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Speaker 1: with us this morning. All right. So, one of the
Speaker 1: big stories I think so far this summer in sports
Speaker 1: here locally is the Vince Marrow Kentucky departure in him
Speaker 1: ending up at Louisville and I, John, you can help
Speaker 1: me out here. Wouldn't you say that this wouldn't be
Speaker 1: Mark Stoop's Losing Vince Merrow really under any circumstance to
Speaker 1: any other job would be a blow. It would be
Speaker 1: a bad look because he's the fan favorite within Big
Speaker 1: Blue Nation, meaning Vince Marrow, just because he's he's kind
Speaker 1: of almost like I don't want to call him mask.
Speaker 1: I don't want to call him the mascot because that's
Speaker 1: it sounds like I'm insulting him. But I mean, he's
Speaker 1: very visible within their program. He's kind of a hype
Speaker 1: man as showman, if you will. And he didn't just leave.
Speaker 1: He left to go to Louisville, which is kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: But John, have you seen how he let the folks
Speaker 1: at the University of Kentucky know that he was leaving.
Speaker 2: I have not seen this.
Speaker 1: No, So this uh to me, this is this is
Speaker 1: this is kind of a bad look. However, I maybe
Speaker 1: there's really no good way to go about it when
Speaker 1: it comes to you leaving a job and it clearly
Speaker 1: going to be public and it's going to be a
Speaker 1: big story. But he let them know through text messages.
Speaker 2: Oh man. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Lindsey Goff, who is a sports anchor at w
Speaker 1: WKYT in Lexington, she did an open records request to
Speaker 1: obtain the resignation letter from Vince Marrow and through the
Speaker 1: open records request, she was given how he informed his
Speaker 1: employer at the time that he was leaving. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't through any letter or an email, it was through
Speaker 1: a text message. And yeah, it was UK Deputy Athletics
Speaker 1: Director Mark Hill who got the text message from Vince
Speaker 1: Marrow and this came the same day that U of
Speaker 1: L announced Marrow's hiring, which what I would love to know,
Speaker 1: And maybe I'll reach out to Lindsay to ask because
Speaker 1: I do think. I mean, it's not worth anything now
Speaker 1: it's over, he's at Louisville and you know, it really
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But I guess more for my curiosity, there's
Speaker 1: a big difference in when it was announced that he
Speaker 1: was going to be going to Louisville. That was that
Speaker 1: was Pete Thamil who broke that news, but it was
Speaker 1: days later that it became official where they announced it
Speaker 1: via press release at the University of Louisville. So maybe
Speaker 1: it's just a formality because when it was broke by
Speaker 1: Pete Fammeil, that's when it really became real. I guess
Speaker 1: there's a difference here and really you know that it's happening,
Speaker 1: and then the final acknowledgment of it being official has
Speaker 1: got to be the press release. But anyhow, this is
Speaker 1: what he said to this is it? Yeah, this was
Speaker 1: Thursday at ten fifty seven am. Let me know when
Speaker 1: we can chat about moving on car, any devices and keys,
Speaker 1: et cetera, all the things that was that was sent.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that was sent by the Deputy Athletic Director
Speaker 1: Mark Hill. And then later Vince wrote K just K
Speaker 1: that was his response, and then he later said, hey, Mark,
Speaker 1: today is my last day at UK. Thanks for everything.
Speaker 2: I bet he put t X four the number four
Speaker 2: and then EVR why I just as short as possible.
Speaker 2: It is how he did it.
Speaker 1: It says thanks, let me know when you want to
Speaker 1: get your Ford expedition to my house. So yeah, whenever,
Speaker 1: whenever you end up moving on from a from a job,
Speaker 1: I mean, how you do it, I don't think is
Speaker 1: necessarily I mean it's important. But I'm trying to give
Speaker 1: Vince mayor a little bit of benefit of the doubt
Speaker 1: here because there may have been some conversations that that
Speaker 1: that took place that you know, this was instead of
Speaker 1: just telling him, like if you said it via phone,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe the Athletic department at the University of Kentucky
Speaker 1: they need some level of like documentation and just word
Speaker 1: of mouth via a phone call. Maybe that doesn't do it.
Speaker 1: So maybe there maybe this was the official way of
Speaker 1: of you know, documenting this process of him moving on,
Speaker 1: and because he wasn't bought out, it wasn't as if
Speaker 1: his contract was broke because he's not coming to Louislle
Speaker 1: to be in on the field staffer. As far as
Speaker 1: a position coach, he's he's the director and I don't
Speaker 1: know his exact title, don't have it in front of me,
Speaker 1: but director I think of player development, recruiting, that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. So yeah, he let him know via text message,
Speaker 1: and you know, that's that's I don't know. Part of
Speaker 1: me says that's not the way to go about it,
Speaker 1: but sometimes there's no good way. I mean, he's he
Speaker 1: could have gone about it in the most professional way possible.
