2025-12-05- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

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Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR)

Date: December 5, 2025
Episode: KSR - Hour 1
Hosts: Matt Jones, Ryan Lemond, Drew Franklin, Shannon the Dude
Location: Ashley Furniture Outlet, Glasgow, Kentucky

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Episode Overview

This KSR episode broadcasts live from Ashley Furniture in Glasgow, Kentucky, bringing a festive, community vibe as fans lounge on sofas and beds while the crew delivers UK sports updates, breaking program news, and a major personal announcement from the KSR family. While it dives into UK basketball, football staff changes, and rivalry storylines, it also features recaps on high school state championships and banter about the quirks of covering live broadcasts from a furniture store.

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1. Celebration & Breaking Personal News

Drew Franklin’s Big Announcement

• [05:06] Drew Franklin shares that he and Abby are expecting a baby girl.
• Quote:
  • Drew: “We are on our way to Nashville and we want to share with everyone that we are expecting a baby girl. Ready for my girl dad era. I will take any tips that you guys...”
  • Matt: “Baby girl, after 15 years of Kentucky Sports Radio on the radio, this is the first KSR child...I almost feel like a proud uncle.” ([06:07])
• The team jokes about naming options (“Ryan Franklin has a nice ring,” “Ashley” after the furniture store), and emphasizes this milestone for the KSR crew.
• Drew mentions Masters Sunday as the due date—a nod to sports fans.

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2. UK Sports News

Volleyball Update

• [07:24] UK Volleyball wins its first NCAA tournament round, beats Wofford, faces UCLA next (game at 7:00 PM, may be a rolling start).
• Team acknowledges UK Volleyball's consistent postseason performance.

Basketball:

• Preview: Kentucky vs. Gonzaga
  • Critical road test in Nashville (7:00 PM game).
  • Team expresses concern over Kentucky’s recent on-court issues.
  • News that point guard Jalen Lowe is expected to return from injury soon.
  • Quote:
    • Matt: “That is huge news right? Because I mean I don’t mean to be pessimistic but I feel like if we didn’t have Jalen Lowe, I don’t know if we’re going to be good this year.” ([20:57])
    • Drew: “He’ll get the offense moving. I don’t know if we’ll see him tonight. I hope we do because we know how desperate it’s getting already this early in the season." ([21:13])
  • High ankle sprain for Mohamed Diabate could keep him out until SEC play.
• Concerns about Kentucky’s offense, lack of chemistry, and rebounding issues—especially after the recent North Carolina loss.
  • Quote:
    • Matt: “We look so discombobulated on offense...we can’t shoot. We have like two guys that can beat people off the dribble.” ([25:55])
    • Drew: “No effort. That was a big problem, too. I mean, they got crushed on the board.” ([25:57])
• Speculation about team chemistry:
  • Matt: “It does not look to me like the team likes each other.”
  • Shannon: “If there is off the court chemistry issues, that’s a bigger issue in its own.” ([28:51–29:16])

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3. UK Football: Staff Moves & Recruiting

Major Staff News

• [08:45] UK to appoint Joe Sloan (from LSU) as Offensive Coordinator and hire Pete Nocta (Louisville’s head recruiting coordinator).
• Quote:
  • Matt: “They are going to steal Louisville’s head recruiting coordinator...Pete Nocta is coming to Kentucky...in what I think is a very surprising move.” ([08:45])
  • Ryan: “I’ve known him since he was like five years old...His dad is a longtime high school football coach in Lexington. Pete grew up running the sidelines...people love him, and that’s why they’ve done well in recruiting, because. Because of. He’s just that guy you like.” ([10:20])
• Discussion of rivalry implications; both schools now have staff with deep Kentucky roots. Vince Marrow’s reaction noted as potentially related to Nocta’s move.
• The team's optimistic about building a “Kentucky-connected” coaching staff, expecting positive recruiting momentum and rivalry fuel.
  • Shannon: "Let's keep the guys here home." ([11:23])
  • Matt: "They have Vince. We now have their recruiting director…on the football side, this is the spiciest this rivalry has been in a while, wouldn’t you think?" ([15:20])

Offensive Coordinator Discussion

• [12:32, 30:00–33:58] Joe Sloan’s hire discussed:
  • Experience at LSU, coached Jaden Daniels.
  • Hand-off of play-calling from Will Stein to Sloan considered a major trust move.
  • Some skepticism from callers about Sloan’s record at LSU (offense struggled last year).
  • Matt’s perspective: “One bad season...you could say that about a lot of people, but I would say our head coach is one of the best offensive minds in the country. He chose this guy…I think you got to give him some leeway.” ([30:33])
  • Drew: “I completely agree. And LSU just had problems overall...I'm willing to, you know...let Will Stein do that and we'll judge how it looks after first year.” ([32:08])
• Optimism about offensive improvement with the new staff mix.

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4. UK vs. Louisville Rivalry Narrative

• Rivalry narrative heats up with staff exchanges and former Louisville players now leading both teams.
• Matt notes how rare it is for rivalries to see favorite sons cross over (“It would be like if Jared Lorenzen went and coached at Louisville...people would go nuts.” ([16:00])
• A Louisville fan at the live event is gently teased.
• The crew notes the difference in intensity between football and basketball sides of the rivalry at the moment.

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5. High School Football State Championships

• Ryan previews three title games with Shannon, Drew, and Matt weighing in with predictions.
• Kentucky Country Day vs. Raceland, LCA vs. Owensboro Catholic, CAL vs. Murray discussed, with hometown allegiances, playful banter, and shoutouts to visiting teams and local support.
  • Matt: “If you went to Kentucky Country Day, I don’t think you’d fit in very well.” ([45:09])

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6. Memorable Moments, Quotes & Banter

The Ashley Furniture Experience

• KSR broadcasts from inside Ashley Furniture, with listeners literally lying on display mattresses—crowd described as “the most comfortable our audience has ever been.”
  • Matt: “You talk about the best job in the world. Take a nap, get $25.” ([02:59])
• Billy Rutledge provides comic relief by breaking a lamp.
  • “He now is going to owe Ashley Furniture money for this trip.” ([41:16])

