2025-09-8- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

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KSR Podcast Summary

Episode: September 8, 2025, Hour 1

Host: Matt Jones & the KSR crew (Ryan Lemond, Billy Gillespie, Mario, plus callers)
Location: Live from the KSR Golf Scramble, Woodson Bend Golf Course, Somerset, KY
Main Theme: Reaction to Kentucky football’s loss to Ole Miss, recurring program frustrations, quarterback changes, team/fan engagement, and general UK football outlook.

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Episode Overview

The KSR crew broadcasts from the third Golf Scramble of the season, diving straight into a detailed postmortem of Kentucky football’s narrow home loss to Ole Miss. The conversation covers what went wrong—especially around coaching decisions, offensive struggles, and recurring systemic issues—while also highlighting team strengths and spirited debate about the future. Listeners call in to share frustration and push for answers. Humor and the show’s typical camaraderie soften the edges of their pointed criticism.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. KSR Golf Scramble & Atmosphere [01:00–03:08]

• The event is the largest to date, despite chilly conditions.
• Matt and Ryan will be greeting people at the 18th hole.
• Friendly banter about betting favorites among team participants and memorable moments celebrating a player's birthday.
  • "Billy did load up. He was already drinking mimosas this morning, so there's no chance he's going to..." — Billy & Ryan [03:39]

2. UK vs. Ole Miss – Immediate Reactions [03:51–09:02]

• Matt: Entered game hoping a one-score, competitive loss would be encouraging but left frustrated.

• The performance summarized ongoing UK football frustrations—poor clock management, end-of-half disasters, and lack of clear coaching philosophy.

  • "Everything we've ever complained about [in the Stoops era] they did in that game." — Matt [05:51]
  • Defensive play was lauded (A to A-), running game solid (A-), but passing game and coaching get very low marks.

• Multiple mentions of the national TV mockery and embarrassment during the first-half meltdown:

  • “They were openly being mocked on ABC by the announcers.” — Mario [07:20]
  • The botched end-of-half sequence, with aligned confusion and wasted points, became the viral image of UK football for the wider college audience.

3. Coaching, Game Management, and Team Identity [06:26–13:46]

• Chronic, year-after-year issues with in-game management—lack of clear plan, especially in hurry-up or time-critical scenarios.

• Exasperation over lack of a real offensive identity or philosophy.

  • “They have no philosophy of whether to kick or not kick and they have no urgency at the end of the first half.” — Matt [06:46]

• Decision to go for it on fourth down discussed; ultimately Matt defends Stoops’ choice as mathematically sound, but criticizes lack of preparation.

• Callers and hosts alike emphasize that mismanagement and recurring mistakes are what’s most dispiriting, overshadowing even close results.

4. Quarterback Change Debate [13:46–15:51]

• Cutter Bowley, the young QB, is favored to take over after veteran Calzada’s struggles and injury.
• Universally agreed that the switch is justified given team ceiling and limited upside with Calzada.
  • "I think we’ve seen through two games… there's a ceiling with [Calzada]." — Matt [14:25]
  • "Cutter oddly looked more comfortable than the seven-year player..." — Mario [15:04]

5. Fan Morale & Apathy [17:57–23:41]

• Widespread frustration with home SEC losses and stagnation; crowd energy is still decent but at risk.

  • "Two and 11 in your last 13 SEC home games. Two and 11. But maybe what's even worse, oh and eight in your last home openers." — Matt [22:50]
  • Failure after failure at home is grinding supporter enthusiasm; danger of apathy setting in.

• Comparisons to other programs with energetic atmospheres (Auburn) and better at-home records.

6. Lack of Team-Fan Connection [27:54–30:55]

• Criticism of UK football’s virtually nonexistent offseason fan engagement/social media.
  • "If the fan base grows apathetic, the number one reason will be losing. But the number two reason will be because they didn't do anything to connect the fan base to this team." — Matt [27:44]
  • Listeners and hosts alike lament not knowing players’ stories, backgrounds, or personalities.

7. Offensive Coordinator Under Fire [25:28–26:51, 42:04–44:59]

• Offensive Coordinator Bush Hamdan is under scrutiny for lack of preparation, frantic demeanor, and bland answers in interviews.

  • "He always looks frantic to me, like throughout the thing, he always looks like he’s kind of scrambling..." — Matt [25:59]
  • Multiple hilarious replayings of “we’ll have to take a look at it” from Hamdan’s postgame remarks [43:04].
    • "That's eight times in the course of one post game interview, Drew, 'we got to take a look at it.'" — Matt [43:59]

• Broader frustration: UK has cycled through many coordinators but the offensive stagnation always returns—pinning ultimate blame on head coach Stoops.

8. Callers’ Perspectives & Broader Kentucky Football Discontent [26:52–44:59]

• Multiple callers articulate deep frustration not with losses alone, but HOW Kentucky is losing and failing to develop or connect.
• Fair questions are raised about value for Stoops’ high salary and lack of game-day coaching adjustment/edge versus peers.
  • "To have that big of a distinction in game planning, players being ready. At what point does this just become unacceptable..." — Caller [34:44]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On in-game mismanagement:

  • "At the end of the first half…when they're in a quick drill, they are figuring it out as it goes, and they don't know what they're going to do." — Matt Jones [06:46]

• On national embarrassment:

  • "It was a disaster all the way around...The college football world turned our game on. Right? And then we get…that’s when we’re embarrassed." — Matt Jones [09:02]

• On recurring problems:

  • "It’s something like we said, we keep seeing year after year after year." — Ryan Lemond [22:34]

• On disconnect between team & fans:

  • "It’s like playing a video game with generic team names…why are you going to care?" — Matt Jones [29:22]

• On Bush Hamdan:

  • (Collage of postgame answers:)
    “We’ve got to take a look at it. We’ll take a look at the film. Gotta take a look at and go from there…” — Bush Hamdan [compiled at 43:04]
  • "He looked like a college kid who didn’t ever prepare for an exam or an essay..." — Caller [42:07]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:51–13:46] – Deep Dive: UK-Ole Miss Recap & Frustrations
• [13:46–15:51] – QB Change to Cutter Bowley & Rationale
• [22:50–23:41] – Discussion of SEC Home Loss Streaks and Fan Support
• [27:44–30:55] – The Fan Engagement Gap: Why Kentucky’s Football Brand Feels Isolated
• [42:04–44:59] – The "Take a Look at It" Hamdan Soundbite, Laughter and Exasperation

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Tone and Language

• The tone is candid, often exasperated but leavened by humor and the friendly jabs familiar to KSR listeners.
• Language is informal, direct, and sometimes lightly self-deprecating; hosts toggle easily between analysis and playful storytelling.
• Strong rapport among the hosts and responsiveness to callers, with space for venting, tough questions, and group commiseration.

