2025-12-11- KSR - Hour 2

Summary

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Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – Hour 2

Date: December 11, 2025
Host: Matt Jones with the KSR Crew
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts and Sports Talk 790 (WKRD-AM)

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Episode Overview

This episode is a classic blend of sports talk, Kentucky blue banter, college basketball and football recruiting updates, and the signature wit of Matt Jones and his co-hosts. The show features deep dives on recent UK sports news, fan questions, tangents about pop culture (including Weird Al Yankovic and classic UK basketball recruiting), and significant speculation about sweeping changes coming for UK Athletics. Listeners get a mix of inside information, nostalgia, and lighthearted debates on everything from coaching drama to car maintenance.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Sports Trivia and Myths

• Baseball Myth: "Tie Goes to the Runner"
  • Topic: Long-standing myth debunked about baseball rules.
  • Highlight: Matt realizes he's misquoted the rule for years.
  • Notable Quotes:
    • "So I need to start saying tie goes to the fielder." – Matt Jones [03:41]
    • "Umpire always said if it's a tie, he definitely gonna be out. We're trying to get the game over as fast as possible." – Caller/Guest [03:50]

2. Cal Poly Deep Dive

• Info and Pop Culture Connections
  • Quick facts about Cal Poly, touching on its setting (San Luis Obispo), TV connections (Big Bang Theory), true crime (Kristen Smart case), and notable alumni (John Madden, Ozzie Smith, Weird Al Yankovic).
  • Notable Quotes:
    • "Weird Al is playing the Yum Center." – Co-host [05:59]
    • "Who is going to Weird Al in 2025?" – Matt Jones [06:04]

3. Michigan Football Coaching Scandal

• Story Unfolding in Real-Time
  • Discussion of Michigan’s firing of coach Sharon Moore for inappropriate staffer relationship, further complicated by criminal allegations.
  • The crew debates Michigan’s impossible coaching search at a terrible time in the college football calendar.
  • Notable Quotes:
    • "Every few things got worse." – Matt Jones [07:38]
    • "Do you just have an interim coach next season...?" – Caller/Producer [08:14]
    • "You're Michigan. You gotta go..." – Matt Jones [08:18]

4. Reds Lose Out on Kyle Schwarber

• Fan Disappointment and Betrayal
  • Matt vents about the Cincinnati Reds losing out on a hometown signing of Kyle Schwarber, despite matching the Phillies’ offer.
  • Notable Quotes:
    • "I now can't stand that guy because... he just stayed there." – Matt Jones [09:36]
    • "Ty goes to Philadelphia." – Co-host [09:52]
    • "He can't come home for Christmas next week." – Caller/Guest [10:34]

5. Matt’s New Car and Maintenance Anxiety

• Bells, Whistles, and Tech Dread
  • Matt banters with the crew about his new, tech-heavy car: maintenance reminders, apps, and how he rescued his “important” items from the totaled old car (golf clubs, dry cleaning, a Conway Twitty cookbook).
  • Notable Quotes:
    • "It's like, give me soda." – Matt Jones [12:47]
    • "I just want it to last as long as it can." – Matt Jones [11:55]
    • "I made sure to take the Conway Twitty Cookbook." – Matt Jones [14:05]

6. Broadcasting UK Games: Creative Disruption?

• Innovative Play-by-Play Ideas
  • Matt proposes a “ManningCast”-style radio broadcast with live call-ins during the Western vs. Southern Miss game. Crew expresses skepticism.
  • Notable Quotes:
    • "Do you really want to hear the game? It's Western and Southern Miss." – Matt Jones [16:30]
    • "You're trying to get out of doing play-by-play..." – Co-host [16:59]
    • "The goal is to make a revolutionary broadcast." – Matt Jones [23:16]

7. UK Football Recruiting and Portal Activity

• Rosters Under Construction
  • Updates on the football staff transition, keeping most recruits, and expectations for a busy portal season with new coach Will Stein.
  • Notable Quotes:
    • "We're going to be very active in the portal...hopefully successful." – Matt Jones [18:05]
    • "Do you think he'll bring some guys from Oregon?" – Caller/Guest [18:18]
    • "I would suspect he'd bring a quarterback to compete." – Shannon [18:24]

8. Controversial Cookbooks and Old-School KSR Nostalgia

• The Conway Twitty Cookbook

  • Surprising “editorial content” and outdated language found inside.
  • Notable Quotes:
    • "Conway Tweety's cookbook is an interesting read. Some not culturally appropriate things..." – Matt Jones [21:06]
    • "Just tell me how much broth I need. I don't need to know your thoughts on some of these other things." – Shannon [22:02]

• Forgotten UK Basketball Recruits

  • Reminiscing about the earliest recruits followed by KSR fans: AJ Stewart, Marshall Moses, Tyrone Nash, Darius Rice.
  • Notable Quotes:
    • "AJ Stewart is the oldest school KSR." – Matt Jones [43:44]

9. Impending Seismic Changes at UK Athletics

• Institutional Shift
  • Speculation about sweeping changes: a new football coach, athletic director, president, and a modernized, businesslike structure for athletics.
  • Notable Quotes:
    • "We're about to see as dramatic of shift in UK athletics as you have seen since integration." – Matt Jones [35:07]
    • "Change is coming. You know, what is the Bob Dylan song? The times, they are a-changin'." – Matt Jones [36:19]
    • "We need a GM, probably, Drew, that nobody knows who they are. That's just really good at that job." – Matt Jones [39:00]
    • "Great head coaches probably shouldn't be good at the other side. That's a lot." – Shannon [39:42]

10. Philip Rivers NFL Comeback

• Wild Sports Stories
  • The crew is fascinated by Rivers, out of the league for years, possibly starting for the Colts. Discussion on NFL roster desperation and nostalgia for old players returning.
  • Notable Quotes:
    • "There's no way that works, right?" – Matt Jones [30:41]
    • "It has to be so deflating... they're like, you know, we'll just call this guy that's been retired." – Shannon [31:35]

11. Lighthearted & Memorable Banter

• Weird Al, Comedy, and Crew Dynamics
  • Debating the appeal of a Weird Al concert, plans for local comedy shows.
  • Friendly jabs over show roles, memory gaps, and who should (or shouldn't) be the broadcast statistician.
  • Notable Quotes:
    • "He's got to be 70s. He's still performing, doing these songs." – Caller/Guest [27:56]
    • "You should want to do the TV broadcast because it's easier..." – Caller/Guest [15:50]
    • "No, wait a minute. Billy thinks we're doing the TV broadcast." – Matt Jones [15:15]

