I didn't think Freeman was a good hire. It was a short sighted decision based on emotions and woke mentality. Not hiring Fickell was dumb.
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Holy **** cutitloose, a parent's worst nightmare 
Glad she is okay.
Glad she is okay.
Sergio might end up being the most hated golfer of all time before he's done. Withdrew after a ****** first round in the LIV tourney only to find himself on the sidelines of Alabama-Texas. Stay out of the Saudi embassy, Spaniard.
Whether it's targeting or block/charge, the University of Kentucky gets f^cked on 90% of those calls.
Max Duffy is a good add to the KSR show, but he's dead wrong about no stars on this team versus the 2018 and 2021 team. Jordan Wright played himself up the draft boards in a big way Saturday night, and Alex Afari played a great game in coverage. Nobody knew what Josh Allen would do in 2018 or Jamin in 2020 or even Benny his entire career at UK until they got here, developed, got coached, and dominated. We got pros on this team not named Will Levis.
Whether it's targeting or block/charge, the University of Kentucky gets f^cked on 90% of those calls.
Max Duffy is a good add to the KSR show, but he's dead wrong about no stars on this team versus the 2018 and 2021 team. Jordan Wright played himself up the draft boards in a big way Saturday night, and Alex Afari played a great game in coverage. Nobody knew what Josh Allen would do in 2018 or Jamin in 2020 or even Benny his entire career at UK until they got here, developed, got coached, and dominated. We got pros on this team not named Will Levis.
If you ever want to feel old as ****, for a child born now 9/11 is farther in history than the Moon Landing was from birth for everyone posting in this thread.
I know 9/11 conjures up a lot of hatred and painful memories for most people, but not Toby Keith. Holy smokes, talk about dropping a lucrative career right in your lap. That guy should send al-Qaeda a good chunk of his royalties.
Basically anyone <30 likely has no memories of 9/11.
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I subbed once for an 8th school history class on 9/11 and I mentioned to them that they were probably the first group of students that don’t have a distinct memory of it.
That was 12 years ago.
That was 12 years ago.
I don’t mean to hold your feet to the fire on this, but it’s pretty common knowledge that the modern paperclip took 25+ years to develop after the first wire paperclip was patented in the late 1800’s. I know hyperbole in GYERO is expected and encouraged, but let’s not push it that far.
Tastes just like chicken. Ate some at a FL KY game years ago with some FL fans. Was really good especially with thousand island dressing.
Fried gator is delicious. (Especially if @Booker Noe is the one manning the fryer.)
Lolz at gifting people parlay tickets.
Unreal move.
In Seattle on a work trip and made the last minute call to cut out about 3:30 and head over to MNF.
Well worth it. What a f*cking crowd/stadium.
Well worth it. What a f*cking crowd/stadium.
Indeed it is. Went to the Packers Seahawks game Week 1 after winning the super bowl and I’ve never heard a louder crowd. Literally yelled at my buddy, “This is CRAZY, I can’t hear ANYTHING!” He replies, “WHAT?!”
-I place a bet for my favorite horsey source every once in awhile. Especially if we hit something good.
-Herbstreit having a man crush on our coach is pretty awesome. Ohio guys loving old school tough guy football.
-Insanely jealous that Florida gets to claim Tom Petty.
-Wouldn't mind seeing Childers but mostly Yoakam. Cool event, wish SS was involved.
-Big time stretch for 3rd in the NL Central. Redlegs a couple games back and they close the season with 6 vs the Cubbies. Huge.
-Still undecided on Omar Epps stepping in for Wesley Snipes as Willie Mays Hayes in Major League II. He filled the role adequately but I just can't stand when they put a new actor in an existing character.
-I quit twitter b/c of people like Kolb. Let that idiot spew his ridiculous idiotic nonsense to the black abyss and keep it off GYERO.
-Herbstreit having a man crush on our coach is pretty awesome. Ohio guys loving old school tough guy football.
-Insanely jealous that Florida gets to claim Tom Petty.
