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Bobby Bones
Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio music festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together? Diplo?
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Diplo
I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours.
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Matt Jones
It was really cool. He really just like randomly showed up to my house.
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Drew Franklin
I'm like, oh hey Diplo, what are you doing?
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Matt Jones
He's like, I have a song that.
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Drew Franklin
I want to show you.
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Matt Jones
And I was like, okay.
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Bobby Bones
You can listen to the full episode out now, wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. Had a blast cruising around festival weekend in the all new Palisade hybrid.
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Matt Jones
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Drew Franklin
This is Kentucky sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.
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Matt Jones
Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Friday, October 24th. I am Matt Jones here on an absolutely beautiful day in Lexington, Kentucky. We are at Don Franklin Nissan which is just past man of war out here on the way to Athens Boonsboro exit. Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, Shannon the dude and Matt Jo at Don Franklin. You know, at Don Franklin they're gearing up for spooktacular savings at Don Franklin for a limited time get select 2025 Nissan Pathfinder model starting at just 29,961. Ryan, I love being here in part because we got a great crowd, in part, you get these people waiting to get their car fixed and they're like, why is this guy yelling right as we're waiting to get our car fixed? But nevertheless. And this guy in the green, he's not looked up from the television. He has absolutely no interest in what's going on. And even as I say this, Ryan, I always enjoy that.
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Shannon Dawson
Well, they got the service, the waiting area right by our show. So why don't they can sit there and enjoy the show to watch tv.
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Matt Jones
Thank you to those of you that are looking over here. He ain't gonna do before the show's over. He's gonna look.
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Drew Franklin
He doesn't know you're talking about.
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Matt Jones
I don't think he does. I like it. Drew Franklin, nice to be here with you.
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Ryan Lemond
Yes. Good to see you all. A nice waiting room over there. They won't be here long. That's the good thing about being at Don Franklin. They take good care.
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Matt Jones
Right.
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Ryan Lemond
Quick service, free coffee over there. Great place to hang out.
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Matt Jones
I think you could make an argument that this is, I don't know, you think this is the biggest two sport weekend of the year here in Lexington? I mean, you know, I guess you could say the basketball game doesn't count, but I don't know that we're going to have a Friday night game that's going to be bigger than playing Purdue, number one team in the country in an exhibition. And then you're One of your biggest rivals in football the next night. I'm not sure. Shannon, do you get a bigger 12 weekend?
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Drew Franklin
I don't think that you do. I'm trying to think what would even come close that has happened so far this year. And even though it's an exhibition game, I think tonight it's going to feel like it is a non conference regular season game, like a big game.
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Matt Jones
I think it is too. I think it is too. I'm actually. I'm looking forward to a big day. I'm going to Keeneland. Contemplating looking Shannon like Bradshaw suit and cowboy hat.
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Drew Franklin
It's a good look for you.
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Matt Jones
I saw drew hat on the cowboy hat last Friday. I'm thinking about doing suit and cowboy hat.
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Drew Franklin
Don't forget towel around your neck. Gotta have the towel.
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Matt Jones
I think it'll look weird if I'm wearing a suit and you just dab.
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Drew Franklin
Yourself when you sweat, you know.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, but. But if you're out there today, please say hello. And then I'm gonna. I'm gonna actually wear the same outfit to the game tonight because I'm going to the game.
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Shannon Dawson
Well, then you have to wear the cowboy hat. We got to see it.
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Matt Jones
I don't know if I can walk in Rupp arena with a suit and a cowboy.
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Drew Franklin
Nobody wants to be sitting behind the guy with a cowboy hat on either. That's the worst.
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Matt Jones
But we will see. Are you looking forward to tonight?
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Ryan Lemond
Very much excited about tonight's game. It's an exhibition. Don't tell me that. I don't care. I'm treating this like it's March. I think the whole atmosphere will be like it's March in there. That's how I feel. Even though it won't affect seating or the resume. Don't tell me that I'm excited about it.
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Matt Jones
I looked this morning. By the way, some tickets have dropped this morning. I would say if you want to go now. I got a feeling it'll get more expensive as the day goes on, but I think I saw tickets for like 60 bucks. You get to see the number one team in the country against Kentucky for 60 bucks. That's pretty good. I would think so. But I do expect expect a really good atmosphere. People just excitement for basketball and then having the number one team. I love the fact they changed the rules to where this can happen.
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Shannon Dawson
Ryan, this is to me what we've been waiting for. You know, that we excited about this basketball team. We get to see them tonight and oh yeah, by the way, they happen to play the number one team in the country. This is what we've been waiting months and months for. I'll say this, you know, my son is now a freshman at uk. He goes, we can't get tickets. Like the student tickets apparently are gone. So that's a good sign.
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Matt Jones
Well, yeah, this is. I can see students are excited. You know, I had a Purdue fan write me last night, Purdue's played a couple of these games. So they've played. Even though this is the first year you can do it like an official one. They've had what secret scrimmage games or whatever. They've done a couple of these. They played a couple years against Arkansas, pre Cal getting there. I think last year they played somebody, I can't remember who they said, but he said, Drew, that they. That Matt Painter will play his whole team, that he will play his whole team, that he wants to win, but he basically plays the whole group and then lets the chips fall where they may. I think if they do that, you got to think, Drew, we do the same, right?
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Ryan Lemond
I'm picturing for 35 minutes you're going to see a lot of experimenting. Some guys farther down the bench will play more than they normally would if this were a January game. But then when it gets to about five minutes, if it's still close, I think you're going to see them lock in like this is an elite eight. I mean they're. Both teams are going to want to win this so that they'll be working on things.
