2025-09-23 - LEACH REPORT

Tom talks with Larry Vaught, Keith Farmer and Moe Williams.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good day, everybody. It is the Leach Report, presented by

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Bob kat Enterprises. Happy to have you as on board
for the rest of this hour to talk UK sports,
and we're gonna lead off with a special guest, Moe Williams.
Caught up to Moe last night, actually taped an interview.
Today's the thirtieth anniversary of the best day of running
back ever had at the University of Kentucky and it

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was at South Carolina on this day in nineteen ninety five.
He ran for two hundred and ninety nine yards and
had four hundred and twenty nine all purpose yards and
those are still records thirty years later. So we'll catch
up to Moe Williams, one of the all time great
running backs at the University of Kentucky, Larry Vatt, we'll

(00:45):
check in from your sports edge dot com and Keith
Farmer and he of course is with LAX eighteen and
BBN tonight and he last week did a sit down
interview with Andrea Yeleovich and the first in depth conversation
for him since he arrived to join the UK basketball team.

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So we'll get some insight from Keith into what he
learned from talking with young mister Yellowich. So that's the
lineup for today. Wildcat News of the Day as a
service of Joseepies of Lexington, Kentucky Football officially learns who
it's three permanent opponents are going to be for the
next I think it's three years, three or four in

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the SEC. There'll be going to a nine game league
schedule next season, but there will be three permanent opponents
for each team, and then you'll rotate through with your
other six league games and you'll play everybody home and
away over a four year period, So Kentucky's permanent opponents.
This is gonna be released on the SEC network tonight. However,

(01:52):
Chris low I think it is with on three Sports
Now had a story broke the story yesterday at his
sources are telling him he had the list for every
team and that for Kentucky it will be Florida, South
Carolina and Tennessee. So they won't be playing Georgia annually,
won't be playing Vanderbilt annually. To series with a lot

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of history and these things have changed over the years.
Kentucky used to play LSU every year, used to play
Georgia and LSU back to back in October Kentucky when
Ole Miss was in town earlier this month, I noted
on the broadcast that they had played the Rebels every
year from nineteen forty four to nineteen seventy one. It's

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been much less frequent matchups since then, so those things
do change. I think Kentucky fans would be pleased with
keeping the Tennessee rivalry on an annual basis. I think
obviously they would have loved to have seen Vandy as
one of the three. But South Carolina is a series

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where Kentucky had a long streak of success. They've got
to get back to that. As South Carolina has gained
the upper end now it's been a very streaky series.
I think it's either Mark Story or John Hale noted
that in the lexingon Harold Leader this week. So anyway,
those are the three teams. Cutter Bowley going to make
his first road start in an SEC game on Saturday

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night in Columbia, South Carolina. Mark Stoop's announcing that yesterday.
I second it's the number of factors, including the injury
to Zach Calzada. He said they'll put in extra work
to prepare Cutter for the environment, that it will face
at Williams. Brice Stadium, sandstorm, playing in all of the
crazy crowd that turns out there. They whether things are

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going well or not, they turn out for football for
the Game Cocks, at least the start games, and Cutter
will face a much different challenge than he faced in
a mop up roll at Florida last year or coming
in to start the second half at Texas when the
Longhorns already had control of that game. You know, here's
he's the starter from the beginning and they gave plan

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for him and he's got to do the silent count
and all of those things that you do in a
noisy environment. So big challenge for a red shirt freshman QB.
On Saturday night, Bruce Pearl stepping down as the men's
basketball coach at Auburn. That was a big surprise across
the SEC yesterday. His son Stephen is going to take over,
and by all accounts it came as a surprise to

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the folks down at Auburn. Thanks to the stories that
we talk about each day and you can find them
on the Bud Light Leach Report page at Tom leech
Ky dot com. We'll come back and we'll check in
with Moe Williams and go down memory lane for the
anniversary of a tremendous day that he had down at
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to the program a Kentucky football legend, Moe Williams. And
it was thirty years ago on this day, September twenty third,
that Moe had the best day at Kentucky running backs
ever had two hundred ninety nine rushing yards four hundred.
It was four twenty nine all purpose yards still school records,

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and it was in a game at South Carolina, MO.
What do you remember about that day? I, you know, I'll.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Tell you the too. Five. I just honestly remembered thinking
of my grandmother. And I've said it before, but nothing's
ever really changed. That was she was in the hospital
and that was honestly all I was focused on and
all I was thinking about and want to get that
victory and get back to the hospital to where she was.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
What was it like when you got to tell her
the kind of day you had?