Chemistry, Fatigue, and Subbing Debate

• Long segment on Mark Pope’s “mass substitutions” and team fatigue.
  • Matt: “I don’t care what Mark Pope says about analytics. I’ve watched for two years. These teams start fast. Mass substitution turns around. Happened against...Louisville on the road.” ([35:40])
  • Drew: “They were hot. You just turned it off like they were rolling. Who knows what they could have gone up by...I do not understand it.” ([37:05])

Callers’ Takes

• Paul: Skeptical of offensive coordinator hiring, frustrated by play style (“our offense seems to have a history of going east and west when we should be going north and south.” — [30:00])
• Evan: Frustration over lineup decisions, fears UK will rely too much on Brandon Garrison’s minutes.
• Ben: Congratulates Drew, then jokes about John Calipari’s recent press conference habits.
• “Just remember, like the divorced couple that goes and finds new love, he [Cal] wasn’t going to do that here...it wasn’t going to happen at this place” (Matt, [47:52])

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• “We are expecting a baby girl...Ready for my girl dad era.” — Drew Franklin [05:06]
• “Take a nap, get $25. I don’t know how you could do that.” — Matt Jones [02:59]
• “They are going to steal Louisville’s head recruiting coordinator...Pete Nocta is coming to Kentucky...in what I think is a very surprising move.” — Matt Jones [08:45]
• "He’s just that guy you like.” — Ryan Lemond on Pete Nocta [10:20]
• “It does not look to me like the team likes each other.” — Matt Jones [28:51]
• “We look so discombobulated on offense...we can’t shoot.” — Matt Jones [25:55]
• “If you went to Kentucky Country Day, I don’t think you’d fit in very well.” — Matt Jones [45:09]
• “He now is going to owe Ashley Furniture money for this trip.” — Matt Jones on Billy Rutledge [41:16]

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Key Timestamps for Segments

• [02:32] Show start, location intro, crowd banter
• [05:06] Drew’s baby announcement
• [07:24] UK Volleyball & Basketball news
• [08:45] UK Football staff hiring news
• [12:32] Offensive Coordinator & rivalry talk
• [19:37] Segment return, basketball injuries and preview
• [28:07] Caller on team’s look, chemistry, shoe choices
• [35:00] Callers’ questions on OC hiring and lineup decisions
• [44:28] High school championship preview
• [41:16] Billy breaks a lamp story
• [47:28] Ben’s call: congrats to Drew + Calipari commentary

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Tone & Atmosphere

• Light, community-driven, and family-friendly, with a lively, humorous edge.
• Mixture of serious sports analysis and playful ribbing typical for the KSR crew—inside jokes, Kentucky pride, and poking fun at each other and local fans.
• Genuinely celebratory and inclusive, especially during Drew’s announcement.

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Summary

This KSR episode delivers the classic blend of local color and detailed UK sports talk: live community interaction from a furniture showroom, a touching baby announcement for one of the regulars, updates on significant UK football program changes, candid basketball analysis with a side of self-deprecating humor, and a strong dose of rivalry banter. The show’s energy peaks in moments of laughter, debate, and regional sports passion—reminding listeners why KSR is a unique Kentucky institution.

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Transcript

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Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Friday, December 5th. I'm Matt Jones. On a cold day In Glasgow, Kentucky at Ashley Furniture Outlet. Ashley Furniture has no interest until December 2030 on all premium mattresses. And all KSR fans get a free $25 MasterCard for taking a test or rest today in Ashley's Mattress Gallery.

[Shannon]

So come in here and take a nap.

[Matt Jones]

What about that? You talk about the. The best job in the world. Take a nap. Get $25. I don't know how you could do that. We are here. This has got to be the most comfortable our audience has ever been. They are all on couches and beds. Look at these two guys right here sharing a seat. That's how good things are.

[Shannon]

That's a love seat.

[Matt Jones]

That is a love seat. I love it. You can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet shop phone line. 859-280-22-2878. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254. This dish is sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ he'll make them pay. Got a great crowd. You know, I've spent a lot of time over the years in Glasgow, one of my favorite places in Kentucky. A lot of friends here. We've got Judge Gabe over there. Kent Bull who hits the ball, golf ball farther than any person that I know. We've got Meemaw here. We got all kinds of good folks and glad to be glad. Glad to be here today.

[Ryan Lemond]

What a great idea. Get $25 to take a nap. I mean, come on, sign me up for that.

[Matt Jones]

I'm not sure there's ever been a job that's more yours that is perfect for me. Yes, that's exactly a test.

[Ryan Lemond]

Rest. That's a brilliant idea.

[Drew Franklin]

I knew that was going to get him excited. I'm surprised he's here doing the show with us with all these mattresses laying around right behind us.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, Suzanne is here. Nice to see you in. In the gear. So everybody's here. Shannon. We've got all kinds of stuff going on.

[Shannon]

We got Christmas cards, we got cookies, we got couches. What else do you need?

[Matt Jones]

So if you're area, come on out. I was almost late because they. What's the road? They've shut down out there. Highway 90, you know.

[Ryan Lemond]

Good.

[Matt Jones]

Give yourself time. I sat for about 15 minutes, did not think I was going to make it, but got here in just in time. So there's a lot of stuff to get to. This is a big day. Big weekend for UK sports, including a game in Nashville, volleyball, etc. But I actually think the biggest News has nothing to do with UK sports. I'm going to step to the side and let my co host, Drew Franklin speak. Speak here for a second.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay. Yeah. A little wani na na here.

[Matt Jones]

We've got some breaking news. Let's go. Breaking news, Rick. All right.

[Drew Franklin]

All right. My wife Abby is here. We are on our way to Nashville and we want to share with everyone that we are expecting a baby girl.

Ready for my girl dad era. I will take any tips that you guys fellas have out there that have.

[Matt Jones]

Girls, but we've been trying to give you some. Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

We've been sitting on this secret for a while, but heading to Nashville, I think it's gonna be hard to keep that secret any longer. So we're gonna let it out and let everybody know. And we're very excited to do Masters Sunday.

[Matt Jones]

Baby girl, after 20 years of. Well, after 15 years of Kentucky sports radio on the radio, this is the first KSR child, Ryan Lemon coming and very excited for Drew.

[Ryan Lemond]

He.

[Matt Jones]

He told us a while back, but the announcement public.

We'Re proud of him. I almost feel like a proud uncle. I texted or I tweeted on his or I'm gonna get it right. Put a comment on where I said have a nice baby, because that's all I know how to say.

