Hope Stoops makes it , he is probably getting 2 more yrs, but I would give10% change he makes it.
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Reckless, how? Think their fan's care? Was Cal a reckless hire? How is that working out? Same as with BP.
I don't think Coach Stoops has lived up to what most fans expect in his 4th year. However, with getting to a bowl game and improvement in his coaching staff, and much better management of the game, he definitely deserves another year. If he doesn't go at least 7-5 next year, with all the returning starters, he needs to be let go, and Neal Brown brought in. If he can't win with all the returning starters he will have, he sure can't win when their gone. It's time UK quits accepting a coach who can just get us to a bowl. Heck, half the teams in football get a bowl bid.
OLD STOLL FIELD GUY!
OLD STOLL FIELD GUY!
Please don't get me started on HS...CM(get his name off the wall) Newton and Cliff Hagan were both gutless for not doing what was best just like MB with BP & ML.
Your last sentence is what HS has said on a number of occasions about UK's situation.
LOL You could be right even if it is a stupid question.
Was rhere a handful of P5 teams needing a coach that were worse than us, let alone one with a job opening-------and UK didn't have one at the time. Name all the schools that offered him a job, I can think of ONE, and jurich may have had an influence in that, birds of a feather flock together.
This cannot be stressed enough.
We have some incredibly ****** fans.
We have some incredibly ****** fans.
"Petrino- okay, he is dirty and slimey but honestly only thing anyone remembers and talks about is they are 1 spot from play off and he is coaching prohibitive Hesiman winner."
Apparently you don't come on here very often if you think no one remembers.
Maybe you are one of those fans that needs to improve your "toughness and mental".
Just what is your purpose with this whole thread, quit living in the past, if we had been a charter member of the Big Least we would have probably had a much better record over the years, there was never a doubt Stoops was going to be here this year, and there is no doubt he will be here next year, live with it..
I doubt if he needs support like yours, with friends like you who needs enemies, and there are a lot of fans that think we can and will win 7 or 8 games next year, even with what probably will be a tougher schedule, for one thing we WILL NOT lose to Southern Miss, one up to start with... I think our team will be tougher, we didn't quit against Thug U even after we lost our best deep threat AND our best defensive player..
Funny that none of the media talk about his past when they talk about Jackson being Heisman candidate and Otis making playoffs... It's all about the winning
Because his team is at least in the running for a national play-off spot.
How good would any of these teams be if they lost their top 3 QB's on the roster at the end of last year and eligible to play this year? That seems like a fair and pertinent question to me. That is where UK found itself when Barker went down and Towles and Phillips had transferred seeking PT. Johnson was a rushed emergency JUCO I'm unsure any major program was recruiting. That to me seems like a pretty good coaching job in itself.
What does that have to do with no Power 5 school going after him in 2012?
Boy they sure showed him, look how much better they are doing. If I were a Uvel fan I would be thanking my lucky star that all of those morally superior teams passed on BP
No doubt there is nothing hard about being morally superior to UL---I for one value that more than football.
BP has UL on the verge of the playoff and playing for a national championship.
We will never sniff that playoff or probably even the SEC East in my lifetime. Nothing baffling about it imo if a school is serious about winning football.
BP had been at Otis for four years now with no hint of any kind if problems. His wife has evidently forgiven him of his transgression and they are still together and their family is still together. He is is making big$$$$$ to do what TJ hired him to do and they are on the cusp of doing something great with no issues on his part...what kind of moral high ground have we set here?...maybe if MB , who is supposedly a devout Christian, was smart enough he could have worked the same deal in helping BP get his life squared away along with hiring a proven winner for the fb program...winner..winner
The discussion is not based around the success he has had at Louisville. The discussion is based around the fact that none of the 13 Power 5 who had openings even spoke to the guy. Hell, none of the 5 Big East or Conference USA schools who had openings spoke to him either. None. He was not a viable candidate for any large program in 2012. If he wasn't a viable candidate, why discuss that he was an option?
It's one thing to do it 20 months after the Arkansas thing went down and he already coached a season elsewhere. It's another thing to hire him 8 months after the fact. I think that is what is getting lost here.
I never understand the one sided nature of these types of posts. Well really most posts in general. When Stoops was hired he was an up and coming coach from the Bob Stoops lineage. Everyone was behind him.In fact I do not remember any negative comments that were not squashed upon their utterance.
He does not have head coaching experience was countered by look at his family tree and he is a defensive genius.
It is only after the fact that he is being bashed. Would we like him to do better. You betcha. But baby steps need to be taken. In the next 5 years he will have us winning.
I am beginning to see the strategy behind the contract extension. Follow me on this.
At the beginning of his 4th year, fans were calling loudly for his head, especially after losses to Southern Miss and Florida. But regardless of how this year played out, Barnhart was not going to fire him. He had reason to do so, poor play. But he knows we need stability.
