In game coach.

GO CATS!!!!
WOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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UoL, Wake, Miami, Pitt, NC St, VT, Cuse, BC, and GT are the 9 schools.

This does not include FL St and Clemson who would be SEC leans and UNC and UVA who would probably seek Big10.

Looks like today may have been the nail for the ACC.

You can thank your SEC brethren for opening the door for Bama to get invited to the CFP.

You did your part by beating a scared Georgia team, but if our Cats hadn't smoked the #2 team in the SEC and the committee watch as FSU could only squeak by with 16 points against UL, you would have probably been passed over for CFP.

Your welcome.

We may have a shot here, recruited him really hard.

I took my 10 year old grandson to his first UK game on Saturday. My drive home to Louisville gave me time to think about our day and it was filled with both highs and lows.
Our seats were great. Cost me $1300 for the seats and a little more for shirts, basketball and other stuff he wanted. Total for the day was a little over $1700.

To start with, I was highly disappointed after getting to Rupp. This was my first trip back since Covid and I hate the changes they made. We left Louisville early on Saturday and during the ride down, I told my grandson about UK, its tradition and how much fun he will have "tailgating" inside the complex going in all the shops, eating at the food court.
Wow, my thoughts on seeing all the shops gone, the food court gone, hardly no one hanging out in the Hyatt was something beyond printable.
Once we got inside at 2:30, things changed for the good. He was so excited to watch everything. while watching the teams warm up, I told him then we, UK, better be ready to play after watching UNC Wilmington arm up. boy, it seemed every player on that team was hitting their shots, mostly from the 3 line.
Our seats were 8 rows behind the UK bench. I felt there was not much energy from some of the players, especially after halftime when they came back onto the floor.

For me, a team that is superior like UK and being down at the half, I was hoping to see then run out ready to show UNC Wilmington who they really are. No, I remember seeing Mitchell being one of the first to come out on the floor walking like he was window shopping at the mall. Others followed in the same manner.

No offensive rebounding at all. None it seemed. Missing so many shots close up and having others pop back out of the net, the look on the UK players faces was one of frustration.
I felt UK was not getting the whistle on many calls and getting the whistle on a lot of touch fouls. We seemed to want back down from physical play and want to whine to the refs many times during the game. Yes, some if not most was legit, but you have to fight thru that crap.

Got a great picture of my grandson and Jeff Sheppard together. I have several pieces of UK memorabilia signed by Jeff after over the years. I waited over 3 hours when the 98 team won to get his signature on a piece of the floor from Championship game along with the old "3" posters they hang after a made 3. Jeff Sheppard was one of my favorites over the years.
When the good Lord calls me home, this is my only grandson and he will get a very nice UK man cave along with a 200 piece firearm collection. So, yes, this was a big deal for me to get his picture with him. I actually have a blue and white .45 Berrata in UK blue. I kick myself in the ass all the time when thinking about this gun. When I bought it, my dealer had a red/black one for UL. I was thinking with my heart and not my head and should have bought both of them.
I do have a very nice mounted UK-UL set of derringers with a gold plated tag that says, "The Battle of the Bluegrass" on it.
Then to get my grandson's new UK basketball autographed by Reed Sheppard just put the icing on the cake.

When I saw my grandson up clapping, cheering with the cheerleaders, this sent a great feeling down my spine. I bleed blue and always will.
Losing the game sucked. Sucked big time to watch my team play with little fire and energy.

Been waiting on getting our bigs back to play like everyone else. After seeing the Bradshaw kid, I could not help but think about Skal and how skinny he was. But the kid played hard and with emotion.

But it was on the ride home thinking about our day together that I realized how little I was thinking about losing the game. In the past, I would have been a little sick to my stomach, pissed off a little but for some reason, I am at a point where I sort of expect this to happen. That was the real sad part of the day, that I have lost some of my energy myself for UK and started thinking about the players playing like I feel. It's just a game.
There was a time when it was more than just a game to me. Good or bad to be like that, who knows but when you truly bleed blue you know what I mean. I am afraid my grandson will just take losing as part of being normal. There was a time when a team came into Rupp you knew and they knew they were toast.

I miss the old days but enjoyed my time with my grandson watching my beloved Cats.
I still believe we will win the rest of our games. I will never just give up on them but when they do lose, for whatever the reason is, it just does not hurt anymore.
Go Big Blue

Starting QB Kyle McCord enters portal.

6'3 215
3,700 yards passing
24 TD's 6 INT

From north (New Jersey).

Could this be the mystery man?

Whoever on this board has Mark Stoops ear, tell him we need him here for the rest of his career. This is Southern Ohio and the Ohio River is the blood that joins us.

