Big Red’s Reads: Todd Stewart Interview, Hot Start For Volleyball & Last Second Previews
Aug 28, 2017 · 2 min read

Happy Eastern Kentucky week WKU fans! We survived a six month off-season of Mitchell Robinson drama and zero games and lived to tell the tale. Here is your recent WKU related news across the internet to kick-off your week.
- Todd Stewart sat down with Greg Pogue of WNSR in Nashville, to discuss WKU’s program and his vision for the future. If you’ve got the time it’s definitely worth a listen
- The Lady Toppers volleyball squad started their season off a perfect 3–0 at the Sycamore Inn Invitational at Miami (OH).
- FiveThirtyEight.com says that WKU Football is second in the nation at outperforming their recruiting rankings.
- After losing a 2–1 match against Austin Peay on Friday, WKU Soccer bounced back against Tennessee-Martin yesterday.
- Brad Stephens discusses JUCO defensive lineman Carson Jordan’s appearance on Last Chance U and how he’ll help WKU’s defensive depth.
- Underdog Dynasty gave their roundtable predictions for the 2017 Conference USA season.
- Joe Londergan from UDD gives his game by game predictions for WKU’s football season.
- Mike Huguenin from Gridiron Now ranked WKU at number 67 heading into the season.
- WKU’s offensive line is in safe hands with Dennis Edwards returning
- Mark Story from the Lexington Herald Leader gives three non-stars that are vital to WKU’s season.
- The Herald Leader also showcased for Lafayette High School wide receiver Lucky Jackson’s quest to be WKU’s new number one receiver in their football preview.
- 2018 football commit, Shannon “Beanie” Bishop broke this 46-yard touchdown in PRP’s Friday night win over Bowling Green High School
- Chad Bishop updated us on D’Andre Ferby’s status, impact freshman and EKU in his football notebook.
- Rice Football had an inauspicious start to Conference USA’s football season getting demolished by Stanford 62–7 in Australia.
- The Conference USA coaches aren’t very high on WKU’s cross country team’s this season
- Jason Munz of the Hattiesburg American predicted WKU to face UTSA for the C-USA title in his inside Conference USA preview.
- WKU released their 2017 football gameday information packet, including the new parking map.
- Michelle Clark-Heard and the Lady Toppers basketball team received a commitment Saturday
- We analyzed the latest report that Mitchell Robinson will be returning to the WKU basketball team.
- We also discussed 2018 JUCO power forward, Matthew Horton’s Saturday commitment.
- If you missed any of our preseason football opponent previews, you can find each one of them right here.
- Something awesome came in the mail on Saturday
Congratulations again on surviving another off-season. If you ever come across an interesting WKU-related article send it our way via twitter at @TheTowelRackWKU or on our Facebook page.

