew Carr's sister's commitment to UK Volleyball. I guess she had to put it out because you screwed that up. Is there anybody else's dream you'd like to end today? She probably had a ceremony planned. Had to cancel that. Yeah. And then everybody was like, oh, well, Ryan Lyman put it out. I guess we need to say it. I. I did mention that her Purdue teammate may be following her here. Here we go. Does that person have a name? I. I think Coach Skinner said it was Evelyn. I'm not for sure about that, but it's Evelyn first. That doesn't sound like a. That sounds like a grandmother. Yeah. Evelyn. I have to research that. All right, So I do want to make a memo to the coaches at uk. Don't say anything to Ryan that you don't want him to say. Like, don't. I mean, we learned that Will Wolford yesterday had been contacted by you and Eric Wolford. Well, Will Wolford did, too. I mean, they went through Will to get there. Yeah, they had to get called Eric, but Eric Wolford. And now we've. We've found out the volleyball commitments, and I'm not sure Drew they wanted any of those things said. Well, I don't think they'll mind Evelyn getting out because I lose roster in front of me, and there's not an Evelyn is safe. But it does sound like there's more in that brain. Okay, actually, pull up Purdue's roster. Do you think you would recognize the first name if it said since you thought it was Evelyn. I thought the name that popped in my head was Evelyn Hudson, but I don't know if that was anywhere. I got to give him credit. There is one very close to that. What is. There is an Eva Hudson. I think that's it. I think that's. So you're. So you're scooping Eva Hudson to uk and she is, like, a superstar volleyball player. You think? Yep. I'm going with it. Do we think Eva Hudson is coming to uk? Is Shannon here? Are we on the air? What's up. I'm trying to answer calls. Okay. All right. So I was asking if you think Ryan's right that Eva Hudson is coming. He's one for one in his volleyball scoop, so why would I have any reason to doubt him? Okay, fair enough. All right, so let's talk about a couple things. First of all, Kentucky got a wide receiver commitment. J.J. hester. Hester started Missouri, was at Oklahoma. He's 6 4. He's clearly brought in to be the Dane key replacement. As part of that, Ryan Lemon will become his godfather when he gets on campus. Are. I don't know much. Well, I mean, I'm going to say this about all these guys. I don't know much about him. Should we be excited? Yeah. That's not a yes. Well, respectfully, to him and the entire operation, adding a wide receiver to Kentucky's offense, I mean, you know, it's not exactly. We're going to throw. We'll figure that out on the road. But him specifically, he's Oklahoma's second leading receiver. Yeah. Big guy, kind of a. Throw it up to him. Guy in the end zone mentioned kind of plays a little like Dane, but he's his. He averaged like 22 yards of catch, so he's a deep threat. I think he had a. He is a deep threat. He had a night. He has the longest touchdown pass in Oklahoma, like, in their home field history. Really? Yeah. Didn't have a ton of receptions, but 300 something yards. Second on the team. He and Macklin were on the same roster at Missouri. And Bush Hampden was also on the staff there. So there's Bush Hampden. Clearly there's some familiarity there. But. So here's my question for you. This. This is why I bring this up, because I'm seeing something that dismays me a little bit, Ryan, and I want to know if you agree with the dismay. All right. So let's just assume for sake of argument. Well, I'm not going to say. I mean, this is true. Mark Stoops is going to be the coach here next year. Does anybody disagree with that statement? Do not. No. Anybody disagree? No. No. No. All right. And that's happening whether any of our fans like it or not, Correct? Correct. All right. So because of that, there is. It is my view that there comes a point where I. I think I said this about Cal when it first looked like he was going to come back. I was like, well, if he's going to come back now, we might as well hope it works, Right? I don't like that. I see. When these transfers commit, because I actually think you could make a strong argument that they've done really well so far in the portal of their commitments. The, the, you know, you got the, the linebacker from Marshall. You've gotten a couple of really good offensive linemen. I think another one. Did one commit yesterday as well? Yeah, they added one yesterday. They added one yesterday. So they have a guy from Bowling Green. I think a guy from Arkansas, the kid from New Mexico is like £900, this big guy. I think they're getting a kid from Western Kentucky soon to. He says he's the center. Look at this guy. I mean, how do you know that? What else do you know? Like, why don't you just, like, did I just make that up? Or I think there's a center from Western Kentucky. I mean, I. Maybe. But are you, like, you're just saying things? Is that true? You can't just say a position in a school and say they're coming. I'm going to say it's true. A center from Western Kentucky is. And what's his name? I don't know. Okay, Evelyn. I believe him. I believe everything he says. So Evelyn from Western