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Speaker 3: Now here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4: Welcome everyone.
Speaker 5: It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, May the thirteenth. I
Speaker 5: met Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill on
Speaker 5: what looks like it will be a nice day in Lexington, Kentucky.
Speaker 5: You can come and see us, have lunch and give
Speaker 5: us down the Clark's Pumping Shop fall line. I'm Shannon
Speaker 5: still doing the you know, not gonna interrupt on the
Speaker 5: phone call.
Speaker 4: OK.
Speaker 6: We're one day in, so far, so good.
Speaker 5: Uh. The one thing about it is a lot of
Speaker 5: people yes last time called in and talked about their
Speaker 5: age gaps. That was a big that was a big topic.
Speaker 5: We'll see if that ends up happening today as well. Uh.
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Speaker 5: It's a big day to day, Ryan. We are debuting
Speaker 5: at Ksbar a new catfish, a new catfish, new catfish.
Speaker 5: We have upgraded our catfish. We've found a higher quality
Speaker 5: fish like it's swimming in better waters and it is
Speaker 5: going to debut. Uh. We're going to eat it in
Speaker 5: the second hour. So a high quality, higher quality catfish
Speaker 5: debuts today.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: And if you come, you can eat it. But we
Speaker 5: will be the first ones to taste.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 4: I said this a lot on the show. I'm a
Speaker 4: little bit of a catfish snob. But our catfish here
Speaker 4: is like really really, it's to be better.
Speaker 5: Now you think of what lake you got it from,
Speaker 5: You're about to get it from a bigger one.
Speaker 4: I'm excited that where catfish.
Speaker 5: Are there in lakes right yeah, yes, Uh, money's out
Speaker 5: on the boat right now. That's right. We're out getting it.
Speaker 5: A few things here first, of all, We've got some
Speaker 5: folks here from Augusta, Kentucky. This is These guys are
Speaker 5: seniors and juniors, Grayson, Hayden, Will and Nolan uh. They
Speaker 5: are here as part of a school project. The project
Speaker 5: is how to be part of the best radio show
Speaker 5: in America. And they decided to come and Drew, we
Speaker 5: welcomed them here from Augusta. Yeah, I got to say
Speaker 5: little jealous. This just seems like a boy's trip. My
Speaker 5: field trips, I mean they were fun going to nerdy
Speaker 5: museums and stuff, but these where on field trips. We
Speaker 5: went to a coal camp.
Speaker 8: That that sounds about like some of the I don't
Speaker 8: remember going to a cold camp, and I know we
Speaker 8: My big one was Chicago to the shedd aquery.
Speaker 5: Oh mind. Do you know what a ca I know,
Speaker 5: Ryan does. Do you know what a cold camp is? Mario,
Speaker 5: you have no idea what a col camp. Back in
Speaker 5: the day when people worked in coal mines, they all
Speaker 5: lived in the same place and it was like it
Speaker 5: was like a town and everyone in the town worked
Speaker 5: for the coal mine, including like you got paid in
Speaker 5: the ripped which you then had to spend at the
Speaker 5: store there. So it was like it wasn't a good
Speaker 5: thing to have happened, but but the whole town would
Speaker 5: be closed off part of the coal mine, and we
Speaker 5: went to one of those places. By the time we went,
Speaker 5: it didn't like functioning anymore, but it was fascinating. Even
Speaker 5: as a kid, it was fascinating. Now I would have
Speaker 5: rather come here and watched a good sports show.
Speaker 6: But we did do that. Did you have a good
Speaker 6: field trip when you were in No.
Speaker 4: We went to the William and Clark Memorial and Vincen's
Speaker 4: Indiana and a museum in Evansville, Indiana.
Speaker 6: William and Clark Vincen's.
Speaker 4: Aren't they the explorers that explored the like New Orleans? Well,
Speaker 4: they discovered Vincen's Indiana. Apparently there's a big monument there.
Speaker 4: I think they were much happier about New Orleansis and Clark,
Speaker 4: Lewis and Lewis and Clark.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, you thought it was William and Clark. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: I feel like I thought those are different people. I
Speaker 5: thought you would have known Lewis and Clark. I thought
Speaker 5: William and Clark was the secondary.
Speaker 4: Lewis and Clark.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I feel like once a year we would just go
Speaker 8: look at the Jeffer's Davis Monument. I feel like I've
Speaker 8: been there thirty times.
Speaker 4: That was just at a little problematic to me.
Speaker 8: Well, it was just in western Kentucky. I think there
Speaker 8: was some maybe some mounds in Henderson May Changel Mound.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we would just do it, rotate those Angel mount.
Speaker 4: Indian burial grounds.
Speaker 5: I thought, I didn't know that I've been to the
Speaker 5: Wickliffe Mounds. That was part of my uh, that was
Speaker 5: part of my my trip for the book. Yeah, Wickliffe Mountains,
Speaker 5: it's it is a massive Native American burial site.
Speaker 6: I think it's a federal historical site.
Speaker 4: Where is it in Kentucky?
Speaker 5: In Wickliffe? That's why they call it the Wicklift Mountains. Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 5: it's out there next the Mississippi River, like one of
Speaker 5: those four river counties down there, Ballard County, Yes, so well.
Speaker 4: The one in Indiana's on the river on the Ohio
Speaker 4: River right there in Newburgh, Indiana.
Speaker 5: See, you're learning everything. And we also have a man
Speaker 5: what's your what's your first name? Daniel who brought me, uh,
Speaker 5: the Joe Creesan book. You know, we talked about Joe
Speaker 5: creas and he wrote a book of stories about Kentucky.
Speaker 5: Joe Creesan's Kentucky. He brought it to me, and I'm
Speaker 5: going to read this. This will be I am now
Speaker 5: sixteen books towards my fifty two and two thousand and nice, nice,
Speaker 5: twenty five, and I will put this one on the list.
Speaker 4: Sounds crazy. I want to read it after you read it.
Speaker 5: Do you know how long it would take you to
Speaker 5: get through this?
Speaker 4: But I like reading about Kentucky in the background story,
Speaker 4: he says, I like it, so you'll like it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I want to read that when you're done.
Speaker 5: All right too, we can all do it. Take me up.
Speaker 6: You got one too?
Speaker 4: Yeah, this must have been a very popular book when
Speaker 4: we knew nothing about it until last week. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 4: so anyway, I'm looking forward. Thank you very much for that.
Speaker 6: So today, you know, I've got like a lot.