12. Fan Q&A: JMI, NIL, and Kentucky's Recruiting Future

• Listener Concerns about Basketball Program Structure
  • Calls expressing anxiety about Kentucky’s slow adjustment to NIL, lack of top recruits, and need for a professional, modern approach (including a “GM” for the basketball program).
  • Notable Quotes:
    • "I think you're about—I mean, this is my opinion and I could be wrong—we're about to see a C shift..." – Matt Jones [34:50]
    • "We need to think bigger than that. We need to get someone who—this is perfectly situated for this..." – Matt Jones [39:15]

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Notable Quotes and Timestamps (Selected Highlights)

• On Baseball Myths:
  "So I need to start saying tie goes to the fielder."
  — Matt Jones [03:41]

• On Losing Kyle Schwarber:
  "Ty goes to Philadelphia. That's exactly right. What a liar he was. So boo, Kyle Schwarber."
  — Matt Jones [09:53]

• On Conway Twitty's Cookbook:
  "Conway Tweety's cookbook is an interesting read. Some not culturally appropriate things to say anymore from Conway. Written in the seventies."
  — Matt Jones [21:06]

• On the Impending Shift at UK Athletics:
  "We're about to see as dramatic of shift in UK athletics as you have seen since integration."
  — Matt Jones [35:07]

• On Outsider Thinking for New GM:
  "Chances are the best person to be the basketball GM is somebody no one here has ever heard of."
  — Matt Jones [38:22]

• On Modern Head Coaching:
  "Great head coaches probably shouldn't be good at the other side. That's a lot."
  — Shannon [39:42]

• On Philip Rivers Comeback:
  "There's no way that works, right?"
  — Matt Jones [30:41]

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Important Segments by Timestamp

| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |-----------|--------------| | 03:06–03:53 | Tie goes to the runner baseball myth debated | | 04:00–06:31 | Cal Poly factoids, notable alumni, pop culture references | | 06:55–08:51 | Michigan coaching saga, speculation about candidates | | 09:36–10:46 | Reds/Schwarber disappointment and fan reactions | | 11:41–14:45 | Matt's new car, rescued items, Conway Twitty cookbook | | 15:15–16:59 | Stat guy confusion & discussion of experimental play-by-play broadcasts | | 17:08–18:37 | UK Football recruiting, portal watch, Oregon connections | | 23:16–24:25 | New Orleans Bowl broadcast logistics and stories | | 25:15–27:09 | Caller questions about NIL, basketball recruiting, and fixes required | | 30:26–33:13 | Philip Rivers NFL return, backup QBs and NFL commentary | | 34:50–36:39 | Upcoming decade-defining changes in UK Athletics | | 39:00–40:06 | Rethinking the GM role and structural changes needed in college sports programs | | 43:09–44:58 | KSR history, nostalgia for classic recruits, AJ Stewart and early UK internet | | 46:41–47:24 | Will Stein vs. Vince Marrow—next football recruiting rivalry |

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Tone & Style

The tone is witty, energetic, regional, and authentic to KSR’s conversational, slightly irreverent brand. There’s camaraderie, teasing, plenty of Kentucky pride, and periodic play-by-play on sports as theater and business.

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For New Listeners

• This episode captures a moment of uncertainty and anticipation for UK fans, both in football and basketball.
• The blend of real-time sports news, culture, nostalgia, and team chemistry makes it an engaging snapshot of Kentucky sports media.
• The episode is light on Xs and Os, heavy on stories, speculation, and the everlasting hope (and occasional frustration) of Big Blue Nation.

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Transcript

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back our number two Kentucky Sports Radio 859-280-2287. Text machine 772-774-5254 here at the KS Bar and Grill. Come on out, have lunch. We've got. I've got some. A couple things. First of all, Shannon, people are saying you're wrong. Ty go does go to the runner. They say Google's wrong. Do you believe they're wrong or Google's wrong?

[Caller or Guest]

I think they're wrong.

[Co-host or Producer]

Google's got it right.

[Caller or Guest]

They.

[Co-host or Producer]

They don't know what they're talking about.

[Caller or Guest]

I got heard from a couple umpires said they're. That is a myth.

[Matt Jones]

Well, the runner saying Google's right.

[Caller or Guest]

Google's right. That the runner has to beat the throw to be out.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Caller or Guest]

I mean to be. To be safe. The runner has to beat the throw to be safe.

[Matt Jones]

So I need to start saying Ty goes to the fielder.

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

After all these years, I've said the wrong thing. It's gonna be hard to get.

[Caller or Guest]

Umpire always said if it's a tie, he definitely gonna be out. We're trying to get the game over as fast as possible.

[Shannon]

Yeah. It sounds like the referees aren't on the same page. Imagine that.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. All right. Lots of facts about Cal Poly.

[Caller or Guest]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

San Luis Obispo. Apparently one of the most beautiful parts of California on the. On the beach.

[Caller or Guest]

On the. Oh, nice.

[Matt Jones]

It is the school where the people in Big Bang Theory went to school. Okay. Did you.

All. Don't. Did you know that I've never seen.

[Shannon]

It but now I know I was right.

[Matt Jones]

They were in the 2014 NCAA Tournament and work how Polly slow.

[Shannon]

So you couldn't have made that up.

[Matt Jones]

There's who knew that Kristen Smart was murdered at Cal Poly in the your own backyard podcast solved the case.

[Shannon]

I've listened to that podcast. Actually.

[Matt Jones]

Did you know that I'd never.

[Shannon]

I didn't connect to school but I'm very aware of that that story.

[Matt Jones]

One person writes. I think Cal Poly is what that means is the people that go there also hook up with people from other universities.

[Caller or Guest]

I do have a couple famous alumnus.

[Matt Jones]

That's probably true.

[Caller or Guest]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

Who are Some famous alumnus, John Madden. He went to Cal Poly.

[Caller or Guest]

Slow Ozzy Smith. And here's the big one, Weird Al Yankovic.

[Matt Jones]

That's a pretty good three. First of all, I would argue John Madden and Ozzie Smith for a college that we don't know is a pretty amazing one two sports punch.

[Caller or Guest]

Yes, it is. One of the greatest shortstops in the history of baseball. One of the greatest NFL coaches ever.

[Matt Jones]

That's. And what didn't. John Madden was also a good player, wasn't he?

[Caller or Guest]

I'm not sure about that. And one of the greatest performances, performers of all time. Weird Al.

[Shannon]

I can get behind that.

[Matt Jones]

I knew a guy, I went to college with that. You know how people will follow Fish on tour? Yeah, he followed Weird Al for a few weeks.

[Co-host or Producer]

No, he didn't come into Louisville. Did you know Weird Al's coming popular enough to play the KFC Yum Center?

[Matt Jones]

Stop it. No, Weird Al is not playing the Young. No, he's not. There's no way he can fill up the Yum.

[Co-host or Producer]

Well, I mean, maybe they curtain off the top part, but he is playing the Yum Center.

