2025-08-27- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

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Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) — Hour 1 (August 27, 2025)

Host: Matt Jones

Co-hosts: Ryan Lemond, Shannon, Noah

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Episode Overview

The KSR team broadcasts live from KSBar & Grill on “Wings Day,” discussing Kentucky sports, the highly publicized engagement of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, the evolution of NIL at UK Athletics, and some lighter local topics. The show’s tone is lively, conversational, and infused with Kentucky pride, humor, and banter among the hosts.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. KSBar & Grill Reopening & “Wings Day”

Timestamps: [02:52] – [04:18]

• Celebrating day two of KSBar’s reopening, with special $1 wings from 11AM to close.
• Weather is unusually cool for late August, creating “perfect football weather” for Kentucky’s upcoming first game of the season.
  • Matt Jones: “We got into the 40s last night... it was the 16th coldest night in August history in Lexington.”
  • Hoodie and shorts have apparently become Lexington’s new seasonal fashion, inspired by Matt.

2. Pickleball Feud – Drew vs. Shannon

Timestamps: [04:26] – [05:47]

• Drew (Noah) and Shannon have a competitive pickleball match scheduled, stemming from on-air taunts.
• After their singles face-off, the duo is teaming up against two listeners.
  • Shannon: “I don’t like to lose at anything.” [05:07]
  • Matt Jones: “Should you team up first and then play each other?” [05:09]
  • The segment highlights friendly intra-team rivalries and their competitive personalities.

3. Matt Jones Breaks Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce Engagement on ESPN Radio

Timestamps: [06:09] – [14:39]

• Matt narrates his experience breaking the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce engagement live on national ESPN Radio, humorously reflecting on being the bearer of celebrity news to millions.
  • Matt Jones: “Women, mostly, going, I can’t believe I found out Taylor Swift was engaged from Matt Jones.” [08:11]
• The team riff on celebrity weddings, comparing the Kelce-Swift nuptials to a royal event.
  • Matt Jones: “Will this be the biggest American wedding since when?” [11:18]
  • Ryan Lemond: “The closest the United States has had to a royal wedding is when John F. Kennedy married Jackie Onassis.” [11:45]
• Discussion ensues on the scale of the Swift-Kelce wedding, what gifts to give, and if the group would watch if it was televised live.
  • Matt Jones: “I would argue this will be the biggest wedding of our lifetime. I think probably so.” [12:51]
  • Noah: “If Taylor married a random guy off the street, it would still be one of the biggest weddings we've ever seen.” [14:47]

Notable Audience Interaction

• Matt polls the crowd: “If it was live on TV at like 6 o’clock on a Saturday and you had nothing else to do, would you turn and watch the wedding?” [13:37]
• The consensus is most people would tune in, if only to see the guest list and spectacle.

4. “Royal Weddings” of UK Sports

Timestamps: [16:02] – [17:15]

• Segue to the “biggest Big Blue wedding of all time” — Vince Marrow’s, described as a “who’s who” of Kentucky athletics with all major UK football figures and donors present, but notably excluding basketball coach John Calipari.
  • Noah: “Mark Stoops was a groomsman… little bitty Mark Stoops right in the middle.” [16:50]

5. Talent Rankings — Kentucky Football’s Raw Talent Analysis

Timestamps: [17:31] – [27:12]

• Matt introduces a new ranking system that lists Kentucky as having the 27th most talented roster in the country, according to “metrics” that go beyond traditional recruiting rankings.
  • Ryan guesses: 71
    Noah guesses: 41
    Shannon guesses: 45
    Actual: 27 (Louisville is 40th)
  • Matt Jones: “In the ACC, we would have the third most talent… in the Big 12, second most. But in the SEC, we’re only 14th.” [23:01]
• Discussion on how Kentucky’s true challenge is the strength of SEC competition.
  • Matt Jones: “It’s almost like we’re not as bad as we think we are, but it may not matter…” [23:18]
  • Noah: “It shows the most when you play Louisville and teams outside the SEC in the trenches.” [26:04]
• Reflection on how Kentucky often beats “more hyped” Louisville teams due to superior talent in the trenches, regardless of record.

6. New UK-BBN NIL Partnership Announcement

Timestamps: [28:56] – [39:23]

• Breaking news: UK and JMI formally announce a new BBN NIL partnership, impacting how Name-Image-Likeness (NIL) deals are brokered for athletes.
  • UK will now be the “point of contact” for players’ NIL opportunities, using an official portal but still allowing athletes to pursue independent deals.
  • JMI will function as the organization responsible for guaranteeing and facilitating these deals.
  • Matt Jones: “UK Athletics and JMI are in a lot of ways now the same thing. And I don’t love that… but this is the way it’s going to be.” [35:02]
  • The system’s success will be judged on whether it keeps UK competitive in recruiting.
  • Concerns are raised about the risk of integrating JMI so deeply into the athletic department's critical revenue and recruiting stream.

Analogies and Skepticism

• Matt Jones: “JMI is kind of our GM now. When we don’t get a player, sometimes it might not be Mark Pope or Mark Stoops’ fault anymore…” [38:09]
• Previous ad hoc collective reportedly did an “amazing job,” leading to some reluctance about the transition.

7. Bourbon Giveaway from Commonwealth Causes

Timestamps: [39:19] – [39:41]

• The Commonwealth Causes Bourbon Raffle boasts a $20K+ lineup, including rare bottles. Proceeds help charitable efforts.

