Cubbies actually came close from time to time and won division titles. You're only setting yourself up for more disappointments. We are picked the finish last or 2nd to last in the SEC and with 4 wins.
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Hmmm, we have broke blue on one end of the spectrum and Ted on the other!
Saw a fan of the Cubs he said”If they don’t break your heart they aren’t the Cubbies”!! Kinda like my Cats but they are my ride and die team!! Curry and Joker almost made me not watch my Cats. Stoops broke a lot of bad strings here. Hopefully he can right this ship
You seem to be discounting our 10 win season. We had a chance to go into first place but Jeff Badet let a sure TD pass turn into an interception against UGA. You are really down on the team maybe a good time to cheer for another team.
Yeah, no coaches want a top ten salary with the lowest expectations in the SEC.
Not at all. There isn't much to discount. We beat mostly cupcakes and SEC teams that were either in rebuild mode or a dumpster fire. Then we made some meaningless bowl game where several of the opposing teams better players sat out.
And considering there were only 2 of those in 13 years, why would anyone hang their hat on those? Lulz
Not at all. There isn't much to discount. We beat mostly cupcakes and SEC teams that were either in rebuild mode or a dumpster fire. Then we made some meaningless bowl game where several of the opposing teams better players sat out.
And considering there were only 2 of those in 13 years, why would anyone hang their hat on those? Lulz
I will not be watching any games this year, but I will give you some friendly advice, if you are still hopeful and want to watch the first game of the season, you will need to do that on 8/30/25. If you wait until 8/31/25 you are going to miss the game.
Is it really so hard to believe that a UK fan can get tired of being Charlie Brown, hoping that you will finally get to kick the football? Last year I was full of hope, and we got embarrassed by South Carolina, but then we played Georgia close and beat Ohio and Ole Miss. I thought maybe South Carolina was just one of those games. And then we lose the rest of the games except for Murray State. With the clincher being getting hammered by U6.Louisville or Tennessee fan.
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How's duh-ville looking for you this year? See ya, not playing your game.
No room on the bandwagon when he gets it turned around, though this post seems disingenuous. Before Stoops, the avg win total for the previous 40-50 years was about 4 wins a season. He took us on our greatest run in history and one season, after 8 straight bowl games, where he reverted to mean(that means hit the historical avg) and you are jumping ship? That's not a fan, that's a front runner. Go root for OSU or Bama, you'd fit right in. You have until kickoff to come to your senses or your #BBN card is revoked.
One data point does not make a trend line. Anyone making sweeping judgments after one terrible season is a sensationalist and we have quite a few on social media right now. If we go 4-8 this year and get blown out repeatedly, then we have a trend. If he wins 5-6 games and the players show discipline and fight, then it was an aberration and the trend line is reestablished, waiting for a second year to confirm.
Expecting 8-9 wins a year is toddler level logic after 50 years of hoping for a single bowl game.
Again toddler level logic. He may have more money than previous UK coaches, but so does every one else in the SEC, so comparatively we have barely risen off Vandy.
More toddler level debating scheme. Nice try, starting withe COVID year which was a 10 hgame SEC only schedule and trying to make the data look worse than it is. He had 8 straight bowl games after UK averaged 1-2 bowl games a decade.
Was it not the same for everyone that year?
Why did we do so bad but others didn't?
I started with 2020 because that's this decade. If we include the previous decade it's even worse. I literally gave him a benefit by not counting his first several seasons. Lulz.
Oh, wow, 8 meaningless bowl games where anyone with 6 wins gets one. How exciting!
Pretty classy of a so called UK fan stating that he/she/it wishes someone would die as well as calling them a retard. If you are the example of that "better" fan, I'll pass.
If you were paying attention to the Covid year we got screwed. Almost every team had a bye week before playing us. We got sent to Bama short handed no love from the sec office. Once again you are discounting all our good seasons. I don’t remember UF discounting besting us 31 straight years. UT liked to crow when they had a long streak on us. I will enjoy every win we get in the SEC. Nothing we had done seems to satisfy you.
Wow, just WOW! Did you really just say that if a top ten paid coach, that has been given more resources than any UK football coach in history and is heading into 13 years on the job wins 5-6 games that would be good????? That is some toddler level reasoning right there. I still can't believe you just said winning 5-6 games would be a good sign.
I don't give a rats azz about U6. Like I said they play and have played in crappy football conferences for their entire existence and yet they are still barely a .500 winning team all time. If they played in the SEC for their entire existence, they would have an all-time winning percentage of somewhere around .300.
OMG, this is so embarrassing. We played the same all SEC schedule as all the other SEC teams. We just sucked due to **** coaching.
Lol, you're really using UF and UT trash taking an in conference opponent as some metric that we were actually good? LULZ.
Nothing that stoops has done had really been satisfying. I don't get excited beating teams we are supposed to beat. Sorry you're easily satisfied.
This proves your completely ignorant about the covid year and most likely everything else UK football related.
Or it just proves I'm not a weakass, complacent fan that just makes excuses for inadequate performance by the coaching staff.
