Speaker 1: Hello.
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Speaker 2: This is the statewide edition of the Big Blue and
Speaker 2: sart he heard Mark st Mark Stoops, Mark Pope's We're
Speaker 2: going to talk about Mark Stoops later, Mark Pope's comments
Speaker 2: and Kenny Brooks as well. And now stay tuned for
Speaker 2: Billy Rutledge Aaron Gershan hers truly on the state wide BBI.
Speaker 1: Border to order.
Speaker 2: It is the Big Blue Insider, Dick Gabriel, Billy Rutledge,
Speaker 2: Aaron gershawan tomorrow night on these same station as Kentucky,
Speaker 2: Texas A and M here in Lexion. Now, did you
Speaker 2: make the trip to Starkville? I'm about to ask you.
Speaker 2: I didn't think you were sure last week when I
Speaker 2: talked to you and you said that probably because of
Speaker 2: weather that would not be the trip. And uh, as
Speaker 2: it turned out, I'm sure you would love to have
Speaker 2: been there because it was a heck of a story
Speaker 2: the way that game unfolded, especially let's start with Jackson Robinson.
Speaker 2: Were you surprised by that? Were you just sitting on
Speaker 2: the edge of your seat waiting for that to happen?
Speaker 2: How did you approach that.
Speaker 1: A little bit of both. I think I've definitely been
Speaker 1: waiting on it because that is the guy that was
Speaker 1: advertised even better than advertised, but also wasn't holding my
Speaker 1: breath given how bad it looked against Georgia. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't just that he played poorly. His body language was
Speaker 1: awful and I mentioned that last week, yes, and you know,
Speaker 1: with the media seating at Georgia were pretty much right
Speaker 1: underneath one of the baskets, and as soon as Jackson
Speaker 1: missed his first shout of the day, the shoulders shrugged
Speaker 1: and you could just see he wasn't feeling it. And
Speaker 1: I think usually when coaches kind of go in the hole, oh,
Speaker 1: they just decided like they're going to play free. I
Speaker 1: kind of just scoff at it. But the way Mark
Speaker 1: Pope described it, how he was worrying about his pro career,
Speaker 1: which obviously he turned down, the chance to possibly be
Speaker 1: a late pick to come to Kentucky, and just all
Speaker 1: the pressure that he felt on him, and it clearly
Speaker 1: looked like a guy who was playing loose and free,
Speaker 1: and the body language was better. There was a smile
Speaker 1: on his face, he looked locked in, and he carried
Speaker 1: them to a win, Billy.
Speaker 2: You are the the network manager producer here, paying more
Speaker 2: attention to the radio broadcast, but you keep an eye
Speaker 2: and on the big screen TV right over there. What
Speaker 2: was really entertaining to me was the way the basketball
Speaker 2: barely stopped in Robinson's hands on the way to the
Speaker 2: You know, he would catch the pass.
Speaker 1: But it's like he barely had it before it was
Speaker 1: on the way with perfect form.
Speaker 2: Mind you to the basket. Were you able to notice
Speaker 2: much of that?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 3: I mean there was an eighteen footer late in the
Speaker 3: game that was really clutched throwing Jackson Robinson. It felt
Speaker 3: like he kind of stepped into his shots a little bit.
Speaker 3: And you saw the guy play with a little joy,
Speaker 3: and I think that may be the key with this team.
Speaker 3: One of Mark's Pope's phrases tonight was be where your
Speaker 3: feet are. Yeah, and that's being present and I'm sure
Speaker 3: that's hard to do. I mean, think about these guys'
Speaker 3: collegiate careers, a lot of them coming from other schools
Speaker 3: to Kentucky. And Andrew Carsang the other night, you know,
Speaker 3: there's nothing like being Kentucky.
Speaker 1: On the road.
Speaker 3: It's a it's maybe a different mindset you got to get.
Speaker 1: Into a little bit, and.
Speaker 3: Poor Andrew Carr in his bad back, he was he
Speaker 3: was able to play well despite all those struggles, and
Speaker 3: it all comes out a night where Kobe Brea goes
Speaker 3: one to five from three. And we were so determined
Speaker 3: last Wednesday that Kobe had to shoot well for Kentucky
Speaker 3: to win big games, and that just didn't happen.
Speaker 2: I will take you guys back. I'm gonna go old
Speaker 2: guy on you. I will take you back to nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy five. All right, that's the first time I ever
Speaker 2: went on the road and watch Kentucky play. It was
Speaker 2: at Alabama. I don't remember why I went, but that
Speaker 2: was a team that ended up in the final for
Speaker 2: Jimmie an Connor and Kevin Greevy and those guys, and
Speaker 2: I remember, for whatever reason it stood at Alabama had
Speaker 2: way they called.
Speaker 1: A tartan surface. Familiar with that. It's like a hard rubber.
Speaker 2: And there were there were schools Florida had won, Tennessee
Speaker 2: had when I think, and it was the kind of
Speaker 2: thing where took less maintenance so you could share the
Speaker 2: floor with you know, the women's team and volleyball and
Speaker 2: this and that. But the one thing I remember the
Speaker 2: most was was a packed house because Kentucky's in town
Speaker 2: and here came the Wildcats. And I had covered nothing
Speaker 2: but home games up until that point. And they're wearing blue,
Speaker 2: and I'd seen them on TV wearing blue, but it's
Speaker 2: not the same. And I remember when they first came out,
Speaker 2: I'm like, WHOA, that's different. You know, they're in blue uniforms.
Speaker 2: And the booze rained down like you wouldn't believe, and honestly,
Speaker 2: I couldn't stop laughing. And I was standing next to him,
Speaker 2: an NBA scout. He's looking at me. I said, I'm sorry, man,
Speaker 2: I've just never heard this. I mean, they were just brutal,
Speaker 2: you know boo and of course these guys are used
Speaker 2: to it. But yeah, I love that comment from Car.
Speaker 2: Nothing like being on the road when you're from Kentucky.
Speaker 2: But to your point, Aaron about Robinson and what a
Speaker 2: great sound by Mark Pope kind of remember you know
Speaker 2: you were, I'm sure you saw this kind of hesitated
Speaker 2: for a second, then he decided to share yep.
Speaker 1: And I thought that was poignant. I thought that was.
Speaker 2: Really an interesting and we were all ready to bury him,
Speaker 2: right Jackson Robbinson. Where's the Jackson Robinson we'd all heard
Speaker 2: about and here he is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and now it'll be the next up is consistency, Like,
Speaker 1: let's make sure it wasn't a flash in the pan.
