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talk with cutter Bowley's dad, Scott Bowley, and get his
thoughts on his son. Sounding like getting ready for an
expanded role. Don't know if he'll be starting or not,
but definitely in the plan to play on Saturday after
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finishing up in the previous game because of the injury
to Zat Calzata. So we'll talk with the cutter's dad.
We'll talk with Larry Vaught your from inside drying a
blank on the website now I'll get that in a minute. Anyway,
Spots Views certainly, and Ken Spencer from WHAS TV in
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Louisville will join us as well. So that's the guest lineup.
Wildcat News of the Day service of Just Steppies of
Lexington or Stoops wasn't ready to say who will start
at quarterback. Yesterday when he did his weekly news conference
and radio show. He did say that Cutter Bowley will
definitely see action in the game. Is that Calzada injured
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his shoulder late in the Old Miss game. Cutter played
the last two series, and one thing Stoops said on
the radio show last night was that he wants to
be fair with Calzada and wait for the word on
his status as far as the medical report before he
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would make any decision, so that we may get that
information maybe today since it's media day for the offensive
side of the ball, but who knows, we'll see. One
thing we do know is that Stoop said Cazota was
not going to be able to practice yesterday. Monday's usually
a light day. They do their more serious game plan
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work today and tomorrow for the next opponent, and we'll
perhaps get an update on what happened after practice today.
We'll wait and see. Stoops also talked about the defensive
side of the ball and some issues they had with
tackling there. He said Ole Miss probably had one hundred
yards on those hitch throws to the side that really
hurt them, an area that Kentucky did really well in
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when it won in Oxford. The year before, didn't have
Dj Waller on the outside cornerback who was really playing
well in the lead up to the season and got
an injury in practice last week, and Stoop said it's
not likely that Dj will be able to play this Saturday,
but with the open date afterward, hopefully he'll be back
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joining us now, Scott Bowley, his son Cutter is on
the Kentucky football team as a quarterback, as we all know,
and we know he's going to play this week. Coach
too said that yesterday, we don't know who's going to start,
could be Cutter, but he got his first start Scott
last year against Louisville and the season finale. We were
talking with Van Hiles on the show yesterday, and it's
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a tough spot to make your first start in the
in the rival game. So if if that happened Saturday,
or he certainly plays a bigger role, what do you
think Cutter has learned from that experience to help him
now in year two.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I think just being you know, just another year under
your belt, just just the just the experience of everything. Really,
he I know, he feels so much more comfortable now
than he did a year ago. And that's just uh,
you know, just time and practice, and you know, he
put on twenty some pounds. I think subconsciously that makes
you feel a little better, a little more secure about
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your body, and just just just being more comfortable. I know,
he he told me the other day, you know, after
this last game, even though it was you know, limited
time that you know, he didn't feel didn't feel nervous
at all. It just felt like, you know, felt like practice.
And that's I think that's something you can't make yourself half.
It just it just has to develop over time. So
you know, good that he's good, that he's more comfortable. Period.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, I was telling the story a ta van yesterday.
It was like maybe the last week before they got
into game week, and they do the player interviews on
Tuesday after coach Hampden does his session at the podium,
and so Cutter and a couple of other guys came
over and sat down on the bench where I was
waiting for the player interviews. So I was talking to
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Cutter at Saska House going and he he just talked
about how much comfortable, more comfortable he did feel, and
how he just kind of was remembering how much he
loved football. And you know, when you're you know, in
a high profile, spotlight quarterback and learning you know a
new system and you know the school you grew up
following and all of that, I'm sure it can be
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a little overwhelming. And when they, as the coaches always say,
the game slows down, it can be invigorating.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I think so he does. I laughed, and he said
that because he he does truly enjoy what he's doing.
We I don't ask him about football a lot. I
just let him tell me what he tells me. I
don't want him to think I'm worried about it, so
I don't ask him every day, Hey, how's it going,
what's going on? What are they telling you? I just
let it play out and let him tell me what
he tells me. But this last spring, once spring practice
was over, my wife and I set him down, just,
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you know, just see how things were going, how he
was doing. And he looked at both of us and said,
when I get up every morning and the alarm goes off,
I can't wait to get to the facility. It doesn't
matter what we're doing that day, I can't wait to
get there. So I started laughing. I was like, well,
anything in life, if you feel that way when you
get up, keep doing it, whatever it is. So you
know he truly enjoys what he does. He really does,
So you know it doesn't guarantee success, but it doesn't
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hurt either.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You know, on the second series that he had Saturday,
there were a couple of plays that stood out to me.
You look for little things sometimes that can give you
a clue of maybe better days that are coming for
a guy, and I think they were in successive plays
on that last series when they got down and did
get a field goal, he's back there in the pocket
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and it starts to break down and he immediately makes
the decision to run and gets a big gain out
of it. Threw a shoulder into a guy, which, given
that one quarterback has already got a shoulder in tree,
you might want to suggest that he refrained from that,
but it just showed you, you know, you know, he
was feeling his oats as this thing goes. And then
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the next play he comes in and the offensive line
does a nice job most of the time of protecting.
So he trusted that sat there in the pocket and yeah,
I know Ole Miss was in prevent, but Gilmour cuts
across the middle and there was a guy right there
on him, so that was a tight window to throw
it into. And he didn't hesitate. He immediately saw a
chance and he let, you know, let it go. And
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that's what they need to see more of.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I think, Yeah, I didn't realize how tight that wind
it was, so I went back and watch it on replay,
but uh, yeah, that was that was a good throw.
He I definitely think he's a I don't know if
gunslinger is the right word, he's you know, I do
think he'll be willing, you know, once with some time
under's belt, to to let it go, you know, on
time kind of hopefully get in rhythm and you know,
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the offense. So far as you know, rhythm's definitely not
been the right word. So you know, hopefully hopefully we
can get that going, just maybe getting out of hand
a little quicker and and get things going. But you know,
I do think he's you know, he's willing to do
that for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
What do you think makes him good at that job
of quarterbacks, not as a coach but as his dad?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Well you know again, I had some people text me
during the game, and so they could see he was
smiling through his helmet even in that type situation. So
that type of thing where he's, like I said, he's
enjoying it. I do think he you know, he has
a great report his teammates. I can see that, not
from what he tells me, but just you know when
I'm with him or you know, I've been in the
off season, I've been in the locker room you know,
or places with him and the teammates before, and just
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the way he the way he gets along with the
teammates and the way they respond to him. You know,
I think, you know, short term man, long term, that
could potentially be a be a really good thing. So
just his demeanor and the way he you know, the
way he interacts with those guys, you know, and he
is willing to he when we first moved to elections
in a few years ago to take them to LCA,
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my wife is always cooks at night, and she got
to where she just stopped cooking because he would stay
after practice and want to watch film or want to
hang out with the guys, and those are good things.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Myself, playing basketball, I loved it, but if it was
a really hard day, I wanted to go home, take
a shower, get something to eat, and get the heck
out of there. If I'm being honest with myself, and he,
you know, he's willing to hang and stay and do
those other things, you know, because he wants to get better,
but also because he truly does enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well, there's a natural leadership demand. I guess that comes
with that position. Whether you're comfortable with that or not,
it just you have to eventually get some level of
comfort with it. And it sounds like he maybe comes
to that naturally. And I know I've said this many times.
