WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:03.560 Welcome to the special edition of the Big Blue Insider. 2 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:07.799 Dick Abriel with you going into the holiday weekend, Well 3 00:00:07.799 --> 00:00:11.439 it's the weekend preceding the holiday, and of course Kentucky 4 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:14.759 basketball coming up Saturday afternoon, the Wildcats playing in New 5 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:19.160 York against Ohio State. Usually this time of year, we're 6 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:23.000 preparing coverage of Kentucky in a bowl game, but as 7 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:26.519 we all know, it ain't gonna happen this year and 8 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:29.280 in the year's past. During Bowl week, at some point 9 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:32.359 either before or right after the game, I have put 10 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:36.759 together a special that I presented that relives all the 11 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:39.240 highlights of the football season. Well, there weren't that many 12 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:41.399 this year, as we know, there are only four wins. 13 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:44.240 So we're gonna do something a little bit different this year. 14 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:47.520 We're gonna look back on some of the fun we 15 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:51.320 did have presenting these games to you because we did 16 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:53.840 something different this season. And if you listen to our 17 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:57.280 radio broadcast, which we appreciate, I know every game's on TV, 18 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:01.880 but there's plenty of pregame and then of course a 19 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:04.719 lot of you try to sync things up and listen 20 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:08.159 to the radio and watch the TV. We did something 21 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:11.200 different and it goes back to what we used to 22 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:16.439 do gosh, about fifteen years ago, maybe when the network 23 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:19.519 was held by different rights holders. It's kind of an 24 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.480 inside baseball thing, but we would have kind of a big, 25 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:27.280 dramatic opening with music and a guy with a big voice. 26 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:30.519 It's a voice that you hear on ESPN and other 27 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:34.439 promos and things like that, and we really missed that, 28 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:37.519 so we decided to get back to that, only with 29 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:40.439 a bit of a twist. We decided to use what 30 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:44.879 we were calling celebrities to open the broadcast. Former players, 31 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:50.120 former coach Ritch Brooks, even an actor Josh Hopkins, who 32 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:53.000 lives in Austin, Texas now, grew up in Lectioning and 33 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:56.079 the son of Congressman Larry Hopkins, a big UK fan, 34 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:59.959 but his work as an actor led him to Texas. 35 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.280 That's where he lives now. So we had a lot 36 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:05.760 of fun of writing them producing them. I had to 37 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:08.120 try to chase these folks down, but when we did, 38 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:11.919 they were more than happy to do it. So they 39 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:15.080 turned out really well. I think I think everybody who 40 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:17.319 did it pitched in and did a great job. So 41 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:20.000 we're gonna go back and listen to those and I'll 42 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:22.439 have some highlights from the games, even the ones that 43 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:24.280 didn't go so well, the games that went in the 44 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:28.680 wrong direction, because there were some good plays, some big plays, 45 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:32.280 but just not enough of them obviously, So it was 46 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:35.319 a different season. It was an odd season. One we 47 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:39.120 haven't dealt with much in this part of the football 48 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:43.879 world for the last what eight years, nine years since 49 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:47.439 Kentucky started going to bowl games. So that's why this 50 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:51.960 show will be unlike the others. We won't be presenting 51 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:55.000 melts from all the wins. We will present one melt. 52 00:02:55.159 --> 00:02:57.400 I'm going to play for you, the melt that I 53 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:00.520 put together after the Old Miss game. The melt courses 54 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:02.840 like eight or nine minutes of all the great plays 55 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:07.080 and moments strung together, because that was obviously the biggest 56 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.840 win of the season, one of the biggest wins in 57 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:13.159 all the college football this year. And when you think 58 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:16.639 about what happened with ole Miss football this season, that 59 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:21.319 loss to Kentucky is probably, I would think, what kept 60 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:25.280 Ole Miss out of the playoff. Because when you're up 61 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:28.000 in that rarefied air, when people are talking about you 62 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:31.240 and thinking about you, that one loss, especially to a 63 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:35.000 team with a losing record, could really be damaging to 64 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:38.439 your resume. So Kentucky played a bit of the spoiler 65 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:40.520 role a little miss this year, so we're going to 66 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:43.719 relive that one. But first we're going to start with, 67 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:47.560 of course, the season opener, and that came against Southern Mississippi. 