Speaker 1: Welcome to the Big bluon Sider.
Speaker 2: Dick Gabriel with you on a Wednesday edition of our program,
Speaker 2: and this is one of the rare Wednesdays where we're
Speaker 2: not talking about a basketball game for the Wildcats last night.
Speaker 2: This is kind of the open week for Kentucky to
Speaker 2: catch of course, on Saturday down at Vanderbilt. It's a
Speaker 2: game you'll hear right here on six thirty wlap UK
Speaker 2: women play this week on Thursday night per usual, down
Speaker 2: at Texas A and M. A tough road trip for
Speaker 2: Kenny Brooks's team, trying to remain perfect in the Southeastern Conference.
Speaker 2: His team has lost just the one game and coming
Speaker 2: up an hour number two, we're going to talk with
Speaker 2: Amelia Hassett, who is one of the several international imports
Speaker 2: for Kenny Brooks's team. She is from New South Wales, Australia,
Speaker 2: and she has been one of the pleasant surprises, well
Speaker 2: not really to Kenny Brooks, because she scored a lot
Speaker 2: of points and grabbed a lot of rebounds, blocked a
Speaker 2: lot of shots on the junior college level last year.
Speaker 2: She was a juke call American last year. But with
Speaker 2: Clara Strack having such a big year, and Georgia Aymore
Speaker 2: really putting herself in the player of the Year discussion.
Speaker 2: Some people might overlook a little bit Amelia Hassen, so
Speaker 2: I thought we would talk to her a little bit,
Speaker 2: find out more about what she thinks about her ball club.
Speaker 2: So that's coming up in our number two. At the
Speaker 2: bottom of this hour, Sean Woods will join us. We'll
Speaker 2: talk about Kentucky the lost to Alabama. Going to get
Speaker 2: into this, Jason Williams, Seth Greenberg mess a little bit
Speaker 2: here coming up in just a minute. We'll also talk
Speaker 2: to Sean about it. And then in our number two,
Speaker 2: it's Wednesday, so that means West End Bureau Chief Gary Moore.
Speaker 2: Last night in the Southeastern Conference, there were not There
Speaker 2: was not a rash of upsets as there has been lately.
Speaker 1: But I mean that's college basketball, you know this.
Speaker 2: But SEC teams, nationally ranked SEC teams did okay last night.
Speaker 2: Number four Alabama at home with Vanderbilt wins one three
Speaker 2: to eighty seven. Tennessee knocks off Mississippi State sixty eight
Speaker 2: to fifty six. First half a disaster for the Bulldogs.
Speaker 2: That's a good team, but Tennessee outscored State thirty four
Speaker 2: to sixteen in the first.
Speaker 1: Half and then cruise to the win after that.
Speaker 2: Also in the SEC, there was one upset, if you
Speaker 2: want to call it that, Missouri, which was four and
Speaker 2: one in the league going in loses at Texas sixty
Speaker 2: one to fifty three to the twenty second ranked Tigers,
Speaker 2: falling for just a fourth time this year.
Speaker 1: Texas really needed.
Speaker 2: Something good to happen. Longhorns now two and four in
Speaker 2: conference play. So for the most part, SEC powers did
Speaker 2: okay last night. I'll tell you who else did okay
Speaker 2: last night. Louisville Cardinals ranked twenty fifth, the first time
Speaker 2: they've been ranked in four years, and they proved that
Speaker 2: they were deserving of the attention of the voters, at
Speaker 2: least last night they did. They beat SMU ninety eight
Speaker 2: seventy three down in Dallas, and the first half Louisville
Speaker 2: outscores SMU fifty to twenty seven. Second half was even
Speaker 2: from beyond that point, But who cares. Louisville looking pretty
Speaker 2: good right now. But that also means it's more valuable
Speaker 2: the fact that Kentucky beat Louisville earlier in the year,
Speaker 2: so that helps Kentucky's strength. The schedule keep an eye
Speaker 2: on Iowa State six and one in the Big twelve,
Speaker 2: third rank beat UCF one O eight to eighty three.
Speaker 2: You don't hear enough. I don't think about Iowa State,
Speaker 2: but that looks like a team. Now watch them play
Speaker 2: a little bit that you're not gonna want to see
Speaker 2: an NCAA tournament. Oh Speaking of Kentucky's record and strength
Speaker 2: to schedule, Ohio State pulled an upset last night at
Speaker 2: eleventh rank per Due, which had a thirteen point halftime lead.
Speaker 2: Buckeyes killed him in the second half and won at
Speaker 2: seventy three to seventy. So again Kentucky's strength to schedule
Speaker 2: up and nine. Because of course, the Wildcats loss to
Speaker 2: an Ohio State team is now eleven and eight, three
Speaker 2: and five in the Big Ten. When do you like
Speaker 2: see Kentucky play Ohio State again with a better idea
Speaker 2: of how to handle them? Oh here's a couple of
Speaker 2: scores from the Big Ten Oregon wins at home against
Speaker 2: Washington eighty two seventy one, Oregon rank fifteenth and UCLA responding.
Speaker 2: I guess to Mick Cronin's rants, he's been ripping his
Speaker 2: own players publicly, but in another Big Ten matchup the
Speaker 2: Bruins at home beating number eighteen Wisconsin eighty five to
Speaker 2: eighty three last night, to me the most interesting score
Speaker 2: of all. Yukon needed overtime to beat an eight now
Speaker 2: eight and eleven Butler team one in seven in the
Speaker 2: Big East. Butler took Yukon to overtime, Husky's winning eighty
Speaker 2: to seventy eight. And there were eclipse out there on
Speaker 2: the internet and the internet of Dan Hurley losing his mind.
Speaker 2: So now you're up to speed on not just the
Speaker 2: conference play, but on Kentucky's strength to schedule getting better.
Speaker 2: And I heard Tom Leishon and Cameron Mills earlier today
Speaker 2: on Tom Show. And by the way, Cameron shamelessly plugging
Speaker 2: the fact that our nineteen ninety six documentary we actually
Speaker 2: aired it in twenty seventeen. But documentary on the ninety
Speaker 2: sixteen will re air on Wkwatty at five o'clock Sunday,
Speaker 2: And that documentary, just by coincidence, features a lot of
Speaker 2: Mark Pope. Mark is a great storyteller, as you know
Speaker 2: by now. And I put that thing together. I physically
Speaker 2: did the editing, and it was really tough when it
Speaker 2: came time to deciding on what to put in and
Speaker 2: what to leave out. For all of these guys, they
Speaker 2: were telling great stories. Mark might have been the toughest
Speaker 2: of all.
Speaker 1: Dad.
Speaker 2: It's so it's a lot of fun and I urge
Speaker 2: you to watch on Sunday at five on WKYT. It's
Speaker 2: called The Team, and that was Cameron's idea. Cameron was
Speaker 2: the executive producer, which means he pulled the funding together
Speaker 2: to make it happen. But Cameron came up with the name,
Speaker 2: and he was very specific about it because that's how
Speaker 2: they want it. And in fact, I will share with
Speaker 2: you right now a comment from an twin Walker. He
Speaker 2: was on the five twenty Club podcast recently and he
Speaker 2: was telling the hosts why he believes that the ninety
Speaker 2: six team was the best team he thinks in the
Speaker 2: history of college basketball.
Speaker 1: I will say this.
Speaker 2: In the documentary, Rick Bettino says the same thing, although
Speaker 2: he does what I think.
Speaker 1: You've got to do. He basically goes all the way back,
Speaker 1: but stops at the back end of the John Wooden era.
Speaker 2: I would say, go through the Wooden era to the
Speaker 2: Leueul Cinder teams. I think the sixty eight team might
Speaker 2: be the best ever. But I would love to see
Speaker 2: that team play the ninety six Wildcats. But here's Antoine
Speaker 2: Walker and the host asked him about the twenty fifteen
Speaker 2: Kentucky team that had that long win streak behind Carl
Speaker 2: Anthony Towns and more.
Speaker 3: I think we're the best team ever in COSS basketball.
Speaker 3: But I'm not saying that to be, you know, being
Speaker 3: being biased. I'm just I'm one. I would say the
Speaker 3: march in the victory, we won, but like twenty four
Speaker 3: to twenty five a night, So when you look at
Speaker 3: our numbers, you'd be like, oh, he was cool. But
Speaker 3: I ain't played the last seven eight minutes of games.
Speaker 3: But you know what I'm saying, So a lot of
Speaker 3: people don't even understand that. That's so our numbers look
Speaker 3: a little crazy. I let the team in minutes at
Speaker 3: like twenty seven twenty eight minutes a night. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Most team, most guys are playing thirty
Speaker 3: five thirty six, So our numbers could be totally different
Speaker 3: if we got a chance to play. But most games,
Speaker 3: but just man, we had nine pros.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: Our practice, to be honest, was harder than our games.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna even fun Oh, what's the pros on
Speaker 3: your team? Myself, Tony Dill, WALTI McCarty, Derek Anderson, Jeff Shepherd,
Speaker 3: Mark Pope, pops right, uh huh, Jeff Shepherd, h I
Speaker 3: played in Atlanta, Mark Pope the coach. You know, you
Speaker 3: played four or five years with Indiana and in Denver,
Speaker 3: and I feel like I'm missing one more to make
Speaker 3: the knife. One will probably pop up to me. He shortly.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we was, we were strong man. Y'all forgot
Speaker 3: about Scott Pageant, but so you'll think you better than.
Speaker 1: Book who else?
Speaker 4: They had the two twins twins Tyler, Yeah.
Speaker 3: They were, they were good. I would They had a
Speaker 3: squad and they did their thing. I was, I was.
Speaker 3: I wanted to watch a lot of those games. I
Speaker 3: was very supportive of him. And then they have a
Speaker 3: book as your six man speaks value, so I'll see
Speaker 3: where you at with it. But no, well, we've been people.
Speaker 4: Oh superstar and especially that time period.
Speaker 1: The competition around that time was crazy too.
Speaker 4: Us.
Speaker 1: Well, but you.
Speaker 3: Gotta think about me something different. We think when you
Speaker 3: think about us, you think about UNLV at ninety teen. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the Jordan team, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: North Carolina.
Speaker 3: You don't really put that Kentucky team in that same.
Speaker 1: Because they ain't win. I think that team beats the
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen team. I really do, and one of.
Speaker 2: The biggest reasons was the guy with the microphone, Antoine Walker.
Speaker 2: I think he is what set that team above the others.
Speaker 2: He was the best player on the team and as
Speaker 2: he said, only played about twenty eight minutes a game.
