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3:08Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio 8292802287. Text Machine 772, SimSim45254. One to hear your prediction for UK football. I'm excited about the game tomorrow. I hope our fans are. Every phone call we've gone to has not been about football, but that's okay. Because we're still headed towards the sale out for the game. So that's good. Let's talk about a couple things in other parts of the world. Did you see about North Carolina football, the story that came out yesterday? It's a part of going on there. Boy, you got to go back to Louisville back in those days to see what was happening at Carolina. So Carolina's GM football resigns, Mike Lombardi, right before a story comes out that basically insinuates that Bill Bellachick's son and other members of the staff were using drugs during the season. It also says that members of the recruiting staff were having sexual relationships with the players.

4:12That's not great. And then other partying, etc. that was overlooked by the staff, that basically it was a culture of complete disorder last year. Billachick's son has been on leave saying he was getting medical treatment. That's usually code word for getting going to rehab, which is good. Glad that he should do that. But then clearly it looks like it was a mess. Now with all that said, North Carolina won their first game over there in Ireland. So do you think Billachick survives all this? It's a really good story put together by WRAL, the TV station down there kind of did all this. And so Billachick's lost his son as a defensive coordinator, lost his general manager, and they may not win a whole lot of games this year. That man's in trouble down there. But the first win was a good one. I mean, TCU is supposed to be good this year, finished top three or four in the big 12. And North Carolina was predict 15 out of 16 in the ACC, and then they go and win that game.

5:12Yeah, they were supposed to win that one. With the news that came out yesterday or this morning, whatever it was, I was more surprised. Because when they hired Billachick, I thought he was going to bring in this big buttoned up operation. The college kids would hate. And he brought the pros and the patriot way. It seems like it's the complete opposite. And they're just running wild in Chapel Hill. He always came across as a grumpy old man. And who knew? But there was a party going on. There was clearly another side to him. He ended up with the 25 year old girlfriend. And then like, I mean, the party's been his right hand man for a long time. Yeah, so he clearly had another side to him. I think the grubbiness was a cover up. Like I'm going to act like, you know, on this stuff. But you remember he was with the patriots. They had a lot of scandals. I mean, Aaron Hernandez was there. Obviously, Gronk was Gronk. Because you look at that guy on the press conferences and go, there's no way that would happen with him. What do you make of the recruiting staff was having sexual relationships with the players? It does sound like what happened to Luba. They're playing blanket bingo on these recruiting visits over there. What are they playing?

6:12Blanket bingo with staffers, recruits and staffers. I don't know. I have to tell you, I'm not familiar with the term blanket bingo. What is that? Under the cover. Yeah, she knows. Who knows? Right here. She said under the covers. Under the cover. She said under the cover. She always said, go back here. But I don't understand the bingo part. I get blind to understand what blankets are. What's the bingo? Well, you're just playing a game under the covers. You're playing little blanket bingo, little... Oh! Stop! Okay, all right. You hit him hard. I did it. Why did you... I did hit you hard. Right. That was harder than I meant to do. Why did you do that? Well, you want me to explain what blanket bingo was. You just mowed. Well, not... See, you will encourage this. You all laughed. Like, that should have been a look of repulsion. And yeah, but now, I did not... You think I wanted him to mow like that? What part of me looks like I want him to mow like he's...

7:12Like... I did however hit you really hard in the stomach. I needed to be stopped. I... I... I support that hit. You needed to have it. You pro? Yeah. What you want me to explain it to? I don't know. I didn't mean no. Tell us what Larry Vaughn said about football and gets like he... All right. Am I goodness? Okay. Now, am I known for that? I literally just... You know, somebody came up to me yesterday and said that they really laughed at us bringing up all the things. And they literally said to me, I feel like Ryan's been better recently in not crossing the line. That person isn't going to be disappointed to die. He's back. The old Ryan's back again. The old door yesterday. In front of all of these people, who's next? JD is up next. JD, go ahead, JD. I'm going to listen to that on podcast to see if it was as bad as it felt. I never want to hear that again. JD, go ahead. This is actually South and Josh. Hello, Matthew, hello, Drew, hello, Shannon, hello, Josh. Hey, South and Josh.