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Matt Jones
Does that make the result matter less if they're playing the 12th man for.
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Drew Franklin
Both teams, the result only matters if Kentucky wins.
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Bobby Bones
Because.
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Drew Franklin
Because if we lose, we got two guys who are starters who are out with low acquaintance who won't be playing. Right. So if we lose the game, we could say, well, we lost with it, but if we beat the number one team without two of our best players. Look at national championship, right?
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Matt Jones
Yeah, I don't. On a personal level, I, I don't look at quaintance like that just because it's gonna be so long until he plays. And I, I mean, I assume he'll start when he comes back, but I'm not. I do think low changes how I look at it. Mark Pope said yesterday that low is basically he's going to put him back on the court in a week. Which, you know, that was kind of what we were hearing. But that's a deep breath moment because if he's just out a week or two, I think the plan is to try to play me exactly what Drew had said he wanted one game before the Louisville game and then into the Louisville game. I think after you saw that injury at Blue White Ryan, that's about best possible scenario, right?
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Shannon Dawson
Yeah. Great news. What Pope said yesterday about him said, you know, he's in no pain. He was shooting around some in practice. They're going to hold him out of live contact for another week or so, but it was just. I think it was a great update that the fact that he's not going to be out near as long as we were fearful that he might be.
- [09:02]
Matt Jones
Yeah, I wasn't. I was worried, actually. I was worried when I saw him on the ground Friday night. I was worried because I think it was the amount of pain that he was in, it looked to me made me think, oh, so I think this is like great news.
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Ryan Lemond
Oh, yeah. I mean, this time a week ago or tonight, a week ago, people were wondering. It could be months, you know, if you were there. I know people heard him yell.
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Drew Franklin
It popped.
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Ryan Lemond
And you don't want to hear that when he's rolling around on the ground in pain. Pope cutting it off immediately, you could tell. Pope even admitted yesterday he's like, I was just as terrified.
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Matt Jones
Well, I mean, he said. He said he was embarrassed because he was shook a little bit. Shannon. He said, I. I actually was shook a little bit. Which he acknowledged. That's why he called off the game.
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Diplo
Exactly.
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Drew Franklin
I mean, of all the times to lose one of your star players, you don't want it to be in a meaningless blue white game. The good news is, though, looks like he's pretty much back to full strength. And I think if this were a regular season game, he would probably play.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, he might play.
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Ryan Lemond
So.
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Matt Jones
So that's Friday. Now, Saturday is UK versus Tennessee and football. You feel good about that one.
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Shannon Dawson
Let's talk more about Friday.
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Matt Jones
Kentucky is still only a 7 1/2 point favorite. Is that. I mean, that's. That's not a lot.
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Shannon Dawson
Are they giving us too much credit for what we did against Texas last weekend?
- [10:22]
Matt Jones
I mean, I kind of think yes, but I mean, in my heart and I've actually been pretty good this year at dialing into, like, I. If you look at my scores, I think I've been close in.
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Drew Franklin
Almost called the Texas game last week.
- [10:37]
Matt Jones
And I called the South Carolina. I mean, I was. The Georgia score basically. Now I was gone for. For Eastern Michigan. But the first couple, I. I feel bad because, like, I think we're going to get run tomorrow. I do. I mean, I think we're going to Lose by three or four touchdowns. And I hope I'm wrong. I want to be wrong, but I just kind of feel like this matchup and we got beat up against Texas and then I, you know, now they did play Alabama, but I don't feel great about it.
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Ryan Lemond
It's not a good matchup with how Brad White plays defense. You know, the Texas and even Georgia, your style can have you in it. But Tennessee just scores too many points. I mean Kentucky will have to be in the mid-20s to even be in it. And it just like. Do we have any faith we can get in the mid.
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Diplo
No.
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Ryan Lemond
Now they took a step and that's like your floor of trying to win the game.
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Matt Jones
Well, I mean look at the last 10 years, right in this game we've won I think twice, but I think we've gotten blown out in almost every other game. So I feel like that's kind of how I feel like this is going.
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Ryan Lemond
To go undefeated too. He's been lighting them up.
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Shannon Dawson
Drew said it, you know, we have to score somewhere in the mid-20s or higher to win the game. Do you have any confidence whatsoever your offense can do that?
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Drew Franklin
That means you're going to have to score touchdowns on defense or special teams.
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Matt Jones
Well, I mean it also means Bush Hamden might have to score two touchdowns in the in SEC game for only the second time ever. I mean, that's an amazing statistic. I just want you to think about that for a second. I mean, he's been the. He has coached 13 games against Power 4 schools. If you include Louisville. We have scored two offensive touchdowns only once. But that's, I mean, I don't even know what you say about that. And in that game, one of them was a fumble in the end zone that we recovered.
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Shannon Dawson
Like.
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Matt Jones
I don't know, Ryan. I mean it's hard to see a scenario because you're not going to stop. Tennessee under 20, I mean they just, they just score too. Now their defense will. If we had a good offense, their defense will give up a ton of points. It's just we don't necessarily have the offense to do that.
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Shannon Dawson
Do we take any. You know, hope that Cutter bowling the offense did look better.
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Drew Franklin
He did have a lot of passing yards.
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Shannon Dawson
They put up some good numbers. They just couldn't get in the end zone.
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Matt Jones
Well, I think that means we might score.
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Ryan Lemond
I'll give you a fun.
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Matt Jones
But otherwise I would. I mean, I would feel even worse.
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Ryan Lemond
We can't score in the red zone. We. We're actually in.
