Speaker 1: Thank you, John. It is eight oh four. In fact,
Speaker 1: now it's eight oh five. It was aight o four
Speaker 1: when I said it, but there's a slight delay in
Speaker 1: live radio. I think a lot of you know that,
Speaker 1: and there's actually a bigger delay of your streaming, so
Speaker 1: I would have been a liar.
Speaker 2: It's eight o five. It is Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Its morning news here our news radio eight forty whas
Speaker 1: Nick coffee with you. We're gonna be joined coming up
Speaker 1: by Roory O'Neal in roughly twenty five minutes. We'll get
Speaker 1: the latest as it seems as if things are going
Speaker 1: to be slowing down, which is which is what we want,
Speaker 1: because the ceasefire is finally in full effect, after it
Speaker 1: seemed laid into Monday evening into Tuesday morning that we
Speaker 1: were heading in that direction, and I guess maybe we were,
Speaker 1: but there were some roadblocks along the way, if you will, right,
Speaker 1: you had some final jabs from both sides. But it
Speaker 1: now sounds as if we fully have ceasefire, and the
Speaker 1: situation between Israel and Iran, I'm sure is still contentious,
Speaker 1: and I doubt that they're making a rangements to get
Speaker 1: together and you enjoy each other's company, But the development
Speaker 1: in the last I guess seventy two hours is a
Speaker 1: positive one. I don't think that's I don't think that's
Speaker 1: out of line at all. And I don't have a
Speaker 1: problem admitting this. Maybe I shouldn't, but when it comes
Speaker 1: to the overall coverage of this, I think you can
Speaker 1: be somebody that doesn't I shouldn't say you don't care,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure there's people that don't care about the
Speaker 1: war between Israel and Iran, and the only care if
Speaker 1: the United States is involvement is going to impact them.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people, understandably so would
Speaker 1: view this big piece of news that of course is
Speaker 1: the most talked about thing in the world as something
Speaker 1: that they don't really have any control over. So they're
Speaker 1: going to live their life and just not give a
Speaker 1: whole lot of time and resources to it because they
Speaker 1: can't control it. So I have no problem admitting that.
Speaker 1: And you'd ask me as far as the amount of
Speaker 1: fatalities casualties, if you will, with the back and forth
Speaker 1: missile attacks from Israel and Iran, I wouldn't have even
Speaker 1: known where to start as far as guessing, but I
Speaker 1: would have guessed a lot more than what actually took place.
Speaker 1: And it's not to act as if well, it's not
Speaker 1: a big deal. Only a handful of people died. I mean,
Speaker 1: anybody dying is tragic thing, especially if you know it's
Speaker 1: because of a conflict that you know, the many in
Speaker 1: these countries maybe don't agree with. But the overall number
Speaker 1: here this was as of as of yesterday, that Israel
Speaker 1: reported four deaths from Iranian missile attacks and Iran reported
Speaker 1: nine from the Israeli strikes. So maybe I'm wrong, Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe many would have guessed a lot lower than that,
Speaker 1: but that is the total numbers. So it now sounds
Speaker 1: as if there's I mean, again, this is a big
Speaker 1: There was a scenario where this could have played out
Speaker 1: for a lot longer than it actually did. And as
Speaker 1: I said Monday, we're all guessing as far as where
Speaker 1: this goes. Anybody that tried to tell you on Saturday
Speaker 1: exactly what would play out, either good or bad, either
Speaker 1: Democrat or Republican or somebody maybe even take away the
Speaker 1: political affiliation. You just consider if you were against it
Speaker 1: or supporting it. You just didn't know. We were all guessing.
Speaker 1: But it would not have been a surprise if this
Speaker 1: lasted a lot longer than it actually did, so that
Speaker 1: is encouraging. But again we'll talk to Rory O'Neil about
Speaker 1: that coming up here in about twenty minutes or so.
