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- [02:43]
Shannon
This is Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.
- [02:49]
Matt Jones
Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Tuesday, November 18, Champions Classic Day here in Lexington, Kentucky. And you can give us a shot on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. That's 859-280-2287. We will take your calls today. We did not take any yesterday. So if you got stuff to say about basketball, football or life, a vision auto glass text machine is 772-774-5254. In this edition sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ he'll make them pay. We're back in Lexington. I have Drew and Shannon. Ryan is running late because he had some sort of doctors something. But he will be here very soon. And tonight is a Champions classic Kentucky and Michigan State. But Drew, first of all, good to be back in Lexington. The drive to Buffalo was. Didn't feel like very far, but the drive back, it said the coming home from an adventure always takes longer than getting there.
- [03:48]
Drew
Yeah. That the excitement usually takes off a couple hours on a trip. Wherever you're headed, it doesn't matter.
- [03:53]
Matt Jones
You're right about.
- [03:53]
Drew
I always say Nashville is an hour and a half there for getting back. The excitement get, you know, helps get there. But on the way home, we're a little slower than.
- [04:00]
Matt Jones
Yeah, Ohio was bigger that way. I don't think people. I don't think people realize Ohio's longer when you go south than if you go north.
- [04:07]
Drew
It's expanding daily.
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Matt Jones
It is. So it was a lot of Ohio, but we got back and now right back to it. This is the time of year where it feels like there is a Kentucky game every day of some point. And tonight it's a big one against Michigan State. You feeling. Are you feeling confident?
- [04:27]
Drew
Confident? Ish. I'm very excited about it, I'll say that.
- [04:30]
Matt Jones
But why are you excited?
- [04:31]
Drew
Just big games. I'd love to be there. Love New York. Love the Champions Classic. Even though they usually lose when I show up. But no, I'm just excited to watch a game.
- [04:39]
Matt Jones
Yeah. People were honest for not going. I mean, we talked about, like, it's not close, you know, I mean, it's. It's not close at all. I would challenge everybody. Shannon, pull out a map. Yeah, just pull out A map and look at Buffalo and then look at New York City. It's not. It would be like saying, oh, you're in Fulton, Kentucky. Why don't you just swing by Pikeville?
- [05:01]
Shannon
It's like a four hour difference. Like if you were to take off here and go to New York city, it's like 11, 11 and a half. It's like what, seven and a half to Buffalo from Louisville.
- [05:09]
Matt Jones
Yes. But even bigger is Drew and I were figuring it's seven and a half from Buffalo to Lexington.
- [05:14]
Drew
Right.
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Matt Jones
But if you drove to New York during traffic hours.
- [05:18]
Shannon
Oh, forget about.
- [05:19]
Matt Jones
Basically seven to seven and a half from Buffalo to New York. So it was a scent. Would essentially have been the exact same drive. The other thing is, you know, we. We've got. We just decided not to do it. I did notice all of our bosses. Shannon, are there.
- [05:34]
Ryan
Oh, wow.
- [05:35]
Matt Jones
Which continue continues a theme of mine which is over the years, our bosses get to go to these Champions Classic games and they don't send us.
- [05:44]
Drew
I've been to zero.
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Shannon
I heart don't have it in the budget. Sorry, Matt.
- [05:48]
Matt Jones
Sorry, Matt. We can't go to the Champions Classic, by the way. Hey, everybody. We're hanging out at the Champions Classic. It just goes to show you because I don't. I don't believe Shannon, they're covering the game, do you?
- [05:59]
Shannon
I don't think so. Are they doing the post game show?
- [06:05]
Drew
We also couldn't go because we had the key to the whole radio broadcast in our car with no Billy our sports sitting in this seat tonight.
- [06:11]
Matt Jones
People don't realize there wouldn't have been a game without Billy. So. So just so people know, when you turn on the radio broadcast, in addition to hearing me say for all y', all, the thing that keeps it on is Billy. They had to essentially call in the National Guard to have the. The Tennessee Tech football game because he was gone. So there would be no basketball game tonight without it. But you feel good?
- [06:34]
Drew
Ish. I do feel good.
- [06:36]
Matt Jones
It's three and a half point favorite.
- [06:38]
Drew
Four and a half.
- [06:39]
Matt Jones
It's gone up. Okay.
- [06:40]
Shannon
No, it's five and a half a minute ago.
- [06:42]
Drew
Yeah, it just went down.
- [06:43]
Matt Jones
Okay.
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Drew
Okay.
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Matt Jones
All right. Up, down, moving around.
- [06:47]
Drew
They should win. I know. They need a bounce back from Louisville. They need to bounce back from New York last year where they just got completely waxed by Ohio State right before Christmas. Just Michigan State's physicality worries me with. We haven't been able to handle that well. But Michigan State can't shoot the ball very well. So If Kentucky shooting and playing with some pace, they'll be okay.
- [07:05]
Matt Jones
Yeah. It's one of these games if there's a point number we can hit and we will win.
- [07:09]
Ryan
Yeah.
- [07:10]
Matt Jones
I mean they're going to want to.
- [07:11]
Drew
Turn into a fight.
- [07:12]
Matt Jones
Michigan State beat Arkansas because Arkansas couldn't shoot. So if we can make shots which hasn't been guaranteed most of the year, we should be okay now. Now I was thinking about Champions Classic games over the years against Michigan State. The last time we played Michigan State in New York was the famous Tyrese Maxey game, which was probably one of the most consequential nights that I can remember because in the same night Maxi goes for. Was it 30, 35, something like that?
- [07:42]
Drew
Yeah, it was a. I can't remember.
- [07:45]
Matt Jones
Bashir beat Bevin and I got fired from the radio.
- [07:48]
Drew
Big huge night.
- [07:49]
Matt Jones
That was a huge night.
- [07:50]
Shannon
Yeah, a lot happened there.
- [07:52]
Matt Jones
That was a huge night in. In Kentucky. At least in my personal Kentucky experience that all happened the same evening.
