WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:01.399 You're just going to BEBA. 2 00:00:01.720 --> 00:00:02.000 It is. 3 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:03.759 Let's Bebia, but it's me too. 4 00:00:03.799 --> 00:00:06.440 Actually, no place I'd rather be. Welcome to The Big 5 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:08.919 Blue and Sider. Dicadrill with you on a Monday edition 6 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:12.880 of our program. Yep, that was otega Oway and Mark Pope. 7 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:15.960 As we lead things here on the Monday edition of 8 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.280 The Big Blue Insider. You start off with Kentucky basketball 9 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:22.160 whenever you can, or Kentucky football. It is that time 10 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:24.960 of year when talk show hosts and writers are looking 11 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:28.559 for things to talk about. No shortage of topics tonight 12 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.359 because not just of Kentucky football and basketball, a little 13 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:35.880 recruiting news coming up as well, College World Series stuff 14 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:40.600 the NBA. A former wildcatch shay Gilges Alexander had a 15 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:43.880 huge game last night. We're coming off the Belmont Aaron 16 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:48.600 Rodgers has signed. He's a Steeler if you care. But yeah, 17 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:51.159 there's still stuff to talk about, no question about it. 18 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:54.719 But we needed to start off first of all by 19 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:59.759 talking about the House settlement. Finally, finally it came through. 20 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:04.920 Now colleges have to set about deciding on and dealing 21 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:09.239 with the impact on athletics. The California judge Claudia Wilkins 22 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:13.640 Friday made the move that has changed the landscape of 23 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:17.799 college athletics arguably forever. Well, it's always going to be changing, 24 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:23.359 but now the schools have the freedom to pay athletes 25 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:28.840 directly a total of two point eight billion in NIL 26 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:33.239 back pay dating back to twenty sixteen. There are new 27 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:37.640 roster rules, there's a new enforcement arm that will include 28 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:42.000 a clearing house for future NIL agreements of six hundred 29 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:45.799 dollars or more. Mitch Barnhart releasing a statement over the weekend. 30 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:48.560 You may have seen that, but what this has done 31 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:55.159 basically is provide some of the guide rules that college administrators, 32 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:59.719 including Barnhart, have been craving. There are all kinds of 33 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:04.120 and whispers when this first started that and again I'm 34 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:06.799 not trying to carry the guy's water, but I've spoken 35 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:09.639 to the man about this kind of thing. Barnhardt was 36 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:16.120 accused of dragging his feet, trying to subvert NIL deals, 37 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:18.960 trying to keep people from getting what was coming to 38 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.719 them in the early days. And I've mentioned this before. 39 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:26.199 I was on a panel discussion show they threw together 40 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:29.479 over at k ET. I'm hundred enough that they asked 41 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:31.439 me to come in, not just because I don't live 42 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:33.759 too far away, but they've asked me to come. I've 43 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:36.520 been around for a little while, and you know, I 44 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:42.360 basically in one situation I deferred to Mitch about the 45 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:47.080 fact that getting schools to pull together in the same 46 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:52.719 direction is like hurting cats when it comes to the NCAA. 47 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:54.479 And when it comes to this sort of thing, you've 48 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:56.800 got a hundred plus schools playing D one football, You've 49 00:02:56.800 --> 00:02:59.960 got three hundred plus schools I believe it is playing 50 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:05.439 D one basketball. Everybody has a different mission, So how 51 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:07.599 do you get everybody going in the right direction? And 52 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:10.520 what he didn't bring up, and I couldn't really get 53 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:12.400 into it that much because at the time it wasn't 54 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:16.560 as pronounced, but it sure became pronounced leadership from the 55 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:21.560 top of the NCAA. Again, the nca is the members institutions. 56 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:25.759 It's all the membership, but somebody at the top has 57 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.800 to organize stuff. And they were getting some of the 58 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:33.400 worst leadership at the top in the history of the 59 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:37.759 NCAA at the time. Well, now, thanks to what went 60 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:41.520 to court, they've all had to pull together and they 61 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:48.960 all have to, as Mitch says, navigate these challenges responsibly. Meanwhile, 62 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:52.879 maintaining high standards and support of varsity sports. Right so, 63 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:56.560 the College Sports Commission will oversee the process. It will 64 00:03:56.639 --> 00:04:00.680 facilitate revenue sharing and ensure the name, image and likeness 65 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:04.560 deals between student athletes and third parties are fair and 66 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:06.960 comply with the rules. Nothing is going to be equal. 