Big Red’s Reads: Darius Thompson, WKU Football Preview, Baseball Review
Happy Monday! What better way to kick off your week than to check out stories you may have missed from the weekend.
Happy Monday! What better way to kick off your week than to check out stories you may have missed from the weekend.
— Evan Daniels (WKU Alum) from Scout summaries the Darius Thompson commitment.
— ESPN 680 (Louisville) Host and Virginia Alum Lachlan McLean wrote these thoughts about Thompson:
— The ESPN 680 Producers Show discussed WKU’s emergence on the hoops recruiting scene. (Around the 30-minute mark, for those who don’t have the time or desire to listen to it all.)
— Kansas Grad Transfer and WKU target Dwight Coleby talks about his experience at Kansas and his path forward including a visit to Bowling Green.
— Hannah Page at WKU Rivals photoshopped this masterpiece:
— College Football News reached WKU on their ongoing preview series.n They said that WKU has become a new coaching hot spot after Taggart, Petrino & Brohm’s success, and also analyzed the 2017 schedule & gave a best and worst case scenario.
— Bleacher Report predicted WKU to have the #16 offense in the country this year, despite the coaching change.
— Underdog Dynasty put the Hilltoppers receiving corps in “good shape” and at #6 in Conference USA despite losing Taylor/Norris.
— Mel Kiper has Mike White as the #5 senior Quarterback heading into 2018 NFL draft.
— Taywan Taylor (#13) is front row & (close to) center in this NFL Rookie photo from last week.
— Junior Julius Morris was named the C-USA Male Track Performer of the Meet at last weekend’s C-USA Championships.
— WKU qualified 10 individual athletes and two relay teams for the NCAA Track and Field East Regional.
— Spectrum Sports sat down with Track & Field coach Erik Jenkins to discuss the team’s preparation for the NCAA’s.
— Longtime WKU trainer Mike Gaddie was promoted to Associate Athletic Director for Sports Medicine and Athletic Training after Bill Edwards retired recently.
— Harry Minium of The Virginia-Pilot discusses Conference USA’s TV contract as an important part of the agenda at the upcoming Conference USA meetings in Destin this week.
— WKU baseball’s season mercifully came to an end after getting swept at Florida International. WKU finishes their season 16–39 (6–24 C-USA). The baseball transition has been the hardest on the baseball team since joining Conference USA. Next year is year three for coach John Pawlowski and they’ve got to start showing signs of improvement after bottoming out these past two years.
— Paul Kuharsky from ESPN.com says that Taywan Taylor and Corey Davis won’t lead the Titans to changing their offensive philosophy.
WKU Football road tickets just went on sale at WKUSports.com. I’ll see you in Champaign.
— Brad Stephens from the Bowling Green Daily News spoke to Mike Sanford about the Topper Takeover from a few weeks ago and impact of the NFL Draft on the program.
— WKU Women’s soccer program signed two new players for their 2017 class recently.
— Michael McCammon at WKU Insider gives a rundown of some of the recent players that WKU has offered in football.
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