2025-09-19- KSR - Hour 2

Summary

Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – Hour 2

Date: September 19, 2025
Hosts/Crew: Ryan Lemond, Shannon Dawson, Mario Urrutia, Jeff Decoro
Location: Wild Eggs, Tate’s Creek, Lexington, KY
Main Theme: A lively discussion of the current state of University of Kentucky (UK) football, inside insights from veteran analyst Jeff Decoro, stories about the UK program and its personalities, fan interaction, and some lighter, community moments.

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Overview

The second hour of KSR dives deep into the Kentucky football program, focusing on the current season's passing struggles, receiver play, coaching decisions, and the broader mood of the fanbase. Special guest Jeff Decoro, longtime color commentator and former UK receiver, provides tactical insights and anecdotes. The hosts field live calls and texts, celebrate a birthday, reminisce about Kentucky sports culture, and wrap up with their weekly parlay picks.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Live from Wild Eggs – Community Vibe

• The crew broadcasts from the grand opening of the new Wild Eggs at Tate’s Creek, with energy from fans and giveaways.
• There’s playful banter over a pancake flipping contest, where Mario Urrutia was declared the winner, and everyone jokes about their kitchen skills.

  "I blame it on the spatula. No, no, no. Inadequate spatula."
  – Ryan Lemond [04:00]

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2. UK Football’s Passing Game – In-depth Analysis

• Jeff Decoro fields a listener question about the team's struggling wide receivers.

• Technical breakdown of passing plays, receiver routes, and the crucial chemistry needed between quarterbacks and receivers, especially amid shifting coverages.

  "When you’re playing against SEC defenses, that perfect window is...very small, and you have to throw a ball—sometimes to a point, not to a person."
  – Jeff Decoro [05:46]

• Discussion about Zach Calzada’s tendency to wait for receivers to be open versus “throwing them open,” referencing differences between quarterbacks with strong vs. less powerful arms.

• Issue of receivers getting physically jammed at the line, making timing and separation a challenge; this affects top receiver Macklin’s performance.

  "Teams are playing Kentucky...going to get real physical at the line...anything a defensive back can do to get you off schedule is a win for them."
  – Jeff Decoro [08:32]

• Success of tight ends compared to wide receivers, attributed to their being less covered at the line and their size/strength, allowing them to get open more easily.

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3. Modern Complexity in Playcalling

• The complexity of modern football play calls is humorously contrasted with the simpler systems of decades past.

  "Now it’s right over Wham, Zipper, Crimson Tide, slam. And each one of those words is for a different person on the team. It’s crazy."
  – Jeff Decoro [10:08]

• Breakdown of sign-calling systems and how signaling and dummy calls help disguise plays, with stories about chaos and in-game management challenges.

• The hosts reflect on the challenge for fans (and even former players) to keep up with the layers of communication and playbooks.

  "When you break it down like that, it just sounds like absolute chaos."
  – Shannon Dawson [11:45]

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4. Kentucky Fanbase Mood & Apathy

• Ryan voices concerns about a sense of apathy among the UK football fanbase, rooted in recent underperformance and unexciting home records.

  "It seems like some apathy has set in...they can’t win an SEC home game...and it just seems like apathy is starting to settle in."
  – Ryan Lemond [40:33]

• The crew discusses how a big road win at South Carolina could dramatically shift fan morale.

• Discussion on coaching expectations and job security for Mark Stoops: unless performance improves, his options shrink.

  "Mark knows right now if he wants to continue coaching, he has to turn this around. Texas A&M or Florida...is not going to hire him if Kentucky continues 4, 5, 6 wins."
  – Jeff Decoro [40:48]

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5. Listener Calls & Fan Questions

• Light-hearted feedback about Matt Jones’ quirks, callers correcting terms like “shaking your head” versus “nodding your head” [17:05].

• Question on SEC scheduling and "tiers"—Jeff suggests the focus is more on preserving historic rivalries than any tier system, and that schedules will rotate enough for balance.

• Inquiries about bye week preparation: Jeff explains the balance between hard practices and strategic rest, with specifics on “thud” practices and weight maintenance.

  "They practice hard. Tuesday and Wednesday were really hard...giving them the whole weekend off...already started South Carolina prep."
  – Jeff Decoro [19:30]

• Question on slow play calls and frequent timeouts: The team needs to solidify personnel groupings and script plays more. Over-rotating and waiting for the “perfect” personnel leads to confusion and wasted timeouts.

  "Why change personnel each play? It's dumb. If the guys in the game can't run the next play, why are they playing?"
  – Listener via text, read by Ryan Lemond [41:45]

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6. Kentucky Program Highlights

• Celebration of Kentucky Volleyball’s victory over Louisville, ending a multi-year drought and cementing coach Skinner's legacy.

  "Is there a more successful coach at UK than Skinner?... He’s not making $9 million a year either."
  – Jeff Decoro [31:44]

• Shout-out to UK Hockey for an undefeated start, plus fun references to hockey poster promotions involving Kentucky celebrities.

• Discussion of former UK athletes returning to Lexington, highlighting the lasting pull of Big Blue Nation.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Passing Game Struggles:

  "The passing game is the one area where there seems to be some deficiencies. Unless you talk about just passing to the tight ends. That seems to been off the charts."
  – Ryan Lemond [12:03]

• On Modern Play-calling Complexity:

  "When I played, it was past 86C Corner...Now it’s right over Wham Zipper Crimson Tide, you know, slam...and each one of those words is for a different person."
  – Jeff Decoro [10:08]

• On Role of Tight Ends:

  "They have great tight ends...I really think Boyer will make the NFL just because of his sheer size...the hands we’ve seen from CAT is ridiculous this year."
  – Jeff Decoro [12:29]

• On Halftime Adjustments:

  "Halftime consists of this: you go into the locker room, take your helmet off...now they have Gatorade gels and nuts...then the coaches are yelling at each other...and you go back out."
  – Jeff Decoro [29:07]

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Fun & Lighter Moments

• Birthday celebration for Mario Urrutia with a Wild Eggs cinnamon roll [26:41].
• Banter about hosting pancake flipping contests, kitchen incompetence, and generational confusion about UK basketball legends.
• Story: Ric Flair, Sting, and Goldberg hanging out at a UK football weekend in Georgia [13:14].
• Reflections on the evolution of halftime snacks from orange slices and Snickers bars to pickles and protein gels.

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Sports Bets & Parlay Segment

Segment: 37:22

• KSR DraftKings Parlay:

  • Jeff Decoro: Oklahoma -7 vs Auburn
  • Ryan Lemond: Nebraska -1.5 vs Michigan
  • Mario Urrutia: Tulane over Ole Miss
  • Shannon Dawson: Syracuse +16.5 at Clemson

• Group agrees that a few key wins could quickly change the narrative for the UK football program and re-energize the fanbase.