67 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:10.240 We know this, but they're looking for it to be equitable. 68 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:15.280 It's got to be fair the process for everybody. But 69 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:20.120 here is what you know, and here is what I know. Yeah, 70 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:22.839 there are going to be rules in place, and all 71 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:25.519 the same people to scream about society going to hell 72 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:28.399 in a handcard because there's no respect for law and order. 73 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:32.000 A lot of a lot of those people turn a 74 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:34.600 blind eye or encourage you to turn a blind eye 75 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:41.160 to rules governing this that, including the NCAA, And it's 76 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:43.439 all these rules are so stupid. Well yeah, some of 77 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:45.480 them are. But you know why they're there because the 78 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:48.839 rule book was the size it became because so many 79 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:52.920 people out there are dreaming up ways to cheat. And 80 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.600 right now with this new process in place, with the 81 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:58.959 CSC in place, with the new basically commissioner in place, 82 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:03.000 there are people well right now, I promise you trying 83 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:06.000 to figure out ways to cheat, and you know, well, 84 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.800 if you're not cheating, you're not trying. That's garbage. Yeah, 85 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:11.120 that's Look. I know you can wink at things that 86 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:15.600 happened in a NASCAR race, But if your kid was 87 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:18.120 playing on a team, and I hear from parents, I've 88 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.759 heard from parents my entire career. If your kid was 89 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:23.360 playing on a team against the team that routinely beat them, 90 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:26.399 and you know they were cheating somehow, yeah, you'd be 91 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:30.199 pretty upset about it. And it's happened. And look, you 92 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:32.319 know the stuff about well it used to be against 93 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:34.759 the rules to put cream cheese on a bagel for kid. Yeah, 94 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:37.360 that sort of stuff got ridiculous. And I couldn't believe 95 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:40.160 that that committee members who put the rules together sat 96 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:42.959 in a room and what they did was came up 97 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:45.399 at broad rules and then you know, well what about this? 98 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:47.120 Could you put peanut butter? Could you've been cheating? You 99 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:49.720 know all that kind of stuff. No, I'm amazed that 100 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:53.720 got that. That's stupid. But as I learned when I 101 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:58.160 worked in the old Southwest Conference for those communications, the 102 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:01.319 reason those rules are in those rule books is because 103 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:05.480 there were people out there dreaming up new ways to cheat, 104 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:08.920 and I don't mean putting cream cheese on a bagel. Remember, 105 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:12.160 Southwest Conference was the most corrupt conference by the time 106 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:16.120 it disbanded in the history of college athletics. SEC wasn't 107 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:20.600 too far behind before Mike's Live got there. And I 108 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:22.680 just got so sick of hearing that all the rules 109 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:25.160 were so hard to follow. No, they're not. And I 110 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:29.680 told the story before. David Kwood, Harlan product was the 111 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:31.800 number of two or three man at the NCAB by 112 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:33.759 the time he retired, came to work with us at 113 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:37.639 those communications, and once told me because I complained to 114 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:39.560 him one day, I said, Dave Man, that rule book 115 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:43.000 is three inches thick. He said, the rules that get 116 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:47.000 programs in trouble cover about twelve pages. I'm like balls, 117 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:49.399 he said no. I said, what's all that other stuff? 118 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:52.240 He said, Oh, it's stuff about transfers and red tape 119 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:54.360 and things like that. But he said, the rules that 120 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:57.839 get you in trouble cover about twelve pages. And he 121 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:01.600 suggested that the NCAA that they pull those twelve pages, 122 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:04.240 make a pamphlet out of it. Still give the schools 123 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:08.240 the big book, but make pamphlets and say have your 124 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:10.920 coaches carry every one of your recruiters should have this 125 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:14.800 in their back pocket. And it was a great idea, 126 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:16.879 and they turned it down. The NSAY turned it down. 127 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:21.399 I said, why, well, because they said, somebody somewhere is 128 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:23.360 going to break a rule that's not in the pamphlet. 129 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:25.959 And then they'll say, well, you didn't tell us weird 130 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:28.519 to worry about that rule, which to me is nonsense. 