8:12We're in South and Josh. We're in South and Josh. Good. What's going on? We're going to talk a little football since nobody else wants to. The things I want to see tomorrow, I want to see an explosive offensive. I want to see a score in West and seven players in it. Not look like an utter accident. Okay. I like that. I want to see it. I want to see it. I want to see it's attacking. I want to see it's not only rushing three on third down. I want to see it's not nine yards off the receiver on third medium. I just want to see the exact opposite. What we've seen the last couple of years that boring, bland, passive aggressive, point football. What's just get after me, which run on the stadium? This fame based deserves a fun product. So let's just see what we've got tomorrow. I'm going to go 49-13 Kentucky. First of all, I love everything you just said there. I appreciate the call. I love the idea of you're exactly right. I want to see sustained drives that don't feel like accidents, miss tackles, and then that's how you score. I also love the idea of being aggressive on defense.

9:14We were good defensively, almost all of the stoop's error, but there was just very much of it. It felt like they were picking us apart, picking us apart, and we wouldn't be able to stop. We haven't had a real pass rushers since Josh Allen. I don't know if we'll have one this year. I think we might get some good news on that front for week two coming up the second game, but we'll leave it at that. I think what he just said, I want to see a product that brings life into that stadium. I completely agree. And being week one with entire new operation, there'll be slip ups. But let's see when you make a mistake, let's correct it quickly and not do it again. Just little things like that. Fundamentals show you ready to play football. I'm still conflicting on what Stein will do with the playbook and the scoreboard, because part of me thinks, let's just get out of there and get ready for Bama not show much. But we've seen, he's got a little arrogance to him. I can also see him be like, I want to score as much as possible for this fan base. He's got it excited for me. I would suspect, I don't know what he'll do in terms of opening up the playbook, but I would expect,

10:15look, everything, Will Stein has not been like, you know, in the background. Will Stein has come out and said, because of me, he's come out and said, I want the hard schedule, he's come out, this dude's going to try to make a statement tomorrow. I don't think there's any doubt, don't you? I absolutely think he's going to try to make a statement. He wants to keep these starters in as long as he can to get ready for the SEC season. We've got new coordinators, new players, new coaches, new everything. You've got to get them ready for what's coming in a week too. Your girlfriend says, I think he was trying to say, beach blanket bingo, which was a movie starring Frankie Avalon and the net, Funa Chilla. Well, my form of blanket bingo is a little bit more than that. Okay, I know that. Hit him again. Gork is up next. Gork? Gork. Gork. Go Gork. Is that the AI on it? Yes. I want to talk about some football too. I'm excited about this, and the fact that we've got possibly, they've talked about going to a four-man defensive front.

11:19And I think the fan, yeah, and going the fam green and marquee, some for great. Both looked like they're more three, four defensive ends than the three, or four three defensive ends, not the three four jacks. And I just just be that much better. And I think we're going to have a better defense today. Everybody's thinking, I think this defense has a chance to be really aggressive to be more than just, well, I think it'll be, I think it's got to be at least as good as some of the ones we've had in the recent years. Only more aggressive. I appreciate it. It's all, right? What do you think about our, we don't talk at all about our defense, really, because I mean, it stands in offensive coach, the new quarterback, all that. What's the defense going to be like? Something about the stoop's area. You know what the defense was going to be every year. You kind of, you knew what you were going to get. What do you think this is going to be? They've been very quiet about it, heading into the season. I think the defensive line will be one of the strengths, and they'll be very versatile,

12:20whether they go three, four, or four, three. You got big chops that came over from Purdue via Frederick Douglass. We'll play in the middle of that three, four, but then they have a pretty strong bench. That might be one of the deepest spots on the, on the entire team with versatile, if they want to go the other way. And then he mentioned Humphrey Grace. They have high end talent with him, and maybe even Gatson getting NFL looks. So I love the defensive line. Linebackers, you got some names. They got like, bow barons is new out of Texas. That's a former top 100 recruit. Yeah, that he's kind of gotten forgotten about when we're talking about the big recruits. We spoke us on the offensive line, backstoring Minchi. Bow barons was one of the highest rated recruits we got. And I had someone tell me that they think he might be the most important player on defense, because linebacker is our least, we're not, is our least deep position. And so they really need him to be good. And the caller mentioned Sam Green who got hurt, missed the last three games the year last year. But he was a great pass rusher that transferred in from USC for last season. He's back in health. He'll be another big name. And if you can get that good news on a farie, there's other severed by Grant Gottfried.

