Speaker 1: Welcome to the Big Blue and sider Dick Gabriel with
Speaker 1: you on a Thursday edition of our program. It's an
Speaker 1: abbreviated show because coming up at six forty five is
Speaker 1: pregame seven o'clock tip off for UK women's basketball Wildcats
Speaker 1: taking on twenty second ranked Alabama Cats, coming off yet
Speaker 1: another blowout win over Arkansas, this time it was eighty
Speaker 1: nine to sixty nine. That was a bounceback game for
Speaker 1: Kentucky after losing down to Texas A and M sixty
Speaker 1: one to fifty five in a game where Kentucky could
Speaker 1: not buy a shot. Seemed like the Wildcats hit everything
Speaker 1: at least in the early going against Arkansas, and they're
Speaker 1: looking for more of the same tonight against Sabama in
Speaker 1: historic Memorial Coliseum. So we'll have it for you right
Speaker 1: here on six point thirty WLAP. It will be on
Speaker 1: the SEC network as well. But you got two ears,
Speaker 1: so you can listen to the radio with one and
Speaker 1: you can listen to the TV with the other.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: What a season Kenny Brooks has going right now in
Speaker 1: his first as the UK head coach, seventeen and two overall,
Speaker 1: six and one in Southeastern Conference play in the Wildcats
Speaker 1: undefeated at home. They are eleven and oh so stand
Speaker 1: by for that one coming up very shortly in the
Speaker 1: Big Bow Nation. Of course, still buzzing. I think the
Speaker 1: buzzing is split between what happened in Knoxville on Tuesday
Speaker 1: and what is about to happen Saturday, one way or
Speaker 1: the other with Arkansas coming to town. Was talking to
Speaker 1: Cameron Mills yesterday, Cameron, of course, the former Wildcat who
Speaker 1: hosts co hosts the pregame show, and he was talking
Speaker 1: about the fact that he said, I still don't know
Speaker 1: how we won that game. He said, because Tennessee essentially
Speaker 1: beat Kentucky and virtually every statistical category except for a
Speaker 1: couple and when you go back and look at it,
Speaker 1: thirteen turnovers for Kentucky to just five for Tennessee, the
Speaker 1: ball's out rebound of the Wildcats forty one thirty eight
Speaker 1: with eighteen offensive rebounds, including sixteen rebounds but eighteen offensive rebounds.
Speaker 1: They got off twenty two more shots than the Wildcats
Speaker 1: twenty five of seventy two, But the stat where it
Speaker 1: mattered the most was Kentucky at twenty five of fifty.
Speaker 1: And my Trinity High School math tells me that's fifty percent,
Speaker 1: and so is three point shooting. Twelve of twenty four
Speaker 1: for the Wildcats, including three of three for Kobe bray
Speaker 1: At four of seven for Asley Almano in his first start,
Speaker 1: he took. Every shot he took was a three pointer.
Speaker 1: Tennessee foolishly falls behind and then kept trying to catch
Speaker 1: up from the arc and Milliseits goes four of eight.
Speaker 1: All right, we know he can hit Lanier three of ten.
Speaker 1: That's not bad for a guy who's rep is three
Speaker 1: point shooting. So what is that seven of eighteen? Ziggler
Speaker 1: one of eleven, just kept jacking Danny two of eight,
Speaker 1: Dubar one of seven for a team eleven of forty five.
Speaker 1: And I know Mark Polk doesn't want his guys to
Speaker 1: stop shooting. I guess that's the case with Rick Barnes.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that about Tennessee. Ziggler is not known
Speaker 1: as a great three point shooter. But I wondered would
Speaker 1: they're not come a point where Barnes would say, guys,
Speaker 1: why don't we attack the rim a little bit more?
Speaker 1: Because Kentucky with minus Andrew Carr, is not the strongest
Speaker 1: defensive team around the rim. And now they just kept
Speaker 1: firing up, and yeah, a lot of times they got
Speaker 1: their own rebound, but far too often it was the
Speaker 1: Wildcats getting to In fact, it was Amari Williams grabbing
Speaker 1: fifteen boards take away. One of the guards had six.