Speaker 2: That's all they needed. But to me, he was a
Speaker 2: matchup nightmare for everybody. He was so big. I mean
Speaker 2: he's fat now quite frankly, sadly because you know it's
Speaker 2: a health issue.
Speaker 1: But back then he.
Speaker 2: Was six eight sixty nine. He considered himself a guard
Speaker 2: and had him had guard skills. He could shoot it,
Speaker 2: not as well as some of the other guards, but
Speaker 2: he he could shoot it from the outside, but was
Speaker 2: strong enough to play inside, quick and strong in all
Speaker 2: that stuff. He was the X factor to me on
Speaker 2: that team, and they had a lot of different X factors.
Speaker 2: He was the capitol X factor, if you will, and
Speaker 2: that's why I think against the twenty fifteen team, that
Speaker 2: would have been a great game. They talk about Devin Booker,
Speaker 2: remember now, the Devin Booker who's scoring thirty forty to
Speaker 2: fifty eighty points a game in the NBA. That was
Speaker 2: not Devin Booker back then. Of course he was a freshman,
Speaker 2: but he was a really good player. Tyler ewis really
Speaker 2: good player, even better than next year and the twins.
Speaker 2: They were good. But I'm telling you who guards Antoine Walker?
Speaker 2: Who guards Dereck Anderson? Anthony Epps I think would have
Speaker 2: handled whichever Harrison was running the point, which was Andrew
Speaker 2: at the time, Aaron was a shooter. It's a great argument,
Speaker 2: great discussion. And Karl Anthony Towns great college player, but
Speaker 2: again a freshman back then. Oh, I can understand. And
Speaker 2: it's not just pride. I think it's the basketball guru
Speaker 2: in Antoine Walker talking about that. When you break down
Speaker 2: those teams, you talk about depth, Ron Mercer coming off
Speaker 2: the bench. Mercer is the guy he forgot when he
Speaker 2: was talking about the pros and he mentioned Scott Paget.
Speaker 2: Scott didn't play for that team. He practiced, but he
Speaker 2: didn't even play for that team. But he was such
Speaker 2: a key in the ninety eighteen and the ninety seventeen
Speaker 2: it went to the finals. It's a fun discussion, but
Speaker 2: see for yourself. Sunday, five o'clock on WKYT. It's the
Speaker 2: team looking back at the ninety six championship team. And
Speaker 2: I'm telling you that documentary there are so many great
Speaker 2: stories from all those guys and memories.
Speaker 1: Mark Pope spinned some pretty good yarns, all right when
Speaker 1: we come back.
Speaker 2: Should John Caliperi even worry about what Kentucky fans are saying?
Speaker 2: ESPN commentator thinks that that's part of the mix as
Speaker 2: to why Arkansas is having problems. Bottom of the hour,
Speaker 2: Shawn Woods on six thirty WLAP, Welcome back to.
Speaker 1: The Big Blue Sider.
Speaker 2: Coming up in a couple of minutes, Sean Woods, the
Speaker 2: Unforgettable Guard, will join us. We're gonna ask Sean a
Speaker 2: little bit about what's going on with John Caliperi in Arkansas,
Speaker 2: and that has been a topic of conversation on the
Speaker 2: ESPN anchored desk.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go too deeply into this.
Speaker 2: Simply because I do obviously see Kentucky fans some who
Speaker 2: take pot shots at Caliperi and whatever, and of course
Speaker 2: conveniently forgetting what Caliperry accomplished here and how happy Caliperi
Speaker 2: made the Big Blue Nation for several years when he
Speaker 2: first got here, but of course his productivity really plummeted
Speaker 2: toward the end of his stay at Kentucky. Now just
Speaker 2: a miserable time at Arkansas, where the Razorbacks have lost
Speaker 2: five straight conference games, losing to a poor LSU team.
Speaker 2: But I mean every night is a battle in the Sez.
Speaker 2: Losing to Tennessee Ole, Miss Florida at home, lost at
Speaker 2: Missoo last time I boogie Fland has hurt. He is
Speaker 2: their best player. But coming up tonight at nine o'clock,
Speaker 2: they played Georgia at home. But still it's Georgia, which
Speaker 2: is really good. I don't think they win that one.
Speaker 2: Then they get Oklahoma at home before they come here
Speaker 2: a week from Saturday. After that they go to Texas.
Speaker 2: After that they're home with Alabama. So I mean, it's
Speaker 2: just one thing after the other for Caliperi and I
Speaker 2: talked about this the other night. People forget about the fact.
Speaker 2: First of all, they wrongly think that he left Mark Pope.
Speaker 1: With a bunch of talent. We know there was an
Speaker 1: empty roster, but.
Speaker 2: That's what Calipari inherited at Arkansas, and he had to
Speaker 2: throw a team together. But I do agree with some
Speaker 2: of the guys that Jeff Goodman, the veteran basketball writer,
Speaker 2: spoke to the pieces don't fit properly for Arkansas. But
Speaker 2: he had that problem. Calipari had that problem here at Kentucky.
Speaker 2: And one of the things that really I think hurt
Speaker 2: Caliperry here. I'm no expert, but you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: I've covered a lot of basketball. He was stubborn, and
Speaker 2: I think he's stubborn right now at Arkansas. Now, there
Speaker 2: are some misconceptions. Goodman wrote that with the Arkansas payroll
Speaker 2: and excess of seven million dollars, which is one of
Speaker 2: the things that lured him to Arkansas, of course that
Speaker 2: that gives a coach some freedom. But Goodman writes with
Speaker 2: that kind of money, he could have brought in pretty
Speaker 2: much whomever he wanted. That's wrong. Yes, he brought in
Speaker 2: a do thero DJ Wagner brought in Big Z. Only
Speaker 2: only Tharro has played. Really, I think up to his potential,
Speaker 2: Wagner's been hurt again a little bit. But you know,
Speaker 2: ten points a game from your point guard. Big Z
Speaker 2: wasn't what I think a lot of people thought he
Speaker 2: might be. But he's got Boogie Flann and Carter Knox
Speaker 2: and Billy Richmond. They were all supposed to come here,
Speaker 2: but other than Flann, Knocks and Richmond haven't turned out
Speaker 2: to be what we thought they might be. But getting
Speaker 2: back to a Goodman Road, he could not bring in
Speaker 2: whoever he wanted because they weren't available. And I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to make excuses the Calip Perry, but you know
Speaker 2: what I felt like, Jason Williams was making excuses when
Speaker 2: he pointed fingers at the Big Blue Nation and tried
Speaker 2: to draw parallel as to why Arkansas was struggling.
Speaker 1: This is courtesy ESPN.
Speaker 5: You know, look, this is Arkansas, and all the things
Speaker 5: that you said and Jay Billis said are correct. They
Speaker 5: have to get tougher, learn how to close out games
Speaker 5: defensively after they bat Like, yo, every time you're playing,
Speaker 5: you're in the national spotlight, and the biggest microphone is
Speaker 5: Big Glue Nation.
Speaker 1: Let's keep it a buck.
Speaker 5: So like every time John Caliperry fails, he's going to
Speaker 5: go viral.
Speaker 1: Everybody on Big Blue Nation.
Speaker 5: Is going to say, you see those offensive lasses that
Speaker 5: they have, you see.
Speaker 1: That lack of toughness. This is what we experienced.
Speaker 5: For our time here at Big Glue Nation in Kentucky,
Speaker 5: and it makes life difficult.
Speaker 1: And he's the biggest talking what we're gonna have or
Speaker 1: one of the biggest talking points in this sport. I
Speaker 1: guess I'm just a duller because I don't get the connection.
Speaker 2: Why. Why is what as some fans not all of
Speaker 2: Big Blue Nation? That's a big microphone. Yeah, but are
Speaker 2: you trying to tell me that all of Big Blue
Speaker 2: Nation is pointing fingers and making fun of Calipariy in Arkansas. No,
Speaker 2: we know that's not the case. So why is that
Speaker 2: a factor right now? When really it's about how the
Speaker 2: roster was constructed and how they're playing. And they kept
Speaker 2: talking about this, and Greenberg, of course took up for
Speaker 2: his buddy.
Speaker 5: John Cali Perry understands that, seth. It's the life that
Speaker 5: comes along with the territory of being Caliperry and making
Speaker 5: that in conference move and then having that perceived an
Speaker 5: il budget.
Speaker 3: It's what comes along with it.
Speaker 6: He's gonna handle it.
Speaker 5: I think he's gonna be okay.
Speaker 6: It's just gonna be a fight.
Speaker 7: You think it's too much for the players, He look,
Speaker 7: this is Calvin Can had a coach. No hold on,
Speaker 7: I said, calvinf cat had coach last year eighty nine
Speaker 7: points a game, there was seventh in the country, and
Speaker 7: offensive efficiency number one in the SEC and offensive efficiency.
Speaker 7: Their roster construction is not good and he's responsible for
Speaker 7: that and some of the things that you mentioned. Having
Speaker 7: said that, all right, this is his roster, this is
Speaker 7: his schedule.
Speaker 8: You cannot change that.
Speaker 7: So where is the fix?
Speaker 6: And the fix is real simple.
Speaker 7: It's not simple, but it's something he's got to look at.
Speaker 8: One, it's struggling.
Speaker 1: Rebound in the ball. So what can they do.
Speaker 6: They can go to a big lineup.
Speaker 8: What don't mean by a big line.
Speaker 7: They can play Theoro at four, at three, play Brazil
Speaker 7: and play one of the other seven footers.
Speaker 8: Two.
Speaker 5: They can go some zone because if you play big,
Speaker 5: you've got a big backlas set. You're talking about in
Speaker 5: game adjustments.
Speaker 8: It's not a game adjustice, but this is in season adjustice.
Speaker 8: How good coaches have agility. You take your roster and say,
Speaker 8: wait a second, right now, this roster, what we're doing
Speaker 8: and how we're doing it and why we're doing it
Speaker 8: doesn't fit our personnel. So you've got to have some agility.
Speaker 8: You've got to make adjustments.
Speaker 7: If you continue to do the same thing, you're going.
Speaker 6: To get the same results.
Speaker 2: So really, Greenberg kind of contradicted himself. No, Cali Peri
Speaker 2: hasn't forgotten how to coach, But Cali Perry has forgotten.
Speaker 2: I think what made him successful, whatever he was doing
Speaker 2: at Kentucky when he was successful, he ain't doing it now.
