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Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington welcomes rising comedy star and Kentucky native Katherine Blandford October 23rd through the 25th. Then direct from New York, catch the hilarious comedy of Jeffrey Asmus. October 31st and November 1st and November 7th and 8th. It's comedy legend and the always hilarious Carlos Mancia. For tickets to all comedy off Broadway shows, call 859-271-JOKE or visit comedyofbroadway.com welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Thursday, October 30th, day of the second UK exhibition game. On a rainy morning in Lexington, Kentucky. We are at the KS Bar Grill. We'd love to have you come see us. You can give a shout on the Clark's Puppet shop full line 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254 in. This dish is sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJL, make them pay. UK and Georgetown tip off tonight, 7 o'. Clock. Our pregame show will start at 4:30 from here at the bar. Cats and Hoyas ready to go second exhibition game. I'm getting pretty excited about it. How about you? You ready for a little rematch of 84?
Ryan Lemond
I know we're going to get to it, but after what we did yesterday, I am so excited about this upcoming season coming up, especially tonight.
Drew Franklin
Me too. And I'm just ready to get to Ruff arena again. I know it's not the number one team, but if the crowd is anything like it was last Friday, it's, it's going to be a real game in there.
Matt Jones
Well, it's a good crowd. I mean, I think it's kind of nasty outside and it's going to be nasty. You know, we broke the record for most rain in October. Here's an interesting stat.
Ryan Lemond
All right.
Matt Jones
Matt's weather stats.
Ryan Lemond
Okay.
Matt Jones
Wrote the record for most rain in an October on in history. But it's only rain six days.
Ryan Lemond
Wow.
Matt Jones
So it's interesting. So the quantity of rain in those six days though, was, was something else.
Ryan Lemond
Yeah, that one day we got like six feet of rain.
Matt Jones
I don't think it was six feet, but it was, it was a good amount.
Ryan Lemond
Good amount of rain. Ended up in my basement. So I knew we had a lot of rain.
Matt Jones
Did you call Servpro?
Ryan Lemond
They called me.
Drew Franklin
Remember?
Ryan Lemond
They actually reached out to me.
Matt Jones
How nice is that?
Ryan Lemond
Good customer relation is that?
Matt Jones
That's good. Well, so we are excited after a. Yesterday was I, I think I can speak for the group collectively a very cool, cool day for everybody. And we're going to talk about probably spend a decent part of the first part of the show here talking about what happened. Both the experience and Then getting to actually watch the basketball team in a. In a practice form. Because I think for all of us, that's the first time we got to. In sort of a real practice, you know, not kind of the fake pro day practice.
Ryan Lemond
First time for a pope practice for me, for sure.
Matt Jones
Yeah. So for people who don't know, they. They basically opened it up for UK Media members and their families. I'm gonna do a mea culpa. I may have screwed up a. Just a little bit. I didn't know that it was. That I wasn't supposed to say until after the event, so I said it on Tuesday, and I think I'm. Well, I don't think I did mess that up. So I think maybe some people then contact us. There might have been more people there than were originally intended. And that's my fault, and I need to apologize. I need to Drew, read the emails a little more.
Drew Franklin
I did see a lot of new faces that aren't normally covering the team. It was a thank you for covering the team event and saw a lot of new people.
Matt Jones
Well, that's okay. I apologize. I, I. That. And I was made very clear. That was not intentional. I was just excited, you know, and I didn't read the email. So I did something. That's something you would do, Ryan. That I did, I guess, on Tuesday.
Ryan Lemond
Now it makes sense why there wasn't enough chairs for the press conference.
Matt Jones
It was my fault. But more people got to have a good experience.
Ryan Lemond
Very true. A lot of people did.
Matt Jones
So they opened it up, and it was. It was just like. I don't know what's the best way to say it. It was just wholesome, Ryan, in. In. In such a sweet way. So people could bring their k. Bring one family member. And a lot of people brought their kids. The kids were so cute. Very cute. Like, kids just everywhere. So Pope does the press conference, and he says, media members, you cannot ask a question. Only the family members can ask a question. Which means you got, like, little kid questions, but you also got wives questions. I think you. A couple cases maybe got dad's questions. I encouraged my mom to ask a question, but she wouldn't do it. I want. I thought that would be good. I joked with Larry before we got in there. I was like, larry, you should. Larry, when we get there, you should just go, who is this? Like, the person taught Mike. Mark Pope. And he laughed. What I didn't realize is that he would actually do that. And, you know, he. He's got his volume sometimes. Can be. Because you Know, he's hearing. He's 88 years old. So Mark Pope's talking, and all of a sudden, right in the middle of it, he just reaches over and goes, who is that? And it was loud. Did you hear it? No, I didn't hear. Was loud. So my mom and I start laughing. And he's laughing because he's made every. Like, he's made us laugh, but we do all that. And then I just. I really just want to thank UK and Pope for making that happen. Sitting over there with my parents, they'd never been to anything like that, right. I'm not sure they'd ever been on the floor of rup. I. I kind of don't think they would have. They were just so happy throughout the whole thing. I mean, you know, they're sitting there. Jack Givens comes and sit. Sits with them. That's like my mom's favorite player of all time. You know, my parents are so pro. Trent Noah. Because he's from Harlem.
Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
Matt Jones
That it's out of control. Like, Trent Noah is the only player that Larry knows. So what? The drills would go on. He would commentate to me, but only what Trent Noah was doing. So he'd be like, he hasn't missed a 3 yet. Look at that pass. He hasn't missed a shot yet. Like, that was constant. And then my mom, she would cheer for Trent Noah like it was a game, but she didn't cheer for the other players. So he would make a shot, and she would go, yeah. And I was like, mom, this is a practice. We cannot. We cannot scream. And then we can't scream only for Trent Noah. You would have thought it was me out there playing the way they were with Trent Noah. But it went on through the whole thing. And then when it was over. This is what people need to understand about there about Mark Pope. When the practice was over, the players and the coaches not only came over, they came over and stayed Ryan for a long time.
Ryan Lemond
Oh, yes, they did.
Matt Jones
Like, the players interacted with all the children. Trent Noah went and Malachi Moreno. I asked them to take pictures with my family. They could not have been nicer. Those two kids. You talk about two kids that get Kentucky. I'm sure Jasper's same way. I just didn't get to talk to him. And I watched those players. I've seen. Look, in other eras, we've had players go up in the crowd, and sometimes, like, there'd be individual players that were nice, and then sometimes players wanted to go. Every single one of them. Not just Went in the crowd, stayed in it, interacted with people, thank them. I mean, they thanked them for, for covering the team. That's not, not me. People that will do that in this business. And then just on a personal level, like, it meant a lot to me. You know, as we were walking through the back, my mom we there. There's this, there's this thing that's outside the UK locker room and it looks like a movie. You know, when they have a movie and it'll say come play next, blah, blah, blah, and it'll be the next game. And then they have a picture of UK player doing the why. And they change it every game. They actually changed it. It was John Wall when we got there and it was Tony Delk when we left. But my mom is seeing the quotes and seeing the pictures and seeing the locker room and like she starts crying and she said, I so wish my dad that meant her father so my grandfather could be here. And she's right. Like, he's the one that got me into the game, into UK basketball. I mean, the thought that I watched these games as a kid and now I get to do this and I get to be back there from Middlesborough, Kentucky is crazy. And it made my mom emotional to be back there and then to go and do it, to watch a real practice, to have the coach come up after, ask my mom about her. The stuff she's doing with the doctoral with being the doctor of religion and Wheaton College and all this, and him be interested.
Ryan Lemond
He was, it was legit. He was interested.
Matt Jones
Larry looks at him and says, you know, my brother was the chaplain under Joe B.
Ryan Lemond
Hall.
Matt Jones
And then like he could. He just goes with that and talks to him. It was just a great night. And it's something I'll always remember. And I really, really thank them.
Ryan Lemond
It was a special event that Kentucky has never done anything like that ever before in letting us invite our families. And it was so cool for me. I took a moment and kind of watched. There you are, you're sitting there with your mom and dad. Alan Cutler sitting there with his grandson. Look to my right. Jack Pilgrim's there with his three month old. It was just all a three month old. Delari who was 88. And everybody was like, you could tell it was like Christmas Day. Almost everybody was so excited to be there. I loved watching your parents fanboy over Trent Noah. That was really kind of cool.
Matt Jones
My parents, I. I've never, you know, my parents are not really sports people. Like, I grew up a sports person, but My. It was really all from my grandfather. Like, my parents were not really sports, but they were sports people.
Ryan Lemond
Yesterday.
Matt Jones
They were, you know, and they were into it. And. And then you with your son.
Ryan Lemond
That's what I think.
Matt Jones
Like, you got to sit there with your son, and your son was into it. He was around your son a lot when he's not into things, he was into it. That was very cool.
Ryan Lemond
You know, I don't get to see much anymore since he's going off to college. But then he leans over, he goes, man, it's kind of weird. I've played against Jasper, Malachi, Trent, and Reese Potter, and there they are. They're out there now playing.
Matt Jones
And you talked about that with Pope. Yeah, so. And he did that. That conversation. You all may have seen. Mario posted a video of my and my mom's interaction with Pope, but here's what you should know, because people have said really, really nice stuff about that. Everybody had that interaction with. He did that with lots of different people, and they all got to have that moment. And the one thing I wish is I was wish there. I wish there's a way that over time, other groups of Kentucky fans get to do something like that. Like, other groups of Kentucky fans get to have that experience because, you know, it's what. It's what makes this place, like, really great. It's days like yesterday or what. And Pope said that in the back. He basically said, what makes Kentucky basket. I thought this was really articulate by him. What makes Kentucky basketball different from everything else? All right? Even from your Dukes, your North Carolinas, and your Kansas. What makes it different is there is a connection to the people of the state that is stronger here. And somebody asked, you know, how do you get your players to realize that? And he goes, it's the most important thing. He's like, you come here, you can get this experience at these other schools. Except that part. That's the part you can't get at other schools. And so I have to make sure they appreciate what they're getting. And Drew, I just thought that was really. That's really smart by him and true.
Drew Franklin
Absolutely. And I thought yesterday going into it was going to be awesome. That was a great idea from the moment the email popped up, but I didn't realize just how much it was going to affect people. I was excited as anyone to see a practice. I can't even remember the last time I got to go just watch a practice, but I had just as much fun watching other people's family. I didn't Even know a lot of them. Like, I sat by Cutler and his family, had some other kids around me. There was a moment where Lee K. Howard's daughter hit a shot where the team didn't have to run, barely pick up the ball, and she hit a shot from the SEC at the end.
Matt Jones
Of practice every day, apparently, what they do is they pick a player and they have to hit a free throw. And if they don't hit it, the team runs. And so it's to put them in the moment of difficult shot with a lot on the line, because the team is like, you better make it. In this case, they brought a little girl out there to do it, and then she made it. Could barely hold the ball, and she made it, and the place went absolutely nuts. And that was. That was. That was awesome. But the star, by the way, of the entire event was Larry.
