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Stewart tunes out ‘Twilight’ tabloids LOS ANGELES — Kristen Stewart was a bundle of nerves talking about "Twilight" a year ago. She's far more confident these days as "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" gets ready to rise in movie theaters Nov. 20. "I think I've gotten a lot more comfortable with talking about myself. I couldn't finish a sentence because I was so concerned about how it was going to sound and I didn't want to come across insincere about something that I really love to do," Stewart says. "I realized that instead or refraining from saying things, I should have said 'I put my heart and soul into this thing and I love it' instead of the really logical, over-analytical reason why I love it." She had to get comfortable because Stewart and her fellow "New Moon" co-stars, especially Robert Pattinson, with whom she's been romantically linked, have become constant media fodder. She's been on more magazine and tabloid covers than the Octomom. Stewart's take on all the tabloid attention is that it is "false" and "mean." "It's like a ridiculous show. Like a soap opera that seems real but you're not quite sure," Stewart says. "It doesn't bother me. I don't take it personally, because I've had so much experience it's gotten easier to talk about the work." It's helped the 19-year-old Stewart has had other acting jobs, which are a calming eye in the middle of the media hurricane. Along with filming "New Moon" and the next movie in the series, "Eclipse," she also has made "The Runaways" with "New Moon" co-star Dakota Fanning. Her quirky "Adventureland" was released earlier this year. The "New Moon" filming was the best distraction because it forced Stewart to go into a very different acting di-
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In their opening weekend, the Cats twice dominated the dogs. After defeating the Boston Terriers on Friday, the UK women’s basketball team turned its attention to the Butler Bulldogs on Sunday and pulled away for a 87-66 win in front of 4,014 fans at Memorial Coliseum. The Cats’ up-tempo offense went into hibernation for the first seven minutes of the second half, but after Butler came back to force a 52-52 tie, the Cats woke up thanks to a bucket from freshman Brittany Henderson. That was followed by three straight threes for the Cats to swing momentum in their favor and pave the way to the 21-point win. “Brittany Henderson made a hustle play, an offensive putback when we were struggling mightily,” UK head coach Matthew Mitchell said. “I told (the team) you never know what’s going to ignite the rally, you never know what’s going to ignite the run. Then (junior guard) Amber (Smith’s) three was huge…Rebecca Gray’s threes were big. Those plays were outstanding.” Although the momentum swing essentially quelled any hope for a Butler comeback by energizing the home fans, junior forward Victoria Dunlap kept her team afloat with clutch plays, earning her second consecutive and 15th career double-double with a career-high 33 points and 18 rebounds. Dunlap scored the first nine UK points of
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the second half. After the game, she received praise from her teammates and opponents. Butler head coach Beth Couture said she tried to double team Dunlap, but that someone like her can’t be easily contained. “Well, I’m ecstatic that (Dunlap) was on our team and not their team,” Mitchell said. “She’s taken her responsibility of being a goto player and has exceeded my expectations.” Dunlap was a bit surprised by her performance. “I just thought I’d have a normal game,” she said. The game’s first half was a continuation of the offensive muscle UK displayed against Boston, as the Cats knocked down over 50 percent of their shots, and every UK player who saw action scored. The Bulldogs’ attack was spearheaded by junior Brittany Bowen’s 7-of-7 shooting and 16point performance in the first half to limit the UK lead to nine at the break. However, Butler expended so much energy to tie the game that the Bulldogs never managed to get over the cusp and take a lead. Other than the slow start of Sunday’s second half, UK’s offense didn’t appear to show any blemishes all weekend. “(Offensively this is) exactly what you want to do as a team,” Gray said. “The chemistry this year has been a lot better than it has been in years past and I feel like we are clicking a lot better. It’s got to be a lot of fun for the fans to watch.”
