Big Red’s Reads: Taylor Impresses, Miller Promoted, Lady Toppers Add Transfer
Happy Tuesday from Red Towel Country. (ed. note — Dang, that would have made a splendid website name. Alas…) Despite the dead period of…
Happy Tuesday from Red Towel Country. (ed. note — Dang, that would have made a splendid website name. Alas…) Despite the dead period of summer sports there is still plenty of WKU related content on the internet.
— Veteran WR Harry Douglas is raving about the Titans new young wide receivers, including Taywan Taylor.
— Chad Bishop looks at how realistic Rick Stansbury’s #SellOutDiddle campaign is in his weekly column.
— Walk-on Chicago State transfer Miles Weber announced he will be leaving WKU before his career basketball career even starts
— ProTopper outfielder Anderson Miller was promoted to AA Northwest Arkansas by the Royals. He’s now only two stops away from the Majors and joins Pro Top relief pitcher Andrew Edwards with the Naturals.
— On Sunday, we gave our mid-season review of the ProTops minor league seasons thus far, including both Miller and Edwards, but also Danny Hudzina.
— Mike White was pictured with the legend himself, Peyton Manning at his passing camp last week:
— Tom Dienhart from BTN.com lists Mike White as the #7 QB that Big Ten teams will face in 2017.
— The WKU receivers & Head Coach Mike Sanford both make the cut in the Herald Leader’s The 10 people under the most pressure in 2017 Kentucky Football.
— Mike Sanford comes in at #86 in Athlon’s list of all 130 FBS Football coaches.
— Mitchell Robinson checked in at #12 in Sports Illustrated’s 2018 Big Board for NBA draft prospects.
— WKU Soccer released their 2017 schedule that includes non-conference dates with Texas, Vanderbilt and Evansville.
— Bowling Green is once again the fastest growing city in Kentucky.
— WKU made the Top 40 in Phil Steele’s annual College Football preview
— Michelle Clark-Heard once again added another impact transfer, this time in former West Virginia guard Alexis Brewer. She shot 42.2% from 3-point range while averaging 5.3 points per game.
— Mark Story at the Herald Leader discusses what Taveion Hollingsworth and Jake Ohmer bring to Rick Stansbury’s squad. He also discusses how they fit into his in-state recruiting strategy moving forward.
— Underdog Dynasty tallied the totals of their preseason position reviews and deducted that WKU will have the second-most talented team in C-USA behind Old Dominion.
— They also posted a podcast and asked what Conference USA & the Sun Belt would look like if they realigned to help the schools geographically.
— Mike Fields from the KHSAA posted this blast from the past showing how dominant WKU legend Jim McDaniels was in High School:
— College Football News examines how Conference USA will still have great offenses despite various coaching changes.
— Mike White, Joe Brown and Chris Johnson all made their Top 30 players in Conference USA.
— Rick Stansbury’s basketball camps for youngsters are going on and Dwight Coleby is chipping in to help:
— The Boston Breakers brought back #ProTop Libby Stout as a temporary goal-keeper replacement.
— The Bowling Green Daily News reviews all that Gary Ransdell accomplished during his 20 years as President and claims that he deserves a spot in the Hall of distinguished Alumni.
— Former WKU fullback Nick Baisch was named an Assistant Athletic Director at St. Xavier High School (Louisville), his alma-mater.
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