WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.120 Yes, it is hump Day. Welcome to the Big Blue Sider. 2 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:05.719 Dick Gabriel with you on a Wednesday edition of our 3 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:09.359 program and coming up once in future Wildcats, We're going 4 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:11.400 to talk with Sean Woods at the bottom of the hour. 5 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:14.480 He is, of course, the unforgettable guard who talks with 6 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.519 us each and every Wednesday. Jay Schidler will talk with 7 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:21.000 us as well, former Kentucky guard and remember, just in 8 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:23.839 time for Christmas, you can pick up his book Blonde 9 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:26.960 Bomber The Ride with Shide. So we'll talk to Jay, 10 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:29.399 get caught up with him in our number two as 11 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:33.439 well as our Western Bureau chief Gary Moore. It is 12 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:38.719 awards season and a UK signee, a future Wildcat, Montavin Quizonberry. 13 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:42.560 They all purpose star from Boyle County High School, mister 14 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:47.640 Kentucky Football. Voted by the Kentucky Football Coaches Association. He 15 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:51.240 swept the commonwealth's top awards. He won the Paul Horning 16 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:55.240 Award from the Louisville Quarterback Club and also Gatorade Player 17 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:59.039 of the Year five nine, one, seventy three. And people 18 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:03.240 look at him, think about Wandale Robinson and what a yard, 19 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:07.439 what a career he had eight thousand total offensive yards, 20 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:14.159 running the ball, catching the football, passing the football, special teams. Touchdowns, yeah, 21 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:18.319 thirteen of them and eight interceptions. One of the best 22 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:22.040 all around players in the history of football here in 23 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:27.400 the Commonwealth. So future Kentucky Wildcat, Well, he's already signed. 24 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:33.040 Montavian Quizenberry is mister Kentucky Football. Lamont Butler National Player 25 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:36.239 of the Week, No surprise. He leads the fourth rank 26 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:41.640 Wildcats to that win over the Louisville Cardinals in spectacular fashion, 27 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:46.239 a career high thirty three points. And nobody really mentioned this, 28 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:48.920 but it was kind of a I hate to say it, 29 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.920 Christian Latner kind of game. Ten for ten from the field, 30 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.599 six for six from three point range, thirty three points, 31 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:02.159 second highest total in the history for a Wildcat of 32 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:07.959 the uk UFL series, and it tied for third best 33 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:12.039 ten for ten in program history. Rodney Dent went twelve 34 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:15.400 for twelve against Morehead back in ninety three. Kenny Walker 35 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:19.639 went eleven for eleven against Western Kentucky. That was in 36 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:23.840 the NCAA tournament back in nineteen eighty six. And the 37 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:26.080 only person I still have a hard time you may 38 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:29.639 have seen this believing the only person who hit from 39 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:33.280 the behind the arc. Any better was winy In Gabriel. 40 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:38.719 That's right, my cousin who was seven for seven in 41 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:43.560 the NCAA tournament one day. That beat his six for six. 42 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:50.080 So Lamont Butler versus, according to the Basketball writers, the 43 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:53.639 national Player of the Week. And again, no real surprise there, 44 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:57.039 nor was it a surprise that two Wildcats have been 45 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:04.000 named Coaches All Americans. The Americanvolleyball Coaches Association AVCA has 46 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:09.560 voted Brooklyn Delay and Emma Grome All Americans. Delay, of course, 47 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:13.000 is a finalist for Player of the Year. She's first 48 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:17.400 Team and Emmigrom. This is the fourth straight year. Can 49 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:21.120 you imagine every year you're playing college sports you make 50 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:24.960 some sort of All American status four straight years She's 51 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:29.479 second team. Delay was an honorable member last year as 52 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:31.599 an All American when she was Freshman of the Year, 53 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:36.599 and now she jumps up and becomes the twentieth UK 54 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:41.120 volleyball player to be named first, second, or third team 55 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:46.240 