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It was a total team effort from all the players, and they along with us will remember it all their lives.

The game revolved around Matt Roark and he played the game of his life. In the future when we talk about him he will be spoken about and remembered the same as Josh Harrellson.

It was a tough game to watch as the announcers seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time talking about how many of the Tenn players were going to be great down the line. As the game progressed you could see the Kentucky players start to sense they might win the game. The crowed was standing. Even the referees seemed to sense it.

It took the whole team to win the game but it took Matt Roark to dominate Tennessee. The team might have parted the sea but Matt led us across the sea bottom to victory.

Heck even renown coach Pete Carroll mentions it in his football primer in chapter two, The Administration Doesn’t Care.

So far this football season hasn’t lived up to what many (ok most of us) expected it to be. Emotion and expectation or a few beers clouded our judgment, hell it fueled most of our judgment for this years football team.

There are some positives to look at. For instance here is the standings in our Your Busted Cup, which gives points for being kicked off a team and suspensions.

Ole Miss – 13
Miss St – 7
LSU – 7
Arkansas -6
S Carolina – 4
Alabama – 4
Tenn – 3
Florida – 3
Auburn – 2
Georgia – 2

When Georgia and Florida were the big dogs in the SEC they were fighting it out between themselves to win the Your Busted Cup. Between the two of them they had more arrests and more players allowed back on the team other than SC and the Steven Garcia saga. Now that the west is the best, they are leading by over a three to one margin this year.

Add in what coach Cal said today at the media days. “We had a 3.16 grade point average last semester and a 3.16 last summer…it apparently didn’t merit enough to write a story about it. We had the highest APR in the SEC…you all knew that right? You didn’t write about it”. It shows that we have something to be PROUD ABOUT besides winning.

There is more to Kentucky football than recruiting stupid, athletic kids who only get into school because they get lower standards than the average student. Kentucky players represent the best of the commonwealth and are proud to do it.

Is that going to make losing feel better now that we are doing this good, NO. Is it going to make Jokers coaching look better, NO. But it is going to show us that Kentucky has learned by all its black eyes, YES. Well at least all of us but the Cal haters.

Mike Hartline would have started in a bowl last year for anyone besides us and Vanderbilt. Does that makes us look better, YES. At least I think our fathers and grandfathers would say so.

Do I think we need to keep Joker another year NO, but I’m gonna root for the Cats next year knowing that we recruit kids who care about how they look.

Our on the field performance hasn’t been that good but our off the field performance has given us all something to be proud of.

Go Cats!!!!!!!!!!

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.

“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!”

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.

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.

“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.