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Nmlsconsumeraccess.Org welcome to hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.
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Welcome back. Hour number two Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287 here live basketball media day starts. Mark Pope will speak at noon, I believe and we will we if you go to Kentuckysportsradio.com and social media will be telling you what he says. That should be good. And we, but we are here in the gym and this, this really is the renovation. Absolutely beautiful here, isn't it?
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It is. I need to get to, to volleyball. I saw some women's basketball here last year but I need to get in here and watch this volleyball team that's undefeated in conference play, playing great, one.
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Of the top five teams in the country. I just found out not only is Dale Sites, yes, the denim warrior of Henderson. I went to college with his daughter. Didn't even know I remember her name was I think Ellie and she was in college with me at Trancy and I had no idea that her dad was a denim king. Still don't have proof that he's the reason we had denim uniforms. But, but, but we do. I think all the other parts are true. So who knows, Maybe truth was right.
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Can you reach out to her and ask if old dad played a role?
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I don't think I've talked to her since, since we, since we graduated. But I'm sure she's, I hope she's doing great and yeah, reach out Ellie, if you, if you're, if that was your dad, I'd like to know.
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So good story to tell. I don't want to get in the way of Henderson's like, yeah, legendary story.
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I'm sure if we. I'm sure if they have wear the uniforms, that story will come out in the next three months. And you can say you heard it first from the truth. First reported here. 859-280-2287. The caller asked there at the end of the first hour who, what I would do if I was Mitch. I mean, first of all, I don't think you make any changes. I don't think that does anything right now. I think you finished the season. I think if things really fall apart, you try to get a resolution before the end of the season to do one of those things maybe like you did with Joker, where like the Tennessee Tech game, you could kind of get everybody to actually show support for. For what he's done over the years. I don't know that they would do that. I'm not sure Stoops would even agree to that. But that's what I would do. I think no matter what, if you're Mitch Barnhart, you have to start preparing for the contingency that you might have to do stuff. So you have to figure out the financial part of it. You also have to figure out where would you want to go. And I. That part is important. I think they're gonna. I think the good thing is I think they have a lot of options. Right? I mean, I think you have two of the hottest coaching candidates in the country, have connections to your school, right? In John Somer and Will Stein. I mean they both have. And then Brian Hartline's brothers here. Right. So you could make an argument. Three of the five hottest young candidates for jobs in big time jobs are all connected to Kentucky. When's that ever happened? Probably. Yeah. That's rare. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of amazing. So, like, dude, you should be able to get someone this time. I mean, with this, with that many, you got three strikes at hot apples.
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And we talk about the disadvantages here, but coaches want to get in the sec.
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They do.
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This is a destination job. It's not a destination job when Alabama and Florida or LSU are open. But compared to the rest of the country, people want to get into this conference. So I think you can go out and get a lot of good names. There's just one other angle with all this moving forward is if. If Bowley keeps making a bit of a jump.
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I think he's played well. I think he's Improved every time.
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Let's say he just starts looking good and they're still losing. You've got the awkward, like you got to keep him around. And you almost have to take his opinion in all this, too. You do, you know. I don't.
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Well, you have to. Let me. Let's see what happens the rest of the year. If he continues to be good, then I do think you take his opinion in. If he's. If he's just average, you don't that make the decision.
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No, that's what I'm saying. If he keeps making the cuz from South Carolina to Georgia, he made a.
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Big jump, fair enough.
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And if he makes a few more jumps before the season's over, freshman, you start thinking maybe we get an offensive coach with some fire and just try to ride the bowling wave into this next era.
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Yeah. All right. Shannon's going to play something here. So yesterday. Yesterday I was on ESPN for Matt Myron and we had Shannon. Eduardo Perez. Do you know who Eduardo Perez is?
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He the same Ed Water that used to catch for the Braves?
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He did. And he's. I don't know if you know, he's one of the big announcers on ESPN now. Right, Right. So he does games for ESPN and he's like a regular guest on Matt Myron when. When baseball's in the news. So we had him on because he was calling the Yankees Blue Jays game that day and I interviewed him and I had to be dropped twice on national radio. I've never cussed on that. I don't know how many times I've had to be dropped here in 15 years. Maybe twice or twice. Maybe once or twice. This time, though, is not my fault. This guy's name is not easy to pronounce. And I want to play you the sequence with me interviewing Eduardo Perez and the. The. I got dropped twice on espn. Go ahead. First, gotta do a little baseball. Eduardo Perez, ESPN's Major League Baseball analyst, will be on the call for Yankees Blue Jays on ESPN Radio. The Yankees lost 101 last night, Eduardo. No, my Reds ended up sneaking in the playoffs, so I've been paying more attention to them even though they're already out and I want it. You're doing Yankees Blue Jays. I want to go Back to Game 3 of Yankees Red Sox for a second. How great was that pitching performance by the guy for the Yankees? I think. Whatever his name is. How great was his performance?
