Throughout fall camp, Mark Stoops and his staff have preached the importance of making the simple play and executing assignments.Braylon Heard’s first two carries in a Kentucky uniform looked anything but simple.The Nebraska transfer took the first 73 yards for a touchdown, sprinting through a big hole and slowing down only to make sure no UT Martin defenders were on his heels. They weren’t. On the next, less than four minutes of game time later, he found another seam and went 43 yards for another score.The plays will surely end up on UK’s highlight reel at the end of the season. And of course, they speak to the talent of the player who made them.That doesn’t mean they weren’t perfect illustrations of what the staff has been saying.”The two runs he had that he broke were extremely disciplined runs,” offensive coordinator Neal Brown said.  “… The thing that’s going to be encouraging to me is we turn on the video tomorrow and here’s Braylon doing the thing exactly the way we coach it. Exactly, to a T, the way we coach it. Boom, big play.”Heard was far from the only Wildcat to make big plays on Saturday. All told, UK had nine offensive plays of 20 yards or more in a dominant season-opening 59-14 victory, not to mention the defense’s two interceptions and three fumble recoveries, one of which Khalid Henderson returned 89 yards for a touchdown. In reflecting on the win, though, Stoops didn’t marvel at his team’s newfound game-breaking potential. Asked what single thing stood out to him about UK’s performance, he gave an answer that was characteristically simple.”Really just clean,” Stoops said. “I think they were just–it was relatively clean.”The fans at Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday left singing a slightly different tune.After all, they had just seen the influx of talent that Stoops has brought to Lexington back up the hype bestowed on it by recruiting services more than at any point since the second-year head coach’s arrival.They watched Heard — limited to two carries by an ankle injury that knocked him out of the game for precautionary reasons — led a ground game that rolled up 243 yards and six touchdowns on 28 carries. They cheered a young receiving corps that caught deep balls and turned short passes into long gains in equal measure, just as true freshman Blake Bone did on a screen pass that became a 29-yard touchdown.”Definitely impressed,” quarterback Patrick Towles said of the receiving corps. “The ball I threw to Blake that he scored on was behind. That should have been farther in front, but he made a really good play. The receivers all around played awesome.”Towles, starting for the first time at Kentucky, deftly ran the show. He completed 20-of-29 passes for 377 yards and a touchdown, adding 30 yards and another score on the ground.”The big thing was, to me, he was very poised and he made very good decisions,” Stoops said. “You know, we know he has the talent to get the ball down the field. I think it was important for him to be efficient in the intermediate area and I thought he did that. He missed a couple, but overall, just very pleased with his poise.”Towles was in Lexington before Stoops’ arrival, but he’s in the minority among UK’s top offensive contributors. Players recruited to Kentucky by the current staff accounted for 529 of the Cats’ 656 yards from scrimmage.”I was very pleased with the young guys in general,” Stoops said. “You can see the ability of some of the guys that we’ve been talking about, all the freshmen running backs, the freshmen wide receivers looked very poised out there and made some good plays.”That poise has everything to do with preparation, says running back Mikel Horton.”I don’t even think our coaches look it like freshmen being played because how prepared we are,” said Horton, who carried seven times for 45 yards and two touchdowns. “Each freshmen, each senior, sophomore , junior are very prepared and each can rotate in and know the plays. I don’t even look at it as freshman anymore. I look at us as players. When you’re well prepared and you don’t have a class on you, you can go in and handle your business.”UK’s defense didn’t rely quite as heavily on newcomers, but its biggest star on Saturday suited up in blue for the first time.Safety A.J. Stamps has drawn raves all offseason from Stoops and defensive coordinator D.J. Eliot. The first-year junior-college transfer didn’t wait long to back up the talk. After Heard scored his first touchdown late in the first quarter to give UK a 14-0 lead, Stamps came flying into the backfield on the first play of the ensuing UT Martin drive. Before Ladevin Fair could hardly see him, Stamps flipped him into the air with a big hit for a three-yard loss. “A.J.’s a very talented player and I’ve said all along he’s been a great addition to our defense,” Eliot said. “He’s a very athlete, a very good football player, but he’s also a good leader and he’s got a lot of good instincts.”Those instincts showed up again on the Skyhawks’ next drive. Reading a deep ball by UT Martin’s Dylan Favre, Stamps sped over and snared the pass with his right hand, making a play sure to be seen again on the SportsCenter Top 10.”Everybody said I could have made it with two,” Stamps said. “But hey, one hand looked better.”Stamps — who finished with a team high-tying eight tackles — clearly had some fun on Saturday. He wasn’t alone.”This is the most fun I’ve had in a football game since (November) of 2012, probably,” Brown said, recalling a text message he sent after the game. “And here’s the thing: It’s been fun all camp. It really has. I’ve had a good time. I appreciate the way our guys have worked, how they’ve prepared.”During camp, Brown joked about the gray hairs he’s spouting coaching so many youngsters. In a good mood on Saturday following a big win, he talked about the flip side of coaching an up-and-coming group. “These guys really want to be good,” Brown said. “Our talent’s getting better. We haven’t arrived by any means, but our talent’s getting better. They’re eager, really eager to do well and they’ve been a fun group to coach. Not just myself, our whole offensive staff. We really enjoy coaching this group and I really think you’re going to see continued growth as we go along.”