Damn dude. You need to relax.
Lol. I'm very relaxed, thanks. Nice day off.
Im not taking anything personally whatsoever. You are the one writing novels trying to defend yourself.
You should pick up your first novel soon, so you can "calm down" your hyperbole. I'll try to limit my posts to a paragraph or sentence for each reply to make it manageable....
I've seen plenty of your football posts. It's the only area where I consistently disagree with you because yeah, you go off on these crazy rants fairly often defending Stoops. I don't even get your point about me predicting winning seasons.
Of course. You made a blowhard comment not meant to be taken seriously. My bad for addressing it with facts.
I've never claimed to be some great predictor. I can say that I used to be "overly optimistic." So I probably did think we could win 10 games when we did.
You'd know if you did.
I've also thought we could win 10 when we didn't get half of that.
I appreciate the admission.
And that's kind of my point.
That's also my point.
Stoops has had really talented for UK teams and underachieved
Yeah. Kentucky has struggled with winning AFTER winning in everything but cheerleading and basketball.
because of bone headed moves he made as a coach.
Yep. Those suck.
And he still makes the same mistakes. Hell he just gave our oline coach a raise.
Which isn't a boneheaded move if you want to attract a good coach when this one leaves.
Lol. I don't need to make a prediction.
Definitely a good decision.
I can look at his history and tell you he's just not a great coach.
Wow. That's amazing. How did you do that?! We were just going to ask the guy who hasn't got a clue how the football team will do, EXACTLY what he thinks of the coach! It's like you're a prophet or something
And it's going to take a great coach and a great recruiter and a more supportive fanbase and one that doesn't btch about nearly the lowest ticket prices in the conference and doesn't discount what current and former coaches have done here and better facilities and more money spent on the football recruiting budget to ever win the SEC here AT UK.
Fify
But you seem to think he can do it.
I didn't actually say that in any way shape or form, which is why I fify'd your above comment. When I actually type it out is how you know I've "said" it.
I guess time will tell which one of us is right.
Time has already told (although as I admitted, I had help). You missed the last 23 years. Been more right by a bunch than I've been wrong.
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If people went back and could read the posts of people in the 90s 2000s and during the last 1.5 years of Joker as HC and read what people said they wanted, compared to the sht they spewed during Brooks time and now, they would be so embarrassed at our "fans" that comment on football that they might never post.
What they said they wanted desperately. What they said they "would settle for" or be ecstatic with... and then read the venom they've spewed here the whole time Brooks and Stoops were coaching here, it paints a really sad portrait of many fans. They just have no sense of reality and no self-awareness when it comes to UK and football.
UK is behind the 8ball on so many "levels" since people want to talk "levels."
A friend of mine posted for years that it would take a decade of UK success to build potential for an SEC Title. We've had 2 years of success and enough bowl games to get us noticed. We've competed at a high level off an on.
We're still years away from that "next level" because that "next level" now is an SEC Championship appearance. Already did 2nd in the East 2x.
We'll never get it with so many changes at key coaching positions (If Butch is the answer, I'll admit I was wrong a year ago when he was hired.), plus trying to be like other SEC teams (unless we can somehow outbid the UTs, UGA, Bama, B1G, etc for a full starting lineup and some backups of NFL draftees), plus not paying more for tickets and NIL as a fanbase.
Now we're back to a rebuilding year, so it's likely we'll be looking for another coach next year. Unless this is a great coaching staff and can get us to 7 or 8 wins next season with 4 wins in the SEC. If they can't do that, I'm guessing it pushes our timeline out too far to sustain success enough to reach a championship calibre under this staff.
What we need to hope for is a great comeback with a bowl win next season, and a 10 win season the year afterward so that we either make the next step or our current coach lands a better gig, and we can get someone young and proven that sees the potential Stoops saw here AND WANTS TO STAY HERE. That's always gonna be the problem though. This is not Alabama or even Georgia. It's not even Purdue or Notre Dame really when you're talking football.
Timing is everything and we're too busy beating a dead horse as a fanbase to take advantage. During and after the first 10 win season there should've been a parade and a massive celebration. We were too busy bashing our coach and calling it a fluke.
Not sorry if anyone feels bad for it being said.