Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies: Andre' Woodson Edition

Former UK quarterback Andre’ Woodson:

Former UK quarterback Andre Woodson and his family on GDL today at 9. The miracle behind their sweet boy. pic.twitter.com/08vEFiJ8YY

— Rachel Platt (@whas11rachel) May 7, 2015

What a great looking family!

Tweet of the Morning

Pat Forde on NCAA administrators overreacting to grad transfers: http://t.co/q3o7uGIfdI They're also overreacting to "one-and-done."

— Jay Bilas (@JayBilas) May 7, 2015

Exactly right, and of course, Forde gets it exactly wrong, because you know, Calipari:

This is not breaking news, but the one-and-done basketball matriculation from the NCAA to the NBA is the bigger academic sham. Passing 12 credit hours of Intro to Breathing, not declaring a major and not entering into an advanced curriculum before leaving school is a clear refutation of the academic mission.

What is a sham is Forde’s relentless, deliberate, almost insensate desire to be obtuse about this subject. Everybody knows that one-and-done players have to perform two full semesters. Hey Pat, I know we went to school a long time ago, but a full time student is still more than six hours. So at least get your facts right. If one-and-done’s leave in bad academic standing, it kills the school’s APR, which is why coaches insist they finish both semesters in good standing. Which means they must finish with at least 24 credit hours.

Get a clue, you hidebound jackanape. You and Pete Thamel should start the Church of the One True Education, and make Bob Knight your high priest.

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

• Mark Stoops has Q&A with Kyle Tucker about Bud Dupree’s selection by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL Draft. You know Coach Cal has to be happy.

• Fan gets Wille Cauley-Stein signature tattoo. Was that before, or after the Trill?

• Interesting. Mark Stoops talked about the lack of positional coaching Bud Dupree received at Kentucky. Not sure I get that. Maybe he’s talking about the 3-4 vs. 4-3.

Kentucky basketball

• Kentucky drops to third in Rivals.com’s 2015 recruiting classes.

• Has John Calipari tweaked his recruiting approach to offer scholarships to underclassmen? Well, at least he’s not offering eighth-graders… yet.

• Can John Calipari overcome striking out in spring recruiting? Yes. There, saved you a click.

• Looks like the UK-Arizona State game is on!

• Calipari offers Alabama junior forward John Petty.

Other Kentucky sports

• Women’s golf makes their fifth straight NCAA Regional, this time in South Bend.

• The Rifle team makes noise in the National Junior Olympics.

• Hoops star Makayla Epps suspended after alcohol incident in her home town. News flash — college kids sometimes drink under age.

  Seriously, though, Makayla needs to understand that as an athlete, she will be denied some of the things other students can get away with. And there will be more consequences than the legal ones:

  Mitchell did not specify what type of discipline Epps will face but said Wednesday that it will include at least a one-game suspension next season. The coach said she must train individually this summer and work on her decision-making.

• Linnae Harper invited to the 2015 USA basketball tryouts. Congratulations. Harper was very good last season, but she’s on track to be a bona fide star. We need her to be.

• Bat Cats fall to Cardinals, who have now swept the series with Kentucky this season.

• Softball out of the SEC Tournament, losing 5-4 to Tennessee.

Links posts

• The Leach Report: Thursday Wildcat Links

College football

• Good grief.

  Joakim Noah talked some SEC trash about Cardale Jones. Therefore: http://t.co/wMnL5dasDI pic.twitter.com/KD94NGLZBC

  — SB✯Nation CFB (@SBNationCFB) May 7, 2015

College basketball

• Sean Miller to take Billy Donovan’s place as the USA U19 coach. Congrats.

Other sports news

• Truth, forsooth. Wizards are in trouble if John Wall isn’t back at full speed soon.

• Shaq takes a hard fall on TNT’s NBA halftime show. Man, falls really hurt when you’re as big as Shaq. Heck, they hurt when you’re half his size. But the big guy still has his sense of humor.

Other news

• When exposed to air, a luminescent 2-dimensional material seems to disappear, but doesn’t actually do so. Very interesting stuff. Hat tip: Instapundit

• This is what 15,000 aircraft look like to satellites in space. Pretty much like those route maps you see in the back of airline magazines.

• Microsoft is now writing software for Linux. Who would’ve imagined that back in 1996?

• Wow, look at the dent a bird made in the radome of this Turkish Airlines 737. What did they hit, a Pteranodon?