- [07:59]
Drew
You're hoping for a less eventful Champions Classic in New York tonight.
- [08:02]
Matt Jones
Well, what would be the equivalent of.
- [08:04]
Drew
The three things our bosses just heard our comments about being jealous that we don't get to go to things.
- [08:08]
Matt Jones
Yeah. So then we get fired. Yeah. And then what's the Bashir beats Bevin.
- [08:14]
Drew
I don't know what else is going on tonight.
- [08:16]
Matt Jones
We have to think about what that would be. But we'd have what away goes for 25 or 30. Now we need a freshman. Needs to be Jasper. Jasper goes for 30.
- [08:26]
Drew
Oh, Jasper goes for 30. Then we'll take whatever happens around that.
- [08:30]
Matt Jones
So the vibe like, like vibes around here, not. Not around KSR and the fact that I heart is at the game and we're not. Shannon. Not that those vibes, those put those vibes to the side. The, the vibes around the fan base. I feel like the fans have taken the Louisville loss harder than they should have. And I was. And I was trying to think of what those reasons why are. Okay, so we always lose a game in the non conference. I mean there's only been what two year, one year we haven't lost. 20, 15 and a lot of times.
- [09:11]
Drew
The first true road game.
- [09:12]
Matt Jones
And it's often the first true road game. The difference this year is it's Louisville. If we had lost to Louisville in December, I don't think you get this reaction.
- [09:22]
Drew
Do you know it's first marquee game, first marquee, first test.
- [09:25]
Matt Jones
So I think that's number one. It's the first marquee game. I think that's very important. It's the first marquee game, so it's the first time people get to decide are we real or not? Yeah.
- [09:35]
Drew
Last year they beat Duke in that spot.
- [09:36]
Matt Jones
It's exactly right. And this year we lost. Secondly, we were down the. The entire game. Right. So we get down early. And so it feels like were constantly behind and a lot of the game behind by big numbers. And then of course. So I think that's part of it. And then it was that I think Louisville had the guy that we're used to having. We're used to having a Mikhail Brown kind of guy over the years, and now they have it. I mean, when's the last time Louisville had definitively the best talent on the court? Has that happened before Cal got here?
- [10:15]
Drew
I mean, Quinn Snyder had a big game, but he wasn't the most talented guy.
- [10:17]
Matt Jones
I mean, I, you know, maybe when Russ Smith. But. But I think even with like Russ Smith, we would have said, okay, well, maybe he's the bet he's better right now, but the Twins are going to be good. You know, pick whatever.
- [10:29]
Drew
Randall.
- [10:29]
Matt Jones
Randall. We're going to be there. And there's not a guy on this team that you say, well, by the end of the year he's going to be a superstar. So I think all of that has combined to make us take the loss maybe worse than we otherwise would. Would you agree?
- [10:46]
Drew
I agree. And we just been so spoiled beating them. It's like we don't even know how to react. Even their last one before that was like the coaches were wearing masks, the arena was empty. We just kind of like, yeah, whatever. We're. We're just trying to go see our grandparents right now, so. But now I was just going to add, now there's. We have little. Some big concerns going. Another marquee game. And in that one at the end of Louisville, they were trying to hand it to Kentucky. I think that added it to it, too. How often do you see a team missed seven straight free throws and then.
- [11:11]
Matt Jones
Kentucky couldn't capitalize and then you get the low injury. Now we still don't have any word on low. I assume he'll have to address it today, right after the game. Yeah, I mean, I mean, not playing today.
- [11:26]
Drew
I wouldn't expect him to play. Pope's going to get asked, but he's.
- [11:29]
Matt Jones
Going to get asked whether or not he's playing.
- [11:31]
Drew
He said they were going to meet on the weekend and talk. We had.
- [11:33]
Matt Jones
In theory, we should know. I expected to Know, yesterday, I mean I expected to eat, even get even if it wasn't official. The kind of probably not playing or think he will. So we'll probably know that tonight. So I would ask you two things. Let's say we win and then we hear he may come back different fan base tomorrow.
- [11:56]
Drew
I think they get excited about that. It'd be hard not to. Michigan State's ranks got a big win over Arkansas. They're tough team Tizzo. And then if you can win that in the garden that got you last year. And then you hear, you know, a lot of people, myself included, are worried he could be out for the season. If you hear he's going to give it a go, you got to be thrilled about everything that could happen tonight.
- [12:13]
Matt Jones
So that would be best possible.
- [12:14]
Drew
Yes.
- [12:15]
Matt Jones
All right, what about worst possible option? What if you lose and then in the post game, Pope says not going to play this year.
- [12:26]
Drew
That's going to be an ugly scene around here. I'm worried. I don't think Kentucky is going to get loose tonight and if they do, I don't think it'd be. But if they were to play bad and Michigan State get them pretty good and then you get some bad low news, it's going to get uncomfortable around here. People are going to be very upset. In your two big games you lost and then your point guards not playing.
- [12:44]
Matt Jones
It would go from. I mean, I think it would be funny at that point, Shannon, to think about the two programs two weeks ago.
- [12:50]
Shannon
Oh yeah.
- [12:51]
Matt Jones
Two weeks ago Stoops was essentially fired and we had beaten Purdue, you know.
- [12:57]
Drew
Right.
- [12:58]
Matt Jones
And then go to now it would just show you how quick the roller coaster, Shannon, for any coach can go.
- [13:05]
Shannon
Yeah, if you lose that game tonight, all of a sudden there. And there's pressure on you too because you still got a tough schedule. Non conference. You still still got St. John's you got Gonzaga, you got North Carolina. And we were talking about maybe one or two non conference losses. Now all of a sudden you're, well.
- [13:19]
Matt Jones
There'S not a game, four or five losses in the. There's not a non conference game amongst the six difficult games. There's not one now that you say is definitely a win. I mean every, every single one of those games is now hard.
- [13:34]
Drew
This might be the easiest of the bunch.
