WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.279 Welcome to the Big Blue Insider. Dick Gabriel with you 2 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:05.040 in a frigid Thursday. Yeah, we knew we weren't done 3 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:08.480 with this weather yet, but it's still a bracing slap 4 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:10.279 in the face. And I thought I was done with 5 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:13.640 my space heater here in the garage, but no, it's cranking. 6 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:15.480 You might hear it in the background, but that's okay. 7 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:18.160 We love being here and we love chatting with you. 8 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:20.920 We wish that we could tell you what was going 9 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:23.800 on in women's basketball with the SEC tournament, but we 10 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:27.399 have to pre record. Not my choice, but we have 11 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:30.559 to pre record, so I can't tell you who Kentucky's 12 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:33.920 going to play tomorrow. We do know the game will 13 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:36.479 be at two thirty and you'll hear it right here 14 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:42.039 on six thirty Wlap it will be I believe two 15 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:44.320 thirty is right. I think that's the first game of 16 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:47.479 the session. Anyhow, just keep it right here and you'll 17 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:50.320 hear it. We'll chime in after the game's over. Of course, 18 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:54.240 we won't know who won, because again pre recording, but Darren, 19 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:57.520 we'll have the call for you and pregame will start 20 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:02.679 at roughly two fifteen March. Madness is upon us. The 21 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:06.159 high school playoffs are happening. It's a great time of year, 22 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.799 there's no question about that. And overlap time, you know, 23 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:12.159 you've got college baseball. Though the Wildcats game last night 24 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:16.040 was called because the weather's actually called at ten am, 25 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:20.280 so good decision. Man, was it nasty last night? Not 26 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:23.319 much better today, but yeah it is. It is a 27 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:28.200 great time of year. And Kentucky men's basketball, as you know, 28 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:32.400 wraps up on Saturday against Missouri. It's a noon start time. 29 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:35.239 Although I'm already hearing people saying, well they're playing at 30 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:40.200 eleven am. Well that's Central time. And look, when teams travel, 31 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:42.519 their body clocks and it's. 32 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:43.480 Same for you. 33 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:46.400 Your body clock doesn't change in twenty four hours. The 34 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:50.640 team will get there late Friday afternoon, and yeah, they'll 35 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:53.719 have to get up local time, earlier than they get 36 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:57.760 than they usually get up, but their body clock will 37 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:01.359 be where it always is. The problem is, even if 38 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:04.560 they were playing here at a noon start, so sometimes 39 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:07.239 teams are sluggish in noon, Kentucky cannot afford to be 40 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:10.080 sluggish at noon because Missouri is going to be playing 41 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:12.599 its butt off. Yeah, they'll have a great crowd. Last 42 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:15.199 game of the year. But and whenever you know what 43 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:19.199 happens when Kentucky comes to down. But Wildcats need to win. 44 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:23.360 They need to try to keep that seating on the rise. 45 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:27.280 They got to help last night a little bit from 46 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:32.759 Old Miss, which beat Tennessee an incredible finish. And I 47 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:35.400 was at our weekly card game, and there was a 48 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:38.560 big Tennessee fan with us, and he had already resigned 49 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:41.159 himself to the fact that a they weren't going to 50 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:43.400 win the game, even though it looked for a while 51 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:46.840 like Tennessee would win. And B he said, it's absolutely 52 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:49.680 not a Final four team, whereas early in the year 53 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:52.280 some thought it might be. But you know, Tennessee just 54 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:55.840 says a hard time scoring. And last night, ironically enough, 55 00:02:56.840 --> 00:02:57.319 you might. 56 00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:57.680 Have seen it. 57 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:01.039 They had about six or seven seconds left and ole 58 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:04.039 Miss had taken the lead, advanced the ball in a 59 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:06.919 half court called time three seconds left, got a great 60 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:11.159 shot from Millisic. He drove the ball into the lane, 61 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:14.680 took the ball in the wing and didn't immediately jack 62 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:17.159 it up as some kids would have done. Went into 63 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:19.840 the lane, but one of the defenders for ole Miss 64 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:24.800 swatted at the ball and it popped out of Millisic's hands. 