WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:02.439 Welcome to the Big Blue and Siderday. Gabriel with you 2 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:05.280 on a Friday edition. We are wrapping up the week 3 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:09.080 open week in fact, is the Wildcats rest and recuperat 4 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:12.919 and get ready for Vanderbilt next week. And every time 5 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:15.320 I think about the Vanderbilt series, I think of Rich 6 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:18.600 Brooks standing in what's I don't know what they call 7 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:20.559 it now, but back then it was the Wildcat Then 8 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:22.519 it may still be. It's where they had all the 9 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:25.519 news conferences and things like that. There's a separate room 10 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:28.559 for that now in the new facility, But back then, 11 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:31.239 we go to the Wildcat Den every week and listen 12 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:33.479 to whatever the coach was. And at that point, Rich 13 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:36.840 Brooks was going into the Vanderbilt game, and he was 14 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:39.880 always really great with wisdom like this. He said, you know, 15 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:42.840 and I'm paraphrasing, he said, he said, this is a 16 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:45.640 game that we're supposed to win every year. And at 17 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:48.759 the time that he looked at the series numbers, it 18 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:53.000 was exactly five hundred and if memory serves, it was 19 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:58.399 something like eighty one eighty one and four, I mean, 20 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:02.320 split right down the middle. Both teams had had winning 21 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:06.840 streaks and losing streaks. Obviously, but Brooks talked kind of 22 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:11.480 Riley Riley with a w about just how ironic it 23 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:17.760 was that everybody on the Kentucky side expects Vandy to 24 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:20.599 be just a shlub every year and to be a 25 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:24.840 walkover win or just a win period. And as I've 26 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:26.840 pointed out many times, a buddy of mine went to 27 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:30.719 Vandy and he said, they feel the same way about Kentucky, 28 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:32.760 at least they used to back when he was in school. 29 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.480 And for many, many years, you get that schedule, you 30 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:38.560 circle the wins that you believe you're going to get 31 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:44.120 on every schedule, and people would always circle Vandy, and 32 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:46.879 in the south of the border, they would always circle Kentucky. 33 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:49.560 But when you think about it, for how many years 34 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:52.280 did we circle the Mississippi schools, both of them as 35 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:55.560 maybe not a win, but a chance to win, a 36 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:59.120 pretty good chance given the you know, the ups and 37 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:03.239 downs of those program. And now you just saw how 38 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:06.560 difficult it is to beat on miss But not impossible. 39 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:11.080 Mississippi State has been a real problem for the Wildcats 40 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:14.439 through the past several years. Not impossible. There have been 41 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.120 some big wins over the Bulldog, but that's just the 42 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:21.400 nature of Southeastern Conference. Football, and Kentucky will have to 43 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:24.680 play its best to beat Vanderbilt. Now that might mean 44 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:30.719 beat Vanderbilt handily, but we've seen Vandy give teams problems, 45 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:34.280 pull an upset or two, and throw a scare into 46 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:38.039 a really good Missouri team. So Wildcats have an extra 47 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:42.319 week to rest up and get ready for the Commodores, who, 48 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:46.000 by the way, have their hands full tomorrow they play Alabama, 49 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:50.800 So they will come into Kentucky either beat up and 50 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:56.159 disheartened or ready to get another win after getting pounded 51 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:58.719 by Alabama. And there's of course that chance that they'll 52 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:01.759 pull off an upset come in full of themselves. Either way, 53 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:04.439 I think they're going to be beat up because Vandy 54 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:06.639 just doesn't have the depth of in Alabama. But that's 55 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:13.439 a four fifteen start tomorrow Eastern Time. There is action 56 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:17.240 involving the Wildcats all week in long. Women's tennis team 57 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:21.319 is in Virginia even as we speak. Men's soccer tonight 58 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:26.280 at South Carolina, women's soccer tonight at Alabama. Rifle team 59 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:31.919 takes on Morehead tomorrow here at home, and the baseball 60 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:37.080 team has an exhibition game on Sunday up at Presco 61 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:41.639 Park in Mason. Ohio with Wright State, so we'll get 62 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:44.159 maybe an early look. I might go to that one 63 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:48.479 at the baseball Wildcats. But another big volleyball match, the 64 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:54.159 Wildcats hosting Missouri on Sunday thirteenth. Frank Cats coming up 65 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:58.240 a big win over those Oklahoma Sooners. I