Sunday Morning Sports Talk - August 8, 2025 - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk, presented by
the Lead Troop Forwards Radio Network on six thirty w LAP.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony
White along with Van Hiles, coming to you from Clark's
Main Street Market studios in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. Clarks Pumper
Shop Return refresh every few Van Hiles, the big ass
fans houtliner. They were lit up eight five nine to

(00:30):
eight zero two two eight seven eight five nine to
eight zero cats, if you would like to be a
part of it, and I gotta get you up the
breast on we Jack and I covered the first half
of the schedule first six games, and then we kind
of went to just because it was three and three,
so we kind of went to Tennessee game to break
it down. So we kind of think we ended at
Foreign four and three because he gave us to Tennessee.

(00:54):
But I'm gonna I just want to know where you're at.
Where I'm gonna go over that really briefly after our
call with you the first six because on the onset
of this show, I made it quite clear that I'm
going to convince our listeners and big view nation that
expect nothing less than five hundred. Now, if we don't

(01:15):
achieve five hundred, then Mark Stoops has not cleaned up
the messages that made us go four and three. But
I think he has, and I want to be the
first one to say I don't want to. I'm not
gonna be part of the media that is is knocking
our team and our staff because we come too far.
And you and I have both been in the locker
room taking lumps, and you know, I think it makes

(01:37):
me smile, makes my heart smile. I'm sure it makes
your heart smile to see us handing out.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Some lumps for a change, that for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
So doubt so.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I said, once we get done with the big ass hands,
how long long as they keep calling, we're gonna keep
taking because they have nothing but great costs today. But
we're gonna keep taking the cause. But that's where we're
gonna take back off on we are done with callses
back to the schedule, and at halfway point we were
three and three, and then we got to the Tennessee game,
it turned out to be four and three. But I'm
going to brush that over with you. When we discussed

(02:09):
that later, let's get to the big ass fans outline
to see what Alvin has to say. Good morning, Alvin,
what do you got for us?

Speaker 5 (02:17):
Good morning guys.

Speaker 6 (02:17):
It's always good to hear you guys go back and
forth because y'all gives great information to college football. Uh.
You know, when you think about the SEC, we know
that it is perhaps the strongest conference in the country
and unfortunately, off fortunately Kentucky.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Plays in this conference.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
But you know, do you think that all the noise
that is you know, talked about the prediction of wins
and losses? How do you think that might affect the players?
Will it encourage them to go and play harder, to
sort of make a make a season that people predict
that they will have a losing record, to maybe win

(02:58):
some games, but you know, we maybe look at them
not winning and van how important is it going to
be to make an early decision on a quarterback position
because that position is perhaps the most important and critical
position in all.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
The north of American football quite frankly, but how quick
will Stoops need to go ahead and announce who's going
to be started and is he going to have a
viable backup? Because you're definitely gonna need that because also
envies the prevalent in this hard hitting conference.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Thank you for the call, Alvin.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yes, sir, then Van, we will start off with the
and we discussed this last week. But I am curious
sus your response on does a quarterback position need to
be made sooner than later? Or secondly, do you think
there is really a debate at quarterback because apparently Zach
is getting I think it was seventy five percent of

(03:57):
the snaps. But I've also heard that Cut doing a
lot of things sporadically maybe better than Zach.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
It points.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
I would say this, I don't think I think right
now in my opinion, that well, they know who the
starting quarterback is. I think the guys in the locker
room know who the starting quarterback is. I think this
is the best quarterback room that we've had in a while.
A starter in a backup that legitimately has has gain

(04:31):
reps in this conference. The closest in recent history is
probably Terry Wilson and Sawyer Smith. But I think this
is the best quarterback room we've had in a long time.
I think if the starting quarterback is, if one quarterback
is getting the lion's share, of the snaps he used
to start going into season. If they were going fifty

(04:52):
to fifty snaps, then I'd be worried. But they know
who that quarterback is. I think the good thing about
it is they're giving a backup some first team reps,
which is gonna allow him to if he needs to
get in the game, be more familiar with that group
than in the past when the backup gets no snaps.
So I honestly think Zach is going to be the