- [13:37]
Matt Jones
Neutral court.
- [13:38]
Drew
I mean Michigan State's good, but everybody's good.
- [13:40]
Matt Jones
That's not a might. This is the easiest one of the bunch. I mean Indiana, I guess you would say it's at home. Indiana and North Carolina are at Home. But if you're just talking about quality team, I mean think about this. We, our six non conference games are against six teams that are all ranked.
- [13:55]
Drew
Yeah. I didn't consider Indiana. That might be the answer. But still, this is one you need to get.
- [14:00]
Matt Jones
And Gonzaga looks like a just juggernaut now.
- [14:03]
Drew
They could be number one when we go to Nashville.
- [14:06]
Matt Jones
Yeah, I mean they, last night they beat some team like 195 to 33.
- [14:13]
Shannon
Is that official?
- [14:14]
Matt Jones
I mean I don't, I may have a number off.
- [14:17]
Shannon
Yeah.
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Matt Jones
But I think it was 195 to.
- [14:19]
Drew
3, 122 to 50.
- [14:21]
Matt Jones
That's close.
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Drew
They also destroyed a ranked Creighton team by 30, beat Oklahoma by almost 20. They're killing people.
- [14:29]
Matt Jones
So they're really good.
- [14:30]
Drew
Yes.
- [14:31]
Matt Jones
So the point is we need to win tonight. Now the game's at 6:30. We're not kind of used to playing that early 6:30 game.
- [14:39]
Drew
That's the Michigan State tax. We get pulled down because of them.
- [14:42]
Matt Jones
That's exactly right. When you, when you play Michigan State, it's like when you drive for the first time in Pennsylvania after you've been in Kentucky and Ohio, you're like, oh, you got to pay tolls, by the way. I, I don't know what happens, Shannon, with these tolls, like in Pennsylvania, New York.
- [14:58]
Drew
Yeah.
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Matt Jones
Like we'll send it to you. I'll just tell you if they send it. I don't ever respond.
- [15:04]
Shannon
I don't think you have to worry about it. What are we going to be in Pennsylvania next?
- [15:07]
Matt Jones
No, I'm just saying like, well, I.
- [15:09]
Shannon
Had to pay one here in Louisville going to Indiana.
- [15:12]
Matt Jones
Well that wouldn't you have to because it's like sent by Louisville.
- [15:15]
Ryan
Right.
- [15:15]
Matt Jones
But I don't know who the Pennsylvania and New York people are sending the thing to and it might be in the mailbox. And I just say it's, it's there.
- [15:23]
Drew
With your Gettysburg parking ticket.
- [15:24]
Matt Jones
Yeah, well now I had to pay that one. The Gettysburg parking ticket came back. But the Pennsylvania, New York toll, Shannon, when do you find out about those?
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Shannon
I don't think they're going to double down. Like they're going to send it to you one time. If you throw it away, I don't think you're going to get another one.
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Matt Jones
But ever.
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Shannon
I mean you might. What if all that is accumulating over the years?
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Matt Jones
Well, you remember when Obama ran for president, we've talked about this before. All of a sudden it came out that he had like 98 parking tickets across America. Like no Remember, he had like. Like every town, he just had a parking ticket and he had to go one by one and pay all these parking tickets one day. I'm never going to run for anything. But that would be me. They'd be like, by the way, you one time had a parking ticket, Laramie, Wyoming. And I'd be like, that's exactly right. Shannon wanted to go to that bar and pulled over and then I just party. There was a ticket. I was like, who needs this? It's a Wyoming parking ticket. When's this ever going to come up?
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Shannon
So, I mean, what's the punishment? If you don't pay that, they're not going to throw you in jail. So what's the motivation?
- [16:33]
Matt Jones
For me, that's a pull over and physically pay it. Once Drew and I didn't have any cash and they made us like, we got detained.
- [16:40]
Drew
I had to mow around the.
- [16:42]
Matt Jones
We had to work on the side of the road because between us we had no cash. And we were like, they're like, all right, move these rocks and we'll let you go.
- [16:49]
Drew
We were like 60 cents short, too. I just stood on the interstate with my hand out.
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Matt Jones
Welcome back Techie Sports Radio 859280, 2287. Text Machine 772-774-52541. Rights. Matt, part of the problem is you are all doom and gloom. I love your show, but your glass isn't half full. It's empty. Get some rest and come back tomorrow with a better attitude. What are they talking about? I laughed more yesterday on the show than I have laughed in forever. I had the most fun. Two days. What? What is the. Where are we? Coming off as doom and gloomy Sunday.
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Drew
Was one of the best days of my life. In fact, when I walked into I heart this morning, three people said, we're surprised you're here. Like we thought you were staying.
- [20:29]
Matt Jones
Shannon, do you. Do you think we sound doom and gloom?
- [20:32]
Drew
No.
- [20:32]
Shannon
No, I don't think so at all.
- [20:33]
Matt Jones
What's wrong with you, Randy? Come on, Randy.
- [20:36]
Drew
Yeah.
- [20:37]
Matt Jones
Yeah, Randy.
- [20:38]
Shannon
Maybe it's just excited about the game. Maybe that's a you problem, Randy.
- [20:42]
Matt Jones
You think Randy's projecting his home doom and gloom onto other people?
- [20:47]
Shannon
Think so.
- [20:48]
Matt Jones
That may be the case. Well, I, I, I, if I'm, if I've come off at all negative, I'm not. I want to win tonight, though. I do think it's important for the, for the, for the, for the fan base. I mean, I think people, you know, a lot of life is about expectations and I think there was a big expectation with this team and if you don't hit it, then it just leads people to be a little bit more negative.
- [21:10]
Drew
Want me to say some positive things about good matchups? Yeah, they're going to want to turn this into a fight. Maybe we get a lot of fouls. They don't have any depth. Kentucky has all of the depth, so it might be a good night to have some whistles because once their big guys get in trouble, they don't have much behind.
