Kentucky Wildcats Afternoon Quickies: College Football Playoff Edition

The College Football Playoff. It has been bandied about a lot over the summer, and it will become a reality this season. Dennis Dodd goes in-depth about what it really means.

Tweet of the Afternoon

Wish UL's Chris Jones the best on recovering from his stress fracture. I want them at full strength when we kick their ass…again

— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) August 7, 2014

Spot on. No excuses. No whining. No mercy.

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

• Additional information about Kentucky football Fan Day, which happens Saturday at Commonwealth Stadium.

• The Shreveport Times rates Kentucky as "can’t find with a GPS."

• How many wins would it take for UK to consider 2014 a success? I need at least four, including two BCS wins. Hat tip: NextCats

• Mark Stoops votes to schedule only Power Five conference teams. Interesting.

• Kentucky looking for help from newcomers at defensive tackle. We don’t have much depth there, but we might be better than last year even with the loss of two seniors.

• Matt Elam is huge. No kidding.

• Dyshawn Mobley on why he left Kentucky.

Kentucky basketball

• John Calipari previews Big Blue Bahamas:

• Calipari has some nice things to say about Tyler Ulis.

• Interactive Q&A about the Big Blue Bahamas.

• Calipari — Karl-Anthony Towns way better than expected:

  On Karl Towns: "Karl is way better than I thought when I saw him in high school. I mean, I coached him a little bit, but he never got in games and it was mostly practices and we were playing so many games he really didn’t do that much with the national team. . . . What I’m seeing right now is a very active player that’s skilled and runs better than I ever thought he’d run."

  Toldja.

• Eric Crawford takes a shot at Kentucky in a weird, backhanded way. Kyle Tucker takes that challenge. A one-sided twitter fight ensues, including a "Come on, man!" (evidently, Crawford is incognito at Valhalla).

  I think this is priceless. I’m not sure why Crawford offered up an obviously offensive remark like that. Jerry Tipton was invited, and he’s known for being less than a total homer, so it’s definitely kind of weird. It’ll be interesting to see what Crawford has to say in his defense.

• Devin Booker’s hard work is helping him fit in well at Kentucky.

Other Kentucky sports

• Charter Communications will carry the SEC Network.

• Callum Irving named preseason all-Conferense USA as goalkeeper.

Links posts

• John Clay’s Big Blue Links

• John Clay’s SEC Links

• The Leach Report: Thursday Wildcat Links

College football

• Heh. EDSBS is a national treasure.

• SEC lunchtime links

• Will the Power 5 "bust up" NCAA sports? A little, probably, but it was inevitable.

• A peek inside the SEC Network - Part I.  Hey, even UK gets a little love, though not in football...

• SB Nation's Michigan community Maize 'n' Brew interviews Tracy Wolfson.

College basketball

• NCAA adopts a new policy giving Power 5 conferences autonomy. How much autonomy? I’m not quite sure.

• Orlando Antigua’s starting point guard remains committed to USF.

Other sports news

• Golf writer disses Louisville. The C-J’s Tim Sullivan makes a tart reply that I thought was very funny:

  Tim Sullivan responded to Jenkins simply: "Have you tried our bourbon? If so, you obviously need more."

• Tiger Woods didn’t exactly light up the course today. Here’s the leaderboard, in case you’re interested.

Other news

• Remember that conservation of momentum-violating engine the other day? Scientists say, "Not so fast!"