65 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:28.639 Momentarily he was able to regain it but not necessarily 66 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:31.439 control and kind of lobbed it up at the basket 67 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:35.360 and it fell off the side of the rim. It 68 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:37.960 was a heck of a finish of a really ugly game. 69 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:40.560 But that's where we are right now. So I'm not 70 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:43.439 going to go through all the possibilities like if what 71 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.080 has to happen, then you know, I don't see. Really 72 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:50.680 it's mathematically possible for Kentucky to get a five seat. 73 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:53.159 It ain't gonna happen because so many things have to 74 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:56.240 happen that are very unlikely, but Kentucky could move up 75 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:59.280 to a six or seven. So it's just that time 76 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:02.560 of year. The key, of course, win more games during 77 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:04.199 the season, you don't have to worry about that kind 78 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:08.080 of thing. But really, we all thought Kentucky would be 79 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:11.960 about five hundred in the conference this year, right, and 80 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:14.560 given the injuries and Mark Pope has had to juggle, 81 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:18.279 I think it's amazing that they finished that well. But 82 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.120 of course, before the injury started to pile up, Kentucky 83 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:26.040 picked up some really impressive wins, including two over that 84 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:29.879 Tennessee team and one over Florida, which last night won 85 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.360 at Alabama. I didn't believe in Florida for a while. 86 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:35.560 I do now that could be a Final four team 87 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:40.439 that that was a really good exhibition of basketball, and 88 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:41.319 Florida won it. 89 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:42.439 Last night. 90 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:48.199 While we're talking about the basketball catch, Jackson Robinson is 91 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:53.959 on the finals list. And I'm not sure of the 92 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:58.800 voting schedule, but the Naseman Hall of Fame conducts the 93 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:04.360 voting for various and sundry awards named after the greatest 94 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:07.480 players in the history of the game. And the Small 95 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:11.519 Forward Award is named after doctor j. It's the Julius 96 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:15.959 Irving Award, and Jackson Robinson is on the finals list, 97 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:19.160 and even if he were healthy, there's no way he 98 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:20.839 wins it. With all due respect, that's going to go 99 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:25.480 to Cooper Flag, but also Chad Baker Mazara from Auburn, 100 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:31.720 Ace Bailey of Rutgers. Rutgers has two really good draft 101 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:32.720 pick players. 102 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:36.240 Everybody else's mediocre. And then R J. 103 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:38.720 Lewis junior at Saint John's and if you watch that 104 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:42.279 Red Storm Rising documentary series, you know he's become a 105 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:47.680 heck of a player under Rick Bettino. So yeah, Unfortunately 106 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:51.439 for Jackson, his time as a Wildcat is over. 107 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:55.959 But impressive that he's on the finals list for the 108 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:56.639 Irving Award. 109 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:04.839 Some people are now chiming in quietly or loudly ken Pomeroy, 110 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:09.720 who of course rates the offense and defense of all 111 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:13.360 the teams. Maybe he's just looking at analytics. I don't know, 112 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:16.600 but he believes the SEC is overrated, and he tweeted 113 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:19.399 at and Danny Knell of course picked it up. He's 114 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:24.040 a sportscaster for Serious XM, and I kind of like 115 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:26.160 Canal because he's not afraid to speak his mind. I 116 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:30.079 think obviously there's many times I believe he goes for 117 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.560 clickbait listeners just to try to stir. 118 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:34.439 Things up and be different. 119 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:37.959 That's okay, I mean Skip Bayless got rich doing that. 120 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:44.079 But obviously I don't agree with him, and I know 121 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:49.439 I'm biased, but it was really interesting that none other 122 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:53.920 than Greg sank clapped back at him. And this was 123 00:06:53.959 --> 00:07:00.560 before Florida beat Alabama on the road. But SANKI tweeted 124 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:07.079 back at Canel and Pomeroy by way of Canal, and 125 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:08.959 I know he has a staff of people helping him 126 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:13.439 with it. But Saki tweeted the fact that there are 127 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:17.160 thirty wins against four losses against the ACC, and then 128 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:21.600 he put wow, fourteen wins against two losses against the 129 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:25.279 Big twelve, oh my ten and nine against the Big ten, 130 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:29.040 and a thumbs up emoji, and then one hundred and 131 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:32.879 eighty five wins against twenty three losses in non conference games, 132 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:36.319 and then the emoji with the smiley face with the sunglasses, 133 