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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Wednesday Whispers

If you didn't get enough of Kevin Stallings last night, you can see him in King of the Hill on Sunday. As crazy as it seems, no one correctly predicted Vandy by 41 in the Dan Langhi Prediction Contest. However, Coach Billy Clyde did oblige Jon Guess' request to put A.J. in the game.

Add Jimmy 'Butch' Dykes to my list of media members that are too stupid for television.

"Kentucky has enough talent. Joe Crawford, Ramel Bradley, and Patrick Patterson were all McDonalds's All Americans."

Nothing wrong with this statement, except that it's not true.

During an Illinois/Minnesota game update, Dykes stated , "Kentucky fans aren't going to want to hear this, but Minnesota is doing really good right now."

Oddly, at that moment Minnesota was losing at home to Illinois, and eventually lost by 24. The game was Minnesota's worst home loss of the season. Illinois improved there record to 11-14.

"Kevin Stallings is one of the top five 'offensive minds' in basketball."

Really?

"I got my hair cut yesterday. It cost me $41.00. Rascal Flatts gets their hair cut there."

Wow!

"I love coming to Nashville; it's all about the music. If Randy Travis was here, I would sit in his lap."

That I can believe.


If you didn't know, Jimmy Dykes was an assistant coach at Kentucky under Eddie Sutton. The University of Kentucky fired Dykes after Billy Ray Cyrus filed a restraining order against him.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dykes was an assistant under Sutton in 88 & 89. He also played for Sutton at Arkansas. If you're going to make fun of him being inaccurate, you my want to check your facts.

Anonymous said...

Also, the restraining order was filed by Billy Ray Cyrus, not Montgomery.

Anonymous said...

thanks for the correction.