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Bobby Burton

By Bobby Burton

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My Wi-Fi went out in the middle of Coffee & Football this morning, but I still had a few things left to say.

First, universities need to spare us of the idea that they are strapped for cash. It’s a complete charade.

When Indiana fully guarantees a coach $11.6mm per year or when Penn State, Florida or Texas A&M agree to fire coaches with $50m+ guaranteed left on their contracts, the schools have the revenue and the money.

They just need to share more of it with the players.

The entire Indiana football team is allegedly getting $15m of the school’s revenue share allotment in 2025. So a coach at Indiana is supposedly worth as much as almost his entire team in revenue share payments?

Imagine that happening in pro football.

The coach accounting for almost 75% of what you spend on an entire team.

It’s insane. And the rules governing my favorite sport (college football) are equally so.

If you can pay coaching staffs of a sport a combined total of $20m, you can’t tell me the players (a combined 85 of them) shouldn’t at least be getting double that.

Texas did that this year. And they were morally right to do so.

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I am concerned about the Longhorns stopping the run tomorrow.

I’m not overly concerned.

But the only paths to victory I see for Kentucky are 1) the Wildcats establishing a consistent run game that gives their QB clear play-action looks off of it and 2) turnovers.

It’s really that simple to me.

Texas may hit a road bump or two on offense. And Mark Stoops may have a surprise for Sark along the way. But I suspect the Horns will be able to persevere. 

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I’ll be in Lexington all day. If you’re in town, please come by Blue Stallion Brewing Co. from 4-7 ET today for Happy Hour.

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And here’s a pic of Kroger Field at Commonwealth Stadium this morning.

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28 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

This is a trap game. Hopefully we can avoid a slow start after a big win

This is not a trap game. And we don't have a trap game left on the schedule. The Florida debacle eliminated the ability to overlook any team. 

 

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Surely the coaches are still feeling the aftershock from the UF loss. It's hard for me to imagine the staff isn't locked in. The question for me is can they take the OU offensive adjustments and travel with them? Can the defense impose its will on a significantly outgunned SEC road opponent? Can we play a clean game on special teams? Can Arch keep building one brick at a time? Can Wisner give us enough juice in the running game to keep the chains moving?

I don't feel confident answering any of those questions yet. This feels like a major check up game for us. I loved seeing us play up to our potential against OU, I still cant believe what I saw against UF. I don't know what we have with this team. My best guess is we take care of business but some of our warts resurface and we will be asking many of these same questions for the Miss St game. 

24-13 Texas. 

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10 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

If Terry is a better option than Simon, Stewart, and Clark, we massively fucked up in RB recruiting and development. Scott likely needs to be fired and Sark needs to be chastised.

Unless one of them blows up the second half of the season, Sark needs to go all in on a senior RB transfer in the offseason.

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Kentucky has some players. They just don't have enough of them and/or enough good coaches.

I wouldn't go so far as to characterize them as Little Sisters of the Poor... but what might fit better is "Little Sistets of the Stupid".

On the other hand, your world can get fucked up if you ignore dumbasses completely.

Pay attention.

Hook'em

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Some team notes from IT

Spoiler

Steve Sarkisian is emphatically making the point that this game is one of the most important of the season. Due to the letdown aspect of human nature, you can understand why he would do that. Texas isn’t “let down” over a loss—quite the opposite. Sark is guarding against a letdown in emotion, physicality, and focus. He said it’s been a very good week in that regard, and our sources reiterated the same thing.

Kentucky is a real SEC team, and it’s going to be a real SEC environment. Sark has told them not to expect to walk into Commonwealth Stadium and have their way with the ‘Cats.

I think we all feel the same way. There’s a massive level of excitement within the program to see how everyone responds.

Let’s go position by position to get the latest.

Quarterback

“Arch has been improving each week, and it’s only a sign of what’s to come. It’s a good sign when you’re looking better against SEC schools than non-conference. He was good against Florida and better against OU. It shows he’s developing.”

Arch had a good week—probably his best week of the season. We’re starting to hear a few more superlatives about him being good rather than “he’s better in practice than in games.”

Matthew Caldwell is a strong backup. They really like KJ Lacey—he does great on scout team. Trey Owens is a well-liked player in the program, even by the coaching staff; he just isn’t the fit for the playbook Sark wants in 2025. He’ll end up at a better school than many realize, IMO.

