Speaker 1: Welcome to the Big Blue Insider. Dick Gabriel with you
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday edition of our program, and we are
Speaker 1: live on tape back in the saddle here in the
Speaker 1: garage after the vacation, So our Wednesday lineup returns intact
Speaker 1: with unforgettable guard Sean Woods. Looking forward to talking with
Speaker 1: Sean about Olympic basketball as well as TBT the basketball
Speaker 1: tournament which ended while I was on vacation. I got
Speaker 1: to watch a little bit of the game that saw
Speaker 1: the Kentucky team knocked out, but overall I wanted to
Speaker 1: get Sean's impressions on his return to the sideline as
Speaker 1: he was part of the coaching staff under Tyler Ulis,
Speaker 1: and just what the experience was like, because that Kentucky
Speaker 1: team made a serious run and if they remained serious
Speaker 1: about it, assuming there's a tournament next year, wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised if someday the team comprised of former Wildcats jumps
Speaker 1: up and win us. So Sean will join us at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour. Also coming up in hour
Speaker 1: number two is our west Ham Bureau chief Carry Moore.
Speaker 1: Between his vacation in mind, I think we've only spoken
Speaker 1: on the air. We text all the time, once or
Speaker 1: twice I think in the last month and a half.
Speaker 1: Also tonight, we're gonna chat with Corey Price. Corey is
Speaker 1: our UK network statistician, but more than anything, has made
Speaker 1: a name for himself as the pre eminent numbers cruncher
Speaker 1: on social media. He not only comes up with interesting
Speaker 1: and amazing tidbits, fact based or status based tidbits, but
Speaker 1: he comes up with him in a hurry. So we'll
Speaker 1: talk with him a little bit about what he might
Speaker 1: expect this year and just how he manages to come
Speaker 1: up with stuff like that. Plus he comes up with
Speaker 1: pictures and I mean obscure pictures of people on media,
Speaker 1: on the air and print. When it's their birthday. He'll
Speaker 1: come up with something from somebody's birthday party when they're
Speaker 1: eight years old. I don't know how he does that,
Speaker 1: but it is kind of fun to follow him. So
Speaker 1: he'll be with us as well in our number two
Speaker 1: much to talk about this morning UK football plug in
Speaker 1: the getting ready of course for another season. But before
Speaker 1: we get to that, we need a tip to BBI
Speaker 1: cap to the UK Athletics Hall of Theme class of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and I couldn't be happier really for
Speaker 1: all of them. I mean, I've interviewed most of them,
Speaker 1: but the person that I think I'm happy is the
Speaker 1: most for is John Crop, the former Kentucky administrator. John
Speaker 1: was part of Bill Curry's staff and then Sam Newton's
Speaker 1: staff when CM took over here at Kentucky. And I
Speaker 1: just really enjoyed getting to know John. And you will
Speaker 1: probably already know that the softball stadium is named after John.
Speaker 1: Softball was one of the sports that fell under his
Speaker 1: level of responsibility as an assistant AD wasn't the only one,
Speaker 1: but he really bonded with that program. The players loved him,
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget when they named the stadium after him.
Speaker 1: And I couldn't beat here. I was doing a baseball game,
Speaker 1: but I heard about when they aim the stadium. John
Speaker 1: was asked to stand at home play with a microphone
Speaker 1: and read off the names of the people who needed
Speaker 1: to be thanked within the process of building the stadium,
Speaker 1: and the last index card that they had given him said,
Speaker 1: and the new stadium will be named John Crop Stadium.
Speaker 1: And I'm told he choked up and he couldn't read it.
Speaker 1: He said, I can't read this and handed it off
Speaker 1: to somebody else, which was perfect for coach Crop. But
Speaker 1: one of the other things I thoroughly enjoyed about John
Speaker 1: is when he was still working of course and on campus,
Speaker 1: he would come to the Monday news conference, whether it
Speaker 1: be Rich Brooks or how Mummy or whoever, and just
Speaker 1: sit back and listen, literally in the back of the room.
Speaker 1: But he would grab the UK game notes, which came
Speaker 1: along with game notes from the other team if they
Speaker 1: were available, and notes that Tony Neely had printed off
Speaker 1: from the SEC from that prior weekend, the numbers from
Speaker 1: all the Foo football games, and John would study them intensely,
Speaker 1: all three sets of notes, and then almost with that
Speaker 1: fail as soon as the press conference was over, and
Speaker 1: some of us I did it every now and then,
Speaker 1: would fire up the laptop and write something for the websites.
Speaker 1: But John, inevitably he would say, well, you know what
Speaker 1: you guys missed, don't you, and three or four of
Speaker 1: us would gather around and he would give us a
Speaker 1: lesson on. It is usually football one oh one of
Speaker 1: some simple stuff that we should have noticed from the
Speaker 1: stats or the notes, or a follow up question or
Speaker 1: something like that. It was so much fun and I
Speaker 1: really like and I always called John the Forrest Gump
Speaker 1: of football because through his years of working at Van Dey,
Speaker 1: Texas Tech, Kentucky all over the place, he has met
Speaker 1: and knows everybody and just just a great human being.
Speaker 1: So I'm so happy for John Cropp to go in
Speaker 1: along with Jasmine Camacho Quinn who just finished the Olympic
Speaker 1: Games bronze medalist from Puerto Rico and a Wildcat Henrik
Speaker 1: Larson of the rifle team. How about another Olympian, Sidney
Speaker 1: McLaughlin Livon Man. This is the timing couldn't be better.
Speaker 1: I knew this was planned, of course, Cory Peters, who
Speaker 1: just retired from the NFL, had an outstanding career Kentucky
Speaker 1: in a great career in the NFL. And Jody Meeks
Speaker 1: how about Kentucky's all time leading single game scorer. What
Speaker 1: a great class class of twenty twenty four that'll be
Speaker 1: inducted during Hall of Fame weekend September twentieth and twenty first.
Speaker 1: And one other note about Corey Peters, I'll never forget
Speaker 1: when he committed and I think it was the same
Speaker 1: recruiting class. I could be wrong about this, as Aaron
Speaker 1: Boyd because I know I was over at Henry Clay
Speaker 1: and if it wasn't Aaron, I apologize, But I know
Speaker 1: I was at Henry Clay High School with Steve Moss
Speaker 1: he and I recovering someone's announcement for WKYT, you know,
Speaker 1: with the hats and all that, and I heard they
Speaker 1: had signed Corey Peters, which was a great yet Central
Speaker 1: High School in Louisville, great player, probably the best at
Speaker 1: least defensive player in the state of Kentucky that year.
Speaker 1: Highly highly recruited, and they got him, and that was
Speaker 1: such a huge step for the Kentucky recruiting process to
Speaker 1: get a kid like that at a Louisville which U
Speaker 1: of L for the time being had owned. So when
Speaker 1: they started getting kids out of Louisville, UK football fortunes
Speaker 1: really really began to climb. So I do recall that
Speaker 1: speaking of football, Jamon Dumas Johnson and Eric Jackson both
Speaker 1: named the Buckets Award Watch List fortieth annual Wow that
Speaker 1: of course goes to the nation's top linebacker. UK is
Speaker 1: one of only seven schools to have multiple players on
Speaker 1: the list. Players, of course, because well Buckus Ward number
Speaker 1: fifty one and in all fairness, Dumus Johnson likely would
Speaker 1: have been on the list had he remained at Georgia.
Speaker 1: But he's a Wildcat now, So think is Kentucky twice
Speaker 1: the opportunities to see somebody a Wildcat get that award?
Speaker 1: That would be very cool. Maxwell Harriston no surprise, Dean Walker,
Speaker 1: no surprise, named to the Chuck Bedenerrick Award watch List,
Speaker 1: given out by the Maxwell Football Club that goes to
Speaker 1: the college defensive player of the Year since nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 1: Named after Chuck bed and Nerrick. He was an All
Speaker 1: American at Penn and a multiple year All Pro linebacker
Speaker 1: and center for the Philadelphia Eagles. He is believed to
Speaker 1: be the last NFL player to be a full time
Speaker 1: player on both offense and defense. Other guys have done it,
Speaker 1: but Baden Eerick was the last guy to do it
Speaker 1: full time in the NFL. Would not come off the field.
Speaker 1: You're wondering, Yes, a Wildcat has won this award. You
Speaker 1: know this. Josh Heines Allen won it back in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: If you're ever wondering about an award given to defensive players,
Speaker 1: as a Kentucky player ever won it, just tell yourself,
Speaker 1: probably Josh Allen now Josh Heinz Allen, former Wildcat Will
Speaker 1: levis making some headlines, making some waves. I thought this
Speaker 1: was great, and you know what, it's real. Evidently you
Speaker 1: may have heard or seeing it by now. There is
Speaker 1: a new perfume. Some are calling it a cologne, but
Speaker 1: they're calling it a perfume that is a mayonnaise fragrance.
Speaker 1: You know about Will and his love for mayonnase, putting
Speaker 1: it in his coffee and all that. Well, Hellman's released
Speaker 1: a commercial that is touting this perfume. It's they're calling
Speaker 1: it that smells like Mayo, among other things. Here's the audio.
Speaker 2: They try to define you, but you are the ingredient
Speaker 2: to your own success.
Speaker 1: Luscious backing, smell.
Speaker 2: Like greatness.
Speaker 1: They'll let us number eight apart from the mayonnaise. Okay,
Speaker 1: I thought this is brilliant, This is funny, This is
Speaker 1: a great joke, a hoax, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: And they're going to sell some mayonnaise because of this.
Speaker 1: Since then, I guess that was the overall reaction. Hellman's
Speaker 1: released a tweet saying it's no joke. They released information
Speaker 1: describing the aroma. Whatever you want to call it the fragrance.
Speaker 1: It says, at the heart of the fragrance lies a
Speaker 1: creamy during mayonnaise mayonnaise accord offering a smooth and complex heart,
Speaker 1: partially adds a fresh herbal element, reminiscent of a well
Speaker 1: prepared dish, and said, there are subtle coffee undertones, of course,
Speaker 1: because that's what Will uses. How Will uses it in
Speaker 1: his coffee. A sensual musk based weaves through the composition.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is hilarious and there's a comforting, creamy
Speaker 1: vanilla finish, equal parts inviting and intriguing. You know what
Speaker 1: this means, don't you. Every reporter who covers the Titans
Speaker 1: and then some will be in at locker room trying
Speaker 1: to find out if he actually uses this stuff and
Speaker 1: believe it or not. And I firmly believe it. Of course,
Speaker 1: this is why they did it. It immediately sold out
Speaker 1: on the Hellman's website. Sold out. It was only eight dollars.
