Speaker 1: Hell, everybody to the facilities of the iHeartMedia megaplexis Dick Gabriel.
Speaker 1: This is the state wide edition of The Big Blue
Speaker 1: and Sider. You've heard comments from Mark Stoops as the
Speaker 1: Wildcats head down to Ole, Miss and tonight we'll chat
Speaker 1: with Aaron Gershawn. Billy Rutledge is back with us, and
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Jeff Pikoro a little bit later from
Speaker 1: the UK network. Be a part of the state wide
Speaker 1: BBI Border to Border. It is the Big Blue and Sider.
Speaker 1: Dick Gabriel, Aaron Gershaw, Billy Rutledge back in the saddle.
Speaker 1: Somehow we let him have the weekend off. I know
Speaker 1: you're delighted to be back.
Speaker 2: So glad to be back.
Speaker 1: Can I assume you had your ear piece in the
Speaker 1: whole time you were listening to all the fine programming
Speaker 1: that you usually have to run through that board.
Speaker 2: I actually, uh took a weekend off. I had to
Speaker 2: watch the game on tape delay the next.
Speaker 1: Head to watch it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: You know, it was fun for at least the first half,
Speaker 2: and then it kind of you know, Kentucky just kept
Speaker 2: putting the pedal to the metal.
Speaker 1: Turned into a beat down.
Speaker 2: You didn't need me for the Ohio game. You may
Speaker 2: need me this this Saturday.
Speaker 1: Well, if you had it anything to do with the
Speaker 1: way the game's played, yeah, that would be that would
Speaker 1: be fun. So yeah, Aaron and I were talking in
Speaker 1: a break about going back down to Oxford. Is this
Speaker 1: your second time or more second? Okay, So you were
Speaker 1: there two years ago, and that's a tough one to
Speaker 1: look back on because hey, that's when Will Levis was
Speaker 1: injured badly and needlessly. The old line was just But
Speaker 1: in the second half, I mean when they absolutely had
Speaker 1: to put on a drive and the deepense, which struggled
Speaker 1: in the first half, came alive. Everything turned around a halftime. Yes,
Speaker 1: and of course Levis makes a game probably would have
Speaker 1: been the game winning touchdown throw and there's a flag.
Speaker 4: Yep, Barry Brown wasn't saying Levis took a snap too early,
Speaker 4: too quick, little fifty to fifty blame. And also I
Speaker 4: think was a player or two before that, Jeremy flax
Speaker 4: So actually had an okay game at right tackle, went
Speaker 4: down and they had to put in David Wallaby, who,
Speaker 4: if you remember, he was actually the weak one starter
Speaker 4: at right tackle. That year, struggled mightily. They had to
Speaker 4: move Kenneth Thorsty out of position. It was a whole
Speaker 4: mess and walla Bag immediately gets beat and ends up
Speaker 4: a strips sack after the penalty and all miss scoops
Speaker 4: it up and recovers.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and in fact, then, as I recall, that
Speaker 1: was a controversial with like there was a helmet to
Speaker 1: helmet a little bit play.
Speaker 4: It was either it might have been that one. I
Speaker 4: think there are a couple of guests. It was just
Speaker 4: it was just a tough just the worst way possible
Speaker 4: to lose, especially because at that point in the season,
Speaker 4: Kentucky still was number seven in the country. They were
Speaker 4: still undefeated, you know, four and oh obviously they were
Speaker 4: only big win at that point it was Florida. But
Speaker 4: everything was in front of them to have a really
Speaker 4: special season. And you look back at twenty twenty two,
Speaker 4: if you get that win, man that that you could
Speaker 4: have had a very similar run to what you had
Speaker 4: in twenty one.
Speaker 1: Somebody covered the team or maybe it was a fan,
Speaker 1: I don't know, said this is one of the greatest
Speaker 1: in terms of atmosphere, one of the greats. Was awesome
Speaker 1: at the history and you know, of course the SEC
Speaker 1: pregame show was there. Yeah, and the Grove was.
Speaker 4: Over seven verse twelve, I think, yeah, the rankings and
Speaker 4: then yeah there were And that was in my time
Speaker 4: covering Kentucky. I mean, obviously I'm going to take Vanderbilt
Speaker 4: out of it, but probably the best road contingency on
Speaker 4: a non vandi Er Tennessee trip. I mean, there was
Speaker 4: so much Kentucky, how many Kentucky fans unbelievable, And it
Speaker 4: was partly because it's something new, right, I think before
Speaker 4: that had been since twenty ten. And I'm really curious
Speaker 4: to see how Kentucky goes to Texas. That a lot
Speaker 4: of that will depend on how the rest of the
Speaker 4: season goes.
Speaker 1: But then fans went to A and M.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fans went to A and M. I'm sure they
Speaker 4: will still go to Texas and the next year. I
Speaker 4: think I'm forgetting what I feel like there's a new
Speaker 4: road game in there next or Auburn. It's the one
Speaker 4: they haven't been to it in a while, so I.
Speaker 1: Haven't seen many Kentucky fans at Auburn. But the thing
Speaker 1: about the Mississippi schools is a lot of fans from
Speaker 1: Western Kentucky.
Speaker 4: Sure, Yeah, it's not far to get there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so anyhow, it's a similar situation, and billion it's
Speaker 1: a jail break offense. And you know, the Kentucky defense,
Speaker 1: I think will all agree, has been the bright the
Speaker 1: brighter spot or the brightest spot when you look at
Speaker 1: special teams which have been good. Special teams have been good.
Speaker 1: But clearly defense is better than offense. But what a
Speaker 1: test it is.
Speaker 2: One The fans were shafted again getting the noon kickoff
Speaker 2: at Ole Miss. I just want to spend a little
Speaker 2: time at the grove, Dick. I mean, they just want
Speaker 2: to have the day at the best place to tailgate
Speaker 2: in the SEC.
Speaker 1: You're feeling bad for the Ole Miss fans.
Speaker 2: Oh no, for the Kentucky fans that go there once
Speaker 2: again making the treasure.
Speaker 1: That they have to leave when the game's over and
Speaker 1: they can go back to the grove.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're just still Dick and I and the rest
Speaker 4: of the beat We get to be done in bed
Speaker 4: to watch the Alabama Geordans too, and you too.
Speaker 2: But you know what, Ole Miss hadn't played anybody, Dick.