• Observations about over-specialization in personnel rotations slowing down offensive tempo and driving fans crazy.

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Community & UK Notes

• S/O to listener Anita, who flew from Florida to be at the remote show.
• Assorted asides about local Lexington personalities and famous UK athletes, like Kenny McPeek and Maria Montgomery.
• Next remote show teased: Fort Thomas Highlands High School.

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 03:27 Pancake flipping contest recap and Wild Eggs atmosphere
• 05:13 Jeff Decoro joins: insights into UK passing game
• 10:08 Modern playbook complexity
• 12:03 Analysis of team weaknesses & tight end discussion
• 19:30 Bye week preparation details
• 22:01 Why UK struggles to get plays in and calls so many timeouts
• 26:41 Mario’s birthday celebration
• 31:44 Volleyball triumph and coach Skinner’s success
• 37:22 KSR DraftKings Parlay segment
• 40:33 State of program and fan apathy discussion
• 41:45 Text question: personnel changes slowing offense

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Tone and Style

Conversational, playful, and insightful. The show balances deep technical football analysis with light banter and community energy, featuring a mix of expert insights, fan questions, and relatable Kentucky culture.

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Conclusion

This episode is a must-listen for Kentucky fans looking to understand the deeper tactical issues behind the Wildcats’ current offensive struggles, while also capturing the essence of KSR’s friendly, community-driven approach. Key voices like Jeff Decoro make the discussion especially informative with their mix of experience and humor.

Transcript

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[Mario Urrutia]

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[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah. Comments?

[Mario Urrutia]

Yeah, any comments? Right. You were confident before.

[Ryan Lemond]

I was very confident. I, I blame it on the spatula. No, no, no. Inadequate spatula.

[Shannon Dawson]

It worked fine for the cook back there. He had a perfect flip.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, because it's a left handed spatula. He was left handed. Oh, I needed a right handed spatula.

[Jeff Decoro]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm gonna say let's all vote. Jeff, you were there as well.

[Shannon Dawson]

Well, we're gonna vote then. Mine was the best. If I'm gonna vote, I'm gonna vote.

[Jeff Decoro]

I'm both right.

[Ryan Lemond]

Shannon flipped his and then made a.

[Jeff Decoro]

Little bit dollar pancake.

[Shannon Dawson]

It was, it was a kid order. You know, I, I took one pancake and made two.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'd say Shannon was in third.

[Shannon Dawson]

Oh, stop.

[Ryan Lemond]

I was in second.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yours was bad.

[Ryan Lemond]

And Mario, Mario. Mario was the winner.

[Mario Urrutia]

I was the first. You were nervous though. You were shaking when you were like, what was that?

[Ryan Lemond]

I couldn't get the spatula. Under the pancake. I think I had a faulty on my spatula.

[Shannon Dawson]

I am way out of place in the kitchen. I do not cook, and I don't know what I'm doing back there. And it showed, I think, in the pancake flipping contest. Mine was not good.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, we will Mario have that on social media this afternoon. About to post it, but I think you were probably the winner.

[Mario Urrutia]

Of course I was. I mean, I. I cook more than anybody out this group.

[Ryan Lemond]

Right.

[Mario Urrutia]

Jeff, how much do you cook?

[Jeff Decoro]

Almost every night.

[Mario Urrutia]

All right, never mind.

[Jeff Decoro]

Except when I'm working. So I do like to cook.

[Ryan Lemond]

For those who don't know, Jeff, he's a sports director of WTBQ here in Lexington, but he's also been a big member of the JMI broadcast with Tom Leach. Tom Leach is color guy for how many years?

[Jeff Decoro]

24 years.

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh, my goodness. Really?

[Jeff Decoro]

Yeah. 25 years? 2,000. Wow. What is this? 25? Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Unbelievable. So we got a question from the aviation glass text machine. Ask Jeff, as a former receiver, what's going on with the current UK receivers?

[Shannon Dawson]

Great question.

[Ryan Lemond]

Great question.

[Jeff Decoro]

I just think that, you know, that's a hard question to answer here.

[Shannon Dawson]

Are they not getting open? Do you blame the receivers? Do you blame Calzada for not finding the right guy at the right time?

[Jeff Decoro]

I think that when you see what they're trying to do, when you know, within the framework of the play, what they're trying to do. When Zach was at quarterback, he wants the play to be perfect. And when you're playing in the SEC and when you're playing against the teams that Kentucky plays against, that perfect window is like that, you know, and it's very small, and you have to throw a ball. For instance, I'd say a perfect pass in the game the other day, cutter through to Hardley Gilmore. Hardley hadn't made his cut yet, but he saw that the defender was on his outside hip and he threw it to the inside. And when Hartley turned to make his cut, boom, the ball was right there.

[Ryan Lemond]

Is that the Ole Miss game?

[Jeff Decoro]

It was a. Well, no, that was. This is the game last week, two weeks ago, that was the same type of one. He was coming over the middle. We call that a. Just a deep end route. And he just put it right where the only he could catch it. Zach has a very strong arm, so a lot of times, a lot like Will Levis, he waits till the guy gets open to throw instead of throwing him open. And quarterbacks that don't have as strong an arm, they will throw to A point. And you. I know that on this pass play, the Z, which is the flanker is going to run 14 yards and he's going to cut to the sideline. So when I get the ball, I catch it, turn and throw to that point where he's supposed to be on the sideline.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Jeff Decoro]

So that's why sometimes you see a ball thrown and the receiver somewhere else and the ball just kind of goes out there and you're going, where is he throwing it? On every single pass play, it's a different pass. If it's man, if it's zone and if that zones too deep or three deep. So there's three different pass routes that receiver has to run and he and the quarterback have to see the same thing. So if it's man, you're running an out pattern. If it's an out called. If it's cover four, which is a safety or cover two where there's two safeties in the corner, you're running what's called a gear down where instead of going out you kind of slow down on the sidelines and you hear Tom or me say he's got to get the ball there before the safety comes off. So that's. It's just, it's just different plays and they're just not on sync yet. I think that you're seeing Kendrick receivers.

[Ryan Lemond]

Fault or is that the quarterback's fault?

[Jeff Decoro]

I think it's. I think it's more on quarterback than it is on the receivers.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. Because the receivers are getting a lot of heat. I think that's why. Well, good question.

[Jeff Decoro]

You know, had they not had penalties, Kendrick Law had that big play called back. Yeah, right. Because of a hold. It's just a lot of things that are, that are happening there that it's not. It's just not a smooth operation yet. And that's what you get when you have new quarterbacks coming in.

