Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies: Famous Jameis Edition

In case you missed it over the weekend lamenting Kentucky's loss to North Carolina, Jameis Winston of Florida St. won the Heisman Trophy. Congrats to FSU and Winston on a great season.

Tweet of the Morning:

Here, the beast stalks his prey. Tonight, he plans to feast on two cougars. http://t.co/5arFoO3YGc

— Not Jerry Tipton (@NotJerryTipton) December 16, 2013

This is just hilarious. Nice to start off my day with a chuckle.

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

• Matt Jones feels good about Matt Elam, and so do I. We need him pretty bad.

Kentucky basketball

• Paul Jordan at Wildcat Blue Nation says Kentucky will get better, but they need to start right away.

• Calipari says the team needs to learn how to win. They need to learn hot to make clean passes, meet the basketball, get back in transition, stop giving up on plays, defend and block out. If they do those things well, they will win.

• Weekend update from Ben Roberts. There's news in here about Devin Booker, Trey Lyles, Myles Turner, and more.

• True, but thankfully irrelevant. In the end, the losses may do more good than harm. At least, we can hope so.

Other Kentucky sports

• UK women have 16th best recruiting class in the country. Step it up, coach Mitchell, you need to get us into the top ten at least lest football pass you by.

Links posts

• John Clay's SEC links

• The Secondary Break

• The Leach Report: Monday Wildcat Links

• John Clay's Big Blue Links

College football

• Tyler Murphy, Florida's quarterback for most of this season, decides to transfer and has left the Florida program. He has graduated, so he should be able to play right away wherever he goes due to the graduate student rule, assuming Florida tries no douchebaggery and blocks his transfer.

• Navy beats Army, Army decides to change coaches. Go, Navy!

• Now that Mack Brown is gone, here are 11 names to know when it comes to the Texas job. I wonder if this is in any particular order?

College basketball

• Rush The Court: Morning Five

• Duke takes on Gardner-Webb. Wouldn't it be funny if ... nah, never happen.

• Team Speed Kills has an article up about... basketball! Took both hands for me to put my jaw back in place after I got it up off the floor. Read it, if nothing else for the sheer novelty.

• Well, this should put an end to all the moaning about Calipari's salary:

  Total compensation paid to Mike Krzyzewski, the highest compensation of any private-college employee: $9,682,032.

  — Kontra (@counternotions) December 16, 2013

Other sports news

• A sobering reminder that life is short:

  Prayers to ex-Wildcatt & current Bills receiver Stevie Johnson and his family after sudden passing of his mother yesterday.

  — Oscar Combs (@wildcatnews) December 16, 2013

  We join Oscar in extending our sympathy, and prayers for the family.

• A legend is born:

  James Harden, pioneer of the one-legged free throw: http://t.co/6IKfUaVGkF http://t.co/CrefQKuiP5

  — SB Nation (@sbnation) December 16, 2013

• Laugh and the world laughs with you.

  Good morning! Mondays, right? http://t.co/KG5Zff5hvu #doink

  — SB Nation (@sbnation) December 16, 2013

• Daniel Orton got ugly, apparently, and winds up suspended for a game without pay. Hat tip: Aaron's blog.