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September 22, 2024 • 38 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I am
Anthony White along with the great Larry Vaught, coming to
you from Clark's Main Street Market Studios. I'm beautiful downtown Lexton, Kentucky.
And today it is beautiful because the Cats won yesterday.
And it's not raining. It ain't too It is a

(00:25):
little warm, but it ain't extremely hot. But been kicking
around some ideas on a break with the great Golden
leg Alex. How's it going right? I ain't get a
chance to say, you just gonna jump right in there, man.
That's what happened last week. That's what happened last week
when we went for the field goal and everybody wanted

(00:47):
to stuff to run an extra play because you just
you told coach, ain't coach let me kick it?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Or did you not?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
I didn't say anything to coach. I let coach make
that decision.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
But all right, well, where that's not what we're here for.
What we're here for is talk about the great things
you're doing in the community. And tell us about some
of the things you are doing in the community working
with the nineteen seventy four w nineteen seventy four collective.
What kind of things are you guys doing in the community.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, the w nineteen seventy four Collective has given me
a lot of opportunity. We work with a lot of
the Scott County Man Society. We try and get these
these pets adopted. We got to certain places around Lexington
and yeah, we try and get these these pets at home,
try and find them a home.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
How successful are you finding those pets at home? I
know you work with Jonie Fowler and she's been in
here quite a few times.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
And I've changed my mind because she stalled me out
so long.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
I was looking for a little Shitsu or Yorkie and
everybody we brought it here, they'll find me once. Some
people she told me, Well, one of the volleyball girls
told me it's gonna be like one hundred and.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Eight dollars or something like that.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
And she sends me a text message, gonna be three
hundred dollars, and I'm you got the Just getting those
pets a warm home is a great thing. I'm just
never home enough. But then they never found me the pet.
The price kept going up. So if I were to
ask you to get me a ship suit, what is
gonna run me, and when can you get it to me?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
I can get you a ship to you want a ship, Suet,
I can find you one biscuit.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Jones said something. Who's what his biscuit look like? What
colors biscuits looked like?

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I think biscuits like a mix of black and gray.
She's a good looking dog. Nine year old biscuit. You
know she's gonna be nine?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Ye oh? Lord man, they still trying to be adopted
to nine?

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Nine? Yeah, I guess the owner just just left biscuit.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh okay, Oh so they were breathing waiting in nine
and well, no, because what his dog is going?

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Six years?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Dang that joke about Larry Vaughk's age. Larry Vaught, what
is what is six times nine?

Speaker 4 (03:07):
That would be fifty four? I say, but you gotta
quit whining. There's your offer to get you a dog.
You've been wanting one to say yes on, Alex, hook
you up right here today.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I will tell you this, Alex Jony both if I
get a pet and Larry Vaught tell we had this
conversation off air. If I do adopt a Doug, I
will need we'll see you. You're probably going to the
you going on to the next level. So I don't
know how valiable you're gonna be. But Joni, you have
to find one of these young individuals that you're working with.
Somebody has to babysit, Somebody has to shit suit, sit

(03:40):
the pet. Because I travel a lot, like my family's
on hire. I stay up there weeks months at a time,
and my mama don't like dogs.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
That's tough.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
So will you babysit if I if you guys, if
I have to go out the time, you watch it?

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Uh, it depends, you know, I'm not I don't. I
don't really like small dogs, if I'm being honest. That's
just me. I've always grown up with the big dogs.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
They dumb though. The smalls are the smart ones.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
All right, what do you also? You had a dog?
What a kind of dog you have?

Speaker 3 (04:14):
H We've had some Golden Retrievers Okay, yeah, yeah, those.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Are instinctive dogs, right, they're not really uh they're not
dumb dogs, like, they're not violent, they're just really instinctive
and carrying dogs right yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, sweet carrying dogs.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah. What else are you involved with the Humane Society?

Speaker 2 (04:33):
I know?