Speaker 2: It's hard to evaluate what they've done because Kentucky's already
Speaker 2: played two SEC schools and ole Miss is played to
Speaker 2: the School for the Blind. And while their offense looks great,
Speaker 2: you know, it's that up tempo type of style. Yep,
Speaker 2: it's probably going to cause Kentucky some fits. But I
Speaker 2: will say after the Georgia and the Ohio game, Kentucky's
Speaker 2: defense going to keep Kentucky in some games this year.
Speaker 1: And you know what, Kentucky's defense actually played better against
Speaker 1: South Carolina than you might recall, just two breakdowns. Yes,
Speaker 1: go back and look at that game. But yeah, you're
Speaker 1: right about Ole Miss. But again, it's the style of play,
Speaker 1: you know, And when does the last time Kentucky handled
Speaker 1: that style?
Speaker 4: Well, the first half the second half can Stole missed
Speaker 4: two years ago? But this is a much different Old Miss.
Speaker 4: I mean that was still Kentucky too, different Kentucky too,
Speaker 4: no doubt and more more town on Kentucky's defense though
Speaker 4: the secondary is probably max is really good. But they
Speaker 4: had Carrington and Keegri and they were a top ten
Speaker 4: secondary last year that year. This year, so far, so good,
Speaker 4: haven't you know? Georgia was a test, but Georgia was
Speaker 4: able to beat him deep on a couple of things.
Speaker 4: But look this Old Miss roster, the way Lane Kiffins
Speaker 4: built it through the portal. I mean they have two
Speaker 4: first team at all SEC guys at receiver, Juice Wells
Speaker 4: and I believe it's Trey Harris. Both are six to
Speaker 4: three and can run. They have an elite quarterback in
Speaker 4: Jackson Dart, they have an elite running back in Parish.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's just I get they haven't played anyone.
Speaker 4: You're totally right about that. They're not going to put
Speaker 4: up I don't think they're gonna put up fifty plus
Speaker 4: like they have to everybody else. But it's a tall,
Speaker 4: tall task, especially walking into their buildings.
Speaker 1: It's turned into a bit of a rivalry because of
Speaker 1: just the way these games have shaken out. Like we
Speaker 1: talked about the one that was ed ole Miss last year.
Speaker 1: How many years ago was it? Was it three years?
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty years where DJ Metcalf goes, oh twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: the very last minute, last second, yes, over Lonnie Johnson.
Speaker 1: So there are two future NFL players on the last
Speaker 1: chance for ole Miss yep to make that touchdown catch
Speaker 1: and win the game. Then it was a hell of
Speaker 1: a game.
Speaker 4: And then twenty twenty went to overtime and Kentucky could
Speaker 4: have put it in second overtime and Matt Ruffalo missed
Speaker 4: the extra point and that was Lane Kiffin's first win
Speaker 4: at first win at all miss.
Speaker 1: Weird games, you know, so uh but again, like Stoop said,
Speaker 1: you just got to tune everything out and focus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mississippi fans should enjoy it now. I feel like
Speaker 2: Kiffin will leave for an LSU once they fire Brian
Speaker 2: Kelly or something like that. That guy loves to go
Speaker 2: to Florida, Go to Florida.
Speaker 1: He won't go to Florida first.
Speaker 2: That's a good question because that job could be opening
Speaker 2: up in weeks their days.
Speaker 4: They have a bye week this week, so it's probably
Speaker 4: safe until after their UCF game.
Speaker 2: But you know what, it's it's exciting to play the
Speaker 2: best teams in the country because you you can give
Speaker 2: tape for the NFL against the best of the best.
Speaker 2: So I think that motivates the best competitors on your
Speaker 2: team and you get a lot of times the best
Speaker 2: effort from your teams in those games. So, you know,
Speaker 2: seventeen and a half is a lot. Though, seventeen and
Speaker 2: a half is a lot?
Speaker 1: Wow, is it really?
Speaker 2: Especially over and under I'd have to double check for yeah, man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's how you look Ole Miss and there.
Speaker 4: That's what's what's different about Old Miss, especially this year
Speaker 4: compared to that game two years ago and three, yeah,
Speaker 4: fifty three, they've miss Ole Missus season low is forty so.
Speaker 1: But again, as Billy said, they played Yeah, no, but
Speaker 1: Kentucky has covered what three out of four? Billy? Is
Speaker 1: that right? I get? I've got to think too. They
Speaker 1: took that first game off the board.
Speaker 2: The Southern I won money on that.
Speaker 4: Oh I think they might avoided the over under on that,
Speaker 4: probably because it wasn't complete game, right, but Kentucky covering
Speaker 4: I did cash on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Georgia they covered, Ohio they cover? Yeah, so South
Speaker 2: Carolina point so much? Was that three straight weeks as
Speaker 2: a double digit favorite or dog for Kentucky?
Speaker 4: Yes, and four to five h interesting? But I think
Speaker 4: the big difference though with Ole Miss you were talking about.
Speaker 4: I forgot exactly what led me to think this, But
Speaker 4: the big difference from two years ago to now is
Speaker 4: they have a legitimate defense, Like Kentucky's offense is bad.
Speaker 4: Two years ago, that's why they were held to nineteen points.
Speaker 4: But this defense. Ole Miss has has great length that
Speaker 4: they haven't had in years past. They have an elite
Speaker 4: secondary which they haven't had in least years past, and
Speaker 4: they have a really good pass rush. I mean Walter Nolan,
Speaker 4: who Mark Stoop signaled out today. He doesn't usually signal
Speaker 4: out players that aren't either skill position on offense or quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Walter Nolan's a guy that was the number one overall
Speaker 4: recruit I believe in either twenty two or twenty three.
Speaker 4: And they got out of the portal after Jimbo was
Speaker 4: fired at A and M. So they've got dudes at
Speaker 4: every single position, and they've multiple of them. They're offensive line.
Speaker 4: They actually rotate guys in and out because they have
Speaker 4: so many good ones.
Speaker 2: What a concept and well, yeah.
Speaker 1: If you can do it, if you've got the bodies
Speaker 1: to do it. I kind of think ole Miss is
Speaker 1: maybe overvalued as a favorite dating back to the South
Speaker 1: Carolina game. Maybe still, I think people might remember that
Speaker 1: one and think, boy, Kentucky's just not very good, ignoring
Speaker 1: what they did against Georgia, didn't score enough, but had
Speaker 1: played George is so well defensed CIVI Lee, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you pay attention to this and Aaron you
Speaker 1: probably do. But down in Athens and the media surrounding it,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with Georgia after the Kentucky that was the theme,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with Georgia? And then people perfunctially and you
Speaker 1: got to give Kentucky credit.
