Speaker 1: Welcome to the Big Blue and Siderday. Gabriel with you
Speaker 1: on a Friday edition. We are wrapping up the week
Speaker 1: open week in fact, is the Wildcats rest and recuperat
Speaker 1: and get ready for Vanderbilt next week. And every time
Speaker 1: I think about the Vanderbilt series, I think of Rich
Speaker 1: Brooks standing in what's I don't know what they call
Speaker 1: it now, but back then it was the Wildcat Then
Speaker 1: it may still be. It's where they had all the
Speaker 1: news conferences and things like that. There's a separate room
Speaker 1: for that now in the new facility, But back then,
Speaker 1: we go to the Wildcat Den every week and listen
Speaker 1: to whatever the coach was. And at that point, Rich
Speaker 1: Brooks was going into the Vanderbilt game, and he was
Speaker 1: always really great with wisdom like this. He said, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm paraphrasing, he said, he said, this is a
Speaker 1: game that we're supposed to win every year. And at
Speaker 1: the time that he looked at the series numbers, it
Speaker 1: was exactly five hundred and if memory serves, it was
Speaker 1: something like eighty one eighty one and four, I mean,
Speaker 1: split right down the middle. Both teams had had winning
Speaker 1: streaks and losing streaks. Obviously, but Brooks talked kind of
Speaker 1: Riley Riley with a w about just how ironic it
Speaker 1: was that everybody on the Kentucky side expects Vandy to
Speaker 1: be just a shlub every year and to be a
Speaker 1: walkover win or just a win period. And as I've
Speaker 1: pointed out many times, a buddy of mine went to
Speaker 1: Vandy and he said, they feel the same way about Kentucky,
Speaker 1: at least they used to back when he was in school.
Speaker 1: And for many, many years, you get that schedule, you
Speaker 1: circle the wins that you believe you're going to get
Speaker 1: on every schedule, and people would always circle Vandy, and
Speaker 1: in the south of the border, they would always circle Kentucky.
Speaker 1: But when you think about it, for how many years
Speaker 1: did we circle the Mississippi schools, both of them as
Speaker 1: maybe not a win, but a chance to win, a
Speaker 1: pretty good chance given the you know, the ups and
Speaker 1: downs of those program. And now you just saw how
Speaker 1: difficult it is to beat on miss But not impossible.
Speaker 1: Mississippi State has been a real problem for the Wildcats
Speaker 1: through the past several years. Not impossible. There have been
Speaker 1: some big wins over the Bulldog, but that's just the
Speaker 1: nature of Southeastern Conference. Football, and Kentucky will have to
Speaker 1: play its best to beat Vanderbilt. Now that might mean
Speaker 1: beat Vanderbilt handily, but we've seen Vandy give teams problems,
Speaker 1: pull an upset or two, and throw a scare into
Speaker 1: a really good Missouri team. So Wildcats have an extra
Speaker 1: week to rest up and get ready for the Commodores, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, have their hands full tomorrow they play Alabama,
Speaker 1: So they will come into Kentucky either beat up and
Speaker 1: disheartened or ready to get another win after getting pounded
Speaker 1: by Alabama. And there's of course that chance that they'll
Speaker 1: pull off an upset come in full of themselves. Either way,
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be beat up because Vandy
Speaker 1: just doesn't have the depth of in Alabama. But that's
Speaker 1: a four fifteen start tomorrow Eastern Time. There is action
Speaker 1: involving the Wildcats all week in long. Women's tennis team
Speaker 1: is in Virginia even as we speak. Men's soccer tonight
Speaker 1: at South Carolina, women's soccer tonight at Alabama. Rifle team
Speaker 1: takes on Morehead tomorrow here at home, and the baseball
Speaker 1: team has an exhibition game on Sunday up at Presco
Speaker 1: Park in Mason. Ohio with Wright State, so we'll get
Speaker 1: maybe an early look. I might go to that one
Speaker 1: at the baseball Wildcats. But another big volleyball match, the
Speaker 1: Wildcats hosting Missouri on Sunday thirteenth. Frank Cats coming up
Speaker 1: a big win over those Oklahoma Sooners. I know we
Speaker 1: don't talk a lot of baseball here on the big
Speaker 1: Blue side, or many of you have kind of lost
Speaker 1: your way when it comes to baseball, and I'm not
Speaker 1: as passionate about big league baseball as I used to
Speaker 1: be college baseball, you bet, but after that last strike,
Speaker 1: I was like, eh, you know whatever. But yesterday's Mets
Speaker 1: Brewers game literally won for the books. The Brewers were
Speaker 1: leading it two to nothing. This is a really good
Speaker 1: Brewers team won ninety three games. And the Mets aren't bad,
Speaker 1: but they've struggled for a while, barely got in the postseason,
Speaker 1: and now they're rolling. They went at four to two
Speaker 1: with four runs in the ninth inning, And what's so
Speaker 1: amazing about this? And I guess the word amazing follows them.
Speaker 2: It's the amazing Mets.
Speaker 1: They did it in a situation that historically it has
Speaker 1: been next to them possible in just the fourth winner
Speaker 1: take all game and postseed in history that was scoreless
Speaker 1: after six there have been one hundred and thirty one
Speaker 1: such games. There've only been like three other times when
Speaker 1: a team has come from behind after a scoreless game
Speaker 1: to win it. The last time it happened was in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen Giants Mets. It happened in nineteen ninety one
Speaker 1: the World Series Braves and Twins. And the first time
Speaker 1: it happened was in Game seven my Cardinals losing to
Speaker 1: the Tigers. Mickey Lolitch beating Bob Gibson. That's how rare
Speaker 1: this victory was for the Mets. Pete Alonso comes up
Speaker 1: down to nothing, hits a three run homer. Amazing tenth
Speaker 1: to go ahead home run in the ninth inning or
Speaker 1: later of a winner take all game in post season history.
Speaker 1: But it was the first of those to come when
Speaker 1: the player's team was trailing. All the other times it
Speaker 1: was tied up, So I did not see it. I
Speaker 1: was not watching, But everybody you did saw a real
Speaker 1: slice of history, and that's pretty cool. One other note
Speaker 1: for your teams that were trailing entering the ninth inning
Speaker 1: in a winner take all postseason game seven and one
Speaker 1: hundred and five down by multiple runs entering the ninth
Speaker 1: inning two and eighty two. So the Mets are in
Speaker 1: rare company. If you're a Mets fan, congrats to you.
Speaker 1: If you're a Brewers fan, you have every right to
Speaker 1: be bitterly disappointed if you had Kirk Cousins in your
Speaker 1: fantasy league, and I can't imagine why you might.
Speaker 2: Maybe taking a flyer on him.
Speaker 1: Maybe it is your backup, maybe you started him last night.
Speaker 1: But what a game he had last night in a
Speaker 1: win for the Falcons over Billy Rutledge's Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: who led for most of the game and let it
Speaker 1: get away. Atlanta wins at thirty six thirty at home
Speaker 1: in overtime, and Cousins did what fans hoped he would
Speaker 1: do when they paid him one hundred and eighty million dollars. Now,
Speaker 1: one game does not justify that contract, but all he
Speaker 1: did last night passed for five hundred and nine yards,
Speaker 1: first time he's ever top five hundred. His personal invest
Speaker 1: had been for sixty. That's a Falcons record, as you
Speaker 1: might expect, for passing yards in a game. Broke the
Speaker 1: record set by Matt Ryan. Matty Ice threw for five
Speaker 1: hundred and three in twenty sixteen. He was looking on
Speaker 1: because he had a brand new red blazer. He was
Speaker 1: inducted at halftime into the Falcons Ring of Honor. A
Speaker 1: cousin throws a touchdown pass in overtime that gives his
Speaker 1: team to win a huge win conference win for the Falcons.
Speaker 1: And you know, one of the things that this game
Speaker 1: featured was Kyle Pitts, the tight end eighty eight yards,
Speaker 1: a guy who played at Florida and was just a
Speaker 1: dominant player in the SEC. But it is not yet,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if he ever will really find
Speaker 1: consistency in the NFL because he's not a blocking tight
Speaker 1: end per se, which means you can't run to his
Speaker 1: side of the field, and he's not a fast enough
Speaker 1: receiver to be able to beat cornerbacks. So while I
Speaker 1: really thought he'd be a great NFL player, at least
Speaker 1: very good, it just hasn't worked out so far. But
Speaker 1: he had a big game last night, but then again,
Speaker 1: everybody on the offensive side of the ball had a
Speaker 1: big game for both teams, really entertaining. And the guy
Speaker 1: who caught the touchdown pass, Caderyl Hodge, is a backup
Speaker 1: receiver mostly a special teams guy, but Drake london I
Speaker 1: had a big game as a receiver for the Falcons.
Speaker 1: He took a wicked hit the play before and had
Speaker 1: to leave the game. They put in Hodge. He runs
Speaker 1: the skinny post and he beats a cornerback thanks to
Speaker 1: the perfect throw by Cousins, and makes a break for
Speaker 1: the end zone. It was very similar to the Trey
Speaker 1: Harris touchdown that put Ole miss ahead of Kentucky, although
Speaker 1: Kentucky's corner wasn't as tight as the Bucks corner was
Speaker 1: on Hodge, but Kirk Cousins threw him open. Hodge made
Speaker 1: a nice grab and then outraced everybody to the end zone.
Speaker 1: A simple five yard hook actually not a post, but
Speaker 1: a hook, turns into the winning touchdown. Play great game
Speaker 1: and a great game for Kirk Cousins. Bengals played the
Speaker 1: Steelers Sunday and Joe Burrow was talking about it at
Speaker 1: his weekly news conference. He said he knows that possessions
Speaker 1: will be precious because of the Pittsburgh likes to control
Speaker 1: the football, and Burrow set a pretty high standard for himself.
Speaker 3: You gotta be aggressive at the gate. You can't let
Speaker 3: the game come to you. Because your possessions are gonna
Speaker 3: be so limited. I'm gonna have to play a damn
Speaker 3: near perfect. That's how I'm preparing. So it's an exciting
Speaker 3: opportunity and.
Speaker 1: A here's a win for the Bengals, who are one
Speaker 1: in three after the win over the Carolina Panthers. It's
Speaker 1: not confirmed yet or at least as we tape this,
Speaker 1: but Terry frank ConA the next manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
Speaker 1: That story kind of leaked out last night coming out
Speaker 1: of retirement, and he agrees to deal with the team
Speaker 1: one year to the day after he retired after twenty
Speaker 1: three years as a major league manager, had some health issues,
Speaker 1: but he left the Cleveland Guardians, who he had managed
Speaker 1: for eleven years, won nearly fifty five percent of his games.
