In all honesty we are moving goal posts with this question. The portal is what??? Two years old and we are asking where all the all Sec transfers are?
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This is the fifth season that the portal has affected college football. We brought in Levis, Rosenthal and at least two other starters for the ‘21 season, the first with the portal.
I had to look up the years. The portal was introduced in 2018. The one time free transfer rule was in ‘21. Then the anytime transfer rule didn’t happen until 2024.
That's guys. I was thinking transfers as in the current portal. I was definitely mistaken if we were discussing 1 time transfers.
Do I think Stoops should be gone, yes. That being said, I am not going after data to show why. Like I say, I hope this team goes 10=2 11-1 something like that but expect them to be 2-10 or so. I hope they prove me wrong each and every week.
I just will not watch live this year probably. I might catch one game here or there. But will schedule outings and such during football season and watch the highlights. Main reason is the oh so boring offense he continues to pump out each year over the past 3 or 4 years. Cannot stand the style. Got to be one of the worst styles to watch in College football.
Defense is OK but not awesome.
I just will not watch live this year probably. I might catch one game here or there. But will schedule outings and such during football season and watch the highlights. Main reason is the oh so boring offense he continues to pump out each year over the past 3 or 4 years. Cannot stand the style. Got to be one of the worst styles to watch in College football.
Defense is OK but not awesome.
The qb out of Cincy may be the only Ohio recuut they’re after. They’re only a couple recruits in KY they are interested in. I doubt they have a commit from Ky this year. It is a down year in state. Next year Ky had several P4 type recruits
I've seen Crutchfield play probably 6-7 times since his freshman season and will probably see him 2-3 times this year, including in the opening Kickoff Classic game against Miami Norland. He's a good athlete who doesn't mind contact and plays with focus. In an interview with the local paper after their spring game, he said he was 6'2 206 and has moved to safety. He announced he is transferring up to Vero Beach, which is the "hot spot" now for transfers on the Treasure Coast and Palm Beaches. They are loaded this year, with two UCLA commits, a UK commit, a Free Shoes U® commit, and a sophomore QB who has offers from everyone.
Stoops goes after the best available prospects from throughout UK's growing recruiting footprint. We already have two commitments from TX. As BereaCat says, this is a weak class inside KY.
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I’m no analyst but UK recruited Strickland. The only others that may have had committable offers were iirc Busch and Hope. They didn’t really push for hard for those guys though. Hope was supposed to OV not sure if that happened but he has since decommitted from UL and committed to Purdue. There are 4-5 decent players in KY this year but stoops and company went after who they wanted2026 Top Football Recruits in Kentucky
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Why is it important to have players from Kentucky and Ohio? Kentucky's has one player in the top 250 and he is in the 200's. To get where UK wants to be recruiting has to be better than that. If you want to be a top team every kid in your class has to be a kid everyone of the top teams are after. Your ex recruiting coordinator was always patting him self on the back with his recruiting when in fact he would win 1, maybe 2 recruiting battles a year. Doesn't matter who the coach is when you are at a big talent disadvantage.
CMS played the only game he could play and give himself a chance to win by shortening the game, running the ball, taking care of the ball, running game clock down between plays and playing defense. Fans didn't like winning that way so he tried to get away from that with a more modern approach and here you are.
But the bright side is, instead of that 37m buyout, buy CMR some talent.
I agree that P4 recruiting is now regional and to a some degree national for most teams. There are a lot of reasons that "playing for state U" has almost become insignificant. The information age resulted in recruiting being more sophisticated for both players and coaches, but now the extra layer of pay for play has been added in. Players choose programs where the style of play and coaching matches their skill set, and where there is an opportunity for early PT, add to that the size of the NIL deal, and you can see why where the program exists is of minor importance. The idea that your state doesn't produce a lot of high ranked players is no longer the kind of disadvantage it once was.
Stoops tried to modernize the offense into something more balanced in order to compete at a higher level. A balanced offense will always have a strategic advantage over a team heavy with the run or the pass. So far he has not had a lot of success with that since 2021 - changing OCs constantly the loss of a key O-line coach etc. but not due to a lack of talent. If UK had a talent issue last year they would not have been able to play Georgia to a virtual tie and then beat Ole MIss ont he road. Recruiting classes have been the top 25 and soime portal classes have reached top 10. The root cause of Kentucky's downfall last couple of seasons was internal conflict and program management.
I don't think we should be recruiting Ohio guys just for the sake of recruiting Ohio guys. If there is someone there we want that can really bring something to the team, then sure. Go after them with a vengeance. But if we can get similar guys from out of places like Georgia, Florida and Texas, I'm not going to complain. In most cases, I think the kids from down south are overall superior football players.
I think they were able to do well in Ohio for years due to the fact that Kentucky afforded Ohio kids the SEC within a short driving distance, so with Stoops/Marrow connections there they were able to have a lot of success. But times have changed now, the B1G is more on par with the SEC and pay-for-play is now a much more important factor then geography.
The driving distance to Lexington from most parts of OH is about the same as TN, AL, IN, IL, and eastern MO. The reasons UK hasn't drawn as many prospects out of OH recently are more recruiting traction recently at OH St and ND, less recruiting effectiveness inside OH from VM, a couple of weaker instate OH classes that didn't attract as much interest from Stoops, and delegation of UK's recruiting resources into new states such as MO, IL, IN, PA and TX as UK's recruiting budget has increased. UK's recruiting footprint has grown. As Coach Collins' and Coach Stewart's recruiting influence has increased, UK has been able to draw more high upside prospects out of GA. There are only so many scholarships to go around.
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