8. Quick-Hit Topics & Audience Q&A

Timestamps: [43:40] – [51:29]

• Ryan gets emotional during the filming of a national TV commercial, reminiscing about a personal moment returning from Boston.
  • Ryan Lemond: “Just brought it all back… when I got back from Boston and saw my son, I just broke down.” [44:20]
• Matt highlights Coach Mark Pope’s recent team-building outing to Kentucky’s Red River Gorge and Miguel’s Pizza. The hosts joke about the best pizza places in Kentucky, giving love to Miguel’s and the Louisville eatery The Post.
• Brief banter on Dairy Queen’s 85th birthday, with nostalgic recollections and jokes about the state of fast food service.
• Matt shares a TikTok ranking of “most/least likely Kentucky towns for, let’s say, a no-strings-attached experience,” with Newport, Richmond, and Morehead at the “top.”
  • Shannon (about Mount Washington at the bottom of the list): “We’re wholesome in Mount Washington. Nobody’s got teeth. Nobody wants hanky panky with somebody with no teeth.” [49:31]
• Listener Kelly calls offering mental health advice, advocating for therapy to combat loneliness.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I can’t believe I found out Taylor Swift was engaged from Matt Jones.” — Matt Jones, channeling listener reaction [08:11]
• On celebrity weddings: “If Taylor married a random guy off the street, it would still be one of the biggest weddings we've ever seen.” — Noah [14:47]
• On UK’s talent pool: “If we played in the ACC, we would have the third most talent… but in the SEC, we’re only 14th.” — Matt Jones [23:01]
• On NIL & new partnership: “JMI is kind of our GM now. When we don’t get a player, sometimes it might not be Mark Pope or Mark Stoops’ fault anymore.” — Matt Jones [38:09]
• On emotional commercial shoot: “When I got back from Boston and saw my son, I just broke down. That made me break down again in front of the camera.” — Ryan Lemond [44:20]

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Segment Timestamps

• [02:52] — Start of live show from KSBar, Wings Day promo, weather chat
• [04:26] — Pickleball feud: Drew vs. Shannon
• [06:09] — Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce engagement news and analysis
• [16:02] — “Royal Weddings” at UK: Vince Marrow’s wedding story
• [17:31] — Kentucky Football raw talent ranking discussion
• [28:56] — UK, JMI, and BBN NIL partnership announcement & analysis
• [39:19] — Commonwealth Causes Bourbon Raffle promo
• [43:40] — Ryan’s emotional commercial story, audience pizza talk
• [44:20] — Red River Gorge, Miguel’s Pizza, best pizza in KY discussion
• [46:41] — Dairy Queen 85th birthday, Kentucky local banter
• [48:24] — TikTok’s “hanky panky” town list, lighthearted debate
• [50:34] — Caller on mental health, therapy encouragement

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Final Thoughts

This episode expertly blends Kentucky sports news with wide-ranging pop culture, witty banter, and local color. Insightful reporting on UK’s NIL future and player talent rankings is intermixed with entertaining commentary on celebrity culture and small-town life. The show’s warm, irreverent tone and rapport between hosts make even passing segments highly engaging. A must-listen for Kentucky fans and those interested in the evolving landscape of college athletics.

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Transcript

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[Shannon]

This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, August 27th. I am Matt Jones. We are here at the KS Grill for day two of our reopening. We it is wings day dollar wings from 11am until we close. I don't know how you wouldn't want that dollar wings from 11am till you close. You can try the new boneless wings that we just started or our old standards. We got new sauces, new rubs, it's all there. And you can give us a shout on the Clark's pump and Shop phone line 859-280-2287. Avion Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254. In this edition sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office, you call TJ will make them pay. Guys, it's a beautiful day. I mean weather that is not late August weather. We got into the 40s last night. I saw Bill Mack said this morning it was the 16th coldest day in August history yesterday or at least 16th coldest night in the history of August in Lexington. I went for a walk last night and everybody has adopted my style. Hoodies and shorts now is the preferred style of everyone in Langston. You're going with as well. So, Ryan, it's perfect time of year. Saturday might be, knock on wood, the best weather for a Kentucky first game. Remember last year it was a lightning and everything the whole time. Now you might get the most pleasant day to watch football in August ever.

[Ryan Lemond]

It feels like October football weather right now. And usually these early games in August, early September, it's 150 degrees out there when you go to Kroger Field. This is going to be a.

[Matt Jones]

It's going to be perfect. I mean, it's going to be absolutely perfect. Saturday again, knock on wood. Drew, I hear today you have a you versus Shannon pickleball feud. Am I right?

[Noah]

It has been. This feud's been brewing for a long time. He's been taking some unnecessary shots at me on the pre show when I haven't been able to defend myself. But today, me versus STD at the new PKL pickleball country boy place. And then after I beat him, he and I are teaming up to play two listeners who he picked on the pre show.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, I don't know if that's a good idea. Like after you all play, presumably frustrations come out because both of you are very competitive in different ways. Shannon's very competitive.

[Shannon]

I don't like lose at anything.

[Matt Jones]

You're. You're competitive in a sort of more subtle way. But Shannon's very competitive. Do you think you can put aside that competition to then team up? Should you team up first and then play each other?

[Noah]

My logic was after I play Shannon I won't have broken a sweat at that point, so it'd be a little easier because I don't know, the doubles players, they might put me through a little more of a workout.

[Matt Jones]

Who are you?

[Noah]

Like a warm up? Shannon? Who'd we pick?

[Shannon]

A couple of guys that. I don't have their names in front of me right now.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, you just pick somebody off the radio.

[Shannon]

It doesn't matter what their name is.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, all right, well good.

[Shannon]

But the Mega Powers are going to explode first. Then we're going to reunite and get back together.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, well, so that's. You're doing that today five to seven.

[Noah]

Come watch us have a cold one.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so yeah, I am doing this show then at 12 o', clock, immediately flipping the ESPN radio from 12 to 3. So five straight. I did five straight hours yesterday. Going to do five straight hours today. And I have. What are we talking about on the ESPN today? Oh, you know what you're talking about.

