Speaker 1: Welcome to the Big Blue Insider. It is a Thursday.
Speaker 1: Dick Gabriel with you. I am actually tied up working
Speaker 1: the Boys, Sweet sixteen and Rapperina, So please enjoy the
Speaker 1: best of the Big Blue Insider. Taking you back to
Speaker 1: the night after the Wildcats knocked off Oklahoma. Find a
Speaker 1: huge effort from Otaga. Ohway, here is the best of
Speaker 1: the Big Blue Insider.
Speaker 2: Calls for Oway to come out.
Speaker 3: He takes the hand off, always got it.
Speaker 1: Goes to his left, down the lane, angles right, flips
Speaker 1: it up, go dead.
Speaker 4: With six seconds to play, here comes Oklahoma.
Speaker 5: Fierce drives into the lane, goes for the rams, clock
Speaker 5: by Garrison, picked up by Prayer.
Speaker 2: Oh my hero's on the clock, and the Cats get
Speaker 2: out of Oklahoma on the WD. What U when Otaga.
Speaker 3: Always saves the day against his former school. That is
Speaker 3: the way it ended last night, A crazy finished to Kentucky, Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Big Moon Insider. Dick Gabriel with you.
Speaker 3: But with a men's game last night and finishing the
Speaker 3: way it did, we got to start talking about that,
Speaker 3: because wow, what a game. And I both listened and watched.
Speaker 3: I listened to Jack and Tom in the first half
Speaker 3: in the postgame, listening to TV in the second half,
Speaker 3: as I often do, just because sometimes people get online
Speaker 3: and complain about the TV coverage. I want to know
Speaker 3: what they're talking about. But I can tell you this,
Speaker 3: going back and listening to the last part of the game,
Speaker 3: I always say this, nobody has more fun working these
Speaker 3: games than Jack Gibbons. Yeah, we miss our buddy Mike Pratt,
Speaker 3: but Jack took over when we lost Mike and has
Speaker 3: done doing just an incredible job, as you knew he would.
Speaker 3: But you know, and he talked with us on the
Speaker 3: show a couple of weeks ago. He said, UK and
Speaker 3: JM I the right tolder the UK network people. They
Speaker 3: understand that Jackson fan first when he was doing Orlando
Speaker 3: Magic games, when he worked with me on high school
Speaker 3: games way back in the day, in Transylvania games and
Speaker 3: things like that.
Speaker 2: Of course he was.
Speaker 3: A broadcast first, but his beloved Wildcats being what they are, man,
Speaker 3: and in a game like that. I mean, as I
Speaker 3: was listening to the game unfold and I could just
Speaker 3: see Jack just twitching in his chair because things weren't
Speaker 3: always going well. The boy did they ever down the
Speaker 3: stretch as the Wildcats pulled it out.
Speaker 2: A huge win on the road.
Speaker 3: Any conference win, you know this, any conference win is big.
Speaker 3: A conference went on the road is huge. And the
Speaker 3: way the Wildcats had a lead, let it get away
Speaker 3: came back, had to lead, let it get away, had
Speaker 3: to come from behind late with people in foul trouble
Speaker 3: and no Jackson Robinson in the second half.
Speaker 2: You look pretty good for being kind of.
Speaker 3: Rusty in the first half but apparently aggravated the risk.
Speaker 3: But Lamont Butler came through, played well and in fact,
Speaker 3: Jack Gibbons talked to him after the game. Oh he
Speaker 3: was back talking to the rest of the media. It
Speaker 3: was Brandon Garrison, but Jack talked to Lamont Butler for
Speaker 3: the first time in forever on the post game show.
Speaker 4: I can't tell you how good it is to see
Speaker 4: you back off the floor, man.
Speaker 6: I feel even better to be out there playing with
Speaker 6: my guys.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 8: I just you know, uh, you know.
Speaker 6: Last couple of weeks, I've just been you know, working
Speaker 6: itching the play and you know, they they've done a
Speaker 6: great job. You know, even when I was out, you know,
Speaker 6: I was glad I was.
Speaker 8: Able to contribute today.
Speaker 2: You had a great effort by everybody.
Speaker 6: You got to got the win, man'll take away.
Speaker 4: How do how do you keep a guy going like that?
Speaker 4: I know you have to get him the ball, but
Speaker 4: we also know the defenses trying their best not to
Speaker 4: let him get it. How do you guys keep a
Speaker 4: guy like that going?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so, I mean I think in the first half
Speaker 6: he had you know, got to got to the lane
Speaker 6: and just missed a couple of easy ones, you know,
Speaker 6: a couple.
Speaker 8: Of tough shots.
Speaker 6: The second half, I you know, I tried to get
Speaker 6: him going to them easy shots.
Speaker 2: I got him the one.
Speaker 6: Three at the at the wind, got him going there,
Speaker 6: and I got him kick ahead, you know, just lay up,
Speaker 6: and you know, from there he was going. You know it,
Speaker 6: don't it don't take much to to start him, you know,
Speaker 6: start scoring and stuff like that. So after that he
Speaker 6: just took over the game. And you know, I'm glad
Speaker 6: guy he was able to do that for.
Speaker 2: Him, I would say so.
Speaker 3: And Butler only played about twenty minutes. He did have
Speaker 3: the foul trouble, of course, but he was effective, wasn't
Speaker 3: he when he was in there. He was a guy
Speaker 3: who needed to at times calm the Wildcats down, needed,
Speaker 3: as he said, to help oh Way, get going, look
Speaker 3: for him on offense, fed him, Hey, how about the steal,
Speaker 3: and then the feed when Oway took it in late
Speaker 3: from the slam.
Speaker 2: Thank you to Lamont Butler after.
Speaker 3: Getting into foul trouble. Played only twenty minutes, had one
Speaker 3: Bucket missed his only three point try, but five for
Speaker 3: five from the line, which is where the Wildcats won
Speaker 3: the game. Four rebound, six assists, and only three turn
Speaker 3: Well that's a lot in twenty but three turnovers. But
Speaker 3: I mentioned free throws because when you look at the
Speaker 3: numbers and you may have already done this. Wildcats didn't
Speaker 3: have as many field goals, didn't have as many, but
Speaker 3: beat Oklahoma at the free throw line. There's always the
Speaker 3: requisite whining about officiating on social media. But Kentucky outshot
Speaker 3: Oklahoma was eighteen and twenty four from the line. Car
Speaker 3: missed a couple late. Oh that killed me. Oh Way
Speaker 3: missed one as well. But the Cats eighteen of twenty four,
Speaker 3: Oklahoma just twelve of seventeen and missed the front end
Speaker 3: at least once. So that's where Kentucky won the game
Speaker 3: at the line. On the road, Oklahoma had ten of
Speaker 3: twenty five from three, not a great three point shooting team,
Speaker 3: but something got into the Sooners. Cats were seven to
Speaker 3: twenty three. Oklahoma had a slight advantage on the boards
Speaker 3: thirty four to thirty one, but still Kentucky grounded out and.
Speaker 2: Got the win.
Speaker 3: And Tom Leech talked to Mark Pope about the game
Speaker 3: about Otega Ohway and the fact.
Speaker 2: That he scored twenty one of twenty.
Speaker 3: Three down the stretch the Wildcats, including eighteen straight and
Speaker 3: you may never see that again.
Speaker 4: Otega always scores the final eighteen points at the game.
Speaker 2: Ever have a player to take over a game like that, No, I.
Speaker 9: Thought it was really an incredible effort, especially since his
Speaker 9: first thirty two minutes were so incredibly shaky. You know,
Speaker 9: there was a lot of frustration rolling around our team,
Speaker 9: and then Otaga was super frustrated.
Speaker 8: You know, it wasn't his fin as thirty two.
Speaker 7: But the one thing about Otaga that we've learned over
Speaker 7: the season is that like he just he always is
Speaker 7: kind of just around the corner from making huge plays,
Speaker 7: and so sometimes you just.
Speaker 2: Kind of have to keep.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's got to look away.
Speaker 7: But man, what an epic response by him, Like it
Speaker 7: was an unbelievable performance from him down the stretch.
Speaker 3: You gotta think, oh, he might have been pressing physically, mentally, whatever,
Speaker 3: being back in Oklahoma, but he caught fire at the
Speaker 3: right time. Brandon Garrison had a solid game. They don't
Speaker 3: win without it. They really don't win without any of them.
Speaker 3: But Garrison coming back after transferring in from Oklahoma State
Speaker 3: was vital. And those are the two guys that spoke
Speaker 3: to the media afterward.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't there.
Speaker 3: I would have a comment from Ohway, but there's some
Speaker 3: postgame on YouTube you can barely hear. Oh wait, I
Speaker 3: don't think his microphone was working. They had Brandon, Pope
Speaker 3: and Oway, and Brandon had his little girl with him,
Speaker 3: and I think it was a little girl. You heard
Speaker 3: you heard the child every now and then. But when
Speaker 3: Oway did speak, and he's got that deep, soft voice,
Speaker 3: but still, I don't think his mic was on, So
Speaker 3: I didn't have a chance to pull anything off and
Speaker 3: share it with you.
Speaker 2: But yeah, what a game man.
Speaker 3: Twenty eight points, twelve out of twenty one, three or
Speaker 3: five from the line, six rebounds, four turnovers, thirty two minutes.
Speaker 3: Just amazing, you know, played the most minutes. Kobe Brea
Speaker 3: thirty five. He was only one for six from three
Speaker 3: point land. They did a great job Oklahoma did of
Speaker 3: running him off the ark, but otherwise he was two
Speaker 3: for four, had a couple of free throws, seven rebounds
Speaker 3: and three assists. Amari Williams in foul trouble most of
Speaker 3: the evening, played only nineteen minutes at three rebounds and
Speaker 3: eight points and three assists. That was huge and they
Speaker 3: kept breaking it down on TV is passing to the
Speaker 3: Cutters going through. So a huge win for the Wildcats
Speaker 3: with Auburn coming to town. Auburn last night destroyed Ole
Speaker 3: Miss by thirty points. That was about the only thing
Speaker 3: in the league that went as you might have thought
Speaker 3: it would. You might have thought Kentucky would beat Oklahoma,
Speaker 3: but did you expect a game like that?
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody did. How can you? It was
Speaker 2: a great ballgame.
Speaker 3: And if you watch the SEC network, Dane Bradshaw was
Speaker 3: actually in studio, they said for the first time in
Speaker 3: about eight years, former Tennessee guard along with Pat Bradley,
Speaker 3: and they just raved about oh way. They said, that
Speaker 3: was one of the greatest performances they've ever seen and
Speaker 3: one of the great games you'll see this year in
Speaker 3: the Southeastern Conference. But Vanderbilt upsets A and M. You
Speaker 3: saw this, you're trying to watch the Kentucky game.
Speaker 2: That game wouldn't end the.
Speaker 3: Vandy holds on. That was nineteen wins now for Vandy.
