2025-10-13- KSR - Hour 2

Summary

Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – Hour 2

Date: October 13, 2025
Hosts: Matt Jones, Ryan Lemond, Drew Franklin, Shannon the Dude

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Episode Overview

This second hour of Kentucky Sports Radio dives into the latest UK football and basketball developments, with passionate debates about coaching culture, the Mark Stoops job situation, shifting college sports dynamics (NIL, transfer portal), and some lighter moments covering UK fandom. The hosts also weigh in on national sports stories (Kirby Smart controversy), discuss crypto market drama, and take multiple listener calls on Big Blue Madness, football program marketing, and potential coaching changes. The tone is lively, humorous, and opinionated throughout.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Modern College Football Coaching Mindset

• Age vs. Adaptability:
  • Discussion opens with speculation on coaching hires, emphasizing that success is not about age but openness to change.
  • "If I heard in public in a press conference a coach bitch about the transfer portal and NIL, I wouldn't hire him." – Ryan ([01:20])
  • The crew critiques coaches like Mike Gundy and Dabo Swinney for complaining about new realities in NCAA sports.
  • John Calipari praised for prior adaptability but critiqued for resisting NIL and organizational changes:
    • "He used to be [ahead of the curve]. Then that was a change he was comfortable with. Then came changes he wasn't." – Matt ([03:05])

2. Kirby Smart Timeout Controversy

• Lying and Sportsmanship:
  • The group roasts Georgia's Kirby Smart for his transparent lie about calling a timeout, drawing parallels to televangelists and other “holier-than-thou” personalities.
    • “When people's natural personality trait is to lie, they forget their line. I believe that. They start to believe the lie themselves.” – Ryan ([05:25])
  • Criticism extends to officiating error and broader issues of sportsmanship.
    • "If you can lie to me that blatantly...I'll never trust another word Kirby Smart says." – Matt ([07:48])
  • Memorable moment: Shannon jokes, "Do you think we're all stupid, Kirby?" ([07:31])

3. Mark Stoops’ Job Security: Percent Chances & Scenarios

• All hosts give their percentage chances of Mark Stoops remaining UK football coach as of January 1st:
  • Matt & Drew: 10%
    • "I don't see how this team's going to win maybe one more game....It's too toxic." – Matt ([08:59])
  • Shannon: 40%
    • Contemplates a scenario where UK scrapes together five wins and the decision falls to the Athletic Director ([09:31])
  • Ryan: 25%
  • They detail scenarios, noting a "combustible train wreck" is possible if another blowout occurs, triggering fan and donor backlash.
  • The “five win” scenario is seen as the worst for decision-makers—awkward, uninspiring, and costly ([11:19]-[12:09]).

4. Program Marketing and Fan Connection Critics

• Fan Engagement Lacking for Football:
  • Callers and hosts compare vibrant basketball promotions to football’s lackluster outreach.
    • "They did everything they could have wrong. This is...part of the reason I'm not confident about the future, is they did everything wrong this offseason." – Ryan ([32:39])
    • Drew: "It's easier to want the team to lose or be disappointed when you don't even know the people under the helmet."
  • Inadequate fan days, lack of personal player stories; all contribute to diminished excitement and attachment.

5. Listener Call-Ins: Fans Share and Gripes

• Callers mention Big Blue Madness takeaways, bar staff shout-outs, and desire for better straws ("paper straws" become a recurring joke, leading to playful political banter).

6. Crypto Market Manipulation Story

• Insider Trading in Crypto:
  • Ryan relays that someone shorted crypto markets moments before a major Trump announcement, netting $192 million—sparking a debate on insider trading legality and lack of regulation.
    • "In 15 years if we don't do something with AI and crypto, our society is going to collapse because we were arguing about stupid stuff." – Ryan ([19:23])
  • Drew chimes in as a self-described "crypto nerd," describing similar past events.

7. Basketball: Big Blue Madness & Roster Depth

• Excitement for UK's deep, versatile basketball roster.
• Key player mentioned: Andrea (Yellow Vich) and potential roles; positive impressions but some skepticism about starting readiness ([22:00]-[23:45]).
• John Wall's return at Big Blue Madness is praised for its emotional resonance, especially after Wall's public mental health struggles ([31:17])
• Breaking news: Otega Away named SEC Preseason Player of the Year, yet receives little show attention; underscores program's recruiting/development strength ([37:59]-[38:58]).

8. The James Franklin (Penn State) Coaching Situation

• Debate on whether Franklin would be a fit at UK; hosts express strong doubts due to character and recent baggage ([26:51]-[27:46]).
• Noted widespread lack of respect for Franklin among media and peers.

9. Stoops’ Buyout and Coaching Transitions

• Detailed discussion of contractual buyouts, financial hurdles to firing Stoops, and why UK's situation is uniquely inflexible ([40:36]-[41:46]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "If you're complaining about a system that is not changing, gotta adapt. Then I'm not hiring [you]."
  – Ryan Lemond, on hiring coaches in the new era ([01:54])

• "That's one thing that made Calipari so successful. He was always a little ahead of the curve. But now he's not."
  – Matt & Ryan ([03:00])

• "When people's natural personality trait is to lie, they forget their line. I believe that. They start to believe the lie themselves.”
  – Ryan, on Kirby Smart ([05:25])

• “Do you think we're all stupid, Kirby?”
  – Shannon ([07:31])

• "I don't see how this team's going to win maybe one more game... It's too toxic."
  – Matt, on Stoops’ future ([08:59])

• "In 15 years if we don't do something with AI and crypto, our society is going to collapse because we were arguing about stupid stuff."
  – Ryan ([19:23])

• "It's easier to want the team to lose or be disappointed when you don't even know the people under the helmet."
  – Drew ([33:05])

• "Nobody likes paper straws."
  – Multiple, recurring theme for comic relief ([25:43])

• "Congratulations to [Otega Away], that's a kid who...when he came here, you would have never imagined that something that would happen."
  – Matt, on Otega Away winning preseason SEC POY ([38:58])

