Speaker 1: Thank you, John. It is eight oh five here at
Speaker 1: Kentucky Hada's Morning News on News Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee with you, Scott Fitz Jared alongside. We've got
Speaker 1: the Johns as well, John Shannon and John Alden, so
Speaker 1: full crew here as we get the week started. If
Speaker 1: you are just now getting your day started, I hope
Speaker 1: you had a good weekend. We've had a lot to
Speaker 1: recap from the weekend. We'll talk coming up here around
Speaker 1: eight thirty with Roy O'Neal of NBC News get the
Speaker 1: latest on the ice protests going on in La as
Speaker 1: well as San Francisco. Obviously that's a big story that
Speaker 1: we'll continue to follow as those protesters still going on.
Speaker 1: Also a big story from last week that was the Shenanigans,
Speaker 1: if you will, and I'm not talking about the business
Speaker 1: that's near the Highlands called Shenanigans. I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: late nights streets being shut down on Barchtown Road near
Speaker 1: the Highlands. And obviously there was a lot of emphasis
Speaker 1: last week from the Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg as well
Speaker 1: as Chief Humphrey of LMPD to put preventive things in
Speaker 1: place to keep that from happening from a third straight weekend,
Speaker 1: and it sounds like overall that that was pretty success.
Speaker 1: We also discussed some news from from over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Russ Smith getting a DUI and a person of that
Speaker 1: status celebrity getting arrested for DUI is always going to
Speaker 1: probably end up in the local news. But Russ getting
Speaker 1: a DUI despite not blowing above the legal limit has
Speaker 1: had a lot of folks scratching their head thinking, wait
Speaker 1: a second, what's going on here? How did he get
Speaker 1: a DUI if in fact he didn't blow above a
Speaker 1: point zero zero eight. Well, what it comes down to
Speaker 1: is he did agree to go through field sobriety tests
Speaker 1: after telling the officer who pulled him over that he
Speaker 1: had been drinking, and he blew a zero point zero seven,
Speaker 1: which again has below the legal limit, But it's really
Speaker 1: the officer's discretion at that point as far as what
Speaker 1: he wants to do. And Russ has hired an attorney,
Speaker 1: Steve Romines, who is the same attorney that represented Scotti Scheffler,
Speaker 1: which of course got a lot of attention not just here,
Speaker 1: not just here locally when it comes to Scheffler's arrest,
Speaker 1: prior to the PGA Championship, but also nationally. So I
Speaker 1: think one thing to keep in mind here is that
Speaker 1: Russ cooperated with law enforcement by I wouldn't say volunteering,
Speaker 1: because I'm not sure he brought it up first, but
Speaker 1: they asked, would you want to go through some field
Speaker 1: sobriety tests, which he did, which she didn't have to do.
Speaker 1: And some are making the point that because he cooperated fully,
Speaker 1: which nobody's disputing that, that because he below the legal limit,
Speaker 1: that maybe they would say, okay, well you can't drive
Speaker 1: because we do send some impairment, but despite you not
Speaker 1: blowing a zero point zero eight or above, we're going
Speaker 1: to have to have somebody come and get your car,
Speaker 1: and you're going to need to get a ride. I
Speaker 1: think some are suggesting maybe that would have been the
Speaker 1: way the officer should have gone about it, but again
Speaker 1: it's the officer's discretion. But Scott, you and I were talking.
Speaker 1: You made a good point. You know, if you are
Speaker 1: somebody that is in that position in law enforcement, you would,
Speaker 1: I guess technically have the out of Well, I went
Speaker 1: through these tests and he didn't blow above the legal limits,
Speaker 1: so we didn't arrest him but then also, you know,
Speaker 1: people would claim, well, why did this guy get a pass,
Speaker 1: and they would say, well, it's because he's a guy
Speaker 1: who brought helped bring a national championship here so too,
Speaker 1: and you.
Speaker 2: Were saying that in what we find out through the story.
Speaker 2: And I really appreciate you bringing all these facts to light, Nick,
Speaker 2: because I got the text from my son and he
Speaker 2: was kind of famboying it with me, and he initially
Speaker 2: was like, rust is getting picked don here, which I'm
Speaker 2: not saying anything to that point. But did he He
Speaker 2: failed some of the physical tests, right, so he was
Speaker 2: a little his motion was a little off.