Kentucky is coming. Okay, so let's just say, since you've been right on these, let's say we have a center from West. I know they're getting four new offensive linemen by, by the way, Dylan Ray, who played some last year, is entering the portal. But my point is, when all of these people commit, I see the same responses in the comments to the announcement, which is, who cares? We. We suck anyway, basically. And I wish we would stop that. I mean, I know I'm not going to be able to stop. Make it. To make that stop. People are going to say what they say, but at some point, I don't really think that's a good welcome to these kids, to the university. I mean, the reality is, how many of you ever have any clue what the offensive lineman we got from New Mexico yesterday, whether or not he's good? No idea. Nobody does. None of us have any idea. No. Do we have any idea if the offensive lineman from Bowling Green is good? No. No idea. The wide receiver from Oklahoma, how many of you could have picked him out of a lineup before? Nobody. The defensive lineman from usc? Nope. The linebacker from Marshall? Maybe if you live in Ashland, you ran into him sometime. But I really don't feel like it's fair to these kids that they come. They're presumably getting money, and our first reaction is we suck anyway. I wish we Look, Mark's coming, so we need to have the best team we can. Am I wrong in sort of being too Pollyanna and saying, can we not just at least feign excitement for these guys? Or do people just want to be. Do they just want to spend every day for the next eight months complaining? I mean, I think we all knew this was coming when the season ended. We even said there's nothing he can do between now and next year. But isn't there a time to stop it, at least as it pertains to other players? I mean, if you want to criticize stoops, he makes $9 million. Go for it. But is it fair? Fair to Wallace Umanda when he commits that his entire comment section is we stink. I agree with you on that. Person by person, we should be welcoming. You certainly shouldn't be replying to their commitment graphics or news stories about them where they're seeing it. They're just kids getting here for the first time. They had nothing to do with the culture and the problems. So if you're on there complaining where they can see it directly to them, that's outrageous. But I get. If you're not excited because we added a wide receiver. We don't use wide receivers. I'm not saying anybody needs to be excited, but there's a difference between being excited and just being negative and just being like you. We are awful. I mean, it is what it is at this point. You can sit there and say, we should have gotten rid of Stoops. And you. You have a right to that opinion. But, like, that's not happening now. So what good does it do to be just like, just furious all year? I love this argument because you're right. We should be celebrating these players that are coming in. But is it? We, like, you know, we're. We're butt hurt because of this last couple years. Well, I couldn't think of a better word. Yeah, they were there. There's their thesauruses. But go ahead. We're butthurt from the last two years, and we know the season is going to be even tougher next. The schedule, even though we've got these great players coming in, it's a good discussion to have because we should. What's your opinion? I think we're going to have a really good team. I really do. I don't know if it's going to translate into wins because of the schedule, but I think they're going to have a really good team. You do? Yeah. Really? I do. Why? Because whether we get this Kid whose incarnate word I'm all in on Cutter Bowley. I think he could be a star. You weren't at all concerned about the Louisville game and that it didn't seem. Well, he got hurt, you know, he didn't get to get to play the whole game. I think he's going to be a star. I hope that. Well, I'm not ready to say we're going to be good. I have no idea, to be honest with you. Somebody put the projected starting lineup on offense last night on KS Board. And I looked at it and I was like, who are these people? I mean, just think about the projected starting lineup. If the season started tomorrow, there would be three names, maybe no, two names that you all know in the projected starting lineup. Jamari and Wilcox and Macklin. That's it. You wouldn't know any of the offensive. And Willie Rodriguez, excuse me, Willie Rodriguez. You wouldn't know any of the offensive linemen. You're not going to know the quarterback. You're probably not going to know the backup running back. You're not going to know any of the receivers, maybe hardly Gilmore if he stays. But there is a. It's going to be completely new. But I just. I don't know, I felt bad. I looked at one of those kids. I think it was Wallace, the kid from New Mexico. And I'm like, this can't be a welcome to Kentucky. The other thing is, I don't know if you saw the video of the Kansas State basketball player. Have you seen that? Kansas State has probably been the biggest disappointment in college basketball. They spent a ton of money on nil. They brought these kids in and they stink right now. They've lost like six games already or five