Speaker 1: Uh, guess what day it is.
Speaker 2: Guess what day it is?
Speaker 3: Huh, anybody, it's hump day.
Speaker 4: I know what basketball means in the state of Kentucky,
Speaker 4: and you're gonna have a team that's gonna be fun
Speaker 4: to cheer for him.
Speaker 1: Tell you that that was a message for you Kentucky
Speaker 1: fans from Lenny Acuff, the head coach of the Lipscomb
Speaker 1: Bison who fell to the Wildcats last night. That is
Speaker 1: a professional coach telling the Big Blue nation that come
Speaker 1: March there could be a lot to cheer about. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Big Blue Insider. Dick Gabriel with you on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday edition of our show This Game Night. That's
Speaker 1: right basketball. Last night tonight it's volleyball, the UK women
Speaker 1: taking on Mississippi State. Kentucky in first place in the
Speaker 1: SEC looking for an eighth consecutive Southeastern Conference championship, but
Speaker 1: needs to win out so it doesn't have to share
Speaker 1: it with anybody. We'll have it for you on SEC
Speaker 1: Plus at seven o'clock. You were truly joined by Leah Edmund.
Speaker 1: But we need to talk, of course about last night's
Speaker 1: win over Lipscomb tonight on the Big Blue side, and
Speaker 1: we will do just that coming up a little bit
Speaker 1: later on Sean Woods The Unforgettable Guard. We'll also visit
Speaker 1: with our West End bureau chief, Gary Moore, who will
Speaker 1: talk all sorts of Kentucky football, basketball, national stuff as well.
Speaker 1: We're also going to talk football with Mike Harge. Mike
Speaker 1: is a radio sportscaster down in Austin, Texas. Actually met
Speaker 1: him at SEC Football Media Days. I don't even remember
Speaker 1: how we got to talking, but we decided to swap
Speaker 1: phone numbers and we knew we would need guests the
Speaker 1: week of the Kentucky Texas game. I was on his
Speaker 1: show this morning, So he'll be with us tonight and
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the Cats and the Longhorns coming up
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour. But back to UK
Speaker 1: basketball with the Wildcats are four and oh for the
Speaker 1: first time since the sixteen to seventeen season. That team
Speaker 1: won its first seven games, and that was the team
Speaker 1: that just barely missed the Final Four when Luke May
Speaker 1: of North Carolina hit a jump shot in the closing
Speaker 1: seconds and knocked off the Wildcats. You remember the vid
Speaker 1: I will never forget the video of bam At a
Speaker 1: bio and the Aaron Fox in the Kentucky locker room
Speaker 1: sobbing after that setback. And I always think about that
Speaker 1: when people would rip on the one and done players,
Speaker 1: how they just don't care, they don't care about being here.
Speaker 1: And look, I'm sure one or two, in fact, I
Speaker 1: know of one in particular who came he here and
Speaker 1: really didn't care. He just wanted to get paid. But
Speaker 1: I'm not going to share the name with either. But
Speaker 1: those guys did, and man, that team was good. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying this team's going to be as good because
Speaker 1: they don't have anybody as good as Bam and they
Speaker 1: don't have anybody as good as the Aaron Fox. Both
Speaker 1: of these guys are mainstays now in the NBA. But
Speaker 1: they got a great team. And what I think is
Speaker 1: great so far, U Case had a different leading scorer
Speaker 1: in all four games this year. Last night it was
Speaker 1: Jackson Robinson. He bounced off that game from Duke and
Speaker 1: had twenty points. And yeah, against lesser competition, Kentucky shot
Speaker 1: it well fifty four point eight percent from the field,
Speaker 1: ten of twenty five from three point land, forty eight
Speaker 1: percent and eighty one percent of the free throw line
Speaker 1: and for sorry, twelve of twenty five on threes, and
Speaker 1: Kentucky's become the first UK team ever to make at
Speaker 1: least ten three pointers in each of its first four games.
Speaker 1: Mark Pope was surprised to hear that last night. He
Speaker 1: was surprised that his championship team in ninety five ninety
Speaker 1: six didn't do that. But you know that team shot
Speaker 1: a lot of threes, but not as many as this team.
Speaker 1: And in fact, Kentucky went of eight ball clubs now
Speaker 1: to make double digit three pointers in every game so
Speaker 1: far this season. You want to know another one of them,
Speaker 1: Louisville about that. So hearing from the players and the
Speaker 1: coaches after the game. Lenny Acuff is the head coach
Speaker 1: of Lipscomb and he was absolutely impressed. He was the
Speaker 1: guy you heard off the top of the broadcast and
Speaker 1: he was really impressed with what he saw.
Speaker 4: I know most of the guys in said, I don't
Speaker 4: know him, and I can tell you I'm tremendously impressed,
Speaker 4: tremendously tremendously impressed. They we play a lot of a
Speaker 4: lot of these games. Unfortunately, we play a lot of
Speaker 4: them and we've we've done well in a lot of them.
Speaker 4: But that's the best offensive power for team we played
Speaker 4: in my six years at Lipscomb. I'm gonna tell you what,
Speaker 4: if Butler, Robinson and Bray play like that, they're gonna
Speaker 4: be a tough, tough, tough out.
Speaker 1: As you might expect that A Cup was tremendously impressed
Speaker 1: with Kentucky's offense, but really and most coaches do. Uh.
Speaker 1: He points out the defense by the Wildcats when.
Speaker 4: We play these games a lot of times, it's the
Speaker 4: defensive end they put to really get after some defense.
Speaker 4: I think they're underrated defensive, but I thought we got
Speaker 4: really good shots. Ball don't go in. It's a hard game.
Speaker 4: But boyle boy, you make one mistake or you're one
Speaker 4: at second half, second late, it's three and I mean
Speaker 4: they made they go twelve for twenty five and we
Speaker 4: filed him.
Speaker 2: On three more.
Speaker 1: Speaking of good shooting, Lamont Butler had a lot of
Speaker 1: fun last night, and he of course is known for
Speaker 1: his defense as well he should be. But he was
Speaker 1: six of eight from outside last night, got to the
Speaker 1: rim on a couple of beautiful moves, but was also
Speaker 1: three for three from the outside on his way to
Speaker 1: sixteen points. Only committed one foul. That could be a
Speaker 1: problem with him this year as aggressive as he is defensively.
Speaker 1: But somebody asked him about his hot shooting last night
Speaker 1: in just seventeen minutes of play. It was a good day.
Speaker 1: It was a good day, good shooting day for me.
Speaker 1: I mean, I work on it a lot.
Speaker 5: I think it was just just just the results of
Speaker 5: the work that I put in. And you know, the
Speaker 5: confidence on my teammates having me, you know through out there,
Speaker 5: you know, shoot that shot and I just make plays
Speaker 5: for each other.
Speaker 1: That's Lamont Butler. I mentioned the Duke game, and you
Speaker 1: had to wonder if I may invoke, and I know
Speaker 1: Tom Leech likes to do this a thoroughbred racing term,
Speaker 1: and that's bounced. Oftentimes a horse will run a great race,
Speaker 1: maybe his best race ever, and then the next time
Speaker 1: out doesn't run well at all, nowhere near his best
Speaker 1: time or her best time, and they just say, well,
Speaker 1: that horse bounced, because as often as not, a good
Speaker 1: horse will come back the next race and run well.
Speaker 1: So we often talk about that, especially in basketball when
Speaker 1: there are so many games. It's not so much in football,
Speaker 1: but game where there's a lot of games in basketball
Speaker 1: surely fits them. Because Kentucky plays again on Friday. But
Speaker 1: you had to wonder after that Duke game that took
Speaker 1: so much effort and so much emotion, was Mark Pope
Speaker 1: and his sat where they concerned that Kentucky might bounce?
Speaker 1: And this is beginning to sound like as we learn
Speaker 1: more and more about Mark Pope the coach, like a
Speaker 1: typical answer. He's such a deep thinker. And he said no,
Speaker 1: because we're not going to worry. First of all, coach,
Speaker 1: and he didn't say that, but you know, coaches don't
Speaker 1: worry about things they can't control. But they also know
Speaker 1: they can't control that emotional state their players are in,
Speaker 1: so they don't worry about what might happen in a
Speaker 1: negative way. They worry about what they want and need
Speaker 1: to happen in terms of putting a game plan together
Speaker 1: that's going to win for you.
Speaker 6: The biology of that, actually, the neuroscience of that is
Speaker 6: one hundred percent in support of that, right is, you know,
Speaker 6: we're not going to focus on what we don't want
Speaker 6: to have happened. We're going to focus on what we
Speaker 6: do want to have happened. And our guys have received
Speaker 6: that really well, so we don't spend much time on
Speaker 6: it at all.
Speaker 2: And we won't.
Speaker 6: That's not the way we do it. That doesn't mean
Speaker 6: we won't ever have bad results. It just means that
Speaker 6: we're going to always focus on what we're trying to do,
Speaker 6: and we're going to try and be laser focused on that.
Speaker 6: We're not going to spend a lot of time thinking
Speaker 6: about what we do not want to happen.
Speaker 1: You know, if you think about it, that's a great
Speaker 1: lesson for everybody. I mean, if you worry about what
Speaker 1: you don't want to happen, that's wasted time, isn't it.
Speaker 1: This guy, you know this by now. He's a deep
Speaker 1: thinker and sometimes he gets a little too analytical with answers.
Speaker 1: But if you ask a question, you need to expect
Speaker 1: an answer. You ask a direct question, you know. If
Speaker 1: you get a direct answer, hey, that's the way it goes.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: And the previous management like to sort of spend things
Speaker 1: and control the narrative. And that's fine as well. You
Speaker 1: got a lot of colorful stuff out of him. But
Speaker 1: John Calipari has his way. Mark Pope has his way.
Speaker 1: Calipari's got a national championship and several final fours under
Speaker 1: his belt. It's exactly what Mark Pope wants to do,
Speaker 1: and it looks like he's heading in the right direction.
Speaker 1: But it is so early in this season. When you
Speaker 1: think about how early early it is, it's really remarkable.
