2026-01-23- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

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Kentucky Sports Radio – Hour 1 (January 23, 2026)

Host: Matt Jones & the KSR Crew (Ryan Lemond, Drew Franklin, Shannon Dawson)

Live from Don Franklin Auto, Campbellsville, KY

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Episode Overview

This highly anticipated non-sports episode of Kentucky Sports Radio spotlights the inaugural “Weatherman Challenge” – a charity competition among Kentucky meteorologists (and a surprise national guest), set against the backdrop of an impending winter storm. The crew also previews the upcoming UK vs. Ole Miss basketball game, reflects on community traditions, and shares trademark on-air banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Weatherman Challenge: Charity, Competition & Drama (00:31–14:45)

• Backstory: The challenge began with Matt’s offhanded offer to donate to charity in exchange for accurate snowfall predictions, leading to a $10,000 charity pot with backing from Commonwealth Causes and ServePro.
• Meteorologist Recruitment:
  • Nearly all invited local TV meteorologists in Lexington & Louisville agreed to compete, except for Mark Weinberg (WDRB), who famously advocated for such a contest but declined the invitation.
  • National Get: Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel is a late, star addition to the field, elevating excitement and competition.
  • “You pulled one in. I just went ahead and got LeBron to join the pool.” — Matt Jones (09:20)
• Contest Mechanics:
  • Each meteorologist must predict (to a tenth of an inch) snowfall in Lexington & Louisville, entries due by 11:30am.
  • The social media meteorologist Ryan Hall Y’all was first to submit, surprising the crew with his bold prediction.
• Participant Dynamics and Social Media:
  • Social response to Weinberg’s absence was strong; he’s now dubbed “Weather Boy” online.
  • Crew debates whether national stars like Cantore, with "more Dopplers", have an unfair advantage or less local expertise.
  • “These people are kind of putting their credibility on the line…They really are.” — Matt Jones (07:37)

Notable Quotes:

• “He is the bomb. When he shows up in your town, get out. Because stuff’s going down.” — Ryan Lemond on Jim Cantore (06:38)
• “Weather boy declined.” — Matt Jones (06:37)
• “I hope that the social media meteorologist ends up winning the whole thing.” — Shannon Dawson (07:51)

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2. UK Basketball Game Moved for Winter Storm (11:35–14:04; 15:36–29:11)

• Tip-off Changed: The UK vs. Ole Miss game is rescheduled to 11am to allow the Ole Miss team to leave before the storm.
  • The last 11am game (versus Florida) had great atmosphere; the crew expects similar energy.
  • “There’s something about that camaraderie…when you go, you almost feel...” — Matt Jones (12:49)
  • The KSBar will open for breakfast and pregame at 8:30am; unused tickets will be redistributed to fans.
• Matchup Preview:
  • Ole Miss considered one of the SEC’s weakest, but crew is wary of upsets—especially due to Kentucky’s injury-depleted roster.
  • “I’m worried about every game on the schedule…if a guy has a bad game, that could derail the whole game.” — Drew Franklin (15:52)
  • Star watch: Travis Perry (Ole Miss), a Kentucky native, just heating up with recent high-scoring performances.

Notable Quotes:

• “Easiest game of the season. And of course, that means it won't be. Yeah, we'll be down 14 in the first half.” — Matt Jones (16:19)

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3. Classic KSR Banter: Donuts, Soda, Campbellsville Community & Ryan’s "First Weekend Alone" (14:55–19:56)

• Campbellsville Traditions:
  • The “power lunch” is Mountain Dew with a glazed donut, but locals insist SKI (regional citrus soda) is the real deal.
  • The crew reminisces about local fixtures like Druther’s restaurant and its legendary chocolate gravy.
• Personal Sidebars:
  • Ryan faces his first-ever weekend home alone as family is away for storm; the crew teases his lack of “experience in solitude”.
    • “I’ve never been alone probably 48 hours, 24 hours…I’m probably going up going crazy.” — Ryan Lemond (19:14)
    • “We should all put up the sharp objects.” — Drew Franklin (19:58)

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4. Fan Experience, Storm Preparation & Tournament Hopes (24:45–29:41)

• Storm Readiness: The crew jokes about lacking storm supplies and contingency plans for the weekend.
• UK’s NCAA Tournament Odds:
  • Range of optimism: Jones (75%), Lemond (90–95%), Franklin (80%), Shannon (initially 75%, drops to 60% upon hearing the strength of schedule).
  • “We might be an underdog folks in most of our games going forward…” — Matt Jones (27:43)
• Upcoming Schedule: UK faces a “murderer’s row” of quad-one games after Ole Miss, intensifying the pressure for a win.

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5. Listener Calls: Donors, NIL & Weather (29:22–33:59)

• Call from Colorado: Snow preview and Cantore fandom.
• Revenue Sharing/NIL Dilemma:
  • The complexities of modern donor giving: direct to athletics, project-specific, revenue share funds, or even NIL collectives—often tied to specific athletes.
  • “Now that technically that’s illegal…There’s Rev Share. I don’t know how donors figure out who to give money to now.” — Matt Jones (31:43)
  • The perils of NIL when a highly-supported athlete underperforms or produces negative headlines.

Notable Quotes:

• “Imagine selling your family business, throw a little bit [into] NIL, and you’re just watching a guy throw it at some guy named Garrett on Snapchat…” — Drew Franklin (33:35)

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6. Late Breaking Storm Talk & Trash Talk in College Sports (35:04–38:52)

• Weatherman Challenge Updates:
  • Snow prediction maps are shifting; Ryan Hall Y’all ups his forecast before the deadline, as more meteorologist entries roll in.
• SEC Basketball, G-League Transfer Drama:
  • Alabama’s G-League addition becomes eligible via court ruling from an Alabama donor/judge.
  • Todd Golden (Florida coach) responds, “Let him play. We’ll beat him anyway”—earning rare coach trash talk approval from KSR hosts.
• G-League Transfer Perspective:
  • Crew asserts G-League transfers rarely pan out at the college level; “If they were good, they’d be in the NBA.”

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7. Transfer Portal: Dink Pate & Next Year’s Roster (38:00–39:54)

• Dink Pate: High-scoring G-League guard interested in UK, but likely for next season’s depleted roster.
  • Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson featured Dink in a Reebok docuseries.
  • The crew is supportive given UK’s projected roster holes.

