Caller (3:40)

Are.

Matt Jones (3:41)

Are making us a part of the team. We are extremely excited. I'm not gonna lie. I think I can speak for Drew. We're nervous and kind of humbled. The NFL is the biggest sports institution in America, and if you look at the other people that are doing podcast with them, they're all pretty huge names. And we've been working really hard on this for the last month. Me and Drew, but also Billy and Mario in. In preparing for it, and this is a great opportunity. They. They came to us because they said, look, you guys have a huge audience in Kentucky. We love the way you do stuff, and we want you to join us. We've been in a ton of conversations figuring out the show. The first episode is up. I hope you listen to it. It's. It's exactly what you recognize. It's just me and Drew being me and Drew. It's the same thing we've done for 17 years. We're just talking about a different subject. But, Drew, I can't think of anybody I'd love to do this more with you. And I started 17 years ago, me picking you up from the bars and hoping you weren't too drunk to do a podcast in hubby's basement.

Drew Franklin (4:42)

And sometimes I wasn't.

Matt Jones (4:43)

And now, 17 years later, getting to do one together for the NFL.

Drew Franklin (4:48)

Very exciting. Huge NFL fan. Every Sunday already, I'm watching every game. So the homework assignment wasn't anything new, but it's been a big undertaking. I've never. We've done a lot of things. Obviously. This is a gigantic show, but, like, technical difficulties we have here. They don't let it slide on this. There's, like, lighting and, like, production. I didn't know we could do this. This is such a.

Matt Jones (5:09)

Some of the videos, like, we have lighting. They actually don't make me look like I'm a corpse in it most of the time. It's. It's very. It's very exciting. We're going to be doing two episodes a week. So one of them is we will get. When the last Sunday night game is over, we're taping immediately. So we're taping, like, Sunday nights at like 11 or 11:30. Billy and Mario and Drew and I will get down to the studio and we will do an immediate. As soon as it's over reaction. Eventually, we hope that'll be live on YouTube. It won't be at first, but that'll. So when you get up Monday morning, that'll be there for you. And then we will do one in the middle of the week. They're gonna have us guest to have on. I don't know who those people are going to be over time, but we're. We're looking forward to it. The problem is as soon as we start, I have to go to South Africa. So part of this is figuring out I got to find a way to do this show in South Africa, potentially out on safari. So we've been working, trying to figure that out. Ma', am, I see the look in your face. That's the same look I have. We'll see if we're able to get. We're going to see if we're able to get connected. Between me and you, I don't even think I can watch the games in South Africa. So I don't know how we're going to do this, but we're going to make it work. And you would be. Listen, I've been fortunate. I've gotten to do some stuff for espn. I've gotten to do some really cool stuff. You all listening? You'd be really proud of Drew. Billy and Mario, they've taken this, like, responsibility that the NFL's given them, and it's been cool to watch them work. Mario and Billy trying to make the lighting work, figure out how to record it, because they gave us this big responsibility, but not a ton of resources, to be honest with you. They just said, make this look great, and here you go. And there's been a lot of people at iHeart here in Lexington that have helped. Nathan and Gus and some other folks, so. And then Drew. I mean, I've. I've wanted to get Drew a chance to do something like this for a long time. And he. He's actually the expert on the show because I know much less about it than he does, so it should be a lot of fun.

Drew Franklin (7:16)

It's been a lot of fun. You mentioned Mario and Billy having to learn new things. Like when we're taping, Mario's got this, like, control board in front of him and he's changing cameras.

Matt Jones (7:24)

He's like, let's go to camera 2. Camera 1.

Drew Franklin (7:27)

Had you even seen that thing before we started this? Nope.

Matt Jones (7:30)

But everybody's called a switcher. Mario's had to learn to run a switcher. So we spent a lot of time together in the last two or three weeks to do it. So do me a favor. If you haven't yet, subscribe. NFL Cover zero. It's called NFL. They've made us put NFL in the front of it so that it can be professional. They did not use the cartoon drawing of me, thank goodness. I might put it out later this afternoon so people can see what they do. They're still. They're redoing the caricature. So right now it's kind of a generic cover. But, Ryan, we're. We're both very excited.

Ryan Lemond (8:05)

I'm super proud of you guys. I mean, I'm like the proud papa, just kind of watching you guys. Yeah. Give him a round of applause.

Drew Franklin (8:09)

Thank you.

Ryan Lemond (8:10)

Big. This is a big deal. This is a huge deal to be on this platform for the NFL. So no doubt you guys will kill it. And I'm really excited how this is going to play out for you guys.

Matt Jones (8:19)

I mean, ESPN is a great opportunity. I remember the very first time that they asked me to fill in on Marty McGee. And there was a woman that I worked with who was really mean to me. But besides that, you may remember that.

Ryan Lemond (8:30)

Yep.