Speaker 2: And it's more than just throwing players out there and
Speaker 2: rolling the ball out and letting them play. His best
Speaker 2: teams at Kentucky were combinations of raw talent, the rookies
Speaker 2: and veterans, and if he leaned more. And it's tougher
Speaker 2: to put a roster together like that now with the
Speaker 2: portal and all. But remember when he first got here,
Speaker 2: should have gone to the should have won it all
Speaker 2: his first year. But he had Patrick Patterson and other veterans.
Speaker 2: His twenty fifteen team, the Harrison Twins were sophomores, and
Speaker 2: he had this day and age, those are veterans. But
Speaker 2: you can't just you know, he got I think he
Speaker 2: got a little bit fortunate at the one year he
Speaker 2: was starting five freshmen by the end of the year,
Speaker 2: But that was by the end of the year they'd
Speaker 2: accrued some and they were good enough to make it work.
Speaker 2: But whatever it was that Caliperi was doing, and you know,
Speaker 2: he's not the greatest Ex's and o's guy, but you've
Speaker 2: got to give him his props for what he accomplished
Speaker 2: in his early days at Kentucky. And as I said before,
Speaker 2: if not for miss free throws, John Caliperry's got as
Speaker 2: many as four national titles on his resume. And no,
Speaker 2: we're not even having this discussion. He's not at Arkansas.
Speaker 2: But that's just the way college basketball works, It's the
Speaker 2: way he sports work in general. So I'm not going
Speaker 2: to talk much more about Caliperi and the Big Moon
Speaker 2: Nation and all that. We'll talk obviously about it the
Speaker 2: week that Arkansas comes. But the fact that the notion
Speaker 2: that UK fans are partly to blame for his struggles
Speaker 2: is ludicrous, ridiculous, and we shall move on. Shawn Woods
Speaker 2: is next here on six point thirty WLAP. Welcome back
Speaker 2: to the Big bullon Cider. Joining us on our celebrity
Speaker 2: hotl as he does every Wednesday, is the unforgettable guard
Speaker 2: Sean Woods. The jersey hangs in the rafters of RUP
Speaker 2: and he talks about and breaks down UK basketball each
Speaker 2: week with us and the coach. First of all, I
Speaker 2: hope you got the heater going full full blast, because
Speaker 2: this is some dangerous weather.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: This is I mean, I grew up in it, you know,
Speaker 4: in Gary, Indiana, but man, living in the South for
Speaker 4: the last twenty five years, it hurts.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: My body can't take I remember playing basketball in it,
Speaker 4: playing football in it, walking to school backwards because the
Speaker 4: wind from the lake was just so harsh and the swift.
Speaker 4: Now I can't stand to be out there twenty seconds.
Speaker 1: People have no idea.
Speaker 2: And I've only been up there once when the weather's
Speaker 2: really bad in the Chicago area. And that's Gary. How
Speaker 2: cold that wind gets coming off that lake. It's amazing,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 4: It is amazing. And my mom when I was growing up,
Speaker 4: because she's from right here in Lexington and my dad
Speaker 4: is from West Tennessee. You know, you get cold weather,
Speaker 4: but you don't get that weather, you know. I remember
Speaker 4: my dad waking up in the morning going to uh
Speaker 4: Youngstown steel mill, and my uncle's going to Inland still
Speaker 4: and my mom getting up going to you know, doing
Speaker 4: hair and things like that, and me and my friends
Speaker 4: out there just playing. And we come back in and
Speaker 4: she's like, I just can't believe that you're out there
Speaker 4: playing football in this freaking one degrees outside or three
Speaker 4: below zero. But we did it. Now, I can't stand it.
Speaker 1: No, no, me neither.
Speaker 2: But that's the I don't know that that's I don't
Speaker 2: want to say old age, but I think that's the
Speaker 2: wisdom of years.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you don't see kids out there now.
Speaker 1: No you don't. You really don't. You know, Well, they're
Speaker 1: just used to playing video games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's get to the basketball course. Kentucky
Speaker 2: coming off a tough loss all of Obama. That game
Speaker 2: could have gone either way, but in the last five
Speaker 2: minutes Alabama executes Kentucky does not. I think, first of all,
Speaker 2: you got to tip your cap to Obama. That's a
Speaker 2: really good team, final four team. Last year's got the
Speaker 2: best best player in the league. I say that, what
Speaker 2: do you think of Mark Sears?
Speaker 4: I told you before the only way that Kentuch twos
Speaker 4: is if they lose the point guard battle. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: we ran up against the best guard in the league.
Speaker 4: So you say, and that's one of the main reasons
Speaker 4: we lost because the point guard battle they won, you
Speaker 4: know Butler. I'm not knocking Butler, but he was just
Speaker 4: you know, the best point guard in the league. Helped
Speaker 4: helped Alabama win the game. And that's why Alabama is
Speaker 4: Alabama because of great point guard play, and it has
Speaker 4: been for the last two three years. And Kentucky's you know,
Speaker 4: shouldn't hang their hat or anything like that. You know,
Speaker 4: we we got one of the best too, So that's
Speaker 4: why I lock our chances even in the SEC and
Speaker 4: even maybe it's gonna be tough for playing them at
Speaker 4: Alabama next time, but I foresee, if we meet in
Speaker 4: the SEC tournament, I gotta roll with my guy, you know, Butler,
Speaker 4: because I'm pretty sure he knows how to play him
Speaker 4: the next time.
Speaker 2: That's a great point because he has so much experience
Speaker 2: and is so well schooled defensively that he will make
Speaker 2: a study of that game, won't he.
Speaker 4: Oh, no doubt about it. You know he's gonna but
Speaker 4: he needs help from his teammates, now, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean, Because the kid is really good and really
Speaker 4: savvy of coming off ball screens. If you go under,
Speaker 4: he can shoot the three from deep. He really wants
Speaker 4: the switch when a big has to take take him
Speaker 4: on defensively and he's going right by him. And unfortunately
Speaker 4: we don't have a backup because every time Travis Perry
Speaker 4: came in the game, he went right at him and
Speaker 4: embarrassed him a couple of times. So, you know, we
Speaker 4: need a complete team effort when you guarden a player
Speaker 4: like that, and not only that, you know, when you
Speaker 4: guard a good team like that and Kentucky battle. You know,
Speaker 4: we missed some easy shots. We missed some some wide
Speaker 4: open shots that we normally miss down the stretch. But
Speaker 4: you know, like I tell you before, I don't care
Speaker 4: how good your team is. If you don't have a
Speaker 4: great point guard, you're not winning the NTAA tournament or
Speaker 4: being highly successful. And that's one of the reasons why
Speaker 4: Alabama's so good, and that's one of the reasons why
Speaker 4: the SEC is so tough, because yeah, there's so many
Speaker 4: big time point guards in our league. Right now.
Speaker 2: I will say this about Butler and man, you talk
Speaker 2: about respect for a guy who's been battered and bruised
Speaker 2: and bounced off the floor, and it's playing hurd But
Speaker 2: I really felt like Sean a rare mistake by Butler
Speaker 2: in judgment was when he shot a step back three.
Speaker 2: I think there was four or five minutes of but
Speaker 2: it's a crucial juncture of the game, and it was
Speaker 2: fairly early in the shot.
Speaker 1: Yes, right there in front of Mark Both.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as he went up, I said a lot, I
Speaker 2: went I would know and and you know things went
Speaker 2: downhill from there. You remember the moment obviously, did you
Speaker 2: did you have the same reaction?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, they were having a hard time scoring,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. I mean, you know, we
Speaker 4: couldn't we couldn't get anything. So you know, he took
Speaker 4: the best shot that he thought, you know, being a
Speaker 4: point guard, you know, trying to make a play for
Speaker 4: his team, because nine times out of ten when he
Speaker 4: has taken a shot, he's made it a big three.
Speaker 4: And he just made one not too long not too
Speaker 4: long before that, so you know, it was a tough shot.
Speaker 4: I don't think that was the losing part of the game,
Speaker 4: but you know, when you can't get anything off and
Speaker 4: the other team is scouting you, That's been the question
Speaker 4: about Kentucky is when they can't get those threes off
Speaker 4: in their offense or in transition, how can they score. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and Alabama made them take tough shots, which they made
Speaker 4: Butler take that one, settle for that one. That's the
Speaker 4: reason why Alabama really won the game, not because of
Speaker 4: that shot, just because they posed their will enough defensively
Speaker 4: and didn't let them get anything off that they normally
Speaker 4: would like to get off. I mean, you know, I
Speaker 4: took my hat off to him. I really respect Alabama
Speaker 4: the tough basketball team. And you know, I watched two
Speaker 4: SEC games last night with Tennessee and and somebody else
Speaker 4: playing the SEC last night. Yeah, it's just so brutal
Speaker 4: they to me defensively, and you know that that goes
Speaker 4: to show you how how prolific our offense is. But
Speaker 4: we got to find a way to defend. And that's
Speaker 4: just you know, when you're in last place in every
Speaker 4: defensive category mm hmm some sooner or later, that's gonna
Speaker 4: wear on you. And uh, that caught it with us
Speaker 4: the other day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got work to do, no doubt. We're talking
Speaker 2: to Sean Woods, the unforgettable guard point guard for the
Speaker 2: Wildcats as we were talking, and you were one of
Speaker 2: those guys who was strong defensively but still got it
Speaker 2: done when it came to distributing the basketball. You averaged
Speaker 2: more than four assists per game at least your senior year,
Speaker 2: and I think about every year. And so clearly your
Speaker 2: defense didn't cost you on the offensive end. And I
Speaker 2: wonder about how you balance that because it's defense, as
Speaker 2: you know, it's such a mental game as well as physical.
Speaker 2: And yet you got to make that switch from one
Speaker 2: end of the floor to the other instantaneously. Tell me
Speaker 2: about that challenge.
Speaker 4: Well, I was always a playmaker. I was a past
Speaker 4: first guy. Special Coach Patino got here, and you know,
Speaker 4: either I was gonna get all the way to the rim,
Speaker 4: or if I didn't get to the rip that made
Speaker 4: somebody else had to help and I was kicking it
Speaker 4: and that was just natural for me. Or I was
Speaker 4: making plays for others. So you know, back then, point
Speaker 4: guards were to shoot thee step back three. The game
Speaker 4: has changed because of the step step Perry. So I
Speaker 4: would have never I would have never thought about taking
Speaker 4: a step back three. I still be getting the repercussions
Speaker 4: from Coach Patino on that one right about now. But
Speaker 4: not to say I didn't think about taking one, but
Speaker 4: I was smart enough not to. But you know, he's
Speaker 4: made on these you know, he's enhanced his shooting ability
Speaker 4: and you know it's the best shooting year he's had
Speaker 4: in his career, and he's made some big ones. But
Speaker 4: we need him sometimes to look at the rim as
Speaker 4: a point guard because he's the only guy really that
Speaker 4: can break his man down and create something for himself.
