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Stockton.com and click Get Started Stockton Mortgage NMLS8259 equal housing lender NMLSConsumeraccess.org welcome to hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Hour number two Kentucky Sports Radio 859-28022. KSBAR just opened up. We are here getting ready the game. So our pregame show today is at 4:30. You can come in before get ready for the game. We will. Game watch is at 7:00 tonight. Kentucky and Texas A and M. Kentucky is a six point favorite going up against the number one offensive rebounding team in the country. That's a pretty big deal. Speaking of big deal, you know it's a sports bar. We have the view on the big screen which was it's not what I normally would would have on the sports bar. I don't know how it ended up there but you know that's the way it goes. I guess. The money night football game was on last night. That's how we end up with the, with the view. The view without sound. That's View without sound. That's what people really want to see. All right, couple things here before we get back to phones. 859-280-2287. I want to give a big S like thoughts and sympathy to the folks in Louisville who worked for Brown Foreman. Brown Foreman that makes the. They made their barrels there in Louisville and they have closed the company. So I guess they've over the years had barrel making places in a bunch of states. Kentucky was the last one. They are closing it down. It's over 200 jobs in Louisville and not just jobs, really good jobs. It's very frustrating to me for a few reasons. The bourbon companies lobbied to get a tax benefit from the state last year for the making of barrels here in Kentucky and then the state it was a very controversial thing. The state capitulated, passed a bill and then six months later they shut down the company after doing it shut down the barrel making and move it to another state. You know to me, that's poor form on the side of brown form. But you beg the state to give you a tax break. The state does it to protect the bourbon industry, and then you move it out of the state anyway. So. But be that as it May, for the 200 plus families that have those jobs, that's gonna be a tough loss, Tough loss for the city that's been there for a long time. And I just want to give my prayers to the families that deal with that because that'll be, you know, that's just a. It's a very unfortunate thing. And, you know, the bourbon industry all across the country, there's a lot. Bourbon industry's in a lot of, you know, demand has gone down for bourbon in the last few years. I'm not sitting here arguing politics, but if Trump enacts tariffs, then a lot of countries are going to enact tariffs back on us on our bourbon, and our bourbon will be one of the things that is really affected by it. So, you know, I hope that industry is so important to this state that we hope. I hope this isn't the start of other things to come, you know, well said. I mean, it is sad. We all know somebody that works there for them, so it's. It just seems like they would want to keep that in Kentucky. That should be something that should stay here in Kentucky. They're apparently like, wanna. They're basically outsourcing it to other companies to do the barrels. They're not gonna do them in house anymore. I mean, I'm sure it probably does save money. I don't see their bottom line, but I just, you know, right after they gave literally to hurt these counties, they gave this tax break on all the bourbon barrel. Then to close it literally before the next legislative session is just. That's that's frustrating to me. Yeah, that's a big name in Louisville in the state. And it just, it stinks with 210 exactly. And looks like they didn't even get much notice. So you think about people been there a long time with how they've operated there. Yeah, got it today. All right. Two more fun stories than that. Mark Pope suggests last night that yesterday the team got to look at alternative uniforms. Alternative uniforms is what. Is what he said. Now, I'm going to note a couple hints. First of all, if you go look at the game the other night, you see he was wearing a pullover, had some shades of denim on it. Not going to say it was denim, but had some shades of denim also in 1994 or excuse. Was it 94, 96, 96, 96. The debut of the denim uniforms was against Arkansas. I'm not saying. I'm just saying. So I think there's a decent little argument, you know, Arkansas, February 1st, they're showing them the uniforms. You think there is a chance that this could be a hint that the denim. We might be in them when Calipari and those guys come here February 1st? I. Yes. And I hope, hope, hope you're exactly right. They wear those denim uniforms on February 1st when Callen Arkansas comes in here, it's gonna be a madhouse anyway. That's just going to add to the drama of the game. I love it. I hope they do it. I've been expecting this since before the season began and it's fallen right into place. They're dropping hints at the