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I can believe it or not. She was doing better
and she was cheering and getting her blood pressure up
and all that other type stuff. And they threatened to
take turn the TV off and take her, take it
away from her, and she was like, I'll beat you up,
and yeah, she wasn't having it. So it was awesome. Yeah,
I had just had I had had the news before

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and uh, you know, knew that she was there in
the hospital and like I said, things that turned for
the for the best while she was there. So it
was it was all good, but I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
That you didn't you did not know that it had
taken a turn for the better when the game was
being played.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
That that is correct.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
So that was just weighing on your mind then that day.
So that was it.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
That's all I was thinking about.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
What were your teammates telling you or did they even
know as any of the game was playing out, or
when when did you find out? I guess what you
had accomplished.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, like I said, it was pretty much, you know,
a couple of weeks later, when you know, just every everything,
uh me not everything all of the uh you know,
media people that just kept bringing up and asking questions
about that game and and stuff like that, that I really,
you know, started to think that it might have been

(07:33):
something special and and that was it. But you know,
I always was taught by coaches and things like that,
you always want to try to play every play like
it's your last and make every day, you know, every
game your your best day and your best game. And
you know, so I was really tell you true focus
on trying to have another game age just like that,

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and that was my goal throughout the rest of the season.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
What do you remember about your tea. I'm as a wildcat,
you know, honestly.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Just being in the SEC. I remember the Camarie and
everything we had with the guys. And that's one thing
that you know, I tell my son now that's playing
at Florida State that it's those are the things that
you know, as as I'm older now that I still
to this day miss and you know that even though
we were you know, not as as fortunate as winning

(08:26):
and having those type of memories. I mean, we still
just have the memories of being around the guys and
being in the locker room and you know, just having
just just your football family. And even to this day,
you know, we're we're now actually on a big, huge
chat that we're all getting back in touch with each
other and the chat is going more and more, and

(08:47):
you know, in the people like Lilton Ward and you know,
Keill Sanford and just a number of guys that we've
played with. I think it's probably about eighteen guys.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
On the chat now we've faught.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, we literally talked every single day. So it's it's
really really cool.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
You said your sons at Florida State. What year is
he in?

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, he's a sophomore. He actually reclass he skipped the Duke.
I'm sorry, he skipped his senior year at Benjamin and
went to college a year early. So, you know, he
was at Florida State last year. His first touchdown was
actually against Clemson, so it was pretty good. They had
a rough year last year. But you know, he's he

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actually set a record there for not a record, but
kind of made history there with FSU. He's the first
player that ever got a sacko point five sack and
a TV in the same game.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Well, I don't know if he's the first, but he
actually joined you know, some of the history makers with that.
So just to be sure about that, I'm not for
sure first or not.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
What's it like now? I mean, you were a great player,
uh and thirty years ago today had a great day.
He got to be part of having a great day
with his team there when they knocked off Alabama at
the start of the season. What's it like watching as
a dad now versus when you were playing?

Speaker 2 (10:08):
You know, it's it. It really is amazing because it
does bring back all of the memories of you know,
when I was playing, you know, and I tell you, man,
it seems like it was just yesterday when I was
late enough to you know, run through the tunnel for
the first time. And it was crazy too because they

(10:29):
just played Kent State and I think in my rookie
I'm sorry, my freshman year, you know, we played Kent
State and stuff as well. So it's you know, it
really makes it all. It makes it all real, you know,
to to what he's going through and whatever. And I
just trying to tell him, you know, just enjoy it, man,

(10:49):
because it it literally it seems just like yesterday. And
you know, and all the guys, like I said, we're
talking on these this massive text that we have, you
know it. I mean we we talked like it was
just yesterday. And you know here now it's thirty years later.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
You're a You're a legend for the Kentucky fans. Here,
one of the greatest running backs ever in this program.
Uh So it's a special place for you. But for
your your son, you're his dad. Does he ever talk
ask you about your days? You know as a player?
Does he know what kind of day you had thirty
years ago today?

