WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:03.120 Welcome to the Big Blue Insider on a Friday, one 2 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:06.519 more sleep until Kentucky football Tomorrow night. As you know, 3 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:10.640 Wildcats and the Southern Miss Golden Eagles, a game you'll 4 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:14.160 hear right here on six thirty WLAP seven forty five 5 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:18.359 kickoff thanks TV. Our radio coverage begins at five point 6 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:22.480 thirty with campdown to kickoff, Christy Thomas, Jeremy Jarman, and 7 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:25.320 the newest member of our team, Logan Stenberg, the former 8 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:29.920 Kentucky All American offensive lineman. He'll be sharing his knowledge 9 00:00:30.199 --> 00:00:32.759 of the trenches on the offensive side of the ball, 10 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:37.200 knocking heads with mister Jarman again. So that'll be a 11 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:40.159 lot of fun tomorrow. But it may not be a 12 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:43.359 fun as fun an atmosphere as you would like to 13 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:46.119 have on opening Day because it's gonna rain at some 14 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:49.000 point tomorrow. It's gonna rain, so it's either gonna be 15 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:53.079 humid it'll cool off for the game, or rain during 16 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:56.520 the game. But hey, it's Opening night, so let's just 17 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:59.799 all enjoy it. And in fact, college football has already begun, 18 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:03.079 but it begins for the Big Blue Nation tomorrow night, 19 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:06.319 a game you'll hear right here on six thirty WLAP 20 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:08.879 coming up tonight, well, tonight is game night as well. 21 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:13.480 UK Volleyball in Action. The Bluegrass Battle cranks up this 22 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:19.000 weekend at Memorial Coliseum. The new and improved Memorial Coliseum, 23 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:22.760 the Wildcats take on Northern Kentucky at six thirty. I 24 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:26.079 would say it's probably six thirty ish because prior to 25 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:31.640 that match, Morehead State takes on Western Kentucky at four o'clock. 26 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:33.079 I got to think that's going to be done and 27 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:36.359 plenty of time for Kentucky and the North to knockheads 28 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:40.280 at six thirty. Then on Saturday, the Wildcats take on 29 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:43.000 Western Kentucky at five thirty. You can do it. Not 30 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:50.640 impossible volleyball football doubleheader, but Western Kentucky Wildcats at five 31 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:54.159 point thirty, And on Sunday, Kentucky takes on Morehead State 32 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:57.359 at one o'clock. All of these games will be streamed 33 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:02.519 on SEC Network Plus. Now. Unfortunately, it's going to be 34 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:04.319 what they call a pass through. It's going to be 35 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:07.560 just the cameras they have in the coliseum. I don't 36 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:10.080 know that there's even going to be any audio at all. 37 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:14.919 Because of the construction that's still ongoing at Memorial Coliseum. 38 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.919 It affects the control room set up and stuff like that. 39 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:19.840 It's kind of a long story, but the bottom line 40 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:22.479 is you can watch it, you can check in on 41 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:26.080 it if you like. As a volleyball Wildcats open the 42 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:29.159 home portion of their schedule following that lost tough one 43 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:33.520 to Nebraska on Tuesday night, three to one over in Louisville. 44 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:37.960 Mentioned college football already underway. It opened big last weekend 45 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:41.439 in Dublin, Ireland, as you well know, but a lot 46 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:45.240 of action last night involving some top twenty five teams. 47 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:50.360 Missouri beat Murray State fifty one to nothing. And this 48 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:56.159 was called the Mystery game because murray has sixty new players. 49 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:59.120 So of course the Racers and their staff they had 50 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.759 all summer long to scout and study Missouri, which is 51 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:06.840 a really good team last year. If you're Missouri, how 52 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:09.759 do you know what to look for with Murray State? 53 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:12.680 You can you can scout the new coaching staff at 54 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:15.719 Murray State and look at see what they have done 55 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:20.360 in the past. But they brought in sixty new players. 56 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:24.120 Of course, Murray State plays at the FCS level, so 57 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:26.159 they're going to have a lot of players just looking 58 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:28.719 for a chance to play, looking for playing time, and 59 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:31.199 they got it, but they did not play well last night. 60 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:33.960 By the time they played Kentucky, of course the Racers 61 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:37.280 will have figured out a lot, but last night they 62 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:40.560 just couldn't get it going. In course, Missouri really good. 63 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:44.560 So the Racers with a new head coach, two new 64 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:48.080 offensive coordinators, they have co coordinators, a new DC, and 65 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:51.879 more than sixty new players, just couldn't get it done 66 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:55.360 last night. Their starting quarterback as a kid named Jaden Johansson. 