The legend of shoeless Jamarion Wilcox and the Kentucky Wildcats

In the early 1900s, there was a baseball player named Joe Jackson, but he's more famous for his nickname, "Shoeless Joe Jackson." Jackson got the nickname because his new cleats gave him blisters during a game, so he took his shoes off and played the rest of the game in his socks. He said the nickname came from a heckler who shouted out, "You shoeless son of a gun, you!" The nickname would never leave him; he was forever immortalized as "Shoeless Joe Jackson."

Jamarion Wilcox is beginning his career in a very similar fashion. His runs may be explosive, and he's a heck of a football player, but he's becoming known for running out of his shoes. No one seemed to notice this phenomenon that every time Wilcox would get a couple of runs in, he would have to be subbed out, carrying his shoes or throwing them back on real quick. It wasn't until head coach Mark Stoops was asked why Wilcox wasn't getting more playing time.

Stoops used Wilcox as an example of how the coaches weren't getting through to the players, "Here's a thing, tie your shoes ... He doesn't tie his shoes, so he runs it, but his shoe falls off, so he's got to come out. That would help." I'm never for publicly shaming players, especially true freshmen, but as people began to look at the tape and the pictures of Wilcox's shoes, it's true. He doesn't tie his shoes.

After a week of this content going viral, fans were making jokes about duct tape and velcro, etc. He comes in for his first rush against Florida and rips a huge one. Well, and his shoe fell off.

Wilcox will now be called on to be the primary ball carrier this weekend against Auburn. Demie Sumo-Karngbaye and Chip Trayanum are both declared out. He either better lace them up or just turn into full shoeless Joe and run in his socks. Kentucky needs him to be explosive and help carry them to victory.