WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:02.720 Welcome to the Big Bluminsider. Dick Gabriel with you on 2 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:05.240 a Monday edition of our program as we take one 3 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:09.279 giant stride closer to college football. The Wildcats of course 4 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:12.640 opening up at the end of August, and it is 5 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:16.839 right around the corner. That means the talking season is underway. 6 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:19.679 And sure enough Mark Stoops talking again today at the 7 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:22.640 UK kickoff luncheon. It'll be over in Louisville again, I 8 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:26.039 think tomorrow at the kickoff luncheon there. But he came 9 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:28.839 back from SEC Media days a little more than a 10 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:32.200 week ago. I have been on vacation since then. So 11 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:34.679 we hope you appreciate the best of the show is 12 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:37.159 they're always kind of fun to go back and figure 13 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:39.840 out what we were talking about in the past weeks. 14 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:43.520 But back in the saddle today and we'll be hearing 15 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:45.920 from Mark Stoops as he spoke. Also we're going to 16 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:47.880 hear from Jeff Pikoro who was there. So is Aaron 17 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:50.560 Gershan at the kickoff lunch and Aaron of course with 18 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:53.320 the Cats balls Jeff for the UK Radio Network. Jeff 19 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:55.200 comes up at the bottom of the hour, Aaron comes 20 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:57.439 up and now number two. But before we get to 21 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:02.000 football a reminder, it is game night and you've got 22 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:07.439 La Familia taking on the Louisville Cardinals version of the team. 23 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:09.480 It's the you know, UK versus U of l Let's 24 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:12.000 face it. We'll talk about that more in just a minute, 25 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:15.799 but I think we need to talk about what Mark 26 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:22.200 Stoops kind of referenced earlier today but was the subject 27 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:26.840 of a column by USA Today's SEC football writer, and 28 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.480 this ran in the Courier Journal, which is owned by 29 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:34.000 the same company. Mark Stoops made some comments to Daryl 30 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:38.359 Byrd in a long piece Daryl Road. Typically typically a 31 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:44.599 great story by Daryl, but Stuops talked quite frankly about 32 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.280 what the headline refers to as the crushing weight of 33 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:52.519 the new college landscape. And you might recall a couple 34 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:56.680 of years ago Stoops called his players free agents. Said, 35 00:01:56.719 --> 00:01:59.920 you know, there's free agency, and the sustainability of aid 36 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:03.239 five free agents a year is interesting. How would you 37 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:05.040 like to operate an NFL team where every one of 38 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:07.719 your guys is a free agent every year? I remember 39 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:11.479 that I was there when he said that, and he's right. 40 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:16.400 Every coach in America in Division one at least is 41 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:20.240 dealing with that one double A as well, but steps 42 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:26.520 and Darrow talked about it at length, and he said, basically, 43 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:29.960 he's got to make payroll. He has got to go 44 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:35.120 out and raise money. I don't blame him for saying 45 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:38.960 what he did to Darrel. He said, I feel very isolated, 46 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:40.960 very alone. That I'll get to that in a minute, 47 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:42.439 but he said I don't know how long I can 48 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.199 take dealing with what I've dealt with. He said, personally, 49 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:47.639 I can only do so much. I've never felt this 50 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:51.759 kind of stress and pressure. And he said I don't 51 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:53.400 need it to be woe is me or we feel 52 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:56.360 sorry for you. But he said my name has changed 53 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.280 and these issues consume me. And he said I can't 54 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:02.039 coach the way I want to coach because all I 55 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:05.199 do is raise money or try to raise money. I 56 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:10.319 get that now. He also talked about the fact he 57 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:13.360 said I'm all alone in this, and it was quoted 58 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:15.800 in the column and the Courier Journal about that, but 59 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:21.080 that writer failed to mention the fact that Stoops immediately 60 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:24.479 at least in Darryl's story, talked about Eddie Grant, who 61 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:28.319 is now the special assistant to Mark Stoops. Eddie Grant 62 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:33.039 is deeply entrenched in the fundraising business, and Stoops said 63 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:35.240 to Darryl Byrd, I don't know what I would do 64 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:38.280 without Eddie Gran he said, at some point every day 65 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:41.639 we talk about how to raise money, how do we 66 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:44.680 do it, how do we make payroll? So Stoops isn't 67 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.439 doing at all by himself. But what he talked about, 68 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:51.199 of course, was the fact that