WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.879 Welcome to the Big Blue Insider. Dick Gabriel with you 2 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:05.879 on a Tuesday edition of our program. We have got 3 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:08.119 a busy night ahead of us. This is going to 4 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:10.240 be a lot of fun coming up. Your other comments 5 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:13.320 from Mark Stoops of course about to win over Southern 6 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:15.839 Miss and the upcoming South Carolina game. But at the 7 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:18.839 bottom of the hour, Jojo Kemp will join us. And 8 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:22.000 you remember Jojo part of that three headed running attack 9 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:25.320 back when Kentucky had him at Benny Snell at Boom 10 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:29.879 Williams and Jojo had a lot of great moments at Kentucky, 11 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:34.439 but probably best known for his efforts in the win 12 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:37.840 over South Carolina in twenty fourteen. It was really the 13 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:42.039 first signature win for Mark Stoops. That is to say, 14 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:44.759 fans rushed the field because it was a huge win. 15 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:51.159 They beat Steve Spurrier, came from behind twice down fourteen points, 16 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:55.600 and Jojo with three touchdowns one hundred and thirty plus yards. 17 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:59.320 And he did it primarily out of the Wildcat, which 18 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:02.799 is a formation that people seemed to when they first 19 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:05.239 saw it. They really liked it because it was working. 20 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:08.560 Then they got mad at it because it didn't work. 21 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:12.079 At Kentucky and then it did work. One of the 22 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:15.200 reasons they got mad about it was that Benny Snell 23 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:18.640 sophomore year, he had done so well with it his 24 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:23.640 freshman season. His sophomore year, Benny would rush things through 25 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.359 the first four or five games. He would take the 26 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:29.480 snap and then just slam it up in there for 27 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:32.519 no game, and everybody got so mad about it. And 28 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:34.319 I heard one guy say, oh, they're running the sunny 29 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.359 play over and over. Well, it's the same concept, yes, 30 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:43.120 but it's not the same play. It's different literally every 31 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:46.719 play because if it's run properly. And I talked with 32 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:50.519 Jojo about this on and off the air, there's a pause, 33 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:53.640 there's a beat. You take the football if you're the 34 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:56.280 quarterback and in that position you are, when you take 35 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:58.959 the snap and you read you just take one thousand 36 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:02.519 and one, when you see how the line reacts and 37 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:06.400 moves and shifts, what the d line does, and then 38 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:09.719 you look for the opening. And if you're a gifted back, 39 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:13.639 as Jojo was, as many snow was, you go and 40 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:20.199 Jojo went all night and South Carolina never adjusted. So 41 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:24.719 Jojo will open our broadcast on Saturday for the UK 42 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:28.080 Sports Network something new we're trying. Bill Ransdell did it 43 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:31.199 last week, Jojo will do it this week and talk 44 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:34.120 about his big performance. And so while we had him 45 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:36.800 here in the garage, we just threw a headset on 46 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:39.759 him and had a long conversation with him about his career, 47 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:41.960 about what's going on right now with the wildcast. So 48 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:45.080 that comes up at the bottom of the hour. Our 49 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:47.879 number two, Nick binge Oonne, joined us, the UK baseball 50 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:50.680 coach whose life has been a bit of a whirlwind 51 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:55.599 literally since the College World Series victory, or the victory 52 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:58.240 that got him into the College World Series. You know, 53 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:01.599 working ahead the next year, this coming season, and this 54 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:05.520 is a vital time of the year for all baseball 55 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:09.800 programs because fall baseball is when you really build your team, 56 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:13.479 pull things together and figure out what you have. By 57 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:16.360 the time you get the spring, you've got to have 58 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:19.879 a pretty good idea, not lockdown, but a pretty good 59 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:22.800 idea of what you're going to do and what kind 60 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:24.719 of team you're going to put on the field and 61 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:27.280 how you're going to do it. You finish that up 62 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:31.520 with intersquad games in the spring. But Kentucky always has 63 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:34.199 and I know a lot of other schools do an 64 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:37.080 intersquad series. They call it the Fall World Series, the 65 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.800 Blue and Black World Series, and figure out what's what. 66 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:46.319 So they're just getting into meetings and individual workouts. So 67 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:48.520 we'll talk to Nick Menji on about coming off that 68 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:51.800 trip to the College World Series and what he expects 69 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:56.280 this coming season. They have more than two dozen new 70 00:03:56.319 --> 00:04:00.000 players who came through the portal also coming up and out. 71 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:04.080 Number two, Colby Wilson. You might not fully recognize the name, 72 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:07.080 but you've seen her on Fox fifty six, one of 73 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:11.159 the sports anchor reporters who has lived and worked literally 74 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.919 all over the country. Was a college soccer player, but 75 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:18.560 has lived and worked in several different cities and markets. 