Speaker 1: You gotta wonder where the price go up. But mannaise
Speaker 1: based perfume, cologne, whatever you want to call it, is
Speaker 1: now the thing in Nashville, Tennessee. And I'm sure well
Speaker 1: beyond up. Next the sacrifice made by Charles Barkley, who
Speaker 1: has become one of my all time favorites, and he
Speaker 1: was your favorite as well if you're a UK fan
Speaker 1: of a certain age. When it came to opposing players,
Speaker 1: UK fans loved it when Sir Charles came to town.
Speaker 1: He was an entertaining figure and a tremendous Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame basketball player. But he has become a pivotal point
Speaker 1: in broadcasting, not just because he's great at it, but
Speaker 1: because he's such a great human being. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that on the other side of the break, Sewn Woods
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour here on six thirty
Speaker 1: WLAP Welcome back. Coming up at the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 1: Sean Woods, the unforgettable Guard. We'll talk about the basketball tournament,
Speaker 1: which of course has been over now for more than
Speaker 1: a week. But I was gone. Haven't had a chance
Speaker 1: to talk to Sean about his return to the coaching side.
Speaker 1: He assisted Tyler Ewis in that venture. And then a
Speaker 1: little bit later on UK Stats King Corey Price and
Speaker 1: Weston Bureau chief Gary Moore. Still getting caught up from
Speaker 1: vacation and sifting through the interweb a little closely, a
Speaker 1: little closer than I have been. I try to remain
Speaker 1: Twitter free while I was gone. I recommend that. But
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on, as we know, and one
Speaker 1: of the things I've kept an eye on, and if
Speaker 1: you listen to me semi regularly, I do appreciate that.
Speaker 1: You know how much I like Charles Barkley as a broadcaster.
Speaker 1: He was a great player both in college and the pros.
Speaker 1: But I so enjoy his podcast with Ernie Johnson and
Speaker 1: Inside the NBA, which is one of the greatest, maybe
Speaker 1: the greatest studio show in the history of television, either
Speaker 1: over the year or on cable. And of course, as
Speaker 1: we know it now, it's going away in a little
Speaker 1: more than a year because the NBA rights have shifted
Speaker 1: and TNT no longer will have it. Barkley has been
Speaker 1: incredibly outspoken about the fact that his bosses could have
Speaker 1: made he thought a better play to keep the rights,
Speaker 1: but did not. And you know, he's not privy to
Speaker 1: all the numbers crunching, but he does know this. He
Speaker 1: makes a lot of money. He turned down a lot
Speaker 1: of money because with the NBA rights shifting to a
Speaker 1: number of different places, Barkley was wooed by several networks
Speaker 1: and turned down big money offers to come with the
Speaker 1: NBA rights. He is staying at TNT and they're gonna
Speaker 1: have some kind of show. And Barkley was on Dan
Speaker 1: Lebatard's podcast the other day. Lebtard sports writer from Miami
Speaker 1: who had a show on ESPN, Very outspoken, very entertaining.
Speaker 1: I really like him a lot. I don't always agree
Speaker 1: with him, but he is a bit of a sports anarchist.
Speaker 1: He is good about things that and likes things that
Speaker 1: sometimes other people don't. I've kind of liked that. You know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't follow the herd and I know, no pun intended,
Speaker 1: not a reference to Colin Coward, but you know, there's
Speaker 1: a herd mentality often in sports, and LeBatard often pushes
Speaker 1: back against it, and I kind of do the same.
Speaker 1: So anyhow, Barkley was on his show the other day
Speaker 1: and LeBatard was talking to Barkley, Sir Charles about the
Speaker 1: fact that Chuck Wagon turned down a wagon full of
Speaker 1: money to stay at TNT.
Speaker 3: Charles, how much money do you think that you left
Speaker 3: on the table in making that decision, concerned about others?
Speaker 4: A minimum of one hundred million?
Speaker 1: Jeez, A minimum?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I imagine it was a lot of fun
Speaker 3: to be you recently, right in free agency. That had
Speaker 3: to feel good even as you're thinking to yourself in
Speaker 3: these meetings, because I talked to you a little bit,
Speaker 3: at least you're like, I'm not.
Speaker 4: It was a great feeling, and I want to thank
Speaker 4: all those networks for reaching out to me. It was
Speaker 4: really humbling and cool. It was humbling and cool, and
Speaker 4: so I really it was really humbling and cool to
Speaker 4: be honest with you. But I wasn't even think, like
Speaker 4: I said, Dan, even though they were throwing crazy numbers,
Speaker 4: I was like, damn, But as long as I got
Speaker 4: my people safe at TNT, man, I feel really good.
Speaker 4: Like I say, they're gonna pay me to go and
Speaker 4: talk about nothing, so I can't.
Speaker 1: Look at give horse in the mouth. Before we lay.
Speaker 4: Dan, I probably would have had to do an honest
Speaker 4: day's work if I went to one or old other network.
Speaker 3: Not here though, Charles not a metal Ark Media, you
Speaker 3: would not have to do an honest day's work.
Speaker 1: Metal Lark Media is the production company. I think he's
Speaker 1: Lebtar's production company that produces Levatar's podcasts. So there you
Speaker 1: have it. Charles Barkley estimates that he turned down about
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars and look, he's gonna make a
Speaker 1: ton of money to stay with TNT, but imagine turning
Speaker 1: that down. And I can tell you that his concern
Speaker 1: for the people at TNT. You know, he's talking about
Speaker 1: not Ernie Johnson and Kenny the Jett Smith and Shack
Speaker 1: They're all going to be okay. He's talking about the
Speaker 1: other people around the set, the people behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: And I know this simply because I do listen to
Speaker 1: his podcast and he talks about those people all the time.
Speaker 1: And those of us who have worked in television have
Speaker 1: great appreciation for those people. And some of the people
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the most at WKYT were the people behind
Speaker 1: the scenes because they're your friend, and not just because
Speaker 1: they're the people who prop you up. It's because they're
Speaker 1: the ones you know. It's the old cliche. You're in
Speaker 1: the trenches with them, and you know that you might
Speaker 1: get the recognition. And I was not a full time
Speaker 1: on air guy. I was both on the air in
Speaker 1: front of the camera and behind it, probably more behind
Speaker 1: it than I was in front of it. But the people,
Speaker 1: the videographers, the guy who's guys who haul the cameras
Speaker 1: and the tripods, you know, and the production people, the
Speaker 1: people in the studios and the directors and people like
Speaker 1: that are the ones, and they're fun to work with
Speaker 1: because they take as much pride in what they do
Speaker 1: as what you do. They don't get as much money
Speaker 1: and they don't get as much credit. So that not
Speaker 1: that I was making tons of money compared to my
Speaker 1: co workers, but Barkley is. But the fact that he
Speaker 1: was able to take care of them and talking about
Speaker 1: people's families, that's heartfelt because he talks about it on
Speaker 1: the podcast with Ernie Johnson. So I do appreciate the
Speaker 1: fact that Sir Charles looking out for as coworkers. Now,
Speaker 1: speaking of coworkers, there's a little ESPN on ESPN crime
Speaker 1: happening really more specifically with the ACC network owned by ESPN.
Speaker 1: But evidently Heather Dinich, and if you don't know the name,
Speaker 1: you know her face. You've seen her working on studio
Speaker 1: shows and on the sideline. Evidently, on one of the
Speaker 1: studio shows, she questioned the fact that Clemson was ranked
Speaker 1: fourteenth pre season by the Associated Press. And Eric McLain
Speaker 1: is an analyst for the ACC Network. He is a
Speaker 1: big guy and played offensive line at Clemson and on
Speaker 1: the set he took issue with Header Dinich and her comments,
Speaker 1: and he wrote and tweeted, here we go with this
Speaker 1: trash again. And apparently she made her comments on Get
Speaker 1: Up on ESPN, and he has said he was willing
Speaker 1: to come on and defend his comments. So it's not
Speaker 1: very often that you see two different people when it's
Speaker 1: not staged, like Steven A. Smith and Skip Bayless or whoever.
Speaker 1: But here was Header Dinni's giving her opinion and a
Speaker 1: guy with deep, deep Clemson ties clapping back at her, entertaining,
Speaker 1: to say the least. Also entertaining was a shot on
Speaker 1: the Tampa Ray Tampa Bay Rays broadcasts the othernight, Billy
Speaker 1: Rutledge's Tampa Bay Rays. They found a guy in the
Speaker 1: crowd who was dressed as a clown, had the fright
Speaker 1: wig multicolored, had a baseball hat on it backwards, had
Speaker 1: the full clown makeup, and was talking to a very
Speaker 1: attractive woman. But he also had a T shirt that
Speaker 1: said I Suck at fantasy sports. So clearly this guy
Speaker 1: had lost a bet either his fantasy football league or
Speaker 1: baseball league or something, and the penalty was to dress
Speaker 1: up as a clown with that T shirt and go
Speaker 1: to a Tampa Bay Rays game because you know that
Speaker 1: either the TV cameras or the end house cameras or
Speaker 1: both are going to find you. Some of those penalties
Speaker 1: have included twenty four hours eating at a waffle house,
Speaker 1: things like that, doing standp comedy on open mic Night.
Speaker 1: But this I think just might be the best. Sean
Speaker 1: Woods is next year on The Big Loon Sider six
Speaker 1: thirty WLAP. Welcome back to the Big blew Insider, and
Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance to talk to our next guest,
Speaker 1: Unforgettable Guard Sean Woods. In a couple of weeks. I
Speaker 1: was out of town and of course Sean was out
Speaker 1: of town with the basketball tournament team and Shawn, I
Speaker 1: know it was a disappointing ending, but in terms of
Speaker 1: you being able to work the sidelines and help Tyler
Speaker 1: Eulis the way you did, was it ultimately fun? I
Speaker 1: know it was a disappointed ending, but did you enjoy
Speaker 1: getting back on the sideline?
