Speaker 1: Hell, everybody through the facilities of the iHeartMedia Megaplex. It's
Speaker 1: Dick Gabriel. This is state wide edition of The Big
Speaker 1: Blue Inside. You've heard Mark Stoop's comments, now's your chance
Speaker 1: to talk some football and hear us talk about football
Speaker 1: as well. Billy Rutledge in the studio, so is Aaron Gershawn.
Speaker 1: After the Wildcats win over those Southern Mystic Golden Eagles
Speaker 1: and now the game Cocks are coming to town, it's
Speaker 1: already must win situation. We'll come back and chop it
Speaker 1: up here on the state wide BBI border. The border.
Speaker 1: It is the Big Blue Insider. Dick Gabriel, Billy Rutligiaron Gershawn.
Speaker 1: I think we've cut up in our sleep. But Bill,
Speaker 1: let me start with you. I think the guy had
Speaker 1: the most interesting evening of all when it comes to media,
Speaker 1: was mister Rutledge, our studio manager, producer man. He was
Speaker 1: trying to keep things straight, keep things on time, communicate
Speaker 1: with us, communicate with the network, and we were trying
Speaker 1: to communicate with him, passing along with it for information
Speaker 1: we had, which wasn't a whole lot like what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen next, and just trying to figure out how much
Speaker 1: weak time literally we had to fill. There's nothing else
Speaker 1: you could do.
Speaker 2: It was an interesting night when it comes to that
Speaker 2: side of stuff. You know, you guys can only fill
Speaker 2: for so much time. Yeah, you pick and Tom and
Speaker 2: the booth.
Speaker 1: Thank goodness for Cole Koublik.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mitch barnhart Man, Oh yeah, yeah. So after we
Speaker 2: had exhausted our options there, then we replayed the Stoop
Speaker 2: Show from last week BBN Radio. Half of it made
Speaker 2: it on the air, and then Aaron when we got
Speaker 2: lightning delighted.
Speaker 3: In the game.
Speaker 2: I just threw on the uk U of l game.
Speaker 2: I was like, you know, people get excited for that
Speaker 2: so and thank god they ended it, or you know,
Speaker 2: I would have probably slept in the studio that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were getting ready to do the same thing
Speaker 4: in the press spot, no doubt.
Speaker 1: In fact, some of the network people brought hot dogs
Speaker 1: and hamburgers up to our booth. Yeah you guys, you know,
Speaker 1: did they take care of you guys? Absolutely not. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess you had to go.
Speaker 4: I went to Tako Beut one in the morning or
Speaker 4: one forty five in the morning, is what I did.
Speaker 1: I will say this. I was a little well, obviously,
Speaker 1: I think everybody was disappointed. And Aaron and I were
Speaker 1: talking about this before we went on the air. I
Speaker 1: was so curious to see the new guys, the backups,
Speaker 1: the new faces, you know, the guys who came through
Speaker 1: the portal who were looking for reps, and it looked
Speaker 1: like we were going to see quite a bit of that.
Speaker 1: And then the next thing, you know, everybody sent home.
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially after that fake punt that Southern Myss tried
Speaker 4: and failed. Good sign they could stop a fake punt.
Speaker 4: Joking mostly, but all that was almost all true freshmen
Speaker 4: on the field. I don't know if you caught that.
Speaker 4: Cam Dooley is the one who made the tackle. He's
Speaker 4: a true freshman. Steven Soles is right there, uh, gerrod Smith,
Speaker 4: Willie Rodriguez, Antoine Smith, all those guys were on the
Speaker 4: field so and honestly, something the last two years that
Speaker 4: has been kind of a sign of early concern is
Speaker 4: they haven't been able to put these openers away to
Speaker 4: the point where they could get the backups, these adequate
Speaker 4: reps that kind of keep them happy, keep them progressing
Speaker 4: in their development. And they were definitely on pace to
Speaker 4: have that, and maybe then some get some second third,
Speaker 4: four stringers, and I was excited to see some of
Speaker 4: those guys too, especially in the secondary, but it just
Speaker 4: didn't happen. Why my mother nature wasn't having it now?
Speaker 1: And I also want to see Billy what happens from
Speaker 1: here on with Southern Miss to give us context. Does
Speaker 1: his team go on to have a halfway decent year
Speaker 1: or are they going to be three and nine again?
Speaker 1: And we'll know more about what Kentucky did against that team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't know if it's the same football
Speaker 2: program that it was maybe five six years ago when
Speaker 2: it was given Kentucky fits.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't last year.
Speaker 2: You know, what I wanted to see from this game
Speaker 2: was what I saw. It wasn't close. Kentucky handled it
Speaker 2: early on Rock Vandergriff was running the ball, and that
Speaker 2: was just really awesome to see. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it was just me thinking about will Evis's second year
Speaker 2: and him not running and how great that looked. It
Speaker 2: just it was honestly refreshing, and I saw enough to
Speaker 2: where I am really confident and excited about what this
Speaker 2: guy can do this year.
Speaker 4: That was some of the most exciting offensive football in
Speaker 4: the last since twenty one. I mean there are a
Speaker 4: few games here and there, like the Louisville game last year,
Speaker 4: where there's some really exciting plays explosives, But I just
Speaker 4: thought the balance, the tempo that every time you know,
Speaker 4: they handed off the running back, you felt like he
Speaker 4: was gonna have a big game instead of get stopped
Speaker 4: for two yards. I thought Sumo Karnbay was excellent. Patterson
Speaker 4: was fun to watch. Some of the three straight shot plays.
Speaker 4: I think it was toward the in the third quarter
Speaker 4: they finally hit on the one to Macklin. I just
Speaker 4: thought it was a it was a relentless attack, it
Speaker 4: was balanced, it was you know, quicker, It wasn't fully
Speaker 4: maybe the exact temple they want.
Speaker 3: Week one kinks.
Speaker 4: I think Mark Stups mentioned something today about their headset
Speaker 4: going out early. Maybe so some kinks there, but I was,
Speaker 4: you know, outside of the pick the first drive, which
Speaker 4: you'd never want to see, but you know, first career
Speaker 4: start plays, it's going to happen. I was as impressed
Speaker 4: as I think.
