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Bucks for Brooks, high hopes for UK.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-AUG-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Bucks for Brooks, high hopes for UK.(Sports)(With a hefty new deal, the ex-Duck coach has Kentucky thinking big)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Bob Clark The Register-Guard

Rich Brooks said `the stomach starts churning' when the first game of a season approaches, and so it is as he nears the opener of his fifth fall at Kentucky.

`There's always the big butterflies that are floating around inside me,' the 66-year-old Brooks said the other day.

As memory serves, some of those `butterflies' splashed onto the turf at Husky Stadium once. Or was it twice? And maybe another time or three during Brooks' 18-year tenure at Oregon, which ended with the Ducks winning the Pac-10 title in 1994 and advancing to their lone Rose Bowl appearance of the past half-century.

After three losing seasons at Kentucky, and with his job in jeopardy, Brooks found success with the Wildcats last season. With a 7-5 record

in the regular season, Kentucky earned a Music City Bowl berth and knocked off Clemson. Along the way, the coach was rewarded with a new contract, for four years and $11 million, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Except, now come the expectations. Kentucky has sold 51,000 season tickets for a schedule that includes eight home games. Instead of the usual opener against Louisville, the Wildcats kick it off against Eastern Kentucky on Saturday.

With a host of returning players from that 8-5 season, with...

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