You can want to win every game and also celebrate wins against your rival. The two concepts aren’t mutually exclusive unless you funnel all your misery and anger into your fandom. Sucks that you’re so miserable you can’t enjoy anything. That sounds super well adjusted and not at all unhinged.
C’mon dude. You want to say you’re satisfied with this year… with who it looks like we have become. I’m not miserable, just not satisfied. I would really like us to be more than the lower pack of the SEC that hangs on to wins to get to bowl game. Please expect a little more.
Putting a whole host of words in my mouth there. I didn’t say anything about being satisfied with the year. I didn’t say anything about the state of the program. My point was that it was okay to celebrate a win against a rival. Full stop.
I’m sure you’re a lot of fun at a party.
Did you read anywhere that I said I was happy with this years team? I wanna win every game we play. But then I realize that we aren’t playing on a level field when we play Georgia or Alabama. Missouri and South Carolina games along with Tennessee were games we should have and could have won. Who doesn’t know that? 6 wins next year might be all we get, I’m hoping for 10. Let’s at least play the games before we throw in the towel.
Yes it’s known in Iowa football circles, Stoops will be their Next coach, guessing Ferentz will retire in a couple of years
There is no place that can appreciate Iowa style football like Iowa so it seems to make sense in that regard
It seems like the immediate rebuttal to any desire for improvement is ‘well NIL’ and ‘silly to expect beating Georgia and bama’ or ‘in our history…8 bowl games!’ When if you went by the old bowl setup of the past stoops would have one ‘probable’ bowl team although no shoo in and one ‘maybe’ bowl team in 12 years. Again stoops is ‘solid’…..he sets up and operates a program fairly well but has no feel for the other side of the ball yet won’t let it totally go do it’s thing either…and he’s not the greatest game coach
This is my biggest gripe about Stoops. He leaves TOs in his pocket a lot which causes us possible points. He'd rather run the clock out at the end of the half instead of trying to get the ball back and score. We are also very undisciplined. We had zero penalties against UL. Just where in the heck was that all season? I still like Stoops and glad he came back but we need more attention to detail.
He is paying attention to detail. The detail is he wants fewer plays so that our players have less opportunity to show their stuff on the field & thus want to hit the portal. I wonder if this is used against him in recruiting?
Yeah I think he and Barnhart are fine, its always about timing and the climate of the moment. The climate here at the time he got an offer was trending negative so if her were every going to entertain a change this was a ripe time. Leave before it gets worse and start new, its the reason a lot of changes are made. Then in one day two things happened, A&M crowd turned cold on him and he beats UL to brighten things up here simple as that.
Any job in the SEC or Big 10 is a better job than any job that’s not.
That would be Joker Phillips part 2 unless he goes out and successfully cuts his HC teeth at a different school. But again, promoting White vs finding a proven up and coming coach with an exciting style would be so Barney.
And you would certainly be right. Many college coaches are good at handling their press conferences without actually giving away any important information. Otherwise they get eaten alive. Mark Stoops says very little that isn't already known. He keeps his cards very close to the vest, which is what you expect from a guy whose male family members are all football coaches. The circle of people who actually know what Stoops, Marrow, White, Coen, and Barnhart are strategically thinking is very, very small. We know this because almost every time someone publicly claims to know, they eventually turn out to be wrong. 80-90% of predictions in the online UK sports media never happen. Since I don't know who HalHR2500 is, I am not specifically commenting on him. But I do not believe any true insiders are posting on this board, and I say this after years of careful observation.
As a professional, who also happened to work as an Executive Search Consultant, I have almost never turned down an interview invitation with a legitimate enterprise. Knowledge is power and even if you love what you are doing it can be beneficial to listen and gather intel. We have no idea what is going on his head or behind closed doors, but taking an interview is not necessarily indicative of a desire to leave. In fact, for the senior finance and management consulting roles I was retained to hire, I typically did not consider candidates that were actively looking to leave their current roles. I wanted candidates that were successful and happy with where they were, but curious enough to listen,
Thank you. In professional life, everyone has a right to listen and there are all kinds of good reasons to show courtesy when someone in your profession calls you to show interest. The true picture is far, far different from the tin eared anti-Stoops narrative one reads so often here.
Just gotta get some things cleaned up during the off-season, it seems …
I know I'm replying to this really late, but I'm a Kentuckian living in Colorado. The distances out west are different, man. When I moved here I was surprised how far Colorado is from Texas or the west coast. In Google Maps, Denver to College Station is a 14hr drive. Denver to Lexington is a 17hr drive. Stoops ain't driving; the travel time by private jet would be nominal.