Ryan Lemond
Yeah, no doubt.
Matt Jones
I mean, everybody was coming up to him. He. It almost made me cry. He showed up in his little ksr. He did. So I called him Larry the intern all day. I made him clean up after. Like, he's low man on the totem pole, right? He hasn't worked there very long, but he.
Drew Franklin
I loved his hat. First thing I noticed when I walked.
Matt Jones
In the door, it was so cute.
Ryan Lemond
To see them fanboy over Trent Noah.
Matt Jones
I can't believe they love Trent Noah more than me. I can just say, like, Trent Noah. And they're not the only ones. Like, everybody from the mountains has that trend Noah thing. I wasn't really here when Richie Farmer was here, all right? I was a Richie Farmer, Stan, as a kid, but I don't know. I didn't even go to a game. I went. I saw him in the SEC tournament. That's the only time I ever saw him. So I don't know what it was like with Richie Farmer, and I'm sure in some ways it was like this with Rick chapter, but I've never seen anything like it is with Trent. No. As great as. As much as people loved Reed shepherd, it's different with Trent. No, it is a little different, especially for the people from the mountains. They all act like Trent Noah is their son, my mom included. How did that happen?
Drew Franklin
There's a Trent Noah jersey in the crowd.
Matt Jones
There was a Noah jersey in the media. There were people wearing Trent. Like, I.
Ryan Lemond
The.
Matt Jones
The mountains connection to Trent Noah is something Ryan, I. I've not seen in my lifetime.
Ryan Lemond
Is it just because he's from Harlan?
Matt Jones
I think it's because that's part of it. He's from, like, the most mountain place is Harlem.
Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
Matt Jones
And then I think because he looks like a baby, a little bit like he's got that red. The red cheeks and all that got overlooked.
Drew Franklin
And then gets the state championship. The scholarship from Pope with the coaching.
Matt Jones
Team takes Harlan county to the state championship.
Ryan Lemond
I think that's part of it.
Matt Jones
Yeah, I do think that's part of it.
Ryan Lemond
I want to go back to the press conferences for a minute. We did get a couple of really good questions. The one little girl asked him about his hair.
Matt Jones
You know, little girl said, you're not bald. Why don't. Why do you shave your head? I like that question.
Ryan Lemond
Then I think it was a mom or a girlfriend asked about what he's going to wear for Halloween tomorrow night.
Matt Jones
He said he didn't know Jack's wife, by the way. I don't like when coaches do that. You know, it's Halloween.
Drew Franklin
You can.
Matt Jones
And you can come up with, yes. You've seen the decorations. Like, you. I mean, I know you're focused, but, you know, it's Halloween.
Drew Franklin
Yeah. Just lie and say you're gonna be a ghost or a zombie.
Matt Jones
Like, you know, it's Halloween. But anyway, it was. It was a great day, and it was fun having you all there. Mario documenting all of it. It was very, very cool, and it.
Ryan Lemond
Was good to kind of, you know, people got to see you in a different light. You were there as a son. You weren't there as Matt Jones. Ksr. You were there.
Matt Jones
First off, that's not a Matt Jones.
Ryan Lemond
Oh, yeah.
Matt Jones
Like, I don't do that.
Ryan Lemond
I'm Matt Jones. I'm ksr. You were there as Matt Jones. The sun yesterday kind of get to see you in a different light. For people, we get to see that. Sometimes other people don't get to see you in that light. You were so happy to introduce your parents to Matt, to Mark Pope. You were so happy to introduce him to Trent Noah. You could just see it.
Matt Jones
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Matt Jones
Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. I just retweeted the picture of the little girl making the free throw. That was kind of cool. And then they, you know, they also broke down the huddle at the end of practice and let the little girl do the thing.
Ryan Lemond
Yeah, they do. I wish we could have heard what they were saying. Like, Pope went to every player in the huddle to say something, but then Cutler's grandson and Lee K's daughter let them say something also to the group. Yeah, I love that.
Matt Jones
All right, so let me, let me say as I, as I talk about some of what we're going to talk about with the practice, I want to say none of this is to say a criticism of the, of the past regime. I just want to compare to you because the difference in the kind of practice I went to yesterday and the kind of practice we would go to with Cal, I'm not saying one or the other is better. I just want to sort of explain the difference because I've now been to both and so I think it's important to see the first. Here's the number one thing that I took away more than any. Well, really two things I took away from the practice. Number one, they are studying and constant teaching. Ryan, Every single thing that's done.
Ryan Lemond
Yep.
Matt Jones
Literally every single thing. They are recreating situations in games. They are stopping after every play. Each coach will go up to a different person and kind of tell them what they did and didn't do. Right. It is constant coaching and it is very situational and play oational, meaning like if you went to a cow practice, there was a lot of just going up and down the court putting players in situations where they're like, all right, you're going to have to make these decisions. Just keep making them and eventually you'll get it right. They're making a decision and then coming out and analyzing it. And in the moment coaching. Did you notice what I'm talking about?
Ryan Lemond
A lot of coaching, a lot of teaching defense. They were working and coaching on defense. They'd work on the press, they work against the press, they work on out of bounds plays. I mean they were just constant teaching.