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Yeah. Cam Schlitler.
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Yeah, I may have said that incorrectly.
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Do you want to keep going?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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I go back About. Let's not focus on how I said it, and let's look at how good a pitcher he was.
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Yeah, if we focus on how you said it, it looks like the Red performance against the Dodger.
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Said it twice. So. Okay, so that happens, Drew. Sometimes, you know, you can't. It's. It's. It's. I don't want to say it again. I can't say it.
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You got to have the L in there.
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Schlitler.
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Schlit.
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Schlit. But, you know, it happens sometimes, Drew. You can't pronounce the name, and then you end up getting dropped twice.
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That was funny by itself, but Myron's laughter took it to another level. He's a great laugh.
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He's a great laugher, but you're trying.
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You know, you're on the spot.
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Sure.
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You didn't get it exactly right. Also, Eduardo Perez playing along, too. Like, if. No, that's. That's how the Red Sox played. Whatever he said.
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Yeah, no, that was a really good, good line. The second thing, before we go to the phones, what about this Mark Sanchez story is wild. Wild. I mean, let's update where the story is now. Okay, this up. This. Let's update where the story is now. He and you. Tell me if I'm wrong about this. He was doing. It was 12:30 at night. Mark Sanchez was doing wind sprints in.
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The alley in downtown Indy. I'll start right where we did our post.
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That was exact. That was the hotel. Shannon, were you at our post game show after we lost to Tennessee? Yeah, that was. You realize where Mark Sanchez happened? That was that hotel.
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Oh, no, I didn't realize that.
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We were outside.
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Yes. That's where this all happened was the hotel where my mom's hotel where we stayed and did the thing. That is where this was for the post game show. He was in the alley doing wind sprints. Now just start there. You've been out at night, Shannon, at 12:30. And we're like, you know what? Let me do a wind sprint.
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No. Maybe a walk, but not.
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Not in the alley of a hotel. In the alley of a hotel, he's doing wind sprints.
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It's a bunch of competitive guys in.
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A city he doesn't live in, by the way. Like, he's there for work. He's there for work. You know, I've been on work trips when I was with Frost, Brown, Todd, we didn't do any wind sprints. When I was doing document review in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and kind of a job.
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I'm not irreplaceable because they were able to get someone in, but pretty big job you got coming up on Sunday.
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A lot of people can talk, you know, you're pretty lucky to have this job. She's doing wind sprints. A guy is. He has french fry oil and he's dumping it from the restaurant inside the Marriott. Also a random just group of words right there. That's a job I don't understand. Sanchez tries to get in his car. Why do we think that happened?
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This is me speculating, but Sanchez told him he couldn't park there, which makes me think he was literally still trying to do his wind sprints when this guy's truck pulled up. Like we're doing wind sprints.
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Oh, you think he got in the way of the wind sprint?
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Well, this isn't me specking. It does say that Sanchez told him he couldn't park there. This guy who for a living drives around and disposed of waste for restaurants. I figured he'd probably done it before. So in my brain I have a visual of Sanchez. Like we are wind sprinting. You cannot pull up right now.
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It's 12:30.
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But when you put the details together, that's not crazy. He's wind sprinting. He says don't park there.
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You're probably right. I didn't think of that. So. And then there's a. You know, the man is 69 years old too. This is not man out working 30. This is a 69 year old man with French fry oil at 6. At 12:30 at night, he tries to get in his truck. Next thing you know, there's an altercation. They both end up stabbing each other. Sanchez is labeled as the aggressor. They both get messed up. I mean, the pictures of the older guy look awful. Apparently Sanchez walked into a bar and was just bleeding everywhere.
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The man's quoted as saying, I thought he was going to kill me. Like, how could you get that mad? Let's say it's over. His wind sprints. If you're a former professional athlete, Sanchez is probably about 40, maybe a little younger. Right at it. Whatever you're fighting about, I don't even know how you could look up and see a 67 year old man and think, I should continue this. If you're built like Sanchez and there's.
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An elderly, I mean, Mark Sanchez is a big guy. How are you fighting an old old man about anything?
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Coming from too, do they?
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That's another question I have. Shannon. What is this like west side Story? Who is walking around with all These switchblades.
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All right, it doesn't make any sense.
