Kentucky Wildcats Football: Finally Off the Schneid

Sums up the three games prior to last weekend pretty well…

Thank God. I had friends from other places look at me honestly and ask,” So do you think they’ll win this weekend?” I always gave a smile and a dismissive answer, but deep down I was a bit worried. I mean, running back Washaun Ealey did light us up last year, and the offense had looked pretty bad recently, and the fans have completely turned against Joker, so his feelings might be hurt…..

Are you kidding me?

Of course we were supposed to win this game, it’s a Division 1-AA team! So what if we looked like hell against three teams that would beat the stuffing out of most D-1 programs? We’re supposed to! Even during the good years of the last few, we all still admitted that the best we could hope for is the 3rd in the SEC East. We have a rough spot for a few games and all of a sudden it’s like it’s Soviet Russia in this joint and we aren’t getting our daily rations of vodka and bread. We might have a few solid recruits and players on our team, but LSU is by and far the best team in the country right now and when you’re simply outmatched at almost every position, it’s not going to look good. Get over it. To start making reactionary claims and turning on Joker & Co. is like saying Calipari’s career is on the decline because he lost against North Carolina (not that I think that’s going to happen).
But this article is not to rant against the fair weather fans who act like wet chickens when the season doesn’t play out like it supposed to on their copy of NCAA: 2012, it is to celebrate the win and smile because the rest of our conference schedule does not look like the first part (with the exception of the resurrected Georgia). Hate that people crowd the box against us because our QB is unreliable? Check out Mississippi State’s 94th ranked passing offense. Feeling bad that we rank in the bottom 20 in two out of four major statistical categories? Ole Miss ranks down there in three, and the one they don’t, we’re ranked better than them (79th in scoring defense vs. 68th). If that doesn’t scream “GO CATS” then I don’t know what does. Hey, it may not be much, but when you look at those stats for our first three opponents, you’ll see why we were getting ransacked liked a 16th century French countryside. And don’t forget the big orange ingrown hair sitting at the bottom of our schedule. The Volunteers will be bringing their 115th ranked rush offense into Commonwealth stadium in a month and change, and I don’t care if we lose every other game, if we win that one I will mail a bottle of Woodford Reserve to Joker’s house.
Think about it, if we beat who we’re supposed to beat (Ole Miss) then we’ll only need to win two out of four to make it to another bowl game. And all this freaking out will turn into kudos for Joker for “pulling through a really tough year and rallying his troops”. Then you’ll feel pretty stupid for telling all your friends that this was a lost year, won’t you?

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