LEXINGTON — When he’s had a bad day at the office, Matt Ruffolo tends to stay offline.
It’s not that the Kentucky football kicker is so fragile as to be wounded by the digs on Twitter or slams on Instagram that follow his infrequent misses.
But Ruffolo learned a long time ago he has a thankless job; that the “collegekickers” hashtag wasn’t invented on Twitter to heap praise on his position; that credit comes for long kicks and game winners and not much else.
“And then when you miss one, that's when everyone's going to come at you,” Ruffolo said this week, as the Wildcats prepared for Saturday’s game against South Carolina.