Tag: derrick locke
Derrick Locke to Test NFL Waters
Chip Cosby of the Lexington Herald-Leader is reporting that star UK running back Derrick Locke has submitted his paperwork to the NFL Draft Advisory Board to gain more information on his professional prospects after his junior year. Locke’s status is shaky at best and it’s hard for me to see him deciding to go pro [...]
More thoughts on the John Wall eligibility issues
OK, so some time has passed since the initial shock of seeing the ESPN headline “UK’s Wall battling eligibility”. I think it’s deep breath time. Let’s look at the facts. First of all, Mike Slive confirmed that Wall is not yet eligible, not that he is ineligible. The issues that stand in the way of [...]
UK rides Locke, Cobb, offensive line to road win over Auburn
In the midst of a 3 game losing streak, having just lost its starting QB to injury, and with a raucous introduction to John Calipari’s UK first team at Big Blue Madness, UK football was in danger of becoming an afterthought among its own fans. On an historic night in Auburn, Alabama, Rich Brooks and [...]
Manday Musings: the Weekend that was in Pinkie sports 10/12 edition
The Cards finally won, the Cats lost to the ‘Ole Ball Coach again, and Mike Hartline’s season is done. Those are the highlights, or lowlights depending on your perspective, from the weekend in the Pinkie sports world. Time to muse. Steve Kragthorpe needed a win and he got a win. The Cardinals played a marginal first [...]
UK misses opportunity in Columbia, falls 28-26 to South Carolina
There are plenty of positives to take from UK’s best performance of the young season on the road against a quality South Carolina team. However, I can guarantee you that the Kentucky Wildcats will see the close loss as nothing more than a missed opportunity, wondering what might have been if just a thing or [...]
Crucial two weeks forthcoming for UK football, could set tone for rest of season
Let me first sing a familiar tune, something you might remember from a post I wrote about this time last week: UK is 2-2, and any realistic fan could not possibly expect to have had a better record than that after playing arguably the two top teams in the nation. As UK fans, prior to [...]
Manday Musings: the Weekend that was in Pinkie Sports 10/5 edition
Welp, that was a fairly awful weekend in the world of Pinkie sports. We are a third of the way through the 2009 college football campaign and things aren’t looking great for our squads. On Friday, the Cardinals played two good quarters of football and followed it up with two atrocious quarters en route to a 35-10 defeat. [...]
Turnovers Too Much to Overcome, Cats Fall To Tide 38-20
With just over eight minutes remaining in the second quarter, Kentucky trailed Alabama by a single point and was starting their drive at the 50-yard line. Following a three-and-out possession, Ryan Tydlacka landed a punt at the Auburn 3-yard line. On first down from the three, Micah Johnson met Richardson at the inch-line, for what [...]
Post-game injury report, what we learned from the UofL victory
It’s usually a good sign when the most severe injury is suffered by a member of the coaching staff on the sideline. In this case, though, the injury suffered by offensive coordinator Randy Sanders in a 4th quarter collision with Derrick Locke was pretty severe. Sanders, as Locke was finishing off a long run, took [...]
UK-UofL Recap: ‘Cats escape tight battle against game Cardinals
I guess we probably should have figured. The last time there was a substantial favorite in a UK-UofL matchup, Kentucky upset Louisville in an epic game, headlined by a late, long game-winning touchdown pass from Andre Woodson to Steve Johnson. This time, with UK playing the part of favorite, it looked like it was going [...]
Some additional thoughts on UK opener
Sundays after Saturday game days are for licking wounds and rehashing the good, the bad, and the questions arising from each weekend. I wrote my extended thoughts on UK’s opening win of the 2009 season last night, but I have other thoughts to kick around for a quiet Sunday afternoon. First, let’s talk about the [...]
The Pinkie Previews: Kentucky vs. Miami(OH) at Paul Brown Stadium
On Saturday, the Kentucky Wildcats will open up their season at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati against the Miami(OH) Redhawks, in what is being dubbed the “Rumble on the River”. The game will mark the 12th time that UK and Miami(OH) have met and the first time since 1991. Kentucky leads the all-time series 6-4-1 [...]
2009 Kentucky Football Positional Preview: Special Teams
You know what? These positional previews are a TON easier to do when you have a complete and official depth chart for the opener. Why couldn’t have they released this thing back when we started a few weeks ago? Does Strait Pinkie not have that kind of pull yet? Just you wait, a year from [...]
2009 Kentucky Football Positional Outlook: Running Backs
Entering the 2008 season, the perceived strength of the Kentucky offense was their running game. Sure, they lost Rafael Little to the Tennessee Titans, but Derrick Locke had showed signs of brilliance during his freshman campaign and they were also returning Tony Dixon and Alphonso Smith. To be successful Kentucky needed the ground game to [...]
Updates on Tobias Harris, Josh Selby and a few random Monday notes
Tobias Harris and Josh Selby are two players that have a lot in common. Both have exploded on the recruiting scene in the past month, Harris for his stellar play and Selby for his highly public decommitment from Bruce Pearl and the Tennessee Volunteers. Both have drawn serious interest from our two local teams, UK [...]
