Brock van Dagu had to wait four years for his first college start so what was an extra couple hours the former five-star recruit who spent three seasons as a backup at Georgia before transferring to Kentucky was forced to wait alongside his teammates through a 2hour 20-minute lightning delay before the Wildcat season opener against Southern misss on Saturday when the game finally started at 10:05 p.m. van Dagu needed just two plays to gain his first first down on a niney keeper there were mistakes along the way but by the time the game was called due to a second lightning delay with UK leading 31 to0 and 959 left in the third quarter van Dagu had shown the type of Promise recruiting pundits had praised him for in high school until that quarterback gets under Center goes and plays in that stadium and games then you don't know exactly what you have UK coach Mark stoop said but he played like I thought he would and he's not perfect and none of our team is but I think there's a lot to build on that van Dagu completed 12 of 18 passes for 169 yards three touchdowns and one interception in the victory he also gained 35 yards on five carries kuy's first drive ended when a van dagar pass was tipped into the air and then intercepted at the Southern Miss 15 yd line another Drive stalled after a Southern Miss Defender dropped what could have been a pick six one play after Baran Brown dropped what would have been a long gain but van dagri also showed off an impressive ability to keep plays alive eluding a rush long enough to find a receiver open downfield multiple times he hit wide receiver jamori mcklin for a 46-yard gain to set up the final touchdown of the night and exhibited impressive touch on his first touchdown by lofting a 12y pass over a Defender to Brown in the end zone first game first start I think he did a good job said linebacker and fellow Georgia transferred jaman Dumas Johnson who grabbed an interception in his first game as a wildcat interceptions happen things like that so it only goes up from here expectations go on up for here SEC opponent next week