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Welcome to The Big Blue Insider.
Dick Gabrielle with you Thursday edition of our

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program. We have got a lot
tonight football, basketball, even volleyball,

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and it's one of those nights where
usually Thursday shows are kind of hard to

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fill because you don't have stuff going
on from the previous weekend. You're looking

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ahead to the next weekend, and
in the summertime, let's face it,

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you know, there's not a whole
lot going on locally, but not the

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case tonight here on the Big Blue
Insider. We have got comments from UK

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basketball players. You may have seen
bits and pieces of interviews with these guys

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on the interweb and on some of
the TV stations. Well, they were

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made available three players today, made
available by UK. So everybody has new

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stuff and you'll be hearing and seeing
and reading about a lot of the comments

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that these kids made today. Also
coming up, Jeremy Jarman joins us.

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It's tough to get Jeremy because of
his busy professional life and family life,

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but of course Jeremy part of our
pregame coverage of Kentucky football, former UK

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All Conference defensive end. We've got
him for well the second half hour of

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this second half of this hour and
the first half of the next hour,

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So for about an hour we'll talk
football with Jeremy Jarman, and then the

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UK volleyball comes up fast starting at
the end of August, so we'll talk

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to Hunter Mitchell, who has covered
UK volleyball for quite some time, going

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back to these days with the Kentucky
Colonel. So, like I said,

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a lot coming up on the BBI, and we'll start with basketball because today

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UK released it's non conference men's basketball
schedule. Some of us had already gotten

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out, but now the dates are
there, the times are not as you

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know, that'll be settled in by
television. But the Cats open up on

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November fourth with Wright State. They
haven't announced any exhibition games yet. I

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got to think there's going to be
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they got right State Monday, November
fourth, Buck now the following Saturday,

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and then on Tuesday, November twelfth, you know, they play in the

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State Farm Champions Classic down in Atlanta
against the Duke Blue Devils, and that's

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going to be a tremendous matchup.
I would think lots of hype, Cooper

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Flag and all that. Back home
for Lipscomb on November nineteenth, that's a

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Tuesday. Then on the Friday following
Jackson State in the BBN Invitational Unity Series,

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followed on Tuesday by Western Kentucky.
That's on November the twenty sixth.

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The following Saturday, Georgia State here
in Lexingon. Then on Tuesday, December

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third, Wildcats head for Clemson.
That's the SEC ACC Challenge on Tuesday,

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December third. Then the Gonzaga matchup
in Seattle on the first Saturday, or

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rather the second Saturday in December.
Now, that would be the first Saturday

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in December again in the Seattle Climate
Pledge Arena. With any luck at all,

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you'll have to choose between that game
and maybe Big maybe Kentucky in the

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SEC Football Championship Game. That's a
long shot, I know, wouldn't be

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fun to have to choose though.
The following Wednesday, the Wildcats played Colegate

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for the first time ever, and
then on Saturday, December fourteenth, that's

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when the Louisville Cardinals come to town. So two head coaches matching off in

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that game for the first time,
Pat Kelsey for Louisville, Mark Pope for

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Kentucky. Of course, Pope played
against Uel as a Wildcat. A week

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after that, Ohio State in Madison
Square Garden and the CBS Sports Classic.

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So you get that week off there, presumably for exams, and then at

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the end of the calendar year,
Tuesday, December thirty first, the Wildcats

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back home to play the Brown Bears, and that's the first time the Wildcats

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have ever played Brown in Kentucky's basketball
history. All Right, I mentioned that

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we have comments from the players,
and we'll start with Ansley Amanpur. He

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is one of the many many seniors
on this team six seven, two thirty

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two, transferring in from Fairleigh Dickinson, and he talked about some of these

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high profile non conference games, which
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attracted to a place like Kentucky.
It's a great chance to measure yourself.

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You can't wait to get out there
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against other teams. Obviously excited for
some of the bigger games like Duke Louisville

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and stuff like that, but just
can't wait to get out there and go

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compete other guys. Is that kind
of why you came here playing those marquee

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games. Oh, yeah, it's
definitely a reason you don't get to play

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on that type of exposure, playing
national television games a lot of those big

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time teams, big time players.
You know, definitely, definitely was the

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reason why I came here for sure. Pow are games like that going to

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help you, guys gel maybe even
quicker than a game against a team that's

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not quite up to the same part, because you know, you face adversity.

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University brings you closer. So when
you play those bigger teams, you're

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going to go through a lot of
tough stretchers. They're going to go make

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runs because there's a lot of talent
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you when you face it, for
should you end up becoming quicker and jail

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quicker and stuff like that. So
those games definitely help us. What do

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you mean by adversity there? I
think I know, But what do you

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mean? Just you know, when
another team goes on a run, they're

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gonna hit shots. They're obviously talented
too. You know they're gonna go there,

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hit shots, going a little run. How we're gonna respond to that.

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The little things like that that helped
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March YEP. Obviously the better the
competition, the more you're gonna learn about

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yourself, and as he said,
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And of course we don't know yet
what the SEC schedule is, but it

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will be grueling. League's going to
be tough this year. We also talked

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to Andrew Carry's one of the Big
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listed as a grad student transferred in
from Wake Forest and Carr talked a little

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bit about why he chose Kentucky,
why he wanted to be a Wildcat.

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You know, this is a really
special place. I think for me,

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I knew what I was looking for
when I went into the transfer portal and

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this is a combination of everything that
kind of came together. For me.

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First and foremost, it was the
basketball fit, and I think, uh,

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Coach Pope did a really great job, you know, showing me how

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I would fit within the team and
in the recruitment and just the way that

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I've been able to play. But
also, uh, it's been was really

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cool for me to say, hey, you need to get better at this

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and this, and this is how
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you know, for someone trying to
to continue to get Better obviously has aspirations

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to to go play in the NBA. That's that's all you want to hear

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when you're in the recruitment process,
and so that was really cool to to

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understand my fit. And then the
second part was just the embracement. Embracement

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from the fans. You know,
I think, uh, Big Blue Nation

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is is just I think you said
it before. It's just it's just different,

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you know. I think it's a
really special place and been my dream

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ever since a little kid coming and
watching basketball. You always, you know,

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you hear about Kentucky, Kentucky basket
people. You watch Kentucky basketball,

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and you know you want to be
a Kentucky basketball player. So Andrew Carr

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also talked about the fact that during
practice Mark Pope, who played in the

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NBA, want to ring with Kentucky
as a big, gets into the low

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post with him and works with him
on drills. So that's got to be

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kind of fun to square off with
the head coach in practice. We talked

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to otega Oway, six to ford
junior from Newark, transferred in from Oklahoma,

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and he talked to us about his
new teammates and he told us he

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studied video on these guys before he
actually met them. He said, that's

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why nobody really surprised him when they
started competing against one another. No,

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I mean I kind of, like
I said, like I did the research

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before, so I know what everyone's
game is going to be. But just

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being able to see all the guys
like like just be together and just be

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focused on trying to get better and
build that chemistry, that's something I've just

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been surprised with it because I mean
we're all new, Like no one on

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the team was here last year.
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been selling selfish, they opened their
building. That relation of the bomb on

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the court and off the court,
that's been the biggest thing really. That's

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just part of the conversations we had
earlier today with the three players. We

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will have a lot more with them
coming up tomorrow night. I can promise

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you that. Speaking of Wildcat's former
Wildcats, you got to see what five

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of them last night as the USA
team USA played Canada, tuning up for

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the Olympics, eleven to one.
Canada took an early lead. The US

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team was turning it over taking bad
shots, but eventually turned things around and

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one going away these are future Hall
of famers against some really good players from

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Canada, but the US team wanted
eighty six to seventy two. In Las

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Vegas, Devin Booker started for Team
USA and nine points in twenty minutes.

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Bam Adebayo came off the bench played
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although he was two for six from
the line. Anthony Davis had a

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good one ten points, points,
eleven boards, four blocks in only eighteen

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minutes of ad coming off the bench
with the great effort. Last night for

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Canada, Jamal Murray started, but
they had only five points, did have

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five rebounds, but did not shoot
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Olgis Alexander eight points four rebounds in
nineteen minutes, but between the two of

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them, the two former Wildcats from
the outside did not farewell. Between them

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five of eighteen, two of nine
from beyond the arc, and Team USA

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is expected to roll to the gold
medal and they start in Paris on July

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twenty eighth against Serbia and Nikola Jokic. At the bottom of the hour,

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Jeremy Jerman talking UK Football six thirty
wlap welcome back to the Big Blue and

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sider Dick Gabriel with you. Coming
up in just a few minutes, Jeremy

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Jarman will join us and we're gonna
go deep with Jeremy. We're gonna finish

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up this hour and carry him into
hour number two a little bit later on

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Hunter Mitchell, our old buddy from
the u UK volleyball beat. We'll talk

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with us about the upcoming season,
which is coming up fast, just like

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football, and we're going to talk
a little baseball here. But first,

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there's a story coming out over the
last twenty four hours that may be disturbing

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to many of you who just don't
like the way college athletics are being handled

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or being designed right now because conference
affiliations are going away, Geographic affiliations are

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going away. And this has been
happening now in the ACC for a while,

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and this is a big deal in
that conference because it's two top moneymakers

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when it comes to football. Florida
State and Clemson have not been quiet about

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the deal they've got. They're unhappy. They've been talking about moving on,

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and there's a story out there stating
that they tried to make inroads with the

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SEC and that the SEC apparently has
turned them down. At least for now.

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So now the Big Twelve may be
involved, and it may not be

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just FSU and Clemson. There may
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the ACC or four more I should
say it's total of six looking to get

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into the Big Twelve, which,
if they can work it out, would

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not be a bad move for the
Big Twelve. That would make for a

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Power three conference along with the Big
Ten and the SEC. There is strengthened

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numbers in a situation like this.
And once again, a few years ago,

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it was me and probably a zillion
other people talking about the fact that

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all these changes, including the portal
and the NIL, would put an end

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to college athletics as we know it. They are always going to be around.

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But if you have a distaste for
the way things are operating now,

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come back and see me in a
year, and I guarantee you'll like it

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even less. So if these moves
happen, the Big Twelve will rival the

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Big Ten and the SEA when it
comes to income and when it comes to

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power, because there's a lot of
great football out there, and it's not

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all in the Big Ten in the
SEC. Speaking of great baseball used to

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be great in America not anymore for
a variety of reasons, cheap among them.