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Conclusion

This KSR hour offers a textbook example of passionate, critical Kentucky football talk: sharp on details, big on emotion, and never shy about poking fun at themselves—or squaring up to the tough questions that the program’s leaders need to answer. The dismay over repeated, fixable mistakes dominates the show, with player performances, coaching philosophies, and even program marketing all coming under the microscope. The episode is must-listen content for anyone tracking the highs, lows, and loyal frustrations of Kentucky football fans in 2025.

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Transcript

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[Matt Jones]

From hit comedy specials and social media Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington welcomes Kelsey Cook September 11th through the 13th and catch rising comedy star and UK grad Zhao Ying Summers, September 19th and 20th. And from TV and the Movies, don't miss Kevin Farley September 25th through the 27th. For tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows, call 859-271-JOKE or visit comedyoff broadway.com Comedy Off Broadway welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at the KSR Golf Scramble in Somerset, Kentucky at Woodson Bend. The third of our three Golf Scrambles. The largest group crowd we've ever had here. 27 teams playing on a chilly morning in. I feel like I do this every year. Are we in Pulaski county at this moment? Okay, Pulaski County. Thank you to folks here at Woodson Bend Golf Course, Tim Dudley, the pro and Woodson Ben. And we are here. You can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet shop phone line 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine, 772-77-4-5254. And this is sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. You call TJ. He'll make them pay. We've been here when it was really hot. We've been here when it was pouring, pouring rain. But we've never been here when it was cold. And it's a little cold. It was the ninth night in August with the record cold. Or I guess now it's September. Last night in Lexington, yeah, when I.

[Ryan Lemond]

Got up this morning, let my dogs out, it was cold. That's why I put on hoodie and pants my Boy, Drew's already over here freezing with no pants on.

[Billy Gillespie]

He's wearing the tablecloth as pants right now.

[Mario]

Yeah, well, I have some pants on. They're just shorts. I didn't show up wearing nothing.

[Matt Jones]

So we'll talk more about this later. Drew and, and, and Billy and Mario and I had a long night. We were these, these taping these podcasts after the NFL games is something especially when you think, you know the result and then it changes in the middle of the podcast. But you know, but we got up this morning ready to rock and now it should be a fun day here at the golf scramble. You and I, Ryan will be here on 18.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Drew's playing you and I'll be on 18. Greeting people should be a lot of fun.

[Ryan Lemond]

You know, the, the early betting odds on DraftKings has Drew's team and Billy's team at the two favorites.

[Matt Jones]

Like Drew's team's got Aaron Fleener tired of losing. So. Yeah, J. J.T. i'm about to say J.T. whitworth. J.T. posted. Was that because I was sing 877 Cash. Now J.T. poston's Caddy is here and he's really good. I think they're the early favorites.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. And he's got Judge Gabe. But Billy loaded up. He's got Chase, our boy from Lindsay Wilson national championship golf team.

[Billy Gillespie]

You're right. Billy did load up. He was already drinking mimosas this morning, so there's no chance he's going to.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay, so Drew's team now becomes the favorite. If Billy's already been drinking this morning.

[Mario]

You mentioned Chase. It is Chase birthday. So happy birthday. Playing his first scramble.

[Matt Jones]

KSR's first nil athlete who never got me the paperwork. So you know what? That's okay. You're. It didn't work out, but maybe next year. 859-280-2287. A lot of stuff to talk to about, but of course we got to start UK Ole Miss Saturday. I said in the pregame show, you know what, if we play a one score game and we're competitive throughout, I'm going to come away encouraged. And we played a one score game where we were competitive throughout and then somehow I came away not encouraged. And I'm not sure why that was. Well, I know why that was. A lot of the same old sort of issues that have plagued Kentucky football for a while hit us right there. We had the issue of poor clock management, a disaster at the end of the first half that cost three points. And honestly, maybe Cost a chance to win the game because you would have played the fourth quarter differently if you had had those three points. So let's go. The good, the good. Real quick. Good defense played really well, gave up 30 points. But I still think that it's extremely strong performance by the defense. You had them in the game. They, I thought they got the stops when they needed to. At the end of the game they stopped him twice with a chance to get the ball back. And so I think the defense played well. Two interceptions, I would say A to A minus for the defense. Running game I thought was very solid. Probably a minus for the running game. Offensive line blocked pretty well on the running game. I was generally very pleased with that. Passing game. Anemic. I'm going to go C minus, a couple big plays, but otherwise worse than probably we had hoped going into it. And then, you know, when it comes to coaching and management, I have to say I'm going like D. It was the end of the first half one of the worst. I mean, we've had a lot of bad into first halfs in terms of the way clocks have managed, but this was the worst one that I can remember. It all leads to a seven point loss. Ryan, I went over it pretty detail on the post game show and I made the comment that basically if you wanted to sum up the frustrating parts of the Stoops era, that game summed it up about as well. Everything we've ever complained about they did in that game. What was your take on it? We haven't heard from you since the game.

[Ryan Lemond]

I really feel like I kind of agree with you. I was kind of encouraged by the running game. They ran the ball good the second straight game and this time against an SEC defense. Our offensive line I thought looked pretty good. So that that was encouraging. Defense, you're right, good, not great. They missed a couple tackles, they gave up some big plays.

[Matt Jones]

That was the one thing they were not great at open field. Yeah, they got beat a couple times on that.

[Ryan Lemond]

But how many times did we hear Freddie Maggard talk about the middle eight, the end of four minutes, the end the first half and the four minutes to start the second half. And this is just a recurring problem that comes back and back again, right? Everything that people complained about Mark Stoops and his coaching reared its ugly head at the end of the first half.