I used to do a show with Derrick Ramsey on
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Friday night before games, and when ram would have some
of his former teammates in town, they come to the
studio with him. Twenty five years after they played together,
he was still the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You could see that, right, I know what you mean. Yeah,
And that's another thing. I don't know if you can
force that. I think you either probably have that demeanor
you don't. I mean, I know you can put some
effort into it, but I think your natural demeanor has
a lot to do with that too.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Though. Is cut one that gets more nervous as a
game approaches or less?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I feel like less. I feel like the anticipation and
like wanting to play again real quick. You know, right
after a game, it's almost like you're more amped up
right there. He seems to be. I think the closer
you get and the more you've studied, the film, the
more you've done the playbook, and it's actually a more
comfortable thing the closer you get, you know, I think that.
You know, sometimes like every player sitting in the hotel
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waiting for it to start, get your little antsy. You
just want to get out there. But once you start
to get the uniform and you start warming up, it's fine.
It's just that anticipation to get there.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
What's it like watching a game as a parent versus
you know, you were a college athlete, so playing in
college sports versus you're watching your son do it.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I don't think there's a word in the English language
to say how much harder it's it's so much there's
a player, you know, again, you get nervous, But once
you start warming up, you're fine. But you know, I remember,
I always go back to the game Oregon beat Missippi
State when my daughter's team went to the Final four.
The first time, we were in Portland, Oregon at the
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Center and we left that game. There was seventeen leap
in the second half and I went to Colin Uber
and all of a sudden realized my jaw when my
teeth were killing me. I give you, I've been clenching
my teeth for like two straight hours, just total, total
nervous wreck. I mean, I just I couldn't even really
eat that night. I was like emotionally spent and I
didn't even do anything. I'm just sitting there watching. But
you know, I never were kind of a family of
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baseball and basketball players, so I never you know, I've
always followed football closely. You know, we have people in
playing that played at just not at a college level
like basketball and baseball. So I don't think it ever
dawned on me. And he was a little and this
is what he wanted to do that I say this jokingly,
but how hard this would be to be a quarterback parent.
You know a lot of times people don't notice if
the you know, certain players play well, but everybody knows
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if the quarterback plays well or didn't. So I never
really about that from a parent standpoint until we got
to this point. And it's like just you know, I
feel like you're having to take a deep breath. And
it's different too when you know how bad they want it.
You know, there's things my kids have done before in
different sports where other people would say something to me
and I'll be well, they're just doing this for fun,
it's not a big deal, you know. And when they don't,
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you know, when they're just doing it for fun, it's
not as big a deal for the parent either. But
when I know how harde Cutters works, and I know
how much he Trierly wants this, and I think it
makes my wife and I just that much more nervous
for him.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, I'm sure part of the problem is you said
they they know the quarterback played well or not. I
don't know if they always know, but they definitely have
an opinion.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's an opinion for sure. Yeah, for that position, definitely
they can. You know, it's one of those positions where
you can turn it around. Everybody leisure the heart beat
and it takes about two plays for him to turn
on you real quick. So that's that way. Everywhere that
has nothing to can tack you. That's pro, college, high.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
School or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, if you're you know, if you're here, daughters a
track star, you know, you you it's just them or
golf or whatever. You know, here's the you know, uh,
it's it's maybe the quarterback. Okay, it's maybe the receiver,
it's maybe the line. It's usually some combination of all
of them, so yeah, that makes it tougher too.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's the ultimate team sport for sure. Let me call
it that, and that's that's true because one guy not
doing their job messes up everything. So yeah, it's it
is the ultimate team sport.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Skoty. I appreciate you jumping on with us, and it's
fun to hear the parent perspective and I know you
and the family will look forward to, uh, you know,
the opportunity that Cutter gets, whether it's starting or not
on Saturday, he definitely got to play and that has
to be exciting. Appreciate you he's looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yes, sir, it's.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
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But whether he starts or not, we know we're going
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to see him. What do you expect to see?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Well, I think Scott Bowley would agree with this. You
don't think he was very careful not to say anything
that way, but as a parent you have to have
to feel that way. But I just think it can't
it can't hurt anything. You've certainly got to get some
more production in the passing game. And I think that
throw you were talking about with Scott that Cutter made
to hardly Gilmore. Hopefully that's the kind of things you're
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going to see. If that's the kind of things you get.
You always saw him when he was in high school.
That was the kind of plays that he made, and
I would hope that's the kind of thing you're going
to see. And I think it was very interesting what
Scott was saying about as he gets more comfortable, he'll
be even more willing to cut it loose. And I
think you can't overestimate that that You've got to feel
like you can go out there and play in one
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that's it's been kind of hard to do that. And
hopefully he'll maybe he's at that point now he knows
if he goes out there he can just be himself
and go back to what he always has done.
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Larry Vatt is with us. You read them at your
sports edge dot com. We're talking about Cutter Bowley, who
we figure to see a good bit more of on
Saturday when Kentucky takes on Eastern Michigan and Larry Cutter
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maybe a big splash in the second half down at
Texas last year, and then UH struggled against Louisville in
a difficult spot to make your first start. One would
think he, uh, you know, learns a lot from going
through that experience, and now he's had, you know, an
off season to put himself in position looks you know,
I think thicker, a little stronger, and I know I
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think you saw it probably two in those that last drive,
especially a couple of those plays that he made. That
kind of decisiveness is what has been missing. I think
at the QB spot, whether Zach was just pressing kind
of was a you know, hesitant to pull the trigger
on something. But uh, you can't do that at this level.