[Drew Franklin]

We got a good laugh out of that.

[Matt Jones]

So, Ryan, I know you're happy too.

[Ryan Lemond]

Super excited for Drew and Abby. I mean, this is awesome. We are all become uncles. You know, we're all going to take ownership in this little girl. Ryan is a good name for a.

[Matt Jones]

Girl as well as a boy that don't do that.

[Ryan Lemond]

Ryan Franklin has a nice ring.

[Shannon]

I'm just saying Shannon could go either way too.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's true.

[Shannon]

We'll just call it KS baby, for right now. Ye.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. And you will always have the memory of you Announced it to the world at the Ashley furniture outlet in. In Glasgow.

[Drew Franklin]

I couldn't think of a more special place. Glasgow. We have a lot of good friends here. We like furniture. Maybe we'll go with the name Ashley. Who knows?

[Matt Jones]

There we go. Just kidding. That would be perfect timing.

[Ryan Lemond]

And I.

[Matt Jones]

What kind of rockers you all got to be already? Yes. By the way, Ashley Furture in Glasgow and Somerset. Drew, I'm very proud of you and excited. When is it due, Master?

[Drew Franklin]

Sunday. I. If you handed me the calendar and said pick a date, that's probably the one I would have circled.

[Shannon]

You plan that?

[Ryan Lemond]

I did.

[Drew Franklin]

I mean, it's right after we win number nine. I'll have a week to get back from Indianapolis. Just sit and watch golf all weekend.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, you're not allowed to have it the weekend before so you're going to have to make sure it is that weekend.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, you all will make great babysitters. I'm really looking forward to her first road trip will be next year. Wherever we're going, I'm just. She'll be tagging along.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I feel like I would be a great babysitter. Well, it is exciting. So that's part of a big day of news. Let's go through just a little catch up for people who haven't, who haven't followed it. All right, so the good news, UK volleyball won its first round of the NCAA tournament. You can clap for that. Absolutely. They beat Wofford last night in a fairly easy match. They will play tonight at 7 o' clock against UCLA. So that game will be, I, I think it might even be on regular television but it will certainly be on, on the computer. But UK will play UCLA. Now the game technically starts at 7 but actually will start 30 minutes after whatever the game was before. So it could be as early as 6:30 they said so. But either way it is tonight and we will have it at the bar along with the basketball game. But the UK volleyball team wins their first game tonight. They're a favorite but that this is a game they could lose if they don't play well. UCLA has been very good in years past, so that's tonight. The basketball team of course is on their way. They play Gonzaga 7 o' clock tonight in Nashville in a game that's nerve wracking to say the least. Hopefully, hopefully we get it done. We need it. And then the football. There's a lot of news.

UK has basically announced. Well, they haven't announced officially but we know their offensive coordinator is going to be a guy named Joe Sloan. They are going to steal Louisville's head recruiting coordinator. The head recruiting coordinator for Louisville football, Pete Nocta is coming to Kentucky to be the head recruiting coordinator at Kentucky football in what I think is a very surprising move. And there are some recruits that Kentucky may be getting at the last minute that they could pull today. All that is news. Which of those Drew do you think is the most important?

I'm kind of, kind of going to.

[Drew Franklin]

Leave with Pete Nocta.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, let's talk about it.

[Drew Franklin]

Add a little more Louisville influence to the staff.

[Matt Jones]

So for people who don't know, Pete Nocta is the guy who basically is in charge of Louisville recruiting. Vince is kind of ahead. Recruiter in terms of he would Kentucky and Ohio. But Pete Nocta is essentially Louisville's, for lack of a better term, gm. It's the head of recruiting. Now we have a gm, but he's going to be the head of recruiting at Kentucky. I would admit I don't know a lot about, you know, who he got, who his players are. I don't really know about his ability to recruit. I do know this. People at Louisville love him. I mean, love him. Especially the people that are kind of engaged with the program. They've talked about him. One of them tweeted out yesterday, he can go anywhere he wants. He better not go to Kentucky. And then he went to Kentucky. I don't know what impact it'll have, but I do also say, you know what? They take Vince, we'll take this guy. Ryan, what do you think?

[Ryan Lemond]

I can talk a lot about Pete Nocta. I've known him since he was like, 5 years old. His dad is a long. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Really?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. His dad is a longtime high school football coach in Lexington. Pete grew up running the sidelines, was a ball boy at his dad's games. We were covering the games at Bryant Station. A super, super guy. Had a real bad health scare several years ago, and he's conquered that. But you're right, people love him, and that's why they've done well in recruiting, because. Because of. He's just that guy you like.

[Matt Jones]

What did you think when you heard he was coming?

[Ryan Lemond]

I was super excited. I kind of came out of nowhere for me. But I. Like I said, I've been a Pete Nocta fan for a long time. He and I text. We even text once in a while.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, you text? Yeah. Hang on. Is Scoop back?

[Shannon]

Yeah, Scoop about to scoop something for us.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, wow. Okay. See, I didn't even know you had that connection. Continuing this theme, though, Cannon, of guys from Kentucky with Kentucky connections. I mean, this is going to be a football staff. I mean, Justin Burke is from Kentucky, Will Stein, Pete Nocta. I mean, they are assembling a crew of people who grew up in this state. And we're Kentucky fans growing up.

[Drew Franklin]

I love that.

[Shannon]

Let's keep the guys here home. And I think you're right. You know, they got Vince now. We took two of theirs. We'll get two for one. Everyone that you take from us, we'll take two of yours.

[Drew Franklin]

I. I don't know Pete like Ryan does, but a lot of my friends grew up with him, and they've talked highly of him since I was hating on Louisville 10 years ago. Also. He's been there forever. He's gone through multiple coaches and they've kept him around so much. He means. But even though I don't know him personally, I mean, as you all have said, everyone loves the guy and speaks highly of him.

[Matt Jones]

Now I do think it's interesting. Vince Merrow tweeted out yesterday. I initially thought it was in response to our Will Stein interview because Shannon, Will Stein said something to the effect of we're gonna own the state of Kentucky and then go into Ohio. And then Vince was like, good luck getting Kentucky and Ohio. That, you know, that's us or whatever. But now I kind of wonder if maybe he was learning the Pete Nocta news too. I'm not sure he was. He was a salty big dog yesterday.

