WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:02.680 Uh, guess what day it is. 2 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:04.919 Guess what day it is? 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:11.960 Huh, anybody, it's hump day. 4 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:14.839 I know what basketball means in the state of Kentucky, 5 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:17.039 and you're gonna have a team that's gonna be fun 6 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:17.679 to cheer for him. 7 00:00:17.679 --> 00:00:19.960 Tell you that that was a message for you Kentucky 8 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.079 fans from Lenny Acuff, the head coach of the Lipscomb 9 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:25.920 Bison who fell to the Wildcats last night. That is 10 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:29.559 a professional coach telling the Big Blue nation that come 11 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:33.079 March there could be a lot to cheer about. Welcome 12 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:35.320 to the Big Blue Insider. Dick Gabriel with you on 13 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:38.000 a Wednesday edition of our show This Game Night. That's 14 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:41.600 right basketball. Last night tonight it's volleyball, the UK women 15 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:45.520 taking on Mississippi State. Kentucky in first place in the 16 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:49.479 SEC looking for an eighth consecutive Southeastern Conference championship, but 17 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:52.000 needs to win out so it doesn't have to share 18 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:54.640 it with anybody. We'll have it for you on SEC 19 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:58.399 Plus at seven o'clock. You were truly joined by Leah Edmund. 20 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:00.439 But we need to talk, of course about last night's 21 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:03.039 win over Lipscomb tonight on the Big Blue side, and 22 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:04.879 we will do just that coming up a little bit 23 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:09.000 later on Sean Woods The Unforgettable Guard. We'll also visit 24 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:11.400 with our West End bureau chief, Gary Moore, who will 25 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:15.400 talk all sorts of Kentucky football, basketball, national stuff as well. 26 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:18.519 We're also going to talk football with Mike Harge. Mike 27 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:21.680 is a radio sportscaster down in Austin, Texas. Actually met 28 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:24.920 him at SEC Football Media Days. I don't even remember 29 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:28.920 how we got to talking, but we decided to swap 30 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:31.640 phone numbers and we knew we would need guests the 31 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:34.640 week of the Kentucky Texas game. I was on his 32 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.040 show this morning, So he'll be with us tonight and 33 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:39.560 we'll talk about the Cats and the Longhorns coming up 34 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:42.359 at the bottom of the hour. But back to UK 35 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:44.719 basketball with the Wildcats are four and oh for the 36 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:48.680 first time since the sixteen to seventeen season. That team 37 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:51.280 won its first seven games, and that was the team 38 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:54.760 that just barely missed the Final Four when Luke May 39 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:57.359 of North Carolina hit a jump shot in the closing 40 00:01:57.439 --> 00:01:59.920 seconds and knocked off the Wildcats. You remember the vid 41 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:02.799 I will never forget the video of bam At a 42 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:06.480 bio and the Aaron Fox in the Kentucky locker room 43 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:11.960 sobbing after that setback. And I always think about that 44 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:15.199 when people would rip on the one and done players, 45 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:17.639 how they just don't care, they don't care about being here. 46 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:20.639 And look, I'm sure one or two, in fact, I 47 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:22.400 know of one in particular who came he here and 48 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:24.560 really didn't care. He just wanted to get paid. But 49 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:27.360 I'm not going to share the name with either. But 50 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:31.000 those guys did, and man, that team was good. I'm 51 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:32.719 not saying this team's going to be as good because 52 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:35.520 they don't have anybody as good as Bam and they 53 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:38.319 don't have anybody as good as the Aaron Fox. Both 54 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:40.800 of these guys are mainstays now in the NBA. But 55 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:44.000 they got a great team. And what I think is 56 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:46.960 great so far, U Case had a different leading scorer 57 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:49.240 in all four games this year. Last night it was 58 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:53.280 Jackson Robinson. He bounced off that game from Duke and 59 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.800 had twenty points. And yeah, against lesser competition, Kentucky shot 60 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:00.639 it well fifty four point eight percent from the field, 61 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:04.400 ten of twenty five from three point land, forty eight 62 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.360 percent and eighty one percent of the free throw line 63 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:11.639 and for sorry, twelve of twenty five on threes, and 64 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:16.199 Kentucky's become the first UK team ever to make at 65 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.319 least ten three pointers in each of its first four games. 