Speaker 1: I think they also time out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, those two things, you know, stink, But overall
Speaker 4: like that, I was pretty pretty impressed anywhere, Yes, and
Speaker 4: I thought the offensive line. I know Mark Stoops said
Speaker 4: today things to clean up. He's going to say that
Speaker 4: if they run for six hundred yards. But I thought
Speaker 4: the offense line was so much better than we've seen
Speaker 4: the last two.
Speaker 1: Years and again against US. Yeah, but definitely got to
Speaker 1: have challenge, that's right. You guys know. I've been around
Speaker 1: here since they pumped up the first football, and I
Speaker 1: can tell you I have never that I can recall.
Speaker 1: I have never seen a Kentucky team throw deep like
Speaker 1: that three times. I mean deep deep, you know. And
Speaker 1: the two seasons that I was gone down in Texas
Speaker 1: were Clayburne's best years. And he's sure didn't throw the ball,
Speaker 1: and if he did, it wasn't deep like that, but
Speaker 1: he had. The first one was a little bit forced,
Speaker 1: but it's like Macoro said on the air, that's just
Speaker 1: kind of loosen up to do something. But then they
Speaker 1: come right back and it would have been completed, you know.
Speaker 1: And then after that it was a perfect throw. Good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the third throw was better than the first two.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was his best one in Jamori.
Speaker 4: That's what you wanted when you sign him out of
Speaker 4: the portal at North Texas. He was a big play machine.
Speaker 4: He was second in the country last year in average
Speaker 4: yards per catch and that was on full display right there.
Speaker 1: He was great.
Speaker 2: Yes, I loved watching him. I mean, go along, get
Speaker 2: Barry on the ball as much as possible. They seem
Speaker 2: to do that with two touchdowns, even Patterson and will Cox.
Speaker 4: In the run games, he made some tough plays in
Speaker 4: the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: Like that's just maybe depth that Kentucky hasn't had in
Speaker 2: the past. That it's You've had a Benny Snell at
Speaker 2: Chris Rodriguez that does a lot of the hard work,
Speaker 2: but with train him out, I feel like this was
Speaker 2: an opportunity to see what kind of depth you have.
Speaker 1: But it was a different place too that you know,
Speaker 1: generally they'd go to the Jets sweep once maybe twice
Speaker 1: a game, not repeatedly, but why not Right with Barrion
Speaker 1: bo was working. You know, I'm really curious to see
Speaker 1: train him whenever he gets back. I'm still not entirely
Speaker 1: convinced of Demishue McCarn bay running between the tackles when
Speaker 1: he's got to carry people with him. Now he hits
Speaker 1: holes quickly and if there's a crease, he'll get to
Speaker 1: that second level right now. I really like that about
Speaker 1: him obviously.
Speaker 3: No, it's the tough, gritty Yeah.
Speaker 1: When he starts running into SEC lineman, what happens.
Speaker 4: Right and even And it was brought up in the
Speaker 4: press conferences today and they think they're only third and
Speaker 4: short play, which is a good sign. They only one
Speaker 4: third and short. I know it is a shortened game,
Speaker 4: but still it was a Jet sweep. They didn't go
Speaker 4: up through the tackles, so it'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 4: And look, South Carolina will get into them, I'm sure
Speaker 4: throughout this hour there they looked awful against Old Dominion. Ye,
Speaker 4: there may be the worst team in the SEC this
Speaker 4: year the way Vandy played on Saturday, But the strength
Speaker 4: of their team is the defensive line and outside backers.
Speaker 3: So he'll help. We'll see.
Speaker 4: That'll be the first big test for Demi in those
Speaker 4: backs running through the tackles.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of the D line is like I just
Speaker 1: said to Darren talking to Jeffikoro in our abbreviated postgame
Speaker 1: show about the fact that in terms of the stats,
Speaker 1: Dion didn't show up, but it was because of Dion
Speaker 1: getting so much attention that the other D linemen were
Speaker 1: having a big day. And that's that's not by.
Speaker 2: Surprise, and that's just NFL evaluators see that, right, And
Speaker 2: that's just like a common knowledge. Oh, the sacks weren't there.
Speaker 2: That's probably because the focus was on him entirely, kind
Speaker 2: of like a number one defensive back where you don't
Speaker 2: get the ball thrown your way as much when you're
Speaker 2: that number one guy. But you know, didn't Ribke have
Speaker 2: a big play in the stand as well? I mean,
Speaker 2: that's j that was the circle. I had a big
Speaker 2: circle around the defensive line this year, and they got
Speaker 2: some depth through the transfer portal, but this could end
Speaker 2: up being the strength of the team this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know Dion didn't like like a stat
Speaker 4: but the pick that Jami and Dumous Johnson had to
Speaker 4: just see who was chasing down road to Maker and
Speaker 4: forced him to get rid of that ball, Big Number
Speaker 4: zero was Freeze. So uh luck, he's gonna make his
Speaker 4: plays throughout the year. They're gonna double and triple team them.
Speaker 4: Last year South Carolina was his best game of the season.
Speaker 4: So and that offensive line still suspect, So well, we'll
Speaker 4: see plenty from zero. But yeah, like like you said,
Speaker 4: Billy Trey Ripkam making a huge play. I thought Clail
Speaker 4: Saunders popped. Really the best four players though in the
Speaker 4: defense in my opinion, and Stoops said the same thing today.
Speaker 4: Were those four inside backers. Uh Pop we just talked
Speaker 4: about with the pick and some of the plays he
Speaker 4: made at a quarterback hurry d Jack tipped the ball
Speaker 4: up in the goal line led to a pick, Alex
Speaker 4: Afari was over the place, two tackles for lost and
Speaker 4: David Rayner looked a lot better than did a year ago.
Speaker 4: So Front seven as a whole, it was as advertised.
Speaker 4: But again, uh let's see it against you know, an
Speaker 4: sec fo here on Saturday.
Speaker 1: I don't see any reason why those guys can't keep
Speaker 1: doing that. They absolutely went against SEC and Afari I
Speaker 1: love watching him last year as always around the football
Speaker 1: exactly and that's why he said he'd be applauded and
Speaker 1: approved of that move because you know, it literally puts
Speaker 1: him closer and he's he's just a hybrid lineback and
Speaker 1: we have seen this through the years at Kentucky and folks,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say he's as good as but
Speaker 1: Wesley Woodyard was a similar hybrid player. Wesley Woodyard came
Speaker 1: in as a safety and put on muscle and became
Speaker 1: one of the best linebackers in the history of Kentucky football.
