John Clay on UK football: Cats are a disorganized mess and that's Mark Stoops' fault

[Matt Dillon]

NASHVILLE — Some losses you can blame on inferior talent. Some you can blame on bad bounces. Some losses, however, the blame has to start at the top.
Kentucky's 21-17 loss at Vanderbilt on Saturday night was one of the losses.
It was a game in which the Kentucky offense outgained the home team by 53 yards, in which the UK defense held up its end of the bargain by forcing turnovers, a game in which running back Boom Williams, playing with a large brace on his injured elbow, zipped through and around a Top 20 defense for 115 yards on a mere 13 carries.
This Music City heartbreaker wasn't just a winnable game, this was a game Kentucky should have won if not for some questionable decision-making and baffling disorganization. And it's made all the more troubling by the fact that it isn't new.

http://www.kentucky.com/2015/11/14/4...cats.html?rh=1

This article pretty well sums it up, in my opinion.

[Uncle Dave]

There's no shortage of issues that need to be addressed during the off season, which can't here soon enough IMO.

[Joneslab]

The special teams play on this team is the weirdest thing about the season.

Ever play Madden and you'll get that "Ask Madden" thing on the side and the play he always gives you is the highest-percentage, most basic play in the book?

It's like Stoops does't have that button in his head.

[MikeLeach]

Has Stoops done anything except hire a wide receiver coach that can recruit?Mt name says it all.Pay him and he will come and he will win.

[Devin]

Just to clarify the above poster is NOT me. lol.. I do share their sentiments, however... I also agree with Will, the special teams play is the weirdest things about this team. Every coach we have had, that i can remember, always has a game or a quirk that far out lasts them.. Yesterday, was a bizarre game.

[Blue Heaven]

Disorganized is putting it mildly. Not only am I embarrassed, but CMS has embarrassed himself to the coaching world. I can't imagine he has much respect left to the opponentys. When they watch our film, there has some be some laughter. All those years we have been losers, outside of Joker, I always thought we were at least well prepared. We just didn't have the horses. If I see another player running out on the field when the play clock is winding down I'm gonna scream. The players are an extension of the coach. Don't ever lose sight of that. Stoops seat should be smoking hot right now.

[johnkyblue]

Who thought yesterday's game wasn't going to be ugly before the game?

[Joneslab]

Who thought yesterday's game wasn't going to be ugly before the game?

There's ugly and there's just sloppy and careless.

Kentucky has tilted toward the latter as the season has gone on. Look to be just poorly coached in so many different facets of the game.

[Matt Dillon]

Who thought yesterday's game wasn't going to be ugly before the game?

I thought there was a good chance we'd get beat. I didn't think we'd give the game away with stupid decisions and disorganization.

[KevinHall]

I have said it all season they are poorly coached. Unfortunately they keep proving me correct.

[Spiritof96]

I think he (Stoops) knows it is on him. I hope he learns how to be a head coach before he runs out of time here. We see it a lot in football. Position coaching and coordinating, is not the same skill set as head coaching.

[Matt Dillon]

I fear there is now feuding between the off. and the def. Although he stops just short of saying so, that's the impression I get from reading John Clay's comments in the thread I posted entitled " Tricks, a blocked punt and Kentucky's fifth straight loss".