66 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:21.639 Mark Pope was surprised to hear that last night. He 67 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:26.000 was surprised that his championship team in ninety five ninety 68 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:28.639 six didn't do that. But you know that team shot 69 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:31.080 a lot of threes, but not as many as this team. 70 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:33.520 And in fact, Kentucky went of eight ball clubs now 71 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:37.360 to make double digit three pointers in every game so 72 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:40.159 far this season. You want to know another one of them, 73 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:45.120 Louisville about that. So hearing from the players and the 74 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:49.319 coaches after the game. Lenny Acuff is the head coach 75 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:53.439 of Lipscomb and he was absolutely impressed. He was the 76 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:55.479 guy you heard off the top of the broadcast and 77 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:57.919 he was really impressed with what he saw. 78 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:00.479 I know most of the guys in said, I don't 79 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:05.360 know him, and I can tell you I'm tremendously impressed, 80 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:11.960 tremendously tremendously impressed. They we play a lot of a 81 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:14.960 lot of these games. Unfortunately, we play a lot of 82 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:17.439 them and we've we've done well in a lot of them. 83 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:21.800 But that's the best offensive power for team we played 84 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:25.639 in my six years at Lipscomb. I'm gonna tell you what, 85 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:30.720 if Butler, Robinson and Bray play like that, they're gonna 86 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:32.360 be a tough, tough, tough out. 87 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:35.600 As you might expect that A Cup was tremendously impressed 88 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:39.279 with Kentucky's offense, but really and most coaches do. Uh. 89 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.480 He points out the defense by the Wildcats when. 90 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:44.040 We play these games a lot of times, it's the 91 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:47.319 defensive end they put to really get after some defense. 92 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:50.240 I think they're underrated defensive, but I thought we got 93 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:52.600 really good shots. Ball don't go in. It's a hard game. 94 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:56.959 But boyle boy, you make one mistake or you're one 95 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:59.800 at second half, second late, it's three and I mean 96 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:02.680 they made they go twelve for twenty five and we 97 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:03.279 filed him. 98 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:03.800 On three more. 99 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:06.600 Speaking of good shooting, Lamont Butler had a lot of 100 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:08.560 fun last night, and he of course is known for 101 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:11.759 his defense as well he should be. But he was 102 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:13.959 six of eight from outside last night, got to the 103 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:16.759 rim on a couple of beautiful moves, but was also 104 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:20.600 three for three from the outside on his way to 105 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:23.519 sixteen points. Only committed one foul. That could be a 106 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:27.519 problem with him this year as aggressive as he is defensively. 107 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:31.600 But somebody asked him about his hot shooting last night 108 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:34.600 in just seventeen minutes of play. It was a good day. 109 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:36.279 It was a good day, good shooting day for me. 110 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:37.720 I mean, I work on it a lot. 111 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:41.160 I think it was just just just the results of 112 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:43.160 the work that I put in. And you know, the 113 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:45.680 confidence on my teammates having me, you know through out there, 114 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:47.800 you know, shoot that shot and I just make plays 115 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:48.160 for each other. 116 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:54.360 That's Lamont Butler. I mentioned the Duke game, and you 117 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:57.319 had to wonder if I may invoke, and I know 118 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:01.920 Tom Leech likes to do this a thoroughbred racing term, 119 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:06.519 and that's bounced. Oftentimes a horse will run a great race, 120 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:09.079 maybe his best race ever, and then the next time 121 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:13.120 out doesn't run well at all, nowhere near his best 122 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:16.879 time or her best time, and they just say, well, 123 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:19.199 that horse bounced, because as often as not, a good 124 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:22.000 horse will come back the next race and run well. 125 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:25.720 So we often talk about that, especially in basketball when 126 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:28.959 there are so many games. It's not so much in football, 127 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:31.319 but game where there's a lot of games in basketball 128 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:34.399 surely fits them. Because Kentucky plays again on Friday. But 129 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:37.319 you had to wonder after that Duke game that took 130 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:40.800 so much effort and so much emotion, was Mark Pope 131 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:44.560 and his sat where they concerned that Kentucky might bounce? 