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Matt Jones
We're pretty bad at it.
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Ryan Lemond
Tennessee's defense is 131st out of 132 in the red zone. Like, they let teams in. So if there's ever an opportunity, I mean, Texas may be the best defense in the country and sure, I didn't light up the scoreboard, but Kentucky was at least moving the ball and Cutter Bowley was a little. We saw some composure. Another step forward. Tennessee's defense will give up some points if they're able to play a little bit like they did last week.
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Matt Jones
I don't know what the stats. I don't. I saw this stat at some point. I don't remember the specifics, but, but to his, to what Drew just said in the last five years, really since Liam the first time. So you're talking Skangarello, Liam, the return and then the, the years of, of our guy Bush. So four years, whatever we have had Ryan, we've been like the fourth worst team in the country at touchdowns in the red zone. Like, we've, we've actually scored a lot of field goals, but we don't get it in the end zone once we get it in the Reds. As a matter of fact, we've almost, I think, scored as many touchdowns from the 15 back as we have from the 15 in, which is crazy because we're not a big zone. We're not a big play team either usually, but we just, we really struggle in the red zone.
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Shannon Dawson
And, you know, we've talked about our receiver room. You know, that's where they could have helped us. You know, maybe the guy just can't get open down there and they get pushed around.
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Drew Franklin
I think it's conservative play call like.
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Shannon Dawson
A lot of players.
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Matt Jones
I agree with that.
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Drew Franklin
I think that's what it is.
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Matt Jones
I think sometimes, especially like when you're in the five, you got to do something. Sometimes you got to be creative. Think about Andy Reid and what they do inside the five. I mean, think about Kansas City and what they do with Mahomes and what they do with Kelsey and those guys. Shannon, we don't. We're going up the middle and if you clog up the middle, we're done.
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Drew Franklin
And we're just content with a field goal at that point. Well, at least we'll get three. You know, that feels like the mentality when you get down into the red zone.
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Matt Jones
Yeah. And it's, it hasn't worked for us.
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Shannon Dawson
So you mean jumping from the three yard line? Trying to jump over the line of scrimmage is not a good call.
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Matt Jones
All right. More likely Today, beat Purdue. Cover the spread against Tennessee.
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Drew Franklin
Be Purdue.
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Matt Jones
I mean, the odds would say. Yeah, more likely to cover the spread against Tennessee. You would say beat.
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Drew Franklin
I would say beat Purdue. Even without two of our players.
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Matt Jones
Okay.
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Drew Franklin
Just because I don't know how that game is exactly going to be played.
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Ryan Lemond
Drew. I would also say beat Purdue.
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Shannon Dawson
I think that's a no brainer. I think it's beat Purdue over covering that spread.
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Matt Jones
I mean, that spread is so small. That's the thing. I'm shocked by it. If you had asked me what the spread would be, I would have said, Drew, 13 and a half. 14 and a half. And when you. When I saw seven and a half, I mean, I don't, I don't bet against the Cats, but I mean, I'd be tempted in that one. That's. That's one of the weirdest spreads I've seen in years for a Kentucky game.
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Ryan Lemond
And it's moved two points towards Kentucky. Yeah, it's one of those games where actually it's making me think, well, you.
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Matt Jones
Know, what am I missing?
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Ryan Lemond
Every couple of times in a season, it's like, all right, Vegas, something's up because this doesn't make sense. And then it could be one of those where they really think something happened to that Texas game and took a step forward.
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Matt Jones
Ryan, tonight on my postgame show for the basketball game. So I'm doing the postgame show tonight. I mean, I'm excited because it's always nice to do the first time we've seen him play. Who's the player? I'm talking about tonight. Who's the. I mean, it's, it's not going to be low. It's not going to be quite as probably not going to be oa. We know what away is, so let's put them to the side of everybody else. Who am I talking about in the post game show?
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Shannon Dawson
I think you're talking about Denzel Aberdeen. I think he's a guy who's going to play. You start at point guard. You know everything Pope says. He's just glowing about what he can do in practice and how much of a better player he was than he thought. I think it's Aberdeen.
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Ryan Lemond
It's sophomore Colin Chandler. We're not going to wait to get into the sophomore Colin Chandler experience. The breakout begins tonight. Number one team. We don't have to wait for the BBN United Tip Off Classic presented by Kentucky Tourism or Louisville or the Champions Classic. Let's just release sophomore Colin Chandler.
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Drew Franklin
I hate to repeat what he just said, but I was going to say Colin Chandler before he said that, so I guess that would be my pick as well. Well, Colin Chandler tonight.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, I think it's got to be somebody that shoots the ball well because Purdue is very good at interior defense over the years, they always seem to have, going back 10 years, some dude that can. Can really protect the paint. So I think it's going to be somebody outside. I like all of your picks just to be different. I'm going to say Jasper Johnson. I'm going to say that he looks really good. That's for you. That's for you. Mario Bronny back there. I'm going to say Jasper Johnson. The Kentuckian is going to be the dude that we're. He'll make one or two plays that will surprise.
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Shannon Dawson
So we all. We all pick kind of backcourt guys.
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Matt Jones
I think it's got to be a backcourt guy against this team. If we're playing somebody else, it'd be different. But this team is a team that you're going to have to hit some shots.
- [17:34]
Shannon Dawson
So who would be maybe one of the big guys that maybe you'll be bragging about tonight?
- [17:38]
Matt Jones
I think people. Moreno, to me, is going to be better than people think. Do you agree? Yeah.
- [17:43]
Ryan Lemond
He's close to being my pick before Colin Chandler. I think we're going to be talking about him a lot.