since the program's inception. And of course it was one 56 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:51.280 of two UK players named SEC aw Conference, and she 57 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:54.360 was one of two SEC players named First Team. The other, 58 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:58.800 of course, Kennedy Martin from Florida, Emmigrom, by the way, 59 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.759 as I mentioned I think earlier this week, now the 60 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:05.400 all time assist leader at UK for the Rally scoring era, 61 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:09.360 and she was one of four players on the second team. 62 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.599 And also that team also included Madison Skinner from Texas, 63 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:21.240 a former Kentucky Wildcat, UK joining pitt Nebraska, Penn State, Stanford, Creighton, 64 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:23.480 Purduing U of L as the only teams in the 65 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:26.600 nation with two or more players on the first two 66 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:30.439 teams come by. As you heard last night, Ladamian Washington 67 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:33.639 is the new receivers coach for Mark Stoops and his staff, 68 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:37.240 and we will endeavor to have Coach Washington on the show. 69 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:40.079 He comes from South Florida, where he did a lot 70 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:42.959 of good things for the Bulls down there, and he 71 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:45.800 takes over a Kentucky team that, for the first time 72 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:48.439 in three years, does not have the dual threat of 73 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:51.319 Dane Key and Barrion Brown. But he's got a lot 74 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:54.079 of good young talent. Question is who's going to be 75 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:58.360 thrown to these guys, Cutter Bowley or maybe Zach Calzada, 76 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:01.079 the kid from Incarnate Word who was on campus today 77 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:04.600 in Carnal Word in San Antonio. They are also looking 78 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:07.519 at Malik Murphy from Duke. So all that's going to 79 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:10.439 play out in the next few days. So as they say, 80 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:14.639 stay tuned. More football coming up, news about coaches and quarterbacks. 81 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:17.759 Here on six point thirty WLAP Welcome back to the 82 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:20.519 Big Blue Insider. Coming up our conversation which we do 83 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:24.560 each week with unforgettable guard Sean Woods. We'll talk with 84 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:28.519 him about the Wildcats win over Louisville and the trip 85 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:31.079 to New York to play in Madison Square Garden, a 86 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:33.639 trip that he might have made. Sean might have made 87 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.839 with the Wildcats, but they fell a little short in 88 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:39.560 the preseason n T. So we'll talk about that in 89 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:42.680 playing in bigger arenas like that, and not that Madison 90 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:46.160 Square Garden is bigger than rup, but it seems larger 91 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:49.800 than life. It's just a great, great atmosphere. A little 92 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:52.639 bit later on our Western Bureau Chief Gary Moore and 93 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:57.040 Jay Schiler, the former Wildcat. He's got that book still 94 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:00.000 out there that he actually wrote a couple of year 95 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.759 years ago, and they started moving that moving the product 96 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:06.720 back in twenty late twenty twenty two to twenty three, 97 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:10.639 but just in time for Christmas. The Blonde Bomber. It's 98 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:12.639 a book you need to have in your UK collection. 99 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:15.079 So that's coming up a little bit later on Lots 100 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:18.120 of NFL news, a lot of quarterback news, as you 101 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:24.199 might expect, the Falcons making the biggest headline benching Kirk Cousins, 102 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:28.319 the guy they backed up the truck for Kirk Cousins, 103 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.680 who was having a good time in Minnesota, but his 104 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:35.360 time there came to an end. Signs a huge deal 105 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:40.519 with the Falcons and this year has struggled. The Falcons 106 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:43.360 aren't as good as the Vikings. And look at what 107 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:46.920 Sam Darnold's doing with the Vikings. He had bounced around 108 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:49.240 the league finally finds a home. I don't know if 109 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:52.319 he's their permanent answer, and as a Packers fan, I 110 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:55.240 hope not, but I have to give them credit. Cousins 111 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:58.279 played well, led the Vikings to a lot of wins. 112 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.360 Donald's doing the same. He didn't get the job done 113 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:04.959 in Atlanta, and now Cousins has been benched and now 114 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:10.120 Michael Pennix Junior has been promoted to starter in Atlanta. 