Boley and Vandagriff were rated the same coming out of high school- 14th at their position in tbe country. BV was a 5 star by some services. CB was a consensus 4 star.
Boley is in his first year of college football. The reason he didn't start earlier in the season is that this isn't basketball. It's football.
Both Vandagriff and Boley are in their first year in this kind of system and at this school. We've struggled in passpro this season, and wasted opportunities to run the ball in order to establish the passing game.
Why? We need to recruit depth to a competent passing attack. UK is trying to shift to a greater % passing attack, while maintaining a strong rushing attack, and that isn't easy at better football programs, much less at UK.
We also have an uptempo OC WITHOUT the depth to run an uptempo offense, and with a defense that lost all of its DL depth very early on. We just never got there.
The ENTIRE LOD has hated Stoops since he was hired.
They've hated that we run the ball
They've biched and moaned for a decade about not passing the ball down the field, regardless of how many games we've won, and no matter how many teams we've upset. Now that we're trying to switch to more passing, basketball people want it to happen immediately.
There's no winning with the LOD. They will always hate our coach and refuse to support him, if he doesn't have name recognition and a title under his belt.
Ffs, not even Mack Brown, with 2 decades of HC experience, who won a national title at Texas, could get UNC to a 10 win season IN THE FREAKIN ACC! And this clown show fanbase wants to drop a UK coach that has gotten. 2, 10 win seasons and 2nd in the SEC East while playing IN THE SEC in his first 10 seasons.
The LOD at UK just doesn't deserve an SEC Title. They can't commit nor can they support a coach & team for an entire football season. We just can't accept that this isn't Georgia or Alabama, and won't come close until we have some consistency DEVELOPMENT in position coaching and OC.
We're not far away, even with only 4 wins this season.