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Key Timestamps

• 01:04-03:33 – Adaptation in coaching, NIL, transfer portal & Calipari’s attitude changes
• 04:46-08:14 – Kirby Smart timeout controversy, sportsmanship, officiating blunders
• 08:37-13:08 – Hosts predict Mark Stoops' job security, breakdown of scenarios and implications
• 17:31-20:55 – Crypto market manipulation, regulation debate
• 22:33-23:45 – UK basketball roster depth, Andrea Yellow Vich discussion
• 26:50-27:46 – James Franklin debate, coach respect in NCAA football
• 31:46 – John Wall’s Big Blue Madness return and its impact
• 32:39-33:58 – Fan engagement and football team’s off-field marketing missteps
• 37:59-38:58 – Breaking basketball news: SEC preseason honors
• 40:36-41:46 – Stoops’ buyout, financial details if he leaves

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Overall Episode Tone & Takeaways

• The crew is candid, humorous, and at times frustrated.
• There is an undercurrent of exasperation about the state of UK football and national college athletics.
• They are skeptical of coaches who fail to adapt to changes in the game and critical of athletic administration indecision.
• Significant focus is placed on empowering fans to understand behind-the-scenes business and cultural issues impacting their teams.
• Listeners will come away with a well-rounded view of UK sports politics and a sense of the passionate, often heated, sports talk that defines KSR's community.

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This summary delivers a comprehensive, timestamped guide to the episode for listeners and non-listeners alike, capturing the original tone, debate, and unique KSR banter.

Transcript

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[Shannon]

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[Ryan Lemond]

Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287 Text Machine 7727745254 Kurt Signetti, by the way, 64 years old. So he's six years older than Stoops. But the fact I thought he was.

[Matt Jones]

Young, I, I thought he was young.

[Ryan Lemond]

But that also says to me he's doing it. So I mean maybe the fair way to put it is it's not age mentality and there are a lot of new head coaches. He is a new, newer head. But like maybe the, the way to put it is it's not so much what your physical age is. Are you coaching? Is your mindset to the new way of doing college football? I, I would have a rule if I was an ad, if I was considering hiring a coach and I heard them one time in public in a press conference bitch about the transfer portal and nil. I wouldn't hire.

[Drew]

So you're not locked in.

[Ryan Lemond]

I wouldn't hire him.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

If you're complaining about a system that is not changing, gotta adapt. Then I'm not hiring.

[Matt Jones]

Yep, you gotta adapt.

[Ryan Lemond]

If you're sitting there hoping that the Supreme Court after they had a 90 opinion is gonna flip, then I'm not hiring you. This isn't for you anymore. It's just not now. If you want to say I wish it was this and hopefully it'll change, that's different. But if you get There and go, you know, right now, like, Mike Gundy should be a perfect example. He's. He's complaining. He's complaining. Dabo. Would you hire Dabo right now? No. No way. No way.

[Drew]

It's like that at any job. Imagine, heck, you work for I Heart, and you come in, in your interview, you're like, oh, I really don't like being around radio from 10 to 12, but I would love to work here.

[Ryan Lemond]

It'd be like working at a radio station 10 years ago, as Shannon and I used to have, and listening to people complain about podcast. Get rid of that person.

[Shannon]

Yeah, well, that was our boss that we could.

[Ryan Lemond]

That was our boss. And I would say, will you put this on podcast? And they're like, no, podcast is ruined radio. And I was like, well, we'll be here longer than you, because podcast is not going anywhere.

[Matt Jones]

That's one thing, I think, that made Caliperi so successful. He was always a little ahead of.

[Ryan Lemond]

The curve, but now he's not.

[Matt Jones]

Now he's not.

[Ryan Lemond]

But now he's not.

[Matt Jones]

He used to be.

[Ryan Lemond]

He used to be. But then that was a change he was comfortable with. Then came changes he wasn't. You remember what Cal said when they first started nil, we don't need to do that here.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, that's right, he did. Yeah, he did.

[Ryan Lemond]

Remember when he said that? And we were like, yeah, he's right. It's Kentucky. We don't need to do that here. Well, you know what that was? That was the canary in the coal mine that said, eh, maybe he's not adapt for. And maybe he's not adept at this.

[Drew]

And even after that, he didn't think he needed anyone's help. Like, I got this. Don't need anyone. I don't need.

[Ryan Lemond]

Somebody asked about hiring a gm and he was like, ah, we don't need that. I got it. Well, so I wouldn't hire anybody that was like that. Now, before I get Back to phones, 859280, 2287, we got to talk about Kirby Smart. What a liar. You know what? I'll tell you what. What. What gets my. Gets in my crawl. Our coaches and even human beings that get up all the time in your face and preach to you about how you should act. And really, especially if they take on the mantle of God, Dabo's the worst at this. You know, name, image, and likeness of the Lord. And then they're out there. That's why, like, televangelist. And those people drive me crazy because they, you know, they tell you how you're supposed to live, and the next thing you know, they're going, I have sinned against you, my Lord. Like, I hate that. Kirby Smart's not exactly that, but there's definitely a holier than thou to Kirby Smart. Would you agree with that?

[Drew]

Certainly.

[Matt Jones]

Now, that timeout thing is not just one of my most favorite events that happened this season. It's one of my favorite events in sports in a long time.

[Ryan Lemond]

See, I hate it because he's a liar.

[Matt Jones]

That's what happens. That's what makes it special.

[Ryan Lemond]

Absolute liar.

[Matt Jones]

The video.

[Ryan Lemond]

And then he tried to take up for it at the end. You know, Shannon, he runs out there. We are not stupid. We see you calling timeout, and he's mouthing it. You are saying, timeout, timeout, timeout.

[Matt Jones]

And he tries to say.

[Ryan Lemond]

And they give him the timeout, and he goes, I didn't want to time out.

[Matt Jones]

I was clapping.

[Shannon]

Did he not think that there were cameras in the stadium that could see him? We could have instant replay of anybody in the stadium.

[Ryan Lemond]

When people's natural personality trait is to lie, they forget their line. I believe that. They start to believe the lie themselves. I think in his mind, he thought he wasn't calling timeout. He, in that millisecond, he went from timeout to clapping, had convinced himself that actually he was clapping.

[Shannon]

I understand people who lie and then convince themselves the lies. True, but that's usually over, like, time over maybe a year or two.

[Ryan Lemond]

This was.

[Shannon]

Seconds later. He knew exactly what he was doing. He got busted.

[Drew]

And he played such a victim. Like, oh, you can see him want. Oh, I was just clapping.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm knocking my microphone. He is such a snot.

[Shannon]

Mario's filming.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's. He had a way to make Hugh Freeze look like the sympathetic character. Yeah, Hugh Freeze, who has quite a history himself, came off as the more sympathetic person.