Matt Jones (8:30)

Who the hell is Matt Jones? But even with espn, like, it never. It was awesome. It is awesome. But it never necessarily feels like I'm on ESPN unless I'm there. Like, I'm just sitting in my living room and doing it. So it doesn't always feel like what it is. This has felt like what it is. When we do these pre show meetings with the NFL, there's like 15 people on these zoom calls, and they all have a look of, like, seriousness. And Billy's been on them. He knows, like, you just, you sit there and go, this is a big deal. So, like, I see you guys came out today. I think at some point today the NFL is putting some things out about it on their Instagram and social media. So looking forward to it. But anyway, I also want to thank the audience we never get this chance without you all. That's the reason that I know that's why they did it. This audience is so large. I want you to think about how large this audience is. This audience is so large that the NFL like, just says if you can just bring your audience, you'll be good. So that gives you a sense of, of what it is. So. And you may on your KSR feed see the show pop up over the next couple weeks. But do me a favor, at least eventually migrate over to the ksr. I still pinch myself cover zero.

Drew Franklin (9:51)

I still pinch myself every day with this job, but at least kind of makes sense. I grew up a Kentucky fan. I went to uk. I could see how the stars might align, and I got here. But when that NFL logo is behind your head when we start the podcast, I'm thinking, how in the world did we get here? I mean, that's the biggest brand in sports. We didn't play football. Yet we have this opportunity. It's even just doing one episode has already been so much fun.

Matt Jones (10:15)

So thank you all very much for that and I hope you enjoy. It's like two hours, the first episode, so you got plenty of listening time. And if you listen to it, let me know what you think on the text machine. 772-774-5254. Switch gears for a sec. London, Kentucky. Yeah. Okay, so they had their pre impeachment meeting yet last night in it, I, I, I saw some clips. One of the only clips I saw is a guy during the meeting, one of the people on the city council looked at. Another one goes, you still owe me 20 bucks, Billy. I was like, this is why I like it. He's yelling at him during the city council meeting about potential impeachment, yelling that he owes him 20 bucks. Friday is the impeachment meeting that happens during this show. I'm telling you, country boys is awesome. But there's a part of me that wants to go and watch the and watch the London meeting. But it is, I did get a primer. Basically it's a fight between there's like some people on the city council, a couple of which are brothers. They were pardoned, I think by Bevin or one of them was by Bevin for something the mayor is then they don't like each other. Some people side with the mayor, some people side with the brothers. And now it's gotten into all this other stuff too, and it's all over the place. And so there's a lot going on, Ryan. But I know many of you went down the TikTok rabbit hole last night to watch it.

Ryan Lemond (11:41)

I had people send me videos all night last night about the meeting that just happened. Yeah, they're trying to impeach the mayor, but now there's, you know, people implying a mayor didn't even live in the city limits. He's trying to apply that. Some of the city council members trying to impeach him. They don't even live in the city limits.

Matt Jones (11:56)

Who does anyone live in London?

Ryan Lemond (11:58)

I don't know, man. They don't live in London.

Matt Jones (11:59)

Everybody that everybody does something in London, may not even live there. But they all want to be. All want to all want to work in the government. There's the mayor, it seems like, has a, has a lot of money. He will like buy people like, he'll buy things for people at Shoney's or whatever. Which people? Which people? Like, I, I don't know if it's show, but like people talk about how generous he is. But then there's also allegations of nefariousness. Then you have the brothers people in the parking lot screaming at them. I just, I, I, Friday is going to be fireworks. If I could get in, I would go.

Drew Franklin (12:30)

This feels like an episode of Justified, maybe even a new season of Justified. Some sheriff going to come in and clean up the town.

Matt Jones (12:36)

Except London's supposed to be the classy part of eastern Kentucky. I don't know what I. Gateway to.

Ryan Lemond (12:41)

The mountains right there.

Matt Jones (12:42)

Gateway to the mountains. They are completely 606 in there. They are not like, they're not partially 606.

Drew Franklin (12:49)

Can we get a correspondence, a call in from London while we're at Country Boy?

Matt Jones (12:53)

Well, I really want, if it was any other remote but Country Boy, I would send Mario down there, but we need, we're going to need him there. 859-280-2287. Who's up next? Jason is next. Jason, Go ahead, Jason.

Caller (13:07)

Hey, Matt. Congrats on the NFL podcast, by the way. First of all, but I listened to the, I listened to the post game show yesterday and I apologize if this has been brought up before, maybe the off season or anything, but it was brought up and I don't remember the context, but the nil donors in other schools, how they may have 10 or, you know, several big donors. They could afford to lose one or two and get by. But what does Kentucky do and what does our program look like if we only have one or two big donors? Because they won't be around forever and is there future allotments of money or what happens.