Speaker 5: Ohio was great, Dick. It was. It was a lot
Speaker 5: of fun, just me being on the side, but not
Speaker 5: only that, me getting acquainted with the young guys that
Speaker 5: are really twenty some years younger than me. And for
Speaker 5: me to be able to relate and motivate and get
Speaker 5: those guys to play at a high level was a
Speaker 5: big time. You know. They all were very responsive and respective, respective,
Speaker 5: and and we had a chance to win it. You know,
Speaker 5: it's just unfortunate situations. You know, we missed a big
Speaker 5: time piece, and you know it kind of killed them
Speaker 5: around a little bit when we got out there. But uh,
Speaker 5: you know, I say all the time, twenty Beckham did
Speaker 5: a great job of putting this together in such a
Speaker 5: short time. You know, for the first year, we crashed records.
Speaker 5: I think we saved the tvt from a TV standpoint. Uh,
Speaker 5: you know, people come to the games. We broke all
Speaker 5: the records from from from from that type of standpoint.
Speaker 5: So it was an exciting time. And also Big Blue
Speaker 5: Nation got to come together again for some guys, some
Speaker 5: former players, and and I tell you what that Louisville
Speaker 5: game was was magical. You know, you have thought that
Speaker 5: we were playing in December, a real game, and you
Speaker 5: know it was just so competitive, two traditions going at it,
Speaker 5: and and the and the unique part about it was
Speaker 5: most of the players. All the players that are on
Speaker 5: our team play play at John Caliperi and most of
Speaker 5: the players they played for Louisville team played for coach Patino.
Speaker 5: It was a rich Patino John Caliperi clash again just
Speaker 5: with some other some older guys. But it was fun
Speaker 5: though it was. It was a great time, great camaraderie.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: And I got a chance to be an ambassador to
Speaker 5: these guys as far as teaching them and and and
Speaker 5: showing them how important and significant they are, as far
Speaker 5: as being a Kentucky basketball as far as being a
Speaker 5: Kentucky basketball players concern.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let me touch on a couple of points.
Speaker 1: You brought up, first of all, the BBN getting together,
Speaker 1: which is no surprise, and delivering crowds and TV ratings
Speaker 1: and all that. Uh. Were you flashing back a little
Speaker 1: bit to your playing days. And you've been around the
Speaker 1: program really of late, since you've taken a sabbatical from coaching,
Speaker 1: but you know about the bb and how you grew
Speaker 1: up around it.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: I guess no one's surprised that UK fans turned out
Speaker 1: for this.
Speaker 5: I wasn't surprised. The guys were really you know what
Speaker 5: I mean, and you know, because you would think TVT
Speaker 5: is just a little summer league. Did you said on television,
Speaker 5: you know you may get five hundred to one thousand
Speaker 5: people in the stands. Sure we were getting four or
Speaker 5: five thousand that rough and Louisville did a good job
Speaker 5: promoting their dial because they beat us in ticket sales.
Speaker 5: But man, when we've matched up, it was like it
Speaker 5: was unlike anything else except for right around Christmas, in
Speaker 5: between Christmas and New Year's when the Cats and Cars
Speaker 5: go at it. Yeah, and it was magical. It was
Speaker 5: it was competitive. You know, it kind of got it
Speaker 5: was shippy, you know, kind of got out of hand
Speaker 5: a little bit pat of the game. But that just
Speaker 5: shows you how much ply the two schools have. I mean,
Speaker 5: we could be seventy years old and playing in the
Speaker 5: seventy and underleague and it's still gonna be that same
Speaker 5: type of competitiveness. So that was good man, That was
Speaker 5: that was big time.
Speaker 1: You mentioned coaching these players, and I'm wondering did you
Speaker 1: have to how much did you have to shift gears?
Speaker 1: Because I was a practice and I saw you instructing
Speaker 1: people basically on drills and where you wanted the ball
Speaker 1: to go. But these guys are all pros, and of
Speaker 1: course coaching pros is different from coaching college kids. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you spent a lot of time in your college
Speaker 1: career teaching basketball one oh one. You didn't have to
Speaker 1: do that with these guys. So how did you have
Speaker 1: to change as a coach.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, when you're dealing with pros, they've they've
Speaker 5: seen it all. And the good thing about this team
Speaker 5: was I ran John Caliperry's offense for the most part
Speaker 5: with the dribble drive, and then too, they liked switching,
Speaker 5: so you just got to talk to them. They pick
Speaker 5: up things so easily, you know, you tell them once
Speaker 5: or twice and then that's it. You know, you don't
Speaker 5: have to go back. You know. Their tention span was
Speaker 5: on point, which was very very surprising, and they were
Speaker 5: all in tune them and we had film sessions, we
Speaker 5: had walkers like we do normally in a normal situation,
Speaker 5: and these guys were all in tune and that and
Speaker 5: that's what made it fun. I was worried going into
Speaker 5: this deal to see how I can even relate to
Speaker 5: these guys, you know what I mean, And it was great,
Speaker 5: you know, it kind of changed my perspective and gave
Speaker 5: me a little juice going into this thing, saying, hey,
Speaker 5: you know, this isn't as bad as all at all,
Speaker 5: because I see what Billy donov was talking about. He
Speaker 5: rather coaching the coaching the NBA than he does in
Speaker 5: college for that particular reason, because you know, guys are
Speaker 5: for pros, you know, so when you are pro, you
Speaker 5: trying to and you want to get better. You want
Speaker 5: to be put in situations where you could be successful,
Speaker 5: and they soak you up like a sponge. So it
Speaker 5: was it was very gratifying for me.
Speaker 1: Kyle Perry was heading for Cleveland until the Twins decided
Speaker 1: to come back for another year. So I can understand
Speaker 1: that we're talking to Sean Woods, the unforgettable guard as
Speaker 1: Jersey hangs in the rafters of rupp and of course
Speaker 1: he was a part of a special Kentucky team and
Speaker 1: was part of the coaching staff for the basketball tournament.
Speaker 1: You said something interesting right off the top, Sean's that
Speaker 1: always catches my attention. You mentioned being an ambassador. You're
Speaker 1: basically one of the links between this group of players
Speaker 1: and the past, and of course so many of them,
Speaker 1: you know, Blitz through UK one and done or even
Speaker 1: two and done. But I always come back to a
Speaker 1: couple of anecdotes when I remember I was in a
Speaker 1: media day and I've told the story before, but Sam
Speaker 1: Bowie walked out onto the observation deck up top, and
Speaker 1: I think it was Karl Anthony Towns was being interviewed,
Speaker 1: and I kind of motioned up at Sam and I said,
Speaker 1: do you know who that is? And he kind of
Speaker 1: looked quizzical and he said, he played here. I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: he played here. And I remember interviewing Oscar Robertson, who
Speaker 1: was selling a book, so he was doing a media
Speaker 1: tour and he Sean was very frustrated by the fact
Speaker 1: that NBA players have little appreciation for the guys who
Speaker 1: came before them, and he said, NBA players, when they
Speaker 1: come in to the league should be given an exam,
Speaker 1: should be given a test on the names from the past.
Speaker 1: What can you do if you were, if you took
Speaker 1: over as the head coach at Kentucky tomorrow, what would
Speaker 1: you do to at least encourage guys to learn about
Speaker 1: the people who came before them.
Speaker 5: Well, you know.
Speaker 1: That's a tough one.
Speaker 5: I know it's a tough one simply because we're dealing
Speaker 5: with a different type of society, Dick. So you know,
Speaker 5: first of all, you got to make sure you establish
Speaker 5: a relationship with him. Second of all, you know, kids
Speaker 5: nowadays don't know. You know, you could. When I was
Speaker 5: growing up, I knew every I knew who Jim Brown was,
Speaker 5: and I could tell you what type of runner he was.
Speaker 5: And I never and I wasn't around even watching. But
Speaker 5: I've watched enough film with my dad and things like that.
Speaker 5: You know, uh, you know baseball players, you know basketball players.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. You want to know these
Speaker 5: kids don't care anymore. You know, they have so much
Speaker 5: other things to do, you know, and they're all caught
Speaker 5: up in their own deal. You know, it's not played
Speaker 5: before you You know what I'm saying. It's sad because
Speaker 5: that's the you know, our society has changed so much
Speaker 5: that these younger kids don't even understand how they even
Speaker 5: got here. You know what I'm saying, Who laid the way?
Speaker 5: How did it even get to this point? You know,
Speaker 5: they're just here, you know. And coach Patino always used
Speaker 5: to say, especially when he got after way after he
Speaker 5: coached us, was we live in a micro waves society.
Speaker 5: Now you know that there's there's not a freshman, sophomore, senior, sophomore, junior,
Speaker 5: senior anymore. People. Kids want instant gratification. And that's why
Speaker 5: you see the transfer port of the way it is.
Speaker 5: You know, that's why you see you know n I
Speaker 5: L You know, it's about them. It's not about tradition,
Speaker 5: it's not about It's about where can I go to
Speaker 5: magnify and and get the most out of who I
Speaker 5: am as a person, not who else is involved or
Speaker 5: who came before me. You know, it makes no sense.
Speaker 5: So when you nowadays, when you're recruiting, especially big time athletes,
Speaker 5: they won't know how much money they can get and
Speaker 5: how can you get into the NBA those two things.
Speaker 5: It's not tradition. You know. They can care less to
Speaker 5: what's on their chest anymore. Most of them, I'll say
Speaker 5: ninety percent of them.
Speaker 1: It's going to be tough for for Mark Pope. He
Speaker 1: has pledged that he will he will bring guys in
Speaker 1: who care about that front.
Speaker 5: There's not too many people. There's not too many kids
Speaker 5: they even know about Kentucky. Yeah, yeah, that you can't
Speaker 5: name me. Twenty kids out there the top out of
Speaker 5: the top fifty kids in America. They can't tell you
Speaker 5: about Kentucky. The only thing they can tell you is
Speaker 5: if they watch the NBA, he went to Kentucky. But
Speaker 5: they can't tell you nothing about the tradition of Kentucky basketball.
Speaker 5: Just like the guys out coaching in the TBT, they
Speaker 5: think that they think they basketball started at Kentucky once John.
Speaker 1: CALIPERI you got there, that's right?
Speaker 5: Hey, you know, I said, hey, you know this is
Speaker 5: not you know, my coach doesn't coach anymore. Right, you know,
Speaker 5: there's there's not one player right now, former player that
Speaker 5: has that that coach is still coaching at Kentucky.