Speaker 1: But if he's truly unlocked like that, that's dangerous. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, A and M is gonna lock down locked.
Speaker 1: He was A and M the first year, so that
Speaker 1: they know him as good as anyone, you know, Kobe
Speaker 1: Bray maybe open. Yeah. That's been the great thing about
Speaker 1: this team is in their big wins. I think almost
Speaker 1: every single one of them, they've had a guy just
Speaker 1: kind of not show up and someone else has picked
Speaker 1: them up. Obviously, go back to the Duke game, Jackson
Speaker 1: Robinson scored one point and you know Away and Cower
Speaker 1: kind of carried them. But you know who quietly had
Speaker 1: six points in a big three late kerk Resa did
Speaker 1: in this game, Ansley Almanor. Ansley Almanor, I was looking
Speaker 1: at it today. In the last eight games before this
Speaker 1: one on Saturday against State was five for twenty one
Speaker 1: from the field and three for sixteen from three, so
Speaker 1: basically a non factor. He scores eleven points and they're
Speaker 1: all I think at least nine of them were to
Speaker 1: that eleven to two run that won the game. Like
Speaker 1: if that's the beauty of this team, where yes, they
Speaker 1: might lack that guy who's going to always be able
Speaker 1: to get you a bucket, but they have different guys
Speaker 1: who step up in the clutch.
Speaker 3: Ansley was funny in that game. He was making faces.
Speaker 3: He was reading that newspaper afterwards that was saying, you know,
Speaker 3: Kentucky's dead or whatever it was. It was Kentucky, Kentucky. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and Mark Pope, you know, kind of alluding to that
Speaker 3: tonight talking about, you know, when Ansley's an accountant or
Speaker 3: when he's in a different career many years from now,
Speaker 3: he'll still think of a night like that night where
Speaker 3: he hit three threes and was, you know, instrumental in
Speaker 3: a Kentucky being a good team on the road, an
Speaker 3: emphasis on good, especially defensively. Mississippi State, it's going to
Speaker 3: be one of those teams. I think that that could
Speaker 3: make some noise in the NCAA tournament. Josh Hubbard was
Speaker 3: somebody that Lamont Butler really had down in clamps. I mean,
Speaker 3: Josh Hubbard scored thirty four last year against Kentucky and
Speaker 3: Butler just kind of put a different type of defense
Speaker 3: on him. So encouraging, really encouraging, because I think you
Speaker 3: looked at the last week and you said, let's go
Speaker 3: one in one, right, and maybe it was flip flop
Speaker 3: the games that you expected to.
Speaker 1: Win, and they did it. They've done that twice this year,
Speaker 1: and that's a good sign that they're bouncing back. Remember
Speaker 1: they they had the Clemson Gonzaga week. Everyone's like, all right,
Speaker 1: go beat Clemson and then Gonzaga. Then you saw the
Speaker 1: mont Butler's gonna be out and you're like, oh boy,
Speaker 1: but they somehow won that game too. They've been resilient.
Speaker 1: They have not had back to back losses yet this year.
Speaker 2: No. Yeah, it's interesting and there's so many layers to
Speaker 2: this team, you know, and they were hot. But to me,
Speaker 2: what was really entertaining as well was the postgame kind
Speaker 2: of I told you so SoundBite from Pope about Almanor,
Speaker 2: and I got to admit. He said it on media day.
Speaker 2: He said it when he signed the kid. He said,
Speaker 2: this guy is going to help us win games, mark
Speaker 2: my words, even when he was struggling. But he also
Speaker 2: said Brandon Garrison's gonna hit freeze, which he has but
Speaker 2: to a greater extent though. This is why he brought
Speaker 2: Almanor to Kentucky, and Almanor knew he would sit behind
Speaker 2: Andrew Carr. So imagine going in knowing that while Carr
Speaker 2: gives you defense and scores in the low post and passes,
Speaker 2: well all that stuff, you're there to do one job
Speaker 2: if you're anti Almanor, and that's beat the defense from
Speaker 2: the outside.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that's just what makes this era of Kentucky
Speaker 1: basketball different. Basically, every guy Canuck and this is not
Speaker 1: a shot at all, It's just how it was. But
Speaker 1: whenever Cal signed a player was like, Okay, where's this
Speaker 1: guy going to go in the draft? It was always
Speaker 1: a guy that had draft potential this team. Let's face it,
Speaker 1: there may be a guy who gets drafted or get
Speaker 1: signs the ud f A. There might not be an
Speaker 1: NBA player on this team. I think there's I think
Speaker 1: it could happen, but there's there's a chance none of
Speaker 1: these guys get drafted. There's a lot fiftier seniors. The
Speaker 1: NBA doesn't love that. It just might not happen. But
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean they can't win a bunch and maybe
Speaker 1: win the whole thing at the end. It's just, uh,
Speaker 1: they have a lot of different role players. And to
Speaker 1: Billy's point, like that's why a game like Ansley had,
Speaker 1: he might he's probably never gonna play in the NBA,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna go back and when he's in his future,
Speaker 1: yeah maybe, and he'll go brag about that. So it's
Speaker 1: really it's it's a kind of refreshing to see these
Speaker 1: guys where they are busting their tails. They know, maybe
Speaker 1: the NBA is in my future, maybe it's not. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go laid on the line in college ball.
Speaker 1: Not just it's not just a pit stop exactly, and
Speaker 1: that it's refreshing. It works here for a while and
Speaker 1: then it got still.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And here's the thing that I try to remind
Speaker 2: people as well. There are guys who treated this as
Speaker 2: a pit stop. But that didn't always mean that they're
Speaker 2: one foot out the door. And I'm bringing up I
Speaker 2: always bring up and I'm sure you guys have seen it,
Speaker 2: the video of Aaron Fox and bam Adebayo.
Speaker 1: After that North Carolina lost sobbing like little children, I mean,
Speaker 1: balling their eyes out. No, you get that, you know
Speaker 1: you've got the Archie good ones who told somebody in August,
Speaker 1: I just want to pay and get kayd and get
Speaker 1: out of here. I can tell you for a fact
Speaker 1: there was not Reed Shepherd, but there was a certain
Speaker 1: guy on last year's team in that locker room after
Speaker 1: Oakland who you could tell he was like, well off
Speaker 1: to the league. Yeah, there was no worry in the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Well, Shade and sharp situation too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not one shot that Cal. Look Cal's team
Speaker 1: right now, they're owing three in the league. They probably
Speaker 1: have three draft picks in this next YEARND. It just
Speaker 1: it doesn't result in winning necessarily anymore.