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8. Defense Discussion & Game Predictions (40:01–41:47)

• Caller Question: UK’s defense lacking charges—are players avoiding contact due to injuries or rule changes?
  • Crew notes poor rotation under the basket and speculates on defensive reluctance given the injury situation.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “You hit my second wow moment when Weinberger said he couldn’t gonna do it. But my third...when you got Jim Cantore, I mean, that is Mr. Weather Man.”
  — Ryan Lemond (06:21)

• "I kind of hope that the social media meteorologist ends up winning the whole thing." — Shannon Dawson (07:51)

• “I’ve never been alone probably 48 hours, 24 hours. I’ve always, it’s just not me.”
  — Ryan Lemond (19:49)

• “Let him play, I’ll beat him anyway.”
  — Matt Jones (quoting Florida's Todd Golden, 36:28)

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Timestamps of Key Segments

• 00:31 — The Weatherman Challenge setup, Weinberg drama, and Jim Cantore’s entry
• 06:38 — Jim Cantore: “He is the bomb. He is. When he shows up in your town…get out. Because stuff’s going down.” – Ryan Lemond
• 11:35 — UK vs. Ole Miss moved to 11am; fan/venue logistics
• 14:55 — Campbellsville traditions: Mountain Dew, SKI, and Druther’s biscuits
• 19:14 — Ryan’s first-ever weekend alone
• 24:45 — Preparation for the storm & tournament odds discussions
• 29:22 — NIL, donors, and changing landscape of college sports funding
• 35:04 — Live update: Ryan Hall Y’all wants to revise his snow prediction
• 36:28 — Florida coach trash talk on Alabama’s eligibility controversy
• 38:00 — Transfer portal talk: Dink Pate and next year’s UK roster
• 40:01 — Callers on defense and the lack of charges

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Tone & Language

The episode maintains KSR’s trademark blend of humor, local flavor, and irreverent banter, pairing high-energy sports and storm talk with playful ribbing among hosts and affectionate nods to small-town Kentucky culture.

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For fans and newcomers alike, this episode captures KSR at its best: engaging local topics, interactive competitions, and a sense of community camaraderie—whether watching the weather, the Wildcats, or Ryan Lemond’s mental health during a solo snow weekend.

Transcript

[Matt Jones]

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[Ryan Lemond]

Off Broadway.

[Matt Jones]

Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Campbellsville, Kentucky for what has to be one of the more highly anticipated non sports KSR shows in a long time. You can give us a shout. We are Don Franklin Auto. You can give a shout in 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 TJ Smith Law Office, if you call TJ he pay. And I will say to you, I was thinking about this driving in. First of all, glad to be at Don Franklin. Thanks to all the folks here in Campbellsville for showing up. Appreciate it. Don Franklin, driven by family, 29 stores around the state. I was thinking about okay, non sports now we do have a game tomorrow and we will talk about it. But non sports shows people have looked forward to over the years. I was trying to think of some of them. Drew, you have when Ryan spent a week in KS Bar jail. I think that was one people really want. People really liked the Republican and Democratic conventions.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

In 2016 and then the Iowa caucuses in 2020. Shannon's walk.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

During COVID when he walked 50 miles and we covered it live on the road. I think those are all some of the good ones. Now we have, we're not going anywhere. But the Weatherman challenge I think is getting up there for this as well.

[Shannon Dawson]

I have been so excited about this just reading the comments on social media. Some of them have been brutal to certain meteorologists. But I can't wait to see and get everybody's predictions for today.

[Matt Jones]

Ryan, if you're, if you're not on social media, it'll be hard to keep up. But how much did you enjoy just since we went off the air Yesterday, the last 24 hours, I, I know.

[Ryan Lemond]

There'S a game tomorrow. I know we went four in a row. The only thing I want to talk about is this weatherman challenge. There were, I had three wow moments you yesterday.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, well, let's go through them. All right. First of all, the Let me explain for people who are just tuning in. Commonwealth caught. This all started with I was like, I will give money to charity to whatever weather person will get the most correct answer on the snow. That's how this started. And I mentioned it offhandedly on the post game show Wednesday night. And then Commonwealth causes cause, writes me and goes, we'll give $5,000 to the weather person that does. Now I was going to give a thousand and then that, that guilted me a little bit. So I got it up to 2000 personally. So now we were at 7. Then yesterday serve pro calls me and goes, let's make it 10. So now we're at $10,000.

[Ryan Lemond]

That was my first wow moment when you posted it. Going to be $10,000.

[Matt Jones]

$10,000. A lot of money to the charity of the weather, the meteorologist. I need to not say weather man, because we have a woman in this.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's right, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Meteorologist. Who, who would get the most accurate forecast in Lexington and Louisville. We asked people to get in. Everyone says yes, except one person. Now, now I'm, I do think it's fair. I want to spend about 30 seconds taunting this person. And then we're going to celebrate those who said yes. Mark Weinberg of wdrb who famously once said, said, I'd like to have a year long challenge of accuracy amongst all the forecasters in Louisville.

[Shannon Dawson]

O, we got receipts.

[Matt Jones]

He then gets the opportunity. And you're a Louisville person. Shannon. He's the bad boy Trash talker of Louisville, declines to participate.

[Shannon Dawson]

He's gotten a lot of trash talking on social media. Some new names were given to him. Mark Wienerberg I think was one of them. I'm just saying, you know.

[Matt Jones]

Well, you liked Weather Boy.

[Shannon Dawson]

Okay. Yeah, you're right. For some reason, people calling him weather boy makes me giggle way more than it should. But weather boy is his new name on, on social media now.

[Matt Jones]

So I, I, I will say I think it's, it's lame that they won't participate, that he won't participate. It is what it is though, because you know what they say. I remember my, the Lord, I think, says this. I continue quoting the Lord, I'm not certain, but it's at least something I heard in church. One door closes, another door opens. Right. So I get the no from Mark Weinberg. First of all, your friend Captain Reed Yeiden.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Who is 80 years old.

[Ryan Lemond]

You know that. Really not confirmed how old he is. And he wouldn't even tell me. And you can't find it on Google anywhere.

[Matt Jones]

I will say he's the only person I've ever seen that you cannot find his age on Google. They did a profile about an issue he had had once. It said he had this issue in his 50s, but they didn't drew say what year that was, so there was no way to figure out what his age was.

[Drew Franklin]

He's very mysterious. I mean, the captain's hat. That adds to the lore. A lot going on with Mr. Yaden.

[Matt Jones]

So he also, he. He once flew a helicopter across the country. Think about that for a minute.

[Shannon Dawson]

Well, he's a captain.