- [21:26]
Matt Jones
Yeah, that would be good. And you tend to have a lot of fouls in Michigan State and if.
- [21:30]
Drew
You speed them up and use your depth, that's an advantage. Also, Michigan State can't shoot, so Louisville got Kentucky by knocking down a lot of shots. Michigan State, they're incapable.
- [21:38]
Matt Jones
One person writes, cry, cry, cry. All Kentucky fans do is cry. You guys whined about playing the Cards in November. Now you're crying about playing at 6:30. I don't mind. I'm actually glad we're playing. One of the problems about this game is it goes so late at night. I mean, you know, it sometimes doesn't end till 2 in the morning. So I'm, I'm actually very happy about the game time. It's just gonna be weird because, you know, 6:30, we don't, we don't play many games at time.
- [22:03]
Drew
Everything you've said, people are on the wrong side of the argument. I'm thrilled at 6:30.
- [22:06]
Matt Jones
Me too.
- [22:07]
Drew
I might get some sleep tonight. I would have hated the 9 o'. Clock. So your text machine needs to shut up. We're in a great place.
- [22:12]
Matt Jones
Wow. All right. Ryan's here.
- [22:14]
Ryan
How are you? Welcome back to ky, boys.
- [22:16]
Matt Jones
We had a good time. It was a lot of fun. Missed you. You missed a lot. You've been replaced by Billy. On these trips, you never brought a veggie tray. Never one time.
- [22:26]
Ryan
I do have some thoughts about your trip show. Yesterday was awesome. Giddy shows on the road are the best.
- [22:31]
Matt Jones
Yes. Thank you.
- [22:32]
Ryan
But the videos you guys put out, probably even better. The videos with you with the players drew in the parking lot. Mario's videos, I thought, were outstanding.
- [22:40]
Matt Jones
Let me ask you a question about the videos. First of all, I got a lot of comments from people saying that I looked uncomfortable interviewing the players in the locker room. Mario, you're shaking your head. Why did I. How do you think I looked? Uncomfortable. First of all, I was uncomfortable, so I may have looked it maybe because.
- [22:59]
Shannon
They didn't have any clothes on.
- [23:01]
Matt Jones
I mean, part of it is the.
- [23:02]
Drew
Lack of clothes behind the camera where Mario is. There's just offensive linemen walking around.
- [23:07]
Matt Jones
There's just too much nudity. It reminded me of when I used to go to the old YMCA gym in Louisville, and these old men would just walk around nude all the time. And I'm like, yeah. And they'd like. I was like, that's not. But then these guys. Those guys should have had more clothes on. These guys, I think, are, for the most part, proud. But there are too many abs, Shannon. And there are too many accessories. And I just. I'm. I probably was uncomfortable.
- [23:39]
Shannon
Like, I'm not here to that because.
- [23:40]
Matt Jones
Like, that doesn't happen in these college things. This is a pro. Like, opening the locker rooms, I just wasn't used to.
- [23:46]
Ryan
But I was going up to the Bengals, like, for seven years in a row, and in the locker room after every home game, and the receivers, the running back, the quarterbacks, the guy with good bodies, they seem to always cover their self. It was the big fat lineman. You are.
- [23:58]
Matt Jones
Exactly. You said it. I'm not going to say it. That's true. Yeah, that's true.
- [24:03]
Shannon
Shame. No shame. The person.
- [24:05]
Ryan
The less clothes they have on.
- [24:07]
Matt Jones
Clothes they had on.
- [24:09]
Ryan
Yeah.
- [24:09]
Matt Jones
And the fact that they're like, yeah. I mean, Ray Davis. I like Ray Davis. Do not tell him. Mario's been telling him. We don't like him. We like him.
- [24:16]
Drew
Come on, Mario.
- [24:17]
Matt Jones
Come on, Mario. But Ray Davis. I was like, hey, man, I'll wait. Nope, I'm good.
- [24:25]
Shannon
Wait for.
- [24:26]
Drew
On this washcloth.
- [24:27]
Matt Jones
Now's the time. And it's like. And it was like a Motel 6 washcloth. It's not even. It's not even plush.
- [24:34]
Ryan
So if you felt a little uncomfortable that you had a good reason why.
- [24:37]
Matt Jones
It looked like it. Somebody said, I held the microphone like I was, you know, Wink Martindale and Bob Barker. I was trying to keep my distance from. Between them.
- [24:48]
Ryan
It is a different world when you walk into that NFL Locker room than if you walk into a college sports like that.
- [24:54]
Matt Jones
I'd never been in an NFL locker room. Is everybody nude in the other sports?
- [24:59]
Drew
NBA. A couple times.
- [25:00]
Matt Jones
Okay. I just. I mean, I'm not being. People don't have to. I'm not modest. I'm just saying you don't. I just wasn't used to it.
- [25:08]
Drew
My big takeaway on that, and it's happened before. It's gone viral. When people are doing news interviews, how does that not pop up in the background?
- [25:14]
Ryan
I agree.
- [25:15]
Drew
Because there's been times. It has.
- [25:16]
Matt Jones
You do.
- [25:17]
Ryan
We went up, interviewed Tim Couch when they played the Bengals in the Browns locker room, had this great interview with him. We couldn't use it because after we got home, put the tape in, we realized there's a big fat offensive lineman drying himself off with a towel the whole interview.
- [25:29]
Matt Jones
Yeah, I was. I'm gone. When you started, I was like, oh, no. What's. What's. What's what? What's he got? What's. What's he going to say? And then thankfully, it didn't end up just a little side note, little behind the scenes. Keon Coleman, he's a receiver for. For Buffalo. I guess he had missed a practice, so he had to miss the game. Okay. He was suspended for the game. He walks out of the locker room before they open it, and the media all descends on him and he decides to talk to him. So the media is sitting there interviewing Keon Coleman and then I realize I'm like right behind him and I'm in everybody's shot. So if you watch the Buffalo media's interview with Keon Coleman, I'm kind of behind him going, because I didn't realize where I was. And so I'm right there. Drew's got a video.
