2 things were going on, either UK receivers were unable to get separation or WL had trouble seeing the field, he was throwing into tight coverage too often.
It's a few things grumpy, the WR's have had route running issues all year. Brown and Keyes (if they hang around) are both true freshman and that will change with experience. The Oline cannot protect Levis, just can't and that's effecting the WR's too as they run poor routes hoping to get open quickly and finally Levis isn't anywhere near 100%. I know those are all excuses but IMO...that's the deal with the WR's not finding separation. It was a sad night. Not losing to a really good football team it was going to be a difficult game to win even if we played well....but UK didn't compete.
Yet last week we were going 10-2 while beating Tennessee and Georgia, Georgia loses to Mississippi State, Tennessee loses to Georgia, and you’re buying tickets to Atlanta so you can see us whip Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide? Now you say we’re toast!
No need to alibi for Stoops
This is it. I said it then…he didn’t fire Gran for performance they had just given him an extension the prior off season. They changed in order to change the narrative in recruiting
This is correct and he has been the primary piece of building it. That being said, now that we’re there from the administration side, no coach at uK has ever had the administrative support, financial support, or facilities to pitch that he has. I mean Rich Brooks may have still been where he was with this stuff but he was winning 6&7 with nothing on the facilities and support end. Who knows?
To be fair a whole lot of you guys were saying Stoops should run and run some more to keep Hooker off the field and limit the possessions. I thought UK had a much better offensive game plan last season when Levis threw quite a bit, which backed the safeties up which helped your running game be really effective. . And that was compounded by UT being very thin at every position group on D.
Yes and it was reasonable to run the ball and it was effective for a couple drives. I think the perplexing part was also keeping the pass game all short. I know we don’t protect well but that’s going to get worse when you get in situations the other team knows you have to throw so you have to go downfield some. We were effective against ole miss even with all their blitzing. We just had mistakes and turnovers…which stoops hates to the point he can sometimes push getting too conservative instead of going ‘sometimes you’re going to break a few eggs’
I'm pretty sure UT Defensive Coordinator knew this and took a week off. Smart guy and who could blame him?
Contrary to what many will say on here, that's actually a really good idea.
Plus I've read that because of Cox and Burton that puke's defense knew ever play UK was running.
Total opposite OLs. This ain’t video game FB.
