2026-1-2- KSR - Hour 2

Summary

KSR Podcast (iHeartPodcasts & Sports Talk 790)

Episode: 2026-1-2 KSR - Hour 2

Date: January 2, 2026
Host(s): Drew Franklin (filling in for Matt Jones), Ryan Lemon, Nick Roush

Episode Overview

The first KSR episode of 2026 launches with Drew Franklin hosting alongside Ryan Lemon and Nick Roush. The crew recaps a busy slate of college football playoff games, Kentucky sports news, listener calls, and their top Kentucky basketball and football moments from the past year. They also preview the upcoming Kentucky vs. Alabama basketball matchup and share memorable moments from the show itself.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. New Year Catch-Up & Show Introduction

Timestamp: 03:22 - 04:33

• Drew Franklin welcomes listeners back after a holiday break, noting it's the first show of 2026 and recapping recent events.
• Multiple listeners are invited to participate via the Clark’s Pump and Shop phone line and A Vision Glass text machine.

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2. Kentucky Football Transfer and Recruiting Updates

Timestamp: 04:44 – 05:45

• Willie Rodriguez & Bowley Transfer:
  • Uncertainty discussed after Bowley's departure given Rodriguez was his roommate.
  • Nick Roush says, “Seems like they have [Willie Rodriguez] locked up” despite transfer rumors.
  • Oregon's tight end usage and game performance are examined, referencing how it may impact Kentucky’s recruiting and offensive identity.
• Nick comments, “If you watched any of the Oregon game, they like to throw to their tight ends...”

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3. College Football Playoff Reactions

Timestamp: 05:39 – 20:16

Miami’s Upset Over Ohio State

• Kicker performance as game-changer:
  • “Ole Miss doesn’t win without their kicker… Ohio State needed those three points down the stretch in a bad way.” (Nick Roush, 06:14)
• Miami’s physical dominance:
  • “Mario Cristobal has got dudes on both sides of the trenches. They got after Ohio State and made them one-dimensional.” (Nick Roush, 07:02)
• Michael Irvin’s sideline theatrics:
  • The team jokes about the “too much Michael Irvin” broadcast coverage.
  • “He’s been much cooler for me for much longer, but… him putting a jersey on a Gatorade cooler and just beating it while holding his pants up…” (Nick Roush, 08:12)

Other Playoff Games

• Oregon’s Defensive Showdown vs. Texas Tech
  • “Texas Tech’s defense is awesome. They are legit.” (Nick Roush, 10:38)
  • Oregon’s offensive woes with turnovers highlighted; “Plus two in the turnover margin... only up 3-0. That’s how good Texas Tech’s defense is.” (Nick Roush, 10:32)
• Indiana Steamrolls Alabama and Ohio State
  • Indiana’s quick dominance of powerhouse teams noted as a possible inspiration for Kentucky football’s future.
  • “If Indiana can do it… why can't Kentucky do it?” (Ryan Lemon, 14:36)
  • Indiana’s success attributed to the right coach, staff, and portal players—not just big money:
    “Indiana has money, but... they just have the right guys.” (Nick Roush, 15:18)
• Rose Bowl Thriller & Georgia’s Clutch Win Over Ole Miss
  • Game described as “one of those that you’re just like, imagine anything being better than football.”
  • Trinidad Chambliss’s star turn: “That dude, I want whatever… he looked like Joe Burrow out there.” (Nick Roush, 17:08)
  • Coaching decisions and crucial plays debated, especially around late-game clock management and field goals:
    “They tried to go for the win… that guy got beat deep, Trinidad made a perfect throw.” (Nick Roush, 18:13)

Observations on College Football’s Changing Landscape

• Notable that playoff final four features Miami, Oregon, Indiana, Ole Miss—not the usual blue bloods.
  • “No Georgia, no Alabama, no Ohio State, no Michigan, no Clemson... I kind of love that.” (Ryan Lemon, 19:53)

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4. Listener Calls & Kentucky Sports Q&A

Timestamp: 26:23 – 31:31

Joe on Recruiting/Volleyball

• Ohio recruiting is still a focus: Nick Roush says, “I do think they still will be recruiting Ohio. Staff has a lot of connections to Louisiana and Texas, too.”

Super Dave on Basketball Preview

• Alabama game preview is teased; hosts express excitement and note long layoff since last Kentucky basketball game.

News Brief: Shooting Near KSBar

• Drew responsibly addresses a tragic local incident near KSBar, clarifying it was unrelated to the business and expressing sympathy for victims.

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5. Ryan Lemon’s Top Five Kentucky Sports Moments of 2025 (Presented by Stockton Mortgage)

Timestamp: 31:31 – 32:43

Football:

1. Will Stein’s Introduction as Offensive Coordinator (top moment)
2. Beating Florida at home
3. Beating Auburn at Auburn
4. Ty Bryant deciding to come back
5. Media Day with Big Pete

Basketball:

1. Otega’s game-winner in SEC Tournament (“at that moment, we still had championship dreams”)
2. (Originally) Lamont Butler’s game vs. UofL, replaced by other big moments (see below)
3. Beating Illinois to reach Sweet 16
4. Colin Chandler’s dunk (“it’s one of the few times I’ve jumped out of my seat”)
5. Pope’s open media practice (“good father-son moment for me”)

*Special mentions by Drew and Nick:*

- Trent Noah’s big game at Knoxville  
- Otega’s clutch shots at Oklahoma  
- Jackson Robinson at Mississippi State  
- Quinn “Weetabix” Madness during March  

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6. Host “Best of KSR” Show Moments

Timestamp: 41:09 – 42:53

• Ryan’s Top KSR Show Moments:
  1. London Tornado Relief Show (“that one kind of hit hard… got to see it firsthand”)
  2. Pregame at Indy for Tennessee game (“just packed… a lot of fun”)
  3. Whiskey Thief Halloween Show (“huge crowd, good vibe, great weather”)
  4. Tayden Lorenzen/Thomas Highlands emotional show (“it meant a lot to me”)
  5. Donut Show at his pool (“threw up donuts — wild time”)
• Drew’s Additions:
  • Fire alarm chaos show ("utter chaos... I have this smile you cannot wipe off my face." 45:46)
  • The Buffalo road trip with Billy (the shoes, the vegetables, "suitcase Billy")
  • Tearful Max Duffy farewell live on air
  • DrewPalooza week of guest hosting
  • Archie Goodwin & Khalil Whitney opening up in interviews

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7. Final Kentucky vs. Alabama Basketball Preview

Timestamp: 48:01 – End

• Alabama strengths:
  • 3rd-best offense nationally; block shots at elite rate
  • Player to watch: LeBaron Filon (21 PPG, 42% from three)
  • “They beat us three times in a row, scored 96 in each…”
• Game is at noon the next day on ESPN; Matt Jones returns to host pregame at 9:30am.

