2025-06-06- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

Podcast Summary: KSR - Hour 1 Release Date: June 6, 2025
Host/Author: iHeartPodcasts and Sports Talk 790 (WKRD-AM)
Title: KSR

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1. Live Show Kickoff at Virginia Theater, Somerset, Kentucky ([02:26] - [05:55])

The episode opens with Shannon welcoming listeners to a vibrant live show in Somerset, Kentucky, at the historic Virginia Theater. Shannon and co-host Emmett express excitement over the enthusiastic crowd, noting that such energy is rare for a non-sports event in June.

Shannon:
"This is only... only in the state of Kentucky. Only in the state of Kentucky and only with KSR could you get that kind of crowd in June." ([02:49])

Emmett praises the theater's recent renovations, highlighting manager Deja Lyle's efforts to modernize the venue while preserving its historical charm.

Emmett:
"Something really special. And what they've done with this, they have elevated it... they got lights, sound system, Big concert venue now as well." ([03:33])

The discussion shifts to notable upcoming performances, including Country Wayne, Eric Griffin, and Greg Morton, emphasizing the theater's longstanding commitment to quality entertainment.

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2. UK Basketball Team Analysis and All-Time Starting Lineup Debate ([05:55] - [49:47])

A significant portion of the episode delves into the University of Kentucky's (UK) basketball program, focusing on player performances, team dynamics, and strategic budgeting in light of recent NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) deals.

Team Roster and Player Introductions: Shannon discusses the absence of players Mohammed Diabate and Yellow Vic, noting their commitment to workouts and the team's readiness to compete.

Shannon:
"It was interesting watching them, the guys all seemed very nervous. I think this is going to be a group that they're all a little nervous for." ([06:26])

All-Time Starting Lineup Debate: The hosts debate the best all-time starting lineup for UK basketball from 2000 to 2025, engaging in a lively discussion about key players like John Wall, DeMarcus Anthony Davis, Keith Bogans, Tayshawn Prince, and others. They question the inclusion of certain players and the criteria for selection, highlighting differing opinions on player contributions and legacies.

Ryan Seacrest:
"I think that's pretty clear. John Wall. You could make a case for maybe Tyler Ulis, maybe Brandon Knight, but I think it has to be John Wall." ([08:34])

Shannon:
"He has the two, the three, and the four. And I think this... some people would think these are controversial picks." ([09:03])

Budget Allocation and NIL Impact: The conversation shifts to the financial challenges facing UK athletics, particularly the allocation of the $21 million NIL revenue. Shannon highlights insights from Ross Dellinger, emphasizing that not all schools can fully utilize the funds as intended, leading to competitive tensions within the SEC.

Shannon:
"She said schools can spend $21 million, but there are schools who can't afford to spend that, and there are going to be schools who don't, who are not able to spend the $21 million. And I'm talking about big schools." ([26:10])

Poll Results on Budget Prioritization: Shannon conducts a poll with the live audience, revealing that a majority favor prioritizing basketball over football in budget allocations, a surprising shift that underscores the community's passion for UK basketball.

Shannon:
"For people listening at home, it was probably 60% Shannon's, 35% mine and then 5 per. Well, one guy saying equal you and my mullet guy back there." ([39:15])

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3. NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) Deals and Future Implications ([49:47] - [46:46])

The hosts explore the evolving landscape of NIL deals in college sports, discussing the establishment of a clearinghouse by Deloitte to oversee NIL transactions and ensure fair market value. This development aims to prevent schools from disproportionately benefiting or circumventing strict budget allocations.

Shannon:
"As part of this settlement, there is going to be a clearinghouse run by Deloitte, not run by the NCAA. Basically, making sure that NIL is... you have to prove that when you give Trent Noah amount of money that he has worked for it by doing the endorsements, etc." ([45:00])

Emmett:
"But you're not gonna be able to give Otega away $3 million and say, hey, he has $3 million and then he does one commercial. You're gonna have to have to show that that 3 million..." ([46:30])

The discussion underscores the importance of transparency and accountability in NIL deals, emphasizing that future funding allocations will require tangible contributions from athletes.

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4. Upcoming Events and Listener Interactions ([05:55] - [51:56])

The hosts share details about Shannon's upcoming performance at the Virginia Theater, encouraging listeners to attend and support local talent. They also touch upon NCAA tournament updates, including the firing of coaches from the Dallas Stars and the Knicks, sparking a debate on the timing and reasoning behind these decisions.

Shannon:
"What time do you play here tonight? We're going at 8 o' clock." ([43:57])

Ryan Seacrest:
"Can you imagine a college basketball coach getting fired after making the Final Four?" ([28:52])

Listener interactions include shout-outs, bets related to show content, and feedback on recent episodes, fostering a sense of community and engagement.

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5. Closing Remarks and Final Advertisements ([41:10] - [51:56])

The episode concludes with a series of advertisements for various sponsors, promoting products and services such as T-Mobile, Mint Mobile, Future Health, and Refresh Optive Mega 3. These segments are interspersed with final thoughts from the hosts about upcoming shows and events.

Shannon:
"I had Ross Dellinger on my podcast yesterday... you ought to listen to it." ([26:10])

Ryan Seacrest:
"The NBA Finals are here and this is your last chance to bet on the NBA until next season..." ([51:17])

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Notable Quotes:

• Shannon on Budget Prioritization:
  "If you're talking about sixth men as sixth men, I could be convinced that... but if you didn't do that, I don't think you would have Darius." ([10:46])

• Emmett on NIL Impact:
  "I think a lot of it will go away. There'll be some that will still do it. But a lot of it's just gonna..." ([46:30])

• Shannon on Community Support:
  "We are here at the Virginia Theater in downtown. This is a theater that opened in 1922. Ryan Lemon, 1922." ([02:26])

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Overall, this episode of KSR provides an in-depth analysis of UK basketball, the financial challenges posed by NIL deals, and the strategic decisions facing Kentucky athletics. The lively discussions, combined with audience interactions, offer listeners a comprehensive understanding of current sports dynamics in Kentucky.

