John Clay's Sidelines

Here is John Conner talking about scoring two touchdowns in UK’s 36-13 win over the Warhawks. Actually, this video is really the side of Conner’s head. The senior fullback drew a crowd of reporters, and those of us who were slow to arrive had to take whatever angles we could get.

Kentucky’s Mr. Do Everything, Randall Cobb talks about his 73-yard punt return for a touchdown, his 11-yard run for a touchdown, his receiving and his passing (2-of-4 for 46 yards). Asked about his job description, Cobb said, “Play football.” He also talks about the Wildcat formation, and what the Cats have shown, and haven’t shown.

UK junior quarterback Will Fidler talks here about the highs and lows of his play in the Cats victory. Fidler completed 8 of 13 passes for 82 yards, and threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to John Conner. But he also tossed an interception and lost the ball on the fumble. Asked if it was hard to get a rhythm with the quarterback rotation, Fidler said it sure beat not playing.

UK true freshman quarterback Morgan Newton talks about his play after Kentucky’s 36-13 win over UL-Monroe. Making his second start, Newton completed three of six passes for 17 yards. His longest completion was 11 yards. He ran the ball three times for nine yards.

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Gary Bedore of the Lawrence Journal-World has a pair of interesting nuggets this morning:

• Ex-UK coach Billy Gillispie, who reportedly checked himself into the John Lucas rehab facility in early September, was in Lawrence to attend former boss Bill Self’s coaching clinic. Said Gillispie, “I came here because I’m great friends not only to coach (Self), but the entire staff. I feel very honored. I’m definitely missing the game, and I love watching practice, those kind of things, but coach has been so good to me. I would never have had any opportunities if not for him. He’s got such a great staff and leadership up top starting with (athletic director) Lew Perkins. This place … what a beautiful facility they’ve built. I’m just having a great time visiting here.”

• And UK target Adreian Payne has canceled his visit to Kansas and will choose among Kentucky, Arizona, West Virginia and Michigan State.

Update: And this from one happy customer — @jwh323: After the student only practice, all I can say is @UKCoachCalipari is no doubt the right man for the job and this team is going to be sick.

Update No. 2: This from former Kernel columnist and Facebook friend Jon Hale: “most interesting part was Wayne Turner, technically a student I guess, watching from the front row.”

UK students are at the student-only UK basketball practice — no media — and students being students, they know how to (a) take pictures with their phones, and (b) use Twitter.

BTW, my friends over at Kentucky Sports Radio also have some student-only practice pix.

Eric Lindsey at Cat Scratches, who did nothing to save me when I was nearly flattened at the UK volleyball match Wednesday, has more pictures from the student-only practice.

Photo by @chubbarth)

(Photo by @SIX_EIGHT)

(Photo by @justinmc44)

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Jerry Meyer

The Kentucky Kernel’s Metz Camfield talked to Rivals’ Jerry Meyer, one of the more respected recruiting analysts around.

And Meyer thinks the John Wall eligibility issue is a definite non-story.

Meyer told Camfield:

“That’s why I don’t think it’s a story,” Meyer said. “UK is doing their due diligence. Unless something happened beyond the obvious fact that they played for Clifton, it’s not a story. Are they going to rule everyone who played for D-One Sports ineligible? Everyone knew he was an agent. It’s just odd to me.”