2026-01-16- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – Hour 1, January 16, 2026

Hosts: Matt Jones, Drew Franklin, Shannon Dawson, Ryan Lemond
Location: Live from Wild Eggs on Tates Creek, Lexington
Theme: Previewing the Kentucky vs. Tennessee basketball game, Kentucky football transfer portal moves, offbeat trivia, updates on college sports, and a wild story in college basketball gambling.

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Main Theme

This episode captures the classic KSR blend of lively Kentucky sports talk, community banter, and an engaging mix of trivia and local flavor. Broadcasting live from Wild Eggs in Lexington, the crew dives into UK basketball’s prospects at Tennessee, discusses renovations at Kroger Field, reviews Kentucky football portal action, and reacts to an outrageous college basketball gambling scandal—all while riffing and joking in their signature style.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Live from Wild Eggs: Setting the Scene

• The team kicks off from the newly opened Wild Eggs, touting its breakfast specialties and noting Ryan’s son works there.
• Lively banter with the crowd, with Matt joking about patrons who came for eggs, not for KSR.
  • [01:52] Matt Jones: “I like being in places where people did not come to see us. They just wanted eggs.”
• Local trivia about the area: former sports radio hosts whose careers “ended” at a nearby bar; country music names who played at Grapevine.

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2. UK Basketball at Tennessee: Hopeful But Cautious

• Tomorrow’s Noon Game Preview: Kentucky has won 5 out of the last 6 visits to Knoxville, often as underdogs.
• The panel reminisces about surprising wins, unexpected breakout performances (Antonio Reeves, Reed Sheppard, CJ Fredrick).
• Shannon’s Prediction: “I believe Kentucky is going to be at it... they were an 11-point underdog, a 13-point underdog... and won both outright.” [12:21]
• Focus on the importance of avoiding slow starts: every recent win featured an unexpected hero.
• Potential breakout player:
  • Shannon: “It’s a Yellovich game. He played 20 [minutes], did well in his first starting role. I think he takes another step forward in Knoxville.” [14:24]
• Discussion on Tennessee’s key players, especially big man Carney and rising freshman Nate Amethyst.
• General consensus: confidence in a competitive showing, but reluctance to predict an outright win.
  • Ryan Lemond: “You can’t get down on the road... [you've] got to continue that.”

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3. Offbeat Trivia Fun (with Timestamps)

Segment 1: Notable Kentucky Players with Matching Initials

• Matt quizzes Shannon and Drew: “Since 1990, give me the top eight scorers for UK whose first and last names start with the same letter.” [04:52]
  • Answers: Malik Monk, Brandon Boston, Patrick Patterson, Rajon Rondo, and more.
  • Playful banter ensues; Google is jokingly referenced as a crutch.
• Drew Franklin: “I googled that one, too.” [06:23]

Segment 2: TV Shows by State

• Matt prompts which TV show set in each state had the most viewers. [08:08]
  • Examples:
    • Pennsylvania: The Office
    • New York: Friends (Seinfeld second)
    • California: Big Bang Theory
    • Florida: Golden Girls
    • Kentucky: Justified
    • Ohio: Glee
    • Illinois: Roseanne
  • Crowd and co-hosts join in, leading to laughs and local pride.

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4. Football: Kroger Field Renovations & Portal Watch

• Stadium Upgrades:
  • Focused mostly on new luxury suites, with some enhancements for upper-deck (“worst”) seats—adding seatbacks, plus social/standing areas.
  • Matt Jones: “Most of the renovations… felt like we’re gonna do some renovations to make money and… throw some of you all in the worst seats a little bit.”
  • Ryan Lemond: “You want people to come to the game… the crowd has been diminishing… you want to make it a better experience.” [20:57]
• Will Stein Era & Transfer Portal
  • Wide receiver still the main concern; LSU's Nick Anderson on campus and likely to commit.
  • Praise for Stein's recruiting multitasking while finishing up at Oregon.
    • Matt Jones: “Nobody in the portal, nobody in the country did better on the offensive line than we did.” [24:03]
  • Optimism for the new staff and roster, but acknowledgment of upcoming "toughest-ever schedule."

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5. Fan Interactions & Classic KSR Banter

• Wild Trivia Segment (with Crowd)
  • Banter about patrons using phones during the live show.
  • Drew—“If you were here, you’d be reading a magazine. Let’s be real.” [36:58]
• Slow Starts for Basketball: Listener Call-ins
  • Caller proposes wild pre-game fixes: “full speed, full contact” warmup games.
    • Matt Jones: “It sounds like the worst idea I’ve ever heard.” [29:26]
  • Reference to previous Tubby Smith attempts at boosting energy in pregame.

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6. Scandal: College Basketball Gambling Bust

• College basketball gambling/fixing scandal involves “Rod Winkler,” infamous for confronting Aaron Harrison in 2014, now charged by the FBI.
  • Matt Jones: “How is it, Shannon, that you can have two different things in your life with no connection... that are such big stories that you’re in the middle, neither of them good?” [39:09]
• Details on the brazen bets: $545K on Kent State-Buffalo first half, $275K on Southern Miss, etc.
  • Matt: “When you make a $500,000 bet on Kent State-Buffalo first half, it raises some people going, what?” [40:38]
• Drew’s incredulity: “I would maybe ease into it a little bit, you know, maybe go like a couple of hundred at first.” [40:44]
• Several references to names from past scandals (Antonio Blakeney, Katina Powell).

