Speaker 1: Welcome to the special edition of the Big Blue Insider.
Speaker 1: Dick Abriel with you going into the holiday weekend, Well
Speaker 1: it's the weekend preceding the holiday, and of course Kentucky
Speaker 1: basketball coming up Saturday afternoon, the Wildcats playing in New
Speaker 1: York against Ohio State. Usually this time of year, we're
Speaker 1: preparing coverage of Kentucky in a bowl game, but as
Speaker 1: we all know, it ain't gonna happen this year and
Speaker 1: in the year's past. During Bowl week, at some point
Speaker 1: either before or right after the game, I have put
Speaker 1: together a special that I presented that relives all the
Speaker 1: highlights of the football season. Well, there weren't that many
Speaker 1: this year, as we know, there are only four wins.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do something a little bit different this year.
Speaker 1: We're gonna look back on some of the fun we
Speaker 1: did have presenting these games to you because we did
Speaker 1: something different this season. And if you listen to our
Speaker 1: radio broadcast, which we appreciate, I know every game's on TV,
Speaker 1: but there's plenty of pregame and then of course a
Speaker 1: lot of you try to sync things up and listen
Speaker 1: to the radio and watch the TV. We did something
Speaker 1: different and it goes back to what we used to
Speaker 1: do gosh, about fifteen years ago, maybe when the network
Speaker 1: was held by different rights holders. It's kind of an
Speaker 1: inside baseball thing, but we would have kind of a big,
Speaker 1: dramatic opening with music and a guy with a big voice.
Speaker 1: It's a voice that you hear on ESPN and other
Speaker 1: promos and things like that, and we really missed that,
Speaker 1: so we decided to get back to that, only with
Speaker 1: a bit of a twist. We decided to use what
Speaker 1: we were calling celebrities to open the broadcast. Former players,
Speaker 1: former coach Ritch Brooks, even an actor Josh Hopkins, who
Speaker 1: lives in Austin, Texas now, grew up in Lectioning and
Speaker 1: the son of Congressman Larry Hopkins, a big UK fan,
Speaker 1: but his work as an actor led him to Texas.
Speaker 1: That's where he lives now. So we had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun of writing them producing them. I had to
Speaker 1: try to chase these folks down, but when we did,
Speaker 1: they were more than happy to do it. So they
Speaker 1: turned out really well. I think I think everybody who
Speaker 1: did it pitched in and did a great job. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna go back and listen to those and I'll
Speaker 1: have some highlights from the games, even the ones that
Speaker 1: didn't go so well, the games that went in the
Speaker 1: wrong direction, because there were some good plays, some big plays,
Speaker 1: but just not enough of them obviously, So it was
Speaker 1: a different season. It was an odd season. One we
Speaker 1: haven't dealt with much in this part of the football
Speaker 1: world for the last what eight years, nine years since
Speaker 1: Kentucky started going to bowl games. So that's why this
Speaker 1: show will be unlike the others. We won't be presenting
Speaker 1: melts from all the wins. We will present one melt.
Speaker 1: I'm going to play for you, the melt that I
Speaker 1: put together after the Old Miss game. The melt courses
Speaker 1: like eight or nine minutes of all the great plays
Speaker 1: and moments strung together, because that was obviously the biggest
Speaker 1: win of the season, one of the biggest wins in
Speaker 1: all the college football this year. And when you think
Speaker 1: about what happened with ole Miss football this season, that
Speaker 1: loss to Kentucky is probably, I would think, what kept
Speaker 1: Ole Miss out of the playoff. Because when you're up
Speaker 1: in that rarefied air, when people are talking about you
Speaker 1: and thinking about you, that one loss, especially to a
Speaker 1: team with a losing record, could really be damaging to
Speaker 1: your resume. So Kentucky played a bit of the spoiler
Speaker 1: role a little miss this year, so we're going to
Speaker 1: relive that one. But first we're going to start with,
Speaker 1: of course, the season opener, and that came against Southern Mississippi.
Speaker 1: Our first celebrity monologue came from former UK quarterback Bill Ransdell.
Speaker 1: And Tom Leech suggested this because this was the fortieth
Speaker 1: anniversary of the nineteen eighty four Kentucky team that won
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame Bowl, and of course Bill was
Speaker 1: the quarterback. They celebrated with the reunion to the former players,
Speaker 1: and Bill actually came to the garage and sat down
Speaker 1: helped us open the broadcast.
Speaker 2: It's the season of the first step on a journey
Speaker 2: to do something special and memorable. Here's UK Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame quarterback Bill Ransdell.
Speaker 3: Hard to believe it's been four decades since the Kentucky Wildcats.
Speaker 3: My Wildcats put together a special season that was a
Speaker 3: long time coming. The year before, we had set an
Speaker 3: NCAA record for victories by a team that had gone
Speaker 3: winless the season prior, and now we wanted more. In
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty four, we won nine, including the Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame Bowl. Our second straight postseason appearance.
Speaker 4: All right, let's see if they go through with it.
Speaker 4: Jones down on one knee.
Speaker 5: There's a snap they're going to try it, and it
Speaker 5: is long enough.
Speaker 4: It is I believe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he got a good no joy Josh high up
Speaker 2: Kentucky Bill golds distance record having him good pumping gas and.
Speaker 4: Run the first fine nights. It is Kentucky twenty hunt
Speaker 4: in nineteen.
Speaker 3: Today, forty years later, Mark Stoops and his Wildcats begin
Speaker 3: their quest for a ninth consecutive Bowl bit only three
Speaker 3: other teams in the SEC and SATANA. First up on
Speaker 3: the ruling scheduled is Southern Mississippi, a team that is
Speaker 3: always dangerous. But the Cats have a new look offense
Speaker 3: and a talented defense, and they say they're ready to go.
Speaker 3: It's the Wildcats and the Golden Eagles on game day
Speaker 3: here at Kroger Field, coming up next to you.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 1: Of course, the Wildcats with a brand new quarterback, Brock Vandergriff.
Speaker 1: He had a great time. He passed for three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: The UK defense pitched a shutout in the thirty one
Speaker 1: a nothing game, and of course it was weather shortened.
Speaker 1: There were all kinds of concerns about the weather lightning
Speaker 1: and thunder and rain, and long story short, it shortened
Speaker 1: the game by nine minutes and fifty six seconds. They
Speaker 1: you know, after a long rain delay, they decided the
Speaker 1: lightning's not gonna let up, so we're just gonna shut
Speaker 1: it down. Team officials, game officials in communication with the SEC.
Speaker 1: But not before vander Riff, in his first career start
Speaker 1: after transferring in from Georgia, hit on twelve at eighteen passes,
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty nine yards, three scores, Demi Sumo
Speaker 1: carn Bay eight carries for fifty nine yards, and the
Speaker 1: defense holding Mississippi or Southern Mississippi to just one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty one yards. So yeah, it was a fun day.
Speaker 1: The scoring got started when Rock Vandergriff hit Barrion Brown
Speaker 1: first touchdown of the year twelve yards, made it seven
Speaker 1: nothing Wildcats.
Speaker 2: And a Griff retreats looking left, padding the football, now
Speaker 2: scrambling back to the right, throws for the end.
Speaker 4: Zone and did he get it? Touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 1: There was ten to nothing when Demi Sumo Carnbay capped
Speaker 1: off a drive with a touchdown, his first of the year, first.
Speaker 2: And goal at the one had off Subo Carnbay touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 4: He goes in up the middle, standing.
Speaker 1: Up, and then Brock Vandergriff went right back to Barrion Brown,
Speaker 1: this time from twelve yards out. That made it twenty
Speaker 1: four to nothing.
Speaker 2: Here's the pitch ahead to Brown sweeping right across the
Speaker 2: ten break set tackle headed to the far side.
Speaker 4: Touchdown. Kentucky broke a tackle of the five.
Speaker 2: And Baryon Brown snuck in just in front of the
Speaker 2: right front pylon.
Speaker 4: Bill of Cats. Twelve yard touchdown run or passes, we'll go.
Speaker 1: That was a score at halftime. Kentucky would have a
Speaker 1: scoring possession in that third quarter. Rock Vandergriff hit the
Speaker 1: Jimori Macklum for forty six yards set up the Cats
Speaker 1: at the southern miss eight yard line. Two plays later,
Speaker 1: Vandergriff to Jordan Dingle from five yards out.
Speaker 2: The receivers in a triangle outside the right tackle, tight
Speaker 2: end left and a grip with a fake holy right man,
Speaker 2: wide open touchdown Kentucky to It's Dingle, big boy just
Speaker 2: inside the right front python.
Speaker 6: Fitz Barrow is happy, tight End's gonna touchdown.
Speaker 1: And that made it thirty one nothing. And that would
Speaker 1: end up being the final scores. Kentucky opened the season
Speaker 1: with a win over Southern Mississippi. We'll come back with
Speaker 1: more of this special edition of the Big Blue Insider
Speaker 1: as we look back on some of the highlights and
Speaker 1: some of the celebrities who helped us open broadcasts this
Speaker 1: year of Kentucky football games here in the Big Blue
Speaker 1: Insider six thirty WLAP Welcome back to this special edition
Speaker 1: of the Big Blue Insider. Dick Abery with it. We
Speaker 1: are looking back on the UK football season, and yeah,
Speaker 1: there wasn't a whole lot to look back on, of course,
Speaker 1: but this was a year, as I mentioned earlier, where
Speaker 1: we had celebrities open our broadcast. We had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun with that, even though there wasn't a lot
Speaker 1: of fun involved with watching the Wildcats go four and eight,
Speaker 1: but it did kind of lift our spirits. South Carolina
Speaker 1: was the second game on the schedule, and as you recall,
Speaker 1: that game did not go too terribly well. But the
Speaker 1: guy who opened up our broadcast with Jojo Kemp and
Speaker 1: he came to the garage and he helped us recall
Speaker 1: a night when the Wildcats ran literally all over Steve
Speaker 1: Spurrier's game Cocks and Jojo was one of the biggest.
Speaker 2: Reasons Week two for the Kentucky Wildcats, the start of
Speaker 2: SEC play and a matchup that brings to mind a
Speaker 2: phrase that has two meetings.
Speaker 4: Jojo kemp was a Wildcat.
Speaker 7: He wrote It was ten years ago, back in twenty
Speaker 7: fourteen when South Carolina game CAUs came to town and
Speaker 7: got a taste of the Wildcat for mission.
Speaker 4: I had a lot of fun that night.
Speaker 2: Wildcat formation snapped the cap and he goes then touch
Speaker 2: down Kentucky straight up to then on the Wildcat boridation.
Speaker 7: My office. A line was super. They helped me run
Speaker 7: for one hundred and thirty one yards.
Speaker 1: At three touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Direct snap to kemp Man. He goes in standing up.
Speaker 4: It's crazy for the touchdown, that's amazing. I'm amazed at
Speaker 4: that kid.
