GYERO

[PTI (pti)]

* Turns out Luigi had such a bad back he was unable to perform in the bedroom. Reminds me of when UKRob fall off a ladder, and was only able to play deadfish when engaging in intimacy.

* All these years later, this song still slaps.



* Low 70s and raining all week. Welcome to the Dirty South. This is our winter.

* It appears the lass, our dogs and I will be spending our Christmas this year in a cabin in Western North Carolina. Couldn't be happier about the upcoming trip.

* If Daniel Penny is innocent, then this guy is, too. Should be awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor, actually.



* Season comes at you fast. Can't believe we've got UofL this weekend.

* I went "viral" on Linkedin yesterday. Made some basic bitch, cliched post about a big merger in my industry (Gallagher bought Assured Partners for $13 billion), including comments about "I work for MAIN STREET, those guys work for WALL STREET." That sort of bs. I must have gotten 50 new connection requests, and DMs and comments from people all over the country like......

".....saw your comments yesterday, and i totally agree! in fact, my company axion wellness tpa partners specializes in combatting the increasing costs associated with pharmacy benefit managers, and offers a cutting edge ai driven analytics tool to steer members to......blah, blah. i'd love to meet for lunch next time my senior vp is in town from sacramento...."

K. Thanks. Back to slangin.

* Something I've learned over the past year of having a full time employee: I am NOT a good boss. I'm trying, man. But sometimes I just want to look at her and say "JUST PLEASE GO DO SOMETHING."

Not great leadership, iirc.

* Colter Wall in town next Thursday. Eek.

* Mike Trout is the greatest player of his generation, and it's not particularly close. He was a better hitter than Soto, but was also exceptional defensively and on the bases. His contract was HALF of Soto's, and it's aged very poorly. I expect something similar with Soto. 15 total years, and probably half of those will be great. The second half will be increasingly bad.

But, I suppose it's worth mentioning that the New York Mets have a boatload of money, and their insider trading owner has a net worth of at least $20 billion.

* I bet that KSR rental car smells like s***, and there's just candy wrappers in every crevice of the vehicle. That's a LONG drive home.

 

[creeksman]

John Fanta is in his 20s. Insane. Thought the dude was like 46.

 

[UK_ENGR1]

* I bet that KSR rental car smells like s***, and there's just candy wrappers in every crevice of the vehicle. That's a LONG drive home.

That one is going directly to some dealership’s preowned fleet inventory…

 

[wcc31]

John Fanta is in his 20s. Insane. Thought the dude was like 46.

That being said, I love the guy.

 

[MaxPowerrr]

Welp, guess we’re just gonna let all the demons out in Campbell County.

 

[TriangleUKCat]

Maybe they will find a drug stash from Bobby’s grandson’s Bud.

 

[RibsAndWhiteBread]

Twitter continues to deliver in times of wild news stories. Yesterday was one of those for sure. Going from a hired hitman who took out a key witness in a DOJ investigation who was going to bring down high powered insider investors- to "well its actually an ivy league kid who is good looking and maybe had some back pain or something and hates insurance" was a wild swing.

Things that made me mad in 2024:

1. Cal
2. Stoops
3. Carmie and Claire never resolving their relationship

but i have some hope for 2025....

My current TV show advice... Yellowstone- its safe to give up on it, because its terrible. Black Doves on Netflix is a good watch. Follow for more advice.

Coming up on a week stay in Kentucky after christmas through new years... may be my favorite week of the year. Really the only relaxing time of the year.... able to see family and friends without rushing around. Think I am going to take my daughter to her first game at Rupp for the Brown game end of December- figured i can find a couple decent priced tix for that one, early tip off that wont interfere with nap time, and not a raucous crowd... also the only UK sporting events shes been to are blowout football losses so my gal needs to see a win in something.

Happy Holidays, everyone.
Merry Christmas, everyone.

 

[TCPUKChamps]

Dybantsa to BYU. Zagoria reporting NIL was $7 mil.

 

[_Chase_]

LinkedIn is the undisputed market leader in aggregating low-impact, high-noise digital interactions, creating a vertical stack of professional irrelevance unparalleled in the social media landscape. It’s a synergistic dumpster fire of hyper-inflated egos, where value propositions are vaporware, and “networking” is a pipeline for unsolicited, zero-ROI outreach initiatives.

The platform optimizes for engagement KPIs that are fundamentally misaligned with any measurable utility, leveraging algorithmic redundancy to surface a constant loop of pseudo-thought leadership and hollow self-congratulatory narratives. Every scroll feels like a cross-functional collaboration between clout-chasers and engagement bait engineers, collectively delivering nothing except bandwidth depletion and cognitive fatigue.

At its core, LinkedIn is a mission-critical case study in how to weaponize corporate buzzwords to deliver negative value at scale. It’s not just the worst social network—it’s an anti-platform, systematically disincentivizing authenticity, diminishing professional capital, and delivering user experiences that are as bloated and empty as its so-called “thought leaders.

 

[RibsAndWhiteBread]

Maybe Luigi shouldve taken his aim at BYU if thats the the type of bank roll they are playing with.