[Matt Jones]

Wow. Weird Al is playing the Yum Center.

[Co-host or Producer]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

Who is going to weird Al in 2025?

[Shannon]

Me.

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I'd go.

[Shannon]

Go.

[Caller or Guest]

Let's all go.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, you all can say you'd go, but would any of you actually leave your house, buy tickets and go see Weirdo?

[Shannon]

Tickets for. They're free. If I knew he was doing Amish Paradise, I'm in there.

[Co-host or Producer]

Of course. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Well, of course he's gonna do it. What else is he gonna do?

[Co-host or Producer]

White and nerdy.

[Caller or Guest]

Eat it.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Co-host or Producer]

Like a surgeon.

[Shannon]

Like a surgeon.

[Caller or Guest]

Did you ever see this? The mockumentary about Weird Al?

[Matt Jones]

No.

[Caller or Guest]

I saw it.

[Matt Jones]

So why don't you go? He's playing in Louisville.

[Caller or Guest]

Like Shannon said, if I got free tickets and they're decent seats, I would meet Shannon. We'd go.

[Shannon]

Sounds like we should all go.

[Matt Jones]

Well, sounds like they'll fill it if everyone gets free seats. If they don't get free seats, maybe not. Let's do a couple other things real quick. Sharon. Is it Sharon or Sharon?

[Shannon]

Sharon.

[Matt Jones]

Sharon Moore, the coach at Michigan. That story disintegrated quickly, didn't it? I mean, kept going.

[Shannon]

Yesterday it did.

[Matt Jones]

He gets fired for having a relationship with a staffer. And then it goes from he has a relationship with a staffer and he's fired to. To quickly goes over to.

In prison, in jail for. For assault. Not good.

[Shannon]

Yeah. I was like, the afternoon we saw that they were parting ways for cause. I was like, man, what could the cause be? And then a little bit later that comes out the rumor. Then a couple hours later he's been detained by police and was like, what is going on in Ann Arbor? It just kept going. It was like a trickle.

[Matt Jones]

Every few things got worse. Yeah, so. So I mean that's. That situation is very serious. Don't want to make light of it. But let's go to the second situation, which then is who's going to be the Michigan coach?

[Caller or Guest]

Kind of. You missed your window of bringing in a big name coach or somebody would excite the fan base for sure.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I mean, who do you get? Like everyone. Penn State got turned down by everyone. So like there's some talk that the Alabama coach might just.

[Shannon]

At this stage it'd be hard to get anyone really want. I mean Penn State was a joke until they finally made the hire last week.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I don't know.

[Caller or Guest]

What do you do? Do you just have an interim coach next season and give. Give you a year to search for a new.

[Matt Jones]

But you're Michigan. I mean, you're Michigan. You got to go. I mean, can you imagine if we at Kentucky were just like we're going to get an interim co. This would be the equivalent of us in like June, our basketball coach getting, you know, get having this happen after signing day after the portal's over and well, I guess the portal hasn't opened yet, so they still got the chance. That's part of why you got to move quick is the portal's going to open here in a couple weeks.

[Shannon]

I mean, do you just call the people that turned down Penn State and hope that they like Michigan better?

[Matt Jones]

Just get that BYU guy another race.

[Shannon]

The crumble cookies guy, get him involved again?

[Caller or Guest]

Well, even some of the guys that Penn State went after have re signed new deals at their current school.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know. I mean they're. I don't know what they're going to do.

[Shannon]

Mark Stoops. Wow, he's right.

[Caller or Guest]

What ends up on the list?

[Matt Jones]

What if Mark Stoops ends up the defensive coordinator at Texas A and M?

[Shannon]

He wouldn't want to go to Texas A and M.

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. So anyway, that's a. That's a tough, tough story. Now something else makes me upset. I got my hopes up. I shouldn't have let it happen. I get my hopes up. Threads were going to sign Kyle Schwaber and then they didn't. Turns out they offered.

Close to the same amount of money. He decided to stay in Philadelphia. So I now can't stand that guy because he came up and he was like, I'd love to play in my home city. I'm from here. This would be awesome. It would be a dream come true. And now the story comes out. Yesterday they offered him the same amount of money as the Phillies and he just stayed there.

[Co-host or Producer]

Ty goes to Philadelphia.

[Matt Jones]

Ty went to Philadelphia. That's exactly right. What a liar he was. So boo. Kyle Schwarber.

[Shannon]

I didn't realize how excited Reds fans were and thought this would happen. My friends that are red slash Bengals fans were absolutely crushed yesterday.

[Matt Jones]

Cincinnati. And he's like one of the. He would hit 500 home runs a year in that ballpark because it's so small, and he would kill it. He's exactly what we need. Like, if we had him, I think we'd have a chance to be next to the Dodgers, the best team in the National League. But now we don't have him. We're going to stink again. And he. He lied, Kyle. Liar. Can he.

[Shannon]

Can he come home after this?

[Matt Jones]

No, it's not allowed to be his home or chili. That's right.

[Caller or Guest]

He can't come home for Christmas next week.

[Co-host or Producer]

No, I don't have season tickets to watch the Red.

[Matt Jones]

I do. And by the way, they didn't sign him. Guess when my season ticket deposit was due?

[Caller or Guest]

Yesterday.

[Matt Jones]

Monday.

And I paid it.

[Co-host or Producer]

They got you again.

[Matt Jones]

They got me again.

[Shannon]

Sales guy loves you.

[Matt Jones]

Monday. He's like, well, you put your deposit in. It would have been good to team.

[Caller or Guest]

Him up with Ellie. Those two guys in the lineup would have created a lot of excitement.

[Shannon]

You say, where's your deposit on Schwarber?

[Matt Jones]

Well, I. Apparently, we can't blame them. They offered the same amount of money. This is on Snodder there in the.

[Shannon]

Phillies of all teams.

[Matt Jones]

I don't care. I just. I want it. Why can't they be good? I just want them to be good. I'd like to go to games where they're good. I mean, I know they were. And then when they got good was when I was in South Africa last year. I haven't. They. They're never good when I'm here.

[Shannon]

I feel like, why can't they be good as all of my sports teams the last two years? That's every two.

[Matt Jones]

You're a Braves fan. You all been good in the. In the years.

[Shannon]

Kentucky football, Kentucky basketball, Tennessee Titans, Atlanta Braves.

[Matt Jones]

That's true. 859-280-2287. One person writes. Matt, I heard you talk on Cover Zero about your new car. You better do maintenance on it or you'll be in trouble. That's. You saw my new car out there, Looks nice.

[Shannon]

I was afraid to park near it.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I don't want anybody here. I was gonna park it over at the Sonic to keep people from getting near it. Because I don't. Because it's gonna. It's gonna get messed up. But I just want it to last as long as it can.