Speaker 7: My third score tied the game thirty eight thirty eight,
Speaker 7: and that's when our defense came up.
Speaker 4: He steps up of the pocket. It's deflected up into
Speaker 4: the air.
Speaker 8: It's inner thing, duck down Dentucky thud.
Speaker 1: The pre caught it right.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 2: He flipped it into the air and the pre caught
Speaker 2: it in full stride.
Speaker 7: I mean Bud the pre put us up a touchdown.
Speaker 7: Then our defense held again, so it was up to
Speaker 7: us the offense to kill the rest of the clock.
Speaker 2: Kemp straight ahead and he's got the first down.
Speaker 4: I think there's the chain stretched out.
Speaker 2: They put down the stick first down Kentucky. The Wildcats
Speaker 2: defeats South Carolina forty five to thirty eight.
Speaker 7: Gang over, the Big Blue Nation stormed the field.
Speaker 4: And it's party times.
Speaker 2: The fans come on the field and Commonwealth Stadium.
Speaker 4: We said, the game calls home.
Speaker 10: We need to do that again tonight.
Speaker 4: We're changing the game. Why not Kentucky? Why not us?
Speaker 7: I'll said again what I said back then, Why not us?
Speaker 7: Why not Kentucky?
Speaker 9: Wow?
Speaker 1: And as I said, nothing good to remember about that game.
Speaker 1: Wildcats lost at thirty one to six, even though they
Speaker 1: had twelve tackles for loss in three sacks. The defense
Speaker 1: acquitted itself. Well finally it just kind of collapsed. Ty
Speaker 1: Bryant did have an interception.
Speaker 2: Sellers drops the throw all day, dancing around Buyers into
Speaker 2: the middle and it's intercepted across the thirty and falling
Speaker 2: down at the twenty eight yard line. I'm making the
Speaker 2: interception was Ty Bryant the sun board from here in Lexington,
Speaker 2: the son of Warner Wildcats Cisco Bryant, sets up the
Speaker 2: Wildcats inside the South Carolina.
Speaker 4: Thirty yard line.
Speaker 1: Biggest play for the Wildcats offensively was Brock Vandergriff hooking
Speaker 1: up with Dane Key forty two yards And there was
Speaker 1: something we saw all year as Brock tried to go
Speaker 1: to Dane, who became his favorite receiver.
Speaker 4: Play fake. He's throwing deep down the near side.
Speaker 2: For Key and he pulls it in and didn't he
Speaker 2: make the catch? Yes, want to throwing catch at the
Speaker 2: South Carolina thirty nine yard line. Vandergriff dropped that in
Speaker 2: like a directional punt and Key fielded it over his
Speaker 2: shoulder and got knocked out of.
Speaker 11: Bounds at the thirty nine yard line of South Carolina.
Speaker 1: But that's all the Wildcats could muster a couple of
Speaker 1: field goals, losing to the game Cocks, who went on
Speaker 1: to have a pretty strong season. Next game, what might
Speaker 1: be the most puzzling game of the year, maybe even
Speaker 1: more so than Theil Miss game, which of course was
Speaker 1: an upset win by the Wildcats. On the road. Georgia
Speaker 1: comes to town and we still weren't sure what we
Speaker 1: were seeing with Kentucky, But of course whatever confidence we
Speaker 1: might have had as fans as media was shaken by
Speaker 1: that loss. They just did not look good at all
Speaker 1: against South Carolina and their edge rushers. We thought, what
Speaker 1: in the world is Georgia going to do to this team? Well,
Speaker 1: big bad Georgia came in and Kentucky played the Bulldogs
Speaker 1: right out of their cleats to that one point lost,
Speaker 1: and I still look back on that as a sort
Speaker 1: of a reminder of what might have been. If the
Speaker 1: Wildcats had stayed together, had stayed healthy, they could have
Speaker 1: won that game. Wasn't it should have, but could have.
Speaker 1: As you recall, there was a controversial decision at the
Speaker 1: end of the game by Mark Stoops to punt the
Speaker 1: ball and put everything on its defense to get the
Speaker 1: ball back, which it did not, as Georgia converted on
Speaker 1: a big third downplay, and that was the game. Kentucky
Speaker 1: had moved the ball between the thirties basically and just
Speaker 1: could not get into the end zone. But the Wildcats
Speaker 1: kicked four field goals and made it as difficult on
Speaker 1: Georgia as any team could in a long, long time.
Speaker 1: We started the game with a cold open, as we
Speaker 1: call it from a guy who knew what it was
Speaker 1: like to beat the Georgia Bulldogs, and that was former
Speaker 1: coach Rich Brooks.
Speaker 2: Beat a team like Georgia, it takes great players making
Speaker 2: big plays and clutch moments. Coach Rich Brooks knows it
Speaker 2: can be done.
Speaker 12: It's always tough to get a win when you're chasing
Speaker 12: Georgia Bulldogs, but it's not impossible. I should know. My
Speaker 12: Wildcat pulled together and beat the Dog's wife in twenty
Speaker 12: oh six with a season on the line. We fought
Speaker 12: him on with a big m zone interception.
Speaker 4: I stayed the good man.
Speaker 2: And it was Trevor Ley who made the play.
Speaker 4: He'd better the faith patter up into the air Lea's.
Speaker 12: Content and then mcclog seconds barred. Lidley pick pop a path,
Speaker 12: ropping down the gold coat and set us to.
Speaker 2: A bulking Stafford retreats.
Speaker 4: Mony of time, out of protection is breaking down. He
Speaker 4: slides right, he throws.
Speaker 5: The George up the line.
Speaker 2: The bands are coming out of the infone on each
Speaker 2: side as the Wildcats have beaten Georgia for just the
Speaker 2: eleventh time and sixty tries, and the police could just
Speaker 2: say the head with a let go.
Speaker 12: In twenty oh nine and a half us we made
Speaker 12: big play after big play.
Speaker 4: He don't go a touch he can get it on lockdown.
Speaker 4: Derek Lush report, poor turnover.
Speaker 2: Yell chests down to the Pulldogs seven yard sene the cord.
Speaker 4: With the interception.
Speaker 1: The Wildcats went down to Georgia. We were looking for
Speaker 1: a wind to steal and we did it.
Speaker 4: It won't be.
Speaker 1: Aching, but park stoops in his cats.
Speaker 4: They can make it happen tonight at Broger Field.
Speaker 13: Wow.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun putting that together with
Speaker 1: a coach and reminiscing of his first zoom. We couldn't
Speaker 1: get that to work, so we did it. I guess
Speaker 1: we did it over the phone as I recall. Anyhow,
Speaker 1: the game, you know what happened. Kentucky just couldn't quite
Speaker 1: punch it into the end zone, as I said. But
Speaker 1: boy Alex Rayner, who won a bunch of awards at
Speaker 1: the end of the season, came through. He gave Kentucky
Speaker 1: the first lead with a fifty five yard field goal.
Speaker 2: Alex Rayner out there to attempt a fifty five yard
Speaker 2: field goal. It would be a school record if he
Speaker 2: makes it because we took under three minutes to play
Speaker 2: in this opening quarter.
Speaker 4: Kentucky trying to get on the board. First, good step.
Speaker 2: Kick is long enough, it's gone, just clear thess bar.
Speaker 2: Fifty five school record and personal best fifty five yard
Speaker 2: field goal by Alex Rainer at Kentucky strikes first.
Speaker 1: Georgia eventually pulled ahead by thirteen to nine. Kentucky drove
Speaker 1: into scoring position, had to once again settle for a
Speaker 1: Rainer field goal, this one from fifty one yards out.
Speaker 2: A fifty one yard attempt right footed, Rainers got to
Speaker 2: pull it back to his left a little.
Speaker 4: Bit good snap, enough leg.
Speaker 2: God With eight oh one to play, Alex Rainers having
Speaker 2: a Knight's four for four.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately that would be it for the scoring of Wildcats,
Speaker 1: losing thirteen to twelve. But once again they were the
Speaker 1: talk of college football for how well they played those
Speaker 1: Georgia Bulldogs. But Wildcats at that point were one and two.
Speaker 1: Needed something good to happen. Needed it soon. Want to
Speaker 1: come on this special edition of the Big Bulling Sider
Speaker 1: here on six thirty WLAP. Welcome back to this special
Speaker 1: edition of the Big Blue Insider. As we look back
Speaker 1: at the Kentucky football season. There were some highlights, and
Speaker 1: we are sharing with you once again the special celebrity
Speaker 1: monologues that we ran at the beginning of each game.
Speaker 1: We had former players, we had coach Rich Brooks, we
Speaker 1: had celebrities help us open the broadcasts, and they really
Speaker 1: came off well. I thought, Ohio you was a bit
Speaker 1: of a quandary because Kentucky had only played the Bobcats
Speaker 1: a couple of times through their history. But we did
Speaker 1: find a game back in the mid eighties when a
Speaker 1: future Hall of Famer, I mean UK Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Famer DERMANI. Dawson was part of that
Speaker 1: game and I was able to connect with him and
Speaker 1: he helped us open the broadcast.
Speaker 2: Bobcats ten Wildcats tangled today for just the seventh time,
Speaker 2: and there's a UK Hall of Famer who remembers the
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven match up quite well, Monte Das.
Speaker 5: The first time the Ohio Bobcats came to Lexington, they
Speaker 5: pulled off an upset. They beat Kentucky thirty five to six.
Speaker 5: That was in nineteen seventy one. They came back in
Speaker 5: nineteen eighty seven, and this time we were ready upfront,
Speaker 5: We've locked for guys like Mark Higgs, Ivy, Joe Hunter,
Speaker 5: and Andy Murray. On defense, we had Albert Barnette, Jerry Reese,
Speaker 5: Tony Massey, christianaut and a lot more. We shut them out.
Speaker 5: Kentucky twenty eight Ohio nothing a team effort top to bottom.
Speaker 5: The Wildcats need that today. Last week our defense was solid.
Speaker 4: Yi Yilder thanks to drop and grow and grow down
Speaker 4: there in wait great.
Speaker 5: And the offensive line opened hose all night coming boy.
Speaker 4: And he's got a lot of runs off the part
Speaker 4: nine good team twenty five down up here the twenty
Speaker 4: two yard line.
Speaker 11: Jordan Gum with the blind and once they.
Speaker 3: Take it up, the whole tide is open.
Speaker 11: And Brocko is the part thing It gets down after heat,
Speaker 11: big up.
Speaker 5: The Cats need another victory and the time is now Wow.
Speaker 1: And of course everything went well for the Wildcats, as
Speaker 1: you might expected a game like that, totally overmatching Ohio.
Speaker 1: You It was a huge day for rock Bander Grip
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty seven yards passing, Demi sumocarn Bay
Speaker 1: with a couple of touchdowns, Jamerian Wilcox with a career
Speaker 1: high eighty two yards rushing and he showed early that
Speaker 1: we could expect a lot from him. Some explosive plays
Speaker 1: and off to.
