Speaker 1: Welcome to the Big Blu. Insider Dick Gabriel with you
Speaker 1: on a Friday edition of our program, just ahead of
Speaker 1: game day Kentucky Ole Miss the game you will hear
Speaker 1: tomorrow at noon kickoff at eleven am local time. Everybody
Speaker 1: keeps talking about, oh, it's at eleven am, eleven am
Speaker 1: local time. Those of us who are going on the team,
Speaker 1: the coaches, media, our bodies will remain on Eastern Time,
Speaker 1: so I never worry about stuff like that. They might
Speaker 1: worry about it down there. They're used to it though.
Speaker 1: They have noon Eastern time games, which of course they
Speaker 1: are always for them at eleven am, but they'll just
Speaker 1: crank up the grove a little earlier and count on
Speaker 1: their high octane team to get it done. Mark Stoops
Speaker 1: is counting on his defense to handle that high octane offense,
Speaker 1: and we'll get a chance to see if that happens.
Speaker 1: Ten am is when our pregame Eastern Time is when
Speaker 1: our pregame covered starts with Christy Thomas, Logan Stenberg and
Speaker 1: Jeremy Jarman, Tom Leach and Jeppecoro have it for you
Speaker 1: along with yours truly down on the sideline as the
Speaker 1: Wildcats take on those Ole Miss rebels. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot like the last several games you've seen with
Speaker 1: Kentucky and Old Miss, especially the one down there two
Speaker 1: years ago where All Miss kind of came in. I
Speaker 1: won't say they blew the doors off the Wildcats, but
Speaker 1: they set them back. They were up at one point,
Speaker 1: nineteen to six. But you might recall that Kentucky completely
Speaker 1: turned the game around in the second half. The defense
Speaker 1: gave up only three points in the second half. Now
Speaker 1: that of course was the margin. But the Wildcats, again
Speaker 1: we've talked about this this week, put to go ahead
Speaker 1: touchdown on the board with not a lot of time left,
Speaker 1: but lost it because of a penalty and then another
Speaker 1: fumble and the game was over. But Kentucky basically stunk
Speaker 1: it up in the first half and at halftime regrouped
Speaker 1: played extremely well in the second half. This Ole Miss team,
Speaker 1: I think, is better than that one. So what I'm
Speaker 1: telling you is Kentucky can't afford to get behind too far.
Speaker 1: I mean, they might get behind early, but they can't
Speaker 1: let Old Miss get too far away because it's going
Speaker 1: to be tough to catch up. This is an Old
Speaker 1: Miss team that has a pretty good defense, maybe the
Speaker 1: best defense that Lane Kiffin has had since he's been there.
Speaker 1: Now Kentucky knows what to expect. They've studied all kinds
Speaker 1: of video. They looked at the bizarre numbers. But how
Speaker 1: do you duplicate the Old Miss attack in practice with
Speaker 1: a scout team, Well, it's impossible. We heard Brad White
Speaker 1: talk about it earlier this week. Mark Stoops talked about
Speaker 1: just the real challenge of this Old Miss offense.
Speaker 2: You know, the first thing with their tempo. Obviously that
Speaker 2: creates a lot of stress. Then you put the tempo
Speaker 2: in there with what they do, with how balanced they are.
Speaker 2: They're committed at running the football, and then the RPOs
Speaker 2: off of it, and you know Jackson Dart, you know,
Speaker 2: running this offense now and being so comfortable with it.
Speaker 2: They put a lot of pressure on you.
Speaker 3: In the run games.
Speaker 2: You have to play with numbers, and then the RPOs
Speaker 2: are there, and then of course their play action and
Speaker 2: the steps of plays they're they're just well designed. They
Speaker 2: just stress you.
Speaker 1: As I said a minute ago, Ole Miss jumped ahead
Speaker 1: of Kentucky last year and then got further and further ahead,
Speaker 1: But the Wildcats were able to catch up well this
Speaker 1: ole Miss offense, especially Stoop said behind Jackson Dart, you
Speaker 1: can't afford as a defense, you got to be ready
Speaker 1: every play. You cannot afford to even blink or they
Speaker 1: will run right by you.
Speaker 2: You know, that's that's a that's a big deal because
Speaker 2: you have to do it. They put pressure on you
Speaker 2: every every play, and you know, we have to have
Speaker 2: consistency in that. You know, we've had these before where
Speaker 2: we played in these games and you play a lot
Speaker 2: of snaps good, but I think that's part of what
Speaker 2: they do. And they want explosives and they want to
Speaker 2: put that constant pressure on you. And that's where we
Speaker 2: got to be just dialed in and locked in at
Speaker 2: all times because the moment you're not, they're gonna they're.
Speaker 1: Gonna hit you in the big It's gonna be up
Speaker 1: to the Kentucky defensive line, of course, to keep Jackson
Speaker 1: Dart from getting too comfortable. This guy's put up video
Speaker 1: game numbers so far, admittedly against a week's schedule, but
Speaker 1: ole Miss has a lot of transfers, including most of
Speaker 1: the starting twenty two new players on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: and they're pretty good. Kentucky defensive line has to win
Speaker 1: that battle, and Dion Walker said, we have got to
Speaker 1: get to the quarterback. We can't let him get too comfortable.
Speaker 4: I feel like we got you know, we got a
Speaker 4: great pass rush in the defensive line. You know, we
Speaker 4: made great strides and just to alleviate the pressure off
Speaker 4: of our dvs, off of our back end. Just getting
Speaker 4: to them a fight in the past, get them off
Speaker 4: the spot is going to help them out.
Speaker 1: Now if anything bad quote unquote does happen to the Wildcats,
Speaker 1: of course, Walker said the entire team has to be
Speaker 1: like defensive backs. I always talking about how dbacks have
Speaker 1: short memories. Walker said, everybody has to be that way.
Speaker 1: If you make a mistake, something happens, you just got
Speaker 1: to move on.
Speaker 5: No matter what they do.
Speaker 4: It's that's as first. Don't that they make a good play, Okay,
Speaker 4: had them on their back to get up. You're ready
Speaker 4: for nice player. You know that We've got to have
Speaker 4: an exploy mentality or or if we don't, then I'm
Speaker 4: down to the dumps.
Speaker 6: This way.
Speaker 4: Next thing, you know, they make a forty yard games,
Speaker 4: then twenty and then next thing, you know, their story.
Speaker 4: He just got to have an exploy mentality and not.
Speaker 7: Get down in the dumps.
Speaker 1: Some of the Kentucky veterans have been to Oxford before
Speaker 1: they know what they're getting into. But anytime you go
Speaker 1: on the road in the SEC, it's a hostile environment.
Speaker 1: And Zion Childress said he's actually looking forward to it.
Speaker 8: I love that because I say, I said, he shows
Speaker 8: what you really are made of. You know, in the
Speaker 8: times are adverse times, tough times, you fall on your
Speaker 8: level of training. And so we'll see how disciplined we
Speaker 8: are and see how prepared we are and how much
Speaker 8: will you know lean on Coach White.
Speaker 1: You know, Zion has been playing his best football as
Speaker 1: a Kentucky Wildcat, but he knows Ole Miss has been
Speaker 1: playing some of the best football in the SEC so far.
Speaker 1: And as I said, video game numbers, which I don't
Speaker 1: care who you're playing against, that's impressive. And as Children's
Speaker 1: pointed out, wild Cats can't let that happen to them.
Speaker 8: Offenses don't average six hundred yards a game. You know,
Speaker 8: that's something that's abnormal. So we just want to be
Speaker 8: able to you know, see that, Okay, cool, Now what
Speaker 8: can we do to limit those those players? And so
Speaker 8: we'll be ready. I think Coach White and the Estaff
Speaker 8: has done a great Chompion. It's pre pare for practically
Speaker 8: flown around in these past two days. So really excited
Speaker 8: for the opportunity.
Speaker 1: At Zion Childrens and the player comments come to us
Speaker 1: courtesy of Jeff Drummond and Cats Illustrated. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I said Zion was playing his best football as a Wildcat.
Speaker 1: His numbers back that up. He has fifteen unassisted tackles
Speaker 1: that leads the team through four games, two assisted for
Speaker 1: total of seventeen. He has five five tackles for loss.
Speaker 1: He is leading the team by a wide margin. Trayvon
Speaker 1: ripkez next with two and a half. Zion also has
Speaker 1: a pass breakup and a quarterback hurry and a forced fumble.
Speaker 1: Man is he playing pretty good football? De Eric Jackson
Speaker 1: leads the team with nineteen total tackles, eleven unassisted, eight assisted,
Speaker 1: and one tackle for loss, three pass breakups. In case
Speaker 1: you're wondering about Dion Walker, who has of course been
Speaker 1: double team quite a bit, he has eleven total tackles,
Speaker 1: two unassisted, nine assisted, and one tackle for loss as
Speaker 1: well as a pass breakup. But again, he's the guy
Speaker 1: who commands the double teams and that allows everybody else
Speaker 1: to go out there and have fun. In case you're
Speaker 1: wondering about sacks, JJ Weaver has two, Zion has one.
Speaker 1: Didn't mention that Ribka with one. Maxwell Hairston won coming
Speaker 1: on a corner blitz. Steven Soles Junior has a sack.
Speaker 1: The Wildcats have a total of six. They've given up ten,
Speaker 1: so they need to improve on that number, preferably against
Speaker 1: this Old Miss team. Kats have picked off four passes.
Speaker 1: Of course, Maxwell had the one this past week for
Speaker 1: the pick six from twenty five yards out. So if
Speaker 1: they can improve on all these defensive numbers Market League
Speaker 1: Saturday against Ole Miss, that'll slow down that rebel offense.
Speaker 1: When we come back, Oakland A's fans said goodbye to
Speaker 1: their team. They said a lot more about the owner,
Speaker 1: what a chief skate that and more Coming up at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour. Darren Hedrick joins us here
Speaker 1: on the Big Moon Sider six thirty WLAP Welcome back
Speaker 1: to Big Blue Insider. Coming up at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour. Darren Hedrick, who covers football, baseball and basketball
Speaker 1: for the Wildcats, anchors our football scoreboard on game days.