Speaker 1: We could have asked all the AI platforms to, hey,
Speaker 1: give me the best way to break up with my employer.
Speaker 1: I want to do it with the most class and integrity.
Speaker 1: The fact that he left to go to Louisville would
Speaker 1: have made none of that matter, I think. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the big dog broke up via text message. Yikes, And
Speaker 1: you're probably right. There probably was a THHX there, John,
Speaker 1: I could see that all right. We got an update
Speaker 1: of trapping a weather coming your way. Also, what I
Speaker 1: want to get to coming up here on the other side.
Speaker 1: I talked about this a couple of weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: not only has it not changed, it's getting worse, gotten worse.
Speaker 1: The majority of our headlines here in Louisville regarding violent
Speaker 1: crime or with juveniles children. And I know the question
Speaker 1: everybody's asking, where where are the parents, who who's respond
Speaker 1: unstable for these young children that are shooting each other?
Speaker 1: And I don't have the answer to that, but I
Speaker 1: have a theory that I want to run BIA. So
Speaker 1: we'll get to that next right here on Kentucky and
Speaker 1: it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whs. It is six seventeen here at Kentucky. Anda's
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Speaker 1: So it's it's I think become a real unfortunate growing trend,
Speaker 1: and that is that one violent crime here in Louisville
Speaker 1: continues to happen, but it continues to be either the
Speaker 1: victim or the perpetrator being not just juveniles meaning under
Speaker 1: the age of eighteen, but a twelve year old girl
Speaker 1: yesterday turned herself in joining a thirteen year old girl
Speaker 1: charged in a Louisville shooting that injured two teenage girls.
Speaker 1: And again, juvenile crime has surged in Louisville and at
Speaker 1: a sad and scary rate. I mean, you had a
Speaker 1: shooting in the Russell neighborhood that was at the end
Speaker 1: of May, and that was that was That's what this
Speaker 1: whole case is about. It's two teenage girls were found
Speaker 1: with non life threatening injuries and gunshot wounds and hospitalized.
Speaker 1: And now we know that a thirteen year old girl,
Speaker 1: she was arrested last week charged with two counts of
Speaker 1: first degree assault, and then Monday, a twelve year old
Speaker 1: girl turned herself in facing two counts of first degree
Speaker 1: assault complicity. So this ties in with Over the weekend,
Speaker 1: three juveniles were arrested by LMPD fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen
Speaker 1: year old and they were linked to a bunch of
Speaker 1: burglaries across Louisville. And also you had a drive by
Speaker 1: shooting in mutual that was I believe on June twenty second.
Speaker 1: It left a fifteen year old girl and a seventeen
Speaker 1: year old boy injured, and a seventeen year old male
Speaker 1: juvenile was arrested and charged with two counts of assault
Speaker 1: in connection to that incident. So it's it's scary as
Speaker 1: can be, regardless of the age. It's these are things
Speaker 1: that you I was, they don't want happening. And if
Speaker 1: I had the answer of the solution to how to
Speaker 1: limit this stuff, you know again, I wouldn't be sitting
Speaker 1: here yapping on the radio. And obviously nobody wants this
Speaker 1: going on. But I know a lot of people who
Speaker 1: just go about their life every day. They get up,
Speaker 1: they go to work, they try to provide for their family,
Speaker 1: they keep up with the news, but obviously it's sometimes
Speaker 1: just background noise. This is the kind of background noise
Speaker 1: that will get your attention. A twelve year old girl
Speaker 1: has turned herself in for being an accomplice in the shooting.
Speaker 1: I mean easily, these these two teenage girls that were
Speaker 1: that were shot, could have been killed. So I mean,
Speaker 1: this is this is I'm at a loss for words
Speaker 1: because what else can you mean? What can you say?
Speaker 1: It's awful, it's it's unthinkable. But a lot of people
Speaker 1: who I think are you know, your average jos that
Speaker 1: are just you know, living their life, trying to make
Speaker 1: ends meet. If they've got children, they're just thinking, well,
Speaker 1: where are their parents. Who's raising these kids, And that's
Speaker 1: a fair question. Clearly, not having good guidance at home
Speaker 1: is probably a factor to this in a major way. Now,
Speaker 1: you can also have a good mentor in your home
Speaker 1: and somebody that does everything that you're supposed to do
Speaker 1: and does the best they can as far as keeping
Speaker 1: their children from being exposed to violent crime and of
Speaker 1: course letting them be a part of violent crime. And
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes it's just you know, you can be
Speaker 1: the best parent ever and your kids can be bad apples.