[Matt Jones]

So anyway, captain, he joins and I'm like, well, this is as good as it can get. We got 10 people. And then an offhanded text. I just go, hey, Jim Cantori, do you want to participate? And within five minutes, his producer writes me back and says we're in. So now Jim Cantore of the Weather Channel is in. Well, so by 11:30 this morning, they all have to have the exact to the 10th of an inch of the snow in Lexington and Louisville. And we will get to see who's good, who's not, who can read them maps, who can't. I heard one weather person say last night who's not in this, that in Lexington specifically, this might be the hardest storm to predict because the line is right at Lexington, so it can go either way. And Ryan, we'll see who can make it happen.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, you hit my second wow moment when Weinberger said he couldn't gonna do it. But my third. No, I actually think we should not ever mention his name on this show ever again. Just climb, Weather boy. I think we never mention his name ever again on this show.

[Matt Jones]

Weather boy declined.

[Ryan Lemond]

But my big wow moments when you got Jim Cantori, I mean, that is Mr. Weather Man. He is the bomb. He is. When he shows up in your town, when you show, he shows up in your town, get out. Because stuff's going down.

[Matt Jones]

So I want you all to all think for just a second of what you think Jim Cantori looks like. If you go to his Twitter. He interviewed the mayor of New York today, Mandani, because they're getting the storm Sunday, and I couldn't tell which one was him. Did you know he has a white beard now?

[Ryan Lemond]

No. Really?

[Drew Franklin]

Time comes for everyone.

[Matt Jones]

I did not know it was him, but nevertheless, still awesome to have it.

[Drew Franklin]

Huge get. And honestly, credit to all the people that said yes when you were pitching this idea. I thought, they're not going to want to do this. Put in their name on this and Having to go head to head, something they never have to do. Everyone that's in committed on the spot and they're like excited and eager. I thought it would take some convincing. With half the field and outside of the one we've mentioned, old weather boy, people jumped right in. It did not take any convincing.

[Matt Jones]

And by the way, you're right. These people are kind of putting their credibility on the line. They really are. I mean, I want. I'm going to focus on our winner and not taunt who comes at the end because I'm going to talk.

[Shannon Dawson]

I kind of hope that the social media meteorologist ends up winning the whole thing.

[Matt Jones]

Ryan Hall, y'.

[Drew Franklin]

All.

[Shannon Dawson]

Ryan Hall, y'.

[Matt Jones]

All.

[Shannon Dawson]

I'm pulling for him.

[Matt Jones]

One of my favorite things that happened, Mario makes the graphic, he puts the names and in parentheses, the TV station. And for Ryan hall, he put as his TV station, y', all, which I think is absolutely hilarious. Now I will give a little piece of news. We're gonna get these forecasts. They have to be in by 11:30am the first one's already in.

[Ryan Lemond]

And guess who it is.

[Matt Jones]

Ryan Hall, y'. All. He sent it to me, right, for the show. I will tell you this now. Maybe they'll all be like this. And in a similar vein, I was shocked by his. His prediction, really. Now, I'm not going to say what it is because I don't want to spoil for the other things, but I was shocked and I'll tell you why when I say it by his prediction, and I will say, buckle up.

[Shannon Dawson]

Is going to be high. Higher than expected.

[Matt Jones]

Now I think you guys down here are looking more icy. Is if I'm correct, in Campbellsville. But up where we are and then north of us there, it's like crazy numbers. But we'll see. We'll see what everybody comes in.

[Ryan Lemond]

You know, I told you before the show started, I had a local weather guy said we. They do feel a little pressure because of what you said. We're in Lexington and if a guy. Ryan Hall, y', all, or something like that outside, like Jim Cantor. Jim can.

[Matt Jones]

He's in New York City.

[Ryan Lemond]

By the way, good pool. You in the transfer portal getting that five star guy in the late minute.

[Matt Jones]

Like, well, this is like coach Will.

[Ryan Lemond]

Stein at the last second.

[Matt Jones]

You know, all of these people say we don't want G leaguers.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, you pulled one in.

[Matt Jones]

I just went ahead and got LeBron to join the. To join the pool.

[Shannon Dawson]

So does that mean, like Cantor has since he's national, does that mean he has an advantage. Is he a better weather man than everybody else?

[Matt Jones]

Does he have access to more Dopplers?

[Shannon Dawson]

That's what I wonder. Maybe he has all the dopplers.

[Matt Jones]

He has more models.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Or less.

[Shannon Dawson]

Maybe he's not as dialed in because he's not local.

[Matt Jones]

Do you think these weather people, Drew, are sitting there today, like, going over with a fire tooth comb?

[Drew Franklin]

They're very nervous. I mean, like, their job. They don't ever have to really put up their results or answer. No one's like, hey, two weeks ago you went over.

[Matt Jones]

They also say, I saw a map. Six to 14. That's not a prediction. There's a big difference between six and 14. Six is like, well, this is a bad day. 14 is like, I'm not going to work next week. So, I mean, that's a huge difference.

[Drew Franklin]

And I'm sure they're filling this contest because something new to them. I bet their friends are lighting them up in their group chats.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yep.

[Drew Franklin]

You know, this is a big moment.

[Matt Jones]

For them that now they're going to.

[Drew Franklin]

Be busy all weekend, but this is living in the back of their minds.

[Matt Jones]

There's another part of this, which is people got assigned people to get their. Their things from. And so we also have to make sure we get in the predictions. All right, I had four, Ryan had four, Mario had three. I've already gotten one of mine. Ryan Hall, y'.

[Ryan Lemond]

All.

[Matt Jones]

I also had Jim Cantori. I would say those are the two hardest to get, probably.

[Ryan Lemond]

So, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I also have the Mallory Snell and Jim Caldwell. Your job is Chris Bailey, Bill Mack, TG Shuck, and Captain Yodin Yaden.

[Drew Franklin]

Yay.

[Matt Jones]

Have you gotten any of them yet?

[Ryan Lemond]

Not their predictions, but I've made contact with all of them.

[Matt Jones]

So you think you're gonna get it?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

You have Logan Cardosi and Harnett. Do we have any predictions yet? Have you talked to them all this morning? Okay.

[Ryan Lemond]

I think they all wanted to see the morning models before they get their final prediction.

[Matt Jones]

Ryan Hall, y' all put it in. Two and a half hours. He's ready to go.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, he's already locked.

[Matt Jones]

He's like the kid who turns his test in an hour before show off.

[Shannon Dawson]

I hated that kid.

[Ryan Lemond]

I guess he was that kid. Probably you probably.

