Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies: #FreeBigBlueMadness Edition

The SEC Network owns the rights to televise Big Blue Madness, but apparently will decline to do so, televising a volleyball game instead. This has incensed Kentucky fans, who are now trying to get them to release the rights to local TV stations. It will appear on ESPN3, which is available on Time Warner Cable, but many other people will not get to see it live other than on the Internet.

#FreeBigBlueMadness is trending. The louder you are, the more likely the SEC Network is to respond. For details, see this FanPost.

Tweet of the Morning

Women's volleyball over Big Blue Madness? Really? When did Pat Forde become program director at the SEC Network? #FreeBigBlueMadness

— Not Jerry Tipton (@NotJerryTipton) October 14, 2014

Heh.

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

• Josh Forrest got an honorable mention for Linebacker Performer of the Week. Well earned, in my view. If you’ll recall, he got our defensive game ball.

• National recruiting analyst Mike Farrel thinks Kentucky is going to land Damien Harris. I sure hope he’s right.

• Pat Forde wonders if UK (among others) can be a destination job.

Kentucky basketball

• Tom Leach has a number of preseason interviews with Kentucky basketball players over at his site. Check them out.

• Zagsblog speaks to an NBA scout who thinks Karl-Anthony Towns is Kentucky’s best prospect, and that the Harrison twins look like borderline first-rounders. I believe what these guys say less than half the time.

• Trey Lyles plans to be his own type of player at Kentucky, saying he can shoot it from the arc and doesn’t mind defending. That’s good, because if you don’t defend, you won’t play.

• Tyus Battle is heading to Kentucky very soon.

Other Kentucky sports

• Men’s soccer player Jordan Wilson was named the Conference USA Defensive Player of the Week.

Links posts

• John Clay’s Big Blue Links

• John Clay’s SEC Links

• The Leach Report: Tuesday Wildcat Links

College football

• Florida fans create a “We Want Dan Mullen” website. So predictable.

• Jimbo Fisher unconcerned with Jameis Winston’s disciplinary hearing. Well, okay then.

• Jameis Winston and why he may never learn.

• SEC midseason overview.

  Biggest surprise: Kentucky

  Mark Stoops’ recruiting success made it clear that the future was becoming brighter in Lexington, but it would be hard to say we expected the Wildcats to be 5-1 right now. They’ve performed well beyond preseason expectations and are poised to become bowl-bound for the first time since the 2010 season. – Sam Khan

• SEC Morning Links — ESPN

• The Curious Index

College basketball

• Duke offers top UK point guard target.

• Rush The Court: Morning Five

• Dick Vitale: Roundball Chatter

Other sports news

• Tom Ziller reports that some people still don’t think John Wall is a real NBA point guard, a position he thoroughly debunks.

• Phil Jackson disses Spike Lee’s knowledge of basketball. Hilarious.

• Wildcats in the NFL, Week 6.

Other news

• Asking the important questions: Robert Downey Jr. to join “Captain America 3?”

• Study finds 14 million with major diseases caused by smoking. Half of them have emphysema. Smoking was directly responsible for the demise of both my parents.