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[gamecockcat]

Thought we had a pretty solid chance of being 6-2 after this game right after upsetting Ole Miss? I sure did. Beat #6 on their home field with Vandy, a bad Florida and a bad Auburn team to follow? Damn right I thought we could be 6-2, ranked and have a ton of momentum heading into the last 4 games of the season.

Well, we did the exact opposite, losing all 3. The staff is pitiful. The team has quit. Time to tear it all down and start building it back up. This can't be fixed by Stoops and his staff.

 

[Seth_C]

**** no. If you watched that South Carolina game and thought Ole Miss was anything but luck you were getting high on your own supply. Time to grow up.

 

[Short-Dawg-69]

I am guilty for everything mentioned by the OP

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

After I watched the first game of the season from section 30, I told my son we were going to win 4 games if we were lucky. O Line sucks, QB is just not very good, defense was descent not great. After South Carolina I knew I was correct. After UGA and Ole Miss, I thought maybe, just maybe we could get to 6. Always trust your first impressions.

 

[kywildcatsfannumber1]

All coaching aside, the atrocious O-Line and subpar QB play is why I never fully bought in. I thought they would at least manage to get bowl eligible. I sure as hell don't now.

 

[gamecockcat]

**** no. If you watched that South Carolina game and thought Ole Miss was anything but luck you were getting high on your own supply. Time to grow up.

Silly me. I took the USC game to be the one huge egg we seem to lay every year under Stoops and figured, we're only in the 2nd game of the season with a ton of newcomers in a new offense. UGA game looked more like a team that was figuring things out (offensively not very quickly). Ole Miss game - great win against a quality team on their home field. Offense had its issues, as usual, but Ole Miss' defense is pretty darn good. So, yes, I put my blue tinted glasses on, looked at the upcoming games and thought, 'Hey, if we play pretty well, we could win all three of these next ones. Shoot, worst case, we win 2 and we're still 5-3 with a chance of getting to 8 wins.'

Well that fell apart rather quickly, now didn't it? Having watched UK since the Stoll Field days, I should have known better. I now think we'll be fortunate to win more than 4.

After winning 10 games for the second time, I really felt like, finally, Stoops has gotten UK FB to turn a corner and be 7-9 wins very consistently with an outlier (good and bad) every so often. I think that's UK's ceiling, although others disagree. I'd have been happy to win 7-9 games almost every year. We are SO far from that now I see no choice but to blow it all up and start over. Again.

 

[gamecockcat]

All coaching aside, the atrocious O-Line and subpar QB play is why I never fully bought in. I thought they would at least manage to get bowl eligible. I sure as hell don't now.

But the 'atrocious OLine' (and I agree, they're awful) has to be a surprise, doesn't it? I mean, on paper, we returned more players with starts in the SEC than any other team and experience has always been a positive factor in OL play, right? We got transfers from UF and UT respectively that we just knew would bolster a returning core (Eli, M. Cox, Burton, Ford, Ray, et al). And the OL has not improved one iota. If anything, as a unit, they've regressed and they weren't but mediocre last year.

QB was always going to be a question mark with BV and with a new system and OC. But, I, and many others, reasoned that a good, experienced OL would eliminate the need to rely on a QB too much as we'd have an effective running attack and the QB would have more time this year than did Leary last year.

I feel stupid and contagious.

 

[KyCatFan]

I got no moral victories in those early games and said anything less than a win is just another excuse. I never felt like we had this turned around. I thought we might still sneak into a bowl even while being bad because of the scheduled wins and possibly beating UL, but that ain't happening now. Best case scenario is 5-7 but likely 4-8. It would be a huge disaster if we had another s'posed to be SEC moment against Murray St.

 

[wildcatsincebirth]

**** no. If you watched that South Carolina game and thought Ole Miss was anything but luck you were getting high on your own supply. Time to grow up.

I guess I let myself believe too because ‘luck’ and ‘UK football’ surely have no history of spending any time together.

I think ole miss is just not all that good and yeah we did somehow get lucky that night. We are one Hail Mary away from being 2-6 and 0-6 in the SEC.