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, you know, we we talk about a lot. But
my biggest thing is that I've always wanted this to
be his journey, you know, and and I never have
ever wanted him to try to compare the things that
he's doing in football with you know, against me, for
say being dad, you know, and and as well as

(11:48):
I want him to be, you know, ten times better
than you know, played ten times longer, make ten times
way more money. I mean, actually they're doing that already anyway,
get through money, and he's probably making more money in college.
And I made my first three to four years in
the NFL, so you know, it's yeah, I just always

(12:10):
wanted that to be and a lot of times too,
uh through this process, you know, I kind of stepped
back because you know, like I would go uh to
the to the to the recruiting things with him, and
it was you know, I would run into guys that
I had played with and or against, and you know
it it really became not necessarily about him. He was

(12:32):
hanging out and you know, talking or whatever. So I
just wanted to make sure that his journey going through
it was all about him. And yeah, it's it's it's
it's been awful to see because you know what, he
works his butt off and that's that's what is one
probably want to send the things that one of the
most things I'm proud of. And you know, and he's
a he's a great young man, you know. I mean

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he signs autograph with the kids and stuff like that.
So it's it just he is presenting a lot of
proud father moments, you know, as me being a father.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Good for you. What's his name? And what position does
he play so Kentucky fans can watch for him?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Oh yeah, no, that's Ari Williams. And yeah he's number
forty and yeah he plays.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
For Florida State in what position?

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Oh yeah, he actually plays tight end and defensive in h.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Great, Well, Mo, I appreciate you doing this for us.
It's just fun to reminisce with Kentucky going down to
South Carolina this week, and best of luck to your
son and the and the Seminoles and continuing a great year.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yes, sir, hey, and I'm I still breed blue now,
so we got to go down there and handle well,
we need to handle this South Carolina.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
So well said, thank you.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Boe Yes, sir, thank you. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Kentucky football legend Moe Williams there again this day, thirty
years ago two hundred ninety nine rushing yards four hundred
and twenty nine all purpose yards still at the top
of the of UK in both categories thirty years later.
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Fun to hear from Moe Williams. And you know, if
you're ranking the top running backs ever at the University

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of Kentucky, I'm not sure where he falls, but it's pretty.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
High, darn right it is. And it was a really
interesting conversation you have with though I had no idea
he had a sun playing at Florida State did not either.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
It seemed like once he said that, it seems like
I remember hearing something of a few years back that
he had a you know, a son who was was
really good. But when he was telling me that, I'm like,
I gotta find a little bit more about this, and
so I'll be paying a little more attention now to
the seminoles when they're on and looking for number forty.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah, apparently he goes both ways. It's just pretty rare.
So they they're also a good start. So it was
really interesting conversation you had with No. For folks who
were around when he played, he was terrific, and folks
who weren't around just still read about it. Because, like
I said, he was just amazing.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
I remember his freshman year. You'll remember this play they
were playing Florida. Was the game where they should have
beaten the Gators, well, one of several they should have
beaten the Gators, but that year they had seven interceptions,
one of seven interceptions. At Kentucky had the lead late
and one of their early scores, they had the ball
off to Mo on a simple play up the middle

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and he goes seventy yards. And at that time, at
that point, it was just you know, you didn't see
Kentucky players running away from Florida players in those days
like he did on that play.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
No, you sure didn't. He was just a rare, rare
running back with his size, speed and again even today,
he still comes across so humble. And I really don't
remember how it reacted to that big game, but he
says that he didn't pay much attention. I believe it,
because that's just the way Mo was. It was always
easier getting to talk about somebody else that was getting

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to talk about himself.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, and you know he had a long career in
the NFL because of that approach to the game. I
think that he didn't turn out to be the star
running back for anybody. But he was a star on
special teams. I think it was for the Vikings, and
so he just did whatever they asked him to do
and did it well. And because of that and then

