Speaker 1: Hell, everybuddy to the facilities of the iHeartMedia megaplex. This
Speaker 1: is Dick Gabriel. This is the statewide edition of The
Speaker 1: Big Blue Insider, a frosty edition at that. You've heard
Speaker 1: the comments from Mark Stoops, Kenny Brooks, Georgia, A Moore,
Speaker 1: you name it, you've heard it, and now it's time
Speaker 1: to settle in and listen to yours truly. Along with
Speaker 1: Billy Rutledge, Aaron gershan who was in Georgia, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about those basketball cats tonight on a state wide BBI
Speaker 1: Border to border. It is the Big Blue Insider, Dick Gabriel,
Speaker 1: Billy Rutledge playing hurt folks. He was a little under
Speaker 1: the weather. Are you still feeling it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit, but I'm not digging ditches, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true, so we did make it. That was
Speaker 3: very concern with the rear wheel drive vehicle.
Speaker 1: I wondered about that. You have a very nice car.
Speaker 2: Very sporty Dodge Charger.
Speaker 1: It doesn't yeah, exactly right. Well, I'm in the Trailblazer tonight,
Speaker 1: you know, the Camaros safely, that's right. Aaron Gershaan also
Speaker 1: has been driving. He drove to Georgia and back and
Speaker 1: is just back basically, so we didn't ask him to
Speaker 1: come in. He is resting and recuperating. Aaron, First of all,
Speaker 1: was that your first trip to Athens for basketball?
Speaker 4: No? No? Second? Okay, there they're away two. I was
Speaker 4: there two years ago when they lost that as well.
Speaker 1: I was telling somebody Jeff Begore or somebody that Stegma
Speaker 1: Coliseum used to be. It is kind of dark. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say dingy, but it was just older
Speaker 1: and lots of red paint, which means all the light
Speaker 1: was soaked up by the red paint. And they poured
Speaker 1: a bunch of money. They essentially did to that coliseum,
Speaker 1: that arena what they did in Memorial Coliseum here at
Speaker 1: UK and when Kentucky comes to town, man, that's the circus,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 4: Aaron. Yeah, it was a great crowd. It was definitely
Speaker 4: stronger than the one two years ago. There were a
Speaker 4: lot of Kentucky fans there as well. But you know,
Speaker 4: I'd say it was very similar atmosphere to the one
Speaker 4: they played at in Clemson, where you know, early on
Speaker 4: when it was back and forth, you know, the fans
Speaker 4: didn't quite sense blood in the water. Yet it was loud,
Speaker 4: but it was tame. It was nothing like you would
Speaker 4: see in Knoxville, Auburn, Fayetteville. Those are the three I
Speaker 4: think are the toughest to play when those programs are
Speaker 4: at their best. But in the second half or late
Speaker 4: in the first half, and then the entire second half,
Speaker 4: that fan base was all in and credit to security.
Speaker 4: I thought all game long they were going to storm
Speaker 4: that court, and they had a really good plan. Some
Speaker 4: of the students looked like they were looking for angles
Speaker 4: to get down there. Just couldn't do it. So I
Speaker 4: was glad at least that didn't happen, because it feels
Speaker 4: like every Kentucky road game I've been to the last
Speaker 4: two years there's been a court storming. That's the way
Speaker 4: the postgame process.
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you the broadest questionable and we'll
Speaker 1: go from there. How did this happen? From where you sat?
Speaker 4: Physicality, They just got bullied again. I think all three
Speaker 4: of these losses feel just very very similar, and like
Speaker 4: the blueprint to beat this Kentucky team is pretty pretty
Speaker 4: simple right now. Until Kentucky can make adjustments, and that's
Speaker 4: rebound the heck out of the ball. They don't really
Speaker 4: defensive rebound at a high enough clip that that's two
Speaker 4: games in a row in double digit offensive rebounds allowed.
Speaker 4: They don't seem to love contact in the paint. They're
Speaker 4: passing up layups and dunks to try these threes or
Speaker 4: kick the ball out for three. And you know, I'm
Speaker 4: all for being unselfish, but sometimes it's the ball is
Speaker 4: there to be putting the hoop. Put it in the
Speaker 4: hoop and keep playing. So there are a couple instances
Speaker 4: of that where it looked like maybe they anticipated contact
Speaker 4: and they passed it up. And then on the on
Speaker 4: the offensive end, you know these teams that either pressed
Speaker 4: Kentucky for the full length of the court like Georgia
Speaker 4: did for part of the game or for half court,
Speaker 4: and then the ones that really do a good job
Speaker 4: and just getting in their grill and pushing them off
Speaker 4: the three point line. They've all held Kentucky under twenty
Speaker 4: five percent from three. And that's Clemson, Ohio State, and
Speaker 4: now Georgia. So it was very, very similar to those
Speaker 4: other two losses that we've seen earlier this year, and
Speaker 4: that's you know, the next two teams specifically on their schedules.
Speaker 4: That's really Worris.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, We'll talk about that in a minute.
Speaker 1: But Darren Hedrick replayed for the folks who may not
Speaker 1: have stuck around on radio side. After the game, Jack
Speaker 1: Gibbons postgame interview with Andrew Carr and coincidentally enough, I
Speaker 1: used the same word. I watched the first half with
Speaker 1: the Jeff Bicorrel and I went out, got to bite
Speaker 1: and watch the game together. And I use this word
Speaker 1: Aaron in the first half, and Jack used a postgame
Speaker 1: and he talked about it with Andrew Carr, and that's
Speaker 1: the word nasty. This team needs to be needs to
Speaker 1: get nasty, you know. And I think that goes to
Speaker 1: exactly what you're saying. These these other teams are are
Speaker 1: going to be as nasty as they can be, especially
Speaker 1: in the paint.
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially, I mean Georgia was the nastiest they've played
Speaker 4: this year. I mean Clintons was very physical. Ohio State
Speaker 4: it was as well. But and even Florida to an extent,
Speaker 4: and Brown and some of these other teams that they've
Speaker 4: been able to beat. But Georgia with Santo Serral the
Speaker 4: former UK SNI is a Newell who is a projected
Speaker 4: lottery pick. The freshman there. They just they pushed the limits.