68 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:53.319 Our first celebrity monologue came from former UK quarterback Bill Ransdell. 69 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:56.879 And Tom Leech suggested this because this was the fortieth 70 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:00.639 anniversary of the nineteen eighty four Kentucky team that won 71 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:02.719 the Hall of Fame Bowl, and of course Bill was 72 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:06.599 the quarterback. They celebrated with the reunion to the former players, 73 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:10.319 and Bill actually came to the garage and sat down 74 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:11.879 helped us open the broadcast. 75 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:15.560 It's the season of the first step on a journey 76 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:19.319 to do something special and memorable. Here's UK Hall of 77 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:20.959 Fame quarterback Bill Ransdell. 78 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:25.759 Hard to believe it's been four decades since the Kentucky Wildcats. 79 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:30.000 My Wildcats put together a special season that was a 80 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:34.839 long time coming. The year before, we had set an 81 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:38.600 NCAA record for victories by a team that had gone 82 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:43.319 winless the season prior, and now we wanted more. In 83 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:47.279 nineteen eighty four, we won nine, including the Hall of 84 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:50.240 Fame Bowl. Our second straight postseason appearance. 85 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:53.279 All right, let's see if they go through with it. 86 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:54.959 Jones down on one knee. 87 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:56.720 There's a snap they're going to try it, and it 88 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:57.959 is long enough. 89 00:04:58.000 --> 00:04:59.160 It is I believe. 90 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:03.959 Yeah, he got a good no joy Josh high up 91 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:07.639 Kentucky Bill golds distance record having him good pumping gas and. 92 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:11.360 Run the first fine nights. It is Kentucky twenty hunt 93 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:12.079 in nineteen. 94 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:18.279 Today, forty years later, Mark Stoops and his Wildcats begin 95 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:23.800 their quest for a ninth consecutive Bowl bit only three 96 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:28.720 other teams in the SEC and SATANA. First up on 97 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:32.959 the ruling scheduled is Southern Mississippi, a team that is 98 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:36.560 always dangerous. But the Cats have a new look offense 99 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:40.800 and a talented defense, and they say they're ready to go. 100 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:44.839 It's the Wildcats and the Golden Eagles on game day 101 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:47.160 here at Kroger Field, coming up next to you. 102 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:48.959 Wow. 103 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:53.879 Of course, the Wildcats with a brand new quarterback, Brock Vandergriff. 104 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:56.560 He had a great time. He passed for three touchdowns. 105 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:00.199 The UK defense pitched a shutout in the thirty one 106 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.920 a nothing game, and of course it was weather shortened. 107 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:06.600 There were all kinds of concerns about the weather lightning 108 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:11.399 and thunder and rain, and long story short, it shortened 109 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:15.000 the game by nine minutes and fifty six seconds. They 110 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:17.600 you know, after a long rain delay, they decided the 111 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:19.959 lightning's not gonna let up, so we're just gonna shut 112 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:25.319 it down. Team officials, game officials in communication with the SEC. 113 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:28.959 But not before vander Riff, in his first career start 114 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:33.319 after transferring in from Georgia, hit on twelve at eighteen passes, 115 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:37.199 one hundred and sixty nine yards, three scores, Demi Sumo 116 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:41.360 carn Bay eight carries for fifty nine yards, and the 117 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:45.279 defense holding Mississippi or Southern Mississippi to just one hundred 118 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:49.079 and thirty one yards. So yeah, it was a fun day. 119 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:53.759 The scoring got started when Rock Vandergriff hit Barrion Brown 120 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:57.079 first touchdown of the year twelve yards, made it seven 121 00:06:57.160 --> 00:06:58.839 nothing Wildcats. 122 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:01.600 And a Griff retreats looking left, padding the football, now 123 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:04.199 scrambling back to the right, throws for the end. 124 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:07.839 Zone and did he get it? Touchdown Kentucky. 125 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:11.720 There was ten to nothing when Demi Sumo Carnbay capped 126 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:15.079 off a drive with a touchdown, his first of the year, first. 127 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:18.839 And goal at the one had off Subo Carnbay touchdown Kentucky. 128 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:21.399 He goes in up the middle, standing. 129 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:24.360 Up, and then Brock Vandergriff went right back to Barrion Brown, 130 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:26.879 this time from twelve yards out. That made it twenty 131 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:27.680 four to nothing. 