Speaker 1: Of course, is the radio voice of UK baseball and
Speaker 1: women's basketball, and every once in a while fills in
Speaker 1: for Tom Leach on the radio. And he has also
Speaker 1: done a little bit of UK basketball for the SEC
Speaker 1: streaming channels. So Darren well schooled and well versed in
Speaker 1: what we like to talk about here. Looking around the country,
Speaker 1: there was so much weird stuff out there, including a
Speaker 1: comment on the CNBC Sport newsletter from Alec Sherman. That's
Speaker 1: the title of it. Former CNN executive Jeff Zucker talked
Speaker 1: about the what currently faces the industry TV and sports,
Speaker 1: and he was asked about future investment opportunities in the
Speaker 1: sports media space, and since he left CNN, he runs
Speaker 1: a joint venture between Redbird Capitol and International Media Investments.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what those are what they do,
Speaker 1: but what he said I thought was pretty fascinating, which
Speaker 1: he believes is going to be the prospect of owned
Speaker 1: and operated sports properties by media outlets. In other words,
Speaker 1: networks will own the sports leagues in the future. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's the near future, but with all
Speaker 1: these huge contracts that are being negotiated and spread among
Speaker 1: all the different outlets both over the air, you know,
Speaker 1: the conventional networks plus ESPN, cable streaming, Amazon, and you
Speaker 1: could see at some point networks owning the sports leagues
Speaker 1: networks ESPN owns most of the ballgames. People wonder why
Speaker 1: there's so many ballgames. It gives ESPN programming, and programming
Speaker 1: equals commercial sales, and commercial sales is how they stay alive.
Speaker 1: And again, John Skipper, the former head of ESPN, said
Speaker 1: it famously a few years ago. He could see the
Speaker 1: time when the Super Bowl is pay per view. Look,
Speaker 1: so many other things are pay per view. And by
Speaker 1: that I mean, I don't mean remember when you get
Speaker 1: the box and you have to call a number and
Speaker 1: give them a credit card number, that kind of thing. Well,
Speaker 1: what you're doing now if you have to sign up
Speaker 1: for Peacock or Paramount to get sporting events that you
Speaker 1: want to watch, that's pay per view and more and
Speaker 1: more of it's coming. So much big money out there,
Speaker 1: and in fact, that's what killed the Oakland A's, or
Speaker 1: I should say the A's in Oakland. Now they're going
Speaker 1: to be the Sacramento A's for a while. And allegedly
Speaker 1: we'll get a new stadium in Las Vegas. There are
Speaker 1: people who believe that that won't happen. But the A's
Speaker 1: last night played their last game apparently in Oakland, beating
Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers three to two, and national media all
Speaker 1: over John Fisher, the owner, who was being accused of
Speaker 1: greed and a lot more, and Jeff Passing, the great
Speaker 1: baseball writer said he tweeted it the A's were killed
Speaker 1: by greed. Do not allow the people responsible for this
Speaker 1: to spin it any other way. He said, John Fisher
Speaker 1: did not have to move the team, and he accused
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball's owners and commissioner of being complicit in it.
Speaker 1: He said this was a choice of wrong, one history,
Speaker 1: will sneer and one woman, a fan held up a
Speaker 1: sign and said, today there is crying in baseball, and
Speaker 1: here's an odd one for you. The play by player
Speaker 1: one of the announcers for the Oakland A's female, Jenny Kavner,
Speaker 1: a former WKYT intern from way back in the day.
Speaker 1: How about that? And sadly she signed off along with
Speaker 1: Dallas Braden. The last game in Oakland forty A's football
Speaker 1: last night again on Amazon you know Amazon Prime, so
Speaker 1: you basically had to pay to see that. Giants gave
Speaker 1: the Cowboys a good run but fell short. Once again.
Speaker 1: Wandale Robinson had a huge game eleven catches and naturally,
Speaker 1: Corey Price had a great stat He's our statistician on
Speaker 1: the UK Network. Most receptions in an NFL regular season
Speaker 1: game by a former UK player. Wandale tied the mark
Speaker 1: set by Let's see who did it first. Doug Kotar,
Speaker 1: UK starback in the early seventies played for the Giants,
Speaker 1: had eleven back in nineteen seventy six. You got to
Speaker 1: go to twenty oh three before Moe Williams did it
Speaker 1: again for the Vikings. Jacob Tammy had eleven catches for
Speaker 1: the Colts against Philly in twenty ten. I remember that
Speaker 1: game same season, In fact, same day, November seven, twenty ten,
Speaker 1: Stevie Johnson had eleven for the Bills against the Bears.
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb did it twice for my Packers, once in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen against the Bucks, once against the Bears in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, and now Wandal did it last night. Although
Speaker 1: Wandell had a couple of plays where toward the end,
Speaker 1: if he had hauled one in and held on to it,
Speaker 1: it would have kept the Giants alive, and he had
Speaker 1: another catch where they needed a first down and he
Speaker 1: kind of I guess rounded off his route. He was short.
Speaker 1: But still Daniel Jones had a big game last night. However,
Speaker 1: the critics will come after him again because they didn't win,
Speaker 1: and I'm not here to carry his mail. But he
Speaker 1: was twenty nine to forty for two eighty one one pick,
Speaker 1: no touchdowns. But for wow, there was he twenty one
Speaker 1: to twenty three. So he completed only his last eight
Speaker 1: of seventeen or something like that. But still Giants were
Speaker 1: in the game. They just couldn't run the ball. Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary was their leading rusher fourteen carries twenty four yards. However,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys terrible past secondary. That's been the knock on
Speaker 1: them all year. And Rex Ryan now says that he
Speaker 1: would have been the defensive coordinator for the Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: he said I would have fixed that defense. In a
Speaker 1: New York minute, of course he says that, but he
Speaker 1: said they wouldn't pony up the money. He was on
Speaker 1: a podcast with Jack mckessey of USA Today and he
Speaker 1: was ready to pull the trigger, but he said Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones wouldn't pony up the money. Instead, I hired Mike Zimmer,
Speaker 1: who had been on the Cowboys staff from ninety four
Speaker 1: to six, was the Vikings head coach from fourteen to
Speaker 1: twenty one, and then came back and the Cowboys d
Speaker 1: secondary not great. Didn't look good. Last night, while we're
Speaker 1: on NFL, Justin Fields fires a shot at the Bears,
Speaker 1: the team that drafted him with the eleventh pick in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one draft. He was on a podcast
Speaker 1: with Steelers defensive a lineman Cam Hayward, and he asked
Speaker 1: him to choose between the coaches on his current and
Speaker 1: former team, and Field said, Pittsburgh, it's not even close.
Speaker 1: And of course Fields is starting right now because Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson is missing time with a calf injury. Kind of
Speaker 1: took the decision out of the hands of Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 1: He's got a decision to make when Wilson's healthy. But
Speaker 1: Justin Fields is completing seventy three point three percent of
Speaker 1: his passes five hundred and eighteen yards, two touchdowns, one pick,
Speaker 1: and he has rushed for an additional ninety yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown. So Chicago media will have fun with that,
Speaker 1: but right now they don't care because they have CAITLEB.
Speaker 1: Williams and they believe he is the answer to their
Speaker 1: quarterbacking problems. Maybe he is who knows up? Next Darren Hedrick,
Speaker 1: We'll talk to Darren about some of the great matchups
Speaker 1: this weekend in college football, including Alabama and Georgia and
Speaker 1: Washington visiting Rutgers in Biscataway, New Jersey, which is two thousand,
Speaker 1: four hundred two air miles from Sea Tech International Airport.
Speaker 1: The Huskies will travel more than four thousand miles to
Speaker 1: play this game. That's ridiculous. Back with more of the
Speaker 1: Big Blue Sider in just a minute here on six
Speaker 1: point thirty WLA. Welcome back to the Big Blue Sider,
Speaker 1: joining us down a celebrity hotline as a guy who
Speaker 1: can talk baseball, football and basketball because he does it
Speaker 1: all for the UK Sports Network. That's Darren Hedrick. You're
Speaker 1: gonna hear him tomorrow morning. Good morning on Kentucky Omen's
Speaker 1: football covers Darren. Of course, anchors are scoreboards, segments, the
Speaker 1: radio voice of the baseball Wildcats, UK Women's basketball, and
Speaker 1: fills in for Tom LEAs occasionally with men's basketball. Let
Speaker 1: me start with football, though, Darren, and unfortunately, well you know,
Speaker 1: I don't I know, you don't mind getting up early
Speaker 1: but some of the best games you'll be previewing, including
Speaker 1: Alabama Georgia. It is a big weekend, though, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: I think it's one of those weekends where George and
Speaker 5: Alabama is obviously the premier game everybody's talking about. But
Speaker 5: then you've got, obviously Kentucky and Old Miss, and it's
Speaker 5: going to be another great opportunity for the Wildcats show
Speaker 5: just how far this team has come from that South
Speaker 5: Carolina game in terms of getting better, and we're going
Speaker 5: to find out a lot about Old Miss too, because
Speaker 5: you know, I guess you could say that Old Miss
Speaker 5: has done exactly what elite teams are supposed to do
Speaker 5: against their competition, but still they in terms of the
Speaker 5: physicality and the talent, Kentucky will be by fall are
Speaker 5: the best team they've played so far.
Speaker 1: It will, But I also think that this is probably
Speaker 1: Kiffin's best Ole Miss team. So that's what's going to
Speaker 1: really make it interesting, isn't it.
Speaker 9: Yeah it is.
Speaker 5: Their offense is really explosive. Obviously a lot made about
Speaker 5: Jackson Dart, but their skill position players are just phenomenal
Speaker 5: explosive and on the defensive side, I think this. Like
Speaker 5: you said, this is one of the best teams that
Speaker 5: Kiffin has put on the field from top to bottom.
Speaker 5: So I'm really interested to Kentucky tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, can they bounce back? You know, someone will make
Speaker 1: a mistake somewhere, an ole miss will take advantage. But
Speaker 1: we heard earlier in the show from players and Mark
Speaker 1: Stewps talking about how you just got to put that
Speaker 1: behind you have a short memory and move on, which
Speaker 1: is easier said than done, isn't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: It is. And I think for me that probably the
Speaker 5: most critical part of the game is just going to
Speaker 5: be avoid the slow start.
Speaker 10: Against Old Mitz because I.
Speaker 5: Think the Rebels are averaging like eighteen points a game
Speaker 5: in the first quarter, and they typically if they win
Speaker 5: the coin toss, they take the ball and they're looking
Speaker 5: to put their opponent in an early hole. So you know,
Speaker 5: Kentucky's got to start fast. But I heard Cole cuberle
Speaker 5: At say something interesting on a radio show yesterday, and
Speaker 5: he talked about a lot of times when you have
Speaker 5: these eleven am Central time kickoffs, the visiting team is
Speaker 5: almost at an advantage because these home teams the reward
Speaker 5: is normally getting to sleep in your own bed or
Speaker 5: at least a familiar hotel near campus. Right then you've
Speaker 5: got to get up at five am. Whereas the road team,
Speaker 5: they're used to weird or not weird, but different hotels
Speaker 5: or unknown hotels, and they're sort of used to things
Speaker 5: being out of the norm. And you know, Old Miss
Speaker 5: is one of those pres precision offenses. They do a
Speaker 5: lot of things with timing and precision routes and different things,
Speaker 5: and sometimes that can be off in these early kickoffs.
