@JRowland I know he is young, but do you have a projection of what he’ll play at the college level? He’s already 6’2 and dad is much taller. I’m thinking safety but he also saw time at WR at camp. He has attended camps at a younger age at dline. Super athletic and will only get better with time. I expect the D1 offers to come rolling in. Glad UK was the first.

More coming later but Bush Hamdan is working with commit Brennen Ward, who looks really good. Zane Johnson looks solid.

Seneca Driver will be an elite player nationally.

The two big standout items from on the field.

They started very early and are wrapping up early, rain is heavy. Not a ton of OL DL guys. But these camps are mostly about the young guys.

I’m wrapping up a study abroad trip today (sitting here in Paris trying to stay awake - left Senegal at 11:05p yesterday) with some students, and thought you all might enjoy their reporting. You can find it here:


We went to Rwanda and Senegal. Kigali, Rwanda held the BAL championship the week we were there, and we spent the last week in Saly, Senegal with the NBA Academy. It is neat to see where some of our players started.

Would love to watch the game again. Anyone know of a replay?

Looks like we may have a new assistant coach.
https://www.on3.com/teams/kentucky-...s-himself-as-kentuckys-fifth-assistant-coach/

4.55 is the highest I saw today -Indianapolis

Lyon County and Harlan County played in the state title game. Each team's star player signed with UK. My son and I were discussing if that had ever happened before. We couldn't find a time when it did, but we aren't real good researchers!!!

Absolutely! Phenomenal pitching even with the 9 or 10 walks that we gave up

I did some math....

If you take 50 two-pointers and make 50%, which is pretty standard, you score 50 points

If you take 50 3-pointers and only make 34%, you score 51 points

Pretty sure Pope is banking on the team averaging at least 34% from 3 and will be taking quite a bit more than Cal's teams did

Nothing earth shattering but just wanted to check the numbers

How many fans can UK cram into Kentucky Proud Park? I saw 5,000 capacity on the website but we had over 5,800 last game.

With all the excitement and great weather this weekend I just wonder how many Mitch Barnhart will let in? It wouldn’t surprise me 8K-10K BBN fans will show up.

-Great home crowds, despite crap weather on Saturday and sunday. The shame of it is that we would easily have topped the 8K mark for each game if weather had cooperated. But, those who stayed were loud and made an impact.

-Very small crowds from the visiting teams. Kind of surprising, as teams like Indiana and WVU brought quite a few fans to KPP last year.

-There was a lot of handwringing about our pitching on here (including a little bit of that from me over the last month of the season), but man, games 2 and 3 were pitching clinics from the UK staff and coaches.

-Pooser is just rock solid from beginning to end. Moore struggled and was behind in the count constantly, but battled back time and again (and got a LOT of great help from his d). Niman was great for four innings, but hopefully he can build on it next weekend.

-We still have a hard time getting much out of Burkes, McCoy, and Smith at the plate, but Waldy, Nicholson, Pitre, and Lopez are very dependable. Waldy and Nicholson are legit HR threats, and the others get one occasionally too. If we coul d just get SOMETHING from McCoy and Burkes, then I'd feel really good about our offense from top to bottom.

-Our defense. wow. only one error all weekend (Daly last night), but damn, they brought it. Makes it much easier on a pitcher when you're back up by guys like that.

-Ming has had his detractors (me included, especially in the middle years), but every move he made worked out this weekend. Winning two regionals in a row, and hosting a super is rarified air in college baseball, ESPECIALLY around here. If he can get us to Omaha, then build a statue.