right time. I think we're headed straight for it. I mentioned I've seen. I saw these already before the year began. I didn't know when they're coming out, but I knew they exist. Me. You saw, you saw them where? It was on a phone. I didn't get to hold them, but yeah, I told you they look like. They look like those old ones, if that's what they finally went with. It was a prototype, but yeah, I mean it wasn't exact. It was like a modernized version. But I know they exist. I've been working on them since that was probably October and I seen them then I thought got to be Arkansas. And here we are. They're dropping the hints at the right time. I don't know anything now, but I'm guessing it's. That's the game and around the corner. That would be. It would be pretty exciting if they bring them out. Although, I don't know. Do you think people will like them as much as we do? From nostalgia point of view, I think just, you know, a one hit, one time thing or something like that. I hope they make to sell in the shops the number 41 denim jerseys. The mark Pope 41. I think that people would love to have that. Yes. I think it'll be. It would be very good for it to happen. I've seen the shoe also the shoes coming back. The Converse shoe. Yeah. Nike owns Converse. That would be. Jack Pilgrim pointed out. I didn't know this angle to it, but Shea is now Converse is big, big athlete. He signed right at the same time Mark Pope got hired. Shay Canadian denim. Converse has an incentive to bring Shea and NBA or Shea and Pope kind of together and make this a big deal. I like that. All right, so then the second story, a little we have to discuss, because it's in the. It's in the sec. Do you know, Ryan, who Sydney Thomas is? I do not. Sydney Thomas is this young woman. She was the girl or the woman in the Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight. Okay. You may remember she got a lot of attention. She was the ring card girl for the fight. Okay. She did a podcast. So she's like. She did a podcast where she said that after that, an SEC coach slid into her DMs. Okay. And that has led the Internet to try to guess which SEC coach slid in the DMs, right? Everybody's initial guess. Now, she didn't say head coach, but she did say it was the biggest person who had done it. So you got to think that means it's a head coach, probably. She didn't say football or basketball, but I think most people assumed football. So now you're down to 16. Everybody's initial guess was, of course, Lane Kiffin. Everyone guessed Lane Kiffin because apparently they slid in and said, roll, Todd, roll. Cause that's where she went to school. Kiffin, of course, coached at Alabama, so everybody just assumes it's Kiffin. And that's been, like, this Internet guess for 24:48. Who was it? But then last night, I guess she took a picture somewhere with Nick Saban, just like, you know, because she's an Alabama fan. Just a picture like somebody would take with Mark Pope. Lane Kiffin retweets the picture and says, now we know who slid in the DMs, implying that it was Saban. First of all, what an amazing tweet by Lane Kiffin, like, acknowledging that everyone thinks it's him, and then saying that it was Nick Saban, who it almost certainly was not. What did you make of Lane Kiffin? Is he, like, the master troll of all coaching? I hated Lane Kiffin. Hated Lane Kiffin until he got to Ole Miss. Now I love Elaine Kiffin. And add this to the list. Barstool this morning tweeted the picture and just said, your average SEC couple. And Kiffin's retweeting and interacting with that. Like, he's piling on, trying to put it on. He's just like. Everyone was just like, it had to be Kiffin. It had to be Kiffin. And Kiffin now is like, no, Saban. And just. This completely throws it. It is amazing to me that. That. That he did that. I mean, that's. That's pretty ballsy to take on the the king of all college coaches, Sabin, and put that out there and kind of have some fun with it. My money's still on Kiffin, though. Do you still think it was Kiffin? Oh, maybe he's using it to deflect. I mean. I mean, most people think it was either Kiffin or the other one. People gas is Hugh Freeze. They think it was either Kiffin or Hughes, the guy that was in the hospital bed in Liberty. It was. Of course it was. Right. Telling the story. I thought for sure you're gonna say it was Todd Golden, Florida's basketball coach, with what he was kind of accused of. You're taking this story is a little serious. We're trying to keep it light hearted. I'm just saying who I thought. Who I thought it was. I don't. I could see Kiffin. I think it was kissing. I think it's hilarious that he's doing that, but the fact that he would then deflect it to Saban, you know, I'm with you. Like, I don't want to like Kiffin, but he almost, like, makes it to where it's hard not to like him in some extent. He did one. I don't even think coaches should do this, but he took a recruit from another school and then tweeted like, basically, I just stole him. Like, eat