- [26:17]
Drew
Well, I made my own video yesterday. I tried to do my best. Mario and I included, where you turn around and realize you have like a reaction.
- [26:24]
Matt Jones
Scared, like, oh, okay. Ruffalo, Nice to see you. David. Go ahead. David. David.
- [26:32]
Caller
Hey, Matt.
- [26:33]
Matt Jones
What's going on? Yes, go ahead.
- [26:36]
Caller
I'm ready for the game tonight. And I was thinking to. We had some really great games with Michigan State through the years. We forgot to mention this one game, the basketball game where we were in Detroit and we broke the world record for the most attended game.
- [26:53]
Matt Jones
Yeah, that's true. I forgot about that. We played them in the dome up there. That was quick. Michigan State regular season games, obviously, we had the big one in the tournament regular season games. The maxi one sticks out. You got that One that was a good one. We wore silver uniforms one time against them.
- [27:10]
Ryan
They beat us at Rupp Arena, I think the year they won the title. And what was that, 99 or Gerald.
- [27:15]
Matt Jones
Fitch hit a shot at the buzzer against a. Time to beat him. Whoa, David.
- [27:19]
Caller
No, Ryan, we, we beat him. That, that year they won.
- [27:25]
Ryan
I just remember being at the game, it was at Rupp Arena.
- [27:27]
Matt Jones
Don't argue, Ryan.
- [27:28]
Ryan
Ashley Judd was sitting courtside.
- [27:30]
Matt Jones
Didn't we hit, didn't Gerald Fitch like hit a three to beat him one year in romp.
- [27:34]
Ryan
I'm going to say yes.
- [27:36]
Matt Jones
I feel like that happened. And then we had the game in 2014 where we had all those freshmen and we thought we were going to crush them and then they beat us and kind of crushed us that year. That was a wake up call. So we'll see. 859-280-2287. We'll be right back.
- [27:55]
Ryan
A good trip.
- [27:59]
Matt Jones
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- [28:02]
Shannon
He'll make him pay. Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.
- [28:08]
Matt Jones
Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. I think the other part about it, it's about the awkwardness is it's, the nudity is part of it, but it's also that, like, I haven't done that in a long time and I don't know what to ask these people in those situations. Like I'm, I feel like I'm pretty good at one on one interviews when they come in here. But when you're in that situation, like, I don't really care about the game. You know what I mean? So like I can't be like, what did you think out there on third and one? Like, I don't really, you know, I don't care. And so that also is part of it. I'm kind of like, what do I ask these guys? You know what I mean?
- [28:38]
Drew
Yeah.
- [28:39]
Matt Jones
Plus I don't know who's who.
- [28:41]
Drew
That would be part.
- [28:42]
Matt Jones
There's all those people in there and except for the guys that played at uk, I don't know who they are.
- [28:46]
Shannon
So it's like, don't they have their name plates right above their locker?
- [28:49]
Matt Jones
Sometimes they move around and you don't know. Yeah, they do have the name. If they're sitting in their locker, I can guess who it is. But I mean if they're not, I don't know who they are, you know.
- [28:58]
Drew
And they definitely don't know who we are.
- [29:00]
Matt Jones
Yeah.
- [29:00]
Drew
Why are you, why are you doing the same thing?
- [29:03]
Matt Jones
They see Billy's shoes and they're like, you're not supposed to.
- [29:05]
Shannon
To be way overdressed to be in here.
- [29:07]
Matt Jones
Yeah.
- [29:07]
Ryan
I didn't appreciate all the Billy slander yesterday on the show. A lot of Billy slander. He was just doing his job, being the gm.
- [29:13]
Matt Jones
Oh, he's gotten a lot. But I also think this was the best for Billy's Q rating. This was the best trip that's happened. Yes, it was very good. One person writes, Matt, I used to go to the gym in Lexington a lot, and the person I saw who was most comfortable being nude was Alan Cutler.
- [29:28]
Shannon
No filter.
- [29:29]
Drew
Was he interviewing?
- [29:30]
Matt Jones
Exactly right. No filter.
- [29:35]
Ryan
There are some classic Cutler stories of being in the sauna and maybe.
- [29:39]
Matt Jones
Oh, he's big on being nude.
- [29:41]
Ryan
I never saw it, never witnessed it, just heard stories.
- [29:44]
Shannon
The thing about the sauna, you're in, like, in an enclosed space with this person.
- [29:48]
Matt Jones
Yeah. And you're not walking around.
- [29:50]
Shannon
That kind of makes it worse, though.
- [29:51]
Matt Jones
He feels like, to me, though, I don't have any. He feels like the kind of guy who would be fine just like, I'm Alan Cutler. No filter.
- [29:59]
Drew
Yeah. I dabble in saunas. I kind of like the towels they give you. Maybe throw those.
- [30:03]
Matt Jones
Yeah, I think the towels are good. There's. There's things, you know, one person writes. Are there any other times you almost got fired besides Mitch McConnell and Cal? Well, McConnell we did get. It was temporarily fired. Cal, I think if Cal comes back, maybe would have gotten fired. They threatened to fire me when I did. Hey, Kentucky. Yes.
- [30:26]
Ryan
And it's the scaredest I've been.
- [30:28]
Matt Jones
It's. It scared Ryan. Ryan started doing like he started. He went on Godaddy, or is that the Web?
- [30:35]
Shannon
What did he do on there?
- [30:37]
Matt Jones
No, he went on domain name, zip, recruiter, all that. Like, he was starting to.
- [30:41]
Ryan
Because it was just you and me in the car.
- [30:43]
Matt Jones
And they were really mad that I decided to do the TV show and didn't tell them.
- [30:47]
Ryan
We pulled over to hotel at Hopkinsville.
- [30:49]
Matt Jones
They told us to come home.
- [30:50]
Ryan
Yeah.