know we 66 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:00.960 don't talk a lot of baseball here on the big 67 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:02.680 Blue side, or many of you have kind of lost 68 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:06.000 your way when it comes to baseball, and I'm not 69 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:09.599 as passionate about big league baseball as I used to 70 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:14.039 be college baseball, you bet, but after that last strike, 71 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:18.439 I was like, eh, you know whatever. But yesterday's Mets 72 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:22.959 Brewers game literally won for the books. The Brewers were 73 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:25.199 leading it two to nothing. This is a really good 74 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:29.399 Brewers team won ninety three games. And the Mets aren't bad, 75 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:33.360 but they've struggled for a while, barely got in the postseason, 76 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:35.399 and now they're rolling. They went at four to two 77 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:40.879 with four runs in the ninth inning, And what's so 78 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:45.160 amazing about this? And I guess the word amazing follows them. 79 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:46.319 It's the amazing Mets. 80 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:51.920 They did it in a situation that historically it has 81 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:55.600 been next to them possible in just the fourth winner 82 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:59.040 take all game and postseed in history that was scoreless 83 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:01.639 after six there have been one hundred and thirty one 84 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:08.680 such games. There've only been like three other times when 85 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:11.879 a team has come from behind after a scoreless game 86 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:17.120 to win it. The last time it happened was in 87 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:21.360 twenty sixteen Giants Mets. It happened in nineteen ninety one 88 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:26.680 the World Series Braves and Twins. And the first time 89 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:31.279 it happened was in Game seven my Cardinals losing to 90 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:36.519 the Tigers. Mickey Lolitch beating Bob Gibson. That's how rare 91 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:40.160 this victory was for the Mets. Pete Alonso comes up 92 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:45.879 down to nothing, hits a three run homer. Amazing tenth 93 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.519 to go ahead home run in the ninth inning or 94 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:52.319 later of a winner take all game in post season history. 95 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:55.399 But it was the first of those to come when 96 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:58.879 the player's team was trailing. All the other times it 97 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:02.040 was tied up, So I did not see it. I 98 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:05.519 was not watching, But everybody you did saw a real 99 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:14.800 slice of history, and that's pretty cool. One other note 100 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:17.519 for your teams that were trailing entering the ninth inning 101 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:21.120 in a winner take all postseason game seven and one 102 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:26.680 hundred and five down by multiple runs entering the ninth 103 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:31.800 inning two and eighty two. So the Mets are in 104 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:35.120 rare company. If you're a Mets fan, congrats to you. 105 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:37.879 If you're a Brewers fan, you have every right to 106 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:42.480 be bitterly disappointed if you had Kirk Cousins in your 107 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.879 fantasy league, and I can't imagine why you might. 108 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:48.680 Maybe taking a flyer on him. 109 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:51.279 Maybe it is your backup, maybe you started him last night. 110 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:56.040 But what a game he had last night in a 111 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:00.759 win for the Falcons over Billy Rutledge's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 112 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:03.560 who led for most of the game and let it 113 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:07.199 get away. Atlanta wins at thirty six thirty at home 114 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:13.759 in overtime, and Cousins did what fans hoped he would 115 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:17.639 do when they paid him one hundred and eighty million dollars. Now, 116 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:21.839 one game does not justify that contract, but all he 117 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:27.519 did last night passed for five hundred and nine yards, 118 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:31.680 first time he's ever top five hundred. His personal invest 119 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:35.120 had been for sixty. That's a Falcons record, as you 120 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:39.399 might expect, for passing yards in a game. Broke the 121 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:42.920 record set by Matt Ryan. Matty Ice threw for five 122 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:46.199 hundred and three in twenty sixteen. He was looking on 123 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:49.279 because he had a brand new red blazer. He was 124 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:54.000 inducted at halftime into the Falcons Ring of Honor. A 125 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:59.680 cousin throws a touchdown pass in overtime that gives his 126 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:04.399 team to win a huge win conference win for the Falcons. 