Speaker 1: That's a great point. I didn't even thought about that,
Speaker 1: all right, Well that's something to hang on to. By
Speaker 1: the way, this game Kentucky Ole Miss is one of
Speaker 1: like eight or nine noon kickoffs, so they're not the
Speaker 1: lone rang including Western Kentucky at Boston College at noon
Speaker 1: on the ACC network. But I tell you one of
Speaker 1: the ones I think is really intriguing, Daran, I know
Speaker 1: you'll be keeping an eye on Maryland at Indiana, and
Speaker 1: that's not something that we thought we would say ordinarily.
Speaker 1: And of course of covering football. Indiana is four and
Speaker 1: oh and it was a new head coach guy who
Speaker 1: came from Coastal and it includes a win at UCLA,
Speaker 1: so that is a real curious matchup.
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, Indiana's surprised a lot of people and
Speaker 5: how good they've been so far this year, and they
Speaker 5: certainly gave UCLA a rude welcoming into the Big Ten.
Speaker 5: So yeah, in Indiana is a team that is an
Speaker 5: intriguing matchup to watch. And of course Maryland. Maryland's kind
Speaker 5: of had it up and down the year, but hey,
Speaker 5: they're still dangerous. But you're right about all these new kickoffs.
Speaker 5: I think everybody's just trying to get their game underweight
Speaker 5: and get out of the way so we can all
Speaker 5: enjoy Georgia Alabama tomorrow night at seven thirty. But you know,
Speaker 5: another matchup that's intriguing to me is Arkansas and Texas
Speaker 5: A and M. Because Arkansas is just a couple of
Speaker 5: plays away from being undefeated right now. A and M
Speaker 5: is a team that loses to Notre Dame at home.
Speaker 5: Notre Dame has proven to be a team that can
Speaker 5: be up and down, and A and M themselves they
Speaker 5: go to Gamesville and steamroll Florida and then they come
Speaker 5: back and really struggle against Bolding Green out of the MAC.
Speaker 5: So that's an intriguing matchup for me, you know, what
Speaker 5: kind of how just how improved is this Arkansas team
Speaker 5: because they host Tennessee and Fayetteville next weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are all kinds of interesting matchups. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't know that this will be interesting, but at least we
Speaker 1: can get a scouting report on Texas from Neil Price,
Speaker 1: Mississippi State at Texas heading into Austin. But you mentioned
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. The Irish are home with Louisville, so that's
Speaker 1: one to keep an eye on with U of L.
Speaker 1: Of course, on Kentucky's schedule later this season. And a
Speaker 1: lot of people are picking Louisville in that one, Darren.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Louisville really handed it to Notre Dame last year. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and I think Notre Dame's going to have a little
Speaker 5: bit of revenge on their minds. And I've seen a
Speaker 5: couple of people pick Notre Dame. But you're right, Louisville's
Speaker 5: a trendy pick in this one. And we're going to
Speaker 5: find out just how good this Louisville team is because
Speaker 5: a lot of folks are picking between Miami, Clemson and Louisville.
Speaker 5: Is the overwhelming favorers to win the ACC this year.
Speaker 1: One of the games involving ranked teams, both of them
Speaker 1: is number nineteen Illinois at number nine Penn State. But
Speaker 1: you know one I find intriguing as well Florida State
Speaker 1: at SMU. And of course we all know SMU's history,
Speaker 1: but recent history tells you that Florida State just isn't
Speaker 1: very good. SMU is coming off a sixty six to
Speaker 1: forty two win over its arch rival TCU. I mean
Speaker 1: Florida State one in three. Now, what a dumpster fire.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And you know, it was interesting how some of
Speaker 5: the experts on college game, they including Nick Saban, really
Speaker 5: put a spotlight on Florida State. And I thought it
Speaker 5: was kind of the eye opening when Nick Saban, who
Speaker 5: was still coaching, when a lot of these guys that
Speaker 5: played for Florida State were at their former schools, but
Speaker 5: he said, there's a reason those guys transferred. And I thought, well,
Speaker 5: and I think Florida State might have a little bit
Speaker 5: of an issue right now with culture inside that locker room.
Speaker 5: And you know, sometimes you can have a big transfer
Speaker 5: portal class and they mash and things work out well.
Speaker 5: You know, I love to talk about Kentucky baseball. It's
Speaker 5: a great example of how you can use the transfer
Speaker 5: portal to complement a program for the right pieces and
Speaker 5: get where you want to go, like the College World Series.
Speaker 5: But then there's other times where it doesn't quite work out,
Speaker 5: and I think that's what we're seeing with Florida State.
Speaker 5: And meanwhile that CMU has looked really good so far
Speaker 5: in this season, even though it's still odd that I
Speaker 5: think of them as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Speaker 1: Another one to keep an eye on Fresno State at
Speaker 1: UNLV for one reason, holy and that's because, as we
Speaker 1: all know, the Rebels just lost their starting quarterback. I said,
Speaker 1: I ain't getting my money, I ain't gonna play, And
Speaker 1: they had a running back who wasn't getting enough carries,
Speaker 1: so he was their starting running back for their opener,
Speaker 1: so he's leaving. So man. College football is just so
Speaker 1: weird this year, including yes, Darren, Rutgers and Washington, Washington
Speaker 1: coming all the way across the country to play a
Speaker 1: conference game, traveling round trip more than four thousand miles.
Speaker 1: And that's just getting started, isn't it.
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 5: How about that? And who also had Rutgers on their
Speaker 5: bingo card as being a team that's the factor right now?
Speaker 5: Is in Big ten. So you're right, it's just been
Speaker 5: a really topsy turvy season. But man, it's been fun.
Speaker 5: And then I'm enjoying the parody and some of these
Speaker 5: new matchups. But I do not feel for these West
Speaker 5: Coast teams having to come all the way to the Scataway,
Speaker 5: New Jersey or Champagne, Illinois and.
Speaker 1: Who but Wisconsin plays. I think at Southern col By
Speaker 1: the way that Washington Rutgers game is tonight if you
Speaker 1: want to peek at it. But I didn't know this.
Speaker 1: They had a home and home what was it twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen and seventeen, and I got to think that both
Speaker 1: coaches when that was over thought to themselves. Man, I'll
Speaker 1: never do that again.
Speaker 5: Guess what exactly?
Speaker 1: Darren Hedrick is my guest. When we come back, we'll
Speaker 1: talk Kentucky basketball and some baseball here in the Big
Speaker 1: Moon Sider six thirty WLAP, Welcome back. We're talking with
Speaker 1: Darren Hedrick. He is the radio voice the baseball Wildcats
Speaker 1: and the UK women's basketball Wildcats and phills in for
Speaker 1: Tom on men's basketball. Hey, before I get to the Wildcats,
Speaker 1: your buddy Aaron Judge. Man, and this has not been
Speaker 1: this has not been just a smooth sailing kind of
Speaker 1: season for him, but what incredible numbers he's putting up.
Speaker 1: I mean, did you see this coming from him?
Speaker 5: You know what, when you look at his prior seasons,
Speaker 5: you knew that you knew he had it in him.
Speaker 5: I never thought I would see him sit there in
Speaker 5: Homer in five straight games for I think, what is
Speaker 5: he up to now? Fifty eight first player since it's
Speaker 5: two thousand and nine, first player to have over one
Speaker 5: hundred and forty RBIs the batting average? Is compete? I mean,
Speaker 5: this is a guy that could win the Triple Crown
Speaker 5: this year.
Speaker 1: He is.
Speaker 5: Up there right now with some of the stuff that
Speaker 5: Miguel Cabrera was doing with the Tigers in his prime.
Speaker 5: And so it's been amazing to watch. And I know,
Speaker 5: for a little while there was the conversation of oh,
Speaker 5: who's the MVP. Is it Bobby Witt from Kansas City
Speaker 5: or is it Aaron Judge from New York? And there
Speaker 5: was debates on who's doing wad who's the most valuable
Speaker 5: in everything? But at this point, I think that conversation
Speaker 5: is over. I don't see how you could vote against Judge.
Speaker 5: It's MVP. And then what we're seeing from Sho hey
Speaker 5: Otani in the National League. It's just man, I hope
Speaker 5: baseball fans are able to watch these guys and appreciate it,
Speaker 5: because we haven't seen the hitter like Aaron Judge since
Speaker 5: very bond and Aaron's doing it cleanly.
Speaker 1: So and you know, you may have known this. You
Speaker 1: probably did by the way Darren covered Aaron Judge as
Speaker 1: a minor leaguer when Judge was in the minors, so
Speaker 1: they developed a relationship. You probably noticed. This is the
Speaker 1: second time he's homer and in five straight games. It
Speaker 1: happened back in twenty twenty at MLB dot Com is
Speaker 1: reporting that, and this is really hard to believe, but
Speaker 1: I guess I could see it. He's the first player
Speaker 1: in Yankees history with multiple home run streaks of at
Speaker 1: least five games in his career. Now we're talking Ruth
Speaker 1: and Caring and Mannel and Marrison and other Yankees, and
Speaker 1: he's the first to do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's he's in rarefied air, and as long as
Speaker 5: he doesn't suffer any more major injuries, it'll keep him
Speaker 5: out for months at a time. He's already approaching three
Speaker 5: hundred home runs. He is an older player coming out
Speaker 5: of college at Fresno State, and he did have a
Speaker 5: couple of seasons there when he was younger, where injuries
Speaker 5: sidelined him for months at a time. So I don't
Speaker 5: know if we'll see him hit that seven hundred mark. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but he's going to take a run at it. And
Speaker 5: I think we're seeing a guy that, like I say,
Speaker 5: barring something unforeseen, he's already putting his they're already fitting
Speaker 5: his plaque for Cooperstown. And he's just an amazing player.
Speaker 5: And I've tried to tell people he's more than just
Speaker 5: a home run hitter. I mean, this guy could hit
Speaker 5: for average. We're seeing that this year.