Speaker 1: So you know, in this day and age, and Brad
Speaker 1: White has talked about it a lot, you got to
Speaker 1: have defenders who can do a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: You don't always want, if ever a guy like Dean
Speaker 1: dropping back and coverage even though it worked last year once,
Speaker 1: but uh no, you've got to have in the back
Speaker 1: seven guys who can tackle in the run game and
Speaker 1: make passes and make plays in the pass game. And
Speaker 1: Afari man, he fits that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he reminds me of I don't know if you
Speaker 4: watched him much in college. It hasn't worked as great
Speaker 4: in the pros, but Isaiah Simmons when he was at
Speaker 4: Clemson was a guy that moved around linebacker, safety, nickel, corner.
Speaker 4: He just made plays everywhere and he ended up being
Speaker 4: a top ten pick in twenty twenty with Cardinals, Nyes
Speaker 4: with the Giants. It hasn't exactly reflected in the NFL,
Speaker 4: but that's the guy I keep thinking of with the
Speaker 4: far just he plays well at every place you line
Speaker 4: him up, and the closer to the ball the better
Speaker 4: because he has such speed and pop to him that
Speaker 4: he's gonna make plays. And he made two chaos plays,
Speaker 4: two tackles for loss.
Speaker 2: I will say, I can't wait until dian Walker drops
Speaker 2: back into coverage again. Oh he will, can't wait to.
Speaker 1: Save it for I wonder because even after that play
Speaker 1: where that it helped turn that Florida game. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: last year deflated them. Brad White said that Stoops came
Speaker 1: up to him on the sideline said, don't ever do that.
Speaker 1: But oh yeah, it lobbied for it so much I
Speaker 1: would let him do it, you know, once every six weeks.
Speaker 4: Find it, save it for gains. Speaking of it for
Speaker 4: the right time you see Florida this weekend.
Speaker 1: I was going to say that and and some of
Speaker 1: the other SEC games for a little bit later on
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 3: We'll get back to it.
Speaker 1: But man, it's uh, it's always interesting. It's you know,
Speaker 1: everybody calls it overreaction Monday, but because of the way
Speaker 1: the Kentucky game was truncated, Billy, I don't think I
Speaker 1: don't think you can overreact. But you're still not sure
Speaker 1: what you saw, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was overreacting when they called the game. I
Speaker 2: didn't know if my my bets were gonna cash or
Speaker 2: how exactly that was all.
Speaker 1: Gonna Actually how did that work?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it depends. So like if you had the
Speaker 2: normal spread with like Kentucky minus twenty five, it cashed
Speaker 2: and then that counted. But if you took an alternate line,
Speaker 2: if you were betting the total, which it clearly you
Speaker 2: probably would have hit the total if it would have
Speaker 2: kept going. No, that is a I think it's considered void.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you get your money back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So well we'll see how people react over the
Speaker 2: coming days. I'm sure everybody will have a calm response
Speaker 2: to it all.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 4: You see, the couldn't sell beer during the delay because
Speaker 4: of the aluminum cans.
Speaker 1: Oh I did not know that.
Speaker 2: Is that what I thought it was just because they
Speaker 2: didn't want everybody getting routed.
Speaker 3: I was told aluminum cans.
Speaker 1: That makes sense because as I would I had to go.
Speaker 1: I went back and forth to the press box maybe
Speaker 1: three times, and each time I would, I had to
Speaker 1: you know, like excuse me and cut through the beer line.
Speaker 1: And I couldn't understand why people were just standing their
Speaker 1: patient waiting, waiting, and waiting. I remember it. It looked
Speaker 1: that way of course before they opened the first time
Speaker 1: at six thirty or whatever. You know. But now now, okay,
Speaker 1: I did not know that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just kept getting text from my fiance was
Speaker 4: in the crowd, some of her friends.
Speaker 1: They're like, why are they doing this? I did see
Speaker 1: a message online, a post on social media from somebody
Speaker 1: that we went home. We were getting absolutely no information.
Speaker 1: Well guess what, there wasn't any information.
Speaker 3: There really wasn't.
Speaker 1: We weren't getting much more.
Speaker 4: All the information we were getting was from Twitter, just
Speaker 4: like everyone else in the crowd. The problem is we
Speaker 4: had better service than they.
Speaker 1: The thing is, it was all hurry up and wait.
Speaker 1: Sure you know it was and you know you've covered
Speaker 1: baseball and then I have obviously as well. Every time
Speaker 1: there's a lightning strikenutes restart the clock, and I don't
Speaker 1: know that they were supposed to come on the PA
Speaker 1: and say, oh, there's another lightning strike.
Speaker 4: That would just rile them up more than you want
Speaker 4: to do that, you know.
Speaker 1: So I thought they did the best they could trying
Speaker 1: to keep people in formed. But you know, I grabbed
Speaker 1: Mitch Barnut at one point, ye put him on the air,
Speaker 1: he explained the process and then later on he didn't
Speaker 1: want to come back on because everything was so so
Speaker 1: many moving parts. But it was game officials, conference officials.
Speaker 1: This is when they eventually called the game off, and
Speaker 1: you know, UK had little to say about it except
Speaker 1: to agree with Southern Miss. Look, we're willing to go
Speaker 1: home if you all want to call the game, and
Speaker 1: the UK said, yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 2: Well, I heard that there weren't places for Southern Miss
Speaker 2: to stay if they wanted to play the next day,
Speaker 2: so they were going to get it in no matter what.
Speaker 2: I don't know if if they did agree to it
Speaker 2: or not. I feel like, you have hotels, you could
Speaker 2: get them to stay out.
Speaker 1: Well, they stated they were in their hotel rooms until
Speaker 1: well beyond check at Yeah, so they're no their rooms
Speaker 1: were still I hope.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like that had been an orm
Speaker 2: natural solution than waiting until two am, which is what
Speaker 2: the alternative would have been. Yeah, you know, something you
Speaker 2: missed being on the field was the television broadcasts. You know,
Speaker 2: because of the lightning, they had to send all their
Speaker 2: cameram Oh yeah, oh they watched we watched it on
Speaker 2: the TV on the ALL twenty two UK Scout camera
Speaker 2: that went zoom in randomly after a playge.
Speaker 1: Was in disaster. Here's here's the thing I found out
Speaker 1: today about that they UK there are two different standards.
