Excuse?? That is reality. Unlike your comment that he has had 5 recruiting classes.
Kentucky defensive turnaround impressive
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Well I guess beating bad teams is good and loosing to good teams is good. Yay go team. Sorry but I was done with excuses 15 years ago. What did Florida do to us? I guess you'll be cheering if ul only beats us by 30.
3, even if you count the first one (which most people.with a brain would not). His 4th class are still hs seniors right now and we don't know who is going to be apart of it yet.
I didn't say it was impressive. Just that you've got bad facts.
Fact: we aren't very good and the schemes are poorly executed and undisciplined.
It counts although you want to give him a pass on it. He still coached those guys. It's okay if you like the direction of the program. I just don't.
Oh I know to the ones who want him fired it will count. BUT people who really uderstand the dynamics of recruiting wouldn't hold that against him.
And by the way, he coached many of Joker's recruits too. They were not SEC material and no coach could make them that way. That is why recruiting is so important.
I almost wonder if Stephen Johnson is hurt. Albeit easier defenses, he passed the ball pretty well against USC and NMST. He took some nasty shots against Bama, wonder if he took a shot that hurt him a bit in that game.
Or Stoops is right and this new relationship is working well. Gran and Hinshaw have the same method. Maybe Stoops needed to be more involved on the field all along.
I was told Barker aggravated his back against S Miss. that means that he was healthy for a little more than one-half of a football game. I would be inclined to hold off conclusions based upon that data.
UK played Vandy and USC as you would expect a good defense to play those teams. Bad defenses give bad offenses career days and let teams get healthy. UK is not doing that, any more.
It's actually 4, if you count the first one. 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. Since most of our freshman are redshirting, he's only had 2 full ones, with players that are actually playing throughout the class.
I understand we still look like most years. That's what I don't care for. Maybe you like it but not me.
Perennial, or perineal? The latter is funnier, though not, I think, what you meant. Autocorrect get you? Did you mean to do it? If so, funnier still... you very punny.
I have seen nothing from Barker that impresses me......I know he hasn't played much, but so far I don't see anything. Another Towles bust so far.....
I'll take Johnson so far over Barker. At least he is not a deer in headlights.
He's a guy who didn't have other options out of JUCO and got to JUCO by losing a QB competition and transferring out of a middling FCS team. He can improve but I think the NMST game is the outlier, not what you've seen lately. Strong winds hurt against Vandy but he is what he is.
If the first half of Southern Miss did not impress, it may be impossible to impress.
Clearly, Johnson made some bad throws in the Vandy game to open receivers, but many times the receivers weren't open. Although he probably shouldn't have thrown some of the passes in tight coverage, I thought Vandy's secondary was better than ours. I sense our wide receivers are letting down a little because of the success we've had in the run game. Plus, they're going up against SEC defensive backs now, which makes a huge difference.
Johnson stepped up and seemed to make all the winning plays necessary with his feet, when he had to. If he can pull his passing game up to anywhere near the level of the NMS game, combined with our running game, we can have a pretty strong, ball control, offense. I think 200 yards passing is a reasonable goal for each game, because it appears our run game is becoming consistent. Clearly, defenses are going to gear up to stop the run, so Johnson needs to be effective through the air. He simply has to be .....
Johnson stepped up and seemed to make all the winning plays necessary with his feet, when he had to. If he can pull his passing game up to anywhere near the level of the NMS game, combined with our running game, we can have a pretty strong, ball control, offense. I think 200 yards passing is a reasonable goal for each game, because it appears our run game is becoming consistent. Clearly, defenses are going to gear up to stop the run, so Johnson needs to be effective through the air. He simply has to be .....
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I agree about Barker...At least Johnson made some plays with his legs. I'm not sure Barker would have made those but maybe he hits a few of the passes. I think it all depends on how antsy Barker would be in the pocket and whether he can develop some timing with the receivers (including Conrad).
I still have a concern about depth on the DL. I think the LBs have been playing MUCH better, need the DBs to step it up some more IMO. I do think making the stop at the end will provide confidence for the defense. I think there may still have been memories of failures rather than successes, so the stop could be huge going forward.
No one likes the prevent defense, although, I would not be surprised to find one on this board.
I try to stay out of these "back and forths," but facts aren't excuses. What he said is fairly accurate (Stoops' first class was put together in more than 2 weeks,; ore like 2 months, but the point is valid IMO).
Punny or bunny?
I hear Tyrions voice as I read your posts. He would call it as he sees it as well.