Speaker 4: I mean, we all know how the fan based all
Speaker 4: about the officiating last night, and it wasn't great. It's
Speaker 4: not an excuse for the outcome by any means. It
Speaker 4: wasn't great. And it felt like Georgia did get away
Speaker 4: with at least pushing it to the very limit of
Speaker 4: how physical you can be. But you know, they they
Speaker 4: played by the rules and they really really their physicality
Speaker 4: disrupted things mightily, and it's something Kentucky's got to adjust
Speaker 4: to and adjust too quick. And like you said there,
Speaker 4: they got to find some nasty tools.
Speaker 3: To that point, Jack talked a lot about the one
Speaker 3: who initiates contact and brings that physicality a lot of
Speaker 3: times gets the benefit of the doubt when it comes
Speaker 3: to the whistles and the referees. But Aaron, this team
Speaker 3: has a lot of experience, but not a lot of
Speaker 3: experience being Kentucky on a road game. That was also
Speaker 3: mentioned in the Andrew Carr interview. One guy that does
Speaker 3: have a lot of experiences Jackson Robinson. He's been in
Speaker 3: Mark Pope's system, so but why does he look so
Speaker 3: lost on the court right now? Like, what what's what's
Speaker 3: his concerns right now?
Speaker 4: The body language is bad. It's been kind of honestly,
Speaker 4: it's been a thing all year, and I've just figured
Speaker 4: maybe maybe that was just his mannerisms, like maybe I
Speaker 4: was reading into the body language thing too much. But now,
Speaker 4: you know, kind of focusing in on it more. It's
Speaker 4: very clear when he gets off to a slow start
Speaker 4: early offensively, it completely knocks him out of rhythm and
Speaker 4: kind of puts them in a bad mental state. And
Speaker 4: you start seeing that bad body language and he's you know,
Speaker 4: kind of hiding in that corner a little more. Oh,
Speaker 4: he's kind of a little lacks of days ago on defense,
Speaker 4: and it just looks like a confidence issue to me.
Speaker 4: And you know, one thing that I've seen flowed out
Speaker 4: there today and I think someone brought it up in
Speaker 4: the radio show. He didn't, Pope, didn't really give a
Speaker 4: great answer on it. I'm hoping to press him on
Speaker 4: it tomorrow if I can get to the press conference
Speaker 4: in time. But it's he was the player of the
Speaker 4: year in the Big twelve that was very comparable to
Speaker 4: what the SEC is this year last year, and he
Speaker 4: did it coming off the bench on a lesser talented team.
Speaker 4: Maybe that is something that they need to adjust because
Speaker 4: Kobe Bray is a guy. I know he hasn't shot
Speaker 4: great in any of the three losses. I know he
Speaker 4: didn't shoot great last night. I don't know if there
Speaker 4: was an injury situation why he was on that availability
Speaker 4: report and illness whenever it may have been. But he's
Speaker 4: a guy that just even when he's not making shots,
Speaker 4: he looks comfortable and his body language is good, and
Speaker 4: the efforts there. Maybe he's not a great defender, but
Speaker 4: the efforts there. Maybe you tweak that and you flip
Speaker 4: them in the starting lineup and see if that gets
Speaker 4: Jackson into a more comfortable spot. Maybe it's, you know,
Speaker 4: being the guy. Maybe there was a lot of pressure
Speaker 4: knowing he knows the system better than anyone else, and
Speaker 4: he may have been relied on to help guys along
Speaker 4: the way, and maybe that slowed him being able to
Speaker 4: work on things he needed to work on himself. I
Speaker 4: don't know what it is, but clearly it's mental right now,
Speaker 4: and that's a guy they need to get going because
Speaker 4: if they don't, you know, defenses can start king in
Speaker 4: on other guys and that could make life harder. And
Speaker 4: Kobe Bray had life harder on Lamont Butler, and that
Speaker 4: would make things really tough to overcome for this team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was interesting because preseason, when people were trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how this team would operate, specifically on offense,
Speaker 1: I think everybody thought, Okay, it starts with Jackson Robinson.
Speaker 1: We know that much about this guy. He knows Mark
Speaker 1: Pope's system. He had the numbers, everything you just talked about.
Speaker 1: And then what, well, now we're seeing it's o way
Speaker 1: at least on the perimeter, you know, and and thank
Speaker 1: goodness for Kentucky because you know he is taking command
Speaker 1: on more than one so and it was interesting. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you heard Pope's show tonight, Aaron. He addressed that
Speaker 1: somebody asked Mark about that and it and his answer,
Speaker 1: as always, was rather broad, but it sounded as though
Speaker 1: he's got an open mind when it comes to tinkering
Speaker 1: with the lineup, because you can't play a Pat hann
Speaker 1: right now, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to try something, and you know, Kentucky, honestly,
Speaker 4: the rotations have been even with you know, since the
Speaker 4: injury to Crisa and then before he went down, Pope
Speaker 4: has done a really good job I think of keeping
Speaker 4: the lineups consistent, I think there can be an argument
Speaker 4: of whether they need to be. You know, the rotations
Speaker 4: had to be shortened. You know, we've seen Colin Chandler
Speaker 4: phase out a bit. I think that's the right call.
Speaker 4: Before Chrisa got hurt, you saw Perry phased out, I
Speaker 4: thought that the time was the right call. But now
Speaker 4: you know, the starting lineup outside of the games Lamont
Speaker 4: Butler's been hurt, you know, have been the exact same
Speaker 4: every night, and I think there's probably been a comfortability there.
Speaker 4: But when things aren't work, you've got to make adjustments.
Speaker 4: And I think just when you're a guy who was
Speaker 4: the sixth Man of the Year in his conference, was
Speaker 4: so good in that role just a year ago, you
Speaker 4: gotta do it. And I'm very curious to see if
Speaker 4: he makes that switsh you know, as soon as Saturday here.
Speaker 4: But but that'll also depend on Brea. I'm not sure
Speaker 4: he didn't want to give it. Sounded like on the
Speaker 4: pregame show with Tom he didn't really want to give
Speaker 4: an answer on what was wrong with Brea. So you know,
Speaker 4: we kind of left it alone after the game. But
Speaker 4: if Braya is fully healthy. I would swap the two
Speaker 4: out at least for the next couple of games and
Speaker 4: see if that gives you something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the problem with Brea is if Pope has
Speaker 1: addressed that exactly his defense, Uh you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: and this was a guy that in his previous stops.
Speaker 1: You can't get this guy in foul trouble. It's like
Speaker 1: a high school star. You know, you don't want that
Speaker 1: guy on the bench obviously, So you know it's, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna give and you're gonna get if you make
Speaker 1: that change.