Transcript

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[Shannon]

Comedyoff broadway welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports radio Friday. Wow. June 6th. We're in Somerset, Kentucky and look at this crowd here at the Virginia Theater in downtown Somerset. Look out.

[Emmett]

That's awesome.

[Shannon]

This is only. Only in the state of Kentucky. Only in the state of Kentucky and only with KSR could you get that kind of crowd in June. It's not even close to a sports event. This is in June in Somerset at the Virginia Theater. Give your guys a big round of applause just for what this crowd is this morning. It's one of the best ones we've ever had in Somerset. And we are here at the Virginia Theater in downtown. This is a theater that opened in 1922. Ryan Lemon, 1922. This has existed since then. It had. There was an ice storm. They redid it just a few years ago. And what a cool facility in a. In a small town in Kentucky. One of the cooler ones I've been to.

[Emmett]

We talked about it. You know, everybody, every community's got that movie theater. And you walk in, you just feel it as soon as you walk in. Something really special. And what they've done with this, they have elevated it. Deja Lyle was the manager here. She's done a fantastic job modernizing. They got lights, sound system, Big concert venue now as well.

[Shannon]

So it's one of the newest entertainment venues in the state. That's also one of the oldest. This used to be a movie theater. They now have plays. They had the concert here. The 606 strong tornado relief benefit just last week, which was very. Which had Sunday what. Nicholas Jameson.

[Emmett]

Sunday Best.

[Shannon]

Sunday Best was here. And Shannon. What? I wish Middlesbrough had had a place like this.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Me too. I mean, this is like something you might find in a big city in Kentucky. You know, it kind of reminds me of the Mercury Ballroom a little. That's a good call. And, you know, I'm looking forward to just playing here later on tonight. We've never played a theater before like this.

[Shannon]

So you're playing here tonight, right, with. With Alice Bluegam.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's right.

[Shannon]

So this will be like full of. Of. Of all of your fans here. Are you looking forward to it?

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm really excited about it.

[Shannon]

So you've never played a theater?

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, we played amphitheaters, but never anything quite like this. The cool thing about this venue, I was saying earlier, you know, you got the. The renovated part, but then they also left, you know, some of the old part too. So you get a little bit of the. The history with this building.

[Shannon]

I like. That's a good combination. Well, Ryan got up this morning, came down here to Somerset. I was thinking about the. The towns we've done the most remotes in. If Somerset's outside of Lexington.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Louisville.

[Shannon]

If it's not first, it's in the top three. I would think over the years, I knew Bob in Jamestown would be here, and there he is. My mom would say, hey, be nice to Bob while you're there. So I'll do my best before I. But before I leave.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He hasn't taken a phone call yet.

[Shannon]

If you take a phone call, you're out. I'm kicking you out if you take a phone call. Last night I was at KS Bar. You know, we've started the. The renovation process. I was. We were down there rolling up our sleeves. Yeah, we're not ready to have you yet. We need to have a. We need to have a direction before we let you break everything. But it was very night. We got some big, big changes coming. And we also realized we're going to use some of our listeners for part of it. We're gonna ask for volunteers for people to do things. I'm not gonna say what it is yet, but. So we were doing that all last night.

[Emmett]

I'm excited about it, really. We're going to come back bigger and better than ever. Just in time for football season. When everybody cross your fingers.

[Shannon]

Shannon. We got some of the. Things may take a little more work, as they probably know here than we thought, but we'll. We'll make it happen.

[Emmett]

Yeah. You mentioned Somerset. We've been to Gatti's a lot. All the Don Franklin's down here, but this is the biggest crowd I think we've ever had. Somerset. Yeah, no doubt.

[Shannon]

So we appreciate it. All right, so let's go over some. Some UK news to start the day. Basketball team. All here, but two people. Mohammed Diabate and Yellow Vic are the only players not here. They've already started workouts. They did like little welcome videos for each player where the coaches were standing there with them and they said, we're ready to go get number nine. It was interesting watching them, the guys all. Shannon seemed very nervous. I think. I think this is going to be a group that they're all a little nervous for. I think even they realize how much our fan base can be. If you watch the videos, there's some.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Like, kind of like first day at school vibes.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know, and like, and you know.

[Shannon]

Because I mean, there. If you play basketball at Pitt, like Jalen Lowe, you're used to nobody knows who you are. Right. Even Jaden Quaintance at Arizona State, I mean, they don't, you know, their games, nobody really cares. This is going to be a different kind of thing. But I do like the way the basketball team, if you go online, you get introduced to all of the guys over the last few days.

[Emmett]

It is kind of cool. I'm really glad they're doing that. We kind of get to know them a little bit more as a person and get to recognize a little bit when they're around town. But we heard the guys last year, Amari and Lamont Butler talked about, they had no idea until they went to that first exhibition game. And for an exhibition game, they had more people there than the normal games they got during the regular season. Last year.

[Shannon]

Mario was complaining on the way down here this morning. He wrote with me. He was complaining about Jaden quaint his hair. He's gonna, he's gonna do all he can to try to get his hair cut. He's got his hair like almost over his eyes when he tries to play.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Maybe owe, you know, can take him.