Speaker 1: But what I think is this is not there are
Speaker 1: clearly young individuals here in the community that do not
Speaker 1: have good role models. They don't have good parents in
Speaker 1: their home. They don't have somebody to set an example.
Speaker 1: And that's awful, but that's not new. That's been a
Speaker 1: thing for unfortunately a long time generations. There have been
Speaker 1: young children that don't have good parents in their life
Speaker 1: to set an example. But now it seems as if
Speaker 1: they don't have really anybody. Maybe or maybe they do,
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you, when it comes to just people
Speaker 1: in the community that may we don't even have kids
Speaker 1: that would volunteer time to be mentors in their area.
Speaker 1: Where they know kids are out running the streets without
Speaker 1: somebody to set an example. I mean, maybe we don't
Speaker 1: have as many of those people as we used to.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but the surge in
Speaker 1: violent crime with children in Louisville is alarming. All Right,
Speaker 1: We've got another update of traffic and weather coming your way. Also,
Speaker 1: we'll get an update on sports. It's Kentucky and it's
Speaker 1: Morning News with Nick Coffee right here on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas. Thank you very much, John Shannon. It
Speaker 1: is Kentucky and it Morning News with Nick Coffee. I
Speaker 1: can't confirm what he said is true. I am Nick Coffee,
Speaker 1: and again this is Kentucky and his Morning News. Be careful, everybody.
Speaker 1: We've got the month of July off to a very wet,
Speaker 1: wet start, which has led to some real traffic issues.
Speaker 1: We'll get the latest from Bobby Ellis coming up here
Speaker 1: in about five minutes. However, it looks as if in
Speaker 1: the last hour we've had an accident on I sixty
Speaker 1: four eastbound a Ninth Street, which is blocking the right lane,
Speaker 1: and also the accident on I sixty four eastbound and
Speaker 1: Hurstbourne blocking the left lane. And also it looks as
Speaker 1: if the yes, there's an accident at sixty five northbound
Speaker 1: at Crittin Drive blocking the left lane. And I'm looking
Speaker 1: at some visuals here at the five oo two traffic
Speaker 1: social media account and a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: wet roads, dark skies and cars not moving. It looks
Speaker 1: like there's now a crash that has taken place on
Speaker 1: I sixty four east bound at the second street bridge
Speaker 1: that has the right lane blocks. So stay safe. It's
Speaker 1: a sloppy morning, and again we're gonna have showers expected
Speaker 1: and storms throughout throughout the morning here.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So that story that you just heard there in John
Speaker 1: Shannon's news update about the father who heroically jumped into
Speaker 1: the Atlantic Ocean to save his daughter after she fell
Speaker 1: from a from a Disney cruise ship, I cannot imagine
Speaker 1: being in that guy's position. I mean, again, he's a hero,
Speaker 1: but how do you how do you snap back? Do
Speaker 1: you ever snap back to normal after experiencing something like that?
Speaker 1: So it took place on a Disney Dream cruise from
Speaker 1: the Bahamas to Fort Lauderdale. As the girl fell from
Speaker 1: deck four into the Atlantic Ocean. Her father took action.
Speaker 1: I'm sure instincts took over. I would imagine there was
Speaker 1: no moment of giving any kind of thought of what
Speaker 1: should be done, who should I call? He just jumped
Speaker 1: in and tried to savor and fortunately he was successful,
Speaker 1: says They treaded water for about twenty minutes. The ship's
Speaker 1: crew issued a man overboard alert and deployed a lifeboat,
Speaker 1: and of course they were both rescued successfully, and there
Speaker 1: were passengers there that of course recorded the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And again what a miracle that this that this ended
Speaker 1: up not leading to both of them drowning and dying.
Speaker 1: So there were there was there were plexiglass barriers in
Speaker 1: place for safety, but it's clear how the young girl
Speaker 1: fell fell overboard. And I mean this is within a
Speaker 1: few days after we were talking about cruises, so was
Speaker 1: it late last week we were talking about going on cruises.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm anti cruise more than anything because I have
Speaker 1: a phobia of being on water where I can't see land,
Speaker 1: and that that that is, that that has let me
Speaker 1: know that I'll never go on a cruise in my
Speaker 1: life because pretty sure that's the majority of your time
Speaker 1: at sea, you don't see anything. Uh So I've never
Speaker 1: been someone that has any has had any interest just
Speaker 1: because of me, not because you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: it'd be fun. I just not my kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And when I hear a story like this, all it
Speaker 1: does is make me more content in my my my
Speaker 1: status on cruises for me individually. I mean, I've seen
Speaker 1: videos and I don't know. Sometimes it's it's AI creation
Speaker 1: and it just looks very real. But there's been some
Speaker 1: videos that have surfaced and even if it's not real,
Speaker 1: to see what it would look like if maybe water
Speaker 1: got real rocky and you're I mean you got it
Speaker 1: scares the hell out of me. John.