Speaker 1: So yesterday on with Terry Minors, Tom Jurich joined Terry
Speaker 1: to discuss the big event coming up on Saturday morning
Speaker 1: where he will be honored and U of L and
Speaker 1: the city have decided to name part of Floyd Street
Speaker 1: after Tom Jurich, which of course is certainly an honor
Speaker 1: that he is worthy of. But he came on to
Speaker 1: talk about it yesterday with Terry, and one of the
Speaker 1: things he did discuss, other than just him being humbled
Speaker 1: by this gesture, but just the landscape of college athletics,
Speaker 1: because man, it has changed a lot just in the
Speaker 1: last three four years, but it's changed. It's a different
Speaker 1: it's a different world. And that doesn't even really put
Speaker 1: it into full com I mean it's to say that
Speaker 1: it's a different role would actually be a massive understatement
Speaker 1: as far as the landscape of college athletics now and
Speaker 1: what it was when Tom Jurich was was the athletic director.
Speaker 1: He's been going from U of L since twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: but here are his comments on the current current landscape
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: I think they're going to be fine. I think everybody's
Speaker 3: got to kind of feel their way through this whole thing.
Speaker 3: It's different. It's hard to call it college sports anymore.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a really it's a professional leagues. And
Speaker 3: then they're going to have to treat it that way
Speaker 3: because it's a business.
Speaker 1: It is a business, and Tom Jurich effectively ran U
Speaker 1: of L athletics like it was a pro sports franchise
Speaker 1: to an extent as far as just the the corporate sponsorships,
Speaker 1: and I mean Tom did a lot of things things
Speaker 1: really really well. That that again, as I've mentioned many
Speaker 1: times since this news was shared last week by Mayor Greenberg,
Speaker 1: you know his impact on you Havel athletics. It's it's
Speaker 1: as he's been as impactful as any individual in the
Speaker 1: history of the university when it comes to athletics, just
Speaker 1: because of the foundation that was established. So you know,
Speaker 1: with that, he did it in a different way. And
Speaker 1: I think in the current world and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: now as we sit here on June twenty fifth of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, I mean Tom's been retired for quite
Speaker 1: some time. I'm assuming if he wanted to pursue work,
Speaker 1: he could have done it. But I do think the
Speaker 1: way in which he did things would have really translated
Speaker 1: well in this new in this new era, things that
Speaker 1: are really really important fan engagement, you know, raising money,
Speaker 1: raising funds, knowing that you got to you know, you
Speaker 1: got to compete at a high, high level, and you
Speaker 1: got to sustain that success. I mean that those are
Speaker 1: things that are again, are really important now. And that's
Speaker 1: those are those are some of the many things he
Speaker 1: was really really good at.
Speaker 4: All.
Speaker 1: Right, let's get an update on traffickan weather right here
Speaker 1: on news radio eight forty whas eight sixteen here Kentucky
Speaker 1: and his morning news on news radio eight forty whas. So,
Speaker 1: the jury was selected yesterday for the Crystal Rogers case.
Speaker 1: And it's not at all surprised that many of the
Speaker 1: potential jurors were having to come clean. And I say
Speaker 1: come clean, like they had to admit something that was
Speaker 1: a big secret. But yeah, one hundred potential jurors had
Speaker 1: knowledge of this case because of the news coverage, true
Speaker 1: crime podcast documentaries, or just hearing about it every day.
Speaker 1: So that of course led to the jury selection being
Speaker 1: a little different than I would say most cases, but
Speaker 1: they did end up getting a jury in place, and
Speaker 1: this trial will be covered, I think, nationally in a
Speaker 1: way that you rarely see a story from Kentucky. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's happened. Obviously, the Breonna Taylor stuff got a lot
Speaker 1: of national attention, and there have been some unfortunate things
Speaker 1: that have taken place that that falls in that true
Speaker 1: crime genre that is super popular in society. There to
Speaker 1: where these stories end up featured, not just with national
Speaker 1: news coverage but just different documentaries, podcasts, things like that.
Speaker 1: So I think with this trial taking place in Bowling
Speaker 1: Green in Warren County, you'll see not just national news
Speaker 1: coverage covering it live, but production crews there to to
Speaker 1: once again do some type of a special about this.