[Matt Jones]

They have. They have no philosophy of whether to kick or not kick and they have no urgency at the end of the first half. It's clear to me that at the end of the first half, when they're in a quick drill, that they are figuring it out as they go, as it goes, and they don't know what they're going to do. Drew, at any moment, it's complete anarchy. You have a seventh year quarterback who for all his weaknesses probably at least can understand the play, and yet he can't. He can't. It seems like he doesn't even get it in in time. The receivers are all lined up in the wrong places. Just a disaster all the way around.

[Mario]

They were openly being mocked on ABC by the announcers.

[Ryan Lemond]

You're right.

[Mario]

Sean McDonough, you know, Kentucky was supposed to receive. He said they should defer in the second half just because he didn't want to see the office.

[Billy Gillespie]

That's my guy.

[Matt Jones]

That was brutal. He crushed the shit. It was like it was you announcing the game.

[Billy Gillespie]

Well, I think that's probably fair to say that. But look, I know there was a lot of frustrations, but I look at it like this. Nobody gave Kentucky a chance going into this game. You had all these hiccups throughout the game, quarterback didn't play well, and you still gave the number 20 team in the country all they wanted.

[Matt Jones]

So, Mr. Negativity. Whoa, whoa.

[Billy Gillespie]

What happened there, Mario? What are you doing?

[Matt Jones]

Whatever that is, get rid of it. All right.

[Billy Gillespie]

I feel like I was very positive in the off season, not negative. And I actually felt encouraged after that game.

[Matt Jones]

Even though they lost, where did Billy go? That usually fixes all types for Billy to disappear.

[Billy Gillespie]

So I wasn't negative about it.

[Matt Jones]

No, I'm saying you are normally negative and now you're actually positive about this.

[Billy Gillespie]

Again, everybody. Everybody going in gave them no chance.

[Mario]

I'll be negative for him.

[Billy Gillespie]

Everybody else is negative.

[Mario]

It looked like the offense had never met each other in the first half. Not only did not know the playbook, they couldn't make substitutions, they were lining up on the wrong side of the.

[Matt Jones]

Play.

[Mario]

For week two. First SEC game, you're on national tv. To their credit, they cleaned up a little second half, a little bit in the second half. But the end of that first half was embarrassing. It really was.

[Matt Jones]

It was.

[Mario]

It wasn't just with the they should kick comment. It was little things like my goodness and mackerel in his breath like, wow. And then at one point he straight up said, this is what gets you fired when you're on the hot seat.

[Matt Jones]

And that.

[Mario]

That's what wrapped up.

[Matt Jones]

No, here's why. It was so embarrassing. Being made fun of Kentucky by getting up 10 to nothing in the first half. I mean, I sometimes will watch Twitter to see what people are saying. The college football world turned our game on. Okay. The college football world for a little while was saying, well, it looks like Stoops may have Lane Kiffin again, right? There were memes about Lane Kiffin sort of waking up like a Scooby Doo thing and seeing Stoops face. So the college football world turned our game on. Right? And then they see Ole Miss come back and they see us have the ball. And I genuinely, like, you can feel this when you're on social media. I think all of college football was watching at the end of the first half. Now they switched after it to Florida and my in South Florida, etc. But in that moment, I think all of college football was watching our game. And then we get. That's when we're embarrassed. And a lot of people, that will be the only thing they know about UK football this year is going to be the end of that first half because we had the attention of the college football world for like an hour and that was what we did.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. The two interceptions by Ty Bryant led to 10 points. You're up 10 to nothing against Ole Miss, the team you two upset last year. I think everybody does tune into that game. But then you saw Kentucky football at its worst that second quarter. They especially the end of the second quarter, poor clock management, poor decision making, poor offensive execution, everything. Couldn't get the guy, like Drew said, couldn't even get the guys to line up right on their play. Everything about it was embarrassing.

[Mario]

They were in field goal range and ended up on the other side of the 50. That's not a joke.

[Ryan Lemond]

How does that happen? How does that happen?

[Mario]

Play. Even the announcers are like, sometimes we're.

[Matt Jones]

Getting to the point at the end of the first half where should we should just take a knee and then kick it.

[Billy Gillespie]

There were a couple of times, though, where I actually liked going forward on fourth down. I think that was a lot of criticism, but I like. You got to be aggressive in that situation.

[Matt Jones]

I think the criticism of him at the end for going for fourth down, I think misunderstands math. When you're down seven and you go for it, what does a field goal do? You're still down four and you haven't stopped them. Right now we ended up stopping them, but up until that point we hadn't stopped them in two and a half quarters. You gotta go for it. And then when you don't get it the first time, you gotta go for it the second time. Because now it's the same situation, just with less clock after the game. Stoop says in hindsight, he wished he had kicked. No, like, have your philosophy go with it. Your philosophy is not always gonna work, but you have to have a philosophy. And part of my frustration is they have no philosophy. I mean, just to go to the end of the first half for a second, let's be real, they weren't trying to score. They just got lucky and he broke one. But, like, they were handing the ball off. They were not trying to score.

[Ryan Lemond]

Right, Right.

[Matt Jones]

So he breaks one, they decide to go for it. They. At that moment, I think no one had planned that we might be in field goal range. And that's why they were lost. They had gone from assuming we're not going to make it to, oh, no, what now? And everybody's running around, let's take the end of the second half. The game is basically over, but we're down 10. It is fundamental football in 20, 25, that in that scenario, once you get in field goal range, you kick. That's just what you do. No reason to waste time and then potentially have to kick anyway. Just kick. You're going to need an onside kick. When we get into that range, it is clear if Lane Kiffin doesn't call timeout, we weren't gonna kick. You know, and by the way, Ole Miss would have covered Lane Kiffin bailed us out, called timeout, and then Stoops goes, oh, yeah, let's kick. But they were not gonna kick. And that's also. That means they had no philosophy in that moment of what to do.

[Ryan Lemond]

I agree with you about the. Especially the first fourth down call. If he had not gone for it, I think he would have got booed out of the stadium. You know, people have kind of been frustrated. I think he had to go for.

[Matt Jones]

It was also the right decision.

[Ryan Lemond]

It was.

[Matt Jones]

It was the right decision. They didn't get it. But you know what? We. What if we kick a field goal down four and they go score a touchdown? Drew, at that point, the game's over anyway. Like, it did. We had to go for it.