[Shannon]

To his barber is completely gone. But as I was looking at them coming, I wanted to compare it to Mark's story of the Herald leader, who I think's done a great job recently. He did the all the all UK mid quarter century team, so the best team at Kentucky like for the last 25 years. And he gave his starting lineup. So I want you. All right now I'll start with you, Mr. History here. If you were to do from 2000 to 2025 your UK all time starting lineup, let's see if you get the same thing. I, I pretty much agree with what Mark has, although I might quibble with one thing. Who would be in your starting lineup? And he does it by position. So who would be your starting point guard?

[Emmett]

I think you'd have to go just for what he meant to the program, John Wall.

[Shannon]

I think that's pretty, pretty clear. John Wall. You could make a case for maybe Tyler Ulis, maybe Brandon Knight, but I think it has to be John Wall. So that's an easy one. I think the center's probably pretty easy. Who you putting it Center?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Probably DeMarcus Anthony Davis.

[Shannon]

I mean.

[Emmett]

Oh, Anthony Davis.

[Shannon]

Did you just hear him? Yeah, he hosts the University of Kentucky show. You just put DeMarcus over Anthony Davis.

[Emmett]

I hadn't even thought. Anthony.

[Shannon]

David, I'm going to you now.

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, no, no, no. Stay with Ryan. He's better overall than I am.

[Shannon]

How could you not? Anthony Davis is the first one.

[Emmett]

I was gonna put him at the four spot.

[Shannon]

Well, you're wrong. So he's, he's at the center. All right, now he has the two, the three and the four. And I think this. Some people would think these are controversial picks. I bet. What do you think? I'm not going to tell you what he has first. Who is your 2, 3 and 4?

[Emmett]

Keith Bogan's at the 2, Tayshawn Prince at the 3 and the 4. I would probably try to throw Julius Randall in there.

[Shannon]

Julius Randle. Okay. Not. What about you? What would your two, three and I.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Like actually what he says there. Julius Randle at the four. Tayshawn Prince has got to be in there.

[Emmett]

Yeah. Keith Bogan is the leading scoring guard in UK history.

[Shannon]

He is.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

You're gonna put Keith in there?

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm a Jody Meeks.

[Emmett]

Oh, that's a good one.

[Shannon]

That's a good one. That's a good one. All right, well, here's what. Here's what Mark has.

[Emmett]

Okay.

[Shannon]

He has the two guard Keith Bogans.

[Emmett]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

I think a lot of people might be surprised to have Keith Bogans at the two. I'm with you. Highest scoring guard in UK history. People in this room, a lot of you know the 2003 team, in my opinion, the most underrated team in UK history. When that team was rolling, nobody better. And the only reason they lost is because Keith Bogan's got hurt. If Keith Bogans doesn't get hurt, they win it. Tayshawn Prince is at the small forward for him.

[Emmett]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

And then they put the four. I think he's cheating a little bit with this one, Shannon, because I don't think this guy's a true four. But he puts Oscar Sheepway at power forward. You think that's cheating?

[Ryan Seacrest]

That is cheating. Yeah. And I don't.

[Shannon]

I don't think you could play Oscar and Anthony Davis together.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, great. I mean, the greatest rebounder of our time, but I don't think he belongs on the list.

[Shannon]

What do you think?

[Emmett]

If nothing else, I would flip him. Maybe play Oscar at the 5 and Anthony Davis at the 4 if you're going to play those two guys.

[Shannon]

Now, the controversial picks he picks is the best sixth man, Darius Miller. Now, if you're just talking about sixth men as sixth men, like, did they play as the sixth man on their team? I could be convinced that did to put Darius Miller there. But if you didn't do that, Ryan, I don't think you would have Darius. But he has Darius Miller as the sixth man. I think that's a UK homer pick, like a state of Kentucky homer pick. Would you do it?

[Emmett]

But if you're picking truly, who. If he was a sixth man at Kentucky he may be the best sixth man of the past 25 years.

[Ryan Seacrest]

National championship team, I think has a lot to do with that, too. Probably any beam for me. Yeah.

[Shannon]

All right, now here is his second team.

[Emmett]

All right.

[Shannon]

Who would your second team point guard be?

[Emmett]

Tyler.

[Shannon]

You? Tyler. Us is his second team point guard. You already mentioned your second team shooting guard.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Joe Geeks.

[Shannon]

He's on there. All right, small forward, power forward and center. This is. I think you get a lot of different answers on this. What. What's your. Who's your small forward, power forward, center, Second team.

[Emmett]

I guess I'm picking Carl as my.

[Shannon]

Center over demarcus, who you had first team.

[Emmett]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Demarcus you've already bumped. He's already bumped demarcus from first team to. On the team.

[Emmett]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Emmett]

Boy, the four is what's so hard. I've already said Julius Patrick Patterson. I may go with Patrick Patterson.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Emmett]

Before you.

[Shannon]

So would you. You would take Julius Randall, though, right? If you.

[Emmett]

I had him on my first team.

[Shannon]

Oh, so then you're not going to put Oscar Sheway?

[Emmett]

No.

[Shannon]

Okay. So you don't even have. That was national player of the year. You're not going to put the national player of the year on the team.

[Emmett]

Okay, I got us. I got to put him on the team.

[Shannon]

All right. What about you?

[Ryan Seacrest]

As. As the 4.

[Shannon]

4.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Terrence Jones.

[Shannon]

He has Chuck Hayes.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Chuck Hayes.

[Shannon]

You're gonna skate. You love Chuck Hayes. I'm surprised you don't have him there.

[Emmett]

He was awesome. But if I'm gonna pick somebody better, I gotta go with somebody better.

[Shannon]

What does that mean?

[Emmett]

I mean, I love Chuck Hayes more than I love these other guys. I gotta pick a better player.

[Shannon]

Oh, okay. That.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Following his logic.