[Ryan Lemond]

I love it.

[Shannon]

Yeah, I want to see some of this back and forth. You know, Vince Merrill tweeting during games was sort of a boss move. But I think that we got a good rivalry going on between Will Stein and now Vince Merrill over at Louisville.

[Matt Jones]

They also end up taking an offensive coordinator named Joe Sloan. He comes from. Where's he come from? East Carolina.

[Drew Franklin]

Is that just at lsu?

[Matt Jones]

He was at lsu when he was at lsu, he did coach Jaden Daniels.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Who ended up in the NFL and obviously had a great year. He was part of this year's team that did not do very well. It's interesting, Will Stein says he will not call plays. Meaning Will Stein, this guy Will. But I'm sure he'll have impact on it. What do you think about that hire?

[Ryan Lemond]

That's the. I love the hire. That is the most interesting thing for me that Will Stein's been this creative play caller. That's how he made a name for himself at Oregon. And he's going to hand it over to this guy, Joe Sloan. So he must truly trust this guy to hand over all those play calling abilities that he's been so successful at.

[Matt Jones]

I'm sure he'll have a role in it. A dude who's such. I can't imagine. He just says, yeah, I mean, I'm not going to give my opinion. I don't think it will be like that. Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

And he kind of said as much. He said, I'm not going to be in the headset, you know, having the conversation, sending in the plays, but I will have a big.

Say in what is actually being called. Even though he's not actually calling it.

[Matt Jones]

Show him some. May 592-80-2287. All of this though, I mean, ultimately we will Find out Shannon on the field. What. What. What will end up happening. But all of this is kind of just trying to gather momentum, right? Like, I mean, this is ultimately injecting excitement, bringing in these names. I mean, there's some talk. I don't know if they're going to get this kid from Louisiana, this receiver today, but he was an LSU commitment. I think four knocked, or, excuse me, for Joe Sloan when he was there. That kid might end up flipping to us. That would be one of the bigger receiver commits we've gotten in years. I think it's all just about kind of re. Energizing the.

[Shannon]

Absolutely. A lot of excitement right now. You know, we talked about Mark Pope when he came here.

[Ryan Lemond]

He won.

[Shannon]

Won the press conference. I felt the same way about Will Stein just a couple of days ago at his press conference as well. So, you know, bringing in a guy who the last couple of years at LSU averaged 400 yards of offense every game, I mean, that's, you know, you look at the numbers, that's something to get excited about.

[Matt Jones]

Now, you guys are not like in the thick of UK Louisville, but there are Louisville fans here in Glasgow because I've fought with them on your golf course.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, there's one here. Oh, you got one raised his hand.

[Matt Jones]

Hey, well, you know, everybody's got their weaknesses, but.

I do think, I mean, taking their former quarterback, Two Trinity guys are the head coaches. They have Vince. We now have their recruiting director, Ryan. I mean, in terms of on the football side, you know, the two basketball coaches might be nice and like each other, but you got to think, on the football side, this is the spiciest this rivalry has been in a while, wouldn't you think?

[Ryan Lemond]

I think there's no doubt about it, especially now with Will Stein being our coach. I mean, you know, Jeff Brahm says some great things about Will Stein, Will Stein said some great things about Jeff Braum. But, you know, they're going to go at it, man, with these Trinity guys. The Tritium mafia finally gets to come invade our. Our stadium for a change. And I'm looking forward to how it plays out.

[Drew Franklin]

And more. More so on their end, they'll probably turn down the hatred just a little bit because, you know, they love getting their shots off at uk Just like we fire back at them, but they.

[Matt Jones]

Really love that guy.

[Drew Franklin]

So I don't think they're.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, they love both those guys. You. If you ask Louisville fans, I was talking to a buddy of mine, actually my accountant yesterday, who's a huge Louisville fan, and he Said Will Stein was his favorite player ever.

[Drew Franklin]

Really?

[Matt Jones]

Just because he. How much he, he loved the guy and how interesting he was, etc. I mean like literally we haven't just taken there. We've take. It would be the equivalent. Trying to think what the equivalent is. I mean it would be. I, I don't want to make the exact analogy because. Because this guy was a lot better than Will Stein was for Louisville. But it would be like Shannon, if Jared Lorenzen went and coached at Louisville or something. Yeah, people would go nuts. I mean I think there's a little bit of that.

[Shannon]

The whole thing kind of feels like a fever dream. I still can't get over the fact that Vince Merrill was at Louisville. It just still feels weird. Even this, you know, this time that's passed. But yeah, and then who would have thought that we would have had a former Louisville quarterback as our head coach.

[Matt Jones]

But I love Vince Merrill. But we told him, Drew, if he went, what did he become? From big dog to what to little dog.

That's just what it is. Because you went to Louisville and that's where we are right now.

[Drew Franklin]

Will mentioned this yesterday but at the big press conference a couple days ago, Steven sent me a picture from the back and I didn't know all the guys in the photo but apparently some old Louisville receivers that were there wearing blue. Some like some actual people that played for Louisville, they didn't have the emblem but they were wearing blue shirts. They're supporting Will Stein at the press conference.

[Matt Jones]

So just gotta love it.

[Drew Franklin]

Weird seeing that.

[Matt Jones]

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[Drew Franklin]

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here in Glasgow and Ashley Furcher sir, you have to clap. You can't sit, not at least give a little bit. Applause. Ashley Furniture Drew not just a great furniture store, also the name of J.D. vance's girlfriend. It is a great place to be.

[Drew Franklin]

Here and Ashley or furniture.

[Matt Jones]

That was the joke. Ashley Furniture I'm with you. I expected more from you on that. 859-280-2287 A dad joke. It was a good joke. 772-774-5254 let's talk just a second about basketball before we go the phones Kentucky playing at against Gonzaga today. This is a big game for me regardless. I mean we need this one. Got some good news yesterday that Jalen Lowe is going to is going to be coming back at some point. We don't know if he's coming back today but he will come back. For me. That is huge news right? Because I mean I don't mean to be pessimistic but I feel like if we didn't have Jalen Lowe. I don't know if we're going to be good this year. Now I'm not certain we're gonna be good with him, but I know we're gonna be better than we'd be otherwise. Let's skip the skip today for a second. Do you agree with me that that's major news? Even though he could get hurt again, that at least he's gonna give it a try?