Speaker 1: When your guards are rebounding like a Jackson Robinson four,
Speaker 1: Kobe Bray I had three. So those guards had thirteen
Speaker 1: rebounds among them. That's huge. When your guards can board
Speaker 1: like that, that's huge. And Amari Williams, the guy everybody
Speaker 1: was trashing about six weeks ago, ten points fifteen. I
Speaker 1: wasn't happy with him, but now he's getting it done.
Speaker 1: Ten points, fifteen rebounds, four assists. He had three turnovers
Speaker 1: in twenty four minutes. But remember he brought the ball
Speaker 1: up the floor on a night when Kentucky needed help
Speaker 1: at the point guard spot. Again, whenever he does that
Speaker 1: reminds me is when Sam Bowie used to bring the
Speaker 1: ball up the floor. And I've talked about Williams with
Speaker 1: regard to his passing in the same breath with Sam Bowie,
Speaker 1: who was taller, but Sam was a tremendous passer. People
Speaker 1: forget that about Sam passing into the high post and
Speaker 1: oftentimes he could float it down to Melvin Turpin on
Speaker 1: the low block. But that wasn't all he did, and
Speaker 1: that's not all Amary Williams did. So that's why the Cats,
Speaker 1: I think, for the fifth time in six games, beat Tennessee,
Speaker 1: finding success once again in Knoxville. And I recall won't
Speaker 1: move on here, but yeah, Cali Perry went down there,
Speaker 1: beat him, Cali Perry. He had good success against Tennessee,
Speaker 1: but one of the games I remember the most was
Speaker 1: actually a loss. But Billy Clyde Gillespie took his team
Speaker 1: down there first year, and Patrick Patterson had suffered a
Speaker 1: stretch fracture in his foot, he was done for the year.
Speaker 1: Perry Stevenson had one of the best games of his life,
Speaker 1: and Kentucky fought, I mean to the bitter end and
Speaker 1: almost pulled off the upset down there against a really
Speaker 1: good Tennessee team, And it was so impressive and Kentucky
Speaker 1: fans were just so knocked out by that game. Sixty
Speaker 1: three to sixty was the final. Tennessee was ranked number
Speaker 1: one in the nation, and yet the Wildcats forced the
Speaker 1: Balls to play their game Remel Bradley at seventeen. Ramon
Speaker 1: Harris had twelve, Perry had thirteen points and fourteen rebounds.
Speaker 1: He was magnificent. So the Wildcats are no strangers to
Speaker 1: good performances down in Knoxville. All right, now, we need
Speaker 1: to talk about what everybody's been talking about, including Mark Pope,
Speaker 1: the return of John Caliperry. Pope talked about it last
Speaker 1: night on his show. A caller wanted to know Pope's
Speaker 1: thoughts on I guess it's going to be the controversial return.
Speaker 3: We have been blessed at the University of Kentucky to
Speaker 3: have some of the greatest coaches to ever coach the
Speaker 3: game of basketball, and certainly Cal is one of those.
Speaker 2: He's a Hall of Fame coach.
Speaker 3: In his fifteen year tenure, what he accompts at the
Speaker 3: University of Kentucky was incredible. In some ways, he revolutionized
Speaker 3: the game of college basketball.
Speaker 2: He's left a legacy.
Speaker 3: That probably won't be ever reproduced in the same way
Speaker 3: that he did it. And and uh, you know, as
Speaker 3: a as a member of BBN and a huge fan
Speaker 3: of of Kentucky basketball, my whole heart is here.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And I love Cal. I love Cal for what he
Speaker 3: did for for Kentucky basketball. And on a very personal level.
Speaker 3: He's been He's been so great to Leanne and I
Speaker 3: as a mentor and a friend and so, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's a little bit of a complicated relationship
Speaker 3: right now because he's coaching the other team and so that.
Speaker 2: Always makes it complicated.
Speaker 3: But you know, I know that I know BBN man,
Speaker 3: I just know our fan base, and I know there
Speaker 3: will be all kind of There's be so much emotion
Speaker 3: because we care so much, So there will be so
Speaker 3: much emotion in the gym on Saturday. And as time
Speaker 3: goes on and circumstances change, Uh, there's gonna be a
Speaker 3: time when Cal walks back into this arena and he
Speaker 3: is going to feel all of the love that BBN
Speaker 3: possibly has to offer, because that's what we do with
Speaker 3: our family.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: You know, we'll see Thursday, like Friday, Saturday, Saturday is
Speaker 3: going to be you know, it's also a competition.