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Once you leave here, you got some activities. I will
say this, They said you were going you are going
to work with the pal football team. I coached the
Pole football team about six years ago, and I've talked
about this show all the time. We were zero and ten,
zero and eight, how very many games we had and
we were we had running clock after like the second quarter.
And I coached twelve. You so it's twelve year old

(04:56):
and under. And so when you go over there, you
let them people know. Yeah, I'm glad they're existing. Hopefully
they're winning more games.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
But what else?

Speaker 1 (05:04):
What other kind of things are you guys into besides
Humane Society?

Speaker 3 (05:08):
We do some stuff with O MAC. I've been there
one time. I loved it. Shoot some basketballs. I'm not
a great basketball player, but I'll try my best. They'll
wax men horse. But yeah, that was a good time
just hanging out with the kids there. But mainly it's
the Scott County, Maine Society I was a part of.
I helped out at the Spein neuter Clinic. Yeah, yep,

(05:31):
that was that was eye opening for sure.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Well, I mean you mean helped out like hands on
or you were just out in the front saying, hey,
come see Golden leg and at the Spainters.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Society, hands on, damn and on yep?

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Is that is that something the field you're getting into.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Is that anything to do with your future or is
just an opportunity uh for you to politically or publicly
and nil type thing.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, it's mainly just it's not something I want to
get into. But I really enjoy being around animals. I've
always grown up with dogs, so that's something I don't
mind doing. And helping out I know, you know, opening
out the city. That stuff helps out a lot.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
What is it that you want to do? What are
you in school for? What is it that you want
to do?

Speaker 3 (06:21):
So I graduated with a marketing degree?

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Ah yeah, so hold on, hold on now, I know
we got your agent over here, whatever you call it.
I'm sorry, Sandy Bell is not an agent. I'm just joking.
It's just Jonie Fowler's not an agent. Called me that
he doesn't have an agent. This goal to this So
Larry Vaught the Christmas Story has this leg that the

(06:48):
I can't remember what the kid's name was, he was
so enamored with.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
This leg and a lamp leg and uh.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Those things so like crazy like even when I was
in retail, we oh, when we got those in, they
sold out immediately. So now I've got a prototype of
Alex Rayner's leg on one of those lamps as a
Christmas gift. Now, when he walked in, I gave him
an opportunity to jump on the idea that we're gonna
mark at your leg. And he looked at me as

(07:17):
if he was dumbfound it, and I think him and
his people can get that together. I'm not willing to wait,
so I gave him an opportunity. How long should I
give him to wait on the idea?

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Do you like the idea? And do you have any
advice for mister Rayner here?

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Golden leg Rainer, Well, I think Alex is kind of
thinking about maybe one day working in the stock market industry,
even though I think he may be gonna have to
put that a little bit on the back burner. Based
on the way he's been kicking a football for Kentucky,
I think he's maybe gonna stay busy playing football a
few more years. But I don't know that leg got there.

(07:53):
I just like the leg he's got right now kicking
a football for Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Alex.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
So when Larry Vaught just told me, I don't know
if you could cod. What he just told me is
you're gonna be making money after this. So I can
take the golden leg idea lamp idea and run with it,
like I can market it myself and I can profit
from it.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
We can come up with a little little deal about that.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
He said.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
No, he said, you're gonna making big money, so you
don't need it. I need it or else I wouldn't
be sitting here in like Kentucky on the radio with you.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Hey, we both need it.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Okay, we'll work something now, we'll work something out. So
would I always ask nil people, especially with the nineteen
seventy four collective when you come here, because you said,
like you said you deal with Spade Neuter, Like that's
not something you do, but that is an opportunity for
you to, you know, get outside of your comfort zone,
let the people see you in the public light. What

(08:46):
if you, Alex had that opportunity to do anything to
make in il money like and I always bring up
like singing, dancing, like I'm a comedy person, like I
think I can do stand up comedy, like do skits
or something. What would which would you do? It could
be basketball, it could be soccer, it could be what
would event if you can raise money being Alex Rayner

(09:08):
and having people coming out to see you being Alex Rayner.
Not Alex Rayner the fifty the two fifty yard field
goals in one game, Alex Rynder.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Not the UK's probably greatest kicker, Alex Rayner.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Just the old average, run of the mill Alex Rayner
doing Spade Newter stuff. Just sitting here with Camo Short
Zone and Clark's Main Street Market shirt on stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
What would you do?