(05:14):
starter until Zach loses the job. And I would say
this for the other question as a former player that
lost twelve games in a row, I promise you the
outside words mean nothing. Now, what it can do for
a team is it can help you focus and maybe
study your feeling a little bit more, maybe the mental

(05:37):
aspect of the game. It can help you because you're
hearing all this outside noise, but when you step on
that field, all that stuff that said before a game
means nothing.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
And the other thing, I kind of piggybacking off what
you're saying, and I ask, what kind of another portion
of Alvis question? My question to you, can Rick law uh,
I say, Kendrick law Dante Dowdell Seth Zach, David Goosta, Augusta.

(06:11):
These guys, why would why would they care? Do why
would they care about Kentucky's four in eight season last year?

Speaker 3 (06:18):
One?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
That's the reason I'm here, and I honestly, I always
make fun of it. But you are right when nineteen
ninety four you all went one in eleven, one in ten.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Come on, come on.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Now, well you lost eleven, you lost.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Give excell loss man ten.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
And I and honestly and honestly, outside of Ohio State Michigan,
I wanted to come to this y'all went one in ten.
I know I can help you, so people kind of
you know. So So when Alvin asked that does it
affect the players? One, I'm with you. I think they
don't really care. They don't want that taste in the
mouth for themselves. It has nothing to do with the
fan base. Like I don't want to walk around taking

(07:00):
whoop us. But those guys I just named were not
on this team last year, So why do they have
to Why do they have to either feel or even
be responsible for that foreign eight season?

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Exactly? Look, this is for me. I always find a
positive lining in anything. This to me makes the season
even more interesting. It's this is you have a lot
of these guys who we try, who we got at
the portal, are coming from Lord Division, not Paul for

(07:33):
G five or whatever. Right, so now they come in
here with a chip on their shoulder because now we're
going to show y'all improved to everybody who doubted us
as players when we was coming up to the high
school ranks, that we are better on what y'all thought
we were. So we come to Kentucky and FTC and
approved to everyone that doubted us that we're the sec
talented players. Then you've got the players who stuck around,

(07:54):
weren't able to stick around. I'm not going to stick around,
the players that on the team last year that has
that bad task, not tasting that mill from last season.
They got two group of players that are coming with
bad intentions. The more I think about it, the more
I feel you the better about this season.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
And that's where we started off. I guess talking earlier
this morning, me and Jack when we first started the show,
was you know, when you and I've discussed this on Wednesday,
as you said, nine pm to ten pm Eastern Standard Time,
Old Miss Losing Jackson Dark gonna are they gonna replace
with Jackson Dark? And jack seemed to be, you know,

(08:35):
concerned that Lane Kiffin is upset. He has something to prove.
He's gonna come to Lexington and he's gonna, you know,
put something on us, as if as if Ann War,
Brad White, Mark Stoops are gonna be like, you know,
oh my god, I'm I'm sorry for beating you, and
I don't like lay like if you didn't want to,
if you didn't want to lose at home, you shouldn't
have lost at home, Like now all of a sudden,

(08:55):
you're gonna come in my house. But that's so the
only reason I brought up the Old Miss, he thought,
but that I'm kind of glorifying the Old Miss winning.
It's only hot, No, that's the first SEC game on
the schedule, So we kind of went to Old Miss.
Then we went to Beamer. He ain't he ain't. He
ain't really sold off Shane Beemer. But it is kind
of what you're saying, like, h we replacing some parts

(09:16):
from last year that I think underperformed. So maybe you
can say you could think we were four and eighten.
That's fine if that's what you want to do. Coach
Stu told us that's not that's not true, and I
don't think it is. I just think the guys laid
down and didn't perform. But we got like you said,
we got hungry guys who can't afford to lay down.
They got something to prove, they got a chip on
their shoulder.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Just like Mark Steus's this or that exactly.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
But then when you look at what Old missus lost
on what they're bringing in, I mean, South Carolina is
returning a whole lot in the defensive. That defense was
really good last year. That kind of concerns me. If
we don't turn the corner enough that we can keep
our offense on the field and you know, then that
South Carolina game is kind of tricky. But Old Miss,
based off of last year, what they lost, what we lost,