115 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:13.839 Meaning of the first twelve picks in the twenty twenty 116 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:19.680 four draft, it included six quarterbacks, five are starting with 117 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:24.560 checkered results. Caleb Williams first overall going to the Bears. 118 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:27.959 He has had some real struggles down the stretch after 119 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:32.000 getting off to a really good start. Commanders Jaden Daniels 120 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:35.959 Heisman Trophy winner out of LSU. They've won nine games. 121 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:40.800 They were terrible last year. Bo Nicks twelfth overall. Talked 122 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:43.959 about him yesterday, washed out at Auburn. He didn't really 123 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.759 play that poorly, but he kind of got run out 124 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.399 of town, if you will, by fans, by media, coaches, 125 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:54.639 gave up on him. Ends up in the Pacific Northwest, 126 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:57.319 does a great job, and now he's doing a great job. 127 00:07:57.360 --> 00:07:58.399 I think you got to be a rookie of the 128 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:02.879 year quite frankly in Denver and Drake May who took 129 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:05.639 over for mac Jones. He was the third overall pick 130 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:09.639 by the Patriots and they finally got around to starting 131 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:12.600 him in week six and he's done well. And I've 132 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:15.720 talked about this before, by the way, the only guy 133 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:19.879 who hasn't played, JJ McCarthy, the tenth overall pick out 134 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:23.240 of Michigan, led the Wolverines to a national title. He 135 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:25.639 hasn't played because he had a knee injury in the preseason, 136 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:28.639 but he wouldn't have played anyway because Darnold's playing well. 137 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:31.879 But I've talked about this before. The days when you 138 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:37.320 could groom and develop a rookie quarterback are long gone. 139 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:40.120 And I go back to the Carson Palmer days in 140 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:44.759 Cincinnati when the Bengals drafted him with their number one 141 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:48.720 pick and they basically red shirted him. They let him 142 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:51.720 sit or made him sit, depending on how you look 143 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:53.679 at it. He didn't make a big deal out of it. 144 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:57.879 They had a journeyman quarterback named John Kitna who actually 145 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:01.480 led the Bengals to a surprisingly good eight and eight record, 146 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:04.039 and they played well enough to where a kid that 147 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:06.440 complained the next year that he should have been given 148 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:09.039 a chance to start again. Bengals were like, now we're good, 149 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:13.080 we got our guy, Thanks goodbye. But that allowed Carson 150 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:17.720 Palmer to learn how to be an NFL quarterback, and 151 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:20.159 when he took over, he did really well, and I 152 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:22.759 think he would have had a superb career, but he 153 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:25.720 suffered that terrible knee injury in the playoffs against the Steelers, 154 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:28.960 was never quite the same, had a good career, ended 155 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:33.759 up in Arizona. But because he was able to kind 156 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:36.840 of work his way through all the things that a 157 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:41.639 rookie quarterback might encounter. Thanks to the fact that, yeah, 158 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:43.480 he made a lot of money, but it's not crazy 159 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:48.080 money like it is now. The Bengals were not under 160 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:49.919 the gun to play him right away. You're paying this 161 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:53.279 guy all this money, you gotta play him now and 162 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:57.960 sell tickets and all that. So now they rushed these 163 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:02.039 rookies in now Atlanta. I didn't have to because it 164 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:05.840 had Cousins, And a lot of people blasted the Falcons 165 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:10.840 for paying all that money to Kirk Cousins only to 166 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:15.080 draft Michael Pennix junior. But now we'll see if it 167 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:20.759 pays off, because he's going to be your starter. Michael Vick, 168 