KSR Today: Week 2 of Camp, Barn Crossing, Recruiting News, and More

Good morning from Nashville, Tennessee, where KSR’s Monday morning rundown is being written from Gaylord Opryland Hotel. We put together quite a Sunday here at the Soundwaves pool (I stepped in vomit by the lazy river), and now I am up early with an expensive coffee and free internet to get this day and this work week rolling in the right direction.

Looking over the newswire, it seems we have a pretty routine Monday ahead without anything too out of the ordinary. Zack’s back from vacation, so that’s cool. Otherwise, it’s mostly Media Day and Fan Day leftovers and some small news stories from the weekend. We’ll get USA Today’s preseason college football at some point. A new KSR Football Podcast, too.

Shall we?

Kentucky Football’s Fan Day was a hit

On Saturday, the Joe Craft Football Training Facility was left unlocked for a public viewing of Kentucky‘s fourth day of fall camp and it made for a special Fan Day experience for Big Blue Nation. In the open practice, fans were treated to a new and improved Big Blue Wall, spectacular catches, a new-look secondary, and the debut of a new QB1, Devin Leary.

Nick Roush and Adam Luckett shared their takeaways from the afternoon:

More from Kentucky Football Fan Day:

Mark Stoops’ Press Conference

UK Player Interviews

KSR Roundtable of Takeaways

Fall Camp continues into Week 2

Today, the ‘Cats get back to work behind closed doors. They will keep things private over there another day, then tomorrow we will hear from Liam Coen and several key members of his offense. The defense will get a turn in front of the microphones on Thursday.

In the meantime, enjoy a one-minute recap of Week 1:

Week one of training camp ✅ pic.twitter.com/FYpHCHcSGM

— Kentucky Football (@UKFootball) August 7, 2023

Stone Saunders is all in on Kentucky

Before the weekend began, Kentucky landed a commitment from Stone Saunders, a QB out of Pennsylvania from the Class of 2025. On Sunday, Saunders spoke to Jack Pilgrim on 630 WLAP’s Sunday Morning Sports Talk and he made it clear that he shut down his recruitment. Saunders confirmed he committed to UK back in June, too.

“Some coaches reached out to me, August 1 started where coaches could talk to me directly,” Saunders said. “But I committed to Kentucky at the end of June, I just had the date of August 4 to announce it. Coaches can talk to me, but I’m 100 percent Kentucky… I’m not going to take visits anywhere else or anything like that, I’m all Kentucky.”

Kentucky Women’s Basketball landed a commitment from Baby Shaq

Kyra Elzy found the first piece to her 2024 recruiting class for Kentucky Women’s Basketball. On Sunday, in-state talent Ramiya White pledged her commitment to the Wildcats, becoming the first ’24 commitment. White chose to stay in the Bluegrass over scholarship offers from Clemson, Florida State, Kansas State, Miami, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse and West Virginia, among others.

A 6-5 center, White is known as “Baby Shaq.”

1000% COMMITTED💙💙💙💙 pic.twitter.com/rJJxwOC4Hx

— ramizzy. (@Ramiya_White) August 6, 2023

Zack Geoghegan has much more here.

The Barn crossed the road

For any KSR listeners still waiting on a barn update, it successfully moved to its new home across Nicholasville Road. You can follow its journey in a video with music.

Big EZ returns to the KSR airwaves

Matt Jones will take KSR listeners back in time on today’s show because he is bringing in his first co-host and producer, Big EZ, to sit in with him and Ryan Lemond. With Shannon The Dude and me away for a few days, Big EZ answered the call to come home to where it all began.

Tune in at 10 a.m. and have a great Monday.