KSR Today: Offense Day at Fall Camp, Kentucky Football on Netflix and Hard Knocks
Kentucky Football’s fall camp got off to a big start last week with a Monday Mark Stoops press conference, Media Day, Fan Day, and open practices. That firehose of content gradually slowed to a trickle on Monday, but today, the doors at the Joe Craft Football Training Center will open once again.
Fall camp updates are the biggest item on our agenda today, which includes Kentucky Football on television as well. To the rundown!
Offense Day at Fall Camp
Cutter Boley was the talk of the open practices on Friday and Saturday. Backup quarterbacks are always the most popular players on the roster, but excitement is high for the Hodgenville native, who will have another year to develop while Zach Calzada steers the ship. I’m sure Bush Hamdan will field some questions about Cutter and Calzada in today’s interviews, which take place around lunch. We may even hear from the quarterbacks themselves, as players and position coaches will join Hamdan to chat with reporters.
Cutter may have stolen the spotlight this past weekend, but there are plenty of other storylines on the offensive side of the ball. On yesterday’s episode of KSR Happy Hour, Adam Luckett and Nick Roush expressed concern about Jager Burton’s snapping accuracy, while Drew Franklin was worried about the number of drops he saw from the wide receivers. The good news is, Kentucky’s new running backs, Seth McGowan and Dante Dowdell, look the part so far.
Tune in for more football talk below, including everyone’s thoughts on whether or not it’s okay to get excited about Kentucky Football this year, or if we’re setting ourselves up for disappointment.
Clips from Monday’s practice
We’re only 25 days away from the season opener vs. Toledo. Celebrate with these clips from Monday’s practice that Kentucky released on social media last night.
Netflix’s SEC Football docuseries drops
We’ve known that Kentucky will be featured in Netflix’s new docuseries about SEC football for a while now, but today, we get to see it with our own eyes. All eight episodes of “Any Given Saturday” are now available on the streaming platform.
Nick and Adam got a sneak peek of the first episode at SEC Media Days last month, and Kentucky’s loss to South Carolina is included, a footnote of the main storyline, the Gamecocks’ game vs. LSU. Still, we know Netflix’s fancy cameras were also in town for Kentucky’s embarrassing loss to Louisville, which is featured in the final episode. Hopefully, a different game gets the majority of the screentime on that episode, too.
Top 10
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Cats demolish Purdue
When do we play the hard teams?
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'96 comparison
Pope is thinking '96 after Purdue win
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Highlights
Let's go ahead and relive that
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Enjoy it, BBN!
Yes, you can celebrate the big W
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Lessons Learned
from the W over Purdue.
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Either way, “Any Given Saturday” is mandatory viewing at the KSR office this week. We’ll bring you the highlights (and the lowlights).
“Hard Knocks” with the Kentucky Buffalo Bills debuts
Are you in the mood to watch some former Cats? HBO’s “Hard Knocks” is embedded with the Buffalo Bills, who have three of the program’s most recent stars on the roster. We’ll be watching to see if Ray Davis, Maxwell Hairston, and Deone Walker get some camera time. Davis is already a fan favorite in Buffalo and could steal the spotlight after filling in as an emergency kicker during Friday’s practice. Hairston, who went viral as the green room’s hype man at the NFL Draft in April, may also get some screentime after his injury scare last week. It looked like the first-round pick may have torn his ACL, but thankfully, it’s just an LCL sprain, and he’ll be back on the field in a matter of weeks.
The first episode of “Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Buffalo Bills” premieres tonight at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.
Basketball Recruiting Updates, New Sources Say
Pass the time until “Hard Knocks” with a little basketball talk. At 8 p.m. ET, Jack Pilgrim and Shawn Smith will go live on the KSR YouTube Channel to talk about the latest rumblings from Kentucky’s summer practices, which wrap up this week.
They’ll also probably touch on some Kentucky Basketball recruiting news that came our way on Monday. 2026 four-star center Arafan Diane included Kentucky in his list of 12 schools. The seven-foot, 280 lbs. center will come to Kentucky for an official visit Sept. 26-27, two weeks after a trip to Arkansas and two weeks before a trip to Houston. 2026 five-star wing Anthony Thompson will also take an official visit to Kentucky in September, on the 24th. Thompson, who visited Kentucky twice last season, will take official visits to five other schools: North Carolina, Ohio State, Michigan, Indiana, and Texas.
I’ll leave you with this clip from Kentucky vs. UConn in 2009, another thrilling moment in the start of the John Calipari era. Only 80 days until the preseason exhibition game vs. Purdue.
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