SIAP: "I have unbelievable confidence in Coach Wolford."
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You're right. He should've said. "We're all doomed. It's the second game of the year, and there is nothing we can do. The offensive line will continue to suck. And the defensive line will only get worse"
Nothing to be happy about. Nothing to defend. But I hate the Mamby Pamby, cowardly, clinically depressed people that just look for all the reasons to moan and belly ache. Coach speak has to happen. I'm glad Stoops doesn't give up like the rest of you losers
Nothing to be happy about. Nothing to defend. But I hate the Mamby Pamby, cowardly, clinically depressed people that just look for all the reasons to moan and belly ache. Coach speak has to happen. I'm glad Stoops doesn't give up like the rest of you losers
I haven't given up on our players. But Stoops has had 12 years. And has lost to Shane freaking Beamer 3 times. No you don't come out and say, "Well, I'm putting a foot up his ass today". But you do come out and say, "We have some serious issues on the offensive line and we will address them." Fans aren't stupid. Hell, you'd have to be blind to just take the performance we just had and go "Oh well."
Keep kissing his ass. If he had ANY integrity, Wofford would've been gone TODAY. I don't have to look for reasons to complain.
All I have to do is post the stats from Saturday.
Stoops gave up when his ass was halfway out the door to A&M.
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Publicly putting individual assistants on notice just isn’t really considered professional, and probably wouldn’t be that helpful anyway, so I wouldn’t expect any other response from Stoops, especially this early in the season.
That being said, as a fan, I’m not particularly confident in Wolford . He’s apparently a good recruiter, but his results as an on-field coach are pretty suspect lately. We rightly give Saban a lot of benefit of the doubt in who he hired, but Bama’s line play was their weakness the past 2 years, especially pass protection, and our play or lack thereof on Saturday spoke for itself.
That being said, as a fan, I’m not particularly confident in Wolford . He’s apparently a good recruiter, but his results as an on-field coach are pretty suspect lately. We rightly give Saban a lot of benefit of the doubt in who he hired, but Bama’s line play was their weakness the past 2 years, especially pass protection, and our play or lack thereof on Saturday spoke for itself.
The guy that coached Alabama last year that was full of four and five star recruits into giving up the most sacks in the SEC.
Be careful. I got flogged by the Stoops Homer's on here for pointing this out before the season began.
Wolford has shown nothing to prove he is even an average OLine coach......even at Bama. Finished dead last in the SEC in pass pro last year.
But he is a good old boy. The Youngstown nepotism needs to be addressed.
Coach speak…don’t think he needs to come out and publicly hammer him. But all of this from Stoops is desperate
Meeting with captains to talk of attitude…meaningless gesture
Meeting with captains to talk of attitude…meaningless gesture
"I , along with Coach Wolford, are going to work on addressing our issues on the OL."
I agree you don't come out and hammer the guy, but to say something like this makes it sound like he has no issues with him.
And if he doesn't, that's a major issue.
My bet is the closed door coach's meeting gets pretty intense, much more in line with what people want to hear. I'd say many here have been called to the bosses office where he says: "Come in.....and close the door behind you."
He’s gotten fairly comfortable with regularly questioning each of many of the oc’s play calling in post games.
People are way overreacting. Our run blocking was fantastic. If it was a coaching issue, everything would suck. So while i loathe wolf, i don't see the on field coaching issue.
People on this board still arent properly valuing that kid from sc. Hes literally already the best pass rusher in the nation with a rare combo of elite athleticism and elite skill. Plus be didn't start going really crazy until mincey went out and we had a backup. So combined with a shell shocked qb it was a perfect storm.
It also cant be ignored the qb had an awful game. He held the ball too long on passes that were there, made awful reads on rpo 1) he gave on the jet instead of keeping. 7 yard loss vs 10 yard gain. He missed that read week 1 too 2) threw the wr screen instead of giving to the back. So apparently theyre going to have to take the read from him which hurts the o.
The real coaching issue is with the oc who couldn't adjust to literally one guy and couldn't adjust to his QB being way off his game. This was a game, especially second half, we had to go all in on the run but we never did.
People on this board still arent properly valuing that kid from sc. Hes literally already the best pass rusher in the nation with a rare combo of elite athleticism and elite skill. Plus be didn't start going really crazy until mincey went out and we had a backup. So combined with a shell shocked qb it was a perfect storm.
It also cant be ignored the qb had an awful game. He held the ball too long on passes that were there, made awful reads on rpo 1) he gave on the jet instead of keeping. 7 yard loss vs 10 yard gain. He missed that read week 1 too 2) threw the wr screen instead of giving to the back. So apparently theyre going to have to take the read from him which hurts the o.
The real coaching issue is with the oc who couldn't adjust to literally one guy and couldn't adjust to his QB being way off his game. This was a game, especially second half, we had to go all in on the run but we never did.
We got nothing when we tried to run to the edges and pass protection was non existent. We can't run it up the middle the entire game or teams will stack the box.
No offense but you knew who he was talking about so does it really matter?
Of course we couldn't run to the edge because thats where their two elite guys were. Thats why stoops said in his monday pc they knew going in they needed to stay away from running to the edge.
When you have a talent disparity gap that wide, you cant expect success going at it.