Speaker 2: Right, so it's just gonna be what it is.
Speaker 3: But but you know, I have a ton of love
Speaker 3: for Cal, and I'm grateful for what he did here
Speaker 3: at Kentucky and I'm grateful that, you know, I get
Speaker 3: to be here and enjoy some of the fruits of
Speaker 3: his incredible labors here, and so I was super appreciative
Speaker 3: of him, and I know everybody in BBN feels the
Speaker 3: same way, even though I also know everybody at BBN
Speaker 3: wants to win this game on Saturday.
Speaker 1: All right. That was on the Mark Pope radio show
Speaker 1: last night on the UK Sports Network. Believe it or not.
Speaker 1: John Caliperi had some thoughts when he was asked about
Speaker 1: to return on his radio show.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have three players to play there. My guess
Speaker 4: is they're gonna get booed. My guess is I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get booed. And you go to say it, Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, but that's all part of it. I mean, shoot,
Speaker 4: you get booed. You I've done this so long.
Speaker 2: How could I tell you?
Speaker 4: I got Basukah holes in my body. So when you
Speaker 4: shoot arrows, it doesn't even hit skin, it just goes
Speaker 4: through one of those Basukah holes. So but it'll be interesting.
Speaker 4: It's uh, you know, I can't say I'm looking forward
Speaker 4: to it. I'm looking forward to coaching, but to walk
Speaker 4: in and you know the vibe, I don't know how
Speaker 4: I'm going to take it. To be honest with you,
Speaker 4: I mean that was a special time in my life,
Speaker 4: in Ellen's life, and fifteen years we gave fifteen.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I don't know about you, I
Speaker 1: believe he didn't want to go. I do still believe
Speaker 1: that he felt like he had to go, that he
Speaker 1: had kind of and this was his own doing. He
Speaker 1: was backed into a corner, his own doing, by the
Speaker 1: fact that his teams had fallen short. And it's the
Speaker 1: responsibility of the head coach. And it had become so
Speaker 1: tenuous here over the last couple three years that it
Speaker 1: had basically wiped out all the good will he had
Speaker 1: built up through the years. And I will still say
Speaker 1: that if North Carolina doesn't hit a last second shot
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, he may still be here. We may
Speaker 1: not be having this conversation if Auburn doesn't come back.
Speaker 1: Kentucky was twenty minutes from the final four, but let
Speaker 1: it get away against Auburn. And there are a lot
Speaker 1: of people who still think that if they finish up
Speaker 1: the undefeated season in twenty fifteen, that Caliperi could ride
Speaker 1: that good will forever as a national champ. I don't
Speaker 1: believe that, because I do think if things go sour
Speaker 1: at some point people will go sour. But we may
Speaker 1: not be having a conversation right now. But that's just
Speaker 1: the way sports are. That's how things happen. Shots go in,
Speaker 1: shots don't go in, You win, you lose. That's how
Speaker 1: you're held accountable in that arena, literally and figuratively. But
Speaker 1: that's not the issue.
Speaker 2: Is that.
Speaker 1: The issue is how should he be treated? And it
Speaker 1: seems like in the minds of me, of everybody, And
Speaker 1: when I wrote about it on social media, on Twitter
Speaker 1: and Facebook, I probably should have pointed out, you have
Speaker 1: more than one choice. You don't have to give him
Speaker 1: the heroes welcome and rain down cheers and all that
Speaker 1: the way people did for Rick Patino, believing or not
Speaker 1: at madness. I was shocked by that. But Mark Pope
Speaker 1: has so much to do with that, because Patino had
Speaker 1: endorsed Mark Pope wholeheartedly, and by then everybody loved Pope,
Speaker 1: so Rick got swept up into all that. But it's
Speaker 1: not just cheer or rain down booze. There's more than
Speaker 1: one choice, because people don't rain down booze on every
Speaker 1: other opposing coach. People keep pointing out to me, well,
Speaker 1: he's coaching for the opposition. Now he's coaching on an
Speaker 1: arch rival, which it's not. Arkansas was for a while there,
Speaker 1: but Arkansas had dropped from relevance, and I mean Nolan
Speaker 1: Richardson relevance when it was banging heads with Kentucky at
Speaker 1: the top of the league and surpassing Kentucky for a
Speaker 1: while at the top of the league. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a Southeastern Conference opponent. Yeah, I get that. But do
Speaker 1: they rain down booze on everyone? Do they rein down
Speaker 1: booze on Barnes when he's here with Tennessee, No, NATO's no.
