WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:08.000 Merry Christmas. Everybody did Gabriel with you. Hope you're enjoying 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:10.320 a great day, and there are still a few hours left. 3 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:13.119 We thought we would bring you an encore presentation of 4 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:16.359 our postseason football special. Not a great year, but there 5 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:19.160 were some great moments. Please enjoy the best of the 6 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:24.679 Big Blue Insider. Usually this time of year, we're preparing 7 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:28.039 coverage of Kentucky in a bowl game, but as we 8 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:31.559 all know, it ain't gonna happen this year and in 9 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:34.479 the year's past. During Bowl week, at some point, either 10 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:37.719 before or right after the game, I have put together 11 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:42.280 a special that I presented that relives all the highlights 12 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:44.560 of the football season. Well, there weren't that many this year, 13 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:47.000 as we know, there were only four wins. So we're 14 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:50.079 gonna do something a little bit different this year. We're 15 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:52.479 going to look back on some of the fun we 16 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:56.280 did have presenting these games to you because we did 17 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:58.759 something different this season. And if you listen to our 18 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:02.240 radio broadcast, which we appreciate, I know every game's on TV, 19 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:06.760 but there's plenty of pregame programming, and then of course 20 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:09.120 a lot of you try to sync things up and 21 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:12.719 listen to the radio and watch the TV. We did 22 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:16.079 something different and it goes back to what we used 23 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:20.879 to do gosh, about fifteen years ago, maybe when the 24 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:24.319 network was held by different rights holders. It's kind of 25 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:27.959 an inside baseball thing, but we would have kind of 26 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.439 a big, dramatic opening with music and a guy with 27 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:33.959 a big voice. It's a voice that you hear on 28 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:38.120 ESPN and other promos and things like that, and we 29 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:41.519 really missed that, so we decided to get back to that, 30 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:44.439 only with a bit of a twist. We decided to 31 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:48.760 use what we were calling celebrities to open the broadcast. 32 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:54.840 Former players, former coach Rich Brooks, even an actor Josh Hopkins, 33 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:57.719 who lives in Austin, Texas now. Grew up in election 34 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:01.040 in the son of Congressman Larry Hopkins, big UK fan, 35 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:04.959 but his work as an actor led him to Texas, 36 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:07.319 where he lives now. So we had a lot of 37 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:10.919 fun of writing them producing them. I had to try 38 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:13.800 to chase these folks down, but when we did, they 39 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.159 were more than happy to do it. So they turned 40 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:20.159 out really well. I think I think everybody who did 41 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:22.479 it pitched in and did a great job. So we're 42 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:24.960 going to go back and listen to those and I'll 43 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:27.400 have some highlights from the games, even the ones that 44 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:29.280 didn't go so well, the games that went in the 45 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:33.599 wrong direction, because there were some good plays, some big plays, 46 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:37.199 but just not enough of them obviously, So it was 47 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:40.280 a different season. It was an odd season. One we 48 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:44.080 haven't dealt with much in this part of the football 49 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:48.840 world for the last what eight years, nine years since 50 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:52.400 Kentucky started going to bowl games. So that's why this 51 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:56.919 show will be unlike the others. We won't be presenting 52 00:02:57.360 --> 00:02:59.960 melts from all the wins. We will present one melt. 53 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.319 I'm going to play for you, the melt that I 54 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:05.280 put together after the Old Miss game. The melt, of course, 55 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:07.439 is like eight or nine minutes of all the great 56 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:11.599 plays and moments strung together, because that was obviously the 57 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:14.479 biggest win of the season, one of the biggest wins 58 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:17.759 in all the college football this year. And when you 59 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:21.000 think about what happened with Ole Miss football this season, 60 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:25.759 that loss to Kentucky is probably I would think what 61 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:30.039 kept Old Miss out of the playoff because when you're 62 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:32.800 up in that rarefied air, when people are talking about 63 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:36.039 you and thinking about you, that one loss, especially to 64 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:39.840 a team with a losing record could really be damaging 65 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:42.840 to your resume. So Kentucky played a bit of the 66 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:45.360 spoiler role a little miss this year. So we're going 67 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:48.639 to relive that one. But first we're going to start with, 68 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:52.479 of course, the season opener, and that came against Southern Mississippi. 