Speaker 1: Because again that's just that's how That's one, it's a
Speaker 1: super popular genre, but also it's this is this this
Speaker 1: story is interesting to a lot of people because ten
Speaker 1: years have now passed and you also have the the
Speaker 1: death of her father that that a lot of people
Speaker 1: assume is clearly related to the disappearance of her. And
Speaker 1: then some think that the the murder of the the
Speaker 1: office the Officer Ellis who was killed years I mean don't.
Speaker 1: I won't claim to know all the answers. In fact,
Speaker 1: I know nothing other than what you just see and
Speaker 1: read and hear from all the coverage of those that
Speaker 1: you know are taken advantage of the interest in this story.
Speaker 1: But I mean, it wouldn't shock me if we ever
Speaker 1: do get to the point and find out that all
Speaker 1: of this is somehow related. But you have an Oxygen
Speaker 1: special that was the disappearance of Crystal Rogers that was
Speaker 1: really popular that took place in twenty eighteen. HLN network
Speaker 1: did something called Bourbon Town Mystery, and I think it
Speaker 1: featured both of those specific stories, not only the Chrystal
Speaker 1: Rogers disappearance but also the murder of Jason Ellis. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at others see other specific networks that covered
Speaker 1: this to this extent. I mean, still a mystery is
Speaker 1: what they called it. It was an investigation Discovery that
Speaker 1: was a special about the Crystal Rogers case that came
Speaker 1: out in twenty twenty and then also twenty twenty Dateline
Speaker 1: NBC they did specials on it. So this will be
Speaker 1: probably one of the most covered trials coming from this
Speaker 1: state on a national level, not only with again news coverage,
Speaker 1: but also with interest just from people who really, I
Speaker 1: mean again, I'm somebody that is at least a very
Speaker 1: small factor in this. But true crime is such a
Speaker 1: popular and dominant genre right now and has been for
Speaker 1: a long time. I don't really see it changing to
Speaker 1: where this being a you know, you now actually have
Speaker 1: a trial here and you're going to see if, in
Speaker 1: fact the suspect her ex boyfriend, Brooks Howck, who most
Speaker 1: assume is guilty of this. I shouldn't say that I
Speaker 1: don't know that for certain, but I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people do believe that he's guilty. And we'll see
Speaker 1: how this plays out. But no doubt a lot of
Speaker 1: coverage in Bowling Green, and I know I'm going to
Speaker 1: be following along, and I'm sure I'm not alone. All Right,
Speaker 1: let's get an update on sports with Scott Fitzgerald coming
Speaker 1: up here in about five minutes. Also, Roryo and Neil
Speaker 1: of NBC News going to join us at eight thirty
Speaker 1: right here on News Radio eight forty. Whas we've got
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes left here before we hand it off
Speaker 1: to Tony and why it is Kentucky is Morning News
Speaker 1: on News Radio eight forty whas so Tony Vineddi is
Speaker 1: with us now and this state Bill one eighty one
Speaker 1: that is now in place in Jefferson County is I
Speaker 1: think a bigger deal than a lot of people realize,
Speaker 1: just because there's things that just become very that became
Speaker 1: very normal over the years when you were a teacher
Speaker 1: a coach that now you it's a big, big no no.
Speaker 1: So what this does. The Senate bill won anyone, I
Speaker 1: should say. It is now in effect, and it restricts
Speaker 1: how public school employees, volunteers, coaches can can communicate with students.
Speaker 1: So no texting, social media, no third party app communications,
Speaker 1: and everything now has to be done through traceable communication methods.
Speaker 1: And sounds like the school systems are putting their own
Speaker 1: version of whatever that platform is going to be. But
Speaker 1: JCPS staff, as of until August first, they must use
Speaker 1: only JCPS email or communicate with parents directly. But starting
Speaker 1: August first and on, j CPS will have their adopted
Speaker 1: standardized traceable canmunications. Everybody within the state has until August
Speaker 1: fifteenth to comply with this new law. So obviously there's
Speaker 1: a reason this is happening. Is because there's way too
Speaker 1: many people within the school system. Rather it be coaches, teachers,
Speaker 1: maybe both volunteers who coach but don't work at the
Speaker 1: school that have crossed the line that you simply cannot cross,
Speaker 1: and a lot of them have ended up going to
Speaker 1: prison for that. But now, if the example I gave
Speaker 1: earlier Tony was if you had a great game and
Speaker 1: I'm your coach, I can't tweet out that you had
Speaker 1: a great game and tag you on Twitter and maybe
Speaker 1: you know have coaches see that you had a good game.