Speaker 1: If the UK standard is if if the lightning is
Speaker 1: a eight miles out or closer, everybody scatter. Okay, the
Speaker 1: SEC network, when it comes to their camera people that
Speaker 1: are up, it's twelve miles. So when they found out
Speaker 1: that the lightning was that close, their guys are required
Speaker 1: in gals are required to abandon their posts, lock their
Speaker 1: cameras down, cover them up, and get the hell out
Speaker 1: of there. But the Kentucky people were still at their cameras.
Speaker 1: And you're absolutely right. It was the ALL twenty two.
Speaker 1: The end Zone cameras were the UK camera people, and
Speaker 1: I thought they did a great job. ALL twenty two
Speaker 1: is what it is. What that means, folks, is the
Speaker 1: camera what you saw is so wide because that's what
Speaker 1: the coaches used to break things down and teach, you know,
Speaker 1: and yeah, that's what a zooming wasn't quite as smooth
Speaker 1: as it might be. But here's the other thing. Those
Speaker 1: guys didn't know that their cameras were being used by
Speaker 1: the SEC network. They didn't know that during the game
Speaker 1: because there was no communication with the truck. With the
Speaker 1: SEC truck, how could there be There was no you know,
Speaker 1: it's not like they're going to run some headsets up
Speaker 1: to them up to the sixth floor and say, oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, you're live on the air. Now, you
Speaker 1: know a good thing.
Speaker 2: They weren't zooming in on people in the crowd and
Speaker 2: doing just random counts on Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well no, because that's the video that goes to the coaches.
Speaker 1: So now it's going to be disciplined, Yes, but I
Speaker 1: tipped my cap to them for hanging in there sure
Speaker 1: and making it work. Somebody may have gotten words somewhere,
Speaker 1: hey you're on TV, but officially no, So everybody kind
Speaker 1: of pulled together. And Tom hard benched I watched the replay.
Speaker 1: He mentioned it that they're up camera people, and I
Speaker 1: flashed on the tornado night in the Georgia Dome all
Speaker 1: those years ago when I saw those people, their camera operators,
Speaker 1: the up high people locked their cameras down when the
Speaker 1: tornado tore the roof open, and Buddy, they came scrambling
Speaker 1: down like mountain goats.
Speaker 2: So safety first, now, worth it for Southern Miss Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Anytime, anytime, we'll step back on back and talk more
Speaker 1: football and weather. It's the same wide edition of the
Speaker 1: BBI from Pikeville to Paduca. It is the Big Moon
Speaker 1: Sider Dick Gabriel, Billy Rutledge, Aaron Gershan. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I did. I ask you what time did you
Speaker 1: get to sleep Sunday morning?
Speaker 2: Well, I left the studio at like three tens, and
Speaker 2: I can't just go to bed after no, no, so
Speaker 2: it was like four thirty.
Speaker 1: Wow, I think I left the stadium at one thirty.
Speaker 3: I left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just kind of had to put everything to bed.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, there's a there's a postgame show after your
Speaker 2: network post game, and then you got to save the
Speaker 2: eight hour broadcast file that we had the other night.
Speaker 2: So it's there's a couple of things to go into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know if I'll be putting together a
Speaker 1: highlight melt this week or not. I have to talk
Speaker 1: to you about that. That's gonna be that's gonna be
Speaker 1: tough to do. But we talked a lot about the
Speaker 1: offense and deepense special teams. They go to fake a
Speaker 1: punt as you mentioned all freshmen.
Speaker 3: Punct of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they kicking game clean. And you know what else
Speaker 1: we pointed out on our broadcast. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys noticed it. Upstairs, Wilson Barry rescued three kind
Speaker 1: of shaky snaps. They weren't terrible, but they could have
Speaker 1: been disaster.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was an interesting honestly, the depth chart. We
Speaker 4: didn't see too many surprises when it first came out,
Speaker 4: but one was that they changed the long snappers because hindback,
Speaker 4: I thought last year, I don't remember anything drastically terrible,
Speaker 4: and he was a true freshman All SEC freshman team
Speaker 4: might have been the only freshman locksnapper and fairness, but still,
Speaker 4: you know, acknowledged guy. And they went to a transfer
Speaker 4: and Alex McLaughlin who won the job. So I do
Speaker 4: wonder if maybe we see a change there if the
Speaker 4: snaps were a little faulty. I did notice on one,
Speaker 4: but Barry, you know, had a pretty good punt his
Speaker 4: only one.
Speaker 3: He penned them inside the ten.
Speaker 4: So you know a lot of fans were carry on
Speaker 4: why Adan Larros, who was an fcs AL Americans, didn't
Speaker 4: win that job, but you know, Barry got the job. Done,
Speaker 4: Rainer made his kick and you know his a clean
Speaker 4: special Teams night.
Speaker 1: Well, Tom had talked to Stoops on his show both
Speaker 1: last week and on the pregame about the fact that
Speaker 1: the new Kids got a better leg. Probably yes, because Barry,
Speaker 1: of course, as we all know, is adapting to American
Speaker 1: style punting. But he's more accurate Barry is, and and
Speaker 1: there's more of a premium onment.
Speaker 4: There's a kick down the middle factor with Lars that
Speaker 4: scares them. Yeahs like so, and also some inconsistency where
Speaker 4: he'll what I think Stoops was saying during his Thursday
Speaker 4: short one, uh not verbatim, was you know he'll of
Speaker 4: his seventy five yard boot, but we won't see that
Speaker 4: for a couple more after that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, uh we got a I got a text
Speaker 1: from a friend of mine wants to know who pays
Speaker 1: for hotel rooms. Uh, the team that's staying there pays.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's where it comes out of their pocket.
Speaker 2: So Southern miss pays the Hyatts.
Speaker 1: Far as I know, Yeah, where they stay.
Speaker 2: I see team buses a lot of them downtown lexing
Speaker 2: that Hyott.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I don't know if it was that at
Speaker 4: Griffin Gate.
Speaker 1: I know they're all over the play.
Speaker 2: Down at the who always got the better deal in.
Speaker 1: The Lexington Green at the hotel that's over there.
Speaker 3: So oh yeah, Embassy site.
