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Stockton Mortgage NMLS 8259 equal housing lender NMLS consumeraccess.org Welcome back. Here is Kentucky Sports Radio, Mike's Landing Sulphur Creek. Friendly atmosphere, cold drinks, great food. We ordered our sandwiches when we're done here, the grouper sandwiches we're going to eat. The boats are out. It is absolutely a beautiful day developing right here in at Mike's Lambing on Del Hollow Lake. I do want to note one, one thing. I don't have the individual's name, but there is a while we're down here, it's worth noting the passing there was an Oklahoma fire member who, who died on Dale Hollow Lake down the down the lake a little bit a couple days ago. First responder fire, part of the fire department, Oklahoma and Louisville. So prayers out to that family. They just announced that this morning and so we will be thinking of all of them and our thoughts are with everyone there. All right. So today one of the things I wanted to ask 859-280-20287 these guys don't even know I'm going to say this. So I'm going to let Drew go first so Ryan doesn't say something that'll embarrass I make you Drew Franklin, athletic director for the University of Kentucky. First of all, you need to start button in the top button on your polo shirt. But besides that, you are the athletic director for the University of Kentucky. I give you the ability to change one thing about any part of the UK sports department, specifically basketball or football. You get to change one thing immediately. As my gift to you as the new athletic department chair. What is going to be the one thing that you would change the most about UK athletics? Kind of put on the spot here. That's the point. Yeah. The first thing that came to my mind was and we mentioned this this week, I believe isn't getting back to a better tailgating scene around Kroger Field, whether that's in entertainment district, planting some grass, I don't know. But something to get back because I feel like tailgating. Not that it's ever been elite at uk, so. Yeah. Well, so let's say I, I grant you that, and I say here is X amount of money to go do it. What would you do? I am. What was that? Go ahead. What would you do? A little limited on property over there. Even though they're building something right now, I'm bulldozing it. I think it's halfway done over that Ag, whatever it is. But who needs act? I think the tailgating has to improve. But you haven't told me what you're gonna do. Well, I'm bulldozing the new Ag building and putting what? Just big open space where we can tailgate. Like grass. A few shops. Grass. We try to make our own little grove that they have at Ole Miss. All right, so you're, so you're. I'm bulldozing the building we are currently building and planting trees. Just taking it out right now. All right, Shannon, I give you the ability to do anything with you with UK Sports. What are you going to do? First thing that came to mind is going to make a lot of people mad, but I don't care. That's you. But I do, I do care about this, and we probably lose quite a bit of money, but I would love to do something with the student section at RUP arena and not have them on the end zone. I want to have them down in front of you where all those donors are. That would be my change if I could get around the money hurdle, which is a big deal. That's a great. I actually really like that suggestion. I don't. You know, financially that's probably never going to happen. But I do think the atmosphere at RUP would be so much better if you were able to do that. So I, I, I actually think that's a really good one, Ryan. Lemon, what are you going to do? That was mine, so I guess I'll just kind of add to it. No, no, no. You got to do a different one. Shannon took it. I'll put in the luxury suites at RUP arena, put in some sweets on both sides. Just make it more. So put the donors up there then. Yeah, put the donors up there in their sweets. So you're going to use your one thing to do to help the rich people? Well, they stole my other two ideas. I'm scrambling. Ryan gets to do anything, and he wants to make sure they have cushier sweets. Yeah, better. Kind of cooler place to go for the rich people. Well, you know, you might get get us up there one day. Well, I'm not going to bring you up there with that attitude. He's the reverse Robin Hood. He's trying to take care of the rich. If I. Exactly. If I were to do it, my number one thing is I would basically limit it to where we can only play one neutral court game a year and we go back to home and homes completely. Like we, we schedule all of our games again of home and home and that here's what I think college basketball ought to do and I'd like to be the one to advocate for it. Take the first two Saturdays after the super bowl and then leave them open and pair the best teams up so that when the world turns its attention to college basketball, they're seeing the best teams go at each other immediately. And so, you know, he used to do this with that bracket buster. Yeah. Saturday for the small conferences, they just say