Big Blue Nation Linkapalooza: Lazy BCS Sunday Edition

I watched this over and over and there are three things that happened in the last second that work against calling that a walk.
First, the ball appears to be knocked loose from behind. Could have been called a reach in foul.

Second, if you start and stop the play enough you can see that he couldn’t have taken more than one step in that time frame, and that is assuming he actually had possession of the ball which is very debatable.

Third, it appears that the ball just bounced away from him and he did not actually have possession in the final tenths of seconds left on the clock.

So, walk? No. Careless handling of the ball? Likely. Need to work on that. Mitigating circumstance. Just about everyone else on the court thought the game was over too.

Title Rematch

Not the first time I’ve heard folks share these feelings about Craig James and his son. And amazingly no one, I repeat, no one (hello ESPN?) has spoken up on James’ behalf. Just desserts.

Stilled greatly disappointed that Trevathan was omitted. Inexcusable.

My end thought aligns with Garnet and Black; but for entirely different reasons. Although we use some of the same arguments. Tis an imperfect process but there simply doesn’t exist a perfect one.

But a few other quotes about Leach from the original Seattle Times article are kinda hard to take:

“If you ever want to sit down with him,” says Wes Welker, the New England Patriots receiver, “take a seat. You could be there for a while.”…. Welker clicks off the hot offenses of today — Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Houston, West Virginia — and says, “They’re all his scheme.”

“If you talk to the guy, you’ll see he’s on another level intellectually,” says center Dylan Gandy of the Detroit Lions. “But he’s not pretentious or pompous in any way. He’s very approachable.”

Leach became known for gaudy graduation rates after the school endured an ugly academic scandal before his arrival. In 2008, to reinforce his emphasis on studies for one recalcitrant player, he put a desk on the 50-yard line and made him read during practice.

Sure, it’s a little scary for an administration to hire a “smartest guy in the room” type who has a law degree from Pepperdine and thinks he’s a pirate… but what hire is perfect?

Meanwhile, here in Lexington, we do have this reminder from the departing Steve Brown:

“Another one of Coach (Rich) Brooks’ guys is gone,” Brown said. “That’s how it works in this business.” The only coaches left from Brooks’ head coaching time at UK that Phillips has kept around are Sanders and linebackers coach Chuck Smith.

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but slow as molasses on my machine. Zoom in on the black dance team member standing near the hash mark by UK’s bench. First, notice that her stockings are “flesh tone,” as Crayola used to call it. But here’s the really weird thing: whose hand is that between her and the cheerleader next to her??? It’s large, no doubt a man’s hand. But there’s no one else there! Anyone want to speculate where it might be reaching from?

Back to UK basketball action…!

Seeing Cousins, Wall, and Brandon Knight in the stands had me wondering who would be the starting 5 or 6 or first 7 on a UK team from Calipari’s 3 teams combined? Hmm.