- [30:51]
Matt Jones
We were on our way to Hopkinsville to do a remote and they told us to pull over and turn around and come home.
- [30:57]
Ryan
Yep. That's the sketch. The scaredest I've been. I thought for sure it was over that day.
- [31:01]
Matt Jones
Yeah.
- [31:02]
Ryan
And I was. I was hearing, you know, just half of the conversation, so hearing your side of the conversation. Oh, it's done. He is. He's in trouble.
- [31:08]
Matt Jones
Yeah. Well, we got through it. Let's go to Daniel. Go ahead, Daniel.
- [31:17]
Caller
Hi, guys. I'm just getting on Interstate 78 outside of Allentown. Heading up to the game today.
- [31:23]
Matt Jones
Oh, I've made that drive a lot. Where are you gonna park? That's always the question when you go to New York, is where are you gonna park your car?
- [31:32]
Caller
Oh, it's easy. There's a garage. I think it's 31st street, right across the street from the Garden. I think it's. In the past, it's been a flat rate of $50. It's really not that hard to park.
- [31:43]
Matt Jones
So you're just gonna go. You're gonna literally drive into Midtown, into the Garden area and park there during rush hour.
- [31:55]
Caller
Well, I'm on my way now, so I'll be in the city by like one o'. Clock.
- [32:00]
Matt Jones
Good luck, sir. I mean, there's no worse place in New York to drive than around Madison Square Garden. And I think they're doing, like construction on Penn Station, so. I love driving in New York, even in the city, but, like, that's the worst few blocks you could drive right now. So I wish you the best in finding parking.
- [32:23]
Caller
Okay. I think the Michigan State game a couple years ago was the later game.
- [32:28]
Matt Jones
Okay. You might be right.
- [32:29]
Caller
We're in the early game today. Because I can. I'll get home by like midnight. If we were in that late game. Oh, boy. I don't want to think about.
- [32:41]
Matt Jones
But go ahead.
- [32:41]
Caller
Almost be a better. Better be a better game than last year at the Garden because that was a stinker game.
- [32:48]
Matt Jones
Yes, it was. I mean, that was our la. I appreciate the call. And it, it looked like we didn't. We're not doing any of the. Go to Hamilton, visit Jack Luger. Like, we're not doing any of that stuff right now. It looks like they, they're. They. They realize that might not be the way to go.
- [33:03]
Drew
We are not throwing away our shot on this trip. You're going to be focused. A pro tip for anyone driving might be a little late if you're on the road. I always park outside of the city at one of the train stations.
- [33:12]
Matt Jones
That's what everybody.
- [33:13]
Drew
Free parking. But you just hop on for 12 bucks.
- [33:16]
Matt Jones
Yeah.
- [33:16]
Drew
Or whatever it is.
- [33:17]
Matt Jones
That's a tough trip, too. I mean, because, you know, you got to get on the train, you got to do all that. I mean, that is a. Most people do that. I park all the way back in. That guy clearly has money. You're not going to drive in the city because you're going to pay $15 to just get into the city or $20 and then he's going to pay 50 for parking. I'm just thinking about the traffic because it's a, you know, especially right there at the Garden. It's. It's awful. Going to be getting there right as Broadway. Now, Broadway's a little farther up, but you're going to get like. It's just going to be bad.
- [33:47]
Drew
I have a train station in Trenton, New Jersey. They do oil changes and it's free parking. And you just get on the train, probably takes an hour, drop shop at Penn Station, leave your car well lit, brings you right back and drive on home.
- [33:58]
Matt Jones
They do oil change.
- [33:59]
Drew
Yeah. You can get an oil change that.
- [34:00]
Matt Jones
Whether you want it or not, if you want it.
- [34:02]
Drew
But I mean, it's well lit. It's well lit.
- [34:04]
Matt Jones
Cheap.
- [34:05]
Drew
You just pay to get on the train. It's probably 10 stops. I don't. But takes you all the way into the middle of the city.
- [34:09]
Matt Jones
Yeah. Who's up next? Easy enough.
- [34:11]
Shannon
Sparky.
- [34:12]
Matt Jones
Sparky. Go ahead, Sparky.
- [34:15]
Caller
Good morning, Matt. I've heard you talk a lot about veggie trays and locker room nudity, but I want to switch topics for a minute and ask your comments on Paul Feinbaum potentially running for Senate and what that would do to the sports media landscape and if he does, who you think might end up filling some of that airtime?
- [34:35]
Matt Jones
Well, I mean, I. From what I understand, just from the people that I've talked to, I think it's very likely that he's going to do it. You know, good luck to him. I mean, he's running in Alabama. Apparently he's now a Republican. That's yet another person that was a Democrat that decided they wanted to run, so became a Republican. But, you know, I don't know if he can win or not. But, I mean, I. If he leaves, then, you know, that show, there's a couple people I could see getting that show. I think the leaders would probably be maybe Marty and McGee, Cole Kublick and Greg McElroy. I think those would be the ones that I think would be most likely to get it. That's just my own personal opinion. I mean, to me, the obvious successor for him would be to do Marty and McGee. And I think. I don't know if they would want to do it or not, but that strikes me as being the most because, you know, they. That there's. They have a connection with those folks and honestly probably would be a good refresh to that show because those guys are. I love both those guys. So. That's just my guess, though.
- [35:45]
Caller
I. It's Good to talk about the coaching domino effect. And I'm wondering what the radio carousel will be. And you'd have some insight. So look towards radio.
- [35:53]
Drew
I mean.
- [35:54]
Matt Jones
Yeah, that's.
- [35:55]
Drew
That.
- [35:55]
Matt Jones
That would be the. I appreciate the call. That would be the radio carousel. To me, people have asked about us, like, I think we're not football centric. I think they would want someone football centric for that show. And I think those guys would. Would make the most sense.
- [36:09]
Ryan
Marty and McGee, that's. They kind of relate to that audience seems like the most, but you mean McElroy and Cole. One's an Alabama guy, one's an Auburn guy. I can see that kind of work.
