WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:02.960 Welcome to the Big Moon Sider. Dick Gabriel with you 2 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:06.000 on a Tuesday edition of our program, or nearly a 3 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:10.359 UK basketball night. But tomorrow night wild Cats play at Oklahoma. 4 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:13.320 The game you'll hear right here on six thirty WLAP. 5 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:17.600 It's a nine o'clock start, meaning network covered at seven thirty, 6 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:20.199 local coverage at six thirty, So we'll be with you 7 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:24.039 briefly from six to six thirty tomorrow night to preview 8 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:27.120 the Cats and the Sooners. We do have comments from 9 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:29.320 Colin Chandler tonight, a guy who's getting a lot of 10 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:32.920 clock of late, played very well last couple of times 11 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:35.920 out shaking off that rust from his two year layoff. 12 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:38.840 But also today we're going to talk football because we 13 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:40.439 had a chance to talk to a lot of the 14 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:45.000 football Wildcats. In fact, UK made thirty one players available 15 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:47.679 to us. I don't think and we're talking about the newcomers, 16 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.119 the transfers. Don't think everybody got a chance to talk 17 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:53.359 to the media, but we all talk to as many 18 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:55.640 as we could because we had to kind of hurry 19 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:57.840 it up and then get over to the basketball interviews. 20 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:02.759 So from both football and basketball tonight start the morning 21 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:06.760 started off with a conversation with Mark Stoops that lasted 22 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:09.519 about thirty minutes, got some comments from him coming up 23 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:12.120 here shortly, But I did want to start with the 24 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:16.200 basketball that's more immediate. Obviously, spring practice for football is 25 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:18.959 on the way, and Stoops did say there'd be some 26 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:22.079 kind if not spring game once again, some kind of 27 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:24.439 event for the fans, and it'd give us a chance 28 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:26.719 to see the team in action. But we'll come back 29 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:29.040 to Mark Stoops in just a moment, and a little 30 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:31.599 bit later on, we'll hear from one of the newest 31 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:35.319 Wildcats who was absolutely a fascinating story. A lot of 32 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:38.719 them are, but this is a guy who is unique 33 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:43.079 and well. Of course, we're talking about the offensive left tackle, 34 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:45.760 the guy who figures to be the new starter on 35 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:49.439 that left side. His last name is Pete and his 36 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:54.760 first name is Shayaz Shaiaz Pete, who transferred in from 37 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:57.879 New Mexico State, full blood of Navajo. We'll hear from 38 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:01.680 him in just a few minutes. But Colin Chandler a 39 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:04.879 true freshman, a little bit slow getting off the mark 40 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:07.640 because of course he set out two years on his 41 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:13.360 religious mission and saw Trent Noah Travis Perry doing really 42 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:15.879 well as true freshman, and he was said he was 43 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:18.439 rooting for them, but knew he had to be patient 44 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:22.960 and it has paid off in fact, and now he 45 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:25.439 is contributing and getting more minutes, of course because of 46 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:28.560 the injuries to some of the starters and the other guys, 47 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:33.439 but he is so happy that he is able to contribute. 48 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:36.080 As tournament time draws near, you. 49 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:40.439 Know, it's awesome. And what's great is the expectations known 50 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:46.560 that anything less than a banner is disappointing, to be honest. 51 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:50.719 So we're going into March knowing that, and we're ready 52 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:51.479 to go and compete. 53 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:55.759 I asked him about the fact that he signed on 54 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:59.319 of course with Mark Pope followed him to Lexienen. He 55 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:02.919 has had to wait to turn and now he's playing 56 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:05.879 meaningful minutes and playing well. And I asked him what 57 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.719 it felt like to, you know, be able to contribute 58 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:11.879 knowing that his coach has confidence in him. 59 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:15.560 I think confidence in yourself comes from knowing that your 60 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:17.639 teammates and your coach is confident in you before you 61 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:20.599 go out there, and so it means a lot to have. 62 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:23.960 And I know he is confident even with the injuries 63 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:27.240 that we have. Is he's got to make some adjustments, 64 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:30.639 but I mean me and all the other guys are 65 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:33.080 there to step up where we need to, and. 66 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:35.680 As you can imagine, being able to produce the way 67 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:38.080 he has, he said, is just a lot of fun. 68 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:41.199 It's so fun, so fun. I mean, I've been playing 69 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:43.400 a lot of basketball and practice and all those things 70 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:46.879 and getting reps, but it's a difference. It's a different 71 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:49.280 thing getting in games and being able to to p 72 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:52.960 play freely and confidently, and so it's been really fun 73 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:53.199 for me. 74 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:55.280 And the fact that you've played well, what did that 75 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:56.919 do for you mentally or confidence? 76 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:01.919 Yeah, I think, I mean it's I think for confidence. 77 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:06.159 I feel like I can compete and belong here in 78 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:09.120 this league and I can actually help the team. I 79 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:12.479 think that's helped me a lot in my confidence and 80 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:16.279 having fun in this game. 81 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:20.160 As Colin Chandler well here tomorrow night from otega Oway, 82 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:24.000 who is going back to OU transferred to Kentucky from Oklahoma. 83 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:28.040 Jackson Robinson's from their Brandon Garrison played at Oklahoma State. 84 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:31.360 So there's a lot of that going through the Kentucky roster. 85 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:33.959 But more than anything, it's a game they've got to 86 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:37.399 win again. Shifting over to football now. Mark Tuops talked 87 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:41.279 to us this morning and I asked him the last 88 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:44.560 question of the day, and I asked him basically about 89 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:48.160 all the changes that have come about in college football 90 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:50.519 of late. And he's talked about it ever since those 91 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:53.160 rules and shot away from it. Some people don't like 92 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:56.439 it when he talks about it, but it has changed 93 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:58.560 the way the game is being played, the way the 94 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:02.920 game is being operated for every coach and in say football. 95 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:07.920 And I asked Stoops, given all those changes, is he 96 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:12.560 enjoying his job now as much as he always has. 97 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:14.879 I enjoy it right now as much as I ever have. 98 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:17.519 And I think it would be you know, maybe maybe 99 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:21.319 I shouldn't say it was good. It is what it is. 100 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:24.079 Right last year it was, you know, it was not 101 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:28.240 what I wanted. It was not what anybody wanted. That 102 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:30.759 falls squarely on me, you know, And I know people 103 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:33.319 all you get tired. You know, there's a lot of 104 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:38.160 things that you have to adapt to, and you know, 105 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:41.600 and one way or another it ties back directly to me, 106 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:45.079 and you know so, but it is a big organization, 107 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:47.240 it's a big department, you know, and there's a lot 108 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:50.000 of areas that that we have to all adapt to 109 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:53.759 and you don't do it, do it at a high level. 110 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:58.040 And you know, so with that being said, with the 111 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:00.720 situation the way it was, like, I couldn't be more 112 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:06.120 energized and focused and determined to get this thing back 113 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:09.560 into you know, keep growing the program like we once did, 114 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:12.279 you know, as good as anybody with the sustained success 115 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:14.920 that we had for a long period of time that 116 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:16.360 it's hard to do in our league. 117 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:19.600 I would say that he seems energized. And I think 118 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:21.920 some of that, of course, is you know, being able 119 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:24.000 to get out there, as he says, on the grass 120 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:27.439 with his players and not have to worry about, you know, 121 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:30.800 doing background checks on kids and putting a roster together 122 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:34.199 and you know, doing the paperwork basically that comes. It's 123 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:38.639 not busy work, but it's non actual coaching work that 124 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:40.680 comes with being a head coach. That's what he signed 125 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:43.199 up for. And of course he makes a lot of money, 126 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:45.680 and people always bring that up to me. That's a 127 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:49.399 specious argument, because it doesn't matter how much a coach makes. 128 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:53.240 If you argue that coach makes xyz amount of dollars 129 00:06:53.279 --> 00:06:55.560 for that kind of money, blah blah, blah. I would say, 130 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:58.720 where's the cutoff. If he's making half of that, will 131 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:00.639 you be saying that, If he's making a third of that, 132 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:03.639 will you cut him more slack? No, that much, making 133 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:06.600 that kind of money, it doesn't matter. You know, you 134 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:10.279 can still make observations. And people like to say, if 135 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.800 the guy, if any coach makes a comment about maybe 136 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:16.439 if it's an unnamed player who makes a mistake or 137 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:18.959 doesn't consider, well, he's blaming the players, or he's blaming 138 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:22.240 his staff, or if he fires an assistant coach, throwing 139 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:24.480 a guy under the bus. You know, No, that's part 140 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:27.319 of the job as the head coach. And I can 141 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:31.000 tell you at least half a dozen times today Stoops 142 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:34.839 took the blame for what happened last year in more 143 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:38.399 ways than one. He said it directly, he said it indirectly, 144 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:40.639 And I'm not trying to carry the guy's water. I'm 145 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:43.160 just telling you what he said. And his entire news 146 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:45.600 conference is out there, it's on YouTube. I urge you 147 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:49.480 to watch it. But he basically took the blame because 148 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:55.519 the responsibility is his, no question about it. And so 149 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:57.959 he talked about that, among other things, about how he 150 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:02.279 and his staff had to rebuild the roster and reset 151 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:05.079 the way that they're coaching this team. 152 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:09.800 I think we had to be very strategic in defining 153 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:13.120 exactly what we want to do, and you know, and 154 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:16.879 then you know, teaching that to the players and having them, 155 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:19.959 you know, I just and I like the way they've 156 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:23.639 accepted that, the way they've accepted the coaching. They understand 157 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:26.439 very clearly what's expected of them. They're working very hard 158 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:30.000 and it feels very good. You know, nobody likes the 159 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:33.799 year that we had, but maybe, you know, I like 160 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:34.840 where we're at right now. 161 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:38.159 One of the questions I had prepared basically trying to 162 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:40.039 figure out how am I going to phrase this so 163 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:42.360 you know, I can get the answer that I'm looking 164 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:43.960 so he knows what I mean. You know, he knows 165 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:46.960 what I'm going for, And he answered it before I 166 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:49.799 could ask it. But I kind of wanted to ask 167 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:55.519 him about rebuilding the team, the roster and comparing it 168 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:58.639 to when he first got here, because remember what it 169 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:00.600 was like and I'm not not and the kids who 170 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:03.519 were on the roster, and there were some good players, 171 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:07.039 just not enough. They just weren't deep at all when 172 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:09.120 it came to talent. They could compete a little bit, 173 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:11.799 but when you started getting into the second team, the 174 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:15.399 second twenty two, you know, way back in twenty thirteen, 175 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:21.679 there just wasn't enough. But now, rebuilding through the portal 176 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:26.519 is a different animal. Plus the culture's been established. That 177 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:28.480 was something he had to do when he got here. 178 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:32.600 Every coach does that. Some believe that word is overused. Culture. 