Matt Jones
And they would do things like when we make a basket and they inbound it. He would say to the point guard, I heard him say, you're going to give one jab step to the point guard and if you don't get the ball, you get back. His point was, you got to either steal the inbound or get back. Do not steal, then try again or you'll get beat down the court. Little thing, probably something. Everybody that played big time basketball knows something. I'd actually never hurt you could my watch this in the game. He said, I want whoever's guarding the, whoever's guarding the point guard to the moment it comes in, make a quick movement. If you don't get it, run back down the fourth. We'll see. We'll probably see that a lot.
Ryan Lemond
Probably. We'll see that a lot.
Matt Jones
Little things like that. He happened throughout. Then you mentioned the defense. They spent a lot of time on defense. I'm sure they've spent a lot of time on offense, but they probably spent 50% of the practice drew on defense. And like he had a group that was Colin Chandler away Noah, which surprised me a little bit for this Diabate and Garrison.
Ryan Lemond
Yeah, right.
Matt Jones
And they played, I won't say most of practice, but they were the majority of the court, wouldn't you agree? They were the blue team. They were the blue team low and Aberdeen were out.
Ryan Lemond
Right.
Matt Jones
So they didn't practice. So that's, I think Aberdeen's probably in that group. If he's not hurt. Well, I don't know if he's hurt. He just didn't, he didn't practice much. He would stop that group and go, you all can be the best group of five defenders in the country. He was like, this group of five. You all can be the best five. And he, and later one of the staff told me it's because that's the one group they can put on the floor where everyone can switch and guard every man. They could switch on everything with that group, which is again away. Noah, Chandler, Garrison and Diabate he. He said, you all should be the top five group of defenders in the country. And I just thought that was interesting. Who would have thought Trent Noah would be in that group?
Drew Franklin
You know, looking at Trent Noah last year, I would have thought Pope's just being Pope kind of doing the patino hyperbole a little bit. But this new Trent Noah, you can see how Pope could consider that. I still don't know that he's going to be a lockdown guy, but as we've said from pro day, and everybody's seen him at madness and blue, white, he looks completely different and not stop moving.
Matt Jones
I don't even think it's locked down. It's. They. They literally switch every screen when you do that. They don't ever get picked because they're just switching everything. And, you know, I remember Bobby Knight. Many, many years ago, I heard Bobby Knight say, the perfect defense would be one where you could switch every pick. He was like, if you could have a team where you could do that, you could beat everybody. And I think that's his. Was his. Is his theory with that group. They're all versatile enough to guard all five positions.
Ryan Lemond
And the only time Pope got mad the whole practice is when Diabate didn't switch.
Matt Jones
That's the only time I've ever. I was thinking this one time I've ever heard him raise his voice.
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Matt Jones
He yelled. I've never, never heard him yell. Diabate got the first yell I've ever heard from Mark Pope. I mean, he played into him on that.
Drew Franklin
I remember I wrote down what he said. He said, you're joking around, and I've told you four times. But it was extremely loud and aggressive in his face.
Matt Jones
Go back to Cal. There was one of those moments 15 times a practice. But it probably works more in some ways, the Pope, because since you never hear it, when you do hear it, you got to be like, oh, Everyone.
Drew Franklin
Around me kind of had a jump. They were all startled. Moment we looked at each other, like, did Mark Pope just snap?
Matt Jones
Also, we saw, for me, the first okay, this is what Cam Williams can be practice. Because Cam Williams was deadly in that first half of the practice.
Ryan Lemond
He was maybe my biggest takeaway out of all the players Josiah and I talked about on the way home. Who's your one big takeaway? We both said, cam Williams.
Matt Jones
That's the first time I've seen him. Like, okay, yeah, that's what they're talking about.
Ryan Lemond
That's why NBA guys like him.
Matt Jones
That's why the NBA guys Want him that. Okay, now I see that was the first time and you saw him. He was talking trash the whole practice that I was so glad to see that because I've been really skeptical a little bit of him. That was the practice where I saw. Okay, now I get it.
Drew Franklin
I kept up with the play by play, wrote a full game recap on the site. And he's a big part of it. He had the stealing slam, then immediately, almost another steal and slam. But they blew a whistle as he was on the fast break and then late in the game hit a deep three. That really mattered as they were getting intense.
Matt Jones
Yeah. Yeah. Really cool stuff. So if you have questions. 859-280-2287. I have a couple more things. I want to talk about that. And then we also got to talk about what's going on at lsu. You think things are bad here? Just be glad we're not at LSU right now. That's. Well, maybe it'd be fun. But be glad you're not. We'll be right back. Yeah, I don't, I don't like that commercial. I've never. Skyrizi. What is Skyrizi?
Ryan Lemond
Well, it helps you if you have plaque psoriasis.
Matt Jones
Moderate to severe.
Ryan Lemond
Moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
Matt Jones
I don't like the commercial. I don't like how they in their regular frame of mind say I have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. Because no one talks like that. No one says I have moderate to severe. Like I've got a lot. I've got a little.
Drew Franklin
What if I have mild.
Matt Jones
But what is it? What's plaque psoriasis?
Drew Franklin
I don't know.
Matt Jones
Plaque is in your teeth. Yeah, it's got to be since like.
Drew Franklin
Your teeth hurt, I guess. Sounds like a personal problem.
Matt Jones
What is it? A lot of people skin condition and it can be moderate to severe in the medical field. But that's not how you normal human beings talk. Yeah, so not our teeth. I say if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, get Skyrizi.
Ryan Lemond
Yeah, it'll help you. That is where the West Virginia School of Medicine church is.
Drew Franklin
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Ryan Lemond
From the basketball.
Matt Jones
Basketball, like actual practice that they flat.