131 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:31.519 But that's just the way that they were thinking at 132 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:34.360 the time. So anyhow, I want to see how this 133 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:37.639 all shakes out with the House settlement, with the new 134 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:42.199 basically commissioner, and the way the money's doled out. But 135 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:47.560 I do worry about all these regional institutions because when 136 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:50.519 they start shutting down programs, and they will, it's already started, 137 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:55.759 that's going to mean opportunities for men and women that 138 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:57.319 they might have had to go to a D one 139 00:07:57.399 --> 00:07:59.560 school now they're not going to have them. Maybe they 140 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:01.879 can go D two or three, maybe they go JUCO, 141 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:07.199 get partial scholaris or whatever. But some kids just talking 142 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:09.519 to be able to afford to go to school. And 143 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:12.120 I know, you know, you have a tendency to think, 144 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:14.040 or at least too many people in my line of 145 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:16.560 work look at college words, odd's just grooming ground for 146 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:21.000 the pros. One percent, maybe two percent of the kids 147 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:25.079 competing in college athletics top to bottom men and women 148 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:29.279 D one to D three two percent go pro. You 149 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:31.680 talk about the tail wagon the dog. When these idiots 150 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:34.279 think like that, it's just about going to the pros, 151 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:38.440 shut up. And I know I'm terribly biased because I 152 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:43.799 cover baseball, volleyball, women's sports, and some of the folks 153 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:47.159 who helicopter in and cover the college well series of 154 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:49.759 the bowl games or whatever, and they look at it 155 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:55.039 simply as minor league sports. Totally wrong, totally wrong. Go 156 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:57.679 a little deeper and you'll find out all right before 157 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:00.240 the break, we'll come back to We'll take all away, 158 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:03.360 Mark Pope. This was a clip on the UK Sports 159 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:08.000 Network social media accounts, Oh take it Away at one 160 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:12.720 of the Mark Pope satellite camps, asking his coach is 161 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:17.960 once in future coach now that he's back, to recreate 162 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:22.200 the moment that Pope heard that otakea Oway was returning 163 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:23.039 to the Wildcats. 164 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:23.759 Do you want me. 165 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:29.639 O good? So, first of all, I was on a plane. 166 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:32.639 I was on a plane and I don't understand why 167 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:35.000 or how, but the call actually came through. 168 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:39.240 And so take a call mean and he said. 169 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.440 Coach, let's do this. 170 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:45.919 I'm coming back, And I was looking around. 171 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:47.639 I'm like, I think the pilot. 172 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:49.600 Is about to throw me out the plane right now. 173 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:52.440 So I was like, oh, Tega, I gotta call you 174 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:58.399 back later. We just hold that on. Fifteen minutes later, 175 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:03.759 called him back. He says, come back. Tears were to 176 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:04.399 up my face. 177 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.080 Yeah, I mean, it's a lot because I knew. 178 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:10.720 I knew a couple of things. 179 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:14.559 One I knew I know how how. 180 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:15.960 Excited you are and how much you want to go 181 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.799 play in that league. I know it's a dream of lifetime. 182 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:24.279 I know it's super humbling to see you. One understand 183 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:27.279 how much you watch it get better, how committed you 184 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:29.759 are to keep getting better. And second thing was to 185 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:33.279 see how much you understand I appreciate what you have 186 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:36.080 right now. That's special stuff. 187 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:39.320 Man, Yes, sir, better but hold on. 188 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:40.360 Hey, And he's been hiped. 189 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:42.519 He was super hiped all the way until he heard 190 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:44.200 about the conditioning. 191 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:46.279 Test on the first day summer workouts. 192 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:47.600 And then it was like, whoa coach, Maybe I need 193 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:49.759 to go back to this journey West, y'all. 194 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:52.200 Go see that when there's gonna be times at so 195 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:54.320 take it all away along with Mark Pope, Curtis City, 196 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:56.600 UK Sports Networking. As he said, you heard it off 197 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:58.840 the top. Always said there's no place I would rather 198 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:02.279 be and there there's no fan base that is happier 199 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:05.080 about that than the Big Boe Nation. We'll come back 200 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:07.559 with more of the Big Boon Insider coming up a 201 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:09.720 little bit later on in the show. Rick Bose, it's 202 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:13.120 from WDRB TV. We'll talk to him about the House settlement. 