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7. UK Women’s Basketball

• Kentucky women’s team pulled off a tough win over Florida, improving to 17-2.
• Praise for Tony Morgan and the team’s resilience despite defensive struggles.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I like being in places where people did not come to see us. They just wanted eggs.” —Matt Jones [01:52]
• “Every time we’ve won down there a random person has come off the bench... and played well.” —Matt Jones [13:27]
• “It’s a Yellovich game. He played 20 [minutes]… I think he takes another step forward in Knoxville.” —Shannon Dawson [14:24]
• “If you were here, you would be reading a magazine. Let’s be real.” —Drew Franklin [36:58]
• On massive gambling bets: “How did they think they weren’t going to get caught?” —Matt Jones [39:55]
• On the scandal: “When you make a $500,000 bet on Kent State-Buffalo first half, it raises some people going, what?” —Matt Jones [40:38]
• “I would maybe ease into it a little bit, you know, maybe go like a couple of hundred at first. Let’s not make it too obvious.” —Drew Franklin [40:44]
• On the crowd using phones: “Come on now… you all have taken the time to come to a radio show and you’re sitting in the front row all looking down on your phone?” —Matt Jones [36:33]
• On slow starts: “DJ team did not [start well]... I think it’s interesting after all year we heard over and over… we need to play these guys… They’ve now reverted to playing six guys the whole game.” —Matt Jones [31:04]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:00] — Wild Eggs & crowd banter
• [04:52] — UK basketball players with matching initials trivia
• [08:08] — TV shows by state trivia
• [12:11] — UK vs. Tennessee preview, superstition about Knoxville upsets
• [19:22] — Kroger Field renovations discussion
• [22:15] — Transfer portal/Will Stein recruiting watch
• [26:12] — Breaking news: WR Shane Carr likely to pick UK
• [29:00] — Listener call-in: “fixing” slow basketball starts
• [38:14] — The Rod Winkler gambling scandal story
• [40:38] — The outrageous college basketball gambling fixes
• [41:58] — Scandal returns: old names resurface

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Engagement and Tone

Playful, fast-paced, and packed with trivia, local color, and classic KSR camaraderie. The hosts riff with each other and the audience, keeping up a uniquely Kentucky mix of skepticism, nostalgia, and optimism.

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Useful for New Listeners

This summary gives a thorough, engaging sense of what happened during the show: what’s up with UK basketball heading to Tennessee, ongoing football portal action, fan community atmosphere, and a real-time reaction to national sports news—all interspersed with jokes, relatable asides, and great trivia. Even if you missed the show, you’re up to speed—eggs included.

Transcript

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[Matt Jones]

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[Drew Franklin]

They're not here for us. They were here before I got here.

[Matt Jones]

See, I like that. I like being in places where there are people there who did not come to see us. They just wanted eggs. That's all they wanted.

[Drew Franklin]

You got dinner on the show and.

[Matt Jones]

They came here to Wild Eggs and they ended up getting called out. We are here at Kentucky Sports Radio at Wild Eggs off Tates Creek on. What is the name of this road?

[Ryan Lemond]

Sarin Drive.

[Matt Jones]

Sarin Drive. And it is fueling up for Wild Eggs before the Tennessee game. Three locations they've got. You've been to all of them? They've got one right next to our bar, right? Correct They've got one here and then one out in Hamburg.

[Ryan Lemond]

Palomar, Hamburg. And this is the new one here off Tate's Creek. And this is a. This is the biggest one. This is really nice.

[Matt Jones]

It is. And. And Ryan's son works here.

[Caller]

So.

[Matt Jones]

So how about that? You have a. You have some family ownership? Well, maybe not ownership, but your son works here.

[Ryan Lemond]

He was hustling as soon as I walked in. I came, introduced myself. Hey, I'm Ryan. You remember me? Like, he went back to school and I haven't seen him all week.

[Matt Jones]

That's right. A week.

[Drew Franklin]

It's been a whole seven days.

[Matt Jones]

A whole week. Wow. So we are here. You can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet shop phone line. 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass tax machine is 772-774-5254. In this edition, sponsored by the T.J. smith Law Office. If you call TJL, make them pay. They've got all kinds of great food here, Drew. The potato head casserole, the loco hash. Though you probably bring us some of this later, we always eat up on it. And this is, in my opinion, the best breakfast spot and throughout the state.

[Shannon Dawson]

Completely agree. I love wild eggs. I used to live right over here in college. If wild eggs had been here back then, I would have been in big trouble because this is always a treat. I try to come here at least once a month.

[Matt Jones]

So, yeah, let's talk about this little neighborhood. You lived right over here.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, I used to walk over to Grapevine.

[Matt Jones]

I lived right over here. I lived at the Grand Res, which is just right there. That bar over there is where a person who used to do my job, not Kentucky sports radio, but another local sports radio host had his career end at a bar right over there. Do you remember that?

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh, I forgot about.

[Shannon Dawson]

You're pointing toward the grapevine. Are you talking about the grapevine over at the.

[Matt Jones]

I think you're right.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. Yes, I do.

[Matt Jones]

Now that in his career ended about 20 years, 15 years ago, right over there.

[Drew Franklin]

Let's not end anybody's career today here.

[Matt Jones]

Well, that's what I'm saying. I'm hoping this is not an area where you have to Very careful, Ryan Lemon, what you say today to not let that happen to us.

[Ryan Lemond]

But the grapevine then sparked John Michael Montgomery and Troy Gentry and those guys kind of started there. Eddie Montgomery all went through the grapevine. And get going.

[Matt Jones]

Kentucky, Tennessee is tomorrow at noon on the road. We will get ready for that game. But I Always like to do this, you two. Ryan Lemon last night missed qualifying for the finals of trivia by one spot. Top five teams made it. And Ryan Lemon's team came in sixth.

[Shannon Dawson]

So proud of you, though. By 2.6.

[Ryan Lemond]

We were missed out by fifth.

[Matt Jones]

We had a packed house with 35 teams. Ryan Lemons came in six. I think that deserves a round of applause that Ryan Lemon would come in sixth place.

[Shannon Dawson]

Do the holiday in line.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, I did stay at Holiday Inn.

[Matt Jones]

Express the night before, so I always do this Shannon, where we do a couple trivia questions. We're ready. And now you two are on the hot spot.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

All right. This Kentucky team, one of the things I learned, I noticed we have four players on the team whose first and last name start with the same letter. All right? Colin Chandler. Otega away. Malachi Moreno. Jasper Johnson. That's kind of odd. But guess what? That has not happened very much. As a matter of fact, it's only happened 13 times since 1990 in UK basketball besides this year. So four on this team, but only 13 on the other 35 years teams. So the question is, since 1990, can you give me the top eight scores in Kentucky basketball, whose first and last name started with the same letter?

[Shannon Dawson]

Malik Monk.

[Matt Jones]

Malik Monk is on one of them. Yes.

[Drew Franklin]

Brandon Boston.

[Matt Jones]

Well done, Shannon.

[Shannon Dawson]

I had that one, too.

[Matt Jones]

Look at you getting Brandy.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, yeah, I googled it, everybody. Did you see that?

[Matt Jones]

You didn't go. Well done. That's a very hard one. Okay, there's two.

[Shannon Dawson]

See, I had a bunch till you said top eight because Johnny Juze came.

[Matt Jones]

Johnny was Johnny Juzenk's 11th.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, I could. I could do a few more, but.