Speaker 3: So the Kentucky loss, you still regret it if you're Kentucky,
Speaker 3: but doesn't look quite as bad, does it. And Arkansas
Speaker 3: beats Texas, finishes the sweep of the Longhorns. I'm telling
Speaker 3: you that team is better off without Boogie Flan and
Speaker 3: maybe they would have figured things out, but this really
Speaker 3: expedited the situation because they had to develop more balance
Speaker 3: and they've done it. So Arkansas now squarely on the
Speaker 3: bubble about that with a win over Texas. Now while
Speaker 3: we're talking about the stretch run and Shawn Woods brought
Speaker 3: this up with me last week. I'm going to talk
Speaker 3: to him on Friday. We couldn't talk to Sean or
Speaker 3: our Western Bureau chief Gary Moore because of the game
Speaker 3: last night, but we'll talk to both of them on
Speaker 3: Friday show. But Saint John's Saint John's wins on the road,
Speaker 3: and again it's weird, but it's a big East game.
Speaker 3: With Butler in hinkle Field, House, Historic hinkle Field House.
Speaker 3: Saint John's wins at seventy six to seventy last night,
Speaker 3: and the Johnnies can clinch the program's first outright League
Speaker 3: title since nineteen eighty five this Saturday against Seaton. Right now,
Speaker 3: they're sharing the crown with Creighton. Saint John's will beat
Speaker 3: seton Halls. You know it's not very good. Saint John's
Speaker 3: is his first time since ninety two that they've gotten
Speaker 3: a share of the Big East title. But eighty five
Speaker 3: is the last time Saint John's wanted outright. That was
Speaker 3: the year that Saint John's played in the Final four
Speaker 3: with two other Big East teams right here in lexingon
Speaker 3: the other teams Villanova and Georgetown, and those are the
Speaker 3: teams that played for the national championship. But Patino's got
Speaker 3: Saint John's right where he said you would have them.
Speaker 3: Maybe you're watching Red Storm Rising, the documentary series. But
Speaker 3: he's getting it done with the team kind of wins,
Speaker 3: ugly wins, with defense. He'll tell you, not a really
Speaker 3: good offensive team, not a good shooting team, but they've
Speaker 3: come from behind and wins and they've gotten it done.
Speaker 3: Maybe it doesn't make the Final four but it will
Speaker 3: get into the postseason, it will get into the NCAAs,
Speaker 3: and it will win. I think at least a couple
Speaker 3: of games. I've had a chance to watch them a
Speaker 3: couple of times. They are dangerous.
Speaker 1: Or to come on the Best of the Big Blue
Speaker 1: Insider here on six thirty wlap. Hey, it's Dick Gabriel.
Speaker 1: This is the Best of the Big Blue Insider. I
Speaker 1: am busy working with the boys sweet sixteen, so I'm
Speaker 1: taking you back to a day we did some interviews
Speaker 1: with the football wiltcatch, including a brand new offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: On the Best of the Big Blue Insider, talk about unique.
Speaker 3: Chaiyaze Pete, an offensive lineman, likely the starting left tackle
Speaker 3: six' eight, three twenty one senior transfer From New Mexico State.
Speaker 3: University he's a full Blooded Navajo Native. American played three
Speaker 3: seasons well kind of At New Mexico. State sat out
Speaker 3: as a, freshman played as a red shirt freshman in twelve,
Speaker 3: games started nine and after that started fifteen as a
Speaker 3: sophomore six games last, year but sat out the back
Speaker 3: half of the season with an. Injury and he came
Speaker 3: through the portal and you might recall he was the
Speaker 3: Guy kentucky was waiting. On you might have heard, that,
Speaker 3: well the portal traffic may be, done but there's one
Speaker 3: guy they're waiting, on or at least one old. Lineman
Speaker 3: and this was the. Guy and for whatever, reason other teams, dawdled,
Speaker 3: apparently And kentucky was, there and he cast his ballot
Speaker 3: basically chose The. Wildcats and today he talked to us
Speaker 3: about why he chose to be In.
Speaker 5: LEXIDON i feel like a lot of other universities WERE
Speaker 5: i guess not taking, seriously or the ship had already
Speaker 5: said for a lot of, them But kentucky still offered their.
Speaker 5: Hand And Coach stoops as a, statesman he is a
Speaker 5: very genuine, man AND i placed a lot of my
Speaker 5: trust into him in my final, Decision in my final
Speaker 5: decision with.
Speaker 10: Him how much was the relationship With Coach wolford a
Speaker 10: part of that?
Speaker 5: Too my relationship with, Him, YEAH i mean, it it
Speaker 5: started at the, end at the start of the. Year
Speaker 5: he's he lives up to his. Name he's, wolf he's,
Speaker 5: cunning he's, keen he's pretty. SHARP i LIKE i like
Speaker 5: that about.
Speaker 11: Him there's a lot of guys From los bruss that
Speaker 11: went To vanderbilt did did did?
Speaker 8: They did they try to pull you that direction as?
Speaker 5: Well actually toured At nashville OR i did an official.
Speaker 5: Visit it was good to see MY i, guess my
Speaker 5: former coaches, there former. Teammates it was good to, reconnect
Speaker 5: but it just wasn't the right fit for me in
Speaker 5: terms of their offensive, scheme AND i JUST i wanted
Speaker 5: SOMETHING i guess different FROM i Guess New mexico Slash
Speaker 5: vanderbilt's offensive.
Speaker 11: Scheme so how how challenging was it having the year
Speaker 11: that you had two seasons ago and then.
Speaker 8: Not being able to play for you, know half the
Speaker 8: year last.
Speaker 5: Year it was definitely a, Challenge but BUT i still
Speaker 5: approached it LIKE i would any other. Season you, know
Speaker 5: it's Still i'm still playing football out, there Whether i'm
Speaker 5: actually not playing football or. NOT i sustained a pretty
Speaker 5: heavy injury AND i had to kind of come come
Speaker 5: to terms with, that face reality and work my ass
Speaker 5: off when it comes to rehabilitation and getting myself battle.
Speaker 1: Ready, yeah you said Coach stoops as a, Statesman.
Speaker 8: What do you mean by?
Speaker 2: That well's.
Speaker 5: Genuine he's super honest and he means what he. Says
Speaker 5: AND i like that about. Him he's a genuine. Person
Speaker 5: he's he's very uh how do you put? It focuses
Speaker 5: on the players and the fact that this team is
Speaker 5: going to be player lit in the sense THAT i,
Speaker 5: mean we're going to pave the way for. It we're
Speaker 5: the first on the. Line we're going to define our.
Speaker 5: Culture given, OTHERS i mean a lot of new transfers and,
Speaker 5: whatnot we have to come up with something like.
Speaker 1: That when you were Researching, kentucky what did you?
Speaker 2: See what did you look? For what DID i?
Speaker 5: See what DID i look for? For, well one of my, decisions,
Speaker 5: apologies one of my decisions was kind of conference AM
Speaker 5: i willing to compete? In AND i, Figured, hell this
Speaker 5: is one hell of a mountain to, climb SO i
Speaker 5: might as a, climate you, Know I'm i'm committed to
Speaker 5: making my last stand. Here so that's what was one
Speaker 5: of my decision.
Speaker 10: Points she is transferring to THE sec being AN nfl draft,
Speaker 10: Prospect you're gonna be one of the most Visible Native
Speaker 10: American navajo athletes in the. Country what does that kind
Speaker 10: of label mean to you in representing.
Speaker 8: That part of your?
Speaker 5: Culture, again it's a deep. OWNER i love WHAT i
Speaker 5: do AND i do it for my, community for the,
Speaker 5: youth to give them a beacon of hope that you,
Speaker 5: know there's there's a way out of, It there's there's
Speaker 5: a way. Up there's a way that to create and
Speaker 5: turn defeat into. Victory And I'm i'm proud to be
Speaker 5: on the frontier of that and to define.
Speaker 8: It were there guys you looked.
Speaker 10: Up to growing up like that?
Speaker 8: Too who take the way for you to be in the? Spot?
Speaker 8: Not how do you? Mean were there Other Native.
Speaker 10: American AND ava athletes out there who you, thought, OH
Speaker 10: i can do that, too or were you kind of carving.
Speaker 5: That nim as A Native american. Athlete he's a big
Speaker 5: influence on, me big. INSPIRATION i WISH i could shake
Speaker 5: his inn and introduce, myself But i'd have to say
Speaker 5: that's one of my main.
Speaker 3: INFLUENCES a few years, ago believe it or, not there
Speaker 3: was a pro athlete here in, town minor league baseball
Speaker 3: player who was the first member of The crow nation
Speaker 3: to be a pro, athlete and he.
Speaker 1: Told us what that meant to his, culture stretching all
Speaker 1: the way back To. Montana you, know have you heard
Speaker 1: from a lot of relatives and things like?
Speaker 5: That, yeah you, know people reach out and what. NOT i,
Speaker 5: mean it's a very close knit community within The navo.
Speaker 5: Nation i've, had you, know fans come up and introduce
Speaker 5: themselves and. Whatnot but how do you feel about? That it's,
Speaker 5: Nice it's it's, different it's, new And I'm i'm recognizing
Speaker 5: That i'm a public, figure SO i have to conduct
Speaker 5: my business in a professional manner and compete with, class
Speaker 5: compete with.
Speaker 2: Likesop the.
Speaker 8: Estatesman how different.
Speaker 10: Is it being In kentucky where they're just not a
Speaker 10: lot of Other navajo people, around Versus New mexico where
Speaker 10: you grew up where it was so much more common.
Speaker 8: In being around it's on that community.
Speaker 5: Or it's like it's foreign. Territory i'll tell you that
Speaker 5: there's not a lot of representation out, here And i'm
Speaker 5: Realizing i'm in like there's there's no one else, here
Speaker 5: AND i guess understanding THE i guess the knowing that
Speaker 5: there's not a lot of representation out, THERE i have
Speaker 5: an opportunity to to be that person that to be
Speaker 5: on the frontier of, it to represent.
Speaker 3: That Is shaya's. Pete the new offensive lineman came through
Speaker 3: the portal From New.
Speaker 1: Mexico state up next on The best of The Big Moon,
Speaker 1: Sider my conversation With Tom, hammond legendary. Sportscaster it is
Speaker 1: the best of The Big Moon sider on six point
Speaker 1: thirty Wlap, Hey Dick, Gabriel i'm working the Boys sweet,
Speaker 1: sixteen so here's more of the best of The Big.
Speaker 1: Moonsider welcome back to The Big Moon, Sider.
Speaker 3: JOHNNY i was a longtime friend and an absolute mentor
Speaker 3: to many of. Us Tom hammond legendary, sportscaster you know
Speaker 3: his work From wlax here In lexingon for several, years
Speaker 3: but for the longest TIME Nbc, sports THE, nfl THE,
Speaker 3: nba college, basketball The, olympics and of course his book is.
Speaker 1: Now, tom welcome. Back last time you AND i talked
Speaker 1: was right before the book was, released and Now, Races
Speaker 1: games And Olympic dreams Of Sportscasters life is. Out you
Speaker 1: can get it Via amazon and in bookstores.
Speaker 2: Everywhere how's it doing.