[Ryan Lemond]

But you know, the number one receiver this year is supposed to be Macklin. He's kind of been a non factor so far.

[Jeff Decoro]

Yes. And again, one of the problems they have, and you hear this all the time, they can't get off the line of scrimmage. So teams are playing Kentucky and they know this. So they're going to get real physical at the line. Meaning they're lining up right across from him and as soon as the ball snapped they try to get hands on the receiver to knock him off of his course or. Everything in football's timed, especially in the passing game. Right. You've got. I've Got four seconds to throw the ball from where I'm standing to where that receiver is supposed to be. And anything a defensive back can do to get you off of that schedule is a win for them. So they have to be able to get off the line of scrimmage. Dane was very good at that because he was a little bigger, a little stronger, and he had great hands at the line of scrimmage where he could get away from the defensive back a lot easier than a smaller guy like me or Mario. If we're out there and the guys can get their hands on us. So we have to do different things that take you time to get around the guy, if that makes sense to you out there. Trying to do this higher, trying to say it as basic as I can. So they're getting physical with the receivers. In the line of scrimmage is the basic line. They have to figure out a way to get off the line of scrimmage.

[Ryan Lemond]

So is that why the tight ends have had success?

[Jeff Decoro]

Yes.

[Ryan Lemond]

Able to do that?

[Jeff Decoro]

Exactly. Because the tight ends are usually uncovered because they're in what we call a tailor or a slot. So they're off the ball. So the defensive back is like, for.

[Ryan Lemond]

That lady, they're a Taylor or a slot.

[Shannon Dawson]

These are more technical terms than we've ever spoken on KSR 15.

[Jeff Decoro]

Dude, you can't. I. I asked. I. I asked Liam when he was here, and I asked Bush. I said, call a play for me, because when I played, it was past 86C corner. That's the play.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay.

[Jeff Decoro]

Okay. That's all you say. You run in Bill Rans looks, and he goes, all right, 86Z corner on one. Ready, go. And we run to the line, screensh. You run the play to play. Now it's right over. Wham. Zipper. Crimson Tide, you know, slam.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah.

[Jeff Decoro]

And you're like, what? And each one of those words is for a different person on the team. So it's crazy.

[Shannon Dawson]

Now, maybe why you saw Zach Calzada go, what the hell are we doing right now? And some of these frustrations that we're seeing where it's like, in game management, and the guys aren't even lined up to go and get the play. Clocks down to two.

[Jeff Decoro]

Because, you know, they call the play now to the quarterback, right? Okay. So when that play calls in his ear, and at 15 seconds, the microphone gets shut off. So when there's 15 seconds left on the clock, there's a guy that flips a switch and comms goes dead.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's why you got the Guys on the sideline still doing the signals.

[Jeff Decoro]

Yeah. Well, they're signaling the offensive line as to what they want to do and things like it's every guy. So you see the different guys in different. Because there'll be a guy in a green shirt, a guy in a red shirt. They'll give guy in a black shirt. And all the coaches are wearing blue. Right. Or they're all wearing white. And each of the positions have a different guy to look at when they're doing the things. And some of them are dummies where it's not a real thing. They're just doing it to make throw off the other team. Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Like they happened in Michigan.

[Jeff Decoro]

Yeah. So when, when, when Bush calls that play with 12 words on it, then he has to relay that to the team. If he gets one word wrong, it screws up the whole play.

[Shannon Dawson]

What you articulated right there just shows you how many moving parts there are to this. Because as an average fan, and I'll include myself as an average fan, we just watch the game and see it for what it is. But then when you break it down like that, it just sounds like absolute chaos.

[Jeff Decoro]

I don't know how they do it. I, I, I couldn't do it.

[Shannon Dawson]

It's crazy.

[Ryan Lemond]

What's probably been. Obviously the biggest complaint so far has been the passing game.

[Jeff Decoro]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Obviously they're running the ball well. Offensive line has been great, but the passing game is the one area where there seems to be some deficiencies. Unless you talk about just passing the tight ends. That seems to been off the charts.

[Jeff Decoro]

So far, you know, forever. We've been talking about get the tight end the ball. Right. They've had great tight ends for the last 10 years that have come in here to play. One of them is in the NFL. Brendan Bates.

[Shannon Dawson]

That's it.

[Jeff Decoro]

Name another one. Right. I think these guys have at least two. And I really think Boyer will make the NFL just because of his sheer size. At 6 foot 7, 260. Yeah, yeah, but he can, he can. Willie's, Willie's really good. The hands that we've seen from CAT is ridiculous this year. I mean, just, yeah, he's, he reminds me a lot of the Michael Mayer kid that played a cupcath in Notre Dame and now with his Raiders. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he reminds me a lot of him. Great size. Matt Lucas played with, played with me.

[Shannon Dawson]

I'm a little sidetracked right now because I'm looking up on the screen. Stephen A. Smith is listed as top five wrestlers of all time. And he's got Goldberg at number one. You've got to be kidding me.

[Jeff Decoro]

Over flare.

[Shannon Dawson]

I mean, come on.

[Jeff Decoro]

He's got.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, he's got. And the Road Warriors. Road Warriors, Yeah.

[Jeff Decoro]

Well, that's, that's a tag team. And Steve Austin's not even up.

[Ryan Lemond]

Goldberg is probably going to come on the show with him or something, right? Or he's got some deal with Goldberg.

[Shannon Dawson]

Number one.

[Jeff Decoro]

Let me tell you the cool thing. Ever remember a couple years ago, it's about five, six years ago, Kentucky had a tight end and his dad was Sting. We go to a game at Georgia.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah.

[Jeff Decoro]

And I, we, we get off the bus, we walk into the, the hotel and Ric Flair is sitting there drinking buds.

[Shannon Dawson]

Of course he is.

[Jeff Decoro]

Budweisers in the, in the bar of the hotel where we're checking. I'm like, that's Ric Flair. What is Ric Flair doing here? And I'm all excited, right? Then in walks Sting and they hug each other and they're sitting there having beers and they, we get off the bus and the kid, I cannot remember his name to save my life. Hey, dad. He goes up and Ric Flair was his godfather.

[Ryan Lemond]

No way.

[Jeff Decoro]

So then the next day at the game, they're playing Georgia. Goldberg played there. So it's got. The three of them were on the sidelines together. I said, dick, Gabriel, you have to go do an interview, guys. I mean, you have to. The greatest wrestlers ever.

[Shannon Dawson]

That is awesome.

[Jeff Decoro]

It was really.

[Shannon Dawson]

I saw a video just this morning of Ric Flair at a bar because that's where he seems to live. And I guess somebody challenged him to get down and do the, the plank challenge. And here he is, this guy that.

