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Mitch barnhart believes stoops can quickly turn things around

This is a great point

1. Brock
2. Dumas Johnson
3. Maclin
4. Mincey

So really on Dumas Johnson worked out. So why are they trying to sell this bag of BS as a way to work in the future. It’s clear as day Uk has major coaching issues
I was thinking of Chip and not Dumas . But yeah , Dumas is definitely in the top 4 in NIL pay but he earned his . So 4 outa 5 laid an egg
 
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In 2009 Iowa was 11-2. In 2015 Iowa was 12-2. In the five years in between Iowa was 34-30. So it’s possible for a coach who has done it before to do it again after a down period. But Stoops has to get this offense fixed.

Don't go talking sense to people that never thought Stoops could get us to 8 straight bowls and 2 different 10 win seasons. These are all the same people that thought we would never end a losing streak against UF and start winning ones against others. They also never thought we could get the kind of recruiting classes we have been.

Now they think we will magically still get good classes and compete for the SEC Title with...
-some of the lowest NIL
-among the smallest recruiting footprint in the SEC
-and without a staff that has had great success in OH, MI, and elsewhere.

Suddenly we'd be Alabama or Texas! Lmao

If UK fans aren't btchin about FB they need to be checked for a pulse.
 
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This is a great point

Not really


Needed Brock to implement new system and give Boley time to develop. (Will also be huge for Saunders if Boley is ready and develops even more for next season).

2. Dumas Johnson

Really really wish we had him one more year. Kids a player

3. Maclin

Maclin hasn't been the problem. He's not been used as he should until very recently. Again, I hope he stays another year.

4. Mincey

It's hard to say Mincey was a bust, with no one on the roster able to beat him out. Was he as great as we needed him to be? Not with BV as QB.

So really on Dumas Johnson worked out. So why are they trying to sell this bag of BS as a way to work in the future. It’s clear as day Uk has major coaching issues

AS HAS BEEN STATED WELL ELSEWHERE this is football and nothing happens on its own (inna vacuum). Everything is dependent on the entire 2 deep. It only takes one person to have a bad play or series for the whole team to suffer. That bad series can compound very quickly and extend into the entire game, whereas one key player can have a bad game in basketball and the team can still overcome it.

Another 6 months of development can do wonders for this team and program. 18 and you wouldn't even recognize it. Even with the same staff. It's not what people want to hear, but it's true.
 
If Boley leads us to a win over ul I’d go watch UK in a bowl.

I like bowl games. Went last year to Jax and enjoyed it. Not a bowl snob. Only a couple really matter.
If you would travel hundreds of miles and spend hundreds (thousands?) of dollars to watch a 5-7 team play in Shreveport or Birmingham then I guess you’re a better fan than I am.

You are correct that only a couple bowl games really matter. Hopefully the expanded playoffs will winnow down the excessive number of bowl games we have currently; then at some point in the future going to a bowl game will really mean something.
 
Going to a bowl game ALWAYS means something to football players and fans, even the ones that "opt out." It's one MORE game. It's one last time with that year's platoon and it will never be the same again. People that don't love football will never understand it
 
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What the f*ck else is he going to say?

Hell, he was in it, come hell or high water, with Cal. Right up until he said good luck in Arkansas.

Had that goofy ass interview where they were both yucking it up and cackling like a couple ole hens.

He's not going to cause a scene. Not publicly anyway. Not his nature.
 
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If you would travel hundreds of miles and spend hundreds (thousands?) of dollars to watch a 5-7 team play in Shreveport or Birmingham then I guess you’re a better fan than I am.

You are correct that only a couple bowl games really matter. Hopefully the expanded playoffs will winnow down the excessive number of bowl games we have currently; then at some point in the future going to a bowl game will really mean something.
Are they taking 5-7 teams in bowl games?
 
Not really



Needed Brock to implement new system and give Boley time to develop. (Will also be huge for Saunders if Boley is ready and develops even more for next season).



Really really wish we had him one more year. Kids a player



Maclin hasn't been the problem. He's not been used as he should until very recently. Again, I hope he stays another year.



It's hard to say Mincey was a bust, with no one on the roster able to beat him out. Was he as great as we needed him to be? Not with BV as QB.



AS HAS BEEN STATED WELL ELSEWHERE this is football and nothing happens on its own (inna vacuum). Everything is dependent on the entire 2 deep. It only takes one person to have a bad play or series for the whole team to suffer. That bad series can compound very quickly and extend into the entire game, whereas one key player can have a bad game in basketball and the team can still overcome it.

Another 6 months of development can do wonders for this team and program. 18 and you wouldn't even recognize it. Even with the same staff. It's not what people want to hear, but it's true.
Have no words to express of how out of touch you are if you don’t think UK portal class was not an all time bust

In what world is Mincey not a bust. He was the worst Oline kn an awful Oline unit?

Brock wasn’t a bust? He’s approaching as many td vs int …

If you want to believe that crap sandwich stoops and Mitch are peddling…you can eat by yourself
 
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In 2009 Iowa was 11-2. In 2015 Iowa was 12-2. In the five years in between Iowa was 34-30. So it’s possible for a coach who has done it before to do it again after a down period. But Stoops has to get this offense fixed.
In theory it is. But we have to invent signs to think that it could happen at that level.at best I think we can get back to 6 or 7. Low energy coach at this point that just tried to get out of dodge. Awful record with his most experienced team. 13 years with 1 functional offense. Complete roster turnover coming up in the off season. The schedule he found success with is gone. The coaches he built his most successful stretch from playing are gone…Barry Odom, Will Muschamp, Satterfield, Derrick Mason.
 
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In theory it is. But we have to invent signs to think that it could happen at that level.at best I think we can get back to 6 or 7. Low energy coach at this point that just tried to get out of dodge. Awful record with his most experienced team. 13 years with 1 functional offense. Complete roster turnover coming up in the off season. The schedule he found success with is gone. The coaches he built his most successful stretch from playing are gone…Barry Odom, Will Muschamp, Satterfield, Derrick Mason.
So there's no need to try to improve the team? All righty then.
 
The problem is not only bringing in untalented players, it’s the inability to coach them up in all facets of the game. Stoops is a lousy coach and leader.
It’s also much harder to coach up college age kids when they are being paid more than most people make at their jobs. Even Alabama is having trouble keeping their kids focused. I’m trying real hard to detach from college football.
 
So there's no need to try to improve the team? All righty then.
Oh there’s a reason. That’s his job every year right? Doesn’t change. That’s why he’s paid. He’s clearly going to be here. And I don’t hope for him to fail. I want it to get better. I just don’t see anything indicating he has it in him. I did think he was the right guy for some time. I just see the realities stacking that say that time is no more. We can hang on to ‘well he did this back then’ and at some point that gets you antiquated as if we aren’t already. I mean he can’t play players based what they did 3 seasons ago instead of what they’re doing right now and it’s the same for him.

Jumping from ‘I don’t see it happening at a high level again’ to a hyperbolic ‘well we won’t try then’ is disingenuous. We’ve lived some with his consistent coaching missteps that really haven’t improved since the beginning of when he started here but we still felt like we were getting his best effort. Now it seems we are getting his shortcomings plus a ‘I’m here punching my clock’ effort. And that’s not ever going to get improvement at UK. That started before this season.
 
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