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Matt Jones
Welcome to hour two of Kentucky sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.
Shannon Dawson
Welcome back our number two Kentucky Sports Radio. Ryan, Drew, Shannon Mario's running around here somewhere. 859-280-2287. That's the Clark's Puppy Shop phone number. Our aviation glass text machine number is Drew 8, 5.
Drew Franklin
Or excuse me, 502. Yes, 7, yes. 35, 36, 80.
Shannon Dawson
There you go. 502, 7, 3536 80. Easy to remember. This rolls off the tongue but we have breaking news from the NFL. Shannon running under our NFL expert Drew Franklin now with breaking news regarding the NFL.
Drew Franklin
I work for the league, Ryan. Don't forget slightly breaking. We should have mentioned this with the Bengals the Burrow injury but man Cincinnati fans gonna be looks like could be three months without Joe Burrow and turf toe surgery. That guy has to get away from. Cincinnati Bengals fans, I love you. I know you love him. I know it's been fun. But for the, for, for Joe Burrow, please get him where he can be taken care of. The poor Bengals, I didn't think they had a cart to wheel them off. Yesterday they're getting clowned on the Internet because there's footage of Burrow in the back barefoot just walking on concrete. That that organization. You got a $250 million player and I don't even think they got a John Deere rolling back to get his X rays.
Shannon Dawson
How can they not have a golf cart running around in that stadium? They couldn't help him get through the concourse walking around barefoot. So Shannon and I were asking like what the heck is turf toe? It occurs when the ligament under the big toe is hyperextended. So what happens when the toe is forced to bend upwards and he's going to have Surgery and he's out for three months. Bengals fans, somewhere Paul is crying.
Matt Jones
I don't think the season will matter by the time he comes back. They got to go three months without.
Shannon Dawson
Joe Burrow and they got, they got the win yesterday.
Drew Franklin
Yeah, they're two and oh, I mean, you're excited about that offense and a big year after. He kind of didn't reach your expectations last season. And then here it's been two games and you don't have Burrow.
Shannon Dawson
It's from the aviation glass text machine. I love you guys, but my buddies and I have discussed and come to the conclusion you all's hate for McAfee is weird. He's hilarious, and every guy age 20 to 40 loves him. Well, he was also voted punter of the decade by the NFL. Is that right?
Matt Jones
I guess I'm just outside of his demographic then, because I don't think he's funny at all. I think he's a big jackass.
Drew Franklin
I don't hate MacVee. I even said I think he's pretty good on game day. I just don't like, tune in for his show weekly. He's fine. There's a lot of shows I don't listen to.
Shannon Dawson
859-280-2287. Clark Pump Shop phone number for Kentucky. They Somebody pointed out that South Carolina does have Missouri this Saturday. I mean, Missouri is a good football team, too. So South Carolina's got a tough one before we go down to Columbia to play down there. I think going into the season, Columbia had aspirations of maybe trying to get in the playoff. Talk a little bit. Obviously, I think it all comes down to their quarterback. As Sellers is out. They just look after he left. They look like they had no idea what's going on on offense.
Drew Franklin
Yeah. And Missouri is ranked now. They're undefeated. They won the the Border War last week against Kansas, so they're, they're a good Missouri team heading to Columbia. Maybe they can beat up on South Carolina a little more for us.
Shannon Dawson
The last time we went down to South Carolina, I got punched in the face and my jaw got fractured, so I'm not going to the game. But it is one of the best environments in college football. I mean, I hate to say it, but it was, it was awesome. It was a night game and they were playing Sandstorm and the roosters crowing and it's crazy down there.
Drew Franklin
I've never been for football. I've been to several basketball games. I'll admit I enjoy a Columbia trip. I don't know that I would like Sandstorm in the football experience. It's a little much for me, but it is. It's a fun road trip to make.
Shannon Dawson
It is. Yeah. Yeah.
Drew Franklin
So speaking of game day experience, we've been very critical of Kroger Field. Not shy about that. I'm sure they have gotten a lot of emails because the fan base has been very outspoken. I will say it has improved with each week. So it's not like they're just sitting on their hands doing nothing. I don't think Warren Peace did the first game when the music was just atrocious. He did the second, and it was better. And then it was even better. Last week they played the do the John Wall song. I know that's basketball. It actually got people on their feet dancing. Maybe revisit that. We got to do anything we can.
Shannon Dawson
Absolutely.
Drew Franklin
Just being a night game helped. I know it's Eastern Michigan, but the light set up, it naturally brings out the energy. You've been tailgating all day. I thought the fans surprised me. Of course, it wasn't a full house, but even it started pouring rain out of nowhere, and not many people left their seat. The students were there most of the game. So Kroger Field still got a long way to go. I'm not crowning it and saying it's a great atmosphere, but to their credit, each week it's gradually getting better.
Shannon Dawson
It's good to hear you say that, because on the postgame show, I think we had like, four different callers that said the same thing.
Drew Franklin
So I'm not crazy.
Shannon Dawson
We need to shout out. The atmosphere was better. The environment was better. The music was better. The students even stayed till halftime, even during the rain and everything. So I think it's been an improvement every week so far.
Drew Franklin
Yeah, we got to tip the cap. They're trying, honestly. Part of it. I know a lot of people don't like this. They're just. They're playing more rap music. And I know rap music's not for everyone, but that the. It does make the crowd get more involved and the players are dancing on the sideline. I think that's been a big part of it.
Shannon Dawson
Well, the students can play a big part of that. You know, if they're into the game, if they're engaged, everybody can kind of feed off them a little bit.
Drew Franklin
There's still awkward down times that I don't know what you do about. I mean, if I were them, I'd be like, hey, remember Stevie got loose and just play anything.
Shannon Dawson
Yeah.