 

[bigbluefattycat]

Dybantsa to BYU. Zagoria reporting NIL was $7 mil.

Probably one of the reasons Caleb Wilson is holding out to decide. Wait until the top spot is paid and then negotiate.

Glad we locked up the 3 before because their price would have went up.

 

[Hank Camacho]

Jeff Goodman recently said on Field of 68 that the expensive rosters that are struggling (Arkansas, K. State, and Indiana) are each in the top 5 of NIL money. Goodman said IU's NIL costs about $5 mil and Arkansas and KSU are both "well over 5". I took that to mean $7 or $8 million, not $30 million or something.

Is BYU going to have any money left over to pay anyone else? Are they going to be the Yankees and Lakers combined when it comes to overpaying salaries?

* Strangest thing to me about the NYC CEO assassination thus far is that the shooter only laid in wait for 5 minutes before the shooting.

Did he have advanced knowledge of the CEO's schedule beyond public knowledge about the investor event? If he had been in NYC for a while just looking for targets of opportunity, as it looks might have been the case, this looks less and less like a KGB honors graduate, as yours truly predicted.

* Wimsatt transferring. Gavin we hardly knew ye.

I'm not even going to start learning the UK football roster until next August. It is basketball time in the Bluegrass.

 

[m080470]

Is Fanta really in his 20's!??? I honestly thought he was in his 40's or late 30's at least, too. Love his enthusiasm about the Cats, I also heard him do color/play by play of St. John's vs New Mexico and he did a really good job. The Field of 68 on YouTube is the best thing going for college basketball analysis. Mark Titus is good too and Sleepers is hit or miss.

 

[TriangleUKCat]

Andrew Carr was a pivotal piece in the comeback win over the Zags then found the time to arrest Luigi. Quite a few days for the young man out of West Chester, PA.

 

[_Chase_]

When you have a guy making 7 million in NIL, then you have another starter making, let's say, 100K, I can see how team chemistry could be awful. And if you aren't by far and away the best player on the team, it's only natural that there will be some serious resentment from teammates.

 

[WayneDougan]

When you have a guy making 7 million in NIL, then you have another starter making, let's say, 100K, I can see how team chemistry could be awful. And if you aren't by far and away the best player on the team, it's only natural that there will be some serious resentment from teammates.

Is that why everybody gets paid the same in the professional leagues?

 

[_Chase_]

Oh, so you think the NBA pay structure, collective bargaining agreement, and guaranteed contracts are the same as Jim Bob Booster giving a guy a 5 million-dollar handshake deal to show up in a BYU uniform and then a different random booster paying their veteran point guard $10,000 to do 15 tik toks are remotely the same thing?

 

[WayneDougan]

Oh, so you think the NBA pay structure, collective bargaining agreement, and guaranteed contracts are the same as Jim Bob Booster giving a guy a 5 million-dollar handshake deal to show up in a BYU uniform and then a different random booster paying their veteran point guard $10,000 to do 15 tik toks are remotely the same thing?

If I were making the league minimum and asked to block for Dak Prescott I wouldn't really care if my man broke through the block and tattood him is all I'm saying.

 

[cole854]

If I were making the league minimum and asked to block for Dak Prescott I wouldn't really care if my man broke through the block and tattood him is all I'm saying.

So you think Johnnie Cochran and the court appointed attorney straight out of Correspondence U should be paid the same. When did you become Bernie Sanders?

 

[krazykats]

If that NIL deal is accurate, or even close, there will be management departments created for college athletes sooner than later, or a HUGE push for the G-League to grow and eliminate these type players that draw this type of deal.

It’s not the kids fault, but this type of deal will create worse deals and before it gets out of control someone is going to step in and organize this madness.


BYU?!? Have fun kid, or don’t actually.

 

[NW50]

When you have a guy making 7 million in NIL, then you have another starter making, let's say, 100K, I can see how team chemistry could be awful. And if you aren't by far and away the best player on the team, it's only natural that there will be some serious resentment from teammates.

*Far and away the best player on a WINNING team.

Hence the Calipari problems.

Also, the Mormons must have found the tablets inside the mountain and sold them for a pretty penny to be throwing that kind of cake around.

I wonder if the Mormon church and university board of governors will add an AJ amendment to the student code of conduct with regards to “letting it soak” and its permissability

 

[Ron Mehico]

If I were making the league minimum and asked to block for Dak Prescott I wouldn't really care if my man broke through the block and tattood him is all I'm saying.

Saying you’re a shitty employee because you make less money than a good employee is certainly a strategy.

 

[WayneDougan]

Saying you’re a shitty employee because you make less money than a good employee is certainly a strategy.

Dak is not good!

 

[HymanKaplan]

I'm fine if Pope just signs 3 or so Top 40 recruits per year, and then rakes in Seniors from the portal. 7 million for a HS center. That has horrible investment written all over it.

Dak is the perfect example of what so many NFL franchises get wrong, when it comes to QB. They fall in love with the athleticism and rocket arm, which history has shown, time and time again, are the LEAST important qualities in an NFL QB.