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The NFL blew him out of the
water a while back, and it's

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not going to go back. I
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College football to a degree is America's
pastime. But baseball still has its place

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in American sports, obviously, but
there are a lot of things that people

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who grew up loving the game dislike
about it. And Joe Madden, the

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former baseball manager, he's out of
the game right now, but he led

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the Cubs to their World Series title. He's a really smart guy and he

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had a pulpit the other day where
he talked about all the things that are

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ruining the game. He loves.
Coaches these days are coming from placesline and

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things of that nature. These are
today's gurus. I'm here to tell you,

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man, if I'm starting a group
to when I got, definitely got

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Larry Bow in that group. Absolutely. I don't care how old Glary Bow

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is. We need people to pass
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Guys have to be told when they're
screwing up doing things wrong. I

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think you could watch a lot of
games today and I keep getting queried about,

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did you see I'll slop you The
play was no. Listen, you

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could have sloppy play with the best
instructors in the world. I'm not arguing

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that, but the game has evolved
into the point where everybody's after their own

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brand and to show me kind of
a thing as opposed to playing this team

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concept that's individualized by the Dodgers or
the Cardinals or the Pirates of the past,

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which I loved, and I thought
the Angels in the nineties and early

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two thousands we had an identity.
I thought the Rays when we got to

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the race, we established an identity. Those are the kind of things that's

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never talked about anymore. It's all
based on analytical data and the sameness.

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Everybody wants the same thiss when it
comes out of draft. And furthermore,

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there are no minor leagues anymore.
That's been so watered down. I'm here

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to tell you, man, if
I under these circumstance, I never get

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an opportunity to eventually do what I
did. That's Joe Madden, who's been

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out of the game, at least
as a manager since the Angels fired him

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last June. Since then, there
have been five managerial changes in baseball,

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and nobody reached out to Madden.
He said a team in Japan or two

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reached out to him. Wasn't quite
ready to make that jump. Maybe he

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is now, but it's amazing that
a guy who is so well respected and

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liked by players and has a proven
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right now now. On the other
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argument is KYL. Ravis, who
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and if you watch Kentucky in the
College World Series, you probably heard

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his voice. But Raviits was on
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about the state of baseball, and
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he believed, and there's a lot
of it. He believes major League baseball

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right now is fine. I think
the game was in trouble, and I

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don't mean it was ever going to
go away, but it was in trouble

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when it took four hours to play
a Yankees Red Sox Sunday Night game four

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and a half. Like that wasn't
good. The product wasn't good. The

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product is really good on the field. The players, the young players are

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phenomenal, whether it's Bobby Witt or
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just on one guy. I don't
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partly because I don't believe baseball currently
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what baseball has to acknowledge is we
live in a football society. We live

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in a football world. So the
grand old pastime is no longer present.

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Number one, it's not. It's
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Baseball absolutely has a huge place on
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it is shifted. You know,
fifties and sixties baseball was it on all

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the sudden football and college football and
all that is passed it and how baseball

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fits somewhere in between the NBA and
the NHL event. That's where it is

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right now. But the changes they've
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there's nobody, no individual that is
being asked to save the game. The

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game is in good hands, The
game is in great shape. There are

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young players that are superstars who is
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and be I want to invest in
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that there's teams, the Reds,
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Cruz. Sign me up all day
long, o'neo Cruz, thanks very much.

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The Mariner's pitching, sign me up. I'm watching all that stuff now.

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Immediately, you might dismiss what he
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he has to say that because he
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big baseball contract. But I think
he makes great points. There are some

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really good young talented players, and
he mentioned the Reds Elie de la Cruz.

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I don't know that Reece Hines keeps
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in his first two games, but
there are a lot of really talented young

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players. But they were almost arguing
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where Madden was talking about the coaching
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Ravis was talking about star power and
you can have both. But you've got

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to wonder if you can put the
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better, if the preparation were better, if the metrics weren't so heavily leaned

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on, maybe there would be even
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bored with the game, which has
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by about a half an hour now
and that's a great move. And they've

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sped up college baseball as well.
I think that was one of the great

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threats to the game. But the
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home run approach. And I think
if anything draws away from baseball, that's

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it. Go back and look at
the style of baseball Kentucky played. What

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if you saw that in the major
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base pass and that kind of pitching
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much better product. There's a place, obviously for the home run. Tennessee

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proved that by winning the National championship. It plays a good brand of aggressive

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baseball. But not everybody can have
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So baseball will never be the same, but it's not dying on the vine.

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One thing that is healthy we know
this college football. Jeremy Jarman will

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come back and shat with us.
He, of course, is part of

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our coverage on the UK Sports Network. That's all ahead here on the Big

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Blue Sider six point thirty WLAP.
Welcome back to the Big Blueing Sider.

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Joining us now on our celebrity Hoidline, one of my favorite people and teammate

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on the UK Sports Network, former
UK All Conference defensive end Jeremy Jarman and

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Jeremy it won't be long now,
will it? Are you feeling it?

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Yeah? Definitely starting to get the
emotions again. I was able to get

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on the website and download the schedule
also my calendar, so that was a

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nice little addition that you Can Athletics
added to the site the ability to just

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kind of plug those games into the
personal calendar. So I think doing that

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the other day that really brought out, brought everything to the table and brought

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those emotions full circle. And the
times are slated for the first few games

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for the first time in my lifetime, I'm pretty I'm pretty excited. Game.

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Well, let's talk about that schedule. And I've been saying all along

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that and everybody knows the games are
always tough, it's when they happen,

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and in terms of early challenges,
Jeremy, this has got to be the

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toughest that I've seen in a long
long time for uk Man. It gets

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started fast and you know, you
think back some years back when we when

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we played Southern miss Uh in Kroger
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So to start that game out against
Southern Myss. I have a lot

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of respect for that program. Really
tough, really tough group of kids that

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they recruit. I'm looking forward to
deep diving in there. But then boom,

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you turn around the next week and
you're right in the SEC football play.

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So I mean, there's there's no
margin there, There's no margin for

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error, There's no margin for this
kind of lackluster start because it comes quick

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this season. Yeah, now the
ups and downs are you got everybody healthy,

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but you're not quite settled in maybe
in week two or three that you

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will be mid season. Do you
have many concerns in that direction? Say

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that again, Gave. When you've
got a tough game early in the year,

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you're relatively healthy, but you're still
trying to figure things out with maybe

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some of the younger players. Are
the rotations? Do you have any strong

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feelings either way? You know,
when I look at this team and I

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look at I look at the offensive
line, I look at the defensive line

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units, those are those are experienced
units for us this year. So you

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know, ideally you'd like to think
that those are going to be your strong

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suits and when those when those units
are strong, game you don't have to

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get you don't have to be fancy
early. You just got to be effective

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at what you want to do and
what you want to be good at.

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And we know markdouts football teams.
Offensively, they want to eat the clock

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because that's the football. And defensively, Brad White, he just wants to

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basically mix it up and muck it
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strong up front, like I'm starting
to suspect that we could be on both

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sides of the ball, I think
that that's going to help some of the

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inexperienced players to be able to ease
into gameplay, especially at the quarterback position.

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You mentioned the D line, and
that's got to be an area I

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would think of strength. Although losing
Josiah Hayes, I really that's that's a

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real damaging blow. I think he
may be going for the year. We

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don't know. They just signed a
Juco D tackle, but I still think

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they've got quality depth starting with Dan
Walker obviously, but he makes everybody around

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him better. What do you think
of it? D line? You know

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a little something about d Lions you
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look at Ripka just continuing to come
into his own I anticipate him having a

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big season. Silver's the guy,
in my opinion, I think he's the

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X factor up there on that defensive
lot, keeping him on the field,

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keeping him healthy, keeping him in
gags. Last year he got off to

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a quick start and then he just
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of things and banged up and he
just kind of disappeared from the film.

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And if they can keep him on
the field game, he's a super talented

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d lineman. He's shoes, he's
massive, long arm, long, big

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broad chest and back. He's a
guy that can help him Between him and

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Walker, if both of those guys
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makes life for everybody a little bit
easier. Yeah, because they got a

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double team Walker. I mean,
you know, I've been talking on the

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air about the fact on takeover day. I don't know if you had any

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time, you're a busy man to
just sit and watch any of those those

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games that they replayed. They replayed
the Florida win and the Louisville win,

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and those guys you've been talking about, especially Walker, they kept isolating ESPN

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did on how U of L in
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him and it was impossible, wasn't
it. Yeah, it's impossible. There's

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not a lot of players that you
just come across in college football that just

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have that physique and that stamina,
that skill set. There's nothing you can

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do in practice, gay to prepare
for Dion Walker if you don't have a

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guy that's ultimately sixty six, three
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as as as the best defense into
your defense linement in the country. I

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mean, he's a unicorn. Yeah, and you can't simulate that in practice.

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So you got to respect those teams
and those programs for allowing their guys

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to have the opportunity to try to
block these guys, because sometimes it can

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be a detriment to a player if
you don't give him the ability to see

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if he can block a player one
on one, and if he can,

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that's a confidence booster. If he
can't, then that player knows. Okay,

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I need to dig in a little
bit more. I got some film

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and now I can work towards this
on the offseason. Now I know what

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an all that sec he give us
to the lineman looks like, I know

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what a potential All Americans, potential
lottery pick defensive lineman looks like, so

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you got to give your players a
chance versus just saying you can't block the

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on walker. You know, we're
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So you know there, So there's
a couple of different ways to look

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at why you see teams attempt to
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But I don't expect there to be
too many players that are going to be

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able to do that consistently this season. I hadn't thought about that that if

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you're sitting in in the the meeting
room prior to playing Kentucky and you're an

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old lineman, you've got to be
saying to yourself, well, I think

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I can take this guy, but
unless you faced him before, you know,

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how do you admit give me some
help on this? Right? For

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sure? And for sure? I
mean and there's times, you know,

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as a defensive lineman or linebacker,
you know, whether it's a back being

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able to carry a back out of
the backfield and man the man situations where

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you're asking your coach, hey,
you know why aren't you giving me a

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chance I can tackle this guy in
space? And I think sometimes as a

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player, that competitor nature has to
come out and you got to say,

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you know, I can block this
guy, Coach, don't we don't need

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the double team. Let's let's try
to work up and you try to do

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it until you realize that maybe you
just can't. But you know, even

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in our practice, you know,
with our players on our team, you

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know they have to double team Dion
Walker to be able to get through practice

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segments. And when they don't,
he's so disruptive that Mark has to take

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him out out of some of the
practice sessions. I think I remember Stoop's

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talking about that. That that that
got my attention as much as anything where

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they actually had to take him out
of drills because he was throwing people around

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to he didn't want to hurt anybody. Yeah, And I thought it was

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a little bit of hyperbole at first, and then as I started to get

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in and get over there to practice, and then we saw the body of

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work on game days, He's absolutely
right. I mean, Deon Walker,

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it's tough to practice against a guy
like that unless the guy that's blocking him

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in practice is also a unicorn,
are also ultimately a bona fide pro because

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he is, he is a he
could potentially this season we could be saying

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that he's a generational type tight talent
at the defensive tackle position. All right,

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be honest with me, and then
we'll move on talking about Dion Walker

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with Jeremy Jarmon. But how surprised
are you, Jeremy, that he's still

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here? Let's face it, we
all know we got a nice nil chunk,

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but a lot of schools have nil
bucks. Are you pleasantly surprised he's

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still a wildcat? I'm not.
And the reason why that is is because

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I know the type of relationship that
he has with the guys in the locker

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room and also anwar Stewart, the
defensive line coach, and Brad White.