[Drew Franklin]

That was my contribution.

[Matt Jones]

You're on your own now. Okay, Johnny was 11.

[Shannon Dawson]

High scores, though.

[Matt Jones]

Anybody in the crowd? One that didn't play last. What do you think? What do you think? Azabuki's first name was Kalina.

[Drew Franklin]

Hold on, let's go back real quick. Since what year?

[Matt Jones]

Since 1990.

[Drew Franklin]

Rayshawn Rondo.

[Matt Jones]

Rajon Rondo. Shannon with his second.

[Drew Franklin]

I googled that one, too.

[Shannon Dawson]

I'm gonna guess Ansley Almanor is not on there. I can do that with people that didn't score.

[Matt Jones]

Ansley Almanor was ninth. So you're very close. You're very close. But he ends up not being on the list.

[Drew Franklin]

Did you say.

[Ryan Lemond]

Who'd you say?

[Matt Jones]

You still haven't gotten the highest one?

[Shannon Dawson]

Johnny Juz.

[Drew Franklin]

Patrick Patterson.

[Matt Jones]

Patrick Patterson.

[Shannon Dawson]

Google that one, too? Yeah, I googled it.

[Matt Jones]

Patrick Patterson was first. So you got. You've Gotten four of them. Anybody want to give one more guess before I. Before I. Anybody in the crowd want to give a guess?

[Shannon Dawson]

The fact that you said 1990 tells me there's one right around there.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Shannon Dawson]

Got any around the patina?

[Matt Jones]

The two that are close. Sean Sutton was on the list and then the, the. The highest. Saul Smith. Let's go.

[Shannon Dawson]

We are Google.

[Matt Jones]

Rick Roby was number. Rick Roby. Patrick Patterson's number one in history for this. Rick Robey's number two. Patrick Patterson. Saul Smith the one. Not one team last night. Got 35 teams and not one team. He was 12. Roderick Rhodes. We all just forget poor Roderick Rhodes who played here three years, went to usc, right. Was really good for those three years and no one ever remembers him. You missed Kevin Knox was the.

[Drew Franklin]

It's the. Because of K. Knox. You know, the in sound. It's throwing me off.

[Matt Jones]

I think starts.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, I know it starts with a K, but it's like K as in knife.

[Shannon Dawson]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

Sterling Noel.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, should have had that one.

[Matt Jones]

And then finally one spot, just two points ahead of Ansley Almanor was Michael Mulder.

[Drew Franklin]

I would not have thought to say that.

[Matt Jones]

So there you go. You. And how many of those did you get last night?

[Ryan Lemond]

We got six, I guess. Johnny Juzang and Darnell Dotson.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

You also had five minutes to think about it. We're on the spot. We gotta do it right now.

[Shannon Dawson]

People staring.

[Matt Jones]

Here's another. Here's another little trivia question. I think you two will do good in this. I took eight states in the United States. You know, there are 50 of them.

[Shannon Dawson]

I heard maybe 51 soon.

[Matt Jones]

I hope there's not 51 soon. Actually, I don't. I don't particularly care, but I'd rather I don't. I don't need to have a Trump land as 51st state. Eight states. I'm going to give you a state and you're going to tell me what TV show had the most viewers that was set in that state.

[Shannon Dawson]

Oh boy. You Shannon.

[Drew Franklin]

No, it's not.

[Matt Jones]

So for example, just to give you an example, if I were to have said Indiana, the answer would be stranger things. Cuz they said it in Indiana.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh my God.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, I. I get the premise. I just don't know how good I'm not.

[Matt Jones]

I'm going to give you a couple easy ones. Okay. Pennsylvania. The office.

[Drew Franklin]

The office.

[Matt Jones]

The office is correct. Who. Who said that? Well done, man. All right, New York. Now there's a lot of potential ones here, but what would have been the most watched Set in New York.

[Ryan Lemond]

Friends.

[Matt Jones]

Friends is correct. Seinfeld was second. Cosby show was third. Now it gets a little harder. California. What is the most watched show set in California? This is hard. Beverly Hills 90210 is second. No one has mentioned first. First going once. No one's got it. Big Bang Theory.

[Drew Franklin]

Wasn't a Big Bang Theory guy.

[Matt Jones]

All right, now this one. This one's a little. This one's hard. Florida. Florida. Golden girls table back here. You should have played the young ladies at Golden Girl.

[Drew Franklin]

I was about to say that if you quit stealing my answer.

[Matt Jones]

All right, Texas walk. Dallas is right, man.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Let me tell you, of the 35 teams, only, like, two got that right. By the way, Walker, Texas Ranger was second. Oh, okay.

[Shannon Dawson]

Nice. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

All right. A lot of people should get this. What about Kentucky?

[Shannon Dawson]

Justified.

[Matt Jones]

Justified is correct. Now that only, like, four teams got this one. I was surprised. Ohio. Ohio Delhi. Lap is the station. You're listening right now to Drew Carey's. Actually not a bad guess. Anybody?

[Shannon Dawson]

What's the radio one or the head?

[Ryan Lemond]

The letters wk.

[Matt Jones]

That's like third.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Shannon Dawson]

What?

[Matt Jones]

Not wkrp. Glee. Oh, there were people that got that correct.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, they were. You guys got it.

[Matt Jones]

And then finally, last question. I think this is the hardest one. We did have a couple teams get it right. Illinois. Illinois. What you say correct? Roseanne from the bar. Well done.

[Drew Franklin]

Go Chicago pd.

[Matt Jones]

So there you go. So those were the. Some of the questions last night.

[Ryan Lemond]

That was a great question. Elicited a lot of response from your team. You know, everybody's kind of trying to figure it out. That was one of the good ones.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so there. So those were some of the questions. And Shannon, you and Drew, Shannon especially, you might have done very well.

[Drew Franklin]

That's right.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

It's much easier with Google.

[Matt Jones]

It is much easier with Google. 859-280-2287. Let's start with the game tomorrow. Games at noon. Early game. Hopefully the people in Knoxville will be asleep and will not show up. It is an early game against the Vols. We have won three of the last four there, and in all three of those games, I think we thought we had zero chance of winning. We. We have won down there with teams that we have no business winning with. We won with that. C.J. frederick, Antonio Reeves, when we were. We lost, I think, three straight and then went down there and won. We won last year, I think. Did we win with Reed and Rob?