games. And one of the kids they brought in that was the biggest is a kid from Illinois, Coleman Hawkins. I think we looked at him at one point. He ends up going to Kansas State. He did a post game interview after their loss the other night and was like, this stinks. He goes, I came here and he was like, all anybody ever writes me is break your leg. You're terrible. Why did you come here? And he goes, I thought these were supposed to be our fans. And I thought, I kind of feel bad about that for that guy. I saw Jerome Tank sit up for him, said there's been unfair criticism this year because our nil is so big. I didn't see the Coleman video, but I guess that's what he was. But part of that is when you start paying people, people are going to complain like that and Kansas State. Kansas State paid a lot. They may have paid as much as anybody and they've been bad. But I just, I don't know, maybe I'm just a softy, but I just feel bad when these new kids commit here and so you're never gonna be able to change the negative people. But I hope we have fans now that the next time you see a guy commit, say something positive. I mean, you know what I mean? Like, okay, Wallace, Umanda, none of us know you, but go get him. You know, I mean, what else, what else is it gonna be? You're right. You know these new kids you mentioned, the young guys with Cutter and Wilcox and Patterson and Willie Rodriguez. You got Mr. Football Montavian Quesenberry coming in from Boyle county, who Vince has already said is like a miniature Wandell Robinson. You know, he thinks he could be that kind of guy. So there are some reasons I think to get excited if we can just get over what has happened in the past. The reality is these dudes transferring in on the portal, that's who's playing next year. I mean they're not bringing them in here to sit the bitch. They're bringing any them in here because they think they can play. So we might as well at least not slam the door on their face as they're as they're coming in. 859-280-2287 Text machine is 772-774-5254 Basketball Kentucky plays Ohio State and Madison Square Garden. I want you to think about what are the best games Kentucky's played in New York over the years. What are your big Madison Square Garden games? We'll take a break, be right back here at the KS Bar. Small business owners this one's for you. Chase for Business and iheart bring you a podcast series called the Unshakables. 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This is from a girl, a woman on the text machine who says, matt, I was running around with my friends SantaCon in Cincinnati, and we found some friends in Covington, and there were a group of college girls in Santa outfits who were telling me that they have a friend who's a center at Western who's coming to play at Ken. Oh, Santa Con, huh? Santa, the scoop of reporting now, huh? We're Santa Con College student report. That's. Were you there? Is that why you. Is that where you got your thing? Well, we do know you always want to trust the girl, the girlfriend. She is usually right about these sort of things. And so this may be the center's girlfriend. That's what they say, Shannon at SantaCon. So I don't know. I've been into new. I've been in New York when SantaCon happens. Absolute cluster. It's the worst. It's the worst. It was during the Kentucky Seton hall game, I think. Yeah. Just everywhere. Every time, everywhere. And then now they do it. Maybe they've always done it, but they do it in Cincinnati, and it's just. It's absolutely, absolutely wild. I watched a lot of college basketball last night, and I got. It was really good. Did you see any of it? Well, I saw the highlights. Oklahoma must be really good. Oklahoma's still undefeated, one of only a handful of teams still undefeated. Talk about them in the sec. I know they got a kid named Jeremiah Fears who's a freshman, and he will strike fear in our heart. He hit some big shots. They came back and beat Michigan, then Yukon, Danny Hurley. I mean, maybe it's. He says it's good for college basketball, that he's the jerk. Maybe it is, but he was out of control last night. Xavier should have beaten UConn at home. But here's a crazy story since 2010, okay, you're never gonna believe this stat. You know how many conference openers UConn is? 1 since 2010, first game of their conference season. I'll say four. They've only won five, which is the exact same amount of national championships they've won. Well, that's Crazy. Is that not crazy? It's crazy. And they won last night. But then the game that intrigued me the most is I turn on the TV in Alabama or excuse me, Arkansas or no, Alabama. Alabama is playing at. At North Dakota in the North Dakota home gym. And I'm sitting there going, why? Why? And then I read that when Grant Nelson committed to Alabama, he asked Nate Oats, I'll commit here and play in the transfer portal if you promise me we'll play one game in my home state. Nate Oats says yes. So they schedule a road game at North Dakota. North Dakota's 4 and 8. They play in a little cracker box gym. Game was last night. First half, Alabama goes down 10. Really? North Dakota's four and eight. Alabama goes down 10 with just a few minutes to go. It's a two point game. And