[Drew]

Not. Big PR hit for Kirby here.

[Matt Jones]

John McDonough and Greg McElroy were fantastic.

[Ryan Lemond]

They were on.

[Matt Jones]

They were fantastic.

[Shannon]

Not get an unsportsmanlike conduct or delay of game or something.

[Ryan Lemond]

NCAA or. Excuse me, the SEC should find him. Should. You cannot blatantly lie like that.

[Shannon]

This is the new fake, an injury thing now, coaches to go, oh, no, no time.

[Matt Jones]

And then they did replay like, oh, no, there.

[Ryan Lemond]

And then he claimed after the game, he was like, well, I told him before the game that the Auburn guys clap. So fine, maybe you did. Maybe the Auburn guys were. But you were calling timeout. We saw you.

[Shannon]

The referee.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

We saw you do it. What a Liar.

[Drew]

Let's not let the referee get off the hook either. How do you fall for that? Just because Kirby's yelling at you.

[Ryan Lemond]

I agree. But I have more sympathy for the ref than Kirby because Kirby might have been like, well, maybe I thought, you know, his back was to him. He screwed up.

[Drew]

Yeah. You can't let him get away with that.

[Ryan Lemond]

Baby. Kirby knows.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

And he thought he's cheating. He thought we weren't seeing him.

[Shannon]

Yeah. Do you think we're all stupid, Kirby?

[Ryan Lemond]

So if I was Auburn fans, I'd be living. First of all, they get screwed at the call at the goal line. Absolutely got screwed completely that. How did they not give him a touchdown? He was across the plane.

[Matt Jones]

That puts Auburn up what, 17. Nothing, I think at that point.

[Ryan Lemond]

And then they end up losing the game.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

But even though it in the long run, it doesn't matter. That timeout thing, I'll never trust another word. Kirby Smart. Say if you can lie to me that blatantly, I love it to my face.

[Shannon]

He's not that smart. He got busted.

[Drew]

I remember hearing about it before I saw the clip. I'm like, I got to see what this is about, how close it was. Three seconds is all I need that it's so obvious. He's screaming, timeout, Timeout. That's why I couldn't believe he got away with it.

[Ryan Lemond]

I, I, I can't believe he, he, he got away with it either. Okay. So a couple of people asked me during the break, do you think give a percentage chance that Stoops is the coach January 1st? So let's just lay your, lay your cards on the table there. Ryan Lemon Scoop. You have, you've had 20, 25. Tough year for Scoop.

[Drew]

This is how you redeem yourself.

[Ryan Lemond]

This is your chance to redeem your Lamar Wilkerson, Deb Bockle.

[Drew]

And Yaxel.

[Ryan Lemond]

And Yaxel.

[Matt Jones]

I still feel really good about both of those. Really good.

[Ryan Lemond]

Here's your chance. What's your percentage?

[Matt Jones]

I'm going to go 10.

[Ryan Lemond]

10.

[Matt Jones]

Wow.

[Ryan Lemond]

You only think there's a 10% chance he's back.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I don't see how this team's going to win maybe one more game.

[Ryan Lemond]

10.

[Matt Jones]

10. It's too toxic. I think it's just become too toxic. And I think we got some really bad losses coming. I'm going to go 10 10.

[Ryan Lemond]

I thought you were going to be the most optimistic. All right.

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Drew.

[Drew]

10. I thought it before he said it. That was my answer. I just don't see how they're going to win. I just don't see where they're going to win. We can't bring him back if they don't win.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay, so what about you, Shannon?

[Shannon]

I was going to go like 40% chance that he's back. I still think there's a chance they get to five wins and then you put the ball in Mitch Barnhart's court and say me. So I think that's the scenario that plays out.

[Ryan Lemond]

So I was going to say 25. I think the on the field thing, there's two scenarios, and I think the die will be cast Saturday. We're either going to play real well Saturday, maybe win, maybe lose, but be competitive, at which point I do not think the team quits or we're going to get blown out and then the whole thing's falling apart.

[Matt Jones]

That's kind of. We saw that last year.

[Ryan Lemond]

They got no. I mean, there's a chance if we lose 35, three Saturday, the whole. The wheels fall off and it's. And it becomes. It becomes just a combustible train wreck for the rest of the year and happens earlier in the year than it did last year.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

If we're competitive. I worry about Shannon's scenario. I do think there's a world where they beat Florida or beat Vandy and then beat Louisville. Then they're five and seven and you.

[Matt Jones]

Ended the year, the win over Louisville.

[Ryan Lemond]

And then what do you do?

[Drew]

I don't think you've watched this team play football.

[Ryan Lemond]

I understand, but, but, but let's just say that happened.

[Drew]

Yeah, I mean, you'd have to consider. I just, I don't think there's.

[Ryan Lemond]

There's a world. Poppy gets hurt before we play Vandy.

[Shannon]

Wait a minute now. What are you doing?

[Ryan Lemond]

I don't want him to get hurt, but I'm just saying that, you know, small things can. I mean, look at the Baltimore ra They're a Super bowl contender. Lamar gets hurt, they can't even score. You know, there are things that happen.

[Drew]

But I would say if one of your wins is you beat Vanny because Povi is hurt, that's not very comforting. Moving forward. It's like, well, we're just going to rely on all the quarterbacks getting hurt on the schedule.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm not making the case that he should stay. I'm saying if it's 5 and 7. Yeah, it's a different world.

[Shannon]

Let's say you beat Florida, beat Tennessee Tech and beat Louisville. Or Vandy, which.

[Ryan Lemond]

Let's just say you beat Florida, Tennessee Tech and Louisville and you're five and seven and you've got a $37 million buyout due within 20 days. And Mark Stoop says, I ain't leaving. What do you do?

[Matt Jones]

That is the worst scenario, I think, for Barnhart because that is. That's the number that he's got to make a tough decision.

[Ryan Lemond]

Here's what you will have beaten at least one really good to get to five wins. I even say Drew, four wins, you got to let him go. But you beat. You get to five wins, you've beaten two good teams.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. And you've beat Louisville in our scenario at the last game of the year. All that good feeling and beating Louisville.

[Ryan Lemond]

Or even you beat Florida and Vandy and you go into the Louisville game with a chance to go to a bowl game.

