Welcome, everyone.

It is the local toy dealers KSR postgame show.

The Cats lose at home for the eighth straight year in the SEC home opener to Ole Miss 30 to 23.

You can give us a shout when we open up the phones here in just a little bit.

859-280-2287.

Kentucky is now 2 and 11 in their last 13 SEC home games, and it was a game that

kind of played out exactly the way I thought it would, which was Kentucky, well, except for the

fact that Kentucky got out early after a couple of Ty

Bryan interceptions, it kind of played out the way I thought it would in the sense of Kentucky

was in the game throughout, was competitive throughout, but I never really felt like they

were going to win the game or even were the better team. I give the team credit for being competitive against in a game where I think they were outplayed,

but they were outplayed and it was frustrating.

And I said in a social media post after the game, basically, and I think this is the best

way to describe it.

In a lot of ways this game

summarizes a great deal of the Mark Stoops era. And what I mean by that is at a program that's

often not been competitive, Mark Stoops has created most years here a team that is competitive and can play these SEC

schools and it be a competitive game.

But with the exception of a couple years, a similar pattern emerges, which is that they have a

very good SEC defense.

I'm not going to say elite, although they may have had an elite one a couple of years,

but they don't this year and they don't in general. But it is good. I mean, they have a defense

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