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There's a story that says the man pepper sprayed Sanchez first and didn't phase him, so he reached for a knife. Like, how upset is Sanchez over where this guy's trying to park?
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Intoxicated?
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Yeah. You think I would? I am. I just. I did not know that people walked around with switchblades. It is a bizarre, bizarre story. And it kept changing because at first, people acted like. Like Sanchez got robbed. And then over time, it kept changing, and then people jumped in, as they always did. Dan dock itch produced one of the more blatantly racist statements you see in public when he just goes, see, this is what happens when you have young, fatherless African American kids running around downtown. You know you're racist when you just insert people that weren't even there, Right? Like, this is a fight between two white men over French fried grease. And he's just like, this is what happens when you have fatherless African Americans running around town. And then when people were like, hey, the facts don't support that. He was like, so.
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And that's his city.
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That it's the truth. Well, first of all, no, it's not the truth. But secondly, even if it were, it has nothing to do with this situation whatsoever. It's like he was just waiting for the. He had that tweet sitting in his draft, Shannon, just waiting for the moment to get to send it out.
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Like, this feels right. This feels like this one. Yeah.
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I have to tell you, in terms of celebrity, random things, that's one of the more bizarre stories I've ever heard in my life.
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And we're still just piecing together parts and trying to figure out we got.
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What's the video gonna look like.
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One gruesome. If we hear all the details of how bloody they both were, But I just don't. I can't think of if. I'm Mark Sanchez and I'm. You know, typical weekend, I'm traveling. I've got the game on Sunday. Sure, I'm probably going out with my Fox colleagues at the hotel bar, but I don't even think. I can't think of a scenario where I would get into it with a 67.
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You know who. You know who his partner was? Chris Myers. It's always Chris Meyer. Poor Chris Myers.
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He finally gets a game outside of Carolina.
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That's exactly right. They finally give him a game that's not in the AFC South. This is why they leave him in Carolina.
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People can't behave around Chris Myers.
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This is why. This is why they do it. Poor. I mean, what. What an insane situation. Hopefully both of the guys, Sanchez and the older guy, hopefully they'll both end up okay. Sanchez, I think, is already out of the hospital. I don't know about the other guy.
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But you mentioned dockage. His was the worst. But there was a lot of just piling on. The city of Indianapolis, they're like tagging the mayor, and then out of nowhere, the police dropped that statement. Like, not so fast, my friend.
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Yes.
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And the way they worded it was kind of like everyone shut up. It says he was the only aggressor, but, I mean, that was made up their mind.
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That was the hotel we were at with my mom. That was the exact hotel. And like, they acted like it was in the mean streets. You remember? That's like the brightest, nicest street in Indy.
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Like, I know that area really well.
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That corner.
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There's a few bars there probably was in. I don't know which one.
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He was like, there's like a Mexican restaurant back there that might have been where they were dumping the grease from.
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It's like a little tap. Tap room.
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Yeah. Just a really, really, really strange situation. Who's up next?
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Eric.
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Eric. Go ahead, Eric.
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Hey, guys. So this is going back to football, and I hate to drag us back.
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That's okay.
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But me and my father, season ticket holders, you know, frustrated with the boneheaded, running 30 seconds off the clock before we call the timeout and that kind of thing. I guess the reason I'm calling Matt, you know, if we look ahead, we've played Ole Miss in Georgia. Pretty good for teams that are way better than we are.
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Yes.
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And we are in a brutal situation. Right. We're playing in the. In the toughest conference. We have teams that are superior pretty much every week. But let's be real. I mean, we've got a young quarterback who's been thrown to the fire.
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Yeah.
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And I was pretty impressed with Cutter.
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Okay. But just get me to your conclusion, because I might to go to break.
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Yeah. Yeah. So. So, in short, let's not give up on these guys.
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Okay?
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We got Tennessee, Florida, Texas coming to Lexington.
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No, I mean, there's winnable crazy, man.
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Who knows?
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Who knows? Exactly. I. I completely agree with that sentiment and I appreciate the call. I complet with the sentiment of there's seven more games. Let's cheer for them. Why not? Like, what. What. What do you got to lose? So I. On that respect, I'm cra. We. I genuinely think we're better than we were last year. I just don't know if it's going to matter. You know what I mean?
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I agree.
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I do think we are marginally better than we were last year. I just. We'll see if it has makes any difference in what the final result is. 859-280-2287 we will take a break. Be right back. Here in UK it's ksr.
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Yeah, so the Indianapolis police have just said that he'll be charged with a Class 5 felony, which is I guess the way they do it in Indiana, one to six years potentially in jail. So he's intoxicated. One person writes Matt, who does wind sprints when they're intoxicated. Great question. I've been around. I don't really get intoxicated, but I've been around all three of you when you're intoxicated and I haven't seen one of you do wind sprints, jumping jacks normally. I'm trying to keep you all upright. I know you're. No one is running during those periods.