you hold these games and then we're going to tell you who you play. Two weeks before. I would do that with all of college basketball so that when, when NFL's done, people tune in and it's Kentucky, Duke, et cetera. And I would make all those games on home courts. So for me at Kentucky, I'm not saying we don't ever have to play terrible teams, but like they just announced the tournament we're having on campus. It's Kentucky, Eastern Illinois, Valparaiso and Southern. I mean, nobody wants to watch that, Shannon. So if it were up to me, I would much prefer to go play Yukon on the road and then play, I don't know, Houston at home or something so that you actually got big time match 100. Yeah, I love the home and home idea. I think we play too many of these neutral court games. So yeah, if we could get more games at home against some of those caliber teams and I would just like to see us be able to have a little more flexibility in our schedule where we schedule the teams that are going to be the good that year. Like for instance, we're playing Michigan State this year, we're playing Indiana this year. I mean, is that better than playing, than playing, you know, Norfolk State? Yeah, but they're not great. I'd much prefer that this year play Houston and Purdue. Now some years I wouldn't want to play them, but this year, Ryan, I would. So I feel like we, I wish we had more flexibility. To me, the only team that should be on the schedule for sure every year is Louisville. Besides that, I'd like to have flexibility as to who we play. You know, we kind of toyed around at one Time have a game at Memorial Coliseum, maybe for students only. Great one, too. That would be a great one. That was it. I was actually just about to add. I got an email that says I can't bulldoze that building, so I have to change my plan. A game of significance in Memorial. However you make that work. Not, not Kentucky State. Can you imagine if we played Indiana this year in Memorial, how much fun that would be just to have it. To have that game that. You're exactly right. So if you have 1-772-774-5254 on the text machine. Who's up next? Rick Rooney is up next. Rudy. Go ahead, Rudy. Hey, Matt, I got two quick things. I played golf at the U Club this Saturday after your scramble and I want to, I want to thank you. I found about 7,000 golf balls. There was literally walk up to a tee box twice and There's a Pro V1 that's sitting there. Yeah, that was a pretty drunk day. And I could see and some really bad golfers. So I could see a lot of golf balls out there for the take. And car path only. You just leave. Oh, it was car path only. Yeah. So want to walk. That was probably a great day for getting golf balls. Yeah, it was. And my, my second thing is if UK football goes 4 and 8, I think they'll fire suits. What do you think? And what's that going to cost us in money? Yeah. So let's say you were again, I'm not advocating for this until the time comes because the season is starting and so. But I appreciate the call. Let's say you were to. To get rid of Stoops at the end of the year. I believe the cost is now at the end of the year. 27 to 28 million dollars. I believe at the end of the year. Now there are ways you can do that. The way schools do it now is they're, they're. Let's say it's 27 million. Just so the math is easy. And it was 9 million a year. You can do it to where you get 9 million every single year. And if Stoops doesn't get a job, he just takes the $9 million. There's another way you can do it, though. Whereas you say if you just take 18, you can have it and then you can go make more money. You can go sign with somebody else. Because if he signs, one thing's about the deal. Let's say Mark were to become the coach of Iowa and they were to pay him $6 million. Then UK at that point, only has to pay $3 million. All right. They just have to pay the difference. But most coaches want to double dip, right? So they. They agree to a buyout for lesser money so they can then go coach somewhere else, get full salary and actually make more money. Does, if that makes sense. Yeah. So now if Mark Stoops, though, if he were to. If he were to get fired, just doesn't want to coach anymore, then he can just sit home and take the money and there's really nothing we can do about it. Right. So you don't have to pay $27 million up front. You spread it out over three years, but it's still a ton of money. And we've talked about this. You know, his. His dad died at an early age. He was a football coach. His brothers kind of. One of. His brother retired kind of at an early age. I think they. They. That's something on the horizon to think about that he would. Even he steps away, he may be done with coaching. Yeah, it was $37 million this year, so I. Again, I don't have the provisions of his contract. But Drew, I would assume it's 27 to 28 right now. Yeah. And if it's at the end of the year, it gets to that point where it's just a horrible year, you got to do what you said to him, be like, look, we got. We got 20. Let's meet in the middle somewhere. You don't want to be here any more than