Big Blue Links for Tuesday:
- Only the H-L’s Jerry Tipton actually talked to Josh Harrellson about the infamous bathroom stall episode last season.
- Chip Cosby of H-L reports that Mike Hartline still has the support of Rich Brooks.
- Mark Story of H-L reports on ex-UK quarterback Curtis Pulley.
- Superfan Jim Brown’s consecutive game streak is over.
- Gary Bedore of the Lawrence Journal World reports that Doron Lamb will visit Kansas for Late Night with Phog.
- ESPN’s Pat Forde doesn’t think UK should be ranked as No. 1 college basketball program of all-time.
- Neither does C-J columnist Rick Bozich.
- Andy Katz of ESPN has the various reactions to something that is only put out to illicit reaction.
- Tom Leach talks to Clark Kellogg.
- Brett Dawson of the C-J reports on the Hartline situation.
- Jody Demling of the C-J reports that Dakotah Euton is close to making a decision.
- Larry Vaught of the Danville Advocate-Messenger writes that UK’s receivers must be more consistent.
- B.W. Jones of the Kernel writes on the depleted UK secondary.
- A Sea of Blue has a serious basketball Jones.
- Bluegrass State Basketball has an international report on Gerald Fitch.
- Wildcat Blue Blog has some thoughts on UK-Alabama.
John Clay is a sports columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader. A native of Central Kentucky and graduate of UK, he covered UK football for 13 seasons before being promoted to columnist in 2000. Born in Paris, he graduated from George Rogers Clark High School in Winchester in 1977. He lives in Lexington with his wife and two sons. You can e-mail him at jclay@herald-leader.com.
Sorry Josh Harrellson no coach, teacher, or employer is going to read your mind to see that you do not understand your assignment. That’s life. The sooner Josh learns that the better of he will be.
Yeah I would been upset if you kept not paying attention to me and then you didn’t even ask an assistant when you continued to not understand. The entire team did goof off that night, as it did much of the entire season, and should of been on some sort of punishment.
I believe Tubby punished his players one year! He made the team carry around basketball with them one year because the players couldn’t had problems holding on to the ball. The balls would sleep, go to class, eat, take them to the bathroom, and everywhere the players went.
The type of punishment Gillispie doled out to Harrellson is a bush league and demeaning tactic applied by a person so lacking in coaching skills he could not think of a better way to motivate.
Amen, John. I couldn’t agree with you more. Disciplining someone is one thing, demeaning them is another. Considering his actions since his dismissal we can see that BCG had trouble figuring that out among other things.
So Forde thinks scandals should hurt a team’s ranking but he still has Pay-For-Play UCLA #1. What a tool.