Speaker 5: Of little things. Trivia is tonight. I hope you get
Speaker 5: your team together. It's this next to last qualifier. You
Speaker 5: said your team's coming, but you're not correct. Yes, we'll
Speaker 5: be here, but Mario and I will be here for trivia. Yesterday,
Speaker 5: when the show was over, there were two things that
Speaker 5: when I was out, people wanted to talk to me about. First,
Speaker 5: Everyone has an opinion on the zipper merch. I know everyone.
Speaker 5: Everyone has strong opinions on what or not you can
Speaker 5: zipper merge. People for it, people against it. There were
Speaker 5: people who were One guy came up to me and
Speaker 5: Chipotle and he said, the science of zipper merges. He said,
Speaker 5: the problem is that we don't do true zipper merges.
Speaker 5: Think about when you pull up a zipper, how each
Speaker 5: row connects right. And he said, the problem is you
Speaker 5: should be zipper merging the whole way and we go
Speaker 5: to the front. And he was like, that's not how
Speaker 5: a zipper works, which I thought was good point. Interesting,
Speaker 5: only the selfish people go to the front. I didn't
Speaker 5: it did be only people in a hurry go to
Speaker 5: the front. And then the second thing was everybody was
Speaker 5: agreeing with us Drew that Ryan is gonna get married
Speaker 5: within the next few minutes, and so I saw two
Speaker 5: people that knew Ryan and said Ryan will be married
Speaker 5: by Christmas, and so I was glad to see that
Speaker 5: his friends agreed with us.
Speaker 8: I don't know if Ryan loved it, but I like
Speaker 8: that discussion. I hate that it came at the end
Speaker 8: of the show because I felt like we had at
Speaker 8: least another segment out of that, especially when the tech
Speaker 8: started coming in from yoga Gal because she didn't say
Speaker 8: no wedding, she said no destination wedding.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like didn't want to go to Aruba,
Speaker 5: which I think is fair since they've never been and
Speaker 5: that would be weird.
Speaker 4: I just liked how the original question was, Matt, will
Speaker 4: you ever get married or you will have kids? Somehow
Speaker 4: I got deflected on me and my relationship status.
Speaker 5: Because I don't talk about it and you do. And
Speaker 5: that's that's what that's why it happens. Now, would you
Speaker 5: rather Ryan talk about interesting good basketball things or troubling
Speaker 5: football things to start? You tell me which one you want.
Speaker 4: I think you gotta start with good news, So I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go with basketball.
Speaker 5: Okay, I don't know. It's not really news. But Mark
Speaker 5: Pope is going to hold his first press conference with
Speaker 5: the media today at Noone. That just got announced. He
Speaker 5: is going to come on this show next Well, we're
Speaker 5: gonna tape it Tuesday afternoon next week and it will
Speaker 5: be airing next Wednesday. It's gonna be a long sit
Speaker 5: down which we're gonna then turn into a like an
Speaker 5: hour show. It'd be like one of the two hours
Speaker 5: will be my conversation with Pope, but.
Speaker 4: He's doing a press conference today.
Speaker 5: It starts right out after this show, as every piece
Speaker 5: of UK news breaks right at twelve. That says to me, Drew,
Speaker 5: that Pope's roster is finished, right that he feels like
Speaker 5: he said they weren't gonna talk until the roster's finished.
Speaker 5: That tells me the roster is finished. What do you
Speaker 5: think we're gonna hear today? This will be his first
Speaker 5: time talking in mass to the media.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was gonna try to make it over there.
Speaker 8: I don't I don't think i'll have time. He actually
Speaker 8: shows up. When he says noon, it means noon pastor
Speaker 8: Regames noon at twelve thirty, and I could get there,
Speaker 8: but I will tune into the live stream. I really,
Speaker 8: even though he puts out statements about each player, I
Speaker 8: just want to see what went into getting all these pieces,
Speaker 8: how he plans on putting together. You know, I doubt
Speaker 8: he's gonna reveal how the rotation will look this early,
Speaker 8: but I really just want to hear him go player
Speaker 8: by player and get an understanding of why I went
Speaker 8: after him and how he sees them fitting in here.
Speaker 4: You gotta know he's gonna be excited about the rosters.
Speaker 4: You know, a lot of it's gonna be really positive
Speaker 4: coming from him today. You know, you're right. He said
Speaker 4: he would talk to you, talk to the meeting. When
Speaker 4: his roster was completed, I felt like they were really
Speaker 4: gonna go out and get one more guys.
Speaker 5: I still thought there was a chance they would. They
Speaker 5: must feel good about Otega coming back. I think if
Speaker 5: he's gonna, if he's gonna talk, I think they must
Speaker 5: feel pretty good about that. The draft lottery was last night,
Speaker 5: not that that probably would have affected him, but.
Speaker 6: So that's how I look at it.
Speaker 5: A couple questions I would like someone, since none of
Speaker 5: us are gonna be there, let's give the questions we
Speaker 5: would like them to ask. I have one, like kind
Speaker 5: of juicy question. I want to hear him say something
Speaker 5: about Travis Parry because they didn't release the statement when
Speaker 5: he left. They got asking and I found that weird.
Speaker 5: I mean I just did. I found that weird because
Speaker 5: Mark Pope seems like the kind of guy who.
Speaker 8: Would always release a statement, and that was his first
Speaker 8: player called him out in the press conference last year.
Speaker 5: So it does I do I don't want I wouldn't
Speaker 5: want to ask him why didn't you say anything? But
Speaker 5: I would just kind of be interested in what he
Speaker 5: says about Travis Lee. I'm sure he'll take the high road,
Speaker 5: but but I admit, Drew, I do wonder there was
Speaker 5: no from Travis love you BBN, and there was no
Speaker 5: from Pope, you know. I mean, we didn't even get
Speaker 5: it with that said from Travis Perry.
Speaker 4: Right, we didn't.
Speaker 5: We didn't, And I wonder I do wonder about that,
Speaker 5: do you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, someone will ask I think that'll come up pretty quickly,
Speaker 8: but I don't think we'll get a great answer. It'll
Speaker 8: be the uh hit beautiful time here. We wish him luck, incredible,
Speaker 8: but I just don't think that happened. I do think
Speaker 8: it's weird, but I don't think we'll ever get a
Speaker 8: real answer, especially in a press conference setting like that.
Speaker 5: Someone will ask him.
Speaker 8: I'd be shocked if someone doesn't ask him, But I
Speaker 8: don't know that there will be a lot of meat
Speaker 8: on that bone in his answer. I think he'll be
Speaker 8: pretty vague and just wish him well.