Matt Jones (13:50)

I mean, completely legitimate worry. Completely legitimate worry. I appreciate the call we have. I've said this before. I mean, we have a couple of people that do the biggest heavy lifting when it comes to donors at uk. I don't, you know, probably one or one or two of them. You know, probably one or two of them. You don't. But we have a couple people that do the heavy lifting. I think it's fair to say that those people, like, I'm not going to say they decide the future of the program, but they have a huge, major importance going forward. What happens after them. You got to go find more or hope that, you know, future generations of that family want to. Want to donate. I think Kentucky, it's very difficult because we don't have. This state does not have a ton of folks that have massive economic impact who also care about sports. And you also have to remember the largest economic entity in the state, the largest economic engine is Louisville, which has a lot of Louisville fans. And where the corporations. Tom Jurich did a really good job during his years of connecting those corporations to the University of Louisville. Like ups, Right. So all of that makes it to where Kentucky. To some extent, Ryan has a harder trek than other schools, but a couple of people have made that trek easier and we just have to, in some ways hope that continues. Right.

Ryan Lemond (15:30)

And obviously, when you're winning, it is a little easier for you to go solicit funds when you're losing, it's a little harder to go after that money when you're not putting up wins.

Drew Franklin (15:39)

And hopefully the next bajillionaire that likes Kentucky is in the middle of beginning their wealth right now. And if you're listening, throw some back to the school because we're going to need a new generation of money to come through.

Matt Jones (15:49)

Yeah. I mean, think about Alabama, okay? In Alabama, the city of Birmingham has Auburn fans. It has Alabama fans. Kentucky does, too. But the city of Louisville as a entity is more connected to the University of Louisville than it is Kentucky for. For understandable reasons. And a lot of the corporate things. Yum. You know, yum and UPS are the two big ones. But I'm sure there's other ones. They're tied more to U of L's program than uk, right? Yes.

Ryan Lemond (16:20)

And that's where the Juridge was. That's why he was so successful. You know, he was able to get those big corporations to donate money to Louisville. I think Dwayne Peevey was good when he was here getting that happening here at Kentucky Discharge he have that guy now?

Matt Jones (16:34)

I don't really know, but I think we'll find out eventually. We got DraftKings. You can go to DraftKings. Bet $5, get $300 in bonus bets leading into the first NFL game. Let me ask you a question. We're gonna pick the NFL tomorrow. How about this? Yannick Skinner versus Carlos Alcaraz. The big, the big tennis rivalry. But before that, Alcaraz will play Djokovic tomorrow night. Who you got?

Drew Franklin (17:03)

I'm going with the youth. I think we're the Alcaraz Center. We're just gonna see it over and over and over for years to come. It's already starting.

Matt Jones (17:10)

Djokovic was dancing and talking trash last night. You have one you prefer?

Ryan Lemond (17:14)

Well, I will say I saw him kind of looks like he was talking a little smack on the ESPN coverage just a while ago. So I'm going with Djokovic.

Matt Jones (17:21)

Yeah, I'm gonna go Alcaraz. It's the young. It's Alcaraz Center. They're the federated, all of a new generation.

Drew Franklin (17:26)

You all probably don't remember this, but center was warming up next to our show over here in Lexington and Dennis Emery, former tennis coach, was like, that's gonna be the next star. You should watch him. And I kind of like, okay, yeah, that's a guy.

Matt Jones (17:37)

Yeah. Was that him by himself? I forgot about that because. Yes. Wow, Dennis.

Drew Franklin (17:44)

And I knew he's going to be big, but I didn't know I'd be seeing him at number one in the world just a few years later.

Matt Jones (17:49)

Man, I've never made that connection.

Drew Franklin (17:51)

He won the challenger, but he was over there just hitting balls and we're yapping about Benny Snell or something and he had a few people around him and now he's biggest thing in the sport.

Matt Jones (17:59)

I had completely forgotten about that.

Ryan Lemond (18:01)

Wow, that's pretty cool.

Matt Jones (18:02)

859-280-2287. Ask Anything's Wednesdays, we will take your calls. We're here at Case Bar Grill. It is Wednesday. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Matt Jones (19:42)

Techie Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Text machine is 772-774-5254. Ask anything Wednesday. Let's go ahead and go to the next for their phones. Who's up next? Keith is up next. Keith. Go ahead, Keith.

Caller (19:59)

Hey, Matt. Congratulations, you and Drew.

Matt Jones (20:01)

Thank you.

Caller (20:01)

Season ticket holder here for 13 years and y' all always talk about the environment. I got three little quick complaints that I want to complain about. First off, what happened to all roads leave Kentucky this weekend?

Matt Jones (20:13)

Did they not play all roads? They didn't play all roads.

Ryan Lemond (20:17)

No.

Caller (20:18)

All roads lead to Kentucky.

Matt Jones (20:19)

Okay. Yeah. They wanted it to be Kentucky. Yeah. That's odd, right?