They stacked the box all game because thats what you can do with two edge guys like that. Granted they didn't play some formation where everyone was on the line, but they still had their front 7 all there and a safety up. We still ran the ball very well inside. We missed one first because a rb tried to bounce and another on the sneak because eli is terrible at going low. The sneak technique absolutely must be addressed or we might as well never sneak.
I didnt like his "complete confidence" comment either but the thing that bothered me more was his implication that the issue was more bad players or lack of talent. He implied that the constant turnover in coordinators caused a problem in recruiting, which is true to a point. But if so the follow up question is - do you think we have a lack of talent on the Oline coach?
This is the part that puzzles me because the guys we have up there are considred by most everyone physically gifted guys and some highly recruited or thought of as draftable guys due to their physical abilities and talent level. So why have we consistantly struggled there so much? They all seem to have the physical skills . . . are you telling me coach and coach hasnt been able to teach them how to play the position together? It doesnt make sense.
Just watching them myself they all seem big and strong and athletic enough and that shows up in the run game. But in pass blocking they are constantly out of position and confused or react slowly to the DLine moves and struggle working together. It looks like a combination of really poor footwork and bad reaction instincts. And that should be able to be taught and corrected over time - but it hasnt.
This is the part that puzzles me because the guys we have up there are considred by most everyone physically gifted guys and some highly recruited or thought of as draftable guys due to their physical abilities and talent level. So why have we consistantly struggled there so much? They all seem to have the physical skills . . . are you telling me coach and coach hasnt been able to teach them how to play the position together? It doesnt make sense.
Just watching them myself they all seem big and strong and athletic enough and that shows up in the run game. But in pass blocking they are constantly out of position and confused or react slowly to the DLine moves and struggle working together. It looks like a combination of really poor footwork and bad reaction instincts. And that should be able to be taught and corrected over time - but it hasnt.
What was REALLY disappointed to me was that they knew about the dude , even talked about him , and had a week to come up with something to take advantage of his aggressiveness. I was really surprised and disappointed in Hamdan.
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Wolf's unit was not good but I blame the OC more than Wolf. The gameplan was just beyond terrible with no adjusted in game.
Noticed one of the TV guys said a couple of times the OL pass blocking was so bad it was embarrassing. They all get a pass for it because no changes in the starters. The struggle to recruit four star OL has been an issue for quite some time. How can 95% of the other conference teams recruit better OL than us for this long? Even next years class, while big, are mostly guys going to have to coach up a lot and will take time.
I'm starting to believe that some of our OL problems are due to a lack of physical strength. Way too often for my taste I see Eli, Jager, others get bullied out of the way on just mano-a-mano plays. With several of these guys, they've been in college ball for 3+ years and they're STILL getting physically pushed around at > 300 lbs? That's a problem.
Based on Saturday, any confidence would be "unbelievable" After thinking about the statement maybe that is what Stoops was implying
Man, Stoops has to go!
At any other school, he would be fired. There’s no other fanbase that accepts this kind of stuff.
When did UK fans start accepting mediocrity??? It has to be fans under 30!
At any other school, he would be fired. There’s no other fanbase that accepts this kind of stuff.
When did UK fans start accepting mediocrity??? It has to be fans under 30!
Remember back to Coens first year when he wanted to run the “outside zone “ blocking scheme but had to abandon it because our olinemen were maulers and not athletic enough for it ? I remember that they said they needed to start recruiting more athletic linemen . Seems like we’ve lost our toughest since then . Of course we lost Schlarman too , so it’s hard to say.
How long have you been a Kentucky football fan? Don't get me wrong, I'm not pleased about what happened Saturday or the apparent trajectory of the program but I have to side eye your comment about "it has to be fans under 30!" comment. I'm 44 and Mark Stoops has been the best Kentucky football coach of my lifetime. Not sure what you mean by "start accepting mediocrity", this isn't basketball. I want to be a football powerhouse more than anything, but your post just misses the mark. IMO
Jager is subpar. Thats just an unfortunate fact that i kept posting about now 3 years going. Ray is way better but they'll play jager regardless.
We are definitely in a talent transition. We went away from physical guys and now trying to get them back. Without the portal, we're 2-3 years away. Especially interior ol need a rs season and still aren't ready until their sophomore season.
I am 52 years old and we have only been mediocre or better a handful of seasons since I have been old enough to remember. I mean let's not act like we were Bama before Stoops got here. 🤣🤣
The offensive line would have to attend a spectators meeting, they all stood around and watched the QB get killed
Re OL, think back to the OL recruiting class of 2022: UK signs Goodwin whom everybody and their uncle wanted, Bingham, a plodder liked by many and Nik Hall, a UK legacy with a nice offer sheet. Three good OL prospects or so we thought(as an aside, I'd prefer UK sign at least 5 OL per year but that's just me). We all know what happened: Goodwin was a flop, eventually gave up football, Bingham likewise walked away from the sport and Hall sustained a career ending injury. Nobody could foresee that, lousy luck...what are the odds of losing those three guys? UK followed the '22 campaign with just woeful OL recruiting, none of which are still around. Easy to see why UK's in the shape they're in.
Pretty much nailed it. So, not only was Yenser not a great X and O guy, he wasn't very effective at hauling in recruits we so desperately need. But, other than that, I'm glad Coen was so high on him
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