[Jeff Decoro]

I mean nearly died, 75 years old.

[Shannon Dawson]

Nearly died just a couple of years ago doing a four minute plank right there in the middle of the bar. Shoes off and everything. This guy, he's unbelievable.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right, we'll take our break, come back, go back to the phone lines. 859-280-2287 is the Clark's Puppy Shop phone number. A lot of good texts coming in on the aviation glass tech machine as well. We're right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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[Jeff Decoro]

We have to take a break now, don't we?

[Ryan Lemond]

No kidding. We'll be right back. Thank you. So we got a couple calls we want to get to real quick and I got some great questions on the text machine for you, Jeff. So who's up next? Rick Mustang is up next. Mustang. Go ahead, Mustang.

[Caller]

Hey guys, I'm loving this show. We got to get Jeff on more often with the stories and the X and O's. It's been amazing. I got a couple things. I'm the first time caller so I'm driving through Knoxville today. I'm giving you some big blue comfort while I'm in this dirty ball territory. A couple things while Matty's out of town that he does that drive me crazy? And I want your opinion on this. He says 90. Dude, there's a T in there. You got to say 90. I don't know where he got that from. The other thing he does, he always says shaking your head. Even when people mean yes, that's not right. Nodding your head up and down is yes. Shaking your head means no.

[Ryan Lemond]

Love y'. All. Bye.

[Shannon Dawson]

So those are the two things that bother you about Matt?

[Jeff Decoro]

Of all the things. 90.

[Ryan Lemond]

90. Catch by 90.

[Shannon Dawson]

Well, we always make fun of Matt because he says Halloween and tv and tv, like the emphasis. I think that's. It's got to be like a Bell County.

[Ryan Lemond]

It's definitely, I think, a southeastern Kentucky thing for sure. Let's get another call. Rick, who we got? Got Jerry up next. Go ahead, Jerry.

[Jeff Decoro]

Hey, guys.

[Caller]

Hey, guys. Quick question on the rivals. The only place I've heard them talk about tears is you guys. Every place elsewhere, I've heard Greg Sankey or people talk about this. They're just saying they're maintaining traditional rivalries and that's it. And the thing to remember about Georgia is they've got three real important traditional rivals. Obviously Auburn, Florida with the cocktail party. But they've got a rivalry in South Carolina going back to 1890 that predates the SEC. And if they bust up any of these traditional rivalries, this cheer thing, people are going to go nuts.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right, all right. I appreciate the phone call. Are they doing the tier thing?

[Jeff Decoro]

I. I just think it's like he said, they're trying to keep the rivalries together. Look, I think we're kind of making a little too much out of this because it's probably going to change every four years. And the thing is, you're going to play every team in a two year span, so what difference does it make?

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, I think to me, the tier thing, I think is just to try to keep it as fair as possible.

[Jeff Decoro]

Right, right.

[Shannon Dawson]

I mean, there's only so much you can do and there's going to be, after you look at everybody's rivals, a few teams that are left over that you have to just kind of place together because that's what's left over. And I think you're going to get some of that, including maybe one or two teams that Kentucky ends up with.

[Jeff Decoro]

But he's right, you can't break up like Florida, Georgia. I mean, that's the world's largest cocktail. Just awesome.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, you talked about like Auburn, Alabama, Mississippi State going to be there.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Stephen Borden was Sting's son. The Tight end Stephen Borden. All right, this from the aviation glass text machine. We got a couple good ones here. What are the cats focusing on? The off week this week?

[Jeff Decoro]

He. What Mark said is he has talked to a lot of his colleagues, coaches around the country, because if you look at their record coming out of vice, it's horrible.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Jeff Decoro]

Since he's been head coach, 6 and.

[Shannon Dawson]

10 overall under stoops, 5 and 9 going into the SEC game.

[Jeff Decoro]

Yeah. So he called a bunch of different coaches. What do you do? And they said, well, we gave an extra day off, but we practiced really hard. So this week they practice hard. Tuesday and Wednesday were really hard practice where you do one versus one.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Jeff Decoro]

You call it thud. You don't take the guy to the ground. You run up and you throw a shoulder into them. So they did that really heavy practices, and they giving them the whole weekend off. Then they've already started their South Carolina prep. And then Monday, it's game week. You go back to what you're doing. So they said you have to do something to get that. You know, they're really hitting the weights and stuff. Because this is a week where you maintain during the season. You try to. Because you'll see a lot of guys like Kenny Petrovia, who is our center. When we started the season, he was only about 235 pounds. When the season ended, he was like 210, you know, because you just lose weight because you can't get in the weight room as much. But now they have two off weeks, so in those off weeks, you really hit the weights hard, so you don't have that big drop off in your. In your. Your muscle atrophy and things like that as the season goes on.

[Ryan Lemond]

859-280-2287. Who's next? Rick Noah is next. Go ahead, Noah.

[Caller]

Hey, guys, can you hear me?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes, sir. Go ahead, Noah.

[Caller]

Hey, I just want to reach out. I. I used to work with Jeff Decoro back at a certain news station over in Lexington. So I want to reach out to be able to say hi.

[Jeff Decoro]

What's up, Noah? How are you, man? Hey.

[Caller]

I'm doing good, sir. Sir, Good to be able to hear from you.

[Jeff Decoro]

Well, good to hear from you. That's.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's a great call. Appreciate it. Noah.

[Shannon Dawson]

He's wanting to call and say hi.

[Ryan Lemond]

So if boat lines open, if any other Jeff's friends growing up want to call and say hi. You're. You're a creeker. You're a taste creek guy. I will say this for you one of your best friends is Kenny McPeek. Yeah, the horse trainer. You got to ride him to a derby title and a Preakness title. That Triple Crown ran there. He made a little bit.

[Jeff Decoro]

I was. That was pretty fun. I went to Baltimore and hung out with him up there as well. So we got the first two legs, and, yeah, his. His business has just exploded since that, and good for him, but, I mean, he's got a couple hundred horses now that he's training. It's just. It's crazy what he's doing.

[Ryan Lemond]

Another text from the aviation glass text machine. Ask Jeff why we have trouble getting plays in and have to call timeout so much.

[Jeff Decoro]

You know, I. That is the $64,000 question. Because, look, you know, as soon as that ball spotted, you only have 15 seconds to get to play it. So you've got to be thinking ahead, and you've got to get in, because here's the problem and here's what people don't understand. So when you watch a game and you see a guy run on late to the field, on the offense.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Jeff Decoro]

The defense has a chance. And every defensive coach go, Ryan, take your time.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Jeff Decoro]

And you see the defensive. Remember the offense guy, the defensive guy comes in, he's taking his time because that clock's going 10.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yep.