[Ryan Lemond]

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. That is it.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I better get some practice right now. Okay, so now look, I know it's football game week. If there's people that don't like, we're leading with this. You know what, that's fine. Get over it. We'll be talking about football in a second. Yesterday we're on espn. I don't remember what we're discussing. It's a, you know, it's football, it's training camp, blah, blah, blah. And all of a sudden I get the thing in my ear. They, they do this on ESPN when there's breaking news rather than me seeing it and go. And Shannon play the sound on espn. They just hit. Remember that old ABC News thing?

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

That's their breaking news signal for like big stuff. They don't do it just for, you know, Bob signs with the, the Patriots. This is when you hear that there's a part of me that's like, is the United States being invaded? You know, I mean that's a, that's like the real news signal. And I, and okay, so this. Now we're back to. I've got a lot going on here. There's people here for lunch. I have, I've, I've got my screen, I've got my phone. I'm trying to make everything. Also it was the segment where I was trying eat a sandwich. So there was a lot happening. They do that. And then I go, oh, we have breaking news. And they said, look at your screen. So of course I got to pull out my new readers and I Get the screen. And it says, taylor Swift and Travis Kelce engaged. And I was like, wow, I didn't realize that was burn, burn, burn, burn. Good enough. So then I say, breaking news. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged. First of all, the text machine. And more hilariously, ESPN radio and my Twitter feed light up with people. I go, like, women, mostly going, I can't believe I found out Taylor Swift was engaged from Matt Jones. Like, and I understand. Why would that be how you would find that piece of news out?

[Ryan Lemond]

You got to break it to the world a lot for a lot of people.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I mean, anybody who happened to have on ESPN radio at that moment. Right. Like, I probably. Because if I beat the, like, apps, you know, like the. The text, you know, whatever, like, that. Those hadn't come out. So then, like, you have to talk about it. And the thing is, so I've been on ESPN when big time news has happened a handful of times. I was on when Tom Brady decided to come back to the NFL to play for Tampa Bay. Now, you might remember that was the day the NCAA tournament brackets came out. They came out like an hour after he said that. And so it kind of derailed our NCAA bracket show. The hardest show I ever did was I was on the air when that dude. You remember during the European soccer championships a few years ago, and it looked like a guy died on the field of a heart attack. You may remember that. Like, they. They saved him. But, like, it was live on TV and they showed him and he was shaking and like, we were on the radio during that.

[Ryan Lemond]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

And that's a. You want to talk about a heart rate? Like, what do you even say? And they want you to. They're like, stay on the story. And it's like, I don't know what.

[Ryan Lemond]

To play by play.

[Matt Jones]

What are you gonna say? Like, hope he's not. He didn't die. Like. Like, there's not. There's nothing to say. Well, with this one, Drew, I felt like I could handle it, you know? And then we became into what I want to talk about, which is things like, okay, let's say you're Travis Kelsey and you want to marry Taylor Swift. I mean, what ring do you get? Yeah. Like, how do you even know? I mean, she's worth a lot more money than you are, right? I mean, she's worth. She could buy 150 of your ring, so what do you do? Right? Yeah.

[Shannon]

Ring, yes.

[Matt Jones]

She doesn't have a Super bowl ring. That's right. You can give her one of your three super bowl rings. Then like, where do you do it? You're in training camp.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think you can do it in Kansas City. Right. So like, where are you going to go? Then you think about the cost of the wedding. You know, is it, isn't the. Like, how's it work? What's the man's parents supposed to pay for the rehearsal?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so the bride's parents. So that's good. You can be like, all right, she's got the wedding. But man, that's an expensive rehearsal dinner if you think about it. So those things would be. In my mind, Drew, I think it would be very intimidating to marry somebody with that much money when you're. I know he's got money, but he doesn't have her kind of money.

[Noah]

I mean, she could go buy every Genesis diamonds in. In across America if she wanted. So there's a lot of pressure. I saw a tick tock of a woman making the ring. I don't know who she was. I guess she's some big. So that's.

[Matt Jones]

How did they keep it a secret?

[Noah]

Yeah. Enough people had to know about this for a little while.

[Matt Jones]

Somebody set it up.

[Noah]

Photographers, you know, her team.

[Matt Jones]

So. So this is my question in 24 hours later. We don't have a royal family in America, right? Like, we don't. We don't do that. My mom would watch the Royal family. What was it? Dot? Princess died and Charles, I still remember as a kid, her watching that. And then of course, who got married recently? It was like Kate and Kate and William. Is that right?

[Noah]

Yeah, Kate and William +8.

[Matt Jones]

Is this, is this the biggest. Will this be the biggest wedding? American wedding. Since when? Since when, Ryan? Like, since like, what is. What's bigger? I'm being dead serious. This isn't me. Just like, just trying to think because we know both people that I don't know that that happens very often. And they're still like, I don't know. It's not like two old piece of people getting married. Like, what, what is it?

[Ryan Lemond]

I think the closest United States has had to a royal wedding is when John F. Kennedy married Jackie Onassis. That may be that, but he wasn't.

[Matt Jones]

He wasn't president yet.

[Ryan Lemond]

But they were still like, did people.

[Matt Jones]

You all. Did people know who they were? See, I don't think so either. Like then, I mean, it was, it was Joe Kennedy.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. They were still a huge name in the Northeast.

[Matt Jones]

You think that's as big as this?

[Ryan Lemond]

I don't know. I think we've not had one as big since then.

[Matt Jones]

The JFK junior get married to somebody.

[Ryan Lemond]

They were engaged. Were they married?

[Matt Jones]

But she wasn't famous, right?

[Ryan Lemond]

Daryl Hannah. She was an actress.

[Matt Jones]

He married Daryl Hannah from Flash.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think that's true.

[Ryan Lemond]

No, No. I look like her.

[Matt Jones]

What are you talking about? Did he. Did she look like her?

[Ryan Lemond]

I think she was a blonde hair.

[Matt Jones]

You think she. So you just. So you just assume they got married because they look like each other? No, I mean, she's been married to.

[Noah]

Neil Young for a while.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. Who is the. Who is the.