 

[gamecockcat]

I got no moral victories in those early games and said anything less than a win is just another excuse. I never felt like we had this turned around. I thought we might still sneak into a bowl even while being bad because of the scheduled wins and possibly beating UL, but that ain't happening now. Best case scenario is 5-7 but likely 4-8. It would be a huge disaster if we had another s'posed to be SEC moment against Murray St.

All I can say is that you're a lot smarter (and more realistic) than I was only a few weeks ago. Notice I did say that I thought we COULD win the next 3, not that I thought we WOULD. But, at this point, I sound like a desperate man trying to cover up his idiocy.

As for this season, I'm pretty much done. I'll check the score. Might watch a bit. But, actually plan around when the game is on TV to watch this? Not on your life.

 

[BigBlue1992]

No reason why this shouldn’t have been a good year. Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas were probably the only three for sure losses. All the other games “should’ve” been very winnable. We are officially the worst team in the conference.

 

[EliteBlue]

UGA and Olemiss games back to back…. I felt decent about a 7 win and potential 8 win season

 

[M4CAT]

I certainly did not expect this team to struggle to reach a bowl game. Now their chances are done barring a miracle in Austin or Knoxville. It is unacceptable to not make a bowl game for what Kentucky is paying Stoops. Just making a bowl should not be the accepted standard by some here who want to remind everyone about 2-10 seasons. Mitch has this school paying more for mediocrity than anything I have ever seen.

 

[paulcalhoun]

No reason why this shouldn’t have been a good year. Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas were probably the only three for sure losses. All the other games “should’ve” been very winnable. We are officially the worst team in the conference.

That would only have been on the now obviously erroneous assumption the OLine would be considerably improved and Vandagriff, Trayanum, and Maclin would be big additions.

 

[BigBlue1992]

That would only have been on the now obviously erroneous assumption the OLine would be considerably improved and Vandagriff, Trayanum, and Maclin would be big additions.

Correct. I meant before the season ever started.

 

[STL_Cat]

**** no. If you watched that South Carolina game and thought Ole Miss was anything but luck you were getting high on your own supply. Time to grow up.

Hindsight is easy to say that now. But after the horrible egg we laid against USClite, we turned around and played Georgia to a 1 point game and had a legit chance to win that game. Then we went on the road and beat Ole Miss. I wasn't convinced we were a great team, but at that point I still felt like the jury was out. Were we the team that faceplanted against South Carolina, or the team that played Georgia and Ole Miss? We really couldn't be sure at that time. Now we know.

 

[CaptainBoogerBuns]

**** no. If you watched that South Carolina game and thought Ole Miss was anything but luck you were getting high on your own supply. Time to grow up.

You didn't know crap. Just go back to Rafters

 

[ManitouDan]

The puke orange will beat us unmerciful next week , I can see our D getting about 7 off sides for failing to get back to the LOS .

 

[MrHotDice]

As the SEC ad says, It just means more. Well it means more to Vandy. FLORIDIA, AUBURN, and USC but not the AD at Kentucky. Why the fans at Kentucky accept this program and make every excuse in the book to remain irrelevant is a disgusting situation. The entire Stoops era at UK is a prime example that smoke and mirrors football can get you 9 million a year when the fanbase has such low expectation such as going to a bowl game.

 

[STL_Cat]

As the SEC ad says, It just means more. Well it means more to Vandy. FLORIDIA, AUBURN, and USC but not the AD at Kentucky. Why the fans at Kentucky accept this program and make every excuse in the book to remain irrelevant is a disgusting situation. The entire Stoops era at UK is a prime example that smoke and mirrors football can get you 9 million a year when the fanbase has such low expectation such as going to a bowl game.

You're not completely wrong here, but 10-3 seasons in 2018 and 2021 were the best seasons of UK football since I've been alive and I'm not terribly young. I would completely agree if all we had done were pile up 7-6 seasons year over year. Those 2 seasons were a lot of fun and gave me some hope that we could duplicate that more often. Sadly it's gone the other direction.

 

[gamecockcat]

I really believed we were beyond these types of years. Now, unless something major happens, we're looking at two to three more years just like this one, best case. I can see why some fans finally just throw up their hands and do something more enjoyable on beautiful fall Saturdays.