179 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:35.480 Somebody will come up with a different word and we'll 180 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:37.879 start to overuse that, But I think it's a good 181 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:41.759 word now. It's basically, you know, the vibe, the way 182 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:46.159 things feel, what's expected of the players, how it's made 183 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:49.120 clear to them what they need to know, what they 184 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:51.440 need to do. Mark Pope does it. Nick bne Owne 185 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:54.320 does it, Kenny Brooks does it. Every coach who's any good, 186 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:58.000 they all do it. And for Stoops, the culture has 187 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.559 been in place, they've had success. As he mentioned earlier, 188 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:03.279 he had to go out and get guys who could 189 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:06.039 fit the way he wants to do business, and it 190 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:08.279 looks like he's done that well. Here from one of 191 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:15.360 those new guys. Next in six thirty WLAP Welcome Back 192 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:17.759 coming up in just a few minutes. Cameron Drummond of 193 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:20.360 the heir of leader, we'll talk Kentucky basketball with us 194 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:23.759 and in our number two, Josh Teeter, coming off a 195 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:26.679 tour victory on the Corn Ferry Tour, had a chance 196 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:29.039 to visit with Josh over the weekends, so you hear 197 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:32.440 that coming up as well as Hallie DeVore of WTVQ 198 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:36.039 I mentioned the football interviews we did today. In a 199 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:43.919 fascinating interview, talk about unique Shayaz Pete, an offensive lineman, 200 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:48.879 likely the starting left tackle six' eight, three twenty one 201 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:54.519 senior transfer From New Mexico State. University he's a full 202 00:10:54.519 --> 00:11:00.559 Blooded Navajo Native. American played three seasons well kind of 203 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:05.559 At New Mexico. State sat out as a, freshman played 204 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:09.519 as a red shirt freshman in twelve, games started nine 205 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:14.240 and after that started fifteen as a sophomore six games last, 206 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:16.759 year but sat out the back half of the season 207 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:19.639 with an. Injury and he came through the portal and 208 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:23.080 you might recall he was the Guy kentucky was waiting. 209 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:26.840 On you might have heard, that, well the portal traffic 210 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:29.840 may be, done but there's one guy they're waiting, on 211 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:33.120 or at least one old, lineman and this was the, 212 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:39.200 guy and for whatever, reason other teams dawdled, apparently And 213 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:44.879 kentucky was there and he cast his ballot basically chose The, 214 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:48.320 Wildcats and today he talked to us about why he 215 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:49.000 chose to be In. 216 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:51.480 LEXINGTON i feel like a lot of other universities WERE 217 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:56.279 i guess not taking seriously or the ship had already 218 00:11:56.279 --> 00:11:58.480 said for a lot of, Them But kentucky still offered 219 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.279 their hand and coached scoops as a. Statesman he's a 220 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:03.840 very genuine man AND i placed a lot of my 221 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:05.200 trust into him in my final. 222 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:07.000 Decision in my final decision with. 223 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:09.120 Him how much was the relationship with Coach wolford a 224 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:09.519 part of that? 225 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.559 Too my relationship with, Him, YEAH i mean, it it 226 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:15.360 started at the end at the start of the. 227 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.679 Year he's he lives up to his. 228 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:20.679 Name he's a, wolf he's, cunning he's, keen he's pretty. 229 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:22.360 SHARP i, LIKE i like that about. 230 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:24.440 Him there's a lot of guys From Los. Cruces then 231 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.399 went To. Vanderbilt did did did? They did they try 232 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:29.440 to pull you that direction as? 233 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:33.159 Well ACTUALLY i toured At nashville OR i did an official. 234 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:35.919 Visit it was good to see MY i, guess my 235 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.240 former coaches, there former. Teammates it was good to, reconnect 236 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:41.480 but it just wasn't the right fit for me in 237 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:45.240 terms of their offensive, scheme AND i JUST i wanted 238 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:48.919 SOMETHING i guess different FROM i Guess New mexico Slash 239 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:50.120 vanderbilt's offensive. 240 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:54.200 Scheme so how how challenging was it having the year 241 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:56.679 that you had two seasons ago and then not being 242 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:58.840 able to play for you, know half the year last. 243 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:02.360 Year it's definitely a, challenge BUT i still approached it 244 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:04.480 LIKE i would any other. Season you, know it's Still 245 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:07.799 i'm still playing football out, there Whether i'm actually not 246 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:11.240 playing football or. NOT i sustained a pretty heavy injury 247 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:13.639 AND i had to kind of come come to terms with, 248 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:16.960 that face reality and work my ass off when it 249 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.480 comes to rehabilitation and getting myself battle. 250 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:25.039 Ready, yeah you said Coach stoops as a. Statesman what 251 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:25.600 do you mean by? 252 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:26.399 That well's. 253 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:29.360 Genuine he's super honest and he means what he. Says 254 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:33.720 AND i like that about. Him he's a genuine. Person 255 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:37.639 he's he's very h how do you put? It focuses 256 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:40.840 on the players and the fact that this team is 257 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:44.759 going to be player led in the sense THAT i, 258 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:47.080 mean we're going to pave the way for. It we're 259 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:48.960 the first on the. Line we're going to define our. 260 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:52.440 Culture given, OTHERS i mean a lot of new transfers and, 261 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:54.919 whatnot we have to come up with something like. 262 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:55.799 That when you. 263 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:59.279 Were Researching, kentucky what did you? See what did you look? 264 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:01.440 For what DID i? See what DID i look? 265 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:05.600 For, well one of my, decisions, apologies one of my 266 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:09.399 decisions was kind of conference in my willing to compete 267 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:12.080 in AND i, Figured, hell this is one hell of 268 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:14.799 a mountain to, climb SO i might as well. Climate you, 269 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:17.639 Know I'm i'm committed to making my last stand. Here 270 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:20.080 so that's what was one of my decision. 271 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:22.840 Points she has transferring the sec being AN nfl draft, 272 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:25.320 prospect you're gonna be one of the most Visible Native 273 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:27.519 American navajo athletes in the. Country what does that kind 274 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:29.919 of label mean to you in representing that part of your? 275 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:31.679 Culture, again it's a deep. 276 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:35.559 OWNER I i love WHAT i, do AND i do 277 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.360 it for my, community for the, youth to give them 278 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:42.320 a beacon of hope that you, know there's there's a 279 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:43.840 way out of, it there's a there's a way, up 280 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:48.200 there's a way to create and turn defeat into victory 281 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:50.720 And I'm i'm proud to be on the frontier of 282 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:52.600 that and to define. 283 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:54.600 It were there guys you looked up to growing up 284 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:56.639 like that, too who taked the way for you to 285 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:57.360 be in the? 286 00:14:57.399 --> 00:14:57.639 Spot? 287 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:03.440 Not how do you? Mean were there Other Native. 288 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:05.200 American And avo athletes out there who you, thought, OH 289 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:07.360 i can do that, too or were you kind of carving. 290 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:10.320 That animo as A Native american. Athlete he's a big 291 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:13.159 influence on, me big. INSPIRATION i WISH i could shake 292 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:16.320 his inn and introduce, myself But i'd have to say 293 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:17.039 that's one of my main. 294 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:19.519 INFLUENCES a few years, ago believe it or, not there 295 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:22.320 was a pro athlete here in, town minor league baseball 296 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:24.679 player who was the first member of The Crow nation 297 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:27.200 to be a pro, athlete and he told us what 298 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:29.320 that meant to his, culture stretching all the way back To. 299 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:31.360 Montana you, know have you heard from a lot of 300 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:33.120 relatives and things like. 301 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:36.000 That, yeah you, know people reach out and what. NOT i, 302 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:38.720 mean it's a very close knit community within The Navo. 303 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:42.000 Nation i've, had you, know fans come up and introduce 304 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:43.960 themselves and. Whatnot but how do you feel about? 305 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.519 That it's, Nice it's it's. 306 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:51.679 Different it's, new And I'm i'm recognizing That i'm a public, 307 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:54.440 figure SO i have to conduct my business in a 308 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:59.360 professional manner and compete with, class compete with. 309 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:02.080 Like stoops the. 310 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:05.879 Estatesman how different is it being In kentucky where they're 311 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:08.120 they're just not a lot of Other navajo people around 312 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:10.440 Versus New mexico where you grew, up where it was 313 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:11.960 so much more common. 314 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:12.200 In being around. 315 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:16.840 It it's on that, community it's like it's foreign. Territory 316 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:18.720 i'll tell you. That it's there's not a lot of 317 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:21.559 representation out of, here And i'm Realizing i'm in like 318 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:25.879 there's there's no one else, here AND i guess understanding 319 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:30.039 THE i guess the knowing that there's not a lot 320 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.279 of representation out, THERE i have an opportunity to to 321 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:38.360 be that that person that to be on the frontier of, 322 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:40.000 it to represent. 323 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:44.559 That Is Shaia's. Pete the new offensive lineman came through 324 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:49.799 the portal From New Mexico state and just a really eloquent. 325 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:54.399 Speaker like most offensive. Linemen i'm a little, biased but 326 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:57.519 just to give you some, background his, Dad, natani is 327 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:00.480 a captain in The United States army and he is 328 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:04.400 of The Salish navajo. Tribe his mother is full Blooded, 329 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:09.119 navajo and he was born actually In, montana but of 330 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:12.200 course he's been playing his college football In New mexico 331 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:14.799 and now he's A Kentucky. Wildcat and AS i, mentioned 332 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:18.359 six p' eighty three twenty one and, folks not a 333 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:21.279 bit of it hangs over his. Belt he is the 334 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:24.799 most athletic looking but the due respect to all the 335 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:27.640 other old Linemen i've, covered and maybe it's just because 336 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:31.920 he's so, big he is the most athletic looking old 337 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:35.119 LINEMAN i Think i've ever. Seen and you know who 338 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:38.079 else is big and we'll hear from him coming up 339 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:40.640 in the next few. Days we talked To Joshua, braun 340 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:44.880 who just might be figures to be the new starting 341 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.839 center for The, wildcats transferred in From, arkansas also played At. 342 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:54.319 Florida great, speaker and these guys are both really, mature 343 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:57.319 SO i think you're gonna like the way they, play 344 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:01.279 the way they handle, themselves AND i thought it was 345 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:05.480 really fascinating to talk to WHO i Believe i'm pretty 346 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:08.359 sure he's the first full blood Of nevajo ever to 347 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:12.519 play At. Kentucky Cam drumming next and six thirty W 348 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:15.039 welcome back to The Big Blue. Insider join us, now 349 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:16.559 as you guys been on the show with us. BEFORE 350 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:18.960 i haven't talked To Cam drummond in a while from 351 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:21.960 THE Herold leader And, cam how's your basketball season? 