That SEC Football Podcast (Kentucky) on youtube

[Deeeefense]

Probably the best and most accurate preview of Kentucky's upcoming football team and preview that I have watched. Nothing earthshattering here but it's great to see some in the media do their homework and put together a very interesting presentation. It's over an hour long but hey football season is still 2 months away.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q5LlobY1CF0

 

[1_Cool_CAT]

Probably the best and most accurate preview of Kentucky's upcoming football team and preview that I have watched. Nothing earthshattering here but it's great to see some in the media do their homework and put together a very interesting presentation. It's over an hour long but hey football season is still 2 months away.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q5LlobY1CF0

Thanx for the info & link… Will definitely check it out based off your recommendation …

 

[pumpedupcats]

Mike and Shane do a good job overall of covering every SEC program. They're pretty fair even though they're both UT guys. Occasionally Mike will go in hot take mode on Twitter (he and JR beefed this week...) but other than that he's solid and the podcast is a lot of fun.

 

[Deeeefense]

Mike and Shane do a good job overall of covering every SEC program. They're pretty fair even though they're both UT guys. Occasionally Mike will go in hot take mode on Twitter (he and JR beefed this week...) but other than that he's solid and the podcast is a lot of fun.

Yea I saw his tweet about UK and USCjr. Interestingly after Rowland called him out he deleted the tweet.

 

[pumpedupcats]

Yea I saw his tweet about UK and USCjr. Interestingly after Rowland called him out he deleted the tweet.

Oh I missed that one. I was referring to the tweet he put out saying Stoops was a "C" grade coach. JR, MJ, and others pushed back. I think Mike is just looking to boost engagement during this dead time before SEC Media Days.

 

[JHB4UK]

Bratton's excuse for giving Stoops a C was he beats who he is supposed to beat, rarely wins upsets as underdog, sometimes loses when a favorite like Vandy last yr. My argument is Stoops wins a lot more than Kentucky coaches have over previous 40 yrs. He has raised the bar, making these wins over teams he is supposed to beat when they used to be losses.

 

[pumpedupcats]

Bratton's excuse for giving Stoops a C was he beats who he is supposed to beat, rarely wins upsets as underdog, sometimes loses when a favorite like Vandy last yr. My argument is Stoops wins a lot more than Kentucky coaches have over previous 40 yrs. He has raised the bar, making these wins over teams he is supposed to beat when they used to be losses.

Agree. I don't think he should get an A+, but I'd say something like B+/A-.

 

[Lukeslaw]

Honestly, I don't think these guys know what they're talking about. I've tried to listen to them, before. They aren't consistent in their criteria for judging these coaches.

 

[TuckyFB]

I didn't have a problem with his rating since I think his rating is recency bias after last year. Losing to Vandy can bring down the rating by a letter itself. And then you throw in we were favored in the Vandy & USCjr games and lost both although Levis didn't play in the USCjr game. I think you also have to throw in the fact that Levis was never the same after the Ole Miss game.

I would give Stoops a B+ overall since I know what the program looked like before he got here vs. 10 years into his tenure.

 

[bluecoon1]

I think a lot of those outside our program fail to realize we’ve struggled to put together a solid team on both sides of the ball, seems like when our offense is rolling our D struggles and vice versa. That also goes with our coaching staff, particularly the coordinators but we now have two of the best in the business imo. One thing in particular that needs to happen for CMS to gain more respect is ending the SEC west losing streak, seems to really hurt us every year. Everything seems to be in place this year so I guess we’ll see but I expect to surprise a lot of media types.

 

[kyleb740]

Bratton's excuse for giving Stoops a C was he beats who he is supposed to beat, rarely wins upsets as underdog, sometimes loses when a favorite like Vandy last yr. My argument is Stoops wins a lot more than Kentucky coaches have over previous 40 yrs. He has raised the bar, making these wins over teams he is supposed to beat when they used to be losses.

It’s also just dead wrong looking at last year. We won as the underdog vs Mizzou, Miss St, and Florida (and Florida was ranked in the top 15, 10? And they were the media darling of the country after beating Utah. Miss St was also ranked when we beat them too). And we lost as the favorite twice SC and Vandy.

