Why the Lexington Country Club membership would not just be included in the contract, as a gift from the LCC itself…..you are not going to tell me they couldnt trade the membership for a promotional spot or a fundraiser or something? the man can sell ice cubes to Eskimos…..

We beat Florida, and I guarantee you the headlines will read all over the sports world, “Cats Give Florida A Dose of Their Own Medicine in 2009 Flu Bowl”. And Urban Meyer will be talking about how they should have postponed the game. Of course they could all be faking. It wouldnt be the first time a student faked an illness….lol….tell me this isnt some big Ferris Bueller stunt.

Where do I vote for John Wall for the Heisman??

I will be really glad when we are so good in Football that we can play two patsies and still be #1 in the country. we play two patsies and our OOC SOS is in question…just saying sometimes its good to be established.

It is either going to be a really great Saturday night or I am going to go buy a stuffed Gator and use it for target practice for my SUV….and then give it to my dog to pee on……

Sports is always better with a little well (poorly?) earned animosity. My favorite Kiffin quote from this dust-up: “This offseason the commissioner made a big deal of renewing vows in terms of what we say about other teams, other coaches and other players. Obviously Urban feels he doesn’t need to follow that. We won’t say anything else.”

Wouldn’t it be terrible it Tennessee was THAT good and played Florida that close for real?
Nah, they can’t be, this is a down year for the Vols. Just like it is at Auburn. Seems we won’t have to worry too much about Vanderbilt, Mississippi State got them. But want if the former offensive coordinator at Florida has gotten Miss State a little better?
Oh, the trials and tributuations of finding six wins!

didn’t exactly insult Trevard Lindley. He called him a first round NFL draft choice in the sentence leading up to the rather regrettable “going after his ass” comment.

I’m assuming a reporter asked a direct question regarding Lindley. It would have been preferable for the coach to say something vague like “Our offensive game plan wasn’t dictated on the positioning of one defensive player.”

against Florida…maybe?….
- I really am sorry the gators are under the weather, but I will take it
-Georgia and Tennessee are going to be under water by Saturday making travel impossible. Forced forfeit?…nah….but I will take it
-Every team is beatable. I will take it
-Remember Coach needs us to “Believe”

GO CATS ! !

Nice countdown timer on the front page Tru. I just noticed it today :-)

compares Memphis to Kentucky to Louisville to Kansas to Michigan St…..Oh well, at least he has Louisville’s off-season all in the red zone. Off-season ups and downs

Any good quarterback prospects for UK in the near future?

Its a shame Randall Cobb cant QB and throw to himself…

Any chance Brooks could play the ‘totally offended’ card’ and get Frankfort to call a special session? He could say its not in the best interest of college football in the state to have the two major schools play each other due to the possible bad blood that could rise into dastardly deeds.
We certainly don’t want an instate civil war.
And why if our current quarterback is so unable to call a time out ,wasn’t one the coaches within ear washot of the official?,Why aren’t we seeing one of the new freshman quarterbacks? If there was timeouts left, couldn’t one of the highly paid coaches called the timeout before the ball was snapped?
Guess we are saving them up for the Tennessee game. (I know you can’t do it, but hey, there has to be some excuse doesn’t there?).

I’m still going to challenge why a head coach making a million a year can’t call a timeout. How come it took him till Monday to come up with an answer? What I read was it was Hartline’s fault and then Matthews fault for catching the pass. Of course we won and I bet Brooks was ‘tickled to death’ with the win.
I don’t care what he says, now. Its a little too much for a coach to blame a college kid for something he should have done himself. Telling us that Matthews should have known to intentionally drop a pass? Surely you don’t think any coach in any situation has ever coached a kid to drop a pass from his OWN quarterback. Go on and tell us you have.
iI/ve watched the Cats since Stoll Field and never have a seen or heard a coach blame his own ;players, especially call their names, for a mistake.

I’m too old to wait until next year. And you are going to be too. We have accepted finishing last or near the bottom as normal too long. I think I figured it our that Brooks is averaging less than three wins a year in the conference. About the same with the other coaches we’ve had recently. But with the magical twelve game schedule and only having to win two conference games if we can get Louisville to roll over, we can brag about going to a minor bowl each year. Well, since there’s only 64 teams going to bowl and 56 staying at home, we still bragging about nothing.
I’m 62 and would really like to see a coach win at Kentucky. Not win with a AA achool on the schedule to get us to the sacred six, but to beat someone we can be proud of playing. Six wins last year and not a one in the regular season against a team with a winning record. I bet you tickled to death with that fact. Last in the conference, Proud of that one too?
Don’t question my ‘fanhood’. I’ve been a fan long enough to see we’re treading water and that’s all.
I;m not a ‘rah, rah’ like you. Sorry, but you can go ga ga over beating the weak teams and saying ‘next year’ but I been through a bunch of ‘next years’ for too long of a time.

I agree with you Truz. But I still don’t have to like getting a coach who is glorified to the high heavens for going to a bowl that is one of the lowest rated in the bunch.
If you don’t go to a bowl you’re in the minority.
Basketball is our sport. We put multiple millions into buying a coach, so we should be at the top.
Brooks is a fine coach. But there is a lot of fine coaches in this conference. Is he the best Kentucky can get? We won’t know because we went nuts and picked us a ‘coach in waiting’. I’m tickled for Joker. Good for him. I could also be tickled if we went after the best we could get. We won’t know what we could have, but we certainly have an idea of what this staff is capable of. Its all right there, on paper, and we can’t color it any thing but what it is.

Rich Brooks is the freaking man!!

But I wanted to throw in my thoughts on the matter. Kragthorpe has a deficency in class. After all the players he’s already thrown under the bus, he wants to tell ONE player he’s got his back? Nothing personal against the guy, but that’s not how a coach communicates with his players. Brooks wasn’t going out there telling everybody that he has Locke’s back! He fumbled a KO. The manner in which one does things of that nature speaks volumes. Which I thought Kragthorpe spoke loud and clear. I too was expecting a “I’m a man!” shout at any moment.