Arkansas @ Kentucky: Post mortem

And a spectacular comeback. I had no TV but I stayed with the radio as bad as it was during the game.
A win is a win, especially against an SEC team and Petrino!

Is here…yeah! Hope Locke is ok…we need him.

Great great win. Fantastic victory for the Wildcats and Brooks and Co. Didn’t get a chance to see it here in DC, but it looks like it was one for the ages. I’m envious of those that got it.

So I had to take the missus to dinner, and figuring I wasn’t going to miss much after that first half travesty, I was quite willing to shut off the game. But just in case, I went ahead and recorded it. Just watched it (most of it in FF), and all I can say is . . . WOW! That was awesome!

Just one question: Who was that wearing number 5 in the 4th quarter, and what did they do with Mike Hartline? That guy actually looked like a reasonable facsimile of an SEC quarterback.

In Brooks we trust!

I was entertaining chillren all day and only got txt messages on my phone when the score was changed. I was dreading the Pixies ringtone until the last one signalling the end of the game and that our beloved Wildcats had somehow pulled off an upset of miracle proportions. I was getting sympathy txts from all of my Razorback friends. I was tempted to shut off my phone for a while.

This game will give the Cats some resiliency during the tougher games left on the schedule. Hopefully it will also bring into sharper focus the team’s mindset going into each game remaining. If we suffered injuries that take significant games away from some players the rest have to step up and git er done!!!

WHEW!!!

GO BIG BLUE!!!!!!

…are why I stay till the end of every game no matter how ugly. Its embarrassing to see the stadium emptying like that with 20 minutes of playing time left. Sure we looked awful for three quarters and its cold out but the way I see it, if our team isn’t walking off the field, we shouldn’t be walking out of the stands.

… for those magical 8 minutes. However, we’re going to need 60 absolutely enchanted minutes in order to make next Saturday’s contest in Gainesville competitive.
As a UK fan, it makes me worry endlessly. As a general fan of college football, on the other hand, I am totally in love with the matchup between UF’s offense and UK’s defense. It’s going to be incredible to watch.

Unfortunately, UF has a defense this year. They held LSU’s Charles Scott (occasionally mentioned as a Heisman candidate prior to that game) to 17 yards…LBs are on the verge of elite (especially Brandon Spikes), etc.

Joker needs to find a way to get him the ball more – good things seem to happen when he is involved. That was a great catch and run from the throw by Cobb, and he would have had a touchdown if Hartline hadn’t airmailed the throw. He’s a big dude, a big target – he should be one of our top receivers.

great, great win… any updates on injuries?

Next Erin Andrews?

I too had to walk away at some point in the 4th qrt. Maybe with 9 minutes to go. It was my wife’s b-day and the dinner out and festive mood is quickly fading as i listened to just one more series of downs…….then to my joy i pull the CJ sports page from a co-workers paper to see 21-20 Cats….are you serious?? i somehow feel my turning the radio off for the 15th and FINAL time was just the push the Cats needed to pull it out! When i told my wife UK had one, she said “don’t you wish you had listend to the end now”? Absolutely not!!! For if i had…there would be no joy in Mudville today i am sure!! :)

locke is most likely done for the season.

After the hysteria of yesterday, I have become more sober (figuratively and literally).

Kentucky’s offense looked absolutely inept for the first 3+ quarters. The special teams performed poorly and the defense seemed lackluster at points.

On top of that, Derrick Locke has suffered an MCL injury. If the MCL is all that was injured, that won’t require surgery and he can return in weeks. Unfortunately, isolated MCL injuries are rare and are usually not painful. Locke seemed to be in a significant amount of pain, suggesting that more than one knee ligament was injured. Monday’s MRI should clear things up and I’m preparing for the worst.

Regardless, a win is a win and hopefully the team can get some much needed confidence and momentum heading into a difficult portion of their schedule. UK still needs a sixth win to become bowl eligible and a seventh to cement their third straight bowl. Games at tenth ranked Florida and home against seventh ranked Georgia will likely be loses. That leaves at Mississippi, at Tennessee and Vanderbilt at home. The most likely win is Mississippi, but Tennessee and Vanderbilt are certainly winnable if the team improves. The road to a bowl is now much more probable thanks to an improbable comeback.

I was in town from Maryland to take care of some family business, and was really dreading the game after the South Carolina meltdown. But I watched, and I always stay to the end as a matter of principle, and it paid off bigtime! Sometimes principles are a good thing, it seems!

It was WILD and really loud at commonwealth. It sounded awesome, people were banging on the bleachers, the din was incredible. Without all of the boo-birds and movie watchers (who dare not make a sound, and why don’t you sit down, I can’t see!) who only seemed to absorb the sound with their soft bodies and not contribute to the cheering, it was the loudest of the whole game! This was even with the stadium half-full!

I wasn’t at the LSU game last year, so this is my favorite Kentucky football moment. 8’) Yeah, the rest of the game was awful to watch, but once all the negative ninnies were gone and only the true and stubborn fans remained, it was awesome. I loved it.