132 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:47.480 And this is beginning to sound like as we learn 133 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:49.959 more and more about Mark Pope the coach, like a 134 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:54.439 typical answer. He's such a deep thinker. And he said no, 135 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.319 because we're not going to worry. First of all, coach, 136 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:01.000 and he didn't say that, but you know, coaches don't 137 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.439 worry about things they can't control. But they also know 138 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:08.279 they can't control that emotional state their players are in, 139 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:13.040 so they don't worry about what might happen in a 140 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:16.720 negative way. They worry about what they want and need 141 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:19.480 to happen in terms of putting a game plan together 142 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:20.439 that's going to win for you. 143 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:24.360 The biology of that, actually, the neuroscience of that is 144 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:28.360 one hundred percent in support of that, right is, you know, 145 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:30.439 we're not going to focus on what we don't want 146 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:32.160 to have happened. We're going to focus on what we 147 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:34.519 do want to have happened. And our guys have received 148 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:36.040 that really well, so we don't spend much time on 149 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:36.399 it at all. 150 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:37.079 And we won't. 151 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:39.079 That's not the way we do it. That doesn't mean 152 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:41.399 we won't ever have bad results. It just means that 153 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:44.240 we're going to always focus on what we're trying to do, 154 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:46.040 and we're going to try and be laser focused on that. 155 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:47.519 We're not going to spend a lot of time thinking 156 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:49.399 about what we do not want to happen. 157 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:52.399 You know, if you think about it, that's a great 158 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:56.160 lesson for everybody. I mean, if you worry about what 159 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:58.879 you don't want to happen, that's wasted time, isn't it. 160 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:01.879 This guy, you know this by now. He's a deep 161 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:06.959 thinker and sometimes he gets a little too analytical with answers. 162 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:10.560 But if you ask a question, you need to expect 163 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:14.000 an answer. You ask a direct question, you know. If 164 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.120 you get a direct answer, hey, that's the way it goes. 165 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:16.399 You know. 166 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:20.319 And the previous management like to sort of spend things 167 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:22.839 and control the narrative. And that's fine as well. You 168 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:25.920 got a lot of colorful stuff out of him. But 169 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:29.079 John Calipari has his way. Mark Pope has his way. 170 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:33.200 Calipari's got a national championship and several final fours under 171 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:36.000 his belt. It's exactly what Mark Pope wants to do, 172 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:39.279 and it looks like he's heading in the right direction. 173 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:43.639 But it is so early in this season. When you 174 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:47.879 think about how early early it is, it's really remarkable. 175 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:51.600 But when you also look at how well Kentucky's playing, 176 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:54.679 that's remarkable as well. Coming up in our next hour, 177 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.279 we'll talk to Sean Woods about that. He was so 178 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:00.879 bullish on the Wildcats going into the Duke. He predicted 179 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:04.200 a win, and then the next morning or the next 180 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:08.279 evening rather we talked on the Big Blue Sider about 181 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:12.320 why he said that, and it's exactly. It exactly came 182 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:14.840 to fruition in the way he said it would experience 183 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:19.960 over the freshman talent. That's how Kentucky beat Duke. And 184 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:23.639 obviously it's why Kentucky excelled last night against an inferior 185 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:26.840 compared to Duke. All due respect appointed Lipscomb may make 186 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:30.840 the NCAA tournament, they've done it before. But Kentucky did 187 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:34.320 what a good team should do last night. And now 188 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:38.320 I really think it's interesting that the comment that Pope 189 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:41.279 made about don't worry about you what you don't want 190 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:45.200 to happen, a lot of coaches might worry about what 191 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:49.639 do we do with Jackson State coming up, that's Friday, 192 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:54.679 all right, Next Tuesday, Western Kentucky. Western has come in 193 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.039 here and won in the past. I'm not entirely certain 194 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:02.279 what Western Kentucky has right now, but don't be surprised 195 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:04.840 if they're good. They're always good, it seems like. And 196 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:07.960 Georgia State comes in and some of the so called 197 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:11.519 mid majors who might surprise people in the postseason. But 198 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:15.279 you can't worry about what might happen in those games. 199 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:19.000 Are your kids looking at the Clemson which is in 200 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:22.480 the first Tuesday in December, that's the sec ACC Challenge. 201 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:25.639 That's a nine to thirty game Eastern Time, which, as 202 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.879 you know, will begin at ten o'clock down in Clemson. 