Speaker 1: By the way, the Yankees record for consecutive games at
Speaker 1: the homer don Mattingly Donnie Baseball at eight straight back
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven. Maris did a six game streak himself,
Speaker 1: and Gary did a six game streak. So you could
Speaker 1: see Judge putting up one more. But I don't know
Speaker 1: if you'll get to ay, but you're right about average, Ben,
Speaker 1: he's a complete player. You're right about that. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's talk Kentucky baseball. You and Doug Flynn and Keith
Speaker 1: Madison and anybody who covers the team. We're all going
Speaker 1: to be learning a lot of new names, aren't we.
Speaker 1: But you just refer to the portal working so well.
Speaker 1: You got to tip your cat to Nickmnngione. And right
Speaker 1: now it's Austin Kuzeno and some other assistants who are
Speaker 1: doing their homework finding talented guys who they believe will
Speaker 1: fit in. And they were masterful with that over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, weren't they.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this has been just a phenomenal run in recruiting
Speaker 5: for Kentucky, and not just the transfer portal, but we're
Speaker 5: starting to see more and more of the high school
Speaker 5: kids take notice of what is happening in Lexington. And
Speaker 5: you know, I think there's so much momentum coming off
Speaker 5: a run to the College World Series for the first
Speaker 5: time in program history that's been to fact to back
Speaker 5: super Regionals. But also I mean just the fact that
Speaker 5: you were able to get Tyler Bell to campus, one
Speaker 5: of the top ranked shortstops in the twenty twenty five class.
Speaker 5: He was drafted by the Rays and what you could
Speaker 5: consider the first round, even though it was the compensatory round,
Speaker 5: which is just an odd deal there with the way
Speaker 5: Major League Baseball does the draft. It's not the first round,
Speaker 5: but it's also not the second round. It's kind of
Speaker 5: a purgatory in between the two rounds, but still is
Speaker 5: a high ranking pick that brings money with it. He
Speaker 5: Alecx to come to campus and has talked about how
Speaker 5: Lexington in Kentucky's where he wants to be and to
Speaker 5: have a player of that caliber. I know they're putting
Speaker 5: together a strong class for twenty twenty six. You know,
Speaker 5: the funny thing is about where Kentucky is in recruiting
Speaker 5: right now, Dick, is they can put together top twenty
Speaker 5: five classes and you could still if you're not in
Speaker 5: the top five or top ten, then you've still got
Speaker 5: several league opponents ahead of you in the rankings. It's
Speaker 5: just amazing how good the SEC is in baseball. But
Speaker 5: they're doing a great job in recruiting, man, and I'm
Speaker 5: excited to see what the future holds. And like you say,
Speaker 5: there's going to be a lot of new faces and
Speaker 5: they're doing a tremendous job with the transfer portal as
Speaker 5: well as recruiting the high school kids.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 1: I remember before you got here, Gary Henderson signed a
Speaker 1: recruiting class that was like top five in the country
Speaker 1: but third in the SEC East. So that shows life
Speaker 1: in the SEC, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it really is. And when you add in Oklahoma
Speaker 5: and Texas, that just deep.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And it appears that they have signed a
Speaker 1: pretty good balance of pitching and position players. So uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see these guys get started. And
Speaker 1: of course they've got an exhibition coming up at Wright
Speaker 1: State up in Mason, Ohio. And they've got another one
Speaker 1: here though, right.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, they'll host Morehead State. I think that one
Speaker 5: is at the end of October, towards the end of
Speaker 5: Paul practice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. Let me shift you over to basketball
Speaker 1: while we have a few minutes left. Me let me
Speaker 1: real quickly talk about the men because, as I said,
Speaker 1: Darren fills in with the men every once in a while,
Speaker 1: and you got to know them as well as the
Speaker 1: women's players. But again, you're going to have to do
Speaker 1: a lot of homework, aren't you, because it's a brand
Speaker 1: new roster. What more than anything intrigues you about this
Speaker 1: men's team.
Speaker 5: I just think it's going to be the style of
Speaker 5: play that Mark Pope brings in the fact that he
Speaker 5: has recruited some guys to fit into that style. I
Speaker 5: think we're going to see a team that really gets
Speaker 5: up and down. They're going to get after it defensively,
Speaker 5: but I also think they're going to be a fun,
Speaker 5: run and gun style offensively, just off of what Cameron
Speaker 5: Mills has talked about in his practice reports. I'm really
Speaker 5: interested to see how this goes and how he structures
Speaker 5: the program because I think Mark is going to want
Speaker 5: to get the kind of players that Kentucky fans are
Speaker 5: used to seeing in terms of the talent level, and
Speaker 5: we've seen that in recruiting so far. He's landed some
Speaker 5: outstanding high school players that are going to come to
Speaker 5: Lexington in the future. And so I think for me,
Speaker 5: it's just going to be that style of play defensively,
Speaker 5: getting after it and then really attacking on offense. I
Speaker 5: think this will be a fun brand of basketball too.
Speaker 1: And I've followed along with Cameron, had him in the
Speaker 1: garage last night in fact, and he said that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this team not only will shoot a lot of threes, Darren,
Speaker 1: They're going to make a lot of threes. So that's
Speaker 1: going to be a real real part of this and
Speaker 1: of course that was a Patino signature that'll be a
Speaker 1: part of this team's personality. A couple of minutes left
Speaker 1: with Darren Hedrick. Let me ask you about the women
Speaker 1: we'll have a chance to meet, and we've already had
Speaker 1: a chance to literally meet them at media Day, but
Speaker 1: the fans will get to see him at Madness And again,
Speaker 1: almost an entirely new roster for Kenny Brooks. But he's
Speaker 1: getting it done on a recruiting trail as well, isn't he.
Speaker 5: Yes, there's a lot of excitement and momentum with coach
Speaker 5: Brooks being in lex and it's starting to show up
Speaker 5: on the recruiting trail. And you know, I've had a
Speaker 5: chance to attend a few practices and it's like walking
Speaker 5: into a brand new program. Were the only thing that
Speaker 5: saying is the brand on the jersey. You've got so
Speaker 5: many new players and new staff. I can tell you
Speaker 5: this practice has been fun. It's been exciting to watch
Speaker 5: this week. The team is continuing to learn the system
Speaker 5: that coach Brooks wants to run. They're learning his style,
Speaker 5: he's learning what you know, he's learning his players and
Speaker 5: what they need. And Georgia Amore has been a huge
Speaker 5: factor on the floor and trying to help the players
Speaker 5: understand what the expectations are, what Coach Brooks is looking for.
Speaker 5: So I'm excited to see this team this year, and
Speaker 5: I think fans are going to enjoy how hard this
Speaker 5: team competes and how hard they work.
Speaker 1: You feel like that's going to be the brand of
Speaker 1: basketball or what else can you tell us about style
Speaker 1: of play that kind of thing.
Speaker 5: Well, I can tell you that offensively, they're going to
Speaker 5: be flowing, That basketball is going to be moving, and
Speaker 5: Dick the biggest thing. And I know fans have talked
Speaker 5: about this for years or asked for it. I can
Speaker 5: tell you there will be linked on the floor at
Speaker 5: just about every position. One thing that has amazed me
Speaker 5: is the eyes of this team. You know, now Georgia Amore,
Speaker 5: this is the point guard, but beyond her, she's such
Speaker 5: a dynamic facilitator. But beyond her, I mean, there's there's
Speaker 5: just so much size and linked to this team. And
Speaker 5: you know, Coach Brooks keeps telling him we're going to
Speaker 5: be the smartest team on the floor, We're going to
Speaker 5: play the smartest brand of basketball, and then that's what
Speaker 5: he's looking for, right now in practice.
Speaker 1: He is Darren hedrick O hereing tomorrow morning on the
Speaker 1: Kentucky Football broadcast, also on the broadcast for the UK
Speaker 1: women's games and some of the men games as well.
Speaker 1: He's a busy man.
Speaker 5: Thank you brother, no problem, Dick, thanks for having me, Bun.
Speaker 5: Good luck down in Oxford.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and good luck to the pilots getting us there.
Speaker 1: Coming up in hour number two, Tom Leach and Jeff
Speaker 1: Picorral will hear an excerpt from the Wildcat Whip as
Speaker 1: they prep us for the Cats and the Rebels. Look
Speaker 1: back on the win over Ohio You and we'll take
Speaker 1: a look back at the week that was here on
Speaker 1: the Big One Sider six thirty w Lapero. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Big Boone Cider. I remember two of our program.
Speaker 1: Coming up a little later on, we'll relive the highlights
Speaker 1: from the IHOU game. It was a big day for
Speaker 1: Kentucky fans who finally got to see their favorite football
Speaker 1: team finally get into the end zone, score a touchdown.
Speaker 1: They go on eighth straight quarters without so we'll relive
Speaker 1: some of those moments and maybe some more will pop up.
Speaker 1: When the Wildcats take on the Old Miss Rebels tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We'll have it for you right here noonkickoff ten am.
Speaker 1: Broadcast time should have mentioned this off the top, but
Speaker 1: UK women's soccer a little bit of a setback last night,
Speaker 1: not a loss. It is soccer. We have draws, we
Speaker 1: have ties, and they tied Georgia. Kentucky was up one
Speaker 1: nothing for most of the match, but in the eightieth
Speaker 1: minute Georgia scores, so it ends up in a draw
Speaker 1: one to one, despite the fact that the Wildcats outshot
Speaker 1: Georgia seventeen to nine with seven shots on goal to
Speaker 1: three by Georgia. And Georgia is not a bad ball
Speaker 1: club five three and three, but is also the defending
Speaker 1: SEC tournament champion. So UK now is eight one and
Speaker 1: two with two points through three SEC matches. Now the
Speaker 1: Cats hit their They go to Oklahoma this Sunday, first
Speaker 1: time in program history, and a week from today they
Speaker 1: visit Alabama. So it's back to back road games for
Speaker 1: UK women's soccer. Right now on social media, if you
Speaker 1: want to take a deeper dive into the upcoming UKO
Speaker 1: and Miss game, it's the Wildcat Whip with yours truly
Speaker 1: Jeff Picorrol, Tom Leach and we record it at South
Speaker 1: of Wrigley, which is a little sandwich shop. The shops
Speaker 1: a little bit. The sandwiches are not on Southland Drive,
Speaker 1: and it's called South of Wrigley because it basically serves
Speaker 1: Chicago style sandwiches, including the Italian beef and the Italian
Speaker 1: sausage and pub fries and things like that. It's phenomenal
Speaker 1: and they sponsor our podcast and that's where we record it.
Speaker 1: So I've got a little bit of it for you,
Speaker 1: a little teaser if you'd like to listen to the rest.