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they could also use him in a pinch as a runner.
He had a long career in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
He certainly did. He found his niche and hung in
there and really really well. And again it's kind of
unfortunate his teams at Kentucky weren't a little bit more
successful than what they were. I think more and more
people would remember and appreciate what Mo did. But his
teams didn't lose because of Mo.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
No, No, they most definitely did not. Larry with us
from your Sports Edge dot com and at vaults Views
on x and you hear him on the Sunday Morning
sports talk show each week here in Lexington with Anthony
White and Robinson and Jack Pilgrim. And you'll hear more
of it when we come right back on the Leach
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we have a chance to chat with Larry Vought today
from your Sports Edge dot Com. A big opportunity for
the Wildcats on Saturday Night, Larry, because they had a
shot to get Old miss and didn't, And now they
face the South Carolina team that didn't look to be
as potent as people thought they were going to be
at the beginning of the year, got some issues with

(18:26):
their offensive line, but they will be desperate. So, uh,
Kentucky better you know, fire everything.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
It has, absolutely and it's kind of a I think
a season defining game for Kentucky. If they could go
to Columbia and get this win, I think the way
you view the rest of the season changes. And the
good thing about it after watching Missouri run through the
South Carolina defense and knowing that's kind of the strength
of the Kentucky offenses being able to run the ball,

(18:54):
I gotta think that you're looking forward to seth McGowan
maybe having a big, big day in Columbia, being able
to play just the kind of game that Mark Stoops
would like to be able to play to win a game.
So a lot of things set up well for Kentucky's
South Carolina was pretty sloppy against Missouri, with a lot
of penalties. Again, South Carolina couldn't run the ball and

(19:15):
they couldn't stop the run. Again, a really good combination
for Kentucky. So yeah, I think you feel a lot
better about this game than maybe you would have three
weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
I was talking about Stoops on the show last night
about the defensive line, and I said, is that position
group playing maybe as well as any other position group
you have? And he said that was the case. And
you got to like that matchup if you're a Kentucky
fan because South Carolina's O line is both struggling and
beat up.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Absolutely, I think a good pressure on sellers. They just
had to make sure they get there, but they also
containing don't let him get out and beaten with what
he can do running the ball sometimes he still threw
for over three hundred yards last week, but I think
they've been really solid upbrought with what they have done.
So again, a matchup that you have to like in

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Kentucky's favor that I'm not sure going into the season
you would have anticipated that you would have felt that
good about that matchup going in right now, So as
we've seen though the last couple of years, South Carolina
I seem to bring out the worst of Kentucky, So
hopefully that time to change that and get that back
going a trend. It was when Kentucky was dominating South Carolina.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Yeah, there was a time what it was the other
way and brought out the best in Kentucky. Mark Stoop's
first big breakthrough win was against South Carolina here the
Bud de Pre interception, and then his first road win
in the league was at South Carolina and they've actually won.
I think they're three and three in his time here
in Columbia.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, so that he's had good success against so just
the last two years, it's kind of went the wrong
way for him. So get this win and I think
you look at a lot of things different for the
rest of the season. Of course, you got to cut
her off. We're making his first sec road start. Anxious
to see how he does, and I think he will do.
Just find myself. I think they made the right decision

(21:07):
going with Cutter, and just hope they just stay that way.
He can stay healthy. Let's see what he can do
for the rest of the year. But I got to
feel like playing last week or two weeks ago will
help him this week. I said, two full weeks as
a number one guy with the number one unit, and
I think hopefully we'll see some really good play out
of him. I don't think I'll take you to go
crazy and throw it forty five times, Tom. Not with

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the way South Caroline, I can't stop the run, but
I believe Cutter can hit enough big plays to make
that offense pretty effective.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
When I went back and watched the Louisville game last
year where Cutter made his first start, he didn't look
comfortable and he looked like he was a nervous, amped
up whatever you want to phrase you want to use.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
But.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Just listening to him now, he seems very settled, very
much at He's very you know, comfortable in his his
own skin, as the saying goes, And I'm like you,
I'm optimistic that he'll handle this opportunity to start in
a big game much better than he did the Louisville
game last year.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
He looks in sounds like the quarterback that we talked
to his junior and senior seasons at the LCA, when
he just was in a total poise that was in
control of everything that went on. And I think with him,
it started when he could have got pretty discouraged and
padded over the summer when he thought he was going
to be maybe the guy this year. He said, you