203 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:31.679 It's not a doubleheader. They might start at like nine 204 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:34.320 forty five, a whole tip off or something like that. Anyhow, 205 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:37.480 it'll be a late game and or later game. Then 206 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:41.519 the late game comes up the following Saturday in Seattle 207 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:45.759 against Gonzaga. That's the ten pm start out there. So 208 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:48.399 do you worry that your kids are going to be 209 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:52.440 thinking about all that and not the three on your 210 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:55.480 schedule at home that you should win and walk overs? 211 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:59.399 Relatively speaking, you can't. You can't worry about that, like 212 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:02.000 Pope said, because you're not going to improve for one thing. 213 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:04.879 You'll win, but you won't win the way you need 214 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:08.600 and want to win. Interesting, all right, when we come back, 215 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:11.919 we'll talk more Kentucky volleyball, Little UK women's basketball, and 216 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:15.559 why did Mike Tyson lose that fight that's coming up 217 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:18.000 next year? On a Big Blon Sider six thirty WLAP. 218 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:20.279 Welcome back to the Big Bloon Sider. Coming up in 219 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:23.200 just a few minutes. Mike Harge of AM thirteen hundred 220 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:26.519 zone down in Austin, Texas. He'll tell us what to 221 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:30.519 expect from the Longhorns on Saturday when the Wildcats take 222 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:33.919 on Texas for the first times. It's nineteen fifty one. 223 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:35.840 It's a game you will hear right here on six 224 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:39.480 thirty WLAP. There's a lot going on down there. If 225 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:42.000 you're going to Austin, I'm gonna ask Mike to give 226 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:44.639 us a little information about what to do and where 227 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:47.840 to go, especially Friday night when the basketball team is 228 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:49.679 going to be playing and you have a chance to 229 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.720 check it out, maybe from a sports bar in Austin. 230 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:55.559 Our number two Sean Woods, the unforgettable guard. We'll talk 231 00:11:55.559 --> 00:11:59.120 about last night's game with Lipscomb, and of course Westen 232 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:01.600 Bureau chief Gary moan More will join us as well. 233 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:04.039 This being Wednesday, and I'm going to ask Gary about 234 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:07.960 to get his opinion about this next story. It's all 235 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:12.399 over the interweb now. First of all, the Tyson Paul fight. 236 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:16.840 We've talked about, such a joke, but so was the 237 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:22.279 technology involved Netflix, which didn't you see this coming? I 238 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:26.960 guess not, But a lot of people, myself included, had 239 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:30.840 issues with the buffering. You know, the image would freeze, 240 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:34.039 I would rewind it a minute, and then it would 241 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:36.399 go ahead and play all the way through till the 242 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:42.399 next buffering situation. But it was terrible. And now a 243 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:48.080 lawsuit filed in Florida by again named Ronald Blue Denton, 244 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:52.799 accusing Netflix of breach of contract for the constant glitches, 245 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:55.080 not because of a terrible fight. When you buy a 246 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:57.360 fight on pay per view, you get what you pay for. 247 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:01.000 It's like when Tyson knocked out Michael Spink in forty 248 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:04.679 seven seconds or whatever it was. Netflix has acknowledged the 249 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:12.480 poor streaming quality of the event, but Netflix executive Elizabeth Stone, 250 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:17.279 who did admit there were technical challenges, but said the 251 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:21.559 launch team tackled it brilliantly by prioritizing stability of the 252 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:25.519 stream for the majority of viewers. Well, guess what the 253 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:29.799 rest of you guys can go pound rocks right, And 254 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:33.000 she kind of dismissed it as chattering the press and 255 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:36.799 social media about quality issues. We don't want to dismiss 256 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:40.279 the poor experience of some members, and now we have 257 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:44.960 room for improvement, but still consider this event a huge success. Well, yeah, 258 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:49.159 ultimately a dure one hundred and eight million viewers worldwide. 259 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:55.639 It peaked at sixty five million according to US estimates. 260 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:59.120 Fifty six percent. That's in the USA, sixty five million 261 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:04.080 percent of all TV viewership in the country tuned to 262 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:08.080 the Tyson Paul fight between midnight and one AM. That's 263 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:12.240 according to Netflix. Okay, and of course that co main 264 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:15.879 event Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano seventy four million live 265 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:21.240 viewers globally, most watched professional women's sports event in US history, 266 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.639 and they saw Serrano get robbed. But now comes the 267 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:30.320 story and it's it's hearsay, but it explains a lot. 268 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:36.840 Michael Irvin, the former Cowboy on a podcast, said he 269 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:42.360 had heard and this explains everything that Tyson contractually could 270 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:48.559 not throw uppercuts at Jake Paul, and as Irvin pointed out, 271 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:51.960 that's how Mike Tyson won most of his bouts with 272 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:54.799 an incredibly brutal uppercut. 