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posted 10-20-2009 07:29 AM
Some deserved high praise for Cobb.
Rich Brooks threw down the verbal gauntlet Monday at his weekly news conference.
His challenge: Come up with the best word(s) to describe Randall Cobb and the dramatic impact the sophomore playmaker is having on the 2009 Kentucky football season.
The dynamic Cobb's fourth-quarter heroics have accounted for UK's two biggest wins of the season, Saturday's uplifting road victory at Auburn and last month's narrow home escape against Louisville.
Said Brooks: "A lot of you guys who write or speak for a living will be more eloquent and find the right adjective."
Given a quest, I conferred with a panel (of Jeffs) on the best description for Randall Cobb.
"Really special," said Jeff Piecoro, the color analyst for the UK football radio network and a wide receiver on Kentucky's 1984 Hall of Fame Bowl champions.
"Remarkable player," said Jeff Van Note, the former Kentucky standout and Atlanta Falcons Pro Bowler who is a longtime sports radio personality.
Cobb, the 5-foot-11, 188-pound sophomore receiver/runner/Wildcat formation quarterback from Alcoa, Tenn., ranks this week in the top 10 of five Southeastern Conference statistical categories.
"He's very versatile, has the ability to do so many different things, and he does them all at a high level," said Van Note.
In my 45 years, I have watched a truly distressing amount of UK football. Over all that time, I've not seen a player who seems able to rise to the occasion late in close games and assert his will on the outcome in the way Cobb has this season.
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