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, I saw David Pollock, who obviously used
Speaker 4: to be on game day Georgia. Did I see a
Speaker 4: lot of good players on George's offense but not many
Speaker 4: great ones?
Speaker 1: That yeah, well, you know, what's a legit. But if
Speaker 1: you have a lot of great but if you have
Speaker 1: a lot of good players, you ought to be able,
Speaker 1: you know. But there's no Heisman Trophy winner except maybe
Speaker 1: Carson Beck.
Speaker 4: He'll be, yeah, in the top ten.
Speaker 2: I'd say, Well, the playing styles matchup between Kentucky and Georgia.
Speaker 2: What's the status Like the last three years or five years,
Speaker 2: Georgia's only scored less than twenty points on three true
Speaker 2: road games. They were all at Kentucky, So I mean
Speaker 2: that's kind of that showed me a lot that they
Speaker 2: could stay with that team. But they're also is that
Speaker 2: similar style? Yes, Ole Miss is just completely different, and
Speaker 2: you got to think that Kentucky's offense is going to
Speaker 2: have to keep up much more so than track meets.
Speaker 1: Calling for a track meet.
Speaker 2: Maybe by one team.
Speaker 4: I don't think we could. I don't hope we have
Speaker 4: enough confidence.
Speaker 1: I think if the other team gets out of the
Speaker 1: blocks early, you know, and an exito doesn't drop passes
Speaker 1: and things like that. But I'm really curious about the
Speaker 1: bush HAMDN game plan in this game. You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there been some head scratchers. Yeah, there have been,
Speaker 4: especially in short distance place, but uh, it's gonna.
Speaker 1: I will say this to me at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half, when the Kentucky screwed up that opportunity
Speaker 1: to score and Stoops wanted to send him out on
Speaker 1: third down and kicked himself for not doing that, and
Speaker 1: he said that to me coming off the field, He said,
Speaker 1: I know better. I've been around and I should have
Speaker 1: known better. But uh, I do not understand why Brock
Speaker 1: Vandergriff ran the ball. Was it on a second down?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't get that play call.
Speaker 1: I guess Stoops got into him a little bit coming off.
Speaker 1: I think that that might have been a checkdown or something.
Speaker 1: His decision and he's got to he's got to learn,
Speaker 1: he's got to know better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Kentucky's often just they're not built for track meet
Speaker 4: and the thing that's been again haven't played anyone but
Speaker 4: Ole Miss. I think they're outscoring opponents like one hundred
Speaker 4: to seven in the first quarter. I think that's what
Speaker 4: it is. I'd have to go fact check that, but
Speaker 4: it's close to that. So if you fall behind with
Speaker 4: the Kentucky, as Mark Stops said, they're not built to
Speaker 4: win in predictable past situations, you're gonna lose this game
Speaker 4: by a lot. So it's gonna be really important to
Speaker 4: get off to a hot start on both days. Is
Speaker 4: I think game plan wise is also gonna be interesting.
Speaker 4: Now if Chip Trainum's really available, Yeah, I mean you
Speaker 4: and Jason Patterson's supposed to be back this week. You're
Speaker 4: four deep at running back. I mean it's gonna be
Speaker 4: very enticing not to play that ground control, keep away,
Speaker 4: keep away ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't want to track me.
Speaker 2: It's kind of bad timing because I want to see
Speaker 2: more Jamerian Wilkins.
Speaker 4: I was about to say, you can't take that kid
Speaker 4: off the field?
Speaker 1: Was why did that?
Speaker 4: Was my biggest gripe with the whole game plan on
Speaker 4: Saturday or not. How does that I only get eight
Speaker 4: carries in the game. You're up that big. Every time
Speaker 4: we touch the ball as an explosive run, what do
Speaker 4: we do? Give them the pall, give them the ball.
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though, that the number of plays ran
Speaker 1: was not what you think it might be. You're right
Speaker 1: about that, because they scored on defense. This is always
Speaker 1: kind of screwed.
Speaker 4: But there were there were times where they're driving the
Speaker 4: driver where I think he had a twenty one and
Speaker 4: twenty three back to back. I get he has to
Speaker 4: come off for a play to take a breather, but like.
Speaker 1: They also want to work on your passing game.
Speaker 4: Yes, really, but really early enough in the game where
Speaker 4: you haven't pulled away to where you can just and
Speaker 4: they did end up doing that. They ended up throwing
Speaker 4: the ball a lot when they were up big, which
Speaker 4: was smart, but like I was trying to.
Speaker 1: Do that simply because they hadn't had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: work as much on their passing game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just that's a guy that he's fun. He's fun
Speaker 4: to watch. It feels like a big run if it
Speaker 4: reminds me a lot of boom Williams the way he
Speaker 4: can get to the secon.
Speaker 2: And when a Kentucky quarterback gets injured this year, not if,
Speaker 2: but when Gavin wins, it is going to be ready
Speaker 2: to go in. I mean, I know it was Ohio,
Speaker 2: but he he had to have some throws I did
Speaker 2: not think he had in the back exactly right.
Speaker 1: And that's having seen him once in a scrimmage and
Speaker 1: then in the open practice. He clearly has a strong arm,
Speaker 1: but I was not impressed in either instance with his accuracy.
Speaker 1: But he threw some incredibly on target balls the other day.
Speaker 1: Now again against an Ohio you team, not against an
Speaker 1: SEC defense with but yeah, but still uh, he executed.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be it's gonna be interesting and
Speaker 1: to say the least, but I think Kentucky's going to
Speaker 1: have to execute on both sides of the ball at
Speaker 1: levels It really hasn't because, like you said, Georgia plays
Speaker 1: I don't want to say predictable, but a contemporary style
Speaker 1: of offense, you know, And you could see in the
Speaker 1: second half it was obvious that the Georgia offense, I
Speaker 1: know we're going back two weeks, but the Georgia offensive
Speaker 1: staff clearly either verbally or nonverbally said, we're putting the
Speaker 1: ball in the hands of Carson Beck. Yes, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: and he won that game for them. Ohio, you just
Speaker 1: didn't have enough to do that, so you knew that
Speaker 1: was coming. But man, don't miss. It's going to keep
Speaker 1: you off balance, you know.
Speaker 2: An you better make tackles an open space too, because
Speaker 2: there's receivers are going to be at the boundary and
Speaker 2: there's going to be a lot of open room for
Speaker 2: those guys to operate. If Georgia was a cloud of dust,
Speaker 2: this is going to be like spaced out like a
Speaker 2: tarmac at an airport.
