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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 10-19-2014, 04:49 PM:

He is going to have a big job trying to get his team ready for a very good football team.

Here’s part of what coach Mark Stoops had to say after Saturday night’s loss:

On what it feels like a setback after building so much momentum: “Any time you lose it’s a setback. Nobody likes to lose that way. To be really physically handled was what sticks out to me, along with our mistakes. We need to coach better. I take responsibility for that. We’ll get it corrected and we’ll move on, but we can’t let one game define us. We always talk about it — win or lose, you got to move on. So we’ve got another opportunity next week.”

What happened on special teams: “Just got outplayed. We got outplayed. We’ve been solid all year to this point and did not play good enough in this game. Give them credit. That’s a good bunch, and they physically played better than us.”

On if he thought UK was past lopsided scores like this: “Yeah, I did, but it’s week-to-week. You gotta go prove it. This is a physical football team. That’s what we’d like to look like some day. They’re extremely long, very physical. I thought their secondary guys were excellent.”

On if he expects to learn something about the team this week: “Yeah, yeah, I think that’s a fair question. We’ll see how we respond. I’ve got no reason to believe that they won’t come out and prepare, have a great week of preparation, and give it everything we’ve got. For this group, it’s not lack of effort. We need to coach better, we need to play better. We all take responsibility and we’ll all move on.”

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Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 10-19-2014, 07:22 PM:

I think we'll play a better game against MSU than we did LSU. Home field makes a little bit of difference when you have your own fans yelling in your ear!

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 10-19-2014, 09:14 PM:

MSU is number 1 in the country. If we can't come close to LSU it sure doesn't look like we can come close to MSU even at home. If we do it truly will be a good sign. Go Cats!

Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 10-19-2014, 09:29 PM:

I'm just saying the team will be more pumped up to take on the number 1 team in the country than an LSU team, on the road, that isn't even ranked. Or wasn't until this past weekend!

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 10-19-2014, 09:57 PM:

I hope your right MH but we certainly had to know LSU was not going to be easy. To me it looked like we played scared and that's not a good sign.