It happened in Petrino's third game, too. It was called Temple. OK, technically it was Petrino's 4th game, but you get the picture. I don't think Temple was as good as Kentucky and we still needed Elvis Dumervil to force a fumble to seal the game late. As a matter of fact, reading my recap from that game reminds me that we were whistled for 15 penalties for 109 yards that day. Kinda makes the discipline issues this year seem tame so far. Our secondary was torched by some dude named Mike McGann (is he in the NFL?) and our offense sputtered the entire second half. In fact, we didn't score a single point in the second half of that one.
The talent on the field and on the roster may have improved from 2003... but the growing pains and awkwardness of transitioning to a new staff haven't.
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