And uh, I think if Cutter can provide that, that
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would be a good step toward improvement.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Absolutely, you can't be afraid to make mistakes. And as
you pointed out well when you're talking with Scott and
a golf some line protection has been pretty darn good
the first two games. You just have to kind of
be willing to sit in there and give those linemen
some credit for what they've done. And I don't want
to use maybe the word panic, but not roll out
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and start scrambling moving around too quick. I'll cut her
stayed right there in the pocket like he should. And
I think what his dad, Scott was talking about. I
think teammates like and respect Cutter a lot. He's been
through two off seasons now at Kentucky, and it just
seems to me if that's your quarterback of the future,
as we keep being told, it's about time to start
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finding out what the future is going to be like,
and no better time than this week to let him
do that. And if he goes out and performs well,
then maybe I think he's got to keep the keys
to the car for a while.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You would you would think that would be highly likely
turn of events because you'd have another week to get
him ready before you go back in the conference play.
And you know, that's the thing I liked about the
one scramble where he did take on the defender again,
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especially now that they have one quarterback already hurt. You
don't want to, you want to see the slide, But
I appreciate the mindset.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah, And that's how Cutter always was in high school.
I mean, he was a better runner than what I
think a lot of people might realize or have had
a chance to see. And not a young man that
was afraid to run the ball when he saw that's
what needs to be done, That's what he would do. Now,
Like I say, I think at this level, sometimes you
just have to let sure he had overrule your heart
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and go ahead and take that slide and give up
getting that extra couple of yards because they sure don't
need to get somebody else hurt. But that's just the
boldly mentality right there. But I'm sure they've been talking
to him about that since since he did that on Saturday,
and'll be talking to him about it a lot this week.
That's not something they can afford to have him go
out and do. But then again, there might be an
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occasion where you know, just kind of like what Will
Levis had to do. Sometimes that's just what you've got
to do and you can't play scared.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
No, you can't. And actually I would think that could
be something that could be a significant addition. Again to
go back to that last scramble play that he made,
but it was the decision was instant when and he
got a big gain out of it. That's what needs
to happen. But you would think right now, Kentucky, you
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know they don't have obviously, you know the Dame Key
Barry and Brown level guys at least not yet, and
so that would one would think lead more teams to be,
you know, extra aggressive with their coverage and like Ole
miss is a known for their press coverage out on
the outside. Well, the one thing that does is open
up some opportunities for the quarterback to run because the
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defensive back has his back to the QB.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
That's a good point and that's something maybe the cutter
can take can take advantage of. But as you know,
one thing cutter or who is playing quarterback really needs
is for somebody to figure out a way for some
receivers to get open or the right plays to call
to get them open in some form or fashion. Because
they have not been creating a lot of big windows
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it looks like for the quarterback to throw into. And
that's something that they're going to have to really work on.
I know they thought they were going to be better
than what they have been and hopefully this week we'll
start seeing some of that and with the off week
they can figure out a few more things. But they've
either got to get guys to execute better or get
a better game plan for them to execute to get open.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Speaking of quarterbacks, Matt Donatowski, the future Wildcat, led Moeler
from behind to beat Trinity last Friday night up in
northern Kentucky. He said after the game, he's one hundred
percent locked in with them meeting the Wildcats. They don't
have anything to worry about. And you wrote a piece
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at your sports edge dot com recently about how Matt
handled that recruitment and why maybe we can if you're
a Kentucky fan, you can take faith in those comments
from him after the game.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, I was surprised when his dad told me that
they basically let Matt take care of all the returning coaches,
calls and doing all those different things. A lot of
times a parent or a coach will try to kind
of do to help take some of the pressure off
somebody's being recruited as much or as highly as what
he was, but that he wanted to do it all
himself and handle it all in his own way. So
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I think he's just a very very mature young man.
I think the only worry you've got to worry or
on where you've got to have if you're a Kentucky fan,
is that he's just so good in baseball he could
get drafted there's still a chance he could get drafted
so high that he would have to really think about
going ahead and starting his professional baseball career instead of
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coming to college. But both his father and Matt have
said how much he wants to play in the SEC,
both in baseball and football, So I still feel pretty
good about it. But until you get him here, you
never know for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
And then Kentucky volleyball, there's the sport you cover very closely.
Are they doing much right now?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
It's remarkable what they are doing. Tom and I knew
going into the season that I thought Craig had the
deepest team that he's had at Kentucky. He may not
have a Madison Lily or Leah Edmund or somebody quite
that star power, just that one person, you know. I
think you'd probably argue that Brooklyn Delay is that person,
but that he's got the deepest roster that he's had.
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And it just shows you. In four matches he's played
two setters in the last eight years, he played two
setters Madison Littley and Emmigrome. And four matches he's already
played too because Avis Arropa and then Cassie O'Brien the
SEC Player of the Year of the Center this week
is they're both just terrific, terrific players, and it's going
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to be really interesting going forward. How he's going to
do that is he's going to continue to play two
of them, He's going to settle on just one of
them or what. But they're just so deep at every position.
I mean that they are just loaded. And when you
get a chance to watch them play, I think you
sure need to And I don't want to hear any
coach on the UK campus complain about a tough schedule,
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strength to schedule. Go sit down with Craig Skinner if
you ought to complain about strength to schedule.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
So he's going with a two quarterback system, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
That's kind of what is and that's something he said
before the seasons, heard that they really didn't want to do.
So I don't know now whether it'll be a case
that he's played on both some and now you're going
to definitely settle on which one you're gonna go with
or not. But they were both terrific players in high
school to the best players in their recruiting classes. Ava
was two years older than Cassie. But you know, Madison
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Lila came right in as a true freshman and started.
Emmagron came right in as a true freshman and started.
So that's not to say that Craig wouldn't go with Cassie,
but through four matches, I mean, Cassie was really, really
good this last weekend, but Ava was also very good
the first weekend when they played and had a change
to beat Nebraska. So I don't know what he's gonna do,
but sure is a nice problem to have.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Indeed, it is Larry Vaughan, Thank you much.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
All right, tom so.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Lea's report coming to you from the Clark's Pumping Shop studio, Return,
Refresh and Refuel Can't Spencer from WHASTV and Louisville coming
up fourteen away from the top of the hour here
on the leads report. As the saying goes, if it's
not one thing, it's another, And we have a little
technical issue right now that province us from bringing Can't
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Spencer on the air. So it's like he's right there
on the other side and he just needs to step
into the light of being on the air, and it
can't quite happen at the moment. So Rick has got
the hammer out and working on it. And in the meantime,
let me fill a little time here, and then we
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may need to take another break and we'll see if
we can get Kent on or just get him to
Houller really loud. The Keelan September Yearling Sale got started yesterday.
The first two days are called Book one. That's when
they have the horses that figure to bring the highest prices,
and yesterday there was a cult by gun Runner that
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sold for three point three million dollars to top the sale.
