We know the history. All of us do. That was last year. The 2022 horse can only be kicked so many times. This thread is about spring transfers. We are trying to discuss transfer candidates.
Agreed, though just about everything I have heard said it was more schematic in nature than talent or technique. The calls were so long and difficult to understand and process quickly that the whole line looked like the Keystone Cops running around in circles. It was astonishing how many times the defense ran a stunt and we would have LT blocking air, LG/C double teaming a DT and the stunt running right up the middle to crush Levis and that was happening in our mid major games. I would say it was clear they had too much talent to be that bad.
The only way to know this is if the player acknowledges it. Here are some transfers we can confidently verify are talking with UK's coaches, or have recently talked with our coaches-
Davis may have been discouraged because D'Eryk Jackson and Trevin Wallace are returning starters. There are a number of other interesting linebackers in the portal, many probably better players than Davis. Maybe some of them will not be as easily scared off. We have no current evidence that UK's coaches are talking with them, but it seems likely.
Jaheim Thomas had been mentioned bit I read he entered to go with fickell to Wisconsin
Thought about that too. Was Davis looking for a promise to start? Coach Stoops would never agree to that. Wonder who UK has scanning the portal?
(let me share a little secret. The real work is put in before a kid formally submits his name in the portal. Like what Bama is doing with Miami (fl) qb right now. Backchannel recruiting happens, tampering happens, nobody want to stop it because everyone does it.)
That's what my question was alluding to. UK has to have somebody(s) putting in the time on these portal guys. My guess, and only a guess, is that somebody like Mark Perry and/or Josh Estes-Waugh are laying the groundwork then turn to Stoops or assts at appropriate time. I recall reading that some schools now have a Portal Coordinator on staff.
Uh huh..so Brinson is now the 1st round talent at DT huh. Funny, that doesn't seem to be the sentiment on your board. And the "bios" of Brinson and Williams don't show them starting all those games. If those two started at 2 of the 3 Downlinemen positions and Stackhouse was at Nose...where exactly did Carter play??? Sounds like you have more starters than spots in a 3-4.
I'm here for you
I see you are having trouble showing respect for UK fans. This is a UK board. You could have followed GA sports for 1,000 years, and that would be unusual. But it isn't what we are here on this UK website to discuss. This thread is here for us to discuss possible inbound transfers to UK. FWIW. Please do not try to distract the thread from its subject.
As far as it goes, that may be true. Nobody says it isn't. If Grumpy wants to use the "start thread" prompt to start new threads about GA football, nothing is stopping him. He can start threads just like anyone else can. If Grumpy is interested in using the vast SEC knowledge to compliment threads about UK football with more information ABOUT THE TOPIC OF THE THREAD, I would welcome that and I imagine everyone would. Personally, I am not interested in reading Grumpy's imagined differences with UK fans, or his disrespect for some UK fans, and I don't care how long this has been going on. Everytime I am reading an interesting thread about UK football and all of a sudden the thread is diverted to a discussion about GA's football team, my eyes roll back in my head. I could just put him on ignore, but I don't like doing that. He is just as welcome here as the rest of us, but nothing fubars this website as much as posters who intentionally steal the threads and divert them off the topic, whether to end the intended discussion of UK football or just to attack a UK fan personally. That behavior makes the board less readable and less interesting. I certainly understand that hundreds of thousands of people are interested in GA football. They have appropriate places online to commune and discuss GA sports. All things in moderation. This is a UK football website.
Re Ford, I'd like to know too. Like pulling hen's teeth trying to get anything out of the KY sports media.
What KY sports media? The HL is a paywall site, and their lazy writers seldom visit the campus. Larry Vaught doesn't dig for contemporaneous news anymore. Online coverage has always been poor except for Rowland, and that is a subscription. If a secondary newspaper in the state hired a good reporter and took a serious interest in Kentucky sports and then offered it without a subscription, they would get real popular overnight.
Thanks. Yeah... seems like any SEC player had better have 3-4 years eligibility and can't be considered if spot is held for help in '23.
I think this has been posted but anyway. Ford started his visit yesterday. He didn't sched other visits and it appears he said no to SC that tried hard to get him to visit. We shall see
Thanks. I think their definition of "soon" and my definition of "soon" are different.
The same thing was said about Davis and Leary and not sure the specifics but it all got pushed back a week. Most were getting antsy. He will prob finish his visit and go make a video or something. If he really isn't taking other visits unless something goes wrong this weekend that is all we need to knowThanks. I think their definition of "soon" and my definition of "soon" are different.
Now that Ford is on board, I find it interesting that Ford hasn't played RT at the collegiate level. Does the staff think he's versatile enough to take that spot by the reins? Is that a common thing for OL players to be able to do?