[Caller or Guest]

You're talking about bells and whistles. I mean, you've got an LCD screen there as your monitor. It's like got all everything on. It's really cool.

[Matt Jones]

But they were very much like, you have to do the mate. Like, this is a car that if you don't do the maintenance, it will punch you in the face. Like, you've got to do it. And I even bought the little package that comes with it so that I could just drop the car off and run away and come back and get it.

[Shannon]

You gotta remember to actually do that, though.

[Matt Jones]

Well, apparently, like, I've got an app and it'll just start yelling at you when it's. It's time.

[Caller or Guest]

He's got an app now.

[Matt Jones]

Is that good?

[Caller or Guest]

No, that's. You're welcome to the modern world.

[Matt Jones]

Do you have an app?

[Caller or Guest]

No.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Caller or Guest]

I don't. I don't forget to have my oil change and maintenance my car.

[Matt Jones]

No. Every time I turn it on, it tells you what it needs. It's like, give me soda.

[Co-host or Producer]

It's a perfect car for you, though.

[Matt Jones]

No, it is.

[Caller or Guest]

You don't.

[Matt Jones]

But then I actually have to go and do it.

[Shannon]

That's the big part. When it's beeping at you. Will you then take that next step you need to take?

[Co-host or Producer]

You need the car to drive itself to get the oil change.

[Shannon]

Tesla, you should have got a self driving car to go get its own oil change.

[Matt Jones]

It could do it while I'm asleep, go home, get the oil change.

[Shannon]

And then I saw someone write you and say you should get a battery powered car because then you could just plug it in. I want to reply, no, he will not plug it in. And then the next day he'll come out to a dead battery and that would be its own issue.

[Caller or Guest]

Mario, come get me.

[Matt Jones]

I would never plug it in, ever.

[Caller or Guest]

Did you get everything out of your old car?

[Matt Jones]

No, I just, you know, it was totaled and I just was like, I've not wanted to clean this car out. They can have it.

[Co-host or Producer]

He got the important stuff out. Like the expired.

[Matt Jones]

I did get the important stuff out. I got my. I Got what he say? The expired Skittles stuff out.

[Co-host or Producer]

Like, the expired Skittles.

[Matt Jones]

The expired Skittle Skittles I left in.

There's a lot of mementos in there.

[Shannon]

Someone's going to buy that car in auction and have, like, the key to Somerset and a chair from the Royal Rumble. My pickles from Picklesburg.

[Matt Jones]

Would you like to know the three things I did take out of my car?

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah.

[IBM Advertiser]

Let's hear it.

[Matt Jones]

I had gone to the dry cleaner. Okay. I took my golf clubs, and I made sure to take the Conway Twitty Cookbook.

[Caller or Guest]

Tell you your three items out of the car.

[Matt Jones]

That was. And I left 200 other things in the car, but I made sure to take those three.

[Shannon]

Where was the. Was it in the glove box with, like, the information of the car? Where did you even have a Conway Tweety cookbook in there?

[Matt Jones]

It was in the back seat. So when I got in the wreck, the stuff went everywhere in the car.

[Shannon]

I think it was already everywhere.

[Co-host or Producer]

Yeah. Shuffled it around and brought, like, this.

[Matt Jones]

Switch to other spots, but the Conway Twitty Cookbook was right there in a prominent spot, saying, like, don't leave me.

[Shannon]

It's like a message.

[Matt Jones]

It was. And I did not. I listened to it. Who's up next?

[Co-host or Producer]

Ben.

[Matt Jones]

Ben. Go ahead, Ben.

[Shannon]

Hey. Hey, guys. Two quick things.

[Caller]

Matt, I'm not real sure how confident I would be with taking Billy as my stat guy for your game, because.

[Shannon]

A few days ago, he.

[Caller]

Even after all this time of working with and for you guys, he told Shannon on the pre show he thought you and Myron were doing the TV broadcast.

[Co-host or Producer]

He did say that.

[Matt Jones]

He did not. We're not doing the TV broadcast.

[Co-host or Producer]

I tried to say it was radio. He's like, no, I'm pretty sure it's tv.

[Matt Jones]

No, wait a minute. Billy thinks we're doing the TV broadcast.

[Caller or Guest]

He did?

[Co-host or Producer]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Well, he can't be my stats guy if he doesn't even know what the medium is.

[Co-host or Producer]

Well, that's.

[Caller or Guest]

No.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, they're not gonna put us on the TV broadcast. I've never even done a radio broadcast. You think they're gonna put me on the tv? No, I'm on the radio broadcast. You're. Hopefully we'll sync it up to your television. But I'm on the radio.

[Shannon]

You should tell your stats guy. I heard this on the pre show. Shan was trying to correct him, but stat boy was certain.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon, you. Thank you for trying to correct.

[Caller or Guest]

I was trying.

[Matt Jones]

Already correcting my stats guy.

[Co-host or Producer]

Yeah, he's already wrong.

[Matt Jones]

He's already wrong.

[Caller or Guest]

You should want to do the TV broadcast because it's easier. You can see the action on radio. You got to describe it in detail.

[Matt Jones]

I've decided we're just gonna go avant garde. I'm taking calls.

[Caller or Guest]

Billy. Go to screen calls and be your stack guy.

[Matt Jones]

Just think about that for a minute though. Don't you think it'd be kind of fun in a game to take calls? Like to hear from Western and Southern Miss fans, their reactions during the game?

[Co-host or Producer]

No, we want to hear the game.

[Shannon]

You'Re trying to do.

[Co-host or Producer]

You're trying to do the Manning broadcast on the radio is what you're trying to do. It sounds like that doesn't work.

[Matt Jones]

Do you really want to hear the game? It's Western and Southern Miss.

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[Co-host or Producer]

If you're listening on the radio, you want to hear.

[Matt Jones]

All right, fine. I thought Shannon would like my idea of taking calls. I think it's a good idea.

[Caller or Guest]

I think it's a great idea.

[Matt Jones]

If you were like. Because I mean, if Western and Southern Miss fans really care, they're going to listen to their local broadcast. Right? So take calls I expect.

[Shannon]

First quarter you're talking about what happened in the McDonald's drive through and what the Reds did overnight. It's just going to turn it into chaos.

[Matt Jones]

I thought Shannon would like that.

[Co-host or Producer]

Sounds like you're trying to get out of doing play by play to me.

[Matt Jones]

Well, because I don't know how good I'm going to be at it. So we'll see who's next.

[Co-host or Producer]

Mike.

[Matt Jones]

Mike. Go ahead, Mike.

[Caller]

Yeah, I'd like to know if y' all heard anything on football recruiting.