132 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.560 Here's the pitch ahead to Brown sweeping right across the 133 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:32.839 ten break set tackle headed to the far side. 134 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:36.600 Touchdown. Kentucky broke a tackle of the five. 135 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:38.920 And Baryon Brown snuck in just in front of the 136 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:40.439 right front pylon. 137 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:44.279 Bill of Cats. Twelve yard touchdown run or passes, we'll go. 138 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:47.199 That was a score at halftime. Kentucky would have a 139 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:51.079 scoring possession in that third quarter. Rock Vandergriff hit the 140 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:54.000 Jimori Macklum for forty six yards set up the Cats 141 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:57.000 at the southern miss eight yard line. Two plays later, 142 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:00.319 Vandergriff to Jordan Dingle from five yards out. 143 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:02.920 The receivers in a triangle outside the right tackle, tight 144 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.319 end left and a grip with a fake holy right man, 145 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:09.639 wide open touchdown Kentucky to It's Dingle, big boy just 146 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:11.399 inside the right front python. 147 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:17.959 Fitz Barrow is happy, tight End's gonna touchdown. 148 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:19.720 And that made it thirty one nothing. And that would 149 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:23.120 end up being the final scores. Kentucky opened the season 150 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:26.920 with a win over Southern Mississippi. We'll come back with 151 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:29.439 more of this special edition of the Big Blue Insider 152 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:32.559 as we look back on some of the highlights and 153 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:35.720 some of the celebrities who helped us open broadcasts this 154 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:38.399 year of Kentucky football games here in the Big Blue 155 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:45.279 Insider six thirty WLAP Welcome back to this special edition 156 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:47.720 of the Big Blue Insider. Dick Abery with it. We 157 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:50.679 are looking back on the UK football season, and yeah, 158 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:53.080 there wasn't a whole lot to look back on, of course, 159 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:55.879 but this was a year, as I mentioned earlier, where 160 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:58.440 we had celebrities open our broadcast. We had a lot 161 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:00.639 of fun with that, even though there wasn't a lot 162 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:03.720 of fun involved with watching the Wildcats go four and eight, 163 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:07.039 but it did kind of lift our spirits. South Carolina 164 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.960 was the second game on the schedule, and as you recall, 165 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:12.559 that game did not go too terribly well. But the 166 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:15.919 guy who opened up our broadcast with Jojo Kemp and 167 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:19.360 he came to the garage and he helped us recall 168 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:23.600 a night when the Wildcats ran literally all over Steve 169 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:27.200 Spurrier's game Cocks and Jojo was one of the biggest. 170 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:30.720 Reasons Week two for the Kentucky Wildcats, the start of 171 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:34.080 SEC play and a matchup that brings to mind a 172 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:35.840 phrase that has two meetings. 173 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:38.240 Jojo kemp was a Wildcat. 174 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:40.679 He wrote It was ten years ago, back in twenty 175 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:43.879 fourteen when South Carolina game CAUs came to town and 176 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:45.960 got a taste of the Wildcat for mission. 177 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:47.360 I had a lot of fun that night. 178 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:51.200 Wildcat formation snapped the cap and he goes then touch 179 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:54.399 down Kentucky straight up to then on the Wildcat boridation. 180 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:57.360 My office. A line was super. They helped me run 181 00:09:57.440 --> 00:09:59.399 for one hundred and thirty one yards. 182 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:00.000 At three touchdowns. 183 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:03.440 Direct snap to kemp Man. He goes in standing up. 184 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:09.240 It's crazy for the touchdown, that's amazing. I'm amazed at 185 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:09.759 that kid. 186 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:12.559 My third score tied the game thirty eight thirty eight, 187 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:15.039 and that's when our defense came up. 188 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:18.120 He steps up of the pocket. It's deflected up into 189 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:18.519 the air. 190 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:22.480 It's inner thing, duck down Dentucky thud. 191 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:23.840 The pre caught it right. 192 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:25.279 Wow. 193 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:28.759 He flipped it into the air and the pre caught 194 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:30.039 it in full stride. 195 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:33.240 I mean Bud the pre put us up a touchdown. 196 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:36.519 Then our defense held again, so it was up to 197 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:39.000 us the offense to kill the rest of the clock. 