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I think this is a game where there's a lot of various emotions that people can have and I want you to get a chance to express them. I'm just going to just start with mine. I I went to this game. I actually since COVID have not gone to a lot of games. Part of that is doing these post game shows trying to get out and get home in order to do them and part of it is I you, you know, I don't like to sit in the press box. So I don't, I don't end up going to a lot of games, but I went tonight because I. I just wanted to be in the environment and sort of. It's. It had been a while and, you know, I had no expectations for the game. I kind of thought Kentucky would keep it close, but I did not think they would win at any point. And then they did what Kentucky football does to me, which is they got me to believe because when the game was tied at 13 and went into overtime, I thought, you know what I mean, we got the momentum, their offense is dreadful. We can get. We score a touchdown, I think we win the game. And I do think if we score a touchdown, we win the game. I think we would have stopped them if we won the game, but we did not. And we'll talk about that in a second and you get the loss. So I did allow myself to get my hopes up in overtime and that was the first time in the game I had and it didn't work out. Here's the bottom line about the game. Kentucky was better. Kentucky had double the yards, 395 yards to 176 yards. Kentucky had the ball for 40 minutes. Texas had the ball for 20 minutes. Just if you just visually watch the game, Kentucky move the ball up and down the field. Texas had a couple of decently big plays, 30 and 40 yard games, but otherwise was able to do very little against a Kentucky defense that played really well. And as a side note, not trying to hate on the guy because I really like the Manning family, but Arch Manning is not good. And I have no idea where. I mean, I know where the hype came from, but boy, it looks absurd when you actually see it up close. So Kentucky was the better team, but they lost. And they lost for two reasons. One is relatively simple. Two huge punt returns. I mean, Texas does not get the ball in the end zone. If not for that punt return. They kicked it. We kicked it twice to one of the best kick punt returners in the country. He might be an all American punt returner. We kicked it to him twice. The first time the coverage was bad. Second time coverage was good. God misses the tackle. I'd have to go back and see who it was because I couldn't see it in real time. But I think the guy thought he was going to fair catch it and didn't and then just wasn't in position. And they missed one tackle and he goes for 40 yards. You take those two plays out of the game. Kentucky wins the game. But you have the plays so you deal with it. And the second thing is those third and fourth and one plays. And as I was thinking about, because I drove back to Louisville, so I was thinking about the, the, the Mark Stoops era. And you know we've talked a lot about last four minutes the first half, first four minutes the second half. They actually did all right with that tonight. But one of the consistent problems in addition to conservative play calling has been we have been bad at third and fourth and one in the last few years. I don't know if you remember two years ago. I feel like every game there was a major third and one or fourth and one that we just couldn't get. That was the Devin Leary year. I think that was probably the difference between Devin Leary being successful and not was we could not convert third and fourth ones. And tonight you know, you have the one in the first half and then you do it in overtime. Let's start with the first half. I don't know what they were doing running quarterback sneak back on back to back plays. Texas, the strength of their team is their defensive line. Every single guy on their defensive line is going to play in the NFL and two of the guys are going to be first round picks. And the only area that I think you could say where Kentucky was definitively not as good as Texas tonight was run the ball up the middle. And yet we did five straight plays, two in the first half and then three in the overtime where we tried to do that in situations that it didn't come close to working any of the times. The two quarterback sneaks in the first half were the worst calls I've ever seen. I think Bush maybe his angle because I was sitting there looking where the coaches box are. He had to have on third and one he had to have thought that, excuse me, it was third and two. He had to have thought it was like third inches because I don't know what he's doing on third and two. Running cutter sneak and then they get to fourth and inches and they get stopped. Disaster right there. I mean I think if you score a touchdown right there might be slightly a different game, but they get past it. The overtime, you know, in some ways the overtimes, as bad as it can go for Mark Stoops and Bush Ham, you have a 22 yard play on the first play to Kendrick Law that gets you to first and go from the three. At that point, unless you get a false start, you're going for it. I have no Problems, by the way, with Mark going for it on fourth down. Yeah, you could say, well, you kick a field goal, but. But the thing is they've got a good field goal kicker. So even if