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Matt Jones
He shocked me. I've now seen them two or three times. He shocked me. He's a lot. I thought that kid wasn't gonna play this year and he definitely is, and I didn't necessarily see that coming. 859-280-2287. The text machine is 772-774-5254. We are here at Don Franklin. Nissan Frontier Pro 4X is on sale for $38,237. My man in the green shirt has not looked up yet. We will take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
- [18:20]
Bobby Bones
Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio music festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. Check this out. So how did Ashes come together, Diplo?
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Diplo
Well, I kind of briefly met Bailey, I think at Morgan's show. One of them. And I think he's just a guy in Nashville. He's cool as hell. And I had a new kind of sound I wanted to do and I think he's the one guy that could carry it. And I came to his house. I had a show, I pulled up real quick. He about to leave on tour, you're about to jump in your tour bus. And we had like three hours play the record for him. We kind of like got a scratch and then he handled on his own on the road.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, it was really cool.
- [18:59]
Drew Franklin
He really just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh hey Diplo, what are you doing?
- [19:03]
Matt Jones
He's like, I have a song that.
- [19:05]
Drew Franklin
I want to show you.
- [19:06]
Matt Jones
And I was like, okay. And then now we're here playing it live.
- [19:10]
Bobby Bones
You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. Had a blast cruising around festival weekend in the all new Palisade hybrid.
- [19:23]
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- [20:55]
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Ryan Lemond
Drew, I hope the we have Tom back in our lives. In basketball, I remember last year they forced Carl Ravage on us. It seemed like every game. I even wrote a website post where I counted all the Carl Ravage games. Nothing against Carl, but we need a little more Tom this season than we got a year ago.
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Drew Franklin
I think they're on to Tom. They know what he's doing. He's dropping these KSR Easter eggs.
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Matt Jones
But why would you go against that? That's like, that's. Who's watching the game is us.
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Drew Franklin
I just like the confused look of Jimmy Dykes. Every time he drops a reference, Jimmy's like, what?
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Matt Jones
Yeah, we got to guess. What are they today?
- [22:32]
Ryan Lemond
He did.
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Matt Jones
He did. Tom did write me and say last night he was in town. He's like, what are you doing tonight? And I said, you know, I'm watching football. And he goes, are you sure? Is it a. Is. Are you at the freshman game with Ryan Lemon? Which means he was listening last night.
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Shannon Dawson
Which, by the way, that game ended on a Hail Mary touchdown pass for Boyle County. I should. I should have gone. Exciting finish and I missed it.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, you definitely should have. Fourth quarter and you need options. 27 stores, over 6,000 vehicles across the Bluegrass. Trucks, SUVs and sedans. Only at Don Franklin Auto. They're ready when you are. We got a bunch of people on the phone. I want to get to it. But let's start with this. The name that we sort of introduced to the Kentucky world yesterday was Eric. Come Monday will be all right. I don't know how many of you in here knew his name before yesterday. One person. How many people on this show knew his name before yesterday? One person. So the total amount of people at Dodd Franklin who knew him yesterday are two. Well, yesterday the text machine and my personal text number lit up with Eric Monday comments, and I would say 95% of them positive. People say to me, matt, if Eric Monday is going to be the next president or if Eric Monday is going to have anything to do with doing the next coach or whatever, Kentucky is very, very lucky. Really a ton of nice comments about him. A ton of people saying, matt, I don't think you all realize he's kind of been doing this for the last six months. Like, there's a lot of sort of stuff that's kind of been transitioned to him, especially at the university, not necessarily the athletics department, but the university level. So, you know, here's a random name that comes up yesterday, Ryan, that I think now we're going to all need to get to know. We may, we may have. It may be Monday for the next little bit.
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Shannon Dawson
You know, you get all these texts, some of them, you don't know if they're. How much truth are into him. But they said he's also maybe in the con running for the LSU president's job. So, like, is he going to see that high of a candidate to be maybe president at LSU or Kentucky?
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Ryan Lemond
He came from lsu. I know that much. I don't know what his role was, but there is a connection.
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Matt Jones
Well, that maybe so. But, you know, a lot of times I've told you all a little bit about the guy that was doing our nil for the last two years. And I said, I don't think anyone knows him. Like, if you went to a UK game, he'd be probably on the court and you wouldn't even realize how important he was. But I said, for the last two years, this has been the dude that has made a lot of stuff happen. He made Pope's first year roster happen in part. He made Pope's second year roster happen. Now it's going to jmi. So that's a different point. It'll be different people now. But I was like, this guy is the guy. And you know, Shannon, most people didn't. Almost nobody knew. Knows who he is. Yeah, I, I do wonder if in the future it'll be like this with the guy we met yesterday.
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Drew Franklin
I had never heard of the guy until yesterday. But if you tell me that anybody gets 95 approval rating, I mean, well.
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Matt Jones
On the text machine.
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Drew Franklin
Well, I mean that's, that's a good sample though. That's a lot of people. I mean, you can't get 95 of people to agree on anything.
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Matt Jones
None of the people on this show get a 95% approval rating.
- [25:44]
Drew Franklin
That's true.
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Matt Jones
Text machine, I can tell you that. So. So a good sign. Who's up first?
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Diplo
John.
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Matt Jones
John. Go ahead, John. John. All right, what's next? Andrew. Go ahead, Andrew.