[Jeff Decoro]

9A. So if you don't have your personnel in by 15 seconds and you have to sub, then what happens is you're going to be able to get. The referee is going to step away, and there's two seconds. So you have to run that play. So see what I'm saying? You can't. You can't audible out of it. Every play you run, every play that's run, the quarterback has a run and a pass play that he can audible to because of whatever the defense is. So, you know, if I call this pass play, when I get to the line, I see, oh, this ain't gonna work. I'm gonna have to go check, check, check, check. You see the quarterback, when he goes up to the line, he's going like this. That means he's saying, check, check, check, check, check. So now all the linemen go, what is it? And then he says, whatever. One of those stupid names again. Or. Or, you know, Linus and Snoopy, you know, and then everybody says, oh, okay. And then you run that play. So that. That's why you just. And that's one thing that that Mark told Bush. He goes, look, whoever the three receivers are out there, that's who we're going with. We're not going to have this group goes in on first down. These guys go on if it's second and long. If it's second and short, these guys going. That's where you get into all the problems. Look, just play football. You get 11 guys. I just go, just do it.

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh, that's when the boo birds come out. You've been there.

[Jeff Decoro]

Yes.

[Ryan Lemond]

They're rotating people. The clock's winding down, and they got to burn a timeout. People hate that.

[Jeff Decoro]

Yep.

[Mario Urrutia]

The little things, man, lining up. You know, the booze come out. Came out. But Vince versus Ole Miss.

[Ryan Lemond]

Heard a little bit of booze.

[Mario Urrutia]

Got to be prepared.

[Ryan Lemond]

It just gives that sense of they're not prepared.

[Jeff Decoro]

Exactly.

[Ryan Lemond]

No offensive game plan or, you know, just kind of who's. What's going. They caught him on the tight shot, said, what are we doing?

[Shannon Dawson]

You know, so the plays. I guess I hear a lot of times about offensive coordinators who have a script.

[Jeff Decoro]

Yeah.

[Shannon Dawson]

It sounds like that maybe Kentucky doesn't necessarily go off a script because they don't seem to know what the next play is going to be until it's, you know.

[Jeff Decoro]

Well, a script is usually to start a game or start the second half right. Because you know you're going to be ahead or behind at the second half. So you have. You have a script, meaning six or eight plays in a row I'm going to run. Boom, boom, boom. And a lot of times coach will tell us. Tom. Tom actually came up, and I can't remember the game. It was Rich Brooks. I think it was Rich Brooks. And he said, on the third play, they're going to run a double reserve reverse pass. And I'm like, how do you know that?

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah.

[Jeff Decoro]

And I go, what? He goes, yeah. I was just down on the field and talked to. Oh. And I can't remember which coach it was, but sure enough, first down, they got like six yards. Second down, it was like they got two or three more. And on third down, boop. There it was. Double reverse pass is wide open. So that's. That's what scripting means. But you can't script during a game.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah.

[Jeff Decoro]

Because it's a different situation. So it's scripted. It's the start of the game. Scripted to start the second half.

[Ryan Lemond]

This on the text machine from Matt in South Africa.

[Shannon Dawson]

Oh, really?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. Matt from South Africa texted in. What's the percentage chance Kentucky makes a bowl game?

[Shannon Dawson]

Is that really for Matt?

[Mario Urrutia]

Did Matt actually text you?

[Ryan Lemond]

Of course.

[Mario Urrutia]

I don't believe it.

[Jeff Decoro]

How old are you?

[Ryan Lemond]

I am 59.

[Jeff Decoro]

Okay. There you go. 59%. How old are you?

[Shannon Dawson]

42.

[Jeff Decoro]

Okay, that's better. 42%.

[Ryan Lemond]

Shannon's the one guy who's kind of been hanging on to the six win season this year.

[Jeff Decoro]

I will tell you this. I, I don't know a number. I'm not Nostradamus. But I'll tell you this. We saw in the Ole Miss game, I think there's going to be five games that are going to be just like Ole Miss. We're in the fourth quarter. It's going to be a one score game one way or the other. And if you win most of those.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yep. You know, this is definitely a swing game come out of against South Carolina though.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right, we'll take our break, come back A lot more coming from Wild Eggs and Tate's Creek. Come out and see us. This is Connecticut Sports Radio. Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio Live from the new Wild Eggs in Tate's Creek. They've got three locations now. This is the new location. Come out and check them out. They're the official breakfast of ksr. We've had a great crowd today. A lot of people came in, had breakfast, had brunch. Now you can have lunch and they have a bar breakfast. Brunch and lunch with a bar. Wild Eggs. We gave away our first wild eggs gift basket. We got a lot of goodies to give away here before the show is over. So hang on. And they just brought out Shannon.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yes.

[Ryan Lemond]

A little birthday cinnamon roll with candles for our boy Mario. Freeze Birthday.

[Shannon Dawson]

Awesome. Happy birthday.

[Mario Urrutia]

Thank you guys. Thank you. Wild Eggs. Thank you to the fans, the big blue nation, KSR fans for doing this. This definitely made my day. My days. I have such a long day, but my day's already made.

[Shannon Dawson]

Hey, we all love Mario, but can I take just a minute just to make fun of Mario about something that happened earlier this week?

[Ryan Lemond]

Please.

[Shannon Dawson]

When I had Richie Farmer on the pre show, I gotta point out that, that Mario thought that Richie Farmer played 20 years ago. So basically in Mario's mind, he's so young, he thought that Richie Farmer played for Tubby Smith.

[Mario Urrutia]

Listen, man, I'm 20. I'm 26 now. Yeah, you know, I'm.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm.

[Mario Urrutia]

Those days are so far past.

[Shannon Dawson]

I understand. You're young world crazy.

[Jeff Decoro]

I'm a young kid.

[Ryan Lemond]

Drew was like 26 when he started in KSR. That's what's crazy.

[Shannon Dawson]

I think I might have been 26 when we started KSR.

[Jeff Decoro]

Oh, wow, look at that.

[Mario Urrutia]

How old were you when you started?

[Ryan Lemond]

I was when my first radio show in 2011. So I was 45.

[Mario Urrutia]

Okay.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. Old enough to be your daddy. 859-280-2287. At the Clark's publisher phone number. We got another one from Aviation Glass Tech Machine. Got great questions for Jeff about football. Jeff, for two minute drill situations, shouldn't there be a set of plays the team knows are going to run?

[Jeff Decoro]

Pretty much, yes. They practice two minute every day in practice.

[Ryan Lemond]

Why they seem so disorganized those last two minutes of the first half. Not just one game, several games.