[Mario]

Yeah, I was actually team kick on the first one, though, because at that point, I mean, you can still give up three. If you can't stop Ole Miss, you're still in it. I think it was like, if it was 4th and 5 and not 4th and 9, I probably would have gone for. It was a little bit too long, regardless. And not to make excuses because they looked terrible before that, though. That was a Pass interference and I.

[Matt Jones]

Think it was a pass interference.

[Mario]

Stoops is a decision making there was running a little hot because he was chewing out that ref to making that fourth.

[Matt Jones]

It was definitely made an impact. But, but, but I will say even though they didn't get it going for it still work because we got the ball on a three and out. We got it right back. So it actually I, I think the. There's a plenty of criticism to go around for Stoops. I actually don't mind the kick.

[Mario]

I was already seeing red before that moment in the game. From the first half it looks like.

[Matt Jones]

Cutter bowling's gonna win or go. It's gonna end up starting. I mean at the end of the game Tom Leach goes, you know Mark, you usually say when people get hurt doesn't they don't lose their spot. He was like, yeah, but I'm gonna.

[Ryan Lemond]

See Cutter because I want to see Cutter. So it was matter of factly I want to see Cutter.

[Matt Jones]

Is that the right decision?

[Ryan Lemond]

I think it is the right decision. Right now I'm especially. I just think, you know I've been pro Cutter. I think there's just more upside with him. I think he's a guy that can maybe do what you can be done this year and built for the next couple years. I really think you might as well go for it. We got a small sample size of him last year at Texas. Let me throw him in there. Did fairly well. Now he didn't do all that great against Louisville on his first start, but he did look good against Texas.

[Matt Jones]

So listen, I'm. I think you do it Shannon, because I think we've seen through two games. I don't think we lost that game because of Calzada, but there's a ceiling with him. So we might as well try it with the other guy because Calzada is not. I don't. I'm not saying he's terrible, but he's not going to take you to the promised land. So we might as well try it.

[Billy Gillespie]

With this injury may have settled your quarterback battle that we were just talking about a couple of weeks ago. You can't put Calzada out there if he's injured regardless. So why not put Cutter out there? It's against the team that you feel.

[Matt Jones]

Like they lost at home to Long Island. Right. Which I didn't know how to football.

[Billy Gillespie]

And this is a good way to introduce Cutter into this season against a team like Eastern Michigan.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Mario]

Cutter oddly looked more comfortable than the seven year player that McElroy said that I think to Rodriguez, he overthrew him a little bit, but he stepped into it. Calzada seems to backpedal and drop back even when he doesn't really need to. He throws off his back for foot. He doesn't look comfortable out there and it's weird because he's played seven years. He beat Alabama, but two of the worst games of his career are at Kentucky. So part of me wonders, like, what have we done to him? I know he wasn't going to come in and be some world beater, but he does look worse than he's ever looked.

[Matt Jones]

Calzada scrambles like Lamar Jackson, without Lamar Jackson scrambled ability like he's running around like Lamar, but he's not quite able to.

[Ryan Lemond]

I do feel like the best pass play of the whole game is when Cutter stepped up into the pocket and threw a dot to Harley Gilmour. That showed me right there. This is our guy we need to go with.

[Matt Jones]

859-280-2287 what did you think of the game? Text machine is 772-774-5254. There's a lot to talk about about the game on Saturday, including the decision making. Where do they go from here? Where's the fan base? There's a lot happening. We'll take a break. We're here in Somerset at Woodson Bend. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at the KSR Golf Scramble. Look at Ryan getting the crowd.

[Billy Gillespie]

He's a cheerleader.

[Matt Jones]

You are a cheerleader.

[Ryan Lemond]

We've got to pick things up here. It Was kind of a depressing weekend after Kentucky lost, we got to pick it up a little bit.

[Matt Jones]

Thanks the city of Somerset, Lake Cumberland Tourism. Somerset Tourism in the Virginia for having us, for sponsoring this KSR golf scrim. I'm excited. This is good. This is the biggest Somerset one we've had. Going to be a lot of fun people out on the course. And it's. This will be my. I guess I'll be in Lebanon tomorrow for the. For the cornbread hemp remote, but this will be my last time seeing the public before I'm in South Africa till October. I'll be on the show all week, but I have to go to New York and then be in South Africa till October 1.

[Ryan Lemond]

So you leave for your trip for South Africa tomorrow, Friday.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I leave for New York tomorrow. I leave for South Africa Friday.

[Ryan Lemond]

So I guess you've got everything packed and ready to go.

[Matt Jones]

Don't have one thing packed. Still trying to figure out what shoes to wear.

[Billy Gillespie]

Did you get your safari pants?

[Matt Jones]

They threw me off when they said you need boots because I hadn't thought about that as an option. The boots I have. Not the kind that'll work, I think, out on the bush.

[Mario]

What do you have, Jordan Twos.

[Matt Jones]

So I don't know. I don't know what we're going to do. I'm going to figure all that out tonight during. During Monday Night Football. One thing before we get back to the game, everybody. Do not fall for the Tom Hart computer scam on Twitter.

[Billy Gillespie]

I already bought a MacBook Pro.

[Matt Jones]

So. Tom Hart got hacked.

[Ryan Lemond]

What?

[Matt Jones]

Tom Hart got hacked on his Twitter account, and he keeps trying to sell MacBook Pros, and I think some of our fans are getting scammed from it.

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh, no.

[Matt Jones]

Which I feel bad for them. Don't. Listen, anytime anybody's trying to sell you a MacBook Pro from their Twitter account, they've probably been hacked. Drew. I've seen some DMs of people who've DM Tom. Tom Hart, but it's not Tom Hart. And they're. It's not good. And I. And Tom's trying to fix it, but he can't get. You know, Twitter's not exactly working like a, you know, like. Like a machine right now, so he's not able to get in there. I kind of feel bad for people.

[Mario]

Yeah. Yeah. Also, it takes a lot of little bit of being gullible to buy a $600 MacBook from Tom Hart, but I hate that.

[Billy Gillespie]

It's for a good cause, though.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Mario]

It's for St. Jude St. Jude even replied with their Twitter account.

