WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:03.799 Welcome to the Big Blue Insider. On election Tuesday, Dick 2 00:00:03.799 --> 00:00:05.960 Gibrie with you. I hope you got a chance to 3 00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:07.879 get out and vote. Yeah, the wife and I got 4 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:11.439 up early and went and voted. Line wasn't too bad, 5 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:14.359 although I got to think the folks we both work 6 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:18.559 from home, folks who do not voted got up earlier 7 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:21.679 and got out, so we got it done. And then 8 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:24.480 we went to waffle House. That's right, chicken biscuit and grits. 9 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:27.800 Thank you very much. Hey, best chicken biscuit in town. 10 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:32.000 It's known for waffles, obviously, good pancakes, all that stuff. 11 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:35.280 Try if you're a chicken biscuit person. And here's why 12 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:38.000 I like it. It's not breaded. If you want to 13 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:43.039 break from breaded chicken biscuits, this is the place to go. 14 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:46.399 Waffle House. Yeah, they grilled the biscuit too. I'm telling 15 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:49.320 you you'll thank me later. Just know that you'll thank 16 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:54.520 me later. But basketball season opens last night in reality 17 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:59.840 for the Wildcats and their fans, and two good performances, 18 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.280 one at five o'clock, one at seven o'clock. The women 19 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:04.599 and then the member. Why did they plan the same night? 20 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:06.400 We'll talk about that here in just a minute. But 21 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:12.200 Mark Pope got his era underway with a forty one 22 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:15.400 point win over Wright State. You were either there, you 23 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:17.439 heard it on the radio, you saw it on TV. 24 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:21.040 It was never in doubt. Remember how the game opened 25 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:26.239 the exhibition game with Kentucky missing so many shots. Didn't 26 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.519 happen last night? And then the Cats just keep rolling, 27 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:32.719 going to win by forty one, which is Mark Pope's, 28 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:35.959 if not one of his favorite number because that was 29 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.400 his uniform number when he was a Kentucky Wildcat. 30 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:40.319 I like the forty one, guys, I'm not gonna lie 31 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:42.079 at a very personal level. I love the fact that 32 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:47.519 these kids are so special man. You know what, Listen, 33 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:50.079 any coach would be really, really blessed to coach this 34 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:52.120 group of guys. And the fact that they're not only 35 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:55.079 aware enough and skilled enough to make sure that. 36 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:57.400 The finishes of forty one point win is pretty cool. 37 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:01.599 Why didn't you like best about what you saw today? 38 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:02.319 So I love the. 39 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:04.439 Start of the game. You guys have fun at the 40 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:05.200 beginning of the game. 41 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:08.240 Yes they did, because the Cats came out, went on 42 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:11.039 a tear and like I said, hardly ever stopped. I'm 43 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:14.240 sure there were some lulls, but yeah, I mean it was. 44 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:17.680 It was a great performance, an entertaining performance. Great, well 45 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:21.960 that's a relative term. But it was fun, wasn't it. 46 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:27.240 Everybody got in Otaga Oway played the most minutes twenty 47 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:30.159 seven and that's basically I'm not saying this guy's as 48 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:35.240 good as Antoine Walker, but that's basically what Antoine Walker 49 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:40.439 averaged when Pope and his buddies won the national title. Again, 50 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:43.319 this team is not as good and it's not as deep, 51 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:47.479 but you may see Mark Pope use a lot of 52 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:52.560 different players. Oh way, to me has been the most surprising. 53 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:55.599 I don't know why. Maybe I just expected more from 54 00:02:55.639 --> 00:03:00.560 other guys. Always as sophomore twenty one point, he was 55 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:04.400 eight of nine inside outside, three for three from the arc, 56 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:11.360 three rebounds, three steals. He's got a great floor game. 57 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:14.080 But really, you could say that about all the Wildcats. 58 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:19.960 Thirty assists on thirty nine made baskets phenomenal. Pope talked 59 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:23.240 about that as well. Eleven to twenty four from beyond 60 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:26.199 the arc. Yeah, they shot a lot of threes and 61 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:30.800 Amari Williams with a double double. He had twelve points, 62 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:35.080 thirteen rebounds, nine of those boards at the half along 63 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:38.919 with three assists, and the most impressive it was when 64 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:42.080 he pulls the rebound and leads the break. Remember that 65 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:45.159 one that might have been the most impressive play of 66 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:48.599 the night for the UK men and an impressed Mark Pope. 67 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:51.400 I would love for you all to consider this. You know, 68 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:56.919 Amari is he is a massive human being, okay, and 69 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:00.719 he's a good, solid two hundred and fifty pounds athletic. 