Drew Franklin
Because there's still Long periods of everyone looking at each other and there's not much going on and people are on their phones trying to check Twitter. That hasn't gotten better, but the music has improved with each week. And then the light setup really helped.
Shannon Dawson
You know, I'm a big proponent of the. On the jumbotron. They need to show the students, you know, just get them more engaged and show the students a lot. At the Colts game yesterday, I was kind of watching what their jumbotron does. You know, they do all the stuff, the Simba cam, the kiss cam, the dance cam, all this stuff, anything like that, to keep the people engaged during a dead ball period when they're not just sitting there looking at their phone.
Drew Franklin
And Rob's pretty good about that. Different sport, not as long a breaks, not as many. I get it. But just steal some of the stuff you're doing over there with just putting fans on the screen. And I said this before. Fans need to be told what to do. I mean, have like a bit. I mean, the snackwards cams get a little played out, but stuff like that, like, have a bit on the screen that people are a part of.
Shannon Dawson
Yeah. So it wasn't just football weekend. It was UK hall of Fame weekend. Michaela Epps, Carl Townes, John, Josh Hines, Abby Cheek, and Sonya Hahn were the six inductees. They were all there for the dinner Friday night. Then there was somebody else special in town Friday night also for the ceremony. Drew.
Drew Franklin
Ellen Calipari.
Shannon Dawson
Ellen, I think, was here. Brad, I think Brad was also here.
Drew Franklin
Was John here?
Shannon Dawson
I think John Calipari was sneaking around Lexington Friday night.
Drew Franklin
I know he was. Lots of people had some John Caliperi sightings, had a few friends that actually got to. Got to hang out with. With Cal. I said this on the pregame show, but I'm. I'm going to be very complimentary of John Calipari. I've gotten my digs off and my. My jokes several times, and that will continue. But I thought he played hall of Fame weekend perfectly. He was there for Carl, but he kept a distance where it wasn't about him, because if he had shown up.
Shannon Dawson
To that ceremony, it had been all about him.
Drew Franklin
Abby Cheek, heck, Carl. No, it wouldn't have been about any of them. It would have been about John Calipari showing his face. Mark Pope was there. The news cameras would have sprinted over to him to get the video. That whole event would have been the cow coming back. Homecoming. I think Brad and Element. Marty, you were there. Were they. Were they there? I Think they might have gone. Not certain about that. But I thought he played it right by not going. But then he had a private party with Carl after to celebrate with Carl. So he was able to be there for Carl but also not be a distraction. So tip of the cap for how Cal handled that coming back. He wore a little too much red and like a red T shirt and a red plaid blazer. I feel like we could have worked in a lot of blue for this event, especially since he was laying low. But good on him for doing that.
Shannon Dawson
I agree we give Cal Slack a lot, Shannon, but I think he played it right. Kind of just played second fiddle. Came in to support Carl but didn't want to be the story. So having his own private little dinner with Carl. Send Ellen and Brad to the ceremony. So, Shannon, I really think that's probably the best way. We need to compliment him, I think, in doing that.
Matt Jones
Yeah, be there, but don't make a. You know, make it all about yourself and the fact that I didn't even know that he was there. I read about it, about the hall of Fame induction, but I didn't know that Cal was actually there. So I think that he played it the way he should have.
Shannon Dawson
And kudos to uk. They scheduled it on the weekend when Jacksonville was playing the Bengals so Josh Hines Ward could be here for it. They were all here.
Drew Franklin
Josh Heinz Ward, the Steelers, Allen, Heinz Ward.
Shannon Dawson
I love hind word when he was the Steelers. Josh Heinz, Allen. But then they announced everybody at halftime. What? Josh was not there and Carl wasn't there when they announced everybody at halftime of the game.
Drew Franklin
Yeah, the two A listers, that group got on out. Josh had to get to his game. I don't know what Carl had to do, but it's still good to have him in for a night. And then the other four, we haven't mentioned Doug Flynn. Right. We got to include Doug Flynn.
Shannon Dawson
Flynn.
Drew Franklin
Sorry, Doug, gotta include him. But the other four inductees got their moment at. At Kroger Field, so it was cool for that. And congratulations to the new class.
Shannon Dawson
Doug. Doug Flynn. Long overdue.
Drew Franklin
Heck yeah.
Shannon Dawson
The dude won a couple of World Series rings with the big red machine plate. Spent like 12, 13 years in the big leagues. Long overdue. And I said this on the maybe on Friday. He also was on the basketball team with Adolph Rupp at UK on the freshman team when he came here to start with. So. Yeah, long overdue honor for Doug Flynn.
Drew Franklin
Absolutely.
Shannon Dawson
859-280-2287. We got any call?
Matt Jones
Shannon, let's go to Bob in Jamestown.
Shannon Dawson
Bob, Bob. How you, Bob?
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Matt Jones
That's right.
Shannon Dawson
Yeah.
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Wow.
Matt Jones
I need whatever his skin routine is because he looks very, very young compared to his age.
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Oh, man, you're a lucky guy to be able to catch that. Well, listen, good talking to you guys.
Shannon Dawson
Bob, is there anything you've not done? You played the drums. You were an at star athlete. You were a heartthrob in high school. What did you not do in high school?
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No, I wasn't a star athlete. No. No. A buddy of mine's dad was a football coach at Hamilton Taft High School. But I was always down here at the lake. I just, I couldn't handle those summer practices so. I mean, they wanted me bad in football, but no, I wasn't going to do that.
Shannon Dawson
Of course they did.
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Shannon Dawson
All right, Bob. Appreciate it. Bob and J.
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Bob.