[Matt Jones]

She married. He married someone named Caroline. I think I may be completely.

[Noah]

Yeah, no, you're right.

[Matt Jones]

That.

[Noah]

That rings the bell.

[Ryan Lemond]

That rings a bell.

[Noah]

I love Ryan.

[Matt Jones]

Ryan just assumed she married Daryl Hannah. Well, of course I'm gonna go, yeah, I'm gonna say she married. He married Tina Turner while you're at it. So anyway, I would argue this will be the biggest wedding of our lifetime. I think probably so. Now Myron on the radio was like, they're going to do it live on television. And I said, no, they're not. But here's my question. I want you. Because we got a lot of dudes here who have the look of people who would. Serious question. And don't try to be tough. Okay. If it was live on TV at like 6 o' clock on a Saturday and you had nothing else to do, would you turn and watch the wedding? Raise your hand, yes or no?

[Ryan Lemond]

I probably would, yes.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. Thank you. Wait a minute, ma'. Am. You wouldn't. You wouldn't even turn it on. You wouldn't even be curious. You wouldn't even want to see who was there. You'd want to see her dress, right? I would want to see, like, if Travis Kelce would, like, cut a fart in the middle of it, because I think he's kind of a. Kind of an idiot. And I like that about him.

[Noah]

I want to see Jason dance at the reception.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

I just want to see all the other celebrities that.

[Matt Jones]

I'd want to see the celebrities. Right. I would want to say who didn't. I totally agree. Because, like, it would be funny to see who got invited and who didn't. Because there would be people who'd want to get invited that wouldn't. And I think. I think that would be. I would watch it. I'm not gonna try to act like I'm above it. It won't be on tv because she probably won't do that. But I would. I would watch.

[Noah]

Will it Be bigger than the Bezos wedding we just had.

[Matt Jones]

Of course it would.

[Noah]

I mean financially, like. Well, she shut down a. I don't.

[Matt Jones]

Know that small island for it. Probably not because they're gaudy.

[Noah]

It'll be more interested people. Be more interested.

[Matt Jones]

I don't even know what the woman he married who. What her name is. And I don't even care who's. Who cares about Jeff Bezos. I just thought it was like they were spending a lot of money.

[Noah]

I think if Taylor married a random guy off the street, it would still be one of the biggest weddings we've ever seen. If no one even knew the groom.

[Matt Jones]

Here's what I think is fascinating. If you meet a woman who grew up, what, like being a Taylor Swift fan. So probably women 40 and under, 35 and under. Right. I mean, they were crying, ma', am, when this came out yesterday. Like, not like crying as if they had gotten married. No, it's like their sister got it, wasn't it? It was like someone more than their sister got engaged. Like people were like, okay. So when I announced it, our two women who aren't they were at the host stand. They started hugging each other like Kentucky had just won a game. Like they were hugging each other.

[Ryan Lemond]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

And I thought, I can't imagine. Is there. I mean, I don't know. When you got married, I didn't hug anyone. I was happy for you.

[Noah]

I know a lot of people.

[Matt Jones]

I just. It's amazing to me the hold she has on our. Our culture.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's why it will be the biggest wedding of our lifetime, probably. And then they have to take it to an island because they do it somewhere in the United States.

[Matt Jones]

It'd be packed.

[Ryan Lemond]

It'll be packed. The Swifties would find a way and just crowded.

[Matt Jones]

What is the biggest big blue wedding of all time? Is there a wedding that you can remember? Vince Merrow.

[Noah]

Vince, yeah. Star studded uk.

[Matt Jones]

When I. When you and I, we went to Vince Merrill's wedding, if you had streamed that, every Kentucky fan would have watched because it was a who's who of UK world.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, you had all these former players. You. And it's crazy that he's at Louisville now because this was just two years ago. But you had all these former players, you had all the big donors, you had all the UK people. There were media people. Like it was.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

That. That's probably the closest thing we've ever had at UK was Vince's.

[Noah]

Well, heck, just at the church for the ceremony, I had like Jack Givens to my right and Tim Couch to my left. I remember whispering to Abby like, what in the world have we walked into here?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Noah]

I think we even called it our UK royal.

[Matt Jones]

It was Mark Stoops was a groomsman. Yes. He was like, he was wearing the, the, the bow tie and all that. He was like standing up there. You know, Vince was up there with his like brothers and there was little bitty Mark Stoops right in the middle.

[Noah]

Current football players were the ushers. Josh Catus walked us to our seat.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. One person that wasn't invited to the UK royal wedding. You remember who it was?

[Noah]

No.

[Matt Jones]

John Cal Perry.

[Noah]

Oh, that's right.

[Matt Jones]

That was how you kind of knew things weren't. This was when he was still the coach. That was if you ever want for people are like, oh, football and basketball are fine. Just remember that Cal didn't get an invite to the football wedding. I think that was part of the thing.

[Noah]

That's by far the answer to your question.

[Matt Jones]

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back Techie Sports Radio 859-280-2287. We had a guy here just say something to me that I meant to bring up. Who's working on that prenup?

[Shannon]

A really good lawyer.

[Noah]

Not Travis?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, yeah, it's a Very expensive lawyer, somebody. I saw a tweet last night that said the prenup will be longer than any book Travis Kelsey has read. Which I thought Shannon was a great line.

[Noah]

I think they save the day will be longer than anything he's read.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I. I think it's going to be like that prenup. I mean if I'm her lawyers, they've already started, right? Like they have to.

[Ryan Lemond]

That had to be in place maybe before the she said yes.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, no doubt. That prenup will be amazing. One person writes. Matt, I wouldn't have watched Vince's Wedding. I am a fan of what happens on the field. I don't believe that. Stop. You listen to this show. I mean like we're not totally about what's on the field. You'd have watched it.

[Ryan Lemond]

Of course, it was in the summer and there's no sports going on the who's who.