Speaker 1: But you can hear the background noise, customers going by,
Speaker 1: and the eyes behind the counter serving enough sandwiches. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of fun, really. But here we are Tom
Speaker 1: and Jeff and me talking about the Cats and the ReBs,
Speaker 1: starting with me bringing up last year's game where the
Speaker 1: Wildcats came back in the second half. It was a
Speaker 1: disaster in the first half and it looked like they
Speaker 1: were on their way to a blowout, and somehow Tom
Speaker 1: Kentucky turned that game around, starting with a defense to
Speaker 1: that high powered offense. Gave up three points in the
Speaker 1: second half, nineteen to six.
Speaker 11: At one point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got a touchdown right before halftime.
Speaker 11: In there and had two drives into the red zone
Speaker 11: in the last quarter to tie it or win it.
Speaker 1: For two fumbles. Yeah, Jeff, the first thing that Mark
Speaker 1: Tups said to us when he came in are when
Speaker 1: we do the post game after the Georgia game. He
Speaker 1: was so dejected, but he said we had the right
Speaker 1: resting and so based on that game two years ago.
Speaker 1: And obviously you got to execute, you got to take
Speaker 1: care of the ball. But Brad White at least has
Speaker 1: the recipe. Now can they put it together?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's gonna be really interesting.
Speaker 12: I guess if you look at the teams they played,
Speaker 12: maybe Wake Forest is the toughest team they They've played.
Speaker 11: Four teams between their FBF fcs, but four teams have
Speaker 11: five wins.
Speaker 12: And they've beat and they've beat them by a total
Speaker 12: score of two hundred twenty to twenty two.
Speaker 11: So I'm sure Ole Miss is good, but they can't
Speaker 11: be as good as everything is the.
Speaker 1: Play.
Speaker 9: You know what's amazing.
Speaker 12: When I'm doing my charts here, I think it's twenty
Speaker 12: the twenty two too deep on defense or all transfers. Yes,
Speaker 12: i mean, I'm like every guy. I'm right in Texas,
Speaker 12: Miami Florida.
Speaker 9: They're from all over. There's not one.
Speaker 1: Conscious transfer because like you said, SEC's.
Speaker 12: Yeah, oh yes, yes, No one does it as good
Speaker 12: as him, And I don't know what the secret sauce is.
Speaker 11: And they have guys who they're getting them, getting them
Speaker 11: where they have them for a while, like dark Transfer
Speaker 11: southerns third year in that system. Correct Ivy who made
Speaker 11: the Levis to force the Bowl.
Speaker 1: Lad he's back.
Speaker 11: He came in from Georgia Tech. He played in the
Speaker 11: game twenty two, so he's in his third.
Speaker 9: Okay, how did he say Princely's last name? He came
Speaker 9: from Florida.
Speaker 11: He was phonetically on my board ACK's Saturday.
Speaker 12: He was their best defensive lineman when we played him
Speaker 12: in Florida two years ago, and now he's there is
Speaker 12: one of their top defensively.
Speaker 13: It's crazy.
Speaker 9: I mean in all the.
Speaker 11: Backups, linebackers, best linebackers from Arkansas.
Speaker 12: Yeah, they get that pe Geese guy, I think, say
Speaker 12: you say it, Yeah, it's it's just from.
Speaker 1: A crazy whatever they're doing, like I said, it's working,
Speaker 1: but just they're going to run into a defense that
Speaker 1: held Georgia to thirteen points and they're studying that they
Speaker 1: know that. And the one play that hurt Kentucky the
Speaker 1: most in that game was that long pass play that
Speaker 1: ended really any shot Kentucky had laid in the ball game.
Speaker 1: That team down to miscommunication and that has got to
Speaker 1: be so vital in this game.
Speaker 9: And you know, it's interesting, Tom.
Speaker 12: I don't know if you saw the interviews yesterday with
Speaker 12: the players, but dion Dian's interview yesterday, he was talking
Speaker 12: about They said, what's it like, you know, playing it,
Speaker 12: and he said, well, the first thing is it's so
Speaker 12: loud you can't hear anything and you just have to
Speaker 12: kind of hand signal and look at the guy next
Speaker 12: to you because you just.
Speaker 9: Can't hear it.
Speaker 12: And there's only and that's not a huge stadium, sixty
Speaker 12: seven thousand, so just a little bigger than Kentucky Stadium
Speaker 12: than Kroger Field, but.
Speaker 1: It's got the one airly tall. Yeah, the other end
Speaker 1: is not so it doesn't trap all that noise. But
Speaker 1: the other end is a student reception. Yes, they get
Speaker 1: it done.
Speaker 11: Kentucky's played really well defensively save for one area, and
Speaker 11: it's some.
Speaker 9: Communication issues in the secondary.
Speaker 11: In the secondary, we assume there were three three of
Speaker 11: them maybe South Carolina really only one against Georgia m
Speaker 11: was a huge one laid on the thirty three yard
Speaker 11: pass play after the Fudge discussed punk where that got
Speaker 11: you out of the hole? That was this communication kind
Speaker 11: of switching a pick. A lot of this is it's
Speaker 11: like basketball, and you know you're do you go over
Speaker 11: the top of the screen and stay with your guy?
Speaker 9: Do you switch it?
Speaker 11: And that's kind of what a lot of this is.
Speaker 11: And Ole Miss is they're playing fast and they're doing
Speaker 11: a lot of that, and so that's the thing. And
Speaker 11: if you're you're gonna get burned sometimes what you have
Speaker 11: to do is burn them back.
Speaker 9: It's like when you played Tennessee.
Speaker 13: You know they're gonna hit a big.
Speaker 9: Exactly right. But Tom to me, Dick, I'm not as.
Speaker 12: Worried about the defense as I am the offense. And again,
Speaker 12: I don't know how good those four Georgia Southern Wake
Speaker 12: Forest deferment. Don't know how good those guys were, but
Speaker 12: they've only given them thirty four yards rushing a.
Speaker 1: Game a game.
Speaker 12: That right, I'm saying is that because they get ahead
Speaker 12: so early and you just had to have to throw
Speaker 12: the run game away.
Speaker 9: Or are they that good up front.
Speaker 12: If they are, that's really going to pose a problem
Speaker 12: because Kentucky's running game sets up their passing game.
Speaker 1: That's just a brief portion of the Wildcat Whip, and
Speaker 1: you can listen to the entirety of it via either
Speaker 1: my Facebook page or the UK Sports Network Twitter feed.
Speaker 1: Just to bring up UK Sports Network and you will
Speaker 1: find it The Wildcat Whip with Tom and Jeff and
Speaker 1: yours truly, and we go about twenty minutes on that game.
Speaker 1: So I think you will enjoy it, and if you
Speaker 1: go to South of Brigley, I know you will enjoy
Speaker 1: that on Southland Drive right across from the Good Foods
Speaker 1: co op up. Next, we'll relivet Kentucky and IOU here
Speaker 1: on six thirty WLAP. Welcome back to the Big Blue
Speaker 1: and Sider. We're coming up in a few minutes. We'll
Speaker 1: look back on an eventful week, which included dating back
Speaker 1: to last Saturday, Kentucky's win over OHIOU. And as we
Speaker 1: often do after a win, we take the radio broadcasts
Speaker 1: and melt it down into one manageable chunk. Because many
Speaker 1: of you are either at the game or you give
Speaker 1: in you watch it on TV. Maybe you don't have
Speaker 1: Tom and Jeff alongside. And I know it's hard because
Speaker 1: of the delay, But that said, we decided to bring
Speaker 1: you to highlights and there were a lot of them
Speaker 1: of the Ohio You gang. We thought we weld give
Speaker 1: him a second run here on the Friday edition of
Speaker 1: The Big Blue Insider.
Speaker 11: Ad A Griff settles into Shaune gun formation, dingle tight end,
Speaker 11: going in motion wide to the right and they give
Speaker 11: it to Wilcox sweeping left. He's got a hole across
Speaker 11: the board. He breaks and tackle into Ohio territory down
Speaker 11: to the Bobcats forty five yard line. Is Shamerion Wilcox
Speaker 11: running with that physical style that we've seen in that time.
Speaker 11: We got to see a little bit of that juice
Speaker 11: that he is.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you pull that time.
Speaker 12: They pulled Cox, Eli Cox, I should say, and Dylan
Speaker 12: Ray and they just blasted out that whole left side.
Speaker 9: Nice pickup, nice blocket, I said. The field goal unit
Speaker 9: out there, and it's much to the chagrin of.
Speaker 1: A little bit of a low step.
Speaker 11: He gets it down and Rainer puts it through and
Speaker 11: Kentucky is on the board first with five forty eight
Speaker 11: left to play. Here in this opening quarter in Kroger Field,
Speaker 11: Kentucky three Ohio nothing back sumo tar Bank lay fake
Speaker 11: to him, land a grip, getting pressure and fires it
Speaker 11: off to the far side and it's caught if through
Speaker 11: that chet from the left hash mark all the way
Speaker 11: to the right sideline to Barry and Brown and it's
Speaker 11: a gain of fourteen out to the thirty nine yard line.
Speaker 12: Yeah, forty nine yards basically in the air and right
Speaker 12: on the money.
Speaker 13: And off the will Cox sweeping right has.
Speaker 11: It out outs up back down across the fording and
Speaker 11: he can't rank away in there, and.
Speaker 13: A big game for Jamarry and will Cox.
Speaker 11: And he gets away from that guy, this Dustin Johnson
Speaker 11: over the far side.
Speaker 13: It's see you later. Instead he takes it down to
Speaker 13: the ohio forty it's forty one.
Speaker 12: More yard Yeah, really nice blocking and it's Eli Cox
Speaker 12: who's pulling from the center spot like Dermani Dawson.
Speaker 9: Used to do and makes the nice kickout block.
Speaker 11: Second time they've done that.
Speaker 1: Heat tight ends right Caddison.
Speaker 11: Dingle handoff, will cut for it and clips of tackle
Speaker 11: angles right twenty five uses a stick arm, gets inside
Speaker 11: the twenty and out of bounds at the seventeen yard
Speaker 11: line of Ohio tenty three more yards for Kentucky breaking
Speaker 11: off those big chunk plays that have been missing from
Speaker 11: the first three weeks.
Speaker 12: That was a Walter Payton Jim Brown for arm right
Speaker 12: to Austin Browley's helmet.
Speaker 9: It just knocked him off of him.
Speaker 11: Wild Kats will turn around and go left to rival.
Speaker 11: We come back to start the second fifteen minutes at
Speaker 11: Broger Field where Kentucky leads Ohio.