I was sitting there thinking, if they lose this game, Grant Nelson will have to walk back to Alabama. If they flew all the way to North Dakota, played in this tiny gym, surely cost their program money, and then they lose. They ended up hanging on to win. Nelson had like 23 points. I think it's very cool they did that. I kind of would like it if we did that once every couple years. Just played in a tiny gym somewhere. It's a cool atmosphere. But you got to win that game if you make your team go all the way to North Dakota. Cal had a few of those games. Remember we played at Portland for Terrence Jones. Yep. But we played in like the NBA gym. I don't think. When is the last time? Not in like the. We played in the nit. We played at Creighton. But when's the last time at Kentucky we've played in a little gym in a regular season game on the road. That's a great question. When is that? Because like, I'm just thinking over the years, North Carolina has played at College of Charleston a couple times. They played. It went to Evansville, played University of Evansville. North Carolina did. Because it's Tyler Zeller or Cody Zeller. One of the Zellers. So when is the last time Kentucky has ever played a game like that? I have to tell you, I can't remember Kentucky ever playing a game like that. You know, obviously we played at Robert Moore or. Excuse me, we played. Yeah. At Robert Morris. But that was an NIT game. And that. We didn't. We didn't choose that. Even in games that were kind of homecoming games like the pin game last year, they played in the play in the big arena. I Can't think of going to. Just a local. Small. Corey Price, this is for you. When's the last time we played a game like that? That. Because I don't remember us ever doing it. I'm sure we did at some point. Long, long time ago. But what I found interesting about Alabama is they went back to North Dakota for Grant Nelson, but he played at North Dakota State, so they didn't even play his old school. I guess they still got him home. That would be true. But they went to the school that he didn't go to, and they went to their rival. Yeah, that's kind of. He just wanted to beat him one more time. He's like, you know what? I want to beat kind of weird. All right, so let's talk about another contest. Kentucky history thing. Madison Square Garden play Madison Square Garden play Saturday against Ohio State. I'm starting to get fomo. I'm staying here because my friends are all doing their Christmas thing where I'm gonna watch the game here at the bar. I've only done that a handful of times for basketball, but I'm gonna do it Saturday. But I do like those games in Madison Square Garden, which got me to thinking, all right, what are our best memories in Madison Square Garden? The ones that come to my head, the biggest one, John Wall against Yukon, right? That was the. That was the Dick Vital going, oh, oh, he's special, baby. And like, he just beating people off the dribble. I got punched at that game. That's why you got punched at that game. I remember that was when I were fighting everyone. That was when I was like, why did I hire this guy? He's getting in fights at games. Tyrese Maxey. That was the game where we did the game. Maxi goes off that night. I get pulled off the radio because of Mitch McConnell. And at 2:30am Give my goodbye speech. But it was still a great game. That gets Michigan State. Let's get to Michigan State. That's one of the most memorable nights of my life. Maxi goes off. Bashir beats Bevin for governor. And I was watching the returns from the Madison Square Garden press row celebrate because I didn't like Bevin. Get home, find out I'd lost my gig. Wow, that's a. That's a heck of a night. That's a heck of a night. Other ones, we beat Kansas, the Anthony Davis year by like a thousand in Madison Square Garden that year. Davis versus Robinson. One verse two There. That was in Madison Square Garden. Think about. You have others. We. Seton hall hit that we hit a half court shot, Kelton Johnson to send it to overtime, then lost in overtime to Seton Hall. That was in the Garden. I think I've been at every Garden game in the last 15 years and unfortunately I think we've lost three out of four. So what are the other ones you remember? Oh, I remember they beat. Was it Monmouth? Yeah, we went to Monmouth because they switched the hockey game during the. I was doing the postgame show when they were flipping the arena from basketball to a hockey game that night early in the calera. He was one of them all killed Kansas there. The Monmouth game beat Michigan State another time, but then we got beat by UCLA and the CBS sports. That's right, we did. I stayed the next day and went to the Bronx to see a recruit and Cal was at the game and he just stared at the floor. Didn't even watch the. Is there any like from back in the day? Did they used to play there pre Cal? Very much. Yeah, they played. We played in the 90s because there was a point where they were undefeated in the garden, like 11 and oh, 12 and oh, and then they got beat by somebody in the late 90s because color was there. I can't remember what it was, but there was a. It was a big deal. There was their first loss. Was it Arizona? Yeah. Well, so anyway, we, we have a lot of guard members. We gotta win Saturday though. Ohio State's not good. We need to go beat them. Hopefully we will. We'll take a break. Take a call. Barry backs ksr. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. Call tj he'll make him pay. Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Cats in New York this weekend. 859-280-2287. Text Machine, 772-774-5254. So the best we can find is that in 1985 Kentucky played at Chaminade and at Hawaii, not in the Maui Invitational, but in an actual game. They played a road game at Chaminade. This is, that's, that's the arena at Ohio University. So you're telling me it says 1997. We played at Ohio in Athens, Ohio. Yeah, and they can. Their Convocation center, but that says it holds 13,000. We were in that arena. That arena didn't hurt. Hold 13,000 people. It's a pretty big place. So we, you got to assume it was a sellout with Kentucky. So maybe it's capped it right at 13. All right, that's pretty Big. So you. So you're saying at Ohio. At Ohio. I don't remember that game at all. Tubby was a coach in 97, and I don't remember the 97. 98 season. Yeah, he had 15. I got the box score. Nazi had 15. Camera Mills with 10. People are saying other ones, but they're all games where we played a team, but we were in the bigger court in the game. Like, we played Wright State in Dayton, but we played them in the big arena. We didn't play them in their little home. Yeah, so. So. Yeah. So did we get a commitment from a running back? Did that happen? We lost a running back. I don't know if we've added a running back. See if we got a commitment from a running back from Nebraska. We took a big loss to Missouri yesterday. See if we got a commitment from a running back from Nebraska. Don't be negative and just tell me about the loss. I think. There we go. He's visiting. Has he committed? Oh, he's visited. What's his name? Dowdle. Dowdle. Yeah. All right, we'll look it up. Dante, do you think people are down on Cutter or optimistic about Cutter? Because, you know, I think people are down on Stoops, and they're putting it on every single player on the team, which I don't think is fair. I think people. People are very down on Stoops. I think Stoops has done himself no favors from a PR perspective. Stoops should have already been on this show. Now, I know he had to have, like, ankle surgery or something. That's probably been part of it. But, I mean, I'm gonna be honest with you. I told him that we were on the phone. I had a long conversation with him on my way to. To Seattle. So I guess that was, what, now? Two weeks ago? Yeah. When did we go to Seattle? It feels like. Matter of fact, it was two weeks. Two weeks ago today. And I said, look, man, you got it. You need to. Come on. You need to let me ask you hard questions, and you need to. And he hasn't done it yet. And he said he will. I believe him. But, like, they. They. They haven't handled PR well. This. The UK football. And I. I'm not saying anything today. I didn't say directly to them, so I don't feel like I'm speaking out of turn. I said this to Mark Stoops. I've said this to the UK PR people. I've said this to Vince. They have handled PR poorly since the season. They need to be out giving people confidence and they're not saying a word. And that's a mistake. It's a mistake. I used to say this during Cal. If you say nothing, silence will be filled by other voices. Right? You're never going to get people to not talk. So the question is, do you want to fill it with your voice or do you want to fill it with somebody else's? Let me tell you who's really good at this. Donald Trump. Donald Trump knows that, like, everyone's gonna want to talk about the president. So he just does all the talking. And even if it's rambling, he still gets to be the one to control the message. Joe Biden did the opposite. He didn't say anything. And then the void is filled with other people's voices who are defining you. As you sit silently, the other voices tell everybody what to think. The UK football staff has been silent since the Louisville game, except when Vince was on here. And I love Vince, but I told him yesterday that wasn't his finest work in the world. During those 10 minutes, they need to be out winning people over. They're not doing that. And so the cutters of the world are paying the price for it because people are mad at the coaches and thus they're taking it out on the players. And I don't think that's fair, but it's a natural reaction. Not only are they not trying to get out in front of anything, I mean, didn't he skip the last radio show? He hasn't come on here. He hasn't done a year end press conference. He hasn't done that. They were like on the recruiting, you know, the signing day thing. He did it for like five minutes, like. But again, who does that remind you of? What happened at the end of the Cal era? He skipped all his press conferences. He stopped going on shows, and then he wondered why people got upset. You have to be out front making your message. If you don't define yourself, somebody else, Ryan is going to do it. Yeah, because you've got a little positive momentum right now with these guys you're bringing in the portal. You get your quarterback