1. high level/blisteringly fast CPU between the ears

2. Touch and accuracy

3. A sophisticated level of understanding about defensive schemes that is up there with an NFL DC.

 

[ukwizard]

Looking back we got AD for a bargain.

 

[WayneDougan]

So you think Johnnie Cochran and the court appointed attorney straight out of Correspondence U should be paid the same. When did you become Bernie Sanders?

No, but I do think Dak Prescott isn’t worth $60M.

Edit: (and this is for you @Ron Mehico), Football has a hard cap, so every dollar your teammate makes is one less you can make. So I would absolutely be pissed off at my “better” coworkers if they were paid significantly more than me (especially if I were outperforming them).

 

[cricket3]

One of Alabama's assistant's posted a cryptic tweet about Dybansta getting their fans riled up 4 days ago despite AJ reportedly signing a deal with BYU 3 weeks ago.

The same coach who posted a cryptic JJ tweet getting Bama fans excited 2 weeks before Jasper Johnson committed to us.

Is he the worst recruiter ever?

 

[TriangleUKCat]

 

[gattongrad09]

age comes for us all, should have mixed in a few coconut waters

 

[legalbeagle123]

Flex offense, South American PG, European pipeline.

 

[Irish Beck]

LAND DEALS

 

[creeksman]

important qualities in an NFL QB.

1. high level/blisteringly fast CPU between the ears

2. Touch and accuracy

3. A sophisticated level of understanding about defensive schemes that is up there with an NFL DC.

Ability to make plays off script. It's a function of the 3 above, but takes all 3 along with some creativity, vision, and fluid athleticism (i.e. athleticism that is completely separate from trained muscle memory). It's the thing that Will Levis is the worst at, and Patrick Mahomes is the best at.

 

[ktatum]

LinkedIn is the undisputed market leader in aggregating low-impact, high-noise digital interactions, creating a vertical stack of professional irrelevance unparalleled in the social media landscape. It’s a synergistic dumpster fire of hyper-inflated egos, where value propositions are vaporware, and “networking” is a pipeline for unsolicited, zero-ROI outreach initiatives.

The platform optimizes for engagement KPIs that are fundamentally misaligned with any measurable utility, leveraging algorithmic redundancy to surface a constant loop of pseudo-thought leadership and hollow self-congratulatory narratives. Every scroll feels like a cross-functional collaboration between clout-chasers and engagement bait engineers, collectively delivering nothing except bandwidth depletion and cognitive fatigue.

At its core, LinkedIn is a mission-critical case study in how to weaponize corporate buzzwords to deliver negative value at scale. It’s not just the worst social network—it’s an anti-platform, systematically disincentivizing authenticity, diminishing professional capital, and delivering user experiences that are as bloated and empty as its so-called “thought leaders.

 

[m080470]

I ran into Rigot, Tubby, with Dan Werner and his family during his recruiting trip at the Hyatt. It was bizarre. Tubby was super nice but he and Rigot both looked like they had been 3 days with no sleep and their stress level seemed through the roof. The Werners were all smiles and happy but I always wondered how the other trips went.

 

[_Chase_]

Scott Rigot sat at his cluttered desk in the bowels of Rupp Arena, staring at a stack of VHS tapes labeled with names like Dimitrov, A. and Petrovic, V. The University of Kentucky had hired him as their European recruiting specialist, but his actual duties were far more complex—and classified.

The knock came as expected, soft but deliberate. Rigot turned to see a janitor with a mop and a knowing smirk. "Coach," the man said, his Southern drawl barely masking his real identity, "Langley’s got your next assignment."

Rigot sighed. He loved basketball—he truly did—but these late-night missions for the CIA were wearing him thin. His dual life was a balancing act: by day, a relentless recruiter for the Wildcats; by night, a covert operative, using his trips to Europe as cover to infiltrate Cold War-era black markets and extract defectors.

"Where am I headed this time?" he asked, shutting off the grainy footage of a Serbian teenager with a killer crossover.

The janitor handed him an envelope marked CLASSIFIED. "Moscow. Got word of a physicist trying to defect. Should be routine."

Routine. Sure. Like the time he smuggled a Hungarian informant out of Budapest by pretending they were a team trainer. Or the night he had to pass coded messages under the guise of a recruiting dinner in Istanbul. Rigot could dribble past press defenses in his sleep, but these missions? They required a whole different playbook.

 

[TCPUKChamps]

 

[UnfrozenCatfanLawyer]

age comes for us all, should have mixed in a few coconut waters

He became Barry Melrose?

 

[catsfanbgky]

No, but I do think Dak Prescott isn’t worth $60M.

Edit: (and this is for you @Ron Mehico), Football has a hard cap, so every dollar your teammate makes is one less you can make. So I would absolutely be pissed off at my “better” coworkers if they were paid significantly more than me (especially if I were outperforming them).

I bet the FB and TE for the Cowboys are super pissed the QB makes more money than they do. POSITION played determines pay scale. Kickers are very valuable to a team, same for long snapper, but they will sniff QB, WR, or LB pay. Just the way it works.

 

[warrior_SW]

Thanks

 

[Crystalglass]

Literally one play. Handoff at the top of the key. Dribble, try it again