Memorable Quote:
"Listen, the women showed us how it's done. Let's go get a win on the road." – Drew Franklin (48:53)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "If Indiana can do it, why can't Kentucky do it? ...This is where it's going to start." (Ryan Lemon, 14:36)
• "The offensive line was the Rose Bowl MVP… like, you all, you kicked all the a--. You get to be the MVP.” (Nick Roush, 15:18)
• "Never has 96 points in each one of those games." (Nick Roush previewing the Bama game, 48:53)
• "Utter chaos...I have this smile you cannot wipe off my face." (Drew Franklin re: fire alarm show, 45:46)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Hour 2 Starts: 03:22
• Football transfer and recruiting: 04:44 – 05:45
• Miami upsets Ohio State: 05:39 – 09:16
• Indiana’s CFP run: 12:23 – 14:36
• Listener Calls: 26:23 – 31:31
• Top 5 Kentucky Moments (Football & Basketball): 31:31 – 38:19
• Top KSR Show Moments: 41:09 – 42:53
• Alabama Basketball Preview: 48:00 – End (49:05)

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Tone

Conversational, fast-paced, and light-hearted, with playful ribbing among hosts and plenty of digressions into personal anecdotes and inside jokes. The show maintains a strong Kentucky sports focus while branching into national college football topics and engaging with fans directly.

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For New Listeners

This episode is an ideal entrypoint to the Kentucky Sports Radio community. It offers:

• A lively and accessible review of the latest Kentucky sports headlines and big-picture college football news
• Nostalgic recaps of the past year’s highs and lows in Kentucky sports
• Memorable host banter and authentic fan interaction

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For the latest Kentucky news and more, tune in to KSR weekdays from 10 to noon.

Transcript

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[Drew Franklin]

Nmlsconsumeraccess.Org welcome into hour two of the first episode of KSR of 2026. Drew Franklin driving the show here with Ryan Lemon beside me after we took a little day off during vacation season.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

But we're back today to recap all the news. A lot of news. Ryan Lemon almost called you. Nick Roush, who was to my left.

[Nick Roush]

Hey, that's me.

[Drew Franklin]

We've had a lot to get to. I want to hear more from the callers on the Clark's Pump and shop phone line. 502-280-228, 7859. I said 502.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Did I do that earlier too? I think I did.

[Ryan Lemon]

I didn't catch it.

[Drew Franklin]

I think I did because I'm getting the A vision glass. You've programmed that damn number. See a vision glass text machine. 5027-3635-8035-3680. My goodness. What is going on? Let's just start from the top. Welcome in hour two, KSR Troy Franklin here with Ryan Lemon and Nick Roush. It is the first show of 20. Took yesterday off to celebrate the new year. Watch a lot of football. Had a lot of football. But now we're recapping the news. Things like the Boli transfer. We had to wait a little bit too long into the show to talk about the women's basketball win. I apologize again, especially to our caller who called us on the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line at 859-280-2287.

[Ryan Lemon]

There we go.

[Drew Franklin]

And you can text us on the A vision glass text machine which is in Ryan Lemon's hand. 502-735-3680. Have people been texting you? We haven't been using it. We say it, but we haven't been.

[Ryan Lemon]

I got a couple. You may ask you a couple. Do we lose Willie Rodriguez With Bowley leaving since the roommates.

[Nick Roush]

I heard a week ago, I don't know, before Christmas that things were looking good for Willie Rodriguez return. And then I also got that relayed to me again two or three days ago. So it seems like they have him locked up. And if you watched any of the Oregon game, they like to throw to their tight ends. Canyon City, huge. He had a couple. I don't know what the final stats were, but I think on the first drive the Titans had four receptions of their six pass plays. Did Kenyan Sadiq anytime touchdown?

[Drew Franklin]

He did not. I lost a little Money on the DraftKings app. The Crown was not mine on the Sadiq touchdown, but he was a big part of the offense.

[Nick Roush]

There was one play in particular too where I forget who it might have been. Lewis Reddick, who's. Oh, Kenyan Sadiq's right there. Dante Moore's got to throw it. He's wide open for the touchdown and instead he got sacked.

[Drew Franklin]

That's all right.

[Nick Roush]

I was thinking of you.

[Drew Franklin]

I had three touchdown scores in the Rose bowl, so it made up for my city class. You want to just talk a little college football playoffs since also some pretty big news.

[Ryan Lemon]

I'd love to talk about it.

[Drew Franklin]

Let's talk about there are four games. How the playoffs work one New Year's Eve. Guys, I gotta admit, I'm just gonna hand off the first game to you because I was at dinner during this game and when I got there, not complaining because I had a great time, but I did not have eyeballs on the television. I thought I might. Turns out I didn't. So Miami, I know they went up 14. Oh, I was doing some phone checking, saw the replay of the big interception return. But you are going to have to kind of take this one for me. How was Miami able to pull off the upset?

[Nick Roush]

Well, I do think part of it is in these four games you saw the importance of good kickers because Ole Miss doesn't win without their kicker. Ohio State, they have a chance to make a field goal. It was a very makeable field goal right before halftime that would have made it a seven point game. And ultimately that it felt like they needed those three points down the stretch and in a bad way. And I know Miami ended up pulling away, but the violence is just from all four games was what stood out to me and Miami in particular. That's the. The ACC is. It's a league that. I mean Stoops would just put him in a fricking Walker every year. And Dukes, Mayo or whatever bowl game it was. Right. Whether you're playing NC State or Virginia.

[Drew Franklin]

Tech, it's like Louisville for a long time.

[Nick Roush]

Oh yeah. Like we're just going to beat you up, up front because you can't compete with this. Mario Crystal Ball has got dudes on both sides of the trenches. And they. They got after Ohio State, they made him one dimensional and really Julian saying just didn't do the. Throw it to number four play enough. Like Jeremiah Smith. Just, just every play just throw it to him. And they didn't do that enough. They end up losing. And really the. The other thing I had from this game is. Ryan, did you. Did you see any of Michael Irvin on the sidelines?

[Ryan Lemon]

Was he there?

[Drew Franklin]

I did see somebody.

[Ryan Lemon]

Was Michael Irvin there at the game?

[Nick Roush]

They didn't show him enough on the broadcast.

[Ryan Lemon]

I didn't catch that. Maybe it was Ray Lewis there.

[Nick Roush]

They didn't show.

[Drew Franklin]

I think Michael Irvin needs some cornbread.

[Danny Shapiro]

Him.

[Drew Franklin]

We might need to calm down just a little. I think he's more of an upper than a downer.

[Nick Roush]

Okay. I like when they show McConaughey once and he does the hook them thing. It was too much Michael Irvin and the BTA celebration like that. That was lame before it ever even started. I mean, I'm not one to tell Michael Irvin what's cool and what's not. Clearly he. He's been much cooler for me for much longer. But that is him putting a jersey on a Gatorade cooler and just beating.