it. Like, you don't see that from Division 1 college football coach. Well, I mean, you're allowed to do it, so I guess. Do other coaches like him or hate him? I've heard he and Stoops are very close. I've heard he and Stoops. Like, I actually heard that Lane Kiffin sent Stoops a message after going forward on fourth and throwing to Baron Brown. Like, what the hell was that, Mark? Like, that's not you. Yeah, well, either way, got to give him credit for that. Yeah. Who's up first? Kentucky Joe. Kentucky Joe, how are you? Hello there, Matt. I think. I think you all had a nice, nice guest today and nice one yesterday. So what did you think about us playing your song for Willie Collie Stein? He. You got to find. He got to hear Willie Collie Stein, man, live. I had tears in my eyes. You had tears in your eyes. I especially like Ryan. A remark. Well, Ryan said it was awful. Yeah, it was awful. It's your song. How are you gonna say it's awful? I. I'm. I'm being honest. Okay, well, if you let me tell you. You know, I learned a long time ago, if you don't believe in yourself, how do you expect anyone else to believe in yourself, Joe, you have to believe. No, I'm g. I'm g. Say I made a mistake because of the snow hill sand cranes. That's. That's the reason why. That's why it happened like that. Well, it was a beautiful song in my mind. No, no. Hey, Matt. Amen. Thank you for what he said. Well, you're welcome. And you know, I'm pulling for you. And here's what I think. This team's good. Joe, this team needs a song. You need to pick a player on the team. I don't care which one it is. And I need to hear from you maybe later in the week or next week and hear a song. I'm gonna call. I like to call them Pope. Pope. I like to call. Call this team. They. They are. They are Pope's Mama Deers. Pope's Mama Dears. Yes. That doesn't make any sense. You know why? Because I like to bomb the three. Oh, a bomb. I thought. What bomb? Bombardier, B, O, B, A, A, D, E, E, R, S. Bombardier, B, O, B. Yeah, yeah. You heard about that? World War II, the. The B24s. The Bombardiers. Bombardiers. Okay. I thought they were the Thundercats. Joe. Joe gave him the Thundercats. Yeah. Well, if you want to write about the Bombardiers, I don't know that that's a word, but if you do, that's fine. And Joe, it's nice to talk to you. Who's up next? All right, let's go to Ed. Ed. Go ahead, Ed. Hey, Matt, if you can pick six players in any part of Kentucky's history, who would you pick? My picks would be Tony Dill and Kyle Macy, Dan Issel, Anthony Davis, Kenny Skywalker and Jamal Mashburn. I mean, that's a great group. You're asking me, what would you pick? For what? Like, to put together the best team? Yeah, I mean, just if you had your choice through the years and you can snatch them right out of history and put them on the team now. Yeah. Okay, so if we're talking about modern college basketball, my answer is going to be a little bit different. I appreciate the call. Because if we're going to play in today's college basketball, I need dudes who can shoot. Right. So if I have dudes. So if I'm going to have dudes who can really shoot from the outside, Anthony Davis is going to be my scene, my. My center. Anthony Davis is going to be my center. I'm probably going to get. Tony Delk's going to Be in the lineup because he's such a good shooter. You like mashburn at the 4? I love mashburn so I. So I like Mashburn, Davis and Delk. Then at point guard, it's tough because I love John Wall, but I think I need a guy who can shoot in today's. In today's thing. So I don't know who you get in point. Macy's not a bad choice either. The guy said Macy, he can shoot Macy. I like Rex maybe at the three as a guy who could, who could shoot. Jack is another one. Or Kenny. So I love Issel, but I don't know if I think it's all's kind of made for the way the game was then, which is a little different than the game is now. So. Yeah, Macy's actually not a bad one. But I, but I like that guy's picks. He got right. Yeah, he, he's got six. Hard to argue against the six that he picked. Yeah. We're talking about modern day basketball. Yeah. I'll take a different approach. I still have a broken heart that needs to be healed. So I'm starting Rob Dillingham, Antonio Reeves and Reed Shepherd. And then with that shooters with them I gotta, I gotta fill that void in my. With them I gotta put Anthony Davis boogie. And I need a little bit of a. Yeah, Mashburn will be a good. You know what I mean? If you put those three guards on the floor with Mashburn and Anthony Davis, they'd be pretty good. 