In all, fifteen horses sold for more than a million
dollars on the day. And today will be the second
day of Book one, and then they'll move on to
other phases and this keeps going into I guess the
end of next week. It is the largest sale of
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its kind in the world, and it is a who's
who of the thoroughbred industry that is there, and it's
the public can actually walk into the sales pavilion and
watch it's unfold. You can't get into the bidding area
unless you want to buy a horse, but you can
watch from afar and it's interesting when the energy that
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goes through that place, when the big numbers start to
go up on the board. This Day in Wildcat History
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in Anthony Thompson. I think he finished second that year.
I can't remember to whom, but anyway, he finished second
I think in the Heisman voting, and they had a
goal line stand they were inside. The one Indiana was
that Kentucky stood up and denied them. Craig Benzinger I
think made the first hit along with Joey Couch. It
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was a big, dramatic start to the eighty nine season
and a happy birthday to David Gin who we often
talk about. Annwar Stewart returning that blockfield goal and the
Alabama win in ninety seven with David againn was the
guy who blocked the field goal and Anwarstart picked it
up and ran it in this Kentucky he beat Alabama
that night. All right, we welcome in Ken Spencer to
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the program. We got whatever the problem was fixed because
we wanted to hear your insight and it was so close.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Well, let me tell you something. I just enjoyed listening
to you. Wax poetic right there. That's what a true
professional sounds like. And and the time of need.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yes, it's it's called we call it tap dancing sometimes
or filling.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me let me tell you something.
You're light on your feet.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Brother. Let's start with look at Tucky football. There's been
a lot of talk about the passing game, obviously because
it hasn't looked so good in the first two games.
You played wide receiver in college. What do you see?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Well, I just think it's honestly, I think a big
part of it, Tom is coming from the quarterback position.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
I think as I'm looking, I think you see some guy,
You see guys open, and then you see the quarterback
throwing it in the double coverage to the tight end
or like you, he has time in the pocket. You know,
there's something about pocket awareness with quarterbacks. And sometimes I
think you either have it or you don't, you know,
(31:15):
And so you know, we mentioned like some of the greats, right,
and sometimes it's just a step here or a step there,
and they buy themselves another second or two so they
can deliver the football. Other guys they feel uncomfortable in there,
and they and they bail. And I think, and Mark
Stups mentioned this yesterday, I think Calzada has started to bail.
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And a lot of his throws are coming as he's
as he's scrambling or going backwards. You know, you're not
really getting your eyes downfield and driving the football into
your throw. And so I think that's got to be
the case. The offensive line, in my opinion, has given
the quarterback in enough time where you've got to be
able to see it and you've got to read it
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and make the throw, you know. Like a perfect example
yesterday was was after ty Bryant's second interception, the sack
that Calzada took and he held the ball on too
long and you've got, you know, a hitch route to
as he said, two hitch routes wide open for six yards. Well,
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one of the things that Old missed in in that
is a lot of times, you know, Simmons just threw
the hitch route and the six yard completion turned into twelve.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Man.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Those things, those yards, they really add up and when
you're trying to get your passing game on track, that's big.
It's also big for just the quarterback to feel good
about themselves and get themselves in a little bit of
a rhythm, and that, in my opinion, you know, gives
you a little bit more confidence to look down the
field more when it's there.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah. And you know, in fairness, here to a couple
of guys that catch a lot of heat, one is
Zach It probably we may not have focused enough on this.
It had been four years since he played against defenses.
At this level. You can do things against the teams
are playing it incarnate word that you can't do in
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the SEC and maybe Zach being away from it if
he if he if he is indeed not the starter,
but he comes back at some point, maybe he benefits
from from that. You can. It happens for athletes sometimes.
The other thing is as a play caller for Bush Hampton,
you know, you have a play call there and it
was the right call, It was a good call, and
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it didn't get executed. I think at the start of
the second half, you come out, you get the ball
first and they run a little shallow crossing route and
going to be a screen to Kendrick log Get playmaker
of the ball in space. Nice safe play to get
you some yardage to start in your first drive of
the second half. And it's incomplete. And I don't know
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whether it was the throw or the attempt and the
catch that was the problem, but it was a should
have been an easy play to get you minimum six
seven yards and you know your second in short all
of a sudden. So that kind of makes it a
little harder to call plays when you're not sure what
can get executed.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Yeah, and you know, there was another throw that I
think was honestly, it was like the biggest. It wasn't
that big of a deal probably in the long run
to a lot of people. But it also tells me
that that that Calzata is just not right. And I'm
not talking about from a health standpoint. Do you remember
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the throw to Stillado that got reversed? Yeah, I think
wide open nine yard gain, right, Yeah, I mean those
two are standing roughly ten to fifteen yards apart, and
he's just got nothing but space and opportunity around him,
and it's wide open and he throws it right at
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his feet like that's a that's a ten to fifteen
yard throw with nobody around and it's and it's right
there at his feet, like that's a that's a throw
and catch in the sec that you've got to make
one hundred times out of a one hundred, Like it's
just it's the easiest throw and he just threw it
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right in the ground. You can't do that.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
And can't to that point. And this is you know
what coaches talk about sometimes about, you know, the games
different from practice. I guarantee you he's made to throw
a hundred times out of one hundred in practice when
it's and it's and it was just like a practice
throw because there went any defense you know, around him.
There was nobody about to hit the quarterback. There was
nobody you know, bearing down on the receiver. But it
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didn't work like it works in practice. And that's because
games are different. And so for whatever reason, sometimes you
can waste a lot of time trying to figure out
the why and just accept that it's not working at
that moment and you got to do something a little different.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Yeah, and and look, I would imagine and you know,
this just is just me throwing it out there like
no matter what I would imagine Cutter Bully is going
to get the start because also kind of like one
of the things I think you've got to figure out
is okay, it it really is. It doesn't even seem
like it's close at the moment in the passing game.
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And so you've got to you've got to spark something
because and I asked, I asked Mark Stoops this on
Saturday after the game. I said, you know, like I
think they're pretty good at wide receiver. I think they're
pretty good at the offensive line. I know they're really
good at running back. Like there's pieces, So you know,
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you have you're literally missing one position for this that,
in my opinion, for this to have the ability to
be a pretty good offense. And so and also like
if you're at this point and if you feel so
good about Cutter, don't you got to find out if
he's the guy?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I'd say that makes a lot of sense, you.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Know what I mean, Like, hey, it ain't it's not
working right now. And I get it, it's just two games,
but it's two games with a young man that's been
in college a really long time, and it's just not
it just hasn't worked.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Appreciate the time. Sorry for the technical issues to get
us started, but we appreciate the time. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Hey care about you.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
A great deal, Thank you very much. That is Ken
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Enterprises and coming up today, we will lead off and
talk with cutter Bowley's dad, Scott Bowley, and get his
thoughts on his son. Sounding like getting ready for an
expanded role. Don't know if he'll be starting or not,
but definitely in the plan to play on Saturday after
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finishing up in the previous game because of the injury
to Zat Calzata. So we'll talk with the cutter's dad.