[Matt Jones]

Well, since Will Stein. No, I appreciate the call. They kept drew most of their class together for football. They lost I think one or two guys. Then they got this kid, the four star wide receiver. What about post then? I mean there's not a lot of guys to get because most of them signed on signing day.

[Shannon]

So yeah, we're kind of wait for the portal window now. I mean Kenny Darby, the rece that had offers from all most of the big names, that was the big get that kind of surprised everyone. But now you wait and get Will back from Oregon and get these coordinators and everyone to work and fill it out with the Portal class.

[Matt Jones]

And I think for recruiting next year, you're not going to see him get really involved until he's done at Oregon. I just, I don't, you know, I don't know how that that would happen.

[Shannon]

Yeah, it'll get real newsy around New Year's when.

[Matt Jones]

When the portal certainly will. Yeah.

[Caller or Guest]

That's why, you know, it was kind of crucial for him to get some guys, any staff at GM and offensive court, at least start doing some stuff behind the scenes while he's still out working in Oregon.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, we're going to be very active in the portal. We're probably going to end up getting a lot of guys because he's going to want to bring in his players. You know, I think Kentucky will be. I think we'll have a very active and hopefully successful portal year.

[Caller or Guest]

Do you think he'll bring some guys from Oregon?

[Matt Jones]

Yes, of course. Probably that quarterback.

[Caller or Guest]

Right?

[Matt Jones]

Isn't that what we think he's.

[Shannon]

I would suspect he'd bring a quarterback to compete. I don't know that. Even though he's spoken highly of Bowley when he gets the chance. But you know, he talks about recruiting Kentucky and he'll be in with some freshmen. But he needs to rent win right away and that'll require going out and get some guys that are ready schedule.

[Matt Jones]

We have next year. Yeah. Clayton and Croom was founded on a simple idea. All leather goods should last a lifetime. They make everything from bags, belts, wallets and more. And they're doing it right here in Kentucky. Check them [e-mail] C R U M E.com It's Christmas. You want to know what to get? Get leather leather goods from Clayton and Croom. Located on Shelby street in Newloo. It's claytonandkroom.com C R U M E.com It's Clayton and Crum. We'll take a break and be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio.

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. It is Kentucky sports Radio. I wasn't going to leave this. Conway Tweety's cookbook is an interesting read. Some not culturally appropriate things to say anymore from Conway. Written in the seventies.

[Shannon]

In a cookbook.

[Matt Jones]

In a cookbook.

[Co-host or Producer]

How can you be controversial in a cookbook?

[Matt Jones]

The way he describes some of the ethnic foods from other countries. I don't think he meant anything by it. But you know how, like, your grandparents might have said things. You're like, we don't say that anymore, Granny. That's kind of how Conway talked.

[Shannon]

So there's more to it than just like half a cup of sugar tablespoon.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. He'd be like, well, I mean, I don't need to say it, but he'd make color commentary.

[Shannon]

Okay. There's some editorial stuff.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. He wouldn't just do the. He. He would give Conway's thoughts on the dishes.

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[Matt Jones]

And sometimes you would go, conway, you. You know, you. You. You can't do that.

[Shannon]

Just tell me how much broth I need. I don't need to know.

[Matt Jones]

I don't need to know your thoughts on some of these other things.

[Caller or Guest]

So did you put it in the back of the new car? Is that where it's going to rest now?

[Matt Jones]

No, no, no. I'm going to keep this car clean.

[Shannon]

You're learning how to cook Conway's.

[Matt Jones]

Well, that didn't work as well as this. As this is 859-280-22-287. One person writes, Matt, you should take calls during the broadcast. I think it's great. Don't listen to Shannon. He wears a Speedo.

[Co-host or Producer]

I just want to know how that works. Like, how are you going to take phone calls when you're trying to call?

[Matt Jones]

You come back from Break. And you'd go, you know, it's. Southern Miss takes over at their own 33 yard line. It's going to be first and 10 before we do this play. Let's go out to Johnny in Bowling Green. Johnny, how do you feel about how the Hilltoppers are doing? And then we go right back to the game.

[Co-host or Producer]

The whole point is, though, knowing what happens in the game, we won't know what happened when you're talking to Johnny.

[Matt Jones]

And I'll go, while Johnny was talking, they ran for four yards. Now it's second and six from 37.

[Shannon]

You'll butt into whatever Johnny's saying and.

[Matt Jones]

Let people know exactly. I'll be like, this is what happened. But let's let Johnny tell us about what he had for lunch about Lebanon, Ohio.

[Caller or Guest]

There could be a place to take a couple calls during a game. There's a little dead time when they're. They're reviewing a call.

[Matt Jones]

The goal is to make a revolutionary broadcast. Most people say the start to big things is the New Orleans.

[Caller or Guest]

Oh, wow.

[Matt Jones]

25Th year anniversary.

[Shannon]

It's a big deal.

[Matt Jones]

It is a big deal.

[Shannon]

How early, like, do you have to get there? Like, there's, like, meetings with coaches and stuff.

[Matt Jones]

So we. The game is on the 20. The game. I'm gonna miss the yoga. The Yoga's on the 21st. I don't get to go to the yoga. But the 23rd is the game. We have to be there to meet with the staffs. The staffs on the 22nd. I don't know what to say to those people.

[Shannon]

How are you all doing? You want to call into our show? Give me the hotline.

[Matt Jones]

Live from the sidelines. Yeah. So we do it. We meet with the staff on the 22nd. There's a dinner that night. New Orleans bowl dinner. I bet that's good, to be honest with you.

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Then the game's on. I have to fly home on Christmas Eve. Anybody ever been in an airport on Christmas Eve? I feel like that'll be.

[Shannon]

Probably won't be great.

[Matt Jones]

Probably won't be the best experience in the world. But, you know, this, what you do in. In service life. This is the life of a New Orleans bowl commentator. Who's next?

[Co-host or Producer]

Dg.

[Matt Jones]

Dg. What's up, dg?

[Caller]

What's up, guys?

[Shannon]

Hey.

[Caller]

Just first off, shout out to Jack and Jacob, the people of Kentucky. We needed that. And for the ones who are giving pushback on that, we needed to hear. We was all wondering, like, what's going on? I guess my thought, my question for you all is, you know, you talked about there being a fix, the fix with JMI and Pope with that fix. How soon is that fix going to be, do you think?

[Matt Jones]

I don't know.

[Caller]

Something we can fix. So we get Collins and Stokes because, yeah, happen.

Is moving on to, you know, let's say we don't get these top recruits. Well, then we have another year where we don't have that guy, that dude that y' all keep referring to. And then we're looking at year three with Pope. And, you know, I just. I guess that's my question.

[Matt Jones]

I think it's a totally fair question.