69 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:58.280 Our first celebrity monologue came from former UK quarterback Bill Ransdell, 70 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:01.840 and Tom Leech suggested this because this was the fortieth 71 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:05.560 anniversary of the nineteen eighty four Kentucky team that won 72 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:07.639 the Hall of Fame Bowl, and of course Bill was 73 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:11.560 the quarterback. They celebrated with the reunion to the former players, 74 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:15.240 and Bill actually came to the garage and sat down 75 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:16.839 helped us open the broadcast. 76 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:20.680 It's the season, the first step on a journey to 77 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:24.519 do something special and memorable. Here's UK Hall of Fame 78 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:25.879 quarterback Bill Ransdell. 79 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:30.720 Hard to believe it's been four decades since the Kentucky Wildcats. 80 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:35.000 My Wildcats put together a special season that was a 81 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:39.800 long time coming. The year before, we had set an 82 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:43.519 NCAA record for victories by a team that had gone 83 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:48.279 winless the season prior, and now we wanted both. In 84 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:52.240 nineteen eighty four, we won nine including the Hall of 85 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:55.160 Fame Bowl, our second straight postseason appearance. 86 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:58.639 All right, let's see if they go through with it. 87 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:00.519 Jones down on one knee as a snap. 88 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:02.920 They're going to try it, and it is long enough. 89 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:06.560 It is I believe yees think he got it good? No, 90 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.839 Joey Warling jush hid a Kentucky Bield gold distant runner 91 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:13.199 heavy a joke up the Cats and luck for the 92 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:16.319 first time to night. It is Kentucky twenty Chris Hunt 93 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:17.079 in nineteen. 94 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:23.199 Today, forty years later, Mark Stoops and his Wildcats begin 95 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:28.759 their quest for a ninth consecutive Bowl bit only three 96 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:31.800 other teams in the SEC and save that. 97 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:33.759 First up on. 98 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:37.879 The ruling scheduled the Southern Mississippi, a team that is 99 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.519 always dangerous. But the Cats have a new look offense 100 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:45.720 and a talented defense, and they say they're ready to go. 101 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:49.800 It's the Wildcats and the Golden Eagles on game day 102 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:51.000 here at Kroger Field. 103 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:54.800 Coming up next to Wow. 104 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:58.839 Of course, the Wildcats for a brand new quarterback, Brock Vandergriff. 105 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:01.519 He had a great time. He passed for three touchdowns. 106 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:05.079 The UK defense pitched a shutout in a thirty one 107 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:07.879 to nothing game. And of course it was weather shortened. 108 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:11.519 There were all kinds of concerns about the weather, lightning 109 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:16.319 and thunder and rain, and long story short, it shortened 110 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:19.920 the game by nine minutes and fifty six seconds. They 111 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:22.560 you know, after a long rain delay, they decided the 112 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:24.920 lightning's not gonna let up, so we're just gonna shut 113 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:30.240 it down. Team officials, game officials in communication with the SEC. 114 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:33.879 But not before vander Riff, in his first career start 115 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:38.240 after transferring in from Georgia, hit on twelve at eighteen passes, 116 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:42.160 one hundred and sixty nine yards, three scores, Demi Sumo 117 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:46.759 Carnbay eight carries for fifty nine yards, and the defense 118 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:50.360 holding Mississippi or Southern Mississippi to just one hundred and 119 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:54.000 thirty one yards. So yeah, it was a fun day. 120 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:58.720 The scoring got started when Rock Vandergriff hit Barrion Brown 121 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:02.040 first touchdown of the year, twelve yards and it's seven 122 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:03.839 nothing Wildcats. 123 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.560 And a Griff retreats looking left, padding the football, now 124 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:09.480 scrambling back to the right, throws for the end zone 125 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:12.800 and did he get it touchdown? Kentucky. 126 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:16.680 There was ten to nothing when Demi Sumo Krnbay capped 127 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:19.360 off a drive with a touchdown, his first of the year. 128 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:22.399 First and goal at the one and off Subo Carnbay 129 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:26.240 touchdown Kentucky. He goes in up the middle, standing up. 130 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:29.279 And then Brock Vandergriff went right back to Barrion Brown, 131 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:31.800 this time from twelve yards out. That made it twenty 132 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:32.600 four to nothing. 