[Ryan Lemond]

I think he is the answer for a lot of the offensive woes that this team is having problems with. Just being that point guard out there, that leader and that moves Aberdeen to his natural position off the, off the ball a little bit. I think a lot of things, all problems can be solved with Jalen Lowe coming back.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, he'll get the offense moving. I don't know if we'll see him tonight. I hope we do because we know how desperate it's getting already this early in the season. But I was someone when the news broke. I did I in my brain I didn't expect him. I just didn't know what in either I thought for him and his future it might be better not to play. So I'm thrilled that he's going through with it whenever we get to see him and the sooner the better because it won't solve all the team's problems but it'll get that offense moving because it's just completely big flat without him.

[Shannon]

Huge news that he's going to give it a try. You know people like to question players toughness. I like that he's actually trying to come back and when he does I think it's going to make the offense go because whatever lineup we had last game against North Carolina is not it.

[Matt Jones]

The best this team has looked against a team all year that was decent was about a 15 minute stretch with Jalen Lowe in the second half and everybody I know, people remember the turnover at the end and missing the free throws. But he took us from 24 points down to it was a one possession game on the road and since then our offense has yet to look good in one of these games. I don't think our offense looked good one minute against Michigan State and I don't really think it looked good against North Carolina even though we had a chance to win the game. So I think that's huge. Now on the other side, Modi Abate has a high ankle sprain. They're saying that's usually a four to seven week injury. He's been out too. So I think you got to assume he does not play until we maybe get to SEC play. I think that's a tough injury for Kentucky, too. I don't think it's debilitating, especially against the teams we're going to be playing. It may hurt us against Gonzaga, but not so much. Maybe against Indiana and St. John's and then you get him back for SEC play. But it is a bummer. I mean, if you were Mark Pope and you start the season and you go, okay, who are the most. Who are the most talented guys on your roster? There's a decent chance that Kentucky has been without. Is now out without three of the four.

[Ryan Lemond]

Sure.

[Matt Jones]

Jalen Lobate and Jaden Quaint. At least he's going to get one back. But now you're losing another one. Mark Pope and injuries have just been a terrible combination the last couple years.

[Ryan Lemond]

You're right. Tonight's game is the reason Mark Pope went out and got Mohammed Diabate. I mean, that E Cake dude and Huff. I mean, these are guys that. That destroyed us. He needed a guy like Diabate. They need him tonight. They need that.

[Matt Jones]

This is the game. This is a game. They could really use him tonight, Drew. I mean, Gonzaga's got that EK guy. Like, that's who we put on him. Like, it's gonna be. Tonight is a night we could really use him, but we're not gonna have him.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, Gonzaga's got some size. That's one of their strengths. They have a lot of strengths. And really, Kentucky, just as a team, lacks toughness and physicality. And he's like the guy. He's the dog on the team with him, not out there. It just really shows, just from their. How they play and their identity.

[Matt Jones]

So do we have. I mean, I. Are any of you going to the game tonight? I mean, we're on your path. You go on. There's a handful of people. So any chance we win, Shannon?

[Shannon]

I mean, there's always a chance, right?

[Matt Jones]

What's the spread?

[Shannon]

Three.

[Drew Franklin]

It moved quickly.

[Matt Jones]

It's only three? Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

I was shocked. It's already up to six and a half by now.

[Shannon]

Oh, it is?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

It was three when I looked at it earlier.

[Matt Jones]

Thought.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, honestly, I thought it was going to be like 8 or not 3.

Vegas likes us for some reason.

[Drew Franklin]

I put it out on Twitter when it came out, and all of my replies are Kentucky fans saying they were betting on Gonzaga, which isn't exciting.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean, I. Go ahead.

[Ryan Lemond]

I don't know how we won the game last year. Weren't we down, like, by 20 at halftime or something when Kirk got hurt, like, it was, like it seemed like it was falling apart. EK was destroying us last year when that's with Amari Williams in there. I don't know. I just don't a problem again tonight.

[Drew Franklin]

He is. I feel like he owned us in Rupp Arena.

[Matt Jones]

I feel like he's fighting against this for 10 years. I mean, he had that huge game against us at Rupp arena, and he had a big game against us last year against Seattle, in Seattle. I, I feel like we've been going against him for forever. He's. He's going to be tough, but I mean, bigger picture. So I really haven't gotten to talk a lot about the, the North Carolina game.

I, I was so disappointed in that game. Like, that's the game that has, you know, Michigan State is pretty good and Louisville's pretty good despite what happened in Arkansas, but I don't think North Carolina is good. And that game is at home. And we look so discombobulated on offense. And I, I mean, I want to. I hope it gets better. I want to say it will, but I don't know, Drew. I. We. We can't shoot. We have like, two guys that can beat people off the dribble. Like, what?

[Drew Franklin]

Can't rebound? No effort.

[Shannon]

That was a big problem, too. I mean, they got crushed on the board. So what.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, what is the thing to make me go, all right, this is going to get better? Besides Jalen Lowe coming back, I don't.

[Drew Franklin]

Mean to be down. There's really nothing right now. We just have to hope they flip a switch and figure it out in a hurry. I mean, they've only had a couple days to practice since then. But it was equally disappointing that the defense was so good. Caleb Wilson is the star. Yellow Bitch actually defended him really well. He didn't even beat you. You beat yourselves by not being able to score at all, like, 40%.

[Matt Jones]

We lost to North Carolina's B players. We actually held Caleb Wilson. I would have dropped him a couple spots in the draft based on how Yellow bitch guarded him. But then you got a guy who was the guy that made the winning shot.

[Drew Franklin]

Dixon, a freshman.

[Matt Jones]

Like, he hadn't done any.

[Drew Franklin]

He had the last five points.

[Shannon]

Yeah, you got to take more than 13 threes, too. That's all they took in that Brandon.

[Ryan Lemond]

Garrison needs to take more threes. He's only got hit one.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I don't know you. I want to take more than 30, but we're only going to make one.