13:22There's some good bodies there. They could have a farie. It would really help top in and then help with the depth. And the secondary will be good in the starters. You don't want to have to go to the backups. But I think you got three or four guys Ryan, it's the starter, including Todd Bryant, where you got a really, well, remember what will, well, will Stein, I can say that now, games tomorrow. Will Stein said to me, we go one and a half deep pretty much everywhere. And his point was we got a good starter everywhere. And we got good reserves at about half the spots. And so he was like one and a half. That's what the team he said eventually our goal is to be two to a half. Right now we're one and a half. I think that's the way we got to look at it. I think your analysis of the secondary did on. They've got five guys that can play. Todd Bryant and those two kids that transferred from Florida, Nichols is back from last year. They got their top five guys are strong. What we have behind that don't know yet. Somebody's got to step up and develop and to be a good backup.

14:22And in corner some guys want to make a jump. We have guys back there, but it'd be nice to see them take another step forward. I'm going to ask Adam Luckett who the halves are because that because that that's what you eat. The key to this season, especially early on is we can't have lots of starters get hurt. We just can't because we just don't we do not have the depth to handle a lot of guys getting hurt. I have a kicker scoop if we want to give me some kicker. Somebody likes kicker scoop, right? Yeah. Coway is going to be all right. You know, they might play. We're going to call them zoo the backup kicker we've been talking about the last two days. We might see him tomorrow, but there's no reason to worry about Coway. He'll be fine this season. So you think he'll be ready for Bama? It could even use him tomorrow if they had to. He just missed a lot of time with injury, but he fills back and I'm pulling for zoo. Four of 16, two years ago, he needs a redemption. There's a world he could make. Hopefully that make four field goals, but there's a world that he could make as many kicks as he made two years ago tomorrow. Kick it much worse. That's for sure. So it sounds like they're going to just use him for a long kick just to kick off.

15:23Yeah, I do think, at least I was talking. I think he's going to play tomorrow, but then a drew maybe correct or drew his correct after that that they hope to go back to Coway. Yeah, it's always available if they had to use him. He's healthy enough. Who's up next? Landon is up next. Landon, go ahead, Landon. Yeah, God's question for you. I'm a production director at a church and we have a memorial service tomorrow right at game time. Fair or foul for me to watch the game in the back. Oh, in the sound booth. So you're not. I was going to say if you're the preacher, this is a bad question. Yeah, correct. Yeah. Yeah. Do anybody can come back there so the family might be able to see that I'm watching the game. Well, you can't have sound on for sure. No, no. What do you think Shannon? You if you because if Shannon's not okay with it, no, I'm going to be. You got to have respect for the family. And I think that's disrespectful if you're watching a game during the service. Okay, that's you say. Okay, very. You change your mind, Shannon.

16:24No, no, you got a job to do. You got to do that job. Listen to Shannon. You do. All right, go back and watch it later. You can do it. I'm sure you're hooked. 100% watch the game. You can multitask. I mean, it's not distracting you that maybe you miss a few plays. I mean, don't let it be your priority, but it's not going to hurt just sitting there. Yeah, I mean, I have to see. I'd have to see where the sound booth is. I think if you're in the same building, then I'm with Shannon. If you're like, you know, sometimes they'll have them like in their own office off to the side. It might be a little different. You're in the same room as the service. Yeah, you're out. You can't. Then I'm on Shannon's side. I appreciate it's called you a driller Shannon. I'm with Shannon's. It's a wedding. Absolutely watch the game. Memorial service. You cannot watch the game. Think about it. We're somebody that you know. You wouldn't like it. You wouldn't like it. I'm a saucer. The saucer of the summer is the 1776 sauce from Red State barbecue. Create an honor of America's 250th birthday. Limit addition sauce, smoky sweet, tangy and bold, hamburger and bonmont liquor barns have it.

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21:34Listen to the NFL report podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio 8592A02287 here at Cornbread Hemp. Cornbread Hemp fighting on the front lines for sensible Hemp regulations. By the way, they have facility tours. You can go to. They've got In-House scientists and we are seen out here. Their Hemp crop, which looks beautiful. It's like we see these every year. I'm going to say with my scientific opinion, that's the best one yet. It looks beautiful. It also smells beautiful. It does. There's 300 acres out here of Hemp and they'll be harvesting it in about two weeks. This is the third time we've been out here. It's also the third time I've accidentally pulled into that person's parking lot next door. Oh, yeah. First interesting. Did you bail us do that? Well, you guys never do. I always pull right into that person's parking lot and then I'm like, oh yeah, we're not here. Almost got me this morning. They always get me, right? Every single time. Seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, four, five, two, five, four. One person right, Matt.