Speaker 4: Yeah you're gonna give and you're gonna get. But you know,
Speaker 4: out of the other options, if you're gonna get Jackson
Speaker 4: becks into his six man role or at least try
Speaker 4: to get them comfortable with that for a little bit,
Speaker 4: there's no B is really the only other option you
Speaker 4: have there because Angeley Amanor is not giving you anything defensively.
Speaker 4: He hasn't done much offensively lately. I think Travis Perry
Speaker 4: is starting to get comfortable, but you know, he's a
Speaker 4: point guard for this team. He's not playing that two
Speaker 4: or three positions with Jackson plays. So that's kind of
Speaker 4: the only other option. Just with how this roster is
Speaker 4: constructed and with chrisa hurt.
Speaker 3: I feel like a Mari Williams gets a lot of
Speaker 3: attention from Big Blue Nation Aaron, but it also feels
Speaker 3: like he can't stay out of foul trouble. And to
Speaker 3: that point, I felt like we got the full Brandon
Speaker 3: Garrison effect in this last game, whether it be coast
Speaker 3: to coast dribbling and being energetic, but also him turning
Speaker 3: the ball over three four times.
Speaker 4: We talk about we talk about confidence with Jackson Robinson
Speaker 4: and that lacking. I do have no worries about the
Speaker 4: com of either Amari Williams or Brandon Kris. I mean
Speaker 4: Brandon Garrison's like there were times in that game where
Speaker 4: Lamont Butler is like putting his arms out like on
Speaker 4: the point guard ball ball ball, and Brandon Derrison's just
Speaker 4: taking it up up the floor. Which look, I know
Speaker 4: Mark Pope likes having his centers kind of play that
Speaker 4: point point center role, center point whatever the phrase is there,
Speaker 4: but that's got to get cleaned up. That's just not
Speaker 4: great basketball. I know the euro step was cool, but
Speaker 4: that should be a one and done thing right there.
Speaker 4: But look, I think of Mary Williams, he does get
Speaker 4: a lot of attention. I actually don't think he's been
Speaker 4: as bad as people have said. I think it's somewhere
Speaker 4: in the middle where the criticism. He's definitely been nowhere near,
Speaker 4: you know, defensive player of the year like he was
Speaker 4: in his other conference. But this is a way harder league,
Speaker 4: and I think there's been a justment period for him.
Speaker 4: And I think my biggest thing with Amary Williams, you know,
Speaker 4: the foul troubles is one thing, and they got to
Speaker 4: get that cleaned up. But he's got a boxed out man. Yeah,
Speaker 4: a lot of these offensive rebounds were We're seeing the
Speaker 4: two guys I've been circling on those or Andrew Carr
Speaker 4: and Amari Williams, and that's got to get cleaned up
Speaker 4: up from him. But I actually thought Omari probably played
Speaker 4: his best game of the year, at least offensively against Florida.
Speaker 4: I thought last night his energy was there. I thought
Speaker 4: the effort was there. I just couldn't stay at a
Speaker 4: foul trouble and that hurt them.
Speaker 1: I can't remember all his fouls last night, but there
Speaker 1: was a foul ticky Tech, yeah, but there was one
Speaker 1: against Florida. Rehacked the guy eighty feet from the basket. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you know what, you're the three time
Speaker 1: d Player of the Year. You you you clearly know
Speaker 1: better than that.
Speaker 4: No questions. Yeah, And that's that stuff that's got to
Speaker 4: get ironed out in practice. And one thing, you know,
Speaker 4: Mark Pope talked about it after the cleansing game, and
Speaker 4: it's a real issue with this team when they get behind,
Speaker 4: which happens way too often. But that's a separate issue.
Speaker 4: They like to play this hero ball where they go
Speaker 4: against their offensive scheme, they would go against their read
Speaker 4: and react whatever you want to call it, and they
Speaker 4: kind of just every every man for himself. And that's
Speaker 4: when you lead on and that and that's that happens
Speaker 4: on both sizes of the ball. And you're gonna have
Speaker 4: those stupid fouls on the defensive side when you're playing
Speaker 4: hero ball and you're gonna have bad shots and euro
Speaker 4: steps from your center. It's just, uh, there's a lot
Speaker 4: to clean up. There's a lot to clean up, for sure.
Speaker 2: Don't forget Brandon Garrison hitting threes too. I mean I
Speaker 2: think that was his third thirty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's taking her third hit.
Speaker 2: Thirty's hit I think as he's had a.
Speaker 3: But let's put the Georgia game to a side for
Speaker 3: a second, because they had a great game versus Florida
Speaker 3: and one six.
Speaker 2: They did. I guess, yes, tongue in cheek.
Speaker 3: Great doesn't apply to defense in that regard, but Florida's
Speaker 3: got some really good guards and they showed that in
Speaker 3: that Oh yes, do you think that is what Kentucky's
Speaker 3: potential looks like?
Speaker 4: Aaron? Yes, yeah, I don't think. I really think Florida
Speaker 4: and Florida backed it up last night beating thirty forty
Speaker 4: three points. I think Florida honestly is the second best
Speaker 4: team in the SEC, behind Auburn. So the fact Kentucky
Speaker 4: was able to beat them, put up one hundred and
Speaker 4: six points, get some stops when they needed to. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that is their apps, that is their ceiling. That's Kentucky
Speaker 4: at their best. They're making shots, they're playing confident, they're
Speaker 4: playing their reading react offense. They're going on runs where
Speaker 4: you know, one second it looks like they can't buy
Speaker 4: a bucket and then bang eleven to zero run and
Speaker 4: the game flips. That's that's what this Kentucky team is
Speaker 4: supposed to be like. And then on the defensive side,
Speaker 4: you don't want to give up one hundred, but go
Speaker 4: look at some of those shots Walter playing, and they
Speaker 4: were circus shots. They were shots to live with. And
Speaker 4: Florida is a really, really good team that's going to
Speaker 4: do a lot of damage. So the fact you're able
Speaker 4: to get that win is massive. And you know, I'm
Speaker 4: not look, I actually think in the second half yesterday,
Speaker 4: after they gave up forty seven in the first half,
Speaker 4: they played and really all games Georgia shot like set
Speaker 4: seven for twenty four from three and some of the
Speaker 4: threes that they did hit. One was that buzzer beater
Speaker 4: at the end of the half that had two guys
Speaker 4: in the space they banked one in. Like I think,
Speaker 4: defensively it's all a matter of boxing out and closing possessions.
