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UK Players Looking Forward to Rematch with "Disrespectful" WKU

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The Kentucky Wildcats are making it clear they want pay-back for last year’s football loss to the WKU Hilltoppers. Several UK players talked about the season-opener for both teams at Wednesday’s Southeastern Conference Media Days event in Hoover, Alabama.

To hear several Kentucky Wildcat football players tell it, the WKU Hilltoppers were disrespectful following last season’s 32-31 overtime win at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington.

Wildcats running back Raymond Sanders said the team was looking forward to the season-opener for both schools. The Courier-Journal quotedSanders as saying the Toppers “were pretty disrespectful on our field—and disrespectful with some tweets and Facebook and some stuff. After the game, jumping and stomping on the field. It’s our field. You gotta take pride in that.”

After last year’s win at Kentucky, then-WKU head coach Willie Taggart said WKU red was the “new blue” in Kentucky.

This year’s matchup is the debut for new WKU coach Bobby Petrino. WKU and UK face off August 31st at Nashville’s LP Field.

You can see the entire 2013 WKU football schedule here.

The award-winning news team at WKU Public Radio consists of Dan Modlin, Kevin Willis, Lisa Autry, and Joe Corcoran.
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