Running Back

On CJ Baxter—two sources say they don’t think he’s out for the season. There was a rumor going around to that effect. It is an issue that can be finicky, though.

On Michael Terry, we asked what he brings to the table: “He’s physical, even more than Baxter. He runs with the power you’d expect of an SEC back. Coaches are still learning about him as a real running back, but he gets downhill and looks for contact.” Look, if he gets in at some point and looks tentative, that wouldn’t surprise me. We’ve seen that with lifetime running backs. The fact remains, he’s a big, 6-foot-2.5, 225-pound true freshman who is athletic and will run behind his pads.

James Simon is “showing elusiveness in practice and hitting the hole faster, though he still shows patience. He lets the run come to him, but once he sees it, he goes.” Simon should see his role increase throughout the season. They believe he’s a real inside-outside runner with more time.

Nothing really new on Christian Clark.

Tight End

Coaches are really fond of this group’s potential, even within this season. “Endries is the most complete blocker and receiver due to experience.” I asked for his size—he’s about 6-foot-2, maybe 6-foot-3, and about 240 pounds.

“Winston has the best hands. Washington is a good route runner, athletic, and getting better as a blocker. Townsend can catch and run routes, but his role is just being physical as a blocker and on special teams.” The feeling on Townsend is he arrived too late to truly be weaponized in the passing game, but he’s too good of a natural football player—and too physical—not to play.

“Spencer Shannon will be a good blocker when it’s all said and done.”

Wide Receiver

“Moore is the smartest receiver they have, and he understands Arch—which shows on the field. Wingo is unselfish; he knows schools are game-planning the deep ball. He’s just trying to make the most of his opportunities. Livingstone is as solid as they come and proved his toughness. We’ll see more big plays from him like earlier in the year. Mosley runs well after the catch; he has some toughness and power. He’ll get some YAC this year.”

The younger receivers continue to develop. Daylan McCutcheon is going to be very good. Same with Kaliq Lockett. If it weren’t for Moore, McCutcheon would be playing now, and everyone would be excited about his future.

Offensive Line

Center Cole Hutson is out with a lower-body issue. We’re not going to say too much about it, but it sounds like he won’t be playing before Georgia. That’s based on the way people talk behind the scenes, but we haven’t been given a target date for his return.

We’ve mentioned since last December there’s confidence in Connor Robertson. A couple of sources don’t anticipate much of a drop-off, if any. Hopefully, that’s true, because they can’t afford a drop-off. Robertson is “dependable, knows the calls and protections, good technique. He should be okay. People are excited for him to get a chance.”

New left guard Nick Brooks “is a confident young man. He’s come a long way in a very short time. He’s maturing rapidly, plays hard and tough. He’s a popular guy in the locker room, so everyone is pulling for him.” The feeling here is he was upset to be so far down the depth chart, but once he started playing, a switch flipped.

Once DJ Campbell started limping last Saturday, Nate Kibble was very close to going in. We have a couple of sources who believe Kibble is going to be a strong option to start at guard next year.

 

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27 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

If Terry is a better option than Simon, Stewart, and Clark, we massively fucked up in RB recruiting and development. Scott likely needs to be fired and Sark needs to be chastised.

I am not sure why, outside of 5 star. First of all, we have not seen much of the Simon, Clark, and Stewart (not at all). Simon has done nothing but impress when he got a decent workload. I would like to see him get some carries vs a P4 team, so we can get some real data to make an evaluation. Terry is a big athlete. He doesnt look particularly sudden in his cuts. Hard to make any judgement on his vision or blocking (Ill assume is poor, since he played the "best athlete give him the ball" position in HS). Could he be a power back with good speed, certainly. Seems a bit early to tell based on limited film and 0 play time in college. Keep in mind that vision might be the biggest trait in this offense, given the reliance on outside zone. 

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Posted
10 hours ago, JBJ said:

I was gonna say, RB isn't nearly as plug-and-play as most think.

Most likely they are just going to use him as a hammer in short yardage situations. In that case, yes it kind of is. I imagine he will need to learn about 4 plays. 

Dive, off tackle, lead block for Arch, and leak into the flat in various formats. 

