Welcome everyone to another edition of the KSR pre-show.

Today is Wednesday, February 18th.

I'm Billy Rutledge, along with Shannon the dude.

Give us a call on the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line.

That's 859-280-2287, or you can text us at 502-265.

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It was a tough day yesterday for the cats, whether it be on the baseball diamond or on the hardwood.

Nevertheless, it's Billy Rutledge and Shannon the dude ready to talk about it and bring you a little happiness here on a Wednesday morning.

Good morning, dude. How are you? How happy are you this morning? I'm good. I'm good. I would like to ask you how happy were the callers on the postgame show last night because I did not stay up and listen to that. Yeah, we didn't get done until about 1.30, 1.45 and there was some anger last night, some vitriol. I don't know.

Every time they win, it's Pope's the right guy for the job. Every time they lose, it's this

guy's in over his head. We can talk about that a little bit today, 59-280-2287, but a fan

is short for Fanatic, and that's what we all are at time, Shannon. But even more so in

2026, right? Everybody's got to have a hot take and reaction after every game. Yeah, I mean,

that's that's kind of what we do here. But I feel like we are so unreasonable though.

Oh, yeah. Like we swing from one end to the other of the pendulum, you know? It's either

he's absolutely the great hire. He gets it. We love Pope. Then they lose. Fire Pope. Fire them. Get them out of here. You know, it's like there's no in between. It's either you love them or you hate them. And the opinion of the fan base goes from game to game one minute we

love them one minute we hate them beat tennessee we love them lose to georgia last night get

them out of here can you imagine like can you imagine being a coach in a business like this now

they're making millions of dollars i can't feel too bad about them and you know what you signed up

for yeah again you want to say mark Pope gets it. He understands what comes along with the job. He knew

what he was signing up for. Yeah, but the expectations are high here, and that's what makes

Kentucky Kentucky. And, you know, some people might be changing their expectations. I think many

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