he is having to 69 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:54.240 do it and doesn't care for it. And I don't 70 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:57.960 blame him. I don't blame any coach for not liking it. 71 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.919 What this guy wrote about was the fact and he 72 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:07.120 kind of embraced the notion. And this is not accurate 73 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:10.960 that everybody in the big Blue nation media and fans 74 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:13.639 are like, is content with seven wins a year? Now, 75 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:17.439 that's just not true. That's the floor being raised, not 76 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:21.839 the ceiling being lowered. But he's not the only guy 77 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:24.199 who's written out about Mark Stoops in the UK football 78 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:29.519 But I'll promise you nobody's happy with that. But now, 79 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:33.639 because of all the changes in college athletics, the hill 80 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:36.839 is steeper to climb for everybody. And Stoops today at 81 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:40.160 the luncheon, some of his first comments are about how 82 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:42.959 he and the administration are dealing with the changes. 83 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:47.879 What Doctor Capaludo, what match in our administration have to 84 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:53.120 deal with in the next twelve months is unprecedented, and 85 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:56.639 we've already been dealing with a lot, and we've adapted 86 00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:00.120 and done the very best we can and will continue 87 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:04.519 to find creative ways, great ways to continue to be 88 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:09.240 as competitive as we've been and take it to another level. 89 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:12.199 And if you heard my comments at SEC media Day, 90 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:16.519 that's what we want. That's what you want. I am 91 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:20.079 not interested in sitting here and just existing. You know, 92 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:22.920 you know we we and I'm not interested in exiting. 93 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:27.720 You know, We're interested in finding ways, in exploring ways 94 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:30.959 to be the best we possibly can at Kentucky. 95 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:33.560 Well more coming up later in the show with Mark 96 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:36.120 Tuobs and his two coordinators who were there today, Bush 97 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:38.800 Hampden and Brad White. But I did want to touch 98 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:42.519 on this being game night for La Familia. Coach by 99 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:45.480 Tyler Eulis, the rookie head coach off to a good start. 100 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:48.120 He's two and zero, has never lost to U of 101 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:51.240 L as a player or an assistant coach under Calipari, 102 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:56.319 and he talked today, actually it was yesterday, about some 103 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:59.319 of the memories he has of the uk Uo l 104 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:00.439 series he was a part of. 105 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:03.439 You know that we never lose. You know, that's the 106 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:06.879 best memory. You know, obviously the iconic picture where you know, 107 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:09.639 Chris Jones elbowed me in the face. I know that's 108 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:12.079 pretty big for me, that picture. You know, I've got 109 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:12.879 to thank him for that. 110 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:15.319 I guess why is that so big for you? 111 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:17.720 The fans is bigger for the fans. 112 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:20.879 I think fans always cheer when they see that. In 113 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:24.600 the video montage before Kentucky games, that shot of Tyler 114 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:27.800 Ewis with blood trickling down the side of his face. 115 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:30.800 Talk about giving your off for your team. So all right, 116 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:33.199 Coming up next, we're gonna talk about the Olympics. A 117 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:36.439 lot going on, including UK's Lee Keefer with gold. A 118 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:38.959 little bit later on Jeff Pecorrel and Aaron Gershaan, plus 119 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:43.279 the UK coordinators and more from Lafa Meia. Next on 120 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:47.480 six point thirty WLAP Welcome back to the Big Blue Insider. 121 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:49.480 Coming up at the bottom of the hour, Jeff Pecorrel 122 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:53.680 or the UK Sports Network will join US former football Wildcat, 123 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:57.759 now a veteran of Have Gosh twenty odd seasons now 124 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:02.240 covering Kentucky football along Tom Leach and yours truly our 125 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:05.199 number two, Aaron Gershawan will join us and we will 126 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:08.399 hear from more from La Familla. It is game night. 