[Matt Jones]

No, saint not reply.

[Billy Gillespie]

That makes it even more legitimate.

[Matt Jones]

So just for the record, no one that you know is going to try to sell you a MacBook Pro on their Twitter account. So, like, if that ever happens with one of us, we got hacked. Like, it just. It's not happening nor used to be. You could fix that quickly, but apparently not.

[Billy Gillespie]

No, it happened to me a couple of years ago and it was, it was not easy trying to get it back.

[Matt Jones]

It was not an easy.

[Billy Gillespie]

No, it was not. So, well, unfollow Tom, right now.

[Ryan Lemond]

Are you trying to tell me these beautiful women that reach out to me just want to talk are not real?

[Matt Jones]

You've been. You've been. You've had a lot of people say they saw you at the grocery store and all that. That's not. No, that's not real. 859-280-2287 so, yeah, the announcers were kind of mocking us after the game. So post game show calls generally very negative. One guy got very angry, which we're going to. We'll maybe play that clip a little later. But one guy got very angry, said, who made you the. The spokesman for UK's football and he accused Tom Leach and as he called him, Jeff Packery of being too negative. And I thought, man, if you think Tom Leach is too negative, Shannon, that's, that's a high ball.

[Billy Gillespie]

Probably don't want to listen to the Matt Jones post game show if you think that Tom Leach is too critical because he is very fair.

[Matt Jones]

So where do we go from here? Play Eastern Michigan this week. First of all, will people come to this game?

[Ryan Lemond]

I mean, really, we had a really good crowd against Ole Miss. I don't think it'll be that big, even though it should. It's going to be a win and it's a home win in September. The weather probably good.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, they're bad. Like, this is a chance to work. This is the. This is not even like Toledo. Oh, you should beat them. Toledo, by the way, beat western by like 40 yesterday. This eastern Michigan's bad. They lost to a division, essentially a division to Long island at home. So we should crush them, Drew?

[Mario]

Absolutely. I don't know that you can do much in this game to change any opinions, though, that they're so bad. One thing you might want to do is line up and get your plays in and not burn three timeouts to avoid delay of games. If they do that against Eastern Michigan, people are gonna be upset. But even if they were to win by 50, I think there's still going to be a lot of. Alright, cool. Now on to South Carolina because Eastern Michigan is just so bad. I don't know if you can form any real narratives out of what they do.

[Billy Gillespie]

We thought, you know, if you just keep it close, it's the way you can. The way it all unraveled.

[Matt Jones]

It's because I think this is what gets me about why it frustrated me. It's not that we lost and it, it was close. It's that this was a game that you could have won by doing the basics. Okay? It's not a game where they just outplayed us. If you do the basics, you can win that game. If you kick a field goal at the end of the first half, then in the fourth quarter when it was that kick or go, you go and you're down one, you get the three and out. Now you take the lead on that field goal and it's a different game. Lane's feeling pressure, the crowd gets into it, etc. It's, it's the basics, Ryan. That's what's frustrating to me.

[Mario]

It is.

[Ryan Lemond]

It's something like we said, we keep seeing year after year after year. I mean, it's another SEC home loss. I mean, when are we going to finally win an SEC home game that was. This one was there for the taking. Especially if you see Florida got beat. Louis didn't look that good Friday night. I mean, there may be. There's a couple more winnable games out there and you let one slip through your fingers.

[Matt Jones]

Let's. The numbers are terrible. Two and 11 in your last 13 SEC home games. Two and 11. But maybe what's even worse, oh, and eight in your last home openers. Drew, we've lost eight straight SEC home openers. That's hard. How do you sustain a crowd when.

[Mario]

It'S like, worse than that? We've lost eight straight SEC games at home. People eventually are going to stop, say, I can't keep driving from Paducah and committing a whole day if we can't win a home game. It was great beating Ole Miss last year on the road, but at some point you got to win in your stadium. You're never going to have a good season if you're losing home games. When Kentucky was playing well, it's because they were beating the South Carolinas, the Missouri's, and they're winning at home. And that's what it takes to win when you're losing week two Ole Miss, one of them, even though they're 20th one of the more winnable games you're going to have in the conference and it's the eighth straight time people have seen a loss in there.

[Matt Jones]

You have a breaking point. You have to do Missouri beat Kansas at home. Mississippi State beat Arizona State at home. You have to win those games at home. I would say Arizona State's probably better than Mississippi State. Kansas might be equal to or better than Missouri, but they win those games at home. And so we have to find a way to win those games at home. And reality is we're not. It was a good listen. The fans did their part.

[Ryan Lemond]

They did.

[Billy Gillespie]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

They did their loud.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

I saw some people online criticizing that when we got the ball with four and a half minutes to go, a lot of the stadium was empty and I get it. But you know what the fans did? The fans do their part. They showed up. You know, our bar was packed. The I heard the tailgate was, was, was packed. You know, the, the university and the program has to give back by performance and by creating. I mean, go look have you seen the video of Auburn's pregame?

[Mario]

Oh, man, it's a different.

[Matt Jones]

Go look at the Auburn pregame entrance from their game. And I don't even know who were they were playing like somebody's terrible. And then look at the difference in what we get. I think that's part of the issue. We're going to take your calls. 859-280-2287 here at Woodson Bend in Somerset's KSR. Welcome back Tuckee Sports Radio here live in Somerset at the KSR golf scramble. It is a beautiful day. Little chilly, but it'll be good when we start Text machine. One person writes Matt, who's most at fault, Stoops, Bush, Hampden or Calzada? Well, a little bit. All of them, I have to say. I mean ultimately everything's on Stoops because he's the head coach. But I would put if you were to ask me which one is most frustrating to me, it's going to be Bush Hampden. I mean, I think Calzada, I don't know if he's, I don't know if he's good, but I don't think he's awful.

[Ryan Lemond]

Awful.

[Matt Jones]

But like you're not putting him in a position. Our receivers aren't good. They clearly, I think it's fair to say, Drew, they clearly missed in the portal in terms of getting a difference maker. Now, these dudes may be okay, but they don't have a difference Maker, Is that fair?

[Mario]

Yeah. Law was never going to be a good route runner, and I'm glad they got to what he did.

[Matt Jones]

Get him a ball.