[Drew]

That was my preseason prediction, actually. You know, I think that we're skipping over that. Tennessee is about to beat them by 50 in one week. Tennessee offense first in the country.

[Ryan Lemond]

Let's just play the games, though. What if we beat Texas? I don't think we will, believe me. I'm not predicting it. I think we'll lose by 15 to 20. But what if we do? What if the magic of Keeneland Saturday night, Arch comes in, collapses, we get a pick six. It's the Ole Miss game last year.

[Matt Jones]

The fan base, I think, jumps back on board for a moment.

[Shannon]

It's just one game here.

[Ryan Lemond]

Or I don't think they do.

[Drew]

I don't think people should be this way. I think there's part of the fan base that would actually be mad that that happened. And I don't think that's being a true fan. You should never want your team to lose. But I think there are people that want this to be 3 and 9. So it's just clear and over with.

[Ryan Lemond]

I totally agree with you. I don't think I would ever be. Fans want it. I mean, I think you ask them, would you like to beat Texas? The answer is yes, horse. But I don't think this is why 5 and 7 is so bad.

[Matt Jones]

Yep.

[Ryan Lemond]

If you go 5 and 7 and we poll the fan base, there's still going to be nobody who wants him back.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. If you're Mitch Barnhart, though, you got to make a somewhat a business decision at that point.

[Ryan Lemond]

But you also have to make a business decision in a year. You're trying to raise a lot of money. You're thinking about building an entertainment district.

[Matt Jones]

They had the buyout, that entertainment district disappears.

[Ryan Lemond]

So that's the thing. No, I mean, I think the entertainment trigger might be A bad idea anyway. But it's like, do you want to build your entertainment district or do you want to get rid of Mark Stoops?

[Drew]

I think even if you get to five, you're running out of an impressive fight. Like if one of them is Tennessee, maybe. But if you beat Texas and then Florida, I don't even think that's that impressive at this point because Florida, if.

[Ryan Lemond]

You beat Florida, beating a Florida team that.

[Drew]

No, if you beat Florida, their coach is getting fired on Monday.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, that's true.

[Drew]

So it's. I still think it's gonna be hard to get impressive wins now. Tennessee would be very impressive. We thought Texas would be. I'm saying that's what. If you're gonna have five, you're gonna need something you can really point to.

[Ryan Lemond]

Jerry. Go ahead, Jerry.

[Caller]

Hey, Matt. In addition to Franklin, of course, it got blown off the blown out when Franklin got fired. Oregon State fired their coach over the weekend, too. And here's.

[Ryan Lemond]

Here's the problem for Mitch Barnhart. Powerful for football. I consider that.

[Caller]

I don't know what they're. I don't know what they're going to be next year, but the point is, is that the portal and all this stuff is speed up this process and everybody's talking about, you know, well, he, he might be Vandy and Louisville and get to keep his job. This decision is going to have to be made before those games. This is going to be made by the Tennessee Tech game because if they wait till the end of the season to do this. All these teams you're talking about, they're going to be announcing their new coaches this Sunday and Monday after the Louisville game. All those guys, you're going to want that they may be gone. So you're going to have to. They're going to have to know who they're going to hire. And now it's a hire if they're going to replace Stoops. And it's gotta be announced for that Monday after a little.

[Ryan Lemond]

It won't be the Monday, but I appreciate the call, but it'll be soon. You're right. I mean, one of the reasons all these teams have let go of guys is so they can go talk to people.

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Ryan Lemond]

So, you know, Jerry's right. I mean, but I don't. I don't think there's any scenario that firing during the season, do you?

[Matt Jones]

I don't. But Jerry makes a good argument. All these other coaches out there, they're going to be gobbled up by these.

[Ryan Lemond]

Other teams, but they won't Even if.

[Drew]

You don't fire him, you need to be having these conversations about you do.

[Ryan Lemond]

But, but bitch Barnhart's not going to do that.

[Drew]

That says a lot about him then.

[Ryan Lemond]

I mean, well, if you think you're.

[Drew]

Going to make a hire, you can't just wait.

[Ryan Lemond]

You can't go talk about him behind his back. You can't be hiring his, his replacement. If he's still your coach, you'd have to tell him, I'm letting you go. I mean, even me, I would say Mitch can't do that. You can't do that to a guy who's been here 15 years. You can't go be talking to his replacements while he's still sitting there.

[Commercial Announcer]

I don't know.

[Drew]

I think you have agents saying who's going to be.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, that might be different, but Mitch can't do it.

[Drew]

Yeah, no, of course. I mean, Mitch can't make it.

[Ryan Lemond]

You got to do your homework. Will find out if we're doing that. I mean, coaches talk.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, yes, they do.

[Ryan Lemond]

We'll take a break. Be right back.

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[Ryan Lemond]

Welcome back Techie Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. I can't believe there's people taking up for Kirby Smart and be like oh, he was really just trying to stop. I mean I saw the timeout, Shannon. People got to stop.

[Shannon]

Like you know, it's Georgia fans, right? I mean is there anybody just doesn't have a dog in the fight? That's all right.

[Ryan Lemond]

Let me ask you a question, Shannon. You're a conspiracy guy.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Did you see what happened with the crypto Friday? This feels like your kind of story.

[Shannon]

No, I haven't followed the crypto. What happened?

[Ryan Lemond]

All right, so crypto lost like $2 billion or maybe, I don't. I don't know. Massive amount of money in like 20 minutes. And unlike the regular financial market, the crypto market just disappears. We don't even know where it is. Right. Just gone. Crypto markets crash. When Trump announces he's going to put tariffs on China. A person. And again, with crypto, you don't have to register your accounts. A person gets online 30 minutes before he announces it and shorts all these crypto things, makes $192 million when Trump announces it and then immediately sells all his positions. Makes $192 million in 30 minutes. The assumption in the crypto world is somebody knew it was coming. Absolutely did it, and then sold it. Of course, this is the problem with crypto and this problem with our government getting involved in crypto. There are no laws. Right?

[Matt Jones]

Somebody.

[Ryan Lemond]

So, I mean, what he did is probably not even illegal. But do you think they should investigate Shannon? How the part because he made $192 million?

[Shannon]

Absolutely, they should investigate it. I mean, unless that guy has just immaculate timing and the best luck ever to be able to do that right before he. Trump made the announcement and then sell it.

[Ryan Lemond]

Right?