Speaker 3 (09:36):
I really enjoy playing golf. Yeah, so I think that's
that's something I would. I would I would take and
run with it. I would take some some people out
to golf. I think that'd be fun.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Have you been so? Do you go to those golf
events a UK staff are invited to? Are y'all not?
I know?

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (09:54):
They you know they have to slurm in when there's
uh Jacob Tammy has one. There's quite a few that
I'm I typically go to and I see a lot
of the coaches there, but I didn't know if the
players typically.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah, I did go to one. I believe it was
in May that would I can't quite remember that. Maybe
it was in April, but it was like a four
man scramble.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Okay, were there are female athletes there as well? Because
I thought that with Jonnie where there's some a Clark scramble. Clark,
why you invite me to the scramble? I'm upset. I
ain't any good Uh you can you can play golf apparently,
so so you say one thing you can do is kick.

(10:39):
I did want to ask you about Uh, last week
was historical and you're you're on the street right now,
it's historical. You feel any pressure as far as you
know now the fan base is feel like I've heard
people say, and I don't want this pressure on my back.
I heard people say, well, if you get the ball

(11:01):
inside the forty, we're good. Are you good with that?

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Are you you that cold? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (11:06):
I'm good with that. Yeah, I would say, I'm good
with that.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
So you cool.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Just just give me in a fifty yard ranging coach man,
just tell the quarterback to sit down and til defense
get ready.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
That's what I trained for. Yeah, that's my job.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Dang, you've always been that way.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
I would say I've gotten a lot better over the years.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
You. Does that have come with you?

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Because I know when I played you guys used to
go off in the cut and do what the hell
y'all wanted to do. Like, nobody really watched y'all. It
was just kickers and punters. We had to hit each other,
then we had to play scout team, then we had
to do all this other Nobody knew.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
What y'all were doing.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
So, you know, people be mad at y'all when there's
like three seconds left and you come out there and
miss it. We done play for fifty nine minutes and
fifty seven seconds. You come out here and miss it
and you telling me that?

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Who?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
So you just work on yourself. There's bowl wear work
with you all, or it's just you just working in
your craft.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, I would say just working my craft. You know,
we watch a lot of film. You know, we do
the everything with the team we do. We're out there,
we around the hills. Yeah, we we're doing everything the
team does. But we're not hidding our bodies aren't. Aren't
men for that? Yeah, that's that's their jobs. But yeah,
we have a specialized job. We take it serious.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
You know.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
We have great coaches around us, so yeah, they you.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Know, Larry, Larry, Larry, hold on, keep that thought. You know,
we gotta get breaks, We gotta pay sponsors. Hold that thought, Larry.
You up neck, Larry, gonna be on your tail when
we come back, Alex. So we'll be back after this.
You're listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday wont of Sports Talk
on news Radio six thirty w A. Welcome back Stockyards

(13:27):
Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony White. Along with
Larry Vatt. Stockyards Bank is a trusted partner since nineteen
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banking and financial needs. We are still sitting here with
Golden Leg Alex Rainer. I'm gonna I'm gonna coin that term.
I don't know if they've called him golden leg yet,

(13:48):
but when he does come up, he's gonna be right
there next to sweet feet. Sugarfoot. That's what they used
to call me, Alex. Sweet feet or sugarfoot, depending on
what move I used.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
To put on.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Okay, what did they call you, Rainer?

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Golden leg? That was golden Leg, Larry Vaught. Before we
went to break, you asked some questions for golden Leg.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Over here, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
I'm just gonna stick with Alex. I'm gonna let your
coin the But Alex, I was interesting. We talked that
that you just have kind of worked hard on your craft.
Because what I want to what I can't figure out
is how your freshman year, your your first year in
college there at Georgia South, how did you manage to

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have to be rich shirted with the way you can
kick the ball? Was or somebody else that terrific there
that you were playing behind, or what was going on
there Georgia Southern that as good as you are, that
even you have to have a rich shirt year your
first year.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yeah, funny you ask. I was actually behind Tyler Bass,
the current Buffalo Bill's kicker.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
Huh okay, that explains Okay, So what did you learn
from him? Maybe?