Shannon Dawson
Bob and Jamestown. He opens up a line. 859-280-2287. That's the Clark's Puppet Shop phone number 859280. Cats. We'll take a break. Ryan, Drew, Shannon and Mario running around here. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
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That's oregonhomecarejobs.com for those in the podcast. Can't hear that song. It's one hot mama. They talking about Diego Pavia's mom or Shannon's mom?
Matt Jones
Oh, stop it. You always say that about my mom.
Shannon Dawson
Your mom's a little hottie.
Matt Jones
You're not gonna get a date with my mom. She's married. She's taken. Sorry.
Shannon Dawson
Yeah, Yoga Girl wouldn't like that either.
Matt Jones
Yeah, I don't think she would. She might be listening right now. You know you didn't mean that.
Shannon Dawson
Yoga girl. 859-280-2287 that's a Clark's Puppy Shop phone number.
Matt Jones
You called me. You were sitting there with Yoga Girl and I said, you said Yoga Girl sitting here. I say, hey, what's up Yoga? Like Yoga was her first name. I don't know why I said that, but I've called her Yoga Girl so many times I now just call her Yoga. First name.
Shannon Dawson
Her nickname. Yeah, Yoga.
Matt Jones
It's really weird, but it's called Girl.
Drew Franklin
Yeah, she sent me a nice text on Saturday.
Shannon Dawson
She was very happy that Drew hosted the pregame show and did a great job.
Drew Franklin
Thank you.
Shannon Dawson
She was very proud of you. She's like, you know, I'm gonna send Drew a text, tell him he did a good job and I have her.
Drew Franklin
Saved in my phone as yoga girl. So it threw me off a little bit when I was heading to the game and yoga girl popped up. But thank you. Yoga. Yoga girl.
Matt Jones
Our last name is gonna be girl till Ryan changes it to Lemon.
Shannon Dawson
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Shannon Dawson
Family we had a special guest, the Franklin family. We had a special guest design lined up to come in today. Jojo Kemp. But Jojo got called off because of his real job.
Drew Franklin
Oh, day job got in the way.
Shannon Dawson
The old day job duty call. So we're going to bring JoJo back one of these next couple weeks that Matt is off and he's a good guest. He's done the show with us before. But we do have two special guests lined up for tomorrow. Drew Franklin. Tell us who's coming in tomorrow.
Drew Franklin
Yes. Very excited about this one. It's a, it's a double announcement here. First I'm going to say that the guests are Field of 68, Rob Doster and Jeff Goodman.
Shannon Dawson
How about that?
Drew Franklin
And it's in person. They are going to be in Lexington to watch Kentucky basketball practice.
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And.
Drew Franklin
And I sent Rob a text. I said, hey, sorry, you're going to be watching ball. You want to come by the bar and talk a little ball? Absolutely. They're in. We'll have them on tomorrow. We'll go as long as they can. As long as they want to stay. They're excited. Then we'll have to send them over to watch the Cats. Unfortunately we're getting them before they see practice.
Shannon Dawson
Okay.
Drew Franklin
So we won't get scooped, but they'll still have plenty to say. Maybe we'll check back in after the practice, but they will be in Lexington. I'm excited about that. And it coincides with earlier this morning we announced that field of 68 now colleagues of KSR website over at on3on3.
Shannon Dawson
And so they're your co workers.
Drew Franklin
Yeah, I'll be seeing Rob and Jeff around the break room. I already told them they're on donut duty for the first two weeks. But very exciting stuff at ON3 headquarters with Field of 68 joining the family, maybe more opportunities to do stuff with them in the future.
Shannon Dawson
You know, there was a time where a lot of Kentucky fans I don't think had much good to say about Jeff Goodman. He seemed to be a little anti cow. But I think Jeff Goodman has got back in good graces with the Kentucky fan base. It seems like in the recent years.
Drew Franklin
Well, we'll find out tomorrow because I talked to Rob. I didn't talk to Jeff. Maybe Rob will show up by himself. But yeah, KSR Jeff have a bit of a history.
Shannon Dawson
Yes.
Drew Franklin
He and Matt have gone out to eat since then. I've, you know, said hi to him at games and looking forward to hearing from them tomorrow and what they have to say about the basketball team. So comes at a good time with the football buy. We'll get to hear a little bit basketball with with practice slowly ramping up over there.
Shannon Dawson
So we'll be at live at KS Bar tomorrow. Come over and have lunch with us and see Jeff Goodman and Rob Doster and we'll talk a little basketball tomorrow. So good get for you. And then Wednesday we've got Lee K. Howard, superstar in Lexington media. He's going to join us Wednesday at KS Bar. Thursday we're at a remote in Mount Vernon. It's for the Christian Appalachian Project on Main Street. It's a bank on Main street, right? Community Trust bank or something. I shouldn't have said that. It's a bank on Main Street.
Matt Jones
No, I think it is. I think it is that.
Shannon Dawson
I thought it was Community Trust bank on Main street in Mount Vernon. And then Friday we're at Wild Eggs, the new Wild Eggs in Tate's Creek. Breakfast, lunch with a bar, breakfast, lunch and lunch with a bar. Wild Eggs.
Drew Franklin
All right, I forgot to mention the field of 68. The field of 68 with their big announcement today they dropped their basketball preseason top 25.
Shannon Dawson
Oh, they did. And the Cats are We're going to.
Drew Franklin
Have to have a little talk. Cats are seventh. Not mad about that. But Louisville, sixth.
Shannon Dawson
Oh, really? We can't have that.
Drew Franklin
Can't have that.
Shannon Dawson
I mean, Louisville's definitely going to be good. Are they that good?
Drew Franklin
Well, tomorrow on the air, we're going to have them corrected.
Shannon Dawson
Okay.
Drew Franklin
They're going to fix that.
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Who?
Shannon Dawson
This is number one, I assume.