We'll talk with Larry Vaught your from inside drying a
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Spots Views certainly, and Ken Spencer from WHAS TV in
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Wildcat News of the Day service of Just Steppies of
Lexington or Stoops wasn't ready to say who will start
at quarterback. Yesterday when he did his weekly news conference
and radio show. He did say that Cutter Bowley will
definitely see action in the game. Is that Calzada injured
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his shoulder late in the Old Miss game. Cutter played
the last two series, and one thing Stoops said on
the radio show last night was that he wants to
be fair with Calzada and wait for the word on
his status as far as the medical report before he
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would make any decision, so that we may get that
information maybe today since it's media day for the offensive
side of the ball, but who knows, we'll see. One
thing we do know is that Stoop said Cazota was
not going to be able to practice yesterday. Monday's usually
a light day. They do their more serious game plan
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work today and tomorrow for the next opponent, and we'll
perhaps get an update on what happened after practice today.
We'll wait and see. Stoops also talked about the defensive
side of the ball and some issues they had with
tackling there. He said Ole Miss probably had one hundred
yards on those hitch throws to the side that really
hurt them, an area that Kentucky did really well in
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when it won in Oxford. The year before, didn't have
Dj Waller on the outside cornerback who was really playing
well in the lead up to the season and got
an injury in practice last week, and Stoop said it's
not likely that Dj will be able to play this Saturday,
but with the open date afterward, hopefully he'll be back
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joining us now, Scott Bowley, his son Cutter is on
the Kentucky football team as a quarterback, as we all know,
and we know he's going to play this week. Coach
too said that yesterday, we don't know who's going to start,
could be Cutter, but he got his first start Scott
last year against Louisville and the season finale. We were
talking with Van Hiles on the show yesterday, and it's
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a tough spot to make your first start in the
in the rival game. So if if that happened Saturday,
or he certainly plays a bigger role, what do you
think Cutter has learned from that experience to help him
now in year two.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I think just being you know, just another year under
your belt, just just the just the experience of everything. Really,
he I know, he feels so much more comfortable now
than he did a year ago. And that's just uh,
you know, just time and practice, and you know, he
put on twenty some pounds. I think subconsciously that makes
you feel a little better, a little more secure about
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your body, and just just just being more comfortable. I know,
he he told me the other day, you know, after
this last game, even though it was you know, limited
time that you know, he didn't feel didn't feel nervous
at all. It just felt like, you know, felt like practice.
And that's I think that's something you can't make yourself half.
It just it just has to develop over time. So
you know, good that he's good, that he's more comfortable. Period.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, I was telling the story a ta van yesterday.
It was like maybe the last week before they got
into game week, and they do the player interviews on
Tuesday after coach Hampden does his session at the podium,
and so Cutter and a couple of other guys came
over and sat down on the bench where I was
waiting for the player interviews. So I was talking to
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Cutter at Saska House going and he he just talked
about how much comfortable, more comfortable he did feel, and
how he just kind of was remembering how much he
loved football. And you know, when you're you know, in
a high profile, spotlight quarterback and learning you know a
new system and you know the school you grew up
following and all of that, I'm sure it can be
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a little overwhelming. And when they, as the coaches always say,
the game slows down, it can be invigorating.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I think so he does. I laughed, and he said
that because he he does truly enjoy what he's doing.
We I don't ask him about football a lot. I
just let him tell me what he tells me. I
don't want him to think I'm worried about it, so
I don't ask him every day, Hey, how's it going,
what's going on? What are they telling you? I just
let it play out and let him tell me what
he tells me. But this last spring, once spring practice
was over, my wife and I set him down, just,
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you know, just see how things were going, how he
was doing. And he looked at both of us and said,
when I get up every morning and the alarm goes off,
I can't wait to get to the facility. It doesn't
matter what we're doing that day, I can't wait to
get there. So I started laughing. I was like, well,
anything in life, if you feel that way when you
get up, keep doing it, whatever it is. So you
know he truly enjoys what he does. He really does,
So you know it doesn't guarantee success, but it doesn't
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hurt either.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You know, on the second series that he had Saturday,
there were a couple of plays that stood out to me.
You look for little things sometimes that can give you
a clue of maybe better days that are coming for
a guy, and I think they were in successive plays
on that last series when they got down and did
get a field goal, he's back there in the pocket
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and it starts to break down and he immediately makes
the decision to run and gets a big gain out
of it. Threw a shoulder into a guy, which, given
that one quarterback has already got a shoulder in tree,
you might want to suggest that he refrained from that,
but it just showed you, you know, you know, he
was feeling his oats as this thing goes. And then
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the next play he comes in and the offensive line
does a nice job most of the time of protecting.
So he trusted that sat there in the pocket and yeah,
I know Ole Miss was in prevent, but Gilmour cuts
across the middle and there was a guy right there
on him, so that was a tight window to throw
it into. And he didn't hesitate. He immediately saw a
chance and he let, you know, let it go. And
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that's what they need to see more of.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I think, Yeah, I didn't realize how tight that wind
it was, so I went back and watch it on replay,
but uh, yeah, that was that was a good throw.
He I definitely think he's a I don't know if
gunslinger is the right word, he's you know, I do
think he'll be willing, you know, once with some time
under's belt, to to let it go, you know, on
time kind of hopefully get in rhythm and you know,
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the offense. So far as you know, rhythm's definitely not
been the right word. So you know, hopefully hopefully we
can get that going, just maybe getting out of hand
a little quicker and and get things going. But you know,
I do think he's you know, he's willing to do
that for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
What do you think makes him good at that job
of quarterbacks, not as a coach but as his dad?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Well you know again, I had some people text me
during the game, and so they could see he was
smiling through his helmet even in that type situation. So
that type of thing where he's, like I said, he's
enjoying it. I do think he you know, he has
a great report his teammates. I can see that, not
from what he tells me, but just you know when
I'm with him or you know, I've been in the
off season, I've been in the locker room you know,
or places with him and the teammates before, and just
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the way he the way he gets along with the
teammates and the way they respond to him. You know,
I think, you know, short term man, long term, that
could potentially be a be a really good thing. So
just his demeanor and the way he you know, the
way he interacts with those guys, you know, and he
is willing to he when we first moved to elections
in a few years ago to take them to LCA,
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my wife is always cooks at night, and she got
to where she just stopped cooking because he would stay
after practice and want to watch film or want to
hang out with the guys, and those are good things.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Myself, playing basketball, I loved it, but if it was
a really hard day, I wanted to go home, take
a shower, get something to eat, and get the heck
out of there. If I'm being honest with myself, and he,
you know, he's willing to hang and stay and do
those other things, you know, because he wants to get better,
but also because he truly does enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well, there's a natural leadership demand. I guess that comes
with that position. Whether you're comfortable with that or not,
it just you have to eventually get some level of
comfort with it. And it sounds like he maybe comes
to that naturally. And I know I've said this many times.
