His name is Chris Matthews, and we hope he'll play hardball in the SEC next year for the Kentucky Wildcats. Currently the 9th ranked JUCO prospect according to Rivals, Matthews is an athletic receiver from Los Angeles Harbor College in California who runs a 4.5 40, and weighs 210 pounds. With a 6'5" frame, Matthews hopes to elevate the Wildcats wide receiving corps currently made up of mostly freshman.

In the way of wide receiver play, the 2008 season has certainly been a bust for the Wildcats who saw their leading receiver go down to a season-ending injury in their 6th game against South Carolina. How unoffensive has their wide receiving production been? That leading receiver, Dicky Lyons Jr., still led the team in receiving yards when the regular season ended after a heartbreaking loss to Tennessee. Add a talented Randall Cobb being moved from receiver to quarterback, a career-ending concussion to junior DeMoreo Ford, and the Wildcats leaning on a crop of freshman receivers who never seemed to gell in 2008, and you had a recipe for an anemic offense that would've had Dracula himself moving down the SEC buffet line looking for some new blood.

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Just like the popular '70s song by Main Ingredient, the picture for next year's incoming recruiting class is looking a lot clearer with some recent comments from Those in the Know. It seems that the football Wildcats, who were rumored to be offering California JUCO quarterback Brad McClellan a scholarship to play quarterback, have cleared the air over his recruitment, saying that McClellan is being recruited as an athlete and not as a quarterback.

 With two heralded quarterbacks coming in next year, the recruitment of McClellan had a lot of Cats Fans holding their breath. Did this mean Mossakowski's injury was worse than expected? Did it mean Newton was having misgivings over committing to UK? Well, the Wildcat faithful can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Moss and Newton are as firm in their commitments as ever before.

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