Sunday Morning Sports Talk - September 15, 2024 - Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the home of the Wildcats. Six thirty WLAP.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome Back, Stockyards Bank Sunday one of Sports talking Anthony
White along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vaught. Coming from
Clark's Main Street Market studios and beautiful downtown Lexton, Kentucky
on the seventh floor. I don't even know what the
name of the buildings on the seventh floor. Talking to
UK Football. Well, there's a lot been thrown around. The

(00:26):
phone lines are still lit up if you like to
join them. Eight five nine to eight zero two two
eight seven eight five nine two eight zero Cats, Jack
Pilgrim and Larry Vaught. Mark Berger the former host of
this show. One of the former hosts of the show.
There's been several over the past three four years. He's

(00:46):
all types of wound up. He's on Twitter and if
you type in Twitter it goes automatically X. So that's
just kind of odd in itself that that's the the
platform formerly known as Twitter. If you type in tw,
it'll take you to X because it is now known
as X. He says, what makes you think Bush Hampden

(01:06):
has any real saying anything? Why should we know any
different than every other office of coordinator, we've churned in
one that who's churned in one year? The end of
the game was the most Mark Stoops saying that it
happened somehowever many years anyhow, So you said the end
of the game was a Mark Stoops things.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
And he's also saying.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
That that these people are not getting the choice. Jack Pilgrim,
I want to say this before we get the phone call.
I want to say I always there's there's always a
point of what's going on during the game. And I
understand what Larry Vaughan and Larry Vaughd and Mark Berger
are on the same thing that well, you can't if

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you need to go ahead and try and score, because
if you don't score, you're not going to get the
ball back. But if your offense is showing no type
of in sort of ability to move the ball and
the possibly scoring, Like I said, now, if it was
third and four, third and three or fourth and three, third,
fourth and four, I might be a little bit better
with it. But eight yards is hard to pick up

(02:14):
because even if it was seven or eight, if it's eight,
you got to pick up nine like you have. You
can make it a measurable but you still have to
get over there. So I just think it's it's kind
of tough everybody I have and I'm with Dennis because
Mark Berger went on to be rate Dennis for his.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Thoughts.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
So going forward that I think we get to I
would I had more faith that we would get a
three and out than I had of us converting the
fourth and eight, and so I don't. I know, we
kind of talked about it a little bit more Jack,
but it's it's still going on. Everybody's over in the
Twitter feed talking about it. Some of the callers that

(02:54):
talked about it, are you okay with I mean, have
you changed your mind or are you still think I
think you were on the side of you wanted three
and out, you wanted them to do they did, and
you know, hopefully the defense will hope.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
It's tough. It really is because again, hindsight is always
twenty twenty and we can look at it and go, oh, well,
an obvious play would have been to, you know, go
for the points and go for the win. You have
forty seven yards to go to beat the number one
team in college football. Like of course, after the fact,
your your gut is to say, well, yeah, of course

(03:37):
we should have done it, but I understand and Stoops
even said that, he said, I was going for it
no matter what. Had it been any closer than fourth
and seven, fourth and eighth, had had they gotten it
to a fourth and five, fourth and three. Stoops made
it clear that he was he was absolutely going for it.
He just kind of like what you're saying, and he

(03:57):
just thought that eight yards are really really long way
to go after not being able to move the football
much of any throughout the game. So it's tough, you know,
in my opinion, had things gone disastrously and those in
that one snap and they failed to convert, pick it off,

(04:18):
get you know, fummeled the ball, get sacked, stripsack, whatever
the worst case scenario would have been on that fourth
and seven, you would have probably left that game going. Well,
you can never say Stoops didn't try. That's probably the
devil's advocate counter to that and saying, well, you know,
you never know until you know what if that is
the you know, opportunity, and you know, probably be a

(04:40):
little harsher that they couldn't get it closer to you know,
they closer than seven yards on three different tries to
get it to get it to that fourth and fourth
and seven, fourth and eight, So it sucks. I probably
looking back at it, you know, seeing the screen grab
of where they were exactly on that punt. I mean
you how Alex Rainer had been kicking up to that point.