203 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.159 And Kobe Wilson from Fox fifty six that's ahead on 204 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:20.600 six thirty WLAP. Welcome back to the Big Blue Insider. 205 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:22.720 Dick Abriel with you coming up a little bit later 206 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:26.679 on Rick Bose, it's from Fox fifty six WDRB. I'll 207 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:29.440 tell you what surprise today on Twitter. I guess we 208 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:31.240 shouldn't be when you add up to years. But John 209 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:34.840 Clay announcing his retirement. You might have seen it earlier today. 210 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:37.759 I talked about it with Tom Leach on the Leach 211 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:40.480 Report earlier this morning. I had reached out to John 212 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:42.559 over the weekend to see if he could come on 213 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:45.360 and talk about the House settlement and other things. But 214 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:48.440 he said I can't today, I can do it tomorrow. 215 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:51.240 I don't know if that's because he's filling out paperwork 216 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:53.799 all day or whatever, or just at another commitment, obviously, 217 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:56.720 but John's gonna come on tomorrow, so we'll talk not 218 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:59.960 just about the matters of the day, but about his career. 219 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:02.240 And it's been a great one at the Herald Leader. 220 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:06.519 Came from the Kentucky Colonel as I did, and worked 221 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:08.320 his way up and he's done a really nice job. 222 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:12.720 So congrats to John. Not the only headline out there, 223 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:17.159 of course. Quick note on UK basketball recruiting. David Sisk 224 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:21.159 of Cats Illustrated, part of the Rivals Network, is reporting 225 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:26.279 that Turan Stokes is making a visit to UK. He 226 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:30.159 attends Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California. A 227 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:35.600 consensus five star recruit and the top ranked player in 228 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.559 the class of twenty twenty six. He is from Louisville 229 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:45.960 but prepping in California, so well, we'll see if that helps. 230 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.320 But if a kid's prepping in California, then he is 231 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:51.559 used to being away from home, so he could wind 232 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:55.720 up anywhere. But on the Cats Illustrated site earlier today, 233 00:12:57.039 --> 00:12:59.600 David Sisk who was a friend of the show reporting 234 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:03.799 that's Turan Stokes is currently on an official visit to 235 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:07.519 UK and was going to come last month but had 236 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:11.360 to reschedule. You know, when we talk about the House settlement, 237 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:15.200 you've got to talk about schools that just can't afford 238 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:19.159 to keep all of its sports programs. And you've already 239 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:23.840 seen one D one school perdue Fort Wayne announced the 240 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:30.720 discontinuation of baseball and softball. How about that because it's 241 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:35.559 going to save the school a million dollars and the 242 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:39.919 school itself, the entire university is looking at six million 243 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:45.200 in budget cuts. So it's a D one school dropping 244 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:50.039 sports and that's not directly related to the House settlement, 245 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:54.960 but it is indirectly, So brace yourself for more of 246 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:58.840 the same. Murray State will play for a spot in 247 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:04.360 the College World Series tonight down at Duke. Racers destroyed 248 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:09.519 the Blue Devils yesterday and forced a game three. It 249 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:13.840 will not be a College World Series that is overwhelmingly 250 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:17.960 sec acc but there is a lot of that because 251 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:23.440 LSU won eliminating West Virginia in two games. Arkansas beat 252 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:26.639 defending champion Tennessee in two games, four to three and 253 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:31.120 eleven to four. But that's it because Coastal Carolina jumped 254 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:37.039 up the thirteen seed and eliminated Auburn the number four seed, 255 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:41.279 in two games at Auburn, acc lost a spot when 256 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:45.759 at home. North Carolina lost in Game three to Arizona 257 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:48.440 four to three. Carolina had a three to two lead 258 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:51.879 in the eighth couple innings away from Omaha, bullpen collapsed, 259 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:56.879 Arizona wins. Another team from the West, Oregon State beat 260 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:00.440 a good Florida State team in Tallahassee. I'm sorry in 261 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:05.399 Corvallis in game three. So Oregon State the same program, 262 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:09.159 not same team, different team, same program that lost to 263 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:11.799 Kentucky in the Super Regionals here in Lexion last year. 264 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:15.679 Going back to Omaha. UCLA going back for the first 265 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.039 time in ten or eleven years, won the title in 266 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:22.480 thirteen beat the Cinderella team, well one of them, Moury 267 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:27.600 State's the other Texas San Antonio in two games. So 268 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:32.440 the Bruins move on and the Louisville Cardinals win in 269 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:38.000 Game three yesterday afternoon against Miami, which had the tying 270 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:41.799 and go ahead run on base in the ninth inning 271 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:44.799 and two guys struck out another guy to fly ball 272 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:50.480 and Louisville goes back to the College World Series NBA Playoffs. 