352 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:25.240 Going it's going pretty. WELL i, MEAN i think all 353 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:28.400 of us have been thoroughly impressed and entertained so far 354 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:31.039 with What kentucky's put on the, court both on the 355 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:33.640 men's and women's, SIDE i should. Say but now as 356 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:35.720 we kind of Approach march and the stretch run with, 357 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:38.480 THINGS i think everything will ratchet, up you, know a 358 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:40.519 couple of, degrees but the heat'll get turned on a 359 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:42.599 little bit more and before we know, it we'll be 360 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:45.200 talking about THE Sec tournament in THE Ncaa tournament and 361 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:47.519 seating and brackets and all that good. 362 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:51.680 STUFF i may point out as well That cam works 363 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:55.240 on THE uk basketball beat With Ben roberts covers horse racing, 364 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:59.000 soccer drops in on women's basketball. Year you're just kind 365 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:00.599 of whatever it, takes, guy aren't. 366 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:03.400 You, yeah let's try. It and you mentioned it the 367 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:06.400 New Lexington Sporting club seasons or Are broth starting up 368 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:08.400 for the spring as? Well and you, know as soon 369 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:10.799 as the basketball season's, end whether that's early in the 370 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:13.400 tournament or late in the, tournament The Kentucky derby will 371 00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:15.880 be right around the corner as. Well so, thanks thanks 372 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:17.519 for reminding me of just how Busy i'll be this. 373 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:21.599 Spring there's no, rest there never. Is. Uh you recently 374 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:25.160 posted On twitter or a link to a story About 375 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:30.160 Andrew carr coming back from his, injury AND i reminded 376 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:32.720 myself and some people as well, that you, know early 377 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:36.119 in the, season when he was playing so, well especially 378 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:38.359 in That duke. GAME i think a lot of people 379 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:42.480 believe that As Andrew carr, went so go The. Wildcats 380 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:46.039 not exactly the, case but, UH i think people forget 381 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:47.200 just how valuable he can. 382 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:50.759 Be you, know, yeah, Certainly and, yeah you mentioned the 383 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:53.319 article THAT i, Posted so please anyone interested in that 384 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:56.279 please go out To kentucky dot com And kentucky dot 385 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:59.079 com slash sports to read more About Andrew. Carr and 386 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:00.640 to your, point you, know so you think about some 387 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:04.279 Of kentucky's best and biggest performances this, season That duke, 388 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:07.039 game in the third game of the, season the overtime 389 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:10.519 win At gonzaga When kentucky was with That Lamon, butler 390 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:13.559 and that was the game Where Kerr krista suffered his significant. 391 00:20:13.559 --> 00:20:16.559 Injury that Was carr's highest scoring game of the. Season 392 00:20:16.839 --> 00:20:18.839 and we've seen a bit of a return to form 393 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:22.119 For Andrew carr over the last two. Games, obviously that 394 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:25.599 back injury that first flared up when non conference play 395 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:28.359 wrapped up On New Year's day kind of lingered with 396 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:31.079 him for the better part of seven eight. Weeks he 397 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:33.640 even had to miss that First vanderbilt game down In 398 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:36.400 nashville because it was so. Bad was basically a non 399 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:39.079 factor in the road win At. Tennessee he only played 400 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:42.480 like ninety seconds because of it and just generally looked 401 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:45.319 a bit out of sorts as he managed that obviously 402 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:48.839 super painful and, significant especially for a big man. Injury 403 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:51.079 but now we've seen him get back into the starting 404 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:54.160 lineup and AS i, mentioned the last two, performances last 405 00:20:54.200 --> 00:20:58.119 week's win Over, vanderbilt and despite losing In, tuscaloosa we 406 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:00.720 saw The Andrew carr of. Old he was aggressive on, 407 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:04.000 offense he was active on the, boards he was hunting, 408 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:08.079 Shots he was being real demonstrative in all of his offensive, 409 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:11.319 actions whether that was shooting the, ball ducking in setting 410 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:14.279 screens popping. Out you, know we haven't seen a ton 411 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:16.680 of him from a three point shooting perspective this, season 412 00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:20.240 at least maybe not as much relative to preseason. Expectations 413 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:23.000 but he made three shots from deep At, alabama WHICH 414 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:25.440 i believed tied a career high and was the most 415 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:28.279 he's made all. Season so we're Seeing Andrew carr trending 416 00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:31.519 in the right direction and certainly giving the injury outlook 417 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:34.359 For kentucky right. Now that's something That Mark pope's team 418 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:36.839 needs in a desperate way as the season nears an. 419 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:40.519 End, yeah AND i remember earlier in the season cam 420 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:44.680 before the, injury he was passing up three, pointers and you, 421 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:48.440 know you could feel the fans being frustrated with, him 422 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:52.960 even where we sit up in the. Rafters but And 423 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:56.559 pope talked about, that and you could tell he BEGAN 424 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:59.079 i won't say he was hunting his three point, shot 425 00:21:59.400 --> 00:22:02.359 but he was a little more aggressive with it before 426 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:04.200 he got, hurt which is one of the reasons it 427 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:05.440 was so frustrating when he went. 428 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:09.359 Down, yeah, Certainly and Something i've even noticed is a 429 00:22:09.359 --> 00:22:12.440 bit more of a smoother flow To Andrew carr's three 430 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:14.119 point shot as, WELL i, Mean i'm not sure if 431 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:17.640 that's something where it's reducing the stress on his back 432 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:20.759 or just maybe some refinements he's made in the gym 433 00:22:20.839 --> 00:22:23.200 or watching. Film but the last couple of games where 434 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:25.680 he's kind of up to that three point shot usage as, 435 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:28.200 Well i've noticed a bit more of a smoother, delivery 436 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:30.400 a bit less of a hitch in his. Shot and 437 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:32.960 obviously you don't really Need Andrew carr to be shooting 438 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:34.920 five or six threes a game when we've seen What 439 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:37.720 Kobe brea and Otega oway and some of the other 440 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:40.640 guys have done as. Well but, certainly his distant shooting, 441 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:43.680 ability his ability to space the floor in that regard 442 00:22:43.960 --> 00:22:46.440 is one of his most unique aspects as a, player 443 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:49.720 and it's something That kentucky's other bigs don't really, offer you, 444 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:51.920 know aside from that one three pointer In, texas And 445 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:53.680 Mario williams isn't going to be out there shooting a 446 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:56.359 ton of, threes you, Know Brandon garrison's on a pretty 447 00:22:56.359 --> 00:22:58.839 steady diet of one or two a. Game but still 448 00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:01.680 neither of those guys, really you, know command the kind 449 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:04.359 of attention when they stepped beyond the three point arc 450 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:05.920 from opposing defense as that car. 451 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:10.559 Does, yeah you're, right and you could tell When williams 452 00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:13.680 hit that one Against. Texas, uh then he kind of 453 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:16.319 looked for the next, one you, Know and you're, right 454 00:23:16.359 --> 00:23:18.960 that's not exactly what you want to. See we're talking 455 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:21.680 With Cam, drummond OTHER erro. Leader he, covers among other, 456 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:25.200 Things kentucky, basketball and you know when we were all 457 00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:28.079 trying to figure out what this team was going to 458 00:23:28.119 --> 00:23:31.079 do and How Mark pope was going to do, it and, 459 00:23:31.119 --> 00:23:33.519 then as you, said we were all kind of pleasantly surprised. 460 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:36.920 EARLY i don't know about, you BUT i always kind 461 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:39.200 of by WROTE i do it more for football than, anything, 462 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:42.920 say but you got to stay. Healthy and YET i 463 00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:46.160 just who saw this? COMING i, mean at one point 464 00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:51.079 when you figured That otega was just blanked basically Against, 465 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:57.599 alabama they essentially faced The Crimson tide In tuscaloosa minus 466 00:23:57.640 --> 00:24:00.359 four of their top seven players and still get them a. 467 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:02.079 RUN i don't know what to make of, that do? 468 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:05.920 You, No it's, Remarkable and you, know you think about 469 00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:09.359 the injuries That kentucky's had this. Year, obviously three significant 470 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:12.480 injuries like they've had would hamper any team and would cause. 471 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:14.480 Issues but then you think about the fact that they've 472 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:16.960 all happened to basically the same position. Group you, know 473 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:20.200 that point guard leave guard, role and you know the 474 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:22.279 fact that they're down to their fourth option right now 475 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:25.400 at point guard With Travis, perry who's been playing very, 476 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:27.759 amicably you, know really giving it is all in a 477 00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:31.319 situation that nobody could have expected early in the. Season 478 00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:33.960 and yet to your, point with The Otago oway having 479 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:38.960 an incredibly uncharacteristic, scoring you, know offensive performance Against alabama 480 00:24:39.319 --> 00:24:42.839 with the likes Of, Butler, Jackson robinson And cresa all, 481 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:46.359 out the fact That kentucky even established that early double digit, 482 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:48.960 lead the fact that they even in the second half 483 00:24:49.079 --> 00:24:52.079 late in the game on multiple, occasions had it down 484 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:54.640 to a three or a four point game says a 485 00:24:54.640 --> 00:24:57.279 lot about just the fight and the effort That kentucky's. 486 00:24:57.319 --> 00:24:59.880 Had and you, know we've been discussing this with Mare 487 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:02.319 hope for about three or four. Weeks it feels like 488 00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:04.799 now he's not going to blame. Injuries he's not going 489 00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:07.640 to say that as an excuse or as an out 490 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.279 for some of these performances or. Defeats but obviously it's 491 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:13.920 an incredibly valid one especially when you think about the 492 00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:16.279 fact that not only are those players out of the 493 00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:20.279 lineup In kentucky's down to essentially nine healthy scholarship, guys 494 00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:23.039 but they're having to completely reinvent the wheel a bit 495 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:25.920 in terms of how they are playing with three freshmen 496 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:29.799 in the, fold With Amari, williams With Kobe, brea with Artega, 497 00:25:29.799 --> 00:25:32.240 oway you, know With Travis perry being the guys who 498 00:25:32.279 --> 00:25:34.799 bring the ball up the. Court that totally affects their, 499 00:25:34.839 --> 00:25:36.799 sets you, know how they're able to get back in, 500 00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:39.839 transition how they're able to instigate transition on offense as. 501 00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:41.880 Well so just a lot of stuff that's had to 502 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:44.720 be kind of reworked on the fly here By pope 503 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:47.319 and his coaching. Staff and it's certainly things that you 504 00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:50.160 can't account in the early part of the. Season so 505 00:25:50.440 --> 00:25:53.119 as much As kentucky fans and just Probably i'm sure 506 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:56.480 national college basketball fans at large have been disappointed by 507 00:25:56.559 --> 00:25:58.480 kind of the up and down nature of the, SEASON 508 00:25:58.839 --> 00:26:01.799 i think it's relatively under, standable just given how Hard 509 00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:04.839 kentucky has been hit at such a crucial position, group 510 00:26:05.079 --> 00:26:06.799 the way that they like to play on both ends 511 00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:07.000 of the. 512 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.559 Floor, Well i've been Covering kentucky basketball. FOREVER i can't 513 00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:13.839 remember a rash of injuries like, this as you, say 514 00:26:14.359 --> 00:26:17.720 at the one position, group and of course this is you, 515 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:20.279 know not that there are levels of, uniqueness but this 516 00:26:20.440 --> 00:26:23.000 is incredible unique this, year the way they had to 517 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:25.519 rebuild the. Roster and, again AS i said, earlier you, 518 00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:27.240 know we're all trying to figure out when you, know 519 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:29.000 we flat at Asked, mark how are you going to do? 520 00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:32.319 This and he, said the players are going to help 521 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:35.519 me decide. That and he was, right of, course but 522 00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:38.519 he kind of hadn't changed the way he coaches this 523 00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:40.400 team right in the middle of the, year didn't. 524 00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:43.759 He, well, NO i mean certainly they're kind of trying 525 00:26:43.759 --> 00:26:46.839 to do the same, things obviously with just different personnel in. 526 00:26:46.920 --> 00:26:48.880 Place and, look you, know it's a bit of an 527 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:53.079 unfortunate and probably unrealistic ask for anybody, to for, example 528 00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:55.680 slot in at the lead yard spot on defense and 529 00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:58.960 offer anything close to the point of attack defense and 530 00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:02.519 just the overall defensive ability that A Lamont butler. Offers, 531 00:27:02.599 --> 00:27:05.240 Right but we've seen different guys step up in different. 