67 00:03:56.080 --> 00:04:00.599 He last played at South Dakota School of the Mines, 68 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:05.120 not South Dakota or South Dakota State, South Dakota School 69 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:08.759 of the Mines. So where do you go to figure 70 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:12.479 things out? Well, Missouri did it. Like I said, fifty 71 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:15.120 one nothing was the final. Missouri, by the way, ranked 72 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:18.319 number eleven in the ESPN. Pull Utah number twelve, beat 73 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:22.240 Southern Utah last night forty nine to nothing. Kansas, ranked 74 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:26.439 twenty third, beat Lyndenwood forty eight to three. NC State, 75 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:29.480 which is ranked twenty fourth, had a little bit of trouble, 76 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:32.160 fell behind fourteen to seven in the first quarter to 77 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:35.920 Western Carolina, but then beat the Catamounts with twenty one 78 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.920 points in the fourth quarter. This one was tight going 79 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:43.480 into the fourth. In fact, Western Carolina led it twenty 80 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:46.720 one to seventeen, but NC State, with three tds in 81 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:49.800 the fourth quarter, wins it thirty eight to twenty one. 82 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:54.040 Another high profile game, North Carolina beat Minnesota nineteen to seventeen, 83 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:57.439 but the biggest story there was Tario starting quarterback Max 84 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.439 Johnson carried off the field with a hip in injury 85 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:03.639 in the third quarter. If you recognize that name, that's 86 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:07.319 because you've seen him already with two different SEC schools. 87 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:11.040 Started his career at LSU. He's the son of former 88 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:14.560 NFL quarterback Brad Johnson, who played, of course, for Billy 89 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:18.560 Rutledge's Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He didn't get much clock as 90 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:21.399 much as he wanted at LSU, so he transfers to 91 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:23.800 Texas A and m played a couple of years there, 92 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.920 but then left for North Carolina. Wins the starting job 93 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.160 over sophomore Connor Harrel, but then couldn't finish the game 94 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:32.000 because he was carried off, as I said, with a 95 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:34.079 hip injury. So keep an eye on that. Not the 96 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:37.439 Kentucky plays North Carolina, but you never know what you're 97 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:41.240 going to see in the postseason. Rutgers beat Howard forty 98 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:44.560 four to seven, and I checked on this one for 99 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:47.480 a couple of reasons. One of the headlines was Rutgers 100 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:50.360 scores a late touchdown and it ticked off the coach 101 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:52.839 at Howard thought they were running up the score. But 102 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:59.079 the quarterback for Rutgers, Athan Colliagemnis, had a nice game 103 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:01.680 one hundred and forty seven yards and three touchdown passes. 104 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:05.519 He's the guy who took over for Gavin Wimsen, who 105 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:10.040 is now a Kentucky Wildcat. So Rutgers now moving on 106 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.399 without a guy who's on the Kentucky roster. One other 107 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:18.079 SEC team in action last night, Arkansas played Arkansas Pine 108 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:24.160 Bluff and one easily final seventy to nothing. Coach Prime 109 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:26.519 in Colorado's made a lot of noise in the offseason, 110 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:30.000 sparring and feuding with the media. His team did win 111 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:33.920 its opener last night, but North Dakota State had a 112 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:36.680 pass in the air that, had it gone for a touchdown, 113 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:39.600 would have meant an upset win. But one of the 114 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:45.279 bigger headlines was an interception that Shador Sanders, the quarterback 115 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:49.480 through in the third quarter, an end zone interception. His 116 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:54.000 team was down twenty one seventeen and they are on 117 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:56.759 the five yard line. He throws into the end zone. 118 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:59.560 He underthrows the ball, might have been trying to throw 119 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:04.279 it away, but it kind of sank and it bounced 120 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:08.160 off the leg of a North Dakota State lineman up 121 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:11.199 into the air and it was picked off by the Bison, 122 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:16.759 but they still Colorado still survived and pulled off the 123 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:23.759 wind behind Travis Hunter, who was an early Heisman Trophy candidate. 124 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:26.639 In fact, he caught the touchdown pass late his second 125 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:29.759 of the game that put Colorado in the lead. But 126 00:07:29.839 --> 00:07:32.160 if you can find that video online easy to find, 127 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:35.000 just google it. You'll see it's one of the stranger 128 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:37.800 interceptions you've seen in a while, might be the weirdest 129 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:42.720 one you see all year long. Tragic news out of Columbus, Ohio, 130 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:45.720 where the Blue Jackets are mourning the loss of one 131 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:49.480 of their players, Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew, both 132 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:53.720 killed in a bicycle accident up in New Jersey. A 133 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:57.399 drunk driver apparently was trying to pass some vehicles on 134 00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:03.240 a backcountry road were bicycling in the other lane, and 135 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:05.879 the drunk driver didn't see Hi until it was too late, 136 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:08.600 hit them both and they both died on the scene, 137 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:12.199 so terrible accident that cost the Blue Jackets one of 138 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:15.199 their players, along with his brother up in New Jersey. 