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go out and bring in a guy that's gonna be
playing for his seventh year. It seemed like he was
just kind of annoying as the starter, no matter what
anybody said. But instead Cuttter went out I think probably
had his best offseason ever and kept showing that type
of play going in the preseason. And now when he's
got his chains, I thought he certainly took advantage of
it against Eastern Michigan and now he has a huge

(22:53):
opportunity this week, and I'm like you, I just think
he'll play well. He just looks like a different guy
that he did when he came in against Louisville last year.
And maybe he's first started a pretty tough situation. I
think he's learned from that. I think we'll see benefit
from that at South Carolina.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
I think about that story. Tom Brady has told what
he was at Michigan and he was getting you know,
I forget where he was on the depth chart, but
he was getting you know, maybe two or three reps
in practice at quarterback, and he was, you know, feeling
sorry for himself, mad and coaches weren't giving him a chance,
and finally one of his coaches had to sit down
with him and it sunk in with Brady that look.

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He said, if you're only getting two or three chances,
focus on making those two or three the absolute best
that you can and be flawless. And he said he
took that to heart, and two to three turned into
five or six and he slowly ascended by a lot
of times, life's an open book test. It's it's it's

(23:56):
the answers there if you just look at it, and
you know, it's usually putting the extra work in. If
you have something you need to get better at, get
better at it. And sounds like Cutter, you know, from
what you're saying there, he took that approach. I think so.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
I think his teammates saw that because I heard a
lot of them talking about over the summer how impressed
they were with Cutter. And I know even the UK
coaches and you were wondering at the time, I know,
at least I was, are they just saying these really
good things about Cutter because they want to try to
keep him happy, to make sure he doesn't transfer and
he's here for his junior season. But I think looking
back now, they were genuinely impressed with what he was doing. Now,

(24:37):
if Calzadas started out hot that didn't get injured, we'd
Cutter we got his chains. Probably not, but again, football
presents his opportunities when he does. And Cutter has his
change now, and I hope he's going to run with it,
and I hope they just stay with him because if
you keep hearingbody, he's going to be the future of
Kentucky football. I think it's time to go ahead, let

(24:57):
the future start.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Let's shift gears, little volleyball. Larry there number three in
the country now, after the big win at Louisville last week,
which was very impressive. To lose the first set and
then lose the third set on the road, big crowd
against you, and they came back, got that win, and
then Ava Hudson over the weekend with twenty eight kills

(25:20):
in a match, a school record. And Greig Skinner has
himself quite a squad.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
He does, I mean, And that win at Louisville was
so impressive, as you talked about, to come back from
two down two sets to one, but to also win
sets four and five with your starting setter over on
the sideline cheering because she had a leg issue and
bring in your backup and Avis Rotha was just sensational
that those fourth and fifth sets and the way that
Craig used his bench that game more than I can

(25:47):
ever really remember him using it in a big match
like that, which just shows again the depth that he's
got to have. These players kind of have to wait
until they get the opportunity. They better be ready, and
all of them were. So I think it's going to
be a real, really special season what already has been
for Kentucky. Volliball is just going to keep getting better
and better because he's probably got twelve players when he

(26:08):
puts them in, and can put any of those twelve
in there and you can make a case that, yeah,
they can contribute in a big way for you. And then,
like I said, when you've got Ava, Hudson and Brooklyn
Delay to hammer those balls like they do, it just
makes Kentucky a pretty much of a nightmare matchup for
almost any team.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Imagine if like a basketball coach had that.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Kind of depth, Yeah, yeah, it would be interesting. Or
if he would use the death the way that Craig
Skinner does. Sometimes coaches have death and they don't want.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
To use it.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Craig's got it this year and he's used it. But
I got to feel there might be a basketball coach
around campus that'll be doing the same thing this year.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
I kind of think so as well. Larry, Thank you much,
all right, tom As Larry Vall. You can read them
at your sports edge dot com. When we come back,
Keith Farmer joins the program, and speaking of Kentucky men's basketball,
he had a chance to do a one on one
with Andrea Jellovich and we'll talk to Keith about that
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(27:31):
us from BBN tonight in Lax eighteen and Keith. Want
to start with the one on one interview you did
last week with Andrea yellowch Whoo was a late arrival
for the Kentucky men's basketball team, and so he didn't
go through the summer sessions of media opportunities, and so
we don't know a whole lot about him, or didn't
until you had a chance to hear from him and

(27:54):
in an extended interview. So first one of those, what
were your takeaways?