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But him and anwar are very close. And you can see the body of

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work I got film breakdown on Dion
from game one to present and the buy

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in the technical He's got natural gifts, but you can see you can see

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the tools that are that he's deploying, that he's being taught by anwar Stewart

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who was a technician in college,
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So he's getting better. There's no
reason for Dion Walker to leave and go

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to another school for a little bit
more money, because he's ultimately he's going

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to end up where he wants to
be, which is the National Football League.

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And he's just he's just continued to
just grow and develop at UK and

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and and and he's going to have
an incredible junior campaign. I'm glad you

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mentioned Ann War. I was going
to ask you about him. You and

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so many former players who either know
him or played with Anwar have been so

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complementary of him and supportive of Anwar
there. So you guys are all so

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impressed with a job he's doing and
obviously the proofs of the putting, But

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what is it about Anwar you think
that has made him so successful at his

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alma mater. He's authentic. He's
an authentic person and he truly wants what's

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best for his guys. And I
just see the relationship when I go out

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to practice, I go over and
that's where I like to hang out.

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I like to see and War and
those guys and their interactions and it's always

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inspiring for me. And I see
the best, the best players on the

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team also being amongst the hardest workers
on the team, because that from a

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cultural standpoint, that's not always the
case. Sometimes your best players are average

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workers in practice and then they kind
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And Dion's just the guy that he's
a grizzly twenty four to seven. I

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mean, he's mauling people when it's
time to mall people, he's malleling them.

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And they're having to ultimately putting,
you know, taking out of practice

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sessions in order to be as productive
as they want to be because they're focusing

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on the team. So relationships trump
everything. And I think ultimately for these

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guys they're going to learn is that
you can go out and you can go

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shop around and you can find the
highest price tag. But when you continue

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to look at the high level of
recruiting that this staff is getting done,

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and you look at the quotes that
are coming out from the players and from

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their families, they say, the
facilities are great, you know, the

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bills and whistles there there, But
the people. It's the people that I

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enjoyed, the people that I met, the people that when I'm coming on

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my unofficial business, the true relationship
building that's taking place, and that's why

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Marcus continuing to have success in recruiting, and that's why he's also been able

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to keep some of his top stars, being able to keep them at Kentucky

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despite us not having the highest NIL
offer. I can assure you, Dion

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Walker, the offers that he's gotten
have exceeded probably not probably, they have

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exceeded what he's getting at UK.
Yeah, there's no doubt in min There's

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no doubt in my mind. And
it's funny you say that because when you're

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talking about family, I've heard more
recruits talk about that about on their visit.

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You know, they just felt a
kind of a family vibe at UK

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and at facility and from the coaches, the recruiters, the guys who host

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them on their visit and it seems
to be genuine and it's paying off on

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the field. We're talking to Jeremy
Jarman or the UK Sports Network. We'll

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come back and talk more with Double
Jay's in just a minute. Here on

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the Big Moon Sider six. Back
to the Big Newing Sider. My guest

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Jeremy Jarman from the UK Sports Networking
and Christy Thomas, part of our pregame

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coverage of Kentucky football, and it
won't be long now. I've talked to

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a lot of people this summer,
Jeremy about the fact that, of course

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Kentucky is not in the preseason top
twenty fives after back to back seven win

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seasons, which amazingly have been disappointing
to Kentucky fans. But really it is

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a mystery at least on offense,
isn't it. When you've got a new

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OC, a new quarterback, we
don't know who's going to carry the mail

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in the offensive backfield. We think
we know, but the one thing is

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you touched on earlier is the offensive
line. How confident are you with all

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these question marks on the offensive side
of the ball. One of those it's

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one of those things gave is that
the players in the talent is there.

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But I'll tell you, changing coordinators, new quarterback, those are recipes for

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disaster. Yep. I mean,
we just we just have to be honest.

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I mean, statistically, I've seen
the articles over the years when you

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see NFL teams change offensive coordinators,
they change quarterbacks. Those are significant and

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and there's no different tier in mark
he has he has somehow he has been

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able to manage these these changes with
the coordinators as well as anybody as I've

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ever seen, Because for some head
coaches, these OC or DC changes they're

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they're there. I mean, they
ultimately lead to coaches getting fired. GM's

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getting fired. But he's been right
in picking these coordinators to come in.

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He's been right ultimately and finding that
that signal caller to come in and run

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the offense. So the concern is
here is is you know you go and

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you got you got a new OCS
coming in from an outside conference like the

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scheme, still got to watch some
more Boise film. Uh, you have

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a talented quarterback room. The guy, as you're likely starter, doesn't have

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a lot of snaps under his belt. Gavin Wims that is coming in,

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he probably he may be one of
the more experienced players in the room.

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I still think that there's gonna be
a true quarterback battle in that room.

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I don't care how many stars,
I don't care how many starters are there

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across some of these players, But
I still think that there's gonna be an

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honest quarterback battle in Paul Camp.
Do you think it's gonna be a two

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man battler or three man, we're
gonna see. But I'm I'm really intrigued.

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I think there's gonna be some storylines
that come out, and as they

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should. I don't think that this
quarterback, this position is gonna be handed

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to someone. Yeah, I think
everybody knows has an expectation of who they

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think QB one is gonna be from
the start. But I think that there's

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there's gonna be a battle for it. I really do. Are you saying

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that because of your concern about the
fact that, let's face it, we

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all think Brock vandergriff released a lot
of us will be the starter, or

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are you saying that because you believe
Bo Allen has improved that much and that

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Gavin Wimson brings a lot to the
table. I think Gavin does bring some

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things to the table. You know, his experience been one of them we

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talked about. Bobo also has experience. You know, whether he's gonna whether

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he's going to be able to push
to be the push to be a starter

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in that room, I can't make
that determination. I think that that's I

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think that that's more unlikely. But
I like the experience that Bo brings.

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So we're gonna see Gabe, I
just want I want to get out.

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I want to watch the guys kind
of spin it. I want to watch

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the edge rushers come off the edge. I want to watch them push the

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quarterbacks up into the pocket. One
of the things about Bush with these quarterbacks

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quick release. It's quick release football, quick reads football, and and basically

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the guy that thinks that that his
brain sees it breathes the coverage the quickest.

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Yeah. I don't think that you
have to have the most talented arm

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in the room in order to succeed
in Bush's offense. You just got to

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have the smarts and the release and
the accuracy, don't you. Yeah,

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I mean it's it's it's it's a
lot of quick game stuff. It's a

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lot of stuff off of some misdirection, a lot of quick games and quick

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quick game that to me, that
benefits that benefits a lot of quarterbacks.

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I think that that with good decision
making that you can really get into a

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rhythm. And I think a guy
like Gavin, I think he's I think

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that this is a this is a
system that he could potentially thrive in.

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Uh I sleep rock as well.
So I'm just curious to see a little

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bit more this fall. You know, obviously we didn't get a chance to

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see see a ton uh, you
know, see a ton from from this

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room. But I'm curious to see
what what ultimately what's gonna look like here

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in a few weeks follow up on
on the quick release brand of offense.

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And I'm not trying to pigeon all
anything, but I'm just curious from your

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side of the football, does that
benefit a receiving group more one than the

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other or style? Does it mean
fewer deep shots? Does that mean fewer

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checkdowns to running backs or or more
patterns for running backs that kind of thing.

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What should we look for? I
think what we should look for is

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sorry, a little bit of noise
in the background. Uh. I think

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what we should look for is is
just basically when I look at this offseason,

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I look at coach Schworts, the
new wide receiver coach. I'm curious

506
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to see the level of I think
mental toughness, consistency and just route running

507
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:22.159
and unders and basically comprehension of defensive
schemes. I think that our wide receiver

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room under coach Shortz has the ability
to basically take a take a step forward

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in terms of IQ football IQ.
So when you look at some of this

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quick game stuff, being able to
understand the route tree, being able to

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read the defender, the corner that's
in front of you, especially when you're

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talking about option routes being in sequence
your quarterback. So when you go back

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a few seasons and you look at
you look at one Dale Robinson catching one

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hundred balls, which is just absolutely
just amazing one hundred balls as the smallest

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00:37:57.480 --> 00:38:00.119
player on the field, it is
because of football, Like you, It's

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because him and Will Levis were so
in sync and they understood coverages. I

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mean, those guys just put on
they put on the clinic a few years

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ago. So I'm curious to see
if one or multiple of these guys,

519
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with this new quick with this new
offense, if they're gonna take a similar

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step where they're gonna be in sync
ultimately with our QB one to be able

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to start to rack up yards,
move the change. I mean, a

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lot of this is IQ, and
the more those guys can comprehend, then

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the more that can be added with
the option routes and with the wrinkles that

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you can put in place off of
these things. Wandale so often was a

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catch and run kind of guys,
that what you're talking about. Yes,

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that's good to me, Jeremy Jarnson. I guess we'll come back and talk

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more Kentucky football. Saren just a
minute with Double Jays. We'll step out

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for the news break and then bring
Jeremy back in our number two on six

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point thirty wlap every sing Welcome back
to the Big bluins Sider. We're talking

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with Jeremy jarm and he is in
trendsit as he often is, but we

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took the opportunity to talk some UK
football with him, and it'll be here

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00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:15.239
before long here Jeremy's coverage along with
Christy Thomas on our pregame show here on

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the UK Sports Network. And of
course the Wildcats again a mystery team according

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to many, but that's understandable with
all the question marks. But the one

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thing we know, Jeremy, I'm
fairly confident that the defense will give the

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offense the opportunity to win the game. And that's what it's all about him,

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all right, it is, And
that's that has been Brad White's calling

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00:40:40.719 --> 00:40:45.280
cards since he's been here. I
think I think Brad has just he's done

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00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:52.840
a phenomenal job, and I'm curious
to see how if any new wrinkles that

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he puts in that'll be you know, those will be conversations to kind of

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00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:00.599
talk with him about. But he's
just done a good job and had a

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00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:06.199
chance to sit down with him.
And I just always always enjoy, always

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00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:14.320
enjoy seeing how he develops inexperienced players
and how he continues to just kind of

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00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:19.599
add to their workload as they grow
and mature. And Andrew Phillips being one

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of those guys who's going to be
myssed dearly. But Andrews starting out here

546
00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:29.519
as a guy primarily an inside inside
corner, you know, and and basically

547
00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:35.360
being asked lud and and and play
outside coverages. And I asked Brad and

548
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he kind of he kind of got
a frown on his face when I asked

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her the question. I kind of
felt like a paracist what I asked it.