[Matt Jones]

But I'm just saying, like, that's. That's who that is.

[Shannon Dawson]

I was always the one with the teachers, like, you know, can you kind of hurry up like we're. Nobody else is left in the class but you? Yeah, that was me.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so that's going to be happening today. Now, the UK basketball game, it has gotten moved to 11am it will be along with the Florida game last year. Remember, we played that at 11am the earliest game in Rupp in quite some time. They moved it up really to try to get Ole Miss out of town after the game. That was the reason they did it, that the, the. I think the snow was supposed to start around 1, 2, 3, but. But the real goal is to get Ole Miss out of town, which is why they moved it up. You think it makes any difference, Drew, to what happens tomorrow?

[Drew Franklin]

Not at all. And I'm very excited. I even went back this morning. I wrote a blog post last year titled give us more 11am games. Because last year that Florida game and.

[Matt Jones]

We played great and it's Florida.

[Drew Franklin]

I get that was a big matchup. But that place was as good as Rupp arena has been, even in. Because I was kind of having to get some memories back when I was reading what I wrote. I was comparing it to some of the best of all time because people knew they kind of had to get up for it being earlier it was Florida ended up being a great game that we won. So I think, you know, Ole Miss isn't Florida, but I think there will be an excitement for a morning.

[Matt Jones]

Do you think people will go? I mean, with the snow coming after the game, like, do you think people go?

[Ryan Lemond]

I don't know if it'll be packed, but they're going to go. And there's something about that camaraderie of.

[Matt Jones]

Where I agree with that. You know, there's something about when you're in and there's snow everywhere and you go, you almost feel. I'm totally agree with it.

[Ryan Lemond]

So even if it's not packed, the crowd that's there I think will be crazy. Crazy be allowed. The guy sitting here, these shoulder pads, you need to go, man, and support the team.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so two things. First of all, we're going to open the bar at 8:30 in the morning because our pregame show starts at 8:30 now. So we're opening it early. We'll have breakfast. So come on in. We may not start serving food till nine because our shift people are our servers. They're like, I can't get up that early. So you know, it's a lot of college students, but we'll get the food there. But we're going to start the pregame show at 8:30 and, and, and then same thing after the game we'll, we will have, you know, the Bar will stay open until we have to close it. If you're not using your tickets to the game, don't leave it empty. I will give it away to people in Lexington or who or who want to make the drive. Send it to Matt Dot Jones at Kentucky Sports Radio. I've already had people send me about six and I'm going to give them away over the course of the day.

[Drew Franklin]

I think it's going to be a good, I mean, if you live in Paducah, maybe you don't make the trip, but I think a lot of people see I'm gonna be hunkered down for Saturday night through who knows what. Yeah, let's go have fun before we get off.

[Matt Jones]

That's the way you're gonna be. Some of you all, especially from, I don't know, Bardstown, up like you ain't going anywhere. And then I, you know, folks around here, the ice that's, that's obviously that might even be worse in some ways than the snow. So it's could be a long weekend around the state. 859-280-2287. We are here in Campbellsville, Taylor County. We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back. It is KENTUCKY Sports Radio here live at Don Franklin. From tough trucks to sleek SUVs, your perfect fits waiting. Shop it all at dodfranklink.com Schedule a test drive, then pick it up at your local store. You know how I know that we're in Kentucky? They just came out with a 12 pack of Mountain Dew and half the crowd got up and ran to the.

[Shannon Dawson]

Everybody knows you gotta have Mountain Dew with your glazed donut. It just goes hand in hand.

[Matt Jones]

That is, that's the Campbellsville power lunch. You got the Mountain Dew and the glazed donut. I can say that because I spent a lot of time here as a, as a kid. My grandmother lived here. My great aunt still lives here. And have I spent a lot of time. We've done, I would say Campbellsville's in the top 8 or 10 of places we've done shows.

[Ryan Lemond]

We did one every summer at the Gatti's Pizzeria up here right off the road every year for like five or six years in a row.

[Drew Franklin]

I drove by.

[Matt Jones]

It almost could be a little louder. That would be good for the show. All right, just a little bit all.

[Drew Franklin]

Jacked up on Mountain Dew over there already.

[Matt Jones]

859-280-2287. So let's talk a little bit just about the game itself. Are you Worried Drew at all about Ole Miss coming in? Probably maybe the worst team along with LSU in the conference, but one we still got to beat.

[Drew Franklin]

I'm worried about every game on the schedule. I mean, I don't think we'll lose, but we're at a point where if like a guy has a bad game that could just derail the whole game because there's not enough depth to fix that. It's pretty much been relying on oh way Chandler and Aberdeen here lately, which has been great. I don't know how long that'll last, but you know, Ole Miss might be the easiest or one of the easiest games left. I think you got to finish the job. You got to keep stacking these wins and get momentum going. They've already built a lot of confidence and you can't slip up here against this team.

[Matt Jones]

On paper, if you were just looking at paper, this easiest game of the season. And of course that means it won't be. Yeah, we'll be down 14 in the first half. But this is on paper, Ryan, the easiest team you play and you play them at home. So, like this should be the easiest game of the season. You've won four straight. You just don't want to lose this one.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah. Because next week, you may easily lose two games next week at Vandy, at Arkansas.

[Matt Jones]

No, you almost certainly will.

[Ryan Lemond]

I mean, probably makes it more important. You got to get this one at home. I think we're going to have the old wounded dog effect. Keep losing guys, injuries coming like a wounded dog fighting and clawing and maybe play really, really well tomorrow.

[Shannon Dawson]

Usually when the dog's coming off a loss, though, we got a four game win streak here.

[Matt Jones]

Wounded dog. We've won more games in a row than we have since Cal was a.

[Ryan Lemond]

Coach because every time we blink, another guy sitting over there in street clothes cannot plan.

[Drew Franklin]

So, yes, we are wounded.

[Ryan Lemond]

We are very wounded.

[Matt Jones]

Travis Perry.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

What's that going to be like? He's.

[Shannon Dawson]

He's gonna light us up, you know he is.

[Matt Jones]

You think so? He's. I mean, he's not. He's not had a great year.

[Shannon Dawson]

Well, he had 15 last game.

[Matt Jones]

That was his last. His last game was his best game.

[Drew Franklin]

He's hit four threes and five threes in the last week and a half. So he's. Of all times for him to get hot. It's leading up to his trip to Lexington.