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Dance minor cut because of ‘low enrollment’ By Laura Clark lclark@kykernel.com
A program revitalized more than 20 years ago is dancing its way out of UK. The Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion made the decision to cut the Dance Certification program and the dance minor Nov. 4, according to an e-mail from the department’s chair to students in the program. The College of Education minor was suspended because of “limited resources and low student enrollment,” said KHP chair Melody
Noland in the e-mail. Noland said students will be given the opportunity to complete the program and were directed to meet with an adviser to discuss the timeline and coursework of their remaining dance curriculum. The suspension of the dance program is occurring the same year the professor responsible for rebuilding it retired. Rayma Beal, former program head and UK Dance Ensemble director, retired in June 2009. Beal is credited for establishing the UKDE and rebuilding the dance minor since her appointment in 1986.
Before she arrived at UK, Beal said the dance program had attempted to move from the College of Education to the College of Fine Arts in 1979, but because of differing opinions on where the program should have gone, most of the dance faculty left, leaving her to pick up the pieces. The decision to cut the university’s dance program now is a step back to 1979, Beal said. Beal said approximately 20 students currently have a dance minor and that number has been consistent for the past 12 to 15 years. Audra Flanagan, business man-
agement major and dance minor junior, said dance was the reason she came to UK. “It makes me sad because Kentucky itself isn’t supportive of dance at all,” Flanagan said. “I’m from a small hometown, so there weren’t many dance opportunities.” Flanagan said many dance classes offered as part of the minor will be discontinued. However, she said any dance classes kept would be considered a service course with KHP not to learn about dance, but just for the physical activity. For fifth year kinesiology major and dance minor Courtney Guidry,
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classes will be available for her to complete the dance program, but others are not so lucky. “It’s really a shame,” Guidry said. “… Dance is always one of the first things to go, across the board. The arts, in general, get cut first in economic situations like this.” Kentucky has a lot of talented dancers, Guidry said, and losing a program like this will hurt the state because those wanting to study dance will leave. “All this talk about wanting to be a top-20 institution, but yet there’s no emphasis in the arts? That’s a real problem,” she said.
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Local groups, ROTC honor fallen solders By Garrett Wymer news@kykernel.com
UK ROTC soldiers ran 3.1 miles simultaneously with troops in Baghdad on Friday night despite being a time difference — and an ocean — away. Friday night’s Run for the Fallen was a shadow run, meaning multiple groups and hundreds of people took part in the event at
the same time across the globe, said Capt. Joey Orr, a UK ROTC operations officer. The 5K was held in memory of UK ROTC alumnus Jeffrey Graham, who was killed in 2004 while stationed in Iraq. Stacey Martinez, who helped coordinate the event, had dated Graham for five years and was engaged to marry him when he died. “This started out as just a couple of people,” Martinez said. “Five of us running — at the absolute most.” About 50 people, including a Georgetown cross-country team, took part in the run.
“To have this many people here — it means so much,” Martinez said. “And it means so much to the Graham family.” A group of about 60 people at Valparaiso University near Chicago also joined in on the shadow run, as well as 700 soldiers at Camp Slayer in Iraq, she said. The 5K began in Commonwealth Stadium’s blue lot. Guided by assistants waving American flags and blue glow sticks, participants ran to Avenue of Champions before looping back and finishing at the starting point. But it was the cause, rather than the course, that drew many runners to the race.
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“This seems like the best cause I’ve ever run for,” said Lindsey Roberts, a 2007 UK graduate. Architecture freshman Brooke Roberson read about the 5K and wanted to run “because of the troops,” she said. The soldiers in Iraq were able to run because coalition forces heavily protected the area, Orr said. “All over the U.S. people are running at the same time to support our troops,” Martinez said. “Just being out here, supporting him, supporting the troops, running for the fallen soldiers — and not just the fallen, all who are serving….it’s touching.”