Speaker 1: But when you also look at how well Kentucky's playing,
Speaker 1: that's remarkable as well. Coming up in our next hour,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to Sean Woods about that. He was so
Speaker 1: bullish on the Wildcats going into the Duke. He predicted
Speaker 1: a win, and then the next morning or the next
Speaker 1: evening rather we talked on the Big Blue Sider about
Speaker 1: why he said that, and it's exactly. It exactly came
Speaker 1: to fruition in the way he said it would experience
Speaker 1: over the freshman talent. That's how Kentucky beat Duke. And
Speaker 1: obviously it's why Kentucky excelled last night against an inferior
Speaker 1: compared to Duke. All due respect appointed Lipscomb may make
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament, they've done it before. But Kentucky did
Speaker 1: what a good team should do last night. And now
Speaker 1: I really think it's interesting that the comment that Pope
Speaker 1: made about don't worry about you what you don't want
Speaker 1: to happen, a lot of coaches might worry about what
Speaker 1: do we do with Jackson State coming up, that's Friday,
Speaker 1: all right, Next Tuesday, Western Kentucky. Western has come in
Speaker 1: here and won in the past. I'm not entirely certain
Speaker 1: what Western Kentucky has right now, but don't be surprised
Speaker 1: if they're good. They're always good, it seems like. And
Speaker 1: Georgia State comes in and some of the so called
Speaker 1: mid majors who might surprise people in the postseason. But
Speaker 1: you can't worry about what might happen in those games.
Speaker 1: Are your kids looking at the Clemson which is in
Speaker 1: the first Tuesday in December, that's the sec ACC Challenge.
Speaker 1: That's a nine to thirty game Eastern Time, which, as
Speaker 1: you know, will begin at ten o'clock down in Clemson.
Speaker 1: It's not a doubleheader. They might start at like nine
Speaker 1: forty five, a whole tip off or something like that. Anyhow,
Speaker 1: it'll be a late game and or later game. Then
Speaker 1: the late game comes up the following Saturday in Seattle
Speaker 1: against Gonzaga. That's the ten pm start out there. So
Speaker 1: do you worry that your kids are going to be
Speaker 1: thinking about all that and not the three on your
Speaker 1: schedule at home that you should win and walk overs?
Speaker 1: Relatively speaking, you can't. You can't worry about that, like
Speaker 1: Pope said, because you're not going to improve for one thing.
Speaker 1: You'll win, but you won't win the way you need
Speaker 1: and want to win. Interesting, all right, when we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll talk more Kentucky volleyball, Little UK women's basketball, and
Speaker 1: why did Mike Tyson lose that fight that's coming up
Speaker 1: next year? On a Big Blon Sider six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Big Bloon Sider. Coming up in
Speaker 1: just a few minutes. Mike Harge of AM thirteen hundred
Speaker 1: zone down in Austin, Texas. He'll tell us what to
Speaker 1: expect from the Longhorns on Saturday when the Wildcats take
Speaker 1: on Texas for the first times. It's nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 1: It's a game you will hear right here on six
Speaker 1: thirty WLAP. There's a lot going on down there. If
Speaker 1: you're going to Austin, I'm gonna ask Mike to give
Speaker 1: us a little information about what to do and where
Speaker 1: to go, especially Friday night when the basketball team is
Speaker 1: going to be playing and you have a chance to
Speaker 1: check it out, maybe from a sports bar in Austin.
Speaker 1: Our number two Sean Woods, the unforgettable guard. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about last night's game with Lipscomb, and of course Westen
Speaker 1: Bureau chief Gary moan More will join us as well.
Speaker 1: This being Wednesday, and I'm going to ask Gary about
Speaker 1: to get his opinion about this next story. It's all
Speaker 1: over the interweb now. First of all, the Tyson Paul fight.
Speaker 1: We've talked about, such a joke, but so was the
Speaker 1: technology involved Netflix, which didn't you see this coming? I
Speaker 1: guess not, But a lot of people, myself included, had
Speaker 1: issues with the buffering. You know, the image would freeze,
Speaker 1: I would rewind it a minute, and then it would
Speaker 1: go ahead and play all the way through till the
Speaker 1: next buffering situation. But it was terrible. And now a
Speaker 1: lawsuit filed in Florida by again named Ronald Blue Denton,
Speaker 1: accusing Netflix of breach of contract for the constant glitches,
Speaker 1: not because of a terrible fight. When you buy a
Speaker 1: fight on pay per view, you get what you pay for.
Speaker 1: It's like when Tyson knocked out Michael Spink in forty
Speaker 1: seven seconds or whatever it was. Netflix has acknowledged the
Speaker 1: poor streaming quality of the event, but Netflix executive Elizabeth Stone,
Speaker 1: who did admit there were technical challenges, but said the
Speaker 1: launch team tackled it brilliantly by prioritizing stability of the
Speaker 1: stream for the majority of viewers. Well, guess what the
Speaker 1: rest of you guys can go pound rocks right, And
Speaker 1: she kind of dismissed it as chattering the press and
Speaker 1: social media about quality issues. We don't want to dismiss
Speaker 1: the poor experience of some members, and now we have
Speaker 1: room for improvement, but still consider this event a huge success. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: ultimately a dure one hundred and eight million viewers worldwide.
Speaker 1: It peaked at sixty five million according to US estimates.
Speaker 1: Fifty six percent. That's in the USA, sixty five million
Speaker 1: percent of all TV viewership in the country tuned to
Speaker 1: the Tyson Paul fight between midnight and one AM. That's
Speaker 1: according to Netflix. Okay, and of course that co main
Speaker 1: event Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano seventy four million live
Speaker 1: viewers globally, most watched professional women's sports event in US history,
Speaker 1: and they saw Serrano get robbed. But now comes the
Speaker 1: story and it's it's hearsay, but it explains a lot.
Speaker 1: Michael Irvin, the former Cowboy on a podcast, said he
Speaker 1: had heard and this explains everything that Tyson contractually could
Speaker 1: not throw uppercuts at Jake Paul, and as Irvin pointed out,
Speaker 1: that's how Mike Tyson won most of his bouts with
Speaker 1: an incredibly brutal uppercut.
Speaker 7: The intention is the rulers trapped at all. If you
Speaker 7: look through that, they see one patient upper cut by
Speaker 7: Mike Tyson. What did Mike Tyson win on upper cut?
Speaker 7: And I heard some people talking about me, couldn't put.
Speaker 2: That in the contract?
Speaker 8: You couldn't. He couldn't body in their upper cut? Like,
Speaker 8: how could you put that in a fight contract? Now
Speaker 8: you got all these people out of here, and he
Speaker 8: couldn't bother him and do that patient upper cut.
Speaker 7: All of that is Mike Tyson is not Mike Tyson anyway.
Speaker 7: And now you're taking away Mike Tyson's best gift, which
Speaker 7: was that upper cut. Man, that's a big lit to me. Man,
Speaker 7: that's like making me run like that. Play a game
Speaker 7: without running a slant route and a deep in or
Speaker 7: a deep out. You do what you do back and
Speaker 7: if they take that away, you ain't that dude no more.
Speaker 2: And they took that away, and.
Speaker 1: I was former Cowboy receivers Michael Irvin talking on the
Speaker 1: latest podcast I guess it was yesterday's podcast of it
Speaker 1: Is What it Is? And when he say he called
Speaker 1: it a big lie, and then the host of the
Speaker 1: podcast and what do you mean? But as Tyson pointed out,
Speaker 1: there intentions to really go at each other. And then
Speaker 1: a follow up in the story on Yahoo, there was
Speaker 1: a gentleman named dj wu Kid forgive me, I don't
Speaker 1: know who that is, but he also subscribed to the
Speaker 1: note and said he had heard the same thing. Now,
Speaker 1: I always wonder is he hearing that from Irvin, with
Speaker 1: Irvin hearing it from him, or were there people on
Speaker 1: the end. Both imply they heard it from people on
Speaker 1: the inside, and in fact dj wo Kid said he
Speaker 1: spoke to Jake Paul, but there's been no confirmation from
Speaker 1: Jake Paul, who I cannot believe Jake Paul would publicly admit,
Speaker 1: nor would Tyson that they contractually agreed no uppercuts, because
Speaker 1: that means, I mean, who is Mike Tyson without his uppercut?
Speaker 1: And supposedly dj wo Kid said Jake Paul wasn't allowed
Speaker 1: to really unload on Tyson because if one unloaded on
Speaker 1: the other. This guy said they would have killed him. Well,
Speaker 1: then you can't ask people in good faith to sign
Speaker 1: up and spend their money. I'm already a Netflix subscriber,
Speaker 1: so I didn't spend anything additional to see this fight,
Speaker 1: and I don't think I would have. I bought pay
Speaker 1: per view fights before, not many, and as usually, you
Speaker 1: throw in with somebody because it's fifty or eighty or
Speaker 1: a hundred bucks. But this was a great idea by Netflix.
Speaker 1: And by the way, technical glitches, people tuning in, buffering
Speaker 1: all that stuff. You didn't see that coming. And now
Speaker 1: you got the NFL coming up on Netflix. You best
Speaker 1: get that taken care of because the NFL don't play
Speaker 1: They play football, but they don't play with their product.
Speaker 1: And if you're not ready to handle it, I got
Speaker 1: to wonder is the NFL taking a hard look right
Speaker 1: now at Netflix and saying what did we sign up for?
Speaker 1: You wouldn't blame them for having second thoughts about climbing
Speaker 1: into bit Netflix, And this was a brilliant move. Netflix
Speaker 1: was struggling, you know, it was so many channels out
Speaker 1: there and so many free movies out there. Now you know,
Speaker 1: Netflix used to deliver DVDs to your mailbox and they
Speaker 1: changed everything's online now they better get with the program,
Speaker 1: no pun intended, and get this stuff straightened out by
Speaker 1: the time the NFL rolls around. And I have no
Speaker 1: idea how that's done. That's way over my head. But
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people paid a lot of
Speaker 1: good money on the technology side of things to make
Speaker 1: that happen. But also we need to know if there's
Speaker 1: a bogus contract in place with a couple of fighters
Speaker 1: the next time these two guys fight, because you know
Speaker 1: they will. My cards is next from Austin on six
Speaker 1: thirty WLAP Welcome back to the Big bon Sider. Joining
Speaker 1: me now is a new friend. I was on his
Speaker 1: show earlier this morning, and he is returning the favor
Speaker 1: of this evening here on the Big boon Sider. Mike
Speaker 1: Card's the host of The Hard Knox Life on AM
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred to zone down in Austin.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Mike, I'm doing great. Thanks for having
Speaker 3: me on. Always good to talk to you and kind
Speaker 3: of talk about this crazy SEC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's where you and I met down in
Speaker 1: Dallas at the SEC Media Days. As a guy who've
Speaker 1: spent back in the eighties, two years in the old
Speaker 1: Southwest Conference, which is a league that should still be alive.