- [36:18]
Matt Jones
And they already have a show.
- [36:19]
Ryan
Yeah, right.
- [36:19]
Matt Jones
They already have a show. It's very successful. I'm on it quite a bit as a guest.
- [36:24]
Ryan
You might be invited back.
- [36:25]
Matt Jones
Wow, that's true. Maybe I'll get to go back on those shows a little bit. And. And I like both those guys a lot, so I think they would do a great job.
- [36:33]
Drew
I like Cole a lot as much as I like Marty and McGee. You want to get me to tune in? I would tune in for Cole Cubelet.
- [36:38]
Matt Jones
Would you be sad to see Fine Bomb go, Shannon, I know you're a big.
- [36:41]
Shannon
Oh, so sad. No, it's like watching paint dry watching that show.
- [36:46]
Matt Jones
But I mean, would you miss it?
- [36:48]
Shannon
Like, I wouldn't miss it at all. We would have to listen to it on the road trips at all. I mean, that would be great.
- [36:53]
Matt Jones
Yeah. Senator Feinbaum, good luck. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I don't know who else is. I don't know who else is going to run for that, but.
- [37:01]
Ryan
Yeah, who's you running against?
- [37:02]
Matt Jones
But the problem is like, I don't even know what he thinks about anything. Do you? I mean, I don't know what he thinks about anything. Like Ohio State, Michigan.
- [37:09]
Shannon
He has a radio show and doesn't talk.
- [37:11]
Matt Jones
I mean, literally, Denver gives his opinion about anything. The only opinion I've heard him say is that Arch Manning would be the best player since Tim Tebow.
- [37:19]
Drew
Maybe that's why he's leaving radio.
- [37:21]
Matt Jones
So I don't know. I mean. But yeah, good luck to him if he decides to do it. Let's go to Isaiah. Go ahead, Isaiah.
- [37:31]
Caller
Hey, can you hear me?
- [37:32]
Matt Jones
Yes, go ahead.
- [37:34]
Caller
Hey, I think we might need to up Drew's and I owe money. I wasn't too convinced he was going to come back. I thought he's going to put Abby through a table just to join the bills. Mafia.
- [37:43]
Matt Jones
I've never seen anything like what he was like. Like, he, he. It's hard to describe. I'm trying to think what the thing like that be would be for me. But like you were in heaven and you were like giddy and I. It's. It's what? I don't know why it was. I think it was the combination of it's good people drinking tables.
- [38:05]
Drew
Well, I don't get to tailgate. I genuinely miss tailgate. I love our pregame show, but it kills me. I don't tailgate for any football games ever. So I got to actually go out and tailgate and I jumped all the way in.
- [38:17]
Caller
Yeah, no, I agree. But there's nothing like BBN drew, so don't forget it. And also with tonight's game against Michigan State, I feel like Brandon Garrison, this is kind of like his last big game to say, you know, I've improved over the off season, you know, give me the minutes. Otherwise I could see Mark Pope turning to yellow. Vic, that's too.
- [38:36]
Matt Jones
Yeah, Brandon Garrison. I think that's a good call. I appreciate the call. I mean, on paper, this is a game where Brandon Garrison matters a lot because he's physical. Hopefully they're physical. There's probably going to be a lot of fouls down low. So I agree with you. I think if you're looking at Kentucky players that need to have a big game, I would start with Brandon Garrison and then otega away. This is another game in theory that should be built for him because it's going to be about finishing through contact and playing physical. So I think both those guys need to have a good game. If you're looking for a great holiday gift, get a Noche Linda gift card. They have a Black Friday deal. You could get 20% off your purchase November 18th through the 30th. Buy an existing Noche Linda beef gift card and you will pay only 80%. That's a huge. That's a great saving.
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Matt Jones
Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. I am bummed I'm not there. I mean, I go to New York a lot. I love it. I think it would be fun to be there. So I'm. I'm bummed. And if we hadn't gone to Buffalo, I would have gone. But, you know, it's the way it goes. Sometimes you. Sometimes you can. This. We've got a lot of stuff going on, and I was just there last, like, a week ago.
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Caller
Just.
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Drew
That song's getting me excited.
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Matt Jones
Yeah.
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Ryan
Our record in the Champions Classic in New York, though, is not good, though, right?
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Matt Jones
You know, I don't know. I mean, we. That one year that we beat. I mean, wait a minute. We beat. Where did we play Duke last year? Where was that game? Was that in New York?
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Drew
That was in Atlanta.
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Matt Jones
I was in Atlanta. All right, so we beat Kansas that one year by like a thousand. In New York, right? In, like.
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Drew
That was an indie.
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Matt Jones
Well, all these games, maybe. I just don't know where these games are.
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Ryan
The game that Jamal Murray had, like 30 in the second half wasn't the Champions Classic either. That one. Champions Classic.
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Matt Jones
Ohio State's not in the championship. That was a CBS Classic.
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Drew
Last time we were in New York, we lost the Duke.
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Matt Jones
Okay. Yeah, we beat him. Michigan State. I know that. That was the only one I was at, you know, Cal. A lot of people a year there. Yeah, we played Monmouth there one time, if you remember.
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Drew
Well, there's a confusion. We get smoked in the CBS Classic in New York a lot. The Champions Classic hadn't been good to us overall, but the CBS is where we've lost to UCLA up there, Ohio State, it's eight twice.
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Drew
It's the worst of the two in New York.
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Ryan
Yeah. New York.
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Matt Jones
Yeah. Well, we did break that little Champions Classic curse by winning last year. So hopefully we can, you know, we.
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Drew
We.
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Matt Jones
We can do that again. 859280, 2287 on the text. Machine is 772774, 5254. Let's talk just one second about the sort of coaching carousel. James Franklin takes the job at Virginia Tech. They owed him $49 million. The report is that he settled the buyout for 9 million so he could coach it at Virginia Tech. Odd decision to me, because now he's essentially coaching Virginia Tech for free, basically. I would have thought he could have gotten More than the nine. But he's basically coaching for free now.