Caller (20:26)

Yeah. Number two, being a veteran and everything from my seats and I see it on, I sit on the home side closer to Nicholsville Road, I can't see the American flag. And we're taught in the military during the national anthem, you look at the highest point of the flag and you put your hand over your heart and you look, can't see the flag. Cause the press boxes. Why don't they put it up higher? Want to have a bigger flag?

Matt Jones (20:47)

That's fair point. Years and years, fair point.

Caller (20:49)

And number three, this one I've never understood. We're trying to keep that team from getting the first down on third down. So we're all up in the stands going, doing whatever we're trying to do. And whoever up in the press box decides it's time for a blue white chant. Well, when you do blue, there's a pause and there's white. You're not being loud. You're giving them a pause to be. Why do you do a blue white chant when you're trying to hold them to a third down?

Matt Jones (21:15)

I think all fair points. I appreciate the Call. I think all three of those crowd points, Ryan, makes sense to me. Why. Why have a blue white chant? Blue white chance. I do think are to me, you do the blue white chant during like a break in the game. Right.

Drew Franklin (21:32)

Not during the wave. You're getting the crowd going back and forth.

Matt Jones (21:35)

The goal on a third down or fourth down is be as loud as you can so that they can't hear themselves think not to do a blue white. But again, I, I just don't think the people that make these decisions think about the fans or the environment. There is an art to entertaining. Right. There's an art to it. You either can do it or you can't. Either know how to do it or you can't. And I don't know how you can make any determination. But at least when it comes to football thing, the people that do it don't know how to do it.

Ryan Lemond (22:08)

I don't think any of us are anti blue white cheer, but the timing of it's got to be better for sure. I know exactly this guy's talking about. It was a big third down play that they try to break into blue white to get it loud. Well, let the, let us get loud. Let us do our thing.

Matt Jones (22:20)

The easiest thing to get a crowd loud is for the. There to be an exciting moment and play some little music and then let them go. Like that's what you. That's the way. That's why the other schools do it.

Drew Franklin (22:31)

Yeah, maybe these guys don't want to do it, but last Saturday you had Josh Allen, Ray Davis, Dion Walker there, give him a microphone for a minute. Now they brought him out in the corner and they're like, hey, here they are. And they wave. I mean, that was cool. They acknowledged them. But third down, stop. Put a microphone in Josh Allen's face and just have him yell something. I mean, just him being involved would have gotten people going crazy.

Matt Jones (22:53)

I tell you, a guy who used to get the crowd amped up was a guy named Ryan Lemon who would come out at halftime of the game and he would get the crowd amped up. And, you know, yes, he might scream about a ceiling and things, but you know what? He did get the crowd amped up. I can remember I have not done.

Ryan Lemond (23:11)

A game since then. That's pretty much the end of the career.

Matt Jones (23:15)

You have not done a game.

Drew Franklin (23:16)

How about Ryan Lemon wrestling the other team's mascot between the third and fourth quarter at midfield?

Matt Jones (23:22)

I don't think that would be bad at all. 859-280-2287. Who's next?

Ryan Lemond (23:26)

Isaac is next.

Matt Jones (23:27)

Isaac. Go ahead, Isaac.

Caller (23:30)

Hey guys. I started listening late, so I apologize if you've already talked about this, but I was reading about the Danny Hurley article that came out that said he was ready to take a year off after this past year. Which number one makes me more confident in our higher mark hope. But I was just curious, have you guys ever heard of a coach that coming off of two back to back championship years has one, you know, relatively down year and now he's ready to take a year off. Have you all ever heard of a coach being that like anti competitive?

Matt Jones (23:58)

Yeah. So Danny Hurley, if people don't know like he said, appreciate the call. He said in an interview that he almost basically stopped after this year, decided to take some time off, do TV and then come back and coach later. I'm not shocked by that, Drew. I think they're, I think there could be a few reasons. One, it is the case that now with roster stuff, the job, you can't just stop. The job kind of goes the whole time. The other thing is when you burn like Danny Hurley and you burn fast, loud and yelling all the time, it probably wears you out after a while. I, I, I, I, I, I understand why you would want to do it. Are, were you surprised by that statement?

Drew Franklin (24:45)

Well, in his comments I think he said the way I was going wasn't healthy, it was unhealthy. And I thought, yeah, all of us watching at home could see that what you were doing was pretty unhealthy. So I guess all that just non stop energy has weighed on him a little bit. It's weird that he'd say he'd step around when everyone kind of considers he's at the top even though last year was down a little bit. But not many people coach as hard as he coaches in game at least.

Matt Jones (25:07)

Yeah, I mean maybe he, he needs to burn the fuel just a little less strong. But then again it could be the case, Ryan, that guys like him, if they don't act like that, they can't be sick. You know, some people it is hard when you are to then go take a step back but also not have your performance dip, you know?

Ryan Lemond (25:29)

Yeah. And I think, you know, when you coach that hard for that long, you do kind of maybe the light dims a little bit. I think Coach Stoops went through that the last couple. I think Coach Caliper, he actually went through that.