273 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:58.919 The intention is the rulers trapped at all. If you 274 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:02.279 look through that, they see one patient upper cut by 275 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:05.480 Mike Tyson. What did Mike Tyson win on upper cut? 276 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.759 And I heard some people talking about me, couldn't put. 277 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:08.639 That in the contract? 278 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:11.919 You couldn't. He couldn't body in their upper cut? Like, 279 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:14.480 how could you put that in a fight contract? Now 280 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:16.799 you got all these people out of here, and he 281 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:19.559 couldn't bother him and do that patient upper cut. 282 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:24.799 All of that is Mike Tyson is not Mike Tyson anyway. 283 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:28.159 And now you're taking away Mike Tyson's best gift, which 284 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:31.360 was that upper cut. Man, that's a big lit to me. Man, 285 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:33.159 that's like making me run like that. Play a game 286 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:35.559 without running a slant route and a deep in or 287 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:37.639 a deep out. You do what you do back and 288 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:40.080 if they take that away, you ain't that dude no more. 289 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:42.039 And they took that away, and. 290 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:46.039 I was former Cowboy receivers Michael Irvin talking on the 291 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:49.759 latest podcast I guess it was yesterday's podcast of it 292 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:54.279 Is What it Is? And when he say he called 293 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:55.840 it a big lie, and then the host of the 294 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:59.720 podcast and what do you mean? But as Tyson pointed out, 295 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:03.919 there intentions to really go at each other. And then 296 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:07.679 a follow up in the story on Yahoo, there was 297 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:12.080 a gentleman named dj wu Kid forgive me, I don't 298 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:17.720 know who that is, but he also subscribed to the 299 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:20.080 note and said he had heard the same thing. Now, 300 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:23.720 I always wonder is he hearing that from Irvin, with 301 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:26.360 Irvin hearing it from him, or were there people on 302 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:28.759 the end. Both imply they heard it from people on 303 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:33.000 the inside, and in fact dj wo Kid said he 304 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:36.759 spoke to Jake Paul, but there's been no confirmation from 305 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:41.559 Jake Paul, who I cannot believe Jake Paul would publicly admit, 306 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:45.159 nor would Tyson that they contractually agreed no uppercuts, because 307 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:48.480 that means, I mean, who is Mike Tyson without his uppercut? 308 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:52.360 And supposedly dj wo Kid said Jake Paul wasn't allowed 309 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.440 to really unload on Tyson because if one unloaded on 310 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:59.559 the other. This guy said they would have killed him. Well, 311 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:04.319 then you can't ask people in good faith to sign 312 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:07.839 up and spend their money. I'm already a Netflix subscriber, 313 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:12.279 so I didn't spend anything additional to see this fight, 314 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:14.839 and I don't think I would have. I bought pay 315 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:18.680 per view fights before, not many, and as usually, you 316 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:20.680 throw in with somebody because it's fifty or eighty or 317 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:25.079 a hundred bucks. But this was a great idea by Netflix. 318 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:30.799 And by the way, technical glitches, people tuning in, buffering 319 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:34.599 all that stuff. You didn't see that coming. And now 320 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:39.400 you got the NFL coming up on Netflix. You best 321 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:42.839 get that taken care of because the NFL don't play 322 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:46.160 They play football, but they don't play with their product. 323 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.039 And if you're not ready to handle it, I got 324 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:52.039 to wonder is the NFL taking a hard look right 325 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:55.279 now at Netflix and saying what did we sign up for? 326 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:59.599 You wouldn't blame them for having second thoughts about climbing 327 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:02.839 into bit Netflix, And this was a brilliant move. Netflix 328 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:05.640 was struggling, you know, it was so many channels out 329 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:08.799 there and so many free movies out there. Now you know, 330 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:12.759 Netflix used to deliver DVDs to your mailbox and they 331 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:16.920 changed everything's online now they better get with the program, 332 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:21.079 no pun intended, and get this stuff straightened