[Shannon Dawson]

He's just now warming up. So. Yeah, I could see that being a scenario where he comes in and, you know, he's. He's played games more so than a lot of our current guys that played a RUP arena. So I could see him having a big game.

[Matt Jones]

What do you think? Give me over. Under 11 points for Travis Pair.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm gonna say over. I mean, I think he, I'm. I just think he's gonna probably get hot and bomb a couple and we're all gonna be bitching about it on the postman show.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. All right, well, can I talk to you about something real quick?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

First of all, you're gonna, you're gonna get trapped in your house.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Starting Saturday.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Assuming the weather works, you're gonna start eating a load on day. Oh, did you forget that?

[Ryan Lemond]

I thought we'd cancel that with the snow.

[Matt Jones]

Only if you can't get out of your house.

[Ryan Lemond]

I can't get out.

[Matt Jones]

You need to come down a notch. The combination of you just randomly cursing and that picture you posted last night on Twitter. What were you doing? Yeah, what was that? What was that? I mean, what, What? Don't even, I don't even describe it because I know your description is going to be even worse than the picture was. Someone said, said to me that we work with. Look at what Ryan Lemon just posted. And I looked at it and I was like, what is wrong with you?

[Ryan Lemond]

It was just a weather map. I'm just.

[Matt Jones]

But that's not, you know why you posted that? That's why I posted it right there. Can you just. Are you going to be able to handle these next 72 hours?

[Ryan Lemond]

I, I seriously may go crazy. I'm gonna be stuck at my house by myself cuz yoga girl is going to stay in Georgetown.

[Matt Jones]

But you understand I've like, I've done.

[Ryan Lemond]

That for, for I, I'm not an experienced loner.

[Matt Jones]

When's the last time you spent 72 hours by yourself?

[Ryan Lemond]

Never. Absolutely never.

[Matt Jones]

Are you serious? Never.

[Ryan Lemond]

Never ever, ever.

[Matt Jones]

So you're, this is your first weekend alone ever?

[Ryan Lemond]

Ever? I've always had a kid there my whole life. Now says I, I, I'm, I'm probably going up going crazy. I'm going to get my bread and milk after. On the way home today, get some frozen pizza, maybe some beer.

[Matt Jones]

So what are you gonna do?

[Ryan Lemond]

Watch sports.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, you're not even kidding. You've never had a weekend alone ever?

[Ryan Lemond]

No, I've had a kid for Gavin's 28 years old.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, the kid didn't go somewhere.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, then there was another kid. I had three kids. There was always a kid there.

[Shannon Dawson]

We all need to check in on Ryan, I think this weekend.

[Ryan Lemond]

So like I've, I've never been alone probably 48 hours, 24 hours. I've always, it's just not me.

[Matt Jones]

Do you need supervision?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Drew Franklin]

We should all put up the sharp objects.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'll be the guy looking out my front window like, please.

[Matt Jones]

Wise. Why is, why is your woman not spending the weekend?

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, her son and daughter in law is gonna be with her in Georgetown.

[Matt Jones]

You're gonna try to get over there. I mean definitely gonna try walking down the circle.

[Ryan Lemond]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

If you just, if you look and there's a random man walking down Georgetown Road. That is, that is Ryan, pick me up. Trying to get to Georgetown. All right, back to the game. What do we need to watch out for?

[Drew Franklin]

Drew?

[Matt Jones]

For this Ole Miss team, they've kind.

[Drew Franklin]

Of turned a corner. They just lost their last game to Auburn, but Travis Perry's hitting threes. AJ Store, a guy I mentioned a few weeks ago who is trying to play for every college in the country. He had 26 and then 27. They have two big wins. They won at Georgia last week when Georgia ranked Georgia. Yes. And then won a rivalry game against Mississippi State. Both those came down in the final seconds. So yeah, they're three and three and their resume doesn't really pop. But just like Kentucky got hot in the last week or two, Ole Miss is doing the same thing they are.

[Matt Jones]

And, and they've been like Drew said they, on paper they were the worst team in the sec. They've played a little better. We just have to win because I, I, I, I can sit here and read you the next 10 games. Like there's no obvious victory. I mean at Vandy, at Arkansas, then you go Oklahoma at home, at, sorry, Tennessee. At home at Tennessee or Tennessee home. Then at Florida, Georgia, I mean at Auburn, like it just keeps coming. You, this is one you got to.

[Ryan Lemond]

Get, got to take care of business. Just, you know, build on what you did last week against Texas. Played a 40 minutes of basketball. First time we've seen that a long time play 40 minutes, go out, do the job. Chris Beard's one of the best coaches in the league too. I think he's, you know, he's not gonna be scared that we come in there and try to do stuff.

[Matt Jones]

They will. Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

They're going to play good defense, that's one thing. And they don't turn it over very much.

[Matt Jones]

Right. Who's up first?

[Ryan Lemond]

Rick got Jason up first.

[Matt Jones]

Jason, I got a minute. Go ahead.

[Caller]

Hey, Smith J here in Colorado wanted to give you a quick preview of the snow that's coming your way. I just got done walking the dogs. It is cold in the witches behind. And I'll tell you what I'm not. I'm more disappointed. And probably the fact that my wife doesn't even know who Jim Cantore is. Then probably time when Cal couldn't even coach a game and Wisconsin couldn't throw down a cat that just killed me. But anyways, I love your show. Thank you so much. Enjoy the snow. It's going to be Snowmageddon there in Kentucky. We love it out here, so hope you guys get more. Be safe.

[Matt Jones]

I appreciate. I appreciate it. And you know, we don't handle it quite the same as everybody else. We don't have quite the same equipment or readiness. But I enjoy it. I hope everybody stays safe. I mean, that's one thing I'm concerned about, you know, falling trees and all that stuff, especially in the parts with the ice. But I also personally enjoy snow. And I'm gonna be following along with these people to see.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, keep an eye on your neighbors. You got an elderly, elderly neighbor.

[Matt Jones]

Keep an eye on Ryan. We'll take a break and be right back. Elderly neighbor. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Here in Campbellsville at Don Franklin. Kentucky's biggest playbook, 6,000 new and certified pre owned vehicles here at Don Franklin. I'm reminded by the folks, I don't know how I forgot this. I'm in Campbellsville. This is ski country. This is not Mountain Dew.

[Shannon Dawson]

I was gonna say that, but I.

[Matt Jones]

Was like, you can't let me do that.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay, there.

[Matt Jones]

Ski country is not a large segment, but it is a loyal segment. Do you like ski?