76 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:20.800 So we'll get to know Kolby a little bit better. 77 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:22.759 I've gotten a knowwhere just to speak to her and 78 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:26.279 say hi at press conferences and games and everything. But 79 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:29.279 it'll be her her first time coming up on the show. 80 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.160 So it's a busy show, busy night, and I'm looking 81 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:36.680 forward to sharing that with you. Closer to home. Last night, 82 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:41.079 U came in soccer played to a draw with Virginia Tech, 83 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:45.839 ending two to two at the Bell Soccer Complex. So 84 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:49.680 the Wildcats now are one to zero and one, and 85 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:51.759 it was a game in which they went all in 86 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:58.519 for Miller. That is a basically a nonprofit organization designed 87 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:03.560 to help hospitals, community people in general struggling to struggling 88 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:07.399 to improve the quality of life for kids impacted by 89 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:12.759 pediatric cancer special needs medical requirements. So that was something 90 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:16.800 of a fundraiser last night. In the draw with Virginia Tech, 91 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:19.920 it was only the second time those two teams have 92 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.120 ever played, and believe it or not, the last time 93 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:26.560 they played was nineteen ninety three and guess what, they 94 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:30.959 tied one to one back then in two overtime periods. 95 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:35.800 So the record right now for those teams zero zero 96 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:40.800 and two. Speaking of zero, Florida State now is zero 97 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:44.000 and two in college football. Hope you got a chance 98 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:45.879 to watch a little bit of that game last night 99 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:50.680 with Boston College. This is the team Florida State that 100 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:54.240 has decided it's just too big and too important for 101 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:57.439 the ACC and they're trying to sue to get out. 102 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:00.560 This won't slow them down at all. But if you're 103 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:04.560 looking for I don't know, sympathy or support, you can 104 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:07.279 have a hard time getting it because right now Florida 105 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:11.240 State not looking good even with dj Eagle Leleley, the 106 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:16.279 quarterback who started at Clemson, transferred to Oregon State, came 107 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:20.839 back to the ACC now playing at Florida State, and 108 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:24.199 the Seminoles have dropped two straight down, including that loss 109 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.800 to Georgia Tech in Dublin. So now they're going too 110 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:31.040 in the conference. And there's a story on the Athletic 111 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:33.959 how they could still go to the playoff or something 112 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:38.000 like that. Well, anumerically, mathematically sure, but they're just not 113 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:42.040 very good, so that ain't gonna happen. And by the way, 114 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:45.560 for Boston College, win number one for Bill O'Brien, who 115 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:49.279 became the head coach back in mid February because Jeff 116 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:53.240 Halfley remember this, he left, I mean up and left 117 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:57.279 to become the defensive coordinator from my Green Bay Packers. 118 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:00.879 That was a shocker, so much did he make the move, 119 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:03.680 because more college coaches are leaving now if they've got 120 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:07.120 a place to go thanks to the portal and nil, 121 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:11.279 but he did it in February. But O'Brien rings up 122 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:13.279 and win in his first game as a head coach 123 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:19.720 at bc LSU fans likewise disappointed by a third consecutive 124 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:24.160 season opening loss under Brian Kelly. This one wasn't a crusher, 125 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:28.480 but it got away from the Tigers. There's no question 126 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:31.639 about that. On Sunday night, losing to USC on the 127 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:36.639 last second field goal and LSU missed a lot of opportunities. 128 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:39.439 And it's interesting that what has come out of that 129 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:43.240 one is not as much talk about USC winning the 130 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:48.519 game as LSU losing and Brian Kelly's reaction the table 131 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:52.040 pounding anger in his postgame news conference. 