Speaker 4: But that Florida game, yeah, I think that's Kentucky at
Speaker 4: their best right there.
Speaker 1: Aaron Gershewan is with us on the Celebrity Highline just
Speaker 1: back from after Georgia. Dick Gabriel, Billy Rutledge. It is
Speaker 1: the state wide BBI from Pikeville to Paduca. It is
Speaker 1: the big Blu Insider. Dick Gabriel, Billy Rutledge, Aaron Gersheawan,
Speaker 1: we're talking, of course about the Wildcats. They're lost at
Speaker 1: Georgia last night, and we talked about the fact that
Speaker 1: Andrew Carr spoke with Jack Gibbons about kind of a
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a surprise to them
Speaker 1: because every one of those guys, it's played road games
Speaker 1: in college, but none of them with the exception of
Speaker 1: the walk on, So I guess I don't doubt if
Speaker 1: they've ever gotten into a game on the road. I
Speaker 1: may be wrong, but none of them who had Kentucky
Speaker 1: across the chest. And Aaron, as we brought you on tonight,
Speaker 1: we talked talked about the crowd down there. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, with all due respect, when wake Forest goes
Speaker 1: on the road, UH, if they're a good team, that's fine.
Speaker 1: In the acc Uh some years they've been cannon fodder.
Speaker 1: But we all know when Kentucky goes on the road,
Speaker 1: it's different. As I mentioned earlier, the circus comes to
Speaker 1: town and did you see, because I thought Kentucky got
Speaker 1: off to a good start, so I didn't think that
Speaker 1: was much of a factor last night. But what about
Speaker 1: as the game got away from them?
Speaker 4: Yea again, I just think what I was. I think
Speaker 4: they went against all their corn valley and they they
Speaker 4: didn't say the offense. They didn't.
Speaker 3: Hey Aaron, we can't really hear you. Did you change
Speaker 3: the speaker phone or do you have AirPods in?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No? There that sounds better?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Sorry?
Speaker 2: Are you good?
Speaker 4: But yeah, I just think there's a lot of hero ball,
Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of playing for me, and
Speaker 4: a lot of just not playing as a team. And
Speaker 4: you know, I didn't, I really didn't. It's hard to
Speaker 4: gauge just the crowd was the thing that affected them
Speaker 4: or not. I mean it probably is. You can't but
Speaker 4: the body again, the body language all year long when
Speaker 4: things have been going wrong. In this game specifically, I
Speaker 4: thought what really set off the bad body language was
Speaker 4: the officiating. And again I don't think it was a
Speaker 4: greatly called game. I thought there were some calls that
Speaker 4: could have gone either way, maybe shouldn't have been called whatever.
Speaker 4: That's not why they lost. But every time a call
Speaker 4: went against Kentucky that they really didn't like. You know,
Speaker 4: you saw the dropping of the arms and the yelling
Speaker 4: at the refs and hanging their heads, and that really
Speaker 4: affected them. And that's something that Mark Pope's gotta work
Speaker 4: on getting these guys to just let it go and
Speaker 4: keep playing. And I don't know if that means he
Speaker 4: needs to be more aggressive with the officials and you know,
Speaker 4: take on that anger for him and rally his guys
Speaker 4: or continue doing what he's doing, but just do a
Speaker 4: better job in practice of telling them, like, hey, it
Speaker 4: doesn't matter what they call next play. But that was
Speaker 4: the one that that, more than the environment, is what
Speaker 4: I picked up on. Every time a call went against them,
Speaker 4: it felt like they were almost throwing a hissy fit.
Speaker 3: Do you think the presence of Kerr Criesa would help
Speaker 3: with that? I mean it feels like you got a
Speaker 3: lot of quiet guys with Lamont Butler and yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: you want to get a little nasty. Does Kerr's play
Speaker 3: may not be always there, but do you feel like
Speaker 3: his energy would change a little bit of this?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think indisputably, their energy has been lacking since
Speaker 4: he's been down. I mean, look, I thought it was
Speaker 4: really concerning and I let it go because they beat Florida,
Speaker 4: and you know, they looked better at least against Brown.
Speaker 4: But Mark Pope admitted after they lost at Madison Square
Speaker 4: Garden that they couldn't get up to the game. Energy
Speaker 4: wasn't there, Like that's a problem. No, Like even look,
Speaker 4: I was there two years ago when Kentucky leyden Academa
Speaker 4: she against UCLA, but that team was energetic that day.
Speaker 4: They just they couldn't buy a bucket. And you know,
Speaker 4: UCLA played a really good game defensively. There's no excuse
Speaker 4: to not get up for a game at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 4: And that's exactly what happened with this team. And then
Speaker 4: you know they go on the road here to Georgia
Speaker 4: and yeah, it's a good environment, for sure. It really
Speaker 4: Again it got loud late in the first half, the
Speaker 4: whole second half. But it's not one of these. It's
Speaker 4: not an Auburn and it's not a Tennessee for some
Speaker 4: of these like Jackson Robinson last year played at Kansas
Speaker 4: and played at Baylor. Those are tougher environments. It's nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 4: played great and so maybe there's like a board of them.
Speaker 4: I don't know what it is, but they they've got
Speaker 4: to figure it out. And Kreisa would definitely help with
Speaker 4: all that.
Speaker 1: We were going coming up on the break when we
Speaker 1: were talking in a last segment about Florida, and one
Speaker 1: thing I wanted to bring up was a reminder that
Speaker 1: not unlike Georgia, Florida got to the line all night again.
Speaker 1: Chucky just lucked out quite frankly. The Gators missed eleven,
Speaker 1: including a front end at least twice down the stretch.
Speaker 1: He had a ninety shooter, Aaron missed two or three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, otherwise that game might go in the other direction.
Speaker 4: So nope, yeah, no, no, yeah.
Speaker 1: So you know, Pope talked about that tonight as well,
Speaker 1: But so much of it was they're just late getting
Speaker 1: there on defense, you know.
Speaker 4: What I mean, no question they are. And look, I
Speaker 4: thought they were a little bit better with ball screen
Speaker 4: defense in this game than they were against Ohio State,
Speaker 4: per se. But it's closing these possessions. And you know,
Speaker 4: they played two top thirty offensive rebounding teams last two games,
Speaker 4: Florida and Georgia. They played the thirty ninth ranked offensive
Speaker 4: rebounding team in the country on Saturday, Mississippi State, and
Speaker 4: then the number one offensive rebounding team in the country,
Speaker 4: Texas A and M comes in here six days from now.
