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.
Interim head coach Lorenzo Ward tried sending Crum to the locker room, and Crum wasn’t having it:
things seem to be going marvelously at louisville pic.twitter.com/3c7uUMpH5a
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 25, 2018
Crum’s helmet was taken away from him, and it seems the following two things happened while he was on the sideline:
ANOTHER penalty on Louisville -- an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Micky Crum. On TV it looked like Lorenzo Ward wanted to send Crum to the locker room but he wouldn't go. AD Vince Tyra was talking to Crum. He is still on the sideline but his helmet has been taken away.
— Whitney Harding (@WHAS11Whitney) November 25, 2018
Lorenzo Ward tried to send Micky Crum to the locker room, but he wouldn't go. He was on the phone with the booth for a moment.
— Jake Lourim (@jakelourim) November 25, 2018
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.
Micky Crum is now on the sideline and still yelling. He's Louisville's last available scholarship tight end.
— Jake Lourim (@jakelourim) November 25, 2018
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.