Speaker 4: It should have happened, like as soon as he announced
Speaker 4: he was leaving Reese's statement in you can't do it
Speaker 4: now after he's picked Ole Miss a conference rival. But
Speaker 4: when Travis left, I was surprised that there wasn't something
Speaker 4: from just from just a graphic. I was surprised from both.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm much more surprised Travis didn't put something out.
Speaker 8: I mean coaches usually do, but players.
Speaker 5: They always say with that being said, like always, this
Speaker 5: has been a wonderful time, said, you know, God's playing
Speaker 5: like they always do that, and they didn't do it.
Speaker 5: So I do think that that's interesting. I guess the
Speaker 5: other thing I would like somebody to ask is I
Speaker 5: want him to reassure me that these guys can shoot right,
Speaker 5: because it seems like so much of what Mark Mark
Speaker 5: Pope's offense is is shooting the three, and on paper,
Speaker 5: this looks to be, while a significant step up athletically,
Speaker 5: maybe a step back from a shooting perspective.
Speaker 4: I heard Jalen Lowe's dad was on the Sunday Morning's
Speaker 4: Corse Talk this weekend and he said that I didn't
Speaker 4: know this, that he had a dislocated elbow like right
Speaker 4: before the season started. He thinks that affected his shot
Speaker 4: all year last year, that he's a better shooter than
Speaker 4: the numbers will let you tell you he is. That
Speaker 4: was kind of encouraging to hear.
Speaker 5: Although it is his dad. What's his dad gonna say,
Speaker 5: like gonna be like he can't shoot? I mean, like
Speaker 5: his dad is gonna fact. I'm on, I am on
Speaker 5: a little bit of a hey family member, like I Bob,
Speaker 5: the Pope's brothers got to just shut up.
Speaker 6: I was like, he was on he was on what
Speaker 6: is it?
Speaker 5: What's the dude Shannon that did the British got Peers Morgan? Yeah, person, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he was on his show and he was like, I mean,
Speaker 5: my brother's not really woke.
Speaker 4: I mean he might be a little woke, and you're like, dude,
Speaker 4: like what are you doing?
Speaker 5: And he was just sitting back and he like he
Speaker 5: was sitting like with his crotch up and he like
Speaker 5: not even sitting up straight. I'm like, your brother's the Pope,
Speaker 5: at least sit up straight. I do wonder sometimes about
Speaker 5: family members. I don't trust entirely what they say.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 8: One good thing I heard from Jayleen Lowe's dad this
Speaker 8: morning on Tom leach a show is did you know
Speaker 8: he was Jeff Brasso's point guard in high school? Jayleen
Speaker 8: Low's dad was that kind of show brassow at him
Speaker 8: when he got so the Harrison.
Speaker 6: Twins gave a big complica. They said that.
Speaker 5: They said, uh, they thought he was gonna be great
Speaker 5: because they I don't know how they know him from
Speaker 5: Texas and Texas from Texas and uh and darreon Fox
Speaker 5: knows him too.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so he actually we mentioned as shooting. Low this
Speaker 8: weekend was one of the standouts at the G League camp.
Speaker 8: And even though it was only two scrimmages, He's playing
Speaker 8: against good competition and shot forty three percent from three games.
Speaker 5: But of all the players coming in, I think he's
Speaker 5: gonna be great. I think there's a decent change. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go on record, write it down, all right, He's
Speaker 5: gonna be our leading score next year, Otaka, that's our
Speaker 5: leading score next year.
Speaker 4: Well, if he can shoot a lot better than these
Speaker 4: numbers are, he's got the chance he can get to
Speaker 4: the basketball. I don't think that's a play a lot
Speaker 4: of minutes. No, Like if you were if you were.
Speaker 5: Setting Vegas odds, Otaga would probably be first, but Jayalen
Speaker 5: Row would probably be second. I don't I don't think
Speaker 5: that's a crazy outlandish pick to say he'll be the
Speaker 5: leading scorer.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean he can absolutely good buckets. He'll have
Speaker 8: to dial back as much as he was used at
Speaker 8: pitt He's known as a driving kick guy too, so
Speaker 8: if guys are shooting, he's gonna have a highest sister
Speaker 8: getting inside in the throwing back out.
Speaker 5: He was the dude we didn't have. I mean, he
Speaker 5: is a guy that at the end of the game
Speaker 5: can go get a shot. I mean we were at
Speaker 5: we made a couple with Otago, especially against Oklahoma, but
Speaker 5: in general, you know, I kept worrying we needed someone
Speaker 5: like that. I think he'll be that guy.
Speaker 4: Name a half three with Aberdeen, Otega, and Lowell, got
Speaker 4: three guys that can go get that shot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I'm excited about it. So we'll see what
Speaker 5: happens with the press conference. AF I'm nine two eight
Speaker 5: oh twenty two eighty seven. Text machine is seven seven
Speaker 5: two seven seven four five two five four. We're gonna
Speaker 5: take a break. Shannon conspiracy theory. Shannon's got to come
Speaker 5: out next segment. Okay, was the NBA draft for lottery.
Speaker 4: Rig I think I think you have to you at
Speaker 4: least have to discuss it.
Speaker 6: Because it is a little odd.
Speaker 4: We'll take a break right back this Kazar.
Speaker 5: Welcome back in his Kentucky Sports radio A five nine
Speaker 5: two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven
Speaker 5: seven two seven seven four five two five four. Again,
Speaker 5: we're gonna let you, uh, sort of finish what you
Speaker 5: have to say. Today worked pretty well. Yesterday.
Speaker 6: You did pretty well yesterday, though.
Speaker 5: I had some people write me Shandon and say, don't
Speaker 5: let people finish what they say, yeah, because they don't
Speaker 5: have anything to say. But I thought yesterday was a
Speaker 5: pretty decent balance. I went back and listened, and so
Speaker 5: I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, well we'll do it.
Speaker 3: You learn a lot about.
Speaker 5: You do learn, and some people you don't need to
Speaker 5: know as much about it. Some people you want everything.
Speaker 5: One person writes Matt, the whole Travis Perry thing takes
Speaker 5: me off. He's a Kentucky legend and he should never
Speaker 5: have left here. I mean, I don't agree with that
Speaker 5: he should have never left. It was it was the
Speaker 5: best decision for him. I mean, you know, we talked
Speaker 5: about this during the year a little bit. I think
Speaker 5: I think when you bring these Kentucky players to the
Speaker 5: to the campus, they better be really good or else
Speaker 5: you set up for fans going why isn't so and
Speaker 5: so play right? And that is distracting for a team.