[Shannon Dawson]

It's okay. I remember when I went to Lindsay Wilson, everybody drinks ski. And I'd never even heard of it before, but they love it here.

[Matt Jones]

I like it. Okay, where's it made? Green County. It was in Green Cat. Now it's not. Oh, it shut down. So do they still. So it doesn't exist. What his family owned. Okay, well, did you sell it? Okay, got it. Do they still do it?

[Drew Franklin]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

It's produced other places in other places. Okay, well, I. I've always liked it and I've had it for a while. I collect those citrusy drinks.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, one of our listeners brought us some druthers biscuits. The only druthers in America is right down the road to here in Campbell's.

[Matt Jones]

Right. You said you couldn't get even.

[Shannon Dawson]

You could not get everybody. That is anybody other than You. Because you're all somebody. But, I mean, like, if you want to know what's going on in Campbellsville, you go to that druthers. Because you walk in, you can' the door. We found the very last parking spot. We had to fight somebody for the last parking spot to get into druthers.

[Matt Jones]

This morning, it. We had a druthers. When I was growing up.

[Shannon Dawson]

I did, too. I did, too.

[Matt Jones]

How do they get. If they're the only one, how do they get to stay open?

[Shannon Dawson]

Because the business is booming down there. You should go down there and see.

[Ryan Lemond]

I like.

[Shannon Dawson]

I like to see their numbers at the end of the day, how much money they're making.

[Ryan Lemond]

Apparently, they have chocolate gravy on Friday.

[Shannon Dawson]

That's right. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

To get the chocolate gravy, they have chocolate gravy.

[Shannon Dawson]

And they. And they serve breakfast all day long, apparently.

[Matt Jones]

So they put chocolate gravy just on biscuits.

[Shannon Dawson]

Whatever you want it on.

[Matt Jones]

Wow.

[Shannon Dawson]

What do you want it on? Dump some on your head.

[Matt Jones]

Just drink the gravy. I can't really think of what I would want it on eggs. But it's an interesting idea. One person writes, matt, tell Ryan if his power goes out, it'll be even more fun being by himself.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's when I'm going down the street and knocking on somebody's door. Let me in, Please, neighbor. You don't know who I am. The crazy man with the dogs at the end of the road. Let me in.

[Shannon Dawson]

It's gonna be like the Shining. Ryan sticks the action.

[Ryan Lemond]

I got a question. If the electricity goes out, your gas fireplace should still work, correct? Yeah, yeah. So I can stay warm.

[Matt Jones]

But I mean, I think they're saying you're not gonna have anything to do that. That's what's gonna drive you to be.

[Drew Franklin]

Alone with your thoughts.

[Matt Jones]

You're not gonna. You're not gonna be able. You're just gonna have to sort of confront the realities of spending time by yourself. By yourself.

[Ryan Lemond]

I. I go crazy. I will be out walking the streets. I can't. I can't do it.

[Shannon Dawson]

A wellness check. We should all just check it on you.

[Matt Jones]

One person writes, matt, how much preparation have you done for the trip or for this? No. Zero. I have no food. I have no anything. So. Yeah, I mean, this won't go well for me.

[Shannon Dawson]

So you're gonna be going for a walk.

[Matt Jones]

So I'm trying to figure out. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out, do I want to do it in Lexington or Louisville. What's the more. What's the better? Chance that I can get through it.

[Drew Franklin]

Louisville.

[Matt Jones]

How does that probably Louisville, Because I have walkable more restaurants but like, some friends can like help me and I have more friends in Lexington.

[Shannon Dawson]

So nobody's helping you.

[Matt Jones]

You're on your own. I mean, the only people in Louisville are you in Paris.

[Shannon Dawson]

I'm not coming to help you. So you're gonna be walking. Do me one favor, though. Whatever you do when you go for a walk, do not fall because I do not need another bruised picture Bruce Butt picture on my phone, like I have already.

[Matt Jones]

That was a. That was a wonderful picture. Are you. Are you 100%? John Rothstein yesterday said he is like 70%. Kentucky makes the tournament. What is your percent? Kentucky makes the tournament.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm pretty high. Maybe 90, 95%. I mean, yeah, I feel they've kind of found themselves a little bit. Found their answers a little bit. They now they kind of know what they got to deal with. Low is not coming back quite. Is more than likely not going to play much, if any at all. So you got who you got. Go out and play ball. Just go out there and do it.

[Matt Jones]

And I don't think Cam's playing if I don't know.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's true.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

I was a coin flip on the tournament before Knoxville, but that's a, That's a big win to get that one. For the resume. Feel like they've turned a corner a little bit. I'll say 80%, but I wasn't feeling great just a week ago.

[Shannon Dawson]

I'll go 75. I keep hearing, and I don't even know if this is true that Kentucky has the hardest schedule in the country going forward. Is that true?

[Matt Jones]

By far. And wait till after the game tomorrow. Then we're gonna have like, we. We have, what is it, 12 games left. 10 of the 12 are quad one. One of the two non quad one ones is tomorrow. So, like, we'll have. We will have 10 of our final 11 games. Shannon being quad one.

[Shannon Dawson]

Well, that's. Yeah, that's a murderer's row. So maybe I adjusted a little bit. Maybe 60% chance they make a turnout.

[Matt Jones]

It's only 60. Yeah. So I'm at. I'm about 75. When tomorrow I'll get to like 82 to 85. But the problem is after tomorrow we play Oklahoma at home. Besides that, there's. I mean, we might be an underdog folks in like most of our games going forward. We might be an underdog. I mean, will be. Will be an underdog against Vandy both games. Probably probably if they will be an older dog against Florida, both games probably will be an underdog at Arkansas.

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh, yeah, definitely.

[Matt Jones]

We'll be an underdog at Auburn.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, we.

[Matt Jones]

Tennessee will be an underdog at Texas A and M. Yeah, they're good people.

[Drew Franklin]

Don't talk about them enough right now.

[Matt Jones]

We play Tennessee at home. Pick them. Maybe we're a slight favorite. Yeah, we'll be a hot. Will be a favorite against Oklahoma. Are we a favorite at home against Georgia? Georgia? Yeah, I mean we probably will just because people will. Otherwise they're worried everybody will bet Kentucky. But I'm just saying, like we're gonna be an underdog. Ryan, in most games.

[Ryan Lemond]

I kind of like our team's attitude when they come and be everybody disrespect a little bit. I think like away and Aberdeen kind of found a way to play together and they kind of got that dog in him, you know, the wounded dog dog coming out in them.