Speaker 1: It's really just the judgment of the officer when he
Speaker 1: puts them through those field sobriety tests, because I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if it's truly just a pass fail. It's just
Speaker 1: sort of what they take away from it.
Speaker 2: So that's why I'd like to talk to a law
Speaker 2: enforcement officer, because I don't know, none of us really
Speaker 2: know what do you doing that. Let's say, okay, for example,
Speaker 2: the blood alcohol level was right below the legal limit,
Speaker 2: so you take that factor, combine that with the fact
Speaker 2: he was a little wobbly. As you mentioned earlier, he
Speaker 2: had two Burman neats, which that's I put me under,
Speaker 2: to be honest with.
Speaker 1: You, same here, right.
Speaker 2: And so when you put all these together, if you're
Speaker 2: that officer, do you feel good even though he below
Speaker 2: the legal limit, do you feel comfortable with letting him
Speaker 2: just kind of go and move on?
Speaker 1: Well, especially if something was to happen after the after
Speaker 1: being pulled over. It's sure reason that he was still
Speaker 1: you know, I guess out there, and again I guess
Speaker 1: at that point there's no way they would have let
Speaker 1: him leave driving. But still, it's your call, and let's
Speaker 1: be honest. I think regardless of how you decide to
Speaker 1: go here, there would be room for people to criticize you,
Speaker 1: right saying, okay, you gave this guy a pass because
Speaker 1: he's a level basketball player, a former level basketball player,
Speaker 1: or if you end up in the situation we're in
Speaker 1: now where he was in fact arrested the There's two
Speaker 1: things here that two I think important factors that probably
Speaker 1: should be discussed more than what's just being spread across
Speaker 1: social media. One is the officer had every right to
Speaker 1: do what he did. It's not as if they just
Speaker 1: decided to pick on Russ and say, well, yeah, he
Speaker 1: blew close enough to point zero zero eight, so we're
Speaker 1: just going to haul him off the jail. That wasn't
Speaker 1: the case they I mean, the officer technically followed protocol
Speaker 1: here and that's what he It was his call. Also,
Speaker 1: those who think that the same officer who accused Scotty
Speaker 1: Scheffler of running him over, that is not the same
Speaker 1: guy who took Russ Smith in on this dui, which
Speaker 1: there's there's a connection, certainly, but it's not the actual
Speaker 1: guy who again alleged that he was run over by
Speaker 1: Scotti Schffler and he ripped his pants and they needed
Speaker 1: to be replaced. It's a different guy. But this officer
Speaker 1: is Kyle Willis of LMPD. He was the guy who
Speaker 1: they later determined it was his bodycam footage that had
Speaker 1: leaked and it ended up of course, you know, getting
Speaker 1: all accroupt. Mean, it became a national story even before
Speaker 1: the video had leaked. But according to memorandum Willis drafted
Speaker 1: and provided to Internal Affairs, he knew at some point
Speaker 1: he would have to testify and explain his actions, so
Speaker 1: he used his cell phone to record part of the
Speaker 1: part of the bodycam footage to help him remember his
Speaker 1: interaction with Scheffler. Speaking to investigators, Willis said he texted
Speaker 1: the clip to Jay Moss, a former officer he considered
Speaker 1: a mentor seeking advice, and that officer ended up sharing
Speaker 1: it with somebody who then later put it out on
Speaker 1: the internet. So this officer was reprimanded for the footage
Speaker 1: from his cell phone getting out. But he's that's his
Speaker 1: level of involvement here. He wasn't actually the one that was.
Speaker 1: He did. He did take him to jail, so he's involved,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't the one. You know. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people saw the headline yesterday and saw the
Speaker 1: Scottie Scheffler stuff and said, you gotta be kidna me.
Speaker 1: You can't make me. You can't make this stuff up.
Speaker 1: So there you have it. All right. We got another
Speaker 1: update of traffic and weather coming your way right here
Speaker 1: on News Radio eight forty whas it is eight sixteen
Speaker 1: here at Kentucky this morning news on News Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty w HS. Just some some more quick details here
Speaker 1: on the on the Rustmith the UI that we've discussed
Speaker 1: this morning is he was stopped after making an illegal
Speaker 1: U turn near the intersection of Baxtra Avenue and Highland Avenue.
Speaker 1: That was just after midnight, and that's what led to
Speaker 1: him being pulled over, and he also had expired tags.