Speaker 2: Will Cox sweeping right, has it out out lost up
Speaker 2: back out across the morning and he can't break a
Speaker 2: win there and a big game for Jamaran Willcox left,
Speaker 2: Brown and key to tight ends right, Cattis and Dingle
Speaker 2: handle off will kucksburd hit clips of tackle, angles right
Speaker 2: twenty five, uses a stiff arm, gets inside the twenty
Speaker 2: and out of bounds at the seventeen yard line.
Speaker 1: Wildcats got a touchdown and then Ohio, you began to
Speaker 1: put together a drive and actually got into the red zone,
Speaker 1: but the Kentucky defense came a big. JJ Weaver recovering
Speaker 1: a fumble, takes the snap.
Speaker 4: Balls, knock loose ball. Kentucky's got it, oh and then it.
Speaker 2: Pops out of JJ Weaver's hands and did Ohio get
Speaker 2: it back?
Speaker 3: Jj?
Speaker 4: No, Kat's got it.
Speaker 1: So the offense went back to work. Didn't look like
Speaker 1: it was going to do much until Vandergriff went to
Speaker 1: his favorite receiver.
Speaker 2: Vandergriff against a four man rush, rolling out to his right,
Speaker 2: fires back into the middle.
Speaker 4: He's got kids side of the twenty. Here's sideline ten pearls.
Speaker 14: Up Tackler cuts down to the two yard line Sidney
Speaker 14: with luck letting love.
Speaker 1: Ronnie would like that move, and after that it was
Speaker 1: Demi Sumo Karne Bay covering the last couple of yards
Speaker 1: to give the Wildcats a seven team nothing lead. They
Speaker 1: would take into the locker room at halftime.
Speaker 4: Off the right hash mark.
Speaker 2: They give it to Subel tarn Bay and he's got
Speaker 2: his second touchdown.
Speaker 4: Right up the middle.
Speaker 1: Wildcats added a field goal in the third quarter. There
Speaker 1: was about five minutes left to go in the period.
Speaker 1: Maxwell Harston strikes again with a pick six that tied
Speaker 1: the UK school record. That was his third as a Wildcats.
Speaker 4: All that shit, it's.
Speaker 14: Gonna be a pick six, Hann's Maxwell Harriston Tye Dallassons
Speaker 14: with his third.
Speaker 4: Career pick six.
Speaker 1: Harriston was a preseason All Conference pick, and why not
Speaker 1: after the year he had last season, but spent much
Speaker 1: of this season on the sideline injured, one of the
Speaker 1: many reasons the Wildcats struggled this year. Wildcats kept scoring
Speaker 1: though against the Bobcats. Barrion Brown made the Jets sweep work.
Speaker 2: And they give it on the Jet sweep to Bari
Speaker 2: and Brown trying to get outside across the twenty cotton
Speaker 2: alley at the tent at the five touch Wow, Kentucky.
Speaker 4: They finally hitdle the jets around the left edge.
Speaker 6: Tom did that look like those TVs were running in
Speaker 6: quicksand I mean they had him dead to rights and
Speaker 6: he just out ran up to the end zone.
Speaker 4: He hit the gas and it was goodbye.
Speaker 1: And the Wildcats added one more Gavin whims that took
Speaker 1: it in for his first touchdown as a Wildcats.
Speaker 2: I'm a two, gotta keep it himself and he goes
Speaker 2: in standing up touchdown Kentucky, the first one the Polingsborough
Speaker 2: High Schools Gavin Whimson.
Speaker 1: So that meant the Wildcats were two and two, and
Speaker 1: most prognosticators really thought that at this point Kentucky would
Speaker 1: be three and one, because well most of us predicted
Speaker 1: win over South Carolina, seeing us how the game was
Speaker 1: here in Lexington. But as you know, South Carolina better
Speaker 1: than we thought it would be. That's why the Wildcats
Speaker 1: were two and two after their first four games heading
Speaker 1: into a trip to Oxford, Mississippi, and it looked as
Speaker 1: though the Rebels had put together a pretty good football team,
Speaker 1: which in fact, they did, but the Wildcats pulled one out,
Speaker 1: and as I said earlier, if it hadn't been for
Speaker 1: one other game, it was a bit of a surprise,
Speaker 1: Kentucky would have dominated the headlines. But that was the
Speaker 1: same day Alabama beat Georgia, handed the Bulldogs their first
Speaker 1: conference loss in forever forty one to thirty four, So
Speaker 1: that kind of nudge Kentucky's upset win down just to tick.
Speaker 1: When the talking heads across the country were going through
Speaker 1: the highlights, it was still a huge win for the Cats.
Speaker 1: And when we come back, we'll revisit it as I
Speaker 1: have a melt for you. Yeah, we're going to relive
Speaker 1: all the highlights of the Kentucky Ole Miss game on
Speaker 1: the other side of the break here on this special
Speaker 1: edition of the Big Blue and Siders six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to this special edition of the Big Blue
Speaker 1: and Sider. Dick Gabriel with you. We are looking back
Speaker 1: on highlights and there were some of the Kentucky football season,
Speaker 1: including our celebrity monologue opens that takes us to a
Speaker 1: trip to Oxford, Mississippi.
Speaker 2: Did you know Kentucky has taken down top ten Ole
Speaker 2: Miss teams in the past, including one in nineteen sixty
Speaker 2: nine quarterbacked by Archie Manny.
Speaker 4: The Kentucky quarterback was Bernie Scruggs.
Speaker 15: Back in nineteen sixty nine, nobody expected us to beat
Speaker 15: On Miss, and we were playing in Stonefield.
Speaker 10: The Rebels were ranked ninth in the country.
Speaker 15: They opened the season with an easy win over memphild
Speaker 15: State the Wildcats. Well, we were coming in after a
Speaker 15: wild one with Indiana. We put up thirty points, usually
Speaker 15: good enough to win. Trouble is the who's you scored
Speaker 15: fifty eight? That's whys? Cast was such underdogs when Old
Speaker 15: Miss came to town, but believe it or not, we
Speaker 15: pulled off one of the biggest of sets in the
Speaker 15: history of UK football.
Speaker 10: The Rebels took an early lead.
Speaker 15: In the second quarter on the field goal in a
Speaker 15: sixty four yard run by the great Archie Manny, but
Speaker 15: our Dave Hunter blocked the extra point and that came
Speaker 15: up big down the stretch. In the third quarter, we
Speaker 15: were down nine to three in driving at the Old
Speaker 15: Miss twenty three.
Speaker 10: Houston Hogg made a big run for us. Later on
Speaker 10: the drive, Houston Hogg makes this fine.
Speaker 2: I put on a big third down play for Kentucky.
Speaker 10: He got the first down of the all Mess six
Speaker 10: and then I was able to slip in to the
Speaker 10: end zone. Bernie Scruggs runs out to take it.
Speaker 15: In part of Kentucky when Bobby Jones came in and
Speaker 15: kicked the crucial extra fort in the fourth quarter, we
Speaker 15: forced an hole Miss fumbled at three yard line and
Speaker 15: picked off an Archie manning fans. We held on for
Speaker 15: a ten nine win over the Rebels, who would belonged
Speaker 15: to win the Sugar Bartle, but that day belonged to
Speaker 15: the Wildcats.
Speaker 10: It can happen again today.
Speaker 2: Wow, good afternoon from bought Hemingway Stadium on the campus
Speaker 2: of the University of Mississippi in Oxford. I'm toy Lynch
Speaker 2: along the former Wildcat white out Jeff Pikoro, Dick Gabriel
Speaker 2: down on the sidelines, dark with a plate faith Now
Speaker 2: he's pressured, moves up into the.
Speaker 4: Pocket, throws down the middle of line. Open. He's got
Speaker 4: Harris and he is going to get close to the touchdown. No,
Speaker 4: he's down a one yard line.
Speaker 2: First and goal to go or Ole Miss at the
Speaker 2: one and I'll perish straight ahead.
Speaker 4: He got out and all Miss.
Speaker 9: That is just four defense, right there, you're walking to
Speaker 9: the line of this privage.
Speaker 4: Nobody was even.
Speaker 9: Ready for Kentucky and ole Miss just walked into the
Speaker 9: end zone.
Speaker 2: Vandergrim On a keeper, heads off to the right, gets
Speaker 2: across the thirty, breaks a tackle across the twenty five,
Speaker 2: still going and knocked out of bounds over on the
Speaker 2: far side at the twenty two yard line. It's eleven
Speaker 2: yards and another first downs for Kentucky. Cabin into the
Speaker 2: game now as Rock gets a brillier after that run.
Speaker 4: Thinke By Whim said.
Speaker 2: He goes straight ahead, breaks a couple of tackles, gets
Speaker 2: inside of fifteen and has a first down to the
Speaker 2: eleven yard line. Rainer twenty seven yarders. It's going to
Speaker 2: be spotted at you ole Miss seventeen yard line to
Speaker 2: trying to get Kentucky on the board.
Speaker 4: It's good. I'm thirteen left to play here.
Speaker 2: At the opening quarter, each team scores on its opening drive,
Speaker 2: but it's ole Miss seven in Kentucky.
Speaker 4: Three on the UK sports Edward dark d backfield heading
Speaker 4: the football and he's out. He's sacked.
Speaker 9: Nice Tom Kentucky was playing.
Speaker 4: We call it cover seven.
Speaker 6: They're five hunder and two tep and there was no
Speaker 6: place for dark to throw him when he stepped up
Speaker 6: as swallowed him up.
Speaker 2: That brings the first quarter to an end. It's seven
Speaker 2: three rebels.
Speaker 4: Third and seventh Kentucky showing blitz off the edges. They
Speaker 4: bring six.
Speaker 2: Dart in trouble dancing around and he sacked Ea back
Speaker 2: of the forty one yard line. Dion Walker and Jamon
Speaker 2: Dumas Johnson drop him for a loss of five bill
Speaker 2: first out for Kentucky. Vandergrip sliding left on the option,
Speaker 2: makes the pitch Cosumo Karme. He's got room up the
Speaker 2: far side. He has the first down forced out of
Speaker 2: bounds out at the thirty one yard line after a
Speaker 2: game of fourteen yards.
Speaker 4: What's a new look in Kentucky? Makes you work?
Speaker 2: Dart the play fIF he is thrown deep up the
Speaker 2: near sideline and it's broken up at the Kentucky forty
Speaker 2: yard line by and Bryan. They were both there going
Speaker 2: step for step with Juice Wells in South Carolina.
Speaker 6: Transfer and there you see they you know, they take
Speaker 6: that deep shine again all the way down to the
Speaker 6: forty yard line where that ball came down, but no
Speaker 6: pressure on dark Lander.
