WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:02.359 Welcome to the Big Blue Insider. Dick Averwell with you 2 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:05.040 Tuesday edition of our program. Tonight, of course, we will 3 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:08.439 talk a lot of Kentucky football wild Cats picking up 4 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:12.679 the pieces after an embarrassing loss to South Carolina. Frankly, 5 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:16.160 a game that Kentucky was favored to win. I don't 6 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:18.280 put any stock in the points spread. In fact, I 7 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:20.679 thought the points spread was way too big. I thought 8 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:23.160 it would be a close game, but it went off 9 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:25.640 at nine and a half. I think after opening at 10 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:27.640 like ten or ten and a half, I didn't think 11 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:31.480 Kentucky would swamp South Carolina. I thought the game Cocks 12 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:35.759 would be better after they almost lost that opener, but 13 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:38.240 I didn't think I would see what I saw. So 14 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:41.280 we'll talk about that tonight with Jeff Bicorol. We're also 15 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:43.679 gonna air from Tim Couch, the Hall of famer who's 16 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:47.240 being inducted this weekend into the College Football Hall of Fame. 17 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:48.960 He was on for a couple minutes last night with 18 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:51.079 Mark Soups, so we have a chance to chat with 19 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:55.359 him a little while longer tonight. Also coming up, myle 20 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:58.079 buddy John Wynn Miller, who went to UK with me, 21 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:00.880 worked on the Kentucky colonel, we will tell some old 22 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:05.079 stories about UK basketball back in the day compared to now. 23 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:08.959 John also, though is an accomplished author after a long 24 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.920 career and a good one in journalism, wrote a tremendous 25 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:15.760 book and now has a couple of sequels on the way. 26 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:18.920 So shameless plugs for John Wynn's book, but will tell 27 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:21.840 some stories about what basketball was like back in the 28 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:25.359 day at UK because his dad was Adolph Ruff's lawyer, 29 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:29.799 so John and his siblings literally grew up with Ruff's runts. 30 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:33.200 But we start a course on campus at UK with 31 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:37.719 Kentucky soccer because last night the men lost to Louisville, 32 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:43.640 second consecutive home pitch loss for the UK men, but 33 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:46.519 they did draw crowd and I mentioned this going on 34 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:50.879 the air the other night about how great the atmosphere 35 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:53.840 is at the Bell. They had more than fourteen hundred 36 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:57.000 people show up and go crazy over there, so they 37 00:01:57.040 --> 00:01:59.640 had a lot of fun and did not see what 38 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:02.560 they wanted to see as the Wildcats dropped a one 39 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:05.400 to two and one on the men's side. Women had 40 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:10.439 two straight shutouts this past week and goalkeeper Mars Josephson, 41 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:14.479 a grad student, has been named the SEC Defensive Player 42 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:17.840 of the Week, a grad transfer from North Carolina. A 43 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:21.639 second time Kentucky has won the Defensive Player of the 44 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:24.759 Week award. After wins over Murray State and that upset 45 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:28.879 win over UCLA on Sunday, the Bruins ranked ninth. A 46 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:31.639 lot of chatter, of course, about Tom Brady and his 47 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:35.639 performance as a rookie broadcaster. A buddy of mine texted 48 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:38.199 me and said, it was mashed potatoes on white bread. 49 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:41.680 Yeah it was, but look, it was his first game, 50 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:45.280 and there's a little bit of a controversy if you 51 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:47.599 want to call it that that. You know, some people 52 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:50.520 try to make it controversy. But Scott Hansen, the guy 53 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:55.080 who so capably anchors the red zone, he was kind 54 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:57.560 of teasing Brady a little bit. I don't know if 55 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:00.520 you saw the game, but the Cowboys Browns game, right beforetime, 56 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:03.479 they tried a sixty six yard field goal that the 57 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:06.000 Cowboys would have made it, but there was a flag 58 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:07.759 on the play, so they were about to try a 59 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:11.639 seventy one yarder and Brady just kind of worked his 60 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:15.639 way through it. Scott Hansen, though, basically poked a little 61 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:17.439 fun at Brady and said he's got to get more 62 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:23.719 excited than that, and suddenly there was this apology by 63 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:27.439 Scott Hansen on Twitter. He said it was unfair and inconsiderate. 