2026-02-27- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

Kentucky Sports Radio – Hour 1

Date: February 27, 2026
Location: LIVE from Kentucky Hopkins County Sports Factory, Madisonville, KY
Host: Matt Jones and the KSR Crew (Ryan Lemond, Shannon, Drew Franklin)
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Episode Overview

The KSR crew broadcasts live from Madisonville, KY, at the Kentucky Sports Factory, celebrating an exceptionally large and energetic crowd as they dive into Kentucky basketball updates, local sports culture, facility highlights, and some classic Kentucky oddities. The episode balances community pride, sharp fan insights, lineup analysis, and lighthearted banter.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Massive Madisonville Crowd & Community Pride

• Opening Energy:

  • Matt and the crew open live in front of what may be their biggest remote audience ever; lively crowd noise sets the atmosphere.
  • “There are way too many cars in that parking lot...I would say three to four hundred people, probably.” – Matt Jones (06:58)

• Facility Praise:

  • The Kentucky Sports Factory is described as a state-of-the-art venue, with extensive courts for basketball, volleyball, soccer, and even pickleball.
  • “Outside of Lexington and Louisville, this is the best basketball facility in the state. No doubt about it.” – Ryan Lemond (05:57)

• Local Sports Legends:

  • Reminiscing about notable Madisonville athletes: Frank Ramsey, Travis Ford, John Hood, Sonny Collins, and others.
  • Shannon mentions the O2 soccer team (“the best of all time led by Michael Duggar”) and his own golf team’s historic record.

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2. Kentucky Basketball Deep Dive

• Upcoming Game vs. Vanderbilt

  • The focus is on Kentucky’s critical matchup against Vanderbilt at Rupp Arena, portrayed as a must-win for postseason hopes.
  • “If they win, I think it’s very, very likely they get a bye in the SEC tournament...I’m going all out. I’m playing my guys 38 minutes.” – Matt Jones (13:32)

• Revenge & Redemption:

  • The devastating loss at Vandy is fresh on everyone’s minds; there's talk about pride and the team’s need to respond after being out-physicaled and out-rebounded.
  • “They got embarrassed, they got punked down in Nashville, and Vanderbilt just ran them off the court, man.” – Ryan Lemond (11:42)

• Current Roster & Performance:

  • Analysis of recent struggles and breakthroughs, including Denzel Aberdeen’s steady play (“zero turnovers in like 38 minutes,” Ryan, 15:48) and the need for more distributed offense.
  • “Those two guys [were] your only offense in the first game against Vanderbilt.” – Drew Franklin (16:03)

• Coaching Pressure:

  • Discussion around Coach Mark Pope’s job security, transfer portal recruiting, and the impact of tournament results.
  • “The next month will determine whether or not Mark Pope is successful at Kentucky as a coach.” – Matt Jones paraphrasing Mark Story (14:21)

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3. Fun, Prizes, & Local Color

• $10,000 Half-Court Shot:

  • Attendees can enter for a chance to win $10,000 by making a half-court shot. Drew Franklin made one earlier:
    • “I was just warming up the rim, just proving it was possible – kind of like Bob Barker’s putt on The Price Is Right.” (08:59)

• District Rivalry Game:

  • Madisonville vs. Central for the district title—a significant local rivalry game is hyped up. Shannon predicts:
    • “We’re going to beat Central...Storm only sunshine.” (09:44)

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4. Pay for Play & Kentucky Basketball Recruiting

• NIL and “Coal Money”:

  • The crew jokingly attributes the progression of Kentucky coal production, now more prominent in the west, as “fueling” Kentucky basketball.
  • “This is literally...what paid for Malachi Moreno?” – Matt Jones (10:07)

• Recruiting, the GM Debate, and Mark Pope’s Press Conferences

  • Ongoing uncertainty and fan anxiety over hiring a recruiting “GM.”
  • “He said, ‘I’m looking for someone who can get us all the players for $0,’ which he was trying to make a joke. It got the same reaction it got right here, which was sort of awkward silence in the room.” – Matt Jones (24:47)
  • Concerns raised about urgency and whether Pope will actually hire someone for the role.
    • “I think he wants to have that control himself. I just don’t see them giving it up.” – Drew Franklin (26:10)

• Tyrone Stokes Recruiting Situation:

  • Discussion about being second choice for top recruit Stokes and whether it matters:
  • “If Tyron Stokes wants to come here, if we were his second choice, I am fine with that because we don’t have any players committed right now.” – Matt Jones (36:19)

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5. Quirks & Local News

• Bath County Meat Shower Centennial

  • The crew hilariously discusses the planned recreation of the “Bath County Meat Shower” on its 100th anniversary.
  • “I don’t know what’s going to happen...but apparently tomorrow at 4 o’clock, meat is going to rain from the sky in Bath County.” – Matt Jones (32:34)

• Community Shoutouts and Goodbyes

  • Recognition of Webster County broadcasting students in attendance.
  • Mention of the final Hopkinsville vs. Christian County rivalry basketball game before the schools merge:
    • “I guarantee you there won’t be an empty inch of space in that gymnasium tonight.” – Ryan Lemond (46:32)

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6. Festival Announcements & Nostalgia

• Fourth Fest in Madisonville

  • Announcement of July 3–5 festival lineup: The Band Perry, Quad City DJs, Sugar Hill Gang, All-4-One, Color Me Badd, etc.
  • “Madisonville’s going to be sexing everybody up here on the 3rd of July.” – Matt Jones (34:12)

• Madisonville Community College Memories

  • Drew Franklin’s humorous recollection of “taking laps” through English 101:
    • “We have such great English 101 teachers. I wanted to have the experience with all of them, so I took a couple laps around the campus.” – Drew Franklin (44:06)

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7. Engaged Live Audience, Calls & Community Interaction

• Crowd noise contest comparing Madisonville to previous stops.
• Listener calls with questions about coach decisions, player injuries (Malachi—possible ankle issue), and the GM situation.
• Principal from Webster County calls in to shout out his broadcasting students.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with timestamps)

• Biggest remote crowd ever:

  • “There are way too many cars in that parking lot...I would say three to four hundred people, probably.” – Matt Jones (06:58)

• Facility superlative:

  • “Outside of Lexington and Louisville, this is the best basketball facility in the state.” – Ryan Lemond (05:57)