Speaker 4: So you know, sometimes you got to take the bit
Speaker 4: of the sleep. But you know, nine times out of ten,
Speaker 4: he's made the right place. Just that day that that
Speaker 4: that particular game on that shot, you know was tough,
Speaker 4: but you got to credit Alabama for forcing him to
Speaker 4: mentally to have to feel like he had to do
Speaker 4: something like that.
Speaker 1: Shawn Woods.
Speaker 2: My guess we'll come back and talk more Wildcat basketball
Speaker 2: on the other side of the break with the unforgettable
Speaker 2: guard here on six thirty WLAP Welcome back. We are
Speaker 2: talking with Sean Woods, whose jersey hangs in the rafters
Speaker 2: of rupp And I said, Sean a member of the
Speaker 2: UK Athletics Hall of Fame. And of course we talk
Speaker 2: each week about the basketball Cats, but one of the
Speaker 2: topics of discussion on the ESPN anchor desks this past weekend,
Speaker 2: it's kind of silly really, I think Sean, but Seth
Speaker 2: Greenberg a big John Caler Perry fan and friend, and
Speaker 2: he and Jason Williams going at it, and Jason, of
Speaker 2: course I played the sound bite earlier talking about it.
Speaker 2: I couldn't exactly understand the correlation, but he felt the
Speaker 2: need to bring up the fact that when Caliperry struggles
Speaker 2: at Arkansas and I'm late, it's spend every week they're
Speaker 2: they're winless in the league. Williams, it seems like he's
Speaker 2: including as part of the reason the reaction. He says,
Speaker 2: Big Blue Nation. What he's talking about is a small
Speaker 2: fraction of fans who will tweet at Arkansas people.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know, we tried to tell you blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: But I find it fascinating that a guy sitting on
Speaker 2: the ESPN anchor desk is kind of pointing the finger
Speaker 2: at Kentucky fans for some of the problems they're having
Speaker 2: in Arkansas, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Ah, yeah, I saw that. I don't know if he's
Speaker 4: blaming Kentucky fans. I just think that, you know, with
Speaker 4: social media and young kids and things like that, you
Speaker 4: get a lot of that. Now you can't run away
Speaker 4: from it, and everybody responds to social media. So when
Speaker 4: they say when he said that, you know, Kentucky fans
Speaker 4: are you know, tweeting that alb I mean Arkansas fans
Speaker 4: saying that. We try to tell you, you know, you're
Speaker 4: going to get some of that. That's natural, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean. And you're going to get some people
Speaker 4: to respond to that. You know. Unfortunately, and you know,
Speaker 4: let's face it, John Caliperry likes being in the spotlight.
Speaker 4: He likes talking and sometimes you know, you got to
Speaker 4: take the bid of the suite when you're out there
Speaker 4: like that, and that comes with it. And you know,
Speaker 4: for whatever it is, you know, people respond to that.
Speaker 4: You know, just go coach your team. When Tubby left here,
Speaker 4: he didn't say a word. He went to Minnesota. He
Speaker 4: didn't go to Arkansas. He went to one of the
Speaker 4: worst programs in the Big Ten and he still was
Speaker 4: solid enough. Or was he a national contender?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: Is John Caliberry a national contender at Arkansas?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Does he have players, yes, but he's got young players.
Speaker 4: Everybody else is older in this league. John caliber Perry
Speaker 4: is really in a rebuilding stage just because of youth.
Speaker 2: That's kind of what he was doing at Kentucky seemed
Speaker 2: his team until he he tried to go with the
Speaker 2: portal to you older players. That didn't seem to work.
Speaker 2: But it just seemed like his teams are always kind
Speaker 2: of young.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but here's the deal. Though, he got the Arkansas
Speaker 4: kind of late, and he didn't get the one and
Speaker 4: done and the top twenty five like he wanted to.
Speaker 4: He got Boogie Flaan, but that's about it. You know,
Speaker 4: he he doesn't have any Anthony Davis's and things like
Speaker 4: that right now. That eventually probably he will. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know he's gonna get some players now, you know.
Speaker 4: That's what he does more better than probably anybody in
Speaker 4: the country. But right now, his team's just not that good. No,
Speaker 4: let's just face it. Yeah, they're not that good. They're
Speaker 4: not that talented, they're not that deep, you know. So yeah,
Speaker 4: you can beat him up right now, and he's an
Speaker 4: easy target just because of the way he left. But
Speaker 4: they're not that good, they're not that talented.
Speaker 2: So about what about the people? Sean, And you can
Speaker 2: speak to this so much better than I can. Who
Speaker 2: say that what he does is you know, his offense
Speaker 2: this and that is outdated and I do agree when
Speaker 2: they say none of their pieces seem to fit. I
Speaker 2: get that, and that's that's a product of what you
Speaker 2: were just talking about having to throw a team together.
Speaker 2: But he's had that knock on him for a while
Speaker 2: that what he does is outdated. But then Seth Greenberg
Speaker 2: points out rightly that last year they were one of
Speaker 2: the best offensive teams in America. So it's hard for
Speaker 2: me to assist.
Speaker 4: They they were almost exactly like Kentucky's team. Now, they
Speaker 4: were really good offensively, but they were one of the
Speaker 4: worst defensive teams in America last year. And we all
Speaker 4: stated that, Yeah, that was their biggest achilles here was
Speaker 4: they were not guarding anyone defensively. They were bad, but
Speaker 4: they weren't laugh but they were bad. You know, he
Speaker 4: was average. You know, he was leading the country and
Speaker 4: offensive efficiency and things like that. We're doing that right now,
Speaker 4: you know, except for we're playing a little bit more defense.
Speaker 4: I think we're scoring at maybe four or five more
Speaker 4: points than they did last year. But it's just a
Speaker 4: different deal, you know what I'm saying, Like, you know,
Speaker 4: Mark Pope guarding Mark Pope's offense hires you out. You know,
Speaker 4: it's a different. Look, you know, ball movement, player movement.
Speaker 4: With Cal's just basketball movement. One guy jilling the air
Speaker 4: out of the basketball where everybody else is watching. So
Speaker 4: from a defensive standpoint, you don't have you don't get tired.
Speaker 4: He's not putting pressure on it. Just look up and
Speaker 4: watch one guy. Everybody's just standing still. So you're not
Speaker 4: getting fatigued, Well, garden Mark, Pope, you're gonna get fatigued
Speaker 4: just guarding all that action that he wrote. So it
Speaker 4: comes down to style of play, right, and and and
Speaker 4: to be honest with you, you know, coming out of
Speaker 4: timeouts and things like that, Mark's been a little bit
Speaker 4: better because he runs stuff. You know, he makes you
Speaker 4: think a little bit. You know, how to guard this action,
Speaker 4: how to go to that action. And three, you know,
Speaker 4: everything is more off the past than off the bounce.
Speaker 4: You know, you had you know Reed Shepherd and and Dillingham.
Speaker 4: Everything was off the bounce with dealing Ham, you know,
Speaker 4: with his leading scores. Now everything's off the past.
Speaker 2: Well, Pope needs that because he doesn't really have, like
Speaker 2: you said, and either one and done candidates who are
Speaker 2: really adapted taking people off the bounce.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: No, but you know you're getting more team actions. You know,
Speaker 4: you're getting more continuity, more so than than than Cal
Speaker 4: was getting sorts of different style of play and sometimes
Speaker 4: style of plays. You know, it is the factor more
Speaker 4: soda and anything else. You know, the numbers could be
Speaker 4: you know, deceiving at times, but it's really the style
Speaker 4: of play. And that's what separates Mark Folk's team this
Speaker 4: year from from Cow's teams the last four or five years.
Speaker 2: A couple of minutes up with Sean Woods, we're breaking down,
Speaker 2: of course, the basketball catch you take on Vandy down
Speaker 2: in Nashville. And I was talking to Jack Gibbons the
Speaker 2: other day, Sean, and he said he really liked playing
Speaker 2: in that In that gym, it's different, as we all know.
Speaker 2: It's unique to the SEC, the way everything's laid out.
Speaker 2: I remember I covered the game down there. I don't remember.
Speaker 2: I think you were playing when Rick Patino was ejected
Speaker 2: from a game down in Nashville.
Speaker 4: But yeah, given it. This one of the few Wildcats
Speaker 4: that liked playing in that gym.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you didn't like it.
Speaker 4: I hated it. I'd never played well there. It was
Speaker 4: so uncomfortable, not uncomfortable as just you know when I
Speaker 4: did it. You know, being a point guard, right, sometimes
Speaker 4: you want to run your own stuff. You know, you
Speaker 4: want to run a high pick and roll. So my
Speaker 4: my bread and butter play was a player we call power.
Speaker 4: Which team's running now is just a high pick and
Speaker 4: roll with Darren Feldhouse, and either I get to the rim,
Speaker 4: I kick it out. If darrenfeld House is man, if
Speaker 4: I drag him along, I throw back the house for
Speaker 4: three instead of us running continuity kind of take me
Speaker 4: out of the game a little bit. So when we
Speaker 4: were down that other end, I told coach, I said, Coach,
Speaker 4: I can't hear you too. I can't look back at
Speaker 4: you because this guy is guarding me. So I got
Speaker 4: to go for what I know. And it worked. You know,
Speaker 4: he agreed with me. You know what I'm saying. He
Speaker 4: gave me two or three things to call, especially if
Speaker 4: it got you know, kind of hot style a little bit.
Speaker 4: But man, it's just a different look. It was always
Speaker 4: a grind because we never shot the ball well there.
Speaker 4: And two we never got to go whistle either. You know,
Speaker 4: Patino got thrown out. But you know, it's just it
Speaker 4: was just never a smooth deal because you're never going
Speaker 4: to play in a place like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's almost like you you're on Broadway, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, and you're and you're just part of
Speaker 4: a play because you're looking down. Only thing that looks
Speaker 4: normal is behind the basket, but your benches behind that truck.
Speaker 2: If it's funny, because I've talked to some kids, you
Speaker 2: liked it simply because the coach who was yelling at
Speaker 2: him is.
Speaker 1: At the other end of the court and you're running
Speaker 1: away from him.
Speaker 2: But you make a great point in that you as
Speaker 2: a point cau you needed to be able to communicate,
Speaker 2: especially with a guy like Rick Patino.
Speaker 1: So we'll see if Kentucky can adjust.