139 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:19.399 Over in New York City, former Kentucky Wildcat Gabriel Diallo 140 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:23.079 with another win at the US Open, his first main 141 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:26.639 draw win of his career at a Grand Slam. He 142 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:31.120 upsets twenty four seed Arthur Fives in that second round 143 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:34.240 he was a qualifier into the main draw. Diallo now 144 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:38.679 has won five straight matches at Billy Jean King National 145 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:42.879 Tennis Center, so he will play fourteenth seeded Tommy Paul 146 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:45.919 in the round of thirty two. A couple of NFL 147 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:49.360 notes before he hit the breake the Niners and Brandon Aiyuk, 148 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:53.519 the talented wide receiver, finally reached a contract deal four years, 149 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:57.039 one hundred and twenty million dollar extensions. So if he's 150 00:08:57.080 --> 00:09:00.440 on your fantasy team, yeah, go ahead and play figure 151 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:04.320 he'll be in the lineup. And Brendan Bates it looks 152 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:08.080 like has made an NFL roster the former Kentucky tight end, 153 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:11.519 but not with the Chicago Bears where he was. He 154 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:14.639 was picked up by the New York Jets, so he 155 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:16.919 is now on the main roster. At least for now 156 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:20.919 with Aaron Rodgers and the rest of Gang Green over there, 157 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:24.720 and so he will be apparently on an opening day 158 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:28.840 roster going up next week. Good for Brendan Bates. Meanwhile, 159 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:32.440 a couple of his former Wildcat teammates have not made 160 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:35.360 the cut. Devin Leary cut by the Baltimore Ravens. Not 161 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:39.080 really a surprise, he did not play well in preseason action. 162 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:43.639 Tayshaun Manning also cut by the Ravens. He of course, 163 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:47.840 started his career at Auburn and then went through the 164 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:52.559 portal to Lexington, played this last year at Kentucky. When 165 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:55.200 we come back, we'll talk Wildcat football. Bottom of the hour. 166 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:59.279 Johnny Cox, the radio voice of the Southern Mists Eagles. 167 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:03.799 Yes name as the former Wildcat basketball star. Not related, 168 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:06.840 but a lot of his family members went to UK 169 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:11.120 and as a kid, the Southern miss radio announcer went 170 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:14.759 to several games at Stole Field and watched the Wildcats. 171 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:16.840 We'll hear about that at the bottom of the hour 172 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:19.919 here on six point thirty WLAP Welcome back to the 173 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:22.399 Big Blue and Sider Dick Abriel with you Friday, the 174 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:25.519 day before game day and coming up in just a 175 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:28.440 few minutes, we're gonna learn more about Southern Miss from 176 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:32.240 John Cox. He is the playback play man for Southern 177 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:36.600 Miss football, baseball, and basketball. Took over doing football nineteen 178 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:40.639 seventy nine. He's been there ever since. He called that 179 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:44.879 Southern Miss upset back in twenty sixteen here in Lexington 180 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.120 of the Wildcats, when the Wildcats jumped out to the 181 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:50.559 big lead and then gave it up and more, and 182 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:54.120 the Golden Eagles came back and won. And then of 183 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:58.519 course Kentucky goes down to Hattiesburg and wins the following year. 184 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:02.200 But he also called the win over Louisville. This was 185 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:06.120 back when Brett Farv was a Southern Miss Golden Eagle 186 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:10.360 quarterback and was not highly tattered when he got there, 187 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:12.639 but won the job, went on to do great things, 188 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:14.440 you know what he did, Hall of Fame career in 189 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:17.519 the NFL, won a Super Bowl for my Packers. But 190 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:21.000 one of the great moments in Southern missistory, of course, 191 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:25.159 is the upset went over Kentucky, but they beat Louisville 192 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:28.840 on the last play of the game. The score was 193 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:32.360 tied at ten, the ball on USM's twenty one yard line, 194 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:36.679 so Truehill Mary Brett Favre rolls out and just heaves 195 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:41.039 it down the field and the ball was tipped usm 196 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:44.000 ran it in for the touchdown, much like the Bluegrass 197 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:48.080 Miracle or LSU came back and beat Kentucky. John Cox 198 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:51.320 again behind the microphone, and this is how he called 199 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:53.799 that play one of the greatest in the history of 200 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:55.159 Golden Eagle football. 