127 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:06.920 And you know, one of the things that this game 128 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:11.639 featured was Kyle Pitts, the tight end eighty eight yards, 129 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:14.759 a guy who played at Florida and was just a 130 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:18.000 dominant player in the SEC. But it is not yet, 131 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:19.959 and I don't know if he ever will really find 132 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:23.920 consistency in the NFL because he's not a blocking tight 133 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:27.800 end per se, which means you can't run to his 134 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:32.879 side of the field, and he's not a fast enough 135 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:36.879 receiver to be able to beat cornerbacks. So while I 136 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:39.120 really thought he'd be a great NFL player, at least 137 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:42.399 very good, it just hasn't worked out so far. But 138 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:45.480 he had a big game last night, but then again, 139 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:48.559 everybody on the offensive side of the ball had a 140 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:52.360 big game for both teams, really entertaining. And the guy 141 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:56.120 who caught the touchdown pass, Caderyl Hodge, is a backup 142 00:08:56.159 --> 00:09:00.039 receiver mostly a special teams guy, but Drake london I 143 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:03.360 had a big game as a receiver for the Falcons. 144 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:08.200 He took a wicked hit the play before and had 145 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:10.960 to leave the game. They put in Hodge. He runs 146 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:14.080 the skinny post and he beats a cornerback thanks to 147 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:18.399 the perfect throw by Cousins, and makes a break for 148 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:21.480 the end zone. It was very similar to the Trey 149 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:24.919 Harris touchdown that put Ole miss ahead of Kentucky, although 150 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:29.759 Kentucky's corner wasn't as tight as the Bucks corner was 151 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:34.600 on Hodge, but Kirk Cousins threw him open. Hodge made 152 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:39.759 a nice grab and then outraced everybody to the end zone. 153 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:43.559 A simple five yard hook actually not a post, but 154 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:48.000 a hook, turns into the winning touchdown. Play great game 155 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.759 and a great game for Kirk Cousins. Bengals played the 156 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.600 Steelers Sunday and Joe Burrow was talking about it at 157 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:57.559 his weekly news conference. He said he knows that possessions 158 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:02.039 will be precious because of the Pittsburgh likes to control 159 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:06.440 the football, and Burrow set a pretty high standard for himself. 160 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:08.399 You gotta be aggressive at the gate. You can't let 161 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:10.679 the game come to you. Because your possessions are gonna 162 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:13.279 be so limited. I'm gonna have to play a damn 163 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:16.879 near perfect. That's how I'm preparing. So it's an exciting 164 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:18.320 opportunity and. 165 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:20.159 A here's a win for the Bengals, who are one 166 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:24.600 in three after the win over the Carolina Panthers. It's 167 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:26.840 not confirmed yet or at least as we tape this, 168 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:30.519 but Terry frank ConA the next manager of the Cincinnati Reds. 169 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:33.440 That story kind of leaked out last night coming out 170 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:37.679 of retirement, and he agrees to deal with the team 171 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:41.159 one year to the day after he retired after twenty 172 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:45.279 three years as a major league manager, had some health issues, 173 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:49.200 but he left the Cleveland Guardians, who he had managed 174 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:53.799 for eleven years, won nearly fifty five percent of his games. 175 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:58.720 He won two World Series with the Red Sox, including 176 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:02.039 that campaign No. Four that snapped an eighty six year 177 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:07.000 title drought. And now he's got some young talent up 178 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:11.879 with the Reds. This is a great, great hire by Cincinnati. 179 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:15.080 And you know what, if these kids can't get behind 180 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:18.039 Tito Francona and play for him, get rid of them. 181 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:21.720 Don't get rid of the manager, get rid of them. 182 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:22.840 And a WNBA. 183 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:27.080 No surprise, Caitlin Clark is the WNBA Rookie of the Year. 184 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:30.960 Maybe the only surprise it wasn't unanimous. Angel Reives got 185 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:35.039 one vote, but Clark gives the Indiana Fever its second 186 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:39.039 straight Rookie of the Year. Leah Boston, the former South 187 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:42.440 Carolina Star, won it last year, so that's quite a 188 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:45.399 foundation for that team. Don't know who they're going to 189 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:47.639 draft this year, but they want a bunch more games, 190 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:49.799 so they're not going to be near the top of 191 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:54.720 the draft, but Caitlin Clark and Aliah Boston not a 192 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.799 bad place to start. Clark ended up averaging nineteen points 193 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:01.240 in the league best a eight and a half assists 194 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:05.200 per game, and obviously helped the WNBA set attendance records. 195 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:11.759 Mainstream attention controversy. They say any publicity is good publicity. 