2026-07-24 - KSR - Hour 2

Summary

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Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) – Hour 2

Date: July 24, 2026
Location: John Clay Automotive, Nicholasville, KY
Hosts: Matt Jones, Drew, Shannon, Jeff Pecoro
Special Guest: Ty Bryant (UK Football player)

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Episode Overview

This energetic episode of Kentucky Sports Radio focuses on the latest developments in University of Kentucky (UK) football and basketball, SEC Media Days, player health updates, in-depth football roster breakdowns, and listener interaction. With Jeff Pecoro joining as a guest, the show delivers firsthand insights from recent SEC events, lively sports debate, and classic KSR banter – all broadcast live from a local automotive shop with giveaways and great local food.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. UK Basketball: Cam Williams Injury & Roster Watch

• [04:05] Jeff Pecoro reports from a recent Mark Pope press conference:
  • Cam Williams (UK basketball wing) had foot surgery due to lingering soreness; "expects to be back by October."
  • Depth at wing is a concern; coaches may look to add another player depending on possible legal decisions regarding eligibility for a “fifth year” of play.
  • Quote:
    “If that [fifth year provision] passes, then that's going to have a huge influx of these fifth year players...you might find a real gem.” – Jeff Pocoro [04:55]

2. SEC Football Media Days Takeaways

• [05:26]
  • Confidence is the running theme within the UK football team.
  • Retaining core players (e.g., Ty Bryant, Willie) despite other schools pursuing them is a testament to new coaching buy-in.
  • Major roster upgrades via transfer portal (Top 10 portal class and recruiting class).
  • Anticipation for the Game 2 matchup vs. Alabama—seen as a litmus test for the program.
  • Quote:
    “If they can play with [Alabama] or possibly win, you're looking at 'Wow'...he’s not shying away from anything and that's what you like as a player.” – Jeff Pocoro [06:38]

3. Alabama Game & SEC Football Analysis

• [06:53]–[07:41]
  • Alabama faces uncertainty at QB; their O-line has been overhauled.
  • UK’s strengths: Defensive and offensive lines, secondary, but linebacker depth is a question mark.
  • Spring practice observations: UK players are "bigger, stronger, faster"—not just coach speak this year.

4. SEC Media Days Extracurriculars

• [08:23]–[09:41]
  • Stories from Tampa (new Media Day host city), including lighter moments (e.g., Nick Roush getting "kicked off the pirate ship" by a mascot).
  • Compared with Nashville and other cities; mixed reviews regarding logistics and expenses.

5. Quarterback Analysis: Kenny Minchey

• [10:01]–[11:40]
  • Minchey (transfer from Notre Dame) praised for poise, pocket movement ("climbs the pocket" a la Peyton Manning), has a quick mental clock, can run if needed.
  • Tight ends group, esp. Willie Rodriguez, expected to be "really explosive."
  • UK’s tight ends can contribute as blockers and receivers, keeping the offense versatile.

6. Transfer Portal Impact & Offensive Depth

• [12:15]–[13:10]
  • Transfers include starting O-linemen from big programs (Tennessee, Ohio State, Baylor, Alabama).
  • Quote:
    “It's just amazing what he’s been able to do in one offseason…they’re going to surprise, because the guys have bought in.” – Jeff Pocoro [13:10]

7. Running Back Room & Offensive Talent

• [14:06]–[16:45]
  • Running back room is “by committee” due to injuries, but high-upside transfers (like CJ Baxter) could be game changers.
  • Cole Cubelic (SEC Network) called this “the most talented offense at Kentucky.”
  • Nick Anderson (WR from LSU/Oklahoma) described as a "prototypical SEC receiver."
  • Overall, UK has depth at offensive skill positions.

8. Mount Rushmore of Kentucky-Born UK Basketball Players

(Fun listener segment)

• [21:17]–[26:44]
  • Hosts debate their “Kentucky native” UK basketball Mount Rushmores.
    • Names discussed widely: Wawa Jones, Jack Givens (“Goose”), Rex Chapman, Cliff Hagan, Travis Ford, Richie Farmer, Darius Miller, and even support staff like Bill Kitely.
  • Numerous classic names from UK history make appearances, illustrating deep Kentucky college basketball tradition.
  • Memorable Quote:
    “It’s my Rushmore, I can put who I want on it!” – Host [26:51]

9. Live Interview: Ty Bryant (UK Football Safety)

• [27:33]–[34:40]
  • Ty Bryant shares about:
    • The honor of representing UK at SEC Media Days.
    • Impact of the new coaching staff ("a guy with confidence and fight—ten toes down behind him in this building").
    • Names to watch in the defense: BJorn Castille (transfer from Florida), Tyrey Nichols, Hassan Sykes (transfer, Western Carolina), and Cyrus Reyes.
    • New defensive approach under Will Stein and Jay Bateman: "much more aggressive", giving DBs more license to make plays.
    • The "young energy" of the staff—louder, more passionate, motivating.
  • Quote:
    “We want the corners...to be aggressive, and we’re going to make you guys right. If you mess up, we’re right there.” – Ty Bryant [33:10]
    • Jeff Pecoro calls Bryant and Castille “the best safety duo in the SEC, if not the country.” [32:33]

10. Basketball & Sports Notes

• [36:07]–[36:38]
  • Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame inducts Allen Feldhouse Sr, Allen Feldhouse Jr, Anthony Epps, Michaela Epps—a father-son and father-daughter class.
• [43:17]–[44:17]
  • Martin County’s Braxton Keighley (led state in scoring) commits to Pacific University over LSU and Indiana: “talk about a culture shock.”

11. SEC/Big Ten Debate & Trash Talk

• [45:00]–[46:29]
  • Lane Kiffin stirs debate, saying 9–3 in the SEC is like 11–1 elsewhere; Big Ten clapback.
  • Consensus among hosts: SEC and Big Ten are the nation’s undisputed top-two football leagues, but SEC has better “bottom teams.”
  • Coaches at media days generally showed more personality than in years past—a trend welcomed by the hosts.