Drew Franklin
I was trying to pull up the list. I assume Purdue. I just knew those two. I'll have it.
Shannon Dawson
Okay.
Drew Franklin
I'm going to say Purdue without knowing what they actually did.
Shannon Dawson
This is on the aviation glass text machine. I went to the Bourbon and Beyond this weekend. The highlight for me, besides seeing Fish with my dad, his favorite band and my brother was seeing Shannon, the dude. In my awkward moment of realizing who he was walking by, he was kind enough to high five me. I meant what I said. I love listening to the show and you got to do a fantastic job. So there you go, Shannon.
Matt Jones
All those bands and your highlight was to see me really had the bar set low. No, I, I, I appreciate everybody who came by and that's the cool thing about being out there. You got 50 or 60,000 people walking around every day and you get to meet a lot of listeners and it's, it's a lot of fun out there.
Shannon Dawson
859-280-2287. Let's get another phone call. Shannon, who we got?
Matt Jones
Let's go to Don.
Shannon Dawson
Don. Go ahead, Don.
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Hey, Ryan. Southwest Indiana, are you aware of two PAC football players committed to the sec?
Shannon Dawson
I am not aware of the Pocket Athletic Conference, the premier conference in all of college high school sports which Pike Central High School was a member of. Where are these PAC athletes coming from? Because I guarantee it's not Pike Central High School.
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Heritage Hills has got the Goldsberry boy and Rucks are committed to Oklahoma and Ole Miss.
Shannon Dawson
Wow. Yeah. Heritage Hills, defending state champs up there in Indiana.
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So yeah. And they got moved to Foray this year so it'd be a little different. But yeah, I'm not a Patriot graduate. I actually a little bit to the west of that small school style, but it's, they played Apollo a couple of weeks ago and it was like 50 to nothing.
Shannon Dawson
Appreciate it, Don, Appreciate the phone, but.
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I wondered if, you know, I didn't know that.
Shannon Dawson
I knew that Goldsberry kid was really good. But appreciate the phone call since Shannon, look, we give, we gave my high school shout out. Drew is like busting at the seams of his high school. We gave you, we gave you time on the pregame show to go. Talk about your Madisonville Maroons. You want to do it again?
Drew Franklin
Absolutely. I'll do the full hour on Madisonville if you want. It's the best town on earth. Ryan. Do you know that I didn't know.
Shannon Dawson
That they were undefeated at this point and just had a big win.
Drew Franklin
Huge win. Huge win. Beat Paducah Tillman. It was last Thursday night, so it's been a few days. I don't think we got to mention it on Friday. But shout out to my Maroons. We're not exactly an athletic powerhouse there but we try hard and we beat Paducah Tillman. They. Paduka Tillman was on some ridiculous win streak. They got D1 commits at every position. They got money everywhere. I didn't say that but they might. Great team. And they came into Madisonville and they got that butt kick. So I'm. I'm proud of Madisonville. Go Maroons. And at Noon today, the KSR Top 25 gets updated.
Shannon Dawson
They better have Madisonville in there, I swear.
Drew Franklin
Listen everyone that works at ksr. There will be problems when I get to that office later. If Madisonville is not in the top 25. We will have a company wide meeting and some people are packing their things and heading home for the last time of Madisonville is not in that top 25.
Shannon Dawson
I'm going to make a prediction. I bet they still have Paducah Tillman ranked over Madisonville in your top 25.
Drew Franklin
We'll cross that bridge when we get to Tillman was third.
Matt Jones
Huge win.
Drew Franklin
Madisonville unranked but very proud of the Maroons. Watch out everybody.
Shannon Dawson
They got like a pipeline for some kids from Chattanooga that have come over there.
Drew Franklin
Right?
Shannon Dawson
Division one kids.
Drew Franklin
They can get them wherever they want. Go to all the Tennessee cities. I don't care. Just come to Madisonville and get that butt whooped again if you need to.
Shannon Dawson
Well, after you went on your rant on the pregame show about Madisonville, I got an angry text from somebody that we did not give the same props and recognition to South Laurel High School, who is also four. No. Coming out of nowhere. Their new coach, John Hines down there from. They sold him from Pulaski County. So we got to give at least South Laurel props. They're four and also down there we like.
Drew Franklin
We like the schools that don't have a lot of tradition getting some big wins. Shout out to them too. I just a little closer to Madisonville. I don't even think they've had athletic success since I was on the golf team. To be honest.
Shannon Dawson
859-280-2287. Who's next?
Matt Jones
Dennis.
Shannon Dawson
Dennis. Go ahead, Dennis.
Drew Franklin
I.
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The music to me still sucks out there at the stadium for me because I don't like hip hop, don't care for rap. I'm a classic rock guy, heavy metal guy and really ticks me off. I ain't heard one Aussie tune out there this whole season and you know the guy, I would have thought at least the band during halftime would play tribute to us. So that really, that irks me right there. And it's. And I'm also ticked off that UK did not have a minute of silence for Charlie Kirk. There's a lot of other SEC schools that did. A lot of NFL teams did. But UK and their liberals cannot have a minute of silence at the football game for Charlie Kirk.
Shannon Dawson
Appreciate the phone call. Thank you.
Drew Franklin
There was a vigil on campus for anyone.
Shannon Dawson
There was a vigil on campus if.
Drew Franklin
People wanted to attend.
Shannon Dawson
UK did have something, you know, this that's a sensitive topic. Maybe can be discussed on a different show.
Drew Franklin
Yeah, let's focus on how he wants Ozzy.
Shannon Dawson
I'm okay with that Crazy Train. That's like one of those stadium songs, Shannon. You know, you don't play a lot of Ozzy, but maybe throw in just that one crazy train song when you mix it in with between your rap songs.