Speaker 1: I think the notion that you can't text a player
Speaker 1: directly is just going to be a bit Again, it's
Speaker 1: just athletics. That's the only way I'm looking at it.
Speaker 1: When I think of school, I think of athletics. That's
Speaker 1: just that was a big part of my of high
Speaker 1: school for me. But like a coach, not being able
Speaker 1: to communicate with a standard text message, hey I'll meet
Speaker 1: you at the gym for a workout, or hey tell
Speaker 1: your teammates you're the captain, practice is going to be delayed.
Speaker 1: Like you now, not only can't do that, you will
Speaker 1: be in major trouble if you do.
Speaker 4: It takes a couple of idiots to make to do
Speaker 4: this as it's all it is always just to one
Speaker 4: or two idiots that that do the wrong thing. You're
Speaker 4: you're texting uh inappropriate things, maybe to a female athlete,
Speaker 4: or you're texting. They had a problem in grade school
Speaker 4: football twenty years ago where there was a coach texting
Speaker 4: other UH players on the teams of that they play,
Speaker 4: and they were going back and forth with smack talk
Speaker 4: and it was okay. So that's where it can go wrong.
Speaker 4: Where it can go right is a special practice. Hey,
Speaker 4: you need to work on your on your going to
Speaker 4: your left, so you know, text me meet you, meet
Speaker 4: me in the gym at at six in the morning, bam.
Speaker 4: So then we're there. It's not the whole team, it's
Speaker 4: just that guy. Yes, it makes it more difficult, but
Speaker 4: this is the world we live in to where litigation
Speaker 4: and lawsuits and all that. So now they're just covering
Speaker 4: their butts uh trying not to get sued because a
Speaker 4: couple of idiots just take it too far.
Speaker 2: Because what do we do with sports? Take it too far.
Speaker 4: So it sucks and the other slight or the other
Speaker 4: problem with this is most people think, how do how
Speaker 4: do high school kids get Division one offers. A lot
Speaker 4: of it is your coach promoting you and sending you
Speaker 4: out right, That's that is a big part of it.
Speaker 1: So it's it's a huge part of it. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing. Most college most kids who want to play
Speaker 1: college athletics that are well aware they're not going to.
Speaker 2: Be not just a vision on any any it's way
Speaker 2: more important.
Speaker 1: And in fact, you won't You won't be able to
Speaker 1: get on the radar of an AI program or a
Speaker 1: Division II school if your coach is not really.
Speaker 2: Putting at work to do that and advocating you for you.
Speaker 4: Going back to nineteen eighty three, All the Right Moves
Speaker 4: with Tom Cruise, that was the entire point of the
Speaker 4: movie was he had gotten out with his coach and
Speaker 4: he the coach was promoting all the other players but him,
Speaker 4: and he wasn't getting the college scholarship. Well, that hasn't
Speaker 4: changed high school coaches, especially in football and basketball, if
Speaker 4: they're not promoting you to the college co which is
Speaker 4: tell me on your team, who can play with us,
Speaker 4: and if they're not promoting you, you're out.
Speaker 2: You're out. So that is an issue. But again blame blame.
Speaker 4: The people are just we call it too passionate about sports,
Speaker 4: and they are you need some of these people that
Speaker 4: are too passionate about sports.
Speaker 2: But well, this is the problem.
Speaker 1: It can have. Like playing basketball in high school did
Speaker 1: not do anything for me, like nothing as far as
Speaker 1: like the actual playing the sport did anything for me
Speaker 1: in life. But the experience and what I got from
Speaker 1: it was to this day has been a huge impact
Speaker 1: on my life.