70 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:04.199 And you see him grab a rebound and race down 71 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:06.639 the floor off the bounce to make a play. And 72 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:09.000 you have this defender who's really making a decisions like 73 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:11.039 am I going to really stand in here and take 74 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:11.800 a charge or not? 75 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:13.719 Is a beautiful dilemma. 76 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:16.639 But I thought Lamari was terrific all night long, especially 77 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:17.360 coming off of Injrey. 78 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:18.439 We're a hand practice this. 79 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:22.199 Week, comments Pope made of course to Tom Leach on 80 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:25.319 the UK Sports Network. And if you want to watch 81 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:27.879 the entire exchange and the player of the game interview, 82 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:32.120 just go to the UK Sports Network account on Twitter 83 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:34.800 and watch the whole thing at a nice little table 84 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:38.680 set up there for the camera so the everybody can 85 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:42.199 watch and see who's there in the arena. And then 86 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:45.079 of course they have it on video and audio for you, 87 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:49.560 so check UK Sports Networks feed for the Kentucky men's 88 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:53.000 game post game. As for the women, Kenny Brooks era 89 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:59.319 is underway and he was really impressed with the way 90 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:04.639 the entire team played well. One player he singled out 91 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:07.000 was one of the Clara's I mean, I mean, Clara 92 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:09.240 Silver is a good player, but she's young, and he 93 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.160 talked about her. We'll talk about her more this week. 94 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:16.480 But Clara Strack a center six ' five, seven of 95 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:18.839 eleven from the floor, eight of nine from the line, 96 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:25.759 twenty two points six rebounds. She fouled out, but man 97 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:31.120 was she good. Last night. Usc Upstate had absolutely no 98 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:35.319 answers for her in a ninety six forty three rump 99 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:39.720 by the Wildcats, and Kenny Brooks was asked about Strack 100 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:41.279 and said she is special. 101 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:43.000 She looks phenomenal in practice. 102 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:46.120 She's she has days where she's just so dominant. There's 103 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:48.199 days as she does things and you know, it just 104 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:49.240 it wows us. 105 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:49.879 Now. 106 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:51.160 I just got to get her to stay out of 107 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:53.480 foul trouble. You know, that's something she hasn't mastered. But 108 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:55.639 we're gonna need her to be on the court. But 109 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:59.439 she's a very confident young lady, and the sky's a 110 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:02.319 limit for her. And I promise you Kentucky fans are 111 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:04.519 gonna be excited for the next three years watching her. 112 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:07.279 And what was funny was Georgia Amore came in with 113 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:09.439 him as well, was sitting right next to Kenny Brooks, 114 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:13.000 and every time he'd say something grand about Strack, she 115 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:16.279 would grin and nod her head like yep, yep. I 116 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:21.279 asked Georgia about communication on court. She's the point guard 117 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:24.839 who transferred from Virginia Tech, and quite frankly, when the 118 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:27.319 work got out that she had transferred to how good 119 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:31.279 she is. Suddenly the rest of the women's college basketball 120 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:34.399 world began to really take notice. They were taking notice, 121 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:37.199 of course, because Kenny Brooks is well respected, but when 122 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:39.879 the work got out that Georgia Amore was coming with him, well, 123 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:43.319 now much more respect. So I asked her what it 124 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:46.800 was like as the floor general trying to communicate with 125 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:47.519 her teammates. 126 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:50.240 I mean, first half maybe was like a two out 127 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:52.920 of ten, and then we placed a little. Yeah, we 128 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:55.560 weren't really communicating well at all. And as you said, 129 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:58.079 you mentioned the defensive breakdowns and stuff like that. That was 130 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:01.720 alfhaul and obviously you know, as you said, like schematics 131 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:03.199 and we have to learn, but we can fix a 132 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:05.879 lot about mistakes with talking. But come second half, I 133 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:09.319 think our energy picked up in communication all round, definitely improved. 