Speaker 1: 's right, all right, here's my matter for the for
Speaker 1: the kids. If I were the coach, all right, here's
Speaker 1: what I would do. I would give them a record book,
Speaker 1: a media guide, and I would I would give them
Speaker 1: a couple of days to study it, and then I
Speaker 1: give them a quiz, all right, and I'd say, whoever
Speaker 1: scores the best doesn't have to run or or do
Speaker 1: whatever like pull up. I wouldn't say skip practice, but
Speaker 1: is rewarded somehow, you know. And I'm sure some would
Speaker 1: blow it off. But I guarantee you there would be
Speaker 1: some because you guys are all competitive. I don't care
Speaker 1: when you played or what you played, all of you
Speaker 1: big time. At leat you're competitive. They'd want to beat
Speaker 1: each other. But at least that would I think that
Speaker 1: would be a step towards almost forcing these guys to
Speaker 1: understand who came before you and what the names up
Speaker 1: on the wall mean. What do you think of that idea?
Speaker 5: I think will but you would lose them, not lose
Speaker 5: them as far as they want to transfer. I don't
Speaker 5: think they would put much of it because they couldn't
Speaker 5: answer it, you know what I'm saying. And then you
Speaker 5: want them to take one of Then you want them
Speaker 5: to take two or three days to study the history
Speaker 5: of Kentucky basketball. Shoot, it'll take you more than a
Speaker 5: couple of days to study the history of Kentucky basketball.
Speaker 1: I had more than one.
Speaker 5: When I walked in the doors, I knew who I
Speaker 5: knew who Dan Issel was. And I walked in the doors,
Speaker 5: I heard the stories of the Fab five and Wawa
Speaker 5: Jones and all those guys, you know, Ralph Beard. We
Speaker 5: knew that these guys don't even know who John wall
Speaker 5: is for the most part, these guys don't even know who.
Speaker 5: Like you said, DeMarcus Cousins had no idea who Sam
Speaker 5: Buie was. You know, Dirk Minifeld played in the NBA
Speaker 5: for eight nine years. Those guys have no clue who
Speaker 5: Dirk Minnifeld is, you know, especially Kenny Walker, who's the
Speaker 5: second all time or all time lead score in the
Speaker 5: history of Kentucky basketball. They don't know who Kenny Walker is,
Speaker 5: which they should, which they should right here in town. Yeah.
Speaker 5: But here's the deal, though, Dick, this is the deal. Though.
Speaker 5: They're not coming here to study the history of Kentucky
Speaker 5: basket you see what I'm saying. They're coming here to
Speaker 5: because it was the best situation for them at that
Speaker 5: particular at this particular time, not the history. So it's
Speaker 5: more about relationship. It's more about how can you help
Speaker 5: them and his money and how much money they can
Speaker 5: get you going into a home and talking about the tradition.
Speaker 5: The only tradition we got is kle did a good
Speaker 5: job of getting guys to the NBA.
Speaker 1: Sean Woods is my guest see of course the unforgettable Garb.
Speaker 1: We'll come back and talk about Olympic baschtsket Ball. On
Speaker 1: the other side of the break here on six thirty
Speaker 1: WLAP Welcome back, we're talking with Sean Woods, the unforgettable guard,
Speaker 1: the former Kentucky back court whiz point guard, and he
Speaker 1: helped Tyler Elewis coaching the TBT team that got to
Speaker 1: the to the Final four. But Kentucky also well represented
Speaker 1: in the Olympics, both in track and field and on
Speaker 1: the basketball team. Sean, that was fun watching three former
Speaker 1: Wildcats win gold medals, but that did not come without
Speaker 1: some controversy, as Steve Kerr, the coach, criticized for not
Speaker 1: playing some guys, really good players. What did you make
Speaker 1: of that? The way he just I could not make
Speaker 1: heads and tails of that? Could you No?
Speaker 5: I could you know? It had to be suffered deeper
Speaker 5: than what we see on the surface to not play
Speaker 5: Jason Tatum, Yeah, you know at all? Sometimes you know
Speaker 5: that's yeah, I know, you got you know, thirteen guys
Speaker 5: or whatever, and everybody needs to play. I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: it's hard to play thirteen guys. I just think that
Speaker 5: Steve wanted to make sure that he won first and
Speaker 5: at the beginning he played everyone, you know, in those
Speaker 5: preliminary games, and then when you're doing that, you're establishing
Speaker 5: a rotation. And I just think that Jason Tatum was
Speaker 5: the lowman of the totem pole throughout those few first
Speaker 5: few games. And you know, are you going to continue
Speaker 5: to take Lebron out every now and then because they're
Speaker 5: all playing the same position, so you got to, you know,
Speaker 5: not He even didn't play the young fella a time
Speaker 5: or two that played for the Minnesota Timberwolves a man.
Speaker 5: So you know, that's a tough situation, you know, And
Speaker 5: when you make the Olympic team, it should be an
Speaker 5: honor to just wear that jersey. But all these guys
Speaker 5: are big time pros and the best players on their
Speaker 5: team and first team all NBAS and Jason Tatum just
Speaker 5: won an NBA championship. And you go from being the
Speaker 5: top man on a totem pole, just signed a big
Speaker 5: time deal to not playing with the best players in
Speaker 5: the league. That's tough, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 5: I'm glad I'm not at Steve kerr shoes, you know,
Speaker 5: in that situation, because I would have played them all
Speaker 5: unless something drastic happens where you just don't play a
Speaker 5: guy no minutes you know, I don't know you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. I can't I can't put my finger
Speaker 5: on it. Jason Tatum has made one statement but really
Speaker 5: hasn't made a big deal. I think everybody else has.
Speaker 5: So we want to go medal. You know you were
Speaker 5: selected to be on the Olympic team. You know that's
Speaker 5: not or in itself. Let's tick with that. You know,
Speaker 5: maybe next next time the Olympics come around, you would
Speaker 5: be a main guy because Lebron didn't won't be playing
Speaker 5: anymore than Lebron curve those Durant they won't be there.
Speaker 5: I hopefully, hopefully you won't have such a bad face
Speaker 5: of your mouth from your experience this year that four
Speaker 5: years from now when you are one of the main
Speaker 5: guys that you that you boycotted. So let's get through this.
Speaker 5: Hopefully four years, you know, the dust will settled and
Speaker 5: Jason Taeddan would be a main stay on the lipotine.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on Steph Curry And I'm wondering, as a
Speaker 1: guy who was a pretty good defender, what are your
Speaker 1: thoughts on on how this guy just was? It seemed
Speaker 1: always open and at least in that last game, never
Speaker 1: missed he's unfair.
Speaker 5: Steph carry is unfair. There's no defense that can stop
Speaker 5: Steph Curry because when he steps on the court, his
Speaker 5: range is oceanless. And what I mean by oceanless is
Speaker 5: he has no range, you know, and that's hard to guard.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: He shoots so many untraditional shots that they are all
Speaker 5: trick shots. You know, he shoots shots that you're shoot
Speaker 5: in your backyard with your dad, and there's no defense
Speaker 5: for that. You know, it's unfair. And when he gets
Speaker 5: when he gets it going, sure, he's the most dominant
Speaker 5: player in the NBA because you can't guard it. It's
Speaker 5: not like okay, you know, he's gonna get to a
Speaker 5: spot here too, dribble, pull up here, or he's gonna
Speaker 5: spend here that I mean. Shoot, you saw those untraditional
Speaker 5: shots that he made the Olympic. That just solidifies his
Speaker 5: legacy of being probably the best shooter of all time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and some people pointed out that him coming down
Speaker 1: on the break or with a floor all spread out, uh,
Speaker 1: step back three with two guys other guys wide open,
Speaker 1: perfectly acceptable, isn't it for him? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Everybody can't do that. Everybody doesn't have that leads he's
Speaker 5: the only even on that team. Lebron can't come down
Speaker 5: and shoot those make those type of shots. Durant don't
Speaker 5: can't come down and make those type of shots. Only
Speaker 5: pressure on that team can make those type of shots.
Speaker 5: Was the guy who you saw make them, and that
Speaker 5: was Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I I love hearing Rex Chapman talk
Speaker 1: about you know, his Steph's dad was his teammate down
Speaker 1: in Charlotte when Rex was a rookie and Steph was
Speaker 1: a baby, and they were driving around, you know, with
Speaker 1: Steph strapped into the car seat in the back and
Speaker 1: Rex said, here we are two NBA players thinking we
Speaker 1: were the bomb, and he goes, the best player in
Speaker 1: the car was strapped in the car seat in the
Speaker 1: back seat. So how about that playing? How about growing
Speaker 1: up playing with dad and dad's friends. Just like just
Speaker 1: like Booker paid off, didn't it exactly?
Speaker 5: I mean Booker, I mean he's one of the top
Speaker 5: two or three two guys in the league, and I
Speaker 5: just I'm amazed and really impressed with his career. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I think he's a one guy. I think he works
Speaker 5: at it so hard, and you know, I just hope
Speaker 5: he ever he gets on a team where he has
Speaker 5: a chance to win a championship because he's a really
Speaker 5: good player and from out looking in he's a really
Speaker 5: good young man too.
Speaker 1: Shawn Woods, the Unforgettable Guard joined us every Wednesday, Sean
Speaker 1: next week, get ready because we're gonna talk football. You
Speaker 1: can talk about it all. I know you're a fan
Speaker 1: of everything, so we'll we'll get caught up on UK football.
Speaker 1: How'd that sound?
Speaker 5: Looking forward to a dck and re.
Speaker 1: Number two is up next here on the Big Blue
Speaker 1: Sider six thirty eight w lap Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Big Blue in Cider and has promised. Corey Price joined
Speaker 1: us now. He is the king of numbers. He's our
Speaker 1: statistician in the UK Network. But you need to follow
Speaker 1: him on Twitter because he always comes up with kind
Speaker 1: of interesting obscure stats. But if you're a sports fan, Corey,
Speaker 1: no statistic is too obscure? Am I right about that?
Speaker 5: That's right?
Speaker 6: If you if you love numbers, you'll find joy in
Speaker 6: almost anything. Really, So have you.
Speaker 1: Been a lover of numbers all your adult life or
Speaker 1: since a kid? Or what? How did this start with you?