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Then?

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Tyler was he was a he was a fifth year
when I was a freshman. So you know, usually when
you're that old, you're not getting a ton of advice
from you know, the the guys that have been around
for a long time. But I would say, yeah, I
took a lot of or I took a lot from
his mentality. His mentality was just to go out there

(15:23):
and trust your body, trust your mind, and you know,
let your body take over.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
So how much better are you now than you were
back in that first year when you first got to college?

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Me?

Speaker 4 (15:36):
What kind of range did you have him? And how
much have you increased it over the years?

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Say I would say one thing about me that I'm
I'm excited about or that I've I've found out over
the past, you know, four or five years, is that
I've gotten so much better technique wise, mindset wise, with kicking.
I feel like there's always room for improvement. I've improved

(16:01):
each and every year. I don't I don't really know
what my range was back then, but it wasn't It
wasn't what it was now.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
I don't think.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
I go ahead, Lara, I was gonna say that that
makes sense that like I say, I think right now,
as long as you're on the field, you can kick
it from eighty yards. It seems to be like, So
I don't. I don't know what your range is either.
I don't know when you go out there. I figure it's.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Good Larry hold hold off because our fan base to
be talking about Sunday morning they say you can kick
eighty yards, you know, and then Mark stukeisild be listening
to what they said, and Mark stupients will be making
decisions off off of what they said. But I did
want to ask you this, judge, Georgia Southern expired most
of the time expired. You got a couple of years left,

(16:47):
and you how did you get Kentucky out of you?
Already in the state of Georgia. I'm not sure if
Georgia Georgia's kicker ain't all that, but you still got
Tennessee next to you, got Florida next to you, South
Care There's all these states next to you that probably
has a little bit more success in football than we do.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
How'd you get to Kentucky? Funny enough, I hit the portal.
I think it was January of twenty three. You know,
Georgia Southern, I'm not going to get into it. I
think they made a mistake. Yeah, so you know, I
decided I needed to hit the portal. I was originally

(17:24):
committed to Memphis. Memphis was the first team that hit
me up, called me, you know, ten minutes after hitting
the portal and they were like, hey, you know, we
love you, heard great things about you. So I was
committed there, and you know, coach Buller and coach Briefer
made me feel at home. You know, they hit me
up as well. So I decided this was the best opportunity.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
For me and going forward this year.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
I know you on lou grows a watch list, You
on Louke grows a watch list last year, that's just.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Just something you do. Do you have any any personal goals? Uh? Going?

Speaker 1 (18:03):
I mean we're in the middle of the season. I like, say,
you broke several UK records already and we only what
four games in? You got any goals going into the
rest of the season because people thinking, well, we only
got like two minutes left. But people are thinking that
y'all gonna have a long road to go here because
Louis was not looking bad and everybody's talking about how
other teams aren't looking. But you know, we got a

(18:25):
great kicker, we got a great defense, Our offense is
coming together.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
What do you what are you?

Speaker 1 (18:29):
What are your goals as a kicker just to make
every kick that comes up? Or you got other goals?

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (18:35):
I mean we have a great team. First off our team.
I believe in us. I believe we're super talented. But
you know, some of my goals are definitely to hit
a game winner. Hopefully it doesn't. You know, we're beating
guys up. We don't need a game winner. But that's
definitely something I want to do for this team. I

(18:55):
want to I want to have a good season. I
want to be above ninety field goal wise. That's That's
definitely one of my goals.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
That's big thing, Larry vaugh You know we up against
the horror break here. We got about about forty five secs.
You got any more questions before Golden Leg and I
part ways, No.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
I will just mention it. I happen to be a
Lou Groves Award voter. I'll just throw that out there.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Oh wow, it don't hurt it. Don't hurt him coming
on your show, does it.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
That's that I'm not just saying. I'm just saying my
vote already might already be locked in. So I'm just
putting that out there.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
We appreciate you, Larry Alex. We appreciate you, old Golden Leg.
We appreciate the w nineteen seventy four collective for letting
Alex spend a little time with us. Probably gonna go
down in history as the greatest kicker at the University
of Kentucky. I'm gonna go on Era say it first
before KSR and over those other outlets get it. I'm
telling you here first, this is probably gonna be the goat.

