The House of Blue

I think you can get a feel watching what the new staff is attacking and have a pretty good idea of are biggest weaknesses. We need lot after watching last year. I do believe 6 wins next year isnt impossible with the current talent

I understand people thinking if he has success he leaves. But my argument is we are in the Sec east the weaker side if he elevates uk to the point big time offers come in why would you leave?

Yeah Josh it is strange every commit is saying they are solid. I think it will play itself out in the end.

New defense scheme. New offensive system. New special teams. Likely going to start a ton of sophomores with little quality depth. New coaches. New terminology. New philosophies. Tough schedule.

It would surprise me for sure if we won 8 games next yr. wow! 8?

Yep and like the article said Stoops has got to find players to fit those systems. Not an easy proposition for next year. Hopefully in the years to come it will be easier. People thinking we could win more than 5-6 games are crazy. I think we'll clearly be better but I'm not sure if that will show up in the wins column.

I have to agree with this assessment. Yeah, it could be done, but not likely, truthfully. It would be nice though. At this point I just want to see some progress being made after 2 or 3 years. That's when I believe we will see progress by our new staff and our even newer players.

I have real hope(finally!)that Coach Stoops can accomplish what he came here to do. But given the state of the program post CJP, it is going to take some time and a lot of hard work on the recruiting trail to turn this situation around.

But let's all face the truth here........ Coach Stoops has taken over a terrible football program that has historically been an SEC bottom dweller for eons. It is going to take awhile for him to change what has kept happening @ Kentucky for as long as I can remember. And since I'm almost 60, that's been a long while.

I would have to disagree with that. The reason we went 2 and 10 was we had very little talent or experience with the junior and senior classes and the injury bug hit the players we did have pretty hard (plus other reasons relating to the previous staff)

WE do have a lot of quality SEC players but they are mostly freshmen, RS freshmen or true sophomores.

I thought it was interesting that he spoke with some recruits about exploring other options. I wonder if a recruit who was committed had no other options did he pull the offer? Would seem you have a chance to alienate some parts of the country by doing that if the kid didn't have somewhere to go.

I hope that Andre' can eventually become a well paid member of the UK staff. He is definitely one of us.