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The simplest explanation is that Stoop’s agent used contacts at Kentucky to plant false narrative that we were going to hire Stoops. The Kentucky contacts start plastering the story on Social media. Our own social media personalities start repeating the story and it picks up a life on its own. ...
The story makes no sense as presented. Bjork cannot execute a contract without BOR approval. This looks like an agent leveraging us to get his client a raise and/or more program resources like facility upgrades and NIL support. Bjork would have to be a political buffoon to surprise or emba...

re: Weigman vs. SCAR?

Posted by Ag8556 on 10/23/22 at 9:32 am
King has improved to serviceable. He was playing pretty well last night. He can't carry the team but can be effective if the rest of the unit is executing well. I don't expect he will be able to start next week because of the weird nature of his non-contact arm injury. Is there any timeline f...
Chris Doering just did a really good breakdown of the last play on SEC Football Final. I was wrong about King being late with the ball. King released on time based on his drop back. There was no hitch or hesitation. Doering had a perfect video angle that showed Stewart was too shallow on his...
Certainly fair game to debate the play call but that throw does not require an NFL QB. King is standing by the hash mark that is closest to the pylon. The distance on the pass is not very long at all in the grand scheme of things. I would definitely agree with you if the throw was supposed to go ...
Thanks for posting the picture. Definitely late on the throw based on how the route was run. I wonder if Stewart was actually supposed to go a yard or two deeper into the endzone before breaking to the pylon. You can also see that King's feet are not square with the target. That contributed to...
We are having to rely on way too many underclassmen with little to no substantive game experience this year. I knew we lost a lot of upperclassmen after last year but was surprised when I counted the number of juniors/seniors actually starting on offense and defense. Even though Foster is an und...

re: Elko is gone

Posted by Ag8556 on 12/11/21 at 6:04 pm
I am not throwing any shade on our position coaches. I am also not saying we should never promote internally. I am saying we have to be careful promoting somebody to be a first time coordinator because of the level of competition we face in the SEC. Which of these statements do you think is fal...

re: Elko is gone

Posted by Ag8556 on 12/11/21 at 11:07 am
The best coordinators have a good feel for the game to decide when to send pressure, when and how to disguise coverage, etc. You don't know if brand new coordinators have it or not until you see it. You can find exceptions to the rule like you mention. It probably works out better, but is no gua...

re: Elko is gone

Posted by Ag8556 on 12/11/21 at 8:46 am
We are in a league where we should not be using our coordinator positions to provide on the job training for brand new coordinators. I don't know who the right hire is but that person should have extensive coordinator experience against teams that provide a high level of competition. That person s...

re: Jimbo can’t coach

Posted by Ag8556 on 11/28/21 at 8:58 am
No doubt his footwork needs major improvement but I thought he played very well last night for the amount of duress he was under. Earlier in the year he would have turned the ball over multiple times on plays where rushers got in his face by just throwing the ball up for grabs. He has a lot of u...
I expect we will see several opt outs to prep for the NFL draft for our players with early round draft scores. I expect Leal, Clemons, Spiller, Wydermyer and Green to opt out. No idea how the rest of our draft eligible players grade out. This bowl game is going to give us a preview of what our ...

re: Jimbo can’t coach

Posted by Ag8556 on 11/28/21 at 8:35 am
Disappointing loss after clawing our way into the lead. My view is that the inconsistency we have seen throughout the season stems from 2 main causes: - Breaking in new starting QBs - Playing too many freshmen on both sides of the ball Calzada improved markedly over the season, especiall...

re: Starting offensive lines: 2021 season

Posted by Ag8556 on 10/11/21 at 7:10 pm
The other angle to last week's starting unit is that 4 of the 5 players will be back next year so we are investing game reps for both the short and long term with those 4. I am assuming that if Johnson starts at left tackle that Green will displace Trainor/Aki at left guard. That will leave Fost...
I don't pay any attention to Liucci. I do like to watch the offensive and defensive game room breakdowns with McGee and Warren. I also like to hear what the McKinney brothers have to say about offensive line play. I pay no attention to recruiting rankings. I evaluate how well we are doing by wh...
I didn't say we lost the game because of OL play. The OL unit needs to keep improving with the current group we played tonight. We ran the ball much better and did not have a rash of holding calls or false starts. We need to be more consistent with the run game push. Spiller had a few excellent bl...
I am not ready to call a full implosion to a losing record at this point. We will be 3-3 after next week. It looks like the OL grouping we used tonight will be our starting grouping for the duration. We have to hope they will gel over the next couple of weeks and nobody else gets hurt. If we ...
We should have mixed in some called quarterback draws. Hit the gap between 55 and the nose tackle to make 55 slow down his rush. ...
I believe that is exactly what Calzada was doing because Fisher coaches the QB's to put us in the best play based on defensive alignment. Throwing on 1st down can be very effective but you have to be productive when you do it. Calzada also needed to be quicker to see and take easy running yardage ...

re: I don't see how we keep Elko now

Posted by Ag8556 on 9/26/21 at 10:37 am
I thought Fisher's critique of the defense was fair. Our tackling was not nearly as good as it should have been. Just using the second td reception as an example, O'Neal missed the initial tackle and Hansford did not even try to wrap the receiver up. I would not even characterize Hansford's move ...