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Ryan Lemond
Hey, guys, thanks for taking the call last. Last year. I was curious what your thoughts. I was thinking about this on drive and the number one team in the country goes into Arkansas for an exhibition game. Similar situation this, and they get drugged. And we figured out pretty quick that Kansas wasn't a true number one team in the country. So my question is, what are we thinking? I mean, the outcome of that, that ended up being the same outcome in the tournament for Kansas, Arkansas, about their ceilings. I'm curious what you all think we expect to learn tonight about the expected ceilings of both these teams.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, I would say I appreciate the call. I would say to you that I don't expect Purdue to be a disaster this year. They got too much returning. You know, last year, the thing with Kansas, they were all transfers, young guys, Hunter and Hunter Dickinson, and that just did not work. This Purdue team has been good in some form for the last few years. Unlike a lot of other teams, they don't. They keep a lot of their core guys and kind of go through. I'm expecting Purdue to be good. So unlike last year where Arkansas looked great in that game and then kind of didn't look good really until the tournament, I think, Drew, if we look good tonight, it's a good sign for us because I don't expect Purdue to be at all a bust this year.
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Ryan Lemond
No, Purdue's for real. If they weren't the unanimous number one, they were close. Braden Smith, favorite to win player of the year, he's unanimous all American point guard. But then they have the Big Tens leading scorer next to him. He doesn't get talked about as much, but he could also be an All American candidate this year. And then of course, because they're Purdue, they have two gigantic white dudes that like they always have.
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Matt Jones
Where do you think they find those?
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Ryan Lemond
One of them's from Israel. This year they got him out of the portal, but they have another homegrown when he's like 75 with a comb over, it's the same player we've seen there for 10 years.
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Matt Jones
It is amazing. They grow gigantic white guys in a lab and they're always awkward, but then somehow end up really good and effective and I don't know. I don't know how it happens.
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Drew Franklin
They just turn them out. It's like a factory.
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Matt Jones
Yeah. I think they, well, they're an engineering school. I think they just engineered them. I think they create them.
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Drew Franklin
That's right.
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Matt Jones
Just have an assembly line of those guys and they've got more of this and, and Zach eating's in the NBA and actually been doing pretty well. We'll take a break. Be right back at Don Franco Nissan TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. Call tj he'll make him pay.
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Drew Franklin
Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.
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Matt Jones
Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. So what's the Liam, I always wonder about people's mindset. What's the tie it up with ribbons and bows thought just a great song I was listening to this week. Okay. There you go. Why not?
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Shannon Dawson
Good answer.
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Matt Jones
Sitting there listening to tie her hair with ribbons and bows, sign her letters with X's and O's. That's what you could do. Hey, Ryan, you know that kitchen you hate?
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Ryan Lemond
Yes.
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Shannon Dawson
Oh, it's elegant.
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Matt Jones
Yes.
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Shannon Dawson
Exquisite.
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Matt Jones
Estaterenos.com KSR get it started today with Estate Renovations. 859-280-2287 Text Machine 772-774-5254 Drew Moore came out about the NBA gambling scandal. A lot of interesting facts. So there were three different people. Start with Terry Rozier. He basically just had a he played himself into a bad first half and then took himself out of the game. There's some clips of a game that he was in. He did look like in hindsight, it looked like what it looked like. I think you could it's pretty bad if you have a game where they could just put it on in front of the jury and go just look how he played and you would see it.
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Ryan Lemond
I remember when that happened because Twitter went nuts and I think the NBA investigated and kind of cleared him. I think the NBA is going to have some answering to do on all this because they've kind of I want.
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Matt Jones
To take up for the NBA on So they investigated it and they took his phone. But to be fair, they don't have subpoena power. So unlike the federal government where they could go interview people and question them. The NBA can't do that. So, like, unless Terry Rosier texted, I am going to do this. Just them having his phone, I'm not sure what they could do. It's hard. It's hard because you can't. The. The federal government can make people talk, Shannon.
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Diplo
Right.
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Matt Jones
The NBA can't, really, unless you're in the league.
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Drew Franklin
That mixtape, though, is very suspicious. I mean, dude, you're an NBA player. You're airballing layups. I mean, you can miss without being.
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Matt Jones
So dribbling and be like, oh, no.
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Drew Franklin
Put his hands on his head.
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Matt Jones
He did put his hands on his hand. What happened?
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Drew Franklin
What did I do? Oops, I turned the ball over.
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Ryan Lemond
Did you see the next 10 games with the injury that he admits was fake? That's why I'm like, well, why did he miss the next 10 games? It makes me wonder if the NBA set him out and call it an injury.
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Matt Jones
Oh, I do think there's a possibility.
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Ryan Lemond
That they're going to have to explain why he missed 10 games with an injury that we now know he completely faced.
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Matt Jones
That's, I think, a fair question. Yeah.
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Shannon Dawson
So was the connection with him that dinero last year, they went to high school together. Is that right? In Cleveland?
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Matt Jones
I think so. Then. Damon Jones is an assistant coach. Apparently. His thing is, he gets word LeBron's going to be out for a game as an assistant coach and then tells somebody, and he says, allegedly, Shannon, don't forget to keep your boy D. Like basically saying, hey, if you use this, cut me in, you better give me a cut. Doesn't look good for him.
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Drew Franklin
No, it doesn't at all. And, you know, the NBA has got to be hating this. With the timing of the NBA season just now starting, and here's this big scandal.
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Matt Jones
The games have been so good.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
And this is overshadowing all of that right now.
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Matt Jones
Obviously, you have to say if the things in the indictment are true, but if they are, Drew D. Jones going, hey, make sure to keep your man D involved. Like, that doesn't look good.