Speaker 2: And Kentucky fans are having a great time, you know,
Speaker 2: sort of commiserating with Arkansas fans. Who I mean, it's
Speaker 2: not all of them who have already turned on them.
Speaker 2: Although one of the one of the national heads, uh
Speaker 2: no Bleacher Report I had had a story out there
Speaker 2: saying he's.
Speaker 1: The biggest fraud.
Speaker 2: In college basketball, Marstool, and then the Alabama or Alabama
Speaker 2: Arkansas fans lined up to defend him, and they weren't wrong.
Speaker 1: Hey, we've lost four.
Speaker 2: Games to nationally ranked teams and the guy had to
Speaker 2: rebuild from the ground up. And now I know he
Speaker 2: didn't need me to carry his water, but you know,
Speaker 2: you could you could argue that he had more talent
Speaker 2: than Mark Pope, but more talent, but well, but he's
Speaker 2: got raw talent what Mark But exactly what Mark Pope
Speaker 2: has is guys who were much like not the same
Speaker 2: skill sets, but like Rick Pattino inherited when he got here,
Speaker 2: the unforgettables, the guys who were in those rafters. Only
Speaker 2: Sean Woods was a highly talented player. Sean Woods was
Speaker 2: four or five star point guard, could have gone anywhere.
Speaker 1: Pelfrey felt out. They were recruited.
Speaker 2: They turned down Vandy, Richie, turned down Louisville and LSU,
Speaker 2: but they weren't people weren't lining up at their door.
Speaker 1: But what he had were guys who knew how to
Speaker 1: play basketball. That's what's going on now.
Speaker 2: Exactly whereas Arkansas's guys, And again a lot of it's
Speaker 2: Caliperry's offense of you know, get to the rim and
Speaker 2: if you miss our guys, we'll get the rebuid. You know, uh,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe maybe not, but it's still raw talent and
Speaker 2: he is what did he say it'd always take the
Speaker 2: talent over experience.
Speaker 1: The thing that makes a little different though this year
Speaker 1: at Arkansas is they signed two of the top ten
Speaker 1: players in the portal who are both fit their seniors,
Speaker 1: Janel Davis from FAU Jonahs Adu from Tennessee, right, and
Speaker 1: they both I mean, Adu has had a good game
Speaker 1: against Florida, so got him credit there, but he's having
Speaker 1: one of the worst years of his career. Janelle Davis,
Speaker 1: who was he led FAU to the final four two
Speaker 1: years ago and last year was shooting forty one percent
Speaker 1: from three, is having his worst season by a mile. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's that's the guy. If you go on Arkansas Twitter,
Speaker 1: they're not even met at CaAl. They're met at him
Speaker 1: because they were booing him when he was going to
Speaker 1: check in because he's getting paid at time. Wow, and
Speaker 1: he's not performing. So that's the one thing that's a
Speaker 1: little odd. Oh why are guys going to play for
Speaker 1: cal like and obviously he's had some great transfer Antonio
Speaker 1: Reeves got way better here. Oh yeah, but why are
Speaker 1: these guys who were stars at their last stop, including
Speaker 1: one who played for his buddy Rick Barnes, going in
Speaker 1: regressive you know else?
Speaker 2: He has, and I wish it'd stayed here, But I
Speaker 2: can understand because he doesn't seem like the kind of
Speaker 2: there that do Thierra.
Speaker 1: Oh dude, yeah, I think there's a time he looks incredible. Yes,
Speaker 1: he that's a guy. I think that'll be interesting if
Speaker 1: he were to Portal.
Speaker 3: Well, it was weird because he left before Cal left,
Speaker 3: so I don't know if that was the intention at first.
Speaker 3: You know, here's here's the thing with Arkansas. They didn't
Speaker 3: have the John Wall DeMarcus Cousins years, or a national
Speaker 3: title or twenty fifteen to buffer to put up with
Speaker 3: the I don't even know who we're playing next exact,
Speaker 3: or the all the guys just didn't show up for
Speaker 3: the shoot around, so we didn't have one like we
Speaker 3: were used to the hits. But it came after the success.
Speaker 3: Arkansas is getting it and he's hasn't done anything, and
Speaker 3: three in conference and he's like, deal with it, we're
Speaker 3: all going through it. You know, we're built from Mark,
Speaker 3: We'll see you later, and he ends.
Speaker 1: The problem is that the season end today, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: even be.
Speaker 2: In March, and he's not accountable in that oftentimes, and
Speaker 2: that he doesn't show up again.
Speaker 1: He hasn't done pregame all year exactly.
Speaker 2: So all right, we'll take a break, come back and
Speaker 2: talk more Kentucky basketball. A little bit later on, we'll
Speaker 2: switch you over to football as well, talk a little
Speaker 2: bit more about some of the new faces who have
Speaker 2: joined Mark Stoop's team, and we will touch base as well.
Speaker 2: Now we are all officially done in terms of our
Speaker 2: rooting interest with the NFL. But games are the games
Speaker 2: go on without us. Back in a minute on a
Speaker 2: state wide BBI from.
Speaker 1: Pikeville to Paduca.
Speaker 2: It is a statewide edition of the Big Blue Cider.
Speaker 2: Dick Gabriel, Billy Rutledge, Aaron Gershan Wildcats in action tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And you know, looking.
Speaker 2: Back, we're talking about that win obviously Misissippi date one
Speaker 2: of you alluded to the Georgia loss. Georgia followed that
Speaker 2: up with another good win ranked now, yeah, and you know,
Speaker 2: obviously they were one of the SEC teams we all
Speaker 2: talked about. Well, we all knew that once conference play
Speaker 2: began things would level out. But two or three teams
Speaker 2: are winless now in the league, including Arkansas.
Speaker 1: I think LSU's winning USU Oklahoma in South Carolina.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but maybe we shouldn't be surprised by that, but
Speaker 2: the bottom line is it's a shame that it will
Speaker 2: hurt some of these teams when it comes to their ratings,
Speaker 2: their rankings or opportunities. Now, you know, there could be nine,
Speaker 2: ten to eleven teams in the NCA Tournament, well if
Speaker 2: the committee members pay attention all year. But if some
Speaker 2: of these teams are sub five hundred in the SEC,
Speaker 2: which is entirely possible, you know, maybe they don't get
Speaker 2: did the NCA Tournament when they should when they deserve it, right.
Speaker 2: But other than I don't know, maybe Auburn or I
Speaker 2: don't know who else could have like a top heavy record.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just trying to put in perspective this
Speaker 1: SEC and the even mentioned opportunities. I was trying to
Speaker 1: find it. But I'm pretty sure Kentucky only has like
Speaker 1: three quad two games left in a quad three and
Speaker 1: that's everything else is squad one, Like I know for now,
Speaker 1: South Carolina is a quad three, Arkansas is a Quad two,
Speaker 1: and Vandy at home is a Quad two. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure every single other game on their schedule is quad one.