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Taylor Vit stood on the ice, spread his arms wide and looked up to the rafters, and then pumped his fist to punctuate his 5-on-3 power play goal with just under 3:00 left to play that allowed the UK hockey team to breathe just a little easier. The goal finally iced the 10-7 victory for UK (17-2) against a surprisingly resilient Eastern Illinois team that entered the weekend unranked but gave Kentucky all it could handle. “That goal was more relief to finally know we got through with a win,” Vit said. Relief. That seemed to be the consensus feeling after a decidedly disappointing performance against a team that UK beat 11-2 on Friday night before struggling 24 hours later. “We played just good enough to win,” UK head coach Rob Docherty said. “Everything can improve. A win is a win, but we shouldn’t be playing just good enough this far into the season.” The seven goals allowed were the most allowed in a win all season. Eastern Illinois attempted 39 shots and consistently pressured goalie Derek Steinbrecher by crashing the net. Eastern Illinois also scored two power play goals. “We were lazy,” senior Tony Valerino said. “We thought we would score 100 goals, and defensively we weren’t helping out Derek at all.” The defense broke down repeatedly throughout the night. UK found itself clinging to a slim lead the whole game, never building more than a three-goal cushion as it kept giving leads
right back. “Tonight was a hot and cold thing,” Docherty said. “It was the first time we’ve played like that, and we just kept giving up leads.” In the back and forth battle of goals, the Cool Cats’ first line provided the heaviest firepower of all. Eastern Illinois was weak in front of the net, giving up plenty of open space that allowed forwards to set up and shoot almost at will. The first line exploited that weakness time and time again. Valerino scored four goals and added two assists and Vit took over the second and third periods with a hat trick of his own. “The first line did have one wicked night,” Docherty said. “They really showed their leadership skills tonight carrying us to victory.” Even with two forwards leading the way for a dominant first line, the team as a whole knows it didn’t play as well as it could. Eastern Illinois, in a series sandwiched between playing Indiana and division challenger Ohio State, almost played spoiler. “We escaped with the win tonight, no doubt about it,” Valerino said. “But I think we’re fine, there’s no reason to worry. I just want to forget about this weekend to be honest.” Docherty would rather the team remember the need to come out strong every game, especially given that UK has established itself as a top team that everyone else guns to topple. “Tonight will be a lesson for us,” he said. “We thought it would be a gimme for us and it wasn’t, but we live and we learn. We needed a game to bring us down to earth.”
Bradley Irvin likes to take five minutes for himself every now and then to smoke a cigarette and relieve himself of typical — and not so typical — stresses. After graduating from Scott County High School in 2004, instead of spending the next four years in a dorm room or a classroom, Irvin spent his days working on a Navy ship traveling Asia, something most college students have never experienced. Irvin spent his time in the Navy working as a cryptologist, decoding and deciphering secret messages, and making decisions he said either saved lives or ended them. After leaving the Navy in June 2008, his experiences and new skills were not the only thing he was left with. While in high school Irvin said he only tried cigarettes and cigars a few times, but after serving in the Navy and being constantly under stress and in a tobacco-using environment, he developed a nicotine addiction. “The military runs off of cigarettes, coffee and energy drinks, and if you take away any one of those, it’s going to crumble beneath its feet,” he said. Irvin said a combination of things added to the stress of his Navy job, including being on a ship for extended periods of time, working up to 48hours at once and having a limited number of women on board. “If you’re a smoker (in the Navy) and you can’t smoke, you’re going to kill somebody,” he said. After his stint in the Navy, Irvin spent a year searching for a government contract job but had no luck, so he enrolled at UK. He is now in his first semester as a physics student. Irvin said in the months after coming home from Asia he had massive depression for about a year, and said he is still learning to deal with it.
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Physics freshman Bradley Irvin lights up a cigarette on the balcony of his apartment on Saturday afternoon. Irvin began smoking to relieve stress while in the Navy.
The biggest thing he misses is the comradery he felt from those around him. “Everybody’s a part of the same family, then you leave and it’s like ‘Oh you’re family’s gone, what are you going to do?’ ” he said. Irvin said one of his biggest challenges is explaining his experiences to people who have never served. “They don’t grasp the full spectrum of what I’m talking about,” he said. “A really weird thing about veterans…if you find out someone’s a veteran and you’re a veteran, you’re pretty much friends instantaneously.” Throughout his time of adjustment, Irvin said one thing that provides him comfort is nicotine, because it reminds him of being in the Navy and gives him time to himself to think and wind down. “I just like having that five minutes, I’m just sitting there smoking, I can think about things, basically just taking five minutes for myself every two hours,” he said. Irvin said he disagrees strongly with the upcoming tobacco ban and said his biggest problem with it is the “culture of compliance” aspect, calling it “communist” and conforming.
