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Rich Brooks Is Happy to Report All Kentucky Players Are Bowl Eligible

Dec 26, 2007 – 4:05 AM
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As the Kentucky Wildcats get ready for the severely depleted Florida State Seminoles in the Music City Bowl, Kentucky Coach Rich Brooks apparently isn't above pointing out a major difference between his program and the eldest Bowden's. His team has no players declared academically ineligible.
Considering what's been going on this bowl season at Florida State and other programs, Coach Brooks said that's a bigger deal than it might seem.
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So when Brooks told the media that his team had a clean bill of academic health, he added a kicker.

"That isn't what I'm seeing on the ESPN ticker at night for a lot of other people playing bowl games," he said. "Hats off to my players for taking care of business."
That has been an amusing, and occasionally disturbing, addition to the ESPN ticker. Anything to get and keep people interested in watching the host of program filler bowl games that will be on ESPN for the two week period. That or they are trying to cater to the gambling aspect of the games without being too obvious.
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