KSR Today: 2024 SEC Football Opponent Reveal Day And More

Good morning and Happy Birthday, Gimel Martinez.

News has cooled off since Kentucky Baseball’s NCAA exit and the addition of Jordan Burkes to Kentucky Basketball’s roster. However, we could still see more basketball roster moves at any moment, and an important football announcement from the SEC is coming up later this evening.

The SEC’s 2024 football matchups to be announced tonight.

The biggest thing on the docket today, barring surprises, is the Southeastern Conference’s release of its 2024 football matchups. At seven o’clock tonight, SEC Network will air a primetime special called the “2024 Football Opponents Reveal” to announce each SEC team’s eight opponents for the 2024 in-conference schedule.

Earlier this month, the league announced the 2024 schedule will remain in an eight-game format while decision-makers determine a permanent structure for the future. There won’t be East and West divisions in 2024, but we will welcome Texas and Oklahoma into the family as the SEC goes to sixteen teams.

For now, we find a TV at seven tonight to learn Kentucky Football‘s eight SEC opponents in ’24 and all other matchups around the conference. KSR will have Kentucky’s gauntlet for you here on the site as soon as we know it for anyone uninterested in an hour-long television special.

Summer camps continue in Kentucky.

Before Kentucky Football’s 2024 opponents are announced, the staff has one more day of camping at Kroger Field. It’s the final day of the summer Wildcat One Day camps for young high school football players interested in non-contact instruction from Kentucky’s coaching staff and other guest counselors. You and I are too old to participate, but the camps have been good for the coaches to identify future talent and show off Kentucky’s facilities.

Then on the other side of campus, Kentucky Basketball wraps up its overnight youth camp today to rest up for a weekend of father/son and father/daughter camps.

Cha’iel Johnson committed to UK Track and Field.

The week after a sixth-place finish at the NCAA Championship, UK Women’s Track and Field added a piece for its future in Cha’iel “Moca” Johnson, a three-time state champion out of Florida. Johnson’s famous father, Cincinnati Bengals great Chad Johnson, shared the news on Twitter late last night.

💙: @BabyChaiel_85 pic.twitter.com/5HGL9gHrs0

— Chad Johnson (@ochocinco) June 14, 2023

Cha’iel and Chad visited Kentucky’s campus together two weeks before her commitment to Kentucky Track.

Kentucky MBB introduced John Welch with a video.

There is a new Welch on Kentucky Basketball‘s coaching staff, John Welch, the father of former walk-on and graduate assistant Riley Welch. John was hired to a non-bench coaching role on Calipari’s staff last month and yesterday we got to meet him through a video from UKMBB’s social media team.

"The easiest way for me to connect with the players is through the workouts and being in the gym."

Meet assistant coach John Welch 🎙️ pic.twitter.com/r6gVRPwbEN

— Kentucky Men’s Basketball (@KentuckyMBB) June 13, 2023

The older Welch is a longtime NBA assistant with stops in Memphis, Denver, Brooklyn, Sacramento, and Los Angeles.

Alex Poythress is an Israeli Basketball Premier League champion.

Former Kentucky Wildcat Alex Poythress scored 12 points and former Vanderbilt star Wade Baldwin IV added 22 to help Maccabi Tel Aviv win its 56th championship yesterday. Online, John Calipari congratulated his former player on the ring.

Another year, another championship for @AlexTheGreat22!! This time it’s the Israeli Basketball Premier League.

So proud Alex and all he is accomplishing. Great teammate and an even better person…and A WINNER!! Congratulations, Alex!! pic.twitter.com/osAmwbf0Yp

— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) June 14, 2023

“11 Personnel” is on the road today.

KSR’s “11 Personnel” podcast will be at Monticello Bank in Louisville today at noon for a live Q&A and broadcast with Nick Roush and Adam Luckett. Follow along online if you’re unable to attend as the guys discuss the latest around the ‘Cats during a busy recruiting month and before the new opponents are revealed later tonight.

Tune into KSR at 10 a.m.

Coming up in an hour, I will join the guys at KSBar and Grille for today’s show. We’d love for you to listen.

Go Cats.