this week. You had two quarterbacks on campus this week. If you get one of those two guys, I think it is time to get out in front of it and kind of, you know, push that positive momentum forward. So look, is he going to be able to win all people over? No, he probably won't be able to win most people over, but there's a lot of people here that may be like, Tired of Stoops, but would at least like to feel good going into the season. He's going to have to be the one that. That does that. Who's up first? Shannon. Let's go to Doug. Doug, Go ahead, Doug. Yeah, man. I'm. I'm going to preface this by saying that I am a huge Mark Stoops fan. Yes. But right now my feeling toward football is just like it was for the last couple of years with Cal. It's hard for me to get excited about what, who's coming in because I know next year is probably going to be worse than it was this year because the SEC is so tough and our schedule is terrible. And I don't. It's just hard for me to get excited about what. What's going on with football. I totally get that. Appreciate the call. I totally get why people would have a hard time being excited. I have a hard time being excited. Do I look at that schedule and think Kentucky's going to go eight and four? No. Do I want to make another video like the one I did that went viral where I said they might go to the playoff? No. And I ain't going to do it again. But you know, what's the other choice? Just sit here and go gloom, despair and agony on me. Deep, dark depression is all I can see. I mean, at some point you just, you gotta at least go, well, I mean, this kid could be good. This is the situation Stoopzz is in. Until he wins a game, a home game, people are just not gonna be fired up. It was such a letdown last year. You won the Transport Portal last year. All the stories written about you going to the season where, how Kentucky navigated the portal, not many losses, added big pieces, and then you don't win at home. I just don't think he. There's anything he can do until he wins a football. I disagree with you on. There's nothing he can do. He. Is he going to win everybody over? No, but there are things he can do. He can go out. He has to make his case for him. I mean, if you don't believe there's anything he could do, then he should say nothing. But I disagree with that. I think you. He can make it better than it is, you make it a little better. But getting people fired up. But he's got to try. He's got to try. He has to try. If he doesn't try, then he should have just left. He has to try. Because if you don't, I mean, just look at what all These other programs are doing. Mike Gundy stunk it up at Oklahoma State. He's doing stuff to try the worst is if you do nothing. Because I can tell you this, if he does nothing, Ryan, we know what the reaction will be going into the season. Yeah. And like I said, there are a lot of fans who are really down on the program right now for what's happened the last two years. If they didn't beat Louisville two seasons ago, at the end of the year, we'd have two bad seasons in a row that if they didn't beat Louisville two seasons ago, he wouldn't be the coach. Now, I think there's maybe some truth to that because I think if he had gone back to back years without making a bowl. Yep. That would have been a different situation. Who's up next? Go to Otis. Otis. Go ahead, Otis. Morning, gentlemen. Happy holiday to you all. Great to help, but I want to say this. All the Stoop bashing. Yeah. Last year ain't go perfect for us. And you know, we had higher expectations. Yeah, they killed the transfer reporter and they came up short. But I'm a stoop lawyer. I'm riding with Stoops. He gonna get this thing right. Yeah. Last year didn't go according to plan. But you know what? Sometimes Lord give you some things that you need to see. And he opened his eyes and showed him that he maybe got too high on the hors, lost his way and got away from what made Kentucky great. And that was that big blue wall. And, you know, they went out and got all these skilled players, but it don't translate if you're not winning in the trenches. So their front. That defensive line, the front line are the paramount. So I believe these guys gonna get it together. I believe last year was a gift. A gift in the curse for Stoops. It's gonna work. It's gonna work out well for him. He's refocused. He re energized. These guys ride with him. Stay loyal. Stay down for the cause. Don't drop your head. Keep your head up. Stay. All right. Thank you. Bye. Thank you. There you go. That dude talks faster than anyone on the planet. He definitely gets a lot in in a short amount. He does sort of understand, though, Shannon, that I will stop you at some point. And he doesn't take a breath for me to stop. Caller in KSR history that you've never cut off. You can't. It's hot. You can't cut him off. How are you going to cut him off? What are you Going to do. I mean, I feel like if I hit the button and turn him on, he just keep talking. It's like trying to jump on a moving treadmill. He's going, you can't. There's not going to be anything you can do. Shannon, I have a question for you. Okay, shoot. Have you been following this thing about Travis Hunter and his fiance? Have