Matt Jones (25:39)

No doubt. Cal went through it. Yeah, they're very, there's only a handful of coaches I can Think of that coach like Hurley and haven't wanted time off. Rick patino, that's the one like Rip Tino has been doing this for 40 years. Exactly the same. I mean, he went to Greece for goodness sake because he didn't want to take a year off. But there's just not a lot of people built like that. And maybe Danny Hurley is not, you.

Drew Franklin (26:07)

Know, and I'm trying to think of young guys like that. We're kind of. Those guys are getting few and far between as time goes on.

Matt Jones (26:14)

I think the philosophies have changed money into it. You go, well, maybe I'd like to take a year and spend some of this money. Right.

Ryan Lemond (26:21)

But enjoy your kids while they're young.

Matt Jones (26:23)

Yeah. If he took a year or two off, though, he'd get a job whenever he wanted. Soon, soon thereafter. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. Techie Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. Here KS Bar & Grill, Wing Dollar Wings All Day and night. Folks eating here telling me that you said you like the. The smoked wings. They're good. I'm glad. Burgers have been pretty much universally positive. You know, we're bringing in an extra grill for Saturday for the Ole Miss game so that we can try to speed up the times a little bit and still cook the burger. So hopefully that works out well, too.

Ryan Lemond (27:02)

I think Saturday's gonna be an awesome environment here and at the stadium.

Matt Jones (27:05)

I think Saturday is gonna. If you're a UK football fan.

Ryan Lemond (27:08)

Yep.

Matt Jones (27:08)

You want to be in Lexington Saturday, in part because who knows, we could get the win, but in part because things don't go well. At least you have seven. Right. Because after that, who knows? But I think both here at the bar at the stadium from 11 o' clock until that game starts, it's kind of the best of Lexington, what it's going to be like. Etc. We'll be doing our pregame show here starting at 11:30 and this is one.

Drew Franklin (27:35)

People already booked, got their tickets. No one is canceling this trip because you only beat. You didn't cover against Toledo. I mean, no one's jumping ship. I think the excitement in this game is still what it was. Even though you might have a few more questions than you wanted to after that first game.

Matt Jones (27:48)

I mean, talk about what Alabama did, because I have a feeling every school's doing this eventually. It's greedy and it's kind of terrible. But I also think there's more and more schools are going to do it. So Alabama. And by the way, I talked about the Reds do it trying to do this to me a little bit. Alabama went back and looked and said, all right, which of our season ticket holders are selling their season, are selling their tickets the most? They figured out who they were, they went to them, and in some cases they took it from them. But in some cases they just said, we're not going to give you as good a tickets, et cetera. But this is the big part. The tickets that they took that they didn't sell to anybody else. Alabama is now going on StubHub and selling them themselves. So they're basically taking the tickets away from the season ticket holder and now selling them on secondary market themselves. And so now when you, according to this report from the Alabama newspaper, when you go to StubHub, see, normally if Kentucky, if there's tickets available, Kentucky is selling them. They sell them on Ticketmaster like regular tickets. Alabama is actually selling their tickets now on secondary sites with the theory that it will drive the ticket price up and they can get the, the, the profits. Now, this was discovered by an Alabama newspaper. I think their fans are going to be up in arms about it because what it'll do is ultimately raise the price of the tickets because you're now not only buying them from people like us on the secondary market, you're buying them from the university. But I was shocked by it. But I also could see how this will end up happening more often.

Ryan Lemond (29:36)

I can't argue against the business model of it. They're trying to make money for their athletic program and trying to get generate the highest ticket sale possible. But I can see why the fans are really ticked off. It would be ticked off for you if they did Cincinnati. Right.

Matt Jones (29:47)

I'd be mad as a c, as a buyer, if I'm going on StubHub and the university, rather than selling me the tickets at first face value on their website, is selling it to me for more on a secondary ticket site and not telling me about it. That would make me mad, not just as the season ticket holder, but as the purchase person purchasing the tickets. Yeah.

Drew Franklin (30:08)

When the school says in the spring that game costs $85 for that section, that should be what it costs if you're buying from the school. They shouldn't be able to have a second channel where they're charging you 300 for the same ticket just because there is another party involved.

Matt Jones (30:21)

I mean, it's what stops them from coming out and saying, saying this game is sold out. You assume it's sold out and then they take tickets that they hadn't sold and sell them on StubHub for twice as much. Like they. Why can't they do that under this system? They can. I just think that's completely bogus by the university.

Drew Franklin (30:42)

Yeah. I mean, they'll absolutely be controlling the market.

Matt Jones (30:45)

And when, when the newspaper asked again, this one of the things that's happening with this. People are trying to get away from public record disclosures by putting stuff in private companies. I got to tell you, I don't like that. The Alabama newspaper goes and says, how much money are you making from doing this? And they go, well, that money goes into a private foundation, so we're not going to tell you. So, like, there's no way to even know what they're doing. Which I just think, like, that should not be what a public university does. That's sketchy as it can be.