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But I said, you know,
you're losing Andrew. I said,

551
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does it feel like you're losing two
players? And he kind of frowned up,

552
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and then he bounced back and he
said you and and you know,

553
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he acknowledged just the importance of that
role that Andrew played, so, you

554
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know, trying to replace his experience
and his nastity and just seeing how he

555
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how he facilitates that and how did
players how they handle it. So just

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just a lot. I think he's
just done a good job. It was

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huge getting out and being able to
get to Georgia transfer at the linebackers and

558
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to come into the linebacker room that
was that was a huge void void filler

559
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there. Jamie is gonna do well
right next to right next to our guy

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00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:36.400
d Eric Jackson, D jack Down. The stretch was money last year,

561
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wasn't he? He was? He
really was continuing to grow, continuing to

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grow. He's a guy because he's
not as fast and twitchy as some of

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the other linebacks inside linebackers have been
over the years. So for him,

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the pre snap, the pre snap
reeds, the post snap reeds, being

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able to process that a little quicker. I think that that's what what what

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was happening for him is being confident
in his reads and and basically starting to

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00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.639
anticipate things versus sitting back. He
didn't have the he doesn't have the natural

568
00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:15.840
ability sometimes to sit back and let
something open up and be able to react

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00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:20.119
and and and get in there and
get that PBu like like a Trevin Wallace,

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but but d Jack, he he's
a physical player. There a lot

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of experience. Looking forward to seeing
him down in Dallas. Uh in about

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a week or so at the S
Days. Yeah, I'm excited he got

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You know, he's wasn't He's not
as outgoing as Trevin Wallace was, but

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he still led the team in tackles
the last couple of years. Uh.

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And I do believe though, help
let me ask you how much will he

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00:43:47.320 --> 00:43:53.039
miss playing alongside Trevin Walla. They
had such a great relationship, you know,

577
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one of those kind of unspoken deals
where they just knew each other's moves

578
00:43:58.079 --> 00:44:01.079
on and off the field. But
bring it in Pop from Georgia should help

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00:44:01.159 --> 00:44:07.079
kind of allay that, right for
sure. And a lot of that's just

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going to be in camp in the
film room, talking through things as you

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00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:16.320
start to see what a player is
capable of. And you mentioned Pop,

582
00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:23.480
just another experienced football player, and
I really think that they're going to sharpen

583
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:31.400
each other just in terms of just
play and alignment and anticipation of routes and

584
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:36.280
just down in distance. Just a
lot of the pre staff communication that happens

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before the snap of the ball.
And I think Pop is one of those

586
00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:45.360
guys he's really good at that.
You don't rack up and have the kind

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00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:50.039
of success that he has by not
having a good, good understanding of the

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00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:53.639
game and schemes and what teams are
trying to do to you. That's work

589
00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:57.760
that's done in what you guys call
the film room. And you're looking at

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video right for sure, A lot
of Yeah, that's where a lot of

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the work's done. Sitting back with
some flower seeds and the cowboy remote gay

592
00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:15.320
and and uh and going through and
just looking at the film until things just

593
00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:20.119
start to until they just start to
click, until you start to see tendencies,

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you start to see friends, You
start to see little pre staple alignments

595
00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:30.639
that teams and that players do to
get subtle advantages. And those are the

596
00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:36.679
kind of things that experience coaches that
they that they teach, that they teach

597
00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:40.079
players, and as players get more
and more experienced than the coaches just basically

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00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:44.440
able to just pour it on.
I mean it becomes like a master of

599
00:45:44.599 --> 00:45:52.639
graduate level of course of the ball. Where Brad Moulhat I like, uh,

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like the d jack that he wouldn't
be having with one of the younger

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linebackers because he's just not there yet. I've heard guys talk about learning to

602
00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:06.000
watch film. You know. It's
not like you could just sit down and

603
00:46:06.079 --> 00:46:07.559
it washes over you, right,
I mean, you've got to know what

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00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:12.079
to look for and that kind of
thing, and what to study and what

605
00:46:12.239 --> 00:46:17.320
to let go. Yeah. I
think the main thing is is that now

606
00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:22.880
there's so much, there's so much
that these offensive coordinators are throwing at you,

607
00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:25.960
and they're self scouting. They're making
sure to try to keep their runs

608
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:30.239
to the left, runs to the
right, balance short, intermediate, long

609
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:34.239
range play action. So there's a
lot of self scouting where they try to

610
00:46:34.760 --> 00:46:37.880
keep the defenders from being able to
guess. But at the end of the

611
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:45.519
day the film, ultimately, you
just need to have an answer for what

612
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:50.320
teams do do the best. Yeah, and if they beat you on some

613
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:52.960
of the ancillary things and you just
got to live with that, but you

614
00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:59.559
can't let them beat you at what
they do best. Interesting, you know,

615
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:04.480
and I remember I think it was
it was either what he Hayes or

616
00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:09.400
Bow, one of those two legendary
coaches, talked about just that about attacking

617
00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:15.079
a team at its strongest point,
because if and when you can break that

618
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:20.760
down, you've broken them mentally and
emotionally, haven't you. You know,

619
00:47:20.800 --> 00:47:22.760
there's a lot of psychology behind that. I think some of the old school

620
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:27.920
guys they do such a good job
of saying those kinds of things. And

621
00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:31.440
now you look at a Shun Peyton
with some of the more controversial statements.

622
00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:37.480
You know, attack the head and
the body will die will symbolically symbolically,

623
00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:43.840
he's absolutely right. I mean,
if a team's run dominant and they've had

624
00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:50.360
success running the toss suite, and
you're shutting those things down early, now

625
00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:53.719
that team can't get into a rhythm. So now the head of the team,

626
00:47:53.760 --> 00:47:58.280
you're offensive coordinator. Now he's trying
to figure out, Okay, how

627
00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:00.880
can I get the team into a
rhythm. Now he has abandoned what has

628
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:07.000
worked best for the team. Now
your players know that there's some struggles because

629
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:10.960
you're talking about it on the sideline, and now you're starting to cast doubt

630
00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:15.880
amongst yourselves and whether this game plan
is going to be good today. So

631
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:21.440
there's a lot of psychological chess play
that's going on throughout the game in different

632
00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:23.480
phases. That are you know,
that are fascinating and it's fun to sit

633
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:29.360
back and just kind of talk with
guys about what it was, what play

634
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:32.199
it was, at what point there
was a sudden change that really kind of

635
00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:37.800
you know, blew the door in
to either allow a team to get back

636
00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:43.079
on track or what it was ultimately
that that kind of brought about the defeat.

637
00:48:43.239 --> 00:48:46.119
So, yeah, football is a
very complex game. It's simple,

638
00:48:46.199 --> 00:48:51.400
but it's very complex with the different
nuances and alignments that you can show what

639
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:55.800
you know, it's fun, it's
fun covering for UK Sports Network Gave and

640
00:48:57.280 --> 00:49:00.639
or we get a chance to sit
back and just kind of talk about talk

641
00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:05.239
about some of those things. Yeah, and you know what, if you

642
00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:08.639
can along with what you're saying,
take let's say it is the toss sweep.

643
00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:13.239
Take that away from a team that's
really good and now they've got to

644
00:49:13.280 --> 00:49:15.480
be wondering, all right, what
do we do now? You know,

645
00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:20.719
now you're you're trying to adjust on
the fly when you've worked all week on

646
00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:24.960
a game plan that suddenly just melted
away right, correct, correct, And

647
00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:30.199
it's and it's frustrating for a coach
and it can be demoralizing for a football

648
00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:32.000
team. You know, you can
just go you can go back and you

649
00:49:32.079 --> 00:49:37.840
can look at you can look at
a game like Florida last year with with

650
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:45.239
uh, I mean, it was
just, it was just it was an

651
00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:50.679
incredible game, an incredible individual effort
for Ray Davis, but the offensive line

652
00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:54.960
so many things fell in place.
And once you cast that doubt, once

653
00:49:55.039 --> 00:50:00.639
that doubt creeps in and teams and
players know, hey, just game plans

654
00:50:00.719 --> 00:50:05.440
not working today, it's over.
Yeah. When the players start to doubt

655
00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:07.400
the game plan and they start to
you know, doubt the doubt, the

656
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:15.199
scheme is absolutely over that afternoon,
and so it is. It's gonna be

657
00:50:15.320 --> 00:50:19.679
fun to see to see how this
camp opens up, Gabe, and I'm

658
00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:23.639
looking forward to the Southern Miss game
to see where to see where Mark and

659
00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:28.440
this team are. We will wrap
things up with Jeremy Jarman on the other

660
00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:30.559
side of the break. More UK
football chatter coming up here on the Big

661
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:34.960
Blueing Sider six thirty WLA. We're
talking with Jeremy Jarman. He is,

662
00:50:35.039 --> 00:50:39.800
of course, the former Kentucky defensive
and All Conference and now our teammate on

663
00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:45.760
the UK Sports Network. You mentioned
Ray Davis a minute ago and again going

664
00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:51.199
back to watch those sec takeover games, a Florida game, the U of

665
00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:52.760
L game, and you remember them, I know, because you've just been

666
00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:55.920
referring to him, and you filled
in for me quite capably on the U

667
00:50:55.960 --> 00:51:00.039
of L game, and I was
out with my little medical venture last year.

668
00:51:01.079 --> 00:51:06.920
But those I think were his best
two games. Obviously the Florida game

669
00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:12.400
where he said records, but the
Louisville game on the road against a higher

670
00:51:12.519 --> 00:51:19.199
ranked team and a team that had
clearly yeared its defense to stopping his run

671
00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:22.880
game, and yet he found ways
both on the ground and through the air

672
00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:28.119
to help Kentucky pull out that upset. It's a lot to ask one guy

673
00:51:28.199 --> 00:51:32.440
to come in and fill his shoes, though, am I right? Uh,

674
00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:37.519
There's no one coming in the field
the shoes that Ray Davis Field.

675
00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:40.519
I mean, he had one of
he had one of the best running back

676
00:51:40.639 --> 00:51:46.039
seasons that I've that I've been able
to witness in person. And it was

677
00:51:46.239 --> 00:51:51.639
just it was fun to cover him. He was such a versatile running back,

678
00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:57.079
the ability to hit the home run
tough first, the season went on

679
00:51:57.280 --> 00:52:00.840
in terms of being able to get
some yards some yards after intact as well,

680
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:06.400
not in the way that obviously his
predecessors in Rodriguez Snail had but in

681
00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:09.159
his own way. But his versatility
catching the ball out of the backfield.