64 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:29.479 I was saying a tongue in cheek, but it didn't 65 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:34.319 calculate it how it may come across. I apologize. I 66 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:37.120 promise I'm rooting you on in this new venture. I 67 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:39.960 guarantee if somebody said, hey man, you need to apologize 68 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:44.599 somebody upstairs because it wasn't that bad. And Brady, to 69 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:48.520 his credit, came back and tweeted this rookie appreciates you, 70 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:51.960 Scott Hanson. No apology necessary, my man, life is too 71 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:55.039 short to not have fun or officially on seventy yarder 72 00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:58.159 watch and I'm gonna spike my headset when it happens. 73 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:01.520 I appreciate somebody looking out for Tom Brady. Remember this 74 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:03.879 was the guy who played in Boston and not every 75 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:07.319 year was a super Bowl year, so he knows how 76 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:09.319 to take it. And as I said, if you go 77 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:12.639 back and listen to Scott Hanson, it wasn't that big 78 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.439 a deal what he said. But I'm thinking somebody up 79 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:20.920 the network chain said something to Scott Hanson. Across the country, 80 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:23.839 people who talked about and wrote about Brady pretty much 81 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:26.600 all said the same thing, and it all had up 82 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:29.240 to mah, you know. And we talked about it on 83 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:32.040 the Statewide Show last night as Billy Rutlans brought up 84 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:34.879 the price tag total of about three hundred and seventy 85 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:38.800 five million dollars. But it's his first game, and I 86 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:42.600 will promise you this, There isn't anybody in my line 87 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:46.879 of work, TV or radio who would want to go 88 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.079 back and watch or listen to their first effort on 89 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:53.800 air and present it as what they are capable of 90 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:58.240 doing now after a long career. And chief among them 91 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:00.199 is my man Tom Leechs, who every once in a 92 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:03.079 while will pull out a clip. It's not even his 93 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:07.040 first performance on a Paris radio station when he was sixteen, 94 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:10.160 but he plays it on the air and just kind 95 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:13.120 of laughs about it. And if I could find my 96 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:18.040 first efforts, I would too, because I was terrible. Most 97 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:20.040 of us were very few of us hit the ground 98 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:23.360 like Tony Romo did and take off running. I heard 99 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:27.560 him described as the Unicorn, and he really was because 100 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:31.399 he just has that outgoing personality and he started in 101 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:34.160 with the play calling and everything, and you know, I 102 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:36.759 promise you. I know for a fact because I read 103 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:41.199 some account of Fox's game prep with Tom Brady. They did. 104 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:45.120 He and Burkhart did multiple practice games. But it's not 105 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:49.920 the same. There's not the same energy, there's not the 106 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:53.120 same adrenaline. So he'll get better. Is he going to 107 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:55.199 be better than Greg Olsen? I don't know. Is he 108 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:57.480 gonna be worth three hundred and seventy five million. I 109 00:05:57.480 --> 00:05:59.959 don't know that either. I will not tune in just 110 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.519 to watch him. Maybe some people will. That's not a 111 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:04.800 knock on him. I watch the games I want to watch. 112 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:08.160 I don't care who's calling the game. If he's annoying me, 113 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:13.000 I will turn it off. College football numbers NBC Sports 114 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:17.480 is turning back handsprings because of the Nebraska Colorado game. 115 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:21.639 NBC said an average of six point three million viewers 116 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:25.639 watched the Husker twenty eight to ten win over Coach Prime, 117 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:29.800 most watched Big Ten Saturday night game since the series 118 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:36.120 debuted last year. So obviously happy about that. Nebraska's second 119 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:39.839 broadcast on NBC in prime time. They were featured last 120 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:43.879 season against Wisconsin two point four to five million, so 121 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:47.560 that's quite the jump. Before we hit the break, and 122 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:50.600 hear from Mark Stoops. He had his news conference yesterday 123 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:53.240 and of course spoke on the radio last night. We 124 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:56.560 need to acknowledge the passing of the great James Earl Jones, 125 00:06:56.600 --> 00:06:59.439 and yeah, there's a baseball link here and you know 126 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:01.920 what it is, Field of Dreams. But of course he 127 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:04.879 is the voice of Darth Vader and always will be. 128 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:09.399 But what's interesting about that is he was not the 129 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:15.560 physical embodiment of Darth Vader. The role was actually played 130 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:21.199 on camera within the costume by a British actor by 131 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:25.079 the name of David Charles Prausse. And he was a 132 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:29.639 