Speaker 1: And this week alone, you play the number eleven ranked
Speaker 1: team in the country. We're about to get an injury
Speaker 1: report here. By the way, Wade Taylor, the tremendous guards
Speaker 1: who's been at A and M forever, has been out
Speaker 1: the last two games. So that is something to watch.
Speaker 1: I'll pull it up in a second. And then like
Speaker 1: one of those football players is in his eighth year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like it. And then Alabama, number four in
Speaker 1: the country, rolling in. It's just this league is crazy
Speaker 1: and a lot.
Speaker 2: Of some of those quad wills won't remain no quad ones.
Speaker 1: But still all on the road. They've sure, Mike, because
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of those teams are dropping
Speaker 1: blow seventy five, that's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Tennessee, Auburn, Kentucky. I think you put Florida,
Speaker 3: Florida into that now, they're awesome. I mean it is
Speaker 3: going to be a really fun SEC tournament. Yes, I
Speaker 3: mean you could have some really good teams playing on
Speaker 3: that first day.
Speaker 1: Wade Tailor is out tomorrow. Really, he is out tomorrow,
Speaker 1: So Kentucky will play them without their best. Somebody else
Speaker 1: get the minutes and go to nuclear.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Florida, what in the world got into the
Speaker 2: Gators with.
Speaker 3: Tennessee Tennessee had like fifteen and a halftime of that game,
Speaker 3: it was they couldn't make a three. I mean it was.
Speaker 3: It was an ugly It was like one of twenty
Speaker 3: one at one point of something like that. That was
Speaker 3: an embarrassing performance, there's no doubt about it. But also
Speaker 3: goes to show you that win versus Florida is maybe
Speaker 3: something that holds up for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: And like I said, I'm not ashamed to say it.
Speaker 2: They were fortunate gaters didn't hit their free throws. But
Speaker 2: to win games like that, you got to hit your shots,
Speaker 2: and Kentucky did. I looked at who was I sitting
Speaker 2: next I can't remember who I sitting next to. But
Speaker 2: in that Florida game, nine minutes to play, Kentucky had
Speaker 2: eighty points. Eighty points. That tells you how first of all,
Speaker 2: tough points were to come by down the stretch. But still,
Speaker 2: you know, you had two or three spurts where both
Speaker 2: teams are throwing in shots. People are still talking about
Speaker 2: that game, but it's the kind of game where they
Speaker 2: may do it again, you know, And if Kentucky keeps
Speaker 2: scoring the way it is, that means the other team
Speaker 2: gets more possessions, so they may end up.
Speaker 1: Watch for that Saturday. I think tomorrow A and M
Speaker 1: is going to try to slow the heck out of
Speaker 1: the game. That's how they play, yeah, hopefully right, and
Speaker 1: they're the number one offensive rebounding team the country. They're
Speaker 1: gonna try to tip out and use twenty seconds. But
Speaker 1: Alabama is number two in the country and ken Palm
Speaker 1: adjusted tempo, they play at a lightning quick speed. That
Speaker 1: is a game that's gonna be a lot like the
Speaker 1: Florida game. You're you're gonna see both teams nearer above
Speaker 1: one hundred in that one.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be interesting. And I doubted Pope tips his hand.
Speaker 2: But if your mark, Pope, do you try to match
Speaker 2: that or do you try to maybe drop it down
Speaker 2: a gear?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Kentucky at their best is when they're
Speaker 1: going quick, right, you gotta still play to your strengths.
Speaker 1: And look they against Florida, they still played quick and
Speaker 1: they were just outscored them. And we're lucky we get
Speaker 1: that Alabama batch of twice. I know they might not win,
Speaker 1: they could get swept. Alabama's that good. I don't think
Speaker 1: they will. I think they'll split, but those are gonna
Speaker 1: be must watch games. Yeah, we're not to look ahead.
Speaker 1: We can look ahead. They can't.
Speaker 3: Lucky Braa went nuclear in that game versus Florida.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Well that's the thing with Florida and Alabama. They do
Speaker 1: give a little bit on the perimeter defensively because they're
Speaker 1: just they're trying to just get the ball and run.
Speaker 1: So I think you could see Brad have a good
Speaker 1: game against Saturday. I don't know, years ago did against
Speaker 1: Alabama Kentucky set up one of the bigs.
Speaker 2: Under the basket and just fed him. The whole game
Speaker 2: was it.
Speaker 1: Ugo, all kinds of dunks and tippings and well they looked.
Speaker 3: Last year was Justin Edwards.
Speaker 1: Last year was the Justin Edwards game. The year before
Speaker 1: Alabama they got crushed at Oh that was you know
Speaker 1: who it was. It was Damien Collins. Damian Collins had
Speaker 1: a massive game. Now they swept Alabama. That was the
Speaker 1: That was the Saint Peter's team. I hate to call
Speaker 1: him that, but that's how I remember that, the Saint
Speaker 1: Peter's team. They swept Alabama that year and that was
Speaker 1: Damian Collins, like probably his best game in the UK uniform.
Speaker 1: You're exactly right, and that was a very low scoring game.
Speaker 1: But the next year they got washed. Alabama had fixed
Speaker 1: it and the Brandon Miller the next year.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but the you know that attack wouldn't necessarily well,
Speaker 2: let let's pull it back to the A and M game.
Speaker 2: And I think, I don't know if I've not seen
Speaker 2: him play at all, but we have seen teams throw
Speaker 2: a little three quarter court press at Kentucky to try
Speaker 2: to slow the Temple.
Speaker 1: That's what they're gonna do, they you think, Yeah, And
Speaker 1: look the thing with A and M. You said you
Speaker 1: haven't seen him much. They have almost all the same dudes.
Speaker 1: They have a couple of new guys here and there,
Speaker 1: and they have a transfer. I forget where he's from.
Speaker 1: But their lead guard That'll with Taylor out who's playing well.
Speaker 1: But like Garcia, that kid Coleman, all these guys who
Speaker 1: have been there for years are still there. And yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to money the game up. They'll press,
Speaker 1: they'll try to slow Kentucky down. And number one offensive
Speaker 1: rebounding team in the country, so that's a challenge for
Speaker 1: this Kentucky team.
Speaker 2: It's being a rebounding watching Kentucky really battle Mississippi City.