Speaker 1: Sweet I said, yeah, it's all about the meeting rooms
Speaker 1: with football teams, It's all about the meeting rooms. That's
Speaker 1: why Kentucky. When Kentucky plays in Gainesville, yeah, okala, yeah,
Speaker 1: and we stay with them obviously because nowhere in Gainesville
Speaker 1: is there enough space for what one hundred plus people
Speaker 1: and meeting rooms and they got to have uh like
Speaker 1: a ballroom where they can go through a walk through. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to be in Gainesville right now.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know if Billion Naper will be there
Speaker 3: along either.
Speaker 2: Do you think he's there by the Kentucky game?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: For what he said today. Did you see what he
Speaker 3: said today?
Speaker 1: I know he couldn't get his uh.
Speaker 4: Well, but he made a comment about needing needing to
Speaker 4: ignore fans in central Florida on Twitter from their basements.
Speaker 4: First of all, there's no basements in Florida.
Speaker 1: But second of all, yeah, your mom.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not a thing in Florida. And to anytime
Speaker 4: you start picking a fight with the fans. Yeah, not
Speaker 4: doesn't go over the Mars six million.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you're getting a lot of new
Speaker 1: TV money, but twenty six million you gotta find.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He ran out Dan Mullen because he said he doesn't
Speaker 2: recruit during the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and Napier apparently was a very good recruit recruiter.
Speaker 3: Actually, but things.
Speaker 1: Ain't happening right now.
Speaker 3: Not a great ball coach.
Speaker 1: Former UK assistant Adie Scott Strickland. Now the ad down
Speaker 1: to Florida. All right, we'll talk MORRISCC football coming back
Speaker 1: here on the state Wide BBI. It is a state
Speaker 1: wide Big Blue insider. Dick Gabriela are and Gershaw and
Speaker 1: Billy rud Ledge. We're joined now on our celebrity hotline
Speaker 1: by a true celebrity. He is our color analyst on
Speaker 1: the UK Network and he is just now drying out
Speaker 1: his socks from the walk, the long walk through his
Speaker 1: car in the orange lot Saturday night, Jeffichoor Or was
Speaker 1: there a limo waiting Jeff at the at the back
Speaker 1: gate to take you to your car in the rain.
Speaker 5: Of course there was.
Speaker 1: We We've just talked about the fact that we were
Speaker 1: so disappointed so as stoops he mentioned it that we
Speaker 1: didn't get to see the backups a lot of the
Speaker 1: new guys. But what anything specifically jump out of you
Speaker 1: other than the weather Saturday.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, the one thing that stinks about the
Speaker 5: game is you know, it counts and all the stats
Speaker 5: to which is good and bad, because now your your
Speaker 5: offense which was starting to click and really getting into it,
Speaker 5: and now you're you're stuck. And people think, well, they
Speaker 5: didn't play that really good because it doesn't say you
Speaker 5: only played two quarters and five minutes. You know, so
Speaker 5: those things kind of stink, but it's good for the defense. No,
Speaker 5: I thought, I thought that the guy started to get
Speaker 5: into a little bit of rhythm. It was a little
Speaker 5: choppy at the start, and Mark alluded to that today.
Speaker 5: But I thought as the game went on, I thought
Speaker 5: that it looked like Bush and Brock were much started
Speaker 5: to get on the same page a little bit.
Speaker 1: You've been around forever as I have, Jeff. You grew
Speaker 1: up watching Kentucky football, you played at Kentucky, and as
Speaker 1: I told these guys, the two years I spent in
Speaker 1: Dallas or you're all his best two years under Clavern,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you you guys, never I can I think
Speaker 1: I can say without fear contradiction. Ever through deep three
Speaker 1: consecutive plays, do you ever remember Kentucky going deep three
Speaker 1: straight times like they did the other night?
Speaker 5: No, no, I know that you just brought that up.
Speaker 5: I was even starting to think it's ten casts. But
Speaker 5: they never really threw deep.
Speaker 1: No, you know no, because everybody played two deep safeties
Speaker 1: like you're not gonna beat us deep Tim Couch, and
Speaker 1: Couch said fine, I'll carve you up like a Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: dam underneath. So what did you think when you saw that?
Speaker 5: I thought the first play I even said, well, you know,
Speaker 5: they're just showing them to try to loosen up the
Speaker 5: safety says. And then I think they thought, look, it
Speaker 5: takes about a two or three series until you figure
Speaker 5: out the speed of the other team. And what I
Speaker 5: mean by that is, Okay, can my receivers beat them
Speaker 5: their defensive guys one on one? Can my defensive guys
Speaker 5: cover those guys one on one? And once you get
Speaker 5: that set, you started thinking, okay, let's we're going to
Speaker 5: take a shot. And what they started doing is they
Speaker 5: started playing a single high safety because Kentucky was running
Speaker 5: the ball okay. Yeah, they didn't run it great, but
Speaker 5: they ran it okay. So they were really bringing down
Speaker 5: this strong safety and kind of rotating the single thing.
Speaker 5: So they only had a single safety. So you're basically,
Speaker 5: you know, you've got the whole sideline, you run down
Speaker 5: the numbers and that's a long way for him to
Speaker 5: run to try to make a play. And so that's
Speaker 5: that's why they did that. And then it loosens them
Speaker 5: up too, because now they're thinking, oh, these guys can
Speaker 5: you know, they can throw the ball and so you
Speaker 5: know he can throw it deep. Yeah, but it's going
Speaker 5: to be interesting to see if they, you know, you
Speaker 5: start hitting on some of those those big, long passes.
Speaker 1: You got to wonder how much of that, Jeff was
Speaker 1: a message to South Carolina.
Speaker 5: You know, Yeah, I think that once Kentucky scored a
Speaker 5: couple of times, Bush wasn't about to show anything. And
Speaker 5: the cool thing about the way this offense is and
Speaker 5: it's almost kind of like what how mummy had they
Speaker 5: only called twelve fifteen plays maybe, and then everything's a
Speaker 5: derivative of those twelve or fifteen plays. Okay, does that
Speaker 5: make sense? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So there's a lot happened formation.
Speaker 5: A lot more. Yeah, And the thing that I know
Speaker 5: kind of gets some people a little shaky, uh that
Speaker 5: are Kentucky fans, is there's so much movement, but all
Speaker 5: they're trying to do is make one guy on the
Speaker 5: defense make one bad move or get you know, just
Speaker 5: he becomes late, you know, he takes an at a
Speaker 5: bad step, and that's all you're trying to do. You're
Speaker 5: trying to move their eyes around. So now they're starting
Speaker 5: to think instead of just reacting. And and and that's
Speaker 5: that's the neat part of that offense.
