Danny Trevathan spent his true freshmen year as "just" a special teams player. that experience learning the game full speed & hitting were invaluable, & he was a fixture at linebacker tackling everything the next 3 years.
same thing will happen with Kash
I think that special teams play is certainly valuable and he has done a pretty good job there. However, it seems to me like he would have been better with a redshirt. I say this because Love is a junior this year. Right now Kash is a freshman that has seen little to no time actually playing behind Love. So, it makes me wonder if he will actually have the opportunity to unseat Love next year. If he does not, then he may very well spend most of next year on special teams again and he wouldn't see the field as a full time linebacker until he is a junior. He could have redshirted this year, spent next year on special teams and playing a bit of linebacker (much like this year), and then his redshirt sophomore year he could have been starting after Love graduates.
Of course, this is all speculation and Kash may beat out Love next year, but if he doesn't then failing to redshirt him seems like a bad move to me.
That is awesome, if Love stays healthy. If not ...
It is not as if Stoops and his staff know that every game is going down to the wire before they make Kash second string. If a kid not a QB or center breaks into the 2 deep, he should play.
I think that the injury card is probably one of the best reasons as to why he wasn't redshirted. We only really have 3 guys that are slated to be MLBs. Love, Daniel, and Firios. That is not a whole lot of bodies. So, I can understand him getting experience on ST in case he is needed to be called upon when there is one or more injuries on defense. I suppose in a perfect world we could redshirt him. I just hope that he doesn't get stuck playing ST for 2 years rather than being able to contribute some significant minutes in 2017.
I wonder how good this defense would be with Tubman and Hatcher. You would figure both would have made significant contributions this year.
I just wonder why waste his season if only on special teams.
I never said a word about Hoak. Have no clue if he is better than Johnson.You were on the game thread talking about why they should pull Hoaks redshirt because he might be better than Johnson, and now you're taking a guy who is contributing and saying we should have redshirted him?
Don't know about Tubman since we never saw him play but Hatcher was a major disappointment. Can't imagine his being able to beat out Ware and/or Allen.
Kash Daniel basically plays and looks like that Danny guy from the movie The Replacements. Hell, I think they even wear the same number?
Put us a video on here 78, I've not seen replacements :grimace:
I think that the injury card is probably one of the best reasons as to why he wasn't redshirted. We only really have 3 guys that are slated to be MLBs. Love, Daniel, and Firios. That is not a whole lot of bodies. So, I can understand him getting experience on ST in case he is needed to be called upon when there is one or more injuries on defense. I suppose in a perfect world we could redshirt him. I just hope that he doesn't get stuck playing ST for 2 years rather than being able to contribute some significant minutes in 2017.
Plus you have got to take into account that Firios is coming of a season ending injury last year. So they didn't really have much of a choice whether or not they were going to RS Kash, because they needed some more depth at the position.
Won't we see him in a few weeks since he (Tubman) plays for Austin Peay? Surely he is tearing it up there. Many on here said he was an NFL caliber stud. If he is/was so great, I guess we'll have our hands full Nov. 19th.
Tubman's season stats: 6 games, 22 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, 5 QB hurries, 1 forced fumble. Team is 0-7.
Looks pretty good for a kid who has not played in a while and is in his first year on the field.
Against who CC ?
This! Some years we have been awful on special teams and have had awful field position and given the other team great field position. ST is very, very important. I am really happy with ST play this season to dateThese are the sort of threads that can make others think that UK fans only know basketball and not football.
A year spent playing on special teams is not "a year being wasted." Special teams are important. Special teams often make a huge difference. A freshman year as a special teams first stringer is a successful one, not a season to be sneered at.
Our arch rival back then, Middlesboro. He wen by Harvey Yeary then.The six million dollar man was from eastern ky FYI [thumb2]