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Posted by Tiptree (Member # 844) on 09-28-2024, 04:46 PM:

If you squint real hard, and pretend that the South Carolina debacle didn't happen, we would be looking really good. We crushed the cupcakes, we played the number 1 ranked team to a 1-point loss, and we just smothered UMiss' vaunted offense and pulled out an old-fashioned, black-and-blue football victory on the road against the number 4 team in the country.

Yessir, we have ourselves a football team!

Still scratching my head over the South Carolina game...

Posted by GA Cat (Member # 642) on 09-28-2024, 05:47 PM:

I honestly think SC is better than most think. Time will tell, but everytime I am ready to give up on Stoops, something like this happens.

Posted by ukman (Member # 3032) on 09-28-2024, 06:06 PM:

What an amazing game. The SC game is a huge head scratcher. How we give up 31 points to them and then hold 2 of the best offenses to a combined 30 pints is crazy! How about that throw from Brock on 4 and 7. That was amazing. I honestly thought the game was over.

Posted by ukman (Member # 3032) on 09-28-2024, 06:11 PM:

And thank God for Katus being in the right spot to catch that fumble. That would have been the most excruciating way to lose a game had Ole Miss recovered that. I don't know if I could have handled losing in that way. Luckily the football gods smiled down on us.

Posted by handycat (Member # 2323) on 09-28-2024, 06:38 PM:

I never gave up on Stoops or this team. As grandma always said to me “ if I loved a liar, I’d hug your neck”. I would have been ok with a loss of anything under a couple of touchdowns.

I seriously don’t know what to make of Stoops, this team, the offense, the offensive line, the quarterback, the play calling or the SC loss. The defense seems to be pretty good.

I continue to show my lack of knowledge about football. For that matter, about all sports and life in general.

[ 09-28-2024, 06:43 PM: Message edited by: handycat ]

Posted by Tiptree (Member # 844) on 09-28-2024, 07:22 PM:

Honestly, I think the SC game would have been a shoot-out, except they have what appear to be pro-level edge rushers that we just couldn't block. They pretty much spent the game in our offensive backfield, wrecking our game.

The only drive we had that was successful was when we basically ran it down their gut. Let the edge-rushers come... the ball is between the hash marks grinding down the rest of the defense. But for some reason, Stoops or his offensive coordinator gave up on that and went back to being targets for their blitz.

But, all that aside, every other game we did way better than I expected. Count that one as a "WTF" game, and let's see how far this team can go.

Posted by rlt4uk (Member # 3194) on 09-28-2024, 10:05 PM:

Let me eat some crow. I've been a Brad White hater, this season he's doing a remarkable job and he'll get a head coaching job soon, I believe. I still don't know how we won this game. We couldn't run the ball very good. Vandergriff played really well, but he's got to get rid of the ball instead of taking a sack.
This win ranks right up there with beating LSU in '97. They need this bye week. Let's hope that they don't overlook Vanderbilt. GO BIG BLUE!!!

Posted by rlt4uk (Member # 3194) on 09-28-2024, 10:06 PM:

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Originally posted by rlt4uk:
Let me eat some crow. I've been a Brad White hater, this season he's doing a remarkable job and he'll get a head coaching job soon, I believe. I still don't know how we won this game. We couldn't run the ball very good. Vandergriff played really well, but he's got to get rid of the ball instead of taking a sack.
This win ranks right up there with beating LSU in '07. They need this bye week. Let's hope that they don't overlook Vanderbilt. GO BIG BLUE!!!

Posted by Bama Cat (Member # 153) on 09-28-2024, 10:28 PM:

I knew we were gonna do this. They just played bad in the SC game intentionally to get us mad. It worked. For as long as I've watched UK football this is what happens. You've got to take the good with the bad. We just never seem to have quite enough to get over the hump and take it to one of the top bowl games. We have played 3 good games in a row now. What's on deck for the Vandy game. Who knows.

Posted by Trey Ball (Member # 332) on 09-30-2024, 07:29 PM:

Congrats to the Cats on the win. As Lane Kiffin said…….I don’t think Mark Stoops has ever done anything like that in his life…….

Referring to him going for it on 4 and 8th from his own 20. Maybe he learned that punting is not winning football after the UGA game.

Let’s see if he keeps it up the rest of the season.

Posted by Bama Cat (Member # 153) on 09-30-2024, 10:51 PM:

I think I have this rating system figured out now. Ole MS hadn't played any body on their schedule before UK that amounted to much. The voters got all hot and bothered and decided they should be ranked #6. Wrong!

They were not #6 by a lot and I think we will see that as they play more SEC games. They have a good team but not #6. UK beating them by 3 points proves this. UK losing to Georgia by a point follows the pattern.

AL beating GA continues my point of assessment. GA is not quite as good as they have been rated early on.

My point is, don't expect UK to win a bunch of SEC games because of all this. I'm guessing we may win a couple more SEC games that go down to the wire. I don't think we will break even in SEC games and hope we can win 6 or 7 games and make it to Nashville or Memphis for a bowl game.

Posted by handycat (Member # 2323) on 10-02-2024, 01:13 PM:

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Referring to him going for it on 4 and 8th from his own 20. Maybe he learned that punting is not winning football after the UGA game.

I think that happened around the 4 minute mark. I was absolutely shocked when he went for it. To be honest I thought he should have punted with that much time left and the defense playing well. My son took the opposite view, Good thing I’m not the coach.

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