There is this dichotomy among UK football fans. Some of us want to schedule enough crappy teams to get to a bowl game, but remain the laughing stock of the SEC. Others want us to get to the point where we actually compete in the SEC. Everyone here seems to be much younger than me because they look so fondly of the Brooks years as if we were good at football because we scheduled ourselves into bowl games. Sure, there was an occasional big upset (think 2007), but by and large, even in our bowl seasons we sucked against SEC teams other than the other bottom feeders. I would rather build the program, play good teams, be tough like we were in the late 70s and 80s, and actually build a program than can compete. That is why I like our current coaches. They are actually recruiting SEC talent that we have not signed in many years. We can make fun of UL all we want, but in the last 25 years, they have been willing to play good teams and have gotten better doing it, and have beat SEC teams in bowl games. We can't beat SEC teams at home. The bigger problem is not scheduling ourselves into a bowl game hurts recruiting. I'm not really sure of the answer, but I know I don't enjoy getting ridiculed when we go to a bowl, but are 2-6 or 3-5 in the conference and we act like we are good.