they can't get in the end zone, they're going to kick a field goal and you'll be right back to where you were before. You when you're first and go from the three and you're playing a team that was preseason number one on your home field and you've been criticized as a coach for many years for being too conservative, you got to go for it. So I have no problems with Mark going for it. He said he had no regrets for going for it. He shouldn't have any regrets. They should have gone for it. It's the play calls. I mean, if you go back and look at the play on fourth down, Dante Dowdell, he jumped from the four yard line. How did they think that was going to work? That the only place Texas dominated us all game was in the middle of the defense on the line of scrimmage and we went straight up the middle three straight times. They got, they got. I don't want to say they got conservative because they went for it, but the play calling was vanilla right there. And it's a shame because I actually think Bush Hamden called a pretty good game for most of the game. I mean, they were creative. They put Cutter in some good circumstances. I didn't like some of his sweeps and jets. We had like three or four go for loss of yards, but they did a lot of good stuff. I mean, they had 300. Look, they had 396 yards against a defense that's one of the best defenses in the country. So I can't criticize the play calling in general, but I sure can criticize it at the end. And it's a shame because this is the reality of the situation for everybody involved. None of you feel good about this game? None of you, not one of you feel good about this game. The days in year 13, the it's close, we feel good. It just doesn't work, especially with where we are in year 13. This. I actually think Kentucky played really well. I mean, put the punt, put the punt return coverage aside. I actually think Kentucky played really well. I think that defense played great. They did. I think Brad White owned Steve Sarkeesian, who's a really good play caller. I think Brad White did great. I thought Bush Hammond was all right. I thought Mark showed some guts. But you know what? When it mattered, they just didn't make the right decisions. And so part of me says, is this just how it's going to be like, even when we play well, even when we play well, we just can't do the last thing to get the win. Somebody ran through chat GPT and I don't trust chat GBT on most things. So I. But I. But the stat's too good for me to not at least acknowledge it. And I think it has to be close to true, even if it. Oh, it's not true. How many games has a team gotten double the yards and had double the time of possession and lost? And it said you have like a 97.8% winning to do that. Somebody did that. Now, I don't know if that's scientifically true, but I bet it's close to true. You have double the time of possession, you have double the yards. And I think we only had one turnover. There's no reason we should lose that game. And it was there for the taking. Was there for the taking. You had a third and one and a fourth and one in the first half and a second and three third and one fourth and one in the second half in our CD overtime and you couldn't convert and that's that. And you're not going to get a better chance than that because Texas offense is so bad. At the end of the day, when Mark Stoops brand of football is designed to give you a chance to win games like this. This is why we always play Georgia pretty well, is because we are built to play against teams like this. We are built to play against teams like Texas. And Mark Stoops's coaching philosophy will keep you close in games like this. But then you have. If you're. If that's going to be your philosophy, we're not going to be able to beat the teams that put up huge yards. I worry Tennessee will crush us next week. If you're going to play that philosophy, when you play a Texas team and you double them yards, you got to win. You got to win. And they just did. And there's a lot of positives coming out of this game. Cutter Bowley played really well. He made some bad decisions. He took some sacks he shouldn't have taken, but he has improved every game this year. He's gutsy. I like him. I like the kid. You got something there, right? You didn't even really get your best running back, didn't even really get all that many opportunities and you still did well. You saw some receivers make some plays. You know, there's a lot of good stuff. But when it came down to it, first and goal from the three, four plays at it, you got to score. If we score a touchdown, we win. They're not going to score it. Arch Manning was. Is. Was awful. They had eight first downs, folks. Eight. If I told you before the game, you're playing Texas, they're only gonna have eight first downs. You gotta win. We had 26. We had 26 first downs. They had eight and we lost. So where does that leave us? Well, I mean, you can't say that this game proves that Stoops can't coach because clearly he can. He had this team prepared when a lot of people. It would have been easy for this to be over two weeks since you last played. The fan base, including local media like myself, basically given up on the season. You could have lost the locker room, you could have lost the coaching staff. And they came out and they played really well. You also have to say that much maligned coordinators I actually thought