member of the MB which is it's not exactly the 133 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:32.639 same as being knighted, but it's in that class. There 134 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:36.839 are five classes of appointment of the Order, and the 135 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:41.040 top rank, if you will, is Knight Grand Cross or 136 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:44.519 Dame Grand Cross. Number five is member of the Most 137 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:47.720 Excellent Order of the British Empire MB. So when you 138 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:51.879 see his name, and he since passed in print anywhere, 139 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:56.199 it's officially David Charles Prowse MBE. And he was an 140 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:59.759 actor and a fine actor, a bodybuilder and a strong man, 141 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:03.240 and they needed somebody big in that costume. But they 142 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:05.600 needed a different voice, and it's not that he has 143 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:08.319 a bad voice. But here are a couple of clips 144 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:13.079 from the movie where you hear his lines. Then you 145 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.240 hear the same lines dubbed in by James Earl Jones, 146 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:18.720 and I should. 147 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:22.439 Started tearing the ship of peas people too. 148 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:25.439 You finding those tastes tiny, the passages. 149 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:26.519 In a sess, I want them alive. 150 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:29.480 Come on, not tear that ship of pot So you 151 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:31.079 found those lines. 152 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:32.039 And make me the passengers. 153 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:32.960 I want them alive. 154 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:36.720 I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic 155 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:37.759 You are part. 156 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:39.519 Of the Ripper Ali, I'm a trait. 157 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:40.639 Take her away. 158 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:44.159 On you are pod of a rebel of lions, and 159 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:44.799 take it away. 160 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:49.039 I had read his name Prouds, but it never heard 161 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.600 him speak. But that raw footage right there tells you 162 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:55.120 what it sounded like on set. And then, of course 163 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:57.279 when they laid in James Earl Jones, who had never 164 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:03.039 met Carrie Fisher until they both appeared on the Big 165 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:06.240 Bang Theory, one of my all time favorite shows. The 166 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:09.919 lead character Sheldon Cooper goes to James Earl Jones to 167 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:13.480 ask him to come to build a comic cond event 168 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.200 with him, and instead they go out that night and 169 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:18.919 have all kinds of fun and pull kinds of pranks, 170 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:22.279 and one of them was to ring her doorbell, Carrie 171 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:25.840 Fisher's doorbell and run away. Here they are getting ready 172 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:26.799 to ring the bell. 173 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:32.080 Gary Fisher, and she's a little crazy, so he'll get 174 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:33.080 ready to run. 175 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:37.720 And then Fisher opens the door and comes out with 176 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:41.360 a baseball bat, and she yells her only line, it's 177 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:46.840 not funny anymore, James, why. 178 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:47.879 Am i alve. 179 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:54.759 And as I said, they had never met until the 180 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:59.120 filming of that show, because she was, of course on 181 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:01.639 the set with Star he was in a sound booth 182 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:05.919 doing all his lines, and so they finally got a 183 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:08.240 chance to meet. And one of the producers said, when 184 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:10.240 they finally did, Carrie Fisher put her arms out and 185 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:13.159 yelled dad. Because, of course, in the movie, Darth Vader 186 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:16.000 is the father of not just Luke Luke, I am 187 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:19.919 your father, but obviously also Princess Leia Luke's sisters, So 188 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:24.200 you're gonna miss James. Earl Jonesy popped up on The 189 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:29.159 Simpsons and Sesame Street doing the alphabet and of course 190 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:31.559 the great speech from Field of Dreams. 191 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.799 The one constant through all the years Ray has been 192 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:39.480 Baseball America is ruled by like an army of steam rulers. 193 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:43.799 It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. 194 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:53.080 But baseball doesn't marked the time. This field, this game, 195 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:58.039 it's a part of our past. Ray. It reminds us 196 00:10:58.600 --> 00:10:59.960 of all that once was good. 197 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:02.639 The cookie again. 198 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:14.240 Oh, people will come, Ray, People will most definitely come. Ray. 199 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:18.200 You will lose everything, You will be evicted. 