Our rise has coincided with a historic down turn from several of our rivals in the east. Tennessee and Florida both experienced big league droughts during Stoops tenure, and South Carolina was in the wilderness after the relative halcyon days of their Spurrier era. How long do they all stay down? (I guess I shouldn’t include Tennessee here since we can’t beat them consistently anyway lol).
Our last 10 win season depended on getting a chance to play historically bad LSU and Florida teams and we still managed to give away at least one game we should have won. What happens when we go to 9 league games and the traditional East powers finally wake up? We are already playing with fire against mid majors, every year we start slow and look unprepared in those games. What happens when that’s ole miss or Texas instead of E Ky?
Stoops has certainly built a fine foundation but at this point we are paying him for the job he did 3-4 years ago. The job now is to compete and he doesn’t seem game for that challenge. Nothing against the guy, it’s just a gear he lacks. If this is what he wants to do, it can be done at Iowa or somewhere else but it isn’t going to play in the sec for much longer.
Our last 10 win season depended on getting a chance to play historically bad LSU and Florida teams and we still managed to give away at least one game we should have won. What happens when we go to 9 league games and the traditional East powers finally wake up? We are already playing with fire against mid majors, every year we start slow and look unprepared in those games. What happens when that’s ole miss or Texas instead of E Ky?
Stoops has certainly built a fine foundation but at this point we are paying him for the job he did 3-4 years ago. The job now is to compete and he doesn’t seem game for that challenge. Nothing against the guy, it’s just a gear he lacks. If this is what he wants to do, it can be done at Iowa or somewhere else but it isn’t going to play in the sec for much longer.