12. Short Takes & Fun Moments

• Debates on who gets credit for a “caramel nut bar” recipe.
• Barry Manilow ticket giveaway requiring live singing on air (“I Write the Songs”).
• Ample promotion of John Clay Automotive and Black Barn Barbecue food.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments by Timestamp

• [04:05] Jeff Pecoro: “Cam Williams had surgery on his foot...he feels that he'll be ready come October. That’s the one position...that you really have to have that depth.”
• [05:40] Jeff Pocoro: “This team is confident. I think they’ve bought in to his system...they’ve kept core players...confidence permeates.”
• [06:58] Jeff Pocoro: “[UK’s] defensive line is a straight...the secondary is going to be awesome...the only spot we’re waiting to see is linebacker.”
• [10:22] Jeff Pecoro: “Minchey's really good in the pocket...knows how to just slide and move within the pocket.”
• [13:10] Jeff Pocoro: “It’s amazing what [the coach] has been able to do in one off-season. A top 10 portal class. I think they're going to surprise.”
• [15:40] Jeff Pocoro: “Nick Anderson...just looks like a Georgia receiver…Kentucky finally has one of those.”
• [21:17] Segment: Hosts build their “Mount Rushmore” of Kentucky-born UK basketball players, sparking nostalgic and lively debate.
• [28:27] Ty Bryant: “It just showed that the coaching staff and my peers respect me...and view me as a guy that can represent them.”
• [29:32] Ty Bryant: “That’s a guy [our coach] you want to get behind...we’re ten toes down behind him in this building.”
• [31:35] Ty Bryant: “[With new coaches] I like their style of defense…allows us just to get after the quarterback a little bit more.”
• [33:10] Ty Bryant: “We want the corners...to be aggressive...We’re gonna make you guys right. If you mess up, we’re right there.”
• [45:11] Jeff Pocoro: “I think there’s two conferences head and shoulders above everybody—SEC and Big Ten. But the bottom of the Big Ten is atrocious.”
• [47:26] Debate: Are UK fans more excited for football or basketball season? No consensus, speaks to current energy around both programs.

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Segment Timestamps for Quick Reference

• 03:12 - Show proper start/live location/promotion
• 04:05 - Cam Williams injury news/basketball depth
• 05:26 - SEC Media Days takeaways: confidence, roster upgrades
• 06:54 - Alabama game preview; lines, defense, depth
• 08:23 - Tampa vs. Nashville for Media Days, travel stories
• 10:01 - Kenny Minchey (QB) breakdown, tight ends outlook
• 12:15 - Portal additions/upgrades, O-line, depth
• 14:06 - Running back room, RB depth, offensive optimism
• 16:53 - Fun with recipes, local food
• 21:17 - “Kentucky Mount Rushmore” segment
• 27:33 - Ty Bryant live interview (UK football, culture, defense)
• 36:07 - Kentucky HS Basketball Hall of Fame, UK family legacies
• 43:17 - Martin County HS star commits to Pacific University
• 45:00 - SEC/Big Ten “which is better” debate
• 46:58 - Football vs. basketball season excitement
• 47:26 - Countdown to football season/opening game
• 48:06 - Closing remarks and shoutouts

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Tone & Style

• Conversational, lively, sometimes irreverent: The hosts’ camaraderie and back-and-forth (“It’s my Rushmore!”) showcase KSR’s signature blend of fandom and fun.
• Insider knowledge and access: Jeff Pecoro’s behind-the-scenes updates from practices and Media Days give it credibility and news value.
• Inclusive, invites listener participation: Call-ins, Mount Rushmore debates, and in-person giveaways create an atmosphere of community and accessible sports radio.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Show

This episode delivers critical UK football updates—especially on summer roster moves, optimism around new staff and star players, and the Cam Williams basketball news. It provides both big-picture SEC context and player-level insight directly from interviews and on-scene reporting. Plus, expect the trademark mix of nostalgia, food banter, and offbeat fun, whether you care about Barry Manilow or defensive coverage schemes.

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[Shannon]

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[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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[Shannon]

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[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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[Shannon]

That's right.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

All right. I think we emphasized it enough. All right. We're welcoming Jeff Pocoro here for the second hour for us. Hello, Jeff Pocoro, from now, you're not just WTV Q, WLAX UK Sports radio network. Add another hat to your display there. But you had a little breaking news for us this morning. You actually went to the Mark Pope news conference and heard him talk about Cam Williams. Yeah.

[Jeff Pocoro]

First off, I want to say it's great to have you back and I know everybody out here feels the same way.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Thank you.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Yeah, it was kind of surprised at to all of us in the media because we're not privy to go to practice and stuff. But Cam Williams had surgery on his, on his foot. So but he says he expects it to be back. He said he had some, some problems with it and some soreness. So they went ahead and got it whatever MRI or whatever. And they decided to do another surgery. But he feels that he'll be ready come October. So we hope because really that is the one position and in my opinion, that that wing that you really have to have that depth that he gives them, their guard, the shooter.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

You need that shooter out there. Yeah, no doubt about it.

[Drew]

He also mentioned maybe looking for another player. Should we be concerned about that a little bit? Well, July 24, well, I think the

[Jeff Pocoro]

biggest thing was this. Drew, he, and he kind of said this in passing, but I think they're waiting to see what happens with the five on five thing, the fifth year, because there's some lawsuits that some players and some attorneys have already got, you know, with the SEC or ncaa. And if that passes, then that's going to have a huge influx of these fifth year players that are just sitting out there going, oh, I'm for sale. You know, so I think that's what they're holding out on. And if that happens, you might find a real gem.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

You know, we wanted to bring you on because of obviously talk football, SEC football, media week was just this past week you were down there. What was your big takeaway other than, you know, the they're all because of me comment. Will Steinman, what was your takeaway? Talking to the guys and talking to him.

[Jeff Pocoro]

I think all four of them was. The thing that permeated through all of them was confidence. This team is confident. I think that they've bought in to his system. And you know, I was part of a change. We went from Coach Kersey to Coach Claiborne and it was a huge change. It was a just a total opposite in the personalities and their styles of play and everything. And it took a while for people to buy into that and a lot of guys left and we made some great players that, that, that left. But here he's been able to, to keep those core players, guys like Ty Bryant obviously and Willie that, you know, had a lot of people, other schools came after him, coming after him. But confidence, I mean, they are a confident bunch. And you look at what he's brought in, he had a top 10 portal class and the top 10 or top 20 recruiting class. And I just think that, I think they're going to surprise some people. I really think the Litman test obviously is going to be game two with, with Alabama and, and if they can play with them and just not get annihilated and if they could possibly win the game, then I think that you're looking at, wow, that you know, he's not shying away from anything and that's what you like. And as a player, you got to love your coach. You know, why are we going to it because of me?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Yeah, because of me.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Dang.

[Shannon]

You're going to jump on that bandwagon and go ahead and pick Kentucky to beat Alabama in week two?