Speaker 13: Three to nothing. From Vander Griff, pressure coming fires into.
Speaker 11: The middle caught him the one yard line. It'll be
Speaker 11: first in Gold to go. Dan Key tried to stretch
Speaker 11: it into the end zone, but he was already down perfect.
Speaker 9: Brow Yeah, they're right up.
Speaker 1: Back to the line of Scrimach. I'll talk to you
Speaker 1: in a second.
Speaker 13: Dustin Johnson making a hit.
Speaker 11: Lander Griff gives it to Sumo Carnbay and he's head
Speaker 11: touchdown Kentucky. A little push from the back from Jordan
Speaker 11: Dingall helped make it happened as the Wildcats get into
Speaker 11: the end zone. Second play of the second quarter results
Speaker 11: in the first touchdown of the game. The Wildcats have
Speaker 11: eat ten nothing lead. Pull Us takes the snap, rolls
Speaker 11: knock loom all Ben Kentucky's got it.
Speaker 13: Oh and then it pops out of JJ Weaver's hands.
Speaker 9: And did Ohio get it back? JJ? No, cat's got it.
Speaker 11: Weaver was thinking scoop and score and he kind of
Speaker 11: lost his balance as he'd been over to scoop it up,
Speaker 11: but a teammate was able to fall on the football
Speaker 11: at Kentucky gets its first takeaway of the day and
Speaker 11: Loved was diving for it. I don't think it was
Speaker 11: him that got it.
Speaker 9: JJ Weaver got it back.
Speaker 11: They just rushed three and has plenty of time sliding
Speaker 11: off to his right. Now the protection breaks down, crows
Speaker 11: it up the far side. It's put on game key
Speaker 11: hand sign Ohio Territory pulled down of the forty one
Speaker 11: yard line.
Speaker 13: Well, that was a nice play by Brock.
Speaker 12: I was getting ready to say he needs to step
Speaker 12: up in the pocket instead of gain out of the pocket.
Speaker 9: But his arm is strong enough. Dame Key just took
Speaker 9: off and he do it. Man.
Speaker 12: That was about a fifty five yards off his back leg.
Speaker 11: Vandergrim against a four man rush, rolling out to his right,
Speaker 11: fires back into the middle. He's got keen and seven
Speaker 11: and twenty here's sideline ten pearls.
Speaker 14: Ont time Clerk buckets down to the two yard line.
Speaker 13: Send him with Lucklin and LOBRONI.
Speaker 12: Would like that move well, Tom the toughest play for
Speaker 12: defense to try to defend his crossing patterns. And that
Speaker 12: time they had a guy short crossing and Dane about
Speaker 12: eighteen yards crossing.
Speaker 13: He he'd even stride.
Speaker 9: Ain't he having a big day?
Speaker 11: Second time he set him up inside the five with
Speaker 11: one of his catches, that one for thirty two yards
Speaker 11: thirty six yards.
Speaker 9: Off the right Hashvart.
Speaker 11: They give it to simlparn Bay and he's got a
Speaker 11: second touchdown right up the middle. Kentucky seventeen Ohio nothing.
Speaker 11: Four oh seven left the play of the first half
Speaker 11: of seventeen nothing. Kentucky is a high repares once again
Speaker 11: for a third and ten play.
Speaker 13: They bring three drop eight. Pulis throws near.
Speaker 11: Side and it is broken up down at the thirty
Speaker 11: yard line, and that was the freshman to Ryan Nichols
Speaker 11: breaking it up. Seventeen nothing Kentucky leads Ohio. It is
Speaker 11: halftime on the Hall of Fame weekend at UK empty backfield.
Speaker 9: Polish, that's it's gonna be a pick.
Speaker 11: Six, and it's Maxwell hairston time Dallas, it's.
Speaker 9: With his third career pick six.
Speaker 12: Well, he locked on late to this, Paulus, He'll learn
Speaker 12: from this. You cannot do this versus sec. The corners
Speaker 12: are too quick, Harston bluffing. He looked like he was
Speaker 12: going to lay off one, the guy that was running
Speaker 12: to the middle, and he baited him and he'd do
Speaker 12: it out there, and that was easy pickings.
Speaker 9: Since the start of.
Speaker 11: The twenty twenty season, Kentucky now has eleven pick sixes,
Speaker 11: tied with Ohio State and Iowa with the most.
Speaker 13: In the ne Through twenty seven nothing Kentucky leeds with.
Speaker 11: Five twelve to play here in the third quarter, and
Speaker 11: it's a quarterback keeper Vandergraff. He's got the first down
Speaker 11: breaks away from a tackler inside the thirty five knockdown
Speaker 11: at the thirty two yard line of Ohio for a
Speaker 11: first down Prodi and Johnson on the tackle hill spot
Speaker 11: at at the Ohio thirty three in a game of
Speaker 11: fourteen yards for Kentucky. Six catches on the day for
Speaker 11: Key under fifteen yards in short of his career best.
Speaker 11: That's already a career high in yarding. The andander grip
Speaker 11: sliding left sets throughout his dear side catch pay for
Speaker 11: the first down. It's diving grabbed five day cann Dame
Speaker 11: Keith Kotul was a six or five.
Speaker 9: He stands up, I know it's six.
Speaker 13: Just a corner pattern Toobby.
Speaker 12: He fates the post and he cuts out into the
Speaker 12: sidelines and he's wide open.
Speaker 11: Needed sixteen. Got sixteen consecutive completions to Dame Keith.
Speaker 13: They make up first to thirty in two.
Speaker 11: Passes and they give it on the jet sweep to
Speaker 11: Barion Brown trying to get outside across the twenty.
Speaker 9: Got an alley at the tent at the five touch. Wow, Kentucky.
Speaker 9: They finally hit on the jets.
Speaker 12: Sweep around the left edge dummy that looked like those
Speaker 12: dvs were running in quicksand I mean they had him
Speaker 12: dead to rights and he just out ran up to
Speaker 12: the end zone.
Speaker 9: He hit the gas and it was goodbye.
Speaker 12: I mean, tank was at the five yard line and
Speaker 12: that was like both Jackson ran.
Speaker 13: By him Kentucky thirty four Ohio six.
Speaker 11: He did the freshman white out wide right set, looks right,
Speaker 11: I rolls back to his left, floats it down the
Speaker 11: near side.
Speaker 13: Coil.
Speaker 9: Nice beautiful row.
Speaker 13: My Whimsend drops it right into the red basket of
Speaker 13: Anthony brown Stevens as he went out of bounds at
Speaker 13: the thirty one yard line.
Speaker 12: Really nice play, kind of reverse out to his left
Speaker 12: on the run. He squares his shoulders and puts a
Speaker 12: dark right on number five that he Brown steven He
Speaker 12: couldn't drop a.
Speaker 13: Nine h or thinner into the green than that.
Speaker 11: Through trips to the right for Whimsit tight end left
Speaker 11: third nineteen Whimsit's setting up deep steps up in the pocket,
Speaker 11: throws it complete, Farrier with the catch for a first
Speaker 11: down of the twenty Wow.
Speaker 13: How smart is that kid? Farrier?
Speaker 12: He gets right where he has to go for the
Speaker 12: first down and then takes one more step, then comes
Speaker 12: across and Gavin puts it right there.
Speaker 15: Then says I'm the two, gotta keep it himself, and
Speaker 15: he goes and standing up touchdown Kentucky the first one
Speaker 15: for Owensborough High School's Gavin Wimsit Rainer puts it through.
Speaker 3: We will keep it here.
Speaker 11: As Kentucky moves the lead out to forty one to
Speaker 11: six over the Ohio Bobcat.
Speaker 1: Player of the game's Dame Key and was the game
Speaker 1: plan such that you thought you could get to the
Speaker 1: spots on the field that you did successfully.
Speaker 7: You know, I wasn't really thinking about like, oh, like
Speaker 7: I'm gonna have a career game. I was really just
Speaker 7: wanting to go out there and play for the team.
Speaker 7: And you know, when you play for the team, I
Speaker 7: just feel like the ball tends to find you. So
Speaker 7: that's really what I was just trying to go out
Speaker 7: there and do and just play for my teammates. And
Speaker 7: whenever the ball came out way, I was just trying
Speaker 7: to make that play.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna sell bad now. We were just
Speaker 1: about ready to hear from Jeff Bloro, but he gave
Speaker 1: way to somebody a little more important, and that said
Speaker 1: coach Mark Stoops. So I had this off with Tom Leech,
Speaker 1: Tom calling me the host.
Speaker 16: Okay, coach Stoops here, coach is ready to get the
Speaker 16: heck out of here?
Speaker 3: Go home? Did the pool? Mark? Where would you like
Speaker 3: to start?
Speaker 2: There's a lot to like today, I think, you know,
Speaker 2: just I knew it wasn't just gonna be just like
Speaker 2: real easy.
Speaker 3: You know that, like you and I talk, never is
Speaker 3: against those MAC teams never.
Speaker 16: And uh, our team I think really bought in early
Speaker 16: the week and understood that it just the course and
Speaker 16: continue to concentrate on us and getting better and improving
Speaker 16: and getting some plays. And we've got a lot of
Speaker 16: players in the game, and you know, still made a
Speaker 16: lot of mistakes, but did a lot of good things
Speaker 16: as well.
Speaker 11: So the Wildcats get their second win of the season,
Speaker 11: bounce back from him the heartbreak last week to get
Speaker 11: a decisive win today over Ohio University Kentucky forty one
Speaker 11: the Bobcats six.
Speaker 1: As we said, a lot to like about the win
Speaker 1: over Ohio. How much of that can the Wildcats press
Speaker 1: into service coming up tomorrow against Ole Miss down in Oxford.
Speaker 1: Whatever happens, you will hear it right here. And with
Speaker 1: any luck, maybe we'll have a highlight melt for you
Speaker 1: next week when the Cats beat the Rebels. But they
Speaker 1: got to make that happen. Won't be easy, but not impossible.
Speaker 1: Up next. The week that was here in the Big
Speaker 1: Moon Siders six thirty WLAP, that.
Speaker 9: Was the week talk waver let it go.
Speaker 1: That was the week talk wise.
Speaker 12: It started way up talk and he's playing them all.
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think this past week started above par and stayed there.
Speaker 1: We had a big week here on the Big Blue
Speaker 1: Inside or lots to talk about already shared with you
Speaker 1: the Ohio You Melt, But in case you missed some
Speaker 1: of the interviews, I want to start off with part
Speaker 1: of the conversation we have with Van Hiles. I love
Speaker 1: talking to Van. You hear him on Sunday Morning Sports Talk, here,
Speaker 1: him on Monday Morning Now with Tom Leash Monday Morning
Speaker 1: Quarterback Segments, and all over social media. He's really made
Speaker 1: a name for himself breaking down and examining Kentucky football corps.
