Speaker 1: Welcome everyone.
Speaker 2: It is the KSR pre Show Tuesday, June third, Shannon
Speaker 2: the Dude. You can give us a call on the
Speaker 2: Clark's Pupping Shot phone line at eight five nine two
Speaker 2: eight to Oho twenty two eighty seven. You could be
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Speaker 2: going to have different guest hosts each and every day
Speaker 2: this week. And yesterday Ryan Lemon filled in, so he
Speaker 2: did his service to the pre show yesterday.
Speaker 1: Today it's a Bullet County takeover.
Speaker 2: We're bringing in the most talented radio guy in all
Speaker 2: of Bullet County, mister Nick Coffee, who you know just
Speaker 2: transitioned over to the new morning guye job at eight
Speaker 2: forty whas I'm dragging him back to seven ninety KRD
Speaker 2: for one day. Nick, I won't let you escape KRD.
Speaker 2: You're right back here. You just did your final show
Speaker 2: for now. You're right back here on Tuesday.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was one workday that I was gone and
Speaker 3: here I am back again, but certainly happy to be here,
Speaker 3: certainly happy to be a part of a Bullet County takeover.
Speaker 3: And thank you for the kind words. I heard you
Speaker 3: and Billy give me the shout out last week and
Speaker 3: again appreciate that. But the more I hear people just
Speaker 3: kind of missed you. It's a mystery to them.
Speaker 4: So you just talk for three hours just.
Speaker 3: You, and it sounds initially as if like Wow, they're
Speaker 3: pretty impressed, but then they're like, there's no way that
Speaker 3: could be good radio, just you for three hours.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you about that, because you know,
Speaker 2: like in radio, there are very few people that have
Speaker 2: the talent to where they could talk by themselves for
Speaker 2: three straight I mean I can maybe do it an
Speaker 2: hour if I had a producer, which I do not have.
Speaker 2: So it's just me trying to host, trying to produce
Speaker 2: by myself, and I'm like, I can't do that. I
Speaker 2: got to have somebody in here with me. And you
Speaker 2: did it for correct me if I'm wrong. Nine years
Speaker 2: on KRD by yourself for three hours every day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I got higher. Yes, you are correct. I
Speaker 3: mean I had a producer throughout the entire time, and
Speaker 3: at times there would be some involvement and even when
Speaker 3: there wasn't as far as bringing anything to the table
Speaker 3: when it comes to ideas, content, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: If I had a producer that never wanted to speak
Speaker 3: and you know this, and there's people who worked here
Speaker 3: that do a great job, but they make it clear
Speaker 3: they don't really want or need to be mentioned or
Speaker 3: on the air at all. They just they don't want to.
Speaker 3: But I would, I would find a way to just
Speaker 3: mention it, because it's almost like I was manipulating the
Speaker 3: audience if they just hear me and I don't acknowledge
Speaker 3: there's another human, it's like I'm on an island by myself.
Speaker 3: So you know, there's a lot of resetting and of
Speaker 3: course mixing in as much interaction as you can. But yes,
Speaker 3: when I got hired, I was so excited to be
Speaker 3: able to leave what I was doing previously. I was
Speaker 3: enjoyed my career. Prior to radio, I worked in software.
Speaker 3: But when I got an opportunity, I was, you know,
Speaker 3: over the moon to get a chance to make this
Speaker 3: what I do at least attempt to do it. And
Speaker 3: it didn't hit me until I got here the first
Speaker 3: day and I was prepared, but you know, three hours
Speaker 3: is a long time. Yeah, And I didn't want to
Speaker 3: have a bunch of guests just to have guests, because
Speaker 3: I don't think I'm very good at having a conversation
Speaker 3: with somebody when I have really no not to say
Speaker 3: I don't have any interests, but I didn't want to
Speaker 3: just bring a guest on just to bring a guest on. So, uh,
Speaker 3: the first few months, we're just trying to figure out
Speaker 3: how to fill the time, and that's that's a process,
Speaker 3: and then you try to figure out ways to where
Speaker 3: you can make it as interesting as possible. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it didn't really hit me until the last few weeks
Speaker 3: as the transition was taking place. Me moving over to
Speaker 3: has that really any job that I have in broadcasting
Speaker 3: the rest of the way, it'll have a different challenges,
Speaker 3: just like where I'm at now. It's going to be
Speaker 3: an adjustment for me as I've made the moved eight
Speaker 3: forty but as far as just the preparation and and
Speaker 3: really just you know, having to to spend a lot
Speaker 3: of time making sure I've got enough to get through
Speaker 3: a full show. I've probably gone through the longest gig.
Speaker 3: I've probably gone through the toughest gig I'll ever. Have
Speaker 3: to be honest with.
Speaker 2: You, you have so let me let me ask you, like, okay,
Speaker 2: you trainransition from your previous job to radio, How did
Speaker 2: you know that you could do three hours? I doubt yourself.
Speaker 2: So you didn't do like a mellodcast or anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I so, yeah, So I had a podcast
Speaker 3: long ago before it is what it is now. I
Speaker 3: remember I started a podcast in my one bedroom apartment
Speaker 3: with my girlfriend who's now my wife and the mother
Speaker 3: of my two childrens a long long time ago. And
Speaker 3: then I got an opportunity to work at a smaller
Speaker 3: station here. But I was doing an hour three days
Speaker 3: a week from like six to seven, and it was great.
Speaker 3: It was a great opportunity, great repetition for me, and
Speaker 3: I really enjoyed it. And I never thought I'd be
Speaker 3: able to do it for like a gig. But no, whenever,
Speaker 3: whenever I got the opportunity, I think I had some
Speaker 3: questions about myself, like would I be able to make
Speaker 3: this work?
Speaker 4: Should I abandon?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: In another part of the story that I've that I've
Speaker 3: shared before with some others. I got called by Kelly Carls,
Speaker 3: who hired me when we left the hospital with my
Speaker 3: firstborn child. So here I am having to take a take,
Speaker 3: take a gamble on myself to see if I could
Speaker 3: make it work, and somehow I've been able.
Speaker 4: To at least still be able to do this.
Speaker 3: So yeah, there was a little bit of fear the
Speaker 3: first day when it ended, because I feel like I'd
Speaker 3: run a marathon, and even after the first segment, I
Speaker 3: was like, I feel like I'd already emptied the bag
Speaker 3: and I had nothing left. So yeah, yeahppen for three
Speaker 3: hours every day is something I did for many, many
Speaker 3: years and it was a lot of fun. But I
Speaker 3: don't think it really I just I was really happy
Speaker 3: to have the chance to do it. But it does
Speaker 3: mean a lot to me to hear people like yourself,
Speaker 3: And I know Matt's talked about it before on KSR
Speaker 3: that you know, it's not something many people do, and
Speaker 3: probably because they realized they don't. You know, it would
Speaker 3: be difficult to try to think you could make good
Speaker 3: content out of it. And I don't know if I
Speaker 3: did that or not, but Hey, they haven't got rid
Speaker 3: of me yet.