[Jeff Pocoro]

You know, when I look at that Alabama team, there's still a toss up at quarterback. Who's going to be their quarterback? Their offensive line went over a big overhaul. Our defensive line is a straight. Both our lines is going to be a strength. I think you guys are. You can. You're not going to believe this. I. We saw it at spring practice, but the size of these guys up front is just amazing. And I know I say this every year, bigger, stronger, faster, but I mean, I couldn't even the managers could kick my butt. You know, I'm like, good play. I mean, it's. It's amazing the size of these guys and they've got depth and that's the biggest, especially on that defensive line. I think that's going to be a huge strength for them. The secondary is going to be awesome and the defensive front is going to be awesome. And there's some question marks at linebacker, and I think that's the only spot that we're waiting to see in fall practice. How that kind of shakes out.

[Drew]

Speaking of kicking butt, that wasn't your phone that went off when some raw

[Jeff Pocoro]

trying to throw a podium. Yeah, you got to love John too. I mean, that's just the way he coaches and the way he is. He meant it tongue in cheek. And I think that Coach Cream kind of took it a little too far. Oh, yeah. He didn't say the guy's name. I mean, he was just. It was funny to everyone that was there, but that you guys have been there before. That thing is, is it got a world of its own that the, you know, the media days, there was 60 or 70 stations, you know, for radio for people to stop at and talk to. Then you had the ESPN and everybody else in the world and TV there. It's just wild.

[Drew]

How was it being in Tampa for the first time? I went in Nashville. Didn't get a lot of sleep when it was in Nashville. Heard some fun stories. Nick Roush apparently got on the pirate ship at the Buck Stadium and the mascot kicked him off because you weren't supposed to be up there. I don't know if the mascot just lives up there defending its ship, but where the was the extracurricular stuff fun?

[Jeff Pocoro]

They have any events the mascot is a pirate.

[Drew]

It is, I guess, but I don't think Roush expected to be kicked out by the actual mascot.

[Jeff Pocoro]

It was Actually kind of cool. They had stuff every night for. For us, you know, meeting the media people. And it was. That was all free and stuff. So that. That's. If you're in the media, you'll find out if it's free like over there. It's. For me, everybody shows up in the media. It's like, yeah, where's the free stuff at? But yeah, they had all that. I. I thought. I thought it was good and bad. The good part is huge place, enormous hotels and stuff like that. But getting there is kind of a house, you know, you gotta. Gotta fly. Or if you're driving, it's a. It's a haul down the Tampa. You know, I kind of liked it centrally and either Birmingham's easy to get to and Atlanta and. And obviously Nashville. I'm just not a huge fan of Nashville.

[Drew]

Oh, come on.

[Jeff Pocoro]

I mean, I can.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

What is wrong with that?

[Jeff Pocoro]

Listen to his band for like an hour. I know you're talking four hours.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Jeff Pocoro]

What is wrong.

[Shannon]

I was tired of hearing this after four hours. Nashville has become like Vegas.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Just so expensive.

[Jeff Pocoro]

The price is.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Jeff Pocoro]

When you go and get a beer and it's 18 for one beer and

[Shannon]

you're like, you know, how much to park my car? What's 80 to park my car? It's crazy.

[Drew]

I booked my SEC tournament hotel just this week because, you know, it's cheaper now instead of waiting for the last.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Oh, yeah, I'm already in there. Smart.

[Drew]

Wednesday to Saturday.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Smart.

[Drew]

Hopefully we're.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Hopefully we're there Saturday.

[Drew]

I didn't commit all the way to Sunday yet.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Now, Kenny Minchi, our quarterback, we don't really know a whole lot about him other than he transferred from Notre Dame, had to Florida with Nebraska. You were down there. You got to talk to him. Kind of give us a little inside knowledge inside baseball. And Kenny Minchi, our quarterback, well, the other thing.

[Jeff Pocoro]

I probably went to 12 practices in spring, too, so Tom and I are able to go to practice and. And watch and stuff.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Humble brag.

[Drew]

Lucky.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Humble brag.

[Jeff Pocoro]

But the thing that I liked about him is he's. He's really good in the pocket. When you're a quarterback, you have a flight or fear thing in you. And you. You count in your head, 1, 2, 3, and at 3, you're like, I got to get the hell out of here. I'm not going to get killed. And like, for instance, Will Levis, who was very successful. His was to take off and try to get to the outside. Peyton Manning can't do that. So what's Peyton do. Peyton does what we call climbing the pocket. So when they are coming at you, they're usually coming like this, you know, and, and the blockers are trying to block them to the outset anyway. So climbing the pocket means just stepping up and then the, the defenders kind of go by you. So you, you're buying yourself some time and you're buying the receivers time by, by moving around in the pocket. Peyton does that so well. Minchi is really good at that. Now he can run. He says. Now I'm not going to be will and try to lower my shoulder, run people over, but I, I can get out of there too.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Had a touchdown in the spring game.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Yeah, I just like this confidence in the pocket. He trusts the guys in front of him. He knows how to just slide and move it within the pocket. And look, I know every year we talk about the tight ends and oh, this is going to be the year for the tight ends. But this group of tight ends and Skinner is, I mean Willie Rodriguez is, is, I mean he's Michael Mayer who played it for him.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Yeah.

[Jeff Pocoro]

And is now with the Raiders. He's that and more. He's, he's such a tough kid and, and got great hands. It can run for a 255, 260 pound guy. He can, he can really run. But I think the tight ends are going to be really explosive on this team this year. They've got a whole group of them. And the thing that I like about Willie and Mikel is they're three down players, meaning they can get open. They're going to be a load for linebackers, but then they're also big and strong enough that they can block defensive end and tackles and not have to be taken out and stuff.

[Shannon]

So going back to Willstown at SEC media day, we've already covered the because of me answer, but was there anything else that he said that kind of stood out to you at FCC media?

[Jeff Pocoro]

Yeah, I think the biggest thing was he said I, you know, I didn't take this job for three or five years down the road.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Jeff Pocoro]

I'm here to win now. And, and it's, it's. And I know that's what we all want to hear. It's not a. We're, we need to build a program because it's so much different now. And I hate always using Indiana as the example, but you look at Indiana, they were doormat in the Big Ten for the last 10 years and then three years ago, 50 years. Yeah. Signetti gets there and because of the Portal. And because of what you can do with that, you can change the whole, you know, the whole team. The complexion of a team in one class. And I think that's what Will has done. You brought in Tennessee starting left tackle for the last two years.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Yeah.