Speaker 12: Well it's doing well as far AS i. Know Dick Mark,
Speaker 12: story my co, author And i've been around the state
Speaker 12: doing some signings and giving a little program about the
Speaker 12: book and how we came to write. It and the
Speaker 12: reception has been. Good, now always have a caveat. THAT
Speaker 12: i don't think anybody's going to walk up to me
Speaker 12: and say this book is. Terrible so it might not
Speaker 12: be the best sample of how it's, received but so
Speaker 12: far it's been, very very. Positive you.
Speaker 2: Know that's. Something and we're we're all sitting around telling.
Speaker 3: Stories the other day at the reception for the seventy five,
Speaker 3: team and somebody brought Up Jock. SUTHERLAND i learned that
Speaker 3: From jock very. Early he was a real mentor of
Speaker 3: mine as, well and he, said you, know he saw
Speaker 3: somebody recognize, me and he, said you, know they don't
Speaker 3: tell you when they don't like.
Speaker 12: You so, NOW i think in the age of social,
Speaker 12: media you, know people can get on there and write
Speaker 12: whatever they want and with no, accountability so good.
Speaker 2: Luck that's.
Speaker 3: True when they do come up and talk to, YOU
Speaker 3: i got to think most people do they hit you
Speaker 3: with the personal story about something that you said or,
Speaker 3: did or something they heard you.
Speaker 2: Said it really meant a lot to. Them do you
Speaker 2: hear a lot of?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 12: YEAH i do a. Lot AND i also have heard
Speaker 12: a lot of people saying to, me, OH i didn't
Speaker 12: know that about. You oh they're learning different to different
Speaker 12: parts of. Me and to be, honest it's a little
Speaker 12: scary to put all those things about your, life yourself
Speaker 12: out there that you've never really talked about before everybody to.
Speaker 12: Know Uh So i've kind of gotten gotten used to
Speaker 12: it by, now but at first it was a little
Speaker 12: frightening to do. That but, people a lot of people
Speaker 12: said they had learned some things about. Me and you,
Speaker 12: know people also notice that my affection For lexington And,
Speaker 12: Cupral kentucky that comes through the book and and and
Speaker 12: WHAT i say in the book, tick WHICH i really
Speaker 12: have felt my whole, career my whole. Life is that
Speaker 12: the best thing that ever happens to. Me it's when
Speaker 12: a total stranger comes up to me and, Says i'm
Speaker 12: A kentuckian AND i just want you to Know mike is.
Speaker 12: Proud and it doesn't it doesn't get any better than.
Speaker 2: That that's so.
Speaker 3: Great AND i had somebody tell me a long time
Speaker 3: ago then in our, business when you start to, move he,
Speaker 3: said it seems like you never. Stop And i've only
Speaker 3: made a couple of moves in my, life you, know
Speaker 3: lexing Into, dallas back To, lexing AND i was, fortunate.
Speaker 2: AND i know how much it means to you to
Speaker 2: be able to kind of keep this as your home.
Speaker 1: Base you literally traveled the world doing your, job but
Speaker 1: you'd always come home to election.
Speaker 12: Exactly and one of the great moments is when you,
Speaker 12: return you fly Over Calumet, farman you see that, again
Speaker 12: and you know you're. Home. YEAH i was so, Lucky,
Speaker 12: dick THAT i was not able to have to play
Speaker 12: THE tv game where you bounce from one bigger market
Speaker 12: to the next try and to. ADVANCE i wanted to
Speaker 12: stay In, lexington you, know BECAUSE i love, it BECAUSE
Speaker 12: i liked the horses and you, know all the things about.
Speaker 12: It AND i was so lucky That Harry, barfield who
Speaker 12: was the general manager of w L S, tv let
Speaker 12: me supplement my income at THE tv, station first of
Speaker 12: all by working at The keenland sales as the announcer
Speaker 12: and then at other sales around the, country SO i
Speaker 12: didn't have to. MOVE i was able to stay, here
Speaker 12: which is WHAT i always wanted to. Do and WHEN
Speaker 12: i worked for the, network people would, say oh my,
Speaker 12: gosh you, know travel must be. AWFUL i, said, WELL
Speaker 12: i have to make the. Connection usually that's the only
Speaker 12: PRICE i have to, pay and that's a small price
Speaker 12: to pay to still live In. Lexington SO i did
Speaker 12: have to make lots of. Connections but to me that
Speaker 12: was no big deal and my six Million delta miles
Speaker 12: going attempt to. That.
Speaker 3: Wow, YEAH i was fortunate, too because not nearly at
Speaker 3: the scale that you. Had But i've picked up some
Speaker 3: freelance work through my career And Ralph gabbard let me do,
Speaker 3: it you, KNOW i, said as long as it doesn't
Speaker 3: interfere with your duties as a sports manager AT, Kyt,
Speaker 3: yeah go, ahead you, know and kind, of you, know
Speaker 3: job well. Done it's a Reward and SO i was fortunate,
Speaker 3: Too but, YEAH i envy.
Speaker 1: YOU i never had a chance to work The. OLYMPICS
Speaker 1: i always wanted to do it at least. Once just the,
Speaker 1: majesty the, grandeur the, splendor all of that really appealed to.
Speaker 1: ME i got to think that when you first started doing,
Speaker 1: that was it overwhelming at?
Speaker 12: All it was a little daunting to start. With it
Speaker 12: was a bit intivating because it's something the whole world is. Watching,
Speaker 12: yeah when you get, there you realize the whole world is. Here,
Speaker 12: yeah and it's it's just such such a big deal
Speaker 12: and it's the one one of the things that the
Speaker 12: world usually agrees, On let's watch The. Olympics they want
Speaker 12: different people to, win of, course but they think that
Speaker 12: The olympics are important enough to take time out of
Speaker 12: their days to. Watch and my First olympics was this
Speaker 12: sound so long ago, now was nineteen eighty eight In,
Speaker 12: Seoul South. Korea and ORIGINALLY i was slated to do
Speaker 12: a questrian events And Michael weisman was the executive producer AT,
Speaker 12: nbc the man that hired me AT. Nbc AND i,
Speaker 12: said that's, great, Fine i'd love to do. IT i
Speaker 12: don't know anything about a question THAT i know about
Speaker 12: horses and horse racing a little, bit but about a
Speaker 12: QUESTION i don't know, much But i'll be fine and
Speaker 12: so lo and. BEHOLD a little while later he changed my.
Speaker 12: Mind he, SAID i want you to do men's and
Speaker 12: women's basketball and With al, McGuire and my, gosh you
Speaker 12: could afford, me could have locked me.
Speaker 8: Over with a better.
Speaker 12: Then so what a what a compliment it, was and
Speaker 12: what an assignment it, was and what a lifelong memories it.
Speaker 12: Was And al maguire one of the great characters Of american.
Speaker 12: Sports there's no never been anybody like him a unique
Speaker 12: individual and and we we just had such a great.
Speaker 12: Time in, fact for years, Afterwards dick that back in
Speaker 12: the days of answering, machines he would he would call
Speaker 12: my answering machine and he'd, Say, tommy, baby just want
Speaker 12: to tell YOU i love, you and he'd hang. Up
Speaker 12: if you want to tell YOU i love, you that
Speaker 12: would be his. Message so and Then Dick ever saw
Speaker 12: when he took OVER Nbc sports as the, CHAIRMAN uh
Speaker 12: had me branching out into Things i'd never considered. Before
Speaker 12: in fact THAT i tell the story That i'd done
Speaker 12: AN nba playoff game In boston The celtics and The
Speaker 12: pacers On sunday And flow him back home and A monday, Morning,
Speaker 12: Uh Ever spell. CALLED i, said oh my, gosh what
Speaker 12: DID i do? Wrong oh? Gosh and he SO i,
Speaker 12: answered and me he, said, well good job in the game.
Speaker 12: Yesterday what do you know about track and? Field AND i, said,
Speaker 12: Well i've probably been to a track meter two in my,
Speaker 12: life BUT i read don't know much about. It, well
Speaker 12: you'll be. Fine and that was my introduction to doing
Speaker 12: track and. Field and that's that's the sport THAT i
Speaker 12: did most of all at The. OLYMPICS i also did
Speaker 12: some gymnastics and some diving and in The Summer, games
Speaker 12: but the track and field was my main and to
Speaker 12: me that was such a compident ONCE i learned my way. Around,
Speaker 12: yes that was such a, compliment because to, me that's
Speaker 12: the heart and soul of the of The. Olympics in
Speaker 12: the fact THAT i think the one hundred meters dash
Speaker 12: is always the marquee event of the of The Summer,
Speaker 12: games it's also the most difficult THING i did in
Speaker 12: all my entire, career no.
Speaker 3: Doubt and Yet, tom you got it. Right each time
Speaker 3: you didn't, Stumble you got the. RIGHT i, mean and
Speaker 3: you talk about.
Speaker 1: Pressure we put pressure on, ourselves but it was just
Speaker 1: magnified because of the enormity of the, event the audience,
Speaker 1: setting and your years of experience came. Through you were,
Speaker 1: prepared and that's, everything isn't.
Speaker 12: It, well you're you're nice to say, That, dick and you're.
Speaker 12: RIGHT i always, thought there's no if you've, prepared done
Speaker 12: your homework and done all you can, do no sense being.
Speaker 12: Nervous you're prepared and with the the one hundred meters
Speaker 12: dashes over in nine seconds and there's no margin for,
Speaker 12: Error so either you get it right or you don't
Speaker 12: and knock on. Wood Still LUCKILY i never got, it
Speaker 12: never got it, wrong and they did get it wrong
Speaker 12: At Paris, olympics which is.
Speaker 3: Embarrassing, yeah we're talking To Tom, hammond of, course legendary
Speaker 3: sportscaster and now a co author Of Tom Hammond, Races
Speaker 3: games And Olympic, dreams a book that he wrote with
Speaker 3: our Buddy Mark's story from The Herald leader and a
Speaker 3: collection of great anecdote. Stories AND i thought about That
Speaker 3: tom when we were sitting together at a table at
Speaker 3: the reception for the seventy five team after the Last saturday's.
Speaker 3: Game AND i was very appreciative of being invited to
Speaker 3: join those, guys As i'm sure you. Were but it
Speaker 3: was kind of fun at the end when people began
Speaker 3: to ask you questions about you, know what was your
Speaker 3: favorite this or how did you end up doing? That
Speaker 3: and you, know they they sat and took it all
Speaker 3: in as you shared with them somebody. Experience, ESPECIALLY i
Speaker 3: think they appreciated you're a McGuire. STORIES i mean that,
Speaker 3: Guy and you know, WHAT i THINK i worked his
Speaker 3: very first game when he was working on a green.
Speaker 2: Screen it was before you joined the.
Speaker 3: Network over At Freedom, hall his very first, game he
Speaker 3: was under the stands in a small room with a
Speaker 3: monitor and they WOULD i Think edinburg was doing the
Speaker 3: game With packer and they would bring him in once
Speaker 3: in a.
Speaker 2: While and it was.
Speaker 1: Right after that Game Billy packer, said we Need al
Speaker 1: out here with us at the, table.
Speaker 3: And and a career was. Born so, YEAH i happened
Speaker 3: just to be a witness to.