[Matt Jones]

I tell you this, you wouldn't have even had to know who the people are to be entertained at the reception. Now there was some stuff going. Going on through set except for when Vince was singing. You could have ignored that because he has a horrible voice.

[Noah]

Still have video that on my phone if we need to use at any point. Now these.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so what was your guess on what Kentucky football's Talent level is?

[Ryan Lemond]

71.

[Matt Jones]

71.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm gonna say 71.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. Yeah. What would you say?

[Noah]

Not 71. I'll say 41.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon?

[Shannon]

45.

[Matt Jones]

All right, here's the good news. According to the. I think was Toverick power rating. So this is rating how much talent is on the field for each team. We have the 27th most talented team in the country. That's shocking for comparison sake. Louisville's 40th.

[Ryan Lemond]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

Now here's the problem. Almost everybody we plays ahead of us including. And by the way, we're like 14th in the SEC. 13th in the SEC. No, 14th. We are only ahead in terms of raw talent. Of Andy, Missouri, even Mississippi State's ahead. Everyone's ahead of us. So. And I actually think it's probably correct, Drew. I think if you go look at the talent on that field, we probably do have the 27th best talent. And if we played in the ACC, just looking at. Again, just looking at this played in the ACC, we would have the third most talent in the ACC. In the Big 12, we would have the second most talent in the Big 12. But the problem is we're playing in a conference where 14 of the 20 or 13 of the 26 teams ahead of Us are in that conference. The Big Ten, by the way, I think has 10 teams ahead of us or something like that. So it's awesome. So like, it's almost like we're not as bad as we think we are, but it may not matter because the teams are. So even the teams that are. We're playing are ahead of us.

[Noah]

That's why we've been saying for months we know the team's improved. We just don't know what that will actually mean when they start playing. 27th seems a little high. I mean, I haven't gone through every roster, but you know, it's not that crazy if you start breaking it down. We've got like just a couple examples of players like A. McGowan was supposed to be running back one at Oklahoma A few years ago. Now off the field problems, but just from a talent standpoint, that's a talented guy. The receiver room, it's got some injuries and some. Some transfers and there's all these different circumstances. But from a talent standpoint, there's some highly rated recruits that are still on this roster.

[Matt Jones]

And I'm not saying, Ryan, that it's necessarily correct and I'm not going to say it's. It's going to happen this year. But if you don't believe the number, go back and think about the Kentucky Louisville game over the last few years. We've had a number of years where Louisville's had a better record than us, has come in favored and then we've kind of handled them. Not didn't happen last year, obviously, but we have. And I think it's in part because when the game actually starts, we have more talent than they do. Again, I don't know if that's true this year, but it's been true most years.

[Ryan Lemond]

Two years ago for sure. They little had a lot more talent than we did. We went over there and beat them.

[Matt Jones]

No, I think it's the opposite. They had a better record than we did.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, that's what I meant.

[Matt Jones]

But. But I don't think they had more talent.

[Ryan Lemond]

No.

[Matt Jones]

And I think you could make an argument that even going into this year, if you just look at the talent, not the coaching, I mean, then this is where coaching comes in. The talent might be a lot more than people think, but we also play good teams and we got to coach them.

[Noah]

And it shows the most when you play Louisville and teams outside the SEC in the trenches. That's why we need our offensive line to be talented, because even at Toledo, that's a good team. If your offensive line is shoving them around, it won't be much of a game.

[Matt Jones]

Actually, I think that's the best point. If you want to look at why Kentucky's been so good in the last few years, you'd see it in the trenches, you'd see it in the offensive line. Whatever advantage we had over Louisville when our offensive line stunk last year, that advantage goes away. I think that's actually a problem.

[Noah]

Can go get speed. Louisville, we all know, have had very flashy players, but when Kentucky was dominating, they were just doing whatever they wanted on the ground behind that offensive line.

[Ryan Lemond]

I was surprised the number was that low. You asked that question before the commercial break. I was thinking, okay, how many NFL players do you think?

[Matt Jones]

71 though. I mean, if it was 71, that would mean every team in the SEC, every team in the Big Ten and most of the ACC and Big 12. You think we're that bad?

[Ryan Lemond]

I just thought we had so many unknowns and no, very few NFL caliber players at this point. I thought it was just too many question marks. I thought so. That's why I thought they wouldn't give us any respect at all. I thought this would be one of those ratings where we would be really disrespected.

[Matt Jones]

Well, Daryl Hannah, by the way, did date JFK Jr. For five years, but they didn't get married.

[Ryan Lemond]

Didn't get married.

[Matt Jones]

Were you very invested in that relationship?

[Ryan Lemond]

I was very invested. They were the Travis Kelsey and Taylor swift of the 90s.

[Matt Jones]

Your 80s.

[Ryan Lemond]

So somebody sent me that they dated like for five years before he dated Carolyn Bissett, by the way.

[Matt Jones]

Just a little bit on. On 80 last night I made the mistake of going. I turned on ESPN radio late at night. I don't listen to sports radio because it just frustrates me because things like this happen and I like this guy. But Ian Fitzsimmons, right? Ian Fitzsimmons. Who? The guy who always calls everybody coach. He was on there and he was talking about Miami playing, I think Notre Dame to start the season. He was talking about how college football is better when Miami's good people all remember the you and blah, blah, this. He was like. And then I sat there and thought about it for a minute and I was like, you know what? That was the late 80s. You know how long ago that was? 35 plus years ago. Do you know what that would have been like, Drew, if someone had said to me in 1995, when I was in high school, college football would be better if the teams in the late 50s were still good. We don't process that. But the late 80s now are like the 50s were in the 90s.

[Noah]

Thanks for that. Appreciate that.

[Matt Jones]

So I wanted to be like Ian. We're gonna have to update our references just a little bit. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's ksr. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney.

[Ryan Lemond]

Call tj.