• On Kentucky's bounceback need:

  • “They got embarrassed, they got punked down in Nashville...” – Ryan Lemond (11:42)

• On the $10K shot:

  • “I was just warming up the rim, just proving it was possible—it was like Bob Barker’s putt...” – Drew Franklin (08:59)

• On being fans’ second choice:

  • “I’m sure there’s somebody in here that’s married to a woman that you were their second choice.” – Matt Jones (36:13)

• Festival one-liner:

  • “Madisonville’s going to be sexing everybody up here on the 3rd of July.” – Matt Jones (34:12)

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Important Timestamps for Reference

• Crowd and facility chat: 03:14–07:04
• Local athlete discussion: 07:11–08:27
• $10K shot segment: 08:44–09:16
• Cat vs. Vanderbilt & lineup analysis: 10:47–16:12
• Coach Mark Pope discussion (job, recruiting, the ‘GM’): 13:32–15:25, 24:47–26:47
• On the Bath County Meat Shower (comedy gold): 31:07–32:54
• Madisonville festival announcement: 33:17–34:44
• Coach Pope’s conference & urgency about a GM: 24:47–26:47, 35:03–39:49
• Community College nostalgia: 44:06–44:31

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Summary & Takeaways

• Community First: The energy from Madisonville exemplifies Kentucky pride and shows how local support endures for both grassroots-level sports and KSR as a media fixture.
• Basketball analysis is heated and honest: Fans and hosts alike share real anxieties and hopes for the team’s postseason fate and recruiting future.
• Small-Town Quirks: From the Bath County Meat Shower to Fourth Fest’s wild concert lineup, the episode’s hyperlocal flavor shines.
• Open Interaction: Live audience engagement and candid phone calls make for memorable, authentic radio.

For those who missed the episode:
Expect big local energy, lively prediction debates, a side of local oddities, and real talk about Kentucky basketball’s most pressing issues—all delivered with trademark KSR humor and personality.

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Transcript

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[Drew Franklin]

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Friday, February 27th. I am Matt Jones here live in Madisonville, Kentucky, at the Kentucky Hopkins County Kentucky Sports Factory, where we have an absolutely massive crowd. Let me hear from this crowd this morning. I want everybody to listen around the state.

[Ryan Lemond]

I.

[Matt Jones]

We have been doing KSR on the road, I would say, for 15 years. And I think there is a decent argument that this might be the largest crowd for a remote that we've ever had. So shout out to Hopkins County. The only thing that would compete with this is the tin roof in Nashville. But I would. You might have more people packed into here at the Madison at the Hopkins County Kentucky Sports Factory. You can give us shout the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line, 859-280-22-287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine, 772-774-5254. And this dish is sponsored by the T.J. smith Law Office. You call TJO. Make them pay this. You know, I pulled up here and I thought to myself, there are way too many cars in that parking lot. There are about 75 Ford white F150. So I'm going to assume this is actually people where they keep the city cars. There can't be that many people in there. And now, Ryan Lemon, there are. And what an amazing crowd here at the Sports Factory.

[Ryan Lemond]

We always talk about that great crowd at the SEC tournament. But as far as a location in the city, well, it's been, what, over 10 years since we've been here? It's been a long time.

[Matt Jones]

We used to come here every year, and it's been a long time. We've. We've one time lost our equipment here where it didn't work, but we are in Drew Franklin's hometown. And how about giving your native son here a big round of applause?

[Ryan Lemond]

He is a living legend in this town. We found out.

[Shannon]

I don't know about all that, but, Matt, it doesn't shock me. We have the best turnout. They don't call us the second best town on earth, Matt. We are the best town on earth. And this is the kind of turnout I expected. Everybody's been so hospitable so far. We had a great night last night. So welcome to Madisonville.

[Matt Jones]

That's right. TBT oe the best town on earth. Madisonville. And this. This place is unbelievable. The hop the Hopkins County, Kentucky Sports Factory. 92,000 square feet. And just looking around, basketball courts, volleyball courts. What is this? Tell me that's not pickleball.

[Shannon]

We got volleyball, soccer over here.

[Matt Jones]

Never mind. I'm not a fan of this place anymore. No, I'm just kidding. Pickleball is here. This is an amazing. This would be an amazing facility, Ryan, anywhere. And to have this in Madisonville and Hopkins county, what an amazing blessing for the community.

[Ryan Lemond]

It's unbelievable. They got a turf field over there. They can do soccer and indoor baseball. They're going to do archery in here. They're going to do wrestling. I mean, outside of Lexington and Louisville, this is the best basketball facility in the state. No doubt about it. Probably. Definitely better than one in Louisville, too.

[Matt Jones]

Wait a minute. Best basketball facility in the state? You're going on record for that.

[Ryan Lemond]

There is no doubt. I mean, there's some new ones that popped up, but this is the best one. The one in Lexington and this one are the two best in the state by far.

[Shannon]

Get you all here. Last night, there were six basketball games, soccer and volleyball, and you couldn't find a parking spot. And it was a Thursday in Madisonville.

[Matt Jones]

Well, but look. That is awesome. And a great crowd. How many Kentucky fans are here today? So this is definitely big blue territory. Shannon. I could tell when we walked in. Sometimes I see it, Ryan Lemon's face. Ryan Lemon was scared. You could just tell with this bigger crowd. Ryan Lemon was nervous. He looked at me and he goes, this is a big crowd. And I was like, I'm aware I could look at it.

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[Matt Jones]

I don't know how to eyeball it, but I would say three to 400 people, probably. And Ryan is nervous.

[Drew Franklin]

Sounds about right. I don't know why he would be nervous. We've done hundreds of remotes over the years. This is a great crowd, though. But you'll be okay.

[Matt Jones]

Ryan, you are a little nervous.

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm very nervous. We had the big crowd that one time at Paducah, but this is bigger than that.

[Matt Jones]

Much bigger than that. Yeah. Yeah. So tell me you're good at. Well, but, Drew, you can chip in on this, too. Madisonville. Give me famous Madisonville athletes.

[Ryan Lemond]

Frank Ramsey is probably the one that comes to mind at first. You know, NBA hall of Famer.

[Matt Jones]

You got pretty good for pretty good to have an NBA hall of Fame.

[Ryan Lemond]

Travis Ford, John Hood, Sonny Collins, UK football legend. Those Are my top four probably. Who am I missing?