[Shannon]

Yeah. If I'm gonna pick somebody better, I gotta put somebody better. All right, he has this center, Willie Collie Stein. What do you. Would you take Willie Collie Stein over DeMarcus Cousins in Carl Towns?

[Ryan Seacrest]

No. No, I probably wouldn't.

[Shannon]

First Team All American. Those guys were not.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. And maybe some of that's because of how great Carl is in the NBA. You know, a little bit of that recency bias just watching them play for the Knicks. But I think I would still take Carl Anthony Towns over Willie.

[Emmett]

Willie's accolades, though, are better than anybody of the Cal era. Just about.

[Shannon]

I think that's one of the things about, like when you're trying to figure out Willie and Oscar. It. You want to put DeMarcus and Carl Towns ahead of them. But Willie and Oscar have much better credentials.

[Emmett]

Yes.

[Shannon]

So There you go. And then he has his final small forward, Michael Kidd Gilchrist. Would you put Michael Kid Gilchrist second team as your small forward?

[Emmett]

That's not a bad pick. I mean he did win a national championship, was number two pick in the draft. I think you'd have to go, I like that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I like that.

[Shannon]

Then he has his second team all sixth man. And I know no one in this room is going to disagree with this Reed shepherd, which makes me think if claps right there, you got a Reed shepherd jersey on. Would you put. So he's got Darius Miller and Reed shepherd as his 26 men. I think probably an ode to having kids from Kentucky and it just makes me mad.

[Emmett]

You mentioned Reed shepherd being a sixth man. Should have started the whole season. We met a much better year if he'd just start the man.

[Shannon]

But the man. Well, all right. The Houston Rockets, by the way, announced for people because, you know, Reed didn't play a whole lot this year that he would. He would be playing a lot more minutes next year. So that's good for him.

[Emmett]

Well, and when he got his chance, he really played really, really well. But you get in the playoffs, he's tough to get any minutes on the. On the floor with that group they had.

[Shannon]

And speaking of playoffs, if you watch the Knicks Pacers game, our guy, Shannon Case and Wallace.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

A dude who, you know, I think he's often gets forgotten as a guy played here. I'm still mad that Cal would make him the point guard that year and had severe Wheelers. A point guard. It should have been Case and Wallace. We would have been a lot better if Case and Wallace was a point guard. He starts in an NBA Finals game.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So that.

[Shannon]

That to me is unbelievable.

[Ryan Seacrest]

One thing about Caliper though, he brought in so much talent and some of these guys just kind of got lost in the shuffle, got lost in the mix and you kind of forget about them. Case and Wallace is one of those guys. But now it's just thriving in the NBA Star.

[Shannon]

If I told you that Case and Wallace in year. What is it, three in the NBA? Is year two, two or three? Three that he would start in the NBA Finals. Remember, there were times Cal didn't start him here. There were times he did not start here. And he is starting in the NBA Finals.

[Emmett]

I remember when the went to the Thunder. I remember thinking myself, he's never going to play. He's playing behind Shea. He's never on the floor. Then he became like the first guard off the bench and it seems start Last night just a credit to him how hard he's worked to get to that level.

[Shannon]

The starting back court for the team. I know they lost last night and we'll talk about it. I still think they're going to end up winning the title. The starting. Oh, wait a minute. You got Pacers jersey on.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You may disagree with me on Pacers had here. Yeah, Pacers everywhere.

[Shannon]

I let's assume though they come back and win the starting back court. Shit.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Just think about this for a minute. The starting back court for the NBA champion is going to be two guys who at times at UK didn't start. You want to get frustrated with Cal substitution pattern. The starting backcourt, one of whom is the MVP when they first came to Kentucky, didn't even start.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You told me that.

[Shannon]

That is extremely frustrating.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Jason Wallace and Shea would end up winning an NBA title before they would win a college title.

[Shannon]

Before they would win a college SEC tournament game.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's true. I told you. You're crazy. But yet here we are. Just a few games.

[Shannon]

Frustrating. 859-280-2287. We'd like to hear from you. Give us a shout. We are here in Somerset, Kentucky. A great crowd at the Virginia theater where Shannon's going to be playing later tonight. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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[Shannon]

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[Shannon]

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[Shannon]

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[Shannon]

@Mintmobile.Com Switch upfront payment of $45 for three month plan equivalent to $15 per month required intro rate first three months only, then full price plan options available. Taxes and fees, extra terms@mint mobile.com welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Somerset at the Virginia Big crowd here this morning. They got. They got beer selling in the back there at the Virginia Theater is that they're selling. Are you all selling that got the mayor is in town. I do think it. I always like to do when we come to a town. You're usually pretty good at this. Best athletes from Somerset. What do we got here, Ryan? You know, I ask you this every time I come up. Like we come to a place, we.

[Emmett]

Gotta start with Reggie Hanson.

[Shannon]

Reggie Hansen.

[Emmett]

Yeah. Won a state title when he played for Pulaski County. Played for Kentucky. He had a little couple minutes in the NBA. I think the best baseball players gotta be Josh Anderson. Played for the. Let started with EKU legends, ended up in the big leagues.

[Shannon]

I like how he says big leagues. Like he's like. That's what people who play baseball say. They don't say the majors. They say they're in the big leagues.

[Emmett]

It had some really good football players, but the best one may have been a guy we called the Coltrane. Played for plastic channel 18.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Emmett]

We gave him nickname to Coach Jane.

[Shannon]

Does anybody else call him that or just you all?

[Emmett]

Maybe just us.

[Shannon]

Okay. What was his name?

[Emmett]

He had like 2,000 passing yards and 2,000 rushing yards in one season. Like 40 something touchdowns.

[Shannon]

Will you tell us his actual name?

[Emmett]

Cole?

[Shannon]

Oh, he didn't even know the name.