Speaker 2: I suspect the wild Cats will, and whatever happens, we'll
Speaker 2: talk about it next week with Shawn Woods, the unforgettable Guard.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, coach, Stay warm.
Speaker 2: Hour number two is up next with Amelia Hasset to
Speaker 2: the UK women's basketball team in Western Bureau Chief Gary Moore,
Speaker 2: you're on six thirty w Lapager, Welcome back to the
Speaker 2: Big Blue and sider were joining now Amelia Hassett from
Speaker 2: the UK women's basketball team.
Speaker 1: I got to ask you.
Speaker 2: Amelia, you're from Australia, but you played juco ball in Florida.
Speaker 1: How are you holding up with this cold weather?
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, actually this is my first kind of experiencing this.
Speaker 9: That's cold weather. Definitely hanging in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's good to hear.
Speaker 2: Oh well, let's talk right away about the success of
Speaker 2: your team and when you signed on with Kenny Brooks,
Speaker 2: you knew he was a successful coach. I'm sure you
Speaker 2: studied the roster, but did you have any idea in
Speaker 2: early workouts your team could be this good.
Speaker 9: I definitely thought that we were going to be good. Obviously,
Speaker 9: everyone's so talented and just coming in with all these girls,
Speaker 9: it was just yeah, it was so good to kind
Speaker 9: of see everyone working out and the connection kind of
Speaker 9: was there straight away, like off the court we got
Speaker 9: along so well, and then when we started having team workouts,
Speaker 9: you could just see that everyone was kind of connecting
Speaker 9: and like, yeah, you could definitely see that we were
Speaker 9: going to we're going to be something.
Speaker 1: We talked to the players and you and on media day.
Speaker 2: But since then, of course, you've you've been in a
Speaker 2: lot of games, a lot of practices. Tell me about
Speaker 2: Kenny Brooks and what makes him such an effective head coach.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's he's such a great, great coach. He really
Speaker 9: knows a lot about basketball. Like we could be doing
Speaker 9: one play and then he makes a little tweak to it,
Speaker 9: so it like gets you open again, and it's just like,
Speaker 9: how did you know to exactly do that? So it's
Speaker 9: just like he just knows so much about basketball and
Speaker 9: he really cares for each and every one of us,
Speaker 9: so that really makes it like why he's the way
Speaker 9: he is sort of things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've been one of the key elements for this team.
Speaker 2: And in fact, one of your teammates was on the
Speaker 2: radio the other night with Darren Hedrick and said, I
Speaker 2: think it was Georgia and said, you were one of
Speaker 2: the maybe not a surprise player, but you've been one
Speaker 2: of the girls who was so effective with how well
Speaker 2: you're playing.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about the way you're.
Speaker 9: Playing, Yeah, I definitely feel good. Obviously, coming in from
Speaker 9: Duco was going to be a big change coming to
Speaker 9: play in the SEC, the what they say is the
Speaker 9: best conference, so it was definitely I guess it wouldn't
Speaker 9: be a surprise, but it was definitely shocking to me.
Speaker 9: But it's just, yeah, just working hard and just my
Speaker 9: teammates being there and supporting me, and everyone just having
Speaker 9: confidence in me really helped the transition easily.
Speaker 2: Well, you had a successful career in JUCO at Eastern Florida.
Speaker 2: Your average nearly fourteen a game and almost ten rebounds
Speaker 2: a game, Amilia, So you know, I don't know if
Speaker 2: you're able to pick up where you left off, but
Speaker 2: that had to give you confidence, I would think going
Speaker 2: into SEC.
Speaker 9: Play, yeah, it gave me a lot of confidence. Obviously
Speaker 9: having two years at DUCO definitely helped, kind of be
Speaker 9: away from my family and just getting used to the
Speaker 9: college lifestyle. So definitely, yeah, I did help a lot.
Speaker 9: And then obviously playing there and experienced that definitely helped.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember, but on media day
Speaker 2: I spoke to you about the fact that you are
Speaker 2: far from home, and I thought back to when I
Speaker 2: was at Kentucky at UK and kids in my dorm
Speaker 2: from Louisville were so homesick they went home every weekend.
Speaker 1: What is that like me?
Speaker 2: And you're not the only one, I guess that helps.
Speaker 2: Georgia is far from a lot of kids are far
Speaker 2: from home. Do you sort of commiserate a little bit?
Speaker 2: What's it like dealing with that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, obviously it makes it a lot easier having a
Speaker 9: few internationals on the team, but yeah, it does get
Speaker 9: hard some days. But just always being around the team
Speaker 9: and just being being with everyone kind of helps. So
Speaker 9: it's like it's good that we're always around each other.
Speaker 9: Becauld then forget about being so far from home.
Speaker 2: We're talking with Amelia Hasset's she of course center. UK
Speaker 2: basketball teammates are having a terrific year. They are sixteen
Speaker 2: and one, five and zero in the Southeastern Conference. Got
Speaker 2: a tough one coming up this week at Texas A
Speaker 2: and M.
Speaker 1: And you'll hear that game.
Speaker 2: Right here on six thirty WLAP. It's a seven o'clock tip,
Speaker 2: six forty five pre game. Are you looking forward to
Speaker 2: going to A and M because that's always a tough
Speaker 2: place to play.
Speaker 9: Yes, I've never I've never been there, so it'll be
Speaker 9: it'll be fun to go there and have another away game.
Speaker 9: They're always road games are always difficult, but no, it
Speaker 9: would be fun.
Speaker 2: Well, you've talked about playing in the Southeastern Conference. Is
Speaker 2: it as tough as you thought it would be?
Speaker 9: Yes, it is very very tough, very physical, and you
Speaker 9: really sticktly have to play for the whole forty minutes
Speaker 9: if you, I guess want to get away with the win,
Speaker 9: like no one goes away and no team is gonna
Speaker 9: it's out by so much. No team is just going
Speaker 9: to cruise like they're always going to come back. And yeah,
Speaker 9: it is very, very tough.
Speaker 2: One of the things you brought to the Wildcats is
Speaker 2: three point shooting. That's not all you do, but you've
Speaker 2: been pretty good at it. Is that something you did
Speaker 2: on the JUCO level?
Speaker 9: Yes, so I definitely did start doing that when I
Speaker 9: was at JUCO. Obviously now just continuing to work on
Speaker 9: it and it's definitely improved since then, so I'm very
Speaker 9: happy about that. But yeah, just just continuingly to work
Speaker 9: on my shot for over the years when I was
Speaker 9: at JUCO, and yeah, it's definitely improved, which I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I mentioned Georgia and she's really special. I mean, she
Speaker 2: really is the coach on the floor. Tell me a
Speaker 2: little bit about playing with her and what she brings
Speaker 2: to the team. It's got to be a comfort to
Speaker 2: have her out there.
Speaker 9: Yes, it's very much a comfort. She's such a great
Speaker 9: player and she just knows exactly where each of us
Speaker 9: is going to be and she knows exactly what to do.
Speaker 9: Like her and coach Brooks have such a good connection
Speaker 9: that she kind of knows what he wants from her
Speaker 9: and what he wants from the rest of the team,
Speaker 9: which makes it easier for all of us because then
Speaker 9: she can kind of tell us and tell us what
Speaker 9: to do and where to be and all that kind
Speaker 9: of the little things. I guess you could say, but no,
Speaker 9: she's such a great player. It makes it life very
Speaker 9: easy when you're out there on the call with her.
Speaker 2: And to have a point guard like that running a
Speaker 2: team that basically was built recently, how big a plus?
Speaker 2: Because you can't just throw kids together and expect them
Speaker 2: to play and to have a floor general like that.
Speaker 1: How big is that?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a very big plus. Obviously he page Brooks
Speaker 9: built the team the way he built it, and he's
Speaker 9: very good at recruiting own players. So yeah, it was
Speaker 9: just everything just kind of jelled and with her being
Speaker 9: the point got it. Yeah, it made laugh a lot
Speaker 9: easier and made everything so much better.
Speaker 2: I haven't yet been to Australia. It's on the bucket list.
Speaker 2: My brother's man, he loved it. She is from Victoria.
Speaker 2: You're from New South Wales. Tell us geographically how that
Speaker 2: shakes out? Is that are they close to one another
Speaker 2: or what?
Speaker 9: Yeah, so actually we leave around you could say, maybe
Speaker 9: five six hours away from each other.
Speaker 2: Did you know her before from any basketball related activities
Speaker 2: before you both came here.
Speaker 9: I did know Alta. She is a little bit older
Speaker 9: than me. But yeah, I've definitely heard all time. And
Speaker 9: then when I was getting recruited, I guess by coach Brooks,
Speaker 9: then yeah, I definitely got to know her a little bit.
Speaker 2: More more with Amelia has said on the other side
Speaker 2: of the break here on the Big Move Insider six thirty,
Speaker 2: your Amilia Hassett as my guest. She is a part
Speaker 2: of the UK women's basketball team that's having a terrific season.
Speaker 2: The Wildcats take on Texas A and M on Thursday
Speaker 2: down in College Station, and we've talked a little bit
Speaker 2: about how tough the Southeastern Conference is really women's basketball
Speaker 2: and generally is enjoying.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: If we can say it's exploded, but it just seems
Speaker 2: like it's getting more and more popular over here.
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark a big help. We talked to you folks.
Speaker 2: On media day about moving into the new Memorial Coliseum.
Speaker 2: You never played in the old one, but I got
Speaker 2: to think you're impressed with that facility, aren't you.
Speaker 9: Yes, very impressed. I hear stories of people saying that
Speaker 9: was no air conditioning and the old ones it was starry,
Speaker 9: harding that, but no, it's just it's such a great
Speaker 9: place to play in and the fans fill it nearly
Speaker 9: every game, so it's it's yeah, it's just exciting to
Speaker 9: be in there and having get to playing there is great.
Speaker 2: What is it about your team in terms of the
Speaker 2: way you play that has led to the success? Can
Speaker 2: you put your finger on one or two things?
Speaker 9: I guess you could just say being us all being
Speaker 9: connected as we progress each and every game, like on
Speaker 9: the defensive end and offensive end. You can just tell
Speaker 9: that where we just understand each other a lot more now,
Speaker 9: which definitely helps. It helps the flow of the game.
Speaker 9: So I would definitely say that that is a big facto.
Speaker 1: There is a definite flow.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you use that word because I was trying
Speaker 2: to put my finger on it the last time I was.
Speaker 1: At one of the games. And the ball movement.
Speaker 2: I think Amelia is so sharp, and I think perhaps
Speaker 2: some of that is because you all are veterans.
Speaker 1: It's a team that was pulled.