[Mario]

That's kind of what they're going to do with him. He's never going. Going to be. Wandell out there, just always getting open. But the others, somebody has to get some space. Macklin, that's a gal we thought would have better numbers through two weeks, might.

[Matt Jones]

Be a number two or three receiver that you're having to play as your number one, and that's hurting them. But Bush, Hamden, I mean, I'm not. I'm not out, but I'm close to out. I just, I don't. I don't see it. You know, when they show that camera in the booth, he always looks frantic to me, like throughout the thing, he always looks like he's kind of scrambling, trying to. And I. I don't know. We'll see. I mean, I hope to be proven wrong. Let me just give you something to watch for. Tulane plays Ole Miss. Is it this week or next week? It's one of these next two weeks. If they win that game, a team we've lost to, and they, you know, just. You're going to hear a lot our fan. You think our fans are restless now. Go let Tulane go win at Ole Miss. We'll see, though. Now maybe they'll get. Maybe they'll get crushed.

[Ryan Lemond]

The John Summerall narrative takes another. Goes to another level. If that happens.

[Matt Jones]

Yep. Who's up first?

[Ryan Lemond]

Trevor is up first.

[Matt Jones]

Is that Scotty Scheffler over there in the back? Is that Scott look over there?

[Billy Gillespie]

I don't know. He's not wearing orange. I don't recognize him.

[Matt Jones]

He's not in cuffs. That's right. Go ahead.

[Caller]

Hey, man. At this very moment, I don't know which one I trust the least between Kentucky football game management, London city, small town politics, or Billy's scorecard this evening after a morning for mimosas.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that's true. Billy might cheat.

[Caller]

In my question today, the term apathy you use kind of explains 100% accurately how the fan base is feeling. Now. In hindsight, do you think the quietness and the silence during the offseason, not getting people pumped up, not getting their terrible idea.

[Matt Jones]

It was a terrible idea. Yes, of course it did. But that was imminently predictable. If the fan base grows apathetic, the number one reason will be losing. But the number two reason will be because they didn't do anything to connect the fan base to this team. That was completely predictable. You know, I used to say, and I appreciate the call, if you're winning at a big level, Ryan, it doesn't matter what your coach does.

[Ryan Lemond]

He.

[Matt Jones]

They can walk around naked with their pants on their head. It does not matter. You don't. They can be. Go look at Bobby Knight. He was a jerk for 30 years and it didn't matter because he was winning. But the moment you start losing, the way you market the team and the way you act matters. Would you agree with that?

[Ryan Lemond]

100.

[Matt Jones]

Toby Smith probably got two more years at Kentucky because he was such a good guy. Would you agree with that?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes, I do agree with that.

[Matt Jones]

And there Billy Gillespie probably got one last year because he was such a. The disaster off the court. Do you agree with that?

[Ryan Lemond]

I do agree with that.

[Matt Jones]

So marketing is a huge thing. They didn't do anything. This. We don't know this team. There are still players that. I hear their names and I go, didn't know that person was on the team. So, yeah, I mean, part of the reason Shiash Pete connected with people so much is that people were just desperate to know anyone on the team. Shannon. So then when the team struggles and you don't feel that connection with them, it just makes it all the more easy to be apathetic. It's like playing a video game with generic team names that the video game creates. Why are you going to care? You don't know who they are.

[Billy Gillespie]

We only knew just a few people on the team until the media day when we had Chias Pete come on and all of a sudden he was our favorite. But yeah, I don't really understand that strategy of not reaching out to your fan base and trying to connect with them in the offseason.

[Matt Jones]

I can't. I can't remember who it was. Drew. But one of the tight ends made a good play and McElroy was like, oh, the coaches were telling us about this guy and I had never heard his name before. And I was thinking, the coaches are telling you all about this guy and I've never heard of this person. Like, we should know who they are.

[Mario]

Might have been Boyer.

[Matt Jones]

He got the Boyer. That was who it was.

[Mario]

Yeah. We all. We spent six months talking about, like, you know, poking the UK football Twitter account with a stick. Like, are you even on. Is anyone there? I go back to that joke of a spring game. We've got four people there for KSR covering it. We do a postgame video. UK didn't send out a tweet. I mean, like their social Media was just nothing for their spring game. And the spring game is there and fan day is there to sell tickets to keep interest in that time of the year, to get to let people know the team as early as possible. And it's almost like they didn't want anyone to know.

[Matt Jones]

And it would be nice for us, it would be nice for our fan base to like really be pulling for Calzada. Let's go. But we don't know anything about him either. The only thing we know about him is he's old. That's it. We don't know. I mean, people don't know anything about him really. So I. So, yes, apathy, which is the worst thing that can come to a program and which, if we're not careful, will start in October. Some of that is going to be their own fault if that ends up happening. Who's next? Joe is up next. Joe. Go ahead, Joe.

[Caller]

Hey, Matt. There's a lot of frustrating things with Stoops, organizational stuff. You've talked about it a hundred times. You could have talked about it a thousand times. So I don't want to talk about not realizing that you should kick the field goal so that you have enough time to hit the extra point or to try the onside and that he didn't know that like you said. But then also he second guesses his own right decision afterwards. I don't want to talk about all those things. But when you're at the 40 and you have a kicker that can kiss six, kick 60 and you have no more timeouts, the thing that drives me nuts and I just rewatched it to make sure it was real, is you need to run a dummy play. Just snap it to the quarterback. He kills four seconds, throws it out of bounds. Players aren't lined up for a play you don't want to run. It's not like this is an important play and players don't know where to go. This is a play that isn't even a play. It's just a, hey, don't hold anyone for 10 yards.

[Matt Jones]

Yes, you're right.

[Caller]

To the quarterback, run a seven out. He launches it over a guy's hands so we don't have to kick off. And then our 60 yard kicker can try a 58 yarder and guys don't know where to go for a play that means nothing.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's right.

[Matt Jones]

You're exactly right. Appreciate the call. You're complete. You are totally right about that. It is, you know, they said at the end, well, the headset went out okay. Fine. But you have to listen details. You have to practice. Shannon, what happens when the headset. Like that's part. Part of being prepared is you think about every situation. And I've seen enough games where players are holding their helmet where the headset goes out.