I used to do a show with Derrick Ramsey on
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Friday night before games, and when ram would have some
of his former teammates in town, they come to the
studio with him. Twenty five years after they played together,
he was still the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You could see that, right, I know what you mean. Yeah,
And that's another thing. I don't know if you can
force that. I think you either probably have that demeanor
you don't. I mean, I know you can put some
effort into it, but I think your natural demeanor has
a lot to do with that too.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Though. Is cut one that gets more nervous as a
game approaches or less?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I feel like less. I feel like the anticipation and
like wanting to play again real quick. You know, right
after a game, it's almost like you're more amped up
right there. He seems to be. I think the closer
you get and the more you've studied, the film, the
more you've done the playbook, and it's actually a more
comfortable thing the closer you get, you know, I think that.
You know, sometimes like every player sitting in the hotel
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waiting for it to start, get your little antsy. You
just want to get out there. But once you start
to get the uniform and you start warming up, it's fine.
It's just that anticipation to get there.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
What's it like watching a game as a parent versus
you know, you were a college athlete, so playing in
college sports versus you're watching your son do it.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I don't think there's a word in the English language
to say how much harder it's it's so much there's
a player, you know, again, you get nervous, But once
you start warming up, you're fine. But you know, I remember,
I always go back to the game Oregon beat Missippi
State when my daughter's team went to the Final four.
The first time, we were in Portland, Oregon at the
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Center and we left that game. There was seventeen leap
in the second half and I went to Colin Uber
and all of a sudden realized my jaw when my
teeth were killing me. I give you, I've been clenching
my teeth for like two straight hours, just total, total
nervous wreck. I mean, I just I couldn't even really
eat that night. I was like emotionally spent and I
didn't even do anything. I'm just sitting there watching. But
you know, I never were kind of a family of
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baseball and basketball players, so I never you know, I've
always followed football closely. You know, we have people in
playing that played at just not at a college level
like basketball and baseball. So I don't think it ever
dawned on me. And he was a little and this
is what he wanted to do that I say this jokingly,
but how hard this would be to be a quarterback parent.
You know a lot of times people don't notice if
the you know, certain players play well, but everybody knows
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if the quarterback plays well or didn't. So I never
really about that from a parent standpoint until we got
to this point. And it's like just you know, I
feel like you're having to take a deep breath. And
it's different too when you know how bad they want it.
You know, there's things my kids have done before in
different sports where other people would say something to me
and I'll be well, they're just doing this for fun,
it's not a big deal, you know. And when they don't,
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you know, when they're just doing it for fun, it's
not as big a deal for the parent either. But
when I know how harde Cutters works, and I know
how much he Trierly wants this, and I think it
makes my wife and I just that much more nervous
for him.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, I'm sure part of the problem is you said
they they know the quarterback played well or not. I
don't know if they always know, but they definitely have
an opinion.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's an opinion for sure. Yeah, for that position, definitely
they can. You know, it's one of those positions where
you can turn it around. Everybody leisure the heart beat
and it takes about two plays for him to turn
on you real quick. So that's that way. Everywhere that
has nothing to can tack you. That's pro, college, high.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
School or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, if you're you know, if you're here, daughters a
track star, you know, you you it's just them or
golf or whatever. You know, here's the you know, uh,
it's it's maybe the quarterback. Okay, it's maybe the receiver,
it's maybe the line. It's usually some combination of all
of them, so yeah, that makes it tougher too.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's the ultimate team sport for sure. Let me call
it that, and that's that's true because one guy not
doing their job messes up everything. So yeah, it's it
is the ultimate team sport.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Skoty. I appreciate you jumping on with us, and it's
fun to hear the parent perspective and I know you
and the family will look forward to, uh, you know,
the opportunity that Cutter gets, whether it's starting or not
on Saturday, he definitely got to play and that has
to be exciting. Appreciate you he's looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yes, sir, it's.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
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a post up at the site. It says it's time
to give Cutter Bowlly his opportunity. Mark Stoops said as
much after the game on Saturday. So whether Bully starts
or not, I think the expectation is that he will.
But whether he starts or not, we know we're going
(16:51):
to see him. What do you expect to see?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Well, I think Scott Bowley would agree with this. You
don't think he was very careful not to say anything
that way, but as a parent you have to have
to feel that way. But I just think it can't
it can't hurt anything. You've certainly got to get some
more production in the passing game. And I think that
throw you were talking about with Scott that Cutter made
to hardly Gilmore. Hopefully that's the kind of things you're
(17:17):
going to see. If that's the kind of things you get.
You always saw him when he was in high school.
That was the kind of plays that he made, and
I would hope that's the kind of thing you're going
to see. And I think it was very interesting what
Scott was saying about as he gets more comfortable, he'll
be even more willing to cut it loose. And I
think you can't overestimate that that You've got to feel
like you can go out there and play in one
(17:39):
mistake won't just doom you to be back to the
bench forever. And I think in the situations Cutter's been in,
that's it's been kind of hard to do that. And
hopefully he'll maybe he's at that point now he knows
if he goes out there he can just be himself
and go back to what he always has done.
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Larry Vatt is with us. You read them at your
sports edge dot com. We're talking about Cutter Bowley, who
we figure to see a good bit more of on
Saturday when Kentucky takes on Eastern Michigan and Larry Cutter
(19:07):
maybe a big splash in the second half down at
Texas last year, and then UH struggled against Louisville in
a difficult spot to make your first start. One would
think he, uh, you know, learns a lot from going
through that experience, and now he's had, you know, an
off season to put himself in position looks you know,
I think thicker, a little stronger, and I know I
(19:30):
think you saw it probably two in those that last drive,
especially a couple of those plays that he made. That
kind of decisiveness is what has been missing. I think
at the QB spot, whether Zach was just pressing kind
of was a you know, hesitant to pull the trigger
on something. But uh, you can't do that at this level.