532 00:27:05.240 --> 00:27:07.759 Moments you, know A Colin chandler comes up with two 533 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:10.160 or three steals in the. Game we've Seen Travis perry 534 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:12.359 really fight his tail off on that end of the. 535 00:27:12.359 --> 00:27:14.440 Court you, know even some of the bigger guys on 536 00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:16.759 the offensive. END i mean, again the whole you, know 537 00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:19.920 big man point guard dynamic That Amari williams has brought 538 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:22.200 to this. Team who could have envisioned, that you, know 539 00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:25.079 three four months. Ago and just the overall you, know 540 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:27.880 offensive load that a guy Like Kobe brea has had to. 541 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:30.200 Carry and we're seeing more from him on the defensive 542 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:33.759 side as. Well and this is all coming. Simultaneously while 543 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:36.680 even While Lamont butler And Robinson increasa were in the, 544 00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:40.079 Fold kentucky wasn't exactly going to, be you, know confused 545 00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:44.279 for a nineteen EIGHTIES nba defensive, juggernaut, Right but even 546 00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:48.559 despite those guys going, Out kentucky has shown the ability to, improve, 547 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:52.680 however marginally on the defensive. End they're making strides in that. 548 00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:54.960 Regard you, know, obviously when you give up that many 549 00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:57.279 points To alabama and they have that much success on 550 00:27:57.319 --> 00:27:59.720 the offensive, end you, know things might be a bit 551 00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:01.839 sad in that regard when they look at the film. 552 00:28:01.880 --> 00:28:04.400 Tape but you think about some of the performances they've strung. 553 00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:08.359 Together in That South carolina, game in That vanderbilt, game 554 00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:11.359 you know they are making some instrumental. Process and it's 555 00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:13.960 not exactly about turning into again like you know the 556 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:16.440 Eighties piston or the Eighties celtics on that end of the. 557 00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:19.319 Court it's just about getting good enough on defense to 558 00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:22.839 allow what you do on, offense making three, pointers play 559 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:25.680 at a fast, tempo allowing your guards and big men 560 00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:28.160 to score from all over the. Court just being good 561 00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:30.559 enough on the defensive side to allow that to carry 562 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.279 you to. Win and you, KNOW i Think, Kentucky i'm 563 00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:34.920 not sure if you'll be able to get, there but 564 00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:37.839 they're making more progress THAN i would have, envisioned given 565 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:40.960 the injuries To butler And robinson, increase AND i think 566 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:42.640 that's something that merits some praise as. 567 00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:45.039 Well talking To Cam drummond or The Hero, leader you 568 00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:48.000 can follow him On twitter obviously you want to see 569 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:50.680 his work At kentucky dot. Com we'll come back with 570 00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:52.599 more questions For cam on the other side of the 571 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:55.559 break here on six THIRTY Wlap welcome. Back we're talking 572 00:28:55.599 --> 00:28:59.400 To Cameron. Drummond See drummond ninety seven on ex Or 573 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:02.839 twitter if you will covers, basketball, soccer horse, racing and 574 00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:05.680 a lot. More for the hero leader you, Mentioned Amary. 575 00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:10.559 WILLIAMS i think it's been fascinating watching. Him it generally 576 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:14.559 goes in the other, direction watching him learn what he 577 00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:17.559 can get away. With you, know generally when big guys come, 578 00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:20.279 up they're a little too physical or they're you, know 579 00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:22.880 they get called for fouls too much because they're trying 580 00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:26.119 to do too. Much you, know because he couldn't get 581 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:28.799 away with much at the mid major level when he 582 00:29:28.839 --> 00:29:31.680 was A. Drexel you, know, now as he's pointed, out 583 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:35.680 he can be a lot more physical and he has 584 00:29:35.759 --> 00:29:39.480 BECOME i, think incrementally. Better have you seen it that? 585 00:29:39.519 --> 00:29:41.279 Way? Oh. 586 00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:44.400 Certainly. YEAH i think my favorite development just to, follow you, 587 00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:46.440 know just as a basketball fan throughout the course of 588 00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:49.960 This kentucky, season has been the emergence Of Amury, williams 589 00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:52.359 not just in a ball handling trying a big man 590 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:54.960 point guard role LIKE i referenced, earlier but just in 591 00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:57.559 terms of his physicality on the block and the way 592 00:29:57.559 --> 00:29:59.960 in which he's learned how to throw his weight around 593 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:02.000 so is muscle. AROUND i, mean this is the guy 594 00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:05.240 who's seven feet, tall two hundred and sixty two, pounds you, 595 00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:08.880 know has absolute size and strength about, him yet throughout 596 00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:10.960 so much at the early course of the, season he 597 00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:13.279 seemed a little bit tentative or just a little bit 598 00:30:13.400 --> 00:30:15.839 unsure of how to use that size and something that 599 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:17.920 he's talked to us a lot, about you. Know as 600 00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:20.160 the reason for that is just when he played At 601 00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:22.599 drexel for four, seasons when he played at the mid major, 602 00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:26.200 level nobody else in THE Cia, conference you, know has 603 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:28.720 the ability or the size or the strength to guard. 604 00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:30.920 Him so something that they would, do almost as like 605 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:33.400 a bailout, tactic would be fall to the, ground they 606 00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:36.119 would get fouls drawn on. Him and while that worked 607 00:30:36.119 --> 00:30:38.759 at that, level guys in THE sec usually have a 608 00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:41.759 bit more stuff about, them both in terms of basketball 609 00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:44.359 ability and in terms of the actual size and brute. 610 00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:46.759 Strength so guys are facing him a bit, more you, 611 00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:49.480 know one on, one strength on, strength and that's allowed 612 00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:51.599 On mari to bring that out of his own. Game 613 00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:53.960 he's no longer concerned about a guy going to the, 614 00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:57.039 ground you, know for a charge or, whatever or an offensive. 615 00:30:57.079 --> 00:30:59.720 Foul so he feels very comfortable kind of backing a 616 00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:02.799 guy In everyone knows how dangerous he is with his left. 617 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:05.279 Hand we're even seeing that right hand kind of come 618 00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:07.799 along a little bit in recent. Games and even when 619 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:09.720 everyone in the country knows he wants to go to 620 00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:11.960 his left, hand he's still able to get to that 621 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:15.119 left hand and finish effectively at the. Rim as a 622 00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:17.720 shot blocking, presence he's come along as. Well you, know 623 00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:20.160 he's had a couple Of titanic blocks that got the 624 00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:23.480 Rap aerena crowd really going this. Season so, yeah, CERTAINLY 625 00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:26.039 i think of Any kentucky player on the, roster he's 626 00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:29.079 the one who's maybe most evolved the, most not only 627 00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:31.720 in terms of expanding his game to that ball handling, 628 00:31:31.839 --> 00:31:34.079 role but also just in terms of evolving what he 629 00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:36.920 already was known to do as a defensive presence and 630 00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:37.799 as a general big. 631 00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:41.839 Man you mentioned earlier how entertaining this team has. Been 632 00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:45.000 did you expect this style of? Play did you watch 633 00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:49.160 Much Brigham young? Basketball because, Man Rupp aerena has gone 634 00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:50.160 nuts a few times this. 635 00:31:50.279 --> 00:31:53.880 Year, HONESTLY i can't SAY i expected it to be 636 00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:56.119 at this. Level i'm not going to confuse myself with 637 00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:58.480 A byu super. FAN i can't pretend LIKE i was 638 00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:01.519 up super late or making two much time to watch, them, 639 00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:03.640 why you, know whether they were in THE wcc or 640 00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:05.759 in The big twelve last. Season BUT i think we 641 00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:07.920 kind of knew what to, expect especially on the offensive, 642 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:11.000 end in terms of sharing the ball five. Out you, 643 00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:15.119 know sometimes offense cutting being such a point of emphasis 644 00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:18.119 in terms of that's how the offense gets. Initiated you, 645 00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:21.839 know guys making back door, cut slicing through the, middle you, 646 00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:24.279 know just kind of constant. Movement BUT i do think 647 00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:26.279 the thing that that's kind of been interesting to notice 648 00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:29.640 is just how much that, cutting in that kind of 649 00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:33.240 off ball movement ties Into kentucky having a good offensive. 650 00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:35.960 Performance and when that stuff is, lacking where that stuff 651 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:39.000 is a bit, lazier that stuff isn't as, Cohesive kentucky 652 00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:41.920 usually seems to really labor on, offense go long into 653 00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:44.720 the shot, clock all of those. Things so as much 654 00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:48.279 As Mark pope told us In October, november that, cutting 655 00:32:48.440 --> 00:32:52.680 spacing off ball movement was so paramount his, offense watching 656 00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:55.079 it in, practice both when things go well and when 657 00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:57.160 things don't go well for The cats has been just 658 00:32:57.240 --> 00:32:59.039 kind of a real eye opening thing in terms of 659 00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:01.480 all right with. It this guy's style of Play this 660 00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:04.720 is the most important thing to having a conducive offensive 661 00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:06.440 performance and people love. 662 00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:08.400 IT i mean when they cut to the basket and 663 00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:11.960 passed so, well it is so. Entertaining we're talking To 664 00:33:11.960 --> 00:33:13.839 Cam drummond of The Hero leader a few more, minutes 665 00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:15.480 BUT i do want to shift you. OVER i have 666 00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:21.000 not as learned it as you perhaps in soccer, sure 667 00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:24.400 but like to watch. It WHEN i was in high, 668 00:33:24.440 --> 00:33:26.799 school my buddies were playing and it can be. Fun 669 00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:31.039 how do you think the soccer community here In lexington 670 00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:36.319 has taken to what's happening way out there NEAR i seventy. 671 00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:39.400 Five what a complex out. THERE i mean it has 672 00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:41.240 sprung up really, impressively hasn't. 673 00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:44.480 It, yeah it's super, interesting just in terms of the 674 00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:47.279 growth That Lexington Sporting club has had in such a, 675 00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:50.640 short sir period of. Time excuse, me you think about. 676 00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:53.640 IT i THINK i arrived In lexington's summer of twenty twenty. 677 00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:56.839 One october of twenty twenty one was when the team 678 00:33:56.920 --> 00:33:59.559 was announced That Lexington Sporting club would be, formed that 679 00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:02.680 they begetting a professional men's. Team now you fast forward 680 00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:05.680 less than four years into the, future the professional men's 681 00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:07.880 team is about to be entering its third season of. 682 00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:11.119 Play they've already moved up a division FROM Usl League 683 00:34:11.159 --> 00:34:14.280 one to THE Usl, championship which is the same league 684 00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:17.000 That Louisville city plays. In and now we're in the 685 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:20.840 first season Of Lexington Sporting club's professional women's, team which 686 00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:23.280 plays in THE Usl Super, league which is a brand 687 00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:26.880 new pro women's soccer league that just debuted this Past. 688 00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:30.320 September they use a fall in spring season, format So 689 00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:33.280 Lexington Sporting club on the women's side have just begun 690 00:34:33.320 --> 00:34:35.840 the spring portion of that. Season and that's to say 691 00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:39.239 nothing of as you, mentioned the sprawling complex that they 692 00:34:39.239 --> 00:34:42.599 have now NEAR i seventy five And Athens Boonsboro, road 693 00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:45.480 where they HAVE i think it's a five thousand speeder, 694 00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:48.559 stadium potentially even a seventy five hundred seater, stadium you, 695 00:34:48.599 --> 00:34:51.960 know something in the multiple thousand, range a ton of practice, 696 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:54.760 fields a variety of youth, teams you, know all the 697 00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:57.960 way from the small children's side in that age group 698 00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:01.519 to the pre professional. Level talking YOUR u, seventeens YOU'R u, 699 00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:04.880 eighteens some elite high school players from The lexington And 700 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:07.800 Central kentucky area into the. Fold so, yeah you think 701 00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:09.960 about that span of growth in just such a short 702 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:12.639 period of, time it's pretty impressive how much you, know 703 00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:15.480 they've kind of, grown you, know throughout that. Period and, 704 00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:18.119 yeah you're starting to see more members of the community take, 705 00:35:18.199 --> 00:35:21.239 notice especially in comparison to where they used to play 706 00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:24.360 out At Toyota stadium on the campus Of Georgetown. College 707 00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:27.480 there's certainly a little bit more of A lexington local 708 00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:30.079 feel to it. Now you, know they've gone through some coaching, 709 00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:33.360 changers haven't had the most success on the, field BUT 710 00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:36.000 i think everyone in the organization from the top on, 711 00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:38.840 down is really targeting twenty twenty five as a year 712 00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:41.440 for gross on both the men's and women's, sides but 713 00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:43.840 in particular on the men's, side given that they're now 714 00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:47.440 at THE Usl championship, level the highest division offered under 715 00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:50.440 THE usl, structure and now as they're playing some official 716 00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:53.480 serious matches Against Louisville city as well to kind of 717 00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:55.760 spark that battle of The bluegrass. 