everyone wants you here. Let's find the easiest way for both sides to move. As a practical matter, if we were to go 4 and 8, the fans are going to want a change. As a. But there's the money issue and there's the stupid. As a practical matter, do you think a change would occur in that scenario? Yeah, because at some point, you got to look at the money you're going to lose by running it back and people just being completely checked out, not buying tickets, not buying merchandise, not getting into it. So there's. There's some number there where, if, you know, if it's so bad you're worried you're not going to make enough, you just got to bite the bullet and buy them out. Do you think that if. If the scenario four and eight happened, do you think a change would be made? What if that eight, that fourth win is Louisville to end the season? I don't think if you. That would mean you won no SEC games, which is what happened. If you went. If you went zero, see if you Got zero SEC games on top. Well, we won. We beat Ole Miss. Ole Miss one year. Yeah. If you, if you had won one SEC game and gone one in 15 into the SEC in two seasons, you can't keep that going. And that game at Louisville would be another season with no home wins of a, of a Power 4 team. You know, I, I don't think until I just articulated it, I realized how bad it could be if you're 1 in 15 champion into. Yeah, but I mean, we're going to go. Let's be real. I'm not trying to be a bummer, but let's be real about the sec. We are going to be next year, certainly an underdog in eight of our 12 games. And then the. And then probably a favorite in three. And then Shannon Vandy. Maybe we're a favorite, but we also could end up an underdog in that game. There, there might be a scenario where we are an underdog in nine games next year. Yeah, that's. That's going to be tough. And they haven't won a home game in the SEC in how long. It feels like five is kind of the magic number. Even though five and seven is not acceptable to keep your job. I feel like five is the number you need to get to. I don't know if this is true, but I have a person who just wrote me who generally knows what they're talking about. I need to look this up. Billy, that. Where's Billy? Billy, this is going to be you to figure out if it's true. He says to me that one of the issues with Stoop's contract is it was negotiated to where he's owed the entirety of his buyout within 60 days of firing. Oh. Now if that's true, some strong negotiation. If that's true, we lost that negotiation with Mark, but that does change the calculus quite a bit. Let me find it. Find out if that's true. Because if that's true, that'd be a tough pill to swallow. That's tough, especially on the year after you're adding $20 million a year to your budget in paying players. We need to get John Caliper lucky. Who's the Tyson Chicken of football. Remember Stoops? Is Stoops his agent? This is something to remember. Mark Stoops, his agent is Jimmy Sexton, who his only clients are like Nick Saban, Bob Stoop, and Marcus Works because his. He was his brother's agent. So like I always say, my agent at espn, I'm his worst client, which is definitively True. Mark Stoops is probably Jimmy Sexton's worst client, but he's not. He's known as a. Get stuff like that into his contract. One of the biggest agents. He is the biggest agent in college football. So we'll see if. Billy. Which one's right. Who's next? Sosa is next. Sosa. Go ahead. Sosa. Yeah. Hey, what's going on, guys? Y' all were talking the other day about the Memphis crime problem. About what? About the Memphis crime problem. Memphis crime. Memphis crime. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, yeah, sorry. I just read an article, and it said that a guy just got arrested for trying to kidnap the mayor. Yeah, but you know where that also happens? Like, Lawrence County. Like, that happens in a lot of places. I can read you headlines from all over Kentucky of, like, you know, man threatens man with chicken. Like, stuff happens. It's not a. Memphis has too much crime. But if you can't just take an anecdotal story and reflect on the whole city, because there are stories like that everywhere. We had crime against our own mayor in Louisville. Yeah, that's a great point. In Louisville, my friend was shot at. Like, not just threatened. He was. He. There was an assassination attempt on the guy. There was a Minnesota lawmaker killed one week ago. Like, crime happens everywhere. And there you go. I appreciate the call. I mean, I'm just saying, like, I. I think it's easy just to. The. The murder rates or whatever are what they are, but just a perfect example. And I'll shut up about this. Do I think there's too much crime in California? Yes. People will go, oh, California's lawless. You know, where the murder rate is higher than it is in California? Alabama. But does anybody say, Alabama's lawless? No. They say California. Even though the murder rates higher in Alabama. I just feel bad for the Lawrence Burke. Mayor. I tell you about the Lawrence. Nothing against Lawrence County. You all may not threaten