22:38I love it when you get mad at Ryan. I think you need him in order to keep the show loose. Do I? Of course you need her. We all need more Ryan, living in our life. Show wouldn't be the same without him. I agree with that. I don't know that I need to hear him moaning like that ever again. It was the letter O in Bingo. That's, that's, yeah. All right. If I'm not in Bingo. He always explains the joke. He teaches the all the way. Did you see I, I'm not one to give our neighbors at UofL any credit, but I may have to give them. Do we have any Louisville fans here? No, good. But I do have to give them a little bit of credit. They, they just put on Twitter. What they're, you know, they put in this new light thing that allows them to do infrared red light at times in the game and create. They call it the glow and they showed that on social media last night and drew. I think that looks awesome. I would love for us to be able to do something like that with blue.

23:39Like they basically can turn the lights off and the stadium just turns like red. Yeah, do taxpayers, do we pay for that? I thought they were broke. No, I think you have athletics. We go blue in our pregame, but I don't like that they're upgrading it nice. I mean, we go blue, but it doesn't look like that. Like that was a, that's a. I think that's going to look really cool. Is it a young center or football stadium? It's a football stadium. Yeah, wow. They're doing a white out. Also. Well, their games on the road. They're promoting their teams wearing like crispy all white uniforms. Yes. Remember tomorrow is a wide out pregame show 9 a.m. We will be at the stadium for the first time in a long time. So looking forward, everybody, if you want to combine, say hello, we'd love to meet you. Walk on for people who are wanting to look, think about where to go. Walk on will be open. KS bar opens next week. The KS bar part, but walk on will be open starting at 10 a.m. Eastern. You can park your car there, get on the bus and go to the stadium.

24:39You just have to go to one of those businesses either before or after or people will slash your tires. But otherwise, and it's a dot, the bus is I think a dollar. I think it's what the bus is. And then I'll be there at walk on's doing the post game show. Assuming we win. If we lose, I'm not doing that. Was there yesterday? Did it get you all set up? They've got, you know, a nice little area for you to do the post game show right when you walk in. So you'll be ready to go. Who's up next? Can is up next. Can go ahead, can. Yeah, I got a question. Let's say LSU gets her way and make sure he plays all their pro players. Correct. What happens if it doesn't work? How bad is that look for the coach? Oh, I think it looks really bad. Listen, I think if LSU loses to Clipson tomorrow night or whenever they play, that looks really bad. It will look like Lane Kiffin has brought more distraction. I mean, the fact that they were in court two days before the first game.

25:43Shannon, I think there's a lot of pressure on Lane Kiffin. You can't try to up in the entire system and then go and lose. Yeah, absolutely. And can you, I can't wait to hear Davo after the game if they end up winning that. I think he is playing the most unliked Kiffin guy. I don't like it. Shot said I'm at his pregame press conference. I don't like Davo. But if Davo wins, he will be funny to listen to. And he will have earned it if they go and win that NLSU. Do you know your colleague in Fitzsimmons? I do. Yes. Okay, I don't know much about him. But I got calls everybody coach. Okay, well, he said that if Clemson beats LSU this weekend, it is the equivalent of AppState, Beaton Michigan in 2007. Yeah, coach needs to slow down. That's extreme. That's pretty extreme. Yeah, that's ridiculous. Yeah, I'm conflicted because I want LSU to be good and undefeated when we run into him. But at the same time,

26:43do you really say that? Yeah, I would, at the same time, I would love for the train wreck that we're seeing now to continue with the law. He said on the radio? Well, I was listening to another show and they're all laughing at the fact that he said it. So I was getting it second hand, but they were also making fun of him. That's ridiculous. Clemson has slipped. They've not slipped that much. They're still Clemson, pretty good football program. So it wouldn't be that big of an upset. Yeah, who's next? Jeff is up next. Jeff, go ahead, Jeff. I'm going to go and tell you. And we're standing. Boy, it's going to be hot in here tomorrow. I mean, I know it's supposed to not be quite as hot tomorrow, but it's anywhere close to this. Woo! Alright, go ahead. And I'm in the shade. And we're in the shade. Go ahead. Alright, I got two questions. One, long time listener first time caller deep within who's the country? Thank you. So what do you think our play is going to be offence? Are we going to have a better running game or passing game? Good question. What do you think, Ryan? Tom leech debated this when we have a 3000 yard passer or a 1000 yard rusher this year.