200 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:23.200 And that's when Costner, listening to his brother in law, 201 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:26.759 does not sign and get rid of the farm. He 202 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:32.600 looks out and sees his dad in the outfield because 203 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.360 I'm not going to sign the papers, and they keep 204 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:36.919 and you know the rest, everything is a success. But 205 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:40.440 you know, the one thing that we all did for years, 206 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:43.039 we made the mistake of saying, when we refer to 207 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.360 that scene, if you build it, they will come, Because 208 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:48.720 we think about at the end of the movie, all 209 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:51.799 the locals pouring in to pay five bucks to see 210 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:54.559 this field carved out of a cornfield, which of course 211 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.240 saves the family farm. But that's not what the voice said. 212 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.600 The voice said, if you build that, he will come. 213 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:06.879 The voice was talking about Kevin Costner's character Ray Ray 214 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:11.639 Cancella his father and of course at the end chokes 215 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:14.360 me up every time he has a catch with his dad. 216 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:20.480 So James Earl Jones so vital in that movie playing 217 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:23.240 the author Terrence Man, Ray goes all the way to 218 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:25.759 Boston to kidnap him and bring him to Iowa. Just 219 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:29.679 a fantastic film, one of the all time great baseball movies. 220 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:32.320 And because of that movie, now they play a game 221 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:36.600 each year on that field out there among the years 222 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:40.399 of corn. Up next, Mark Stoops and a little bit 223 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:43.279 later on Jeff mccaorrel plus the Hall of Famer Tim 224 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:48.039 Couch Hearing the Big Moonsider six thirty wlap. Welcome back 225 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:50.039 to the Big moon Sider, Dick Gabriel with you coming 226 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:53.279 up Saturday. Of course it is Kentucky and Georgia seven 227 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:55.519 thirty kickoff. You're hear it right here starting at five 228 00:12:55.679 --> 00:13:00.000 thirty on six thirty wlap for the record, playing hurt today. 229 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.360 That's right, walking the dog this morning, as I do 230 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:07.240 every morning and every afternoon. Stung by a bee on 231 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:12.000 my left ring finger. I mean that was the I 232 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:15.039 had the leash in that hand and suddenly I'm feeling 233 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:18.240 something sharp and hot and painful. I look down, there's 234 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:22.120 a small but effective bee stinging the crap out of 235 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:24.799 me right above my wedding ring. So yeah, playing hurt, 236 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:27.240 we're sucking it up. Speaking of playing hurt, there may 237 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:30.799 be some Wildcats playing hurt, if not physically mentally against 238 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:34.200 Georgia this weekend because of what happened against South Carolina. 239 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:37.519 And you've maybe heard and read comments from Mark Stoops 240 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:40.480 if not, I'm here for you. Of course what came 241 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:43.440 out of the news conference yesterday, and he reiterated it 242 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:47.440 on his radio show, but it kind of surprised me early. 243 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:49.279 I mean it was in his opening remarks after he 244 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:52.320 congratulated Tim Couch, who was coming up at the bottom 245 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:55.200 of the hour, he talked about the fact that I 246 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:58.279 was not, of course, in the media scrum afterwards. We 247 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:02.200 were upstairs and had Mark on the postgame radio show. 248 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:05.000 He did not say to Tom Leach at least I 249 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:10.159 don't recall wondering or asserting his team didn't play very hard, 250 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:12.639 but evidently he did in the media because he walked 251 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:14.840 that back on Monday afternoon. 252 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.360 You know, much of what I said after the game 253 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:21.200 holds true with one exception, and it's a good thing 254 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:24.440 after watching the film, I actually do think our guys 255 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:25.960 played really hard. 256 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:27.440 We just didn't play very smart. 257 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:29.799 I said that, you know, in the post game as well, 258 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:33.159 and it holds true. We didn't play very we didn't 259 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:36.200 execute very good, and we didn't play very disciplined. We 260 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:38.639 didn't play very we didn't play winning football at all. 261 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:43.320 We played hard at times, guys were physically up for 262 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:46.279 the challenge, just mentally we got to do a better job. 263 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:48.759 And you know, you have to put a. 264 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:51.279 Lot of that and give credit to South Carolina for 265 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:51.840 that as well. 266 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:52.919 They affected us. 267 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:55.960 They played very good, They played better than us, and 268 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:58.039 that's the bottom line. 269 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:02.000 