(09:59):
what we gained, I don't think that that's a big
reason for you to give them an opportunity. And the
other one, I wanted to get to the first sixty
games Old Miss South Carolina in conference, Old Miss South Carolina,
Georgia and Texas. What do you think? What's your take
on those breaking up? As far as like I said,
we ended up three and three out of those games,

(10:20):
so I think he gave us a lost of Texas
and Georgia. Yeah, and he didn't think we can be
Old Miss.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
All right, I'm gonna say I'm I feel very good
about the Old Miss. Old Miss. Not only didn't not
only lost Jackson Dorrit, they lost key points that wide
receiver room. They lost a lot of players offensively for
production lives. He has to replace that. He has to
replace that when we played them tough last year in

(10:49):
the Grove. So nothing is guaranteed, but I feel good
about that. I feel good about the South Carolina game
because South Carolina lost the majority of that defensive front
from last year and they got a new offensive coordinator.
Logan's is gone. That Logan's created a I want people
to understand. Remember when Fun Carolina played us, they had

(11:10):
a two quarterback systems, so Salers were not balling out
in the first part of the year. They were not
even confident that he was going to be the Sun quarterback.
So they were had a two quarterbacks sism like we had.
I'm not sure that Logan, well, the new officer coordinator,
is going to have have the ability to divise a
scheme like Logan did towards the end of the season.

(11:33):
I'm not sure. That South Carolina game and one of
the greatest places to play, so I'm not sure we
three and three zero at the sixth game mark. I
think we probably the things go right, we could be
four in two.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
That's where I had us at. I had this more
foreign to Toledo win Ole Miss. When Eastern Michigan win
South Carolina and Georgie in Texas, I don't, and you
sold on Texas.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
I am so on. Look at how many times I'm
gonna say this and I'm gonna I'm gonna get blasted
for this, and that'd be ninety eight. Colech was a
great quarterback, right decent. He was a great quarterback. But
Colee cannot be a great quarterback without great pieces around him.

(12:25):
He had probably one of the best pieces around him
that any quarterback I had has had a Uk, he
had yourself, he had Yeasty, he had a great tight end.
He had Frinton McCord. Yeah, Kevin like like that receiving
that keyo Safra. That receiving group wasn'tn outstanding receiving group

(12:45):
for that system, right, That's the same thing. Texas has.
Texas has all the pieces around Eli Manning, Arch arch Manning.
They have all the pieces around arch Manning, and that's
that's why they're great. That's why they're gonna be a
good team because not all of the owners are gonna
be put on Archer's shoulders. Oh but that kid, I've

(13:07):
seen a kid play against my high school Eddie Crasters.
That guy has had everything. He has character, he has
the ability to let the game come to him. They
didn't even pass the ball a lot against us, Like
he's not going to force teams. And yeah, I think
Texas gonna be real. Although I have LSU winning the conference,

(13:29):
but I think Texas is is for real.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
That is Van Howes will continue this show after this break.
You're a listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk
on news radio six thirty WLAP.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
This is Stockyards Bank Sunday Mornings Sports Talk, presented by
the lead troop BOARDGE Radio Network on six thirty w LAP.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony
White along with Van Holes. Stockyards Bank has been your
trusted partner since nineteen hundred and four, So head on
over to SYB dot com for all your banking and
financial needs. I don't know if Larry Vaught has a

(14:09):
stronghold over the microphones, because the big Ass Fans Hotline
is pretty busy today. If you like to get on
the big Ass Fans Hotline eight five nine to eight
zero two two eight seven eight five nine to eight
zero Cats Vandom will hop back over to the big
Ass Fans Hotline momentarily and we'll continue our conversation after that.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Good morning, Mark, What do you got for us? My man?

Speaker 7 (14:32):
I love the show. I love the enthusiasm and positivity.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (14:39):
Here comes the however, the bub the butt we Okay,
when was the last SEC home win? When we have
a three game losing streak to South Carolina, culture is winning.
We have a two game losing streak at home the Vanderbilt.

