I’m just thinking out loud here ! How much would a new coach cost as far as new contract ? I’m guessing nowhere near the ten million dollars that Mark Stoops is currently making. I’m thinking it would be some like 28 to 35 million over 5 years ? That would be 20 million or so less than current salary. Also there would be some savings on the assistants salaries. It’s not the far fetched as an idea to buy stoops out as many would think. I like Coach Stoops but I wonder how he energizes this team to create some enthusiasm for the future. I’m wondering what that looks like ? Thoughts ?

“Without a doubt” literally first thing he said. He needs a new cliche. And a new location along with that.

“With the cold and wind hard to throw”. Well duh. Weather forecasts are amazingly handy.

Mark Stoops cannot turn this program around and he knows it. Players are not going to come to a broken culture and play losing football that doesnt develop their potential for the pros when they can make comparable amounts and play for a cogent coaching staff elsewhere.

He is a walking dead man and he knows it. I can't blame him for not retiring and signaling he won't step down and take a negotiated buyout. This all lays on Mitch Barnhardt. This is a 44 million dollar mistake on his part and he deserves to be fired over the nonsensical contract buyout he gave mark stoops. By some miracle Arkansas saved his ass with cal. No one will offer a big contract to Stoops, no way.

UK is going to be forced to bite the bullet on this because Stoops has CHECKED OUT and GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS.

See how bad it gets next year and empty stadium with damage to the brand. UK will at some point have no choice but to pay the buyout which will still be insane. Best step is to figure it out now or tell Stoops to kick rocks and lawyer up.

rowland Matt Jones and all these media slappies won’t say it but this thing is over. We are screwed as long as Jeff rubys and Rayas best customer in Lexington is in charge.

Not sure what we can do other than protest. It’s over. How can we hurry this up.

Since he gets his pulse of the fanbase from friggin emails, let him know how we feel about this garbage.

Email. 😂😂😂

Guarantee Stoops is still on Hotmail.

What can we do to show our anger and push for Stoops to leave. By all accounts it sounds like we are gonna lose several coaches and players but Stoops is staying

That's not acceptable. He is the problem. We've seen a rotating cast of coaches and players with Stoops. There's one common denominator with no motivation, unorganized, boring, undisciplined football. It's him, Stoops is the problem.

I'm done supporting this mess and I don't wanna hear it, the University can figure out the buyout. Get Stoops outta Lexington

Idk what can we do to help light a fire on his seat?? Don't go to games, don't contribute to NIL, don't buy gear. Shut it down till Piglet has his bags packed. He took us for a ride. Now we're right back where he started. That's all he can do. Next....paging Mr Sumrall, paging Mr Sumrall

Not sure about the dynasty part, but...

https://saturdayblitz.com/why-kentucky-could-be-the-next-college-football-dynasty

Having seen him play in person, I have never understood his hype. To be fair, I am no professional, he doesn’t pop. I would think anyone playing QB in HS in KY you would leave thinking “WOW! He was by far the best player on the field” and I never thought that. Nothing like when Tim Couch or even Andre Woodson was coming up. I do not believe the hype but maybe I’m wrong. What am I missing?

Butler is almost impossible to guard, at least the competition so far. He is great at finishing too, and Oweh is almost the same. I would like us to do that until it's not working and focus less on 3s.

It’s time to start actually looking at FACTS.

We are on probation. We had one Citrus Bowl stripped. We have won two SEC games at home the past three years. We are undisciplined, poorly coached team.

What more is needed to send a head coach down the road. This is supposed to be the SEC.

Save me the volleyball, baseball and gymnastics talk. That is great but we have a once in a generation caliber coach that WANTS to be here.

Due to Mitch’s lack of negotiating skills we are stuck with one that is going through the motions for a paycheck.

Granted, this is a First World problem, but PO'ed this AM.

I have YouTube TV. I almost always go to bed early and get up early, so as I have done many times before I watched the first half of the Georgia game on ABC and DVR'ed the game, expecting to watch the 2nd half first thing Saturday AM. But turns out there was a slight problem. When I got up this AM, only version I could watch was ESPNU, which had several problems. First, it was a shortened version of the game (skipped much of a long GT drive in the 3rd quarter), which made it hard to follow the action, but second, and much worse, it was apparently aired after midnight, because the final scores were being scrolled across the bottom of the screen, including the game I was watching. 😧 😫

In YouTube TV, there is an option to choose the version you are watching, and so I found the ABC version, which stated "ABC has limited the use of this version" and so I could not watch ABC telecast, only the abbreviated ESPNU version.

I assume this is a new thing to stop guys like me from taping live events, and then skipping through all the commercials? If so, I may have to adjust my habits, which sucks personally, but I understand they need to sell ads to stay in business. Today, for example, I am DVR UK and Ohio State games, being played at same time, and will watch them simultaneously, by rewinding to the last play I watched every time I switch stations, but hell, this may not work either, because I have recently noticed during live events, it sometimes will not give me the option to start from the last time I watched and rewind the action while the game is still going on.

Anybody else notice this or other similar issues?

Michigan Ohio St is a good one 7-3 Wolverines in the 2nd.

Within a month of seasons end we will learn that planting flags on the field will be illegal and offending teams will be fined. There’s been like 3 fights today.

Baker mayfield is the all time champion at it though.

…..Almanor’s agility.

That fast break long catch and lay in last night was really smooth.

Love his confidence from three, but his grace around the bucket has really surprised me.

Keep it up, big fella.

If Cal would have remained at UK this year and we also had this shit sandwich Stoops is feeding us. I think it would have been more than I could take. 😂

So what actually happened? Did he take the job and the fan base rioted or what happened behind the scenes?

When KY starts looking for a new Head Coach he should be high on the list. He is the HC at Marshall and came from Saban’s staff at Alabama. He can recruit and would have KY playing inspired Football.

With IU’s breakthrough season, only Vandy and Iowa State are traditional power conference teams without a ten win season in program history.

They lead Kansas State 24-14, late in the second Q, and it would be their tenth win on the season, if it holds.

How did things shake out as the season unfolded when compared to NIL funding levels?

Let's start it off with our Wildcats-

Kentucky is 36th in the nation in NIL funding. 2nd to last in the SEC is MSU, just behind UK at 39th in the country. For comparison- UL is 20th, 2 spots behind the South Carolina Gamecocks. TA&M is 2nd overall to Oregon, followed closely by Texas, Florida, and Georgia.

7 of the top 9 and 8 of the top 12 are SEC programs. The only real huge anomalies in spending vs victories are Vanderbilt and Oklahoma. Most of the teams are relatively where you would expect them to be based on their spending and schedule. Ole Miss has gotten a great ROI when compared to schools like Auburn, Texas A&M, and Florida.

#2 Texas has two QBs making at least 4.8M total per year in NIL. 2% of UK's entire NIL budget across all sports.

I have 3 coaches that have performed better than what was expected of them in the preseason.

Shane Beamer
9-3 record

To me he had the best results compared to preseason expectations. His team played well and fought in every game. Capped it off by defeating Clemson

Billy Napier
7-5 (up on Florida st in the 3rd)

Many said he would be lucky to win 4 games. He has done well starting a freshman QB and RB. Future is looking good in Gainesville


Clark Lea
6-6


We all know how hard it is to win at Vandy and he won some big games and should of won at Mizzou. Could of been an 8 win season.


Texas had a good season but it was what it was expected of the team coming into the season.

I saw the post-game video of him walking off the field in tears, stops to talk to a fan.

One of the few dudes that really gave a shit and tried his best always for his school and state. I feel terrible for him, a completely empty stadium in his last game.

F*** the rest of the team