Speaker 4: Grip fakes it to Sumo Carnbay. Quick throw into the middle.
Speaker 4: He's got key.
Speaker 2: First down into Ole Miss territory at the Rebels forty
Speaker 2: nine yard line.
Speaker 4: He picked up sixteen. Boy really liked Dad.
Speaker 6: He knows going over the middle he's gonna get clocked,
Speaker 6: but man, he has gotten some guts to do that.
Speaker 6: He comes right into the teeth of the deep fense,
Speaker 6: finds it opening and rock double clutches and puts it on.
Speaker 2: The money to white outs right, one tight end each
Speaker 2: way for vander Gridlet's coming up the middle.
Speaker 4: Plaything. Vander Grim setting deep fires.
Speaker 11: Into the middle of the Family's got key inside the
Speaker 11: Old Miss forty pull down close to the thirty five
Speaker 11: yard line, up the Rebels twenty four yard game.
Speaker 4: Turning on the tackle again, k gets inside the corner.
Speaker 4: A beautiful move to the post.
Speaker 2: Second down five and the Ole Miss fifteen. Two tight
Speaker 2: ends right, two wideouts left hand off. Sumo Karbay bounces
Speaker 2: it out left. He's got space at the ten, cuts
Speaker 2: back right and drives his way down close to the
Speaker 2: five yard line. First down. Maybe that'll be first in
Speaker 2: gold to go After a ten yard run by Demmy
Speaker 2: Sumo Carnbay.
Speaker 6: But great blocking on the outside by day. Key could
Speaker 6: have held, but he did it. He stayed in front
Speaker 6: of his van. Beautifully done. He'd love to get zeven
Speaker 6: here instead of three numbers.
Speaker 4: Vander gret fires into the middle, broke.
Speaker 9: It up, Black Henter down mass interference.
Speaker 4: They were trying to get Key in the middle of
Speaker 4: the end zone, right under the gold.
Speaker 2: Boats, and they're gonna call holding first down, automatic first
Speaker 2: down either way. Seven penalties forty eight yards today whistled
Speaker 2: against Ole miss one for ten for Kittuch, Vandergriff play
Speaker 2: faith retreating, throwing it to the.
Speaker 6: Back of the end zone, touch touchdown, Sir tasting.
Speaker 2: Ky tracking the back blind the intone and Vandergriff just
Speaker 2: floaded it out there to him and Keith reached down
Speaker 2: and snatched it with two hands. The Wildcats are in front.
Speaker 2: Twenty seven play in the half. The trips to the left,
Speaker 2: one wide out right. Darthy for sure coming again.
Speaker 3: He shot it.
Speaker 4: Oxen done got it. Yep. The big fella got a
Speaker 4: little ticked off. He just said, you won't call it.
Speaker 4: I'll just go get it. He did. Boy, loss of
Speaker 4: six back to the twenty ole miss out of timeouts.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 2: Kentucky is going to take the lead into the locker
Speaker 2: room at halftime on the home field of the number
Speaker 2: sixteen in the country, the Wildcats ten the Old Miss
Speaker 2: Rebels seven and inspired first thirty minutes for Kentucky.
Speaker 4: Nick Gabriel's gonna catch up with coach Mark Stuts. Coach,
Speaker 4: I gotta think you love the pace of this game.
Speaker 1: You've really controlled it.
Speaker 13: We have controlled the pace of the game, and both
Speaker 13: defense has to get stopped. We've been disruptive, We've covered well.
Speaker 13: As we talked about all week. The pacer play early
Speaker 13: got us and then we settled right in and offensively,
Speaker 13: it really kept us in the game, controlling it. Obviously
Speaker 13: we knew we had to score there, but you know,
Speaker 13: so it's really important to get in the end zone.
Speaker 13: We got to continue to play aggressive. I went for
Speaker 13: a couple of those fourth downs, and you know it's
Speaker 13: worked out.
Speaker 4: So you know, so far, so good. A big, big
Speaker 4: half here and.
Speaker 2: The Wildcats take a ten to seven lead into the
Speaker 2: locker room here in Oxford.
Speaker 4: Two minutes gone in this third quarter, three and out
Speaker 4: for Kentucky and off the Paris straight ahead breaks away.
Speaker 2: Got a big game into Kentucky territory to the forty
Speaker 2: nine yard line, Jeff.
Speaker 4: They had it for a game of a yard or two.
Speaker 9: Yeah, they had he right it the line of scrivage,
Speaker 9: but he just ran through two arm tackles.
Speaker 2: Jackson, Dart Hump Bake Rights. He is gonna run and left,
Speaker 2: and he is in trouble. He's gonna be hitting drought.
Speaker 1: For a loss.
Speaker 4: Walker Dumas, Johnson.
Speaker 2: Ty Bryant not fooled. They drop in for a loss
Speaker 2: of three, fourth and six, trying to tie the game
Speaker 2: with nine fifty four to play. Here in the third quarter,
Speaker 2: Sun's back under the clouds now here in Oxford.
Speaker 4: It's that way up high and it's good, and the
Speaker 4: game is tied. Ole Mis ten and Kentucky ten.
Speaker 2: Vandergriff the receivers each way fakes left, rows, rights, complete
Speaker 2: the key.
Speaker 4: Thirty five forty breaks.
Speaker 2: Through a tackle up the far sideline, out of bounds,
Speaker 2: up at the Kentucky forty six yard line, twenty one
Speaker 2: yard game.
Speaker 4: They give it to Wilcox running.
Speaker 2: Left, got an alley across the fifty forty five, runs
Speaker 2: over a tackler, knocks an oldest defender, back, goes inside
Speaker 2: the forty to the rebels thirty seven yard line.
Speaker 4: Donnery finally made the tackle on him a game of seventeen.
Speaker 4: So it'll be a forty eight yard field goal attempt
Speaker 4: for Rainer.
Speaker 2: I'll pull this back to the left a little bit,
Speaker 2: he said, already for twenty seven today on your leg.
Speaker 4: It's good. Thirteen in a row.
Speaker 2: Kentucky retakes the lead with six thirty one to play
Speaker 2: in the third Kentucky thirteen pull Miss ten on the
Speaker 2: UK Sports Network, fourth and seven, two receivers each Way
Speaker 2: or Dart coming down to the end of the third quarter.
Speaker 2: Blitz coming, Dart throws it into the middle and it's
Speaker 2: caught for the first down, and it's a lot more
Speaker 2: Harris running through the middle.
Speaker 4: Of the defense, cuts left.
Speaker 2: You'll go in for a touchdown. Kentucky brought everybody on
Speaker 2: all out. Blitz Ole Miss picks it up. Harris on
Speaker 2: a deep slant, makes the catch and I don't know
Speaker 2: that anybody ever touched it. Forty seven yard touchdown pass
Speaker 2: on fourth and seven.
Speaker 9: Well, when you give it up like that, you've got
Speaker 9: to get on your guy.
Speaker 4: And he was wide open, streaking.
Speaker 6: Right through the middle of the field of post pattern
Speaker 6: if you will, skinny pose, and once they picked up
Speaker 6: the Blintz Dark was able to pat it and then
Speaker 6: fire it right to him and and that kid when
Speaker 6: he gets in the open field.
Speaker 2: You can forget about ten seconds to play in the
Speaker 2: third quarter, and Old Miss goes back in front. Here
Speaker 2: in Oscar seventeen to thirteen on a forty eight yard
Speaker 2: touchdown pass on fourth and seven, So fourth and ems
Speaker 2: from its own nineteen Mark Stews pushing the chips to
Speaker 2: the center of the table.
Speaker 4: The four h four to play, trailing seventeen thirteen. They
Speaker 4: don't make it.
Speaker 2: Ole misses and Minimum starts in field goal rings. Vandergriff
Speaker 2: drops let's coming.
Speaker 11: He's throwing it up the far sideline and it's cold
Speaker 11: Brown at the thirty four.
Speaker 4: He stayed himself, comes back across the near side of the.
Speaker 14: Thirty head to twenty down of the seventeen.
Speaker 4: Yard line of Old Miss wanna throw.
Speaker 2: Vandergriff dropped it in and right into the hands of
Speaker 2: Brown streaking down the left side.
Speaker 9: There's the chunk play you were looking for. And Ivy
Speaker 9: is down back in the fifteen yard line. He started
Speaker 9: to run up the field and he just fell down.
Speaker 6: He's gonna give the team a blow, but Kentucky has
Speaker 6: it inside the red zone.
Speaker 4: Now wow, he tiptoed the.
Speaker 6: Sidelines top stadium bounds and got himself an extra ten
Speaker 6: or twelve yards.
Speaker 2: Sixty two yards on the completion to Baryon Brown. As
Speaker 2: the Cats are back in the red zone, first and
Speaker 2: ten Kentucky just inside the left hash mark of the
Speaker 2: Ole Miss seventeen yard line. They give it the Sumo
Speaker 2: Carbay bouncing that left, He's got room fifteen ten carrys
Speaker 2: that tackler for a first down to the six yard line.
Speaker 2: Wimst Now the quarterbacks who will Carnvay to his left,
Speaker 2: whimsip on a keeper running left and the five drops
Speaker 2: his shoulder cap.
Speaker 4: So the two bubble the football? Did it go into
Speaker 4: the end zone? Touchdown? Kentucky on the recovery in the
Speaker 4: end zone.
Speaker 2: Trying to see who got it, Cattis Josh Cattis recover
Speaker 2: the ball.
Speaker 11: It popped out of Whimsit at the two. It went
Speaker 11: right to Canis in the end zone.
Speaker 2: Kentucky twenty oh Miss seventeen with two twenty five to
Speaker 2: play in the game.
Speaker 4: Here in Oxford, Mississippi dart.
Speaker 2: Sets deep stunted up front, Ole Miss kicks it up.
Speaker 2: He scrambles off to the right, throws it deep into
Speaker 2: the middle of the field. Life and good dawn time,
Speaker 2: Cay raised carn Christen story, Christen's story, got lost?
Speaker 4: Are you doing?
Speaker 2: Makes the catch at the Kentucky thirty four yard line.
Speaker 2: You got Kayden Davis, a senior. The ball's gonna be
Speaker 2: spotted just shine of the thirty nine yard line of Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Just get big, boys. We'll call this a forty.
Speaker 4: Nine yard field goal attempt off the right hashbar.
Speaker 2: Davis is a right footed kicker, so we have to
Speaker 2: pull this back to the left a little bit to
Speaker 2: try and tie the game with fifty three seconds left,
Speaker 2: a little bit of a low staff.
Speaker 4: They get it down, kicks on the way. No, what holdy.
Speaker 2: Forty eight seconds to play and old this comes up empty?
Speaker 3: Yes, how about that?
Speaker 4: The sidelines FD and Mark Stookeson is.