Drew Franklin (31:18)

But everything's supposed to be out in the open for a public university.

Ryan Lemond (31:21)

Aren't more universities probably going to do that?

Matt Jones (31:23)

I worry they're going to use these private LLCs as a way not to disclose anything so that you're, you, your, your state university that you are, your tax dollars are going to, you won't even know what they're doing with the money. I, I can't believe that's legal. Maybe it won't be when it gets tested, tested in court, but it's clear that's going to be one of the ways they're going to try to do it. So who's up next?

Ryan Lemond (31:47)

Bill is next.

Matt Jones (31:48)

Bill. Go ahead, Bill.

Caller (31:50)

Yeah, man. As more and more money flows into college football, it's going to get. The underbelly is going to get pretty ugly, I think. But hey, I've got a question and maybe more of a comment and a gripe. But you know, UK football, when we get one of those big questionable plays like the one we had on the sideline this weekend that would have gotten us down to the 2025, we. It's like we take our time to get up to the line of scrimmage and we give the referees an opportunity to review that play.

Matt Jones (32:23)

That's true.

Caller (32:23)

We don't have some type of hurry up play. I mean, I know Stoops wants to control the ball, but for crying out loud, that's the one play where you have to hurry.

Matt Jones (32:34)

I totally agree on the next one. I thought that, by the way, and I appreciate the call. I thought that when I saw that Hester play, the moment, you know, it's close, they should the coaches should be on there going, go, go, go. So they don't have time to review it. And we just moseyed up there and I think they, they called for the review with like six seconds on the play clock. Had we gotten up there quickly, we'd probably get it off.

Drew Franklin (33:00)

A lot of people brought that up. It doesn't matter what you run. Snap it and throw it in the stands. Go get your 30 yard gain before they can review it.

Matt Jones (33:06)

Yeah.

Ryan Lemond (33:08)

This is not as a new. Not a new problem either. This thing, it's been happening for years and years and years. We just don't play any sort of tempo offense at all. Even when you need to.

Drew Franklin (33:16)

That would be a situation you got to know, though. Like, you got to know that that coach is reaching for the challenge flag, waiting for a booth review. You race up there and snap that ball, you have a plan. Hand it off. Just get the snap off.

Matt Jones (33:28)

Sometimes the difference in sports but also in life is like minuscule common sense decisions. Right. So in that moment, think about that moment with that catch. We need to have someone on the sidelines that goes, okay, that might be close. Go, go, go, go, go, go. And they should have a play called go that the moment they do it, everybody on the team knows we're just gonna go and we're handing it off for a two yard run. Right. With like, go, go, go. I've always thought Stoops, his biggest weakness was in game. We've talked about clock management and all that, but part of it is just the kind of common sense. Look at the moment and go, move, move. And I don't. We didn't do that that time.

Ryan Lemond (34:15)

Yeah.

Drew Franklin (34:16)

And those situations are not just that. That's a race. The other team is waiting for somebody in their ear that has seen the replay to say, throw the flag challenge, this is our way. And you're trying to race and snap the ball before they can make that decision.

Matt Jones (34:28)

Yeah. Who's up next?

Drew Franklin (34:29)

Glenna is up next.

Matt Jones (34:30)

Glenna, Go ahead. Glenna. Good morning.

Announcer (34:35)

A couple of things I noticed at the game Saturday.

Caller (34:40)

The words to my.

Announcer (34:41)

Old Kentucky home, they were not on the ribbon. And the fight song words were not on the ribbon as well.

Matt Jones (34:50)

Are they normally on there? Yes. Yeah.

Caller (34:54)

The word you run.

Matt Jones (34:56)

Yeah.

Caller (34:56)

When they do, they usually have the.

Announcer (34:58)

Words running or they have every game I've been to, they didn't have either.

Caller (35:03)

One of those Saturday. So it's more or less atmosphere. It was awful.

Matt Jones (35:09)

Yeah. Well, I appreciate the call. Well, I will say this. If they don't make the atmosphere and the performance better on Saturday. Good seats will be available for the next Saturday for the Eastern Michigan game. I think you will be able to sit wherever you would like for that one.

Ryan Lemond (35:24)

They got a chance to really make it special Saturday, man, with Ole Miss coming in and make it exciting for the fans, make it a great environment. So hopefully they'll take advantage of it.

Matt Jones (35:31)

I just want. And then, I mean, I don't mean to beat a dead horse with this stuff, but I just want the people at the university to really think about the fact that, like, it is not in. In 2025. It is not a given that you get everybody's entertainment dollar. There are so many options that people have.

Ryan Lemond (35:54)

Oh, yeah.

Matt Jones (35:54)

And they have great. I mean, just think about what. Let's say it's this Saturday. Weather's supposed to be great, Right?

Ryan Lemond (36:01)

Right.

