Mike Leach's Tuesday News and Views

Former UK offensive coordinator Mike Leach, now the head guy at Washington State, delivered a brilliant rant about online dating during his Monday press conference in Pullman. Leach has always been open about his hatred for gadgets and technology, and now he’s of the belief our cell phones will lead to the extinction of humanity.

From The Spokesman-Review:

“I’m not really good with technology. All this button pushing and whatnot. I mean, you can just imagine based on what’s happened in the last 15 years. Conversations won’t happen 10 years from now. There aren’t going to be people to talk to, it’s going to be this (mimics pushing buttons). ‘Do you want to go out on a date with me?’ ‘I don’t know, what do you look like?’ ‘Well I look kind of like this.’ ‘OK, what are your interests?’ ‘Well, what do you think my interests are? Looking into this thing and typing into this just like yours are.’ ‘Yeah, no kidding, that’s what everybody’s doing.’ ‘Well, where do you want to go?’ ‘Well, what difference does it make? Because all we’re going to be doing is looking into machines anyways.’ Well, that’s true and in the end it’s going to be tough to perpetuate the species. There’s no question about that. So we’re all going to look in this box and eventually be extinct. That’s how it ends.”

Leach’s Monday comments reminded me of an old video of him talking about e-mails at Big 12 Media Day in 2009. I think I could listen to him talk about the new iPhone for hours.

Now on to tonight’s News and Views, which Leach will not read unless someone prints it out and hands it to him.

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Saturday’s game is a BLACKOUT.

UK is asking fans to leave the blue and white at home for black attire Saturday night. The Cats and Cocks kick off at 7:30 pm and the hope is to black out the entire stadium. The team will likely sport the black uniforms on the field, too.

If you’re not already planning to go, why don’t you go ahead and change that by purchasing tickets to the game. Upper level general admission seats can be purchased for $25 here if you use the promo code ‘BEATSC’.

Pack Commonwealth. Beat Spurrier.

Four freshmen made an incredibly dumb mistake, will sit out against South Carolina.

Two redshirt freshmen and two key contributors will be out this Saturday, serving a one-game suspension for an incident that locked down part of south campus Sunday night. Boom Williams, Dorian Baker, Drew Barker and Tymere Dubose were identified in a surveillance photo released to the public on Monday as four students who were shooting an Airsoft gun near the Kirwan/Blanding complex. Campus police received two reports of a shooting, but it’s unclear what exactly it is they were doing.

The news is incredibly disappointing, especially with Barker being involved. There are far worse crimes than shooting a plastic pellet gun, but the guys have to be smarter than to carry around anything resembling a real gun on a college campus. There is no tolerance for that this day and age and the guys should’ve known better.

As for how it affects the team, Baker is the fourth-leading receiver with 11 catches for 122 yards and one touchdown. Williams has 16 carries for 99 yards and a score and another 75 yards receiving and a score while handling the kick return duties too. They will certainly be missed when the Gamecocks come to town, but Stoops had no choice but to suspend them.

Let this be a lesson, guys.

UK and Louisiana-Monroe will kick off at noon on October 11th.

Back to the early time slot for the Cats’ October 11th game against Louisiana-Monroe. That throws a wrinkle in the Keeneland plans, but UK could be looking for its fifth win that day.

It’ll be televised on the SEC Network.

John Calipari: “We are going to start the season platooning.”

At Monday’s Wildcat Tipoff Luncheon in Louisville, Coach Cal told the crowd he plans to use the platoon system to start the season and he hopes to do it throughout the whole year. He confirmed he will run with two groups of five plus two subs, one guard and one big to provide relief if any member of a platoon gets in foul trouble or isn’t playing well.

“This has never been done before,” he said.

Cal consulted with Clippers head coach Doc Rivers about UK’s loaded roster and Rivers supports the platoon. Cal also warned the crowd about the pace the Wildcats will play in 2014-15: “We play fast but we’re going to play faster.”

I. Can’t. Wait.

Jaylen Brown expects to meet Drake at Big Blue Madness:

In his most recent blog for USA Today, five-star forward Jaylen Brown fueled the rumor that Drake will be at Big Blue Madness:

Another thing that I thought was cool was that Coach Cal told me about his relationship with Drake and they’re actually really close. They text and everything like that. That’s pretty cool. I’m definitely a fan of Drake and I think he’s actually gonna be there when I’m there for my visit to Kentucky so I’m definitely looking forward to that. [USA Today]

Cal also told Malik Newman earlier this month that Drake might be a special guest at Madness. It will be HUGE for recruiting if UK can get him to show up. The kids love some Drizzy Drake.

Isaiah Briscoe picked up an offer from Kentucky.

According to NJ.com, Isaiah Briscoe received a scholarship offer from the University of Kentucky during his official visit. Briscoe was still on campus on Monday when Calipari was in Louisville; Cal told the crowd he needed to speak first and hurry back to Lexington to entertain a recruit. That recruit was Briscoe, the nation’s No. 1 point guard in the 2015 class.

I love this picture from the FIBA World cup a few weeks ago.

Rudy Gay, Boogie’s Sacramento teammate, poured champagne on the former Cat while another, Anthony Davis, looked on. Notice Davis isn’t partaking in the champagne; he doesn’t drink. He just balls.

The Jaguars released Winston Guy Jr.

After starting the first three games of the season for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Winston Guy Jr. is now without an NFL football team. The Jaguars released the former Wildcat safety on Monday, one day after he gave up a long touchdown pass to Eddie Royal of the San Diego Chargers. It was Guy’s only play of the game.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN LARON LANDRY WAS BUSTED FOR PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS?

Former LSU star Laron Landry received a four-game suspension from the NFL for PEDs.

This guy? NO WAY.

That looks completely natural.

Lots of good stuff from John Calipari will be on KSR tomorrow night at midnight.

We’re able to release the goodies from Coach Cal’s preseason Q&A roundtable on October 1 at 12:01 am. He talked to some of us for over an hour a few weeks ago and I’ll have all the nuggets and quotes from the discussion here on KSR. Get ready for it.

Go Cats.