134 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:12.160 But it's been a point of emphasis for a while 135 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:14.439 now in our practice is just getting to communicate and 136 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:16.600 just being decisive with it. 137 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.319 Really two out of ten that kind of surprised me. 138 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:21.560 And no, she is not from around here. She is 139 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:26.040 from Australia, one of a handful of international players on 140 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:28.680 this team. And I mentioned Clara Silver, she's from Portugal. 141 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.279 We'll talk about her later on in the week. But 142 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:34.040 I did want to get to another point five o'clock 143 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:37.759 seven o'clock, basically double header in two different places, and 144 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.560 I just assumed it was because of the SEC network 145 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:43.199 one ding to get that on on this day and 146 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:47.079 didn't want to go against the men. Brooks said they 147 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:50.800 were having a lot of trouble just scheduling games because 148 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:53.879 of the late arrival of the coaching staff and the 149 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:58.199 fact that, believe it or not, as poorly as Kentucky 150 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:01.920 performed last year, word got out about Kenny Brooks the 151 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:04.839 team he was building, and he had a hard time 152 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:06.160 getting opponents to come. 153 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:08.759 In no offense to anything that happened before us, but 154 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:10.000 this is a direct quote. 155 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:12.680 We wanted to play the old Kentucky, not the new Kentucky. 156 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:13.279 You know. 157 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:15.319 Oh, we'll wait. Oh we didn't. 158 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:17.800 Expect this, you know, And no disrespect to anybody else, 159 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:19.839 but that's just what we were, you know, up against. 160 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.560 So you know, Jason was gracious and to play us. 161 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:26.319 It's the only game we could find. And you know, 162 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:27.839 we don't want to go up against the men. I 163 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:30.480 know that this twenty four thousand, you know, our fans, 164 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:33.120 you know, trying to split and go different places. 165 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:35.919 But we had no choice to do this. 166 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.000 But I think, you know, everyone did a good job, 167 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:41.879 a great job marketing and whatnot splitting it. I think 168 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:43.320 we had to fight to get the game at five, 169 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:46.559 you know, because we wanted people to have that opportunity 170 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:47.080 to do both. 171 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.200 We didn't want them to have to say either. 172 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:53.320 Or Jason he was talking about was Jason Williams, the 173 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:55.960 head coach of USC Upstate. They're in the Big South. 174 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:00.320 Totally over man, totally overwhelmed, just couldn't handle this of 175 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:03.440 the athleticism of the Wildcat They're gonna be okay. They 176 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:06.480 got some good inside players are strong, just not good 177 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:11.559 enough to play against SEC caliber. But how about that. 178 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:15.120 Teams said, now we want to play the old Kentucky. 179 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:18.159 We knew we could beat that old team. But now 180 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:21.679 with Kenny Brooks coaching at Kentucky, things are different. There's 181 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:26.600 a new sheriff in town, so we'll see how that goes. Next. 182 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.600 Up for the women Northern Kentucky. That's at six o'clock 183 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:32.679 on Thursday. They got that night aut of themselves. The 184 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:35.000 game you'll hear right here on six thirty WLAP at 185 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:38.759 five forty five with thearreon Hendrick and the men play 186 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:42.320 again on Saturday and they take on Buck. Now that's 187 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:45.279 a four o'clock start, so our coverage will begin at 188 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:48.440 two point thirty on the network with Tom Leach and 189 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:52.039 Jack Gibbons and the Gang. So first two games for 190 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:56.960 the respective eras are in the book and both coaches 191 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:02.159 are successful. They're both undefeated four. Now up next, we'll 192 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:04.840 take a look around college football and some pro football 193 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:08.399 as well. Could be controversy brewing, and at the middle 194 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:12.519 of it, Tom Brady, that's right, the Golden Boy. Bottom 195 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:15.159 of the hour. We'll hear from some members of the 196 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:18.679 nineteen eighty four Kentucky team. I've been saving these interviews 197 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:21.399 for a little while. They were in town and recognized 198 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:24.279 that a game recently. It's a fortieth anniversary of their 199 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:28.600 Bowl victory season back in nineteen eighty four, and I 200 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:30.279 had a chance to talk to some of these guys 201 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:32.120 at a little gathering, so we'll share that with you. 202 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:35.320 Coming up in amur number two also a huge college 203 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:38.519 football upset you may not have heard about. Back in 204 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:41.120 a minute on the Big Blue Sider six thirty WAP 205 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.000 Welcome back. Coming up in just a few minutes, we're 206 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:47.399 going to hear from members of the nineteen eighty four 207 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:52.840 Kentucky football team, which is celebrating it's fortieth anniversary this season. 