[Jeff Pocoro]

You pulled him away from Tennessee. The guy was there. He's a, he's an NFL guy. Hurts gonna play 6 foot 8 and 335 pounds. And you go to the right guard. Tekla was Ohio State starting center for two years, won a national championship and yet you were able to pull him away. Then your center is the first team all Big 12 center from Baylor that you're able to steal away. And then you got Olaf from Alabama. So they've added some real quality depth. They had two guys from Tennessee, a guy from Alabama, so they're coming from big programs so this isn't going to be too big for them when they step on this stage. I just, to me it's just amazing what he's been able to do in one off season. A top 20 recruiting class, a top 10 portal class. And I just, I think they're going to surprise me because the guys have bought into what he's selling.

[Drew]

Offensively they seem pretty set except maybe a running back where you have a couple of guys coming off injury even though they're big names. They just very recently, even this week had to go to JUCO to add some depth. How do we think the running back room will shake out? Because if there's any concerns it seems to be at that position.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Yeah. And because they'd like to run. I know everybody sees them. You know his team score 40 plus points a game for the last five years, three at Oregon and UTSA as well. And so you think you're throwing the ball all over the place like mummy did. But he's always had a thousand yard rusher and in the sec you've got to run the football. I don't care, you know, how good your defense is. I don't care how good your wide receivers are. Quarterback, if you can't run, you're not going to win. Period. End of story. You look at the base best teams Kentucky had, even when, when Couch and Lorenzo, they had great running backs. I think it's a running back by committee right now because we just don't know the two guys from Oklahoma and Texas. I mean C.J. baxter was the number one recruit in the nation, man.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

He can get back to that level.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Even 85% of that true is as, is as good as anything you've had probably since Sonny Collins, you know, I mean, so, I mean I, I'm happy with it. I. Patterson made huge steps last year, so he's kind of the fail safe. He's probably their number three guy going in. But I think the packages, the great thing with his running back room is the packages don't have to change with the different players. They're going to run the same offense with each of those, at least the top three guys.

[Shannon]

Was it Cole Cubic who saying that this team is the most talented offense that he's seen at Kentucky? I think I saw that quote somewhere. Would you, would you agree with that from what you've seen?

[Jeff Pocoro]

I would agree across the board because this Nick, you're going to like this Nick Anderson, the wide receiver. He's about 64 and about 200 and probably 20 pounds. He just looks like a Georgia receiver, you know, like the Fred Barnes of the past or Florida receiver. The big tall guys that can get downfield and be physical. Kentucky finally has one of those in him and so I just, I think he's going to be that deep threat. They've. They've got what, 12 receivers. I think that they've got now. So the, they've got depth there and that, that to me was always the biggest concern with Mark was what happens if somebody gets hurt, you know, when I play. If Joker got hurt, I'm in. That's a big drop.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Don't slam yourself like that.

[Jeff Pocoro]

It's not that way anymore, you know, now it's. The backups are pretty darn good.

[Drew]

Anderson's like Baxter. He was a high recruit. Injuries slowed him down a little bit. If you can get him back close to form.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Yeah, and he played it too. Big score schools at LSU, in Oklahoma, so.

[Drew]

And then D.J. miller, who's been on the team, I don't feel like we used him enough last year. He turned it on, hit another gear towards the end of the season. But I think that's another name that'll really shine in there too.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

He is Jeff Pocoro. We're going to take your call. If you have a football question for us, give us a call. 859-280-2287. We'll take your phone calls on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone number.

[Shannon]

Are we going to try your nut bars next?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Right now.

[Shannon]

Right now. Or are we going to wait?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

We're going to do in the commercial break, straight from the Rick Patino Cookbook and straight from my kitchen, we'll give their response. We come back here On Kentucky Sports Radio.

[Jeff Pocoro]

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[Shannon]

Well, they do everything. Tires, oil changes, brakes, transmission, suspension. Do you do you need, like, some suspension on your. Your car?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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[Shannon]

Okay.

[Jeff Pocoro]

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[Shannon]

Engine repair, engine replacement, everything A to Z, it's all here for you at

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

the John Clay Automotive. All right. Earlier this week, I think Drew brought up the Rick Pitino cookbook.

[Drew]

I did.

[Ty Bryant]

Yeah.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Like from 1997. It was after the year they won the national championship where they asked all members of the media to donate a recipe. Well, Jeff, they chastised me for my caramel nut bar recipe. Didn't think it was maybe very good. Didn't think maybe it was worth it. You guys just tried it during the commercial break. What's the verdict?

[Shannon]

I think it's great. I think yoga girl did a great job on your non recipe, but you had nothing to do with this. So you're not going to get to take credit for this. I told you, you don't get to take credit.

[Drew]

It's that you've never made it.

[Shannon]

You did nothing. Except for bring it here like you did.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

I unwrapped the caramels.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

I melted the caramels. I put it in the oven. I took it out of the oven that's making it.

[Shannon]

So what do you guys think?

[Drew]

Well, I mean, he's already admitted it wasn't his recipe in 97, but. So the ex wife's mom, that should have what the title should have been on the book. Ryan Lemons.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Mom's my ex mother in law.

[Drew]

Her recipe, as good as it is, I don't think you can take credit for it.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

What's the verdict on the crowd? You guys like it?

[Shannon]

What did they get to try? Try?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Oh, yeah. I brought the whole pan of them over there.

[Shannon]

They already had it before us.

[Drew]

We have all this black bar and barbecue, which is delicious, but I can't just go over there and say I made it because I lifted the pan in the air. You know, whoever created the recipe and made the meal, I think gets the credit.

[Shannon]

I do have one question.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Yes.

[Ty Bryant]

All right.

[Shannon]

I know we're all friends here, but I took a bite of one and then set it down right there. And I looked over and now it's gone.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

So which one you ate?

[Shannon]

The one that I was eating on.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

I thought that was my part.

[Shannon]

No, that was the one that I had my hands in and was like bit off of and set it right there. Look at that. You ate it.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Care.

[Shannon]

No, I. I mean, if I was going to guess which one of you three, I was going to say Ryan is the heavy favorite.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

My draft king does not bother me. You could stick it in your mouth.

[Shannon]

He doesn't even care. This type of guy who eats something off a floor.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

859-280-2287. I gave you guys a little homework last night. Jeff, we're going to ask you also. This was on the a vision glass text machine. A great question. You want your Mount UK basketball, Mount Rushmore of players from Kentucky. So your four top players from Kentucky that played at uk.

