Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies: Saturday Scrum Edition

Kentucky Sports Radio tries to make sense of the alleged bar fight involving an players from Eastern Kentucky and Kentucky Saturday night. At this moment, there just isn’t much verifiable information, although a couple of eye witnesses have wildly different stories about the incident, one of them second-hand.

I suggest we all just chill until we know what really happened. Right now, we don’t.

Tweet of the Morning

No question Stoops & Staff outrecruited expectations by far. You don't do that, at that level, for a long time preceding on-field success.

— Justin Rowland (@RowlandRIVALS) January 28, 2015

Kentucky must have more success next season, or recruiting will get even tougher.

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

• Messiah deWeaver, a top 2016 UK QB target who was committed to Michigan, has decommitted from the Wolverines. This is good news for Kentucky, at least for now. We need some.

• Finally, a special teams coach seems imminent:

  In other UK football news: The vacant assistant coach posting officially closed last night. Reports have Andy Buh about to be hired.

  — Jon Hale (@JonHaleTCP) January 28, 2015

Kentucky basketball

• Devin Booker prepares to face his father’s alma mater, this time in Columbia. Consider:

  "They love him (in Missouri). Everywhere we go," Booker said of the Tigers’ fanbase. "We went to all the homecoming games … We used to walk around at the tailgates and he’d get stopped everywhere we went. It was like how Big Blue Nation treats us, and I was really surprised about that. They’re a great fan base."

  Booker understands the may get booed tonight, and he’s good with that.

• The McDonald’s All-American selection show is live tonight on ESPNU at 6 PM.

• Kentucky basketball notebook by Scout.com. This is just how it is:

  Calipari was asked Tuesday if he ever feels bad for a program like Missouri, which invested more than six years recruiting Tiger legacy Devin Booker only to see UK swoop in prior to his senior year and land his commitment.

  "I’ve been on that side," he said. "I’ve been at Memphis and Massachusetts, and I hate to tell you, no one felt sorry for me when Duke and North Carolina came.

  Hey, UK just found out what it’s like being on the other side of that situation in football this week. Sometimes you get the bear, and sometimes the bear gets you.

• More undefeated talk about Kentucky. It’s getting to the point where such talk is less and less crazy.

• Calipari says Kentucky can fight off complacency with "Energy." That’s definitely what UK needs to do. You can overcome bad games with energy and effort.

• Mark Selig, writing for the Missourian, says it’s about time to stop hating John Calipari and start appreciating him:

  But the animus in misplaced. Calipari, who will bring Kentucky to Mizzou Arena for a likely blowout victory Thursday, is great for the game and even better for his program. It’s about time people appreciate what he’s accomplished over the past five years: reestablishing Kentucky as the most powerful and efficient basketball factory in the country.

  Word.

Other Kentucky sports

• And the bad week just gets a little worse for UK. Lindsey Corsaro, a UK Hoops signee for 2015, suffered a torn ACL and meniscus last Saturday. Hat tip: NextCats.

Links posts

• The Leach Report: Wednesday Wildcat Links

College football

• Jury convicts two ex-Vanderbilt players of rape.

• Is Mark Richt a chronic underachiever. I guess that depends on your definition of "underachieving."

• Tennessee basketball report card as of January 27th. The Vols have definitely surprised me, and in a good way.

College basketball

• Georgia defeats Vanderbilt, people suddenly notice that they are a good team. I’ve thought Georgia was a contender since the preseason, and they are proving me right.

• Florida defeats Alabama on a last-minute dunk by Dorian Finney-Smith. This was actually another heartbreaking bad loss for the Tide. Florida is pretty bad this year.

• Rick Bozich does a UK-Virginia comparison. I came away from this thinking he was trying to find a way to prove Virginia is morally superior somehow, if not actually better at basketball.

• Despite recent slide, Arkansas basketball still on schedule (sort of.) They held on four a tough win against Tennessee last night, but they sure do have trouble defending if the press gets broken.

Other sports news

• John Wall leads the Wizards over the Lakers.

• Joker Phillips to be the new Cleveland Browns WR coach? It’s looking that way.

Other news

• Personal injury lawyer Darryl Isaacs, he of the "Hammer" commercials, was injured when a motorist struck him while riding on his bicycle. Sounds like he’s got himself another case.

  The story suggests he was doing everything right, the driver just didn’t see him. As a person who bikes a lot, you have to have constant situational awareness and be paranoid about everything. But even that won’t always help. The best thing you can do is try to bike during times when driving conditions are excellent and in places where you have little traffic to contend with.

• News you can use: How to do quick selections from a list on a computer.

• Walking groups are really good for you. And fun.