[Shannon Dawson]

Reed had a big game. The Covid team that couldn't beat anybody. One down Covid.

[Matt Jones]

I think it's actually five out of six. Five, five out of six in Knoxville. When I was a kid, I've said this many times. The only time I ever saw Kentucky play was in Knoxville because that's where I would go with my grandfather. And we always lost every single time we went. Now it's becoming like a home court. Drew, does it extend tomorrow?

[Shannon Dawson]

I'm not ready to commit to a side, but I believe that Kentucky is going to be at it. Even though I have lots of worries about this team like everyone else. Just you just said it. The way they've played in that building the last five out of six. Last year they went down there without Lamont Butler or Andrew Carr. In one one year they went down there without severe Wheeler case and Wallace gets in foul trouble. That was when Frederick has the game. They've just been able to string wins down there together when people least expected. I mean, they were an 11 point underdog, a 13 point underdog and won both of those outright. So I think Kentucky will be in the mix.

[Matt Jones]

I think the only time we've lost down there recently was the. Was the second Oscar team, I think, besides Reading.

[Shannon Dawson]

Rob?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, the second we have won since COVID Even though we feel. It feels very disappointing since COVID We've won down there every time except the second Osc. What do you think?

[Ryan Lemond]

I. I just gotta hope that the. The way they found themselves in the second half against LSU that carries over, you know, you can't afford to get down on the road in some of these SEC tournament games, SEC regular season games, and come back and win it. You just got to continue that. Don't get down.

[Shannon Dawson]

It's at noon.

[Ryan Lemond]

Maybe. Maybe we'll wake up faster than they will.

[Drew Franklin]

I don't know. How do you feel about it though?

[Matt Jones]

I'm.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm gonna dream. I'm not ready to commit yet.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

For a win neither.

[Matt Jones]

So no one's committed.

[Drew Franklin]

They're 10 or no at home. They almost lost the double overtime a couple of nights ago to Texas.

[Matt Jones]

They are 10 to know at home. But I think it' bit of a misleading stat because they could have lost a couple games at home against teams that aren't great. I will note that every time we've won down there, a random person has come off the bench or something and played well. Last year, Trent Noah had a big game down there. You may remember this was the game a few years ago that Antonio Reeves broke out. He had not even been playing and then he went down there and he and CJ Frederick both had big games. I think Reed played really well down there and at that point hadn't played a ton. That was kind of a game that got him spurred.

[Shannon Dawson]

Everybody was talking about Dalton connect and Reed went down there and got 27.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we've had a lot of games where guys have kind of stepped to the forefront that haven't been the biggest player up until that point. Is there someone that it could be today on our team tomorrow? Is this. I mean, Trent Noah hasn't played at all. Does he go down there, maybe get some minutes and.

[Shannon Dawson]

And you know, I. I have mine. This is an easy answer. Y' all buckle up. It's a yellow bitch game.

[Matt Jones]

Yellow bitch.

[Shannon Dawson]

Okay, get ready. We almost saw Maury Elovich in Baton Rouge. He had what he played like 15, 20 minutes? He played 20, did well in his first starting role. I think he takes another step forward in Knoxville. They have a lot of size to their big dude, really. Moreno, Garrison, all the guys left to throw some bodies at Carney. I mean, he's a unit. He's a one of the best big guys in the sec, just size wise.

[Matt Jones]

So, yeah, they have Carney and then their freshman that had all this hype. Nate Amethyst. He played really poorly in the non conference, but has started to look like the star Ryan that people thought he'd be in the last three or four games. I mean, he had been maybe the biggest disappointment in the country as a freshman and he really has started to turn it off.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, the overtime against A and M, he scored like their first eight points in the first overtime and second overtime, he kind of just took over. You got that Gillespie dude that runs their point. You know, he's gonna be a load to kind of handle, but they're kind of guard heavy. You know, they kind of rely on those three guards out there.

[Matt Jones]

The good thing is they don't put up a lot of points in general, and that's something that we don't either. So, Shannon, that might be a way for us to, to be able to win.

[Drew Franklin]

I just think this game on the road is critical to get off to a good start. And we've seen the team struggle so much the last. Well, really all season, really the whole Pope era.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we have not started well. We've now, to be fair, we've been a good second half team, but we have been. We got to stop doing that.

[Ryan Lemond]

You can't get down.

[Drew Franklin]

I think in this atmosphere, you know, when the fans get into it, that's a tough Road to come back from.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, this is the Food City Center. It's no longer Thompson Bowling. We're two and oh, in the Food Cities.

[Ryan Lemond]

Whoa.

[Shannon Dawson]

After they made fun of Kroger Field for years, they wouldn't name Thompson Bowling the Food Cities City Center. And we're undefeated there.

[Matt Jones]

I learned something, by the way, on the trivia. I did the eight plate. The eight places that sell the most groceries. Some of them you would guess, Walmart, Kroger, Target, Costco. Eighth is food line. And I didn't even know there were still food lines.

[Drew Franklin]

I've never heard of a food line.

[Matt Jones]

You've never heard of a food line?

[Drew Franklin]

Where would I find a food line back in the day, like everywhere.

[Matt Jones]

I feel like Tennessee had food lines.

[Ryan Lemond]

In fact, they were all over the South.

[Matt Jones]

I think it was a southern thing for a long time. And then the northern version was like Giant or something like that. But anyway, there are more, more of those than apparently I realized. 859-280-2287 text machine is 772-774-5254. We'll take a break. We're back here at Wild Eggs in Tate's Creek. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Everyone deserves to be connected. That's why T Mobile and US Cellular are joining forces. Switch to T Mobile and save up to 20% versus Verizon by getting built in benefits they leave out. Check the math@t mobile.com switch and now T Mobile is in US cellular stores. Savings versus Comparable Verizon Plan plus the.

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[Nav Green]

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[Matt Jones]

What's a wrap?

[Nav Green]

It's time to rebuild. Who your MVP right now.

[Matt Jones]

Then Drake May up there.

[Drew Franklin]

Josh Allen up there still.

[Matt Jones]

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[Nav Green]

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Wild Eggs. Okay, she's. First of all, my. This is. My uncle is here. I wanted to say hi. He's got to go here for a second. Nice to see you. He former team chaplain of the Joby Hall Kentucky basketball era. Now, what is your name, ma'? Am? Sandy's birthday is today. You are 36, 73. Close. I was very close. What are you gonna do to celebrate your birthday? You were out with your girls gallivanting last night and then you came and had the morning after breakfast. And so what are we doing today? This might be it. Oh, okay. Well, you.

