Cheerleaders/Dance Team

EliteBlue

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The cheer program has been extremely disappointed after the coaching change. I’m not sure why they hired outside the UK Cheer family when your program had won 24 national titles and over 2/3rds of the total ti times possible.

If there was ever a time to “keep it in the family”…. that’s the time
 

TheDude73

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The cheer program has been extremely disappointed after the coaching change. I’m not sure why they hired outside the UK Cheer family when your program had won 24 national titles and over 2/3rds of the total ti times possible.

If there was ever a time to “keep it in the family”…. that’s the time
One person: Mitch Barney. Guy doesn't seem to get it.
 

L

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The cheer program has been extremely disappointed after the coaching change. I’m not sure why they hired outside the UK Cheer family when your program had won 24 national titles and over 2/3rds of the total ti times possible.

If there was ever a time to “keep it in the family”…. that’s the time
To be fair, the current coach, Ryan Martin O'Connor, cheered at UK for 1 or 2 years and then transferred and cheered at Alabama. Her mother is Lexington Paul Lawrence Dunbar Cheer Coach, that has won high school cheer championships. They just recently hired an assistant coach that cheered at UK and won 4 or 5 national championships in a row when UK Cheer was really good. Don't know why this current coaching staff is not succeeding? Fingers crossed they make the finals and can compete tomorrow.
 

c1doc

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To be fair, the current coach, Ryan Martin O'Connor, cheered at UK for 1 or 2 years and then transferred and cheered at Alabama. Her mother is Lexington Paul Lawrence Dunbar Cheer Coach, that has won high school cheer championships. They just recently hired an assistant coach that cheered at UK and won 4 or 5 national championships in a row when UK Cheer was really good. Don't know why this current coaching staff is not succeeding? Fingers crossed they make the finals and can compete tomorrow.
Yes, and I don’t understand why we would hire someone that felt the need to leave UK and transfer to Bama… There had to be some really talented Cheer coaches out there that actually stayed and graduated from UK….🤷‍♂️
 
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L

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Yes, and I don’t understand why we would hire someone that felt the need to leave UK and transfer to Bama… There had to be some really talented Cheer coaches out there that actually stayed and graduated from UK….🤷‍♂️
Saw an interview she had when she was hired. Paraphrasing here, she did not think she would ever be able to be on competition squad. She has competition experience and she coached at Ole Miss, I think, before she came back to Lexington.
 

EliteBlue

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To be fair, the current coach, Ryan Martin O'Connor, cheered at UK for 1 or 2 years and then transferred and cheered at Alabama. Her mother is Lexington Paul Lawrence Dunbar Cheer Coach, that has won high school cheer championships. They just recently hired an assistant coach that cheered at UK and won 4 or 5 national championships in a row when UK Cheer was really good. Don't know why this current coaching staff is not succeeding? Fingers crossed they make the finals and can compete tomorrow.
Fair enough. I wasn’t aware of her entire history. Just where she graduated so I guess that makes more sense. Thanks for the correction
 

ck-2

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They suck now. Another Joker, BCG, Elzy hire for Mitch. I was at the LSU game and I told my son “the cheerleaders look like crap.” And I’m a guy who doesn’t pay much attention to that kind of thing. But it was obvious to me they aren’t up to par for a UK squad.
 

L

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Best I can tell, looks like they are in 3rd place going into the finals tomorrow?
That is correct. Finals will be today. #1 Western Kentucky, #2 Alabama, #3 Kentucky. So, Coach Ryan Martin O'Connor, cheered at UK 1 year, transferred and cheered at Alabama, coached at Ole Miss, coached at Western Kentucky, and is now the coach at UK.
 

L

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This is ridiculous, she needs to be held accountable. Send her *** back to Oxford. Sick of this crap.
Let's see how they do today. If Western and Alabama have mistakes, UK could win. Of course, UK cannot have any mistakes.
 

catswin

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The cheerleaders need to do more of leading cheers and getting the crowd rowdy. They do the exact same skit or routine at every timeout. It is more about watching them do the flips instead of getting the crowd loud and engaged. .
 

Col. Angus

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They need to start letting em go back on those lake getaways with all the booze and skinny dippin. Was winnin then.
 
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