each other with chickens. I was just picking out a random. I always say Breathitt county, and I feel bad, and I need to stop. Illinois. I can't remember the name of the town that we went to that was in Illinois. And it was like, one of the murder capital of the country. That's right. There had been. It was a little bit small town. Yeah, a little bit small town. You wouldn't, because there's not as many people and. And all that. Hey, Summer is here. Did you find out what's right? All right, we will tell you after the break. Summer is here. Cornbread hemp is your front porch pass to relaxation. Whether you spend your days out on the lake lounging in shade, Cornbread's got what you need to make the most of it. From oils, topic topicals to help you bounce back and more. 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It is Kentucky Sports radio here live. Mike's Landing, Sulphur Creek Resort, Dale Hollow, 32 campsites, 30 log rental cabins. We are on the Kentucky office of Highway Safety KSR Safe summer driving tour all around the state. We will be going somewhere next week. We don't even know yet. But we will figure it out on Monday. All right, couple things. First of all, got breaking news, Rick. Sorry, I had to think who was in studio. Go ahead, Rick. It's only sort of breaking news, but at Vince Merrill's press conference, he led it off by saying, just so you all know, I wasn't kicked out at the school up the street. Called us a school up the street. Same stuff he used to do to them. Now the roles are reverse. That hurts. Now that hurts again, Vince, you say stuff like that, then don't be surprised when you get the Dunkin Donuts reaction when you when you say the school up the street. Just could be how it is. All right, so Billy found the clock, found the clause. It's worse than I thought. Oh great. It's not 28 million, it's 37.5 million. And a Kentucky agreed to pay all 37.5 million within 60 days of the notice. Oh my goodness. Just to give you an example of how much that is. Had Cal been fired before he went to Arkansas, it was only 34 million. Ouch. So it actually would be more than it would have taken to get rid of Cal per. So now if he goes 4 and 8, do you just let it play out? Just let us. Man, if you're Mitch Barnhart, that's a tough call, man. That's a lot of money. Yeah. I mean, well, so. All right, so I always kind of defended. I always kind of defended the cow deal that led to the lifetime contract because I said, what are you going to do, let him go to UCLA? But, oh, and $37.5 million is pretty tough. The, the. Here was. Here's the problem with the Stoops contract was when we started adding provisions that every time we got a bowl, it got a year long. Yeah. Because what ended up happening is until we missed a bowl, which was what, first time last year? Last year, his contract remained the same length forever. So think about that. I don't know what the initial deal was, but let's say it was five years. Every time he made a bowl, it just kept being five years. So there never were any years taken off of it. So essentially you were. You were setting it up to. He gets five years of not making a bowl free. Yeah. And that shows the desperation of just getting back to being bowl eligible. I don't know that that ever really. I don't know that I ever realized what I just said. Yeah, we gave him a contract where every year he made a bowl, it just kept going. That's how bad it really was. And we gave him five years of missing bowls. That's actually horrible. Yeah, that's a horrible contract. And I don't know that I ever processed that until right now. Well, we were living large there for a while. We weren't living that large. 10 wins, going to bowls every year. I mean, for UK football, that's as good as it's going to be. But I mean, if you, if you, if you process that contract. Not as Drew, because I agree making bowls every year has been good for this program. But if you process that contract as we give you five times to miss bowls, which is what that really is, and we will still pay you $9 million to miss bowls for five years, it starts to look a lot worse. Yeah. Mitch needed to give big raises to Cal and Stoops when he did, but maybe lost at the negotiating table on some of the specifics, like the buyouts, having to pay it in 60. I mean, I'm totally fine with the amount of money he made, and I was totally fine with it being a five year deal. But in hindsight, that thing where he always got a free year if he made a bowl was a huge mistake. That was. That. That really was probably a huge mistake. Who's next? The Italian Stallion is next. I'm not calling you that, but go ahead. Hey, Fellas, this is the Italian Stallion, but I'll just call you mine. My infamous Kentucky. Hello. Just go ahead. I wanted to share my infamous Kentucky athlete and let me set the scene for his infamous moment. 