[Shannon]

Call to Trent Noah and let him do his thing.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we'll see. All right, we'll take a break. Try to be a little happier. We are here at Ashley Furniture, 859-280-2287. This is KSR. Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio Kentucky. Zach Gonzaga, 7 o' clock tonight. Pregame show will be at 4:30. We'll have all the we'll have both games at the bar. Hope you'll come and join us. We had football team there last night. Raceland. We're going to preview the high school games later with our high school expert here. Some good ones actually there's three or four that could be real battles this week. This weekend.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. The Raceland Rams came in last night. They've been in the state finals like three of the last four years and still looking for their first title.

[Matt Jones]

So that game's at noon. It's on prep spin if you. That'll be a great game. Raceland and lca that'll be that should be battle.

[Ryan Lemond]

They race a Kentucky country day.

[Matt Jones]

Same thing.

[Ryan Lemond]

LCA plays 2A against Owensboro Catholic that.

[Matt Jones]

Are all those schools, Shannon, the same.

Christian Academy. You're essentially the same school. One person on a text machine writes, Matt, this basketball team's play is a reflection of their dress. They're sloppy. Half their jerseys are untucked and they wear different colored shoes.

[Caller]

Oh no.

[Matt Jones]

They look like a bunch of dudes in a pickup game rather than a blue blood college team. I think most teams now are wearing different shoes. I did notice they do go with their jerseys untucked a lot. I mean I don't like, I don't like tucking things in so I'm not going to criticize them but usually they don't let them do that. And I did notice Drew actually that we do go jersey untucked a lot.

[Drew Franklin]

The shoes, I don't think that's going to change but I guess we could present ourselves a little better with the tucked in jerseys.

[Matt Jones]

I don't do we want to be.

[Drew Franklin]

Like the Yankees though and everybody's got to look the same and you can't have certain facial hair or.

[Matt Jones]

No, but I like the shoes. I know times but I will say I don't. I don't. You know, I don't know But Shannon, it does not look to me like the team likes each other. I'm hoping that.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I mean it just does it like you just little thing. Except for when Walker Horn made that three.

[Shannon]

Everybody united over that.

[Matt Jones]

I just haven't. I feel like there hasn't been a moment where it looks like these guys are. Are our. Our fans of spending time with each other.

[Shannon]

Yeah, there's. There's clearly some on court chemistry as we've heard from. I think Travis Ford said that. But if there is off the court chemistry issues, that's a bigger issue in its own. Like, that's.

[Matt Jones]

That's a hard thing to overcome.

[Shannon]

Yeah, it is.

[Matt Jones]

You better have a. If you're gonna be. If we've had some. We've had a one team at Kentucky that I don't know that they were the closest group in the world.

[Shannon]

The group that had to go bowling together. Was that the year?

[Matt Jones]

No. I mean, I'm not gonna say which one it was because they're always.

[Drew Franklin]

Should go bowling.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I don't want to say which one it was, but there was a group that was a really good team, but they didn't love each other, but they were. They had so much talent that it didn't really matter. Like, they. Like, it didn't really matter because they were. They had so much talent, but they struggled a little bit through the year and then kind of came together. Maybe that's what this group has. We'll wait and see. Who's up first?

[Ryan Lemond]

Paul is up first.

[Matt Jones]

Paul. Go ahead, Paul.

[Caller]

Hey, thanks for taking my call. First time on here. But my question is. Yeah, I'm excited about our football coach, but my question's about the offensive coordinator, Joe Sloan from lsu. LSU had a pretty bad year. Their offense couldn't put up points. Nussmeier ended up losing the starting quarterback job. So I'm curious how that's going to play out at Kentucky, where our offense seems to have a history of going east and west when we should be going north and south. What are your thoughts on the offensive coordinator hire?

[Matt Jones]

Well, I mean, what I would say is the year before, two years before, they had a really good offense. So, you know, I mean, it didn't work out. I do. I wasn't there to know how much is Joe Sloan's fault or not, but I think you'd struggle to find an offensive coordinator that's never had a bad year. I know he's had a lot of other good seasons. I know he produced a quarterback that ended up being the number one overall draft pick. So overall, one bad season. I mean, I think the amount, you know, you. You could say that about a lot of people, but I would say our head coach is one of the best offensive minds in the country. He chose this guy, Ryan. I think you got to give him some leeway to go. All right. That's the way I'll. I'll take it.

[Ryan Lemond]

When your head coach. Coach Bo Nick. Dylan Gabriel, and he's got a number one draft pick any at Oregon right now. And this guy, Coach Jaden Daniels, I mean. Yeah. How good are we set up for our offense? Man, I just got to find the right pieces to plug into because I totally trust those two guys.

[Matt Jones]

I generally speaking, take this view with assistant coaches. Drew. When I've not even seen the head coach. I remember this. When Mark Stoops was assembling his staff.

I'm gonna give him his first staff. I'm gonna give him whoever he wants. Right. Like who? Without criticism, get whoever you want. Like, this is your first time coaching. You know these people better than I do. I did not know this dude's name before yesterday. So, yeah, maybe he didn't have a great year at lsu, but if our new coach wants, he gets to assemble his first staff, in my view, without criticism. Do you agree with that?

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, I completely agree. And LSU just had problems overall. We don't know what kind of impact he had. I know some of their fans are kind of mocking Kentucky on. On Twitter right now, but that could have been Nussmeier wasn't good. We know Kelly was a disaster. That could have been the whole operation this past season. I'm willing to, you know, let, as you said, let. What do you call it, shop for their own groceries. We'll let Willston do that and we'll judge how it looks after the first year.

[Matt Jones]

And also different between what LSU expects and what. What Kentucky expects right out the gates. That would be my.

[Drew Franklin]

My thought they did take our offensive line coach.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, well, okay, you know what? That's a really good point.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So are you still there, sir?

[Caller]

Yeah, I'm here.

[Matt Jones]

Did you like Will Wolford as our offensive line coach?

[Caller]

I mean, we've had a pretty good running game in the past, so, yeah, I thought he did okay, but he.

[Matt Jones]

Wasn'T here for that. Like, we've had terrible offensive lines two of the last three years. I mean, my guess is you were not a fan of his. Or am I wrong?

[Caller]

No, that's pretty accurate.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. LSU just took him. Is LSU stupid? Lane Kiffin just took him. Is he stupid?

[Caller]

I mean, you make a pretty good point. You make a good point. I'm optimistic about it. I'm a little sad to hear the news coming out from BBN about Mark Pope. A lot of people saying he's on the Hot seat already, but we haven't really had a healthy roster all year.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, nobody. I mean, nobody. He's not on the hot seat. Yeah, I appreciate the call. Switch. You're switching to a. Just something else negative. He's not on the hot seat, but back to. Back to Sloan. We'll see what happens. But I feel I'm gonna feel confident until it's not right.