Speaker 2: Kentucky Wildcats have shocked the comics football world. Time go Bubba,
Speaker 2: a miracle in the Magnolia State. We're Kentucky Wildcats twenty
Speaker 2: the old Miss Rebels seventeen.
Speaker 1: Suddenly the Wildcash were the talk of college football. Gave
Speaker 1: the program and the fan base new life. What would
Speaker 1: happen next? Well, not a lot of good stuff, but
Speaker 1: there were some fun moments. We'll come back in relive
Speaker 1: more of the highlights coming up in hour number two.
Speaker 1: In the special edition of The Big Blue Insider, You're
Speaker 1: on six thirty wlap manag Welcome back to the Big
Speaker 1: Moon Sider. Dick Gabriel with you on this Thursday edition
Speaker 1: of our show. We are enroute to New York City,
Speaker 1: so I thought we would drop in a special edition
Speaker 1: of the BBIS we look back on the football season
Speaker 1: and I wasn't really one to remember, but we had
Speaker 1: a good time with it on the network side, putting
Speaker 1: together the Celebrity opens, as we call the monologue is
Speaker 1: delivered by former players and coach Rich Brooks and some celebrities.
Speaker 1: After the Old Miss victory, the Wildcats were home with Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1: This was supposed to be a win for Kentucky. Of course,
Speaker 1: as you know, it didn't work out that way, but
Speaker 1: it started with a great performance by a former Wildcat,
Speaker 1: former Kentucky defensive back Van Hiles.
Speaker 16: In nineteen ninety six, our season was heading in the
Speaker 16: wrong direction. We lost six off first seven games before
Speaker 16: we turned things around in a big way.
Speaker 2: Quarnerback Van Hiles arguably one of the best players on
Speaker 2: Kentucky's defense.
Speaker 16: He started fourth and turnovers. In fact, we finished second
Speaker 16: in the SEC that year in seventeenth in the country.
Speaker 4: Van Hiles off the time.
Speaker 16: We put it together in late October with an upset
Speaker 16: of the Georgia Bulldogs. The next week more Bulldogs, he
Speaker 16: knocked off Mississippi State and then came Van We.
Speaker 14: Mentioned Van Hiles won an outstanding job he has done
Speaker 14: at corner.
Speaker 16: We had lost five straight to the commodore We needed
Speaker 16: something good that happened, and it did.
Speaker 4: We shut them out.
Speaker 16: It was twenty five to nothing, our third straight SEC win.
Speaker 16: You picked off two passes and forced the fumble at.
Speaker 4: The Wildcats stop twenty yard line.
Speaker 16: The Commodorees are comfort after that upset win over Alabama.
Speaker 2: Vanderbilt takestown number one Alabama.
Speaker 16: But our Wildcats are coming off a big win of
Speaker 16: there on two weeks ago at Old Miss.
Speaker 2: The sidelines up in Mark Stukes and Is, Kentucky Wildcats
Speaker 2: have shut the college football world.
Speaker 16: I had to go bub We're won eight of the
Speaker 16: last ten over Vandis and it's time to slam the
Speaker 16: doors again tonight. Wow.
Speaker 1: But as you know it didn't work out that way.
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt would win six games this season, including a huge
Speaker 1: upset win over Alabama, first in the history of the school,
Speaker 1: and and the Wildcats just could not generate much offense.
Speaker 1: They did, though, managed to drive for a touchdown down
Speaker 1: seven to nothing early in the second quarter. Got a
Speaker 1: TV from Demisumo Karnbay.
Speaker 4: Vandergriff out of the shotgun, set back right at Sumo Karna.
Speaker 2: Who gets the call touchdown Kentucky, following Eli Coxon Jagger Bert.
Speaker 1: What Kentucky gave up a touchdown at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half, trail fourteen to seven, gave up two
Speaker 1: more field goals to fall behind twenty to seven before
Speaker 1: the Cats put together a long drive Rock Vandergriff finding
Speaker 1: Fonte Key from twenty two yards out.
Speaker 4: Following the left Hash Park and here comes Keith in
Speaker 4: motion to the slot of the near sight.
Speaker 2: So trip's right for Vandergriff, who stunt up front five
Speaker 2: man rush throw into the middle of the field. It's
Speaker 2: caught my Key, touchdown Kentucky right down the seam on
Speaker 2: the right side.
Speaker 1: That made it twenty thirteen. Kentucky blew the extra point,
Speaker 1: never got the ball back close enough to get it
Speaker 1: into the end zone, and the final was the Wildcats
Speaker 1: falling to the Commodores by seven. After that was the
Speaker 1: trip to Florida, and this one was frustrating because the
Speaker 1: Gators were struggling at the time. They had quarterback issues.
Speaker 1: DJ Lagaway was the new starter because ram Mertz was
Speaker 1: injured and out for the rest of the year for Lagway,
Speaker 1: a freshman, but Kentucky just made too many mistakes. Did
Speaker 1: make a lot of big plays. Wildcats were in the
Speaker 1: game in the latter stages, but just couldn't quite hold
Speaker 1: it together. We turned to a Florida native who had
Speaker 1: played well against those Gators in a couple of victories
Speaker 1: during his Kentucky career, former UK offensive lineman Kenneth Horsey.
Speaker 2: Kentucky has dominated the series with Florida in recent years,
Speaker 2: and the reversal form began in twenty eighteen. The Cats
Speaker 2: won that night at the Swamp and ended a long
Speaker 2: losing streak to Florida. Offensive lineman Kenneth Horsey was a
Speaker 2: freshman on that team.
Speaker 17: In twenty eighteen, we went to Gainesville to play the Gators.
Speaker 17: Back then, Kentucky had lost thirty one straight to Ford him,
Speaker 17: but we were tired of hearing all that, so we
Speaker 17: did something about it.
Speaker 2: Poor man rush as Wilson sets to throw, looking down field,
Speaker 2: growing down field, touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 17: David Booby ad The Gators led by three at half,
Speaker 17: but after that it was all wild Cats.
Speaker 4: Baby flitzing off the edges, spranks draped the throw down.
Speaker 4: Here they come up the middle of.
Speaker 10: The cot of sacked touchdown. Terry Wilson was incredible.
Speaker 4: Wilson thanks the pitch on a keeper at the twenty.
Speaker 2: At the fifteen ten five touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 17: He ran for a touchdown and threw for two more.
Speaker 4: He is throwing deep.
Speaker 2: Boden's out there, got it tuck down Kentucky.
Speaker 17: Our defense hit him down in the second half and
Speaker 17: even scored a touchdown on the last plate with them missed.
Speaker 2: He's head as he grows it clutters incomplete with five
Speaker 2: seconds to plate.
Speaker 4: Touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 2: DeVante Robinson I think was who picked that ball up,
Speaker 2: and they signaled touchdown for Kentucky.
Speaker 4: After further reviewing, the ruling on the field of a
Speaker 4: fumble is confirmed.
Speaker 9: The streak is over.
Speaker 4: After thirty one long games. The streak ends the.
Speaker 17: Streak was open. And now we've won ford last six,
Speaker 17: including three straight. We need to make it four in
Speaker 17: a row tonight.
Speaker 1: In the Swamp Wow, Kentucky held Florida to a couple
Speaker 1: of field goals before the Wildcat offense got kicked in
Speaker 1: the gear on the flea flicker Vandergriff and Barrying Brown
Speaker 1: forty five yards out.
Speaker 2: Two wide outs, left, tight end in a wide out
Speaker 2: to the right now Anderson going in motion right.
Speaker 4: They give it to some fleet flicker.
Speaker 2: Brown's wide open touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 4: The fleet flicker works perfectly for the Cats.
Speaker 1: Great call by bush hand Dan, perfectly executed by Brown
Speaker 1: and Vandergriff, really by everybody but Kentucky. Mishandles the snap
Speaker 1: on the try for the extra point, and it's tied
Speaker 1: at six apiece in the second quarter. Wildcats with a
Speaker 1: defensive highlight. Second player of Florida drive UK's Christian story
Speaker 1: picks off Lagway and returns the ball sixty three yards
Speaker 1: to the eleven yard line, like.
Speaker 2: Way dropping to throw into the middle of the field
Speaker 2: and accepted by Kentucky coming the other way across the forty.
Speaker 2: It's story across the Florida forty across the thirty, cuts
Speaker 2: left at the twenty, cooks through a.
Speaker 4: Tangle and gets down to the ten yard line.
Speaker 1: You know, I love the way Tom calls touchdowns. Everybody does,
Speaker 1: but I think a close second is the way he
Speaker 1: calls interception because they're so sudden and so welcome. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: this particular interception didn't lead to any points, and the
Speaker 1: Gators took over. They were actually able to drive for
Speaker 1: a touchdown and let it twenty to six. Late in
Speaker 1: the half, they added another touchdown. I go have twenty
Speaker 1: seven to six, but Burying Brown took the ensuing kickoff
Speaker 1: ninety nine yards.
Speaker 4: The kick is high, but it's not going to make
Speaker 4: the end zone. Brown fields that at the goal on.
Speaker 2: It's up the numbers on the right side at the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, thirty cuts right, pasting it outside, cuts
Speaker 2: back to the left. He's got an alley across the fifties,
Speaker 2: still upright across the thirties across the twenty fifteen, ten
Speaker 2: to five touchdown, Kentucky Burying Brown get six back.
Speaker 4: Well, he's even I.
Speaker 1: Made it twenty seven to thirteen. That was your halftime score.
Speaker 1: Kentucky actually came out and put pressure on the Gators,
Speaker 1: Gavin Wimsed moving the Wildcats to a touchdown, and it
Speaker 1: was twenty seven to twenty. Midway through the third quarter, block.
Speaker 2: Ticking at eight forty five second and goal at the one.
Speaker 2: It's still whimset at the controls. He takes the snap,
Speaker 2: he's gonna run it, lowers his head and dives across signal.
Speaker 4: Touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 1: But that was as close as the Wildcats could get,
Speaker 1: and Kentucky had fallen in Gainesville by a final of
Speaker 1: forty eight to twenty. After that, when the Cats came
Speaker 1: home to take on Auburn, and Kentucky hasn't played Auburn
Speaker 1: a lot and hasn't beaten Auburn in quite a while,
Speaker 1: But in fact, we went to a guy who helped
Speaker 1: quarterback the Wildcats to a victory on the road at
Speaker 1: Auburn back in the Rich Brooks era. Morgan Newton opened
Speaker 1: the broadcast for him.
Speaker 2: The last time Kentucky beat Auburn was two thousand and
Speaker 2: nine on the Tigers' home field. The game came a
Speaker 2: week after starting QB Mike Hartline went down with an
Speaker 2: injury and Morgan Newton, a freshman, took the controls with
Speaker 2: some help from Randall Common Will Fiddler.
Speaker 18: There haven't been many wins for my Wildcats over the
Speaker 18: Auburn Tigers. For the game I like remember happened in
Speaker 18: twenty oh nine, the Wildcats were struggling when we went
Speaker 18: down to the plane. We had lost three straight, each
Speaker 18: one to a top twenty five team, so we decided
Speaker 18: to turn things around.
