Originally posted by UKWinsAgainYep:
Originally posted by Rhavicc:
The class of 2016 commits for UK are hot on the recruiting trail. They're hot on the trail of a ton of 4* and 5* recruits, and they're pretty close with a bunch of them. 2016 has a ton of potential to be the best class that UK has gotten.
This upcoming season is big. I believe UK will get 8 wins, possibly even 9. If we get that many wins, and perform well in a bowl game, things take a dramatic, and very positive turn for the program.
how you see 8-9 wins is beyond my comprehension. I guess you didn't see teams running the ball right up the middle on our defense last season. That will not be fixed quickly until recruiting improves even more.
I'm not utterly surprised that your sole purpose for posting was for the sake of argument. I want you to go look at the average recruiting numbers for TCU and Oregon. Go ahead, I'll wait, and I promise you, those numbers are not out of this world by any stretch of the phrase.
Fact of the matter is we're going to have a ton of redshirts coming off of players, who were in the best recruiting class that UK has had. We're getting two solid transfers, one of which will be a very solid (literally) inside linebacker. I'm not convinced that our defense will be bad at all this upcoming season. You can be pessimistic if you choose to be, but with Mark Stoops as our head coach, having the history that he does, and given the number of incoming/returning players, I'm going to say our defense will be just fine.
I'm a firm believer that this season, we beat Louisville, Mississippi State, and Mizzou, and then we could possibly win a bowl game as well. I think that we still beat South Carolina and Vanderbilt, and frankly, believing that we may beat Florida at home next season isn't a stretch either. Convince yourself otherwise if you'd like, it's entirely on you.
Offensively, we're getting the OC who is known for having a potent passing game, and working under one of the best offensive coaches in college football, who did a lot more with a lot less than we did offensively. We're running a style of offense that SEC teams typically do not compete against very well (up-tempo spread/air raid), and we have one of the best QB situations in the SEC, with a lot of playmakers in the receiving corps, and even in the backfield. Our OL will be much deeper, more experienced, bigger, stronger, etc.
How you deny that the opportunity to do that well is there is beyond me, but no debate in the world will change the football team's performance next season. We'll just watch the games.