682
00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:15.480
I mean the seven the seven touchdowns
receiving, the compliment is almost fifteen hundred

683
00:52:15.519 --> 00:52:21.760
yards rushing and what an incredible campaign
that he had in this last year.

684
00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:28.440
So yeah, I don't have any
expectations that that one person is going to

685
00:52:28.519 --> 00:52:34.639
be able to do that to replicate
that. So I'm curious to see who's

686
00:52:34.760 --> 00:52:37.199
who is of this group? Will
he merge? I'm really high. I'm

687
00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:43.760
really high on Demi Demi Sumo karmbe
really high on him. I think he's

688
00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:46.440
a fantastic football player. I think
he can help us in the run game

689
00:52:46.480 --> 00:52:50.480
as well as the receiving game.
I'd like to see if they're going to

690
00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:53.559
utilize him maybe a little bit more
in the slight capacity, give him some

691
00:52:53.639 --> 00:52:59.360
opportunities there and the way NC State
did a couple of seasons ago. So

692
00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:04.960
uh so we'll see there. I
think he's very versatile. So uh but

693
00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:07.519
we all know that there's a there's
a there's an open battle there at the

694
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:13.519
running back position. I think I
think it's a it's a talented room but

695
00:53:13.679 --> 00:53:17.039
we'll see if there's someone that will
emerged that that's able to carry the bulk

696
00:53:17.079 --> 00:53:21.159
of the shares. The one thing
we know, We've talked a lot about

697
00:53:21.159 --> 00:53:24.679
the mysteries on offense, but the
one thing we know is Barrion Brown is

698
00:53:24.719 --> 00:53:30.360
one of the premier home run hitters
potentially in the country. And the Dane

699
00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:34.119
Key. Even though he had a
couple of drops against Louisville, he made

700
00:53:34.199 --> 00:53:39.639
some absolutely clutch catches for first downs
for touchdowns against the Cardinals. Those two

701
00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:45.280
guys compliment each other so well.
I think Dane has shown growth and maturity

702
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:50.119
from maybe the middle of his freshman
year on. I think Barrion needs to

703
00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:53.159
take a big step this year.
But I keep hearing Jeremy that he is

704
00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:58.079
poised and ready to do that.
Have you heard the same thing? I

705
00:53:58.239 --> 00:54:01.800
have heard that. And I think
that that room, I think that that's

706
00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:08.320
a very talented room, and and
I was I was very appreciative. I

707
00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:13.360
know it's always tough anytime you have
to go different directions from a coach,

708
00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:17.960
from a coaching perspective, but I'm
really high on the things that I've read

709
00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:23.079
about coach Schortz. I like his
background as a player as well, and

710
00:54:23.559 --> 00:54:31.239
I'm just I'm really intrigued to see
how his presence will translate to the wide

711
00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:39.039
receiver room. That's interesting because generally
coaches come in pick up where somebody else

712
00:54:39.159 --> 00:54:45.840
left off. This guy, I
think he's already had a pretty good impression,

713
00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:50.079
left a pretty good impression, a
good impact on that room, don't

714
00:54:50.119 --> 00:54:57.039
you. I think so. I
think so. And ultimately I think I

715
00:54:57.119 --> 00:55:01.000
think that will know for sure here
here in a few weeks game And and

716
00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:05.639
I'm eager to talk with the players
as well and just kind of talk about

717
00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:09.280
some of the differences, some of
the differences and and how they feel that

718
00:55:09.320 --> 00:55:15.519
they've grown this grown as players and
pass catchers. I know at times last

719
00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:19.119
year there seem to there seemed to
be just kind of a I don't know,

720
00:55:19.239 --> 00:55:22.719
I don't want to say lack of
focus, because you know, when

721
00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:25.639
you're dropping the football, it's hard. You know, I never had to

722
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:30.440
catch the football for a living,
So sometimes with some of those drops,

723
00:55:30.519 --> 00:55:32.800
is it focus? Is it you
know? Is it good defense? Was

724
00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:36.719
the ball a little wildly? You
know, there's a there's a lot of

725
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:39.719
reasons, but there were times where
it just seemed like we kind of our

726
00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:45.199
receiver room kind of got into a
lull. Yeah yeah. Barrian had that

727
00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:50.320
big drop in the back of the
end zone wide open against the Gators,

728
00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:53.599
and Dane dropped the first ball thrown
to him against Louisville. But they both

729
00:55:53.719 --> 00:55:58.360
bounced back and made huge plays,
either catching the ball or on the jet

730
00:55:58.440 --> 00:56:01.360
sweep of Barrion Brown. So,
and it's interesting that you mentioned coach Schortz

731
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:06.679
one of the first answers of our
interview, and so he has clearly made

732
00:56:06.719 --> 00:56:09.079
an impression on you. So that's
going to be interesting. Jeremy, I

733
00:56:09.079 --> 00:56:13.000
won't take any more of your time. It's always great talking football with you,

734
00:56:13.559 --> 00:56:15.960
looking forward to that first game as
you are looking forward to hearing you

735
00:56:16.039 --> 00:56:21.280
and Christy break things down, and
I'm sure we'll talk again before kickoff.

736
00:56:21.320 --> 00:56:25.840
I appreciate you joining us. Yeah, game anytime. Man. Love talking

737
00:56:25.880 --> 00:56:30.360
football with Jeremy Jarman. And it
won't be long now before we see kickoff

738
00:56:30.440 --> 00:56:35.960
over at Kroger Field. Something came
out the other day. I don't know

739
00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:37.800
that we saw a whole lot of
play. I know I didn't talk much

740
00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:43.039
about it because we were wrapped up
in other things. But the athlon preseason

741
00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:46.280
all America and All Conference teams announced. Used to be, Athlon was the

742
00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:52.039
voice when it came to preseason magazines. Now there are so many it kind

743
00:56:52.039 --> 00:56:54.880
of gets lost in the shuffle,
but important to note that Kentucky had three

744
00:56:55.440 --> 00:57:00.800
preseason All Americans on the athlon team. Walker made second team, of course,

745
00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:07.960
Barrion Brown was second team preseason All
American as a specialist, and Maxwell

746
00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:13.760
Harriston defensive back, was fourth team
of course on defense. So three on

747
00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:19.280
the preseason All America team for athlon, and then of course Dion Walker first

748
00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:23.039
team for a defense, Barrion Brown
first team, specialist, Harriston a first

749
00:57:23.079 --> 00:57:30.079
team defender. Dane Key was named
second team on offense, Pop Dumas Johnson's

750
00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:35.440
second team on defense on the third
team, Derek Jackson linebacker, Marcus Cox

751
00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:42.960
offensive lineman, JJ Weaver defensive end, and Eli Cox made fourth team as

752
00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:46.880
an offensive lineman. So Atlon Man, we could wait to get to you

753
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:52.039
know, Kroger or whatever and get
our copy of the Athlon preseason. He

754
00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:54.039
was on the cover, on the
regional cover, and that kind of thing

755
00:57:54.800 --> 00:58:00.119
we already knew about the Phil Steele
preseason All of America list. Phil Steele

756
00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:07.679
publishes the magazine that has got so
much information crammed into it you really need

757
00:58:07.760 --> 00:58:13.320
a magnifying glass to check everything out. But he named his All America team,

758
00:58:13.400 --> 00:58:17.519
has Walker's second team and Barrion Brown
second team as well. Then he's

759
00:58:17.559 --> 00:58:22.880
got the usual suspects on his preseason
All Conference team. In fact, it's

760
00:58:23.079 --> 00:58:29.400
pretty much exactly the same names as
we just read off on the Athlon magazine.

761
00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:34.960
So you know, Kentucky football has
forged a lot of respect. And

762
00:58:35.079 --> 00:58:39.639
we talked with several people already this
summer about the fact that Kentucky expectations now

763
00:58:39.719 --> 00:58:45.559
are high and they should be because
of the recruiting and the development that Mark

764
00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:49.559
Stoops and his staff have done,
and that has landed people on all conference

765
00:58:49.639 --> 00:58:52.519
teams. And there were years in
the past and you might remember them where

766
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:59.880
Kentucky wouldn't have anybody or maybe one
person on a preseason or postseason All conference

767
00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:02.360
list. And now you know you've
got eight, nine, ten people,

768
00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:08.079
which means the folks doing the voting
are expecting more from Kentucky. And coming

769
00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:14.159
up next week we will have the
preseason voting by the media at SEC Media

770
00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:17.159
Days to find out where they believe
Kentucky will land. Last year it was

771
00:59:17.519 --> 00:59:21.920
second in the East behind Georgia.
No more divisions now, but I gotta

772
00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:25.760
think Kentucky will have lower expectations this
year. But wildcats like to play with

773
00:59:25.840 --> 00:59:30.239
a chip on their shoulder. Up
next, we'll talk Kentucky volleyball with Hunter

774
00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:34.599
Mitchell here on the Big bluon Sider
six point thirty wlap. Welcome back to

775
00:59:34.639 --> 00:59:39.519
the Big Bluinsider. Joining us now
somebody who's familiar to you if you followed

776
00:59:39.519 --> 00:59:44.239
our show for a while, which
we appreciate. Also to the Cameron Mills

777
00:59:44.320 --> 00:59:47.840
Show which went off the air awhile
back, but Hunter Mitchell was a regular.

778
00:59:49.599 --> 00:59:52.840
Welcome back to these airwaves. Hunter, do you do you miss the

779
00:59:52.920 --> 00:59:55.559
Cameron Mills Show on Sunday Night seecause
he kind of tried to make you a

780
00:59:55.599 --> 01:00:00.159
little bit of a punching bag.
I do. I miss Cam. I

781
01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:02.039
missed this show. We had so
much fun, especially that last year and

782
01:00:02.079 --> 01:00:06.119
a half two years when we kind
of got into the fun stuff of the

783
01:00:06.159 --> 01:00:07.519
show, like the Cameron con and
all that kind of stuff. We had

784
01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:10.880
a ball. So yes, I
missed Sunday Nights very much, very much.