2017. Kentucky's trying to snap the 30 game losing streak to the Gators. I'm in Kroger Field. Complete collapse in the fourth quarter. Blew a two possession lead, but we're driving with one minute left. Charles Walker makes an amazing fourth down conversion. And Vinnie Snell breaks free on the next plays at the 20 and would have given McGinnis a chip shot to win it, but a Nick Haynes hole brings it back. And I had a mental breakdown in Kurger Field. Well, we mentioned this exact one the other day. We mentioned that. Yeah. And I don't think it was Nick Haynes. It was Bunchy. It was Bunchy Stallings. Yeah. Who was otherwise. And don't throw Nick Haynes under the bus. It was Bunchy Stallings, you know, who was an All American 2017. All right, well, I'm not going to argue with you. I appreciate the call, but nevertheless, that. That was a. It was a ticky tack holding call and we didn't even need it. I think it was on the other side of the play. Like it was. It was like behind him, Benny had already gone by. That was. That was a bad one. Yeah. The replay did not help it. It didn't have to be called. It did not need to be called at all. And they ended up. And that made that streak go a little bit longer. Fun football conversation today. Yeah. By the way, Shannon, you see that back there on that tv, it's. Today is the Royal Ascot. Do you know what that is? No. That's like the, the British version of the Kentucky Derby. Oh. Is. I think it's today and it's called the Royal Ascot. I know this only because Max always wanted to watch it. But the thing is, look at the guys in the tuck they wear. Everyone there wears those like top hats. Yeah, you can see them. You see that? So like the people even who walk the horse out, they're not just wearing like Keeneland shirts or Churchill shirt, they're wearing top hats and like tuxedos, the long coattails and then. Yeah, they wear them. This is, this is a wild event. I mean, we, we do the Derby up, but this is kind of crazy what they do for the Royal Ascot. I mean, look at that. That's just everyone there is wearing a top hat. It's like a uniform that everybody has to wear. Everyone. And imagine you have to Be behind a guy in a hat. Of course. I mean look, they're cleaning the horses. We top hats. I want to go. I kind of like it. I'd wear a monocle. Yes. We'll take a break. Be right back Here at Mike's Landing. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Mike's Landing Sulphur Creek Resort. It is a beautiful day. This is going to be such an awesome weekend. Hopefully the weather stays like that the whole time. I think it is should be great in Kentucky. 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Please review all offering materials on joincommonwealth.com 859-280-22871, writes Matt, what's frustrated me about these coach contracts is the coaches never have any buyouts. If they leave at other schools they do, but we've never been able to get them in there. So that's we've had this weird deal where like with Cal and even with Stoops they would have been able to leave at owed nothing and if we want him to leave, we have to pay him. You know, again, there's a lot of things to praise Mitch Barnhart about. I think he's overall been a very positive athletic director. You might be able to drew complain a little bit about his negotiation skill on some of these deals, not to the other extent. If the coach leaves, he'd get blamed. So you're kind of between a rock and a hard place. Yeah, he had to take care of them to keep them. They're both kind of at their peak. But said I think he lost some of the details there at the end of the coaches not having to pay their part. Really got bailed out by not having two of these issues at the exact same time, really. If Tyson hadn't saved us this time. Yeah, we still owe Tyson quite a. Quite a bit for that. At Arkansas, Trent Noah said that Mark Pope told him to go. To gain 18 pounds this summer. Shannon, you think he can gain 18 pounds this summer? You don't want it to just be in fat. That's to be 18 pounds of. I've done that last month and a half. Yeah, he's got to get in the gym and start hitting it hard. I mean, yeah, you could gain 18 pounds of fat. Just sit around eating Twinkies and Ho Hos all day. Well, he had a little bit of, like, kind of baby fat on him a little bit. So hopefully maybe he can. He can get that top 18 pounds. A tough thing to gain in the summer. A lot of muscle. That is a lot of muscle. Now, when you're younger, it's easier than when you're our age to put on that. But you think Trent Noah could put on 18 pounds of muscle. We've seen a lot of bodies transform over the years in that weight room over there in the uk, so it's possible. But we're talking about between now and November. I mean, that's not that long. Well, I mean, I think he. It was from March to November. It wasn't. Right now, it was basically, you know, eight months. If I tell you to do that in a year, though, that's tough. Right now, he's losing it because Pope brought out the old school conditioning this week. Yeah. So what about that? He. He's doing. Pope is going back to Rick Patino conditioning, where they do the, you know, the first practice, you just run back and forth. You know, it's a different time. I mean, when Patino did it, he inherited a team that you can go back and look at the picture was