27:48And a lot of majority seem to think a 1000 yard rusher because with that offensive line we got and CJ back to back there if he stays healthy, that may be when they do a lot of their offense and maybe more of a running attack. I'm going to say, Mosla, I'm going to say rushing with the caveat of if Baxter stays healthy. Because I think there's a huge drop off after him. But if Baxter stays healthy, I think he's going to get fed the ball a lot. And I think a 1000 yard is there for the for the taking. Yeah, it's all about Baxter staying on the field as a freshman. Texas started him, which Texas never does. Number one overall recruit out of high school. He's down to Texas and Alabama. If we get the healthy version of that, yeah, I would go with a 1000 yards and maybe even an extra game or two in the wind column. If you have him, I'll you're. I agree. I guess I'll be the one person to pick the 3000 passing yards. I mean, when you hear Will Stein talk about the running back position, that was the one position that he didn't really sound that confident in. He said, we're okay. He said, we're not poor. We're not great. We're just okay at running back. I think what he means is we got a huge drop off after the first one. I mean, I think that if you were the program, I think is concerned about if they have to go deep into the running.

28:56I mean, well, we know who our backup is. It's Patterson. And I mean, the best way to think about it is think of last year's Kentucky team. Our third string guy will be our second string guy this year. So that's so if you're just trying to think about how big a drop off, that's really what it is. And our third string was on defense last year was a safety. Yeah, yeah, switched. So that shows the depth. Yeah, well, we had no depth. You're too. That's exactly right. So we'll have to see a 5 9 2 8 0 22 87. We'll take a break. I'll be right back here in Marion County. This is KSR. Welcome back. It is Kentucky sports radio. 8 5 9 2 8 0 22 87. The text machine 772 7745254. One person writes Matt. Geno or images said college sports is dying. Do you agree with that? Not at all. I don't I still I don't understand the whole cut. These old people that continue to talk about college sports dying. I don't know how they explain the fact that we had the highest ratings in history and basketball and football last year.

29:58I don't know how they explain the fact that like game day has its highest broadcast ever. It's different. It needs to be like rain. We need to get some rules. But when the games cart. I mean, the ratings for that Carolina, TCU game were the highest week zero ratings of a game all time. I bet you that Colorado Georgia Tech game last night was huge ratings. Like I just I I I I I completely disagree with the idea college sports is is dying. It's changing. Maybe too quickly, but it isn't done. The little surprising coming from him because his game the women's game has grown. The women's game is bigger now than it's ever been through the women's basketball game. I don't I just don't understand how you can say that they're growing. Like inside the rules are changing just the access we have now it's year round coverage. You can find any team on your TV. I mean, this is a sport where we used to watch it on delay and get the newspaper. I mean, I know the rules of change and it's chaotic, but the sports only get more eyeballs on it over time. Some breaking news go for Rick.

31:04A mistrial has been declared in the Lindsey Clancy case. It is a mistrial and so it will be up to the prosecutors as to whether or not they whether or not they continue the jury was split 11. 11 1 apparently in favor of not see, but the loan holdout refuses to a quit. And so now there you go. I heard that report this morning. There was 11 to 1 and the one person was going to hold out despite judge orders was getting more and some judge orders. They were not going to bud. So the only decision I guess to do is because I've been in deliberation now for seven days, I think I hope for that guy they never come out with who that guy was. Right, which way would you vote? I think this is a stop. I think it's the biggest crowd we've ever had here in Lebanon. It's hot. So a mistrial there in the case that everybody's been talking about. So they well, they can sometimes when you know, it's kind of the prosecutor discretion. You can do it again.

32:06Or sometimes they say, well, we're going to we're not going to pursue it anymore. I've always wondered how they find jurors, especially in a big case like this that don't know anything about it. They not know that you. Why? They could put me on it was about to say, but yeah, you find 12 people that don't know anything about it. I mean, with that case, it doesn't shot me because I don't think it was that well known until it started. But now that it is, but they sequester those people so they can't see any of the stuff for anything about you saying going on good news. I don't know how you would do that. You're exactly right. Go find. Yeah, I don't know Mario. Did you do you know anything about it? He's up to do. Turn number one. Mario. I'm joining. Hydro rugs. Make sure you clean the courtroom area. Who's up next? Luke is up next. Luke, go ahead, Luke. Guys, I just want to say I'm definitely excited for this upcoming season. I got two things real quick. Number one, I am very excited for the defense and the reason why I've that shift from the three four to the four three.