Speaker 12: That but, yeah you, know the greatest threesome in sports
Speaker 12: broadcasting was you, Know edinburgh McGuire And packer and Uh
Speaker 12: Dick enburgh was my mentor and my, friend and uh
Speaker 12: we just had that that national, connection natural connection to
Speaker 12: can move on to The. AL i think appreciated how
Speaker 12: Much dick cared for me and liked, me so that
Speaker 12: made our transition easy when When al became my. Partner
Speaker 12: we did some college, games and we did some exhibition
Speaker 12: games THE Us olympic team against various teams before we
Speaker 12: went to The, olympics and then we were In seoul
Speaker 12: for a month together and then AS i, said, afterward
Speaker 12: we even did a couple OF nba. Games, afterwards THE
Speaker 12: nbc decided they didn't really like, him on THE. Nba but,
Speaker 12: uh it was just AS i, say a unique individual
Speaker 12: and frugal and we ate the employee cafeterias and lots
Speaker 12: of times when we were, traveling he, said he put
Speaker 12: it up hot, sauce, honey and then it stays all,
Speaker 12: Right and he was just he, was just LIKE i,
Speaker 12: say a Unique american sports. Character never be another. King
Speaker 12: AND i was lucky to work with another one, too
Speaker 12: in The Bill. Walton oh, yeah another, eccentric you, know
Speaker 12: individual that will never be. Duplicated and how lucky it
Speaker 12: was that to work with two individuals like.
Speaker 1: That something you And Dick enburg have in, common and
Speaker 1: really all the greats, do is that you knew and
Speaker 1: still know how, to as we say in the, business
Speaker 1: let it. Breathe you, know you knew when to talk
Speaker 1: and when to not, talk which is just as important,
Speaker 1: oftentimes which was big For, enburg but working with with
Speaker 1: McGuire And, packer but also in your case as, well
Speaker 1: letting the moment have its, moment you. Know and too
Speaker 1: often NOW i feel like people in our business they
Speaker 1: feel like they get paid by the word that they
Speaker 1: have to be yammering on when there's, times especially in,
Speaker 1: television just let it.
Speaker 12: Breathe, Right, oh, Absolutely dick and and your rights in
Speaker 12: the student observation on your, part BECAUSE i don't think
Speaker 12: many understand that these, days AND i do know that
Speaker 12: there are two hundred different channels to choose, from so
Speaker 12: they feel like they have, to you, know distinguish themselves
Speaker 12: or make themselves stand. Out but to, me that's the
Speaker 12: absolute wrong, approach and THAT i was famous AT nbc
Speaker 12: for the hand if there was a dramatic moment THAT
Speaker 12: i thought deserved to be emphasized to my, PARTNERS i
Speaker 12: just held the hand, up, like don't say, anything don't say.
Speaker 12: Anything and the first time they got that hand they
Speaker 12: didn't quite know what to. Do but after a while
Speaker 12: they became used to. It and you, know as you,
Speaker 12: say let the moment breathe at the, network that you
Speaker 12: have such talented cameramen and directors that the, story the
Speaker 12: picture is going to tell the story much better than
Speaker 12: ANYTHING i can. SAY i can only detract from the
Speaker 12: moment really by trying to put it into words when
Speaker 12: you can see it on. Television SO i guess one
Speaker 12: of the most famous instances WHEN i did, that gave
Speaker 12: the hand out in this case To randy mass and
Speaker 12: To Jerry bailey was When American pharaoh won The driple. Crown,
Speaker 12: yeah and as he crossed the finish line And larry
Speaker 12: colemas to call the, race, says the thirty seven year
Speaker 12: route is. Over American pharaoh has won The driple. Crown
Speaker 12: and people were going, crazy absolute not standing on tables and,
Speaker 12: chairs throwing things in the. Air AND i just held
Speaker 12: my hand up To jerry And. Randy they didn't know
Speaker 12: quite they didn't know quite how to take, it and
Speaker 12: they were just chomping to say, something to say, something and.
Speaker 12: No and for almost a, MINUTE i THINK i didn't
Speaker 12: say anything because the scenes that that threw Wesak, off
Speaker 12: Our hall Of fame, director was getting told the. STORY
Speaker 12: i didn't need to say, anything and AND i. WAS
Speaker 12: i was proud of that moment in. HERE i didn't
Speaker 12: say a. Word so maybe the best THING i did
Speaker 12: in my whole career was not say. Anything.
Speaker 3: Excellent, WELL i was watching and, yeah and THEN i
Speaker 3: was at a wedding.
Speaker 2: RECEPTION i was in the.
Speaker 1: BAR i ran down to the bar just to, watch
Speaker 1: and THEN i went back upstairs for everybody who was
Speaker 1: partying and.
Speaker 2: Dancing and as soon as there was a.
Speaker 1: LULL i yelled The American pharaoh was one of you,
Speaker 1: know and got a round.
Speaker 3: UP a plot wasn't for? Me of, Course Tom hammond
Speaker 3: is my. Guest we'll come back and talk a little
Speaker 3: bit more with the engineering sportscaster in just a minute
Speaker 3: here on six point THIRTY Wlap welcome. Back we're talking
Speaker 3: With Tom, hammond legendary sportscaster and the author Of Tom
Speaker 3: Hammond Races games And Olympic, dreams which he co wrote
Speaker 3: With Mark's story of The Hero. Leader real, quickly AS i,
Speaker 3: mentioned you AND i were invited to the post game
Speaker 3: reception with a seventy five.
Speaker 2: Team that meant a lot to. Me i'm sure it
Speaker 2: did to you as.
Speaker 3: Well but what were your memories of that, team because
Speaker 3: those guys were so much fun to, cover given everything
Speaker 3: they went through from their freshman year through their senior.
Speaker 12: Seasons, yeah they were a fun team to cover because
Speaker 12: they seemed to enjoy the, game The Twin towers and
Speaker 12: the whole group of, them and of Course Jack gibbings
Speaker 12: a youngster, then and it was a delight AND i,
Speaker 12: was like, you flattered that they would remember us and
Speaker 12: invite us to be. There because that was in AT.
Speaker 12: Wlaxtv THEN i was not broadcasting the. GAMES i was
Speaker 12: just sitting on the sideline with my little sixteen millimere camera,
Speaker 12: usually but you remember when When Bobby knight slapped Job
Speaker 12: hall up on the back of the, head and then
Speaker 12: when they met again in THE ncaa, TURM i got
Speaker 12: to go to the, game AND i, did and after the,
Speaker 12: GAME i, Said i'm going To San. DIEGO i just.
Speaker 12: CAN'T i can't stay. Away i've got to watch the
Speaker 12: team because they've developed into something special and on a.
Speaker 12: Mission and of, course lo and, Behold John wooden announces
Speaker 12: his retirement and nobody was going to beat him in
Speaker 12: that championship. Game but it was a wonderful, experience and
Speaker 12: like you, say it was wonderful too for them to
Speaker 12: remember us and to invite us.
Speaker 3: Back and you, know they experienced so much as starting
Speaker 3: off as The Super kittens and everybody, thought, oh three
Speaker 3: straight national titles and they went AN sec title For
Speaker 3: joe b and then they struggled through that thirteen and thirteen,
Speaker 3: year which was my first, year not to but my
Speaker 3: first year AT, uk And i'm, like wait a, minute
Speaker 3: this IS uk basketball and they're losing as much as they're.
Speaker 3: Winning that was a story in and of, itself wasn't.
Speaker 12: It when they were so yet when they were so
Speaker 12: highly hearted to start? With and you, KNOW i wondered
Speaker 12: throughout my career in all the different Sports i've, covered
Speaker 12: one Thing i've learned is that the greatest obstacle to
Speaker 12: overcome really is the pressure of. Expectations and that really
Speaker 12: inhibits people at time, athletes and you can understand. Why
Speaker 12: but the pressure of EXPECTATIONS i think might have been
Speaker 12: a factor in their struggles and then probably in their
Speaker 12: determination to, succeed which they eventually did to overcome those.
Speaker 12: Troubles but one THING i learned in all those different
Speaker 12: sports is, man the pressure to succeed when it's expected
Speaker 12: of you is really difficult to.
Speaker 2: Overcome, yeah, yeah and now it may be worse than
Speaker 2: ever because of social.
Speaker 1: MEDIA i don't know how much of the business you,
Speaker 1: miss but the fact that you don't have to deal
Speaker 1: with it that, much if at, all that's a.
Speaker 12: Plus isn't it when it's when it was just coming?
Speaker 8: In of?
Speaker 12: Course WHEN i WHEN i finally, Retired, yeah it was
Speaker 12: starting to be really, established AND i said to my.
Speaker 12: PARTNERS i, said you, know this is the work of the.
Speaker 12: Devil this is this is going to Be, uh it's
Speaker 12: going to change the whole landscape and the course of
Speaker 12: pas and and my philosophy was and is that you
Speaker 12: just can't listen to. It you you, know whether you
Speaker 12: did a good job or. NOT i knew IF i
Speaker 12: did a poor job or could have done, better AND
Speaker 12: i knew WHEN i knocked it out of the. Park
Speaker 12: and so, uh you just have to depend on your
Speaker 12: instincts and your knowledge and your preparation and not listen
Speaker 12: to all the noise or outside noise because and that
Speaker 12: and that includes don't listen to all the paths on
Speaker 12: the back either all the, time because you can go
Speaker 12: that way as. Well so you just have to tune
Speaker 12: in all out and rely on your own instincts to
Speaker 12: tell you whether you did a good job or what
Speaker 12: you need to do.
Speaker 3: Better, Well, tom always a pleasure talking with, you and
Speaker 3: keep us posted on the book's. Progress AND i do
Speaker 3: appreciate all the help you gave me through the, years
Speaker 3: just treating me with respect WHEN i was a, kid you,
Speaker 3: know and you were an established, broadcaster but that's important
Speaker 3: to young. People AND i try to remember that now
Speaker 3: As i'm getting up in. Years so thanks so. Much
Speaker 3: always great talking to.
Speaker 12: You thank, You, Dick thank. You And i've enjoyed your
Speaker 12: friendship and enjoyed your work over the. Years and IF i,
Speaker 12: somehow you, know influenced you or inspired you in some,
Speaker 12: way then that is very very nice of you to,
Speaker 12: say And i'm very appreciative of you saying. It and you,
Speaker 12: know a long time in this, business and one of
Speaker 12: the Things i'm most proud of in my whole, Career,
Speaker 12: dick IS i THINK i treated everyone with respect on
Speaker 12: all our. Crews you have two hundred and fifty people
Speaker 12: FROM nbc there broadcast The, derby AND i tried to
Speaker 12: learn as many other names AS i. Could of course
Speaker 12: the REGULARS i knew. Anyway SO i just you, know
Speaker 12: you said THAT i always treated you with, respect and
Speaker 12: that's one of the nicest.
Speaker 8: Things you could say to.
Speaker 2: Me that's, Great, Tom thanks so. Much hope to see
Speaker 2: you again.
Speaker 12: Soon Thanks, Dick thank you very.
Speaker 2: Much that was indeed the.
Speaker 3: CASE i always appreciated that About tom and about Kold.
Speaker 3: Leedford even BEFORE i was a broadcast colleague of.