Speaker 5: It just is. It is distracting for a team to
Speaker 5: it's distracting for the player ahead of Travis Perry, who
Speaker 5: people go why isn't Travis Perry? And then when Perry's
Speaker 5: not playing? I think it is fair to say, Ryan,
Speaker 5: you tell me if this is fair to say that
Speaker 5: Travis Parry's dad was a coach and he has a
Speaker 5: very strong presence.
Speaker 4: Fair to say, yes, you look nervous. I don't know
Speaker 4: where you're going with this.
Speaker 5: Well, he has a very strong presence and he makes
Speaker 5: that presence felt. Is that fair the coach? I guess what? No,
Speaker 5: you know what, the father of Travis Perry, the coach, Yes,
Speaker 5: also makes his presence felt. And yes, yes, okay, And
Speaker 5: and it's a Kentucky coach that can be Could that
Speaker 5: be a distraction?
Speaker 4: Definitely?
Speaker 6: Why are you saying I'm so nervous if you're agreeing
Speaker 6: with me?
Speaker 4: Well, because I don't think Ryan Perry is that kind
Speaker 4: of guy. I think he's a he's a coach, but
Speaker 4: he's beloved. Everybody likes him.
Speaker 5: I don't think.
Speaker 4: That doesn't mean.
Speaker 5: He's not beloved. Everyone in this situation can be beloved.
Speaker 5: Mark Pope can be beloved. Travis Perry can be beloved.
Speaker 5: Coach Perry can be beloved. But it can lead to
Speaker 5: it can lead to their being some distraction. Is that
Speaker 5: not fair?
Speaker 4: I'm definitely it's fair.
Speaker 5: Okay, then I don't know why you're nervous.
Speaker 4: I just don't know if that's the case here. I
Speaker 4: think it's fair, but I don't know if that's the case.
Speaker 4: Oh well, then why are you agreeing with me? You
Speaker 4: were asked me questions that I agree with. Is he a
Speaker 4: big personality? Yes, okay, you're lead.
Speaker 5: And he just this is why you can't lead a witness,
Speaker 5: because I ended up he ended up saying exactly what
Speaker 5: I thought, and then saying he didn't think it. Point bean,
Speaker 5: I think it was best for Travis to go somewhere
Speaker 5: else and he got the money that he wanted and
Speaker 5: he'll get the playing time, so Drew, I don't because
Speaker 5: he was a Kentucky legend to me the day your
Speaker 5: high school time. It's a meritocracy. If you can.
Speaker 4: Play, you play.
Speaker 5: If you can't play, you don't play period, where you
Speaker 5: went to school and all that shouldn't matter in my opinion.
Speaker 8: I mean, I still think he's a Kentucky legend. He's
Speaker 8: the whole time leading score broken record. It should be broken.
Speaker 8: But at the end of the day, if someone's gonna
Speaker 8: give you more money, more playing time, that's a win
Speaker 8: for Travis Perry, and it could be a win for Pope.
Speaker 8: They don't have to have the pressure of feeling like
Speaker 8: they have to play him. I mean, it's not a
Speaker 8: certainly not a loss, because I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 8: play that much this time this upcoming season. Anyway, I
Speaker 8: think this is the case where you look at each
Speaker 8: other and you shake hands and say, it was a
Speaker 8: fun year. I've got to go do what's best for me.
Speaker 4: You know, he got recruited over this year. He's gonna
Speaker 4: get recruited over every year, and he knows that. It's
Speaker 4: just unfortunate. I think he got forced into a position
Speaker 4: this year he wasn't ready for. They had to play
Speaker 4: because of injuries. He didn't shoot the ball as well
Speaker 4: as he usually does, and I think those two things combined.
Speaker 4: I wish he could have a do over, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But Trent Noah got forced to play, and you
Speaker 5: saw moments where you could have said that can work. Yep,
Speaker 5: you didn't see.
Speaker 6: It with Travis, at least I didn't.
Speaker 5: Now that doesn't mean it's not gonna work, but he
Speaker 5: was gonna be thir like, would you have not recruited Aberdeen?
Speaker 5: You have to.
Speaker 4: You had to.
Speaker 5: So he's now third string. And do Kentucky fans lose
Speaker 5: their minds about losing the third string point guard. No,
Speaker 5: it's just the cause he's from here. But I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I love having kids from Kentucky. It makes me feel good.
Speaker 5: But you know what's most important, we win, right. It's
Speaker 5: like to use a political analogy. I like James Carville.
Speaker 5: I see James Carvill on TV, and I always see
Speaker 5: he's fighting with people on the far left, and the
Speaker 5: people on the far left go, we need politicians who
Speaker 5: believe with us on this, this and this, And then
Speaker 5: James Carville sounds like me. He goes, I want to win,
Speaker 5: and he's like, y'all can argue about that. I want
Speaker 5: to win. I'm the same way. I want to win.
Speaker 6: Would I rather win with kids from Kentucky?
Speaker 4: Yes, But first, Drew gotta.
Speaker 8: Win and who's to say this couldn't happen again. I
Speaker 8: don't want to put anything on an exact names, but
Speaker 8: let's say one of the Kentucky kids on the current
Speaker 8: roster doesn't play it all next year in a school
Speaker 8: calls and says, I'll triple your money and give you
Speaker 8: X amount of playing time.
Speaker 4: I would think that player should do it.
Speaker 8: You have to look out for yourself in this NIO
Speaker 8: world where you're gonna make more money in this four
Speaker 8: year window than you will probably ever in your life.
Speaker 5: The reports are that Travis Perry maybe made six to
Speaker 5: seven hundred thousand at Old Miss, he was probably gonna
Speaker 5: make two hundred to two hundred and fifty here. He'd
Speaker 5: be foolish not to go there.
Speaker 4: Triple your money and you get more playing time.
Speaker 6: If it'd be.
Speaker 5: Foolish, it'd be foolish not to go. All right, who's
Speaker 5: up first here, Johnny, Johnny, go ahead, Johnny, hey man.
Speaker 9: I was just wondering. I know you talked about it
Speaker 9: some last week, with the athletics program going to like
Speaker 9: a private business.
Speaker 10: Yes, do you think that are other.
