Will Stoops get it done this year?
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Stoops inherited a 2-10 team with a decimated roster. UK has been to 2 straight bowls now. We just signed the best high school player out of the state of Michigan, and UK is now considered the 2nd most influential recruiting program in the state of Ohio. That ought to answer your question. But if it doesn't, I predict 2018 will be UK's most succesful football season in more than 30 years.
The coaching staff without a doubt has recruited better players and has more individual talent on the field, especially on the defensive side. It’s time to see if that translates over to better production on the field as an overall group on a consistent basis.
Until the offense becomes more balanced and efficient in the passing game and can help put more points on the board, look for the same offensive approach and continued struggle to put teams away.
Until the offense becomes more balanced and efficient in the passing game and can help put more points on the board, look for the same offensive approach and continued struggle to put teams away.
6-6, 7-5 for Stoops. That's his ceiling and that's ok. Better than what we saw before him and in his earlier years.
I’ve had no issue with Coach Stoops and his effort. Historically, Coach Stoops teams and staff have shown routinely, a certain amount of unpreparedness in all four areas of a good football team.
Yea, the coaches upstairs should have seen the FL WR standing uncovered right in front of the UK bench & signaled to the sideline coaches to have the D cover the WR.. The coaches upstairs were screaming at the DB against FL near our GL to the extent he guessed the coaches screaming wanted him to come off the field & leaving us with 10 defenders. With lack of said screaming from upstairs my judgment is the DB would have stayed on the field. Now maybe those aren't glaring errors or errors at all.
If this is the case, I’m hoping we’ll make a change. 7 wins and a meaningless bowl isn’t good enough IMO. Have the steadily improve-8 wins consistency and a 9 sprinkled in. He’s being paid top 25 money, has to deliver top 25 results.
7-5 w/o 4 score losses is competitive to me. Not what I hope for but what I expect given our inherent disadvantages of being a small state with a relatively poor in-state talent base combined with a significant in-state competitor. Most small state schools don't face that. The only other places with those 3 negatives together I see are IA/ISU, KS/KSU, & OR/OSU, maybe OK/OSU. But no one else in SEC has all those.
I will agree in principle with you, but I don't think MS would ever lose his job winning 7 games every year...for one thing his contract calls for an automatic extension.
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Tennessee/Vandy, Ole Miss/MSU, South Carolina/Clemson fulfill all 3 of your criteria, although certainly not to the extreme extent that UK/UL do. Your overall point is definitely valid, and explains why UK and UL must recruit effectively out of state in order to maintain successful football and basketball programs. As we know, UL has responded to this challenge by cheating.
Future schedules are set to yield 7 wins even if we don’t perform to capability. I hope the fans and administration will demand more than just meeting minimum expectations.
They do not have all those issues. Both TN & SC are noticeably more populated with TN being 1.5x people plus both send considerably more instate talent to P5 schools. How you think MS doesn't have way more D1 talent than KY is a mystery. For 2008-17, MS had 443 FBS signees, TN 434, SC 394 - BTW, all more than unmentioned by you AR & MO - & KY 178. Net, clear disparity for each from KY.
LV's alleged cheating has nothing to do with my comments. They're a competing P5 school, my point, cheaters or not. Hoops and football shouldn't be conflated.
So you are saying the coaches didn't deliberately tell the DB to leave the field?
OK, I can understand that, communication error.
Sounds like a hell of a bet to me, but then I only do small bets the legal way, that way you get paid if you win. I would love to see that proposition at a sports book though, if I find it I will notify you so you can mortgage your house to bet on it, lol, I won't ever come close to mortgaging my house but I would surely take the opposite bet.
And Arkansas's in state competition is Arkansas State? And Missouri's is St Louis University?
He got it done for the last two years... Plus, he should have a better team this year... I don't know any reason to doubt him this year...
I agree! Why the negativity off a 7 5 season with more impact returners than ever in my life time
I honestly don't know how to evaluate QB's based on what I saw of our outside receivers. I thought our inside receivers did fine. Bowden and Bouvier were very effective as was Thomas. But those were all short routes. We need the outside receivers to make plays down field to open up the offense and those guys not only dropped good throws but also just didn't appear to even be capable of making plays. I thought Hoak made some nice down field throws but it just looked like a total waste of time even attempting it.
Hoak had by far the best command over the offense and it wasn't even close. However if there is nobody to make the play on the other end I don't know how we can go with him. The good news is Wilson was a lot faster than I expected. To me he looked like the fastest player on the fields. Several plays were blown dead because of the generous two hand touch rule. Wilson got sacked on one of the where the defended actually wasn't even within 15 feet of Wilson. He would have gained 40 yards on that play and might have even broken it for a score. Wilson had at least 3 such plays and it's not out unrealistic to think he would have easily broken 100 yards rushing for the game if it were a live game. We will have to go to a system that is much more dependent on QB runs if Wilson is the guy but that might be our best option right now.
The good news was the defensive line. This is without question the best defensive line we've had since Stoops has been here. Even better than the first group that had Dupree and Zadrius on the line. After watching the scrimmage I will repeat my earlier statement that Paschal is one of our 5 best defensive players. Having him starting at DE instead of being a reserve LB is a big improvement.
You could be right but take someone like SABAN, he can chew on a ref's ear for a half because he expects his assistants to manage the game while he is busy and if they don't, well I have seen him chew on his assistants a couple of times. So actually if the team goes downhill because your HC is arguing a terrible call, its actually the assistants fault in my eyes because they have to pick up their game.
Because it is proven. His teams regress as the season progresses, and has shown to be an inept game manager quite often. He was a couple of plays a year ago from completely crapping the bed and only having 4-5 wins. His OC's have been consistently awful, not to mention the defensive liabilities EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
And he was three plays away from finishing with 10 wins . . . . both your and my statistical facts are likely true of 90% of teams that won 7 games.
If you can count moral losses, pumpers can count moral victories.
You are what you record says you are. I agree with you on the first couple of sentences.
Yes, but other than that what did you find wrong with him?
Have you been talking to Sluggo?
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