Speaker 4: So like that's something that's got to get cleaned up,
Speaker 4: like starting tomorrow in practice, they can't go on. They
Speaker 4: will be a sub five hundred team in this sc
Speaker 4: if this back trend continues.
Speaker 1: I remember being at practice as many many moons ago
Speaker 1: when I would hear Joe Hall and staff loudly talk
Speaker 1: about get a body on a body, you know, And
Speaker 1: they didn't invent that either. I mean, anybody who's played
Speaker 1: basketball knows that that's all part of it. So we'll
Speaker 1: see if that happens more with Aaron Gershwan when we
Speaker 1: come back, we'll talk about the football portal as well
Speaker 1: as the basketball cats here on the state Wide BBI
Speaker 1: along with Aaron ger Shawn and Billy rud Ledge, Dick Gabriel,
Speaker 1: the Statewide Big Blue Inside are glad to have you
Speaker 1: along on a Wednesday because of the schedule being shaken up.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we have another Wednesday somewhere down the line,
Speaker 1: but we'll be back on Monday.
Speaker 2: Monday next Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Sony asked me about that why these SEC games
Speaker 1: are all over the map now, and the answer is
Speaker 1: always television because as soon as the SEC network came along,
Speaker 1: and look, I do work for them, I'm all good
Speaker 1: with them. But you had to wonder about this when
Speaker 1: they said every sporting event, every sporting event will be televised, men's,
Speaker 1: women's basketball, baseball, stop everything. So the question is where
Speaker 1: do you put them, you know, And the answer is
Speaker 1: you put them all over the calendar wherever you can,
Speaker 1: whether it's on SEC network or ESPN two or streaming
Speaker 1: or whatever. So whenever there's a question about scheduling, the
Speaker 1: answers always and in the secondary answers money, But it's
Speaker 1: always about our friends on TV.
Speaker 2: Well, quickly, look at the Big ten.
Speaker 3: I mean, Michigan UCLA was a top twenty five conference
Speaker 3: game last night. It was on Peacock and half the
Speaker 3: people didn't know it was there. At least the ESPN
Speaker 3: plus games are non conference most of the Yes, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. And you know, like I said when
Speaker 1: Notre Dame's home opener.
Speaker 5: When it started, Ye, he said it there's the future
Speaker 5: for that, And I always reverberates in my ear the
Speaker 5: John Skipper, the former ESPN chief, saying some data Super
Speaker 5: Bowl is going to be pay.
Speaker 1: Per view and it will. Yeah, I mean, you know
Speaker 1: it's not going to be tomorrow, but it will at
Speaker 1: some point.
Speaker 2: Too much money to be made.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's the biggest event. I mean, Aaron Grishawm,
Speaker 1: would you pay? Would you pay to see the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Would you pay per view to see the Super Bowl?
Speaker 4: Reluctantly, Yeah, I know you would.
Speaker 3: I would pay upwards to seventy eighty bucks, yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: But any more than that, I'd have a make go
Speaker 3: over to a buddy's house.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, let's make a pack the three
Speaker 1: of us wherever we are, We'll throw in together, make
Speaker 1: it a little cheaper and sit somewhere, even if it's
Speaker 1: in my garage. And wh super Bowl. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, revenue streams being what they all. Right back
Speaker 1: to Kentucky and we were talking about how tovi it
Speaker 1: is to go down there and play in Athens. Aaron,
Speaker 1: if you've been to Starkfille for basketball.
Speaker 4: Yes, each of the last two years. I don't think
Speaker 4: with our another snowstorm that we don't need hitting Lexington
Speaker 4: and even that region there in North Mississippi. I'll be
Speaker 4: making the trip this time. But yes, the last two
Speaker 4: years I've been there.
Speaker 1: And what was your impression of stark Vegas the Hump
Speaker 1: as a home court advantage?
Speaker 4: Very very similar, but probably a step above where Georgia
Speaker 4: I agree where the bill you've won. I think this
Speaker 4: one will be a little better from the opening tip,
Speaker 4: just because you have that number fourteen in front of
Speaker 4: Mississippi State, and you know the last two years under
Speaker 4: Chris Jians his first two years there, you make the
Speaker 4: NCAA tournament. You know this is a team with expectations
Speaker 4: and a program now that you can say, hey, we
Speaker 4: expect to be in the mix to get to a
Speaker 4: second weekend in March. So I think the building will
Speaker 4: probably be jumping from the start, unlike were last year.
Speaker 4: I remember specifically it was a late arriving crowd because
Speaker 4: Mississippi State baseball was playing across the street and their
Speaker 4: game was still They had like a barn burner in
Speaker 4: a midweek game that was like fifteen to five, So
Speaker 4: it took a while, and you saw the fans start
Speaker 4: to come in. Obviously, that's one of the best environments
Speaker 4: in college baseball, even during the midweek, and you saw
Speaker 4: the fans kind of start to roll in as the
Speaker 4: baseball game wound down, and by the second half when
Speaker 4: you had that shootout between Shepherd and and Josh Hubbard,
Speaker 4: the returning point guard for State. That place is jumping,
Speaker 4: so I think there'll be a little more with no baseball,
Speaker 4: there to be a distraction, you know, standalone game on campus.
Speaker 4: It'll probably be going from the opening tip. But again,
Speaker 4: I don't put that environment above Tennessee, Auburn, Arkansas, Florida
Speaker 4: by any means no.
Speaker 1: But I can tell you this years ago, and I
Speaker 1: want to say it was when Tubby was still here.
Speaker 1: It was not not during the Caliperi era, and not
Speaker 1: Gillsbee either.
Speaker 4: The Lord knows.
Speaker 1: But we at Channel twenty seven, we went on the
Speaker 1: road to basically every game, every road game, and U
Speaker 1: uplink the postgame stuff, the press conferences and everything we could.
Speaker 1: And so obviously that took us into opposing territory and
Speaker 1: the arena. So I've basically been The only arena I
Speaker 1: haven't been in road game is Auburn.