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You only you know, you're you basically view it as
there were one first down conversion away from winning the
football game. If you look at it and through those
you know that lens, you probably say, you know, get
me another five, six, seven, eight yards and Alex Rayners
winning the game for you. As time expires, you probably
sing a little bit of a different tune. But in
a vacuum, it could have gone either way, especially how

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they hadn't been able to move the ball up to
that point. So very frustrating that it comes down to
a very conservative, uh this decision to punt for it
and you know, leave it, leave the ball in George's
hands to close out the clock instead of your own.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
If he gets sacked, I'm sure the fan but if
he gets sacked or maybe sacked, mumbo scoop score or
cause if he gets why did you go for it?
Your defense playing so well?

Speaker 4 (05:50):
So?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
I mean fan base, as Jack said, the fan base
does have a twenty twenty at this point that they
knew exactly what should have happened because the one thing
we did do did not work. But Larry Vaught, before
we get back to the phone lines, which the big
ass fans hotlines number is eight five nine two eight
zero two two eight seven eight five nine to two
eight zero cap, Larry Vaught, I do have a question
bout getting our offense going. I got put your put

(06:11):
your offensive coordinator hat on. I know you're gonna defer
to me. I already got my answer, but the people
want to know what you got to say, because you
are the great Larry Vaught, and I will comment after
our after our caller. But everybody's questioning the offense. Uh
is Bush under the thumb of Mark Stoops? Uh is

(06:33):
Bush doing? Is he doing what he was paid to
come here do? Or is he handicapped by either Mark Stoup?
Is he handcapped by the offensive line? Is he handicapped
by I'm not sure that Brock Vandergriss progressions and UH
processing is what it takes to run a fast paced offense,
and those are things that goes in with some of

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Mark Stoops questioning too. Brock seems to hold the ball
a little bit longer than I would that I would like.
I thought he did that in the spring as well,
but I thought that was just learning and we were
just making sure he learns the reads. But it seems
to continue to happen. The big question is someone text
me last night and said, Demi sum will Curanbay reminds
them of me. He does not remind you of me
because I was not as big or as fast as

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he is. Demi is nice. I like what Demy's doing.
Jamarrow and will Cox has come on. They're both average
over four yards security and Jason Patterson when he comes back,
he's going to be in that same thing. Here's a question, Larry,
when Chip train him comes in, do you disturb the
offense that has not settled yet and implement him?

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Or has Demi?

Speaker 2 (07:39):
It was either you or Jack who said that Demi's
not getting enough credit. So when Chip comes back, does
he does he take over the rains or does he
work his way back into the mix and rotation? And
at the second spot, Oh, I think he has to
work his way back in.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
But I think you've got to give him a chance
to get out there. I mean that's the guy, you
number one guy going to the season, and he's been hurt,
you just don't forget about him, especially on an offense.
Hadn't scored a touchdown in two weeks.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
So I think it was no fault of Demi though
that they haven't scored a score.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
Maybe maybe not. I mean, I don't know, but you
can't just sit there and say, well, we're so good,
we don't want to put our what we thought was
gonna be our number one running back. They must have
thought he's gonna be number one for a reason.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Correct, correct, correct? I agree.

Speaker 5 (08:23):
So, I mean, and if he's hurt, I don't think
he is burying back there. I think, yeah, you're working
back in there now. Maybe you use Demi it in
different ways in what you're anticipating when the season started,
or maybe find ways to get them both on the
field and do some things with them. Because but one
thing may you got to find a way to put
the ball in the end zone.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, that is true. I don't care if it's in
Demi's hands, ships Buryings Dames.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
Somebody's got to score.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, that is one thing we have to do. We
haven't scored in SEC yet, But Uh, we are scoring
on the phone lines, big ass fans, hot lines, wide open.
Let's get over there. See what Alvin has to say.
Good morning, Alvin us the bend wagons halfway back forward.
But I saved you a seat because I knew you
were going to be on it.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
Well, I appreciate it. The one bright spot is the
kicker that Jack Pilgrim just talked about. I mean, in
previous years, the kicker lost this games by you know,
shanking the ball overhere the the KT studios. But you
had a guy that came in was poorsed, and I
think his confidence was lifted when he hit it to

(09:28):
hit the fifty feth five yard field goal to put
us up three nothing. But there are some observations that
you can make from the game. I think the Kentucky
dominated both sides of the ball, offensive line and the
defense was very good. I thought that the last drive,
I don't know why you throw the ball when you're

(09:50):
running the ball down there thought. I think that you
just got to expect that the speed of those guys
that's projected to be the number one players going into
the NFL, you've beaten them with the run. I think
you just stick with the run if you're gonna throw
the ball, I think you had a chance to maybe