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Well, one time at the SC tournament with our guy manning his group, everyone actually got in the alley and they were gambling on wind sprints hammered. So I can't laugh at mark sandwich maybe.
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So I did one time race hubby barefoot when he was and I won. But he always says, well I was intoxicated.
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Remember Ryan raced his kid outside El Mariachi and fell and messed up his knee.
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That's right, he got hurt.
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I think sometimes guys, when we get a little bit of the sauce in us, we get competitive.
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It's like, all right, let's go outside. When I took Ambien. I tried to raise people.
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I bet, I bet. I bet. Sanchez, check for ambient in his system.
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He was like, all right, who wants some?
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He was just trying to go.
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Okay, Money bags.
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Yeah, I've bought it all because I think he's going to be a superstar this year. I think, you know, Mark, when he was talking about the statistics of Jalen Lowe and saying, look, man, he took too many bad shots. If we can just keep the bad shots when he takes good shots, he's a great shooter. I think he's going to be able to distribute the load. I'm going all in on Jalen Load. We know what we have with Ortega away, right? We know. I love the leadership of Muhammad of Modiabate. If you go to Kentuckysportsradio.com the website, Tyler Thompson has a great feature about him. Went up yesterday. You should go check that out. You know, I'm excited about the young kids. I'm excited about what we get from, from Jasper Johnson. Colin Chandler is going to be really good. And I Am pumped to watch it. I think this he's a kid that probably even I was like I don't know. And now I believe in him 100% and I think he's going to have a big year. I'm looking at forward to Cam Williams. That's an NBA player that we don't even really talk about being on the roster. Trent Noah I think is going to provide good minutes. My only concern is this is just from talking to people. I haven't seen it. But does Brandon Garrison has he taken the step up both in terms of maturity and play that I do think this team needs? I think this team needs Brandon Garrison to be good. If you were to ask me what is the one part of the team that worries me. I think Lowe's going to be great. I think always going to be great. And I think between everybody else you will feel those other positions. But I do think Brandon Garrison has to be good because I think Moreno and Yellow Vich, while they will be contributing, they can't be your centerpiece big. It's gonna have to be Garrison. So that's my one concern. But otherwise give me all the Jalen Low stock. Give me guys shooting I think will be as maybe not quite as good as last year but much more athletic shooting or much more athletic even if we lose a little shooting. And then I need Brandon Garrison to be good. What about you?
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I mostly love the depth because there's a lot of guys where we think they're going to be good. But you know, let's say they don't. It's like there's another one of them. There's like two of everything but low. And we've heard nothing but good things about Lowe so far. So I'm really not too concerned about him. But I just love that later in the year when you get quite and back even if Garrison is a little behind and I agree with you, we need him to take step forward. I mean you could just go Yellow Vic and Quaintance and that even sounds good.
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Remember Quaintance is that's a whole nother thing. I'm not putting him in but that's a January February guy. But I just think they're so deep that you think that without though you know last year we used to say they've got to have Lamont Butler and we kind of that kind of ended up being the case to me that we've got to have him got actually oddly might be Brandon Garrison even though I think he's the fifth or sixth best player I just don't think you I think these other guys I don't.
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Know I think he's going to get his minutes taken anyway.
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So you're not if he I mean if he ends up being a little disappointing you're not worried about it depends how disappointing.
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Just be a little better than last now I'd love for him to make a huge jump and you know really stand out. We haven't heard a lot that this summer. I just think that by the time you get to when Quaintance is back and if yellow bitch assuming he's able to play and look good Marino could give you minutes. That's my point about there's just so much depth here that if a guy surprises us and isn't reaching what we want him to be I just think the next guy up is probably going to answer that question. Just a really high floor like whatever they what they we were talking about playing on Wednesday of the tournament last year SEC I don't see any scenario where we're middle of the conference or anything.
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If I were to give you an MVP ratings of the team at the end of the year we rank the mvp what's going to be your top five? I'm going to go always going to be one but just barely over Jalen Lowe. They're going to be a high one two Modia bate three and then four through 10 could go in any order but that's gonna be my top three. What's yours?
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I'll go away one quaintance to wow.
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So you're you're expecting big things He's.
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A top five pick okay then low then it's just wide open. I mean almost said Colin Chandler you're going.
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You're going Quaintance too even though he might not get on the team till end of January next June he's a.
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Green room gu we're going to be watching Quaintance with the suit on on.