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23 minutes ago, BlackCat said:

Surely the coaches are still feeling the aftershock from the UF loss. It's hard for me to imagine the staff isn't locked in. The question for me is can they take the OU offensive adjustments and travel with them? Can the defense impose its will on a significantly outgunned SEC road opponent? Can we play a clean game on special teams? Can Arch keep building one brick at a time? Can Wisner give us enough juice in the running game to keep the chains moving?

I don't feel confident answering any of those questions yet. This feels like a major check up game for us. I loved seeing us play up to our potential against OU, I still cant believe what I saw against UF. I don't know what we have with this team. My best guess is we take care of business but some of our warts resurface and we will be asking many of these same questions for the Miss St game. 

24-13 Texas. 

I am going to go out on a limb here and state that the Florida game wasn't nearly as bad of a loss as everyone here is making it out to be. Florida has one of the best rosters in the country, and they have legit dudes on that team at every level. Yes they are poorly coached, and yes we played like warmed over dogshit and should have won the game. That being said, go back to the Strong/Herman years. We would lose bullshit games against Kansas, Iowa State and Baylor, and then rise up and beat Notre Dame, Georgia, take the best LSU team ever to the wire, etc. Why? Because beyond the bad coaching, you still had a bunch of dudes on the roster who would all rise up and get up for a game. To compound that, we splattered them all over stadium boulevard last year and there were guys on that team that got embarrassed.  Plus, they were able to prepare for us for basically three weeks and get a bunch of guys back from injury, and unveil the best true freshman receiver in the country who noone had seen to that point. Billy clearly pushed all of his chips in on that game to win and it paid off, the same as all of the fuckhead coaches in the B12 would spend the entire offseason scheming for us and roll out a bunch of bullshit that they had been working on just for us. They got one over on us, fine. It happens. Kentucky isn't nearly that level of talent. All of their high draft picks like Dione Walker and Maxwell Hairston left for the draft last year and they look to have replaced them with post death penalty SMU players. We are going to be fine. We may not blow them out by 30, but this game will look more like Oklahoma than Florida.   

 

 

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IT with some team notes on defense (main note: they don't think Maraad Watson is playing)

Spoiler

The Texas defense has a clear assignment this week, but the assignment was also pretty clear against Florida in Gainesville just two weeks ago. Fortunately, Kentucky isn’t as dangerous across the board and lacks elite deep threats at receiver. They will try to be physical out of two tight-end sets and give the ball to their quality running back, Seth McGowan. If that finds success, they’ll try to run play-action. They also run a lot of screens.

Like Florida, Kentucky’s O-line plays with a measure of physicality. The Texas D-line will need to play much better than it did against the Gators. They’ll be down a man, but that shouldn’t hurt too much in this game.

Edge

Colin Simmons was Colin Simmons last week. He’s really been that guy most of the year, outside of pressing early.

The Lance Jackson we saw Saturday was the guy we thought was a five-star and the player our source considers to have the highest NFL upside of any player in that room. In addition to the size and athleticism, “he’s a hard worker, tough, and a complete player. He just needs to keep gaining experience.”

Speaking of experience, “Zina Umeozulu is coming along. Long, physical, athletic—he’s just talented.”

“Brad Spence has a lot of drive, on and off the field.” A source put him at 6-1.5, 240, and “all muscle.”

“All the Edges are talented and physical.” We knew that coming in, but we really saw it this past weekend. They need to continue to set the tone for pass defense.

Defensive Tackle

Inside Texas finds it unlikely Maraad Watson will play after getting dinged against OU. With Watson expected to be on the sidelines, Justus Terry got more reps than normal. This could be a game where we see more Lavon Johnson as well.

Texas feels great about Hero Kanu, Cole Brevard, Travis Shaw, and Alex January, but they have to play better than they did against Florida.

Josiah Sharma and Myron Charles, two must-gets in the 2025 class, are doing well on scout team.

Linebacker

Ty’Anthony Smith is doing all he can to start, but he’s basically already considered a starter. “The linebackers are like 1A, B, and C.” A source mentioned Lefau is the starter, but Smith is in more specialty packages.

All the talk about Anthony Hill having a down year doesn’t matter—he’s off to the NFL. “They don’t need him coming off the edge. That’s a good thing; everyone knows how talented he is. Not having to use him there tells you how good the Edges are.”