(10:11):
do the old fashioned fleet flicker against them, and you
probably had a guy running three down the sideline, so
I felt like that you could have maybe throw in
one gadget play during that drive. I think you go
fourth and eight. I think you punched the ball simply
because your defense was doing great. I don't think you're

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gonna be able to get no first down on fourth
and eight against that particular team because their defensive coordinator
probably gets paid three point five million to make defensive
type decisions that would have stopped at fourth and eight.
You know, we didn't get the call on the fumble
with Fellow tick and got out of the area r

(10:53):
and you know the interception. We had a chance to
get to recover the fumble at their last drive.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
We didn't get that.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
It seemed like the last two or three games we
haven't been able to really get balls on the on
the surface. So that's that that happles us as well.
My question is what has been Mark Duke's biggest signature
win against the team that come in to Krogerfield Commonwealth
Stadium before that To win a game that we didn't

(11:22):
expect that he would win. Can you take and circle
his biggest, biggest, biggest win as a Kentucky football coach.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Thank you for the call, Alvin. We actually give this guy,
give us some time to research. We're going to head
the break a little bit earlier. This is normal time,
but we're gonna talk about it, and we are going
to talk about the fumble slash, incomplete pass, slash, touchdown, slash,
whatever you want to call that. I have opinions on that.
Larry Vauda has been asking about that. We're going to

(11:52):
talk about that as well. Let's take Alvin's question after this,
you're listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday when the sports talk
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Speaker 1 (12:00):
Is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty w LAP.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday morning sports Talk on Anthony
White along with Jack Pilgrim for one more segment and
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(12:29):
don't know if you guys, because during the break I
was doing other things who was the last Caller album?
Wanted to know what was the biggest win in Kroger
slash Comerwell Stadium under the Mark Stoops era.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Do either one of you have a a jab at
that going into break? I know we're gonna group, I
guess become increasingly more in balanced.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
I mean, I'll jump in. I mean, I think the
Mississippi State game job there in the early years with
Austin mcginness's KIG, he's had a couple of signature ones
that you know, South Carolina a couple of times early
on especially, but in terms of the signature, you know,

(13:23):
the I'd say probably Florida in Gainesville, a couple of
big time signature ones, but obviously none to the stratosphere
that this one would have taken. Take in Kentucky that
he's been waiting for this one. He's knocked down essentially
every single barrier barricade that you know, over the years.

(13:45):
We've talked about it that you know, he's he's beaten
every other high profile program in the SEC other than Georgia,
and this is the closest that's he's ever come to
doing that. So that's why this one hurts so much.
Because he'd been waiting for that signature, signature win against
the best team in the SEC, and unfortunately we were
a point away from doing so.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Larry vaugh, I'm not sure if I count South Carolina
as a huge win at any era, especially even under
Mark Stoops, And I'm not sure if that's what Alvin
was trying to pull out. I guess calling him to
task on how like how big are your accomplishments? But
I'm kind of going back and I thought that we

(14:29):
had beat Florida at home under his tenure, and I'm
looking for it. But it does seem at this point,
it does seem like South Carolina may be as big
as wins, which historically is not really that big of
a deals. I don't know, Like I said, I don't know
offhand if you if he did say to Mississippi State
was one as well, which I don't disagree with that one.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
So you can't go with the twenty eighteen win against
Florida that brought the.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Streak and that was in Florida, right, I believe? So, No,
he said at home, that was my thing. He said
at home, Okay, that was the one thing that's what's
driving everything bad. We whipped Tennessee down over Garantando. We
beat him down there, and both all those wins were
on the road, which is kind of odd, But so
I'm kind of thinking at home was a staple win

(15:19):
and sheesh, I think Alvin is on the something. I
think Alvin may be jerking our chains a little bit
to try to provoke some kind of uproar.

Speaker 5 (15:30):
Yeah, I think there's not a Rich Brooks like win
over LSU or Georgia. There's not a hel Mummy win
over Alabama. There's not that kind of really signature home
win for Mark Stews And the one I'm like, Jack,
the one that pops out to you is the one
against Mississippi State because it saved his job. So I

(15:50):
don't know if you put that in the signature wins
kind of thing other than just was a win of necessity.
But a couple of these biggest wins have been on
the road. And I mean, basically Mark has been as
successful as he has been at Kentucky because he was
able to beat Missouri in South Carolina for a number

(16:12):
of years.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Now.