[Jeff Decoro]

Again, it's trying to get. And. And I think Mark talked to Bush about this. I don't care about the perfect personnel. We have to get down the field like that.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Jeff Decoro]

The 11 guys you have out there, they. You should know if there's a guy outside of me, if I'm a receiver, I have to be off the line, right. If there's nobody outside of me, I have to be on the line. See? And that's where they got a penalty. Against Macklin.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes, it was against.

[Jeff Decoro]

Remember he, he supposedly was on the line and there was a guy outside of me that makes him ineligible. So it's just, it's just call the play. It doesn't have to be perfect. We just need to get it in there and go.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's something Freddie has said for years though. He calls it the middle eight. The last four. The first half. First four, second half has been awful.

[Jeff Decoro]

Yes.

[Ryan Lemond]

Why?

[Jeff Decoro]

You know, they talk about teams that make adjustments. You say, oh, let's see the adjustments they make at halftime.

[Ryan Lemond]

Right.

[Jeff Decoro]

Halftime consists of this. You go into the locker room, take your helmet off. They have orange. When I played, it was an orange slice and a Snickers bar. That's what we got.

[Mario Urrutia]

Snickers bar.

[Jeff Decoro]

A Snickers bar and an orange slices. Now they have the Gatorade gels and shoes and they have pickles and healthy snacks. Yes, healthy snacks and nuts and things like that. But. So that's the first five minutes. The next five minutes is the coaches yelling at each other and stuff about what they did wrong and right. And then they finally said, okay, here's what we're going to do. The offensive line goes with the offensive line coach and they're showing. What are they doing? Why can't we block this guy? Well, he's doing this. Okay, receivers, what are they doing? Well, they're running this. It's nothing. We thought we were going to come out and cover this. And they're doing this and they go, okay. Then the coaches come Back together, say, all right, here's what we're going to do. To themselves. And you go back out on the field. And in the NFL, it's basically you go in, you go to the bathroom, you turn around and go back out. It's only 12 minutes. They don't do that. Crazy. Yeah, they don't. They don't say squat to you. But I don't know. And. And I agree with you, Ryan. It's the most important part of the game. Freddy's completely right.

[Ryan Lemond]

And we seem to stink at it.

[Jeff Decoro]

Yes. Yeah. And for whatever reason, they stink coming out of a bye weeks, whoever they play again.

[Ryan Lemond]

Shannon, I forgot to. We got to sponsor this segment.

[Shannon Dawson]

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[Jeff Decoro]

No.

[Shannon Dawson]

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[Ryan Lemond]

We gotta say hi to Anita. Anita flew in from Florida, landed at the airport, came straight here to the show to catch for. The show is over, so thank you. Anita.

[Jeff Decoro]

Are you ready for this?

[Shannon Dawson]

Ryan?

[Jeff Decoro]

I went to school with her son.

[Ryan Lemond]

You did?

[Jeff Decoro]

At Tate's Creek, Right?

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, Meredith sir's daughter.

[Jeff Decoro]

Her daughter's here? Yeah, she's younger than me.

[Ryan Lemond]

So we talked about the volleyball team. We failed to mention them beating Louisville last night. It's the first time they'd beat Louisville since 2019. I didn't know I'd been that long. But to do it on Louisville's home court at the Yum Center. What, four or five thousand people there when they ranked third in the country? That just tells you about where this volleyball program's at right now.

[Jeff Decoro]

Wait, is there a more successful coach at UK than. Than Skinner?

[Ryan Lemond]

No, he doesn't.

[Mario Urrutia]

It doesn't get talked about a lot either.

[Jeff Decoro]

Dude, he's not making 9 million a year either.

[Mario Urrutia]

Yeah, that's True. I don't know, man. Where would they be ranked now? Cuz I know Louisville did a number three.

[Jeff Decoro]

They'll be in the top five.

[Mario Urrutia]

There you go.

[Jeff Decoro]

Obviously they beat number one and number three.

[Mario Urrutia]

There you go.

[Shannon Dawson]

I don't know what the rest of their schedule looks like, but they've already played just about every T team in the top 10 so far. So I think that's going to serve them well. When we get to the.

[Ryan Lemond]

That guy right there is Ron Turner.

[Shannon Dawson]

I've heard about him. A break.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's got the best Christmas decorations in the history of Christmas decorations every year. Yeah. We take the kids, load up the car, go by Ron Turner's house. Look at the Christmas decorations they got.

[Jeff Decoro]

They even have police out there. They do directing traffic.

[Ryan Lemond]

They do. Yeah.

[Shannon Dawson]

We could just go in his house.

[Jeff Decoro]

Yeah, that's in my parents neighborhood and it's like. Yep.

[Ryan Lemond]

I can tell you Ron survived a plane crash even one time.

[Shannon Dawson]

Oh wow.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, he did.

[Shannon Dawson]

Can't hear him.

[Jeff Decoro]

He said the plane went straight down and he walked out.

[Ryan Lemond]

And he walked out with it. Yeah.

[Shannon Dawson]

What a guy.

[Ryan Lemond]

So we mentioned the volleyball team. The UK hockey team's actually on TV tonight on ESPN plus they're undefeated. They play NC State. So if you're sitting around, nothing to do tonight, check them out on ESPN plus the UK hockey team.

[Jeff Decoro]

Now, do they still do the posters with the hot. They remember they had Ashley Judd.

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh my goodness. Yeah. Laura Bell Bundy.

[Shannon Dawson]

Is that politically correct in the year 2025. I miss those posters personally. But you know what?

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, Maria Montgomery just did one in the last year or so. So I guess they're still doing.

[Jeff Decoro]

She still go by Maria Montgomery. Montgomery.

[Ryan Lemond]

Is your last name Montgomery Lantern. I don't know what she goes right now. Right?

[Jeff Decoro]

Yeah. Toddler.

[Shannon Dawson]

She calls him Toddler.

[Ryan Lemond]

And one other kind of UK note I want to bring up.

[Caller]

She does.

[Shannon Dawson]

She calls him Toddler.

[Ryan Lemond]

Did you see Khalil Whitney's pet name tweet?

[Mario Urrutia]

I did see that. He said he's thinking about moving back to Lexington.

[Ryan Lemond]

Don't you think that has to do with the tv? The love he got from TBT has to, man.

[Mario Urrutia]

I know Willie Collinstein, he's. I don't know if he's already moved, but he's definitely thinking about moving. Alexander. There's a lot of guys that you know play for UK and they really want to come back. I know Dominique Hawkins. He lives in Richmond. So there's a lot of guys that like to come back, feel big love, feel the love from Big Blue Nation and then, you know, get it going.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, Columbus, him and Archie Goodwin were the guys that like, missed out on that because with their season here for both of them was kind of didn't go the way they wanted it to be. And both of them talked about how, man, they wanted to come back to kind of feel, get that feeling that they missed out on when they were a player here.