“They’re not doing it for health, they’re not doing it for anything like that. They’re doing it because all the other schools are doing it,” he said. “Monkey see, monkey do, and when monkey don’t do, monkey gets looked down upon.” Irvin said since leaving the Navy he has gone from smoking up to two packs a day to a little less than a pack a day, but does not think quitting now would be a good idea, since he is still adjusting. He said while serving in the Navy, he had millions of dollars of equipment and personnel under him and learned to find comfort in the stress. “I’m used to all this stress, and I’m used to operating under certain stressful situations, and if I don’t have that stress then I started getting stressed,” he said. “To try and quit now would be too much for me to handle.” For now, Irvin said he plans on keeping his smoking habits the same as usual. “I spent four years of my life defending this country, I can smoke wherever and whenever I feel like it,” he said.
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Drinking age limit protects students, should remain 21
It's not hard to walk around campus and find plenty of 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds who would like nothing more than for the drinking age to be lowered to suit them. It's easy to understand why. There are plenty of rights afforded to those students, and it doesn't always make sense they students have so many rights, but are still unable to drink legally. Those arguments were weighed at a debate on Thursday night at Worsham Theatre, as John McCardell and James Fell argued the merits and shortcomings of the current drinking age, according to a Nov. 13 Kernel article. But in the simplest terms, lowering the drinking age doesn't make sense for safety reasons. It's hard to believe that lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 would have a noticeable effect on binge drinking, as McCardell argued while saying that lowering the drinking age is the right thing to do. Young people — especially in a college environment — would still be apt to binge drink, and that problem goes beyond the legal limitations put on the under-21 crowd. Lowering the drinking age would also make alcohol increasingly accessible to an even younger group of people, and some of the problems now associated with 18-year-olds drinking might well shift to 16-year-olds, instead of disappearing if the age were to be lowered. "When the drinking age is lowered, problems increase," Fell said. "The drinking age saves lives." McCardell was unable to cite any statistics throughout the debate on any positives lowering the drinking age might have, but Fell was able to use numbers to show that not lowering the drinking age increased safety in several areas. "There is no evidence the drinking age has been harmful," Fell said. "No data suggests (the law) increases alcohol poisoning, binge drinking or alcohol-related injuries." While Kentucky and other states don't have to comply with the federal under-21 law and can set their own drinking age, that doesn't make any sense either. Doing so would cost the state a significant sum of federal funding for highways, and that isn't anything Kentucky can afford. With Kentucky's current budget shortcomings and the struggle to find enough money for things like higher education, taking free federal money away from a state just so people could drink at 18 instead of 21 would be incomprehensibly foolish. But in the end, the most important thing is keeping the drinking age at 21 is what keeps people safe. Putting people's lives at risk for such a trivial matter would be thoughtless and could have repercussions beyond what anyone could foresee. With something as invaluable as the life of young people at stake, it simply doesn't make sense to try and change the drinking age now. It can be difficult for young people to accept, and their frustrations with the law are more than understandable. Students should remember that safety is paramount. Keeping people out of harm’s way is the primary objective of the drinking age, and it has done that successfully. There’s no reason to lower the drinking age as long it keeps people safe, and that’s what people should have taken away from Thursday’s debate.