Speaker 6: Since I was a kid, I've always a math like
Speaker 6: in school in class. I got my degree in math
Speaker 6: from from UK in two thousand and eight. It's always
Speaker 6: would have been best at It's always when I've heard
Speaker 6: the most about so and when had I also love sports,
Speaker 6: so sports and numbers, you know, great staffs.
Speaker 1: But I Boways loved marriage Made in Heaven really has
Speaker 1: been forever. And as I said earlier, and I mentioned
Speaker 1: this earlier on the show, you come up with stuff
Speaker 1: so quickly, and obviously the inn that helps, but you
Speaker 1: gotta know where to look on the internet. Do you
Speaker 1: have favorite spots? You're there, yellow? Are you there?
Speaker 5: Sorry?
Speaker 6: My AirPods were still in Sorry.
Speaker 1: Oh that's all right. Let me ask a question again.
Speaker 1: Finding stuff quickly is one thing, but you have to
Speaker 1: know where to look. Do you have some favorite places
Speaker 1: that you go to your what are your go to
Speaker 1: spots on the internet.
Speaker 6: There's a few things, of course. Uk FLEs dot com
Speaker 6: has their own like factbook, which is a great great tool.
Speaker 6: Is a website, College Football Reference as a website that
Speaker 6: has a lot of it's about two thousand. They have
Speaker 6: a lot of great data and a list at and
Speaker 6: box scores. And then I have a prescription to newspapers
Speaker 6: dot com where I have access to all kinds of
Speaker 6: current and old papers from around the country. So if
Speaker 6: I want to look at maybe a box score from
Speaker 6: you know, the seventies, I can usually get it pretty
Speaker 6: pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: Is newspapers dot Com. It's got to be where you
Speaker 1: find the old, old, old photos of people like me.
Speaker 6: Well, I would say old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great resource, so I know that. Well,
Speaker 1: let's let's get down to some numbers with regard to
Speaker 1: Kentucky football. Starting with big picture, the schedule is particularly difficult.
Speaker 1: We know that, but with Texas now joining the SEC,
Speaker 1: that makes it even tougher. In terms of the teams,
Speaker 1: Kentucky is going to be facing in the top six
Speaker 1: according to the AP preseason pole am I right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're facing the three teams in the top six.
Speaker 6: Of course we were lucky. I'm also joking that the
Speaker 6: first year to Texas is in the SEC, we could
Speaker 6: go to Austin, so that's going to be quite quite
Speaker 6: the challenge for sure. And we play in Oxford as well,
Speaker 6: so those would be two pretty tough games yep.
Speaker 1: And then Georgia comes to Lexington and I had forgotten
Speaker 1: about this Cory, but back in twenty thirteen stoops his
Speaker 1: first season, as if he didn't have it rough enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Alabama Georgia on the schedule, and South Carolina was ranked
Speaker 1: six preseason. Didn't work out that way for the game Cocks.
Speaker 1: But that was a tough season all the way around,
Speaker 1: wasn't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the Bama game and Georgia game were not too
Speaker 6: kind to us. But I remember and down in Columbia
Speaker 6: we played I think to like the to last minute. Yes,
Speaker 6: I mean, or almost I said so as a close game.
Speaker 1: You also point out uk is returning only two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty six yards of total offense from last year
Speaker 1: Russia yards from Barry and Brown and Demi Schuymour carn Bay.
Speaker 1: Of course, when Ray Davis went out the door, most
Speaker 1: of the offense went with him. But this is one
Speaker 1: of the smallest amounts of total offense returning, isn't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, of Courtunate didn't have a lot of time to
Speaker 6: do a lot of research last night on this. But
Speaker 6: I have a hard time believing we've had a team
Speaker 6: with let's come back. I mean, I thought the guests
Speaker 6: maybe two thousand and eight, because they lost Woodson and
Speaker 6: little at qping running back. That might be a good guess,
Speaker 6: but pretty thin. Obviously with Larry you know his when
Speaker 6: you hear and I'll see Davis with his when you
Speaker 6: hear the fortune or fortunately, guess, however you look at it,
Speaker 6: this might be a theme from now on.
Speaker 5: You might look for.
Speaker 6: Some some some grad transfers or people that were only
Speaker 6: here for one years. So fortunately, this type of stuff
Speaker 6: will probably happen from here on out.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Corey Price, UK statistician, who who is
Speaker 1: a guy who loves to crunch numbers and has taken
Speaker 1: a deep dive looking at the upcoming Kentucky season which
Speaker 1: shows that UK. This one kind of surprised me, Corey.
Speaker 1: I know the offenses have changed, qbs have changed, but
Speaker 1: the last time Kentucky had a three thousand yard passer,
Speaker 1: I think this would stump practically anybody was Mike Hartline
Speaker 1: in twenty ten, thirteen straight years without one. So now
Speaker 1: the question is can the Brock vander Riff get there?
Speaker 1: And of course that's got to be tied. I would
Speaker 1: think that the number of plays in the new offense
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Bush definitely wants to play. I mean it's I
Speaker 6: mean two ounce. It's hard to play slower than what
Speaker 6: he did last year, but Bush definite wants to play faster.
Speaker 6: And you know, there's still a lot of question marks
Speaker 6: with Rock obviously didn't get a whole lot of playing
Speaker 6: time last year at Georgia, obviously with chips injury, with injury,
Speaker 6: there's question more to death at running back. So maybe
Speaker 6: it might be time sort of practice, and we have
Speaker 6: a choice but to throw. We have great weapons to
Speaker 6: both receiver and tight end, so he's got a lot
Speaker 6: offense to throw. So honestly, I think he probably he
Speaker 6: probably will be the first one to reach three thousand
Speaker 6: yards and we.
Speaker 1: Know that train him is a power back and we
Speaker 1: will see him eventually. But it also made me wonder
Speaker 1: Corey what they throw to the backs a little bit more,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: I think they will.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: The backup is Demi and he showed some great promise
Speaker 6: catching balls out out of the backs of the last year,
Speaker 6: so I don't catching him.
Speaker 1: Kentucky is striving for more temp on offense. We all
Speaker 1: know this, but you crunched the numbers, tell everybody how
Speaker 1: bad Kentucky was last year, and I don't you know
Speaker 1: that's probably not the word how deliberate Kentucky was because
Speaker 1: some coaches like the deliberate pace Mark Stoops did not,
Speaker 1: but Kentucky kind of pushed it, didn't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they averaged thirty point two seconds per play on
Speaker 6: offense last year, which was the worst in all of
Speaker 6: the FBS, and they've actually averaged at least twenty and
Speaker 6: a half seconds per play each of the last five seasons. So,
Speaker 6: like I said, they're definitely taken their their their time
Speaker 6: on offense.
Speaker 5: Like I said, Bush.
Speaker 6: If he wants to push, push the pace with this
Speaker 6: no huddle, so I definitely see the number to drop
Speaker 6: down pretty drastically.
Speaker 1: How fast was the fastest Kentucky team? From what you could.
Speaker 6: Find out, this is the twenty seven team. They averaged
Speaker 6: just twenty two seconds per play. To be fair, that
Speaker 6: the number is a little skewed because they played a
Speaker 6: total of seven over times between two games, and obviously
Speaker 6: and over time there's snaps with no time being taken
Speaker 6: off the clock, so it's excuse slightly. But I think
Speaker 6: even if you took up those place, I think they
Speaker 6: still averaged like twenty two point seven seconds, so I
Speaker 6: think it'd still be.
Speaker 1: The fastest what about the air raid era.
Speaker 6: Actually mummy's first year at the school nine ninety seven.
Speaker 6: They were pretty good too. They was twenty three point
Speaker 6: four seconds per per play, so they were per pretty
Speaker 6: fast as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that you would you would immediately think that that
Speaker 1: it was the air raid. But yeah, I find it interesting.
Speaker 1: The O seven team was Rich Brooks's best team and
Speaker 1: that team set records for offense as you know, you're.
Speaker 6: Right, point scoring. Oh yeah, the twenty seventeen I think
Speaker 6: he said the score record for most point scoring in season.
Speaker 6: I believe, MinID. I mean that that team was loaded
Speaker 6: with seniors that were just lots of talent, Tammy and
Speaker 6: Little and Woodson and Burton Johnson.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll talk more UK football by the numbers
Speaker 1: with Corey Price when we come back here on the
Speaker 1: Big Moon Sider six thirty w We're talking with Corey Price.
Speaker 1: He is a statistician for the UK Football Network and
Speaker 1: as a guy who has a lot of fun to
Speaker 1: follow on Twitter because he always comes up with some
Speaker 1: kind of perspective in terms of the stats when it
Speaker 1: comes to Kentucky football and has been looking ahead to
Speaker 1: the season and with records that might be broken and
Speaker 1: Barry and Brown. Corey is in a position to have
Speaker 1: a big season when it comes to SEC records and
Speaker 1: UK records, is he not?
Speaker 6: He's He's broken the school record and he's currently tied
Speaker 6: the SEC records for most career kickoff return touchdowns. So
Speaker 6: with next one he'll be all all by himself in
Speaker 6: SEC history. And then with one more kickoff return touchdown
Speaker 6: to receiving touchdowns, maybe just the fifth player in the
Speaker 6: fbsint seventy six to have at least saying career receiving
Speaker 6: touchdowns in his fifth career kickoff her touchdown. So he
Speaker 6: joined the pretty select group there.
Speaker 1: When we think about records and returns for touchdowns, naturally
Speaker 1: we think of Derek Abney, but you have to fold
Speaker 1: in his punt returns for touchdowns. Plus uh, Derek, being
Speaker 1: a slide receiver, didn't make a lot of touchdown catches.
Speaker 1: He made some. But I think it's interesting that that
Speaker 1: Barrion is a marked man and still getting it done right.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, if I was the opposing team, I wouldn't
Speaker 6: kick anywhere near him. But I remember vividly in the
Speaker 6: pull the game last year he took a ball that
Speaker 6: was frailer deep in the end zone, and I questioned
Speaker 6: whether he he he should return it, and of course
Speaker 6: he took it to the end zone. So from that
Speaker 6: point on, I'm never a question Barrion and whether.