273 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:53.879 You know this, Sey Gilgess Alexander is the MVP, and 274 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:57.240 he played that way last night. Oklahoma City, which blew 275 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:00.600 the first game against the Pacers, came outmped all over 276 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:04.679 Indiana early and beat the daylights out of the Pacers. 277 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.799 So now they head back to Indianapolis. But the series 278 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:12.080 is tied. But SGA thirty four points and didn't need 279 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:14.240 a million shots to get there. He had thirty eight 280 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:17.519 in the lost Thursday, but needed thirty shots to get there, 281 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:21.440 but only three assists. But last night, eleven of twenty 282 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:24.960 one from the floor. He had all of his points 283 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:28.960 via his driving is dribbling. They all came in the 284 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:31.440 paint or from mid range, but then he would fan 285 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:34.639 it out. He had seven or eight assists and six 286 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:39.440 of them led to three pointers by his teammates. So 287 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:43.120 SGA back at it, and he's the reason that Oklahoma 288 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:46.919 City was picked, the biggest reason. But Pacers beat him 289 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:50.679 up and ground him down in game one, So we'll 290 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:53.399 see if they'll try to do the same in game two. 291 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:57.759 In Game three, which happens Wednesday eight thirty start time, 292 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.320 and if you're interested. Tickets are going for as low 293 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:06.960 as six hundred and twenty three dollars. Okaysee is favored 294 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:09.799 by five and a half. On Wednesday night. Hope you 295 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:12.240 got a chance to see the Belmont Stakes over the weekend. 296 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:15.799 Sovereignty wins it over journalism by aza was third, same 297 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:20.319 finish in the Kentucky Derby, and once again journalism on 298 00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:23.880 the lead as they turned for home. Sovereignty was sitting 299 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:28.519 right there, sitting chilly as they say, and overcomes journalism 300 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:32.279 and wins going away, wins by three lengths. I had 301 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:37.000 it simply because my buddy and I talked to Kenny McPeak. 302 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:38.559 You might have heard our interview with him on the 303 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:41.799 Big Blue Insider, Well Off Mike. He predicted and it 304 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:44.359 wasn't off the record because Kenny's got his own podcast. 305 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:48.720 He picked sovereignty to win the Kentucky Derby on his podcast, 306 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:52.319 and he picked sovereignty, and he picked sovereignty to win 307 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:54.400 the Bellmont. He told us he would win by four. 308 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:56.880 I think when one by three and so now what 309 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:02.720 a great rivalry developing between sovereignty and journalism. Clearly the 310 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:07.759 best two to three year olds in America and most 311 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.440 experts said, well, if he wins the Belmont, that stamps 312 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:14.359 Sovereignty as the champion three year old. Well they may 313 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:17.880 race again later in the fall. But I got to 314 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:22.160 thinking about this after the race. Yeah, Sovereignty won two 315 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:26.920 of the three legs of the Kentucky Derby. Journalism made 316 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:30.599 that great move in the Preakness and came through traffic 317 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:34.720 in one and had to head. Yes, Sovereignty has beaten 318 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:39.759 Journalism twice. But and as you know, Seignty didn't run 319 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:44.400 in the Preakness. But you know, if Sovereignty loses to 320 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:49.200 Journalism later this year, you could make the great case 321 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:54.759 for Journalism simply because he was the only horse to 322 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:57.400 race in all three legs at a triple crown and 323 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:03.640 finish first or second. So if he wins over Sovereignty 324 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:06.920 sometime in the fall, I'll bang a drum for journalism, 325 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:09.480 not just because that's been my profession through the years, 326 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:12.920 but you could make that argument. It would be fantastic. 327 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:15.920 It would have to take ahead to head win, but 328 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:20.839 it would make for really a great debate among those 329 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:23.799 of us who love throwbread racing. One other note before 330 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:28.079 we hit the brake, Aaron Rodgers is now a Steeler 331 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:32.039 that became official over the weekend. Adam Schefter of ESPN 332 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:38.200 recently reported that Rogers was the third choice for the Steelers. 