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:24.559 a former NFL star, says he's taken a head coaching 169 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:30.120 job in Norfolk State. Another former NFL player who was 170 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:36.159 becoming a star. I thought it was Teddy Bridgewater. He 171 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:38.279 was off to a good start and then had that horrible, 172 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:43.600 horrible knee injury that nearly cost him his life. And 173 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:45.279 he came back and he played for a while, but 174 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:49.720 he retired, and he just recently coached Miami Northwestern in 175 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:54.320 Florida to a state championship. His alma mater, but he 176 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:57.799 told the NFL network that he's planning to come back 177 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:01.600 to the NFL. He said, that's the plan. My team 178 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:04.480 knows that's the plan. We wanted to win a state 179 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:08.240 championship and then coach goes back to the league sees 180 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:11.519 what happens. He said, then come back February and the 181 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:15.279 offseason and continue coaching high school football and we'll see 182 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.440 how it plays out. So I guess he'll go and 183 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.559 negotiate and work out for teams and see if that works. 184 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:27.519 And if it doesn't, he's got a job back at 185 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:30.679 his alma mater, which now is a defending state champion 186 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:36.039 in the state of Florida. Other coaches on the move. 187 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:40.840 Ohio has promoted Brian Smith to its head coach head 188 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:44.720 coaching job. He replaces Tim Albin, who's going on to Charlotte, 189 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:47.840 and I bring this up, he goes. Ohio was one 190 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:52.399 of the teams the Wildcats beat earlier this year when 191 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:55.240 things were going well. That Ohio team went on to 192 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:58.360 win the MAC and claim its first conference title since 193 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:03.960 nineteen sixty eight, and they played Jacksonville State Friday and 194 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:09.720 the Staff DNA Cure Bowl in Orlando that Bobcats team 195 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:14.200 led the back in scoring, yards per game and rushing 196 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:19.120 this season. But Kentucky had everything going when it beat 197 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:22.879 the Bobcats earlier in the year, and it looked like 198 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:25.799 Kentucky might be able to get seven or eight wins. 199 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:32.159 But we all know what happened after that. Liberty's Cayden 200 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:37.679 or Kiden Salter, a quarterback, is transferring to Colorado, which 201 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:42.919 needs a QB to replace the Shudor Sanders led Liberty 202 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:47.159 to an undefeated season and a Fiesta Bowl appearance last year, 203 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:51.039 and he made some headlines. So now he's got a 204 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:57.240 chance to play for coach Prime out in Colorado. A 205 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:00.879 couple other notes, one other from the NFL. You know, 206 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:05.519 when all this stuff about who the Steelers should start, 207 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:09.320 whether it's Justin Fields or Russell Wilson, and it's good 208 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:14.120 that they're going with Wilson. I completely forgot Kenny Pickett 209 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:17.440 when he drafted out a pit tried him as their starter, 210 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:23.200 didn't work out, he signed with the Eagles. Well, guess 211 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:25.919 who gave his new team tips on how to beat 212 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:30.480 the Steelers. Recently, the Eagle's now giving them all kinds 213 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:34.240 of credit for some tips on how to beat their 214 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:39.600 arts rival. While we're talking UK football. By the way, 215 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:43.080 I saw these guys walking around with these huge cameras. 216 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:48.000 I thought it was just a crew from SECTV. Evidently 217 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:53.320 Netflix is producing a reality series on the twenty twenty 218 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:57.360 four SEC football season that will be ready by this summer. 219 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:02.559 Same production company that had made the apparently very popular 220 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:09.120 Formula one Drive to Survive series eight forty five minute episodes. 