Yeah relaxing loosens up the sphincter .. it helps , good advice
1) I also said they are better coached so it's not just a talent issue. And St Louis might be full of talent but we have outrecruited them for 10 years so they haven't harvested all of that St Louis talent although they may now with the new NIL law in Missouri.
Absolutely not. $900,000 is too much for 7-5 but all coaches are over paid
Completely, completely agree. I was impressed with Leary (I estimated that he probably made more completions in this game than all season, in total). Ray didn't get much done, but Tennessee keyed on him. My major disgust is the very thing that Coach Stoops is supposed be proficient in: Defense. We had none.
We should have beaten Missouri and with any defense we win last night. It sucks. If we get to 8-4 I’d be happy but it’s gonna be tough.
Programs ebb and flow. No program improves every single year from the prior year. Look at any coach that has coached for years and his record will have years where they aren’t as good and years where they are better.
And Stoops has cost a lot of coaches their jobs. I have zero interest in a coaching change at all. Stoops is my guy.
Hes done a really good job here . He is to be complemented on it .. But his talent for draining every lay ounce of toughness and desire to make that extra 5-6 played a game that must be made to win SEC wars seems to be evaporating . Where the 3 star that plays like a 5 ?? Where the big recruit / land that actually takes us high as program ? We are floundering , the mental laser sharpness is just not there .. Thats on Coach Stoops .
He’s finished 2nd in the East 3 times already, so 2nd is probably his ceiling.3rd place in the east is the ceiling for Stoops...we've been in the shitter for so manyyearsdecades, runner up to the runner up and a banjo bowl appearance seems successful...those waiting for a title are sitting in the proverbial pumpkin patch...
Is it possible we’re seeing a QB in his first year with program who is finally getting comfortable in the offense and getting in sync with his best receivers? I suspect it may be and highlights why it’s important we start developing QB’s within our program and not merely relying on the portal.
What I can’t understand is everybody knows TN plays fast and UK seemingly has no answer for it year after year. I understand UK can’t sub but TN can’t either, are their lineman really in that much better shape than our Dlineman?
Fair point, but only twice has CMS managed to lose less than 4 conference games in any given season...
This. MJ was saying once the new tv deals kick in Stoops pay might even be the norm for other coaches. Good grief if that’s true. That would mean nearly 90 million dollars being spent on coaching alone across the SEC. And some of that to SUCK. How does that math make ANY sense. I’m all for getting yours and getting paid, but there’s gotta be a proverbial one at some point. Football coaches making multimillion sand we can’t fin enough teachers or bus drivers for our public schools. That’s not a recipe for success.
Change Stoops for Cal and the same holds true on the bball side. Wild how similar things are.
Since 2013 we have outrecruited Mizzou all but two years and one year we were tied. Most of the years we were roughly 10 spots ahead of them and some years were closer to 20.
This is the kind of view that guarantees we won't ever be an occasional contender. Just telling people to deal with it guarantees our position in football. The only school in the SEC that should just deal with it is Vandy. Our expectations have been raised.
5-7 should not get you to a bowl where you get embarrassed. "We just lost 3 out of our four toughest games."
Yeah I listened live and thought " man I dont hear a bunch of disappointment in this guys voice". kinda like , ah just drop a game and move on ... very nonchalant . Sad . It means a ton to me .
Some people are emotionally fragile and have trouble processing with nuance. They are typically the quickest and loudest to bark. They are a distinct, albeit loud, minority.
They are probably better conditioned to play at that speed because that is the speed they go at in off-season practices as well as in season practices. Doesn't mean they are necessarily better conditioned athletes, just that they practice at that speed year-round.
Awesome post!!! I agree 1000%!!!
I'll use a simplistic analogy: You have two options for a job. One is for an established company, in which you're more or less a caretaker. You have to work, but you don't have to kill yourself figuring out how to make it work and you have everything you need to succeed already in place. They offer you $100k/yr. The next option is a bit of a start up. They've been around for a while, but have never been very successful and the territory for the product is smaller and less economically vibrant. They offer you $100k as well. Which one are you accepting? You're not a moron, so it isn't the second one, but you do counter and say look, I'm interested in your position, but it's a small, unproductive and under developed territory, but it has potential. I'll have to work much harder than if I took a similar position, but I'm confident I could make it work. If you pay me $150k, I'll take the position. UK football, in case it wasn't clear, is the underdeveloped territory and Mitch paid more because that's how free market capitalism works.
But in your same scenario the smaller company has MUCH smaller expectations for what YOU need to accomplish to be considered successful. At the bigger already established company if you don’t perform at the HIGHEST level in a short amount of time, you are FIRED.