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:40.160 and then he goes with the stat that people threw 134 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:41.920 out there, and since then they've had a lot of 135 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:42.439 fun with it. 136 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:42.920 He said. 137 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:46.600 I confess SEC teams have a five hundred record in 138 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:51.480 games after January fourth, laughing emoji, he said. But then 139 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:56.639 he said, sure, let's go with overrated. This is after 140 00:07:56.720 --> 00:08:01.439 Knell had tweeted following Kim Pomeroy's tweet, the smartest man 141 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:03.560 in basketball is saying out loud what I have been 142 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:07.040 thinking for the past three months. Thank you, Ken Pomeroy. Well, 143 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:12.519 if you're going with heads up competition, they are wrong. 144 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.160 And yes I cover an SEC team. I'm sitting here 145 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:18.120 in SEC country. 146 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.639 But what more do you need. It's all about heads 147 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:21.839 up competition, isn't it. 148 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:26.040 Speaking of competition, the ACC man, it ain't much but 149 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:28.319 tip of the cap to U of L. They just 150 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.439 keep on winning. They keep taking care of business. Eighty 151 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:36.120 five sixty eight winner over Cal last night needed a 152 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:38.480 spurt at the end of the first half and then 153 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:41.679 they pulled away in the second half. They're going to 154 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:44.679 be trouble in the NCA tournament. They're playing really well 155 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:49.440 and obviously they have Chucky Hubbard and they're a team 156 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:53.480 that has completely bought in to their coach the way 157 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:58.519 Kentucky has here, so got fun to watch too. Again, 158 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:00.480 that's a quality win, and I know you hate it 159 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:04.000 UK fans, but every time Louisville wins, that helps your 160 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:07.200 cause when it comes to seating and things like that. 161 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:10.080 So when we come back, we're going to share the comment. 162 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:10.799 You may have heard it. 163 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:13.360 Already, but I just really think it's great. The story 164 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.600 Mark Pope told about the walk on who got in 165 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:21.320 for half a second against LSU, the backstory on that, 166 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:25.240 plus Jay billis on rule changes that need to be made, 167 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:26.480 and I know you agree. 168 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:28.000 With at least one of them. 169 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:30.480 That more coming up at the bottom of the hour. 170 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:33.360 We're here from Maggie Davis from BBN Tonight Hour number two. 171 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:36.480 Darryl Bird of the Cats Pause wrote a great story 172 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:41.000 about the anniversary fifty years since the Kentucky Colonels won 173 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:45.200 the ABA Championship. And my man Brian Milin from WKYT 174 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:47.200 and Hour number two as well here on six thirty 175 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:51.440 WLAP Welcome back to the Big One Cider Dick Abriell 176 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:53.320 with you coming up in just a few minutes. Maggie 177 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:57.799 Davis of BBN mentioned before the break the zach Taus story. 178 00:09:57.840 --> 00:09:59.879 That's the walk on who got in one of three 179 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:02.159 at the end of the game, and I mean less 180 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:04.399 than half a second left. And I hate it when 181 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:08.080 coaches do this. John Caliperry used to do this as well. 182 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.720 Mark Pope should have put those guys in. I'm thinking 183 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:13.440 he had to do it again. He would have just 184 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:17.080 to know the thrill, you know, and give them just 185 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:19.519 something for the hard work they put in. That game 186 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:24.080 was decided, you know, the midway point of the second half. Anyhow, 187 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:27.440 I'm not saying put him in then, But zach Taw 188 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:28.840 was the kid. 189 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:30.080 Who joined the team. 190 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:32.080 Really it was kind of a surprise, people like, who's 191 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:34.600 this guy, But because we knew about the other two 192 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:38.000 walk ons, they had a tryout and he's the one 193 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:39.080 guy who survived it. 194 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:42.039 And this is the only game he got in and 195 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:45.720 Mark Pope told the story after the game, and it 196 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:46.159 was great. 197 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:51.840 We randomly held walk on tryouts especially night, so a 198 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:55.200 name that most people don't know is Zach Town and 199 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:59.600 Zach Taw actually came to walk on tryouts. We randomly 200 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:05.399 held tryouts, and he showed up and fought through sixty 201 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:09.240 guys in a bunch of workouts and then earned the 202 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:12.320 right to come to practice and be on a one 203 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:15.519 day contract throughout the entire course of the season. 