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3 talking points about the losing team before half. Someone mailed it in after watching the first half lol. How lazy is this?
Leave it to an ACC hack to write this. He conveniently left out FSU struggled to score 16 against a UL defense that mid-tier SEC UK racked up 30+ on. They would have been lucky to score 3 against UM. Maybe 6. Of course, we would have known how good these teams truly were had the ACC not drug their feet for years on moving to a 12-team playoff...FSU specifically. They got what they deserved (hint: it wasn't to be in this years 4 team playoff).
Probably using YPG for leading rusher since some teams have played more games than others (i.e. Mizzou and Kentucky). Schrader leads Davis by 36 yards total but has played one more game for an average of 11 yards more per game. Davis would have to have an abysmal week this week to not pass Schrader on a bye.
This is honestly really lazy reporting (although coming from a Big 10 writer, not shocked). There are plenty of reasons to dislike Cal, but putting blame on him for not wanting to step foot in Assembly again is not one of them. It has nothing to do with that shot/game on the court, contrary to this hack's opinion. It has everything to do with how the players and players families were treated before, during, and after the game. It was 100% a safety issue that IU refuses to accept and correct. It was bad enough the president and/or AD had to issue apologies after the game but that was quickly swept under the rug and Cal became the scape goat. Hoosiers have a very unnatural hate for all things Kentucky. I lived in Indiana for 4 years and never understood it. For my southern friends reading this, we all hate each other when we play but we still chant SEC when it's bowl season. There's an understanding it's a "sports hatred" and that is it... just a good rivalry amongst neighbors. But Indiana loathes all things Kentucky and quite frankly I was glad to see us cut ties after that game for how their fans acted. Also, just because this hack writer doesn't understand history, the games even being played in Assembly/Rupp were never a given... in the 90s and 2000s the games alternated between Louisville/Indy with the 50/50 crowd providing a super cool environment a la the UGA/UF football game in Jax.
Honestly you'd be surprised what GPS can do now. Do a google search for RTK and RTN. Not uncommon for my RTN GPS for work to get sub cm accuracy. Now, I have no idea how they're using it in this case for speed calculations. But your statement that military satellites only possess that kind of tech is a little outdated.
The schedule is the one thing keeping my expectations majorly tempered for this UK squad. I think there is the possibility they are miles ahead of last years team yet finish at or near the same record. No reason to think their defense won't continue to dominate and offense should take a major step forward after last years debacle. But zero room for error and let downs with Georgia and Bama on the schedule.
And the tweet with a good pic of the 6 fingers too.. ha. Let's get after it, Weaver!
I mean honestly everyone's schedule is probably going to be unpleasant to some degree. We have a ridiculously loaded conference now. Not seeing how most teams don't feel like the schedule will be daunting. And if you're not reloading like UGA or Bama every year, probably going to have to readjust expectations some.
Exactly. You bust your butt all season to leave the dorm on your campus and go to another dorm to stay at while playing games. You listening to yourself? I played D3 ball and we had to split hotel rooms with like 3 people. Not sure what the complaining is all about.
SF was the main one I was thinking about. Seems like they've been that way off and on for like a decade now. I think the Cardinals had an insane defensive team in the last 10 years too that had a random QB and made it. Not saying it doesn't happen... just saying it's by far the exception to the rule. QB/Pass happy league now.
I disagree mainly because I think you fail to consider how much QBs are over-inflated. Both in the draft and in the NFL. The pass happy rules mean if you are an NFL franchise without a franchise QB you are not making the playoffs. Period. Every year there is MAYBE one team that makes the playoffs without a franchise QB. It forces teams to reach for QBs, project or not, and hope they turn out to be serviceable for more than a year or 2. All in all, the draft is a gamble… just like recruiting can be the same from HS to College. You just hope to gather as many prospects/talent as possible and hope a fraction turn into what you need.
Ah gotcha... yah I think this year was a pretty big disappointment for a lot of them so I do think there was some frustration as competitors from a lot of the offense. But honestly just conjecture. I'm not sure if that's something to worry about as a team looking to draft him or just general frustration with how a season played out contrary to what he (and a lot of us) thought.
No but I do think by the time that game rolled around it was just one beating after another and it was clear the offense just wasn't what it was the year before so I think there was some disconnect there. The off field persona around Lexington has always been positive. He stays and signs stuff for fans. Donated to charities. Does interviews. Always pretty nice. But he's definitely been under a microscope so things tend to get analyzed a lot more than last year. I put it to my non-UK fans like this. I wouldn't be mad if Titans(my NFL team) traded up to get him after Young and Stroud are off the board (I also wouldn't mind if they picked up HH later since teams are somehow scared of him now). I'm not sure I'd be like overly excited or anything. But I wouldn't be mad. I definitely think the potential is there and the draft seems to usually be luck a lot of times too. If a team needs a QB I don't understand why they wouldn't pick him after Young and Stroud are gone.
As a UK fan I'm not real sure how to project where Levis will be. But to only look at this year when we could barely keep him upright, he was playing pretty injured from our 2nd SEC game (Ole Miss) on, and his best options were true freshman WR's (albeit, good ones), it's really not fair to just look at his throws and TDs this year. But I would agree only looking at throws in a combine/Pro-Day settings isn't the way to go either. Either way his comments feel very click-baitesque.
