Fair point about Stoops blowing 2 winnable games that would have pushed us to 11-1. And you know what? He gets away with it because we are a basketball school.
The success of Stoops at UK has been commendable. But it wouldn’t be enough if he were at a real football school.
Can he take the next step? He kind of needs to now. What’s he going to do if he’s 8-4/9-3 this year? Blame Cal?
Cal stepped in it, no doubt. Stoops handled the response poorly, imo. UK football came across as “little brother.” And just when it didn’t seem like it could get worse, Mitch said, “hold my chocolate malted.”
But you know what? All this did was turn up the pressure on everyone. Both Cal and Stoop have even more to prove than they did a week ago. That might not turn out to be a bad thing.