[Shannon]

You said all the bit you said Travis Ford, John Frank Ramsey. Sonny. I mean I could name drop all the legends from my era. We had the O2 soccer team was the best of all time led by Michael Duggar. My golf team also pretty historic.

[Drew Franklin]

Sonny. College is a little more impressive, you know.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I don't remember. Your golf team was 26 and 2.

[Shannon]

26 and 2, that's pretty good.

[Matt Jones]

I didn't know that that was.

[Ryan Lemond]

I got one more. One of the rough fronts, Gary Gambles from here in an early. Gary Gamble getting a pop. How about that?

[Shannon]

Who are we missing currently on the team? Zach.

[Ryan Lemond]

Zach.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. It's a current Kentucky player.

[Shannon]

His sister could also hit a softball pretty far she went.

[Matt Jones]

She was at Alabama. Right. Okay. So anybody we're missing? Mike Phillips.

[Ryan Lemond]

How did you get Mike Phillips? Absolutely.

[Matt Jones]

Well, that's a lot of athletes from one area and we've always enjoyed our time here and it's great to be here today. 859-280-2287. Now, one of the things we're doing, Shannon, is at the end of the show, someone is going to shoot from right here for $10,000.

[Drew Franklin]

That's right.

[Matt Jones]

$10,000 for one half court shot. We will draw a name and they will be shooting. The only rule is no current high school or college players but a chance to win a massive prize. And earlier today you hit one of those.

[Drew Franklin]

I was going to tell you, I hate to give you the bad news, but the contest is already over because I already hit the half court shot.

[Ryan Lemond]

Nice.

[Drew Franklin]

So I was just warming up the rim, just proving that it was possible. It was like when Bob Barker that putt for his contestants and the hole in one golf game on the Price is Right. But somebody here is going to do it. I have confidence in them. Whoever, whoever shoots it, you're going to do it.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I'm looking Forward to it. $10,000 on the line towards the end of the show and it could be any of the people here. I hope everybody has has signed up. And I hear there's a big game tonight too. Who's playing here for the district title?

[Shannon]

It's a rivalry game. Madisonville versus Central. That was a big deal when I was in school. I assume it hasn't changed.

[Matt Jones]

And Maroons are going to be Central Hopkins County.

[Shannon]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

So it's Madison North.

[Shannon]

No storm tonight, only sunshine versus Central. Put that on a pole. That was terrible. But we are going to win.

[Matt Jones]

Did you say no storm?

[Shannon]

We're Going to gloss over that, but we're going to beat central.

[Matt Jones]

Let's make sure storm only sunshine.

[Shannon]

How about this cold, by the way? Let's talk about this. Okay, so there is straight from a Joe Craft. This fuels Kentucky basketball. Matt Touch. This cold. You talk about east having all the coal and they have a lot of coal. Well, let's put some respect on the west Coast.

[Matt Jones]

We got a lot of it. A lot of it's now out here. We used to have it in my end and now it's moved out here. So this is. This is literally. This is who paid. This is what paid for Malachi Moreno? Is that what you're telling me?

[Shannon]

Tyrone Stokes, right here. We need to see a few more Ziploc bags of this and we'll get them all right.

[Matt Jones]

There you go. So Shannon was about to take a bite of it.

[Drew Franklin]

I thought somebody brought us bon bons. I was excited for a minute.

[Matt Jones]

Well, this one of the changes in the state is a lot of the state's coal production has moved out this way from. From the eastern part. And it is fueled a boom out here. And that's right. A lot of it kind of can connect to Kentucky basketball.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's royalty then if that's Joe Craft. Cole, I'm going to put that in my mantelpiece when I get home.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, you definitely should. Now, Kentucky, one of the things about Madisonville, you guys are actually closer to Nashville than you are to Lexington. And on Saturday, Kentucky plays tomorrow, one of the biggest games of the season, in my view. If they win, I think it's very, very likely they get a buy in the SEC tournament and they'll end up getting. They'll probably play on Thursday. It also, I think would make them highly advanced in their seating. They're 3 and 7 in quad 1A games. But the good thing is they have three of those coming in the next few days. And if you're 5 and 8 or 6 and 7, looks a lot better tomorrow. Vanderbilt is a spread out yet.

[Shannon]

Ooh, probably isn't. I haven't seen it.

[Matt Jones]

I haven't seen it yet. I'm going to guess Vandy's probably three and a half point favorite. That's just gonna be my guess completely. But what do you think of the Cats chances? Got blown out by him just a few weeks ago in Nashville.

[Ryan Lemond]

That's where Pride's got to come into it. They got to look these cat teams look themselves in the mirror and realize they got embarrassed, they got punked down in Nashville and Vanderbilt just ran Them off the court, man, they're better than that. They're a better team than that. They're on their home court at Rupp Arena. You can't let that happen. You owe them one, man.

[Drew Franklin]

You got to be more physical. I mean that's what Vanderbilt did really well was just physical with Kentucky. And if you're Kentucky, you got. You got to match they out rebound at Kentucky as well. I mean that was something that was really surprising considering the Vandy really doesn't have that much height. Kentucky has that advantage.

[Matt Jones]

The thing that stuck out to me about that game in Nashville was completely out physical. Just. It was. It was really the first game we had seen where it felt like it wasn't just an effort thing, it was a strength, etc. Now they've been much better about that and I actually think that was. Kentucky has played pretty physical in a lot of games. They just didn't in that one. I'm kind of with Ryan. Ryan loves to say pride and I'm. I think that's. That's not always the answer in this game. I do think it is because you did get punk down there. That game in at Nashville was over from the beginning.

[Drew Franklin]

Like we were never in that down 20 at halftime.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we. I mean we're just never in it. We have to come out and play and get some pride back.

[Shannon]

Yeah. If these guys have any fight in them, that game adds some extra momentum to this. Vandy we all know is not 25 points better. Kentucky just had an awful game and Vanity took advantage of it and it just kept. Started spiraling, spiraling for uk And I know times have changed in the sec, but for me, at the end of the day, this is the Vanderbilt logo walking into Rupp Arena. Just get the job done. I mean you cannot lose this team. I know it's not the Vandy of old and they've got some scores, but this is Kentucky basketball hosting Vandy with March around the corner. Just win the game.