33:06Now, at the NFL level, I'm a three four guy, but in the college level, the four three guy don't explain why a three four defense is dependent on that nose tackle. Eat enough blocks and push in the pocket into the middle. How many guys are three hundred fifty pounds and eighteen years old? Not a lot. Not many. So it's very hard to find a true nose tackle for that. So with the four three, it's much easier to recruit. And really, you can just get two, you know, three hundred and twenty pound guys and have them eat up blocks the middle and you just get speed on the edge. Anyway, second point. I'm excited about. Yeah, definitely excited about the offense. I know people are people are talking. Did I lose him there? All spread offences are set up to run the ball because it gets your athletes into space. So I think there's actually going to be more quarterback running this offense than people think, especially on third, third and short and in the red zone. I'm excited. Will's time's going to do a good job here. He's very smart. He's high energy. He's easy to root for.

34:09And, you know, let's go man. Let's go pick some ass. Let's go win the SEC. You know, you know, we're in the new air. There you go. I like it. We got everybody clapping. So we needed right there. Everything you just said is what Will's time has said. And Will's time on this show when he first when he was talking about the 4 3 said, look, it's easier to college level recruit the 4 3. He also said you put pressure college quarterbacks or not poke quarterbacks. You got to get pressure on college quarterbacks because they're not as quickly able to process things. So you want to do that with the 4 3 and then he also talked about. I remember I think one of the first things he said on here is everybody thinks that I'm, you know, this throw the ball everywhere because we do the spread. He was like, he was respectful, but he was like, we don't do the how mummy spread. We do it. Aval version of that that includes a lot of running. And, you know, he said from day one, feed the studs are going to get the ball in back. Just hand going to throw a lot of short screen to get them their best players and in open space. Let him go do something. The one thing I want to see is how quickly we are from play to play. You know, they were the slowest team.

35:13Oh, it's going to be a lot different. Yeah. I think it's going to be fun to watch. It's going to be a lot. I think that's, I'm glad you said that. We were these, we, I think three of the last four years. We were the slowest playing team in college football, which was probably smart because of the rosters we had in the way stoop play. And Angle be like that now, Drew. That's what Mark's do. He's wanted. Oh, my defense is catching their breath right now. Yeah, we're going to stay out here and go as slow as possible because he wanted those guys to be well rested. Where Stons Alps and he's going to want to go, go, go and be aggressive. Might not be like a hurry up, but he's going to be very intentional with that offense and trying to move down the field. It's going to be fun. That's one thing I am excited about. It's going to be fun. We just got to win tomorrow. I don't know why am I making myself? I have breaking news for week two. I know we're one game at a time. But if you already have breaking news for week two, we have a spread. Just came out for Bama. Oh, okay. What is 10 and a half? Is that it? It's on draft Kings. I see we're winning. I might go ahead and dabble on that. One game at a time. It's only 10 and a half. I'm going to invest in that. I'll have hit was a 10 and a half point dog.

36:14We are the underdog. That really surprises me. Wow. So that means Vegas might like us. Who's next? Doug is next. Doug, go ahead, Doug. Hey guys, this is Doug in Lexington. A longtime listener, a first time caller. Just curious. Just curious if you guys were going to do the draft Kings KSR parlay this year. We are. We're going to actually appreciate it. We actually are. We're going to pick it next segment. We're going to pick. I hope you if you prepared. I got mad. Not at all. I had to prepare during the commercial break because we are doing it again this year. Yes. The draft Kings. It had, you know, two years ago, bad year. Last year we had a lot of success on it throughout the year. So hopefully it'll be more like last year. Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for it. Appreciate the call. Speaking of betting last night was one of the largest upsets in the history of college football betting.

37:18You mass the school that last year, remember you picked to cover 60 points. Yeah. And they didn't. They got to be about 63. Yes. They were a, I believe, 29 and a half point underdog last night to Rutgers. And they beat them by 16 at Rutgers at Rutgers. That is a 45 and a half points difference between the spread and the result. It's the second largest differential ever for a heavy underdog in the history of college football. Did you see that they also went ahead and did their big fireworks show that was embarrassed? That was not the most pathetic thing you've ever said. Rutgers had a firework schedule for after the game. They lose by 60 and they don't just lose by 16. They were down 24 the entire game. They have a fireworks spread at the end of the game. They don't want to have a million dollars to play them. Yeah. That was a bimingame. Yeah. Yes. I've got one like the fireworks when we score. It was like a full fourth of July production and the seats were completely empty. Rutgers is in the big 10. I would have saved some money on those fireworks for when you actually won a game. It's, I mean, the 29 and a half point. 29 and a half point underdog. I mean, that is one of the all time. I looked at the list of the 10 biggest underdogs to ever win.