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Ryan Lemond
I've enjoyed all the clips that are circulating in the last couple of years where people had questions, and now it's like, well, now we really need an investigation. Gilbert Arenas, on his podcast a year ago tells a story of LeBron covering a prop bet. And arena says, my gambling group, it's me, Damon Jones, and LeBron James. Like, he says that on a podcast. And he even plays a clip where LeBron talks to him at the free throw line and it's word for word. He's like, you know who's covering this? Damon Jones checks in and LeBron passes it to him. So it's like all this stuff that we just saw.
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Matt Jones
LeBron would be a whole nother level if it became that.
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Ryan Lemond
But we're getting stuff recirculating that's making a little more sense.
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Matt Jones
Well, along those lines, Chauncey Billups. So Chauncey Billups is involved in all sides of it. So let's start with the basketball side. There's in the indictment, it says co conspirator number eight is a basketball player that fade through these years and is a coach now in Oregon. Well, there's only one NBA team in Oregon, so I think it's pretty clear that that's about Chauncey Billups too. It alleges that in a game, he decided to sit his whole team out and tank the game. And he called a guy before the game and said, by the way, I think I'm sitting my whole team. And then the guy makes a big bet.
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Shannon Dawson
That stinks like duck poop.
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Matt Jones
That's like Pete Rose. Yeah, that's. That's a whole nother thing. And then the poker game stuff is the wildest part of all of it. It said that they would bring rich idiots to poker game. Now, by the way, I'm. If you're going to fraud somebody, fraud rich idiots, I'm fine with. All right. But bring them to poker games to cheat him. The way they cheated Drew was unbelievable. They would wear contacts that could see. Could. Could see. Like, I don't know what you would call it.
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Drew Franklin
Markings on large cars.
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Matt Jones
They would wear contact Chauncey Bilps. And the guys would wear contacts so that they all work together to make these people lose. And they ended up taking them for a ton of money. Chauncey was there as basically the. Come play poker with Chauncey Billups.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Matt Jones
And then all these other dudes stole them. Essentially won the money in a fraudulent game.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, they used him to make it legitimate, like having a celebrity at the table, but even had a nickname in there slipping my mind. But it's.
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Matt Jones
He's gonna have.
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Ryan Lemond
He's gonna have a hard time acting like he didn't want a part of it.
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Matt Jones
By the way, take a chance. I meant to write it down. The nicknames of the mobsters involved in this are amazing. It's like Greasy Eye, Armenian Bob, Ernie, like Lefty, like everyone involved. It's almost like if you're gonna be involved in illegal schemes, you have to have some kind of crazy nickname.
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Shannon Dawson
What about the Rick Patino connection to all three of those guys?
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Ryan Lemond
He coached all of them.
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Shannon Dawson
Coached all three of us.
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Ryan Lemond
Boston, Louisville.
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Matt Jones
Hang on. Are you implicating Rick?
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Ryan Lemond
No. Let's look into it.
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Shannon Dawson
We're just. Topic of conversation.
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Matt Jones
What's your topic?
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Shannon Dawson
Who was Terry Rezear's coach at the college?
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Matt Jones
Okay, Rick Patino.
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Shannon Dawson
Who drafted Chauncey Billups out of Colorado to play for the Celtics?
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Matt Jones
Okay, Rick Patino.
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Shannon Dawson
All right. Who Damon Brad Jones play for?
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Matt Jones
I mean, I'm guessing Rick Petito.
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Ryan Lemond
Where are all these Mafia people based? Boston, just maybe.
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Matt Jones
Are you throwing Rick Petito?
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Shannon Dawson
No, not at all.
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Matt Jones
Just, you know, he came on our show.
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Drew Franklin
That's the last time he's gonna come on the program.
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Ryan Lemond
Maybe he's innocent. It's just worth having a conversation.
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Matt Jones
Okay. All right. Just for the record, Rick, I've said enough over the years about you. I'm not putting you in this scandal.
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Ryan Lemond
Not either.
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Matt Jones
It is just a. That is Ryan Lemon and Drew Franklin. Please contact their attorneys. I have nothing to do with it. Who's up next?
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Ryan Lemond
Slim.
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Matt Jones
Slim. Go ahead, Slim. Slim. All right, Slim. Okay, who's next?
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Diplo
Isaiah.
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Matt Jones
Isaiah. Go ahead, Isaiah.
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Ryan Lemond
Hello?
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Matt Jones
Yeah, anytime you're ready. Go ahead.
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Ryan Lemond
All right. Hey, I got two points here. I think us losing Jalen Lowe is gonna be okay. I think we actually have a few guards that can. Can fill that position. And also, as far as Mark Stoop goes, I think even if you want wins against Tennessee and Louisville, I. I still feel like we need to move on. Just his stats and everything with all that, I just. I just don't think he can do it for us in this era of college football. And I'll hang up and listen to your thoughts.
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Matt Jones
Appreciate it. Let's say, Ryan, you beat Tennessee, you beat Louisville, you go five and seven, but you beat your two biggest rivals, and in the process, play Texas really well. Let's say you're even competitive in the other games. What do you do then?
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Shannon Dawson
I know a lot of people disagree with me, but if that's the scenario, I'm still riding with Stoops. I just think. I don't know if we get anybody better than him at that point. And if they're able to pull out five wins out of this season, what we've gone through, that's a pretty good coaching job.
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Ryan Lemond
There's one thing to watch, if he gets hot and wins a bunch of games, is he still might use that as an opportunity because it might make him attractive to a Virginia Tech or something. He still might see the riding on the wall and that could, you know, he could coach his way into a job.
