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Matt Jones (0:00)
Welcome everyone. It is the local toy dealers KSR post game show. The Cats take a loss in Georgia 3514 in a game that in some ways at times felt competitive and then at times did not, but never felt like a shot that Kentucky could actually win. Okay, so here's, here's what we're going to do. 859280, 2287 I genuinely, I mean we're gonna have a lot of time next week. It's a bye week for Saturday. Big Blue Madness is Saturday. We're going to have a whole lot of time next week to kind of talk about all the various incarnations of UK football and where it goes. I want it this is a best chance to hear from fans. So I do want to open up the phones and I'm going to let you guys kind of say your thoughts. I think it would be interesting to sort of get I wasn't here last week so to get a hit a sense of the pulse of the fan base right now going in to really halfway through this season. So 859280-2287 I'm genuine, genuinely curious as to what everybody thinks. Let me I'm gonna go two parts. First the game and then bear picture game. Kind of what I thought which was Kentucky would not embarrass itself, although it looked early like they might, but that they never really would have a chance to win. Do some good things but really not. I mean be competitive, but not really competitive. And that's kind of what happened. I mean Cutter Bowie I thought looked pretty good actually probably his best performance as a cat. They threw two touchdown passes. But here's part of the problem. They threw two touchdown passes and it's the first time in the Bush Hamden era that that's happened. I want you to think about that stat for a second. In 11 SEC games in the Bush Hamden era, this is the first time we've thrown two touchdown passes. Well, I mean you're. There you go. You're not going to win. I mean it was the end of the second quarter before we threw a pass to the wide receiver that went beyond the line of scrimmage that was complete. You're just not going to win like that. And that's the way it goes. The this team has no receivers that can get open and they just can't throw. And then when you play a defense, Georgia's not the defense they usually are. But still you play anybody good, you're going to struggle a terrible end of first half again to whatever Extent Kentucky had a chance to be competitive in this game. You essentially have to take advantage of any break you get. And because they had a chance to end the first half with the ball and get the first ball, get the first ball in the second half, you had a chance to double up, which is exactly why you defer at kickoff. You have a chance to double up and Kentucky ends up with zero points. They drove it down. Wasted time. Jesse Palmer correctly called him out for it, said, this is terrible clock management. It was. They executed a few plays that made it look like that wouldn't matter. But then in the end, they had three seconds left and had they executed the clock management well, they could have taken another shot at the end zone. But because they wasted time, as Jesse Palmer called it out, then there was no time left. We end up with field goal attempt and then we miss it. Just a disaster. The end of the first halves. There are probably 15 games in the Stoops era where the end of the first halves have cost us major. Literally probably 15 games. I mean, that's honestly only a little over one game a year. So maybe it's 20 games, maybe 25 games. I mean, at the end of the first half, there's just a disaster. And they've been a disaster. Even in Stoops best years, we've always been bad at the end of the first half. And then in the second half, you go for a drive and they end up fumbling the ball. So, you know, what do you say? I mean, that's, that's poor performance and you end up losing the game. So it's about what I expected. I think I picked 30 to 13. It was 35, 14, but that's almost exactly what I thought we were going to get today. Now, bigger picture, we head into a bye week and this fan base is at least. I mean, maybe the calls will. Will surprise me and I'll come out of this with a different opinion. And if you can't get through 772-774-5254 is a text machine, but this fan base is as out as they've been on Stoops. I expect the Athletic will have a pretty big major piece coming out about this early next week. I mean, I say that because they contacted me about it, but I think it was coming, you know, no matter what. And when they called me, I said, look, this, this is the most out fans have ever been on Stoops, and he's been here a long time. This is the most out that they are. They're out right now. Can he win him back? You know, I. No, I don't. I don't know if he can even. Let's say he found a way to. To beat Vandy and Auburn and Louisville or Florida, whatever, win six games. I mean, I guess people would say, well, I guess he earned another year, but I don't know if anybody would be excited. I'm really not sure there's anything that can be done to get this fan base excited. As I said yesterday on the show, it's a bad combination of being losing and boring, which is a horrible combination. It's not fun to watch and we're not good. And so why do you want to do it? And then on the other side, you have a basketball program that is fun to watch, that is engaging with their fans and has a chance to compete for titles. So people are just gonna be like, well, football, what are you gonna do? I am very disappointed. A lot of the stuff that I think Mark Stoops did so well for so many years, they've done the opposite. Forget about on the field, off the field. We've talked about it. No engagement with the fans, you know, no understanding that we don't know this team. We don't know these players. I mean, the receiver that came in, the freshman Billy was his name Miller at the end and played pretty well.