Ryan Lemond
Out get after it. I mean those guys are competing. They've got. They were going five on five and acting like it was like in a big sec game. They were getting after it. That was my big takeaway. That and Cam Williams by the way.
Matt Jones
Shout out to the scout team. Yeah, the blue and white team trade off scout team goes the whole practice. That group of five dudes there's like, it's. It's Walker Horn, three guys who look like they may have played last couple years. And then the 45 year old man like they go, he's a buck. He almost dunked on Brandon Garrison again. Yeah, he bare he almost got him again.
Drew Franklin
I'll put our grad assistance against anybody in the country.
Matt Jones
Dude, our grad assistants can play. One of those guys played at trance. He right.
Ryan Lemond
Jalen Green.
Drew Franklin
There's a new one that was a liberty last year that looked like Steph Curry for a few minutes yesterday.
Matt Jones
He was good. Larry at one point was like five on the green team is really good. I'm like, well he's not on the team. He played at Trancy last year. But, but they, those dudes are good. And they go the whole practice. Like the blue and white team come in and out they go the whole time.
Drew Franklin
That's sticking with your. Your changes from how it used to be. It used to be a table in the middle, cow with a whistle, maybe Robick, maybe Kenny. And they were leading practice which was fine. Now Pope's got 50 dudes that are doing something all of them are doing.
Matt Jones
They're everywhere.
Drew Franklin
Everyone has an assignment. At one point Cody figures leading and everybody else shuts up. Another point, another assistance lead.
Ryan Lemond
Fox did it for a little bit.
Drew Franklin
Guys that I've never even seen in my life have an iPad out there giving instruction.
Matt Jones
And let me say some of you all that really didn't like the way who'd go, well Cal did draw up offense. You would be in heaven because they call time out. And he pulls up the little clipboard and he's drawing plays for practice. The scrimmage went to overtime so he was drawing plays for practice. And Colin, they were right in front of us. And Colin Chan was like, well no, what if we back cut like they were. I was just thinking this is so the opposite of the last time.
Drew Franklin
And I'll note the blue team which are Your starters needed a bucket. With 20 seconds left, they called timeout and drew up a perfect play where Noah pump faked and hit Garrison for an open dunk. I mean, that looked like a. Just a perfect smooth, like he said to be October. In an early practice, throughout their running sets and also just simply practicing in Rupp arena, they were pumping in crowd noise.
Matt Jones
Well, let's mention that UK did not practice in Rubberina under Cal, which is kind of crazy if you think about it. They've now set up where they're going to practice two days before most games this year. Not all of them because they don't always have the arena, but most days and you. And they pumped in crowd. It got loud. When they felt crowd really loud.
Drew Franklin
They had to go the free throw line and they turned up the volume. Diabate and Jasper Johnson both made one and ones to get their team in it with the. With the noise pumping.
Matt Jones
One person, right? Matt, I love the video of you with your mom because you look like a proud dad talking about his kid. When you were talking about your mom, my wife said, I hope our son looks at me the way Matt looks at his mom. Now. That's very sweet.
Ryan Lemond
And I thought. I'm trying to say that we got to see you as a proud son, and you are introducing your mom and dad to a new world. Your world that you live in that they don't get to be a part of most of the time. So it was kind of cool.
Matt Jones
It was. All right. One more thing before we go to the phones. What about what's happening at lsu?
Ryan Lemond
That's a train wreck.
Matt Jones
Honestly, it looks like, oh, brother, where art thou? Like, I thought we kind of were. I thought we were past this time in American history. So Brian Kelly gets fired. I think most people's presumption is, okay, the AD is gonna hire. Next thing you know, the governor gets up there. Not sure who asked him, but he gets up there. First of all, how come nobody told me the Virginia or the Louisiana governor sounded like that? Did you hear him? Yeah, he sounds like Foghorn Leghorn.
Ryan Lemond
He does.
Matt Jones
I mean, I say. I say like. Like kind of what you want from your. Yes, if you're gonna have a governor, it sounds like that he needs to be from Louisiana. I just didn't know that. I gotta be honest with you. I didn't know there were still people like that. Like, I thought that was all relics of movies about the 1930s. You know, I've been around people with bayou accents, but they usually don't end up the governor. So I don't know how somebody didn't tell me he sounded like that. He gets up there and he's just going off about college sports. You know, he sounds like some of our callers. Sometimes he does, right? He's like, college sports are out of control. And then they say, are you gonna let the. Like, when is the AD gonna make the hire? And he just goes, brian Woodward has. He's gonna have no role in this. We're keeping him away from it. And I'm like, whoa, he's the athletic director. Why do you have an athletic director if he doesn't get to be part of the hire, Drew?
Drew Franklin
So governor's in charge there something with the board.
Matt Jones
Can you imagine Andy Beshear stay standing up and going, mitch Barnhart will not be making this hire. Can you. I mean, can you even picture that?
Drew Franklin
No, not at all. I can't be doing that. What would he say? What would he even say?
Matt Jones
I mean, yeah, Mitch can't be doing that. I mean, he's up there. Wow. Well, I say. I say, we're not going to have the Woodward out there. And then. So then he. They say, well, who's gonna do it? And he says, the board of supervisors, which is basically like our board of trustees. They're gonna do it. Okay, well, that's weird because, like, how many of you even know who the chairman of the board of trustees is at Kentucky? Does anyone know?
Ryan Lemond
No.
Matt Jones
Does anyone in here know? I don't. I don't know. Do you know who the chair.
Ryan Lemond
I do not know who it is.