[Shannon]

Yeah. Yeah. Whoever this person was absolutely had some sort of insider tip that that announcement was coming and they knew what they were doing.

[Ryan Lemond]

What if you find out it was like a member of the administration?

[Shannon]

Prison, I think it should be.

[Caller]

I mean.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

I mean, we don't have any, like, we have no laws in this stuff. It's ridiculous. So I don't, like, people are going to lose, like, what you. In 15 years if we don't do something with AI and crypto, our society is going to collapse because we were arguing about stupid stuff. Yeah, that's my prediction. We're all sitting here arguing about who gets to swim against each other, and the entire system is going to crash because we don't have laws around the things that people are actually doing. Would you agree with that?

[Drew]

I bought crypto on Friday, so I'll just sit quiet here.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, that would hurt you then.

[Drew]

No, I'm up pretty big anytime.

[Ryan Lemond]

These you didn't buy.

[Drew]

I bought the dip.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, you bought the dip. Okay, but I'm saying to you. But that doesn't bother me. I don't care if the market dips and then you decide. I Know the one character you're talking about? Yes. It's not about you and what you're going to add. I'm saying, like.

[Drew]

Let me finish what I'm saying. No, this has happened three or four times. This happened with AI in China and Nvidia back in March. It dropped. It's up 200%.

[Ryan Lemond]

Same people are buying before the people who are doing.

[Drew]

That's what I'm saying. Our president says a message about China, the market crashes and it fixes itself in three days.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay, same with. What about the $192 million guy? That guy did something, in my opinion, that should be illegal. I don't care. I agree with you. Stocks go up. Damn. Whatever. I don't care if people do that. That's.

[Shannon]

That's.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's capitalism. But people who know something's coming make money on it. Like that should be illegal.

[Drew]

No, I agree. And it's happening all the time. Yeah. No, I completely agree.

[Ryan Lemond]

All right.

[Drew]

Like, I'm a nerd out. Like Nvidia, it's AI. It went down to like $90 in.

[Ryan Lemond]

March because Trump was free traded. Scott. I'm fine with that. There are laws about that. With crypto, there are no laws. Nvidia. There's a set of laws. I'm good with that.

[Drew]

No, I'm saying they put out chaos, they sell, it crashes, and they get right back in. Whether it's political crypto, stocks.

[Ryan Lemond]

You're missing my point. Eric. Go ahead, Eric.

[Caller]

Yes, sir. I was gonna say that Big Blue Madness was awesome. In the line waiting to get the player signed. We were interviewed by lax18. I was gonna say Andrea Yellowic can shoot just about as well as Trent Noah can. Not as good. Trent Noah is way better, but he can shoot. That was my eye opener from him. And two things about your bar. Trinity and Lizzy need raises. They have fantastic service. And please, Matt, get rid of your paper straws.

[Ryan Lemond]

They're gonna go away. Have to use them all.

[Matt Jones]

It's a trial.

[Ryan Lemond]

I think. I think they'll be gone after the Texas game. I think. I think we're. We. We. We. Look, I think we'll be out of them after the Texas game. So. So for the Texas game, they'll be there. I don't want them any more than you do there, by the way. And I'll tell Trinity and Lizzie you like them, but go ahead.

[Caller]

The. You were not kidding about your beef. That stuff is phenomenal.

[Ryan Lemond]

Thank you very much.

[Matt Jones]

Anybody?

[Ryan Lemond]

Jay Linda stuff.

[Caller]

Yes, sir. Thank you.

[Ryan Lemond]

Appreciate it. You think Yellow Vich plays.

[Drew]

Yeah, definitely. I think there's a chance he's still a little behind now. We kind of got to figure out how he's going to get his feet under him because he's unique circumstances. But I think he could be starting in. In February would not surprise me. But that also could be the big Z thing where he looks like a deer and just can't defend. Switching over, coming to play SEC basketball.

[Ryan Lemond]

But he's skilled enough to steal a spot. Do you. No, I don't think he started having watched him play, but I do think he can get. I mean, I think he could play more than Z did, but he's not going to start. In my opinion, he was the guy.

[Matt Jones]

We had to pick our one kind of dark horse guy. I'm still on the.

[Ryan Lemond]

I just think there's a huge physical discrepancy from him and the other guys. Like if you just watch them when they're running up and down the court. But he can shoot. And I mean he's an awesome. I mean like he's what, our 11th or 12th. Like I mean what an amazing 11th or 12th guy to have.

[Drew]

That's what's so exciting about this team is let's say if he doesn't work out right away, okay, we have others. It's not like you're all in. And if he doesn't work, there's no backup. It's thrown off everything you're doing. I'm not gonna say he's extra, but you know, there are other options if he doesn't pan out.

[Ryan Lemond]

I think he is. He is extra. But like what an extra bonus piece. I mean to have that as a. As a bonus.

[Matt Jones]

He does the one thing you Pope wants these four guy to do. Just stand in the corner and bomb away.

[Ryan Lemond]

And with Garrison bringing his little kid.

[Matt Jones]

Out, that was cool. Although the kid was scared to death. Scared to death.

[Ryan Lemond]

The kid was like, put me down.

[Matt Jones]

Daddy, get me out of here.

[Ryan Lemond]

Still kind of a neat little moment though.

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Ryan Lemond]

But I bet are kids ears more sensitive?

[Drew]

Yeah, you got to wear the big.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Sensory overload kind of.

[Ryan Lemond]

But I mean, are they. Does Are they like dogs? The sound hits them different.

[Drew]

Their ears just aren't used to hearing that yet. So you don't want to just throw them into a rock.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's not crazy, right? They're like dogs one time.

[Shannon]

Don't you remember being a kid?

[Commercial Announcer]

I know that.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm not. It's not being a critic. It's not critical. I'm just saying are they they're like dogs.

[Shannon]

The sounds are like dogs.

[Ryan Lemond]

Thank you. We'll be right back.

[Shannon]

They're the same thing.

[Ryan Lemond]

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[Matt Jones]

Call T.J. he'll make them pay.

[Shannon]

Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

[Ryan Lemond]

Welcome back, kenny Sports Radio. 859-280-2287 Text machine is 7772-774-5254. I love the text machine. When people met. When you say something about Nancy Pelosi, we've made fun of Nancy Pelosi's insider trading for years.

[Drew]

I follow her.