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Draft how well that's exciting. I mean if if that ends up.
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Being correct that's why I'm not as.
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Worried about G I'm so sounds like I'm buying all the Jalen Low stock and you're buying all the Jaden Quaint.
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Let'S be clear all my stocks and Colin Chandler but I do think it.
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Is okay is going to be very good once he's ready so we're big time stockholders.
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It's just the depth is the point we're giving different answers.
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I'm not diversified. It's all low well Then I'm all Chandler. All right, so you're all channeling all my chips. All right, we'll be right back. KSR. T.J. smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. he'll make him pay.
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Now more of Kentucky sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.
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Welcome back, Techy sports radio. Little every rose has its thorn, right? Poison.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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For Sanchez being stabbed.
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Yeah, well, dog will work out for him. I think he's going to end up maybe doing some jail time over this. By the way, gets let out of the hospital immediately to jail. You know, you. Have you ever been in the hospital for a long time?
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I've not.
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So I was in the hospital for nine days few years ago. When they let you out, you're excited, but what if they let you out, and then it's like, all right, now go to prison. It's not as exciting.
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No. And I'm thinking about, you know, sometimes you have a night out, maybe you had a few too many the next day. You just have the scaries, the anxiety. People are like, hey, remember, it's like, don't talk to me. I just want to move on. He wakes up with stab wounds and potentially jail sentence from the night out in Indianapolis.
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That's brutal. All right, we've got his job. I assume so. Now, we don't have Ryan here today, but we do have Stockton Mortgage. You and I are used to it.
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We're all pros.
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All right, Mario, how are you doing? How do I get his microphone on? Here, guys. You know, Mario, you can't just grab a mic. You actually have to turn it on. Okay? You got the wrong one. What did. Take Drew's. Take Drew. Take Drew. All right. Take Drew's headset. Your job now is to do Stockton Mortgage. You've listened to Ryan Linman. Do it. Go for it.
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Do I not get, like, a.
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No, you don't get a script. Oh, boy.
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Okay.
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All right, well.
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Right.
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Am I doing his impersonation?
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No, you just do. You just do it. Okay. All right.
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Stockton mortgage is a great time to buy. Drew, I know you got your house, but if you wanted to get a second house, you know, stock and mortgage can help you out with that. I know you're looking for a house, Matt.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Stockton Mortgage. You know, I don't remember the phone number, but I can get. Get you that.
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How would I get to it?
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Online.
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Oh, you go online.
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What's the website?
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Stocktonmortgage.com.
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Okay, that's not exactly It. But we'll take it. Now, why is this a good time for me to buy?
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Great times. Always a good time to buy.
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Why? Why is that?
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Well, you know, fall is usually a time where, you know, basketball seasons around the corner.
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Okay.
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If you want a new house to celebrate the season, you just, you know.
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But are they. I mean, are they a company that's been in the community?
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Yeah, they're equal housing lenders.
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They are an equal housing lender. That's right. Okay, well, good. And let me ask you a question. How's the market doing?
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The market is great, man. Market is the best time it could be.
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It's right now.
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Really? That's not what I hear on the news, though.
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What news are you on?
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Okay. Yeah. By any chance, is. Is the company, like, stagnant or is it. Is it getting bigger? What's happening?
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It's always growing.
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It's always growing. Okay, I'm glad to hear. Right. So where do people go again?
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Stockton Mortgage. NMLS 1480 8259-8259.
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Close. Thank you very much, Mario. Stockton.com. good job.
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I thought Ron was here.
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You know, he started with confidence. I was like, maybe you'll replace him. Things went off a little bit as it went on. What's next?
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All right, let's go to David.
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David, go ahead, David.
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Hey, Matt.
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Hey, David. How are you?
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Good. Excited about football? I mean, about football.
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Well, I think that's probably how most of the fan base feels. David.
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Yeah. On a scale of 1 to 10, how excited are you with this Big Blue madness compared to others? Like, I remember being this excited for the 2009.
C
It's not a 10. That would be the John Wall or those first couple, but I would say it's like a seven. I mean, I'm probably. I'm. I'm more excited than I have been in a lot of years. Yeah, I mean, I'm looking forward to it. I want to see this team, and I like, you know, Mark. I want to see what Mark does in his second year. So, yeah, as far as big blue madnesses go, I'm pretty excited. Would you agree, Drew? Yeah.
D
This one's a little different, though, because, like, two weeks later, we get the number one team in the country. So normally, madness is the big high so early in October, November. But it's a unique year where we got Purdue, Georgetown, even Louisville.