Matt Jones
Yeah, I'd be good with that. The problem is trying to appeal to everybody you got, you know.
Shannon Dawson
Yep.
Matt Jones
This person over here is not a fan of rap. This person over here is. So how do you make everybody happy? The answer is you don't. But you can, you know, mix it up a little bit. And I don't know. I not wasn't at the game on Saturday so I don't know what music was played. But regardless of what you do, there's going to be somebody who's going to have a complaint about it.
Shannon Dawson
But apparently the music was overall better.
Drew Franklin
It's improving.
Shannon Dawson
I think every game has gotten better and better and better. So we need to give them a little tip of the cap.
Drew Franklin
Absolutely. I mean for ranking the atmospheres in the SEC still, still in that 15th range. But you know, we called them out after week one. They got blown up by fans, not just us. They didn't ignore it. They're trying. They fact we've had some replays.
Shannon Dawson
Oh yes, somebody did bring that up on the post game show.
Drew Franklin
Now there were some spots we wanted replay and didn't get them. But they're working them in.
Shannon Dawson
Yes. Not the controversial replays. But you did get a couple replays better.
Drew Franklin
Gotta compliment them.
Shannon Dawson
All right, we'll take our break. Come back at Ozzy. Going here on Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Shannon Dawson
I don't care what you play at KROGER Field, but you have to play this song. This is something we've kind of got for you. You have to play it.
Matt Jones
You could play Ozzy into this.
Shannon Dawson
Why not? You know, and you don't have to just play it one time. You can play this song throughout the game. You don't have to hide it and keep, just keep doing right going to the fourth quarter. Play it.
Drew Franklin
It does get the people going. Yeah, Shannon's right. It's hard to please the whole crowd. It's actually impossible to please the whole crowd. Everybody's got different tastes but Grove Street's.
Shannon Dawson
The one, Grove Street's one.
Drew Franklin
You have to unifies the whole, the whole stadium.
Shannon Dawson
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Shannon Dawson
Oh, I've seen those. Yeah, they got numbers on your copy.
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Drew Franklin
Great job, Shannon. My court read earlier, some of the sentences didn't have spaces. That was kind of hard to get through. It looked like one word.
Matt Jones
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Shannon Dawson
We'll go back to the phone lines here in just a second, but we do have some more breaking news from Drew. Shannon, hit the breaking news button one in Drew Franklin. Not just the NFL expert, also high school football expert. What are your breaking news?
Drew Franklin
Oh, you want to reveal?
Shannon Dawson
Yes.
Drew Franklin
Okay. Well, it's not out yet, so this might get me in trouble, but I got confirmation that my maroons are included.
Shannon Dawson
Yes. In the top 25.
Drew Franklin
Yes. The top 16 to be specific.
Shannon Dawson
Where is Paducah Tillman?
Drew Franklin
I didn't ask about Paducah Tillman. I don't, I don't want to get my blood pressure up. And we still have 25 minutes to go, but I can exhale knowing that we will be included when it comes out at 12 o'. Clock. Check that out. Kentucky sportsradio.com Zach, Troy, the whole, the whole KSR Top 25 committee does a great job ranking well and I'm not a part of it. So when people get mad, don't yell.
Shannon Dawson
At me on the aviation glass text machine. We got another fan from another school. Not Central is also undefeated as well. Never had a football tradition. So we've got a couple I'll clap for. Not I will too. Good job. Good job. Well done. 859-280-2287 who we got? Shannon.
Matt Jones
Let's go to Terry.
Shannon Dawson
Terry. Go ahead, Terry.
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Yeah, guys, first off, I don't know Mario like I know you guys, but I do know this. He does not need to do the Mad Jones impression.
Matt Jones
Thank you.
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I compare it to goober on Andy Griffith doing Cary Grant. It's just as bad football wise. This McGowan guy, he reminds me of a Georgia back. How we got that dude, I do not know. But I hope he doesn't get hurt because that guy is something else. And finally I know a lot of people pointed to the Ole Miss game is a key game for the season. South Carolina is the one that is gettable. They are reeling. They play Missouri this week. They're going to get beat again because that's at Missouri. So they're going to get coming in. We got a buy. They're going to be coming in off a two game losing streak and they're not really healthy. If we get that, that gives us a two game buffer there with this tough stretch we got coming up. And I'll hang up and listen. Thanks guys.
Shannon Dawson
All right, Terry. Appreciate it. Okay, Drum, I'll put this to you. Mark Stoops over the last 11 years I think is like eight and three against South Carolina. It's something, I think it's something like my 8 and 3 in the last 11 games. But Mark Stoops is also not very good coming off a bye week. Where do you fall in this argument? What's going on this the next. For the next game then.
Drew Franklin
Oh boy, you're right about the bi week thing. I haven't even considered that yet. We somehow don't seem as prepared with two weeks off.
Shannon Dawson
I know. I don't think that's been a reoccurring theme.
Drew Franklin
I'll agree with the caller though. They are, we're getting them at a good time. Kentucky on the road. I mean that's where they've been winning SEC games lately. I mean keep losing at home. But you had the Ole Miss win last year. You've. You broke your, your losing streak on the road at South Carolina years ago under Stoops. I think they're going to be in it. I don't think I'll predict a win. I kind of got to see what Sellers is going on and what they do against Missouri, but I'm not writing that game off as a complete loss. The Kentucky's defense took a step backward against Eastern Michigan. I think that was kind of a one off Brad White. They're going to, they're going to have a rough couple of weeks heading to South Carolina. I think this Kentucky defense is going to keep them in a lot of games. I think they're much better than what we saw, especially on the outside, some of the tackling here lately. They'll clean that up. I think the defense can be one of the better ones Stoops has had and that'll have them in. Outside of maybe the mega powers of the conference. I think Kentucky will have a fight.