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One person writes, Matt, have you been hearing Billy and Shannon make fun of you for your diarrhea kiss story on the post game show? Have you been doing that, Shannon? Well, you know, I turn on the radio on the way home from the show the other night, and the first thing I hear is you talking about your first kiss and how you got diarrhea after that. Then you thought kissing girls gives you diarrhea. That was the first thing that I heard on the post game show. I heard that. I'm going, oh, okay. That's what you talk about, all these late night post game shows, huh? It is what I talked about. Well, it was the what? The girl. The. Well, she's now, you know, a woman that's. She thinks she's older than me. It was her birthday, and so my mom said to give her a birthday shout, so I did. And then I just had to give the context of that. That was my first kiss when I was like 6 or 7 or 8 and that then I had diarrhea. And I thought that's what you got from kissing. And so I tried to stay away from it until my mid-20s. Not that long. But, but every. People thought that was funny and I don't know why that was funny if you're a kid. Causation correlation. It seemed like that happened right after. So it would be called. You would think there'd be a causation. Sounds like a traumatic experience. It was a traumatic. I was very sick. Call her by name on the post game show I did. The birthday show. I did. But like, have you heard from her since then? Not since the post game show, but like, you know, I mean, her mother is here a lot. Georgiana's dog. Oh, okay. Okay. She's the one that gave you Daru? Well, she didn't. I thought she gave like, I don't think she did give it to me. I think it was like I was just in my mind I made that correlation. I can see now why you didn't kiss another girl till you turned 40. I see. Well, first of all, I just made that joke about mid-20s, but that, but they, you, you know, you can understand how that would happen. Okay. I mean, you should worry about several rias when you're participating in those activities. But diarrhea, I don't think is correlated. There are a lot of rias that you have to worry about. There's something else Shannon and Billy been. They said on the pregame show, pre show about you. What was it? What did we say that you farted during the. No, no, no. That was a caller that said, yeah, that didn't happen. I went back and listened. That's. That wasn't, I don't know what that sound was, but that wasn't me. I would say it, but that was not that. That they are. That that caller is wrong about that. Who's up next? Tyler. Tyler, go ahead, Tyler. Hey, guys. I just wanted to call in and tell you my guess as to who the coach was. The dm, the, the girl. I think Bruce Pearl would have been a very good candidate. A little old for it to be him. I mean, he's in his, they're all probably too old. He's in his 60s. So I, I, I, I, I would kind of, I would think it was unlikely that it was him. And also, do you think Kentucky covers the spread? Well, that's a good question. I mean, do you think Kentucky, I mean, if, okay, so with Kentucky, with the spread being six, if I was like, let's say I didn't care about Kentucky, I would probably bet on A and M. Because if you're getting, If I'm getting six and I think this game could be close anyway. I'm probably betting on A and M. I'm. I'm going to pick Kentucky to win. I think Kentucky will win. But if I were getting six, Drew, I would like. You know, we're not doing a KSR parlay tonight, but if we were, I think I wouldn't have the overall spread on the list because I think six is a lot against a good team. No, I'm not touching six and a half now, too, by the way. Is it really? Yeah. Wow. I mean, I wouldn't bet against UK ever, but, like, just asking me what I think could happen, I would lean A and M there. This will be A. Are you surprised? 6. And I mean, it's a lot of points for a team that they're ranked. What's A And M ranked? 11. 11. They're ranked 11th in the country. And you're. That's a lot. It's got to be all reaction to. Wait, I didn't see what it opened. I know. It's moved quite a bit. I think it opened even lower. Much lower, actually. So it's all in reaction to him. I'm probably gonna moneyline UK because I do think they win and then throw in like a player. I do think this is a very important game, though, for Kentucky. You know, the Alabama game, you could drop the Alabama. I want to win it. You could drop it, though, but, you know, you might have made it up by winning at Mississippi State, but. But you can't. If you want to win the sec, you got to win both these games. But if you still. I'm still sort of in the more like, I want to make sure we're a top four seed. If you got. Want to be a top four seeds, you could. You could lose the Alabama game. You cannot lose this game to A and M. This is. That's why I think this one's really important tonight. Yeah, you got to take advantage of the fact you got them at home, they're without their best player. The last time you were at Rupert, he scored 106 points. So, yeah, I think you've got to take advantage of having this game on your home floor. The whole floor is just. You just have to hold serve at home in the sec. And even though completely different rosters, at least from the fans, there's a revenge aspect of this. They've won the last two. Can't let A and M keep getting. Having Kentucky's number. Even if the bodies are