[Drew Franklin]

We peaked early.

[Matt Jones]

You enjoy it. So everybody, happy birthday.

[Shannon Dawson]

Happy birthday, Sandy.

[Matt Jones]

Happy birthday. All right, so There you go. 8, 5, 9, you, you if you need to go now. I just wanted to make sure you just missed 859-280-2287. Food lines in Kentucky. There's Cynthia had one, Hopkinsville and Radcliffe, Glasgow and Somerset. So there you go. You were asking about food lines.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, it seemed like they were like in a district, like rural areas in the South. I thought they were more of that in Kentucky, but maybe like you said, primarily in Tennessee.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. And I think the Carolinas, a lot of them. To 859-280-2287. Okay. Kroger Field announced. UK announced new renovations to Kroger Field. Most of the renovations, if it felt very much like we're gonna do some renovations to make money and then we're gonna throw some of you all in the worst seats. We're gonna give you a little bit. So they're making more luxury suites. They're putting more stuff in the luxury areas. And then if you sit in the worst parts of the stadium, basically the very top behind the goal now you have seat backs. Is that how you read it?

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, they're adding a lot more seat backs to the upper level. One thing I like they're doing, I need to see it in action is a lot of pro stadiums have like standing areas. They're going to kind of high top tables. You can be social. I love that when you go to game and your friends are in another part of the area, like, hey, meet me in the end zone. UK is adding kind of a form of that. That was of all the things they're adding. I Think that's the most that can impact a lot of people that aren't just, you know, in the. In the luxury areas.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I mean, when I looked at it, I've kind of been. I mean, I still think, like, we got to find a way to get WI fi. Although I. To be fair to them, the cell phone service is a lot better in that stadium than it used to be. It used to be when you go in that stadium, it was just a dead zone. You couldn't use your phone. It's.

[Ryan Lemond]

It's.

[Matt Jones]

You can for the most part use. It might. Might not be able to see video, but you could for the most part use it. But now I sort of read all the changes as Ryan. They've got to continue to do stuff to make money, and so it is luxury stuff to try to continue to increase revenue for this new era of paying players, etc.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, you want people to come to the game and, you know, the crowd has been diminishing over the years. Now you want to make it a better experience.

[Matt Jones]

Well, but I mean, it's a small. For a small set of people. I mean, it's. It is for. For these luxury areas. And I mean, the seat backs at the top, I do think help.

[Ryan Lemond]

I think it helps. That's where I sit a lot of times up there. So now a lot of times I would let her stay at home.

[Drew Franklin]

Were you in the luxury seats or.

[Matt Jones]

Let's pause right there. You tell me you sit at the top. You want to look. You want to look at these five people here at Wild Eggs. You want to look at these people.

[Ryan Lemond]

And tell them at the top here, he'll tell you how many times we set up up there because he got a. A player pass. And that's where they put the players recruit pass up there.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Well, ask him. I feel like I remember a lot of sitting like fourth row, Drew with the keys.

[Ryan Lemond]

Some games were there, but when the extra. Didn't have extra tickets, we have to go sit up top.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, at least you have something to lean on now.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, they're also adding to the. I don't know who sponsors it now. Keeneland, whatever. That middle area at the 50, they're adding more seats into that where there's a big standing area. So they're going to try to put more seats into that. But I love that that's still on the high end of fans.

[Matt Jones]

Let's talk about football for just a second. In terms of players, the. The sort of period to make decisions is ending quickly right when does it end? This weekend.

[Shannon Dawson]

Today.

[Matt Jones]

Today. 16th. So today is kind of commitment day. Kentucky had today. Over the last two or three days, Kentucky has had three wide receivers here. I think there's an offensive lineman here. There's an edge rusher. A lot of people think this wide receiver from lsu, Mike Washington.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, he's been on campus already.

[Matt Jones]

He may commit today. They had a couple people coming in on the 6am flights today into Lexington. But I think you're going to have a really good idea of what Kentucky's roster is. Drew, at the end of the day today.

[Shannon Dawson]

Definitely Stein's done a great job to this point and even the national conversations around it are kind of blowing my mind how excited people are that are neutral parties. But wide receivers still a concern. You got pass blockers and guys who can throw, but he hadn't added too many that can catch yet. And Washington can be that guy. He was a huge recruit. Goes to lsu, had some injuries, some other issues.

[Matt Jones]

He went to Oklahoma first, right?

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah. Originally an Oklahoma commit. I mean that's a. That's. I think it was a top 200 guy. That could be your wide receiver. 1. He was on campus yesterday. Who knows? Maybe they convinced him not to leave. I don't know how far that went, but that's the one to watch.

[Matt Jones]

Would you say, Shannon? I would argue that the Will Stein recruiting era. So like if you're going through the things a new coach has to do, they have to do well at the press conference. Check.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Right. I think they have to have their mother make good cakes. Check.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Her. His mother makes the.

[Drew Franklin]

I've still got to try them.

[Matt Jones]

I'm telling you. I can see why Ryan ate the entire first box. They're really good. They genuinely are really good. Then you need to do well in your first recruiting class, I think. Double check.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I mean they've basically. And they've done it in an old. In like what Mark Stoops won with there are we. We got the best offensive line of any team in the port.

[Drew Franklin]

Three out of the top five.

[Matt Jones]

Nobody in the portal, nobody in the country did better on the offensive line than we did. Now, Drew's right. The one issue is wide receiver. Hopefully they take care of that today. But I think as far as Will Stein up until this point, granted, we haven't played any games. I think he's done amazing.

[Drew Franklin]

And let's keep in mind he was doing a lot of that while he was also the offensive coordinator for Oregon playoffs. So that multitasking is off the Charts.

[Matt Jones]

It really is unbelievable. Mitch Barnhart said yesterday. When I envisioned what it would be like if he had to do two jobs, Ryan, he said he's done it twice as good as I thought he could.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's killed it. And that's credit to his staff, to the guys that were here, boots on the ground doing stuff when he was out at Oregon, you know, Sloan's bringing maybe this guy in from lsu. I'm sure he had a relationship with him. The offensive tackle we got from Tennessee, Sloan had a relationship with that guy. So those guys are doing their job too.

[Matt Jones]

You got to give him a lot of credit. I mean, I. He's gotten a lot of excitement now. Of course they're going to play probably the hardest schedule in the history of UK football next year, but a little.