Shannon Dawson
There was that run where Kentucky beat South Carolina like maybe Six years in a row, but they've lost the last two, including getting embarrassed last year at Kroger Field by South Carolina.
Drew Franklin
Yeah. And I didn't want to gloss over the first point of that call. Seth McGowan.
Shannon Dawson
Yes.
Drew Franklin
We need goodness. So I'm not, I'm not a football coach. I played until.
Shannon Dawson
You play an NFL expert.
Drew Franklin
I played until middle school. Then I. Then I got hit and I was like, yeah, where's the golf clubs? I like those better. But I will say at the media practice we got to go to, I was watching the running backs go through their cones and their bags, just their drills. And you could just see Seth McGowan was like angry just doing drills. You know, guys are kind of getting loose, kind of dance the music a little bit. High fives. He was running like he, like he had an NFL contract at the other end of the drill. And that carries over into games. I think it was Zach Calzada that said he runs like he's mad at.
Shannon Dawson
The earth, mad at the girth.
Drew Franklin
I mean he is putting that Dowdell too, who's banged up a little bit, but he is a hard runner. He has six touchdowns through three weeks. I'm not saying he's going to set any records, but he leads the SEC and Benny has the record with 19 in a season just simply by pace. He's ahead of that pace and leading the conference now. So he's been awesome. And Dowdell low banged up with a thigh. Stoop said that shouldn't be an issue moving forward. But those. That's a great one two punch they went and got in the transfer portal.
Shannon Dawson
And then you get a chance for Patterson to actually get some touch in the second half. And he looked good. He had like what, 12, 13 carries on Saturday.
Drew Franklin
You hate Dow Dell going down. Good thing that's not going to lingering. But it gave us an opportunity to see Patterson 80 yards, got his first career touchdown average, I think over six yards of carry. Great stuff for him.
Shannon Dawson
He looked really good, I thought.
Drew Franklin
And McGowan got here to finish up that call there. Jay Bullware, our running back coach, I believe recruited him to Oklahoma like he was recruited Oklahoma to be a star and then he had his off the field issues. Long road back to get another shot. But that's how he ended up here. I mean we. He's a, an NFL talent that kind of due to circumstances Kentucky ended up getting him on the back end of his college career.
Shannon Dawson
And I think we need to also compliment our offensive line. I mean there's One reason this running game is working so well. The offensive line once again plays off just five guys, but they get the job done.
Drew Franklin
Please keep them healthy. I'm a little surprised we're not getting in some second stringers and some younger guys to at least get hit because you're going to need them eventually. It's been mostly. I haven't seen the snap count from Saturday, but the first it was all starters taking every snap.
Shannon Dawson
Nobody else played the stay healthy but.
Drew Franklin
At least the front five. Those were the ones that took all the money and the nil this season as they tried to rebuild that wall and they're, they're living up to it so far.
Shannon Dawson
They just have been dominating. You see the push they get off the offensive line. Of course that helps your running backs. I'm not taking anything away from the running backs, but the offensive line is definitely need to be complimented for what they've been doing.
Drew Franklin
Definitely. I mean we're all excited about Boli, but this is, this is a team that's still going to run the ball and I think they're in good shape with McGowan, Dowdell and then Patterson with a little surprise debut on Saturday.
Shannon Dawson
So we got a navigation glass text machine. When do we know when the game time will be announced for UK South Carolina?
Drew Franklin
That should be soon. I should know the exact time because I do that for a living. But we'll get that today, I think.
Shannon Dawson
Breaking news from some source down in Gary in Orlando. Down in Florida, Florida. Florida's mascot, Albert. The Gators are poorly entering the transfer portal because things are not good down in Florida.
Drew Franklin
I'm a little mad about Florida being so bad. My, my kind of.
Shannon Dawson
That was your pick.
Drew Franklin
My hot take was we're going to beat Florida and the DJ Lagway is going to stink.
Shannon Dawson
He does stink, but he throw four interceptions, five interceptions.
Drew Franklin
I mean I like, I like, I like being right about Florida. I made one bet futures bet. It was the Florida under on wins because it was seven and a half. I don't think Florida is going to be that good. And here we are. They're already crumbling down there and we're not even halfway through September yet.
Shannon Dawson
And I saw their schedule. They go to Miami, I think this week and then they've got Tennessee, Georgia. I mean they got some tough games.
Drew Franklin
We get them in November. We haven't had that.
Shannon Dawson
Will Billy Napier be the coach when we play Florida in November?
Drew Franklin
Could be his last game.
Shannon Dawson
Well, he kind of saved, he kind of saved his job last year when he came up here and won last year. I think he was. If they'd lost that game, I think he might have been ousted.
Drew Franklin
Yeah. He's been on the hot seat a while. Remember his comment last year about people in their basement, whatever, being critical?
Shannon Dawson
Yeah. I don't.
Drew Franklin
I don't know that he's got. I would. If I were him, I would already have the moving truck outside my driveway loading things up because I just don't see this getting any better with him there.
Shannon Dawson
We do want to give a shout out. The UK volleyball team got the KSR bump this weekend after we had Brooklyn Delay and Molly Tuzzo on the show Friday. They go out and beat SMU, a top 10 team. And then they beat Houston yesterday. So got two wins over the weekend. Get the KSR bump a little bit.
Drew Franklin
Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
SMU's ranked 10th. I got that win and then swept Houston yesterday. So nice unbeaten weekend. And this gives me the opportunity to do. To say something I need to get off my chest. It's also for you too. We know we owe Craig Skinner an apology because. Big one.
Shannon Dawson
Yeah.
