Guys not making it stinks, but...

[How Blue Can You Get?]

Putting things in perspective, it's not near as bad as it usually is. Every single season, it seems we are finding out that someone who is critical to success (expected 2 deep) is not going to make it. Year after year after year, major disappointments due to a number of factors usually set us up to fail from the get go. Finally, we have built enough depth that these losses have minimal immediate impact. Sure, it hurts in the long run, and the injury bug could manifest and make these losses greater, but generally speaking, this is the best shape I can remember for UK football, as far as depth is concerned, in my lifetime! That is saying something! Couple more years of recruiting like this, and these types of misses won't really effect us at all. Stoops knows how to build a football team, period!

 

[TeoJ]

It's a fact of life, but life goes on.We can actually absorb some of this know and I can't remember ever thinking that before.

 

[BigBlueFanGA]

What are we talking about?

 

[How Blue Can You Get?]

Gosier, provett and Richrdson.

 

[ukalum1988]

Hopefully their schollies can go to some deserving senior walk-ons.

 

[Brock28]

I love what Stoops is building here!

 

[Poetax]

Gosier, provett and Richrdson.

Provett was not a big gamble but he could still be a great player for us in the future. Richardson it seems may have some family issues so we need to pray for them. Gosier's future is unknown right now but I would think they would help him get set up at a juco college in hopes that he too could make it back to UK. And Stoops seem to have hopes that Livington will make it before summer is up.

 

[C1180]

If you will notice most of the players not making it are players UK went after late last year. IMO they were available because they were questionable to qualify academically. Since UK had so many players flip late they had the extra SSs so they took a chance on them. If even a few of those make it IMO it was worth while taking the chance and maybe some of them might come back after JUCO. There will now be some players that can be back signed in the next years class. Either early entering JUCOs or players graduating from high school and enrolling at UK early.

Another thing is maybe a deserving senior WO or two might get a SS for their Senior year.

 

[hmt5000]

i agree c1180. they were talented late additions and their ratings were lower than they should of been because noone thought they'd play college ball. we are so far under the 25/year limit that we can afford to roll the dice on some borderline qualifiers but it sucks that some schools seem to get every single academic question mark into school and we have 1 or 2 miss every year.... and it's not as bad as scar last year losing something like 6 or 8 of their recruits... that will hurt down the road.

 

[C1180]

Losing a few recruits is much better than cheating to get them qualified and ending up on probation. We have a second chance at them if they can graduate from a JUCO and our staff hasn't moved on.

 

[Bigblueforever]

Give Stoops 3 more years and I believe he will have Kentucky in top 4 in the SEC.

 

[Chump Change X]

Laster, Love, Hart and Jones go a long way towards making up for those lost. All are mature bodies.

 

[footballfanatic77]

It looks like Stoops may have started pushing some guys out, trimming the fat a bit. He understands that to win in the SEC he needs players that are fully bought in and have the talent to compete. I know Javon Provitt was an academic casualty as was Gossier.

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

Losing a few recruits is much better than cheating to get them qualified and ending up on probation. We have a second chance at them if they can graduate from a JUCO and our staff hasn't moved on.

Just ask Auburn how they get around it, its pretty simple, they lie, tell the NCAA to prove it. The JUCO RB they signed last fall from Memphis I think had an AU grad for a guidance counceler and his grades were changed. Counceler admitted to doing it, but on her own, just to help the kid. Now I understand going above and beyond the norm to help a kid, but to throw ethics, not to mention a certification and career, out the window to help a kid is a little much. He was admitted and had started practice and NCAA declared him ineligible so he went JUCO 2 years and is back now, I am sure with excellent grades.

 

[ukalum1988]

Just ask Auburn how they get around it, its pretty simple, they lie, tell the NCAA to prove it. The JUCO RB they signed last fall from Memphis I think had an AU grad for a guidance counceler and his grades were changed. Counceler admitted to doing it, but on her own, just to help the kid. Now I understand going above and beyond the norm to help a kid, but to throw ethics, not to mention a certification and career, out the window to help a kid is a little much. He was admitted and had started practice and NCAA declared him ineligible so he went JUCO 2 years and is back now, I am sure with excellent grades.

A lot of people on this board like to slam UT and rightfully so, but AU is the most ethically challenged institution in the SEC by far.

 

[Bigblueforever]

A lot of people on this board like to slam UT and rightfully so, but AU is the most ethically challenged institution in the SEC by far.

That is very hard to believe !!!