132 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:55.720 We had some guys played their butts off tonight and 133 00:07:56.040 --> 00:08:00.759 we're sitting here again. We're sitting here again talking about 134 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:05.920 the same things about not finishing when you have an 135 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:10.519 opponent in a position to put them away. But what 136 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:14.360 we're doing on the sideline is feeling like the game's over, 137 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:19.519 and I'm so angry about it that I got to 138 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:21.519 do something about it. I'm not doing a good enough 139 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:24.519 job as a coach, and I got to coach him 140 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:28.279 better because it's unacceptable for us not to have found 141 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:29.839 a way to win this football game. 142 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:32.679 It's ridiculous and. 143 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:36.159 Crazy. 144 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:38.840 Somebody who pointed out he was so angry he forgot 145 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:42.639 to speak with the Cajun accent. Not a bad line. Look, 146 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:44.960 they're going to be fine, and you don't lose the players, 147 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:50.240 especially Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Jayden Daniels like LSU did, 148 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:53.240 and expect to maintain or even get better right away. 149 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:56.279 They're gonna be fine, no question about that. But I 150 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:59.159 can see whether they're frustrated. If you watch the game, 151 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:02.519 you can see it too. Speaking of frustrated, Pat Forty 152 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:05.399 pointed this out on SI dot com. How'd you like 153 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:07.679 to be the mayor of Houston right now? You're a 154 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:12.600 college football fan. The Cougars Houston lose to UNLV twenty 155 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:16.240 seven to seven under first year head coach Willie Fritz 156 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:19.519 at Houston. Then Rice, which is in Houston, if you 157 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:22.960 didn't know that, coming off its first six win season 158 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:27.519 in a decade, loses the SAM Houston State thirty four 159 00:09:27.559 --> 00:09:33.080 to fourteen. The Houston Christian Huskies fall to SMU fifty 160 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.080 nine to seven. North American University. I'd never heard of 161 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:40.600 this in NAI school in the suburb of Stafford, Texas 162 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:47.000 loses seventy seven nothing to Stephen F. Austin and the 163 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:50.480 second half two five minute quarters because the score was 164 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:53.399 seventy to nothing at halftime, And of course Texas A 165 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:57.000 and M loses as well, so not a great day 166 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:01.080 in the city of Houston, the mayor and any other 167 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:05.080 college football fans, and one pro football note, I wasn't 168 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:10.480 aware that the Tennessee Titans had spent in the offseason 169 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:14.039 as much as they did. They spent two hundred and 170 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:19.440 twenty eight point two million dollars. The controlling owner, Amy 171 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:25.039 Adams Strunk, talked about the fact that she has unapologetically 172 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:30.399 high expectations for the football team at every aspect of 173 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:34.720 the Titans organization unquote. All of that, of course, puts 174 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:40.039 enormous pressure on former Wildcat Will Levis. But the comment 175 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:44.360 making the rounds from Will was when he talked about pressure. 176 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:46.679 Pressure is a privilege, and I feel like I've always 177 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:47.039 felt that. 178 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:49.600 I think. 179 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:53.639 The more that you're focused on what other people are 180 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:56.759 going to be thinking about you based on how you 181 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:59.159 act and what the outcome of your actions are, than 182 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:02.279 the more that it can weigh on you. But I 183 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:05.639 think I'm just more solely focused on myself and the 184 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:07.879 people here, and I know as long as I'm just 185 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:10.279 doing my best to work to get myself to the 186 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:12.240 level I know I can get too, then that's all 187 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:15.720 I can do. So pressure, Pressure's cool. Pressure means there's 188 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:16.720 a lot of eyes on you, and there's a lot 189 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.120 of people don't count on you to succeed, and I 190 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:21.759 welcome it with open arms. 191 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:26.159 That's Will Levis and his Titans open up in Chicago 192 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:29.320 with dub Bears on Sunday at one o'clock. And how 193 00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:34.039 about this. The Bears have named Caleb Williams, a rookie quarterback, 194 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:37.120 the overall number one pick, one of their team captains. 