718 00:35:56.000 --> 00:36:00.960 RIVALRY i, wondered what a facility that far off the 719 00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:04.320 beaten path out, There Athon's. Boonsboro it's selectioning and it's 720 00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:08.559 not that far, away BUT i wondered would it work 721 00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:11.400 would it draw are They are they happy with where 722 00:36:11.440 --> 00:36:13.679 they are right now with attendance and way the way 723 00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:14.400 fans are shown. 724 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:18.920 UP i think there's certainly room for, growth you. KNOW 725 00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:20.719 i think a lot of that has to do with 726 00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:22.639 with just the fact, that, hey people are still kind 727 00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:25.760 of learning What Lexington Sporting club, is you, know learning 728 00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:29.639 That lexington in Central kentucky has a professional soccer franchise 729 00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:32.400 of its. Own you, KNOW i don't think attendancies are 730 00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:34.960 necessarily bursting out of the gate quite, yet but it's 731 00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:37.840 obviously still early in the inception of that. FACILITY i 732 00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:40.719 think moving to a higher division on the men's side 733 00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:43.719 will certainly. Help, obviously as The World cup in twenty 734 00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:45.880 twenty six kind of nears a bit closer in The 735 00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:49.199 United states And North america at, large attention on soccer 736 00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:51.679 will spike back up. Again you, know every time that 737 00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:54.320 there's An Olympic games like we had this past, summer 738 00:36:54.440 --> 00:36:57.079 interest in women's, soccer you, know it seems to explode 739 00:36:57.119 --> 00:37:00.559 in interested women's sports across the. Board obviously having a 740 00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:02.880 real boon right. Now SO i think it's a bit 741 00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:04.920 of a work in, progress. OBVIOUSLY i think if they 742 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:07.480 can get the product on the field to be a 743 00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:10.840 little bit, better whether that's being in playoff, contention contending for, 744 00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:14.079 championships which is a stated goal of the, club enfranchise 745 00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:17.079 on both the men's and women's, sides that will certainly. 746 00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:19.239 Help but, YEAH i think just you, know kind of 747 00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:21.519 getting awareness. Out obviously you mentioned it's kind of a 748 00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:23.639 bit further out. There you, know it feels like you're 749 00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:27.159 almost driving THE eku And richmond sometimes when you're you're 750 00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:29.400 making the trek out to that. Facility but it is 751 00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:31.800 quite a nice. Facility it's you, know it's an all seater. 752 00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:34.760 Thing they have everything from general ticket options to you, 753 00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:38.000 know a LITTLE vip suite. Area the pitch always seems 754 00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:40.280 to be a in phenomenal, condition AND i think one 755 00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:42.880 of the things That Lexington Sporting club is banking on 756 00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:46.440 pretty strongly as well is getting that local community buy and, 757 00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:49.039 support in particular through youth. Teams you, know they want 758 00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:52.039 local high school clubs or local you, know youth soccer. 759 00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:55.039 Teams the, families, parents friends of the kids who are 760 00:37:55.039 --> 00:37:58.239 in The Lexington Sporting club youth set up already to 761 00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:01.079 be regular attendees of matt to help fill out the. 762 00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:03.480 CROWD i, know they're continuing to try and get a 763 00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:06.199 little bit more interest in activeness in terms of like 764 00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:09.840 the dedicated supporters group. Feel but excuse, ME i would, 765 00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:12.320 recommend you, know people going out and giving it a, 766 00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:15.480 try just because it's a new you, know sports phenomenon 767 00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:18.639 kind of in the Central Kentucky lexington sphere and something 768 00:38:18.639 --> 00:38:21.559 that the area hasn't really had, before and it's worth 769 00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:23.360 at least giving it a test drive in kind to 770 00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:24.360 see if that's something that'll. 771 00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:28.039 Stick we're talking To Cam drummond and, well we actually 772 00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:30.079 had a, time but the next Time, cam we'll talk 773 00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:33.880 about THE tbt. SITUATION i know you've been covering that 774 00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:36.440 it's coming back and they've made some changes for the. 775 00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:38.840 Better but for now you can Follow camin the pages 776 00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:41.360 Of The Hero leader At kentucky dot com and On 777 00:38:41.400 --> 00:38:44.559 twitter or Exit Seed drumming ninety. Seven thank, you, SIR 778 00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:46.559 i have a great. One appreciate. It thank you for the. 779 00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:46.960 Time dick. 780 00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:49.880 Up next hour number, two we'll we're more from the Football. 781 00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:54.599 Wildcats when we're From Hallie dolor OF wtvq and From Josh, 782 00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:58.559 Teeter kentucky boy and newly crowned golf. Champion that's next 783 00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:00.559 you're on six point. Thirty how would you l like. 784 00:39:00.639 --> 00:40:50.880 B welcome back to The Big. 785 00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:53.320 BLONSIDER i remember two of our programs coming. Up in 786 00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:55.760 just a few, minutes we're gonnare From Josh, teeter who 787 00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:58.880 was in town following his victory on the Corn Ferry 788 00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:02.679 tory one down At Panama. City panama won the. Championship 789 00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:06.639 huge win for The danville, Native Moorhead state, product And lexington. 790 00:41:06.760 --> 00:41:09.280 Residents we'll hear From josh in just a couple of, 791 00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:13.360 minutes also From Hallie DeVore OF, wtvq Covers Dowyle kats 792 00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:16.719 both basketball and. Football but we need to talk about 793 00:41:16.760 --> 00:41:20.400 what's going on, today and it's probably. Over maybe it 794 00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:22.760 spills into a second, DAY i don't. Know down In, 795 00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:27.400 dallas the conferences involved in a college football playoff are 796 00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:32.000 gathering to talk about the future. Format because we pre, 797 00:41:32.039 --> 00:41:34.719 recorded it is likely. Over we have to talk about 798 00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:38.079 what happened tomorrow if indeed they make some sort of 799 00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:42.800 announcement after today's. Meeting but this is gonna Get this 800 00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:45.880 could get a little. Ugly and if you look back 801 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:48.199 on the playoff this past, YEAR i think we'll all 802 00:41:48.239 --> 00:41:52.159 agree that the seating was. Wrong it was, bad poorly. 803 00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:55.719 Done but some of those bigger conferences were locked, in 804 00:41:55.760 --> 00:41:57.599 and you, know obviously The big ten in THE sec 805 00:41:57.760 --> 00:42:01.920 were locked in to their slots the brackets in the. 806 00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:05.800 Playoff The big ten and THE sec wants straight seeding 807 00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:09.760 again for next season or this coming football playoff twenty twenty, 808 00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:15.239 five and THE, Acc big twelve and other SIX fbs 809 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:19.760 conferences don't want. It so now the question is how 810 00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:22.800 badly do The big ten and THE sec want. It 811 00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:26.039 you got to wonder will they make the other conferences 812 00:42:26.079 --> 00:42:30.599 financially hold no matter what the, Format you, know what 813 00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:34.599 kind of guarantees will there be within the future format 814 00:42:34.679 --> 00:42:38.960 beginning of twenty twenty, six because that's when The big 815 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:42.400 ten and THE sec will not need a unanimous agreement 816 00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:46.760 to change the rules this. Year today they need a unanimous, 817 00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:51.679 agreement but beginning next year they do. Not so The 818 00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:55.639 big ten moving forward can do ANY sec they can 819 00:42:55.679 --> 00:43:01.920 do whatever they. Want so today's, meeting obviously vital And 820 00:43:02.159 --> 00:43:05.840 Mike wilbond was on With Tony, KOENHEISER i believe this 821 00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:10.719 was ON pti talking about this, situation and he's the 822 00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:13.639 son of The Big ten with The northwestern but like 823 00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:17.079 most of us believes that what might be good for 824 00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:21.519 The Big ten in THE, sec really, good Including kentucky obviously, 825 00:43:21.559 --> 00:43:25.400 financially won't be good for the rest of college. Football 826 00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:27.239 my focus is entirely somewhere. 827 00:43:27.239 --> 00:43:32.119 Else it it leads toward the ruination of WHAT i 828 00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:35.840 appreciate about college, football having followed it all my, life 829 00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:39.800 having covered it half my. LIFE i hate what this is. 830 00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:43.840 Doing and, Yes i'm a trustee of the university in 831 00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:47.320 one of those conferences that is at the big kid. Table, 832 00:43:47.480 --> 00:43:50.639 okay it's The Golden child, table to be in The 833 00:43:50.679 --> 00:43:53.360 Big ten or THE, sec And i'm grateful for. That 834 00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:56.440 but Now i'm Sure i'm gonna make people who deal 835 00:43:56.480 --> 00:43:57.400 with me in The big ten. 836 00:43:57.519 --> 00:43:57.880 Cringe. 837 00:43:58.960 --> 00:44:01.440 TONY i don't like exclusion when. 838 00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:01.800 It comes to. 839 00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:03.000 SPORT i want. 840 00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:06.519 Inclusion and when you cut out fan, bases you cut 841 00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:10.400 out regions of the of the, country not just, conferences 842 00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:13.360 because you can absorb those teams under another. UMBRELLA i 843 00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:17.239 get that THE usc AND ucla And Washington oregon can 844 00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:19.280 be in The Big ten and you sort of don'ate 845 00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:23.480 slue what you're. Doing, exclude you exclude, rivalries you eliminate. 846 00:44:23.519 --> 00:44:27.360 Them you, eliminate you chop down when you do, THIS 847 00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:31.159 a big part of our college football really is AND 848 00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:35.159 i find it. Loathesome So i'm not gonna deal with 849 00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:39.039 whether it's. DESERVED i don't. Know it just it distracts 850 00:44:39.679 --> 00:44:41.960 in a major way from college football to. 851 00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:46.320 Me That's Mike wilbon talking To Tony kornheiser ON pti 852 00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:50.960 looking back at the playoffs this past, year this is 853 00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:54.800 what it would have looked like if not for the 854 00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:57.840 seeding the problems they had this, year because of course 855 00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:02.159 you had schools conference champs that were locked. In Boise 856 00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:04.360 state was a three. Seed people, said, well that ain't, 857 00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:09.000 Right and if they were properly, Seeded Boise state instead 858 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:10.960 of a number, three would have been a number nine 859 00:45:11.519 --> 00:45:15.280 in the one through twelve seeding. Format Arizona state number 860 00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:20.280 four would have been number twelve per The Final College Football, 861 00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:24.679 Poll oregon's reward for earning the number one overall seed 862 00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:28.159 would have been a second round game against the winner 863 00:45:28.199 --> 00:45:32.960 Of indiana Or Boise state instead of against eventual national 864 00:45:33.039 --> 00:45:38.000 Champ Ohio. State, georgia with the number two overall, seed 865 00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:41.320 would have been in The Sugar bowl against Either tennessee 866 00:45:41.440 --> 00:45:47.280 OR smu instead of Against Notre. Dame so the big 867 00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:50.519 ten in THE sec, believe of, course the straight seed 868 00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:54.800 format is best for everybody and places an emphasis on 869 00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:59.360 successful regular. Seasons Kirby smart has said that he can't 870 00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:02.719 imagine a upper road TO hoe than winning THE, sec 871 00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:08.280 which is why AN sec champion deserves that. Buy but 872 00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:11.360 how could a champion from The big twelve of THE 873 00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:15.599 acc or a group of five champ supplant THE sec 874 00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:18.000 And big ten champs from the two top spots in 875 00:46:18.079 --> 00:46:24.559 any straight seeded. Pole it's a real, mess and it's 876 00:46:24.639 --> 00:46:28.039 again it's what's good for college football as opposed to 877 00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:30.559 what's good for these. Leagues and if you're A kentucky, 878 00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:33.800 fan you know then now With texas And oklahoma in 879 00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:37.719 the league and no more divisional, championships it's even harder 880 00:46:38.519 --> 00:46:41.800 for a mid level team Like. Kentucky i'm talking about 881 00:46:42.119 --> 00:46:46.599 really at its better, Times Thander Mark steubs still brutally 882 00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:50.840 tough to win AN sec. Championship Josh sheeters next on 883 00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:54.920 six THIRTY wlap welcome back to The Big blue and 884 00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:57.480 side they're gonna step away from basketball and football from 885 00:46:57.559 --> 00:47:00.320 in a talk a little golf because he was one 886 00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:04.239 Of kentucky's Own Josh, Teeter danville, native played At Moorhead 887 00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:07.119 state lives In. Lexington now you might have heard this last, 888 00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:08.840 week But i'm gonna get into it a little bit 889 00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:11.119 more because we had a chance to talk To josh. 890 00:47:11.159 --> 00:47:15.199 Recently he won an event on the Corn Ferry. Tour 891 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:20.119 he won The Panama championship In Panama, city and this was. 892 00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:24.719 Incredible he started the final round six strokes. Behind he 893 00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:27.719 was four, under part tied for, twentieth you, know knocking it, 894 00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:30.960 around but he birdied three of the first five holes 895 