I am amazed at the number of people that want Stoops fired. This is the Coach that got 10 wins last year, in the toughest conference in football. Now, fire him! Look, I've been around UK football a lot longer then 90% of the posters on here, and if Stoops was fired after the season he had last year, forget about football at UK. Every coach at the second tier SEC schools are going to have a down year, until they can recruit like Alabama, Auburn, Georgia and LSU. They can lose a player and it doesn't mean much. Schools like UK, Missouri, Miss State, etc., lose a player, they have no comparable player to replace him.
We can say it's the coaches fault for not recruiting better, but UK is not in the group of school that can recruit the top tier players, like some of the schools I mentioned. However, we will win some games we are supposed to lose, and lose some games we should win. A program isn't built overnight, but it can fail in a short period of time. Look at Tennessee. Changing coaches every time your team plays bad, is a good way to destroy a program. Our recruiting is pretty good, but we don't have really good backup players are most positions, like some of the schools I mentioned earlier. When we have a player get hurt, there is a BIG drop off with the next player at his position. We're seeing that now. Let's let the season play out before talking about firing Coach Stoops.
OLD STOLL FIELD GUY!
We can say it's the coaches fault for not recruiting better, but UK is not in the group of school that can recruit the top tier players, like some of the schools I mentioned. However, we will win some games we are supposed to lose, and lose some games we should win. A program isn't built overnight, but it can fail in a short period of time. Look at Tennessee. Changing coaches every time your team plays bad, is a good way to destroy a program. Our recruiting is pretty good, but we don't have really good backup players are most positions, like some of the schools I mentioned earlier. When we have a player get hurt, there is a BIG drop off with the next player at his position. We're seeing that now. Let's let the season play out before talking about firing Coach Stoops.
OLD STOLL FIELD GUY!