Speaker 1: And speaking of Georgia, because I went back and watched
Speaker 1: the game again, their d backs tackle as well as
Speaker 1: any I've seen. They fly in the in the sec
Speaker 1: they did not miss a single tackle, not even that.
Speaker 4: And there were a couple of throws that brock Vandigruff
Speaker 4: made and dbs just came out of nowhere to break
Speaker 4: them up.
Speaker 1: I think there was one.
Speaker 4: I forget who the receiver was, but Humphrey number seven
Speaker 4: I believe came out of nowhere for a breakup.
Speaker 1: Yeah. DEMI got to the second level two or three times, Yep.
Speaker 1: But that was it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, never beyond no, and they were getting there. They
Speaker 4: were getting those five to eight yard runs. They just
Speaker 4: couldn't get that big that's fifteen plus.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, at the bottom of the hour, we'll have
Speaker 1: Jeff Pikora when us. He'll tell us exactly what Kentucky
Speaker 1: has to do. But when we come back, we'll talk
Speaker 1: more about the Cats and the Rebels. It's the statewide
Speaker 1: BBI Bengals with the early lad on Monday Night football,
Speaker 1: and that's on one channel. On another Buffalo already jumping
Speaker 1: out on Josh heinz Allen and the Jaguars. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the statewide edition of the Big Bloon Sider Dick
Speaker 1: Gabriel are Geershawan Billy Rudgis. Of course we're talking about
Speaker 1: the Cats and the ReBs coming up in Oxford on Saturday.
Speaker 1: It has been a bizarre series so far, but this
Speaker 1: has been a Kentucky season. That's it's ups and downs,
Speaker 1: as we all know. Are they back on track there?
Speaker 1: Are they back on schedule? Not quite? I don't not.
Speaker 1: I don't think at this point. Back when I looked.
Speaker 4: Ahead, yeah I would I picked. I would have had
Speaker 4: them at three and one going oh Ray Davis is
Speaker 4: oh Ray Davis. I thought my mic was often no, no, Yeah,
Speaker 4: three and one is what I expected obviously two and two.
Speaker 4: But I would say defensively, yes, they're back on track.
Speaker 4: I mean they again. I think you're right. They played
Speaker 4: better than the stats would show against Carolina, but the breakdowns,
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. Offense gave no chance. Georgia game defense
Speaker 4: was lights out, uh and last week there were lights out.
Speaker 4: So I think defensively they're on track where they need
Speaker 4: to be. The biggest test of the season though, coming
Speaker 4: up for everything Billy said in the first segment there,
Speaker 4: it's just a way different challenge. But offensively run game,
Speaker 4: I think they're exceeding expectations, but the past game they're
Speaker 4: falling short of the expectations we had for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and no passing touchdowns against Sohiwo could have easily
Speaker 2: been changed. Dang Key's hurdle was to the one and
Speaker 2: there were several times and he needed it because the
Speaker 2: passing attack has been lacking. Like you said, yes, and
Speaker 2: so it's it reminds me of Mark Stoops football. You know,
Speaker 2: the good defense in a strong run game. But it's
Speaker 2: been a lot of you know, fourth and long decisions,
Speaker 2: Should I punch? Should I not? Should I kick a
Speaker 2: field goal here? Should I not? And that time management?
Speaker 2: That are you going to play? The analytics side of football?
Speaker 2: I think is going to be something that looms over
Speaker 2: this team during one of these big games coming up.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I really believe that Mark Stoops will play
Speaker 1: by the book from here on. He won't let anybody
Speaker 1: talk him into anything after kicking himself. And I got
Speaker 1: to admit when the team started to run on the
Speaker 1: field on third down and I'm waiting in the end
Speaker 1: zone because I'm waiting to grab Stoops coming off the field,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, what are they doing? But then come to
Speaker 1: find out that it did he lose track of the
Speaker 1: downs And come to find out, that's what Stoops wanted.
Speaker 1: He wanted them to kick it there and they just
Speaker 1: they just totally screwed that up.
Speaker 2: And I should have went with his gut, he said, I.
Speaker 1: Should have gone with his gut, and he basically called
Speaker 1: not so not even I mean his gut. In his
Speaker 1: mouth he spoke the words, go kick the field goal
Speaker 1: whatever they say, field goal you whatever, And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I see Stoops pulling him back. So that's
Speaker 1: why I thought that they had screwed up and run
Speaker 1: out a little too soon. But no, he wanted to
Speaker 1: kick that. And of course we all know, you know
Speaker 1: the decision with George, which I still think was the
Speaker 1: right call.
Speaker 4: It was against George again, the not to go back
Speaker 4: two weeks, but it was not running the ball in
Speaker 4: second eight and eight like drove me.
Speaker 2: But anyhow I would disagree, But that is I knew you.
Speaker 1: You would have set every clock in my house. I
Speaker 1: knew the risk.
Speaker 2: It no biscuit. It's the number one team in clever.
Speaker 1: It's a clever statement.
Speaker 4: But it'd be one thing if you have got him what.
Speaker 1: Got him there in a vacuum.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with the decision. He runs his team like
Speaker 2: an NFL program. That's what an NFL team would do.
Speaker 2: Play field position to the very better end.
Speaker 1: Because this college football.
Speaker 2: You're Kentucky and you have a chance to beat Georgia.
Speaker 4: You're gonna put.
Speaker 1: Because you had a better chance.
Speaker 2: But your defense hasn't played well in the second half.
Speaker 4: They did, they have a three and out the drive.
Speaker 2: Before, but you've allowed two long drives in your second half.
Speaker 2: And then even if you make everything goes right and
Speaker 2: you make the stops, then you have to go predictable
Speaker 2: pass down the entire length of the field with no timeouts.
Speaker 1: But you've got to go further.
Speaker 4: And I don't get that's either because they had the
Speaker 4: Kentucky after they put the ball, still had two minutes,
Speaker 4: two timeouts and the two minute warning. Right, So if
Speaker 4: they had done what they did on the very last drive,
Speaker 4: which was get a three and out or even only
Speaker 4: give up one first down, you have like a minute
Speaker 4: fifty five left to go down the field. That's not
Speaker 4: it's not thirty seconds. I just had no fa They
Speaker 4: just four fourth and eight killed them. Was not running
Speaker 4: on second and eight and setting up a certain short
Speaker 4: and then a fourth.
Speaker 1: And not only do they throw it on the second down,
Speaker 1: but that's play. That play just was dooming from.