38:32And one of them, remember when Louisville lost to Syracuse, when the Braum played. That was one of them. They were not telling. Louis LSU picks one of them. Troy and LSU was one, but this was 45 and a half point differential home opener on your home field. You pay him a million over a million dollars to come and beat the brains in and they beat you. And that's absolutely beat you. Tell me about Stockton Morgan. I'm so glad you asked. You know why? Cause like Drew said about the, what did you say? Somebody's growing. Did you say what's growing? Well, there we go. You have a script. Just stick to that. But Drew got me into it. He said they're growing. Stockton Morgan is growing. I tried the best time to start asking questions about buying a home is before you think you're ready. A simple conversation with Stockton Morgan today could help you prepare for tomorrow. You know, summer's winding down, but your home goals don't have to. Whether you're buying, building, renovating or exploring your home's equity, Stockton Morgan is here to help you take the next step. There's a Stockton Morgan in downtown Lebanon. I just saw it. So if it's Stockton.com Stockton Morgan's in a less 859 equal housing lender in a less consumer access.org back to you Matthew.

39:36We are going to make our picks here for the Kentucky game also for our KSR Parley. We are here. Come bread, hip and lemon. It is hot, but we have a hearty crowd that's with us to the end. We will take a break and come back. Final segment. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. When I was 14 years old, I was kidnapped and health captive for nine months. I survived. And I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart and these are the survivor files. I just remember this low taunting voice next to my ear saying shut up. Don't say anything. Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up without a doubt, he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled and nearly silenced. But these aren't stories about what's taken from them.

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43:49Welcome back, it is Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Lebanon for our KSR Cornbread Hemp Show. Cornbread Hemp has been a great sponsor of ours for many, many years. I met these guys when they were even just contemplating the idea of the company. And now the company has the whole chance for THC, CBD, Hemp, etc. to continue has to happen from Congress by December 11th. So go to cornbread.com slash action. Important for the state of Kentucky, Hemp is a big part of the economy here. I'm sure those of us that are representing Kentucky consider that and we can get the legislation passed. It is, I was about to give my ESPN number, 8592802287. Alright, so let's do our KSR Parlay. This is for draft Kings. This will go up this afternoon. You can bet it. We hit this I think three or four times last year, which would have put you winning for the course of the season. We're going to go against the spread.

44:49I'm going to go first. I'm going to take Auburn to cover the seven and a half against Baylor. Baylor was the worst team last year in the big 12. We took one of their best players. I think Auburn's got a new coach. He's Russian and I think he's going to play really, you get that team in a completely different direction. Give me the Russian coach and Auburn covering the against Baylor. What do you got? That was one of mine. So I'm going to go with Michigan State at home against Toledo, Michigan State, 10 point favorite. Why? Because I don't have another game to play. This happens every time. It took my game, so that was the next one now. That's the only game you could come up with prepared for these so we can... We need to know who's picking what. What's the big game? I think my homework last. Now I can do you. Do you like this winner? Would you like me or Drew to pick one for you? No, no, we got to roll with it. Matt, you guys don't make fun of me. Whatever I do. We got it. Toledo's covering Michigan State. Michigan State covers how many is in? 10.

45:49Okay, that's doable. All right, Michigan State. What do you got? I am going to the home of a former KSR morning show. I'm going to Duke at Wallace Wade Stadium. They've played to Lane. To Lane beat Duke last year after Duke went... took their quarterback. That quarterback's now at Miami. We got a revenge game. Some have gone from to Lane. New quarterback there. I like Duke to get revenge at home. I love that. Yeah, Duke was on my list as one to consider. So I like that one a lot. And it met six times. And Duke has never beaten them in six meetings. Is that right? Yeah. Three times actually. Three times. Look at you doing the same thing. Yeah. Duke Auburn Michigan State. What do you got? I got a Tennessee team. It's not Vanderbilt or Tennessee. Give me the Memphis Tigers 11 and a half. They look good in week zero over UNLV. They were all over the quarterback. They sacked them six times. I'm going to say Memphis puts it on Arkansas State tomorrow. Memphis over Arkansas State. So you got that. Where's Mario? You got that. There he is. He's back there. You got it.