Speaker 2: Locklan McClain was one of those guys who could just
Speaker 2: talk to a wall. And I watched them do it,
Speaker 2: you know, for like two hours. I think his show
Speaker 2: was two hours. Yep, you're doing it for three hours.
Speaker 2: I know how much show prep I put into doing
Speaker 2: one hour a day with Billy every day when I'm hosting,
Speaker 2: because he and I kind of alternate on who drives
Speaker 2: the show each day. And you know, I probably put
Speaker 2: in a good hour, I would say of you know,
Speaker 2: prep and trying to find things that are halfway entertaining
Speaker 2: to talk about. But when you're doing three hours by yourself,
Speaker 2: like especially at the beginning, like how much prep each
Speaker 2: night before? Are you putting it or are you just
Speaker 2: walking in and just surely you're not just winging it
Speaker 2: for three hours? Right?
Speaker 3: So here's here's here was my method and it and
Speaker 3: it really worked for me. And I mean I would
Speaker 3: recommend it to anybody if you're active on on social media.
Speaker 3: So what I would do, I mean Twitter has become
Speaker 3: I mean Twitter's I guess now X. It's it's pretty
Speaker 3: it's a pretty toxic place at times, but it has
Speaker 3: a it has one really valuable purpose for me is
Speaker 3: that it's just a constant source of what is being
Speaker 3: put out there as far as articles or just something
Speaker 3: somebody tweets that becomes a big talking point. So all
Speaker 3: throughout my day, I would I would see something, and
Speaker 3: I would I would send that tweet to my direct message,
Speaker 3: and then in the evening I would go through and
Speaker 3: find all the things that I that I'd seen that
Speaker 3: might be interesting to bring up on the show, and
Speaker 3: I would compile my prep from that, and then you know,
Speaker 3: I would then go for stuff that I think would
Speaker 3: be worthwhile, cut up a lot of sound, because you know,
Speaker 3: even if you know, even if there's not a ton
Speaker 3: of great sound, you don't wanted to hear my voice
Speaker 3: for the whole time. And there were days where we
Speaker 3: didn't have many callers that kind of stuff, so a
Speaker 3: lot of prep went into it, and I just was
Speaker 3: so scared of not having enough things to talk about
Speaker 3: to where oftentimes i'd over prepare. But when I did that,
Speaker 3: that would lead to where I would end the show
Speaker 3: and realize I've still got like four or five things
Speaker 3: that aren't time sensitive that I could bring up, you know,
Speaker 3: the following day. So I found my own routine. Everybody
Speaker 3: has their own way of doing it and finding what
Speaker 3: works for them. But yeah, I always had the fear
Speaker 3: of knowing if I ran out of something to talk about,
Speaker 3: I ran out of something to say, Like, I don't
Speaker 3: know what I would do. So I just always had
Speaker 3: something in the bag to pull out and you know,
Speaker 3: keep the conversation going.
Speaker 2: Some of these summer shows, I feel like we get
Speaker 2: to that point, like, oh, if we're kind of at
Speaker 2: the end of all of our topics, I don't know
Speaker 2: what else to say.
Speaker 3: But can I tell you what the easiest time in
Speaker 3: radio for me was, but was also difficult a as
Speaker 3: a fan was the Kenny Payne era. Was really easy
Speaker 3: because I didn't have to do any prep. I didn't
Speaker 3: have to do I mean, first of all, we had
Speaker 3: a lot of people calling and sharing their thoughts about
Speaker 3: what went on. But as somebody who is a big
Speaker 3: louisvill fan, it just it was really therapeutic. I got
Speaker 3: a lot of sympathy from people, which you know, I
Speaker 3: do appreciate that, but I feel like I was able
Speaker 3: to just get it out of my system every day
Speaker 3: to where it didn't consume me every day of my
Speaker 3: life because you know, for those who don't know me,
Speaker 3: I'm a big Louisville fan. I love level basketball and.
Speaker 1: That's your only though, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we got twelve minutes in before we had
Speaker 3: to let everybody know that if they weren't aware. But yeah,
Speaker 3: that actually made it easy because it was just kind
Speaker 3: of it was driven by what was going on.
Speaker 1: When you were doing three hours?
Speaker 2: Though. Did you ever come back and have to repeat
Speaker 2: anything that you talked about in the first hour, Because
Speaker 2: I feel like if you wanted to get lazy with it,
Speaker 2: you could do that, But going through three hours and
Speaker 2: talking about all new content like naturally big about that.
Speaker 1: He's like, you know, I don't want to repeat anything.
Speaker 3: So you know this, and I know Matt knows it
Speaker 3: as well. When when you when they tell you, when
Speaker 3: programmers tell you sort of what makes the most sense
Speaker 3: for for radio, not necessarily podcasting, but radio, draft time
Speaker 3: radio specifically that that you need that you need to
Speaker 3: be repetitive to an extent. But it's just not natural
Speaker 3: for me. If I'm repetitive, I just feel like, hey,
Speaker 3: people already heard that, even if it is a new audience.
Speaker 3: So I've more so followed what you guys do on KSR,
Speaker 3: just because I feel like that's more my style. But
Speaker 3: you know, at times, I'm sure I could have been
Speaker 3: repetitive and it would have maybe made a little bit
Speaker 3: more since I did, I will say that when I
Speaker 3: was doing because I started noon to three, then I
Speaker 3: went from seven to ten am, and then for the
Speaker 3: last two plus years, I've been three to six before
Speaker 3: it all ended last week, And I did think the
Speaker 3: first hour, in the third hour, there was there were
Speaker 3: similarities and that did make they did make it a
Speaker 3: little bit easier. But now what I'm having to get
Speaker 3: used to on eight forty is that, I mean, it's
Speaker 3: a totally different format when it comes to the Kentucky
Speaker 3: in the morning news, and I mean I've.
Speaker 4: Got I used to have to fill nineteen minutes.
Speaker 3: Now I got Now I got four minutes, and I
Speaker 3: got to try to squeeze it in asas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well maybe maybe more challenging though, because we see
Speaker 2: i'd be concise.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, that's that's the new challenge. But it also
Speaker 3: you know, at times, whenever I end up finishing a segment,
Speaker 3: I'm like, that was it. That's that's a breeze compared
Speaker 3: to what I was doing. But now I'm I'm being
Speaker 3: coached because you know, I can't screw this up. I'm
Speaker 3: like the fourth person that ever have this job in
Speaker 3: the morning's on eight forty. So I need to be
Speaker 3: repetitive and be aware that the people that listen to
Speaker 3: me at five am are not the same people that
Speaker 3: are going to be listening at eight am.
