The House of Blue

Goodness man, give it a rest for once.

LMAO. How true!

For Towles his was a freshman mistake, you don't keep moving backwards when the rush comes up the middle, you get rid of the ball or fall down and take the sack. With Smith, his was just bad luck when the USC lineman fell in the wrong place.

It's not that most don't agree with you? It's that you're trying to beat the man down.

The problem with your theory is that while we may could get a Petrino or Tressell or some other big name coach and then still end up with 4-5-6 wins a year, then people will be blaming Mitch for making a bad hire and calling for the next guys head on a platter or his assistants... Then you start all over again and do it to the next guy that can only win 4-5-6 games a year. My biggest fear is that a so, so, coach comes in and has 1 year where he wins 8 or 9 games and then that guy will get a pass for the next 5 years of what we're putting up with now.. I'm not a Joker apologist and if he goes, so be it, but, I do think UK has the pieces to be pretty good the next 2-3 years and I'd rather take my chances with a guy who's fully invested in the program than 1 who'd win those 8-9 games with Jokers recruits and then be off to the next bigger opportunity and then we're back to square 1 again and it's an endless cycle.

Except UK has never hired a big name proven coach before, so that kinda kills your point.

I have found myself on both sides of this debate. I was on the sunshine pumper side for years until we were 1-4. Now as much as it pains me, I have to agree with Catmando. The excuse makers are the biggest beaters of the dead horse now. And its no longer even close.

We have tried everything at UK football except for cutting sling load mid season and bringing in a big name proven coach. Nothing else has ever worked, so why not? The worst that could happen, nothing changes and we stay UK football. OR......maybe it works. One thing is for sure, we need to do something different.

Here's my point and the problem: This thread wasn't about Joker or number of wins or the future. It was about the reality of the situation this year, which is the fact they've been besieged by injuries. I don't know that it makes that much difference in performance, but the fact you can't even have a thread without the same posters posting the same stuff over and over and over again is what is beyond tired.

There are enough threads discussing that. It's ruining the board when every other thread turns into that because a handful of posters can't possibly discuss anything else without beating the same drum. Yeah, everyone gets it. Few people are arguing that point. But goodness, it makes life miserable for everyone when they turn every thread into the same stuff. It makes the TCP staff's job miserable, quite frankly. And judging by my inbox on the site and e-mail inbox, it makes more people who read and post on this site miserable than the select few who can't have a non-FIRE EVERYONE!!!!!!!!! thread believe.

Hey guess what, injuries are a reality. Just because you discuss them doesn't mean you're making excuses for anything or 'supporting' the coaching staff. It means you're discussing what is actually going on from a week to week basis about the team.

Well I have been quiet for a while now but I feel like Matt has a point about this team. I am not defending Joker because we all know all of these injuries did not happen against UL or WKU etc. I think that the injury situation has plagued this team ever since week 2 or 3. It seems like we cannot play a game without someone getting hurt. What does that tell you? Bad luck? I don’t think so. When I was playing football for Morehead State most of the injuries (not all but the vast majority) were due to lack of knowledge of the playbook (when guys aren't sure what they are doing they don't play loose and that causes injuries) and not coming into the season in shape (when you are not in shape your body is more vulnerable to injuries, any trainer will tell you that). I think that the injuries are piling up because guys are not taking care of themselves the way they need to be. What do you think? Why are there so many injuries to our players?

"What elephant in the room? La, la, la, la, I don't see or hear any elephant"

Maybe he wouldn't have held the ball if the QB coach had worked with him longer?