We had a post like this every week since our last loss, so I don't want to break prescient... I don't want anything out of place for this game...
This is a MUST WIN!!!
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Read the OP. It's for superstitious purposes
I don't know that it is a MUST WIN, however, it is extremely important contest!!!
So fired! Call him a cab and start the bus!
Careful. Someone will agree with us in earnest.
I hav teh best sorcerers and the told me abt Stips afar. Sended teh info too Jerry Tipthole. Get rekt, nubs.
I thought this was a foregone conclusion, Stoops is fired if we win out, beat Alabama in SEC title game, and go on to the playoffs. Or was it he would get an extension? I always get those 2 mixed up
Every week, someone says the next game is a must win. In some cases, people are fishing for an excuse to slam Stoops. In this case, Gary has his tongue in his cheek. Anyway, no football team on earth faces must wins every week. From the beginning, I predicted 4-5 wins this year, then 7 wins in 2017. So far, this season has played out as I thought it might. I still believe this is likely to be a 5 win season, but there are several caveats. I will repeat what I have said about today's matchup from the beginning, with 1 revision because Steve Johnson is our quarterback. Kentucky has recently won a couple of home games that presented favorable matchups. Today's game is on the road. Mark Stoops has won 1 SEC road game. Ever. Even with recent injuries, Missouri's defense is more than good enough to keep constant pressure on Steve Johnson today. And Drew Locke is more than good enough to move the football against our defense. So the key to today's game will be time of possession. Kentucky must avoid turnovers and heavily control time of possession to keep Locke and Damarea Crockett off the field. With Charles Harris rushing off the edge from his blind side, I do not believe Johnson will be successful in Kentucky's passing game. So for Kentucky to win today, Boom Williams and Benny Snell will need to rush for at least 300 yards between them, so that Kentucky can sustain drives and burn clock. This is possible, but Kentucky's margin for error with mistakes and turnovers will be thin. It probably adds up to a loss on the road. This morning, I read Mark Story's game prediction. Story says Kentucky's defensive line and linebackers are better than Missouri's. Kentucky fans (and apparently Story) overreact after both good and bad weeks. If Kentucky loses today, which is likely, the Stoops bashers will be right back out in force. But for the rest of this season, the key to success is moving the football on the ground with Boom and Snell, reducing mistakes and turnovers, controlling time of possession. Johnson's passing game must be built on success of our running game, mixing play calls, and using the run to set up our passing plays. We must be successful on 1st downs, and we must avoid getting caught in obvious passing situations on 3rd down because that is when Johnson makes mistakes and takes big hits.
If you only predicted 4 or 5 wins before the season then you have very low standards. There was no reason to expect anything less than 6 wins. This schedule is very weak this year. Next year will be much harder and might not we better wins wise.
We will have a better record next year because we will be a much more experienced and more TALENTED team.
Forget next yr. So tired of next yr.
This team can do very special things "this yr'...this team has the opportunity to be one of UKs better teams ever.
Now let's pull em thru...
Go Hogs!
This team can do very special things "this yr'...this team has the opportunity to be one of UKs better teams ever.
Now let's pull em thru...
Go Hogs!
That is silly and totally incorrect. As an athlete, I have much higher standards than most fans. But I make predictions based on what I see, not what I wish. In June and July, I predicted 4-5 wins in 2016, followed by at least 7 wins in 2017. BTW, I also predicted a big season for Benny Snell as a true freshman. Since then, Drew Barker got injured and Kentucky's offensive scheme has changed (to Snell's and Boom's benefit). To the whole team's benefit, in the season's key move, Mark Stoops personally took over the defense. Despite a lot of turnovers that could have flipped outcomes, Kentucky has threaded the needle by narrowly defeating Vandy plus historically weak South Carolina, Mississippi State, Missouri. Last week, I predicted Missouri would beat us unless Snell and Boom Williams combined for more than 300 rushing yards. They rushed for 374 yards, which allowed Eddie Gran to protect Steve Johnson in the game plan and wear down a Missouri defense thinned by key injuries. It's exactly the same thing Shannon Dawson did to us in our opener. At no time after the very first play was last week's game squarely on Johnson's shoulders. Future games will be. Johnson is gradually improving, but Kentucky is running a fairly 1-dimensional offense that has succeeded because of favorable matchups. Believe me, I am thrilled that Kentucky will win 6 games and pick up 15 additional bowl practices in December. Overachieving is something to cheer and support. Like last week, I believe Snell and Boom must again combine for at least 300 rushing yards in order for Kentucky to beat Georgia this week. Georgia is reeling from injuries and bad performances by inexperienced players, but they have a solid run defense and are by far the most talented team we have played since Florida. Since we have momentum and we will be playing at home, we have maybe a 40% chance to win again this week. But if we lose (which is the most likely outcome), our fans should stay off Stoops' back and support our improving team. Either way, this team is overachieving, and that is a great tribute to a young head coach most people on this board desperately wanted to fire a month ago. Next year, Stoops has 19 incumbent starters, both kickers, and a list of good redshirts coming back. Like every year, some teams on our 2017 schedule will overachieve and others will underachieve. Because our team is overachieving in 2016, they are learning how to win so the likelihood of our more experienced team overachieving again in 2017 dramatically increases. To look ahead at our 2017 schedule now and say this team with another year of experience can't beat 7-8 of the teams on our 2017 schedule is silly. 2017 will likely be a big year for our football program and our coaching staff.
I took a look at next years schedule... it's not a murderers row or anything. It could be wayyyyy worse. Like Alabama and LSU in back to back weeks worse. If we continue our improvement, I'm seeing 7-8 wins next year and I feel like I'm being relatively conservative.
