The Kentucky Wildcats have yet to play a true road game this season and it doesn’t get much more difficult than the first away game they’ll play this weekend. Seating nearly 100,000, LSU’s Tiger Stadium is known as one of the toughest places to play in the nation and even though the game on Saturday will be a rare day game in Baton Rouge, La., head coach Joker Phillips knows he has to do everything he can to prepare his team for what they’ll face. At practice on Wednesday, UK pumped in artificial crowd noise, something that Phillips said “definitely helps.” Replicating what the LSU faithful will sound like is impossible, but Phillips was happy to report the offense had no miscues with the speakers directly behind the quarterback.”I’m not sure if we had the same effects as we will have down in Tiger Stadium, but we did work with it,” Phillips said. “We didn’t seem to have any miscues with the crowd noise.”When the speakers were off and he was actually able to speak to his team, Phillips’ message at practice today was a simple one. “‘Treat yourself like a man,'” Phillips said. “If you embarrass yourself by not knowing what to do, then that’s not treating yourself like a man.”Players old and young ask for respect from the coaching staff and their teammates, but Phillips wants to make sure emphasize how important it is for individuals to show respect for themselves by being prepared and focused.There are no new injuries to report after today’s practice and Phillips had encouraging news about running back Josh Clemons. The freshman, who is starting in place of the injured Raymond Sanders, participated fully in practice today after straining his hamstring against Florida. He is expected to start against LSU.

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