[Drew Franklin]

And Stein's the best offensive play caller in the country. Everybody wanted him. You know, everybody wants to coach Will Stein.

[Matt Jones]

I think even though he's.

[Drew Franklin]

As he said, I'm not actually sending in the plays, my footprint's gonna be all over it. So I'd say he's still gonna be.

[Matt Jones]

Everybody wants to coach with Will.

[Shannon]

I love that confidence.

[Drew Franklin]

Right? Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Yes, I agree. There'd be a couple lines people remember. Remember, it was just a couple weeks ago Mark Pope said in the press conference. Conference. This team will not fail.

[Shannon]

Huh. Well, how's that working out for you?

[Matt Jones]

Well, season's not over.

[Ryan Lemond]

Big Don is next.

[Matt Jones]

Big Don, how are you?

[Caller]

Hey, boys. What's going on? It's Big Dong.

[Matt Jones]

All right. Appreciate the call. I think, Rick, you're gonna have to listen to whether it's Don or there's another letter after it, because I think maybe he had another letter after it. Rick.

[Shannon]

Okay, well, that was the guy that called the post game show the other night.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. He was very emotional after the game.

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Drew Franklin]

Tuesday night.

[Matt Jones]

Was that a real caller?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, okay. My bad.

[Drew Franklin]

He had a great postgame.

[Matt Jones]

Don, call back.

[Shannon]

Got the quick hook if.

[Matt Jones]

If he. If he's called before. If you're listening. My fault. I thought you said something else. Call back. Who's next? We'll take your call, Rick. If he calls, we'll put him on immediately. Go ahead. Who's next? Evan is next. Evan. Go ahead, Evan.

[Caller]

Matt, I'm on my way to Nashville right now. I'm a vet student at Auburn, and I'm going to be very upset if I drive up here to watch our best players play 23 or 24 minutes a game and stand there and watch Brandon Garrison get taken advantage of by Graham Ek and watch rebounds go right over his head. I do not know. Pope is going to have to get his minutes figured out, and I know he doesn't have any options, but you cannot play Brandon Garrison more than. More than seven or eight minutes a game.

[Matt Jones]

This got lost, and I appreciate the call, Ryan. It got lost in the. What happened the rest of the game, But I will note because I was following along some on espn. We started out really hot against North Carolina, right?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

It's 10 to 4, crowds going crazy. And what do we do? Mass substitution, mass substitution. And then all of a sudden it's 13 to 10 North Carolina. I don't care what Mark. So Pope says about analytics. I've watched for two years. These teams start fast. Mass substitution turns around. Happened against, it happened against Louisville on the road. People forget we had a lead in that game off the start. It happened in like seven or eight games last year. I don't know why he insists on doing that. Why, why do we mass substitute right at the beginning of the game? It has never worked.

[Ryan Lemond]

And you know, the second half of the game he didn't substitute at all. He ran with those five guys. So he kind of flip flopped his philosophy. You've heard him say he wants to get those guys off the bench in case he needs them late in the game and he wants to save some legs from his starters case he needs them late.

[Matt Jones]

Do we really think that if he brings one in Shannon or two that at the end of game the guy are all going collapse? I mean, I can't imagine that's true.

[Shannon]

No, I don't think so. And the other thing is about, you know, these guys being tired after playing so many minutes. They're playing 20 minutes. We're talking about yellow bits being tired.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, you know, Ron makes a good point, Drew. He played those guys the whole second half. I feel like that would make a bigger difference in being tired than the second segment of the first half.

[Drew Franklin]

And they were hot like you. You just turned it off like they were rolling. Who knows what they could have gone up by. And it's like, no, seen enough from them. Up 10, 4. Let's put in the next round. But the leave aside, just the one off the subbing at the half that when he says they're tired of the fatigue, I do not understand it. Because there are guys all over the country playing 30 something minutes a game and our guys are in the hot 20s and he's talking about fatigue.

[Shannon]

You think when Pope was a player any of those guys were tired? Rick was running their ass off in practice. Those guys weren't tired.

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[Caller]

Welcome back.

[Matt Jones]

It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Glasgow. We are at Ashley furniture. Ashley Furniture, 24 months, 0% financing with no minimum. Purchase all the best mattress brands. And remember, 25 MasterCard for taking a test. Rest in the mattress gallery. And you can get our KSR special Drive the Lane discount right here at this one and the one in Somerset. I need you all to purchase stuff here so that we're not losing money because Billy has already broken one lamp here today in this massive furniture out with all of these wonderful options and all of these people. The only person who has broken something, Shannon, is Billy, who just broke a lamp right here in the middle of the outlet. Crashed it. He's over there sweeping. He literally. His fee for coming here just got. He now is going to owe Ashley Furniture money for this trip.

[Shannon]

Send the bill to iHeartradio.

[Matt Jones]

Send the bill to Billy Rutledge.

[Shannon]

You can't take this guy anywhere. He hasn't even had a mimosa yet. He's breaking stuff.

[Matt Jones]

And then I looked at him and said, did you break that lamp? And he waved me off and said, said, no. And now there's a picture of him looking at a shattered lamb.

[Shannon]

He's rubbing his head. He's so stressed out right now.

[Ryan Lemond]

Look at him.

[Drew Franklin]

You can see it.

[Matt Jones]

How do you break a lamb in a furniture store?

[Drew Franklin]

I like, we just heard a loud shatter of glass. And we look up and there's Billy. All these people that it could have been. None of the listeners did it. It was our own.

[Matt Jones]

And he also did it in that far corner where there would be no reason to.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So to the Ashley Furniture people, I'm very sorry. And to our rep who sold this, please apologize profusely on behalf of us for letting Billy out of the house. Look at it.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's stressing out about it right now.

[Shannon]

Take him over to the mattresses where he can't break anything. Just lay down on one of those. Take a nap, Billy.

[Matt Jones]

All right. I, I actually, I, I. Apparently he did say dog. I thought he said something else, so. My bad. Big Dog is on the phone. Go ahead, Big Dog.

[Ryan Lemond]

Dog.