C
Not that far. And it's on a Saturday night, too. So, I mean, that's kind of different and exciting. So, yeah, I'm excited about it. David?
E
Yeah. And also is the full TV schedule out yet?
C
The what schedule?
E
The full TV for the basketball team.
C
Not the full tv. We don't have all the SEC games but I think all the non conference games TV is out. There's. We could talk about five or six on the computer and then there's other games. But then the sec. I think the only SEC game time that's come out was we play Florida on ABC at like 3 o', clock, which would be our first ABC game. Well, we played them I think actually last year maybe on abc. But that's the only game time that, that we've seen so far.
E
Cool.
C
So appreciate it. David. There you go. Yeah, that should come. When do you think the, the team. The schedule of the times for basketball will come?
D
You probably.
C
Oh, November. Well, the games will have already started by the end. Well but well, the SEC has started.
D
Doing those flexes where we don't even have know the days on some of them it's like a Tuesday or Wednesday.
C
Yeah. And there's I think the final weekend it' Saturday or Sunday. You could even have a Sunday game which that's. You don't see that very often. So. Yeah, I mean they do, they, they do seem like do more flexes. But Kentucky, listen, we're going to be in the best time slots. I mean I. What are our chances of winning the sec? By the way, it's also Florida, US or Florida.
D
That's how I see it. Yeah, Florida's pretty stacked.
C
You know Auburn. You don't think Arkansas has a shot?
D
No.
C
Okay.
D
I don't have to go down that road again. But start Auburn.
C
Alabama will be down. Yes, especially Auburn. I mean but Alabama, they didn't get the portal class that, that they usually do. So I mean I do, I agree with you. It's Kentucky or Florida.
D
I think the conference is still going to be deep. Like the bracketology still have several SEC teams close to last year. But as far as the bunch of.
C
Teams that are better, Kentucky A and M is going to be better. I think they got some guys. You know, if you feel like you keep waiting for Texas one year to be good.
D
Missouri was awesome last year and just folded in the last couple weeks.
C
That's a big win when we won there on the road that last, that last one. But no, I think we're. I want to, I need to break the schedule down to do the numbers. But I would say in conference we have what 18 conference games, is that right? 18 conference games. I would say I'm going like 14 and 4, 13 and 5, maybe.
D
Yeah, around them there, a lot of teams are going to be good. I mean, Tennessee is going to be good. It's good. The conference is going to be stacked again. It just won't. I don't think we'll have like an Auburn winning it or Alabama in the mix like they normally are, although they could be, but I just think it's a two horse race at this point with Florida and Kentucky just looking at rosters.
C
Who's next?
B
Matt.
C
Matt. Go ahead, Matt.
E
Hey, what's up, guys?
C
What's going on?
E
I'm sitting out here in my garden meditating on this beautiful day in hymen, smelling of my fresh basil. And you are right, like when you get out of the hospital, like, it's the greatest feeling ever. I just did. I've. I've been dealing with some health issues the past couple years and that's what started my meditation.
C
Yeah. So you're out of the hospital?
E
Yeah, yeah, I'm out. I'm out my garden right now. Yeah.
C
Okay.
E
Good smell? Fresh basil.
C
Yeah. Okay, well, good. I'm glad you're not in the hospital. Anything else?
E
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was, I was just curious. I know you've talked about your trip a lot and everything, but it's so fascinating. South Africa. I. I actually just started reading about South Africa. They have three capital cities. Did you see any dinosaur bones or bones?
C
No. I mean, I saw animals that are alive today, but I did not see any dinosaur bones. But not only do they have three capital cities, they have 11. How about this? Here's an interesting fact. South Africa has 11 official languages and they recognize sign language as an official language. So they actually have 12.
E
Yeah, I've read about that.
C
So they.
E
Yeah, you're.
C
Yeah. Well, I appreciate the call. They have 11 official languages. English, English, Africans, and then the nine languages of the various tribes that began in South Africa. And then they also recognize sign language, so they require all government documents have to be available in all of those various languages if you request it. But like, if you go out on the streets, you only see English. English is the. Is the one. Maybe occasionally Africans, but you, you mostly see English. But officially 12 languages. That's the only country in the world that has more than three. And they have 12.
D
Did you run in. I know you said it's mostly English, but did you run into places where.
C
It was almost all English? I mean, you know, when you. I mean, I know there are places where this isn't true, but almost everywhere. I'VE traveled, you can get by with English. The only place I remember English being tough was I went to Slovenia once and they, they, I think take pride in not speaking English. But, but certainly in South Africa, you know, you got to remember the people that did apartheid were the Africans. So the, the black people there do not want to speak Africans. So they kind of agree like we're not going to speak Africans because you all were our oppressor. There's nine of our languages, so we can't use that. So they just kind of like compromise on English is the one that everybody will do.