198 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:42.720 Kemp straight ahead and he's got the first down. 199 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:46.320 I think there's the chain stretched out. 200 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:52.720 They put down the stick first down Kentucky. The Wildcats 201 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.679 defeats South Carolina forty five to thirty eight. 202 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:00.039 Gang over, the Big Blue Nation stormed the field. 203 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:01.519 And it's party times. 204 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:04.279 The fans come on the field and Commonwealth Stadium. 205 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:06.360 We said, the game calls home. 206 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:08.840 We need to do that again tonight. 207 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:12.120 We're changing the game. Why not Kentucky? Why not us? 208 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:15.799 I'll said again what I said back then, Why not us? 209 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:18.360 Why not Kentucky? 210 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:20.759 Wow? 211 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:25.039 And as I said, nothing good to remember about that game. 212 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:28.240 Wildcats lost at thirty one to six, even though they 213 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:32.679 had twelve tackles for loss in three sacks. The defense 214 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:35.960 acquitted itself. Well finally it just kind of collapsed. Ty 215 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:37.879 Bryant did have an interception. 216 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:42.080 Sellers drops the throw all day, dancing around Buyers into 217 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:46.200 the middle and it's intercepted across the thirty and falling 218 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:49.799 down at the twenty eight yard line. I'm making the 219 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:53.720 interception was Ty Bryant the sun board from here in Lexington, 220 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:57.159 the son of Warner Wildcats Cisco Bryant, sets up the 221 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:59.919 Wildcats inside the South Carolina. 222 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:00.399 Thirty yard line. 223 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:04.720 Biggest play for the Wildcats offensively was Brock Vandergriff hooking 224 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:08.320 up with Dane Key forty two yards And there was 225 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:11.120 something we saw all year as Brock tried to go 226 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.080 to Dane, who became his favorite receiver. 227 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:16.120 Play fake. He's throwing deep down the near side. 228 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:18.600 For Key and he pulls it in and didn't he 229 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:24.600 make the catch? Yes, want to throwing catch at the 230 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:28.720 South Carolina thirty nine yard line. Vandergriff dropped that in 231 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:32.000 like a directional punt and Key fielded it over his 232 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:33.159 shoulder and got knocked out of. 233 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:36.000 Bounds at the thirty nine yard line of South Carolina. 234 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:39.200 But that's all the Wildcats could muster a couple of 235 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:42.600 field goals, losing to the game Cocks, who went on 236 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:46.240 to have a pretty strong season. Next game, what might 237 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:49.480 be the most puzzling game of the year, maybe even 238 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:51.679 more so than Theil Miss game, which of course was 239 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:55.200 an upset win by the Wildcats. On the road. Georgia 240 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:58.320 comes to town and we still weren't sure what we 241 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:02.360 were seeing with Kentucky, But of course whatever confidence we 242 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:06.840 might have had as fans as media was shaken by 243 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:08.919 that loss. They just did not look good at all 244 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:12.000 against South Carolina and their edge rushers. We thought, what 245 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:15.120 in the world is Georgia going to do to this team? Well, 246 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:18.159 big bad Georgia came in and Kentucky played the Bulldogs 247 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:21.200 right out of their cleats to that one point lost, 248 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:24.360 and I still look back on that as a sort 249 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:26.120 of a reminder of what might have been. If the 250 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:30.480 Wildcats had stayed together, had stayed healthy, they could have 251 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:32.600 won that game. Wasn't it should have, but could have. 252 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:36.000 As you recall, there was a controversial decision at the 253 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:38.159 end of the game by Mark Stoops to punt the 254 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:41.159 ball and put everything on its defense to get the 255 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:45.200 ball back, which it did not, as Georgia converted on 256 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:48.080 a big third downplay, and that was the game. Kentucky 257 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:53.080 had moved the ball between the thirties basically and just 258 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:55.720 could not get into the end zone. But the Wildcats 259 00:13:56.039 --> 00:14:00.480 kicked four field goals and made it as difficult on 260 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:04.600 Georgia as any team could in a long, long time. 261 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:08.320 We started the game with a cold open, as we 262 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:10.519 call it from a guy who knew what it was 263 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:14.120 like to beat the Georgia Bulldogs, and that was former 264 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:15.559 coach Rich Brooks. 