[Drew Franklin]

It while holding his pants up.

[Ryan Lemon]

Very.

[Nick Roush]

Just.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, he's got to be 60, right? Or close to it. Yeah, I'm going to say 60.

[Nick Roush]

I mean, he was playing for the Cowboys in the. He was at the end of his career in the late 90s. That was 30 years ago.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, I'm going 60 on Michael Irvin, but he's a big part of the production. I did catch that much.

[Ryan Lemon]

He was. Yeah.

[Danny Shapiro]

It's just.

[Drew Franklin]

He's doing it the little last year with Miami. Does he just travel with the team?

[Nick Roush]

It's fun.

[Danny Shapiro]

It's just.

[Nick Roush]

There's like a line of like they. You could have way too much Michael Irvin and they get. They gave us way too much. Like we just, just dial it Back a little bit.

[Drew Franklin]

Like the.

[Nick Roush]

Him on the sidelines where he's. His legs are. He's on a knee and he's all stressed out. That's funny. The belt out. I don't, I don't need the belt out.

[Drew Franklin]

They're just.

[Nick Roush]

It's too much.

[Drew Franklin]

Leave your belt on. Ryan, don't tell us about your belt on New Year's Eve. But you mentioned you'd gone to bed early. Were you able to watch this?

[Ryan Lemon]

I saw was the fourth quarter. I mean, I really. That's, that's, that's why I saw him. Michael Irvin, between every play over there.

[Nick Roush]

In Ohio State, they had a chance. But the get. If Ohio State gets a stop, they get the ball back. They can go down the win. Instead, Miami was just like, we're going to run it down your throat.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah.

[Nick Roush]

Which makes for a fascinating matchup for the next game because they're going to take on Ole Miss. That was a one of the. I like that. In the playoff now we're basically batting.500 on great games versus awful ones.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, in the new, you know, Wednesday and Thursday, whatever today is, we had the upset that we just named. We had a shutout.

[Nick Roush]

Yep.

[Drew Franklin]

We had Texas Tech. That was just a whooping. And then we had finally a thriller last night. We'll just go chronologically.

[Ryan Lemon]

Okay.

[Drew Franklin]

I didn't see Wednesday night. I was out ringing in the new year. I was locked in all day yesterday.

[Ryan Lemon]

I.

[Drew Franklin]

If I watched a snapping or missed a snapping those games, I don't know if I did. I was in my chair with my computer locked in. Cotton ball or. Excuse me, Orange bowl yesterday afternoon. Will Stein, you let it off right at noon. I'm glad we got to write to our Will Stein game. I did do more of a defensive performance from. From Oregon. They were moving the ball early. As you said. The offense was looking good with the tight ends. They just few coaching decisions le some points on the board. Not punching it in.

[Nick Roush]

Go for it guy. And I'm of the belief if you're going to be a go for it guy, just always be a go for it guy. And they did that. I mean, they left a lot of points on the board, but it didn't matter because Texas Tech's offense couldn't do anything.

[Drew Franklin]

Looked terrible. It made me think. I haven't watched a lot of Texas Tech. Just being honest. Wonder how they even got in the playoffs to begin with.

[Nick Roush]

Some of it is because Big 12 defenses are terrible and they were able to run on people. But they've had quarterback injury issues and I think more Baron Morton was hurt a little bit yesterday. Kind of looked that way. But there was a point where Oregon was plus two in the turnover margin the first half and was only up 3 nothing. That's how good Texas Tech's defense is. Like that defense is awesome. They are legit. So shout out to Oregon for finally capitalizing on that scoring some points. You know, I selfishly was like, just give me, give me Wolfstein here full time. But now like in part of it's because I didn't think Oregon was good enough to win at all. If you beat Indiana, you can win it all. I mean Indiana's. They play murder ball. I mean Signetti looks like a new Saban and it's terrifying.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, do we worry? You know, we're not. I'm not putting a ring on Will Stein's finger yet, but let's just say they finished the job. Motivation is a big part of our brand around here. As we saw last year, motivation was a big word. I don't know that I want him to already have a ring. You know, he's going to want to go get his own. But I want that hunger. I want him to get close and taste just a little. But not finish it so he can come finish it here in Lexington.

[Nick Roush]

You know, we need the college game day story or it's the Marty Smith sit down. And Will Stein, he remembers being in that tunnel and watching the confetti fall. And he said I got to get back here with Kentucky and they're going to play that feature right before the Cats are in the College Football Playoff.

[Drew Franklin]

It's going to be Rhodes lead to Lexington. That's just what he's waiting for for his national championship. They're moving on though.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Good look. Good look for Oregon and a defensive. You mentioned Texas Tech felt bad they weren't getting help. That front seven was rocking Oregon early.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah, but wasn't as bad as Alabama got rocked in the Rose bowl in the afternoon. I mean that was. I let my buddy Adam Walkett convinced.

[Drew Franklin]

Me that Me too.

[Nick Roush]

Caitlin DeBoer and little Obama were gonna. We're gonna get it done right? Because DeBoer wins those games. He's awesome. As in matchups. Top twin matchups. And it could have been a big moment for Indiana. And the other part too. I watch all those teams with buys get beat. So my brain, I was a little like, oh, no.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh. And six.

[Nick Roush]

They were.06 at that point. And then Indiana just steamrolled him. Bama bench Ty Simpson so bad they pinched their quarterback.

[Drew Franklin]

He probably should have slid on that play.

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, no doubt.

[Drew Franklin]

He got hammered, got fumbled and shattered his ribs. I. I was doing a rollover bet where I bet on Miami to cover. I rolled it over to Oregon and it came time for the third rollover. Now those numbers get a little bigger.

[Nick Roush]

Than where we started, right?

[Drew Franklin]

I told myself, soon as we're Oregon ended, go bet Indiana minus seven. Just do it. It's a lot of points, but just do it. When I got to the app, it was seven and a half. That half point changed everything for me.

[Nick Roush]

But here's the thing too. Indiana should have been like 12 and a half and we just. It's the stupid logos, man.

[Ryan Lemon]

I know it.

[Drew Franklin]

I open the app with intentions of hitting Indiana minus seven. I see seven and a half. I took Bama. Lucky you're a part of that too, with your excitement calling you out. But other people on chaos borders a lot of Bama talk. And at the last minute I went bama. That proved to be wrong. And we learned in a hurry that was wrong. They were never in that game.

[Ryan Lemon]

Not only did they steamroll Alabama the last game, they steamrolled Ohio State. I mean, they put these two premier programs and like Nick said, it's just a logo thing.

[Danny Shapiro]

You don't.

[Ryan Lemon]

You can't believe in Indiana because it says you Indiana and the other logo says Ohio State and Alabama. Indiana is like legit dominating, dominating these top programs.

