Tough loss for the team to South Carolina earlier today at Memorial, 72-70. We played hard. They’re a tough team to score on, they really get after it on defense. But we had a shot at the end to tie it and couldn’t convert. Solid effort from the team. They’re learning to play in these clutch situations. They’ll figure out how to perform when it matters, hopefully as soon as possible. It was a good game though. The Gamecocks deserve credit from coming back from a tough loss to Auburn on Tuesday Night at home and regrouping themselves and playing hard nosed ball against us. Still believe in the guys. Have a lot left ahead of us. Kentucky comes to Memorial Tuesday Night at 6 on ESPN. Need to regroup quickly and bring everything we got Tuesday Night. Hopefully, we can pack out the gym with a lot of VU fans and not just their annoying fans. The team needs support now that the students are not allowed in games through the Tennessee game on Tuesday, January 18th. The school is taking precautions with the virus running rampant right now. It’s the right thing to do.
If you’re in town, please go out and support the team. This is always a big game for us and we’ll need all the support we can get to get over the top. The Wildcats lost to LSU @LSU Wednesday Night and host Georgia today @ 5 PM CT on the SEC Network. Kentucky is a 22 1/2 point favorite over Georgia.
Some huge news out of the All American Bowl in San Antonio. Four Star Linebacker Daniel Martin out of Marietta, Georgia has committed and signed his letter of intent with Vanderbilt University. As Daniel eloquently put it in his interview following his pledge, “It’s not a 4 year commitment, it’s a 40 year commitment.” Daniel joins an excellent 2022 class. Really excited about this group. Daniel projects to play Anchor for us, a hybrid linebacker/safety. Our class is now ranked 31 by 247 Sports and 30 by Rivals. So, awesome stuff from Clark and the football program.
Stack’ll have us ready Tuesday Night. Will have more on our game with the team from the North on Tuesday.