Speaker 1: We won't get into that, maybe we will a little
Speaker 1: bit later, but what was it like for you as
Speaker 1: a media person to cover that event and to have
Speaker 1: to shift your focus now to schools like Kentucky and
Speaker 1: Georgia and Alabama after you've I assume, have grown up
Speaker 1: following you know, Texas a and which is in the SEC,
Speaker 1: but Texas Tech, Baylor, all those classic Southwest Conference schools.
Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting that you say that because as
Speaker 3: a kid growing up in Texas, I originally signed with
Speaker 3: the University of Texas to play football and baseball. And
Speaker 3: the ironic thing about it was it was in the
Speaker 3: Southwest Conference. I happened to look at my letter of
Speaker 3: incent for some something to show my son, and I
Speaker 3: was like, look at that. That was the Southwest Conference.
Speaker 3: So then I saw the transition to the Big Twelve
Speaker 3: and it was an interesting one as well. You still
Speaker 3: got some of those same foes, but you added some
Speaker 3: other players into the mix. But covering the SEC is
Speaker 3: totally what I thought it was going to be. The
Speaker 3: only difference was we weren't in Hoover, Alabama. We were
Speaker 3: in Dallas, Texas. So they did the local folks some
Speaker 3: favors by having the initial Southeastern Conference media days in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 3: So it was exactly what I thought.
Speaker 7: It was.
Speaker 3: All the popping circumstance and everyone fired up for the
Speaker 3: new kid on the block in the University of Texas
Speaker 3: and Oklahoma and now we're right in the middle of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I enjoyed getting back to Dallas and spinish soon.
Speaker 1: I'd come through a couple of times as I live
Speaker 1: there back in the eighties, but in this particular hotel
Speaker 1: where they had the event, did a great job. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody had enough space and everything worked properly. And then
Speaker 1: we all got to talking about football. And from where
Speaker 1: you sit, give me your perspective of this Kentucky team
Speaker 1: before I ask you about the Longhorns. What do you
Speaker 1: guys know about Mark Stoops and the Wildcats.
Speaker 3: Well, he's a Stoops, so you know that means a
Speaker 3: lot around here because of his brother Bob and Mike
Speaker 3: who was on the staff. There all those epic battles
Speaker 3: between Texas and Oklahoma at the State Fair, and we
Speaker 3: call it a State Fair street fight every single year.
Speaker 3: But they were dominant during that time, but looking at
Speaker 3: Kentucky and kind of understanding that this is a football
Speaker 3: team that record may not indicate exactly who they are. Yes,
Speaker 3: as they always say, you are exactly what your record
Speaker 3: says that you are. But you go back and look
Speaker 3: at some of those matchups that they've had, those tough,
Speaker 3: tough games, and you think of play here and a
Speaker 3: play there, and their season may be totally different. A
Speaker 3: lot of people can say that across college football, there's
Speaker 3: a play. There's always a play or a situation that
Speaker 3: the game will come to. Now they also say, don't
Speaker 3: always think it's just one play. But there are some
Speaker 3: times that you could look at this team and say,
Speaker 3: you took Georgia to the mat, and here's a team
Speaker 3: of Georgia that came into Austin and put it on
Speaker 3: the Texas Long one. So there's a lot that you
Speaker 3: can look at at this team. Obviously, the record does
Speaker 3: not indicate how good or bad that they truly are,
Speaker 3: but this is a tough team that understands what it's
Speaker 3: all about being in the SEC. They understand that week
Speaker 3: to week anything can happen, and right now they can
Speaker 3: play spoiler along with trying to get themselves eligible for
Speaker 3: a bowl game.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right, and they're running into a Texas team
Speaker 1: that is relevant again. And I bring that up because
Speaker 1: when I was down in Dallas, it was Jackie Cheryl.
Speaker 1: I was down there eighty three, eighty four. Jackie Cheryl
Speaker 1: was the King. But Texas was still a really good team.
Speaker 1: So it was Baylor with Grant Taff. But there was
Speaker 1: a while there while there, Mike, and you know this
Speaker 1: where Texas just wasn't relevant to college football for a while.
Speaker 1: That had to be bizarre for people living in the state.
Speaker 1: I know it was for people in the state of Texas.
Speaker 1: But now the long range are running with the big
Speaker 1: boys again, aren't they.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm glad that you brought that up because
Speaker 3: a lot of times, you know, people look to see
Speaker 3: Texas fail and they enjoy it. It's kind of like
Speaker 3: the Cowboys and the Yanks. People look at those teams,
Speaker 3: They're like, oh, here they are. They talk about their money,
Speaker 3: they talk about this, they talk about that, but they're
Speaker 3: not producing on the field. Well, now Texas is producing
Speaker 3: on the field. And I always take it back to
Speaker 3: the journey over these last few years. Well, I'll go
Speaker 3: I'll go decade. You think about mac Brown his later
Speaker 3: years at the University of Texas, going into his final year.
Speaker 3: Then you bring in Charlie Strong, Well, the entire University
Speaker 3: of Texas organization was in disarray. You didn't have a
Speaker 3: true athletic director. You have people filling in. There was
Speaker 3: constant changes. There was always coaches being run in and out,
Speaker 3: not just the head coaches, but coordinators, and just so
Speaker 3: much change. And then you bring in coach Steve Sarkisian.
Speaker 3: And the one thing that I will say about stark
Speaker 3: and a lot of people are now starting to truly
Speaker 3: understand that he has an athletic director, a president and
Speaker 3: board of regents that is one thousand percent behind him.
Speaker 3: He has the staff. He has the staff that does
Speaker 3: not have a lot of change. He has the same
Speaker 3: offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, and special teams coordinator. They've been
Speaker 3: the same. He has done some things differently that in
Speaker 3: the past people would have been wanting certain guys out
Speaker 3: of there. He took a five and seventeen to play
Speaker 3: last year in the College Football play I finished twelve
Speaker 3: and two, and now he's sitting at number two in
Speaker 3: the latest college football ranking. And yet people here are
Speaker 3: still upset because they are trying to figure out what's
Speaker 3: going on with Quinn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got it. You got one of those interesting
Speaker 1: quarterback problems where you know, every team in America would
Speaker 1: love to have the Texas problems, wouldn't they.
Speaker 3: Yes, And that's but you know as well as I do,
Speaker 3: and you covered this game for a long time, the
Speaker 3: most popular person on campus is always the backup court.
Speaker 3: That's right, and it's always and it's always all he
Speaker 3: would be doing this, and he would be doing that. Ah,
Speaker 3: not necessarily so. And I just I'm not too far
Speaker 3: gone from the Gerard Herd and Tyrone Swoops era at
Speaker 3: the quarterback position to not appreciate what we're seeing with
Speaker 3: one Quinn yours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people when I talk to them about it, and again,
Speaker 1: I lived down there what forty years ago, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure it hadn't changed. And people now know thanks to
Speaker 1: Friday night lights, they know about Texas high school football.
Speaker 1: They don't really know about the passion. I tell them.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't believe back when newspapers were relevant. You picked
Speaker 1: up the Sunday Dallas Morning News and all the reams
Speaker 1: of covering and the Saturday paper as well of high
Speaker 1: school football coverage. So the recruiting is just nuts. And
Speaker 1: I've always been amazed that Texas didn't always have a
Speaker 1: real study quarterback.
Speaker 3: You know, well, I think again, it goes through the
Speaker 3: development and the choosing of the quarterback. How important is it, Well,
Speaker 3: you and I know how important it is. It's always
Speaker 3: good to have a great one, but you have to
Speaker 3: be able to find a quarterback that can run the
Speaker 3: system that you look forward to running. I'm still upset
Speaker 3: at MAC because of the loss to Alabama in the
Speaker 3: National title game when Cope got hurt. Yeah, he changed
Speaker 3: his entire offense because of that one play. Well, you
Speaker 3: had just recruited the National Player of the Year, Gatoray
Speaker 3: Player of the Year, and Garrett Gilbert, who again people
Speaker 3: didn't give him his just due because of the simple
Speaker 3: fact that everything changed from the process in which it
Speaker 3: was so to me. You start looking at this Texas
Speaker 3: program with coach Start. He's doing a hell of a
Speaker 3: job recruiting and he's getting those top notch guys to
Speaker 3: where Yeah, Texas should have As long as he's here,
Speaker 3: we shouldn't have to worry about a quarterback position.
Speaker 1: They don't have to worry about it now, just an
Speaker 1: embarrassment of riches. We're talking with Mike Harch. He is
Speaker 1: a sportscaster down in Austin, Texas. He covers those Texas
Speaker 1: Longhorne and we'll come back and talk more football with Mike.
Speaker 1: Maybe a little minor league baseball too. That's right, Mike
Speaker 1: played a lot of pro ball. We'll come back in
Speaker 1: just a minute on the Big one Sider here on
Speaker 1: six thirty's back. We're talking with Mike Harge of the
Speaker 1: Morning Kickoff with Mark Henry and Mike Harge, The Hard
Speaker 1: Knocks of Life on a thirteen hundred to zone. Hey,
Speaker 1: for anybody listening, Mike who may be going to the
Speaker 1: game real quickly, can you recommend a spot Friday night
Speaker 1: where maybe Kentucky fans can go to watch the UK
Speaker 1: basketball game.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a bunch of spots in town. Definitely try
Speaker 3: to find a place called Cover three. They cover all
Speaker 3: the basketball, baseball, football, whatever you like. All you got
Speaker 3: to do is ask or an opportunity to watch it.
Speaker 3: You can go to the Lebaca Street Bar and Grill.
Speaker 3: That'll be right in the heart of downtown. And of course,
Speaker 3: any David Busters that you want to go to. They
Speaker 3: always got those as well.
Speaker 1: Leavacker Street was recommended to me by Josh Hopkins, who's
Speaker 1: an actor you may have seen, and he lives in Austin,
Speaker 1: but he's from Kentucky. Grew up here in Lexing and
Speaker 1: his dad was a very popular congressman. But he lives
Speaker 1: in Austin. Of course, actors can live anywhere, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he recommended. He recommend that. He's a huge Wildcats fan. Well,
Speaker 1: let's get back to this game. And we were talking
Speaker 1: on your show this morning, you and Mark about how
Speaker 1: you kind of expect Kentucky to play that power run
Speaker 1: game against Texas, kind of control the clock, shorten the game,
Speaker 1: which is they did to near perfection against Texas, and
Speaker 1: they did it to perfection with against Ole Miss. They
Speaker 1: beat Ole Miss in Oxford. So you feel like everybody's
Speaker 1: expecting that from Kentucky.
