Kash Daniel knows what it’s like to be a Kentucky player coming off of a let down game. He recalled one against Austin Peay early in his career in Lexington, and realizes that the Wildcats have another chance to bounce back with a better effort off of the Chattanooga win this week at South Carolina.

Daniel, the former Kentucky captain and linebacker, was a guest on “SEC This Morning” with Peter Burns and Chris Doering, and explained what’s different about the current Wildcats. Daniel said UK will turn the negative sentiment of something bad coming around the corner starting this week, and said last week’s struggles were a “wake up call.”

“We have had our fair share of heart break, with a hot start throughout the season, and then obviously falls off the cliff,” Daniel said. “This isn’t old Kentucky, this is the new Kentucky. This is the program that Coach Stoops has built from the ground up, and year in and year out it seems like a building block keeps getting added. With the success that he’s had in recruiting, with the success that he’s had in adding additions to his coaching staff, the Kentucky football program is nothing but up on the rise.”

About the South Carolina game, Daniel recalls playing in a loud and spirited environment in Williams-Brice Stadium.

“It is a wild environment, Peter,” Daniel said. “It is the essential of what you dream about when you play in the SEC, when you sit there, ‘What is the SEC environment like.’ When you walk out in Williams-Brice Stadium, and that Sandstorm’s rocking and they’ve got those white towels flinging and flowing everywhere, and they’ve got that rooster crow going every which way almost every second of the game. It’s like this is it ‘Man, this is what I signed up for.'”

Daniel said Kentucky it’s a good matchup for the Cats and they meet South Carolina at a good time coming off the Georgia loss, and Kentucky got the wake up call it needed.

“I believe it was a jerk in their tail to say, ‘Hey, we aren’t as good as we think we are,'” Daniel said of the Chattanooga game. “If we want to come out victorious in Columbia, we’ve got to turn things up a notch and be able to play each and every Saturday.”