Speaker 4: And then Georgia all game had two explosive pass plays.
Speaker 4: One was earlier, and then you gave up a sale
Speaker 4: at the worst possible time. You know what Jeff told us, man,
Speaker 4: you let a fumble for Eric Jackson just stared missed
Speaker 4: a fumble that was right next to him that he
Speaker 4: didn't even go for. What not to pick on.
Speaker 1: Jeff Corl told us, and I don't know if I
Speaker 1: couldn't if he was right or wrong, but that big
Speaker 1: pass pass play that burned him was either similar or
Speaker 1: the same kind of route that South Carolina beat him
Speaker 1: with twice. Yes, it was, so you know, they may
Speaker 1: have been holding that one in their hip pocket.
Speaker 2: It was a legacy game for Stoops. He'll be remembered
Speaker 2: as a conservative head coach. He's done a lot of
Speaker 2: great things. He's risen the Kentucky to heights they never
Speaker 2: thought they'd be. But they will remember conservative play calls
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, but again he is a conservative coach.
Speaker 1: That's what got him exactly right. But to me, that's
Speaker 1: what got him there. And I just don't believe in
Speaker 1: abandoning and taking a shot in a situation like fourth
Speaker 1: and three. Hell yes, of course.
Speaker 2: And he even said that. He even said, like, if
Speaker 2: we were prepared to go for it, if it was
Speaker 2: a shorter down, yeah, and it ended up because terrible playing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And uh, Jeff, Jeff and Tom and I were
Speaker 1: talking about that, you know, four down territory, but not
Speaker 1: at fourth and eight. All right, Jeff Corrol is gonna
Speaker 1: step in and educate us when it comes to Kentucky football.
Speaker 1: At least that's his promise. More to come and to
Speaker 1: stay wide Big Blue Insider, stay with us, Pike Hillo Paduca,
Speaker 1: it is the Big Blue Insider. Dick Gabriela, Aren Gershawn,
Speaker 1: Billy Rutledge joined Dow in our celebrity hodline by mister
Speaker 1: jeffiicoorl Or, the UK Sports Network color analyst, former wide
Speaker 1: receiver Jeff Row. Would you not have loved to play
Speaker 1: in the lane Kiffin offense? I got to think you would.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no exactly, he wouldn't. He wouldn't take me,
Speaker 3: but yeah, that'd be fun wide open.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you're a receiver, tell me about the
Speaker 1: the not the burden, but the responsibilities of a receiver
Speaker 1: in a jail break offense like that of you know,
Speaker 1: obviously knowing the route trees and getting back to the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3: I think the hardest part plane in that is the
Speaker 3: last thing you said. It's just getting back on side
Speaker 3: because they snap it so fast. I'm amazed that they have,
Speaker 3: you know, two hundred and eighty three pound guys that
Speaker 3: are you know, basically sprinting to the ball every play.
Speaker 3: That's the thing that's amazing. And if you're a wide receiver,
Speaker 3: you're running a fifteen or twenty yard route, let's say
Speaker 3: the ball still in the other way, and you have
Speaker 3: to kind of go over there to at least help
Speaker 3: out a little bit, and then you got to sprint
Speaker 3: back to your side of the line of scrimmage get
Speaker 3: lined up before the next snap. So it's it's it's
Speaker 3: really hard. You've got to stand in your toes when
Speaker 3: you're in there. Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if it's a long one, I got to
Speaker 1: think that they'll automatically sub form, don't yep?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yeah. When you go over an intermediate route,
Speaker 3: then you just head straight to the sidelines because you know,
Speaker 3: you watch them. They're five, six, seven, eight guys deep,
Speaker 3: you know whatever, you know at the White House. So
Speaker 3: you're you might only play two or three plays and
Speaker 3: then next guy's in and the next guy's in, and
Speaker 3: then you come back in. It's you know, it's it's interesting.
Speaker 2: Ole miss is a pretty fat, a fast offense, Jeff,
Speaker 2: not a fat offense, but a fast offense. Kirk Curve
Speaker 2: Street talked about in the Tennessee Oklahoma game about guys
Speaker 2: falling to the ground, faking injuries, trying to rest more
Speaker 2: during fast offenses. Did they do that back in your day?
Speaker 2: And how do we stop this?
Speaker 3: We didn't do that because they didn't snap, They didn't
Speaker 3: snap them that fast. No, Well, Nick Saban tried to
Speaker 3: get it stopped right, Dick, but they wouldn't listen to him. So, Billy,
Speaker 3: it's just something where it's almost like, I think you
Speaker 3: have to treat it like a flop in basketball, because
Speaker 3: you'll you'll hear coaches on the cell and say just
Speaker 3: get down, get down, and then one guy will fall
Speaker 3: on the ground and like grab his leg and you're like,
Speaker 3: it's not the spirit of the game. But then again,
Speaker 3: you only have four days to get ready for that team,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: And he's back in two plays later, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you, yes, two years ago, I
Speaker 1: can't remember, Jeff, if you were in on this call,
Speaker 1: but the SEC makes an official, the director officiating available
Speaker 1: for broadcasters and they said that was that was going
Speaker 1: to be a point of emphasis by officials, Jeff, just
Speaker 1: what you were talking about, faking injuries, and they were
Speaker 1: going to treat it just like you said, similar to
Speaker 1: a flop in basket. Was going to be a penalty situation.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I've seen it yet, but it's
Speaker 1: a good idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The only problem is, you know what if you
Speaker 3: think he swapped and then all of a sudden the
Speaker 3: guy really has a Ford miniscus or something, you know,
Speaker 3: that's the problem.
Speaker 1: That's true. Well, let us get back to the Kentucky
Speaker 1: ole Miss game coming up. We've been talking in the
Speaker 1: first twenty minutes or so, Jeff about all the really
Speaker 1: weird competitive game, but just the odd things that have happened,
Speaker 1: you know, last second touchdowns and overtimes and Kentucky scores
Speaker 1: a winning touchdown. Bud, Wait, there's a flag that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. It's it's become quite the I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's a rivalry, but but quite a series.
Speaker 3: I think that the coaches like playing against each other.
Speaker 3: I think that, you know, when you watch Georgia and
Speaker 3: Kentucky play. I think Kirby and Mark really like each other.
Speaker 3: I think they might be buddies, you know, off the field,
Speaker 3: and I think he and I think that Mark respects
Speaker 3: Lane because of his day, because of his dad. You know,
Speaker 3: his dad was an architect of so many defenses in
Speaker 3: the NFL, and you know the Soups family are you know,
Speaker 3: especially uh, you know, Mark or such defensive guys and
Speaker 3: they just love that. And I think that he has
Speaker 3: a respect for him. But I you know, it's it's interesting.