Speaker 2: And I was.
Speaker 1: Really close with my high school coach and know a
Speaker 1: lot of people were. And now you you can still
Speaker 1: do that. It's gonna be there's gonna be some limitations
Speaker 1: to it. It'll be an adjustment for a lot.
Speaker 4: Here's the other difference is before if you walked onto
Speaker 4: the field at Trinity or a Bullet East or wherever
Speaker 4: as a freshman, that's the first time the coach is
Speaker 4: the meeting you. Now high schools are like college used
Speaker 4: to be. They know you from sixth grade, fifth grade
Speaker 4: because they're recruiting the best kids out of fifth, sixth, seventh,
Speaker 4: and eighth grade to get on your team, especially basketball,
Speaker 4: because it's all the team is already set when we
Speaker 4: walk on as a freshman because there's tryouts, but they
Speaker 4: au the team already.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the coach already knows you.
Speaker 1: There's a system in place before you go to the
Speaker 1: ninth grade.
Speaker 4: So there's relationships there where, text messages with parents and
Speaker 4: cell phones. I think it's I think it tries to
Speaker 4: just like any policy, it tries to have a good intention,
Speaker 4: but it'll end up hurting the majority of kids. And
Speaker 4: it's relationships with their coaches and parents with the coaches, And.
Speaker 1: It goes back to where we started here during the conversation.
Speaker 1: There's a few bad apples, and again there's been way
Speaker 1: more than a few. I don't want to act like
Speaker 1: it's just limited and that we shouldn't they shouldn't be
Speaker 1: taking this action because way more don't cross that line,
Speaker 1: but enough have to where I think those who don't
Speaker 1: even think about the athletics component here they just say, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it makes sense. Why would a teacher need to be
Speaker 1: texting a fifteen year old on his on his cell phone? Well, again,
Speaker 1: there are there's there's Again, I think there's If it's
Speaker 1: not something that was part of your experience throughout your
Speaker 1: days in school, you may not you may may not
Speaker 1: realize it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, and uh, this is a shocker to people.
Speaker 4: Uh, there are inappropriate conversations at practice and things that
Speaker 4: are said that are not politically correct, especially in sports
Speaker 4: like football, basketball, hockey.
Speaker 2: I mean there there's kind of them.
Speaker 4: It might be all of the girls basketball probably is
Speaker 4: an inappropriate conversations at practice and all that. Right, Well,
Speaker 4: let's say you take that conversation to a text. Somebody
Speaker 4: else reads it. Now it's like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Speaker 4: why is he texting that? Well, it was a joke
Speaker 4: and somebody said something about somebody else, or you know again,
Speaker 4: sometimes legislation has a good, good intentions, but it then yeah,
Speaker 4: in the end, and in the end it hurts everybody.
Speaker 1: Yep, Tomorrow when we have some time, I have to
Speaker 1: fit what are you doing with Aaron Rodgers? Or you
Speaker 1: cannot like Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 4: No, as a Pittsburgh Steeler fans, and Sell was six
Speaker 4: years old and Lambert, you know, he threatened to kill
Speaker 4: a quarterback and Jack Lambert I had no teeth in
Speaker 4: the front. I said, Okay, I'm a pisperst Heeler fan.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 4: This is gonna be feast or famine. He's either gonna
Speaker 4: walk in and rock it out or he's gonna be
Speaker 4: a complete disaster.
Speaker 1: You're gonna cheer for him because you're a fan. I
Speaker 1: get all that, but man like, it'd be hard to
Speaker 1: cheer for that guy, even if my team's winning, because
Speaker 1: I can't stand him and his mysterious wife that he's
Speaker 1: now claiming he wants privacy.
Speaker 2: He's not gonna.
Speaker 1: Well, you clearly put it out. There's people he craves
Speaker 1: attention so badly, and his nonchalant just I have so
Speaker 1: much on it. He's just on a different level intellectually
Speaker 1: than us. It just irritates me. Yeah, all right, we're
Speaker 1: out of time. Tony Dwater coming up next.