204 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:17.720 And he came and. 205 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:23.919 Battled every single day, never said a word, never missed 206 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:27.720 a rep, never missed a practice, never was an issue, 207 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:31.919 never asked for anything, just came fought every single day. 208 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:35.559 And one of the highlights of the night was you know, 209 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:38.039 I had some of the guys come to me about 210 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:39.720 a month in fact. Lamon Butther came in about a 211 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:42.039 month ago. He's like, man, I think Zach deserves a jersey. 212 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:43.480 He hadn't got a jersey all year. He was on 213 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:48.000 a one day contract. And so in our pregame speech, 214 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:50.720 Lamont had the pregame speech before the game today and 215 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:54.440 he presented Zach with a jersey. The guys lost their mind. 216 00:11:55.039 --> 00:12:00.919 Zach was in stunned wonderment and that it's like I'm 217 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:03.360 telling that story is a long way around your question 218 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:06.720 about you spent spend one day in this jersey and 219 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:08.519 BBN embraces you for life. 220 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:11.320 So now that kid has a story to tell. 221 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:14.720 But it won't be that he'll think about it in 222 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:17.679 years to come, but we'll think most of all is 223 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:21.480 any trips he was able to make, the practice sessions, 224 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:24.399 the locker room, and the spent time he spent with 225 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:27.919 his teammates. But I do love that story that guy 226 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:31.360 you talk about defining the odds and getting into the game. 227 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:33.360 So I just wish he'd had a little bit more, 228 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:36.919 you know, and the opportunity to hear fans yell shoot 229 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:39.840 when he got the ball. Jay Billis had it again 230 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:41.919 last night he worked the Tennessee Alabama game. 231 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:44.039 We mentioned to you last night that he and. 232 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:48.480 Shulman will work the SEC tournament the entire tournament, so 233 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:51.480 for the first time he usually worked the ACC But 234 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:55.919 at one point, after another insufferable replay, he and Shulman 235 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.759 were talking about rule changes that need to be made 236 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:01.200 and I agree with all of it. 237 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:04.960 And a time out called by nadeoats. 238 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:08.159 One point seven seconds left. 239 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:10.799 Would you like to see them eventually change the rule 240 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:14.879 where when you have timeouts in college basketball, you make 241 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:16.840 it like the NBA and you could advance it to 242 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.320 have fot same time. I would absolutely like to see that, 243 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:23.120 but that's one where there's a lot of resistance to 244 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:26.600 that among the college basketball traditionalists. They think you have 245 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:29.519 to earn that real estate. I'm not one of those, 246 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:32.799 but I'm in the reasonable minds can differ on that, 247 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:34.879 but I don't think it's going to be changed anytime soon. 248 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:36.320 That the rules that need to change. 249 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:37.879 We need to go to quarters. 250 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:40.840 And where the only game of basketball played in the 251 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:44.639 world that doesn't have quarters men's college basketball. And the 252 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:46.960 reason I like it is if you can reset team 253 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:49.159 files at the end of the first and third quarters, 254 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:51.840 it's just a smart thing to do. And we have 255 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:54.120 to change the replay rule, make it like the NBA. 256 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:56.799 Give each team one challenge. If they get their first 257 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:58.759 one right, they keep it for one more, and then 258 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:02.000 that's a pit because we're the referees and it's not 259 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:04.720 their fault, it's the rule. They spend more time watching 260 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:06.519 TV than they do officiating the game. 261 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:09.720 I have to admit I'm torn on the advance to 262 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:13.840 the ball with a timeout rule. They do that women's basketball, 263 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:17.240 they do in the NBA. It adds to the game, yes, 264 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:20.480 but I am torn about having this billis said that 265 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:24.039 earned that real estate. I could go either way on that, 266 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:27.960 but replays, Yeah, we all agree. It's ruining the game 267 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:31.000 right now. But as he said, the referees, they're not 268 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:33.759 