Speaker 1: You got the box score up, Billy No, Okay, out
Speaker 1: rebounded them, I know by eight. All right, that's what
Speaker 1: I was looking for. Okay.
Speaker 2: I wonder because we all talked about it last week.
Speaker 2: Everybody talked about it in print, online, on the air.
Speaker 2: This Kentucky team maybe isn't tough enough, doesn't rebound well enough,
Speaker 2: isn't physical. Mark Pope at length, you were there at
Speaker 2: his pregame news conference, talked about the physicality of playing
Speaker 2: in this league, etcetera, et cetera. They clearly responded last
Speaker 2: day or night. Does that become consistent? That's what I'm
Speaker 2: looking for tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: I hope so.
Speaker 3: I mean, I really do, because they've called that out
Speaker 3: several times I'm sure in practice as well. And it's
Speaker 3: not going away. I mean, that happened with the Clemson game,
Speaker 3: right even the Western game. I feel like they've Western
Speaker 3: kind of exposed Kentucky a little bit.
Speaker 1: Western and Georgia State no question. All right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: come back and talk a little more basketball. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take a look at the football port olan find out
Speaker 1: what's going on.
Speaker 2: Mark Stoop's team ran fleed to biking seven nothing. I
Speaker 2: think we're all happy about that. They're on the state
Speaker 2: wide BBI from Pikeville to Paduca. It is the BBI.
Speaker 2: Dick Gabrielle, Aaron Sean, Billy Rutledge. Let us shift for
Speaker 2: a little while over to football. We'll get back to basketball.
Speaker 2: But Aaron, as we mentioned with a catch pause, keeps
Speaker 2: the portal updated. You kind of got all of the
Speaker 2: plates spinning right now. And uh, since you and I spoke,
Speaker 2: there have been a couple of new faces.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the two really good ones honestly, and look, I've
Speaker 1: been I would say, I don't know the right word.
Speaker 1: I'm skeptical on this team still and there's still a
Speaker 1: lot to do. But uh, they added Mike. I think
Speaker 1: it's mike Quez Grace, who's the defensive end from South
Speaker 1: Dakota who for for big diehard Collge football fans know
Speaker 1: the Missouri Valley Conference that obviously Murray Steak is in.
Speaker 1: They struggled mightily in this year, but is the best
Speaker 1: like the SEC version of the f.
Speaker 2: I man Jack with all due respect and it's a
Speaker 2: first year coach down there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they were the worst team in rule. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to look at I go look at
Speaker 1: their scores to see how good. What I'm saying is,
Speaker 1: don't judge the valley on what you saw from Murray
Speaker 1: or that's what I'm trying to say exactly, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. Yeah, So South Dakota North Dakota State,
Speaker 1: who wins to the fiest title every year one of
Speaker 1: their art trials, this guy won the defensive player of
Speaker 1: the Year in that conference. You know, nine and a
Speaker 1: half sacks, eighteen and a half tackles for loss to
Speaker 1: force fumbles. So that's a big time guy. Georgia was
Speaker 1: after him. He took a visit to Georgia. So usually
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart's a pretty good valuator of talent, so that
Speaker 1: should tell you a little something. So that one's big
Speaker 1: because we all know the pass rush has been a
Speaker 1: problem for years now. That Kentucky I think was fifteenth
Speaker 1: in the SEC and sacks this year, not gonna get
Speaker 1: it done. And then they added wide receiver and True
Speaker 1: Edwards who was a first team All Conference guy down
Speaker 1: at LA Tech Louisiana Tech last season, and a guy
Speaker 1: who's a true X kind of is going to probably
Speaker 1: take over for name Key and the starting lineup and
Speaker 1: that at that position. So, you know, two on paper,
Speaker 1: really good additions, especially I think I think Grace is
Speaker 1: the best player they've added this offseason period. But as
Speaker 1: we were talking on air, that left tackle position still there.
Speaker 1: It's still open. They've done a nice job filling the
Speaker 1: you know, filling out right tackle. They got a trustworthy
Speaker 1: guard in Joshua Moron from Arkansas, but they got a
Speaker 1: plug and play center from Billy's WKY Hilltoppers. But left
Speaker 1: tackle is open, and that's a problem.
Speaker 2: Any idea who may be out there.
Speaker 1: Well, there's the one kid from New Mexico State. I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna try his first name yet, but his
Speaker 1: last name is Pete. He's six ' eight, three hundred
Speaker 1: and forty pound guy who is an All conference guy
Speaker 1: at New Mexico State. In twenty twenty three of the
Speaker 1: year that Diego Pavia took them to their conference title
Speaker 1: game and beat Auburn on the road. He's visited Kentucky,
Speaker 1: he visited Vandy where Pavia and Jerry killar. He visited
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, where his offensive line coach is. So there's
Speaker 1: competition you have to overcome continuity there. But he hasn't
Speaker 1: committed yet and Kentucky's still in the mix, So that's
Speaker 1: the one that could be the fix for this cycle.
Speaker 1: If not, it's something that would you push the canned
Speaker 1: down to spring. And we all know the players that
Speaker 1: come out after the spring are usually because they're not
Speaker 1: going to start, So that's not necessarily where you want
Speaker 1: to go do your shopping. So if they can't get
Speaker 1: this kid, it's going to be either look that they
Speaker 1: look internally. They run in two transfer tackles. One is
Speaker 1: a career right tackle from Bowling Green, multi year starter
Speaker 1: of that position. The other from New Mexico State is
Speaker 1: really only is one true year of starting experience. Other
Speaker 1: than that, he's been a Juco guy. So we're like
Speaker 1: Malachi would, I don't think is ready yet. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna get dice and they have they have to. They
Speaker 1: have to finish on this New Mexico State kid for
Speaker 1: you to feel good about left tackle.
Speaker 2: There are connections, as you said Toy and Auburn, are
Speaker 2: there any connections with him with Kentucky.
Speaker 1: The hope is Kentucky has more money than Vandy and
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State and that helps someone out.
Speaker 3: Well, good thing they have a developer of talent like
Speaker 3: Eric Wolf at the offensive line.
Speaker 1: You know what, They've somehow signed four offensive linemen with
Speaker 1: that guy that I got. Look, I don't know how
Speaker 1: good of Billy knocking his with Nick seven again, I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, but they got to finish on that
Speaker 1: left tackle. That'll make me feel pretty good about the
Speaker 1: transfer class. To me, it's like they get a they
Speaker 1: get an incomplete because it is. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: good names in there, especially these last two. But well,
Speaker 1: you use the.