Cornerback

This is a big game for Malik Muhammad, Jaylon Guilbeau, Warren Roberson, Kobe Black, and Kade Phillips as far as playing physical on the perimeter, whether against the run or screen game. This is a pretty physical and aggressive group. The coaching key, as always, is no double moves.

Star

Graceson Littleton is still at Star. We’d be surprised if we saw him at corner this weekend. Wardell Mack should see a good amount of plays. He’s consistently practiced well, and coaches feel he deserves a bigger role. When a player sees the field is determined by when he’s ready to play, not by the depth chart. Reference Edge and tight end—if you’re ready, they’ll play you. Mack is viewed as ready.

Xavier Filsaime is out for this game, but he was moved to Star before that. The staff likes having a safety body type to use there.

Safety

Michael Taaffe and Jelani McDonald are an exceptional duo, and the staff wants to keep them preserved for the long run. It’s tough to do because both are hard to take off the field and are naturally physical players. We should see a good amount of Jordon Johnson-Rubell and even Jonah Williams this weekend.

 

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1 minute ago, Hookem2147 said:

All the talk about Anthony Hill having a down year doesn’t matter—he’s off to the NFL. “They don’t need him coming off the edge. That’s a good thing; everyone knows how talented he is. Not having to use him there tells you how good the Edges are.”

I want him blitzing up the middle.

Posted
5 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

Graceson Littleton is still at Star. We’d be surprised if we saw him at corner this weekend. Wardell Mack should see a good amount of plays.

These sentences stacked together confuse me. Unless they're predicting an injury for Littleton, I'd rather him not come off the field. 

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56 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

If Terry is a better option than Simon, Stewart, and Clark, we massively fucked up in RB recruiting and development. Scott likely needs to be fired and Sark needs to be chastised.

Dude got here in February. He did not recruit any of these RB and has barely had time to develop them. Chill out. 

45 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

Kentucky has some players. They just don't have enough of them and/or enough good coaches.

I wouldn't go so far as to characterize them as Little Sisters of the Poor... but what might fit better is "Little Sisters of the Stupid".

On the other hand, your world can get fucked up if you ignore dumbasses completely.

Pay attention.

Hook'em

Kentucky lacks talent, but they are big and experienced in the trenches. They also have some big, downhill RBs. They're like a G5 all-star team. 

41 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

Some team notes from IT

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Steve Sarkisian is emphatically making the point that this game is one of the most important of the season. Due to the letdown aspect of human nature, you can understand why he would do that. Texas isn’t “let down” over a loss—quite the opposite. Sark is guarding against a letdown in emotion, physicality, and focus. He said it’s been a very good week in that regard, and our sources reiterated the same thing.

Kentucky is a real SEC team, and it’s going to be a real SEC environment. Sark has told them not to expect to walk into Commonwealth Stadium and have their way with the ‘Cats.

I think we all feel the same way. There’s a massive level of excitement within the program to see how everyone responds.

Let’s go position by position to get the latest.

Quarterback

“Arch has been improving each week, and it’s only a sign of what’s to come. It’s a good sign when you’re looking better against SEC schools than non-conference. He was good against Florida and better against OU. It shows he’s developing.”

Arch had a good week—probably his best week of the season. We’re starting to hear a few more superlatives about him being good rather than “he’s better in practice than in games.”

Matthew Caldwell is a strong backup. They really like KJ Lacey—he does great on scout team. Trey Owens is a well-liked player in the program, even by the coaching staff; he just isn’t the fit for the playbook Sark wants in 2025. He’ll end up at a better school than many realize, IMO.

Running Back

On CJ Baxter—two sources say they don’t think he’s out for the season. There was a rumor going around to that effect. It is an issue that can be finicky, though.

On Michael Terry, we asked what he brings to the table: “He’s physical, even more than Baxter. He runs with the power you’d expect of an SEC back. Coaches are still learning about him as a real running back, but he gets downhill and looks for contact.” Look, if he gets in at some point and looks tentative, that wouldn’t surprise me. We’ve seen that with lifetime running backs. The fact remains, he’s a big, 6-foot-2.5, 225-pound true freshman who is athletic and will run behind his pads.