Speaker 4 (28:00):
How mature he is? Obviously he's a twenty one year
old freshman, so I guess that's a big reason for that.
But at the same time, you can tell he's all
business about basketball and is super excited to be at Kentucky.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
I was, you know.

Speaker 4 (28:16):
One of the main takeaways, obviously, was the question where
I asked him about, you know, getting the chance to
talk to coaches and what that was like, and he
pretty much said, hey, I talked to one coach and
then I shut it down and I said I wanted
to come to Kentucky. And I just asked him a
follow up, like, why was that? Did you know he
just impress you that much? Did you know Kentucky? You

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know what? And He's like, well, everybody knows the Kentucky legacy,
everybody knows the history there, which is pretty impressive. He's
from Croatia, what five thousand miles away, and you know,
but then he also said, after talking with Coach Pope,
it made it even an easier decision. So just kind
of impressive to hear. You know how far that can

(29:00):
Huckey brand goes in this world. And you know that
he pretty much just talked to one coach and said, Hey,
that's where I want to go, told his agent, let's
let's make it happen. I'm going to Kentucky. And you know,
he said he didn't even talk details really with Pope.
He just said, hey, I like what I'm hearing, and
I'm going to go there.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Goose and I were at practiced a few weeks ago,
the first time we had a chance to be in
there when Andrea was after he arrived, and it was
immediately noticable what you're talking about. I guess, you know,
a couple of years can make such a big difference,
because I remember seeing Big Z for the first time,
and Yellovich is two years older I think than Z

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was when he arrived. He looks ten years older. I mean,
he just looks more much more mature, thicker body. It
looks you can see that you won't have any issues
one would think holding up against contact.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
Right And I mean, you know, you look, you pick
your sport right on campus and they always take those
pictures each and every year, and you just see the
develop and any athlete from the time they come on
campus at eighteen to the time they leave around twenty
twenty one, twenty two, and it's like you see a
difference in how they just become a man or a woman.
They get bigger, and naturally they're involved with, you know,

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a weight program that transforms their body as well. And yes,
you're right, you notice immediately that he's not an eighteen
year old seventeen eighteen year old kid, and he's already
worked some at it. But he's also just mature in
the way that you talk to him and the way
I don't know if you had a chance to talk
to him when you were in practice, but just you know,

(30:38):
to say hello to him and to see, you know,
the difference. You know, I'm sure he has some fun,
but he was a little more serious and he also said, hey,
I like doing interviews. That was kind of fun to
hear really, so yeah, yeah, because because deb Over there
at the University of Kentucky was like, hey, do you
like doing interviews? He goes, yeah, I really like doing interviews,
So that made it easier sitting down with him.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Did the Cats by ninety segment with Michelle Kenezevica the
UK Sports Network, and there he talked about having having
played soccer, uh, and yeah, a lot of European players
have that in their background. Helps their footwork, I think
I would think, so.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
I mean, you know, I used to always hear even
you know, Cal Ripken uh talking about how he thought
playing soccer growing up helped him, you know, playing shortstop
and and so yeah, you hear a lot of those.
I'm blanking on. One of the most recent big guys.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Uh remembers Hakeem Elijahan back in the eighties.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Well for sure, yeah, yeah, right, And you just don't
think when you see guys that tall or as tall
as yellowch that you know that was maybe in their background.
But of course all these athletes typically play more than
one sport and then hone in on on basketball or
whatever it is. And so yeah, we certainly heard on
Yon though that's the one that played played back, uh

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soccer as well.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
You probably didn't know that Willie coley Stein played football
as he was growing up.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
I didn't. You're telling me something new here first, But yeah,
I've definitely heard, you know, many an athlete say it
helps them with their footwork and other sports with soccer.
So yeah, and his brother is evidently a really good
soccer player.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
So uh, Tonight in Louisville at Freedom Hall, they'll induct
a new class sitt of the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame,
and two Wildcat legends are part of the class. Tayshawn
Prince and Randall Cobb and uh uh Tashawan and Rajon
Rondo were both a practice yesterday. I saw really from somebody,