[Mario Urrutia]

And it's just happy to see those guys, especially Khalil Whitney. I know when he was here, he was kind of battling like a lot of mental health stuff.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yep.

[Mario Urrutia]

So it's good just for him to come back, you know, play for La Familia, you know, rep the Kentucky brand again and hopefully we'll see him back next, next year for La Familia again. I'm sure we will. I'm sure we will.

[Ryan Lemond]

859-280-2287. That's our phone number if you want to call and get on board. You know, with Kentucky have the off week. We mentioned they're not very good coming off the off week.

[Jeff Decoro]

You know what I've noticed here?

[Ryan Lemond]

What?

[Jeff Decoro]

You guys have a sweet tooth.

[Shannon Dawson]

Well, well, people just bring us free food, cakes, cookies.

[Jeff Decoro]

We have Halloween cookies.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, we got all kinds of good stuff here.

[Ryan Lemond]

So, you know, after the bye week, is South Carolina.

[Jeff Decoro]

Yep.

[Ryan Lemond]

Is Lenora Sellers going to play against Missouri this weekend?

[Jeff Decoro]

They say that he is probable for the game Saturday.

[Shannon Dawson]

Oh, okay. He went from questionable to probable because.

[Ryan Lemond]

That really, you know, when he went out, they didn't look good at all.

[Jeff Decoro]

That affects your, your, the bets that you guys put together for DraftKings.

[Shannon Dawson]

Oh, absolutely.

[Jeff Decoro]

@ the end of the show, if he plays, it's one thing. If he doesn't, they're a totally different team.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, yeah. As I said yesterday, I felt like if Kentucky's going to play their backup quarterback, the nice thing to do is to play your backup quarterback, South Carolina. We shouldn't have to play against your starter with our backup. It always seems fair that way.

[Jeff Decoro]

Exactly.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, he kind of had his coming out party against us last year, Kroger Field, you know, on his way where his name is even floating around as a potential Heisman candidate at some point. But if he's out, I felt like Kentucky's chances go up. But you're coming off a bye week. You lost the last, what, two to South Carolina? I don't know, man. It's kind of a big game for this Kentucky program to go down there and try to get a W huge for them.

[Jeff Decoro]

To me, this sets the tone for the rest of the season because if you lose your now you're owing to in conference play and two games especially Ole Miss game that you could have had, should have won that game.

[Shannon Dawson]

And I feel like our fan base is kind of somewhere in the middle. Like we don't know if we truly believe in this team yet. You go on the road and beat South Carolina, I think you can flip the fan morale or whatever you want to call it, just the overall vibes of this fan base.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right, we got our final break and we're going back our final segment. We're going to give away a lot of stuff here during this commercial break. So get your tickets out. We're going to go through and give away a lot of goodies here thanks to our friends at Wild Ryan.

[Shannon Dawson]

Get your KSR Parlay pick ready.

[Ryan Lemond]

The KSR parlay is going to hit the this week. Get ready. We're going to make it and Jeff's going to help us with it. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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[Ryan Lemond]

All right, welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio. Our final segment here live from Wild Eggs in Tate's Creek. What a great show. This has been a great host, they've been a good friend, they've been a good partner. We are the official breakfast of KSR Wild Eggs. So appreciate all that. We're getting ready to do our Draft Kings parlay. Oh yeah, Jeff, I don't know if you listen or not, but our Draft Kings parlay maybe we struggled just a little bit. So we're expecting you to come in with an expert pick. Shannon's those picks are always wrong Outside.

[Shannon Dawson]

Of that, I did have a bad pick last week. I took Virginia Tech. I don't know why I did, but I did. And that turned out to be a horrible pick. But your pick wasn't much better. You had South Carolina.

[Ryan Lemond]

I picked South Carolina, Vanderbilt, and that.

[Shannon Dawson]

Score was 31 7.

[Ryan Lemond]

Vandy, you're going to write these. You want to write these down? You got to turn them in.

[Mario Urrutia]

No, that's fine.

[Ryan Lemond]

You got it?

[Mario Urrutia]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right. Shan, you lead off. Give us our first one.

[Shannon Dawson]

No, you guys go ahead. Because you said. I'm gonna let Jeff go first.

[Jeff Decoro]

Okay, one game. So 20. This is who's for real in this game. And it's an SEC game. Auburn @ Oklahoma in this game. I think that I really love the way Matier has come in there and changed Oklahoma for the better. I mean, guys, a fantastic. They're playing at Oklahoma. It's a seven point line. And I think Oklahoma shows the country that they're ready to be a top 10 team. And I think. I think Oklahoma wins this game. And I'm taking the seven.

[Ryan Lemond]

Oklahoma plus seven minus seven seven.

[Jeff Decoro]

Yep.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right, go.

[Shannon Dawson]

Go ahead, Ryan.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm going to Nebraska. Michigan games. I'll bet on that game. Nebraska is a 1 1/2 point favorite in that game. So I'm taking Nebraska to cover. Right. Nebraska one and a half.

[Shannon Dawson]

Mario, who you got?

[Mario Urrutia]

I'm going Tulane over Ole Miss.

[Jeff Decoro]

Oh, that's what I was going to pick.

[Shannon Dawson]

That's what I was going to. Now I got.

[Jeff Decoro]

What? Did you hear what Kiffin said? No, he said next year, I think I'm going to be in SEC coaches meetings with John Sumrall. He believes that Summerall is going to get. And everybody knows this. The Florida job.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Jeff Decoro]

Because they don't turn things around real quick. There's no way they bring Billy Napier back.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's going to drive people crazy. If he goes coaches somewhere else in the sec. It does.

[Jeff Decoro]

Well, who else went to Florida for from Kentucky that everybody thought was going to be Kentucky's coach? Anyone? Basketball. What was his name? Billy Donovan. There you go.

[Ryan Lemond]

There you go.

[Jeff Decoro]

Now waiting.

[Shannon Dawson]

Now I'm kind of torn as to what I should pick because Mario took my pick.

[Mario Urrutia]

Well, you had the chance. You told me to go first.

[Shannon Dawson]

Oh, yeah, you're right. You're right. Because I was still trying to figure out exactly what I wanted to do. All right, so Dabo Sweeney, he was whining. He was, you know, saying, well, if you don't like me here, then you should just fire me. I'LL I'll go somewhere else. So you know what? Syracuse is a 16 and a half point dog. Give me Syracuse and 16 and a half. Wow, 16 and a half.

[Jeff Decoro]

I like Clemson.

[Shannon Dawson]

It's at Clemson.