a little doughy. I don't know that our guys are very doughy now, but do you like the. The intense conditioning like that? I wonder if he did what Patino used to do. Put trash cans strategically located out there on the floor because there was a lot of people hurling into him by the end of the day. So I think guys are in general in better shape nowadays than they were then. But you got to remember those teams back then were pressing, though, nearly 40 minutes of so it's, it's a lot different if you're not going to press. It is a lot different. This team. The more I hear about this team and talk to people around the program. You know I was at Memorial Coliseum a few days ago. We, I don't think we're going to be crazy athletic. I mean this is going to be the most athletic Kentucky team probably since Fox Monk. Bam. I mean that's going to be the. This is going to be a very, very athletic group of guys. And defense was an issue at times last year. I don't know that's going to be a problem this year they'll probably be top 15 defensive team. I can't wait for a lineup that has like Aberdeen o way diabate and if Quaint is fully healthy blocking shots or even remember the Oklahoma game last year where Brandon Garrison was switching out on guards. I mean they've got some really good lockdown defenders. And don't forget, I'm as guilty as anybody of forgetting the best defender on the team when he gets healthy will be Jaden quite. I mean Jaden Quaintance was, was like you know he is a top five player defensively in the NBA. Like top five projected pick defense like he is. We're not. We just kind of look over him. You mentioned him the other day but we kind of look over him defensively. He was all world last year defensively and when you get him on the back end on, on defense that's going to be great. Kind of got that Nerlands timing too. I watched Arizona State. He got some sure he's got the length but there's some he just wasn't supposed to get and the timing was perfect on him. Yeah that Nerlens Noel the thing that made him so good is he his timing and he was 7ft whatever but his timing was unbelievable. Acquaintance has that too and that's just instinct and he is, he is really, really good at it. Who's next? Tony is up next. Tony. Go ahead Tony. Good morning guys. How we doing? Doing great. First a shout out for me and then I will make a point about your year for the championships coming up. With all due respect to Lake Cumberland and I've spent a lot of time on Cumberland because I played basketball and went to college at Somerset for three years. You are at the most beautiful lake in not only in the state of Kentucky but in the eastern part of the United States. Do you all agree with that? And my slanding and Clover Creek are one of the pearls of Dale Hall. So I will say this. Actually, I agree with you on that. And I've spent a lot of time. I really was not familiar with Dale Hollow until we started doing ksr. We started doing a couple places close to Monticello and then here. This is in Kentucky. There's the one. What's the one out on the west? There's a one in the western part I think is also beautiful. But I do believe this is the most beautiful lake in Kentucky. This is, this is a. This is a gorgeous place with the settings and all that. So I agree with you, sir. Go ahead. Well, you don't know and you don't know what you've missed, Matt, because I've been going bell holla for over 60 years. So believe me, it's. And I've been to a lot of lakes. But to go, to go. To go to the championship year, I think a lot of people are selling this team short right now. I'll give you 2015, but you just hit on it. If Quadence comes back healthy and is close to 100%, this could be as deep and as talented and athletic a team as Kentucky has had in many years. And my championship year will be 2026, along with the final four. I love it. Look, there's no. I appreciate the call. I mean, let's just, let's just use singularly drew depth, okay? 2015 is going to be the deepest team we'll ever have. I mean, we had, you know that what we have eight, nine guys get to get drafted. I mean, like that's going to be the deepest team we ever had. But put them aside. When's the last time we. If everybody reaches their potential, okay, now everybody's got to reach their potential. But if everybody reaches their potential, when's the last time we've had a team as deep as this besides 2015? Been a while. Cal never really built him this deep. He had star power. But you're 96. 96. What I was going to say Cal's night to 10th guys weren't playing much. You're going to have probably a McDonald's All American and a four star at like 12 and 13 on this roster. Now what. What this team does not have that 96 in 2015 did is the star power at the top, right, ryan. I mean 96 had Antoine Walker, Ron Mercer, Derek Anderson. 