00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:34.760 and then he made the turn in two under at 896 00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:38.039 thirty shot of thirty three on the front nine four 897 00:47:38.119 --> 00:47:40.920 more birdies on the, back so when he bogied, eighteen 898 00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:44.599 it didn't. Matter he finished with a sixty five and 899 00:47:44.679 --> 00:47:49.119 won the. Championship and they had a little reception for 900 00:47:49.199 --> 00:47:53.559 him of celebration recently At malons here In, lexingon AND 901 00:47:53.679 --> 00:47:57.280 i along with several of my media, brethren had a 902 00:47:57.400 --> 00:48:00.519 chance to talk To josh and he's a soft. Now 903 00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:03.719 he choked up a little bit during the. Interview he 904 00:48:03.760 --> 00:48:05.440 choked up a little bit when he was talking to the, 905 00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:08.360 crowd great crowd on, hand and he did a great 906 00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:11.320 job for the folks who put on the event At, 907 00:48:11.400 --> 00:48:15.239 malone's THE behg, group and it was a lot of 908 00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:17.559 fun and we had a chance to talk To josh 909 00:48:17.719 --> 00:48:19.159 about a big win for. 910 00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:23.519 Him you, know it's just fun to. Celebrate you, know 911 00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:27.719 play all the time and try to win every, time 912 00:48:27.760 --> 00:48:31.920 but you, know it rarely, happens as we've, seen and you, 913 00:48:31.960 --> 00:48:34.840 know sometimes it's my issue That i'm not, winning and 914 00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:37.760 other times you just get. Beat so this time it 915 00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:40.920 worked out for, me and just very thankful to be 916 00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:44.360 able to celebrate and thanks to Bad global for putting 917 00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:44.519 it all. 918 00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:46.719 Together how much they have to twist your arm on, this. 919 00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:52.880 Not too, much you, know you, KNOW I i'm glad 920 00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:54.760 to do it And i'm happy to do it and 921 00:48:55.679 --> 00:48:57.440 just really enjoy the night for. 922 00:48:57.480 --> 00:48:59.599 Sure why did this want work out for? 923 00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:02.280 You what went so well for? You you? 924 00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:05.960 KNOW i THINK i was just kind of unphased throughout the. 925 00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:09.119 Week the conditions were, tough kind of the whole week 926 00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:13.320 and panamall and, UH i just enjoyed the game and 927 00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:16.400 had fun with each, shot even uh though there were 928 00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:20.559 some bad ones along the, way AND uh just kind 929 00:49:20.559 --> 00:49:24.679 of went forward and didn't really look back and, uh you, 930 00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:27.880 Know sunday just was one of the better Rounds i've ever, 931 00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:32.400 played and in some of the toughest conditions THAT i 932 00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:34.559 didn't realize it was as good around as it was 933 00:49:34.599 --> 00:49:37.239 WHEN i finished until, uh you, know all the other 934 00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:40.920 scores kind of came in and, uh you, know just 935 00:49:41.039 --> 00:49:41.559 kind of the door. 936 00:49:41.559 --> 00:49:44.960 Open is that something you can bottle to take out 937 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:46.079 with you next time you're out? 938 00:49:46.119 --> 00:49:48.280 There, YEAH i MEAN i think you can count of 939 00:49:48.320 --> 00:49:50.920 the mindset of just kind of being unphased and kind 940 00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:53.480 of control what you can and not worry about what 941 00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:55.440 you can't. Control you can kind of always do, that 942 00:49:55.480 --> 00:49:58.480 and that's kind of always the. Goal but some days 943 00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:02.039 it's tougher than. Others some weeks obviously it can be. 944 00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:03.960 Rough but, yeah that's a goal for. 945 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:07.679 Sure, Josh, panama what an obscure place to play a 946 00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:09.039 round of golf or several. 947 00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:10.519 Rounds how did you find that? 948 00:50:10.599 --> 00:50:13.079 Experience you, KNOW i was about the seventh Time i've been, 949 00:50:13.079 --> 00:50:14.840 there all the way back to like two thousand and 950 00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:16.719 nine WHEN i was a rookie on what was in 951 00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:20.000 The Nationwide. Tour so, YEAH i Mean i'm kind of 952 00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:22.960 familiar with. It the golf course is pretty similar to 953 00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:25.159 what it was back, then just in better condition now 954 00:50:25.199 --> 00:50:28.159 because they've added some money into the course and got 955 00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:30.920 some good turf and linked in it a little. Bit 956 00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:33.760 but you, know you, know you're gonna have a thirty 957 00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:36.599 forty minute bus ride to the course each, day and 958 00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:41.559 with a you, know full of your playing competitors and 959 00:50:41.599 --> 00:50:45.639 caddies and really a lot like you, know my trip 960 00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:47.840 To Cocoa beach within your clay baseball back in the, 961 00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:52.199 day you, know so bring back some. Memories but, YEAH 962 00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:54.239 i mean just kind of enjoy. 963 00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:57.239 It did that thirty forty minute ride maybe helps you 964 00:50:57.239 --> 00:50:59.199 get right mentally in a different way than you ever have. 965 00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:02.360 Before you, KNOW i DON'T i don't THINK i could say, 966 00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:05.039 that but you, KNOW i was listening to some podcasts 967 00:51:05.159 --> 00:51:10.079 or watching comedy special Of Ghani Marion weber that just 968 00:51:10.119 --> 00:51:12.840 came out that, week and you, KNOW i was laughing 969 00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:14.519 on the way. There so maybe that had a little 970 00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:15.039 bit to do with. 971 00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:19.280 It you talked about having fun with each. Shot most 972 00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:22.920 weekend hackers can't relate to that with the. Golf but you, 973 00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:25.119 know tell me about that. Mindset is that something you've 974 00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:25.760 had to work up. 975 00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:28.679 To, YEAH i mean there's been times in my career 976 00:51:28.719 --> 00:51:31.079 where it's been like, THAT i think for extended periods 977 00:51:31.119 --> 00:51:33.960 and times where it. Hadn't but you, KNOW i think 978 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:36.079 that's mainly the part of the. Game they, say it's 979 00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:39.800 between your ears and it's. Right you, know everybody out 980 00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:42.559 there can hit the. Shots it's just can you hit 981 00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:46.159 it when the time's, right and, uh you know it's. 982 00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:49.159 UH i just remember on the sixteenth hole the last, 983 00:51:49.239 --> 00:51:51.199 DAY i hit a poor, shot not really a poor, 984 00:51:51.199 --> 00:51:53.599 shot but kind of came up short of the, green 985 00:51:53.719 --> 00:51:55.480 rolled back in the bunker on the sixteenth, hole AND 986 00:51:56.079 --> 00:51:58.119 i was walking up there and just chatting with My 987 00:51:58.159 --> 00:52:00.119 caddy that. DAY i was, like we can make. THAT i, 988 00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:00.840 MEAN i made. 989 00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:03.079 It so you said that or he said. 990 00:52:03.119 --> 00:52:05.880 THAT i said, It and you, KNOW i mean it 991 00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:07.639 only gives you a better. Chance i'll sell you. That 992 00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:08.480 i'll tell you that for. 993 00:52:08.519 --> 00:52:11.639 Sure what's the next now that you've gotten this, win 994 00:52:11.840 --> 00:52:12.880 what's the schedule look? 995 00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:15.280 Like, yeah, so you, KNOW i didn't really have a 996 00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:18.679 schedule until probably After. AVACO i KNEW i was going 997 00:52:18.760 --> 00:52:21.000 to start reshuffling, in you, know to the rest of 998 00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:24.159 the Corn ferry. Schedule but now with the, win you, 999 00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:27.199 Know i'm exempt all year for, sure and you, KNOW 1000 00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:29.800 i haven't really dialed it, in you, know past the 1001 00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:32.199 next few weeks because we're going To argentina And. CHILE 1002 00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:36.239 i Leave, sunday and then after that we'll be in, 1003 00:52:36.360 --> 00:52:38.880 state so you, Know i'll play a majority of, them 1004 00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:42.159 BUT i hope to play The isco here In. Louisville you, 1005 00:52:42.239 --> 00:52:44.280 KNOW i wish it was still here In, lexington But 1006 00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:46.159 i'll drive up the, ROAD i. 1007 00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:50.480 Guess but at this point in your, career what does 1008 00:52:50.480 --> 00:52:51.400 a win do for? 1009 00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:54.840 You, yeah you, KNOW i mean it guarantees me this 1010 00:52:55.239 --> 00:52:58.800 season and next season on the Corn, ferry and then you, know, 1011 00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:01.599 obviously top twenty on Corn ferry this year gets me 1012 00:53:01.639 --> 00:53:04.360 to THE Pga tour for twenty six and you, know 1013 00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:07.760 right now that's the goal to get back out there 1014 00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:11.159 and you, know perform better THAN i did last year out, 1015 00:53:11.159 --> 00:53:14.920 there AND i THINK i can for, sure and you, 1016 00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:16.480 know try to get get a trophy out. 1017 00:53:16.480 --> 00:53:20.039 There but just, emotionally what does a win do for 1018 00:53:20.079 --> 00:53:21.000 you at this point in your? 1019 00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:26.159 Life, YEAH i mean it's, relieving you, know takes the 1020 00:53:26.199 --> 00:53:27.960 pressure off a little. Bit you, know WHEN i went 1021 00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:30.039 to The, bahamas there was a lot of pressure on 1022 00:53:30.280 --> 00:53:33.800 my shoulders to perform in those two events or maybe 1023 00:53:33.800 --> 00:53:36.000 not play the rest of the, year have trouble getting 1024 00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:38.239 in the. Tournament so you, KNOW i feel Like i'm 1025 00:53:38.320 --> 00:53:40.119 kind of playing the rest of the year. Free so 1026 00:53:41.239 --> 00:53:45.079 it's gonna go go have fun and, uh you, know 1027 00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:47.760 some weeks may not be, great but we're just gonna 1028 00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:48.639 kind of keep moving. 1029 00:53:48.480 --> 00:53:50.000 Forward like you're playing with house. 1030 00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:50.519 Money. 1031 00:53:50.719 --> 00:53:52.960 Correct, yeah there's another way of saying it for. 1032 00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:55.760 Sure how long has it been since you've had that freeing, 1033 00:53:55.800 --> 00:53:57.599 Feeling josh. 1034 00:53:57.199 --> 00:54:01.360 Oh, man good. Question, uh you, know in twenty, THIRTEEN 1035 00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:03.760 i had two really good tournaments ON Pga tour on 1036 00:54:03.800 --> 00:54:06.400 The West, coast WHICH i knew my card was. Locked 1037 00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:09.320 and that, YEAR i you, know probably played a lot 1038 00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:09.880 for a year. 1039 00:54:11.280 --> 00:54:11.880 And then. 1040 00:54:13.679 --> 00:54:17.360 Would have been twenty eighteen maybe WHEN i got my 1041 00:54:17.440 --> 00:54:19.679 card one time through Corn. Ferry you, know it was 1042 00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:22.039 fairly later in the, season BUT i KNEW i had, 1043 00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:24.599 it SO i could just kind of let loose and 1044 00:54:24.599 --> 00:54:28.039 try to move up to up the. Rankings what does. 1045 00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:30.440 It mean to your your family and your kids to 1046 00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:33.440 see their dad have this success but have it not come. 1047 00:54:33.480 --> 00:54:38.400 Easy it's a good. 1048 00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:45.320 Question, YEAH i Mean i'm going a, lot AND i 1049 00:54:45.400 --> 00:54:49.760 know that's tough on, them but you, know hopefully they 1050 00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:53.840 see that the hard work pays, off and you, know 1051 00:54:53.920 --> 00:54:56.239 hopefully they can kind of have a little bit of 1052 00:54:56.280 --> 00:54:59.280 that and then as they go. Forward AND i, mean 1053 00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:02.159 as we, speak seven year old's playing in his little basketball, 1054 00:55:02.199 --> 00:55:06.480 tournament so hopefully he gets the win so we can 1055 00:55:06.519 --> 00:55:10.400 go see. Tomorrow but, YEAH i mean they love, sports 1056 00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:13.920 And ashley was a great basketball, player SO i think 1057 00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:17.719 it's in the. House And i'm probably the fourth best 1058 00:55:17.920 --> 00:55:22.880 athlete in the. House but you, know just hopefully they 1059 00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:27.840 see the, hardboy you, know pays, off and you, KNOW 1060 00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:30.079 i think there's lessons to be learned whether you win 1061 00:55:30.159 --> 00:55:30.360 or we. 1062 00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:33.599 Lose So courst talked with you about, playing and you 1063 00:55:33.719 --> 00:55:36.559 asked about playing In chile And. Argentina you win In. 1064 00:55:36.599 --> 00:55:40.119 Panama that's part of the, GRIND i. Know and it's 1065 00:55:40.159 --> 00:55:42.960 physical and. Mental people think it's, Glamorous but tell me 1066 00:55:42.960 --> 00:55:45.440 about the, life, though this is what you. Wanted but 1067 00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:47.000 what's it like now dealing with this? 1068 00:55:47.159 --> 00:55:50.559 Life, YEAH i mean it's it's. Wild you, know you're 1069 00:55:50.599 --> 00:55:53.559 you're on a. PLANE i, mean you're gone thirty weeks a. 1070 00:55:53.639 --> 00:55:56.119 Year whether it's the tournaments or to go To florida 1071 00:55:56.519 --> 00:55:58.599 to try to practice or whatever it may. Be and 1072 00:55:59.039 --> 00:56:01.400 sometimes they family can go with, you and sometimes they. 1073 00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:03.599 Can't you, know as they've gotten, older it's tougher because 1074 00:56:03.599 --> 00:56:06.880 they've got their own. Stuff but, YEAH i mean there's 1075 00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:08.679 days you wake up and you've got a flight at 1076 00:56:08.719 --> 00:56:10.679 four thirty or you got to get to the airport 1077 00:56:10.679 --> 00:56:12.440 at four, thirty and you really don't want to go do, 1078 00:56:12.480 --> 00:56:15.000 it but, uh you, know you dig deep and you do. 1079 00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:18.559 It and, uh you know when you're coming, home you, 1080 00:56:18.599 --> 00:56:22.239 know laid on a red eye or early on A monday, 1081 00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:24.519 morning whatever it may. Be you, know it's always you, 1082 00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:26.920 know gratifying to get back to you out. 1083 00:56:26.920 --> 00:56:28.519 THERE i, mean You're caddy can help. You but it 1084 00:56:28.559 --> 00:56:29.039 ain't a team. 1085 00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:32.119 Sport, yeah you're, Right, yeah it's it all falls on. 1086 00:56:32.199 --> 00:56:34.119 ME i mean we are a, team BUT i like 1087 00:56:34.199 --> 00:56:37.920 to take the responsibility when things don't go, well especially 1088 00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:40.360 Because i'm the one that makes a final call and 1089 00:56:40.800 --> 00:56:44.519 final decision on What i'm doing or trying to. Hit so, yeah, 1090 00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:47.440 yeah it's it's been going FOR i guess twenty three years, 1091 00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:50.079 now and hopefully we can keep going quite a few. 1092 00:56:50.119 --> 00:56:53.840 MORE i can't imagine playing for a doctor pepper on 1093 00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:56.159 a golf course and here you're out there playing for first, 1094 00:56:56.239 --> 00:56:59.159 money that kind of. Thing what is it? Like what 1095 00:56:59.280 --> 00:57:01.960 was it like when the bottom the ball hits the 1096 00:57:01.960 --> 00:57:04.280 bottom of the cup that last putt that either puts 1097 00:57:04.320 --> 00:57:07.159 you way up or wins the tournament for, you because 1098 00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:07.800 none of us can. 1099 00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:11.599 Relate, YEAH i, MEAN i think you, know when you're 1100 00:57:11.639 --> 00:57:14.079 playing on the cut, LINE i think that's got more 1101 00:57:14.159 --> 00:57:16.679 nerve wracking than being at the top of the, leaderboard 1102 00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:19.320 because you're obviously playing well if your the top of the, 1103 00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:21.280 leaderboard and if you're on that cut, LINE i feel 1104 00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:23.440 like you're struggling a little bit with your. Game So 1105 00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:26.840 i've always felt Like i've played a little freer When 1106 00:57:26.840 --> 00:57:29.960 i've been up there toward the. Top and this, TIME i, 1107 00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:32.079 MEAN i knew it was a good. ROUND i knew 1108 00:57:32.280 --> 00:57:33.920 my goal at the beginning of the day was to 1109 00:57:33.960 --> 00:57:36.159 finish in the top twenty five and SO i could 1110 00:57:36.159 --> 00:57:39.960 play In, bogatah AND i Knew i'd done, That so you, 1111 00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:44.199 KNOW i didn't actually everything was. Gravy, YEAH i didn't 1112 00:57:44.199 --> 00:57:46.920 know THAT i was in the lead UNTIL i signed 1113 00:57:46.920 --> 00:57:50.239 my scorecard and THEN i, saw you, know a couple holes, 1114 00:57:50.360 --> 00:57:53.320 Later Johnny keifer tied. ME i THINK i number, twelve 1115 00:57:53.400 --> 00:57:56.039 AND i just kind of sat back and. WATCHED i 1116 00:57:56.039 --> 00:58:01.159 had no. CONTROL i wasn't too, nervous wasn't TOO i 1117 00:58:01.280 --> 00:58:04.400 was pacing or. Anything finally got up and hit some 1118 00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:07.880 putts when he had a couple holes. Left so, yeah 1119 00:58:08.119 --> 00:58:10.039 it was it felt. Good i'll, say. 1120 00:58:09.920 --> 00:58:14.280 That is Your spanish ocaja sure better than others you're 1121 00:58:14.280 --> 00:58:14.800 gonna play. 1122 00:58:14.679 --> 00:58:16.679 In these all These South american, Places. 