Yea or Nay on Stoops

I see Les Miles may be looking for work......

I don't see firing him after just just two seasons. That doesn't mean, tho, that he gets a pass on errors that approach incompetence and which may have cost us the last two games. First, it was a failure against Vandy to recognize the complete absence of coverage on their wide receiver ["What? You mean they were allowed to put ELEVEN players out there?"] which resulted in a wide open toss & catch into the EZ. THIS week, we have the ball inside the 10; TWO timeouts; it's THIRD down; and it's 34 seconds to halftime. Instead of USING one of those timeouts immediately, we instead let the clock burn down to about 10 seconds before doing so. THIS, I have no doubt, led to Barker being told to get rid of the ball quickly and heave it into the seats if someone doesn't come open immediately. That, of course, is EXACTLY what he did --but just as Badet was breaking wide open in the EZ.  Again, I hate to say this, but Stoops ISN'T a rookie head coach any more and his coordinators are VERY well paid. THIS^^^ kind of crap is amateurish and inexcusable.

One other thing: Do we or don't we have a nutrition & conditioning program that these kids are required to participate in? When we signed Matt Elam, he was 380# and it was recognized by all concerned that he needed to lose 50-60# at least in order to be truly effective. Today, he's still listed at 360; doesn't look a bit leaner than before; and for the most part, he seems to rise at the snap and become a stationary or slow moving object that everyone else simply run past. However, I THOUGHT the idea was to develop this kid to the point of providing us w/ an Alabama-caliber player, but I'm not seeing it. I certainly can't put him and "high performance conditioning" in the same category. JMO.

In Stoops' defense, Brooks left Joker a TON more to work with than Joker left Stoops. With that said...

There HAS to be a higher power that is dead-set against UK having a successful FB program. How the H-E-Double-hockey-sticks does a team carry a 3 score lead into the half, and lose by 2 TD's? Pathetic is too kind a term to use for that level of crapping the bed.

I'm not sure what the answers are. Stoops has a hella buyout, but I'm not sure firing a coach after 3 years sends a positive message to potential suitors. I think Elliot has to go (sacrificial lamb, he's worked ok within his limited talent). Schlarman is gone as well. I don't think Dawson is gone, and I'm willing to give him one more year. But, he is now the anchor around Stoops' neck if he steps on his Johnson again next fall.

I joked on GYERO that I need to find a new team. UKFB fans make Job look like he was crying over a hang-nail. We've waited for half a century for some consistent winning football, and from the way I feel now we may be waiting another half-century.

Edge

Or maybe not - LSU keeping him apparently

Looks like Mark Richt is available............

While I certainly find our current situation to be disconcerting, I think Bo Pelini is seven kinds of crazy and at least Stoops doesn't embarrass us with his behavior. I really like the guy and have hoped that this would go well but it is getting harder to imagine that it will.