Speaker 1: He won two World Series with the Red Sox, including
Speaker 1: that campaign No. Four that snapped an eighty six year
Speaker 1: title drought. And now he's got some young talent up
Speaker 1: with the Reds. This is a great, great hire by Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: And you know what, if these kids can't get behind
Speaker 1: Tito Francona and play for him, get rid of them.
Speaker 1: Don't get rid of the manager, get rid of them.
Speaker 2: And a WNBA.
Speaker 1: No surprise, Caitlin Clark is the WNBA Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: Maybe the only surprise it wasn't unanimous. Angel Reives got
Speaker 1: one vote, but Clark gives the Indiana Fever its second
Speaker 1: straight Rookie of the Year. Leah Boston, the former South
Speaker 1: Carolina Star, won it last year, so that's quite a
Speaker 1: foundation for that team. Don't know who they're going to
Speaker 1: draft this year, but they want a bunch more games,
Speaker 1: so they're not going to be near the top of
Speaker 1: the draft, but Caitlin Clark and Aliah Boston not a
Speaker 1: bad place to start. Clark ended up averaging nineteen points
Speaker 1: in the league best a eight and a half assists
Speaker 1: per game, and obviously helped the WNBA set attendance records.
Speaker 1: Mainstream attention controversy. They say any publicity is good publicity.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily believe that in this case, but certainly
Speaker 1: big picture, as they like to say, from ten thousand feet, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she got it done. There's no question about that. And
Speaker 1: I supported at the time not putting her on the
Speaker 1: Olympic team because she wasn't playing well enough. That seemed
Speaker 1: a light of fire under her because remember they got
Speaker 1: off to a one and eight start, and she wasn't
Speaker 1: doing wonderful things the way she ended up doing it.
Speaker 1: Every now and then she would, but she just wasn't
Speaker 1: playing well enough, and everybody said, oh, you're missing the
Speaker 1: opportunity to promote the game. You weren't going to get
Speaker 1: that much more attention. Well maybe you would have any Olympics,
Speaker 1: but you would have gotten a lot worse attention if
Speaker 1: you don't.
Speaker 2: Win the goal medal.
Speaker 1: And Caitlin Clark would have helped them, but not nearly
Speaker 1: as much as she would have playing the way she
Speaker 1: did down the stretch. So Clark told the media she
Speaker 1: believes she had a solid year but not a great year,
Speaker 1: but said, I'm just scratching the surface right now, and
Speaker 1: if she is just scratching the surface, it's going to
Speaker 1: be scary. And by the way, her first ten games
Speaker 1: after the Olympic break, she averaged nearly twenty five points
Speaker 1: and nine and a half assists. In Indiana went eight
Speaker 1: and two during that stretch, So that kind of makes
Speaker 1: my point. Back to baseball for just a minute. This
Speaker 1: is baseball mixed in with high entertainment. The Savannah Bananas,
Speaker 1: the guys who put on a show while they're playing
Speaker 1: real baseball. I have announced their travel schedule. They're going
Speaker 1: to play close to here at Great American Ballpark. So
Speaker 1: that's your chance, and it's to see them June thirteenth
Speaker 1: and fourteenth. And I recommended I've seen them on TV.
Speaker 1: But former Kentucky pitcher Alex Degan spent a summer playing
Speaker 1: for them and said.
Speaker 2: He had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: They asked him to come back, but he said, ah,
Speaker 1: that wasn't really my thing.
Speaker 2: He goes.
Speaker 1: He said, I'm not much of a dancer, but they
Speaker 1: are fun and they really really put in a lot
Speaker 1: of time and effort to make it quite a show.
Speaker 1: So middle of June, going up Cincinnati. Up next, we'll
Speaker 1: hear from Mark Stoops his football team getting a little
Speaker 1: bit of R and R then back to work, and
Speaker 1: he said they looked pretty good. We're back in just
Speaker 1: a minute here on the Big Boon Sider six point
Speaker 1: thirty WLAP Welcome back to the Big Blon Sider. Coming
Speaker 1: up in hour and number two. In fact, at the
Speaker 1: top of the hour, we're going to take you back
Speaker 1: to Oxford and relive the highlights. The radio call, Tom
Speaker 1: Leach and Jeff Piicoro as Kentucky knocked.
Speaker 2: Off Ole Miss. I know a lot of you watch on.
Speaker 1: TV and some of you have trouble sinking it up
Speaker 1: if you even try to your radio. It's not impossible
Speaker 1: if you do it through your phone because there's a
Speaker 1: delay on both ends. But you just got to find
Speaker 1: that happy medium. But again, it's not impossible depending on
Speaker 1: how you get your TV feed.
Speaker 2: And we're hearing.
Speaker 1: From more and more people who are able to do
Speaker 1: that to sink things up. And there are a few
Speaker 1: places nationwide, a few schools that enable you to do that.
Speaker 1: In the stadium, they'll sell you a gizmo that allows
Speaker 1: you to listen to the home radio network. And we've
Speaker 1: talked about it a lot. I'm not sure why we
Speaker 1: haven't done it yet with a UK network. I know
Speaker 1: they do it at Alabama. There is a cost concern,
Speaker 1: but it's not impossible. And with the multitude of ways
Speaker 1: people listen and watch and things like that, it's almost
Speaker 1: impossible anymore. Well, you just can't go back to the
Speaker 1: old days where you just turn the TV down and
Speaker 1: turn on your radio. You just can't be done. So anyhow,
Speaker 1: what we're doing is bringing the mountain to Muhammet if
Speaker 1: you will, if you didn't have a chance to listen
Speaker 1: to the radio call, you're not gonna want to miss
Speaker 1: this because Tom and Jeff were in rare form because
Speaker 1: it was a rare win, wasn't it. And even though
Speaker 1: there weren't a lot of points scored, there were so
Speaker 1: many big plays. That's what happens in a game like that.
Speaker 1: Every game has big plays, unless it's just a festival
Speaker 1: of punts. But these teams went back and forth at
Speaker 1: each other. Both teams made big plays.
Speaker 2: In the end.
Speaker 1: It was Ole Miss that made the dumb plays a
Speaker 1: turnover near turnover, you know, the fumble that wasn't because
Speaker 1: of the flag, and the fumble in the first play
Speaker 1: of the game on the kickoff that was reversed and
Speaker 1: properly so. But remember now, the fumble that Kentucky recovered
Speaker 1: deep in its own territory. Ole Miss was driving and
Speaker 1: the ball came out right at the end of the play,
Speaker 1: and Kentucky's players were quite monstrative, weren't they when they
Speaker 1: grabbed the football. And there was enough time to get
Speaker 1: that review underway, and it took a little while.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't have taken that long.
Speaker 1: I went back and rewatched the game quite frankly, uh
Speaker 1: and the Wildcats got the turnover. More than anything, it
Speaker 1: was all miss penalties that really crippled the Rebels, gave
Speaker 1: the Kentucky defense such an advantage. Now, the defense played
Speaker 1: really well, one of the best I've ever seen. Given
Speaker 1: the fact that Jackson Dart is one of the best
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the country, some think he is the best
Speaker 1: quarterback in the SEC. Now this is before Jalen Milroe
Speaker 1: ran all over Georgia. But Jackson Dart has got a future.
Speaker 2: In the NFL.
Speaker 1: And if you don't think a guy like that can
Speaker 1: play at the next level, I'm not saying he's this good.
Speaker 1: Look at Jaden Daniels. He's a guy who transferred from
Speaker 1: Southern colg just like Jackson Dart went to LSU, and
Speaker 1: now he's off to a record setting start in his
Speaker 1: NFL career. I'll come back to that in a few minutes.
Speaker 1: So we all know how important this win was for
Speaker 1: the Wildcats, and just as important so I said earlier.
Speaker 1: To get some rest, Mark Stoops talked about that at
Speaker 1: a news conference actually on Wednesday, didn't have his Monday
Speaker 1: press conference. At his Monday radio show, but on open weeks,
Speaker 1: the only access weed the media get is to the
Speaker 1: head coach.
Speaker 2: Generally in the middle of the week.
Speaker 1: And you know, I did get a chance to talk
Speaker 1: to JJ Weaver earlier in the week. That was a
Speaker 1: special situation because JJ has been named to the All
Speaker 1: State Good Works Team. But Soops told us about what
Speaker 1: the week was like, and most importantly, in a week
Speaker 1: like this, you get reps in practice for the guys
Speaker 1: who ordinarily don't get a lot of them because you're
Speaker 1: resting your starf and it's a great way to build
Speaker 1: depth by folding in the young guys.
Speaker 4: Monday, we worked some of the guys that hadn't gotten
Speaker 4: as many snaps as the ones. So we worked quite
Speaker 4: a few guys on Monday that hadn't had as many snaps,
Speaker 4: and they got good work. Gave our guys yesterday off
Speaker 4: and today, had a good physical day today, and we'll
Speaker 4: have a good practice tomorrow and then we're trying to
Speaker 4: get ahead for Vandy and also just work on ourselves,
Speaker 4: work on the areas that we felt like we needed improvement,
Speaker 4: and just trying to get better.
Speaker 1: One of those young guys we mentioned was Cutter Bowley
Speaker 1: Steep said he got forty or fifty reps in practice.
Speaker 1: There's only so much time, and so you've got to
Speaker 1: work the ones and then if you get much time
Speaker 1: the twos. It's the people further down the depth chart
Speaker 1: who just have to make the most of their time.
Speaker 2: And you might remember.
Speaker 1: Reading recently Tom Brady talked about when he was a
Speaker 1: fifth team quarterback at Michigan and was thinking about a transfer,
Speaker 1: but he talked to one of the staff members at
Speaker 1: Michigan who told him, look, you might get one or
Speaker 1: two reps one or two in practice as the fifth
Speaker 1: team quarterback, but he said, you got to make that count.
Speaker 1: Make that the best one or two reps that the
Speaker 1: coaches are going to see that day. Give it everything
Speaker 1: you got, no matter how long you're out there. And
Speaker 1: that's what he did. You know who else with a
Speaker 1: fifth team quarterback, Bill Ransdell when he first got to
Speaker 1: Kentucky and just kept grinding and working and ended up
Speaker 1: rewriting the UK record books, and those records stood until
Speaker 1: Tim Couch stepped foot on campus.
Speaker 2: Up next more with Mark Stoops.