James Simon is “showing elusiveness in practice and hitting the hole faster, though he still shows patience. He lets the run come to him, but once he sees it, he goes.” Simon should see his role increase throughout the season. They believe he’s a real inside-outside runner with more time.

Nothing really new on Christian Clark.

Tight End

Coaches are really fond of this group’s potential, even within this season. “Endries is the most complete blocker and receiver due to experience.” I asked for his size—he’s about 6-foot-2, maybe 6-foot-3, and about 240 pounds.

“Winston has the best hands. Washington is a good route runner, athletic, and getting better as a blocker. Townsend can catch and run routes, but his role is just being physical as a blocker and on special teams.” The feeling on Townsend is he arrived too late to truly be weaponized in the passing game, but he’s too good of a natural football player—and too physical—not to play.

“Spencer Shannon will be a good blocker when it’s all said and done.”

Wide Receiver

“Moore is the smartest receiver they have, and he understands Arch—which shows on the field. Wingo is unselfish; he knows schools are game-planning the deep ball. He’s just trying to make the most of his opportunities. Livingstone is as solid as they come and proved his toughness. We’ll see more big plays from him like earlier in the year. Mosley runs well after the catch; he has some toughness and power. He’ll get some YAC this year.”

The younger receivers continue to develop. Daylan McCutcheon is going to be very good. Same with Kaliq Lockett. If it weren’t for Moore, McCutcheon would be playing now, and everyone would be excited about his future.

Offensive Line

Center Cole Hutson is out with a lower-body issue. We’re not going to say too much about it, but it sounds like he won’t be playing before Georgia. That’s based on the way people talk behind the scenes, but we haven’t been given a target date for his return.

We’ve mentioned since last December there’s confidence in Connor Robertson. A couple of sources don’t anticipate much of a drop-off, if any. Hopefully, that’s true, because they can’t afford a drop-off. Robertson is “dependable, knows the calls and protections, good technique. He should be okay. People are excited for him to get a chance.”

New left guard Nick Brooks “is a confident young man. He’s come a long way in a very short time. He’s maturing rapidly, plays hard and tough. He’s a popular guy in the locker room, so everyone is pulling for him.” The feeling here is he was upset to be so far down the depth chart, but once he started playing, a switch flipped.

Once DJ Campbell started limping last Saturday, Nate Kibble was very close to going in. We have a couple of sources who believe Kibble is going to be a strong option to start at guard next year.

 

I appreciate you posting these notes / updates, but I no longer think IT has any idea what's happening inside the program. The contrast between what was said during the offseason and what we've seen on the field is damning. OTF has taken a serious credibility hit with me as well. I know that the 9.95 credo is "tell the fans what they want to hear" but I am still pissed at how many platitudes we were fed without any hint of criticism or concern. 

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1 hour ago, Red Five said:

Terry actually has an opportunity here. Baxter's out because Baxter, Gibson is gone, Stewart is wherever, and Simon and Clark may eventually have something but they don't need to be playing right now. That's, um, everyone after Wisner (yeah yeah, Niblett. But if he's getting anything more than the occasional gadget touch then that's bad news jeans). 

So yeah, if Terry has a pulse at the position he could end up actually playing real snaps this season.

Counterpoint, Simon and Clark are basically in the exact same boat as Terry. A true freshman and an injury guy who may as well be a true frosh as he works back into the game. If Simon "doesn't need to be playing" then why would Terry, a guy who has had less snaps at RB and is a tweener positionally? 

If he has a pulse there sure, but I'm not sure your basic criteria is any different for those guys. 

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11 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Counterpoint, Simon and Clark are basically in the exact same boat as Terry. A true freshman and an injury guy who may as well be a true frosh as he works back into the game. If Simon "doesn't need to be playing" then why would Terry, a guy who has had less snaps at RB and is a tweener positionally? 

If he has a pulse there sure, but I'm not sure your basic criteria is any different for those guys. 

And that's fair. I probably should have said something like "if he can offer more than Simon and Clark", which, who knows. 

 

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1 hour ago, BlackCat said:

This feels like a major check up game for us. I loved seeing us play up to our potential against OU, I still cant believe what I saw against UF. I don't know what we have with this team. My best guess is we take care of business but some of our warts resurface and we will be asking many of these same questions for the Miss St game. 