Speaker 5 (16:13):
Unfortunately, in the last couple of years that's kind of
trended the other direction, and that's not a good thing.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
That uh, that Mississippi State win was Dad Prescott.

Speaker 5 (16:26):
No, I don't think it was.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
I would I would assumed it was years prior to that.
I didn't get it enough for sir, but I but
it was a I know that is like you said,
that was a game that saved his career or whatever.
But let's get to the phone line before we get
Jack up out here. So you may have questions for Jack,
Let's get to the phone line to see what Michael
has to say.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Good morning, Michael, what do you got for us?

Speaker 4 (16:49):
Gentlemen? I'm going to give it to Big Blue Nation,
real hot and heavy this morning. I'm gonna tell you
why I'm I'm extremely optimistic about the rest of the season,
which when I called last week, Anthony, I think maybe
we were the only two that were left. But I'm
gonna tell you why. We physically man handled Georgia last night.

(17:13):
On the offensive line, the backups came in last night
they want to start, just saying look at me, coach,
I want to start. They physically man handled Georgia up
on front. All running back had great room to run,
they gave great protection. And on the defensive line, we
just flat whipped them. We whipped them all night long. Buddy.

(17:34):
When's the last time a football team in the Southeastern
Conference can say they man handled Georgia in the trenches?
And the University of Kentucky did it last night. And
we're going to the offense is going to get right
against Ohio. And I'm telling you we were. We were
about an eighty twenty chance to win at Old Miss.

(17:56):
Now that goes to about sixty forty. And I'm not
worried about Vandy, Florida and Auburn. Bring them on, Bring
them on, man, bring on Marvell, and bring on Murray State.
There's a lot of winnable games. But I want to
answer that question, Anthony, did we or did we not
man handle the Georgia Bulldogs in the trenches last night?

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Thank you for the call, Michael. We appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Jack Pilgrim, I know you got to get get up
out of here, and Larry Vaughden, I have a long
show left ahead of us.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
I do agree with Michael for the most part. I
think we pretty rushing wise. We did may handle him
up front, and I guess passing setting is a little different.
We got about a minute left do you feel like
Michael that we may and hand him up front, or
do you think some of the passing woes will not
allow you to co sign for Michael.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Jack, Yeah, I think that's the way to describe it.
And that's what again, that's what made the South Carolina
game so frustrating because in that exact same area Kentucky
got whooped. So how can they hold firm the way
they did against a defensive absolute juggernauts and you know,
be able to move the football on the ground, especially

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the way they were able to, and then just struggle
the way they did especially in past protection a week ago.
So it's just those inconsistencies that Kentucky just has to
get cleaned up and understand that this is something that
they are capable of. And you know, without Jagger Burden
and some of these other injuries that they face, nowhere
to go but up with with him getting healthier and

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getting the meat status of the schedule.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
That is Jack Pilgrim, Man, appreciate you as always, Larry Vaught.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
We come back.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
We're gonna hand off some game balls. You sorry, where
you want your game balls?

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Ago?

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Jack Pilgrim, take care of Billy Man. Enjoy your Sunday.
The weather is coming down, is getting a little cool.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
We'll be back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on
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Now Jack Pilgrim is often to the sunset talking to
mostly UK's morally victorious lost against the number one Georgia Bulldogs.

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Speaker 5 (20:34):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
It was brought to my attention before we get back
to football, that are our national champion former national champion
of volleyball team will be performing and competing on Wednesday,
September the eighteen at Memorial Coliseum, the newly renovated Memorial Coliseum.

(20:59):
That Larry and I got to go over there and check.
I'm sure Larry's checked it out a little bit more
than me. Or that may have been his first match
because he didn't seem so they will be playing Louis
the Cardinals. The Dirty Birds are coming to town Wednesday,
seven pm. You can watch it on ESPN or as
my man bo let me know, you can check it

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out here on these very these very waves six thirty am.
Wlap right.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
We'll be on the air at seven o'clock with Andrew Kappus,
who does a great job doing play by play for volleyball.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
And I did not know I had what to I
had a brought worst two sliders and an adult margarita
that was brought to me by that was brought for
me by the nineteen seventy four Collective, one of the
people there. And the game was over. So so it

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doesn't take a whole lot of your day. And the
girls are phenomenal. They are great. Larry Vaught, I don't
know if you enjoyed the game as much as I did,
because you were sitting down here next to the great
Sandy Bell like mid court great, you know, just off
in your zone. I was over there, man, rubbing elbows
with with Natalie. I don't know what her name is.
I always call her maiden name. I never even tried

(22:19):
to figure out what her new name is who's over
the K Club, And I don't think the K Club
really deals with UK Ticketmaster because I'm always taking care
of about the K Club UK ticket Master. They know
what they can do.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Uh. But Larry Vaught, did you enjoy your time over there?

