Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies: Here Comes Basketball Edition

Limited practice has now begun, and basketball news will soon be coming thick and fast. This won't take away from football coverage, though.

Tweet of the Morning:

To no surprise it sounds like Calipari is making some major moves during in-home visits. A lot of positive news coming out. Here we go! #BBN

— tgh3316 (@tgh3316) September 17, 2013

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

• Florida QB Jeff Driskel says his left knee, and confidence, are fine.

• I'm sure you've heard, but kickoff for the Florida game is set for 7:00PM, and it will be either on ESPN2 or ESPNU.

• Javess Blue and Avery Williamson receive recognition for their play on Saturday. For me, Blue's four drops were far to many for much praise.

• Mark Stoops' recruits have had a very large role in the success, as little as it is, that the Wildcats have enjoyed so far:

  After his his arrival on Nov. 27, 2013, Stoops and his coaching staff didn’t take long to add their first big-name recruit, landing junior college defensive end Za’Darius Smith. Smith, a second-team All-American at the junior college level last season, already has 4.5 sacks this season.

  On the offensive side of the ball, Stoops’ staff recruited UK’s current leading rusher (Jojo Kemp) and UK’s top three receivers (Javess Blue, Ryan Timmons and Jeff Badet).

• Check out this "gigapan" of Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday. You come away a lot more impressed with the Big Blue's attendence, but the really cool thing is that you can zoom in on individual fans in the stands and tag them on Facebook.

• I am extremely happy to see the UK-U of L football game moved to the end of the season, where it has always belonged. Mark Story predictably is less enthused, and in my view, for all the wrong reasons.

• Coaches do get a first-year recruiting bump — well, everybody but Joker Phillips, that is. That's just one negative of the "coach in waiting" thing.

• More on the effect of Kentucky's newcomers recruited by Mark Stoops, this time by Jen Smith of the Herald-Leader.

• How is Kentucky looking in the SEC, stats wise? Not bad, really. The one stat that counts, though, is pretty ugly.

Kentucky basketball

• Picture of the 2013 Kentucky Wildcats basketball team.

• Recruiting analysts think it's UK and KU for Kelly Oubre.

• Tyler Ulis' coach talks about Ulis' game, says UK fans are "in for a treat when they see him."

• Why Tyler Ulis' height is not a concern.

Other Kentucky sports

• Johan Cedergren is transforming Kentucky men's soccer.

• Missed this yesterday. Soccer drops a game to Xavier up in the Queen City.

Links posts

• The Leach Report — Tuesday Wildcat Links

College football

• Garnet and Black Attack laments the early fan exodus. UK had the same problem in the Louisville game, and it seems to be a troubling tend.

• Succession planning at Texas. I suspect we all knew it would come to this. I think this makes a lot of sense, actually.

College basketball

• Tennessee unveils new uniforms for 2013-14. Unfortunately, there is no way to make that ugly orange look good.

• Kevin Ware dunking again. Good for him.

Other sports news

• Eric Bledsoe film study, a two part series over at Bright Side of the Sun.