Vanderbilt players stomp on Kentucky logo at midfield after win

It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad evening at Kroger Field. Kentucky took its sixth consecutive SEC home loss — third straight this season — with the Wildcats now just 2-10 in their last 12 conference games in Lexington. For those keeping track at home, Joker Phillips was 4-8 in his 12 SEC home games as head coach, according to UK statistician Corey Price.

Vanderbilt defeated Kentucky at its own game, controlling the line of scrimmage and the clock en route to the rock fight victory, 20-13 final. The Wildcats were undisciplined with 106 penalty yards on 12 flags after entering the matchup as the least penalized team in the SEC. Now 5-10 coming off byes under Mark Stoops, it’s fair to question what exactly the team does in the two weeks between games?

There were no positive takeaways from the loss and the entire program should be ashamed of itself for how things unfolded Saturday evening. And they should be equally ashamed the Commodores felt comfortable stomping on the logo at midfield after the game.

According to Michael Epps of FOX 56, the opposing team came back out on the field to stand and sit on the UK logo to take photos — probably for cute ‘walk in your trap and take over your trap’ social media captions, just like we saw the Wildcats do leaving Oxford with a win a couple weeks back. Stoops’ teams are known for handling prosperity well, after all.

Vanderbilt players have come back out on the field, standing and sitting on the “UK” logo taking pictures.

One player stomped and kicked the logo. #BBN @FOX56News pic.twitter.com/DWTCBNI6LR

— Michael Epps (@MichaelEppsTV) October 13, 2024

Anyway, after taking their road victory pictures, one Vanderbilt player — No. 11 Darren Agu, it appears — was seen stomping on and kicking the logo with another representative of the football program doing the same.

Here's the clip of the Vanderbilt player kicking the UK logo after the game, just for confirmation. Another guy joined in. #BBN @FOX56News https://t.co/g8g1iIaF1x pic.twitter.com/I1EthQaTnN

— Michael Epps (@MichaelEppsTV) October 13, 2024

Interestingly enough, Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea talked about his team’s ability to balance celebrating and having fun with looking ahead to the next prize.

“It says that the team is hungry for more and we are not going to let one game define our season,” he said. “I think sometimes external narratives try to paint that picture and it has never been our reality. We know how to celebrate and we know that last week was an important marker for us, we do get that, but it is always about what comes next. There are things we can clean up tonight.

“How we can find our highest level as a team and really have some fun. This team is focused and I think we are having a lot of fun right now.”

To their credit, they knocked off No. 1 Alabama and then followed it up by defeating Kentucky for a second consecutive time on its home field. They earned every right to celebrate.

If you don’t like it, beat ’em.