[Billy Gillespie]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

We just had the speakers go out. So what did we do? We adjusted. We stood up. My voice is getting louder. That's what you do when the speakers go out. It's like when it was the moment the headsets went out, it was like everybody. It was at the scene in Dumb and Dumber. Our pets. Heads are falling off. Like nobody knows what to do.

[Billy Gillespie]

You have to have a fallback plan for any scenario or situation that could happen in a game. Something to default back to. And clearly they didn't know what to do. Everybody was scrambling around. It was chaos out there. And then you have to burn two timeouts in the first quarter because your guys aren't ready.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, that's another one. They call a timeout on fourth down and then come back out and punt. What is that? What is that? Why are you calling time if you're.

[Billy Gillespie]

Gonna punch the penalty?

[Matt Jones]

Right. It's five years. What are you doing?

[Ryan Lemond]

And we, I think everybody knew at that time when they called timeout. Everybody all knew they were going to come out and punt. They weren't. They weren't going to go for it.

[Matt Jones]

Actually, it was the opposite. I was like, well, the only reason you would call time out here is to go for it.

[Billy Gillespie]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

Because you would just take the penalty. Yep. But no, they punted anyway.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. Didn't want the defense to get set. We're just going to punt.

[Matt Jones]

Unbelievable. Who's next? Trey is up next. Trey. Go ahead, Trey.

[Caller]

Hey, Matt, it's. I agreed with your every single post game comment you had, except for one thing, and that was the Ole Miss was a better team. I was there and it felt like we, we were better at every position except for quarterback. And that wasn't even that big of a discrepancy for that game, in my opinion.

[Matt Jones]

And, well, I would say. Let me. I'll let you finish, but I would. I, I agree with you. For the first, I don't know, 20 minutes. I did think in the second half we were kind of holding on for dear life a little bit, remember? I mean, we, we did get the ball inside their 30 on two turnovers. That's pretty good break for us. So that's why I said that.

[Caller]

Okay, I agree. I just maybe basically, on a talent for talent level, this isn't the normal Ole Miss team that stood out talently.

[Matt Jones]

To me, that's true. That's true.

[Caller]

But to me, the clear distinction was coaching. And for Lane Kiffin and Mark Stoops both to be making 9 million a year, to have that big of a distinction in game planning, players being ready. At what point does this just become unacceptable to where we're paying a guy $9 million a year, top 10 paid coach in college football, and we continue to see these mistakes.

[Matt Jones]

It's a fair question.

[Caller]

Do we just. At what point at fans do we just, you know, just give up on that?

[Matt Jones]

Well, we're going to see how it goes this year, but it's a fair question. I appreciate the call. When it comes. I think when you're talking about everything, Ryan, that leads up to game day. Recruiting, preparation, motivation. I think Stoops and Kiffin are in the same ballpark, but when it comes to game day management, they're not in the same league. They're just not. I mean, and I'm. I'd be. I'm comfortable saying they're just not. Kiffin's a lot better when it comes to figuring out what to do. During the course of 60 minutes, you know, we.

[Ryan Lemond]

Listen. I gotta do my show prep on the way down here to listen to the Tom Leach show and Van Hyles was on and he talked about how a Hampden seems to want to just make the perfect play instead of just making the play and get called. Trying to always look for that perfect play and it's throwing him off.

[Matt Jones]

I bet we just make a play.

[Ryan Lemond]

Just make. That's why I was gonna say for the perfect play.

[Mario]

Don't run that cutter Bowie face draw, whatever the hell that was.

[Matt Jones]

Third nine.

[Mario]

I didn't think it could be worse than the safety last week, but he found a way.

[Matt Jones]

Unbelievable. For all you. For all you guys. I'm not doing the country thing. There's some wild myths floating around UK Federal Credit Union. Let's go out and bust a myth. One, you got to be a part of UK to join.

[Ryan Lemond]

Falls out of my.

[Matt Jones]

Bless your heart. That's a myth. Myth two, joining is an ordeal. Falls.

[Ryan Lemond]

Is that a myth?

[Matt Jones]

That's a myth. Busted. Truth is, a lot of Kentuckians are missing out on great rates and real benefits. And you can go to UK Federal Credit Union whether you wear blue and white or not. It's UK Federal Credit Union. We're just not. Just for some. What are we for everybody. All y'. All. Membership eligibility required. Fairly insured by NCUA It's UK Federal Credit union. We'll take a break. Be right back.

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio 859-280-2287. Text Machine 772-774-5254. You know Somerset, Pulaski county has a lot of experiences. They got wrapped up which is always apparently quite a show. I still have not found a way down here. One of these times I got to do it. They have the classic car show. Wasn't that where the thing took off and jumped in the air? The General Lee, I think that was their food stock. The Master Musicians Festival. That's a lot. Didn't realize that. Think about it. That's a lot for a town of the Somerset size. If you're planning your next trip, check out lctourism.com Lake Cumberland Tourism for more. Gotta give Somerset credit. Those are huge events. The Masters Musician Festival is a big thing. Raft up is like I hear just debauchery. But I've never. I haven't been. Although I would. I've got to do that before I pass from this earth. And then you got the car thing which of course led to national news this year.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, the general lead jumping the fountain made national headlines. It was a huge, huge tourism event for Somerset that end up being a huge success.

[Matt Jones]

Before I go the phones, two things quickly. First of all, we went to the Reds. We went to Reds batting practice Friday. People find something in life that will make you as happy as watching Reds batting practice did Ryan Lemon. He stood there like a little child for an hour. He did not move. Mario, did he move? He did not move for an hour. He just sat there watching. It looked like he was 8 years old. It looked like he was 8 years old just watching batting practice. And you could see Ryan thinking, I could do it. I could do it, Shane. And I could hit it the opposite way. I could do it. You. When is the last time you've enjoyed. Been happier than that.

[Ryan Lemond]

I loved every second of that. I was like a little kid just watching it. Oh, that's TJ Friedel. Watch what he does. Oh, here's Matt McClain. Watch what he does.

[Matt Jones]

He believes he's TJ Freedom.

[Billy Gillespie]

Well, you couldn't have done any worse than Ellie sitting there looking at three practice.

[Ryan Lemond]

He did come out.

[Matt Jones]

Player that didn't come out.