[Drew Franklin]

Honeymoon period, kind of like Pope the first year, you know.

[Matt Jones]

No, yeah, I agree. Yeah, I think he gets. But I think we're going to be competitive. Do you?

[Shannon Dawson]

Oh, I absolutely do. Especially seeing these national guys that I trust and listen to for a long time talking about how they believe in Kentucky.

[Matt Jones]

When this program's done well, we. We've either had star quarterback or great offensive line. We don't know what the quarterback will be, although there's potential. But he does seem to have created a really good offensive line. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio live at Wildex. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live. All right. That's right. My trivia. Now wait a minute. If you're gonna be good at trivia, you have to clap when we come back. Welcome back, Techie Sports Radio. There you go. All right. Yeah, there you go. That's better. Text machine is 772-774-5254. I'm gonna do some breaking news. This is my breaking news. Rick, go ahead. I'm gonna go ahead and call it. Southern Utah wide receiver Shane Carr. I'm gonna say he picks Kentucky because he already has Kentucky in his Instagram bio and I just noted. And if he has Kentucky in his Instagram bio, unless he's pulling the all time fake, I'm gonna say today, Ryan, he's picking Kentucky.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'd say it's pretty good indicator one.

[Matt Jones]

Of the two receivers here, pretty good indicator.

[Ryan Lemond]

He's already changed his. His bio on his social media platform that he's coming here.

[Shannon Dawson]

We've seen guys put on a hat and then fake it off a switch. Putting something in your bio and changing it.

[Matt Jones]

That would be.

[Shannon Dawson]

I'm agree. That's probably right.

[Matt Jones]

And make your correction.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, I was saying Washington. I don't know why. I guess I know a Nick Washington. Nick Anderson. So let me correct there from lsu, not Washington.

[Matt Jones]

Also former Orlando Magic Shannon that missed the all the free throws that one year in the. In the championship.

[Shannon Dawson]

He can tell Washington hello if he sees him.

[Matt Jones]

UK women. Last night we watched this game at the bar during trivia. They got up 20 on Florida in the first half. Florida came back led by eight in the second half. But then Kentucky's women come through at the end, get the victory and now 17 and two right on the season. But it was. That was a tough win last night.

[Ryan Lemond]

You know, we were playing trivia and they got such a big lead. I kind of lost track of the game. You came by and you said they're behind LSU. It's got me. Fort had scored 35 points, I think in the third quarter alone. Just went nuts in the third quarter. Took to retake the lead.

[Matt Jones]

But Kentucky's women get it. The Kentucky women. I watched all of that game while I was kind of letting everybody do the trivia. They do have. They have a hard time guarding people, but people have a hard time guarding him. They have such a height advantage. They can score and they make threes. So they get beat off the dribble a lot. But they find a way Drew to come back on the other end and.

[Shannon Dawson]

Get offense and some of that's. Yeah. Go inside where we have a stack of towers in there. I know last night keys been injured and Claire Strack had a little foul trouble. But Tony Morgan had another huge game. I know when they signed her. It's big shoes to fill with George Amore going pro. But she's had it. She's been great start to the season. Halfway through the season, I guess.

[Matt Jones]

859-280-2287. Who's up first?

[Ryan Lemond]

Got Kentucky Gas man up first.

[Matt Jones]

How are you doing, sir?

[Caller]

Doing great on this Friday. I've got two things today. First off, guys, I've got a prediction for the game tomorrow. I'm gonna say we have another buzzer beater. Ortega always puts it in for the win.

[Matt Jones]

You know, he. He would probably wants to get back missing that free throw. Although you do wonder if he'd missed the free throw or made the free throw, we would have still won the game. But I could easily see he's due a buzzer beater. He had a couple last year, so I think he'll have at least one this year sometime.

[Caller]

Okay. Other thing is we have absolutely got to somehow stop this slow start. This cannot continue. This slow start. And I believe I have the thing that will definitely fix it all.

[Matt Jones]

All right, listen, Mark Pope needs help. You tell him what is the way that you're going to fix all of Kentucky's problems at the start of the game? Okay.

[Caller]

How long would you say.

[Matt Jones]

All right, I need a suggestion.

[Shannon Dawson]

I'm not.

[Matt Jones]

I didn't come here to take a test. You tell me what. How Mark Pope is supposed to do it.

[Caller]

The last 15 minutes of warm ups, 5 on 5, full speed, full contact. I know it sounds kind of unorthodox, but at this point, it sounds horrible.

[Matt Jones]

It sounds like the worst idea I've ever heard. 15. You would have them play a 15 minute real basketball game before the game starts?

[Caller]

Well, just, you know, half court, obviously. I mean, so obviously, you know, warmed up.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Caller]

All right.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I appreciate the call. What do you. Ryan, what do you think about that idea?

[Ryan Lemond]

You know, Tubby had a team. I don't remember what year that had. They were coming out slow starting, and he had him in warmups. Like the first time they come out on the court. Do like actual practice drills and try to get them a little more lathered up going into it. So it's not lathered up.

[Matt Jones]

How do you make everything so gross?

[Shannon Dawson]

I think they were doing that at Louisville, not Kentucky.

[Drew Franklin]

Sound like a shower.

[Ryan Lemond]

But I do remember they. They did this for a while to try to keep his team from starting so slow. They're not five on five half court, but they were trying to do something during pregame one.

[Drew Franklin]

You're trying to trick them into thinking the game already started. Once the game starts.

[Matt Jones]

I think you're thinking about what they do with horses. I don't think that's. I don't think that's exactly the same thing. But you. The. I think it would be hilarious. Like, while teams are getting ready for the national anthem, Kentucky is playing a basketball game. They're like, national Guard, I need you to move over. We still got to go to 10.

[Shannon Dawson]

You know what? I don't hate it. Let's try it out. I mean, obviously what we're doing is not working. Let's play full speed. I want guys hands on their knees at the jump ball to start the game because they're already sweating and tired. Might even have a few fouls each. Get them out of the way.

[Drew Franklin]

If you want to save this money on draftkings bet. Race the 10 on the other team.

[Matt Jones]

Boy, that's been. I bet it's been pretty good. Yeah.

[Shannon Dawson]

Every game the year Cal started DJ that hit so many times and the odds are always good for the we.

