Billy Jack Haskins
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Billy Jack Haskins is a former American football quarterback for the University of Kentucky from 1996 to 1997. He was not exceptionally fast, but he did have an innate ability to find open receivers, even though Kentucky teams of that decade were never blessed with much depth at the receiver position.
His crowning achievement at the Wildcat's helm was against the University of Florida in the Swamp against Steve Spurrier and company in 1997. During that game, he passed for three touchdowns and completed 29 of 38 passes for 422 yards against an All-American Florida secondary and also ran for one more score. Kentucky led by 34-26 with less than three minutes to play in the fourth quarter.
Florida scored with 1:41 left on the clock and then recovered their subsequent onside kick. They marched 42 yards and scored again to win with only three seconds left and Haskins never got a chance to get back on the field to try and save the game. Florida Coach Steve Spurrier stated after the game that Haskin's performance was "... the best he'd ever seen so far in his college coaching career."
Despite this great success, the following year, Haskins was forced to surrender the starting role to Freshman and future NFL #1 draft choice, Tim Couch and he dropped out of school halfway through the year. He completed his undergraduate degree in Physics in 1999 at Baylor University where he was a brief walk-on in football during the 2000 season, but elected to focus on academics, making the Dean's list and graduating with a 3.88 overall GPA in 2001.
After college, he briefly worked in sales at local car dealership in Shelbyville, Kentucky before starting his career with Ashland Oil in Lexington, Kentucky where he is currently (2007) the senior Vice President of Research & Development - and a season ticket holder for UK Football games.
As a side note: Billy Jack's cousin, [1] Clem Haskins was a small college All-American basketball star at Western Kentucky University and an NBA Player for the Atlanta Hawks who also went on to become a Head Coach at the College level at Minnesota.
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