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In the end, we will be our own demise Every beginning has an end. It’s a simple, yet true, statement. Perhaps one of the longest, outstanding beginnings yet to reach its end, is mankind. With the release of the movie “2012” over the weekend, a movie depicting the end of the human civilization in the year CJ 2012, the question CONKLIN Contributing arises as to when mankind will reach columnist its end. There have been many doomsday theories throughout human history. In the mid-1300s some theorists believed that the Black Death was a “divine action to wipe out humanity.” Then, in 1921, Henry Adams believed a scientific catastrophe would cause the end of the world. Between 1980 and 1999 there were at least five known theories regarding the end of the world. Most recently, Robert Bremer, amongst others, predicted Y2K would cause the failure of most technologybased systems, perhaps leading to the destruction of mankind. In all cases, though, mankind escaped. This brings us to the theory currently at the top of the list, which is the belief that the world will end on December 21, 2012 was developed by the Mayan civilization more than 5,000 years ago. That day, they believe, marked the end of a cycle and therefore is the date on which the Mayan calendar stops, according to a History Channel documentary. How do they support this theory? First is the idea that a comet will
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hit the Earth in 2012 and completely destroy the planet. Second is the belief that the twelfth planet Nibiru (or Planet X) will crash into the Earth, causing its destruction. And third is the theory that the humans will continue to go to war and eventually cause their own demise, according to an article titled “2012 Comet.” As astounding as this evidence is, where does it get us? Well, it has thousands of people freaking out about a theory that is more than 5,000 years old and was developed long before modern technology.
The only thing worth believing that the Mayans predicted is humans will eventually cause their own demise. Nowhere in the Mayan theories does it say that NASA will be able to track nearly every comet through space before 2012, but they can. And there may be a twelfth planet somewhere in the universe for all we know, but then again there may be thousands of planets out there that nobody knows about. The only thing worth believing that the Mayans predicted is humans will eventually cause their own demise. But honestly, who couldn’t have predicted that? Since the beginning of human civilization there has been a desire and emphasis for power. The two most basic ways of attaining power: wealth and war. It’s only natural that one of those two things
cause human destruction. In fact, it’s such a simplistic and unimaginative theory that the YouTube video “End of Ze World” predicts the exact same thing. The video illustrates the theory that one day almost every country will be firing nuclear warheads at each other, stemming from an initial nuke the U.S. shoots at China. Throughout the turmoil, Australian kangaroos are still just hanging out, Canadian hockey players have no idea what is going on, all while Mars laughs at us and meteors avoid crashing into our mess of a planet. The only survivors are California, which breaks off from the U.S., Alaska and Hawaii, who all chill in the Pacific. When it comes down to it, the “End of Ze World” video is much shorter than reading pages of theories from the Mayan civilization, and a hell of a lot funnier. The only difference is that nowhere in the video does the number 2012 appear, unlike in all of the Mayan theories. The human civilization will one day end; after all, every beginning does have an end. But there is no reason to believe we will be around to see that ending. Although the theory will undoubtedly gain popularity and interest as we approach the year 2012, that does nothing to establish proof towards the merit of the belief. So on December 11, 2012, while thousands of others freak out around the world, do what I’ll do: get on YouTube and watch a simple history lesson on what the end of “Ze” world will really look like. CJ Conklin is an accounting and finance junior.
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U.S. political system lacks necessary accountability, merit The U.S., like all nations, has a multitude of problems. The entirety of this column could be used spelling them out in a list that would take about five minutes to make. Because of this, we attempt to send our best and brightest to Washington, D.C. to TIM hammer out the RILEY tough issues and Kernel keep our nation columnist strong. Like almost any other system though, it works a lot better in theory than in practice. Heavily contentious topics present the opportunity to bring out the best or the worst in people. When voters send their representation to the capital, they do so in the hope that when important moments arise, their choices will be wise and set a shining example for the rest of Congress and the nation. Unfortunately, the political process instead seems to be quite apt
at electing those who will act like lunatics when pressed against a wall. It’s not exactly new for politicians to be at one another’s throats. And, it could even be argued things have improved from the past. Two hundred years ago some disputes in D.C. were being settled with pistols. Now the in vogue method to combat one’s enemies when out of options is simply to act like an insufferable jerk. Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., shot to the lead of the pack last week when he garrisoned fellow Republicans into an amazing display of immaturity during a Congressional session. In an act reminiscent of a fouryear-old’s temper tantrum, the GOP spent an inordinate amount of time shouting objections over every single thing said by the Democratic Women’s Caucus concerning the health insurance bill circulating in the House. This, of course, led to almost everyone losing their cool after awhile except for the chair of the
preceding, who apparently was not prepared to deal with overgrown children that day. Despite his pleas for everyone present to maintain some decorum to try to avoid creating a hilarious and saddening YouTube video, the insanity went on unabated to ridiculous lengths.