Speaker 2: His worked on THE Uk network with. Him people used
Speaker 2: to ask, me IS k would really that? NICE i
Speaker 2: forgot that can't Be is he? Really?
Speaker 3: Yes it is possible for guys LIKE k With leedford
Speaker 3: And Tom hammond And Larry conley and people like that
Speaker 3: to be decent guys and treat people who are coming,
Speaker 3: up young people early in their career with, respect not
Speaker 3: like they're just. Kids that'll do it for hour number
Speaker 3: one on this the best of The Big Blue insider
Speaker 3: coming up an hour number. Two my conversation from a
Speaker 3: few weeks back With Jeremy jerman of THE Uk Football.
Speaker 3: Network that's all ahead on The Big blue And sider
Speaker 3: six thirty wlap he welcome back to The Big Moon, Sider.
Speaker 1: Dick gabriell with you working The sweet sixteen down In.
Speaker 1: Rapparina so this is the best of The Big Blue.
Speaker 1: Cider my conversation from a couple of weeks back With
Speaker 1: Jeremy jarman of THE Uk Football.
Speaker 2: Network are you enjoying your off season?
Speaker 3: Sir with your youngster and keeping an eye on the
Speaker 3: basketball team as well as his football?
Speaker 11: Team hey, man the off season has been. GREAT i can't.
Speaker 11: Complain good. Holidays did some ice skating with YOUNG jj and.
Speaker 11: Ah he likes being emotion man ice, skating roller, skating
Speaker 11: keeping him keeping him. Busy, there wife's good and round
Speaker 11: balls looking. Great it's Been it's been pretty good. Man
Speaker 11: how about.
Speaker 3: You you AND i talk all the time via text
Speaker 3: and calls, Whatever BUT i believe this is the first
Speaker 3: Time i've had you on the air since the season was,
Speaker 3: over and since, then as you, know the portal door
Speaker 3: has been spinning in both. Directions let's talk, First jeremy
Speaker 3: about the guys in general who have come through new
Speaker 3: faces on that old. Line As i've kind of turned
Speaker 3: the season, over you AND i have talked about. This
Speaker 3: so many things happen This it's just a strange.
Speaker 2: Year but in terms of lack.
Speaker 3: Of success over the last three, years in my, OPINION
Speaker 3: i still think it comes back to an offensive line
Speaker 3: that never really has found.
Speaker 2: Itself do you see it that?
Speaker 8: WAY i do see it that.
Speaker 11: Way these, guys, however individually and coming from you know
Speaker 11: the places they're coming.
Speaker 8: From these guys have all had.
Speaker 11: Success now you know this hasn't been success on the sec,
Speaker 11: level but that is not an indicator of future. Success you,
Speaker 11: Know i've been on teams with a lot of guys
Speaker 11: that that didn't play football in THE. Sec this is
Speaker 11: just going to come down to know how good of
Speaker 11: a Job Eric wolferd can do pulling these guys, together
Speaker 11: keeping them. Focused H these, guys, certainly each one of,
Speaker 11: Them i'm sure comes in with different. Deficiencies are they
Speaker 11: willing to get in the weight, room are willing to
Speaker 11: get in the film room and become better football? Players
Speaker 11: become better leaders and ultimately hold each other.
Speaker 3: Accountable you spend your career in COLLEGE i assume high
Speaker 3: school as, well and the pros kind of attacking offensive,
Speaker 3: lineman and you talk about deficiencies and everybody has.
Speaker 2: Them whether they're mental or.
Speaker 3: Physical what kind of coach do to try to facilitate
Speaker 3: a group of guys working together as?
Speaker 11: One that was one of the QUESTIONS i Asked mark
Speaker 11: going into last. Season you, know around this time last,
Speaker 11: year was you, know what do you do with so
Speaker 11: many new young, Faces, like what's the you, know what's
Speaker 11: your what's your, theory what's your you, know what's your subscription?
Speaker 11: Model to figure that out and, ultimately you, know your
Speaker 11: off season when you talk about some of the accountability
Speaker 11: games and things that take place in the off, season
Speaker 11: where you divide guys into groups of eight to ten
Speaker 11: and ultimately you just kind of have gold oriented boards
Speaker 11: that guys are able to get. Points so just accountability,
Speaker 11: systems you, know that's one of the.
Speaker 8: THINGS i. Think some of the other stuff is things
Speaker 8: that are just off the.
Speaker 11: Field you, know what kinds of things are you encouraging
Speaker 11: these guys to do amongst themselves to build brotherhood and
Speaker 11: build it quickly but. Authentically what kind of challenges are
Speaker 11: you throwing at these guys when they are in the
Speaker 11: weight room to you, know to kind of create that
Speaker 11: sense of. Camaraderie i'll tell, you you, Know i've talked
Speaker 11: With Corey peters and some other former guys over the
Speaker 11: course of the last few, weeks and you, KNOW i
Speaker 11: had a lot of respect for our strength, Coach Mark,
Speaker 11: hill who's now athletic, director.
Speaker 8: BUT i disliked him a lot of, days you, know
Speaker 8: as as a student.
Speaker 11: Athlete and you, know AND i still laugh about some
Speaker 11: of that stuff, today you know WHEN i see, Him
Speaker 11: but the relationship is. Real you should not Enjoy you
Speaker 11: should not like your strength coach while you're in an
Speaker 11: athlete not playing. Football you. Shouldn't, yeah and you, know
Speaker 11: and those are the kind of things THAT i want
Speaker 11: to see and here come. OUT i think over the
Speaker 11: course of these these next few months GAVE i WANT
Speaker 11: i want to hear stories about how the strength coach
Speaker 11: is really pushing these guys to their absolute genetic max
Speaker 11: and challenging.
Speaker 1: Them and by the, Way jeremy's referring to The Mark ollers,
Speaker 1: too to The mark the one with the see who's
Speaker 1: the assistant or deputy a d whatever you want to call.
Speaker 1: It and Now kentucky's strength and conditioning coach is Another Mark.
Speaker 1: Hill so you're kind of hoping these guys developed this intense,
Speaker 1: disregard let's, say for him and for Coach.
Speaker 11: Edmund for, sure your offensive line and your defensive line
Speaker 11: on game, base they have to be, absolute, nasty monocal
Speaker 11: individuals who just enjoy havoc and wreaking havoc and putting
Speaker 11: their hands on. People and that, mindset that mindset like
Speaker 11: that can be. Built that can be, manufactured and it
Speaker 11: has to be, manufactured not necessarily in. Practice that's where
Speaker 11: you kind of sharpen that mindset is manufactured in the weight.
Speaker 11: Room you, know that's, mental you, know throwing weight, around
Speaker 11: moving weight six o'clock in the, morning eight o'clock in the, morning.
Speaker 8: Just because that's the task at. Hand and part of
Speaker 8: that is it's.
Speaker 11: Mental you, know you gotta find you got to tap
Speaker 11: into things that happened to you over the course of
Speaker 11: your college career to get through some of. Those for, Me,
Speaker 11: gabe the embarrassment of losing THE lsu as a redshirt,
Speaker 11: sophomore those are uncomfortable moments THAT i had to tap
Speaker 11: into on days THAT i just quite honestly didn't want to,
Speaker 11: train didn't want to, work didn't want a, job didn't
Speaker 11: want to eat. Right but those uncomfortable memories are have
Speaker 11: to be what fuels you to be a better player
Speaker 11: and want to be a better.
Speaker 1: Teammate that blowout loss down AT lsu that had you
Speaker 1: wondering if you were on the right career path on
Speaker 1: the flight. Home you've told me that story many. Times
Speaker 1: and when Rich brooks got, home he thought he.
Speaker 2: Was on his way.
Speaker 3: OUT i thought he was going to have to sell his.
Speaker 3: House but that was really the beginning of the. TURNAROUND i.
Speaker 2: Think so you're, right and you, know as you talk
Speaker 2: about what happens in.
Speaker 3: The weight, ROOM i think back to all the video
Speaker 3: Clips i've seen From kentucky and other schools on social
Speaker 3: media where somebody is moving an enormous amount of weight
Speaker 3: for the first, time or setting a weight room, record
Speaker 3: or just doing something, incredible and he's surrounded by a
Speaker 3: couple dozen of his teammates cheering him.
Speaker 2: On it might be one, rep it might be you,
Speaker 2: know going.
Speaker 3: For a record number of, reps and these guys are
Speaker 3: screaming like banshees and they celebrate like they've just won
Speaker 3: a big game when it's. Over people like, ME i
Speaker 3: tried my best in the weight, room BUT i was
Speaker 3: never a part of anything like. That what do we
Speaker 3: need to understand about a moment like that and what
Speaker 3: it means to a football? Team you almost just answered.
Speaker 11: THAT i think the thing that's not spoken about spoken
Speaker 11: about a lot of those situations is that here you
Speaker 11: have a guy that is getting ready.
Speaker 8: To potentially break a personal. Record. Yeah so the mindset
Speaker 8: that you have to be in right to be willing
Speaker 8: to be willing to.
Speaker 11: Put yourself in that situation because you can get injured, weightlifting,
Speaker 11: right you, Know and also the mental element you got
Speaker 11: to be in the right mindset to, say you know
Speaker 11: What i'm going FOR pr. Today personal, Record, Yeah i'm
Speaker 11: going FOR pr. Today and to have your teammates that
Speaker 11: are there with, you that are pushing you. THROUGH i
Speaker 11: think everybody in the weight room in those moments they
Speaker 11: understand the significance of that because you, know there's a mental,
Speaker 11: element there's a big mental health Em, yeah you know
Speaker 11: you throw that extra five pounds on what difference does
Speaker 11: that extra five pounds? Make, well you know there's a mental.
Speaker 11: Right you got to bust through. That you got to
Speaker 11: bust through that wall of where you thought for so
Speaker 11: long that this was this was my this was my ceiling,
Speaker 11: right five pounds, less that was good.
Speaker 8: Enough but now you're trying to you're trying to beat,
Speaker 8: that and you know that's what that's.
Speaker 11: About and to be surrounded by your brothers or your,
Speaker 11: sisters you, know in moments like that really. Special AND
Speaker 11: i remember being in those, situations not the ones THAT
Speaker 11: i was a part, of like per se because the
Speaker 11: weight's on my, back BUT i remember Days Myron, PRYOR
Speaker 11: i mean just such a strong individual days where we
Speaker 11: surround the guys like that in the weight. Room you,
Speaker 11: Know Micah, Johnson, uh some of the guys you know
Speaker 11: that were extremely, strong or some of the guys that
Speaker 11: were going for vertical vertical leap wrecords that have been
Speaker 11: working and training for those things just as important.
Speaker 8: Too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah Jeremy jarman is my guests from THE Uk Radio,
Speaker 1: network the Former All conference.
Speaker 2: Defensive end for The.
Speaker 3: Wildcats we'll talk more football on the other side of
Speaker 3: the break here on six THIRTY Wlap welcome.
Speaker 2: Back we're talking With Jeremy jarman of.