Speaker 3: I guess, oh absolutely. I mean you got to go
Speaker 3: with what has been successful for you. If you try
Speaker 3: to go out there and throw the ball all over
Speaker 3: the yard, Texas leads the sec and interceptions, so you
Speaker 3: might not want to do that, but you also want
Speaker 3: to make sure that you go in there and control
Speaker 3: the clock, kick that Texas offense, which some say is
Speaker 3: much of aligned right now because they're not having the
Speaker 3: explosive play, but they're right on pace to have exposed
Speaker 3: to play the same amount in which they had last year.
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna tell you this much, if you try
Speaker 3: to run on that Texas defense. A lot of people
Speaker 3: thought that Texas's defense was going to take a step
Speaker 3: back once they lost to and Andre Sweat and Byron
Speaker 3: Murphy in the draft. Those guys have gotten better. They
Speaker 3: went out of recruited will and they brought in some
Speaker 3: other guys that are brought in specifically to stuff the run.
Speaker 3: So I don't think it'll be as easy. But hey,
Speaker 3: I've seen Texas lose the game to Georgia too, where
Speaker 3: Georgia didn't run the ball that well, yeah, turned it
Speaker 3: over and they ended up still winning that ball game.
Speaker 1: Georgia has a quarterback who when needed, they can just
Speaker 1: turn them and say, hey man, you got to win
Speaker 1: this game for us, or at least put us in
Speaker 1: the right track. I don't think. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's a luxury anymore, but obviously it's certainly great to
Speaker 1: have a guy like Carson Beck, and that's exactly Mike,
Speaker 1: what they did in lectioningon in the second half. It
Speaker 1: was clear that the coaching staff got together and said, look,
Speaker 1: we got to go through fifteen to win this game.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know that Kentucky can do
Speaker 1: that with its quarterback Rock Vandergriff the struggles he's had
Speaker 1: and the old line is still struggling. But it's going
Speaker 1: to be about minimizing mistakes against Texas, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yep, because of the fact of what I said, Texas
Speaker 3: has a propensity to be able to turn you over
Speaker 3: and turn it over often, so you've got to be
Speaker 3: careful with that. But the other part of it is
Speaker 3: what exactly is Kentucky's run game week to week If
Speaker 3: you're coming in with the game plan and your mindset,
Speaker 3: is definitely the challenge of taking on the Texas Longhorns,
Speaker 3: who just happened to be ranked number two in the
Speaker 3: later College Football foll Is this that opportunity Mono Emano,
Speaker 3: man the man just going there and try to have
Speaker 3: this little battle of the trenches and see if your
Speaker 3: guys are ready to handle that. Ye I think sometimes
Speaker 3: that is the way to go. And the motivational factor
Speaker 3: of it is. You get a chance to come into Austin,
Speaker 3: Texas Senior Night, and it kind of make this a
Speaker 3: night that Texas fans can try to forget and.
Speaker 1: Oftentimes senior and I says, you know, can become a
Speaker 1: bit of distractions. The teams get out of the Blox
Speaker 1: kind of slowly. If you minutes left with Mike Carge
Speaker 1: of AM thirteen hundred down in Austin, and before I
Speaker 1: ask you about baseball real quickly, I covered A and
Speaker 1: M Kentucky game down there and at A and M.
Speaker 1: And it was something to see. Man, that big stadium
Speaker 1: and the core and the band and all that. We
Speaker 1: what are we looking at coming into Austin with that
Speaker 1: stadium and then the Texas crowd.
Speaker 3: One hundred and five thousand screaming Texas Longhorn fans. You're
Speaker 3: gonna get when you get a chance to get here
Speaker 3: early and they walk around. They have created an atmosphere
Speaker 3: like no other. They take They've taken a little bit
Speaker 3: of everything from every all over the country and made
Speaker 3: it a big time party in Austin, Texas. There's no tailgating.
Speaker 3: There's very few places for you to tailgate. It's all
Speaker 3: called bevo Boulevard and it's all around the stadium. There
Speaker 3: are two hillgates, but it's all on the forty acres
Speaker 3: and it is something that I was little hesitant when
Speaker 3: Delconti and his crew came in, but since they've been here,
Speaker 3: it has been nothing but an absolute party. Y'all can
Speaker 3: actually come and hang out with us at hook Them
Speaker 3: hang out. We will be doing our pregame show right there,
Speaker 3: a bunch of food trucks and loud music and the
Speaker 3: biggest beer tank that you could ever see is called
Speaker 3: Big Beer Fuff and it's right there where we are,
Speaker 3: and you'll have a grand old time.
Speaker 1: That's great. When I worked down there, I was always
Speaker 1: in the studio as the executive producer of the radio network.
Speaker 1: I got to see two games in two years. One
Speaker 1: was in Vegas when SMU went out there and played
Speaker 1: and I filled in on the radio as a color guy.
Speaker 1: And then I when Houston played SMU in Tokyo and
Speaker 1: three I went and was a producer engineer for that game.
Speaker 1: So I never got to see a Southwest Conference game
Speaker 1: in Texas, so now I'll get a chance to do that.
Speaker 1: A couple of minutes left with Mike Cars all right,
Speaker 1: you played a lot of pro baseball. My man. You
Speaker 1: were drafted by the Expos and got all the way
Speaker 1: up to Triple A. What position did you play, and
Speaker 1: tell me a little bit about your career.
Speaker 3: I was drafted as a shortstop, second basement. As a
Speaker 3: matter of fact, I played with former Kentucky Wildcat pitcher
Speaker 3: Rodney Henderson.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a good friend of mine, and I got
Speaker 3: a chance to see him here recently as he was
Speaker 3: traveling as he's a scout and I just happened to
Speaker 3: be calling some ballgames that he was attending, so we
Speaker 3: got a chance to talk. But yeah, I played with Montreal, Boston,
Speaker 3: Saint Louis in the New York Yankees organization. I was
Speaker 3: on the major league roster for two seasons, had a
Speaker 3: bunch of injuries, ended up moving around throughout my career,
Speaker 3: and then, you know, as I got older, I decided
Speaker 3: if I wasn't in the big leagues and staying in
Speaker 3: the big league for by a certain age, I was
Speaker 3: gonna walk away and try to do something else with
Speaker 3: my life. As my kids got older, I decided I
Speaker 3: wanted to be a round more. And now I'm doing
Speaker 3: sports talk radio and having a good old time talking
Speaker 3: about the things I used to be able to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you and I actually did meet in round Rock
Speaker 1: at that baseball round robin, didn't we?
Speaker 3: We sure did, And I was very impressed because I
Speaker 3: was talking to you about one of my favorite players
Speaker 3: to ever play at the forty Acres, Mitchell Daily, in
Speaker 3: that game, and Mitchell Day ended up hitting the grand
Speaker 3: playing in that ball game. It was outstanding. I was
Speaker 3: very happy for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the second time I'd got into work
Speaker 1: at that facility. My man Doug Flint, who does Kentucky
Speaker 1: baseball with me on SEC Plus, he and I did
Speaker 1: two summers of minor league ball for CBS Sports and
Speaker 1: we did a game in round Rock. That's such a
Speaker 1: great facility. But man, the state of Texas has dotted
Speaker 1: with great facilities, isn't it, No doubt about it.
Speaker 3: That's what they taught. They always talk about everything big
Speaker 3: and excellent, so they always try to do it big
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: Hey, when I moved to Dallas, I learned about that.
Speaker 1: But when somebody said, yeah, that's and set that that's
Speaker 1: just over in Austin, I'm like, uh huh, and you go,
Speaker 1: I said, so I could drive. I could drive over there,
Speaker 1: what's four hours? But to them that's just a jump,
Speaker 1: you know. Uh, Dallas Fort Worth I thought was like
Speaker 1: Minneapolis Saint Paul, like it just kind of all one
Speaker 1: big area. No, it's separated by forty five minutes of
Speaker 1: I thirty, so, you know, but that's just Texas. Hey, Mike,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. I'm going to try to find
Speaker 1: you pregame and look you up and uh and shake
Speaker 1: hands again. I appreciate talking to you, no problem.
Speaker 3: Thank you for taking the time, and thank you for
Speaker 3: having me on your show.
Speaker 7: Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: We'll be back in just a minute here on six
Speaker 1: thirty w LPGA.
Speaker 9: Sean.
Speaker 1: The ward that jumped out of me was purity. And
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people in my line and work,
Speaker 1: and probably some fans would roll their eyes when they
Speaker 1: talk about purity in college athletics. But I think those
Speaker 1: are the people, and I think my brethren in the
Speaker 1: media are the most guilty of this. We have a
Speaker 1: tendency to think of college athletics as like that top
Speaker 1: if you will, not one percent, but maybe ten percent.
Speaker 1: You know, the teams that get the most attention, make
Speaker 1: the most money, put the most kids in the pros.
Speaker 1: But there are hundreds and hundreds of Northern Iowa was
Speaker 1: out there. You coached at schools where kids had very
Speaker 1: little hope of getting to the NBA, but hopes of
Speaker 1: getting a college degree. And that's that's maybe not gone completely,
Speaker 1: but it's leaving, isn't it. It's slipping away.
Speaker 2: It's very much so, you know, the mentality now is
Speaker 2: you can get an education anywhere, but we want to
Speaker 2: maximize and take advantage of how much money we can
Speaker 2: receive or attain, you know, throughout our college career. And
Speaker 2: that's been you know, the main emphasis of athletes now.
Speaker 2: I spoke to a team yesterday, high school team, and
Speaker 2: I explained to them, you know about these kids are
Speaker 2: becoming harder to coach. They're more sensitive.
Speaker 10: They live in a microwave society where they want everything now,
Speaker 10: and guess.