265 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:21.120 Beat a team like Georgia, it takes great players making 266 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:26.000 big plays and clutch moments. Coach Rich Brooks knows it 267 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:26.879 can be done. 268 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:30.399 It's always tough to get a win when you're chasing 269 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:35.399 Georgia Bulldogs, but it's not impossible. I should know. My 270 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.559 Wildcat pulled together and beat the Dog's wife in twenty 271 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:43.000 oh six with a season on the line. We fought 272 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:45.919 him on with a big m zone interception. 273 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:47.440 I stayed the good man. 274 00:14:47.240 --> 00:14:53.399 And it was Trevor Ley who made the play. 275 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:56.879 He'd better the faith patter up into the air Lea's. 276 00:14:56.559 --> 00:15:02.240 Content and then mcclog seconds barred. Lidley pick pop a path, 277 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:05.440 ropping down the gold coat and set us to. 278 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:07.639 A bulking Stafford retreats. 279 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:09.600 Mony of time, out of protection is breaking down. He 280 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:11.120 slides right, he throws. 281 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:15.600 The George up the line. 282 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:19.919 The bands are coming out of the infone on each 283 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.039 side as the Wildcats have beaten Georgia for just the 284 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:27.960 eleventh time and sixty tries, and the police could just 285 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:29.159 say the head with a let go. 286 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:31.960 In twenty oh nine and a half us we made 287 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:33.720 big play after big play. 288 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:38.000 He don't go a touch he can get it on lockdown. 289 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:41.120 Derek Lush report, poor turnover. 290 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:46.879 Yell chests down to the Pulldogs seven yard sene the cord. 291 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:47.960 With the interception. 292 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:55.399 The Wildcats went down to Georgia. We were looking for 293 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:57.960 a wind to steal and we did it. 294 00:15:58.480 --> 00:15:59.080 It won't be. 295 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:02.039 Aching, but park stoops in his cats. 296 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:05.279 They can make it happen tonight at Broger Field. 297 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:07.039 Wow. 298 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:10.799 I had a lot of fun putting that together with 299 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:14.240 a coach and reminiscing of his first zoom. We couldn't 300 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:16.679 get that to work, so we did it. I guess 301 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:19.000 we did it over the phone as I recall. Anyhow, 302 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:24.120 the game, you know what happened. Kentucky just couldn't quite 303 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:25.840 punch it into the end zone, as I said. But 304 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:28.399 boy Alex Rayner, who won a bunch of awards at 305 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:31.039 the end of the season, came through. He gave Kentucky 306 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:34.360 the first lead with a fifty five yard field goal. 307 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:38.799 Alex Rayner out there to attempt a fifty five yard 308 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:41.039 field goal. It would be a school record if he 309 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:43.720 makes it because we took under three minutes to play 310 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:45.120 in this opening quarter. 311 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:52.159 Kentucky trying to get on the board. First, good step. 312 00:16:54.279 --> 00:17:00.519 Kick is long enough, it's gone, just clear thess bar. 313 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:05.839 Fifty five school record and personal best fifty five yard 314 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:09.680 field goal by Alex Rainer at Kentucky strikes first. 315 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:14.079 Georgia eventually pulled ahead by thirteen to nine. Kentucky drove 316 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:18.000 into scoring position, had to once again settle for a 317 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:20.799 Rainer field goal, this one from fifty one yards out. 318 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:23.960 A fifty one yard attempt right footed, Rainers got to 319 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:25.440 pull it back to his left a little. 320 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:28.839 Bit good snap, enough leg. 321 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:36.519 God With eight oh one to play, Alex Rainers having 322 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:38.759 a Knight's four for four. 323 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:41.839 And unfortunately that would be it for the scoring of Wildcats, 324 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:45.079 losing thirteen to twelve. But once again they were the 325 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:48.799 talk of college football for how well they played those 326 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:52.759 Georgia Bulldogs. But Wildcats at that point were one and two. 327 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:57.119 Needed something good to happen. Needed it soon. Want to 328 00:17:57.160 --> 00:17:59.359 come on this special edition of the Big Bulling Sider 329 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:04.519 here on six thirty WLAP. Welcome back to this special 330 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:07.359 edition of the Big Blue Insider. As we look back 331 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:10.799 at the Kentucky football season. There were some highlights, and 332 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:14.440 we are sharing with you once again the special celebrity 333 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:17.079 monologues that we ran at the beginning