[Emmett]

What is his last name? Drawn.

[Shannon]

You don't know this person?

[Emmett]

I drew a blank.

[Shannon]

Cold. What?

[Emmett]

Drawn.

[Shannon]

Drawn.

[Emmett]

Cold. Drawn.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cold. Drawn.

[Shannon]

Cold. Drawn. And you just called him the Coltrane?

[Emmett]

That's what we called him, the Coltrane.

[Shannon]

Well, did anybody in Somerset call him that or is that just what you all got? See? Thank you, ma' am. She's just shaking her head, saying no. You don't seem very happy. Are you. You're wearing a ksr. You're wearing my face on your shirt. Okay. All right. That's better. You just were scowling a little bit. I was like, are you happy to be here? Okay.

[Emmett]

Stink guy.

[Shannon]

Yeah. You were giving us a little bit of the stink guy. One person writes, matt, I had a bet with my friend whether or not you would lead the show with Trump and Elon today. You didn't. I win the bet? I mean, I'm not saying I told you so. Yeah. I told you so.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yep. I think we all knew how this was going to end. Two big personalities.

[Shannon]

I said it was like if Louisville fans when Calipari and Stoops were fighting with each other and that's how they had to have loved it, that they were fighting with each other. That's how I was yesterday. I promise. I know a lot of people in here don't agree with me on this, so I'll just let it Go in a second. But I do have to take one day of going. I did enjoy them. We're going after each other. Yesterday, when two people you like fight, that makes me happy.

[Emmett]

Shannon and I had our own little side bet. We thought you'd lead with that also, because you could tell by your tweets you're kind of enjoying the back and forth.

[Shannon]

I was like, all afternoon, I was like, okay, what's the next thing they're gonna say about each other? I did. I. It was inevitable, but I. I enjoyed watching it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We got. I'm so proud of you. We got 20 minutes into the show.

[Shannon]

Before you mentioned it, stuff first. I was ready.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. When you got somebody, two guys like that, with all that power and all that money, you realize it's not going to. They can't. They can't coexist.

[Shannon]

I want to. If you get a chance this weekend, if you care about college sports, and I think everybody here, that is here, does care about college sports, you ought to take a chance a second to listen. I did a podcast yesterday, which is on the Matt Jones show feed with Ross Dellinger. And I think I've said to you all, if you want to, this is the most important summer in college sports history. Not just history, but going forward, what happens this summer going to decide what college sports looks like probably for the next 15 or 20 years. There's the House settlement that's going to be decided by July 1st. That's about how players do rev share. There's the question of whether or not they're going to pass a bill in Congress, which a lot of this stuff that's happening right now with Trump and all that, that will affect that. And then there is the. Once this $20 million starts getting shared, how's it going to work? So I had Ross Dellinger on my podcast. Ross is the person who knows the most about this. His wife actually works in politics, which is part of how he gets his connection on all this. He's on there. We talked for, like, 45 minutes. You can listen to it. You ought to listen this weekend. But he. He said a lot of things that I were interested that are interesting and people should listen to all of it. But let me give you a couple of the short ones. First of all, he said schools can spend $21 million, but Ross said there are schools who can't afford to spend that, and there are going to be schools who don't, who are not able to spend the $21 million. And I'm talking about big schools. Schools in the ACC, schools in the Big 12, just not going to be able to spend it. So that's going to hurt them. He then said that what we've talked about on this show, how schools are going to. The programs in the school are going to be fighting each other for who gets what chunk of money, he said is already happening. And he gave, like, a little piece of news that I thought was interesting. The SEC wanted to make it where out of the $21 million, it was set in stone how much each program got. So, Shannon, they wanted to say football gets 14 million, basketball gets 3 million, women's basketball gets like 1.5, etc. And they were gonna. And then baseball gets half, etc. Etc. They said the loudest voice of dissension in the room was Kentucky basketball, that Kentucky basketball did not want to have a cap of the $3 million. And because Kentucky basketball complained so much, they did not set caps on the teams, essentially saying to each college, you can distribute the money how you want. I find that interesting, Shannon, because if Kentucky basketball was the one complaining, that means Kentucky basketball is going to get more than $3 million, which also means Kentucky football is going to get less than the other schools in the sec. I don't think I'd heard anybody say that till Ross said it to me on my podcast yesterday. You need to listen. He does a longer clip on it, but that's really interesting to me because if you're the football staff and, you know, not only do you have to play in the sec, but you're going to have less money than the other schools in the sec. You got to wonder how they're gonna. How they're gonna handle.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, I mean, if you're Mark Stoops, you're fighting for every dollar that you can get. But, you know, a lot of these schools are gonna have to decide what's more important to us. Is it basketball or is it football? If you're a basketball school, you're gonna obviously want more nil money in for. For basketball. If you're football, you're gonna go to, you know, more nil for football. So it's going to be interesting to see how these schools divide it.

[Shannon]

Ross said he thinks schools in the SEC have basically said, we're going to do football, basketball, and then we're going to pick one more sport to be good at, and every school is going to figure out what that sport is. And he thinks some of them are going to be baseball, like LSU and Mississippi State. He thinks some of them are going to be women's basketball like South Carolina. And then he said for schools like Kentucky, they probably have to choose. Do we want to be really good at women's basketball or do we want to be really good at baseball? And the question is, Ryan, which one are we going to choose?

[Emmett]

You're right. A lot of schools, baseball is very important, more important a lot of times than their basketball team is. So I can see them giving more money to baseball and also softball.