Speaker 1: Van played back in the nineties under Bill Curry, defensive
Speaker 1: back who played a little while in the NFL. Now
Speaker 1: living in his native Louisiana and coaching. But I like
Speaker 1: to talk football Van, and we had to especially talk
Speaker 1: this week about Kentucky's defense taking on they will miss
Speaker 1: with their jail break offense. With this jail break offense,
Speaker 1: what would you say to Kentucky defensive backs. You got
Speaker 1: to assume they're going to prepare as best they can.
Speaker 1: But once once the game begins for real, what's the
Speaker 1: best advice you can give them? Because they're going to
Speaker 1: be really tested.
Speaker 10: For me, as a DC is I'm simplifying because I
Speaker 10: don't have the luxury to match personnel with what they
Speaker 10: are doing. Maybe I see everything that you don't have
Speaker 10: that uh, that ability the match personnel with down the
Speaker 10: distance and all that good stuff. Simplify. Then the guys
Speaker 10: have to trust their themselves and their instincts and their abilities.
Speaker 10: That's all. It's a confidence thing when you play in
Speaker 10: this conference. If you're not confident, it will get exposed.
Speaker 10: So you got to play confidently, not afraid to get beat, deep,
Speaker 10: not afraid to get beat. Because those guys on scholarship too,
Speaker 10: they're gonna catch balls. So if they catch it all
Speaker 10: it's no big deal. Just don't give up the big play.
Speaker 5: That's really it.
Speaker 10: Make them keep snapping the bone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say, how does that manifest this?
Speaker 1: So playing with confidence against this offense.
Speaker 10: So for me, it's like you have studied all you
Speaker 10: can study. You see things before the snap. Okay, they
Speaker 10: come out of a certain formation, this is what they're
Speaker 10: probably going to run. That's the confidence. When you're not
Speaker 10: when you're not able to, as I would say, eliminate
Speaker 10: routes before snap. Now you're just guessing. But if I
Speaker 10: can eliminate half the routes that they can run out
Speaker 10: of this formation. Now I can anticipate. Anticipate it is
Speaker 10: a totally different thing from guessing, because now I have
Speaker 10: an idea of what they might run, and now I
Speaker 10: can jump on that when they run it. The guys
Speaker 10: have to get in the film room to get into
Speaker 10: a game plan, have to know what have an idea
Speaker 10: of what they're going to do before they snap.
Speaker 1: You also can't just let Jackson Darks sit back there
Speaker 1: and pick and choose. I mean to get help up front,
Speaker 1: don't they?
Speaker 10: Yes, you you have to play a little bit of both.
Speaker 10: You have there sometimes when you can confuse a quarterback.
Speaker 10: You can't rely on that all the time, but there
Speaker 10: are instances where you can simulate the blitz and drop out.
Speaker 10: But then there's sometime you're gonna ssimilate the blitz and
Speaker 10: actually come. So you have to mix it up. You
Speaker 10: can't blitz all the time because then he's gonna get
Speaker 10: It's like someone pitching fastball, fastball, fastball. Eventually he's gonna
Speaker 10: time it ups the same thing. You can't blitz all
Speaker 10: the time. You got to mix it up. And Brad
Speaker 10: White does a great job of that anyway, So I
Speaker 10: don't know if that's an issue. Now his guys just
Speaker 10: have to execute.
Speaker 1: That was my next question. What do you think of
Speaker 1: the way Brad White picks and chooses when it's time
Speaker 1: to blitz, Because obviously we've talked about this before. You'd
Speaker 1: love to be able to get to the quarterback without blitzing,
Speaker 1: which sometimes you gotta come right.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you look as a I can speak at it
Speaker 10: from a corner. Is I don't want to play man
Speaker 10: a man all day every day?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 10: Is taxing? Because I don't think fans understand that dbs
Speaker 10: don't come off the field. They're not like receivers run
Speaker 10: a goal route and then they tap themselves out and
Speaker 10: then the nerve receiver comes in. A corner stays on
Speaker 10: the field. So therefore, if you're gonna put me in
Speaker 10: a man the man situation eighty percent of the game,
Speaker 10: I better be in the best shape of my life
Speaker 10: to even command that. Then it doesn't matter how good
Speaker 10: is ship I am. A first receiver is coming in
Speaker 10: every other play. So when you mix it up, you
Speaker 10: allow a corner to mix up his his techniques and
Speaker 10: his advantages to possly bet a guy into a trap
Speaker 10: coverage or or rest on the play because he just
Speaker 10: ran a nine route Like those Those things are important
Speaker 10: for decent coordinator to understand. Are your corners tired, have
Speaker 10: they just ran a nine route? Or we might need
Speaker 10: to run a different coverage than this.
Speaker 1: They didn't I assume a nine routes of deep ball.
Speaker 10: Yes, I'm sorry, nine rout as a goal. It's a
Speaker 10: fly whatever the old terminology.
Speaker 1: Is, gotcha, Well I'm old. So yeah, you need to run.
Speaker 1: I thought that was really interesting what Van had to say.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's going to come down to execution and communications.
Speaker 1: Saying that all week so the coaches obviously and the
Speaker 1: players will remind themselves of that going into tomorrow's game.
Speaker 1: Something else we shared this week with you. We had
Speaker 1: talked before with Oscar Combs when he was notified that
Speaker 1: he was going into the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: and it happened this week. It happened Monday night. He
Speaker 1: went in with another Kentucky figure from back in the nineties.
Speaker 1: Of course, Oscar started the Cats Balls back in what
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, but Tony Delk went in as well,
Speaker 1: along with Teddy Bridgewater from U of L and Roy
Speaker 1: Pickerel from Kentucky Wesleyan. But we shared with you the
Speaker 1: conversation we had with Oscar sometime back when he first
Speaker 1: found out that he was a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 17: Well, you know, Dick, thank you first of all. And
Speaker 17: I was inducting to the Kentucky journalist some Hall of
Speaker 17: Fame Max in two thousand and To most Kentuckians, they
Speaker 17: would say that would be the ultimate honor for a
Speaker 17: journalist in the state of Kentucky. But I'm more of
Speaker 17: a specialist than just a general practitioner.
Speaker 5: And I really have to.
Speaker 17: Say, with apologies to the Usk Journey School of journalism,
Speaker 17: that this was the biggest honor of all because it
Speaker 17: comes from my peers, people in the sports world, writers
Speaker 17: and journalists, and it's all about Kentucky's sports. I don't
Speaker 17: know where people like Nick gabron Us Combs would be
Speaker 17: if we were born without sports, that's right.
Speaker 1: I shudder to think. And we've had a lot of enjoyable,
Speaker 1: enjoyable moments, haven't we. And this had to be what
Speaker 1: what was your reactional when you got the call?
Speaker 17: Uh?
Speaker 18: I know, a numbness couple of minutes and like no
Speaker 18: this is not happening, you know, And then, Uh, I
Speaker 18: gotta be honest with it.
Speaker 17: It was just sure, joy, have you ever.
Speaker 1: Been to the event? I was part of it for
Speaker 1: a long time, and forgive me, I can't remember if
Speaker 1: you were there or not. I'm sure you've been at
Speaker 1: least once, right, No, I haven't said that.
Speaker 17: I was at several of the UK Hall of Fame.
Speaker 17: I was on the voting committee for years, but I've
Speaker 17: never I've never been to the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Well, i'll tell you.
Speaker 17: Stay was my first trip to Churchill down.
Speaker 1: I heard that, Yeah, that's that's where they had the event.
Speaker 1: And uh, you're not a gambler, you're not a horse player. Uh,
Speaker 1: but what did you think of Churchill?
Speaker 17: Overwhelming?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 17: I mean, and and this was a small crowd today
Speaker 17: versus what's going to be their Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 18: But uh, it's two mongos.
Speaker 17: I mean it's uh after being there for a day
Speaker 17: and going through this, and the governor had a conference
Speaker 17: immediately before airs where they're talking about you know, dollars
Speaker 17: for state and what it produces the state, the economy,
Speaker 17: the economic impact. And I understand how the horse and
Speaker 17: industry carries a lot of weight in frankt n So happy.
Speaker 1: For Oscar who was running a newspaper in eastern Kentucky
Speaker 1: when he decided to start the Cats Pause. And it
Speaker 1: was a wild success right off the bat, and it
Speaker 1: set the standard for fan magazines everywhere and still going
Speaker 1: strong under Daryl Birrd, Aaron Gershan and their crew. So
Speaker 1: Oscar Combs, as he said in the Kentucky Journalism Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame and now in the Kentucky Sports Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame as well. Sticking with football, the Bengals now in
Speaker 1: three and Chris Canty, a former NFL defensive lineman, took
Speaker 1: off on the Bengals and he really went after Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: which I thought was pretty interesting given the fact that
Speaker 1: they always talk about football is the ultimate team sport,
Speaker 1: and this guy lays everything at the feet of the
Speaker 1: Bengals multi monthly million dollar quarterback.
Speaker 6: When your quarterback has a chance to go win the game,
Speaker 6: he's gotta win the game.
Speaker 9: And Joe Burrow didn't do that.
Speaker 6: Jadon Daniels did. That's the problem that I have the
Speaker 6: Cincinnati Bengals. They have a very very specific formula for
Speaker 6: how they're gonna have to win games. They're gonna have
Speaker 6: to be led by their offense. You know how, I
Speaker 6: know that how they spend money. The Cincinnati Bengals are
Speaker 6: top five and spend on the offensive side.
Speaker 1: Of the ball.
Speaker 6: Relative to the rest of the league. They're twenty second
Speaker 6: in cash spend on defense. News flash, the defense for
Speaker 6: the Bengals ain't gonna be as good as the offense.
Speaker 6: The offense is what's gonna have to win the day.
Speaker 6: Only problem is the Commander's offense, with a rookie quarterback
Speaker 6: in his third start, won the damn game. I'm tired
Speaker 6: of all the excuses for Joe Burrow, all the defense,
Speaker 6: let Joe Burrow, no Joe Burrow, let Joe Burrow down,
Speaker 6: Joe Burrow, let the offense down, Joe Burrow, let the
Speaker 6: team down. Great stats, great stat line. Oh what's amazing
Speaker 6: is that all of these touchdowns, no interceptions. But what
Speaker 6: did you do when the game was in the balance.