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[Matt Jones]

Totally fair question. I think they're in a tough spot here, Ryan, because they need to get at least one or two of these top high school guys or. Or they need to kill the portal, but they're going to have a problem because they've kind of overpaid in the portal maybe this year. And so guys may demand more money now. Like, it's going to be. It's tough situation. But the thing is, I do think it's fixable. I don't think this season, this year is over. Beat Indiana Saturday. That gets some folks back. Get some. You know, the conference, like we talked about, is not as good as it's been in years past. There's. There's some movement you can make, but. So I don't think it's. Oh, I mean, thinks it's over. These are fixable problems like you've kind of alluded to.

[Caller or Guest]

They're kind of easy fix, really, as long as you go out and get. Get the Collins kid, maybe, you know, this week, I think a lot of people feel a lot more favorably about what we're doing in the basketball program than we do right now.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, if you get him, then I think it's a. You get one of these guys. I think it's a different Drew. It's different. It's a part of what's hard for people. I think part of what made last week so bad is you played North Carolina, who has this Caleb Wilson kid that should be here now. He didn't play great against us, but he's clearly a top talent. That's the kind of kid that should be here. He goes to North Carolina, you lose, then at home, then you play Gonzaga, and you're not even competitive. So you play a North Carolina team that got an elite recruit and you didn't, and they beat you. And then you play a Gonzaga team built with homegrown guys and portal guys, and they Destroy you. And then there's like, well, what are we doing?

[Shannon]

And I don't love that. One of the big portal Mrs. Is coming to town on Saturday. That adds to the.

[Matt Jones]

Well, we want to talk about that.

[Shannon]

But there is something to. Like getting Collins. One thing Cal was good at is when they were losing or bad news.

[Matt Jones]

Would come out, he was good.

[Shannon]

He'd go out and get a commitment and show, you know, we're still doing all right.

[Matt Jones]

We're okay.

[Shannon]

Pope needs to land one quickly to put this together.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. And in 2013, when we had such a bad year, he brought in arguably his most talented class of all time for the 2014s. Right. So, you know, we need. We need a dose of good news. I want to talk about the IU part. Mark story had an interesting column today. We'll deal with it right after this. Kentucky Sports Radio.

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back, techie. Sports Radio. Is this, I assume, Weird Al?

[Co-host or Producer]

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[Matt Jones]

Sounds great. What's it called?

[Co-host or Producer]

My bologna.

[Matt Jones]

That's great.

[Caller or Guest]

We gotta go.

[Matt Jones]

You can go together. I like Weird Al fine, but I can't devote an evening to Weird Al.

[Caller or Guest]

He's got to be 70s. He's still performing, doing these songs.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. That's the point. I'm not going. I'm not going. I mean, I. I appreciate that you want to.

[Caller or Guest]

Come on. This is a great.

[Matt Jones]

I'd like to go. Stavros is coming here. I'd like to see that. Can somebody get me tickets to that?

[Caller or Guest]

To what?

[Matt Jones]

He's like, a comedian.

[Caller or Guest]

Stavros?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. He's coming to the Opera House.

[Co-host or Producer]

Never heard of him.

[Shannon]

Good venue.

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah, I never heard of him.

[Shannon]

He's no Weird Al.

[Matt Jones]

You just go to Weird Al.

[Caller or Guest]

Give me Weird Al, and you let.

[Shannon]

Me plow in so long that even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone. What a great song.

[Matt Jones]

A couple things in terms of. For you to listen to over the next two days. Our cover zero is out. I had to miss a couple episodes, but I'm back from. We had. We had a lot of fun yesterday. If you're not listening, NFL Cover Zero. It doesn't matter if you're an NFL fan or not. As a matter of fact, you'll probably like it better if you're not, because we're not talking about that. But the newest episode's really fun, and Drew and I tell stories, including. We talk Drew, dad stuff. And so check it out. And then today, my Interrupted podcast comes out. I had Terry Miners on, and it actually is. We talk a lot about Kentucky stuff, but also Terry gets kind of emotional, and I. I was surprised how much I talked to him about, you know, he has 13 brothers and sisters. He's one of 14 kids. I was just like, how does that work? 14 kids. He told me not to do the spoiler for the podcast. 14 kids. There are something like 80.

Like, grandkids or something like that.

[Caller or Guest]

Wow.

[Co-host or Producer]

You got an entire football team in there.

[Matt Jones]

That's crazy. I said, do you all ever get together? And he was like, well, during Christmas, we'll do something. And he was like, we rent out a gym.

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah. Where else would you put 80 grandkids?

[Matt Jones]

They rent out a gym to see each other. Isn't that wild?

[Caller or Guest]

It's awesome. You know, and he's been on the air now in WHS for 40 years.

[Matt Jones]

He'll be on. He started in Lexington in 1977. Next year will be his 50th year on the radio.

[Caller or Guest]

That's crazy.

[Matt Jones]

Isn't that insane?

[Shannon]

And a super nice guy.

[Matt Jones]

Super nice guy. So, like, I think you. I think folks will really enjoy it. We had a really good conversation yesterday. He. He cried at one point.

[Caller or Guest]

Did he?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, because we got. He got emotional. He start. We were talking about my dad, which led him to start talking about his family. And it's. It's just a really sweet. So I recommend that's the Interrupted Podcast. Podcast.

[Shannon]

We will absolutely check it out.

[Caller or Guest]

And he's as genuine as you hear on the radio.

[Matt Jones]

He really is. He's as. He's as nice as it come. Philip Rivers is coming back to play in the NFL. He has not played a football game since 2021. Speaking of somebody who's got, like, 15 kids, how many kids does he have?

[Caller or Guest]

He's got a bunch.

[Matt Jones]

I think he has 10. He's got 10 kids and he's leaving them. That's why he's coming back, is he got to get out of the house. 10 kids. He has not played a game since 2021. And he's coming back and may start this week for the Indianapolis Colts. There's no way that works, right?

[Shannon]

Unlikely, but I'm rooting for it. I mean, he's basically admitted, I'm fat now, not gonna be running. I might play. Not in the best shape. He, like you said, he had to have just been tired. I bet he's been throwing the football 200 times in the backyard. He's like, If I'm gonna be throwing this much, I should at least go back to the league.

[Matt Jones]

But he's got to be like, you can't just all of a sudden be on NFL speed if you've for five years been sitting around. I actually think it would be a bad sign for the NFL. If he's good, the guys can just come off their couch and then five years later be good.

[Shannon]

These backups, like the one he's now competing with, Riley Leonard, who's a rookie there has to be like. It has to be so deflating that they're like, you know, we'll just call this guy that's been retired.

[Matt Jones]

Call this old man that's down at the street. Like, I. I'm going to watch it because I'm fascinated as to what's going to happen.