Speaker 1: A little bit later on, Derek Terry talked to UK
Speaker 1: Baseball and at the beginning of hour number two. It's
Speaker 1: the highlight melt as the Wildcats beat Ole Miss, and
Speaker 1: you'll hear it right here on six point thirty WLAP
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Big Blue Cider. At the top
Speaker 1: of the hour, we will relive the radio highlights of
Speaker 1: Kentucky's Old Miss victory the radio call from Tom Leach
Speaker 1: and Jeff Bicoro. I mentioned Mark Stoop's talking to us
Speaker 1: this week, and you may have seen or heard this one,
Speaker 1: but I was not aware that Stuope's got a report
Speaker 1: card basically on based on analytics. And I've talked before
Speaker 1: about how I do like analytics. I do agree they
Speaker 1: are valuable, but it seems like analytics to me are
Speaker 1: less of a predictor and more of a reactor. It
Speaker 1: tells you what has happened in the past, and some
Speaker 1: people believe in and people smarter than I can tell
Speaker 1: you that it can act as something of a predictor.
Speaker 1: There's a reason things have happened in the past, and
Speaker 1: it gives you every reason to think it.
Speaker 2: May happen again that way.
Speaker 1: But as Stoop's mentioned Leach a while back, one of
Speaker 1: those coaching mentors told him, you know you have to
Speaker 1: lean on analytics, but you also have to lean on
Speaker 1: your gut, which is what Stoops did in the Old
Speaker 1: Miss game when he went for it on fourth down. Now,
Speaker 1: going for it and throwing deep, those are two different things.
Speaker 1: But as I've mentioned before, many people will always second
Speaker 1: guess him about the Georgia game. And of course it's
Speaker 1: easy now because they lost. So now you can say, oh,
Speaker 1: I should have gone forward on fourth down. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: because what he did didn't work. But at the time
Speaker 1: it was the right move I thought, because I said
Speaker 1: to myself, he's got to keep it here. This is
Speaker 1: four down territory. I'm thinking he has got to manage
Speaker 1: this as though it's fourth down territory, four down territory
Speaker 1: rather and unfortunately they throw the ball on second down,
Speaker 1: it goes incomplete. Now you're behind the change and you
Speaker 1: know what happened after that. To me, second down was
Speaker 1: where they failed in that possession. But I did not
Speaker 1: think he definitely had a choice. But I thought the
Speaker 1: best choice was to punk the ball because what had
Speaker 1: happened in the past, the most recent past, in other words,
Speaker 1: earlier in that game, was the Kentucky defense had been
Speaker 1: able to stop Georgia. The Kentucky offense was not able
Speaker 1: to throw on fourth and long or third and long
Speaker 1: or second and longer.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: Predictable pass plays did not work against Georgia, not so
Speaker 1: much against the Ole miss Mississippi's defense not quite as
Speaker 1: good as Georgia's, still had its way at times with
Speaker 1: Brock Vandergriff. But go back and look as I did
Speaker 1: over and over at the buryon Brown play.
Speaker 2: He threw it in rhythm.
Speaker 1: Vandergriff dropped back, set all the while reading his defense
Speaker 1: and threw deep to barryon Brown, who had single coverage.
Speaker 1: You're going to hear those highlights coming up in just
Speaker 1: a few minutes. And obviously it worked. They took it
Speaker 1: in for the touchdown, you know the rest, and Stoop
Speaker 1: said when he got his report card back, you get
Speaker 1: pretty high marks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was happy with going forward on fourth down.
Speaker 4: But as I said in press today, I think it was.
Speaker 4: But you know, I get an analytics report card, if
Speaker 4: you will, each and every week that that we belonged
Speaker 4: to and I get information from and it verified it.
Speaker 4: It Actually I didn't know if it would or wouldn't.
Speaker 4: I went with my gut and I told you my reason.
Speaker 4: My reason was I didn't want to get led out
Speaker 4: and we needed a touchdown again, two completely different scenarios.
Speaker 4: And you know, field position in three is a little
Speaker 4: different than being down four or or had three more
Speaker 4: you know seven. You know I'm no mathematician, but I
Speaker 4: mean you need a touchdown, right, So I felt like
Speaker 4: the condensed space was the right thing to do, and
Speaker 4: my report card told me I was correct.
Speaker 1: Of course, almost immediately after that win, a lot of
Speaker 1: people said, see, he should have gone forward on fourth
Speaker 1: down against Georgia, but a stoops. You just heard him say,
Speaker 1: Completely different situation, completely different spots on the field, The
Speaker 1: clock was different, the opponent obviously was different, but the
Speaker 1: level of defensive prowess as I mentioned, different between Georgia
Speaker 1: and Old Miss. And I know I sound like I'm
Speaker 1: towing the company line, but I'm being honest with you,
Speaker 1: as I'm coaching right along with you guys watching that
Speaker 1: game against Georgia, and I think we might have even
Speaker 1: talked about it during a time out during a commercial break,
Speaker 1: Tom Leach and Jeff ofcor and I basically agreed among
Speaker 1: ourselves this is four down territory, right, but that means
Speaker 1: you gotta pick up you got a positive yardage on
Speaker 1: each play to give yourself a shot on fourth down.
Speaker 1: So anyway worked out at Ole Miss and whatever focused
Speaker 1: the Wildcats used against Georgia, then against Ohio and now
Speaker 1: against Old Miss.
Speaker 2: It's got to become a regular thing.
Speaker 1: And you know what, the Vandy game is going to
Speaker 1: be a pretty good indication as to whether or not
Speaker 1: it is or not, because it'll be coming off an
Speaker 1: open date, obviously taking on a team they're supposed to.
Speaker 2: Beat up next.
Speaker 1: Derek Terry at matt Katz Central here on six thirty
Speaker 1: wlap Welcome back to the Big Blue and sider I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier that the Kentucky Baseball Wildcats have a scrimmage
Speaker 1: coming up on Sunday against Wright State. They've been scrimmaging
Speaker 1: against one another, obviously, but here's a better opportunity for
Speaker 1: Nick Manngeon and his staff to look and see what
Speaker 1: they have. And of course it was this time last
Speaker 1: year when they began to look at all the parts
Speaker 1: of the team, the guys who came back from the
Speaker 1: year prior and all the new faces, and they had
Speaker 1: lost a lot of personnel, but they realized they had
Speaker 1: a chance to be something special and I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about just the coaches, but the players as well. They
Speaker 1: told us this during the season, and you know what,
Speaker 1: they had told us that the season prior, you know
Speaker 1: that team that won the regional but then lost in
Speaker 1: the Super Regional down at LSU.
Speaker 2: But when we asked them about being.
Speaker 1: Contenders, they said, we knew back in the fall that
Speaker 1: we had a chance to be pretty good. They said
Speaker 1: the exact same thing last year, and lo and behold,
Speaker 1: they make the College World Series. But there might have
Speaker 1: been more movement this year in the offseason than ever
Speaker 1: before with the Wildcats thirty new faces.
Speaker 2: But I've mentioned in many times.
Speaker 1: To talk with Nick Manjeon about it, and Keith Madison
Speaker 1: as well. We talked about it last night here in
Speaker 1: the garage. Player movement in baseball has been common for years.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons was the rule, the redshirt rule,
Speaker 1: where you had to sit out if you transferred as
Speaker 1: a football or basketball player, did not apply to baseball. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: they changed that rule and it did. Lo and behold,
Speaker 1: here comes the portal along with nil. And so now
Speaker 1: the player movement in baseball is greater than it's ever
Speaker 1: been before.
Speaker 2: They have changed the.
Speaker 1: Scholarship rule, and schools can give out far more scholarship
Speaker 1: money now than they ever did, So it's going to
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how that affects the game. Because
Speaker 1: back in the day, if you were playing for a
Speaker 1: partial scholarship, say it, you know, twenty five thirty forty
Speaker 1: percent Scollie and you played well, another team could say indirectly,
Speaker 1: you know, they couldn't tamper, but they did. But another
Speaker 1: team could let it be known, hey, we've got seventy
Speaker 1: five or eighty percent or even a full ride for
Speaker 1: you if you transfer. Some kids couldn't afford not to transfer,
Speaker 1: walk ons who would get just a little bit of
Speaker 1: Scholly money with transfer. So it's not new, but I
Speaker 1: think it's probably happening more now with the portal, as
Speaker 1: I said, with the nil money, and earlier this week
Speaker 1: I was sitting for Tom Leach and I talked with
Speaker 1: Derek Terry, who used to cover the Wildcats for the
Speaker 1: Cat's Balls, now has his own will say called bat
Speaker 1: Cats Central, and we talked about the fact that this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff has gone on for a long time
Speaker 1: and it's having a profound effect.
Speaker 5: They have, Absolutely they have, and if you were to
Speaker 5: go out there this fall to watch the team play,
Speaker 5: You're absolutely gonna have to have a roster in on
Speaker 5: hands and hope that they have some numbers on the
Speaker 5: back because it took me about two times to the
Speaker 5: lineup the other day to kind of figure out who
Speaker 5: everybody was.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you don't.
Speaker 5: Cover this pretty close, so dietdn't to know everybody a
Speaker 5: little bit. I had a downtat Sunday though, once they
Speaker 5: got through the order a couple of times. So, yes,
Speaker 5: it is a much different looking team this uh, this spring.
Speaker 1: It will be you're talking about the scrimmage the Wildcats
Speaker 1: had on a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 6: What can you tell us about what you saw?
Speaker 1: First of all, in terms of style of plays, are
Speaker 1: going to be the same, which was a little bit
Speaker 1: of everything last year. There was the small ball, there
Speaker 1: was the power and as always, defensive pitching.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so the big thing and they've probably done this
Speaker 5: for a little while now, but they have what are
Speaker 5: called aggressive out so you know, in this kind of
Speaker 5: controlled format of a scrimmage and encourages runners to maybe
Speaker 5: take some chances to more or less get adjusted to
Speaker 5: Kentucky style play on the basis, so you'll see guys
Speaker 5: getting picked off the or a lot of pickoff throws,
Speaker 5: guys that are getting thrown out stealing and they're allowed
Speaker 5: to go back to the base after you give one
Speaker 5: of those as a base runner. And so there they
Speaker 5: were definitely working on that.
Speaker 6: A couple bunths.
Speaker 5: There's a really good sack bunt that Carson Hanson, transfer
Speaker 5: from Milwaukee hat I wrote about it my newsletter. Patrick Carrera,
Speaker 5: a senior, was playing third base, came in.
Speaker 6: Made a really nice play on the run.
Speaker 5: That was I thought, maybe the cleanest example of good
Speaker 5: baseball because this was the first scrimmage on Sunday, so
Speaker 5: it was not you know, you can imagine if you
Speaker 5: want to watch, think of it like a first football
Speaker 5: scrimmage in the spring or something like that.
