You must not remember Fran Curccis team that went 10 and 1 and was undefeated in SEC play.
WOW !!! SUMRALL and tulane drills navy
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People wake up. If you fire Stoops and hire another coach and he fails then you fire that one and hire another. Do it til you get it right. End of story.
We wanna date 10’s. But we’re a 6 ourselves. So in that case we better be filthy rich to make up for our looks. Damn, we don’t have a lot of money. We went to a couple parties and everyone was drunk and we shagged a couple 9’s. But then everyone sobered up. It was a good time but we can’t expect those chicks every time.
Brother nobody is out here accepting mediocrity. That’s lazy canon fodder. We all want the same thing. Sometimes it’s hard to recognize reality and at the same time it’s ok to hope for more. Our football program will simply never match the heights of our basketball program. I’m sorry.
I do hope that you can find some punctuation while strolling through fantasy land though.
I think you use that pay difference to ensure Sumrall has a quality staff, maybe use it to retain White and Marrow. But also use it to avoid putting a surcharge on tickets for the player payments. And put together a team focused on NIL fundraising and management. Not just for football but for all programs.
My fear is that if Stoops stays is that NIL resources will dry up, season ticket sales will plummet and the overall trajectory of the team will be on life support. Recruiting will be difficult and key players will transfer out. I think a change will reinvigorate tge fan base and you will see a surge in NIL resources much like we did with basketball. There’s just a lot of the very same feel around football right now as we had around basketball after flaming out last season.
If you just go off paper, this is true. It’s more about the trajectory of the program. Last 5 years? Up, down, or holding the line? I know where I think the consistent trajectory has been.
As of last week (Murray will obviously lower this) our Cats had the 45th toughest schedule of all FBS teams. There’s something like 135 teams. That’s barely top 1/3. Not all SEC schedules are created equal.
Just because you are a 6 doesn't mean you have to settle for a 1.
Curious to know why you think we are a 6?
Facilities?
Fan support?
Stadium?
What makes UK the ugly stepsister in the SEC??
bballcat you make some good observations. Now, I will add the "but's" to the story. Stoops has exceeded every coach based on what? Number of years as being head coach? I will give him that. Golden years - not so sure about that one. This will be his 5th losing season out of 12 - so barely .500 as to winning seasons. How did Rich Brooks compare to that? How many 7-6 season has he had - 4 - so that's 33%, those are basically .500 seasons. So, now lets look at that for percentages as to "winning seasons" - 3 seasons have had 8 or more wins. That's 25% of the seasons. Those winning seasons were now 4 seasons ago - think about that......the next 3 years should have been his best - but we have slipped back to where he was when he started.
Coach Stoops has done a lot of improvement at Kentucky. He basically tried to emulate two other Kentucky coaches - who were pretty successful here - Bear Bryant and Fran Curci. All three of them focused more recruiting time on players from states North of us. I remember when I attended UK, over 50 years ago - everyone talked about recruiting to the north of us - the old saying - "play in the Northern most school of the south's premiered conference!
Much of Coach Stoop's success was built on physicality, size and discipline. That is now not the case here. He plays vanilla football in a time of 31 flavors! His own success seems to be taking him down - by that he has spread himself very thin with other investments, with his children living across the country and with financial security that has removed his fire and ambition. He has given up on UK. He admitted last year when he accepted the A&M job - just to be jilted by them at the last minute.
It's time for a new blood from a Coach who has the fire that Stoops once had. A coach that is with the times.
Go Big Blue!
Was Curci able to sustain it or even repeat it?
I know the name, but I admit that was before my time …. and I’m not young!
If only it was that easy! Your post reveals that some fans think that’s it.
If your answer is the solution, then why hasn’t every team just utilized your plan?
Longest, most boring 3rd quarter in the history of modern football.
As a matter of fact, the entire game was one big bore job.
Zero excitement around the UKFB program right now. Including from the HC. ZERO.
the "should have been an interception pass" was kinda it for me.
That's okay 👍 except it we're Kentucky football we are not suppose to have high expectations enjoy that boring ass football and being the doormat of the sec stay the course hell wait to next year the shitshow gets even better
I've been "waiting till next year" for over 60 years following UK Football.
About to run out of " next years". Have longed for a good FB program for decades.
Unfortunately, the UK administration doesn't share my passion for hiring a winning coach in an effort to build a winning culture at UK.
It is also unfortunate that many UK fans are basketball first/or basketball only fans, and for some odd reason they do not want a winning football program at UK.
it's almost as bad as watching "Grass Roots"
I love both. It's amazing though how we suffer with football....overall of course.
Change can make a difference all we can do is hope cat better than excepting the norm like some on here are telling us hang in there brother
It is painful to be a UK football fan.
And of all the painful seasons I have endured, this may be the most painful of all.
Why? Because we have the talent on this team to compete with the best teams.
Unfortunately, we do not have the coaching horsepower needed to compete at the highest level of the SEC.
And that is painfully obvious to the fans who know football.
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