in charge of this. They follow the rules set up 269 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:37.799 by the universities at the direction of their coaches. If 270 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:41.200 the coaches could get together somehow at their convention and 271 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:44.559 figure it out, it would be best for everybody. But 272 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:46.639 they've got to accept the fact, and so do the 273 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:49.240 schools and the fans, that if you do away with 274 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:51.879 all the reviews, there are going to be some calls 275 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:55.799 that are not reversed and cost teams games. And as 276 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:58.039 a friend of mine said last night, well there's going 277 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:00.559 to be some of that where you actually win games too, 278 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:03.440 And he's looking at it from a fans perspective. I said, yeah, 279 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:06.360 but coaches don't get fired for winning games. There will 280 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:10.279 be games that they lose that ultimately could maybe not 281 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:13.480 directly lead to them losing their jobs. 282 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:14.759 But they head. 283 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:18.039 Up, don't they If you can accept that we can 284 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:21.039 move forward because now you're going back to human error 285 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:22.320 in the human element in the. 286 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:24.000 Game if you do that. 287 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.679 So I'd be in favor of that, if everybody would agree. 288 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.919 Hey, Sometimes, like the Kentucky LSU game four or five 289 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:34.200 years ago, LSU won on a tip and it was 290 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:37.480 clearly basket interference and. 291 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:40.080 They couldn't review it. That's not part of the that's 292 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:41.919 not on the list anymore now. It is. 293 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:44.799 That's a Kentucky rule. Not that they had anything against 294 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:47.519 Kentucky or for Kentucky. It just so happened to kill 295 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:51.759 Kentucky in that game. That's the kind of thing that happens. 296 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:55.360 And as for quarters, yes, I tweet that every year 297 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:58.440 at the first women's game. I attend over UK every year. 298 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:01.600 I've done that since they went the quarters in the 299 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:07.159 women's game. It makes zero sense, no sense none to 300 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:10.879 stay with halves. It's so much better with quarters, simply because, 301 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:13.759 as Bill said, you reset the foul situation. 302 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:18.080 What coach wouldn't want that? And you shoot fewer free throws? 303 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:21.480 What coach, what fan, what official wouldn't want that? It 304 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:24.480 makes too much sense. I don't know if there's one 305 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:28.240 person or a committee or whatever in standing in a. 306 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:28.600 Way of this. 307 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:32.440 But it's stupid not to do that. Not the first 308 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:35.519 time somebody in college athletics has decided. 309 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:38.600 To do something stupid. But why they don't I don't know. 310 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:40.039 And he's right, billis is right. 311 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:45.960 Everywhere in the world they play like that except for 312 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:50.399 men's college basketball. All right, A couple other notes before 313 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:52.399 we hit the break. There's going to be a Happy 314 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:56.679 Gilmore two. It comes out this summer, So congrats for 315 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:00.279 all you happy Gilmore fans. I am happy about this. 316 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:04.799 Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan are teaming up again. They're 317 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:09.440 the brilliant minds behind thirty Rock, which I just finished 318 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:12.319 binging for the third time. If you haven't seen it, 319 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:15.960 get it, find it, watch it. It is literally laugh 320 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:18.799 out loud funny, not an LOL thing. I mean, I 321 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:20.799 told my wife, did you hear me laughing in the 322 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:23.759 other room because I was watching Tina face. 323 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:24.400 Show thirty Rock? 324 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:28.440 Apparently it's going to be a sports related kind of 325 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:33.200 Eastbound and Down Show, a football version. Tracy Morgan will 326 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:37.480 play a disgraced former football player, and Tina Fey is 327 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:40.440 the brains behind it. And I'm thankful for that because 328 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:45.920 she is brilliant. Michael Jordan's race team being sued by NASCAR, 329 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:50.839 which calls it part of an illegal cartel, accusing his 330 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:56.759 longtime business partner Curtis Polk, of threatening teams that consider 331 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:03.480 leaving the conspiracy. Wow, that is a big headline when 332 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.400 it comes to the sport of Nascar. I mean, getting 333 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:10.119 Michael Jordan involved was huge, But if he's part of something. 