From your post: "Our roster was depleted and what we had left was hot garbage."
LOL
Compare the raw talent in your classes for the years before Stoops to UK's raw talent.
In !0 Joker got off to a fast start, at the last minute he added a four star and three 5.7s (I consider 5.7s very good talent, especially at UK) to the ONE 5.7 he had before------NONE of them did ANYTHING at UK. Not sure what they did but that year TU had TWELVE four stars and one FIVE STAR, who did a lot before he self destructed, D'Rick about as big a thug as he was a talent.
In 11 UK got ONE four star Faulkner, played some but recruited over, and three 5.7s, Caffey probably the best but kicked out for TWO mj violations (I think Thug U's limit is FIVE, if they have one, see the five star DB they sent home to La for a semester to TRY to dry out) while the two home CITY heroes were good contributors. Again, TU had TWELVE four stars, but, alas, no five stars. But then when was the last five star that contributed at UK, Robertson?
In Stoops first year he had THREE four stars, the JC drafted, and the other two starting, with seven 5.7s, with only K Thomas again kicked off for what is laughed at at TU. Meanwhile poor TU only had FIVE four stars, oh boo hoo, what a bunch of hot garbage, LOL.
Didn't look up TU's class in 14, back to normal, but Stoops had TEN four stars and six 5.7,s, all still here and all either contributors or expected to contribute this year, four of the ten four stars redshirted.
Boo hoo, poor Tennessee hasn't had any talent lately, even though they spent decades getting away with cheating to build great facilities and tradition while UK's administration spent decades treating football like it was the poor step child, with predictable results-----until the strike.