Speaker 4: Auburn jumped out to an early leave.
Speaker 18: The Cats came back behind three different quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: It was like we took turn first down at ten
Speaker 4: to the sky.
Speaker 1: In the second quarter, I ran one in for a touchdown.
Speaker 2: How the Wildcat ripping their upsman quarterbacks morgant New for score.
Speaker 18: In the second half, while our defense was busy completely
Speaker 18: shutting out the Tigers, Will Fiddler got one too.
Speaker 4: Middler's gonna keep it up.
Speaker 2: Shut touchdown Chentucky.
Speaker 18: And with the score tie three minutes to play, Randall
Speaker 18: Cobb ripped off an explosive run.
Speaker 4: Hey tod, what good of speed does he have?
Speaker 18: And then out of the Wildcat formation, he scored the
Speaker 18: winning touchdown.
Speaker 2: He's got rude touts down Chittucky.
Speaker 10: That's right.
Speaker 18: Three Kentucky quarterbacks scored that night as we upset the
Speaker 18: Tigers on their home field. Now they're on our turf,
Speaker 18: and we need to take them down tonight.
Speaker 1: In hindsight, this was one of the most frustrating losses
Speaker 1: of the year. This came in a three game swing
Speaker 1: where the Wildcats had a shot at wins at all
Speaker 1: of them, Vanderbilt, Florida, and Auburn. Some of us sought
Speaker 1: Kentucky would get at least two out of three. The
Speaker 1: most optimistic people thought the Wildcats could take all three
Speaker 1: of those games going into Knoxville. Of course, as we
Speaker 1: know now, Cats didn't win any of them, but Vandy
Speaker 1: was a surprise. Yes, Florida, it's always going to be
Speaker 1: tough in Gainesville. But I really believe that with Auburn
Speaker 1: struggling the way it was, that Kentucky would get the
Speaker 1: Tigers and kind of right itself. But the Wildcats wasted.
Speaker 1: A really good performance by Dane Key four catches eighty
Speaker 1: seven yards. Defense did a great job until it just
Speaker 1: kind of ran out of steam. The Wildcats with six
Speaker 1: tackles for loss, including four sacks. Jordan Loved at nine tackles.
Speaker 1: Jam and Dumas Johnson had eight tacks including a sack.
Speaker 1: The one thing they could not do, though, was keep
Speaker 1: joh Quest Hunter from running over and through the Cats.
Speaker 1: He had twenty three carries for two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: eight yards, including a fifty yard run and a pair
Speaker 1: of touchdowns. Meanwhile, the Kentucky offense just wasn't getting much
Speaker 1: of anything done. Auburn with twenty seven first downs, three
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty six net yards rushing and another one
Speaker 1: seventy two through the air, and Wildcats only thirteen first
Speaker 1: downs two hundred and twenty four total offensive yards. That
Speaker 1: means Hunter out gained single handedly outgained the Kentucky offense,
Speaker 1: an Auburn team that went on to be five and
Speaker 1: seven and a Kentucky team that desperately needed a win
Speaker 1: but just couldn't make anything happening on that one. So
Speaker 1: what that meant was Kentucky going into the Tennessee game
Speaker 1: with all kinds of injuries, had lost three straight. After
Speaker 1: the upset win overall, miss Wildcats lose to Vandy, Florida
Speaker 1: and Auburn, So we thought Knoxville might get ugly, but
Speaker 1: it was just the opposite. We'll talk about that on
Speaker 1: the other side of the break here on the Big
Speaker 1: Mollon sider six thirty WLAP. It was a banged up
Speaker 1: Kentucky team to travel to Tennessee, and not many Wildcat
Speaker 1: fans were optimistic because this was a volunteer squad that
Speaker 1: was putting together a pretty good season. With all the
Speaker 1: holes in the Kentucky lineup. Out of Kentucky fans, media
Speaker 1: as well, we all braced ourselves for what might be
Speaker 1: a beat down, and we had seen a few of
Speaker 1: those in Knoxville. But we had seen Kentucky as well
Speaker 1: be competitive with Tennessee, and that's exactly what we saw
Speaker 1: that night. In fact, Kentucky made a statement on the
Speaker 1: very first play, but not before our broadcast was opened
Speaker 1: by the widow of the late great Kentucky offensive line
Speaker 1: coach John Schlrman.
Speaker 2: As John Schlarmon was as a player, he may have
Speaker 2: been a better coach in the old line. He walked
Speaker 2: the sidelines for the final time here in Knoxville four
Speaker 2: years ago and saw as alma mater do something it
Speaker 2: had not done since nineteen eighty four. They beat the Falls.
Speaker 2: Here's Leanne Schlarmer.
Speaker 8: When Kentucky place the Big Orange today at Knoxville, it
Speaker 8: will bring back happy memories of the day, the Walkats
Speaker 8: scored one of their greatest wins over Tennessee and dedicated
Speaker 8: the win to my husband John. The UK defense stole
Speaker 8: the first two touchdowns.
Speaker 4: He looks righty y dinner set kill ladies, could be
Speaker 4: a pick six. Hit the whole way, Joseph to five touchdown.
Speaker 4: Kentucky fires over the middle.
Speaker 14: Said Davis at the twenty cuts left, gets.
Speaker 4: Up left ten stuggling falls into the ends of tentuckye wuck,
Speaker 4: my goodness.
Speaker 8: Then they turned the game over to the offense and
Speaker 8: the big blue wall that day made coach Slarman proud
Speaker 8: with the rest of the BBN the.
Speaker 2: Gift of Rodriguez running left, he hesitates and pillars his
Speaker 2: way in touchdown Kentucky off left tackle.
Speaker 8: Kentucky beat Tennessee and Knoxville for the first time since
Speaker 8: nineteen eighty four. Later on, in a noisy UK locker room,
Speaker 8: the game ball went to the man who inspired the
Speaker 8: Wildcats that day, John Schlarman, own.
Speaker 4: Job, guys, you come together, nobody can stop.
Speaker 19: Wow.
Speaker 1: The response to that piece on social media was tremendous,
Speaker 1: and John Schlarman would have been proud of the way
Speaker 1: the Wildcats played that night despite being down so many
Speaker 1: injured teammates, Kentucky fought from the opening play.
Speaker 4: Brown in motion left hand off Willcox, right.
Speaker 2: Damn big hole cuts right and it's a foot race
Speaker 2: down there sideline, across the forty.
Speaker 4: Across the thirty. It's a baron.
Speaker 2: Willcox has pushed out of bounds at the tennis. We've
Speaker 2: seen twenty seven yard line by the last line of
Speaker 2: a defense. Andre Turantine.
Speaker 1: Wildcats moved all the way to the Tennessee five yard line,
Speaker 1: but once again stalled in the red zone. Didn't get
Speaker 1: any points, but Kentucky did take the early lead. With
Speaker 1: about five minutes left to play in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: it was Brock Vanderriff finding Josh Kattis who made a
Speaker 1: terrific play from twenty seven yards away.
Speaker 2: Empty backfield tight end Rice Vandergriff, quick thrower to the Millis,
Speaker 2: got Canis across.
Speaker 1: The tent, across the.
Speaker 4: Five, touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 2: He bounced off the tackle a tempt inside the five,
Speaker 2: and Josh Cannis puts Kentucky on the board first.
Speaker 1: Vaulves would tie the game. Kentucky retook the lead at
Speaker 1: ten to seven, but eventually Tennessee led at twenty one
Speaker 1: to ten in the third quarter, but that's when Gavin
Speaker 1: Wimsen came on for the injured Rock Vandergrift and led
Speaker 1: Kentucky on a seventy five yard six play touchdown drive.
Speaker 1: Kentucky cut it to three points. Just inside the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: Wembsit throwing down the far sideline. He catch it touchdown goodness.
Speaker 2: Jimury Macklin well over the shoulder of a Tennessee defender
Speaker 2: and right into the hands of Macklin with thirteen thirty
Speaker 2: one to play in the fourth quarter, at Kentucky gets
Speaker 2: seven back for get six back quickly, but.
Speaker 1: That was as close as Kentucky could get, the Wildcats
Speaker 1: finally succoming twenty eight to eighteen down in Knoxville. After
Speaker 1: that came an open date, and the Wildcats made good
Speaker 1: use of it with all the injured players. Next on
Speaker 1: the schedule was Murray State, which still competes at essentially
Speaker 1: the old one double A level FCS, and under new management,
Speaker 1: the Racers are trying to rebuild, but quite frankly, they're
Speaker 1: one of the worst teams in MBV, worst at the
Speaker 1: FCS level. Wildcats were able to get well physically and emotionally.
Speaker 1: The guy who opened it up for us played against
Speaker 1: the Racers not too long ago.
Speaker 2: Kentucky and Murray State last played in twenty eighteen. The
Speaker 2: catscisively after a bit of a slow start. Perhaps we
Speaker 2: should have seen that coming, since the Cats were coming
Speaker 2: off that win at Florida that ended a long losing streak.
Speaker 4: Here's Cash Daniel.
Speaker 20: When we hosted Murray State back in twenty eighteen, we
Speaker 20: were rolling. We had just come back from an upset
Speaker 20: win at Florida when we snapped that ugly thirty one
Speaker 20: game losing streak.
Speaker 10: Some people thought we might not be ready for the Racers.
Speaker 10: No chance.
Speaker 20: We came out firing and our quarterback lit the fuse.
Speaker 20: Terry Wilson broke one for forty two yards and our
Speaker 20: first touchdown.
Speaker 2: Wilson with a play fake, and he's sitting up deep
Speaker 2: looking down the middle of the field. Now he's gonna
Speaker 2: pull it.
Speaker 4: Down and run straight ahead across the forty breaks.
Speaker 2: Attack across the thirty wide open cuts left in the tent.
Speaker 2: He'll go in, standing up touts down Chentucky touch down
Speaker 2: Terry Wilson.
Speaker 10: And Benny Snell.
Speaker 20: Well, he just couldn't be stopped.
Speaker 2: They give it to snail straight ahead at the five,
Speaker 2: so away to the one, turns it in touchdown.
Speaker 4: Kip Tucky, Benny Selm Junior.
Speaker 10: And the defense. Yeah, we had some fun too.
Speaker 20: We were deep and talented, including a guy who'd go
Speaker 20: on to win a Curple Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Range swing pass the nearside, Cass Steel tackle for a loss.
Speaker 4: Mike Edwards ridd It flew down hill to make the
Speaker 4: stunt before a loss of five on the completion.
Speaker 20: We rolled over the racers back then, and we need
Speaker 20: to do it again today at Kroger Field.
Speaker 13: Wow.
Speaker 1: And as you might expect, the wildcatch raced off to
Speaker 1: a great start, beginning.