(14:59):
These are the reasons, is why the old miss game.
We're not giving the benefit of the doubt for Okay,
I mean, if you look Mark Snoop's great guy. If
you look at who he's beat, Okay, it's not. I
mean we we we beat four or three years in
a row when they fired their coach. Okay, if we

(15:21):
beat it, if we we beat LS U two years ago,
they fired their coach. If Kentucky beats the top programs,
their coach gets fired. Okay, it's not been a one
bad season, it's been three Okay, home Well, well, yes,

(15:42):
I think the last three years is what six and
six are. And then the loss in the bowl game,
it's like six and six, seven and six, and then
last year's four and eight. I'm sorry, I have season
tickets for football. I want them to do well. I
sit and try to figure out what is the UK
over him need to do well. But to say that

(16:05):
that we have the answers currently is delusion. We got
the twenty eighth or twenty ninth BEPS recruiting class last
year and the sixth hardest schedule. We have fifty five
new guys and we're gonna ask them to play against
a semi I mean essentially, the SEC is the NFL

(16:30):
B League, right, I mean it's the hardest conference there is.
I mean Toledo was not a pushover. Okay, they're expected
to win their conference. What Stoops has done. The last
streak that I believe that Stoops has that's positive is
he hasn't lost to a non conference team, but every

(16:52):
other streak is gone. It's gone. The Louisville doesn't. I mean,
because the Louis's game is gonna go way. Eventually, We're
gonna have three non conference games, one big quoting the rumors,
one big ten team, and then you have a slate
of semipro mean semi pro. Vanderbilt's even improving themselves. So

(17:15):
I mean, I don't mean to be negative. I want
to be positive, but I don't. And the other side
is I'd much rather lose thirty five forty two, Okay,
then I would seventeen to ten or seventeen to three.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Okay, Mark, let me ask you this. Let me ask
you this, Mark, let me ask you this.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
So if we can wake up, if we can wake up,
or every season seven seven wins. And I'm not saying
that's remarkable, but for Van and I who have seen
how hard it is to even get six wins, So
if we can wake up to seven wins every.

Speaker 7 (17:51):
Season, let's let's okay, so seven we have three teams
that we should win every year, right right, Okay, Then
we currently play Louisville Louisville until last year. I mean,
why do we have a player at a procession stand
during a football.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Game podcast on Wednesdays.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
All Right, Mark, Mark a question three, Mark, I'm gonna
add this question. I'might at this question to you because
and I'm gonna say more after Mark, how many times
in program history and the history of the program have we?

Speaker 7 (18:26):
Ye?

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Have we? Five hundred? Are better in the history of
the program. And reason why I'm saying that in order
to win seven game maybe to have to friend are
right in the other win seven games? You have to
finish five hundred in the conference? Who guarantee someone went correct?
So if seven millions, what is the program? What do

(18:47):
we need?

Speaker 7 (18:48):
What do we need to get there? What investment do
we need? What practice facility? How much nil money do
we need to get to where? I mean, if you
look at the LSU bumps up. I mean there's Georgia,
Tennessee even does something every once in a while. Okay,
Missouri is going the conference Missouri Walkey's what does the

(19:10):
university say? We've had one hundred I think it's is
it one hundred and eleven years of Football's basketball? I'm sorry, yeah,
it's basketball, that's it's But what do we need?

Speaker 3 (19:22):
He has to publish the pony up and.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
Look, here's the thing I don't want you to understand.
LSHU National champion l s U, and I reason I
noticed because I live in mad Rich. LSU won a
national championship. They want six games the next year, I
think they want five and twenty twenty and the sixth.