Speaker 6: What did you do when the game was on the line.
Speaker 6: You know the answer is it's not enough. You know how,
Speaker 6: I know it's not enough because your team doesn't have
Speaker 6: a win and you're going into Week four. The damn
Speaker 6: Carolina Panthers got a win before the Cincinnati Bengals did.
Speaker 6: Let that sink in.
Speaker 1: You know, I watched that game and Kanty talked about
Speaker 1: down the stretch. He was basically referring to plays late
Speaker 1: in the ball game. I don't remember thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: boy Burrow is really stinking it up. But I do
Speaker 1: know that Burrow had phenomenal numbers. I mean he had
Speaker 1: more than three or Dar's passing, three touchdown passes, no turnovers.
Speaker 1: So I think it's got to be as much or
Speaker 1: more of a team situation. And this is a former
Speaker 1: d lineman going after a quarterback, used to go after
Speaker 1: him on the football field, and now going after him
Speaker 1: on TV and radio. We also shared with you some
Speaker 1: comments from Mark Pope and Pat Kelsey that we collected
Speaker 1: over the last week or two. Kelsey speaking at an
Speaker 1: event in Louisville, Mark Pope talking to Maggie Davis a
Speaker 1: BBN tonight about the importance of the Kentucky Louisville series,
Speaker 1: and obviously Mark Pope lived it. Kelsey knows immediately as
Speaker 1: soon as he got n even before he got to Louisville,
Speaker 1: how important this rivalry was, so he kind of went
Speaker 1: back and forth on the comments shared by the two
Speaker 1: brand new head coaches at their respective institutions. They've been
Speaker 1: head coaches before and nothing like this.
Speaker 14: This rivalry is beautiful and it's and there's no holes barred.
Speaker 14: It's a backyard brawl and it matters, and it matters
Speaker 14: to everybody involved.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 14: I got introduced to this rivalry when I first got
Speaker 14: here thirty years ago, and it is as good as
Speaker 14: it gets in the sport of basketball, not just college basketball,
Speaker 14: but at any level. And we're excited about it. It's
Speaker 14: a defining moment in every single Kentucky season and something
Speaker 14: we take really seriously.
Speaker 1: And I love it.
Speaker 3: It's one of the great rivalries in collegiate sports. It is.
Speaker 3: I know how important it is to the people of
Speaker 3: this town. You know. I've gotten to know Mark a
Speaker 3: little bit, you.
Speaker 19: Know, and I can't probably shouldn't say it very loud,
Speaker 19: but try not.
Speaker 3: To like him. But he's a pretty good dude. I
Speaker 3: was like, why you got to be not why you
Speaker 3: got to be a good dude? I'm supposed to like
Speaker 3: dislike you, you know.
Speaker 14: I think Pat's terrific. I think he's a great coach.
Speaker 14: I think he's doing a great job. He's in use
Speaker 14: so much energy and Louisville and I have a ton
Speaker 14: of respect for him. I'm incredibly excited to compete against him,
Speaker 14: and both of us will be at a point and
Speaker 14: a friendly where we want to rip each other's heads
Speaker 14: off during the game, because that's how you're supposed to be,
Speaker 14: and then I'm going to continue to like him after
Speaker 14: the game.
Speaker 3: I'm just excited to be a part of it.
Speaker 12: It is.
Speaker 19: I think rivalries are what makes college sports great. And
Speaker 19: you know they stopped being rivalries if you don't win
Speaker 19: one every once in a while.
Speaker 3: So let's stink and go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 14: In athletics, we have a beautiful opportunity to compete harder
Speaker 14: than anybody can possibly imagine that people can compete and
Speaker 14: then to show mutual respect and love each other aside
Speaker 14: from that, I think that's really important. That's a real thing,
Speaker 14: and we know that area can talk.
Speaker 1: And one other football note as we wrap up this segment,
Speaker 1: because tomorrow, when Kentucky takes on Ole Miss, we will
Speaker 1: open up with Bernie Scruggs, who quarterback the Wildcats to
Speaker 1: the upsid win over Ole Miss in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1: He's going to be our celebrity who opens the broadcast.
Speaker 1: And we talked with Bernie for the show about the
Speaker 1: fact that Kentucky was coming off a wild fifty eight
Speaker 1: to thirty loss to Indiana, and it was a tough loss,
Speaker 1: but it gave the Wildcats confidence they could score points. Now,
Speaker 1: they only scored ten against Ole Miss, but the Rebels
Speaker 1: only scored nine, so that was enough to pull off
Speaker 1: the upset.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I felt like we were going to put some
Speaker 20: points up, and it was that Old Miss game was
Speaker 20: a really hard hitting ball game.
Speaker 19: It was.
Speaker 20: I don't know how many people realize, but that defense
Speaker 20: that we had. We had Dick Palmer at one end,
Speaker 20: Dave hard at the other, we had Dave Rohler, Bill
Speaker 20: bush All, had Joe Fetish bil at linebacker with Wilbur Hackett,
Speaker 20: and I mean five out of six of those guys
Speaker 20: played pro and played for a while. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 20: they were a good defensive unit. So I felt like
Speaker 20: we had a good chance to beat these guys.
Speaker 1: You had to get excited every time they turned them
Speaker 1: over because it wasn't just those turnovers in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter either, was it.
Speaker 20: No, it really wasn't we played them tough the whole game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, John Ray was confident going into the game, Wasn't
Speaker 1: He was quoting the newspaper beforehand is saying he thought
Speaker 1: you all would win. Well.
Speaker 20: I think he was confident up until we went down
Speaker 20: to Halvard. I think that that's that was a tailor
Speaker 20: moment force. I think he kind of got shook at
Speaker 20: that point.
Speaker 1: The joke there was that Kentucky went down to Auburn
Speaker 1: and it was beaten forty four to three. So you
Speaker 1: come off a wild game where you score a bunch
Speaker 1: of points against Indiana, you lose it, but then you
Speaker 1: upset Ole Miss and then you're really lay an egg
Speaker 1: down at Jordan Air Stadium. We'll come back and wrap up,
Speaker 1: but Heroes, fools and Flakes. In just a minute, you're
Speaker 1: on the Big Blue Insider six thirty.
Speaker 9: Wap none the week, Let it go.
Speaker 1: That's the Week one. Welcome back to the Big Blue Insider.
Speaker 1: As we wrap up this week, I'm for Heroes, fools
Speaker 1: and Flakes and our hero tonight, it's actually the Mountain
Speaker 1: West Conference because the Mountain West is staying together and
Speaker 1: looking for new members and signing people up through the
Speaker 1: year twenty thirty two. I don't know if it's the
Speaker 1: best thing in the long run for all the member institutions,
Speaker 1: but for the fans of those schools, it's clearly the
Speaker 1: best thing. Some might have wanted them to move, I
Speaker 1: don't know, and I know schools that did move did
Speaker 1: so in order to stay financially solvent. As I've said before,
Speaker 1: USC and UCLA for bleeding money. They had to leave
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve, which was being run so poorly, and
Speaker 1: go to a different league just to keep their heads
Speaker 1: above financial waters. But the Mountain West is hanging in there,
Speaker 1: and in fact, they've got commitments from seven remaining members
Speaker 1: and they're looking for more. They're trying to go after
Speaker 1: Texas State. They're taking a look at Northern Illinois, which
Speaker 1: is in the MAC. And yeah, I realized that this
Speaker 1: would apply in the face of conferences staying together if
Speaker 1: they poached some other schools. But right now, Air Force Vegas,
Speaker 1: New Mexico and Nevada Staytasday State, Wyoming and Hawaii, which
Speaker 1: is a foot fall lonely Fountain West member have signed
Speaker 1: a memorandum of understanding. They they're going to stay in
Speaker 1: the league till twenty thirty two, So some semblance of
Speaker 1: normalcy in the Mountain West our fool tonight is twofold.
Speaker 1: Primarily John Fisher, the guy who let the Oakland A's die.
Speaker 1: They played their last game last night, as I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: and this is the guy who let them go. And
Speaker 1: you can blame City fothers because they've let the Warriors
Speaker 1: get away, they let the Raiders get away, they let
Speaker 1: a hockey team get away, and now they've let the
Speaker 1: A's get away. But Fisher, as I mentioned earlier, exacerbated
Speaker 1: the situation by being such a tight wad, and fans
Speaker 1: hate him and you can understand why, our flake, but
Speaker 1: this is a weird situation. A Florida man is suing
Speaker 1: to temporarily stop the sale of Shoho Tany's fiftieth home
Speaker 1: run ball from being sold at auction. This guy says
Speaker 1: it was stolen from him right after he's cured it.
Speaker 1: A guy named Max Matus. He's eighteen years old, and
Speaker 1: he says he procured the ball on September nineteenth, which
Speaker 1: was his eighteenth birthday, and then he claims a guy
Speaker 1: named Chris Bolanski yanked it away from him, and of
Speaker 1: course wouldn't give you back to Oldtani And now they're
Speaker 1: going to sell it, but he's gone to court in Miami.
Speaker 1: Of course, the home run came against the Marlins, which
Speaker 1: gave him fifty homers and fifty stolen bases. But this
Speaker 1: guy before they sell it, or at least while the
Speaker 1: opening miss half a million dollars, says the ball belongs
Speaker 1: to him, and I kind of hope he wins this
Speaker 1: because how many times have you seen that somebody grabs
Speaker 1: a baseball, catches it or gets it on the caram
Speaker 1: and somebody else steps in and rips it away from him.
Speaker 1: There's got to be video. I would think that if
Speaker 1: there is, and if it's compelling, this guy could be
Speaker 1: making serious bank. That's going to do it. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much to Darren Hendrick, Thanks to all of you. Join
Speaker 1: us tomorrow for Kentucky Old Miss right here starting at
Speaker 1: ten am. That's it. Good night from the garage in Lexington.
Speaker 1: What the hell is going on out here?
Speaker 20: Well, Nook scared because his eyelids are jammed and his
Speaker 20: old man's here.
Speaker 3: We need a live it, a live rooster.
Speaker 20: We need a live rooster to take the curse off
Speaker 20: Jose's glob and nobody seems to know what to get
Speaker 20: Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present. About right, that's right,
Speaker 20: we're dealing with a.
Speaker 6: Lot of.
Speaker 1: Well, camel sticks always make a nice gift, and maybe
Speaker 1: can find out what she's registered and maybe a play
Speaker 1: setting or have your silverware pounds day.
Speaker 6: Okay, let's get.
Speaker 9: Te Nang Sang