Speaker 1: So there's more than one opportunity. And we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about some of the reaction to my social media
Speaker 1: posts in the next segment. Now coming up at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour, my man Curtis Birch will join us.
Speaker 1: Curtis started with us here at the Big Blue Insider
Speaker 1: and is now the manager of the UK Sports Network.
Speaker 1: Has worked his way. I don't know if he's at
Speaker 1: the top, but he's in a really good spot right
Speaker 1: now because he worked his butt off. That's not what
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to him about, but we will
Speaker 1: mention it coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: But next we'll talk about social media reaction to what
Speaker 1: I wrote and said about Caliperry. That's next on six
Speaker 1: thirty WLAP. Welcome back to the Big Blue Insider Dick
Speaker 1: Gabriel with you coming up in just a few minutes
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour. In fact, Curtis Birch
Speaker 1: will join us and we'll talk about the new project
Speaker 1: that the UK Sports Network has happening. I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about some of the responses that
Speaker 1: rolled in after my post on Twitter and Facebook. I
Speaker 1: wrote about John Caliperi coming back, and I said, if
Speaker 1: you want to boo John Caliperry, that you're right. Just
Speaker 1: remember where this program was when he took over. It
Speaker 1: had become irrelevant thanks to Billy Clyde. I said, now
Speaker 1: remember where cali Perry took it for the next six seasons,
Speaker 1: and if not for injuries to some of his later teams,
Speaker 1: well there could have been a lot more success. It
Speaker 1: did go sour at the end, but it was fun
Speaker 1: while it lasted. Some of you agreed, many of you disagreed,
Speaker 1: and somebody wrote, do you mean from DUI meaning irrelevant
Speaker 1: to nit to Billy Gillespie story. Yeah, there were some
Speaker 1: hidden lessons in there somewher. That's true. Another guy back,
Speaker 1: Adam said, booene Caliperia would be what other programs would do.
Speaker 1: It's almost the equivalent of rushing the court, not our standard.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. Tom Tom Jones, not the Tom Jones wrote,
Speaker 1: I would cheer for all the wonderful memories my father
Speaker 1: and I got to enjoy. He died two weeks after
Speaker 1: BAM and Fox lost to North Carolina. Those were some
Speaker 1: great years except twenty thirteen and then some others. But
Speaker 1: he said a National Championship final four runs exclamation point.
Speaker 1: Atthew Chandler said, you did Patino get booed in one
Speaker 1: when he returned? Yeah, he said, I leaned towards It's
Speaker 1: fair to boo and then move on. In a few years.
Speaker 1: It's over and done with. He did a lot on
Speaker 1: and off the court, that's very true. But the off
Speaker 1: the court stuff, the charity work, that that doesn't really
Speaker 1: figure in. On game day, I will say, I will
Speaker 1: say that j Money said it sort of fell back
Speaker 1: to the same place before he came. Not really, I
Speaker 1: know what you're saying, and in the level of disappointment,
Speaker 1: but no, Kentucky was a highly ranked, highly seeded team.
Speaker 1: Of course, when it was beaten in the NCA Tournament prematurely.
Speaker 1: That's what made it so painful. Billy Gillespie's deal was
Speaker 1: it was such a long grind of watching the program
Speaker 1: sink into irrelevance, and you were almost thankful by the
Speaker 1: end of the year, weren't you. You're upset, but it's like,
Speaker 1: how much more of this crap can I take? And
Speaker 1: they made a brief run in the NIT. They got
Speaker 1: to play in the coliseum in the NIT, which was cool,
Speaker 1: but that's not where you want to be and that's
Speaker 1: not where Kentucky should be. The Caliperi man his last
Speaker 1: few years, he did have people thinking, yeah, this could
Speaker 1: be another great euro As I said seventeen the bam
Speaker 1: Ate bio, the Aaron Fox team was outstanding. The team
Speaker 1: that lost to Auburn in the Elite eight. What about
Speaker 1: the COVID team with Quickly and Tyrese Maxi and Nick Richards.