Speaker 2: Together, but there there's a lot of experience out there.
Speaker 2: And of course we talked about Kenny Brooks. You all
Speaker 2: clearly know what you're doing, but the ball doesn't. The
Speaker 2: things don't bog down, do they. The way the ball
Speaker 2: moves around is so key. It looks like am I
Speaker 2: seeing that right?
Speaker 9: Yeah? No, that is one hundred percent correct. One of
Speaker 9: the things that coach Brooks always tells us before the
Speaker 9: game is we have to play for each other. So
Speaker 9: that just being I guess stuck in our heads all
Speaker 9: the time, it just makes it so much easier for
Speaker 9: that ball to just not stick and keep moving and
Speaker 9: it's disrupting the defense. And yeah, that is definitely a
Speaker 9: skill that helps.
Speaker 2: We talked a lot about Georgia and about your game,
Speaker 2: but tell me about Clara Strack and how she is
Speaker 2: just really blossomed this year.
Speaker 9: Yeah, obviously hearing that her coming from Virginia Tech and
Speaker 9: all the all the stories about her and everything, but no,
Speaker 9: she's definitely blossomed into such a great player and she's
Speaker 9: she's very physical and she knows exactly what to do
Speaker 9: and it. Yeah, she's just amazing to watch, let alone play.
Speaker 2: With the last game I was at, I watched her.
Speaker 2: I guess because of the way defenders were guarding, she
Speaker 2: ended up bringing the ball up the floor. I mean,
Speaker 2: she can do a little bit of everything, can she.
Speaker 9: Yeah, she can do a little bit of everything. I
Speaker 9: remember the one day in practice Prince Brook said to her, yeah,
Speaker 9: you can you need to play the point guard and
Speaker 9: she kind of looks at him like what are you thinking?
Speaker 9: But no, Yeah, she definitely can do a bit of everything.
Speaker 1: She's a point forward.
Speaker 2: And then on the other side of the floor generally
Speaker 2: from you, is Daddah Lawrence, who was an All Conference
Speaker 2: player last year at Charlotte. But man, when she gets hot,
Speaker 2: you know, she can fill it up. How great is
Speaker 2: it having her on the opposite side of the floor.
Speaker 2: That's got to create opportunities for you as well.
Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely she can let that thing fly from wherever,
Speaker 9: and it always looks like it's going in. Having her
Speaker 9: on the other side now, it's definitely fantastic. And obviously
Speaker 9: not only the defense have to worry about her, like
Speaker 9: it does give opportunities to me. So and I guess
Speaker 9: those vice versus you could say, but having her out there, yeah,
Speaker 9: and her being such a veteran player as well definitely
Speaker 9: definitely helped.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: We talked off air about the fact that your journalism major,
Speaker 2: Why did you choose that as a major, and what
Speaker 2: do you want to do with your with your career
Speaker 2: whenever basketball is over.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So I definitely chose this major just because it
Speaker 9: was I'm kind of interested in staying in sports, and
Speaker 9: I see over when I'm watching TV, like on ESPN,
Speaker 9: people talking about like the basketball games or commentating the games,
Speaker 9: and that was just something that I was kind of
Speaker 9: interested in. So I'd definitely like to like to do
Speaker 9: something with that and just maybe commentate a game or
Speaker 9: like be be on the thing on SPN, like something
Speaker 9: around those lines.
Speaker 1: I guess that sounds good.
Speaker 2: And there are so many more opportunities now with so
Speaker 2: much more TV out there. And I will tell you
Speaker 2: a quick story of a friend of mine from earlier
Speaker 2: in my career went to Missouri, but he played pro
Speaker 2: ball in New Zealand and wound up working in television
Speaker 2: and he actually was a basketball commentator for the Olympics
Speaker 2: for the Worldwide broadcast every country in the world saw
Speaker 2: that broadcast except for the US.
Speaker 1: But there's so much.
Speaker 2: Out there right now, and there's so many opportunities as
Speaker 2: well in basketball. I know professionally, obviously you'll pursue that
Speaker 2: as much as you can, right.
Speaker 9: Yes, I definitely want to pursue that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the fact that that you're well traveled that helps
Speaker 2: prepare you, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I think I think it very much does. Just knowing
Speaker 9: that being away from family and just obviously flying such
Speaker 9: alongside it helps you get prepared for anything.
Speaker 2: Well, I've been to Japan a couple of times, but
Speaker 2: I think it takes even longer to get to Austria.
Speaker 2: So well, all right, I got I can't let you
Speaker 2: go without asking. I'm sure they're cliche questions, but first
Speaker 2: of all, are you and Georgia able to speak to
Speaker 2: each other in terms of Australian terms or whatever to
Speaker 2: the point where your teammates can't understand you?
Speaker 9: Yes. So there are some words that we say and
Speaker 9: our teammates are like, oh, what are you saying? And
Speaker 9: then one of us is like, oh, Georgia, like do
Speaker 9: you know what it means? And she's like, yeah, I
Speaker 9: know exactly what that means. So sometimes, Yeah, it is
Speaker 9: nice having had to kind of support what you're saying.
Speaker 1: I guess well.
Speaker 2: And you have a head start because you've played a
Speaker 2: couple of years at Juco ball. But have you had
Speaker 2: a difficult time understanding people in Kentucky at times? We
Speaker 2: have a bit of an accent, as you've noticed.
Speaker 9: Yes, one of our managers is very I guess country Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Yes, Eastern Kentucky.
Speaker 9: Yes, I think so. So definitely that accent change, like
Speaker 9: is something that I haven't really heard. And then obviously
Speaker 9: Cassidy Rode her accent is also very country. So I
Speaker 9: think it's it's cool to hear these different accents.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm a big I'm a big fan of accents,
Speaker 2: I really am. And way up in the hollers of
Speaker 2: eastern Kentucky, believe it or not, you can if you
Speaker 2: listen carefully, there's a little bit of an Irish brogue
Speaker 2: because that's where a lot of the Irish settled.
Speaker 1: Way back in the day.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll let you go with this. Tell me about food.
Speaker 2: Tell me about maybe something that here in the South
Speaker 2: or Kentucky that that you didn't know about, or you
Speaker 2: or you were encouraged to eat to try. Is there
Speaker 2: anything that hasn't been put in front of you and
Speaker 2: you're thinking, what is that?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 9: That that is a hog question? It definitely. I would
Speaker 9: say this really shows me that here in America, you
Speaker 9: guys don't really eat like roast lambs much.
Speaker 1: Not much.
Speaker 9: Nope, yeah, yeah because that card Like with my family,
Speaker 9: we used to eat that at least maybe once a week.
Speaker 9: Kidding that that definitely did surprise me.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What about grits, Oh yeah, grits.
Speaker 9: That that is definitely something that I do not eat.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 9: That is something that kind of scares me a little bit.
Speaker 2: Well, I really like grits, but you got to dress
Speaker 2: them up. You can't just take him straight, you know.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like porridge, man, you just you just
Speaker 2: gotta add stuff to it. But did you try him
Speaker 2: here when you're done?
Speaker 1: In Florida?
Speaker 9: I think I tried them here. I was a little
Speaker 9: scared to try them in Florida. But one time I
Speaker 9: guess we went out for breakfast or something and someone
Speaker 9: got them and that I tried them. But the texture
Speaker 9: really just.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it. It's a shock.
Speaker 2: The first time I know that but I kind of
Speaker 2: eased into him, but I can fully understand.
Speaker 1: I think I'm the only person in my family who
Speaker 1: likes him so perfectly understandable. Listen, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I know you're very busy, but we kept you out
Speaker 2: of the cold for a few minutes. And best of
Speaker 2: luck down at Texas A and M. And congratulations on
Speaker 2: all the success this year.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, I thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Kentucky, Texas A and M. Thursday.
Speaker 2: You'll hear it right here, six forty five pregame with
Speaker 2: Darren seven pm. Tip as the Cats try to remain
Speaker 2: perfect in the SEC. Western Bureau Chief Gary Moore up
Speaker 2: next on six thirty WLAP Welcome back to the Big
Speaker 2: Blue and cider. As mentioned earlier, this being Wednesday, that
Speaker 2: means we visit with our Western Bureau chief, Gary Moore,
Speaker 2: who I believe was telling me it's just about as
Speaker 2: cold and his end of the interstate as it is
Speaker 2: on our end of the interstate, colder than.
Speaker 6: My prom date.
Speaker 1: If you went, oh wow, got it, that's getting there anyway.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's time for two guys and a six pack
Speaker 6: frosty mugs, oh sports with you and me today and
Speaker 6: we got a lot of stuff to cover here. Let's
Speaker 6: get into it then our first swig here on the
Speaker 6: six pack Dick. In these days of inflation and shrinkflation,
Speaker 6: you know as well as I do, you don't always
Speaker 6: get what you paid for. But there are two championship
Speaker 6: exceptions to that, one being the team that I've covered
Speaker 6: since nineteen eighty six, the Los Angeles Dodgers, who ended up,
Speaker 6: by the way twenty twenty four, the highest payroll in MLB.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it started out that way, but
Speaker 6: they ended up with a three hundred and fifty three
Speaker 6: point three million dollars payroll, if my numbers are right.
Speaker 6: Seem to do well however, when it counted back in October,
Speaker 6: probably again this year. And the other most recent example
Speaker 6: well Monday Night, Ohio State, which spent seventy two point
Speaker 6: four million dollars on football alone in the twenty three
Speaker 6: to twenty four fiscal year. The Buckeys, get this, enjoy
Speaker 6: an athletic budget of two two hundred and seventy four
Speaker 6: point nine million for their thirty five sports, according to Sportico,
Speaker 6: and that's about one hundred million more than the average
Speaker 6: Big Ten school at one seventy four point three and
Speaker 6: way above the average FBS school that has about one
Speaker 6: hundred point seven million. I did some digging over here,
Speaker 6: dick U of L has an athletic budget of one
Speaker 6: hundred and forty five million for the twenty twenty five
Speaker 6: fiscal year. That does not count the extra twenty million
Speaker 6: next year that they got to cough up for the
Speaker 6: antitrust settlement money. That's I think almost all the Power
Speaker 6: five schools have got to do. Twenty four point four
Speaker 6: million for football, a mere fifty million less than Ohio
Speaker 6: State paid, and nine point three million in basketball for
Speaker 6: U of L. Oh and even though Notre Dame lost
Speaker 6: on Monday Night, they get to keep that twenty million
Speaker 6: that they made in college football playoff money since they
Speaker 6: don't split it with other conference schools. Yep, So no
Speaker 6: wonder they want to stay independent.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah football, Yeah, well I cut that deal with
Speaker 1: NBC what thirty up ten years ago.