Speaker 9: Sports that aren't maybe as popular, don't bring in as
Speaker 9: much money? There will be like a concerted marketing strategy
Speaker 9: to get those sports more exposure and more money and
Speaker 9: maybe even see something like a UK sports network.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well you can't have a UK sports network sport.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we can't have a UK sports network because all
Speaker 5: of our media rights are held with the SEC. So
Speaker 5: our media rights outside of our and I appreciate the
Speaker 5: call our basketball, our basketball and football, well, all of
Speaker 5: our broadcast rights on radio are held by JAYMI, but
Speaker 5: all of our TV rights and all the other University
Speaker 5: of Kentucky rights are held by ESPN, So we're never
Speaker 5: going to be able to package those as one thing.
Speaker 5: They will always be part of ESPN. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm sure they'd love to market the other sports. It's hard, though,
Speaker 5: you know, people only have so much time Ryan, right, like, like,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm sure there's a lot of people that
Speaker 5: would love to watch soccer, but you know what, that's
Speaker 5: during football season and they got other things to watch,
Speaker 5: and I think it's hall hard to market these other sports.
Speaker 5: People care about what they care about, and in Kentucky
Speaker 5: they care about basketball, football, women's basketball, and they've started
Speaker 5: to care a little bit about baseball. And that's just
Speaker 5: kind of how it is.
Speaker 4: And that that TV contract is the biggest revenue maker
Speaker 4: of the for the program.
Speaker 5: It is the revenue maker for the program. I mean
Speaker 5: that and football tickets are the revenue makers. True, And
Speaker 5: you're right about it's hard to keep up with everything.
Speaker 5: I do it for a living and I can barely
Speaker 5: keep up with everything. I mean, there are people who
Speaker 5: love UK, went to UK and support UK baseball, but
Speaker 5: can struggle to tell you what's going on with them,
Speaker 5: just because people have lives, and you know, you're into
Speaker 5: basketball and football for so long. It's hard to just
Speaker 5: stay engaged with every little thing that happens in UK
Speaker 5: athletics every day.
Speaker 6: I mean, we talked about this a lot yesterday.
Speaker 5: There are benefits to business and capitalism and then there
Speaker 5: are negatives. And what we're gonna see in UK sports
Speaker 5: is the negative is gonna start being hurting some.
Speaker 4: Of these other sports.
Speaker 5: It just is. I mean, it's just life. That's the
Speaker 5: way it's gonna be. We'll take a break, be right back, okay, Sorry.
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Speaker 3: Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4: Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio AF.
Speaker 5: I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven gonna
Speaker 5: go to the phone here and just Segon what person rights? Matt.
Speaker 5: My favorite part of the show is when you make
Speaker 5: Ryan uncomfortable. It's clear he doesn't like to talk about things.
Speaker 5: And that's when I know it's a real scoop. That's
Speaker 5: exactly right. That's a great read. Anytime you hear Ryan
Speaker 5: get quiet, that means it's real. That means because that
Speaker 5: means he doesn't want to say it because he knows
Speaker 5: it's true.
Speaker 4: Man. We had a weather's awesome today, great weather outside.
Speaker 5: Talking about That's what I'm talking about. Right.
Speaker 6: Would you like we didn't do the football thing?
Speaker 4: We'll do it?
Speaker 5: Second, out Drew, would you like good news or bad
Speaker 5: news about the state of Kentucky outside of sports?
Speaker 6: Which one would you like?
Speaker 5: First? Uh, let's get the bad news out of the way.
Speaker 5: They get back to a good show. Russells Springs, Kentucky.
Speaker 5: Man Yes was arrested for biting the ear off a cat.
Speaker 5: He bit the ear off a cat. When the police
Speaker 5: asked him why, his answer was the cat bit me first,
Speaker 5: I'm not kidding. His answer was the cat bit me first,
Speaker 5: and I got angry, and then I bit the ear
Speaker 5: off a cat Russell Springs. I don't know what's happening there.
Speaker 5: We've done many shows there, but you gotta keep your
Speaker 5: guys from eating biting the ears off cats. I read
Speaker 5: this story on kwats he this morning. I believe he
Speaker 5: bit both ears off, So I mean he did it
Speaker 5: once and then went back. He can't say.
Speaker 4: I'll double check that. But Shannon you Tall talked about
Speaker 4: it too. Wasn't it both ears?
Speaker 3: I didn't hear both, But I think one ear is enough.
Speaker 5: I feel like one ear's plenty. I feel like and
Speaker 5: if you do it a second time that psychopath behavior. Yeah, like,
Speaker 5: you know one ear, maybe you just got angry, but
Speaker 5: the second ear.
Speaker 3: I mean Mike Tyson stopped at once.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Mike Tyson did stop at one. He didn't go
Speaker 5: to the second year.
Speaker 8: And this in the nibble like her was removed right off. Yeah,
Speaker 8: that's with I don't want to live among people by these.
Speaker 4: Stories happen in Kentucky.
Speaker 5: Why can't it be I think we know the answer
Speaker 5: to that, all right, But how about some good news?
Speaker 5: All right? To have some good news in twenty twenty
Speaker 5: they ranked the list of most obese states in America
Speaker 5: and Kentucky was the third most obese state in America.
Speaker 5: But in twenty twenty four they updated it. We are
Speaker 5: now only the eighth most obese state. News. Yeah, well,
Speaker 5: we have risen five states in the last four years.
Speaker 5: I don't know why. Be interesting you think it.
Speaker 6: But everybody else has that access to ozimpic too.
Speaker 5: But remember, Bowling Greens is the number one city in
Speaker 5: America for ozimpic.
Speaker 6: Again, why, we still don't know.
Speaker 5: But how about that we've gone from we have passed
Speaker 5: not only Mississippi Louisiana, but we've passed Iowa. Yeah, Nebraska,
Speaker 5: I was fatter than us now, so that's really good news.
Speaker 5: I'm proud of us. A lot of us just walking
Speaker 5: around our shirts off, showing off this new bard A
Speaker 5: lot of us do.
Speaker 4: Whether or not we should is a different.
Speaker 8: Good God, good job Kentucky. Everyone out there that's slim
Speaker 8: down a little bit, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 5: So even if it's yes, we may occasionally bite the
Speaker 5: ear off a cat, but we don't swallow it as
Speaker 5: much anymore because we're staying We're staying thin.
Speaker 8: To go back to that real quick. I looked up
Speaker 8: the story. It says ears, so I take that as too.
Speaker 8: But one thing I didn't know. His deputies found him
Speaker 8: hiding under the blankets on his bed. Yeah, he just
Speaker 8: ran in the bedroom like they and he got under
Speaker 8: the blankets.
