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….the Birmingham News has projected the Kentucky football team to finish 7th in the SEC East and tied for last overall. Below are highlights of what they had to say good and bad about the Cayuts. For the entire article, click here.
The Good
The entire starting defensive line — senior end Collins Ukwu and junior tackles Mister Cobble and Donte Rumph — is back and so is senior end Taylor Wyndham, who takes the field whenever Kentucky uses four linemen. Junior Avery Williamson, a reserve for the past two seasons who will replace Trevathan, looked impressive throughout the spring. On offense, the Wildcats seem to have a few playmakers emerging alongside senior wide receiver La’Rod King, something that never happened in 2011.
The Bad
Though Morgan Newton is still hanging around, the Wildcats enter the summer with sophomore Maxwell Smith as their starting quarterback. He looked better during spring practice but he’s still the same Maxwell Smith who looked flustered throughout his freshman season. Coach Joker Phillips has indicated that Newton and freshman Patrick Towles will receive a chance to win the job. All but two starters from last year’s offensive line are gone. The defense, with six new starters, thrived near the end of the season, but wasn’t exactly dominant throughout most of a woeful 2011.
Overall outlook
THE CRYSTAL BALL SAYS: A bowl game looks unlikely. With Louisville back on track under coach Charlie Strong, four wins courtesy of a notoriously weak non-conference schedule are no longer a guarantee. That means Kentucky will probably have to find a way to score three wins on an SEC schedule that features seven teams that went to bowls last season.
If the Bat Cats happen to fall tonight or tomorrow and the season ends, take comfort in the fact that the basketball recruiting class is expected to arrive on campus this week.
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June 3rd, 2012 at 8:46 pm
thanks to the Birmingham News and their predictions. How about the newspapers in Louisville and Tennessee. I’m sure they will predict good things about the Cats also. Who the heck cares about the news in Birmingham. What the heck!
June 3rd, 2012 at 9:38 pm
Well I’m not expecting a great year nor do I see any reason to expect anything different than the previous years under Joker’s watch. The further we get away from Coach Brooks, the worse the program has looked.
June 3rd, 2012 at 10:06 pm
I hope Mitch is already starting to put together a short list of names for a new coach so we can go ahead and speed up the inevitable.
June 3rd, 2012 at 10:13 pm
Football seasons are looooong. If the team is as bad as KSR thinks, then we will know pretty early on. After that, we can start with all the doomsday talk. Until then, let’s give these guys the support they deserve by putting on that Kentucky uniform. Everyone starts the season undefeated, including Joker and the Cats.
June 3rd, 2012 at 10:16 pm
For anybody outside the state of Kentucky those are the expectations every year for the UK Football program… Has not been any different for the past 20 years which is how long I’ve been following UK Football…
June 3rd, 2012 at 10:55 pm
2 what did rich brooks do so much better then joker? brooks last two season only won 7 games. joker won 6 games then 5 games his first two years so whats that 1 or two games less then brooks last years.
June 4th, 2012 at 12:17 am
Hey John Jackhoff -
Your post introduces us to an article written by a football prediction written by an out of state writer not named Nostradamus.
You then finish the post accepting & confirming everything he wrote as gospel.
Go Jackhoff yourself.
June 4th, 2012 at 3:53 am
John: Who the hell cares. Be happy about Kentucky baseball because…. of what John? Why don’t you bash them today about having a great season, playing their hearts out, but losing. KSR was a great sit a couple of years ago, but you guys really are douche bags now. Football starts this week. John, I’m sure I could get you a 5 minute pass on the field to run a play at the UK defense. You up for it douchebag?
June 4th, 2012 at 10:27 am
Ok so I am thinking about removing my site from Tumbler and get it to a WordPress site. I think this is a wordpress site right? If it is, may I ask where you got the theme? Thanks a bunch!
June 4th, 2012 at 10:41 am
LOL Uk football, that’s cute.
2-10 – At best.
ZERO wins in the SEC.
Are you UK FOOTBALL fans blinded I mean UK S U C K S. How can anyone with an ounce of football IQ think UK has a chance of winning hahahhahahaha 6 or 7 games?!?!
LOve I mean LOVE Uk basketball but that doesn’t mean I HAVE to like football. They suck and the admin has zero want to fix it..I mean hel@ it was just spring and they already started making excusses why they were going to suck in the fall and keep Joker the Mary J Poker another year.
PEACE
June 4th, 2012 at 2:43 pm
#10, you write for the Birmingham newspaper?