[Matt Jones]

You think about the Vandy. How many of you all, by the way, go to the road Vandy games regularly? This is the kind of place where people go, all right, were you who was at the game a couple weeks ago? Anybody?

[Ryan Lemond]

A couple people.

[Matt Jones]

A couple people. That was embarrassing, wasn't it? It was embarrassing to go down there. You had a lot of Kentucky fans there and you got absolutely embarrassed. There are three games left, right? Yep, we have. It is clear if you look at the numbers, we have like six guys that when you play Kentucky plays well and then we have three guys that they just don't. If I'm Mark Pope, Especially when you look at next week where you got to play Florida at A and M, this is the game to win. I'm going all out. I'm playing my guys 38 minutes. And I'm trying to steal this win tomorrow because this win tomorrow has a huge impact on March and your tournament seed.

[Ryan Lemond]

Is it a. What does it say about us when we're sitting here talking about not playing in on first game on Wednesday by beating Vanderbilt at home?

[Matt Jones]

Well, it says bad thing, but you know what? Who cares? You gotta win, right? Like, you can sit and I think there's two different conversations you gotta have about Kentucky basketball. One is the big picture. Who's gonna be on our roster next year? I think Mark Story at the Herald Leader wrote this morning, the next month, and I actually agree with this. He said the next month will determine whether or not Mark Pope is successful at Kentucky as a coach. His premise was what we do in the tournament this year and then what recruits we bring in off the portal. He's like, if Mark doesn't get this next month, right, he's not going to get it. But this is a huge part of that. Drew, winning this game, I think it will affect your seating in the NCAA by one or two lines, and it'll affect what happens in the SEC tournament.

[Shannon]

And it'll just keep the fan base and everything together a little bit longer and try to get some optimism, excitement going. I mean, I think we all admit if we lose to Vandy tomorrow and you're looking at going to A and M in Florida in the year, we're all not going to be feeling good. So for the confidence in the team and just the fan base having something to look forward to, just keep stacking wins and we'll see what happens when you get to the tournaments.

[Matt Jones]

Denzel Aberdeen has been great recently.

[Ryan Lemond]

He has.

[Matt Jones]

He was interviewed, I think, yesterday and basically said he feels like the team is right here from turning the corner. He was on a national championship team last year. I'm not saying that we're that, but do you think we could be right here from turning the corner? I know that sounds weird considering we lost three straight before the last game, but do you think so?

[Ryan Lemond]

It does seem weird to say that because we didn't even play well in our win against South Carolina, but he's the guy. I mean, he had a great game offensively, but he had zero turnovers in like 38 minutes. If they're going to make a run and be successful. I always have to have a big game but it may all depend on how Denzel Aberdeen plays the rest of the season.

[Drew Franklin]

Those two guys were your only offense in the first game against Vanderbilt. Nobody else I don't think even scored more than three points.

[Matt Jones]

Is that right?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah,

[Drew Franklin]

they were the only one. They were the only offense Kentucky had. Those two guys, they've got to have more than that tomorrow.

[Matt Jones]

Well, they won a game last on Tuesday where away didn't play well. Yeah, that really has not happened all year but they did it on Tuesday and now they need to get that tomorrow. We are here in Madisonville. Travis Ford. By the way, what's your favorite Travis Ford memory from uk?

[Ryan Lemond]

When he snuck in and shot the free throw at Vanderbilt when he wasn't supposed to got in trouble.

[Matt Jones]

Was that at Vandy or Tennessee? It was.

[Ryan Lemond]

It was. I think it was Vandy but it may have been Tennessee.

[Shannon]

I think he, it was Vandy and he got suspended for Tennessee.

[Matt Jones]

I think it was Tennessee and he got suspended for Vandy.

[Shannon]

Either way, smooth move.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. I'm not, I don't want to dispute you but I think it was 10 Madisonville. Was it Tennessee or Vandy? It's your home guy.

[Ryan Lemond]

Travis Ford also was SEC tournament MVP two years in a row. Back to back years.

[Shannon]

Only Kentucky player to do that.

[Matt Jones]

Look at that. All these facts here in in north Hopkins County. We're going to take a break. 859-280-2287. Listen to this group here in Madisonville. I hope it's coming through on the radio. How many people are here? We'll take a break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Madisonville. That is the theme for NBC basketball 859280, 2287. Some more folks from Hopkins County. Michael Eaves for that's on Sports Center.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yep.

[Matt Jones]

Is a Hopkins county person. Kentucky had a basketball player night. Harry Todd. He was the 1958 Kentucky Mr. Basketball was from Earlington. That's Hopkins County. Am I right about that?

[Ryan Lemond]

Yep. Oh, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And then, uh, uk, somebody wrote me from UK had a softball player, Mallory Payton, who was, uh, from here as well. So give. I'll give a shout out to all them.

[Shannon]

We had a great softball run not too long ago too.

[Matt Jones]

Yep. 859-280-2287. One person writes Matt, tell Ryan Coal is flammable. He should not keep it on his mantle. Maybe on my kitchen table that's still flammable.

[Ryan Lemond]

Maybe outside.

[Matt Jones]

There we go.

[Drew Franklin]

It's gonna put it.

[Matt Jones]

What do you think? Why did you think your kitchen table would be safer?

[Ryan Lemond]

Just got it. Such a beautiful piece of artwork there. I wanted to have everybody to enjoy it.

[Matt Jones]

All right, well, good conversation piece, right? Yeah, exactly right.

[Ryan Lemond]

What the heck is this?

[Matt Jones]

So we are here at the Kentucky Sports Factory. By the way, yesterday, where's Mario? He broke some scoop online. I don't think intentionally. Mario was weird. Shaden Sharp was listed in a post and Mario retweeted that while Shaden Sharp was at UK and not playing for the UK basketball team that he would play basketball in the rec center against students. And he goes, couldn't play for UK but could play against us. What's interesting is not just that Mario wrote it, but a couple of people that were on that team liked his tweet.

[Ryan Lemond]

Ty. Ty Washington.

[Matt Jones]

Washington and included a couple other people. So we've always wondered over the years, could Shane Sharp have played? Not only did Mario for the first time say that he was seeing Shade Sharp play, but players on that team, Shannon were saying the same.

[Drew Franklin]

Mario could tell you firsthand how good he was, but all we got was Shade and Sharp in the layup line.