Speaker 6: I'll never forget that or forget it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean people keep trying to nudge them into a conference.
Speaker 2: But why, Like you said, in case you're wondering, UK's
Speaker 2: athletic budget is one hundred and seventy six million. It
Speaker 2: last look So yeah, Ohio stayed with a cool one
Speaker 2: hundred million more, and there are going to be many
Speaker 2: many power schools looking at the Buckeyes and see, hey,
Speaker 2: just how can we get in on that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Here's a clue, you can't if you're not Ohio State.
Speaker 6: Second swig in the six backs. So we're fresh out
Speaker 6: of college football to watch, well, except for those All
Speaker 6: Star Game audition thinkings that they do, and we'll have
Speaker 6: more on that in just a little bit. So there's
Speaker 6: only three pro games left, including the two conference championships
Speaker 6: this Sunday. You remember, not so long ago, it's all
Speaker 6: about the NFC North and how it's going to be well,
Speaker 6: lines and Vikings and Packers, two of those are going
Speaker 6: to be in the final game. Right then you got
Speaker 6: Dan Campbell saying to Minnesota head coach Kevin O'Connell see
Speaker 6: you in a couple of weeks after the Lions beat
Speaker 6: him in week eighteen. Of course, he was meaning the
Speaker 6: NFC Final this weekend, not seeing him two weeks later
Speaker 6: at the Cancun Hyatt, which both are now free to enjoy. Okay,
Speaker 6: So first up on Sunday, an all NFC East Final
Speaker 6: Washington six point underdogs at last check at Philly. That's
Speaker 6: on Fox Oh God with Brady at three o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 6: And then at six point thirty Buffalo at Kansas City,
Speaker 6: Chief's two point favorites. That's with the Nansen romo. And
Speaker 6: of course, as you've noticed, we've all noticed, all four
Speaker 6: of those teams have mobile quarterbacks, unlike the Rams and Lions,
Speaker 6: for example, who are going to be home or in
Speaker 6: some tropical location watching Washington and Buffalo, according to me,
Speaker 6: advanced to Super Bowl licks or fifty nine.
Speaker 1: That's what I come with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jalen Hurts is banged up. If he were one
Speaker 2: hundred percent, I would take Philly. But we have seen
Speaker 2: what a healthy Jaden Daniels can do, and he does
Speaker 2: more than just run the football.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: I think what he's doing is what people thought justin
Speaker 2: Fields will be able to do it, and maybe someday
Speaker 2: with the right coaching, he can.
Speaker 1: But Jade Daniels is.
Speaker 2: Doing it yesterday, today, and tomorrow and and and Hurts
Speaker 2: is a terrific quarterback, but he's not one hundred percent,
Speaker 2: and you've got to be one hundred percent. I like
Speaker 2: Philly's defense, but I'm you know, we also we've seen it.
Speaker 2: Daniels is the secret sauce.
Speaker 1: I'm like you.
Speaker 2: I like Buffalo. I've rooted for the Chiefs since I
Speaker 2: was a kid. I am rooting for the Bills though
Speaker 2: because of Ray Davis. It's not going to like. But
Speaker 2: I also think it's it's their time. And I also
Speaker 2: think it's interesting Gary that we experts and I don't
Speaker 2: know how much stock you put in this, you know
Speaker 2: knowledgeably in toned Well. The windows closing for Buffalo, they
Speaker 2: kicked it open this day. They took a hammer and
Speaker 2: busted out all the panes of glass.
Speaker 1: Man. They're making their own window.
Speaker 6: And a footnote to all of that, here's another reason
Speaker 6: that Buffalo might end up finally getting to the Promised
Speaker 6: Land again. Last week, referee Clay Martin was the referee
Speaker 6: for the Chiefs. Did you see this? Klay Martin? Every
Speaker 6: game that he's riffed for the Chiefs in the Mahomes era,
Speaker 6: they've never lost this Sunday though. Clete Blakeman's the ref
Speaker 6: and the Chiefs with Mahomes are five and six When
Speaker 6: it's Cleete's crew, and they like to throw a lot
Speaker 6: of flag. They throw a lot of flags Kalete's crew so.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs have played eleven playoff games over the last
Speaker 2: four years. They have not been called for more penalties
Speaker 2: than their opponents in.
Speaker 1: Any of those eleven games.
Speaker 2: But I remind people good teams are good because they
Speaker 2: know how to play better than their opponents. Duh, and
Speaker 2: they don't commit as many penalties.
Speaker 6: Yep, I'm making many mistakes. And I love how Eightman
Speaker 6: was like, oh, come on, yeah, roughing the passer right,
Speaker 6: that was bad. It was our third swig and six pack.
Speaker 6: And look, by the way, you knew the Lions were jinxed,
Speaker 6: at least I did when photos started appearing on social
Speaker 6: media of some moron who got a Lion's twenty twenty
Speaker 6: five Super Bowl Champs tattoo a couple of three weeks ago.
Speaker 6: Those never end, well, those can't wait until the game
Speaker 6: every year? Why you can't wait until the game is
Speaker 6: beyond me? And as if that was bad for people
Speaker 6: like me whore?
Speaker 1: Why because they're want to say how smart they are.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I already had this one.
Speaker 1: I already knew exactly. That wasn't bad enough.
Speaker 6: For people like me pulling for Detroit who did not
Speaker 6: get tatted comes the news that Tom Brady's going to
Speaker 6: be back in the Fox booth next season and beyond
Speaker 6: still learning on the job obviously, unless, of course, the
Speaker 6: NFL steps in and says, Okay, this is too much
Speaker 6: of a conflict of interest being part owner of an
Speaker 6: NFL team as you are, So, hey, why don't they
Speaker 6: just get Jerry Jones is sitting with Tariko and collins
Speaker 6: Worth if this is going to be like the norm? Now, Okay,
Speaker 6: Tom didn't even talk up Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson
Speaker 6: during the game on Saturday. Why because Ben Johnson was
Speaker 6: a candidate for Tom's raiders. Good thorough color commentary there, Tom,
Speaker 6: So then you had some Fox Sports suit I don't
Speaker 6: know if you saw this. Brad Zaeger, guy who said
Speaker 6: the criticism of Tom's quote unquote ridiculous, said that to
Speaker 6: the athletic, pointing out his own ill conceived conflicts of
Speaker 6: interest like Herb Street calling Ohio State games and Dodgers
Speaker 6: announcer Joe Davis on his own Fox network calling LA
Speaker 6: games in the playoffs in the World Series. Would you
Speaker 6: like to straighten this guy out on the differences between
Speaker 6: Brady being an owner and these other guys just being announcers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but obviously an owner's got so much more of
Speaker 2: a vested interest. But you know, and it's also interesting
Speaker 2: that he's just not real good. I mean, he's okay
Speaker 2: Rady as a color guy. He's not better than old
Speaker 2: whom he replaced, and maybe he will be someday. And
Speaker 2: as I said, when he first started and was catching
Speaker 2: all kinds of flak, who of us in this business?
Speaker 5: Me?
Speaker 2: You anybody would put up your very first example of
Speaker 2: your work and aircheck from your first time and let
Speaker 2: it stand twenty five years later.
Speaker 1: No way.
Speaker 2: But for an insane amount of money, Brady's allowed, of course,
Speaker 2: to ease into this job. And I can't imagine anybody
Speaker 2: again tuning in ooh Brady's doing.
Speaker 1: The game, or fill in the blank, ooh Gary Moore
Speaker 1: is doing the game. Dick Gabriels, Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna watch or look now, they will leave if they don't,
Speaker 2: if you're annoying. So I just got to wonder, dude,
Speaker 2: does Fox really think it's worth it?
Speaker 1: And I guess they do.
Speaker 6: I like Olson, but Olsen seems to talk in all
Speaker 6: caps a lot. He seems to really it's all caps
Speaker 6: all the time. It's just okay, man, just yeah, you
Speaker 6: did it. But you remember when back in the World
Speaker 6: Series day, some of us are old enough to remember
Speaker 6: when Cardinals announcer Harry Carey got to do some of
Speaker 6: the play by play for the World Series games, like
Speaker 6: in sixty eight. Yeah, and the same thing happened with
Speaker 6: the with Ernie Harwell, who got a chance to take
Speaker 6: turns doing that sort of thing, stunt casting exactly. Our
Speaker 6: fourth swig, one last NFL note. The greatest NFL game
Speaker 6: in history according to you, Dick Gabriel is okay.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going back to that overtime.
Speaker 1: Game when.
Speaker 2: Gosh it was was it the Dolphins when they carried
Speaker 2: a tight end off the field.
Speaker 1: I can't remember.
Speaker 6: Dolphins and the Chiefs that double over the longest game
Speaker 6: in history. Yeah, that seventy one. I think that's when
Speaker 6: they I'll give you mine. January twelfth, nineteen sixty nine,
Speaker 6: Super Bowl three Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida Broadway. Joe
Speaker 6: Willie name pro Football's white cleated rock star. In New
Speaker 6: York Jets, the much maligned afl Over, the heavily favored
Speaker 6: Baltimore Colts of the alleged mightier NFL sixteen to seven,
Speaker 6: after Joe even guaranteed it. But Sports Illustrated Dick says,
Speaker 6: not so fast, my football fanatics. That's only number three
Speaker 6: in their list, which probably explains why they have some problems.
Speaker 6: February February twenty twenty five, spokesperson in the Issues got
Speaker 6: their top fifty number one, number one all time greatest
Speaker 6: NFL game. You were Green Bay Packers New Year's Eve
Speaker 6: nineteen sixty seven, lambeau Field thirteen below Pack twenty one.
Speaker 6: How about the Top Boys seventeen? Yeah, onto a Super
Speaker 6: Bowl too, where they'd win another World championship against the
Speaker 6: raid Is.
Speaker 2: Well, it's so subjective, of course. I think your choice
Speaker 2: is maybe the most important because it helped facilitate the merger. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know. And by the way, Joe Namas brother went
Speaker 2: to UK, Joe Namath thought about going to UK. We
Speaker 2: want to play for Bear Bryant and Joe Nama I
Speaker 2: found this out. The d one of only two quarterbacks
Speaker 2: ever to win a national title and win an NFL
Speaker 2: champions As Super Bowl, the other being Joe Montana.
Speaker 1: How about that.
Speaker 6: I don't think Montana ever wore a ankle link fur coat.
Speaker 1: Though did he not yet.