Speaker 3: It's almost like the should have coda thing that we
Speaker 3: said with Joe for years or with Florida for years.
Speaker 3: Kentucky really should have won the last two times they've played.
Speaker 3: You know, it could have won easily the last two
Speaker 3: times they played, just just the ball didn't fall their way.
Speaker 4: Jeff, how do you think Kentucky they've obviously played against
Speaker 4: these temple offenses between Ole Miss last couple of years
Speaker 4: in Tennessee every year, how do you think they go
Speaker 4: about simulating in practice? I know it's almost impossible to
Speaker 4: fully simulate. But what's the best way that you think
Speaker 4: about is to go about that.
Speaker 3: It's it's really hard to do because you can't you
Speaker 3: can't teach a scout team player or you can't really
Speaker 3: make a Scout team players sprint to the ball the
Speaker 3: way you can the starter And like Mark today, I
Speaker 3: think they'll do a lot of one on one stuff.
Speaker 3: What it basically is, it is just playing a two
Speaker 3: minute offense. The entire game is what they do. So
Speaker 3: you just try to have If I were a coach,
Speaker 3: I would try to have two minute some two minute
Speaker 3: drills three or four times of practice just to try
Speaker 3: to get you in that you know, listening, sprinting to
Speaker 3: your sprinting to your spot. I think brownie corners, if
Speaker 3: they're in the field, they're gonna have to play field.
Speaker 3: And if a boundary corner runs to the you know,
Speaker 3: to the field, he's gonna have to play field. If
Speaker 3: the strong safety is on the free safety side, he's
Speaker 3: gonna have to play free. You know, that's what you
Speaker 3: do because as a receiver in that offense, if you're
Speaker 3: on the right side and they call a right play,
Speaker 3: then you have to step off the line of scriwage.
Speaker 3: If you're if you're a flanker and you're on the
Speaker 3: other side and they call a right, then you have
Speaker 3: to be on the line because now you're a wide
Speaker 3: receiver instead of a flanker. To see what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: so you have to listen and you have to play
Speaker 3: both positions. And I think that's true for the defense,
Speaker 3: especially in the secondary, because you don't have time to
Speaker 3: get from one side of the field to the other
Speaker 3: before the ball snap.
Speaker 2: Jeff Is Brock Vandergriff more like Will Levis or Devin Leary.
Speaker 3: Will Levis because I think he's he's a tougher, he
Speaker 3: can run. Uh, he's not gun shy of running the ball.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying Leary was. That wasn't the way he plade.
Speaker 3: I think he's more of Will Lewis type in college.
Speaker 1: In college, did you did you have a chance to
Speaker 1: watch my beloved Packers make Will Levis miserable yesterday?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And you know what, you know, what's the sorry
Speaker 3: part of all this is, guys, is I'm seeing the
Speaker 3: same thing that happened to Tim Kausch happened to Will
Speaker 3: left sir. You know, Jim got to Cleveland, he had
Speaker 3: no line. Yep, he had a guy in Debtmer in
Speaker 3: front of him. Let Debtmer play because you're just the
Speaker 3: four kid got killed. And that's the same thing. Now
Speaker 3: that's happening to Will. And now then he tries to
Speaker 3: do too much. Yeah, then he tries to do too
Speaker 3: much and makes a mistake.
Speaker 1: Can you do that? I mean, you covered the Bengals
Speaker 1: for quite a while, Can you do that anymore? With
Speaker 1: the money that teams now are paying quarterbacks because it's
Speaker 1: all about investments and you know, putting fannies in the
Speaker 1: seeds and all that stuff. And uh, you know you
Speaker 1: were called. You know, speaking of the Bengals, remember when
Speaker 1: God Carson Palmer was drafted and they basically red shirted him,
Speaker 1: didn't They They played They played John Kittna and just
Speaker 1: let let him learn and kidd actually led him to
Speaker 1: a five hundred record and was lobbying to be the
Speaker 1: starter of the next year. They're like, no, no, thank you,
Speaker 1: move along. But that helped preserve and it wouldn't if
Speaker 1: it weren't for the fact that somebody fell on his
Speaker 1: knee in a playoff game. That guy, I think would
Speaker 1: have had a great career for the Bengals. But you
Speaker 1: can't do that in the NFL anymore, can You just
Speaker 1: can't do it?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, but Dick, you know, Jordan loves that
Speaker 3: behind Rogers, you know he learned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he wasn't a top ten draft pick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they weren't money.
Speaker 1: They didn't pay him back then. They didn't pay him
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars like they did now.
Speaker 3: All right, but look at the money that Carolina has wasted. Oh,
Speaker 3: I mean when when they picked him, I said, there's
Speaker 3: no way this guy is going to be Bryce Young
Speaker 3: number one pick. Yeah I did. I didn't think he
Speaker 3: was a number one did terrible just because he was
Speaker 3: so slight, little time to understand. You know, I could
Speaker 3: barely be a water boy now for a college team.
Speaker 1: And it's hard though to blame the Panther's line because
Speaker 1: they put up thirty three with Andy Dalton on a
Speaker 1: good against a decent team yesterday. So but you're right,
Speaker 1: I was never in great college player, but if given
Speaker 1: a choice that would have taken.
Speaker 2: Blamed the owner for that pick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, pretty.
Speaker 4: Much scribes already a top ten quarterback in this league.
Speaker 1: Anyway, getting back to Kentucky and Ole Miss, we were
Speaker 1: also talking Jeff about two years ago, uh down there
Speaker 1: in Oxford and now Kentucky was able to rise above
Speaker 1: a terrible first half by the offense, so so by
Speaker 1: the defense. Will Levis gets injured and they basically win
Speaker 1: the second half until that flag and then the fumble,
Speaker 1: and which, as you pointed out, wasn't it on the
Speaker 1: Levis fumble that there was helmet to helmet like a
Speaker 1: pretty blatant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought so. But the other thing was too
Speaker 3: uh uh Jeremy Flax gets hurt, had to come out
Speaker 3: of the game. And one play was the sack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the swinging gate. Yeah yeah, just uh yep. My
Speaker 1: point is it's not impossible to go down there get
Speaker 1: a feel for I think what happened was Kentucky finally
Speaker 1: got a feel for the way that game was being played.
Speaker 1: They stayed close enough. But I think this Ole Miss
Speaker 1: team may be better than that one.