221 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:15.879 And the schools that declined to participate Alabama, Georgia, Ole, 222 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:20.720 miss Oklahoma, Texas, but the schools that did participate include 223 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:25.399 Kentucky and Unfortunately for the Big Blue Nation, cameras were 224 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:29.600 all over the place during the build up to the 225 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:34.399 team's home field loss to South Carolina, and they were 226 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:39.279 here before and during the U of L game, So 227 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:42.360 you might want to skip the episode coming up this 228 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:47.639 summer that includes the Wildcats because it won't be pretty. 229 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:52.240 One other note from the NBA. I didn't see this 230 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:55.879 when it first happened, but the Charlotte Hornets are doing 231 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:58.759 some damage control. There was a young Hornets fan who 232 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:02.639 thought he got Christmas wish when he was gifted a 233 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:07.519 PlayStation five in front of a raucous crowd during Monday 234 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:12.679 night's game, but backstage, the team took it away from him. 235 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:17.559 Crushed this kid. Alexi Phillips told the local news station 236 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:19.919 that he took his thirteen year old nephew to see 237 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:23.039 the Hornets play the Sixers. At the start of the game, 238 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:25.519 a member of the Hornet staff came up to them 239 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:27.600 and said, you don't be on the court. Would you 240 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:30.120 like to be on the court with the team's mascot, Hugo, 241 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:34.840 you know the big cartoon look at Hornet and they're like, 242 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:38.120 well yeah. So they were standing next to Hugo. He 243 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:42.080 was dressed in a Santa costume. An announcer of reads 244 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:45.559 what appears to be a Christmas letter and he says, 245 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:48.320 Dear Santa Hugo, I've been working hard all year in school. 246 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:51.240 I've been working on my jump shot, but my shot 247 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:53.559 in NBA two K needs some work. I really want 248 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:57.440 to PlayStation if you have one PS A PlayStation five 249 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:01.320 and a Hornets dancer walks onto the court with a 250 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:04.039 large gift bag with a PS five in it. The 251 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:07.360 team gets all excited. Hugo hands him the gift. Happy 252 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:11.960 Holiday's friend, the announcer says, crowd goes nuts. They go 253 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:17.080 backstage and Hornet's staffer walks up joint yanks it away 254 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:20.679 from him, and the guy said it got pretty awkward 255 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:24.159 because the staffer had to make it clear he wasn't joking, 256 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:28.279 so they told the news station. Right before he went 257 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:30.720 out under the court with his nephew, the staffer whispered 258 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:33.639 to him that the kid couldn't keep the gift and 259 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:39.080 would get a jersey instead. Later on, the Hornet said, well, 260 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:43.639 the encourse get missed the mark because they took so 261 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:46.159 much flak when it all got out when it went public, 262 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:50.240 and so the team finally reached out to Phillips and 263 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:54.600 his nephew's parents offered the kid APS five as well 264 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:59.879 as a VIP experience to another game. The team said 265 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:04.240 included bad decision making and poor communications. Simply put, we 266 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:08.640 turned the ball over and we apologize. Look, who thought 267 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:11.440 this was a great idea. That's what kills me about 268 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:15.359 situations like this. Generally you talk something like this through 269 00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:20.599 and was nobody brave enough to say, hey, this is 270 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:24.279 gonna look awful. That's the first thing that would have 271 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:26.519 come to my mind. I'm not saying I would have 272 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:29.079 been a hero, but I would have said it to somebody, 273 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:32.759 do you have any idea how this is gonna look? 274 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:35.400 And in this day of social media, how long is 275 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:38.079 it gonna take to get out? About a minute and 276 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:40.839 a half. It's gonna be on Twitter before this kid 277 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:46.240 leaves the arena. How stupid can you get? And yeah, 278 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:49.160 the hornet's made good by the kid. But boy, they 279 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:52.680 lost you talk about a turnover. They lost a lot 280 