Drew Franklin
At the football game, a friend of ours pulled me aside and he's like, hey, kind of gotta let you know a little blunder you made. I'm like, oh, man. What's up? What I do. When we did our top five moments since COVID no one had the only national championship at Kentucky. We didn't list volleyball.
Shannon Dawson
I think Matt made an honorable mention.
Drew Franklin
That they won a national championship.
Shannon Dawson
They won't deserve. They didn't top five.
Drew Franklin
So we can't go back and redo that segment. But Craig, Craig Skinner, sincere apologies. Here we dropped the ball there. A national champion.
Shannon Dawson
Yes.
Drew Franklin
Didn't crack our top five last week. So sorry about that. Keep having a good season going.
Shannon Dawson
Did the national championship. I think supersedes the baseball team going to the College World Series because you. When you're a volleyball team, you won the national title.
Drew Franklin
Honestly should be number one.
Matt Jones
Supersedes a regular season basketball win.
Drew Franklin
Yeah, we dropped the ball there.
Shannon Dawson
So sorry. Craig.
Drew Franklin
They play Louisville this week and there's.
Shannon Dawson
Going to be a bus if you want to ride the fan bus, like the old school fan bus from Lexington to Louisville for the Louisville volleyball game. Contact the UK volleyball office. What I've been told to say. And they can get you the tickets. Whatever they're going to do to get you. They're trying to get a good crowd of Kentucky fans. They're playing at the Yum center too. Right.
Drew Franklin
Thursday at 6. ESPNU. If you can't make it. But if you're able, get in there. Let's get some blue in the Yum center.
Shannon Dawson
We'll take our final break. Come back. Our final segment. 859-280-2287. Ryan, Drew and Shannon and Mario somewhere. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Shannon Dawson
So did they play this one? This is one that gets a lot of pushback.
Drew Franklin
I just know at Noah Khan last night he was taking requests. I must have yelled Dumas Walker 30 times. If anyone heard someone yelling dumas Walker last night, that was me.
Shannon Dawson
It was mad. It was Drew. So this song and Cotton Eye Joe, those are the two. I think they get the most pushback. But we seem to play it at least once again.
Matt Jones
I don't want to eliminate the Kentucky headhunters because they're. Well, the Kentucky headhunters and they're really cool guys. But if it gets played too much, you can still play it once every couple of games. You don't play it every single game.
Drew Franklin
Dumas Walker is the celebration song. Yeah, they play it as you're heading to the car. They don't play in the game.
Shannon Dawson
They do good.
Drew Franklin
They do it both sports. I don't know how that came to be, but it's been like that a while.
Matt Jones
Yeah.
Drew Franklin
Well, my brain actually expects to hear let's all go as like players are leaving the the court or field. Let's see.
Matt Jones
I think after the game it's okay. I don't know why anybody would get mad if it's after the game. A lot of people have already left by then probably anyway.
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Matt Jones
Well, no, no, no, those were good. Deviled eggs.
Shannon Dawson
They were really good.
Matt Jones
I do appreciate him bringing those out.
Shannon Dawson
But there was a lot, a lot going on at that show. The volleyball ladies were there so. But they were good, they were good. They were really good. So appreciate. Everybody came out and talked to us.
Drew Franklin
And then Molly had a huge weekend. Well, they both did. They won. But she had a huge, I think a Saturday I believe was her Again.
Shannon Dawson
The KSR bump, it's not, it's not something bad anymore. It's something good. Yeah, like the KSR parlay that would have hit if Shannon would have picked the right game. All right, let's go back to the phone lines. 859-280-2287. Who we got Shannon letting you pick this week?
Matt Jones
Logan.
Shannon Dawson
Logan. Go ahead Logan.
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Yeah, so he gains into the season. Now before the season started I had a 3 and 9 record. I wasn't feeling real good about the team but after watching these three games I feel like the offensive line has improved dramatically. The defense looks solid. So if you guys were. And then you know, you look at Florida and South Carolina maybe being a little more vulnerable than what I thought. So if you could go back and give your records, what do you, you want to reevaluate, Are you going to stick with what you had?
Shannon Dawson
Good, good question. Let's, let's do that. Let's reevaluate right now. After the first three games Shannon had him at 6 and 6. He's the one that picked him. And to go to a bowl game, Shannon, do you reevaluate after that? You still feel good about it?
Matt Jones
I still feel like this is a bowl eligible team. I'm still going with six and six. You want to change yours? You already have changed yours. You were.
Shannon Dawson
I've already changed it once from 4.
Matt Jones
And 8 to 5 and 7 to 6 and 6. You're probably ready to go 7 and.
Shannon Dawson
5 now I, you know that the Florida game is obviously a winnable game. Where I thought the Auburn game may be winnable there may be better than I thought.
Matt Jones
You think that, you think that Vandy games are winnable game now?
Shannon Dawson
I think Vandy is going to be a tougher the game than I thought. I, I would like to think 5 and 7 though is still on the, on the table. What about you Drew?
Drew Franklin
Don't make me do it. I'm going to bring mine down a little bit. You're maybe be negative at the end of the show.
Shannon Dawson
No, no.
Drew Franklin
I'm just thinking that was a Good win. Bowley was exciting, But Eastern Michigan was 02. They lost to an FCS school at home last week and they out gained you in the first half. Now, I just said earlier I'm high on the defense and you know, we'll throw that game away. But I still, it didn't give me a lot of optimism that Eastern Michigan played them the way they did when Eastern Michigan got absolutely killed in their first two games. They gave up 52 points to Texas State, South Texas, North Texas, something. Texas, Texas State. Yeah. And then lost to Long Island. So while I am excited about Bowley, I have a little bit of concerns about the overall operation. I haven't forgotten the safety. I haven't forgotten the third and eight fake pitch draw. I haven't forgotten about the end of the half, the last two weeks. So I have concerns about overall. And then like you said, Auburn looks better than I thought. Yeah, Florida's right where they were. I have them beating Florida, but I had them winning in Nashville, beating Vandy at this moment. That's the one I would probably erase.