Matt Jones (36:02)

Think about all the options someone has of what they could do. And then let's say you just want to watch the game. You could watch it at your house. You could come to a place like KS Bar and be with fans and we're going to have a loud environment and we're going to be able to watch replays. You could go to anywhere.

Drew Franklin (36:24)

Like, you can watch it on your boat now. You can watch it.

Matt Jones (36:26)

You can watch it on your phone while you're at the park with your kids. You have to give people a reason to fight that traffic. Right. To block out their entire day to get there. You've got to make them do it. And you can't just assume they're going to do it. We saw during the last couple years of Cal that people stopped doing it for basketball.

Ryan Lemond (36:51)

Yep.

Matt Jones (36:52)

So do you not think they'll stop doing it for football? And I just sometimes wonder, do our people think like that because they need.

Drew Franklin (36:59)

To, you know, in a football Saturday, especially, even if you're just at home, think of last Saturday where you got Texas and Ohio State on the other channel with you to YouTube, TV Multiview and all the ways you can track games. You can sit at home and keep up with the entire college football landscape with your game. But if you go to the UK game, you can barely get on Twitter to see who's winning the Texas Ohio State.

Matt Jones (37:19)

You can't. Yeah. All right, let me give you an update. Some people have asked me, what's going to happen to Club Blue. Now that goes to the school. Your Club Blue membership now shifts to the official UK JMI thing. So the Club Blue membership, if you've. If you're a member of Club Blue. You're now a member of the of the new JMI all access thing. But Commonwealth Causes is still doing their bourbon auctions.

Ryan Lemond (37:46)

Very successful.

Matt Jones (37:47)

Yes. And you can go to Commonwealth Causes. This will be your last chance to get Club Blue Bourbon. You remember Club Blue Bourbon. This is it. This is your one chance. You can also get the other wonderful bourbons they have. They're still doing the raffles and all that, but at Liquor Barn, Kroger Justin's House of Bourbon. Cheer on the cats in style with Club Blue Bourbon. This may be your last chance to get it. And Commonwealth Causes is still going to do the ticket giveaways I'm going to give away Friday at our show at country boy. Ticket tickets 50 yard line, second row to the Kentucky Ole Miss game courtesy of Commonwealth.

Ryan Lemond (38:24)

Nice seats.

Matt Jones (38:26)

Those are. I've sat in those seats. Those are really nice seats. So we will give those away to someone at the at the remote on Friday. We will take a break. Be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Ryan Lemond (41:01)

I. I love the Country Boy show. That's my favorite show of the year. And it's always a huge crowd.

Matt Jones (41:05)

Did you find out?

Ryan Lemond (41:07)

Find out what? Oh, yeah.

Matt Jones (41:10)

And.

Ryan Lemond (41:11)

Well, I'll tell you after the. After they get off the air.

Matt Jones (41:13)

So.

Ryan Lemond (41:13)

No, they don't do any media availability on a Friday. It has to be through an nil appearance.

Matt Jones (41:19)

All right, why don't you work on that?

Ryan Lemond (41:21)

We can get a couple that way.

Matt Jones (41:23)

All right, we'll talk about.

Ryan Lemond (41:24)

Okay.

Matt Jones (41:24)

See, he did his work.

Ryan Lemond (41:26)

Yeah.

Drew Franklin (41:27)

I'm looking forward to his other assignment on Friday. Also. It's been a while since I've seen.

Matt Jones (41:31)

I'm looking forward to you having a speech.

Drew Franklin (41:33)

I mean, the Country Boy speech is your most famous one where you crowd surfed mocking the Mark Stoops picture. I have it framed. That's right over here. I can see it from here.

Matt Jones (41:42)

Drew. Great big story reported by Pablo Torrey. Kawhi Leonard got a $28 million endorsement for a no work landscaping job. That was a way for the owner of the Clippers to pay him and go around the salary cap. The owner of the Clippers created a fake landscaping company to pay Kawhi Leonard 28 million in endorsements for something like where he didn't have to do anything. What do you make of that?

Drew Franklin (42:14)

I've always wondered if this has ever happened before, how it's never happened. I remember years ago, the Nets had like some Russian bajillionaire owner and they were having salary cap issues. And I thought, why don't he just pay him on the side, figure it out. Sounds like they actually tried it using a landscape company.

Matt Jones (42:30)

I like, though, that he tried to do a $28 million landscaping. I love the idea that he's like out there, you know, mowing the grass or something, and they didn't pay him. I just thought that was. But like, they'll get in trouble for that. I mean, that'll be if. If what he said is true, though, they will get in a lot of trouble for that.

Ryan Lemond (42:50)

Yeah, just some creative accounting. That may come back to haunt you quite a bit.

Matt Jones (42:53)

I think not. May. I think it will, but.

Ryan Lemond (42:55)

So what if Quiet just goes and mows the guy's yard a couple times?