[Matt Jones]

He'll make him pay.

[Shannon]

Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

Welcome back Techie Sports Radio. Here at ksbar, it is wings day dollar wings all day and night. Come by and see the new place and the new menu and check them out. All right, we have some breaking news. Shannon running on UK has just announced along with JMI the details of their new BBN nil partnership for the athletes. The announcement, the documents will be on KSR here momentarily. I spoke with some folks, I was appreciated them doing this. You may have heard a couple weeks ago when they did something like this. I said, hey, I wish I'd kind of known just so I would have an ability to explain. They gave me a heads up yesterday. So let me explain how they explained it to me and what it is and my general okay with it. But a little bit of concern. But basically BBN and IL is going to be a partnership port. So let me explain what players did up until this point in the last few years. If I'm a player, Ryan Lemon is an athlete. He comes to UK and most of them would have an agent, an agent whose job it would be to if KS bar wanted to do a deal with Ryan Lemon, I would go to the agent and we would try to work it out. Some kids, however, in didn't even have agents. Now the basketball players did. But like a random football player might not or it might be kind of a guy or man or woman that you didn't really want them around. But like you had to talk to him them. And then sometimes when they got to town, local people would try to help them and then sometimes, you know, Club Blue would try to help them. There was a lot of different ways it worked. It was kind of a hodgepodge and it was kind of a mess. Sometimes if you wanted to contact the player, you didn't even really know how to do it right. What UK will now offer to players is when you come to uk, we will be your point of contact. Players can have other points of contact and I would argue the biggest stars will, they will still have their own agent, but UK will provide a portal where they can do your deals. Now, this was what was important to me. The, the play. If you're a player at uk, you sign into this, you agree to this, and they can get you deals with the 200 official UK partners, but you are still allowed to get deals with other people. That's good. One of my concerns was UK was going to have it to where if you didn't do it with one of UK's official partners, you couldn't do it and it would hurt us in recruiting. You're still going to be able to do it. Here's how this is going to work in practice, Ryan. This is how it's going to work. I'm recruiting Ryan Lemon to come play basketball. I'm going to give you $3.7 million to come play basketball at Kentucky. 1.5 of that's going to come from my revenue share. And BBN nil is going to say, we'll get you 2.2 from somewhere else from one of these partnerships. And essentially BBN Nil is kind of taking the role of guarantee or for what the rev share can't do. I think every school is going to have some version of this. I think a lot of schools are going to keep it separate from the university. UK is taking a risk. UK is putting this in house. Does it work? I'm a little skeptical only because I don't think this official partner is going to do deals with like. Let's use this example. Okay? I am car dealership in in Lexington. I want to do a deal with Trent Noah. Is BB and Il gonna only sell to Don? What's the official Paul Miller Ford or are they also going to sell to Don Franklin? I'm told they might still also sell to Don Franklin, but I want to see how that plays out. But at the end of the day, Drew, all fans are going to care about is do we have enough money to get the players. I'm told UK believes under this setup, this gives them the best chance to get the revenue they need to go get the players. And it'll test itself over time. But I will say very few other schools are doing it this way. You got to have a lot of faith in jmi like jmi. Now, JMI is not just about putting on a good pre and post game show. JMI is going to be about getting us players. And that company, we're gonna need it to work.

[Noah]

You know, me just walking around with all the faith in JMI in the world. But really though, say a megastar that does command million, 4 million, you know, like A Stokes.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Noah]

I mean, how. What if they don't go out and get it? Does the reputation get out?

[Matt Jones]

Well, here's what's gonna follow through. No, if they don't go out and get it, JMI is gonna have to pay for it. So I mean, ultimately, like, like. And then if JMI is not able to pay for it, then it'll hurt us. But what I said a couple weeks ago remains true. It used to be that if UK Athletics succeeded or failed, you could say, that is Mitch Barnhart's fault, that is Mark Pope's fault, that is Mark Stoop's fault. You had a place to point your decision. I think it is completely fair to say now that there's a new entity that will be part of deciding if UK works. It's not just going to be President Eli Capilouto. It's not just going to be Mitch Barnhart. It's not just going to be Mark Pope and Mark Stoops. It is also going to be this entity of jmi. That business has to work for Kentucky to be good at sports. And whether they will or not will be determined over time.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, you answered the question on what Drew said that you get this big time recruit, he's promised 2.2 million. Don Franklin, Paul Miller, Ford, whatever. These guys can't come up with it. JMI has to cover those. So the kid still gets his money if jmi.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I mean, the kid still gets his money if you want to get players in the future. I mean, if you want to stiff the kid, then you ain't gonna get players in the future. And there are schools out there, by the way, that did stiff kids. And they, it got, it hurt them in recruiting, I think Syracuse maybe in football state, Florida State and basketball at Florida. And like, they weren't able to get players. So, you know, the company will have to make that choice. But is there something I said a few weeks ago? UK Athletics and JMI are in a lot of ways now the same thing. And I don't love that. I think public private partnerships can be good, but private entities, like basically taking over a public entity is never good. That's. But that's just my opinion. But this is the way it's going to be. And you know, we have to hope. Like let me give you an example. UK handed over their dorms basically to private companies. And you know what, it kind of worked. I think they're better now than they used to be.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes, they are.

[Matt Jones]

So I actually think that that decision worked for lack of it was generally successful. I think UK basically handed their media broadcast to jmi and I don't know that that always worked. Will this work? We have examples of it working. We have some examples of it not working. So we'll see if this works.

[Noah]

So we should have given it to the housing company. They would handle it.

[Matt Jones]

The housing company, I actually think did a pretty good job. At least I don't know who they were.

[Noah]

Yeah, they did a great.

[Matt Jones]

Kind of thought. They did a pretty good job. So we'll see.

[Ryan Lemond]

Does there have to be like an office of people that are not employed by UK and not employed by JMI that kind of be the liaison for this?