Speaker 1: But the DUI situation again, he was he was asked
Speaker 1: to do field sobriety test I would assume, and he agreed.
Speaker 1: Nobody's disputing his cooperation. But since hiring Steve Romans yesterday,
Speaker 1: Romans does claim that when it comes to witnesses and
Speaker 1: body cam footage, I assume that's what he means when
Speaker 1: it comes to things that he believes will help Russ's
Speaker 1: case to where maybe these charges will get dropped. Romans
Speaker 1: claims that, yeah, evidence that his witnesses also surveillance footage
Speaker 1: will prove that Smith did nothing wrong. So we'll see
Speaker 1: how that shakes out. Also, don't forget coming up at
Speaker 1: eight thirty, we are going to bring in Rory O'Neal
Speaker 1: of NBC News to get the latest on the ice
Speaker 1: protest going on in California, mostly in Los Angeles, but
Speaker 1: also in San Francisco as well.
Speaker 2: I think there's another one scheduled nick for Baltimore. Okay
Speaker 2: Man Scott Wikoff was reporting now at WBAL that they're
Speaker 2: getting wrapped peaceful protests mind you as well, Okay what
Speaker 2: he said, And I would imagine if these are going
Speaker 2: to become some steam around the country, whether we're going
Speaker 2: to see anything locally here, but you can envision these
Speaker 2: coming out.
Speaker 1: No doubt. I wouldn't. I would not be shocked if
Speaker 1: there's more that pop up in different places. One thing
Speaker 1: we talked about towards end of last week that really,
Speaker 1: like many things in recent years, has been a moment
Speaker 1: where you reflect, is this really happening? Am I? Is
Speaker 1: this a dream? And that was the Internet fight between
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Well, Elon Musk has since
Speaker 1: deleted the ex post slash tweet that claimed Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: name appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein file. So I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if that's a sign of conceding here, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's going to continue to be a talking point. And
Speaker 1: just again, the back and forth in a twenty four
Speaker 1: hour window between these two very powerful people, it's just
Speaker 1: not to you know. It's one of those things where
Speaker 1: you think to yourself, is this real and then you realize, okay,
Speaker 1: yeah it is, and it really shouldn't be that surprising
Speaker 1: given who we're dealing with here. So anyways, that's the
Speaker 1: latest on that, and I know it's been It's been
Speaker 1: mentioned throughout the morning, and it'll be mentioned throughout the
Speaker 1: day all week, really if you're a Louisville fan. But
Speaker 1: dam McDonald and his program punching their ticket to get
Speaker 1: back to Omaha. You know, college athletics has changed so
Speaker 1: much in recent years. And we did get the Big
Speaker 1: House settlement on Friday, which we discussed a little bit earlier,
Speaker 1: but nil and the transfer portal has made it to
Speaker 1: where the job of being a head coach at a
Speaker 1: college program it is. It is a different job than
Speaker 1: when you got it, unless you're somebody that's like brand
Speaker 1: new in the profession. So with that, you know, there
Speaker 1: are there are a lot of different obstacles, different challenges.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got to you got to manage your
Speaker 1: roster differently. You got to I don't want to say
Speaker 1: baby your players, but players have way more power than
Speaker 1: they've ever had at the college level, right Like they
Speaker 1: used to have no power. They couldn't even have job.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't act like they were going without
Speaker 1: because they did obviously get a free education. They had
Speaker 1: cost of living. I mean, some of these guys lived
Speaker 1: great lifestyles playing college athletics, but also millions billions actually
Speaker 1: was was was earned as far as revenue from college
Speaker 1: sports that these athletes didn't see any didn't didn't get
Speaker 1: a piece of. So the biggest I guess noticeable difference
Speaker 1: is free agency in sports, with players transferring to different
Speaker 1: high level college football programs in college basket programs. But
Speaker 1: baseball is not one of those sports that gets near
Speaker 1: the attention as a as a football or even a basketball.