Speaker 7 (19:43):
The LSU team is one of the greatest teams ever.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
No, no, but, but I want you to understand this.
Right for everyone who says that all the down year,
oh my god, I can recover. LSU and one of
the greatest states of talent won six games after they
won the NASA championship. There's ebbs and flows to every program.
Alabama was down in the dumps when I was in
high school for a period of time. Like we just

(20:08):
feel like just because we have a bad season, we
can't come back. You just said, you just said that
we had a streak right against South Carolina, right, and
now we lost the street. It happens every time, like
you you're not gonna We're not Florida, We're not Tennessee.
We're gonna be teams thirty times in a row. That's
not the streak is gone to end. What's who's the

(20:28):
day that Who's they who say that, who's to say
that we can't break that South Carolina street.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
We have a we got a head to a break.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
Mark.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
We appreciate the car, We appreciate the banner. I love
your energy. We do have to head to a break,
Van Hus, take a break. We'll be back after that.
You're listening Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports socc on news
Radio six thirty w l a P.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
This is Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk presented by
the lead Troop Boards Radio Network on six thirty w
l a P.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk man Thingny
White along with Van House. This overage Sunday Morning Sports
Talking is brought to you back country boy brewing. Van
Houses got a little lively there with you and Mark.
And Mark, I absolutely appreciate it. Carl now and you

(21:21):
you echoed probably the sentiment of a lot of big
blue nations. But Van was making the point that I
typically make, and uh, you know what I looked up
Van last year in Mississippi State was too intent and
I believe the year before that they were five and seven?
You know what they were the year before that?

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Van, what's that eight? And something nine in four probably.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Nine and four.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
But I'm sorry, no, go ahead, I'm you know. What's
weird anthing is it's twofold. When we beat people, they stink,
you know, you know, when we move, we stink. Here's
the weird thing about things that are said is that, oh,

(22:14):
Bandy is getting better. Bandy had one year too, not
getting Bandy had one year. So in my estimation, what
was Vandy's record in twenty twenty three, probably four and
a maybe I'm not sure, right, and then they come

(22:35):
back and when they win and then they have eight
win season, right right, So now all of a sudden,
Vandy's getting better. Not I'm I'm like confused, Why can't
so we had? Yeah? So that works? So so uh
we had a wind stream against Missouri, I mean against

(22:56):
Missouri against South Carolina right right now, the wind street
and all now the world's gonna end. Did you really
think we was gonna rade off twenty wins against South Carolina?
Were gonna eventually lose some games? Now, now, some of
the games we lost, if I remember correctly, the twenty
twenty two season, when Will Leviston played against South Carolina

(23:17):
that act, I mean, we lost, but come on, y'all.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
We didn't have a top we didn't have a top quarterback,
like one of the.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Top NFL draft exactly, which means to this, in my estimation,
twenty eighteen twenty twenty one, everything pretty much went went
our way. Last year, nothing went all way they are. Look,
I'm gonna just say this, I want people to go
watch the games over In an Auburn game, we were
up ten zero, our offense scored ten points in a quarter.

(23:47):
I'm gonna time that that happen. We intercept the ball,
we was on a plus forty yard line, chance to
go up seventeen or thirteen to zero, and we went
back Like those are the kind of twenty one you
would have capitalized the least quored a field goal. Like
those games. Last year there was, as you guys coach

(24:09):
ste early in the show, that was an anomaly because
that were things that that was not four and eighteen.
If you go on rewatch the games with teen eyes,
you could say, man, there were some things that happened
when there it was two or three games where we
should have won that we didn't win. That's why I'm
positive about this season, because that was not a four

(24:29):
and eight team. Last year, we had one bad season
winning seven games in this program. Shouldn't that should never
be sneezed at because it doesn't happen often.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
And that was the point I was gonna make, And
that was the point I was trying to make to Mark.
And like I said, I don't have a problem with
the reason. I don't have a problem with Mark's perception.
I'm just as as I stated, as you as you
and I understand how hard it is to get wins.
And when we played and then before Mark Stoops got here,

(25:01):
all we wanted to win was six games. And at
that point, I guess between Bear and Coach Brooks, there
was probably the best, some of the best years in
Kentucky history. Mark Stoops has done twice what they have done.
Like that, He's done way more than what they have done.
But I just so I kind of wanted to ask Mark,