Speaker 1: He should I think clearly that was the turning point
Speaker 1: in the game. Dame. He is looking at some important numbers,
Speaker 1: isn't he.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I say, both Brown Key are They're
Speaker 6: both approaching the ones in your career catches, fitting in
Speaker 6: your career yards and actually, uh, well day sorry passes,
Speaker 6: but Brown's close to tak career receiving touchdowns and if they,
Speaker 6: if hel them get there, this year will be the
Speaker 6: first time in school history that we've had two teammates
Speaker 6: with those same with those career numbers on the same
Speaker 6: team at the same time.
Speaker 1: So, man, yeah, that's an embarrassment of riches of wealth.
Speaker 1: You know, it's the best combo of receivers since that
Speaker 1: seventeam I think that ad as you mentioned Tammy and Burton,
Speaker 1: Dicky Lyons.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, Andre Woodson had so many great the Mario Ford,
Speaker 1: so many great choices, and you talk about guys stretching
Speaker 1: the field, you got to think that the younger receivers
Speaker 1: are going to benefit from these guys being out there.
Speaker 1: A few minutes left with Corey Price see as a
Speaker 1: statistician for the UK radio network and comes up with
Speaker 1: a lot of interesting info for Kentucky football, including Maxwell Harriston.
Speaker 1: Another pick six would give him an impressive mark in
Speaker 1: a record book, wouldn't it.
Speaker 6: Yes, he would Dabas Owens for the most career sess
Speaker 6: f turn touchdowns to the UK with three hard is. I
Speaker 6: don't think a lot of teams are going to throw
Speaker 6: throw his away, but if he is his hands on
Speaker 6: one night, I definitely see him taking it back.
Speaker 1: Camer I think you made that Vandy road trip last year,
Speaker 1: did you not?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, when when something like that happens in a game
Speaker 1: that you're working, And what I'm talking about is Maxwell
Speaker 1: not just picking off a pass, but picking off that
Speaker 1: second one, You almost instantly have information out there on
Speaker 1: the web. So now you're juggling two jobs, aren't you
Speaker 1: up in the press box looking for that and keeping
Speaker 1: track of numbers for Tom Leech?
Speaker 6: Yeah? It to me times, but there's no other job
Speaker 6: I'd rather have it. This is I'm going into my
Speaker 6: my third year now working with uh you all and
Speaker 6: it's been a pleasure you and Tom and Jeff and
Speaker 6: Brad Tucker and the whole crew. Nothing but but true,
Speaker 6: true prose, and it's just it's just a joy.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed the It wasn't obscure, but it was
Speaker 1: little known bit of information. You weren't with us yet,
Speaker 1: I don't think. But when Kentucky beat Florida down in
Speaker 1: Gainesville and uh gosh, who was to have score? Scoop
Speaker 1: scooped and scored on what turned out to be the
Speaker 1: last play of the game.
Speaker 6: I think there was Dante I think it was.
Speaker 1: Remember he picked it up and people on the sideline
Speaker 1: were pointing, run, run, And it was the first time
Speaker 1: that a UK player had scored on the last play
Speaker 1: of the game since I think the late sixties. You
Speaker 1: remember that, early seventies. I think Darryl Bishop believed on it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, right, Daryl Bishop against Bennerbilt. I want to say
Speaker 6: it was nineteen seventy two, I think, yeah, on the
Speaker 6: final play of the game, venue through a pass, he
Speaker 6: picked it off and reaching it for a touchdown and
Speaker 6: that was the.
Speaker 1: Game winning playoff. Believe the score in that game was
Speaker 1: fourteen to seven, wasn't it.
Speaker 6: It was Yeah, So I'm not really sure why if
Speaker 6: any was going to throw because back then they retire,
Speaker 6: So I mean, it's not really sure why they wanted
Speaker 6: to pass there. But I didn't end in the favor.
Speaker 1: Trying to win the game, you know, But that clearly
Speaker 1: was a dangerous route. I'm sure it was an out
Speaker 1: route or something because Bishop picked it off. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't a quick touchdown either. He had to negotiate some yardage.
Speaker 1: Robinson's somebody tried to tackle him at the goal line,
Speaker 1: remember that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I couldn't bring him down. Yeah, he had stretch
Speaker 6: for Yeah, but that was quite quite a game yet.
Speaker 1: Well, Corey, I do appreciate you joining us, And have
Speaker 1: you made a prediction yet? Have you crunched numbers on
Speaker 1: how many wins for the Wildcats this year?
Speaker 6: It's uh, it's tough because this schedule was pretty brutal.
Speaker 6: And I said, there's still some question marks with Brock
Speaker 6: at QB. Obviously depth that running back. I think we're
Speaker 6: pretty We're pretty good on defense. I like as coming back,
Speaker 6: a lot of depth, a lot of talent on that
Speaker 6: that's had the ball and brocked up and has weapons
Speaker 6: to throw at with the Recius and Titians.
Speaker 5: It's tough.
Speaker 6: I would love eight and four better, but with a
Speaker 6: question on offensive schedule, I will probably lean more seven
Speaker 6: and five.
Speaker 1: Corey Price, statistician, UK Radio Network. Thank you, sir. We'll
Speaker 1: see you at the ballpark, Yes, sir, Dick up next.
Speaker 1: West End Bureau Chief Gary Moore here on the Big
Speaker 1: Blueing Siders six thirty w l A P. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Big Blue are joining us now this being
Speaker 1: Wednesday as our well okay, yeah, how about that your
Speaker 1: vacation in my vacation I was mentioning earlier, Gary, I
Speaker 1: think we've done this maybe once in the last month
Speaker 1: and a half. So you got all kinds of stuff
Speaker 1: built up, don't you.
Speaker 7: We've been galivanting around and I hear, I hear you
Speaker 7: went to Saratoga where your horse. Naturally, that did go
Speaker 7: through my mind while I was up there. Carlie Simon
Speaker 7: was following you around years ago when you were doing this.
Speaker 1: Yes, hey, I didn't see him, but one of the
Speaker 1: guys in my group saw a certain rick Patino in
Speaker 1: the paddock.
Speaker 7: So really okay, yeah, yeah, makes sense, Yeah, sure does.
Speaker 7: Ricky's got a little game, little horse game going on
Speaker 7: the horse game. Yeah, well it's two guys in a
Speaker 7: six pack, mister Gabriel and a two guys in six
Speaker 7: pack salute. We'll start things off with our first sip
Speaker 7: here to the USA Olympic teams. Get that out of
Speaker 7: the way first of all, number one overall yet again,
Speaker 7: and I was noticing that the French, the home country,
Speaker 7: was number four. We were over there in Paris October.
Speaker 7: And I will tell you this, if the French could
Speaker 7: have a metal event that involves cigarettes smoking, they would gold, silver,
Speaker 7: and bronze every year.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 7: It would be a sweep. They'd go up in the well.
Speaker 7: If they could do break dancing, it seems like that
Speaker 7: would be possible. Anyway, we'll get to that later. But anyway,
Speaker 7: as we mentioned before, I think we did talk after
Speaker 7: the opening, which we loved. Have not talked since the
Speaker 7: closing ceremony of the Olympics on Sunday, which was a
Speaker 7: par fay French mess until Tom Cruise jumped in to
Speaker 7: save that whole show. And by the way, could we
Speaker 7: ever get Mike Tarico some notes if he's going to
Speaker 7: do the next one to figure out, you know who
Speaker 7: some of these people are that we're performing and some
Speaker 7: of where some of these countries are that would be
Speaker 7: a great help for some of us. And then of
Speaker 7: course we had Snoop Dogg, America's pothead. I didn't know
Speaker 7: his fifteen minutes of fame have gone on this far.
Speaker 7: I think they just kind of keep getting extra time
Speaker 7: segments like in soccer. We'll see him, I guess even
Speaker 7: more in twenty twenty eight. But Dick, I'll tell you
Speaker 7: in all seriousness, there are way too many Olympic events
Speaker 7: for me. I love watching the Olympics, but there's so
Speaker 7: many other side events they've added now, for example, three
Speaker 7: on three basketball. When I saw that, I thought, oh, great,
Speaker 7: shrink flation has come to the Olympics. Now we're not
Speaker 7: only getting three guys on three. You know, if they
Speaker 7: want to do something interesting in the basketball for a
Speaker 7: metal round, why not horse, Let's get some guys in
Speaker 7: there to do h O rsse. I'd watch that rather
Speaker 7: than three on three. And apparently three on three is
Speaker 7: going to be there for twenty eight. The speed sport
Speaker 7: climbing thing and if you saw this, they were in harnesses. Yes,
Speaker 7: take the harnesses off. Let's see how fast. Let's see
Speaker 7: how fast they spider man up that wall. Okay, marathon swimming,
Speaker 7: and if you saw that in that nasty river they
Speaker 7: swim for for six point two miles over two hours.
Speaker 7: The only reason you would watch that would be to
Speaker 7: probably see who throws up at the end it. I
Speaker 7: guess I can't imagine sitting there for that long. And then,
Speaker 7: of course, speaking of swimming, artistic swimming aka synchronized swimming,
Speaker 7: it was more fun in the Caddyshack scene. Okay, so
Speaker 7: if you're not going to top that Saturday Night Live
Speaker 7: right exactly, and you being a horse guy horse dancing,
Speaker 7: I don't know if you saw this under the equestrian
Speaker 7: you know you have to beat and abuse horses for
Speaker 7: them to perform like that. For a lot of people
Speaker 7: don't know that. For the most part, that should be
Speaker 7: the treatment for certain IOC gymnast executives trying to take
Speaker 7: metals away in my opinion. And finally we mentioned break
Speaker 7: dancing in a metal event. I guess in LA we're
Speaker 7: gonna go for the gold and the macarena or something
Speaker 7: that's not going to be part of the whole thing
Speaker 7: in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are too many and I think three on
Speaker 1: three and the break dancing. I think they were trying
Speaker 1: to get people revved up and waiting for the LA Games.
Speaker 1: Those seem like very LA centric sports. You know, it's
Speaker 1: funny you mentioned synchronized swimming, because I've always got to
Speaker 1: my eyes. But I started watching more of the video clips,
Speaker 1: and when they included the underwater cameras that switch back
Speaker 1: and forth, it really gave me a better appreciation of
Speaker 1: just how athletic these these swimmers are and what they
Speaker 1: have to go through to make it all look so good.
