The House of Blue

Great job Mitch!

He better go undefeated and win a national championship or the idiotic Mitch haters will gleefully pounce.

Ha. As good of a hire this is, UK's upcoming senior class is not very strong. While UK will have a lot of depth, it will be mostly in the junior/sophomore classes. However, with the expected jump in recruiting, the 2014 season is looking really, really good.

Just to let you all know, here's the upcoming senior class: Johnathan George, Raymond Sanders, Cody Jones, Tyler Robinson, Jordan Aumiller, Patrick Ligon, Stephen Duff, Kevin Mitchell, Donte Rumph, Mister Cobble, Tristian Johnson, Avery Williamson, Joe Mansour, Anthony Kendrick, Dakotah Tyler.

While there are some good college players, are any of those NFL players? Maybe Avery Williamson. It might be the realist in me that is keeping me from getting too excited for the 2013 season, but after 2013, football could get really interesting inside Commonwealth Stadium.

Cobble, Rumph and Williamson...

But yeah, You're right.

Big name coach??? Man, some of you guys just tow the company line huh?

I guess by your reasoning, Dooley is a big name coach too? we see how that worked out.

Being excited and considering Mark Stoops a big name is [toe]ing the company line?

Explain to me, exactly, how Derek Dooley and Mark Stoops should be considered equal when it comes to big names?

You think Stoops is a big name because he's related to someone in football. Same was thought of Dooley. Actually, besides being on the defensive side of the ball, Stoops is very similar to Joker at this point in his career. He might turn out to be sliced bread, but he also might turn out to be chopped liver!

Crowning Barnhart King because he hired a guy with no HC experience, is ridiculous, and driven by your agenda to support Barnhart over the best interest of UK. As far as how good of an HC Stoops is, only time is gonna tell.

Good job Mitch! He deserves all the credit on this one.

You have Dooley and Stoops very wrong. Dooley had a losing record at his previous job and a lot folks question the hire and said Tennessee hired him mainly due to being rushed last min cause Lane left right after a bowl game and to his name. Papa Dooley is a legend in the south.

Everyone and I mean everyone feels this is the right move about Stoops, great pedigree, been successful everywhere he has coached. Is he a proven head coach, no but I rather give him a shot than an unknown coordinator. Not like he doesn't have 3 brothers to seek advice from, especially Bob. Of course he's a risk but a very good one. Also, Joker was a coordinator here at Kentucky and no where else. Joker has been a position coach every where esle and Brooks and Mitch thought giving the show to him was the right thing to do at the time. Only thing the 2 have in common is that they got there first shot at being a HC at Kentucky

Look at JDHLaw with his fancy "facts." Don't you know you are not supposed to use those to form opinions?

That's ridiculous. I take joy in making fun of the unrealistic UK football fan. I have been waiting since this thing started to pounce on them when Mitch hired a dud and these unrealistic people started comparing this new dud to Bear Bryant and Jesus Christ himself. If a negative cynical jerkwad like me says it's a homerun hire it's a homerun hire. It's a homerun hire. Now it will either end with him failing and getting fired or him turning it around and getting in a few bowl games and leaving for a better gig but strictly speaking for a hire he's the best UK could have hoped for and honestly I didn't think we'd end up getting anyone half as good.

Whether this guy fails or not it won't be Mitch's fault. He got the right guy. Now it's up to him to turn this thing around.