Every Kentucky fan remembers the 2009 Liberty Bowl for one thing: Ventrell Jenkins scooping up a fumble and rumbling the other way like a runaway freight train.
For Joe Sloan, it’s remembered a little differently.
Before he was Kentucky’s new offensive coordinator, Sloan was on the other sideline that day, a walk-on holder and scout-team quarterback at East Carolina, watching the Wildcats rip away what felt like a sure win.
“I don't know what it was called,” Sloan joked when asked about it, “but take me back.”
Joe Sloan ‘You better beat everybody soundly’ when at a small school
Sloan still has the details burned into his brain.