Speaker 2: What, it's working into their favor. There's no life learning
Speaker 2: lessons anymore in college athletics, very little, because now kids
Speaker 2: aren't listening. They're tuning you out as far as the
Speaker 2: life learned lessons and things that normally happen with growth
Speaker 2: as a college athlete. Now it's more so concerning the
Speaker 2: monetary issues. Of what they can gain and what they
Speaker 2: can get financially more so than winning the championship, getting
Speaker 2: a degree when you're going to home visit. Nowadays, it's
Speaker 2: not even you know, you used to talk to the
Speaker 2: mob about the academic people. You know, my son gonna
Speaker 2: be successful. Academics don't get all the support that he
Speaker 2: needs so he can be successful get his degree. Now
Speaker 2: is you know, how much money do you have so
Speaker 2: my son and my family can you know, reap the
Speaker 2: benefits financially more so than the growth of the individual
Speaker 2: being a man or woman. So and then you know
Speaker 2: it's not you know, you know you couldn't call home.
Speaker 2: I knew I couldn't call home.
Speaker 10: And say which is being being the mayor, you know,
Speaker 10: coaches not playing meyor or something like that.
Speaker 2: You know, my mom was like figure it out. You know,
Speaker 2: my dad was like figured out. You know, it's it's competition. Now,
Speaker 2: it's not about competition. It's about quitting one situation because
Speaker 2: it didn't work out for you to go to the next,
Speaker 2: you know, point of least resistance and who's gonna pay
Speaker 2: me the most?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, we got to go find another place where
Speaker 1: we can.
Speaker 2: Play at that Yeah, so there's no loyalty, and you know,
Speaker 2: you teach kids loyalty, You teach kids how to you know,
Speaker 2: overcome adversity and persevere. Now that's thrown out the window,
Speaker 2: and you know what I intended, They have no leverage anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I attended the reunion of the nineteen eighty four Kentucky
Speaker 1: football team, and a bunch of those guys played on
Speaker 1: the team that was winless two years prior, and they
Speaker 1: ended up two years later they win nine games and
Speaker 1: they win the Hall of Fame ball, which I as
Speaker 1: you know, will galvanize a team's success like that in sports. Uh.
Speaker 1: And they all got together and then you know how
Speaker 1: reunions are Sean. You don't talk about wins and laws,
Speaker 1: so you talk about families and funny stories in the
Speaker 1: locker room and things like that. But you know, they
Speaker 1: were together, and there was a lot of talk about
Speaker 1: their coach, Jerry Clayburn, and some like them, most liked him,
Speaker 1: some didn't. But that's the way it is with all coaches.
Speaker 1: You've told me stories about Rick Patino and how he
Speaker 1: affected your life. I've heard countless athletes talk about how
Speaker 1: a certain coach high school or college have a profound
Speaker 1: effect on their respective life. And now you've got kids
Speaker 1: whose resume includes three or four different schools hopscotching around
Speaker 1: the country. And I think it's a big deal when
Speaker 1: you know, when they look back in their college career
Speaker 1: and they now, who did I play for? What do
Speaker 1: I learn from that guy? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I hate that they're going to miss out on that.
Speaker 2: I watch a lot of college basketball now, you know,
Speaker 2: no doubt, and I tipped my head off to Mark
Speaker 2: Pope because he's probably the only his team is probably
Speaker 2: the only team that's enjoyable to watch that plays with
Speaker 2: certain type of continuity. If you watch these other teams
Speaker 2: play right now, they don't even look good. As talented
Speaker 2: as they are.
Speaker 10: They're all still trying to figure it out. They know,
Speaker 10: they're not used to playing with one another. They're all
Speaker 10: all their roles have changed because they've transferred for either money,
Speaker 10: trying to get to the NBA.
Speaker 2: So on and so forth. So there's no continuity, there's
Speaker 2: no gelling. And that's why I think Mark Pope is
Speaker 2: a step ahead and may go farther than anybody ever
Speaker 2: could imagine, just because he has done a great job
Speaker 2: of recruiting, bringing in even though they're all transfers now
Speaker 2: with great intentions. You know, even you can't tell by
Speaker 2: talking to these kids that it's about money, it's about
Speaker 2: the NBA. You know, it's not even about that. You
Speaker 2: know that these kids are tight, They got a close
Speaker 2: knit they they appreciate one another, They like playing with
Speaker 2: each other. If you go watch practice and you wait
Speaker 2: and you watch after practice, how they're jelling and shooting
Speaker 2: with each other and laughing, joking, that hasn't been the
Speaker 2: case and it's not the case around the country as
Speaker 2: a whole. So basketball is going to look ugly in
Speaker 2: college basketball for a while until propers January February, because
Speaker 2: all these kids are coming in for selfish reasons. So
Speaker 2: it's hard to get coach and get guys to jail
Speaker 2: when they're going in for either money, the NBA or both.
Speaker 2: They're not looking at, you know, their teammate. You know,
Speaker 2: they're not jugging with their teammate like you normally would
Speaker 2: for the common goal of trying to win a national championship.
Speaker 2: So college basketball is looking just like a free agency
Speaker 2: professional team.
Speaker 1: Wow. Interesting, Well, you've got the learned eye, you got
Speaker 1: more of an educated eye than I do. So now
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to be looking for that when the
Speaker 1: next time I flip on something other than a Kentucky game.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Sean Woods, the unforgettable Guard. We will
Speaker 1: switch to the Wildcats when we come back after the break.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the big booing sider here on six
Speaker 1: thirty WLAP. Welcome back to Shawn Woods on the line
Speaker 1: on our celebrity hotline. He is the unforgettable guard whose
Speaker 1: jersey hangs in the rafters of RUP. We talk with
Speaker 1: him every Wednesday about college basketball, college sports in general,
Speaker 1: and specifically. The Wildcats would be Lipscomb last night, and
Speaker 1: once again, Sean a team they should have beaten, but
Speaker 1: it was how they did it. They look like a
Speaker 1: team I don't know. Do you think they're ahead of
Speaker 1: schedule or are they where they thought they would be?
Speaker 7: Right? Oh?
Speaker 1: Really? No, kidding very much. Wow.
Speaker 2: And he's not coaching players, He's coaching his team. He's
Speaker 2: coaching his system, whereas other coaches around the country.
Speaker 10: Are trying to still figure out what they got where.
Speaker 2: This kid's going to sity and he's come from another place.
Speaker 2: You know, these kids aren't yelling right now. This is
Speaker 2: probably upset because he got twenty shots where he came
Speaker 2: from and he's only get five. You know, a lot
Speaker 2: of that is going on, so it's hard to mesh
Speaker 2: and get continuity right now with that type of mindset.
Speaker 2: And Marc has done a great job of just teaching
Speaker 2: his system and getting guys to buy into the.
Speaker 10: Purity still of basketball, whereas other places they're still if
Speaker 10: you watch them, they're still doing individual workouts in a game.
Speaker 10: You know, you see a lot of guys dribble, drive
Speaker 10: over dribbling, you know, whereas he's probably one of the
Speaker 10: few teams in the country Gazaga Connecticut plays people like
Speaker 10: that who are playing with each other.
Speaker 2: Who he's leading the country or in the SEC for
Speaker 2: sure and assist. That tells you something right now since
Speaker 2: the turnover racial and college basketball that way down right.
Speaker 1: Now, Wow, didn't realize that.
Speaker 2: Because of what all these guys are big time players
Speaker 2: at their school. They're transferring. They're not the only player
Speaker 2: that transferred into this particular school that wasn't the league scorer,
Speaker 2: leading whatever on their team.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And they're not coach, They're not coming in to play
Speaker 2: in a system. They're coming into the coach is trying
Speaker 2: to get them to jail, whereas Mark already has his
Speaker 2: team jelling and loving to play with one another. And
Speaker 2: that's why they're so far ahead. It's not that they're
Speaker 2: the most talented team. They're the most complete team right now,
Speaker 2: and they still got a long way to go, but
Speaker 2: they're so far ahead because the mentality is different in
Speaker 2: locker room more so than everybody else's.
Speaker 1: Well, I was going to ask you, what do you
Speaker 1: think is a coach looking at another coach's team. What
Speaker 1: is Mark Pope worrying about? Right now?
Speaker 2: Mark Polpe is worrying about If I'm a guessing man
Speaker 2: and I'm him right now, I'm looking at every team
Speaker 2: that's playing. I'm like, I can get them, and why
Speaker 2: can't you get them? Coause why you think you can
Speaker 2: get them? Because they don't play together. Everybody wants to
Speaker 2: be the hero. What happened against What happened with us against? Duke,
Speaker 2: a seventeen year old wanted to be the hero instead
Speaker 2: of playing with his teammates. Interesting he made three bone
Speaker 2: head plays. First of all, he missed two three thims
Speaker 2: down streats with the Tigs that set in That was fatigue.
Speaker 2: Then he had another player who was rolling just like him,
Speaker 2: never looked at him. Two straight turnovers. You penetrate in
Speaker 2: you turn your back inside the paint when there's help.
Speaker 2: That's a selfish play. That means that if they if
Speaker 2: you drew too, that somebody was open. And if you
Speaker 2: look at that situation, it was three guys open and
Speaker 2: he didn't pass it.
Speaker 4: And then the.
Speaker 2: Last one that stilled his fate was he just dribbled,
Speaker 2: had nowhere to go and dribble the ball out of bounds.
Speaker 2: It wasn't that there was great Deethen's been played on it.
Speaker 2: He should have just given up the ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a youngster, isn't he.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. So what I'm saying is he's
Speaker 2: gonna be the number one pick in the NBA draft.
Speaker 2: So what did he try to do show the whole
Speaker 2: NBA that he can put a team on his back,
Speaker 2: especially against Kentucky and win, and what it is? It
Speaker 2: got him a loss.
Speaker 1: Do you think he was really thinking that or was
Speaker 1: he just inherently instinctively thinking, you know, I'm the best player,
Speaker 1: I've got the ball, I got to help my team win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you watch the other games through. I
Speaker 2: watched two games prior to them, playing against Kentucky. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he was the most unselfish player on the st
Speaker 2: He's a stat she stuffered.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I get it all right.
Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying. In this game here with
Speaker 2: all the lights to on, he wanted to act like
Speaker 2: he was the guy, which the guy is, make other
Speaker 2: people better on your team. If you're the best player.
Speaker 2: He drew, he should have kicked it. And as good
Speaker 2: as Duke shoots it, you know what I'm saying, He
Speaker 2: could have found a guy who was who would have
Speaker 2: got a more high percent of shot than what he did,
Speaker 2: or it over you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yep. Interesting A few minutes up with Sean Woods, the
Speaker 1: unforgettable guard. We're talking, of course about the Wildcats win
Speaker 1: over lips Gum and they shot it so well Sean,
Speaker 1: and then they're you know, they're a high volume shooting team.