different in UK uniforms. Couple open lines 859-280-2287. Who's next? Bob and Jamestown. Bob in Jamestown. How are you, Bob? I'm doing good. You know, talking about Women's Sports Title 9, you know, the rising tide raises all boats. Would you believe that Western Kentucky's women's basketball team makes $650,000 a year salary? And Hurley, Connecticut's coach, two time national champion, only getting 450. That's. How about that? Danny Hurley does not make for. Who told you Danny Hurley makes $450,000? I just, I was pulling it up on the Internet the other day. Well, if it's on what everybody makes, Danny Hurley makes like six or seven million dollars. That's what I figured. But he said, well if it was on the Internet, Bob, information, did you look up monthly? I appreciate the call. I mean there's nothing. You really think Danny Hurley makes $450,000? Well, he signed an extension right around the UK coaching search and the Internet tells me it's for $50 million. See again, Shannon, people go, why are you so mean to buy in Jamestown? Because he calls in and says that Danny Hurley makes 450,000. It's got to be true. It's on Facebook. We'll be right back. 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, 859-280-2287. I guess Bob looked and this is, you have to remember, this is why context matters in this world. The Hurley's makes whatever you said he makes, Drew. But the way it works, it's the same at uk. The quote unquote base salary is a small amount and then it's all the media stuff that gets you to a lot of money. Mark Pope's the exact same way. I don't know what his base salary is, but it's a lot smaller than you think. But then you add in the JMI and then the endorsement and all that and then that is the total number that you're talking about. But so that like on the state registry it doesn't look as much. It'll just be the amount that's the base salary. I don't know what Popes is, but there was a time that Cows was like $500,000 even though he was making 8, 9, $10 million because of. That's just how they, they do it. Yeah, their money comes from the other thing. Like you said, their Shoe contract. Their coaches show their Nike contract. Everything else involved with the coaching world. 859-280-2287. Couple open lines. Where are you all on the phones? I can't just. I know Shannon needs a call when he goes to Bob and Jamestown before the final segment there, there's some talk that Dion Sanders may go coach the Cowboys. Would it work? Yes or no? No. But I've made up a scenario in my head where they hire him and the Titans trade him the number one pick so he can draft his son. So I'm kind of rooting for it. Okay. That's okay. I mean, it's not crazy, I guess. Yeah. When's your next ESPN show? Because this is all you're going to be talking about. I do Thursday night with a guy named. First of all, you need to look up this guy I'm doing the show with Thursday night. Okay? His name is Mark Zeno Z I N O. And he is the biggest dude I've ever seen in my life. Like, like, like, look, like, look how. Oh, he's a big dude. Yes. Like, look how ripped that guy. Yeah, he likes showing it off. You want to know who he is? Do you remember when we were driving in Utah and we were. And I turned on ESPN radio and they were two dudes and they were just going, you remember? Like, who are these guys? It was one of those dudes. It's one of those dudes. So, like, I'm doing the show with him now. Well, there's no doubt what you're talking about. Every show for the next month and a half, Dallas Cowboys coaching search. I think Dion is exactly where he needs to be. Like, the whole college, motivating, get them be cool, all that. I think that all works really well in college. I do not think it will work in the NFL. So I think he is where he needs to be right now. I agree. Just with all the stories you hear out of that locker room. You know, there was story written earlier in the year comparing it to, like, it was Grand Theft Auto, the video game in that locker room with everything going on. I don't know how he could pick that up and take it to a professional locker room with grown adults and, you know, having just their career. I just don't know how that would fit. Yeah, it would be a circus, though. I mean, it get a lot of attention with Dion on that sideline. But, you know, but you, the Cowboys, you don't need a circus. Like, you already, like, you're the Dallas Cowboys. You're the biggest franchise. You don't need more of a circus. You already have a circus. Jerry Jones is your circus. Yeah, so. So, no, I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't think that'll work. 859-280-2287. Who's up next? Todd. Todd. Go ahead, Todd. Hey, Matt. After the Georgia loss, I listened to the post game show and you said we don't have one athletic person on the team. And I think you're wrong about that. I think that Ortega is one of the most athletic people we've had on our team. I said. I said I don't think we have athletes. But here's the reason I. Here's the reason I say