Yes... still waiting on our Dawn Staley
Embrace it! We're a baseball school now!
Vandy didn't get anywhere near robbed. The NCAA basically tells you how you get selected now. That is through the NET. Vandy was 81st in the NET, ergo nowhere near good enough to make the field of 68. It's why they're also just a 3 seed in the NIT. It sucks, because anyone with 2 eyes can tell you Vandy was one of the hottest teams in College Basketball. I would have loved to have seen what a hot Vandy team could do in the tourney that favors guard play anyway. Hopefully you come back stronger next year.
I mean, I agree with you 100%. But this happens in other sports (especially football) and UK definitely doesn't get the benefit of the doubt so I'll take it in an off year. If you're a name brand you get that benefit of the doubt way longer than the rest. Also, I wouldn't sell yourself short at all. You already have an amazing W and if you hit 3's like you did last night, I don't see you losing many more games.
I know Mizzou fans probably won't like this, but this is why that rule exists. Don't get me wrong it is O-B-S-C-U-R-E and I don't blame that UM kid for not knowing the punter wasn't live to be hit. But at the end of the day you are ridiculously vulnerable trying to kick whether it's 15 yards behind the snapper or 40. Heads up play by CG and unfortunate for him and UM.
Yah I'm guessing they're looking at the NCAA page... Brown is missing for some reason and I'm not sure why. But if you go to any of the other stat pages it has his stuff in there. I guess I shouldn't be shocked the NCAA is lacking lol.
Not sure what numbers you're looking at but Brown has 6 returns for 286 yards and a 47.7 yd/return average. Achane has 9 returns for 287 yards and a 31.9 yd/return average.
Yah gonna echo Tidefan here and please let us know how you can tell someone is faking? The biggest issue I have with this having played through college (albeit at the D3 level), is players get dinged up nearly every play. Is that worthy of going down to cause a timeout? Not in and of itself. But, when you force a player who is dinged up to stay in just to gain an advantage, you do risk that player getting more severely hurt. Sometimes all they need is to go walk it off, run it off, or just take a few plays off not going 100%. Sometimes they feel better and can return, sometimes they don't, and yes I will admit that sometimes it is a tactic just to sub in and out against a hurry-up offense. Either way, I'm not sure how you can stop it without risking further injuries to guys who truly are needing subbed off. Not to mention when guys start trying to play through something they shouldn't. At the end of the day, I'm all about teams wanting to use up-tempo but not at the expense of player safety and a lower quality product on the field.
Kentucky was also missing one of their star OL and he's back to start at LT this week according to the depth chart. That's huge considering left side of the line was our issue Saturday. He has 21 starts under his belt already so that should make a big difference. UKs defense is better than Utah's and UKs offense is probably a step down from Utah's for now. But if they get the O-line thing figured out (big IF), it's going to be a lot closer than people who over react from Week 1.
Not to mention this happened awhile back (in "season" terms). There are plenty of ways for coaches to penalize/punish players for off-season behavior that can physically suck way more than missing some games. My guess is C-Rod is in some of the best shape of his life after running a lot of extra time as punishment. And I do hope it was a lot given how stupid that was. I'm guessing 1 game as well and ready to roll after that. If it were in-season I would definitely expect a longer game penalty as that's the easiest/most visible way to handle those type of infractions.
By 'over' do you mean where you've failed to beat us more than once in the last 8 years? Just checking. 7 of 8. To Kentucky. Good luck though.. would be nice to have a decent challenge in the matchup again some day.
I don't really understand the need to schedule another G5 or better P5 team. UL won't be this awful for that long and that's all we need and it's not like we're competing for a playoff spot where we need to beef up our schedule. Our recruiting still has room to grow and it's obvious when we get thin at a position (like DB and DL last year vs UT and MSU). I'd rather us get to the 'SEC Depth' before we even contemplate changing scheduling. This is all a moot point anyway if we go to another SEC game or playoff expands.
The skeptic thing that worries me is the 7 SEC games in a row late in the season. Stoops biggest problem as of late has creating SEC depth. I don't blame him, that is the next biggest/final step to upping what he's created here. It's why we have the puzzling losses later in the season the last few years and if we have any major injury issues we could really be looking at limping across the finish line. Now the counter to this is maybe the 3 easy games in the first 4 games help develop some depth that will be needed later in the season. Either way, looking forward to football season!
Listen, I love Mitch and he has done wonders for UK. I don't want him to leave, but I also don't know if NCAA president would be a fit for him. If the NCAA is going to stay together (and that's a big IF) at this point, it's going to need someone really forward thinking. Mitch has shown a lot of pushback to some of the newer things going on in college athletics. Now to his credit, he's come around. But I really think the NCAA needs someone who can appease the big schools, keep the association together, AND look to get in front of the forward obstacles that transfer portal, NIL, etc. will bring. Again, don't think he can't do it. Just not sure if he'd be the best fit. And I also hope he retires at UK at this point.