We'll be in section 15. Plan on spending time at pike place market, mount rainier, several state parks, and heading up to Vancouver for a day at Stanley Park and Granville Island. Will be much colder than our Florida home. Go big blue!

In NYC and planning on going to Jack Dempsey’s to watch game. Anybody going?

GO CATS

Multiple losing seasons. Back to back 3-8. About to be 11-2 in the playoff All about coaching. I know it isn’t the SEC but still impressive

Didn't have the season everyone expected but will still have a strong draft slot.

Roster thinning continues but this was obviously expected.

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Huge shock. Prodigious talent at times but spent a lot of time talking trash and getting penalties. Dropped a lot of balls. Has lots to work on at the WR position if he’s gonna play on Sundays.

I may be wrong about it, but how come it seemed Maclin, Gilmore, Farrier snd Stephens-Brown could regularly get separation on deep routes, but Barion Brown rarely, if ever, did ?? Is this my imagination, or did anyone else see this ??

How come there is always talk about tight ends being used as receivers, but they are rarely targeted ??

Current net rankings has Kentucky playing 17 quad one games

Duke neutral
Clemson road
Gonzaga neutral
Ohio state neutral
Florida home
Georgia road
Miss state road
Alabama home
VANDY road
Tennessee road
Ole miss road
Tennessee home
Texas road
Alabama road
Oklahoma road
Auburn home
Missouri road

Current net rankings of those teams:

Duke 4
Clemson 15
Gonzaga 2
Ohio state 20
Florida 5
Georgia 23
Miss state 10
Alabama(2X) 9
VANDY 61
Tennessee(X2) 1
Ole miss 24
Texas 52
Oklahoma 36
Auburn 3
Missouri 48

I’m always ok when UK loses one early. Puts the fear of god into the team. Lets them know there are better teams at this point in time. Makes them work harder. Pay more attention. Put in extra work.

Pay more attention to scouting reports. Allows the coaches to gather data on weaknesses and make plans to correct them. Allows the team to experience adversity and away from home. Helps bond them together.

This whole new crew was 7-0. Praised and exulted by BBN. Jumped to #4. Got served some humble pie. Won’t hurt will help put that chip back on their shoulders.

When I look back our 96 98 12 title teams all took an early loss. Motivated them. Scared them. Forced them to buckle down.

I wasn’t expecting much of this put together roster but they have showed some grit.

I firmly believe that early loss helps long term. I’m great with the start. Much better than expected.

Evidently our outstanding safety recruit from Tilghman had a spectacular championship game on offense. Nine receptions for 169 yards. He scored twice. He looks like a guy who could really help our receiver room. Maybe play some both ways. Just sayin, talk amongst yourselves.

Go Army!!!

Let's say we have the exact same roster, but we have Sheppard and Dillingham as Freshmen in place of Noah and Perry. I'm assuming everyone would've transferred in, as Sheppard and Dilly would've been unproven incoming Freshmen. Like I said, this is a hypothetical for fun and discussion.

Do you think Reed and Dilly would start in place of Butler and Oweh, as Pope would opt for offense over defense ?? I see it as a tough, yet interesting question, as Reed and Dilly were fabulous shooters. I definitely think they would take minutes from Chandler, Kriisa, Brea and Robinson ... how many, not sure. ????

One thing for certain, that would be a pretty incredible roster, top-to-bottom, assuming Sheppard and Dillingham showed up like they did last year ... and I think they certainly would !! It would be a HELLUVA roster !!!

I don't think Butler and Oweh on defense cannot be under-appreciated, but Sheppard and Dillingham were great scorers and 3-point shooters. I think Butler and Oweh would be our staring guards in this scenario, fwiw, but Reed and Dilly would get very serious clock.

I'm expecting at the least a new OL and safeties coach.

Just wondering can the athletic department borrow money? I think so? How do they build these facilities, cash up front?

With the projected additional tv monies, why not borrow $30mil, throw in some booster money, and buy out STOOPS!!

The extra tv money would pay off the buyout loan in a few years.

IF UK DOESN'T GET SUMRALL now, it will set the program back a decade.!!!

Mitch, save the football program!!!!

It’s pretty telling with Dane and Brown entering the portal what was going on in the WR room.
I’ve always felt Brown was a team cancer. Instead of Dane working hard and pulling Brown his way, he fell in line behind Brown and followed. I think both were asked to leave not the other way around. Maclin was 100% underused and is coming back. This is following his comments on zero leadership in that room. Our Diva WRs are probably as much to blame about our culture shift as any position group. See ya boys. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

I was wondering how does UK pay football coaches so well and how is it funded. Our coaching staff is well compensated - which we all know very well at this point in time - lol! So, I was looking at season ticket sales and the average prices UK charges for those tickets. Here is a fact that most people probably don't know. This past year Kentucky season football tickets averaged around $500 per ticket and the least expensive ticket was $300. I would estimate roughly half of the tickets had an average K Fund contribution of $500 additional per ticket. So, the average ticket cost for Kentucky season tickets would be $750 per ticket. UK sold 40,000 season tickets which produced about $30 million in revenue.

Now lets compare that to Tennessee's season football ticket cost. The least expensive Tennessee season ticket was $860. The average cost of Tennessee season football ticket was $1,865. Tennessee sold 70,000 season football tickets. Tennessee's season ticket football sales produced and annual revenue of roughly $130 million dollars. Tennessee ,just from the sale of season tickets, generates over 4 times as much money or $100 million dollars MORE than Kentucky in season football ticket revenue.

Maybe this helps everyone understand why Tennessee now has the defending National champions in baseball, the number one rated men's basketball team and the number 6 rated football team. Also, next football season, Tennessee will be charging their season ticket holders an additional $12 million dollar "talent fee" that is used for NIL for football players.

Go Big Blue!

It looks like Oklahoma St. is going to try everything to get out of the buyout and get rid of Gundy. We watched Tennessee turn their own coach in for violations to get out of a buyout.
I would put my over guess at 90% that Mitch has not even explored the options with a lawyer.
We had the Frat fight three years ago. Multiple players suspended for 4 games.
A vacated season by the NCAA two years ago. Where 2 players were suspended for 4 games.
Stoops almost accepted a job a year ago. Was everything done in accordance of his contract??
I’ll bet this pattern hasn’t even been explored by Mitch.
I would put a hundred on it.
He’s just fine with the last 3 years. No need to ruffle any feathers.

Can't see him at the college level.

As some of the most knowledgeable fans in CBB, we spent the last fifteen years yelling at our tvs because we felt that we knew more than our coach about the game, and sometimes we may have been correct. I know this is a bitter pill for some of us to swallow, but we no longer are smarter than our coach. The faster some people realize this, the better. Pope is smarter than you. He’s going to make mistakes like all coaches and he is going to analyze it and correct it. I’m sure I’ll be shunned for saying this, but I’m just speaking from the heart…we can just be fans now and enjoy what the Pope is doing.

Army vs Tulane and UNLV vs Boise St.

Who ya got?

We will stay #4 in the AP poll; maybe drop 1 or 2 spots max.