[Matt Jones]

I think I can see who the wounded dog here is thinking about having to spend his weekend by himself. Who's up next? Austin is up next. Austin. Go ahead, Austin.

[Caller]

What's up, fellas? A quick shout out to Dakota and Michael on the second row to your slide. Right. Two questions. Does revenue share distribution make top donors focus more on basketball and does that affect football in a negative way? And representing. Representing for Campbellsville. I have to ask why my man Corey Lynn Hauck was not reached out to for the Weatherman royal rumble of 2026?

[Matt Jones]

Well, we had a very. He. I don't know who Corey Lynn Hauck is, but I'm sure he'd have been great. We had a very strict criteria because we had a lot of people that wanted to be in it. But I was trying to figure out like what would be the most group. The group of people that most people would know. Great question about the donor situation. What I would say, Ryan, is I have no idea how donors are going to be funding things in the future. Just, just to give you. I'll try to make a 10 minute conversation of a minute and a half for a long time. If you wanted to donate to UK Sports, what did you do? You just wrote a check to UK Sports?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Right. And it went into the athletic department and they could do with it what they want. Sometimes you might say, I'll give you $2 million if you do this specific thing. But generally people just gave to UK Athletics and then UK Athletics decides what it did did. It ain't like that anymore. All right, so think about the different ways you can give money. One you can give to UK Athletics. Okay. Just the. To, like, build facilities or, you know, put whatever they want to do. Second, there are specific projects they raise money for, like the football renovation.

[Ryan Lemond]

Right, Right.

[Matt Jones]

So they will ask donors, not only donate to UK Athletics, donate for this specific thing. Then they sometimes say, we have to raise money for our ini. For our Rev share fund of 19, $21 million. There are donors who give to that. And then there are donors back in the old system that Mark Stoops was friends with and said, I need to go get a running back. Will you help me? They do that. Or Mark Pope says, price has gone up for so and so, will you help me? And they do that. Ryan, now that technically that's illegal, although I think people will still do it. There's Rev Share. I don't know how donors figure out who to give money to now.

[Ryan Lemond]

I don't either. You just stand right there. Just kind of confused me for sure. So the guys that donate, like into the basketball Nil fund, what if they want to do the football NL fund? What is it? How do they do that?

[Matt Jones]

I think. I think what UK encourages them to do is give us money and let us control it. But as what a lot of donors want to do is, I given this for track.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I'm giving this for basketball. And, oh, by the way, I want seats on the fourth row. I mean, that Drew, is probably the practicality of how this works.

[Drew Franklin]

And in the world we live in now, most people with their dollars are going to want to go get a good player because that's what they're going to be wanting. I mean, buildings are nice. Unless you're getting your name on the whole building, it's going to be like, I just want to give you money to give us the best team possible. Good luck with your locker room renovation.

[Matt Jones]

And there was. Now I think this is changing, too. But there was a time, especially in football, where people wanted to donate to get a specific player. And Shannon then kind of have a relationship with that player. Like, that is our player.

[Shannon Dawson]

You feel like they work for you because you paid them.

[Ryan Lemond]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

Let me also say where that raises a little difficulty. Let's say, sir, you paid $150,000 so we could go get a linebacker. And you were asked specifically, I need this linebacker. 150,000. You gave it. And then what if he doesn't play? How do you feel? Are you giving it next year?

[Shannon Dawson]

No, no, I want my money.

[Matt Jones]

And so I do think that's another thing that Makes it harder for these schools is that they ask people sometimes to give money for specific things. And then if that guy, like imagine you're the guy who paid for Zach Calzada and then that video comes out.

[Shannon Dawson]

And that's my money he's playing with. Give me back my money, you boy.

[Matt Jones]

I just think there's so many different things in play now, Drew, that I actually do think it makes really hard in the money situation.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

There's guys already dealing with this. Like, imagine selling your family business throw a little bit nil and you're just watching a guy throw it at some guy named Garrett on Snapchat. You're like, I work for 40 years for that money. Right there. It is just being thrown at someone I don't even know, telling him to get his money up.

[Matt Jones]

It's a really good.

[Shannon Dawson]

If you're that d. That's on you, though. If you sell your business to give to a kid.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, in general, like, you built your wealth and you didn't spend it. I get what you're saying. Like, I worked hard to do this.

[Drew Franklin]

I could have thrown it at someone.

[Matt Jones]

If that's what it's.

[Shannon Dawson]

Have a kid, give it to them.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, no, it's. It's. It's a really. It's. It's a different dynamic now. If you're pay paying a premium for roadside assistance or you're getting gouged for phone insurance are your doctor visits co pays feeling more expensive? We'll use Blue Vantage Checking from UK Credit union Packed with benefits that go beyond the basics. You can get ahead and stay ahead and get loan discounts and more. It's UK Credit Union. Stop by Blue Vantage checking from the official credit union of the University of Kentucky. Additional fees apply. Membership eligibility Eligibility required. Insured by NCUA UK Credit union. We'll take a break and be right back here at Don Franklin in Campbellsville's ksr. I can still get there from here. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. We are here at Don Franklin. So listen to this. I just got Ryan Hall, y' all asked to update his prediction to raise a total. So the.

[Drew Franklin]

This.

[Matt Jones]

The snow maps are getting more snowy. He had till 11:30.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So I felt like if you get to do it, there's nothing that says I'm fine with that.

[Drew Franklin]

You know, he's locked in too. I saw yesterday probably went in reference to this. But he posted on Facebook this is like the moment meteorologists are trained for or something like that. I think he just meant the overall storm. But I took it as he met the challenge.

[Matt Jones]

I think, I think it is the challenge.

[Ryan Lemond]

We'll.

[Matt Jones]

We'll find out. We will start getting, I think predictions in, in the next 30 minutes. I wanted to ask you what you thought about the Florida Bama coach. Trash talk. So Alabama, you've probably seen a judge who was an Alabama donor issued a temporary injunction allowing the kid, a kid from the G league to play for Alabama. I didn't know when I saw the story at first that the dude who had issued it was an Alabama donor.

[Drew Franklin]

Big donor.

[Matt Jones]

A big donor. So that's maybe a little forum shopping there from the University of Alabama, but. So he's eligible now. He will play this weekend. Now next, I think they played Tennessee. Is that right? I think they play Tennessee. Big game. Next weekend they play Florida. Florida's coach Todd golden was asked about it and he goes, well, I guess that's what happens when you get to pick the judge. But then he said, ryan, I don't care. Let him play. We'll beat him anyway. What do you think about that?