Speaker 6: To be real, Chris.
Speaker 5: Probably In terms of the pitchers, I thought Ethan Walker.
Speaker 5: I've seen him throw twice now. I was out there
Speaker 5: last Sunday as well. He's a transfer from Longwood, which
Speaker 5: is where Hunter Gillham from a couple of years ago
Speaker 5: came from. He he's looked really good. He's a left
Speaker 5: handed pitcher. He's around ninety one ninety two, a good curveball.
Speaker 5: He had a clean inning at the top. I think
Speaker 5: gave up one hit in his second inning, but he
Speaker 5: I thought he probably threw the best out of everybody,
Speaker 5: and for other guys, I mean it was a day
Speaker 5: to make adjustments. Layton Harris a freshman. I think he's
Speaker 5: got a lot of potential and I think it'd be
Speaker 5: a good growth opportunity for him, because you know, he
Speaker 5: had some guys squared him up pretty good the other day.
Speaker 6: But he'll bounce back from that.
Speaker 5: I think he's in terms of the young guys that
Speaker 5: I've seen, it's been him and then Bradley Ferrell, another
Speaker 5: freshman who's coming off Tommy John surgery. They both have
Speaker 5: some pretty good stuff. One nineties Ferrel can run it up.
Speaker 5: I think he topped out at ninety four last Sunday.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 5: But positionally, I'll tell you someone who I liked was
Speaker 5: and we saw him something last year. But Ethan Handle.
Speaker 5: I bet Ethan Handle had a really good day. He
Speaker 5: got a hit off a Harris in his first at bat,
Speaker 5: a good line drive into westfield. And then James McCoy
Speaker 5: the right shoulder from last year, he's pitched something.
Speaker 6: He was pitching the final inning and Handle hit a
Speaker 6: home run.
Speaker 2: To dead center.
Speaker 6: It was easily the hardest hit ball the day.
Speaker 7: For that.
Speaker 5: So overall the position guys, I think, uh, still getting
Speaker 5: to know them.
Speaker 6: They're they're young.
Speaker 5: I mean Tyler Bell shortstop, Aidan Markin was playing second.
Speaker 6: Both those guys are freshman. Kyus garget is just a sophomore.
Speaker 5: So the middle Enfield's pretty young outside Luke Lawrence, who's
Speaker 5: a red shirt junior. He transferred in from Illinois State.
Speaker 5: So overall, I think it's a it's a good group
Speaker 5: to follow. We'll see how it kind of develops. But positionally,
Speaker 5: I think they definitely have some potential and I could
Speaker 5: see them leaning a little bit younger this year than
Speaker 5: in years past.
Speaker 1: Tyler Bell is, of course the youngster, passed up potentially
Speaker 1: pretty good money to come to Kentucky. He was drafted
Speaker 1: really high. Were you able to see much of him
Speaker 1: in terms of his defense and why he is rated
Speaker 1: so highly?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, really natural actions is what the scouts
Speaker 5: would I would say, Yeah, he has played shortstop, he
Speaker 5: played short stuff the whole time. He's a switch hitter
Speaker 5: as well, so he got in a bat from the
Speaker 5: right side and the left side. I want to say
Speaker 5: he drew a walk off a Robert Hoag and I
Speaker 5: believe the city faced first at bat. I'll tell you
Speaker 5: a cool moment that happened. Dick was he and I
Speaker 5: could tell it just from watching up in the stands.
Speaker 5: He got thrown out stealing by Honestly, I don't know
Speaker 5: how to say the kid's name. If it's Pellets here
Speaker 5: or it's the transfer from Kansas State, he's from Canada.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I'm bushering his last name. He's
Speaker 5: a very good defensive catcher though, and he picked.
Speaker 8: Him off first.
Speaker 5: He threw down behind him and they got him. So
Speaker 5: that was the aggressive out. So Bell gets is down
Speaker 5: the bases and he was he was leaning way too much.
Speaker 5: They didn't throw over. I think he probably would have
Speaker 5: got picked off. It was just obviously he was stealing though,
Speaker 5: and he got thrown out really no problem. And when
Speaker 5: he got back to the dugout, Devin Burks he didn't
Speaker 5: bat the other day. I believe he's doing with a
Speaker 5: little minor injury.
Speaker 8: Should be back soon.
Speaker 5: Burks was really coaching them ups over in the dugout.
Speaker 5: So that's just that experience from a fifth year guy
Speaker 5: who and Bell's various aptives as he would expect from
Speaker 5: a freshman. But I thought that kind of showed, you know,
Speaker 5: these are very competitive scrimmages once they get out there.
Speaker 5: But to have the older guy in there and kind
Speaker 5: of kind of showing him what he was doing wrong,
Speaker 5: because that was I mean, it was probably like I said,
Speaker 5: for me up in the stands, and you know it
Speaker 5: was I don't think he would have got back to
Speaker 5: the first day, said the pitcher thrown over. But yeah,
Speaker 5: he looked good. And I tell you, Aiden Larkin to
Speaker 5: someone who's is really I think impressed the coaches. He's
Speaker 5: had really good at bats too, from what I've seen
Speaker 5: from him, made a nice flighting play, and he was
Speaker 5: one of those guys that committed fairly late. I mean,
Speaker 5: I think he committed summer right before his senior year,
Speaker 5: which is is fairly late baseball for a for a
Speaker 5: power five program. And he might be a guy who's
Speaker 5: you know, maybe ends up being a still.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me anything about the uh, I don't
Speaker 1: know the identity of this team or what you're gonna
Speaker 1: It's gonna be so young, and yet they they got
Speaker 1: to learn quickly.
Speaker 6: They've got a pretty good mix of veterans.
Speaker 1: But I felt like the identity of the team last
Speaker 1: year was sort of personified by Nolan McCarthy and he left,
Speaker 1: and you think.
Speaker 6: You and I talked about this on my show. That
Speaker 6: was a little bit of a surprise.
Speaker 1: And so you know, you've got you've got Devin Booker,
Speaker 1: You've got or Devin Booker.
Speaker 6: You've got a couple of the the veterans back. But
Speaker 6: I do wonder where all that's gonna come from, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean.
Speaker 5: I do think they want to keep, generally speaking, the
Speaker 5: same kind of emphasis that they've had in the past.
Speaker 5: So I mentioned the base running, they want to remain aggressive.
Speaker 5: There really weren't a ton of butts the other day.
Speaker 5: But then also they did this thing where you know,
Speaker 5: Dicky cover these games, they're a saying like we don't
Speaker 5: move right in the box, like they don't get.
Speaker 6: Out of the way of pitches.
Speaker 5: So they had a couple of guys the other day
Speaker 5: who didn't move in the box and those were automatic outs.
Speaker 5: So I think that emphasis on really kind of keeping
Speaker 5: the same identity that they've had. But to your point,
Speaker 5: I mean, I could honestly see a lineup this year
Speaker 5: at various points where I mean Burks is maybe the
Speaker 5: only guy who who's really played any kind of meaningful
Speaker 5: baseball for Kentucky. Now, I think other guys like Kindled
Speaker 5: and Garget and maybe like Eli Small and the Outsilod
Speaker 5: Griff and Camera and those kinds of guys that are
Speaker 5: all true sophomores, could still work their way back in there.
Speaker 5: But I do think that this fall is is really
Speaker 5: it's gonna be kind of learning, learning how they play
Speaker 5: here in Kentucky, and maybe a little crash course hut
Speaker 5: there and a couple of those guys that were in
Speaker 5: the box that got out of the way of the pitch,
Speaker 5: and I will say, I mean it was it wasn't
Speaker 5: a great day for the pitcher, but again I mean
Speaker 5: it's it's early fall, yeah. And then the arm two
Speaker 5: that I saw the other day. If you really think
Speaker 5: about the guys that are going to be likely a
Speaker 5: part of this team, I'm not sure how many. Probably
Speaker 5: Cole Hentral transfer from Richmond. He'll be in there, a
Speaker 5: few batters, walk a couple, and then I mentioned Hogan
Speaker 5: and Nathan Walker. I think those are the three that
Speaker 5: through the other day that pretty much without a doubt
Speaker 5: or are going to play some kind of decent size
Speaker 5: role for this team.
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Speaker 1: a look back at a big week here.
Speaker 2: On the Big Blue Insider, Heroes, fools and Flakes, and
Speaker 2: we will.
Speaker 1: Relive the highlights of uk ole Miss. That's after the
Speaker 1: news break here on six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Big Bluinsider.
Speaker 1: I remember two of our program on the friday of
Speaker 1: one of Kentucky's two bye weeks, and Wildcats got a
Speaker 1: chance to revel in their victory over Ole Miss. When
Speaker 1: you think about bye weeks, they often come at a
Speaker 1: good time in terms of getting players back from minor
Speaker 1: nagging injuries.
Speaker 2: Will they be ready for the following week. There's nothing like.
Speaker 1: Rest and the ability to just lay out and heal,
Speaker 1: and that's going to be the case with some of
Speaker 1: the Wildcats, some not so much, but we'll talk about
Speaker 1: that in the upcoming week.
Speaker 2: Still, bye weeks coaches like to say preseason.
Speaker 1: I'm not crazy about them. If we're playing well, I'd
Speaker 1: like to keep playing. But really, you got to think
Speaker 1: this comes at a good time for Mark Stoops because
Speaker 1: coming off that disappointing loss, to Georgia and the terrible
Speaker 1: set back to South Carolina. They did what they had
Speaker 1: to do against Ohiou, but then what a lift to
Speaker 1: pull off that upset wind over Mississippi down in Oxford.
Speaker 1: So now they get a chance to relax a little bit.
Speaker 1: They're back on schedule, relax in a good way, you know.
Speaker 1: Not let it take anything for granted, but think about
Speaker 1: what got them there to that win overall Miss. It
Speaker 1: was the same qualities that got them to the win
Speaker 1: over Georgia as I mentioned earlier. So not a bad
Speaker 1: time for a bye week and not a bad time
Speaker 1: for us to.
Speaker 2: Look back on it and relive the highlights.
Speaker 1: From the UK Sports Network, Tom Leach and Jeff Picoro
Speaker 1: called it last Saturday. Here's the highlight melt of UK
Speaker 1: and Ole Miss.
Speaker 8: Famed novelist John Grisham is an old Miss Lost graduates,
Speaker 8: so he's likely rooting for the undefeated Rebels in this
Speaker 8: matchup with Kentucky, but his books frequently follow a plotline
Speaker 8: that would serve the Wildcats well against number six Ole Miss,
Speaker 8: with underdogs overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds to win the day.