785
01:00:12.360 --> 01:00:15.840
He tried to shame you into seeing
movies that you should know. Yeah,

786
01:00:15.239 --> 01:00:19.840
I don't know if you if he
ever told you this, but I

787
01:00:20.039 --> 01:00:23.840
looked up movies that that had been
out for quite a while, maybe less

788
01:00:24.039 --> 01:00:28.360
time than the ones that you were
supposed to know about, and he knew

789
01:00:28.400 --> 01:00:34.159
nothing of these classic films either.
So that's Cameron. I mean, that

790
01:00:34.440 --> 01:00:37.880
fits the then of him. So
I know that's true. But the reason

791
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:43.280
that that Hunter and I see each
other quite often at UK volleyball matches,

792
01:00:43.920 --> 01:00:47.199
and there's a lot going on with
UK volleyball these days. And I know

793
01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:51.480
you still cover the sport, you
cover the team, the program, But

794
01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:58.079
this event that's coming up, they've
got a a huge not a preseason it's

795
01:00:58.119 --> 01:01:00.519
a regular season event, but it
kind of kicks off the season, doesn't

796
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:06.239
it, And it's going to be
something else, isn't it. It's quite

797
01:01:06.320 --> 01:01:09.440
the way to kick off the twenty
twenty four volleyball season for the best teams

798
01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:14.920
in the country over the last several
years, Nebraska playing Kentucky at the Young

799
01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:16.599
Centers start of the season, and
then following that match, Louisvilleill take on

800
01:01:16.639 --> 01:01:21.960
Wisconsin. So a really really cool
event that's happening in general, especially here

801
01:01:22.039 --> 01:01:23.920
in Kentucky as the sport has blown
up even more over the last you know,

802
01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:27.320
four or five years. So the
fact that we're getting that, the

803
01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:30.559
whole volleyball world across the country is
getting to watch that, and it's happening

804
01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:32.880
here in Louisville. Yeah, it's
a really really cool, cool event to

805
01:01:32.920 --> 01:01:37.920
start the seasons. The ABC a
first serve showcase, as Hunter said,

806
01:01:37.960 --> 01:01:43.039
and it is a doubleheader. Wildcats
open up in an exhibition with Dayton a

807
01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:50.239
few days prior to that. But
man, for Kentucky to tackle Nebraska right

808
01:01:50.320 --> 01:01:53.960
off the bat, you know,
it's something you wouldn't have thought of years

809
01:01:54.000 --> 01:01:58.199
ago, but now that's where this
program is, isn't it. Yeah,

810
01:01:58.280 --> 01:02:00.079
it's kind of a norm for Craigskinner
now, right. He always seems to

811
01:02:00.119 --> 01:02:05.760
tackle these Texas is Wisconsin's Nebraska's early
in the season because he knows if you're

812
01:02:05.760 --> 01:02:07.719
familiar with vollyball, is that a
lot of people know now that that's what

813
01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:12.199
you have to do in volleyball to
get one of those coveted top four seeds.

814
01:02:13.039 --> 01:02:15.800
You know, hope to hopefully host
at home until the final four.

815
01:02:15.119 --> 01:02:17.679
Obviously this year, if that were
the case for Kentucky, you get to

816
01:02:17.719 --> 01:02:21.119
host at home to the final four, and then you would go to Louisville

817
01:02:21.119 --> 01:02:23.000
to play in the final four because
the final four was played at the em

818
01:02:23.079 --> 01:02:27.639
Center this year. So there's a
lot on the line for those Kentucky schools

819
01:02:27.679 --> 01:02:30.599
this year, you know, especially
Kentucky and Louisville, because if they could

820
01:02:30.639 --> 01:02:32.599
find a way to get into that
top four, you could be looking at

821
01:02:32.679 --> 01:02:37.000
on your way to a national championship, literally never leaving the state of Kentucky,

822
01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:39.760
which would be an incredible advantage for
the Cats. Obviously, that's that's

823
01:02:39.760 --> 01:02:44.119
an advantage that usually Nebraska gets right. Usually it's always hosted in Omaha,

824
01:02:44.320 --> 01:02:46.960
so it'd be nice for once if
it happened somewhere else. But you know,

825
01:02:47.079 --> 01:02:50.719
Nebraska's kind of been the one team
that Craig has not been able to

826
01:02:50.719 --> 01:02:52.920
get the monkey off his back.
Obviously, he was an assistant coach with

827
01:02:52.239 --> 01:02:55.920
John cookover in Nebraska before he came
to Kentucky. So he has never beaten

828
01:02:57.000 --> 01:03:00.400
Nebraska since he's been here in Lexington. So he is he keeps trying.

829
01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:02.920
It's his credit. He is not
giving it up. In one of these

830
01:03:04.000 --> 01:03:06.440
days, he's going to get him. We'll see if this is the year.

831
01:03:06.599 --> 01:03:08.920
So yeah, and you know,
obviously it helps with recruiting to play

832
01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:13.159
a schedule like this. And by
the way, if that happens, or

833
01:03:13.199 --> 01:03:16.719
if it comes close to happening,
Kentucky or Louisville is an eye on getting

834
01:03:16.760 --> 01:03:21.679
to the Final four and winning it
without leaving the state. It will come

835
01:03:21.800 --> 01:03:23.519
up, and I'll prepare you for
it right now. You may already know

836
01:03:23.599 --> 01:03:29.079
this. Nineteen fifty eight, Kentucky
won the national title with a Finland vibe

837
01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:32.239
never left the state of Kentucky.
Yeah, so there is precedents when it

838
01:03:32.280 --> 01:03:37.880
comes to basketball. Well, let's
talk a little bit about why Craig Skinner

839
01:03:38.280 --> 01:03:45.800
plays the schedule that he does.
Now, obviously it's to we mentioned recruiting,

840
01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:52.320
but it's to prep his team for
a regular season that sometimes is grueling

841
01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:55.280
through the SEC. Sometimes the league
isn't that tough. But as you said,

842
01:03:57.079 --> 01:04:00.840
you know scheduling in Nebraska and later
on Penn State for out loud ball,

843
01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:05.559
State comes to town, Louisville comes
to election in this year, so

844
01:04:06.079 --> 01:04:11.320
and then Stanford at in Palo Alto. Man, if you can survive that

845
01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:15.840
with some wins, you've toughened your
team enormously, haven't you. Yeah,

846
01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:19.400
And especially with the improvement of the
SEC. Like used to, you had

847
01:04:19.440 --> 01:04:23.639
to schedule tough in me at a
conference because the league was so weak.

848
01:04:23.719 --> 01:04:26.360
So the only way you were going
to even get a formidable seed in the

849
01:04:26.360 --> 01:04:29.679
tournament was the schedule tough like that. Now though the league has caught up.

850
01:04:29.679 --> 01:04:32.280
Obviously, last year we saw Arkansas
at Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky.

851
01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:35.119
All of these were teams that,
if Florida hadn't gotten hurt, they were

852
01:04:35.159 --> 01:04:39.199
a favorite to possibly make a canal
four, win a championship. But all

853
01:04:39.239 --> 01:04:42.280
of those were teams that were vying
for you know, Sweet sixteen to lad

854
01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:45.599
ate some of them made obviously,
Kentucky sell to Arkansas in that Sweet sixteen

855
01:04:45.679 --> 01:04:47.199
last year to make the Elite date. So the league has caught up,

856
01:04:47.239 --> 01:04:49.960
and especially with Texas now joined the
league. We'll talk about that, I'm

857
01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:53.719
sure here in a little bit.
But now that they've come, you're playing

858
01:04:53.880 --> 01:04:58.079
volleyball perennial powerhouses every year if you're
Craig Skinner, So there's already to stop

859
01:04:58.119 --> 01:05:00.639
it, right, You're just preparing
your team for what is going to come

860
01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:03.239
in then instably tournament because you're inevitably
going to run into a Big ten team

861
01:05:03.639 --> 01:05:05.760
or into one of those well,
I guess are on a PAC twelve team

862
01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:09.679
anymore. They were, but you
were going to run into one of those

863
01:05:09.719 --> 01:05:12.480
big Pac twelve teams that gave you
so much trouble. So that's why he

864
01:05:12.559 --> 01:05:15.840
scheduled early, because if you don't
have experience against it, it's it's very

865
01:05:15.880 --> 01:05:18.880
different going up against a big ten
block compared to an SEC block, at

866
01:05:19.000 --> 01:05:23.880
least it used to be. Now
that that gap has closed pretty substantially just

867
01:05:23.920 --> 01:05:26.480
because of the improvement of the league
and the coaching in the league. But

868
01:05:26.679 --> 01:05:28.880
used to that was why you did
it, because it was just such a

869
01:05:29.000 --> 01:05:31.199
massive difference. You had to prepare
your team for it somehow. And you

870
01:05:31.360 --> 01:05:35.719
know this. But folks, if
you have never seen Kentucky play against a

871
01:05:35.800 --> 01:05:40.719
Big ten team, when a big
ten team enters the building, you know

872
01:05:40.880 --> 01:05:44.880
it because they're all just huge,
aren't they. Yeah? Yep. And

873
01:05:45.039 --> 01:05:47.559
and Craig, to his credit as
well, you've begun seeing him recruit that

874
01:05:47.639 --> 01:05:50.239
way right because that he's big.
I mean even last year they were big.

875
01:05:50.280 --> 01:05:54.239
They're they're big again this year with
Brooke Boltem and Brooklyn Delay. I

876
01:05:54.280 --> 01:05:57.119
mean, they're getting a lot more
size than they used to. So you're

877
01:05:57.159 --> 01:06:00.039
seeing again the way Craig has built
this program, he's catching up to that

878
01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:04.400
Nebraska stuff where you know you're gonna
win with size. So well, you

879
01:06:04.519 --> 01:06:11.639
mentioned the SEC and it's it's getting
tougher and tougher. They open up one

880
01:06:11.760 --> 01:06:15.000
weekend, the last weekend in September
at Auburn. Then they go to Florida.

881
01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:20.679
Right then they got a midweek match
with Oklahoma and there and following Sundays

882
01:06:20.800 --> 01:06:26.360
or Missouri and then Texas and then
Tennessee. There's really no no respite,

883
01:06:26.480 --> 01:06:29.199
is there. There's not no there. You again, there used to be

884
01:06:29.400 --> 01:06:31.880
used to. You were seeing Kentucky, you know, at least six years

885
01:06:31.880 --> 01:06:35.199
ago, you were seeing them regularly
going eighteen and one. Honestly similar to

886
01:06:35.280 --> 01:06:39.159
what you saw Kentucky basketball doing in
the early years of Cal. It was

887
01:06:39.199 --> 01:06:42.760
you were steamrolling through the SBC.
There was no competition. And that's just

888
01:06:42.840 --> 01:06:45.440
not the case sing or even Auburn, who I didn't even mention earlier.

889
01:06:45.760 --> 01:06:47.679
You know, Auburn was a team
that was undefeated for half the season last

890
01:06:47.719 --> 01:06:51.559
year and got ranked and went into
the NTAA Tournament and made some noise beating

891
01:06:51.599 --> 01:06:56.119
I think they beat Creighton last year. So like this league as a whole

892
01:06:56.280 --> 01:06:59.360
is catching up to the rest of
the country. And you know last year

893
01:06:59.480 --> 01:07:01.760
the big tap and really didn't do
a whole lot early in the tournament.