208 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:55.519 I introduced at a recent game, got a chance to 209 00:10:55.559 --> 00:10:57.799 talk to some of those guys, guys I didn't know 210 00:10:57.960 --> 00:11:00.799 very well because I wasn't here they were having their 211 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:03.039 most fun. I was working in Texas the two years 212 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:06.080 they went the ball game. So anyhow, we got those 213 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:07.919 comments coming up at the bottom of the hour, and 214 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:10.360 then of course at the top of the hour ABC 215 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:13.639 News election coverage. I did want to talk about a 216 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:15.919 few things that had popped up over the weekend didn't 217 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:18.480 have a chance. Of course. Last night. One of them 218 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:22.759 was a comment made by Tim Tebow essentially about faking 219 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:26.399 injuries in football games. And the only reason this caught 220 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:29.080 my eye was, of course, because of what happened in 221 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:31.960 the Kentucky Tennessee game where a number of the Wildcats 222 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:34.960 went down. You know what, Tennessee players got hurt as well. 223 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:37.759 Nobody boot about that, of course, but you see this 224 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:40.679 when you have uptempo team. Same thing happened at Ole 225 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:42.559 Miss which likes to get up and down the field 226 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:46.240 anytime there's an injury, people think the player's faking. And 227 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:48.960 trust me, that has gone on. Kentucky has done that 228 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:51.519 in the past. I've seen it. Let's face it, everybody 229 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:53.960 has done it. The league is kind of cracking down 230 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:58.879 on it, and they've given officials the leeway to flag 231 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:01.360 somebody if they think he's faking an injury. I have 232 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:04.519 not heard it or seen it happen, but Greg Sank, 233 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:07.919 the commissioner, mentioned it earlier this season. We got to 234 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:10.399 do away with this stuff. But I can tell you 235 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:15.720 I told somebody this, I think yesterday when it came 236 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:21.000 to covering injuries at a UK football game. I don't 237 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:25.279 think I was busier this year than I was Saturday night. 238 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:29.159 There were so many injuries. For whatever, they were playing hard, 239 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:31.879 they were going fast. I don't know what the deal was, 240 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:36.320 but thankfully Susan Lax, who's in charge of UK football publicity, 241 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:39.879 was on the sideline. Generally she delegates that job, but 242 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:43.080 she did it herself, and she worked her tail off 243 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:46.080 trying to get information for us about injuries. Barry and 244 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:50.320 Brown goes down, Brock Vandergriff goes to the locker room. 245 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.879 Two or three players had to go to the locker room. 246 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:55.120 But what I want to say is every time a 247 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:57.759 player went down, and of course the fans booed, some 248 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:02.000 chant it he's not hurt. They were because they came 249 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:06.799 off the field, got medical attention and were out for 250 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:10.639 several plays each guy. Some didn't come back. Vandergriff didn't 251 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:13.759 come back. Brown tried at halftime. I saw him on 252 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:17.240 the field catching passes, trying to run. Couldn't do it 253 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:20.519 because of those bruised ribs, so you know, and he 254 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:23.080 had had a cat scan for crying out loud. So 255 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:27.159 when Tebow talked about this, I saw it listed on 256 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:28.960 a feed. I thought, I wonder is he talking about 257 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:32.320 But he wasn't because the comments came during game day, 258 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:35.480 prior to the Georgia Florida game, which was played, as 259 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:38.159 you know, prior to the UK Tennessee game. But he 260 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:41.080 may as well have been talking to the UK fans, 261 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:45.320 the Tennessee fan, really to all the fans about faking injuries, 262 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:50.120 and Tebow referenced another sport which is famous, or should 263 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:55.240 I say infamous for players not only faking injuries but 264 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:57.279 doing it in such a way that they should be 265 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:01.399 nominated for Academy Awards, and that's soccer. 