Speaker 8: Good Afternoon from Von Hemingway Stadium on the campus of
Speaker 8: the University of Mississippi and Oxford. I'm Tom Lynch, along
Speaker 8: with the former Wildcat wide out Jeff Pikoro Dick Gabriel.
Speaker 8: Down on the signe lines. Ross move's on the football.
Speaker 8: It is high, but it's not gonna make the end zone.
Speaker 8: Data slapes over the left fields into the left mash.
Speaker 9: Mark at the two hit stream wild good Willie Ron
Speaker 9: Regas got handed the ball.
Speaker 8: Pupil players are saying, I do. He got absolutely Willy
Speaker 8: Ron Regaez driv the booba at the seventeen yard line. Yes, sir,
Speaker 8: that's the ruling on the field recovery by Kentucky after
Speaker 8: the hit by Rod Regaez. What a way to start
Speaker 8: if it holds up.
Speaker 10: By goodness, he got absolutely rocked.
Speaker 9: The problem is he got hit so hard he fell
Speaker 9: straight down the ball that's laying on his chest. He
Speaker 9: just rolls off, watching on the scoreboards of them.
Speaker 8: No trouble.
Speaker 1: Then to be first down over there from foe and.
Speaker 8: You drink before the rebels dart with a plate faith.
Speaker 8: Now he's pressured, moves up into the pocket, throws down
Speaker 8: the middle of line open. He's got Harris and he
Speaker 8: is going to get closer to the touchdown. No, he's
Speaker 8: down at the one yard line. First in gold to
Speaker 8: go or ole Miss at the one and I'll perish
Speaker 8: straight ahead.
Speaker 9: He got down at that is just four defense right there,
Speaker 9: you're walking to the line of his privage.
Speaker 10: Nobody was even ready for Kentucky and ole Miss just
Speaker 10: walked into the inso.
Speaker 8: Vandergrip on a keeper, heads off to the right, gets
Speaker 8: across the thirty, breaks a tackle across the twenty five,
Speaker 8: still going and knocked out of bounds over on the
Speaker 8: far side at the twenty two yard line. It's eleven
Speaker 8: yards and another first down for Kentucky. Cabin into the
Speaker 8: game now. As Rock gets a brellier after that run
Speaker 8: fake by whim Sad, he goes straight ahead, breaks a
Speaker 8: couple of tackles, gets inside the fifteen and has a
Speaker 8: first down to the eleven yard line. Rainer twenty seven yarders.
Speaker 8: It's gonna be spotted at the old Miss seventeen yard line.
Speaker 8: I'm trying to get Kentucky on the board. It's good.
Speaker 8: I'm thirteen left to play here. At the opening quarter,
Speaker 8: each team scores on its opening drive, but it's Old
Speaker 8: Miss seven in Kentucky three on the UK sports Edward
Speaker 8: Dart and empty backfield heading the football and he's out
Speaker 8: of his sacks.
Speaker 9: Nice if top Kentucky was playing when we call it
Speaker 9: cover seven there five hunder and two team and there
Speaker 9: was no place for Dart to throw when he stepped
Speaker 9: up as she's swallowing him up.
Speaker 8: That brings the first quarter to an end. It's seven
Speaker 8: three rebels, third and seventh Kentucky showing let's off the edges.
Speaker 8: They bring six. Dart in trouble, dancing around and he
Speaker 8: sacked ia back of the forty one yard line. Dion
Speaker 8: Walker and Jamon Thomas Johnson drop him for a loss
Speaker 8: of five. Bill first out for Kentucky. Vandergrid sliding left
Speaker 8: on the option, makes the pitch to Sumo. Karby's got
Speaker 8: room up the far side. He has the first down
Speaker 8: forced out of bounds out at the thirty one yard
Speaker 8: line after a game of fourteen yards. That's a new
Speaker 8: look and Kentucky makes you work. Dart play fake. He
Speaker 8: is throwing deep up the near sideline and it's broken
Speaker 8: up at the Kentucky forty yard line by Waller and Bryan.
Speaker 8: They were both there going step for step with Juice
Speaker 8: Wells in South Carolina.
Speaker 9: Transfer and there you see they you know, they take
Speaker 9: that deep shine again all the way down to the
Speaker 9: forty yard line where that ball came down, but no
Speaker 9: pressure on dark.
Speaker 8: Sander Grip bakes it to Sumo Carnbay quick throw into
Speaker 8: the middle. He's got key. First down into ole Miss
Speaker 8: territory at the Rebels forty nine yard line.
Speaker 10: He picked up sixteen boy really like dad.
Speaker 9: He knows going over the middle he's gonna get clocked,
Speaker 9: but man, he has gotten some guts to do that.
Speaker 9: He comes right into the teeth of the defense, finds
Speaker 9: it opening and rock double clunches and puts it on
Speaker 9: the money to.
Speaker 8: Whiteouts right, one tight end each way for Vandergrid. That's
Speaker 8: coming up the middle. Plaything. Vandergrid's setting deep fires into
Speaker 8: the middle of the family. He's got key inside the
Speaker 8: ole Miss forty pull down close to the thirty five
Speaker 8: yard line on the Rebels twenty four yard game.
Speaker 9: Turning on the title again. He gets inside the corner.
Speaker 9: A beautiful move to the post.
Speaker 8: Second down five the ole Miss fifteen two tight ends right,
Speaker 8: two whiteouts left hand off. Sumo Karba bounces it out
Speaker 8: left he's got space at the tent, cuts back right
Speaker 8: and drives his way down close to the five yard line.
Speaker 8: First down. Maybe that'll be first in goal to go
Speaker 8: after a ten yard run by Demi Sumo Carnbay.
Speaker 10: But great blocking on the outside by Day Key could
Speaker 10: in hell, but he did it.
Speaker 9: He stayed in front of his vand beautifully done. He
Speaker 9: loved to get zeven here instead of three number.
Speaker 8: Vander Graft fires into the middle, broke.
Speaker 10: It up black Hunter the hell pass interpers.
Speaker 8: They were trying to get Key in the middle of
Speaker 8: the en zone, right under the gold Boats. And they're
Speaker 8: gonna call holding first down automatic first down either way.
Speaker 8: Seven penalties forty eight yards today whistled against Ole miss
Speaker 8: one for ten for Kentucky. Vandergrift play Fath retreating, throwing
Speaker 8: it to.
Speaker 11: The back of the end zone, touch toouchdowncer tasting, Ky
Speaker 11: tracking the back line of the zone and Vandergriff just
Speaker 11: floaded it out there to.
Speaker 8: Him and Keith bridged down and snatched it with two hands.
Speaker 8: The Wildcats are in front, twenty said. Play in the
Speaker 8: half trips to the left, one White out right, Darthy
Speaker 8: Su're coming again.
Speaker 10: He shiding.
Speaker 8: Oxen done got him. Yep, big fella got a little
Speaker 8: ticked off. He's just said, you won't call it. I'll
Speaker 8: just go get it. He did. Boy, loss of six
Speaker 8: back to the twenty ole miss out of time aus.
Speaker 8: That's it. Kentucky is going to take the lead into
Speaker 8: the locker room in halftime on the home field of
Speaker 8: the number sixteen of the country, the Wildcats ten, the
Speaker 8: old miss Rebels seven and inspired first thirty minutes for Kentucky.
Speaker 8: Nick Gabriel is gonna catch up with coach Mark Stutz.
Speaker 2: Coach, I gotta think you love the pace of this game.
Speaker 2: You've really controlled it.
Speaker 12: We have controlled the pace of the game and both sides.
Speaker 12: Defense has to get stopped. We've been disruptive, we've covered well.
Speaker 12: As we talked about all week, the pace of play
Speaker 12: early got us and then we settled right in and offensively,
Speaker 12: it really kept us in the game controlling it. Obviously
Speaker 12: we knew we had to score there, but you know,
Speaker 12: so it's really important to get in the end zone.
Speaker 12: We got to continue to play aggressive. I went for
Speaker 12: a couple of those fourth downs and uh, you know,
Speaker 12: it's worked out.
Speaker 8: So you know, so far, so good.
Speaker 12: A big, big half here.
Speaker 2: Kind of a physical game you like, isn't it it is?
Speaker 12: I think that's the one thing that we have to
Speaker 12: keep up. Our guys are playing really physical offensively. We're
Speaker 12: getting some dirty, tough runs. Three four yard runs, you know.
Speaker 12: Two three four yard runs are are good because we
Speaker 12: gotta we gotta keep them off balance. And then and
Speaker 12: as you can see, our game is then you got
Speaker 12: to play action pass drop back pass. We struggle, but
Speaker 12: if we could run it and be physical, then the
Speaker 12: play action sets up well.
Speaker 8: Coach, thank you, and the Wildcats take a ten to
Speaker 8: seven lead into the locker room here in Oxford. Two
Speaker 8: minutes gone in this third quarter for you. Now for
Speaker 8: Kentucky and off the Paris straight ahead breaks away, got
Speaker 8: a big game into Kentucky territory to the forty nine
Speaker 8: yard line, Jeff. They headed for a game of a
Speaker 8: yard or two.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they had a right line his primage, but he
Speaker 10: just ran through two armed tackles.
Speaker 8: Jackson, Dart Hump Bake rights. He is gonna run and
Speaker 8: left and he is in trouble. He's gonna be hit,
Speaker 8: dropped for a loss, Walker Dumas, Johnson time Bryan not fooled.
Speaker 8: They drop in for a loss of three fourth and six.
Speaker 8: Try to tie the game with nine fifty four to play.
Speaker 8: Here in the third quarter, suns back under the clouds
Speaker 8: now here in Oxford. It's that wave up high and
Speaker 8: it's good, and the game is tied. Old mits ten
Speaker 8: and Kentucky ten. Vandergriff the receivers each way, fakes left, throws, rights,
Speaker 8: complete the key. Thirty five forty breaks through a tackle
Speaker 8: up the far sideline, out of bounds, up at the
Speaker 8: Kentucky forty six yard line, twenty one yard game. They
Speaker 8: give it to Wilcox running left, got an alley across
Speaker 8: the fifty forty five, runs over a tackler, knocks it
Speaker 8: older defender back, goes inside the forty to the rebels
Speaker 8: thirty seven yard line. Donnery finally made the tackle on him.
Speaker 8: A game of seventeen, so it'll be a forty eight
Speaker 8: yard field goal attempt. Poor rainer. I don't pull this
Speaker 8: back to the left a little bit, he said already
Speaker 8: from twenty seven today on you a leg. It's good.