[Matt Jones]

But I did think the players on the team liking the tweet Drew does suggest that maybe there was some. Hey, why is this guy not on the court?

[Shannon]

And let's not forget that backcourt was pretty banged up. It's not that, you know, they just wanted a better player with them. They needed bodies. So to hear he was at the rec center playing that, fans had known that at the time, that would not have gone over well.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think there was a espn.

[Shannon]

I can't remember the personality. They went to a practice and I guess Shaden was doing stuff and they were basically like, that guy's the best player. In the gym. Why are they not making him play or why is he not out there?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, well, that's. By the way, you were correct. It was against Vandy that they did the free throw and Tennessee was the game that they set out. I thought it was the other way around. So you were right, Ryan.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, I did sleep next to a Holiday Inn Express last night.

[Matt Jones]

You did?

[Shannon]

Oh, he was sitting on that one.

[Matt Jones]

We slept at the Hampton Inn, but

[Ryan Lemond]

it's next to the Holiday Inn Express.

[Matt Jones]

I understand, but that's.

[Drew Franklin]

You're getting the vibe from it.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, the brand new Fazoli.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, I gotta stop.

[Matt Jones]

Put a Fazoli here.

[Caller]

I love it.

[Matt Jones]

Brand new.

[Shannon]

But as others are closing, we are welcoming Fazolis into our community.

[Drew Franklin]

Move the Lexington Fazolis to here.

[Matt Jones]

Just move right here. I'm glad to hear it. All right, before we go, the phones. 859-280-2287. Mark Pope was asked again yesterday at his pre press conference about a gm. They asked him, what do you look for in a gm? And he said, I'm looking for someone who can get us all the players for $0. Which he was trying to make a joke. It got the same reaction it got right here, which was sort of awkward silence in the room. We found out yesterday, Drew and I were talking to a couple people. They have actually spoken, Ryan, to a couple of people about the job. Sources tell KSR none of them got the job. So now do you feel more confident that they will actually hire someone after

[Ryan Lemond]

hearing that for the first time? To answer your question, yes. That they're actively talk, like kind of interviewing people for.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know about act. We just know that there's a couple people that in the recent past they have spoken with.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, those couple people are better than zero people. So that's what I said. At least they're trying to maybe looking into doing and finding the right guy that might fit to what they want that GM person to do.

[Matt Jones]

When you. When you heard that, Drew, do you. Do you think it makes it more likely that they. They hire someone?

[Shannon]

I'm still pretty concerned. One, I feel like he'd be a little more urgent about it and would say because people have asked 30 times

[Matt Jones]

this season and he won't just say yes. Yeah, he won't just say yes. He'll always go, well, we're having conversations and we're doing this.

[Shannon]

Makes the joke he made yesterday, which the whole room was like, all right, anyway, so are you gonna do it or not? So I'm still worried, because I feel like he would have at least said, I'm actively searching or something. It seems like he's really fighting against it behind the scenes and wants to control it, which I think is a terrible idea.

[Matt Jones]

But we. We just have to do it because we have to have players next year. And my worry, Shannon, you know, like, Bill Self does not have a GM as far as I. As far as I can tell. But he also has multiple players committed. He's been getting great players. We don't have them. And in, you know, this season is going to end in three or four weeks, and then they will literally have one month to get a roster. So if you're going to do that, you would think you would want to have someone in play.

[Drew Franklin]

After hearing Pope talk about that yesterday, I'm actually less confident because I don't even think he's taking it seriously. I just don't think that he wants to give up that power to somebody else to go out and recruit these players. I think that he wants to have that control himself. I just don't see them giving it up.

[Shannon]

Well, someone wrote on the board this week that, you know, they claim they knew some stuff behind the scenes and said that Pope. And their argument would be that, like, most of the kids in this class went to their home state school, and you can go and look that up. And my counterpoint was, well, there are two in Kentucky and we're not getting them. So if they're truly saying that as like an excuse, then that's not a good excuse at all. That's actually the worst excuse.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. If that's their excuse that I haven't heard, that's a bad excuse, though. 859-280-2287. Who's up first? Liam.

[Drew Franklin]

John.

[Matt Jones]

John. Go ahead, John.

[Caller]

Hello, man.

[Matt Jones]

Jones.

[Caller]

Welcome to town, man.

[Matt Jones]

Nice to hear from you, John.

[Caller]

Starting to say you keeping Drew straight.

[Matt Jones]

We're doing what we can. Go ahead, John.

[Caller]

I'm just gonna ask you who comes out the winner tomorrow on the game?

[Matt Jones]

Well, I appreciate the call, John. I hope Kentucky does. Who feels confident we win? Let me ask the crowd. I'm predicting it.

[Shannon]

I wouldn't call it confident.

[Matt Jones]

If I put all of you all, not who you hope will win, but who you think will win. How many of you think we're winning tomorrow?

[Shannon]

There we go.

[Ryan Lemond]

Big majority.

[Shannon]

Let's just play the game here.

[Matt Jones]

How many of you think Vandy's winning tomorrow? See, now that actually, you can't start. Listen, young man, Mr. Gold Chain over there, you can't clap as you're registering the vote, but it was. It's about 90 10, I hope. That's probably wishful thinking. I think we. I genuinely think we can win. I think Vandy's good, but we can beat them.

[Drew Franklin]

Vandy has struggled on the road.

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Drew Franklin]

And I don't think you're gonna have another game like we just talked about earlier, where only two guys are your main offense. I think you're gonna get more contributions from guys off the bench and the other guys in the rotation.

[Shannon]

Tanner just had a game. He's called awful. But he had like four points last week. I mean, he's. He's been great all season.

[Matt Jones]

And he's base lost to Tennessee this week at home.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So what do you think?

[Ryan Lemond]

Last game out. You didn't play well. Last home game, he didn't play well. But you owe Vanderbilt, damn it.

[Matt Jones]

You owe them a win, damn it.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yes.

[Shannon]

There are children here.

[Matt Jones]

Look, you see these impressionable young.

[Ryan Lemond]

Well, they need to get fired up.

[Matt Jones]

Look at that man in that hat right there. Do not cuss in front of that man. We'll take a break and be right back. It's ksr. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney.

[Ryan Lemond]

Call tj.