out by 333 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:23.200 the time the NFL rolls around. And I have no 334 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:28.319 idea how that's done. That's way over my head. But 335 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:29.920 there are a lot of people paid a lot of 336 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:33.880 good money on the technology side of things to make 337 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.240 that happen. But also we need to know if there's 338 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:40.359 a bogus contract in place with a couple of fighters 339 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:43.240 the next time these two guys fight, because you know 340 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:46.720 they will. My cards is next from Austin on six 341 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:50.960 thirty WLAP Welcome back to the Big bon Sider. Joining 342 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:52.920 me now is a new friend. I was on his 343 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:56.279 show earlier this morning, and he is returning the favor 344 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:58.400 of this evening here on the Big boon Sider. Mike 345 00:18:58.519 --> 00:19:01.640 Card's the host of The Hard Knox Life on AM 346 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:03.559 thirteen hundred to zone down in Austin. 347 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:07.599 How you doing, Mike, I'm doing great. Thanks for having 348 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:10.599 me on. Always good to talk to you and kind 349 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:12.400 of talk about this crazy SEC. 350 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:15.519 Yeah, and that's where you and I met down in 351 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:19.680 Dallas at the SEC Media Days. As a guy who've 352 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:21.599 spent back in the eighties, two years in the old 353 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:24.680 Southwest Conference, which is a league that should still be alive. 354 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:26.920 We won't get into that, maybe we will a little 355 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:30.279 bit later, but what was it like for you as 356 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:33.799 a media person to cover that event and to have 357 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:37.400 to shift your focus now to schools like Kentucky and 358 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:40.559 Georgia and Alabama after you've I assume, have grown up 359 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:43.519 following you know, Texas a and which is in the SEC, 360 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:48.200 but Texas Tech, Baylor, all those classic Southwest Conference schools. 361 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:51.160 You know, it's interesting that you say that because as 362 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:54.640 a kid growing up in Texas, I originally signed with 363 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:58.519 the University of Texas to play football and baseball. And 364 00:19:58.599 --> 00:20:00.839 the ironic thing about it was it was in the 365 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:04.359 Southwest Conference. I happened to look at my letter of 366 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:07.720 incent for some something to show my son, and I 367 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:10.440 was like, look at that. That was the Southwest Conference. 368 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:13.240 So then I saw the transition to the Big Twelve 369 00:20:13.319 --> 00:20:16.559 and it was an interesting one as well. You still 370 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:19.119 got some of those same foes, but you added some 371 00:20:19.240 --> 00:20:23.119 other players into the mix. But covering the SEC is 372 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:25.559 totally what I thought it was going to be. The 373 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:29.559 only difference was we weren't in Hoover, Alabama. We were 374 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:33.960 in Dallas, Texas. So they did the local folks some 375 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:41.240 favors by having the initial Southeastern Conference media days in Dallas, Texas. 376 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:42.920 So it was exactly what I thought. 377 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:43.240 It was. 378 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:47.480 All the popping circumstance and everyone fired up for the 379 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:50.079 new kid on the block in the University of Texas 380 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:53.440 and Oklahoma and now we're right in the middle of it. 381 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:56.440 Yeah. I enjoyed getting back to Dallas and spinish soon. 382 00:20:56.519 --> 00:20:58.160 I'd come through a couple of times as I live 383 00:20:58.200 --> 00:21:01.200 there back in the eighties, but in this particular hotel 384 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:03.720 where they had the event, did a great job. You know, 385 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:06.960 everybody had enough space and everything worked properly. And then 386 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:10.200 we all got to talking about football. And from where 387 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:13.720 you sit, give me your perspective of this Kentucky team 388 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:15.519 before I ask you about the Longhorns. What do you 389 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:17.680 guys know about Mark Stoops and the Wildcats. 390 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:21.119 Well, he's a Stoops, so you know that means a 391 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:24.759 lot around here because of his brother Bob and Mike 392 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:29.079 who was on the staff. There all those epic battles 393 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.400 between Texas and Oklahoma at the State Fair, and we 394 00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:35.200 call it a State Fair street fight every single year. 395 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:38.640 But they were dominant during that time, but looking at 396 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:43.240 Kentucky and kind of understanding that this is a football 397 00:21:43.319 --> 00:21:47.440 team that record may not indicate exactly who they are. Yes, 398 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:52.279 as they always say, you are exactly what your record 399 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:54.799 says that you are. But you go back and look 400 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:57.400 at some of those matchups that they've had, those tough, 401 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:00.640