Speaker 8: Thirteen in a row. Kentucky retakes the lead with six
Speaker 8: thirty one to play in the third. Kentucky thirteen pull
Speaker 8: miss ten on the UK Sports Network fourth and seven,
Speaker 8: two receivers each Way or Dart coming down to the
Speaker 8: end of the third quarter, Blitz coming, Dart throws it
Speaker 8: into the middle and his puck for the first down,
Speaker 8: and it's a lot more. Harris running through the middle
Speaker 8: of the defense cuts Leck. You'll go in for the touchdown.
Speaker 8: Kentucky brought everybody on all Outlitz. Ole Miss picks it up.
Speaker 8: Harris on a deep slant, makes the catch.
Speaker 2: And I don't know that.
Speaker 8: Anybody ever touched a forty seven yard touchdown pass on
Speaker 8: fourth and seven.
Speaker 10: Well, when you give it up like that, you've got to.
Speaker 9: Get on your guy. And he was wide open, streaking
Speaker 9: right through the middle of the field of post pattern
Speaker 9: if you will skinny pose at once they picked up
Speaker 9: the Polintz. Dart was able to pat it and then
Speaker 9: fire it right to him. And and that kid when
Speaker 9: he gets in the open field, you can forget about it.
Speaker 8: Ten seconds to play the third quarter, and Ole Miss
Speaker 8: goes back in front here at Oscar seventeen to thirteen
Speaker 8: on a forty eight yard touchdown pass on fourth and seven.
Speaker 8: So fourth and ams from its own nineteen Mark Stewkes
Speaker 8: pushing the chips to the center of the table the
Speaker 8: four oh four to play, trailing seventeen thirteen. They don't
Speaker 8: make it, o missus and Minimum starts in field goal range.
Speaker 8: Vanderhrypt drops let's coming. He's throwing it up the far
Speaker 8: sideline and it's good.
Speaker 10: Brown at the thirty four he stands, yeah.
Speaker 8: It comes back across the ear side of the thirty
Speaker 8: ten to twenty down of the.
Speaker 11: Seventeen yard line of Old Miss wanna throw.
Speaker 8: Vandergriff dropped it in and right into the hands of
Speaker 8: Brown streaking down the left side.
Speaker 9: There's the chunk play you were looking for. And Ivy
Speaker 9: is down back in the fifteen yard line. He started
Speaker 9: to run up the field and he just fell down.
Speaker 9: He's gonna give the team a blow. But Kentucky has
Speaker 9: it inside the red zone.
Speaker 8: Now wow.
Speaker 9: He tiptoed the sidelines top stadium bounds and got himself
Speaker 9: an extra ten or twelve yards.
Speaker 8: Sixty two yards on the completion to Baryon Brown. As
Speaker 8: the Cats are back in the red zone first and ten,
Speaker 8: Kentucky just inside the left hash mark at the Old
Speaker 8: Miss seventeen yard line. They give it the Sumo Carbay
Speaker 8: bouncing that left. He's got room fifteen ten carrys a
Speaker 8: tackler for a first down to the six yard line.
Speaker 8: Wimst now the quarterbacks. He woke Carnvay to his left.
Speaker 8: Wimsit on a keeper running left at the five drops
Speaker 8: his shoulder gap so the two bubble of football. It
Speaker 8: go into the end zone, touchdown.
Speaker 10: Kentucky. On the recovery of the enzoe.
Speaker 8: Trying to see who got it, Cattis Josh Cattis recover
Speaker 8: the ball. It popped down of Whimsit at the two.
Speaker 8: It went right to Canis in the end zone. Kentucky
Speaker 8: twenty oh Miss seventeen with two twenty five to play.
Speaker 10: In the game.
Speaker 8: Here in Oxford, Mississippi dart set Steve stunted up front
Speaker 8: Ole miss kicks it up. He scrambles off to the right,
Speaker 8: throws it deep into the middle.
Speaker 10: Of the field like and good damn where time.
Speaker 8: Cay Grace carn Christen story, Christen's story got lost?
Speaker 10: What are you doing?
Speaker 8: Makes the cat at the Kentucky thirty four yard line.
Speaker 8: You got Kayden Davis, a senior. The ball's gonna be
Speaker 8: spotted just shy of the thirty nine yard line of Kentucky.
Speaker 10: Just get big boys, We'll call this a forty.
Speaker 8: Nine yard field goal attempt off the right Hashmark Davis
Speaker 8: is a right footed kicker, so we have to pull
Speaker 8: this back to the left a little bit to try
Speaker 8: and tie the game with fifty three seconds left, a
Speaker 8: little bit of a low staff. They get it down,
Speaker 8: kicks on the.
Speaker 10: Way, No, not hold, only.
Speaker 8: Forty eight seconds to play. An old mess comes up empty. Yes,
Speaker 8: how about that the sidelines fd in. Mark stops in
Speaker 8: his Kentucky Wildcats have shot the comics Football World hit
Speaker 8: it Go Bubba, a miracle in the Magnolia State. We're
Speaker 8: Kentucky Wildcats twenty the Old Miss Rebels seventeen.
Speaker 2: That is the way it sounded. Tom Leach and Jeppichor
Speaker 2: I jumped in there every now.
Speaker 1: And then as the Wildcats knocked off the Old Miss
Speaker 1: Rebels and ran their record three and two. So they'll
Speaker 1: get a chance to just sit back, put their feed up,
Speaker 1: and start watching football. I think this is the beginning
Speaker 1: of a stretch for something like fifty five straight days
Speaker 1: with either a college or pro game on TV. So
Speaker 1: not a bad time to have the opportunity to sit
Speaker 1: back and relax. And as Tom mentioned off the top,
Speaker 1: John Grisham and Ole Miss grad, an Ole Miss fan,
Speaker 1: and of course he has written so many books that
Speaker 1: involve mysteries. And it's probably still a mystery to Rebel
Speaker 1: fans how they lost that game. It's no mystery to
Speaker 1: Kentucky fans because they've seen games like that get away
Speaker 1: and finally, finally one went the way of the Wildcats.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll take a look around the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1: There is college football this week. A little bit later on,
Speaker 1: we'll take a look back at a big week here
Speaker 1: on the Big blullon Sider six thirty WLAP Welcome back
Speaker 1: Dick Gabriel with you on a Friday edition of The
Speaker 1: Big Blue Insider. And ordinarily we talk about this as
Speaker 1: being the eve of game day, but as we know,
Speaker 1: it's an open day tomorrow. But there is college football
Speaker 1: around the bluegrad at Center College at his homecoming at
Speaker 1: Joe McDaniel Field at Andy Fryes Stadium as the Colonels
Speaker 1: take on Trinity College out of San Antonio. Center College
Speaker 1: coming off a tough one on the road to loss
Speaker 1: at Hampton Sydney thirty eight to thirty four, first loss
Speaker 1: of the season for the Colonels after season opening wins
Speaker 1: over Hanover and Maryville. Morehead State takes on the fighting
Speaker 1: Rob Bromley's of Butler up in Indianapolis. That's right, Butler
Speaker 1: University gave us Rob Bromley and we were glad it did.
Speaker 1: The Eagles right now are two and two with wins
Speaker 1: over Kentucky Christian and just last week knocked up Valparizo
Speaker 1: at home, but gave up a ton of points at
Speaker 1: number eight Montana up in Missoula, losing that one fifty
Speaker 1: nine to two, and then lost a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago to EKU by a final of forty two to thirteen.
Speaker 2: Louisville has a big one.
Speaker 1: This is an acc game and the Cardinals need a
Speaker 1: win after falling at Notre Dame last week up in
Speaker 1: South and the Cards turned it over way too many times.
Speaker 1: Irish took full advantage in the thirty one to twenty
Speaker 1: four win over u L. So the Cards play host
Speaker 1: to SMU at l and N Federal Credit Union Stadium
Speaker 1: used to be the big Slice Papa John's. And this
Speaker 1: is a bit of a flashback game for me because
Speaker 1: when I was in Dallas the two seasons I was
Speaker 1: down in Dallas, SMU twice played Louisville. The first one
Speaker 1: came at Cardinals Stadium, and of course the second one
Speaker 1: came at Texas Stadium and Irving. That's where SMU used
Speaker 1: to play its home games, which was a terrible move
Speaker 1: because even if they got a good crowd, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: fill it, so it looked like, you know, there wasn't
Speaker 1: as much interest in SMU football as there really was.
Speaker 2: But SMU is a small school.
Speaker 1: They did have quite a fan following in Dallas when
Speaker 1: they were you know, cheating their butts off and heading
Speaker 1: for the death penalty, but winning a lot of games.
Speaker 1: But playing in Texas Stadium was something they did because
Speaker 1: at one point they had an athletics director wanted to
Speaker 1: mirror everything the Cowboys did. So instead of playing in
Speaker 1: a good, solid, kind of quaint stadium on campus and
Speaker 1: making it look like it was a big ticket, they
Speaker 1: played at Texas Stadium. But anyhow, that first year nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty three, they came to U of L, and Cardinals
Speaker 1: Stadium was so decrepit by then, even by then, and
Speaker 1: I warned the broadcast crew, specifically the playbook play man
Speaker 1: Brad Sham, who's now the long time legendary voice of
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. I said, look, you're going to have
Speaker 1: to walk a catwalk to get to the press box,
Speaker 1: which hangs from the roof the overhang over the field.
Speaker 1: And if you've ever been to the old Cardinal Stadium,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I said, you'll feel
Speaker 1: it swaying. Even if it's not that windy, you will
Speaker 1: feel it swaying. And it's going to be so cramped
Speaker 1: that I just wonder how all of you guys producer, engineer, playbook,
Speaker 1: play color and two spotters, how are they going to
Speaker 1: fit in there? And they barely did, but they got
Speaker 1: it done. Oh by the way, Statman too and SMU
Speaker 1: came away with the win. It's first time these teams
Speaker 1: have played since the early eighties. Couple of other teams
Speaker 1: with buys this weekend. Georgetown College is off this week,
Speaker 1: coming off and win over Reinhardt out of Georgia. The
Speaker 1: Tiger's next play Faulkner on Saturday, October twelfth at Toyota Stadium.
Speaker 2: That is homecoming.
Speaker 1: E KU is opened this week as well, coming off
Speaker 1: win over Robert Morris, and then there are back to
Speaker 1: back road trips coming up at Southern Utah, all the
Speaker 1: way out at Cedar City, Utah, and Abilene Christian in Abilene,
Speaker 1: Texas before homecoming pops up on October twenty sixth at
Speaker 1: Roy Kids Stadium against Utah Tech. So Wal Wells happy
Speaker 1: to have an open date prior to a couple of
Speaker 1: rough road games.
Speaker 13: You look at those next three and there there are
Speaker 13: challenges that each of them present, and uh, but you
Speaker 13: know it's it's a whole lot. Winning is living and
Speaker 13: so to be coming around here and whether smile on
Speaker 13: your face and three and zero at home in the
Speaker 13: last three games is something that's fun to do. And
Speaker 13: we've got to continue to enjoy that filing and earn
Speaker 13: that fimil that's e k.
Speaker 1: U head coach Walt Wells will come back and take
Speaker 1: a look at the week that was a little bit
Speaker 1: later on Heroes, Fools and Flakes as we wrap up
Speaker 1: the week, you're on six thirty.
Speaker 8: Telling you.
Speaker 10: That was the week.
Speaker 14: Over let it go, that was the week that was.
Speaker 5: It started way up FLUK and he's.
Speaker 13: Playing in all.
Speaker 1: Time to take a look at the week that was,
Speaker 1: and it was another big one here on the Big
Speaker 1: Blue Insider, going back to the first of the week
Speaker 1: when we heard of the passing of the legendary Pete Rose.
Speaker 1: Like him or not, he was one of the greatest
Speaker 1: players in the history of the game. And even today
Speaker 1: there's a story in the New York Post written by
Speaker 1: a columnist who just harped on nothing but the negatives
Speaker 1: about Pete Rose. But my man Doug Flynn was in
Speaker 1: the garage with us just last night, he and the
Speaker 1: rest of the Chain gang, Darren Hedrick and Keith Madison,
Speaker 1: and we talked a linked about Pete and Doug talked
Speaker 1: about the Pete Rose that nobody really got to see,
Speaker 1: and he talked about how frustrated he got, and Doug
Speaker 1: still gets with media when it comes to his friend.
Speaker 1: But we started this particular part of the discussion with
Speaker 1: a funny story that we encountered a few years ago
Speaker 1: when we were doing the minor league games. One of
Speaker 1: those teams was managed by Pete Junior. And you told
Speaker 1: a story about Pete Junior calling Dad when he was
Speaker 1: in a lull or I think he used the S
Speaker 1: word of slump and asked for advice.
Speaker 15: Yeah, Pete, you know, he picked up the fellows his dad. Man,
Speaker 15: I'm struggling won for eighteen, and he says, what I do?
Speaker 15: PE said, how do I know? I've never been in
Speaker 15: a he said, called Davy, Davy. He'll tell you how
Speaker 15: to get out of it. Let me tell you one
Speaker 15: little quick please. So seventy five, seventy six, we win
Speaker 15: seventy You got to have three years in the big
Speaker 15: leagues to move outside of where the team stays during
Speaker 15: spring training. If not, you stay at the team hotel
Speaker 15: where the media and everybody stays. So seventy seven January,
Speaker 15: my sister disappears. Dick Wagner, the general manager. I call
Speaker 15: him up and say, Dick, I want to live away
Speaker 15: from all the stuff. I got questions going on. We
Speaker 15: got investigations, Da da da da dah, I said, And
Speaker 15: I want my parents to come down, and I don't
Speaker 15: want them to be around on the media people because
Speaker 15: we're getting phone calls daily. What do you think that
Speaker 15: just because you want to break the rules, you got
Speaker 15: to have three years.
Speaker 7: You know that?
Speaker 15: And I said, I know that, But I said this,
Speaker 15: I thought these circumstances, it would you would understand.
Speaker 2: He says no.
Speaker 15: He says, the rules are rules, and you got aby
Speaker 15: by him.
Speaker 2: I said, okay, I quit. Wow.
Speaker 15: I hang up the phone. So I'm sitting there thinking
Speaker 15: what did you just do? So an hour goes by,
Speaker 15: the phone rings. It's Pete and he's laughing. He said,
Speaker 15: did you quit? I said yeah, I said, Pete, we
Speaker 15: got two World Series in two years. Is the only
Speaker 15: place I think goes down from here. And he said,
Speaker 15: you're not quitting. I said, well, he said, I already
Speaker 15: know the story. He said, I'm staying at the King
Speaker 15: Arthur's n right down from the ballpark. He said, I
Speaker 15: got a room for you, and I got a room
Speaker 15: for your mom and dad. It won't cost you nothing.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 15: And I went there, and that probably had a little
Speaker 15: bit to do why I got traded because Dick Wagner.
Speaker 2: Was, yeah, you know, but Pete, well, he's a clown
Speaker 2: who broke up the Reds.
Speaker 15: Here's a clown.
Speaker 2: I agree with you. He's a clown.
Speaker 15: He treated people rude, he treated people mean. He only
Speaker 15: used me. There's some other people talk differently about him.
Speaker 15: I don't know him being any different.
Speaker 2: Well, that was it.
Speaker 15: That was it was Yeah, So that did it right there.
Speaker 15: But so Pete did that, And there was all kinds
Speaker 15: of stuff. If you went to his house, like I
Speaker 15: started collecting autographs, which I never did before, and all
Speaker 15: of sudden I thought I'd do it. He said, here
Speaker 15: he throws his rookie cards and start off with this one.
Speaker 2: Wow wow.
Speaker 15: Or he'd give you a pair. I got a big
Speaker 15: pair of those big Porsche sunglasses that he used to wear.
Speaker 15: I've never worn them. I mean, cover your whole head.
Speaker 15: I can't pull it off, but I still. He just
Speaker 15: he gave people shoes. I just got a letter guy
Speaker 15: the other day, his son got blown up in Iraq.
Speaker 15: Pete found out about it, picked up the phone and
Speaker 15: talked to him from an hour and stuff like that.
Speaker 15: The media just, you'll do it, but most of our
Speaker 15: media won't cover that. And I'm so sick of them
Speaker 15: burying him over the stuff now. I mean, for forty
Speaker 15: years they've been getting on him. The same people are
Speaker 15: getting on him that Pete would give an interview with
Speaker 15: that no one else would ever talk to. But people
Speaker 15: give an interview when loser draw you do it, and
Speaker 15: they kisses Reary in for that, and then as soon
Speaker 15: as he got in trouble they've been burying him ever since.
Speaker 10: Then.
Speaker 2: He's not wrong.
Speaker 1: The problem is Doug was and is privy to so
Speaker 1: many of the great things that Rose did off the radar.
Speaker 2: You know, we always heard about, of course.
Speaker 1: The gambling, and he did not hide the fact that
Speaker 1: he would date younger women and then ran around on
Speaker 1: his wives.
Speaker 2: And things like that.
Speaker 1: But the great things he did, as I said, that
Speaker 1: nobody knew about. Probably out of number the instances that
Speaker 1: we did hear about, you just never got a chance
Speaker 1: to find out.
Speaker 2: Thankfully, Doug Flynn is sharing stories like that.
Speaker 1: Obviously, we talked about the Wildcats and there went over
Speaker 1: all miss and I had a chance to talk to
Speaker 1: the linebacker JJ Weaver about what this defense has accomplished
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 2: Tell me about what life has been like since pulling
Speaker 2: off that upset man, It's wonderful. You know, we needed
Speaker 2: that big wan.
Speaker 16: We lost in South Carolina.
Speaker 2: That hurt us.
Speaker 16: You know, we was in a Dolphier Geordia, you know,
Speaker 16: and then Dolphier old men.
Speaker 7: So we got it.
Speaker 16: You know, we we almost there, which is to keep batting,
Speaker 16: batting every other week. You know, our next our next
Speaker 16: opponent is Vending Beild, and we're not gonna take Vending
Speaker 16: Beild like it's another SEC opponent. You know, SEC have
Speaker 16: the one of the best conference in the nation, so
Speaker 16: we gotta look forward to keep fighting, chopping chopping wood
Speaker 16: every year.
Speaker 1: It's becoming I think perhaps the identity of this Kentucky
Speaker 1: team and people across the country now are seeing just
Speaker 1: how good your defense is.
Speaker 2: What is it like to be a part of that, man,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean.
Speaker 16: For six years and I tell the guy, this is
Speaker 16: one of the best defense I've been in in a UK.
Speaker 16: You know, the brothers is tight. You know we battle
Speaker 16: every day. You know, we we argue like brothers, you know,
Speaker 16: so it's once you argue each other. You know, he
Speaker 16: got my back off the field, So.
Speaker 2: Man, I love it.
Speaker 16: Ain't gonna lie love it. You know, I know they
Speaker 16: got my back. So I can go to war with
Speaker 16: these with these guys. You know, I know they're gonna
Speaker 16: stand on all ten for I mean, I'm gonna stay
Speaker 16: all ten for them. So it's a I love this team,
Speaker 16: this defense, I know. I know we got the chance
Speaker 16: to upset a lot of teams this year.
Speaker 1: We got a chance to talk to JJ because he
Speaker 1: has been named to the All State Good Works Team
Speaker 1: and therefore is one of eleven players in the running
Speaker 1: for the Danny Wirfeld Trophy, which is given to the
Speaker 1: college football player each year who exemplifies great character both.
Speaker 2: On and off the field.
Speaker 1: Courtney Love wanted as a Kentucky Wildcat back in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: I spoke with John Clay, the Harrow Leader, longtime columnist,
Speaker 1: formerly a beat writer for the Haro Leader when it
Speaker 1: came to UK football and basketball, and John admitted, and
Speaker 1: I had to admit to myself that when ole Miss
Speaker 1: took a late lead and then started making plays moving
Speaker 1: down the field in the last couple of minutes of
Speaker 1: this game, I braced myself for another miserable finish. And
Speaker 1: John admitted he did too.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean when they complete with ole Miss, you know,
Speaker 14: because he goes up but twenty to seventeen and all
Speaker 14: Miss complete that long pass. First of all, you think, well,
Speaker 14: they're going to go ahead and take it in for
Speaker 14: a score. And then when they wind up for the
Speaker 14: field goal. But I will admit I thought that, you know,
Speaker 14: I didn't think it was a sure thing of forty
Speaker 14: eight yarder. I know Mark stoops at afterwards that he
Speaker 14: turned to Brad White and said, would do one. Now
Speaker 14: I think kntheckya was kind of do one in that game,
Speaker 14: and you know, obviously to play the game has to
Speaker 14: be the fourth down call where they throw the sixty
Speaker 14: three yard bomb. Not only did they went for it,
Speaker 14: And listen to Mark after the game, I thought he
Speaker 14: had pretty sound reasoning that even if they didn't make
Speaker 14: it on the fourth down, he thought the defense was
Speaker 14: playing well. They could hold him to a field goal,
Speaker 14: you know, and would still be you know, we then
Speaker 14: get the ball back and me when then range of
Speaker 14: doing something, but you know, but not just to go
Speaker 14: for it on fourth down, but to you know, air
Speaker 14: it out and go for the big play, go for
Speaker 14: the big strike. And obviously a great pass by Brock
Speaker 14: Vandergriff and an even better catch to put himself in
Speaker 14: a position to make the catch by Barryon Brown, who really,
Speaker 14: up until this point had been the dang Key Show.
