Former all-SEC offensive lineman Logan Stenberg, right, has joined Christi Thomas and Jeremy Jarmon on the UK Radio Network pregame show. (UK Athletics Photo)
The UK Radio Network pregame football show had a new voice when the Cats beat Southern Mississippi last week as Logan Stenberg joined host Christi Thomas and former all-SEC defensive lineman and NFL veteran Jeremy Jarmon.
Stenberg was a first-team all-Southeastern Conference choice and second team all-American his senior year at Kentucky in 2019 and picked in the fourth round of the 2020 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions. He was with the Lions for three seasons before being signed by Chicago and then Tampa Bay in 2023. He was released by the Bucs this spring and moved back to Lexington.
Thomas said someone associated with the football program knew the network show needed another member to take over for former UK quarterback Dusty Bonner. Thomas said it needed to be an “offense guy” and Stenberg, 27 and retired from the NFL, fit the need.
“He’s all grown up, married and has a baby. He’s doing grown up things and we are glad to have him. He was edgy as a player and he’s kind of that way when he talks football,” Thomas said.
“I think sometimes offensive linemen are underestimated for how well they know the game. This guy can talk the talk. Regardless of the position on offense, he gets it. He had to hone in on knowing every position to get into the league because that football IQ is a huge part of it in the NFL.
“I also appreciate that he played for Mark Stoops and has a great understanding of the system and how Stoops works and thinks as a coach while the rest of us just speculate about that because we didn’t play for Stoops.”
Thomas became the first female to host a SEC football pregame show in 2017 and says it is still important to her to provide “good content” for the two-hour show leading up to kickoff.
“I think about what I would want to hear these guys talk about. They see things a lot of us don’t and are in that football building to know what is going on,” she said.
She said a recent meeting to plan what the show’s 12 segments would be took two hours.
“We take this show seriously. We love fan feedback because this show is for the fans to help them know what is going on and what might go on in the game,” Thomas said.
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Wow! I didn’t see this asswhooping coming. Now I can see why Vandagriff never got to play at Georgia. Our O line is in shambles and our secondary is made of swiss cheese. Now we get Georgia. This would be a good time for Stoops to start earning that $9 million salary.
Stoops rebuild era has come to an abrupt end. The annual “slow start” of games reaps reward:
2021…
10 wins PEAKED with Will Levis & Liam Coen, for Stoops 2nd 10-win season
2022-2023…
7-6 PLATEAUED back-to-back seasons, with 1 blowout bowl loss & then a non-D loss
2024 –
COLLAPSE of program, 6-31 loss to lowly SC, after Stoops’ failed attempt to leave UK
I don’t put this one on Brock. The OC has obviously been locked down by Stoops, just as every other OC has suffered. The opening drive was run-run-run until 3rd & long when UK made it obvious UK would try to pass.
ZERO PASS PROTECTION !!!
What happened to this great OL we heard about all off season!
Another dismal porous secondary effortless game. Surely, UK can get some fans to tryout for cornerback positions. There is no current competition.
Stoops has maintained consistency with some things…
• SLOW starts, players in a trance !!!
• recruit pseudo QB’s (the backup QB has completed 42% to 47.8% of his passes year after year! Why recruit him? Why play him?
• run up the middle until everyone knows it will be the next play & do it again
• wait until 3rd & long before trying a pass
UK is once again looking forward to BB. Mark Pope arrived just in time since FB is back to the typical days.
Today must have been the “chjoker” day to celebrate his great coaching “career”.
But why did they let chjoker be the HC & OC & CB coach all at the same time !?!?