[Jeff Pocoro]

See, now that's really hard because when you go back to the 40s and 50s, almost all of those guys work. You know, the Cotton Ashes and Wawa Jones and all of them were all Kentucky. How do you leave them off? I mean, Frank Ramsey, some of those guys won three national champions because the freshman couldn't play back then. So I mean that's, that's pretty strong.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

You may want to go first.

[Jeff Pocoro]

I don't think Hagan was from here, was he?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

Now when you say from Kentucky, they had to also play at Kentucky.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Yes.

[Shannon]

So they couldn't like you couldn't say Allen Houston.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Correct. Okay, correct. I'll go from Kentucky. Played at uk.

[Shannon]

Not surprisingly. I didn't really do my homework. I forgot about it. Well, here you guys, you guys, you

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

go last, then I'll steal yours. Go ahead, Drew.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Drew]

Jack Givens, easy pick.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Yeah.

[Drew]

Put him on my Mount Rushmore. Also with Cliff hate. Well, I'm going Cliff Hagen next from Owensboro. Also from Owensboro, Rex. So I got Goose Rex, Cliff Hagen. And this one's not top four, but I'm putting them in because my Mount Rushmore. I'm going to Madisonville, Kentucky. Getting little Travis Ford, two time SEC tournament mvp. He's a top five in free throw percentage, three point percentage. Had a great few years here even though he started at another school. So I'm sneaking Travis Ford in as much.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Goose Rex. Cliff Hagen. Travis Ford.

[Drew]

Yes.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

That's a good one. All right, Jeff.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Well, I, I think that in any sport at UK you have to have Wawa Jones. I mean he was, some people say he was the Red Grange of the University of Kentucky. I mean he had like, what do you have, 16 or 18 varsity letters here? He had a Olympic gold medal. I mean he. Three national championship. So I think Wawa Jones has to be on there. Then of course, Cliff, I don't think I, I'm not sure about Frank Ramsey. Was.

[Drew]

Frank is your Madison, Kentucky.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Good Lord.

[Drew]

It was down to him or Travis.

[Jeff Pocoro]

It's going to be a big mountain because we're gonna have to have more than four. Frank was an unbelievable Player here. Odie was an unbelievable. Yeah. Adrian Smith, Vern Hatton, Rex. Vern Hatton was awesome player here. I, I, I don't know how do you pick four of those? And I haven't even said Jack Givens, James Lee. James Lee who? They played against each other. Brian Station, Henry, Melvin. Melvin Turpin.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

At Brian, Dirk, Minnafield, Shepherd.

[Jeff Pocoro]

If you wanted to keep it recently, that's true. Although, you know, one year he didn't really, he didn't win anything here.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

So who's your four?

[Jeff Pocoro]

Gosh. I think Wawa Jones. You got to go with Cliff Hagen.

[Drew]

There's one that's probably listing right now. We haven't said Richie Farmer. Exactly.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Again, they win the championship. Yeah, Richie probably is on that, you know, but he's got his thing in there. Know, I think you got to have Givens and. Wow. Who's the fourth? I don't want, you know, you've already said who. Okay, let me ask you guys this. Who is a better player at UK and what they accomplish, Dirk or Rex?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Oh, wow, that's tough. That's tough.

[Shannon]

Ryan's the. Yeah, you're the one who needs to answer that.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Well, I'll, I'll answer it when I say my Mount Rushmore.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Okay. What do you think, Mr. Well, you got to your basketball.

[Drew]

I mean, you could also. I, I'd go Rex in that. Head to head. I mean, Darius Miller has a ring on his finger.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Anthony Epps.

[Drew]

Anthony Epps. It's a long list. This could be our top.

[Jeff Pocoro]

I'll say Rex is my fourth.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

So you go with Wawa Jones, Cliff Hagen, Rex and Jack. All right.

[Shannon]

I like Rex and Goose. I think for me those two got to be on there. You know, I like Darius Miller. I mean he was a big part of that championship team. I'm going to put him on there. No, no, no. I got to put Richie on there.

[Drew]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

And then you know what? I'll take Darius off. I'm putting Richie on just because I like Richie and it's my Mount Rushmore. I can do what I want, right? That's right. And then what about Rage on Rondo?

[Drew]

True.

[Shannon]

Putting Rondo on there.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

So you got Rondo, Richie, Goose, Goose and Rex.

[Shannon]

Yes.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Mine's very similar to what you guys say. I think you have to have Wawa Jones. You mentioned Wawa. He played basketball, football, baseball, played in the NBA, played in the NFL. The dude all American in every sport. He, he is one. He may be the single greatest athlete ever to play at Kentucky's Wawa Jones. I think you got to have Goose. I agree with Goose. You got to have him on there. You know, Lexington Bryant Station won a title in 78, just a casual 41 points. I think there's been two rock stars since I've been covering Kentucky and I mean rock stars John Wall and Rex Chapman. Rex was a rock star. So I. I think I got to put Rex on there. So we already know those three, but my fourth one, I'm not even going to put a player. Bill Kitely.

[Drew]

You changed the rules on us, Bill.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Kylie's from Kentucky, the goal post. I almost thought about K. Wood, but I think I'm going to put Bill Kitely on there instead of K. Wood.

[Shannon]

You said players.

[Drew]

Well, in that case, I'm going Toby Hall.

[Shannon]

Yeah, you literally said players. What did. Hey, like ever put a jersey on?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

It's my route. I can put who I want to know.

[Shannon]

They're smoking cigarette rats under the table, calling the games.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

We'll take our break and come back. If you got a phone call for Jeff Picor. We're going to talk more football. Ty Bryant supposed to call in hopefully during a break. We'll talk to talk to him as well. So 859-280-2287. We are live at John Clay Automotive in Nicholasville between Lexington, Nicholasville. Come out and see us. We're right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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[Shannon]

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[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

All right, welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio live from John Clay Automotive here in Nicholasville. Is that Jacob Hyde? What's Jacob Hyde doing there? My goodness, he looks like he'd still play.

[Drew]

Well,

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

suit him up. Joined on the line now by a current UK football player, Ty Bryant, everybody. Give it up for Ty Bryant.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Coming.

[Ty Bryant]

Thank you for having me.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Oh, dude. We're coming back for another season. You know, the pride of Frederick Douglass High School. It's a long way from the Parks and Rec league. I used to watch you play back in the day, but I know you got to be excited to come back for one more year and the new regime, new coaches and everything going for Kentucky this season.

[Ty Bryant]

I am, I am. I mean, like you said, it was a new staff, but obviously we're ready to go. I believe in these guys and they believe in me.

