No I don't, and if you read, I specifically stated I don't view the other games as necessarily losses, just unsure if we will win them. And I view the FL game as imperative to team morale and motivation, thus needed in our quest.
Tell me what you believe our path to 8-4 is.
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That was your first post about UK sports since June 11. Why even bother? Go somewhere else.
(1) OK, if you say so, but I rewatched the second and 3rd quarters and did not see much in the way of open receivers. The Cards played a lot of 2 deep zone. Once the ball is in the air defenders leave their man or zone to go to the ball. This often looks like "open" receivers. By and large it looked to me that Johnson went to the "right" receiver but oftentimes his timing was slow (i.e., should have got the ball out a bit earlier in the route). He does not exactly have a laser arm and his passes tend to "hang" thus giving the DB more time to get to the ball. He was 5 of 12 the first half and 3 of 7 the second half. Not exactly the same game as he had the year before. On the Wildcat pitch back play he was focused on going deep to his left and definitely missed a wide open guy on the other side of the field.
(2) Undeservedly getting votes and consideration for a NC? Good loss for college football? Well, OK, if you say so. I think a lot of "football fans in the country" (but not UK fans
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) would have been happy to see a newcomer crash the Old Boys Football Club but that's just me. Sagarin-wise, UofL finished #5, played the #27 SOS and went 3-1 against the Top 30. tOSU finished #4, played the #38 SOS (that includes their BCS opponent, #1 ranked FL) and finished 3-1 against the Top 30. FL clobbered tOSU in the game. May well have done the same to UofL.(3) Yes, the Cards were looking pretty good and got up to #5 before that ugly Houston loss which was followed by a loss to UK as a 28 point favorite and a bowl beatdown by LSU. OTOH, the Rutgers loss was followed by winning out. I am not sure a 1 loss Cardinal team would have made the 2016 playoffs but am 100% sure an undefeated regular season in 2006 would have put the Cards in the BCS championship against FL.
Thank you, STUCK. Regardless of the other losses that year, that home field loss to UK as a HUGE favorite was absolutely brutal to the Cardinal fan base.
Peace
(1) OK, if you say so, but I rewatched the second and 3rd quarters and did not see much in the way of open receivers. The Cards played a lot of 2 deep zone. Once the ball is in the air defenders leave their man or zone to go to the ball. This often looks like "open" receivers. By and large it looked to me that Johnson went to the "right" receiver but oftentimes his timing was slow (i.e., should have got the ball out a bit earlier in the route). He does not exactly have a laser arm and his passes tend to "hang" thus giving the DB more time to get to the ball. He was 5 of 12 the first half and 3 of 7 the second half. Not exactly the same game as he had the year before. On the Wildcat pitch back play he was focused on going deep to his left and definitely missed a wide open guy on the other side of the field.
(2) Undeservedly getting votes and consideration for a NC? Good loss for college football? Well, OK, if you say so. I think a lot of "football fans in the country" (but not UK fans
(3) Yes, the Cards were looking pretty good and got up to #5 before that ugly Houston loss which was followed by a loss to UK as a 28 point favorite and a bowl beatdown by LSU. OTOH, the Rutgers loss was followed by winning out. I am not sure a 1 loss Cardinal team would have made the 2016 playoffs but am 100% sure an undefeated regular season in 2006 would have put the Cards in the BCS championship against FL.
Thank you, STUCK. Regardless of the other losses that year, that home field loss to UK as a HUGE favorite was absolutely brutal to the Cardinal fan base.
Peace
I am sure you are right. I just don’t understand defense. The WRs slowing down for under thrown balls probably just was cover two. Good call.
And, if you think college football fans not UL fans thought UL playing a wimpy schedule deserved to play for the NC, I am sure you have the pulse of college football.
I don't have an opinion on the defensive philosophy used during last year's UL game (I got disgusted and lost at halftime). I do, however, have an opinion on UL 2006 being a national championship contender. UL's success in those days was 100% a result of schedule. They would have been a debacle in the title game and it was a sham that they were even in that position.
Even though I enjoyed UL's status as a second-class citizen in C-USA and other second-tier leagues, the good thing about the ACC is that UL will never luck into some national title or high-level game that they don't deserve so long as they have to go through Clemson, FSU, and a team like Miami from the other division.
If we can't go 8-4 with these players, Stoops needs to move on cause next season we will be 3-9
Because the other SEC schools stopped acquiring players?
And, hold that prediction someplace. I don’t want you running from it when UK does much better than you think in 2019.
Stupid post but whatever...
I guess we could also play USC adn Mizzou 12 time to get to 8-4 seeing as we've pretty much dominated them both the past handful of seasons.
This is my thought.
I think we potentially drop the USC game and steal one of the AM, MSU, UL games.
I believe three of those will be improved teams (I just don’t yet know if UL will be improved).
If U of L in 2006 hadn’t lost to Rutgers, and if they had been selected for the BCS Championship game it would have been against Ohio State, not Florida.(1) OK, if you say so, but I rewatched the second and 3rd quarters and did not see much in the way of open receivers. The Cards played a lot of 2 deep zone. Once the ball is in the air defenders leave their man or zone to go to the ball. This often looks like "open" receivers. By and large it looked to me that Johnson went to the "right" receiver but oftentimes his timing was slow (i.e., should have got the ball out a bit earlier in the route). He does not exactly have a laser arm and his passes tend to "hang" thus giving the DB more time to get to the ball. He was 5 of 12 the first half and 3 of 7 the second half. Not exactly the same game as he had the year before. On the Wildcat pitch back play he was focused on going deep to his left and definitely missed a wide open guy on the other side of the field.
(2) Undeservedly getting votes and consideration for a NC? Good loss for college football? Well, OK, if you say so. I think a lot of "football fans in the country" (but not UK fans
(3) Yes, the Cards were looking pretty good and got up to #5 before that ugly Houston loss which was followed by a loss to UK as a 28 point favorite and a bowl beatdown by LSU. OTOH, the Rutgers loss was followed by winning out. I am not sure a 1 loss Cardinal team would have made the 2016 playoffs but am 100% sure an undefeated regular season in 2006 would have put the Cards in the BCS championship against FL.
Thank you, STUCK. Regardless of the other losses that year, that home field loss to UK as a HUGE favorite was absolutely brutal to the Cardinal fan base.
Peace