[Billy Gillespie]

Maybe he should have been. Why he didn't swing the bat.

[Matt Jones]

Why didn't swing the bat. But you, you were like, that's the happiest I've seen you in a long time.

[Ryan Lemond]

Those guys still make me starstruck. Major league baseball players, and I love being that close to it.

[Matt Jones]

Action. You, every one of them, every pitch, he loved it. Seriously, Drew, you should have seen him. I. I don't know that I've ever seen him. That kind of star struck around, you know, and they're just hitting opposite way, and they'd hit a home run and he'd go, oh, watch that. Like, he just. He loved it so much.

[Mario]

You got things you're looking for. You're looking at technique.

[Ryan Lemond]

Every time they come up like they. One rotation, they're all hit the other way. Next rotation, they're all trying to hit a home run. But I watch the infield or feel whether they feel ground balls and turn double plays and watch the outfield drills and stuff. I was taking it all in.

[Matt Jones]

I will say one thing I thought was cool, Shannon. Yeah. There was this old man. He's probably. What'd you say? 60s? He's hit. He's hitting the ground balls.

[Billy Gillespie]

Fungo. Fungo bat.

[Matt Jones]

He's sitting there and just hitting ground balls. And I watched him for 20 to 30 minutes. He just. Every five seconds, throw it up. Ground ball, Throw it up. Hit ground ball. Never. Not only. Never missed one. Never didn't hit it where he meant to. Every. This old man, just every single time hitting ground balls, he put different spin on it. He. I was mesmerized by this guy. He could. Like, he had to have hit 300 and all of them right on the Spot. I know it doesn't. But for he's old and he was. It was. It was very impressive.

[Billy Gillespie]

Like, maybe that's your spot, Ryan. That could be your job. You just hit ground ball.

[Ryan Lemond]

I would do it. The dude was amazing. He could, like, if you hit a one hopper, they hit everything to their backhand. He can even get it right on the edge of the. Of the grass and the. And the dirt. He could figure a way to get. It bounced right off that.

[Matt Jones]

It's exactly. He'd go one hop, boom, two hops, oh, spin, oh, left to right, bam. And every single time, it was. I. It was mesmerizing to me to see that. And you should do that.

[Ryan Lemond]

Can you put in a call for me? Can you kind of help me out with that?

[Billy Gillespie]

You got audition first.

[Matt Jones]

You were kind of creeping out a couple of the players. So I think you're gonna have to work on your. On your thing. But I was glad you had.

[Ryan Lemond]

Thank you for bringing us and setting that up because I really enjoyed that with Mario and Tall and you. So one of the highlights of the summer for me. So thank you.

[Matt Jones]

Thank you to the Reds for letting us come. Who's next?

[Ryan Lemond]

Luke is up next.

[Matt Jones]

Luke. Go ahead, Luke.

[Caller]

Hey, Matt. I just want to say this hand didn't look like a college kid who didn't ever prepare for an exam or an essay. He had to write in his post game interview saying, I'll take a look at that on film five or six times.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, well, let me. But pause right a second. I'm gonna let you finish. But we have that on. We have that on audio. You all will hear. Won't be able to hear it because our speaker messed up. But let me play this for the listeners at home. In the course of one post game interview, here's how many times Bush Hampden said he would have to look at it. This is from Stephen Peak at ksr. Go ahead. I don't have that ready yet.

[Billy Gillespie]

No.

[Matt Jones]

Didn't he just tell you to do it?

[Billy Gillespie]

Sent it to you? You take a look at it?

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh, it just came over.

[Matt Jones]

Give me a minute. Okay, you take your time. Go ahead. Sir, what's your go? Go Fin second.

[Billy Gillespie]

Rick will do it.

[Matt Jones]

When Rick's ready. He's there. Rick's not on a roll.

[Caller]

I just want to say, I mean, at least come up with something different. I mean, if, I don't know, something on exam, I mean, you think I'm gonna keep putting the same answer? I mean, I don't know. It just seemed Ridiculous to me. And two, how do you think about the Bears tonight? How do you think they're gonna do?

[Matt Jones]

I hope the Bears play well. I mean, appreciate the call. I would love for it to go well. I'm gonna be watching them. I. I don't get my hopes up about the Bears, but big game tonight against the Vikings. Hopefully it turns out strong. All right, here. Here's Bush Hamden. Rick says he's got it. Now here's the interview. Obviously, it's someone to take a look at it. You don't have to take a look at it. Take a look at it. We got to take a look at it. We're always looking at it. We got to take a look at it. We'll take a look at the film. Got to take a look at and go from there. You know, we got to take a look at it, as you guys know. And obviously it's something we'll take a look at. You know what? Okay, now look at that. That's eight times in the course of one post game interview. Drew, we got to take a look at it.

[Mario]

Well, you know, I agree. They really need to look at that, but if I'm him and this is with all coaches, you know, questions you're going to get asked before you go in, I would maybe take a minute.

[Matt Jones]

Or two, take a look at. Yeah.

[Mario]

Maybe pull up the notes app, jot down a few stock answers to have ready because a lot of people are going to have questions after that performance and didn't get many answers.

[Billy Gillespie]

I have a new T shirt idea. I just put we'll take a look at it on your shirt to wear it to the game.

[Ryan Lemond]

Could have put a. Shannon Dawson said, well, if it would have worked, you guys would have liked it.

[Billy Gillespie]

I think that may be his version of.

[Ryan Lemond]

I think it was his version.

[Mario]

This is always back to work. We're getting back to work on Monday. Now we have to take a look at it.

[Matt Jones]

Look, first of all, Stoop sounded more frustrated at Bush Hamden than. You don't hear him do that a lot. And he was kind of hinting a little frustration at Bush Hamden. But. But, you know, while I understand that we've had six, seven different offensive coordinators, there's been one common denominator, and outside of one or two years, the offense has been frustrating the whole time. So on some level, you know, it's just the lightest of these things.

[Mario]

Be a weird coincidence if all seven that we've had are truly that bad.

[Matt Jones]

Or maybe it's an operation NFL coach who just went one and oh, so he can't be that bad.

[Mario]

Some of the others are doing pretty well.

[Ryan Lemond]

Shannon Dawson doing very well down at Miami right now.

[Matt Jones]

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