Speaker 4: Jeff, Just second, with the offense, what'd you think of
Speaker 4: Brock Vandergriff's debute and how much fun did you have
Speaker 4: just watching him move around that pocket? Something we haven't
Speaker 4: seen at the quarterback position since Levi in twenty one.
Speaker 5: Tougher guy than I thought. You know, he's he's not
Speaker 5: as big as Will you know, I mean muscularity, you
Speaker 5: know why size, but tough kids because he got he
Speaker 5: got walloped a couple of times and he jumped right
Speaker 5: back up. And that's one thing that we had heard
Speaker 5: is that, you know, he's not afraid to tuck it.
Speaker 5: And the one thing he said after the game. He says,
Speaker 5: my dad, who was his coach in high school, is
Speaker 5: going to be mad on two plays because the only
Speaker 5: time you lower your shoulder or go for extra you know, yards,
Speaker 5: is if it's you're going in for a touchdown or
Speaker 5: if it's what third down? And that one wasn't he
Speaker 5: and he took a shot. But he'll learn because you
Speaker 5: don't do that against Georgia. You don't do that against
Speaker 5: you know a lot of SEC teams because you can
Speaker 5: get hurt. But he's tough. He showed it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's that conversation like on the sideline, Jeff, does
Speaker 2: he take those big hits on the first drive and
Speaker 2: you tell him to start sliding or do you want
Speaker 2: to keep the aggressiveness there or does he just know
Speaker 2: that understanding?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you keep you wanting to keep the aggressing this.
Speaker 5: But hey, when they come up to you, just get down.
Speaker 5: And that's the beauty of college football is you start
Speaker 5: to slaw they can't touch you, and if they do,
Speaker 5: it's an added you know they'll tackle the team more.
Speaker 2: Well, your former receiver was it? I know that barry
Speaker 2: On Brown scoring two touchdowns was the highlight, but Jimory
Speaker 2: Macklin and what he does I thought I thought was impressive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, really liked what Macklin. What Ferrier growth bought uh
Speaker 5: to the offense. And again, you didn't really get to
Speaker 5: see all of it, and I think it's the beauty
Speaker 5: of that. I'd love to seeing another twenty plays. But
Speaker 5: it's gonna be really interesting this week. I mean, I
Speaker 5: know a lot of people are saying, oh, Seth K
Speaker 5: and I look like crap. They didn't show me anything.
Speaker 5: You know, they had problems all day. But again, this
Speaker 5: is a team that's beat you two years in a row.
Speaker 5: It's a coach and a team that thinks they can
Speaker 5: beat you. You know, that's half the battle. So it's
Speaker 5: gonna be it. Don't think that because you won thirty
Speaker 5: one to nothing and they battled the whole game, that
Speaker 5: it's gonna be easy, because it won't.
Speaker 1: V Station has the game this Saturday on the beloved
Speaker 1: time slot. It's going to be it's just gonna be odd.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you guys are rejoicing that you've
Speaker 1: got SEC football and you had the usc LSU game
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the cool part of Uh. You know, Dick,
Speaker 5: you knew this all those years working at CBS, it's uh,
Speaker 5: you know, ABC and CBS is really cornered the market
Speaker 5: on the college college football and uh, the great thing,
Speaker 5: and I think it's not just for Channel thirty six,
Speaker 5: but the great thing about ABC getting it is that
Speaker 5: they have allotted three games every Saturday instead of just
Speaker 5: the one, one major one that CBS always had when
Speaker 5: you were there from the SEC. The cool part, you're
Speaker 5: gonna yeah, we're going to see a lot more correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh did you get a chance to watch much
Speaker 1: of the s C LSU game?
Speaker 5: I did. I watched pretty much the whole game, and uh,
Speaker 5: I just think LSU is their own worst enemies again.
Speaker 5: I mean, just too many stupid penalties. Uh, you know,
Speaker 5: they they're just they they they I think. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm not a big fan of Brian Kelly, never have
Speaker 5: been and never will be. He's he's a snake oil salesman,
Speaker 5: and I just think his team kind of takes the
Speaker 5: persona the coach and then you see him, you know,
Speaker 5: pounded on it. He's like Bobby Knight, you know, he's
Speaker 5: pounded on the table and trying to you know, look
Speaker 5: how mad I am and upset I am about this game.
Speaker 5: You know, just that's that's just not becoming of a coach.
Speaker 5: You know, I think you have to your your team
Speaker 5: takes on the persona of their leaders, and if you're
Speaker 5: that way, then that's just not the way to be.
Speaker 5: I think, I think you need to be calm and
Speaker 5: cool and collective, especially at a place like l s U.
Speaker 5: I mean that this is a team. They've got a
Speaker 5: lot of great players and they want to be coached.
Speaker 5: But you know, I just think that there's other ways
Speaker 5: to do it. But LSU, you know, they've got talent.
Speaker 5: This myer did okay, But you know I was I was.
Speaker 5: I was actually support in that game by USC's defense,
Speaker 5: which the big knock on most of those teams from
Speaker 5: the Pac Ten, and you look at Oregon, it's the
Speaker 5: same way. Everybody says the only reason Oregon beat you
Speaker 5: is because they can score fifty points like that. But
Speaker 5: USC has always been kind of like the Western Conference
Speaker 5: and basketball, where it's no defense in all offense. But boy,
Speaker 5: I thought their defense really played well last night.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Brian Kelly, would you rather have him or
Speaker 2: Dabo Sweeney as your coach?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 3: I can throw billiy Naper in there too.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean you look at these three those
Speaker 5: those are those are some pretty big programs that you
Speaker 5: just mentioned, the three of them at the Aaron chiming
Speaker 5: in on that one too, And boy, there's not a
Speaker 5: good start for those you know, it's it just shows
Speaker 5: you the parody that that now is in college football,
Speaker 5: especially for the power power for schools because of this
Speaker 5: transfer portal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Dabbo doesn't want to be a part of that,
Speaker 1: that's art.
Speaker 2: Nope, the game's passed them by that case.
Speaker 5: Yeah, did you see this number guys that he said?
Speaker 5: Thirty two of the starters across the Big four were
Speaker 5: transfer portal guys. Guys that is transferred into that school.
