Kentucky's quarterback coach Randy Sanders, the former University of Tennessee quarterback coach explains that the woes of Mike Hartline is his fault.
Sander's explained that they tried to adjust his grip to prevent the slippages that occurred against Alabama and resulted in Alabama scores.
"We tried to mess with it a little bit last week and I think it hurt him in last weeks game. It was not the grip he normally has and what he is used to, so I messed him up a little bit and so we are going to go back and try something different and hopefully get the accuracy that we need."
A change in mechanics is usual protocall in the middle of the season but Sander's went onto say that it became such an issue that something needed to happen to try and ammeliorate the mistakes and miscues.
Sanders has had experince with coaching up freshman and young quarterbacks. At the University of Tennessee he worked and fine tuned Brett Schaffer and Erik Angie during the 2002 season. He said that that experience at Tennesse has better prepared him to deal with the apparent woes at quarterback at the University of Kentucky.
With the struggles, Sanders feels that Hartline is playing with confidence as he stated, "He is trying to play with confidence and is playing with that confidence on the field."
One can surmise by the quotes of Coach Sanders, the move to Randall Cobb is highly unlikely. Cobb, the freshman from Alcoa, Tennessee sparked the offense against Norfolk State and there have been rumblings to make him the eminent starter. However an injury at reciever against Middle Tennessee forced him to miss valuable learning time and has impeded his progress. Kentucky will march on with Hartline leading the offense for the remainder of the season.....and hopefully problems with his "grip" can be resolved before Saturday's MUST WIN game agaisnt the Arkansas Razorbacks.
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