[Matt Jones]

No partnership? No. Under the new rules, the JMI people can negotiate with these recruits directly.

[Ryan Lemond]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

So you remember I told you about a year ago how recruiting worked at uk. Mark Pope wants a player. Mark Pope says, I want this player. He would call, or someone would call the collective and say, go get this player. And I think our collective did a pretty amazing job in the last two years of doing it. Now that phone call is to jmi and now it's JMI that. That becomes responsible. And the only. My only skepticism is I had a lot of trust in the. In the what the guy that was doing it before. And now we'll see what happens with these people.

[Noah]

And they just had a great off season under the. Just nailed it.

[Matt Jones]

I hope people understand the way we were doing it before, we kind of were killing it. We got a football roster that, whether the team is good or not, it's a lot better than it could have been. And we got a basketball roster where with the exception of Donovan Dent, they pretty much got everybody they wanted. And they really only lost one guy, cause of money. And it was that Lamar Wilkerson guy. And I think they'll be all right without him.

[Noah]

And that was good show content for us.

[Matt Jones]

So that was. And that was when Ryan picked the wrong one. Yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Because the night before he was coming to Kentucky, we do the show the next day, he ain't coming to Kentucky.

[Matt Jones]

So for a lot. So for fans, I would say, look, fans, you're going to care about one thing, do we win or not. Right. And in that respect, that's all that's going to matter. But when you. When we don't get a player, sometimes it might not be Mark Pope or Mark Stoop's fault anymore. There's another entity involved at this point, and we're going to have to start keeping that in mind in the same way that when I watch the Reds. Sometimes I blame Terry Francona, like when he bunted with our best hitter with two guys on and nobody out when we were down in LA in the third inning. But then sometimes I might blame the gm, right for not getting a power hitter at the trade deadline. So we have a chance to to be good now. JMI is kind of our gm. So Bourbon lovers, the Commonwealth Causes August Bourbon Raffle is tomorrow. August 28th. Twenty thousand dollar lineup including the Weller Millennium. Tell me what that is again.

[Noah]

It's one of the hardest bourbons. You can go out and get several thousand dollars to find that one.

[Matt Jones]

They have a six bottle Weller set, an eight bottle Blanton set, the Club Blue set. It's all there. Go to commonwealthcauses.org Tickets are limited. Get it today because it's due tomorrow. This is commonwealthcauses.org we'll take a break. Take your calls. Be open up here in 20 minutes. Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Welcome back Tuckee Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. Hey, there you go. Thank you very much. Here at KS Bar and Grill, one person writes. Matt, why doesn't JMI just hire the people that were doing the collective? They got too much money. They wouldn't want to do it. I'm sure they, they were, they were financially well off. I don't think they need to do it. One person writes. Matt, how was Ryan's TV shoot yesterday? How'd that go? Your national TV to commercial debut went great.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, he had a, you know, script that I kind of got emotional and broke down a little bit trying to read it. But outside of that, everything went well.

[Matt Jones]

You got emotional?

[Ryan Lemond]

Got emotional.

[Matt Jones]

How so?

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, they, I don't know. Just brought it all back. That time we. You know, I was in New York. You always do it with me. When it happened in Boston, man, I broke down and just kind of brought it all back. So the question was.

[Matt Jones]

So you're gonna be crying on this national commercial.

[Ryan Lemond]

I hope. I hope they cut that out.

[Matt Jones]

They're not going to.

[Noah]

Oh, no. That's what they're there for.

[Matt Jones]

If you're. If you're crying, that will definitely be in the commercial. Well, great.

[Noah]

That's how they're getting their message across, how impactful it was.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I mean, why. That shouldn't surprise you. If you're crying, they're gonna be like, that's what we want.

[Noah]

Used to do news. You know how it.

[Ryan Lemond]

I know. I. It wasn't like that. The question that got me, like, you know, what happened when you got back from Boston and you saw your son? And then I can remember the moment, you know, I saw him, he just broke down. That made me break down, you know, so we started telling the story. Broke down again in front of everybody, right in front of the camera.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I look forward to seeing you, like, during the super bowl, maybe. Ryan. Alarm.com. right. Ryan shows up. Who's up first? Shannon. No, Noah. Go ahead, Noah. Hey, man. I just got to say, as a fellow eastern Kentucky, and it's been really cool to see Mark Pope when he saw him last weekend, taking the boys for the team down to eastern Kentucky. You've seen all the great places of Natural Bridge, Red River Gorge on all that. Yeah, I love that. Like a backyard. I mean, a lot of ways with that. Did you guys see the. The pizza place that he took them to nearby, looking at Miguel's, right? Yeah, he took him to Miguel's, right? That's the place at the Gorge. Yeah. So you guys know about that place, then? Yeah, yeah, I've heard about. I've never been, but I've heard about it over the years as Miguel's is being like, the place to go there. Yeah. Appreciate the call. They actually just as well. They actually just. Sorry. Sorry. They actually just ranked the top 50 pizza places in America, one in each state, and they named a place in Louisville, Shannon, as the place for Kentucky, the Post. Have you ever had that?

[Shannon]

Yeah, I think I have had the Post before. It's really.

[Matt Jones]

Is that. Do you think it's the best?

[Shannon]

No.

[Matt Jones]

No. Okay. Well, that's not very nice.

[Shannon]

I think it's good. But do I think it's the best? No, I don't. Honestly don't think it's the best I've ever had.

[Matt Jones]

Where is it? I can't think of where it is.

[Shannon]

Yeah, I can't. You know, I can't even have to look it up.

[Matt Jones]

It's in Germantown.

[Shannon]

I can't remember. It's been a long time.

[Matt Jones]

Well, that was the Kentucky pick. What's your. What do you think's the best pizza in. In Lexington.

[Noah]

Currently I'm doing ads for Donato's, so shout out Donato's. I've been to Miguel's.

[Matt Jones]

It's. It's not change.