[Shannon]

Yeah, there are schools that will, that will Oklahoma will probably pick softball as the one they do. So I. But to hear this is a national Reporter said the SEC's entire structure of how they're going to play players was changed because Kentucky basketball basically said we don't want to have a cap on how much we get. I think that's awesome for Kentucky basketball, but it does make me wonder if the Kentucky football people are going to be like, you just, just come on, give us something here that'll be really interesting to see. 859-280-2287. Couple open lines, give us a shout. We're here in Somerset. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. We'll go the phone here in just a second. Text machine, 772-774-5254. I know on paper this isn't interesting, but the Dallas Stars, the hockey team just fired their coach. That means Shannon in the NBA. The Knicks fired Tom Thibodeau in hockey, they fired the Dallas Stars fire their coach. Two people who went to the final four in their sports both fire year they went to the final four. Would you fire a coach who just took you to the final four in your sport, both in basketball and hockey? Somebody's done that this year.

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, especially not the Knicks. I mean a team that hasn't been really that great. And since when? The 90s? That's the last time that they were, you know, that far into the playoffs. So no, there's no way I would have fired.

[Shannon]

Can you imagine a college basketball coach getting fired after making the final Four?

[Ryan Seacrest]

I mean, who. Apparently it was the front office that didn't like the lineup that he was putting out there. He was experimenting with the lineups in the playoffs. They didn't like that, so they fired. But I'm like, he got you this far.

[Shannon]

You this far. I don't know what else you can want. Are you had a question for me about the revenue thing and I think it's something other people will Ask, too. Ryan, what is it?

[Emmett]

You know, at its core, I am a reporter, so what I would like.

[Shannon]

To know from you, I don't think that's true, but. Okay.

[Emmett]

If Kentucky opts to give more money to UK Basketball.

[Shannon]

Yes.

[Emmett]

Does that money have to come from the UK football allotment?

[Shannon]

Yes. So, I mean, let. Let's use this table of four people right here. Right? There's four of you. Let's say you represent the four sports. The four major sports. Football, basketball, women's basketball, baseball. Let's say that you make those four. I've got $21 million to split amongst you all, and I can decide what I want to do. The SEC wanted to make sure that, okay, you're football, you're getting 14, you're basketball, you're getting three. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Kentucky basketball said, don't do that, which means if Kentucky basketball gets five, that other two's got to come from somebody. Somebody. It's got to come from somebody. And women's basketball and baseball can only be cut so much, which means it's got to come from football. So if you decide to give basketball more, you are inherently cutting from football. And here's the other thing you have to worry about. I talked about this the other day. Every power school can spend $21 million. Now, Shannon, they don't have to spend it, but they can. All right, So I just said what Kentucky has Now. Now you're sitting by yourself here. Let's assume you know who you are. You're St. John's because you don't have a football program, and you don't have a women's basketball program. That's good. So St. John's can say, I can spend $21 million. I'm gonna spend it all on basketball. Yeah, because they don't have to share it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Good for Rick.

[Shannon]

So St. John's think about the teams that have a football team. St. John's Villanova, Connecticut, Gonzaga, those schools. Now, they may not be able to raise the $21 million, but if they can, Shannon, they could, in theory, spend it all on basketball. And I think Kentucky's premise is we don't want to only have $3 million and be recruiting against Rick up in New York, who's got $20 million. We have to be able to be flexible. Now, Ross said, hey, Kentucky can make some of that up with collectives, but not the whole thing. So that's why they want to have that flexibility.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So if you're Kentucky, then how would you divide this up? I. I'VE got a number in my mind. I want to see what you think.

[Shannon]

Barnhart, Mitch Barnhart is. And this is why this summer is so important. Mitch Barnhart is going to make a decision, literally, he's probably making it right now, about how they're going to divide that up. And in my opinion, it will tell the country what Kentucky's priorities are going to be. Do they? Like, you're going to be making a statement as to whether or not what matters to you. And I don't know how you do it. Ryan, let's say you were Mitch Barnhart. How would you divide it up? Yeah, you're gonna. You got $20 million. Let's just assume. Sorry to interrupt, but let's just assume. Women's basketball, baseball, softball, they're gonna take. Take three million. So I've given you $17 million. The rest of the SEC is going to do 14 football, three basketball. What are you going to do?

[Emmett]

That's. That's tough because you got to compete against those other schools that are given 14 million. You're going to go to Mark Stoops and tell him, hey, I'm going to give you 2 million less than all the other schools are getting. The sec.

[Shannon]

What are you going to do?

[Emmett]

But we're a basketball where Kentucky basketball is what, important. It's important to most of us. I think we got to invest in basketball.

[Shannon]

So what are you going to do?

[Emmett]

I go five to basketball, five to.

[Shannon]

12 to football, five to basketball, 12 to football. What are you going to do?

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, I had a completely different number in mind. I was going to go, well, you're saying you're taking away the 3 million. I would probably go like 9 million to basketball.

[Shannon]

Really?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, yeah. I mean, we're a basketball school.

[Shannon]

So you're going to do nine basketball, eight football?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes.

[Shannon]

You're going to give our football team half the budget of the rest of the sec?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes. Are we a basketball school or a football school? It goes back to the Caliperi thing from a couple of years ago.

[Shannon]

Well, okay, so to play your case, you don't think Duke's gonna do something like that?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Sure.

[Shannon]

I mean, Duke's just gonna sacrifice. There. I'm just going to guess Duke's just going to sacrifice their football program. They're going to say, it was nice having you, Duke, but we're a basketball program. Kansas is probably just going to sacrifice their football program. They're probably going to say, you know what? We're Kansas, whatever. North Carolina is going to try to do both. They Hired Bill Belichick. They didn't hire Bill Belichick to give him half the money. So the question is, Ryan, is Kentucky more like Kansas and Duke, or are we more like North Carolina, Michigan, etc. Trying to be good at both. What are we going to do? Because I think Kentucky's in the weirdest position of all. If I'm the athletic director at Kansas and Duke, I'm saying football, it was nice knowing you. See you later. And if I'm North Carolina and I've just hired Bill Belichick, I can't just scrap football. But Kentucky's kind of in the middle, and I don't really know what they do. Ryan.