(32:44):
Uh that was that practice yesterday. But uh, you know,
Tayshawn had that incredible moment in Rupperina with the five
straight threes. If you were ranking the top five moments,
it was loudest in Rupperina when he launched that fifth one.
That that's in the discussion. I'm not sure what number
one is, but that's in the discussion. And uh, you

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know it was what I remember it was Gerald Fitch
steals the ball in North Carolina's front court, throws it
ahead to Tayshaw and it's like, you know, he's standing
on the logo, He's about thirty five feet away. It's like,
why get closer? Time, rahatok.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
I tell people all the time, that's one of the
loudest times I've ever heard it in Rupp Arena. The
other one maybe John Wall's game against North Carolina. There
was some really fantastic moments there, but no doubt that
was one of those. Just I love to go back
and watch it occasionally because you can hear. I think
it was Bill Rafferty on the call, right, and you know,

(33:40):
I mean he hits the first okay, and the big
deal hits the second, and it's like North Carolina against
Tayshawn Prince, and then all of a sudden, like you said,
he gets that fifth one, he just stops at the
logo and You're like, are you kidding me? And then
drains it and it was you know, all over after.
That was so much fun and it's so loud in
that building. It's definitely one of the ones that comes
to my mind.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
And then Randall Cobb was just a guy that made
so many big plays at big moments. I had actually
gained even a greater appreciation for that. When I was
putting together a list. He caught the you know, the
winning touchdown pass where they beat Steve Spurrier for the
first time. He caught a game winner to beat Louisville
and keep the streak going against the Cards in two

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thousand and nine, last time Kentucky wanted Georgia, he scored
the game winner. When Kentucky wonted Auburn that year, he
scored the game winner. There's kind of a theme.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
There, can I tell you The thing that impressed me
the most with him was muths later, he was playing
for the Backers and had just signed a new contract,
and I think that's when he went into the University
of Kentucky Hall of Fame and he was back here
and I'm like, you know, some people might think I
think he was also coming back to school and working

(34:51):
on his degree. And I said, why, you know, do
you feel like you need to come back and work
on your degree after you just signed this big contract
and all that. Why do you need to do that?
And he's like, because I promised my mom or grandmother
or somebody, And I feel like I need to do this.
I thought that was pretty impressive, you know, to have
that feeling like he needed to get that degree despite

(35:12):
the fact that he probably never needed it after signing
such massive contracts in the NFL and just a great
guy all around, and like you said, he could do
just about anything on the field, you know, palm return,
throw the ball, catch the ball, run it, whatever it
needed to be.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
I think John Walls said the same thing about it.
He had promised his mom, yeah he would do that,
so he came back and got his And you mentioned
the first loudest moments in RUB. That's a discussion we're
going to have to get into over the course of
the season because it's the fiftieth season of Kentucky basketball
and RUB and there's going to be a lot of
you know, content generated around that, and that particular discussion

(35:50):
will be That would make a good fan poll. I
don't know if they're going to do anything like that, but.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
That would be good. Yeah, Yeah, that'd be a great one.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
There's an idea for.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Maybe end of that dip into that on BBN tonight. Exactly.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
There you go, Keith, Thank you much, all right, Tom,
Keith Farmer. You could see that interview with Andrea Yellovich
at bbntonight dot com if you didn't catch it live
last week. Heading to our final break one segment left
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in Wildcat history. Told you about the anniversary thirtieth anniversary
of Mo Williams big day down at South Carolina. This
day in ninety three, Kentucky had another big win at
South Carolina. The Wildcats had lost decisively at at Indiana,
really struggling, and they go down on a Thursday night
and win at South Carolina and turn the season around.

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Antonio O'Farrell Randy Wyatt connected on a big option pitch
long touchdown run and Kentucky got the win and went
on to make it to a Bowl game. And speaking
of the state of South Carolina, one of its finests
who came to play football Kentucky's rafae a little and
he is celebrating a birthday today, probably underappreciated for all

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that he accomplished at the University of Kentucky because he
was part of a really potent group of offensive players
there with Woods and at a quarterback, and Stevie Johnson
and Keenan Burton, Jacob Tammy Dickey Lions junior and it
was a pretty impressive group there. Read Shepherd. With the
Houston Rockets may be in line to be their starting

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