Speaker 5: Zero at Clemson and he hasn't taken any and he
Speaker 5: says he won't. But I mean it's like you said,
Speaker 5: I mean, at the end, what did what he hates do?
Speaker 5: He went out and got Archleistern through the ball, right,
Speaker 5: h you know, look at what look at what you well,
Speaker 5: we can go back through the ages of what Bear
Speaker 5: Bryant did to the game by bringing in the black athlete.
Speaker 1: And well Saban Saban tried to have he tried the
Speaker 1: strong arm college football into changing the rules to slow
Speaker 1: things down because he was getting his butt kick and
Speaker 1: he did not succeed. So what did he do? He
Speaker 1: joined him, changed his offensive started winning more national titles.
Speaker 5: Yep, well I think that. You know, you just have
Speaker 5: to look at Mark Stut's brother, Bob, you know, Yep,
Speaker 5: was always a great coach and a great teams that
Speaker 5: he said, you know what, I can't beat this Mike
Speaker 5: Leach's offense. So you know what, we're bringing him in
Speaker 5: and they won the national champions exactly.
Speaker 4: Jeff, going back to Kentucky, well, I guess half of
Speaker 4: football we got whatever it was. What did you think
Speaker 4: of the going to the defense? What'd you think of
Speaker 4: the corner as opposite Max? Obviously the run defense, we
Speaker 4: know what they were able to do, kind of did
Speaker 4: what we thought they would. But what do you think
Speaker 4: of those guys hard Away done and the other corners
Speaker 4: that mixed in there?
Speaker 5: I did, okay, whenever somebody's light me up like that,
Speaker 5: you know again, you got to get off the field
Speaker 5: on third down?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was okay.
Speaker 5: And the first couple of series, it was that one
Speaker 5: I think was what was it third and nine?
Speaker 4: Eighteen and third and eight yeah, third.
Speaker 5: And eighteen, you're like, what is going on here? But
Speaker 5: they'll I think they'll settle in a little more. I
Speaker 5: thought that the one stat though, on the defense that
Speaker 5: a lot of people, I think around the country is
Speaker 5: going to look at and go what happened is the
Speaker 5: guy that everyone says is you know, all the all
Speaker 5: American on the defense, he didn't show up at all
Speaker 5: in the stats. But then you look at say, okay,
Speaker 5: but how long said they run for five total yards?
Speaker 3: And we were just talking about the first.
Speaker 5: Double Yeah, the double team the entire game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we're just talking about in the first segment there, Jeff,
Speaker 4: that the pick that jam and Dumas Johnson had in
Speaker 4: the first quarter, second played from scrimmage. Did you see
Speaker 4: who's chasing Roddamaker and you had a free rush number zero?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, And that's you know, that's what he does.
Speaker 5: And by him taking up two and sometimes three blockers,
Speaker 5: look at the other guys, you know, those guys were
Speaker 5: able to get in there and make plays. And that's
Speaker 5: that's how this system works.
Speaker 2: A couple of the big plays Southern Myths did have were
Speaker 2: seemed like long third down conversions and kind of a
Speaker 2: similar conversation we had to of last year of getting
Speaker 2: off the field was a struggle for Kentucky. Is there
Speaker 2: anything to that, Jeff, or did you think those were
Speaker 2: just outliers in a good game for the defense?
Speaker 5: No, I thought that, yes, exactly what you said. They
Speaker 5: were three for three for the first three third downs
Speaker 5: and then zero for four for the next four. They
Speaker 5: finished the game three or seven. And I would have liked,
Speaker 5: like I said, I would have liked to see another
Speaker 5: ten or twenty plays on defense, just to see how
Speaker 5: they would have reacted later in the game, when you
Speaker 5: know Southern miss was probably going to throw the ball
Speaker 5: a lot more. I would have liked to see that.
Speaker 5: But no, I think that it's guys. Well, if Billy,
Speaker 5: you're used to covering these guys in practice and now
Speaker 5: you're in your game, you're going to be a little
Speaker 5: more cautious, especially if you're hard away, especially if you're designed.
Speaker 5: You don't want to get beat. You know, the one
Speaker 5: thing they don't want is to get beat, So you
Speaker 5: might give them a little more of a cushion. And
Speaker 5: I think they did that, and a couple of times,
Speaker 5: you know, they paid.
Speaker 1: For it well. And you pointed out Jeff, though, I
Speaker 1: will say this, when USM was three for three on
Speaker 1: third down, Yeah, and you made it a point to
Speaker 1: bring that up and say this was a point of emphasis,
Speaker 1: and you know, especially in the big plays, Brad White said,
Speaker 1: this is going to be something we've really got to
Speaker 1: get better at. But from that point on they were
Speaker 1: zero for five.
Speaker 5: So you know, no, I just that's what I just
Speaker 5: said that they looked like they got a little more
Speaker 5: comfortable and understood. Jake Q said, Okay, this guy can't
Speaker 5: beat me, so I'm not. All I have to be
Speaker 5: weary of is don't try to jump that first move.
Speaker 5: You know, don't try you know, don't don't get the
Speaker 5: double move. But you can play a little a little
Speaker 5: tighter because you're as fast as you're or faster than
Speaker 5: they are. And but yeah, I thought, like I said,
Speaker 5: I thought they calmed down a lot as the game
Speaker 5: more on.
Speaker 1: Billy made a point earlier about the linebackers maybe being
Speaker 1: the most impressive part and you and you and Aaron
Speaker 1: just touched on that, but generally speaking of that defense,
Speaker 1: and I guess we kind of expected that, didn't we.
Speaker 1: When you've got a transplanted Georgia Bulldog, former All American
Speaker 1: moving in along with guys who have played a lot
Speaker 1: of football for Kentucky. Do you think that could become
Speaker 1: the identity of this Kentucky defense.
Speaker 5: I do. And and you know, we didn't get to
Speaker 5: see him at the start of practice. He was a
Speaker 5: little banged up Dubis Johnson I'm talking about, But man,
Speaker 5: he really can can cover some ground. And when he
Speaker 5: gets there, he gets there with authority. You know, he's
Speaker 5: not gonna miss tackles. He can put guys on their back.
