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.Vanderbilt head coach Kevin Stallings, who doesn't play Kentucky for a couple of weeks, is already talking about the Cats.
Stallings is griping about the Cats not having to play on Thursday and Saturday during conference play.
“Go figure that one out for me, would you?” Stallings said. “We all agreed to do it, so if you have one like we have one, I’m not going to complain with the one that we have. To not have any and to be able to play four teams that have to do it to play you … that’s not right.”
Kentucky does have one Thursday game on March 1 vs. Georgia, but it’s followed by a Sunday game at Florida on CBS.
The only other SEC teams not dealing with a quick turnaround this season are Auburn and LSU. Ole Miss got a raw deal: it was dealt the Thursday-Saturday combo a league-most three times.
The last time the Wildcats had one day of rest between SEC regular-season games, they lost as the No. 2-ranked team at Tennessee on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010.
“I’d rather have it on Wednesday and Saturday so we had the same amount of time to prepare for Mississippi State as they have for us,” Stallings said. “But we agreed to take that on. So that’s just part of the deal. It’s part of the TV package and we can live with that.“
But again, I don’t think it’s right for somebody not to have any and to play four different times when their opponents have to play them on short order. That’s not fair and it’s not equitable, and something needs to be done about that.“
But we got the short end of the straw this week and that’s the way it goes. We’ve had them before and we’ve got a tough game on Thursday night and we have to be able to bounce back 48 hours later and play another very difficult game. That’s what we’re going to try to do.”
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I guess Stallings is used to making up excuses after losing in the 1st and 2nd round of the NCAA that he is making a preemptive strike before he has to play Kentucky.
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