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Drew
And I would have done that maybe at a different school. I'm not going to Blacksburg, Virginia. If I could just do anything else with all that money. I'm sure he's got the competitive juices, but.
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Matt Jones
But Penn State gets a huge, I mean a huge break.
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Drew
Let him off the hook.
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Matt Jones
I mean they let him off the hook. $9 million. I don't know what he's making at Virginia Tech. I don't think that's come out.
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Ryan
But it's not $9 million, is it?
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Matt Jones
Maybe. But I'm saying he gets. So he was going to have five years, $49 million. He takes nine and now he goes to Virginia Tech. If they pay him eight a year, he's coaching for free. If they pay him nine a year, he's coaching for a million dollars a year. Just an interesting. I would have thought he could. A buyout like that. I would have thought he would have gotten like 20 to do it.
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Ryan
And he could have got that at Penn State, don't you think?
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Matt Jones
If he just fought it, maybe. Well, but there wasn't anything to fight. If he wanted to coach, he had to do the bio. Yeah, but I'm just surprised he only got nine now. What about the Lane Kiffin situation? This is interesting to me. So Lane Kiffin's like. Apparently Shannon, his family flew to LSU like two days ago to look around Baton Rouge and then somebody. I mean it was in Florida yesterday. Maybe his family as well. So his family is looking at the cities Baton Rouge and Gainesville and I. But who are his family? I thought he had dated like a 24, 5 year old girlfriend.
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Drew
He's got a daughter that's about that age. Could be her.
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Ryan
Remember, she's the 1 LSU football player.
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Matt Jones
She can live anywhere she wants. Why does she have to go look at these cities like she's a grown up.
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Drew
I understand. I guess.
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Matt Jones
So just the family that's looking.
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Drew
He's got a son. They're all old enough. They're not going to be living under his.
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Matt Jones
So all the people looking are not living there.
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Drew
I don't know the specific people going, but his kids are getting pretty old, so there's not as elementary school.
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Shannon
I think they're just looking out for dear old dad. They're scared for him, you know, but.
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Matt Jones
They'Re also making news.
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Ryan
Yeah.
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Matt Jones
So old Miss comes out yesterday and says by the day of the Egg bowl, which is a week from Friday, you got to tell us, are you here or not.
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Caller
Wow.
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Matt Jones
So he's going to have to. Before. What's interesting about that is that's before they're going to make the playoff. Probably.
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Ryan
Yeah.
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Matt Jones
And he's going to have to tell Ole Miss, I'm leaving or not before the playoff. And then presumably, let's say he says he's leaving, they're going to let him coach the playoff. It's weird.
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Drew
If I were Ole Miss, they need to be rolling out the red carpet and recruiting him, not giving him ultimatums.
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Ryan
I agree with that. They need to do everything they can to keep him.
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Drew
They still have a puncher's chance. But I feel like put him on a. On a deadline and the ultimatum is only going to push him farther out.
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Matt Jones
You're probably right. But let me play devil's advocate. If you're Ole Miss, if he were to wait and do the playoff and then leave, they won't have a team next year. With the transfer, though, they won't have a team.
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Ryan
Yeah.
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Matt Jones
So is there a situation where he could go, okay, I'm going to go to lsu, but if you want, I'll coach the playoff and your new coach can recruit your team next year.
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Ryan
That's not a good scenario to be in at all.
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Matt Jones
But he has to finish the year off for the first time ever and then not have him coach it.
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Drew
He's got to finish the year. He's in the national championship conversation.
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Matt Jones
He can't walk away from that. But if he says I don't, they're giving him the ultimatum. Let's say he wants to go to LSU. Is Ole Ms. Going to tell him, you can't coach this team?
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Drew
No, they can't do that. They're not big enough to. They can't hand it to an interim for the playoffs when they are truly a contender.
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Matt Jones
So you're going to have LSU's coach coaching your team in the playoff?
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Drew
Maybe. I mean, that's Giffen's team. He wants a ring just as much as his players. No way he doesn't finish the year.
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Shannon
If I'm Kiffin or if I'm Ole Miss.
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Matt Jones
If I'm Ole Miss.
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Shannon
I think you got. Yeah, I wouldn't be giving them that ultimatum. I mean, the guy, like you just said, has a chance to win a championship and you're going to say, you got to give us an answer now.
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Matt Jones
So they. So let's say that they. I mean, the answer is no. Are you letting him coach the team in the playoff?
- [48:44]
Shannon
Yeah, absolutely, I am. He's our coach till the end of the season anyway.
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Drew
At least it would be malpractice to trot out an interim when you're in the playoff. Ole Miss.
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Matt Jones
Yeah.
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Shannon
I mean, any school, though, is dealing with this on any given year, but potentially a coach could leave at any.
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Ryan
Time throughout the whole playoff run. He's going to be talked about as the next LSU head coach, not the old miscarriage team during the preparation for the playoffs. You're right. He's recruiting for his LSU team next year.
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Matt Jones
Wow. So what do you think he does?
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Shannon
Stays?
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Drew
I don't know.
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Shannon
I think he stays.
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Drew
I've always thought he would stay.
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Matt Jones
In the long run, I think he'll probably stay. But I mean, also, he's the kind of guy that, I mean, at lsu, he would win everything.
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Drew
If I were picking, not staying, I would take lsu over Florida 10 times out of 10.
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Matt Jones
Me too.
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Ryan
Yeah.
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Matt Jones
But it is wild, though. And it's wild that his family has taken private jets that can be tracked to go visit these.
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Ryan
Like Shannon said, they're the scout team. They're scouting stuff out for him.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, it's a wild situation, but you can't, you can't not have him coach the team if it goes to the playoff.
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Drew
I mean, he's got you.
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Matt Jones
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Drew
To the doctor in way too long.
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