[Drew Franklin]

I mean, that's your old team. Rod, how do you feel? You know, you grew up watching Indiana basketball.

[Ryan Lemon]

Mention I go play for point guard for Bob Knight.

[Drew Franklin]

You wanted to be like Coverdale or who was it? Cheney. Which one did you want to be?

[Ryan Lemon]

Covert Cheney.

[Drew Franklin]

Which one? Which one were you dreaming of being?

[Ryan Lemon]

Steve offer.

[Drew Franklin]

Steve offers.

[Ryan Lemon]

There we go.

[Drew Franklin]

Wasn't sure if it was Tom Coverdale or that Luke guy that went to Iowa. But I mean, you, you know Indiana well from there. Did you ever, ever, ever dream of a day where the football program would be just whooping everyone?

[Ryan Lemon]

No. And that's why it's got to give programs like Kentucky a little bit of hope that hey man, if Indiana can do it. Loading up on the transfer portal. Portal. Getting the right people, getting the right coach, getting the right staff. If Indiana can do it, if Vanderbilt can do it, why can't Kentucky do it? We got a co new coach now bringing a new staff. This is where it's going to start.

[Nick Roush]

I think the important part to note too about Indiana and Texas Tech is Texas Tech is Doing it with oil money. And there are going to be schools out there that just, they, they, they pay a lot of money to get their players. Indiana has money, but it's kind of like the money that everybody's working with. They just have the right guys. I mean, the offensive line was the Rose bowl mvp.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, right.

[Drew Franklin]

They just gave it to the whole line.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah. Like, it's like you all, you kicked all the ass. You get to be the mvp. So that's why, to your point, Ron, like, there is optimism that you can make it work if you get the right guys, make the right evaluations. If you got a hungry coaching staff, which, you know, there's a lot of young guys, this is their first big opportunity. Got to go. Prove it. Yep, prove it in the SEC against a difficult schedule.

[Drew Franklin]

And then you got just Sig over there with the straight. He finally smiled with like 20 seconds left, but they're up 30 and he looks like he's mad at the world.

[Nick Roush]

And I love it.

[Drew Franklin]

I know you can just tell.

[Nick Roush]

Oh, I love that. I also in the nightcap because Kirby Smart has a little bit of let's.

[Drew Franklin]

Get to some sugar.

[Ryan Lemon]

That.

[Nick Roush]

That's like psychosis to him. Right. The aggression. That game was one of those that you're just like, imagine anything being better than football because it was. Ole miss went up 10 points with eight minutes ago and blew that lead. I mean, Gunner Stockton just kept taking hit after hit, delivering throws. It was, it was unreal, the resiliency that Georgia showed. But Trinidad Chambliss, that dude, I want whatever. If we could bottle up whatever that is that he was on for that stretch right there. He looked like Joe Burrow out there. That, that sort of I'm in the zone and nobody can get in my way. He was unreal. That last touchdown throw he had. And Georgia, Georgia, you did everything right. Ole Miss kind of penalized their way to let you go tie the game. But then you, you let Trinidad get one more shot deep and you gave up a 40 year pass.

[Drew Franklin]

You trade field goals in the last minute. I thought Ole Miss early, they just kept shooting themselves in the foot for one. I wasn't big on going for two that early in the game.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's true.

[Drew Franklin]

They don't get it. That throws off the math you're already talking about. This is going to awesome in the end. Then. I don't know if you saw right before halftime, but as a Kentucky fan, that looked very familiar. Oh, yeah.

[Nick Roush]

He cuts in and you're like, what are you doing?

[Drew Franklin]

Field Goal range. Even their coach, I felt bad for him because he can't throw the player on the bus. But at halftime they're like, how did you not get a field go off? And he's like, well, the plan was to run out of bounds, but their player cuts in and they can't get the field goal unit on the field.

[Nick Roush]

I love that. It was also Sean McDonough who had the Kentucky games when they were just terrible at the end of haps. And he's like, can you believe what are they doing? And he's calling out Joe Judge and Charlie Weiss Jr. The plan there, what is. And it's like, oh, man. Really, really putting their feet to the fire.

[Drew Franklin]

And at that point, it's a two position. I think it was nine points. You're already thinking about their two point conversion. They missed. Now they're leaving three on the field. You're already the underdog Ole Miss without your head coach thinking there's no way they can pull this off, leaving four points on the field in the first half.

[Nick Roush]

But then especially against Georgia, right? Like Georgia is a team, it's been here before. And if you watch them all year, there was some playing with fire there, but you could say they were playing with fire, they were going to get burnt. Or you could say, well, they've proven that they can win close games and that they're comfortable in these situations. And that was kind of bearing out down the stretch. I thought the. The one question I had was, on third and goal from the five, do you try to go. Do you try to throw it to the end zone or do you just run the Caucasus? LSU is out of timeouts. Only leaves him with 30 seconds ago or whatever. They tried to go for the win. I can't, like, you go for the win. Yeah, I think that's the right idea. 50 seconds. All you got to do is tackle them in bounds and you probably win the game. They went one high and it cost him. That guy got beat deep. Trinidad made a perfect throw, hit the guy in stride. I mean, that was a perfect throw. And then easy field goal for Carnero.

[Ryan Lemon]

Former West Kentucky Hilltopper, by the way.

[Drew Franklin]

He's awesome.

[Nick Roush]

He's so.

[Drew Franklin]

He's been good.

[Ryan Lemon]

He's really good.

[Nick Roush]

Although I secretly wanted him to. That would have been the most college kicker thing ever, right? They talk all broadcast about how awesome this guy, just for him to pull it and send it in overtime. But there was 1/2 left run 1/2 left. So we had the poor stage crew.

[Ryan Lemon]

Set the stage up. Break it down. Bring out again. Get ready to move it off the field again.

[Nick Roush]

I think Pete Golding got three Gatorade bats. He just kept dumbing Gatorade on him.

[Drew Franklin]

Ron, before a break, what do you think about Lane Kiffin getting half a million for Ole misses win?

[Ryan Lemon]

I think it's not my money, so, I mean, he.

[Drew Franklin]

He's watching Kentucky beat up on Kim Mulkey and Williams and the LSU women's basketball just before the night's over.

[Ryan Lemon]

He's got a half million counties Benjamin just sitting in the stands. Counties Benjamin earned given. You know, before we shift gears, I love the fact that the college football playoffs are final four. There's no Georgia, no Alabama, no Ohio State, no Michigan, no Clemson. These teams have dominated over recent years. It's Miami, Oregon, Indiana and Ole Miss. I kind of love that.

[Drew Franklin]

And of all the SEC teams, it's the one that Kiffin left to go win a national championship. Unlikely still, but of all the teams to be the one left standing, left one stands to the chaos we've had. We'll have a little more chaos here on ksr. Oh, yeah. You like these, these transitions Segways. What am I doing there?

[Nick Roush]

We have more bowl games today.