-Wouldn't mind seeing Childers but mostly Yoakam. Cool event, wish SS was involved.
-Big time stretch for 3rd in the NL Central. Redlegs a couple games back and they close the season with 6 vs the Cubbies. Huge.
-Still undecided on Omar Epps stepping in for Wesley Snipes as Willie Mays Hayes in Major League II. He filled the role adequately but I just can't stand when they put a new actor in an existing character.
-I quit twitter b/c of people like Kolb. Let that idiot spew his ridiculous idiotic nonsense to the black abyss and keep it off GYERO.
Did we ever officially/unofficially adopt Tracy Byrd? With the decades long success of Touchdown Kentucky, that’s a huge game changer on the recruiting trail to truly call him our own.
It is really cool what they do with "Won't Back Down". Was also cool of the video of Stoops when they played it.
I guess Grove Street will have to do for us.
Still one of the biggest FU moments in UK Football history was playing "Callin Baton Rouge" last year against LSU. Man the few LSU fans in attendance were not happy at all about that.
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I know, I can't imagine how you feel after we've taken 7 of the last 8 from your Cocks.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Kentucky coach Mark Stoops spied Wildcats athletic director Mitch Barnhart in the back of the room on Saturday night as he discussed his team’s next opponent. “There will be a lot of folks from Youngstown in,” Stoops cracked. “I’m not sure Mitch is ready.”
Kentucky will play Youngstown State next Saturday, and it might have been fun had Stoops — a loyal son of Youngstown, Ohio — broken Bear Bryant’s school record for wins against his hometown team. But it was more fitting that Stoops surpassed Bryant on Saturday with a 26-16 win in The Swamp. Why? Because it offered a better explanation of exactly what Stoops has done to Kentucky’s program.
The Wildcats didn’t beat Florida from 1987 to 2017. Some of the losses were positively horrific. Steve Spurrier’s Gators beat Kentucky 73-7 in 1994 and 65-0 in 1996. Urban Meyer’s Gators beat the Wildcats 63-5 in 2008. In
In Joker Phillips’ final season as Kentucky’s coach in 2012, Will Muschamp’s Gators beat the Wildcats 38-0. Stoops finally broke through in 2018 in Gainesville. Then his Wildcats beat Florida again in 2021 in Lexington. That brought up another piece of trivia. The last time Kentucky beat the Gators in consecutive seasons? The disco era: 1976 and 1977.
That’s how thoroughly Stoops has changed this program. Wins that used to feel impossible are now expected. And make no mistake, the Wildcats expected to win Saturday even if seemingly everyone in Las Vegas and everyone with a microphone picked the Gators. One of those who picked Florida was SEC Network analyst Roman Harper, who went on Paul Finebaum’s show last week and picked against Kentucky in the most disrespectful way a person can pick against a football team.
Harper called Kentucky soft.
“Florida is going to win this game, and I think they’re going to win it pretty handily too,” Harper told Finebaum. “It’s going to look dominant. I’m not trending toward a blowout, but it is in The Swamp and they do play better, they do play differently. Use me as ammo, if you need it, I’m feeding it to you right now, Kentucky Wildcats, but if you want to win this game, you’ve got to stop Florida up front. Kentucky looked a little softer, I hate using the word softer, but they were not as physical running the football.”
Stoops said during the week that it wasn’t a big deal, that the Wildcats didn’t need more motivation. What was the first thing Stoops yelled to his team in the locker room after the game?
WHO’S SOFT NOW?
Kentucky cornerback Keidron Smith, who returned an interception 65 yards for a touchdown late in the third quarter to put Kentucky up 23-16, just laughed when asked if Harper’s slight provided motivation. “That was big motivation,” Smith said. “Ain’t nobody on this team soft.”
Said quarterback Will Levis: “The only thing I took from the media this week was people calling us soft.”
But in predicting how Kentucky would lose the game, Harper fairly accurately predicted how Kentucky would win the game. Tailback Kavosiey Smoke, starting in place of suspended star Chris Rodriguez, kept running into walls of Gators in the first half. Kentucky’s blockers couldn’t seem to give Levis any time.
But the Wildcats never panicked. Including sacks, they rushed 15 times for two yards in the first half. They ran the ball 23 more times in the second half. And even though those runs only netted 68 yards, having some success on the ground allowed Kentucky to run clock and keep the ball away from Florida’s offense.
Meanwhile, Kentucky’s defense did make Florida quarterback Anthony Richardsonpanic. A week after exploding onto the scene in his second collegiate start by leading Florida to a win against defending Pac-12 champion Utah, Richardson struggled once Kentucky defenders showed him they wouldn’t be wowed by his athleticism.
“There’s no magic play call,” Kentucky defensive coordinator Brad White said. “It was just about guts and determination.”
The first indication that Saturday would be different for Richardson came on a third-and-5 play on the Kentucky 23-yard line early in the first quarter. The Gators called a quarterback draw. Kentucky linebacker Jacquez Jones recognized the play and fought through a block from Florida left tackle Richard Gouraige. Suddenly, Jones stood face-to-face with Richardson.
In this situation last week, Richardson made several Utah defenders look silly. If he’d gotten by Jones, he at least would have made the first down and probably would have scored a touchdown. Richardson planted his right foot to juke and Jones leaped. He grabbed the QB by the shoulders and threw him to the ground after only a gain of a yard. Richardson stood up with a look that said “They’re not supposed to be able to do that” and the Gators settled for a field goal.
The next not-magic play call for Kentucky’s defense came in the second quarter, a series after a bad Kentucky punt snap had gifted Florida a safety and a 16-7 lead. Richardson faked a handoff, rolled right and tried to zip a pass to his right when Kentucky linebacker Jordan Wright stuck out his left hand.
“At first I thought I’d just tipped it,” Wright said. “But then I had it. I was like ‘OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!’ I was surprised myself. I ain’t gonna lie.”
When the ball hit Wright’s fingertips, he squeezed. It stuck. Once again, you’re not supposed to be able to do that.
“Richardson might have gotten a little bit rattled on that one,” White said.
Richardson threw scared the rest of the night. He finished Saturday 14-of-35 for 143 yards with two interceptions. He carried six times for four yards. By contrast, he threw for 168 yards and ran for 106 yards and three touchdowns against Utah.
Kentucky won in exactly the fashion that Stoops would prefer to win, and it’s a testament to a recruiting philosophy that meshes with that playing style that Stoops now has figured out how to sustain success at a program that had hit rock bottom in Phillips’ final year.
One misconception about Kentucky fans is that they only consider football a way to bide time until basketball season begins. On the contrary, Kentucky football fans are as passionate and loyal as the best fanbases in the SEC. They just spent decades getting kicked in the teeth. Yet they showed up in droves year after year. But faith has limits. By the tail end of a 2-10 2012 season, they had given up hope. Phillips was fired following a 40-0 loss to Vanderbilt in front of mostly empty seats at Commonwealth Stadium. He coached the final two games and then gave way to Stoops, who had run the defense for Jimbo Fisher at Florida State.
Stoops needed several years to undo the damage to the roster. He went 2-10 his first year and followed it with a pair of 5-7 seasons. But with a solid recruiting plan that included driving north into Ohio and asking players who probably would have signed with Michigan State or Wisconsin if they’d like to come play in the SEC, Stoops rebuilt the roster. Then the Wildcats started winning. Since 2016, Stoops is 49-29. At Kentucky. The caliber of recruit kept going up, and so did the internal expectations.
Saturday, the Wildcats went to The Swamp expecting to beat Florida. They didn’t call any magic plays. They played exactly the style Stoops has sought since his arrival.
“You’ve got to be a tough son of a b—- to come into this environment and win. We all understand that. And we know this team is built that way,” Stoops said. “We’ve shown it through the years. That’s who we are.”
Stoops had taken a more direct shot at Harper during his locker room speech. In his press conference, he offered a backhanded shot that was every bit as ferocious as that tackle of Richardson by Jones in the first quarter. It may as well as doubled as a mission statement for the new winningest coach in Kentucky football history.
“We may win,” Stoops said. “We may lose. But by God we’re going to be tough. And we showed that tonight.”
* Untouchingbelievable. What a great road trip.
I ate too much, drank way too much and screamed a little too much.
Pregame, many of the Gator faithful were totally dismissing us.
Postgame, they were salty. It was fantastic.
In the bars, they kept giving us backhanded compliments and were being very patronizing. I was liquored up and I had had enough of their ********. I yelled, "Listen up!" and proceeded to ramble on about how the Gator fans still didn't realize that we came down here expecting to win. This wasn't a fluke because they didn't take us seriously enough or because their QB had a bad game, we simply kicked their ***. We were the better team, period. We should've won by 3 TDs.
Went over about as well as you would expect, especially when my browned out friend snapped back to life and started Gator chomping and yelling insults about Tebow's Mom.
Somehow he avoided a deserved *** whooping.
* Canned beer was $12 each at the stadium. And it was glorious. Thanks, Mitch.
* Friday night we ate at a Vietnamese Cajun fusion restaurant in Gainesville. Swamp Boil. Strange combo, but it worked. I had $80 worth of tequila shots for dessert. Not my best decision, but everything worked out. The girls at the Coconut Cabaret were thankful for my alcohol induced tipping later on that night.
* Our RV set up was great. The place we stayed for the first 2 nights was brand new and very nice. Great pool and covered patio area where we played corn hole when TStorms rolled thru.
* On game day we moved to a lot behind someone's house right across from the stadium. Perfect set up.
* Keidron Smith's uncle Marvin parked his RV right next to us and he hung out with us all day.
When Smith had the pick 6, we started chanting "Marvin's Nephew" and his whole family came and found us after the game. We were all dancing in the concourse chanting "Marvin's Nephew" over and over again. "Marv, how you know these crazy white people?" It was a blast.
* I was in the 8th row, right at the tunnel where the Cats came out on the field. Stoops was touching strutting like a MFing pimp after the game. FANTASTIC.
* The GO BIG BLUE chants were pure magic.
* Great trip that I will never forget.
I ate too much, drank way too much and screamed a little too much.
Pregame, many of the Gator faithful were totally dismissing us.
Postgame, they were salty. It was fantastic.
In the bars, they kept giving us backhanded compliments and were being very patronizing. I was liquored up and I had had enough of their ********. I yelled, "Listen up!" and proceeded to ramble on about how the Gator fans still didn't realize that we came down here expecting to win. This wasn't a fluke because they didn't take us seriously enough or because their QB had a bad game, we simply kicked their ***. We were the better team, period. We should've won by 3 TDs.
Went over about as well as you would expect, especially when my browned out friend snapped back to life and started Gator chomping and yelling insults about Tebow's Mom.
Somehow he avoided a deserved *** whooping.
* Canned beer was $12 each at the stadium. And it was glorious. Thanks, Mitch.
* Friday night we ate at a Vietnamese Cajun fusion restaurant in Gainesville. Swamp Boil. Strange combo, but it worked. I had $80 worth of tequila shots for dessert. Not my best decision, but everything worked out. The girls at the Coconut Cabaret were thankful for my alcohol induced tipping later on that night.
* Our RV set up was great. The place we stayed for the first 2 nights was brand new and very nice. Great pool and covered patio area where we played corn hole when TStorms rolled thru.
* On game day we moved to a lot behind someone's house right across from the stadium. Perfect set up.
* Keidron Smith's uncle Marvin parked his RV right next to us and he hung out with us all day.
When Smith had the pick 6, we started chanting "Marvin's Nephew" and his whole family came and found us after the game. We were all dancing in the concourse chanting "Marvin's Nephew" over and over again. "Marv, how you know these crazy white people?" It was a blast.
* I was in the 8th row, right at the tunnel where the Cats came out on the field. Stoops was touching strutting like a MFing pimp after the game. FANTASTIC.
* The GO BIG BLUE chants were pure magic.
* Great trip that I will never forget.
Remember how awful athletic/ run first QBs treated us before we killed Lamar?
"Oh ****, backup QB is coming in, and he can run. We're f*cked."
"Oh ****, backup QB is coming in, and he can run. We're f*cked."
I guess Stoops is throwing a bash on Saturday in honor of passing Bear Bryant for all time wins and with all of these Youngstown people in town. Spoke with someone who is renting their event space to him and Stoops wants that thing wall to wall with RD1 bourbon and pulled some strings so cigars can be smoked inside the thing with proper ventilation.
I’d love to see MilqueToast in this setting with a bunch of Youngstown fellas flat getting after it in honor of their boy. That top button may pop.
I’d love to see MilqueToast in this setting with a bunch of Youngstown fellas flat getting after it in honor of their boy. That top button may pop.
That was always an overstated, oversimplified bunch of hogwash. We sucked. Our defenses sucked. ALL quarterbacks killed us.
On that note, you know who can EAD? Cory Phillips, former Georgia walk-on.
“Kentucky football fans are as passionate and loyal as the best fanbases in the SEC. They just spent decades getting kicked in the teeth.”
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What’s our highest AP ranking in our lifetime? 7 in 2007?
Will I be incredibly disappointed in this? Probably.
Ryan Reynolds would have been much better, imo.
Confess, Fletch premieres Friday, Sept. 16 in theaters and on most VOD services.
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Ryan Reynolds would have been much better, imo.
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Indeed.
I remember 1950 like it was yesterday. The Korean War was really something else, man.
Thanks to making a post about UK football success political and involving 2 posters no one wants to read!
- A couple of NFL grievances. One, Maria Taylor, WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER, went to a commercial break during the Sunday night game by saying that the Cowboys trailed the Bucs "3 to 12". I'm not sure I've ever heard a professional sportscaster flip the score like that. How embarrassing.
Also, there was only one game last night, when for the past few years they've had two MNF games in Week One. Which is fine. But they have two NEXT Monday. And they aren't even staggered...they're directly against each other. And the Thursday night game this week is only airing on Prime Video? Get it together, League.
- Glad to see Cal still going all in on Ron Holland. Would be the perfect way to round out this class with Bradshaw and Wagner.
- One reason I still subscribe to The Athletic, besides the quality of their coverage, is the fact that it's such a clean site. When I click articles by SI, Yahoo, ESPN, CBS Sportsline, etc., it's never clean. There are a million popup ads, some commercial with sound starts playing, the page stalls out, etc. With The Athletic, it's just the article. In, out, profit. I know they're losing money hand over fist, but man, their stuff is so good.
- With every passing year, the number of jobs I think Stoops might leave for gets smaller and smaller. I think it's at about 10, and not all of them would be easy decisions.
Also, there was only one game last night, when for the past few years they've had two MNF games in Week One. Which is fine. But they have two NEXT Monday. And they aren't even staggered...they're directly against each other. And the Thursday night game this week is only airing on Prime Video? Get it together, League.
- Glad to see Cal still going all in on Ron Holland. Would be the perfect way to round out this class with Bradshaw and Wagner.
- One reason I still subscribe to The Athletic, besides the quality of their coverage, is the fact that it's such a clean site. When I click articles by SI, Yahoo, ESPN, CBS Sportsline, etc., it's never clean. There are a million popup ads, some commercial with sound starts playing, the page stalls out, etc. With The Athletic, it's just the article. In, out, profit. I know they're losing money hand over fist, but man, their stuff is so good.
- With every passing year, the number of jobs I think Stoops might leave for gets smaller and smaller. I think it's at about 10, and not all of them would be easy decisions.
Iowa, Michigan, Fl st are the 3 realistic jobs that I see are in play for Stoops where the interest could be mutual.
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