[Ryan Lemond]

So that is our KSR parlay this week. Mario will have it posted and they'll draft Kings will post it up for you Want to kill participate everything. We try to help all of our listeners, you know, win a little cash. And the best way to do it and the best place to do it is at DraftKings. So make sure to tune them out. The one thing that I think is the scariest part about this UK football program, what has happened the last couple years and I hate it, but it seems like some apathy has set in. You know, we built up, we had these great 10 win seasons. We're going to a bowl game every year. The last couple years they can't win an SEC home game. They lose, get some awful losses and it just seems like apathy is starting to settle in. That's why I thought it was so crucial that Cutter Bowley was named the quarterback. So I think that did bring a little excitement into the life, into the program, at least as far as the fans are concerned.

[Jeff Decoro]

I just think this, I don't think you're going to see the Joe Paternos and Bear Bryant's a coach that stays at an institution for 20 years anymore. There's way too much money, there's way too much pressure. You know, Mark is set for life. But he knows right now if he wants to continue coaching, he has to turn this around. I mean, Texas A and M or Florida or Florida State is not going to hire him If Kentucky continues 4, 5, 6 wins when they're winning 8, 9 or 10 games a year. Now he's a hot ticket. I mean, where's he going to go if he leaves Kentucky? Toledo, right? I mean, right. You know, it's a big step down and you're not gonna make $9 million at a max school.

[Shannon Dawson]

And Ryan, you mentioned apathy in the fan base, but we all know every fan base is fickle and I don't think there's more of a fickle fan base than our very own fan base. So you win this game on the road against South Carolina, maybe pull a shocker somewhere along the way, I think you can flip this fan base just that quick. I think just a couple of games could, could be the difference from the.

[Ryan Lemond]

Aviation last text machine from a guy you and I both know will, he will remain remain anonymous. Why Change personnel each play. It's dumb if the guys in the game can't run the next play. Why are they playing?

[Jeff Decoro]

Well, that's a guy that, that played college football and I think NFL too, didn't he?

[Ryan Lemond]

He had a little drink of water in the NFL.

[Jeff Decoro]

No, that's just. I agree 100 with him. You're playing, you know, it's almost like positionless basketball is what we used to play. You go in, you play.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Jeff Decoro]

And, and now it's. Everything is a specialty. First downs, a specialty group, second downs, especially third and short elephant. That means you bring all the big guys in third and long. Now you go with all the little guys in the game. It's just, why can't you just throw 11 out there and let's go?

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, I agree. And it seems like when they do that, that's when the confusion seems to start and they're looking over the sideline like, what are we doing? You know, what play we running? That just doesn't seem to have gotten any better over the last several years. I think that's what's been frustrating again, leads to some of that apathy, I think, that people have in the program.

[Jeff Decoro]

Well, I think that the one thing that Mark wants and he finally got it this year is continuity in the coaching staff where you're not changing that offensive coordinator every year. So second year under Bush, I think it's going to get better as we go. The kids are getting a lot more comfortable in it.

[Ryan Lemond]

859-28-2287. You want to call and squeeze and get me on hold right now? Rick, we have three callers. Oh, my goodness. I'm sorry. I thought, didn't we had anybody who's going. Let's get, get somebody up here real quick. Greg is up next. Greg. Go ahead, Greg.

[Caller]

Yeah, guys, on Mario's birthday here, I think. Did I hear right? Did he play against Lynn golden in high school?

[Mario Urrutia]

No. So I, I would play. We went to college together. I went to uk and we, the football players, they would go to the, the rec center all the time. So we played against Lynn Bowden, like every day.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's where you played against him? At the rec center.

[Mario Urrutia]

At the rec center in college.

[Caller]

Did you have to, did you have to guard him?

[Mario Urrutia]

Yes. No one else wanted to guard him. And I, I was up for the challenge.

[Ryan Lemond]

You said he was a good player.

[Mario Urrutia]

So he was really good.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right. Appreciate the phone call. Try to get one more on real quick. Rick, who we got? Gork is up next. Gork, Go Ahead Gork.

[Caller]

Hey. Yeah, I just wanted to talk about something Jeff brought up last hour. The NCAA on Wofford. That's I mean they've been doing that forever. I don't like because didn't UK get in trouble with the Claude Bassett thing? A lot of the people we got in trouble for were guys that ended up signing at like Alabama, the Albert Means kid. A couple other kids signed different SEC schools but we got in trouble for the way we recruited them. So I mean sc, the NCAA has been terrible forever.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right, appreciate it.

[Jeff Decoro]

Susan Lacks did text me and said that Wofford did not get any sanctions from the ncaa. Okay.

[Ryan Lemond]

A little slap on the wrist probably.

[Jeff Decoro]

I don't know. Yeah, I guess.

[Ryan Lemond]

Go ahead, Shannon.

[Shannon Dawson]

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[Ryan Lemond]

Appreciate everybody came out today here to Wild Eggs and help to celebrate the grand opening of their new store right here. Really means a lot to us. You came out here and support somebody that has supported KSR for a long time. Little tip for Monday, we're going to be doing the show at Fort Thomas Highlands High School. It's not open to the public. You can't come in the school. But Tayden Lorenzen, a name we all know, Jared's son is having a big year at Fort Thomas Highlands. We're gonna go up there and talk to him and kind of catch up a little bit. So I'm, I'm personally looking really forward to that.

[Mario Urrutia]

Yeah, I am too.

[Ryan Lemond]

That'll be cool to do to do that for Tayden. And then next week we've got a little more special guests coming up as well. We got remotes at the end of next week.

[Shannon Dawson]

Have we heard from Matt at all since he's been in Africa? Other than you said a few days ago we heard from him. Have we heard from him like yesterday or.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's posting a lot of stuff on social media. You can kind of keep up with the things he's been posting. He's in the middle of his fellowship right now, so he's not on the safari yet.

[Mario Urrutia]

But safari's next week.

[Ryan Lemond]

Next week is a safari.

[Jeff Decoro]

See you Bo.

[Ryan Lemond]

Drew. Drew talked to him after Manny passed away. They kind of got to talk a little bit. So he's doing fine. We just anxious to hear the stories when he comes back and finally tells us how he's doing and the bush and the safari. Thank you everybody again for coming out. Thanks a while.

[Jeff Decoro]

Who's here, man? I know it awesome. Both. You see big time people out here.

[Ryan Lemond]

Andrew Nathies right here. Carl Nathy's son.

[Jeff Decoro]

Wow.

[Shannon Dawson]

First down, Kentucky.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right, thank you everybody. We'll be back Monday morning live from Fort Thomas Islands High School. Fort Thomas Highlands High School. We'll see you there.

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