[Drew Franklin]

He'll make him pay. Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. All right, now I have a challenge for the folks here in Madisonville. I got this text message. One person writes mad have been listed to you since the first day a couple weeks ago. You were in Radcliffe and I told you that that was the loudest crowd I'd ever heard. I see the videos and I see that there are more people in Madisonville. However, I don't think it was as loud as it was in Radcliffe. Can you tell the people in Madisonville to step up? All right, you guys probably have three times more people than were in Radcliffe, so I'm gonna give you a chance to show it right here. One, two, three. There we go. Yeah. Hold on.

[Shannon]

Hold on a second.

[Matt Jones]

That was all we needed. Now go ahead.

[Ryan Lemond]

O.

[Matt Jones]

There you go. That's all we needed. Now, no offense to our good friends in Radcliffe, but I think you all just took the CR crown right there. 859-280-2287. Couple of non Madisonville, Hopkins county things. First of all, Webster county is sitting right over here. Give a big shout out to our friends from Webster County. They do a broadcasting class and they brought their. Is that right? A class. Then they brought their class here To Hopkins County. Good to see you all. Secondly, I want to give a shout out in e town. I stopped last night to eat at this place called like the social food hall. And I just want every small town. Although people in e town got mad that I called e town a small town, I still think it's a small town or town should send a representative from their town to go look at this place. It was like, it was like a community food hall that had like six or seven different local restaurants that were in booths, communal seating. It had like bowling, video games, beer taps. I was there at like 5:30 and it was full of people. And I was just thinking, man, if you lived in a smaller place, this is such a cool thing for a town to have. So I just wanted to give it. I think other towns in Kentucky could follow that. I thought it was really neat.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah, I saw your picture last night. It does look really cool. Like communities like Madisonville, Hopkinsville, some of

[Matt Jones]

these towns like that. Yes, I thought, absolutely. Then if you've listened to this show a long time, you've heard me talk about Shannon. The Bath County Meat shower.

[Shannon]

Oh yeah, yeah, I remember.

[Matt Jones]

You remember the Bath County Meat Shower? One day in Bath county, like back in the 30s, all of a sudden meat just came pouring for the sky from the sky. And nobody knows. Still doesn't know why. They have different theories, like birds were vomiting them or whatever. But yeah, it has been. The Bath County Meat shower has been a mystery for a hundred years. Well, apparently, I guess it took place in 1926 because this is the hundredth anniversary of the Bath County Meat show. Oh, and tomorrow at 4 o' clock they are going to recreate it in Bath County.

[Ryan Lemond]

What? What? Oh, how they gonna do this?

[Matt Jones]

I do not know.

[Drew Franklin]

We put Ryan underneath of it.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know. But apparently tomorrow at 4 o', clock, meat is going to rain from the sky in Bath County. I don't know, but that's what. But they also don't know how it happened 100 years ago. So tomorrow at 4 o', clock, I mean, I'm. I'm not gonna be able to go because we have the postgame show for the game. But it is an interesting idea. Tomorrow if you're in Bath county, you're gonna look up and meet is going to be falling from the sky.

[Drew Franklin]

I hope they give people a warning first of all, and I would not want to be underneath of that. I mean, they're just going to drop it on people's houses.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know. I Don't know what's going to happen.

[Drew Franklin]

Somebody needs to be rolling with video. I need to see this.

[Matt Jones]

But I do like the idea of recreating the 100th anniversary of one of the more sort of infamous Kentucky events of all time.

[Shannon]

Kind of bonus during the game. I've known that story for a while. It's fascinating and I'd like to go be a part of the anniversary. I have this image of like there's up in a helicopter chucking like ground beef out and landing on everybody. I don't know what else you could possibly do.

[Drew Franklin]

Of all the things to recreate, that is one of the strangest ones I can think of.

[Matt Jones]

But when you tell me Bath county, that's what I think of. I always think of the meat shower. So why not embrace it? Also, they announced this morning on the pre show here In Madisonville, on July 3rd and 4th and 5th, you all are having the 4th annual Madisonville Fest and Praise in the Park. So that's fourth Fest.

[Shannon]

Fourth of July, Fourth Fest.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, Fourth Fest. That makes sense since it's on the fourth of July. But here's who's coming and playing here in Madisonville. I want you to listen to this lineup.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Let's start with the band Perry. Okay. They. My friend is in the band Perry. Jason Fitz. He also does sports, so he will be here. But listen to this group. Quad City DJs. Remember DJs? What was their song?

[Drew Franklin]

Come on and Ride.

[Matt Jones]

Wow.

[Shannon]

Nailed it.

[Matt Jones]

Sugar Hill Gang.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Billy can do that one.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. Yeah. Now these. I. I can't believe you are getting these groups all for one.

[Ryan Lemond]

Oh, big time. Get.

[Matt Jones]

I can't. I want you to know I do it all for love. You know that one?

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. Is that their biggest one they had?

[Shannon]

They did. I swear, too.

[Ryan Lemond]

Okay.

[Drew Franklin]

That's the one I was thinking of. Yes.

[Matt Jones]

And then Color me back.

[Drew Franklin]

Let's go.

[Matt Jones]

Who knew?

[Drew Franklin]

Dude. For Madison.

[Matt Jones]

Madisonville's gonna be sexing everybody up here on the 3rd of July.

[Shannon]

Y' all want to come back?

[Drew Franklin]

I think so.

[Matt Jones]

Who knew? Madisonville bringing Color Me Bad here.

[Shannon]

Listen, Ryan.

[Matt Jones]

That's a listen. That's a heck of a lineup. Those are like five groups that had big time.

[Ryan Lemond]

I just know when you said color me bad and sex me up a couple, grandma's in the front row got a little smile on her face right there. Look at them. They're still smiling.

[Matt Jones]

Don't call people grand.

[Drew Franklin]

You know, back in their day, did you ever think those bands that would play Madisonville.

[Shannon]

I mean, Michaels A few years ago.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

This is a while back, but Matt, your boy Tyler Childers played Madisonville. I mean he's still pretty new at the time. Not, not now. But they get a lot of good artists around here.

[Matt Jones]

Well, so that should be exciting. That's the July 3rd, 4th and 5th. 859-280-2287. Who's up next? Liam.

[Ryan Lemond]

Joey.

[Matt Jones]

Joey. Go ahead, Joey.