had a pretty good game plan. And I will say the players played their hearts out the entire game. But in the end, you lost. And in the end, I guess, and this is what I'm interested to hear, what the fans say. 859-280-2287 does anybody come out of that game feeling more confident about the Stoops era than before? I think it was proven. For people that say Stoops is awful, I think they're wrong. But if your opinion was what I think a majority of the opinion of the fan base was, which is this program needs to go in a good different direction, is there anything that just happened that would change your mind about that? I think the answer is probably no. Unfortunately, I think the answer is probably no. And this was a good chance. This was a chance to get one. This was a chance me all. But Auburn may fire Hugh Freeze tomorrow. You know, this was a chance to maybe go into that Auburn Louisville thing and go, who knows, Maybe he just couldn't do it. And I hate it. I hate it for the players. It's great environment there. Tonight the fans showed up. Our bar was dominating the pregame by Texas people. But at the game there were a lot of Texas fans, but the Kentucky fans controlled the crowd and it was a good environment, especially the longer it went and just can't do it. So I worry that even though overall this was a positive performance, it was another disappointing ending. It was another sign of frustrations that have plagued the Stoops era. Poor play, calling down the stretch Special teams, mental errors. I think we come out of it, unfortunately, right back where we were before. 859-280-2287. I'm interested to hear what you think. By the way, I am still livid about the call that where they called the false start when we. They had 13 guys on the field. That didn't cost us. Ridiculous, but it is annoying. They had 13 guys on the field, we didn't do one thing wrong and we get the penalty. I mean, come on. But that's not what causes the game. What causes the game is first and go from the three and you can't get in. So 859-280-2287. We'll take your phone calls and be right back. It is the local toy dealers KSR post game show. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers KSR post game show. Let's go for a couple of texts here from the text machine, which is 772-7745254. One person writes, Matt, what about the environment you said you haven't been in a while. Did you think the music and sound is better? Music, better choices? Sound is still not great. I noticed they had speakers on the field, Billy, which I've never seen before. I don't know if they've been doing that all year or not. So it was. It felt like it was a little better. But we still have like an old speaker system that isn't great. But I thought the fans were. I give the fans a lot of credit. I didn't know. I was kind of worried when I was at the bar earlier. I was like, is it gonna be all Texas fans in there? And there were a lot of Texas fans, but there were a lot of Kentucky fans too, and they were loud. So I thought the fans were good. The fans gave Kentucky a chance to win. So, you know, it kind of is what it is. One person writes, Matt, what about Mark Stoops in the postgame show and in the press conference? He sounded like someone who knows the fate that is coming. I didn't hear that, Billy, because I was listening to something else. What did it sound like? I mean, he was disappointed, as you would expect, but I don't know if he had resigned himself to being fired at this point. I mean, there's a lot. I don't think you could say he would be. I mean, I. I'm sure. Yeah, I don't think that's. I think what's a bigger deal for him is how he. He knows what the fans feel, you know, What? I mean, I don't think it's so much. He's worried about what Mitch does. I think he knows how the fans feel. Bursting goes, Matt, before we talk too much about Kentucky, can we just talk about how bad Arch Manning is? Really bad. I don't understand. I really don't. Because here's what this does, here's what Arch Manning does for me, and maybe the kid will get good in the end. I got nothing against Mannings. I really like Peyton and Eli. He's not good. And I have two. Two thoughts. One, these NFL draft mock drafts a year before the season. Billy, they're just worthless, right? Yeah. It's just talking like they're just worthless. I will say Todd McShay's been saying all year, he wasn't like, even before the season started, he was like, I don't know why people have Archman number one. So I give him. I mean, Todd McShay did say that, but they're worthless. He was number one in every mock draft. And he's the. Is he the worst quarterback we've played this year? Feels like it. I mean, he's not good. He missed open throw. Like, I. I don't get it. And then second, Paul Feinbaum said he was the best player of all time. He said he was the best college player since Tebow. Like, have you. Where did that come from? Like I said all summer on my show with Myron, if he was so good, why didn't he play in front of Quinn Ewers? But I had no idea he was like this. I kind of feel sorry for the kid. I do. I mean, I feel sorry for him. Put his name into Twitter during the game. My goodness, Pork. Somebody's poor kid. But I cannot believe how bad he is. So I don't know. But it just goes to show, mock drafts, at least before the season's over. I don't know how. How helpful they are. All right, who's up first?