Speaker 3: You know, this Ole Miss team is really good. I mean,
Speaker 3: Laye has has done just an unbelievable job, you know
Speaker 3: of the transfer portal. But one thing I wanted to
Speaker 3: ask you guys, because you guys might know better than me.
Speaker 3: But Oxford's not a big city. So where are they
Speaker 3: getting all of their money?
Speaker 1: Well, it's an old traditional school. Uh, it's all about alumni. Yeah, man, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's about alumni and and old Miss alums go
Speaker 1: way back and Ole Miss back in the day Jeff
Speaker 1: row was was an SEC power.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, but they have. What I was getting
Speaker 3: at is, you know, they they've got they're doing something
Speaker 3: right in that portal because they are buying some great
Speaker 3: players coming in there. But you know, get back to
Speaker 3: your point, can they play with them? I think that
Speaker 3: the defense for Kentucky's is good, if not better. I
Speaker 3: think that Kentucky's gonna have to play deeper in the secondary,
Speaker 3: keep everything in front of them, and you know, just
Speaker 3: try not to give up the big plays because the
Speaker 3: chunk plays is what Ole Miss lives on. And they've
Speaker 3: got a great quarterback in dart to do that.
Speaker 4: Jeff, if Chip train them does play Saturday, and how
Speaker 4: would you distribute what Kentucky does it running back, especially
Speaker 4: given we were complaining about it at least I was
Speaker 4: in the first segment that Jamary and Wilcox should have
Speaker 4: got more than Nate touches Saturday. I know they didn't
Speaker 4: run as many play as they wanted to, but how
Speaker 4: would you go about implementing him back in here in
Speaker 4: such a big game.
Speaker 3: But you know, we haven't seen what he could. If
Speaker 3: I remember correctly two years ago, it was the first game.
Speaker 3: This is correct, so it's the same the same thing,
Speaker 3: you know. I think if Chip is a starter, that
Speaker 3: he's going to get the bulk of the carries and
Speaker 3: Demi goes back to that Swiss Army knife role and
Speaker 3: Jamrian gets what he gets. You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say it, but would you
Speaker 1: start chip train him? I wouldn't, not right away.
Speaker 3: It depends on if he's completely healthy, which I don't
Speaker 3: think he's going to be one hundred percent by time.
Speaker 1: It's like Steve said today, you know, it depends a
Speaker 1: lot on how strong his injured hand is. Can he
Speaker 1: grip the football right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? The biggest thing is can he You know, it's
Speaker 3: his left hand, so it's not as it's not his
Speaker 3: primary ball carrying hand, but if you go to the
Speaker 3: left side, you've got to carry it in the left hand.
Speaker 3: So can he keep it secure in there without it
Speaker 3: without somebody knocking it out? That's that's the question. And
Speaker 3: is he going to play with some kind of a
Speaker 3: calf That's the other question.
Speaker 2: Jeff Lane Kiffin is an interesting character. I feel like
Speaker 2: he's resurrected the opinion of him in college football recently.
Speaker 2: What is it that he does that's so different than
Speaker 2: every other guy that wants to have an uptempo offense
Speaker 2: in college football?
Speaker 3: I think that he stands behind his players, unlike Hugh Freeze.
Speaker 3: He doesn't throw him under a bush. Yeah, he he
Speaker 3: speaks his mind. I think he's true to the players. Look,
Speaker 3: the players want to play for a winner, and they
Speaker 3: know that this guy. Everywhere he's been, he's he's pretty
Speaker 3: much won. You know, his family tree. I think he's
Speaker 3: he learned a lot. I think he got a dose
Speaker 3: of humility when he when he was an assistant at Alabama.
Speaker 3: I think he learned a lot there, you know. I
Speaker 3: just I think that's that's the difference.
Speaker 1: Personality.
Speaker 3: He's a good coach. Yeah, he's got a great personality,
Speaker 3: great personality.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and I do think that conversely, players like
Speaker 1: playing for Stoops because you and I have talked to
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, and I'm sure these two gentlemen
Speaker 1: in the studio have as well on media day and whenever,
Speaker 1: and they talk about how they they feel like Stoops
Speaker 1: has their back, you know, and and there are coaches
Speaker 1: out there that players can't trust. And then you know,
Speaker 1: Rich Brooks came through and guys like to call him
Speaker 1: my second Pat Paul, so you know, they don't have
Speaker 1: to be a slick, you know, huckster as they say.
Speaker 1: But whatever he's doing, it's working. We were talking before
Speaker 1: you joined us about where's Lane Kiving going to be
Speaker 1: next year? What are the odds Jeff, that he'll be
Speaker 1: in Oxford as opposed to another higher profile.
Speaker 3: I think it depends on they make the twelve. Look here,
Speaker 3: here's the thing. He's been at some pretty big places.
Speaker 3: I get the feeling he likes it there at ole Miss.
Speaker 3: He's got the alumni behind him, he's got a big bucket.
Speaker 3: And then I l I mean, what what? And he's
Speaker 3: and he's winning. Yeah, he went from what seven wins
Speaker 3: to eleven wins and this year he's four And oh,
Speaker 3: I mean what what's the thing that Ole Miss isn't
Speaker 3: a great place to live? You know? Looks, would you
Speaker 3: rather live in Los Angeles and make you know, five
Speaker 3: or six million dollars? Or would you rather have an
Speaker 3: Oxtforvissippi make five or six million dollars?
Speaker 1: Well? Am i am? I married? With two young children?
Speaker 1: Am I single? I mean there's a lot that goes into.
Speaker 4: He also left Bok or a tone though he didn't
Speaker 4: make as much money, that's true.
Speaker 3: Well, going to the final yeah, but he's not going
Speaker 3: to the final twelve with those guys either.
Speaker 4: No, Oh my turn, Oh my bad, Jeff? How I
Speaker 4: asked Mark stoops Is today. But in your eyes, how
Speaker 4: have you seen Jansen Dunn, DJ Waller, those cornerbacks and
Speaker 4: not named Max Harrison Maxwell Harrison play because uh, you
Speaker 4: know they're gonna need more than Maxwell Harrison to slow
Speaker 4: down this whole Miss wide receiver corps.
Speaker 3: You know, they've been okay. I think that Gunn has
Speaker 3: played a little bit more than Waller especially. You know
Speaker 3: the problem with Waller is he was banged up for
Speaker 3: so much his summer camp. He didn't you know, he
Speaker 3: didn't get any snaps. So until the very end is
Speaker 3: when he finally started playing, and you know, he's just
Speaker 3: basically rounded in the shape I would say. But Jake
Speaker 3: Hugh's done better, a lot better than I thought he would.
