Kentucky Fans and Matt Jones Vent Following Alabama Loss on the KSR Postgame Show

Things have gotten bad around the Big Blue Nation. Following Kentucky’s embarrassing 26-point loss to Alabama, things got so bad Chris from Richmond returned to the KSR airwaves.

For those who have not been listening to Kentucky sports talk radio for more than a decade, Chris from Richmond gained notoriety over the years for his over-the-top criticism of the Wildcats. He called into almost every UK sports radio show and his brash words were too much for most. He read the room and slowly removed himself from the sports talk spotlight. Saturday afternoon Chris from Richmond reemerged for the first time since Joker Phillips’ infamous 40-0 loss to Vanderbilt.

“We all woke up today knowing that this team was going to lose,” Chris from Richmond told Matt Jones. “Unfortunately we didn’t know they were going to get the brakes blown off of them.”

Is this the low point for Kentucky basketball?

There’s something that doesn’t add up in these ugly Kentucky basketball losses. The individual pieces are greater than the sum of its parts. In his opening monologue, Matt Jones tried to suss out how a team with so many quality basketball players could perform so poorly together, then closed with calls for change.

“I worry that John Calipari is so stubborn that he won’t do what’s necessary,” said Jones. “He knows more about basketball than I do and he probably knows more about basketball than the people that listen to this show. But at the end of the day it doesn’t matter if you’re not willing to change.

“Everybody gets a moment in their career and in their life and if you have a business, where you have to say, ‘Am I going to do what’s comfortable or am I going to evolve and continue to have success?’ The great ones evolve and the rest of them go, ‘It used to work, so it’ll work again.’ It’s now time for John Calipari to evolve. I want this to be the low point. I want us to look back and say, ‘You know when we lost by 26 to Alabama, and we couldn’t make a shot, and they quit at the end, and our three star players went 3-for- 30, and after the game he walked away mid-sentence in the postgame show to talk to somebody he knew?’ I want to look back and say that was the low point, but I’m not confident that’s going to be the case.”

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