WAS his ceiling in the old SEC. Looking at the schedule next year 6-6 is what I expect.
Yeah it’s gonna get tougher. I would not want to scrap it all and start over with a new regime right now.
9-3 was the ceiling before going away with the divisions. I really don’t see us hitting 9-3 again without divisions. That will be certain if we go to 9 conference games.
I don't see 6 wins next year. The cupcakes to pad yourself to a bowl are gone.
Well we won 10 twice. So I’d say 10 was the ceiling.
Been my view for a while.
9-3 plus a bowl win is a great year. It’s basically a historic year here. But it’s different than 10-2. Considering the current state of bowls and the switch to a 12 team playoff, it’s worth distinguishing.
9+1 is 10. A ten win season is a ten win season. Why diminish it? You get your last win against a quality team in a bowl game. History remembers victories, not circumstances.
You’ll be hiring a coordinator or a G5 head coach. The odds are overwhelming against it.
You are correct. We all bleed blue and we all want to build the next football power. But you can’t paint on stripes and hope to be a tiger. A regime change is the absolute last thing we want right now.
There’s not much quality about non-playoff bowls anymore. But I’m not diminishing it. They were the best years I’ve seen us have and I’ll never forget them. I’m saying when the playoff committee ranks us, we would have been 9-3 those two seasons. Our next team that’s that good won’t get the SEC East schedule. They’ll likely get nine conference games too. It honestly probably shifts our ceiling down one game.
You think we can email the playoff committee and ask to be added to the playoff because we won our bowl game? We’re going to be judged on our regular season record.
At this point I don’t even know what you’re arguing. Look a 10 win season is a 10 win season. I don’t care about anything you’re saying. When the team wins 10 games I’m happy and it’s a 10 win season. You’re arguing semantics and oddly trying to diminish our success.
Exactly. Our best SEC record under Stoops has been 5-3. A large accomplishment here and really fun seasons. But we would not have been in a twelve team playoff those years though. I think that’s what some are missing. We have to have a better record against what will be a harder schedule to make.
I don’t know what to tell you if you don’t get the difference between going 10-2 with a real shot of being in the playoff vs going 9-3 and beating Iowa for a 10th win in a bowl.
I never argued otherwise dude. I told you I didn’t care. It is what it is. I said we had 2 10 win seasons and you came in and were like “actually…..yada yada, committee yada yada”.
Florida went 5-3 in 2018/19, yet was solidly ranked in the Top 10 at Bowl picking time, playing and handily beating Michigan in a NYD6 Bowl.
Yea let's go back to Joker, Curry days, I love me some 2 win seasons. Coach's are calling Barney each day to come to UK. Look at the hot Coach's that went to other schools, the Nebraska Coach, Minnesota Coach, Texas A&M Coach, USC Coach, multiple Texas Coach's. Yea you may get lucky and hit the right guy, but, you may hit the wrong guy as well.
It is getting more obvious that if there is any chance to hit that next level in the football program, Stoops ain't the guy. So, our options are, to settle for 6 or 7 wins a year, or roll the dice and change coaches? At 9 mil a year, we are not getting our money's worth. I say we go with the second option, because l have been saying since Stoops signed his contract extension last year, we can get 6 or 7 wins for 1/2 that price.