[Drew]

Ty, everybody's talking about how you're a leader of this team and that included going down to Tampa for SEC media days. What does that mean to represent the program being one of three guys that get to go down there and be on the big stage and speak on behalf of your teammates and the coaching staff.

[Ty Bryant]

It was amazing. It just showed that the coaching staff and the people, my peers respect me and just view me as a guy that can go down there and represent them. Well, not only them, but my family and also bbn.

[Drew]

Did I see they had. Was that your real Douglas jersey and helmet there too? That looked like a nice twist they had wait for you.

[Ty Bryant]

No, I wish it was real. I wish I got to take it home. I could have put it, you know, somewhere at my parents house and, you know, held on to it forever. But now it was like, it was like a little graphic that they had not even just like something on a projector, but it was, it was amazing. It was really cool just to see that. And I was shocked when I walk into the room and I've seen that got me.

[Drew]

I fell for it. I thought it was real.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Hey, Ty, Jeff Pocoro here down in Tampa. You know, we got to talk a little bit, but they asked me about what was the one thing about you guys that I took away. And I said it was the confidence that you guys had in yourselves and in the coach. And you know, obviously everybody's brought up this, you know, we're going to win because of me thing, but I got to believe as a player you got to love your coach coming out and making statements like that, don't you?

[Ty Bryant]

Absolutely. Someone after he made the comment, a reporter asked me about it and I had no idea that he had made that comment. But I mean that's, that's a guy that you want to get behind, a guy with confidence and a guy with fight. Like, you know, he really means what he says and I mean we're ten toes down behind him in this building. So, you know, I love the fact that he made the comment but you know, we just got to week after

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

week, you know, Kentucky has become kind of like defensive back. You, a lot of guys play there and end up in the NFL. Who are the guys this year we expect going to hear besides yourself back in the backfield?

[Ty Bryant]

I think in the back end you're going to hear obviously not a familiar name here, but he has made his name known around the country. Bjorn Castell, he's a guy that can go. He's a great addition coming over from Florida. Obviously we played him all three of my years being in college, but I mean he's a guy who, he's a dog. He can Absolutely.

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[Ty Bryant]

Another guy in the back end that we're going to hear a lot about is Tyrey Nichols. That's a guy who has stepped it up tremendously as a leader and as a player this year, and I can't wait to see what he does. Another dude we're going to hear a lot about is Hassan Sykes. He a guy that he can. He transferred over from. Was it Western Carolina? A smaller school, but I mean, he's been working his butt off since he got here. He has lots of. He feels like he has a lot to prove. He has a chip on his shoulder and he goes to work every single day. Another guy we're also probably going to hear about is Cyrus. Cyrus Reyes. He's in the safety room with me, but I mean, that's a guy who. He puts it all out on the field every single time he steps onto the field. And he's going to be a great addition for us when it comes to defense and special teams. And he can make a big impact

[Drew]

for us your first years here. Defense likes to keep everything in front of them. Played that bend, don't break. But Will Stein and Jay Bateman say they want to be a lot more aggressive defensively. I know they've been very quiet of what that looks like so far. Not sure your cards, but do you feel like there's been a big style change in how you all play?

[Ty Bryant]

Definitely. Like you mentioned before, it is a different style of what I have been playing in the past three years. But I mean, I like their style of defense. I. It allows us just to get after the quarterback a little bit more and get stickier in the back end more as well.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

You know, the defense is something that doesn't get a lot of attention during the offseason. Everybody kind of focus on the offense and the new quarterback. You guys see these guys every day. What kind of offense can we expect from the team this year?

[Ty Bryant]

Coach Stein and Coach Sloan, they're both masterminds of what they do. So they dial up a lot of good stuff and it makes. It makes defense stay on their toes because you never know what look you're going to get. And if you get a certain look, they might go into another look like in the blink of an eye. So, I mean, an explosive offense, no matter if that's through the air or on the ground and. Yeah, I mean, we just. I feel like we got two of the best guys in the business, honestly.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Ty, I made this comment and I'll stand by it. I said that the. I believe that Kentucky is the best safety duo in the entire sec, if not the country. You and Castile have played, I think 90 some odd starts already in SEC play. He's coming over from Florida, a very aggressive defense. And I don't think people realize when you've got two safeties who really know what they're doing back there, you can take chances in front of you guys knowing that you're behind them. Correct?

[Ty Bryant]

Say it again. I apologize.

[Jeff Pocoro]

I said I think that you. They'll be able to take chances in front of you because you and Castile are so good behind them.

[Ty Bryant]

Oh, yeah. Yes, sir. Most definitely. I mean, that's been a big emphasis, is like, we want the corners and everybody who's playing like in a man assignment to just be aggressive. And I mean, we're going to make you guys right. If you mess up, we're going to be right there, get the ball to the ground, and we're going to live to see another. Another down. So, yeah, that's been a big emphasis. It's just, you know, play aggressive, take your risk. If you feel like you can go make a play, go make that play. And if not, then we're going to be right there behind you to get the guy down or to make the play as well.

[Drew]

A lot of the talk since the new coaching staff has gotten here is how the energy is a little different in the building. They're a little younger, might be a little more louder. Do you feel that throughout the meeting rooms and everywhere in the building each day as these guys coming in with a new passion and fire as first time head coach and a new staff?

[Ty Bryant]

Yeah, I feel that he's a assistant receiver coach, but, man, he be. He be chirping at us DBs, man, but like, I think that's what you need. Just the passion and the energy that they bring every single day. It just makes you love doing what you do and like, you just want to continue just to get better and elevate each and every single day. Because if you mess up, it's going to be highlighted. If you do something good, it's going to be highlighted. So, I mean, just in the meeting room we have my position coach is coach Cy. And yeah, he also does bring like that, like that passion and that young energy into the meeting room. So, yeah, definitely. I definitely understand where people are coming from when they say that these guys have that young energy in the building.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Well, Ty, we appreciate it. Give a big round of applause for Ty Bryant.

[Drew]

Before you go, Ty, can we get two claps in a Ric Flair.

[Ty Bryant]

That's fine.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

There we go, Ty. Brian. Good luck to you, Ty. Appreciate you, brother. Thanks for joining us. The leader in the face of the defense. Superstar in the making.

[Jeff Pocoro]

If I could just add one thing to what he was saying, and I know it was breaking up a little bit here, but they're going to be able to play man underneath. And it's usually we call it like cover seven where you have five guys underneath and then you've got the two safety. So if you make it, if somebody makes a mistake or a guy gets away, they're so good, those two guys behind him, that they'll be able to cover for them. And so that's why they can be so much more aggressive on the defense, because they've got those guys that have close to 100 starts playing behind them.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

During that interview, there was some breaking news. Liam, do you have the breaking news button again? Shannon's got some breaking news. Yep.