Speaker 2: That's the thing too, fourth person ever to host the
Speaker 2: morning show on eight forty whs, it's.
Speaker 1: Pretty good company.
Speaker 4: Again, just not screw it up, right, Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean he just replaced Tony Cruz, who has been
Speaker 2: I think the morning guy for what twenty one years?
Speaker 2: So he's been here as long as I've He's been
Speaker 2: doing the morning show as long as I've been here
Speaker 2: at iHeart. So let me ask you this because this
Speaker 2: is another part that I here's the reason I don't
Speaker 2: think I could do your job.
Speaker 1: You're on the air at what five am?
Speaker 2: Yes, So let me ask you, what time number one
Speaker 2: are you going to sleep now? And what time are
Speaker 2: you waking up every morning to do the show at
Speaker 2: five o'clock?
Speaker 3: So I woke up this morning at three am. I
Speaker 3: woke up yesterday at two forty five, am, Oh my god,
Speaker 3: are you laughing at my pain?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, There's no way I could do that.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if that's going to be the routine.
Speaker 3: I think what I'm gonna find after a week or so,
Speaker 3: I'll be able to sense if I'm able to potentially
Speaker 3: sleep until Like I could honestly do do what I
Speaker 3: need to do to prepare for the five am start.
Speaker 3: I could do that the evening before, but that would
Speaker 3: require me staying up a little bit later and then
Speaker 3: just I mean, I could get up honestly with no
Speaker 3: traffic and leave the house at four fifteen and still
Speaker 3: be here on time, But that would be so I
Speaker 3: would feel like I'm panicked because that's just so not natural.
Speaker 3: But I got to make adjustments. This is not a
Speaker 3: normal routine by any means. So last night it played
Speaker 3: itself out. I didn't need to think about when I
Speaker 3: went to bed. It was nine thirty and I was
Speaker 3: on the recliner, and then that was it. It was
Speaker 3: I was out. So I think, you know, I'll end
Speaker 3: up probably trying what I want to do. This is
Speaker 3: what I hope happens. I hope I can I can
Speaker 3: get up really early finish the show after and then
Speaker 3: get a quick nap in and then try to go
Speaker 3: to bed. You know, basically have two basically a sleep
Speaker 3: schedule that is a bit the biggest chunk of it
Speaker 3: is in the evening at night, and then get a
Speaker 3: little nap in and balance it out. But everybody has
Speaker 3: told me that, you know, good luck with that, and
Speaker 3: that there's never going to be a moment where you're
Speaker 3: not tired. And I'm thinking great, And on one of
Speaker 3: Tony Cruz's last shows last week, this this was this
Speaker 3: kind of has haunted me since he said it, But
Speaker 3: people were busting his chops about how he's going to
Speaker 3: now be able to sleep in and how he's you know,
Speaker 3: he's probably gone to bed at seven pm for the
Speaker 3: last twenty years. And he was kind of he was
Speaker 3: defending himself, kind of you know, to sound like a badass,
Speaker 3: and he was like, well, I mean on Fridays, I'm
Speaker 3: up to sometimes nine thirty and.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, is this my life? Is
Speaker 2: this what I've signed up for? I think you have, man,
Speaker 2: It's a life style change. I don't know how you
Speaker 2: could do it any other way. Otherwise you're burning the
Speaker 2: candle at both ends. If you're trying to say, like,
Speaker 2: for instance, coming out Thursday, we got the first game
Speaker 2: of the NBA Finals, I.
Speaker 4: Don't know how PACER's fan too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know you are, I know, And I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: how in the hell is he going to sit up
Speaker 2: and watch the end of this game and still get
Speaker 2: to work on tom tomorrow the next day without you know,
Speaker 2: feeling terrible, you know, just running it off, no sleep
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 3: We'll see, I mean, it's gonna be traveling error. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna find I'm gonna just like a nine years ago.
Speaker 3: I'mnna have to find a spot that makes the most
Speaker 3: sense for me, find a rhythm and a routine that works.
Speaker 3: But another thing that scared me this morning Scott Fitzgerald,
Speaker 3: who's on the mornings with me doing sports, you know,
Speaker 3: he talked about how the last however many years he's
Speaker 3: been on eight forty that he never even watches his
Speaker 3: team play anymore. He just wakes up the next day
Speaker 3: and watches it in the morning. And I'm like, why
Speaker 3: do anybody talk about these kind of things? Is this
Speaker 3: is gonna be worried?
Speaker 2: The other thing about it too, Like just for me,
Speaker 2: getting in here at seven o'clock, which you know, I
Speaker 2: woke up this morning at five forty, and I'm going, well,
Speaker 2: Nick's already been on the air for forty minutes, so
Speaker 2: I can't complain too much. But just me having to
Speaker 2: get up at five thirty every morning to get in
Speaker 2: here at seven o'clock, I find myself, even on Saturdays
Speaker 2: and Sundays, Nick, I'm still up at five thirty, Like,
Speaker 2: even when I don't want to be, my body is
Speaker 2: just on its own clock, and regardless if I want
Speaker 2: to wake up or not, I cannot.
Speaker 1: Sleep in on the weekends anymore. So it's a curse.
Speaker 3: I feel like, how late do you sleep in on
Speaker 3: Saturdays and Sundays if you've got nothing going on?
Speaker 2: At the latest six thirty at the latest, man, I'm
Speaker 2: telling you, like that is, let's say it's Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: I'm waking up at six thirty. That is.
Speaker 2: I went out Saturday night and uh, you know, partied
Speaker 2: it partied it up. We stayed out till twelve thirty
Speaker 2: one o'clock. I'm still bay.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know the band's getting booked a lot,
Speaker 4: and you're probably having late nights. I know, I know
Speaker 4: they are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll still be up early regardless, like a
Speaker 2: life of shin in the day, I don't want to
Speaker 2: be up at that time, but here I am. It's like, well,
Speaker 2: what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3: I also have a I have a have two children
Speaker 3: at home, so they've they've at times dictated my sleep schedule.
Speaker 3: But there may be some moments where the weekend rest
Speaker 3: is needed to where I'm just gonna tell my wife, look,
Speaker 3: I'm going to the cave downstairs and just.
Speaker 4: Leave me be.
Speaker 3: Don't don't, don't let the minions downstairs. I need some sleep.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna lose my mind.