Speaker 2: Words skeptical, and I think, Billy that everybody has the
Speaker 2: right to be skeptical about this Kentucky team until it
Speaker 2: wins its first conference game, you know, and they're going
Speaker 2: to get a chance to prove themselves really early with
Speaker 2: the way of schedules structured.
Speaker 1: Yeah, buddy, we're going to find out pretty quickly.
Speaker 3: I'm not overlooking Toledo a week one.
Speaker 1: No, boys, you know they're starting running back. Will be
Speaker 1: next year, right, chip train them right, that's right till
Speaker 1: really assuming is healthy hopefully is nuts. I remember I
Speaker 1: can't remember the kid's name. Yeah, and that was Toledo
Speaker 1: as well, So it's just yeah, and in all fairness,
Speaker 1: that kid went on because his mother was very sick. Yes,
Speaker 1: and he was buried in the depth chart. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like Chip where he was going to start and got hurt. No,
Speaker 1: but he eventually played.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's yeah. Oh he was buried here. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but he was buried here. But he was only a
Speaker 2: freshman here. But I remember how much Mark Pope really
Speaker 2: liked him. And you're right, he had a great career
Speaker 2: at Toledo. But as I said, Uh, they can't ease
Speaker 2: into anything, can they. The schedule the way there is.
Speaker 3: No and and and and really this past year I
Speaker 3: felt like the schedules set up for Kentucky to make
Speaker 3: a run. Now take every opponent and flip the home
Speaker 3: and away aspect of it. And I feel like it's
Speaker 3: even tougher schedule than last year. And and so like
Speaker 3: if if you had any like goodwill or grace built up,
Speaker 3: I feel like it's gone now. So like maybe a
Speaker 3: La cal after Saint Peter's you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I feel like the patience has run out. You've had
Speaker 3: your one year that I think Stoops spent all year
Speaker 3: talking about that. Oh I can have a bad year
Speaker 3: because I've had so many great years of success I
Speaker 3: can give you that, coach, But now now you're in
Speaker 3: the crosshairs, right. I mean people have already said his
Speaker 3: seats hot.
Speaker 2: He's earned the I've not seen him on any hot
Speaker 2: seat lists, but that doesn't mean that he's not number
Speaker 2: one but number two. He's earned the right to clean
Speaker 2: up his mess, There's no question about that. But it
Speaker 2: wasn't just a one year aberration. But that's what is
Speaker 2: so fascinating to me. He was covered football here forever that.
Speaker 1: How disappointed we all were, fans, media, obviously, the coach,
Speaker 1: and players by back to back seven wins seasons. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, guys.
Speaker 2: And people in my generation will tell you that those
Speaker 2: kinds of seasons used to be caused for parades down
Speaker 2: Main Street when it came to Kentucky football. And we're
Speaker 2: all spoiled now, but.
Speaker 1: That's the way it ought to be. And I mean obviously,
Speaker 1: so it's not only just the success that Kentucky's had here,
Speaker 1: but you look across this sec last year or this
Speaker 1: past season. Bandy goes seven and six, South Carolina goes
Speaker 1: nine to four, and you know, gets into the six
Speaker 1: Ers Bowl like teams that you Missouri the last two
Speaker 1: years has been I think at ten wins both years.
Speaker 1: So you look at those teams that used to I
Speaker 1: think there were eleven to one against them from twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen to twenty twenty one. Now they're swing games. Yes,
Speaker 1: your swing games. They've all passed you, and by a
Speaker 1: significant margin in Missouri's case in South Carolina last year.
Speaker 1: That's that's where I think the the agony is with
Speaker 1: the fan.
Speaker 3: And I'll add on to that point, Aaron Kurt Signetti
Speaker 3: in Indiana, I mean, Indiana historically the worst college football program,
Speaker 3: but yet they're able to make the playoffs because in
Speaker 3: a new age of college football, you do it a
Speaker 3: different way. You get the transfer portal guys from the
Speaker 3: coach coming from a different school, you're able to pay
Speaker 3: nil money. So historical losing from Kentucky in the past
Speaker 3: is not an excuse, not anymore for why Kentucky fans
Speaker 3: should be happy with six and seven win seasons anymore.
Speaker 1: To keep building on what you said too, like the
Speaker 1: SEC Giants all took steps back this year. Alabama was human.
Speaker 1: They were not in three and they you look at
Speaker 1: their offseason right now, they haven't done that much. Whom
Speaker 1: I missed there's some Auburn. The last two Auburn didn't
Speaker 1: even make a bowl. They've been terrible last year by
Speaker 1: their standards. Yeah, I said Alabama Georgia, like Georgia was
Speaker 1: beat We saw it here. Kentucky's a they don't you
Speaker 1: know that pick six that should have been they might
Speaker 1: have beat Georgia here. So Georgia, you know, took a
Speaker 1: step back. And then I'm looking into next year. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you a team early prediction. And this is not
Speaker 1: bias at all. Tennessee. We saw it in the playoff
Speaker 1: against Ohio State. They have a wide receiver issue. They've
Speaker 1: done nothing to address it, and they've lost five to
Speaker 1: the portal. They lost it. And Dylan Sampson, who is
Speaker 1: the best running back in the league this year's in
Speaker 1: the NFL now is going to the NFL. That's a
Speaker 1: team like and they haven't brought in a running back
Speaker 1: and I don't know much about their returning backs. Like
Speaker 1: there are teams toward the top taking steps down the
Speaker 1: and I just laid it out how South Carolina, Vandy,
Speaker 1: Missouri have risen. The fans expect Kentucky to be in
Speaker 1: the in that group that rises because it's opening there
Speaker 1: is there is Actually, while the SEC is very hard,
Speaker 1: the path to get there, with the portal and all
Speaker 1: these things is actually more open, I think than it
Speaker 1: has been in the past. Well yeah, but it's more
Speaker 1: of a gamble. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad you brought up the Indiana because that
Speaker 2: was one of the great stories absolute college football. But
Speaker 2: to me, it was kind of the mirror image of
Speaker 2: Kentucky in that you mentioned how tough the schedule is
Speaker 2: going to be.
Speaker 1: It was pretty tough.
Speaker 2: This past year. Let's face it. But it's the SEC,
Speaker 2: all right, Uh portal, some of the portal additions didn't
Speaker 2: pan out, right. Indiana was the exact opposite. Kurt Signetti
Speaker 2: told his wife he was not going to take the job.
Speaker 2: And what turned him around? You know the story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard the schedule.
Speaker 2: He looked at a schedule. They got out of bed,
Speaker 2: they were laying in bed talking and he said, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna turn down the job. She said why, I
Speaker 2: just don't think of it, you know, She just who
Speaker 2: are you gonna play?