[Drew Franklin]

To more bowl games today.

[Nick Roush]

Somebody's getting a Mayo bath today. Folks love the Mayo Bowl.

[Drew Franklin]

Rick tells me there's people on the phone line, so we'll get to that. We'll be right back. This is KSR.

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[Drew Franklin]

No way.

[Dr. Joy Hardin Bradford]

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[Nick Roush]

All.

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[Drew Franklin]

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[Nick Roush]

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[Drew Franklin]

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[Danny Shapiro]

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[Ryan Lemon]

We were in the car like a Rolling Stone came on and he said, there's a line in there about your mother.

[Drew Franklin]

And I said, what?

[Ryan Lemon]

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[Dr. Joy Hardin Bradford]

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[Danny Shapiro]

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[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, I like that rock music there, Rick. Welcome back. KSR Drew Franklin.

[Ryan Lemon]

Rick, spicing it up a little bit.

[Drew Franklin]

Is this a new song? Is this 2026 new release? Or is this some old 80s rock?

[Dr. Joy Hardin Bradford]

No, this is the.

[Drew Franklin]

This is old Cheap Trick. I'm sorry?

[Nick Roush]

Cheap Trick. Great band font.

[Ryan Lemon]

The Dream Police. They live inside of Cheap Police. Right.

[Nick Roush]

Cheap Cheap Trick. I don't remember that crossover event.

[Drew Franklin]

You could listen to Cheap Trick in your new car if you want to go get a new car at Don Franklin. I know we were going to do a different one here, but perfect. It's a great segue.

[Ryan Lemon]

I think it was too.

[Drew Franklin]

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[Ryan Lemon]

A lot of news I haven't forgotten.

[Drew Franklin]

I still have your top 25. Your top moments from 2025. Well, you know, we still got you. Get them ready. When you texted me Tuesday night. You have it ready. We'll just run through yours.

[Ryan Lemon]

Okay.

[Drew Franklin]

First need to run through some calls. I've had people waiting. Rick tells me they're still on the line. I don't want to lose them. So let's get to the phone lines. Rick, who's up first?

[Ryan Lemon]

Got Joe up first.

[Drew Franklin]

Joe, thanks for calling in. Thanks for holding. What's up?

[Joe]

Quickly, a couple comments. Coach Skinner, good luck as he puts together his volleyball team for next year. There's no reason why him in Nebraska and Louisville will go at it head to head. And good luck to Coach Skinner against Bush Bomb Kelly. Not my favorite coach in the world, but she's pretty damn good. So good luck the Coach Skinner. And secondly, Nick on recruiting, is Ohio still going to be a priority? And west of the Mississippi, it's a junior college that's in play when it comes to Coach Stein. Thank you. Goodbye.

[Drew Franklin]

Appreciate the call. Good to hear from you.

[Nick Roush]

The it is good to hear from Joe. Haven't heard that voice in a while. The junior college thing was it felt like Stoops was using it to break glass in case of emergency. They're just not as prevalent now that the transfer portal is around. So I don't anticipate that. But Stein has hired a couple of assistants who were previously at Ohio State. So while I don't think that it's going to be the same volume that we saw with Vince and the Youngstown gang when Mark Stoops was here, I do think they still will be recruiting Ohio. This staff has a lot of connections to Louisiana and Texas, so that will probably happen. But the other part to the DMV area defense coordinator Jay Bateman has a lot of connections there. So I think what we're seeing the term analysts used to get thrown around a lot. Drew, remember that we had quality control analysts. Well, now they just are assistant position coaches because they can recruit, they just can't go visit places.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, we got zoom now.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah, like coaches don't really hit the road anymore. That's not like a huge thing as it once was. So basically the way the staff is being structured, you got a lot more people recruiting than just Vince because there for a while it felt like it was just Vince recruiting. So you should have players kind of from all over where it's not going to be. You're not going to be so reliant on just one place. And the other part of it too. You got to get some guys from Kentucky is that 27 class Keelan hall from Cal is really good. There's a couple of kids at Atherton that are really good. So the state has some pretty big time players that are coming up in the, in the years right down the.

[Drew Franklin]

Road who's next, Rick? Super Dave is next. Super Dave. Not just any Dave. Super Dave. What's up?

[Joe]

Hey, guys. How y' all doing? Hey, Nick. It's a fellow Desales grad. Wanted to say happy New Year to everybody and I wanted to change it a little bit. I know we're in the middle of the football playoffs and the NFL wows and all that, but what do y' all think is going to happen tomorrow at Alabama with the basketball team?

[Nick Roush]

Oh, shout out. Super day.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. I also in my notes in Alabama preview because we do return to basketball tomorrow.

[Ryan Lemon]

I think it's been forever since we've seen him play the Bellarmin game. Seemed like it was a month ago.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, we're up again. We're up against our hard break. So I appreciate the call. We'll do our Alabama preview.

[Ryan Lemon]

Okay.

[Drew Franklin]

With ryan lemons of 25 in the next. In the next break here. Before we go, I did have one news item I meant to get to the first hour. There was a shooting near KS Bar yesterday. WKYT is reporting now that two people have died. Three were shot, one's injured. It's very. It's the parking lot we share with other buildings. Just want to let everyone know it's unrelated. Anything with us or any of our people. We were watching the news like everyone else that happened yesterday. We're thinking about the two loss and the one that's still injured, but I want to put that out there. We'll be right back. As KSR here is not Matt Jones. This is Drew Franklin here filling in for Matt Jones. He will be back tomorrow for the early morning pregame show.

[Ryan Lemon]

Ryan Lemon, 9:30am for the pregame show in the morning. People forget.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, people forget. There's basketball still going on. Quite the drought run. What's been like 10 days already since the Bellarmine game. Huge road trip tomorrow going to Tuscaloosa. We're gonna talk a little bit more about that game. Getting you ready for it here before this show ends. It's flying by, I think. I think I overproduced because I, you know, I'm not long winded like Matt. I'm talking fast because I had two pots of coffee and we still haven't even touched half the half the stuff we were going to get to today.

[Ryan Lemon]

Better to be over prepared.

[Drew Franklin]

That's right.

[Ryan Lemon]

Than under prepared.

[Drew Franklin]

Let's get right to what really matters because we didn't get to it. Tuesday, your top moments of 2024.

[Ryan Lemon]

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[Drew Franklin]

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[Drew Franklin]

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[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. So, yeah. Thank you, Stockton. Happy New Year, Stockton. For timing purposes, so I don't mess this up again and we push it off till Monday, you texted me your top five football and your top five basketball on Tuesday night.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes.

[Drew Franklin]

For the year.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes.

[Drew Franklin]

We won't add ours. That'll take forever. So we'll do your top five and Nick and I, because Nick made a list on the website, he's ready to go. I have my list written out. We'll add honorable mentions that you don't do, but we'll just get Ryan's top five football moments. Football 20, 25. You can either count down from five, start at one. You have the floor.