Matt Jones
Okay, so imagine that was the person picking our next football coach. That's basically what they said. So they went to that guy.
Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
Matt Jones
Now, like, hey, so we're here. You're picking the new football coach. And he goes, oh, I didn't know that.
Ryan Lemond
The look on his face.
Matt Jones
He didn't even know.
Ryan Lemond
Didn't know that was not an act.
Matt Jones
He found out for the first time in front of the media that he was gonna be the dude picking the coach.
Drew Franklin
Yeah. They said you're heading up the committee. You know, what you looking for? Like, first I've heard of this. I guess we're gonna go get a good coach.
Matt Jones
I was about to go on to Jamaica. I mean, what. What a show down there, right?
Drew Franklin
Obviously, this people debate which is the biggest job in the country for me. It's not a question. This is the biggest job in the country that's open right now. And they do not seem to be on the same page whatsoever since Moving on from Kelly.
Matt Jones
I mean, if you were Elaine Kiffin and you got, like, a pretty good situation at Ole Miss, and you out there seeing the governor go, I say. I say, papa, old annual Flower Hour, like, I. Would there be a part of you that say, maybe I just stay at Ole Miss? Right.
Drew Franklin
Oh, you don't want to go work for the guy who didn't know he was in charge of hiring.
Matt Jones
Is you or is you not my constituency? I would think you might move away.
Ryan Lemond
You definitely have found your next voice for the UK Federal Credit.
Matt Jones
I just couldn't. I couldn't believe that guy. I couldn't let the.
Ryan Lemond
Let the governor do the governor things. Let the AD do the AD thing.
Matt Jones
I mean, I. Listen, I like Andy Beshear, but do I think Andy Beshear should hire the next, like, football coach? No, not at all. That's not why you elect him.
Drew Franklin
He's got other things going on.
Matt Jones
And the board, I mean, we don't know who the board is. Like, I mean, Mitch Barnhart, for better or worse, there's the accountability of having a job, and people know who it is. And if it doesn't work, people know who's at fault. I just. I could not believe watching that scene yesterday. And, you know, by the way, other governors are going to do this.
Ryan Lemond
Oh, yeah.
Matt Jones
Like, when's Ron DeSantis gonna have his? Because, I mean, Florida jobs open, opening. Florida State job might be open, too. He might get two of them.
Ryan Lemond
Got a chance to get my name out there, get some people to support me if I pick the right coach, I.
Matt Jones
It was crazy. Would it make you less likely to want to go there if I was.
Ryan Lemond
Lane Kiffin or another? Yeah. If you not.
Matt Jones
Not like a coach, that. That job would be the highlight of their career. But if you were Lane Kiffin, would you be like, yeah, I don't know.
Ryan Lemond
I don't know if I want to want to tiptoe into that train wreck that's going on down there where Governor's trying to do the ad. Your. Your boss's job.
Matt Jones
I mean, it might be good news for us because if you're John Sumrall, who right now is the betting favorite for that job, there's a world in which he would say, well, it's a better job than Kentucky, but Andy Beshear is not going to be calling me up like that, you know, and you.
Drew Franklin
Could have a head start on getting some raw while LSU doesn't even know who's supposed to call him while they're tripping over Their own feet. You, you have a little bit of an advantage if you want to give him a call.
Ryan Lemond
I love that video. They, the, the supervisor guy, when they ask him, because you can tell the look at his face, he's like, what are you talking about?
Matt Jones
I, I, this is my prediction. I think that dude, I think that governor just got worked up, you know what I mean? When he was talking and I don't know if he thought the whole thing through. Like, I can't imagine that he went on stage saying, I'm gonna say the AD has no role in this because then why don't you just fire the athletic director? Like, why, why see the athletic director if you're not going to let him hire the coach?
Drew Franklin
It's a good point.
Matt Jones
Why not just hire the dude who doesn't know what's going on as the athletic director if he's going to be the one hiring the coach?
Drew Franklin
Governor's trust in his board and the board hasn't yet learned that that's part of.
Matt Jones
Here we go. This is how wild it is. First take, next segment, Louisiana Governor to hire the fellowship football coach. That's how you know it's crazy. The fact that they're going into 859-280-2287. We're gonna take a break. Be right back. KSR.
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Ryan Lemond
Welcome back.
Matt Jones
It is Kentucky Sports Radio. All right, so since we mentioned this, I guess you should know, we should know who the UK Board of trustees are. First of all, if you go online to the UK website, looks like a group of partying people. I'm gonna speak up if you know any of these people. All right, ready to go. The chair is Brit Brockman, M.D. do we know.
Ryan Lemond
Do not.
Matt Jones
Claude Skip Barry the third, who looks to be a nice guy.
Ryan Lemond
Do not.
Matt Jones
Do not. Samuel Boone. Todd Case, David Fig, Ron Gagan. Brenda Gosney, Jim Gray. Hey, there's one former mayor of Lexington. Janie Greer, Lance Lucas, Elizabeth McCoy, Hannah Minor Myers.
Drew Franklin
Oh, Shout Out Madisonville.
Matt Jones
You know her?
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Matt Jones
Wow, look at Paula Leach, Pope C. Frank Shoop. Does he have a car dealership? Cars, huh? All right, and then that's a staff member, faculty member, and Bob Vance. I Think he went to Trancy. All right, so that. Those are your. Those are your UK board of trustees. Those would be the people that would be hiring your. Your football coach in the world. Like lsu.
Drew Franklin
Let's go win the sec.
Matt Jones
You think that'd be ready for it?