Speaker 5: He decided to hide, and he went under his blankets
Speaker 5: like they think the police are not gonna look under
Speaker 5: my well.
Speaker 8: I hope that guy gets help. But on the weight
Speaker 8: loss thing, I do think Ozipa Ozimpi probably plays a
Speaker 8: big role with the bowl and green hot bed for it.
Speaker 4: That cat thing's really hairy situation.
Speaker 5: You know, you sat there for like three or four
Speaker 5: minutes trying to come up with that, and that was.
Speaker 4: The best you did.
Speaker 5: Almost went with Oh no, it's good.
Speaker 4: Who's up next?
Speaker 3: I was gonna I don't want to hear one of
Speaker 3: those other jokes.
Speaker 4: I wish it.
Speaker 5: What was your second when it's gonna be worse because
Speaker 5: this is the one you didn't choose.
Speaker 4: Well, And Drew said, hit under the cover. I thought
Speaker 4: that man probably thought he had a perfect hiding place.
Speaker 3: Good lord, I don't.
Speaker 11: Know why.
Speaker 5: You wanted to hear that one.
Speaker 3: My bad, My bad, Cody.
Speaker 7: Cody, go ahead, Cody, Cody, Hey, Hey, hey, Yeah, No,
Speaker 7: you're I'm You're Cody.
Speaker 5: I'm mad go.
Speaker 12: Ahead, Yeah, this is this is Cody here. I'm calling
Speaker 12: in me and Mark Bowers here. But anyways, I'm I'm
Speaker 12: the head coach of the Melenberg County High School fishing team.
Speaker 12: We wanted to call in this morning.
Speaker 6: So you're the head coach of the fishing team.
Speaker 12: Yeah, county are.
Speaker 4: Pretty good, right.
Speaker 5: I think I remember over the years that you all
Speaker 5: are one of the better fishing teams.
Speaker 11: This is Mark Mahler's Mutemberg County. Also, they just won
Speaker 11: their seventh state championship and third in a row.
Speaker 4: Third in a row of somin they saw.
Speaker 5: Congratulations. What makes Muhlenberg County High School fishing so successful.
Speaker 12: It's the hard working dedication we put in, just like
Speaker 12: practice anything else that you know you do, the more
Speaker 12: practice you put in effort. Uh, we put the time
Speaker 12: and effort in.
Speaker 5: That's awesome. Well, well, congratulations, that sounds like a dynasty.
Speaker 5: And you just had the state championship or it's about
Speaker 5: to come.
Speaker 12: No, it just happened last Friday and Saturday on Lake Cumberland.
Speaker 5: Oh, on Lake cumbers so you all had to go
Speaker 5: on the road, right, yes, their Well congratulations.
Speaker 11: It had been at Kentucky Lake. They moved it after
Speaker 11: we won our second and then they moved it to
Speaker 11: Lake Cumberland and we won our third.
Speaker 5: Well congratulations. I think we had talked on this show
Speaker 5: about I appreciate the call that you got that there
Speaker 5: would seem to be a home like advantage, true because
Speaker 5: you would know where the fish are. And Meulenberg County
Speaker 5: show they can go on the road and still fish
Speaker 5: with the best, got a big dynasty going on. Also,
Speaker 5: they're the new catfish at CA's Bar. But people don't
Speaker 5: know this, but the Meellenberg County High School provides our catfish.
Speaker 5: We just took their way.
Speaker 8: We should actually consider that maybe an nil opportunity. Go
Speaker 8: out and find us some fish. We'll fright up.
Speaker 5: So whichever team wins, we take their fish, and then.
Speaker 4: That's what we cook everybody wins.
Speaker 5: That would be kind of nice, Kentucky.
Speaker 4: I have one hundred questions about this, like are they
Speaker 4: only catching bass or do they catch crappie?
Speaker 8: There's a we had them on the phone, we should
Speaker 8: ask I was a little thrown off by the two
Speaker 8: people there were they passing a phone back.
Speaker 4: The respectment the.
Speaker 5: Catfish whish title that would presume that it was or
Speaker 5: is it just fishing?
Speaker 4: I didn't hear catfish from maybe he said that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, well either way, we'll congrats to Muhlenburg County.
Speaker 3: Who's next, Dustin?
Speaker 4: Dustin? Go ahead, Dustin.
Speaker 10: Mark Stoop's big fan of him his entire career that
Speaker 10: he's been here, yestand I understand the schedule is terrible,
Speaker 10: but he goes five and seven with eighteen points a game.
Speaker 10: Back of the end offense and the SEC. It's time
Speaker 10: to move on. But if you can somehow let bush
Speaker 10: hand and do a little bit of something, have a
Speaker 10: middle of the road offense, I get it. But this
Speaker 10: stuff a stallball and let defense take the field. I
Speaker 10: just can't do it anymore.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, let's talk about that for just a minute.
Speaker 5: That was gonna be my football conversation. So somebody sent
Speaker 5: me this morning Ryan a email they had about the
Speaker 5: applications for season ticket renewal for UK football. And for
Speaker 5: those of you that are see and ticket holders, you know,
Speaker 5: when your turn comes up in the line, they will
Speaker 5: show you all the seats that are available and you
Speaker 5: can upgrade to better seats, and obviously some of them
Speaker 5: cost more and some of them don't. This person had
Speaker 5: gotten their email last week and they showed me and Ryan.
Speaker 5: The amount of seats that were open was staggering. The
Speaker 5: person said, they've been doing this a long time and
Speaker 5: there are always some open, but never anywhere close to this,
Speaker 5: and including lots of seats that to me look expensive
Speaker 5: have have come open. And you sit there and you
Speaker 5: look at the at the at the sheet and it
Speaker 5: was a lot of seats in really good sections. Are
Speaker 5: you worried about attendance slash, because I mean that has
Speaker 5: a major effect on revenue at a time that we
Speaker 5: are adding twenty two million dollars to our budget.
Speaker 4: Are you worried about that? I honestly, I mean I'm
Speaker 4: worried about attendance. I'm worried about our team next year.
Speaker 4: I mean, they haven't won a home football game. What
Speaker 4: two years? They all for their last eight and sec
Speaker 4: home games. I think people were just kind of put
Speaker 4: off by the things they've seen the last couple years.
Speaker 4: That are not gonna spend that kind of money to
Speaker 4: go watch another product that may not be as good
Speaker 4: even this year.
