Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies: Randall Cobb Edition

Randall Cobb made the top 100 NFL players, coming in at … #100. That’s still pretty good for a former 3-star player.

Tweet of the Morning

Best Kiss Cam moment ever RT @bomani_jones: wait, this happened tonight? oh so many levels. https://t.co/EXyYhl5fCu

— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) May 14, 2015

Another monitor succumbs to nose-coffee.

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

• DuPree brings impact, versatility to the Steelers:

  While some speculated Dupree might leave UK after his junior season for the NFL, Stoops said that was never going to happen and that Dupree was not projected as a first-round pick then.

Kentucky basketball

• Fran Fraschilla would take Karl-Anthony Towns over Jahlil Okafor if he were coaching the New York Knicks:

  "Okafor may be more ready to average 18 [points] and nine [rebounds] as a rookie. Towns has a chance to be a better player over the next decade. Towns has more versatility because he has the ability to play away from the basket. In the triangle, that doesn’t hurt, especially at the elbow. But the triangle also is made for low-post players like Shaq. The dilemma is do you want the surer thing early in Okafor vs. rolling the dice Towns becomes a better player over time?’’

• Fraschilla also talked about Dakari Johnson, Andrew and Aaron Harrison and what they must do to improve their draft stock. (Vaught’s Views)

  On the Harrisons:

  "Both of them are going to have to prove that they can shoot the ball well from the perimeter because right now shooting is at a premium in the league. If you’re a perimeter guy and you cannot shoot the ball, your team becomes easier to defend. So, the twins have work to do, but I think both of them will end up on rosters when it’s all said and done."

  I think he’s right.

• The Sporting News on Devin Booker’s chances in the NBA Draft:

  The most intriguing Wildcat is Devin Booker, a perimeter scorer in a draft packed with size. There’s a chance that Booker gives Kentucky four lottery picks on draft night, because he is among the best shooters (41.1 percent on 3-pointers) in a class lacking them. In the last SN Mock Draft, we had Booker sliding in the lottery for just that reason — a team like the Thunder is looking for perimeter help, and no one is more ready than Booker.

  Indeed.

• Rivals.com’s Linksay Brauner on Caleb Swanigan:

  For those wondering re Kentucky/Swanigan:source says Calipari&staff heavily making efforts to get him but Swanigan more interested elsewhere

  — Lindsay Brauner (@lindzcatharine) May 13, 2015

  Hammer & Rails has more here.

• Bill Belichick is "the John Calipari of the NFL." Yeah, right. Idiot.

• Jordan Rabinowitz of Lost Letterman says John Calipari isn’t going anywhere. Meanwhile, Sekou Smith of NBA.com says that the Pelicans need to explore the Calipari option. Sounds like some kind of football play.

• More on Calipari’s contract extension from ESPN.

Other Kentucky sports

• SEC Baseball weekend schedule, and analysis on Kentucky’s chances of getting into the NCAA Tournament. We should be nervous.

• This has already been linked, but it’s worth linking again — Mitch Barnhart is the Athletics Director of the Year. Well deserved, in my view.

• Edrick Floréal, UK track coach, has been appointed the head coach of Team USA for the 2015 IAAF World Championships.

• Kelsey Dieters of women’s tennis wins the ITA Sportsmanship Award for the Ohio Valley Regional.

• Two UK golfers begin the individual NCAA Tournament starting today.

Links posts

• The Leach Report: Thursday Basketball Links

College football

• SEC led college football in average attendance for the 17th straight season. All the reports about the demise of the SEC seem to be… premature.

College basketball

• Mike Rutherford thinks the shot clock change is a good start. I myself think that it only works if the officials stop allowing physical play to the point that they currently do. If they keep calling the game the way they have been, the shot clock change will do more harm than good.

• The coaches outraged about the graduate transfer rule will probably wind up getting their way, but they shouldn’t. Coaches have way too much power in the NCAA system. That’s what needs to change.

Other sports news

• Grocery shopping with David Blatt. Heh.

• Great googly-moogly, John Wall!

  Colin Cowherd, your office on line 1.

• Taunting Truth spoke 5 seconds too soon. And we have a picture:

  Here's a great capture of Paul Pierce calling 'series' (whoops) http://t.co/pEIFTqZ5Vi pic.twitter.com/p3IcS49vL9

  — SB Nation NBA (@SBNationNBA) May 14, 2015

• Jalen Rose, Chris Webber at odds over Fab Five documentary.

• WTF, Archie?

• The SEC leads all conferences with Madden NFL video game covers. A dubious achievement, if you ask me.

Other news

• Walmart is developing a $50 Amazon Prime-like service. I have Amazon Prime and I like it. I just got a Fire TV stick, and it’s very cool.

• Could NASA min asteroids for water to save money on space missions?

• Europa, a moon around Jupiter, might be coated with irradiated sea salt. I wonder how that would be as a seasoning?

• Science careers doomed at the outset. Now you tell me.

  And people wonder why math and science degrees are not popular?