Speaker 5 (22:39):
I did. I've been to three matches I think this
year now.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
And the new digs Yeah, okay, all right, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
This one was a little bit nicer because I had
access to the VFP section thank to thanks to Joning
the w nineteen seventy four collective, So it was nice
to see what is there. And that's a great way
to watch a match. If you're we're going to get
tickets and wanted access, well that'd be a great place
to watch a lot of matches right there. But anxious

(23:07):
for Wednesday's match up against Louisville should be a really
good look. You got a really nice win over SMU
at SMU on Friday, and then won the first set
against Purdue on Saturday, but then I just couldn't quite
match up the last three sets and lost. But again perdue,
it's one of the nation's better teams. I don't think
he's lost the match this year, so again not like

(23:30):
Craig Skinner, this plays just gimme games. He plays really
good folks, and.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
The Big ten is pretty powerful on the on the
volleyball stage everybody. I do want to bring up when
I watched them against Nebraska. You know, those first two sets,
they were really competitive, and I think they're competitive throughout
the game. They won the second set, I believe against Nebraska,
and like as you said, they won the first set
against Perdue. And it is that due to Emma and

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in some of the girls having to play all game long,
like maybe fatigue sets in, or because like you said,
the first two matches. They compete with anybody in the country.
The problem is is the best out of three?

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Right?

Speaker 5 (24:13):
No, I think well.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
To five I at them.

Speaker 5 (24:16):
Yeah, I think most of the top teams, their best
players play the whole time. So I mean that's been
something that Craig's always done. You're not going to take
your best players off the court. They don't seem to fatigue.
They just keep going and going. And that's pretty much
the formula that every team has.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
But why it sets It seems like sets three in
past sets one and two, we are competitive, you know
what I mean? If we're better than the team, since
it's like we saw against Ball STATEUS one, two, three
when it's over. But like I said, the games I've
watched against competitive teams one and two we are competitive,
then the third one we seem to lose a lot

(24:55):
of steam, and then in the fourth one, like I said,
it's not like we laid out. It's not like the
UK football against South Carolina. But it just kind of
seems to me that there's a theme of on set
three and going forward that we don't seem to win
that many of them in those cases.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
Yeah, I mean that's uh, it happens sometimes. So but
now I think he's I don't think he's gonna set
him a groom or Brooklyn delay out no matter what.
So I think they're gonna keep playing. But I don't
know if it's fatigue or sometimes the other team just
makes adjustments and that there's a lot of swings of
momentum in volleyball, which is what makes it so much
fun to watch elst of the time.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
I give you that. I give you that, But our
football team is back. Apparently Mike Michael and I are
cheating Chunk because I like Michael's calling. He said, last
week we were the only two believing. Larry Vaught may
not be believing. I don't know if he's gonna get
any more belief after beating If we beat an Ohio
University team and then we have old miss. So Larry

(25:57):
Vaugh is gonna have to pick aside. You can't. You can't.
If you don't pick a side, Larry, You're just gonna
have to hang on to the bumper. But I do
want to throw out some I do want to throw
out some some awards. Man, that's gonna be our that's
gonna be our new thing throughout the year. We're gonna
have to throw out some awards. Guys need to be recognized.
Demmy is doing a great job like Demy is is

(26:18):
nice like he He's gonna get you four and I
only require you to get me three three and a
half yards.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
He's gonna get you four or five yards per carry.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
He's gonna catch the ball if you if you throw
it to him. Dion Walker not showing up on the
stat sheets, but everybody else is showing up on the
stat sheets because of Dion Walker. But yesterday Visa, I
want to give out Player of the Games to demy.
I want to give it out to Zion Childress, Dear

(26:50):
Jackson and nephew Tyant Bryant. That's where I'm at with it.
And that does not mean that Dion Walker didn't do
his thing. It does not mean Max hair Wrison didn't
do his thing. It doesn't mean Jordan love It or
any of those. But when you talk about standout, stand out,
I don't know Zion Chilches has played such a game
in his career.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Here at Kentucky, Larry Vaught, well, he.