that I think Ortega is athletic. But how many times we watched him get blocked at the rim, right? Quite a bit now. He. That's all I'm saying. He's a. He's a good athlete. He is. You know, again, this sounds like I'm being critical. I'm just explaining what I think they are. These are dudes. Amari is a perfect example about this. Amari at the con, at the level he was on at Drexel, is probably the best athlete that was on the court or one of the best athletes that's on the court. But then you get to the SEC and everyone is as athletic as that. And so it. That athleticism you have is not the dominant thing. We've had guys. We've had guys at this school. We've had guys at this school who are such elite athletes that in a conference full of athletes, they still are crazy athletic. We don't have one of those guys on this team. Are they athletic? As far as the average person? Yeah, for sure. If they were playing in Conference usa, would they be one of the most athletic guys? For sure. But in the SEC, we don't have a dude like De'Aaron Fox or John Wall or one of these guys who's just a super athlete, more athletic than all the other guys on the court. One. One other thing I want to say is, like, as good as we have been this year, I mean, these are guys that, like, you're talking about playing against these teams that they're playing against in the sec, which is best conference in the nation. I mean, they're. They're just blowing. We're gonna get some losses, but of course we are. And I mean, they just click. I mean, this is. This team is so fun to watch. They are. It's not a put down to say, I Appreciate the call that these are not elite athletes. I mean the amount of elite athletes, just by definition there's only a handful around the country. What I'm saying is this is a group of dudes. I mean if you were just drew to stack the rosters of the 16 SEC teams and just look solely at athleticism, not skill, not intelligence, we're not even probably going to be in the top half. No, but that's not the strength of this team which makes it very different than what we've been used to. If you're starting the S.E.C. you are very athletic obviously, but you're making the point relative to everyone else. I mean just go back that Mississippi State game. Those dudes were more athletic than our dudes. Yes, they were. Don't you think? Yes they were. I mean take Arkansas. All right, Arkansas's not good but they're more athletic than we are. But they're not good. So. But I'm just talking about sheer athleticism and there's some good athletes like Away. But Andrew Carr is beating you with old move. Old man moves inside pump face getting around you. Kobe Braya is shooting a three from four feet outside the three point line. He's. He can beat you off the dribble but that's not exactly what he's going to do to set himself apart. I think that great point Jack. Even Jackson Robinson is not like Duncan in your face athlete. I mean Away is probably the best athlete we have and he gets blocked a lot and was hard to watch. Softo's a different level of athletes so I But Softo blocked him pretty strong on that. I think. I agree with you guys. Ortega may be the best athlete and you know what, Brandon Garrison may be the second best. I actually think Brandon Garrison is a good athlete. He's awkward a little bit but he is athletic. He's got long arms, he can jump. He's. He is athletic. His issue is no one thinks Brandon Garrison is more athletic than Brandon Garrison thinks he's athletic. He's spin moving. He's trying everything that the point guards are doing. If there's anybody out there listening that has low self confidence in life, look in the mirror in the morning and look at yourself and think you are as good as Amari Williams and Brandon Garrison think they are dribbling. Like just take their self confidence and take it to your own life because those dudes get the ball and they're like let's go. Here we go. Brandon Garrison, that one play where he tried to dribble the length of the course. Well twice in the Georgia loss he looked at Lamont Butler calling for the ball and shrugged him off and said I'm taking it and turned it over two dribbles later. Twice. Just have that confidence in life and you will be good. His three point confidence I'm starting to get behind though. Pope even said last night you all need to put some respect on his shooting. He's three for four and four games and Pope's like we see this kind of regularly in practice. 