Shannon Dawson
Yeah.
Drew Franklin
So I'm coming down one game. I'll say the Vandy game has changed my mind.
Shannon Dawson
I still think they could beat Louisville. That would be my fifth win going to that game.
Drew Franklin
But again, I think they will be in most games. Yeah, it's honestly the operation and the coaching and why are we burning timeouts and it's still early in the season. They can fix that. But that has pulled down my optimism just a little bit.
Shannon Dawson
Get another caller. Shannon, who we got Randy. Randy, go ahead, Randy. Randy? Randy, are you there?
Matt Jones
You scared him off. Well, that's it for the callers then.
Shannon Dawson
This is the aviation glass text machine. I love some Grove street, but when they play it when we're down 21 points, it really ticks me off. It is not a damn party when you're getting your butt kicked in, your teeth kicked in.
Matt Jones
What do they play then? Do they just start playing like Love her and all the sad songs you can think of?
Shannon Dawson
Yeah, yeah, maybe so.
Drew Franklin
Yeah.
Shannon Dawson
I guess that's why I said why not play it early in the game? Why not get everybody excited early? Play it. Don't save it in your back pocket. Go ahead and play it.
Matt Jones
Yeah, play.
Drew Franklin
I think they could be a little more situational with their music. I think sometimes there's a script and we're just going by the script.
Shannon Dawson
They definitely go by script.
Drew Franklin
You might need to, as you know, oh, we're down three touchdowns. Maybe let's hit a different button.
Shannon Dawson
See what we can maybe find something else. So. All right. Again, tomorrow we'll be live at KS Bar with Jeff Goodman and Rob Doster. The field of 68 guys. I think it'd be a good, I think it'll be a great show. Talk a little basketball tomorrow with those guys.
Drew Franklin
Yeah. And since I'm hosting, sorry to the caller earlier, but Mario is coming back on to be Matt. That that is going to be a bit every day that I'm getting reps as the host. So get ready for that too.
Shannon Dawson
Mario will ask us our percentage chance of things and things like that. Wednesday we got Lee K. Howard on Wednesday at KS Bar. So come on out. Thursday we're live in Mount Vernon, but of course, Thursday night. NFL. Who's playing on Thursday night this week? Do we know yet? It's a big Thursday night.
Drew Franklin
I need to check my email from Raj. I've still been, I've still been on week two.
Shannon Dawson
So we had a great crowd last Thursday night and then Friday we're at Wild Eggs in Tate Creek. So a big week coming up on our shows. Well, special guests in the next couple of weeks while Matt is gone. Matt has arrived safely in South Africa and he's doing well. So hold your breath.
Drew Franklin
See you tomorrow at tomorrow.
Shannon Dawson
See you tomorrow. Goodbye.
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Podcast: KSR (Kentucky Sports Radio)
Hosts: Matt Jones, Drew Franklin, Shannon Dawson, Ryan Lemond (& Mario)
Date: September 15, 2025
Episode: 2025-09-15 – Hour 2
In this energetic and classic KSR hour, Matt Jones and the crew catch listeners up on everything Kentucky sports, focusing on the latest football news, game atmosphere at Kroger Field, Hall of Fame inductions, high school football shout-outs, and upcoming KSR guests. The hosts banter about coaches, fan experiences, music choices, and sprinkle in signature humor, local pride, and fan calls along the way.
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Other Announcements:
On Joe Burrow’s treatment:
“You got a $250 million player and I don't even think they got a John Deere rolling back to get his X rays.” – Drew Franklin (04:07)
On Kroger’s Atmosphere:
“We're not crowning it and saying it's a great atmosphere, but to their credit, each week it's gradually getting better.” – Drew Franklin (07:52)
On Calipari’s Approach:
“He was able to be there for Carl but also not be a distraction.” – Drew Franklin (10:28)
“Played it right. Kind of just played second fiddle. Came in to support Carl but didn’t want to be the story.” – Shannon (11:35)
“The fact that I didn’t even know that he was there...I think he played it the way he should have.” – Matt (11:51)
On Music Selection:
“Everybody’s got different tastes but Grove Street's the one...Grove Street's one...unifies the whole stadium.” – Drew Franklin (28:58)
On High School Football Rankings:
“There will be problems...if Madisonville is not in the top 25. We will have a company wide meeting and some people are packing their things and heading home for the last time if Madisonville is not in that top 25.” – Drew Franklin (24:48)
On UK Football's New Running Back:
“Seth McGowan...runs like he’s mad at the earth, mad at the girth.” – Drew Franklin (34:36)
On Criticism:
"I have a little bit of concerns about the overall operation. I haven't forgotten the safety. I haven't forgotten the third and eight fake pitch draw. I haven't forgotten about the end of the half..." – Drew Franklin (47:55)
The show balances humor, local pride, gentle ribbing, and genuine analysis. The hosts are candid—sometimes self-deprecating—about Kentucky sports while always rooting for improvement and recognizing the passionate, sometimes quirky UK fan base.
If you missed Hour 2, you missed lively banter about everything Kentucky: the current football team, the game atmosphere slowly improving (but not perfect), upcoming basketball coverage with national guests, celebration of Hall of Fame moments past and present, intense high school sports pride, and the ever-present debate over what Kroger Field should sound like. Listeners got team updates, honest (sometimes shifting) predictions, and a preview of what’s coming up on KSR in an episode that brings together analysis, old stories, and plenty of inside jokes — a quintessential KSR hour.