[Noah]

Yeah, well, I will say about Miguel's, their pizza is fine. It's good. But it's more about the experience there. You're usually have just hiked. There's like camping ground all around. It is a place in Kentucky a lot of people need to check out.

[Matt Jones]

By the way, Today is the 85th birthday of. Of Dairy Queen. It is 85 years of dairy Queen today. I think they're celebrating that maybe some deal on blizzards today. Are you pro Dairy Queen?

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh, I was at Dairy Queen yesterday.

[Matt Jones]

Don't park at Dairy Queen. Don't Saturday at least don't park in the nine spaces that they own over there. But yes, you are pro.

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh yeah. Yoga girl and I went. Got a blizzard yesterday after we came here and put up the new banner. Went over here and got a blizzard.

[Shannon]

That's the thing though. You go for the blizzard or the breakfast. Nobody's going there for dinner, right?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. See, I, I don't know that I've ever eaten Dairy Queen food. I've eaten the blizzard. I probably at some point had something for breakfast, but I've never eaten a Dairy Queen meal. Have you?

[Noah]

I have, but it's easily been a decade. Probably going back to when I lived in Madisonville. I remember they, they serve gravy with their chicken tenders.

[Ryan Lemond]

I think that's the, that's the best.

[Matt Jones]

They do. Yes.

[Noah]

Anytime I've been recently or in the last, whatever it's been just for a blizzard.

[Matt Jones]

This Dairy Queen right over here, it only. There's only one person ever working there. And I feel bad for the person because the person always seems so stressed out, which if I was the only person I would be, I would be stressed out too. And one of the things that they'll say to me is sometimes, you know, our blizzard machine is, is, is being whatever. And I feel like saying to him, Shannon, if you're Dairy Queen, you, you gotta make sure the blizzard machine, that's.

[Shannon]

The only reason anybody's Coming.

[Matt Jones]

If nothing else is working, you gotta make sure that works, right?

[Shannon]

Yeah. I mean, what is anybody else coming to get there? Although some places, I will say some Dairy Queens, not all have Country Ham and Biscuit.

[Matt Jones]

And for breakfast that Country Ham and Biscuit would be good. You're saying you can get that at Dairy Queen?

[Shannon]

Sometimes you can in Mount Washington. You can at that one. I don't know about every different Dairy Queen, but some of them. And it's really good.

[Matt Jones]

By the way, I also saw on Tick Tock they did the. I want to use language that I can say with my mom listening. It was the. It was the towns in Kentucky where you're the most or least likely to find somebody for hanky panky. Is that a good way to say.

[Ryan Lemond]

Great way to say it.

[Matt Jones]

Companionship, but not long term. Yeah.

[Noah]

An experience.

[Shannon]

No strings attached.

[Noah]

Very brief experience.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Number. Can I give you the top three in Kentucky?

[Ryan Lemond]

Wait to hear it.

[Matt Jones]

Number three was Morehead.

[Shannon]

Lives up to its name.

[Matt Jones]

Number two was Richmond. Feel like that's kind of fair. Right. And number one was Newport. And I kind of think that's fair too. If you're. Yeah. You haven't been to Newport. I'm not saying. No, it's not that you would want. It's just where it was. But you know what, you know what city came in last? Mount Washington. Mount Washington was the worst place in Kentucky.

[Shannon]

We're wholesome in Mount Washington.

[Matt Jones]

I think that's what it was that you all were, but were too wholesome and too drinking too much Mountain Dew for. For any hanky panky.

[Shannon]

Nobody's got teeth. Nobody wants hanky panky, but somebody with no teeth.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Just the rest of the list was taking shots at your own. Lexington, by the way, was number four. And then number five I thought was interesting was Ashland. So the top five in Kentucky were Newport, Richmond, Moorhead, Lexington and Ashland. Not Louisville.

[Noah]

Did Madisonville or Middlesborosboro.

[Matt Jones]

Did not see Madisonville. Just saw those top five. But I did notice that Mount Washington was last place. If you're looking for companionship.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, you. When you said Newport, we all. It makes you kind of cringe. We all know the history of Newport. Makes you a little bit cringy.

[Matt Jones]

I also know as somebody that went all across the state with Romel Bradley was pretty accurate list for him.

[Ryan Lemond]

Shout out to Morehead Enrichment.

[Matt Jones]

Shout out to. Shout out to her male. Who's next?

[Shannon]

Let's go to Kelly.

[Matt Jones]

Kelly. Go ahead, Kelly. Hey, Ryan. I was in cognitive behavioral therapy for about a year and a half to work on some mental issues I was in. I would highly recommend, given your loneliness that you've been talking about, to maybe consider signing up for something like that. Because I can tell you, one man to another, best thing I've ever done for my own health. And it's not even close. There you go. Well, I just, I got like 20 seconds real quick. Yeah, yeah. I wanted to see if you all had seen about the EVP issue you were talking about yesterday. If any of those people have been threatened with debt collection yet by actual debt collecting. Not yet. Not yet. I appreciate the call, but the article did say that that could happen, but it has not happened yet. That was in the Lexington Herald article. So there you go.

[Ryan Lemond]

Those people need to keep that money. They made a mistake. Let them keep it.

[Matt Jones]

It. Yes, they need it. Well, that you've made that. I, I don't disagree with you. 859-280-2287 we're open up the doors now. It's Wednesday. Dollar Wings. We'll take a break. Be right back. KSR Fox One is now live. It's the new way to stream all your Fox favorites all in one place. That means NFL Sundays and college football games. Breaking news with the Fox voices you trust and your favorite show streamed as they happen. So nothing gets spoiled. With Fox one. You get it all live. Edge of your seat plays, jaw dropping moments and that feeling like you're right there in the action. Start your 7 day trial today. Offers are subject to change. Go to Fox One for complete terms and conditions. Fox One we live for life Streaming now.

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