Stoops is spiraling now...

[billoliver40]

I think that's what most of us are saying. The talent we have on paper isn't equating to the wins we expect from that talent level. That's not for a lack of effort recruiting, That's a coaching issue. How is that best rectified?

There it is.
Look....we play number one Georgia to within a point. Beat number 6 Ol Miss in their house.
Some kind of logic would indicate our won/ loss record and weekly performance should be closer to theirs than what it is today.

 

[Roe07]

Pony up and buy better players so Mark Stoops can coach them to a 5-7 record.

 

[K_TIME]

Or maybe just develop Cutter Boley, Aba Selm, Malachi Wood, Colby Keenum, Gilmore, Anthony Brown-Stephens, Willie Rodriguez, Kamari Anderson, Jarmion Wilcox and quit bitching about resources.

I get NIL is an uphill climb....but we have good talent on roster....coach it up like you used to.

 

[The-Hack]

I get NIL is an uphill climb....but we have good talent on roster....coach it up like you used to.

All those names had as high (or higher) recruiting profiles than dozens of players recruited and developed between 2015 and 2020. But they are on a team with about 30 players who were Top 300 recruits, unlike the teams we had from 2015-20.

Either there have been multiple recruiting misses, poor development, or a combination of the two.

Our supposed woes regarding NIL did not lead to an FCS-like beat down at home by South Carolina, as their NIL trails our own.

 

[23jumpboy]

So...explain to me losing to Vandy 2 of last 3 meetings?
explain to me 3 straight to USC?


How did guys like Bunchy, Stenberg, Fortner, etc...even role players like Nassir Watkins, Eli Cox (early years) Horsey,e tc... become such a solid Oline now we literally can't recruit and develop a single oline that is solid anymore?

Finally, Brock got reportedly 2M to get to UK...why is flailing so badly?

This can't be as simple as buy the entire roster and you win...if that is the case...why even try wtih Texas, Tennessee, LSU, Bama, Auburn, etc...in our conferenc3e.

2 mil???? 🤬🤬🤬

 

[UKWildcats1987]

2 mil???? 🤬🤬🤬

We overspent a bit lol. Maybe worth 20k. Maybe.

 

[Soupbean]

Look heres the bottom line. Nobody doubts that better players make everything easier, but we have consistently recruited at a top 25-30 level and from what I can anybody esle can see is we have enough real talent on this team on both sides to compete at that level too. And that includes depth at most positions. We dont have UGA or Ohio St talent but we have top 25 talent as far as physically gifted players and thats just a fact anybody with eyes can tell. Do we have weak points yes and the Oline is sure one of them but even there there are some highly recruited players that are physically gifted that just arent performing at the levels they should. But overall we have more physical talent and recruiting ranked talent on this roster than we may have ever had in our history.

So here is what I'd say to the Coash and any others that default to all of our problems are purely an NIL thing and we'll never be able to compete until we fix that . . . bull crap! Get better and what you do first. Be better developers, be better strategist, be better teacher, disciplinarians and motivators and be better game managers. That's where we're falling behind IMO. If not why are USC, Indiana, Missouri, Tulane, Boise St, SMU, BYU and others getting it done.

 

[entropy13]

He should use his 9 mil salary. Put it good use

Rules don't allow that, but he actually said that same idea in an interview this past offseason.