So yeah, they played hard, but at times they played dumb, 270 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:04.960 and that was for everybody to see. The defense breaking 271 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:09.240 down in the secondary, the offense falling apart, with old 272 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:13.320 linemen missing assignments and lining up wrong and things like that. 273 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:16.600 That's what surprised me the most is that mentally it 274 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:19.480 just didn't seem like Kentucky was in the game. They 275 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:22.759 just weren't mentally prepared. And that goes back to coaching, yeah, 276 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:25.720 but it also goes back to players who maybe thought, well, 277 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:28.759 we're better than we think we are. After that walkover 278 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:32.320 against Southern miss and so many people, and you know, 279 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:34.720 they hear it telling them how they're going to blow 280 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:37.600 out South Carolina, which I never thought what happened, but 281 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:39.919 I thought they'd win. I did think it would be 282 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:43.360 a grind him out game with maybe the last possession 283 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:47.600 coming into play, either a team needing to score or 284 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:50.720 needing to keep the ball away from the other guys. 285 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:52.919 And it looked like it was going to be that way, 286 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:56.240 didn't it. At halftime it was ten to six, And 287 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:59.679 of course Stoop's still kicking himself and always will for 288 00:15:59.799 --> 00:16:03.799 going forward early on fourth and one when his team 289 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:05.960 was having trouble moving to football. But of course at 290 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.360 the time he thought we may not get a better 291 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:13.000 chance to get a first down this deep and enemy territory. 292 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:16.360 So he goes for it and it fails, and almost 293 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:18.720 immediately he regretted it, said it as much to me 294 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:21.399 at halftime. But here's what he said Monday. 295 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:23.120 Somebody asked me the question that postgame. 296 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:24.960 I think it was John, you know about you know, 297 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:27.639 going forward, and that's that's clearly a mistake on me. 298 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:30.080 The game was very tight at that point. Both teams 299 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:31.919 were struggling to move above football. 300 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:34.799 You know, heck the game, didn't you know. 301 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:38.080 I think they went up seventeen on like the eighth 302 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:40.120 or ninth possession of the game, and that was on 303 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:41.120 the fourth and one. 304 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:42.240 I think we had them stopped. 305 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:44.200 I think they're going to punk the ball, and you know, 306 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.759 it's ten to sixth game at that point, and would 307 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:50.360 have been even closer, you know, you know, you know, 308 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:52.399 possibly if i'd have punched the ball there. 309 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:56.440 I always talk about second guessing. I say it's only 310 00:16:56.519 --> 00:16:59.279 fair if you second gays, or if you have an 311 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:03.480 opinion prior to the play and it goes the other 312 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:05.960 way and it doesn't work. It's not fair to second 313 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.440 guess after the play. Anybody can do that. But I 314 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:11.480 have to admit at that point I was really surprised 315 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:14.400 by what I thought was quite the gamble. But then 316 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:17.720 again I thought, well, it is early, but that game 317 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:20.400 at that point had all the trappings, as I said, 318 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:21.920 of the kind of game I thought it was going 319 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:24.480 to be, which was grind them out, maybe not a 320 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:26.799 lot of points scored. Over and under was forty two 321 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:28.599 and a half, so that means it could have been 322 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:31.000 twenty three to twenty. You know, if you go over 323 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:34.200 That is not a huge score in an SEC game, 324 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:38.960 as you know. But things went downhill after that. They 325 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:42.319 still had their opportunities, and when South Carolina had it 326 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:47.839 fourth and short at a near midfield spot and a 327 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:52.119 fifth year senior jumps off sides. And again keep in mind, now, 328 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:55.720 when you're on defense, you don't listen. You're not supposed 329 00:17:55.759 --> 00:18:00.200 to listen to the quarterback. You watch the ball. That's 330 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.480 how you react. On offense. You obviously listen for the 331 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:09.079 snapcount defense. You're taught from pewee football on watch the football. 332 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:12.519 But people fall for the hard count, don't they. We 333 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:16.160 saw Aaron Rodgers in action last night and he is 334 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:19.799 the master of the hardcount, and a lot of quarterbacks 335 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:22.680 have become so good at it. And here was a 336 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:28.240 freshman for South Carolina drown Kentucky offside. So it all 337 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:31.039 turned on that and it went from bad to worse. 