196 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:16.120 I don't necessarily believe that in this case, but certainly 197 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.360 big picture, as they like to say, from ten thousand feet, Yeah, 198 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:23.240 she got it done. There's no question about that. And 199 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:27.720 I supported at the time not putting her on the 200 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:33.039 Olympic team because she wasn't playing well enough. That seemed 201 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:37.559 a light of fire under her because remember they got 202 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:40.039 off to a one and eight start, and she wasn't 203 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:44.039 doing wonderful things the way she ended up doing it. 204 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:47.039 Every now and then she would, but she just wasn't 205 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:50.720 playing well enough, and everybody said, oh, you're missing the 206 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:54.000 opportunity to promote the game. You weren't going to get 207 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:56.799 that much more attention. Well maybe you would have any Olympics, 208 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.200 but you would have gotten a lot worse attention if 209 00:12:59.200 --> 00:12:59.679 you don't. 210 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:00.519 Win the goal medal. 211 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:07.200 And Caitlin Clark would have helped them, but not nearly 212 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:10.559 as much as she would have playing the way she 213 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:15.759 did down the stretch. So Clark told the media she 214 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:19.240 believes she had a solid year but not a great year, 215 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:22.559 but said, I'm just scratching the surface right now, and 216 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.600 if she is just scratching the surface, it's going to 217 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:29.840 be scary. And by the way, her first ten games 218 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:33.639 after the Olympic break, she averaged nearly twenty five points 219 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:38.279 and nine and a half assists. In Indiana went eight 220 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:41.240 and two during that stretch, So that kind of makes 221 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:44.279 my point. Back to baseball for just a minute. This 222 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:48.639 is baseball mixed in with high entertainment. The Savannah Bananas, 223 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:51.559 the guys who put on a show while they're playing 224 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:56.039 real baseball. I have announced their travel schedule. They're going 225 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:59.360 to play close to here at Great American Ballpark. So 226 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:02.679 that's your chance, and it's to see them June thirteenth 227 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:06.039 and fourteenth. And I recommended I've seen them on TV. 228 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:10.799 But former Kentucky pitcher Alex Degan spent a summer playing 229 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:12.559 for them and said. 230 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:13.080 He had a lot of fun. 231 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:15.120 They asked him to come back, but he said, ah, 232 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:16.320 that wasn't really my thing. 233 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:16.720 He goes. 234 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:19.720 He said, I'm not much of a dancer, but they 235 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:22.480 are fun and they really really put in a lot 236 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:25.159 of time and effort to make it quite a show. 237 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:28.919 So middle of June, going up Cincinnati. Up next, we'll 238 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:31.919 hear from Mark Stoops his football team getting a little 239 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:33.879 bit of R and R then back to work, and 240 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:35.919 he said they looked pretty good. We're back in just 241 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:37.799 a minute here on the Big Boon Sider six point 242 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.279 thirty WLAP Welcome back to the Big Blon Sider. Coming 243 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:43.120 up in hour and number two. In fact, at the 244 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:45.399 top of the hour, we're going to take you back 245 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:49.279 to Oxford and relive the highlights. The radio call, Tom 246 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:52.919 Leach and Jeff Piicoro as Kentucky knocked. 247 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:54.519 Off Ole Miss. I know a lot of you watch on. 248 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:58.159 TV and some of you have trouble sinking it up 249 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.679 if you even try to your radio. It's not impossible 250 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.279 if you do it through your phone because there's a 251 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:07.080 delay on both ends. But you just got to find 252 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:10.399 that happy medium. But again, it's not impossible depending on 253 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:11.840 how you get your TV feed. 254 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:13.039 And we're hearing. 255 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:15.639 From more and more people who are able to do 256 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.799 that to sink things up. And there are a few 257 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:23.960 places nationwide, a few schools that enable you to do that. 258 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:27.480 In the stadium, they'll sell you a gizmo that allows 259 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:32.519 you to listen to the home radio network. And we've 260 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:34.960 talked about it a lot. I'm not sure why we 261 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:36.960 haven't done it yet with a UK network. I know 262 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:40.080 they do it at Alabama. There is a cost concern, 263 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:45.159 but it's not impossible. And with the multitude of ways 264 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:49.399 people listen and watch and things like that, it's almost 265 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:53.000 impossible anymore. Well, you just can't go back to the 266 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:55.240 old days where you just turn the TV down and 267 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:59.559 turn on your radio. You just can't be done. So anyhow, 268 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:04.600 what we're doing is bringing the mountain to Muhammet if 269 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:06.960 you will, if you didn't have a chance to listen 270 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:08.759 to the radio call, you're not gonna want to miss 271 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:12.159 this because Tom and Jeff were in rare form because 272 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:16.039 it was a rare win, wasn't it. And even though 273 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:18.960 there weren't a lot of points scored, there were so 274 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:22.440 many big plays. That's what happens in a game like that. 275 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:25.840 Every game has big plays, unless it's just a festival 276 00:16:25.879 --> 00:16:29.080 of punts. But these teams went back and forth at 277 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:31.759 each other. Both teams made big plays. 278 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:32.440 In the end. 279 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:35.159 It was Ole Miss that made the dumb plays a 280 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:39.440 turnover near turnover, you know, the fumble that wasn't because 281 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:42.000 of the flag, and the fumble in the first play 282 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:45.000 of the game on the kickoff that was reversed and 283 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:49.840 properly so. But remember now, the fumble that Kentucky recovered 284 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:54.080 deep in its own territory. Ole Miss was driving and 285 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:56.639 the ball came out right at the end of the play, 286 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:02.399 and Kentucky's players were quite monstrative, weren't they when they 287 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:06.799 grabbed the football. And there was enough time to get 288 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:09.960 that review underway, and it took a little while. 289 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:11.279 Shouldn't have taken that long. 290 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:14.519 I went back and rewatched the game quite frankly, uh 291 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:19.319 and the Wildcats got the turnover. More than anything, it 292 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:23.880 was all miss penalties that really crippled the Rebels, gave 293 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:27.400 the Kentucky defense such an advantage. Now, the defense played 294 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:31.400 really well, one of the best I've ever seen. Given 295 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:33.720 the fact that Jackson Dart is one of the best 296 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:36.519 quarterbacks in the country, some think he is the best 297 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:40.160 quarterback in the SEC. Now this is before Jalen Milroe 298 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:47.079 ran all over Georgia. But Jackson Dart has got a future. 299 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:47.480 In the NFL. 300 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:52.440 And if you don't think a guy like that can 301 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:55.119 play at the next level, I'm not saying he's this good. 302 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:59.960 Look at Jaden Daniels. He's a guy who transferred from 303 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:05.200 Southern colg just like Jackson Dart went to LSU, and 304 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:09.440 now he's off to a record setting start in his 305 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:11.759 NFL career. I'll come back to that in a few minutes. 306 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:15.680 So we all know how important this win was for 307 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:18.799 the Wildcats, and just as important so I said earlier. 308 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:23.000 To get some rest, Mark Stoops talked about that at 309 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:26.359 a news conference actually on Wednesday, didn't have his Monday 310 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:30.079 press conference. At his Monday radio show, but on open weeks, 311 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:33.839 the only access weed the media get is to the 312 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:34.680 head coach. 313 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:36.759 Generally in the middle of the week. 314 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:40.000 And you know, I did get a chance to talk 315 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:42.200 to JJ Weaver earlier in the week. That was a 316 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:46.039 special situation because JJ has been named to the All 317 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:50.200 State Good Works Team. But Soops told us about what 318 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:53.079 the week was like, and most importantly, in a week 319 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:57.319 like this, you get reps in practice for the guys 320 00:18:57.359 --> 00:18:59.240 who ordinarily don't get a lot of them because you're 321 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:02.000 resting your starf and it's a great way to build 322 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:04.920 depth by folding in the young guys. 323 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:09.000 Monday, we worked some of the guys that hadn't gotten 324 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:13.960 as many snaps as the ones. So we worked quite 325 00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:18.039 a few guys on Monday that hadn't had as many snaps, 326 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:22.720 and they got good work. Gave our guys yesterday off 327 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.759 and today, had a good physical day today, and we'll 328 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:29.799 have a good practice tomorrow and then we're trying to 329 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:33.839 get ahead for Vandy and also just work on ourselves, 330 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:36.759 work on the areas that we felt like we needed improvement, 331 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:38.920 and just trying to get better. 332 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:41.920 One of those young guys we mentioned was Cutter Bowley 333 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:45.839 Steep said he got forty or fifty reps in practice. 334 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:49.720 There's only so much time, and so you've got to 335 00:19:49.799 --> 00:19:53.759 work the ones and then if you get much time 336 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:56.839 the twos. It's the people further down the depth chart 337 00:19:57.400 --> 00:19:59.599 who just have to make the most of their time. 338 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:01.599 And you might remember. 339 00:20:01.240 --> 00:20:05.119 Reading recently Tom Brady talked about when he was a 340 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:09.480 fifth team quarterback at Michigan and was thinking about a transfer, 341 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:13.119 but he talked to one of the staff members at 342 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:16.200 Michigan who told him, look, you might get one or 343 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:20.359 two reps one or two in practice as the fifth 344 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:24.119 team quarterback, but he said, you got to make that count. 345 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:29.519 Make that the best one or two reps that the 346 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.960 coaches are going to see that day. Give it everything 347 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:34.759 you got, no matter how long you're out there. And 348 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:37.160 that's what he did. You know who else with a 349 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:40.440 fifth team quarterback, Bill Ransdell when he first got to 350 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:43.720 Kentucky and just kept grinding and working and ended up 351 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:49.079 rewriting the UK record books, and those records stood until 352 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:51.960 Tim Couch stepped foot on campus. 353 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:54.000 Up next more with Mark Stoops. 354 00:20:54.039 --> 00:20:56.119 A little bit later on, Derek Terry talked to UK 355 00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:59.759 Baseball and at the beginning of hour number two. It's 356 00:20:59.799 --> 00:21:03.480 the highlight melt as the Wildcats beat Ole Miss, and 357 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:06.039 you'll hear it right here on six point thirty WLAP 358 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:09.759 Welcome back to the Big Blue Cider. At the top 359 00:21:09.799 --> 00:21:12.279 of the hour, we will relive the radio highlights of 360 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:16.400 Kentucky's Old Miss victory the radio call from Tom Leach 361 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:20.440 and Jeff Bicoro. I mentioned Mark Stoop's talking to us 362 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:23.519 this week, and you may have seen or heard this one, 363 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:26.559 but I was not aware that Stuope's got a report 364 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:31.359 card basically on based on analytics. And I've talked before 365 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:34.599 about how I do like analytics. I do agree they 366 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:39.559 are valuable, but it seems like analytics to me are 367 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:42.400 less of a predictor and more of a reactor. It 368 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:45.240 tells you what has happened in the past, and some 369 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:48.039 people believe in and people smarter than I can tell 370 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:50.799 you that it can act as something of a predictor. 371 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:53.599 There's a reason things have happened in the past, and 372 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:56.319 it gives you every reason to think it. 373 00:21:56.200 --> 00:21:57.480 May happen again that way. 374 00:21:57.599 --> 00:22:02.480 But as Stoop's mentioned Leach a while back, one of 375 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:05.279 those coaching mentors told him, you know you have to 376 00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:07.519 lean on analytics, but you also have to lean on 377 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:11.640 your gut, which is what Stoops did in the Old 378 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:14.039 Miss game when he went for it on fourth down. Now, 379 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:16.680 going for it and throwing deep, those are two different things. 380 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:21.000 But as I've mentioned before, many people will always second 381 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:23.559 guess him about the Georgia game. And of course it's 382 00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:26.319 easy now because they lost. So now you can say, oh, 383 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:28.400 I should have gone forward on fourth down. Well, yeah, 384 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:31.359 because what he did didn't work. But at the time 385 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:34.200 it was the right move I thought, because I said 386 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:36.920 to myself, he's got to keep it here. This is 387 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:41.759 four down territory. I'm thinking he has got to manage 388 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:45.480 this as though it's fourth down territory, four down territory 389 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:49.599 rather and unfortunately they throw the ball on second down, 390 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:51.960 it goes incomplete. Now you're behind the change and you 391 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:55.440 know what happened after that. To me, second down was 392 00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:59.400 where they failed in that possession. But I did not 393 00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:01.880 think he definitely had a choice. But I thought the 394 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:05.400 best choice was to punk the ball because what had 395 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:08.480 happened in the past, the most recent past, in other words, 396 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:12.480 earlier in that game, was the Kentucky defense had been 397 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:16.640 able to stop Georgia. The Kentucky offense was not able 398 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:20.279 to throw on fourth and long or third and long 399 00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:21.200 or second and longer. 400 00:23:21.319 --> 00:23:21.720 Whatever. 401 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:27.079