Best way to get stability is to maintain the coaching staff, as much as possible. Barnhart can rest back and tell everyone he cannot remove Stoops because the cost is too high with the buyout.
Fans understand this and we even have complained about openly. Some still want him gone. But again Barnhart can just shrug his shoulders and say the cost, the cost, cost is to high.
All of this gives Stoops time and the opportunity to change the dynamic that is Kentucky football.
I should rephrase that. I didn't mind the extension. I minded the big buyout associated with it.
I don't care if UL faces Dallas in the Super Bowl this year. I'm still shocked UofL hired him. Just totally lost respect for Jurich on that one (and yes, I once respected him). Agree to disagree and things like that.
I knew when I clicked that this would be a really dumb post. When I got to this part you proved me correct. If you think that Is true you honestly have no business commenting about football.
You are the joke, Colorado was terrible or turrible as Barkley says. They have not upgrades in facilities until this year and they were awful. Colorado has big surrounding states to recruit to like UK with Ohio . Get a clue man.
This board may have the dumbest fanbase of all time. We were a major dumpster fire when Stoops took over. Bottom line is other coaches have turned their programs around in a quicker time frame and we still have not beaten a good team or a team that most would call a program changer.
Funny thing. I heard on Radio interviews on 2 different stations, ESPN Mike and Mike, XM college. Weird but I did not hear about motorcycles or Falcons or girlfriends. I heard questions about playoff, Lamar Jackson, no mention of anything negative except Wakey gate and stolen play book.
It worked out like Jurich said, people will talk about it for 2 weeks and then it's about FB.
He has been proven right.
The reason I bring up these coaches originally is UK was desperate, we have been bad forever, mark of stupidity is to keep doing the same approach and settle for 6 wins a year. It was time to pull Cal out of your hat if you are UK and hire Leach, Petrino or whomever.
Auburn and LSU did not get involved or Miami or other power schools didn't have to because they have tradition and success. Jurich has out maneuvered Barnhart at every turn, they are great in BB, FB, Baseball, women's, expanding stadium, simply crushed UK in corporate sponsoring and donations. UK is lowering attendance and we are dicking around trying to beat AP to get to 6 wins. Time to quit the excuse making and win.
As we pray upon the alter of cackling pipes that is Petrino , let us give thanks for the hotrodedness mastermind and snatch hiring deity on the catpaw . Shoulda coulda woulda hire as we rewind the dvr of anger , what's this more td's in my general direction ? Coulda been me you us , dagger , it's him them they . Wife don't care but we do ? Understand none of it . 
Leach lovers dismiss why he was fired from TT after a successful run. Why would they fire the greatest coach in the history of fb.Why will nobody else touch the greatest offensive mind ever. I mean he put up points in the Big 12 and PAC 12. Nobody else can do that.
In all fairness the main story in the Leach saga at TT was found to be mostly made up by a disgruntled parent and player.
As far as bad stories go , we have a basketball coach that probably (unfairly) received as much or more negative press than a Leach or Petrino hire ever would.
Those schools missed an opportunity to hire a winning coach. I find it interesting that winning in bball is important enough that it's okay to take a chance on a coach that had coached teams that ultimately suffered ncaa penalties. Whereas, on the other hand, winning at Football is not considered to be quite as important.
I can guarantee you that if Calipari had been caught doing what Petrino did 8 months before we hired a bball coach, he wouldn't be the coach. All I am pointing at is the timing. No one was going to touch him 8 months after the fact. If we would have had the opportunity 20 months after the fact and a school in between like UL did, then that is a different story.
A little disappointing if you ask me. I would venture to say the guys all calling out Petrino and saying we are better than this and we would have never hired this wife cheater, etc. I would bet the house most of them probably voted for our President elect, he was caught on tape making disparaging comments to women etc married 3 times. Wasn't enough to keep him from being elected but by God cheat on your wife or have a mistress than can't coach our FB team. Come on
The point in all of this, excuses are done. 4th year, no more BS, no more trying to get bowl eligible in 11th week trying to beat an OVC school. I am a Stoops supporter, Go back and read for the 4 years, I have defended him and John Schlarman, too many people doing too many good things for us not to be better and more relevant. Just no excuses anymore, same bs needs to stop.
The point in all of this, excuses are done. 4th year, no more BS, no more trying to get bowl eligible in 11th week trying to beat an OVC school. I am a Stoops supporter, Go back and read for the 4 years, I have defended him and John Schlarman, too many people doing too many good things for us not to be better and more relevant. Just no excuses anymore, same bs needs to stop.
Matthew Mitchell ring a bell? All that for a women's bb coach! You don't think that wasn't fishy?
No legitimate shot at the playoff anymore.