338 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:35.240 So they've got these days to clean things up. And 339 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:41.680 remember they don't practice on Monday, not a hard physical practice, Tuesday, Wednesday, 340 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:46.200 a little bit on Thursday, walk through Friday. That's what 341 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:49.000 you do to get ready for Georgia. Georgia does the same. 342 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:53.640 But Georgia is going to come in here basically with 343 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:59.039 better players at virtually every position. I think Kentucky's got 344 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:02.920 a cornerback and Maxwell Hairston who could measure up obviously 345 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:08.359 Dion Walker. I think in all fairness, the two insidelnebackers 346 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:13.559 d Eric Jackson and Jamon Johnson could measure up with 347 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:16.359 SEC teams. But anybody in the offense right now, well 348 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:21.839 in Theory Key and Barrion Brown. But Dane made a 349 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:25.599 great catch on Saturday. Barrion was just kind of out 350 00:19:25.640 --> 00:19:32.240 of it Saturday, So it's not impossible, but it's really improbable. 351 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:33.039 Now. 352 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:36.039 Kentucky has beaten Georgia a couple of times. It's been 353 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:39.240 a while. Rich Brooks was the head coach when they 354 00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:43.359 beat the Bulldogs twice. We'll hear from him on Thursday 355 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:47.920 show kind of a special presentation about Kentucky Georgia under 356 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:52.799 Rich Brooks. Carson Beck, the leader naturally for Georgia, the 357 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:57.200 quarterback who is among the top quarterbacks listed in the 358 00:19:57.240 --> 00:20:02.640 QB rankings by Bleacher Report. He is in the top five, 359 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:07.480 he didn't quite make the top five. Number seven is 360 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:09.880 my man, Dylan Gabriel. Never met him, but got to 361 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:12.400 love the name. Of course at Oregon Carson Beck is 362 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:16.599 sixth right now according to Bleacher Report, cam Ward of Miami, 363 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:22.559 number four, Kyle McCord of Syracuse, number three, Jalen Milroll 364 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:26.960 of Alabama, two is quinn Ewers of Texas, and number 365 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:30.440 one Jackson Dart of Ole, miss So Kentucky will see Dart, 366 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:35.039 they'll see yours, they'll see the kid from Missouri. Obviously, 367 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:39.680 Carson Beck's coming in. It's just a rough worksheet for 368 00:20:39.799 --> 00:20:43.720 the Wildcats. In fact, Georgia is first in the apeop 369 00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:47.400 plele Texas, Ohio State, Alabama, Ole, miss So there's three 370 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:53.359 the top five on the UK schedule, Missouri, Tennessee, let's 371 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:57.079 see Penn State is eighth, Oregon ninth, Miami tenth, and 372 00:20:57.400 --> 00:21:00.480 Southern cal is eleventh. Made a big jump for them 373 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:04.240 Louisville nineteenth this week. So yeah, it is going to 374 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:08.559 be one rough season. I want to tip my cap 375 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:13.559 to my broadcast partner on Kentucky Volleyball, Leah Edmund. She 376 00:21:13.720 --> 00:21:19.400 started her broadcast career with US on SEC Plus and 377 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:23.279 she now is moving up a little bit. She'll still 378 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:26.640 work some SEC plus broadcasts, but will work some other 379 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:30.640 matches on the mothership on the SEC network. I think 380 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:33.720 she's got three assignments coming up, and we'll keep you 381 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:36.480 posting on that. But of course she is a great 382 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:40.240 volleyball player, maybe the best in UK history. Four time 383 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:44.720 All Conference, four time All American, and she graduated right 384 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:48.000 before they won the national title. But they were standing 385 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:51.680 on her shoulders, hers and many others. And she is 386 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:55.920 now playing for the Atlanta Vibe, playing professionally for the 387 00:21:55.960 --> 00:22:00.759 Atlanta Vibe in the Pro Volleyball Federation. She's in her 388 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:05.039 fifth year as a professional. That just blows my mind. 389 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:09.680 But does a nice job as a broadcaster. Great volleyball 390 00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:12.640 player and now moving up like a lot of folks 391 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:14.559 who got your starter with your old dad here, So 392 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:18.160 good luck to her. I'm so proud when they're ready 393 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:21.599 to leave the nest and make the big leap. Tim 394 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:23.880 couches next year on The Big Bluon Sider six thirty 395 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:27.559 Wlap Welcome back to the Big Bluon Sider. We don't 396 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:29.359 get to say this often enough on the show. We're 397 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:31.799 joined now by a Hall of Famer. That would be 398 00:22:31.880 --> 00:22:34.720 mister Tim Couch. Of course, you know I'm Kentucky quarterback 399 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:38.200 legendary and now going in to the College Football Hall 400 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:40.759 of Fame, Tim, welcome back. We've edge on the show before, 401 00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:42.880