We want Stoops to be our Bobby Bowden. Tell him that, no more games. No other programs. Just....

STOOPS &
HIS TROOPS
4 LIFE

HIT THE MUSIC

I heard the broadcaster say that during the game today.

WTF kind of medical team do we have at UK? What happened, did he get bitten by a brown recluse or something?

Mark Perry visited Fort Thomas Highlands and offered Brody Benke a PWO. Brody led Highlands to a 12-2 record this season as their Quarterback and amassed 55 TD's (26 passing, 23 rushing, 6 receiving). Brody will most likely join the TE room if he decides to go to UK.

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Good rundown per usual from David, the latest on future and prospective basketball Cats.

@yoshukai hinted in a thread that there was some trouble in Corbin and there might be something going on with the Smith twins. Anyone know what the deal is? Lots of Corbin folk on here. What are you guys hearing? Absolutely must hold onto these two. Not even debatable.

Btw not calling the guy out I want to give him credit for the info and I'm not sure if he's able to share publicly and thought someone else might be able to shed some light on it, just fyi.

Guy was solid but not “buckeye standard” per the tOSU people.

They should have taken the bottom four ranked teams and seed them in bowl games, it doesn't matter which ones. Then place the winners of each bowl into the final four against the two top seeded teams. Why didn't anyone think of that?

So tired of this embarrassing shitty ass coach.

It's the day we've been waiting for. The Paddock, being the cultural keystone of the USofA, will select for once and for all the best Christmas song of all time. Please vote with your heart and your mind. This is important, for it will decide which song is the greatest of them all. By this time on December 1st, we will have our champion.

"Why don't we block out"
"We just missed too many shots"
"Got to defend the ball better"
"They made baskets when they needed and we couldn't"
"We will regroup and get back to work"
"I still love this team"

IT'S THE SAME SAD BS AFTER EVERY BAD LOSS!!!!

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Cats to play Clemson in Gator Bowl​

The Cats will travel back to Florida for a Gator Bowl matchup against Clemson on Dec. 29 in Jacksonville, Fla. (Jeff Drummond/Cats Illustrated)

Jeff Drummond • CatsIllustrated
Managing Editor Edit
@JDrumUK

After a chaotic Sunday afternoon that featured a controversial College Football Playoff bracket and the subsequent trickle-down effect on several other bowl matchups, Kentucky has landed in something of a surprise destination.

The Wildcats, who finished the regular season 7-5 with a win over rival Louisville, were invited to the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl where they will face Clemson on Dec. 29 in Jacksonville, Fla. Kickoff is slated for Noon ET on ESPN.

Clemson (8-4) finished sixth in the ACC this season but has won its last four games, including victories over ranked Notre Dame and North Carolina teams. The Tigers also defeated South Carolina 16-7 a week after the Gamecocks topped Kentucky in the SEC finale.

Dabo Swinney's team ranks No. 7 in total defense (278.7 ypg) and No. 24 in scoring defense (19.9 ppg) nationally. The Tigers are 51st (405.7 ypg) and 56th (29.2 ppg) on the offensive side of the ball.

A big question mark for both teams will be how many players will participate in the Gator Bowl. One of UK's top players, senior running back Ray Davis, has already announced he is opting out in order to begin preparation for the NFL Draft. He has rushed for 1,066 yards and scored a school-record 20 touchdowns this season.

Kentucky will be appearing in its eighth consecutive bowl game under head coach Mark Stoops, having won three of the last four. The Cats will be making their third trip to the Gator Bowl. They lost 33-18 to Georgia Tech in the December 2016 game but defeated NC State 23-21 in the January 2021 game.

It will mark the fourth time that UK has faced Clemson in a bowl game. The Tigers defeated the Cats in the 1993 Peach Bowl, while the teams split Music City Bowl matchups in 2006 and 2009.



https://kentucky.rivals.com/news/cats-to-play-clemson-in-gator-bowl

Or OTS or Eddie Sutton he would have been fired 3 years ago. If this team doesn’t make the final 4 and Cal isn’t fired no one should buy a ticket to Rupp ever again. UK fans are being taken to the cleaners by a snake oil salesman.

Looks like Dirk Nowitzki ... !!

Yes, UK lost to a lessor team… that is going to happen sometimes with a bunch of freshman and a not so consistent senior “leader”
No alpha dogs, again.
Terrible defense (over playing, not rotating, etc) terrible passing decisions. Poor rebounding. Poor shooting, etc...
Musta been the new floor…
Hopefully, it is out of their system.

The Cowboys continue their dominance. Dak is making a case for MVP, DaRon Bland got the NFL record 5 pick sixes.