Speaker 1: I do believe that's a Final four team. Now, they
Speaker 1: could have screwed it up like some of his teams
Speaker 1: toward the end, but you know what, that team was
Speaker 1: playing so well. Those teams that lost in the first
Speaker 1: round of Saint Peters in Oakland. They weren't really playing
Speaker 1: that well, but that twenty fifteen team or the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty team, the COVID team that was playing well. Larry said,
Speaker 1: we bowed Patino. He saved this program from probation. I
Speaker 1: think cal will survive. A one third of the crowd
Speaker 1: booing him, oddwill Nora said, maybe the ones that want
Speaker 1: a boot can just stay silent or turn around. Just
Speaker 1: the thought. Kyle Cooper said, don't boo him, thank him
Speaker 1: for all the money he left on the table. Yell
Speaker 1: thank you. But that's a great point. BP Harper said
Speaker 1: the program was in better shape when he took over
Speaker 1: than when he left it, but he said we literally
Speaker 1: had zero players. That was always going to be the
Speaker 1: case no matter when he left. He didn't build for
Speaker 1: the future of the program. Well he never did that
Speaker 1: year to year. I mean, when you're building and relying
Speaker 1: too much on freshman, no, you're building for now. That's
Speaker 1: the problem with investing time, money, effort. In one and done,
Speaker 1: Drew said, we had a lot of fun with him.
Speaker 1: He should have left earlier, but we shouldn't forget. Mark
Speaker 1: Berger tweeted it was almost irrelevant when he left two
Speaker 1: well after they lost, Yes, not going into the tournament. No,
Speaker 1: they was still highly ready to highly ranked, and the
Speaker 1: expectations were incredible, as they should be. Somebody else treated it. Also,
Speaker 1: remember when he left his was zero roster and took
Speaker 1: his five recruits and left for an in conference travel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but a lot of those kids left of their own volition.
Speaker 1: They could have stayed and did not, or at least
Speaker 1: they could have shown interest in to him. Maybe Mark
Speaker 1: Pope didn't want them. Big Tim said, you boo him
Speaker 1: on Saturday. He's the enemy cheering when he comes back
Speaker 1: after he retires. That's fine. And mind you, it's not
Speaker 1: going to bother me if they bow. I know people
Speaker 1: are going to boo him, but I just think it's interesting.
Speaker 1: I expected them to boo Patino because he was at Louisville.
Speaker 1: Arkansas is not the same. Here's the worst take. Cal
Speaker 1: took it to New Heights and almost ruined it. Purposely.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, purposely. Why would anybody do that? Why
Speaker 1: would a haul of theme coach do that knowing that's
Speaker 1: his legacy. Please stop, whatever happens, we'll have it for
Speaker 1: you right here. Late Saturday nine o'clock start, Thank you Television,
Speaker 1: but we'll have local coverage, we'll have network coverage and
Speaker 1: then the tip off probably a minute or two after
Speaker 1: nine right here with Tom and Jack coming up next,
Speaker 1: Curtis Birch, we will march down memory Lane and talk
Speaker 1: about a new project for the UK Sports Network on
Speaker 1: six point thirty WLAP Welcome back to the Big Blue Insider.
Speaker 1: As promised on our Celebrity hotline. He is indeed that
Speaker 1: our own Curtis Birch. I like to say our own
Speaker 1: because well we're teammates on the UK Sports Network. But
Speaker 1: Curtis had talked earlier on the show about how you
Speaker 1: started with the Big Blue Insider basically as a full time,
Speaker 1: part time kind of guy, and worked your way into
Speaker 1: the radio station and the next thing you know, you
Speaker 1: were running UK projects and when they needed somebody at
Speaker 1: the network, they turned to you. And as such, welcome back,
Speaker 1: first of all, because you've here, Curtis, thank you arguing
Speaker 1: with me on the show all the time. Digital technology
Speaker 1: being what it is and digital projects being what they are,
Speaker 1: you guys are taking a big step of the new project.
Speaker 1: Tell everybody about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks Sick, We're super excited we're launching UKSM All Access.