Speaker 2: If you've been on a cruise, I've not. I'm not
Speaker 2: as opposed to it as maybe you are, buts I
Speaker 2: have my reservations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I've always and again I think maybe everybody
Speaker 1: before they go on a cruise has a little bit
Speaker 1: of reservation, because there are many that will. In fact,
Speaker 1: most people who I talk to about a cruise, they'll
Speaker 1: go out of their way to say, oh, you don't
Speaker 1: even you don't even know you're on the water. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like you're on another you know, another country.
Speaker 2: I'm more so worried that I would get seasick. I
Speaker 2: think that's my biggest issue with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I would have. I mean, maybe I'm wrong again,
Speaker 1: I've never been, but I think if you if you
Speaker 1: end up going on a cruise for let's say, I
Speaker 1: don't know, a week, I mean, if you don't take
Speaker 1: any kind of medication to help prevent you from getting seasick,
Speaker 1: I guess you can see yourself lucky. Or maybe it's
Speaker 1: you know, I know my my mom and my stepdad
Speaker 1: have been on many cruises. They love it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: My friends. In fact, I have a friend as we
Speaker 1: speak that is on a cruise, UH with his family,
Speaker 1: and they tried to get us to go, and it
Speaker 1: I feel bad because you know, we like and we
Speaker 1: like traveling with them, and our kids are really close
Speaker 1: with their kids, and they're they're they're great, great friends.
Speaker 1: And it's my buddy who I've known for no joke,
Speaker 1: thirty years. But you know, I was the reason that
Speaker 1: we didn't we didn't take this vacation because you know,
Speaker 1: I just know that I wouldn't. I mean, I'd survive,
Speaker 1: but I would be you know, I'd be terrified. And
Speaker 1: I know what people are thinking. I want a whimp.
Speaker 1: You'll get you'll you know, you'll be fine, Like you'll
Speaker 1: you'll realize it's nothing, and like you may be right.
Speaker 1: But I don't have here. I am as a man
Speaker 1: admitting to you, I don't have the courage to at
Speaker 1: least test it out, because, uh, I can just see
Speaker 1: me having a panic attack and calling nine to one one. Oh,
Speaker 1: I can't call not on one, there's no cell service.
Speaker 1: Send the helicopter to get me, to get me out
Speaker 1: of here. Also, when I went to Cabo a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, I witnessed one of the cruise ships
Speaker 1: and this is what they do, and it's actually really convenient,
Speaker 1: but it was another reminder, yeah, I'm content on not
Speaker 1: going on cruises. It was where you kind of like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how, you like repelled down off the
Speaker 1: side of the cruise ship. In some way you're safe,
Speaker 1: but you get on like a little many boat and
Speaker 1: they take you so like the cruise doesn't dock, but
Speaker 1: they'll come and get you if you want to go
Speaker 1: to the town wherever they're close to and like do
Speaker 1: excursions and stuff, and just that whole thing scared the
Speaker 1: hell out of me. But again I'm in the minority. Clearly,
Speaker 1: cruise ships and cruises are very popular. But yeah, how
Speaker 1: about that Dad. I mean again, I'm sure he's just
Speaker 1: counting his blessings that his daughter's safe and they're both safe.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I mean, there's no way he
Speaker 1: snapped back to reality at after such an experience like that.
Speaker 1: But again, that could have been tragic. But Dad's a hero.
Speaker 1: All right. We've got another update of traffick and weather
Speaker 1: coming your way right here, and again pay attention to
Speaker 1: the weather, to the traffic updates, folks, and weather too,
Speaker 1: by the way, because we got a sloppy start that's
Speaker 1: led to a lot of accidents here in the Kentucky area.
Speaker 1: It is consuckyated. It's Morning News with Nick Coffee on
Speaker 1: News Radio eight forty whas Mayor Greenberg is set to
Speaker 1: talk a little later on this morning, I believe at
Speaker 1: ten or eleven. In regards to the recent attempted street
Speaker 1: takeovers in Nulu, it was the Highlands last month and
Speaker 1: now we've got I guess three straight weekends where in
Speaker 1: Newlu there have been attempts to take over the streets.