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That's how all these contracts are structured. Yeah, well, that way the reason they do it like that is that way when you pull up the state salaries, you won't see the $4.6 million. Like it doesn't look like he's making what he's making. You know, I think, I think all most public schools probably do it that way. And honestly, most publics, there are some schools, I don't think Kentucky's like this, but there's some states that have laws as to how much a state official can make and it might be the way around those laws in some states. You know what makes it weird when they skip media obligations? Because they are getting paid by the media. Which by the way, he's still doing even in our. I wouldn't talk about anyone in particular. I was just saying if the media is covering a contract, you should fulfill them. I still cannot believe JMI let that slide when he was here. But I don't know. What are you going to do if he says no? What are you going to do? Don't pay him. Okay. I think that would have been a little bit of a controversy if he had done that. But I mean, I agree with you. I could, but that's what happened. I do want to give a shout out real quick to our football team. It is amazing to me how online it feels like no one wants any positive football news. Like you give it to them and they just go, yeah, stink. We'll see if we win in September. Like yeah, this year stunk but we need to. I would think people would want to know about the team. Okay, Kentucky got a dude that was ranked as one of the top 10 players in the portal two days ago. All right, McQuees. So how I say it? I believe so. I even went to YouTube and watched clips of him to make sure that Police Grace he played it South Dakota, which is fcs, but he was a defensive lineman that Georgia, Michigan and Mississippi State were all targeting. Kirby Smart had him on campus and individually walked him around. To me that says to me he's pretty good. If Kirby Smart's going to take his time to individually walk this kid around, he commits to Kentucky from Ohio. So another Vince Marrow thing, you know, when it comes to the line of scrimmage on the offensive and defensive line, they have upgraded massively from last year. Now we'll see if they end up good but they are going to have an all new defensive line, an all new offensive line and pretty much everybody they've gotten has been a player that other top programs have wanted. Drew. So like, you know, again we'll have to see if it works out. But you got to be excited. This dude was ranked in the on three thing. He was ranked as the number nine overall player in the portal. He's an all american first team at the FCS level. Hopefully that translates. He was the player of the year in his conference, which is the best conference in that level his freshman year. Just right away had insane numbers. Played two seasons there. So I agree this is a big get, especially with the interest list and you put him. They Got the guy from Wyoming gust Augusta from Washington State was ranked tallying all these things, we'll see how it looks in the sec but given what they had in front of them to go shopping for, they did pretty well there. And I want to add they got, you know, I don't know a lot about these mid major guys but the true Edwards receiver they got yesterday from Louisiana Tech. I watched his film a few weeks ago before he visited and I wanted him bad and they locked him down. That receiver room has flipped quite a bit too. And the quarterbacks and receivers, all of the Calzada coming in, all the receivers are like 24 years old. It's by far the oldest quarterback receiver room in college football. He's a seventh year senior. It's going to be fascinating because it's clear to me Ryan, they took a view of you know what we tried this whole thing of getting the backup at Georgia, the backup at Alabama, the backup. Now we're going to this next level and we're taking the dudes that crushed it. Yep, we're taking the dudes that crushed it in fcs. We're taking the dudes that crushed it at Washington State, at Louisiana Tech, at Northern Illinois. We're taking these guys western our centers from yeah, we'll see if it works. But it is clear they had a different strategy this year Ryan. Rather than taking these other teams leftovers going and getting the stars one level down, no doubt the approach change and they're going to get guys that have done have done it on the field. You know you can actually see how they perform and what they've done on the field. Not a guy who is a backup just because he was at a bigger school. We'll see, we'll see. That's the thing. I mean it's exciting but it's also like we won't know how any of these guys that are coming from FCS and putting the SEC how it really translates their hands in the dirt on Saturday in September. But I would just say to you if there's a defensive lineman that Kirby Smart wanted then I want him to right like if Kirby Smart thought I he could play there next year. I'll take I look at what they did in the portal and here's the one, my one reaction. The offensive line will be better. The defensive line will be better. The receiver room, I don't know if it'll be better but it might be more consistent. It's much older but the one thing is do we have a quarterback that's My. That's my. Do we have a. Between cutter and my incarnate word guy? Are we gonna be able to get a guy on the field who's good and I don't know the answer. But that's. That's my question. I'm with you and I look at it and I don't