Speaker 5: You've seen most of our coverage on social media currently,
Speaker 5: So if you follow UK Sports Network on x, Facebook
Speaker 5: or Instagram, which you all should be doing absolutely, I'm
Speaker 5: sure you are, you've probably seen a real bump in
Speaker 5: our content. We've made a couple of new hires. Michelle
Speaker 5: Kenzevik and Jensen Linder were added to the team over
Speaker 5: the past year and they've been pumping out some fantastic content. Additionally,
Speaker 5: where you've probably got a chance to see either ussting
Speaker 5: someone around, we're in a new facility that's connected to
Speaker 5: the College of Comms new Downtown studio right next to Rapparna,
Speaker 5: So we've upgraded in personnel, upgraded in facilities, and we're
Speaker 5: able to provide much better content. And when we do that,
Speaker 5: we want to make sure that all the fans out
Speaker 5: there are able to access it in one place. So
Speaker 5: we're launching UKs AND All Access and it's going to
Speaker 5: be your one stop shop for everything that we produce,
Speaker 5: all the coaches shows, the booth cams, the podcasts that
Speaker 5: we're doing, and then any of the features that we
Speaker 5: do you we produce one with Tim Couch when he
Speaker 5: made it to the College Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: That.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they did a locker room tour with Georgia Amore
Speaker 5: earlier this season. So all of those kind of features
Speaker 5: will also live on this platform and you'll be able
Speaker 5: to check it out every day and catch up on
Speaker 5: all teams. You can't let it.
Speaker 1: And I like what Cameron does. Cameron Mills drops in
Speaker 1: once in a while and explains what's going on, and
Speaker 1: then by the way he checks with Mark Polpe. You
Speaker 1: know what can I what can I share with the
Speaker 1: fans and that kind of stuff. But as a guy
Speaker 1: who's lived it and as a former teammate of Mark Pulp,
Speaker 1: I think those have been really effective.
Speaker 5: Yeah, his practice reports have been fantastic. Yeah, I think
Speaker 5: obviously he has a great insight, has always had a
Speaker 5: great insight as a former player, but now with one
Speaker 5: of his former teammates and friends as the coach, I
Speaker 5: think his insight has been taken to another level because
Speaker 5: he not now not only understands the game that they're playing,
Speaker 5: but he understands the coach's mindset more more than very
Speaker 5: few out there, you know, because he was with him
Speaker 5: for so long. So yeah, that's that's prominently featured on
Speaker 5: the new platform, but I should mention as well where
Speaker 5: to access it's we try to make it as simple
Speaker 5: for everyone as possible. If you have the UK Athletics app,
Speaker 5: it'll be a button there on the bottom the UKSN
Speaker 5: just click that, so also be a menu option on
Speaker 5: UK Athletics dot com or if you just type uk
Speaker 5: s N all access dot com on your web browser,
Speaker 5: you'll be you'll be able to access it. It's going
Speaker 5: live on Friday morning, and we're speaking of the coverage
Speaker 5: that we do live Friday, and then I think there's
Speaker 5: some kind of game on Saturday, Contugy basketball, has it?
Speaker 1: Has it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, somebody's coming back to town something or other. And for
Speaker 5: the Arkansas game, we'll be streaming our tend to tip
Speaker 5: which is well we can we we do the last
Speaker 5: ten minutes before tip off from inside the game, before
Speaker 5: TV coverage takes over and some and all that stuff,
Speaker 5: so you're able to be able to view that on
Speaker 5: the platform as well. And then while CAP wrap up
Speaker 5: where Tom talks to Mark Pope and just Givens talks
Speaker 5: to a player. Those games, so those will be on
Speaker 5: the platform as well. On Saturday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a great idea. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you can pull it off. It's kind of late in
Speaker 1: the game, but you know, get hold of the Arkansas
Speaker 1: people and see if they can do sort of a
Speaker 1: cross promotional thing and strap a body cam to their coach,
Speaker 1: you know, and tie it o on to when he
Speaker 1: walks into the arena. That could be some pretty hot video, Curtis, that.
Speaker 5: Would be that would be a good piece of content.
Speaker 5: There's no question about that.