(25:26):
and I kind of want to ask you if, like
you said, if you sneeze at seven wins. That's why
I was asking, like, if you can just wake up
and just know you're gonna get seven And that's the
problem because because now eight would be great, Like I
would love to just wake up, like Alabama and Georgia
probably came, but like you said, I think Alabama probably
went five and seven a year.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
We beat them, So I mean.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
And there's been something I remember we beat the dog.
We I think we beat LSU my senior year thirty
five zero. Now we beat the dog out of them.
So there's been up and down years at ebbs and
flows of the game, like you said. But it just
kind of rubs me the wrong way when people act like, well,
if that was only seven games, there was a point

(26:12):
in time where six was all you wanted.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Now I'm saying we are a seven win team.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Like you said, it's easy to do seven wins when
you get four cupcakes and try to find a van
das South Carolina and we're on Florida there for a minute.
But when you're thinking, no, I just don't believe them
because we had one.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Four in the season.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
And you are absolutely right. We said this before you
came on the show. Those guys like they didn't show
up at the end of the year. It's not like
those guys were better than us. Our guys just didn't
show up. Maybe they were injured, maybe they weren't focused,
Maybe they were focused on the wrong thing. But the
program isn't where everybody think. But the problem is I'm
trying to convince people that we can win six or

(26:51):
seven games this year and they're saying.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
That's not enough, which is crazy. That's crazy talk.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
And I'm gonna say this. I'm passionate about UK because
I love the university. I understand the disappointment. Like for me,
it is, you should be disappointed about last season, and honestly,
you should be disappointed about the two seven win season.
To be honest with you, there's a difference between disappointment

(27:20):
and throwing the baby out, you know what I'm saying, Like,
were their disappointments. Sure, that doesn't mean that it's the
end of the world, though, so I believe. And if
I don't want to go over those games anymore because
that twenty twenty two seasons, that twenty twenty two season
bothers me a lot because there's two plays that took

(27:42):
two wins off the off of the off of the column.
Two penalties that was at the end of two games
that cost us two wins. So that was a nine
win season the next year. See how I'm getting into it.
I want people to understand I want fans to understand this.
It's every season is a new season. The seasons don't
roll over once you. Once Game twelve is over, everybody

(28:06):
pack up their bags and they move, they go home
for winter break or whatever. And when spring comes, everybody comes,
every player comes with a level of enthusiasm like the
last year. A couple of months never happened. So I
want fans to understand that we should, as fans have
the same feeling. We are zero and zero like everybody else.

(28:26):
Why can't we be excited about the next season.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
You're right, No, I absolutely agree with you. And you
know it's funny though we were talking and I know
we keep starting. I mean, ag just kind of goes
back to the old miss gamesause, I know you're talking
about the twenty twenty two season, and we didn't have
we didn't have old miss on the ropes, that on
the ropes or put our foot on their throat at
their crib twice believe. But our program, but our program

(28:53):
is a four and eight team, although old Misses are
all old missus outside looking in playoff contender.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
Though, right, and add this to it, a think how
many times in the last since twenty eighteen that we
up beating in South Carolina, but South Carolina is ranked
in the preseason. We're not. You're right, You're right, Like,
why does that happen that I would say this. I like,

(29:22):
we're going back because last year, even myself, not you
as much, we thought last season, with some of the
talent we had with Dion and Max and bringing it
Brock and having Dang and Burying comeback, that it's gonna
be a magical year. And it just didn't happen. And

(29:43):
that's frustrating, and I get it, but y'all, I think
this team, as coach Stu said, even though we don't
have the top level talent that we had maybe last year,
the depth from ones to three is so much better.
And when you get into this league, attrition is gonna happen.
No one goes through a season not getting banged up

(30:06):
and maybe missing a half or a game or something.
I think we are we are more able to handle
those attritions than we were last year.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
And I think so.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
And I don't think the coaches are gonna let these
guys give up or lay down. I think they're gonna
stay motivating. I think, like I said, some of the
players that were there last year are gonna stay motivated
just because they know the taste they had in their
mouth at the end of the season last year. So
I think that's gonna be a I think that's gonna
be different. But I did want to before we have
to get the great get back to so based off

(30:36):
like I said, what you're saying, the teams last year.
Like I said, I don't know how people feel about
Josh Hippel. They may feel the same about Josh heipelers
they do about Lane Kiffin, but they lost Dylan Simps
Sampson when they lost top one of the top running
backs in college football. Niko's not coming back. You got
a young you got a youngster name Joey Aguilar not

