Kentucky Wildcats Football: Realistic Take | Expectations for Mark Stoops, QB Brock Vandagriff

and I think the difference between this team and Missouri is Missouri gets the Luther Burton types and keeps them signs the Williams Noy types we're gonna talk Kentucky because I look at Kentucky and I think you know what KY is gonna be a pretty good team this year right they got Brock bandri transferred from Georgia to start at quarterback they got Gerald meny transferred from Tennessee start at tackle they got uh jaman Dumis Johnson transfer from Georgia to start at linebacker yep here's the thing they're going to lose to those teams like that's the problem yeah they're going to beat the teams they're supposed to beat probably but they're not quite good enough to beat those other ones yes RI River could you do me a favor and throw that schedule up for me please because I think you look at this schedule Andy tell me if I'm wrong they could go defeated on the road this year they could this at Florida at Tennessee at Texas that FL is the easiest but the other ones are oh boy that is a brutal slate like I think there's a world in which this team can like pretty comfortably lose five games this year and you I say comfortably lose in the sense where you look at the matchup and you're like well they weren't supposed to win that one and I think there's five games on this schedule where you say that this team could go 500 Andy I I think that's very realistic that's my floor now here's the thing when Mark St was hired the idea of six and six being the floor at Kentucky right was tremendous like that's what we're hiring you for that's the whole point of this thing the ceiling of this team is nine and three when Mark Stoops was hired the idea of a Kentucky team going nine and three that's amazing unheard of absolutely but now Mark stops gets paid as much as the best coaches in the SEC well not Kirby Smart's making 13 million now so take him out of the equation mark STS has paid as well as everybody else he's paid as well as Lane kein he's paid as well like he was hoarded by Texas A&M their regions revolted he ends up staying at Kentucky but this is the blessing and the curse of Mark Stoops your floor is so much higher than it's ever been yep but he has not raised your ceiling as much as say Eli drinkwitz has raised Missouri or Lane kein has raised old misses right some I like to use the analogy of that some teams use when they talk about power running backs right you need four yards they'll get you four yards you need five yards they'll get you four yards so they're sort of living in this world of purgatory that I I don't know if they're ever going to be able to escape and yes they bring in someone like Brock Vandergriff but even if he's clicking at all cylinders I don't know if I see a team that wins more than 10 games and if that's the case they would be scratching and clawing for a playoff birth but even then if they get in the playoff Andy I don't see a team that can realistically make a run at a national title let alone Inc Champion that's fine look if Kentucky can make the playoff they're throw a damn party that's fine exactly like it's but it's it's just like anything else South Carolina is a good example of this they were so bad for so long lost to Clemson so much Steve spurger comes in they have a five-game winning streak against Clemson they win 11 games three years in a row and all of a sudden they start thinking they're National Power right and forget their South Carolina and then when they have to go back to being South Carolina you you just can't handle it so the question I I feel like Kentucky fans have been very they they've been levelheaded about this they've not turned into those crazy everything has to you know move toward a national championship fan like they they they've been realistic but at what point do they start to say all right where's the next step yep Andy and I'll ask you do you we talk about the floor in the ceiling right it's pretty wide for them tell me if I'm wrong do you see them steering more towards the floor than the ceiling this year do you think real I think they wind up right in the middle eight and four or seven and five like because that's the thing Mark stops is a good coach he's a solid steady coach who has brought in solid steady good players like they're well coached they will have one game where they get completely outclass probably like Georgia they'll also have a game where they play perfectly and outclass somebody else like the Florida game last year and so you're gonna have those and so that that makes like Kentucky Auburn very interesting it also makes Kentucky South Carolina very interesting like September 7th South Carolina Kentucky game in Lexington is a massive Vibes game yeah right right absolutely I was going to say that loses that is like oh god oh right right right yeah I I will say I feel bad for the Lexington folks only because their Road games are so good this year so I really feel bad for the fans that have to stay for the home slate but I sure hope they get a good cro uh wh back around in 25 they're going to be fine true all right thank you so much for watching just a reminder subscribe to this channel right here so you never miss an episode of Andy Staples on on three and oh by the way watch all the other great videos on the Onre Sports YouTube channel