Stoops Kentucky Teams coming out of bye weeks

[johnkyblue]

I've heard some people say that Kentucky comes out of bye weeks sluggishly. I'm like, huh?

So I thought I'd look it up.

2013 the bye week was before a Thursday night game. Went to MSU and lost by a TD. Won two games that year so that might be one of the better performances of the year.
2014 went to Vandy and won 17-7. 2014 won 5 games and went kaput.
2015 went to play AU on a Thursday night game. Lost to a bowl game going AU team by 3. UK didn't make a bowl. Doesn't seem sluggish.
2016 beat MSU by two.

Where da heck some of y'all getting this unfact?

[George]

I've heard some people say that Kentucky comes out of bye weeks sluggishly. I'm like, huh?

So I thought I'd look it up.

2013 the bye week was before a Thursday night game. Went to MSU and lost by a TD. Won two games that year so that might be one of the better performances of the year.
2014 went to Vandy and won 17-7. 2014 won 5 games and went kaput.
2015 went to play AU on a Thursday night game. Lost to a bowl game going AU team by 3. UK didn't make a bowl. Doesn't seem sluggish.
2016 beat MSU by two.

Where da heck some of y'all getting this unfact?

What?

[Joneslab]

What?

John's all the time convinced Kentucky football fans are morons and that he has some secret knowledge few of the rest of us have.

[johnkyblue]

You weren't one of them, then, Downes.

No Will, just you. :P Not true about what you say I think, but I do think there is a significant portion of Kentucky fans that don't understand football, or take lessons from that other sport to football that don't apply at all and it's harmful.

I have seen people saying that Kentucky comes off bye weeks sluggishly. I thought it would be good to look into that. I did, and posted it.

[Joneslab]

No Will, just you. :P Not true about what you say I think, but I do think there is a significant portion of Kentucky fans that don't understand football, or take lessons from that other sport to football that don't apply at all and it's harmful.

Harmful to whom exactly?

It's teenagers playing a game. There isn't that much to this, honestly.

[Spiritof96]

You weren't one of them, then, Downes.

No Will, just you. :P Not true about what you say I think, but I do think there is a significant portion of Kentucky fans that don't understand football, or take lessons from that other sport to football that don't apply at all and it's harmful.

I have seen people saying that Kentucky comes off bye weeks sluggishly. I thought it would be good to look into that. I did, and posted it.

I check all bye week results going back 20 years and get back to us...

I don't think fan collective memory about this or any other Football related anything is confined only to the Stoops era.

[johnkyblue]

You are more than welcome Spiritof96 to do the 20 year check to see if it finds anything different.

Joneslab What fans say affects recruiting imo. If you disagree, then your objection completely makes sense.

[Joneslab]

Joneslab What fans say affects recruiting imo. If you disagree, then your objection completely makes sense.

What in the blue hell are you talking about?

People discussing Stoops' performance out of bye weeks affects recruiting?

Explain that one to me.

[johnkyblue]

No, you were talking about how I'm critical of some fans - and attacked me. I was speaking more generally.

[Joneslab]

No, you were talking about how I'm critical of some fans - and attacked me. I was speaking more generally.

That doesn't address anything.

What "affects recruiting"? What are you talking about specifically? I can't understand the point of post #7.

[johnkyblue]

Same post has a bunch of likes on bookface :P y'all mean af.

[johnkyblue]

How fans talk about their team affects recruiting and teams psyche, imo. Some people argue it doesn't. No way to prove it one way or another, which is the cart. So I was trying to give you that to be nicer, since I'm such a smartass or whatever.

[Joneslab]

How fans talk about their team affects recruiting and teams psyche, imo. Some people argue it doesn't. No way to prove it one way or another, which is the cart. So I was trying to give you that to be nicer, since I'm such a smartass or whatever.

Nothing we talk about here has any bearing on the real world.

I've seen the "Posters are going to run off recruits!" thing for years and it's always nonsense.

When the attitude around the program gets really toxic recruits aren't going to come to the school anyway for the most part. But that isn't the case now and I think most people are pretty pleased with where we are.

[catfaninin]

Nothing we talk about here has any bearing on the real world.

I've seen the "Posters are going to run off recruits!" thing for years and it's always nonsense.

When the attitude around the program gets really toxic recruits aren't going to come to the school anyway for the most part. But that isn't the case now and I think most people are pretty pleased with where we are.

I don't think it's nearly as far fetched as you to imagine what's said on message boards impacting recruits. I can easily see a teenage kid or maybe even more likely his parents checking around to see what's being said.

I know for certain it has happened, not with recruits but players on the team. 10 years or so ago I sat for 3 hours in a hotel cafe in Vegas talking with 2 UK players and their parents. This was during the Gillispie time and they made no secret about reading what was being said on message boards.

[johnkyblue]

I've seen the "Posters are going to run off recruits!" thing for years and it's always nonsense.

I don't agree, but I admit I can't prove it.