Speaker 1: And you can roll your eyes at any sport that
Speaker 1: needs a judge, and I think we're okay if they
Speaker 1: did away with those those sports, except for then you'd
Speaker 1: have to do away with gymnastics. You'd have to which
Speaker 1: I love. You have to do away with diving, which
Speaker 1: is gymnastics when you get wet, uh, and boxing things
Speaker 1: like that. So but yeah, some of the other ones
Speaker 1: you wrapped off, especially break dancy, come on, man, and
Speaker 1: how did the woman from Australia even get there?
Speaker 7: That was ridiculous And thankfully that will not be part
Speaker 7: of the LA Olympic Games.
Speaker 1: So your point, We're going a little long on this part.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, the people doing this and that
Speaker 1: I'm okay if I don't know who they are, I
Speaker 1: would love to know where a lot of these countries are.
Speaker 1: I'm always reaching for Google when I've saved. I've never
Speaker 1: heard of this this place, you know, I think that's fascinating.
Speaker 1: And in one final note on snoop, somebody pointed out
Speaker 1: on Twitter that in the last Olympics one of the
Speaker 1: athletes was banned because marijuana showed up in her system.
Speaker 1: And now we've got, you know, father Pothead front and
Speaker 1: center on NBC so.
Speaker 7: Spokesman for cannabis around the world.
Speaker 1: Exactly. It's funny how that works, you know.
Speaker 7: And here's the other thing too, if they give you
Speaker 7: a country, at least maybe flash up a little map
Speaker 7: on the corner of the show where that is on
Speaker 7: the map, right and having to you know, do that anyway,
Speaker 7: our second swig in the six pack, Okay, we quoted
Speaker 7: Carly Simon to quote ll cool J going back to Cali,
Speaker 7: to Cali and it's only one four hundred and thirty
Speaker 7: one days until the LA Olympics. And I was out there,
Speaker 7: Dick in eighty four. I was just visiting. But the
Speaker 7: city leaders and Peter Uperah who was the Olympic chairman.
Speaker 7: You may remember it had this terrific traffic plan worked
Speaker 7: wonders and I know they're working on that for twenty eight, right.
Speaker 7: But in terms of events, there's going to be at
Speaker 7: least six events in LA and twenty eight that were
Speaker 7: not in Paris. And as we mentioned, mercifully there will
Speaker 7: be no break dancing. But here are the six that
Speaker 7: are going to show up in LA that weren't in Paris.
Speaker 7: Number one flag football. It's not just for the lame
Speaker 7: Pro Bowl weekend anymore. Number two baseball for obvious red
Speaker 7: white and blue reasons. Number three softball for the same
Speaker 7: obvious red white and blue reasons. The fourth event that
Speaker 7: wasn't in Paris squash, a sport still struggling to be
Speaker 7: as popular as its vegetable counterpart, But that's going to
Speaker 7: be in there. You have number five lacrosse. Yeah, it's
Speaker 7: going to be there.
Speaker 1: That should be.
Speaker 7: And by the way, the late great Jim Brown, I
Speaker 7: don't know if you people know this broke the color
Speaker 7: barrier in that sport. Jim Brown called it probably the
Speaker 7: best sport I ever played. Yeah, and he was considered
Speaker 7: one of the all time greats absolutely, He's in the
Speaker 7: Lacrosse Hall of Fame for that. And last, and certainly
Speaker 7: least for me, the LA Games will have cricket, which
Speaker 7: has only made one previous appearance at the Olympics, and
Speaker 7: that was over a century ago, a century ago in
Speaker 7: nineteen hundred in the first Paris Games. And for good reason,
Speaker 7: cricket stinks. Regular cricket test matches can take up the
Speaker 7: five days I have seemingly endless days to finish. And
Speaker 7: if you thought marathon swimming ten kilometers was brain numbing,
Speaker 7: try scoring during a cricket How did that happen? Now
Speaker 7: they say they'll have shorter and three hour cricket matches
Speaker 7: for LA, to which I say, what was wrong with
Speaker 7: the idea of frisbee golf was that there any events you,
Speaker 7: Dick Gabriel would add.
Speaker 1: Well, no, I couldn't say yes on frisbee golf. But
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm a mazed cricket hasn't been added
Speaker 1: before because it's such an international game, we just don't
Speaker 1: know it or like it here in the States. I
Speaker 1: like the fact that they're bringing in lacrosse because that
Speaker 1: is the one sport that we are certain apparently was
Speaker 1: invented here in the US of A, so that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I wish they would put screwing around with the list
Speaker 1: of events. I know that it's going to be more fun.
Speaker 1: I think having baseball and softball back in the games.
Speaker 1: But I can do without a lot of these.
Speaker 7: Our city councilman over here in Louisville, Scott Reid has
Speaker 7: got a big deal with the local cricket players over here. Yeah, no, Scott,
Speaker 7: I'm not going to be out there for that third
Speaker 7: swig and the six pack. One last Olympic look back,
Speaker 7: USA men's basketball. They were fabulous, their favorites to win.
Speaker 7: I guess again the gold in twenty eight I would say, yeah,
Speaker 7: but the world does seem to be catching up. It
Speaker 7: took the greatest outside shooter in pro basketball history, Steph Curry,
Speaker 7: to put the French away last Saturday. And by the way,
Speaker 7: Michael Jordan, anybody else who knows Michael Seth Curry. Steph
Speaker 7: Curry is a first ballot? What are you gonna call it?
Speaker 7: Hall of Famer? Okay, I think I've seen something about
Speaker 7: Michael saying he's not a Hall of Fame. He is, definitely.
Speaker 7: I think it goes without saying Victor Wimberiniana said, the
Speaker 7: boys are going to be on a gold mining mission
Speaker 7: in La the French when they get there. Of course
Speaker 7: the French, remember the French beat the US in their
Speaker 7: first game in twenty twenty one in Tokyo. We forget
Speaker 7: about that sometimes, that's true. Came back to win him,
Speaker 7: to beat him in the finals, eighty seven, eighty two. There,
Speaker 7: let's go back a couple more. In twenty sixteen in Rio,
Speaker 7: USA beat Serbia by thirty and of course they've gotten
Speaker 7: a lot better since then. And then in twenty twelve
Speaker 7: and London we beat Spain by seven. So here's the
Speaker 7: big question that's been going around obviously for US basketball types.
Speaker 7: Who's going to be around in twenty twenty eight. For
Speaker 7: US twenty eight, Lebron will be forty three, Steph will
Speaker 7: be forty, Kevin Durant will be thirty nine. But then
Speaker 7: you go down the list. Joel Embiid will be thirty four,
Speaker 7: Jason Tatum will be thirty. Are UK guys Booker and
Speaker 7: Bam both thirty one, Ad will be thirty five, Anthony
Speaker 7: Edwards twenty seven, Haliburton twenty eight. So I ask you,
Speaker 7: who do you see besides those last seven, perhaps joining
Speaker 7: on the team, maybe Jalen Brunson, maybe some more UK
Speaker 7: guys like Dary Fox, or maybe Tyree's Maxi or even
Speaker 7: Reed Shepherd might be a possibility.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah. The turning point came I think gary way
Speaker 1: back in nineteen eighty seven when Brazil jumped up thanks
Speaker 1: to Oscar Schmid's forty six points and beat the US
Speaker 1: of A for the gold medal. And I believe Denny
Speaker 1: Crome was the coach of that team, and he came
Speaker 1: back saying, folks, they are catching up. We've taught him
Speaker 1: to play, so this shouldn't really surprise us that much.
Speaker 1: I do wonder who's going to be the coach next
Speaker 1: time because Steve Kerr, I talked to Sean Woods about
Speaker 1: this earlier on the show, took a lot of flak.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be fun. I think it's more fun
Speaker 1: when the games are competitive. Certainly it was this year.
Speaker 7: I have no problem with what Steve Kerr did, You
Speaker 7: got the gold number four or our fourth swig in
Speaker 7: the six pack?
Speaker 1: So, Dick.
Speaker 7: When your boy Packers head coach Matt Lafleur was asking
Speaker 7: an ocuous question about the Packers having a number one receiver,
Speaker 7: Laflora said, quote, I want to vomit every time I
Speaker 7: hear number one receiver. To be honest with you, drives
Speaker 7: me crazy. You think that's something you guys talk about.
Speaker 7: I feel like we've got a bunch of them. Unquote, Okay,
Speaker 7: lighting up Francis. When I heard he said it makes
Speaker 7: him want to throw up, I thought, well, good, now
Speaker 7: he knows how the rest of the world feels about
Speaker 7: the Packers this season. Using an alternate white helmet, am
Speaker 7: I right, Dick Gabriel, absolutely Packer's shareholders down. The Packers'
Speaker 7: uniform is perfect like your Yankee pin stripes, and the
Speaker 7: Cardinals birds on the bat don't f with it. But
Speaker 7: you know that wasn't the worst exchange between a coach
Speaker 7: and the press in the last week. Coach Prime of
Speaker 7: the not so Primo Colorado Buffaloes refused questions from CBS
Speaker 7: and the Denver Post because I guess Dion's no longer
Speaker 7: an NFL tough guy. He's a softy with an ego
Speaker 7: that's gone haywire, that apparently can't handle critical verbiage. I
Speaker 7: would ask you how would you have handled his not
Speaker 7: taking your questions on a media day if you were
Speaker 7: one of the locals there, And have you ever had
Speaker 7: that happen with a coach at a presser in your career?
Speaker 1: Not at a presser, but at a media gathering. We
Speaker 1: were grouped around Joe b Hall of Practice, and he
Speaker 1: told me he was never going to talk to me again.
Speaker 1: He was upset with something I had said and at
Speaker 1: a radio station where you and I used to work,
Speaker 1: I had simply misspoken. It wasn't simple, though, and misinterpreted
Speaker 1: or mis represented something he had said and made it
Speaker 1: seem like he had said something he never did. I
Speaker 1: was confused and went back. Our boss, Ralph Hacker, explained
Speaker 1: it to me because I think he had talked to Joe,
Speaker 1: and I immediately rectified it on the air. The problem
Speaker 1: here is the reporter from the CBS affiliate in Denver
Speaker 1: had done no wrong. They called themselves CEB Colorado, and
Speaker 1: Dion has issues with either the station or CBS itself.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't say what, but he took it out on
Speaker 1: this reporter, So obviously I don't care much for that,
Speaker 1: but I think they need to be grown ups and
Speaker 1: work it out.