[Caller]

Matt, I'm very frustrated with Pope's press conferences. Man, everybody says he gets it, but we're a serious fan base and some of the things he says, like the GM joke, like if you want to be a comedian, go do stand up comedy. We want a straight answer. This is for real, you know, and as far as the Tyrone Stokes thing, I heard that he didn't even want to come to Kentucky now. So how do you feel about that?

[Matt Jones]

Well, I mean, we talked about that yesterday. First of all, in the jokes. I, you know, sometimes people are awkward when they make jokes and I think Pope was yesterday. But I don't read too much into that. He was just trying to be light hearted. The Tyron Stokes things. We talked about it yesterday. We are his second choice now. But if he wants to come here, I'm still going to take him. I mean, we, it is clear they screwed this class up. I don't think it's, there's any doubt, but if for some reason Kansas isn't able, able to put it over the top and the number one player in the country wants to come here, you take them. I mean, you don't, you don't sit there and say, I mean, you know, look, I'm sure there's somebody in here that's married to a woman that you were their second choice.

[Bowen Yang]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I'm not point, I'm not pointing any of you out.

[Shannon]

I'm not making eye contact.

[Matt Jones]

I'm not, I'm not pointing anybody out. But there's some women in here that are a lot more beautiful than the man they are with. And you were probably, oh, welcome to Western Kentucky.

[Shannon]

That's pretty cool.

[Matt Jones]

You were probably the second choice, but that's okay because you all still may be in love and have the best relationship in the world. So if Tyron Stokes wants to come here, if we were his second choice, Ryan, I am fine with that because we don't have any players committed right now.

[Ryan Lemond]

I don't care. Tyrone Stokes were his third choice, fourth choice or fifth choice. He's the number one player in America. If he decides to come to Kentucky, you welcome him with open arms.

[Drew Franklin]

I'm gonna tell you, though, if I'm somebody's second choice, I don't want to hear about it. I don't want to know. I'd rather not know. That was the second choice.

[Matt Jones]

Well, that's a good chance. You don't want him to say. Well, he did say. Well, no, he didn't say it. It was. Somebody around him gave an anonymous quote. Yeah, but. But I mean, originally he wanted to come here.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Then he flips to Kansas. Kansas didn't go. Oh, we're the second choice. Right. If you have confidence, take them. I mean, we've. We've lost teams. Like we lost to Kaden Lewis to his second choice. So I'm. I'm fine. You just need the players. How they got here is kind of irrelevant to me.

[Shannon]

Yeah. Apparently we were his first choice in October there for a while. Just didn't get it done. And I mean, think back. Like, Terrence Jones picked Washington.

[Matt Jones]

That's right.

[Shannon]

Then the next day picked us. We were cool with that.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. And he won a title here. Yeah. So we're cool. Who's up next? Kevin. Kevin. Go ahead, Kevin.

[Caller]

Yeah, I just wanted to make a quick comment about the GM situation. So I think if he. If Pope doesn't hire a GM by March 7, I don't think he's going to do it. So same kind of thing we were saying with quaintance. If he doesn't show up by. Or if he doesn't play by a certain date, he won't play. And I also think Pope is being. Being vague because he's not going to hire one. So that's all I got.

[Matt Jones]

Well, look, this is my PR advice I used to give. So when Mark Stoops was here, I would say, especially in the early days, he would. He would call me sometimes and talk about, look, I'm gonna have to. This is gonna happen. What do you think is the best way to put. To get this out? And I always would say, if it's bad news or it's news the fans aren't gonna like, just get it out and don't let it linger. And if it's good news, get it out. Because when it lingers, people assume bad news. Right. I would say if Mark Pope is not gonna hire a gm, you might as well say it now, because if you wait till after the season and then you say it, then we have all off season to talk about it. And so I just think they should. He should say, I'm going to hire one. I'm not gonna hire one, but just letting it. The worst thing you can do with bad news, Shannon, is drip, drip, drip. Pull the band aid off and just go. Because the dripping, it's like a band aid. You sit there and do it softly. It just hurts over and over and over. Just pull it.

[Drew Franklin]

And if you're silent, somebody's gonna fill that void for you.

[Matt Jones]

That's the other thing I've said.

[Drew Franklin]

We're gonna speculate. Fans are gonna speculate, have questions.

[Matt Jones]

Silence is always filled by the void. And the void is people who don't know what they're talking about like us. So Ryan, I would say you just,

[Ryan Lemond]

you just do it, you know? Then when he keeps saying stuff like we're discussing it or you know, the little things he says, that just makes it worse, man. I, I, he's this whole pr, this whole season that whatever happened at the Louisville game, like, and now this is kind of in the thing with Jaden Quaint. It's like it's been bad the whole year.

[Matt Jones]

Yes, it has. Don Franklin, if you need a vehicle, what are you gonna do?

[Ryan Lemond]

I'm gonna call you and you're gonna pick me up.

[Matt Jones]

That's right.

[Ryan Lemond]

I don't know.

[Drew Franklin]

Go to don franklin auto.com.

[Matt Jones]

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live in Hopkins County. Thank you to Toyota Madisonville that is here with us as well. And healthcare, education in the community, Baptist health Deaconess serves 11 counties and more than 275,000 people. Here in Madisonville, you also have a regional community college. Is this the community college that you failed a bunch?

[Shannon]

No, I didn't fail, Matt. I just, we have such great English 101 teachers. I wanted to have the experience with all of them, so I took a couple laps around the campus. Great place.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I mean, you, you have to be one of the most successful writers in history to fail English 101 multiple times.

[Shannon]

Yeah, I, I hate the word fail, but I guess technically I did fail it.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, you can hate it, but it's also objectively correct.

[Shannon]

Yeah. My mom actually ran into my English teacher several years later at Kroger here and he's like, what's Drew doing these days? And she said, he's a writer and she had to pick him up off the floor.

[Drew Franklin]

There's hope for everybody.

[Matt Jones]

That's right.

[Shannon]

I enjoyed my MCC day, MCC days, though.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I do, like, I do want to say this since we're in his hometown. So it was a little over 15 years ago that I met a, then, I think, senior in college on the six year plan, Drew Franklin.

[Shannon]

I think that was the seventh year,

[Matt Jones]

seventh year in college, Drew Franklin and brought him on board and he's been with us ever since and was without question the biggest factor to KSR taking a leap. So you all should be very proud of your hometown guy who he, you know, they say Pikeville to Paducah, but Drew Franklin through connected Middlesborough to Madisonville to help make Kentucky sports radio happen.