Speaker 1: We've talked about that, but it was interesting. There were
Speaker 1: Lenny Acuff. I don't know if you've ever coached against
Speaker 1: him during your career. He's been at Lipscomb for six years.
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Coached against him as an assistant that I'll coast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, you know who he is and
Speaker 1: what he does. And it was interesting. He said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, their offense really impressed him, but as you
Speaker 1: coaches always do, he said, he was most impressed about
Speaker 1: their defense, which is something Kentucky fans, you know, they're like, hey, defense,
Speaker 1: how do they shoot? You know, But that's that's what's
Speaker 1: going to carry them, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Well, Martin knows that he has to be a really
Speaker 2: good defensive team to to get to where he's going.
Speaker 2: Offense is going to take care of himself because he's
Speaker 2: got enough shooters around. Everybody was really watching this team
Speaker 2: up until now was really concerned with the defense and
Speaker 2: the rebound and as they play bigger and more competitive,
Speaker 2: you know, competition, and I can tell that he's working
Speaker 2: on it more, you know, just by the effort and
Speaker 2: things like that. And so when you go in the
Speaker 2: locker room, you say, guys, look, nobody in the country
Speaker 2: can stop us offensive. We got this. We just got
Speaker 2: to make sure that we get stops. Yeah yeah, and
Speaker 2: if we could stops, nobody can really stay with us
Speaker 2: for forty minutes. And I can tell that he's I
Speaker 2: haven't been to practice in a week, but I can
Speaker 2: tell he's been. He's really working on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody wants to talk about who hit what shot?
Speaker 1: Exactly the outscore, dude, yeah, exactly in the second half.
Speaker 1: You know, Litscomb hit fifty from the field and the
Speaker 1: second half. But I thought they relaxed a little bit defensively,
Speaker 1: which is I guess is normal. But is that is
Speaker 1: that a coaching point.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. You know, film don't lie, so
Speaker 2: you can always have a carrot, and the film is
Speaker 2: a carrot. And as good as you play, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, there's still things you need to work on.
Speaker 2: But I much rather, you know, work on things that
Speaker 2: we didn't do well with a win more so than
Speaker 2: a loss, because a loss now the attitude is different.
Speaker 2: Now people think that they were pointing fingers, so on
Speaker 2: and so forth, and then that manifests whereas you tell
Speaker 2: you guys, as you're winning, man, look how good we
Speaker 2: can be if we just did this, you know, Look
Speaker 2: how good we can be if we just do this
Speaker 2: a little bit better. You know, look how well we
Speaker 2: can just rebound our rebound march can be a little better.
Speaker 2: Our turnover, racial force, turnover ratio could be this.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: So now they're getting more and more and more, and
Speaker 2: he's got the kids that really suck in, like what
Speaker 2: he's saying, like a sponge. Yeah, and that's what's going
Speaker 2: to get this team over the hump and get them
Speaker 2: to do some miraculous things.
Speaker 1: I played a comment earlier from them where somebody asked
Speaker 1: him if he was concerned that emotionally there might be
Speaker 1: a letdown after the Duke game, and he said, no,
Speaker 1: we will never worry about that, which I thought was
Speaker 1: really fascinating because you know, he said, you know, we
Speaker 1: don't worry about what might happen.
Speaker 10: You know, we can't waste no time on that exactly.
Speaker 2: And he doesn't allow it. Yeah, if you hear him talk,
Speaker 2: he doesn't give his players enough to get in their
Speaker 2: own heads and hear from other people outside the program,
Speaker 2: he doesn't do. He make gates that right at the beginning,
Speaker 2: and that's why you know they are where they are.
Speaker 2: You know, if you hear him talk to his guys
Speaker 2: without really going into it or really hitting somebody one
Speaker 2: on one, he hits every point from a young mental
Speaker 2: standpoint of how you supposed to look at this game,
Speaker 2: and he looks at you look at it from a
Speaker 2: team aspect more so than an individual aspect. And he's
Speaker 2: good at that. And that's what makes him good right now,
Speaker 2: more so than these other coaches, because the other coaches
Speaker 2: are first of all, scared to coach. They're guys. I'm
Speaker 2: being honestly, they're scared to get on them. You got
Speaker 2: to transfer coming to another spot. You thinking he's being
Speaker 2: well coached. He's the best guy on that team, but
Speaker 2: he still needs to be coached, and you're scared of
Speaker 2: coaching because you give me so much money. He's coming
Speaker 2: in and thinking, you know, this is all about me,
Speaker 2: and it's not. So there's a lot of coaches right
Speaker 2: now are dealing with that. It's not all about you,
Speaker 2: it's about us. But you wanted me. You came and
Speaker 2: got me out of a transfer portal. I was the
Speaker 2: best player on my team and getting X amount of shots,
Speaker 2: being able to get away with this, that and the other.
Speaker 2: Now I come into your spot and I'm not the
Speaker 2: main guy, and I got to do things that I
Speaker 2: didn't have to do, or be called out on things
Speaker 2: that I was a called auto on at the place
Speaker 2: I was at before.
Speaker 1: He is Sean Woods, the unforgettable guard. We talked basketball
Speaker 1: with him every Wednesday. Coach, Thank you so much. Every
Speaker 1: come back to the Big Moon Saturday. Join now on
Speaker 1: our Wednesday as we always are, I usually are, I
Speaker 1: should say, because there was no basketball tonight. Buy our
Speaker 1: west End berea Chief Gary Moore. Hey, man is settling
Speaker 1: in for a long winter's nap. Turned off the heat
Speaker 1: out here? What's going on? So like November or something?
Speaker 1: What the hell? You got to build a fire in
Speaker 1: the man cave down there?
Speaker 11: We got ourselves here, a six pack, you and me,
Speaker 11: two guys, and a lot of good swigs. I want
Speaker 11: to start off with a good, delicious football swig here.
Speaker 11: First of all, don't ask me why, Dick, but I
Speaker 11: have a funny feeling, really have a gut feeling about Uka,
Speaker 11: Texas on Saturday. Then again, it could be just that
Speaker 11: breakfast burrito ahead a little while ago. But hey, remember
Speaker 11: nobody gave the Cats a shot at Old mess right,
Speaker 11: they were seven ane point underdogs.
Speaker 1: They won twenty to seventeen.
Speaker 11: Yep, yep, you were there that in that game what
Speaker 11: Mark Stoop's called quote our kind of game, dirty, ugly
Speaker 11: hard fought, unquote, and on Saturday, the Cats will have
Speaker 11: to be dirtier no penalties, now uglier or even fugglier,
Speaker 11: and they're gonna have to fight even harder. I say,
Speaker 11: if u K can win the turnovers, battle score in
Speaker 11: the red zone, convert third and fourth downs, they still
Speaker 11: may lose, but no, I like their chances despite being
Speaker 11: underdogs at twenty point underdogs at Texas, I think is
Speaker 11: going to come down obviously, like every football game we've
Speaker 11: ever watched to who controls both lines of scrimmage, Just
Speaker 11: like what happened in Oxford, you'll be there, yep, and
Speaker 11: against Georgia.
Speaker 1: Right in the two games Oxford and Georgia. One of
Speaker 1: the things, one of several things they had in common,
Speaker 1: time of possession, which sometimes is a mirage but sometimes
Speaker 1: it means everything. Sure, and you know I didn't invent this,
Speaker 1: but I'll quote talking head, the best defense is less defense.
Speaker 1: Keep that offense out on the field, keep the Longhorn
Speaker 1: offense on the sideline, whoever quarterbacks playing, But like you say,
Speaker 1: minimize mistakes, which it did against the Bulldogs and the ReBs,
Speaker 1: and also get off to a good star Gary. It's
Speaker 1: senior day. In Texas and so often. You know, you
Speaker 1: might roll your eyes because they use the word distractions
Speaker 1: a lot. But I've seen a lot of teams football
Speaker 1: and basketball get off the slow stars because they're right
Speaker 1: about mom and dad and grandma, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So maybe all of that comes together to be the
Speaker 1: Texas team that, let's face it won't be as high
Speaker 1: for this game as it will Fray and m exactly
Speaker 1: that's coming up afterwards. Yep, second swig in the six pack, Dick.
Speaker 11: Last week I said Louisville and my Hilltoppers had games
Speaker 11: against two really crummy teams last weekend. Only, as it
Speaker 11: turned out, the cards in Western were the crummier teams. Louisville,
Speaker 11: as we saw, led Stanford thirty five twenty one, six
Speaker 11: thirty to go fourth quarter, wound up losing to the
Speaker 11: two and seven cardinal thirty eight thirty five thanks to
Speaker 11: those twenty yards and stupid penalties with just one second
Speaker 11: left that set up the winning field goal. Social media
Speaker 11: over here, Dick has been saying that's one of the
Speaker 11: worst Louisville losses ever sure in U of L football history,
Speaker 11: and a loss compounded further on a Sunday night by
Speaker 11: Cards dB Tayan Holloway, who was sadly and ironically arrested
Speaker 11: for first degree strangulation fourth degree assault. I actually make
Speaker 11: that former Cards dB. Yeah, he was one of the
Speaker 11: culprits in one of those stupid penalties UFL defense Dick
Speaker 11: has had problems all season long.
Speaker 1: You've probably seen this.
Speaker 11: Jeff Brohm must think this is a curse wherever he goes.
Speaker 11: He had problems at Western, Purdue and now back home
Speaker 11: with defense. If he could get a defensive coordinator, or
Speaker 11: at least a defense that was as effective as his offense,
Speaker 11: they could be a perennial top ten, even top five team.
Speaker 11: But they acted like they'd already won the game before
Speaker 11: they I think the plane even landed in California. The
Speaker 11: same kind of poisonous mindset WKU must have had losing
Speaker 11: twelve to seven to an absolutely awful Louisiana Tech road team.
Speaker 11: They'd been won for their last twenty three games away
Speaker 11: from Louisiana until Saturday. Now played out coached Western, which
Speaker 11: was trying to generate some kind of excitement before a
Speaker 11: half filled Smith Stadium again, and this was homecoming. The
Speaker 11: apathy of my alma mater fan base is appalling, and
Speaker 11: we've talked about this. What else is there to do
Speaker 11: on a sunny.
Speaker 1: Saturday in Bowling Green?