And uh, I think if Cutter can provide that, that
(19:51):
would be a good step toward improvement.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Absolutely, you can't be afraid to make mistakes. And as
you pointed out well when you're talking with Scott and
a golf some line protection has been pretty darn good
the first two games. You just have to kind of
be willing to sit in there and give those linemen
some credit for what they've done. And I don't want
to use maybe the word panic, but not roll out
(20:15):
and start scrambling moving around too quick. I'll cut her
stayed right there in the pocket like he should. And
I think what his dad, Scott was talking about. I
think teammates like and respect Cutter a lot. He's been
through two off seasons now at Kentucky, and it just
seems to me if that's your quarterback of the future,
as we keep being told, it's about time to start
(20:37):
finding out what the future is going to be like,
and no better time than this week to let him
do that. And if he goes out and performs well,
then maybe I think he's got to keep the keys
to the car for a while.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You would you would think that would be highly likely
turn of events because you'd have another week to get
him ready before you go back in the conference play.
And you know, that's the thing I liked about the
one scramble where he did take on the defender again,
(21:09):
especially now that they have one quarterback already hurt. You
don't want to, you want to see the slide, But
I appreciate the mindset.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah, And that's how Cutter always was in high school.
I mean, he was a better runner than what I
think a lot of people might realize or have had
a chance to see. And not a young man that
was afraid to run the ball when he saw that's
what needs to be done, That's what he would do. Now,
Like I say, I think at this level, sometimes you
just have to let sure he had overrule your heart
(21:40):
and go ahead and take that slide and give up
getting that extra couple of yards because they sure don't
need to get somebody else hurt. But that's just the
boldly mentality right there. But I'm sure they've been talking
to him about that since since he did that on Saturday,
and'll be talking to him about it a lot this week.
That's not something they can afford to have him go
out and do. But then again, there might be an
(22:01):
occasion where you know, just kind of like what Will
Levis had to do. Sometimes that's just what you've got
to do and you can't play scared.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
No, you can't. And actually I would think that could
be something that could be a significant addition. Again to
go back to that last scramble play that he made,
but it was the decision was instant when and he
got a big gain out of it. That's what needs
to happen. But you would think right now, Kentucky, you
(22:28):
know they don't have obviously, you know the Dame Key
Barry and Brown level guys at least not yet, and
so that would one would think lead more teams to be,
you know, extra aggressive with their coverage and like Ole
miss is a known for their press coverage out on
the outside. Well, the one thing that does is open
up some opportunities for the quarterback to run because the
(22:50):
defensive back has his back to the QB.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
That's a good point and that's something maybe the cutter
can take can take advantage of. But as you know,
one thing cutter or who is playing quarterback really needs
is for somebody to figure out a way for some
receivers to get open or the right plays to call
to get them open in some form or fashion. Because
they have not been creating a lot of big windows
(23:13):
it looks like for the quarterback to throw into. And
that's something that they're going to have to really work on.
I know they thought they were going to be better
than what they have been and hopefully this week we'll
start seeing some of that and with the off week
they can figure out a few more things. But they've
either got to get guys to execute better or get
a better game plan for them to execute to get open.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Speaking of quarterbacks, Matt Donatowski, the future Wildcat, led Moeler
from behind to beat Trinity last Friday night up in
northern Kentucky. He said after the game, he's one hundred
percent locked in with them meeting the Wildcats. They don't
have anything to worry about. And you wrote a piece
(23:55):
at your sports edge dot com recently about how Matt
handled that recruitment and why maybe we can if you're
a Kentucky fan, you can take faith in those comments
from him after the game.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, I was surprised when his dad told me that
they basically let Matt take care of all the returning coaches,
calls and doing all those different things. A lot of
times a parent or a coach will try to kind
of do to help take some of the pressure off
somebody's being recruited as much or as highly as what
he was, but that he wanted to do it all
himself and handle it all in his own way. So
(24:33):
I think he's just a very very mature young man.
I think the only worry you've got to worry or
on where you've got to have if you're a Kentucky fan,
is that he's just so good in baseball he could
get drafted there's still a chance he could get drafted
so high that he would have to really think about
going ahead and starting his professional baseball career instead of
(24:53):
coming to college. But both his father and Matt have
said how much he wants to play in the SEC,
both in baseball and football, So I still feel pretty
good about it. But until you get him here, you
never know for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
And then Kentucky volleyball, there's the sport you cover very closely.
Are they doing much right now?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
It's remarkable what they are doing. Tom and I knew
going into the season that I thought Craig had the
deepest team that he's had at Kentucky. He may not
have a Madison Lily or Leah Edmund or somebody quite
that star power, just that one person, you know. I
think you'd probably argue that Brooklyn Delay is that person,
but that he's got the deepest roster that he's had.
(25:33):
And it just shows you. In four matches he's played
two setters in the last eight years, he played two
setters Madison Littley and Emmigrome. And four matches he's already
played too because Avis Arropa and then Cassie O'Brien the
SEC Player of the Year of the Center this week
is they're both just terrific, terrific players, and it's going
(25:53):
to be really interesting going forward. How he's going to
do that is he's going to continue to play two
of them, He's going to settle on just one of
them or what. But they're just so deep at every position.
I mean that they are just loaded. And when you
get a chance to watch them play, I think you
sure need to And I don't want to hear any
coach on the UK campus complain about a tough schedule,
(26:13):
strength to schedule. Go sit down with Craig Skinner if
you ought to complain about strength to schedule.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
So he's going with a two quarterback system, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
That's kind of what is and that's something he said
before the seasons, heard that they really didn't want to do.
So I don't know now whether it'll be a case
that he's played on both some and now you're going
to definitely settle on which one you're gonna go with
or not. But they were both terrific players in high
school to the best players in their recruiting classes. Ava
was two years older than Cassie. But you know, Madison
(26:44):
Lila came right in as a true freshman and started.
Emmagron came right in as a true freshman and started.
So that's not to say that Craig wouldn't go with Cassie,
but through four matches, I mean, Cassie was really, really
good this last weekend, but Ava was also very good
the first weekend when they played and had a change
to beat Nebraska. So I don't know what he's gonna do,
but sure is a nice problem to have.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Indeed, it is Larry Vaughan, Thank you much.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
All right, tom so.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Lea's report coming to you from the Clark's Pumping Shop studio, Return,
Refresh and Refuel Can't Spencer from WHASTV and Louisville coming
up fourteen away from the top of the hour here
on the leads report. As the saying goes, if it's
not one thing, it's another, And we have a little
technical issue right now that province us from bringing Can't
(27:31):
Spencer on the air. So it's like he's right there
on the other side and he just needs to step
into the light of being on the air, and it
can't quite happen at the moment. So Rick has got
the hammer out and working on it. And in the meantime,
let me fill a little time here, and then we
(27:53):
may need to take another break and we'll see if
we can get Kent on or just get him to
Houller really loud. The Keelan September Yearling Sale got started yesterday.