Speaker 3: He stuck his nose in there and done fine. He's
Speaker 3: he's he's good in coverage. Yeah, It's just it's gonna
Speaker 3: be interesting this week because of the size and speed
Speaker 3: of these receivers. That's what I think is gonna be
Speaker 3: the key. And like you said, Maxwell, Maxwell, but you
Speaker 3: got to have the other side too, So it's gonna
Speaker 3: be real interesting to see how they how they can
Speaker 3: stand up because it's it's not just one or two
Speaker 3: guys either they've got a really good receiving course, one
Speaker 3: right after the other man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, two first team. All you see you guys leading it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeff, we're staying in Tupelow, in Elvis's hometown. And uh,
Speaker 1: I still have a picture somewhere of you posing in
Speaker 1: front of that statue as though you were Elvis.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: There was that was was two below where we went.
Speaker 1: That served the wild game kind of you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then Keith Farmer ordered bananas foster, so we had
Speaker 1: that open flame right by our table. But yeah, you
Speaker 1: could get quail and duck and snakes. That okay, Well
Speaker 1: then that was it. We need to go back to
Speaker 1: that place.
Speaker 3: I think we've already got the reservation excellent.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember if it was Oxford or somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Remember we had a we had a fish house recommended
Speaker 1: to us the locals where the locals date and they
Speaker 1: were it was the best place for seafood. And we
Speaker 1: we go there and it's a cinder block cube of
Speaker 1: a building, remember that, And we sat on old church
Speaker 1: pews and it was the best seafood restaurant. We eat
Speaker 1: that in years.
Speaker 3: So I like Mike Anderson's.
Speaker 1: You can't go wrong with Mike Anderson's. That's right, Jeff.
Speaker 1: He'll be alongside Tom Leaves with a son hitting him
Speaker 1: square in the face in that booth. Sun glass exactly
Speaker 1: and sunscreen too. Uh, but they'll be calling the action
Speaker 1: when the Wildcats take on the ReBs. Thank you, sir,
Speaker 1: and go back to watching your Bengals. All right, seven
Speaker 1: to seven the Bengals and the Commanders. It's not the
Speaker 1: blowout a lot of us thought it might be. But
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Jacksonville game that is so anyhow, keeping an
Speaker 1: eye on I didn't see what Ray Davis did, but
Speaker 1: Damar Hamlin got himself a pick, and now uh, Lawrence
Speaker 1: has thrown. You get another pick. So if you've got
Speaker 1: him in your fantasy league, you're hurting. We'll come back
Speaker 1: and wrap up this edition of the state wide BBI
Speaker 1: final segment of the state wide edition of The Big
Speaker 1: Blue Sider. You'll hear Kentucky, Ole Miss and most of
Speaker 1: these same stations. I would think every one of these
Speaker 1: stations on Saturday, Tom Leach, Jeff Pigory ors truly, course,
Speaker 1: Christy and Logan and Jeremy I do not believe will
Speaker 1: be in Oxford. Sometimes they travel, sometimes they don't. But
Speaker 1: it's not a bad place to see a football game.
Speaker 1: We've talked about the atmosphere, but it's not as overwhelming.
Speaker 1: It's not as big as Tennessee or A and M
Speaker 1: are one of those. Yeh. But they have fun. They
Speaker 1: enjoy their football well.
Speaker 4: I saw last week, which is really impressive given the opponent.
Speaker 4: I think Georgia Southern, they had the largest crowd in
Speaker 4: their program's history.
Speaker 1: They missed it, missed it bigger than the Kentucky game
Speaker 1: two years Yeah, the lady it emptied out. No, no,
Speaker 1: they it emptied out as you would. Oh yeah, but
Speaker 1: they're pumped about this. I love Lane Kiffin. He was
Speaker 1: talking after the game, like, you.
Speaker 4: Want to build a product that people want to come
Speaker 4: wash and when they are a fun style of football.
Speaker 4: So I think they're going to shatter that record again
Speaker 4: this weekend, and it's gonna be a tough atmosphere. It's
Speaker 4: very similar in size to Crogerfield, if not might be
Speaker 4: even a little smaller.
Speaker 1: What did you think of the crowd at Kroger Field
Speaker 1: this past week, Ohio, Yes.
Speaker 4: I thought it actually filled in like late in the
Speaker 4: first quarter. Pretty nicely and spread out the second half. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4: It was hot as a hell there for a bad opponent.
Speaker 4: So yeah, not you know what I mean, but uh,
Speaker 4: you know, not bad. The Georgia and was excellent. South
Speaker 4: Carolina game was excellent, and I'm sure if they put
Speaker 4: together a quality performance they'll have a strong one for Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1: Ye, it's it's it's a fun product. I think Kentucky
Speaker 1: puts on the field, but not nearly as much of
Speaker 1: a circus as own Miss.
Speaker 2: Right, And I think maybe some in Big Blue Nation
Speaker 2: had checked out a little bit after the South Carolina
Speaker 2: game sold some season tickets, and them sticking with Georgia
Speaker 2: maybe made a couple of people regret that decision.
Speaker 1: You know what we haven't talked about enough probably tonight
Speaker 1: is Jackson Dart. We've mentioned him, but the quarterback for
Speaker 1: All Miss. They got to make him uncomfortable. They can't
Speaker 1: let him sit back there, and his coaches love to
Speaker 1: say pat the football or you know, just drop back
Speaker 1: and get rid of it as quickly as he'd like.
Speaker 1: You know, they got to somehow Dean Walker's got to
Speaker 1: get big, and he he was his back was bothering
Speaker 1: him this past week. We saw him working. Anybody who
Speaker 1: saw the Kentucky sideline saw them working on him. So
Speaker 1: he's got to be huge, but so does everybody around him.
Speaker 2: Maxwell Harriston, maybe another pick six, we'd appreciate that, maxwells.
Speaker 1: You know, it's the corners on the other side of
Speaker 1: the field that.
Speaker 4: Really need We're going to know earlier how this game
Speaker 4: is going to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to mine that. All their receivers are
Speaker 1: taller than Maxwell here. But he's a smart player and
Speaker 1: he that against Ohio. Thanks so much, Aaron, to Billy,
Speaker 1: to Jeppecorrel, thanks to you for joining us. Be there
Speaker 1: when the Wildcats take on the right here. That's it.
Speaker 1: Good night from Lexington.