(31:00):
out of appalation state. Is everybody saying, well, he's not
He's not a power for a quarterback.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
But no son.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
But I don't know where you stand on the that
Tennessee game on our schedule because that was as a
seventh game, that was a back end of the schedule,
Tennessee coming to town. But everybody is one of those
things that Tennessee has a lot to replace or things
are not looking as as they expect them to look
since off season with the Transform portal with n I

(31:30):
L and all that stuff. But you know they're replacing
their quarterback with a quarterback out of Applation State, and
Appalation State plays a great brand of football, like they not.
They knock off big dogs off the time.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
But we don't.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Again, like as you say that, we don't get the
benefit of doubt, and you may feel like you may
feel like the fan base that that Tennessee game is unattainable.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
Larry Vault does right, so so so now, yeah, so
I've heard many people say, well, we got a power
for a quarter. You don't have a great I mean,
but you're giving Tennessee the benefit of the doubt. Like
you just said, they got to fall forward fanfoo quarter quarterback,
But no, they're gonna just be better. Like those are

(32:10):
the kind of things that just others mean so much
about some of the people in all fan base. Why
don't we get the benefit of the doc I don't
know about a Tennessee game because here here's what here's
what I do, Anthony is history really all often repeats itself.
We just cannot beat Tennessee because for whatever, for whatever reason,

(32:31):
it is we have had better teams than Tennessee in
the past seven years and it still come only I
think we would beat them twice. We should have beat
On way more than that. I would never give us
that game. We're gonna have to take that one. I'm
I'm having that as a loss.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
And that's just familiarity.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
That's that's just a history. You know. A Batman will
always say, you look at the last at least five years,
but usually the history of the matchup. I'm going with
the history of the matchup. I wanted to happen. I
think it could happen, but man, every time I think
it's gonna happen, it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Well, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
You kind of have us at four and three starting
getting to the best still four and three, no matter
how you know, you flip a couple of games. And
then so after that we got Auburn. We got Auburn Florida.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Auburn game is ours. Auburn has the same issues their
coaches on the hot seat. He hasn't done for that
program what they thought he would do. I got us
winning Auburn game. And the thing about it, do we
not play better on the road. Absolutely so earlier. We

(33:45):
don't win games at home, which is a problem as
a fan of the school. Now, winning home games is
a problem, but when we go on the road, we
find a way to win games that we shouldn't.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
Yeah, I think you more focused.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Like we said on Wednesday night at nine pm Eastern
saying time that, Yeah, you got you more focus. You
don't have distractions of you know, family coming in town
watch the game, or just I mean just your neighbor,
I mean your normal regular behaviors that you you know,
maybe if it's you're dating somebody or right, you know,
just local local.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yeah, you have nothing to do but focus on that
game plans. Get ready to go in there and get done.
And you don't make your plans when you come back home.
But otherwise when you're on the road, you got done
to do, but sit in the hotel and talk to
your teammates and study the playbook exactly. Uh, Florida DJ
Lagway that big of an influence.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
Look, this is this is the one that that is
the soccer line of Florida. Games are the are the
tough ones for me because of the quarterback. Here's the
thing about Lagway. This is like week nine right. Is
he going to be healthy?

Speaker 3 (34:51):
That's true too.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
See that's that's the that's the calling card on that one.
Is he going to be healthy? The lagway is healthy,
it's going to be a struggle if he I'm not
saying not play if he's banged up. We all saw
a what happ in the brock when he was banged
up last year. The quarterback doesn't play the same way
when they're banged up. His advantage he has a lively armed,

(35:14):
has an nfl arm, but his legs are are the
one that helps that offense go. If he cannot run
and he's a little skittish because he's hurt, that can
be a weird game because it's because it's at home.
But I'm label that as a batman as a loss
as of right now.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
We will come back and we'll discuss Vanderbilt and probably
Louisville with Van Vilts in the conference. Louisville is not
Van House. Florida was five and seven in twenty twenty three.
We were seven to six, but I guess our wins
don't count their's count double. We will be back to
close this show out after this year. Listening to Stockyards
Bank so when the sports talking he was Radio six
point thirty WL.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
This is Stockyards Bank Sunday Mornings Sports Talk, presented by
the lead troop Boardge Radio Natural on six point thirty WLAP.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony
White along with Van House and that is Bo Robinson,
planned of music.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Bo Robinson. What the heck does they have to do
with anything?