133 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:35.720 Here's the pitch ahead to Brown sweeping right across the ten, 134 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:39.519 break set tackle headed to the far side. Touchdown. Kentucky 135 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:42.720 broke the tackle of the five and Baryon Brown snuck 136 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:45.879 in just in front of the right front pylon. Full 137 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:49.240 of Cats. Twelve yard touchdown run or passes, we'll go. 138 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:52.160 That was a score at halftime. Kentucky would have a 139 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:56.519 scoring possession in that third quarter. Rock Vandergriff hit Jimori 140 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:59.360 Macknan for forty six yards set up the Cats at 141 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:02.360 the southern miss eight yard line. Two plays later, and 142 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:05.279 a griff to Jordan Dingle from five yards out. 143 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:07.839 Three receivers in a triangle outside the right tackle, tight 144 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:10.079 end left, and a griff with a fake holy right 145 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:13.959 man Whine open touchdown Kentucky to It's Dingle, big boy 146 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:21.240 just inside the right front pylon. Fitzbarrow is happy tight 147 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:22.839 end's gonna touchdown and that. 148 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:24.920 Made it thirty one to nothing, and that would end 149 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:28.040 up being the final score as Kentucky opened the season 150 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.879 with a win over Southern Mississippi. We'll come back with 151 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.360 more of this special edition of the Big Blue Insider 152 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:37.480 as we look back on some of the highlights and 153 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:40.679 some of the celebrities who helped us open broadcasts this 154 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:43.399 year of Kentucky football games. Here in the Big Boon 155 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:51.080 Sider six thirty wlap Merry Christmas, everybody that gave her 156 00:08:51.159 --> 00:08:53.399 with you in the special edition of the Big Moon Sider, 157 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:56.960 an encore presentation of our football special looking back on 158 00:08:57.080 --> 00:09:00.120 an odd year, there were some highlights in the lot 159 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.759 of celebrities joined us as they opened our broadcasts on 160 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.440 the UK Sports Network. This was a year, as I 161 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:10.639 mentioned earlier, where we had celebrities open our broadcast. We 162 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:12.639 had a lot of fun with that, even though there 163 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:15.240 wasn't a lot of fun involved with watching the Wildcats 164 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:18.039 go four and eight, but it did kind of lift 165 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:21.840 our spirits. South Carolina was the second game on the schedule, 166 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:23.720 and as you recall, that game did not go too 167 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:26.720 terribly well. But the guy who opened up our broadcast 168 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:30.559 with Jojo Kemp, and he came to the garage and 169 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:34.000 he helped us recall a night when the Wildcats ran 170 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:38.639 literally all over Steve Spurrier's game Cocks, and Jojo was 171 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:39.919 one of the biggest reasons. 172 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:43.879 Week two for the Kentucky Wildcats the start of SEC 173 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:47.120 play and a matchup that brings to mind a phrase 174 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.919 that has two meetings. Jojo Kemp was a Wildcat. He 175 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:51.759 wrote it was. 176 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:52.440 Ten years ago. 177 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:55.679 Back in twenty fourteen, West South Carolina game CAUs came 178 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:58.039 to town and got a taste of the wildcat for 179 00:09:58.080 --> 00:09:59.919 a mission. I had a lot of fun that night. 180 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:04.039 Wildcat formation, snapped the camp and he goes in touchdown 181 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:07.000 Kentucky straight up the little on the Wildcat formation. 182 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:09.960 My office A line was super. They helped me run 183 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.799 for one hundred and thirty one yards and three touchdowns. 184 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.039 Direct snap the camp man. He goes in standing up. 185 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:21.879 It's crazy for the touchdown, that's amazing. I'm amazed at 186 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:22.320 that kid. 187 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:25.159 My third score tied the game thirty eight thirty eight, 188 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:27.600 and that's when our defense came up. 189 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:30.720 He steps up of the pocket. It's deflected up into 190 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:31.080 the air. 191 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:35.159 It's dinner up in tuck down the tucky, but the 192 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:36.039 pre caught it. 193 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:40.559 Runs. Wow. He flipped it into the air and the 194 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:42.600 pre caught it in full stride. 195 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:45.879 A man budd the three put us up a touchdown. 196 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:49.080 Then our defense held again. So it was up to 197 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:51.559 us the offense to kill the rest of the clock. 