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We appreciate you, mister Alex for join us, Mister Golden Leg,
thank you guys for having me.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
We will be back after this.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
You're listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on
news Radio six thirty w LAP. Welcome back Stockyards Bank
Sunday when in sports talk. I'm Anthony White along with
the great Larry Vaught. Thanks to Alex Rayner, Golden Leg,
Alex Rayner for joining us for a good half an
hour of n I L Football talk. Just great things, Uh,

(20:25):
Larry Vaught. Anything Alex said that that surprises.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
You, No, I mean that is like his his confidence,
his demeanor and everything about him. Well, I take it back.
There is one thing that surprised me when he was
hands on in the spring and neutering. Yeah, surprise. I'll
take that back. I mean that probably shocked me.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, man, I don't care. Hey, you asked me, no, sir, no, sir, Like,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
I can't do it. I just couldn't do it. But
I guess that's the you know, that's the new age.
These new young young folks are not really concerned about anything.
You know, everything is brand new to them. Adventure is
there is their norm.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
Yeah, you're you're you're right about that.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
I mean, I've got a center college senior that helps
me with some stuff here. And Danville Baylor Rucker on
the on the basketball team, and her summer job is
that she works with the Boyd County Corner.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Her ambition is to be be a corner and she
talks about some of the things that I'm just thinking. Okay,
that's more information than I need.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
You need to connect her with Lacy Robinson.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yeah, yeah, they would. They would probably get along well.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Uh, speaking of getting along, getting along with the show
Tanner Powell, Well, if you'd like to join the show,
we got you got a you got a couple more minutes,
there's something you'd like to say eight five nine two
eight zero two two eight seven eight five nine two
eight zero cats. I ain't heard from chie Wa in
a while. He must be content with what's going on.
But Larry Vaught on the Twitter machine where you can
leave your messages there as well, Well, Sunday Am Sports

(22:02):
at sam day Am Sports on the x Twitter machine,
whatever you want to call it, tenor pile says uk
is sixteen and a half dog Saturday down in Oxford.
Can our defense slow down old misattack enough or can
we generate enough offense to compete with the rebels down

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in Oxford?

Speaker 4 (22:27):
Well, part of me wants to say, take the sixteen
and a half points. It should be a lot, because
you said the defense won't give up more than thirteen.
But then I remember Mississippi's actually one of the teams
you said might be able to score more than thirteen.
So that kind of slows me down there a little bit.
But as I said earlier, it seems like a big margin.

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Considered kenteckularly lost to Georgia by one point. I guess
I must be missing something there, but it seems like
a I mean, I figured o't miss would be favored.
I just didn't quite think of that much. I mean,
I can't even think right off the top of my head.
Who what what would be Mississippi's biggest win this season?

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Well, the thing is, Larry you said off Well, you sixteen.
I don't think that's really bad. At Old Miss on
the road. You spoke, you're speaking of a Georgia game
at home Old Miss on the road.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Uh, I think sixteen ain't bad from what we did.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
We South Carolina do what they did to us at home,
and then you go down to Old Miss and let
me see what Old Miss is looking like thus far,
Old Miss is Penn State was last year. They did
beat Penn State in the bowl game last year.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Uh, that's last year.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Foreman. They beat the dog out of Foreman, beat the
dog out of Middle Tennessee, beat the dog outa wake
for US, and Georgia Southern yesterday beat the dog out
of them. So they're not challenged yet. But that doesn't
mean I mean they haven't scored less than fifty points. Well,
they did score forty against Wake Force. That was the