Speaker 1: And there have been a new There was already a
Speaker 1: lot of challenges with college baseball just because the limitations
Speaker 1: you have with scholarships. That's been that way for a
Speaker 1: long long time. Well, now in this new world, there's
Speaker 1: a fresh set of challenges for baseball coaches like Dan
Speaker 1: McDonald and it's just great to see that he built
Speaker 1: the Louisville program to be a successful one of powerhouse
Speaker 1: in the previous era and now that he has broke
Speaker 1: broke through here with another trip to Omaha in the
Speaker 1: new world with a bunch of transfers and having to
Speaker 1: manage your roster and just do things differently. Not only
Speaker 1: is it a great thing for Louisville fans, but what
Speaker 1: a great sign for Dan McDonald, and I'm sure this
Speaker 1: one felt a little bit more well should I'm sure
Speaker 1: they all feel special, but this one I'm sure is
Speaker 1: a little different for him than the others. But now, yeah,
Speaker 1: six straight or not six straight, but six and nineteen
Speaker 1: years that's pretty impressive, and especially knowing that Louisville Baseball
Speaker 1: had not won an NSAA postseason game ever until he
Speaker 1: was hired nineteen years ago. So it's to dam McDonald
Speaker 1: and his team. I know a lot of Loisal fans
Speaker 1: really excited about seeing what this team can do in Omaha.
Speaker 1: All right, we got another update of trafficking weather coming
Speaker 1: your way, as well as another update on sports with
Speaker 1: Scott right here on news Radio eight forty whas it
Speaker 1: is eight forty six er Kentucky had his morning news
Speaker 1: on news Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee the other
Speaker 1: voice you hear just he's wanted to belt out like
Speaker 1: it's karaoke. That's right, it's mister Tony Venetti. How about
Speaker 1: dam McDonald.
Speaker 3: It's fantastic. It is sometimes good things happen to good people,
Speaker 3: because most of the time that's the opposite story. But
Speaker 3: you know, he's just he's like one of the greatest
Speaker 3: human beings. Yes, ever, he used to work out at LAC.
Speaker 3: This is fifteen years ago, and I saw him in
Speaker 3: the sauna room and I just left him alone because
Speaker 3: I thought in his head, I thought, in my head,
Speaker 3: I said, he's here working out instead of working out
Speaker 3: at U of L because he wants to be you know,
Speaker 3: nobody to bother him, right, But that's the opposite with him.
Speaker 3: He's fan And look, man, I told you we were
Speaker 3: starting to ask is he worth him and his coaching
Speaker 3: staff worth the money they're spending on him, because they're
Speaker 3: one of the highest paid staffs in the country. And
Speaker 3: the results aren't it there anymore? Because that's what we
Speaker 3: do in radio and talk.
Speaker 1: So whatever I think the all the hires that were
Speaker 1: made by Tom Jorge, I mean you could, really you could.
Speaker 1: You could really break down a few of them and
Speaker 1: make the case that this was the most impactful. I mean,
Speaker 1: to be honest, this wouldn't come to mind for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. But like the timing of Charlie Strong
Speaker 1: and when Louisville football became respected again as the musical
Speaker 1: chairs was going on with conference re alignment, that was
Speaker 1: really important. Obviously bringing Rick Patino here and getting Louisville
Speaker 1: basketball relevant once again right away just because you hired
Speaker 1: the guy. Obviously, he had a lot of success along
Speaker 1: the way. You know, Tom Jorge made a lot of
Speaker 1: really good hires, but Dan McDonald to me, seems is
Speaker 1: the one that really put the program quite literally in
Speaker 1: a different planet than it was prior to him taking
Speaker 1: the job. Obviously, you could make the same case for
Speaker 1: Jeff Walls with the lois of women's program, but this
Speaker 1: is now six trips to Omaha in nineteen years for
Speaker 1: Dan McDonald, and to do it previously whenever you already
Speaker 1: had obstacles and challenges. As a baseball has just been different.
Speaker 1: They don't have the same amount of scholarships as other people.
Speaker 1: I know, there's certain schools like Vandy they can get
Speaker 1: around that, but there's always been built in challenges with
Speaker 1: sports like baseball. But then you have you know, you
Speaker 1: have him turning down jobs to State loisvill because a
Speaker 1: few years ago he's thinking, well, I've already got was
Speaker 1: it Mississippi State or something like that, and all miss
Speaker 1: at interest as well, so he's thinking, well, yeah, those
Speaker 1: schools they really prioritize baseball more than we do around here.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I've already proved that I've got
Speaker 1: a program that has been knocking on the door for
Speaker 1: an actual national championship many times. Now, why would I
Speaker 1: shake it up and start over? Well, then those types
Speaker 1: of schools having resources money makes it to where they
Speaker 1: could they could they could benefit from it. And here
Speaker 1: he is in the New World doing it for the
Speaker 1: sixth time. But this one's different because again there's new
Speaker 1: challenges that are there and for him to be able
Speaker 1: to prove that he can he can be successful in
Speaker 1: the old world and also now have this moment in
Speaker 1: a new world. That's that just speaks to how good
Speaker 1: he is as a coach.