127 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:12.040 The Wildcats take on the Cardinals of Louisville tonight. It 128 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.839 is They're not called the Wildcats, but they are Wildcats 129 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:18.839 naturally in the basketball tournament, the million dollar winner take 130 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:22.000 all event, and the Wildcats and cards teams are both 131 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:26.240 two and oh and they will play in Freedom Hall tonight, 132 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:29.920 not the Young Center, nine o'clock start. It's over on Fox. 133 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.439 I think it's Fox Sports one maybe. Anyway, check your 134 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:36.399 Fox channels for that ball game. I thought we would 135 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:38.279 talk some Olympics, so I have watched a lot of 136 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:41.399 Olympics covers. I will tell you that I enjoy them. 137 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:44.319 I actually like the Winter Games more than the Summer Games, 138 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:46.680 but I do like the Summer Games quite a bit. 139 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:52.000 And of course, right now you've got a UK medical student, 140 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:55.959 Lee Keefer, who is well known now in Lexington because 141 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:00.560 since she was a teenager, has been known on the 142 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:04.800 international circuit for fencing. She wins the gold and in 143 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:06.879 fact she's thirty years old now. I think I first 144 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:10.319 interviewed her when she was fifteen years old, but she 145 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:14.800 became the first US woman and only the third woman 146 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:20.480 ever to win two Olympic gold medals in fencing, and 147 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:24.759 she beat a fellow American, Lawrence Scruggs, who's twenty one. 148 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.600 She goes to Harvard and she became the first black 149 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:32.720 fencer from Team USA to medal in a women's individual 150 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:36.559 event at the Olympics. So it was American versus American 151 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:42.879 and watching Lee Keeper celebrate just the absolute joy that 152 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:46.200 she took in winning that gold. And her husband is 153 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:50.759 also on the US Team USA fencing team, and I'm 154 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:52.919 not sure when it may have happened already forgive me, 155 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:56.240 but Lee Keeper is also going to be part of 156 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:00.440 the team fencing event. I'm not sure how that works, 157 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:04.519 but she could win herself another medal, but I think 158 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:08.559 I think I was the first person to interview her 159 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:12.960 when she was a student at Dunbar and becoming a 160 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:18.720 really really great fencer. And so she wins gold her 161 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:23.200 second and individual foil by beating one of her teammates, 162 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:28.320 a Canadian Eleanor Harvey took home bronze, and that was 163 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:34.320 Canada's first Olympic medal in fencing. So anyway, Lee Keifer, 164 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:37.519 who began fencing at age five, won the gold in 165 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:42.879 Tokyo and meanwhile is going to med school at uk 166 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:47.639 along with her husband Gerrick Manhart. So congrats to Lee Keefer. 167 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:52.279 The weirdest story, I think, well, there's several so far. 168 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:58.320 South Carolina beat China in archery won the gold medal, right, 169 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:02.320 and that's not unusual because they always win. South Carolina's 170 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:06.399 won South Carolina South Korea. Wouldn't that be something has 171 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:10.519 won ten straight gold medals. But I'm talking about women's 172 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:14.840 team archery. It looked like they were going to need 173 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:20.320 a second shootout after the final regulation shots, it was 174 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:22.840 all tied up, so he needed a shootout. Then it 175 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:27.639 looked like they were tied again, but an official pulled 176 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:34.360 out the magnifying glass and checked the targets and the 177 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:37.519 South Korean team was ruled to have scored a ten 178 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:42.799 instead of a nine on their shots, and that gave 179 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:45.919 South Korea the win in the shootoff, and they won 180 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:51.639 it five four. Can you imagine China was hoping to 181 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:55.159 take them down, of course, because they beat South Carolina. 182 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:55.399 There. 183 00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:59.279 I did it again South Korea at the Archery World 184 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:02.639 Cup in twenty two and it looked like they were 185 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:06.519 gonna have to keep going, but the judge pulled out 186 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:10.600 the magnifying glass and it was South Korea, not South Carolina, 187 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:15.120 that beats China for the Team Golden Women's Archery. Mexico 188 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:18.279 beats the Netherlands to earn bronze if you had Mexico 189 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:23.360 in your team pool. Speaking of pools, there have been 190 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:26.919 just some great races, including the one hundred meter breaststroke 191 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:31.320 last night, which to me is a fascinating sport because 192 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:33.120 when I was a kid, I swam on a team 193 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:36.279 for two or three years at least, and I wasn't 194 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:39.279 very good, but I won some ribbons. I didn't win 195 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:43.080 any races, got seconds and thirds for the most part. 196 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:47.320 In freestyle, I swam butterfly, wasn't good at it, swam 197 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:50.440 backstroke a little bit, was okay at it, but I 198 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:53.480 couldn't swim breaststroke. Even today, I cannot swim the breaststroke 199 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:56.000 to literally save my life. If I had to save 200 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:59.000 my own life by swimming breastroke, you'd say goodbye to 201 