By LARRY VAUGHT
Are there more critical needs on offense or defense? That’s the question UK football coach Mark Stoops was asked Monday after his first spring practice session. Stoops didn’t sugar-coat his answer.
“You know, it’s difficult for me to talk about position because as we all know in here, we need to get better everywhere. There’s not one position on our field that we don’t need to improve,” Stoops said. “And so that’s why it’s hard for me to get specific on a certain group because we need to improve on all areas.
“I mean, again, I feel like there was a few guys offensively that stood out that did a good job that I feel like there was too many balls on the ground and very sloppy. I know it’s day one, and we are going to improve the execution, but I think just, you know, wide receivers on this offense is very important.”
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Any die hard UK fan would tell you the same thing.It’s going to be very interesting to see how the players currently practicing develop over the next 14 practices.And it’s great that Stoops does’nt mince words.
There was a reason fans quit attending games this past year.Let’s all hope the guys buy into the new coaches and work extra hard to develop and give us a reason to give them our full support.
Coach strikes me as being very organized, very intense, but humble and hungry. It will get pretty hairy for some of these athletes before spring practice is complete. I just feel UK football is in good hands with this staff.
Good video. You are right – He does not sugar – coat his answers.
He will be tough on players & they will respect him.
Keep us posted.
I think the Stoopmeister is as good a coach as we could have hoped for if not better. He has assembled a great staff of coaches and recruits and everyone appears to be on the same page. Spring football has never been anticipated like this at least as long as I can remember. It is hard to believe that we bottomed out with Choker and have hit a home run in a very short span of time. He seems to have garnered respect from all corners, and I am very hopeful that he won’t play mind games or psycho babble that Cats likes to do with very negative results this season.
Correction…Cal instead of Cats.
This guy is a football coach!! Straight shooting, no nonsense guy. They will be improved I have no doubts, great hire.