201 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:58.399 Free wide receivers left side, one to the right side, 202 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:03.320 dropped back to under pressure, scrambles right get away from Washington. 203 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:05.679 He's gonna throw it as far as he can down 204 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:09.600 the field. It is tift that tip by Tilma come at. 205 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:15.399 Twenty put steal us out. They still talk about that 206 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:17.799 play as well they should in Hattiesburg. And what's wild 207 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:21.320 about that year for Southern miss was earlier that season, 208 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:25.080 the Golden Eagles had upset Florida State thirty to twenty 209 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:29.159 six down in Tallahassee. So, yeah, that was a magical 210 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:32.240 season for the Golden Eagles and they're hoping to pull 211 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:35.519 off some more magic coming up against the Kentucky Wildcats. 212 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:38.480 So we'll hear from John Cox. You'll talk about that play. 213 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:42.600 But before we get back to Kentucky football, I did 214 00:12:42.679 --> 00:12:46.000 want to mention the fact that some good news from 215 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:49.480 the Bengals camp. I was talking about players who got 216 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:52.519 cut and got signed and re signed in the previous segment, 217 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:57.559 and the Bengals actually picked up Tayshaun Manning, the former Wildcats. 218 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:00.600 So he's on the practice squad for the and so 219 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:04.879 is Logan Woodside. He of course, is from Frankfort, Kentucky, 220 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:08.159 played his college football at Toledo. Is drafted by the 221 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:12.120 Bengals in twenty eighteen, bounced around a little bit, has 222 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:14.759 played in the NFL, but just has them been able 223 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:18.000 to catch on with anybody. Played for the Titans, played 224 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:21.840 for the Falcons, played in the Alliance of American Football. 225 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:25.200 But now he is gainfully employed on the practice squad 226 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:28.759 by the Cincinnati Bengals. Not too far from home. A 227 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:33.320 former Franklin County flyer, Logan Woodside. All right, back to 228 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:36.279 the Wildcats taking on Southern miss a team with lots 229 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:39.679 of new players, a new coaching staff, a new offense, 230 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:43.159 a quarterback who is transferred in from Florida State. And 231 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.600 I was just talking about that upset they pulled back 232 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:49.360 in twenty sixteen. Somebody asked Brad White whether they'll use 233 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:52.399 that or he has used that with a defense to motivate. 234 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:54.639 Of course, Brad White wasn't here, None of these kids 235 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:58.720 was here, so no, he didn't really have to do that. 236 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:01.519 He said, is guys are already dialed in. 237 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:05.159 We don't need to look back like that to get motivation. 238 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.360 There's plenty of recent occurrences, you know where if we 239 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:12.559 don't play well, you know, you're in a dog fight 240 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:16.240 for four quarters and sometimes you're on the wrong end. 241 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:19.200 They're close to the wrong end. So our guys understand 242 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:22.600 that there's no I've got no worries about them and 243 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:25.120 being a letdown or looking ahead or any of that. 244 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:27.440 Their sole focus has been Southern Myss. 245 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:29.360 They've go hard into it. 246 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:32.360 You know, we've we've tried to do a real deep dive. 247 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:35.399 You know, there's a lot of unknowns, you know, sort 248 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:38.120 of stepping in one because it's the first game too. 249 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:41.000 It's a different coordinator, three, a lot of different personnel. 250 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:45.240 So there's they we've got a focus and the focus 251 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:47.279 has been on us to execute. 252 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:50.480 You know, games like that really only have a shelf 253 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:53.519 life in terms of the player's memory and their emotions 254 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:56.720 for a year or two. If you're so many years removed. 255 00:14:57.480 --> 00:14:59.200 They don't know about it, they don't care. In fact, 256 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:03.000 I remember and people a week and fans kept asking 257 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:07.679 players about those long losing streaks, the Florida and Tennessee, 258 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:09.879 and we think about the Tennessee Streek. The Florida streak 259 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:13.320 was worse, actually, and Stoops pointed it out to us. 260 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:18.240 He said, our players keep actually in sort of puzzled 261 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:21.879 about why we keep wondering about that, because they're not 262 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:25.440 responsible for it. If you're a player and your team 263 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:27.840 has been involved in a streak like that, at worst, 264 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:32.879 you're responsible for three maybe four years responsibly, meaning