Speaker 5: But I mean, is there anything you think they can
Speaker 5: do or is it just like that's what it's gonna
Speaker 5: be next year. Because I looked at it, and I'm
Speaker 5: telling you, I looked at it and I was shocked
Speaker 5: at how many seats were available, like shocked. I think
Speaker 5: that's what it's gonna be. I'm normally overly optimistic with
Speaker 5: Kentucky football. I mean, I've booked hotels in Atlanta in
Speaker 5: the last few years thinking that could happen. And I
Speaker 5: think it's gonna be ugly. And it doesn't help that.
Speaker 8: You know, you want to drum up interests, getting excitement,
Speaker 8: and they're like our guy that just bit the cats there,
Speaker 8: they're under the blankets over there, being quiet, not putting
Speaker 8: out anything. There's very little marketing to get anyone excited
Speaker 8: because you know Stoops said he don't want to create
Speaker 8: headlines or set a high bar. I think that's shooting
Speaker 8: themselves in the foot. Then you add, you know, we've
Speaker 8: seen people complain about parking and ticket prices had gone up.
Speaker 8: That was a big issue when that first came out.
Speaker 8: I just think it's it's gonna be. You think it's
Speaker 8: gonna be like like, let's say Game one. You know,
Speaker 8: over the years, even when we've stunk, Game one is
Speaker 8: close to full because people are excited. Is Game one
Speaker 8: gonna be full?
Speaker 5: Close to full? I think a lot of people will
Speaker 5: still just buy a ticket.
Speaker 8: You'll be able to get there's I hate to say,
Speaker 8: there's not really a point in getting season tickets in
Speaker 8: a year where there's not much interest. You can get
Speaker 8: them day of for nothing. I think people will still
Speaker 8: go and make days out of it early on, but
Speaker 8: as the year goes on, nobody wants to make that
Speaker 8: commitment for a whole year because they I think everyone
Speaker 8: sees the writing on the wall of what the record
Speaker 8: could be the show.
Speaker 5: I mean, you could see a scenario, Ryan where that
Speaker 5: third game gives you your real indication. Right, everybody shows
Speaker 5: up for the first game because it's a first game.
Speaker 5: Then they play Old Miss in the second game, people
Speaker 5: will be But then that third game where they play
Speaker 5: Eastern Michigan after they've just been there.
Speaker 6: For two straight weeks, if the product.
Speaker 5: Against Old Miss is poor, you could see a scenario
Speaker 5: where in that third game it's not a great situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I and Andrew's right. I think that first game there'll
Speaker 4: be a good crowd. You know, we'll tuck ourselves into
Speaker 4: it this summer. Then we're gonna be good and be better.
Speaker 4: But the Toledo's tough man. You can't. You can't lose
Speaker 4: that game and then don't miss that second game. You're right.
Speaker 4: If you start the season rough like that, the crowd's
Speaker 4: gonna check out. They're kind of hanging by a thread
Speaker 4: right now, and I think they're gonna check out if
Speaker 4: they don't play well.
Speaker 5: If you want a positive though, Shannon Good, seats are
Speaker 5: still available.
Speaker 6: If you want to be a first time season ticket holder.
Speaker 5: Now as you're chaying, probably get the best season ticket
Speaker 5: you ever thought you could get this year.
Speaker 8: Beating a miss is a tough assignment. But they cannot
Speaker 8: have what they did with South Carolina Week two last year.
Speaker 4: We just got smoked.
Speaker 5: Smoke.
Speaker 4: You cannot get destroyed there.
Speaker 5: You can't.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be very, very important.
Speaker 5: Hey, you wouldn't skip halftime adjustments, right, No, So don't
Speaker 5: skip your skin check. We were at the Kentucky Skin
Speaker 5: Cancer Center and they have your back, your arms, your face,
Speaker 5: your neck, all of it. We all got facials and
Speaker 5: that was great, But I also saw people who came
Speaker 5: to the show getting checked for skin cancer, and that's
Speaker 5: a great thing for them. Uh, and hopefully you could
Speaker 5: do that as well. Go to the Kentucky Skin Cancer Center.
Speaker 5: They have it in Bowling Green Owensboro, Powderly, which I
Speaker 5: didn't know was a town, but I do now, Franklin.
Speaker 5: It's the way to make sure if you have any
Speaker 5: skin cancer issues, you could get them taken care of early,
Speaker 5: or just get yourself pampered a little bit with the
Speaker 5: facial et cetera. Go to the Kentucky Skin Cancer Center
Speaker 5: today all around western Kentucky.
Speaker 4: I really enjoyed that, did you?
Speaker 5: Did you like when they.
Speaker 4: Did all the stuff? You can't wait to get another one?
Speaker 5: That was awesome.
Speaker 4: I'd never had one before.
Speaker 5: You not like that, that one with the little micros
Speaker 5: and the little machine like you?
Speaker 4: Did you?
Speaker 5: Did you? I got home, people are like, you're glowing,
Speaker 5: and I said, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 6: We'll take a break, be right back.
Speaker 5: It's KISR.
Speaker 4: Welcome back, Tuck you sports radio.
Speaker 5: Uh text machine seven seven two seven seven four five
Speaker 5: two five four. One person tells me, Uh, Powderly, Kentucky
Speaker 5: is where Roscoe P. Coletrane is from. Really from the
Speaker 5: Duke's James Best, James Best, wait to know the names, Shannon.
Speaker 6: I've been pressed, how in the world did you know that?
Speaker 2: I was a big fan of that show? And then
Speaker 2: you know he was on the Andy Griffiths Show a
Speaker 2: couple of.
Speaker 5: Years he was on Andriffins show. You're right, one person writes, Matt,
Speaker 5: Let's say all of your co hosts and KSR people
Speaker 5: were had been drinking, which one would you trust most
Speaker 5: to put on the air. Oh that's a good question,
Speaker 5: all right, So I'm gonna assume you three, Mario and
Speaker 5: Billy have all been Who would I put on the air?
Speaker 5: I think I would trust Mario the most because he
Speaker 5: would just giggle and point, which wouldn't necessarily be good radio.
Speaker 5: But I don't think he would say something offensive, Like
Speaker 5: you don't really curse very much either, very rarely. You
Speaker 5: don't really say anything of it. So I would trust
Speaker 5: you the most. He gets really curious and ask questions
Speaker 5: more than he's Yeah.
Speaker 3: You just you just don't stop talking.
Speaker 5: You just don't shut up. That's exactly right, you just
Speaker 5: talk non stop. But that's not bad for it.
Speaker 4: You can do a two hour show.