334 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:12.079 Like that, that's rough. 335 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:16.319 The Bengals are losing a veteran defensive end. Sam Hubbard 336 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.200 is retiring at only aged twenty nine, but he's had 337 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:22.559 a bunch of injuries and his season ended when he 338 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:25.559 suffered a torn pcl against the Titans. And he did 339 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:28.039 it when he made his first career reception. He caught 340 00:18:28.039 --> 00:18:31.319 a two yard touchdown pass in a win over the Titans, 341 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:34.160 but on the play tore a ligament. He had other injuries, 342 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:37.759 so he said, I'm done. You might have seen his 343 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:40.279 story last night that Jay Lucas is going to be 344 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:42.799 the next head coach of Miami is Apparently he's already 345 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:46.279 signed the deal, leaving Duke and leaving before the tournament. 346 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:49.839 But you got nil and portal deadline's coming up, so 347 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:50.599 you got to get. 348 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:51.319 On it right away. 349 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:54.240 He can't wait till postseason is over. That's just where 350 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:57.640 we are right now in college athletics. Up next, Maggie 351 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:00.440 Davis of BBN Tonight. A little bit later on, Darryl 352 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:03.039 Bird of The Cash Boss talks about the Colonel's anniversary 353 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.759 on six point thirty WLAP Welcome back to the Big Bluonsider. 354 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:09.960 Joining us now is miss Maggie Davis from LAX eighteen 355 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:13.880 BBN Tonight. You know, and I'm watching the coverage Maggie 356 00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:15.680 of Senior Night, and. 357 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:16.599 It's always special. 358 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:20.799 Of course, this one was unlike any that we've ever seen, 359 00:19:20.839 --> 00:19:25.039 we've ever covered, And when you think about it this season, 360 00:19:25.640 --> 00:19:27.559 and I know how much you've enjoyed covering it and 361 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:29.960 covering these guys, and you all have done some really 362 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:35.240 interesting feature stories. But we I don't believe will ever 363 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:39.720 cover another season like this. In Kentucky basketball, when you 364 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:43.759 think about the coach they hired, the former player, the reception, 365 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:46.559 how he had to put this team together, the way 366 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:50.880 came together. It's really, you know, for a sports cliche, 367 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:53.839 Lightning in a bottle, isn't it it is. 368 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:56.359 I'm just sitting here letting the wait of all of 369 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:58.799 those words kind of sit on me because it is 370 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:01.720 incredible when you think about it like that. And I 371 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:04.519 had somebody tweet me during the game the other night 372 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:07.559 and say, you know, just thank you to these seniors. 373 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:10.920 This year has been like a religious experience for me. 374 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:15.240 And obviously that's kind of an extreme example, but you know, 375 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:18.599 I understand what that person is saying because of everything 376 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:20.799 you've just said right there. I mean, it really is 377 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:23.920 that lightning in a bottle season, the culmination of so 378 00:20:24.119 --> 00:20:27.599 much that's happened over the last decade plus. Really, you 379 00:20:27.640 --> 00:20:29.480 could take it back two or three decades. So when 380 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:32.240 Mark Pope was a player here, his rise to become 381 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:35.400 a coach fit for a position like this, this program 382 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:38.799 being in a position where it desperately needed that breast 383 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:41.359 of fresh air. The fan base needed to feel that 384 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:44.240 connection to the players. They wanted to feel that connection 385 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:46.240 from the players to the state, the name on the 386 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:47.000 front of the jersey. 387 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:47.799 I mean, all of. 388 00:20:47.759 --> 00:20:50.680 That has just been building and building and building, and 389 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:54.359 then the clash of the transfer portal, and when Mark 390 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:57.240 Pope gets hired and now all of this is allowed 391 00:20:57.279 --> 00:20:59.599 you can pay players now, So all of this has 392 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:03.880 happened and it results in seven seniors all deciding to 393 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:06.960 come to one program to play for a brand new 394 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:12.319 head coach, but probably the best known, widest brand program 395 00:21:12.359 --> 00:21:15.880 in the entire country, the absolute most established fan base, 396 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:19.160 and all of this is this fascinating, Just the position 397 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:21.720 to me of deciding, hey, we only have one year. 398 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:24.920 All of us could be the star at our particular school, 399 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:28.039 but instead we're going to spend this last year together 400 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:31.960 to put it all in one place under one guy, 401 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:35.880