Speaker 1: Uh, let's see.
Speaker 2: They got up, pulled it up on a computer, and
Speaker 2: I heard him say he went through the schedule one.
Speaker 2: That's a win. That's a win. He told his wife,
Speaker 2: you know what, because they weren't playing Michigan Ohio State.
Speaker 1: He was the only one on their schedule. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: They played a hot state, but uh, they had a fairly.
Speaker 2: I'll use it for the man, easy, manageable, and he
Speaker 2: told his wife that could be a playoff schedule right there.
Speaker 2: Takes the job. But the other thing was, look at
Speaker 2: all the kids he brought with him from JMU, which
Speaker 2: was a championship level program at the one DOAA level.
Speaker 2: So he was getting proven kids who knew his system
Speaker 2: and knew how to win.
Speaker 1: As opposed to well.
Speaker 2: We think this guy was good or could be good,
Speaker 2: you're never coming through the portal. That's an entirely different
Speaker 2: formula for winning. And Indiana made it work better than
Speaker 2: anybody in America agreed this year.
Speaker 1: And that's what that's the one thing I like with
Speaker 1: some of these portal additions Kentucky's made this year compared
Speaker 1: to last. And there were some guys who were like
Speaker 1: Jamiens Dumus Johnson, and he was a hit. He played
Speaker 1: really well. Yes, So I think it's so important that
Speaker 1: you bring yes, but it's so important. Bringing known commodities,
Speaker 1: no question, Like Brock vander griff was kind of the
Speaker 1: same gamble they made on on Will Levis and they're
Speaker 1: batting five hundred on that. But like this Gray Skid
Speaker 1: is a defensive player of the Year in a huge conference.
Speaker 1: I think he will maybe there will be an adjustment
Speaker 1: to the SEC. It'll be pretty quick. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: a really good player. You got to have those that
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, that's guys, we know what we're getting
Speaker 1: from that guy instead of a well you know, he
Speaker 1: was a four star three years ago. And I think
Speaker 1: look at Indiana, like you said, brought in guys from
Speaker 1: a championship level program, knew how to win. That's what
Speaker 1: the pro that's what the the best teams that handle
Speaker 1: the portal like Ohio State, they got to do it
Speaker 1: with a massive budget, which helps. But they go get
Speaker 1: Caleb Downs and Quinn Shawn Juckkins. Like where they without
Speaker 1: those two guys. I'm not obviously they still have a
Speaker 1: ton of talent. But here's the.
Speaker 2: Talkhilly is we've gone forty four minutes into his show
Speaker 2: now we haven't mentioned quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Well that well, you don't have a good quarterback. You
Speaker 3: don't have a shot, and that's just and that's if
Speaker 3: you have to, you don't have one.
Speaker 1: And the problem with that is we don't. Calzada has
Speaker 1: a had a great year two years at Incarnate Word,
Speaker 1: But was he the proven commodity. He's closer to a
Speaker 1: proven commodity. He's definitely more of a proven commodity than Brock,
Speaker 1: Fanagraff and and Cutter Bully, although I like is he
Speaker 1: more of a proven more of a proven commodity than
Speaker 1: Devin Leary, though I don't think so well.
Speaker 2: To me, Devin Leary was a different case because he
Speaker 2: came from a really different system.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is true, but Liam Cohn wanted him. Liam
Speaker 1: Cohn did want He wanted more than a kid and
Speaker 1: ended up in Florida. Mark, Yeah, they were gonna they
Speaker 1: were gonna.
Speaker 2: Take that is cur said, I'd rather have Devin Leary.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah. The new quarterbacks got an injury history
Speaker 3: though Concervatio and just like Devin Leary did, and Kentucky
Speaker 3: hasn't finished this season since I was born where they
Speaker 3: didn't have to use the backup quarterback. It feel it's
Speaker 3: like I.
Speaker 1: Am interested staggering stat I don't know if that's right.
Speaker 1: Only the only year I can think of where they
Speaker 1: haven't is twenty twenty. I don't think twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: they Other than blowouts they had to. Twenty two obviously,
Speaker 1: Kaya started a game. Twenty three Leary started them all.
Speaker 1: But I know Kaya came in for a long period
Speaker 1: of time against State Mississippi State. And then twenty twenty
Speaker 1: Terry was missed a game. Gatewood started. Twenty nineteen, Terry
Speaker 1: got hurt. Twenty eighteen, Terry did play the whole year,
Speaker 1: but he got benched at one point and he got hurt.
Speaker 1: The olden year, they ran out a quarterback. Yeah, Stephen
Speaker 1: Johnson made it through a year somehow. Someone in twenty seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he was a sub me. All you mean is
Speaker 1: incumbent year? Oh yeah, second year won one leg and
Speaker 1: it was jumping into the end zone and stead but
Speaker 1: remember the Tennessee game. Oh yeah, he won one leg
Speaker 1: and two badshoes the shoulder.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 3: I do want to highlight one thing. I'm interested to
Speaker 3: see how Nebraska receivers play this year. I wonder why,
Speaker 3: because Kentucky receivers coach goes they take dan Key and
Speaker 3: is it Anthony Browns, gil Hardley Gilmore.
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown Stevens went to two lane.
Speaker 3: So you talk about bringing in known commodities and you know,
Speaker 3: maybe a much more micro level Kurt Signetti bringing his
Speaker 3: own players to a different team. I wonder if that
Speaker 3: would work. I mean if Dane interesting and uh hardly Gill.
Speaker 1: Who's our quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, that's right, Dylan Ryle,
Speaker 1: that don't work. But yeah, well, you know what's interesting
Speaker 1: with the portal departures. So last year I think Kentucky
Speaker 1: they lost twenty two and only fifteen landed. This year,
Speaker 1: all twenty three or no, it's twenty two. Again. They've
Speaker 1: all found homes, every single one of them, so there's
Speaker 1: there was talent there. It's gonna be it's gonna be interesting,
Speaker 1: especially the two Nebraska guys. But really, uh, this is
Speaker 1: the most I'm interested in tracking former Kentucky players just
Speaker 1: because it was such a big amount.
Speaker 2: How much does it matter that bush ham Dan the
Speaker 2: OC is in place? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it does matter. And look, he's a guy
Speaker 1: that's had success elsewhere and he's he's more of a proven,
Speaker 1: proven commodity than rich Skangerole ever was, and he was,
Speaker 1: and probably even Liam Cohen when Liam Cohen got here.