Drew Franklin
I think that's a good committee.
Matt Jones
Before we go, the phones. Big game this weekend, Ryan. Middlesboro versus Sayre. Sayre High School is coming from the big city of Lexington. Their little private, you know, uniforms and all that, they're going all the way to Middlesboro, deep into the mountains. It's gonna be quite a culture shock for our folks at Sayre. The. The sort of, you know, down here in. In rich part of town. Got to come all the way to Middlesbrough. Sayers 8, 1. Middlesboro's 8. No. Final game of the regular season.
Drew Franklin
What airport do you even have? They can handle their.
Matt Jones
Where are they even going to park their private jet? I don't know where they're going to land.
Ryan Lemond
This could be the class A state championship. These are two class A powerhouse teams meeting down on the fields of Middlesborough. If you said Middlesbrough's eight. No. Must have been a hell of a recruiting year through the tunnel to get those recruits.
Matt Jones
Why do you always think we recruit?
Ryan Lemond
Well, because you do.
Matt Jones
We do not recruit.
Ryan Lemond
Harrogate, Tennessee has been good to Middlesboro.
Matt Jones
Harrogate has like 3000 people. Why do you act like there's so many people in Harriet?
Ryan Lemond
They produce, I guess, a lot of good football talent.
Matt Jones
Okay, so I was. I was thinking about this when I saw they were playing. Is there a bigger culture difference between two teams that could play each other than Sayre and Middlesboro?
Ryan Lemond
Well, when was it Martin county went to Louisville to play?
Matt Jones
Yeah, but the thing about Martin wasn't Martin. It was Jackson County. Jackson, Jackson County, Iroquois. Is it at least the. There is a cultural difference between West End of Louisville and eastern Kentucky, but they both are kind of economically similarly very similar. I mean, Sayrey is like, you know, champagne and caviar.
Ryan Lemond
What's Middlesboro?
Matt Jones
Middlesboro is chicken livers and beer. We do not. Our kids do not eat chicken livers and beer in Middlesbrough. I was gonna say loaded potato casserole, but. But that all sounds good. So from that perspective, I mean, I would say SARE is one of, if not the richest schools in the state.
Ryan Lemond
Oh, there is no doubt.
Matt Jones
And Middlesboro is probably one of the poorest school schools in the state, and.
Ryan Lemond
They'Re both super football programs right now, so that's.
Matt Jones
It's kind of that, that's really cool to see.
Ryan Lemond
Larry French, kind of a blue blood football coach down there, Middlesboro. And then you got Chad Pennington.
Matt Jones
Pennington is the coach, former Marshall and New York jets quarterback. That's the Sayre coach. So anyway, I think Middlesborough at Bradner Stadium, there'll be a big, it'll be a big event this Friday. Who's next?
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Adam is up. Adam, go ahead, Adam. Hey, what's up, Matt? I really appreciate you sharing your story about your, your parents getting to go to the, the basketball event. Meet Mark Pope. I kind of grew up in something similar that I was going to Kentucky football games very young, like 4 or 5, and just went with my grandparents. And it just, it grew in me that I love Kentucky football so much because of that experience that I had with them. So I appreciate you sharing that story. Yeah, I will. I thank you. And you know, I appreciate the call for me, you know, when I growing up in the mountains, my, the reason I love the state is through the basketball program, which was through my grandfather. And just the, you know, I mean I had, I, I didn't go to Rupp Arena. I don't know that I ever went until college. I got to go see him a couple times in Thompson Bowling Arena. We would go watch Kentucky and I think we lost every single time we went. And then my grandfather and his friends would go to the SEC tournament, which became a tradition that I then continued with my friends 35 years later. But yeah, there's something about being in Rupp Arena, Drew, that's kind of like that. And you know, you, you were like, you were there with your life in a similar, that.
Drew Franklin
And I have the same connection with my grandparents. Their living room had a frame picture of Scott Padgett in 98, the Jack Givens Sports Illustrated cover. It wasn't like family photos. My grandparents living room was like a man cave when growing up. So I also think about them often when I'm doing stuff like why am I here in the locker room right now?
Matt Jones
Yeah, I completely agree. Who's next? David is up. David, go ahead, David. Hey, Matt. What's going on? David.
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I'm excited for the game tonight and I just, I just realized something last week. What's that? This is the first time, I think this is the first time Georgetown has.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, well, we talked about that yesterday, David. Not only is Georgetown not played Kentucky since 84, of course this is their moment where they lost to Villanova Here in Rupp Arena. Two in 85. The. Probably the. I guess that's the last time they've been in the national championship as well. So a lot of memories for both schools.
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How I see it. Well, it was. Did we. Did you go. You didn't go to the Georgetown Villanova game, did you know?
Ryan Lemond
I remember watching on TV, though. Who is it? St. John's There were three teams in the Big East. Who was the fourth team?
Matt Jones
I know the answer. Do you. Do you want to guess? Do you want to know who the fourth team in the Lexington Final Four was? Georgetown, Villanova, St. John's and. Anybody here? No, I know. I don't say it, David. I know. Okay, well, I'll let you guys. If nobody here knows. Wait a minute. Did you look it up, David?
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I just remember it. Okay. What is it? Memphis. I was gonna say that. Memphis. That's right. Except back then it was Memphis State.
Ryan Lemond
Yeah. Keith Lee. Yeah.
Matt Jones
Good call. Well done. Well, David, I. I hope you enjoy the game tonight. No Big Blue. All right. 859-280-2287.
