The House of Blue

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Would you rather play football at Nebraska or Kentucky? Pretty simple choice if you ask me. It would be like asking why a kid would choose to play basketball at Kentucky rather than Nebraska. It's a no brainer.

We have a very good stable of running backs. Obviously he would have added to that but let's all remember we have the Tennessee record holder coming to Lexington. Not too shabby of a back if you ask me.

They say things happen for a reason... we just don't always agree with the reason. Who knows... it may be a blessing in disguise. Either way, I wish him well... or like they say in Show Biz, "Break A Leg!"

Nebraska is a top program. They have LOADS of good football history. They have a reputation of being a running team. They have history of producing crazy running backs. Their facilitiies are stellar. They've been winning much more than we have recently. This was easily a David and Goliath senario......and our rock didn't hit the mark.

Think it is indicative of this staff. This has been a very disappointing staff to say the least when it comes to improving recruiting. I was pushing for CIW to be earlier than later because I thought Joker could recruit to a higher level. Nope, pretty much the same. Try to get on kids late, over sign some 3-4 guys who will never make it to campus to keep your recruiting ranking in the top 60's and than tell everyone at signing day press conference "Trust US" on these kids.

Let's see the kid was committed to UT for a long time, can sell the fact that we need bigger running back, play at least 3-4 teams very other year or year that is 2-3 hour drive from your house. Play in SEC, get back at UT every year for pulling scholly, less than a days drive to Lexington, direct flight to Atl. etc.. We are just not a very good recruiting staff and haven't been for some time, until they want to get serious than you can expect stuff like this.

Heard from a birdie that GA Bulldogs are on verge of offering top OL recruit of UK's scholly. GA is desperate and are looking for OL, maybe happened last night, GA TECh commit is contemplating switching to GA, it would be good for UK if this happens or they will snag the OL commit.

UK just does not recruit as an SEC school should. Make all the excuses you want but evidence is in rankings, standings in recruiting, and play on field.
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Well this is certainly not the news I wanted to wake up to. Oh well....next!

If you don't think recruiting has not improved over the last couple of years I have no idea what to tell you. Go look at the 2008 and 2009 recruiting classes and then come back on here and say everything is still the same.

Is it better by UK standards? Probably. Is it better compared to other SEC schools? Probably not.

UK always finishes at the bottom of recruiting rankings. UK always finishes at the bottom of the SEC standings in regards to W/L's. While rankings can be flawed at times, they have proven in UK's case to be a fair picture of where you will finish in the standings.

You have to have high energy guys who can sell your program, unless your Saban!! Freeze is selling the hell out of Ole Miss. Franklin has sold the hell out of Vandy. They are high energy guys who are getting it done.

At the end of the day the bottom line is about wins/losses. Consistent 2-6 records in league play will never get it done.

To the OP... We never "had" him so technically we didn't "lose" him.

As the old saying' goes.. sh** happens. I wish him luck @ Nebraska, though we coulda used him @ UK.

In a way I agree, but at the same time, what good does it do to make these excuses about every big time recruit we are in on, and continue to get none of them?. There will always be Nebraska's, and Bama's and Florida's etc. and they will always look more attractive than us unless something changes. To compete, and get our program where we want it to be, we have to get these kids to comitt to us despite the advantages other programs have over us. Otherwise, we will remain the same. As many have pointed out, Vandy seems to be doing it, and Strong seems to be doing it down the road, meanwhile, by staying the same, we fall further behind. mjdotson, imo, you just pointed out the very reason we are not succesful. Theses other schools are more attractive than UK, and it really doesn't matter why. We either change it, or we don't!