Speaker 4: And I know that's a that's out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that's one.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah. But it's amazing Starkville.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because there's just nothing else
Speaker 1: to do or whatever, but when Kentucky comes down, but
Speaker 1: the shoot around draws so many and it's usually students
Speaker 1: and the heckling begins, and I sit there and laugh.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're creative, the little profane. But I see
Speaker 1: the players. I don't know if you ever noticed this, Aaron,
Speaker 1: the players trying to stifle their smiles. They think it's
Speaker 1: funny as well.
Speaker 4: Well, I do remember when I was there two years ago,
Speaker 4: a game that Kentucky won as well. Good by the way,
Speaker 4: I don't think Kentucky hasn't lost the regular season game
Speaker 4: to Mississippi State since the Gillespian era. They won them
Speaker 4: all against Cal. The only loss they had to them
Speaker 4: was the SEC Tournament the COVID season. But getting back
Speaker 4: on track, I remember the first student that arrived in
Speaker 4: the student section for Mississippi State was wearing a Doug
Speaker 4: Edit jersey. That was the season a Doug Edit jersey.
Speaker 4: Oh and that was the season after the Saint Peters loss.
Speaker 4: So I can't confirm the creativity from the from the
Speaker 4: students there. Willingly spent money on that almost a year
Speaker 4: after the fact. Just to make a.
Speaker 3: Point less serious question, Aaron, Chris Jan's nickname is the
Speaker 3: Dentists over at Mississippi State.
Speaker 2: Guess because of how.
Speaker 3: Hard his teams play, maybe you lose a tooth by
Speaker 3: the end of it or something like that. Uh, what
Speaker 3: do you think is the best UK athletics nickname in history?
Speaker 3: Kenny Skywalker, the brow, uh, the hefty Lefty and all
Speaker 3: the Lorenzen ones because there was more than one.
Speaker 1: Jaredhill was very throwboy, he was so fantastic. Left was
Speaker 1: low hanging.
Speaker 2: Fun like you know, Boogie was a good one. Or
Speaker 2: Goose I think to a degree.
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting. And we talked about that the
Speaker 1: other day. When he was first nicknamed goose, Jack didn't
Speaker 1: like it, but but he did just you know, I
Speaker 1: guess he just got comfortable with it. And now that's
Speaker 1: his uh Twitter handle. So no, but I knew him
Speaker 1: and you know, covered his his games, went with school
Speaker 1: together and uh and I mentioned that once to him
Speaker 1: when I was internested. We never had class together, so
Speaker 1: that's you never went to class.
Speaker 2: I said, well, you know, okay, got me there.
Speaker 1: No, I mean that's a great question. What's the best
Speaker 1: nick jeorts is up there?
Speaker 4: For that?
Speaker 1: I think you can always you can always default.
Speaker 2: Did Dan esselll have one?
Speaker 1: The horse?
Speaker 2: The Horse?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think that started in the NBA. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know that that was the case here.
Speaker 3: And the coaches never had one the bear for football,
Speaker 3: but I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that didn't happen here, right, Yeah, the coaches might
Speaker 1: have names you can't do well. The baron you know,
Speaker 1: great off were up the baron of basketball. Some of
Speaker 1: the nicknames you couldn't repeat. Sky Walker was great because
Speaker 1: it was topical at the time, and it fit him
Speaker 1: so well because he jumped so well, and it was
Speaker 1: just kind of lyrical. Okay, that's a great question.
Speaker 3: I got to think all these better than the dentist though, Well,
Speaker 3: I wish I knew more about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was on Aaron.
Speaker 4: If I'm wrong, it is it is, Yeah, And you know, look,
Speaker 4: that's what makes and you know, yeah it's a great
Speaker 4: it's a funny nickname and whatnot. But that's what scares
Speaker 4: you about this matchup. If you're Kentucky. In the way
Speaker 4: things are trending right now, this is going to be
Speaker 4: a grinded out, slug fast rock fight type game. Mississippi
Speaker 4: State under Christians has been known for being a good,
Speaker 4: mediocre offensive team. That it's a little different when you
Speaker 4: have a point guard like they do in Josh Hubbard,
Speaker 4: where he's just a four level score or three level
Speaker 4: score or whatever, lack of sleep, losing check of the term,
Speaker 4: but just the guy who can can make every shot
Speaker 4: and just shoots the lights out for you. But they
Speaker 4: last year, in the last two years, they've been middle
Speaker 4: of the pack and just in every offensive category, I
Speaker 4: think points per game two years ago when Kentucky went
Speaker 4: down there, where they were in like the two hundreds
Speaker 4: in the country. But you go look at that defense
Speaker 4: and it's top ten every year. You go look at
Speaker 4: the rebounding, it's top ten to twenty every year, and
Speaker 4: that's you know, this year, they're a little bit better
Speaker 4: than they have been offensively, and they still play that
Speaker 4: really elite level defense and really box you out. So
Speaker 4: it's gonna be exactly like the Georgia, Clemson, and Ohio
Speaker 4: State games from a game plan standpoint. From State, probably
Speaker 4: what's better talent than all three of those teams, and
Speaker 4: that makes them a really dangerous opponent. And obviously you
Speaker 4: know they're due for one against Kentucky. Like I said,
Speaker 4: they haven't won a regular season game against the cast
Speaker 4: since Billy Gillessie is the coach, So you know there's
Speaker 4: a lot to like. If you're Mississippi State going into
Speaker 4: this matchup. But for Kentucky it's a great opportunity because
Speaker 4: you can get a bunch of monkeys off your back.
Speaker 4: You can get the monkey of not being able to
Speaker 4: handle physicality and get the monkey of winning on the road.
Speaker 4: Get those off your back, and make teams adjust how
Speaker 4: they can beat you. Right now, the blueprint is so
Speaker 4: it's simple to write up, not to execute, but it's
Speaker 4: simple to write up and know what you've got to do.
Speaker 4: If you can adjust and make them and maybe go
Speaker 4: win a rock fight, maybe that changes the blueprint a
Speaker 4: little bit. And then you know, it takes some time
Speaker 4: for teams to readjust to you. We saw that a
Speaker 4: lot last year with Kentucky right where it took until
Speaker 4: I think they won a game at Arkansas where they
Speaker 4: won like sixty three fifty seven. Before that they had
Speaker 4: scored at least eighty points in all their wins. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and for a little bit Kentucky got hot after that,
Speaker 4: and then it took time for that readjustment from the
Speaker 4: opposition to come. And I think that's something where Kentucky
Speaker 4: right now they're stuck in losing the same way. Now
Speaker 4: they got to go prove they can win the way
Speaker 4: that teams are going to play them, and then start
Speaker 4: that readjustment period again and try to keep pushing it
Speaker 4: off as far as it can.
