After a pleasing series of practices, Joker Phillips cashed in some Capital One reward points and gave the team a break yesterday afternoon. Instead of an afternoon of practice, the guys we’re surprised with an afternoon in the pool. “Because of the effort and enthusiasm we are going to take the afternoon off,” Phillips said. “We are going to the pool and do some gainers, swan dives, back flips and have some lunch. Then we are going to get into meeting time this afternoon.”
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“Definitely (the afternoon off comes at a good time), the more you get into it the more fatigued and sore they are,” Phillips said. “You have to back off some because that is when you start to get some injuries too, like those freak injuries. So we are going to take this afternoon to get them to the pool and get them off their feet.”
Rich Brooks started the tradition of an afternoon at the pool instead of practice as a way to reward a great practice. Joker Phillips, who has made a lot of changes in staff and promotes a different ethic to the team decided to keep this tradition with the program.
“If we practice well we wanted to cancel practice this afternoon because we want them to have fun in the pool and you won’t have fun in the pool if you know you have practice later that afternoon,” Phillips said.
The QB competition continues and a selection will have to come soon. The team needs the decision to be made and so do fans.
“They all three are competing and I really like the things that all of them are doing,” the head coach said. “I wish we could take from each one of them and put them all into one and be done with this thing, but we can’t. We will just have to see who can give us the best chance to win in the end.”
“I am really happy with the intensity and effort today, but we weren’t playing as smart,” Phillips said. “We can’t do that. Kentucky doesn’t beat Kentucky.”
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