[Ryan Lemond]

Literally talks about he literally Pelosi tracker. What she does like, of course she ends up like she's the worst you're going to get. No. If you ever hear me taken up for Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, then you're listening to the wrong person.

[Drew]

Nancy Pelosi is the greatest stock trader in the history of the world.

[Ryan Lemond]

I mean, no kidding. The, the. But the cult like mentality of, oh, no, I said a bad word about your guy and you start yelling at me like, come on, my friend, we're all better than that. 859-280-2287 writes Matt, I like paper straws. Come on. No you don't. Nobody likes paper straws. The other day, no, you don't.

[Drew]

When I was taking the wrapper off of my paper straw, the straw broke with it. Get another one.

[Ryan Lemond]

I literally, I mean, I'm mad at my own restaurant for having it. I look in the mirror, Shannon, and cuss myself out for us having paper straws.

[Shannon]

The only person that likes paper straws is Mitch McConnell.

[Matt Jones]

He's a turtle.

[Ryan Lemond]

Really good job on his joke. That was a great joke. Why does, why does Ryan step on the joke?

[Shannon]

Explain it.

[Ryan Lemond]

He, he has to explain the joke.

[Matt Jones]

I love it.

[Ryan Lemond]

That was a really good joke, Shannon. You deserve to not have it stepped on. Cornbreadhip.com go to cornbread hemp.com promo code KSR. Full spectrum flower only hemp CBD gummies. The seltzers are huge. You can get them. Order them to your house. It's Cornbread Hemp.com promo code KSR. Try them. Help you relax, sleep and more. At Cornbread Hemp, one person writes, Matt, why would you dismiss getting James Franklin? He's won everywhere. He's gone. Why not here? Because we would have to pay the buyout, right?

[Matt Jones]

You'd end up paying two buyouts.

[Ryan Lemond]

You'd be paying two buyouts. But more importantly, James Franklin has one. If he did as well here as he did at Penn State. That would be good. But is James Franklin the coach for the future? My answer would be no. He was great for his time, but that time is now changing, and I don't think he would be the guy.

[Drew]

I don't really know what the future holds for James Franklin. I just think about when he ran up the score at Vandy and when he and Mark Stoops almost fought at the Citrus bowl, and I've just never liked him, and I don't think I could turn that off.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm amazed how many people. It seems like everyone in college football hates it. They all root for his downfall. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I don't know. I've never seen the.

[Drew]

The Penn State had the serious issue year or two ago, and I'll never forget that press conference. He stood there like a smarmy look, and he wouldn't answer, and he made like some media intern take the question. I just said a lot about his character because he put the one dude in the spot that doesn't even do press conferences. Sid who it was. And he just stood there with his arms crossed behind him. I just thought that was a jerk move on top of all his other jerk moves.

[Ryan Lemond]

A lot of times I have to drive on Sundays, usually from Louisville back to Lexington to do the podcast. And, you know, most podcasts don't update till Sunday night. So the only, like, new podcast that's out on Sunday is Todd McShay. So he does, like, a thing, and it's not particularly good. But what I've noticed about Todd McShay is he'll say anything. First of all, he called Paul Fine Bomb a dirty weasel the other day.

[Drew]

Was he? Is he.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes, he did go look.

[Drew]

Is he not associated with any.

[Ryan Lemond]

No, he's with the Ringer. Okay. I didn't know that he got on there, Shannon. He was like, he's a cheat. He's a liar. He's a dirty wheeze. I was like, whoa, I like this.

[Drew]

I like it.

[Shannon]

I got to go back.

[Ryan Lemond]

Go look up McShay, and you can see his co host is going, hey. Hey.

[Drew]

Just picked up a new listener over here.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's just like, well, but he was going off on James Franklin yesterday before he got fired, and he just seemed to hate him. Feels like the people that cover the sport just cannot stand him.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I've never met him. He seems to not be respected at all by members of the media, by members. Other good coaches.

[Ryan Lemond]

They just seem to.

[Matt Jones]

Nobody seems to respect that guy like that guy.

[Ryan Lemond]

I don't know why it is. Tristan. Go ahead, Tristan.

[Caller]

Good morning, gentlemen.

[Ryan Lemond]

Good morning.

[Caller]

All right, so first off, shout out to Vaseline. Whatever the opposite of a shout out is, send it to Peter Thiel, but shout out to Vaseline. All right, and my question for you this morning, Matt. So you keep talking about video for your Cover Zero stuff. Where are you putting that out? Are you streaming it on Periscope or something?

[Matt Jones]

Like, what the problem?

[Ryan Lemond]

But it still looks bad. I mean, the problem we've had is it doesn't look good. I mean, I've said it makes Drew and I both look like we're high and crying. So sometimes the clips go out on Twitter, but they're all kind of embarrassing. We're doing the best we can. We're using cameras that were literally from the first BlackBerry, looking at them. Right?

[Caller]

Yeah. So I spend a lot of time on YouTube. You search cover zero, and all that comes up is defensive concepts.

[Ryan Lemond]

We might be. I appreciate. Tristan. Appreciate the call. We're kind of hiding it, to be honest with you. I don't want to start putting it up till it looks. It looks awful. Like, it really looks terrible, and it's nobody's fault. Well, it is.

[Shannon]

It's Billy's fault.

[Ryan Lemond]

It's I heart's fault to some extent, but they're trying to improve it. But we hope to have it looking better. But when I look at myself on those clips, I'm like, please tell me I don't look like that. It remember.

[Drew]

I guess not remember. So, like, the Snapchat filter you put on, people in their faces, crying.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, we're talking about do it.

[Shannon]

Do it.

[Ryan Lemond]

Like Grandpa Simpson.

[Drew]

We're debating Baker Mayfield versus Sam Darnold, but it looks like we're just crying our eyes out over it.

[Ryan Lemond]

Like, there's the clips. We just. We both look so bad, and yet somehow, Shannon, Billy has the good camera.

[Shannon]

See, he knows what he's doing. He's sabotaging you guys.

[Ryan Lemond]

He might be, because Billy does have the. The good camera. And when we're doing it from home and we're on our iPads, we both look good for some reason. The official camera, it just. It's just terrible. They just sent in new ones, so we're going to try it again.

[Matt Jones]

Nice.

[Ryan Lemond]

And this thing is lit for, like, prehistoric torture. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not lit for.