266 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:04.639 I'm a soccer fan. I love that we're bringing teams 267 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:07.279 here to Jacksonville. I think soccer is a great sport, 268 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:10.240 but we don't want to turn football into soccer. Okay, 269 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:13.440 there is a difference, and I don't think that we 270 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:15.519 should just be tapped. Oh my gosh, I'm going to 271 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:17.720 go fall down. No, no, no, that works in another 272 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:20.360 sport and it's the biggest sport in the world. But 273 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:24.559 we're celebrating college football right now. In college football is 274 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:27.960 different game than soccer. Both are amazing. Let's keep football 275 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:29.639 as football and let's not do that. 276 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:33.120 I've done some UK soccer games on the streaming channel, 277 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:35.360 both men and women. You don't see that, at least 278 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:39.159 I haven't seen it. In college soccer. You see injuries, 279 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:41.799 but you don't see somebody throwing himself to the ground 280 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:45.519 or herself to the ground like they've been shot. You 281 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:47.639 see that. The only time I've seen it, of course, 282 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:51.600 is in the big international matches, and of course those 283 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:55.679 video clips make it to the feed almost instantly. But 284 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:59.600 Tebow was talking about if he had a game in 285 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:04.559 mind specifically, he didn't say, but he was not talking 286 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:09.200 specifically about UK Tennessee. But I do agree with him, 287 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:11.720 just do it, and I hope they start flagging people. 288 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.600 But how do you approve it? You know, a guy 289 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:17.399 could come off the field and stay out for a 290 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:19.480 while and come back. But maybe he stays out just 291 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.240 to keep the referee from throwing a flag. Who knows. 292 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:25.480 But yeah, it was getting bad, and that's it's because 293 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:28.799 of the uptempo styles played by a lot of different teams. 294 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:34.600 Shifting over to the National Football League Super Bowl what 295 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:39.879 is it? Sixty nine? Fifty nine is still three months away, 296 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:44.799 but they're already setting records for ads sales now Fox 297 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:48.919 has it this year, and Sports Business Journal quoted the 298 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:55.080 Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch as saying that the network is 299 00:15:55.240 --> 00:16:00.240 completely already sold out of ad inventory for the Big 300 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.799 Game at what they think is record pricing. It's nearly 301 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:10.200 it's seven million per thirty second spot, and seven million 302 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:14.440 was what roughly advertisers paid for the Super Bowl last 303 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:18.879 year when they waited until the last minute to get 304 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:22.559 on the game between the Chiefs and the Niners. CEBs 305 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:28.559 averaged about six point forty seven million per thirty second 306 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:33.879 ad unit in the Super Bowl. That was eleven percent 307 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:39.639 up from the year before, and Fox earned nearly six 308 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:44.879 hundred million for the Super Bowl broadcast in twenty twenty three. 309 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:50.120 Back in twenty oh eight super Bowl forty two, if 310 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:57.240 I've got my Roman numerals right, average three million. By 311 00:16:57.240 --> 00:16:59.440 twenty twenty was up to five and a half million 312 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:05.799 per for thirty seconds. Is it worth it? Well, it 313 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:11.960 must be. If the bean counters at these sponsors or 314 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:14.440 at the agencies that handle the sponsors keep doing the 315 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:22.079 buys and viewership just skyrockets for that game. That is 316 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:28.079 why when John Skipper, the former head of ESPN, said 317 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:33.319 that someday and probably my words. Someday soon that's relative. 318 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.240 The Super Bowl will be pay per view, and you 319 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.519 know what, there are going to be people who stomp 320 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.960 around and storm around and say, I'll never watch it again, 321 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:45.440 or hon there's no way I'm buying it. They will, Oh, 322 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:47.720 there'll be a part of it somehow. People who love 323 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:51.000 the NFL will not miss the Super Bowl. They'll watch 324 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:53.960 it somehow. They might go to somebody else's house, to 325 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:57.519 a restaurant, to a bar. They'll watch it. And the 326 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:01.000 people who run it, they'll get their money. They will 327 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:06.279 get their money, Mark my words. They're not stupid. How 328 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:08.799 do we know this. Look what they're making on ads 329 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:12.440 sales right now. But we don't have to worry about 330 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:15.119 that right now. And if you're not buying advertising, just 331 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:18.279 sit back and enjoy it. Some people only watch the 332 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.160 game for the ads. That's okay too. They keep raising 333 