you been following this at all? No, I haven't been in his relationship. All right, so. So Travis Hunter is. We won the Heisman. Heisman. And his fiance has made a lot of news. Let's go back. After a game a few weeks ago, his fiance was on the field, and it looked like that he. She got mad at him for talking to female fans after the game. Is that right? She. She said something to him like, don't you be talking to other girls. And he was just in his uniform, like, giving people high fives. Then at the Heisman Trophy ceremony when he won, Deon stands up. Travis Hunters. Somebody else stands up. And she stays seated. And Dion looks at her and goes, stand up. And so people didn't like that. And then she did an 8 1/2 minute video where she addressed her critics. That included at some point saying something like, we have a great relationship. I go to party with my girls sometimes, and I'll go inside and party, and he'll wait out on the steps until I'm gone and then wait for me to walk me home. Which made him not look the best. No. Like he just sits outside while she goes and parties. You've seen it. Drew, what do you think about. Do you think there's too much Travis Hunter's fiance? Do you worry about him at all? I don't worry about him. And I did see this video is everywhere. Her explanation. Her explanation is 8 1/2 minutes long. I know. I just. As a man who's about to turn 40, I could not bring myself to give eight minutes of my life. I didn't watch it either, but I saw that. I've seen a lot of the news things like he doesn't take photos with female fans. She says he's not allowed to take photos. Photos with female fans unless she's there. You got to understand, Travis Hunter is going to be asked for photos anywhere he goes for a long time. That is a guy who is only getting more and more popular. If you can't handle him just leaning in for a selfie as he's walking through a hotel, it's going to be a long. He's going to be a top five pick in the NFL draft. Shannon, he's going to be an NFL player. If you were him, would you be cool with the you can't take pictures with women unless I'm there? No, I would have already broken up with her. He can have probably just about any woman he wants, especially when he gets to the NFL. Why is he hanging around with her? Why is he sitting on the front porch like a bomb? Why isn't he in there with a party? I know. He doesn't even get to go in the party, right. He has to sit outside on the steps while she goes and party. He just has to sit there. He's not even allowed to go in. I'm feeling very old at this point because I didn't know anything about this story. I will not watch that video. That guy better grow better. Wake up. It ain't gonna get any better. I'll just say that it will not get better. It will only get worse. He should step away now. Sounds like experience this Christmas. Give the gift of sizzle and delight that's the most passionate you've been about anything in a long time. Looking for the perfect present for your family, friends and co workers? Noche lindafarms.com Noche Linda farms has a huge variety of cuts. They got the greatest hits. They also have filet mignon, ground beef hanger steak, skirt steak, pinking Hana it's all there at Noche Linda Farms. You can still get it delivered for Christmas if you call today 859-707-7004. It's Noche Linda farms.com and if you use my code KSR ship free. You can get free shipping in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. It is Noche Linda Farms. We'll take a break. Be right back. 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Visit stand uptoallhate.org or join me in calling for the timeout against hate by following at what's up with Hate or posting the Blue Square Emoji. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio 859-280-2287. KS Bar Grill about to open up. Come join us for lunch today and you can also while you're here, you'll make the predictions about the bowl games and remember the people that are the closest get to come back during the semifinals and finals and have a chance at up to $8,000. You think about that, you could win $8,000. What would you do with $8,000? Dance, fly to Britain. I don't know why I picked British. Just fly to Britain. I don't know. Hang out with Travis Hunter, try to get a picture and get fight with his fiance. You could do all of that, spend it all here at KS Bar and Grill. I think it'd be hard to eat $8,000 worth of food, but you could buy, you could probably buy the whole restaurant a meal if you wanted to do that during this. By the way, there's a great article on KSR. Kentucky sportsradio.com Tyler Thompson did a profile of Jackson Robinson, talked to his mother, talked to Mark Pope and in the profile, Ryan, he says, Mark Pope says that Jackson Robinson came to BYU kind of a broken kid because he hadn't had success at his first stop. What was that? Something happened at Arkansas and he won't even talk about it. That was not a good year for Jackson. Seems like Muscleman might have been a tough dude to get along with. I I, he's not the only kid. But that somehow Muscleman and he, it didn't work out that when he came to BYU had lost all his confidence and he was like now this Kid you see today is a completely