Haha. I hear you Slugger, I know you see us improving in that department next year. Surly!! I do! I think after this year and all off season for Terry Wilson, he will look like a completely different player. He is soo close to getting IT, I think anyway. This experience is invaluable and you can’t put a price on it. But, If not him, whoever it may be, some other Juco kid , grad transfer, transfer, new guy or someone already there, it will be a lot different next year. Just can’t win next year with the team we will have, without more scoring. If Wilson improves, like almost all our players have the last few years, after their first year playing, we’re going to be really good.
Nah,he thinks the only chance we will ever have of improving is to fire Stoops.
From two wins to nine wins (I believe) in seven years, I will take it. He is building the team the right way, steady improvement and better reserves, AND with a lot of the players outperforming their ratings. Losing one player like Young on offense or Paschal on defense would have killed us in the past. AND probably had a big effect this year.
Compared to Thug U we are just getting started, they have their tradition, much better in state talent, 100,000 seat stadium, AND they have a history of cheating. Look at the recruiting rankings for the past four years, in 2015 UK 35th to FIFTH, in 2016 28th to 15th, in 2017 26th to 15th, and 2018 30th to 20th. They have had five five stars to our one (injured) and four 6.0s to our zero,, total four stars they have had 41, with 10 of them being 5.9s to our three being 5.9s, and of our three only McCall has taken a snap yet, (JC OL and Richardson 5.9s, now a 5.8 no plays for us yet), we have had a total of 13 four stars to their 41. And having four of our top commits out this year (Young 5 star, 5.9 JC OL gone, never played, Richardson 5.9, and Paschal), out of 14 we probably have close to the defections they have had in top rated players, about 30%.
Then, the all important position, QB, they had a 6.0 recruit in his third year in a P5 program that had a very good game and we had a JC transfer in his first year.
The FACT is they had a LOT more raw talent and for ONE game put it all together-----probably because they were playing us, AND we obliged with a very poor effort, overconfident I'm sure, with no reason to be.. We can hope they will settle back in the mud and we decide to play again.
Football is a very unpredictable game, but raw talent DOES have a big effect MOST of the time.
FAAAR Stoops