Kendrick Gilbert to the portal
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Remember being pumped when we got his commitment.
Stoops expects us to lose a few. He has at least two, maybe three positions, he wants to add quality depth to.
Generally speaking, unless you’re pulling a stunt like Nico, kids who enter in the spring are moving because they’ve fallen on the depth chart.
generally, I agree. My best friend's son transferred for more $ and a chance to live with his dad (my friend) for a year. My friend is moving back here this summer, so he'll likely transfer again. That is only one, so i generally agree with your statement.
I hate that we aren't developing our DL like we used to....but Kendrick was a non factor in his 2nd year and was fully recruited over in the portal going into his 3rd year.....this is the new norm. If you ain't making a depth chart move in first 2-3 years....you're not going to keep a spot.
Yep. These were all invited to transfer. If revenue sharing is done correctly, uk football will have the best collection of talent in its history. The problem will be we will still not break top 10 in the sec personnel wise.
Now Crease is transferring, Kentucky has its share of players come here and leave pretty fast, I was excited about both of these players with their size and potential. I guess it works out for the best for everybody, we know there will be more.
With the portal player development is a thing of the past. Player development will take place(if at all)
at the next school a kid goes to attend.
Mincey's little brother (Daniel) is in the portal, also. He was unranked coming out of HS. I don't think he was counted on at all for at least another year or two. Reading between the lines, we recruited him to get his older brother to UK.
DB Quavo Marshall also entering. A 3*, hurt last year and RS. Hadn't heard his name all spring.
So far, not sure that any transfers this spring have affected the 2-deep. Hate to lose an OT (Crease), but, if he was developing quickly I'm not sure we would've been so determined to land 2 OTs in the winter portal. He seemed (seems) like a project and we don't have the time or roster space to hold onto guys like him anymore.
DB Quavo Marshall also entering. A 3*, hurt last year and RS. Hadn't heard his name all spring.
So far, not sure that any transfers this spring have affected the 2-deep. Hate to lose an OT (Crease), but, if he was developing quickly I'm not sure we would've been so determined to land 2 OTs in the winter portal. He seemed (seems) like a project and we don't have the time or roster space to hold onto guys like him anymore.
Our offense is in need of every down tough RB with playmaking ability. We haven't had one since Rodriquez and this offense really needs one. We have a couple of situational RB's but no lead guy.
When I saw, he was moved to NG I thought he would never be a major contributor here.
I loved crod but he rarely broke a td run. He could just never make the safety miss. In fact he usually just tried to run over him.
He was a machine at pumping out runs 3-25 yards. Its pretty crazy he ended with a career 6 yard average and almost all of it was in that range. Crazy consistency.
Jmo our run game will be much improved. I think our OL will be better and we'll have a renewed commitment to inside zone. Plus i think the Nebraska transfer will make a difference.
The final piece of our improved run game will be qb run. We finally have some talented depth at qb so we no longer have to handle that position with kid gloves. That threat will hold backside de/lb and prevent them just crashing hard.
Hard to know for sure, but most of the predictive 2025 depth charts had him running with the two and I saw one that had him 3rd.
Lots of positive vibes coming out about Dowdle.
I love CRod. If you dive into the archives you'll see me arguing with people that he was a better back than Snell; however, the best every down back was more recent and his name was Ray Davis. For my money, he's the most talented back in Stoops tenure and if he had played at UK longer his legacy would be the best back to every play for Kentucky over all the names from the past. What he did against modern SEC defenses without the benefit of UK's peak offensive line talent...mama mia
He is a short yardage specialist. He was used at Nebraska primarily in short yardage and goal line.
Davis was maybe the best back that ever played at uk. Statistically his touches per td was insane. After Florida we stopped giving him the ball so we could feed barion.
What a waste.
Only 20+ carries in three games! Coen at least used him in the passing game against UofL which I think is the only reason we made the come back to win that one along with force/recovering UofL fumbles.
Ray was very good for us and the best RB we've had in 20 years. He would be in my top 5 all time and only played one season for us. Sonny Collins was great at UK and I have never seen better. Sonny is definitely # 1
The last 2 years have been very frustrating to watch the OCs waste our running game
The past two years our OL has, in a word, sucked. We didn't adjust very well re: playcalling, inside vs outside zone, personnel, etc. But, the past two years our OL had very little push up front. Last year, we didn't have the bruiser who could pick up an extra yard or two after contact (definitely needed most running plays last season).
I think/hope the OL will be better, Hamdan will be better and Calzada will be better than previous QBs as far as making quick reads, getting rid of the ball quickly and finding the right guy to throw to. So tired of our QBs standing in the collapsing pocket and holding the ball too long or staring down one receiver and/or completely missing the guy breaking wide ass open and not throwing him the ball.
I always thought he was UK's best back too. Even when Snell, who was very good, and Rodriquez too.
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