No offense, but it wouldn't take a whole heck of a lot to have improved upon Joker's terrible tenure. If Joker Phillips is your measuring stick for keeping a coach around (in year FOUR, btw) you're going to have decade upon decade of mediocre football teams (like we've seen for quite a while because of low expectations and commitment from individuals that have this mentality in key positions at UK).
And roster turnover? My gosh man, some of you act like his recruits have only been here for one year. His first class is now SENIORS. Yes, SENIORS. Not freshmen, SENIORS. In 2016 it doesn't take 10 years to see some progress from a football team. This isn't 1950 where coaches get a decade to show what they've got. The dude has shown time and time again that he's in over his head, I'm sorry, but it's the truth. He's hired 3 different offensive coordinators in 4 years. He continues to keep on first time defensive coordinator DJ Eliot because they're close buddies. He hired Craig Naivar. He hired Shannon Dawson. He hired Tommy Mainord. He hired John Schlarman. He hired Jimmy Brumbaugh. He chose not to even have a special teams coach at all for one season (which still boggles my mind). He loses close games because he's always running around like a chicken with his head cut off on the sidelines during the game because he's so emotional and all over the place. A lot of times you look at him and he has that Joker deer in the headlights look like he's just completely in over his head and the moment is too big for him. Some guys are cut out to be coordinators and some are cut out to be head coaches. Stoops strikes me as more of a coordinator. You don't see Nick Saban and Les Miles running around on the sidelines during the game, you DO see Will Muschamp doing that.
I love how we get these "terrible" coaches but none of our fans sit back and look at who HAND PICKED these guys in the first place. It's not like he made one or two bad hires, he has CONTINUALLY made questionable coaching hires, questionable in game decisions, questionable schematic and game prep decisions, I mean the list goes on and on. THOSE AREN'T THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO BE FIXED WITH MORE TIME.
How many players under his coaching have actually gotten better? Seriously, think about that for second..who is a player that you can look at and say 'wow, Stoops really coached him up and developed that kid'. Under Brooks I could name basically every player on the roster as being NOTICEABLY better from the start of their career to the finish..under Stoops a lot of these player's best years are their first and then they seem to gradually decline or stay the same. THAT'S COACHING, not talent. No one is expecting him to go out and beat Alabama and LSU, but my gosh, he can barely beat teams with MUCH less talent like Louisiana Lafayette and Eastern Kentucky IN YEAR THREE.
The dude is an emotional roller coaster and our team has continually reflected that during his tenure.
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