Fire Tubby?

Thanks goes to my family members “Roger Harden” and “Big Floppin’ Rob Lock” for bringing this to my attention and scanning it in.

It was kind of a shock to me anyway. In the debut of the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll the Cats are ranked 22nd in the nation.

Incidentally, Tennessee and their great saviour (who could be the special guest at your next family barbecue for only $5,001) check in two spots below UK at number 24. I was starting to get a little depressed today until I saw this poll. I thought this seasons forecast, (much like today’s weather) was going to be “90% chance of rain, and then thunderstorms, man“. But i’ve found a spring (possibly March?) flower.

The Blue/White game was this past weekend. For some post-public-practice analysis, check out A Sea of Blue, Brett Dawson’s Blog, and KSR. And be sure to review Part the First for info about Shagari, Preston and Ravi. After the jump, uh, everybody else who’s gone.

Sorry this post is so long, but I do have 5 people to talk about.

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Since we have started picking up our posting, we thought we should overwhelm ourselves. Our beautiful new firerich.com site is now online. It features our new member to the “fire-UK-coach?” team, Hefty Lefty, who is eager to take apart all the igronant naysaying going on about the team and Coach Rich Brooks. We hope you, the Internet-Enabled Wildcat Fan, will join us for the fun there.

Since we’re closing in on the Blue/White game on Saturday, I thought we would take a quick overview at the players who either graduated or are no longer playing with the team this year. Join us, after the jump.

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There has been some excellent coverage of Big Blue Madness around the internets (even some from our very own Gimel Martinez) so I though I would bring that high quality reporting down a notch to show you how it looked from my seat alllllll the way up in row Z in the upper arena.

Below are a couple for you to check out and click here to view the full set.

Player Intros

Scott Rigot kicked back and some recruits in the first row.

Bobby’s dunk prop was this kid who kept trying to kick it to the corner for the open 3

Check out the rest if you feel like it.

Oh, and it is so hard to not get pleasure from other people’s pain sometimes.

In case you were wondering why Joe Crawford didn’t partisipate last night, he’s recovering from minor surgery. He’ll miss a few of the first practices. Let’s hope that’s it is just a minor surgery. Last year Sheray Thomas had tennis-ball sized tumor removed and really didn’t look like he was able to contribute to the team until the very end of the season.

Also, CBS Sportsline.com is asking if you have a “Choops question”, they may have the answer. For the record, Choops is the worst word combination I’ve ever seen related to sports.

AJ Stewart has verbally committed to UK. Let me quote Matt from kentuckysportsradio.com here:

In the rush for news about other prospects, lets not overlook what happened here. This is a kid who basically wanted Florida forever…..they ignored him. UK swooped in and got him, over other powers such as Illinois. And at the end, Florida wanted back in and AJ said no dice. […] AJ is a great kid and a great get. And oh yeah, he told me that he would be spending the next few weeks, “trying my hardest to get Jai and Pat to come with me.”

Jai Lucas and Patrick Patterson had a great time bonding with AJ during their time in Lexington this weekend, Matt also reports. Let’s hope that AJ’s committment gives Jai, Patrick, Chris Barnes and Marshall Moses one more reason to wear Kentucky Blue next year.

I’m not for sure how badly Illinois wanted AJ. Couple this with Illinois losing Eric Gordan’s verbal committment to Indiana, and I’m sure Illinois boosters (Illini Alumni?) are mighty whizzed.

Edit: Thanks to the Concerned at dynastydefenders.com, here’s a YouTube link of the AJ Stewart chant during Big Blue Madness.

Edit 2: Thanks, Mr. Clay. Also, in case you folks don’t know about the Concerned, here’s our somewhat biased assessment.

It was a most interesting event, as viewed from the rafters. If you want a complete summary, Matt Jones over at kentuckysportsradio.com liveblogged the event. Let me take a few moments commenting on what I noticed.

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Big Blue Madness is just around the corner. Did you get your ticket? Don’t ask me how, but somehow a few tickets funneled down to me. So me and the wife are gettin’ ourselves a babysitter and heading to the Rupp rafters.

I’ll be sure to post my impressions. I’m looking forward to seeing Jodi Meeks in action, and hopefully another dunk contest involving Woo.