[Emmett]

Yeah, because just a couple years ago, we were knocking on the door with Michigan State, North Carolina. Now the last couple years, maybe not so. But we built it. We got ourselves up to that point. I don't think you want to take a huge step back.

[Shannon]

Unlike Kansas and Duke that are playing in football conferences that are kind of a little bit of a second tier, we're playing in the sec. Like, we're not playing against Georgia Tech in football. We're playing against Georgia.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's the thing, like, right in. In this era, if Kentucky is ever going to be able to compete for an SEC title in football, they're going to need almost all that 20 million by themselves. But then you can't not give anything to basketball in the other schools.

[Shannon]

I think this is the most important, important choice that UK athletics is going to make in the next decade is being made right now, and I don't know what they're going to do, and I don't even know. What's quite crazy is we might not even know what they do because they won't have to announce how the revenue was shared until, like, a year from now. So we won't even know what they decided to do for a while. I mean, the next time I interview Mitch Barthard, I'm asking this, what are you doing?

[Ryan Seacrest]

It?

[Shannon]

Like, what are you gonna do? Mitch did an interview where he says he's gonna be flexible year to year, but I don't know.

[Emmett]

How do you walk over to Mark Stoop's office and tell him, I'm not gonna get. I'm gonna give you less than all the other schools in the sec.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You got to be a man.

[Shannon]

But then how do you look at Mark? How do you look. How do you look at Mark Pope and say, mark, I expect you to go hang banner number nine, but you got half as much money as yukon Villanova and St. John.

[Emmett]

Yep, yep.

[Shannon]

I don't know who's up next. Got Sean up next. Sean, go ahead, Sean.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Hey guys, quick two parter if I can. Attendance wise, what do you expect for the opener in Central Michigan football? Obviously.

[Emmett]

And if they win that, you know.

[Ryan Seacrest]

As down as there's, you know, as we've been, there's no enthusiasm.

[Emmett]

But if they win that opener the following week.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Ole miss at 3:30.

[Emmett]

I mean it's fireball and cornhole. Right?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Darn near sold out. I mean, you know, maybe three one back one week.

[Shannon]

The fan base is back. Well, first of all, I think you will have good crowds for week one and two. I mean, opening game people just come. So I don't know if it'll be full, but I think it'd be pretty close. If we win week one, Ole Miss will be full. What I'm more interested in is if you lose, told Miss by a lot. What is week three like? Like that's where I think you'll really see the tail. I think they're going to get a really good crowd for the opener. We always do. Ole miss at 3:30. If we're. Now, if we lose to Toledo, that Ole Miss game may not be great. But if we beat Toledo, I think people will be into it. But then I think you really see, Ryan, what it's going to be week three when they play against whoever. Against Eastern.

[Emmett]

Eastern Michigan. Yeah, yeah. Toledo game. You win that one, Ole Miss will be packed. SEC opener. It'll be a beautiful day, I'm sure Saturday afternoon in September. But do you lose that one? If you lose both of those, there may be a.

[Shannon]

There's a bigger question, Shannon, which is, you know, you got that Eastern Michigan game and then you have road games. I don't know who are the next two, but we might get blown out in both of those next two road games when we come back the week after that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's really going to tell the story.

[Shannon]

You know, because we play. Is it? Do we play? I think there's a weekend which is Texas football, but it's also our opening exhibition basketball game. We play Purdue. Right. And Keeneland is that weekend.

[Emmett]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Do people go to that game? Because they're already going to have that Purdue exhibition game. That's where I think you have to see what happens.

[Emmett]

Yeah, I think there'll be a lot of Texas fans at Kroger Field for the Kentucky Texas football game.

[Shannon]

I, I mean, I worry about the attendance, but I mean this is on them. Like, you know, it's going to be on the team, the staff, what happens.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We've heard, you know, this off season, I think an alarming number of season ticket hold holders who have canceled, who have been holders, season ticket holders for years, you know, and they just canceled this year.

[Shannon]

One person writes, Matt, what do you think the fan base would say about the money? Well, I don't know, but let's do a little poll here.

[Emmett]

All right.

[Shannon]

All right. I'm gonna give you three options of I'm gonna give you three options. You tell me what you vote for. Option one will be we do what the rest of the SEC does, which is 14 million football, 3 basketball. Option two would be a little more pro basketball, 12 in to football, 5 to basketball. And option three would be Shannon's. We go all in on basketball and spend like 8 or 9 million on football. How many of you would say do what the rest of the SEC does and make it 14 and three, raise your hand.

[Emmett]

Whoa.

[Shannon]

One person. Whoa. Wow. One person. How many of you would say the sort of 5 million basketball, 12 football, raise your hand. How many of you take Shannon, forget football, make it basketball. Wow.

[Emmett]

Wow. Does that surprise you?

[Shannon]

Yeah, a little bit. So for people listening at home, it was probably 60% Shannon's, 35% mine and then 5 per. Well, one guy saying, saying make it equal.

[Emmett]

Wow.

[Shannon]

Now that is a little telling to me. I would not have thought 60% of the people would just say throw football. Wow.

[Emmett]

Well, I wonder if we had the same amazing.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We're not completely throwing them out, but.

[Shannon]

But saying, well, we'll give you.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But you have to prioritize like what means more to you. And I think basketball will always mean more.

[Shannon]

Does that mean Cal was right, we're a basketball school. Does that mean, I mean we had.

[Emmett]

The same scenario like four or five years ago.