Speaker 1: So I think he deserves to have this year too,
Speaker 1: but we'll see. I think last year was very tough
Speaker 1: for him. I give him probably more of a pass
Speaker 1: than most people do, because he didn't pick a single
Speaker 1: player on that offense, right and except I can't even
Speaker 1: did they sign anyone after spring ball that played a
Speaker 1: role in that offense. I can't recall, So he literally
Speaker 1: had no say. I can't kill him for that. I
Speaker 1: just can't. Yeah, and then this year injuries. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: year they've signed four receivers, four offensive linemen, a running back,
Speaker 1: a quarterback. If they fail, it's on him.
Speaker 2: The one thing I think Billy will see out of
Speaker 2: that receivers room, perhaps in theory, would balance, which which
Speaker 2: would be a great strength.
Speaker 3: Yes, that would Well, just getting rid of this receiver culture,
Speaker 3: I think is the biggest thing that they need to
Speaker 3: do and kind of get back to the grittiness and
Speaker 3: the toughness at the big Blue Wall. I think embodied,
Speaker 3: but I feel like it's you know, there's gonna be
Speaker 3: some bias evaluating Bush Hampden because of all of the
Speaker 3: offensive coordinators that have come through Kentucky. So now we're
Speaker 3: at the point where Dick, we have to have continuity
Speaker 3: with somebody, yes, because they've had no continuity for such
Speaker 3: a long time. So it's a little unfair to think that,
Speaker 3: you know, or to really to evaluate Bush Hampden's job
Speaker 3: because he was going to get a second year unless
Speaker 3: they had won like maybe one game this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, this is a guy that he had in
Speaker 1: a thousand yard rusher every year. He is a coordinator.
Speaker 1: Before this year, he's always had a top rushing offense,
Speaker 1: and you're right, Billy, they have to get back to that.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they need to go full twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: and run the ball every play, but they need to
Speaker 1: have the balance attack that is very on the run.
Speaker 1: And you know what, you can win still win in
Speaker 1: this era college football with that. Look at Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: like Riley Leonard has thrown for I think one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty yards or less than all these playoff games.
Speaker 1: They're playing for a national championship next week.
Speaker 2: And as we get to their break, I saw I
Speaker 2: had my fingers on my keyboard and wanted to respond,
Speaker 2: but I saw a little back and forth on Twitter
Speaker 2: slash X people complaining about stoops in the offense, and
Speaker 2: then somebody he's never had a strong run game. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what are you smoking?
Speaker 1: Yeah, when we get back, there's a report on the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: It's very interesting, very interesting.
Speaker 2: They fired their coach.
Speaker 1: Oh who they are eyeing as their top Kenny Baby?
Speaker 3: Is it Dion?
Speaker 1: Come on down? Is that writer saying that's a report?
Speaker 1: He's a candidate? It's a report sort of. Cowboys owner
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones has spoken with Colorado head coach. That's the story.
Speaker 1: Discussions expect to continue. Oh h crime is considered a
Speaker 1: top ended it though the Cowboys land interview others.
Speaker 3: He ain't going without his sons. Sorry, is Dallas going
Speaker 3: to move up and drafted?
Speaker 1: He already had giants cleats. That's the story.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And as we get to the break, who wins Ohio
Speaker 1: State or Notre Dame Ohio State?
Speaker 3: I want to root for Notre Dame. And that's saying
Speaker 3: a lot, because how did you get me to root
Speaker 3: for Notre Dame exactly? I think it's Ohio State.
Speaker 2: I think it's Ohio State. I think Notre Dame covers.
Speaker 2: I will root for Notre Dame me too. I was
Speaker 2: a Notre Dame fan as a kid. Lou Holtz got
Speaker 2: me off Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: And then uh, don't blame you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But then after that I didn't care. After he left,
Speaker 2: I didn't much care. But what is it's like?
Speaker 1: Nine? Is that the nine and a half second biggest
Speaker 1: spreading of championship game and a half?
Speaker 2: You lay in nine and a half?
Speaker 3: No, No, I've take Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: That's a lot.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, you never know when a scoop
Speaker 2: and score is going to be the spreadbusters. All right,
Speaker 2: we'll come back and wrap up this edition of the
Speaker 2: State Wide BBI. A couple of minutes left here on
Speaker 2: the Big Blue Insider with Aaron and Billy Kentucky, Texas,
Speaker 2: A and M in most of these same stations tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: Wild Cats back in Rupperina on Saturday. So they should
Speaker 2: win both, Am I correct.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be you got to protect home court in
Speaker 1: this SEV, especially this year, So I think I don't.
Speaker 1: I won't say they're not must wins, but it'd be
Speaker 1: they do themselves a lot of favors and build up
Speaker 1: some really good will if they win both. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting schedule. They have where two home games,
Speaker 1: then they have their bye during the midweek next week,
Speaker 1: and then they go to Vandy and play Tennessee. So
Speaker 1: they're all kind of they're staying close to home the
Speaker 1: next two weeks.
Speaker 3: Uh, Buzz Williams and his three piece suit is going
Speaker 3: to be coming into Reperena and running on the maid
Speaker 3: that him and Mark Pulpe respect the arena that is Reperina.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm glad you brought his name up because
Speaker 2: one of the reasons the SEC has grown in terms
Speaker 2: of basketball stature and prowess is coaching, and he's.
Speaker 1: One of them. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I remember when Greg's kank thanky thanky, thank you. I
Speaker 3: don't know where I was going with that. I know
Speaker 3: was stomping his feet about the NCAA tournament needing to
Speaker 3: expand because taxsas A and M and Buzz Williams went
Speaker 3: on that magical run after they lost eighteen two or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so uh they but he did what a conference
Speaker 1: commissioner should do.
Speaker 3: I guess. But he's also actively ruining the sport. But
Speaker 3: we could we could continue to talk about that other time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: expanding the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, I thought you were talking about he's looking
Speaker 2: to ruin that event.
Speaker 3: Looking at Oh that's terrible, Well that that event is
Speaker 3: the sport.
Speaker 2: You're right, uh no, that that's criminal.
Speaker 3: And then nat oates after Buzz Williams so good coaching
Speaker 3: to your point, Well, and you.
Speaker 2: Know they're they're spending money on facilities, they're spending money
Speaker 2: on coaching, salaries, the staff members, things like that. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's tough. And yeah, Kentucky fans demand that their team
Speaker 2: take zero steps track, even though everybody wants to be
Speaker 2: worre Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Get those Kentucky kids in exactly right, rent, No, see
Speaker 1: if Richie can play as well, that's gonna do it.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us for billionaireon Dick Gabriel that said,
Speaker 2: good night from Lexington. Yes,