Tyre Brady commits to Kentucky

Posted on June 14, 2013 6:21 pm by John Clay

Florida wide receiver Tyre Brady has committed to Kentucky.

Here is his tweet about the commitment.

He is the 17th UK football commitment for 2014.

Click here for more on Brady.

 

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As Reds return home, a look at GABP attendance

Posted on June 14, 2013 5:00 pm by John Clay

With the Reds returning home tonight to face Milwaukee at Great American Ballpark, let’s look at this year’s attendance. Cincinnati is averaging 29,784 tickets sold per game, its highest mark since 31,431 in 1999.

If the Reds remain on this pace, the 2013 average would rank seventh in franchise history. The record average is 32,466 set in 1976, the second of back-to-back championship years for the Big Red Machine.

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UK football target Derek Keif will announce Sunday

Posted on June 14, 2013 4:31 pm by John Clay

Derek Kief, a 6-foot-4, 199-pound wide receiver out of LaSalle High School in Cincinnati, will announce his college choice on Sunday via twitter. His final choices are believed to be Alabama, Ohio State, Kentucky, Northwestern and Notre Dame.

 

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Video: Landon Young highlights

Posted on June 14, 2013 4:24 pm by John Clay

Update: Mike Fields has more on Landon Young.

Kentucky football received a commitment today from Landon Young, a 6-foot-7 lineman from Lafayette High School in Lexington who will be a sophomore this fall. Here is the highlight video Young submitted to the NCSA national recruiting site.

There seems to be a problem with embed code for the video, so here’s the link.

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A timeline of Kentucky’s 2014 football commitments

Posted on June 14, 2013 2:21 pm by John Clay

Here’s a timeline of UK Class of 2014 football commitments:

March 22 - Dorian Hendrix, a 5-foot-11, 225-pound linebacker from Huber Heights, Ohio, becomes the first prospect to commit to Kentucky for 2014.

April 12 – Springfield, Ohio wide receiver Thaddeus Snodgrass commits to Kentucky. Snodgrass is 6-1, 184.

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Tyre Brady, T.V. Williams on UK football recruiting radar

Posted on June 14, 2013 1:24 pm by John Clay

Justin Rowland over at Rivals is reporting that Florida wide receiver Tyre Brady is on the UK campus today. The 6-foot-3, 180-pounder from Homestead, Florida could be next on the Kentucky commit list.

Brady is a three-star prospect and has been offered by Miami, Florida State and Florida Atlantic. Minnesota, Mississippi State and Central Florida have also offered, according to Rivals. Brady might be ranked higher were it not for he missed his sophomore year because of an academic issue and has transferred several times.

He started out at Columbus High School in Miami, then transferred to South Dade in Homestead. He transferred to a high school in Texas, but then returned to South Dade.

Hearing that T.V. Williams out of Texas is another wide out considering Kentucky to keep any eye on.

Going by composite rankings, based on commitments, Kentucky is currently sixth nationally and third in the SEC for the Class of 2014.

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Video: Bradley Dale Peveto profile

Posted on June 14, 2013 12:30 pm by John Clay

Here is UK’s video profile of secondary coach Bradley Dale Peveto.

Video: Neal Brown profile

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Tim Brando ranks Louisville as football pre-season No. 1

Posted on June 14, 2013 11:45 am by John Clay

When Kentucky plays Louisville at Commonwealth Stadium this season, could the Cats be playing the nation’s pre-season No. 1?

Tim Brando thinks so.

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Class of 2014 composite football recruiting rankings

Posted on June 14, 2013 10:38 am by John Clay

With Kentucky making an uncharacteristic climb of the football recruiting rankings, decided to put together a composite chart of the rankings using Rivals, Scout, Sports247 and ESPNU.

In the overall rankings, not all schools made each top 10. So I assigned a number value of 11 when a school did not appear in one service’s top 10. ESPNU only reveals its top 25 to members who did not have a subscription. So for the SEC composite rankings, I assigned a number value of 30 for those schools which did not appear in the top 25.

Kentucky comes out sixth in the national composite and third in the SEC composite.

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Report: Mark Stoops offers scholarship to seventh-grader from Indiana

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What Stanley Williams’ commitment means to UK

Posted on June 14, 2013 9:26 am by John Clay

williamsstanleyMark Stooops has got it going on, that’s for sure. The news Thursday that Kentucky had secured a commitment from Georgia running back Stanley “Boom” Williams, rated as the nation’s No. 1 all-purpose back by Rivals, not only keeps Stoops’ momentum going, but takes it up a notch. UK’s 2014 recruiting is now ranked No. 3 nationally.

Williams is the first top 100 player that has committed to Kentucky for 2014. He is ranked as the nation’s 96th best prospect by Rivals and the ninth-best prospect in the state of Georgia. He had already committed to the Bulldogs only to rescind the commitment before announcing for the Cats.

He also appears to be a perfect fit for Neal Brown’s offense. The 5-foot-8, 186-pound Williams can catch the ball out of the backfield as well as run the ball. He could also line up in the slot as a receiver.

“I watched film of the offense, how they use their running backs, spreading their guys out over the whole field so that defenses can’t have many guys in the box, it allows me to operate in the middle behind my offensive linemen,” Williams told Steve Jones of the Courier-Journal.

Michael Carvell of the AJC writes about Williams:

The 5-foot-9, 192-pound Williams was offered by UGA after his freshman season of high school at Dawg Night summer prospect camp – and committed on the spot. Last season as a junior, Williams rushed for 1,958 yards and 24 touchdowns at George Walton.

Despite the early pledge, Williams continued to flirt with other colleges. This past April, Williams de-committed from UGA in what one Bulldogs source described as a “mutual decision.”

Georgia has commitments from running backs Sony Michel of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Nick Chubb of Cedartown, Georgia. Michel is considered a five-star prospect who is ranked as the top overall prospect in the state of Florida. Chubb is a four-star prospect, ranked as the nation’s 70th best prospect overall by Rivals. He is rated as the 6th best prospect in the state of Georgia.

Kentucky has one other running back commitment for 2014. That’s Mikel Horton out of West Chester, Ohio. Horton is ranked No. 12 at his position and No. 131 overall nationally.

Click here for chart of UK’s football commitments for 2014.

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