of each game. 334 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:20.039 We had former players, we had coach Rich Brooks, we 335 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:23.640 had celebrities help us open the broadcasts, and they really 336 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:26.160 came off well. I thought, Ohio you was a bit 337 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:30.799 of a quandary because Kentucky had only played the Bobcats 338 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:33.839 a couple of times through their history. But we did 339 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:37.039 find a game back in the mid eighties when a 340 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:40.599 future Hall of Famer, I mean UK Hall of Fame 341 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:43.839 Football Hall of Famer DERMANI. Dawson was part of that 342 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:46.240 game and I was able to connect with him and 343 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:47.720 he helped us open the broadcast. 344 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:53.519 Bobcats ten Wildcats tangled today for just the seventh time, 345 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:56.839 and there's a UK Hall of Famer who remembers the 346 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:00.720 nineteen eighty seven match up quite well, Monte Das. 347 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:04.160 The first time the Ohio Bobcats came to Lexington, they 348 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:07.480 pulled off an upset. They beat Kentucky thirty five to six. 349 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:11.559 That was in nineteen seventy one. They came back in 350 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:15.599 nineteen eighty seven, and this time we were ready upfront, 351 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:18.119 We've locked for guys like Mark Higgs, Ivy, Joe Hunter, 352 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:23.519 and Andy Murray. On defense, we had Albert Barnette, Jerry Reese, 353 00:19:24.039 --> 00:19:28.599 Tony Massey, christianaut and a lot more. We shut them out. 354 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:34.000 Kentucky twenty eight Ohio nothing a team effort top to bottom. 355 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:39.759 The Wildcats need that today. Last week our defense was solid. 356 00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:50.359 Yi Yilder thanks to drop and grow and grow down 357 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:52.920 there in wait great. 358 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:59.880 And the offensive line opened hose all night coming boy. 359 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:01.920 And he's got a lot of runs off the part 360 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:05.599 nine good team twenty five down up here the twenty 361 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:07.039 two yard line. 362 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:09.920 Jordan Gum with the blind and once they. 363 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:12.839 Take it up, the whole tide is open. 364 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:15.440 And Brocko is the part thing It gets down after heat, 365 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:15.960 big up. 366 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:20.799 The Cats need another victory and the time is now Wow. 367 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:25.279 And of course everything went well for the Wildcats, as 368 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:29.519 you might expected a game like that, totally overmatching Ohio. 369 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:32.319 You It was a huge day for rock Bander Grip 370 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:35.880 two hundred and thirty seven yards passing, Demi sumocarn Bay 371 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:39.279 with a couple of touchdowns, Jamerian Wilcox with a career 372 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:43.839 high eighty two yards rushing and he showed early that 373 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:47.720 we could expect a lot from him. Some explosive plays 374 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:48.440 and off to. 375 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:50.759 Will Cox sweeping right, has it out out lost up 376 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:53.319 back out across the morning and he can't break a 377 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:56.839 win there and a big game for Jamaran Willcox left, 378 00:20:56.920 --> 00:20:59.599 Brown and key to tight ends right, Cattis and Dingle 379 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:02.799 handle off will kucksburd hit clips of tackle, angles right 380 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:05.720 twenty five, uses a stiff arm, gets inside the twenty 381 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:09.400 and out of bounds at the seventeen yard line. 382 00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:13.279 Wildcats got a touchdown and then Ohio, you began to 383 00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:15.920 put together a drive and actually got into the red zone, 384 00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:20.039 but the Kentucky defense came a big. JJ Weaver recovering 385 00:21:20.079 --> 00:21:21.720 a fumble, takes the snap. 386 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:26.000 Balls, knock loose ball. Kentucky's got it, oh and then it. 387 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:28.880 Pops out of JJ Weaver's hands and did Ohio get 388 00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:29.319 it back? 389 00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:30.519 Jj? 390 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:31.680 No, Kat's got it. 391 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:34.400 So the offense went back to work. Didn't look like 392 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:37.160 it was going to do much until Vandergriff went to 393 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:38.240 his favorite receiver. 394 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:41.640 Vandergriff against a four man rush, rolling out to his right, 395 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:42.759 fires back into the middle. 396 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:46.480 He's got kids side of the twenty. Here's sideline ten pearls. 397 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:51.359 Up Tackler cuts down to the two yard line Sidney 398 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:52.400 with luck letting love. 399 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:55.279 Ronnie would like that move, and after that it was 400 00:21:55.359 --> 00:21:58.160 Demi Sumo Karne Bay covering the last couple of yards 401 00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:01.039