1123 00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:20.719 Uh not very good at. ALL i don't know O'bla. 1124 00:58:20.840 --> 00:58:26.159 Espanol just enough to get in. Trouble but there's plenty 1125 00:58:26.199 --> 00:58:29.000 of you, Know South american players THAT i can kind 1126 00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:31.079 of lean on and ask IF i need. Something but, 1127 00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:34.159 uh you, know usually you can Use we've been Using 1128 00:58:34.159 --> 00:58:37.320 Google translate a lot when we've been down, there so 1129 00:58:38.239 --> 00:58:40.639 just get. By so a huge. 1130 00:58:40.679 --> 00:58:44.440 Win, obviously any win is. Big but because of his 1131 00:58:44.639 --> 00:58:47.320 victory picked up one hundred and eighty Grand i also 1132 00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:50.239 picked up five hundred points in a Corn Ferry tourist points. 1133 00:58:50.280 --> 00:58:53.920 List uh second now on the list top twenty finishers 1134 00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:57.000 on that Corn Ferry Tour points, list earning status on 1135 00:58:57.199 --> 00:59:01.239 the THE pga tour for the twenty twenty six. Seasons so 1136 00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:04.159 good For, josh a member of The Orange State University 1137 00:59:04.199 --> 00:59:06.920 Athletic hall Of fame after he led The eagles to 1138 00:59:07.199 --> 00:59:10.079 AN ovc title in nineteen ninety. Nine good to talk 1139 00:59:10.119 --> 00:59:13.559 To josh. Up, next we'll talk More kentucky basketball With 1140 00:59:13.639 --> 00:59:17.440 Halle DEVOR wtvq here on six thirty W welcome back 1141 00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:19.840 to The Big Moll insider joining us now is a 1142 00:59:19.880 --> 00:59:24.239 familiar face if you WATCH. Wtvq Halle devare reporter anchor 1143 00:59:24.320 --> 00:59:28.000 For channel thirty, six and you may see her as 1144 00:59:28.039 --> 00:59:31.440 well if you watch A kentucky basketball. Game she is 1145 00:59:31.480 --> 00:59:35.960 one of the, videographers oftentimes on the baseline and you 1146 00:59:36.039 --> 00:59:38.639 see kids flying out of. Bounds have you been run over? 1147 00:59:38.719 --> 00:59:39.000 Yet this? 1148 00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:42.119 YEAR i was gonna, say you might see my legs 1149 00:59:42.159 --> 00:59:45.440 in the air after being trampled by A Mary. Williams 1150 00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:46.679 most horrifying. 1151 00:59:46.719 --> 00:59:48.119 Experience really that. 1152 00:59:48.199 --> 00:59:53.159 Happened, yeah, wow but it's all. Good, HONESTLY i feel 1153 00:59:53.159 --> 00:59:54.719 like it makes my reflex says a lot. 1154 00:59:54.760 --> 00:59:57.519 Faster, well and of course your boss Is, jeppicoro AND 1155 00:59:57.559 --> 00:59:59.880 i guarantee you the first thing he would say is the, camera, 1156 01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:01.519 okay not are You. 1157 01:00:01.559 --> 01:00:05.079 Okay, yeah, right, no, thankfully our cameras are pretty. Small 1158 01:00:05.199 --> 01:00:07.719 so first thing out of the way is you see the, 1159 01:00:07.880 --> 01:00:10.079 camera how to protect the. 1160 01:00:10.119 --> 01:00:12.199 Faith what has it been like for you covering This 1161 01:00:12.320 --> 01:00:17.239 kentucky basketball team because there's so many, storylines starting With pope's. 1162 01:00:17.440 --> 01:00:19.760 Returning you AND i have talked since he got, back 1163 01:00:19.840 --> 01:00:22.559 but just the way this season has unfolded with the 1164 01:00:22.599 --> 01:00:26.199 injuries and yet they keep you, know racking up quad one, 1165 01:00:26.280 --> 01:00:28.159 wins we're losing games that get away from. 1166 01:00:28.159 --> 01:00:31.679 Them, YEAH i think that's been the most interesting thing 1167 01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:34.360 is to see, them you, know sweep the series With, 1168 01:00:34.440 --> 01:00:38.039 tennessee but fall to a team Like arkansas who was 1169 01:00:38.199 --> 01:00:41.199 one in six coming into that. Matchup SO i think 1170 01:00:41.239 --> 01:00:43.800 that also just says a lot about the conference this, 1171 01:00:43.920 --> 01:00:46.039 year and that's been really fun to, watch and it 1172 01:00:46.039 --> 01:00:50.360 makes me really excited for THE Sec tournament because looking 1173 01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:52.719 at how it's been this, year you, Know kentucky could 1174 01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:55.039 bow out in the first. Round they could also go 1175 01:00:55.079 --> 01:00:57.119 on to win the whole. Thing that's kind of just 1176 01:00:57.159 --> 01:00:59.719 been the dynamic this year that's made it so fun to. 1177 01:00:59.760 --> 01:01:03.760 Watch, yeah can you imagine a team that would have 1178 01:01:03.880 --> 01:01:08.199 to win five games in five days against this kind of, competition. 1179 01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:11.519 Right, yeah wait to say that. AGAIN i, mean if. 1180 01:01:11.400 --> 01:01:14.760 You're going to win THE Sec, tournament you're probably gonna 1181 01:01:14.800 --> 01:01:18.000 have to win well either four games and four days 1182 01:01:18.159 --> 01:01:21.039 depending on the, buys or five games in five. DAYS 1183 01:01:21.039 --> 01:01:21.400 i mean that's. 1184 01:01:21.480 --> 01:01:23.360 Brutal it is. 1185 01:01:23.440 --> 01:01:25.679 Brutal and that's the thing with THE sec is not 1186 01:01:25.760 --> 01:01:29.559 a lot of teams have been able to get those streaks, 1187 01:01:29.599 --> 01:01:33.280 going except for Maybe. Auburn and that's actually Something kentucky 1188 01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:36.679 has struggled with the most is putting those wins back 1189 01:01:36.679 --> 01:01:39.079 to back to, back especially with the injuries that they've 1190 01:01:39.079 --> 01:01:42.280 been dealing with. Recently so hopefully they can get a 1191 01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:44.039 couple of those players. BACK i know we heard on 1192 01:01:44.079 --> 01:01:48.079 the radio show That Lamar butler And Jackson robinson practicing, 1193 01:01:48.119 --> 01:01:52.000 today so could possibly see them back in the next 1194 01:01:52.079 --> 01:01:54.280 couple weeks and maybe that would be huge for The. 1195 01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:56.000 Cats but they've got to learn how to work with 1196 01:01:56.079 --> 01:01:59.239 this roster if that's what they're going to have at 1197 01:01:59.280 --> 01:01:59.639 THE Sec. 1198 01:01:59.679 --> 01:02:03.679 Tournament you are a scholarship athlete in college At. NORTHWESTERN 1199 01:02:03.800 --> 01:02:06.360 i know you are a. Runner it's not quite the, 1200 01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:07.000 same but. 1201 01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:07.679 You deal with. 1202 01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:10.599 Injuries you, know you got to stay in shape, obviously 1203 01:02:10.719 --> 01:02:14.920 and if you go, down it's next person. Up but 1204 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:17.639 that's not. Easy you, know in your, sport that's one, 1205 01:02:17.639 --> 01:02:20.239 Thing but in a team, sport it's a little, different isn't. 1206 01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:24.440 It oh, yeah BUT i totally understand that, mentality and 1207 01:02:24.480 --> 01:02:27.719 it is it does keep there's not really a bench 1208 01:02:27.800 --> 01:02:30.880 for cross country, necessarily but that you know WHAT i, 1209 01:02:30.960 --> 01:02:33.960 Mean like on the. Toes like for cross, country for, 1210 01:02:34.039 --> 01:02:37.719 example you race seven to nine, girls there's twenty four 1211 01:02:38.199 --> 01:02:42.159 people on your. Roster and since running is such and impact, 1212 01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:44.239 sport a lot of people go down with chin splints 1213 01:02:44.320 --> 01:02:48.639 or you, know small stress fractures like. That you can 1214 01:02:48.679 --> 01:02:50.480 have like nine girls out for a season and you 1215 01:02:50.559 --> 01:02:52.920 really never know who's going to come up, next so 1216 01:02:52.960 --> 01:02:56.599 you can't have anybody. Slacking and especially some of these 1217 01:02:56.639 --> 01:02:58.719 freshmen that have really stepped up this year has been 1218 01:02:58.760 --> 01:03:00.320 really impressive to watch For. 1219 01:03:00.440 --> 01:03:05.559 Kentucky, yeah it's been kind of. Fun and Watching Travis 1220 01:03:05.599 --> 01:03:08.440 perry And. TRENDELL i was fortunate enough to see them 1221 01:03:08.840 --> 01:03:09.800 play against each. 1222 01:03:09.639 --> 01:03:13.519 Other In NO i saw that last. Year, yeah that was. 1223 01:03:13.599 --> 01:03:16.400 WILD i like even to think about that they played 1224 01:03:16.400 --> 01:03:19.719 in Rev arena like just last year in high. SCHOOL i, 1225 01:03:19.760 --> 01:03:22.000 MEAN i just got back from covering a couple of 1226 01:03:22.079 --> 01:03:25.199 high school Games monday, night and that's it's just weird 1227 01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:27.599 that that's where they were a year ago and now 1228 01:03:27.599 --> 01:03:31.320 they're on this huge. Stage and even Though kentucky's battling 1229 01:03:31.360 --> 01:03:32.960 a lot of, injury you, know they're getting a lot 1230 01:03:33.000 --> 01:03:35.760 more playing time than maybe they thought they. WOULD i 1231 01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:37.920 think that in the long run for This kentucky, team 1232 01:03:37.960 --> 01:03:40.440 that's going to be. Huge and just the dynamic of 1233 01:03:40.480 --> 01:03:43.719 playing At kentucky is so fun to watch some of 1234 01:03:43.760 --> 01:03:47.599 these local, kids you, know draining threes and that kind of. 1235 01:03:47.599 --> 01:03:49.400 THING i think the fans love, it and that also 1236 01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:51.840 gives the team a lot of momentum down. 1237 01:03:51.639 --> 01:03:53.480 There on the floors. Yard of, Course i'm up in 1238 01:03:53.480 --> 01:03:55.280 the rafters, now it's where they stick most of the. 1239 01:03:55.320 --> 01:03:59.239 Media but what has it been like in terms of the, 1240 01:03:59.280 --> 01:04:04.039 crowd the, energy especially when the team's, Playing, well what's 1241 01:04:04.079 --> 01:04:06.360 it like down there right in the middle of it? 1242 01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:11.920 All SO i bought your. PLUGS i my ears have 1243 01:04:12.199 --> 01:04:13.840 taken the bund of. It it is such a fun. 1244 01:04:13.960 --> 01:04:17.000 Environment And i've been to a lot of college basketball 1245 01:04:17.039 --> 01:04:19.519 environments and From, oregon So i've been To university Of 1246 01:04:19.519 --> 01:04:22.800 oregon Games Oregon state went To. Northwestern So i've been 1247 01:04:22.840 --> 01:04:25.920 in some big ten atmospheres and truly nothing compares to 1248 01:04:26.559 --> 01:04:29.239 What i've, seen not only A kentucky but in THE. 1249 01:04:29.280 --> 01:04:31.679 SEC i went to The tennessee game as well here 1250 01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:35.440 and those environments are just. Loud But kentucky fans have 1251 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:38.480 a lot of, energy you, know don't give up till 1252 01:04:38.519 --> 01:04:40.719 the final, whistle and it's just such a good. Environment 1253 01:04:40.760 --> 01:04:41.199 it's a lot of. 1254 01:04:41.239 --> 01:04:45.159 Fun talking To Hallie DEVOR, WTVQ i THINK i may 1255 01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:48.199 have asked you this. Before were you At northwestern when 1256 01:04:48.239 --> 01:04:52.519 they made a run to THE ncate? Tournament so for? 1257 01:04:52.639 --> 01:04:57.519 Basketball, yeah, yes so they're my last year. There they 1258 01:04:57.519 --> 01:04:59.920 did make a, run AND i believe they bowed out 1259 01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:03.880 in the first or second, round and they did for 1260 01:05:03.960 --> 01:05:05.960 two years in a. Row the last YEAR i was, 1261 01:05:05.960 --> 01:05:09.159 there they lost TO, UCLA i, believe and you say 1262 01:05:09.239 --> 01:05:11.840 that was one of the top ranked. Teams But northwestern 1263 01:05:11.880 --> 01:05:14.119 basketball had struggled for so many. Years we were happy 1264 01:05:14.119 --> 01:05:14.320 to be. 1265 01:05:14.360 --> 01:05:18.119 There the stories about the kids who have come. In 1266 01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:21.000 you got a chance to talk to a lot of 1267 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:24.360 These kentucky players when they first got, here AND i 1268 01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:28.199 know we were all standing around during those initial interview 1269 01:05:28.320 --> 01:05:32.679 sessions wondering How's Mark pope going to do? This you, 1270 01:05:32.719 --> 01:05:34.239 know and we would ask. It you've shot a lot 1271 01:05:34.280 --> 01:05:37.280 of the press conferences and people Ask, pope you, know 1272 01:05:37.400 --> 01:05:39.840 how are you going to pull this team? Together and 1273 01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:41.639 to his, credit he, said, well the players are going 1274 01:05:41.719 --> 01:05:43.760 to decide. That and really that's kind of been the 1275 01:05:43.800 --> 01:05:44.559 way it, is isn't. 1276 01:05:44.599 --> 01:05:48.800 It, yeah they have gelled incredibly. Well BUT i do 1277 01:05:48.960 --> 01:05:52.639 give a lot of credit to not discrediting the, players 1278 01:05:52.639 --> 01:05:54.800 and you, know but a lot of credit To Mark 1279 01:05:54.840 --> 01:05:57.440 pope and just the foundation that he has built with these. 1280 01:05:57.519 --> 01:06:00.159 KIDS i, mean he was A kentucky man. HIMSELF i 1281 01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:02.599 think he's done a really good job instilling in these 1282 01:06:02.599 --> 01:06:05.840 players what that. Means AND i think that's helped carry 1283 01:06:05.880 --> 01:06:08.199 this team a long. Way and you, know they got 1284 01:06:08.239 --> 01:06:10.119 on a hot run at the. BEGINNING i think they 1285 01:06:10.119 --> 01:06:13.119 were in such a good position because with a new 1286 01:06:13.159 --> 01:06:16.119 team like you don't have anything to, lose so you 1287 01:06:16.199 --> 01:06:18.000 might as. Well they got off on a hot start 1288 01:06:18.519 --> 01:06:20.679 AND i think from there they started realizing they were 1289 01:06:20.800 --> 01:06:23.960 really really strong. Offensively they proved that off the bat 1290 01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:28.760 defense is where is where they're going to have to keep. Improving, 1291 01:06:29.719 --> 01:06:30.360 yeah and. 1292 01:06:30.239 --> 01:06:33.920 It really has been kind of a process with. Defense 1293 01:06:33.960 --> 01:06:37.400 but ALSO i think you, know they had the. APPRECIATION 1294 01:06:37.559 --> 01:06:39.559 i think we all kind of grasped, that didn't we 1295 01:06:39.920 --> 01:06:43.000 at the. Beginning they were excited to be, here weren't? They? 1296 01:06:44.199 --> 01:06:47.199 Oh, no totally. Excited every single one of these players 1297 01:06:47.239 --> 01:06:50.480 wanted to be A Kentucky Wild. KAT i think that 1298 01:06:50.559 --> 01:06:54.119 makes it so, special especially After john Cala perry. Left 1299 01:06:54.199 --> 01:06:56.280 you saw a lot of those, players you, know leaving 1300 01:06:56.280 --> 01:06:59.159 with the, coaches obviously from taking bigger steps in their. 1301 01:06:59.159 --> 01:07:01.719 Career but to have some of these players come in 1302 01:07:01.760 --> 01:07:04.400 and want to wear that jersey was really. 1303 01:07:04.440 --> 01:07:08.719 Exciting, yeah and now they're finding Out it was interesting 1304 01:07:08.760 --> 01:07:10.599 to me BECAUSE i, mean you've been on the. Road 1305 01:07:10.639 --> 01:07:13.360 i've been on the road to find out what it's 1306 01:07:13.519 --> 01:07:16.880 like to be an enemy territory wearing A kentucky. Jersey 1307 01:07:17.079 --> 01:07:20.480 they've all been product players on the, road but never 1308 01:07:21.280 --> 01:07:24.079 like the big Bad, empire The blue And. White what 1309 01:07:24.119 --> 01:07:25.480 do you think it's been like for them. 1310 01:07:25.280 --> 01:07:29.880 To learn, That, no that is such a brutal. Environment 1311 01:07:29.960 --> 01:07:31.599 AND i THINK i really got a glimpse of that 1312 01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:34.559 at The tennessee. GAME i know that's a rivalry, game 1313 01:07:34.599 --> 01:07:37.559 but even just as the players were warming. UP i, 1314 01:07:37.639 --> 01:07:41.719 mean the student section was there full, Early like just 1315 01:07:41.840 --> 01:07:46.719 The kentucky name and Playing kentucky is any team's biggest 1316 01:07:46.760 --> 01:07:48.760 game of the, year and you kind of see that 1317 01:07:49.159 --> 01:07:52.159 in the, audiences even if you're just watching on the. 1318 01:07:52.239 --> 01:07:55.800 Broadcast these teams want to Be kentucky because they know 1319 01:07:55.880 --> 01:07:57.519 the name and the history behind. 1320 01:07:57.519 --> 01:07:59.920 It you didn't run into that running cross, country did. 1321 01:07:59.920 --> 01:08:01.719 YOU i did. 1322 01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:04.559 NOT i don't think we had as many. Fans it's 1323 01:08:04.559 --> 01:08:06.519 probably better for. ME i think if someone was like 1324 01:08:06.880 --> 01:08:09.840 screaming those things in my, Face i'd probably start. 1325 01:08:09.880 --> 01:08:10.920 Crying do you still. 