Speaker 8 (36:22):
Oh well, hang on, hang on, because I was out
last weekend. You know, we like to spread our wings
when it comes to pop culture topics and pay tribute
to people that had passed away, and we kind of
missed Ozzy because I was out. However, last Sunday, Lonnie
Anderson passed away. And you know who Lonnie Anderson was,

(36:46):
Jennifer Marlow on WKRP in Cincinnati. I saw that the
entire reason we all got into radio was because of
the BUKRP in Cincinnati. So I just wanted to pay
a little tribute to Lonnie Anderson growing up twenty minutes
south of Cincinnati and loving WKRP watching it on TV.
Of course, you know, I'm five six years old and

(37:07):
I never caught all the jokes until much later in life.
I really did think WKRP was in Cincinnati.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (37:16):
Yeah, I really thought for some reason they were like
right around the corner from Barney Miller. I didn't know
any better. Here at forty eight years old, I still
believe WKRP is in Cincinnati Miller.

Speaker 7 (37:28):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
Well, we appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Let me get to this really quickly because I do
have to Vanderbilt Van House Pavia win.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
I know we showed on time. I'm gonna be quick win.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Uh November twenty second, second to last game.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
Oh you said win? I thought you said win.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
Wh no, no win no no aw.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Okay, because and you know you know it's in Nashville.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
It don't matter last time I went to Nashville. Since
people want to say that we are we have a
losing streak against a team at home, not a losing streak,
but a home losing trip against Vandy. Well we'll keep
all our role winning stream against Vandy beating them at
vand again because last time Max Harrison got himself a
first round got himself drafted off of that Vandy game.

(38:21):
Last time we played them there in.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Louisville, the uh the big dog game, Dogs and Cats.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
That that one contact me after the Vandy game and
I tell you after that's that's a that's a coin toss.
I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
The Florida game, you should have a better feel.

Speaker 5 (38:43):
Nah.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
Nah, I'm only run into after the Vandy game to
to to to actually see out this team is still flowing.
We because Louisville returned running backs, They're gonna be a
good team on for sure. And the additional reason why
I say that, Anthony, is because they're not going to

(39:04):
get beat up. They have to hand the type of
attrition that we have to go through playing at our conference.
Oh my thing is how healthy are we're going to
be going into that game?

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Absolutely?

Speaker 4 (39:16):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Bo autographs of her book signing tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (39:20):
Yes, Memorial Coliseum seventy five years has monument stage and
arena by our friend Kevin Cook. The book signing is
tomorrow at five point thirty. You better get to the
registration right now because I think they're going to close
it off tomorrow morning. UK now dot uk Y dot edu.
There's a big article on it and the registration link
is in that article and I'll put out a link

(39:41):
on Twitter at BO Big Blue. I'll do that later
on this afternoon for everybody. Should be a good one
at Jim Andrews, Dicky Bill, Doug Flynn, Mike Flynn, Goose Gibbons,
Ralph Hacker, Tom Hammond will be there, Coach Dicky Parsons,
Larry Stamper, Kenny Walker, the Blonde Bomber, Jay Schidler. It's
gonna be a ton of people on hand, former players,
a notables, so this will be fun.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Can't wait to read the book to come on.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
I'll get out there and do it. Thank you Van Howles,
appreciate you for joining us. Jack Pilgrim always staying on
their air with me holding us down halfway through the show.
Thank to coach An war Stewart for joining us this morning,
and all you call. All the calls were great today.
We appreciate all of that. Thanks Bob Robinson for keeping
us on air. I'm Anthony White and this has been

(40:24):
Stockyards Bank Sunny Winding Sports Talking News Radio six thirty
WLAP