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Matt Jones
And that's probably, let's assume, Shannon, he can't get to six wins in a ball. His best case scenario is probably beating Tennessee and Louisville being competitive in the other games and being five and seven. I don't think, I, I don't know if Mitch Barnhart could fire him in that.
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Drew Franklin
No, I don't think he could.
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Matt Jones
I'm not sure if he could. I, I, Whether he should or not. Finding $38 million after that would be a harder thing.
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Drew Franklin
Tennessee and Louisville, those two games are the two games left on the schedule that mean the most to this F you beat those teams and you're competitive in the other ones, then I think you hang on to them at least for another year and see what happens next season.
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Ryan Lemond
If they beat Tennessee, I mean, I'm not gonna get crazy and get ready for a bowl game, but Auburn and Florida look a lot more winnable. Auburn might not have a coach. Florida already doesn't have a coach. Those locker rooms could be falling apart. So if you beat a ranked Tennessee team, he might be favored against Florida.
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Matt Jones
And there's also the possibility that we get run this weekend and this gets really bad on Sunday.
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Shannon Dawson
That is quite possible. That's the scenario.
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Matt Jones
I mean, that I, I do think that's, I mean, I want you to think about the possibility of, let's say we lose by 30, then what's it like on Sunday and Monday fan base will be screaming, that's a whole nother Monday show. After we watch them play the number one basketball team. And then whatever happens Saturday, that'll be interesting.
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Ryan Lemond
If you beat Purdue by 10 and lose the Tennessee by 30, what's the Monday like?
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Matt Jones
I think people are gonna still lead with the football, to be honest.
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Drew Franklin
Really?
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Matt Jones
I mean, I think, I just think that we've reached that point where people are just like, all right, I want to hear something. 8592802287 Text Machine 772774, 5254 we are here at Don Franklin, Kentucky's biggest playbook. 6,000 new and certified pre owned choices in a team that treats you like family. It's Don Franklin Otto. We appreciate them having us out. We'll take a break and be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Bobby Bones
Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio music festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. Check this out. So how did Ashes come together?
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Shannon Dawson
Diplo?
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Diplo
Well, I kind of briefly met Bailey, I think at Morgan's show, one of them and I think think he's just the guy in Nashville. He's cool as hell and I had a new kind of sound I wanted to do and I think he's the one guy that could carry it. And I came to his house, I had a show, I pulled up real quick, he was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours play the record for him. We kind of like got a scratch and then he handled it on his own on the road.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, it was really cool. He really just like randomly showed up.
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Drew Franklin
To my house and I'm like, oh hey Diplo, what are you doing?
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Matt Jones
He's like I have a song did.
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Drew Franklin
I want to show you?
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Matt Jones
And I was like okay. And then now we're here playing it live.
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Bobby Bones
You can listen to the full episode out now, wherever you get your podcasts. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. Had a blast cruising around festival weekend in the all new Palisade Hybrid.
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Shannon Dawson
We don't listen to them.
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Matt Jones
I don't know that anyone knows that they exist. It was good to see the sheriff is still out there. Drew Policing fan behavior for the University of Louisville UofL Sheriff Online going stop. He was one of the ones that took a shot, but I enjoy it. I'm glad to see Louisville fans have a pulse again and that they are trying to rival.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, I don't engage with the sheriff. I love what he does. I back the blue. I like what he does for our community.
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Matt Jones
I know he's been very pro law enforcement when he comes these things.
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Ryan Lemond
He talks about us a lot. I've never engaged, never planned to engage. I I also noticed a lot of Louisville fans were making fun of our roster saying we're talking about Final Fours. We might not win a tournament game and I'm like, have you all even won a tournament game in, like, eight years? What are we doing?
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Matt Jones
That's the thing. I don't. I don't. You know, you'll hear me say this about us sometimes, Ryan. I'll say, you know, like, we'll talk about how great our roster is, and I'll be like, but remember, these other schools don't know who these people are. Like, we talk about, like, Braden Hawthorne. Like, everybody. Nobody on any other team knows Braden Hawthorne. Louisville fans are the worst about this. They'll look at the Kentucky roster and go, who's the good player? I mean, Jayden Quaint could be a top five pick. You know, Otega always preseason All American. Jalen Lowe's very, very good. Did the Liberty want Shannon? But they'll say, who are? And then I look at their roster, and I don't know any of their players. Like, I don't know any of them. They've got one guy, Mikhail Brown, the freshman, who could be very, very good. They got one or two guys that returned that were pretty good last year. The guy that got hurt during the NCAA tournament. I see. I think he's back. So, like, they've got a good team, but they act like we know their seventh, eighth. I've never heard of any of these guys. It's. It's like. It's unbelievable. And they have not won a tournament game since Truman. And there comes a point where, like, you guys should step back. Ryan, I love it.
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Shannon Dawson
I'm glad it's back, man. I want this back and forth with Louisville, man. Not just good for our show. I just enjoy it as a fan, just kind of going after somebody.
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Matt Jones
But think about last year. They played in Lexington. They played Creighton in Lexington. They had a packed house, and they lost. And at one point, we're down big, I think. And then. And then came back and made it close at the end.
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Ryan Lemond
That and a couple weeks ago, Pat Kelsey said their point guard, you. And I thought it was one year ago when our point guard did not miss a shot from the field and set the records. Points scored in that series. And your point guard, you.
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Matt Jones
I mean, does that happen? I. I like that. I think Pat Kelsey, it's good that he did you like that he gave out the glasses, Shannon. He took his little trademark Christmas story glasses, and then they. They gave them out to donors and it said, louisville, Kelsey's glasses. Did you like that?