[Shannon]

That's a good question. You think people would have said that cows last year?

[Emmett]

No.

[Shannon]

That's an interesting question. It let's say it was the year we came off eight and four in football and Cow had just lost to St Peter.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I think we would say we need it more nil for basketball. We wouldn't have lost the St. Peter's.

[Shannon]

You think it would have been a similar result?

[Ryan Seacrest]

I think it would have been.

[Shannon]

See, I think the results a little different because these people. Because everybody likes Mark Pope so much.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

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[Shannon]

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[Ryan Seacrest]

We're going at 8 o' clock.

[Shannon]

8 o' clock tonight. Alice Bluegam will come. Hope you guys will come out and join them and and I'm sure you will have a great crowd. They you can hear Shannon doing his thing. I head down to CMA Fest tomorrow. We I'm like there are I didn't realize they have music going from 8:00am all the way till midnight.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

So we will be playing but Bailey, your guy Bailey Zimmerman is going to be playing while we're, while we're doing.

[Ryan Seacrest]

All that new country that you love. You're gonna get an earful of it.

[Shannon]

And you see Meyer and I on the streets welcome him because he's very, very nervous about being in Nashville. I don't know what he thinks is going to happen but he's great.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Take him somewhere nice and get him a cowboy hat.

[Shannon]

I'm getting him a cowboy.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Don't you, don't you worry. One person writes Matt, I listened to your interview with Ross Dellinger. I thought it was fascinating some of the things he talked about would do you agree with him that they will actually Use the clearinghouse. Alright? So people don't know what he's talking about. This is one of the things he said which I thought was fascinating. So, you know, now basically the collectives can just hand the money players. They really don't have to do anything. True. As part of this settlement, there is going to be a clearinghouse run by Deloitte, not run by the ncaa. Okay. Run by, you know, how the Oscars will say the votes have been added up by this accounting company. Basically they have hired a company outside of the NCAA that's going to look at all nil deals and make sure that they're paying fair market value and that the players are doing work for the money. Basically making it to where nil is. Nil. Now, why does that matter? Because if they do that, somebody like Joe Kraft for us or somebody like whoever cannot make up the difference from that 20 million. Does that make sense? Because there have been people who said, hey, Kentucky, and That was a TV show I was on once, but Kentucky can spend $3 million on basketball and then they can go get a donor to give $15 million in collective money. In theory, Ryan, you won't be able to do that anymore. You'll have to prove that when you give Trent Noah amount of money that he has, quote unquote, worked for it by doing the endorsements, etc. And I think at that point a lot of that stuff will go away.

[Emmett]

I think a lot of it will go away. There'll be some that will still do it. Like Trent. No. Might be a guy that does some local spots to earn some of that extra money. But you're right, a lot of it's just gonna.

[Shannon]

But you're not gonna be able to give Otega away $3 million and say, hey, he has $3 million and then he does one commercial. Yeah, you're gonna have to show that that 3 million. He does an amount worth the 3 million, which is gonna be hard to do.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But see, that's what I thought Nil was supposed to be all along. And it turned into we're just gonna give, you know, players money. You don't have to do anything. So I think it's actually a good thing that they're making them work for the money.

[Shannon]

So that's why I think it's so important, the decision Mitch makes, because you're not just going to be able to make up the money with a donor writing a check like you used to be able to do. Who's up next? Emmett is up next. Emmett, go ahead Emmett? Yeah, I was going to say I really do think it matters what sport I think you have the best chance to compete for a championship in because like Kentucky, if you give them 14 million or whatever it is and they're still finishing fourth or fifth, it kind of, I don't know if it meets the needs of what, what we write versus in basketball, that money. We have a chance to compete for a championship every year and I think that really matters. And determining how much money each program is going to get. Well, that would be the argument for Shannon's thing. I appreciate the call. Why Spin 14 Shannon, if we're going to get the same results? If we, if we had spin eight, that's it. So we might as well spend eight and put the six towards basketball is what you would say.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, you know, we know the basketball team is going to compete for a title so why not give them the, the money that they need to be able to do that.

[Shannon]

He also said Ross said he thought college that he said he didn't think coaches salaries would necessarily go down. But he said the days of you signing a guy to a 10 year deal and guaranteeing the money like we did with Cal or like Jimbo Fisher at A and M, he said that's done. He was like, now coaches are going to be on three year deals, four year deals. He thinks there'll be a lot more coaches fired. He's like the days of you having to pay 80 million dollar buyouts. He was like, those days are done.

[Emmett]

I have another reporter question. Okay, I got more. I think about this the more I realize the athletic budget largely depends on the revenue gained by SEC football.

[Shannon]

Great point.

[Emmett]

So how do you cut that?

[Shannon]

I mean, all right, let's use the 60% of the voters here in Shannon's. You do that position and then nobody goes to the football games. Shannon, you might not have the revenue to pay the $20 million to begin with.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They'll still go to the games. They'll still go to those.

[Shannon]

You think we go to the games to be uncom. Uncompetitive again?

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, but I, I don't think that's the, the mindset. But I think that fans will still go to the games. It's still football.

[Shannon]

You know, I think, I think Kentucky has one of the hardest choices of any college because like I said, it's pretty clear what Duke ought to do and it's pretty clear what Kansas should do. I think Kentucky and North Carolina have to sit there and go, what do we do?

[Emmett]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

And you know, they've already spent that money on Belichick, so they ain't gonna punt, I wouldn't think. Yeah, so it's gonna be tough. Mitch. Mitch is gonna make. This is the most important decision for UK athletics in the next decade and Mitch is making it. And this probably the last big decision he makes before he retires, to be honest with you. We'll take a break and be right back. Come back hour number two here at the Virginia this is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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