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:58.240 in pr moves right before Christmas. I'm forget Reguard. Sean 281 00:17:58.279 --> 00:18:00.640 Woods is next here on six thirty w l P. 282 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:03.480 Welcome back to the Big Moe Cider. It is Wednesday, 283 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.519 which is when we visited with our unforgettable guard, Sean Wilts, 284 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:10.359 whose jersey hangs in the rafters of Rupp and Sean, 285 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:13.240 back when you were playing, went back and look, you 286 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:17.200 played in Indianapolis, you played in Cincinnati. I don't notice 287 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:19.240 you ever got to play a Madison Square garden, did 288 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:20.319 you or anywhere like that? 289 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:23.880 No, we missed our chance, Dick. Remember the first year 290 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:27.400 we were playing, because our senior year we were playing 291 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:29.799 in the preseason n I T and we got upset 292 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:31.079 by Pitt at home. 293 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:35.000 Right. Yeah, you were looking forward to that, weren't you. 294 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:36.039 Uh? 295 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:39.039 Well, the coach was looking forward to it more than anybody. 296 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:41.720 And then when we got beat, we had all that 297 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:45.319 time off man and things were going on at the coliseum. 298 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:49.319 We had I'm talking about some of the rigorous practices 299 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:51.839 at the Seaton Center for about a week and a 300 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:55.759 half or so. It wasn't fun, you know, not being 301 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:56.880 able to go to the garden. 302 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:00.519 Yeah, you played Indian big arenas. 303 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:02.680 We played in the Hoosier Dome. You know, we played 304 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:08.119 Notre Dame, We played Indiana in high school. You know 305 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:10.519 what was big for us was you know, I got 306 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:13.160 a chance to play every year at Hinklefield House, Oh, 307 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:17.160 because that's where that's what tournament was. Yeah, and that's 308 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:19.359 what who who's your hysteria started? 309 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:19.759 Yeah? 310 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:23.759 But I got a chance to play my section those regionals, 311 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:26.160 a semi state there, So I was fortunate a little bit. 312 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:28.920 But you know, those are the biggest arenas that I 313 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:32.119 played in throughout my career. We were at Kentucky, you know, 314 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:34.519 we played in the Big Four Classic at the Hoosier Dome. 315 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:36.000 That was the thing as a guy. 316 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:38.039 Well let's go back to Hinkle because I covered a 317 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:40.000 game there and then that You're right, you can just 318 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:43.400 when you walk in that building. You can just feel it. 319 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:45.039 And I know how much we all love the Sweet 320 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:47.839 sixteen here in Kentucky, and I know you've been to that, 321 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:52.359 but I think Indiana still until they screwed up their tournament. 322 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:55.240 I thought Indiana had it made when it came to 323 00:19:55.279 --> 00:20:00.720 the their state tournament. What was that like playing at Hinkle, Well. 324 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:04.640 You know, it's a tell all all because of the history. 325 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:07.200 You know, you're talking about some of the greatest players 326 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:10.279 high school basketball players to ever play in the state 327 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:14.880 of Indiana played in that building, you know, and and 328 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:18.119 back when I played, it was still old. You know, 329 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:20.960 you had to go down in the basement, and you know, 330 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:23.160 you had the locker room which wasn't a locker room, 331 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:26.640 which was a locker room. You come up and you 332 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:31.759 play on a kind of you know, a floor that's 333 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:34.400 raised above so when you sit down on your bench, 334 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:36.559 you got to step down, so it's like you were 335 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:40.680 playing on the stage. And I mean it was nice. 336 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:42.799 It was six blocks from my house. Wow. 337 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:44.319 Yeah. 338 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:46.440 I grew up right there, right around the corner, you know, 339 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:52.039 right