195 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:40.679 How about that a rookie quarterback is one of the 196 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:44.320 team captains. There are a total of eight for the Bears, 197 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:49.519 and the team has announced that Caleb Williams is one 198 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:53.159 of them. Interesting when we come back, Mark Stoops opens 199 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:56.200 the week with comments about his team's went over Southern 200 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:59.240 Miss and a look ahead to South Carolina at the 201 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:02.200 bottom of the hour. Jojo Kemp here in the garage 202 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:05.919 on six point thirty WLAP Welcome back coming up in 203 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:08.120 just a few minutes. My conversation here in the garage 204 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:11.200 with Jojo Kemp. He had that huge game against South 205 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:16.240 Carolina back in twenty fourteen, three touchdowns, wildcat formation snapped 206 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:19.720 the camp and he goes in touch down Kentucky straight 207 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:23.759 up the middle of the Wildcat formation, Kentucky erased two 208 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:26.799 fourteen point deficits, and then, of course, with a score 209 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:28.879 tied at thirty eight, with a couple of minutes left, 210 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:31.200 Bud Dupree made the game winning play. 211 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:32.240 Steps up with the pocket. 212 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:36.960 It's deflected up into the air. It's intercepting duck down Kentucky. 213 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:39.279 Budd dupre caught it right round. 214 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:40.519 Wow. 215 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:44.120 He flipped it into the air and dupre caught it 216 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:48.759 in full stride as called by Tom Leach and Jeff Chorus. 217 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:52.000 So we'll talk to Jojo about that and more coming 218 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:53.679 up in a few minutes. And then our number two, 219 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:57.320 Nick Menji on Kentucky's baseball goes. Remember this one. 220 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:01.879 Here's a swinging of drive today plaff Beckels Nixon looking up. 221 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:06.440 Daily win it, Daily wins it, Daily wins it. Kentucky 222 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:10.159 defeats at Sea State five to four on a walk 223 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:12.480 off home run five Mitchell Daily. 224 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:16.480 Yeah, Darren Hedrick calling Mitchell Daily's walk off home run 225 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.960 as the Cats win their first College World Series game ever. 226 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:22.480 So we'll catch up with the UK coach, but let's 227 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:26.320 talk about Kentucky football and the Wildcats coach Mark Stoops, 228 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:29.039 who talked to the media yesterday, and we'll be hearing 229 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:31.519 from him all week as well as his assistants and 230 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:35.039 players about what happened against Southern misson what he hopes 231 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:40.519 happens against South Carolina, which has a talented quarterback Leonoras Sellers, 232 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:42.200 who can throw it and run it. 233 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:45.639 A dual threat guy. He's big, he's strong, he can 234 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:47.679 throw the heck out of the ball down the field. 235 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:51.279 You know you saw that, so you saw. Do you 236 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:52.279 see the arm talent? 237 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:53.720 You know? 238 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:53.919 So? 239 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:58.080 I think a very good football player that is going 240 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:02.080 to get better with every stap takes, every game, every rep, 241 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:05.840 you know, he'll improve. And a very good, you know, 242 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:08.639 physical guy with a lot a lot of attributes. 243 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:11.519 You know, I could run, he could throw, and of 244 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:15.240 course Kentucky fans for years have seen dual threat quarterbacks 245 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:18.399 come in and make Kentucky look bad. Of late, I 246 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:20.879 thought the Wildcats have done a better job at that. 247 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:23.679 But you know, you just can't let a guy escape 248 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:26.000 the pocket and move the chains and that sort of thing. 249 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:29.200 I will say that last week, from what I understand, 250 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:32.039 I didn't get to see much of the South Carolina game. 251 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:35.320 The game Cockus did not look very good against Old 252 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:37.960 Dominion and if not for an Odu fumble late in 253 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:41.559 the game. Aaron Gerstown was telling me last night, South 254 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:45.080 Carolina loses that game and Old Dominion moving up from 255 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:48.320 FCS one Double A, has had a really good program 256 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:52.159 through the years, but apparently South Carolina just did not 257 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:57.879 look good. And Sellers himself modest numbers at best, ten 258 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:00.799 of twenty three throwing the football for one hundred and 259 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:04.679 fourteen yards, it's an average of five yards per completion 260 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.240 completed only forty three and a half percent. His long 261 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:12.720 was forty one yards, so subtract that from one fourteen 262 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:16.360 and it's even more modest. And I'm being kind Raheem 263 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:21.120 Sanders twenty four carries eighty eight yards, about three and 264 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:24.399 a half yards per carry, but his long was twenty one, 265 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:28.720 So look at twenty three for what sixty seven yards? 