Also, of the 10 SEC games we played that year, 3 were against teams coming off a bye. UGA, Bama and Mizzou.
Are you saying other SEC teams didn't face similar circumstances that year or pretty much every year?
Now, what's the next excuse?
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Stoops has done a good job at UK at increasing the level of talent but I would be hard pressed to call him a really good football coach. Hes certainly not worthy of being a top ten paid coach. He coaches scared, his teams are poorly disciplined, His teams are not well balanced, can’t develop QB’s and he has never learned clock management. Sorry stoops is not the best coach than UK can ever get. What life he breathed into the program he has sucked it back out. That is why everyone will consider 6 wins a great accomplishment this year.
Good for you! Nobody cares.
Guys, this is so simple.
Stop feeding the trolls. It’s what they want
Stop it , Then they go away
Stop feeding the trolls. It’s what they want
Stop it , Then they go away
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Good advice, I just placed two losers on Ignore.
Toddler's look at life through a small lens, which is why they focused on the micro. Short attention spans. People with perspective look at body of work and trends over time to evaluate performance, which is what I do for a living in finance. From 2016-2023 Stoops nearly doubled UK's avg win total and had the greatest 8 game stretch in school history. A toddler can't conceive nuance and look at last year as something terrible that should not ever happen again, but still be able to recognize the history that proceeded that was above reasonable expectations. A toddler also doesn't have the patience to let things play out, to see if their thesis holds true or the introspection to recognize maybe they jumped to conclusion without a large enough data set. And I won't bother getting into how common projection is with toddlers.
We played a ten game SEC schedule and won more games than our historical avg wins. I don't know everything, but I analyze data sets for a living, so am happy to debate that with any one, but that wasn't the point. The point was he used the COVID year as the first year to evaluate Stoops, leaving out some of his better years in order to skew the evidence to bolster his argument. Again, looking through a microscope when discussing a telescope issue.
Yes he had an awesome run from 2016- the 5-0 start in 2022. Since then you can see the drop off in so many areas. The ole Miss game changed the season and things haven’t been the same. Yes they won 7 game that is historically good for UK, but anyone with eyes seen that season ended in disaster. I don’t remember the year of his divorce, and only mentioning that because it messes with a person. It was like they had arrived then the wheels came off. You win that game, Levis plays against SC and they’re 7-0 going to Tenn. the were until the were not.
Since then the blue collar mentality is gone. A diva mentality had replaced it. The toughness of program is gone. They had analysts calling them soft and they were correct. Stoops lost control of the program and a lot was him and his own issues with discipline. He says he is instilling discipline and that blue collar mentality. I am rooting for him to do it. Hopefully with all the changes, addition by subtraction, plus adding some older guys that have something to prove they can turn it around.
More than winning 8-10 games, I want to see them playing hard and disciplined. I want to see them back to were Kirby said he hated playing UK. Yes he won every time but UK made them earn it. They knew they had been in a fight, especially the trenches. I want to see that blue collar identity that he brought to the program. Games last year like SC were an embarrassment. They did have the good game against UGA and OM but then flopped against Vandy and AU. 3 years ago UK a was false start from being 6-0. Since they’ve been 13-20. The wheels came off and Stoops lost control. Did he get it back this off season, who knows? In a couple weeks we will start seeing it play out.
I agree with you, I was calling the Anon1755whatever-guy clueless..
You do realize UK has three 10 win seasons in over 70 years? They are a big deal no matter how much you Stoops haters would like to erase or diminish them.
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All true and reasonable. Last year was an embarrassment and can't continue. Stoops needs to get the ship turned around and headed back in the right direction or his seat should become hot, though with his buyout it is unreasonable for anyone to expect a firing in less than 2-3 years, unless something drastic changes to the AD's income. I see signs of a turnaround, but, like everyone else, am waiting to see it on the field.
Great advice, Rock! Thanks for giving me the metaphorical slap I needed. If you spend your time arguing with fools, then eventually you become one too.
Yep...... they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience
Your toddler logic is cute. Yes, last year was an embarrassment, but I would say that 7 wins the year before and 7 wins the year before that was also an embarrassment for a 13 year, top ten paid coach, and a program that has invested a lot in the program. If our idiot AD hadn't gave Stoops a contract like he was the next Saban I would not be so critical. But hey you did say that if Stoops manages to win at least 6 games this year you would consider that good. Nothing will ever change your mind, I used to be like you and happy with UK football being barely mediocre, but not anymore. You said I was unrealistic wanting UK football to be a team that you could expect to win just 8-9 games a year. I say you are unrealistic when you said a coach that has been with the team for 13 years and is a top ten paid coach wins at least 6 games this year that would be good.
Example 1A below..... guy just wants to engage and argue.
Toddler logic is coming on here and commenting that the he/she/it was done watching this year and then getting upset when most don't care whether he/she/it watches or not. Why is he/she/it still here if they are done? Do everyone a favor and take the rest of the season off starting now.