Speaker 14: Dang Key had been you know, back to back one
Speaker 14: hundred yard games, and Baryon hadn't quite had the impact
Speaker 14: so far that we thought maybe he would have. In fact,
Speaker 14: Danes said after the game that he kept that he
Speaker 14: kept telling barry On your time's coming, Your time's coming,
Speaker 14: and it certainly did you know did on that play.
Speaker 14: I think that play will go down, especially if Kentucky
Speaker 14: goes on to have a good season. I think that play,
Speaker 14: that fourth down play will go down in Kentucky is
Speaker 14: one of the more significant plays in Kentucky football history.
Speaker 2: I will tell you that when they went for it.
Speaker 1: I always talk about second guessing, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: all well and good if you make that decision prior
Speaker 1: to the play. And I remember thinking, you know, they
Speaker 1: pretty much have to go for it here. I didn't
Speaker 1: think that the feed and cement thing would work.
Speaker 2: They weren't going to draw him off side. But I
Speaker 2: also heard that Barrion Brown's route was not the first
Speaker 2: option on that Rock draft figure they'd go over the
Speaker 2: middle to Dane Key again. But he draws the double team.
Speaker 2: That's what's amazing.
Speaker 1: John is very impunishment the last year and a halfy
Speaker 1: in double team and they go single coverage and they
Speaker 1: burned or didn't they.
Speaker 14: Yeah, they got the look they wanted. And Rock said
Speaker 14: after the game, when we talked to Brock, Mandy Griff,
Speaker 14: you know about take us through that play. So you
Speaker 14: know we got single coverage, we got single on Barion
Speaker 14: and we thought maybe we could get that, but you know,
Speaker 14: we weren't sure how they would play it when they
Speaker 14: plays the owner man and with they single up on
Speaker 14: barry On, which they did, and uh, you know, obviously yeah,
Speaker 14: and I think, you know, obviously Baryon made great play
Speaker 14: and Brock for a heck of a ball. And but
Speaker 14: you know, I'm really impressed with the growth that Brock
Speaker 14: has made from the opener till now.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 14: The kid obviously has the tools. He was a five
Speaker 14: star quarterback coming out of high school. A little shaky
Speaker 14: at first, but I mean, you know, that's South Carolina game.
Speaker 14: That was his first SEC start. If you look back
Speaker 14: at every quarterback, they you know, have starts like that,
Speaker 14: especially you know in their first year as a starter.
Speaker 14: I looked back last year Jaylen Milroe at Alabama, he
Speaker 14: got Ben Stepford, they lost to Texas. Saban didn't even
Speaker 14: play him in the South Florida game. Then he came back,
Speaker 14: had a heck of a year and you saw what
Speaker 14: he did against Georgia on Saturday night. But I think
Speaker 14: brought in his toughness. I mean, he just kid takes
Speaker 14: a gear down there on the field. You see the
Speaker 14: hits he takes and he just pops back up, and
Speaker 14: you know, that's got to earn a lot of respect
Speaker 14: from his teammates. And I think we're really seeing him
Speaker 14: grow and boy, you know, really optimistic about what he
Speaker 14: can do.
Speaker 7: The rest of the season.
Speaker 1: I also spoke with former Wildcat Van Hiles, who makes
Speaker 1: the media rounds.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I think I started him on this path, but he
Speaker 1: was doing such a great job breaking down Kentucky video
Speaker 1: on social media and now he's on everybody's radio shows
Speaker 1: and podcasts and things like that.
Speaker 2: But I went back and talked to Van a little bit.
Speaker 1: He's a former d back himself, about the way the
Speaker 1: Old Miss defensive backs gambled so much against the Wildcats
Speaker 1: and ultimately when you look at the Baryon Brown play, it.
Speaker 2: Cost them the game.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm gonna be honest, if if it's a if
Speaker 7: you put the gamble word on them, they gambled pretty
Speaker 7: much eighty percent of the game. They put those those
Speaker 7: they put their corners on an island the entire game.
Speaker 7: But that's also why they could play the tackle style
Speaker 7: defense they're playing those. I'm gonna say this, give I'm
Speaker 7: gonna give so much credit omens defense because I was like,
Speaker 7: I'm not sure what they are, but that front seven is.
Speaker 7: We have played three really good fronts having defenses to
Speaker 7: start to see it because those guys are flying around.
Speaker 2: They're legit, aren't they?
Speaker 7: Yeah, they are. They are really a really good defense.
Speaker 7: And now I understand why why their fans saw them
Speaker 7: being a potential national champion because they bought. They bought
Speaker 7: a great defense with the nil.
Speaker 1: But that said, Kentucky grinds out these long drives time,
Speaker 1: but on more than one occasion, and force that defense
Speaker 1: to stay on the field for fifteen plays at a time.
Speaker 2: Man, that was huge, wasn't it.
Speaker 7: That was that was the calling card. And I'm gonna
Speaker 7: say this because I know that they keep getting hopped
Speaker 7: up on that old line. Since the Southern and since
Speaker 7: South Carolina game has start to jail a little bit
Speaker 7: every week, they have played a little bit better and
Speaker 7: they are not going against cupcake defenses. They've played, like
Speaker 7: I said, I'm gonna say, the three of the best
Speaker 7: defenses in the conference. They have played really tough defense
Speaker 7: and they're folling away to put together enough consecutive plays
Speaker 7: in a row to keep the ball moving down the
Speaker 7: field and progressive they're also not getting enough credit.
Speaker 1: That was the week that was here on the Big
Speaker 1: Bling Sider, Heroes, Fools and Flags. Next here on six
Speaker 1: thirty WLAB.
Speaker 10: That was the week, Let it Go.
Speaker 13: That was the week.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Big Blue Insider. Final segment of
Speaker 1: our shows. We wrap up the week with Heroes, Fools
Speaker 1: and Flakes and.
Speaker 2: Our hero tonight.
Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna go back to Kentucky football, naturally with
Speaker 1: the Wildcats coming off that upset win at Ole Miss,
Speaker 1: and they did it the only way, really, the only
Speaker 1: chance they had was to slow down Old Miss dramatically,
Speaker 1: keep the Old Miss offense off the field by grinding
Speaker 1: out long drives. But when the Rebels were on the
Speaker 1: field offensively, they had to shut them down and they
Speaker 1: did that. So a tip of the cap to Brad
Speaker 1: White and all the guys on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the football, because Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Now ranks among the top teams in the country in
Speaker 2: almost every major defensive category.
Speaker 1: Sixth in total defense, eleventh and rush defense, fifteenth in
Speaker 1: scoring defense, and number twenty one in pass defense. We
Speaker 1: knew going into the season Kentucky would be good on defense.
Speaker 1: We knew of the of the three aset to the
Speaker 1: game that would be the best. I don't know that
Speaker 1: anybody saw this coming, and admittedly it's rather early in
Speaker 1: the season, but think about it, We're five games in now,
Speaker 1: We're almost at the halfway point of this college football season.
Speaker 1: So what a job that Brad White, the defensive staff,
Speaker 1: and the players on that side of the ball have
Speaker 1: done for the Wildcats. Our full tonight is Matthew Sluka.
Speaker 1: He is the former quarterback at Nevada Las Vegas, and
Speaker 1: I don't mean him any ill will, but he and
Speaker 1: anybody else who might be thinking about walking the same
Speaker 1: path might want to take a good look at what's
Speaker 1: happening with you NLV. Because of course, as you know,
Speaker 1: he announced prior to the last Saturday's game he was done,
Speaker 1: So I'm not getting all the money I was supposed
Speaker 1: to get, so I'm not going to play anymore.
Speaker 2: And what did the Rebels do? Well?
Speaker 1: They turned around and beat Fresno State fifty nine to
Speaker 1: fourteen without him, and this week made their first ever
Speaker 1: appearance in the AP College Football Poll. They're tied with
Speaker 1: A and M at number twenty five, and in fact,
Speaker 1: this includes those years that UNLV had a quarterback by
Speaker 1: the name of Randall Cunningham. Now, they elevated their football
Speaker 1: program to Division One.
Speaker 2: Back in nineteen seventy eight. Cunningham wrapped up his career at.
Speaker 1: UNLV in nineteen eighty four, so he was the first
Speaker 1: really great player they ever had.
Speaker 2: But up until now, UNLV had never won four straight
Speaker 2: games to open a season.
Speaker 1: They play Syracuse tonight with a good chance at making
Speaker 1: it five straight because they played Syracuse out in the
Speaker 1: desert and our flake tonight were going back to that
Speaker 1: Mets Brewers game, the one that saw New York come
Speaker 1: from behind in the ninth inning and the winner take
Speaker 1: all game and eliminate Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: A really good Milwaukee team. But the Mets are hot. Now.
Speaker 2: We told you as well about Pete Alonzo's home run
Speaker 2: in the ninth inning. You know you're going to get
Speaker 2: your home it's best shot when it comes to the bullpen.
Speaker 2: So for Milwaukee, you knew.
Speaker 1: He was gonna have to face a reliever named Devin Williams,
Speaker 1: who has maybe the nastiest change up in the game.
Speaker 1: This season, Williams threw that pitch, his signature pitch, one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six times in the regular season and never.
Speaker 2: Allowed a home run.
Speaker 1: Guess what Alonso hit when he left the yard. That's right,
Speaker 1: he hit a Devin Williams change up. And here's the
Speaker 1: thing about changeup, even if you know they're coming, if
Speaker 1: it's thrown properly the way Devin Williams usually throws his,
Speaker 1: there's so much movement and your timing is off. But
Speaker 1: Alonzo got it and sent it out of the yard
Speaker 1: for a three run homer. You're led to the Mets win.
Speaker 1: That's pretty flaky.
Speaker 2: That's going to do it. Thanks so much to all
Speaker 2: my guests this week.
Speaker 1: Have a great Saturday, enjoyed college football all over the country.
Speaker 2: That's it. Good night from the garage, MI, sir official.
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Speaker 8: play like that.
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