Gilmore gone
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This is why it’s such a colossal waste of money to keep stoops…
Why spend on oline
Why spend on qb
Whey spend on rb
Heck we even bought a TE that had like 2 receptions
Just lose all 12 games and save your money for stoops buyout….this is silly to lose your present and future to allow Stoops to delay the inevitable
Why spend on oline
Why spend on qb
Whey spend on rb
Heck we even bought a TE that had like 2 receptions
Just lose all 12 games and save your money for stoops buyout….this is silly to lose your present and future to allow Stoops to delay the inevitable
This tells me that Stoops is sticking with the same VANILLA offense that he has FORCED on every OC he's had here.
Why would ANY WR that wants to play in an exciting offense have a desire to play here????
SAD
Why would ANY WR that wants to play in an exciting offense have a desire to play here????
SAD
Yeah, I really don’t get it! It’s clearly a money problem to try to get rid of Stoops now. But just as a fan, I don’t see how next season is going to be anything other than a disaster. The portal pick ups have been fine but nothing to get overly excited about. Now Gilmore is hitting the portal. Not much excitement for next year for me, hope I’m wrong somehow.
Stoops defenders if there are any left sure will be real quiet on this one
I like Stoops, always have. I draw a different conclusion from all of this though. I think it's more likely, at least in my opinion, that whoever the coach is over the next five years, UK is getting closer and closer to not being able to afford a competitive football team.
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I don't think there are any at this point. I was a staunch supporter until this year when it became painfully obvious he stopped giving a crap. There was no coming back after the A&M fiasco.
Unfortunately there are about 20 other schools that would be a better place for Hardley, and unfortunately I bet all 20 were calling him over Christmas break.
A crap season with ZERO leadership from the head guy will do that to a program.
Guy don’t wanna be here then best of luck, see ya later. Reeks of tampering but what you gonna do. College football cannot continue letting this happen. Absolutely no restrictions, no rules, it’s become a joke.
That for sure doesn't help. My point is, there are schools out there that are raising the bar out of the reach of schools like UK. When schools are budgeting $20 million a year for their roster, UK and many others can't compete with that.
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Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Stooos keeps trying to do the same shit that worked years ago again and again and keeps getting his ass kicked. Gilmore leaving is just another hit. Kentucky literally should have just saved their money, brought in a bunch of cheap players, and be god awful again so they can afford to buy stoops out.
Any truth to this is Barnhart being late to the NIL party with all programs. It has become the convenient excuse of underperforming coaches though. The last couple of seasons UK now finds itself with the 6-7 biggest SEC budget and have seen other programs with less money in NIL perform better. With the way the new profit sharing model will operate the admin decisions with the money will matter more too. We've got to stop blaming 'our lot in life' as the reason. We aren't going to have Texas or Florida's financial model but we have enough to be right where we were before NIL began. Mediocre with occasional seasons above. The thing that matters the most is that we can't hide behind a soft version of an SEC schedule anymore so poor coaching and decision making has and will become more glaring.
If we can't it's by our own doing. Even by adding texas and oklahoma we have 9 SEC schools behind us in budget size.
I think and have thought for a while that Stoops isn't the best fit for the Nil era of football. His approach through his whole tenor has been to evaluate high school talent better than his peers, coach that talent up, have a good to really good veteran team that exceeds expectations. That particular model is going to be hard to execute in the new era of football.
I disagree somewhat with the notion that with the right coach we can get right back to where we were. Keeping the guys that you coach up is going get more and more difficult as these paydays keep increasing. It will surely level out at some point but when and at what price point.
Absolutely schools are investing more in NIL. However our NIL has been a train wreck between Barney's late start and Stoops attn to his liquor and babe business. I think we can be competitive with better leadership.
FK...
Our entire offense is being terraformed for this OC. I think it's a mistake to do it. In fact I think it's fkng stupid.
It's too late to fix this now, given the losses AND going the wrong direction with the offense. I don't think we'll even make a bowl game next season as things stand. He fkd himself hiring this OC and he's made it worse by throwing all his chips behind him now.
He isn't going to be here after next season, unless he pulls a rabbit out. What a cluster
Losing Gilmore and K. Anderson is very counterproductive to getting the passing game off the ground. I just can’t see the offense getting better next year.
This is an unfortunate truth.
We couldn't compete in the old era and it's even tougher to compete n the NIL and transfer era.
I'm at a loss to understand/explain what our 'direction' on offense is. I never understood what we were doing this past year with personnel rotations, play calling, scheme, etc. I've watched a lot of football over 50 years and, for much of this past season, I could see no reason nor logical thread to what we were doing on offense. None.
Losing high potential playmakers like Gilmore and Anderson tells me they didn't understand what the heck we were trying to do, either. Throw in even equal NIL dollars and it's no surprise that these two and others bolted. While I'm not a huge fan of our defensive scheme, I can at least recognize what we're doing and attempting to do. Cannot say the same about our offense.
They exist and will show up here eventually to tell everyone how stupid they are and how Stops is the best UK can possibly do. At this point I have to think that most of them are actually troll fans of other teams.
I hate losing him. I think he will be a star.
There’s no way to understand the direction when the coach doesn’t.
Some of you really did have hope heading into next season. It’s over. The football program is being tanked. Taking kids from Kent State, lol - losing every decent player we had, without a single portal upgrade while trotting out Mark freakin Stoops to coach them, again.
Mitch Barnhart is not an SEC football AD and he’s killed our football program with his despicable contract with Mark freaking Stoops. 2018 is gone and so far behind it may as well have never happened. We are a MAC team in the SEC now.
We are on probation!
Kentucky is the worst program in the SEC now, worse than Vanderbilt.
Mitch Barnhart is not an SEC football AD and he’s killed our football program with his despicable contract with Mark freaking Stoops. 2018 is gone and so far behind it may as well have never happened. We are a MAC team in the SEC now.
We are on probation!
Kentucky is the worst program in the SEC now, worse than Vanderbilt.
He’s getting NIL leverage. Now we’ll see if UK pays up or if the hype in practice reports was just routine “say something positive songs every bench player and FR to make them happy”. Prob somewhere in between. I wouldn’t pay him Barion Brown money based off last year personally if that’s what he’s asking
With the amount of tv revenue no reason not to have money
I wish I could double like this post. This is all on Mitch. He is not cut out for the SEC when it comes to football.
Hey Mitch, get off your ass and get us a coach that knowes how to win and handle the NIL era. Also, start a fund raising campaign and promote NIL. It wouldn't take mega donors to be competitive in NIL. If 2 million UK fans gave just $10.00 it would bring in 20 million.
Don't be surprised if he ends up a Cornhusker.
What's the ROI?
Can you guarantee a sec title game appearance next season? A playoff bid? A national title?
That's what people struggle with. If you could get 2 million UK fans to give 10 then alabama, UT, Florida, lsu, Texas, uga, etc would have 2 million fans give 15 to 20 each. Never gonna outbid those programs.
Surprised any receiver is staying. Stoops will be here one more season and then a massive rebuild will have to follow although I think it will be difficult ! Over and under for next season' wins will be 3.5 . I would take the under. Hope I am surprised.
