Following an arrest early Friday after a disturbance in a residential neighborhood, Kentucky quarterback Mike Hartline has been suspended for the bowl game against Pittsburgh.The suspension will effectively end the career of Hartline, who started in 26 games during his five-year career with UK.”Mike Hartline has had a good record here conduct wise,” head coach Joker Phillips said after Saturday’s practice. “I regret this. I regret that this happened, but it did. I really hate that it happened because of what he’s done for us this year in leading this program to our fifth straight bowl. He’s done a great job at that, but we have clear expectations for what we want our players to do, how we want them to act, how we want them to behave. Therefore, we are going to suspend him for this game.”Hartline, 22, was arrested Friday morning and charged with second-degree disorderly conduct, alcohol intoxication in a public place and failure to notify the department of transportation of an address change. His lawyer entered a not-guilty plea.Phillips said it was tough to suspend Hartline for his final career game based on everything Hartline has done for the program, but he said the expectations for everyone are clear cut.”We’ve got 120 guys on our football team and a vast majority of the time our guys are doing what they’re supposed to do,” Phillips said. “However, when something like this happens, we have to hold them accountable. This is one of the ways that we have to discipline our players and to make sure they are held accountable and making sure that this is a way that we are helping them grow up and understanding how to be a man. Mike understands it. Our team understands the expectations from here on. Somebody has to step up. It’s an opportunity for someone else to step up and have an opportunity to help us have a winning season this year.”The early favorite to step up at the quarterback position is sophomore Morgan Newton, who went 5-3 as a starter last year when Hartline went down with an injury. Newton led UK to wins at Auburn and at Georgia and entered this preseason in a quarterback competition with Hartline.Hartline eventually won the job. 
“Morgan will be the guy,” Phillips said. “He’s the guy that has been the second for a long time this season. (Ryan Mossakowski) will have a chance as we practice and get through this thing to plead his case also.”Newton visibly struggled when he lost out on the starter’s job at the beginning of the year but has since rebounded, according to reports.”After the decision was made that Mike was the starter earlier in the season, he got a little sluggish,” junior wide receiver Randall Cobb said. “Later on he picked it up and got back into his routine and got back into the things he was working on all offseason. He’s back at where he was. He came out here today and worked his butt off.”Newton, who threw for 706 yards and six touchdowns and ran for another 130 yards and two touchdowns last season, said the starter’s role changes how he approaches his job. Newton took snaps with the first-team offense at Saturday’s practice.”I’m happy about the opportunity,” Newton said. “I’m not necessarily happy about how it happened, but I guess you’ve just got to seize the opportunity.”The situation will certainly present an early audition for next year’s job. Mossakowski was asked how he could make up for experience edge Newton has over him. “Just compete and just work as hard as I can on a day-to-day basis,” Mossakowski said. “That’s all I can do and that’s the best mindset, I think. Every day I go out, I’m going to study. Nothing changes.”Hartline will be around in practice to help the younger guys and will make the trip to the BBVA Compass Bowl in Birmingham, Ala., so long as he chooses to.”He will be around some,” Phillips said. “He will come in and try to help some of the young guys out. We’d expect for him to be around and would like for him to be around. He’ll come down to the bowl, maybe the last two days, and be with the team. He won’t be in uniform, but he’ll come down and be on the sideline with us if he chooses to.”Hartline addressed the team Saturday morning and briefed the players on what happened early Friday morning. Although the loss hurt the team, the players supported Phillips’ decision to suspend Hartline.”If you want a program that continues to rise, you have to make sure you have that discipline, the integrity of the team,” Cobb said.How the suspension affects Hartline’s professional career remains to be seen. The senior ends his career with 5,680 passing yards – fourth on Kentucky’s career passing list – on 523-of-855 passing, 38 touchdowns and 25 interceptions, in 33 games.”That’s for (NFL scouts) to determine that,” Phillips said. “I hope (it doesn’t hurt him) because Mike, for five years, he’s had nothing but good conduct. It’s unfortunate for something like this to happen.”Porter to transfer: Freshman defensive lineman Elliott Porter has asked for his release to move closer to home, Phillips said. Porter, a Waggaman, La., native, came to UK after becoming a roster victim at LSU from too many scholarships. He did not play for Kentucky this season. “He wants to get closer to home, (which is) understandable,” Phillips said. “I feel for him and the situation he was put in. He came here, gave it a chance. He just feels like he wants to get close to his family and his family wants him close to them.”