[Matt Jones]

Call had really good teams. We always won that the the first we we used to get off to really, really good starts in a lot of those years. But you're right, the DJ team did not. I I do think it's interesting after all year we heard over and over analytics say that we need to play these guys and have 11 dudes play and nobody gets more than 22 minutes. They've now reverted Drew to playing six guys the whole game. We're now we're back to doing what a lot of people want us to do at the beginning of the year.

[Shannon Dawson]

Analytics are good and I'm pro analytic, but sometimes your eyeballs just use those and they tell the story. And when you have guys given half effort, that doesn't show up in whatever formula you're putting into your iPad. And I think after a while Pope just had to look up and see this isn't working. I just got to play the best dudes and ride with them.

[Matt Jones]

What was the story that Jack said about Diabate?

[Shannon Dawson]

There's, there's some Internet scuttlebutt that Diabate was late to like the film session on Monday.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. So there's some, some talk that maybe Diabate got benched because he missed or at least missed part of film study on Monday. I have to say I've been very, I've been very disappointed with Diabate. Not even so much as play as just actions. I got sent some quotes yesterday that I hadn't seen, which were Ryan about Diabate at Alabama. Nate Oates throughout that year in Alabama going if we can just get Diabate to focus, if we can just get Diabate to keep his mind on the court. Like all these quotes from when Nate Oates. This has obviously been a consistent problem with him that I really didn't know.

[Ryan Lemond]

And obviously we all see it. They just play better when he's not out there. I don't. He had a, what, two good games. We scored like 20 points one of these early games this season. But outside of that, he's kind of been a non factor in most of our games.

[Shannon Dawson]

He just needs to be a guy that comes off the bench and gets rebounds, play defense. Which is exactly what Nate Oates did with him. We paid him a lot to be something bigger and as we've seen, when he tries to do something with the ball, he just doesn't work. That three he took. I mean he Shoots the ball.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon from three. Like, from his belly button. Yeah. And then he, like, pushes it up, and I just. I never think it's going in.

[Drew Franklin]

And then the thing with the teammates, too, it doesn't seem to be just bickering with teammates, coaches.

[Matt Jones]

Now, with that said, when we hit the game winning shot, nobody ran on the floor faster than him.

[Ryan Lemond]

Very true.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, he was. He was out there celebrating and out there with his teammates quicker than anybody else. So, I mean, there is. You know, there is. There is that as well. Who's next?

[Ryan Lemond]

Donnie is up next.

[Matt Jones]

Donnie. Go ahead, Donnie.

[Caller]

Hey, listen, when I'm sitting on the couch in my living room watching Gilbande take a three, I just. I pull my hair out and. And I love Pope, don't get me wrong. But golly, I would. I would take him out of the game and I would burn his ears going to the bench. But he.

[Matt Jones]

No, don't do that. That's probably illegal.

[Nav Green]

God.

[Caller]

But anyway. Well, anyway, what I would do on the. On the slow start, I would take the starting five out and I would burn their ears on the way to the bench.

[Matt Jones]

You're big on the earbuds.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Caller]

One more comment, Matt, and I'll let you go. And it showed its ugly head again the last game. I hope these guys are listening to this. The ball players. My gosh, we. We act like we've never seen a pick in basketball. Here's what I would say to them. All the players.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I mean, I don't think. I don't think they. Yeah, Well, I appreciate the call. I. I think that Pope probably doesn't want him to switch on every pick because you can get some mismatches. But. But they. I thought they were better. Now. LSU just hit a bunch of good shots, too, in that second half. I mean, first half, they had open looks. Second half, they hit some. You know, they hit some. Hit some good shots. The problem was we were so far behind. We're here at Wild Eggs. Great food. What's your favorite thing they have here?

[Ryan Lemond]

My new favorite is the biscuits and gravy. You get half sausage, gravy, half chorizo gravy. You can get a mix, and it's delicious. What's chorizo like a sausage? Like Hispanic sausage?

[Drew Franklin]

Little spicy. Spicy sauce.

[Ryan Lemond]

It is really good.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Hispanic sausage. Yeah. There's an ethnicity to the sausage.

[Ryan Lemond]

It is. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

You know Hispanics about people.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. Well, they have their own sausage. Sausage.

[Shannon Dawson]

Spicy sausage.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Shannon Dawson]

It's very good.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think Very good. They got the potato head casserole.

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh, that's good too.

[Matt Jones]

They got the border Benedict. They got green chili, cheddar corn cakes, all kinds of great stuff. Here at Wild Eggs three around the the city but we are at the one in Tate's Creek. We are going to take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Wild Eggs segment sponsored by P Rats. Locally owned and operated appliance furniture and mattress stores serve the area for over 75 years. Even after 75 years, P rats keeps getting better with age. Being voted the best appliance retailer in the bluegrass the last six years in a row. Unlike the big box, the stores, our Pratts team and experts are help help make your house a home. Convenient locations, amazing prices and service. Visit P Rats in Lexington and richmond [e-mail] 859-280-2287 here at the wild eggs, you two guys on the front row, you can't be on your phone.

[Shannon Dawson]

Like we got like seven people.

[Matt Jones]

Come on, look at this. See, this is what's, this is what's all of you got. You all have taken the time to come to a radio show and you're sitting in the front row and you are all looking down on your phone like, come on now, Pat, I thought news broke.

[Shannon Dawson]

So many people were looking.

[Matt Jones]

People, Pat, Twitter is even down and you're still on your phone.

[Drew Franklin]

If you were here, you would be reading a magazine. Let's be real.

[Matt Jones]

That's exactly right. So much more respect. All right. One of the most crazy things I can ever remember, Rod Winkler, a legend, mostly a heel legend of the KSR era. You may remember in 2014 when we played at Arkansas and and someone can try to fight Aaron Harrison after the game. A student named Rod Winkler. He came on the show when it was the next day. He gave the famous he a man like you a man like I'm a man. And then. Oh, you got it all wrong. Yeah, you've heard those drops. If Shannon was in studio, he would play them. Rod Winkler tried to fight Aaron Harrison in 2014. Yesterday, part of the college basketball gambling scandal. 20 people in the FBI investigation that were arrested. One of them was Rod Winkler, age 31, who at the age of 19 tried to fight Aaron Harrison at a UK basketball game while a student at Arkansas. And now 12 years later, this the scandal that brought in 17 college basketball players across the country. Ryan includes Rod Winkler. Amazing.

[Ryan Lemond]

There's that picture of him squaring up Against Aaron Harrison. I thought it was just so crazy at the time. He came on the show the next day.

