Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies: Bill Gatton Edition

News and commentary from around the Big Blue Internet. Bill Gatton makes largest donation ever to UK. Braylon Heard "doubtful" for Saturday. More.

By Glenn Logan Sep 4, 2014, 10:17am EDT

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Tweet of the Morning

CM Bill Gatton, the man of the hour here at UK pic.twitter.com/m4nrMKPA5U
— Linda Blackford (@lbblackford) September 4, 2014

$20 million dollars will make you more than the man of the hour.

True freshman Kendall Randolph has a big day in practice
Posters featuring Javess Blue and Bud Dupree are going to be made available in 13 cities. Nothing like getting the names out there!
Walk-on offensive guard Cole Mosier has been a nice surprise, according to Mark Stoops.
Braylon Heard is doubtful for Saturday. Bummer. But it does underscore the value of the depth Kentucky has at the running back position. Next man up.

In that vein, I think that Josh Clemons could see quite a bit of time on Saturday, and I hope so. In this article over at Vaught’s Views, he talks about the long road back from injury and how good it feels to be out there playing football again.
Neal Brown doesn’t have a lot of "new wrinkles" in the offense for Saturday. Good, he should be saving any that he does have up for Florida.
Maddux Sports has Kentucky -13 on Saturday, up from 9.5. I hope we do better than that. If not, perhaps our optimism after game one was "irrational."
I think this was already linked, but Kentucky’s third-down improvement was notable on Saturday. My only comment is that 8-14 against an FCS team isn’t exactly awesome.
Damien Harris hung out with Dominique Hawkins this past weekend. I can’t think of a guy I’d rather have with him.
D.J. Eliot on preparing for Ohio on Saturday:
Kentucky will host annual Heroes’ Day on Saturday.
Darian Miller was "distraught" over being forced to sit out a game.

Texas A&M’s Billy Kennedy received a 2-year extension from the university. He sure needs to produce better than what he did last season, though.
The NBC sports network will air 45 college basketball games next season.
Coach K says retirement isn’t in his immediate future. Good for him.
NIT Season Tip-Off will no longer be bracketed and instead will be in the "classic" format with set semifinal matchups. The NCAA could only get eight teams to commit to play, rather than 16.
Best basketball-football coaching tandems. Ugh. I hate to see Louisville there. Hopefully, in a couple of years, Kentucky will be high on the list.
The Sporting News has a rather dim view of the Indiana Hoosiers’ chances this season.

The Big Cuz has a big game for Team USA. How’d you like to have him for your backup center?
Eric Bledsoe is still locked in a stalemate with Phoenix. This is not good for Phoenix, and not great for Bledsoe, although his options are better than theirs.
In case you missed it, the NFL debuts tonight with the Green Bay Packers vs. the Seattle Seahawks. Randle Cobb will no doubt be a factor, something for which I know A2D2 is completely grateful.
Team USA has one more game of pool play left before the knockout round begins — Ukraine today at 11:30.

Joan Rivers is out of intensive care. Good, I hope she’s going to be okay.
Scammers posing as IRS agents have stolen $80k from Arizona residents. Always demand, and carefully inspect, full identification, and always check on people purporting to be government agents.
Facebook is blamed for driving up cell phone bills. Yeah, my wife spends more time on FB with her new phone than she does anything else. < / lament >
"Astoundingly huge" dinosaur discovered.
Dancing with the Stars cast revealed. Michael Waltrip? Wow. Tommy Chong? This should be some fun.
Bobby Flay looking at Louisville for a new restaurant location. Flay loves this place, he’s a big horseracing fan.

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