[Ryan Lemon]

Okay. I'll go backwards. Five to one.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay.

[Ryan Lemon]

Media Day with big Pete.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, she has Pete. Great, great, great moment for ksr. And it was. That thing went super viral. I think ESPN even shared it on.

[Ryan Lemon]

Their social media and it was a lot of fun. Yeah. I got to get to know him kind of personally. So that was number five.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay. I like that one.

[Ryan Lemon]

Number four, Ty Bryant decides to come back. I think that's huge.

[Nick Roush]

Wow.

[Ryan Lemon]

I think he's a local kid. Yes, he's, you know, local kid. I think he had one guy on defense you had to bring back. It was him. He had one guy on offense you had to bring back. It was Cutter Bowley. All right, so 50%. They're hitting.500.

[Nick Roush]

I'll get you in the hall of Fame.

[Ryan Lemon]

Get to the hall of Fame.

[Nick Roush]

Number three to great leader. Like, it's good to have that during a transition.

[Ryan Lemon]

Beating Auburn, at Auburn. That's my now number three. And then number two, beating Florida at home. Those back to back wins, highlights of the season, obviously. And my number one moment, Will Stein introduction. I think that's the easy, easy number one for me.

[Drew Franklin]

All right. I'll add a few quick ones. We'll call it the five more from Drew. I won't do four. Five. I'll just add a few. It kind of goes with Auburn, but I really enjoyed Calzad and Garrett getting their money right. It wasn't the best look for our team and our fan base, but once it had already happened, what can we do about it but embrace it? And I enjoyed people taking the money to, to the games, fake money, the guys doing it on the sideline. So I'll add Calzada vs Garrett. Get your money right.

[Nick Roush]

I would like to add Vince Merrill wearing his sweatpants inside out at a football practice.

[Drew Franklin]

I didn't think that would be number seven.

[Nick Roush]

Whenever I need a good laugh, I just, I look up Vince Merrill sweatpants and there they are, just inside out. Five foot on the win.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, I had hello Nick Roush on my list. Can I just combine it? Vince tweeting you during the little game. I didn't like that we're losing. I didn't like that Vince gets to talk as trash. Trust me, if I could write the story myself. We're doing the trash talking, but kind of like Calzada since it's happening. I did take a little bit of satisfaction and joy in him dunking.

[Nick Roush]

Vince has always been a content machine, but the last year it was just one after another in the.

[Drew Franklin]

You see the, see the hat I brought today?

[Nick Roush]

Like this UK toboggan.

[Drew Franklin]

It's good looking hat.

[Nick Roush]

Well, there's a story behind it. I actually got it at the Governor's cup because, you know, the first one I grabbed, it was a buc EE's hat and people were roasting me because it was red. And we're playing Louisville and so this is the game at Kentucky. So this would be two Governor's Cups ago. And so I'm sitting on the sidelines and I see Florida's defensive coordinator now, Brad White. And I'm like, oh yeah, people are really ragging on me about the hat. And he's like, let me get you a new one. So while he runs off to go get me this fun little hat, I run into a few more people on the sidelines and I'm chit chatting. And that's when I learned that Vince was going to awful. And I think the, the part that's tricky about all of this stuff is sometimes if you say something out loud, it won't happen. And that's, that's what we're dealing with right now. And I initially didn't want to say anything about it at all until the following day, people who should not have known were asking me if I knew. I was like, all right, I got to put it out there. Well, you know, ksr, fake news, they're just making stuff up. We just had the timing wrong. They were waiting until later, and then when June came rolling around, I saw Vince the day before it happened, and that was like a wait. So you're being serious this time. And he was. He was being serious as a heart attack. Ended up going the wolf. And we could sniff it out. We could sniff out that he was leaving. There was a. He was the canary in the Stoops coal mine. We could feel it coming, but it was just like, well, but there's not a coaching position. How is he going to go over there? And they maneuvered it around to get Vince to, you know what? I don't know what his job is over there now. I don't know what his official. He's the gm. I don't. I don't really know what he's doing. But, hey, you know what, Vince? You got to flex. You got to wear your cardinal red, and you got out before everybody else got told to leave. So, you know, he was. He made the right decision.

[Drew Franklin]

And I had weird timing since I was in Mexico on my 40th birthday. And it, you know, 1am in the morning, we're feeling pretty good at that point, we just start calling random people on our phone where we scroll and you have to call them. I called Vince Merrow at 1am from Mexico the night before he left. Had no idea what was going on. I just want to talk to him, say hi, part of a little drinking game we were playing. Didn't answer, but little did I know. He probably thought, why is Drew calling me at 1am how does he already know? He's trying to. Is he trying to get a quote in the middle of the night? No offense. I was just with the boys at the bar in Cancun, and we landed on your name.

[Nick Roush]

I'm. I'm looking forward to. You know, we gotta let a little more time pass, but there's gonna be a fun story time podcast with that. The. The old regime motivated Mark Stoops at ACC media day. There's.

[Danny Shapiro]

There.

[Nick Roush]

There's a. There's a. There's a longer story behind all that. That was a very interesting day.

[Drew Franklin]

We gave More Vince more credit there for our top five moments.

[Ryan Lemon]

So you want top five basketball?

[Nick Roush]

Let's get top five basketball.

[Drew Franklin]

Let's do top five basketball.

[Ryan Lemon]

All right. The open practice that Pope had for the media and their families.

[Drew Franklin]

Okay. Just a few months.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's number five on mine.

[Drew Franklin]

That was a lot of touch.

[Ryan Lemon]

Your heartstring.

[Drew Franklin]

You can expand a little bit more. You don't have to go that f. What did you like about it? You took Josiah.

[Ryan Lemon]

I took Josiah, you know, and he is big, wide eyed, you know, get to see these guys up close and personal in a practice setting is just something we're not privy to. And not only did I enjoy it, he really enjoyed it. Got his picture taken with coach Pope. So it's kind of a good father son moment for me.

[Drew Franklin]

And at that point, we still had national championship dreams.

[Ryan Lemon]

Amen.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, some of us still do. I don't want to. I don't want to poo poo your dreams if you're still dreaming that. But at the moment, we had to know. Anything yet?

[Ryan Lemon]

Number four, the Colin Chandler dunk.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, wow. You're over here preaching to me.

[Ryan Lemon]

It's one of the few times I've got up and jumped up out of my seat from a play during the game. And it was out. No doubt. So that's number four.

[Drew Franklin]

So the whole year. I mean, this includes all of SEC play last season.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes.

[Drew Franklin]

SEC tournament.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes. I've got. I got three more.

[Drew Franklin]

Well, I believe it. But you got Colin Chandler making the cut.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes. Colin Chandler dunk. Carry on. This is my top five moments.

[Drew Franklin]

All right.