Speaker 3: THE Uk Sports networky And Logan, Stenberg Christy thomas anchor
Speaker 3: our pregame coverage and then you Hear jeremy all over social,
Speaker 3: media including The Big Blue insider throughout the year and
Speaker 3: on THE Uk Sports network. Websites we were talking earlier
Speaker 3: about the offensive line AND i go back And i'm
Speaker 3: looking at The Big Blue wall And i've talked before
Speaker 3: with you about how it kind of, evolved and REALLY
Speaker 3: i think it began When Drake jackson took over at
Speaker 3: center Because Bunchie stallings was struggling a bit with long.
Speaker 2: Snaps they Moved bunchie over TO o.
Speaker 3: Guard he becomes An All, American drake becomes An All conference.
Speaker 3: Performer you Got Big george asapo a j on that
Speaker 3: line you, have you, know just incredible talent. There but
Speaker 3: those are guys who developed over a number of years,
Speaker 3: now and you AND i talked before about How kentucky
Speaker 3: with the portal is selected or recruited through. Need but
Speaker 3: it's a different process, now you, know you don't have
Speaker 3: guys who are maybe in their third year finally getting
Speaker 3: a chance to. Start but those first two years when
Speaker 3: they were part of the process were so vital in
Speaker 3: becoming a, fabric part of the fabric of the. Team
Speaker 3: is it, Possible is it fair for, Us jeremy to
Speaker 3: expect a big blue wall kind of response OR.
Speaker 2: I don't, KNOW i don't know what the word. Is
Speaker 2: i'm looking for big blue wall kind of like a.
Speaker 3: Resurgence, yeah when you're building through the portal as much
Speaker 3: as you are, RECRUITING.
Speaker 8: I, mean at the end of the, day they make
Speaker 8: a long, yes, no, no, no it's not.
Speaker 11: UNREASONABLE i think it's very, reasonable you, know to expect
Speaker 11: these guys to transition into this. League they're leveling, up
Speaker 11: they think that they can play in THE. Sec they
Speaker 11: need to come with the mindset that they're here to prove,
Speaker 11: it you. Know now it's their job to come here
Speaker 11: and to turn this around and get the momentum. Going you,
Speaker 11: know the only guy probably on the list that's that
Speaker 11: that we, know without a with without a shadow of a,
Speaker 11: doubt is going to be able to perform at this
Speaker 11: level Is Josh. Braun you, know the lineman coming From
Speaker 11: arkansas formaw let's to see. Lineman, yeah everybody else they
Speaker 11: check the, boxes, size, strength performance on the, tape but
Speaker 11: it's not until you, know really Until september.
Speaker 8: Where you really.
Speaker 11: Know and even with, that you can't just go off
Speaker 11: for the first body of work because we know that,
Speaker 11: longevity durability that those things have to be. There it's
Speaker 11: not you, know it's not just one, game it's you,
Speaker 11: know it's twelve games in a row, game so you
Speaker 11: got to be, durable, uh in the process.
Speaker 3: Too, yeah and you know you got to say healthy
Speaker 3: non conference versus conference play is. Big so it's a
Speaker 3: great mystery and it's going to play out right in
Speaker 3: front of. Us and now there will maybe, well there
Speaker 3: will definitely be a new Opening DAY. Qb whether It's
Speaker 3: Cutter bully or the kid who transferred in or you,
Speaker 3: know we'll know By august, obviously but his success whichever
Speaker 3: one it is will depend entirely on that big blue.
Speaker 2: Wall that's WHY i think we're always going to wonder.
Speaker 3: About Brock vandergriff because if you go Back jeremy and
Speaker 3: look at some of his clips from his first three
Speaker 3: or four, games Including Ole, miss he looks like a
Speaker 3: different guy than we saw down the. Stretch and not
Speaker 3: all of that's on, him is?
Speaker 8: It it's not all on.
Speaker 11: HIM i was concerned about some of the shots he
Speaker 11: took in The Southern miss game in a short and
Speaker 11: a shortened, game AND i THINK i Think Brock vandergriff
Speaker 11: came To lexington and gave us everything that he, had
Speaker 11: and you, know there were some hits that he took
Speaker 11: in that game where you, Know i'm wondering if if
Speaker 11: it was him or you, know or if it was
Speaker 11: the expectations that had him feeling the need to try
Speaker 11: to run, through you, know, linebackers and you, know in
Speaker 11: open field at the end of the, day you're a
Speaker 11: quarterback and nobody's EXPECTING i shouldn't say, nobody But i'm not,
Speaker 11: expecting you, Know kentucky quarterback to be running over. Linebackers,
Speaker 11: therefore trying to run over linebackers unless it's like a
Speaker 11: fourth to one situation game on the. LINE i just
Speaker 11: didn't like some of the shots that he took. EARLY
Speaker 11: i think it compromised him and his mobility and his
Speaker 11: ability to throw the football in the weeks that came
Speaker 11: After Southern miss and it was just basically it was
Speaker 11: it was a, seesaw it was a spiral that it
Speaker 11: most certainly was uncomfortable for him for the remainder of the.
Speaker 3: SEASON i wondered if he was trying to match some
Speaker 3: of those spectacular plays That Will levis made putting his
Speaker 3: shoulder into the chest of a, linebacker and that Was
Speaker 3: will's rep but he only did.
Speaker 2: It hear me a couple of.
Speaker 3: Times he hurdled one, guy but for this and this
Speaker 3: was a guy who was bigger than vandergriff.
Speaker 2: Was BUT i did.
Speaker 1: Wonder that did go through my, Mind and there were
Speaker 1: Times i'm staying in my, mind.
Speaker 2: Get, down get, down. Slide but he was going head, first.
Speaker 8: And that was the mo o on.
Speaker 11: Him when you go back and you look at what
Speaker 11: his teammates At georgia were saying that they said he
Speaker 11: wasn't a guy that shied away from.
Speaker 8: Contact but you, know, ultimately, ultimately as the.
Speaker 11: Quarterback you have to stay, healthy you gotta you gotta
Speaker 11: be serviceable for the coaches and for your, team and you.
Speaker 8: Can't you can't go out there and be something that you're.
Speaker 11: Not and that would be the advice THAT i have
Speaker 11: for Out Zach calzada coming back into THE sec this.
Speaker 8: Season don't try and be something you're.
Speaker 11: Not get the yards as you can, get, slide, dive
Speaker 11: whatever you need to, do but stay on the field
Speaker 11: for your team and pick and choose those pick and
Speaker 11: choose those moments where you know you show your.
Speaker 3: TOUGHNESS i talked to our Colleague Jeff pikoro more than
Speaker 3: once about. This uh you Mentioned zach coming, in And
Speaker 3: i've talked About Cutter. Bowley were you surprised given the
Speaker 3: fact that the staff turned The cutter and almost really
Speaker 3: had to by the end of the year as the,
Speaker 3: starter but.
Speaker 2: Went out and got a guy who.
Speaker 3: It looks like he has STARTING qb written all over,
Speaker 3: him the guy who came through the. Portal he didn't
Speaker 3: come here to, sit but he knows he's got to
Speaker 3: win the, job just As levis, did just As brock.
Speaker 2: Did were you?
Speaker 3: Surprised kentucky made it a point to. GO i didn't
Speaker 3: get a guy with STARTING qb, Credentials No i'm.
Speaker 11: Not and they owed it to the team to go
Speaker 11: out and get a guy that can come in and
Speaker 11: compete for the starting quarterback, job a guy that's got experienced.
Speaker 8: Throwing the, ball being dual threat and.
Speaker 11: MOBILE i think that his skill set In, CALZADA i
Speaker 11: think it's very complementary to a, team you, know this
Speaker 11: team where there's still going to be some question. Marks,
Speaker 11: gay we've seen we've seen college, Football we've seen how
Speaker 11: it has. Evolved now THE nfl is following. Suit you
Speaker 11: gotta have you gotta have a guy on your roster
Speaker 11: that is dual. Threat if he's not dual, threat well
Speaker 11: he better BE i mean just absolutely an incredible pocket.
Speaker 8: Passer.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah he's got to be laser. Sharp he's got
Speaker 11: to have quick. Reads he's got to be willing to
Speaker 11: get the ball out of his hands because you, know
Speaker 11: he's got to scheme a system of comprehension of the blitz,
Speaker 11: schemes rotations that allow him to process the place quickly
Speaker 11: where he can get the ball out before he gets.
Speaker 8: Hit and you, know so.
Speaker 11: Going into the season seeing these two guys with different
Speaker 11: skill sets compete that that's.
Speaker 8: What this is. About and we know what the data.
Speaker 11: Shows the data shows that whoever's name the, starter that
Speaker 11: they're probably not going to be a starter for at
Speaker 11: least one one or two games or or or or
Speaker 11: more just because you get banged. Up that's that's the
Speaker 11: nature of this.
Speaker 8: Lead.
Speaker 3: YEAH i look At georgia end of the, year whether
Speaker 3: it's With Carson beck on the. Bench, yeah you, know
Speaker 3: and some think that's what Costs georgia in the. Postseason
Speaker 3: not everybody's blessed Like texas with two guys who could
Speaker 3: start anywhere in the.
Speaker 2: Country so uh but, no you're.
Speaker 1: RIGHT i, mean you, know name and name of a
Speaker 1: team that goes through a season with a quarterback, unscathed
Speaker 1: and of course whoever's the quarterback will be looking at
Speaker 1: a Different for the most, part set of.
Speaker 2: Receivers you got.
Speaker 1: A couple of guys, back some young guys who are
Speaker 1: going to get an, opportunity but others who.
Speaker 2: Have come through the.
Speaker 3: PORTAL i kind of think we've all Expected Brian brown
Speaker 3: to move. ON i guess we shouldn't be surprised That
Speaker 3: dane moved on because he needs to go someplace where
Speaker 3: he can really showcase his.
Speaker 2: Skills for THE, nfl and that was questionable whether he
Speaker 2: be able.
Speaker 8: To do that.
Speaker 2: Here, well it should have been, Here it should have been.
Speaker 3: Here, uh and to a point it, WAS i, think
Speaker 3: but not to the point where you, know we all
Speaker 3: thought this guy we thought maybe AFTER i think his first,
Speaker 3: year we wondered what he declare after his third.
Speaker 2: Year BUT i think this new room of receivers in
Speaker 2: the receivers.
Speaker 3: Coach WHO i know you like a, LOT i think
Speaker 3: the balance could end up being a real weapon for The, wildcats.
Speaker 8: Do You, yeah, yeah it can. Be and there's there's
Speaker 8: just you, know there's just there's question.
Speaker 11: Marks and you Mentioned dane and to lose a player
Speaker 11: of his, caliber skill, set being a legacy, guy that
Speaker 11: just can't.
Speaker 8: Happen you, know just very disappointed.
Speaker 11: THERE i think that for him to continue to grow
Speaker 11: as a, PLAYER i think that he needed he, needed,
Speaker 11: uh you, know stronger performances from guys in the wide
Speaker 11: receiver room as, well guys that had the ability to.
Speaker 8: Play, outside play.
Speaker 11: Inside and ultimately we got to a point gate where
Speaker 11: we had games where he was being target, at, yeah
Speaker 11: twelve to fifteen times a.
Speaker 2: Game, yeah and double team.