[Ryan Lemond]

I've never liked Todd golden, thought it was a little smarmy. But I like that comment. I want that. I want my coach to be like that guy.

[Matt Jones]

I let him play, I'll beat him anyway.

[Drew Franklin]

I love it. You don't normally hear any kind of trash talk whatsoever. They're all so lame and media trained. That's from the guy at the end of the bench to the head coach. You just don't get juicy answers like that. So for him to say we're going to beat him, play him if he wants to, I'm coming for you. I absolutely love it.

[Ryan Lemond]

Absolutely.

[Matt Jones]

You never hear coaches say we're going to beat him about another college team ever. They never say that. So I kind of like, I love it too.

[Shannon Dawson]

I mean, he's just saying what we're all thinking, but no other coach will say. So I, I.

[Matt Jones]

Coaches usually like a team will come in four and 15 and they'll go, it's a great team.

[Ryan Lemond]

Y.

[Matt Jones]

It's a great team.

[Shannon Dawson]

Going to be a tough challenge.

[Matt Jones]

Tough challenge. They're going to really bring it. I mean, Mark Pope says every team in the SEC is a great team. Every single team. That, that. So I like coming. I like going. Saying this now. I also believe what I said about the Baylor kid. He's not any good. Everybody freaks out about these guys and they're not good. If they were good, they play. There are three. I don't think people realize there are three guys that Came from the G League, playing in college basketball right now. You know, the, you know, the one that's averaging the most points? How Many is averaging? 4.2. Where all these people are freaking out about guys, Ryan, that aren't any good.

[Ryan Lemond]

He said if they were good, they'd be on an NBA roster, they'd be playing in the league right now. Not bouncing around, traveling around the G League somewhere trying to get a couple minutes.

[Shannon Dawson]

So do we not get Dink Paint?

[Matt Jones]

Well, I was gonna say there might be one exception.

[Shannon Dawson]

So say what about him?

[Ryan Lemond]

What's the update on him?

[Matt Jones]

Well, first of all, these guys that have come from the G League, if you go look at their G League stats, they weren't scoring a lot in the G League. But Dink paid is Deep paid, scoring 17 a game. He had 32 the other night. Okay. Dick Paint was once the 17th ranked high school recruit in America, so he can play. He did an interview with our Jacob Polachek yesterday, Drew. That said, if Kentucky wants me, I'm there. Now it sounds like they want him for next year, that there won't be an addition to this team. It would have to happen today.

[Shannon Dawson]

They need them this year, but it.

[Matt Jones]

Would have to happen today. And since we haven't heard anything, I'm going to lean towards. It's not going to happen. Would you want him for next year?

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, definitely. You know, right now. Let me look at what we have for next year. Yeah, there's no one there, so I would love him next year. That would be great.

[Matt Jones]

He seemed to be a big fan.

[Drew Franklin]

Of Dink in his comments. Maybe that's just his attitude.

[Matt Jones]

He's definitely a fan of. If you go on the streaming service. Somebody sent me a clip. Look for this if you're bored. This weekend, Shaquille and Island Iverson did a documentary for Reebok and it's on Amazon. Their whole point was to try to go find good high school players. And Dink is a big part of the Dink of the documentary. Now I'll say about Dink, I found him likable. But Shannon Dink likes him some Dink. And I think that will definitely be. That comes through in the document.

[Shannon Dawson]

Bet on yourself, right? If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. So it sounds like he's got plenty of confidence.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I'm with Drew. We don't have any players, Ryan. So if he wants to be part of the team next year, right now I'm kind of for it. He's got a ton of talent. Clearly, yeah.

[Ryan Lemond]

Get you a little head start on next year's recruiting class. Getting this guy signed up. Even you bring him in right now.

[Matt Jones]

Not a head start. We're behind. We have nobody.

[Shannon Dawson]

We're behind.

[Matt Jones]

We have nobody.

[Ryan Lemond]

I tell you this, the whole part about today being the last day for Drop ad man, we had it shade and sharp in the middle semester. We added Big Z in the middle semester. I mean, that stuff just kind of magically seems to work itself out.

[Matt Jones]

So you think we can add him in mid February?

[Drew Franklin]

Probably.

[Matt Jones]

All right, good deal. Who's up next?

[Ryan Lemond]

Bobby is up next.

[Matt Jones]

Bobby. Go ahead, Bobby.

[Caller]

Yeah, I was just kind of curious watching these games. Their defense has really been improving, but I'm wondering when we're ever going to take a charge. Seeing too many balls go up the middle of the lane and nobody helping out, it just kind of frustrated.

[Matt Jones]

Well, we don't take a lot of charges. That's a good point. I appreciate the call. I do think one of the things we do, I think we play really good defense. I do agree with the caller Drew, that our rotating under the basket is pretty poor. We give up a lot of dunks. Like a lot of dunks. And it feels like a lot of times it's because the offside guys just make it a business decision. And saying, you know, you. You go ahead.

[Drew Franklin]

Now that it mentions it, I really can't remember a charge we really have. Maybe it's probably because the training room is full of injured people and they don't lay their body on the line with this team, but it worked. But I remember at Tennessee and lsu, when they're trying to claw back, they'd get hot, but then they would give up a lot of those easy baskets. Now they buckled down in and got it. But that defense still has some big flaws.

[Matt Jones]

Don't call as many charges. It doesn't feel like. Remember there was a period in college basketball where it felt like people were jumping in front for charges all the time. I feel like you don't see them as much just in general, do you?

[Shannon Dawson]

Yeah, you don't. And I think sometimes, like you guys said, giving up two points is better than a season ending injury. So you just kind of give it to them.

[Drew Franklin]

They tried to cut out that sliding under him got out of hand.

[Matt Jones]

We have our second prediction in and it comes from your guy, Jim Caldwell. Very different than the Ryan Hall, y'. All.

[Caller]

Here we go.

[Matt Jones]

So, see, I wondered, is everybody gonna end up in the same place, completely different in this one?

[Ryan Lemond]

Wow.

[Shannon Dawson]

Is it because he's old school, maybe. And he's using different, like.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, you think he's out there?

[Shannon Dawson]

He doesn't have the Doppler sticking his.

[Matt Jones]

Finger up to the.

[Shannon Dawson]

Yes, he's using the Farmer's Almanac. That's what he's using. He doesn't have a Doppler.

[Matt Jones]

We'll see which one will be right. Very different. See, I wonder, will they all group together? Turns out No2 are in. We'll get nine more. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.