198 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:55.519 Kemp straight ahead and he's got the first down. I 199 00:10:55.679 --> 00:11:00.960 think there's the chain stretched out. Put down the stick, 200 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:08.320 first down. Kentucky. The Wildcats defeats South Carolina forty five 201 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:10.360 to thirty eight. Game over. 202 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:12.639 The Big Blue Nation stormed the field. 203 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:15.279 And it's party time as the fans come on the 204 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:18.960 field a Commonwealth Stadium, we sent the game calls home. 205 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:21.360 We need to do that again tonight. 206 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:24.600 We're changing the game. Why not Kentucky? Why not us? 207 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:27.879 I'll say it again what I said back then, Why 208 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:28.399 not us? 209 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:30.960 Why not Kentucky? 210 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:33.360 Wow? 211 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:37.600 And as I said, nothing good to remember about that game. 212 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:40.799 Wildcats lost it thirty one to six, even though they 213 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:45.279 had twelve tackles for loss in three sacks. The defense 214 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:48.519 acquitted itself. Well finally it just kind of collapsed. Ty 215 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:50.440 Bryant did have an interception. 216 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:54.639 Sellers drops the throw all day, dancing around, fires into 217 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:58.799 the middle and it's intercepted across the thirty and falling 218 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:02.360 down at the twenty eight yard line, and making the 219 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:06.279 interception was Ty Bryant. The sun board from here in Lexington, 220 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:09.759 the son of former Wildcats Cisco Bryant, sets up the 221 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:12.960 Wildcats inside the South Carolina thirty yard line. 222 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:17.320 Biggest play for the Wildcats offensively was Brock Vandergriff hooking 223 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:20.879 up with Dane Key forty two yards And there was 224 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:23.720 something we saw all year as Brock tried to go 225 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:26.519 to Dane, who became his favorite receiver, play fake. 226 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:29.200 He's throwing deep down the near side for Key and 227 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:33.519 he pulls it in and didn't he make the catch? Yes, 228 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:38.200 who want to throw and catch? At the South Carolina 229 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:41.759 thirty nine yard line. Vandergriff dropped that in like a 230 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:45.000 directional punt and Key fielded it over his shoulder and 231 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:47.279 got knocked out of bounds at the thirty nine yard 232 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:48.600 line of South Carolina. 233 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:51.759 But that's all the Wildcats could muster a couple of 234 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:55.039 field goals losing to the game Cocks. So it went 235 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:58.440 on to have a pretty strong season. Next game, what 236 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.799 might be the most puzzling game of the year, maybe 237 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:03.840 even more so than the Old Miss game, which of 238 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:06.919 course was an upset win by the Wildcats. On the road, 239 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:10.720 Georgia comes to town and we still weren't sure what 240 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:14.799 we were seeing with Kentucky. But of course whatever confidence 241 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:19.159 we might have had as fans as media was shaken 242 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:21.240 by that loss. They just did not look good at 243 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:24.480 all against South Carolina and their edge rushers. We thought, 244 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:26.399 what in the world is Georgia going to do to 245 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:29.720 this team? Well, big bad Georgia came in and Kentucky 246 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:32.600 played the Bulldogs right out of their cleats to that 247 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:35.159 one point lost, And I still look back on that 248 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:38.440 as a sort of a reminder of what might have been. 249 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:42.679 If the Wildcats had stayed together, had stayed healthy, they 250 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:44.759 could have won that game. Wasn't it should have, but 251 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:48.320 could have. As you recall, there was a controversial decision 252 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:50.240 at the end of the game by Mark Stoops to 253 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:53.440 punt the ball and put everything on this defense to 254 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:56.759 get the ball back, which it did not, as Georgia 255 00:13:57.120 --> 00:13:59.799 converted on a big third downplay and that was the game. 256 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:04.600 Kentucky had moved the ball between the thirties basically and 257 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:07.600 just could not get into the end zone. But the 258 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:12.799 Wildcats kicked four field goals and made it as difficult 259 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:17.200 on Georgia as any team could in a long, long time. 260 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:20.879 We started the game with a cold open, as we 261 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.080 call it, from a guy who knew what it was 262 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:26.679 like to beat the Georgia Bulldogs, and that was former 263 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:28.120 coach Rich Brooks. 