Speaker 1: It's led to a lot of police presence where they've
Speaker 1: got to intervene some businesses I believe have shut down
Speaker 1: and hotel entrances were blocked, which of course can be
Speaker 1: problematic to say the least. So I do think the
Speaker 1: last few weeks of sniffing it out early, meaning LMPD,
Speaker 1: either relying on tips or just being savvy and knowing
Speaker 1: where it's going to take place and shutting it down
Speaker 1: before it gets to being super chaotic, that I think
Speaker 1: is a positive sign that it's not led to it
Speaker 1: getting out of hand. But I just think resources being
Speaker 1: utilized by law enforcement every week to be on alert
Speaker 1: of it tempted takeovers. I mean, that's not sustainable. So
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Mayor Greenberg a little bit later on
Speaker 1: Today it's five forty seven here Kentucky in this morning
Speaker 1: news on news Radio eight forty whas I think Caitlyn
Speaker 1: Clark has well. First of all, I'll just say this
Speaker 1: because I'm itching to shere a sports opinion, because I
Speaker 1: don't do that whole lot anymore. But I think Kaitlyn Clark,
Speaker 1: as of right now is the best women's basketball player
Speaker 1: that I've ever watched, and she could stop playing today
Speaker 1: and I would believe that. And obviously, when it comes
Speaker 1: to accomplishments. I mean, she's in her second season as
Speaker 1: a pro, so the accomplishments wouldn't be there, and they
Speaker 1: may not be right. Who knows how many w NBA
Speaker 1: titles she wins, or if she even wins one at all,
Speaker 1: or if the WNBA exists in years I mean, it
Speaker 1: probably will. But my point is I just I've watched
Speaker 1: her play enough and she is She's special, which is
Speaker 1: why she is one of the most talked about athletes
Speaker 1: in the world, regardless of gender and regardless of sport.
Speaker 1: That's not how purble, that's not an exaggeration. I don't
Speaker 1: care who you are. If you don't know who Caitlin
Speaker 1: Clark is. As far as just hearing the name and
Speaker 1: knowing who people are talking about, you must be living
Speaker 1: under a rock. And by the way, as I say that,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Woky and they're talking about her right
Speaker 1: now because she's worthy of news because she has that
Speaker 1: much she just commands that much attention, and it's just
Speaker 1: rare for a women's basketball player to have this type
Speaker 1: of fame and it's just something I've never seen before.
Speaker 1: And again, I think there's a variety of factors. One
Speaker 1: because she's so good. But to see that the WNBA players,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the All Star voting, they have
Speaker 1: I guess they've got fan voting, media voting, and then
Speaker 1: player voting. That is how you get your weighted score
Speaker 1: as far as the w NBA All Stars, and she
Speaker 1: was number one in fan vote, which shoudn't surprise anybody,
Speaker 1: but she was ninth in player voting, and that's at
Speaker 1: her position. And if that doesn't can mean I don't
Speaker 1: believe that. In fact, it's laughable that professionals, grown ups
Speaker 1: are filling out this ballad as players. Meaning I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's done online or what it is, but
Speaker 1: they can't with a straight face tell you that they
Speaker 1: believe she's the ninth best guard in the WNBA. So this,
Speaker 1: to me confirms what I have unfortunately been witnessing for
Speaker 1: for a little while now, the delusion that exists within
Speaker 1: the WNBA. I mean, that's that's flat out delusion, And
Speaker 1: I don't believe that they believe it, but their inability
Speaker 1: to just acknowledge that this superstar has given you exposure
Speaker 1: that you would have never received had it not been
Speaker 1: for her just being this special. You don't need to
Speaker 1: kiss her rear end. But the jealousy is just, oh,
Speaker 1: it is showing, and it's just it's it's hilarious because
Speaker 1: here's klen Clark could leave the WNBA starter her own
Speaker 1: league and it would instantly be more successful than the WNBA.
Speaker 1: And that's really not anybody's fault. I don't think the
Speaker 1: WNBA collectively does itself many favors as far as growing
Speaker 1: the game, but I couldn't. I was speechless when I
Speaker 1: saw that the peers of Kaitlin Clark in the WNBA
Speaker 1: thinks she's the ninth best guard in the in the league.
Speaker 1: I mean laughable, laughable. All right, we got an update
Speaker 1: on traving the weather coming your way. Also another update
Speaker 1: on sports was Scott Fitzgerald right here on news radio
Speaker 1: eight forty WHS