894
01:07:01.800 --> 01:07:04.400
It was the SEC making the noise
and everyone was like, wait a minute,

895
01:07:04.480 --> 01:07:08.039
now, when did this? Where
did it come from? And we

896
01:07:08.199 --> 01:07:12.760
saw the Arkansas and even Tennessee last
year they took Texas to five. Obviously,

897
01:07:12.840 --> 01:07:15.880
Texas won the national championship in Tennessee
too, come to five having lost

898
01:07:15.880 --> 01:07:18.559
their starting Liberro in the second set. So even that you wonder if they

899
01:07:18.559 --> 01:07:20.679
had had their starting Libarro for the
rest of the match, what they have

900
01:07:20.760 --> 01:07:25.000
maybe beaten Texas. So all of
those are what ifs. Obviously it's just

901
01:07:25.079 --> 01:07:28.400
to show, you know, the
league has substantially cut up and this team,

902
01:07:28.880 --> 01:07:30.199
they've got a Gatlin this year,
maybe as hard of a schedule as

903
01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:33.320
I've seen Craig have for one of
his teams. So he clearly believes that

904
01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:36.320
his team can handle whatever he's going
on him. So talking to Hunter Mitchell

905
01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:45.440
covers UK Volleyball for KSR and you
mentioned Texas defending two time national champion joining

906
01:07:45.480 --> 01:07:48.079
as we all know with Oklahoma and
I talked to Craig Skinner about that,

907
01:07:48.239 --> 01:07:51.559
about the fact that you know,
for however many years now, what's seven

908
01:07:51.639 --> 01:07:58.400
straight the SEC title has gone at
least in part through Lexington. Now you

909
01:07:58.480 --> 01:08:00.480
got to worry about the Longhorns,
And that's nothing to sneeze that. I

910
01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:05.679
don't know much about Oklahoma volleyball.
I do know about Texas. Everyone knows

911
01:08:05.679 --> 01:08:10.199
about Texas right especially Kentucky fans.
They're going to be familiar with a third

912
01:08:10.280 --> 01:08:13.159
of the starting lineup this year.
So Texas is going to be the one

913
01:08:13.239 --> 01:08:15.920
that the whole country is going to
be looking at. I mean, it's

914
01:08:15.960 --> 01:08:17.760
they think they think of a heavy
favorite for a three peat this year.

915
01:08:17.800 --> 01:08:20.520
I think most people would agree that. You know, at least as of

916
01:08:20.640 --> 01:08:23.640
right now, they're the team to
beat. Obviously, you've got to see

917
01:08:23.680 --> 01:08:26.479
him play and see how they gel. But with Maddie Skinner on the left

918
01:08:26.479 --> 01:08:29.880
side and Reagan Rusfer on the right
side, you're going to be hard pressed

919
01:08:29.920 --> 01:08:33.079
to find a front line that is
as talented offensively and defensively as those two

920
01:08:33.199 --> 01:08:36.199
are, and returning all the talent
they had from last year because they were

921
01:08:36.239 --> 01:08:39.840
young last year too, they had
you know, a young freshman setter in

922
01:08:39.880 --> 01:08:42.920
Ellis Wendle. So they've got a
lot of talent coming back. And then

923
01:08:42.960 --> 01:08:45.640
with Reagan ruzif for joining the crew, that's going to be a team that's

924
01:08:45.640 --> 01:08:48.239
going to be heavily favored to win
it all. So that SEC title defense

925
01:08:48.359 --> 01:08:51.119
is going to be really difficult.
And when that when when Texas comes to

926
01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:57.079
Lexington on I think it's October thirteenths
on a Sunday, that match is going

927
01:08:57.159 --> 01:09:00.319
to be musty television. Obviously,
the return of Maddie Skinner for the time

928
01:09:00.359 --> 01:09:02.279
in three years, and Reagan coming
back. You know, she left I

929
01:09:02.760 --> 01:09:05.520
was you know, got had a
great relations with her parents and they left

930
01:09:05.560 --> 01:09:09.720
on phenomenal turns. Couldn't say enough
great things about Craig and the staff.

931
01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:12.520
You know, she just wanted to
play her final year close to home for

932
01:09:12.600 --> 01:09:15.319
once and be able to beat her
own family. So they are going to

933
01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:18.439
come back with nothing but you know, a warm welcome hopefully, but they're

934
01:09:18.479 --> 01:09:20.600
going to be they want to beat
Kentucky. I mean, you know,

935
01:09:20.720 --> 01:09:23.520
Maddie and Reagan, they're going to
come in and go, no, we

936
01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:26.439
want the title this time. And
it's going to be a fun match,

937
01:09:26.560 --> 01:09:30.279
especially with memorial being brand news.
So that's going to be just a really

938
01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:32.199
really cool match to watch for the
whole country, but especially if you live

939
01:09:32.239 --> 01:09:35.560
in Lexington. Of course, Maddie
and her sister Avery were vital parts of

940
01:09:35.640 --> 01:09:41.199
Kentucky's national championship team, and to
this day, Hunter I will contend that

941
01:09:41.600 --> 01:09:45.119
Maddie was the secret sauce on that
team, especially she was in the NCAA

942
01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:48.600
tournament, because you can only cover
the other side of the that so much,

943
01:09:48.680 --> 01:09:53.600
and that leaves Maddie Skinner alone over
there, and she took full advantage,

944
01:09:53.600 --> 01:09:57.840
didn't she, because everybody was looking
at it at all at Alli.

945
01:09:57.960 --> 01:10:00.319
Yeah. Yeah, Ali takes the
headline because she had twenty six kills in

946
01:10:00.359 --> 01:10:03.119
that match, but Maddy had nineteen
as a freshman on the right side.

947
01:10:03.199 --> 01:10:08.199
So Maddie was absolutely kind of a
quote unquote secret weapon. But she was

948
01:10:08.319 --> 01:10:12.560
not secret very long after that her
sophomore and on. She's won three national

949
01:10:12.680 --> 01:10:15.479
championships at this point, so you
know, she has had an incredible career

950
01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:19.399
at Texas and at Kentucky. So
she is she's one of the best outsides

951
01:10:19.399 --> 01:10:23.319
that I've seen. She reminds me
a lot of Avery Avery obviously, now

952
01:10:23.439 --> 01:10:26.399
going to Paris and playing the Olympics. But the whole Skinner family in general

953
01:10:26.600 --> 01:10:30.359
is incredibly gifted. But Maddie is
she has a chance to do something that

954
01:10:31.199 --> 01:10:34.479
I don't know if many athletes have
done in college, to possibly win four

955
01:10:34.560 --> 01:10:39.520
national championships. That's unheard of.
So she she's gonna be hungry for I

956
01:10:39.840 --> 01:10:43.039
I can trop to you that you
know who's done that. The senior class

957
01:10:43.119 --> 01:10:47.159
that plays softball at Oklahoma. Yeah, you think about that. Yeah,

958
01:10:47.640 --> 01:10:51.840
so it's not impossible. It just
depends on the sport obviously. But yeah,

959
01:10:51.920 --> 01:10:56.479
as you said, Texas with a
great advantage, really talented roster.

960
01:10:56.600 --> 01:11:00.439
Well, so does Kentucky have a
talented roster? And you mentioned brook Delay

961
01:11:00.319 --> 01:11:04.359
took advantage. I think it was
Reagan Russelber was injured a bit last year

962
01:11:04.399 --> 01:11:10.079
and Brooklyn kind of got some rotations
that she might not have gotten earlier in

963
01:11:10.159 --> 01:11:14.119
the year and really made it work
for didn't she. Yeah. So I

964
01:11:14.119 --> 01:11:17.079
remember was talking to Leah Edmond on
our podcast before the season last year,

965
01:11:17.119 --> 01:11:20.279
and she had obviously practiced with the
team over the summer, and she said

966
01:11:20.319 --> 01:11:24.880
to me on the podcast, Brooklyn
Delay is the chance to be has a

967
01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:28.039
chance to compete with me for the
all times kill record. And I obviously

968
01:11:28.079 --> 01:11:30.960
said, Lee, that's crazy to
say that when you watch her freshman campaign,

969
01:11:31.159 --> 01:11:33.640
especially like you said, when Reagan
went out, they moved her to

970
01:11:33.720 --> 01:11:39.439
six rotations, and all of a
sudden, the flips switched and she felt

971
01:11:39.560 --> 01:11:42.960
like she came into her own.
She got comfortable with the offense. She

972
01:11:43.079 --> 01:11:45.079
kind of settled into what Ben Josephson, who was the offensive coordinator so to

973
01:11:45.119 --> 01:11:47.880
speak, with Kentucky, with what
he was asking her to do. She

974
01:11:48.119 --> 01:11:51.560
is one of the most intelligent athletes
I've seen play at Kentucky. She just

975
01:11:51.760 --> 01:11:55.960
knows how to hit around the block
or how to reset a point by hitting

976
01:11:56.000 --> 01:11:59.600
the ball into the block to recover
it. Like she's just a really intelligent

977
01:11:59.680 --> 01:12:01.119
player. And I watched her in
the under twenty one tournament that she just

978
01:12:01.199 --> 01:12:05.039
got the MVP of actually about a
week and a half ago. She's an

979
01:12:05.079 --> 01:12:11.840
unavailable brand new hybrid serve that she
was just causing complete chaos with her arms.

980
01:12:11.880 --> 01:12:15.239
Swing looks heavier. I think they're
really excited for what Brooklyn Delay in

981
01:12:15.279 --> 01:12:17.760
a sophomore season is going to be
for them, and I think that's partly

982
01:12:17.840 --> 01:12:21.159
why we didn't see as much movement
with the roster. It's maybe we would

983
01:12:21.159 --> 01:12:25.960
have thought if we would have known
that you were losing Jordan Thompson and Addie

984
01:12:26.199 --> 01:12:29.119
or at least get seen her and
Johnny Teeler. I mean, you lose

985
01:12:29.199 --> 01:12:31.720
those that kind of offensive production,
you'd think you'd see a lot of movement.

986
01:12:31.760 --> 01:12:35.159
We didn't see that, and I
think part of that's because they're expecting

987
01:12:35.159 --> 01:12:38.439
a lot from Brooklyn, and I
don't think there's any reason to believe she

988
01:12:38.520 --> 01:12:41.720
can't handle it because she's looked phenomenal
in what I've seen at Robert the summer.

989
01:12:42.039 --> 01:12:44.920
I've heard great things about how she's
been playing, what she's been doing,

990
01:12:45.079 --> 01:12:47.439
so I think they're really high on
what she could look like for them.

991
01:12:47.560 --> 01:12:50.319
She's going to be in contention for
SEC Player of the Year this year.