Speaker 1: He is Nick Coffee.
Speaker 2: It is the Bullet County Takeover on the KSR pre
Speaker 2: Show today. We'll take your calls eight five, nine two,
Speaker 2: eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Yeah, he's a little fan.
Speaker 2: Don't hold it against them. We can all be friends here.
Speaker 2: And I feel like I want to ask you about
Speaker 2: the rivalry because I feel like the coaches are a
Speaker 2: little too friendly for my liking. Yp with Pat Kelsey
Speaker 2: and Mark Pope, and we'll get into that and a
Speaker 2: whole lot more. We'll be right back here on the
Speaker 2: KSR pre Show.
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back.
Speaker 2: It is the KSR pre show, Shitning the Dude and
Speaker 2: Nick Coffee. Nick, I've been on your show, I think
Speaker 2: for a segment or all Drew, I don't think you've
Speaker 2: ever been on.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've been on with Billy.
Speaker 3: Maybe Billy has had me come on a couple of times,
Speaker 3: which the last two appearances I made on this show.
Speaker 3: One was a really tough one because it was right
Speaker 3: after Kentucky beat Louisville and football when Louisville was top ten.
Speaker 3: It was the two years ago Broms first season. And
Speaker 3: then I came on last year the same time, and
Speaker 3: it was following the time Louisville had won the game.
Speaker 3: So I've been I've been here a couple of times.
Speaker 3: Happy to be back again, and yes I am. I
Speaker 3: am from the from the Louisville side of things. Let's
Speaker 3: just let him know.
Speaker 2: That that was a dirty, calculated move on Billy's part
Speaker 2: to bring you on at that time. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you're a horse racing fan, Nick, I followed the
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Speaker 2: winner actually races.
Speaker 3: Yeah, once the triple crown potential is over, I'm you know,
Speaker 3: so if somebody tells me it's on, I may turn
Speaker 3: it on, but I'm not seeking it out. This is
Speaker 3: a hot take I'm giving you on ksrpre show here.
Speaker 3: I think we are a Derby town, but like the
Speaker 3: sport of horse racing to me, and there are plenty
Speaker 3: of people who love it. And clearly horse racing is
Speaker 3: a big deal because of Churchill Down's and the Derby.
Speaker 3: But I think a lot of us we weren't necessarily
Speaker 3: exposed to the sport of horse racing quite as much
Speaker 3: as the event that is the Derby. Just my opinion,
Speaker 3: I wanted to get out of the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's me one hundred percent. Like I love the
Speaker 2: pageantry of it. I love everything that comes with it,
Speaker 2: the parties, like you know, the oh yeah, I can
Speaker 2: have friends over and we can.
Speaker 1: Cook out and we can drink beer and bourbon and
Speaker 1: all that.
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Speaker 1: I love that part of it.
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Speaker 3: Shut out to who put that coffee together? That was
Speaker 3: a lot of work, a lot of work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, you know, I guess transitioning over to WHS
Speaker 2: to you naturally, probably it's just in your blood to
Speaker 2: talk sports.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's been my I mean, any any story
Speaker 3: that comes up, anything, I'm just so geared to turn
Speaker 3: it towards sports. But I have been told that bringing
Speaker 3: you know, I get, I get five minutes segments if
Speaker 3: one of them happens to be about the sports and
Speaker 3: it's of local interest, it's not it's not like they're gonna,
Speaker 3: you know, they're gonna kick me out of there. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm still anything I hear, anything I see. When it
Speaker 3: comes to talking about on the radio, I always try
Speaker 3: to it's just natural to shift into sports.
Speaker 2: So now you've got to think, you know, when you're
Speaker 2: looking at what we're going to talk about today and
Speaker 2: what's going on in the world news, what's going on
Speaker 2: in local news, it's so much more than just yep,
Speaker 2: you know, but that's the thing that we do on KSR.
Speaker 2: I think a lot though it is just local news stuff.
Speaker 2: Like yesterday our big topic was Zipper merging, like that
Speaker 2: was the big and that's the crazy thing, like.
Speaker 1: We we'll talk.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite things about KSR was that it's
Speaker 3: not really a sports show.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 4: I mean it is, but it's not.
Speaker 3: It's a cult. It's culture lifestyle. And clearly the people
Speaker 3: who listen to this show Kentucky sports is a big
Speaker 3: part of their culture. So it kind of go and look,
Speaker 3: they you guys talk sports, but uh, it's it's it's entertainment.
Speaker 4: It's the characters that all of you are.
Speaker 3: And I don't mean that in a bad way, but
Speaker 3: you all play your own specific role and it works
Speaker 3: out and you can sometimes listen for two hours and
Speaker 3: you're like, yeah, I'm not sure they talked about sports today.
Speaker 2: I mean, like last week, o tega Oway announced he's
Speaker 2: coming back. We're on the pre show. First two callers
Speaker 2: want to talk about growing pumpkins and something else that
Speaker 2: had nothing to do with otega Away coming back.
Speaker 1: Its like, oh, okay, no big deal, but.
Speaker 2: You know, you go over there to WHGs you have
Speaker 2: to talk? I guess some sports.
Speaker 4: Do you want to hear what I had to talk
Speaker 4: about today?
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 4: What are they going to do about? What's going on
Speaker 4: Barstown Road? Channon? Oh, what's what's what is Craig Greenberg?
Speaker 4: Who we know? What's he going to do about it?
Speaker 4: I mean, he's you know that. I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't talk about it with that tone. But that
Speaker 3: was a big discussion because in the Islands the last
Speaker 3: couple of weeks there have been some people stand out
Speaker 3: really really late, shutting down streets and that kind of stuff,
Speaker 3: and that typically would be something I would never touch,
Speaker 3: never want to bring up at all. But it was
Speaker 3: probably the most talked about thing today throughout four hours.
Speaker 3: And uh, yeah, that's my new life now.
Speaker 2: That's what we talked about on KSR yesterday. Matt said,
Speaker 2: have you seen this brawl that broke out on Saturday
Speaker 2: night on Bargstown Road. I hadn't even seen it, and
Speaker 2: now it's like it's all the talk, it's all that
Speaker 2: everybody's talking about on local news around here. I still
Speaker 2: don't know what they're fighting over, but I saw all
Speaker 2: the people that were crowding around. There was there was
Speaker 2: fights going on, there were people trying to get it
Speaker 2: on video to get likes and follows and all this stuff.
