The House of Blue

Im for one am glad you mentioned the Administration as part of the problem with the football program as well as the coach. I feel that a program cant be strong unless it is solid from the AD down to the players. The coaching staff has to be changed but the facilities must be upgraded and that starts with the administration. Perhaps the AD has to be looked at as well as the coaching staff(which is done). Maybe a new AD=new facilities=a new coaching staff=better recruits=happier fans=more revenue=s happy Administration.

I dont want to make anyone mad but to just show what kind of job Mitch has done with the football program heres those glorious years under Brooks=39-47 TOTAL and 16-39 SEC. Oh yeah he did take us to some bowl games but do any of you consider any of those bowl games to be good ones? If there isnt a problem with those totals and add Jokers record to them and if you can tell me that there isnt a problem at the top then I feel sorry for the football program because you will have the same person hiring the next coach that hired the previous 2. And 1 more thing look at brooks record at Oregon it was a wonderful 91-109.

Player development for the last five years has been awful. How many players came here and actually improved? The only ones that I can truly say that about would be Danny Trevathan and Wesley Woodyard. Corey Peters was a high recruit so, in a way, his success was predicted. But how many "big" names have we seen come here and then just slip into the darkness? Morgan Newton, Aaron Boyd, Ryan Mossakowski, Micah Johnson, Alex Smith, Glenn Faulkner, and Tim Patterson are just some of the guys we were counting on that have been disappointments. I truly thought Micah Johnson would be all-world.

There needs to be a total facelift in the UK football department to change the atmosphere. Otherwise it will continue to be much of the same.

UK has only dropped back to where they've been the last 50-60 yrs. We've averaged 3 wins per yr for a half century. So we just dropped back to where we were all along. Vandy has improved however......b/c they usually are in the 2-3 win purgatory that we usually are.

Yeah, but we used to play ten games a year for most of that half century...now we play 12 so our winning pct. is getting worse and worse and we are depressed an additional two weeks out of the year.

And also, from everything we have heard, Brooks was not Barnharts first choice. He tried to get three other pretty big names so I'm not saying anything about the Brooks hiring. And it's not like we were bad after the first couple of years either. We improved and we were competitive. Thats what we want here. Just to be competitive.

Would it be nice to win the SEC East, or the SEC, or while we are dreaming even a national title? Hell yes it would. But most people here would be happy with a 7 or 8 win team. Especially now where we have added an SEC game meaning we would have to win 3 or 4 SEC games to get that. If you are good enough to win 8 games, you will be competitive in your losses most of the time. And there will be years in there where you will win 9-10 games and years where you might only win 5 games. Just so long as it looks like we have a team that is being coached by a staff who is capable. That is not what we have now.

I know it's not fair to the current players to not show up and support them, but if Barnhart refuses to see the writing on the wall then maybe the fans should write a little bigger. I think it would be great for the upper levels of CWS to be empty on Saturday. Secretly, I think the current players would like it too though they would never admit it. With former coaches and players tweeting comments and your own school newspapers writing articles against the program, you have to think even the players know that things just aren't right and it is time for a change. I'm sure some of you will disagree with me, but with every loss the number of supporters for the current administration continues to decline. I see very little opposition even on this board compared with even just 3-4 weeks ago.

You consider 16-39 in the SEC competitive, well I dont. Look at the non conference teams we played we should have been 8 games over .500. My expectations are a little higher maybe too high but I do expect a coach here for 7 years to have more than 16 wins in the SEC or am I asking too much? Also how many SEC wins does Joker have so far? Well, there you go! PS; Joker is 4-18 in the SEC so far.