D
And nice of them to include sign language.
C
I thought that's the only country in the world where sign language, official language, it should be included. Yeah, I think that's kind of a cool addition. 859-280-2287 we are here at basketball media day. Mark Pope speaks in 17 minutes. We'll be streaming it live on Kentucky Sports Radio.com I think. Is that right? Hopefully, let's just say yes. But we will come back. Final segment here at SKSR, there's nothing.
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Welcome back techie Sports radio. What is this song?
B
Shannon Monday Morning by Fleetwood Mac.
C
Fleetwood Mac. I like Fleetwood Mac. You know, I didn't know much Fleetwood Mac and every time I hear Fleetwood Smack song I end up liking it like that little guitar song that. You know the one Shannon, where people say it's the hardest thing to play in music that we've played that before on here.
B
Yeah. Well, I can't remember the name of the song.
C
What is that what's the name of it that people say it's the hardest thing to play in all of music?
B
It's not.
D
I can hear it.
C
I can hear it, too. It's like boo to boo.
B
Boo.
D
There it is.
C
Never going again. Never going back. Yeah. Play. Just pull that up in a second. I want to steer the little doo doo doobd beeps Because I do. I do like that. That's. I want to get that in my head for this press conference.
D
Sound like it's in your head the way you did it.
C
Yeah. 859-280280, 2287 tonight you got Chiefs Jaguars Liam Cohen for DraftKings. Go to draftkings.com bet the game. We didn't win the par. The KSR parlay this week thanks to Ryan, but the rest of us got it. So Ryan lost the first one, but then we won the neck. No, Shannon lost two. So Drew and I won. Ryan and Shannon lost. But nevertheless, you can go to DraftKings. DraftKings.com promo code is KSR BET5. Win $200. You got Chiefs Jaguars tonight. Liam Cohen against Patty Mahomes and Taylor Swift. Who you got Jags upset.
D
Going with the Jags upset. Liam Cohen's been spicy all season. Last week he's fighting Roberts Law after the game. The week before that, he's yelled at Trevor Lawrence. He's a man on a mission. Jags with the upset.
C
Chiefs 3 1/2 point favorites. I'm all in on the Chiefs. I think they've turned the corner. I think you get the Jaguars after you go look at it. They've beaten like three bad teams. Teams like they haven't beat anybody good yet. So I'm going to take the Chiefs to win and cover at home, and you can go and do it at DraftKings. All right, play it really quick there. Shannon to doom. Bom, bom, bom. So they say that's the hardest thing to play in guitar right there. Do you believe that?
B
No.
C
Why don't you believe that? I mean, people say it it.
B
I mean, I play guitar. I think I could figure that out and play it.
C
You think you could? Well, why don't you learn? I think we talked about this a couple years ago and you said you were going to learn and then you did.
B
I never did. Yeah, I think I could play that.
C
All right, I believe you can.
B
I'm just saying I think there's probably like a Metallica song that's a little tougher to play than that.
C
But I think that it's like. Because it's so intricate. And you do. Yeah. If you'll learn it, I'll sing it.
B
We'll start a band.
C
We'll do a live performance of Never Going Back Again. We have some breaking news. Oh, Ronnie, Nana, Clay Travis reporting that ESPN has pulled Paul Feinbaum off the air due to his boringness.
B
Great news. I could have told you that a long time ago.
C
That was not the news report. The news report was due to his consideration of the Senate race, not his boringness, as reported by Shannon. You know, I mean, I got pulled off the air for considering it. I didn't like that. So I think that's, you know. But I will say for espn, that's the rule. So, like, I don't know if that should be their rule, but it is their rule. Like, they are very explicit. Like, if you at any point decide you're thinking about running for office, you're out. So he does an interview where he says, I think I've run for office. I thought when he did it, I was like, isn't that against ESPN's rules? Isn't he gonna get in trouble? I just wondered if the rules even applied anymore. And I guess they do because they specifically tell you the moment you announce publicly you're thinking about running, we can't have you on the air. So, I mean, he knew that's what. The rules.
D
Can't be doing that when you work for Mickey Mouse. I'm a little surprised Paul even went as far to say it, because, you know, he would.
C
Well, that means he's doing it.
D
Yeah.
C
I mean, he's not an idiot, like, Paul knows. So I. If my assumption was that when he stayed on the air, that, like, ESPN maybe was like. Because, you know. Right. Technically, when you work at espn, they tell you, do not talk about politics. And Stephen A. Has just been like, well, I was.