 

[bigblueinsanity]

Honestly, I don't think these guys know what they're talking about. I've tried to listen to them, before. They aren't consistent in their criteria for judging these coaches.

They're mostly just trolling for clout. It's the very reason they have stoops a c. They knew bbn would predictably fall for it.

Admittedly anecdotal because I'm only a UK fan, but I can't imagine anymore gullible fan base in regards to feeding trolls. We fall for it every time. Dakitch built his entire social media persona on UK fans. Jones built his on UL fans.

On social media everyone shares the troll post declaring "look how stupid" and everyone @s them thinking it's really proving something. Even go to their website to read and point out how dumb they are.

Meanwhile the troll is laughing all the way to increased visibility and more ad revenue. Never feed the trolls. It's exactly what they want.

 

[Rembrandt90]

Probably the best and most accurate preview of Kentucky's upcoming football team and preview that I have watched. Nothing earthshattering here but it's great to see some in the media do their homework and put together a very interesting presentation. It's over an hour long but hey football season is still 2 months away.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q5LlobY1CF0

I invested the hour to listen because, after all, it isn't time to grill yet. Honestly, I didn't hear anything new. There are a couple of major gaffes such as saying East Carolina is our week #2 opponent (it's actually EKU), saying Ramon Jefferson is from San Diego, neglecting to mention Josh Kattus in their discussion of UK TEs, and leaving Trevin Wallace completely off their list of the 10 best 2023 UK players. However, they hit the nail on the head by repeatedly emphasizing UK's OL as the key to this season, and they discussed the importance of Coach Boulware's work to improve our special teams.

They ran through our schedule game by game. It was a little reminder that games #4-11 will tell the story of this season.

week #4- be angry, give Ray the football, and take revenge on Vandy at their place
#5- own Billy Napier's ass on our field
#6- play tough and solid; don't get Leary or Davis hurt in Athens
#7- trap game for us, hold serve at home against MO
#8- be pissed and bring our A game to Kville
#9- take advantage of Bulldog coaching change and play sound road game in Starkville
#10- big trap game for AL; take advantage
#11- be pissed, kick butts, and shut Beamer up

 

[pumpedupcats]

They're mostly just trolling for clout. It's the very reason they have stoops a c. They knew bbn would predictably fall for it.

Admittedly anecdotal because I'm only a UK fan, but I can't imagine anymore gullible fan base in regards to feeding trolls. We fall for it every time. Dakitch built his entire social media persona on UK fans. Jones built his on UL fans.

On social media everyone shares the troll post declaring "look how stupid" and everyone @s them thinking it's really proving something. Even go to their website to read and point out how dumb they are.

Meanwhile the troll is laughing all the way to increased visibility and more ad revenue. Never feed the trolls. It's exactly what they want.

Yeah this is my only knock on Mike. He does himself a disservice because his podcast is pretty solid but then he intentionally goes and stirs the pot every summer. He was also on Finebaum last week and gave a whole litany of hot takes to get different fan bases riled up. Last year he jumped on Finebaum and unfairly bashed Levis about this time of year.

 

[1_Cool_CAT]

I thought it was a pretty good breakdown… I enjoyed their discussion on our team leading into the season.

 

[satcheluk]

I think a lot of those outside our program fail to realize we’ve struggled to put together a solid team on both sides of the ball, seems like when our offense is rolling our D struggles and vice versa. That also goes with our coaching staff, particularly the coordinators but we now have two of the best in the business imo. One thing in particular that needs to happen for CMS to gain more respect is ending the SEC west losing streak, seems to really hurt us every year. Everything seems to be in place this year so I guess we’ll see but I expect to surprise a lot of media types.

Our D has not struggled since White took over about 5 years ago. He’s never been worse than 5th in SEC and we were 10yds and less than 1 pt per game below Bama for #2 defense in SEC last year.

 

[TuckyFB]

I just finished watching this. They have USCjr as a toss up game? C'mon. We beat them this past year if Levis plays and since that game happened the 7 out of 9 games we've destroyed them in suddenly don't matter?

 

[bluecoon1]

Our D has not struggled since White took over about 5 years ago. He’s never been worse than 5th in SEC and we were 10yds and less than 1 pt per game below Bama for #2 defense in SEC last year.

You’re right, bad analogy on my part. I just want to see them put it together on both sides of the ball.