The House of Blue

Yep I remember the thread clearly. Its Minter time.

What's sad JD, your post will mean nothing and Minter will make the exact same post again within a week.

You're absolutely right. I made a post a couple of pages back that we got the best back in the state of Tennessee last year (better than 4* backs Kimbrow & Mathers), but no one seemed interested in discussing that.

Dooley had 3 years at Louisiana Tech.

It would be great if 247 had an option to split and merge posts for mods/admin to clean up topics.

My bad, he just seems like a first-timer.

Don't sweat it. I shouldn't have been an asshat about it.

I too am excited about the abilities Mobley brings to the team. Barring injury, i fully expect him to force his way into the rotation. We have a lot of 'unproven' talent but it's been a long time since I've been this excited about the potential of our running game.

Maybe the point that some were trying to make but were clumsy about it, of course SEC programs have hired 1st time head coaches.....but would not use that "young head coach" excuse for very long, and forgive poor win loss records from said 1st time coaches? Pretty sure the Florida folks were disappointed to be 6-6 and expect improvements this upcomming season, and if they dont happen then Muschamp will be firmly on the hotseat going into year 3. LSU wasnt very patient with Mike Archer, nor Ole Miss with Ed Orgeron.

I fully expected Chizik to flop. Then he gets the break of a lifetime with Cam Newton and wins the big one. Now he's got the momentum.

The good thing about Mobley to put up some of these numbers lifting he must be a hard worker. You don't get that strong this early in life without hard work the vast majority of the time. A lot of these young players we have definitely have the talent to be good ones but they still have to put in work like their life depends on their football career. They have to truly dream about being drafted and playing on Sundays. On the basketball side thats one thing thats been underrated. These top kids that Cal brings in mostly want it bad. They don't take things for granted for the most part and want to be great.

To answer you Moss, I was responding to RV who said get on board or outof the way. I don't have any factual evidence about attendance or ticket sales because UK keeps all that information super secret or spins it like crazy. My comment about attendance is based on seeing almost all the games played in Commonwealth Stadium and judging how few people came last year. I could be wrong but I think it was the lowest number of fans in my memory. (Another poster whose family member is a LPD officer stated that the gate count one week was about 35k as I remember.)

As to ticket sales, there has been a steady stream of posters stating they dropped their seats and others who got upgrades or parking passes they have been trying to obtain for years just recently. I believe the UKAA budget projected a 2 million dollar drop in football revenue for this season. It is impossible to give factual information because UK hides the data but there is evidence that support for UKFB is waning. That is why I used the term "evidentially" because there is clear evidence that this program is losing support but that evidence is based on personal observation and heresay. It may not hold up in a court of law but it seems like a logical conclusion to me. We can disagree if you want.

Hopefully we see more performances like the USC win and the Auburn tough loss this year. We should have picked off several of Cam's passes in that game against Auburn. That was back when Guy played safety and had absolutely no ball skills. Could have very well won that game. Our offense was pretty damn solid that year. I think this year you'll see more defense and a little less offense but the results could be similar. 6 wins and a bowl berth.

If that was sincere then i give you props for that Minter. +1 for the benefit of the doubt.

Man if we could all get on the same page...
Maybe some wins this year will help do just that.