Instead of sending smart, experienced people to represent our nation, it is usually the case that was send the guy our favored party has put forth for election ... It all served its purpose though, since it proved once again that the course of the U.S. is guided by anything but the best and brightest. If the campaign tactics of the average politician were not bad enough, then one only has to
look at their behavior in incidents like this to see it plain as day. This is not the behavior of anyone that should be helping guide the fate of over 300 million people. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to see any path through this darkness. Gaining political influence has very little to do with intelligence and quality as a person. It usually comes down to connections, pandering and a willingness to sell out truth in order to cobble together a majority of the vote. Instead of sending smart, experienced people to represent our nation, it is usually the case that we send the guy our favored party has put forth for election no matter if he has any real qualification to handle massively-complicated global issues. The entire affair is more a statement about the electorate than the elected in the end. Congressmen Price and Co. were who they were, and the embarrassment created by their actions can be blamed right onto the shoulders of those who put them in their posi-
tion. When a member of Congress acts like a deranged mental patient, it’s not them we should be ashamed of, it’s us. It may be natural tendency to allow what has occurred with political systems. It’s easy to bunch up in two separate corners and focus more on beating those you disagree with than working together on a goal. Unfortunately it gets our nation exactly where it sits today, full of corrupt politicians who can’t even act with the decency you’d find in a middle school student council. The events of last week are simply another pebble on the mountain of depressing ineptitude that envelopes the federal government on both sides of the aisle. Every election cycle, Democrats and Republicans act like putting them into power will sweep out the problems of the past and lead to a glorious future. In reality though, both are very much the problem and not at all the solution. Tim Riley is an MBA graduate student. E-mail opinions@kykernel.com.
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PAGE 6 | Monday, November 16, 2009 Junior tailback Derrick Locke led UK with a careerhigh 144 rushing yards to beat Vanderbilt 24-13 on Saturday. UK is bowl eligible for the fourth consecutive year. PHOTO BY ADAM WOLFFBRANDT STAFF
UK beats Vanderbilt 24-13, becomes bowl eligible for fourth year By Ben Jones bjones@kykernel.com
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Derrick Locke finished with a career-high 144 rushing yards and a touchdown on Saturday, but his biggest play didn’t come on the ground. Morgan Newton completed 4-of-7 passes for 40 yards, but none of those numbers encompassed UK’s biggest play through the air in UK’s 24-13 win over Vanderbilt on Saturday in Vanderbilt Stadium. When the junior tailback swept right on a Wildcat play, the freshman quarterback was wide open. One spiral and 41 yards later, UK (6-4, 2-4 Southeastern Conference) was on its way to becoming bowl eligible for a school-record fourth-consecutive season. The completion from Locke to Newton set up a rushing touchdown from Randall Cobb on the next play. “I was like, ‘I hope he catches the ball and makes a
play,’ ” Locke said. “I kind of saw him bobble it a little, but he caught it and made a play. It helped us out, moved us down the field and got us a score.” Locke finished the day with 218 all-purpose yards. Sophomore wide receiver Randall Cobb ran for 102 yards and two touchdowns, piling up 170 all-purpose yards of his own. UK head coach Rich Brooks said both players were completely gassed after the game and played through cramps during the second half. “Randall Cobb was amazing as was Derrick Locke,” Brooks said. “We put ourselves in position now with our second conference win and sixth overall win to be in the postseason for the first time in school history of fourstraight years, but our work is not done by a long shot.” Coaches spent much of the second half imploring Cobb and Locke to go to the
sidelines so they could be used later. Locke also suffered a minor head injury, but still returned to score UK’s final touchdown. “I’m not coming out,” Cobb said. “I don’t want to come out and I’m going to give everything I’ve got. If you’ve got to carry me off the field that’s what I want. That’s how it’s always going to be and I’m going to bleed blue like I always have.” The Cats finished with 308 yards rushing, almost 200 of which came in the second half after Brooks told his team the offensive line would have to take over the game. With every yard gained by Locke and Cobb, the Cats appeared to grow stronger. The UK defense shut the Commodores out completely in the second half, only giving up 31 yards after the break. A decidedly pro-UK crowd in Nashville helped out the Cats’ cause. Attendance was announced at 33,675, but plen-
ty of those weren’t there for the Commodores (2-9, 0-7 SEC). “We had more fans than they had, it seemed,” said senior linebacker Sam Maxwell, who led UK with nine tackles. “That’s good support. We need that kind of motivation when we’re out there.” For those fans who made the trip, they left with hopes of another December spent bowling. “It is a huge thing,” Brooks said of becoming bowl eligible again. “You can’t really downplay that in my mind because it’s never happened. But at the same token, we’re not happy with where we are at this stage … We lost two games (South Carolina and Mississippi State) and we’d be looking a lot better right now if we’d have won one of those, let alone two of them. And those were very tough losses but I’m proud of how the team has bounced back.”