264 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:33.720 Beat a team like Georgia, it takes great players making 265 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:38.559 big plays and clutch moments. Coach Rich Brooks knows it 266 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:40.320 can be done. 267 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:43.000 It's always tough to get a win when you're chasing 268 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:46.240 Georgia Bulldogs, but it's not impossible. 269 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:47.200 I should know. 270 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.759 My Wildcat pulled together and beat the Dog's wife in 271 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:55.559 twenty six with a Jason on the line, we fought 272 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:58.440 him on with a big en zone interception. 273 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:03.879 Say the good man interested to be the zone. It 274 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:07.080 was Trevard Linley who made the play. He's batted the 275 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:10.440 fad pattern up into the air Leo's content and then. 276 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:15.759 The cloaking seconds Trevard Lidley pick pop of path, brought 277 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:18.200 down the gold Coat and chuck us to a. 278 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:21.559 Bulking Stafford retreats mony of time out of the protection 279 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:26.919 is breaking down. He slides right. He throws the Georgia 280 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:31.080 forty one line. The bands are coming out of the 281 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:35.360 end zone on each side. As the Wildcats have beaten 282 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:39.759 Georgia for just the eleventh time and sixty tries, the 283 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:41.240 police could just say the heck with. 284 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:44.200 A let go in twenty oh nine and nafas we 285 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:46.279 made big play after big play. 286 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:51.080 He don't touch. He can get it on lockdown Derek 287 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:54.039 Luft report or eternal. 288 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:58.519 Chests down to the Pulldogs seven yards has been seen 289 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:00.600 the cord with the what's aception. 290 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:06.759 The Wildcats went down to Georgia. 291 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:10.039 We were looking for a win to steal and we 292 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:13.879 did it. It won't be eighthing, but Park Stoops and 293 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:17.879 his cats, they can make it happen tonight at broker Field. 294 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:20.000 Wow. 295 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:23.440 I had a lot of fun putting that together with 296 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:26.840 a coach and reminiscing ofvia his first zoom. We couldn't 297 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:29.240 get that to work, so we did it. I guess 298 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:31.720 we did it over the phone as I recall. Anyhow, 299 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:36.720 the game, you know what happened. Kentucky just couldn't quite 300 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:38.960 punch it into the endzine as I said. But boy 301 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:41.080 Alex Rayner, who won a bunch of awards at the 302 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:43.799 end of the season, came through he gave Kentucky the 303 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:47.000 first lead with a fifty five yard field goal. 304 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:51.399 Alex Rayner out there to attempt a fifty five yard 305 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:53.639 field goal. It would be a school record if he 306 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:56.320 makes it. As we took under three minutes to play 307 00:16:56.840 --> 00:16:59.000 in this opening quarter, Kentucky trying to get on the 308 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:10.039 board first, good step kick is long enough, it's gone 309 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:16.759 just clear the crossbar. Fifty five school record and personal 310 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:20.640 best fifty five yard field goal by Alex Rainer at 311 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:22.559 Kentucky strikes first. 312 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.720 Georgia eventually pulled ahead by thirteen to nine. Kentucky drove 313 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:30.599 into scoring position, had to once again settle for a 314 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:33.440 Rainer field goal, this one from fifty one yards out. 315 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.519 A fifty one yard attempt right footed. Rainer's got to 316 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:38.880 pull it back to his left a little bit, good snap, 317 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:48.319 enough leg God With eight oh one to play, Alex 318 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:51.400 Rainers having a night's four for four. 319 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:54.359 And unfortunately that would be it for the scoring of Wildcast, 320 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:57.680 losing thirteen to twelve. But once again they were the 321 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:01.400 talk of college football for how well they played those 322 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:05.400 Georgia Bulldogs. But Wildcats at that point were one and two. 323 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:09.759 Needed something good to happen. Needed it soon want to 324 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:12.160 come on this special edition of The Big Goingsider here 325 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:18.559 on six thirty wlap Harry Christmas. Everybody did Gabriel with 326 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:21.559 This is an our core presentation of our football special 327 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:24.000 as we look back on the highlights, and there were 328 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:28.880 some this season. Also the celebrity monologues that opened our broadcasts. 