Speaker 6: Our fifth swig and the six pack for bluegrass bowlers
Speaker 6: across the Commonwealth. Your eyes do not deceive you. UK
Speaker 6: and U of L are both in the AP Top
Speaker 6: twenty five pole this week, first time since the final
Speaker 6: poll of the disastrous well the weight ended up was
Speaker 6: disastrous the twenty nineteen twenty season before COVID canceled everything.
Speaker 6: They were both in there at the very last time.
Speaker 6: So last night, the number twenty five Cards down in
Speaker 6: one of your former addresses and cities in Dallas, Texas,
Speaker 6: celebrated being back in the poll by absolutely eviscerating at
Speaker 6: that time the top shooting percentage team in the ACC
Speaker 6: SMU ninety eight to seventy three, and I believe Vegas
Speaker 6: even had the Cardinals a two point underdog. I don't
Speaker 6: even what are you guys even watching this team as
Speaker 6: it's gone on this eight game winning street nine in
Speaker 6: a row for the Cards now, who like UK, have
Speaker 6: got a week between games, rest up, work on some stuff.
Speaker 6: They'll return home to play an upstart Wake Forest team
Speaker 6: next Tuesday. Meanwhile, Number nine UK, as you've talked about,
Speaker 6: will be on the road and on ESPN Saturday afternoon
Speaker 6: at two thirty at Vandy. They've needed this breather to
Speaker 6: rest and work on some defensive stuff. And oh, by
Speaker 6: the way, one other game on Saturday I'm watching. This
Speaker 6: will be interesting. Belmont and Murray State, these two former
Speaker 6: OVC rivals now in the Moe Valley Conference. They still
Speaker 6: get after each other. Oh yeah, and they always have
Speaker 6: a full house down to Murray. It's like the old
Speaker 6: Murray and Western rivalries kind of used to be. And
Speaker 6: that'll be on ESPN Plus if you got that to watch.
Speaker 2: Bellmont is a sneaky good program. Yeah, you know, you're
Speaker 2: never surprised when Belmont pops up in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: Maybe does some damage. Boy, the ACC, I mean just
Speaker 2: last night you mentioned Wake Forest beats North Carolina, Yeah,
Speaker 2: which is really in a bit of a spiral now Tailspinuh,
Speaker 2: but you got to wonder about you know, Duke's obviously
Speaker 2: very good, but top to bottom, how good is the ACC?
Speaker 1: And Louisville is coming along at just the right time.
Speaker 2: And by the way, for it with every win UK fans,
Speaker 2: that makes Kentucky's win over Louisville even more valuable when
Speaker 2: it comes to the postseason.
Speaker 6: Sure does and boy, the Louisville guys are really jelly.
Speaker 6: You can see how how they're getting closer in the court.
Speaker 6: They really like each other. This team, if they keep
Speaker 6: going up, this is going to be an interesting you know,
Speaker 6: the only five wins away from a twenty win season.
Speaker 6: Already about that? How about that six and final swig
Speaker 6: of the six pack? Did you get enough bowl games
Speaker 6: over the past month? Good, because ball season is not over.
Speaker 6: Two college All Star Bowl games. First, the East West
Speaker 6: Shrine Bowl, the oldest all Star game by the way,
Speaker 6: it supports the sh Ryer's Hospitals. Of course, that's a
Speaker 6: week from tomorrow at and T Stadium down there in Arlington, Texas.
Speaker 6: And then you got the Senior Bowl two days later
Speaker 6: in Mobile. As usual, Super Bowl fifty nine February ninth,
Speaker 6: New Orleans. But my favorite right before the Super Bowl,
Speaker 6: Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl this year, featuring not one, but
Speaker 6: two two shelter pups from the Kentucky Humane Society right
Speaker 6: here in Louisville in the bowl. Yeah, there's going to
Speaker 6: be a Colonel the Beagle pup and Julip, the first
Speaker 6: ever Saint Bernard mix in Puppy Bowl history, vying for
Speaker 6: their teams to bring home the Lombardi Trophy. Uh Kentucky
Speaker 6: Humane or Kyhumane dot org has all the deeds and
Speaker 6: even have t shirts to support either Team Colonel or
Speaker 6: Team Julip. That's Kyhumane dot Org. If you've ever watched
Speaker 6: these things, are you not always entertained?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: I love the Lombarkie Trophy because well, for many reasons,
Speaker 2: but one of them being my dog, who was asleep
Speaker 2: right here at my feet, is named bark Starr. You
Speaker 2: go after the famous Packers quarterback. But yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: remember how long they've been doing this, the Puppy Bowl,
Speaker 2: but it's when it's them. I think it's probably that
Speaker 2: and the Budweiser. Clydesdale's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the most successful idea for.
Speaker 2: A Super Bowl spot since they started really spending insane
Speaker 2: money on him.
Speaker 6: I think it's been going for like about twenty years
Speaker 6: or so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gotta be who doesn't love puppies and then
Speaker 2: puppies and beer come on?
Speaker 6: Yeah, perfect combination, you and me both.
Speaker 1: He's our West n Burea chief Gary Moore.
Speaker 2: We'll come back and talk some hot reeds right here
Speaker 2: on the big Mollon Sider. Six point thirty WLAP Welcome back.
Speaker 2: We are talking with our West End Bureau chief, Gary Moore,
Speaker 2: formerly the West Coast Bureau chief and now some hot
Speaker 2: reeds for Gary. And we went through two guys in
Speaker 2: a six pack and we didn't talk about I'm kind
Speaker 2: of surprised you didn't include this, but you had a
Speaker 2: lot to talk about the Hall of Fame each ye
Speaker 2: ro oh goes in. Not unanimously one person did not
Speaker 2: vote for this guy. I love the stat And then
Speaker 2: he had bringing up maybe once a year in his
Speaker 2: tenth ab in the major leagues here in the US,
Speaker 2: his base hit put him over the three hundred mark.
Speaker 1: He never hit below three hundred ever.
Speaker 2: Again, maybe Biggs, he is absolutely phenomenal. But the fact
Speaker 2: that he was not a unanimous choice once again screams
Speaker 2: for transparency from the voters, and generally journalists are the
Speaker 2: ones demanding transparency in sports, in politics and government. I'm
Speaker 2: amazed Gary that we still haven't got that, aren't you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I don't know who the coward is that
Speaker 6: not only didn't vote for him, who also there's one
Speaker 6: guy maybe it's the same guy or woman who didn't
Speaker 6: vote for Derek Jeter. Yes, Mariano Rivera. Rianna Rivera is
Speaker 6: the only unanimous Hall of Fame entrant so far. Get this?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 6: Are you sitting down? Babe Ruth was not unanimous in
Speaker 6: the Hall of Fame. Yeah, he's eleven vote shy. Hank
Speaker 6: Aaron was nine votes shy. Willie Mays was twenty three
Speaker 6: votes shy and maybe the most amazing of all of
Speaker 6: these besides Babe Ruth, did you know Joelton Joe DiMaggio
Speaker 6: was snubbed on the first ballot. It took three years
Speaker 6: for Joe DiMaggio to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6: If this doesn't tell you the mentality some of the
Speaker 6: people in the Baseball Hall of Fame, the baseball writers,
Speaker 6: I don't know what does. I've been in many a
Speaker 6: baseball press box, and you have two some of the
Speaker 6: most miserable some of the nicest guys I've ever run
Speaker 6: into in sports, and yet some of the most miserable.
Speaker 1: Guys, Yes, I've ever run into.
Speaker 2: Well, and what you just talked about Aaron Ruth Demagio
Speaker 2: not being voted, that's the excuse you often hear from somebody. Well,
Speaker 2: if Babe Ruth wasn't a first ballot, How can I
Speaker 2: make each year or whatever.
Speaker 1: Just because people back then were stupid doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: have to be stupid. Drives me nuts, drives me crazy.
Speaker 2: Our second High Red, SEC and Big Ten Athletics directors
Speaker 2: will be discussing a lot of key issues at a
Speaker 2: February nineteenth meeting in New Orleans, including the.
Speaker 1: College football playoff playoffs.
Speaker 2: And that's the second time the conference's ads are getting
Speaker 2: together to talk about college athletics in general and the
Speaker 2: playoffs in particular.
Speaker 1: But that comes a.
Speaker 2: Week prior to college football playoff commissioners getting together in
Speaker 2: Dallas to talk about their or to continue their discussions
Speaker 2: from the week. I know some people are not happy
Speaker 2: about the fact that ME included Ohio State underseated, Notre
Speaker 2: Dame underseated. They're talking Gary about maybe going to a
Speaker 2: fourteen team format, not this coming year, but maybe a
Speaker 2: couple of years. Four automatic bids each for the Big
Speaker 2: Ten in the SEC, two for the Big twelve, and
Speaker 2: ACC whatever they do to me, Like I said, it's
Speaker 2: all about the seating, right it's I think they're gonna
Speaker 2: make even more mistakes before they actually will they ever
Speaker 2: settle into something.
Speaker 1: Everybody likes.
Speaker 6: Probably not. And you could almost tell as soon as
Speaker 6: the seedings were announced this year. You know, you don't
Speaker 6: even have to be a football expert to go why
Speaker 6: are they getting a buye? You know, there was that
Speaker 6: sort of a thing. It should have been more along
Speaker 6: the lines of the record of the.
Speaker 2: Team or just but that was a lockdown ahead of time,
Speaker 2: right predetermined, which is nuts.
Speaker 6: And I think that's gonna have to change at some point,
Speaker 6: don't you.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 6: And I like the fact that there's some you know
Speaker 6: that you're doing some of this on the college campuses,
Speaker 6: but at the same time, don't do the automatic stuff
Speaker 6: before you even get the team in there.
Speaker 1: Well we talked before. I think a team that gets
Speaker 1: a buye should not necessarily.
Speaker 2: Get a home game as well. That's rewarding them twice.
Speaker 2: And you talk about stacking the odds. That would really
Speaker 2: take care. But I do think, though I'm a Bowl
Speaker 2: Games guy, they need to protect.
Speaker 1: The bulls and screw that up as well. Though.
Speaker 2: All right, well that'll do it. Thank you so much, sir.
Speaker 2: We're going to look for you on Twitter.
Speaker 6: Knee x at at at nine to five five Gary,
Speaker 6: where you're at.
Speaker 1: I'm at Big Blue and cider once stay warm over there.
Speaker 6: Same to you go Buffalo, Go Washington.
Speaker 2: My thanks to Gary Deshaan Wood was to Amelia hass it.
Speaker 2: That's it, good night from the garage in Lexington.
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Speaker 8: Walk on.
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