992
01:12:50.640 --> 01:12:54.119
The only problem is she's going up
against brag and Russell her to Maddie

993
01:12:54.119 --> 01:12:58.760
Skinner, among others, so that's
to be a little difficult. But she

994
01:12:58.960 --> 01:13:03.039
has been nominal from everything that I've
heard from people that cover the program and

995
01:13:03.359 --> 01:13:06.479
from walking her in that tournament,
so I think they're excited on what she

996
01:13:06.560 --> 01:13:11.600
can be this year. We're talking
with Hunter Mitchell who covers UK volleyball,

997
01:13:11.640 --> 01:13:16.439
which opens the season August twenty seventh
in Louisville at the American Volleyball Coaches Association

998
01:13:16.600 --> 01:13:21.199
event taking on Nebraska. We'll talk
more volleyball on the other side of the

999
01:13:21.239 --> 01:13:25.000
break with Hunter. You're in a
Big Bullonsider six thirty. Come back to

1000
01:13:25.119 --> 01:13:29.159
the Big Bullensider. We're talking Kentucky
volleyball with Hunter Mitchell. He covers the

1001
01:13:29.199 --> 01:13:32.840
sport for CASAR. He has taken
pictures and covered volleyball for many, many

1002
01:13:32.920 --> 01:13:36.600
years. And we were talking prior
to the break about Brooklyn Delay and some

1003
01:13:36.720 --> 01:13:42.800
of the other talented Wildcats. Brooklyn
Delay is pre season All Conference and so

1004
01:13:42.960 --> 01:13:46.359
are two of her teammates, Emma
Grome, the setter one of the best

1005
01:13:46.439 --> 01:13:50.520
in the country has been since she
set foot on campus, and Eleanor Bevin,

1006
01:13:51.239 --> 01:13:56.880
another senior from Louisvill Toe Lie Borough. So it's like most sports,

1007
01:13:56.960 --> 01:13:59.319
isn't it, Hunter, If you're
strong up the middle, you got a

1008
01:13:59.359 --> 01:14:02.119
real shot. Those are pretty good
building blocks. Yeah, And I don't

1009
01:14:02.159 --> 01:14:04.720
I want to say this, and
I want to make sure I'm not making

1010
01:14:04.760 --> 01:14:09.520
it clear that I'm not comparing this
upcoming team to the national championship do by

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01:14:09.560 --> 01:14:13.800
any means. But what that national
championship team had for Kentucky in twenty twenty

1012
01:14:13.960 --> 01:14:16.199
was a senior setter and a senior
libero, and I think those are two

1013
01:14:16.319 --> 01:14:19.960
things. Obviously, your setter anchors
your offense, your libero anchors your defense.

1014
01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:24.800
So having seniors that you are really
leading those two sides of the court.

1015
01:14:25.199 --> 01:14:27.399
Emma Grom has been, like you
said, one of the best setters

1016
01:14:27.439 --> 01:14:30.039
in the country since she steps up
on campus. We've been comparing her in

1017
01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:33.520
some ways to what madisonally was do
I think most would say it's one of

1018
01:14:33.560 --> 01:14:38.319
the best setters that's ever come through
Kentucky, if not the best. And

1019
01:14:38.359 --> 01:14:41.760
obviously Madison's now coaching her as an
assistant coach on the staff. So the

1020
01:14:41.840 --> 01:14:45.359
fact that we're getting another year of
Emma Grom and she gets another year under

1021
01:14:45.600 --> 01:14:48.000
Madison Lily, I think she's going
to take it up another level. And

1022
01:14:48.119 --> 01:14:51.399
Eleanor Bevin has been honestly undervalued,
in my opinion, by the rest of

1023
01:14:51.399 --> 01:14:54.640
the league. She's not won I
to see Libero of the Year since her

1024
01:14:54.680 --> 01:14:58.720
freshman year. Remember before that,
Kentucky was winning every year. Now that's

1025
01:14:58.760 --> 01:15:00.720
not happening. Anymore. I think
it's voter fatigue, yep. But she

1026
01:15:00.880 --> 01:15:04.680
has been anchoring the passing, anchoring
the defense the way that the Gaby curryes

1027
01:15:04.720 --> 01:15:10.239
did before her. So having those
two pieces be senior leaders, I think

1028
01:15:10.279 --> 01:15:13.039
it's going to be really important for
Kentucky this year, especially as they take

1029
01:15:13.119 --> 01:15:15.279
on, you know, this harder
schedule that has the Nebraska's and the Penn

1030
01:15:15.319 --> 01:15:17.920
States and the Stanfords and Texas and
all that. Like, that's gonna be

1031
01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:20.920
really really important. Yeah, and
you and I talked about this before that

1032
01:15:21.319 --> 01:15:25.600
Eleanor Berevitt had the stats, but
I do I agree. I think it's

1033
01:15:25.640 --> 01:15:30.600
probably Kentucky fatigue, at least on
that position. By the way, Kentucky

1034
01:15:30.760 --> 01:15:35.439
with three in the preseason All Conference, for whatever that's worth. The only

1035
01:15:35.520 --> 01:15:39.880
other school to do that, of
course, Texas with Maddie's Kinner, Reagan

1036
01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:44.279
Rutherford and Ellen Ella Swindle a couple
of minutes off. But Hunter Mitchell,

1037
01:15:44.279 --> 01:15:48.239
who covers Kentucky volleyball and has been
when did you get the bug on volleyball?

1038
01:15:48.279 --> 01:15:51.600
Because I did a long time ago. It was the first sport I

1039
01:15:51.680 --> 01:15:56.279
ever photographed for the Kentucky Colonel when
I was a student at Kentucky. So

1040
01:15:56.399 --> 01:15:59.319
twenty fourteen, so actually ten years
ago. This year will be my ten

1041
01:15:59.359 --> 01:16:02.560
year anniversary covering volleyball. So what
was it about volleyball? Did they grabbed

1042
01:16:02.600 --> 01:16:06.279
you? It was so fast I
didn't know what I was watching, but

1043
01:16:06.439 --> 01:16:10.359
the minute I was like, man, this is fun. And when you

1044
01:16:10.479 --> 01:16:13.520
get up close in personal and get
to watching game in person, which again

1045
01:16:13.640 --> 01:16:15.319
this is the year to do it
with the new memorial coliseums, you're a

1046
01:16:15.399 --> 01:16:18.199
watching game in person. Do it
this year. It's beautiful from the plans

1047
01:16:18.279 --> 01:16:20.920
that they've you know, posted online, I think it's gonna be great.

1048
01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:25.840
But you really see how athletic these
women are and how impressive it is.

1049
01:16:25.920 --> 01:16:29.239
Again, the men's game, it's
a lot more power and so there's no

1050
01:16:29.359 --> 01:16:31.880
there aren't rallies. It's just immediately
a side out from a serve or just

1051
01:16:32.000 --> 01:16:35.920
on a first wing. Yeah,
there's not these long rallies that we get

1052
01:16:36.039 --> 01:16:40.199
in women's game. And you if
you think about last season, the longest

1053
01:16:40.279 --> 01:16:43.359
rally of the season that went viral
was Kentucky when they played Nebraska, and

1054
01:16:43.439 --> 01:16:45.279
I think I counted it was like
one hundred and three touches. I mean,

1055
01:16:45.319 --> 01:16:49.279
we get these incredible, incredible rallies
that last minutes, you know,

1056
01:16:49.640 --> 01:16:53.079
in volleyball and the women's game,
and it's so much fun. And that

1057
01:16:53.239 --> 01:16:55.479
really was what it was. I
just couldn't take my eyes off. But

1058
01:16:55.520 --> 01:16:57.760
it was just so much fun to
watch. No, you're right, You're

1059
01:16:57.840 --> 01:17:00.279
right on it. With a long
volleys, no question, and broadcast matches

1060
01:17:00.720 --> 01:17:05.159
both on the radio and television,
I can tell you that's that's just ready

1061
01:17:05.199 --> 01:17:10.800
for prime time. Incidentally, as
you said, they're coming back to the

1062
01:17:10.880 --> 01:17:15.680
Coliseum. I really liked the matches
in Rupp Arena because they got great crowds.

1063
01:17:15.720 --> 01:17:17.840
You know, I thought, man, if nobody shows up, but

1064
01:17:18.079 --> 01:17:23.640
of course the volleyball crowd showed up, and the site lines at rougher so

1065
01:17:23.760 --> 01:17:27.199
great. But man, I talked
to Craig Skinner about this. With that

1066
01:17:27.359 --> 01:17:30.840
lower ceiling, Memorial Coliseum can be
such a weapon when it comes to the

1067
01:17:30.880 --> 01:17:34.640
home crowd. Right. The loudest
sporting event that I've ever been to,

1068
01:17:34.800 --> 01:17:40.159
and I've been to I'd photographed Kentucky
basketball games, was when Kentucky played Western

1069
01:17:40.199 --> 01:17:43.880
and was down two in the All
Tournament and they came back. I remember

1070
01:17:43.960 --> 01:17:46.640
that building shaking and there were I
think fifty five hundred in the building at

1071
01:17:46.680 --> 01:17:49.720
that time, but that building because
Western was there, it was them as

1072
01:17:49.760 --> 01:17:54.479
well, So all of the fans
were just screaming and yeah, that lower

1073
01:17:54.560 --> 01:17:59.000
ceiling memorial it is. It's something
when Chucky gets rolling and you're playing against

1074
01:17:59.000 --> 01:18:00.720
a good team. Like I said, that game against Texas is going to

1075
01:18:00.760 --> 01:18:03.600
be fun. I think that's going
to be one of those games where that

1076
01:18:04.000 --> 01:18:05.960
room is gonna shake. It's gonna
be a lot of fun to go to.

1077
01:18:06.199 --> 01:18:11.920
So well, Texas is the preseason
coaches pull favorite with fourteen of fifteen

1078
01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:15.600
first places. Well it's Florida got
the other one. Kentucky predicted to finish

1079
01:18:15.720 --> 01:18:17.840
third. But that's gonna make it
fun this year. Hunter Mitchell will make

1080
01:18:17.840 --> 01:18:20.319
it fun with this coverage. Thank
you so much, great talking to you.

1081
01:18:20.439 --> 01:18:25.000
I will see you at the matches. Sound good day, Good to

1082
01:18:25.039 --> 01:18:28.640
see you, thanks to Hunter.
Thanks to Jeremy Jarman of course, and

1083
01:18:28.720 --> 01:18:32.279
tomorrow we will hear more from the
basketball Wildcats as they made them available to

1084
01:18:32.439 --> 01:18:35.960
us today. It's kind of a
get to know you tour, I guess,

1085
01:18:36.359 --> 01:18:40.920
but we'll have more of that tomorrow
as well when we wrap up the

1086
01:18:41.000 --> 01:18:44.439
week. That's it. Good night
from the garage in Lexington. Everything that

1087
01:18:44.520 --> 01:18:48.840
happens now is happening now, what
happened then? Just now we're it now

1088
01:18:48.960 --> 01:18:54.199
now go back to then? No, no, no I can't what miss

1089
01:18:54.399 --> 01:19:03.760
win just fIF