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:01.600 your old boy here. But I'm watching the breaststroke and 202 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:05.519 it was an incredible race, called one of the great 203 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:09.080 races in the history of the event, but not a 204 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:15.240 single swimmer finished would have finished better than eighth at 205 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:18.960 the Tokyo Olympics three years ago based on the time, 206 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:24.679 nobody cracked fifty nine seconds and rowdy gains. The analyst 207 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:29.559 for NBC pointed that out almost immediately. And the reason 208 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:34.759 is they're saying now, the pool is slow. And I 209 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:38.039 learned this when I was broadcasting a swim meet at 210 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:40.519 WKYT many many years ago. I didn't know this when 211 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:42.120 I was swimming, but I was a kid who cares. 212 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:47.759 But some pools are faster than others. One of the 213 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:51.840 elements involved in making a faster pool are the gutters 214 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:53.759 on the side of the pool. The bigger the gutter, 215 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:58.360 the faster the pool can be, but also the depth 216 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:07.200 and the pool in Paris is a temporary pool plopped 217 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:10.799 into a rugby stadium similar to the one in Lucas 218 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:15.120 Oil Stadium last in last month's Olympic trials, is two 219 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:22.000 point one five meters deep. Right, the standard minimum standard 220 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:26.240 is two meters. What they're usually at is three meters 221 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:29.559 or at least two and a half meters. That's the 222 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:33.200 new World Aquatics minimum of two and a half when 223 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:36.399 they approved it for Paris, they said two point one 224 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:39.559 five is okay. Now the new minimum is two and 225 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:44.279 a half meters deep, and that makes for a slower 226 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:53.080 pool because when the swimmers displace the water, it bounces 227 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:56.559 off the bottom of the pool comes back up and 228 00:13:56.679 --> 00:13:59.600 makes the second fifty meters of one hundred meters swim 229 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:04.759 or choppy. They're not swimming through smoother waters, They're swimming 230 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:09.440 through turbulence. That's why at least that one hundred meter 231 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:14.679 breaststroke final was not very fast at all compared to 232 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:17.159 the Tokyo Olympics. So keep an eye on on that. 233 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:19.559 Keep an eye on Simone Biles as well. She is 234 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:24.679 nursing that ankle injury and she still came in first 235 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:29.720 in qualifying. She's competing in all four events. It was 236 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:33.840 a little painful to watch her limp off before. She 237 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.159 is not dealing with the mental trauma that she dealt 238 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:41.559 with at the last Olympics, but she did disappear briefly, 239 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.200 came back with a heavily taped leg. It's a calf 240 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:48.480 muscle she tweaked during warmups for the floor exercise. But 241 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:53.360 she is still getting it done, so that's very cool. 242 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:57.639 How about that by the way, Sunny Lee on that team, 243 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:00.480 of course, competed for Auburn after she she won the 244 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:04.519 overall goal at the Tokyo Olympics. I remember when she 245 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:07.799 was having medical issues, but I didn't really understand what 246 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:11.519 was happening. NBC did a great piece last night Sudie 247 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:17.360 Lee mysteriously gained forty five pounds, had to stop competing 248 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:21.799 at Auburn, had to stop competing internationally. So they figured 249 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:23.360 out what was wrong with her was some sort of 250 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:26.879 kidney disorder, and they finally got it turned around with 251 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:33.000 meds and she got in shape just enough time to 252 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:37.600 qualify for the Olympics, and now she'll be competing for medals. 253 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:39.879 But I had no idea. They had video of her, 254 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:42.919 and it was eerie seeing how big she got. And 255 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:46.240 she's not very tall obviously, so for a woman that size, 256 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:50.679 maybe five feet tall, to carry an additional forty five pounds, 257 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:53.159 and they had lost her coordination for the most part. 258 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:56.679 They showed her trying to work back on the beam 259 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:00.679 and on a couple of other events and falling. But 260 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:04.720 now she's okay and she did well in qualifying. Kind 261 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:06.799 of a weird I watched the end of the women's 262 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:12.240 bicycling mountain biking cross country event and Haley Batton of 263 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:15.480 the USA won a silver medal, first ever for an 264 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:19.960 American mountain biker, best finish ever for a woman, actually 265 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:24.240 for an American mountain biker. But she broke the rules. 266 00:16:24.360 --> 00:16:26.279 She was final, won't it won't cost you the medal, 267 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:29.240 but it won't cost you five hundred and sixty five bucks. 