2015 has the number one overall pick in the draft, Carl Towns, lottery pick in Devin Booker, lottery pick in Trey Lyles. I don't think this team has that, but they do have like a 12th man who could start at most schools in, in America. And when we talk about this team, we don't mention how hardly ever Cam Williams or Yellow Vic, two guys that may be starters at some point during this, during this season, they are so deep at every position except for the one thing I worry about is point guard. If we have a problem at point guards again, a guy gets hurt, what we're going to do then. But we're not. Jalen Lowe's going to be great. I put my, you know, every year Shannon, I put my stock in somebody. Yep. Yeah, I had huge Antonio Reeves stock and then he became a first team all American. Right. I had Dillingham stock and while Kyle never starred started him, he ended up being great. Last year I had Jackson Robinson stock kind of stayed even. Didn't go, didn't go away. But my stock is all on Jalen Lowe this year. Yeah, I mean he's got. First of all, we need it. But secondly, I also think it's going to be. It's going to run. Yeah, I think so. If this team is going to be great, he has to be great too. So, you know, it's going to be a transition going from where he was at Pittsburgh to the sec, but I think he's going to be very servable. The Jalen Lowe great moments at Pitt were superstar Walter Clayton Jr. Moments. Now he was much more inconsistent. So if you can make it to where you take some of that inconsistency away, Drew, you can have a superstar and we just have to trust that he's going from a system that was not helpful for him, a team that wasn't very good. We won't really know until he gets out there but how he'll play with four good players around him and, and hope that's going to be taken care of him with one of the better offenses in the country that can completely clean up his inconsistencies and kind of smaller shooting percentages that what you wanted to see last year. Tell me about Stockton Mortgage. Stockton Mortgage. You know, it's always a great time to buy and right now, time to, you know, do a little cash out, refinance. Maybe you want to buy one of these new pontoon boats we're seeing behind us on the lake. Okay. Dr. Mortgage, cash out refinance. Use that money. I don't know how to do it. Buy and invest in your pontoon future and Stockton Mortgage can help you along the way. I don't know if they can do pontoons, but why not House, Boats. Boats, Houseboats. Yeah, I'm sure. Sure they can. Stockton Mortgage. NLSA 259. Equal housing lender. That's right. 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And every time you make a purchase with your card, you automatically earn cash back. Welcome to the now it pays to Discover. Learn more@discover.com credit card based on the February 2024 Nielsen report. Welcome back. It is the final segment here. Kentucky Sports Radio Live and Sulphur Creek. Thank you sir. Over there on your boat. Appreciate it. Sulphur Creek Resort Kentucky Office of Highway Safety KSR Safe Summer Driving Tour has brought us to Cumberland County. Sulphur Creek, Mike's Landing Floating Restaurant and Lounge. They've been awesome to host us and we're have had a really good day. You were just, you had a good idea. You know everybody's like kind of mocking online the idea of motivated Mark Stoops. They should just lean into it, right? Yeah, I just saw. Just lean into it. Just say I'm motivated and it'll be make it a thing. I know sometimes we think Twitter's the whole fan base. It's a small portion. But motivated Mark Stoops is huge on Twitter. Yeah, it is. I just saw another graphic. He just needs to tweet. Just lean into it. Just tweet one word. Motivated. That's all you'd have to do. All right. I got a question for you you all. I always like to make you all the, the, the governing body, the legislature. Okay. We saw what happened in Minnesota last week in the tragedy, the guy goes to legislator's house, kills the woman, tries to kill another one. In Minnesota there's a state law or that they are. There are some talk about proposing a state law. You know, all of our. If you buy a house, it's public record who owns the house house, the name it's in. So there's two different proposals. Would you vote for one of these? Both of these or neither of these. Proposal one would be to say that all people have a right to not have available on public record searches that they own a house. That basically, who owns a house, the government will know, but it's not available for private searches that you can find online. That's number one. Number two would be, even if you don't want that for government leaders for their privacy, who are in positions of controversy, they would have the option to not have their houses listed. Where you could just look where Mitch McConnell lives or whatever. Or number three, be like it is now, everybody's house you can find. You're in charge, Shannon, what would you. What should be the law? I think we should have the right to privacy to where people cannot look up where you live. But I'll tell you, because I'm sick and tired of getting notes and foreign money sent to my house, which has been going on for the last five years. Yes. I thought people you liked. I don't. Who said I liked it? You liked it. No, no. What's funny is I don't know your