[Shannon]

Coming from ESPN. LeBron James is signing with the Philadelphia 76ers. A two year deal, $8 million with a player option. Him and Maxi going to Philly.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Everybody said was Cleveland or Miami. Cleveland or Miami 76ers.

[Drew]

So this is the conspiracy theorist in my head. You know they leaked the YouTube thing.

[Shannon]

Yep.

[Drew]

And they're leaking the bakery. Are they messing with these poly market odds and getting bets? I think there's some, there's some funny business going on here because Philly was barely mentioned where a lot of these rumors have come out. This happened with Giannis a little bit too.

[Shannon]

Yeah, yeah. I think there's definitely something to that.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Well, speaking of basketball, I got one note I want to throw in for before we run out of time. The Kentucky High School Basketball hall of Fame announced their latest induction class. Alan Feldhouse Senior, Allen Feldhouse Jr, Anthony Epps and Michaela Epps. So we got a father son and a father daughter in the class this year. Jeff, I think that's pretty cool.

[Jeff Pocoro]

I think that's awesome. I mean that and you look at what they've been able to do since, you know, since I got out of high school and continued on. That's. That's really cool. Yeah, that's neat.

[Drew]

Kudos to making a decision to time it that way where they can have

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

a father son and a father daughter.

[Jeff Pocoro]

I thought they were. I thought he was going to say me. He was going in. Ryan.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

I was an Indiana basketball legend.

[Drew]

We saw that picture.

[Jeff Pocoro]

But yeah, you've done so much for high school basketball, especially when you used to do the sweet 16.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

That's right.

[Drew]

And you already take credit for food you didn't cook. Why don't you just take credit for basketball careers too?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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[Drew]

I didn't want to gloss over it, though. You tweeted that photo of a young Ron Limited point guard and look good too, didn't you?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Getting ready to put the move on that dude.

[Drew]

Yeah, it looked like a young Steve Alfred.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

I remember that game. That was my senior year in the sectional, which you guys call the district tournament in Kentucky. Sectional. I had eight points. And on that picture, I definitely blew past him and throw the throw up and layup.

[Drew]

I believe it. You were locked in.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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[Jeff Pocoro]

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[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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[Jeff Pocoro]

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[Drew]

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[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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[Drew]

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[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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[Drew]

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[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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[Jeff Pocoro]

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[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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[Drew]

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[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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[Jeff Pocoro]

Hey, everybody.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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[Drew]

That was so much of that.

[Shannon]

Yeah, that was so good. All of us just tore into it.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

I think Drew and I ate all the fried baloney.

[Jeff Pocoro]

All the baloney. There was none left.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

It's really good.

[Drew]

That's why I had about six poppers. A taco.

[Shannon]

Yeah. Wings. Yeah, they got it all over here.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

So, Shannon, tell us who this segment

[Shannon]

sponsored by DraftKings Sportsbook promo code KSR. If you're new to DraftKings, spend 5 to get 150 in bonus bets. We can pick a game. I don't really have any odds for La Familia versus Bayheim's army, but I'm

[Drew]

going to say six and a half.

[Shannon]

There you go.

[Drew]

I'll.

[Shannon]

I'll take the points. Give me La Familia on DraftKings. You can do it as well. Promo code KSR.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

It's at home. They're not going to lose a historic Memorial Coliseum. They're going to win that game.

[Shannon]

That's right. Yeah.

[Drew]

And they, As I said, DeAndre Liggins is younger than their team. We know. They keep showing the graphic of DeAndre being 38. Remember Eric D. He's on the team. Wesley Matthews? I mean, these guys are older than I am.

[Shannon]

So if they win a single elimination now Right. So. So then, like, how many more games can they play at three at. At home?

[Jeff Pocoro]

Do that for the championship?

[Ty Bryant]

I don't know.

[iHeart Radio Sports Announcer]

I.

[Drew]

Let's be honest. I kind of think they're figuring this out on the fly.

[Shannon]

Yeah, but it sounds like everything.

[Drew]

I don't think the championship will be on a home court. Yeah, the next two will be.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

If it's up to tbt, they'd want it at historic Memorial Coliseum because the fans are going to sell it out. Get close to a sellout.

[Ty Bryant]

Yeah, yeah.

[Drew]

But it is the quarterfinals now and it's moved to single elimination. I love. They just made a format to get three Kentucky Louisville games.

[Shannon]

You were saying during the break that you really want some of these Barry Manilow tickets that I couldn't even give away on the show the other day. Nobody wanted them. You're saying you want to go to Barry Manil? We have four pair of tickets to give away.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Listen, I may not be a fan of low, but Yoga girl is a fan of low. If you like Barry Manilow, you're a fan of low. Okay, she's a fan. She wants to go. So.

[Shannon]

So where is this?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

It's erupt.

[Shannon]

So you're telling me Barry Manilow in the year of 2026. And our Lord can sell out?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Hey, that's why you've got Shannon. He writes the songs that make the whole world sing.

[Ty Bryant]

That's right.

[Shannon]

I don't even know what that means. I don't even get the joke.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

So I've got two tickets to give away. If you can come up right now and sing one.

[Drew]

The giveaway.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

You have to sing a verse of Barry Manilow. Ver. Yes you can. Yes you can, Mara can. All you got to do is come up and sing it.

[Jeff Pocoro]

One little verse or one of his ditties. Cuz he was one of the greatest commercial writers.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

McDonald's, Band Aid.

[Shannon]

He does a medley of all of them.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Come on, Patty, just give her the.

[Shannon]

Nobody look at.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

They're all singing right now.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Singing right at their seats.

[Shannon]

I mean, yeah, you're. You're putting them. You're torturing these people. They're. I mean, say being a.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

We come up and make fools of ourselves every day.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Sing a versa. Mandy. Remember? That was a great song.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Okay, come on, Karen.

[Jeff Pocoro]

We got somebody.

[Shannon]

Come on up here. You can have my head.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Here we go.

[Shannon]

Here we go. Come on.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

One little verse from Karen.

[Drew]

What other sports show have you?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Any Barry Manalo song, Any Barry Manilow song. Here we go, Karen. One, two, three, go.

[Jeff Pocoro]

I write the songs that make the whole world sing.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Sing.

[Ty Bryant]

Oh, yeah.

[Jeff Pocoro]

I make the song that people. I forgot. That's good enough.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Good enough.

