Kentucky’s blowout win over Louisville wasn’t one of the more interesting rivalry week games on Saturday. But it did have one of the weirdest sequences when Cardinals TE Micky Crum got an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, apparently for roughhousing in retaliation for his quarterback taking a (clean) hit.
Louisville tried to eject its own player, but there he was, back on the field
Louisville hadn’t done anything interesting against Kentucky, but this was certainly odd.
Interim head coach Lorenzo Ward tried sending Crum to the locker room, and Crum wasn’t having it:
Crum’s helmet was taken away from him, and it seems the following two things happened while he was on the sideline:
Eventually, he was back on the field:
Why did Louisville let Crum back in the game? Perhaps they talked things over, he cooled down, and they called it good. After all, he is a redshirt senior and Saturday’s game is the last of his career.
Or, it could be because the Cardinals don’t have any other scholarship tight ends available to play after suspensions of Jordan Davis and Kemari Averett, so he kind of had to go back into the game anyway. This might be just as important a factor.
No matter which it is, this is an appropriately weird way for Louisville to tie the bow on what’s been a sensationally bad season.
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