Speaker 11: With defense Johansson rolling out to his right and he
Speaker 11: throws and it's intercepted.
Speaker 4: Love it down at the thirty two yard line. Jordan
Speaker 4: love It picks it off.
Speaker 1: And the offense took over with a spectacular play from
Speaker 1: Rock Vandergriff to a freshman receiver.
Speaker 4: Pumps throwing deep.
Speaker 11: He's looking for Hartley Gilmour and it's all front touchdown goodness.
Speaker 11: It went right through the hands of a Murray State
Speaker 11: defender k Von Reid and right into the hands of
Speaker 11: Hardy gilmore Or a touchdown his first one as a
Speaker 11: Wildcat is going to be especially memorable.
Speaker 1: The offense would add a field goal, another touchdown, and
Speaker 1: the defense came through again.
Speaker 4: Drops to throw fires into the middle.
Speaker 11: It's slipped up into the air, tapping, intercepted by Kentucky
Speaker 11: love It. Love It got another one off the deflection
Speaker 11: of the Murray State receiver. Pops up into the air
Speaker 11: and love It tips it to himself and intercepts it
Speaker 11: at the nine yard line to thwart the drive by.
Speaker 1: The Racers, and the offense took advantage, this time Vandergriff
Speaker 1: throwing to a veteran receiver.
Speaker 11: Vandergriff drops, he is looking left. He throw it to
Speaker 11: the far side and it's caught touchdown in the back
Speaker 11: left corner of the end zone to Murray Backland well thrown.
Speaker 4: Bault dropped it right over the defender.
Speaker 1: That made a twenty four halftime. Kentucky came out with
Speaker 1: its first drive in the third period, went seventy five
Speaker 1: yards for a score.
Speaker 11: They handed off to Wilcox, spins and stretches touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 11: He got hit at the three and he spun and
Speaker 11: stretched the ball out.
Speaker 4: Across the goal line. Well done.
Speaker 1: Late in the game, Cutter Bully made an appearance. We
Speaker 1: thought we would see him, and he actually threw a
Speaker 1: couple of touchdown passes to the same receiver.
Speaker 11: Bully holding the ball, fires Man wide open at the
Speaker 11: five slips a tackle, touchdown Kentucky. Anthony Brown Stevens on
Speaker 11: fourth and one from the twenty two yard line, two
Speaker 11: receivers each way. Rodriguez on the hashmark to the right,
Speaker 11: Bolly looking left, he guns it caught, touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 1: And once again it was Anthony Brown Stevenson. Cutter Bowley
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun that day. So did the Wildcats.
Speaker 1: They went at forty eight to six. Kentucky needed something
Speaker 1: good to happen, and of course it did, but it
Speaker 1: had to expect that in a game like that.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The following week, the Wildcats went to Austin, Texas, and
Speaker 1: with Rock Vandergriff banged up, it was Cutter Bowley who
Speaker 1: got the start against the Longhorns. We'll come back and
Speaker 1: tell you all about that one on the other side
Speaker 1: of the break. Here on this special edition of The
Speaker 1: Big Bloon Sider six point thirty wlap Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Big Bloom and Siders Special Edition. Dick Gabriel with
Speaker 1: you on a Thursday night. We're looking back at the
Speaker 1: Kentucky football season, and yes, I know it wasn't exactly
Speaker 1: what any of us had in mind. There were some
Speaker 1: big plays and of course the first trip for the
Speaker 1: Wildcats down to Austin, Texas in a million years, and
Speaker 1: by then it was a Kentucky team that was so
Speaker 1: banged up and beat up. Before the game began, we
Speaker 1: opened the broadcast with a monologue from a Kentucky fan
Speaker 1: who lives in Austin now, Josh Hopkins, the son of
Speaker 1: the late Congressman Larry Hopkins. We prevailed upon him to
Speaker 1: open things up for us, and as you might expect,
Speaker 1: an actor did a pretty good job with the script.
Speaker 2: There's one Kentucky fan living here in Texas who believes
Speaker 2: the Cats can shot the college football world today.
Speaker 1: And it's not an act.
Speaker 4: Here's Lexington native and actor Josh Hopkins. I can't wait
Speaker 4: for the Wildcats to get to Austin. My Wildcats now.
Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong. Austin is a great place to live.
Speaker 4: But I missed the Cats and they looked good last week.
Speaker 4: They handed off to Wilcox, spins and stretches, touched out Kentucky.
Speaker 11: No wait, he got hit at the three and he
Speaker 11: spun and stretched the ball out across the goal line.
Speaker 4: Well, it was a feel good.
Speaker 1: Game, I mean, just what we all needed, the players
Speaker 1: and the fans.
Speaker 4: Vandergriff drops.
Speaker 11: He is looking less, but he thrown to the far
Speaker 11: side and it's cot touchdown. Offense was explosively holding the ball,
Speaker 11: fires Man wide open at the five slips attack touchdown Kentucky.
Speaker 11: Anthony Brown Stevens a fourth and one from the twenty
Speaker 11: two yard line.
Speaker 4: Defense made plays all day.
Speaker 11: Joe Hanson rolling out to his right and he throws
Speaker 11: and it's intercepted. Love it down at the thirty two
Speaker 11: yard line. Jordan love It picks it.
Speaker 4: Off, and now we take on the mighty Longhorns, and
Speaker 4: they're good. We've got a real shot.
Speaker 18: I got a bunch of Longhorn friends here, and all
Speaker 18: I hear about is the burnt orange.
Speaker 4: Well, I'd like to turn this town blue, big blue.
Speaker 1: It was a warm day and a packed house down
Speaker 1: in Austin. The atmosphere was incredible. And of course this
Speaker 1: is a Texas team that is still in the running
Speaker 1: for a national championship. So every game vital, and that's
Speaker 1: the way the Longhorns played. In fact, they took that
Speaker 1: opening kickoff and marched to a touchdown, putting the Wildcats
Speaker 1: behind seven to nothing. But Kentucky opened up with a
Speaker 1: big play in its first play, eighteen yard run by
Speaker 1: will Cox. Couldn't get much done until late first half,
Speaker 1: early set or late first quarter early second quarter, after
Speaker 1: the defense had stopped a pair of Texas drives, Kentucky
Speaker 1: put together a drive of his own nine plays, seventy
Speaker 1: three yards. The biggest play of the drive was Vandergriff
Speaker 1: to Macklin for forty two yards.
Speaker 2: Nelson Willclarbay coming back in motion left four man rush,
Speaker 2: Vandergriff getting pressure, scrambles right, grows, He's got Nachlan open,
Speaker 2: makes the catch. He's across the twenty, inside the fifteenth,
Speaker 2: out of bounds. It'll be first down Kentucky in the
Speaker 2: red zone, powered by Toyota at the Texas twelve yard line.
Speaker 1: The final four yards Brock Vandergrift to Josh Kattis, who
Speaker 1: made a terrific play fourth.
Speaker 2: Down this season Kentucky nine for twenty one.
Speaker 4: He sprunt up to the line.
Speaker 2: Vandergriff play fake looking right, man's not open, he retreats.
Speaker 2: He throws touchdown Kentucky Josh Caddis.
Speaker 1: Nice catch, Joh He made a tumbling grab in the
Speaker 1: end zone that tied the game at seven apiece. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the rest of the half belonged to the Longhorns. They
Speaker 1: let it twenty four to seven. Late in the half,
Speaker 1: Rock Vandergriff was sacked, ended up being injured and was
Speaker 1: not able to go in the second half, so Cutter
Speaker 1: Bowley started for the Wildcats in the third period. His
Speaker 1: first play from scrimmage, sacked for a loss of thirteen.
Speaker 1: Defender came clean and crushed him. Very next play, he
Speaker 1: drops back and looks deep.
Speaker 4: Bully drops into the end zone. He is thrown deep
Speaker 4: up the near sideline.
Speaker 2: He's got brown up and pulls it in and stumbles
Speaker 2: out of bounds up near midfield.
Speaker 1: A couple plays later, it was Bully again to Macklin
Speaker 1: for thirty eight yards, which would have taken Kentucky down
Speaker 1: to the twelve yard line, but the Wildcats were called
Speaker 1: for holding, so they had to punt it away. Later
Speaker 1: on in the quarter, Texas made a mistake and the
Speaker 1: Wildcats capitalized.
Speaker 2: Yours leaves it with flute ball bumble away. Kentucky's got
Speaker 2: it at the Texas thirty two yard line.
Speaker 1: So now the momentum was starting to shift toward the Wildcats.
Speaker 1: And from the Texas thirty two cutter Bowley goes deep
Speaker 1: down the right sideline to Rodriguez, who makes the catch
Speaker 1: at the Texas twelve, carries it to the seven yard line.
Speaker 1: On first down, Wilcox picks up six yards from the one.
Speaker 1: He loses two yards. On third down, Bowlie sacked for
Speaker 1: a loss of twelve. Wildcats going backwards, but they line
Speaker 1: up for a field goal by the reliable Alex Rayner,
Speaker 1: but he missed his only miss of the year from
Speaker 1: thirty three yards out and Kentucky gets nothing out of
Speaker 1: the turnover. But on the very next possession for Texas,
Speaker 1: the Longhorns on their own thirty one yard line made
Speaker 1: another mistake. This time the Wildcats made him pay.
Speaker 4: Diystial formations, play fake viewers.
Speaker 14: Balls close, Kentucky got down Dumas Johnson touchdown.
Speaker 2: Kentucky defense ses, we'll do it for you. Hit popped
Speaker 2: right into his hands after was dislodged from the right
Speaker 2: hand of yours by Octavius Hunts and dives that made.
Speaker 1: A twenty four to fourteen late in the third. The
Speaker 1: team swap punts a couple of times. Kentucky gets the
Speaker 1: ball back early fourth quarter and is able only to
Speaker 1: get it to the Texas forty three. Wildcats punted away
Speaker 1: with eleven and a half minutes to play, still time
Speaker 1: if they could get some stops, but it just didn't happen.
Speaker 1: As Texas began to grind out yardage on the ground,
Speaker 1: The Long Orange put together a fifteen play eighty six
Speaker 1: yard drive that took eight minutes and twenty two seconds
Speaker 1: in every play was on the ground, led to a
Speaker 1: touchdown made of thirty one to fourteen. Wildcats get the
Speaker 1: ball back with about three minutes left and could not score.
Speaker 1: Kentucky played well, acquitted itself well down in Austin, just
Speaker 1: not good enough Wildcats followed by a final of thirty
Speaker 1: one to fourteen. Season finale came up after that the
Speaker 1: Louisville Cardinals, and some of us thought Kentucky still had
Speaker 1: a shot at it. In fact, with the Harold Leaders Survey,
Speaker 1: I said Kentucky would win by a point if the
Speaker 1: Wildcats won the turnover battle and if they protected the
Speaker 1: quarterback they didn't neither. They got off to a terrible start.
