The House of Blue

I continue to support Joker because he is our coach and a former player. I truly hope he can get it done, but I am yet to see anything from him that gives me hope. The UGA and UT games last year were not impressive to me. UGA gave a poor effort and our defense played well. UT was just a very poor team with attitude problems.

The thing is this, can UK become a top 25 team every yr. Maybe
Say UK would pay out 9 mill plus per yr for say a top coach and staff. And spend $200,000,000.00 mil
on improvements to the football program. Would this give UK a top 10 recruiting class every yr. ????
Who knows. But are you people willing to spend that kind of money. That is what it would take to bring UK up to Bama, LSU & OSTATE. in my op

Look we got the W against UT period. You can call it whatever you like but its about getting wins. We ended the season on a high note and if you are a UK fan you hope that feeds into next year. I don't think some of you people realize, we need Joker to be successful. It could mean continued consistent success for a long time and that would leave this program in much much better shape than it was just 7-10 short years ago. We could have a chance to move this program forward. If Joker blows it this year and we have to go out and hire another coach, with a whole new philosophy, a whole new staff, completely different recruiting connections it could be tough. What if we strike out on a big name coach which is very likely to happen. We're left starting over from scratch again. The grass many times is not greener on the other side. So like I said lets hope Joker can be successful. He's only been here 2 years which is not hardly enough time to form a real opinion of his coaching abilities. For Gods sakes this is first head job ever. So lets give him a break and see what he can do this year. If it turns out bad we can address the possibilities of a new coach at that point. Its not like he's running around town getting drunk. He's working his ass off to try and improve the program that he loves. Its not hard for me at all to give him a break and hope for better results this year based on who Joker is as a person.

Thats just one mans take and everybody has the right to an opinion but no matter how loud you scream Joker is the coach for this year. So simmer the F down and try to be a real fan.

Pretty simple in my mind. Mitch believed in him and he had reason to believe in him based on what he did as an offensive coordinator and the kind of guy he was. He hasn't been proved wrong yet.

Everyone has valid points my question is why couldn't we replace people like Locke, Mathews, Cobb etc??? Everyone knew they would leave sooner or later... Not landing enough legit playmakers and O-lineman since 10 (only 1 O-lineman in the 10 class) is really going to make it tough to win in 12. The 08/09 classes are the back breakers... During the spring when Athlon Sports asked Joker "How do you feel about your O-line depth" he said "Not very good at all"... That says it all. O-line is the hardest place for a true freshman to come in and play yet only a couple will redshirt and a few will be forced into action way to early...

I agree with you on that. We had one of the country's best and most exciting offenses during the Woodson/Little/Tamme/Burton/Johnson/Lyons days, but we immediately filled a class of WR's who never played WR in their pre-college careers (obviously Cobb worked out) and have yet to find a productive TE. We were in on quite a few stud WR's over the last few years, but every damn one of them has chosen to go elsewhere, which is odd to me with Joker being the key recruiter for so long and him being a former WR at UK, then WR coach, then OC/HCIW, then HC. Why no absolute stud (top 50 ranked) WR's have wanted to play in our offense for him is a mystery to me.

Agree with your comments, Todd.

IMO it's real simple. Recruiting!

2008-09 how many OL did we sign with offers Tn, Penn St., Arkansas, Purdue, WVU, Miami, Miss. St., etc? Answer? 1 and that was Sam Simpson. Did we sign some good OL? Yes, kids like Warford and Smith and both will get drafted in next years NFL draft.

Look at the quality of RB's we've been able to sign the past few recruiting classes. Caffey, who could have easily played RB for this but team moved to CB due to need & wanting to see the field quicker. Clemons, Mobley, Justin Taylor. Those are all quality Backs that a few years ago we don't sign and especially not that much depth.

DL depth is at a all time high. Kids like Douglas, Davis, Huguenin, Paschal, Coleman, Chapman, Garffree, Newton, Rumph, Bell and Hyde. Hopefully Washington makes it back and we'll sign more DL in the 2013 class.

We signed some nice prospects for WR. Legree, Sweat, Collins, Robinson, Cunningham, Whitlow(have a feeling about this kid) Cobbins if he makes it. And we'll sign a few playmakers in the 2013 class,.

QB, LB, DB the same. The talent level is getting better and most everyone can see it and agrees. IMHO Joker will weather the storm this season and we will get better.

For everything Coach Brooks did for this program he didn't do Joker any favors with the 08-09 recruiting classes.

The best was when this clown posed that we only beat UT because they were physically beat down....yeah...THEY WERE BEAT DOWN PHYSICALLY. LMWAO!

ALthough Bray had played the week before and started against us. I will concede that he wasn't 100% but he was much healthier than ANY QB we had, which was pretty damn obvious considering we had a WR who had never played QB in college. They also had their starting RB AS WELL AS their entire Oline. Actually, the ONLY player they didn't have play in that game was their WR (his name escapes me). UK on the other hand, down to our 5th string walk on RB. Our Oline was also banged up and had been all season. Hell, you can make a very strong argument that UK was most injury riddled and devastated team in the conf...but it was UT that lost due to being physically beat down. They WERE physically beat DOWN but not going into that game....they were physically beat DOWN during that game and by UK. My 7 year old daughter knows more about UK football (football in general) and probably just about anything for that matter, that this fool. But then again, she is my daughter and was born with true BLUE BLOOD flowing thru her veins. Her very first real word (not gooin n gawin) was CATS...true story, God bless her. Lol.

What absolutely KILLS me is that these hatin ass LODers or whatever can even admit the amazing preparation, game planning, and coaching job this staff did in the UT game. To do what they did with what they had, and all in a weeks time was as good a job you will ever see by any coaching staff in the country imo. To deny it does NOTHING more than amplify ignorance, lack of knowledge and understanding of football, as well as embarrass themselves with blatant hate.

What's encouraging tho, i believe these fools such as Jeffries123 are becoming an endangered species. More and more REAL AND TRUE UK fans are growing more and more tired of their bullshit by the nanosecond. There will always be haters, but your time of ruining message boards, misrepresenting the BBN, EMBARRASSING our program and making fools of yourselves is coming to an end.

So, to Jeffries123, if you truly haven't felt as if you had been owned and crused throughout this thread then please feel free to marinate in it now. Because that's exactly what just happened. Now, if you insist on staying in your momma's basement and playing on the computer please log off of this site and go back to World of War Craft where you stand a fighting chance.

Awful post. I can name a dozen hires by sec teams who piked worse choices. Hell, Franklin was considered a bad and risky hire at vandy.

A. You can't judge any coach on two years unless there are blatant signs of something being wrong.

B. I couldn't find a person who questioned joker being named coach in waiting when he was named.

C. Had Barnhart allowed joker to leave and take the Oklahoma oc job people like you would have been screaming for Mitch's head. Joker was one of the hottest assistants in the game when he was named hciw.

florida just did that. and i think Mullen at Miss. State wasn't a head coach ever either.

Laughable, just laughable at you equating the elevation of Joker Phillips as comparable to other coordinators who were on the staff's of National Championship teams. What damn thing do you know about football again Hop? Other than the eternal pumping of sunshine, that is?