[Ryan Lemond]

You know, they had an evening with Drew Franklin here at the Sports Factory last night.

[Shannon]

Not to get emotional, but all these people here, I recognize, I think everyone, this knucklehead was in a lot of these people's homes. So happy to shine a good light on this community with our platform because this is a great place that I'm proud of.

[Matt Jones]

There you go. 859-280-2287. Also want to note one of your neighbor towns, probably one of your rivals, Hopkinsville tonight for the last time ever, Ryan. Yes, the last time it will ever happen. Hopkinsville is playing Christian county in basketball. A a rivalry that goes back I don't know how many years, but has produced and insane, insane amount of basketball talent. And if you throw in uha like a ridiculous amount of basketball talent over the years. The final ride tonight is Hopkinsville and Christian county play one more time before they merge for bragging rights for eternity. Ryan tonight, I guarantee you there won't

[Ryan Lemond]

be an empty inch of space in that gymnasium tonight. Everybody will go. I mean it's a big game anyway, but for this match, like you said, to be the last one, I would love to be there. There's no way we're able to get in. It's amazing. Those that communities, they're going to combine and join a new school next year.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, you may remember when Mike Krzyzewski retired at Duke. Do you remember the team that ended his career? Anybody?

[Shannon]

North Carolina.

[Matt Jones]

It was North Carolina in the final four and Duke was a huge favorite and North Carolina beat him and Krzyzewski went out on a loss to North Carolina. Shannon, I've always thought that had to be like the worst way for him to go out. That'll for one of these teams tonight with Hopkinsville and Christian County. Listen everybody clapping because Mike Shashefsky lost.

[Drew Franklin]

We have all the ways you could go out against your biggest rival. I mean that would be like, you know, Kentucky going out or one of the coaches of Kentucky losing a Louisville on the way out. So yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing who wins today.

[Matt Jones]

Last thing. So I don't know if you saw tomorrow for the Kentucky Tennessee game, they're having a blue and white out. So I don't. So if you are going to the game, you should look online. They've divided the arena in half. One side white, one side blue. And they're asking you to look and see where your ticket is and to wear white if you're on the one side and to wear blue if you're on the other side.

[Drew Franklin]

Not gonna work.

[Matt Jones]

Shane, why do you always say it's

[Drew Franklin]

always a hodgepodge of blue and white, which is what we have every game. I like that when Vanderbilt comes to town, it's now a T shirt game.

[Matt Jones]

But, but. All right. So I, I want to be positive. I'd like it to work. It'll kind of work.

[Drew Franklin]

It'll sort of work.

[Matt Jones]

It'll sort of work.

[Drew Franklin]

Some people won't even be aware that it's even going.

[Matt Jones]

That's the problem is a lot of people won't even know that it's happening. Which, which hurts it. I say. I don't understand, Ryan. Why don't they just give the T shirts away? I mean they, they still, they.

[Drew Franklin]

That's the easiest way to do it.

[Matt Jones]

The easiest way to do it is to give the T shirts away and then people will know to what that

[Ryan Lemond]

what to wear in the white section. Put the white T in the chair when they get There, the blue section. Put the blue shirts in the chair when they get there. Kentucky's tried this many times. It never seems to work.

[Drew Franklin]

And if you're looking at the diagram, you're gonna have white people, white shirts,

[Matt Jones]

white people, white, blue avatar. Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

You know what I'm trying to say? There's going to be flip flop, reverse. It's going to be chaos.

[Ryan Lemond]

Good luck.

[Shannon]

I want it to work.

[Matt Jones]

I want it to work. I think it can work. I think the doing the half and half makes it easier. When they try to do it like checkerboard, I think that's a lot harder.

[Shannon]

That's a lot.

[Matt Jones]

But when you do blue, it could work.

[Ryan Lemond]

And I say this.

[Shannon]

When they do a football, too, they wait too late to tell people, like, say this a week ago or a week, a half. A week and a half ago. Give a head up. Heads up. To let people, you know, don't have to plan too hard, have a blue or white shirt, but at least know what you need to be.

[Matt Jones]

All right, who's up next? Liam? Jared. Jared. Go ahead, Jared.

[Caller]

Hey, Jared. Sorry. Hey, Matt is Jared. I'm the principal at Webster County High School. I want to give a shout out to our student group that's there today. They're a bunch of great kids.

[Ryan Lemond]

They're.

[Matt Jones]

They're mortified right now. They. Look at them. Look how red they've turned. Because they're principal. I mean, literally, you just embarrassed your Jared. They're so mortified. But it is nice to have them here. But go ahead.

[Ryan Lemond]

Yeah.

[Caller]

Now, my son got sick yesterday, so I had to stay home. I planned on coming up there with him, but I just wanted to call and give him a shout out. They're a great group. They do a lot of good things for our school. And they're our staff that's with them with the school broadcast of the news and the athletic event stuff. So I appreciate you giving them a shout out and welcome there today.

[Matt Jones]

Glad to do it. Thank you very much, sir. Who's up next? Liam? Tony. Tony. Go ahead, Tony. Wait a minute. Hang on. Just say y' all are the. Bro, before you go. Tony. Y' all are the. You do a school broadcast? Who. Who's the anchor? Do we have an anchor? Okay. All right, well, we may see that maybe they might anchor the shot up here in a minute. All right, go ahead. Who's next?

[Caller]

Hey, man. Hope your dad's doing okay.

[Matt Jones]

First of all, thank you very much.

[Caller]

You're welcome. In one of the recent Coach Pope post game or interviews, he said something about Malachi having some issues. Do you know what's going on there? And why does he take him out so early in the game?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, let me ask Drew that question. I appreciate the call. He did insinuate Malachi was going through some sort of injury, but we didn't hear anything else about what is he talking about.

[Shannon]

I mean, he turned his ankle early in the Auburn game, but he came back. I don't know, maybe they got home and that swelled up a little bit, but that's the only thing I would know of.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, he's still playing, so the injury can't be that bad. But. But he did insinuate that he was going through some kind of injury. We're going to take a break, come back hour number two, talk more about the game and somebody's going to shoot for $10,000 here in Madisonville's KSR. 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 plans plus the

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