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:23.720 the bar higher, don't they, But that's good for us. 334 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:24.960 Me. 335 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:29.160 I watched the game live. I don't pay much attention 336 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:31.160 to the spots, go back and watch them later because 337 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:34.039 they're always out there on some of the websites. One 338 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:38.440 other note about the NFL. Tom Brady made a comment 339 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:43.240 I saw it and well, listen for yourself. This is 340 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:49.039 the game with the Packers and the Lions. And there 341 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:51.519 was an injection in the game. One of the Lions 342 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:54.000 defensive backs was in on a tackle of a Green 343 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:56.720 Bay wide receiver. Looked like he led with his helmet. 344 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:59.720 I don't know that it was targeting or not. Maybe 345 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:02.319 technically he was. But suddenly he was thrown out of 346 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:05.279 the game. And Kevin Burkhart waited and this is the 347 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:08.200 lead team now on Fox. This was the Fox Big 348 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:12.440 Game of the afternoon. Kevin Burkhardt explain what happened, and 349 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:15.400 Brady weighed in on it. And by the way, before 350 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:20.440 he commented, they brought in Dean Blandino, who simply explained 351 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:22.920 it because the call came kind of late. It was 352 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:27.599 probably decided by league officials in New York. That's when 353 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:29.160 Brady came up with his comment. 354 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:32.519 So they just threw out Brian Branch who's one of 355 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:35.039 their best defensive players, and that came from New York. 356 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:40.240 Wow. I don't love that call at all. 357 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:44.000 I mean, obviously it's a penalty, but to me, that 358 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:47.359 has to be serious intent in a game like. 359 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:49.799 This because we're thirty two. 360 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:52.960 I mean, this happens first. 361 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:53.359 Time every day. 362 00:19:54.799 --> 00:19:57.319 So get Brady credit for being open and honest with 363 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:01.160 his opinion. I mean, that's what they want, except Brady 364 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:06.599 is working under a number of rules and regulations because 365 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:08.599 now he's a part owner of the Raiders. And remember, 366 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:13.039 if you know anything about that story, Brady, because of 367 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:17.960 his minority ownership in an NFL team, is prohibited from 368 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:24.319 criticizing officiating or other teams. It wasn't exactly inflammatory, but 369 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:27.599 the question is out there will he be quote unquote 370 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:31.480 disciplined and by that you know, not going to find 371 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:33.880 him or sit him down, but maybe they'll talk to 372 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:37.000 him and remind him. But I don't see how this 373 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:39.880 is going to work. Quite frankly, I don't see how 374 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:41.880 Fox is going to put up with it. If you 375 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:45.319 got shackles like that on any announcer, it's not good 376 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:48.440 for the viewers because I know if I were watching it, 377 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:50.559 I don't want to know what the analyst had to say. 378 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:53.720 You got, you played the game, What do you think 379 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:56.359 about that rule? What did it look like to you? 380 00:20:56.680 --> 00:21:02.720 That's why they're there, and stop that on your lead analyst. 381 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:05.000 It can't be good and it's not going to work, 382 00:21:05.160 --> 00:21:08.000 So stay tuned on that, as we say in the 383 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:11.720 TV business. Up next the guys who won a bunch 384 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:14.119 of games back in eighty four, two years after they 385 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:18.079 didn't win any later from them ex Wildcats and a 386 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:20.279 huge upset in college football. You may have missed it 387 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:22.279 over the weekend. We'll share that with you as well 388 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:24.279 here on the Big boone Sider six thirty back of 389 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:26.599 the Big bon Sider, Dick Gabrielle with you. I wanted 390 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:29.759 to get back to an evening where guys from the 391 00:21:29.799 --> 00:21:33.160 eighty four Kentucky football team got together for a reunion 392 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:37.119 their fortieth That was the team that two years prior, 393 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:39.720 on their first year head coach Jerry klavern first year 394 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:43.160 at Kentucky, they went winless. A lot of them just 395 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:45.759 didn't like claybur and they chased, they boughked, They didn't 396 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:49.119 want to do what football the way he wanted it done. 397 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:51.799 Guys had come in under Frank Kersey. But the following 398 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:55.480 year they won six games, which was either first or 399 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:58.960 second all time in turnarounds, and then a year later 400 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:01.839 they won a total and by the way, that six 401 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:03.880