[Caller or Guest]

Aren't you? I am 100% going to watch it, and I'm pulling for the guy. I mean, we just saw Joe Flacco in his 40s have some.

[Matt Jones]

Flacco had been, like, on rosters. This guy's not done anything for five.

[Caller or Guest]

Years in his 40s. I'm pulling for him. The Colts were desperate. All three of their quarterbacks on the roster are hurt. They had nowhere to go, so they hired.

[Matt Jones]

They had somewhere to go. I mean, they didn't have to. I mean, is they not going to. Was. Why A tittle not available.

[Shannon]

You know, they're not out of it. What if he strings together a few wins?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Playoff. Phillip rivers at age 44.

[Matt Jones]

That's another thing. Like, it's not like he's just filling in the time. They are. They are in the playoffs, right?

[Caller or Guest]

Very much.

[Matt Jones]

It's a pretty amazing story. I can't think of anything like that. Can you think of somebody having that much time off? I mean, like, Michael Jordan was off for two years, but he played baseball. I mean, he didn't just complete, completely stop being an athlete. I can't remember anything like this before.

[Caller or Guest]

Well, I think he's been coaching high school football. Right. So he's been on the football field throwing around.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. But I mean, do you want Mark Stoops to play for the Colts tomorrow? I mean, like, a little different than.

[Shannon]

A defensive end coming at you.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think that's the same thing. Is it?

[Caller or Guest]

I'm pulling for him. I hope they win. I don't even know who they play, but I'm pulling for him.

[Shannon]

It's a hard. I think they're at Seattle. It's a big game. Tough, tough game for them. Put them on the road.

[Matt Jones]

They're playing against a hard defense.

[Shannon]

I'm all, I'm going to bet his overs 3 touchdown.

[Co-host or Producer]

That offensive line too you.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Co-host or Producer]

You know, take care of the old man back there.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Can you exactly. Can you imagine like your offensive line for a nursing home and you're like, can you all please not hurt him?

[Co-host or Producer]

Maybe they're more motivate it, you know?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. All right, well, we'll see who's next.

[Co-host or Producer]

Sean.

[Matt Jones]

Sean. Go ahead, Sean.

[Caller]

I say you started talking about Philip Rivers and I have to change what was going to say. Whenever he goes in the very first play, they need to take the film clip of the longest yard when Burt Reynolds goes in. He got Rob Schneider up there.

[Matt Jones]

That's right.

[Caller]

Ass across the end zone. And then Ryan, you're right. When I watched Godfather, probably first time and maybe the 80s, I too said, hey, there's Fish.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I'll let you go to Fish.

[Caller]

One thing about him, and I love Mark Pope, but the one thing about Mark Pope when this recruiting part is if he had stayed in medical school, he would still be the same Kentucky fan as a doctor as he is as our coach.

[Matt Jones]

That's true.

[Caller]

I don't think you're ever going to get that emotion out of it. And I absolutely think we need to follow like the nil of college football. We go get us a general manor manager and we quit thinking this is amateur sports and is the big Blue Corporation and it's got to be ran like.

[Matt Jones]

No, it does. You're exactly right and I appreciate the call. And I think you're about. I mean, this is my opinion and I could be wrong. We're about to see a C shift. If you go back to.

October, let's just pick a date. October 1st of this year. By the time we get to October 1st of next year, I think you're going to have seen his dramatic of shift in UK athletics, as you have seen.

Since integration. And what I mean by that is we will have a new football coach. I think we will have a completely new structure of the entire football. Football operation. And I mean how it's run, who oversees it, how they get players. I think you're going to have a new athletic director. I think you're going to have a new president. I think you're going to have. You already have this new champions blue structure. I think you're going to have a JMI arrangement that will still exist, but I think will be in a different form than was announced six months ago because they don't have a choice. And I think you're going to see a completely different UK athletics. Now. The question is, do you set that that's happening no matter what. So the question is, are you going to set that up for the modern era and in a way that can really succeed, or are you going to try to hold on to the past and come out crippled? And it'll be up to the decision makers to decide that. But, you know, change is coming.

You know, what is the Bob Dylan song? The times, they are changing. And so the question is, what I think in the Bob Dylan song, what does he say? Shannon, you can get with the new or be out like the old, but the times, like that's happening. And so the question, I think, Drew, is just how UK handles what I think is about to be a seismic shift in the university.

[Shannon]

Yep. And there's already been a seismic shift around him with everything, and we're behind on that. And I hope the new blood wants to be more of, you know, at the forefront, cutting edge. Then we've kind of had someone that just reacts to everything and kind of dips a toe in. Well, let's wait and see how this goes. Then. I'll commit. I want someone that's a little more innovative and exciting and.

[Matt Jones]

And I. I hope they do it. I mean, I hope they already did the football part. I mean, getting rid of Stoops was a. Was it like a gutsy thing to do in some ways? Because you had to pay the buyout and you had to do all this stuff. That was step one. Mitch, I think, is going to retire. I think he needs to, but I also think he will. I think you're gonna get a new president. I think you just get. It's. It's gonna be a complete change. And then the question is that next generation, what do they decide to do?

[Caller or Guest]

So if this next generation coming in, it would be more advantageous for you Catholics to hire somebody from without outside, not promotes, within.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I. I think I've given my opinion on that. If you're. When you're picking an athletic director, I think there's a couple people that should be in the mix because of what they've done here. But I also think you need to talk to people outside the mix, and then you need to have people who decide which one of you few are the ones to best do it. You know, I've heard people say about the basketball GM thing, they say, well, why don't we get Nazi Muhammad or why don't we get Rajon? Rondo. I'm not saying Nazi Muhammad couldn't do it. Not saying Rajon Rondo. But here's what I would say to you. That's old thinking. Okay? That's thinking of, I want somebody I've heard of to do this. Chances are the best person to be the basketball GM is somebody no one here has ever heard of.

[Caller or Guest]

Right?

[Matt Jones]

Right. It's some business person who understands negotiating contracts. Right. Like the most powerful person in sports media is a person that not one of you have ever heard of. His name is Michael Klein. He was actually my agent, and he left because he made so much money with, pardon my take and Pat McAfee and all these people. He didn't need to be an agent anymore. He now runs like multiple. He basically has his hand on everything that happens in media. And not one of you would ever know who he is. Right. That's. We need a gm, probably Drew that nobody knows who they are. That's just really good at that job.

[Shannon]

It's because all of this is so new. You don't really want anyone that was good at the old stuff where you're familiar with, because times have changed. That's part of reason. We want change just throughout UK Athletics, because so many people are in the same seat they were 20 years ago, but the job is nothing like it was 20 years ago.