Nashville has been kind to senior class NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Four years ago, a Louisville kid named Corey Peters committed to play football for UK not knowing what to expect. The program had a coaching staff still struggling to make good on its promise to turn things around. Young talent was brewing, but no JAMES considerable ground PENNINGTON had been made up in Kernel terms of wins and columnist losses. Everybody in blue and white wanted to win, and they all thought they could win. They just hadn’t won yet. Still a high schooler, what was Peters supposed to expect? Whatever it was, he said he didn’t necessarily expect to be bowl eligible in all four of his college years. Thanks to UK’s win over Vanderbilt on Saturday, he is. Peters and his fellow seniors make up the first ever senior class in UK’s history to have gained bowl eligibility in all four seasons. Peters said it happens to players at other schools all the time, especially fellow Southeastern Conference schools. But at UK? Isn’t football just a fun
little bridge between summer and basketball season? Not anymore. “When we got here, we just wanted to build something positive,” Peters said. “But after that first year, I knew that not being bowl eligible wasn’t an option.” And clinching that fourth-straight bowl eligible season in Nashville made sense. Peters’ first two bowl games, the 2007 and 2008 Music City Bowls, were played across town at LP Field. Factor in the Cats’ 27-20 win at Vanderbilt in 2007, and this senior class is now 4-0 in the Music City. Nashville’s been awfully kind to these players. Would they mind another trip across the Bluegrass Parkway and down I-65 in December for another Music City Bowl? “I’m OK with any bowl,” Peters said. “Of course we want to go to better bowl games and continue to improve. But if Nashville would have us, we’d love to be here.” UK earned its sixth win not by blowing out its opponent. Instead, much like what happened when UK won at Auburn in October, the Cats were down at halftime and called on the defense to step up. “I told the defense we had to shut them out in the second half,” Brooks said. “Pure and simple.” So the defense took ownership of the line of scrimmage, knowing Vanderbilt’s
passing attack was already limited. Not only did the Cats outscore Vandy 14-0 in the second half, but UK held Vanderbilt to just 31 total yards after halftime. Defensive coordinator Steve Brown said he told his players just to have confidence in coverage, because the Commodores’ less-than-stellar passing game went for 122 yards in the first half. Not all of Brown’s defensive players are seniors like Peters, and they may not understand the significance of gaining that bowl eligibility. If they play with more passion in the second half, Brown thought, things might be easier. Brown said the players came out with that confidence. As a result, Vanderbilt passed for just five yards in the second half. “He’s told us that before,” Peters said in reference to Brooks’ second-half challenge to the defense. “I don’t think the result has ever been this good, though.” And just like that, Peters is eligible for his fourth bowl in as many years suiting up for the Cats. Is that what he expected when he signed up for UK football? Not necessarily. But because of what this senior class has done, UK prospects from here on out may think along those lines. As well they should. James Pennington is a journalism senior. E-mail jpennington@kykernel.com.