different kid than you saw and how proud of him he was. It's a really good profile of one of Kentucky's couple best players. You can see his confidence growing already this season. You know, 10, 11 games into the season, you see he's a better player. And I think when they put him at the point guard, he saw the light bulb went on or something. You know, we had to kind of fill in out there at Gonzaga, but he seemed to just be more confident with everything he's been doing. There's also a great clip, which I encourage you to watch. Mark Pope was on the Jim Rome show. I always like when that that happens so that I can remember that Jim Rome is on the air, because I always forget because I really like Jim Rome when I was a kid and I never see him anymore. But he was on the Jim Rome show and in it, he said. And this was really cool. He said, this is what I like about Mark Drew. He embraces our weirdness about our fans. So in the clip, you know, on social media, I'll set this up for you, Mario. Here is Mark Pope's clip. All right, there you go. Now that's what we do for social media. In the clip, though, he says that the players at Kentucky kind of get an introduction to BBN through the recruiting process. As soon as their name gets mentioned, they get flooded with Kentucky fans online, and that gives them one hit. And then he said for the players last year, when they would fly in here for their visit, they would get off the plane and people would say, hey, Jackson, Robinson's on the plane. And the player would say that on the plane, the fans would talk to him and say, you're coming to Kentucky. Right? And then you would get Big Blue Madness. And he said they slowly understand Kentucky basketball through the course of the recruiting process, and they feel what it's like. I thought that was a really cool thing for Mark to say. Yeah, he mentioned it's just an onslaught. The moment they're announced as visiting or even on the radar, they're feeling it before they even get to the airport to get on the plane. And then, of course, UK fans are everywhere, rocking their gear and can spot any of these guys in a crowd. So we all know it, but it's good to hear a coach embracing it and telling us that the players enjoy it. We're not weirding them out a little bit. Yeah, it's got to be wild. Like, say you're Ansley Almanor and you went to fairly Dickinson where even in the town where you go and at the campus where you are, no one knows who you are. Right. And then all of a sudden, overnight, you get this offer from Kentucky and this entire state of people know you and your mentions are flooded and your social media following doubles. That's got to be a crazy thing for these kids. It's one thing for the kids that are stars out of high school and that slowly get used to it, but. But for a kid from Fairly Dickinson or Dayton, where just overnight it changes, that's got to be insane. And Pope was talking about Angela Almanor one time about that exact same thing. And like, he understood he was coming here as a backup, but he wanted this to be a part of that phenomenon of Big Blue Nation. He wanted to feel that and be a part of it, even though knowing coming in he was going to be a backup. I think about when Pope was building the roster when he first got here, and, you know, I'm guilty of it, too. I was writing some of the stories, but we were just stalking. I mean, there was. They're seeing in Malone's and people are tweeting about it, but the one that stood out was Colin Chandler coming down that escalator at Lexington Airport. Lexington airport, midnight. And there's 20 people down there to greet him. That is insane. I mean, there were people. Yeah, we were greeting them at the airport at midnight on a Tuesday. He had two years off from basketball to go on his mission. And the next thing you know, he's coming down the escalator and added it to posters. And my man was on his mission. He was out there knocking on doors going, hello, my name is Elder Chandler. Can I please give you teach you about the Church of Latter Day Saints? And then all of a sudden, there's people at the airport saying, come to Kentucky. That's got. Because he had just gotten off his mission. Right. I think he had gone maybe home for a little while, but it still had to been very new and overwhelming to him. And all of them, really. I mean, we are crazy. It's good to hear that they like it. No, I mean, we are insane. But it's in a good. It's in a good way. All right, so when we come back, I got a couple things. One about the playoff. There's one school that's not even going to sell out their game. That's crazy. And that's going to be an embarrassment, I think, for their program. And somebody just logged a prediction for Dane Key from the Delta Sky Club. Welcome back, Ms. Klein to the JetBridge. Delta Air Lines relies on 5G systems solutions from T Mobile for business to power operations and serve customers faster. Together, we're putting 5G into the hands of ground staff so they can better assist on the go travelers with real time information throughout the airport. This is elevating customer experience. This is Delta Air Lines with T Mobile for Business. 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