268 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:32.440 Broke a rule in the final lap. She was jockeying 269 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:35.159 for second place with a woman from Sweden and went 270 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:38.679 through a lane meant for taking in food or stopping 271 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:43.559 for medical problems. Judges said she failed to quote respect 272 00:16:43.559 --> 00:16:47.960 the instructions of the race organization. They didn't think it 273 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:51.039 was enough of an infraction to warrant a disqualification. But 274 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:56.919 she is fine. Guarantee you she won't care. Don Staley 275 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:01.320 Women's basketball committee. She's not the coach South Carolina head coach, 276 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:04.279 but she is on the selections committee, has admitted, and 277 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:06.319 I said this the same thing a couple of weeks ago. 278 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:11.440 Caitlin Clark, the way she's playing now probably would have 279 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:15.039 been included on the Olympic team back when they chose 280 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:18.400 the team. You could not make the argument for Caitlin 281 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:21.920 Clark based on how she was playing. People believe you 282 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:24.400 could make and should have made the argument based on 283 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.359 ticket sales and what it would have meant and interest 284 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:30.920 in a women's game, and that's all important. But your job, 285 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:33.079 if you're picking a team is to pick the team 286 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:35.400 that's going to win the gold and at the time, 287 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:39.000 she wasn't, in my opinion and in Don Staley's opinion, 288 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:42.599 playing well enough to be included. Staley said in an 289 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:47.640 interview last night with Mike Tariko on NBC now she 290 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:50.279 would be in really high consideration. She didn't say we 291 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:53.319 would have taken her, but she said she would be 292 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:56.759 in really high consideration to make the team because she's 293 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:01.359 playing head and shoulders above a lot of people shooting 294 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:05.160 the ball well, an elite passers. She said, great basketball 295 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:07.240 I quu, which she knew, but at the time she 296 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:13.680 just wasn't playing well enough. One final note on the Olympics. 297 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:19.039 This guy's an idiot. A European Olympics broadcaster made a 298 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:22.960 comment about the Australian women's swimming team Saturday and got 299 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:25.799 fired and he should have. And this is not being 300 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:28.960 overly sensitive or being woke or anything. Stupid like that. 301 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:32.680 It's him being a dope god named Bob Ballard covering 302 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:38.880 the games for Eurosport, and he is a veteran sportscaster. 303 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:42.759 He's a guy who's been around, which means he should 304 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:45.839 really have known better. He's been a staple of Olympics 305 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:51.759 coverage for several years freelance broadcaster for the BBC, but 306 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:55.240 he decided it would be really clever when he was 307 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:59.640 talking about the Australian women's swimming team, said you know 308 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:02.279 what women are like? In reference to the team after 309 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:06.079 they won the four by one hundred meter he said, well, 310 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:08.119 the women are just finishing up. You know what women 311 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:11.440 are like, and I'm quoting hanging around doing their makeup, 312 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:16.559 and that was it done. You just don't I don't 313 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:18.799 care if you're kidding. I don't care if you think 314 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:22.640 that's being overly sensitive that you just don't go there. 315 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:26.160 How many times have we said that about announcers. Don't 316 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:30.200 go there? But he did and it cost him his gig. 317 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.839 Up next, speaking of gigs, Jeff Picorrel's had the gig 318 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:36.119 for quite a while as color analyst on the UK 319 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:39.200 Sports Network cover in Kentucky football that added more on 320 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:42.519 the Big Blue Sider next in sixt thirty WLAP welcome 321 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:44.440 back to the Big Blue Sider and joining us now 322 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:47.440 in our celebrity Hodeline. He's my longtime friend and colleague, 323 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:51.359 Jeff Pacarel from the UK Sports Network and WTVQ. He 324 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:54.880 was there earlier today when Marx Tubes and the coordinator spoke. 325 00:19:54.920 --> 00:19:58.279 Did anything jump off the podium at you, Jeff. I 326 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:02.000 know I talked earlier about how Stoop's made some comments 327 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:05.240 that were kind of referencing what he has said about 328 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:09.640 the burdens of really all college administrators and coaches. Now, 329 00:20:09.680 --> 00:20:13.000 other than that, really optimistic. He sounds like to me, 330 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:13.880 how did you hear it? 331 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:16.720 Yeah, I think all three of them were, let's put 332 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:20.319 it this way, cautiously optimistic. I really think that for 333 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:25.039 this team, they've got to get through the the workouts 334 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:27.839 here in the next month unscathed, mean no injuries. If 335 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:29.880 they can get if they can get to the end 336 00:20:29.880 --> 00:20:32.559 of August with little or no injuries, that would really help, 337 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:35.480 especially in a defensive front. You know, you're you're you're 338 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:38.920 probably going to be one guy down with Hayes, but uh, 339 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:42.759 you know, but you're thankfully that's a decently deep position. 