D
Going to ask that. Why is it Stephen.
C
I mean, Stephen A's been doing it for a while. So I just thought, well, maybe they're just not enforcing that rule anymore. So when Fine Bomb did it, I was like, well, I guess they're just not enforcing it. But now I get. Apparently they did. So he knew that rule existed. So that means to me, he's running. Right? Like, that means he's gonna run, because why would you do this unless you were gonna. Although I guess I kept doing it, got pulled off the air and didn't run. So maybe that's not true. I don't know that's true.
D
You know, but just where he is in his career, I'd say he knew the consequences that were coming.
C
It's interesting, though. So he must be running Senator Fine bomb.
D
What a world. How I want Fine bomb versus Pearl for the Alabama.
C
I think people should call Ed Shannon to him and be like, paul, where's my manicain?
B
He just puts them on speaker.
D
Because.
B
He'S got nothing to say. Let's go to Frank.
C
I went to the courthouse. Yeah, go ahead.
B
Frank.
C
Frank, what's up, Mac?
H
Mac and morning, man. I find it interesting when, you know, people kind of talk about the trajectory of Stoops and how everything's been going and, you know, there's a lot of things that even have to happen for it to get to this point. But it's just assumed that John Sumrall is going to come here and take the job and coach. And I'm like, what makes you say that? Like, there's going to be openings at Florida, there's going to be openings at Auburn. Wisconsin might have an opening. Like, like all these schools have bigger budgets than we do for football. They didn't just take a loan out from their athletic department to pay for capital expenditures. And like, they're not operating at a deficit like we seem to be.
C
Yeah, I don't.
H
I don't believe we have revenue.
C
Yeah, I don't believe we have financial problems. I mean, I think all these schools have financial challenges, but I don't think Kentucky has a financial problem. I think if John Sumrall were to be offered a job and he took the Florida job, it would just be because it's a better job. Like, it wouldn't be that. I don't think it would be like we can't afford him or anything like that. I think it would just be that it's a better job. I don't think he would take the Arkansas job over Kentucky because I don't think that's significantly better job. Drew. But if Florida came open and he was offered both, I could see why he would take the Florida job because to me, appreciate the call. Florida should be one of the five best jobs in the country.
D
Yeah, you would have to take that over Kentucky. I don't care that you played here. Alabama and Auburn were a couple to watch until a few weeks ago. But. But, you know, Alabama's got that figured out and Auburn does, too. But he's from the state of Alabama is why I would worry about those two jobs opening. But as after the results we've gotten the last few weeks, I think those jobs Are going to be staying firm with who they have.
C
Yeah, I think so too. I think if we want some role, we'll have it. What are you.
D
Is Mario playing volleyball?
C
Playing two on two volleyball right here in the middle of media day.
D
Does Craig Skinner know you're just starting up games right here with these strangers?
C
Mario just throwing. It's just taken over the court like Billy. Who's next?
B
Barry.
C
Barry. Go ahead, Barry.
E
Hey, Matt. You know, Lindsey Buckingham plays a variation of Travis picking which has Kentucky roots. So that's.
C
That's the kind of. That's the kind of picking that it was in that song Finger.
E
Yeah.
C
Okay. Somebody told me that. Yeah. When we were talking about last time that it was actually the kind. Someone said that to me that it was created in Kentucky. But. Yeah, go ahead.
E
You know, as Kentucky fans, we can remember every bad call we've ever gotten in basketball or football or whatever are we. And even some led to like rule changes. Are we forgetting or can you name three or four egregiously good call bad calls in our favor that we got over the years?
C
Well, you know, you just tend to forget about those because you just assume I appreciate the call. Yeah. You tend to assume like, well, we deserved it. So I don't. I can't think of one right off the top of my head. I feel like we had a game not that long ago in the SEC basketball where we were. Something happened in our favor at the end and we won and we just kind of moved on. But I do not remember. Do you do. Can you think of one?
D
Can't think of one. I know all fans think that they're on the wrong end of the whistle, but I genuinely believe we have a bad home whistle to be Kentucky in both sports.
C
Yeah, I don't know.
D
I know that's part of being a fan. Every team would say that.
C
Yeah.
D
But I do. Anytime I feel like there's a replay, I don't feel like brace myself.
C
I don't feel like we get a rough whistle. I don't feel like we do now. Other teams probably disagree, but I really don't. Football. I've never really thought one way or the other that it was Zion Children scored last year. He did. I agree with that. Hey, thank you all very much. Get ready. Tune over for the Mark Pope press conference tomorrow. We're at KS Bar Wednesday and Thursday.
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