Everybody can cry microwave, depth, and whatever other excuses you can dream up but the real reason Stoops and some of the fan base is at odds is all the talk and no action. Flashback to the day Mark Stoops was hired. I don't think anyone reasonably thought we would be lighting in the bottle but Stoops did talk UK competing in the SEC East. He brought that upon himself. All that talk and then UK goes out and loses in the opener to WKU. I'm not faulting Mark Stoops for that but all that talk and then the same old UK product. That's not the best way to start a relationship. Flash forward 3 years later, has anything really changed? Still a lot of talk (coach better, execute better, be tougher) and still pretty much the same product. UK beat 2 mediocre SEC teams in back to back years (USC/Vandy & USC/Mizz) We still wiffed at some golden opportunities with Florida 2 years in a row and 0-2 against UL. That never helps to be winless against your rival and to actually look worse a year later at home than you did on the road.
Stoops pretty much has one last chance with Gran. We're essentially spinning our wheels as a program. We go into year 4 with more questions than answers. Questions at the QB position again for the 4th straight year. Questions about organization on the field and questions about coaching. Sure we're recruiting well but are we developing and are we that much of a better program than we were when Stoops was hired? It doesn't look like but our coach talks like we are. Again, little less talk and a lot more action.