Speaker 3: I mean some of the videos that ended up making
Speaker 3: it their way to the news, to the new stations
Speaker 3: that covered it, I mean that that was real and
Speaker 3: some of the sound from those were shared on our
Speaker 3: newscast and uh yeah, I mean it's Barstown Road and
Speaker 3: the Highlands in that area is certainly not now what
Speaker 3: it what it used to be. And one thing I
Speaker 3: found interesting though, is that there's so much and I
Speaker 3: guess it's a lot of people who grew up around here.
Speaker 3: I know this audience is much more than just the
Speaker 3: Loisville area, but the Highlands, those bars, I mean, it's
Speaker 3: it's probably one of the more well known areas. I
Speaker 3: mean back in the day, you just go, you keep
Speaker 3: going down further and you end up at Phoenix Hill Tavern.
Speaker 3: I mean that was a great to live there on
Speaker 3: the weekends. Oh yeah, I'm glad I got to go
Speaker 3: a few times before it ended up closing down. But anyways,
Speaker 3: with with that, there's it's it stinks that that's sort
Speaker 3: of what you may see if you end up trying
Speaker 3: to go out and relive a night that you did
Speaker 3: ten years ago or whatnot. But am I the only
Speaker 3: one who looks at some of the video and people
Speaker 3: jumping on cars trying to disarm security like that shouldn't
Speaker 3: happen anywhere, No Highlands anywhere like that shouldn't Like that's
Speaker 3: scary anywhere it happened.
Speaker 2: The farthest I venture down Barstown Road these days is
Speaker 2: like Tk's Pub just.
Speaker 1: From the creek.
Speaker 2: So, but that's been good fun. I haven't been out
Speaker 2: there in years though, But yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you get rid of Phoenix, hi'll tab
Speaker 3: and good luck getting shanned the dude back out there.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: If there's not a booty shake, I go. I go
Speaker 2: for booty shaking, not fights, all right. If I want
Speaker 2: to go see a fight, I want to.
Speaker 3: You know, I told Craig the way to get things
Speaker 3: cleaned up down there, it is just channing the dude
Speaker 3: back out there for the booty shaking contest.
Speaker 4: And let's let's get that. Let's bring the Highlands back
Speaker 4: to what it once was.
Speaker 2: Maybe bring some of the OVW guys. Yeah, you were
Speaker 2: in that world for a while.
Speaker 4: I was right, I was what a world.
Speaker 2: So did you have fun doing the O it you
Speaker 2: were kind of behind the scenes with everything, but yeah,
Speaker 2: you start to manage a lot of the personalities behind
Speaker 2: the scenes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was an experience that in that in was certainly rewarding,
Speaker 3: just because I feel like I I one, I got
Speaker 3: to learn a lot about things that I that I
Speaker 3: really didn't know anything about it as far as what
Speaker 3: goes into wrestling, but I would when people ask me
Speaker 3: sort of what the experience was like. I mean, wrestling
Speaker 3: clearly is a niche audience in the eyes.
Speaker 4: Of a lot of people. It's clearly very very popular.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the people who were in it, man, they
Speaker 3: put so much into it.
Speaker 2: It's admirable. It's an interesting world, it definitely is. We'll
Speaker 2: be all right back with more with Nick. You're on
Speaker 2: the KSR pre Show. It is the KSR pre Show,
Speaker 2: Shannon the Dude, Nick Coffee sitting in for Billy Reledge
Speaker 2: eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 2: If you want to get on the Clark's Popping Shot
Speaker 2: phone line. We were just talking right before we turned
Speaker 2: the mics on. We've got to make somehow Mark Pope
Speaker 2: and Pat Kelsey dislike each other. I know it's still
Speaker 2: early in the rivalry for these two. I mean not
Speaker 2: Mark Pope, I mean he knows as a player with
Speaker 2: this rivalry is but both guys being new coaches at
Speaker 2: Kentucky in Louisville respectively. And Matt asked Mark Pope last
Speaker 2: week or a couple of weeks ago when he was
Speaker 2: interviewing him, we gotta somehow drum up some some hatred,
Speaker 2: not real hatred, but you know sports hatred between the
Speaker 2: two because they just genuinely seem to like each other
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I played that sound on my show just because
Speaker 3: I think you could tell if you you know, it
Speaker 3: would be really tough to create some kind of animosity,
Speaker 3: just because it would be very much forced. I think
Speaker 3: these two guys they respect one another as coaches, as people,
Speaker 3: and I think even the fans. I mean, I'll admit it.
Speaker 3: I can't speak for anybody but myself, but as a
Speaker 3: Louisville fan, not only not only do I think Mark
Speaker 3: Pope's a good coach, I think he's hard to dislike.
Speaker 3: He's very very likable. When Kentucky plays, do I want
Speaker 3: them to win? No, But that doesn't mean that I
Speaker 3: don't think. I think he's a good coach too. Like
Speaker 3: I think Kentucky last year actually had more success based
Speaker 3: off coaching, not necessarily because of any specific philosophy. But
Speaker 3: you know, I don't know when I click. Their team
Speaker 3: wasn't good. They were good last year, but some of
Speaker 3: the things you guys have talked about athleticism was not
Speaker 3: a strength of theirs, and they beat some teams that
Speaker 3: were really, really good. Some teams ended up being, you know,
Speaker 3: some of the best teams in the country. So hear
Speaker 3: me gushing about a Kentucky basketball coach, I'm about to
Speaker 3: block out just doing it right now. But it's but
Speaker 3: you know, I wouldn't say it if I didn't believe it.
Speaker 3: It's the truth.
Speaker 4: I wish I could say otherwise.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if Kentucky fans like Pat Kelsey,
Speaker 3: but I think they've they've probably expected a year in
Speaker 3: to have a little bit more out there for them
Speaker 3: to cling to about. Yeah, this guy sucks. I hate
Speaker 3: him because he's he's I think he's pretty likable too.
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey hasn't done anything to make us not like
Speaker 2: him yet, Like he's been very complimentary of Pope and Kentucky.
Speaker 2: And you know, you go back to Rick Patino and
Speaker 2: John Caliperi, who.
Speaker 4: That was theater.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, who would pretend to.
Speaker 2: Like each other and you know they would do each
Speaker 2: other's podcast and all that, but you know, deep down
Speaker 2: inside they despised each other. Oh yeah, and now we've
Speaker 2: got two guys that, let's be real about it. They're
Speaker 2: kind of dorky, yeah, like the kind of goof. They're
Speaker 2: relatable to be completely different personalities than Patino and cali Perry,
Speaker 2: like the complete opposite.
Speaker 3: Complete opposites, and that's refreshing. I think we we experienced
Speaker 3: it right after Patino a little bit with Chris Mack,
Speaker 3: because Chris Mack, if anything, he was just a lot
Speaker 3: different than Patino, but also he was a little bit
Speaker 3: more relatable. You'd see him out in Louisville. He clearly
Speaker 3: you know, you knew his family pretty well. He's pretty visible.