(24:13):
lowest output.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I mean, they haven't played
at Georgia or South Carolina like Kentucky has. The game
is down there. I don't know. I just sup those
guys in Vegas. I know they know what they're doing,
but it just seemed like sixteen and a half might
be a lot knowing that the Kentucky defense is pretty stout.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, but our offense, our offense gave up south.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
I mean, yeah, you're right, You're right.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I just think that And this is the thing that
Mark Steuce has to be looking at and Bush Hampton
has to be looking at, is that we got to
produce some kind of offen. We got to keep our offense
on the field at least nine to ten plays, even
if you don't score. We need to keep And Alex
already told us, man, if you get the ball to
the fifty r line, coach, put me in, coach. So

(25:03):
I just think we played again in the field range
like I said we did against Georgia. I mean, it's
all field goals. That's fine for me. But I just
feel that our offense has contribute. And if they contribute
and the contribution turns into let's run a little bit
of rock, let's run a little bit of Gavin uh,
then turn the ball out. Because were you impressed this
week that we ran the ball even with the clock low.

(25:26):
We ran the ball a lot more on first and
second down.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
Yeah, I think there's no doubt they're gonna need to
and want to run the bottle a lot at, don't
you think?

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Oh? Yeah, I think you do. I think you have to.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
We have to control the pace of the game because
Josh Heipel and uh Lane Kiffin they want to control
the pace of the game. That's what they want to do.
They want to control and if they get our defense
worn out, uh, and that's what uh I will say, Well,
I get our defense one. I don't think Dion is
in the best shape that he could be in. I
think once we get in the middle of season, he's

(26:01):
gonna be a little injured and then hopefully he'll be
in better game shape. But if they hurry up and
get him, then our best players are not going to
be at their at their I think at their best level.
But I was thinking when I was watching the game
and I watched some of Van Howe's breakdowns, was our
offense plays slow? And I think you brought something up

(26:22):
on social media or that, like no sense of urgency
on our offense, just kind of like clocks running down.
We got shifts, and I know in the NFL when
you do shifts you do them really quickly to try
to catch the defense either as lacking because if you
do them really quickly in the defense is lot as
lolly gagging. Then you can, you know, you can catch

(26:43):
them off balance, or if you do it really quickly
and you get them to shift, you can read what
they've done and you have plenty opportunity to make an
adjustment or an audible. But our when we offensively, all
our little motions and stuff.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Are just get on over here when we can and
set up.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
And I said, I thought Van Howe, I thought you
commented on that as well. It's just a sense of
urgency and I think we need that. And if you're
running hurry up, or you're running audibles and shifts and
things those are that is probably the biggest part of it,
the surprise of the element of surprise that how they're

(27:22):
gonna come back from So if you just walk over
there and they're getting time to calculate what you're doing,
that's just not I don't think the purpose of shifts
and motions.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
And thesfense certainly plays with urgency. They don't lily gag around.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
So you don't like so, And I don't want you
to take what I'm taking because I'm starting to start
to not be as optimistic as I was in the
beginning of the season. But are you taking So there's
sixteen and a half points. If if it was Vegas,
you take it, You'll bite.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
I'm just trying to go. But what you told me
about this defense and how hard it is gonna be
for teams score on them, And I just think if
you've got a defense that you think get shut down
a lot of folks, sixteen and a half points seems
like seems like a lot. Now you've got to convinced
maybe it's not enough.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah, because but I thought you made There may be
a couple opportunities that old miss we get. But if
our offense isn't contributing and we're not, like said, getting
off the field and those type of things, that's where
I think our defense, I think they just kind of
get tired or and that is my concern that they
if they if they so you go three, if even
if they keep going three and out for two quarters

(28:33):
and then they start to get tired in the third quarter,
then it's going to affect them.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
That's why I kind of need the office to contribute.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Yeah, Okay, I'm not taking the points.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
No, I wouldn't take the points. If it were me,
I would not take the points. Uh where's the other But.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
I'm not a gambler anybody. So I didn't really meit it. It
just seemed like initially seemed like a big spread. But
now listening to you, maybe it's not enough.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
No, No, I definitely don't think sixteen points are too
big of a spread on the road.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
So what you're saying is you really don't think Kentucky
can win this game.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
I said that from the beginning. Larry Vaughden, You know
another thing. I just thought about eleven am start Central
Standard time?