1326 01:08:10.679 --> 01:08:12.880 Pay attention to The Big ten when you? 1327 01:08:12.960 --> 01:08:17.840 Can WHEN i? CAN i honestly have transitioned a lot 1328 01:08:17.880 --> 01:08:21.399 of my attention just because of work into THE. Sec 1329 01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:25.199 BUT i, also you, know keep my attention everywhere BECAUSE 1330 01:08:25.199 --> 01:08:26.840 i like to keep up with The Oregon ducks as. 1331 01:08:26.840 --> 01:08:29.039 Well not going to talk about the football, season BUT 1332 01:08:30.720 --> 01:08:33.039 i like to kind of keep up to date with 1333 01:08:33.079 --> 01:08:33.680 as much AS i. 1334 01:08:33.720 --> 01:08:37.239 Can, well you came From pac. Ten you're From, portland 1335 01:08:37.279 --> 01:08:41.720 From pac Ten, country but competed in The Big ten 1336 01:08:41.760 --> 01:08:44.800 and now The pac ten is no. More somebody grew 1337 01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:46.680 up in that. Area how did you feel about. 1338 01:08:46.680 --> 01:08:50.960 THAT i have such mixed views on, That like it's 1339 01:08:50.960 --> 01:08:53.399 so weird to, me LIKE i, said being From oregon 1340 01:08:53.439 --> 01:08:56.319 and having gone To, northwestern that those schools are playing 1341 01:08:56.399 --> 01:08:58.960 each other in the same, conference because to, me like 1342 01:08:59.039 --> 01:09:01.920 that's just they seems so far from each. Other AND 1343 01:09:01.960 --> 01:09:04.079 i think we've talked about this before a little. Bit for, 1344 01:09:04.239 --> 01:09:09.399 me just the you, know student athlete aspect of, TRAVEL 1345 01:09:09.439 --> 01:09:11.800 i can't, imagine like cross, country we didn't travel as 1346 01:09:11.880 --> 01:09:16.439 much as some of these sports like, basketball, Baseball like 1347 01:09:16.479 --> 01:09:18.920 that has to impact you. Academically so a lot of 1348 01:09:18.960 --> 01:09:22.600 props to these players for keeping that on the top 1349 01:09:22.640 --> 01:09:25.560 of their mind BECAUSE i can't imagine how difficult it. 1350 01:09:25.640 --> 01:09:28.359 Is and then just in the other, words like not 1351 01:09:28.560 --> 01:09:32.359 having a conference locally anymore feels. WEIRD i feel like 1352 01:09:32.399 --> 01:09:34.079 for a lot of people on The West coast That 1353 01:09:34.119 --> 01:09:36.800 i've talked to, now it just kind of feels like 1354 01:09:36.840 --> 01:09:39.520 it's being like pulled away from you a little, bit 1355 01:09:39.640 --> 01:09:42.119 like distance, wise you, know like none of these, games 1356 01:09:42.399 --> 01:09:45.760 the majority of them aren't like super local. Anymore they 1357 01:09:45.800 --> 01:09:48.439 just feel farther. AWAY a lot of the games are 1358 01:09:48.439 --> 01:09:52.239 On Eastern time Or Central time since they're being played 1359 01:09:52.279 --> 01:09:54.439 in these really far. Locations it just kind of changes 1360 01:09:54.479 --> 01:09:56.359 the whole dynamic and you kind of feel like you're 1361 01:09:56.359 --> 01:09:59.680 morphing into somebody else's, conference which you, are but just 1362 01:09:59.680 --> 01:10:03.199 a weird, feeling AND i don't necessarily agree with, it 1363 01:10:03.239 --> 01:10:05.279 but you, know ADOPTED I i. 1364 01:10:05.319 --> 01:10:08.560 Guess Halle devor is my guest FROM. Wtv he will 1365 01:10:08.560 --> 01:10:10.359 come back and talk a little bit more With halle 1366 01:10:10.439 --> 01:10:14.279 here on the big bloone sider six THIRTY Wlap welcome. 1367 01:10:14.279 --> 01:10:16.279 Back we're talking To Halle. Devor she is the weekend 1368 01:10:16.319 --> 01:10:21.159 ANCHOR wdtv channel thirty, six and it covers of course 1369 01:10:21.199 --> 01:10:24.479 the Basketball, cats the Football, cats and as we, mentioned 1370 01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:29.479 she competed in cross country At. Northwestern the portal clearly 1371 01:10:29.960 --> 01:10:33.680 Saved kentucky basketball this year Is Marks Mark. Stoops i'll 1372 01:10:33.680 --> 01:10:36.680 get to him in a. Minute Mark pope had to 1373 01:10:36.720 --> 01:10:40.239 reconstruct the. Team Mark stoops has got thirty one new 1374 01:10:40.279 --> 01:10:44.399 faces at least on his team this year as a 1375 01:10:44.439 --> 01:10:47.640 former scholarship. ATHLETE i don't know how much this affected. 1376 01:10:47.680 --> 01:10:49.920 YOU i don't think it did when you were in, 1377 01:10:49.960 --> 01:10:52.640 school but or if it affects many cross country athletes. 1378 01:10:52.720 --> 01:10:56.920 Now but freedom of movement for the athletes has always 1379 01:10:57.079 --> 01:10:59.960 been a real sticking point because coaches get the come 1380 01:11:00.159 --> 01:11:02.399 and go and of course there are professionals in our 1381 01:11:02.439 --> 01:11:05.720 under contract and all. That but as a former athlete 1382 01:11:05.760 --> 01:11:10.520 who's now covering this, craziness what's your take on all 1383 01:11:10.560 --> 01:11:14.359 this the new cut face of college athletics with players 1384 01:11:14.359 --> 01:11:15.439 coming and going almost at. 1385 01:11:15.479 --> 01:11:19.560 Will, yeah it is so. Different LIKE i didn't graduate 1386 01:11:19.600 --> 01:11:22.800 too long. AGO i graduated in twenty twenty, three but 1387 01:11:22.920 --> 01:11:26.159 it feels like the world of like the transfer portal 1388 01:11:26.239 --> 01:11:29.600 AND nil is so. Different LIKE nil wasn't really a 1389 01:11:29.640 --> 01:11:31.479 THING i feel like WHEN i was in. College not 1390 01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:34.720 that it would have really applied to cross country, necessarily 1391 01:11:34.800 --> 01:11:37.319 but it didn't really feel like it was a thing 1392 01:11:37.359 --> 01:11:39.199 for any of my friends who played on the soccer, 1393 01:11:39.239 --> 01:11:42.479 team women's basketball, team things like. That AND i do 1394 01:11:42.560 --> 01:11:44.920 remember my freshman, YEAR i had a teammate that was 1395 01:11:44.960 --> 01:11:48.920 looking to transfer To, michigan Another Big ten, school AND 1396 01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:51.720 i can't remember the exact, statistics but there was something 1397 01:11:51.840 --> 01:11:55.319 like you couldn't transfer to a school within your, conference 1398 01:11:55.600 --> 01:11:57.600 right because you had to wait a year or you 1399 01:11:57.600 --> 01:12:01.399 couldn't compete for a. Year and he completely changed her 1400 01:12:01.439 --> 01:12:03.840 mind because she was, like, Well i'm not going to 1401 01:12:03.960 --> 01:12:06.119 leave and not be able to compete for a, year 1402 01:12:06.479 --> 01:12:08.520 lose a year of eligibility BECAUSE i don't think you 1403 01:12:08.560 --> 01:12:12.479 got that back and that withheld your decision and she ended, 1404 01:12:12.560 --> 01:12:14.720 up you, know remaining on the team and you, know 1405 01:12:14.800 --> 01:12:18.199 stuck it. Out so it just has changed so much because, 1406 01:12:18.239 --> 01:12:22.319 now like you, said you can just leave, whenever and 1407 01:12:22.399 --> 01:12:24.960 it almost feels like a, business which it kind of 1408 01:12:25.079 --> 01:12:29.119 is becoming in a. Sense but SOMETIMES i feel weird 1409 01:12:29.119 --> 01:12:32.479 about it BECAUSE i, like you, know loyalty to a 1410 01:12:32.520 --> 01:12:35.960 program that you chose sometimes and not saying that you 1411 01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:40.079 know sometimes the grasses and greener that you wouldn't do 1412 01:12:40.199 --> 01:12:42.640 better under certain coaching and stuff like. THAT i never 1413 01:12:42.680 --> 01:12:45.680 hold it against people for TRANSFERRING, owl BUT i do 1414 01:12:45.800 --> 01:12:48.720 just always have respect for players that you, know stick it, 1415 01:12:48.760 --> 01:12:50.840 Out LIKE i have a lot of respect For Cassidy 1416 01:12:50.920 --> 01:12:53.840 roil for, example you, know sticking it out on the 1417 01:12:53.840 --> 01:12:57.840 women's basketball. Team she just loves this program and the 1418 01:12:57.960 --> 01:12:59.680 fan base is behind. Her LIKE i think that just 1419 01:12:59.720 --> 01:13:03.079 does a lot FOR bbn as, well or whatever fan 1420 01:13:03.119 --> 01:13:06.000 base it might, be because they back those athletes a, 1421 01:13:06.000 --> 01:13:08.399 lot AND i think it just says a lot about 1422 01:13:08.439 --> 01:13:11.800 somebody that wants to stay loyal to a. Program that 1423 01:13:11.840 --> 01:13:16.720 they picked. Again there's always extenuating circumstances or situations where 1424 01:13:16.720 --> 01:13:18.600 you're just not. Happy i've seen a lot of athletes 1425 01:13:18.640 --> 01:13:22.079 in those types of circumstances as. Well but the majority 1426 01:13:22.079 --> 01:13:24.399 of it now is just like kind of a. Business 1427 01:13:24.479 --> 01:13:28.359 especially if you're trying to go. Pro it's oh, yeah 1428 01:13:28.399 --> 01:13:31.439 you almost like have, to which makes sense because you 1429 01:13:31.479 --> 01:13:34.680 want to go down that. Route it's just weird because 1430 01:13:34.720 --> 01:13:37.399 it wasn't like this four years, ago and it might 1431 01:13:37.399 --> 01:13:38.680 not be like this again in four. 1432 01:13:38.760 --> 01:13:41.479 Years that's a great. POINT i think it's here to, 1433 01:13:41.479 --> 01:13:44.479 stay BUT i do think there will be more guardrails in, 1434 01:13:44.520 --> 01:13:47.720 place probably need to. Be but what's also to your 1435 01:13:47.760 --> 01:13:51.000 point about, Loyalty AND i agree with, you but you're 1436 01:13:51.079 --> 01:13:54.199 right it's a two sided. Coin but to that, end 1437 01:13:54.199 --> 01:13:56.279 there are coaches who are free to, leave free to, 1438 01:13:56.279 --> 01:14:01.119 move but have, said, well this is teaching kids to 1439 01:14:01.159 --> 01:14:04.399 be quitters or telling him it's okay to be to 1440 01:14:04.520 --> 01:14:08.159 quit when times get, tough or something like. That nobody's 1441 01:14:08.199 --> 01:14:13.479 in favor of, that BUT i agree coaches Like Mark 1442 01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:16.880 stoops has made no bones about the fact that he 1443 01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:19.640 recruit a kid and the next thing he needs to 1444 01:14:19.680 --> 01:14:22.199 do is recruit over him because that's how you build 1445 01:14:22.239 --> 01:14:25.800 depth and improve your. Team well you, know that's how it, 1446 01:14:25.840 --> 01:14:28.079 works right, yeah. 1447 01:14:27.960 --> 01:14:30.399 Which is just so weird and, that you, KNOW i 1448 01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:32.760 feel like that was a big thing in The kentucky football. 1449 01:14:32.800 --> 01:14:36.439 Program we saw you know a lot of kids not 1450 01:14:36.560 --> 01:14:39.720 happy with the season this year and you know. Leave 1451 01:14:39.800 --> 01:14:42.159 but it seems like that was something that like you, 1452 01:14:42.199 --> 01:14:44.880 Said stoops just recruits the next and recruits the. Next 1453 01:14:44.880 --> 01:14:47.239 and he's kind of talked about that a little, bit 1454 01:14:47.279 --> 01:14:50.840 but has been very, adapting like he's you, know, understanding 1455 01:14:50.880 --> 01:14:53.159 like LIKE i, said adapt or, DIE i think he's 1456 01:14:53.159 --> 01:14:55.079 just kind of, understood you know, what like this is 1457 01:14:55.079 --> 01:14:58.199 where the business is at. Now we need to do 1458 01:14:58.239 --> 01:15:00.640 whatever it takes to bring the best player into our, 1459 01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:05.079 program whether like you, said you recruit over people like you, 1460 01:15:05.079 --> 01:15:07.119 know that's just what people are doing right. Now AND 1461 01:15:07.159 --> 01:15:09.760 i don't blame him at all for just you, know 1462 01:15:09.840 --> 01:15:11.479 turning his shoulder a little bit and taking that. 1463 01:15:11.560 --> 01:15:14.640 Approach you cover a lot of his news conferences On, 1464 01:15:14.680 --> 01:15:20.199 mondays your work schedule, depending AND i JUST i really, 1465 01:15:20.239 --> 01:15:24.600 feel Like hallie that he is a guy who just right, 1466 01:15:24.640 --> 01:15:26.760 now because of the way things are with a portal 1467 01:15:27.079 --> 01:15:31.640 With nil he can't, Coach he can't really develop his 1468 01:15:31.720 --> 01:15:35.000 program and keep develop against the way he wanted. To 1469 01:15:35.039 --> 01:15:37.039 like when he first got, here well before you were, 1470 01:15:37.079 --> 01:15:40.199 here you, know he, said we're gonna go out and find, 1471 01:15:40.199 --> 01:15:42.239 players going to recruit, them going to develop, them going 1472 01:15:42.319 --> 01:15:44.680 to coach them, up that kind of. Thing and now 1473 01:15:45.319 --> 01:15:47.079 with kids coming and, going when you AND i cover 1474 01:15:47.119 --> 01:15:49.479 football this come and, fall there are gonna be four 1475 01:15:49.520 --> 01:15:52.279 new offensive linements starting and a lot of other. Guys, 1476 01:15:52.359 --> 01:15:54.199 RIGHT i kind of feel bad. 1477 01:15:54.000 --> 01:15:57.119 For, him you know WHAT i, MEAN i totally, agree 1478 01:15:57.199 --> 01:15:59.760 because that is something he's preached over the, years AND 1479 01:15:59.800 --> 01:16:04.399 i know that is he you, know builds his program 1480 01:16:04.439 --> 01:16:08.399 on developing these, players you, know over. Time and you're, 1481 01:16:08.479 --> 01:16:10.439 right you can't really blame him if he starts to 1482 01:16:10.479 --> 01:16:13.800 develop a player and then a year later it's cut, 1483 01:16:13.840 --> 01:16:16.000 short and you, know they go somewhere, else and then 1484 01:16:16.039 --> 01:16:18.000 they bring in new players they try to develop for a, 1485 01:16:18.079 --> 01:16:21.239 year and then they leave somewhere. Else it's almost, like you, 1486 01:16:21.239 --> 01:16:24.880 know people complain about the football, program but he hasn't 1487 01:16:24.880 --> 01:16:29.279 gotten time to actually finish developing the. Players i'm actually 1488 01:16:29.319 --> 01:16:31.960 curious if he had a group of people that stuck 1489 01:16:32.039 --> 01:16:34.439 with it and he was able to, develop to develop, 1490 01:16:34.479 --> 01:16:37.720 Them like he, said he wanted to what the success 1491 01:16:37.760 --> 01:16:39.880 of the team or the program might look. Like for, 1492 01:16:39.920 --> 01:16:43.479 example you know Cutter, bollie if he gives him time 1493 01:16:43.560 --> 01:16:46.560 throughout his college, Career i'm actually really curious to see 1494 01:16:46.800 --> 01:16:49.319 how he would develop as a. Player, obviously like we 1495 01:16:49.319 --> 01:16:51.800 were talking about with the transfer, portal you, know it's 1496 01:16:51.800 --> 01:16:53.439 hard if you give him another year and then he's 1497 01:16:53.479 --> 01:16:55.640 out of, here Like stoops can't really do anything but 1498 01:16:56.239 --> 01:16:58.880 hold his hands up and joke back into the transfer. Portal. 1499 01:16:59.520 --> 01:17:02.720 YEAH i done all with quarterbacks in that, Regard so who. 1500 01:17:02.760 --> 01:17:05.399 KNOWS i got a couple of minutes LEFTFORE i let you. 1501 01:17:05.479 --> 01:17:07.760 Go you had a story recently about the rifle team 1502 01:17:08.399 --> 01:17:11.039 and they have qualified to try to win their way 1503 01:17:11.760 --> 01:17:15.119 to THE Ncate, championships which will be right here In. 1504 01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:18.279 Lexington that's kind of, exciting you know what a little hitting. Gym, 1505 01:17:18.560 --> 01:17:21.279 yeah what did you think of? That that? OPERATION i 1506 01:17:21.640 --> 01:17:24.720 did a story many years ago about the rifle team 1507 01:17:24.720 --> 01:17:26.880 and people have no idea what goes? 1508 01:17:26.920 --> 01:17:27.439 On do they? 1509 01:17:28.640 --> 01:17:32.560 No and to be like completely, honest neither DID I, 1510 01:17:32.600 --> 01:17:35.840 like that's just never a sport That i've paid much 1511 01:17:35.880 --> 01:17:38.840 attention to or that. Have you, Know i'm not from The. 1512 01:17:38.880 --> 01:17:41.000 SOUTH i feel like that's a sport a lot of 1513 01:17:41.039 --> 01:17:43.479 people The south get into its hunting is kind of 1514 01:17:44.000 --> 01:17:46.279 the vibes THAT i got a little, bit but it 1515 01:17:46.399 --> 01:17:48.800 is actually so. Cool LIKE i got the opportunity to 1516 01:17:48.840 --> 01:17:52.840 actually like take a shot on one of the guns 1517 01:17:52.840 --> 01:17:56.359 and like THE i THINK i was thinking of, Archery 1518 01:17:56.520 --> 01:17:59.680 like they have this massive. Target it's, like you know 1519 01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:02.840 anything the way the bulls eye is like you, know 1520 01:18:03.079 --> 01:18:05.800 an inter or too. Big the thing is the tip 1521 01:18:06.319 --> 01:18:09.239 of a ballpoint. Pen that's how big the target, is 1522 01:18:09.880 --> 01:18:13.760 and like it just looks like a quarter at the 1523 01:18:13.800 --> 01:18:17.800 distance you're standing. Over it is so bizarre and insanely 1524 01:18:17.840 --> 01:18:23.000 impressive the balance and stability that these athletes. Have and 1525 01:18:23.079 --> 01:18:24.920 it's just not one of those sports that you would 1526 01:18:24.960 --> 01:18:28.079 maybe go out and think to watch or look. Up 1527 01:18:28.520 --> 01:18:30.399 but since it's going to be here In, lexington that 1528 01:18:30.600 --> 01:18:34.279 Historical Memorial, COLLSEUM i would actually really encourage people to 1529 01:18:34.359 --> 01:18:36.359 go check it out because this is a really good. 1530 01:18:36.399 --> 01:18:40.439 Team like this program has four national championships two one 1531 01:18:40.439 --> 01:18:43.800 in twenty twenty, two one in twenty twenty, Three so 1532 01:18:43.880 --> 01:18:47.079 a lot of these athletes have you, know played Back caliber, 1533 01:18:47.119 --> 01:18:49.800 before SO i think it'll be really fun for it 1534 01:18:49.840 --> 01:18:51.680 to be In. Lexington it was supposed to be here 1535 01:18:51.680 --> 01:18:54.920 in twenty, twenty it got canceled WITH, COVID i believe 1536 01:18:54.960 --> 01:18:57.880 after everyone got. Here so it'll be back this year 1537 01:18:57.920 --> 01:19:01.359 in the Renovated Historical Memorial, coliseum AND i think that'll 1538 01:19:01.399 --> 01:19:03.920 be a really cool environment for the athletes and also 1539 01:19:04.039 --> 01:19:05.560 just for the community if they want to check it, 1540 01:19:05.600 --> 01:19:06.800 out they. 1541 01:19:06.720 --> 01:19:09.720 Can shoot between. Heartbeats that alone tells you something about 1542 01:19:09.720 --> 01:19:11.880 the precision in this. Sport so, Yeah i'm with. You, 1543 01:19:12.159 --> 01:19:16.119 yeah it's gonna be. Cool Halle devor you can follow 1544 01:19:16.159 --> 01:19:18.760 her ON. Wtvq tell people how to follow you On. 1545 01:19:18.800 --> 01:19:23.199 TWITTER i believe My twitter is just my full, Name Halle. 1546 01:19:23.279 --> 01:19:25.079 Devor you believe you don't look at it that. 1547 01:19:25.239 --> 01:19:25.520 MUCH i. 1548 01:19:27.600 --> 01:19:29.760 Don't blame. It thanks so, much and we'll see you 1549 01:19:29.800 --> 01:19:30.239 at the ball. 1550 01:19:30.279 --> 01:19:31.680 Games see, You thank. 1551 01:19:31.720 --> 01:19:34.680 You that'll do. It thanks to my, Guest Hallie. DeVore 1552 01:19:34.800 --> 01:19:37.880 thanks To cam. Drumming tomorrow, Night Kentucky. Basketball we'll have 1553 01:19:37.880 --> 01:19:40.000 a quick show for you before The cats and The. 1554 01:19:40.079 --> 01:19:42.760 Sooners that's a good night from the garage In. Lexington 1555 01:19:45.960 --> 01:19:46.399 come with the. 1556 01:19:46.479 --> 01:19:49.439 Album Caley clarkson. 1557 01:20:02.239 --> 01:20:27.119 Tact don. 1558 01:20:26.119 --> 01:20:26.399 Show. 1559 01:20:27.560 --> 01:21:11.239 Anything canning then let taken leg as the tips AND 1560 01:21:11.640 --> 01:21:24.960 i don't don't don't to theos