Speaker 11: Come on, Louisville is an eight point favorite against pitt
Speaker 11: on Saturday. I have no idea what the crowd's gonna
Speaker 11: be like. That's at four o'clock on ESPN two. Western,
Speaker 11: oddly enough, is a one point favorite at Liberty at
Speaker 11: one o'clock. I have no idea which cards or topper
Speaker 11: team will show up.
Speaker 1: I think Louisville Saturday's gonna have to bring a lunch
Speaker 1: payal because that's a Pittsburgh team that's maybe not as
Speaker 1: deep and gifted as others they've had, but they're they're
Speaker 1: a physical team, and Louisville's got to be you know,
Speaker 1: on point of course. But back to that lost at Stanford.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean I got home in time from
Speaker 1: the Kentucky game to turn it on and watch the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter that, Wow, Louis's playing well and what and
Speaker 1: you know, I truly believe they would have tried a
Speaker 1: seventy two yard field goal. That's the only shot they had. Garry.
Speaker 1: There's not a robot on that Stanford campus built by
Speaker 1: artificial intelligence that could kick a seventy two yard field goal.
Speaker 1: But as you said, the Cards, oh here, let me
Speaker 1: give you twenty you know, let me give you fifteen
Speaker 1: here and five yards there. No, that's an epic fail.
Speaker 1: And as far as Brohm's defenses are concerned, that goes
Speaker 1: way back to recruiting. He's going to take a good
Speaker 1: look at the emphasis who they get, how they get them.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's so much the coordinator recruiting coordinator,
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, but they got to rebuild it and he's
Speaker 1: got to take a good look at how he builds
Speaker 1: brilliant offensive mine. But you're right about defense.
Speaker 11: By the way, talking about lines of scrimmage, you know
Speaker 11: Western has given up five hundred and thirty nine yards.
Speaker 1: Rushing in just the last two games.
Speaker 11: Ouch, I score, I know you give me both third
Speaker 11: swig along with the Cards and Cats and Toppers. Here's
Speaker 11: my top five on Saturday. Obviously the top game at
Speaker 11: the Shoe in Columbus number five, Indiana at number two
Speaker 11: Ohio States, the first time IU has played a ranked
Speaker 11: team all season, and Vegas things it's going to show
Speaker 11: Buckeyes are twelve point favorites. That's at noon on Fox.
Speaker 11: A lot of people thinking Indiana has to win this
Speaker 11: game to stay in the top twelve in the playoffs.
Speaker 11: The're probably right about that. Also at noon on ABC,
Speaker 11: number nine Old Miss at Florida Rebels are ten point favorite,
Speaker 11: but as we've seen the last two or three weeks,
Speaker 11: the swamp has come alive again down there. Three point
Speaker 11: thirty on Fox, you got number seventeen Colorado at Kansas,
Speaker 11: fresh off their BYU upset, and the Buffs are only
Speaker 11: a two and a half point favorite. They're at Kansas
Speaker 11: at seven o'clock Saturday night, Number eighteen Army, and I
Speaker 11: got a story about them coming up at the end.
Speaker 11: Here Army at number six Notre Dame, and like Indiana,
Speaker 11: Army is playing a ranked team for the first time
Speaker 11: all season. In Vegas, hees Irish the Irish by fourteen,
Speaker 11: and finally dick the game I'd always watch every year
Speaker 11: from a cold, damp and usually freezing home down in Murray,
Speaker 11: a game with gorgeous women in shorts and tank tops
Speaker 11: and suntans, who would go on to ignore me when
Speaker 11: I moved out there USC and UCLA. Eventually, games like
Speaker 11: that entices me to go west. As a young man,
Speaker 11: and I will tell you the reality is way better
Speaker 11: than the TV version. Bruins and Trojans are on a
Speaker 11: ten thirty Saturday night. You'll be up for that den
Speaker 11: in Austin. It's on NBCs and the Trojans favored by
Speaker 11: four and a half.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you. I'm curious about Ohio State Indiana
Speaker 1: like everybody is. But I didn't realize that Indiana has
Speaker 1: made full use in taking full advantage of the Big
Speaker 1: Ten schedule where they've not yet had to play any
Speaker 1: of the top teams in the Big Ten. Crazy, but
Speaker 1: they have done what a good team does and knock
Speaker 1: off everybody else. Right twelve, maybe just about right what.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if it's a one score game.
Speaker 1: I don't see Indiana winning that game. I think Florida
Speaker 1: covers ten against Ole Miss and maybe I'm still going
Speaker 1: back to Kentucky's win over all.
Speaker 2: Miss.
Speaker 1: Rebels may be playing their best football right now, but
Speaker 1: Florida's got a lot of athletes and their quarterback is healthy.
Speaker 1: Army Notre Dame would be a fun one to watch.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll record that one. But man, I remember watching
Speaker 1: USC UCLA when I was a kid OJ against Gary Beeben,
Speaker 1: who actually won the Heisman Trophy over OJ, And now
Speaker 1: that game draws a nationwide shrug.
Speaker 11: Yeah, at least they're gonna wear and they always do this,
Speaker 11: they let both teams wear their dark colored uniforms. That's
Speaker 11: great visually, it's always nice to yeah, because it's that
Speaker 11: powder blue. No longer do we depend on black and
Speaker 11: white TVs to know who's playing.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
Speaker 11: Fourth swig in the six pack, one more football swig
Speaker 11: than the NFL kind, where eighteen of the thirty two
Speaker 11: teams are at five hundred or below. At least one
Speaker 11: of the decent ones. Pittsburgh's on TV Tomorrow Night, Thursday
Speaker 11: Night Football eight and two Steelers three and a half
Speaker 11: point favorites, the two and eight Browns on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Eh, only two or three games.
Speaker 11: I really care about, of course, obviously your Packers and
Speaker 11: one of them, they're point a half favorites at home
Speaker 11: to the Niners, which my Seahawks beat. Finally on Sundays, Yeah,
Speaker 11: the Western Division leading Arizona Cardinals are at Seattle. That's
Speaker 11: four twenty five our time on Sunday, Vegas is my
Speaker 11: Hawks are one a half point Underbirds or whatever. Eagles
Speaker 11: three point favorites at the Rams on Sunday night, But
Speaker 11: how about Monday night another Harbaugh Bowl. Finally, Ravens at
Speaker 11: the Chargers, and they're saying that Balmer is a three
Speaker 11: point favorite, and boy do they need that win.
Speaker 1: They do, although Baltimore's got some real problems on defense
Speaker 1: and Chargers might be able to exploit it. But for
Speaker 1: all the good that they've done out there San Diego,
Speaker 1: and then they've got a terrific quarterback, they don't depend
Speaker 1: on his right arm. It's kind of a rarity in
Speaker 1: the NFL when they've got a quarterback fully capably used
Speaker 1: to it and it didn't get him anywhere, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't his fault. But maybe they do that against Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Maybe they pick on the Ravens, and maybe they take
Speaker 1: a page out of Pittsburgh's defensive playbook to figure out
Speaker 1: how to stop Lamar. He's almost unbeatable Gary against everybody
Speaker 1: else but the Steelers. Steelers, Yeah, oh man, but I'd
Speaker 1: love to see them win it. And you're right, the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals are maybe the biggest surprise in terms of
Speaker 1: success in the league. But I'm rooting for Gino, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's that's spread. I think it's interesting with the
Speaker 1: Eagles and the Rams, especially now of Saquon's rolling. I
Speaker 1: think they may roll over the Rams.
Speaker 11: I got your Packers winning too, by the way, Yeah
Speaker 11: that too, you.
Speaker 1: Fifth swig.
Speaker 11: Now, can we talk some hoops here. Louisville played for
Speaker 11: the first time in ten days last night, blowing out
Speaker 11: Crosstown Bellerman one hundred and sixty eight. Speaking of blowouts,
Speaker 11: as you talked about, Kentucky had no problems with Lipscomb
Speaker 11: last night ninety seven sixty eight, unlike my Hilltoppers, who
Speaker 11: did have problems with them, had to rally and beat
Speaker 11: lips Come by five on Sunday. In fact, the Toppers
Speaker 11: have had trouble with three out of their four opponents
Speaker 11: so far the two and two season. Tonight, they're going
Speaker 11: to face oh and four Jackson State at did Lo Arena.
Speaker 11: Hopefully they'll get more than twenty four hundred people like
Speaker 11: unlike the last couple of home games they've had there. Uh,
Speaker 11: that's a Jackson State team that will probably hopefully be
Speaker 11: oh and five when they go up against the Cats
Speaker 11: at RUP on Friday night. Yeah, then you're alma mater
Speaker 11: and my alma mater. Next Tuesday, Western Raperena.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dick.
Speaker 11: Also Friday night over here Louisville and new coach Pat
Speaker 11: Kelsey faces the team that Kelsey was coaching this time
Speaker 11: last year. They Winthrop Eagles seven o'clock Friday night the
Speaker 11: YOUM Center. And then the fun really begins for U
Speaker 11: of L number sixteen Indiana, then Old Miss, then number
Speaker 11: twelve Duke, all within eight days, and then six days
Speaker 11: later at number nine Kentucky. So I ask you after
Speaker 11: that opening home buddy killer with the balls? Is this
Speaker 11: too tough a schedule for a brand new coach with
Speaker 11: all brand new players who've never played together before.
Speaker 1: Probably is, But hey, you know, throw them in the
Speaker 1: deep end, see if they can find their way out.
Speaker 1: Why not? And it's a team that, like Kentucky, enjoys
Speaker 1: shooting three pointers and makes three pointers. One of the
Speaker 1: best in America right now at that what better way
Speaker 1: to steal a win? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 1: And by the way, whenever I hear the name Winthorpe,
Speaker 1: I always go back to trading places and it's wind Throp.
Speaker 1: But dan Akroyd's character was Louis Winthorpe, The third and
Speaker 1: when he's remember when he's bailed out of jail and
Speaker 1: the cop that's giving him his stuff back and he
Speaker 1: goes Winthorpe. You know you know that that cop Frank Oz. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, the voice, the voice of Fazzy Bear, the Muppets,
Speaker 1: what the guys. I always hear Frank's voice whenever anybody
Speaker 1: talks about the school Winthrop. I was here, Frank Oz
Speaker 1: going Winthorpe.
Speaker 11: Your movie Mental Rolodecks never ceases to amaze me.