340 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:45.319 And a couple of the guys that did not practice 341 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:48.640 in spring will be ready, uh you know here in 342 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:49.480 the next couple of weeks. 343 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:52.039 So well, I like to talk with you, obviously, because 344 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:54.519 you've been through this not just as a college football 345 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:57.839 player but at Kentucky. And yet there have been so 346 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:00.599 many changes in the way things are and things that 347 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:03.240 are allowed to be done in the college game. But 348 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:08.200 right now there is much more opportunity for a coach 349 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:11.000 to work with a player here in the off season, 350 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:13.000 here in the summertime. Then it was I don't know 351 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:14.720 what the rules were back when you were playing. 352 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:16.160 There were none. 353 00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:20.880 Yeah, well that's true, but after a point it was 354 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:24.400 like coaches, as Stud's point out, could only watch or 355 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:27.079 they could work out without a ball or whatever. Now 356 00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:30.519 those rules have changed so much. But how much do 357 00:21:30.599 --> 00:21:33.680 you think, Jeff, that helps a program like Kentucky that's 358 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:36.759 trying to challenge the big boys every year? 359 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:39.759 Well, Jeuge, and I'm glad you brought this up, because 360 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:44.799 you know, back in the seventies and eighties, what they 361 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:47.039 did is we actually had three days. We had a 362 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:50.319 morning practice, an afternoon practice, and then we came back 363 00:21:50.440 --> 00:21:54.400 after dinner for a night practices was all special teams, 364 00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:58.359 so we did offense defense morning, offense defense afternoon, and 365 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:01.319 then special teams at night. So we had two or 366 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:04.559 three days where guys stayed on campus and stuff. But 367 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:08.359 before that, before the practice started, so like right now, 368 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:12.279 because it starts tomorrow, we would be working at Clayburne Farms. 369 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:15.519 Who worked at the FC bottling plant. We worked at UPS, 370 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:17.880 so you could do that in the off season to 371 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:21.720 get yourself some money. Now obviously all they got to 372 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:23.319 do is sign on the dial line to get themsel 373 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:25.799 some money. But I like what you said at the start. 374 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:28.640 They have loosened up the rules where you can't have 375 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:30.640 two the days anymore. You can't have three days like 376 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:34.880 we did. But it's almost a year round gig. We 377 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:37.440 got basically the summer off and we worked out on 378 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:41.240 our own. Randy Jenkins, Bill Randol, Lula mcrim and all 379 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:43.119 the different quarterbacks we had and stuff. Would get with 380 00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:44.759 the receivers and we'd go out there and toss the 381 00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:48.640 ball around. But now it's basically eleven and a half 382 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:50.119 month out of the year job. And it's one of 383 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:52.519 the reasons I asked, well, you know, cause I get 384 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:55.680 to go to practice, and they don't run a whole lot, 385 00:22:55.680 --> 00:22:59.480 meaning run gassers and sprints and stuff like we did. 386 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:02.160 And I'm like, what's up with this? Why don't you 387 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:05.079 do that? And I was told by mostly the weight 388 00:23:05.160 --> 00:23:07.400 guys and the Mark Hills and then that, well, these 389 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:09.720 guys now not. You know, when you played, it was 390 00:23:09.759 --> 00:23:14.279 basically a ten month job. Okay, now it's year round, 391 00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:18.319 and these guys stay in shape year round, much different 392 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:21.039 than what it was, so you don't have to get 393 00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:23.559 back in shape. You know, they do tests and things 394 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:26.640 like that, but we had to run sixteen forties, we 395 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:29.000 had to bench press squad all that kind of stuff, 396 00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:32.200 whereas now these guys are basically working year round, so 397 00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:35.200 you don't really have to do those types of things 398 00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:36.119 when you come back. 399 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:38.440 And some of them do have jobs, to be sure, 400 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:41.720 but to your point, a lot of them don't need it, 401 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:43.640