266 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:34.360 Sellers himself ranted twenty two times for sixty eight yards, 267 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:38.519 his long twenty three, So then you're talking about twenty 268 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:43.799 one carries forty five yards. So he kept plays alive 269 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:46.200 and I'm sure he moved the chains more than once. 270 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:49.879 But he was your number two rusher for South Carolina 271 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:54.000 and that win over Old Dominion. Jared Brown a wide 272 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:57.879 receiver had one carry for sixteen yards, so that worked 273 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:04.039 Juju McDowell back at two carries for sixteen yards, so 274 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:09.360 they were not very productive at all on offense. Then 275 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:13.879 Drivius Jacobs two catches for fifty nine yards with a 276 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:17.120 long of forty one. They just had a hard time 277 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:20.799 moving the ball. So Kentucky, in terms of what we 278 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:26.159 saw and what we know about South Carolina outperformed the 279 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:28.960 game Cocks in just two and a half quarters. And 280 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:31.080 it was tough. And I said the same thing that 281 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:34.679 the Mark troops between segments when we were doing the 282 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:38.200 postgame show that I was disappointed, and I know they 283 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:42.000 were entirely disappointed they didn't get to see the backups 284 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.919 get in because that was likely going to happen against 285 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:45.840 Southern Myths. 286 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:48.080 Yeah, it does bother me that we didn't get a 287 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:49.759 lot of reps for some guys that we could have 288 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:52.919 gotten some reps. You know that there's some players that 289 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:56.639 worked extremely hard that we wanted to see in a 290 00:16:56.679 --> 00:17:00.440 game like situation. We have a big lead, you know, 291 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:02.960 so that part of it, you know, is disappointing. 292 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:04.440 Yeah, and you got to wonder when are they going 293 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:07.319 to get a chance to empty the bench again because 294 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.599 Southern Miss just wasn't very good. They might turn out 295 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:13.079 to be good, but did not play well at all 296 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:16.680 on Saturday night, and Kentucky had so much to do 297 00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:20.000 with that. Wild kids just had him overpowered and outmanned. 298 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:23.680 But there was an opportunity to look like an opportunity 299 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:26.720 to get almost everybody in the game. I'm still in press. 300 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:30.799 Kentucky played I think seven true freshmen in that game. 301 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:34.640 But they do need to build depth on that old line. 302 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:37.559 We know there's depth on the defensive front, and they 303 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:39.839 were able to get some rotations done and in the 304 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:43.480 secondary as well, And at one point Hunting Jeff pointed 305 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:47.720 out with Tom Leach that they had rotated most of 306 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:51.880 the back seven on defense. So one other thing that's 307 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:55.400 disappointing as well is keep in mind if you look 308 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:58.119 at if if you care about this stuff, stats are 309 00:17:58.119 --> 00:18:01.160 going to be kind of skewed all year offensively because 310 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:04.359 when we look at average plays per game, now you 311 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:07.279 got to remember the fact that they played only half 312 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:10.200 a game in the opener. So if you look at 313 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:13.160 average plays per game for Kentucky this year, it's got 314 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:15.279 to come with an asterisk. Of course, there was a 315 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:17.839 shutout and you held the other team to five yards. 316 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:20.559 Rushing up next, Jojo Camp here in the garage, six 317 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:28.359 thirty WLAP, Welcome back, coming up Saturday. As you know, 318 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:30.559 it's the Cats and the Game Cocks, and we're trying 319 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:33.799 something new this year on the UK Sports Network on 320 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:36.119 we hope all of our games, but at least most 321 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:39.319 of them, will open the game with a celebrity monologue. 322 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:42.559 Last week it was Bill Ransdell, who quarterback the eighty 323 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:46.039 four team to a Bowl victory and to celebrate the 324 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:49.680 fortieth anniversary, Bill opened our season. Coming up Saturday night 325 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:53.799 or Saturday afternoon. Jojo Kemp, who ran over around and 326 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:58.160 threw the Game Cox for three touchdowns and mark Steuben's 327 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:02.079 first signature win back in twenty fourteen, we'll do the honors. 328 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:04.559 And we decided while we had him here in the 329 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:08.200 garage working on that we would chat about that game. 330 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:12.319 So here's my conversation with Jojo Kemp right here in 331 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:15.559 the garage. Well, Jojo Kemp, welcome to the garage. Good 332 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:16.480 to have you here in person. 