Speaker 5 (27:14):
Had five tackles in the first I think nine minutes
of the game. He kind of I thought set the
tone for the UK defense today. We're here to play.
Just follow me and this is how we're going to play.
And just think what that game would have been. If
they hadn't wiped out that interception return for the touchdown
that he had, he'd probably been a SEC Player of
the Week. Would be my guess that if that play

(27:36):
had held up at Kentucky he'd won the game. That
would have probably cut him that. But yeah, he played
a whole hole lot better and with such aggressiveness at all.
It was really fun to watch like that. But really,
I mean, I thought the whole defense played pretty well.
I mean you mentioned Eric Jackson, right, yes, sir, Yeah,

(27:56):
I liked him a lot too. I thought the guy's
up front held up well. I mean again, I still
think george is a pretty good darn good team. When
you could hold that offense and check as well as
Kentucky did that, that's pretty impressive. Of course, they had,
as Stoop said, they had the right recipe. They kept
the ball a lot on offense by running it, getting

(28:17):
first downs, keeping the clock going. Georgia didn't have quite
as many opportunities as probably normal, but in the second
half or they're late with a chance to win the
you know, to win the game, I think you just
give Georgia credit. They had what two really nice drives
back to back field goal on one, touchdown on the

(28:40):
other one, and I mean, you just give them credit
for that. And then, like I said, then on the
last drive when they had to run the clock out,
they basically ran the clock out. So I think in
that I don't give negatives to the defense as much
as I just give Georgia credit for doing what it
had to do to win the game like it usually does.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, and that's I guess that's kind of recipe coming in.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
And I noticed you talked about my defense that I
will say this, I'm gonna I was gonna, Well, I'm
gonna ask you this first, you uh, offense, you have
any offensive game balls to give out? Because you did.
You spoke high of the defense, which that's easy for
you to do because I already told you going in.
I gave you a cheat sheet going into the year.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
Well, I think you got to give Demi one. I
don't think there's any doubts you gotta give demmy one.
And I don't know enough to know how offensive lineman
great out because that's a I mean, I'm just not
smart enough. But I thought it looked to me like
just from watching that, Eli Cox more than held his
own in the middle of the line. I think that

(29:43):
makes it he can do that. That helps a lot
of other things there. So if I was giving one
out the a UK lineman just from what I observed,
would be Eli Cox.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
And I did see, Uh, you know one thing I've
been critical about. I did see Barrion Brown ran a
couple of different routes. I've seen him run a co
back route. He ran a couple of different routes sequences.
I've seen him running hitch, which is I thought was
pretty eye opening for me what they're trying to get.
Some things going on with that, So I thought that

(30:13):
was pretty big day and called a couple of balls.
They both had eleven targets only pulled in six of them,
which I don't know if I like that that scenario.
But also, as I stated earlier, that we I don't
know if our reads are quick enough, our processing are
quick enough where we need the ball to come out
on time. We ran a lot of different or we

(30:34):
ran some formations where we isolated the receiver on the
backside and we won some of them. But I would like,
and this is one thing I keep telling you, I
would like for when we get into that your receiver
has so much Craigie's Quentin McCory at Keel saying, I
would love that when we isolate you that we know
you're gonna win. Like if we got to take stand

(30:54):
in the pocket, take the heat and deliver the ball.
I think that's where we need to get to. And
I still don't think we're that bear Bush's new brocket
is new. The receivers are getting the no Brock. I
think those are some struggles. How much confidence because we
don't get to watch practice like it was in the
nineteen hundred, how much confidence do you have are we
gonna clean up some of these offensive things because typically,

(31:17):
and there's what much football as you would watch, typically
when we struggle on offense, we kind of just struggled
throughout the season. It just kind of clunks along. We
don't really ever catch on. Like Liam's first year, that
first game when we came out and Wandlle's running through
defensive backfields and you know, everything was at our disposal.
We were just having a good time. It was fun,
and it can need to be fun all year. But

(31:38):
the years I would say, in the past fifteen years
that I've been covering UK football, it seems like when
we've struggled, we have clunked along the season. You have
faith that we're gonna get our offense in a rhythm
at some point this year?