Speaker 3: And then with with same thing with set I mean,
Speaker 3: Bobby Patrino was a robot. We went from that to
Speaker 3: Scott Sadderfield and him just having him just being alive
Speaker 3: was a little bit different. So with you guys, you
Speaker 3: have a larger than live figure and he still is
Speaker 3: that John Caliperry and Patino and cal maybe two of
Speaker 3: the most unrelatable coaches to the common fan, regardless of
Speaker 3: where they're coaching. And yes, with Pope and Kelsey, it's
Speaker 3: it's way different. And one thing that that I don't
Speaker 3: think was as visible this year as people realize is
Speaker 3: that they actually like to play the same style. Louisville
Speaker 3: had injuries earlier in the year that really changed not
Speaker 3: a lot of what they wanted to do, but certainly
Speaker 3: they just didn't have as many bodies. Kentucky's injuries came
Speaker 3: a little later in the year. But both these love
Speaker 3: they want as many possessions as possible. They want in
Speaker 3: rhythm threes, they want to fire up a bunch of
Speaker 3: three point shots, get to the free throw line. I mean,
Speaker 3: they are two of the young successful coaches when it
Speaker 3: comes to the modern style of basketball. I mean, I
Speaker 3: know Pat Kelsey and I'm sure Mark Pope as well,
Speaker 3: like they like to play the way Nate Oates plays
Speaker 3: as far as just that style offensively. So maybe that's
Speaker 3: another reason why they kind of seem to like each
Speaker 3: other and respect each other, because they have some of
Speaker 3: the same basketball beliefs.
Speaker 2: The other thing, too, is the accessibility of these coaches.
Speaker 2: And what I mean by that is like, yeah, John
Speaker 2: Calli Perry would sign, you know, basketballs for fans after
Speaker 2: games while he was doing his postgame show, as long
Speaker 2: as they didn't have any dimples in the ball. He
Speaker 2: would not sign dimpled basketballs, but you know he would,
Speaker 2: he would.
Speaker 1: Have interactions with the fans.
Speaker 2: But what I mean by accessibility is Mark Pope goes
Speaker 2: above and beyond, Like he'll go like he'll hang around
Speaker 2: after a road game and go up into the stands
Speaker 2: and hang out with fans and sign autographs.
Speaker 4: And he's genuine and yeah.
Speaker 2: And I could never see Caliperiy and Rick Patino going
Speaker 2: up into the stands and taking pictures with fans after
Speaker 2: a game.
Speaker 3: Not at all. And I think with I mean with
Speaker 3: Cali Perry. I did, from afar enjoy the last few years,
Speaker 3: just more so not because of the the I mean
Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't mind seeing the upstates that took
Speaker 3: place in the tournament, but the dynamic between Kentucky fans
Speaker 3: and Cali Perry in the final couple years was very
Speaker 3: fascinating to me because it's just it's like something you'll
Speaker 3: never see. This is a guy who had the best
Speaker 3: job in the sport, making more money than anybody would
Speaker 3: pay him a lifetime contract. But man, he just didn't
Speaker 3: really seem to like the fan base. I think he was,
Speaker 3: I guess maybe turned off that they started to be
Speaker 3: critical whenever you know, the results weren't what they used
Speaker 3: to be. But it was like a it was to me,
Speaker 3: it was just a divorce playing out in front of
Speaker 3: everybody's eyes. These two just it's not compatible anymore. The
Speaker 3: love is lost.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Pat Kelsey, wasn't he going around and like
Speaker 2: handing out flyers like hey comes, oh yeah?
Speaker 3: And he he doesn't and never do that when he
Speaker 3: was hired and he and he you know, self deprecation
Speaker 3: can go a long way. And when he was hired,
Speaker 3: when his first press conference he made comment that he's
Speaker 3: not he's not who's he's not Scott Drew and he's
Speaker 3: not Dusty May.
Speaker 4: But you know, he's.
Speaker 3: Excited, he's humble, and he's well aware that he wasn't
Speaker 3: the first choice, and he's willing to still work. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think these two guys, the ones really tall ones
Speaker 3: really not you know, and and clearly they don't come
Speaker 3: from the same background, but I do think both ended
Speaker 3: up with a job that if you'd have told me
Speaker 3: a year ago or a year prior they'd be in
Speaker 3: that position, they wouldn't have believed you. And then it
Speaker 3: played out to where I think both guys kind of
Speaker 3: hit the ground running and there is a real genuineness
Speaker 3: to them being humble and just like I can't believe
Speaker 3: I'm the coach here, I'm gonna I'm gonna make this
Speaker 3: work or I'm gonna die trying one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: And the other thing is too, when you don't talk
Speaker 2: down to your fan base and you're relatable, guess what
Speaker 2: the fan base in return is a lot more forgiving.
Speaker 2: Would you lose games maybe that you shouldn't lose in
Speaker 2: the future. So I feel like he builds up that
Speaker 2: equity with the fans both coaches. Mark Pope maybe has
Speaker 2: already a built in act year since he was a
Speaker 2: former player here in National champions.
Speaker 4: Well, look, he had a really good first year.
Speaker 1: Yeah sure, sweet sixteen.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, I think with with both these guys,
Speaker 3: I think for different reasons, the fan bases came back
Speaker 3: to life. We were literally dead in the coffin with
Speaker 3: Kenny Payne. I mean it was it still didn't seem real.
Speaker 1: They kicked us.
Speaker 3: You guys were successful, but you had those really rare
Speaker 3: upsets in the tournament that just seemed unbelievable. But then,
Speaker 3: you know, like Mark Pope started really embracing the era
Speaker 3: when he played that Cal liked to ignore because Rick
Speaker 3: coach those teams, and those teams were great and him
Speaker 3: just hitting all to me, Mark Pope kind of became
Speaker 3: the Jeff Brahm for what Louisville football, because you know,
Speaker 3: this is a guy that, yeah, we think he's a
Speaker 3: good coach, he's gonna win, but he's one of us.
Speaker 3: He gets us, and there's really no other coach that
Speaker 3: can do that. I think Mark Pope is like that
Speaker 3: with you guys.
Speaker 2: You haven't a radio show during the Kenny Payne era
Speaker 2: had to be what it must have been like to
Speaker 2: have a radio show during the Billy Gillespie era, you know,
Speaker 2: especially that second Yeah, we were you know, the sink
Speaker 2: is the ship is sinking, and you know, you know
Speaker 2: where this is going to end.
Speaker 1: But you still got to radio show.