46:49All right. Here we go. Michigan State is going to be the easiest winner. I think so. Yeah. They're at home. What's your favorite part of the Michigan State team? Well, Magic Johnson is a great quarterback and Judd Heathcoats are great coach. Greg Reed Kelser. I mean, they can really light it up the scoreboard. Jackson Coler went to BYU though. What time is that game? It's a Friday game, Ryan. Yeah, you can't pick it up. I can't pick it up. Is it real? I even reminded you to pick it. You can't, you can't. That's Friday today. Yeah, it's a day to clock tonight. Yeah. All right. Well, you know, you can't pick that one. Back to you. I'll tell you what. Since you are not ready. Drew, you pick a second one. We'll go to the phones while Drew picks it. Who's next? Todd is up next. Todd, go ahead, Todd. Thank you, morning. Go big blue. Come forward. Hey. Go big blue. I'm going to go ahead and we'll make it. I'm not going to run down the middle two times. And I'll throw it down and have a vertical pass. But my question is, how come the games not going to be carried

47:50on a main carrier, as it will find first game? Yeah, so it's part of the SCC as part of our SCC TV deal. Every team has to play one game during the season that's computer only. I call it, obviously, you can get them on your TV. And basically, all the teams agree to play the worst game on the computer. It just so happens ours is the first game. Alabama, I think their third or fourth week game is on the computer. So that's why it'll be the only game this year that is like that. But if you remember, we've had one every year and every team has one during the course of the year. All right. There you go. Oh, man, I'm pretty. Appreciate the call. Thank you. I mean, I'm with you. It'd be nice if the opening game was on. But we started with this one. If we had started with South Alabama, then it would be on TV. And then the youngs 10th day would not. But that's the way it worked out. Who's next? Bill's up next.

48:50Bill, go ahead, Bill. Bill. I know you're not you, Bill. It's here. Bill, Bill on the phone. Who's next? Okay, we're going to Storks. Storks. Go ahead, Storks. Hey, Bill, pretty good for you. I got what you get right to. Like Stu's before and we'll find it's going to begin the tradition of beating a team that then fires their coach because they lost their Kentucky. Yes, we have them in the FCT this year. What do you think? I think we're going to beat Alabama and we're going to fire Kaylon Du Boer. I'm on the train. That's mine. I appreciate the call. I think it's the coach that's got the best chance of being fired that we could potentially beat. Drew, you got one coach getting fired. I mean, we could be be able to get fired if we beat South Carolina. If all the coaches on our schedule, that's probably the hottest seat, I think.

49:51I was trying to pick out a new game for Ryan. How do you feel about Texas minus 29 and a half first Texas state? The only reason I suggest that is I can only pull up the SEC schedule in here because I don't have service. The question is, how do you feel about it? I'm in with Duke. This is your pick. You want the long horns? You could do that one or UCLA Cal. UCLA is a two and a half point favorite. How do you feel about it? Just pick one. You see what? All right. UCLA. So here we go. UCLA, Auburn, Duke and Memphis. UCLA, Auburn, Duke and Memphis. We're with pregame show. Is it 9 a.m. tomorrow? J. Bat, the athletic director at Kentucky is going to join us sitting there right next to the catwalk. That will be an exciting atmosphere. Give me a score. And what you think is going to happen. I want to make you pick an MVP since I don't know if we know enough players collectively. Just give me a score. I'm going to say Kentucky comes out. I think it's going to be close at a half time, but I think they put the pedal on the gas and the second half and pull away. They win 4-1-13. 4-1-13. I say a big third quarter will blow it open and they'll finish.

50:53So calm down to fourth. It'll be 4-4-17. Brungard, their quarterback will find the end zone at least once. I'm going to go 51-21. I'm going to score some points because they've got a good quarterback and a good offense. So 51-21. I think it's going to be more of a game than we would like. Because I think they're going to score some points on us. I'm going to say, well, first of all, I'm going to say Kentucky wins 38-21. But I also think this is more important than the result tomorrow. I think it's really important we get the atmosphere there tomorrow. I want fans to know those of you that are going make sure let's be loud. This is a new era of Kentucky athletics. It's not just Kentucky football. It's a new athletic director. It's a new football coach. I'll go ahead and tell you it's essentially a new mindset on every single thing they're doing. You're going to see that start tomorrow. And hopefully it starts with a bang. It should be good weather, but hot. A great atmosphere. Kentucky wins 37-31.

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