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Dylan Ray in the portal

Just when I think we're starting to get some depth on the OL...

Ray was not spectacular but did at least as well as some of the starters and was versatile enough. He may have seen the AR transfer and figured his snap count would be drastically reduced but, my opinion, I think he'd seen some playing time next year as I'm not sure the transfers we've seen won't turn out to be less than Ray.

SEC schedule summary

Curious to see who plays who and where, who has the tougher/easier schedules.

If you narrow down to the 5 currently ranked in the top 7:
- UT plays 3 at Home and 3 Away (6 total)
- Auburn plays 2 at Home and 3 Away (5 total)
- Alabama plays 3 at Home and 3 Away (6 total)
- UK plays all 4 at Home and 2 Away (6 total)
- Florida plays only 1 (UT) at Home and all 4 Away (5 total)

Other interesting observations:
- Texas only plays @ 1 of those top 5 teams (Florida), they play the other 4 all at Home; they also have Oklahoma and TAMU at Home, then Missouri and Ark.
- Vandy plays those Top 5 in 7 games (all but Auburn on the Road, and they play UK and UT both places); they also play Okl and TAMU on Road (6 of top 7 SEC teams on Road)
- Georgia plays those Top 5 in 7 games (all but UK on the Road, and they play Auburn and Florida both places)
- no team avoided playing at least 1 of those 5 teams twice

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Landman

The latest, in a seemingly endless string of Taylor Sheridan TV shows.

I quit watching Yellowstone after the 3rd season. Not that I hated, but I just kind of lost interest.

I've watched the first 4 episodes of Landman. Billy Bob is doing "Billy Bob", Don Draper quit the ad game and bought an oil company, and all women in Texas are developmentally stunted, ie. emotional middle schoolers.

Like Yellowstone though, it's entertaining to a point, but just like the food at Fazoli's, it's all the same thing, it's just a different shape.
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Nba all star game changed... Again.

Version 14.
Well this time we will have a:
8 man
4 team 5x5
1 day tournament.

Champs get 125grand each.

Each game is to 40 points.

3 nba player teams and one 1st and 2nd year team.

1st and 2nd team comes from rising star game winner.



My thoughts:
ho-hum until I seen the 1st and 2nd year players got a team. That is something thats interesting to me. Can they beat the LEAGUE?
That is some nice spice added to the dish

IT's too bad

that we can not have college amateur athletics anymore. It used to be so much fun to pull for the players who were OUR team. Now the major sports will be professional players who are just looking for a payday. The more I think about it - the more I see my fan days are over. It really doesn't matter who wins anymore. I see it is now starting to enter the High School level as well. Sports is really about entertaining the common people. Much like the Romans did with the Coliseum. The more things change the more they remain the same - lol! When UK fails now it is not about having the best team anymore- it is about having the team with the most money behind it.

Western, Eastern, Murray and Morehead will be the legitimate college teams - and their best players will be poached by the big teams every year. But what could happen is that college football may die as a sport. Think about it - how are the teams that are being poached really going to survive in the future. Those schools have to be looking at losing their fan base and their major income stream. How many paydays can they get from Ohio State and Kentucky? Will it be enough to keep their programs going? Some kind of decent plan for everyone better show up soon - or it will be over!

Go Big Blue! Because thats what I grew up with and I know!

Defensive efficiency cause for concern?

TLDR; We are 45th in defensive efficiency. No team has ever won an NC outside the top 25 in defensive efficiency



Kentucky continues to win, but defensive challenges should not be overlooked

The return of Lamont Butler (33 points, 10-for-10) from an ankle injury sparked a 93-85 win for the Kentucky Wildcats over rival Louisville on Saturday, giving Mark Pope another victory to satisfy the program's rabid fan base. Kentucky's wins over Gonzaga and Duke, along with the other quality wins the program has amassed, have put the Wildcats in the early running for a top seed in the NCAA tournament.

They're playing at a top-25 pace, connecting on 37% of their 3-point attempts, and Pope's system has also allowed five different players to finish with a team-high in scoring over the course of their 11 games. Against Louisville, however, the Wildcats also surrendered 85 points (116 points per 100 possessions). The Cardinals committed just seven turnovers in a high-paced game, too.

Right now, the Wildcats are ranked 45th in adjusted defensive efficiency on KenPom. Since the 1996-97 season, there hasn't been a national champion end a season ranked lower than 22nd. While some of the champions over that span improved in the postseason, the one-month mark of the season is a solid snapshot of where a team stands.

And the truth is that the Wildcats have to be more disciplined on defense to reach their ceiling. They gave up 50 points in the first half against Gonzaga before their great comeback in Seattle earlier this month. They missed key stops in a loss to Clemson, too. Part of the challenge is the Wildcats play a defensive style that doesn't include a lot of gambles to force turnovers. Kentucky entered the week ranked 340th nationally in opponents' turnover rate. The Wildcats are so diverse and effective on offense that their defensive lapses have not outweighed their offensive gifts. But even a marginal defensive improvement could elevate the program to another level in the weeks and months ahead. -- Medcalf

Looks like we'll get to see what happened

to this year's team in 2025.

From KSRadio-

"Netflix's SEC Football series featuring Kentucky will come out next summer

You may recall that Kentucky was one of several SEC schools Netflix chose to feature in its new docuseries about SEC football. Film crews were in town throughout the season to document Mark Stoops’ squad, specifically the weeks of the South Carolina and Louisville games. We now have a few more details about the series, including when it will be released"

I had no idea this was going on, and I'm not paid to know, but just the fact that they were in our facilities with cameras tells me why this team fell apart (aside from bad playcalling, time management, and execution). No wonder our receivers got big heads and hurt their team with untimely penalties

When Kentucky opens SEC play with Florida...

I predict the Cats will be 12-1 and ranked #1 or #2 and Florida will still be unbeaten and ranked in the top five. Rupp should be rocking for that one.
I'm hoping with the new excitement with Pope's style of play and the fact that Kentucky fans are so in love with this team that we get back to whether
it's only a question of whether we lose one game in a year at Rupp or zero. I know that's going to be difficult this year with the league not only being the strongest ever in relation to other conferences but maybe the strongest league ever in relation to other conferences. I could see us maybe winning the regular season with 2 home losses if we went 5-4 on the road but, even as tough as the league is this year it might take 13-5 to win it so we really need to hold court at home.

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Quarterback poll

Which do you prefer for next season?

  • Boley to start with no portal QB option

    Votes: 11 5.0%
  • Portal starting QB

    Votes: 79 36.2%
  • Portal QB to compete with Boley for snaps/backup

    Votes: 128 58.7%

Vote and tell me why you chose your answer. I chose a portal QB to compete against Boley for the job. If we bring in a sure fire starter, Boley won't get many game reps and won't be able to grow as a QB. You can't develop a QB if they aren't getting meaningful snaps.

And please spare me with the it doesn't matter who we bring in. Stoops sucks, etc. Save it for all of the other threads.
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