Speaker 5: I thought, yeah, he played really well. And the thing was,
Speaker 5: you didn't hear much from the Eric and you didn't
Speaker 5: hear too much from him, but the outside guys played
Speaker 5: really well. I mean, when you look at the way
Speaker 5: this game was played, I think Southern Miss thought the
Speaker 5: only way we have a chance to win this is
Speaker 5: to try to get the ball to the outside. Uh,
Speaker 5: you know, throwing the ball, throwing it to the outside.
Speaker 5: And when that happens, you really take the middle linebackers
Speaker 5: of those you know, those two guys are there pretty
Speaker 5: much out of the game.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting against those game Cocks. And Tom
Speaker 1: Leach will have a call with Jeff Picorrel and yours
Speaker 1: truly watch for Jeff's coverage on ABC thirty six here
Speaker 1: in town, and of course you'll be listening folks to
Speaker 1: your radio while you watch it on WTV. You Jeff Bro,
Speaker 1: thank you. We will see you later on this week
Speaker 1: as we put together the Wildcat Whip whipp It Baby,
Speaker 1: See you man. We'll come back and talk more sec
Speaker 1: in Kentucky football in just a minute here on the
Speaker 1: state wide BBI. Coming up Saturday, it is Kentucky South
Speaker 1: Carolina and coming up well on my show tomorrow. An
Speaker 1: interview I recorded with Jojo Camp who what had a
Speaker 1: huge game against those game Cocks back in twenty fourteen
Speaker 1: when he ran through the game Cox thanks to the
Speaker 1: Wildcat formation. Were you in college?
Speaker 4: No, it was before I was not, But I've seen
Speaker 4: that game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the three touchdowns, that was the Bud Dupree interception
Speaker 1: pick six.
Speaker 3: The first war.
Speaker 1: Well it was, and that's that's what I was getting too.
Speaker 1: That was the first signature win. And I remember two
Speaker 1: or three years later somebody said, you know, stoop truly
Speaker 1: is another signature winn as well. First of all, they
Speaker 1: beat Spurrier that year. Secondly, they beat Lamar Jackson, and
Speaker 1: I talked to Jojo about that, and that was the
Speaker 1: game where he, of course was interviewed by TV and
Speaker 1: by US after the game. But that's when he first
Speaker 1: kind of blurted out, why not us? Why not Kentucky?
Speaker 1: And I said, had you've been sitting on that? He said, Now,
Speaker 1: it just kind of came to me. And it's been repeated,
Speaker 1: how ever, many times since then. So it's interesting, Aaron,
Speaker 1: how the South Carolina game has evolved, has turned into
Speaker 1: something really special. But then he said, the next year,
Speaker 1: were you at no You were again? You were okay?
Speaker 1: Fifteen is when they won at South Carolina last year
Speaker 1: spurts and man, I told him, I said, the wall
Speaker 1: of noise when I walked in that locker room, music, screaming, cheering, dancing.
Speaker 1: It was such a big win. Yeah, it was phenomenal.
Speaker 1: That's what this has become.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's beam run in his mouth.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: Now those two don't like each other, Well, they'll admit
Speaker 4: it publicly or not. They do not. They do not
Speaker 4: like each other. And look, Kentucky the last two years,
Speaker 4: I think would tell you off the record they were
Speaker 4: the better team and they lost.
Speaker 1: They were.
Speaker 3: Last year.
Speaker 4: Ye, I mean twenty two South Carolina did finish hot.
Speaker 4: You have to give him credit for that. Will Levis
Speaker 4: wasn't on the field. You have to take that into account.
Speaker 4: But still that Kentucky was the number twelve team ranked
Speaker 4: the country was basically a salout at home and you lose.
Speaker 4: And then this past year just played awful football and
Speaker 4: third down and cost him a game. So and I
Speaker 4: think both teams know right here like there are seasons already,
Speaker 4: it's pretty much on the line, especially for Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, the season is.
Speaker 4: But here's the here's the reason I say that Kentucky
Speaker 4: would probably be two and three to start the year
Speaker 4: if they lose this one, because they're gonna play Georgia
Speaker 4: next week and they're gonna go to Ole Miss in.
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks. That doesn't to loss Miss.
Speaker 4: Number six team the country that just put up seventy
Speaker 4: six and looks like they're going to be a top
Speaker 4: five offense in the nation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you you believe that Kentucky will finish either
Speaker 1: one game above or below five hundred.
Speaker 4: If they lose this game. I think they're going to
Speaker 4: six and six, five and seven. That's where I'm at
Speaker 4: I think it's if they win this game. I think
Speaker 4: the path eight and four, which is where I kind
Speaker 4: of think their goal should be at mid them.
Speaker 1: I agree. Is so I thought you were going to
Speaker 1: go to that the team will collapse or something. I
Speaker 1: never believe the nonsense. Wow, I don't think they'll check back.
Speaker 1: When they played Louisville first game, people loved it. Well,
Speaker 1: if the loss of that game, the whole season's lost.
Speaker 1: It was never.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've had a lot of people say, oh, they'll
Speaker 4: check out if. I don't think that'll happen, but I
Speaker 4: do Louisville, right, I think the way the schedule sets up,
Speaker 4: then you look at Auburn as a harder game, I'd
Speaker 4: say five and seven, six and six.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Billy, No, you're fine.
Speaker 2: I just I'm gonna wear my sunglasses and do my TikTok.
Speaker 1: Dances this week.
Speaker 2: I'm going to get it all in because remember the
Speaker 2: SEC media days, it blew up. And then after South
Speaker 2: Carolina won last year, I think Shane Beemer specifically put sunglasses.
Speaker 4: On and they were playing the song that Soldier Boys
Speaker 4: song in the Stay and they started dancing to it.
Speaker 2: So, I mean it is a rivalry and when you're
Speaker 2: you're doing stuff like that in the locker room.
Speaker 4: I talked to the players from Carolina media days last
Speaker 4: two years and they told me such that this is
Speaker 4: a huge game. Oh yeah, I'll tell you shared up
Speaker 4: in Kentucky's players you wrote about that last year. Ye
Speaker 4: And in Missouri to Missouri games will become the games. Absolutely,
Speaker 4: They're always close in there, you know. Like Main said,
Speaker 4: that means your team is relevant, absolutely no doubt.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much to Aaron Gershom, Thanks to Billy Rutledge,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. We'll be back, same time,
Speaker 1: same place next week on the state state wide bb I.
Speaker 1: That's a good night from Lexington.