Joker Phillips for WR Coach Vacancy?

[GoCats1991]

Random thought, Joker Phillips is currently the WRs coach at NC State. Any chance he would be interested in coming back to Kentucky? He was obviously a failure at head coach but we had some great WRs under his time (Keenan Burton, Dicky Lyons, Steve Johnson) come to mind. Not sure if he has a grudge but it would be an interesting hire. Thoughts?

 

[24Catman]

Please no.

 

[mrschwump]

Ehhhh, you mean 62 year old Joker Phillips? No.

 

[sligocat92]

He was a good OC with coach Brooks.

 

[mrschwump]

I'd prefer Mike Hartline, Offensive Analyst at Coastal Carolina, if you want to go the ex-player route.

 

[LowerLevelSeatA]

Man, joker, stoops, and Wolford on same staff..solid gold right there, great idea! And make joker coach in waiting so when stoops retires in a few years, joker can step right in. We probably have enough in budget to upgrade jokers Microsoft paint 1.1 version too, so imagine the recruits he could get with Microsoft paint 1.2 version.

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

We got one you can have, if you want to lead the country in drops and have receivers that can run sharp routes

 

[JPFisher]

We got one you can have, if you want to lead the country in drops and have receivers that can run sharp routes

Joke's on you. We already had him or his buddy last season.

 

[Smashcat]

Random thought, Joker Phillips is currently the WRs coach at NC State. Any chance he would be interested in coming back to Kentucky? He was obviously a failure at head coach but we had some great WRs under his time (Keenan Burton, Dicky Lyons, Steve Johnson) come to mind. Not sure if he has a grudge but it would be an interesting hire. Thoughts?

Even he realizes Stoops is a dead man walking.

 

[jeffky]

Random thought, Joker Phillips is currently the WRs coach at NC State. Any chance he would be interested in coming back to Kentucky? He was obviously a failure at head coach but we had some great WRs under his time (Keenan Burton, Dicky Lyons, Steve Johnson) come to mind. Not sure if he has a grudge but it would be an interesting hire. Thoughts?

 

[cat tat2]

Sure bring Joker back, we can even name him “Head Coach in waiting”!

 

[kywildcat41035]

Sumrall can bring whoever he wants with him….

 

[truebluewildcat]

Joker is AHC as well at NC St...I think.

I would hold up on making staff decision right now. If Ohio State get beat early round, Day might get the boot.

If that's the case I would make a run at a Day, Kelly, and/or Hartline to come here. Blank check, all in for one of them to come here for year or two until they get a gig somewhere else or brass n boosters decide to throw CMS an early retirement party and put a statue of him. Then one of those guys takes over.

Hartline most realistic obviously. The other two will have offers for all sorts of gigs. Hartline looking to rise up the ranks. Tell him he can bring brother Mike back to Lex.

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

Joke's on you. We already had him or his buddy last season.

Wwll dang, just trying to help out. Just playing man don't get mad at me.

 

[JPFisher]

Wwll dang, just trying to help out. Just playing man don't get mad at me.

Not mad at all! Just joking around and lamenting our shared pain re: wideout coaches lol. You're all good, Grump.

 

[R.O.T.Muckinfush]

Bring back papaw brooks... i bet he's still got it

 

[Boz]

Hell, why not bring back Fran Curci? He's still alive. He knows how to beat UT. Also, he's a sharp dresser.

 

[R.O.T.Muckinfush]

Hell, why not bring back Fran Curci? He's still alive. He knows how to beat UT. Also, he's a sharp the greatest generation

Hell, why not bring back Fran Curci? He's still alive. He knows how to beat UT. Also, he's a sharp dresser.

The greatest generation

 

[BlueBallz]

Bring back papaw brooks... i bet he's still got it

He’s too busy pickin maters out of the garden now

 

[Blueaz]

Hell, why not bring back Fran Curci? He's still alive. He knows how to beat UT. Also, he's a sharp dresser.

the reign of error
You think there is little discipline now.... it was in the negative when he was here.

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

Not mad at all! Just joking around and lamenting our shared pain re: wideout coaches lol. You're all good, Grump.

Very cool, sometimes the way mean things to be taken gets taken in a different way on this thing called the internet.. For the record our WR coach uses as much hair dye as Ryan Day does beard dye

 

[yoshukai]

Well a few years ago Craig Yeast applied for the vacant receivers coaching position and Stoops didn’t even give him an interview.

 

[mrschwump]

Well a few years ago Craig Yeast applied for the vacant receivers coaching position and Stoops didn’t even give him an interview.

Is he even a coach?

 

[cathouse]

Is he even a coach?

Yes. He was HS coach at the time. Coached his son who went to Louisville and on to the NFL.

Stoops should have hired him, if for no other reason than to get his son at UK.
Legacy recruit.

 

[yoshukai]

Is he even a coach?

Yes . He has been very successful at the high school level and was coaching at a small college at that time . It was kinda disrespectful for the schools all time leading receiver to not even get an interview. His son Russ was committed to play for UK but decommited because of it .

 

[Girthang]

Random thought, Joker Phillips is currently the WRs coach at NC State. Any chance he would be interested in coming back to Kentucky? He was obviously a failure at head coach but we had some great WRs under his time (Keenan Burton, Dicky Lyons, Steve Johnson) come to mind. Not sure if he has a grudge but it would be an interesting hire. Thoughts?

What? Why are we asking if he's interested?

Remember THIS- even though Joker was a KY kid and a UK player, he himself said he didn't think a 4 or 5 star player would want to come to UK, so he didn't bother....

Is that where we want to set the bar?

 

[Girthang]

Well a few years ago Craig Yeast applied for the vacant receivers coaching position and Stoops didn’t even give him an interview.

Yeah. That was a bullsht move not giving him an interview. Talk about not having game awareness. That was our first clue he had a lot of growing up to do as a new HC.

 

[Girthang]

Bring back papaw brooks... i bet he's still got it

Probably does. Def as GM. Don't know if he'd coach now.

Would've been nice if he hadn't been run out the first time because he "wasn't a KY guy," and if they'd have done the facility upgrades when he was here that were part of his first agreement to coach here. Broken promises after broken promises there or we might have seen double digit win seasons before 2018.