Speaker 11: Yeah AND i mean they're just, dropping you, know linebackers
Speaker 11: right into the you, know right right right into the
Speaker 11: under the.
Speaker 8: Route, yeah you, know in breaking routes and stops and.
Speaker 8: Curls just.
Speaker 11: Frustrating you, know they literally no pun it now actually pun.
Speaker 11: Intended they keyed on, him, yeah and they forced other
Speaker 11: players to try to show that they could step up
Speaker 11: and make some. Plays and you Saw macklin succeed in
Speaker 11: some instances down the. Stretch tennessee being one of those
Speaker 11: games when he got a chance to get back out
Speaker 11: on the outside where you, know maybe he should have
Speaker 11: been all.
Speaker 1: Year, well miss made it a point not only key on,
Speaker 1: him double team, him they interfered with, him and he
Speaker 1: still made big plays down In. Oxford we're talking To
Speaker 1: Jeremy jerman of THE Uk Sports. Network more to come
Speaker 1: here on six THIRTY Wlp Welcome.
Speaker 3: Back we're talking With Jeremy jarman of THE Uk Sports,
Speaker 3: network Former kentucky defensive end and now you hear him
Speaker 3: With Logan sindberg And Christy thomas anchoring our pregame. Covers
Speaker 3: we talked a lot about the, offense didn't talk about running.
Speaker 3: Backs BUT i need to get.
Speaker 1: You over to the defensive, side where The wildcats had
Speaker 1: an okay season last, Year BUT i think you AND i,
Speaker 1: agree he should have been better personnel moving on from all,
Speaker 1: levels the line, Linebackers harriston moves. On he's getting some
Speaker 1: review rave reviews now in some of the all star,
Speaker 1: situations as he.
Speaker 2: Is the real.
Speaker 3: Deal he, is and it's a shame we didn't get
Speaker 3: to see him at his best is last. Year Here
Speaker 3: so does the defense AND i know how you feel
Speaker 3: About Brad, white but does the defense take a step
Speaker 3: backward this? Year and again some guys that come through the,
Speaker 3: portal but it's it's kind of a mystery right.
Speaker 2: NOW i think.
Speaker 11: On, paper the defense looks like it's ready to take
Speaker 11: a step, back if not a couple of steps. Back,
Speaker 11: however the thing About Brad white is that he's shown
Speaker 11: that he can do a lot with a. Little he's
Speaker 11: a good, chef and he's very creative of how to
Speaker 11: get how to get desirable, results you, know in difficult.
Speaker 11: Circumstances it's going to be interesting to, see you, know you,
Speaker 11: know down the. Stretch there's times gate WHERE i would
Speaker 11: have liked to have seen more. Pressure there's times WHERE
Speaker 11: i look back at last season AND i, say you,
Speaker 11: know maybe this, team when WHEN i look at how
Speaker 11: how how good this defensive line group, was maybe there's
Speaker 11: times where we should have had four d tackles across
Speaker 11: the across the front at. Times, Yeah and you, know
Speaker 11: you can't go back and. Redo But i'll be curious
Speaker 11: in the spring with practices and going into the fall
Speaker 11: to see If brad evolves and maybe gets a little
Speaker 11: bit more, aggressive maybe transitions and, puts you, know four
Speaker 11: hands down across the defensive line at times versus the
Speaker 11: outside line backer edge rush position where it has not
Speaker 11: been productive or as productive AS i know that he
Speaker 11: would like over the last few. Years and you see,
Speaker 11: us you see two young edge guys basically get into the.
Speaker 8: Portal we GRADUATE Jj, weaver and there's a lot of
Speaker 8: there's a lot of room for growth at the edge rush.
Speaker 2: Position in his, defense you lose a talent Like Dion,
Speaker 2: walker you, know and everybody knew from his freshman year
Speaker 2: on how great he, was and he was a guy
Speaker 2: who allowed some of the guys around him to.
Speaker 3: EAT i don't know if that happened as much this
Speaker 3: year as you expected or the experts, expected but saying
Speaker 3: goodbye to somebody like that ain't, easy is.
Speaker 11: It it's not easy saying goodbye To Keyshawn, silver who
Speaker 11: was really good at the nose this.
Speaker 8: Year that was not. Easy Losing Trevon, ripke.
Speaker 11: Guy with a lot of experience got AND i thought
Speaker 11: extremely highly Of Octavius Oxen.
Speaker 8: DYNE i, mean you just you lose so much beef
Speaker 8: up front.
Speaker 11: And, Experience, yeah and experience there that it's, man it,
Speaker 11: is it's. There they're in a tough, spot they really.
Speaker 11: Are they have to get the. Transfers they got to
Speaker 11: get the young, players they got to get them ready to.
Speaker 8: Play you, know we.
Speaker 3: Talked About, hairston AND i keep reminding myself that there
Speaker 3: have been. Years one in particular was the year After
Speaker 3: kentucky had four d backs wind up IN nfl camps
Speaker 3: and we all, wondered what in the you, know what
Speaker 3: are they gonna? Do how are they Gonna and they
Speaker 3: were fine the next year because they had, developed, recruited,
Speaker 3: developed coached the guys and built.
Speaker 2: Depth AND i do think that's.
Speaker 3: Something while they weren't haven't been able to do that
Speaker 3: with THE o, LINE i think they have been able
Speaker 3: to do That jeremy with a d, BacT which is
Speaker 3: a tribute to whoever's been A D backs coach through the,
Speaker 3: years And Brad white And Mark stoops because you know
Speaker 3: how he feels about kind of pitching in and helping
Speaker 3: with D.
Speaker 11: Backs, YEAH i THINK i think at the cornerback, POSITION
Speaker 11: i Think Chris collins has done an excellent job coaching that.
Speaker 11: Group that, guy that guy is a he's an up
Speaker 11: and coming star at the. Position the year That Tarryan,
Speaker 11: nichols the emergence of J Q hardaway at those positions legitimized.
Speaker 11: Him and you know in this, DEFENSE i Thought tarryan
Speaker 11: was was excellent at. Times matchup At Old miss against
Speaker 11: all the first Team All, America, yeah you, know taller
Speaker 11: than him by two to three, inches thought he competed extremely.
Speaker 11: Well they're huge PBu there in a big play situation
Speaker 11: in the second. Half, uh there's a lot to. Like
Speaker 11: there's a lot to like there at the cornerback. Position you,
Speaker 11: know you bump back, inside then you look at the you,
Speaker 11: know you look at the linebackers and you know there's
Speaker 11: some tough losses there to. Overcome, yeah the kind of
Speaker 11: losses that could make it hard on the back end
Speaker 11: for the corners and the.
Speaker 1: Safeties you talked about how offenses now need quarterbacks who
Speaker 1: can run it and throw, it and you, know it's.
Speaker 1: Interesting generally things trickle, down as you, know you played
Speaker 1: in THE, nfl but now that dual THREAT qb stuff
Speaker 1: looks like it's moving. Up you, know whether the pros
Speaker 1: are borrowing more from the college game when.
Speaker 2: It comes to the.
Speaker 3: PLAYOFF i, mean look at the qbs in The Super
Speaker 3: bowl coming up And Jalen, hurts who's not quite the
Speaker 3: runner That Patrick, mahomes but they're, crafty. Right how of
Speaker 3: defenses had to adjust and become MORE i don't, know,
Speaker 3: intricate if you, will more complex.
Speaker 2: To handle this kind of.
Speaker 11: OFFENSE i think it's just the incorporation and of more
Speaker 11: speed off the. Edge you're seeing teams get really smart
Speaker 11: about how they're coming off the, edge who they're coming
Speaker 11: off of it. With you, Know i'm Saying i'm seeing
Speaker 11: hybrid safeties now coming off the. Edge as as an
Speaker 11: offensive lineman's offen to, tackle your kick slide has to
Speaker 11: be perfect.
Speaker 8: With a guy that's potentially a ten yard.
Speaker 11: Split he's you, know the safety's four four four five
Speaker 11: guy you, know his ten yard split may be you,
Speaker 11: know one. Four your kickslide has to be, perfect you.
Speaker 11: Know SO i think these teams doing a good job
Speaker 11: of trying to counter some of you, know counter some
Speaker 11: of the things that they're seeing with you, know more,
Speaker 11: blitzes more chips from the tight, ends more quick.
Speaker 8: Game.
Speaker 11: Uh and WHEN i look at us last, Year i'm
Speaker 11: certain that one of the things that really, hindered really
Speaker 11: hindered Bush hamden is the lack of mobility of.
Speaker 8: Our offensive line last. Year, yeah a.
Speaker 11: Lack of, mobility and we needed those guys to be
Speaker 11: able to get out in space for quick hitting. Screens
Speaker 11: and when you can't hit teams that are aggressive pass
Speaker 11: rushers with screens, gave that's difficult for an offensive. Coordinator
Speaker 11: So i'm hopeful that you, know with this this incoming
Speaker 11: group of offensive, linemen that these guys are having the
Speaker 11: kind of off season that they need to, have being
Speaker 11: able to get out in, space wait underneath their knees
Speaker 11: and their, toes able to catch contact with smaller defenders
Speaker 11: to aid in an offense that Bush hampden is going
Speaker 11: to deploy this.
Speaker 3: Fall we'll come back and finish up With Jeremy jarman
Speaker 3: in just a minute here on six THIRTY. Wlap welcome.
Speaker 3: Back we're talking With Jeremy jerman of THE Uk Sports,
Speaker 3: network and you've kind of gone through offense and defense,
Speaker 3: quickly and we will do this through spring in. Summer
Speaker 3: but haven't had a chance to talk To Double j's
Speaker 3: since the season ended here on the. Air we talk
Speaker 3: all the time it text and phone, calls But i've
Speaker 3: talked a little bit through the weeks following the season.
Speaker 1: In jeremy About Mark stoops and what he came here
Speaker 1: to do and how he pledged the day he was
Speaker 1: hired to do it and that was hard work recruiting
Speaker 1: and he said more than what's no, shortcuts but, evaluate,
Speaker 1: recruit sign, develop in other, words coach kids into BECOMING sec,
Speaker 1: players you, know multiple, Kids and that's exactly how he
Speaker 1: got this program to a ten win situation on more
Speaker 1: than one occasion and had us talking about man one
Speaker 1: more win and maybe they're in THE sec title game
Speaker 1: and that kind of. Thing with the portal in THE,
Speaker 1: nil he's clearly not, happy AND i think it's. Unfortunate
Speaker 1: he can't really, coach and most coaches can't the way
Speaker 1: they want to, coach you know WHAT i, Mean and by,
Speaker 1: THAT i mean develop a. Program but you gotta just don't.
Speaker 8: You you got to, adjust and you got to be.
Speaker 11: Authentic AND i AND i think that that's the thing
Speaker 11: About mark That i've Always i've always liked this uh
Speaker 11: and with him and and and his, staff These youngstown,
Speaker 11: guys is that they're authentic.
Speaker 8: Guys and at the end of the, day at the
Speaker 8: end of the, day.