[Shannon]

It's done, actually.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

Big Don. All right. Yeah. D O n Don. Don. Gotcha. Not D O n G. Which is what I thought. Go ahead.

Boys. I'm back in.

[Caller]

I'm heading south. I got the ticket. Turn out.

[Matt Jones]

I got you.

[Caller]

I'm back in on the cat.

[Matt Jones]

All right. I hope you're. I, I hope you're right. I mean, we just had Somebody here who just found a ticket. I just had somebody send me apparently two lower level tickets which I'm going to give away if I get them in my email to somebody here. They're so close, but they got. Actually sent them to me. But if they do. But go ahead.

[Caller]

Hey, Drew, congratulations. But I gotta say, you ain't gonna have a pot to piss in now.

[Drew Franklin]

Thank you. It's very kind.

[Matt Jones]

But hey.

[Caller]

What the biggest mistake we've ever had was we shouldn't have brought him on the nil responsibility.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, well, I appreciate the call. I. I will note something about that. We talked about this yesterday. I want to be clear, like, I. I don't know if that nil deal with JMI is going to work. All we'll see. I. All I want to know is what's happening. That's all I'm asking. And my issue with Mitch. I mentioned my thing about him communicating still. I still think that's true, but I just want to know about it because there were reports right after the show yesterday. This is before I even said all that, or excuse me, after I said this, that Christian Collins, the hot top high school recruit, that part of the reason Kentucky hasn't gotten him signed is they can't seem to work out the nil deal now. Maybe it's justifiable. All I know is every other team got their top recruit signed and the three we want. So far we haven't been. So I'm. I'm skeptical and I just need people to explain to me what's going on. And I don't think Mitch has done a good job. High school state championships are.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Let's go over the first three. Tell me about the games today.

[Ryan Lemond]

First game is the Raceland Rams we talked about and Kentucky Country Day. I know nothing about Kentucky Country Day other than that's where Los Angeles Dodger catcher Will Smith went to high school. It's about all I know.

[Matt Jones]

All right, Shannon, who you got?

[Shannon]

I'm going to go Kentucky Country Day. We've already shown that Raceland can't win the big one.

[Matt Jones]

They came to the bar last night, so. I wish you hadn't said that.

[Shannon]

Well, you got.

[Matt Jones]

I'm going to go with Raceland. Who spent money with us last night. Still can't win the big one. Shannon is ungrateful.

[Ryan Lemond]

Would you like race anomaly came last night. They come every single year. We are on the Raceland Rams bandwagon, of course.

[Drew Franklin]

Going raceless. I saw Ryan even had the hoodie on yesterday.

Not all in because this Guy, I'm.

[Matt Jones]

Gonna make your prediction. If you went to Kentucky Country Day, I don't think you'd fit in very well. I think you'd fit in better at Raceland. From what I know of Kentucky Country Day. Yeah. What's the next game?

[Ryan Lemond]

2A'S battle. The Christians and the Catholics. Lexington Christian to Catholic.

[Matt Jones]

Did that in Europe for years.

[Ryan Lemond]

And then Owensboro Catholic, big private school battle in 2A.

[Matt Jones]

This is. This may be the best game of the whole weekend in terms of how close it is. I'll take Owensboro Catholic. What do you got?

[Ryan Lemond]

I gotta go with my hometown LCA Eagles. So I'm gonna go lca.

[Drew Franklin]

I thought your hometown was Owensboro.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's my second hometown.

[Matt Jones]

That's true. I'm waiting for him to say Owens. My hometown. Lexington. I think Owensboro is more of your hometown than Lexington.

[Ryan Lemond]

I've been in Lexington now for almost 30 years, so I think I kind of adopted Lexington.

[Matt Jones]

Adopt Owensboro.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, when it's beneficial to me, I do. But now this is lca. Owensboro Catholic wanted to come to the restaurant, too, but they wanted to bring a hundred people.

[Matt Jones]

All the more reasons. That sound like a bad.

[Ryan Lemond]

I agree.

[Matt Jones]

You want to know sometimes why the restaurant business is hard? One of the investors is like, they want to come to the restaurant. We can't do that.

[Ryan Lemond]

I was all for it.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, okay. That's the problem. The more people that want to come the matter Ryan turned out a hundred new Brian's. Ridiculous. What do you have?

[Drew Franklin]

His pick threw me off. I was going to go with Lexington, but since Ryan abandoned his other hometown. I'll go Owensboro.

[Shannon]

Give me the Catholics.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. Oh, three for Owensboro Catholic. And what's the next game?

[Ryan Lemond]

3A is Christian Academy of Louisville.

[Matt Jones]

Boy, these Christians and Catholics are taking.

[Shannon]

God's on their side.

[Ryan Lemond]

They play Murray. The last time Murray was in the state finals, who did they play?

[Matt Jones]

Middlesbrough. We beat him.

[Ryan Lemond]

Middlesboro?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we beat him. That was in, like, 1998. I think that was one side of the state versus the other. As I understand it, isn't Christian Academy of Louisville like a juggernaut?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, they've won several state titles.

[Matt Jones]

So even though I'd like for Murray to win, I think probably Cal is going to win.

[Ryan Lemond]

I think Murray's even undefeated. But I'm still picking cow Cal in the postseason.

[Drew Franklin]

I'm betting against that going Murray Christian.

[Shannon]

Academy, unlike Raceland, they can win the big one.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon. So harsh on race. All right, who's next? Ben is up next. Ben, you got 40 seconds. Go ahead, sir.

[Caller]

Hey, guys. Congratulations, Drew being a girl dad. Awesome.

[Drew Franklin]

Thank you.

[Caller]

Best luck to you and Abby. Second thing is I was feeling down about Pope and then I got on tick tock last night and I saw highlights from Cal's press conference and he pulled one of those. Did you guys see what I did? Oh, you didn't see what I did? You guys are probably making the sandwich. The crucial point of the game was when so and so got a block. So I'm just really glad that we got rid of him and there's a positive positivity for you.

[Matt Jones]

Obviously, Arkansas beat Louisville and that's led to a couple people going, oh, we wish we still had burn. Just remember, like the divorced couple that goes and finds new love, he wasn't going to do that here. Whether he does it in Arkansas, we'll see. But it wasn't going to happen at this place. We'll take a break, come back hour number two. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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