April 27, 2020
Barring some unforeseen new additions to the roster for next season, I think the 2020-21 version of the UK basketball team will enter the season with the lowest expectations of any Calipari team in his tenure. And it’s well deserved. With only one player on roster who scored points last year, very little in the…
April 24, 2020
It is inevitable during NFL Draft week that you not only hear the stories of the great players drafted too low but also the players who didn’t pan out who were drafted high. Will Joe Burrow join that list? Only time will tell. But almost 100% of the time, Tim Couch and word “bust” are…
April 21, 2020
So I have posted on here a few times over the last 12 years, I know Drew Franklin has posted about it, and I know many fans agree. I have argued that I would much rather Kentucky become a college football power consistently even if it meant a dip in the yearly dominance of the…
April 14, 2020
It’s hard to even fathom but Kentucky has had a total of 42 players declare for the NBA Draft before their senior seasons since Calipari arrived (with Richards and Montgomery still to be decided). That is almost 4 players a year leaving early. Of those 42, 27 were freshman, 12 were sophomores, and 3 were…
April 9, 2020
I’m starting to get very concerned about next year’s UK basketball team. Normally we go into the off-season and end up convincing ourselves on why the Cats will be a Final Four team the next year. It’s usually a combination of whoever is returning will make some great leap, the incoming freshman are all long…
April 2, 2020
Some of the weirder, goofier, hidden, and interesting stats you may not know for your amusement during this isolation: -Bobby Perry scored more points in his UK career than Forest Sale, Phil Grawemeyer, Cliff Barker, Gayle Rose, Layton Rouse, and Basil Hayden. Those 6 players all have retired jerseys. -4 of Kentucky’s Top 9 all-time…
March 31, 2020
It’s really hard to figure out things to write about right now with this unprecedented time in the world (and sports). But today is actually an easy post to write for a couple reasons. First of all, my wife celebrates her birthday today. Normally, we celebrate this birthday during the NCAA Tournament and often are…
March 25, 2020
Everybody’s favorite summer fill-in hosts, Pardon My Take, had an interesting conversation on a recent podcast about how stir crazy they’ve become without any sports and just how badly they want them back. Big Cat talked about watching the 1992 Duke game this weekend and how it was insane that they didn’t have the score…
March 23, 2020
I bit the bullet like many of you this weekend and watched the replay of the 1992 Duke-UK game and it was still everything that I remembered. It was one of the best played basketball games on one of the biggest stages with 2 of the biggest programs in college basketball history. And when Sean…
March 17, 2020
No matter what you think of how this season went, it will forever be known as the season without an ending. We will always wonder what would have happened if this team had gotten to play an NCAA Tournament. Were they good enough to make a Final Four? I’d say so in a down year…