Mark Stoops has no answers, "Just hit the repeat button, it's more of the same."

For part of the season, we believed that Kentucky football was some weird football version of Jekyll and Hyde. They looked lost against South Carolina but looked impressive against Ole Miss. They looked ready for Georgia but terrible against Florida. However, since the bye week, Kentucky has been stuck in a cycle of frustrating losses. What makes it even more frustrating is that head coach Mark Stoops has no answers.

He opened his post-game press conference after the loss to Auburn with, “I really don’t have much to say. Hit the repeat button. I think you all get tired of hearing the same thing, but it’s more of the same.”

It really was more of the same thing. He has said in every single post-game press conference about the losses how "it's on me." He wants us to make sure the blame is on the head coach. We have to get them in a better position to play better. We all have to do a better job, but it starts with me...We aren't playing winning football right now."

Stoops, it's admirable that you are always willing to take the blame, but maybe you need to be the one who lives with the consequences. This means that if it consistently is the same problem week in and week out, and it's always you to blame, then wouldn't you want to make sure you either step out of the way, change your philosophy, or come up with another solution?

If a person keeps hitting their head against the wall and then complains about how their head hurts. Maybe don't keep hitting your head against the wall. To keep doing the same thing but expect different results is the height of foolishness. If you are stuck in a repeat cycle, that means it's not working, and you need to do something different.

At the end of his press conference, Stoops said, "There's no excuses. There's nothing I'm gonna say that's the right answer. We gotta do a better job, right?" Right.

Here lies the problem. If the person who needs to have the answers doesn't, then who does? How can the Kentucky Wildcats get back to winning football again?