If Indiana can have a football team so can we. But we have to have the right people in place to do it. Many people don’t realize this, but UK is tied for 3rd for most CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies and we have multiple billionaires(or hundred millionaires) with ties to the school. They include the owner of the largest stable in Kentucky worth 8.5 billion dollars, the crafts, and Kroger CEO. With the fanbase we have we can compete.
Indiana won the ultimate dice roll, Fox. They didn’t beat out stiff competitors or blue bloods in the hiring process. They happened to draw a royal flush with a HOF level coach and I even bet you he leaves in a few years after they have a couple of less than stellar seasons. We are statistically unlikely to EVER get a coach like that the way they did. I cast no shade on anyone who hopes for that though.
I understand that but why stick with what we have rather than try to find that kind of coach out there.
Oh no, I’m fully on board with “let’s roll the dice” ourselves. Why not? I just don’t have hopes of becoming the next Indiana. Can we be Vandy? Sure, and that would make me happy.
I just want a team I can actually root for. I didn’t hardly watch the game today because I had a feeling we would quit. If you can’t muster anything better than a 41-0 loss with a bowl on the line against your hated rival then you don’t deserve my time.
I get that. I was disappointed in the performance but because I keep expectations low for FB, it won’t destroy my day. But I hear you, could be an age thing. If you’re older and saw the football days of old, you can kind of survive anything lol
LSU is about to hire Lane Kiffin, the coach they wanted. Meanwhile, Kentucky can’t even hire an elite coach for our basketball program. We certainly aren’t going to get anyone decent for the football program. Can’t even get a former player-turned-coach, we get to watch him go to Florida of all places and fans don’t even want him.
I’ve never seen a Kentucky program in a good shape. Stoops had done a good job but he’s been dead for years now. These days where you can pay guys anyone can compete. We still get SEC money. That’s enough to have a competitive team.
I wish I believed that was true. The salaries of those top football programs are insane…AND they have prestige.
Aberdeen has done pretty well this year, and started at times for a national championship team. Without him the Louisville game isn't even close. I'm of opinion that Kentucky is just as well off if not better with him over Pierre.
Meanwhile programs like Cincinnati, Indiana and probably Vanderbilt are going to have gone to the playoffs.
Going to the playoffs means diddly squat now, and will continue to mean even less as it gets expanded. About half the top 25 gets to go now
We will make them time to time. Would have made one a couple times in the Stoops era already.
You don’t seem to understand ball that well so trying to argue with a neophyte is an exercise in futility. I took it easy on ya to spare your feelings.
The highest we got was 14th going into the final CFP rankings in 2018.
Most of the teams that make the playoff have zero chance to win it. It’s just a more glorified bowl for half the teams that get in it. There’s a gulf, an ocean, and a planet between Cincinnati and Ohio State
For your way, "if they stay healthy" was the key. Yet you are ripping Mark when he has two top players out. Really fair lol
I hope thats exactly how it goes. I think folks here have gotten so used to Cal's one and done crap that they have forgotten that it takes time to build a great program from absolute scratch. Chandler took a huge jump this season, he will take an even bigger jump next season. Give Mark time and he will eventually have great teams with 3-4 Sr starters, 3-4 Soph/Jr's, and talented freshman. THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS
I am. It’s like in basketball making the NCAA tournament is such a big deal, but it isn’t really. Once we make the playoffs, it’ll lose its luster quickly. Once you get there and lose by 30-40 points and realize the gap from top to bottom in those playoffs is insane. Largely because we have less money on average in this state and it requires a lot of it to be extremely good in football and basketball. There are a lot of fans who live and die by basketball but won’t go as hard for football. You’d have to have even more booster support for football than basketball because you’re paying a lot more players. Less money per player but a lot more spots have to be filled. Also, pure talent matters more in football —- it’s an extremely physical sport and you aren’t going to overcome lineman that are bigger, stronger, more athletic and more talented. You have to pay to win to stay peak in football.
I don’t think that would be the end of the world. We have eight or nine potential returnees and there’s the portal. Besides, it seems pretty certain we end up with Christian Collins anyway.
You’re absolutely right. Tennessee is miles ahead of us in football. They get to playoffs, completely ******* spanked 42-17. Were there fans living on euphoria afterward for making the playoffs? No! They were humiliated for losing 42-17 and that’s the moment when you think you’re close to the top and realize you’re on the 3rd floor of a 50 story building.
Jeez man you definitely think very highly of yourself but chat gpt don’t make you an expert. Calling ppl fwads really speaks volume of your character and to not be worried about our season is just insane.
Nah, thats where you are wrong. All the people who hated Cal year after year are still addicted to attack mode and are going after Mark unfairly. Two things are going to make your "doesn't matter what you think" equal, no, it doesn't matter what you think. One, contrary to some of the unrealistic lunatics calling for Marks head, the folks in charge at UK are sane, and will see that he is doing a fantastic job considering the shambles he inherited and Two, he has never and will never crapped all over the program and the fanbase the way Cal did
There’s nothing sane about accepting 10-loss seasons every year, and the deepest run a Sweet 16, when no other program of similar prestige as UK’s would accept that.
Don’t know what the hell you’re talking about with this Chat gpt ********. I'm not spewing nonsense here, just basic hoops knowledge. You don't win it all in November, that's not how it works. People with a brain know coaches are experimenting with lineups and stuff early on to gear up for a deep March run. Losing a couple games to tough teams without a full squad and freaking out is just ridiculous.
I think if he can’t make it work out this year, he’ll have to make some massive staff changes going into next year. He might not have a choice if there’s a new AD.
We are not going to the NIT troll. This is not the end of the basketball program.
I didn't defend Cal to the end lol. But I am not a childish keyboard banger that cant recognize he did a heck of a job here for a long time.
I said I would take 10 losses as long as we got to AT LEAST the Sweet 16 every year. That means sweet 16 or past that for tge uneducated.
The point is you can make the sweet sixteen without 10 losses, with this roster? it would be hard. but not impossible
From what I recall we can't beat "so called" football schools at basketball anymore. Ohio St and Alabama have our number. That's what infuriates me to no end. You think those fans would be okay with UK beating their football teams? Our athletics department isn't well when basketball can't dominate those schools whose primary focus is football. We've accepted mediocrity!!!!!
You absolutely could...if your star center and preseason starting PG werent out. Pick a team man...Purdue? Take Braden Smith and Kaufman-Renn out for a while and tell me you are holding them to the same standard. Zona? Take out Jaden Bradley and Koa Peat and tell me how that looks. Duke? Subtract Isaiah Evans and Cameron Boozer and tell me how that looks. Troll favorite Louisville? You really think they are beating us if likely Brown Jr and Sananda Fru had been on the shelf? Really? But let us have injured starters and no man, we are still supposed for go 36-4. Bullcrap dude. Unrealistic, unfair, spoiled crybaby fans. Suck it up and support the team
I share in your frustration for sure, but my post was about the football team. I’m still hopeful that we can have a great season in basketball. We will have to see how we perform against the football schools this season.