Speaker 11: These, players your former, players they will continue to helping
Speaker 11: age you and recruiting if you just if you're just
Speaker 11: honest upfront with the kids and the, parents you ask
Speaker 11: for consent to push them, hard coach them, hard love
Speaker 11: on them when they need to be loved, on and
Speaker 11: grind them when they need to be. Grinded and and
Speaker 11: and and and everybody can look back at the memories
Speaker 11: that were that were.
Speaker 8: Made Uh AND i think that that's what it.
Speaker 11: Is this is this is a situation THAT i Know
Speaker 11: mark can dig himself out of if if he wants,
Speaker 11: to if he wants to dig. In you, know had
Speaker 11: a chance to be at the table with him when
Speaker 11: he first came, in AND i saw how he put
Speaker 11: the frank and the beans on the, table and was
Speaker 11: willing to do whatever it took to Get kentucky football.
Speaker 11: Irrelevance and he did that and he deserves the opportunity
Speaker 11: to do that. Again to tell the fan, BASE i
Speaker 11: know that we're in a tough, situation but this is
Speaker 11: how we're going to get out of.
Speaker 8: It you, know this is how we got.
Speaker 11: IT i think that our fan base is is smarter
Speaker 11: than what you, know people like you AND, i former,
Speaker 11: players media people give them credit. For you, KNOW i
Speaker 11: get online AND i see the posts and, comments AND
Speaker 11: i can't interact with a lot of. THEM i don't
Speaker 11: think that our bosses, would you, know would would appreciate.
Speaker 11: It Would but we have a very intelligent fan base
Speaker 11: that deserves the. Truth they deserve, transparency And i'm hopeful
Speaker 11: That mark will give them that in terms of just, saying,
Speaker 11: hey this is how we're going to do this. Thing
Speaker 11: and with, that the recruits that are coming in the
Speaker 11: expectation has got to, be, Hey i'm bringing you in
Speaker 11: here to. Compete this is and, ay HEY i get
Speaker 11: you ready next, Year i'll get you ready into You
Speaker 11: we're gonna redshirt.
Speaker 8: You, no this Is i'm.
Speaker 11: DEAD i expect you to be up here have lodging this,
Speaker 11: fault you, know every week every weekend for home, games
Speaker 11: Because i'm expecting your son to be on the football
Speaker 11: field helping us win. Games and if he can graduate
Speaker 11: and get here In january or you, know, great but you,
Speaker 11: know if he can't get here To june And, july
Speaker 11: then we'll get.
Speaker 8: Him we'll get him.
Speaker 1: Ready Then Ohio state spent an enormous amount of money
Speaker 1: and one a national.
Speaker 3: Championship. Uh most people believe a led to be led to. See,
Speaker 3: uh it may, have but you've got to wonder is
Speaker 3: that the?
Speaker 2: Answer?
Speaker 3: Now can you fix this problem by throwing more money at?
Speaker 3: It and if that's the, answer there are not a
Speaker 3: lot of schools that can that can compete like, that
Speaker 3: you know WHAT i.
Speaker 11: Mean i'm adamant that you can't buy your way into
Speaker 11: heaven and you, know but but it can. Help you,
Speaker 11: know if you're blessing you're you're in a football rich
Speaker 11: state like like the state Of, ohio with the kind
Speaker 11: of boosters that they. Have those kids that go To Ohio,
Speaker 11: state they know what they know what the assignment is
Speaker 11: and you, know they have a culture that demands.
Speaker 8: Excellence SO i just think with coach. DAY i think
Speaker 8: he's an outstanding.
Speaker 11: COACH i know that there's probably ten to twenty percent
Speaker 11: Of Ohio state fan base right. Now they may still
Speaker 11: disagree with that despite this most recent national. Championship but
Speaker 11: he's a good ball coach and he knows what he's.
Speaker 11: Doing and so you gotta have enough resources to be
Speaker 11: able to get to get the right, prototype the right
Speaker 11: phozeke onto. Campus but once they get the, CAMPUS i
Speaker 11: mean there's not a ton of separation between athletes from
Speaker 11: school to, School like when you talk about this.
Speaker 8: First dring versus this first. Dring we take the weight,
Speaker 8: room we go out and we do it in.
Speaker 11: RECESS i remember in first grade through fifth, grade we
Speaker 11: go out and we do phield, day and we do
Speaker 11: the bag jump and we do The. Listen these guys
Speaker 11: are pretty comparable across the board. Strength you, know short
Speaker 11: shuttle et cetera shuttle and you got a few. Outliers
Speaker 11: you got a few avatars that fall outside of. That
Speaker 11: BUT i mean this is WHEN i look at the
Speaker 11: losses and. Things these losses aren't because we had a
Speaker 11: guy that was too slow or, man we needed a
Speaker 11: guy that have a higher. Vertical it wasn't. That this is,
Speaker 11: Discipline this is guys needing to lock in and be.
Speaker 11: Engaged this isn't this isn't a this isn't a. Talent you,
Speaker 11: know last season the four and, eight it wasn't talent.
Speaker 11: Deficiency you're not going to sell me on, that And
Speaker 11: i'm not going to push that narrative, execution execution from the,
Speaker 11: top from the top.
Speaker 8: Down you, know are the guys ready to? Play are they?
Speaker 11: Confident do they have the ability to recognize the changes
Speaker 11: that the coordinators are throwing at? THEM i saw guys
Speaker 11: where it appeared that some guys froze in some. Moments you,
Speaker 11: know maybe some moments were too big for, guys guys
Speaker 11: couldn't adapt.
Speaker 8: To pre snap.
Speaker 11: Movement but, now this this wasn't a Talent this wasn't
Speaker 11: a talent deficient football. TEAM i, mean this team's got
Speaker 11: a lot of pros on it and we're going to
Speaker 11: see that here in the coming months as these guys get.
Speaker 3: DRAFTED i have less than two minutes. Left what are
Speaker 3: you going to be looking for here in the? SPRING
Speaker 3: i know it's probably a long laundry, list or is?
Speaker 9: It?
Speaker 8: Now for, me it's pretty.
Speaker 11: SIMPLE i want to see which young players are going
Speaker 11: to make plays this. Spring that to, me that's All
Speaker 11: i'm focused. ON i think everything ELSE i think with
Speaker 11: the transfer, GUYS i think that that will take care of.
Speaker 11: ITSELF i want to see the red shirt, freshmen the
Speaker 11: sophomores that have taken a jump and are ready to
Speaker 11: make an impact this.
Speaker 8: FALL i want to see that. List that's the only
Speaker 8: LIST i want to.
Speaker 2: SEE i would love to see a blue white, game
Speaker 2: Wouldn't would that?
Speaker 3: HELP i got to, THINK i mean the fan we
Speaker 3: would help the fan, base but would that help us
Speaker 3: everybody figure out who those guys?
Speaker 8: ARE i think it would help.
Speaker 11: Everybody AND i think it would help the players because
Speaker 11: now you're able to you're you're able to create this
Speaker 11: just you, know this pseudo game day.
Speaker 8: Atmosphere. Yeah and and and simulate what could be perceived
Speaker 8: as pressure for some young.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 8: Yeah AND i like any time you get a chance
Speaker 8: to do.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 3: Yeah here Is Jeremy. Jermy he is a vital part
Speaker 3: of our coverage Of kentucky. Football he And Logan Stenberg
Speaker 3: Christy thomas set the table FOR uce on game day
Speaker 3: with pregame coverage of The wildcat football games each and every,
Speaker 3: fall and we're looking forward to.
Speaker 2: It it's going to be here before. Long Double jays
Speaker 2: will see you with.
Speaker 11: PRACTICE i hope sounds, Good. GABE i appreciate. It you're
Speaker 11: definitely gonna see me out there.
Speaker 1: AND i can't. Wait hope you enjoyed this hour we
Speaker 1: spend With jeremy talking. Football we haven't had a chance
Speaker 1: to talk much With Jeremy jarman as the offseason war,
Speaker 1: on so we thought we would get caught. Up and,
Speaker 1: uh SINCE i recorded, that as you can, TELL i
Speaker 1: have come down with a little bit of a cold
Speaker 1: just in time for the. Weekend But i'll still enjoy
Speaker 1: The Super bowl AND i wanted to share this with
Speaker 1: you about The Super. Bowl you always look For kentucky,
Speaker 1: connections at LEAST i. Do and we talked About Darien
Speaker 1: canard who now plays for The, eagles and if you
Speaker 1: hadn't heard, already he won two rings with The chiefs
Speaker 1: as a. Backup now he's a backup with The. Eagles
Speaker 1: so if The eagles win The Super, bowl he will
Speaker 1: win his third Consecutive Super bowl. Ring and they keep
Speaker 1: talking About Ken Norton junior is the only guy who's done,
Speaker 1: it which is True Super.
Speaker 8: Bowls it.
Speaker 1: Is The packers won three straight. Titles But Ken norton,
Speaker 1: junior you, know played for The. Cowboys cowboys then sides
Speaker 1: with The niners and they beat The cowboys in The Super.
Speaker 8: Bowl So.
Speaker 1: Canard can win his third ring if The eagles win.
Speaker 1: It but there are Other kentucky connections to This Super,
Speaker 1: bowl believe it or. Not you've Got Ethan, driscoll who
Speaker 1: is From, louisville went to Holy Cross High, school played
Speaker 1: his college football At marshall and was, undrafted but fought
Speaker 1: his way into THE nfl and now he's with The,
Speaker 1: chiefs so he could win A Super bowl. Ring Mackai
Speaker 1: becton played.
Speaker 8: AT u OF l for three.
Speaker 1: Years he was a really good blocker AT u OF,
Speaker 1: l good old, lineman first Team All, conference starting guard
Speaker 1: for The. Eagles so The Louisville cardinals have a starter.
Speaker 8: On The EAGLES o.
Speaker 1: Line but you've also Got Jason michael on The eagles coaching.
Speaker 1: Staff he's the tight ends. Coach he was the STARTING
Speaker 1: qb On Western KENTUCKY'S oneaa national championship team back in
Speaker 1: twenty oh. Two but you got one, More Bobby.
Speaker 2: KING i had never heard of this.
Speaker 1: Guy he went To Trinity High, school my, school AND
Speaker 1: i had to dig and find out where he went to.
Speaker 1: College he went To Texas El paso and played. There
Speaker 1: he is The eagles inside linebackers. Coach and get, this
Speaker 1: that job became available when Dj, Elliott kentucky's former defensive,
Speaker 1: coordinator left The. EAGLES i, mean he's done nothing but
Speaker 1: college football up until that. Point he was A temple
Speaker 1: as the de coordinator and outside linebackers. Coach so he
Speaker 1: just moves across town takes a job with The eagles
Speaker 1: last year in twenty twenty, THREE i should, say as
Speaker 1: inside linebackers coach Under Nick. Siriani then he leaves In
Speaker 1: december of twenty four to become THE Nc state de.
Speaker 1: Coordinator that'll do it for the best of The Big Blue.
Speaker 1: Insider tomorrow night Is kentucky. Basketball that's. It good night
Speaker 1: from the garage In.
Speaker 2: Lexington we really must be.
Speaker 8: Going thank you for a memorable.
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Speaker 5: meet a woman of your.
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