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Drew Franklin
I mean, it was completely dorky. But you know what? You might as well embrace who you are and let's just remember who was out asking fans to come watch their games. It wasn't Mark Pope last year. It was Pat Kelsey.
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Matt Jones
And I'm fine with that, by the way. I think Kelsey has done exactly what he's supposed to do. But I don't understand why these guys, why they act like that. There's some sort of amazing power. But they do, and they listen to this show, and I thank them for that.
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Shannon Dawson
Ryan, I am not a fan of the Louisville fan base, but I am a fan of Coach Kelsey, and I liked what he did with his glass. I think that's kind of a cool little thing. He's a short, little nerdy guy like me. So, yeah, do it, man.
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Ryan Lemond
You should have Ryan's glasses.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, yeah, you can do that here at remotes. There we go, Ryan, linen glasses to everybody.
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Matt Jones
So here, by the way, there's some big exhibition games tonight. Louisville host Kansas. That's a pretty good one, right?
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Drew Franklin
One?
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Matt Jones
Yeah, that's a pretty good one. North Carolina against byu. Villanova plays Virginia, obviously. We play Purdue. Cincinnati plays Arkansas, Wisconsin and Oklahoma. So a lot of this is kind of a good way, Drew, to see kind of what's. What's what in college basketball.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah. All the teams you just named that are playing tonight, other than our own game. I'm oddly excited to see BYU with the stud freshmen. They have players back. I mean, they're ranked ahead of Kentucky.
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Matt Jones
Yeah.
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Ryan Lemond
In the nil era. That's a team to watch because they just have dumb money out there. Their football teams in the top 15 right now. I think they're going to continue to be a big part of the college basketball conversation.
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Matt Jones
Totally, totally agree with you on that. Who's up next?
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Drew Franklin
Stephen.
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Matt Jones
Stephen, go ahead.
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Ryan Lemond
First time, long time.
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Matt Jones
Hooah. Go ahead. Sorry, we're on remote, just so you know. And there's an echo if we're not careful. So we're having to turn our mics down when you talk. So when I go to, you just go, but go ahead. Gotcha.
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Ryan Lemond
So acting like low isn't hurt.
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Matt Jones
We've got everybody healthy.
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Ryan Lemond
Who is Matt Jones, starter and backup for each position.
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Matt Jones
All right, well, okay. So the backcourt, I think, is fairly easy. I mean, the backcourt is going to be low in o way. I think Aberdeen and Jasper will sort of fight it out over the year to be the. The. The normal two. Or, excuse me, the normal backup point guard, although they both can play at other positions. I think Colin Chandler is kind of your backup, too, although he could also then play the three. The three can go a myriad of different ways. It can be any of those people I just mentioned. It could be Cam Williams, it could be Trent Noah. It could be all kinds of things depending on how they end up deciding to do it. I think your five start in the season is Brandon Garrison with Moreno behind him. But. But that could change over the course of the year. I think your 4 is diabate to start. Probably Cam Williams is his backup. I don't know where Yellow Vich fits into that. I think initially he's kind of behind those guys, but we'll see. He could play his way into it. Trent Noah will float between the three and the four, depending on what makes sense. But that's my. I think you're going to see between the two and the three, a lot of flexibility. And then between the three, it's the four Drew a lot of flexibility. I think this team is. Can go multiple ways. They can play really small. They could play really big if they want with Jasper Johnson at point guard. So there's. There's a lot of different ways for them to do it.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah. When they're fully healthy and low starting, I think we're going to see oh way at the three. I have pretty good scoop on that.
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Matt Jones
Who would be the two?
- [49:58]
Ryan Lemond
Because at media day, I said, oh, way are you a three? And he said yes. So I feel like he's probably going to be at the three, so that would mean that to me directly. Yeah. The Aberdeen Chandler thing, I, you know, I'm high on Chandler, but you have the championship experience with aberdeen at that 2. If away really is starting at 3, I mean, I flip a coin in my brain at that spot. But, you know, I literally asked OA you see yourself more as a 2 or 3. He's like, they're gonna have me at 3, so I'm gonna trust him on that one.
- [50:23]
Matt Jones
Yeah. So if always at the 3, then that means you kind of start to get crowded at the 4 and 5. You start to. It starts to.
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Shannon Dawson
If.
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Matt Jones
No, that means Noah probably pushes to the four and it becomes a lot more crowded position up there.
- [50:36]
Shannon Dawson
That's why I know it's an exhibition game and we want to win, but I think Pope will try a lot of combinations tonight, least till it gets closer to the end of the game. I think he'll try to play a lot of people, different combinations to see what actually is going to work.
- [50:46]
Ryan Lemond
Oh, it might be the two tonight with Noah as the three. With the roster situation.
- [50:50]
Matt Jones
Yeah. I would say to you, away and low are playing 30 plus minutes a game and then everybody else is kind of in flux based on what's going. I'd be surprised though if Low and away aren't a 30 plus minute guy. Or 28 plus. Whatever. We'll take a break, come back hour number two. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Bobby Bones
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Shannon Dawson
Diplo?
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Diplo
I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours.
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Matt Jones
It was really cool. He really just like randomly showed up to my house.
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Drew Franklin
I'm like, oh, hey Diplo, what are you doing?
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Matt Jones
He's like, I have a song that.
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Drew Franklin
I want to show you.
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Matt Jones
And I was like, okay.
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Bobby Bones
You can listen to the full episode out now, wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. Had a blast cruising around festival weekend in the all new Palisade hybrid.
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