 

[bluecoon1]

W

But the 'atrocious OLine' (and I agree, they're awful) has to be a surprise, doesn't it? I mean, on paper, we returned more players with starts in the SEC than any other team and experience has always been a positive factor in OL play, right? We got transfers from UF and UT respectively that we just knew would bolster a returning core (Eli, M. Cox, Burton, Ford, Ray, et al). And the OL has not improved one iota. If anything, as a unit, they've regressed and they weren't but mediocre last year.

QB was always going to be a question mark with BV and with a new system and OC. But, I, and many others, reasoned that a good, experienced OL would eliminate the need to rely on a QB too much as we'd have an effective running attack and the QB would have more time this year than did Leary last year.

I feel stupid and contagious.

When we lost John Schlarmann our line went to crap. Wolford wasn’t very good his first time around but was brought back because of his recruiting, if you go back to the JS days our best linemen were 2* or low 3* guys. Yenser was a total bust and should’ve never been coaching at this level.

 

[M4CAT]

As the SEC ad says, It just means more. Well it means more to Vandy. FLORIDIA, AUBURN, and USC but not the AD at Kentucky. Why the fans at Kentucky accept this program and make every excuse in the book to remain irrelevant is a disgusting situation. The entire Stoops era at UK is a prime example that smoke and mirrors football can get you 9 million a year when the fanbase has such low expectation such as going to a bowl game.

This is the shit that pisses me off. Stoops has been here since 2013 and Kentucky is still taking embarrassing losses like this. Kentucky has reached its peak under Stoops. Anyone here making excuses for what we just saw, they are just as much of the problem accepting mediocrity and only do so to be a contrarian reminding us about 2-10 seasons. Just reaching a bowl game should never be the standard here after the heights Stoops brought UK too. Unfortunately, can't even live up to that standard of reaching a bowl and not sure how often Kentucky will going forward as long as CMS stays.

 

[YardCat]

Stoops gets raises for every win after #6 per year or it might be #7. Should we be asking Stoops to return some of his salary for being under 6 wins?

 

[gobigblue812]

Stoops gets raises for every win after #6 per year or it might be #7. Should we be asking Stoops to return some of his salary for being under 6 wins?

I don't think that's still accurate anymore.

He was getting extensions at one point.

 

[bigblueinsanity]

The puke orange will beat us unmerciful next week , I can see our D getting about 7 off sides for failing to get back to the LOS .

Early in the season, when we still had life, i predicted this ut game would get ugly. Given the current situation, I don't plan to even turn it on.

 

[MrHotDice]

You're not completely wrong here, but 10-3 seasons in 2018 and 2021 were the best seasons of UK football since I've been alive and I'm not terribly young. I would completely agree if all we had done were pile up 7-6 seasons year over year. Those 2 seasons were a lot of fun and gave me some hope that we could duplicate that more often. Sadly it's gone the other direction.

The thing is 7-6 gets you a raise at UK and will get you fired at any SEC school that wants a legit program. 10 wins without a Division Cgampionship of the SEC won just shows The rest of the SEC treats football like we treat basketball. It's about SEC and NCAA Championships. I'm 76. Went to games when Bear coached UK and way to old to care but I do.

 

[cathouse]

**** no. If you watched that South Carolina game and thought Ole Miss was anything but luck you were getting high on your own supply. Time to grow up.

This right here.

After South Carolina fiasco, I predicted we would not win a single SEC game.

The Ole Miss game was a shocker, for sure, but we would have lost that game if Lane Kiffen hadn't called two timeouts to stop the clock and allow us time to get a LUCKY TD before the clock ran out.

Stoops was happy with the close loss and was trying to kill the clock first, rather than trying to score a TD.

Ole Miss win was a combination of pure luck, karma, and was Total fools gold for UK fans who thought is was anything other than a lucky break on a fumble that won the game. And Lane Kiffen TO's.

 

[Emarc]

You didn't know crap. Just go back to Rafters

🙄

 

[UKBrassowTipIN]

I thought this was a 7 win season, ppl can say that's accepting mediocrity, but no, turns out that was fantasy