24-13 Texas. 

This is pretty much where I am.  Young teams rarely play consistent week to week.  I think we've seen our floor against UTEP and Florida and maybe our top level the 2nd half of OU.   I'm guessing we get a mixed bag this week as well and luckily Kentucky just doesn't have the roster that Florida does.  I think we get a relatively frustrating win and frankly that would be fine with me.  We need to try to get more consistent, stay healthy and stack wins during this phase of the schedule.

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2 hours ago, Red Five said:

I still want to know what the hell was happening in practice that made our coaches go "You know, I think Connor Stroh needs to be on the field. Like all the time. Beginning with the first snap of the season at Ohio State." 

Whatever happened with Neto got us Stroh as a panic replacement. At least, I hope that is what happened and not that we actually thought Connor Stroh could play football at a division 1 level. 

Posted
31 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

I appreciate you posting these notes / updates, but I no longer think IT has any idea what's happening inside the program. The contrast between what was said during the offseason and what we've seen on the field is damning. OTF has taken a serious credibility hit with me as well. I know that the 9.95 credo is "tell the fans what they want to hear" but I am still pissed at how many platitudes we were fed without any hint of criticism or concern. 

Agree.  Shine has completely worn off OTF for me. 

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Just now, field said:

Agree.  Shine has completely worn off OTF for me. 

I tried not to be too credulous about our insiders, but sheer volume of sunshine being pumped got to me. Never again. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Unless one of them blows up the second half of the season, Sark needs to go all in on a senior RB transfer in the offseason.

I dont particularly care if he's a senior RB. 

Posted
53 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

I am going to go out on a limb here and state that the Florida game wasn't nearly as bad of a loss as everyone here is making it out to be. Florida has one of the best rosters in the country, and they have legit dudes on that team at every level. Yes they are poorly coached, and yes we played like warmed over dogshit and should have won the game. That being said, go back to the Strong/Herman years. We would lose bullshit games against Kansas, Iowa State and Baylor, and then rise up and beat Notre Dame, Georgia, take the best LSU team ever to the wire, etc. Why? Because beyond the bad coaching, you still had a bunch of dudes on the roster who would all rise up and get up for a game. To compound that, we splattered them all over stadium boulevard last year and there were guys on that team that got embarrassed.  Plus, they were able to prepare for us for basically three weeks and get a bunch of guys back from injury, and unveil the best true freshman receiver in the country who noone had seen to that point. Billy clearly pushed all of his chips in on that game to win and it paid off, the same as all of the fuckhead coaches in the B12 would spend the entire offseason scheming for us and roll out a bunch of bullshit that they had been working on just for us. They got one over on us, fine. It happens. Kentucky isn't nearly that level of talent. All of their high draft picks like Dione Walker and Maxwell Hairston left for the draft last year and they look to have replaced them with post death penalty SMU players. We are going to be fine. We may not blow them out by 30, but this game will look more like Oklahoma than Florida.   

 

 

Yup. Florida is one of the most talented teams in the country. They have issues, but talent isn't one of them. Plus, frankly, our weakness at left guard and center in that game destroyed any chance of the offense working. It was a fatal flaw for the game. Hopefully that was the low point for those positions and we see continued improvement going forward. 

Posted
2 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Okay, junior.  I just want someone with significant experience, especially with pass protection.

Protection is for your mother and dirty sailors, sir. Give me speed and talent. 

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

I tried not to be too credulous about our insiders, but sheer volume of sunshine being pumped got to me. Never again. 

Not until next August, anyway...

 

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On 10/15/2025 at 4:32 PM, William Bludworth said:

Right, and I'm in agreement regarding Georgia and aggy, but that's just a red herring looking away from what Danny Rolling, er I mean the Billy Napier dd to us. It's irrelevant about what we did right or wrong (keeping Stroh in/replacing him with Brooks down 3 scores), we got abused and gutted. Lagway made our DBs look below average, and ran the ball at will. It wasn't a talent issue, it wss a scheming issue, but at the end of the day a complete beating by an inept team is what it is. Do you think any of us want to acknowledge we lost to Billy Napier? Sark or PK? Fuck no. But it happened, and we have to kearn from it. It's not like they were Appalachian State or something, they have plenty of talent. They dumbed down the playbook and got not one, but TWO freshman WRs heavily involved, and they took us behind the woodshed. 