Speaker 1: Seemed like there's always something at Mississippi State. Jarvis Bernardo
Speaker 1: led the nation in block shots. You know, always a
Speaker 1: challenge down there. But so now you kind of started
Speaker 1: off your conversation with us tonight, Aaron talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: the blueprint to beat Kentucky. First of all, you got
Speaker 1: to run them off the three point line. Well, and
Speaker 1: you know, and that's not you know, I won't say
Speaker 1: that that that's easy to do, but it's pretty evident
Speaker 1: that you have to do that, and you present yourself
Speaker 1: and you know, make them work harder for three pointers.
Speaker 1: But they seem, like you said, they're passing up two
Speaker 1: pointers and which game was or where they hit you know,
Speaker 1: ninety percent from two point land or whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: they almost need to start thinking like that again.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, absolutely, you just gotta look, I know this
Speaker 4: team and maybe it's maybe it's the fact that Mark
Speaker 4: Pope is so adamant about the thirty threes per game
Speaker 4: that it's getting in the guys heads a little bit.
Speaker 4: Maybe they need to tinker with that. I'm not sure
Speaker 4: what it is, but there have been so many times
Speaker 4: all year long, and like you said, I think it
Speaker 4: was I forget which game it was, but the two
Speaker 4: of the games they won this year against top ten
Speaker 4: teams Duke and Gonzaga. Yeah, they pretty much ditched the
Speaker 4: three point ball in the second half. Yes, and they
Speaker 4: just went in the paint, got physical.
Speaker 1: Into your car Ward Yeah.
Speaker 4: Andrew Carr yes, and otego like and even Jackson Robinson
Speaker 4: in the Knzucker game, he was not standing in that game.
Speaker 4: So it's just like, you know, it works sometimes and
Speaker 4: the way that teams are gonna play you, their first
Speaker 4: read on defense is going to be stop the three
Speaker 4: point line. Get on the three point line, and you've
Speaker 4: got to be able to win multiple different ways. We've
Speaker 4: seen Kentucky do it, and they've kind of shot away
Speaker 4: from it lately. And I just I go back to
Speaker 4: that Mark Pope being very very adamant and with us
Speaker 4: with the media, and I imagine in practice, like we've
Speaker 4: got to get the volume. We got to get the volume.
Speaker 4: The volume bothers me more than the misses. And maybe
Speaker 4: they're they got to find a happy medium there because
Speaker 4: it looks there was at least you know where the
Speaker 4: media sits at Stagement or Stegmund Calcium, it's right behind
Speaker 4: the basket. So we the first half, Kentucky was shooting
Speaker 4: right like as close as we could be from where
Speaker 4: we were, and I counted at least six open layups
Speaker 4: that were passing. Wow, And that's got to get fixed,
Speaker 4: really got to get fixed.
Speaker 3: You know, we've talked about a lot of issues with
Speaker 3: this team, but two guys that have been pretty consistent
Speaker 3: so far is Lamont Butler and Otega Oway. You know,
Speaker 3: I didn't know Otega had scored in double figures in
Speaker 3: every game this year until somebody said it the other day.
Speaker 3: And you know, Lamont had allowed thirty three versus Louisville.
Speaker 3: But Aaron, I mean, where would this team be without
Speaker 3: his defense?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he had four steels last night. I
Speaker 4: mean he was and you know, you go look at
Speaker 4: the Florida game, and yes, they gave it one hundred.
Speaker 4: But what Kentucky did is they in the in the
Speaker 4: second half, when Elijah Martin started going nuclear, what they
Speaker 4: did is they put Lamont on Elijah Martin. And that's
Speaker 4: you as saw Walter Clayton heat up that he was
Speaker 4: not guarded by by Butler. But did you see how
Speaker 4: many points Martin scored after they put made that adjustment?
Speaker 4: Not many zero, So I mean that's just what Lamon.
Speaker 4: Butler is an elite defender, and he's gotten so much
Speaker 4: better offensively. I don't know if that's you know, that's
Speaker 4: probably a combination of him putting in the work, and
Speaker 4: you got to give him credit. There's a lot more
Speaker 4: shooters than he's ever played with on this team. And
Speaker 4: you know he's going from a team in San Diego
Speaker 4: State who obviously wildly successful there played a very very
Speaker 4: slow temps exactly right.
Speaker 1: He They didn't need him to score at St. State,
Speaker 1: but they needed that defense, and that's exactly why Mark
Speaker 1: Pope hired him.
Speaker 4: So now you're seeing him come combine both of those things.
Speaker 4: That's becoming a complete player, and he's their best and
Speaker 4: most important player right now by a mile in my opinion.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break, come back and talk football with
Speaker 1: Aaron Gershawana college playoffs are coming up a little bit
Speaker 1: of NFL as well, but Aaron keeps us up to
Speaker 1: speed on the portal. That's more that Mortcom I should
Speaker 1: say here on the state Wide BBI, final segment of
Speaker 1: the State Wide BBI, with yours truly, Dick Gabriel, Aaron Gershawn,
Speaker 1: Billy Rutledge. Aaron, let me ask you about the portal first.
Speaker 1: I know you were on the road quite a bit,
Speaker 1: but you have kept ever You've done a great job
Speaker 1: with the portal tracker on the catch balls site. Clearly
Speaker 1: Kentucky has lots of needs, and I think one thing
Speaker 1: we've learned over the last couple of years is you
Speaker 1: might sign some kids up, but that doesn't guarantee anything.
Speaker 1: Even though Kentucky has some good fortune with the portal
Speaker 1: a few years ago, but of late, you know, it's
Speaker 1: been kind of hit or miss. What do you think
Speaker 1: of the class they brought in so far? They've certainly
Speaker 1: filled needs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's look, this is the first year and
Speaker 4: it's been by need, it's been by attrition. But sixteen guys,
Speaker 4: that's by far the biggest portal class that they've had.
Speaker 4: And they're not done yet. I think they maybe they're
Speaker 4: done for the winter and then we'll see what happens
Speaker 4: after spring practice. They as of now they have eighty
Speaker 4: four or eighty five scholarships in use. You are allowed
Speaker 4: to go over eighty five up until after spring.
Speaker 1: Ball, but guys will leave that spring.
Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, So that's why you're allowed to go in
Speaker 4: with it with more to begin with. But I think
Speaker 4: that they've done. I think they've done a decent job
Speaker 4: filling some needs offensive line wise. I really like all
Speaker 4: the additions they've made there, especially the right tackle from
Speaker 4: Bowling Green in the center from Western Western Kentucky. I
Speaker 4: do still think there's some need, a very very important
Speaker 4: need to fill that starting left tackle spot, and that's
Speaker 4: something where we'll see if they can get that done.
Speaker 4: But you know, but they've got to get it done somehow. Someway.
Speaker 4: I like what they've done at wide receiver, making the
Speaker 4: best out of nothing there, honestly, because they've lot that
Speaker 4: whole room got gutted. I think also important to note,
Speaker 4: you know, the Hardly Gilmore stuff, there's a lot that
Speaker 4: happened behind the scenes. Some of it's been reported Kentucky.
Speaker 4: You know, initially I was hard on them for that one.
Speaker 4: I'm not anymore. That was the one where separation kind
Speaker 4: of had to happen. They had, Yeah, they added Troye
Speaker 4: the l O from from Clemson today. That's a guy
Speaker 4: who his name may ring a bell for two reasons. One,
Speaker 4: he's the nephew of Tommy DeVito's agent. If you've ever
Speaker 4: seen that guy really a game, I freaking hope that.
Speaker 1: Tommy Cutler.
Speaker 4: So that's one. And then two, if you remember the
Speaker 4: Gator Bowl, which was a fantastic game that Kentucky came
Speaker 4: on the right wrong side of Kentucky allowed a sixteen
Speaker 4: yard completion on third and eighteen that set the fan
Speaker 4: base up in arms and called Brad White's defense soft.
Speaker 4: That was the guy who made that catch and ultimately
Speaker 4: that helps it up the game winning touchdown for Clinton.
Speaker 1: I remember it in front of me.
Speaker 4: Yep, so a guy with some some Jews, some two
Speaker 4: years of experience there. You know, they had Kendrick Law
Speaker 4: from Bama JJ Hester if they can keep him healthy,
Speaker 4: was productive when he was healthy at Oklahoma last year.
Speaker 4: So uh. And then defensively, you know the defensive lineman
Speaker 4: they just picked up from Washington State, David Gusta, is
Speaker 4: the top thirty rank guy in the whole portal. So
Speaker 4: you feel good about that as good as you can
Speaker 4: when you lose a guy like Keisha and Silver, So look,
Speaker 4: there's still more work to do. I think they've done
Speaker 4: a pretty good job filling out the needs they have,
Speaker 4: but we're also you know, they really need guys who
Speaker 4: are already in this program, who are gonna be second
Speaker 4: and third of year guys to really take that next
Speaker 4: step if they want to get back on the track.
Speaker 4: That's what it's gonna come down to. It's going to
Speaker 4: come down to the returners. Aaron.
Speaker 3: We got a lot of football this weekend and starting tomorrow,
Speaker 3: Notre Dame, Penn State, Ohio State, Texas. We've seen the
Speaker 3: lower seed advance in every game in that last round
Speaker 3: of the college football playoffs. What have you made of
Speaker 3: the playoffs? Does it need to be changed? And are
Speaker 3: you excited for these games?
Speaker 4: You know, it's similar to the MLB postseason where it
Speaker 4: seems like these teams, you know that go out and
Speaker 4: earn a buye are kind of getting hurt by it
Speaker 4: and they have to sit and wait maybe too long.
Speaker 4: And I don't know if there's a way around that
Speaker 4: or not, but you got to just tip your caps
Speaker 4: all the teams that have gone in and pulled off
Speaker 4: quote unquote upsets, especially Ohio State just I did not
Speaker 4: see that coming, just crushing Oregon. He was the most
Speaker 4: consistent team all season long. So look, I think the
Speaker 4: matchups are pretty good. I'm definitely much more excited for
Speaker 4: Friday night for Texas and Ohio State. But I think
Speaker 4: whoever wins that game when winds up, ends up being
Speaker 4: the national champion. But you know, Notre Dame going in
Speaker 4: and out physically in Georgia was not at all something
Speaker 4: I thought. Yeah, they controlled both lines of scrimmage. And
Speaker 4: one of my buddies I was talking to on the
Speaker 4: Georgia beat, I was like, that's the When I said,
Speaker 4: were you surprised by the outcome? He's like, yeah, because
Speaker 4: how the heck did Notre Dame, who was out without
Speaker 4: their best defensive lineman, controlled the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 4: you know, Georgia, their first time starting quarterback Gunner Stockton
Speaker 4: played well in the game and they still lost.
Speaker 1: You know, Notre Dame's done that all year and that's
Speaker 1: how they won all year.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, boys, we're running late on time. But I
Speaker 1: have to bring this up. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys remember this, but early beginning of the season I
Speaker 1: very knowingly explain to you guys that Ohio State will
Speaker 1: go out and crush Oregon. Remember when they played regular season?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and what Howard forgot about the clock?
Speaker 1: And how wrong was I? You know, I guess I
Speaker 1: was ahead of my time.
Speaker 2: Are you vindicated because I didn't predict it this time?
Speaker 4: But?
Speaker 1: Uh, you know what we've heard Billion and I were
Speaker 1: talking in the break about, you know, all the complaining
Speaker 1: and whining about the playoffs. Look, these teams were under seated,
Speaker 1: Ohio State, underseated, Penn State, under date.
Speaker 4: Play Ohio State.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I mean, but but that's it's not
Speaker 1: going to change because Sanke and his crew locked in
Speaker 1: the buys for the conference champions from the top four conferences.
Speaker 1: That ain't gonna change, you know. And they're not going
Speaker 1: to drop it to eight teams. If anything, they'll bump
Speaker 1: it to sixteen to make more money. To overreact, to
Speaker 1: overreact after one year is ridiculous. So all right, you
Speaker 1: who are your giants going to draft? The season's over?
Speaker 1: You had twenty seconds. What do you need quarterback?
Speaker 4: If we need every position, quarterback.
Speaker 1: Starwek quarterback? All right, you're allowing the playoffs?
Speaker 3: But yeah, they beat the Commanders week one. Let's see
Speaker 3: if they can do it again.
Speaker 1: My Packers time with the Eagles. It's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: Thanks doing, Thanks to billionaire and that's it. Good night
Speaker 1: from Lexington. M.