That sound you hear is either the collective sigh of BBN or everyone jumping off of the band wagon after week one. I work night shift and had to work tonight so I have had the pleasure of literally thinking about this game all night. After reading everything on this forum, KSR, and ESPN there seems to be a few schools of thought out there. The loudest seems to be the knee jerk reaction that, if i may take a quote from the water boy is, "no we suck again." The other more quiet and subdued whispers say, 'well it was just the first week' or 'at least we won' and 'we are just so young.' But I feel (and maybe a lot of BBN feels) that we are stuck between the rock that is UK football and the hard place that is...UK football. Every year we psych ourselves up to why we can be 6-6, with a few lucky breaks 7-5 or 8-4, and if all of the OSU's and Bama's decide to give up football and take up cross stitching, maybe 10-2, hey why not just go big or go home and say 12-0. Then the year rolls around and we start 5-0 only to finish 5-7...or 2-10. This is the rock that you could bank on that Was UK football. I like to agree with the quiet whispers out there that says, it was just week one and we are really young. To me the majority of the blame falls on the shoulders of our QB. Towles just has to be better, no ifs ands or buts about it. But that is a conversation that has already been discussed ad nausea tonight. The beautiful thing is that we are young and as any of you who have spent time around young guys, or old guys for that matter know, we have terrible short term memory problems. These guys will be ready to go next week against South Carolina. I doubt they will be thinking about ULL then. And for the first time in a long time, we have talent to put on the field and we can break out a big play at any moment. Patty Ice needs to be the mature leader this team needs and needs to be better next week. The other nice thing is that the win/loss column doesn't care how much you win by. We are 1-0 and that much closer to a bowl game. Call me naive, call me blissfully ignorant or whatever, I'm just not ready to jump off the cliff after one game. The football program is light years ahead of where we were at just a few short years ago under Joker. Yes, there are glaring holes and weakness that need to be fixed, but at least we go into a game with USCjr. at 1-0, the UK football of old finds a way to lose that.
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