Speaker 3: Okay, but the other World Series, his teams were were
Speaker 3: just studs everywhere, right, I Mean they how many games
Speaker 3: do they lose in the regular season this year? Was
Speaker 3: it twenty?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean they were I don't know their exact record.
Speaker 1: They improved this year compared to previous years, but it
Speaker 1: was nothing like that run they had where they were
Speaker 1: they were just I mean, they were a powerhouse.
Speaker 3: They were demolishing people. Uh So that's why that's why
Speaker 3: this one is extra special, because we're all starting to
Speaker 3: go what direction is is he going to.
Speaker 1: Be able to do it in this era? And sure enough?
Speaker 3: And again baseball, like a lot of spores are that
Speaker 3: one inch? You know, it's that speech and every any
Speaker 3: given Sunday where there's inches everywhere, uh, and you got
Speaker 3: to go fight for your inch. That that was that game.
Speaker 3: You knew one mistake was going to win this game.
Speaker 3: And that kid that tried to get to that ball, yep,
Speaker 3: and it was off the front of his mit. And
Speaker 3: I looked at Jackans and that was the mistake. That
Speaker 3: was it. That was the mistake, and now we got
Speaker 3: to hold on. Was that not the most nerve wracking
Speaker 3: ninth inning? I was, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: You felt I mean, I'm glad they don't do this
Speaker 1: in baseball. And that's like the win probability because that
Speaker 1: pops up because I felt like they were in pretty
Speaker 1: good shape. But then again, you've got two on and
Speaker 1: two outs, and you know anything could happen. They're only
Speaker 1: up one run. But how about back to back innings.
Speaker 1: I think it was where each team had bases loaded
Speaker 1: and got nothing out of it. I mean it it
Speaker 1: was a nail bier. And maybe this is just me
Speaker 1: getting older and whatnot. But when you can see that
Speaker 1: the players are energized not only by the moment but
Speaker 1: by the crowd and the fans, like when they were
Speaker 1: chanting Eddie at as Eddie King Junior was at second
Speaker 1: base after he had a phenomenal He's had a phenomenal
Speaker 1: postseason thus far. I mean, it just one of reminded
Speaker 1: me that we don't fill up that place a lot
Speaker 1: during the regular season, but whenever they're hosting a regional
Speaker 1: or a super regional, it's a really tough ticket to get.
Speaker 1: And the atmosphere was great. The line, the picture of
Speaker 1: the lines to get in the last few days over there.
Speaker 1: We do big events around here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but let's again you go old school what the
Speaker 3: program used to be. I just talked to Taylor, she's
Speaker 3: the sales executive here for us at iHeart she played
Speaker 3: soccer at U L. I said, do you know what
Speaker 3: the uniforms the new uniforms for the U OFL women's
Speaker 3: team was every year?
Speaker 2: She was no.
Speaker 3: I said, it was the boys uniforms from last the
Speaker 3: year before. So the girls team would get a bag
Speaker 3: of uniforms from the boys and they would be dirty
Speaker 3: like the guys didn't even watch the uniforms, and they
Speaker 3: would have to get it, get this back up and
Speaker 3: try to real no, and try to find a uni
Speaker 3: that fit like close. It was all it was the
Speaker 3: last year's boys uniforms. The budget wasn't there. The baseball
Speaker 3: team played at old Cardinals Stadium nowhere near campus. A
Speaker 3: collective four people watched a U of L baseball game
Speaker 3: for twenty straight years before they moved into Patterson and
Speaker 3: hired hired disc guard.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like it's safe to say Tom
Speaker 1: Jurch kind of threw U OFL Athletics in the microwave
Speaker 1: right because he did. There wasn't longstanding generational traditions. It was.
Speaker 3: I mean, he was on one of the greatest runs
Speaker 3: for hiring coaches ever by any ad ever, I mean crazy.
Speaker 1: And to be fair, we're still benefiting from that in
Speaker 1: a major way. Good stuff, all right, Tony Dwighter up
Speaker 1: next right here on news Radio eight forty whas