[Ryan Lemon]

Number three, beating Illinois in the NCAA tournament to get to the sweet 16. That was huge. It was a lot of fun.

[Drew Franklin]

It was a great one.

[Ryan Lemon]

Number two, Lamont Butler's game against U of L. Coming back injured, he 30 points. What he hit.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah, but it wasn't 25.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, that's 2024. That was December.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah.

[Ryan Lemon]

Only SEC games, calendars, man, that got me. Well, then number one was Otega's game winner in the SEC tournament. Again, I was there with Josiah. That was just an amazing game to watch firsthand. So that was my number one.

[Drew Franklin]

How about I'll help you out. We'll throw Lamont out. That was number two.

[Ryan Lemon]

That was number two.

[Drew Franklin]

How about always other buzzer beat Oklahoma. We'll throw it in.

[Ryan Lemon]

I almost put that in my list.

[Drew Franklin]

There you go. It's in there now.

[Nick Roush]

He scored the final 18 points for Kentucky and 21 in the final 23.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's at Oklahoma.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah, that's just.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's amazing.

[Nick Roush]

And the other part too, about his shots, they were basically mirror images of one another just off balance throwing it up like, how are you doing this, Ortega? It was unreal Unreal. Great moments. Great moments.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, go. You got more?

[Ryan Lemon]

No, I'm good. Before we go to the break, I got my top five KSR moments.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, we'll get to those two. I was going to add a few more basketball. The win at Knoxville, which they seem to do a lot lately, that was pretty improbable. We were shorthanded. Remember, Trent Noah came in, had a big game. He had a big three. If I'm not mistaken, that's when Trent hadn't been playing in a while. He might have gotten in, like, the Vandy game before that. But that was closest thing we call a Trent Noah breakout. But going there and beating a top 10 team in Knoxville, something they've done.

[Nick Roush]

Several times before, he got the mama nickname. He hit the three threes. But actually, I think that was the game that was at home. But, you know, it's hard to remember all the wins over Tennessee. I mean, we don't have to talk about the losses. I would like to add the Weetabix. That was just fun. Good old fat. I mean, I. It wasn't like, good to eat, but it was a fun.

[Drew Franklin]

If I was eating it out of my pocket. Indianapolis, we talk about it's not good to eat. I had it for, like, every meal.

[Nick Roush]

It's like the most Kentucky fan base.

[Drew Franklin]

Story, you know, no one else would care.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah. But it's like, well, we've got to buy this British cereal. Like, of course we do.

[Ryan Lemon]

Everybody went out and tried to find it.

[Drew Franklin]

I was irrationally angry at Weetabix, the company, for not acknowledging us. I thought about flying over there to headquarters and be like, is anyone awake here? Because whoever's in marketing, terrible is the biggest opportunity that will ever fall in their lap. And then, like, two weeks later, the tournament was over. Florida's our national champion, and they're like, amari Williams likes weed. A big.

[Ryan Lemon]

Totally dropped the ball. They totally dropped it.

[Nick Roush]

I also would like to give Mark Pope a shout out. He was on the ball. He sent Jack Pilgrim home from the Peach Jam because his wife was going into labor. He said, jack, that's right, leave. And Jack made it back with a couple hours to spare before his second kid was born. So, you know, good moment. Totally normal. Right?

[Drew Franklin]

Like, I used that recently, you know, Peach Jam, it's in Augusta. My babies do Masters weekend. And I told Abby, I was like, jack went to Augusta and drove back and made it. Why don't I go to the Masters? And if it happens to happen, there's already already an Example here. Jack did it. He's fine. I can do it. That was a hard no.

[Nick Roush]

Very, very hard no.

[Drew Franklin]

I also have Jackson Robinson at Mississippi State.

[Nick Roush]

Oh, yeah, that was good. 27.

[Drew Franklin]

27 points. Kind of one of the last moments. Maybe the last moment. We really got to see the best from Jackson Robinson before injury took him out for the rest of the year.

[Nick Roush]

Just so many stinking injuries got cheated from him. Yeah. Ryan, what are your best KSR moments? I have a personal favorite.

[Ryan Lemon]

Okay, I'll go in reverse order.

[Drew Franklin]

I have like 20 of these.

[Ryan Lemon]

Number five, the donuts show at my house by my pool. Well, you guys made me eat a bunch of donuts and I threw them up.

[Drew Franklin]

That was okay.

[Ryan Lemon]

Number four, the Tayden Lorenzen show. We did it for Thomas Highlands. Tayden joined us. You were just coming back. You just lost your friend Manny. It was kind of an emotional show. That one meant a lot to me, I think, and I appreciated that.

[Drew Franklin]

Thank you. Thanks for including a show where I cried on the air. Appreciate that.

[Ryan Lemon]

The Whiskey Thief Halloween show.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, your costume was incredible.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, we had a huge crowd. We were all dressed up. It was just kind of a good little vibe, I think. And it was a lot of fun. The weather was great, so I had to put that on the list.

[Drew Franklin]

And we. We really didn't know that was you in the Ditka. We weren't playing that up. All of us were like, is that. I think that's Ryan when you first walked in.

[Ryan Lemon]

When I walked in, Shannon said, oh, Mike Didka is here. Wait a minute. Who is that?

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, that was Ryan. That wasn't exaggerating for a good story. We weren't sure that was you with that slick back here.

[Ryan Lemon]

Ok, my top two, the pregame show we did in Indianapolis before the Tennessee game. Rock. And remember, it was. We was kind of that outdoor venue and it was just packed people up and down the sidewalk, people packed inside. That was a lot of fun. The game didn't go very well.

[Drew Franklin]

Parents were there.

[Ryan Lemon]

Matt's parents were there.

[Drew Franklin]

Weed a bit in my pocket.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, you're eating weed a bit. Pocket Weetabix.

[Drew Franklin]

That in Milwaukee, I'll add. You know, it wasn't quite tin roof, but at that little market we went to. Unless that's your next one.

[Ryan Lemon]

No, number one was the London Tornado show. We did it on a Monday morning after the tornado hit, I think on a Friday night.

[Drew Franklin]

Talk about emotions.

[Ryan Lemon]

It was. Man, that was that one. That one kind of hit hard with me, kind of resonated. And we got to see it firsthand and meet some of the victims. It was a. That's where I know our show means something when we do like the Sandy Hook tornado show and the flooding show down in eastern Kentucky. That London tornado show meant a lot to me.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah. We had already seen the images at that point. I think Pope and some of the players are gone and helped until we really got down see how far. Yeah, it extended. Yeah, I won't forget that. Let's take a break before we add ours. I'm already up running cutting it close here but Nick and I'll add a few more. We still have that Alabama preview. Yeah.

[Nick Roush]

Robust Alabama preview transfer Fair portal updates.

[Drew Franklin]

We'll do that now. Levitt entered the portal with a do not contact tag.