Speaker 1: I won't count on that. You know, this is a
Speaker 1: great idea. I think it's going to be so well
Speaker 1: received and there is such an appetite I won't even
Speaker 1: say audience for it, Curtis. I think there's a great
Speaker 1: appetite for this kind of thing. And obviously you guys
Speaker 1: do too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no doubt. And you know, it's something that as
Speaker 5: a you talked about the furs of digital media. It's
Speaker 5: just the next step because uh, not everybody has social media,
Speaker 5: likes to be on social media. Social media changes all
Speaker 5: the time, so to be able to put everything we
Speaker 5: have in one spot so you don't miss anything, just
Speaker 5: you know, no fault of your own if you're if
Speaker 5: you're not on an app, which is good for your
Speaker 5: mental health. Twenty four to seven. You're probably going to
Speaker 5: miss some of the some of the stuff that we create,
Speaker 5: and we don't want that to happen, so you just
Speaker 5: go to this platform, which is completely free. All you
Speaker 5: have to do is sign up. Then you'll be able
Speaker 5: to see everything that we have, and there's some additional
Speaker 5: good stuff on there too. On the platform, we're going
Speaker 5: to be sharing some of UK sports videos content. You'll
Speaker 5: be able to check that out there. And then of
Speaker 5: course our partners at b B and Tonight and bb
Speaker 5: and Game Day, you'll be able to watch bb and
Speaker 5: Game Day and then some of the BD and Tonight's
Speaker 5: features will live on the platform as well. So I mean,
Speaker 5: if you open it up, you could probably spend a
Speaker 5: lot of time and catch up on many stories that
Speaker 5: you missed.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm glad you brought up UK Sports Video
Speaker 1: because I have such great respect for those folks. Greg
Speaker 1: Gorum and I used to work together WKYT, a guy
Speaker 1: in charge of it. Those are those incredibly great longer
Speaker 1: video pieces that pop up, and I'm glad they're going
Speaker 1: to be living on that app as well. And you
Speaker 1: know what, it's it's interesting. Probably more people towards my
Speaker 1: end of the generational spectrum of they I don't like
Speaker 1: the Internet, I don't you, I don't ever do you know?
Speaker 1: They need to think about this and not as the
Speaker 1: Internet where people bicker back and forth on Twitter or whatever.
Speaker 1: Think of it as a separate channel, right for UK sports.
Speaker 1: I mean, have your phone or your computer handy while
Speaker 1: you're watching and listening to the games, and that's just
Speaker 1: one other way to enjoy the uh, the atmosphere and
Speaker 1: around UK sports.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no doubt there's you know, you'll just be
Speaker 5: connecting with the coaches I mean that's one of the
Speaker 5: coaches and players. That's one of the big goals and
Speaker 5: all the adventures, you know, especially now with so much turnover,
Speaker 5: it's it's kind of tough to get to know all
Speaker 5: these guys in the in the transfert portal era and gals.
Speaker 5: I mean, everybody's coming and going quite often. So that's
Speaker 5: one of the big things. We have a a feature
Speaker 5: on here for the men's team, and we'll have it
Speaker 5: for many sports. Just meet the Cats just when when
Speaker 5: an athlete gets to the campus. As best we can
Speaker 5: with the resources we have, We're going to be interviewing
Speaker 5: as many as we can and you'll be able to
Speaker 5: understand their personality a little bit better and form some
Speaker 5: kind of connection to them and to your point, instead
Speaker 5: of an arguing connection it sometimes happens, it'll be a
Speaker 5: good connection and a positive connection. You'll be able to
Speaker 5: understand the people that you're cheering for a little bit better.
Speaker 1: I got about thirty seconds, Lepid. This is not just
Speaker 1: basketball and football.
Speaker 5: Right, No, of course we talked about the coach a show.
Speaker 5: You've got Coachman Giones shows. We'll be on there. Last
Speaker 5: year when the baseball team went to Omaha, we did
Speaker 5: a blog feature following the team around, so we'll have
Speaker 5: all kinds of those as well, come from content from
Speaker 5: all the sports for UK Athletics.
Speaker 1: Sounds good to me and people should watch for tomorrow
Speaker 1: right Friday morning.
Speaker 5: Friday morning. Yeah, like I said, just like the uksentllaccess
Speaker 5: dot com or find it on your UK Athletics apps,
Speaker 5: all right, and we will.
Speaker 1: Keep people posted. Curtis, thank you so much, congrats on
Speaker 1: the hard work and we will see you soon.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: That's the one and only Curtis Birch from the UK
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