you've 265 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:36.240 been on the team that long, not personally responsible. So 266 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:39.679 to ask about a loss eight years ago, nah, Now 267 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.159 that's not going to come up in practice, in the dorms, 268 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:46.279 in the locker room, not at all. Quite Frankly, I 269 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:48.159 think we in the media talk about it more than 270 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:50.960 anybody because we have all this time to fill and 271 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:54.120 colin inches to fill, and feature stories to write and 272 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:56.639 people to interview. I don't even know if fans really 273 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:58.919 worry about it or think that much about it, but 274 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:02.559 certainly the coaches and the players do not. There are 275 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:05.559 so many story lines out there, especially an important one. 276 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:08.720 I can't remember who brought it up on the show, 277 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:13.440 but somebody mentioned the corner spot, cornerback spot opposite Maxwell Harston. 278 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:14.960 That guy is going to get a lot of work 279 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:19.360 whoever is rotating in because well, people aren't gonna throw 280 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:22.799 at Maxwell Harston on the depth chart right now. JQ 281 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:26.879 Hardaway is the starter, backed up by Jansen Dunn. But 282 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:29.120 that person's gonna have to be on top of his 283 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:32.399 game because, like I said, no one's gonna want to 284 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:35.600 throw to the side wherever Maxwell Harston is. But the 285 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:38.200 guy I'm gonna kind of iso on from the sideline 286 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:41.960 is Jamon Dumas. Johnson don't want to be called pop anymore, 287 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:45.720 but we talked to him earlier in the year about 288 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:51.120 what he brings to that position. Playing alongside the Eric Jackson, 289 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:53.559 it gives Kentucky a great one two punch up the middle. 290 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:57.000 You know, Djako physical back, you know, just like me. 291 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:59.679 So you know you got like I said earlier in spring, 292 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:02.039 you got two outfits in the middle. You know, I 293 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:04.519 think that's better than one always. You know, two physical 294 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:07.759 backs that can run a hit and smart at the 295 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:09.640 same time. You know, long we get on the same 296 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:12.000 page and build. The only thing we're building up is 297 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:14.519 right now is our chemistry right now, and I'm excited 298 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:16.440 to see what two and fifty four do the season. 299 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:20.039 So Dumus Johnson transfers in from Georgia, where he was 300 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:22.119 only an All American, but as you know, they recruited 301 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:25.240 over him, so he's wearing blue now. But you know, 302 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:28.680 the one transfer we haven't talked much about is Gerald Mincy, 303 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:30.920 and he is penciled in as a starter on the 304 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:35.440 offensive line. He came from Tennessee, which has, of course 305 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:38.279 the jail break offense, and now Kentucky is going up Temple. 306 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:41.720 Although we have been told repeatedly that it's not going 307 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.240 to look as it's not gonna be as fast as Tennessee. 308 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:46.839 It's not gonna look like Tennessee's offense, but it will 309 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:49.559 be up Temple. But to hear Mincy talk about it, 310 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:53.119 he believes that based on his knowledge of both, it 311 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:55.480 could be as fast or faster. 312 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:58.680 It's just the same, but a little worse because we've 313 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:00.359 got to run our sides on to the right, and 314 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:01.880 then we got to hurry up to the ball, you 315 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:04.920 know what I mean. So when we when we had 316 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:07.880 the scrimmages and we see like, oh wow, like we 317 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.359 could actually catch the defense off guard and stretch stretch 318 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:12.839 the defense out and then throw it over. 319 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:13.119 Talk. 320 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:15.720 We just all bought into the system and all bought 321 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:20.240 into what it take to prepare to have our offense 322 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.799 because our rule is to be the number one offense 323 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:25.200 in the SEC. So I think we have a good 324 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:26.720 group of guys right now that we could do that, 325 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:27.759 and we just got to keep working. 326 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:30.240 So not quite as fast as Tennessee, but but still faster. 327 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:30.759 Nah. 328 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:34.839 Probably probably a little faster we go we go see Saturday, 329 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:36.839 Probably a little faster because were gonna try to really 330 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:39.440 push the tip over, really wear these guys out there. 