[Matt Jones]

That's exactly right. You're exactly right. It's the guy who was the best at managing, you know, an assembly line, and now he's in charge of AI. Well, it's not the same job, you know, and so if they get Nazi Muhammad, I'll support him. But, like, we need to think bigger than that. We need to get someone who. This is perfectly situated for this, and I don't know who that is, but hopefully the people that pick them, you know, will.

[Shannon]

And I don't think it's a bad thing to say Pope in good or that. Good at this, good at that. I've thought this since Nil popped up. Great head coaches probably shouldn't be good at the other side. That's a lot. There's not a perfect coach that's great at contracts, great at X's, and O's, great relationships. It needs to be divvied up because there's so much more to it than I'm just drawing up plays and trying to win games. And no one, even Nick Saban, isn't good at every little thing you have to do now. That's why I left.

[Caller or Guest]

He.

[Shannon]

He. He knew he wasn't Good. Good on the nil. And it didn't like it.

[Matt Jones]

Everybody will tell you the best college football agent in the country is a guy named Jimmy Sexton. Anybody ever. Anybody know what he looks like?

[Caller or Guest]

No, I don't.

[Matt Jones]

Anybody ever seen him on tv?

[Shannon]

Doesn't want to be seen.

[Matt Jones]

Anybody ever seen him? He doesn't want to. What is it again? I feel like I coach quote Cal a lot. Real G's move, silence.

[Shannon]

We're not going to give that to Cal. That's Lil Wayne.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I heard it.

[Shannon]

Real G's moving. G's move in silence like lasagna.

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. Tech Esports Radio.

[Caller or Guest]

What do you think immediately when you hear this song?

[Matt Jones]

Antonio Hall.

[Caller or Guest]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. I mean, that's why I think I don't know if anybody else does.

[Caller or Guest]

I do immediately. You think Antonio hall, he don't know nothing.

[Matt Jones]

Like that is a deep cut though. AJ Stewart was here yesterday. That was a deep cut too.

[Shannon]

I walked past him three different times in here and did not know that was aj.

[Matt Jones]

I couldn't believe that was AJ Stuart Martin though.

[Shannon]

But I didn't, I didn't know it was him when he first walked in.

[Matt Jones]

Let me. I mean, we talk about Patrick Patterson and Jay Lucas being old school ksr and that's true, but AJ Stuart is the oldest school ksr. Like when I think of the first recruits that we followed at ksr, there are two names that come to mind. One we got and one we did A.J. stewart. And again, this is before y' all were involved. But the second one is the name of a kid that only old school Internet following recruits people remember Marshall Moses.

[Caller or Guest]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

Do you remember Marshall Moses?

[Caller or Guest]

Remember that name? Don't remember anything about the story, but I remember that name.

[Matt Jones]

I don't remember where he went to school either. I don't know what happened to him, but he was like the first, first. He and AJ Stuart were like the first recruits that we at KSR really connected to. So when I saw AJ yesterday, at first I didn't recognize him. Of course he knew Mario. And then I was like, wow, AJ and he was like, really nice. Said he's followed us all these years. And like I, you know, I went to the Marshall county hoops fest in 2006, drove across the state to watch Martin AJ Stuart play a game in 2006. So it was neat seeing him there.

[Shannon]

I'm signed the big wall back here.

[Caller or Guest]

Mario introduced me to him. I had no idea who he was. I saw your tweet, your selfie with him and I got that was AJ Stewart.

[Matt Jones]

Wow, great memory though. I love AJ Stuart was one of the nice. He did. He and Billy didn't get along, so.

[Shannon]

He was one of the players that didn't get the end of Tubby or the beginning of Cal. He Was just here for Billy's two years.

[Matt Jones]

Wow.

[Shannon]

That's it.

[Matt Jones]

But I really like four star recruit.

[Shannon]

If I'm not mistaken. It was a big game.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, he was a big get at.

[Shannon]

The somewhere in Florida.

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[Co-host or Producer]

Let's go to Adam.

[Caller or Guest]

Adam.

[Matt Jones]

Go ahead Adam.

[Caller]

What's up Matt? How about Tyrone Nash for another good one.

[Matt Jones]

That's a good name from the past. Trying to think what was Darius Rice is another one from that era that that sort of names in that time of recruiting. But go ahead.

[Caller]

Hey, how would you like to be young, sound safe that you know you signed on to this football contract to play UK with your buddies Mark Stoops and Vince Merrow and now the the new young Will Stein's gonna come in and hang 70 on you.

[Matt Jones]

Hope he does. Hope he does. Those are what appreciate the call. Only two games. I think we're sure to win next year. So I'm, I'm for it. Let's kill that's crushed Youngstown State.

[Caller or Guest]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

That mean that game's completely different now. And just the getting excited about scoring 70. I know that's extreme but just scoring points like I love where Stoops took us. He took us to new heights. But like the stat of being oh and 49 if you're down by two touchdowns. I'm excited for that to change where we can light up the scoreboard.

[Matt Jones]

Can I make your prediction of something that's going to happen in the football world in recruiting?

[Caller or Guest]

Yes, go ahead.

[Matt Jones]

Will Stein and Vince Merrow going be chirping at each other for like the next three years, don't you think? Because Will stop because Vince was subtweeting Will's press conference and Will's gonna fire back. Will Stein vs Vince Marrow is actually gonna be fun.

[Caller or Guest]

Especially the first time they go head to head for recruit some kid out of Louisville or something and Will and him are both going after that kid.

[Shannon]

That and they're kind of on each other's turfs. You know, Vince still, you know Lexington still probably home to him and his brain. But Will is very tied into the Louisville Scene.

[Matt Jones]

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[Shannon]

There's no rules anymore.

[Matt Jones]

I guess you can just do whatever you want. All right, let's do our pick for DraftKings. That. That was not our pick. Who's going to win the Minnesota a governor's race?

[Shannon]

I don't think that's on the app.

[Matt Jones]

Falcons. Bucks tonight. Bucks are what? A three and a half point favor and a four and a half point favorite. Who you got?

[Caller or Guest]

I'm going Baker Mayfield and the Bucks. Let's go.

[Matt Jones]

I'm going Falcons. Yeah, the Bucks have been bad. Billy has convinced me they stink. Although he did think my game was on television. So I don't know if I should if I should listen to him. But I'm going to take the Falcons to cover.

[Shannon]

I'll say the Falcons cover just because the Bucks have gone the way.

[Caller]

Wrong.

[Shannon]

Wrong way.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon.

[Co-host or Producer]

Give me Tampa Bay.

[Matt Jones]

All right. Hey. Tomorrow we will be at KS Bar, a rare Friday show here. Watch out for the snow tonight, everybody. Be, be careful, cats and cow. Polly Ozzy Madden goes against us at 3:30. Turn it on. We'll see you later. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio.

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You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract worth $250,000.

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