have. We're not going to turn this into me getting optimistic about next season. I'm still very down on everything, but I think Calzada, it would be hard to do much worse at quarterback. And I don't mean to talk negatively about Vandergriff. I think a lot of that was injury and his protection. But they did not get good numbers from QB last year. So I think it's got to go up. How much? We'll see. But last year was horribly bad. I also think we're going to be running the ball a lot next year, though. You. Yeah, they got the running back that came in then they've got, of course, Wilcox and Patterson. I think those guys are offensive line, at least in theory. So we'll see who's up next. Tracy. Tracy. Go ahead, Tracy. Hey, guys, good morning. Bringing us back to today, just a couple of thoughts. One is, you know, A M didn't really get terribly blown out the other night by Bama and they missed 20 free throws, which I did. 20 free throws. They were 28 of 48 from the free. They had 48 free throws in that game against Bama. Yeah. And missed 20 of them. And Buzz didn't actually seem too concerned about that because he pulled up some stats about their. Their top, you know, playing top major 11 teams and all that. The other thing I had to. I thought about and drew real quick to you and about the lines and everything. I'll tell you, one of the things that really bothers me is when I bet Kentucky to cover and they don't, but they win. I don't want to be conflicted on being happy and being sad, so I just don't bet any more than the money line. I mean, I. I don't want to have those two competing feelings. I want to be happy every time we win. 100%. Yeah. Have you looked at the slate for tonight on sec? You got A M coming to US Mississippi State going to Auburn. I believe Ole Miss is at Bama. Those are all 7 o'clock games and then at 9 you get Arkansas at LSU. Well, yeah, let's talk about those real quick. I appreciate the call. You got three teams that went on the road last week and Won big games on the road now at home. Right. And so now they got a hold serve at home. That's Auburn, that's Alabama and that's us. Then you got Arkansas. In my opinion, their seasons on the line tonight at lsu. Like you, if they lose at lsu, it's, it's night night. If you lose. I mean, LSU is the worst team in the conference. Now you are playing a road game, so you could lose, but it is night night if they lose this game. So I think at 9:00, I know I'm gonna be watching it when the Kentucky game's over. To me, Drew, they're playing for their season tonight in Baton Rouge. Absolutely. That's not Drew and Matt being haters. You can read Arkansas stories. They're writing that right now. That game goes to oh and four in the sec. And this isn't even Arkansas's difficult stretch. They still have a hard schedule going forward. So if you lose to lsu, I don't care that it's on the road. You're running out of games to win this early in the year. They don't have, they don't have enough opportunities later. No, you got to win at lsu considering they're the worst team in the conference. They don't win this one. You're right. They're in a lot of trouble. They. I think they're in a lot of. So that's, that's afterwards and then I think we got it. If we want to be like Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Florida, you got a whole serve home at home tonight against A and M. Kentucky Chamber is working on important issues, Ryan. All right, tell me about it. Kentucky Chambers tackling big challenge like child care access, barriers to work and housing affordability. They're strengthening communities and helping Kentucky families. If you want to learn more, get involved. Visit ky chamber.com ky chamber.com Today, our pregame show is at 4:30. Quickly. You got us winning tonight. I think they do win tonight. I don't know if they're going to cover, but I definitely think they're going to win tonight. Jackson's big breakout game gave me a lot of comfort moving forward. I think they handle business tonight. I think the crowd is big tonight. Right? Like the crowd this. There was a story in the Herald Leader today from Ben Roberts about how good this crowd has been this year. People saying it's the best crowd in at least five or six years at Kentucky games. I agree with that. Tonight, those another night. It's going to be cold. It's like going to be cold tonight. Yes, but then you get in there, yell, scream, holler. We need to get a big victory and watch my 0 degree rapid reaction from the cold. It's going to be looking forward to hold after the game tonight. Thank you all. We'll see you later. Thanks to George Amor Smith, Kentucky Sports Radio Whether you're ordering wings for the game, whipping up a seven layer dip or ordering pizza, there's something about football that makes you want to eat in this football season. Uber Eats has the best deals on game day food no matter what you're craving, from two for one Pizza. To buy one, get one Wings. 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