Speaker 1: Terrible. It's a curse.
Speaker 11: Sixth and final swig. As I mentioned yesterday, the number
Speaker 11: eighteen Army Black Knights unveiled their special uniforms for the
Speaker 11: annual game with Navy on December the fourteenth. I don
Speaker 11: have you seen these, but in the words of our
Speaker 11: friends at UNI watch dot com, quote, Army has once
Speaker 11: again outdone itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah unquote.
Speaker 11: Maybe because there's a beautiful Kentucky connection to this year's
Speaker 11: Army threads. They're honoring the soldiers of the hundred first
Speaker 11: Airborne Division, which of course based out of Fort Campbell Down,
Speaker 11: Christian County. And also it's the eightieth anniversary of the
Speaker 11: Battle of the Bulge in World War two. These screaming
Speaker 11: eagles that fought in that battle were surrounded by Nazis
Speaker 11: and looked this up in your history books. It's a
Speaker 11: great story that they never surrendered one and secured the
Speaker 11: town of Bastone, Belgium. And that's gonna be one of
Speaker 11: the namesake patches on the black uniforms with one hundred
Speaker 11: First Airborne stars and stripes and as star on there
Speaker 11: as well that they used in the air US aircraft
Speaker 11: and vehicles. Black helmets have playing cards suit markings like
Speaker 11: a club, heart, diam etc. But the paratroopers used back
Speaker 11: then when they could, so they got to identify their
Speaker 11: units throughout the jumps in Europe. This may be the
Speaker 11: best Army Navy kit ever, especially with the Fort Campbell connection.
Speaker 11: And I've got pictures of it right now at nine
Speaker 11: to five to five Gary that I've posted on Twitter.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 1: I've seen him and I sure hope the kids get
Speaker 1: to keep the jerseys beautiful after the game. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1: We'll come back with some hot reads for Gary Moore
Speaker 1: in just a minute here in The Big Blue Insider
Speaker 1: six thirty. Welcome back to the Big Blue Insider. We
Speaker 1: have heard two guys in a six pack from Gary
Speaker 1: Moore are West End Bureau chief time for a couple
Speaker 1: of hot reads. Tyson, Jake Paul, A joke of a
Speaker 1: fight man and watching Tyson train, I mean, he looked
Speaker 1: like a machine and then he gets in and he
Speaker 1: just does literally nothing. And now Michael Irvin and a
Speaker 1: podcast claims he has internal knowledge of the contract that
Speaker 1: Tyson's signed with Jake Paul that he could not throw
Speaker 1: any uppercuts. Mike Tyson without an uppercut? What it is
Speaker 1: like asking a quarterback to not throw the football? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's why, first of all, would he suck? Although it
Speaker 1: explains everything, I guess it does.
Speaker 11: But where's Irvin getting all this inside information?
Speaker 1: Yesterday?
Speaker 11: You know, he's also talked about Dion will go to
Speaker 11: Dallas to coach if his son is drafted. Yeah, and
Speaker 11: then Dion's like, no, the kickstands here. So I don't
Speaker 11: know what Ervan's getting all this inside information. Maybe maybe
Speaker 11: he's right on both. I don't know, but you know
Speaker 11: I saw that on Netflix and I made a mental
Speaker 11: note to probably if I remember in about four or
Speaker 11: five hours, because this was at seven o'clock. I don't
Speaker 11: even the fight started until like eleven our time, right,
Speaker 11: eighteen thousand undercards, so that was actually five hours. That
Speaker 11: would actually that I kept it sort of offsets the
Speaker 11: five hours of the last Academy Awards broadcast. I'll never
Speaker 11: get back. So that's sort of like they sort of
Speaker 11: offset each other by not watching the Tyson things. So
Speaker 11: that's that's crazy. I've heard nothing but bad things about it.
Speaker 1: Anybody who saw the start time on Netflix, if you
Speaker 1: knew anything about boxing, you say to yourself, Okay, let'll
Speaker 1: start about eleven. Yeah, because that's that's just the way
Speaker 1: it works in boxing. And of course, so many fights
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Eleven o'clock is primetime in Vegas. But anyhow,
Speaker 1: the women's fight that preceded the Tyson about was. People
Speaker 1: are still talking about that, so they call it a
Speaker 1: girl fight. It was anything, but it was two great
Speaker 1: boxers going at it, and then, in true boxing fashion,
Speaker 1: the winner got hosed. So but yeah, we all got
Speaker 1: hosed if it, including or especially if Tyson agreed to
Speaker 1: no uppercuts.
Speaker 11: But that tells me that there will be another fight.
Speaker 11: Of course, you know who whoever lost it was going
Speaker 11: to have another rematch.
Speaker 1: Exactly our second high read for Gary is about a
Speaker 1: college football coach who's retiring a little bit early. He's
Speaker 1: sixty one. But Mark Farley, very popular and successful coach
Speaker 1: in Northern Iowa, not having a great year this year
Speaker 1: in the one double a Missouri Valley is retiring and
Speaker 1: it's because of what Stoops and a lot of other
Speaker 1: coaches have talked about. The nil parody, not parody, but
Speaker 1: the portal, which is cost parody, but it strips teams
Speaker 1: of Northern Iowa of star players, you know, teams on
Speaker 1: that level. He said, the purity of college athletics is
Speaker 1: almost gone. And that's an odd word to choose when
Speaker 1: you're talking about college sports, but it does remind me
Speaker 1: Gary that I think it's the top ten percent of
Speaker 1: Division one that drives the narrative. He talked about what
Speaker 1: he enjoyed was signing Iowa farm kids to a scholarship
Speaker 1: and giving them a chance to get an education and
Speaker 1: play football. Then, yeah, they do that far more often
Speaker 1: than not. But all we know about see you and
Speaker 1: talk about are the top level kids going to go
Speaker 1: or try to go pro?
Speaker 11: Well, it makes it he makes it sound like everybody
Speaker 11: is just showing up and then leaving after a year
Speaker 11: and never graduating, which is not the case at all.
Speaker 1: No, but it's the case, like I said, in so
Speaker 1: many instances in the top ten percent. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: all anybody hears or knows or thinks about.
Speaker 11: But at schools like I'm sure there are guys that
Speaker 11: graduating from Northern Iowa, right, there can be guys that
Speaker 11: go there and never graduate.
Speaker 1: I think it's a bit for him for him to
Speaker 1: step down. It's clearly ad an effect on his program
Speaker 1: as well. And I'm thinking that portal's going one way.
Speaker 1: Who transfers to Northern Iowa with a right? Yeah?
Speaker 11: Right, yeah, it's Missouri Valley right exactly. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 11: same with Murray State's in so yep. Yeah, maybe pretty
Speaker 11: still get some of their guys there.
Speaker 2: You go down.
Speaker 1: How much ANIL money can you offer them that much?
Speaker 1: Gary Moore is our West m Bureau chief. He joins
Speaker 1: us every Wednesday year and you can also keep an
Speaker 1: eye on him because somebody needs to on Twitter at
Speaker 1: nine to five five, Gary, Always a pleasure to be
Speaker 1: here with you and watch you on Twitter where Big
Speaker 1: Blue Insider one. But check Gary's Twitter feed x whatever
Speaker 1: for the photos of those Army uniforms. They are going.
Speaker 1: They are beautiful, beautiful. See you next week. Have fun
Speaker 1: in Austin. Well, that would be great, starting with a
Speaker 1: good football game to call. I wanted to leave you
Speaker 1: though with this note about something I saw that came
Speaker 1: up on Twitter or X if you will whatever. This
Speaker 1: was this day in sports clips. This was yesterday. Of
Speaker 1: course we didn't have a show yesterday. But November nineteenth,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three. They call it the Civil War. This
Speaker 1: is Oregon State versus Oregon. And now it's usually a
Speaker 1: pretty contentious game. Oregon of course number one in the
Speaker 1: country right now, but back then that game was known
Speaker 1: as the Toilet Bowl. The final score nothing to nothing
Speaker 1: zip zip A combined eleven fumbles, six for turnovers by
Speaker 1: the two teams, five interceptions, four missed field goals by definition,
Speaker 1: one of the worst games in the history of Division
Speaker 1: one football, and the head coach for Oregon, for better
Speaker 1: or worse, was Rich Brooks. Now. I bring that up
Speaker 1: because when people talked about what rich Brooks here, specifically
Speaker 1: coaches talked about what rich Brooks accomplished at Kentucky, they
Speaker 1: always brought up the fact that Kentucky hung with him
Speaker 1: Kentucky stayed with him and got through the toughest part
Speaker 1: of probation of the penalties. It went on to great success,
Speaker 1: and it was not easy because Mitch Barnart after the
Speaker 1: five season, was not quite as supportive verbally to the
Speaker 1: media as Rich Brooks might have liked, and that hurt
Speaker 1: their relationship. At the bottom line was Barnart stuck with him,
Speaker 1: and he read the players as much as the coaches,
Speaker 1: and the players loved Rich Brooks, and you know what happened.
Speaker 1: They turned it around. But I bring this up because
Speaker 1: you got a coach at FAU fired after two years,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what was going on down there.
Speaker 1: You got coaches fired all over the place. But Rich
Speaker 1: Brooks was the head coach at Oregon from nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: seven to nineteen forty four, and he doesn't need me
Speaker 1: to carry his water. But I just thought i'd bring
Speaker 1: this up. The court unquote toilet Bowl was in as
Speaker 1: what six or seventh season at Oregon, and after a
Speaker 1: game like that in this day and age, I would
Speaker 1: think out there, back then they didn't give a crap
Speaker 1: about college football. But now a six or seventh year
Speaker 1: coach producing a team that goes nothing. Nothing. In a
Speaker 1: game like that against the arch rival, they'd want him
Speaker 1: fired on the tarmac if it's a road game. And
Speaker 1: that's happened before, hadn't it. But Oregon stuck with him
Speaker 1: and in nineteen ninety four they went to bowl games
Speaker 1: prior to this, but in ninety four he led Oregon
Speaker 1: to the Rose Bowl. That's the holy grail back then
Speaker 1: for the Pac ten. That would be like Kentucky going
Speaker 1: to the Sugar Bowl for the traditional SEC which you
Speaker 1: did back in the fifties. That hasn't since. There's something
Speaker 1: to be said for patience, but I don't think we'll
Speaker 1: ever see it again. I'll do it for now. That's it.
Speaker 1: Good night from the garage and Lexington
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