Speaker 3: And you have to balance the you know, there's certain
Speaker 3: fans that probably don't disagree. They couldn't disagree, but they
Speaker 3: don't want to hear. But that's that's the job. You
Speaker 3: got to talk about it. We can't lie and act
Speaker 3: like things aren't what they are.
Speaker 2: So what's this with Trey Mitchell allegedly telling a new
Speaker 2: Lobell commit that Lobell has the greatest fan base.
Speaker 1: In the world, not in college basketball, nick in the world.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then that's wild.
Speaker 2: And then Trey Mitchell jumps on Instagram and goes, let
Speaker 2: me get the quote right, What did you say here?
Speaker 2: You know that's cap. Now you may need to translate
Speaker 2: this for me. You know that's cap. I think that
Speaker 2: means you know, that's not true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, cap.
Speaker 3: Cap means that either he didn't you know cat. I
Speaker 3: guess he's claiming cap, meaning that that's that's not true.
Speaker 3: That somebody's capping meaning. I guess they're stretching the truth.
Speaker 3: I thought, I thought when I read the initial comments
Speaker 3: from through the Louisville incoming the incoming freshman from Germany,
Speaker 3: I thought maybe there was a language barrier and he
Speaker 3: he he misheard what Trey Mitchell said. And then I
Speaker 3: heard the I heard the audio myself and he did
Speaker 3: say it, So, yeah, I don't really get that. And
Speaker 3: here's what crazy Trey Mitchell would would have been here
Speaker 3: when Kenny Payne was the coach, so like, yeah, if
Speaker 3: we were great, then oh my god, Like I mean
Speaker 3: the way I could tell you firsthand, we weren't great.
Speaker 4: We were we were in pain.
Speaker 1: There were twenty three people at the games.
Speaker 3: Maybe he meant he loved Louisville fans going through that.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's what Trey Mitchell meant.
Speaker 1: Maybe surely.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how he would say that.
Speaker 2: You're right, I mean, especially during the Kenny.
Speaker 4: Payne we weren't great. Trust me.
Speaker 2: Who Yeah, that's just I saw that.
Speaker 1: I was like, there's no way that's true.
Speaker 2: Eight five, nine, twenty two eighty seven. Let's go to Kentucky,
Speaker 2: gas man, what's up?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I had it going this morning.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 5: All right, good, I got my questions for Nick. So,
Speaker 5: you know, as a Kentucky fan and goes, I think
Speaker 5: all the fans couldn't agree. You know, we think we
Speaker 5: think about the time that Glassbie was at Kentucky as
Speaker 5: time we really want to forget sure sometimes that it
Speaker 5: didn't even and it didn't happen. You know, even when
Speaker 5: they have polls with coaches, Glasbye's hardly even mentioned. So
Speaker 5: my question is like, would you compare that that he
Speaker 5: was I lobile? And my second question is your I
Speaker 5: want to hear you. I'd like to hear you the.
Speaker 1: You're about to hit that.
Speaker 2: Both questions, I think you're saying, would you compare Gillespie
Speaker 2: and Kenny Payne's eras sort of similarly? Was that your
Speaker 2: first question, yes, okay, and then your second one.
Speaker 5: Was, well, just I want to hear Nick's input on
Speaker 5: the time that Kenny was there and what it was
Speaker 5: like for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Yeah, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I mean, yes, it was pro it was the comparisons this,
Speaker 3: It was two eras that you will question if it
Speaker 3: really happened and wonder how you got there. But to
Speaker 3: be honest, and I'm not trying to overdo it, Louisville
Speaker 3: basketball was one of the worst teams in the country.
Speaker 3: And there's three hundred and sixty plus. I mean, it
Speaker 3: wasn't just they were down for Louisville. They were really, really,
Speaker 3: really bad. And I won't claim that they had a
Speaker 3: bunch of great players. They didn't. But the scenario where
Speaker 3: that team went four and twenty eight and lost to
Speaker 3: the teams they lost to. I mean it's I don't
Speaker 3: want a bag on the guy because he's gone, and
Speaker 3: you know, louis was in a better spot now, but
Speaker 3: I don't. I mean that you could argue that was
Speaker 3: one of the worst coaching jobs of all time in
Speaker 3: college basketball. I mean it's just so Billy gilespie. Honestly,
Speaker 3: he should have made the take an the tournament his
Speaker 3: first year.
Speaker 1: An he won SEC Coach of the Year in his
Speaker 1: first year, so it was the second year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're really not comparable just because of how bad
Speaker 3: Louisville was. But look the worst things that were going on,
Speaker 3: I mean it all played out. I mean, he didn't
Speaker 3: put a kid in because he said he didn't want
Speaker 3: to wear his tights.
Speaker 2: I mean, they they tricked us, they played zone or
Speaker 2: what was Yeah, I mean they they had a red
Speaker 2: white scrimmage where fans could come out and nobody realized
Speaker 2: they needed to bring official I mean there, I mean
Speaker 2: it was it was Here's what here's something that that
Speaker 2: I mean, I think there's other coaches that had never
Speaker 2: been a head coach before that clearly would have done
Speaker 2: a billion times better than than than Kenny did.
Speaker 3: But man, it was the best example of don't give
Speaker 3: somebody the keys to the car that's never had to
Speaker 3: drive before, because just little things about organization, preparation. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, he'd never had to do that before. He
Speaker 3: had a specific role with Cali Perry clearly worked out
Speaker 3: really well. Yeah, but when you got to run your
Speaker 3: own program, it's different.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He was great at being the you know, the good cop.
Speaker 2: When Cali Perry would come yell at a player and
Speaker 2: they go sit on the bench, they go next, sit
Speaker 2: right next to Kenny, and he would talk him up,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Like he you know, everybody he had a He was
Speaker 1: great at that role. But then I can I.
Speaker 3: Tell you something that that that I that I think
Speaker 3: it's probably not brought up because again, there's only one
Speaker 3: way to really react to and talk about his era
Speaker 3: is just how bad it was. I don't think he
Speaker 3: ever wanted to be the coach. I think he was
Speaker 3: genuinely like pressured into it to where he did have
Speaker 3: good intentions initially, and then of course he became a
Speaker 3: mess and you know, we all know how it ended.
Speaker 3: But when I heard Purvis. Ellison claimed that he tried
Speaker 3: to encourage him not to do it. I'll never know,
Speaker 3: is because he didn't think he was capable or what.
Speaker 3: But I think Kenny took the job because of pressure
Speaker 3: and it kind of played out that way because I
Speaker 3: don't think he mean, I don't know. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of lot going on there, but it didn't work out.
Speaker 3: That's the best way to put it.