[Matt Jones]

This is even crazier.

[Ryan Lemond]

He pops up seven years later in this seven scandal.

[Matt Jones]

What year do you think it is?

[Ryan Lemond]

I just said seven.

[Drew Franklin]

There's 14. Ryan, let's do some math. It's 20. 26.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Shannon Dawson]

It's gonna be double digits.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, gotta be 12.

[Matt Jones]

12. So it was 12 years ago. I. I have to say somebody sent me that and I was like, what are the chances it would be the same guy? And then I saw he was in Little Rock arc. I can't believe it's the same guy, Drew.

[Shannon Dawson]

I spent, I think I pulled an all nighter that time, photoshopping him on different stuff. We had him on the show and then I closed my Rod Winkler book and didn't think I'd ever open it again. I didn't think Rode Winkler would ever in our lives again. Then we get this big scandal and right there is his name.

[Matt Jones]

How is it, Shannon, that you can have two different things in your life with no connection?

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

That are such big stories that you are in the middle, neither of them good. You tried to fight a player and now you might be going to federal prison for trying to fix college basketball.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, at least we know he knows how to fight. You have to fight.

[Matt Jones]

How? We know he's a big college basketball fan.

[Drew Franklin]

That's true. Yeah. Your life is wild, huh? I mean, that guy, we only know his name for those two reasons.

[Matt Jones]

So more details of that scandal came out. 17 different teams involved. The details of the scandal are insane. I don't know how these people did not think they were going to get caught. There was one instance a Guy placed a $545,000 bet on Kent State Buffalo.

[Drew Franklin]

First half lot nothing suspicious about that at all.

[Matt Jones]

First half line. How did they think they weren't going to get caught? One of them was a Southern miss basketball game. $275,000 on Southern Miss to cover. Placed at a Kentucky casino.

[Shannon Dawson]

Saw that one on there.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, there were some wild bets. Drew, you know, I understand that there are people who think there's too, like gambling's too much a part of sports. I get it. I actually think I can understand that argument. I also would say to you though, however, the reason this stuff gets caught is because it's legal. Like that's why it gets caught. Because when you make a $500,000 bet on Kent State Buffalo first half, it raises some people going, what?

[Drew Franklin]

I love that we jump right to 500,000. I would maybe ease into it a little bit, you know, maybe go like a couple of hundred at first. Let's not make it too obvious.

[Shannon Dawson]

That's the thing, you know, they're in a group like, all right, guys, small bets.

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Shannon Dawson]

Space out Ohio, illinois and then one guys in Kentucky.

[Matt Jones]

Like $500,000 on Kids Bus Buffalo.

[Ryan Lemond]

First is the thought process of these guys are going to bet on these minor mid college games. Maybe slide it by. Nobody's going to know.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I think the theory is. Well, first of all, it would be fit. The theory would be it's easier to fix games where people aren't paying attention. Right. So if Kentucky is playing Arkansas, the game's on national tv. If one guy's just dogging it, you can tell. Right. But who's watching Kent State?

[Shannon Dawson]

Buffalo.

[Ryan Lemond]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

Nobody. Nobody's watching it. It's easier to get access to the players. And the federal prosecutor said every player in the report had not gotten in I O money. So part of it may be, look, these guys aren't making any money.

[Drew Franklin]

Cut them in.

[Matt Jones]

You got. You're trying to cut them in. I'll also note Rod Winkler is not the only name from scandals past. Antonio Blakeney, who Drew mentioned yesterday. Does anybody remember where he, his name ended up? He was the. He was one of the two recruits that Katina Powell tried to get hookers for.

[Shannon Dawson]

One of him real bad.

[Matt Jones]

Yes, he was. One of the two Katina Powell recruits was Antonio Blakeney. The famous blonde hair, blue eyes, blah blah, blah, blah, blah. That was for Antonio Blightney. So these two crazy names from the past, Drew, come back in this college gambling report.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, there's not that many people named. What was it, 20. And we know two. A little bit of a connection to. Not personally, but we remember them from the past. Yeah, Blakeney's got a wild journey. He's probably going to be going away for a while. He'll have plenty of time to write a book. I would like to know what all he did throughout basketball.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, there was. Other than playing basketball, even though college basketball's got a lot of the attention, the biggest money parts of the indictment were in Chinese basketball. And they quoted one of the gamblers in a phone call they had recorded. He said there are only three things assured in life, death, death, taxes, and fixed Chinese basketball games.

[Shannon Dawson]

Wow.

[Drew Franklin]

I kind of want to watch some Chinese basketball just to see like how blatant it is that they're cheating, death.

[Matt Jones]

Taxes and fixed Chinese. I also say a guy in Idaho bet $350,000 on a Chinese basketball game that in and of itself you should be arrested for stupidity just for placing that bet. I would argue.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, even if you didn't have any intel at all, you were just picking one that you shouldn't live amongst us. If you're putting $300,000 on a Chinese basketball, who's next?

[Matt Jones]

Cadence is next. Cadence. Go ahead. Cadence.

[Caller]

Yeah. So I did read that report yesterday. I thought that was the craziest thing I think I've ever read in my life. Chinese basketballs definitely, like, not something I think I'd bet on. But anyway, I do want to say that Will Stein has done an absolute great job in this portal. I think if we get Nick Anderson, we, we have potential to maybe be an 8 and 4 team. Like not trying to.

[Matt Jones]

Wow. Standard.

[Caller]

Well, I, I'm feeling good first of all.

[Matt Jones]

Thank you. Yeah. If they get Nick Anderson, that's a great, that's a great wide receiver get for them. I still think they are probably a little short. By the way, I got asked. I appreciate the call about when he first came here. I said that I thought they were going to bring four to five Oregon guys. That I think was the original plan. I had one of the people on the staff say, we think we'll get four to five Oregon guys. It doesn't. At least as of yet they haven't gotten any. I kind of wonder, Ryan, if maybe Oregon said, hey, since we're letting you stay here to call this and all this, maybe we don't steal our players. Do you think that might. I haven't talked to anybody see to. To get the update, but I'm with you.

[Ryan Lemond]

The feeling was I think he was going to bring several guys with him and that right now I do wonder.

[Matt Jones]

If maybe there was some conversation during that leading the playoff of look, man, could be that could be a bad look because they haven't done that. We'll take a break, come back hour number two here at Wild Eggs. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.