LEXINGTON — They stopped kicking to Barion Brown.
Kentucky’s freshman wide receiver used to return kickoffs for touchdowns with some regularity, he said, in the early days of his high school career at Pearl-Cohn in Nashville.
But by his junior year, Brown said, opponents who couldn’t kick the ball out of the end zone would aim it toward Pearl-Cohn’s return man on the opposite side of the field. Or kick it short to the front line of the return team.
“But as far as me touching the ball? Nah. They didn't let me touch the ball,” Brown said this week.