[Matt Jones]

Not designed to be a tv.

[Ryan Lemond]

It's not designed to be a tv.

[Drew]

Clear that radio. People design the visual effects.

[Ryan Lemond]

Anybody who's ever worked with lighting knows having it behind you and over your head is the worst thing you can do. And that's kind of what they do. Adam, Go ahead, Adam.

[Caller]

Hey, what's up, guys? I had two points. First, seeing John Wall at. At Madness just, like, made my heart happy after, you know, not only is he one of the most beloved players in UK history, but to hear his podcast from a couple months back where he was actually contemplating suicide, like, for him to have that moment. Yeah, like, let's like, get him on. On staff or something like that so he can feel the presence of BBN all the time.

[Ryan Lemond]

It seemed like he loved it. Mario. It did just. It seemed like he strikes me. And I think DeMarcus is like this as guys that are kind of at their happiest, Adam, when they're here. And I do enjoy that about him.

[Caller]

Absolutely. And the second point, the. The. The pre hype video or whatnot. You know, imagine if we had something like that for UK football preseason. Like, wouldn't people be more engaged like that? That was the best content that UK media, athletics media has put out over the last five years. And to see that, it's like, well, you know, that's awesome for basketball, man. It would have been nice to have something like that for football.

[Ryan Lemond]

Football's completely screwed up the preseason. I appreciate the call. They did everything they could have wrong. This is a. Again, part of the reason I'm not confident about the future is they did everything wrong this off season.

[Matt Jones]

Why didn't they have a fan fest event like the basketball team? Just.

[Ryan Lemond]

Why didn't they just tell us who our players were?

[Matt Jones]

Why didn't they have a fan day? Why didn't they have a women's clinic?

[Drew]

There was a fan day. It wasn't nearly like fan fest basketball, but, I mean, they had their own practice.

[Ryan Lemond]

They did. They had for. It was the day after our meeting.

[Drew]

Now, there wasn't a lot of the extra stuff you'd want out there, but it did exist.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm with you. I mean, basketball doesn't even need to do it in some ways, and they did it anyway. Right.

[Drew]

Think about football right now, where we're very obviously at a crossroads and we talk about some people want the team to lose. It's easier to want the team to lose or be disappointed when you don't even really know the people under the helmet. There's no connection of wanting to just root for them as people, really.

[Ryan Lemond]

Drew's exactly right. He's exactly right. It is harder it's harder to be critical or hateful to people if you know them. It's my whole point of how we should watch. We should all learn and talk to people that are different. You're not going to be as mean to people if you know them and you like them. We don't know these players. And so it's easy for people to go, oh, he stinks. They don't. They don't know the first thing about him.

[Matt Jones]

Seth McGowan's got a great story. We knew nothing of it or knew nothing of him until media day.

[Ryan Lemond]

Seth McGowan's really good.

[Matt Jones]

He is really good.

[Ryan Lemond]

Do you think when he walks through Lexington, anyone knows who he is?

[Matt Jones]

No. And he's probably our mvp. Well, he is our mvp.

[Ryan Lemond]

I mean, when he walks. If he walks to the bars, or let's say he showed up at Big Blue Madness. No. You think people would know who he is?

[Drew]

Very unlikely.

[Matt Jones]

And he's our. He's our most valuable player. He's our.

[Ryan Lemond]

I don't think.

[Matt Jones]

Nope. I don't either.

[Drew]

Well, how about at the last game where we have a receiver come off the bench and he looks like a NFL Pro Bowler, and everyone in the fan base is like, never heard of this person.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, Chris, go ahead.

[Caller]

Hey, Matt. I just want to say before I start, I would shake Mark Stoop's hand. Like, if he were to be let go tomorrow, I would shake his hand and thank him.

[Ryan Lemond]

But I just want to ask if that happens, we should. Because he's done great stuff here. But go ahead.

[Caller]

I just want to know, like, after 12 years, I mean, he's had six different offensive coordinators. We're still seeing the same end of game or end of half. Management clock. Management issues. Like, why, if we go 6 and 6, would y' all like to see him get another shot? I just have to hear y'.

[Ryan Lemond]

All. It's not that I would like to. It's just. I don't think you really have another choice. I appreciate the call. Because of the $37 million buyout, and.

[Matt Jones]

We have to look at the mirror. We still are Kentucky football. And six wins used to be the benchmark. We used to be happy and have parades. We get six wins and go to a bowl game. We're not too far removed from those days.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, I don't think we're going to have to worry about that scenario. But, yeah, I don't think you could fire him if you want six.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think so either. Seven's the tough one.

[Ryan Lemond]

You mean five.

[Matt Jones]

Five, five, five and seven.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, seven would be pretty easy actually for there. You know, there's a lot of myths about UK Federal Credit Union. Can I ask UK Federal Credit Union for a favor?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Can we change my commercial that runs during the games?

[Matt Jones]

They run it every second of every commercial break. Well, just plain wrong, Billy.

[Ryan Lemond]

They had this ad, they asked me to put on a country accent and they run it non stop. Non stop. Federal credit for all y'.

[Caller]

All.

[Ryan Lemond]

I don't talk like that.

[Shannon]

No, you're like Brian Kelly when he got the job at was LSU talking.

[Ryan Lemond]

Like he was country. I'll do it. I'll do this ad like that. My family is. There's mess about UK Federal Credit Union.

[Matt Jones]

Billy.

[Ryan Lemond]

No, seriously, go to UK Federal Credit Union. It's not hard to join there. The myths are busted. All you got to do is go. Kentuckians get great rates and real benefits. There's seven local branches are online in under three minutes. Whether you wear blue or white or not, it's UK Federal Credit Union. We're not just for some Shannon. We're for all y'.

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[Drew]

That's right.

[Ryan Lemond]

Membership eligibility required. Federally insured by NCUA. We'll take a break. Be right back.

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[Ryan Lemond]

Welcome back Techie Sports Radio. Shannon, some breaking news.

[Shannon]

Oh, hang on. I'm not even ready.

[Ryan Lemond]

You got this.

[Shannon]

Hang on.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm. I'm waiting.

[Shannon]

You're gonna sit here all day till I do it.

[Drew]

More important.

[Ryan Lemond]

There you go. The breaking news was waiting. The SEC has released its preseason honors OTEGA away picked preseason SEC player of the year. Wow. First team all sec. Jalen Lowe predicted third team all SEC and Kentucky predicted to be second in the conference behind Florida. You like that?