Speaker 5 (31:53):
Uh what, I guess I gotta have faith through your
chest ask, But yeah, I think so. I do think
they played two pretty strong defenses in a row without
just basically at half of a warm up game to
get ready for that. I think playing Ohio hopefully will
help that. But again, it does kind of worry me

(32:13):
because I thought, I thought you always had told me
that if you're on the offense, you had to have
a go to play, that when you knew you needed
seven yards, you knew you could get it anytime that
you had to have a go to play. Now you
were telling me with fourth and eight Kentucky that said
to have a play they know they can get eight
yards on. That does worry me a little bit. Or
is that just because they were playing Georgia and you

(32:34):
felt like they wouldn't be able to get eight yards
on they won't have a go to play that can
do that.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
No, I don't think they do. And that's what concerned me.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
I mean, I know this is a new officer quarter
of that, but that's what concerned me last week was
that when we need to pick up first downs on
third down, we need to play.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
It was always a different look.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
If you go back and watch film, probably de Andre
Woodson years, Tim Couch years.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Trying to think of any other time. I mean, I
guess you.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Can go to Lynn Bowden year at quarterback, but they
always like you can look at the formation on third
down is going DOWNE. The route might be different, the
emotions may be different, uh, the play may be somewhat different,
but it was always uh, it was always the same look.
So the defense that had no idea what was going
but we knew that. Look, we're gonna convert this. That

(33:23):
is Larry Vaught on the other side with me. We're
gonna take a break and we'll be back after this.
You listen to Stockyards Bank Sunday when the sports stop
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Speaker 1 (33:33):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty w LAP, because.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
You are the post of the fans, and I think
I'm in the post of the players. So I try
to stay emotionally stable so that we can render some
good advice. And the brow Down and Mark Berger's over
here on the X machine getting on my nerves. So
I'm gonna try to keep my composure. But Larry Vaut

(33:59):
was brought to my team engine during the break is
I don't really believe in moral victories, And as I
told Browdown on the X machine, I don't. I don't
have anything to gain or lose. I just host already
to show on Sunday, so I just have to have
reasoning for it. I mean, if it's if it's good,
I'm I didn't. I didn't bet on the money.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
I don't. I'm not.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
I don't get a ring if they win, if they
win out or anything else. But from what everybody was
talking about last week, you can't just keep on stealing
people's joy.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
And speaking of stealing people's joy.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
If our fan base like Browdown and and Mark Berger
and those guys feel as if, ohole you you think
that's good. Last week y'all was not happy at all.
But now all of a sudden, we do have a
competitive football team. And everybody thought this was gonna be
a blowout. The game was a lot closer. We had
an opportunity to win. They're not impressed. We're not trying
to impress you. Browdown, So Mark Berger and browd Down,

(34:50):
you know what you guys can do. But what are
Georgia fans thinking, Larry.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Vapp about their team or about about their team?

Speaker 5 (35:03):
I would say they're not overly thrilled right now. But
I think the nice thing about it when you win
forty two in a row, you just figure, well, we
played our bad game and we still won, and we'll
just keep right on going. I think that when you
just have that kind of swag or air of confidence
about you, you don't second guess yourself as much. But
I think they probably had that impressive win over Clemson.

(35:24):
I think they probably, as you said, maybe you didn't
totally respect Kentucky because of what happens against South Carolina,
I think. But I think the difference is they learned
their lesson and still got out out of there with
an sec.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Roadway now, so no sweat and you don't think there's
any sweat on their brows or a little oh.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
Huh not at this point because they've been too good.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Interesting kind of sounds like UK basketball. We lose game,
and that's one thing about browdown. Y'all If we lose
game UK but all we will be all right.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
They're just young.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Our team is getting better, and we stand behind that team.
We look terrible in the game or something, and all
of a sudden, y'all want to call for the most
successful coach in UK football history. Y'all want to call
for his head. Hey man, me and Michael are driving
this this bandwagon. Bot Robinson he's back there, just you know,
changing the music around. So he's on the bandwagon too.

(36:21):
I don't want to leave him out. Larry Vat has
one foot out. I got both my feet in. I
got one foot on the gas pedal. No breaks, all gas,
no breaks. We'll be back after this. You'll listen to
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