Matt Jones (42:59)

He worked.

Ryan Lemond (43:00)

He worked for his 28.

Matt Jones (43:01)

So you're saying if he just goes and mows the grass one time, it just. He did his $28 million.

Ryan Lemond (43:06)

At least he did some work.

Drew Franklin (43:07)

What would it cost for Kawhi Leonard to come mow your yard right now? There's got to be a number. Are you saying 28 million is too high?

Matt Jones (43:14)

That's interesting. What if he says he mowed my grass one time?

Drew Franklin (43:17)

It's Kawhi Leonard. He doesn't mow grass. And I got him to rake some leaves.

Matt Jones (43:21)

Like, how much. Yeah, how much you think it would cost to have LeBron mow your grass? Probably gonna be about $20 million. So maybe that's a creative argument. I actually like it. Who's next?

Drew Franklin (43:30)

Have him come over, be a maid.

Matt Jones (43:32)

Steve is next. Steve, Go ahead, Steve.

Caller (43:36)

Yeah, I just want to call it. You know, I went to the KS bar since it's reopened, and the Cheese Logs are great.

Matt Jones (43:43)

Thank you very much.

Caller (43:45)

Oh, yeah, they're awesome. I thought maybe a good name could be the Cheese Hogs because they're so big. So I just want to offer that recommendation in case you were open to it.

Matt Jones (43:56)

Appreciate it. We were just talking about. We. I'm in the process now of naming the items with Kentucky players. This woman right here got a club sandwich. We're gonna be calling that the Clubby Smith. So you. You got a Clubby Smith with these puns? You're gonna be rolling your eyes. Just wait till you see some of them. They I do like. What was. What was our one with. For Shea Gilgis Alexander?

Drew Franklin (44:18)

Oh, grilled cheeses. No, wait. What was some of the grilled cheese? Grilled Shea grilled cheeses. No, it's something like that.

Matt Jones (44:28)

Something with grilled cheese and Shay Gilgis Alexander.

Drew Franklin (44:31)

My favorite is the Jamel Martini. Now, you gotta be a fan of 90s Kentucky basketball, but Jamel Martini and biscuits and gravy are my two favorites.

Matt Jones (44:39)

Biscuits and gravy are good. Shea Grilled Cheese Alexander.

Ryan Lemond (44:42)

That's what it is.

Matt Jones (44:44)

Shea Grilled Cheese Alexander. Who's. Who's next? Mark is next.

Ryan Lemond (44:48)

Mark.

Matt Jones (44:49)

Go ahead, Mark. Biscuits and gravy is. Good afternoon.

Ryan Lemond (44:55)

Oh, that's the best.

Matt Jones (44:56)

You.

Caller (44:57)

You really hit it there. A minute ago about. We got other things we could be spending our money and our time on for at the games and tailgating. I mean, we were out about 7am on Saturday and I was trying to add it all up about, you know, I mean, there's a group of us and we probably got about 7,000 are tailgating.

Matt Jones (45:20)

Wow.

Caller (45:20)

And that's probably lower than. That's probably lower than, say, 50 of the people out there that, you know, that have the big trailers and the big setups and all that. And then you go and you spend. You know, you got your tickets, you got your parking. Doesn't account when you buy alcohol for your kids are coming over from, you know, that are. That are students there and they bring all their buddies and, you know, your four cases of beer in for the, you know, fraternity that showed up and. And all that, it's just. There's other options. I mean, and a lot of other options. And that. That was put out there on Saturday was just very mediocre and very underwhelming. Now game one. Yeah. Gotta clean it up and get some stuff straight. But like you said, if it doesn't straighten up and doesn't. We are not in this game and we're not competitive Saturday.

Matt Jones (46:14)

You're exactly right. You're exactly right about that. I appreciate the call and I hope that. I mean, they will recognize it because it'll. But, you know, I mean, I just think about myself. Let's say I had nothing to do with any of this. I think objectively speaking, if the product on the field is not better and the environment around the field is not better, you will have a better time watching the game at your house or at this bar. It's a lot. The tailgate atmosphere is a lot better here before the game than it is there. And that's a shame. It shouldn't be like that. And the game atmosphere, they got to make sure it's better. Now, if we beat Ole Miss, a lot of this stuff won't matter because it'll be fun. Drew, if we beat Ole Miss, no.

Drew Franklin (46:57)

Matter what, I'll be singing Limp Bizkit. If we beat Ole Miss, will you promise I will personally put the letters on the wall?

Matt Jones (47:04)

If we beat Ole Miss, you're coming on the post game show and you're singing.

Drew Franklin (47:08)

You're singing I wear my Yankees hat on backwards. My red fitted Yankees hat.

Matt Jones (47:12)

Okay, I might go goatee. I won't commit to that yet. Seeing nookie. If we win on the Postgate show like a chump. Thank you all very much for listening. We'll see you later. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio tomorrow in Bowling Green.

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