[Nick Roush]

Do not contact. Miami and Oregon are also in the mix. Who coaches it at Oregon?

[Ryan Lemon]

I've heard of him.

[Drew Franklin]

So we'll keep watching the portal get to Alabama. We'll be right back for one more segment with Drew Ryan, Nick Roush and Rick in studio. It's speed segment time here on ksr. One final segment with about five pages of content to get to Ryan, who is the speed segment brought to.

[Ryan Lemon]

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[Drew Franklin]

Alright, before we add a few more moments, Rick, we've had someone holding a long time, like 20 something minutes. I can't wait them make them wait any longer. That's just rude of me. Who's up?

[Ryan Lemon]

It's Mike.

[Drew Franklin]

Mike, I apologize. I'm doing my best here. Let's chat.

[Joe]

Well, I'll tell you what. That's. That's all right. I sure appreciate y' all, Ryan and Drew and. And Nick. First of all, let me tell Nick I was one of the fellows Saturday morning Wagner's for breakfast. Really enjoyed talking with you.

[Nick Roush]

Pleasure.

[Joe]

Get out of the way. Couple things. First, first of all, I watched women's game and after, after we won the game, the next best thing was watching those LSU fans with their blank looks on their faces.

[Drew Franklin]

Oh, it's beautiful. They were so excited.

[Joe]

Absolutely. And the next thing is that about Cody Bowley. I really like him but I want the best Player in every position we can get. And I want the best quarterback that we can get. And that's. That's. That's the bottom line as far as I'm concerned.

[Drew Franklin]

Boom. That's the right attitude, and we appreciate you hanging on and calling in. You ran into him at Wagner's.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah, Wagner's Pharmacy.

[Drew Franklin]

Is that a good time?

[Nick Roush]

Yo. Great time.

[Drew Franklin]

Great breakfast. Felt like a little staple kind of thing.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah, it's right next to Churchill Downs. Good breakfast joint.

[Drew Franklin]

Everything you do is right next to Churchill Downs. Yeah, you would live in Churchill if they'd let you.

[Nick Roush]

Yeah, yeah, it sounds about right. But now it's too nice. I can, you know, I can't afford it.

[Drew Franklin]

Too fancy for our type.

[Nick Roush]

And then I need a more seedy area, you know, Give me. Give me a good old downtrodden racetrack.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah, I'm gonna add a few seedy moments to Ron's top five.

[Ryan Lemon]

All right, let's do it.

[Drew Franklin]

One I have is very recent that I want to make sure is included in 2025.

[Nick Roush]

It's probably the best radio show.

[Drew Franklin]

You already know what I'm going to say.

[Nick Roush]

Oh, yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

Was it just maybe in this room a month ago, the fire alarms going off? Could there have been fire alarms going off? I know Matt hated it. It was so bad for those that couldn't see us. I was over here with a blank eating grin. I can't say it on radio, but I just need people to know that when KSR is in utter chaos, I have this smile that you cannot wipe off my face. And it was on my face that day as Matt was yelling at the fire alarm. Right.

[Ryan Lemon]

Well, he wanted to get out of the studio and go do it somewhere. You and I are both like, no, this is radio gold.

[Drew Franklin]

I want more firearms. It also had Will Stein's mom. It was Will Stein.

[Nick Roush]

Jade Winder being the correspondent at Sissy Cakes.

[Ryan Lemon]

That's right.

[Drew Franklin]

So I had to throw that one in.

[Nick Roush]

It's also when Matt, you can tell the. The tone he has when he's going to start one of those monologues and he's getting ready to do it for Saad. That's when the alarms start and you can just feel it. You can feel it. It takes me back to the old Eric C. Kahn show. Oh, that was a long time ago.

[Ryan Lemon]

That just built and built and built.

[Nick Roush]

You can't. You can't manufacture that emotion. It's great. It was. I was. I was cackling driving back from the introductory press conference. Listen to that podcast.

[Ryan Lemon]

So it Was Amy and Matt show was that this past year.

[Drew Franklin]

We got to get you on 2025. That was 2024. Get on that list a few more quick ones. You weren't there. But our trip to Buffalo and all those covers, that was Billy's first road trip. We have suitcase, the vegetables, me keeping him and Mario from fighting.

[Nick Roush]

The shoes too.

[Drew Franklin]

The shoes, yeah, yeah.

[Nick Roush]

Sharp dressed man.

[Drew Franklin]

Max left this year. Remember he came to Kentucky branded. I wanted to include that little tear. Giving Max hugs on the air. I enjoyed my Drew Palooza. Little selfish, little self centered there. You left me.

[Ryan Lemon]

You killed it that week.

[Drew Franklin]

You gave me lemons and I made lemonade. Thanks to all the guests on that. And I'm also going to include when we had Archie Goodwin on and he talked about how much that meant to get to talk to the fans. It was supposed to be preview and TBT and then turned into a big moment for Archie. So I want to include those.

[Nick Roush]

I'm glad you didn't get punched after that TBT moment because it happens sometimes when you mix it up with the folks down on 64.

[Drew Franklin]

They don't punch very hard though. Very weak minded individuals.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yeah, that, that one week we had Archie Goodwin and Khalil Whitney. They both kind of got to open up and you could tell, man, they were some repressed feelings they were getting to talk about for the first time ever.

[Drew Franklin]

And our house shows, we went to Shannon's house.

[Ryan Lemon]

Yes.

[Drew Franklin]

We went to the arcade in Northern Kentucky.

[Ryan Lemon]

Oh, that was a good show.

[Drew Franklin]

The zoo where I left my daddy with some zebras. Yeah, I wanted to include those. Now we have a minute left. Let's do our Alabama. Okay, Kentucky plays Alabama tomorrow. Noon, ESPN, KSR pregame show. Matt Jones is back. 9:30. We'll be right here getting you ready for that game. Alabama, how quickly can we do this?

[Nick Roush]

They shoot lots of shots. Lots of shots in America.

[Drew Franklin]

Third best offense, third and threes. But this year they block shots. They're third in the country and block shots. Look out for that. They'll get it going on both ends. Three losses this year, but they were top five teams. They lost Purdue, Gonzaga, Arizona. They beat Clemson, be Illinois. St. John's SEC's leading scorer, LeBaron Filon almost went pro last year. He's back getting 21 points a game, 55% from three, four or 55% from the field, 42% from three. It's a NATO team. We know exactly what it is. They beat us three times in a row.

[Nick Roush]

Never has 96 points in each one. Of those games.

[Drew Franklin]

Listen, the women showed us how it's done. Let's go. Get on the win on the road. SEC play, Ryan. Thank you, Nick Roush. Thank you Kentuckysportsradio.com for all your portal news. Crazy around here. Happy New Year. Matt's back tomorrow.

[Danny Shapiro]

I love you.

[Drew Franklin]

I'll see you all later.