“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

KENTUCKY FOOTBALL POSTGAME NOTES

LOUISVILLE AT KENTUCKY

C. M. NEWTON GROUNDS AT KROGER FIELD

NOV. 30, 2024



FINAL SCORE: Louisville 41, Kentucky 14



Team Records and Series Information

• Kentucky ends the season 4-8 and Louisville is 8-4.
• Kentucky remains the leader in the series, 20-16, ending a five-game win streak vs. UofL.
  • Louisville remains the leader in the series, 16-14, in the Governor’s Cup era.
  • Louisville is the leader in games played in Lexington, 11-10.

Team Notes

• Gavin Wimsatt’s 83-yard touchdown pass to Ja’Mori Maclin in the third quarter broke the Governor’s Cup record for longest pass.
  • The previous record was set by Dave Ragone’s 82-yard touchdown pass to Zek Parker of Louisville in 2001.
  • It is tied for the seventh-longest pass play in UK history and longest since Patrick Towles threw an 83-yard TD to Javess Blue in 2014 vs. ULM.
• Kentucky got one turnover on defense, continuing its streak of earning at least one turnover in each game this season for 16 takeaways in 2024.
• Kentucky’s loss ended a streak of 19 straight regular-season non-conference wins. UK’s last regular-season non-conference loss was seven years ago, in 2017 vs. Louisville.
• UK allowed 128 passing yards today. For the season UK held all 12 opponents under 300 yards and nine under 200. UK did not allow a touchdown pass today, first time that has happened vs. Louisville in a game played in Lexington since 2005.

Player Notes

• Kentucky honored 17 seniors in pregame ceremonies, including Beau Allen, Wilson Berry, Zion Childress, Trey Dennis, Jordan Dingle, Jamon Dumas-Johnson, Maxwell Hairston, Josaih Hayes, Gerald Mincey, Octavious Oxendine, Lucas Padgett, Alex Raynor, Paul Rodriguez, Tre’vonn Rybka, Jackson Schulz, Kristian Story and Demie Sumo-Karngbaye.
• Making his first collegiate start, QB Cutter Boley completed six of his 15 passing attempts for 48 yards.
  • Boley was the first true freshman quarterback to start a game for UK since Destin Wade in the 2022 Music City Bowl.
  • Boley was the first true freshman quarterback to start against Louisville in the Governor’s Cup era.
• QB Gavin Wimsatt connected on four of his nine passing attempts for 125 yards and two touchdowns.
  • His two touchdowns passing marked the second time in his 33 career games that he has thrown at least two touchdowns passing in a game, and his first time since 2021. It is also the first time a UK reserve QB has thrown two TDs vs. Louisville.
  • His 83-yard touchdown pass to Ja’Mori Maclin in the fourth quarter was a career long.
  • All four of his scores passing this season, including two at Tennessee – one was a two-point conversion – and two today, were to Ja’Mori Maclin.
• RB Jamarion Wilcox rushed a team-high 12 times for a team-high 66 yards, the fourth consecutive game he has led the Wildcats in rushing.
• RB Demie Sumo-Kangbaye carried 11 times for 51 yards.
  • He eclipsed 1,000 career yards rushing today, with 1,030 career yards to conclude the season.
• WR Ja’Mori Maclin caught a team-high-tying three passes for a team-high 121 yards and a team-high two touchdowns.
  • His two touchdown catches marked the fourth time in his 43 career games that he caught at least two touchdown passes in a game, and his first time at UK.
  • He had a four-yard touchdown catch in the third quarter and a career-best, 83-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter.
  • It is his third straight game with a TD reception.
  • His 121 receiving yards are the most for a UK receiver vs. Louisville since Garrett Johnson had 164 yards in 2016 at Louisville.
  • His 121 receiving yards are the most for a UK player vs. Louisville in a game played in Lexington.
  • Maclin is the third UK player with at least 120 receiving yards and two touchdowns vs. Louisville, also Craig Yeast in 1998 and Garrett Johnson in 2016.
• LB Alex Afari Jr. had a career-high-tying 10 tackles, including one tackle for loss (-1 yards).
• LB J.J. Weaver had six tackles, including a tackle for loss (-4 yards).
  • He has 39.5 tackles for loss, which is third all-time at UK.
• LB Jamon Dumas-Johnson had his third fumble recovery of the season.
• DB Maxwell Hairston made four tackles and a team-high three pass breakups. The three PBU tied his career high.
• K Alex Raynor did not attempt a field goal today and made both extra point attempts.
  • He finished the season making 15 of 16 field goals, and at 93.8 percent, broke his own school record for best field goal percentage in a season. He made 10 of 11, 90.9 percent, last year.
  • He concluded his UK career making 25 of 27 field goals, 92.6 percent, breaking the UK and SEC career records for percentage.
    • The previous UK record was 85.7 percent by Joe Mansour from 2010-13.
    • The previous SEC record (min. 25 attempts) was 89.5 percent, 34 of 38, by Evan McPherson of Florida.
  • He concluded his UK career 74 of 76 on extra points, totaling 149 points in his two seasons as a Wildcat.
  • He concluded his overall career, including three seasons at Georgia Southern:
    • Ranked second on the NCAA’s active career scoring list with 393 points
    • Ranked second on the NCAA’s active career PATs list with 183
    • Ranked third on the NCAA’s active career field goals list with 70

First Time Starters

QB Cutter Boley



Game Captains

DB Zion Childress, C Eli Cox, DB Maxwell Hairston, DL Deone Walker