[Matt Jones]

You know Ortega a guy we hardly talk. Of course he's hurt right now. We don't hardly even talk about him.

[Ryan Lemond]

No we don't. It's crazy. We have preseason SEC player of the year. He never gets.

[Matt Jones]

We don't even talk about him. You know how many. When's the last time we actually talked about Otega helping this team, what he can do to this team on this show.

[Drew]

Just a sure thing, whatever that stat was last year about his double digit games. You just, you know he's going to show up.

[Ryan Lemond]

It is amazing though that like we don't even know.

[Matt Jones]

We talk a lot about low. We talk about Trent Noah today we talked about even yellow bitch haven't mentioned Otega and he is SEC preseason player of the year.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, congrats to him. I mean how about that? That's a kid who. I mean when he came here you would have never imagined that something that would happen A lot of people, me.

[Drew]

Included when I'm sure where he'd fit in. And we kind of debated that brea away spot who's going to go there. Boy did we weren't sure what was ahead there with him. He was awesome last year and expected again.

[Ryan Lemond]

Totally agree. 859-280-2287 one person writes. Matt, why do you keep saying that we have to pay Franklin's buyout? Doesn't Penn State? Well, no, actually if you, if you negotiate the contracts well you can end up with what Penn State has which is if Franklin goes somewhere else, the money's offset. So let me explain how this should work. Here's what Franklin should do, but he got fired, so I don't. So because he got fired he's gonna end up getting it. But if he goes and works somewhere else, the money gets offset. So if he comes to, you know, Vandy again and he gets paid 6 million a year, then Penn State will only owe him the difference between what he would have made at Penn State and what he makes at Vandy. So here's what coaches do. Here's what Mark Stoops would do if it wasn't due in 20 days. He would say, okay, you owe me $37 million. I want to go coach here for $6 million a year. But I want to make all $6 million. I don't want to go work there for free. How about you just give me 15 or 20, I'll go away and then I can make my full salary there and get this $20 million. UK has an incentive to do it, right?

[Matt Jones]

Sure they do.

[Ryan Lemond]

However, we can't do that because it's all due up front. So he can get his money, wait a year, and then go get full money. So the thing that usually offsets your price of the buyout we don't even get.

[Drew]

That's fun. It's fun for us.

[Matt Jones]

That's why people keep saying, why didn't Mark Snoop fall on the sword and walk away for what he's done in the program? Would you do that?

[Ryan Lemond]

That's what I thought Cal would do is Cal would say, buy me out for less and then I'll go coach somewhere else. City just left. So Cal actually left money on the table. Cal did us the best favor.

[Matt Jones]

He did us a big favor.

[Ryan Lemond]

I mean, like, Cal could have made that a lot worse, and he didn't.

[Drew]

So, yeah, shout out to that Vegas hotel room at the Final Four. That's kind of what. What got him in the contract.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, let's go. But here's my point. If Stoops goes and gets money, go get. Goes and gets another job, it doesn't change the amount we have to pay, right? Unless he has a job and then he negotiates it so he can get paid twice, which is the best possible scenario for Kentucky. He finds another job. He wants to get that full salary, so he takes less than the 37 million from Kentucky. That's what you have to hope for if you want him gone.

[Matt Jones]

But if he keep him till the end of the season and all these other schools are hiring coaches so quickly.

[Ryan Lemond]

It'S a great point. Let's go to Brad. Brad.

[Caller]

Hey, guys, if we can find $37 million to buy out Stoops, wouldn't it be smarter to find seven or eighteen and a half million for the next. Each of the next two years to go build the roster? Which is the whole reason we're losing. We're not losing because he's a bad coach. And you can say, oh, he didn't recruit well. He doesn't have the money to recruit all the guys that we're competing against.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, but I don't. Here's the thing. I don't.

[Caller]

I don't buy that money.

[Ryan Lemond]

I don't buy that. I think you are correct if you're talking about beating Georgia. But we have spent more on our roster than Vandy has. We have spent more than Missouri has, and we've probably spent a pretty equivalent amount to, say, South Carolina maybe. You know, I don't know what all the Mississippi State, Indiana. So, yeah, I mean, if we were only losing to the great teams, then I'd be totally with you, but we're losing to everybody.

[Caller]

Did we just not spend money on a quarterback for a reason? Whereas all of those teams.

[Ryan Lemond]

We did spend money on a quarterback. We. We spent money on Calzada. It just didn't work. But he's getting pretty good money.

[Caller]

That was a.

[Ryan Lemond]

We spent a lot of money on the offensive line.

[Drew]

That's where all the money we went.

[Ryan Lemond]

We spent. I appreciate the call. We spent. Our offensive line cost us a lot of money. That whole line was paid at least a million bucks each. So you want to know where our money went and went to the offensive line?

[Drew]

It's all there. Calzada was expensive, but probably a little cheaper than most people expect because they spent so much on the guys to protect him. Hoping that will kind of help fix some of the problems.

[Ryan Lemond]

So far, it's been okay. Yeah, but it's not been. It's not been the strength. But, yes, we. Last year, money was an issue. I don't think that's the issue this year, do you?

[Matt Jones]

I just don't know. Do you think they just spin it on the wrong people the wrong way?

[Ryan Lemond]

I think when you don't have the base, the transfer portal needs to add to your base. Our base was bad, so we're trying to add. Whereas in years past, I think our base was pretty good.

[Drew]

And the money thing isn't the reason. It's almost been two calendar years since we've scored three touchdowns in a game.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. And the money is not a money thing. The money does not cause you to screw up the clock at the end of the first half every single.

[Matt Jones]

Correct. Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's not a money situation. Andrew, I got, like, 30 seconds. Go ahead.

[Drew]

All right.

[Caller]

I think it's inevitable with the new scheduling that they're going to add. You know, the ticket prices are going to go up because we've added the conference game. And good luck. Even if he wins four or five games trying to get people to spend more money to go watch this again.

[Ryan Lemond]

Totally agree. Appreciate the call. I mean, most schools are going to raise their ticket prices due to revenue sharing. Is this a good time for Kentucky to raise their ticket?

[Matt Jones]

No.

[Ryan Lemond]

So it's just a bad situation. All right, we'll be back at studio tomorrow. My trivia is Wednesday sksr.