The House of Blue

I donate 3,500 a year minus football tickets. I will not give another dime as long as joker is head coach! I love him for being a UK grad and the fact he loves UK but he sucks as a coach! Absolutely sucks!

I would bet the farm he gets at least one more.

I can only hope he decides, or someone forces his hand, to fire R. Sanders and hire somebody impressive.

Joker should be the lowest paid HC in CFB. He wont be stolen away. Use the money to bring in a dynamic OC.

Will be interesting to see what the stadium looks like the remainder of the year. If the Oct games are cool/cold and conflict with Keeneland it won't be very good, especially with the teams on the schedule. The UF and UT games have been well attended in the past because of the opponent. If UT season progressives in a positive manner and UK continues to slide, the stadium could have 2 colors....aluminum and orange.

To me, no one player or coach (even Cal) is no where close to being as big as the program. I will continue to donate, buy season tix, attend the games and cheer my heart out. I am a passionate supporter of the program, not a coach, not a player, not an AD (which IMO Mitchbis simply the best we have ever had...period and cares so much about building this program for if anything else...his legacy.

I will say this about Mitch, I did not know what in the world he was doing when he hired Brooks. That turned out to be a fantastic decision. Kudos to him.

What scares me are these hires: BCG, Joker, and his failure to hire Cal the first time around.

I have no idea, I have no inside information. But, those that do have said that Mitch was against hiring Cal the first time around. If so, I think that is foolish.

Equally foolish in my opinion was his decision to hire Joker without doing any type of a search to gauge interest or anything of that matter. At that point, Joker had been an OC for a small number of years and would not have been on the coaching boards of any other BCS team. But, that is just my opinion.

Hopefully, he proves me wrong as he did with Brooks. Lord knows I would rather be wrong and UK win all or most of its games!

"The SEC football gravy train will keep running and dropping money bags off at Mitch's door whether UK wins a single game in any year, the SEC is making sure of that."

"UK has been and is only interested in that SEC Gravy train, and is completely content to be the door mat for the rest of the real football schools. It does seem that Vandy has figured something out about how to at least play a nice brand of football."

Bingo. I just don't understand why this particular fanbase has such a difficult time seeing and understanding this. As long as the SEC and ESPN money keeps rolling in along with consistent season ticket sales, what is the real incentive for UK to go balls out to try to make UK a winner? There isn't one. It's never going to change under the current administration IMO.

If so, that is just deflating and more depressing then I can take. I don't see how UK can't become a winner in ANY situation. I certainly hope that isn't the case.

I understand that but if you win you can take advantage of playing in the SEC. Winning can cure a lot of ill's. Then you start winning recruiting battles against the others teams in the conference. Joker and company have upgraded recruiting but haven't done much with it, especially this year. There's talent on this team. Enough to blow out the first three opponents IMO. I just don't understand what's going on?

I really have no inside source myself but a couple of people who claim to said Jokers demeanor changed when he became head coach. He went from being a players coach when he was the OC to a drill seargent. Don't know if it's true or not but something is going on?

Folks using Vandy as an example to vent are in for a very rude awakening the next three Saturdays.

For years I've defended UK football under the understanding that we play in the SEC and its hard to win vs the LSU's, UF's and Bama's of the world.

But lets be real. IF the UKAA and MB really wanted to they could go out and hire a coach with the clout to build UK into a FB power. People can not say we don't have the money because we do.

But BB is king at UK. Hell two years of BCG and he was fired and then we pony up huge money to bring Cal in. Look what he's done in two short years.

If UKAA & MB really wants UK to be a FB power they should go to Urban Meyer with a blank check and tell him to fill in the amount. Or Peterson from BSU, but you get the point.

UK could do it but they won't.

I feel bad for Joker in all this. The crowds at CWS will get smaller and smaller this season and if we only win 2-4 games this year it will be tough for MB to keep the fans & UK alumni happy. Something tells me that if the crowds do get alot smaller and we only win another game or two, Joker may resign at the end of this season. Laugh all you want but I wouldn't be shocked. I wouldn't be happy, but I wouldn't be shocked.

I'm still on the CJP bus and I feel that he can still do good things here. But with the media and fans acting out the way they have the this year and most of last season, I just see it as a no win situation from here on out.

Oh well it is what is! smh

I support Mitch and have in the past supported Joker. I believe giving Joker a chance was the right decision, but with him taking over with the program in the best shape it has been in in years he should be moving forward not regressing. It is obvious that is ot what is happening. The team performance has been going down since the beginning of last season and it will be hard to show improvement through the rest of the season. That being said there is no way Joker will be forced out before the end of the 2012 season;