around Butler University. So you know, I didn't move 340 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:54.200 to Indianapolis until I was in the eighth grade. So 341 00:20:54.279 --> 00:20:55.759 I didn't get a chance to go to a lot 342 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:58.920 except for when East Chicago would play down there in 343 00:20:58.920 --> 00:21:04.640 the state tournament. Roosevelt Chicago, Washington Chicago, Roosevelt Girls. So 344 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:08.039 you know, high school basketball in the state of Indiana's 345 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:10.559 like here. You travel a lot. You know, the town 346 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:13.720 shuts down when you involved in the state tournament and 347 00:21:13.799 --> 00:21:16.880 you dry and you travel like the movie Hoosiers. That's 348 00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:20.759 every that's every city in town who gets an opportunity 349 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:24.880 to play. See in Kentucky, you got sixteen teams that 350 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:28.279 play in your state tournament. Back then you only had 351 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:30.880 four teams. 352 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:32.160 Who made it the state tournament. 353 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:34.200 Yeah, and you played at Hanko And then when they 354 00:21:34.200 --> 00:21:36.519 stopped playing at Heinko, they moved it to Mark Square 355 00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:42.319 Arena where the Pacers play. So you know Damon Bailey, 356 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:47.160 you know who was like a richie farmer at that time. Uh, 357 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:49.880 when he played in the state championship and won it, 358 00:21:50.279 --> 00:21:52.119 they moved it to the Hoosier Doom and it got 359 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:54.319 so big that the Hoosiah doll was sold out to 360 00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:55.240 watch Damn Bailey. 361 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:57.680 Clay what town was he from? 362 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:00.680 Bedford, North lawnch right outside of. 363 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:04.599 Blooming Yeah, because I remember when way back in the 364 00:22:04.680 --> 00:22:07.839 day when k Wood Leedford was still with us. Uh, 365 00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:11.400 there were a couple of seasons where we traveled in 366 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:14.519 a in a motor home, UH to some of the 367 00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:18.799 football games, including Kentucky at IU. And I was driving, 368 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:21.920 took my turn driving, and we came back shown there's 369 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:23.720 a state road if you don't want to go on 370 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:27.920 the Interstate from from Bloomington back through Louisville, there's that 371 00:22:28.039 --> 00:22:30.039 state road to drop straight down. 372 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:35.519 Yes, I don't know what's the number of the road, but. 373 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:37.519 He goes through all those little towns. 374 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:40.119 Right, oh yeah, yeah, And I. 375 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:44.039 Remember we pulled up that's exactly right, and I'm I'm 376 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:46.559 I'm driving, and here we come up to Bedford and 377 00:22:46.599 --> 00:22:50.720 there's a huge sign home of Damon Bailey and I 378 00:22:50.759 --> 00:22:53.839 can't imagine. And we actually stopped because kay Wood Leftford. 379 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:57.359 You'll appreciate this. Kay Wood was a was a barbecue 380 00:22:57.359 --> 00:23:00.680 officionado and he was in the front seat and he 381 00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:03.880 sat up straight, just shot up and he goes barbecue 382 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:06.839 because he smelled it. So I pulled that r V 383 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:11.799 into a bank parking lot and we all went pouring out. 384 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:14.160 This was after the game, Kentucky got their butts kicked, 385 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:17.119 I think, but we went off. We got barbecue chicken 386 00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:21.119 and cole slaw and you know, everything you'd want for 387 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:26.559 four bucks because it was town Day in Bedford, Indiana, 388 00:23:27.359 --> 00:23:28.920 and we had the best time in the home of 389 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:29.759 Damon Bailey. 390 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:35.759 Yep, I played there. His he's three years you know, 391 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:39.200 two years younger than me. So when all the hight 392 00:23:39.319 --> 00:23:41.480 came out about him, he was in the seventh grade, 393 00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:45.920 you know Bob knighte sev so that that raised and 394 00:23:46.039 --> 00:23:52.359 enhanced his his profile, his image, Yeah, his profile because 395 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:56.000 of what Bob Knight said. So here's this kid, you know, 396 00:23:56.039 --> 00:23:59.720 everybody's looking, you know, want to see and we played them. 397 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:02.440 So his freshman year, which was my junior year, we 398 00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:04.799 played him at our place, which we didn't have a home. 399 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:06.440 I didn't have a home court. I had to go 400 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:09.400 play at Marshall High School or are into high school 401 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:10.240