Speaker 7: Agreed, Fitswig and a six pack. So at the conclusion
Speaker 7: of the Summer Olympics, some other sports besides baseball, some
Speaker 7: great penna races going on. Some other sports can pick
Speaker 7: up the slack this week. Tomorrow night, the w NBA resumes,
Speaker 7: and on Friday, a well rested we think Caitlin Clark
Speaker 7: and the Fever hosts the Phoenix Mercury up I sixty
Speaker 7: five and INDI check your local TV listings. Also on
Speaker 7: TV on Friday afternoon. For US English soccer fans, the
Speaker 7: Premier League is back. There you go, Manchester United hosting
Speaker 7: Fulham in the lone match before a full set of fixtures.
Speaker 7: They don't have games, they have fixtures through the weekend
Speaker 7: and of course more practice NFL football, Dick, I was
Speaker 7: so desperate for football last weekend for two plays. I
Speaker 7: even watched the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I am about that.
Speaker 7: Oh my, I'm embarrassed, admitted. Tomorrow night there's one game.
Speaker 7: It's on the NFL network, the Eagles at the Patriots
Speaker 7: seven pm. Now New England coach Jared Mayo's first year. Obviously,
Speaker 7: he's got an interesting punishment for any of his players
Speaker 7: who get into a fight during practice, which of course
Speaker 7: seems to happen every hot summer camp to every team. Sure,
Speaker 7: Mayo says, if you're a starter and you get in
Speaker 7: a fight, you're gonna play the next entire preseason game.
Speaker 7: Oh my, which those guys hate. Now, if you're not
Speaker 7: a starter and you get in a fight, you're not
Speaker 7: gonna play at all.
Speaker 1: You like that, well, yeah, it's a great way to
Speaker 1: get get at them where they live, you know, and
Speaker 1: make them play those games. I find it interesting because
Speaker 1: this bucks the long standing tradition of coaches kind of
Speaker 1: hanging back during a fight, right, and to find out
Speaker 1: who's the toughest. But I think what we're talking about now,
Speaker 1: Gary is protecting investments. You know, when they see a
Speaker 1: wide receiver run in there with his helmet off, throwing punches,
Speaker 1: they're looking at a guy that they paid twenty million
Speaker 1: dollars a year, yep, and you can't have him on
Speaker 1: the sidelines. You never see the qbs, of course, they're
Speaker 1: always shielded. But yeah, I want to I'm curious see
Speaker 1: if this works, because the starters hate to play that
Speaker 1: the entiret these games, and if you're trying to get
Speaker 1: a starting role, you want to play. That's right, That's right.
Speaker 7: Our sixth and final swig. Speaking of the NFL, those
Speaker 7: three letters could also stand for the Noxious Food League
Speaker 7: or Nasty Food League. In making my argument that stadiums
Speaker 7: and arenas have some of the worst and most dangerous
Speaker 7: quote unquote food on the planet, I can now rest
Speaker 7: my case with the Arizona Cardinals, who have finally created
Speaker 7: a new concession stand catastrophe to match their on field failures.
Speaker 7: The cotton candy burrito picture, if you will, a large
Speaker 7: blue Briton casing made entirely of cotton candy rather than
Speaker 7: a flower tortilla. Then, upon a surgical incision revealing the
Speaker 7: internal contents, we find the said burrito filled with cotton
Speaker 7: candy flavored ice cream and fruity pepples and fruit loops
Speaker 7: and marshmallows, Skittles, many m and ms, gummy bears, and
Speaker 7: for garnishment, sprinkles apparent the apparently the head chef at
Speaker 7: State Farm Stadium is now an eight year old, or
Speaker 7: the daily one hundred and fifteen degree plus heat is
Speaker 7: finally mutating the brains of adults in Phoenix, Dick. It
Speaker 7: will cost fifteen bucks at the games this season. That's, however,
Speaker 7: insulin for the rest of your life not included. That
Speaker 7: would be a hard pass for me as.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I think that's the promote diabetes night.
Speaker 1: You know, if you don't have type two yet, come
Speaker 1: on to the ballpark. It's funny as last week on
Speaker 1: our way to Saratoga, we stopped in Cleveland. Will try
Speaker 1: to stop and see a ball game all the way
Speaker 1: we got rained out, but we spent two years, two years,
Speaker 1: seemed like it. Two hours in the ballpark and I
Speaker 1: bought a back of peanuts or whatever. But my buddy
Speaker 1: bought one of the dressed up hot dogs. You know,
Speaker 1: it put a lot of stuff on it, which is great.
Speaker 1: But one of the hot dogs they offered had fruit
Speaker 1: loops in it. Oh God told me somebody was just bored,
Speaker 1: you know exactly.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're not even trying anymore when they do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when they were putting recipes together. But uh, my
Speaker 1: brother threatened on the way in to buy the helmet
Speaker 1: full o nachos. I would have helped him pay for that,
Speaker 1: just to see bell had to help him dig in
Speaker 1: and eat it even better though, and I've seen these is.
Speaker 1: They had a full size helmet full of hot fudge.
Speaker 1: Sunday now that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's okay. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Gary mar is our West n bureau chief. We'll
Speaker 1: come back with some hot regions just a minute here
Speaker 1: on the Big Blue Insider six thirty WLAP Welcome back.
Speaker 1: We are talking with our West End bureau chief, Gary Moore.
Speaker 1: We have heard two guys in a six pack a
Speaker 1: little long in the Olympics, but there was a lot
Speaker 1: to talk about. So let's do some hot reads, shall we. Gary.
Speaker 1: Off the top of the show, I mentioned and I
Speaker 1: played the audio from the new commercial toouting the will
Speaker 1: Levis mayonnaise based perfume cologne whatever they're calling it perfume,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was brilliantly stage, brilliantly shot, funny,
Speaker 1: and I was laughing along with it. Turns out, according
Speaker 1: to Hellman's it's not a joke, and they sold out
Speaker 1: off their website in a couple of hours. There's only
Speaker 1: eight bucks a bottle, which says something about it. But
Speaker 1: I really thought it was brilliant marketing. But I thought
Speaker 1: it was a joke all along. My question to you
Speaker 1: is would you ever let that near your body?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 7: And they are going to have to have a sign
Speaker 7: on the Kentucky press box for football season. No fragrances
Speaker 7: resembling mayonnaise allowed inside this box because I can smell
Speaker 7: some guys, you know, some guys somewhere in this state
Speaker 7: as a yeah, exactly are going to be wearing that
Speaker 7: just to kind of have it. Yeah, I've never thought
Speaker 7: about having a condiments as some sort of fragrance that
Speaker 7: would attract other people. Will probably repel them too, But
Speaker 7: that is a joke and maybe he's making Hey, look
Speaker 7: he's getting some dough out of all this.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, riding this mayonnaise things. We'll signed a lifetime
Speaker 1: contract with Helms last year. It's great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, good mayonnaise. I wouldn't wear it, but it's a
Speaker 7: good mayonnaise.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't wear it just because I would believe it
Speaker 1: would give me an insatiable craving for a BLT. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Our second hot read. Jared Duran of the Red Sox
Speaker 1: has been fined and suspended two games for a homophobic
Speaker 1: slur that he hurled at a fan. The fans are
Speaker 1: rarely penalized or what they yell, but that that's sneather
Speaker 1: here and or there. And now he shows up on
Speaker 1: camera wearing a T shirt that has an F bomb
Speaker 1: on it. He's been fine for that, but it's already decided.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay every time they show this T shirt
Speaker 1: and I'm fine, I'm gonna go ahead and eat the fine.
Speaker 1: Where are we on all this? I understand, and it
Speaker 1: shouldn't have happened, But in the heat of the moment,
Speaker 1: players yell stuff at fans, and fans, like I said,
Speaker 1: should be held accountable, but they're not. But this is
Speaker 1: just really ugly.
Speaker 7: Did you hear the heckle? It wasn't even I don't
Speaker 7: think it was any profanity with it.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't hear it.
Speaker 7: The guys was just saying like, you're gonna need a
Speaker 7: tennis racket to hit that ball, basically saying that he's
Speaker 7: been whiffing or whatever. And I mean not bad being heckled,
Speaker 7: but in his home park. Who would sit there in
Speaker 7: Finway Park heckle one of your own Red Sox exactly?
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, in Boston, the angriest city in America.
Speaker 7: So there was that end of it, and it's almost
Speaker 7: like you'd have to laugh. But what I've heard before,
Speaker 7: if it's in your heart, eventually it's going to come
Speaker 7: out of your mouth, right, Tom Brenneman. Yeah, So if
Speaker 7: you're really sincere about the apology, I think, and you
Speaker 7: could right after it happened, they you know, you could
Speaker 7: tell the PR staff put together this fairly articulate kind
Speaker 7: of apology, right, which you know didn't come from him.
Speaker 7: And then when he comes on and wears the shirt
Speaker 7: that sort of doubles down on the fact that didn't
Speaker 7: come from him, and the shirt said fam Yeah, really
Speaker 7: that's what you're gonna wear when you're trying to be
Speaker 7: sincere and apologizing wrong on many levels.
Speaker 1: We talked before about it. These guys are independent contractors
Speaker 1: and they are each responsible for their own brand, and
Speaker 1: his right now is suffering. On that happy note, we
Speaker 1: say thank you sir, good to see you and hear
Speaker 1: from you again.
Speaker 7: Same here, and we'll see you on Twitter at nine
Speaker 7: to five five Gary, where you're also at.
Speaker 1: Big Blue Insider one. See you next week, see it
Speaker 1: and that'll do for now. Thanks so much to my
Speaker 1: guest Gary Moore, our West End Bureau chief, Corey Price
Speaker 1: from the UK Sports Network, and of course Sean Woods,
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Speaker 1: coming up tomorrow night more Kentucky football chatter. In fact,
Speaker 1: that's going to pick up some steam as the week
Speaker 1: goes on. The one more scrimmage coming up this Saturday,
Speaker 1: and then well you know everybody's gonna have to get
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Speaker 2: Don't you have some kind of a line that you
Speaker 2: keep open for emergencies or for celebrities. I'm both, I'm
Speaker 2: a celebrity in an emergency. Can you patch me through
Speaker 2: on that line please?
Speaker 1: Has been