For Joker Phillips, this has been a long time coming. He was named the head coach in waiting in in January of 2008 and at that point, facing Louisville in the season opener seemed a long way off. Now, it's almost here. "I am ready," Phillips said. "I am ready. I am excited and ready to go. It seems like it has been forever but it has only been about eight months. I remember it seemed that a couple of days ago it was eight days and now it is two days, the day before the day before," the UK...
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