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Did you know that?

Speaker 4 (29:27):
No, it's it's a what time? I thought it was
eleven their time, which would be noon our time?

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Right, I said eleven Central Standard?

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Oh you said Central? Okay, okay, yeah, so that's noon. Well,
our guys were used to playing at noon, right, they
have they had more than practice.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
No, No, when you said when your clock, when your
clock be set back, it's a little different.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Once you get there and.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
You go to bed and you think it's a certain time,
and now all that stuff kind of plays a little
bit on your mind a little bit, And that's just
and I think it may have been strategic for all
miss for them to play us that early. And you know,
you got to get up. So okay, So even if
it's eight o'clock, our time is supposed to be, what's

(30:12):
seven o'clock their time for pregame meetings and things like that.
So it's those are just I think it's just little
small mind games. I don't think it means a whole lot,
but I think it does kind of throw your body
clock off. And even if it is noon here, it
don't the sun and everything else. That's the problem. The
sun and everything else doesn't seem like noon there. I

(30:33):
think it's a point I'm making.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
Just remember the folks down there, they don't like playing there,
like that cuts that cuts their tailgate time way down.
They don't like that.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Well, they gonna have to play against us, and we
got to play against them.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
I did want to ask you, I did ask Jack
about I was seeing articles that they removed the individual
banners and accolades from the basketball facilities and things of sorts.
Do you think, first of all, is that true? Because
I didn't do a fact checker on that, And do

(31:06):
you think it is was it taking a job at
the old coach staff? Do you think it is building
the culture or is it? With Jack was said like
it was too much of a hassle to.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Keep up with.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
I don't know about the hassle part. I will trust check.
I just think to me, it's more kind of a
difference in philosophy that Pope is all about team this team,
that what we're talking about is winning championships. John Caliperry
took great pride in the players that he put into
the NBA, like to showcase that thought that help bring

(31:39):
other players to Kentucky because that's what they wanted to
do too, was go to the NBA. I think it's
just two coaches with different philosophies on how they do things,
how they would decorate their office, how they decorate their house, whatever.
So I don't think it's any big deal. But I
just think this is showcases Mark Pope's personality that it's
always team first with him, and that's just what he

(32:01):
decided to do. But that's okay. I'm wondering more about
what your reaction was. Maybe we can get into this
next week or something with the new plans for the
Blue White Game, which sound kind of exciting, but then
the cheapest ticket is one hundred dollars to go watch
the Blue White Game. I'm just and it's gonna be
a bit more like Colisseum, so you don't have to

(32:22):
sell and there's many tickets, but just kind of wondering
what the general reaction from a lot of folks is
gonna be to the ticket prices there.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Well, we don't have to wait the next week, Larry Vibe.
I'm gonna throw that around when we come back on
the side of break, just some little uh well, just
general thoughts on that whole idea.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
We'll be back after this.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
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(33:03):
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Speaker 2 (33:04):
You by country Boy Brewing. Larry Vaught, I.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Do want to get some more information on the Blue
and White game. But before we get out here, I
do I know, I know, I said this last week.
I don't know how it slipped my mind earlier because
we had a couple well we were in crisis mode earlier.
But I do want your game ball for offense, a
game ball for defense after this discussion. So before we
get off air, put that in the back of your mind,

(33:30):
give me a game off offense and game ball for
defense in the uk Ohio University game. So the blue
So what are the details on the Blue and White game?
You say they want a hundred bucks.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
That's that's the least expensive ticket. Well, Lord, the experience
that it's going to have, I don't think it's going
to be on TV anywhere. Coaches are going to be
miked up, apparently, some interactive things with the team, and
all to be a much different experience than what it
normally would be. They're going to do full scrimmages, so
you'll get to see them for more than just ten

(34:02):
or fifteen minutes, going up and down and all against
each other. Of course, but the Blue White game is
normally a full length game. But I think this is
going to be a little bit more intense. Will actually
be your first chance to see both the men's and
women's teams play. But again, it's a little bit gonna

(34:22):
cost you a little bit more than what it has
in the past, or what it would cost you to
go to a regular season.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Game Comparatively, though I don't go to those things comparatively.
You're saying it's going to be so what was it
twenty five fifty seventy five?