Speaker 5: I would say second would be Drew because he's used
Speaker 5: to it.
Speaker 4: I would just talk about Gilly and how nice he is.
Speaker 5: And then I would say Shannon is probably third. I
Speaker 5: would not trust Billy, and I definitely would not trust wrong.
Speaker 5: Ryan goes from person I probably trust the most with
Speaker 5: the show to person I trust the least with the show.
Speaker 4: I agree when drinking, I put myself last. Also, I'm
Speaker 4: putting Tumosa, Billy and Chatty Patty Mario down there with me,
Speaker 4: though I don't want those guys on DA. But Mario
Speaker 4: doesn't say anything bad.
Speaker 5: He just doesn't shut up winnate, which is so weird
Speaker 5: because he's the quietest of us in real life.
Speaker 4: He would talk to the commercial breaks.
Speaker 5: Oh, he's all over the amount of people that have
Speaker 5: written in during the break and told me that they
Speaker 5: didn't renew their season tickets.
Speaker 8: Wow, I don't get nearly as many texts as you
Speaker 8: and I've gotten.
Speaker 4: Had The price has gone up, also, I think just barely.
Speaker 5: If all well, there's one less game they have, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's right, that's right.
Speaker 4: It's the it's there's one less game, same price, same
Speaker 4: one less game.
Speaker 5: Same price, one less game.
Speaker 8: But it seems there's a lot of complaining about RV parking.
Speaker 8: I don't know if it's priced or if they've changed,
Speaker 8: But a lot of people that would bust in and
Speaker 8: do the whole big set up and make a weekend
Speaker 8: out of it.
Speaker 4: I've heard from a lot of them too.
Speaker 5: You know. At the end of the day, joker, I mean,
Speaker 5: I think I think it was fifty to fifty him
Speaker 5: going any either way. And then the Vandy game, the
Speaker 5: attendance ended it fair and the performance we lost forty
Speaker 5: to nothing. You know, you do wonder if they if
Speaker 5: the wheels fall off this year, if you get a
Speaker 5: similar result in terms of you know, I mean, I
Speaker 5: hate to say this because I want to be optimistic.
Speaker 5: I still think. I do think the football team's going
Speaker 5: to be better. Is the record going to be significantly better?
Speaker 5: I don't know, but I do think the team's going
Speaker 5: to be better. But I do think the program is
Speaker 5: entering that phase. My example would be imagine Cow's last year.
Speaker 5: If we didn't have Reed Shepherd and Rob Dillingham coming
Speaker 5: into the year, imagine that left because they brought energy
Speaker 5: right like they brought like, oh there's a kid. And
Speaker 5: then the first game or two when Reid was like oh,
Speaker 5: Reed's for real. Then the team kind of got some energy.
Speaker 5: That's kind of what I Let's imagine that team was
Speaker 5: DJ Wagner, Justin Edwards, Aaron Bradshaw, Antonio Reeves is the centerpieces.
Speaker 5: That's kind of what I feel like that is happening here.
Speaker 4: I think it's a great comparison. Actually, I mean I
Speaker 4: keep saying it. They lost sixteen starters from last year's
Speaker 4: team that didn't win a home SEC game, and this
Speaker 4: year your home SEC games are Texas, Florida, Tennessee and
Speaker 4: Ole miss.
Speaker 5: Easy and it hurts them.
Speaker 8: There's so many new pieces, and they needed new pieces,
Speaker 8: but it's hard to get excited about them when no
Speaker 8: one has a clue what they'll actually look like until
Speaker 8: they get on the foe.
Speaker 5: Objectively, and I'm fine saying this. Look, I support Mark Stoops.
Speaker 5: I want it to work. I like Mark Stoops and
Speaker 5: but I'm gonna call it as I see it. But
Speaker 5: I do like him, and I do think you know.
Speaker 4: I do like him.
Speaker 6: With that said, objectively speaking, they.
Speaker 5: Do a terrible job of marketing this. The fact that
Speaker 5: we didn't know how cool Maxwell Harriston was until the
Speaker 5: draft is that's a UK should look in the mirror
Speaker 5: and got amongst all these stars at the NFL Draft,
Speaker 5: including Shador Sanders and all these guys. Maxwell Harston, who
Speaker 5: was picked at the bottom of the first round, objectively
Speaker 5: won the night. He was on the Good Morning America,
Speaker 5: he was on the Today Show, he was in this
Speaker 5: city and none of us knew that about him.
Speaker 4: That's a failure in marketing.
Speaker 5: He should have been the face of the program, right,
Speaker 5: He should have been the guy that had everybody excited
Speaker 5: because he had such a great personality and he was
Speaker 5: and it didn't happen. And Ryan, that to me is
Speaker 5: a failure in connecting with your fans.
Speaker 4: And they knew come into the season he was gonna be,
Speaker 4: you know, all sec Carabel player because he had a
Speaker 4: great year last year.
Speaker 5: But if the nation connected with him and we didn't
Speaker 5: in the state, yeah, we were learning with everyone else.
Speaker 4: That's a problem.
Speaker 6: Is that's a problem.
Speaker 5: I mean, like the idea that this dude, I mean
Speaker 5: literally there were tiktoks from like all these people who
Speaker 5: don't even care about football being like, what what an
Speaker 5: amazing You know the fact that we didn't know that
Speaker 5: is a failure in marketing your product.
Speaker 8: It just is, and this year the whole roster is unknown.
Speaker 8: I mean, there's some guys that are back, but the
Speaker 8: last few years you at least had a Dane and
Speaker 8: a Baryon and some returning pieces you get excited about,
Speaker 8: like the brand new quarterback from Incarnate Word, Dante Daldel,
Speaker 8: who should be a good running back, but we don't
Speaker 8: know the receiving rooms hardly.
Speaker 4: Gilmore's back.
Speaker 8: There's there's really not a lot of guys where you're like, well,
Speaker 8: I'm excited to go out there and watch him because
Speaker 8: I know he's there.
Speaker 4: There's just so many on there.
Speaker 5: Ever been a team, certainly since the Joker era, but
Speaker 5: maybe even before that. Our fans will know less about
Speaker 5: I mean, and they're not gonna know, right, So I'm
Speaker 5: not surprised, unfortunately, that that's what it is with the
Speaker 5: season tickets.
Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna take a break.
Speaker 5: We are here at Ks Bar and grill New Catfish coming,
Speaker 5: wait hungry and uh, come on out and see us.
Speaker 4: We'll take a break. Right back to Kentucky Sports Radio.