[Drew]

Good enough. We'll take it.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Go see Billy. Billy's got you two tickets to go see Barry Manilow. See, now that's a true falo right there. By singing the song.

[Shannon]

So he did the Band aid, band aids, McDonald's big one.

[Drew]

Yeah.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

American Band Stand. Theme song, Bandstand. Bandstand.

[Drew]

So he's probably just rolling in money from these royalties.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Yes.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

There are more. I can't think of what they are right now. Yeah, I do have one more basketball note.

[Shannon]

Fan of low. You are.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

I wanted to get in before we could run out of time. The number one high school player in Kentucky this year is Braxton Keith Lee. Martin County High School. Little bitty Martin County High School. He averaged, like, 33 points a game last year. If he didn't lead the state in scoring, he was one of the top ones. So the number one player in. A basketball player in the state of Kentucky is from Martin County High School, Braxton Keighley. He committed to college yesterday. He had offers from lsu. He had offers from Indiana. He had offers from a lot of big schools. He picked Pacific University in California. So my man is going from Martin County High School to Stockton, California.

[Shannon]

They're growing.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Wow.

[Shannon]

Yes.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Wow. That's good.

[Shannon]

So it had to be.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

That's good.

[Shannon]

So it had to be, what, a girl, right?

[Drew]

Or the scenery.

[Shannon]

What?

[Jeff Pocoro]

You always say it's a beautiful campus there.

[Shannon]

No, not the Stockton, California.

[Drew]

He just needs a picture of it to come up there.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Talk about a culture shock going from Martin County. We've been there. Little bitty County.

[Shannon]

So Martin county, was. Was that the county that was dealing with the water?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Yeah, a while back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's them. Yeah.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Pepperdine and Pacific have the best. I mean, Pepperdine is literally. We were out there one time, and we're driving up the coast with Kenny Rice. Remember Kenny?

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Oh, I love Kenny.

[Jeff Pocoro]

We were at the Breeders cup, and I said, look at those condos. He goes, jeff, those are dorms.

[Shannon]

University.

[Jeff Pocoro]

And I'm like, what in the right. That's the ocean. You're right on the ocean.

[Drew]

I don't know how anyone graduates at this. I wouldn't do anything.

[Shannon]

Is that Malibu? Is that what that is? Pepperdine, Malibu.

[Drew]

But it's nearby.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

And we talked about the SEC football media days. Lane Kiffin ruffled some feathers yesterday where he said that nine and three teams in the SEC should be considered as, like, 11 and one teams in other conferences is because the SEC is so strong.

[Jeff Pocoro]

It's true.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Well, all the Big Ten schools kind of clapping back, like, hold my beer, Lane Kiffin. I think we've won the last two national championships. SEC ain't all that. What's your take on that, Jeff?

[Jeff Pocoro]

I think there's two conferences that are just head and shoulders above everybody else, and it's those two. But I think what makes the SEC tougher than the Big Ten is the bottom schools in the Big Ten are atrocious. And Kentucky still fielded a pretty good team last year. They were one of the bottom dwellers. I mean, I just think that there's more depth in the SEC than there is in the Big Ten.

[Drew]

Yeah, Greg Sankey talked about this, too. He made the point. Yeah, they've got the last three rings. That's one team winning a couple games at the end. But if you're just talking week to week, SEC is still much better and much more difficult as a conference.

[Shannon]

Do you love the trash talk that we're hearing from some of these coaches, though? I mean, not just Will Stein, but Eli Drinkowitz. Trash talk in Kansas. I love that stuff.

[Drew]

I mean, look.

[Shannon]

Yeah, I mean, that was really the biggest thing, I think, Takeaway. Like, I can't believe he just said that.

[Jeff Pocoro]

What did he say? That the best thing coming out of Kansas was the I70 and then the prettiest girls in Canada.

[Shannon]

They gotta be. They're tourists. Yeah. I was like, wow. All right.

[Drew]

And then you've got hypo encouraging Tennessee fans to bring mustard.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Drew]

Coach speak like normally died this year.

[Shannon]

Yeah. I mean, normally I would say, like, SEC media day is kind of boring. But then you get quotes like this and. And some are all yelling at the guys, saying he would throw a podium. You'd be kicked out of our locker room. Well, I love that.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

I'm with Shannon. Usually the SEC media day, just coach speak can answers this year had a little firepower. Every day it seemed like little. Some fireworks going off. 859-282-287. We're about out of time, but Matt comes back on Monday. Actually, talked to Matt last night. He's in New York right now. He had to spend some days at espn, did his fellowship, then he went to espn. Now he's in New York and doing some things. And he'll come back and be on. On the show on Monday. But we're getting closer and closer to football. I mean, we're like, what, just a week, Two weeks away from fall camp

[Drew]

opening that it's a week from Monday.

[Jeff Pocoro]

Players all report this coming week. Yeah.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

What happened to the summer?

[Jeff Pocoro]

Gone.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

I mean, so September 5th, the first game. We're like six weeks away from opening of the season.

[Drew]

43 days if anyone's keeping score.

[Jeff Pocoro]

That's right.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

It's amazing that it's gone by this fast, but I'm excited about. I think most fans are excited about it, too. You wonder if most more fans would be more excited about the basketball season starting or the football season starting this year.

[Drew]

I thought you're gonna bring a Barry Manilow again. Football.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Barry Manilow. Mandy, you kiss me and stop me from saying Because I need you today. Oh, Mandy. Is that right? Thank you very much. All right.

[Shannon]

Oh, nobody knows.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Big thanks to John Clay Automotive. Give him a round of applause for all your automotive needs. Come and see them. Tires, oil change, brakes, transmission, suspension. John Clay Automotive. Located between Nicholasville and Lexington on Nicholasville Road. Brand new facility out here. So come check it out. We'll be glad to take care of you guys. We appreciate you helping us out today. Big thanks to Jeff Pocoro, Willie Collie Stein, Andrew Harrison, Ty Bryant. Hey, we had a lot of guests today.

[Drew]

Drew Black bar and barbecue. Hopefully my car's somewhere. I think they went to give it an oil change. I don't know where it is.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

They've not brought their tubes back yet.

[Drew]

That's all right.

[Jeff Pocoro]

I should have done that. I need one of those.

[Drew]

Right there. All set.

[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

Thanks for joining us, everybody. We'll see you next week on Kentucky Sports Radio. Hey, it's Bubba Wallace from 2311 Racing. You know what feels like forever

[Drew]

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[Kentucky Sports Radio Host (possibly Matt Jones or Drew Franklin)]

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