Some of us have been living on next year for 50+ damn years,I agree with you,lets see how this year plays out.We ARE going to a bowl,that is a big deal,we may pick up more than one more regular season win,that is a bigger deal.We might even WIN a bowl game.All this could happen this year,considering where we were after 2 games THIS YEAR will be a pretty good year that could turn into a great year.
I stopped reading after you said we'd lose to an 0-8 AP... How can you honestly say we will lose to the worst FCS team and then continue on like you know what you are talking about? Lol
Just like Al Davis in the 80's, "Just win"
Beat Georgia, Guarantee a bowl and go to Rocky Top and make them cry.
The possibility of going to looneyville 8-3 is real. It is very, very slim, but it is there.
Beat Georgia, Guarantee a bowl and go to Rocky Top and make them cry.
The possibility of going to looneyville 8-3 is real. It is very, very slim, but it is there.
Uh, let's see if I can add to the intent of the original poster, here.
Uh, I am going to wear the same stuff as I did when we started the streak, including the underwear. . . . all washed, but in pure Kentucky Spring water . . . . by a virgin (not me).
Let me just say this is the BIGGEST GAME in the Mark Stoops era. An absolute MUST WIN in which I have no confidence, whatsoever.
Stanley Smith needs to be sent back to wherever he came from, and we need to pull the redshirt off of all the freshmen, that I have never seen play, and let them try the QB position in alphabetical order, without regard to the position they were recruited to play, unless they are also named "Smith." If named "Smith" pull his scholarship.
Uh, let's see . . . . Oh, I know our current record, but if we don't play better than we did at Florida, we will not win more than 2 or 3 games TOTAL this season . . . . the SEC will retroactively declare the Mizzou and Miss. State and South Carolina wins as losses, and let us pass on the Vandy win (Maybe).
It's obvious we can't run the ball, as we've average only 299 yards rushing the last 4 or 5 weeks, so we need to FAAAAAAR Gran and Hinshaw.
We play Georgia with a distinct disadvantage in field goal kicking . . . . ours has never won on a last second kick from beyond 55 yards.
Mike Leach, Les Miles, and at least a half-a-dozen other potential coaches have been spotted variously at Fayette Mall, at a large Toyota dealership, riding around with Tim Couch, or expressing an interest in buying Calumet Farm.
If anyone disagrees with anything I've said, then you are the reason Kentucky Football has struggled for decades.
Kids, that's all I got!
Uh, I am going to wear the same stuff as I did when we started the streak, including the underwear. . . . all washed, but in pure Kentucky Spring water . . . . by a virgin (not me).
Let me just say this is the BIGGEST GAME in the Mark Stoops era. An absolute MUST WIN in which I have no confidence, whatsoever.
Stanley Smith needs to be sent back to wherever he came from, and we need to pull the redshirt off of all the freshmen, that I have never seen play, and let them try the QB position in alphabetical order, without regard to the position they were recruited to play, unless they are also named "Smith." If named "Smith" pull his scholarship.
Uh, let's see . . . . Oh, I know our current record, but if we don't play better than we did at Florida, we will not win more than 2 or 3 games TOTAL this season . . . . the SEC will retroactively declare the Mizzou and Miss. State and South Carolina wins as losses, and let us pass on the Vandy win (Maybe).
It's obvious we can't run the ball, as we've average only 299 yards rushing the last 4 or 5 weeks, so we need to FAAAAAAR Gran and Hinshaw.
We play Georgia with a distinct disadvantage in field goal kicking . . . . ours has never won on a last second kick from beyond 55 yards.
Mike Leach, Les Miles, and at least a half-a-dozen other potential coaches have been spotted variously at Fayette Mall, at a large Toyota dealership, riding around with Tim Couch, or expressing an interest in buying Calumet Farm.
If anyone disagrees with anything I've said, then you are the reason Kentucky Football has struggled for decades.
Kids, that's all I got!
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Blue Decade is highly vested in his prediction that UK will only win five games.
You must be blind, illiterate, or a troller. No 1 believes we will lose to Austin Peay, and I certainly haven't made such a ridiculous prediction .
LOL! You are just stirring the pot. In June and July, I predicted 4-5 wins. Our team pulled out close wins against South Carolina, Vandy, Mississippi State, then won on the road over injury-depleted Missouri. I could not be happier that the season is turning in our favor. Everyone ought to be delighted that we are headed to a bowl after overcoming Meant's departure and Barker's injury. But there will always be a few who have nothing else to talk about now that they can't throw Stoops under the bus anymore. So why not jerk some other fans around to stay busy, I guess.
Sorry, but I didn't pay attention to anything you said after I found out you aren't a Virgin. Either figure out a way to regain your virginity or don't bother posting on here again.
Perhaps you should consider switching to the UL board, but to qualify there you probably need to have a few adulteries, abortions, domestic assaults, drug deals, banishment by the NCAA, etc, and if you have all of those you can probably get hired as a coach by jurich.
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You literally said you still believe us to be a 5 win team... We have five wins now.. So for us to be a 5 win team we have to lose to AP... But okay.. Say I'm the one that can't read :joy::joy:
LOL right back atcha!
I'm not stirring the pot, just tired of you reminding all of us about your pre/season five win prediction, as if you're some sort of infallible font of wisdom who deigns to descend from the heights of Mt Olympus to explain football to us mere mortals.
Exactly. We better tell Stoops to shut this thing down so we can finish with five wins so as not to make Blue Decade miss his prediction - it would be a real hit to his credibility.
I think you mean "precedent."
Prescient
pre·scient
ˈpreSH(ē)ənt/
adjective
- having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.
prec·e·dent
noun
ˈpresəd(ə)nt/
- 1.
an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances.