Busted Flat In Indianapolis Crean Sang The Blues

Kentucky and Indiana are recruiting Gary Harris, a 6-foot-4 guard ranked the No. 10 prospect nationally by ESPNU. ESPN is reporting that Tom Crean visited him at his HS a day after the latest recruiting period closed. They are saying it came to their attention after a blogger at http://KentuckySportsNetwork.com alerted them to it. Indiana self reported it as a secondary violation.

How is it possible for a coach who has coached as long as Tom Crean has to miss the close of a recruiting period? Makes me wonder if he didn’t just think it was worth a secondary violation. Where is Sgt Friday when you need him. He’d get to the bottom of this with one phone call.

Go Bloggers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leach To Arizona?

A lot of the talk on Kentucky boards as the season has progressed has been about replacing Joker Phillips with Mike Leach. It might have reached an impasse as Arizona released Mike Stoops today after he had a Joker like start to the season.

Arizona has a quarterback in Nick Foles that Leach could build around, while Kentucky has Morgan Newton who doesn’t fit in Leaches offense and no receivers to boot.

We will just have to wait and see how things play out but Arizona seems a better fit for Leach than Kentucky does.

Unsportsmanlike Conduct

Here is some more of what the fans are thinking.

“I have been raised to have respect for everyone, I was even raised that to FEAR GOD was to RESPECT GOD. I was raised to respect my Country, my family, my teachers, my neighbors, and the business people who I dealt with. I have had respect for the UK Football Program from the early days of my childhood.

I have read on message board and other articles that it is very DISRESPECTFUL to say something negative about the current condition of the UK Football Program, and especially if it is mentioned that the Coaching staff need replaced.

Now that I have thought about all of that I have come up with this. I think it is very DISRESPECTFUL of the UK Athletic Dept to charge a fee for the product they are putting on display for one of the best fan bases in the entire Nation. It is DISRESPECTFUL to the players and their families to recruit these players and promise them they will be playing football in the Great SEC, and not teach them or not promote them to their fullest. It is very DISRESPECTFUL to the alumni, and to the sponsors of the football program.

I can barely remember listening to the UK Football Games when Bear Bryant was coach, and I can remember all the coaches that followed Bear. In all of those years I have never seen a UK Football team that just did not seem to have any life at all. I have watched UK Football teams that would only win 2 or 3 games in a season, but would beat Tn at the end of the season, This UK Football shows no sign of life on the field, I am thinking that this team must be on Life Support, and Joker has his hand on the plug.

I think it is Unsportsmanlike Conduct for fans that have been Loyal to the mediocre football program for all these years.
If I am out of line then just penalize me the 15 yards or better yet forbid me from watching anymore games that this UK Team is not putting forth an effort to at least do their very best, and by saying that I am talking about the coaching staff getting this team ready to play and calling the kind of plays that will benefit the style of the players, and not just a style that the coaches want to run.”

“Bama, hell you know how I feel about this so called football program. I honestly feel sorry for these kids. I’ve played high school sports , unfortunately I wasn’t talented enough to go to the next level. I know that these kids give it their all every day they buckle up that chin strap.

For Joker Phillips to stand there on the sidelines acting like everything is OK makes me sick at my stomach. Regardless if these kids are 1 star or 5 star they have been promised leadership and guidance to excel in the sport they have been recruited to participate in. They are not getting what they were promised.

These kids have been broken. Their spirit is non existent and they are beaten. It won’t change this season or any season as long as Joker is here. Plain and simple he can’t coach, motivate or be a leader to these young men that have lost respect for him same as the fan base.

I will always stand behind the player that gives 100% . I will never stand behind a coach or an AD that snubs it’s fan base, just because they can. It’s time for a change, NOW. If we have to wait till the end of the season then Mitch and Joker need to be shown the same door . Barnhart can save face, somewhat at this point, but if he waits he’s darn sure lost support from Ol’ 67 . I know I’m a nobody but by the Bud Light I have consumed while enjoying and not enjoying UK sports I have had my say . For Now!”

Tim Beckman For Head Coach

I’ve been thinking about this since the second game of the season.We need to get rid of Joker, even if it costs us money.

Mike Leach seems to be the coach on every ones want list but I have another coach who I think fits the bill. Tim Beckman the head coach at Toledo. When the season is over he is going to be a hot item so why not him. His teams play hard, don’t quit and score points.

They have taken both Syracuse and Ohio St to the wire, lost to Boise St but still managed to put up 349 yds of offense on them, and stomped a good Temple team so far this season.

They are 35th in passing , 54th in rushing and 27th in scoring which shows they are a well coached team.

Since its sure to snow on Waikiki beach before we get a coach of Urban Meyers or Saban’s stature a coach like Tim Beckman seems to make sense.

Week 6 SEC Rankings

Once again LSU and Alabama showed they are not only the best teams in the SEC, they showed they are the best teams in the nation that aren’t from of Oklahoma.

1. Alabama: Alabama gets my nod again this week after bringing Vandy down to earth. This week Bama visits Ole Miss for a beat down of the bears.

2. LSU: LSU had no problem with Florida’s speed. This weekend they travel to Tennessee to cook old smokey like a Filipino has a tailgate party.

3. Arkansas: Auburn stays in the middle of the pack after getting beaten by the razorbacks. Arkansas has a week off before the visit Ole Miss for a little bear hunting.

4. Georgia: Tennessee was easy, how easy you ask. As easy as getting a date on the strip in Vegas. This week they travel back to Tennessee where Vandys defense will look better than Tennessee’s did.

5. Auburn: After playing good at SC the old eagle couldn’t get it up against LSU. A little gator bait will be just what the eagle orders.

6. Florida: Alabama made gator hash in the second half in the swamp two weeks and the Tiger ran down the gator last week. This week its the gators at home.

7. Mississippi State: UAB didn’t give them a game. Expect SC to take them this weekend.

8. South Carolina: Kentucky didn’t get anything done to improve their cellar. Visiting SC should be a little harder.

9. Tennessee: Georgia visited them Saturday and knocked Tennessee out of a chance to win the east. With LSU coming in this weekend all those freshmen are going to get their second taste of big time SEC football.

10. Vanderbilt: Bama showed Vandy that they need an offense to go with a never quit defense. A trip to Georgia will give their secondary a chance to shine.

11. Ole Miss: Bama bound this weekend will give the ole bears another loss.

12. Kentucky: The defense tried hard but ran out of gas chasing a gamecock the whole game. The worst offense in the nation, you betcha. Will a week off before a 4-1 Jacksonville St visits help? You betcha not.

A Suggestion For Joker

I know the seat is getting hot Joker but I doubt you will be fired this year. Next year is another story and from what I can see with the players we are losing and those we have coming in we are at least one if not two years away from being competitive in the lower rungs of the SEC.

Your going to have to do something this off season if you want to keep your job, so BigBlueRules has a suggestion for you, and it has nothing to do with cactus, dead goldfish or any of those things so I’ll save them for next year for you.

Fire Sanders and bring in Sonny Dykes as OC. He is probably going to lose his job when Stoops is let go so chances are he will need the work. He’s been an offensive coordinator under Mike Stoops, Mike Leach and Hal Mumme so you know he knows offense. He probably has a black mark for working under Mumme but who cares, not me.

If that doesn’t work hire Brent Pease who was the offensive coordinator at Kentucky under head coach Guy Morris, and is currently the OC at Boise St. With the overall improvement the team made under Morris. I’m sure he would have no problem improving Jokers offense.

Both are former coaches at Kentucky and unless the administration has a beef with them, they might help you keep your job. Of course there is always the possibility that they don’t think much of a job at Kentucky.

Week-6 Top-25

Here is the BigBlueRules Top-25 for week 6, things are still pretty much the same, and all polls are similiar at this time of the year, the top 2 teams in the Nation are both from the SEC-West and on a head on collision course.
1 LSU in 6 games have beaten 4 ranked teams
2 Alabama has beaten 3 ranked teams in 6 games.
3 Oklahoma Played and beat 2 ranked teams
4 Wisconsin Beat #8 Nebraska
5 Oklahoma St Beat # 8 Texas A&M
6 Stanford Has beaten 1 team with a winning record
7 Boise St Best team they played is Georgia
8 Clemson They just keep winning
9 Arkansas only loss is to Alabama at Tuscaloosa
10 Oregon only loss is to #1 LSU
11 South Carolina still in the running for SEC-East
12 Michigan still winning
13 Georgia Tech got a scare this weekend
14 West Virginia Best of the Big East
15 Nebraska had the biggest comeback this week
16 Illinois still undefeated
17 Kansas St still undefeated
18 Arizona St only loss is to undefeated Ill
19 Va Tech just hanging around
20 Baylor
21 Texas A&M
22 Texas watched Oklahoma score a lot this week
23 Auburn another SEC West team with only 1 loss
24 Houston with a 6-0 record
25 Michigan St all they want to do is beat Michigan.

Their you have our views and we welcome your comments.

Thorazine Football

What do you do when your head coach and your quarterback look so beat down in a post game interview? Give em a Thorazine, Lock em in a room and pipe in a little music so they can figure out why, why, why they look so pathetic and why they should keep there jobs. Oh wait they are already drooling “Rise”

What Do The Fans Think

A day will have gone by in another hour and we all have had a chance to digest yesterdays game. There is nothing positive to say and everything negative has already been said so we are just going to post a couple of things from the forums.

“Football being my # 1 sport I can’t begin to fathom the thought of sitting still and watching another Curry era. When I get past my rants, which I’m sure most of you are tired of, I try to be somewhat optimistic and make a gallant effort in finding positive aspects in our FB program . Here’s my analysis.
We are getting our fair share of 3 star recruits . Probably more than we deserve.
An occasional 4 star that doesn’t get to play until they are juniors.
An offensive coordinator that is so predictable most of us have the plays called before he does.
A defense that show signs of life . A lot of life . And they are for the most part pretty darn exciting to watch.
receivers that couldn’t catch a cold in an Arctic storm running around naked.
A defensive backfield that is status quo 1/2 step slower than the other team .
Our school colors are awesome . No one no where can compare to the BLUE and WHITE .
Our cheerleaders are knock you on your ass beautiful ( the girl ones )
Our fan base has proven their loyalty without a doubt . Over and over and over and ……. well you know.
Here comes the good stuff .
In my honest and unbiased opinion . Joker Phillips is as lost as an easter egg.
The guy can’t manage his coaches nor can he motivate his players.
He’s more confused than Rick Pitino at Porcini’s on Ladies Night.
He is the worst excuse maker in all football and is becoming a laughing stock to our University.
I can’t wait for the Joker Phillips , Bill Curry , Ron Cooper and Steve Kragthorpe reunion when Joker says ” Why are we the only ones here ” . The answer to the trivia question is ” Joker it’s Easter ” and you have one more year to find yourself.”

“Once upon a time, long, long ago in a place called Kentucky, their was a beautiful field covered with Blue Grass, players would run up and down this beautiful field playing a game called football, this Kentucky team had a rugged looking coach called “Bear”. Somewhere between that Blue Grass Field, and a barn with a couple of peach baskets nailed up on each end, something was mentioned about a Cadillac and a Zippo, The Bear went South, as did the football team, and the team that was throwing the round ball into those peach baskets, rode that new Cadillac to the top of the round ball world.
That beautiful Blue Grass field was over taken with horse weeds, and the started keeping horses in that big fancy barn, and build a big building in the middle of town for the round ball team. Now that is all I got to say about that.”

“The football program at UK lacks a positive identity. Think about your immediate thoughts when you think of any top team in any sport….You immediately think of one person (Joe Pa, Spurrier), one group of players (linebackers, defense), or a region that is rich with players (Florida, LSU). The only time we’ve had that at UK in the last 30 years is when Claiborne was here (graduation rate, pretty good defense) and with Mumme (wide receivers, QBs). We were able to attract some good solid players who saw themselves as fitting in the system – which was a direct link to the program’s identity.

Now the team has had much success over the past 10 years in producing good to excellent quarterbacks and linebackers. But we don’t promote these players the way we should and so no one (specifically high school players)outside of Kentucky realizes this.

So call me crazy, but I think one of the biggest needs for the football program is a successful marketing campaign that builds on the success we’ve had at producing all-SEC players from two and three star talent. (And not one that is developed by Joker (Rise?!?!).) This would help to develop a team identity and would help us recruit the best players in the country at certain positions…..”

“Well I see two major issues and until they are corrected we will never be a player in the SEC………….(1)If we were serious about wanting to play football at Kentucky we would have gone on a nation wide search for a coach and not hire a coach in waiting that is nothing better than a receivers coach..and you see how well are receivers are doing.

A example of what I am talking about we went out and got a Rolls Royce to coach our basketball team and hired a Yugo for our football coach….(2) We will Never, never, be able to play against the powers in the sec with the players we have…. our players are 2 stars the the other schools did not want going against 5 stars at the likes of Bama, LSU, Fla. etc…..The Joker should realize we cannot line up and play smash mouth football with 2 stars verses 5 stars why cant he see this…..Shuck the pro set and put in Bookie, with him being a duel threat and open it up and at least look fun while losing.”

“If UK don’t want to change football coaches, then I suggest we go ahead and fire all the present coaches, and elect a team captain for offense and a team captain for defense. Then build a statue of a great coach (any great coach) on the UK sidline, and just let the team play ball. I am sure we would save millions of dollars each year, and odds would be in favor of us having a much better team than we have now.”

Well Joker when you read this while you are searching for an offense, please try and keep in mind that the fans love Kentucky Football as much, if not more than you do and frankly there are former HS coaches on the board who make more sense than your offense.

Week-5 top-25 BigblueRules

Here we go with a brand new top 25, after next week half the season will be gone, and we will be within a week of Midnight Madness.
1 Alabama-
2 LSU
3 Oklahoma
4 Wisconsin
5 Boise State
6 Oklahoma State
7 Stanford
8 Clemson
9 Georgia Tech
10 Arkansas
11 Oregon
12 Texas
13 Michigan
14 Nebraska
15 Auburn
16 West Virginia
17 Florida
18 South Carolina
19 Illinois
20 Kansas State
21 Virginia Tech
22 Arizona State
23 Florida State
24 Texas A&M
25 Baylor

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