333 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:40.319 How about that? If this is true, and I have 334 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:43.279 no reason to doubt it, because so much of these 335 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:49.240 stories were out there swirling, but the Steelers evidently, and 336 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:51.960 I think what Shifter's good at is kind of throwing 337 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:55.000 a net over everything that's out there. I don't know 338 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:59.000 how many times he personally breaks stories, but ESPN always 339 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:02.079 puts Schefter report, well, sometimes other people have reported. At 340 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:07.920 first anyhow Matthew Stafford was out there and the Steelers 341 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:10.920 wanted him, couldn't get him. Then they tried to re 342 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:15.480 sign Justin Fields. He took a better deal with the Jets, 343 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:19.440 ironically enough, which left the Steelers with Mason Rudolph and 344 00:20:19.480 --> 00:20:24.079 they wanted more and they got it theoretically for Aaron Rodgers. 345 00:20:25.480 --> 00:20:30.079 So the former Packer led my team to five conference 346 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:34.559 championship games but only one Super Bowl is now going 347 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:38.799 to be wearing the Steelers gold and black. We're backing 348 00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:42.920 them in with Rick Bosic on six thirty WLAP Welcome 349 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:45.680 back to the Big Bluinsider joining us on our celebrity Hotlines, 350 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:48.599 A longtime friend of the show. He is Rick Bosich, 351 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:54.240 anchor reporter for Fox forty one WDRB in Louisville, and 352 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:58.759 so much to talk about right now. Believe it, it's June, Rick, 353 00:20:58.759 --> 00:21:01.240 which used to be kind of a dead zone in sports. 354 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:05.200 But first of all, this house settlement has shaken college 355 00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:08.599 athletics to its core. We know it was coming, but 356 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:14.920 it's it's dramatically and drastically changing the face of college athletics. 357 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:18.559 How do you think it's going to impact right away? 358 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:20.160 What do you think is going to be the immediate 359 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:22.519 impact of this thing? Have you do you even have 360 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:23.200 any idea? 361 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:28.359 And I don't think any of us really have any idea, 362 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:30.559 and even some administrators that I've talked to don't have 363 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:34.119 any idea. I think we're going to see more separation 364 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:39.079 from the you know, the top level schools, like the 365 00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:43.119 schools in the SEC and the Big Ten, especially from 366 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:47.200 the rest of college sports. I worry about mid majors, 367 00:21:47.960 --> 00:21:50.880 I worry about low majors. I worry about, you know, 368 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:54.400 the non revenue sports and what's going to happen to them. 369 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:56.880 We've heard all the stories that at different schools where 370 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:02.079 they'll be eventually moved to club club sports status because 371 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:04.119 all the resources have to be poured into the sports 372 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:05.119 that generate revenue. 373 00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:08.839 A couple of programs you covered on in Western Kentucky. 374 00:22:09.240 --> 00:22:13.279 Bellerman is you know, you wonder. 375 00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:15.640 At this Murray State baseball team right now there they 376 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:18.200 going to beat Duke today to go to the College 377 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:21.240 World Series. What's going to be their status moving forward? Yeah, 378 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:24.799 Bellerman very ambitiously six years ago made the move from 379 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:28.000 D two to D one. Uh, they've already retrenched a 380 00:22:28.039 --> 00:22:31.440 little bit by moving back from Freedom Hall back into 381 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:34.759 Knights Hall on campus. But you know, and the other 382 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:37.839 we hear these whispers. We've heard them from Greg thank you. 383 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:39.799 We've heard them from Charlie Baker, the head of the NCAA, 384 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:43.519 about expanding the NCAA tournament to get you know, that's 385 00:22:43.559 --> 00:22:46.039 a code word for putting more major teams in there 386 00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:49.400 with sub five hundred records in conference play and making 387 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:52.200 it harder for the for the teams that give the 388 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:54.480 tournaments so much of its character and flavor of the 389 00:22:54.519 --> 00:22:56.920 opening weekend, the mid majors and low majors making it 390 00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:02.039 harder for them. So the thing, it's going to be 391 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:04.039 twenty million. But you know what, Dick, we're going to 392 00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:06.680 talk about this in six weeks, and it's that's not 393 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:08.960 going to be enough. There's it's never going to be enough. 394 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:10.839 That's what we see in this and we've seen forever 395 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:16.079 there's never enough money. And until they find some way 396 00:23:16.359 --> 00:23:20.359 to solve their spending problems, it's it's not a revenue 397 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:23.720 problem because they will never have no And last. 398 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:25.880 Week I was at Aku and e Ku hired a 399 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:27.720 new baseball coach and I was chatting with one of 400 00:23:27.759 --> 00:23:32.400 the athletic administrators. Their budget, Rick at Eku, is twenty 401 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:36.359