address, so it's certainly not. Well, apparently it's not hard to find because I even moved houses and now it's following to the new house. So I would say I think that stuff should be private. So you think there should be. Everyone should be able to buy a house and you don't know where they. Yeah. Okay. What do you think? I completely agree. It should be private. Nobody needs to know where people are living. This isn't back in the day. We just get the phone book and have everyone's address and phone number in your hand. I think it should be completely private. I'm a realtor. I'm in the business of buying and selling houses. And I think this is the stupidest thing that we can look online and say who the name of any house we want to. Why do you know? Why do I need to know? Does anybody need to know? I think I've always thought that was stupid. Well, okay, so the rationale, and I'm not saying I. I generally agree with you all, but the rationale is you pay a property tax, right? You pay a tax as such, your land is the reason it is Shannon's land, is that the state says it's your land, Right. If the state didn't say it, it would only be yours if you could fight everybody off, right? So because the state, our taxpayers are making sure Shannon's land is Shannon's land. That's why people have an access to it. So it's it's not like your, your television, because the state isn't making sure you own that television. They are making sure you own that land. So does that have any appeal to you at all? No. I mean, okay, being like, on record, but I don't think that should be public is what I'm saying. It's like medical records. You have records, but they're not public. I think the house should be the same way. Yeah, I'm not, I kind of agree with you, but I am saying that's why it's like that is because ultimately the only reason you own that land is because the state says you do. So that's why they do it. Stupid. All right, well, there you go. Who's up there, sir? What's your counter opinion? Stupid. All right, what's next? How do you argue that? Yeah, you can't. Matt, Rick. Like that. Matt. Go ahead, Matt. Hey, guys, go ahead. Hey. I'm sitting out in my garden and I'm reading my book, Our Appalachia, while I listen to you guys. Yes. And I want to read a sentence real quick from it. Read the sentence. Okay. All right. Sharing is a way of life in the mountains and appropriately, the essence of our Appalachian. And that's what you guys do. You all share your all's life and, and information and great stories. I, I love it. I just love it. And that's what we, that's what we do in Appalachia. You know, this is multiple Fridays in a row now. You've been on right at the end of the show and said something very kind and I really appreciate it. Thank you very much. We, we appreciate, you know, driving around, like, doing these shows all around the state. It's, it can be hard sometimes because it's, we're in the car a lot and we're going all over, but I do love it. I mean, like, coming to a place like this and seeing people and we've seen some faces that have been here all three years we've been here. It's one of my favorite things to do. Ryan, I know you love that as well. And we get to discover new places. Like, we didn't know this, I would have never known this. And it's one of the most beautiful places in our state. So thanks to Mark for helping set it up. Grandma Sarah's here with a lot of familiar faces we get to see every year. I, I, I do like when you this summer, if you have a weekend this summer, whether it's Mike's Landing here at Sulphur Creek, or somewhere you. You can use the book I wrote as an example but you can also find online you. There are so many cool places in Kentucky that you would never think to go. If you're just like well I only want to go to a city or I only want to go just take a weekend, put the 120 counties on a. In a. In a bowl, draw one and there'll be something you could do in that place that would be cool and it gives you a chance to see the area. Everybody always goes to Destin or they go like I do to New York. There are places you could go in Kentucky where there's stuff like this that is. Is is gorgeous. Let's do one more. Who's next? Randy is next. Randy. Go ahead, Randy. Yes. I'm a March tooth stand and I hope he can somehow land the plane. But but if he doesn't, could he be fired for cause for putting us on probation forfeiting victory? No, no. They the generally speaking you got about shut down a program to be able to be paid for cause you got to get like so losing some victories just doesn't do it. No. Because if that were the case and I appreciate the call then the four cause clause would mean almost nothing if it could. So generally speaking you gotta. You gotta do what Rick Pitino did to be fired for cause. And Rick Patino even got some money out of it. So you know it's hard to fire people for cause. So can we. For causes like you personally did something to embarrass the university, you committed a crime or something, it tends to not be your job performance. 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