333 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:18.680 Hey, I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Thank you for 334 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:19.799 having me and. 335 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:23.160 You will hear Jojo open our broadcast on Saturday as 336 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:26.960 the Wildcats take on South Carolina. I gotta think that 337 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:30.200 that big game you had back in was it twenty fourteen? 338 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:31.480 Yes, twenty fourteen? 339 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:33.880 How often do you think back on that game you had? 340 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:36.720 You had good games throughout your career, but that one especially. 341 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:39.240 Yeah, man, you make me feel old. Man. I can't 342 00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:42.400 believe it's already been ten years that fast. 343 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:43.839 You look like you can still play. 344 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:45.079 I know I still can't. 345 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.440 You know we still Yeah, man, we still working out man, 346 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:50.599 at your local you know, playing fitness is we've been 347 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:52.640 working on at esport and we still getting it in. 348 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:54.759 I feel like I could still go out there, you know, 349 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:56.480 rush over one hundred yards. 350 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:00.480 We had a conversation before we started recording about the 351 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:04.880 Wildcat formation, and it's frustrating when it doesn't work. Because 352 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:08.119 you and I were talking. You know, someone who doesn't 353 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:10.319 run it properly slams it up in there and it doesn't. 354 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:12.880 It doesn't go for anything. But you just got to 355 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:16.920 take that one beat and let everything unfold in front 356 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:19.079 of you. Yes, how difficult was that for you to 357 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:22.240 to learn as a running back because your instinct is 358 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:22.799 get it and go. 359 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:24.119 Yes, you want what tough. 360 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:24.440 Is that? 361 00:20:24.680 --> 00:20:27.519 I mean, you know at first, you know, doing especially 362 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:30.039 during practice and things like that. You know, when you 363 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:32.440 first get back there, you know, it's like a different 364 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:34.880 feeling from lining up you know in a in a 365 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:37.680 pistol or ice formation. You know, you just want to 366 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:41.680 get the ball and just go hit the whole full speed. Yes, 367 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:43.759 you know, one hundred miles per hour. But with the 368 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:47.839 you know, wildcat formation, you at the quarterback position, so 369 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:51.960 that you know that's the second you know matters. So 370 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:55.839 it just helps you just stay patient, letting the line develop, 371 00:20:55.960 --> 00:20:58.440 you know, you know transform, and then you know, once 372 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:00.519 you see the whole, you know, then you hit it 373 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:02.559 and you know you attack it with some aggression and 374 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:04.799 you know, run behind your paths. 375 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:06.799 And like you said, you line up, you're the quarterback. 376 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:09.200 You got to take the snap and you got to 377 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:11.240 obviously it sounds silly to say, but you got to 378 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:14.440 concentrate on catching that ball. You don't want to cheat 379 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:16.759 and lift you like you're a golfer. You don't want 380 00:21:16.759 --> 00:21:17.400 to lift your head. 381 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:19.799 Was that an adjustment for yes, because you know at 382 00:21:19.799 --> 00:21:23.359 the quarterback position, you're lined up you know at five yards. 383 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:25.880 You know, when you're in a pistol, you're like seven, 384 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:30.319 So those those two yard makes a difference. You know, 385 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:33.279 it's a game of interest, so that's gonna you know, 386 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:37.279 take some time to you know, let that formation develop 387 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:39.559 and you know, let the line do that thing so 388 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:41.599 you can, you know, run behind your pass and do 389 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:42.400 what you have to do. 390 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:44.799 One of the other things I like about it, and 391 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:46.880 I'm a bit of an hour I like the wildcat 392 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:52.559 because when it's works, it's great. Old linemen don't have 393 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:57.920 to try to force the defender in a certain direction. 394 00:21:58.079 --> 00:22:00.599 I mean they can they can. You know, if a 395 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:02.640 defender wants to go to his left, you just take 396 00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:05.519 him left a little more exactly, which opens things up 397 00:22:05.559 --> 00:22:07.119 on the right and gives you a chance to. 398 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:09.839 Read that exactly. You can you can read the floor 399 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:13.119 floor of the of the line. You know, if the 400 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:15.319 lineman is letting him take it that way, then you 401 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:19.200