If Sark has neurons firing per every 15 secs, he should take notes to get OUR talented WRs, TE, etc, other than that 1 pass to McCutcheon, involved to mismatch against other teams. He's making it harder than it should be. He can run an NFL-like organization without all of the difficult bullshit these kids need to learn, which clearly is a problem, especially in the redzone. 

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3 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Hey, turned out great for Charlie Sheen.  Except the AIDS thing.

Pssh. AIDS is basically neutralized these days. He and Magic Johnson have had it for decades. Meanwhile:

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22 minutes ago, field said:

Agree.  Shine has completely worn off OTF for me. 

where is the shine? Shine wore off for Arch too? Shine wore off for Wisner? Shine wore off for Simmons? Shine wore off for Ant Hill Jr?

You guys are such fucking pussies it's actually insane. 2 years of back to back playoff runs and you turn into a bunch of entitled titty babies who expect everything to be perfect from day 1 replacing an early round NFL draft OL and a receiving/TE corps that is doing incredible things in the league. 

This is a very young team, they had to find their identity, they had to really grow into the new leadership structure under Arch and a few others. They showed that they can improve and against a tier of competition that isn't "air" and that's after getting deflated and having their egos checked week 1 against Ohio State. 

I don't think you guys realize how bad that game was from a mental psyche perspective for the team, it wasn't just the loss it was the mental implosion of the entire organizational structure that had been built up from last offseason to this one. The continuity that they thought was there wasn't. Florida is a byproduct of this team figuring it's shit out and everyone wants to sit out here and act like it was an asswhipping. Texas was never more than 2-3 plays out of the game THE ENTIRE TIME. There was a point with 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter where it was very possible for Texas to drive down the field and tie the game.

Get your fucking shit together - wear burnt orange all over town, talk shit to every other fucking college football fan you see and get ready to absolutely blast Kentucky. 

In the wise words of T'Vondre Sweat:
We Gon' Run it.

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13 hours ago, William Bludworth said:

Terry has the size, toughness, and speed to be a force of nature in the back field. We cannot keep using Wisner and expect to go anywhere north of 7 wins. He played RB in HS, and this is a good way to keep him motivated. I look forward to him pounding Kentucky's DL, because Wisner isn't. 

You really should clarify better, this reads as you don't think Wisner is good enough, when they "used him" primarily on a run to the semifinals last year.

5 hours ago, William Bludworth said:

I'm not hating, I'm sayng I don't want him run into the ground. We're just 6 games into the season with 1 upperclassman RB, Wisner. Is Baxter ever playing again? This season? We need someone bigger who can take punishment and give Wisner a reprieve. He's a dawg, but he's not built to be a 3 down back for an entire season, and he's already banged up. 

Like this...maybe say this the first time.

Posted
8 minutes ago, immamac said:

where is the shine? Shine wore off for Arch too? Shine wore off for Wisner? Shine wore off for Simmons? Shine wore off for Ant Hill Jr?

You guys are such fucking pussies it's actually insane. 2 years of back to back playoff runs and you turn into a bunch of entitled titty babies who expect everything to be perfect from day 1 replacing an early round NFL draft OL and a receiving/TE corps that is doing incredible things in the league. 

This is a very young team, they had to find their identity, they had to really grow into the new leadership structure under Arch and a few others. They showed that they can improve and against a tier of competition that isn't "air" and that's after getting deflated and having their egos checked week 1 against Ohio State. 

I don't think you guys realize how bad that game was from a mental psyche perspective for the team, it wasn't just the loss it was the mental implosion of the entire organizational structure that had been built up from last offseason to this one. The continuity that they thought was there wasn't. Florida is a byproduct of this team figuring it's shit out and everyone wants to sit out here and act like it was an asswhipping. Texas was never more than 2-3 plays out of the game THE ENTIRE TIME. There was a point with 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter where it was very possible for Texas to drive down the field and tie the game.

Get your fucking shit together - wear burnt orange all over town, talk shit to every other fucking college football fan you see and get ready to absolutely blast Kentucky. 

In the wise words of T'Vondre Sweat:
We Gon' Run it.

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