Speaker 1: I'm not even going to bore you with the plays
Speaker 1: from that game, but what I will share with you,
Speaker 1: by the way, Kentucky losing that one forty one to
Speaker 1: fourteen after falling behind twenty to nothing. But what I
Speaker 1: will share with you is the monologue that opened the
Speaker 1: broadcast from Stevie Johnson. He was an obvious choice to
Speaker 1: open this one, of course, because of Stevie got loose
Speaker 1: back in twenty oh seven on my birthday, September fifteenth,
Speaker 1: when Rich Brooks's best team, that twenty oh seven team
Speaker 1: to set records for offense, really showed the Kentucky faithful
Speaker 1: that this was a team that was better than the
Speaker 1: team before and six that team went to the Music
Speaker 1: City Bowl, but it lost to the Cardinals, and it
Speaker 1: looked like they were on their way to another loss,
Speaker 1: this time in Lexington. But late in the game Wildcats
Speaker 1: kept it close, finally made a big play that turned
Speaker 1: things around. And that's what Stevie talked about when he
Speaker 1: opened our broadcast of UKUL.
Speaker 4: Kentucky versus Louisville.
Speaker 19: One of the greatest memories of my career as a
Speaker 19: Wildcat twenty oh seven was a special season.
Speaker 4: Baby.
Speaker 19: We handled business and had a lot of fun and then.
Speaker 4: Let Stevie Johnson wide open. He just ran to the
Speaker 4: back of the end zone. They turned around at Andre.
Speaker 4: That was the easiest touchdown. Bask he's gonna throw.
Speaker 19: People might remember to catch I made in the LSU game,
Speaker 19: Derek Lock picking up a blitzing linebacker and Andre Woodson
Speaker 19: had just enough time to throw that sweed down.
Speaker 4: What's a pump fake? He floats it man wide open
Speaker 4: gun touch down? It is STEVEE Johnson.
Speaker 19: Brashton Kelly made a huge tackle to stop LSU and
Speaker 19: we beat the number one team in the country. For
Speaker 19: most folks might remember me from a game earlier that
Speaker 19: year against those Cardinals, And you might not recall this,
Speaker 19: but I scored the first touchdown of the game.
Speaker 4: Plenty of times fires touchdown, Tucky.
Speaker 2: Somebody got lost and STEVIEE Johnson was one open in
Speaker 2: the back cliff quarter of the n.
Speaker 19: So I know that's not the touchdown you remember, though,
Speaker 19: It's this one.
Speaker 4: What's it from the gun play? Fake?
Speaker 1: Step it up?
Speaker 4: He's throwing d Devin there.
Speaker 1: Son on Tucky.
Speaker 4: Wow thirteen. You ain't lucky number.
Speaker 19: Yeah, that's the nice Stevie got Loose and we partied
Speaker 19: all night in Commonwealth Stadium.
Speaker 4: My teammates and.
Speaker 19: I dug in and laid it on the line that night,
Speaker 19: and the cast needs to do it again today at
Speaker 19: Kroger Field.
Speaker 17: It's time to get loose.
Speaker 10: Let's get it Wildcats.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: Stevie did a tremendous job, and in fact I had
Speaker 1: set up a zoom call with him, but he jumped
Speaker 1: into this project before I even had a chance to
Speaker 1: connect with him via zoom. He recorded his part on
Speaker 1: I guess on his phone or whatever. He sent me
Speaker 1: the audio files and it had kind of that echoey
Speaker 1: effect that I thought added to it. And if you
Speaker 1: were paying attention, you noticed that Tom Leach would open
Speaker 1: the monologue and introduce the speaker. But Tom and I
Speaker 1: talked about this, but in the way Stevie opened it
Speaker 1: up with that chuckle and immediately talking about the Stevie
Speaker 1: got Loose, everybody knew who it was going to be.
Speaker 1: We thought that worked out really well. Unfortunately, that was
Speaker 1: probably the best part of the broadcast. As I said,
Speaker 1: As you know, the Wildcats got off to a poor
Speaker 1: start and just never really could make any headway against
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. The good news is all the teams have
Speaker 1: beat Kentucky this year. They're on the schedule for next year.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that on the other side of the
Speaker 1: break here on this special edition of the Big Blue
Speaker 1: Sider six point thirty WLAP Welcome back, final segment of
Speaker 1: our program, our football postseason special. Not a special season,
Speaker 1: but it's a special time because of course the transfer
Speaker 1: portal doors are spinning and as we pre record this
Speaker 1: right now. To me, most of the important news is
Speaker 1: about offensive line, because it doesn't matter who they sign quarterback,
Speaker 1: running back, wide receiver. If the old line isn't rebuilt properly,
Speaker 1: they're going to struggle again. They'll have a losing season
Speaker 1: again next year. In a Dylan Ray part time starter
Speaker 1: each of the last two years, of course, entered the
Speaker 1: portal earlier this week. He played more last year than
Speaker 1: he did this year, was injured early, so kind of
Speaker 1: lost his spot in the rotation. But Kentucky has picked
Speaker 1: up a number of transfers already to the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Wallace Unamba from New Mexico has signed on with the Wildcats.
Speaker 1: Twice named a junior college All American red shirted at
Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic and then transferred to New Mexico. So he joins,
Speaker 1: among other transfers, offensive lineman Joshua Braun, an offensive guard
Speaker 1: from Arkansas who already has five years of experience in
Speaker 1: the SEC six six three thirty eight, but he's got
Speaker 1: one more year to play and he's gonna play it
Speaker 1: at Kentucky. Alex Wolfschlager and O tackle from Bowling Green
Speaker 1: six seven three five spend five seasons at Bowling Green
Speaker 1: and now has one more to spend. He's going to
Speaker 1: spend it with the Wildcats. So Kentucky apparently rebuilding the
Speaker 1: O line, and as we speak, we're still not sure
Speaker 1: who's going to be the quarterback, but that may have
Speaker 1: changed between the time I record this and the time
Speaker 1: you hear it. When I get back from New York
Speaker 1: next week, i'll go over all of this with Aaron
Speaker 1: Gershan on the Cats Paws and we'll we'll go through
Speaker 1: all the action that's going to happen over the weekend
Speaker 1: with the transfer portal. But bottom line is it is
Speaker 1: a time of great change in every college football program,
Speaker 1: or so it seems. And Mark Stoops at his most
Speaker 1: recent news conference said things do need to change right
Speaker 1: now at Kentucky.
Speaker 21: Players see opportunity sometimes and so you know that may
Speaker 21: help you, you know, with some difference makers, and then
Speaker 21: it's up to them, you know. You know that is uh,
Speaker 21: you know, a fine line because you know, sometimes guys
Speaker 21: come out of nowhere. You know that you you know,
Speaker 21: maybe thought you knew you wouldn't sign them if you
Speaker 21: didn't know they were a very good player, but they're
Speaker 21: ready sooner than you thought. And sometimes vice versa, you know,
Speaker 21: and uh, you know, and sometimes those are the conversations
Speaker 21: you're having with guys that maybe want to leave. It's like, hey,
Speaker 21: you know, back in the old days, we really you know,
Speaker 21: developed and you're on track and you're going to be
Speaker 21: a really good player. But sometimes they just want to
Speaker 21: go play right now, you know, And that's okay. You know,
Speaker 21: guys that you know that are in our developmental phase,
Speaker 21: but they want to go be the guy somewhere. That's
Speaker 21: that is their decision, and that's just the changing landscape
Speaker 21: and we're totally okay with that. You know, Continuity is
Speaker 21: very important, but in today's world, you know, you've got
Speaker 21: to do the best you can year to year and uh,
Speaker 21: let's be honest them, but we didn't have very good years.
Speaker 21: So I'm pretty pretty excited about change. We need some
Speaker 21: positive change.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 1: The portal at times has been good to Kentucky and
Speaker 1: as you know, not so much. So it just matters
Speaker 1: how they've evaluated who they get and how well they
Speaker 1: can plug them in. They've got a brand new receivers coach.
Speaker 1: You were introduced to him yesterday. La Damian Washington actually
Speaker 1: was named Tuesday evening. He spent the last two years
Speaker 1: as the wide receivers coach pass game coordinator at South Florida,
Speaker 1: spent a year at Oklahoma, one year at Southern U
Speaker 1: down in Baton Rouge. He was also a director of
Speaker 1: player development at his alma mater, Missouri and worked with
Speaker 1: the then quarterbacks coach Bush Hamden played at MISSOUI from
Speaker 1: nine to thirteen and played in a losing effort at Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Said he remembers being there, tweaked his foot, suffered a
Speaker 1: foot injury. But now he's the wide receivers coach, and
Speaker 1: he says it's up to him to earn the trust
Speaker 1: of his players.
Speaker 4: Right now.
Speaker 22: My job is to transform him to understand that everything
Speaker 22: that happens, they got to be mentally tough, right, So
Speaker 22: some games they'll go into a game and whether they
Speaker 22: get one target at ten, no matter what. We have
Speaker 22: to be having a mental ability to go in and
Speaker 22: execute and do our job. If we do our job,
Speaker 22: the universe of Kentucky wins. And that's the mindset that
Speaker 22: I have to bring to that room. No job is
Speaker 22: too big, no job is too small. We have to
Speaker 22: attack every day.
Speaker 1: I got to tell you that last comment made me smile.
Speaker 1: No job is too big, new job is too small.
Speaker 1: Whenever I hear something like that, I always think of Ghostbusters.
Speaker 1: You might recall when they were just starting to blow
Speaker 1: up and getting TV coverage and Bill Murray's character professor Venkman,
Speaker 1: doctor Vinkman says no job is too big, No fee
Speaker 1: is too big. I'm sorry, but I always go there
Speaker 1: when I hear that comment. But it's important that he
Speaker 1: say that. La Damian Washington. We'll hear more from him
Speaker 1: next week as I set him heading up to New
Speaker 1: York for Kentucky basketball. I love seeing the Wildcats play
Speaker 1: in Madison Square Garden. Got to see that NT back
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six and I've been back several times since,
Speaker 1: including a period where Kenny Walker was playing for the
Speaker 1: Knicks and we went up and did a series for
Speaker 1: wkyt on Kenny when he was a rookie. But I've
Speaker 1: seen Kentucky play there a few times as well, and
Speaker 1: that's gonna be fun. Now, no show tomorrow night because
Speaker 1: of UK women's basketball. It's a six pm start, so
Speaker 1: Darren Hedrick has pregame at five point forty five. The
Speaker 1: Bruins are five and five, so it should be a
Speaker 1: fairly simple task for the Cats. But you can never
Speaker 1: take anything for granted. But Kenny Brooks team right now,
Speaker 1: nine and one on the year, that's gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed this special edition of the Big Bullonsider.
Speaker 1: That's a good night from the garage in Lexington.
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