The first two days are called Book one. That's when
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and yesterday there was a cult by gun Runner that
(28:14):
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In all, fifteen horses sold for more than a million
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(28:36):
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(28:57):
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(29:20):
in Anthony Thompson. I think he finished second that year.
I can't remember to whom, but anyway, he finished second
I think in the Heisman voting, and they had a
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that Kentucky stood up and denied them. Craig Benzinger I
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(29:43):
was a big, dramatic start to the eighty nine season
and a happy birthday to David Gin who we often
talk about. Annwar Stewart returning that blockfield goal and the
Alabama win in ninety seven with David againn was the
guy who blocked the field goal and Anwarstart picked it
up and ran it in this Kentucky he beat Alabama
that night. All right, we welcome in Ken Spencer to
(30:04):
the program. We got whatever the problem was fixed because
we wanted to hear your insight and it was so close.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Well, let me tell you something. I just enjoyed listening
to you. Wax poetic right there. That's what a true
professional sounds like. And and the time of need.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yes, it's it's called we call it tap dancing sometimes
or filling.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me let me tell you something.
You're light on your feet.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Brother. Let's start with look at Tucky football. There's been
a lot of talk about the passing game, obviously because
it hasn't looked so good in the first two games.
You played wide receiver in college. What do you see?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Well, I just think it's honestly, I think a big
part of it, Tom is coming from the quarterback position.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
I think as I'm looking, I think you see some guy,
You see guys open, and then you see the quarterback
throwing it in the double coverage to the tight end
or like you, he has time in the pocket. You know,
there's something about pocket awareness with quarterbacks. And sometimes I
think you either have it or you don't, you know,
(31:15):
And so you know, we mentioned like some of the greats, right,
and sometimes it's just a step here or a step there,
and they buy themselves another second or two so they
can deliver the football. Other guys they feel uncomfortable in there,
and they and they bail. And I think, and Mark
Stups mentioned this yesterday, I think Calzada has started to bail.
(31:40):
And a lot of his throws are coming as he's
as he's scrambling or going backwards. You know, you're not
really getting your eyes downfield and driving the football into
your throw. And so I think that's got to be
the case. The offensive line, in my opinion, has given
the quarterback in enough time where you've got to be
able to see it and you've got to read it
(32:01):
and make the throw, you know. Like a perfect example
yesterday was was after ty Bryant's second interception, the sack
that Calzada took and he held the ball on too
long and you've got, you know, a hitch route to
as he said, two hitch routes wide open for six yards. Well,
(32:22):
one of the things that Old missed in in that
is a lot of times, you know, Simmons just threw
the hitch route and the six yard completion turned into twelve.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Man.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Those things, those yards, they really add up and when
you're trying to get your passing game on track, that's big.
It's also big for just the quarterback to feel good
about themselves and get themselves in a little bit of
a rhythm, and that, in my opinion, you know, gives
you a little bit more confidence to look down the
field more when it's there.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah. And you know, in fairness, here to a couple
of guys that catch a lot of heat, one is
Zach It probably we may not have focused enough on this.
It had been four years since he played against defenses.
At this level. You can do things against the teams
are playing it incarnate word that you can't do in
(33:16):
the SEC and maybe Zach being away from it if
he if he if he is indeed not the starter,
but he comes back at some point, maybe he benefits
from from that. You can. It happens for athletes sometimes.
The other thing is as a play caller for Bush Hampton,
you know, you have a play call there and it
was the right call, It was a good call, and
(33:38):
it didn't get executed. I think at the start of
the second half, you come out, you get the ball
first and they run a little shallow crossing route and
going to be a screen to Kendrick log Get playmaker
of the ball in space. Nice safe play to get
you some yardage to start in your first drive of
the second half. And it's incomplete. And I don't know
(34:01):
whether it was the throw or the attempt and the
catch that was the problem, but it was a should
have been an easy play to get you minimum six
seven yards and you know your second in short all
of a sudden. So that kind of makes it a
little harder to call plays when you're not sure what
can get executed.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Yeah, and you know, there was another throw that I
think was honestly, it was like the biggest. It wasn't
that big of a deal probably in the long run
to a lot of people. But it also tells me
that that that Calzata is just not right. And I'm
not talking about from a health standpoint. Do you remember
(34:38):
the throw to Stillado that got reversed? Yeah, I think
wide open nine yard gain, right, Yeah, I mean those
two are standing roughly ten to fifteen yards apart, and
he's just got nothing but space and opportunity around him,
and it's wide open and he throws it right at
(34:59):
his feet like that's a that's a ten to fifteen
yard throw with nobody around and it's and it's right
there at his feet, like that's a that's a throw
and catch in the sec that you've got to make
one hundred times out of a one hundred, Like it's
just it's the easiest throw and he just threw it
(35:20):
right in the ground. You can't do that.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
And can't to that point. And this is you know
what coaches talk about sometimes about, you know, the games
different from practice. I guarantee you he's made to throw
a hundred times out of one hundred in practice when
it's and it's and it was just like a practice
throw because there went any defense you know, around him.
There was nobody about to hit the quarterback. There was
nobody you know, bearing down on the receiver. But it
(35:46):
didn't work like it works in practice. And that's because
games are different. And so for whatever reason, sometimes you
can waste a lot of time trying to figure out
the why and just accept that it's not working at
that moment and you got to do something a little different.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Yeah, and and look, I would imagine and you know,
this just is just me throwing it out there like
no matter what I would imagine Cutter Bully is going
to get the start because also kind of like one
of the things I think you've got to figure out
is okay, it it really is. It doesn't even seem
like it's close at the moment in the passing game.
(36:23):
And so you've got to you've got to spark something
because and I asked, I asked Mark Stoops this on
Saturday after the game. I said, you know, like I
think they're pretty good at wide receiver. I think they're
pretty good at the offensive line. I know they're really
good at running back. Like there's pieces, So you know,
(36:43):
you have you're literally missing one position for this that,
in my opinion, for this to have the ability to
be a pretty good offense. And so and also like
if you're at this point and if you feel so
good about Cutter, don't you got to find out if
he's the guy?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I'd say that makes a lot of sense, you.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Know what I mean, Like, hey, it ain't it's not
working right now. And I get it, it's just two games,
but it's two games with a young man that's been
in college a really long time, and it's just not
it just hasn't worked.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Appreciate the time. Sorry for the technical issues to get
us started, but we appreciate the time. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Hey care about you.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
A great deal, Thank you very much. That is Ken
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