329 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:33.799 This year we had former players, we had coach Rich Brooks, 330 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:37.240 we had celebrities help us open the broadcasts and they 331 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:39.839 really came off well. I thought, Ohio You was a 332 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:43.839 bit of a quandary because Kentucky had only played the 333 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:47.480 Bobcats a couple of times through their history. But we 334 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:50.680 did find a game back in the mid eighties when 335 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:54.200 a future Hall of Famer, I mean UK Hall of 336 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:57.640 Fame Football Hall of Famer DERMANI Dawson was part of 337 00:18:57.640 --> 00:18:59.960 that game and I was able to connect with him 338 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:01.640 many helped us open the broadcast. 339 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:07.400 Bobcats and Wildcats tangled today for just the seventh time, 340 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:10.720 and there's a UK Hall of Famer who remembers the 341 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:14.799 nineteen eighty seven match up quite well, Dermonty Dawson. 342 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:18.000 The first time the Ohio Bobcats came to Lexington, they 343 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:21.400 pulled off an upset. They beat Kentucky thirty five to six. 344 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:23.599 That was in nineteen seventy one. 345 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:24.000 Line. 346 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:27.319 They came back in nineteen eighty seven, and this time 347 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:28.480 we were ready. 348 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:32.000 Upfront, we blocked for guys like Mark Higgs, Ivy, Joel Hunter, 349 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:37.599 and Andy Murray. On defense, we had Albert Barnette, Jerry Reese, 350 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:40.559 Tony Massey, christianaut and a lot more. 351 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:46.279 We shut them out. Kentucky twenty eight Ohio nothing a 352 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:49.960 team effort top to bottom. The Wildcats need that today. 353 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:58.480 Last week our defense was solid. 354 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:02.960 Were done builders, thanks, going to drop and grow, getting harder, 355 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:10.079 getting deep, growing, gell hands one in, good wait, great Hunne. 356 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:11.720 And the offensive line opened hose all night. 357 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:14.640 Blip coming avoid it and he's got a lot of 358 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:15.599 rulers left the. 359 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:19.440 Part time fifteen twenty five down up here the twenty 360 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:22.799 two yard line short the gumps with the bull in 361 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:25.920 and once they take it up, the whole side is 362 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:28.599 open and Brocka is the part thing. It gets don 363 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:29.680 after a heat bido. 364 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:34.640 The Cats need another victory and the time is now wow. 365 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:39.119 And of course everything went well for the Wildcats, as 366 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:43.640 you might expected a game like that, totally overmatching Ohio You. 367 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:46.359 It was a huge day for Rock vander Grip two 368 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:49.920 hundred thirty seven yards passing, Demisumo, karn Bay with a 369 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:53.799 couple of touchdowns. Jamerion Wilcox with a career high eighty 370 00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:58.680 two yards rushing, and he showed early that we could 371 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:01.559 expect a lot from him. Some explosive plays. 372 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:04.079 Hand off to will Cox sweeping right, has it out out, 373 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:06.799 cross up, back out across the forty and he can't 374 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:09.720 break away in there. And a big game for Jamry 375 00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:12.599 and will Cox, left, Brown and key to tight ends right, 376 00:21:12.680 --> 00:21:15.240 Caddis and Dingle hand off will cockspur and hit clips 377 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:17.720 of tackle angles right twenty five uses the. 378 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:21.240 Stiff arm, gets inside the twenty and out of bounds 379 00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:23.240 at the seventeen yard line. 380 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:27.119 Wildcat's got a touchdown, and then Ohio you began to 381 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:29.759 put together a drive and actually got into the red zone, 382 00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:33.920 but the Kentucky defense came a big. JJ Weaver recovering 383 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:35.559 a fumble, takes the stat. 384 00:21:36.319 --> 00:21:38.799 Balls, knock loose ball. Then Kentucky's got it. 385 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:41.680 Oh and then it pops out of JJ Weaver's hands 386 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:43.160 and did Ohio get it back? 387 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:44.359 JJ? 388 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:45.559 No, Kat's got it. 389 00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:48.240 So the offense went back to work. Didn't look like 390 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:51.000 it was going to do much until Vandergriff went to 391 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:52.079 his favorite receiver. 392 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:55.480 Vandergriff against a four man rush, rolling out to his right, 393 00:21:55.559 --> 00:21:58.039 fires back into the middle. He's got kid inside. 394 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:01.599 Of the twenty there sideline ten Pearls. Tiler buckets down 395 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:03.279 to the two yard line. 396 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:07.000 Sidney but luck letting love Ronny. 397 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:09.480 Would like that move, and after that it was Demi 398 00:22:09.559 --> 00:22:12.119 Sumo carne Bay covering the last couple of yards to 399 00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:15.119 give the Wildcats a seventeen to nothing lead. They would 400 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:17.200 take into the locker room at halftime. 401 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:19.960