Speaker 1: In your level.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not like you're a terrible program, like
Speaker 2: historically top ten program. Would you agree, oh yeah, and
Speaker 2: then you go after a guy that's never been the coach.
Speaker 3: I mean our bad years were like barely missing the
Speaker 3: tournament and then it was you won four games.
Speaker 4: It was it was bad.
Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 2: pre Show next. When I asked Nick Coffee during the
Speaker 2: break to give me a favorite band, I was not
Speaker 2: expecting to hear Bob Seeger.
Speaker 1: Love Bob se Yeah, I'm a fan of Bob Seger.
Speaker 4: That's a weird thing, but I love him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw him years and years ago.
Speaker 4: I didn't think I could pick Alice Bluegun.
Speaker 2: So I saw Bob Seeger years ago at the Young Sinner.
Speaker 2: Nick and I took a date to Bob Seeker. That's
Speaker 2: what one does, because I had free tickets and why
Speaker 2: not you want to go see Bob Secer. She's like yeah,
Speaker 2: she was. She was like excited, and I'm like, you're
Speaker 2: really excited to see Bob Seeger.
Speaker 1: She's like yeah.
Speaker 2: So we get there and she's like, and Bob Seeker
Speaker 2: comes out on stage. She's like, who's that? I said,
Speaker 2: that's Bob Seger. She goes, oh, I thought we were
Speaker 2: going to see Bob Sagett. So the disappointment when Bob
Speaker 2: Seger came out on stage and played main Street and
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Speaker 1: She was expecting, you know, full.
Speaker 2: Time, I mean Danny Tanner to walk out on stage
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Speaker 2: a little bit about the football side of the Kentucky
Speaker 2: Louisville rivalry.
Speaker 1: Nick.
Speaker 2: You know, there's there's talk of this Big ten SEC
Speaker 2: football partnership where they would add, you know, one game
Speaker 2: to the schedule each year where you know, Kentucky would
Speaker 2: play some random Big Ten team because of that. Though,
Speaker 2: I think a lot of these teams, if that were
Speaker 2: to happen, would probably drop their rivalry game. I think
Speaker 2: Kentucky if they had to play let's say, I don't know,
Speaker 2: Purdue Illinois, some random team out of the Big Ten,
Speaker 2: I could see a scenario where they drop Louisville from that,
Speaker 2: from that schedule to play a couple of stinky teams
Speaker 2: just so they could build up their win total. You know,
Speaker 2: I say, under no circumstance do I want to see
Speaker 2: that happen Kentucky drop Lesville. I think the you know, rivalries,
Speaker 2: it's what makes sports great, right, you know, but I
Speaker 2: could see that happening. I'm hoping it doesn't happen. The
Speaker 2: Kentucky football rivalry with Louisville. I think they need to
Speaker 2: keep it regardless. What are your thoughts on, you know,
Speaker 2: the potential. I think rivalry being dropped.
Speaker 4: Just the noise.
Speaker 3: And it's really been either that partnership you're talking about
Speaker 3: or the potential nine game SEC schedule has been talked
Speaker 3: about for at least the last few offseasons the other part.
Speaker 3: And it certainly seems as if that does happen, that
Speaker 3: the move on the Kentucky side would be to get
Speaker 3: out of the rivalry series, and I would hate that.
Speaker 3: And what I don't understand is that there's no way
Speaker 3: Kentucky fans would want that. There's no way Louisville and
Speaker 3: not that they would care what Louisville fans won, but
Speaker 3: it's good for fans. I don't think Kentucky is scared
Speaker 3: of Louisville, and Mark Stoops should know what that win
Speaker 3: will do for the vibes and the morale of your program.
Speaker 3: I mean, you can be a decent middle of the
Speaker 3: pack SEC team and maybe be just Bowl eligible, but
Speaker 3: if you beat Louisville, it adds a lot of value.
Speaker 3: And the same thing goes on the Louisville side. I mean,
Speaker 3: Louisville last year didn't really have a whole lot of
Speaker 3: big time moments. They did beat Clemson on the road,
Speaker 3: but they finally got the governor's cut back, and I
Speaker 3: have no problem admitting that that. Even though Kentucky wasn't
Speaker 3: good at all last year, it means a lot to
Speaker 3: beat your rival, and they hadn't done it in a
Speaker 3: long time. So it'll probably happen if the schedule changes
Speaker 3: do take place. But who benefits from this, right, I guess,
Speaker 3: just more another win.
Speaker 1: It all comes down to money.
Speaker 2: But at some point, though, you have to sacrifice the
Speaker 2: good of the product for money, and at some point
Speaker 2: you have to draw a line.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, we would be making more money.
Speaker 2: Let's say in this situation if we we went to
Speaker 2: a nine game SEC schedule and we.
Speaker 1: Did a big ten partnership.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're making more money, but at what point does
Speaker 2: the overall product suffer? Because now you're having teams lose
Speaker 2: their rivalry game, and I think that's kind of where
Speaker 2: you have to draw the line. Only a couple of
Speaker 2: minutes here left with you, So I just want to
Speaker 2: do like a couple of quick hitters here on things
Speaker 2: you probably talked about last week. Do you like the
Speaker 2: fact that the College Football Hall of Fame dropped their
Speaker 2: percentage down a half a percentage for Mike Leach to
Speaker 2: make to be eligible for the College Football Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame to fifty nine and a half percent since that's
Speaker 2: of course twenty percentage.
Speaker 3: Was I think he Leech deserves it, and I wish
Speaker 3: they do something to help out Howard Schnellenberger, who was
Speaker 3: big for Louisville football really just you know, staying alive.
Speaker 3: And then also he played football at Kentucky too, So
Speaker 3: I think it was a good move, and I just
Speaker 3: wish they do something for Schnellenberger, who just just falls
Speaker 3: short because he was always a guy who built programs
Speaker 3: back up.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it was a good move though, and.
Speaker 2: Then quickly the NCAA Basketball tournament, considering going from sixty
Speaker 2: eight to seventy two games more playing games?
Speaker 1: Are you for that or against expanding the tournament?
Speaker 3: I'm against him, but I'm gonna watch you regardless. They'll
Speaker 3: probably expand it to one hundred and I'm gonna watch it.
Speaker 3: But no, I don't think they need I don't think
Speaker 3: they needed more than sixty four, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you there.
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Speaker 1: Nick. I appreciate it, man. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: having me working over tome.
Speaker 4: It's fun. Five straight hours of radio. Baby, I'm ready
Speaker 4: to do it again. Let's run it back.
Speaker 1: That's right, all right.
Speaker 2: You can catch a Nick every morning five am, bright
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