Drew Franklin
This game's big for both fan bases. They haven't been back to RUP since one of their worst moments. And we haven't seen Georgetown since 84 when they knocked us out. So both teams have some. You get.
Matt Jones
You feel good about us winning tonight?
Drew Franklin
I do. I'm not sure about Aberdeen because he didn't practice, but Georgetown's like, had they.
Matt Jones
Said something about him? No, I didn't. I mean, he didn't practice at all.
Drew Franklin
He was in uniform, but nothing.
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Date: October 30, 2025
Hosts: Matt Jones, Ryan Lemond, Drew Franklin
Location: KSBar & Grille, Lexington, KY
Main Event: Behind-the-scenes UK Basketball practice, family day recap, exhibition preview, and LSU coaching chaos
The October 30th, 2025, edition of KSR kicked off with the crew—Matt Jones, Ryan Lemond, and Drew Franklin—excitedly reflecting on a unique behind-the-scenes Kentucky Basketball practice event. The hosts recapped the heartwarming family atmosphere at the open-media practice, shared personal stories, discussed the impact of new coach Mark Pope’s approach compared to the previous regime, previewed the UK vs. Georgetown exhibition, and humorously broke down the coaching drama at LSU.
Heartwarming Event: UK invited media members and their families for a special open practice, creating an intimate, family-oriented experience at Rupp Arena.
Mark Pope’s Approach: Only family members were allowed to ask questions during the press conference, leading to adorable and unconventional moments.
Personal Anecdotes: Matt Jones recounted his parents’ joy, especially their fandom for Trent Noah, who hails from their hometown.
Notable Quote
“It was just wholesome, Ryan, in such a sweet way... Kids everywhere. Pope does the press conference, and he says, media members, you cannot ask a question. Only the family members can ask a question.”
– Matt Jones (07:27)
Family Connections: The hosts emphasized how the event helped them reconnect with their roots and the tradition of Kentucky basketball as a family affair.
Notable Quote
“Sitting over there with my parents, they'd never been to anything like that, right?... They were just so happy throughout the whole thing.”
– Matt Jones (08:06)
After-practice Interactions: Players and coaches spent extended time with attendees, taking photos, chatting, and showing appreciation.
Notable Quote
“Every single one of them... not just went in the crowd, stayed in it, interacted with people, thanked them...”
– Matt Jones (09:31)
Hands-On Teaching: Pope and his staff intensely coached and taught through every rep, providing constant situational feedback.
Notable Quote
“Literally every single thing. They are recreating situations in games. They are stopping after every play. Each coach will go up to a different person and kind of tell them what they did and didn't do right. It is constant coaching...”
– Matt Jones (23:41)
Defense and Switchability: Pope’s “blue team” lineup (Chandler, Away, Noah, Diabate, Garrison) was highlighted for its defensive versatility (“best five defenders in the country”).
Practice Innovation: The staff used crowd noise simulations and drew up sets in real-time, contrasting to previous years.
Notable Quote
"Now Pope's got 50 dudes that are doing something, all of them are doing... At one point, Cody Figures is leading, and everybody else shuts up."
– Drew Franklin (31:57)
Trent Noah: Local connections and his transformed play received praise.
Cam Williams: Displayed NBA-caliber talent for the first time during the practice.
“That’s the first time I’ve seen him...I see now why NBA guys like him.” – Matt Jones (28:18)
Scout/Grad Assistant Team: Hosts gave a shout-out to the scout team, with Drew joking their grad assistants could take on anyone.
The hosts humorously walked listeners through LSU’s football coaching fiasco: the governor declared the AD would have ‘no role’ in the hire and bizarrely handed responsibility to the board chair—who found out he was in charge from the media.
Matt lampooned the Louisiana governor’s Foghorn Leghorn accent, pondering how attractive LSU’s toxic process would seem to top candidates.
Notable Quote
“He gets up there and he's just going off about college sports. You know, he sounds like some of our callers... He's like, 'College sports are out of control!'”
– Matt Jones (34:33)
LSU Chaos Timeline (34:03–40:17)
Family Practice Vibes
“Like, kids just everywhere... so Pope does the press conference... only family members can ask... you got little kid questions, wives questions...”
– Matt Jones (07:21-07:27)
Trent Noah Fandom
“Trent Noah is the only player that Larry knows. So during the drills, he would commentate to me, but only what Trent Noah was doing.”
– Matt Jones (08:29)
Practice Takeaways
“They are studying and constant teaching, Ryan. Every single thing that’s done.”
– Matt Jones (23:41)
Crowd Noise Simulator
“They pumped in crowd noise… it got loud… They had to go to the free throw line and they turned up the volume.”
– Drew Franklin (33:00)
Mark Pope as Coach
“That's the only time I've ever heard him raise his voice... Diabate got the first yell I've ever heard from Mark Pope. I mean, he played into him on that.”
– Matt Jones (27:23)
The show was upbeat, personal, and full of affectionate teasing, as the hosts mixed nostalgia, humor, and thoughtful sports analysis. Matt Jones’ storytelling set a welcoming tone, while the banter kept the hour lively and engaging.
If you missed this episode, you’ll catch not only the usual Kentucky basketball updates, but rare, behind-the-scenes access into UK’s new era under Mark Pope, brimming with warmth, humility, and a return to roots. The show blended technical basketball insights with family-first sports culture, and wrapped up with biting humor about the wild world of SEC football.
For fans and families alike, this episode sums up why Kentucky sports is more than just wins and losses—it’s community, connection, and the joy of passing tradition forward.