Speaker 4 (34:37):
I don't know. And maybe season ticket folks for the
donation they have to make, maybe it won't be more
expensive for them After I said that, I got to
think of that. But when you just go online and
buy tickets, I don't think it costs you quite that much.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Larry vaugh would do you have a problem with it
if a portion of that goes to nil?

Speaker 4 (34:56):
No, I think it's all was supposed to be going
to Nils.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Oh really, I did not know that.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah. So, but but again, it's just a matter of
what you could afford, what you will afford. I'm just
curious as to what a lot of people may think
they want to do or not do with that.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Dang, that's nice, Hey, Mark Stoops, you hear what they're
doing over there. Let's get them a pony up on
our spring game that we so actually get us a
lease two hundred and fifty three hundred thousand dollars if
we get twenty five thousand, thirty thousand people out there,
just charge the one hundred dollars a ticket.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
But you got to be a little creative in what
you do, Alex. I'm anxious to see what Mark, Mark Pope,
Kenny Brooks have planned to do also, so it's it's
gonna be kind of kind of interesting to see. I mean,
I'm sure it must be going to be pretty special
with what they've already talked about. So it's not nice

(35:56):
to see people being innovative, but I'm kind of anxious
see this how innovative they are.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
And right now, I guess right now is the time
to strike while the iron is hot. Like everybody's optimistic,
I'm very optimistic. I'm very bullish on our females basketball team,
and I have no reason to not believe that Mark
Pope is gonna do what he has to do. So
right now, if you want to get on while there's
all this not known unknown going to strike, you can

(36:23):
sit back and miss out on something great. Or I
know how Big Blue Nation shows up and shows out.
They're gonna show up and say hey, I want to
be a part of this early, So why not?

Speaker 2 (36:32):
It's good?

Speaker 1 (36:33):
And this seems like for once, maybe you agree or
not that maybe our athletic department is in front of
things instead of reacting.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Maybe we're proactive on things.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
Yeah, and I can see both sides of it. I
can see somebody saying, well, that's just more than I
want to spend for that. I can also see somebody saying,
it sounds like this is going to be really cool.
It's going to be a small, smaller setting there at
Memorial that it would be to go to something at REP.
I'm gonna trust Pope Kenny Brooks to make this one
of these things. I want to be the one that
can say I was there the first year they did this,

(37:06):
so I could see it going both ways. But it's
just an interesting, as you said, it's a good way.
I hadn't really thought about that to see Kentucky kind
of on the cutting edge of doing something that way too,
like what some other places have been. So hopefully it'll
go really well. And like I say, it's only like
three weeks away or something like that, so it's going
to be here soon.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah we go, Here we go. Larry Faughll, we got
about got about a minute left. Give me give me
a game off offense, game off a defense.

Speaker 4 (37:37):
Offense. I think I've probably got to go with Dame Key.
It's nice to see him emerge the way that he
has been or the way that he did because they
need somebody that can go at him and be a
playmaker on offense, and it looks like him and Brock
have a really good connection going there, so nothing gets
running back. So I probably would have go will Cox second,

(37:59):
but I'll take dan Key on offense and on defense. Well,
I think anytime you get anytime you get a pick
six and put your name in a record book, I'll
go with Maxwell. That was probably as the easiest pick
six anybody could ever have, but you still get it. Now,
he's got three for his career. That's only been done
one of the time in Kentucky. So I'll go with

(38:19):
him on that game.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
See he's still in my thunder. You're absolutely right. That's
what film study does for you. Thanks to Van House.
That is it. We conclude this show. Thanks to Golden
leg Alex Rainer for joining us, Jack Pilgrim from always
bringing us the hot stuff off the deck, Larry Vaught
for being great, and my man, Austin Man. We got
off to a rough start, but me and Austin gonna
have a warm, warm, fuzzy hug at the end.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Of this show. I am Anthony White and this has
been Stockyards

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Bank Sunday when the sports talk on news radio six
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