331 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:42.079 And of course this could be the year. We say 332 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:44.599 this every year that the tight ends put up big 333 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:47.720 numbers for the Wildcats. But you never do know about 334 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.480 this new offense. You do know Kentucky has a lot 335 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:53.799 of talent in the tight end room, including Josh Catis 336 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:57.200 and he is back, he is healthy, and he is 337 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:00.440 impressed with the quarterbacks, all of them in that room, 338 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:03.200 and thinks that they will be productive, which means the 339 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:04.960 tight ends should be productive. 340 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:09.440 You know, three new quarterbacks, it's it's obviously, you know, Uh, 341 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:11.400 we got to get adjusted to it, but we did. 342 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:13.279 We had a we had o t as all summer, 343 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:16.640 fall camp, everything. So there's a lot of talent in 344 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:18.599 that room. I think some of the most we've seen 345 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:21.319 probably in the past couple of years. But they're all 346 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:23.680 doing great, and uh, you know, I'm really excited about 347 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:25.720 Brock and about Gavin. I think they're going to do 348 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:29.160 good things both for us. And then Cutter has a 349 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:31.960 lot of talent. He's got to keep keep working hard, 350 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:33.839 and I think he could really be the future. 351 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:37.000 The key, of course for the tight Ends is this 352 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:40.440 new up temple offense, which should mean if things are 353 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:43.799 happening right and they don't turn the ball over more plays. 354 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:47.440 That's the number one culprit behind the lack of plays 355 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:50.279 to the tight ends through the years. Kentucky just hasn't 356 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:52.960 run enough plays on offense to spread it out, and 357 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:55.400 as Kata said, he thinks they're all going to eat 358 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:58.680 center Miss. Broadcaster John Cox next on six thirty w 359 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:01.519 l A P. Welcome back to the Big Blue Insider, 360 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:04.160 joining us on our celebrity hotline. As a gentleman, I've 361 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:06.319 not had the pleasure of a meeting, but we have 362 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:09.160 chatted prior to the interview and texted back and forth. 363 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:13.359 John Cox, the radio voice of the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles. 364 00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:16.880 And before we get into your long and illustrious resume 365 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:20.079 and background, John, you hit me with a Stole Field 366 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:23.200 reference when we were first texting back and forth and 367 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:25.079 kind of knocked me out of my chair. But you've 368 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:27.799 got a deep family background with the state of Kentucky, 369 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:28.160 don't you. 370 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:32.519 Yeah, no question about it. My dad's family all grew 371 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:36.799 up in Wolfe County, obviously not too far away from Lexington. 372 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:41.519 My dad got graduated from UK, My sister has several degrees, 373 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:44.839 had several degrees from UK, and talked there for a 374 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:48.160 long time. In the first college football game that ever 375 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:50.279 went to, I couldn't tell you the year, but it 376 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:52.440 was at old Stole Field there, which I don't think 377 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:55.920 even exists anymore. And I want to say, I want 378 00:20:55.960 --> 00:20:58.440 to say John Ray was the head coach back in 379 00:20:58.519 --> 00:21:01.000 those days. So so yeah, I spent a lot of 380 00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:04.799 time in my lifetime in Lexington. Loved Elecxedon, was excited 381 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:07.680 when we came there to play first time back at 382 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:11.880 nineteen eighty six, and excited me back here this weekend 383 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.240 and one of the great places for sports le to Kentucky. 384 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:17.960 Yeah, you're right about John Ray being the coach, and 385 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:19.920 as I relate to you, he didn't have a whole 386 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:24.319 lot of success, but he did lobby for a new 387 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:27.599 stadium and they built Commonwealth Stadium now Kroger Field, and 388 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:29.960 of course they own They offered him John a one 389 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:33.640 year contract extension, which of course no coach could work 390 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:37.319 with that, so he basically parted company. Frank Kersey came 391 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:39.920 in and you know the rest. So you you really 392 00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:43.119 go back with Kentucky football. Before I ask you about 393 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:45.920 your team, I need to ask you about that game 394 00:21:46.039 --> 00:21:48.839 you called back here. What was it twenty sixteen when 395 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:52.799 Southern Mississippi raced a huge halftime deficit. What are your 396 00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:54.319 memories of that that upset win? 397 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:58.480 Well, and I think we're all excited to be there 398 00:21:58.599 --> 00:22:00.759 and you never know quite well it's going to happen. 399 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.920 But we got off to just a horrible start in 400 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:08.480 that ballgame. Most of it was a Kentucky but we 401 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:10.799